Eterna had taken to hiding behind an upturned desk as the rest of the group scrambled to take care of the invading army of ninjas. Haruhi and her nailed bat alone seemed more than enough to tackle the lot, thus Eterna decided to spare her boken a few notches and scratches.
"Our piece de resistance, the WWII Churchill tank!" Roared the proud colonel behind her as the sound of whirring gears and rolling of heavy tracks joined the sound of general chaos outside.
"Piece of what?!" She heard AMM cry as he leapt behind a desk at the opposite side of the room.
Zeni, on the other hand, had chosen her upturned desk as his place of refuge.
"Hmm...nice way to start the term, isn't it, Zeni-chan?" Eterna smiled. "I don't think I've introduced myself properly. Well, you know, with all the hockey, uber-secret organizations, and all that, we barely had time." She chuckled. "Anyway, I'm Eterna. I know you're Zeni."
"Oh, all right then." Zeni nodded dispassionately as a bomb exploded in the room behind them.
"Hey! Guys! Money isn't everything y'know!" AMM shouted from behind his cover as yet another flaming computer flew through the air.
"Ne, Zeni-chan..." Eterna began.
"Why are you calling me Zeni-chan anyway?" Zeni asked, irritated.
"Well, that's what I want to get at, actually." Eterna said, with a knowing grin.
Zeni sweatdropped. Wherever this was going, he knew it wasn't something in his favour.
"Anou....All students, please remember that this is just a friendly match to help everyone get to know each other, it being the beginning of the year and all. Everyone? Awawawawawa....Narusegawa-sempai, nobody's listening!" the timid-sounding voice sounded again over the PA.
"This is your idea of a friendly get-together?!" AMM shrieked as a missile lazily meandered through the window and exploded in the ceiling above them.
"I know you're a girl. Call it a female intuition." Eterna grinned as yet another explosion lit up the room.
"Wh-What?!" Zeni stammered, turning a bright shade of red, perhaps, and Zeni would argue, because of the explosion, but Eterna knew better. "P-Preposterous. I'm an honourable member of the Noble Scarlet! We pride ourselves in being honourable, truthful, just, law abiding...."
"...men." Eterna finished for him...or rather, her. "Yes, it's obvious that you lied your way into the Noble Scarlet just to get the chance to dabble in 'real world' stuff. I mean, it's obvious. Your mannerisms pretty much says it, 'I'm trying hard to be a boy'. I can imagine that female vampires just stay at home and hope for a decent groom and everything while the males get all the fun, ne?"
"....you can't prove anything." Zeni said, in a deadly final tone. "And if we ever have this conversation again, I'll make sure it'll be your last." He said, his voice edged with diamonds. A grenade landed with a clatter in front of them.
"My katanas disagree, but that's another matter altogether." Eterna continued pleasantly, picking up the grenade and tossing it back over the table. "Anyway, I believe our friend with the weird name's having more trouble than handling the mere trivialties of this K-fight."
"Hey! What's this grenade doing..." they heard AMM start before his voice gave away to a loud KABOOM.
"Heh, Epsilon you mean? Leave him and DITE be. They always sort themselves out. The MQCE shouldn't be much of a problem for them." Zeni shrugged.
"Ah, so you know quite a bit." Eterna nodded with approval. "Good. Shows that you're not some ignorant backwater vampie. Problem is, these MQCEs as you call them, 'Kagegami' to us Shinmei-ryui swordswomen, might prove a nuisance to us too. Their presence is unbalancing the academy's magical field. You know what happens to a critically unstable yet powerful magical field, don't you?" She asked rhetorically, like a teacher might ask a student what 1 + 1 equalled.
"...." Zeni stayed silent, another explosion lighting up half her face. "I know that, but at the same time the academy's library island and the magical library at the root of the world tree grounds all magical distortions. The worst you can expect is perhaps an outbreak of magical creatures spawned from the magical fallout."
"....with the necronomnicon possibly being down there, would you risk a build-up of unstable magic down there?" Eterna continued, prodding the subject with surgical precision and inching Zeni along towards the inevitable conclusion.
"Ok, ok, bottom-line is, you want me to help your DITE friends, right?" Zeni sighed with utter reluctance. "All right, I will. But in all fairness, it's obvious that Emerald Weapon would soak up all the stray magic before it ever reaches the necronomnicon."
"Good boy, or rather, girl, I knew you'd understand." Eterna nodded with satisfaction.
"Our piece de resistance, the WWII Churchill tank!" Roared the proud colonel behind her as the sound of whirring gears and rolling of heavy tracks joined the sound of general chaos outside.
"Piece of what?!" She heard AMM cry as he leapt behind a desk at the opposite side of the room.
Zeni, on the other hand, had chosen her upturned desk as his place of refuge.
"Hmm...nice way to start the term, isn't it, Zeni-chan?" Eterna smiled. "I don't think I've introduced myself properly. Well, you know, with all the hockey, uber-secret organizations, and all that, we barely had time." She chuckled. "Anyway, I'm Eterna. I know you're Zeni."
"Oh, all right then." Zeni nodded dispassionately as a bomb exploded in the room behind them.
"Hey! Guys! Money isn't everything y'know!" AMM shouted from behind his cover as yet another flaming computer flew through the air.
"Ne, Zeni-chan..." Eterna began.
"Why are you calling me Zeni-chan anyway?" Zeni asked, irritated.
"Well, that's what I want to get at, actually." Eterna said, with a knowing grin.
Zeni sweatdropped. Wherever this was going, he knew it wasn't something in his favour.
"Anou....All students, please remember that this is just a friendly match to help everyone get to know each other, it being the beginning of the year and all. Everyone? Awawawawawa....Narusegawa-sempai, nobody's listening!" the timid-sounding voice sounded again over the PA.
"This is your idea of a friendly get-together?!" AMM shrieked as a missile lazily meandered through the window and exploded in the ceiling above them.
"I know you're a girl. Call it a female intuition." Eterna grinned as yet another explosion lit up the room.
"Wh-What?!" Zeni stammered, turning a bright shade of red, perhaps, and Zeni would argue, because of the explosion, but Eterna knew better. "P-Preposterous. I'm an honourable member of the Noble Scarlet! We pride ourselves in being honourable, truthful, just, law abiding...."
"...men." Eterna finished for him...or rather, her. "Yes, it's obvious that you lied your way into the Noble Scarlet just to get the chance to dabble in 'real world' stuff. I mean, it's obvious. Your mannerisms pretty much says it, 'I'm trying hard to be a boy'. I can imagine that female vampires just stay at home and hope for a decent groom and everything while the males get all the fun, ne?"
"....you can't prove anything." Zeni said, in a deadly final tone. "And if we ever have this conversation again, I'll make sure it'll be your last." He said, his voice edged with diamonds. A grenade landed with a clatter in front of them.
"My katanas disagree, but that's another matter altogether." Eterna continued pleasantly, picking up the grenade and tossing it back over the table. "Anyway, I believe our friend with the weird name's having more trouble than handling the mere trivialties of this K-fight."
"Hey! What's this grenade doing..." they heard AMM start before his voice gave away to a loud KABOOM.
"Heh, Epsilon you mean? Leave him and DITE be. They always sort themselves out. The MQCE shouldn't be much of a problem for them." Zeni shrugged.
"Ah, so you know quite a bit." Eterna nodded with approval. "Good. Shows that you're not some ignorant backwater vampie. Problem is, these MQCEs as you call them, 'Kagegami' to us Shinmei-ryui swordswomen, might prove a nuisance to us too. Their presence is unbalancing the academy's magical field. You know what happens to a critically unstable yet powerful magical field, don't you?" She asked rhetorically, like a teacher might ask a student what 1 + 1 equalled.
"...." Zeni stayed silent, another explosion lighting up half her face. "I know that, but at the same time the academy's library island and the magical library at the root of the world tree grounds all magical distortions. The worst you can expect is perhaps an outbreak of magical creatures spawned from the magical fallout."
"....with the necronomnicon possibly being down there, would you risk a build-up of unstable magic down there?" Eterna continued, prodding the subject with surgical precision and inching Zeni along towards the inevitable conclusion.
"Ok, ok, bottom-line is, you want me to help your DITE friends, right?" Zeni sighed with utter reluctance. "All right, I will. But in all fairness, it's obvious that Emerald Weapon would soak up all the stray magic before it ever reaches the necronomnicon."
"Good boy, or rather, girl, I knew you'd understand." Eterna nodded with satisfaction.