CRASH!

Night fell to the ground after Lau Shimin kicked him, however the dog who was in his activated form, was stubborn. He jumped back up and shook himself off, ready for another round.

"Remember to stay calm, animals can sense your emotions, and also focus. You will need even more of this since you will be fighting along with him" General Cloud told Miria.

"Yes Ms. Cloud" Miria said obediently as she watched the duel between Night and Lau Shimin.

This was her second day of training, Miria had her weapon which came in the form of a weapon called a Kusari-gama which is a sickle and connected to it was a long chain. According to Hevlaska, synchronization was at about 84% for Miria and for Night his was 83%, which was pretty good she guessed. Now she was learning focus and how to harness the innocence's power and learn what it can do. From what General Cloud told her yesterday she was apparently learning fast and so was Night. He seemed comfortable and he seemed to be able to follow silent commands Miria gave him, which was good because that would mean less multi-tasking on the battle field.

Night dodged a few of Lau Shimin's punches and delivered his own, which were dodged and Lau Shimin kicked. That too was avoided and Night jumped back to get some distance and seemingly analyze the situation.

Then after a moment Night came at Lau Shimin with a punch, he dodged and punched back but Night dodged this by jumping into the air and landing behind him. Then he grabbed Lau Shimin by the tail and threw him, however he twisted in the air and landed without trouble, on top of that he jumped and tackled Night.

Lau Shimin then jumped back and let Night get up and shake himself off.

General Cloud made a crack sound with her whip, "we'll finish here with his training for today, Night can rest and you both can get something to eat. Afterwards we'll begin a session with your innocence alright?"

Miria nodded, "yes ma'am". She turned to Night and nodded, Night saw this and deactivated the innocence so he went back to looking like a normal dog. He shook himself again to be free of dust and walked over to Miria. Lau Shimin promptly deactivated and went back to sitting on General Clouds shoulder, Night made a woof sound and the little monkey seemed to respond back. She guessed it was their way of saying 'good session'. "Till then" General Cloud said before she turned and walked in another direction, probably off to rest herself or feed Lau Shimin.

With a light smile gracing her lip she bent down and pet Night, "good job now I just need to do a good job myself. After training with the General we'll rest and then meditate".

Even though they had a good amount of exorcists Miria felt like she should work hard so she could start her first mission fast. A deep sigh left her lips as she thought about this, she had no idea what her motivation was other then protect people she didn't know, perhaps that was enough? Why did the others fight? Her mind asked this to the point she called herself a broken record.

As time goes on I will understand. She thought.

She got up, and sighed once more "lets go get some lunch alright?" Night barked and wagged his tail happily then he followed her as she walked down the now familiar halls.

For a moment she stopped when she saw Supervisor Komui seeming to walk around in a stealthy manner, she blinked curiously and walked up behind him. "Supervisor Komui?" she said.

"GAH!" he exclaimed with surprise, making both Miria and Night jump in fright as well.

He quickly turned his head to look at her, when he saw that it was just her and Night he sighed in relief, "Oh hello Miria, I didn't hear you coming up behind me" he admitted.

Miria shook her head. "What are you doing anyhow? Hiding from Ms. Fay again?" she inquired with a raised eyebrow.

He waved his hand and gave a smile, "of course not! I finished all my work!" he told her.

"Mm-hm…." was her response as she looked at him suspiciously.

"I'm not lying!" he exclaimed looking a bit hurt by her expression.

Miria shrugged, "I didn't say anything about lying Supervisor" she said calmly.

"But…" Komui was cut off when a familiar voice shouted to him.

"Supervisor Komui!"

It was Brigitte Fay, his assistant.

With an exasperated sigh and a stern look she sauntered over to him, "you have a stack of papers to approve, so please come back to me to your office immediately" she ordered him firmly. Komui's head drooped a bit like Night would if something disappointed him, he probably thought he got away finally but Ms. Fay was really good at finding him. So now with a defeated look he walked back to his office with Fay following behind him. She was also giving him a lecture about procrastinating and hiding in the kitchen to talk with Jerry, Night made a sound of amusement at this.

"We've seen his office right?" she inquired to Night who looked to her and wagged his tail, "definitely not done, hopefully Ms. Fay doesn't have to dig him out of the pile" she then started to walk to the cafeteria again.

She had pretty much been introduced to everyone. All the other exorcists, finders, the science team, the nurses and doctors including Matron who she respected for being so….determined to make sure her patients were alright and in fit form. The other exorcists were something else when she talked to them, Krory despite looking like a vampire and when this image came up you imagined someone with a cold attitude or a mysteries aura. Nope. Instead she met a guy who was very timid and child-like, although he would get a bit irritated when Lavi would start to tease him. Miranda was someone she respected for her never give up attitude although when she messed up she went over-board, luckily Marie can keep her from harming herself. Marie was cool guy who stayed calm and seemed to level things out, by either keeping certain people from killing themselves or keeping a certain person from decapitating people. Choaji seemed alright but he was easily influenced by his emotions, she could just tell. Then lastly there was Kanda, when she said hello to him and was introduced by Lenalee, she received a simple "che" and then he walked away. Lenalee assured her he was just in a bad mood.

"I guess these people come in many different flavors" she murmured.

When Night saw them all he wanted to play with them, well when he met Kanda he was very calm stayed when the samurai like guy walked away. Perhaps Night knew he shouldn't mess with that.

Miria rounded a corner and saw someone familiar up ahead. "Hi Lenalee" she said as she walked over to her.

Lenalee looked to her and smiled, "hi Miria did you just get done with training?" she asked.

Miria nodded, "yes Night did a pretty good job, right now I'm on break but after I eat my lunch and have rested a bit I will be heading back to training for my weapon".

"That's great, you two seem to be learning quick" she remarked.

"Ms. Cloud said that as well, and on top of that I do some extra practice so I should be able to go on my first mission in no time, at least I hope I can" she explained.

Lenalee frowned, "don't over work yourself, you need rest as much as you need to train" she told her firmly.

Miria smiled lightly. "I know I just don't want to be useless, you guys have a lot on your plate, so I want to train as hard as I can so I can help relieve some of that pressure. And also my dad seemed so proud when he found out I was an exorcist, so I want to do my best so he stays proud of me".

"Your not useless, and yes we do have a lot but we always manage to pull through" she said with a smile. Miria nodded "like a family right?" she said just randomly grabbing a word, she was a bit taken aback when Lenalee nodded. "Yup! They are my entire world so I will always fight, and in the end I can smile when they welcome me home" her smile was happy and warm letting Miria know she was indeed telling the truth when she said that the people of the Order were her world.

It made Miria think.

Thinking of such things, she remembered that back then she could compare her life to a black void, and then she had Night by her side. She tried to say that her father was in this world as well, but shouldn't a world be full of people who liked you? So perhaps she couldn't involve him into her world.

Oh well. She thought somberly.

Her attention came back to reality when they made it to the cafeteria, soon she told them her order and she got her food and went to a table with Lenalee, and Night meanwhile was chewing on a big meaty bone.

Soon enough Lavi came around and he grinned, "hello Lenalee, hello Miria" he said.

"Hi Lavi, how are you doing? When I gave the science department coffee Reever said you were in the library" Lenalee remarked with a smile.

Lavi rubbed the back of his neck, "yeah the Old Man told me to read some books by morning" he answered with a deep sigh.

Must be something a Bookmen's apprentice has to do. Miria thought.

"Did you do well?" she asked.

Lavi nodded, "yup!"

He looked like he was about to sit next to Miria, but he jumped away when he managed to catch sight of Night before the dog bit his butt. Night growled, making Lavi back up. "Oh come on I'm not going to do anything, really!" he said as he waved his hands feverishly. Night continued to growl at him then he walked back over to his spot and chewed on the meaty bone again but Miria could see that Night was keeping an eye on the guy. "Why does he hate me?" Lavi asked.

Miria shrugged, "maybe you smell weird" she said casually.

"I don't smell weird" he protested.

Her reply was a simple, "sure…" which made Lavi frown a bit.

He sat down at a spot away from Night and looked to her, "so how is training coming along?" he inquired.

"Its going well, after I eat I'm going to go back to training with Ms. Cloud, then afterwards I'm going to take another break then I will do some personal training" she replied. Lenalee frowned, "like I said don't over do it!" she cautioned her, but she could see Lenalee had a look of concern in her eyes.

Miria blinked, is overworking myself really such a bad prospect?

She smiled, "don't worry I wont, I'll always rest and eat properly and I will sleep properly as well so in truth I wont over work myself I'm just adding another minute or two to my training so I can be on top of my game when I train with Ms. Cloud the next day" she explained and Night made a woof sound to add to her explanation. Although Lenalee just gave her a skeptical look however she soon nodded, "alright".

Lavi waved a hand and grinned, "don't rush yourself we can handle things, its not like we desperately need you right away".

"Your right, if me and Night were desperately needed my Uncle will allow me to enter the battle field no matter how little training I've had" she said, like there was nothing wrong with that.

Lavi didn't seem surprised, "so its like that with family as well huh?" he muttered.

"Hmm?"

"Nothing" he said.

Miria looked at him for a moment then she went back to eating. It was kind of different eating in a room with a bunch of other people, she always ate alone at her home and even if she was eating with her dad it was still kind of lonely since he didn't talk to her much. It wasn't so bad, but this isn't so bad either. She thought as she finished up her meal.

She got up and smiled to the two, "well I'm going back to training, I'll see ya later".

"Good luck" Lenalee told her with a friendly smile.

"And don't worry if your afraid of causing damage, the training area is very study" Lavi remarked with a grin.

Miria looked at him with a slightly raised brow, "I wasn't afraid of that but thanks anyway". With that she bowed and headed off with Night following closely behind her.

A world made up of people who love you and will work with you towards a common goal, its all sounds very nice. So now that I am here am I a part of that world too? I guess it depends on me, after all I think I have been excluding myself for a long time now. These thoughts marched around her mind like ants. She looked to a window, the view was breathtaking, it was the kind of sky where she found herself envious of the birds who could placidly fly around with no troubles and be as close to the sky as they wanted.

Miria sighed. Got to keep training. She thought.

She then walked back to the training area where General Cloud waited.


Sorry for the long wait I had medical things to deal with, I'm still dealing with it but hopefully it will go away soon. Anyway I finally decided her weapon and I finally decided she was going to be paired with Lavi, when I create another DGM fanfic in the future I'm going to pair her with Kanda :) I hope you liked the chapter at least a bit sorry if I had any hiccups, I will improve with time!