Scene 1: Bright New Day at Unmei (Morning 1: All)

When the he is told its a force field, having never experience one, he walks over and touches it tentatively to see what it feels like and how resilient it was. Is it like a solid wall to a soft touch and if not does it kick in with pressure or do you need to hit it a bit faster than that. He experiments a bit with it while Ethan talks.

Then when Ethan goes to throw the ball he watches intently, wondering in the back of his mind how he might respond. The guy did not appear to have a costume in his closet so that led one to believe he did not need one. Maybe he changes into organic steel or some other such material, or perhaps he flames on. He was hoping it was something cool, but not necessarily literally cool. He chuckles at that thought. Still something else was now nagging at the back of his mind, but it had just started so he had not ascertained what that was quite yet.

Josh pushes his...Dan's?...hand into the force field. He feels a strange static sensation, like 10x the effect of laundry straight from the dryer. Not painful but not exactly pleasant. The harder he presses his hand against the wall, the higher up his arm the sensation extends. When he takes his hand away to watch the others interact, he realizes his hand feels a little numb, but feeling quickly comes back in that 'pins and needles' sensation one gets after sitting on their hand for a while.

Suddenly freed from pain Anika watches the ball as is spirals towards her, Josh was busy playing with the field, Chou seemed to be at least paying some attention. The cold smoke from her hands poured forth bringing a noticeable chill to the air, it seems to run forward along the edge of something of invisible before rolling to the ground. Ana snaps around suddenly, head dropping low as her left foot attempts to connect with the ball and redirect it towards Josh. "Heads up!"

The torrent of icy dark smoke stops as soon as she completes the movement. Win loose or draw she smiles suddenly before checking to ensure her skirt is down where it is supposed to be. "I knew where it would be and my head," she says excitedly, " it stops hurting."

The ball flies at Dan and strikes with a significant rubberized "ping" sound as it strikes his torso and hands, then falls through his hands as he transitions to a horrid wraith like form.

Anika squeaks a little jumping backwards as Dan transforms, she lands in a high, forward weighted stance. A pair of single edged blades of smoke and shadow coalesce in her hands. Anika’s hands and feet have both turned black with darkness and corruption that creeps up her arms and legs as far as her elbows and knees, icy smoke swirls about her extremities falling to the floor. Her have changed from green to black.

"Bozhe moy, chto, chert voz'mi, eto?"

"Scheisse," Ana says after a moment standing up straight, "you is a Dementor. No, wait, do not use that, you do not want to get sued."

She relaxed her hands and the blades evaporate, then she pulls out her phone and takes a picture of Dan / Josh.

"That is so strange, does it hurt?" Glancing at her still smouldering hands she steps forward and pokes his ghostly form with an elbow.

Dan/Josh was a bit stunned by what happened, the ball was inconsequential compared to the shift he just experienced. The girls comment seemed to echo how he felt and seemed to be seeing things, like he was some kind of dark demented thing even his hands seemed monstrous, long black bony claw-like fingers. "No..." and dang his voice sounded nearly as creepily hollow and empty as he felt. No that was inaccurate because truth be told he was not feeling anything, it was like all the color in the world just evaporated. No visual color and no emotional color, just shades of gray in all things. "No it does not... feel... anything."

Back in the Hallway with Akira...

Mushroom Head seems to be finished explaining her instructions and the conversation turns to what people expect the school year to be like, who they are thinking about asking out, other inane student chatter. Clearly none of these kids has ever seen any real action.

Making their goodbyes, two of the kids who you don't know start making their way toward the door. You need to act fast or they are going to find you.

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In the Gym

"Ah...RAD! OK! that was cool. So you," 13 excitedly points to Anika, "you like, totally saw that coming! And the mist blade thing...well, we can test those out next. You don't have to worry about destroying the ball. The school goes through hundreds of them every year. You cut one in half the gym coach will ask you not to and that will be it." He turns to Dan. "And intangibility, very cool! The...uh...appearance change is a little...well VERY unsettling. Like...people are going to have a hard time seeing that and not calling you a villain. You aren't going to be winning any beauty contests, is what I'm saying!"

13's hand briefly passes through a wispy portion of Dan's new form. Suddenly Dan's...Josh's mind floods with the all the sensations he is missing out on right now. The lights and colors brighten then fade back to the muted gary. There wasn't much air moving before, but somehow, having 13 pass right through him causes Dan to notice what he was unconsciously aware of and feeling before.

And Anika, as 13 stands holding the ball thing in two hands, the headache returns. You see hundreds of images, shadows and phantoms of actions he could potentially take. The pain is not unlike jumping into a really cold swimming pool. The shock of getting in the water is sharp and floods your senses, but once your head is under you start to adjust. That's how it is now. The pain is back and now you can pinpoint what that means. Seeing every possibility at once is a little overwhelming, but knowing what it is brings some semblance of relief, if not an actual relief.

13 turns to Chou...Lotte. He gently tosses the ball up and catches it and makes ready to throw again. "Your turn?"

Anika looks first at Josh / Wraith and then at Chou, although the darkness in her arms and legs has begun to fade her eyes are still little more than obsidian black spheres. She smirks a little, "Oh, this is very frightening voice. Say, There is no Dana, only Zuul."

"You want to get hit by ball or surprise you?" Anika asks Chou, holding up a hand and flicking some swirls of icy shadow in her direction. "I mean he is pretty creepy but I is sure you totally has got this."

Akira isn't particularly worried about being seen. She mentally pokes her "handler"

Hellooooo? What do you want me to do now?

"I guess..." Chou says, rubbing the back of her head. She had said she was keeping it a secret, but at the same time, she did need to know what she could do. "Sure, hit me."