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 Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:21 pm
Mei nodded lightly to the ghoul's words. Though, she had no clue as to how she would be able to aid the hunters, aside from how she had been already. Spy might not be as successful as they may think, what with everyone knowing she aided them. "I'm.. not sure.. but yes.. if I'm granted the opportunity, we may speak sometime." Though, depending on what she asked, she may be a bit reluctant to answer.
"Thank you." She smiled softly at Eva. They would see how things played out, if Caelius wished her death, well then.. she had already died many times before. What would one more be?
She was surprised, to hear Gale announcing his trust of her before so many hunters, but touched really. She didn't blame him for not wanting to work with the others, as it took a lot of convincing for her to prove that she meant no ill will towards him and the other hunters, and even then, some were still skeptical about her being here. She understood.. well, it didn't matter right now. "I understand. Though, you have nothing to fear from them." She smiled, glancing over a the other two. Heryk.. she wasn't sure about, but it appeared he was not hostile towards any of the hunters.
Nodding to both Gale and Eva, she was both grateful and relieved for their willingness to defend her. If it hadn't been for them..
Her gaze locked with the woman who now entered, 'Sam' as she announced herself. Unknowingly, she took another step back behind Eva and Gale.
Weapons conversion!
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:48 pm
Still standing beside Mei and Eva, Gale did not even notice the suspicious bushy head of hair that appeared in the runic tech area. Which was probably a good thing, otherwise he might have beaned something at the back of Mark's head.
Thankfully, a distraction came in the form of a short Death hunter that appeared at his side. Gale blinked down at her, slightly taken aback.
"Er," he said. "Yes, I'm Gale Gentry..."
He trailed off, brow furrowing in bemusement. Form? Correspondence? He wasn't quite sure what she was talking about, but whatever it was, it did not sound good - and then it clicked. She was talking about Mei and the other students.
Gale gave Eva a slightly concerned look; he had not, in fact, gotten exact permission for Mei to be here; it had been sort of...a spur of the moment decision -
- especially with the weapons conversion specialist standing right in front of him.
"...ah," said Gale delicately, feeling more than seeing Mei take a step behind Eva and him. "Yes. Well. I much prefer Sam to you are screwed, so I think we'll go with that."
He let out his breath slowly, pressing his lips together as he glanced around the room. "I don't know where the others came from," he said. "I've seen maybe one of them around before, but other than that I have no association with them. Mei-Xiu - " He gestured to her. " - is who I've been working with for the past several months now. I've been supervising her, and she is not a threat."
Gale shrugged a little. "I can't say the same about the others, seeing as I don't know them, but Mei I can and will vouch for. Just...provide me with the necessary forms, and I'll, er...fill them out, if that's what it takes."
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:53 pm
Silently, she looked between Gale and Ariane, and then--with a little smile--shrugged. "And if Gale trusts her, so do I. He's got a good head on his shoulders, and frankly, so does Mei." As for the other students...well, she couldn't vouch for them, but they didn't seem like a bad lot, really. She turned to shoot the doll girl a reassuring grin and a wink, but the happy expression on her face froze and then faded away as her gaze slid past her.
Uh oh. Eva froze when she noticed another Death Hunter making their way towards them, instinctively lifting an arm to shield Mei when she noticed the girl stepping back behind them. Ooh boy, here we go. She returned Gale's look with a worried one of her own, but said nothing.
She didn't intend on butting in since the other Hunter was clearly addressing Gale specifically, but at the implication that he was in trouble, her lips curved into a frown. She was quick to hold a hand up in front of herself in an attempt to draw the Hunter's attention to her. "Hold on a sec, it's not like Gale brought all of these students here. Mei, er...got dragged along by accident, and the others." She trailed off, shaking her head. When Sam mentioned that she was in charge of weapon conversations however, her shoulders stiffened, and she took a step back to stand more defensively in front of the doll student.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:25 pm
Herryk once more caught sight of the hunter he'd been talking to outside of the portal. Truth be told, it was a little unnerving to see students milling around, and he'd grown more and more agitated. It was obvious he was eager to get to.. well, whatever entailed a fresh start. By the time Sam finally approached, Herryk was shifting from foot to foot, large hands clenching and unclenching as he listened to the hunter named Gale speak with the dark haired female. When the hunter was close enough, Herryk drew up close, towering over Sam - almost patiently. Almost. The crowd was getting to him. He cleared his throat. Loudly. Twice. "Herryk has been waiting." He only had eyes for Sam, a nervous edge to his voice.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:43 pm
Sam rolled her eyes, handing Gale two forms. "Sign this one, and proof of mission assistance with the correspondence is required. Tick the checkbox below if she makes good.... candidate material, though I wouldn't get your hopes up, short stuff." Considering that she was pretty much the same height as Gale, if not shorter, it was definitely not exactly the most befitting pet name. "As for the others..."
Her eyes suddenly dis-focused as she stared at a point somewhere behind Gale. "Oh wow, look at that time, gotta run, have fun talking with the boss."
She gestured, this way to Herryk, leaving Gale and everyone else to their fate.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:04 pm
Speak of the devil and he will come.
Or well, Mark was pretty sure that was how everything involving him and his general state of suffering worked. He crouched a little lower, pretending he was one with the grass as his highness appeared on the field.
Thankfully the Death lead was a little busy making extremely sad Sun Hunters feel even worse about themselves with requests like "This does not excuse you from filling out a ******** mission report", or "If you wouldn't ******** die all the time...", general encouraging words like that. There was some blathering about Allan's state of non-existance and a memorial, to which the Death lead simply offered an expression and a few snide comments that made many Hunters consider if death by Horsemen was a more preferable and comfortable option here.
"- Incompetent mission results." The Death lead continued, pretty much creating an almost comical vortex of chaos wherever he went until-
- He took one look at the scene in front of him with the trainees, the Hunters that should in his opinion, still be trainees, and the students. Students, as Sam would have said, just standing there in Deus like this was normal every day behaviour.
Awkward silence.
"Mark." Caelius began, very, very slowly. "W-"
-"Wait wait wait!" At least this time, thanks to some warning, Mark was prepared. "I didn't bring them, I was just sitting here doing uh... programming things, yeah lots of important programming things when these guys came back in after the mission and I think the portals are malfunctioning."
And then the inevitable. The Death lead walked a little closer towards the center of disaster, a little too close to where Gale was lingering. As in too close in range of a very specific weapon in which the younger Hunter was already growing very familiar with. "Who the <********> is responsible for these <******** ups?" ooc Addressed at anyone really nothing yet Look Thack and Cael will now be bff
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:19 pm
"Trouble is all that's happened since I left the sea Wash." Amphi reached out to pat the hunter's arm. "I figure there is no point beyond more trouble, at least I will keep you safer...or alive." She turned to look at the other hunters surrounding them.
It was sad to hear it, from Wash, to be said firmly but gently. The mermaid blinked again and then looked at Wash.
"Young in terms of exprience with life? Or young in the terms of years I have lived?" Amphi cocked her head before smiling through it all, "I am over 500years old...as far as human years. We just mature slowly."
She stood now and again patted the hunter's arm. "If you're kind can offer hunters younger than I, then it seems there is no age too young for a goal in mind." She looked again at the female hunter that had joined the one next to Wash. "I should let you rest though. My friend is out with other hunters, and it is probably best if I stick close to her."
That was until she started to head out of the tent...and saw Caelius.
And then she went back in the tent, sorry Mei.
"Actually that scary hunter is there so I am going to hide..." The mermaid nodded and started to crawl behind Wash's cot or something.Zoobey Hiding from Caelius 4lyfe
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:37 pm
Stormy bobbed her head in response until she noticed the older hunter's eyes were closed. "Oh, um, yeah, I think, maybe, sorta. For - For now." Those last two words held a slight inflection, like she wasn't really sure of that even. Stormy touched her hair, girlishly bashful. "Um . . . About before, with that guy -"
And then the Death specialist she'd seen at the base entered the room, and almost immediately the trainee shut up. She did not want to incur Sam's saccharine sarcasm again, no thanks. Yet right after she left with the hulking black thing and Stormy thought to relax, a different chaotic force swept up the makeshift infirmary. This was her first time actually seeing Caelius in person and, well . . .
She hid a little behind Sasha as the man went about cursing, brows tilted with worry as she tugged Thackery with her, keeping her hand fastened in his fur because oh God he looked real, real scary. One part of her wanted to impulsively explain the situation, but most of her just wanted to cower and let someone with more expertise handle the Death lead.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:42 pm
The male student was enormous, towering over Gale and Eva, both of whom were significantly shorter. He looked up a bit warily, unsure of what the student wanted - though, considering he was asking the Weapons Conversion Specialist, Gale wasn't sure there was much to wonder about. He pressed his lips together, absently tugging at the strap of his sling, then reached out and took the two forms from Sam.
"Thanks," he said, a tad dryly, and scanned over the papers. He sputtered a bit at short stuff, his trademark scowl flitting across his face briefly, but Sam's hasty departure made him blink in surprise.
"Er," he started to say, but an all-too-familiar shouting voice immediately made the situation just that much clearer. He gave a small groan, rubbing at his face (and crinkling the papers a bit in the process), and gave a sidelong glance to Eva as though to say here comes the bear.
And, sure enough, Caelius came storming in not a moment later.
<< Well, this is awkward. >>
Mark's babbling voice could be heard squawking excuses, and a moment later the Death Lead was standing much too close for comfort. Gale resisted the urge to step deliberately away.
He scowled, cleared his throat, and said carefully, "I am responsible for Mei-Xiu."
A pause.
"Sir."
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:47 pm
The techs working on Ofelia had finally managed to calm her down, or at least her get her quiet enough and still enough that they could work on her, and from the cot where they were applying swift first aid the redhead could only weep and groan against something shoved in her mouth to prevent her from biting and screaming more.
Her stomach burned with a thousand fiery suns (she was being overly dramatic - though it did really hurt) and each time they tried to stitch her up she attempted to flail to get free. Dealing with pain when she had a FEAR shield was one thing, dealing with the same pain while trying to regain her shield was something entirely. Eventually one of her flailing legs managed to get a tech in the side, sending them toppling over, and Ofelia was so very close to being sedated.
She probably would have kept on keeping on, as was Ofelia tradition, if not for the wonderful appearance of Caelius in the room and his lovely voice of oh s**t someone did something wrong. All her protests stopped, she was the very perfect model of a patient, and the techs may or may not have pulled her stitches a little tight as revenge for all her movements. It was just like them to be vindictive in a way she could do nothing about.
" . . . . bleh." The bite gag was taken from her mouth as the last of the stitches finished themselves up. The entire front of her outfit was gone, cut open and discarded, and so she lay on the cot in nothing more than a bra and lots of bandages. This was sort of becoming an overly typical for Ofelia and she wondered just how much more abuse her body could handle before it croaked. She hoped it could handle like...massive amputation or decapitation because she wasn't really ready to die any time soon. (She also ignored the fact that having a loss of her head would kill her). Blearily the teen looked around, trying to figure out what was going on and why Caelius had deemed himself worthy enough to show up.
Apparently there were students in the room? Ofelia sort of groaned again and tried to stand up, only to be pushed back down. The tech in question got an unhappy shove into the wall for their efforts =/
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:52 pm
These <******** ups? Thackery's ears twitched in the direction of the comment, catching the approaching hunter out of the corner of his eye. He remembered him well, from traps and battles and the day he'd met Reine, and none of those experiences had been anything close to what he would consider friendly. Regardless of the past, the Cerberus could tell that he was mad, and existing at a very kickable height wasn't in his best interest right now. He slunk back behind Stormy's legs and hunkered down, resting his head on her foot, trying to manage simultaneously hiding and watching out for her. He'd leave the talking to someone else. His intention was to keep the hunters out of trouble, and this seemed like a situation that might thrust them right into it.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:59 pm
Caelius showing up to yell at them was inevitable, but it still didn't stop the grimace from spreading over Eva's lips as she heard him yelling. Ooooh, boy. Pressing her lips together tightly, she lifted her brows at Gale but said nothing, waiting until the Death Division lead made his way over. Her eyes flashed when the tip of the scythe was held up to Gale, and she automatically moved forward to stand beside the blond, resting a hand on his shoulder.
Mei had been brought along by accident really, but she wasn't sure if it was a good thing to mention that. "Just Mei-Xiu, sir," She emphasized Gale quietly, hoping that the forms he got from Sam would help make Mei's presence here "official", "We're not sure how the...others got here, but..."
But although she didn't want Gale getting in trouble for something he had no part in, she feared the possibility of someone else getting in trouble, whether it be another hunter or the students themselves.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:04 pm
Easing up as the ghoul known as 'Sam' left, the doll loosed a sigh of relief, only to cringe again as Caelius returned. Stepping out from behind Gale and Eva, she decided it was best she not hide herself from one of the men in charge. It was him, that she would need to speak with anyways.
Stiffening as the death lead stood a little too close to Gale, Mei held an unnecessary breath, watching the two carefully and quietly. Whether or not those papers Gale filled out would prove any use to her keeping her life, was yet to be seen. For now, she would place her trust in both Gale and Eva. They had kept her from harm this far. However.. she was concerned for Amphi's and Thackery's safety. And where did Heryk go?
Glancing about the area to see if she could spot the massive boil, she gave up when unable. Did he follow that weaponization ghoul..? But why?
Mentally shaking her head, her gaze locked on Caelius once again, waiting quietly to see how this would play out. One way or another, she figured it would not have a pleasant end.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:16 pm
Biting her lip Ceres watched the scene unfold, wincing as the Caelius they all know and..... love, bared his fangs. Too bad this was a rather... usual thing. She should be used to it, really.
She always thought Caelius was the type to kick puppies, and now she wondered if she would see if this was true.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:17 pm
Catching Mei's wave, Deryk smiled faintly and waved back before looking at Sam as she came by. Wait.. what was she... oh. Weapons.. Conversions..
Last he remembered, Mei did not want to be a weapon. Nor did Amphi, the mermaid that had shown up as well. He didn't know about the others.. though he watched as the big undead ended up following Sam away. He didn't know what to make of all of this, and just sort of fidgeted uncomfortably while waiting to see what would happen here.
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