D.W.M.A.

Eden extended her hand to shake the two boys hands. Smiling she placed her head on Ryuho's shoulder, snaking her arm around his waist. "I'm Eden, I'm sure I've seen you two before but I just for the life of me can't remember." Letting her eyes go distant, she scanned through her memories, "Ah, wait....there we go. I believe I HAVE met you two before, though I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself earlier." Suppressing a smile as Ryuho twitched under her attentions, her eyes flicked to Osmond. When she saw him cock an eyebrow at her, but no other reaction, she heaved a sigh, hugged Ryuho, shook Hero and Algernon's hands and went over to stand next to her partner.

Osmond shook his head, and patted Eden on the shoulder. He knew if he ignored her, she'd give up. Hopefully she'd stop being so childish, but he wasn't holding his breath. Eden flicked him angry eyes, she didn't like being ignored. Stretching and arching her back till she almost toppled over, Osmond reached a hand out and supported her lower back till she was done showing off. She did yoga on a regular basis to improve her balance, stretching wouldn't send her tipping over, but she just might to see what happened.

Eden pouted and leaned against Osmond. She'd almost cracked her back this time, and now she had cracked her tail bone, thanks to the bonehead next to her. She hated being bored. There was nothing to hide from here, she could act out all she wanted. She didn't like that Osmond tried to be a father to her, she hated her father but at least Oz taught her lessons with words rather that the back of his sword or whip.

She was so bored.... she'd left her Ipod at home so there was nothing to distract her. She hugged Osmond absently. It was nice that she could release her inner huggie person around them, she knew that if she went too far they'd stop her. She began to zone out, snuggled under his arm, protected. She envisioned her training exercises, tensing muscle groups with muscle memory, and while distracted with that she began to contemplate her family. Mama will be in Paris for the spring fashion week. Papa will be in Hong Kong for first quarter negotiations. The twins will be at school, James will be in...LA, and Leo will be in Atlanta. Who's watching the compound? Keven? Hmm. It should be safe to travel, the extended family, outside the USA side, and the London Branch don't know me....I hate this

Osmond looked down at Eden, and knew what the dark look in her eyes meant. Her family. This is going to be great, she's in a foul mood

Desmond turned in hopes of catching Eden before she could run out of the Death Room, unfortunately he was too late. Osmond, however, was fast enough to catch his brother before he too ran out of the room, "Des, let her go. She's got a lot to think on right now, perhaps a little time away will do her good." Desmond only stared into Osmond's eyes, "And what if she runs all the way away huh? What then Oz?" Desmond's voice held a slight quiver, he was genuinely worried about Eden, about how this new announcement would affect her, how it would affect their teamwork.

Osmond merely squeezed his brother's shoulder a little and gave a short pat, "Do what you will Des, I'm going to stay back a minute and see if there is anything else Lord Death has for us. If you do decide to leave, keep an eye on Eden, make sure she doesn't hurt herself you know?" Osmond knew full well that Eden's clumsiness had gotten better since she joined their training regiment, the running in the forest allowed her to move without thinking while the sparring matches allowed her to utilize her every movement into a productive action within combat situations. He had full faith that their meister was alright, it was just in his and Desmond's nature to protect their meister. They were shields after all.

With a brief nod, Desmond sprinted out of the Death Room, giving both Death and Spirit a fading "sorry sirs!" as his image disappeared down the hallway, blurring past Ryuho and Amanda as he continued after Eden. Meanwhile Osmond merely sighed, placing one hand in his kakhi pants pocket while the other lightly turned the toothpick between his lips, "I am sorry about that sirs. Please allow me to serve as a messenger to the rest of my team as we deal with this. . . event." As he spoke, Osmond expected a full force Reaper Chop for the improper actions of his teammates and fully expected to recieve some form of reprocussions. He remained perfectly still, staring into the eye holes of Lord Death's mask as Ryuho and Amanda entered the room with them, his attention trained on the immediate superior, awaiting orders as usual.

~Algernon Whittaker

Alge and Hero listened as Amanda and Ryuho debated on splitting the souls they would acquire in Florida. Algernon speculated on the topic while leaning back against the wall next to the mission board. Hero bounced up and down and everywhere, asking other students about their missions and how well they thought they would do on their missions. Algernon had to grab him by the collar of his shirt to keep him from following a couple of students too far down the hallway.

"I agree," he said after a short pause, "that sounds the most fair to me." He shrugged while speaking, it was mostly up to the Weapons, he believed, they would be the ones eating the souls.
"Yeah, but we'll have to make it a contest to see who gets more souls!" Hero said excitedly, bouncing up between Alge and the other team.
"No," Alge said with a sigh, "we'll have enough of a challenge since this is our first mission. It's best to go at our own pace instead of challenging our teammates to a race for souls." On the one hand, this was a correct statement, the team didn't know the strengths or weaknesses of their opponents yet so the challenge of beating their foes could very well be a difficult one. On the other hand a race for souls would push both pairs further, which could lead to greater success, or utter failure. Algernon looked to Amanda and Ryuho. "What do you guys think?"

Atlas looked over at his mission partner, " You don't need to worry about me being late on the mission it is the only thing that actually keeps my interest, but wouldn't that put your brother and meister in the same boat as me?" Atlas said as he looked over at Osmond. "You should be preaching to your own team instead of me. I am late everyday any one in the Crescent Moon class would know that."

Izzy looked at Atlas as he stared at Osmond with a slight smirk she knew well, "He wasn't always the best at taking orders, even if it was our grandfather. This little confrontation might not end well." Izzy sighed, "Lord Death, Ms.Azusa is this all, I'm afraid that if we give them any more time to go back and forth like this that it will not turn out well at all."

"If this is all I would like to pick something important up before we go, and he still needs to collect his team doesn't he?" Atlas said as he looked toward Lord Death "No disrespect intend Sir."

~Franken Stein

Franken continued to his office, unlocked the door and entered. He ruffled around in his desk and through piles on his desk to put together a report on the first six zombies, slipped it onto a clipboard and handed it to Ravel.
"I'll need you to go through this during any free time you have. We haven't learned a lot from the zombies we've dissected so far and we don't have time to work on this last one so maybe you can find something in this file that we've missed." He gathered other research materials and an empty notebook and dumped them into a satchel, then slung it over his shoulder and exited the office, locking it behind him. "Now we just have to get things ready to travel for tomorrow, I suggest you pack light, if we get into a fight right off the bat you don't want to be carrying anything you could lose."

He headed off again, Ravel following along behind, until they got to his laboratory. In this room he went to one storage closet and retrieved a chicken from a cage just inside the door. Carrying it in his arm and stroking its head he went to a second closet, pausing to listen closely for zombie noises, he carefully and quietly unlocked the door. When he was satisfied with the noise level behind the door he yanked it open, chucked the chicken inside, crazed clucks and feathers flying, then slammed the door shut and locked it again.
"That should keep that zombie happy until we return." Franken said, screwing the bolt in his head a little looser. Together he and Ravel headed back to the mission board.

~Algernon Whittaker

Algernon and Hero nodded resolutely, determined to complete this mission quickly and efficiently. As they left Death's Room Hero jumped up and down, waving fists excitedly. "Miami, Orlando, wherever we go, we'll beat the crap out of those nasty Kishin!" He and Alge high-fived and Algernon stuck his hands in his pockets as they walked. They needed to pack a few things for the trip and so they headed outside with Amanda and Ryuho.
"We're going to go pack, we're to meet here at 8am tomorrow morning, like Professor Stein said." Alge explained. "You guys want to get together tonight to come up with a few strategies? It probably wouldn't hurt to come up with something even though we don't have all of the information yet. I'm sure the Death Scythe we're meeting can tell us more about our mission."

Ryuho/Tsukasa

"Sounds good. Algernon. We can use my Society Prediction Mainframe to pick out which strategies have a better chance of working." He pulled out his cell phone which had a shinigami skull on it, turned it horizontal and slid it open. He typed with his thumbs and revealed a blank screen and a blinking cursor. "It's a project I've been working on. It uses information from various pieces of media like Encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, the internet and so on to give an educated guess on the probability of how something will turn out." he handed his phone to Algernon. "Just type in any question and it'll give you an answer in a percentage. Just begin the question with 'What's the chances that...' and press enter. Go ahead. Give it a try."

~Algernon Whittaker

Algernon took the phone and snickered. "What are the chances that Hero will be calm and collected on this trip?" He typed.

~Hero Garner

Hero gasped and snatched the phone from Algernon.
"Hey, be careful, you don't want to break it." Alge said but Hero was only half listening.
"Seventeen percent, hey, it works. But that's not the point, you're mean!" Hero was speculative during his observation of the phone, but the second half of his statement was an outburst and he whined quite loudly, waving his arms frantically. Ryuho tried desperately to catch his hand and save the phone, finally managing to after dodging a few swings that would have knocked into his outstretched hand or even his head. Algernon laughed, patting Hero on the top of his head. Hero pouted, hands now clenched and he thought about taking a swing at his Meister. Then had a better idea.
He ducked away from Algernon's patting hand and straightened and in his best adult voice said "Anyway, we need to get serious about this, we don't know quite what we're up against so that contraption thing Ryuho made will probably be of great use."

"Aw, trying to fight the fate of the phone percentage?" Algernon asked. Hero shot him an evil look.

Ryuho/Tsukasa

Ryuho was happy to have his phone back where it belonged. In his back pocket. LITTLE BASTARD! I'll kill him if he breaks my crap! Tsukasa screamed which gave only Ryuho a headache. "Well I-" Ryuho trailed off as he noticed a woman approach them.

"You're the team for miami, right? Well, look I'm Angela Farber and plans have changed. We're leaving right now. So, follow me. We're taking a jet. it's just outside the City."

"Maybe we can come up with some strategies on the way their, huh, Alge?" Ryuho spoke following the Angela Farber out of the school.

~Algernon Whittaker

Alge and Hero turned when they heard Angela approach. Hero jumped into the air, his fist leading the way. "Yeah! We don't have to wait!" He started to run ahead of the group but when he realised he didn't know which way to go he slowed down to walk two paces behind Angela.

Algernon waited for Amanda to take her place next to Ryuho, then flanked him so the two could continue the conversation. Since Ms. Farber is here we should get as much information as we can. I think since there are so many of us that surrounding the enemy might be a good idea, if we can, that way we can attack from different angles and hopefully disorient them."

They made their way outside and Hero and Algernon gawked at the jet. It was large, sleek and obviously very expensive. This would get them to Florida in no time, and if the outside was any indication, it would be quite a comfortable and enjoyable ride.

OOC: Aaaaaaand I lost my train of thought...

~Franken Stein

As Stein made his way through the academy he came upon one of his students. "Christoff Makihara, is that right? You're wanting to know what you're supposed to do now. Right now you are supposed to do nothing unless you want to do something. Tomorrow you are supposed to meet me and the rest of the Falling Star class at 8am. We have been assigned a very important mission and it is imperative that we get it done quickly." He didn't explain that he wanted the mission over and done with so that he could return to his research. The kid could assume Lord Death wanted it completed as soon as possible. Either way, Stein was mildly irritated, he really felt like dissecting something. He stood for a moment and waited to see if Christoff had anything to say.

The Renegade Witch Holo Lobo

"LORD DEATH!" Holo Lobo shrieked hopping over to the shinigami and embracing him with a huge bear hug nearly lifting him off the floor. "It's great to see you again after being apart for so long." She smiled like a child plopping down at the small wooden table. "Oh! Never mind my form. It's only temporary. I feared that Mabaa would come after my family, so I split my magic and infused it with my children for protection. That's enough about me. How've you been?"

"Wow...That's your mom Calyx. She's kinda....little..."Alessandro remarked leaning against the door to the place watching the wolf witch chit chat with Lord Death like a teenage girl. They were now back in Death City awaiting their next mission. "Come to think of it...she's probably the only witch to ever actually be allowed in the DWMA." He looked around and after counting the bodies realized someone was missing/ "Hey...where's Alisa..."



The Prudent Meister Alisa Ravenclaw

Alisa sauntered down the stone hallway with empty eyes staring at the pearl in her palm. She despised it for almost no reason. She wanted to scream at it. To throw it. To stomp on it. To shatter it into a million pieces. To shatter herself into a million pieces....

These thoughts...she could feel the dynamic waves of madness seeping through the wall of light she's tucked it behind nearly a year ago. The key to supressing it was to remember that:

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and body.

But her mind was not sound. It was full of worry and paranoia. She was struggling to keep her sanity from breaking at this point. But she had to do it. For her parents. To save her brother, Alphonse. To save what she had left of her family.

A tear rolled down Alisa's eye as she slid down to her knees. Torment and anger twisting in her chest. She pounded the floor with her bare knuckles and gritted her teeth. Betraying everyone was necessary. Enduring the pain was necessary. For now at least...

The Prudent Meister Alisa Ravenclaw

After receiving Calyx's call, Alisa and Alessandro were running through the halls of the DWMA once again. Alisa was feeling a bit fatigued. Their last mission wasn't too long ago. Then they accidentally crashed into their classmates.

"Ryuho, Amanda, Alge and Hero." Alessandro pointed out. "Sorry about that. We were in a rush. We're starting our next mission."

"Already?" Ryuho inquired.

"Yeah, it's probably big. So we better get going." Alisa said pulling herself off the ground and running to the classroom. Al followed her giving his classmates a quick wave goodbye.

~Hero Garner

Hero and Alge had just gotten back from their mission in Florida which had given Alge a pretty itchy sunburn when they were suddenly called to another mission. They were sitting on one of the many balconies around the academy, Alge hiding in the shade, Hero in the sun appreciating his new tan, when they heard the P.A. system just inside the door announcing a long list of names.
"Yup, I heard ours." Hero said with a little enthusiasm, he was still tired from the last mission.
"Shouldn't you have a sunburn too?" Alge muttered. Hero ignored him.
Alge stood slowly and the two made their way to the classroom, surprised to see how quickly the others had gathered.
"Anyone know what this is about?" Alge asked, leaning against the door frame. Hero was looking around for whoever was in charge that might answer Algernon's question.

Amanda the Wrath of Zeus.

Amanda looked up when the announcement came. "Oh... we just got back... well I guess whatever it is has to be better then a swamp infested with kishin eggs." She shuddered. "Their souls tasted so slimy and bad." She stepped beside her partner. "Well... we may as well we may as well get going then."

The Shared Soul Ryuho/Tsukasa

"Yeah, you're right. Let's hurry too. It sounds big. I wonder why he didn't call The Ralley twins and Edens or the Tolas. They must still be away on their missions.. Oh well. Let's go." Ryuho spoke heading towards the classroom with Amanda.

The Prudent Meister ALisa Ravenclaw

"We're here." Alisa announced walking through the doorway with Al by her side. "Whats this about?" She asked walking up to Calyx.