Interrogation Room1: STIEN vs SHINO
When Shino woke up, she found her wrists chained to a metal table and her feet shackled to the floor. She didn't have any questions as to where she was; for it was obvious she was caught by the DWMA. Dragging her face off of the table, she looked around the room, trying to get a better sense of her current situation. It seemed like she was in a n interrogation room but before she could deduce more, a deep voice spoke from behind her.
"Shino Gorgon, daughter of Medusa," Stien began, walking out of the darkness, his hands clasped behind him as he stopped to stand in front of her. "Due to the seriousness of your crimes you are being held below Shibusen until Lord Death decides what to do with you and your remaining family. You are the sole inheritor of Medusa's powers and her most trusted weapon, yes?"
The navy-haired girl did not speak but stared dejectedly at her cuffed hands on the table in front of her. Stien could tell she was going to be a hard one to crack. He didn't particularly mind though, it allowed him to let loose a bit. It had been so long since he had a witch for a test subject.
Grabbing a rolling chair from the corner of the room, he sat down in it and roughly pushed himself towards the table in front of her. The wheels caught on a raised cobblestone sending him crashing to the ground. Shino stared at him, her brow raised, as he nonchalantly picked himself and the chair up and sat down in front of her.
He stared at her for a while until, finally, she met his droopy, green-eyed gaze.
"Those pink irises of yours are quite interesting. There was a time when I would have loved to have popped them out of your head and cut them open." He told her, his demeanor perfectly calm right up until the last second when he had to force down a manacle grin. "Of course, I could still dissect you if you refuse to cooperate."
"That's fine." She answered dully, staring at the middle of the table where her handcuffs were bolted down.
Stien's eyebrows rose in confusion as the intimidating glair from his glasses disappeared. "What's fine?"
"I'll cooperate." She told him, this having been her intention all along.
Interrogation Room 2: SPIRIT vs CRONA
Crona sat at the interrogation table, his shoulders hunched up into his body. It was almost like the pinkette was sinking into himself, he was so nervous. He too had been taken into custody by the DWMA and was now being questioned by the staff about his and his family's involvement in the awakening of the Kishin.
Spirit had been assigned to interrogate him, being the least intimidating of the candidates. They thought he'd talk more with him than he would with Stien.
"Tell us about your sister, Shino, why would she turn against her own kind?" Questioned Spirit. From what they had gathered so far, Shino had turned against her mother in an attempt to foil her plan of reawakening Asura. Though she was unsuccessful, it was practically the only thing keeping the two alive at the moment.
Crona was now visibly shaking. "S-Shino was the only one who inherited our mother's powers. Compared to her, I was a failure. F-for every moment Lady Medusa ignored me, she spent training Shino. S-she was her favorite project and she never left her alone. The things she did to her… I-I can't say. M-most of it I don't even know. But s-she's suffered too. Please d-don't hurt her."
"I'm not the one who is going to decide what to do with her," Spirit informed the boy. "That decision is up to Lord Death."
Crona shivered in his seat, hoping beyond hope that these people would just leave them alone.
Interrogation Room1: STIEN vs SHINO Round Two
"Why did you betray your mother?" Stien asked, his round glasses glinting in the low light of the room.
Shino snorted bitterly at his question. "You can't betray someone you were never loyal to. Since the day she killed my father, I've been against her." She informed the patchwork meister.
"And you've waited until now to do something about it?" He asked, reaching up and turning the screw in his head a few clicks.
Shino felt her face begin to burn in anger. "How would one expect a four-year-old to take down a fully-fledged witch?" She shot back. "I had to grow stronger before I could strike back at her. Only now have I just grown into my powers."
"What about your brother? Did he want revenge too?"
Shino's mouth pressed into a thin line as she immediately went back on the defensive. Stien could tell he had struck a nerve by mentioning Crona. "My brother is a victim, nothing more."
"I suppose Lord Death will have to decide that… and your fate as well." He said, taking out an old iron key and unchaining her from the table and floor. "If it were up to me, I would already be rolling those pink eyes of yours around in a petri dish."
"Then I'm glad it's not up to you," she replied, standing up. "I honestly don't get what my mother saw in you." She told him before being led back to her cell.
It took some time for Lord Death to decide what to do with the two Gorgon siblings. But in the end, he chose not to have them killed. Instead he'd offer them a trial run at the academy. If it was successful, they could stay on and live at the DWMA. Both Shino and Crona were unsure what to think about this arrangement, however, they had little choice but to comply. The next day would be their first day of class and it was sure to be full of accusations and embarrassments.
AN: Hey everyone! Please be sure to review! I hope you liked this chapter and hopefully it was a bit informative as well as fun to read. I wanted to establish Shino as the tough big sister. She tries to act as a shield for Crona, but later we'll find out that it's been harder for her to do so than we first imagined. After all, Crona did become a victim of the black blood and his own madness.