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After the ALICE version of reality had faded there were things that needed some cleaning up and certain hunters were temporarily banned from places they'd cause an uproar in. This left Bix getting stuck on minipet duty in the wake of the great foxfire breakout. They'd been alerted to some new hunter awakenings (real ones this time) and he was almost 100% positive he would end up with a baby hunter to show the ropes.

It wasn't that he minded really, he was pretty good with new hunters, he just wanted to do something more exciting.

So the albino man arrived promptly, fully uniformed, and snatched a labcoat off the wall to cover his gear with. Checking the work schedule he noticed someone named 'Kylee' would be joining him but instead of waiting he snapped some rubber gloves over his hands and headed for the cages that needed cleaning.

Bix turned to the unfamiliar voice and smiled. "Oh hey.." He was not at all in appearance like the others on the island with his white hair, white skin and crimson eyes. In the white lab coat he looked even more obvious. The young man peeled his gloves off and tossed them in a bin. He offered Kylee a hand for shaking, "I'm Bix."

Minipets were always interesting for newbs to meet since they ranged from the adorable to the terrifying to the absolutely disgusting. The particular foxfire she spotted was definitely a cuter one. He motioned a few cages over where a foxfire in a shady hood with Life logos was peering at them haughtily through the bars. "Yeah.. weirdly some of them look like us. It's bizarre."

"Kylee." Bix nodded. "Nice to meet you."

He drifted over to the cages. "Minipets are formed from minor fears or the FEAR sort of saps something from us, and takes on lots of forms. So there could be a billion little hooded things like this.." He tapped the glass and the hooded foxfire shot him a displeased, shining eye from underneath the clothing. "..and they would all have the same hood and coat."

Bix sighed though and grabbed a pair of gloves, offering them to her. "We get stuck cleaning up after them though." He made a face. "It can be pretty gross. The slimier ones are that way.." He pointed down another loooong row of cages.

"Welcome to Deus." The pale man stuck his tongue out teasingly.

"Yeah pretty much. Though some are totally original I think." Bix made sure he was properly equipped and set up a tiny fence on the floor. He moved to a cage, opened it, and pulled out a pet. It seemed a bit happy, making small noises and lashing it's tail, but Bix tried to keep himself from getting whipped by it and set it down within the confines of the gated area.

"Voila. Cleaning." He got a spray bottle off a rack, a rag, and started to clean the cage. "Well that one with the hood is based on Dr. H, Life division head. The one with glasses looks like Caelius, Death division lead. But I mean.. to Halloweeners all hunters are a threat I think so you may see quite a few deus colored ones."

"Fear is fear I figure." Bix was finished the cage. It hadn't taken long at all but there were a lot of them. "I think you'd best meet the division leads yourself." His smile seemed a bit strained. He didn't really like to talk s**t and he didn't want to form her opinion for her. She would learn soon enough. "I'm sure after one meeting you'll get a good handle on them."

Another pet was placed with the dragon one but he left them both there to interact. It was hardly as cute as the first one. "They are allowed to be out of the cages but not for too long or they will sort of melt away. Not the right environment. Also we can't go to Halloween world unless we use a golem, sort of an artificial body," he explained helpfully, "kinda like space, the atmosphere isn't made for us."

"Oh yeah!" Bix grinned. It was fun seeing new people discover the wonders of their new life. Even if things often ended in catastrophe, there were still really neat technologies they had.

"So you go into a pod." He winked, "I know.. pods suck... but yeah. You go into a pod and basically wake up in a randomly generated body in halloween. Sort of like Virtual Reality.. except your body is physically in Halloween. You may be a monster or a ghost.. boy or girl.. or no gender at all. But you can walk around and interact and experience their school. Pretty much anything. They don't last forever though. That's how we catch these minipets."

He was holding another one but this one was oozing slime all over his gloved hands and gradually sliiiiiiding out of them until it landed in the fenced area with a 'schlorp' noise, jiggled, and reformed into it's cat-like appearance.

"Yeah it's kinda weird." Bix's voice echoed out from a cage. Slowly the gated area seemed to fill with little pets as the cages were scrubbed, rinsed and dried. "They act like normal people kind of. Except they are monsters who feed on our FEAR."

After a few moments of silence he popped back out and started putting the first few pets back again. "So what brings you here? Where are you from and all that?"