Ryzada can now stroll thru the ultimate forest, and she found Crimson a H&S25 JUSTICE. God I wish I had a YASMINKOV. Pity whitills are naff at finding rifles.
Tatsu was feeling a little better about his day. He always did after one of Alice's meals, that girl was such a good cook. Also his brand wasn't broken anymore. For once, and possibly the only time in living memory, Crimson had successfully altered a weapon. Tatsu hadn't tried it out yet. But Crimson was certain that there was at least a 50% boost in the weapons power. Tatsu was extremely dubious as to the truth of this statement. Also Alice had promised to stop teasing him about his mistake that morning, so that was good too. However the fact remained that in 1 hours time he would be fighting in a mine field. He was currently preparing his equipment.
Mates, check. Brand, check. Handgun, check. Trap visions, check. MAG.., where the hell was it? Where had it gone? He'd left it right here! Was it possible that his careful organization of his equipment was flawed? No, that was impossible.
"Alice? Where's my MAG?" He yelled slightly panicked.
"Oh umm I had it Tatsu. It's on the table." Alice called back from her room
"What were you doing with Rudra?"
"Umm they looked a little dirty so I cleaned them up a bit"
"MAGs don't need to be cleaned you know, they don't have such thing as vanity." Tatsu mentally reached out to his MAG and as the connection was established they lifted from the table to float above his shoulders.
"I know" Alice called cheerily "But Kyou always seems to appreciate a quick dust and polish."
Tatsu smiled, the attachment between a hunter and their MAG really was quite strange and remarkable. Rudra did actually seem a little more cheerful than usual.
"Well I'm going now, either I'll come back victorious or you can visit me in hospital"
"Take care, I'll wait up for you" said Alice
Tatsu almost skipped out of the door. She'd wait up for him, he sighed happily, it really was great living with Alice. But he'd been living with her for weeks already, at his apartment. Maybe it was too big? There wasn't any real sense of living together. Living in the small hotel quarters was nice, they were never more than ten meters apart. He arrived at the arena about half an hour before the match was due to begin, so he wandered in to the preparation room and purchased an energy drink from one of the vending machines.
"Those don't really work you know, the chemicals just trick your brain into thinking you have more energy." A voice spoke from a shadowy corner of the room.
"Really?" Tatsu eyed the drink suspiciously "wouldn't it be easier to just add a lot of sugar and caffeine to it?"
"Not really, sugar is a controlled substance remember, and caffeine is bad for you" the voice answered
"Oh, yeah I guess." Tatsu suddenly realized how strange it was that there was somebody in here with him, he spun round "Hey are you RX-12?"
The shadowy figure stood up and stepped out of the darkness, revealing himself to be a hunter, this was easily guessed from his blue and black armor. A mask prevented Tatsu from seeing his face. But it was obvious that this was no android.
"As a matter of fact, no I'm not RX-12, I'm Chimpus Nuclear. You'll be meeting RX-12 later. However I am your opponent for this match, so the best of luck to you." Chimpus said in crisp tones.
"But my page said that RX-12 was my opponent!" Tatsu complained "What happened? Did they malfunction? Are you replacing them?"
"No and no, you will find out exactly what is going on once the match begins" the same crisp tones.
"What? You mean I don't get full details until the match starts?" Tatsu protested "How am I supposed to prepare myself?"
"Part of the plan is that you don't get a chance to prepare. It helps if you leave your adversary in the dark. Besides if you were a true warrior you would be ready for anything." The "properness" of this person was really starting to get on Tatsu's nerves.
"Fine, you're not the only person keeping secrets you know" Tatsu said, opening his drink and swallowing a mouthful. He sat down and stared moodily at Chimpus. Tatsu's attempts at mind games were really not all too impressive. Chimpus reclined in his chair, not bothered in the slightest as to what Tatsu's "secrets" might be, RX-12 would sort them out.
Magus spun his nunchaku with one hand, flipped them behind him and caught them with the other, he spun them twice more, flipped them under and over his leg and then caught both ends with his left hand. Mei clapped from the doorway. Magus spun round "MEI! Err what are you doing here?"
"Teehee, I'm only watching, what are you doing anyway Magus?"
"Umm weapons practice, it's stupid but I've done it every day since before I can remember."
"Ohh, well it looks really cool, with all the spinning and flicking, kinda like dancing, only not girly."
Magus sent up a silent prayer thanking his master for forcing such rigorous training upon him "Thanks Mei, you can watch me anytime you want." He smiled at her.
Mei giggled "I do anyway, but thank you for the permission, ohh yeah, I was really here to ask you something, how long are you supposed to cook pasta for?"
"About seven minutes, why?"
"Oh" Mei's face fell "Umm dinner may be a little undercooked today"
"That's not a problem Mei, I like my pasta a little al dente." He didn't really, but it was either say that, or try to cheer Mei up after she started crying, a task he really wasn't up to.
"Okay" Mei grinned "Dinner will be on the table by the time you're done changing."
"I wasn't going to change"
Mei wrinkled her nose "Oh yes you are mister! I'm not going to sit at the table with you while you're all sweaty."
"Fine, I'll put a different tee-shirt on" Magus sighed
"Okay, I'll be waiting at the table" Mei blew him a kiss and then disappeared, skipping and humming to herself.
Magus mopped the sweat from his brow with a hand towel. That girl is always so full of energy, he chuckled to himself. Then he thought more deeply about it. She watched him anyway? But she hadn't seen him practice before, what had she been watching him do? And why was she watching him? A terrifying thought passed through Magus's mind, did Mei like him? Well obviously she liked him, but did she like, like him?
Magus was extremely troubled that night, and this had nothing to do with the crunchy pasta they had for dinner. He tried to focus his mind like his master taught him. He had to be prepared for the fights tomorrow. But more and more his thoughts flickered back to the small girl asleep on his chest. Her lips moved silently as she dreamed , her hand squeezing against his arm slightly. Magus couldn't help thinking how cute she was. What was she dreaming about? Eventually Magus drifted off to sleep, despite his minds protestations that he hadn't meditated properly.
Mei ran down the corridor, she didn't know why she was running, but she was dimly aware of shadowy figures behind her. She had to keep running. The light flickered with every step she took. On. Off. On. Off. There was a door in the distance, Mei had never seen this door before, but it was familiar with it. On, Off, On. If she could just reach the other side of that door she would be safe, she was on the wrong side.
She reached the door, but it would not open. They shadows were getting closer. She banged her small fists against the door in desperation. It had to open, it had to! The shadows were near now, very near. Yet she couldn't see them, no matter how close they came, they remained just shadows. Off. The lights didn't come back on. They would never come back on. A voice sounded in her head.
"Reincarnation goes forever."
The light was gone. It would never come back. Mei was alone in the dark. Alone forever. Even the shadows had left her. She was alone.
Mei awoke with a start, there were tears running down her face. She felt something warm rise and fall beneath her. Magus. She leaned in closer until she could feel his gentle breaths against her face, drying her tears. She hugged him a little tighter to herself and closed her eyes. She wasn't alone. Magus was here, that was all she needed right now.
A short chapter I know, but the next one will be longer, I just felt that now was a good time to end. This was my attempt at something a little more serious. Good no?
Tatsu was feeling a little better about his day. He always did after one of Alice's meals, that girl was such a good cook. Also his brand wasn't broken anymore. For once, and possibly the only time in living memory, Crimson had successfully altered a weapon. Tatsu hadn't tried it out yet. But Crimson was certain that there was at least a 50% boost in the weapons power. Tatsu was extremely dubious as to the truth of this statement. Also Alice had promised to stop teasing him about his mistake that morning, so that was good too. However the fact remained that in 1 hours time he would be fighting in a mine field. He was currently preparing his equipment.
Mates, check. Brand, check. Handgun, check. Trap visions, check. MAG.., where the hell was it? Where had it gone? He'd left it right here! Was it possible that his careful organization of his equipment was flawed? No, that was impossible.
"Alice? Where's my MAG?" He yelled slightly panicked.
"Oh umm I had it Tatsu. It's on the table." Alice called back from her room
"What were you doing with Rudra?"
"Umm they looked a little dirty so I cleaned them up a bit"
"MAGs don't need to be cleaned you know, they don't have such thing as vanity." Tatsu mentally reached out to his MAG and as the connection was established they lifted from the table to float above his shoulders.
"I know" Alice called cheerily "But Kyou always seems to appreciate a quick dust and polish."
Tatsu smiled, the attachment between a hunter and their MAG really was quite strange and remarkable. Rudra did actually seem a little more cheerful than usual.
"Well I'm going now, either I'll come back victorious or you can visit me in hospital"
"Take care, I'll wait up for you" said Alice
Tatsu almost skipped out of the door. She'd wait up for him, he sighed happily, it really was great living with Alice. But he'd been living with her for weeks already, at his apartment. Maybe it was too big? There wasn't any real sense of living together. Living in the small hotel quarters was nice, they were never more than ten meters apart. He arrived at the arena about half an hour before the match was due to begin, so he wandered in to the preparation room and purchased an energy drink from one of the vending machines.
"Those don't really work you know, the chemicals just trick your brain into thinking you have more energy." A voice spoke from a shadowy corner of the room.
"Really?" Tatsu eyed the drink suspiciously "wouldn't it be easier to just add a lot of sugar and caffeine to it?"
"Not really, sugar is a controlled substance remember, and caffeine is bad for you" the voice answered
"Oh, yeah I guess." Tatsu suddenly realized how strange it was that there was somebody in here with him, he spun round "Hey are you RX-12?"
The shadowy figure stood up and stepped out of the darkness, revealing himself to be a hunter, this was easily guessed from his blue and black armor. A mask prevented Tatsu from seeing his face. But it was obvious that this was no android.
"As a matter of fact, no I'm not RX-12, I'm Chimpus Nuclear. You'll be meeting RX-12 later. However I am your opponent for this match, so the best of luck to you." Chimpus said in crisp tones.
"But my page said that RX-12 was my opponent!" Tatsu complained "What happened? Did they malfunction? Are you replacing them?"
"No and no, you will find out exactly what is going on once the match begins" the same crisp tones.
"What? You mean I don't get full details until the match starts?" Tatsu protested "How am I supposed to prepare myself?"
"Part of the plan is that you don't get a chance to prepare. It helps if you leave your adversary in the dark. Besides if you were a true warrior you would be ready for anything." The "properness" of this person was really starting to get on Tatsu's nerves.
"Fine, you're not the only person keeping secrets you know" Tatsu said, opening his drink and swallowing a mouthful. He sat down and stared moodily at Chimpus. Tatsu's attempts at mind games were really not all too impressive. Chimpus reclined in his chair, not bothered in the slightest as to what Tatsu's "secrets" might be, RX-12 would sort them out.
Magus spun his nunchaku with one hand, flipped them behind him and caught them with the other, he spun them twice more, flipped them under and over his leg and then caught both ends with his left hand. Mei clapped from the doorway. Magus spun round "MEI! Err what are you doing here?"
"Teehee, I'm only watching, what are you doing anyway Magus?"
"Umm weapons practice, it's stupid but I've done it every day since before I can remember."
"Ohh, well it looks really cool, with all the spinning and flicking, kinda like dancing, only not girly."
Magus sent up a silent prayer thanking his master for forcing such rigorous training upon him "Thanks Mei, you can watch me anytime you want." He smiled at her.
Mei giggled "I do anyway, but thank you for the permission, ohh yeah, I was really here to ask you something, how long are you supposed to cook pasta for?"
"About seven minutes, why?"
"Oh" Mei's face fell "Umm dinner may be a little undercooked today"
"That's not a problem Mei, I like my pasta a little al dente." He didn't really, but it was either say that, or try to cheer Mei up after she started crying, a task he really wasn't up to.
"Okay" Mei grinned "Dinner will be on the table by the time you're done changing."
"I wasn't going to change"
Mei wrinkled her nose "Oh yes you are mister! I'm not going to sit at the table with you while you're all sweaty."
"Fine, I'll put a different tee-shirt on" Magus sighed
"Okay, I'll be waiting at the table" Mei blew him a kiss and then disappeared, skipping and humming to herself.
Magus mopped the sweat from his brow with a hand towel. That girl is always so full of energy, he chuckled to himself. Then he thought more deeply about it. She watched him anyway? But she hadn't seen him practice before, what had she been watching him do? And why was she watching him? A terrifying thought passed through Magus's mind, did Mei like him? Well obviously she liked him, but did she like, like him?
Magus was extremely troubled that night, and this had nothing to do with the crunchy pasta they had for dinner. He tried to focus his mind like his master taught him. He had to be prepared for the fights tomorrow. But more and more his thoughts flickered back to the small girl asleep on his chest. Her lips moved silently as she dreamed , her hand squeezing against his arm slightly. Magus couldn't help thinking how cute she was. What was she dreaming about? Eventually Magus drifted off to sleep, despite his minds protestations that he hadn't meditated properly.
Mei ran down the corridor, she didn't know why she was running, but she was dimly aware of shadowy figures behind her. She had to keep running. The light flickered with every step she took. On. Off. On. Off. There was a door in the distance, Mei had never seen this door before, but it was familiar with it. On, Off, On. If she could just reach the other side of that door she would be safe, she was on the wrong side.
She reached the door, but it would not open. They shadows were getting closer. She banged her small fists against the door in desperation. It had to open, it had to! The shadows were near now, very near. Yet she couldn't see them, no matter how close they came, they remained just shadows. Off. The lights didn't come back on. They would never come back on. A voice sounded in her head.
"Reincarnation goes forever."
The light was gone. It would never come back. Mei was alone in the dark. Alone forever. Even the shadows had left her. She was alone.
Mei awoke with a start, there were tears running down her face. She felt something warm rise and fall beneath her. Magus. She leaned in closer until she could feel his gentle breaths against her face, drying her tears. She hugged him a little tighter to herself and closed her eyes. She wasn't alone. Magus was here, that was all she needed right now.
A short chapter I know, but the next one will be longer, I just felt that now was a good time to end. This was my attempt at something a little more serious. Good no?