Calling em’ out (Pillars 1 or more)

[Gabriel Seran]

"Linda, Matrim, let’s go. This fight is over. I am not going to play a part in this game."
Gabriel flinched…no this couldn’t be how it would end. This one was a tad bit more prepared than the others, unless of course he could be broken. Yes the only thing he could ask for is a bit of luck, and senility.

"I forgive you," the varsity captain employed as he hugged Gabriel.
Here’s the chance, Gabriel moved his arm and aimed a jagged thrust at the man’s sling with all his force also planting a kick into the man’s gut. He knew this was suicide though there was another point to his method. He needed the smart one to lose his cool, or at the very least acknowledge him here and now.

“It’s a double edged sword you know?” pausing for a moment, “You leave you lose, you continue you lose…can your ego handle it?”

[Mathew Amtrum]

Mathew turned to see what the hell Matrim was on about when he said he forgave the kid. His eyes widened in shock when the kid attacked Mathew. Honestly, who the fuck hits a cripple!? Still it was totally something Mathew would do, after all he crucified a blind kid. Then the kid tried to appeal to their egos, confirming that Mathew was right on this game. Though the kid still didn't understand the rules, he just lost, by hitting a cripple who was trying to be nice. It was not the Pillars who were bad, but this kid and what he stood for.

"Matrim why did you do that? You ok? Should we drop by the nurse too? And I can call the fire station." He said with a frown. He wasn't going to play in to this kid's hand now. Not after he confirmed it.

"And as for you, whatever your name is. We haven't lost anything. I just don't feel like ripping you limb from limb. It's a hassle to clean up and the Janitor gets mad. We are not going to fight you, I have been playing this same game for years." He said with a laugh. The kid had no idea who he was fucking with. Mathew was a master at manipulation, he wasn't that easy to manipulate. The kid needed to do his homework.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim was hit pretty hard by the kid, he hit pretty well, and he was faster then Matrim. Still, Matrim saw the attack coming but did nothing, after all, he was sincere when he hugged him. Still, when he was hit in the sling, and then a kick to the gut sent him back onto his ass, he looked up with a look of hurt and confusion, “It’s a double edged sword you know? You leave you lose, you continue you lose…can your ego handle it?”

"Matrim why did you do that? You ok? Should we drop by the nurse too? And I can call the fire station. And as for you, whatever your name is. We haven't lost anything. I just don't feel like ripping you limb from limb. It's a hassle to clean up and the Janitor gets mad. We are not going to fight you, I have been playing this same game for years."

Matrim got up, looking at the kid with a look of disappointment, "You don't get it do you. These kids here, you're hurting them. They look to the pillars to ensure their safety, we have to do just that. We're here for them, for you. We have done nothing to warrant an attack... I hug you, and you hit me. But you don't get it do you... nothing can stop me from helping you, from helping them."

He turned towards Mathew and walked towards him, "Nothing......." He said under his breath and hunched over from the pain of getting hit, "Wonder where I put my pain killers... yeah I can go to the nurse, I don't need an escort or anything. As long as everything is alright here, that's all that matters."

[Linda Osako]

"NO NO I WON'T GO!" Linda yelled at the top of her lungs while stomping her foot.

"My Marshmallow is not done yet!" She cried, attempting to get her point across.

Linda wanted her smore, Linda needed her smore... Linda would get her smore...

"And as for you, whatever your name is. We haven't lost anything. I just don't feel like ripping you limb from limb. It's a hassle to clean up and the Janitor gets mad. We are not going to fight you, I have been playing this same game for years."

Sigh, from listening in it seemed the kid still wanted to give it a go... That was weak... Sooo weak... Like, like, bug weak. Linda diverted her attention for a moment, she could just activate her Qi and run him over... but then he would be dead... Bah where is the love?

[Gabriel Seran]

"And as for you, whatever your name is. We haven't lost anything. I just don't feel like ripping you limb from limb. It's a hassle to clean up and the Janitor gets mad. We are not going to fight you; I have been playing this same game for years." the pillar said with a laugh.
Gabriel stood there with a grin as his cohort followed at his coattails. He knew it they followed the leader. He could hardly restrain the laugh building in his throat. They weren’t afraid they were just so overwhelmed with cockiness, they could pick a fight but when they are called out they back down. What did they have to lose from fighting him…nothing, nothing but face from their public. Like movie stars now, all talk and no action.

"You don't get it do you. These kids here, you're hurting them. They look to the pillars to ensure their safety; we have to do just that. We're here for them, for you. We have done nothing to warrant an attack... I hug you, and you hit me. But you don't get it do you... nothing can stop me from helping you, from helping them."

Gabriel laughed now in the secondary’s face, “That’s not how it looks from those people,” he pointed up to the second story of the building at a group of students. “Through their eyes, they’ve seen what you’ve done and nothing will change that, no apologies no half hearted gifts or fake hand-ups.” Gabriel was smiling now, his hand pointed up to another window where the other Pillar was watching with a video camera recording it all.

“Now listen here! The Student Hierarchy is out to change what they do, put them into good face with you, but their message is a hypocritical load of nonsense!” He shouted now not directing it to any of the pillars but to the students who would be watching.

[Linda Osako]

“Now listen here! The Student Hierarchy is out to change what they do, put them into good face with you, but their message is a hypocritical load of nonsense!”

Ok... this was NOT going to go well. Linda tossed her stick and marshmallow into the fire, fuck it... it could burn.

"You damned fool, do not embarrass yourself any further please. It's just too much to bear." Linda dropped her purse to her side. Cute and bubbly was heading for the hills, there was only angry pissed off Linda now.

"You come over here ruin my day, popping all that good shit about how you are here to help, and that me and my Pillars are nothing but deceiving liars that have no interest in protecting the school. Yet... You start a fire on campus, knowingly committing arson and have the audacity to say I am not protecting the school. Look mother fucker I don't know where you came from, or who the fuck you are but clearly your head is up your ass. We have done NOTHING BUT protect this school, and I do not bust my ass everyday cleaning up wanna be terrorists' messes, like your's, to sit here and listen to this bullshit while you attempt to burn down my school." Linda was angry, and that was clear in her voice. She was frustrated, but she knew the students could see threw this loony.

The Pillars of Moral Crest had done no wrong and she was not about to stand for this crap any longer. It was people like him that stirred shit up, for seemingly no reason. It was people like him that needed to be put in there places. Moral Crest had no room for his kind of bullshit lies. Linda stood tall and proud. This man was a terrorist and thus would be dealt with like one.

"Terrorists that practice arson will be prosecuted by the law, but after I make you pay for this disgusting lack of respect and ignorance of hypocrisy."

[Mathew Amtrum]

Mathew was the opposite of Linda, instead of getting pissed he roared out in laughter. In his mind this was funny as hell. The kid obviously was using nothing but their past. But that was like saying a soldier was a murderer because he killed people in war. A new state, a new city, a new school. It was a new start, and as Linda said since becoming Pillars they have done nothing but good.

"I don't pretend like I haven't hurt people. But there are a lot of people I have helped. I am sure the kid I saved from being stabbed the other day is happy I was there and doing my job. Then the weak before that some kid was hanging by his underwear on top of the flag pole, most kids laughed. I let him down." He said with a grin before adding in, "though I admit I laughed a bit while I lowered him. It WAS funny."

"The point is, whatever your name is, that you are a giant tool. You take what? A window of people that are upset because we hurt them? Though nine times out of ten something is done to provoke it. A challenge, an insult, an attack. I don't pretend to let people walk all over me, but if you really think you and your butt hurt friends speak for the majority of the student body, which we have done nothing but protect since the moment we became pillars, and in some cases before that. Then I am afraid you are not only a tool, but a stupid tool."

Honestly this was angering Mathew, not for the same reasons it angered Linda. Mathew had been where the kid was now. Challenging the system, but he was doing it all wrong. Mathew just wanted to grab him by the shirt and shake some sense in to him. The way to take out the system wasn't through half assed attempts to look badass and cool, it took a lot of thought, reasoning, natural charisma, and logic. It was an established system for a reason, it wasn't going to collapse because some kid was butt hurt or something.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim listened to everyone else, and while they did that he called the fire department. Since it didn't seem like Mathew had what with his speech giving. It hurt to get the phone out of his pocket, but when he did he pressed in the number and put the phone on speaker. He walked away from the group long enough to inform the right people as to what happened, including the fact that it was an arson of sorts and the culprit was still there. After the speeches and epic logic giving went on he turned and proclaimed loudly.

"I just think he's a fucking retard is all," Matrim said very bluntly, and then looked over, "Fire departments on their way. They said if they aren't here in fifteen minutes or less the pizza is free."

He was joking as always, but he then would try to lock eyes with the culprit, "And I haven't done a god damn thing against these students since I've got here. Nor have I done a single thing to students back at our old school. So I don't know what you see when you look at me, and I don't know about these guys, but you make entirely too many assumptions. You deluded piece of trash....."

Angry Matrim is angry. He couldn't find his pain pills and his arms hurt. He would get physical with the kid again if he had to.

[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel was content in this one moment, he felt the world at his front, there was the heat of the fire against his face still it lapped against him sinisterly. He could feel a laugh bubbling up within him as he saw the anger on their faces and expressed through their words. Good. Anger was a worthless emotion left them weak; it clouded their better judgment and made them slippery, poor when it came to matters of the mind. That’s all they were right now, at least the two pillars who were verbally so. They made the Pillars appear weak and that’s exactly what Gabriel wanted, the whole time he wanted to show the school the side of them that wasn’t apparent, that they could be broken. Easy, like water on stone.

Gabriel smirked a slight grin daring them to attack him again, he wanted it, in the most masochistic way possible their brute force could do nothing to him but shatter bones, his will remained constant. They couldn’t break him, not the few words.

“Sorry couldn’t hear you all blabbering at the same time, want to say that once more?” he was mocking this time playing to their cockiness.

[Linda Osako]

Linda sighed, shaking her head as Gabriel spoke. Was he really this blind? He was going about this whole thing all wrong, if he was going to blame the pillars for things... Shouldn't he have proof? But that was just the thing, there was no real proof to back up any of his accusations, so right now he just looked like a crazed arsonist that was trying to stir up trouble. Crazy people were always so delightful to talk to.

"So we are done then Mr. ...?" She asked him in a sarcastic tone. "We can just bill you for the fire damages and charge you with arson and whatever else the police see fit."

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim wanted to fight more, but when Linda spoke he knew that she wanted this to just be over with. The very short-lived fight between him and Gabriel would have to go unfinished for quite some time. Of course, Mathew might want to beat the guy up too. Then again, Matrim didn't want to beat him up so much as he wanted a fair fight with the guy.

"Right then...." Matrim said, glaring the guy down as he turned away. He had to take a deep breath but he did it, "I'm going to the nurses office...." He said, and he'd get close enough to say something to the kid, "Me and you, we're going to fight. Off campus, not as a student and a pillar, but as two people who really want to punch the other one."

He started to walk but stopped again, "Really really want to punch the other one...." And he would leave towards the nurses office. The other pillars could handle it from here on out.

[seishounohana]

Posted with permission from Gabriel. Please forgive meeee D:

When Gabriel said he had a plan, Emily did not expect something like this. But she had to hand it to him, he seemed to know what he was doing, although she could honestly say that he could use more work in terms of calling out people.

There were better alternatives than setting grass on fire, the most that would do is give the janitors and the gardeners a heck of a time in regrowing them back to a lush green.

Though Emily had been there since it started, she watched from the shadows. Pretty much at a distance away from the camera enough to prevent it from focusing well enough on her image, though at a distance enough for her to be able to listen to everything that had been going on.

For now, her priority was to make sure Gabriel was not going to get killed with what he was trying to pull of. Linda seemed pissed, and that was something Emily didn't really see/hear before.

Emily saw weakness in this plan of Gabriel's, though she intended to keep it herself for as long as it was manageable. She would just have to listen in the corridors a lot more now, just to make sure Militia wouldn't sound like the antagonist in all of this.

She began to wonder if these things really are what she believed in, and of course her mind wandered and wandered, even as she listened.

Should anything dangerous break out, she would have to get Gabriel out.

The strategist never asked her of this, but of course... comrades are comrades.

[Gabriel Seran]

“Seran…Gabriel Seran” he said without looking at the school captain

She wasn’t specifically his main concern, her emotions seemed to have wavered with the wind, and easily manipulated tool, and however the other one was a more likely candidate for their leadership. Though the “Captain” was probably the face there was more than likely a leader pulling all the strings. He smiled at the revelation, easy as pie.

"Me and you, we're going to fight. Off campus, not as a student and a pillar, but as two people who really want to punch the other one."

Gabriel laughed, “I knew you pillars were blood thirsty, always have to punch something,” He laughed again letting it enunciate louder again, yes that’s exactly what he wanted that anger he wanted them to come after him, one by one or all at once it didn’t matter he’d call their bluffs and challenge their draw.

“I only fight for a purpose, for a prize, and the prize I want is all of you out…” He grinned letting the twinkle in his eye show challengingly.

[Linda Osako]

Was this a joke? Or a simple rambling of a fool?

Something started to point toward the second, and more clear answer. Linda tried to keep an open mind to the opinions of others, and she could usually be pretty understanding. However, she just could not grasp exactly what Gabriel was saying. He contradicted himself constantly. She began a run threw, in her mind, of what had just happened to make sure that she wasn't missing anything.

Gabriel started a fire to get the pillars attention, so we showed up. He claims that we don't care for the students or the school, yet we now stand here protecting it from him. He spoke of how he only fights for a purpose, yet now he taunts me. I must be missing something, because this situation is just looking more and more pointless. He is starting to strike me as less and less of a threat, and more of a delirious fool that is tripping on what he has imagined in his head. All of his accusations lack any form of evidence.

"Well Mr.Seran, I can't see any point in continueing on with this pointless cry for attention of yours. When you have a real issue or challenge to bring up with us. There are better ways of getting our attention than endangering the students you claim to want to protect so much."

Linda walked over to the edge of the grass and picked up the hose. She turned the nozzle, and began to put out what was left of the fire. Sizzling could be heard as the water made contact with the flame. Steam and ash began to rise from the contact. Linda looked over at Gabriel.

"You have to know just where you stand before you try to change things." She said with a sigh as she continued to put out the blaze.