"Sir 3rd Mission reporting in" Samokin stood at attention in a normal generals office, with the normal medals on the wall, the normal color scheme (mauve,) but what wasn't normal was the fact that the General didn't look a day over 16 and Samokin looked 26. "Sir while on patrol we found 2 people who I believe to be new drops. No malice was detected in them at all sir they are more pure than anyone on my team with out a doubt I don't even think they have ever killed anyone."
"Really? Now that seems odd there aren't many hero's who have never killed anyone dropping anymore. What type of warriors are they?" the General stood and look Samokin directly in the eyes
"Sir one seemed to be a swords man, and by the way he moved he was at least decent. The other was a mage she's was good sir. Very strong she took out Sakuya and Rei when they had advantage or surprise, one spell even, some sort of wind summon." Samokin stood at attention not moving know that the general wasn't done with him yet
"Samokin how long have you been dead?" the general sat back down
"Long enough sir I'd prefer not to say." Samokin remembered the day when someone managed to kill him. He remembered how Gibson had managed to cut him in half right as he had stabbed him in the neck. He remembered how Rei and Sakuya had died just days before, the pain it had caused. All never mind it's over and in the end it wasn't that important, but why were Gibson and I fighting again Samokin thought for a couple or seconds more okay so I can't remember so it must not be important. "sir my team in desperately in need of new troops with you consent we would like to have them join the 3rd."
"All right can you call them in for me?" The General looked in one of his drawers for a pen and the Forms.
"Hey you guys come in here and be polite you're about to join the 3rd" Samokin had poked his head out the door calling to Sakura and Syaoran from where they sat across the hall.
"Okay" they stood and crossed the hall, where Samokin made sure they both looked presentable in what he deemed to be their battle attire
"Samokin stop trying to make them look good and let them in" The General said with out looking up from the paper work on his desk
"Sorry sir, this way" Samokin held the door open for them
"Please sit" The general motions to two seats that were just in front of his desk Sakura and Syaoran sat down looking nervous "you don't have to worry I don't bite. Would you like a drink?" he poured himself a glass of what looked like bourbon but neither of them drank much or at all so they weren't sure
"No thank you" Sakura answered first.
"No" Syaoran was still trying to take in the surroundings"Okay then, let me introduce myself I am General Rache Kallmirsson, I'm the direct superior to all the Mission Teams. Which means I give them all their orders. And I'm also the general who deems weather new arrivals go to the mission teams or the regular military. Where do you think that you should go?"
"Well since we don't know much can you tell about this place?" Syaoran was still searching the room as if it was bugged.
"I guess so, but if I miss anything I'm sure the Commander will fill in the blanks. Goddamn it Commander AT EASE" General Rache yelled at Samokin, "Now where was I? Oh yes a bit about this place this place is known as the afterlife for most cultures. It's a place where the dead go that can't quite be judged go, so hero's of their time, and people shrouded in darkness, also the most evil of things come to this plane periodically but mostly the evil forces here are just corrupted hero's lead by a choice set of evil geniuses"
"Sir that doesn't make much sense
you know" Samokin was now leaning against a wall, "here let me try: this is the
plane where those that can't be judged to go to heaven or hell go to prove
their worth. You can die here but you don't really die from here on you either
go to heaven or hell. As far as we can
tell this plane is here simply so those that are truly good can fight those
that are truly evil. Is that better?"
"Uhh. I guess" Sakura looked
like she was thinking very hard "but can you explain how we got here?"
"Simple you died and the god didn't know what to do with you." General Rache said in a matter of fact manor.
"Oh, does that mean your dead too?" Syaoran asked
"Yep" Samokin said from behind them "every one save a chosen few are stone dead"
"Okay well if we're dead how can we die again?" Sakura asked now
"You notice that you feel exactly like you did when you were in your prime? That's because the god have give you and us all our body once more that will never age and will forever stay in its prime." Rache looked at them harshly and then wrote something down on the forms in front of him. "Now do you want to join the 3rd or not?"
"Well I do" Sakura said with out hesitation
"I'm with her" Syaoran stated
"Okay then I'll leave you to you new commander" Rache said, "oh Samokin trainer unit 3 & 4 are open for the next couple of weeks do you want them?"
"Yes, thank you sir" Samokin opened the door and lead Sakura and Syaoran out of the room "lets go see the rest of the team and then we'll hit the trainers to see how strong you are."
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When Sakura and Syaoran saw the trainer they were astounded by what it was, a huge room about the size of a aircraft carrier, all of it. It was plane nothing in it at all except a computer on both sides and weird wiring running through out the building walls.
"I'm just gonna run basic forest for now." Gibson said from where he sat at one from the computers "what are you running Samokin?
"Chaparral okay? Decent mix there right?" Samokin input a command onto the computer at the same time Gibson did. They both hit the return key at the same time, and the building seemed to turn on there was a bit of whirring and then there it was a pine forest that slowly and naturally blended into a chaparral type community complete with creatures like squirrels and such.
"let go what are the teams gonna be?" Gibson said through the loud speaker "okay first off free for all when you're take out report to the #3 on the far wall everyone… AND BEGIN." He rushed off into the forest, lucky for him, he found Rei first, it wouldn't take him long to take her out, he didn't even draw his tang he just stepped into the clearing and took up a fighting stance, his arms held out just in front of him and flexed, just like the stance he took for sword fighting; Rei follows suit taking up her Quan-Chi Stance she stood there slowly moving left and right as if dancing.
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Sakura watched from the clearing behind Rei ready to attack the victor strait on, Gibson did say free for all. Then they started Rei moved first taking one slow step the rushing Gibson, jumped and kicked 3 times for his face; he took the first 2 and Sakura winced as she saw his face back lash, but the 3rd kick didn't land, Gibson grabbed it and threw Rei into a tree.
"You've been practicing Rei, you just might be a better hand to hand fighter than me now" Gibson said wiping a bit of blood from his mouth
"You haven't been practicing very much though you haven't improved at all" Rei Said stepping closer to him, their guards crossed and they paused for a second and then Rei Punched for Gibson's head he blocked reaching for her side. He grabbed the left side of her shirt held the block he had on her right hand and brought his let knee into her side 3 times in a row, and then he finished with a full kick into her side sending her sliding along the ground towards Sakura. She got back up though and stepped just out of Gibson's guard punching for his middle he used his lower arm to block the attack just as she brought her left to his stomach. He stepped back with a grunt, just in time to see Rei pin wheel her arms and slam him in the chest and send him flying into a tree, cracking it up and down the middle.
"Ouch, you're a lot stronger now Rei" Gibson stood again "but you can't take me out that easy" Rei didn't respond she just stood waiting for him to attack, this time he rushed her jumping at the last minute going for what looked like a basic jump spin kick. The reached to catch his foot; he reversed his momentum and kicked with his left food sending Rei flying into a tree again, she slumped down and didn't get up.
Okay now's my chance Sakura though I have to take him out with one spell, what to use, I got it "shadow" Sakura used he staff to release the shadow card which rushed to ensnare Gibson in darkness.
"Fuck" Gibson drew his sword with lightning speed cutting the shadow card in half "Sakura a summon like that is only going to slow me down!"
Sakura returned the shadow card and drew a different choice to attack with "WINDY"
"Like I said a Summon isn't going to work on me," Gibson said rushing Windy and dodging her main attack, he jumped and landed behind Sakura he held his sword against her neck "your out too"
A/N - next chapter - Samokin VS. Syaoran, and Syaoran VS. Sakuya
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~Samokin
