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  1. #11
    Heero yawned again and stretched against the couch. He was hoping the initiation wouldn't occur so soon, but it couldn't be helped. Unsurprisingly, Raina chose to question his choice to allow this occurrence. "Probably. She wants to fight, and she was gonna get this one whether she wanted it or not. It's basically a rule at this point to go through this initiation," he said. This may not have been the answer Raina wanted, but it was all he had for her now. Moments later, he was dragging himself off the couch to follow Artem, Hikage, and apparently Leonis as well to the building's exterior.

    Once both he and Hikage were outside, Artem took another bite of turkey and began to chew. In the meantime, he showed an open grimoire. "Kemono Mahō: Rainoserasu Āmā," he chanted. Mana suddenly encased Artem's body, taking physical shape in the form of a rhinoceros. He remained within this armored form while continuing to eat. His following words would be shared from behind the defensive barrier. "OK. Hit me."

  2. #12
    The response that Raina received was indeed not one she wished for. In fact, she wished at least once that her Captain would make the responsible decision as far as these moments between members were concerned. But no, this day like every other, he'd drag himself off the couch to follow the newcomers outside to see what would happen when they faced the initiation thought up by Artem. 'Ugh, every time...' she thought exaggerating the seriousness of the situation even in her own mind. An exasperated sigh escaped her, but much like her Captain she would also follow out the group, if only so she could be around to deliver the massive, I told you so, at the end.

    Meanwhile, Hikage watched as this man before her created a large magic around himself. A vicious grin appeared on this young woman's face, as surprisingly enough she'd get the fight she was hoping for. She felt a strange tingle down the length of her spine. Her eyes lit up and her pupils shrank into almost disappearing slits. If one was paying close enough attention even the young woman's hair seemed to be standing on end, as she felt a sensation she didn't think she'd get to feel twice in a single day. Her nostrils flared as well, as she scented the air and knew for a fact what she was feeling was the absolute truth. "Two in one day..." she started the sentence only to finish it sadistically. "LUCKY!~" when she was told to hit him, she had not the slightest bit of hesitation in her soul. Her body moved forward of its own accord, her grimoire opening mid movement as she aimed to close the space between herself and this large form in mere seconds only to spin away from his form building up momentum as she cast a spell. "Steel Magic: Unlimited Blade Works," this would cause the blades formed by the spell to spin with her at high velocities. She kicked out a couple dozen of these combat blades all aimed for a single point, the horn of this supposed rhinoceros shape. Her aim innately to build up a massive amount of damage to a single point of the form. During this action she snatched up two of these blades in her hands, her aim to follow up the initial strikes with a spinning one controlled by her arms. Her hope that the combination would allow her to break through to the lad, bringing her spinning knives within reach of the boy's turkey leg dinner.

  3. #13
    Artem was curious as to what this girl could have been talking about when she spoke of her 'two in one day' experience. Had she seen another user of Beast Magic? Maybe she had been on the receiving end of his earlier statement twice now. There was no way for Artem to know, but he also wasn't at all concerned. The girl deemed herself lucky for the experience. He wondered what sort of experience led to this sort of personality trait, but that didn't matter in the moment. Hikage's first offensive spell use was used in a way that Artem could respect. Many blades were made by her Steel Magic, and she focused them on a singular location of his armor. This didn't seem to be accomplishing anything at all in the beginning. As more and more struck the location, though, the shell began to crack. The cracks caused a full break when Hikage came forth with physical effort. Artem was casually taking a bite at the time, only to have what remained of his turkey leg be shredded as he held it. "That's... not nice. I said hit me," he repeated. "Kemono Mahō: Gorira Aamusu." The pages of Artem's grimoire rapidly flipped to another spell, which granted him magical arms containing all the musculature belonging to those of a full-grown gorilla. Since Hikage had brought herself within such close range already, he swung out with extended reach using his left fist, aiming to punch her torso with enough strength to send her crashing through the forest.

  4. #14
    Hikage was able to break through Artem's defenses with a quick thinking heavy artillery style, that being said by the time she would have gotten to the appropriate level to harm him, instead she met turkey leg which shredded before her, making her eyes widen. Normally, she went for more centered body parts, but she hadn't expected the break to occur so quickly nor had she counted on being distracted by the idea of food. "Gomen. I'm starving..." she said her words accompanied by the rumbling of her stomach which was both audible and embarrassing. Surprisingly enough though, the girl didn't change the tone of her voice nor the excitement of her being, but Hikage didn't have much time to think on this. Soon enough, the man whose defense she'd broken was using a new spell this one gave him large arms one of which immediately extended towards Hikage's body. Her instinctual reaction made her pull her limbs into herself, making this gorilla fist make contact with the fronts of her arms and knees instead of the center of her being. It mediated the force but still sent her flying back through the forest quite a bit. She was careful to angle herself to eventually be able to come to a stop, though not without breaking a tree or two on the way. "Kufufufufufufu~" she laughed before she took to walking back towards the front. She was tossing one knife around in her left hand as she used her right to rub her head. "I didn't think I'd get to have this much fun!~"

  5. #15
    "Huuuh?" Artem questioned, subconsciously tilting his head left by about 45 degrees. His right hand was still shrouded in the gorilla arm spell, but it also still held the remains of his turkey leg. As such, hearing about the new recruit's state of hunger, he held it out before her. "Starving and having fun. Doesn't sound like a combo that's supposed to work out. Eat," he said. A full stomach meant more to the man named Artem than just about everything else in this world. Conversely, an empty stomach was an absolute atrocity. These extremes were a balancing force for Artem, while also being the driving force behind him doing nothing else at all for this initiation, unless Hikage accepted or rejected his offer first.

  6. #16
    Strangely enough, Hikage could understand what Artem had to say about the need to eat versus the ability to have fun. In fact, she wanted this job the way she did, so that she didn't have to choose between being able to eat and live, and being able to fight the people she wanted to fight. As such when she approached once more, her knife flying up into the air she was quite surprised to find the turkey leg extended in her direction. She stared at him blankly as she caught her knife and sniffed the air. Another audible rumble was heard from her stomach, but she wasn't sniffing the food, but instead getting a feel for Artem's intentions. Much like a starving animal, she didn't want to be caught off guard, but she had a good feeling this man wouldn't take advantage of the moment. As such, she threw her knife into the ground as a symbol of her peace in this moment. "Arigatou..." she murmured as she took the turkey leg out of his hand and tentatively began gnawing away. This was of course, something done with the swiftness and savagery of an animal which brought about a disgusted sigh from the Vice-Captain of the Black Bulls. "Well, at least it is all making it into her mouth..." she said thinking of the random likeness between this savage girl and the beast man who was handling her initiation. A few moments would see to it that the girl had nothing left in her hand but a turkey leg bone. "That... is better. You're alright, Artem..." the girl said as she kicked her knife up into her hand and hopped backwards. "I'm supposed to hit you right?" she asked, as she began flipping through the pages in her grimoire to get to one which contained her newest spell. Her hand touched the ground and from it rumbled up five small hedgehog creatures with metal spikes on their backs. "Here I come, kufufufufufu~" she giggled meanacingly as she pointed towards Artem causing the small animals to begin spinning in place and she kicked three of them simultaneously into Artem. One aimed at his head, one at his torso and one at his legs while two others moved around with Hikage so she could work within the confines of her rules.

  7. #17
    Artem patiently awaited Hikage's decision. In the end, she approached and took the segment of turkey for her own consumption. Artem seemed very satisfied as he watched this girl devour the turkey in a very beast-like manner. "Heh heh!" he laughed through his teeth. When Hikage was done, she was visually and actively at a level Artem could respect and appreciate. More importantly, she had passed a little test that Artem himself had gone without mentioning, and didn't even know he was doing for the sake of Heero's certainty. "Yosh! Empty stomach, empty fight! Gimme all ya' got!" the red-vested male chanted while beckoning toward himself with his gorilla arms.

    It seemed Hikage was ready to assault Artem using her own animal-based technique. Five hedgehogs were created using her steel magic. As far as Artem could tell, this girl should have actually been 15. By virtue of this, the acquisition of her grimoire had to be a recent occurrence in the teen's life, so her access to more spells spoke either of skills or hardships, if not both. Artem would have to face her Creation Magic either way. Only three of the five hedgehogs were kicked toward him. As they encroached upon his head, torso and leg in unison, Artem raised his right arm and used his gorilla-like strength to swat all three of them down at once, causing them to drill through the ground a few feet deep.

  8. #18
    Three simultaneously kicked hedgehogs were swatted away and burrowed into the ground by their inverted force, but Hikage expected this. Her instincts said, she in order to properly hit this man, she had to catch him at the point his guard would be lowest, as such, at the moment where the first three were swatted away, Hikage used her own innate speed to close the gap between herself and Artem, and one could notice she was even faster now than she had been before. 'Wow,' was the thought of the Vice-Captain who was impressed by the girl's speed, and calmed a bit by her apparent display of previously unseen friendliness. Once there she spun into the lad aiming to slash across his chest, with her blade in her left hand from his right shoulder to his left hip. There was power behind this slash unlike her previous attempt. Meanwhile the other to hedgehogs aimed their spinning bodies high and low, at the lads feet and head. By the girl's own approximation he should be hit at least once, as defense on all fronts was usually hard to accomplish. Apparently having properly eaten she could be more tactful and calculating with the use of her own body and those of her summoned creatures.

  9. #19
    Artem was at the ready for whatever Hikage came with next. As far as Heero was concerned, this initiation was over. Artem was just a bit different. He didn't simply want to test his new junior; he wanted to get acclimated to her as a potential companion at arms. He couldn't have expected the sudden evolution of tactics in Hikage's next approach. He did however expect the change in her physical capabilities, as one who so strongly believed in the power of fighting on a full stomach. Artem readied himself during her approach by lowering his stance and raising his arms, simultaneously having his eyes wander to each encroaching threat. He determined that Hikage's direct assault would undoubtedly be the most dangerous for him. She had the instincts of a wild beast, making her quite a bit like himself. If he didn't deal with her directly, that very fact could be his undoing. As such, Artem's primary focus in his defensive effort was to raise his right arm to stop Hikage's strike by blocking it at the wrist. At the same time, he leaned forward heavily using his right foot as leverage. He leaned so far forward that one hedgehog flew over him, and his left foot rose up behind him to leave the other assaulting the ground like its deflected brethren from earlier. This defensive and evasive movement also served a build-up of inertia for Artem, as he was able to flex his right arm. Since that very arm was held out against Hikage's wrist, her torso was left exposed enough for Artem to push his right gorilla arm forward with every intention of driving a mighty fist into her abdomen to launch her away once again.

  10. #20
    Hikage was good at thinking on her feet. Her advanced battle tactic seemed to have made less of an impact than she would have guessed it would have, even so, she didn't pause to think about it too much. Her 'partner' for this particular endeavor, seemed to be just as much of an animal as she was, managing to dodge both the upward and downward spiky creatures she'd previously launched at him. Her eyes narrowed for just a moment as the one flew over his head during their clash and she willed it back towards herself with narrowed eyes. Still she could do nothing about the arm of the lad as he aimed to launch her away from himself once more. His fist would indeed make contact with her abdomen and send her flying, but at the same time that she was launched away, the spiked ball which had previously missed his head swirled back around to his open side aiming to lodge its spinning body there instead, aiming to give the girl the hit she apparently needed. "That... hurt," she mumbled passively, awaiting the results of her final assault.

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