Chapter 14!
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Team DHLA
Meet n' Greet
That night
"What are you waiting for?! Take the shot!" A voice shouted in his ear. Daien's hand shook, causing the gun in his hand to rattle, "I... I can't." Daien said to the voice. "You have to! Remember what they did to us!" The voice shouted again. "I-I'm sorry." Daien said to the voice, before ripping something out of his ear and crushing it under foot. Daien's hand settled as he raised it skyward and fired three shots, violently waking the room's only other occupant from an otherwise peaceful sleep. "I didn't sign up for this." Daien said in a gentle voice that was filled with regret. He looked into the darkness and simply said, "Scream" before crashing through the window.
Daien woke with a start and rolled forward onto one knee, pointing Strife and Fury around the dark room. The room was pretty plain at the moment, aside from a bullet press taking up the right side of one of the desks, the room was pretty much how they found it. Daien looked around the room again, more carefully this time, noting the sleeping form of Dax to his left and those of Chichi and Lilac to his right. After making sure the room was clear, Daien lowered his weapons and let out the breath he had been holding. "D-Daien? Is everything ok?" Chichi asked as she sat up in her bed. "Damnit! I must have woke her up." Daien thought. "Everything's alright, Chichi, go on back to bed." Daien said softly as he got up. Taking his pillow and blanket, Daien laid out on the floor, laying his equipment out next to him in a fashion that was identical to the way he spent the night in the ballroom.
"It was just a nightmare, I'll be fine, promise." Daien said rolling onto his side. "W-Why are you sleeping on the floor?" Chichi asked. "I don't like sleeping in beds, I feel trapped and sluggish and my feet can't find a good hold on the mattress," Daien explained almost absentmindedly, "It feels like I'm suffocating under all the layers of sheets and stuff that you have to have on a bed. I don't need most of it. I don't get real cold, and I wear stuff, so yeah." Daien let out a long yawn. "Night Chichi. See you in the morning." Daien said in a sleep riddled voice. "Oh-Uh, night." Chichi replied, laying back down and turning on her side with her back to her partner. Daien waited until he was sure she was asleep and then rolled onto his back, "Don't worry about me, please. It was just a nightmare and it's over now." Daien said in his head. Knowing full well that he wasn't getting back to sleep, Daien got up and went to the roof. Coming out into the cool night air, Daien took a deep breath. After finding a good spot he sat down crisscross applesauce with his blanket around his shoulders and watched the stars.
The next morning, Daien was up early setting out his share of stuff. By now there was one entire desk dedicated to the creation and maintenance of weapons and ammunition, Daien had scrapped his bed and started turning it into a sort of makeshift wall curtain thing to separate the room and give the girls a little privacy. One wall had various posters, there was a Sadie's Sixgun poster from their best concert ever, a couple schematic posters of the HIAR Apocalypse the most badass rifle the Atlesian military can produce, a few sketches of Daien's various weapons, and hanging over where his bedroll now sits was a wanted poster for Warren Rowans and his accomplice with a police sketch of the masks worn by the criminals.
Putting a pin in what he had been doing, Daien stretched and went to the cafeteria and grabbed a big platter of food as well as a couple jugs of orange juice and milk. After stopping to get a few cans of cola, Daien went back to his dorm. Opening the door Daien found his entire team up and admiring his work. "I guess we know which one is yours." Dax joked, motioning toward the desk covered in tools. Lilac spoke up next,"Uhm, what's with your bed?" "I prefer to sleep on the floor." Daien said simply.
Daien presented the platter of food he had been concealing to the group, "As the leader of this team, I thought we could get to know a little about each other over breakfast!" "Nice spread!" Dax said as his mouth began to water. A moment or two later they were all sitting on the floor around the platter munching on an assortment of breakfast food. "T-Thanks for getting us breakfast, Daien." Chichi said nibbling on a biscuit. "You're welcome!" After finishing off his third can of cola Daien explained what was going to happen, "This is how it's going to work, you start out with your name, where you're from, what your weapon is, what your Semblance is, and finish off with one fact about you. I'll go first," Daien cleared his throat and stood up, "My name is Daien, I'm from a small village outside Vacuo, and my weapons are the dual combining pistol axes Strife and Fury. My Semblance has two parts, one: I can focus my Aura throughout my body and use it as a weapon, and two: I have a massive extra reserve of Aura that I use to replace what I use to attack with. And one fact about me would be, I make weapons." Daien emphasized that he was finished by popping open his last can of cola.
Dax was up next, "My name is Dax Henna, I'm from Vale, my weapon is a bladed Dust bow spear named R.I.P and Shred, my Semblance let's me turn into an unstoppable juggernaut for a little while, and I'm a badass." Dax finished with a dramatic, drawn out bow. Lilac jumped up next, "I'm Lilac Rampuri, I'm from Mistral, my weapon is a Dust knuckle trench knife called Trenchant, my Semblance is kinda like an early warning system, and I'm a vegetarian." Lilac sat down, ignoring the 'are you crazy' look Dax was giving her. And finally Chichi shakily stood up, "M-my name is Chichi Auburn, I-I was born and raised in Atlas, m-my weapons are puppeteering Dust half gloves I call Lace Clef, m-my Se-Semblance heightens my senses and lets me see hidden stuff, a-and I'm a musician." Chichi finished and hastily sat back down and started eating.
Dax turned to Daien, "Define 'as a weapon'." He said. Daien clapped his hands together, indicating for Dax to toss him an apple and Dax did exactly that. Daien balanced the apple on a closed fist and held the apple up for everyone to see, feeling the familiar rush of Aura from his extra reserve to his outer shield to his hand, and the apple was ripped apart by the blast of Aura, spraying little apple bits all over Daien. Everyone was very impressed by this feat of Aura control, "Cool! What else-" Daien cut Dax off by using his Semblance, and a flat hand, to slice the can of cola in Dax's hand in half, lucky for Dax the can was empty. "And for the piece de resistance!" Daien said holding up a grapefruit. Curling his fingers back, Daien placed his palm on the grapefruit. After another familiar rush of Aura, the back of the grapefruit erupted out the back and sprayed liquified grapefruit all over the empty platter that Dax used as a shield at the last minute.
"Why are you going at me?!" Dax angrily asked. Daien got right in his face, "Because you drank one of my colas." Daien said in a dark, threatening voice. After returning to his seat, Daien presented the remains of the grapefruit to the group. The back was gone but the front was perfectly fine. Everyone applauded. Daien gave a theatrical bow, "Thank you, thank you." "Let's see someone else's talents." Daien said as he sat down. Without warning Dax chucked an apple core at Lilac. There was a flash of movement and the apple core was in two pieces and Lilac had her weapon pointed at Dax's throat threateningly. Lilac relaxed a bit, and seemed to come out of a dream like she was sleep walking. "Sorry." Lilac said quietly as she sat back down and turned a light shade of red.
"Ok Dax, you've been testing our stuff, what about you?" Daien said in a cocky voice, quickly diverting things away from Lilac. Dax gave Daien a smug, cocky grin, "Shoot me." As soon as the words left Dax's mouth Fury was out and pointed. Bang! The shot echoed through the room, the one on the receiving end of the blast was hunched over holding his stomach. "Shit! Dax, you told me to-" Dax interrupted Daien's concerned freak out by straightening up and producing a smooshed hollow point round, "I'm fine, just a little hit." He said in a strained voice after he stopped coughing, "You've got one hell of a quick draw!" Daien holstered his weapon, "Let's stop, I'm scared of what might happen if anyone else lets loose." Dax shook his head, taking a few slow, deep breaths, "We still need to see what Chichi can do." Dax insisted. "She doesn't have to do jack shit if she doesn't want to." Daien said in a tone that left absolutely no room for argument. "I-I'd rather not." Chichi said. "It's settled then!" Daien exclaimed.
After breakfast everyone was getting ready for the day's classes, when Lilac asked, "Daien, aren't you gonna put on your uniform?" Daien gave her a confused look, "My what?" "Your uniform." She said gesturing to the matching clothes that everyone but Daien were more or less wearing. Daien looked around for a sec; finding a uniform tie, he loosely tied it and hung it around his neck. Lilac face palmed and Dax gave a thumbs up. "Uhm... S-Shouldn't you put on a little more?" Chichi suggested. Daien put his hand to his chin and thought for a moment. Getting an idea Daien grabbed the remaining bits of uniform and went over to his desk. After doing some cutting and sowing Daien held up his jacket for the others to see. Daien had taken bits from the uniform and sewn them to his jacket, the Beacon symbol was sewn to the upper part of each sleeve on a band of black cloth, a band of black cloth was sewn around the abdomen, and black claw marks had be sewn across the heart area using the scraps.
"What d' ya think?" Daien asked, a proud smile spread across his face. "You... can sow?" Lilac said as if it was so surprising. "Yes, I can." Daien deadpanned. Lilac walked over and started tugging on the stitches, "It's... really good." Lilac said in disbelief. "Of course it is!" Daien said in an insulted fashion that was only partly an act. Just then Daien's Scroll started to play a guitar solo, "saved by the Scroll." Daien thought as he opened the device and shut off the alarm. Reading the message, Daien's eyes went wide and he shouted, "We gotta go!" Daien quickly threw on his jacket, grabbed his stuff, as well as everyone else's, and shoved everyone out the door. "What's the rush, leader?" Dax asked as he struggled to keep from being dragged along by Daien. "We got ten minutes till class starts!" Daien shouted. """WHAT?!""" The others shouted in unison, taking control of their own movement and running along with Daien.
Aaaaaand that's chapter 14!
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