Our Son the Arsonist (Mission Thread); M (WIP)

Timestamp:
June 15th, 2015 (set in the future)
10:02 AM UTC (Local, Japan time; adjust accordingly)
Time after any significant event related to thread: To be determined by team users

Location:
Akaishi mountainsides in the Yamanashi prefecture

Total souls possible: up to 25, mixed (KE/Corrupted & innocent)

Star difficulty: Tentative, 2.5

Mission Acceptance Thread

Staff Presiding: Lani, Idoc (involved)
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It had seemed the most logical, at the time, to set the mission up as a team effort, rather than merely a partnered group. Of course, the strength of the enemies had been immensely difficult to calculate, as their numbers were slightly unknown and varied, and the leader had yet to truly show himself, especially at full power. Still, the point remained that these were DWMA students being thrown into the fray, and as such, were more than well equipped to deal with opponents both corrupted and rising kishin.

The first hint that the party was getting close at all was the first darting child, eyes wide and face swollen. He caught sight of the party, obviously foreigners, when they were investigating the village and had struggled to try to dart off. They'd caught him, of course, questioned him and he'd burst into tears. Whether they should just leave him in the village or send him back with a false report was still up for question, but he would not need to report back until that night --- and would be meeting them again before having to do so. The boy could give them very little information about the organization, could only explain that he met one of the Yakuza "grunts" at the base of one of the mountains, and that he had to run off before the man could communicate with the higher ups. The initial location was good, though, and helped them at least get a feel for what part of the mountain range to start their search.

Xavier thought to himself as Xavia was executing her ambush, he had seen a flaw in her thinking, but he decided to wait until they got the intel they needed before telling her. He hadn't contributed too much on what their "plan" should be, but he was beginning to get a general idea on what their next moves could be. Only moments later, he heard a rather loud thud followed a small cry that was quickly cut off. Xavier  raised his eyebrows briefly as he began strolling around the boulder to where Xavia was threatening the man that she had caught.

Xavier noticed that the man was being rather tight-lipped and he allowed a slight smile come over his face as he thought about the remedy for tight-lipped criminals. Deliberately allowing the man to see him, Xavier casually made his way in front of the man and squatted next to his head. He motioned for Xavia to give him one of the man's hands and he forced it flat in front of the man's vision."Keep him pinned, but let's see how quiet he stays when I do..." he selected an old hammer from his toolbelt and smashed it 2 centimeters from the man's pinky "...this." Xavier had no intention of actually torturing the man, of course, but mental stress often causes people to crack. "Whoops! Looks like I missed, I am a bit rusty after all." He lifted his hammer once more, raising his eyebrows in expectation of an answer.

Juro stayed with Chicory as she comforted the child, not wanting to leave her alone in case of an ambush. He was shaky on Xavia's plan at best, as he wasn't that big on interrogation. He also questioned whether this thing would be sane or not, because if it wasn't it might scream regardless of a death threat.

He "looked" at Chicory when she asked her question, with a neutral expression plastered on his face. "I'm sure she'll be fine Chicory, and even if she is hurt at least she'll learn from the experience." He whispered optimistically. Juro heard the thud and the whistle and rounded the corner, making sure to stay by Chicory. He looked at their souls and guessed their positions from the movements and sounds. He grimaced at both Xavia's and Xavier's threats, finding them distasteful. When Chicory grabbed his shirt he put a hand on her shoulder gently to try and comfort her. "I'm not sure about you Chicory, but I don't think this is right." He said quietly, sharing his opinion.

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    Grey looked to the child then watched as his meister walked around towards where the criminal was. Grey reached towards his case to unlatch, snickering as he pulled out a dagger. "I wonder."  Grey adapted a more defensive posture and turned away from the child and the two students. Grey wondered if they should evacuate the child. He didn't want his heartstrings pulled in the middle of a fight. "Do either of you... Nevermind forgive me." Grey was sure what he was originally going to say may not be taken how he meant it, so he would waited until a more appropriate time.

     'This is strangely similar to that other mission,' Grey thinks to himself as he reminisces to an event with a water dragon. Grey makes his way towards his weapon meister to protect him should the need arise. He had seen these two in combat before he knew that if anyone here could protect this child it was these two. Grey clinched his eyes shut and shook his free hand through his hair. Since he hoped this was a corrupted soul he went over to his weapon master to back him up if need be.

Xavia had come up with a plan to ambush the grunt. She even managed to get everyone to go along with the plan. She had a mischievous smile on her face. Meaning the grunt was really there. After she took Xavia's hand she took a breath to focus and then turned into a claw. Yume thought it was better if they went together, in case something did go wrong. After that they moved away from the team for an ambush. Xavia casually talked to her casually about how she was now going to fall on purpose receiving a grin from her meister. Yume rolled her eyes. Thinking about the times Xavia would fall asleep at the most inconvenient places. Like on the edge of the balcony.

Before her entire thought-train had ended they had already landed on top of the grunt and his arm locked from any movement. Yume was held close to his face and could have a good look at his expressions. She surpressed the thought to stick her tongue out at him. He had a terrified look on his face and it became worse when Xavier showed up with a hammer. She saw him flinch when she heard a thud on the ground. Curiously she kept staring at the expressions the grunt had.
"I bet this guy is not used to being overwhelmed like this."

A stream of not-so-steady curses escaped the man in Japanese, both literal and mere insults. His eyes screamed hatred as he stared at Xavier with a level of hate that spoke volume of the man's pride, despite his rather lowly position in the Yakuza hierarchy. "What the fuck, you kisama!" He spat at the ground, glaring all the while, an obvious resolve holding him back even as the sweat and tear tracks of his face carved the paths of his fear.

[Ooc: I should let you guys know that Chicory is going to be speaking her native tongue: Japenese, to the thug. Now I am not bilingual and I was actually just gonna say "so and so text means Japenese" but that didn't feel right at all so, I am using a translation site to create these sentences in actual Japanese. I'm sorry for any and all grammar mistakes or anything else wrong with the phrases but I'm doing this for realism sake. Thank you for your time x3 ]

Xavier had let out a little snort as the man had let out a string of what was obviously foul language. Xavier noticed that Grey had come closer and he shrugged knowing that he had at least loosened the yakuza's lips somewhat. He casually stood up and replaced his hammer in its appropriate spot in his tool belt as he strolled around the area and Chicory took his place near their captive. He hoped that Chicory's more friendly attempt of getting the information they needed would be more successful, but he still had doubts.

Juro stood close to the boy and let Chicory do her thing, fully trusting that she could do what she was trying to do... whatever it was since he wasn't able to speak Japanese. He kept a gentle hand on the boy's shoulder as he looked around them, keeping an eye out for any souls, corrupted or otherwise. And he kept his ears tuned as well, just in case. He really appreciated how Chicory was trying to find a peaceful, non-violent solution to this and was even prouder of his partnership because of it.

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    Grey caught up with his meister and followed beside of him. He looked over at him and attempted to try and figure out what was going on in his head. "These yakuzas' situation is frustrating, isn't it?" Grey didn't particularly care about the souls, he wanted to give the people being manipulated a voice, make the yakuza hear it. Grey had half a mind to remove a couple of the guy's fingers. All he was using them for was hurting innocent people anyways. Grey wasn't really angry at the men though, just their choices. When he got his hands on the people in charge of this operation... Actually, he might have been a little mad at them.

Yume couldn't help but laugh at Xavia spazzing out about the Japanese girl. She did recognize the words herself so it was hilarious to watch Xavia realizing that the girl spoke actual Japanese. This was convenient though. They had at least someone with them who could translate Japanese for them.
"Yeah it's awesome. Mind the guy though. We wouldn't want him to get away."
She passed to her meister through telepathy. She had some trouble maintaining her weapon form and was bringing her focus back to her form.

ooc: I doubt it, but I can get this back up and running if you all so desire.

Ooc: I'm still up for it. o3o

OOC: Hey, I got the email and I really love this site, except for the fact that everything that I was participating in died after awhile. But I'm still down.

ooc: That's two of you...

Ooc: I am totally in if we can get it going again.

I feel that it may prudent/ wise to not do this thread. I truly would like to do this mission because I like the premise and the group that gathered to do it, but from my oerspective it seems that Mistress Lani along with some other admin/mods like Idoc are a bit preoccupied. On top of that it seems Hektor hasn't been on in a while. I am all for doing this topic when these things aren't a problem, but for now I think that it would be best to acknowledge that this mission should be put on a back burner. That is my himble opinion, and I hope that this doesn't come off as needy, hostile, offensive. If it is please feel free to tell me and I will edit the post immediately.