A Meeting in the Den (Open)

The sound of the doors crept open and a figure snuck her way into the hall. She took a few steps away from the door before she had come to realize she left the door open and crept her way back over and shut it, making a light echoing sound in the hall from it. The sound of the door clicking shut made her flinch despite how gentle a sound it was, she had yet to become adjusted to the way the sounds outside of nature had been like. Everything was still so confusing and different for her even though she was still trying to adjust to things that normal people had been used to doing, Aoi was far from a normal person. She was more like an animal brought straight from the wilds and placed in society to function, but one without the mindset to be able to adapt well to it at all. She turned around and her ears twitched for a moment before she looked around her empty hall. For some reason it was very quiet, though that was very pleasing to her ears to have it that way.. at least for a little while. She blinked a couple times and her hand reached up behind her head and rubbed her somewhat unkempt hair. Usually she would see at least a couple of people around, but not seeing a single person that she could really see just seemed a little out of place for her. However the wolf girl had no knowledge of whether the guilds members did anything outside of missions and sleep, so they could all be off doing their own thing and she would not know of a single bit of it.

A small growling sound made her look around at first before she felt the rumbling in her stomach and looked down and patted it a couple times. "Hun..ger.." She muttered aloud in a low tone. With that she walked to her right and continued along until she found a kitchen of sorts. A few counters and a number of cabinets and drawers, she began to search them for something good to eat. To Aoi though, that would be mostly anything really. She did remember that using a plate was something everyone did, and she had come to reach up to grab one, pulling it off pretty quickly. Suddenly, she looked up and jumped as something above the plate spilled out all over her and onto the floor. Aoi jumped down into a crouched position on her fours and the plate shattered onto the floor. Leaning her head into the strange object, she gave it a bit of a sniffing found it had an odd, but faint smell to it. She reached out a bit and poked of them, making it-- and her jump. "WRETCH!" She shouted as she began to growl at the object. A little ways away from her laid a bag with the word "MARSHMALLOWS" printed on it. Without more warning, Aoi lept at the marshmallow and clawed it into pieces, landing onto another couple squishy objects and causing her to slide along. She cane to a halt by crashing into a wall and becoming dazed for a moment. The wolf girl jumped back up to her fours and looked at the number of marshmallows surrounding her and began to growl at them once more. "Aoi is.. surrounded... No good..." She muttered again, in a little bit of speech she could actually speak.

(Sorry it isn't any better. I'm not good on first posts with new characters >.<)

Za'cha was at work in his forge/room when his stomach began to grumble at him. "Grhmm..." he said, rubbing the back of his head. "Food can wait, continue the work." said the Dark Celestial Spirit that possessed him. "Nah, need to grab something. Or else this is just going to keep interrupting me." said the mage, poking his stomach. He hung up his work clothes and then placed his security wards into active mode. Not that he didn't trust anyone in this guild to not sneak in and steal his work... its just that he didn't trust anyone in this guild to not sneak in and steal his work.

He made his way to the kitchen when he saw something... rather bizarre for this place. A girl with the ears and tail of a wolf, dressed in something that almost resembled a shinto priestess' outfit. Who was growling at a bunch of marshmallows that had been scattered around her. Za'cha blinked before walking towards her, preparing to summon one of his weapons. "Care to explain who you are and what you're doing here?" he asked her, picking up one of the marshmallows and eating it, not once taking his eyes off of her.

Aoi began to feel like she was in a bit of a stalemate with the squish balls surrounding her. They weren't moving.. maybe waiting for orders from their pack leader before they moved or perhaps just waiting for the wolf girl to make her move before they pounce on her like they had done before. She was ready to wait it out for the longer haul of it all, but it seemed as though the large count of enemies were simply waiting. They probably had their own form of communication between one another that they could plot their move on the girl without her ever realizing it and possibly falling into a trap of some kind like the human hunters had tried before. Her eyes kept sliding back and forth from either side of the spill made and began to ponder how or where she would even make her move first or if she would go ahead with waiting on them to come up with a plan and attack her instead.

With knees and elbows getting bent, the confused wolf girl readied herself to pounce on the dirtied snack/enemies when a figure from the corner of her eye had stopped her. She paused her growling at first until he began to start coming closer to her. He began to speak to her, but the words he spoke were lost in translation.. quite a bit. She knew it would happen eventually, but not while this invasion was going on. Then she backed up a bit until she hit the wall and him asking her questions made her think for a moment. "Name be.. uh.. A-Aoi. N-no g-good spe.. speak." She paused and stood up and began to fiddle with her outfit before she was able to drop it down to her waist, exposing both the tattoo on her diaphragm, but her bare chest as well without thinking about it, nor care about it.

After pointing out the tattoo to him, she pulled the outfit back up and fixed it up so she felt comfortable in it again and looked back at the strange man. "Mm.. P-pup to.. pack." She rubbed the back of her head a little as she began to feel trying to come up with words that would help her case or help him to understand where she was coming from had begun to make her head hurt a little. Truthfully she was a little embarrassed not to be able to understand him, but she did hope at least he could know what she was talking about. It would take some time for her to adjust fully anyway.

A cup of coffee is just what Dubhlainn wanted after going on a Job spree; sometimes it would take a week or two just for him to return to the guild once it has begun. Avoiding Rekka whenever he returns is not easy but now it was a miracle, she wasn’t here. He exhaled with relief and yet the stone faced expression persists. The moment he entered his guild’s pub was the moment that he felt the presence of a Demi-human. Unlike any of his mages in the guild, Dubhlainn was blessed and cursed with a “sixth sense” to know the presences of a Demi-human, who were half human half creature.

The reason behind this was the fact that he was fused with a compound of Demi-human essence granting him abilities to whatever race of Demi-human was used in the formula that made him who he was today, though not even Dubhlainn himself could identify what essences was fused in him to be exact. The presence was coming from the kitchen and if it was an intruder, how come the guards didn’t take notice? Perhaps it was a member of the guild? Who did Lord Harrigan take in this time?

“Demi-human….” He spoke as he appeared right behind Zach.

“What a rare sight to see Demi-humans here, although I’m not familiar with your race.” That stone expression on his face makes it hard to read what Dubhlainn is feeling right now as an eerie aura would envelop him every time he starts talking for that he’s a man of few words and unpredictable patterns of thought. It’s uncertain whether or not Aoi may notice something but Dubhlainn but it concerns him not. He simply ignored the scene and passed both Zacha and the new Demi-human and went in to make a cup of coffee. His body language is telling Zacha to clean up this mess since he found her first. There were no comments that followed from him afterwards.

Rekka had been happily enjoying another hunt as she was beginning to head back, today's dinner was a nice male rune night whose head she had lobbed of after eating some of his flesh. The taste of raw human flesh was so much better then cooked food in her eyes. She had quite a bit of blood on her as she also carried the mans severed head with her, she was going to make another warning sign with it, lately people had been tearing them down making her quite annoyed. She made her way to the guild hall as she began to walk past the kitchen before seeing one member with their hand on a weapon and another member she really did not know her large black wings spreading out as she folded them back before walking behind the crowd.

"Oh. What a crowd we have here, hum a demi human I see well better then the filthy human race for sure. Oh the name is Rekka Lawless, though most of you don't know me a few might know me by reputation and spread nasty rumors about me to others."

She moved behind Dubhlainn as she got extra close to him the blood still dripping from the head she had in her hand, this girl seemed to have issues speaking well, she smiled looking her over she was cute however. She felt very beast like as she wondered why certain members were being so defensive, it was not like anyone ever tried to sneak into this place.

"Why are you being so guarded, you know how often someone tries to sneak into this place, did you forget my rumored nature. No one in there right mind would dare invade this guild, I am far to scary for them to handle. I mean sure my legend is a bit inflated but it by far more then enough for anyone to even think about coming here without massive forces. We have Harrigan and Aedre as well, so do no fret over one guest I man this place isn't even easy to find so she had to have been invited somehow."

She moved the severed head to her lips as she would begin to drink some of the blood dripping down and eat a little of the flesh. It was quite a good meal as more blood trickled down her chest, she was the fear of almost all humanity with the way she acted. Still this is the Rekka and the rumors about here were almost all nearly true, she was as much of a monster as the rumors had been told.

"Oh joy, one of those cases." said Pride within Za'cha's skull as the new girl spoke, or attempted to speak. The Dark Mage slowly squatted down so they'd be about eye level before pointing to himself. "Za'cha." the silver-haired mage said, pulling down his shirt to reveal his guild mark to her, just as she had revealed hers, and a lot more besides, to him.

When the other two arrived, he raised an eyebrow at the male's body language. "He did not just try to order us around did he?" snarled the Dark Celestial Spirit of Pride from within Za'cha's mind. "Ignore him. He's a moron who doesn't understand his place yet." the silver-haired mentally replied to Pride before regarding Rekka's arrival... with her "dinner". He rolled his eyes. "Could you at least have put it in a bag or something? That way you have the blood pooling inside and saves it for later, rather than just leaving a trail throughout the place." the Pillar leader suggested, not wanting to know what she'd done with the rest of the corpse.

He returned his attention to their newest member. Za'cha pointed to each of the marshmallows that she'd spilled around her. "Eat." he said, plucking another from the ground around her and devouring it. "Food. Sweet." the man explained, resolving himself to trying to teach the girl how to at least speak with other humans. Wouldn't do well for them later on if she couldn't understand orders or do her jobs properly.

Her head tilted a little bit as the man seemed to be a little bit more calm compared to before. He seemed to be less tense compared to when he first seen Aoi in the room, surrounded by these villainous fluff balls things. They and this strange white haired man kept her cornered and it was getting harder to think of if he was friend or foe of the confused wolf girl. He pointed to himself and sounded out a word. She questioned the word for a moment until she had put it to her own breath to test if she could sound it out. "Za..Cha. Z..Za'Cha." She spoke low, but loud enough for Za'cha to be able to hear her. She looked right him immediately after he had gotten to her eye level and pointed out his tattoo, making Aoi smile with a bit of joy. The same mark, though looking different in colors was nothing to her, but quickly she licked Za'Cha's cheek and giggled a little as her tail wagged happily.

The ears atop her head began to twitch a little as the sound of footsteps drew closer to the pair. Her body slid itself to the right a little bit as a long haired man had come close and up behind Za'cha no less. He seemed to not show any form of an emotion, unlike the white haired pack member that Aoi had come to meet just a moment ago. Surely it didn't really mean much in the end, as the bodily expression that he showed the new person hadn't been anything that would warrant her to become defensive of him and try to intimidate him. He did seem to take an interested look at the wolf girl, and she hadn't really been able to understand the words he spoke at all.. minus the words "Demi-human" for some reason... Though even as she tried to think about it, she could feel a headache forming and simply decided to shy away behind Za'cha just a little bit.

That however did end as the smell of blood had made her eyes widen and she quickly moved out from behind her human shield and gritted her teeth, growling a little before the source of the blood had come to show itself. A pink haired girl had popped out, with black wings like a bird on her back folded up like one nested with it's children. In her hand laid the source off the stench, a decapitated head which had gotten Aoi's attention very quickly. Za'cha's voice began speaking more words, while the girl did the same with only few words and most being the same ones registering as understandable, but her attention focused solely on the head that Rekka had chewed on. It was fascinating to see someone else like her eating raw flesh and muscle without a care. It was so interesting, she crept forward and leaned in, sniffing the head a bit before jumping back.

Her attention turned back to Za'cha, seeing if he was for or against this girl being here as well. It seemed as though he wanted her attention and pointed down at the enemies below. She thought about it for a moment as he mentioned eating... Were these things actually supposed to be defeated by eating them? Not tearing them to shreds? He then plucked one off, making Aoi snap into a bit of a defensive stance, claws ready before he popped it into his mouth and ate it. Her face was astounded by what he did, and she resolved herself to hesitantly doing the same. She let the soft object slide around her taste buds and then after chewing it, swallowed it and shook her head lightly before sticking out her tongue. "Bleh. Aoi no good eat.." Though she had already eaten one, she didn't care for another and kicked one out of her way. If it was only food... What was there to do with it now?

Just as soon as Dubhlainn finished making his coffee, the very guild member he’s trying to avoid is behind him. It’s uncertain whether she’s playfully trying to make Dubhlainn feel uncomfortable by devouring the head in public, presenting herself as some kind of murderous, cannibalistic maniac. His face remained that of stone and with his lips he let loose a comment.

“May I suggest you tear down the flesh from the head you’re holding? A clean skull would be a fine decoration for the guild.” It appears that the sight of marshmallows was foreign to the new demi-human much less familiar to it being food. There’s a small hint of curiosity about her origins and race but perhaps he’d reserve it at a later date. He exits the kitchen without another word, avoiding Rekka and any involvement to what appears to be the newest addition to Savage Skull and her first moment with the Pillar head. Before he exits the door, he shot one final glance at Aoi.

Before you know it in a split second, Aoi could see that Dubhlainn’s nature is undefined, he’s human but at the same time he is not which brings to question, what is he? Of course only Demi-humans can see something different about Dubhlainn at first glance because they could see it.

Rekka laughed as one of her guild mentioned the blood it was the head of her pillar not that she would ever listen to any order he gave. He likely knew she would never listen and would likely not ask anything of her, the bother man however seemed to dislike Rekka's actions. He mentioned turning it into a white skull before leaving as her eyes shifted and watched him walk out. She turned her attention to the girl who seemed to dislike marshmallows as Rekka smiled at her moving toward the girl and pointing ht her own special fridge.

"Inside here... feel free to eat any of this meet, it is my special cut and prepared good tasting flesh, don't eat their garbage human food. I promise you will love the food I have in here, and don't worry no one else would touch this fridge to eat."

She opened the fridge as he had nicely packed meat with different labels before handing the girl one labeled human rump roast. She closed the fridge and looked at the others smiling, if she wanted she would cook this girl some and let her enjoy Rekka's amazing cooking skills with human flesh.

"If you want I can cook you some also before any of you complain about smell without the skin on it human flesh smells simply like beef cooking, in fact its very tasty. Humans eat so many other things it adds its own unique flavor and is quite a good dish."

She would wait for the girls answer as she sat the meat on the counter, the girl kept staring at her wings. She flapped them out once again creating a small rush of wind before folding them back.

"Yeah like you I am not exactly human and only recently learned of this fact, I guess some will say that's why I am so insane but it is more insane following these stupid rules humans planted on the world."

Za'cha couldn't help but smirk and chuckle at the fox-girls reaction to the taste of marshmallows. "Well, not everyone likes sweets." he said before regarding Rekka. He'd noticed her new wings and hadn't made a comment on them, partially because he was focusing on the fox-girl rather than his psycho underling. He shrugged at her commentary. "You were insane long before you got wings." he said non-chalantly, still smirking.

When Rekka offered the contents of her fridge to Aoi, he gave a nod of approval. The fact that she was willing to share her own stock of meat was interesting and something that he took note of. The rump roast, he raised an eyebrow at. "That rump roast... it's not literally a human rump is it?" he found himself asking, although he already knew the answer, knowing Rekka's twisted sense of humour.

Aoi looked at the people around her with a little less confusion the more time she had spent around them, but mostly it was towards Za'cha that she felt the safest for the time being. Maybe it was just because she felt he was the only one attempting to understand and knew of her.. lack there of in knowledge of what happened, but she was beginning to feel that the pink haired girl was also a bit of a huntress in an aspect. From the point of view that the feral girl had come to gather, she had come back from gathering food for herself and or the pack from which was named 'Savage Skull'. Either way it was put, she was rather happy to know at least one person was willing to embrace the idea of slaughtering food and dragging back to the den to be able to be consumed without anyone or anything to disturb the meal.

As the pink haired girl began to enter the room, Aoi watched her with caution and curiosity. She felt slightly still defensive around new people. It felt more instinctual like the rest of her personality had been, but as the watched the door open, she took a step further away from the door for a moment. Her head then tilted lightly, wondering what all that stuff in the container looking thing she had shown the feral mage. Slowly and with a cautious hesitance, Aoi began to walk towards it and jumped as the girl pulled something out and more so felt she wanted to show her what it was. Looking back to Za'cha, she seen him give a nod to her knowing he would at least act as a bit of a guide for her right now, she looked back and approached it and began to sniff at the 'rump roast' and blinked.

The feeling just coming off of it felt.. cold. It reminded her of those certain periods when the ground would get covered with the cold white stuff that had come to fall with the rain, but the stuff would pile up, be much colder and it was similar in it's degree of similarity to it. With one hand, she reached up and touched the meat before she let out an audible yelp and jumped back, growling for a moment before noticing it hadn't moved. She blinked and the growling stopped abruptly, starring at it with confusion before poking at it's squishiness again and scratching her head with her other hand with obvious confusion. The words the woman spoke were like gibberish to Aoi. Nothing she said was getting through to her and it didn't seem like that thought was getting through to her, nor really did Aoi kindly note that she didn't understand. Instead, she leaned back in and sniffed at the meat once more before thinking if she should take a bite or wait... but she simply leaned back and rested her arms by her waist with one clasped in the other gently and waited. She didn't really have anything she could think to say nor did she want to eat it.. something about it was off to her.

She laughed at several of the reactions as she watched Aoi touch the package of meat and move back she really was like a animal. She had no idea how the human world worked this was a very amusing thing in reality but she could feel Za'Cha being super protective of her. He did not trust Rekka and with good reason Rekka would be the type to take advantage of a person like this. She took the pack of meat opening it up and moving over toward the stove as she would begin to grab various spices and some pans to begin preparing for a meal. She motioned for Aoi to come close to her she would talk slow for the girl as she seemed confused by her words.

"This, I cook... make it hot... we eat... after I cook...okay."

She would begin to season the meat as she began to use a various mix of herbs and spices and began to rub the meat hard to make sure the flavor would go all the way through it. She moved her hand to turn the stove on looking at Aoi she pointed at the flames under the pan and pointed at the pan with the butter melting inside the pan.

"Hot...don't touch...Ouch if touch...okay."

After several minutes she would begin to place the meat in the pan as she moved over to the cutting board and began to cut up various veggies. She moved her hand extremely and accurately cutting them up into the perfect slices. It was clear she had a lot of practice with a knife and considering things she often did it made a lot of since in reality for her to cut them up this fast.

"This sharp... no touch... ouch and cut you..."

Za'cha watched the exchange go on between the wolf-girl and the cannibal psycho as the latter tried to teach the former on how she was going to cook the meat... He kept an eye on the pair of them, before going to do exactly what Rekka had just told Aoi what not to do, so that she could at least get a visual understanding of what was going on, even if words were not getting through.

He put his hand onto the metal of the pan as it cooked, earning him a quick burn on his hand, which he grimaced briefly at the pain, hissing slightly before showing his self-inflicted wound to her. He timed this with what Rekka had said so that the words would at least come with an image, sound, smell for the feral half-human girl. When she motioned to the knives, he took one and cut along his finger, letting the blade coat itself in a thin film of his blood, his teeth gritting slightly before he showed the wolf-girl this wound as well.

After he'd let her inspect the wounds, he put his finger into his mouth to clean off whatever blood the wolf-girl hadn't poked at herself, took out a roll of medical tape and then wrapped his finger in it, and then the burn on his hand as well. "Making weapons and armour, it's a crap smith who doesn't get themselves hurt once in a while." he said to Rekka, before he looked to Aoi. "I wonder what she can do..." he mused before kneeling down to Aoi's level once more and then holding out his uninjured hand.

"Magic." he said before invoking a spell. "Haematoclarent." With the red smoke forming around his hand, crackling with a thin grey lightning, the sword soon appeared in his hand. "Magic." he said, pointing to the sword, then to himself, then back to the sword again. "Za'cha magic." he said, looking to Rekka to give a small demonstration of what she could do, so that the girl could understand the word magic at least, and hopefully understand what it was they were trying to ask her to show them.