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While Bix was making himself known among the girls of the group (Figures, Gale thought, with an amused snort), Gale was still standing in front of his target, fiddling with the telescopic viewer on his rifle.

<< Try tilting it downwards. It's too pointed north; your aim will be off. >>

Sarcastic as Jinhai was, at the moment he sounded much more serious than he ever had - in fact, the rough and dry voice Gale had started to associate the rifle with was sounding even more raspy than normal, a fervent, thrumming hunger clearly evident through the tones.

Gale glanced towards the rest of the group, eyes narrowing slightly, a wary expression on his face. He knew very well just how much younger he was than the rest of them, but it did not mean he was any less of a hunter because of it. Standing close enough to hear what Candace was saying to Bix, Gale pressed his lips together in a thin line, studiously ignoring the both of them as he lifted the rifle.

<< I like fighting. >> came Jinhai's voice unexpectedly, a strangely eager note in his voice.

"So I've noticed."

<< It's been a long time since I've fought. I used to be quite an impressive dragon, you know. Very strong and - >>

"Jin! Shut up!" yelled Gale, who, distracted by the sudden babble of words from his usually stoic rifle, had completely misfired, the shot only barely nicking the side of the target's arm. He glared at the rifle in question, who, at this moment, chose to go back to his stoic self and remain suspiciously silent.


[ T1: 3 damage
T2: 5 damage
T3: miss
T4: 1 damage ]

Frankly Leon couldn't but agree with Cass, who knew that the normally calm and cynical weapon had such a temper. It was like a switch was flicked and it just kicked in every bit of his dragon instincts.

"Again Boxer, just jam me in there!" "Uh yeah, thanks Cass, I'm going to need all the luck in the world right now!" he replied back from afar and pulled the rampaging weapon away from the target with the sudden gap in its chest.

"Hey Nid, we work together don't we? Calm down and be logical right now!" he spoke back to his weapon, feeling its motor slowly quiet down to a more steady and ear friendly rumble. Leon could help but sigh in relief at the voice that wasn't rampaging around in his skull as much.

"Your right Leon, for once I took a page out of your book." it said regretfully. "And I, you." Leon told it in return before brandishing the weapon back high in the air. "Ready to do this more efficiently?"

"Lets." was all that was said as the chain saw made its carving path around to the cardboard dummy's neck and watched as the headlike top severed from the rest of its prone form.

Leon half expected styrofoam to come pouring out of the massive mock wound.

((Try 1 : 0
Try 2: 4
Try3: 5))

Before had to hand it to Bix, his bro totally knew how to work the ladies! Or at least that's how it looked to the brown-haired Hunter. As more and more of the others began to declare themselves finished, it only made Before want to panic. Why was he taking so long?! How come he was failing miserably (and who would pay for his mistakes but poor, poor Vanna)? NO! He wasn't going to let it stop him! ;A;g

He always kept trying and God damn it, he was going to keep trying even if it killed him. Of course, how one could kill oneself when facing up against cardboard was anyone's guess. But then again, Before did win himself a Darwin Award during their, ah, first testing phase. Back when no one knew what they looked like or why they signed up in the first place.

Stop such thoughts! If you intend to keep trying, then DO SOMETHING!!!!!

"Y-YES VANNA!" DDDD8 he yelped, pulling his arm back to make another hefty swing at his target. Except he pulled back a litttttle too far back and ended up losing his balance and falling flat on his a**.

NOBODY SAW THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? ... ;A; Can he just crawl back into his pod and actually die from embarrassment now?

((T1 Damage: 0
T2 Damage: 4
T3 Damage: 0))

If anyone had to have witnessed his fail-tastic attempt to charge his poor starving weapon, Before would have preferred it to be Bix. At least he was sure his Bro wouldn't give him too much trouble about it. Oh there would be the teasing, I mean, duh his performance certainly warranted a ******** of ribbing. But at least he felt confident enough and trusted the pale-haired Hunter wouldn't be doing it out of malice.

Gratefully, he accepted Bix's hand and pulled himself up. He still held Vanna with his other hand, showing no signs of her weight or bulk. "Thanks, a-and sorry if I'm pulling you away from more important things." Namely scoring with the cute girls they were going to be working with.

Of course, when his eyes fell upon Candace's weapon, Before seemed to suddenly pale and tried to position himself so that Bix would be directly on front of him. And keep him out of sight. "Sh-she has Booterangs?!" he half-hissed, half-gasped, gesturing to the dark-skinned girl's shoes. oAo!!!!!! That settled it, he needed to get Vanna charged up so he can stay as far the ******** away from the deadly pair of footwear.

"H-here goes nothing..." he gulped to Bix and Gale and tried to make another swing at the cardboard cutout. He was, unfortunately a tad too distracted by the revelation of booterangs being present and only grazed the target.

Hey! At least he hit it! 8DDDDDDD "Yay! Bix, you should stick around more! I think you're something like a good luck charm 'cuz I'm actually hitting s**t!" he beamed and gave his friend a thumb's up XDDDDD

((T1 Damage: 0
T2 Damage: 4
T3 Damage: 0
T4 Damage: 3))

The boxer was unsure how to explain the feeling he got from beheading the cutout. Other than it was Kick a**. Nidhogg himself was just having a blast and feasting on whatever FEAR the cutout had to offer. It had to have been because the voice was strangely quiet in his head. "Hey hey, don't eat too fast, I don't want to know what Fear vomit is like." the life hunter chuckled out as he walked up to the now detached head.

"Ha ha very funny, give me another bite to eat and i'll be content." Nid practically said with his mouth full. how that worked, Leon wasn't even sure.

"ok ok." Leon grumbled back to the rather impatient chainsaw, holding it high up above the cutout's head like some kind of deathbringer. "Open wide!" He called to no one in particular and brought the weapon down upon the cutout, shredding its head to bits. The look of satisfaction on Leon's face was echoed of Nidhoggs unseen one.

"Ah, that's the stuff, I'm so full, but yet I still hunger." the dragon voice all but purred out and Leon could have sworn that the chainsaw that brought so much noise and destruction began to vibrate even more violently.

leon was happy with his attacks, and felt that it was suitable and stepped away to give Cass enough space to show him how it was done, and gave a yell to before. "Come on, knock its head off Before!" he called out from the sidelines, with the chainsaw puttering along at his side, never resting but just idling for the next task.

((attempt 1: 0
Attempt 2: 4
Attempt 3: 5
Attempt 4: 1))

Before watched as the others did spectacularly better than him with their own cardboard cutout targets. Some teeny part of him felt just a tad bit jealous of their skill and wondered if Vanna had chosen the wrong person to bond with. Maybe she'd be happier with some other Hunter? One who could actually get her the FEAR food she needed and wanted ;_;

Don't be silly, Before. I wouldn't have picked just anyone. I have certain standards and you managed to meet them. Vanna assured him. She felt rather self-important that her Hunter would be so concerned about her and wanted what was best for her. Oh yes, she picked correctly this time with Before. He was definitely a keeper and she was not going to let him go. NOT WITHOUT A CANDLEJACKING FIGHT!

The Hunter was consoled by his weapon's words. Of course it was all spoken in his head, which made the next gesture a tad... weird. Namely because he suddenly threw his arms open, as he was going to hug someone. The gesture had the metal wheel briefly grazing the target, the sharp spokes scratching a trickle of FEAR into her and then the former Devil Shield found herself pressed against warm human torso.

"I have the BESTEST BEST WEAPON EVER!" he declared ;w; then quickly turned to the others, "Uh, n-not that yours aren't all awesome and neat in their own way."

Before, I believe I am fully charged with FEAR. Not that I couldn't do with a bit more should the opportunity present itself...

Next time! I'll do better next time! I promise! ;^;

He paused because Vanna seemed to be emitting a sense of expecting him to say or do something more. What? He'd already promised he'd improve the next time. What else could he do?

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...

O.O!!!!! Oh yeah!!! His hand shot up, "FULLY CHARGED OVER HERE TOO, MA'AM-SIR!"

((T1 Damage: 0
T2 Damage: 4
T3 Damage: 0
T4 Damage: 3
T5 Damage: 1))

Bix eyed the strange wheel weapon as he hauled Before to his feet. "Bros before hoes!" Then he quickly glanced around to see if any of them heard him refer to them as hoes. HE HOPED NOT! "That's a cool weapon though.. unique."

For some reason the term booterang had not dawned on him until Before said it and it only caused the bow-weilding hunter to facepalm. Not booterangs AGAIN! "Just concentrate and..... avoid her.." He said the last part softly. If Candace was almost too much for Bix, she'd definitely be too much for Before. Not that he knew at all what she was like... this was just his normal snap judgement based on first impressions. He had an opinion on EVERYONE.

Bix practically jumped away when Before attempted his next attack. "You were always good at hitting s**t!" The albino hunter devolved into laughter. "It was just never what your were supposed to hit. Just uhh.. concentrate. I know thats hard for you.." He playfully shoved Before but then realized he should avoid that, just in case the other lost balance and fell over.

"WHOAH.." A rumbling caught his ear and he swung around to see Leon and his chainsaw. "WHOAAAAH!" He pointed and gaped. And then something caught his eye and he burst out laughing.

"BALLLLLLS!" He was calling to Ariane. Of course.