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Excited. Nervous. As the first mission, these two abundant emotions swirled around the Technician's heart. He wasn't entirely certain if he was really ready. Ever since he first paired up with Andre and Aryana, he had been doing what he could to practice using them. The start was.. a little rough, as he needed to be careful to not cut himself; he almost did too a number of times. That aside, he needed to become more fluid and natural with his movements.

That wasn't easy to achieve at all with the short amount of time that passed. Still, it was thanks to his excitement and drive to do things right that brought the trio to China a few minutes early.

"Woah... that was cool!" cried Derek the moment they arrived as he quickly looked behind him to see if there was any trace of a portal of sorts. There were none from what he could see.

"Yeah yeah.. but..why did you have to pick a non-english speaking country for our first mission?" uttered Andre while looking around, noticing the grand stadium that had hosted the Olympics a year ago.

"Well.. I thought if we needed to ask anyone for help... you two might be able to-"

"Translate?" twitched Andre, "Look. We're Chinese yes... but that doesn't mean we can speak the language all that well! And what little we know? It's Cantonese... completely useless in Beijing! And most of China for that matter."

"Andre... it's alright. It was a mistake, that's all. Let's just try and focus on the mission ok?" said Aryana, hoping to ease the tension... that most likely would only exist in Andre seeing how Derek was.

"Oh! Hello Michael. Didn't expect to see you here so soon!"

After Aryana had spoke up, Andre shot Derek one last quick glare before turning his attention towards Michael. Off the top of his head, he couldn't remember everything the mission entailed, but he knew at least of who they were looking for.

"The target is the one known as 'Red Ring' right?" he started before listening to Michael's quick briefing. From the sounds of things, they'll be stumbling on a body pretty quick in the 'game.' With danger being pretty eminent, he glanced over at the other two with him. The look he gave his technician seemed to be one that said 'you better not let my sister be hurt in this'.

For once, Derek seemed to pick up on the message. Well, maybe. He did nod back at Andre, but didn't say anything. Excitement had started to ebb and he was starting to become a little more nervous.

"Maybe we can save this one last victim.." he said before looking around. Unlike a few other Technicians, he wasn't able to sense Souls.

At the mention that this mission would be fairly bloody, Aryana nodded. She supposed it was a good thing she wasn't afraid of blood. At least, she was pretty sure she wasn't. The girl had watched a few gorey horror movies, but... this was real now.

Soon after Michael spoke, the three turned their attention as a new sound broke the silence. There was something sick about the noise, though neither of them could quite figure out what it was just by listening.

"Look... over there," whispered Aryana as she saw a shadowy figure dragging something behind him, "That's just sick..."

The thought that someone would put another person through this sort of thing; it disgusted her. She looked over at her partners, to see if they were ready to take on this person. No, this monster.

The others were ready, so she and her brother promptly shifted into their weapon forms, glowing red and black respectively as they did so. Derek, catching the two swords, gripped onto the handles firmly before looking over towards the figure. Most likely, the victim wasn't going to last much longer so they probably should try to finish this quick. Feeling some similar things to Aryana, he decided that he didn't like Red Rings at all.

"ERRAAAAAAH!!" he cried out as he began to run towards the target. He wanted to get this over with fast. After all the sooner they do this, the better the chance the victim had right?

"Slow down! You're going to tire yourself out!"

For now, Derek didn't pay Andre's advice (or order... however you look at it), any heed. He was set on getting this done now.

((Pst.. derek not Blade. XD))

Again, Andre urged Derek to slow down, but the boy sped on. In a way, he wish he had brought his skateboard which would have been able to carry himself over the ground quicker. But this wasn't the time to be thinking about that. Aryana remained silent, unsure who to side with this time around. In a way she agreed that the Technician shouldn't waste his energy, but at the same time she knew they had to hurry.

Now that he was getting closer, they could see the victim up on the steps. One thing for certain, he or she didn't look so great... with their blood splattered all over the steps.

Thoughts raced through Derek's mind, as he recalled the little training he had with the twins thus far. As he was about to meet with Red Rings, he shifted to the right and did a quick spin to try and slash the target with Andre. At the end of the turn, he planted his back foot down and thrusted Aryana out at where Red Ring's torso should be.

"Good work!" commented Andre, who was actually a little surprised that Derek remembered to use them both... rather than separately as he did during some of the training sessions.

Aryana had to admit, being driving into a body was a little odd. But she had to expect these sort of things, being a sword and all. It may take a bit of getting used to, but she knew it was for the safety of innocents... like the bleeding victim on the stands.

"How dare me? Well... how DARE YOU!"

Not exactly the best comeback, but it was all Derek could come up with at the time. Mentally, Andre shook his head and sighed at this. But he soon urged his Technician to follow up the attack since Red Rings wasn't likely to keep standing around without trying to attack back.

With a terse nod, he pushed off his back foot and slashed down with Andre, then with Aryana. The follow up attack was a little sluggish and sloppy howevever.

It was a good thing that Red Rings was as preoccupied as he was. The reason his second strike was so slow was because he was beginning to tire out. Maybe he should have heeded Andre's warning. But now he just needed to try and finish things before he grew too weary to do much damage.

"Quick, finish him off!" urged Aryana, noticing that Red Rings wasn't fighting back. She was trying to focus on the fight and not really think about the fact that she was covered in the monster's blood for the moment.

Nodding, Derek step forth with a spinning jump of sorts. As he was about to make the full 360, Andre was held high in the air and somewhat at an angle. Then just as he landed, he slashed down at the target, hoping the extra momentum would help do the job.

Time seemed to have stood still as he stood there with Andre deep inside Red Ring's body. Though breathing fairly heavily from exertion, he had managed to get away without a scratch. As he regained his breath, Derek was just about to pull the sword away, but the target exploded instead. Not expecting that, he recoiled and closed his eyes to avoid getting any blood or gore into them.

Carefully, hazel eyes opened once again when it was done. All that was left of Red Rings was a literal bloody mess, and a red soul.

"Ugh... man I hope they don't all explode like that. That was nasty..." he commented while looking down at himself. He was covered in the red liquid... as well as a bit of flesh here and there. Between that and the scent, he was starting to feel a little nauseas, but he tried his best to not think about it.

The twin hook blades turned back into their human forms, both covered with blood as well.

"Ew... this is going to take hours to clean out of my hair..." said Aryana.

"Well... at least he got what he deserved. If only there was a way to kill the red ring on my old 360..." muttered Andre, throwing the last bit as a distraction attempt. None of them had seen or smelt so much gore and it was a little sickening. Then, walking over to the soul, he picked it up. While Michael said to consume it, he didn't really want to eat it. So... he just shoved the soul into his pocket.

"Andre... did you just put a soul in your pocket?" questioned Aryana, blinking.

"Can.. you take it back out?" It seemed Derek was just as perplexed.

The male weapon reached back into his pocket, but found nothing there. Well that was weird. Either way he guessed they had it somehow. With a shrug, he looked over towards Michael and the three were ready to go home... as well as fight over who gets the bathroom first.