This is a little gimmick that I'm trying to implement in this story. In between arcs, I will put an intermission as a way for the characters to discuss certain events that recently happen. These will fall into a couple of different types:

Travel: What happens between the time when Rin and the group travel to another location.

Izumo's Mind: What's happening to Izumo's subconscious as the mask is taking her over.

Cell: What is going on with Tamamo while she is locked up in Fort Sumter.

Illuminati: An event occurring at Michael's new Lab

True Cross: An event occurring at True Cross

Possibly a sixth one later on, but that's a spoiler.

Also, if you think that I'm bringing up something in this chapter just because Padoru Padoru sent a comment a few days ago about it. I had an explanation for it about a week before they posted the comment.

Enough chit-chat here's the first arc intermission

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Chapter 8: Arc Intermission (Travel) I

"Are you sure it was Tower?" Judgment asked Magician with a slight touch of concern in his voice; Magician nodded in response. Rin immediately concluded that Tower was another member of Tarot, though he wasn't as panicked as the rest of them seeing as how he just joined yesterday. "Isn't he stationed in Australia? What's he doing here in China?" The group began to speculate for a short while…

"It may be that the Illuminati wants to get our attention," Empress suggested.

"There's no time for speculation, we need to get a move on to the Great Wall," Joseph told the group as he ran outside into the helicopter.

As the rest of the group chased after him, Rin shouted heading towards the direction of the elevators. "Just hold on for a second!" He shouted "I have to get my-" A personal guard for Empress handed Rin the bag that carried the Kurikara right as he finished his sentence. "sword…" he grabbed the bag and then headed over towards the rest of the group.

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Empress had provided breakfast on the helicopter ride over, causing both Judgment and Magician to begin scarfing down the eggs and bacon instantly while Nemu took small bites of a stack of pancakes and Joseph sipped from a cup of coffee. Rin wanted to eat but he had something to get off his chest; he did make a bet with Judgment after all.

Rin coughed to try and get their attention "Everyone. I have something I have- no, NEED to tell you all." They all looked at him questionably. "As both Magician and Judgment may know, I have this unique power to summon blue fire at will. That's because I'm the son of Satan." Rin was prepared for the worst, he was prepared to be treated like how his classmates used to treat him. Fearing him and rejecting him from their group.

Magician gave a confused look and turned towards Judgment who responded: "He said he's the son of Satan." It took a few seconds for him to register what he just heard.

"That's cool. Hey, are you gonna eat that bagel?" Rin was shocked and confused at what Magician just said, and rightfully so. When his classmates found out, they were either afraid, angry or both. Except for Izumo. He needed to bring this curiosity up. "Aren't you guys afraid of me or something?"

Judgment, Empress, and Joseph simply looked at him with stern looks. "Should we?" Rin was flabbergasted. "Look, dude. First, I have the ability to shoot purple lasers out of my fingers, palms, mouth, and god knows where else. Second, we just found out that demons exist YESTERDAY so we're still trying to get a hold of that." Judgment said as he looked at Kuro. "And finally, in this helicopter, we have a Korean, a Chinese, an African-American, and an Englishman. Tarot is already diverse enough as it is."

What Judgment had said recently had brought up a point that Rin never had thought of before "That reminds me if you all are from different countries then how come you can understand each other. How can I understand you?"

Judgment signaled Joseph to answer his question. "Oh Yeah! A few weeks ago I snuck into your dorm room and put a little device in your ear called a Babel Fish. It translates anything you hear from another language into your native language. It also lets you talk in another language to someone who doesn't have a babel fish." Rin then began to put a finger in his ear when Joseph stopped him. "Don't bother trying to fish it out, it's already latched onto your brain."

Rin then began to sit back in his seat trying to take in all the information that was just dumped on him. "Hey boss, speaking of which. I think mine's malfunctioning because I could hear Moon earlier this morning, but I couldn't hear what Fool just said." Magician said swallowing the last of his food.

"I'll fix it once we get back onto the road again. But right now, we've got an ally to save." Joseph told him as he looked out the window to see The Great Wall of China just ahead of the chopper.