[ Dream - 003 ]

[thecoolestsoul]

A girl in a long black jacket is dodging a flurry of thrust attacks from a sword-wielding technician. Nothing seems that strange about the scene. She's clutching in both hands a bold red and black scythe, ducking and weaving around attacks instead of parrying them. ...There is blood dripping down the snath, originating from the place where the

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[phantomfenton]

*Is a bit too disturbed by the blood to appreciate his first look at a weapon-turn-human transformation.*

... What happened after that?

[thecoolestsoul]

One of our teachers showed up with Shinigami's Death Scythe and kicked Chrona around a little, Maka said. He got away, though.

[phantomfenton]

*Can guess why Soul describes it as 'what Maka said.' So much blood...* Oh.

Were you guys... you know, okay? *Just because Soul is (and doing quite well at basketball, thankyouverymuch) here doesn't mean he wasn't terribly injured, after all.*

[thecoolestsoul]

[Soul is sort of surprised that Danny's this concerned. They don't know each other that well.]

Maka was fine and I ended up in the infirmary for a couple days, but it could have been worse.

[phantomfenton]

*Nods, shrugging uncomfortably.* I guess so.

Do you guys do that kind of thing all the time? *

[thecoolestsoul]

The fighting part? Yeah. The getting critically injured part? Not so much.

...which is probably a good thing, since I'm not really sure how interested I am in being reassembled by Stein again.

[phantomfenton]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.

Where'd you learn to fight? Do they teach that at your school? *After all, Shinigami doesn't seem to mind that kind of thing...*

[thecoolestsoul]

Yeah.

Half of our grades come from collecting souls on extra curricular missions, so they have to teach us to fight.

[phantomfenton]

Really? Cool.... What does this whole 'soul collecting thing' involve, exactly?

[thecoolestsoul]

Basically, we go take assignments off a big assignment board and they specify the who and where. Then we go and knock off whoever was named on the sheet and collect their soul.

[Trying not to think about it too hard; it's been awhile since he's eaten a soul and just thinking about it almost makes him crave. Whyyyy Somarium.]

It's not really the same as killing normal people, though, since the targets are so warped from their bad habits that they don't usually look all that human anyway.

[phantomfenton]

Oh...

So they were human, once? *Yeah, looking kinda disturbed by that, here.*

[thecoolestsoul]

Yeah. The ones we kill aren't really human anymore, but they're not demon gods yet, either.

[phantomfenton]

What do you mean they're not 'human'? What's a demon-god? *Has a feeling he's asked stuff like this before, but obviously must not have been paying attention.*

[thecoolestsoul]

Huh...

[He's so used to what they do and why, it sort of never occurred to him that other people wouldn't understand off-handedly.]

If you take the souls of good people, it corrupts you because you're killing the innocent. If you keep taking those souls, you start to turn into a demon god. You're powerful, but corrupted. What we do is stop people from turning into demon gods in the first place. Once somebody turns into one, it's hard to stop them.

[phantomfenton]

*Relaxes a bit. After all, it's still killing, but it's also a kind of justice...*

I guess that makes sense...

[thecoolestsoul]

It's worth it. We get rid of some corrupt people and I get a nice snack in the process.