TWENTY-SEVENTH FORM
[ A sigh. A long, drawn out sigh. Not a particularly sad sigh, but it isn't exactly happy either. Just... Well, more like frustrated. Not angry, just annoyed. ]All of that for nothing? Call me an optimist, but I'm just glad we made it out alive
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[ He doesn't say "it hurt too much to be a dream," though, because he's been put through much more painful dreams than this. ]
Shoot.
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[ That's true. He didn't consider the pain and the loss and the fighting. Not to mention what happened with Gokudera. But still. ]
--Oh! Right, well. I was wondering...if you could train me.
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[ Gotta say, he's pretty impressed with how well these kids keep their heads on their shoulders. Especially after a year.
That causes him to go quiet for a beat, though. ]
Train you?
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Last April Fool's as a lot better, seriously.
[ Yamamoto's just lucky he got to go home for a break. It helps with the sanity thing. ]
Yeah, like. ...Well, you're strong and stuff. And...I want to get stronger.
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And what happened last year?
[ Dean's long past sanity at this point, but he does a good job of faking it. Which probably helped his image up to this point. ]
That's... [ Strangely flattering. ] Well, I'm not saying no, but why me? I'm sure you've met plenty of stronger people that are more qualified. I don't know the first thing about swords, for starters.
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And last year? Well, I just got a bunch of really awkward phone calls from people who didn't even live here. Like...friends back home.
[ And Belphegor. He's not really a friend. But Yamamoto takes a deep breath before answering. ]
You don't need to! I mean, you could train me in what you know?
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... This place sucks ass. [ This is his way of not saying that that? That would be a whole hell of a lot worse for him than the 2011 joke.
He shrugs, even if Yamamoto can't see it. ]
If you want to learn how to be a hunter, I don't have any problems with that. Don't know if even a third of the shit I can teach you will even work here, but I'm all for being prepared.
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[ He sighs and then laughs a bit. It did kind of suck, but at least the town didn't pull the entire rug out from underneath him. ]
I just... Well, I want to make sure my friends don't get hurt. And you never know when you might need to fight a ghost or two. Or a...roogaroo?
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[ Dean would just rather not talk to the dead more than he already has to, because he has a feeling they'd be the ones Mayfield would put on the phone. ]
Rugaru, yeah. There's also... [ A pause, and then he laughs a little, himself. It's kind of humorless, though. ] Christ, I wish I still had my dad's journal. Think of it this way: most horror movie monsters exist. Granted, the movies get a lot of shit wrong, but there's still some truth to them.
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[ If only you could see his grin. ]
Rugaru, right! [ He pauses though, to let that sink in a bit. ]
Ah, all monsters? What about like...Ringu or something like that?
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[ HE CAN HEAR IT, that's what counts. Though there's another pause with that question, and he has to process. ]
That's the original to the Ring, right? She was a ghost, I'm pretty sure. You'd have to salt and burn her bones to get rid of her, but like I said back in the ghost town: salt temporarily dispels ghosts. And they can't cross an undisturbed line of salt, either, so you could surround yourself with a salt circle and be all right for a while.
And pure iron dispels 'em, too.
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Yeah, her. I mean, the last thing I'd want to do is have her crawl out of a TV on me.
All of that stuff really works though? You'll have to teach me in person. [ Over burgers. ]
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The only problem I see with that kind of ghost is that her bones are at the bottom of a well. Unless you poured a fuckton of gas down there, or just outright drained it, I don't see how it'd work. Maybe if you put a mirror or another TV in front of the one she was trying to crawl out of... I did that once with a ghost possessing a mirror, and she destroyed herself.
[ TALKING. HE NEVER STOPS. ]
Anyways, sure. Granted I'm not sure if this place even has ghosts that need burned, but I can still teach you the practice. [ Over burgers. ]
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A mirror, huh? That sounds like a great idea. Why didn't they think of that in the movie? [ He's still laughing. C'mon guys it's so obvious! ]
But great. I'm looking forward to it! I mean, it's not...baseball training or anything with a sword, but still.
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[ It's funny that he can say this isn't the strangest conversation he's ever had. ]
Well, you might be able to incorporate some of your baseball and sword training into this. The only thing that really kills vampires is beheading them. Dead man's blood poisons them, but it doesn't outright kill them. Just makes them extremely weak and hurts them. Stakes, sunlight, garlic, and crosses do jack shit.
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[ Surprisingly? This seems normal to Yamamoto too. But, then again, so does everything. ]
Really? Guess the movies aren't always right. But I'll remember that. [ He just hopes he never has to BE one again. Ever. ]
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