Earth

Zera wakes up on the floor and with no blankets, he looks around to see Mariana and another person walking to a building, "so I go there..." he softly said as he looks in his closet and grabs what he usually wears. He then exits the room and walks down the stairs and into the courtyard, he stands there for a minute and looks at the dog-tags his father gave him, "This is for you Father..." He said as he walks into the building and sees Vann and Mariana, "What happened to you?" he questioned as he looks around for the arena area, "Uhm... Where do I go?" he asked and got a response from a guard pointing out the elevator. He bows in thanks and hits the button.

Zera finds himself in a strange room where it looks like a gladiator fight happened and gets briefed and the monster comes out. Its a Chimera. Zera stands there trembling in fear of the creature, "I- is that a Chimera ?!" he questioned in panic but then calms down enough to be prepared, "So give the big scary monster to the pathetic wimp..." He looks at the sleeve on his arm, "No.. Not yet..." he braces for the beast to be unleashed. The Chimera is released. The battle begins. The chimera charges at Zera and misses due to Zera jumping onto its back and ended up on the other side of the beast, "Wow you're a scary creature aren't you?" He said clearly as the monster breathes the fire at him Zera backflipped back out of the way.

The beast charges again and slashes at Zera, he kinda evaded but his shirt gets ripped. The beast attacks again and hits Zera again, he's cut and his hat is ripped. He looks at the rip, "that was my favorite hat.... Now you die... Awaken!" he said as he summons his spear for the fight as the creature attacks again. Zera stabbed his spear into the ground and is now on the Chimera's back, "May I know your name?" Zera asked as the creature turned one head, "My name is Arginth" The chimera replied as he breathed fire at Zera whom blocked it with his spear knocking the fires into Arginth burning him. It falls to the ground Zera walks to it, "kill me..." Arginth said looking at how Zera sheathes his spear, "now why would I kill you? I know your name. I can't but. do you want to be friends and my summon?" Zera asked with a smile on his face, "It would be my pleasure... Zera" Arginth said as the mark appears on both of them. Zera after being told what to do with his summon walks back to where Vann and Mariana are. Still bleeding he sits down next to them and rests a bit.

(told ya I'm still in this)

Waking up the next morning, a little hungry, but thankfully not as dazed, Seyicer rolled out of the bed. In his dreams, he had come terms with the information provided yesterday. The fist think he did was to fill the sink with cokd water, and dip his head in, the sudden shock of cold water alerting his senses, forcing them to awaken faster. If what that teacher person said had been true, he would need them. He fingered his bracelet, witch held his weapon of death. Surely they wouldn't try and kill him on his first test?

He watched two go in to fight, and had both came out relativealy unschated. Unwilling to wait anymore, he procedded into to face the monster that may become his new partner, if he fought well enough.

His eyes shimmered as he looked upon hthe monster with a sense of familiarity. It was a hellhound, the same kind that had attacked him days before, causing all this to happen. He laughed at the irony, and held out his hand... not in a gesture of friendship, but in a stance that Seyicer assumed would be good for a spell aster. He tapped his fingers to his braclets, witch shimmered, until he held a gun in one hand. "Let's just skip the formalities, shall we?" He said in an even tone, and began to concentrate on his opponet. Desiring to take the iniative, Seyicer flung as hand, "Dark SAvior." He muttered.

The hellhound double jumped back to avoid the sudden mass of arrows, and began to circle Seyicer, not losing it's patientce. The eyed each other for a few minutes, The flame dog rushed in, Seyicer ducked, moving his gun to a dagger as he did- though it almost got stuck, and he slashed wards, witch barly missed. With a snarl, the hellhound swipd with his paw, catching Seyicer in his shoulder. Pain gripped him, and there was a sensation of something burning, but Seyicer did his absoulutue best to ignore it, though he would need treatment when this was over.

With a grin Seyicer grabbed hold of the paw that was used to swipe at him with his free hand, raised his dagger, and swun. As blood sprayed, the hellhound retreated with a limp, and barely dodged a bullet from Seyicer. "...Taking a powerful, potentially limb-crushing claw swipe JUST for a chance to get a swipe at me?... You're a crazy one." The hell hound snarled... though his voice sounded impressed.

Seyicer shrugged, winced, "I try... shall we continue?" He said, cutting off part of his clothing, and making a small bandage with his free arm and his teeth. HE couldn't feel anything, the hellhound had caused severe numbness... it was all but uuselesss now. Witch a made it perfect shield. The hellhound rushed in, and Seyicer, allowed himself to collapse as a doll would. AS the dog, was just over him, Seyicer held up his fun, smiled, and fired. The bullet caught him in the leg, and he spun midair, crasihing against a wall. With a wimper, the hound began licking his wound. It froze as it sensed danger, and looked up to Seyicer, who had ditched his gun for a spell, and five orbs surronded the dog, ready to fire. Seyicer took a few deep breaths. "That's.... checkmate. Care... to join me?" HE asked, between pants.

The dog sat there, and howled, though it sounded like laughter, "You would extend your hand to the enemy? Why should I trust you?"
"Because I can garuntee you'll get no such offer from the arrows." He said, pointing at his spell

"...fine. I am Garm of the Helhounds. I shall walk beside you." The Garm said and howled- a true howl. Seyicer's hand shone, as a mark appeared on it, and a similar one appeared on Garm's paw: Where Seyicer had first stabbed him. TheGarm howled once more, and vanished.

Seyicer walked out, grasping his arm, "Ummm... doctor, please?" He asked, sounding slightly impatientce. But with an entire arm down for the count, who could blame him?

After witnessing the two demon's duel and attending a very confusing meal, Fyrsra retired to the library to curl up on the stone floor with a good book. The library was a sanctuary for Fyrsra, it could take her to any place she wished, present her with an endless array of facts, or inspire her to write up a few poems or two. Besides this books kept Fyrsra from becoming lonely, a common enemy the past years, for loneliness made her horribly tired and unable to memorize books and explore her mind for, 'scholarly thoughts.'

"Well isn't this a lovely night my dear guardian of dust and books?" Fyrsra taunted the librarian as she trotted inside the large, stone room. "Well Well, it looks as if your friends the dust bunnies have been scared away from your desk by movement it seems!"

All that Fyrsra received from her comment was a one-eyed glare from behind a huge pile of books and a simple flip of the librarian's telling her to proceed. This was a ritual performed by the demon-beast upon her every entry to visit her beloved books. It was very entertaining to see or hear the occasional snide remarks given in turn. However those were only on the book-keepers good days. Which numbered few.

Curling up into Fyrsra's favorite spot, featured in a corner farthest from the entranced by a window that was built much to low to the ground. It was riddled with a wide array and height of books of many sizes and colors that the demon-beast had conquered. The librarian had long ago given up on cleaning up her 'book nest' and let her be in that area of the large library. The spot also happened to be the coldest, being the farthest away from the entrance it never got much attention besides Fyrsra whose body heat was non-existent.

"Well dear Fyrsra you scholarly fool, those summoners will be getting very busy these coming days. It seems as though this will be the perfect opportunity to stay the night to read these glorious books whose pages are in need of attention. For who knows when there shall be time read for many hours again." Fyrsra chuckled at her silly thoughts. "Then I will enjoy this night to myself, for shall be one of the only moments for me to read a good book before all the...entertainment begins."

In the far corner of a desk riddled with dust clumps, a small muffled laugh could be heard from behind an upheld book. If one looked behind the stack of books blocking view of the person behind them, they could find the keeper of books flicking a dust clump from her book and watching as it slowly fell to the ground. "Yes...it all starts now.."

Scarlet was waiting for her so called test that was to asess the summoners to see what they were capable with or whatever. Scarlet was used to test since her parents were scientists they tended to use drugs on her to see if they were able to enhance her attibutes of which only a few worked one of them being keener senses and faster reflexes. After about five or ten minutes standing around a door opened and it seemed she was to go though it so she did when she walked through the open door there seemed to be a large beast and from the books she had read it seemed to be a Phoenix a rather large on at that.

When she had entered the room the phoenix sent down balls of fire, she tryed to avoid most of them but by the end she got hit by one sending her againts the all "OUCH!" she shouted she had't felt that much pain since the training trips she had in the mountain with her parents. When she looked down at her hair she noticed a small bit at the end had caught on fire "Oi you fire covered bird look what you did to my hair!" she shouted. When she had shouted this electic sparks started to emit from her body one large one actually connected with the phoenix bringing it to the ground. The phoenix charged at her with the fire surronding it Scarlet could't help but run but the phoenix had pinned her againts the wall with its flames burning her she hand no choice but to summon her weapon she pushed the phoenix away with her feet and jumping onto her own "Blade i summon thee" when she said this instead of her scythe being summoned she had seemed to have summoned a sniper aswell "oh god!" she grabbed the sniper and placed her sythe on her back onto the hoster she placed the sniper in the direction of the phoenix placing her finger on the trigger she let go of it one of the bullets connected with the phoenixs wing cusing it to fall to the ground "throwing knifes" she said the sniper dissapearing and being replaced with 3 throwing knifes she threw them at the phoeniz connecting with its wings pinning it to the ground "You give up?" she asked. "Young warrior you are an intresting on indeed" it had said "But you need to learn that fire can melt metal" the phoenix said whilst he began to melt the metal around his wings. Scarlet let out a sigh "So are you going to join you or am i going to fight you more?" she asked him. "You have much to learn but you have potentional" he said to her whilst swipping a wing above her arm the symbol of the phoenix appeared on her shoulder blade and the phoenix dissapeared "can i leave now" she shouted as one of the doors opened to the hall way so she walked out towards the cafeteria.

Vann was on his way to the conference room, his team had been summoned. It was time for them to receive their first mission. He was the first to arrive seeing as all the Summoners were being checked out by the medical team. He took a seat at the end of the table, he watched as his brother walked in. He was bruised from their fight from yesterday. Vann had a smile on his face, but his brother didn’t even crack a smile. Alexander threw a stack of folders on the table and slid one down to Vann. He grabbed it and then opened it. He smiled and said “ah, so your sending us to go gamble?” Alexander shook his head as if he was calling Vann an idiot.

Vann just sat there staring at the piece of paper that clearly said their mission was in Las Vegas, the city known for its gambling and night life. Vann had only been there once and that was for a vacation that he never really got to enjoy. He sighed when he saw what they were after. Werewolves and Vampires, nothing special, Vann had hoped to face something he hadn’t faced hundreds of times. Vann closed the folder and sat there from a while when someone finally came in. It was Mariana, she hadn’t been hurt in her fight so she really didn’t need any medical attention.

She sat down and watched as Alexander slid a folder toward her, she grabbed it and opened it. She saw where they were going, she had never been to Las Vegas, but she enjoyed the heat so maybe this would be a nice trip aside from the being hunted by monsters part. After a while everyone arrived in the conference room and the meeting began. Alexander paced around the room and began speak

“As you all know, your destination is Las Vegas, Nevada. While their your job is to hunt down a pack of werewolves that have been killing humans. You will also be after a gambling ring that is run by a vampire coven. It seems that the vampires and werewolves have been working together. This is odd behavior for them, which is another reason why we are sending you. I’ll need you to find out why they are working together, shouldn’t be to hard. Also I have set up the order of your teams, Under the command of Sergeant John Black will be Scarlet walker, Seyicer Leseo and Fyrsra is. Under the command of Lieutenant Vann Anderson will be, Mariana Veleno, Zera Manta and Raum Abbas Your plane leaves at nine a.m. sharp, that is all, meeting adjourned.”

Alexander then left out of the room, leaving everyone to do as they pleased. Vann stood up and said “I’m going to go take a walk, I think its best for everyone to relax before the mission tomorrow.” Vann then walked out of the room and started to walk around the base. He was thinking, He then stopped off in the garden and had a seat. The wind was blowing, but it was just a calm and soothing breeze. It was a beautiful day for just relaxing and that is what Vann planned to do. Relax and think about life.

Zera hearing about his mission goes out to train, still bleeding from his fight that morning he continues to train his body to the best he can. He falls in pain grabbing his side where his injury is, and yet, he gets back up and keeps going. Twenty minutes later blood is almost pouring from his side and he still goes on training not giving a care in the world of his injury. Zera stops for a minute out of breath and wondering how long he can still go without passing out. He keeps going.

Then he falls face down onto the soil blood slowly gushing from his wound. He makes a desperate attempt to get up but can't. He starts crawling to where he thinks the infirmary is slowly he keeps moving each move gets more and more painful. He passes out and slowly heals for some strange reason, his wound scabs up. He remains out cold on the ground.

In the utter blackness that Zera sees he notices that there is something. A faint image of the ones he knew and loved and then watched as they burned to ash due to some creature in there. He panics (in dream of course) and attacks it blindly thinking that he can kill it. He fails in that attempt. The creature hits him and paralyses him and slowly consumes him into shadow. He feels suffocated as he's pulled down into the darkness.

((sorry for the delay! Writers block hit me!))

The dinner seemed to go nowhere, but at least the food was well done, the chef delivering his steak cooked to perfection. Which was to say, barely cooked at all. Despite what some people said about the place, the Coven definitely knew how to treat their charges well. With the pleasantries over, Raum took a walk, giving the toy soldiers time to set themselves up and discuss the mission. When he pushed the door open, it was to find only three other people in the room. Vann, Alexander Anderson, a man Raum had surmised was Vann's brother, and one of the summoners from earlier, a young shy looking brunette girl.

He took a seat, plucking one of the folders from the table without waiting for an invitation, riffling through the pages within. Seems they would all be heading off to Las Vegas. He'd been there, once. Of course, that was a long time ago, before the legalisation of gambling, before even lake Mead had been formed, and from what he'd heard the city was a little bigger now. It would be interesting to go back and see what they'd done with the place. By the time everyone else had arrived, he'd gone through it, twice, and had thrown it back on the pile. Now that everyone was finally here, Alexander rose and went through the basic details of their mission. Vampires and werewolves. Pff. Raum could have scoffed. Pathetic creatures, the both of them. One a worthless half breed that could barely control itself, the other an impure relic of a past time. He perked up a little with the revelation that the creatures were working together. That was interesting. In his experience, garou and leeches held an inherent and passionate hatred for each other. Whatever it was the was causing them to put aside their emnity and work together held promise, the taste of interest.

Again he rejoiced when Alexander announced the teams. So it would be him, Vann, the girl who had been here when he arrived, and another by the name of Zera. A good enough team to be getting along with. With Alexander's dismissal, he rose, the same time as Vann, and as he left the room he heard the soldier say something about relaxing for the rest of the night. 'Funny you should say that, Vann,' he thought to himself, 'but that's exactly what I intend to do.'

With no desire to be social and no reason to train, Raum simply retired to his quarters, locking out the rest of the world with a turn of a key.