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Hiro left lunch and quickly found Rain. He then unrolled the next gift for Rain. "Here Rain. Present number two." Hiro smiled his cheesy smile before showing the gift to Rain. It was a picture of her with her sleeping face. It was one of his memories of Rain that he liked. The one where he helped her to her room when she fell unconscious.

Hiro's Mind

Flirty: "And you say I'm the pervert."

Angry: "WHAT?! It's a nice picture. I think she looked cute."

Normal: "..."

Flirty: "..."

Angry: "WHAT?! I CAN'T COMPLIMENT PEOPLE?!"

Normal: "Where's angry and who are you?"

Reality

Akakage waited for the meeting to end. He wasn't too interested but also he wanted to make sure he obtained all the information he needed.

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Krimzon waited in the training hall in his battle gear. He had his gloves on and waited. I probably wouldn't need to activate my demon mode in this fight. He's nothing but a fledgling anyway.

Renori looked around for someone to hang around with. "Hmm... Krimzon and that boy should be fighting but that's boring. Well might as well go eat."

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Sporting a chef hat and apron, Xero was already finishing up some of the dishes. "Formula XJ30. Experiment begin." He poured a bit of the elixir into the food. It was odorless and tasteless substance. The affects that it causes is an undeniable thirst for tomato juice and increases jumping ability.

"So let me get this straight," Faust said. The group had been stuck in the office throughout the whole of the morning classes. "Erik told only you while you were escorting him through the wastelands, by yourself?" he raised a brow. Kerta nodded.

"Yeah."

"And you told him you'd shut us down and if you hadn't by next winter he could tell his entire kingdom and start a war?" he continued, his skepticism forming into a grin. Kerta grinned in response.

"Yeah, so we have until then to attack them. But I don't want you to send these students into it blindly. Expendable or not, as you put it, they are citizens of my country, not to mention most of them are my friends now, and deserve to know what they'll be doing." she said. "If you can agree to that we have an accord." she raised both brows as she glanced around the room again. "If not I spill to father and you all go to federal prison for the rest of your lives."

"If we can wait a while to tell them I hold no issue." Garreth said.

"Atleast one month before the planned attack." Kerta said, hopping off the desk. She stretched, glad to be standing after sitting around for hours. "Really, you all had no plan to this. Just send them in and let them get slaughtered? How amateur."

"This from the girl who just turned eighteen..." Faust muttered under his breath as Kerta left the office.

She whistled a bit to herself as she entered the cafeteria, looking around for anyone she typically spent her time with before she'd left.

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On the front of the school steps Theron was doing his best to scrape mud off the bottom of his boots so he wouldn't track all over the school. The thick, brown earth was caked up to his waist, some of it already dried up. "How was I supposed to know that the term 'quick sand' also applied to loose dirt near water?" he asked, shaking his head. "I've always only dealt with... well, sand."

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Namen stood up, gathering her things, planning to go to the library rather than to go eat.

"Oh aren't we a lucky one Faust." Akakage chimed, "Looks like your plan wasn't ruined." Akakage glared at Faust, "I also have one condition. The students have to be deemed well enough to fight on their own by us headmasters before they are allowed to join in this war of yours Faust. If you have a problem with that..." Akakage smirked, "You can always... fight me." He said that last two words with a serious look in his eyes. I've always wanted to fight you old man.

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Renori saw the princess enter the cafeteria. "Your highness. Looks like we didn't need to save you after all."

Varnis entered the training area shortly after Krimzon had. He wore his armor, and his katana was on his side. Even though the armor would do nothing, it still helped him keep his mind on what he had to do. He could always take it off mid fight if he needed to. Walking to an area across from where krimzon was, he looked at him for a moment. "Ready when you are." He simply said as he still felt the same way this morning.

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Vanna had been wandering the halls after class had let out. Sighing some, she decided to go to the library and grab a few books. Walking in, she looked at the librarian as she greeted her before walking off to the fiction area of the library. Grabbing a random book, she walked back out, and headed to the court yard.

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Markis was walking by the schools entrance when he noticed Theron was almost completely covered in mud. Laughing some, he turned to the two that where there. "Fell into some quick sand?" He stuck his hands in his pockets. "I thought that pirates would know what it was, what with the buried treasure in the jungles."

Varnis was about to move as Krimzon came at hit, but didn't as he recognized what part of his armor he was going after. "Real funny." He said sarcastically before he used his speed and ran towards Krimzon before suddenly, almost seemingly, falling to the ground, and sliding at his legs before grabbing hold of him as fire formed around his hand. He knew it would do nothing, but he wanted to see what Krimzon had planned.

Rain was sitting at the lunch table poking at some food when Hiro found her. She looked down at the picture and a slow but wide grin made it's way to her face. "It's magnificent thank you!" She exclaimed while examining it then looked back up at Hiro confused. "But when have you seen me sleeping?" she asked while tilting her head.

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Aoi shook her head at the two that wanted to get into a fight with each other. One way or another she didn't care what those two did as long as they didn't destroy the school. Looking back at her cousin she watched him for a moment. She started to think about where her full armor set was.

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Ray laughed at Theron as he brushed muddy sand from his clothes and hair. "Well generally if you step near water there is going to be mud there which you can get stuck in like you did." He rolled his eyes at Theron as if it was obvious. He then looked at Markis and his crazy getup. "Man I think if you where there that quick sand would have been over your head in no time, if your clothes didn't drown you first." he laughed while raising an eyebrow.

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Illidan looked up from his papers at Desdemona who sat on his desk. He chuckled. setting his pen down he crossed his arms over his chest and leaned forward on the desk. "I would rather be annoyed that ignored." He replied. He looked away towards the windows before he spoke nonchalantly, "So what were you and Ronan discussing earlier?"


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Diente and Damien were walking to the dinning hall together. Diente was quieter than usuall and Damien looked frustrated because of it.

"Come on! Would you lighten up today, your making my day bad." He complained to Diente.

"Then don't talk to me if I make it that bad." he retorted with a blank look.

Damien grabbed the back of Diente's shirt and dragged into the courtyard. Shoving him roughly to the ground Damien pulled off his shirt and headed straight towards Diente, his fist raised. He didn't bother to check and see if anyone else was in the courtyard.

Diente looked passed Damien to Vanna who was reading a book. Shaking his head he quickly sidestepped Damien. If there was one thing he had on his cousin it was sheer speed, he was much faster.

Faust could feel his hands shaking from anger, doing his best not to attack Akakage at that moment. "How about a spar?" he asked through clenched teeth. "I'll meet you downstairs, in one of the training areas."

"Yes, please do." Garreth said, standing up. "I don't want any fights in my office."

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Theron laughed a bit more. "Showed me." he said, then raised a brow at Markis. "I think this hardly qualifies as a jungle." he added, motioning toward the trees that surrounded the school.

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Kerta's lips turned into an amused smile. "Yes, Renori. Why, I'm famished." she said, pushing herself to her feet. This was another girl she was sure she'd get along with just fine.

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Namen sat down at a table in the library, having picked a random book off the shelf. It hadn't mattered which. She just needed something to take her mind off of things. She hadn't heard Bastian sit down across from her, and hardly felt him staring at her with that disgusting grin on his face. His eyes followed her fingers for a moment, watching them slowly slide over each sentence on the page, before they traveled up her arm, over her shoulder, then slithered up the length of her neck to land on her concentrating face. He chuckled lightly and her hand stopped moving.

"It's amazing how delicate you look when only a few years ago you were biting people." he said. Namen began moving her fingers over the sentences again, but she hardly payed attention to what she was reading.

"Self defense is an amazing thing." she said. He laughed again.

"I haven't really had a chance to talk to you since I started school here. Your... friends are so protective of you, aren't they? You cry wolf and they're all over me. Does it satisfy you when you tell people that you've been-?"

"For the record," Namen interrupted quickly, "I only told Varnis before you came here because I thought I could trust him to keep a secret. I never asked anyone to do anything to you, so you better just stop right there." she snarled. Bastian looked over at the librarian, who was giving them a glare. He smiled at her and turned back to Namen.

"Hmm, that so?"

"Yeah." she said, beginning to pay attention to what she read again.

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Finding Varnis on his other leg trying to burn it, Krimzon decided to kick his opponents face with his one free leg. "I'm not too sure that was the wise choice of action, blondie."

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Hiro blushed, "Well... I uh... it was after training. Then you fell asleep and yeah..." He looked away trying to hide the blush on his face.

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Akakage smiled, "I don't have a problem with that. Let's see how one of the five heroes from the second war fight a hero from the third. Go to training area three. Quick question. Real or wooden weapons?" Akakage asked.

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Renori grabbed food quickly and waited for Kerta to sit down. Then she noticed Hiro and Rain. With a giggle she said, "Aw look at the cute couple over there."

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