The Impossible Girl

Lucia had made it to the Coalition HQ, still following the conglomeration of spiritual power she felt to even find the building in the first place, and was now walking inside as the poor guards kept trying to stop her only to bounce off her spiritual pressure and energy respectively. Eventually they got so tired of her shenanigans that they started trying to use force, not excessive force since she clearly was looking around with a lost and curious expression on her face, but force nonetheless. Which was about as effective as anything else they had tried because she was using her spiritual energy as a shield.

Anytime they shot tasers or something at her her energy cancelled that out and the little sticker things seemed to fall off her after activating some kind of temporary blue aura field around her. Which by itself didn't seem to do anything. They started using batons and swords but the same occurred. She wasn't attacking any of them though. She was looking around and checking out the different people who had significant power. That she could detect anyways. As not all power was spiritual.

"Luuuuuuuuuuccccccciiiaaaaa" Came a high pitched female voice as a pink flying.....cat..? Started chasing after her and staying above the heads of everyone so they mostly left her alone. Ruby was Lucia's current dragon companion and she was more annoyed that the girl was being her usual seemingly stupid self than worried for her right now. "Come on is this really that necessary? If we cause anymore problems someone will actually get upset with us.."

They finally blocked her off by physically getting in her path instead of trying to stop her, "you humans are so strange.. I've done nothing but look around and you act like I've murdered someone." She raised her hand and extended her fingers up so her palm was facing forward before releasing spiritual pressure enough to force a path to be cleared but not enough to do any damage to anyone. Kind of like a repulsion thing. Not hurtful. just moving them.

"Can you blame them!? You don't exactly go wandering around someone elses home at random just because you feel like it Lucia!" Ruby whined causing Lucia to look at her this time, "....what do you mean? How else am I supposed to find the person I'm looking for if I don't come in and check around?"

Ruby landed on Lucia's head and sighed as she perched there, "Why don't you ask around instead of ignoring everyone and doing your own thing.." Lucia, seeing logic to this, took Ruby's advice and stopped her wandering to address whoever was near her still which was most likely quite a number of highly irritated guards and faculty.

"I'm looking for someone and it is important that I find them. They are even stronger than I am in my current state." Surely that was going to grab someone's attention and get them to pester Kai. Though she didn't intend for this or know anything about anyone at this point. She was just looking for Kai. Even if she didn't realize that is who it was yet.

Alistair walked into an absolute mess. The 6'3" werewolf walked into the room pushing past the body of guards. A few of his pack were in the room watching, however they clearly weren't on edge because they hadn't joined in. It was just the human guards being overly cautious and trying to drive out some woman. When she said she was looking for someone stronger than her, He wasn't exactly sure how strong she was. He couldn't sense.

The black haired werewolf let out a shout. "Stand down! She means no harm." He said. He could tell by looking at her. She smelled strange to him though. Human, but not. As soon as he'd entered the room the ones closest to him had quietened anyway. His predator Aura kicking in. He approached the woman as the gaurds backed off. She would notice it too, a feeling that someone was watching her, that she was being hunted. It might not affect her. Or her cat. Which he just noticed was floating around. But they'd still notice it.

"My apologies, miss. People are on edge of late. However you cannot blame them, they do not have the ability to tell your not a serion or sinner by scent." he said. "Now, with that out of the way, maybe you should explain to me what it is you want?" He asked. The humans had all but dispersed by then, leaving the few werewolves in the room to watch her.

Everyone seemed to tense when a larger man appeared to take charge but they quickly shuffled away and let him handle everything. However he wasn't the source of the power she was looking for. He gave off an odd aura but other than sensing it she was totally oblivious to it's purposes. Her feline friend Ruby didn't sense it but the guy gave her the creeps. He addressed her with an apology and some amount of polite manners and hat was positively received by her though she made no mention of it and still looked the same.

Serion? Sinner? Wait did he just say scent? Before Lucia could think further on it Ruby beat her to the punch of addressing it, "What are you a dog? Talking about scents of things and stuff. Hah!" She poofed a little bit of fire from her mouth as she strut her stuff in the air and acted all mighty despite the fact the man still creeped her out.

"I vaguely remember something about this in the design of humanity Ruby.. It's a special mutation.. so you are almost right. I think it is called...a werewolf?" she looked down back at the man and smiled a bit, "I'm sorry but you aren't the one giving off the large magical power I am looking for. I don't know who it is so I don't know who I am looking for by name."

She looked around before pointing in whatever direction of the building Kai happened to be in at the time, "The source of magical energy I am trying to find is that way. So it must be in this building at the very least. I just am unsure of who has it. But it is important that I find them and talk with them."

She was at least making it clear she was tracking magical power and not spiritual power. Which were not always the same thing. Maybe that would jog the mans Memory as to who it was she was looking for.

Alistair looked at the cat thing and smiled. "What, dont like dogs?" He asked.
"Bang on the money. I'm a werewolf. But i guess your looking for Kai since he's the only other person around with magic, and allot more of it than me." Alistair said. "I'll take you too him." He said, waving for her to follow. "I'm guessing your a mage of some sort? Most people wouldn't be so precise between magic and spiritual energy. To them it feels no different. You also don't smell fully human. Don't mean to pry, but what are you? I've never encountered someone like you before."

Alistair led her to an elevator and took it up. He relaxed against the wall as they waited for the lift to climb to the top, where Kai's office waited. He'd hit the priority button, so there was no waiting for other people to get on and off, and it didn't take that long. Alistair led her onto the top floor and nodded. "Come on. Kai's office is right over here." He said and led her to the door, knocking to alert kai and waiting for him to call them in.

A small werewolf had popped out from behind Alistair. "Don't give blondie any openings on comments you weird dragon cat thingy...*looks at Alistair* Can I eat that?" The purple-grey haired boy pointed at that thing. Some of the other werewolves rolled their eyes at the boy, some even chuckled. Usually they were grown out of that age, but since they basically knew his history, they understood. The nicely dressed squirt pouted cutely when denied, but followed Alistair nonetheless.

Then they got to the place and heard a "come in". A silver haired, red eyed, tanned, almost teenaged looking man dressed nicely in a button up white shirt and slacks sat at the...spacious office. All of his personal bodyguard were out on missions. He felt the woman that entered with Alistair and Nick and rose an eyebrow. "A mage? Ah, I'm Kai Allard-Laio. Pleasure."

As soon as he said that, the door opened to reveal Jun, throwing a fake bone/chew snack above Nick's head while screaming "fetch." Nick, being none the wiser, jumped up and caught the thing in his mouth. Then the yellow eyed boy turned beet red in anger and crushed the bone thing with his jaws. Then he charged the blond guy. Who had then closed the door abruptly, making the little werewolf plow through it, taking to the door with him to meet the floor. Nick got back up and started chase.

Kai sighed heavily and looked at Alistair, silently pleading him to end this before any more damage is done, intentional or otherwise. Then he motioned for the woman to sit. "Sorry about that. What can I do for you, Ms....?" As much as he needed the break, if this was something unimportant, he was gonna be slightly irritated.

"You can't eat me I'm not tasty! Besides you try and and I'll roast you like a fish!" Ruby said as she hid near Lucia's shoulders and stuck out her tongue at the werewolf that wanted to eat her. Lucia didn't realize he wasn't serious as was visibly upset until the others starting laughing. Laughter meant they weren't serious..didn't it? So she calmed down. Then answered the man's question as to what she was, though it may have sounded very....vague. "I am merely me.. I was created to protect the survival of the world population should the planet become unusable.. and for a long time..I was alone."

She followed the large man to the location that housed the being who held such great magical power and just kind of witnessed the events that unfolded around her until he and she were alone.

"My name is Lucia. I am here to request your assistance." Ruby cut in at this point as she thought she'd make more sense than Lucia, "Lucia was really hurt when she fought a demon named Caliborn a long time ago and lost a good chunk of her power. Since you have the highest magical power we can seem to find.. we were really hoping you could help her."

"Humans have greater variations to their magic than I do of my own.. Though I believe mine is individually more powerful.. this puts me at a disadvantage.. something I learned during my fight with the demon. I need to find a way to be more.. ..what is that word again Ruby?" Lucia looked up at the flying pink cat dragon and looked utterly confused. Ruby poofed a fire breath as she spoke in an exclaiming voice, "Versatility! Come on Lucia you need to pay more attention!"

"Yes.. well.. That is my situation.. I realize you do not know me or have any reason to trust me.. but I still need your help."

Alistair shook his head a Nick. "No eating the guests." He  said and led them into Kai's office. At which point Jun arrived and threw a dog treat at Nick, who caught. The two of them ran out of the room, managing to break the door off the hinges. The charged down the hallways. Kai pleaded with him. The werewolf sighed and stomped out the door after them. "fourteen hundred years old and I still end up babysitting brats. Kai If i kill them...? No? To bad..." He began chasing them.

He caught up with them in a flash of speed and grabbed them both by the collar, holding them up and away from each other. "I have had enough of you brats. This ends today." He said, dragging them towards the elevator. Where he found Serena.  "What's going on?" She asked Alistair. "Gonna beat them... to death..." He wasn't really. But an old wolf only had so much patience.

"Alright, well thats not alarming. Why don't I help you, and we not murder these pair." She said to him. Alistair smiled. "I like that idea." he said, smiling menacingly at both of them. "I think its time you two learn to work as a team."

Kai sent Alistair a clear glare, which luckily, seemed to have gotten the point across. The man listened to her. It was an interesting predicament. But..."From what I can tell, you're stronger than even most of my officers. Some not enough for it to make any real difference, granted. But you can literally take on just about anything short of myself, the new Espada king, the Machine Lord, or the Captain-Commander. If you want some variation in your spells, I can see what you have, but I'll have my own caveats. For starters, I don't just train random people. You join the Coalition in full. You'll earn some trust while in our service. Then I'll show you my spells that I know and see which ones you like. If necessary, I can even do some research or refer you to the Amesbury Library for any additional spells you might be interested in. Questions?"

Those were his thoughts. If afterwards she quits, that would be her decision. But that was his bargain if she wants to take it, or make some minor adjustments aside from the obvious.

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Jun and Nick yelped when they were yanked by their collars and held away from them, with Nick still clawing at the blonde. He stopped when Alistair made his declaration, which did get Jun's attention. What went unnoticed until now was a belt with four odd devices on it and an ear stud on Jun's right ear. Dragoons. Both Jun and Nick paled again at the elder wolf's declaration towards Serena. And seemed to have gotten the robit involved.

Once they got to the training grounds and let go, Jun jumped back right away while Nick just stared at his Alpha. And put on the most watery, cutest puppy dog eyes anyone can imagine. "D-do I have to? We can work together on missions and stuff..." Even Jun had to turn away from the scene to hide his blush. That...really made him want to hug him...

He didn't sound pleased by her request. Which she found odd since she had been properly polite about it. He was comparing her to his underlings, which only served to prove to her that she was indeed much weaker than she originally believed if so many humans could match her. She continued to listen to him silently taking in what he was telling her and making her decision lightning fast in the process.

Joining a coalition? That didn't sound so bad. Earning his trust didn't seem to be an issue either, "That is fine." Ruby had another idea though, "Whoa whoa whoa Lucia he just basically asked you to be his servant and you are okay with that?!" Lucia glanced up at her companion and cocked her head a bit, "We need his help to get my power back don't we? It isn't like I have a choice. His terms aren't exactly conditional." Ruby pouted but simply poofed a fireball in disapproval, "Fine."

Lucia looked back down at Kai and smiled, "So I take it that is settled and I'll be joining the Coalition in order to become your apprentice in the hopefully near future." Her left arm started to tremble for some reason and she looked at it causing it to stop, but she seemed rather perturbed by the fact that had happened, "Are those two going to be alright? That elderly man was rather irritated.." she was referring to Jun and Nick.

Serena felt bad for the little wolf but Alistair put his foot down. "Nick, kiddo, you have no idea how many times someones given me that look. It never works." He said Serena frowned. "So.. What is the plan? I fight them two on one?" She asked. "No. We fight two on two. Us against them. If you two cant learn to get along, how hard do you think it'll be working together in a real combat situation? You may need to have each others back out there someday, against a foe you cant beat alone. And i will not forgive either of you, for letting the other die."

Serena looked at him and smiled slightly. He acted angry but he really did care about both of them. She nodded. "Alright, you heard the man. In a situation like this, I think its fair that you'd only need to defeat one of us." Serena said. "Agreed." Alistair nodded. "Feel free to use your powers, Nick you can wolf out, just down push it. I wont be in wolf form for fairness' sake, so i wont have as strong control. Dont want you eating Jun.."

Kai's eyes narrowed at the dragon thing. "Do NOT insult their memories by calling them servants. Everyone under me is a comrade, whether I know them personally or not. Do not think that anyone here is a servant. They may report to me, but they very much have free will. And it's not like there aren't some benefits. Housing, if needed is provided, and naturally a paycheck, insurance, retirement, and if you have anything special you need, can be negotiated. The contract also states that either us or you can terminate employment here. You can quit at any time, just give us a notice and things will be worked out. If you have nothing else, then things are settled."

He noticed her arm trembling and rose an eyebrow at it. "They should be fine." Kai got up and went to the couch with a table in front of it. Across from that was another couch. After pressing some keys, a video of what was happening in the training grounds. Serena was in there too. "Yeah, they'll be fine. Alistair may talk tough, but he does care a lot about them. Sometime soon, we'd have to know what you're capable of. These two have been at each other's throats since Nick, the little werewolf, have joined. Jun have done some minor pranks and the like to Alistair when he first joined, and Anders, another werewolf that joined later, and then later on the rest of Alistair's pack, but he never harassed them as harshly as he had with Nick. It's gotten pretty bad...want to watch?"

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Nick clenched his teeth and pointed at the blonde in anger. "Don't blame me! If that asshat would stop harassing me so damn much, we'd be much better! He doesn't target you or Anders or any of the others near as much as he does me! Me eating Jun? HA! *takes off shirts and points at the lower and far larger scar* Did you forget he did this WITH HIS OWN POWER AND NOT A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT?! Unlike the one above it. I try to eat him, he'll just give me another one. Not like I don't have all these other adjustments I need to make too. Like getting used to an actual pack, getting used to life in New York and working with the Coalition, having an actual werewolf as an alpha, trying not to find some homeless person, take him or her into an ally, and tear them apart just because I can and I love it, and my own other issues! I've never been BULLIED before! Everyone avoided me and the few that have tried something ended up in the hospital because I beat the shit out of them. But I CAN'T do that with Jun because he's STRONGER than I am! I've never been in this type of situation before! I don't know how to handle it!"

The purple-grey haired teen was panting and was at the brink of tears. It was the added stress that was really getting to him. Jun was stone-faced as he walked up to the boy and put his hand on his head. Jun whispered into the wolf's ear. "Sorry." The blonde walked towards the two while Nick stared at his back, stunned.

Jun looked about as ready as ever...and started it. The four Dragoons took off from his belt. Three of them fired hado 4 powered shots at Serena, 10 each. Then energy blades appeared on them and started to go after her with an astonishing amount of control. The other one also fired 10 shots, but at Alistair. The five six blonde charged him with a flurry of punches. Then he did a pair of kido spells. Bakudo 21: Sekianton." A red smoke consumed the area. It wouldn't effect Alistair much, but that wasn't really the point. "Hado 1: Sho." The push was aimed at Serena's legs to mess with her footing so the Dragoons might do something to her. During the red smoke being there, Nick fired three bone spikes at his alpha's legs.

The duo ran shortly after, the dragoons tailing them not far behind...

Ruby poofed another small flamethrower of harmless and pathetic proportions as she haughtily replied, "I said nothing of your comrades hot head. While I get your point you missed mine little human. You essentially are giving Lucia no choice but to join you in exchange for help you may or may not give her in the future. However I do apologize for making it sound like I was bashing your friends and supporters."

Lucia lightly bopped Ruby on the head which got her a little flustered but she accepted it and kept quiet, "Sorry about my heated friend here... While she has a point so do you..and I have already agreed to your proposal so let's put that behind us.." She moved towards a television, though she didn't know that was what it was and her eyes widened a bit when she saw images of the two younglings she asked about a second ago and the other two that were with them. However what Kai said next completely confused her..as she stared at him with said confusion displayed all over her face.

"...why would I wish to watch someone beat up another person..? You sound like a very strange man Kai Allard-Laio for that to be something you would want to do.." Ruby pawed Lucia's head to get her attention and yawned a bit, "Lucia don't forget he mentioned needing to see your abilities in the near future." Lucia nodded, "That is fine. I have no problem showing my magical power. I just hope I don't do any serious damage to anyone when I use them."

However..while watching the screen for the moment she had something caught her attention.

"why does that younger boy have demonic energy hovering after him like a ghost? He isn't inherently evil.. I can tell.. so it confuses me as to why such an energy is clinging to him like a disease? It does not seem to match the energy he naturally produces."

She noticed something off about Jun as well in that moment, "This boy also has odd energy.. his is more......Divine..is not the right word..more.. sacred.. yes that works properly.. His energy is more sacred dipped than a normal humans.. Do you know why?"

Ruby looked at the screen and scratched her fuzzy chin a bit, "You know now that you mention it you are right Lucia.. thats extremely odd for a couple of humans..especially those that young."

Alistair watched stone faced while Nick vented his frustrations. And then when he done, Serena moved to comfort him but Alistair stopped her. And then Jun apologized. it was a whisper. But Alistair caught it. He didn't react. And then the duo attacked. Serena dodged around the bullets and went after an exposed Nick, while running away from the blades. She dashed around the little werewolf and attacked him from behind and dodged the blades. They were impressive devices, and some grazed her but nothing serious. Mean while Jun ran at alistair who summoned Carmine and spun it to block the 10 shots, then met his punches with the handle of his spear.

The smoke didn't bother him, and he spun his spear rapidly, sucking it away from Serena, who intercepted the bone spikes but was hit with the sho. It was hardly enough to knock her over but between defending Alistair and that, she got hit a few times by the blades ended up getting out of the way. Serena looked at Alistair after they ran. "What the hell. You could have said something to him, He looked devastated. He's clearly got some problems, aren't you like a father to him or something? isn't that how a pack works? like a big family?" She said.

Alistair sighed. "Yes. It is." He said. "Then why didn't you tell him it would be alright?" She asked. "Because. He doesn't need to hear it from me. He needs to accept it.. Jun needed to hear that outburst too. He is a good kid... But he takes things to far. You didn't catch it, i assume, but Jun apologized. Regardless, my plan is working." He said. Serena nodded. "I see.. Your used to this i take it.." She said "I've raised allot of kids." He said. Serena nodded. "Plan?"

Alistair smiled, and explained the next part. Serena nodded, and turned invisible, while Alistair moved in to lure the two kiddo's out of hiding.

Kai nodded at her and simply let it go. But her confusion confused him. Something was up, and was going to ask when she spoke. "It's good to stay up to date of what your subordinates are capable of. Don't want to send them on a mission they can't handle. The training grounds are extremely vast...so, as long as you know where any other person is, if there is another person in that particular training grounds, the chances are rather low to hurt someone else, depending on the ability."

Then she mentioned a couple things. "Interesting that you can detect that. Nick's former alpha was a Sinner. A spiritual being from Hell. As such, he hung out with her a lot, though we didn't know this until much later. A situation came up where we were able to get rid of her, if temporarily, and Nick and Jun fought, since both were there and on opposite sides of the conflict. Those two scars Nick has, Jun caused them and he, well, won. One of Jun's great-grandparents was a shinigami. Which allowed him to learn kido, a skill set that normally only shinigami can learn. Granted, his is weaker than a shinigami's...but it's a surprise for those not expecting it." He didn't want to go into too many details, but that was the basic gist of things on that side.

Only then did he get to the other part. "You seemed confused earlier...what needs further explanation?" It was possible she was from a different time...wouldn't be the first time something like this happened.

~

Nick took the attack to his head, as he was still stunned by the blonde, going into a cartwheel before landing on his feet and getting into gear. Either way, they got away...for now. They'd done more than any of the two of them thought they would. When they stopped in a forest, Nick spoke. "How in the hell did you get so good with that?"

"Who do you think tests these things before they're put into production? Only serious injury risk is left up to isolated testing without someone attach/using it themselves. I've had lots of practice for it. Anyways, any ideas?"

The werewolf shook his head. "They're not following us. I...don't really do this..."

Jun sighed. "I'd rather focus on Serena. If I was them, I'd try to lure us out, then divide and conquer. There's a nearby city section. Let's go there and break stuff...Serena can go invisible, and with the metal around, you may not smell her, but we'll at least hear her."

Nick nodded and the two left for there. After making a mess with twigs and glass and a bunch of other stuff lying around, the yellow eyed kid stood on top of the lamp post, listening for anything out of the ordinary. And trying to find Alistair and/or Serena.

(ooc: sorry...didn't know where Alistair had in mind for a location.)

"So he was tainted by demons.. I see.. that explains things. I can safely ignore his taint then. He isn't a threat anymore. He's got a good heart..even if he hasn't fully come to terms with it." Lucia sounded way more wise in this matter than she seemed to in other normal human things..which might have confused Kai. But lucia was on par with an old goddess...so her insight was strange to anyone but her and her dragon companions.

Kai's question about her confusion earlier was well founded she supposed so she answered, "Until now I've only seen recorded images via magical constructs.. and even then those were not in real time. So this... machine.. you showed me..is very interesting.. the rest of it..well.. I am not good with human customs and ways.. I was put here for a specific job..and it had nothing to do with learning humanities lifestyle.. so... it's all..foreign..to me.. Hiro taught me alot..but that was a long time ago.."

Alistair walked into the city in the open. He wasn't trying to hide as he walked towards Nick who stood on a lamp post. He cut a slice in his and and brought forth carmine, and with a slash he fired a massive fireball in nick's direction. Serena stayed in hiding and didn't bother getting to close. She was going to wait for an opening. Alistair on the other hand continued his attack by rushing at Nick and jun with his spear. He would bypass the would to aim a thrust at Jun's should, though he aimed to graze rather than impale him. He swung the spear and attempted to smash the butt of the weapon into Jun's legs, and then thrust two more times at him. His plan was to force Jun into a corner and make Nick help him. He wanted Nick to learn to defend team mates, especially in such close quarters. He knew Jun could dish it out but as far as he remembered, he couldn't take hits to well, while nick being a werewolf could take a beating.

Kai nodded at her. "I hope you like reading. To do your job easier, it would be best to catch up to current human customs, governments, etc. You can get a crash course working here, but it's nothing a little research on the internet can't handle. Alex can help you out on that part, too...he enjoys teaching others, so long as he's knowledgeable about the subject matter, he'll do it."

(ooc: sorry...seems like we hijacked your thread)

~

Nick warned Jun that Alistair was heading their way. So it didn't surprise them at all when he appeared and just walked, summoning his spear. Nick jumped down to avoid the fire ball, only to go into a melee. Or so he thought when Alistair bypassed him completely. Jun was still very mobile, and avoided the first thrust easily. The second attack hit a Dragoon as two bone spikes were fired at Alistair's side. Nick had his bone armor active and used that to quickly replace Jun as the man's target as the blonde struck. "Hado 31: Shakkaho!" A red ball of energy zipped past Nick's head towards Alistair. Nick fired some bone spikes as 4 shots from each Dragoon covered them on their way out of the city.

"Why are we leaving?" Nick spoke as his two wounds were healing.

"They're using Serena as a check I think...she does use ranged weapons as well. She's support. The second there was an opening, she would have opened fire. Both of us are melee based, and I'd rather keep the Dragoons close to us. But I think I know a good spot."

"I hope it's close, Alpha's closing in." Nick warned before both of them jumped up to avoid something from the man. Nick fired two more bone shards at Alistair as Jun had all four dragoons fire one more shot at him. Then both boys jumped at the man, aiming a kick at the chest, followed by punches. Jun's dragoons attacked from the sides (1 on the left, 1 on the right) and behind (1 aimed at the butt, 1 aimed at the shoulder) with energy blades.

It may just be a run and gun situation.

(ooc - hey I don't mind. At least it's getting everyone something. Would have been more boring with just Lucia and ruby. This is a shitty post on my part anyways xD)

"I love reading.. but I don't know what this internet is you are talking about. It looks like I'll really need to take that offer and ask Alex for help. There is a lot I don't understand and if I'm to be of help I'll need to." She replied calmly but with a curious look on her face as she kept watching the TV, "It seems your young ones are trying a new tactic to their disadvantageous situation."

For all her confusion about new concepts she seemed to be adapting rather quickly and easily. No culture shock going on in this girls brain that was for sure. it might seem odd but to Lucia everything felt normal. She was a sponge needing to soak up information and that was exactly what was going on.