Nightshift 45: Main Hallway, 1-East

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Sean kept charging down the hallway, not pausing to see if Schuldig was still following them or not. At this point, his priority was getting both himself and Chris to safety as soon as humanly possible. Fortunately soccer practice had done something besides give him bumps, bruises, and skinned knees--he could run for a decent amount

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"Innocence was used a long time ago by people who fought against the Millennium Earl. The world was destroyed by a flood right after, and only Noah and his family survived. But the Innocence was broken into pieces and scattered. The Millennium Earl wants to destroy the world, and the only way to fight him, and the Akuma he creates, is with Innocence. It's not all the same, though. It takes different forms. Only certain people can use it, though, not everyone can."

He wondered how this all sounded to someone from another world. He wondered how it would sound to him if he was anyone but who he was. But he'd had this left arm his whole life, and he'd been cursed by the Akuma when he was ten, almost six years ago now. He couldn't imagine anything else.

"What is it like, then, where you're from, Hime? Or you, Teresa?" The other woman hadn't really said much, so he wanted to involve her, too. There was no sense in anyone being a third wheel, after all!

"Hime, you said that there are golems shaped like men, right? I guess I really didn't understand. I've never heard of other worlds or anything like this. From what I learned, maybe no one is from this world, and it's like some in-between place, since they gathered people here? But I don't know if that's really possible either."

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Millennium Earl, the one who created the Akuma? Akuma which Allen likened to man-shaped golems. So rather than demons, these were constructs (of a demonic nature, though). And Innocence was the weapon to fight them. It would make sense they would want to destroy it. Hime filed away all this information on a war she would likely never see.

"I'd say it's a normal town, but not only would that be a lie, it would hold no meaning, seeing as how 'normal' is a relative term," the Royal admitted. "The local hospital is run by a vampire, there are two princesses living in the hills and it's not unusual to see a werewolf biking around with a dead boy. Not that anyone would know it by looking at them." A chuckle. "Well, on the surface, at least, it appears as a modern Japanese city in the world known as 'Earth'." If he was from a completely different world, the way it sounded like Teresa was, then this might mean nothing, but if he was from some alternate version of Earth, as some patients seemed to be, it would serve as a point of reference and make explanations that much easier. Not that she hadn't thrown in some unnecessary descriptions that would only serve to complicate matters.

"This place does seem to be a hub of realities, but its basis seems to be in Earth, modern day America it would seem," she noted. "Though that could just be a model; I wonder what it's really like beyond these walls and the town where they let us visit.

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"I am from a land surrounded by water that takes approximately a week to cross on foot. The land is divided into forty-seven sections with the Organization in the center. Before coming here, the only building of this magnitude I had ever laid eyes upon was a cathedral and metal is a precious commodity," Teresa replied. "Humans of all classes are plagued by youma, demonic beings that hide behind human faces and feed on human flesh."

Teresa had never bothered to find out if the land had a specific name. It simply hadn't been important. "There is a land on the horizon across the waters, but I have never been there."

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Allen wondered what Hime meant by "modern." After all, there were plenty of modernized places where he was from. London had plenty of steam-power, after all. The newer golems could record much more than the older ones. None of them were like Timcampy, of course, but Tim was different.

"I've never been to America," Allen said, "and I've never seen a werewolf. I know someone that people call 'vampire' but he doesn't drink human blood or anything. He just kind of looks creepy."

He looked at Teresa. Youma sounded similar to Akuma, only, Akuma didn't eat people. That sounded awful! Akuma could spread the virus and kill people, or they could actually attack, but eating people!

"Your world sounds really different, Teresa," he said after a minute.

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It seemed her suspicion was correct; Allen was from some form of Earth, one that at least had the same kinds of supernatural beings, or at least stories of them, as the world Hime knew. This would make it easier to speak with him about various monsters.

Teresa, on the other hand, sounded to be from a more and more distant world the more Hime learned about her. She wasn't sure if one could cross Australia on foot in a week - perhaps the half-demon could - but even if she were from the southern continent, it sounded to be from a time in the distant past - for all that and the other differences, even if she was from some form of Earth it might as well have been a completely different world.

Idly, she wondered what the warrior would think of computers.

"Humans aren't the only animals with blood to drink," said Hime darkly as she turned the corner.

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"Try not to let one get caught in your hair," Teresa said to Hime as they turned down the hallway on their way back to the central area of the barracks.

"I may just have to laugh." It was an entertaining thought.

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Allen smiled back at Hime. She wasn't really so bad, she was just a little bossy. He could handle that. Most people had a reason they acted the way they did. Except maybe Kanda, and the Noah. Although the Noah seemed to think there was some reason, but he had to disagree with that. They were misled.

He resolved not to think about them right now.

"We can handle a few bats, can't we?" he said, cheerfully enough.

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Hime gave a small chuckle at the comment; it seemed the tall warrior did have a sense of humor, as hinted at before with some of her comments. That was good to know.

"I certainly hope we can," she said in response to Allen. "It would be sad day indeed when a Royal is felled by mere mice with wings."

Hopefully when Teresa said "engorged" she meant merely large, less than a meter. If they were like the monstrous spider-bats that had almost killed Sherwood, then they might be in for a bit harder of a time.

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