Chapter 1: The Boy and His Dragon

[Mitchs98]

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@Mitchs98


  D-D-Did sh-she purr? Bismarck's face went a much brighter shade of pink than before as he recalled that, his eyes meeting with Maria's as she spoke to him. And then it happened. It was raining hearts (in fact, hearts were everywhere), everything was all sparkly, and whatever Maria was saying was muffled due to the cheerful strumming of a guitar. At least, that was what Bismarck saw. What he looked like was a different story; just staring at Maria, wide-eyed and blushing, before walking over and slumping down on the sleeping bag next to her and holding up one of the bags of dried fruit. 


  Come on, Bismarck. Say something clever. Something impressive. Something—


"I like strawberries," he said automatically, followed by a cringe. Nope, that was awful. He passed the fruit to Maria, then some to Liz, taking one piece for himself and eating it slowly. "...........S-S-Sorry.....that sounded pretty stupid.......didn't it....."

Maria and Elizabeth Jones
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Maria giggled from his blush, not quite sure why he was. It was just a hug...what was the big deal? Now sure he was generally nervous...but he didn't have a crush on her too, right? She looked at him curiously and grinned, if that was the case she wouldn't try to hide it anymore. Not that she really did, he was just incredibly oblivious. She just continued smiling at his awkward staring which really looked more like she'd just given him the best kiss of his life than a simple hug. At his words when he came over she arched a brow, "Tell me something I dunno." She told him teasingly as she took the fruit. At his question she nodded slightly, "A little." She replied honestly.
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She stretched a little as she started eating the fruit, "But don't worry, I've said dumb stuff before too." She said. "So has Liz, right Liz?" She asked. Elizabeth stared for a second, "Nope.." She muttered, silently eating. Maria laughed awkwardly, "You get the point.."
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@Necessity4Fun@FemTheHufflepuffRabbit
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Camille Izunami
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Camille had been awake shortly after Chen started her coffee fueled raving. She'd warned the bunny girl time and time again that excessive amounts of caffeine weren't good for the heart but she never listened. Honestly she actually expected her to have a heart attack one day and Camille would have to save her. Of course at that point once she was sure she was fine she'd be telling her 'I told you so' just to rub it in. She wasn't mean spirited by any means, however she would deserve it by then. Very much so in her opinion.
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As it stood now she was taking stock of their medications and generally all of their medical supplies. They were relatively well stocked thanks to the ANF not knowing who the majority of their members actually were. They might not be the most capable band of fighters but they did know stealth and thus far it had served them well. Of course the woman shortly made her way to the meeting area where all the commotion was. She hadn't bothered going previously for the sole reason she didn't intend on going on the mission unless absolutely needed.
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When she got there she of course spotted Sinead, a smirk playing on her lips as she walked over to her. She gently put her arms around the nervous girl from behind and rested her head on her shoulder, "Hii Sinead~" She purred, curling her tail around her leg in an affectionate manner. "Boss lady keeping you on your feet huh?" She asked, glancing to Chen. "Have a heart attack from the coffee yet?" She teased, still playfully smirking both at her crush and the bunny girl nearby.
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[Petroshka]

After a while of waiting Phnira concluded that no other agents were going to show up and sighed once again. All the more adding to her increasing pool of rage, 'and all this cause of that damned kid.' 


"Alright i guess you three are the only ones that give a damn."


She shot a glance at the first person that showed up, Maxwell Chandless, gruff looking mass of muscle. And one of her squad leaders.


"Chandless, advice, ignore her, and she will be apart of your squad during this op, the neko's that escaped with Bismark were female and..."


She shot another glance at her quartermaster and last to arrive. Veronica La Croix, Phnira didnt really have much to say about this woman other than she is in fact bat shit crazy


"...She, has a keen eye for them. " Her eyes narrowed as she made a show of herself. "capture if possible, kill if they see you and run" That order was meant to be loose for interpretation of course


She then eyed the other person that came in right before Chandless. Zuria Moreau, her main tracker and quiet lone wolf.


"Zuria," She nodded to her.


Phnira then closed her eyes and recited what she had in her head


"Alright, we got intel from a few locals that a person of Bismark's description and group were hiding out at, Of course i expect them to be gone by the time we get there that is why."


She looked Zuria


"you will be the first to go in, scout the area and look for clues to where the damned kid is hiding. if you find him don't engage, call for backup then support. If you don't look for any traces of where they may be headed towards or staying at."


She then turned to Chandless and La Croix.


"Your team will go in after Moreau, no need to stay out of sight i will be looking at anyone in the crowd to see if they attempt to flee."


Phnira leaned backward inhaling.


"The bulk of the ANF forces (I.e da grunts) will surround the area to lock the area down. Just to be sure if he slips through somehow." 


@GrieveWriter @Arius LaVari @Sazabi @NekoChanBo @StoneWolf18 (the other two can still pop in )

 

[Rhino Schneider]

It was another boring day for Gorin his life was pretty simple he would wake up find out if he or his squadron we're doing anything and if not well he would spend his time testing out his rifle and right now that's what he was doing. He was at the long range shooting gallery something that he preferred he was shooting targets from between 500 - 1000 yards and all the shots we're hitting their mark he made it look easy to say the least. Firing off three more shots Gorin knew he was out of ammo but yet he didn't even bother to check his target he knew all his shots hit the target being one of the if not the best marksmen in the ANF was something he wore with pride missing a shot especially on a none moving target. Just as he was about to reload he felt a hand on his shoulder turning to face the person the hand belonged to it was one of his squadron members. Gorin removed his earbuds that he used to minimize distractions.


"Sir aren't you meant to be at the briefing?" The grunt asked causing Gorin to look at him blankly. "You know the one going on now that all the higher ups are attending." The grunt continued still getting a blank stare from Gorin before he handed the grunt his rifle. "I want that cleaned before I get back." Gorin said to the grunt before he began setting off to the briefing room. "This place really needs a way to tell their troops that shoot a lot when a briefing is taking place." Gorin mumbled to himself before reaching the briefing room door. He opened the door and stepped in before looking around it seemed before him only three others well four if you include the leader showed up. "So what did I miss this time?" Gorin questioned this wasn't the first time he was late and most likely wouldn't be the last.


@Petroshka @Sazabi @Petroshka @StoneWolf18


(Sorry for the delay been busy free again now)

 

[The Mechanist]

@Mitchs98(Camille) @FemTheHufflepuffRabbit(Chen) @The Fabulous Emerald(John) @Necessity4Fun(Mitsuo)(Sinead) @Phayne(Kasper) @Shadow Alpha(Lucia)  (All NPF)


At hearing the rather interesting yet somehow normal mission briefing Virgil raised his hand, "ill help with the retrieval and extraction mission commander! Ill bring the boom sticks." He said, obviously referring to the guns back in the armory. Even when they werent needed he brought them anyways. His most favorite job was when some of the officers would come back with confiscated fire arms from the warehouses of the criminals. They always had the most interesting toys and he loved adding them to the armory after having them registered and taken off the evidence list.


He looked around, only to see a few others were willing to take on the mission as well, 'good' he thought to himself. 'I hate going at it alone.'

 

[Phayne]

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Late and by no means presentable, Kasper stumbled into the briefing room midway through the briefing and stopped at the doorway. From the last part of the discussion that he had managed to overhear, it seemed like the group inside were already deciding who was going to be assigned to this mission; whatever that mission was.With his greyish-purple hair covering his eyes, Kasper leaned against the door frame, his tail swinging idly behind him as he raised the half full can towards his mouth, twirling the drink slightly to reveal what it was; Milk Coffee. With a small grin barely visible on his face, he placed the can against his lips and proceeded to drink the contents as loudly as possible, the slurping noises he made as he drank potentially making the others in the room uncomfortable. A few seconds and several gulps later, Kasper had finished the drink, remnants of the milky caffeine beverage present around his lips before disappearing as he used the sleeve on his free hand to wipe it away. 
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"Ah.. Nya!" he spoke, exhaling as he did so and in the process letting the aroma of milk and coffee waft through the air slightly. "That sure hit the spot!" he chimed, dropping the can from his grip and extending both hands far above his own head as he stretched his body out, his stomach pushed and his body shaking slightly as he did so. The can hit the rim of the bin, twirling slightly before falling inside. "Chen-Chan!" he began, approaching the desk in the room and climbing on top of it himself. Despite everything else going on in the room, the one thing he wanted to do right now was make a scene; being the 'stick in the mud' the proverbial pain in the ass was his job, and he wouldn't be doing that job if he didn't make life harder for everybody else. To the side of the room, close to where their leader stood were two other female members of their rag tag group of 'officers' and despite their current actions he had remained rather unaffected by the sight of Sinead and Camille, by now he had gotten rather used to the sight of them being in such close proximity to one another that the sheer 'wow' factor of such a thing of beauty had lost all its allure on him.  If anything, he was more surprised by the lack of progression between the two; 'What was Camille waiting for?' he had often asked himself. 
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On top of the table but crawling on all fours, his feline eyes glanced to his side and through a forest of disheveled hair he glanced at Mitsuo, a neko that Kasper often thought needed to relax a little bit more.  Kasper simply could not comprehend why he took his role so seriously; that side of him almost the stark contrast to how Kasper was. To say they didn't see eye to eye in the past would be an understatement.  In a bid to annoy, Kasper twisted his body around so that he was now laying on his back with his feet in the direction of Mitsuo and his long tail sweeping from side to side directly infront of him; anything he had had on his desk would most likely have been knocked too the floor.  Aside from this act, he barely acknowledge him. 
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Now facing another part of the room, his eyes fell upon their quartermaster; Virgil, another member who like Mitsuo, took the job way too seriously, at least in Kaspers opinion, though unlike with Mitsuo, Kasper had less of a reason to annoy him since the quartermaster often carried Lollipops around with him. He would have asked the man if he had another on him, but the strong aroma of a cigar reached his nose causing Kasper to rapidly roll over back to his front and scramble towards the source; John. As he scrambled, he felt the underside of his foot make contact with a hard surface and given the direction, it may or may not have been Mitsuo's face; not that Kasper showed any outward care for. "John-San!" shouted Kasper, feigning a tone of worry.  Kasper had now stopped in front of Lucia, his hand placed on top of her head for balance as he leaned over the table towards John. "Smoking in-doors again?.. Tsk tsk tsk.. John-San's breaking the rules again" taunted Kasper, his free hand outstretched and waving from side to side with his index finger extended as if he were scolding a child. Giving him a cheeky grin, he lowered his head so that he was looking back at Lucia; his hand still resting upon her head and stuck his tongue out at her, he winked; silently thanking her for being a great balancing tool.  Satisfied that he had sufficiently been a pain to pretty much everyone, he pushed himself off Lucia so that he was back on the table and spun around so that he was facing Chen once again. "Cheeeeeeennnnn-Chaaaan" he chimed once more, stretching her name out this time. "Whats all the fuss?" he questioned simply, sitting on the table; his legs crossed and both hands placed down in the gap created between his feet; almost like a Pre-schooler eagerly waiting for their teacher to read them a story. His tail meanwhile swished from side to side once more, knocking anything else that was on the table, his head rocking from side to side slowly and in the opposite direction of his tail. 
 
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@FemTheHufflepuffRabbit@Necessity4Fun@The Fabulous Emerald@Shadow Alpha@The Mechanist
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@Mitchs98
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Sorry if I've missed people out x.x
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[Shadow Alpha]

Lucia's blue eye's watched unamused as Kasper decided to do what he does best, being the problem child of the group. She personally enjoyed Kaspers' theatrics because she was one that also loved to liven things up. This time was a little different because she did not like how close his hand came to ears. Everyone on the team was painfully aware of the consequences that result from touching her ears and tail without her explicit consent. There was an incident with a human suspect that thought he could pull on them while resisting arrest. The poor fool will never recover from the intense burns left on 80% of his body.


Lucia sent a playful growl that was laced with a real threat in his direction before returning with her trademark prankster grin. "So glad to see you  Kas, you're timing couldn't have been better." She left the room quickly before returning with a bag of cookies that she had mad beforehand for her colleagues. The bag was soon opened to allow its scent to flow throughout the entire room. There's really nothing better than the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies...that were heavily laced with catnip. 'I've always wondered what the hell would happen to nekos around catnip. I mean, what's the worse that could happen?'

 

[TheHufflepuffRabbit]

@Mitchs98


  Bismarck finished the fruit relatively quickly, choking on it when Maria admitted that what he had said was in fact kind of stupid, slumping over as she continued by saying that she said stupid stuff too sometimes. He nodded, muttering "thanks" under his breath, before standing up and starting to take down the tent, placing everything into their respective drawstring bags. He looked at what was left to pick up; not much, thank goodness. All he had to do was summon Patronus, load everything up, and then get them out of here. He sent the invisibility cloak back into the book; small golden letters lingered on him for a second, then disappeared. He searched his bag for a moment, then, upon finding Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, smiled, gripping it in his hand and opening it to the page on dragons. 


  Once again the golden letters appeared, clustering together to make the shape of the terrifyingly large reptilian. Then the shape solidified into the beautiful silvery-blue Swedish Shortsnout, Patronus. She greeted her young master with the usual respecting bow of the head, which Bismarck returned, stroking her large, scaly body. Her right wing lowered to make a sort of plank, allowing the child to pick up quite a few of the bags, walking onto the dragon and carefully securing them to the harness. He walked back down again to grab the cooler of food they already had (yum, fish) and spent a longer time attaching the cooler. 


  ".....R-Right.....uh.....whenever you two are ready," he called back down to Maria and Elizabeth. "H-How does the beach sound....? I found out about this island off the coast of Virginia....it'll be a warm, quiet change.....you know?" The boy smiled awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. 


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@The Fabulous Emerald @Shadow Alpha @Phayne @Mitchs98 @The Mechanist


  Chen was about to answer Lucia's question, only to be interrupted by the arrival of more officers; she pouted at Camille, stubbornly taking a sip of coffee as though to say that she was gonna keep drinking the coffee no matter what they said. It was her precious. Nuff said. Her ears pricked up when she heard more people requesting to do the retrieval and extraction mission. Chen looked to the volunteers so far with a smile, clasping her hands. 


  "Wonderful! If we keep receiving volunteers, we'll be able to beat the ANF before they can even get started!" she chirped, bustling back to her file and searching through it until she found what she was looking for; a plastic bag with a brown strand of hair in it. "For those of you volunteering, this is found DNA of the boy. It's been thoroughly tested and confirmed to be his; oddly enough, the DNA itself has some components that don't belong in human beings, and that hasn't appeared in previous generations of his family. What is it? Magic~!" The girl was about to continue, had she not heard Kasper calling her name. "It's a rescue mission!" she answered cheerily. "Isn't it gonna be fun? I don't know how we'll find the three children we're looking for, though....."

 

[The Fabulous Emerald]

"Hmm... I'll do what I can. But I must ask - what was his last location, Chen?"


John preferred calling Chen by her name unlike some of the others who simply called her 'boss'. He felt it is more personal that way.


@FemTheHufflepuffRabbit

 

[Phayne]

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Kasper returned a grin towards Lucia, one hand raised in a wave, before he returned his attention to Chen, "A rescue mission?" replied Kasper, his voice soft and oddly innocent. As he spoke, he had risen one finger to his lip and tilted his head to one side in confusion as he looked up at Chen. His confusion wasn't caused by the mission itself, he understood completely that the objective was to rescue this 'Human but not 100% human' boy from the clutches of the ANF, that part was straightforward; the cause for confusion was derived from her rhetorical question; nothing about this mission sounded fun at all. 
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"That doesn't sound like much fun"[SIZE= 14px] he sighed; a glimmer of disappointment in his tone as he said so. Interest lost, he placed both hands to either side of himself and spun himself around on the desk so that his back was now facing Chen, then fluidly placing his right elbow on his right knee and using his hand to support his head meanwhile his left hand was now etching circles on the desk with his nails. He sighed deeply as he continued to mope on the desk; though this little 'episode' of his didn't last long as his nose twitched; the scent of something he adored reaching his nostrils. [/SIZE]
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Almost suddenly he had jumped upwards, both hands outstretched in front of him as he leapt towards the returning Lucia, his form resembling that of a feline predator leaping onto its prey. "Is that what I think it is - nya!" he voice now full of childish excitement. He landed on the floor in front of her and placed both hands on her shoulders, his face now in close proximity to hers. "Those aren't normal cookies are they?.. kekeke" he remarked. A bit of saliva beginning to pool on the edge of his lips. His hair had parted slightly during that sudden movement, his left eye becoming revealed solely to Lucia who was closest to him. An almost dark and intimidating grin was plastered across his mouth accompanied by the fierce predatory gleam in his hazel eyes and unlike earlier when he was fooling around,  he now carried a much crueler and sinister presence on him. 
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Given the difference in his earlier demeanor and this momentary look of seriousness, some have come to question his sanity, even going to such an extent as to question whether or not he had a split-personality; though the whole truth regarding himself has yet to come to light nor will it ever. He held this pose for only a few seconds before shaking his head slightly to cover his eye from view once more and as he did so the air and presence around him returned to how it originally was. "Luuuuuccciiiaaa- Chan" he sang, "May I?"
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@FemTheHufflepuffRabbit@Shadow Alpha
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[Sazabi]

"Sounds good boss" Maxwell said pausing to lit a cigarette. "What about Zeus?" He asked in a cloud of smoke as Gorin arrived wondering what he missed.


"Miss.....hmmm, everything like every other time buddy...." He turned back to Phinra. "You got a deadly asset in the cells below your feet. I say we use him. He has let us down yet and two trackers will be better then one. You can assign him to Zuria, I can guarantee he won't cross us." He spoke the truth as below them a few floors was a neko that had turned himself into the ANF and willingly let them turn him into a weapon and a highly deadly one at that.


"I guess I will be fine with long legs here, Gorin will probably go camp some where like he always does.....so when do we depart?" He asked anxiously. He was paid by the mission and right now it had been a few days since his last one. He had expensive taste in his arsenal and tore through ammo like candy.

 

[GrieveWriter]

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[COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"Aw, danke Fraulein Iscara!" [/COLOR]Veronica giggled as she gave several quick bows to the ANF Leader [COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"Such a generous und well-though plan, mein commandant. I shall find ze precious pretties and drag zem back to zeir cages in quite ze timely fashion!"[/COLOR]


Her gaze then shifted to Gorin, arriving late to the party as usual [COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"Herr Darga, we are tasked with ze apprehension of two darling little delinquents who zink ze can run form our tender, loving embrace." [/COLOR]she explained whilst leaning dangerously on her musket [COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"Und ze complete and utter destruction of one male pest who stole zem from us."[/COLOR]


She leaned back up as she seemed to realize something [COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"Ah! Zat reminds me, I may have to zink up new ways to...restrain ze little ones to prevent zis from happening again."[/COLOR]


She stood there thinking about it for some time before a massive blush rose all across her face and she began giggling at her thoughts. She stayed like this for some time until Maxwell brought up Zues, then her blush cleared up as she thought of the uses of the Squad Leader's pet [COLOR= rgb(128, 0, 128)]"If ze NPF try getting involved, I suppose having a meat shield like Herr Sandless' doggie will be greatly beneficial, no?"[/COLOR]


 @Petroshka@Sazabi@NekoChanBo@StoneWolf18

 

[Petroshka]

Phnira Iscara Shot a look at the late comer, Chötgöriin Darga their best sharp shooter. She hadn't really planned much seeing how he was late.


"For having such a sharp eye you sure are blind when it comes time. You will be providing overwatch in the rooftops above, check for any unusual activity or potential escape routes. Report, before, you shoot." she grinned at him before Chandless started talking again making her frown


"will you take responsibility for his actions?"


She wasn't against using other neko's against the NPF but she personally didn't trust them. But if he did go AWOL on us she didnt want to be the one responsible and having to do all the paper work.


glaring at their quarter master with a poker face all the while slowly leaning away from her no wanting to know what she was thinking about.


"Unfortunately we need the kid alive, he is powerful and there are any experiments we can do with him."


She paused with a low smile forming.


"But that doesn't mean we can't injure him." 


Her face straightened and she looked up with a confident expression. "We leave soon gather your gear and we move out in thirty minutes, the grunts are already gearing up. briefing dismissed! Chandless give me your answer then leave." 


@GrieveWriter  @Sazabi @NekoChanBo @StoneWolf18 

 

[Tsutarji]

Kyra Hereroto 
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Kyra sighed,she was so late ,she had over sleep and she knew she was one gonna get in big trouble or two she was gonna have her sword taken away for the day or something worse" cmon Kyra lets get going " she said as she got dressed and ran down to the weapons room and she started to do her job "oh great everything is ok " she said before she looked down " hmm wheres the other...oh yeah its only morning.." she groaned out of her own stupidity and she went to the kitchen and sheb just sighed "hmm Good morning everyone" she waved and she started to make her some coffee "ahh now this will calm me down for sure " she thought to herself and she sat down near Camille and Sinead. "oh hi guys...sorry i'm still asleep so if you say something i might not ....hear you" she said as she slowly sipped on her coffee.
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[Sazabi]

Maxwell scratched his head at the being responsible for Zeus' actions part. He had only gone on a couple missions with the neko and from what he had seen the wolf had no mercy for the NPF, the personal grudge he had definitely shone strong whenever he fought. 


"I suggest if you want then alive keep him with Zuria. He will kill any NPF he gets his hands on but then again your organization trained and beat him into the weapon he is. Combine his nose with Zuria and should have no problem finding them then call him in if things get up shit's creek"


With that he stood up putting out his cigarette. "I will go sign him out. Just let me know what you decide boss" He left the room to make his way through the complex to the cells down below. He went ahead and pulled out his ID as the four checkpoints he would have to pass through to get the neko would ask for it. 


By the third one he was annoyed but understood the reason of keeping just a lock and key on Zeus as no telling what he would do if he switched sides. Honestly he didn't want to go head to head with the neko, especially in hand to hand.


"How's it going George?" He asked as the guard scanned his ID at the fourth checkpoint.


"Ooh you know just watching Zeus fight as always. Looks like they got him learning muay thia now...he already broke one of the instructors noses bad."


Maxwell just shook his head. "They enjoy making him as deadly as possible don't they" He waved over his shoulder as he passed through the thick bulkhead door to find the neko sparring with several ANF instructors, elbows and knees being thrown like crazy. While one took a vicious blow to the stomach another manage to blindside the tall neko and lay him out flat. "Sorry guys" He chuckled bringing everything to a stop as he crossed the floor of the slightly dim room, grinning as Zeus flipped back up to his feet seemingly unfazed by the blow he took but then again when you get beat year after year you eventually lose feeling. "We got a mission"

Zeus checked his weapons in the locker room, going through complete checklists on each before stowing them. His almost lavender eyes scanning over each item with an almost cold interest as his mind ran over the details of the mission. 
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Some human had escaped and was with two nekos, showed how lax the ANF had gotten. The thought disgusted him. In his mind the NPF needed to be handled quickly before more ended up losing their families like he did. The NPF were not out to help slaves as they said, only gains of their own personal agenda.
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This was why he made each one cease to exist and with possible NPF involvement in the capture of this human he could thin their ranks more. Would.....he would thin their ranks. His ears twitched slightly at the anger rising in him but that was quickly shut down.
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Closing his locker door he left the room to find six agents waiting to escort him to Maxwell. 
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Holding out his hands, the specially designed gloves to nullify him from bringing his magic to his hands were strapped on along with the collar around his neck. Chains were attached to each each glove then to the collar before he was lead to his handler Maxwell.
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His handler was geared up already in his kit, the machine gun resting on his shoulder while he enjoyed a smoke. Unconsciously he took a sniff picking up the anxiety around him though that was normal and he didn't mind it. He was a Neko after all and the ANF killed them.
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Maybe today he would be able to find the one that brought his world down around him and watch the life fade from his eyes.
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[MrNeko]

Camilla came out of her room with red eyes from being on her PC almost all night "I'm so tired I regret my decision of staying there all night...but it was fun" she said to herself. She went to go get herself some coffee to try and wake herself so she can be energetic and start her day. She grabbed her self a cup and poured herself a large amount of  coffee "Good...morning" she said slowly to anyone who was nearby she waved too. She put down the cup on the table and sat on the floor. 

 

[Shadow Alpha]

Lucia's grin answered Kasper's question of the cookie's ingredients, "You know how I love to spice things up Kas." She watched as she caught a good look at his eyes and felt as if he were nothing more than a wild animal leering at its prey. It excited her to the point where she could feel some of her adrenaline kicking in for a reason unknown to her. Lucia placed 2 cookies into Kasper's awaiting hands and placed her mouth near his ear to jokingly whisper, "No need to give me the bedroom eyes Kas over a few cookies, if only you were a girl."


A sudden voice floated to her and she stood up completely straight as watched Camilla take a spot on the floor. Lucia had always crushed on the older neko and assumed that she hid pretty well. To anyone with common sense, seeing her tail wag quickly upon Camilla's entrance was a pure give away. "Good morning Camilla," came out of her mouth in a low and rushed tone.


@MrNeko @Phayne

 

[Mitchs98]

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@Mitchs98


  Bismarck finished the fruit relatively quickly, choking on it when Maria admitted that what he had said was in fact kind of stupid, slumping over as she continued by saying that she said stupid stuff too sometimes. He nodded, muttering "thanks" under his breath, before standing up and starting to take down the tent, placing everything into their respective drawstring bags. He looked at what was left to pick up; not much, thank goodness. All he had to do was summon Patronus, load everything up, and then get them out of here. He sent the invisibility cloak back into the book; small golden letters lingered on him for a second, then disappeared. He searched his bag for a moment, then, upon finding Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, smiled, gripping it in his hand and opening it to the page on dragons. 


  Once again the golden letters appeared, clustering together to make the shape of the terrifyingly large reptilian. Then the shape solidified into the beautiful silvery-blue Swedish Shortsnout, Patronus. She greeted her young master with the usual respecting bow of the head, which Bismarck returned, stroking her large, scaly body. Her right wing lowered to make a sort of plank, allowing the child to pick up quite a few of the bags, walking onto the dragon and carefully securing them to the harness. He walked back down again to grab the cooler of food they already had (yum, fish) and spent a longer time attaching the cooler. 


  ".....R-Right.....uh.....whenever you two are ready," he called back down to Maria and Elizabeth. "H-How does the beach sound....? I found out about this island off the coast of Virginia....it'll be a warm, quiet change.....you know?" The boy smiled awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck.

Maria and Elizabeth Jones
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Maria giggled a little when she heard him choke thanks to her comment. Honestly Bismarck was so awkward she couldn't help but to tease him a little...okay a lot...okay every single second she could. She ate peacefully with her sister and watched Bismarck pack up their tent. When the dragon was summoned she, of course, walked up to it petting it gently while Bismarck did his thing. Patronus was always a welcome sight and very amazing to see. She couldn't really believe she was actually there whenever she was summoned. At his question she looked up to him. Her eyes widened a little and she nodded excitedly, "Yes of course!" She replied. "That sounds amazing I've always wanted to go to the beach!" She cheered.
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Even Elizabeth seemed excited, on the outside anyway. "That would work nicely." She said. Though she had a look of pure excitement of her on, clearly eager to get away from everything. Especially since the ANF mostly spanned the US as of current. It would certainly be more relaxing too.
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[MrNeko]

Lucia's grin answered Kasper's question of the cookie's ingredients, "You know how I love to spice things up Kas." She watched as she caught a good look at his eyes and felt as if he were nothing more than a wild animal leering at its prey. It excited her to the point where she could feel some of her adrenaline kicking in for a reason unknown to her. Lucia placed 2 cookies into Kasper's awaiting hands and placed her mouth near his ear to jokingly whisper, "No need to give me the bedroom eyes Kas over a few cookies, if only you were a girl."


A sudden voice floated to her and she stood up completely straight as watched Camilla take a spot on the floor. Lucia had always crushed on the older neko and assumed that she hid pretty well. To anyone with common sense, seeing her tail wag quickly upon Camilla's entrance was a pure give away. "Good morning Camilla," came out of her mouth in a low and rushed tone.


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She looked over to whoever was talking "Uhh g..ood mor..ing" she said to her in a low voice then waving she pulled her hat down so it can block her eyes. "Can you pass me my coffee I left it on the table I'm so tired" she moaned. She looked down at the floor hoping to fall asleep but she needed to stay awake for the day "Who else is in this room?" She said to everyone in the room 


@Shadow Alpha

 

[Necessity4Fun]

The Inu was relieved to hear someone else worry for Ms. Chen's coffee intake. A black and white Kitsune entered the room instantly ordering Sinead to not give their leader any more coffee. Confused about the conflicting orders, the girl nodded to be respectful and took a step back, waiting on the Usagi's reaction. But first, the Kitsune she couldn't recall the name of pat her in the head. Taken by the haze of a calming feeling brought by the petting, the secretary/assistant's eyes sparkled, as she stood with her mouth open and tail wagging happily:

"Ahhh~~~", she let out in a low voice.

And then it was over. Sinead had a hard time recalling what it was she was doing, only remembering the situation when Ms Chen almost tackled her, asking for coffee and scaring the life out of the girl:


"WAHH!! AH, M-miss Chen? W-what are you doing?? P-p-p-please stop...", that last sentence nothing but a nervous high pitch plea, followed by her ears and tail going down in a mix of anxiety and fear.


Frozen in place, she only reacted again to pull her arm back when the Usagimimi finally let it go, in response to a sudden Karate chop. Sinead, now in the edge of a panic attack, kept her distance from the two, watching attentively in alarm, her flight instinct flashing like crazy. Going back a full steps seemed to work, as everyone seemingly had forgotten about her existence, which was actually a good thing.
Ms. Chen and the unknown Kitsune kept chatting about the mission, but at this point the information was pretty much entering from one ear and going through the other as the secretary attempted to calm her accelerated heart and breathing rate down. Fortunately, by the time of Camille's assault she was almost back to normal, otherwise Sinead would have jumped out her skin. The Neko, who was unusually nice to her all the time, came purring and performing tricks with her tail. Sinead blushed, a little uncomfortable with the exaggerated attention she was receiving, not really understanding what or why but not wanting to interrupt it at the same time. No harm was being done after all:

"H-hi Camille~ Oh, you seem to be in high spirits today too...", the Inu waved and smiled timidly, "H-how do you manage to be in such a good mood all the time? It's really impressive!"


The next person to enter the room was Kasper, who Sinead often refereed to as 'trickster Kasper' because of his carefree but rather thoughtless antics. She wouldn't lie, sometimes his performances made her laugh and feel better. She really enjoyed that! But, at the same time, the Inu felt worried that his behavior would get in the way of others to a point where they would start fighting. She hated to see fighting, specially when it was between her own NPF colleges, who despite she not knowing all their names, the girl regarded as family, no exceptions. And families shouldn't fight, right?


Suddenly, a new smell filled the room and trickster Kasper went crazy! Well, crazier than normal at least... He leaped to the front at once and Sinead's first instinct was to crouch down and take cover behind the Kitsune, just in case she was the target. But, turns out he just wanted some cookies! Hahahahahaha, f-false alarm! EVERYTHING IS STILL FINE OVER HERE!

Upon getting back up, Sinead noticed a white haired Neko, whose name she also couldn't recall... Ugh, she worked with paperwork but still could memorize the information on them! Anyway, the Neko sat down close to the front group slipping her coffee and looking very dazed and sleepy still. The Inu, back in a good mood thought that perhaps giving her an energetic greeting would help:

"G-GOOD MORNING!! Did you sleep well?", she engaged on a cliché conversation for no reason whatsoever. And then someone else asked who was in the room, Sinead promptly turned around, raised her hand and waved it left and right, "I'm here!"


@Shadow Alpha, @FemTheHufflepuffRabbit, @Mitchs98, @Tsutarji, @MrNeko

Occasionally rolling his eyes at his co-workers AND captain shenanigans, Mitsuo had a hard time separating all the banter from the ACTUAL mission plans. He didn't know how everyone else could even put up with this chaos, even more understand and plan anything! Jeez, why can't we all be more professional?


What he had manages to understand was that some kid and two Nekos needed to be rescued, and that those assholes from the ANF were also on their trail. Well, if it is that dire of a situation, why are we all here sitting down and drinking coffee peacefully???!!

"God Dammit, I swear that we're the most unorganized and chaotic Police Force of the entire continent! Why?! Just WHY do I deserve this?"

As his right ear and tail flicked in frustration, the Neko boy found his only solace on John, who seemed to be the only person that was still sane and thinking rationally in the entire meeting. Seems like there IS some hope after all! Or he had thought so, but then their leader was clueless about the personnel placement, and instead had made it a first come, first serve voluntary program:


"Are you kidding me?!", Mitsuo's tail went from casually flicking to lashing out angrily, he could believe what he was hearing!

His second solace of the day was Virgil's volunteering. Since both of them were found of firearms, the boy brought his hand to his mouth in thought, considering his options. Well, John didn't seem like the type of guy to work in teams so- And then someone's tail passed through his field of vision, completely breaking his trail of thought:

"Ah, KASPER! WHAT.THE.HELL dude?! If you're not going to help, at least don't break my focus!", he hissed, slapping the other's tail aside.

Despite his plea, the other boy seemed to disregard his presence completely... Are you seeing what he has to deal with EVERY SINGLE DAY?! This Neko certainly had something against him, it couldn't simply be a coincidence since annoying him seemed to be part of this idiot's ritual. Giving up on taking the stupid co-worker from his table, Mitsuo's ear flicked in irritation as he attempted to concentrate again. But soon enough something started moving towards him.
The little Neko reacted fast, shielding himself from Kasper's foot with his wrist. The sharp pain from the impact caused him to grit his teeth. It's a good thing Kasper didn't stay for too long, because at this point Mitsuo had gotten up from seat, with his fur standing on end and was pretty much DONE with him. Lucia's cookies had saved him from tasting his anger in the form of a gem assault. Sitting down again, the boy took a deep breath to calm himself down. His tail, though still fluffed up, had at least diminished on the lashing around as he tried to get back on the trail of thoughts the stupid Kaster had so selfishly disrupted.

Whatever the front group was talking about, Mitsuo wasn't paying attention. Pondering about the possibilities, he only shifted his attention back to them when Camila asked who was around the room:

"I'm present.", he raised his voice just enough to be heard by her, "Taking advantage of this break you provided, I'd like to volunteer in assisting Virgil with Retrieval and Extraction. If you'd both allow me, of course", he nodded at Ma'am Chen, before looking back towards the end of the room and doing the same towards Virgil, asking for their confirmations.


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[Tsutarji]

Kyra Hereroto
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Kyra looked up at the Inu not far from her sit and she smiled  sleepy " I sleep good but i wish my alarm wouldn't have gone off " she looked down at her Coffee " Hmm how did you sleep " she asked Sinead before she took another sip of her coffee "hmm i can make some good coffee " she whispered and she looked up when someone asked who was here " Kyra's here!" she said out loud and more energetic. She then looked at Sinead "Hey Sinead um could you help me today... i'm kind of in a bundle with the weapons and i need to know how many are all in stock so i can make sure they are all there " she said before she got up and she went to the refrigerator and she got her a piece of bread and a piece of ham and made her a sandwich and she sat down again and started to eat her breakfast.
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@Necessity4Fun
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[The Fabulous Emerald]

"Sigh..."


John, disheartened by the chaos and the lack of organisation, decides to go back to his station. Before he leaves, however, he decides to call out to the room.


"Good luck with that 'plan' of yours. God knows you need it."


With a quick insult under his breath, John decides to leave to do some actual work. He decides it would be best to survey the land around the target's last known location, and research deeper into the target and his allies.

 

[Shadow Alpha]

Lucia leapt towards the table to retrieve some coffee for Camilla. She held it out towards the older neko while her the fur on her tail stood on end from being close to Camilla, "Here you go Camilla, a warm cup of coffee and a we have some cookies if you'd like one." Lucia's free hand gestured to the plate of cookies that were on the table beside Camilla.


@MrNeko

 

[TheHufflepuffRabbit]

@Mitchs98 


  Bismarck sensed an air of enthusiasm surrounding Maria and Elizabeth; feeling encouraged by that, he smiled slightly, rubbing Patronus's neck as they expressed their enthusiasm. They would be in a nice, quiet, tropical place; they would also be off the radar. In the middle of nowhere. On one end, that meant no signal at all, which meant that the radio would blast out fuzz for the entire time they'd be staying there. But on another, the good outweighed the bad; nothing like staying as far away from danger as possible. Maybe then he would be able to confess to Maria the feelings he'd so diligently hidden for what felt like a long time. 


  "....B-Brilliant!" he sputtered, feeling significantly happier. "....J-Just remember to leave no trace of us ever being here. We've been able to keep ourselves off the ANF's trail for a while....the last thing we need is them....." He trailed off, remembering his time spent at the ANF's headquarters as a prisoner.


  Every day, it seemed, he had gotten dragged out, getting blood tests and being told to summon this, summon that, all while a bunch of scary-looking people had taken notes. The tests he had hated the most were the ones testing his athletic ability; Bismarck was small, asthmatic, and just not very athletic in general and had often passed out during those tests. The ones testing his mental abilities, though, were easy as pie. A walk in the park. All he had to do was grab the pencil and paper, fill out the stupid questionnaire, answer their stupid questions ("I think it's pretty obvious why 1+1=2, Mr. Scary Military Man With a Gun. I'm not retarded."), and so on.


  The child blinked, realizing that he had paused mid-sentence again. What had he been talking about? He tried to recall it, then, giving up, just awkwardly nodded and laid down on Patronus. He was trembling slightly; those memories were torture within themselves. 


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@Necessity4Fun @The Fabulous Emerald @MrNeko @Phayne @Shadow Alpha @_NPF_MEETING


  Chen looked back and forth as the members discussed, trying to get a word in, but to her frustration, whenever one finished talking, someone else piped up. Her ears drooped; she finally found herself able to speak right before John left (in fact, she dove across the table). "WAAAAAAAIIIIIIT!!!!" the Usagimimi shouted, now on the opposite end of the table, laying on her belly. "M-Mister Saedor and Co. were last sighted in West Virginia....they often move around, though, so once we get there, they're very likely to be gone. However! W-w-we do have an advantage, seeing as we can pick up their scents based off of the DNA sample. Anyone who will be going, p-please prepare to suit up and meet me at the entrance in twenty minutes....that'll be enough time to gather our troops and head out, straight towards the targets. Understood?" 

 

[The Fabulous Emerald]

John chuckles under his breath.


"Finally. This is what we need from you. I shall join you; I have more experience finding things than most people here."

 

[Shadow Alpha]

Lucia's right ear pricked up at the mention of being able to follow the children's scent based off on some DNA Chen had seemed to magically remember. She had always been quite proud of her nose that has gotten her out of some pretty rough situations and was happy that she did not know of the fox equivalent to catnip. "I'm all for tracking down their scent, it seems  like this mission would more smoothly if we split into smaller units to find these kids."