Time of Dying
A Hagi story based off the song "Time of Dying" by Three Days Grace
Serin: You CLAIM you're taking a Japanese class and you haven't even included respective honorifics like "san" or "sama". I'd think Hagi would especially be saying "David-sama" or "Joel II-sama" and he hasn't done any of that!
Hagi: … She's got a point
Saya: Yeah. Eighteen hundreds, much?
Aldedron: So you're ALL ganging up on me!? Oh come on! Even you, Serin!? I made you UP!! Shouldn't you be siding with me?
Serin: YOU made Japanese my second language. Use it correctly
Aldedron: *growl* Traitor… Fine. I'll work on using honorifics more. It's just… I haven't really because I'm writing this in Word and I hate it when it marks them with this red line and there's this ugly red check on the bottom of my screen saying I spelled something wrong… I have OCD, thank you
Serin: Then add it to your dictionary! You have that option with 07 Word!!
Aldedron: I need a new laptop. I've had this one since 07. That's pretty pathetic…
Saya: Oi! Oi! She's changing the topic!!
Neles: You should get a Dell
Aldedron: Yeah… A Dell looks nice… My Compaq IS getting annoying…
Saya: She's ignoring me…
Neles: Whatever you do, though, don't get a Mac
Aldedron: No way in hell! Macs SUCK!! I'm sticking with Microsoft, thank you!! Down with Macs!!
The group looked up with surprise. The sound of Bach floated down the hallway into Joel II's office. The door was slightly ajar, accounting for the only slightly muffled music.
"What the hell?" Elizabeth muttered in confusion. She wasn't attuned to high society classical music and had only ever heard the violin before, more commonly known to her as "the fiddle".
Joel II sighed with annoyance. "Why does he always play that song! It's never even a different Bach song! It's just always Prelude!" he exclaimed in exasperation.
Everyone turned to him. "Who?"
"Hagi, obviously," he scoffed. "I had to fire all my staff when they got here, so who else could it be? Saya's busy sleeping away the days. He claims she's sleeping off "the shock of seeing her father figure murdered" or something insane like that…"
"An accomplished cellist…" Isaac muttered. "That could work well for any undercover missions, as well. He also seems very good at masking his emotions. That's the sign of a great actor. How about the Queen? Is she also good at acting or anything of the like?"
"No… Not really. She can't act to save her life. But she does act extremely human. We could probably put her with someone in their mid to late teens and they wouldn't know a thing. And she's actually the one who taught him how to play the cello, but her individual skills on the instrument aren't anything to gawk at. Not much ability within the arts. Her greatest talent is with a sword. There is no doubt concerning her fighting ability, but that's all that should matter in the end, isn't it?"
Isaac was deep in thought, his mind running through all this information. "What do you propose we name is organization?"
Joel II smiled at that and opened the raggedy book on his desk. "You can thank my father for the name. When the twin Queens were born, he noticed their instinctive attraction to blood. He also noted how their blood was poisonous to the other. Amshel came up with something called "The Chevalier Premise". It was a hypothesis built to protect the Queens. A human would be transformed into a Chiropteran and protect their creator – their Queen. Be it from humans or each other, protection was that person's duty. And, as their Queen's servant, they would also give their blood to her to help her continue to survive. Red with blood and acting as her shield, my father originally came up with the name "Red Shield" for this servant. Amshel, however, decided to call them a "Chevalier" because Chevalier is French for "knight". Therefore, I would like to call this organization "Red Shield". We may not be Chevalier, but all Chevalier start off human and we shall be fulfilling a similar duty."
"So you're saying you want us to donate our blood to this girl?" Elena grimaced. Chiropterans seemed like blood-sucking monsters, as far as she could tell. They were basically vampires and vampires were well known for killing those whose blood they took. She didn't fancy dying by such vulgar methods.
Joel II chuckled at that. "No, that's a Chevalier's duty. Hagi will take care of that for us. We shall investigate, locate, and isolate Chiropterans. We'll hold them off and keep them from civilians until Saya can appear and kill them. We shall act as the shield between the monsters and the people. Many people will die in the process, but this is a war and there are always casualties as such."
"So you expect six people to accomplish this?" Elizabeth stated, rather than asked.
"Not at all. Obviously, I need all of you to use your resources to recruit willing citizens to join us in our fight. Preferably, they should have a background involving contact with a Chiropteran, but we can't be too picky. And Hagi recommended hiring a scientist or two to continue study on the species. Amshel holds as much or possibly more information on them than my father collected and recorded. So… can I count on all of you for your support?" The song ended.
Saya: You know, these mental conversations of yours really don't fit the mood of your story
Serin: Hai, they don't. One minute the story's really romantic with Hagi playing Saya to sleep and the next you and Neles are badmouthing Macs
Neles: Macs DO suck...
Serin: While I agree, that is still EXTREMELY off topic and not even CLOSE to the romantic mood you had going before...
Hagi: ...
Saya: Look! Even HAGI agrees!!
Hagi: If that is your wish...
Saya: ... Or not...
Aldedron: As long as I have his approval, I could care less!! Just as a thank you, I'll give you and Saya another romantic scene! Oh yeah!! But where should I put it... It's going to get depressing again pretty soon...
Serin: *annoyed* You're avoiding the topic again...
Aldedron: It's my mind! I can think about whatever topic I want to!!!