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The bandages wrapped around his torso itched. They were keeping the healing ointments over his wounds, but god they bugged the hell out of him. It didn't help that he knew taking them off or scratching would just make things worse. The horsewoman had nearly killed him and after a very firm reprimand, as well as s**t duty on the cafeteria and pod watching, Marcus was finally allowed to try the missions over at the haunted house again.

He didn't hurt so much now, but he certainly hated the whole 'injured' status. The fight had been a while ago, and only by hunter healing was he up and healed as much as he was. The moon trainee was just glad the moon hunters in the infirmary didn't test the bandages life had offers. He didn't like being a lab rat.

The room he came to looked like a run down childen's music room, tiny instruments set on stands, waiting for someone to pick them up and let music ring out. Walking over to a drum set, Marcus tapped Dis on the rim, the clang of metal and metal echoing.

"Oh, lucky me! I get a room full of toys." His words were eager, his tone not so much. Vaith didn't know what he walked into, this being the first time he had been invited to the haunted house. He had been here before but .. Well, he didnt know it was open infinitely to Amityville students.

Or so he thought.

He hadn't expected a hunter here. Here he was, reminiscing about this being the first place where he met Mai and Junko and Seiji .. and a specific white coat just had to blow the mood out of the water. Having most recently been in the trance where his spectator had been DETH, Vaith was having mixed feelings. Why did he have to see a hunter now when he couldn't decide if he wanted to take them out or not take them out?

One thing was for sure.

They might want to take him out.

... Not good.

"Hm. I don't think you killed anyone I love yet."

He counted with both hands.

"Stealing my friends? I cant remember any successful attempts that you guys have actually made this past year. Some were pretty close though."

The numbers for capturing their friends was at an all time zero. However, the numbers they had in killing halloweeners? Did an entire civilization count? The memories hurt, to see such an established historical race burn down in one day.

"But killing off the entire horsemen clans and all that? Damn, you're going to get a long list for that. Should I be on it too? I sorta thought, it was their fight kinda thing. They're way better than us students too."

Don't let Vaith's lazy manner deceive. He stood a long distance from Marcus, his ring glowing eerily, as if in protection mode. Noise, his dragon familiar, would have hissed if Marcus had gotten any closer.

".. Okay, bad choice of words. I thought I might be able to just walk out of here after our neat little conversation was finished but .. you don't pay much attention when live, working, conscious beings that work just a little differently from you are dying in test tubes as you zap us into experimental slaves. You've seen rotting carcasses, I've seen people go mad from the insanity you bring. What's worse, losing your life or losing yourself? "

Vaith didn't consider himself nearly as hot-headed as half of the other aggressive defenders of Amityville was. But Marcus's sneering contempt was hardly going to get him some sympathy for his plight. Besides .. who could turn down that attitude?

"You think we liked the sight of one of the best teachers in history go down as a giant statue-- a statue you guys destroyed and couldn't even leave nicely for us. Hell, that probably makes us even if your mentor was hallowed out." Vaith forced his mouth into a grin, wondering what had the ability to hallow a human out.

"As you've nicely put it, ******** your hunterkind. I love humans, don't get me wrong. I think they're hardworking decent kids who need an occasional scare. But hunters like you just aren't cool. Bring me back a cuter sweet-talking hunter, okay? I might actually fall for it."

HP: 40/40 --> 20/20
Damage: 3 damage!

"Why not, it sounds similar enough for me." He shrugged, as if it was a funny joke, except the smile he had on his face was nothing humorous. "Fun fact, it wasn't me that decided to make a pumpkin of your mentor. Neither was all the attacking Red and stuff bit. It's funny, how I didn't have a hand in any of it at all."

Vaith tried to aim a good old punch to Marcus's face. Taking the blame, the entire blame, wasn't necessarily Vaith's thing.

"Another fun fact. We both drive each other crazy-- how crazy is that, you know?"

This whole room didn't make for the most motivating battle environment.

HP: 20/20
Damage: 0

"Oh man, that is a fun fact! Can you tell me his name?" Vaith had to admit, hunters had some pretty interesting information. That was really something, their weapons came willingly from halloween origins?

"Fun fact. An eye for an eye has never worked, haven't you heard?" Vaith's noise marking wrapped around Marcus's leg, to trip him and pause his attack. His familiar dived into his hood, a yellow light surrounding the familiar as the magic was in use.

He was feeling kind of weak. Was it the hunter's weapon effect on him? Vaith felt his limbs lagging on him, as if there was a momentary delay in his movements. Ugh, feeling sluggish wasn't a good thing.

HP: 13/20
Damage: 6

Battle was a place of intuition. Vaith's intuition, rather obviously, told Vaith where Marcus was aiming for. When Marcus aimed, he would only find an empty hood, alone with a sharp deflection of his attack by Vaith's arm. His familiar had been de-summoned.

Even though Vaith's arm was bleeding, he reached out to pat Marcus on the arm. "Thanks for the information, buddy. We should do a campfire trade again, now that we've got these insults out of the way." Leaping back, Vaith winced as the pain, delayed by the rush of battle, ran through his arm. "Unfortunately for you, fortunately for me, I've not no shame in bouncing. So I'll have to take a raincheck this time, okay?"

The question was completely rhetorical, as the reaper escaped within the next moment, without waiting for an answer from the hunter.

HP: 6/20
Damage: 2 for defense!