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[Sutoratosu Akira]

Aurora, Joan & Dani


She waved the young faith militant farewell before turning her attention to the stranger. With eyes that booked into him with unnatural intensity, it felt as though she were gazing right through his flesh and down to the core of his being.


"Well, don't just stand there. State your business with me, new blood."

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

The young man walks forward with a nod, standing just out of arm's length as he gives her a rather similar look for a few moments before shrugging and letting go of his shotgun. For anyone else it might have been surprising when the shotgun slowly, as though moving on it's own, slid from his shoulder and glowed, the feet of a younger woman landing on the ground as she changed into her human form and slid the knife previously in the bayonet lug into her coat. The male raises a hand casually, as if what just happened wasn't rather odd. "Name's Dani, but you can call me "New Blood" if you want. Sounds cool to me at least. My partner here is Joan. I do most of the talking of the two of us so don't get offended if she doesn't say much." Almost as if in demonstration the female waves, and then promptly gets distracted by the ongoing sparring.

Dani shrugs and then turns back to Aurora. "Sorry about being weird a second ago. I'm not gonna stop, but I had a reason for that bit in particular." He stretches a bit as he says he's not going to stop before continuing. "Anyway, I'm guessing you're some kind of god? Followed your soul all the all the way here so I imagine you're something to the effect." The casualness of how he says it makes it rather clear that it wouldn't be his first time talking to a god, nor is he very worried about the prospect in comparison to Kraken had been.

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Dani and Joan, Aurora

"That I am," She nodded rather curtly, "Not quite at the height of my status these days, but still a god nonetheless. Now, pray tell, why were you tracking my soul? And just what is that girl? I've seen many a shapeshifter before, but never one who chose to take the form of a weapon to be wielded by another..."

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

Dani shrugs, putting his hands in his pockets as he rocks on his feet slightly. "Well, why wouldn't I? If you were a threat no one had found yet it'd be pretty darn bad to just leave you to wander around. And if you weren't then I could acquaint myself with one of my new teammates. Besides, I can tell you were eyeing me. Don't worry, I ain't no witch; I'm not disguising nothing here." He turns slightly and jerks a thumb to Joan, who's taken a seat to watch Tsubasa and Osada. "As for my girl, that's kind of the only form she's got. She's a demon weapon, real indicative name there. Story I'm told is that Lord Death and a buddy of his found them, victims of experiments done by this big bad mother hubbard of a witch. They beat her and freed them, and now demon weapons get paired up with Meisters and DWMA to fight potential Kishin. Main thing is they're powerful as all get out if you can use them right, act as amplifiers for soul energy. And Meisters like me can control soul energy and use it to fight." Dani smirks and flexes theatrically, which does show that he's quite muscular from the bulge of his jacket.

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Dani and Joan, Aurora
"I see...well you're practically minded and have some forethought at least." Aurora said, "We could always use a bit of that around here. There was one incident a long time back with some idiot who used a grenade without thinking about how close his allies were. And a few others that aren't even worth talking about. Seems we've lost most of the worst ones to the 'rec room' thankfully; I know I saw at least some of them languishing there with me. Speaking of which, how long have you two been here?"

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

Dani looks at his watchless wrist for a moment before shrugging. "We got here maybe like 15 minutes ago. The weird not witch brought us here with Snakey and the big fairy..." Joan twitches at the mention of Empi. "So yeah, we basically got here and I decided to track you or the splitty saggy one down.... So who does the house keeping here?" Dani looks around casually as he finishes, but it's obvious he's aware that the answer is probably "no one".

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Dani & Joan, Aurora

"No one." Aurora said flatly. "The castle was long since delipidated even when we found it. For the most part we've only been clearing things out as necessary; there's not exactly a lot of time to devote to going room by room and deep cleaning. Though if you and your friend want to change that, you're perfectly welcome to. But that's not important right now; tell me, did anyone give you the brief of what's going on?"

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

The meister starts to nod, thinks about it for a second, and then continues to nod fully. "Well, Lord Death was fairly clear I'd say. We're hunting Kishin eggs on various other worlds, probably on contract for whoever you're working under.... _{Wait are you the... no otherwise you'd probably have said something already.} But uh, yeah, basically we're here to support you guys in your endeavors and hunt Kishin eggs while we do it. Hopefully by the time we get back we'll be qualified to graduate." Dani scratches the back of his head, smiling a little as he realizes that explanation was probably not amazingly helpful but still hoping it was sufficient.

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Dani & Joan, Aurora

"...I see," She said, sighing. For now she decided to ignore the fact that his boss was apparently a Lich with a massive ego and focused on the more pressing matter. "Well I have no idea what a 'Kishin egg' is, but the reason we're all assembled here is to fight the trespassers; eldritch creatures born from the gaps between worlds that seek to devour all existence. If your master sent you, then they were probably at least somewhat aware of the gravity of the situation. I suppose it's no surprise that certain powers in the multiverse have taken notice by now."

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

Dani listened for a moment, his face a stoney mask before finally he nodded and gave a thumbs up. "I got it. Moved up from small time to big game hunting then. Well, I don't know if these things got souls but I imagine that Joan will be getting do death weapon status in no time... Right, should explain that especially since you don't know what a Kishin egg is." Dani straightens up as he prepares his lesson. "Every living being has a soul right? Well, when you commit grave evils, your soul starts to change, turning redder and gaining a hexagonal pattern. When this change is completed it turns into what we call a Kishin Egg. A Kishin Egg turns the one it belongs to into a monster, stronger, tougher, sometimes borderline feral depending on the nature of the crime committed. A bit after the Great War lord death decided that maybe having just an army of soldiers to deal with things wasn't the best idea and founded the DWMA, where the combat courses train pairs like me and Joan to hunt Kishin eggs and the NOT course trains future diplomats and other people of import to the world and generally encourages cooperation." Dani finishes with a slight smile, pleased that he remembered all that without stuttering, before frowning and holding up a finger.

"Right, one last detail. They're called eggs so I'm sure you've picked up on the fact that they probably grow into something." He looks more serious, as if he's remembering an unpleasant memory. "When a Kishin Egg is allowed to feast on enough innocent souls, it grows into a full Kishin. There's only ever been one in history, and Lord Death used his soul to seal him within a prison of his own skin. That should have been the end of it but several years ago when I was a third year, the academy was attacked by the organization "Arachnophobia", lead by the witch Archne. Every student and Death Weapon wielder was called into the fight, and many died, with Lord Death taking a near fatal wound during it. But the school's top students managed to finally kill the Kishin...." He trails off for a few moments before clearing his throat and smiling once again. "So yeah, some pretty heavy stuff if I don't do my job!"

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Dani and Joan, Aurora

Her eyes narrowed at the mention of the witch's name, the displeasure clearly etched on her face. "This 'Arachne' you speak of... quite a peculiar name, that one. Tell me more about her and her little faction."
    Despite the wording, her inflection made it clear it was more of a command than a request. The subtle traces of gold beginning to crawl across the visible chitin of her hands and feet made it even more so, as did the mounting pressure in the air. Despite it all though, something about it would give Daniel a distinct impression that the annoyance was not actually directed him.

Not in full, at least.

[kj1225]

Dani and Joan, Aurora

Dani took a deep breath. He wasn't super eager to explain, it was a bit of a sore spot for him.... But he'd brought it up so he had a responsibility to nut up and explain it. "Well, before you get all excited, she's good and dead six.... Well, actually I'm not sure where her soul is but I'm pretty sure Lord Death took it. Point is the bitch is dead. Before that though she was an incredibly powerful witch, managed to survive a fight with Lord Death even if only barely. Didn't take the L in good graces though because she started the whole revival of the Kishin Asura. Now, she wasn't one for direct combat, which is a surprise because witches have powerful magic. For example one, Scylla put my daddy in a wheelchair and he was a Death Weapon Wielder. Specifically with my mom, you'd never seen a sniper of his skill on our side of the Atlantic." Dani smiles slightly to himself, recalling his father's glory days before sighing, the expression dropping off his face. "Anyway, she was still super scary. Her forces seemed like they always were one step ahead of us and I'm pretty sure she had some kind of spying magic. Managed to cut off my friend and I when we were going over a river. Picked off the older students, I think only one of the two pairs made it out, and then hunted us while we tried to run back to our base. Someone managed to clog up Joan's trigger and I stayed behind so the others could run. Fuckers didn't expect it when I cracked 'em in their stupid fucking masks.... But uh, yeah, that's about all I can remember." While Aurora couldn't be totally sure if that was all, the sadness on Dani's face definitely made it seem like he didn't want to continue the line of conversation they were on.

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Dani & Joan, Aurora

She glared hard at the lad for a few moments longer. But eventually she relaxed her fists, by now completely gold, and folded them away in the copious space of her sleeves. The oppressive air surrounding them seemed to vanish as if it was never there. How had she even done that?
   "I see..." she muttered, walking past Dani, "Well, good that she's dead then, I suppose. I've been quite capable of sullying my good name without any help from other Arachnes, thank you very much. And here I thought the name was unique to the Ancient Arcadian tongue. A pity to find out otherwise. Regardless, I'm sure you two have better things to do than make small talk with an old queen, so I'll leave you to it."

And with that she began walking away. But no so quickly as to eliminate the possibility of Dani calling out one last question, if he so chose.

[StormLord]

Spicy HG, Dani & Joan, Aurora

Just as Aurora started walking down the hall Spicy HG stepped out from behind the door to the Suites just a few feet in front of her.  She turns to look at Aurora and blinks in surprise.

"Oh I was just on my way to find you, Aurora right?"

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Spicy HG, Dani & Joan, Aurora

She stopped and stared at yet another newcomer. Was she really so popular around here that people she never saw or met before just sought her out of their own volition?
    "Yes," she said, "though I don't believe I've made your acquaintance. You are...?"