Blood is sharper then water(open)

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard was using the Danger Room to train his powers without anyone else around. He needed to keep himself from getting rusty even if he didn't like using them all that much. He normally would be dressed up and not show much skin outside of his forearms, forelegs, and head at the most, but things were different when he was planing on fighting. He was shirtless and was wearing only shorts and some sandals that were strapped up his leg. The way he was dressed would look strange to anyone who happened to see him like this in this room since he looked more like he was ready to go to the beach or pool then to defend himself. He had a small razor blade in one hand and cut himself as the training session began.

The danger room was set up for a training session that normally would require a minimum of two students to do. He was to fight off random fighters ranging from trained shooters like a MAD member to powerful mutants like Victor Creed. As the session began, the room was turned into an open square of a rural town. Buildings were on all sides of Alucard and the square street was empty aside from the statues and fountain that populated the middle of it. The speakers called out for him to know that round 1 of 3 was begining. As soon as the announcement was made, several men in red suits rushed towards Alucard with electrified anti-mutant batons in one hand, and a riot shield in the other. They came at him from all sides and it would end badly if even half of them got within range of using their batons on him.

Alucard looked around himself until he had seen every single enemy that was coming for him. He didn't even move as they drew closer to him and had closed off all his escape routes. He let them get within three feet of him before he suddenly twisted his right arm around himself in a quick circular motion. A thin red thread could be seen going around him by someone who paid close enough attention or had very good vision. The thread cut everything in it's path, riot shield, anti-mutant baton, and flesh. Every single one of the enemies dropped to the ground dead, with either their head cut off or a thin, yet fatal, cut through their chest. Alucard just looked at make sure he got them all before he walked over and sat down on the fountain to wait for the next round to be called and drink from a bottle of water he had gotten from somewhere.

[zaintison]

Luke was heading Towards the danger room for his afternoon training session in the danger room. He was more diligent with his training sessions than most people. He had a goal in mind that he needed to accomplish. Besides training seemed fun and a good chance to throw off some steam it was also an opportunity to throw aside his pacifism. He still had some things to discover with his powers like what that strange mirror was. Besides he didn't want to get the crap kicked out of him if they took power based classes that would suck. He didn't want another incident like the riot so he was going to practice.

Luke was about to head into the danger room when he saw someone was in their through the glass in the observation room. annihilating MAD members that seems a bit morbid. Wow that would surely get a bad press from the media if they found out we trained to fight MAD. It's necessary to fight them though as well or we'd be sent to their Nazi like concentration most people don't know about those horrible places let alone what they do in their they try to keep that quiet. That mutant in their is pretty strong looking and bit disturbed looking as well. It looks like he's using blood based powers i wonder if that hurts? Suddenly the mutant was surrounded. Oh crap he looks in trouble Luke rushed for the entrance of the danger room In hind site I should have just hit the emergency shutdown switch on the observation deck... Crap too late now. Luke attempted to enter the room of course it was locked he was still mid session crap. Luke headed back to the observation deck to hit the switch he saw him sitting on the fountain drinking water waiting for the next round. He could see the circle of corpses where he was. Well what do you know suppose I might as well eat while waiting for my turn.

Luke sat down in the observation chair and put down the bucket of KFC popcorn chicken he had with him he usually just had it during breaks or between rounds along with a sports drink dinner and exercise at the same time it's good for three rounds but only three otherwise it would just be unhealthy. He took out his ketchup and a paper plate he had for the ketchup and started too eat mmmm chicken, also TV dinner awesome, i wonder if this is invasion of privacy? Well I am waiting for my turn and I'm not just gonna leave without my training. Ooh the next round is starting.

[Hank McCoy]

Henry walked into the observation room and was surprised at the student that sat there eating... He wasn't really sure how to react to this. "Fried chicken is not a proper meal. Nor should you be eating in here." He frowned and walked past him to sit at the chair at the console. That frown turned even deeper as he realized that the student had started without him. Glancing at the time he realized that he wasn't late. Nightshades...

Well since the first round was over and the second one was about to start Beast decided to up the ante a little. The playback on the monitor showed that Alucard had quite the skill but there was no challenge in something easy. No, the best training in the danger room was the mistakes you'd make. At least here it was a safer environment to make such mistakes. He doubled the amount of men from the first round and added a few hidden snipers. With that scenario started Beast turned his attention to Luke.

"And who are you? And who gave you clearence to be in here?" Perhaps the school's rules changed while he had been gone. But the last time he checked students were not allowed in the danger room without supervision and that included the observation room.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard waited for the second round to start as he sat there drinking on his water. He liked to and had a habit of drinking a liquid when he planed on using his powers and after he had. He was drinking during the session not because he had used much of his blood, he had only needed the amount that a person normally would bleed right after being cut to form the whip, and had lost almost none of it during the attack. That was one aspect of his blood manipulation he enjoyed, he could reuse any blood that was connected to his body. That was also why he liked using the whip so much, it had a range and stayed connected to him. He had just recapped the bottle when the second round was announced. Alucard stood up and got ready for what would happen next.

Twice the number of men equipped the same as before had shown up this round, and Alucard doubted they would all rush him like they had last time. The enemies in the danger room had a bad habit of never repeating the same mistakes twice in this kind of training session. They all rushed Alucard again, but this time they had spread themselves out more and had given the others enough space or moved forward enough so that he couldn't single shot them all with the whip this time around. As he was about to move to get to a slightly better spot, a shot from a bullet hit in the ground near him.

Alucard stepped back and got into a cluster of statues as a second and third shot came at him, barely missing him. He didn't expect there to be anyone using a gun since he had set the session to be for close quarters combat. It would seem the big blue man had decided things were too easy for him in the first round. He glanced around and managed to notice the gleam of two of the snipers' scopes, but he couldn't spot the third one. He pulled out the razor from before and placed another cut on himself, this time on his left arm instead of his already cut right. As he moved out of the statues, he shot high speed blood bullets at the two snipers he had spotted. They seemed to hit their marks since he didn't have them take a second shot at him.

The third sniper took another shot at him from behind as he took out the other two snipers. The shot would have ended the session if it had made contact with Alucard, but instead it got caught in a floating shield of blood. The blood shield was thin, but had managed to stop the bullet by completely surrounding it and preventing it from hitting him at the last moment. Alucard glanced back and shot a blood bullet at the third sniper and managed to hit him as the bullet the sniper had taken at him dropped to the ground covered in blood. He never liked using ways of manipulating his blood since he couldn't re use it and it left him feeling the effects of blood lose much more.

The first group of men on the ground had reacted him, but were taken out by a swipe of the blood whip. He had wrapped the blood around his wrist after the end of the first round. He moved the whip around quickly and managed to take out the men before they got close enough to strike him somehow. He was feeling a little faint now, but it only showed in a slight paling of his complexion. He went back to his water bottle and sat down again as he finished it off and waited for round three.

[zaintison]

Luke placed his 4th piece of popcorn chicken in his mouth when beast walked in saying that his chicken was unhealthy Luke was about to retort to this when he rudely started to ignore him and up the difficulty and started the next round Luke started to watch now having his chair backed up away from the control panel with his chicken so as not to make a mess. When Beast suddenly asked who he was. aww he doesn't remember me well that's depressingI'm Luke we met at the riot I was the Mirror Image/Duplication guy who was in shock as for why I'm here their was nothing on TV and I wanted to practice my powers just in case, sorry about the supervision part everyone seemed kinda busy so i was just going to put it on the lowest setting,... Luke frowned in empathy. he's right I shouldn't be here without supervision but no-one seems t o have enough spare time for my extra long sessions.

As for the chicken it's my favorite food and just helps me focus in my zen. My energy drink is actually a homemade protein shake with all the stuff I need.... I also have an apple in my pocket. Sorry for eating here your totally right I usually eat it between rounds and was just waiting for my turn so. Luke looked down in shame, eating the apple while watching the awesome carnage.

To be honest I wanna train for incident like the riot the worlds a mess and I don't want to have anyone die on me.... Luke pointed at The blood controlling mutant.

[Hank McCoy]

This boy did indeed talk a lot. Henry smiled to him though. "It is nice to meet you, again. But that food is still unhealthy for you." He mentioned offhandedly as he turned back to the console. Kids these days. A few buttons were pressed so he could get the statistics of the mutant in the danger room right now. "Even the lowest setting can get you in a lot of trouble if you are not careful. And if you had decided to join him in there with no one in this booth, a lot of complications might have happened." "'It takes two to make an accident.'-The Great Gatspy." Henry always had a habit of randomly quoting things that he had read. "This is why we have the rules we have."

"It was unfortunate that you were there for that. Why did you find it necessary to attend and obvious anti-mutant rally?" Even he, a man that could easily take care of himself, hadn't bothered to go to that rally until things had gotten out of hand. It still surprised him how many students actually went there. What possessed them to do such a thing? He had no idea but now that the riot was behind them maybe he could get some answers.

"Dieing is part of life Luke. And if you decide that your path is to train and join the X-men. Death is even more a part." He turned again to look at him. Perhaps he was trying to scare him a little or try and see if this kid actually had something they could make out of him. "Inevitably you will be put in a leadership situation, and sometimes you have to make that hard decision. You may have to decide who lives and who dies for the better of the whole."

That gave him an idea! He smirked a little as he started to set up the new round. The scene completely changed then. It turned into an ampitheatre like room with a stage and humans in the chairs. "Let us see how Alucard would have handled something like that riot." Suddenly the people panicked as the two doors were blocked off and two nameless mutants started to wreak havoc upon the innocent bystanders. One mutant seemed to have the power of a sonic voice, screaming at high decibels causing many of the human's ears to bleed. While the other was a more hands on mutant, with massive strength as he started to rip supporting beams out of the room. The new level gave Alucard no warning of when it started, it was as close to real life as possible.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard had no warning as the square he was is with all those defeated men around him turned into a stage full of people and two rogue mutants fighting each other. He was lucky enough to not get hit by either of the two mutant's attacks right away. He moved off the open stage and got low to study the two mutants. He wasn't sure how they would react to him. They would either continue to fight each other and he could use that to his advantage, or they would both turn on him the second they noticed him. He was hoping for the first since the second option would get tricky on him. He was sure now that the blue man was having fun seeing what he could do now. His simple session to keep from getting rusty had turned into a full out training session on him.

Alucard sighed as he started to sprint towards the two mutants to find out how they would react. As soon as one of them noticed him, they both turned on him. The screamer mutant directed a sonic screech towards him as the muscle mutant pulled a beam off the wall and threw it at him. He managed to notice the attacks. He was able to easily dodge the beam since it was so visible, but he barely avoided the sonic screech. As he glanced at the beam he noticed something, the beam had been hit by the screech and it left a dent in it the size of the attack. The screech only had power in an area the size of a man hole cover. He quickly thought of a plan as the muscle man came running at him and the screamer took in a deep breath to scream at him again.

Alucard started to move so that the muscle man was in front of the screamer if not directly in front of him. Alucard had made sure that his cuts were bleeding and as the screamer yelled, he manipulated the blood infront of him into the shape of a satilite dish and made sure the spot that was getting hit by the scream's main power was strong enough not to break from the impact. As the scream hit the blood dish, it was redirected back towards the two mutants. It didn't have enough power left to do any direct damage to the two or push them back, but it did harm their ears and threw them off balance so they had to drop to their knees. Blood quickly moved towards the two and lashed out with the blood whip once more and wrapped it around the screamer's neck and quickly threw him towards one of the walls. As he threw the screamer mutant, the whip hit the muscle mutant and wrapped around him as the scream went flying. He pulled on the blood cord and cut through the muscle man's body right as the scream hit the wall.

Alucard dropped to the floor breathing heavily as the session ended. He was pale now and it was obvious he had used up a large amount of blood on that dish he had made. He quickly used what little was left of his blood whip's blood to stitch up his cuts and sat to catch his breath enough to leave the room.

[zaintison]

two to make an accident huh. Luke took a sip of his energy drink/protein shake then made a face in disgust forgot the ice cream I suppose your right.

Luke thought for a moment as to how to respond to his question why did he attend the mutant rally? I suppose I'll have to tell him the story, but he's Beast if i can trust anyone to know and react well it's him. Hey you know about the concentration camps for mutants right? A man shocked a school with evidence of them, he shocked them into thinking... I went to the anti-mutant rally to protect mutants from getting a bad reputation, obviously i failed. Luke looked down. I helped prevent most of the incident from getting on T.V. but I wasn't able to help much else.

Luke watching the Mutant below him dodge the sound mutant. He heard Beasts words to him and stood up serious, with a determined look.Ignoring death and turning my head does not prevent it. It would be a selfish and cowardly act of me to turn my head away because I'm afraid of failure. As long as there is life theirs hope and though others may die I have to train hard to save as many as if that time comes. Luke looked down at the mutant below him. He did not seem happy with his actions.

[Hank McCoy]

Beast smirked to Luke's little speech. Maybe there was hope for the kid yet. With a flip of a switch the program ended and Hank rose to his feet from the chair. "I'm going to have a little chat with Alucard. I suggest you get ready for your turn." He walked past Luke and was out the door.

It wasn't much longer before Beast was down in the Danger Room with Alucard. "So? What did you think of your progress?" He knew the boy was weakened and that was his own fault. He acted carelessly and that put him in that spot.

"I think that you're wreckless. All you saw in that last simulation were those mutants. What about the humans that were there? Did you even think about them for a moment? As X-men we protect life above all else, whether it is human or mutant. There was no need to kill those men. And who knows how many humans would have died if the simulation was real." Hank took a moment to collect his thoughts. "I know you didn't mean for this to be a real 'lesson' but that is life. Life changes on you in a blink of an eye and you have to adapt to it. There will certainly be times that you will have to make a decision out in the real world for the greater good. Whether it is to help a mutant that is being persecuted, or a mutant harming a human." Hand sighed a little, this was all just depressing him. Where were the good old days?

"Now go get something to eat, and drink some juice." He gave the boy a way out. He hadn't really intended to lecture him and really just went on a rant. But he felt like he needed to hear that. Being as secluded as the boy was, he needed to think of things outside of his little bubble of existance.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard sat there to catch his breath when the blue furry man came into the room and started to lecture him about what he had done wrong. He was already annoyed before he had started lecture him because of the sudden change in the session that Alucard had set up for himself just to keep from getting rusty and because he had to use his powers so much and ended up losing more blood then he needed to because of the blue man. Alucard normally wouldn't react out of anger and just leave to go drink and eat soemthing, but his built up annoyance with this man and the lose of blood had stripped away a good amount of his patience made it so he acted irregularly. He slowly stood up and looked the blue man in the face with a blank look. His face was blank, but his eyes showed the usual force that one of the Nightshade's would have as well as his own annoyance to it and pieced at the man.

" You suddenly change my session that was only meant to keep me from getting rusty into a full blown session and then tell me I didn't do things right? I'm sorry if you didn't like how I handled things, but I wasn't as lack as you think I was. The reason I had to exert so much effort during that last fight was because I was protecting those humans from that screamers attacks. A few may still have been hit and it is unfortunate that they had, but can you blame me for that happening when you had the session going in the middle of the fight instead of right before it happened? I wouldn't have had to kill those two and I wouldn't have had to lose so much blood making that dish out of blood if you hadn't done that. I was put into a situation were I had to limit casualties and the quickest and less costly on lives way to do it was to eliminate those two." Alucard said to the blue man in a stern, yet calm voice. " I'm sorry I didn't yell ' Get to the door, get to the door!' or 'I'll save you all!' for everyone to hear. I'll take what you said into consideration since it is sound advise, but keep your own mistakes in mind next time as well."

Alucard stood up and began heading for the door out of the danger room before the blue man could respond. He wasn't moving quickly due to the lose of blood, but he was moving in a way that showed he was going to stand by his actions even though he knew they would get him into trouble. He rarely ever spoke with others and kept from causing trouble, but when he did he always ended up doing something that would end up causing gossip.