Tamotsu~
When the bear-halfer returned, I asked, "Are you better?"
"Much, Listen, I want you to go to that group of your and bring them here. This storm is going to get a bunch worse in a few hours, and I'm probably the only one here that would live through it," he replied.
I simply nodded and took off for the group.
On the way, I thought I saw Pierce trying to pry his hands off a snowman. What a weird guy!
When I arrived at teh group, I found Sky and told her what had happened finishing with, "The bear-halfer, I didn't catch his name, wants us to go to the cave because of teh terrible storm approaching. He seems trustworthy."
Sky nodded when I was done and told some of the others nearby to round up the group members and make for the cave.
Then I went off again to find Kasumi.
She was still standing guard over Maki's body like a loyal dog. We never really knew her but I could tell that death affected Kasumi in terrible ways.
As I approached, Kas told me, "She needs to be cremated. If we bury her in the snow, something will dig up her body."
I nodded and placed my hand on her shoulder, "Okay. We have to go to a cave now so I guess we'll have to bring her there. You can't start a fire in snow anyway."
Without another word, Kasumi lifted the girl's body from the snow, cradling her in her arms and began walking with the group.
I was about to go find Pierce to see if our plans were okay, when I spotted a figure galloping towards us through the snow.
Then I relaized it was a girl with short, black hair riding on the back of a centaur with a long golden braid.
Trouble.
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Aditi~
Back at the anime con, I asked around to find that a large group of people had left about an hour or two before.
"Shiori, we missed the group again," I told her with a sigh. We weren't sure what we would do when we found them but we both agreed that Harmony would be our destination as well.
Then a small boy bumped into me, seemingly by accident, and said, "Oh, I'm sorryy miss!" Then he pushed his sleeves up in an innocent way to reveal a phoenix tattoo.
"Just watch it next time kid," I hissed and grabbed his hair in such a way that he could see the identical tattoo on my arm as well.
"I'll be more careful! i'm sorry!" he bowed and then slipped me a paper as he ran by.
"What's that?" asked Shiori, peering over my shoulder.
Unfolding it, I saw a long, formal message written to me from the head of the New Agency.
"To sum it up," I told Shirori, "I've been ordered to recruit useful halfers and if Kasumi isn't one of the recruits, I have to kill her. She is too much of a threat and also holds one of the keys to Harmony."
I sighed and began walking out of the convention. I didn't like Kasumi but I certainly admired her skills. Killing her would be a shame. Maybe threatening her with a death of her friend? But Tamotsu was no slouch either.
Thoughts tumbled around in my mind and I barely noticed the snow that began to fall just an hour or so after we began walking.
"Snow?" Shiori asked no one in particular.
I looked at the white flakes and then at ourselves. We weren't exactly wearing the right clothes for a blizzard but that wouldn't stop me.
"Hey Shiori," I said, "You can wait here until the weather clears or something but I'm going ahead."
She stopped in her tracks and I just continued ahead, but then to my surprise, she ran up and grabbe dmy arm.
"No way in hell am I staying behind," she said with a smile.
I grinned back although she couldn't see it through the bandana around my mouth and said, "Let's run then."
Starting out by running on just two hooves(she uses hooves instead of feet), I was overtaken by Shiori who had longer legs.
Then I transformed the lower half of my body from human to horse and became a literal centaur. I didn't fully transform so I could still use my gun when needed.
"No fair!" she yelled as I galloped ahead with a laugh.
Feeling better than ever, I turned around and put her on my back.
As half-horse, we could cover more ground in less time then the halfers and catch up to them.
In no time, I we came across the group and the first people I saw were Kasumi carrying a girl in her arms and Tamotsu staring at us.
"What should we do?" I asked Shiori, "Approach them or stay at a distance?"
Continue?
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In this post:
Zar(paritally)
Pierce(somewhat)
Sky
Shiori
I havent included Aditi in forver O.O
