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[hardedge]

Characters: InuYasha & Anyone daring
Setting: Stairway, 48, 17, Cafeteria
Format: Any
Summary: Typical newbie intro not liking what he sees, is confused, and likely on edge.
Warnings: Aggressive, foul behavior. Idiotism. Atypical shounen heroism.

[Along the Stairway]
[InuYasha hadn't bother to investigate the trunk that carried his belongings, what few he possessed anyway, his main priority had been to locate any of his friends. Unfortunately he wasn't able to pick a scent to any of them. What worried him more was the distinct scent of blood that loomed in certain distances of the new setting he found himself in.]

KAGOME?!

SANGO?!

MIROKU?!

[Where he came from, elevators weren't invented and so he didn't think to use one, or even know its function. Naturally this left him to travel by stairs. For the first few floors he was caution, and anticipating the worse; the stairs kept going…and going. He wondered how large this building actually was.]

ANYONE!!

[Many of the floors came to surprise him. Things he had never seen before, things he's never even dreamed of before. But nothing caught his interest quite like the potent stench of blood of the seventy-first. His expression twisted at the sight.]

What's going on here?

[Was this the insides of something larger? But how can that be possible within a building. Not to mention all of the other nature settings he had passed up until this point. It was more than enough to keep InuYasha grounded on the stairs, at least for this floors.]

[Floor 48]
[This floor was especially questionable, the half breed peered into the graveyard. Was this where they buried their dead? Instincts told him he should avoid all of the floors, but something about a grave just hit a little close to home. Not to mention the gravesite of his very father was hidden within the pupil of his right eye, but you know, that's normal. InuYasha cautiously stepped onto the floor. When nothing dangerous occurred, he proceeded. As he was walking along, he noticed all of the marked graves.]

[Floor 17]
[Bloody handprints and screaming would normally be the cue to retreat to safer grounds, but more often than not it lead to violence and meaningless slaughter. The very things he and his friends rushed to. InuYasha couldn't help but step onto the floor, thinking that there may be someone who needs help here.[

[Floor 1 - Cafeteria]
[The cafeteria, a setting he wasn't familiar with, but the smell of food…or well…nutrition bars (not that he knew what they were) filled the air. At least this one appeared safe, and there was an abundance of people.

He wasn't going to eat the oatmeal by the way.]

Comments

[ambassadorasshat]

[Nice first impression on the tower, newbie. You've already annoyed one resident.]

Either shut up or get off the stairs, you're annoying.

[hardedge]

That's some attitude ya got there!

[Oh my he's nearly popping his knuckles.] What's more annoying is when I tear you to shreds if you don't tell me what's goin' on!

[Luke, don't corner a frighten dog.

Just don't.]

[ambassadorasshat]

I don't have an attitude, you're the one yelling!

[Except now they both are. Whatever. Technicalities.]

And you're an idiot if you think that killing me is going to get me to tell you anything.

[Though he looks more concerned than he sounds.]

[hardedge]

[Oh it wasn't, was it? The scent of the man was human, he didn't intentionally kill them, but he was willing to make an exception if this guy was the cause.]

I met plenty of punks like you who think death doesn't do the trick, but in actuality [crackle of the knuckles] it's more useful than you think.

[Any of his friends would know he's bluffing, but unfortunately for the other, he didn't have that luxury.]

Floor 48

[lightofhumanity]

[chaos often came into the graveyard to mourn over lost friends and to help console others that were mourning, so when he saw and sensed the person walked towards him, he smiled and nodded at them. He had been walking past a few gravestones to get to a few markers, but he didn't mind speaking with this person.]

Hello. Are you alright?

[hardedge]

[It was natural to find those mourning over graves. It was still a strange concept to InuYasha--this burying of the dead as means to find peace.]

Tch, I'm fine. [He sounded irritable though.] Who're you?

[lightofhumanity]

[chaos might be a bit of an odd mourner though, because most people who were mourning didn't usually smile..which was what chaos was doing now.

The concept of burying the dead wasn't that strange to chaos though-he had lived a long time and understood that it brought peace to both the burier and the person being buried, on occasion.]

I am glad to hear that. My name is chaos. If you do not mind my asking, whom are you?

[egotrigger]

[Hallelujah reaches out to try to grab the white-haired figure screaming down the stairs.]

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[- he sounds kind of familiar.]

[hardedge]

[Under normal circumstances InuYasha would have successfully evaded the snatch; however, the fact that his scent was more or less that of a human he was caught off guard.

The half breed clutched the stranger's wrist and snarled. His voice didn't occur to him yet.]

You got some nerve grabbing me!

[Let go or he'll break your arm.]

[egotrigger]

You got some nerve being a fucking idiot running down the stairs screaming at the top of your lungs! What's with you anyway, didn't even bring some fucking clothes with you? Not that I give a fuck but it's gonna make lots of people start screaming and being fucking irritating.

[Nope, not letting go.]

Cafeteria

[sageprincess]

[A white jumpsuit headed straight for the nutrition bars? Oh, Goddesses, that will not end well.]

Ah, wait!

[Have a young blonde woman with strange, pointed ears running up to you just before you can grab up some of those funny looking bars, Inuyasha.]

[hardedge]

[Heading for it, but not eating it. All of the food here had a bad scent.

He was already highly irritable, so her approaching him in haste didn't sit well.]

What do you want?!

[sageprincess]

[Oh, joy of joys, he's an angry one. Better get this over with quickly, then. She does not return his irritation in kind, instead taking a moment to sigh and collect herself.]

Simply to tell you that if you do not eat the oatmeal there--[Point.]--before anything else, you will become ill. I do not know why, but it is the same for everyone who awakens here.

[A slight bow of her head, then, as though she's about to excuse herself.]

That is all.

[Zelda you have the patience of a saint.]

[fragileprophet]

[Ion sighs as he stands over the graves of his friends. He feels a bit guilty--so much has happened, he hasn't really given much thought to visit them. To pray for them. Jade, Guy, Tear...and Luke. The other Luke.

His young face twists. What's to stop Anise's name from appearing there any morning? The idea of seeing her name etched on a gravestone is enough to make him sick. He was the one who was supposed to die young.

But that wasn't something to think about.

The crunching of grass causes him to turn his head. Any distraction is welcome--why not make some friendly conversation? The long-haired young man who's just entered the floor seems to be a bit lost.

Ion wills back that characteristic smile of his, and he gives a respectful nod to the newcomer.]

Good morning.

[hardedge]

[Isn't that just dandy? He looked happy as clam and here they were in a place full of rotted corpses...or something like that. It was different than any gravesite he's ever smelled.]

Good for who? I don't suppose you mean me?!

[Because did it look like he was having a good morning? He already got in a fight today.]

[fragileprophet]

[Ion's expression falters, if only for a second, before it returns to its carefully calculated measure of expressiveness. His eyebrows furrow in appropriate concern.]

Oh...I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention to offend. [And now, really looking...this must be one of the month's newcomers. Not many people walk around in those white suits, otherwise.] You're still adjusting, aren't you?

[Ion understood. His first day had been disorienting, troubling, and well, he had died. But that was beside the point. And not something to bring up in polite conversation.]

Is there anything I can do to help?

Floor 1

[sonof_thrain]

[Thorin noticed the silver haired boy, as he held a nutrition bat in his hand. This was the first time he was going to try one and thought why not? He could not rely on hunting all the time, as sometimes the game was scarce. They did not seem too bad now that he had been here a few months.]

Greetings. Are you new to the Tower?

[hardedge]

[Could it be anymore obvious?]

I'm not proud of it.

[sonof_thrain]

I can understand that. Have you heard from others about the sinister reputation the Tower has? [The evil admins and monsters within perhaps.]

Floor 17

[forhislegacy]

[There's no one who needs help - well, not the kind of help InuYasha can give, anyway. There is a small pigtailed girl sitting in the far corner of the floor, a ruined doll on her lap and a needle and thread in hand.

Anise is pretty decent at tuning things out, and figures the screaming will keep most people from witnessing her attempts at fixing Tokunaga on her own. In most cases, it does. In InuYasha's? Not so much. She sees motion out of the corner of her eye and looks up. He's certainly not someone she's seen before.]

Are you new here?

[...Anise no that's creepy.]

Re: Floor 17

[hardedge]

[Anise don't just sit around on creepy floors like this.]

Lookin content just sewin' there. [While people are screaming.

You look like a villain you know! And InuYasha will convey this nature of thinking by expressing an offensive stance at her.]

[forhislegacy]

Most people don't come here, so I can get work done without getting distracted.

[She doesn't look bothered by his stance. Even without Tokunaga, she's still quick on her feet and is totally capable of sticking up for herself if it comes to a fight - or at least, that's what she thinks.]

You never answered my question! What's wrong, cat got your tongue, mister?

floorr 48

[xroyal_bratx]

In the graveyard, Ishtar was sitting next to one, well she sort of dozed off next to it. It's been a long time since she found herself in such a predicament such as sleeping unprotected in the middle of a graveyard where shit could happen any minute. Well, not for Ishtar. She doesn't care. The girl soundly coddles up to the grave mark of a certain vampire king as she slept.

She missed her friends and she missed her friends from home. Even though Darres was here, she still missed her kitty vampire who supported her for the time she was here. She had Darres and Darres protected her now. She was grateful for that and grateful for the things he was doing for her, but there was always that missing piece. Somehow, she would never get over missing the people she had lost.

Sidia was sitting on her lap, and clutched in one of her hands tightly as she furrowed her brows in her sleep.

[hardedge]

And in his wandering, he finds a human girl just neatly settled against a gravestone sleeping the day away like she has nothing to worry about here. What was it with humans doing dangerous crap like this anyway? He's done more than his fair share of digging and marking graves, but he would never sleep by one.

"HEY! Wake up!"

You're not allowed to sleep here.

[xroyal_bratx]

Ishtar didn't respond to his call. Instead she rolled over on the grave and curled a little more. Her sword was clutched rather tightly still and the furrowing of her brows did not stop. Somehow, might have been mumbling some things that were incoherent to even Inuyasha.

It would take more than a few words to wake up this sleeping log.