Freshmen (Open to padawans)

[The White Wolf]

First day of padawan teachings apparently. Cai was off on some kind of mission so he wanted 13 to get familiar with the way of the jedi...as did the rest of the council. 13 honestly didn't want to go...Cai told him what he needed to do but he still felt weird about it. He didn't even have a name. How was he supposed to introduce himself as a number? He was nervous and when he got nervous things happened. Not to mention the fact he had a metal collar around his neck so that was bound to get unwanted attention. Bandages were wrapped around his mouth and frankly he looked like he just got out of a science lab.

13 walked down the halls of the temple on Caroscaunt and came up on the room he was supposed to be in. Strolling up to the corner and slowing down 13's potent and unstable aura was probably easily sensed. He peaked his head over the corner and looked inside to see a small group of children about his age all sitting cross-legged in front of a instructor. The women was standing in front of them and talking about the flow of the universe and how the force runs throughout the bodies of a select few. 13 stood there for a minute unsure if he wanted to just walk in in the middle of her speech. But when the women suddenly looked up in 13's direction he gasped and hid behind the corner.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

a pair of blue feline eyes swung towards the boy, who looked like he was trying to dress up like a mummy from some 3rd rate holo horror flick. It must be hard being the new kid, Naadi thought. Naadi was the only one in class who was Trianii, the rest were more humanoid; humans, miralan, Kiffar, Rodian, Nagai. She could relate, of sorts.

The teacher stopped her lesson to introduce 13 to the class "Ah, you are the student master cai spoke to me about. Welcome." she said warmly, smiling and picking up a paper. "class, this is ....13, he comes to us under .... Unusual circumstances." she said, confused as to why the boy had a number instead of a name, and the brief details of the collar and what happens regarding the collar. " so please don't mess with his collar and please don't pester him about his past unless he wants to tell you."

Waiving to the new kid, she invited him to come sit by her.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 tried to stay calm as the women inside mentioned Cai and she was expecting him. He sighed and walked out into the open and inched his way into the room nervously. His twin tails swinging behind him slowly as the children all stared at him. The women pretty much introduced him and did a run down on his collar and his past. How...did she know that? The boy shrunk slightly and looked around the room at the others as they all stared at him. His tails slowed down and he tucked them between his legs as the women spoke to him again. "Well 13. My name is Akira and these are your classmates. Right now we are going through the basics so go ahead and take a seat by Naadi over there. Shes nice so you can relax." He said, pointing at the feline who was waving at 13. She patted a empty spot next to her at the back of the class and he nodded.

He didn't mind felines seeing as he technically was one. He however was built and created differently so his feline DNA was replaced with that of a canine so he was more obedient. Making his way to the back of the class 13 took a seat next to the feline and simply kept his head low. Trying to avoid eye contact with everyone.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

As soon as the boy sat down, the slew of whispered questions came "How did you get 2 tails ?.... did someone hit you in de face ? what is your collar made from ? ........" On and on, until Naadi leaned over and hissed loudly, yowling for them to stop being rude and pay attention to the teacher again. Naadi could see that 13 was already nervous to begin with, and was probably overwhelmed by having adozen different questions get slapped in his face all at once.

Naadi had endured worse when she was new and younger and smaller. They had pulled at her ears and whiskers and tail, pinched out bunches of her fur, poked at her incessantly, and poked fun at her by throwing already-dead mice at her and chanting 'eat it', spraying water at her, playing keep-away with her collar, and other not-nice pranks. If she could help someone avoid all of it from the start, she would do so.

 

[The White Wolf]

When he sat down his highly sensitive ears could pick up everything in that was happening in the room. The hushed whispers about his tail and his bandages. The insults about his weird eyes, his ears flattened on top of his head and he just stared at the floor. Suddenly the feline next to him hissed at them and the kids jumped, frowning and looking back at the teacher. 13 looked at them and then back at Naadi and lowered his head again. "Thanks..." He whispered. Holding his tails in his lap and keeping his ears flat against his skull. It wasn't his fault he was a freak of nature.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

"thanks" he whispered to her, looking at what she presumed was the papers he had been given, now on the desk. She reached over and petted him on the shoulder "Your welcome" she purred out, and seemed to smile at him, her long whiskers fanning out all around her face before looking back to pay attention to the lesson.

She found the boy to be interesting, and wanted to ask him pretty much all of those same questions she had warded off from the others, but she was willing to do it in a nicer manner. She shifted in her seat and wrapped her considerably long tail around the upper spar of her chair, and flattened her ears (which had cute little tufts at the tips.) while making notes about important stuff about the nature of the force.

13 would probably notice, apart from her rather more obvious feline nature (alot moreso than his, thusfar), her relative lack of clothes, and her 3-inch wide grass-woven collar which had numerous painted metal bells on it.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 noticed the feline pat his shoulder and he looked at her. She had slitted blue eyes and a tail that was a bit longer than 13's. maybe by a few inches. He also noticed her lack of clothing but that honestly had no effect on him. He was a born experiment, and not long after that he was a slave. He was in all honestly used to nudity, was around it all the time. He saw she had a collar on with bells and he tilted his head. Did she have a collar for the same reason as he did? 13 wondered for a minute as the teacher rambled about things that 13 already knew. 13 oddly enough felt similar to the feline even though he was technically canine. They both had slitted eyes and tails and they both probably ate things that were alive, and they both had fuzzy ears. Only difference was the fur thing.

Soon 13 looked back at the teacher and about twenty minutes passed before they were released for lunch. 13 watched as all the children got up and left in a hurry. The hybrid sighed and stood from his spot and looked around the class. Unsure were lunch even was. His tails swayed softly behind him.

@Naadi Marro

 

[Nadi Maarow]

Naadi had disappeared to her room, scampering down the hallway on all fours, looking more like a loose pet than a student, and fetched a jar full of holes which smelled funny. Returning, she looked around for 13, who was wandering about the classroom looking lost.

"Hi again !" she meowed out, petting him again with her other hand that didnt have the hole-y jar that smelled of mice. She didnt know if 13 ate live things or already dead and cooked things.... If he didnt, he might not want to see her eating her lunch unless for morbid or gross amusement; live mice caught from around the temple. 13 would probably catch-on sooner or later that Naadi was rather touchy-feely.... something most humanoids weren't really comfortable with, unless with lovers or spouses or the like.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 felt awkward being the only one in the class room and he didn't have a lunch or anything. He just sat in his desk and waited for everyone to simply come back. As he waited 13 stroked his tail and looked around the class when suddenly Naadi came running back in with something in her arm. He looked up at her and she came over to him and petted him again, saying hi. 13 tilted his head and waved slightly. "Hello." He said quietly. Looking at her collar again. The teacher had left with the other children so 13 felt kind of alone anyway. Nice to have someone who actually thought he was normal. Looking at the jar he tilted his head. Smelling the mice. "Whats that?" He asked, already knowing.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

Now it was Naadi's urn to be awkward "Omm, do you eat live things ?" she asked nervously. (yes ?) She then opened up the lid and pulled out a mouse by the tail, which was desperately grasping the rim of the jar for dear life, knowing nothing except that its death was imminent. She then shoved another escaping mouse back in and snapped the lid shut.

She then led him to the cafeterium, where there were other classes, and even older padawans, and even knights and masters of varying species; weequay, Cathar, a Verpine, another few trianii, rodian, a Bimm or 3, wookiees, and yes, alot of humans and humanoids.

There were dishes from around the galaxy, many of which were as flavorful and unique as they were impossible to pronounce. Naadi scampered over to where there was a kel-dor, a Cathar and a verpine, both padawans from another youngling clan/class. "Greetingzz Naadi, whoozz your new friendzz ?" buzzes out the verpine, who was apparently having a cup full of mulched seaweed mixed with cherries. The Cathar was enjoying a spiced medium-rare steak with a splash of blood-sauce, and the kel-dor had already eaten in a private atmo-booth.

"This is 13, he is new here." She said, leaving out most of the details of the collar and his past. Turning to 13 she introduced her friends "This is Nem Tok, Maosakas, and Xevatti" pointing to each of them in turn.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 watched as she asked if he liked to eat live things and he nodded. She then opened the jar and pulled out a mouse and offered it to him. 13 nodded and took it by the tail. "Thanks." He said silently, pulling down one of the straps to his bandages and tipping his head, opening his mouth full of pointy canine like teeth he dropped the mouse in his mouth and snapped its neck. Then simply swallowed it. After that Naadi took him out the class and to a big area that reeked with food. It was full of jedi knights and older padawans that all seemed to look directly at 13. He ignored them and just stayed with Naadi.

She introduced him to about 3 other padawans who were eating things 13 had never seen before. They all seemed nice and said hi instead of questioning his tails. He lifted a hand and waved softly. "Hi." He replied. 13 noticed a small group of older padawans walk over and talk to him.

"So...i hear your that kid who wiped out half the Tattoien arena along with some Mandos. How does a kid like you level half a arena full of killers?" The boy asked, a smug smirk on his lips. 13 lowered his ears and looked down. "I...um..." They stopped him. "I heard it had something to do with that collar. His power is dangerous and unstable. Turns him into a monster." They accused. 13 frowned and just looked down tried to walk away.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

The older punk, named Vedj Karoone, puts a hand on 13's shoulder "did i say you could leave ?" the others giggled like nemoidian hyenas, as if Vedj had cracked a joke.

Suddenly, Naadi appeared out of nowhere and crotch-kicked him, bending him over and causing the punk to quietly weep tears of pain. "Oh, im sorry, did i bust a nut hard enough to get your attention ?" she said mockingly ,showing her darker, meaner side and grabbing the back of his head with a fistful of hair "Im not usually one for revenge, but i would think its the least you have coming, after months of dreadful hazing,.... oh, and the pink soup incident where i was sicker than a cerulean horse-pig, For Three Weeks, BECAUSE YOU TRIED TO POISION ME WITH CHOK-LATE ! " she said loudly, nearly shouting.

Alot of padawans nearby stopped and watched the scene play out. "I wont let you haze, harass or mean-prank any more of my friends, and i would consider punking you right back, were it not for the fact that word has it, that the knights council already has you up on 3 violations, and has put to table the discussion OF WEATHER OR NOT TO EXPEL YOU FROM THE JEDI ORDER !" she shouted into his face, making doubly sure he heard it all, even through the pain of a nut-shot.

Shoving his face into some nearby gross leftover foodtray (wet slime sfx), she turned to 13 and said, "Come 13, we must leave before we get infected with any more of this ... Shtako." the lackeys laughed at the insult as if it only applied to the lead boy "....that includes you three brainless mon'keighz" They stopped laughing and looked back and forth at eachother while Naadi all but dragged 13 away from the scene.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 felt the hand on his shoulder and instantly he had a temptation to bite the kid. But the bandages prevented him from doing they just as they always did. But before 13 could even turn around he noticed that Naadi had practically taken down the boy who was bullying him and started shouting. Well...he wasn't surprised. Those of his and her race were known for their brutality. The threw the boys face in a food tray and 13 just stood there and watched with a blank expression. They were lucky she got to them before 13 did without his collar. Because limps would have been missing. They were right anyways...when the collar was on he was harmless and shy. When it came off he was a violent demon from hell. He was a monster, so everything they accused him off was true. And 13 couldn't deny it.

Suddenly Naadi took 13 by the arm and dragged him away. 13 just looked at her and tilted his head. "Wr are...friends?" He asked softly as she took him away.

 

[Nadi Maarow]

"yes we are friends" she said, smiling "maybe new friends, but yes, still friends.... and he had it coming, for a long time." Going back to the table, which had the cup of seaweed and the jar of mice, Naadisat down to have lunch, sharing the mice out of the jar with 13 until it was empty.

Naadi would take a mouse out, break its neck with a crunchy twist, and then the mouse would disappear in one gulp as it died. Maosakas leaned over and not so quietly said to Xevatti "Dont they make a cute couple?" Naadi choked on a mouse some, and blushed right through her fur, before retorting "its not like that yet, he happens to have the same tastes as me, and i cant eat all these jars of mice by myself !"
"So its a lunch date then ?" Maosakas said, grinning in mock large-ham-obviousness. Naadi ignored the goofy Cathar, but visibly blushed even more as her ears went flat in annoyance.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 was still unfamiliar with the term 'friend' but the way everyone made it sound he simply assumed it was a good thing. 13 was dragged to the table with her friends and he sat down on the other side next to Naadi. Looking at her friends and then at everything else in the room 13 was kind of out of it as they talked a bit. Not a few moments after Naadi offered him mice and 13 quickly looked at her and nodded slightly. Pulling down the bandages around his mouth he took some from her and ate them, he ate things like this all the time as a slave so it was nothing new to him. Only the fact they tasted cleaner.

Her friends started to say things that 13 didn't understand fully and he noticed that it was making Naadi blush. He looked at her and back at her friends and tilted his head. Leaning over a bit he asked Naadi. "Um...what are they talking about? Whats a date?" He asked confused. Unfamiliar with the terms being used.

@[member="Naadi Maaro"]

 

[Nadi Maarow]

Whats a Date?" 13 asked, rather innocently confused. naadi tried to explain, but just kept stuttering out nonsense, stuff about boyfriends and girlfriends and then long strings of complete incoherence, as if she had shifted to speaking some other language.

Nem Tok then cut in "You see, 13, a couple is where a boy and a girl like eachother, and may be good mates, and a date is the act of spending time together to see how they will get along, usually an hour or 2 at a time during meals or other activities." the kel-dor said, rather factually spelling it out for the apparently clueless boy. "you both are feline, you seem to prefer eachothers company so far, so, this sharing of mice would be a date."

Naadi went to say something, obviously in denial and in protest, but Nom Tok held up a finger "My goggles are multi-spectral, Naadi, and i saw you blush clearer than neon power-wire in the dead of night. Even if it is merely subliminally, you atleast are considering him to be potentially worthy of such a role, with respect to yourself as a female."

[SIZE=small]Naadi just fumed about Nom Tok being dead-on. 13 was cute so far, aside from the alleged thing with the collar.[/SIZE]

 

[The White Wolf]

13 watched as Naadi seemed to stutter out a response 13 was either to dumb to understand or she was saying something he simply blinked. Why was she being so shy all of a sudden? He tilted his head and smiled slightly. Suddenly the boy from across the table started to explain what a date was and now 13 was blushing. Naadi tried to protest but her friend simply countered her in such a way that kind of made them both angry at them. Even though 13 was more embarrassed than angry. He looked ar Naadi and shrugged. "Well...i like you so far." He said truthfully. She was nicer to him than anyone else in his life so it was more of a honest compliment. His attention was drawn to her collar and he pointed at it slightly. "So why do you have a collar?" He asked curiously.

 

[Elad Sharam]

Elad entered the Temple Cafeterium being escorted by Master Windu. Elad had his head down so no one could see his face through his hair about 10 mins later Master Windu told Elad to go after Lunch then left Elad in the Cafeterium but instead of getting lunch he went to a corner of the room, sat down and pulled his knees up to his chest, burring his head between his knees so he was curled up in to a ball

 

[Nadi Maarow]

13 asked about her collar "I made it myself and its pretty and i think its cute" she said, and unlached it (13 panics abit ?) to take it off and show him the tiny painted bells woven into it. She did not morph into some psychotic 2 ton raging beast, like 13 would, but she did look abit more naked, than with her collar on.

The collar was about 3 or 4 inches wide, made from a sort of knitted twine-grass that faded between green, pink and tan-gray bands, and the finger-tip sized copper bells had paintings and engravings of the utmost smallest caliber, which really could only be achieved by using the force to manipulate the paint particles and metal shearing away to make paint lines for the paint to flow into. She typically wove grass into things using the Force for fun and practice, and happily made quite afew things for other jedi. She had thusfar made several pairs of tabards for others, and even created a voluminous fine-woven cloth cloak with a lightsaber pocket for a jedi who liked to keep a spare saber off-hand.

Naadi also had alot of different collars, some of which she occasionally sells for pocket change for this or that. It was a sure bet that if she had to, she could support herself and make money using her telekinetic skills to make things; clothes, circuitry, metal art, ect ect.

Naadi liked using the force. It was as much a part of her as her feline traits and habits, and it made her feel that all was right with the world around her, to see beyond mere visual sight, but to Feel the world around her. "practice makes perfect" she would say, to counter the older knights and masters attitude of the force as some hallowed artifiact that was too sacred to be touched, except when direly necessary. Her 'mundane' overuse/abuse of the Force ironically seemed to only strengthen her connection to it thusfar.

 

[The White Wolf]

13 watched as she started to undo the collar around her neck and 13's eyes went wide and he stood from his seat and took a few steps back from her as it came off. If she was wearing a collar for the same reason he was then he would not be safe around her...he remembered the time someone removed his collar as a joke. Now they were buried six feet under. However when the collar came off she...didn't do anything. She just held it out and told him she liked to wear it because she looked cute? 13 was confused and cautious at this point as he looked at her friends stared at him with a baffled look on their faces. "Oh..." He said embarrassed. Sitting back down and trying to act like he didn't just freak out. "So...nothing happens? When its off?" He asked as he took it into his hands and examined it.

A part of him envied the fact she had control over her mind. Was he the only raging animal in this whole temple? Of course he was. No one else was created in a lab...no one else was treated the way he was. Some jedi lost their parents, he had none. Some were slaves. He was a science experiment and a slave. Some were angry...he was insane. 13 sighed and held it back out to Naadi. "I think it nice." He said smiling under bis bandages.