Quirenyun's Imprinted [RP]

Tatsuo's stuttering did nothing to improve Lucea's mood, nor her situation. Although, with that Xanadu person mentioned several times already, it seemed like the first thing Lucea ought to do is check on the purportedly-vampiric girl and her underground cell. Or maybe she would have to be the second Unit member to be investigated; the black-haired man presently in front of Lucea seemed plenty suspicious, and obviously guilty of something. Tatsuo's overall disposition practically emanated the word "unspoken" and thus made the man himself worthy of caution and distrust.

But still, Lucea had to stay focused-- her objective was to find out more about the crash. Descrying more about her fellow Unit members could wait; the person who caused the disturbance, though, could be on the move. "Checking Ms. Paperblack's cell is on my agenda now, Tatsuo, thank you. Do you have anything different to report, Ziera?"

 

Gavvin's eyes kept locked to the door he was to proceed to, his aimless wandering about to continue once again- before Ikan rolled up to him again, his repaired bike functioning perfectly as it had been before it was damaged by the insensitive guards. Swiftly the boy began to rail him with comments, questions, statements, offers. All of the like as if a motor machine within his mouth. However, the questions were useless- as many had found out, the comments of small talk were... ineffective to Gavvin.

As Ikan stopped to pull out a very provocative magazine, Gavvin continued on aimlessly, heading for the clearance building once again. It was quite unsettling, to the point of discomfort in his unresponsiveness. The phantom-like being known as Gavvin then suddenly stopped, eyes wandering over to the side slightly as if something had caught his eyes. However, the place upon which he stared was merely a section of wall on the building, nothing more. For several moments, Gavvin somehow was having a stare-down with this section of wall, rigid in place is his gaze remained focused, ignorant of all other effects around him.

Then it shifted.

The section of wall under the fire of Gavvin's focus suddenly began to move, bend from its position and start to form and shift into awkward, strange angles. The wall's material itself did not break off, however, but was actually bending, as if made of taffy. The occurance lasted for a mere few seconds before stopping, the section of wall bent in completely different directions, spikes and distorted shapes jotting out in different ways. Gavvin's gaze now shifted, and he continued on as if nothing had happened.

 

"You were bothering the soldiers? That is not prudent, Ms. Meifeng, nor is it productive. And I'm sure that if you keep it up, that eagle of yours will be confiscated. There's obviously enough trouble around here already, so nobody appreciates you wasting your time 'teasing snipers with dead squirrels'. You would do well to instead spend your time like Tatsuo does, and make use of the Training Grounds... Do you underst--"

"AAGHHHH!" screamed a man, in a choke of terror. Lucea's head snapped attentively to the direction of the cry, and she knew it came from one of the soldiers she had evacuated. Another man shouted "HOLY-- WHAT IS THAT?!". Lucea took one more glance at Ziera and Tatsuo, and then dashed toward the group of men she had left, not knowing and not particularly concerned about whether or not the two Unit members followed her.

Rounding the corner, she saw in the distance that half the group of men were running to the side of building, shouting incoherently. The other men seemed to be frozen in a state of fear and reluctance. Lucea hurried forward brusquely, anxious. Incredibly anxious. Wondering how she had thought it would be a typical day earlier this morning.

Some solution reached her ears before her eyes did, as she was just about to round the corner and observe the perplexing wall herself. "Is that..." a man said, voice quavering and a current of realized doom in his tone, "blood?" Lucea felt something drain from her-- resolution. She still reached, and turned, the corner, but she wondered if she even wanted to see the scene.

It bubbled outward from the wall, viscuous and odorous. Most of the men were either vomiting, fainting, or fleeing. Lucea wandered forward slowly, stepping away from the side of the building. Staring at the macabre occurrence for a few moments, she suddenly tore from the ground, sprinting towards the east exit. If she was to discover what was behind both the explosion and this gruesome oddity, searching this seemingly unfortunate Unit members' Living Facility was necessary.

 

After hearing the report from Ziera and, through her, the eagle Miyoku, Lucea began to go on one of her rants about how to properly use time. Tatsuo would have laughed if Lucea hadn't indeed been right there. As it was, he couldn't resist a small chuckle. Then, however, a scream was heard a little ways off, most likely from one of the soldiers. Disregarding her rant, Lucea ran off to presumedly check what the ruckus was all about.

Thus, the situation turned back to the awkward meeting between Tatsuo and Ziera. Standing still for a moment, Tatsuo shrugged, continuing his walk into the building. "Sounds like it was most likely Xana," Tatsuo said, halfway between a mumble and a more distinct statement, "I'm still hungry though, so I guess I'll just... Go right in"

As Tatsuo walked inside the facility itself, he noticed that it was much more quiet than usual, perhaps because all the men were outside screaming their heads off at whatever it was thatbhad caught their attention. It took only a moment for Tatsuo's eyes to adjust from the rather bright morning sun to the dimmer hallways inside the building. The pristine look of the corridor was not much to Tatsuo's liking, though it was not as bad now as it usually was. With the artificial lighting used at other times, the shadow-like reflections on the floor distracted and, at times, even overwhelmed his.sensitive vision.

Tatsuo sighed, continuing on to the mess hall. His footsteps echoing in the echoing hallways separating the living facilities. As an aside thought, Tatsuo wondered whether or not there would be any people in the mess hall with all the commotion going on.

 

There was an air of serendipity to the whole thing. Lucea, though, felt only an air of urgency as she approached the doors to the east entrance. Her only task was to find out what caused this whole mess; what horror had induced that bloody tumor to appear on the side of the building. If one were to ask why, she could only reply that she felt it was her responsibility.

Pushing the doors open with authority, she instantly saw the pair of them: Raiden and... that must be the girl. Lucea had seen a file of her before; the appearance matched. Strongly and with conviction, Lucea called "Xanadu Paperblack!"

So it was that she had gotten out of her cell. Chances were the incidents of this day were caused by her. Xanadu would have to answer for the damage she caused... but at that moment, Lucea only wanted to know one thing. "For what reason have you escaped your cell?" Because that's the one thing Lucea must absolutely know: a person's motivations, if nothing else. She could conclude the how, when, where, what, and who by her own intellect. But through her life, she had always been perplexed by the why. There was too much to take into account with the why; individual psychology, life's happenings to other people, that annoying that called capriciousness. 

And the question simmered in Lucea, for she needed to know. She needed to know the why.

 

Gavvin's figure continued through the doors, phantasmal in being as his silent, ghostly figure haunted down the hallway, back to the clearance area from where he came from. Despite the fact that the man known as Ikan had bombarded him with words and an exclamation of displeasure toward Gavvin's strange anomalous alteration of the wall, Gavvin himself was not fazed. After all, it was like talking to a wall in itself; without anyone at the wheel, there was nothing to interact with, except with what's left.

 

Behind him, Tatsuo heard the approach of Ziera's footsteps as the cheerful girl came back through the building. Tatsuo wondered why, if the girl had been walking outside earlier, she would be coming back in. Surely she had to be doing something at least important to her. Tatsuo sighed. Maybe she was simply going out for no reason than to find something to do, and thus she found it in Tatsuo entering the building. Just as Tatsuo was turning to say something to the girl, however, he couldn't help but notice the sound of voices in the eastern wing.

At first, Tatsuo wanted to ignore it. However, the closer he got to speaking with the girl coming up to him, the more curious he felt about what was on the other side of the door. He approached it, recognizing the accusatory voice of Lucea coming through from the other side, then a couple of other voices. Taking a deep breath, Tatsuo put his hand on the door, still unsure if he wanted to see what was going on beyond them.

Finally steeling himself, Tatsuo pushed on the door slowly enough that he would be able to see into the eastern wing, just to know what was happening. What surprised him, however, was how close two people were to the doors. If Tatsuo pushed the door any farther, he no doubt would have pushed it directly into the person who, upon a quick inspection, was the vampire girl, Xanadu. Next to her was that diclonius, Raiden, and across the hall was Lucea.

Deciding his curiosity quenched, Tatsuo backed away from the door slowly, but flinched as the sound the door made was quite a bit louder than he had expected, and he knew that it would no doubt interrupt the.conversation in the easy wing. Once he opened his eyes from the flinch, he turned to notice that Ziera had caught up with him.

"Oh, Tatsuo said, still with a tense voice from his flinch just moments earlier. Calming down slightly, he continued, "Ziera, did you forget something?"

 

Gavvin turned his attention to Ikan, who was already on a different subject by the time he had reached Gavvin. He was giving orders, having already forgotten of the phantom of a man that was before him, Gavvin's sightless eyes held onto Ikan with empty silence. A command given initiated what was left of any direction of sentience in Gavvin to immediately grapple onto the one giving the orders.

"... What is Code 6?" Gavvin's monotonous tone inquired, his eyes kept intently on the sky serpent's figure. As the man moved, so did he, keeping to the boy's side consistently as they awaited clearance into the facility. Then, suddenly, something stirred Gavvin slightly, causing him to shift uncomfortably. It was something, a vision, a vision of the past.... a memory. The memory of feeling something...

 

A vague irritation welled in Lucea as Raiden stepped forward and claimed Xanadu. "What sort of relationship do you two have? Raiden," Lucea addressed the Diclonius who seemed to have mustered ample bravery, "you're aware that Ms. Paperblack is ordered to be under enforced containment. What reason do you have that makes you think she should be let free?"

At that moment, she noticed the door at the end of the hall, behind the confronted pair, edged open. Lucea wondered if the slip of black hair she saw peek out from the doorway belonged to Tatsuo. The door closed with a grating squeal, disrupting Lucea's authority. 

Continuing, nevertheless, though in a more wary tone, she asked Raiden, "And did she not cause that crash earlier, and that mass of blood that's on the wall outside? These are the exact kind of instances keeping her locked up is supposed to prevent." Lucea felt a snare of feelings in her stomach at citing reasons for oppression. 'No. Xanadu is different. She's sure to cause trouble if she isn't restrained...'