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While some of the others were talking about something of phoenixes and who they were during their trials, Deryk watched as Ryan brought out his weapon to show. They were indeed a pair of solid gauntlets.

"Oh nice! Those look pretty cool too. Nice claws. Probably could do some nasty damage to someone's face. Ouch," he nodded.





Shooting a glance towards Candace and Gale as they spoke about their division leader, he made a few mental notes to not mess with the guy too much. Actually, it made him a little nervous to hear that their leader was one hell of a jerkface. Right now, he was kind of imagining if it were as if Otto was their leader.

That would suck.

"Safety in numbers?" Ottos sneered. "Is that why ya'll killed off two people on that beach? Was there a capacity cap I ain't known about?" Otto huffed, turning his head from the man with the glasses.

"Ah I see, well glad to see you at least made it out of that hell hole, Candace. Nice to uh... meet you officially?" Aleister seemed to be questioning the terms in which they were meeting, none the less though he gave a small smile.

Someone, Jerry; had said something about singing... "Uhh.. what kind of singing?" Of course he'd missed the fact that Jerry was getting mad at Otto.

<You can sing?>
<Depends on who you ask Pookie....>
<That's not my name...>
<It's a nickname.... Garfield calls his bear Pookie, and since your name is Puca, it fits.>

There was another sign from his weapon as he frowned watching the boys bicker. "Um..." He looked at Candace, "Do you think he realizes that... tough guy's just a sour puss?" He nodded towards Jerry when he asked that; hoping that there wasn't going to be yet another fight.

Well wasn't this a heaping pile off bullshit. And here he was hoping that they could grow up and get over it. He could only echo Jerry now. "You guys really want to dig up PAST bullshit?" His voice wasn't angry but rather neutral. "You guys seriously want to drag up s**t that happened in our trails, s**t we were encouraged to do, under the assumption that we had to kill each other to survive? Sorry, but I don't know if you guys have realized it yet, this isn't the trials. You're on teams together, and will have to work with each other, frankly? Acting so bitter about who killed who is a load of crap."

Arms crossed as he leaned against the wall. "Nobody I think can say they didn't attack anyone, or try to kill anyone. So to be so offended that others did what you might have done, either in the same situation or not, is the pot calling the kettle black. In the trials we were told to kill, and that is just what many of us did or tired to do. Now we're awake and we're hunters. We're supposed to fight to protect mankind. I think protecting mankind, or hell, protecting my teammates, if a hell of a lot more important that lingering in the past."

A deep breath. "I really don't like fighting, but this s**t is ridiculous. You have an issue with others and take that into a mission? You want to make enemies? Those of us who've watched Dr. H and Caelius can tell you, they don't put up with bullshit. Ask any of us and we can tell you how close some of us came to death last mission. Point is, you carry that baggage around, I am willing to bet it will come and bite you in the a**. You don't have to like someone, but jesus." He sighed again. "Jerry, don't let em get to you man. they're not worth getting into a scrap over."

"Nice to meet you too, Aleister." She didn't bother to mention 'hey I killed you, no hard feelings?' as that was something in the past. If it was brought up to her? She'd apologize. She'd been doing a lot of apologizing lately why the hell not just add some more to her list.

Jerry's body moved from the force of someone throwing itself at him and even Candace stumbled, turning to see who it was.

...Some girl was throwing herself at Jerry. She tensed, eyes narrowing just slightly as her hand took a more possessive hold on his hand. Why was she hugging him? Get off, b***h. Shoo. Go away. "Friend of yours?" She asked Jerry in regards to..Reine. Why is she hugging him.

It started with Leon. Petra being the backstabber? She gave him a look, a disapproving look. What had she done lately that--oh. He meant..during those trials. ********, no. Don't bring those up. Seriously, Leon. You know better. And then Jerry chimed in, too. Oh no. Nonono. Candace rubbed her face with one hand, covering her eyes a moment. "Boys, it was a stupid trial. I thought if it like a video ga--" And then Bratface jumped in about beach killings. Candace dropped her hand and gave Jerry a surprised look. "You killed people? You? I'm impressed." Candace gave his hand a squeeze until she noticed the flashing of his whistle. Wait..oh no. Not in here, Jerry. No way. Candace continued to hold his hand, giving it another squeeze as her free hand affectionately rubbed at his arm.

"Jerry, baby. He's just a dumb kid who can't let go of the past. You know as well as I do he'll let it go when one of the leaders chews him out for it a couple times." Candace cooed to the steadily increasingly angered man. She gave a nod to Ryan, who had the right idea. "And notice you're not even dead? This isn't highschool, dumbass. You can't just go around throwing grudges at everyone because oh no he did something not cool during a trial of survival~~~~~! okay?" She shook her head at Aleister and opened her mouth to say something until Jerry spoke again.

...Oh, Jerry. Why are you so attractive when you're angry. It just wasn't fair. Candace's eyes widened a little as he snapped at the blonde kid, biting her lip and trying really hard not to smile. She preferred happy-go-lucky Jerry, sure...but he was so cute when he was angry! "He's right. If you can't let go of a grudge you probably won't be trusted."

Like you, Madame Hypocrite? How dare you speak of trust when you yourself are the biggest <******** up this facility has probably ever seen. Candace's grip on Jerry tightened for a moment as she put on a far too sweet smile, breathing in slowly and deeply before letting out that deep breath so as not to take her own rings and throw them on the ******** ground.

She raised a hand. "I shot a guy in some cornfield annnnnnd then I killed nine people." Candace announced like this was some kind of AA meeting, looking around with a 'What?' expression. "No, I'm not bragging. I'm saying...hey...if anyone's got a problem? Come at me, bro. But seriously. Get the hell over it. Marcus is right, don't let this get you worked up. It's done, it happened. Yay! You're all alive and healthy and awesome!" Now shut the ******** up!

...She left that part unspoken.

"Yeah there was a fair amount of Zeta's here mate, and alpha's too" Leon said in reply to the hat wearing hunter with a skeptic eye, they guy was safe to say......... flashy with his attire. Not to mention the guy wasn't far away from his own dorm. Oh joy. "And its nice to finally meet you, Zeta 12" he offered his hand to the guy when Jerry decided he wanted to turn into a tomato and put on a excellent bout of anger, the guy had an angry side, who would have thought.

"I had no problem with the leadership, I had no problem with Petra leading us." he said calmly, eerily clam at that as he closed the distance between the two. "You were also fine with her as you followed like a lost puppy, And yes, I did put my faith in her as did the other Zeta members in the beginning." If anything he put far too much faith in her as he scowled deeply at the memories. "You seem to forget about how she was nominated to be Zeta's leader at the beginning, and look how quickly she defected to Alpha's whims." It was clear he still felt bitter about that desertion, past golems or not. It still spoke volumes to her character.

"Yeah, would you like to count how many members you left behind that day Jer? Did it feel good while you gallavanted with another team, did you for once think about the team you left behind?" It really was a sensitive topic, one that was still uneasy to bring back up, but it was the only time he was able to talk about it, when it was all over. "Remember how we tried to make it so that the 12 who survived was from Zeta, you want to find out how many of the former group are still asleep there, sun hunter? Jerry really wasn't the only one who could get angry. However having such a topic in a public place really knew how to take the edge off as he heaved a sigh. "Some things were just better off unknown and forgotten, I suppose."

Was this going to happen every time a set of recruits woke up, that at least took part in the trial. "It may have been awhile for us, but for those who took part, its still fresh in their minds, or in my case, still pent up." That trial showed peoples true colors, and it wasn't just red, orange and pink and whatnot. Just talking about it felt exhausting , like the day was never going to end as he flopped against the wall.

Geez, this was really starting to take a turn for the worse. Just about everyone was on edge now and they were definitely at each others throats. Damn it... all he wanted to do was go exploring! If only he had woken up half an hour earlier.

"Err... should I just... go...?" He asked quietly, unsure if he should stay put or leave them all to their arguing and get the hell out of the way.

Glancing over at those who were bickering, Deryk took a step back, feeling a little uneasy at all the tension that was going up right now. The guy that had been singing just moments ago didn't seem so happy any more. In fact, he appeared to be pretty damn pissed right now.

Enough that he suddenly had what looked like a bazooka or canon in his hands.

"AH! Don'tshootdon'tshoot! Big blast, small area. Baaaad idea man," he sputtered out while backing away from him. Sure, it might just be an intimidation technique, but he had no clue how trigger happy the guy was. If he decided to fire that in this hallway, it could get them all killed!