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| Summary: Forced to go to school, Ponset is having a less than stellar time there. But at least that first day is over.  |
Emiya_Shirou is walking along the street just outside the school when he pauses and turns to look at the nameplate outside the gate, "Fuurinkan...?" He makes a pensive face for a moment, "Wherever this is, it's definitely not Fuyuki." He says to himself, looking up at the sky. "Though, the weather is starting to feel like it." Then he hears the sounds of sharp argument and tilts his body around the pillar the school's nameplate is set into, looking around the edge of it in the direction of the arguing girls until one of them backs off and Ponset turns towards the gate. Ponset walks on towards the gate, muttering to herself, "Freaking High School. I don't need to be here, I already have a freaking job already." She flexes her right hand into a fist, then relaxes it several times. She doesn't really seem to notice Emiya just yet, but then again, she's not really paying that much attention. "Social cliques and boring clubs, all the crap I remember hating." Emiya_Shirou steps back slightly, giving Ponset a bit more room to pass as he watches her sidelong. "Maybe you should try a more active club that's less boring?" He offers in an amiable, open manner. "If this place is anything like the school I went to, I'm sure there's something you'd find interesting." He adds, glancing at the nameplate again. Ponset reacts a bit harshly at first, turning quickly to glare at Emiya, but she's able to calm herself down fast enough. She sighs and reluctantly nods with closed eyes. "Maybe I should, maybe I should. But from what I saw, they're all pretty meh. I don't find school in general very interesting." She turns to look at where Emiya keeps looking to, then back to him again. "Fu-u-ri-n-ka-n," she says. "Mmm, well...what kinds of things are you interested in?" The young man asks before glancing over at the nameplate again, "Yeah, that's the name of this school. For a little while I thought this was my home, at least some version of it. But now I'm pretty sure it isn't." He gives a somewhat sheepish smile, "I'm not even sure where this is, exactly." Ponset blinks, then shakes her head. "I'm pretty new around here too, but... from what I understand, it's some sort of multiversal hub-like place? Time and space anomolies show up all the time around here..." She then frowns. "Oh... is that what happened to you? Bummer, man." She reaches over to pat Emiya on the shoulder. "Welp, I had someone else sign me up for the school, so if you actually want to go to classes... You're on your own!" "Multiversal Hub?" Shirou echoes for a moment before his face becomes suddenly serious, his eyes narrow just slightly. "I see..." He glances off to one side, "So, that's what happened." . o O (If the others aren't here, then, that means that Julian's been thwarted again, somehow. I just hope Illya and the rest are safe.) He seems to snap out of his thoughts at that pat on the shoulder, "Eh? Oh, heh! No, it's all right. I'm sure it won't be too much trouble!" He extends his right hand slightly, "I'm Shirou, by the way, Emiya Shirou. Nice to meet you!" Ponset looks like she was about to walk off, but stops as Emiya introduces himself. She keeps herself from making an annoyed sounding sigh. Barely. . o O ( Don't be an asshole, Ponset, don't be an asshole. ) She turns to face him with a bit of a forced smile and takes Shirou's hand to shake. "Ponset Thea," she says as she shakes. She has a surprisingly strong grip, possibly painful if Emiya is sensitive to that. "Ponset Thea, huh? That's an interesting name, where are you from?" Shirou asks, giving a slight tilt of his head after casting a brief look down at her hand, the sound of light creaking metal almost seeming to reach Ponset's ears for just a moment as she squeezes. Ponset glances to the side, mentally debating how to answer that. "Well, Gingertown, initially. More recently, I'm from Toki Toki City. From what I've seen so far... I'm gonna guess neither of those mean anything to you." She shrugs as she lets go. "I've not been here long, but I saw enough to know the map's not the same as my Earth." Emiya_Shirou gives a small shake of his head, "I'm afraid not. But, then again, I don't suppose a name like Fuyuki means anything to you, either, does it? So, we're probably on the same page." Ponset shakes her head. "Nope! But then again, your map might at least be the same?" She shrugs again, then crosses her arms across her chest. "Supposedly just about anything can happen in this city, but... well, I've not seen anything interesting yet." "Probably, especially if I can get confused about this place." Shirou admits with another small smile, "So, this is still Japan...at least in some way that much I'm sure of." He chuckles, "I wouldn't worry about that, I'm sure something will pop up. Quiet times can be nice, too, you know?" Ponset nods as Shirou mentions Japan. "Right! Yeah, that's the country that we're in. I guess you must at least have the same map. Huh. Do most people have your Earth's map then? I've not seen anything that's looked like mine just yet." She shrugs again, then looks at Shirou a little like he's crazy when he says quiet times can be nice. Though really, who does that say the crazy one is? Emiya_Shirou folds his arms over his chest, "Well...I think the few people I've met from alternate universes do. You're the only exception so far." He shrugs, "But, just a handful of people certainly isn't everyone." Then he notices the way she's looking at him and he blinks, "A-Ah, did I say something strange?" Ponset glances away before shaking her head. "Nah, you just said something way too damn normal, is all. I've only been here a day and I'm already feeling like this place is getting boring." Quite the impatient one, isn't she? "I think I'm gonna spend the rest of the day looking around the city. I wanna see if there's anything interesting in this place besides the Badlands." "Even if there isn't, it's always nice to know where you live. Right?" Though, he does blink at the mention of the 'Badlands'. "'Badlands'? What are those?" Images momentarily flash through his mind of the crater left in the center of Fuyuki after the 4th Grail War. Ponset chuckles as she shrugs. "I can get home easily enough." She offers Shirou a bit of a wild grin at that. Returning to a normal expression, she clears her throat while covering her mouth with a fist. "The Badlands, yeah, that's where things really get weird around here. I took a quick trip through earlier today, there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on in there, if you know where to look. Didn't have the time to really look, but one of my neighbors said he didn't want to set foot in the place. 'Too dangerous' he said." She grins at that, making it clear that is a bonus point for the place for her. Emiya_Shirou hmmms softly, "I wonder what could cause a place like that to form?" He asks, even thoug his mind already knows of several things that could. Not that he'd ever want to consider anything like that happening here. Ponset shrugs. "Beats me. I just know the place is the most interesting area I've found so far on this world." She looks out, then back at Emiya again. "Soooo, if your map is like this one... Do you know Tokyo? What's interesting around this place? I've not had a chance to look around, I was settling in yesterday and then had to come here firs tthing this morning." "Tokyo? Mmm..." Shirou rubs at the back of his neck, "Well, I know there's Tokyo Tower, but, that's probably not interesting to you." Ponset shrugs. "Towers can be interesting," she says... but she doesn't seem that optimistic about it. Emiya_Shirou smiles a bit, "Well, I'm sure there's something here that will interest you, a place with a bunch of converging dimensions can't be completely boring." Ponset looks a bit more optimistic at that. "Exactly! That's what I'm hopin' for!" She glances around, then says a bit more quietly, "Um... So, is Ki a thing where you're from? I'm looking around and I swear, everyone here is either really good at hiding it, or just... I've not seen a single fighter." "Ki? Well, I've heard it mentioned from some of the martial arts clubs." Shirou admits, "But, I've never really seen anyone using it." Ponset looks a little disappointed at that. "Oh, well. I guess it was kinda rare back in Gingertown, too." She sighs and shakes her head, looking a little depressed by that. "Martial arts clubs, though, huh..." She looks back into the school grounds. She remembers being a part of one of those clubs in her freshmen year... and outclassing the seniors. Maybe in this multiversal hub of a world, there will be someone more interesting to test herself against? . o O ( Then again, I'm a hell of a lot stronger than I was as a freshman. Still, if I really hold myself back, it might be at least interesting to just use techniques without power... ) "I wouldn't worry too much, I'm sure something will come up." Shirou says reassuringly before glancing down at his pocket and pulling out a phone to check something. | |
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