A Glorious Day [Akame's Introduction]

Akame stood before the mighty gates of Sabertooth, her hands placed against her sides and her head up towards the sky. The sun was shining brighter than usual, and the atmosphere looked rather divine. It was as if God had blessed the land specifically on this day, and maybe due to an angelic presence. This angelic presence was Akame: a woman who unknowingly matured on this planet from a young angel to a formal goddess. Her orange-brown hair swayed with the wind as Akame gave a gentle knock to the great door before her. The moment she knocked, however, a sudden force hit her from inside. It was the feeling of nervousness, but in a good sense. Akame was here to become an official guild member of Sabertooth, where she could promote herself to her liking and reveal her sacred magic. While Akame was nervous, a voice appeared in her head that simply said "Remember yourself." Akame had no idea what that meant, and she assumed she never would- at least not for awhile. Albeit, it was not the time to complain, but rather to be joyful while the door still remained closed, awaiting to be opened with the presence of a new comrade. Though Akame felt ecstatic, however, her facial expression was neutral, and not a word was spoken following that knock. This was her outer self, anyways; silent and complicated.

Cirven had been walking towards the entrance to the floating guildhall that the Sabertooth mages called home. It had been another lazy day for him, which meant no jobs and actually no relaxing. What other saw as a day to sit around and take it easy he had to see as a day to run around and train his body. This was mostly due to his trainer and ancestor in the form of a dog demon named Inuki.

He opened the door to see a girl standing on the other side and looked her up and down. "Who are you? Why didn't you just walk in?" He moved to the side to let her in while holding the door. "I haven't seen you around before so I'm guessing you are a new recruit, right?"

Mairk was sitting in the guild drinking, Becky was in the house... When he stood up the slayer went directly to the door to return with Becky but something stopped him, the slayer he saw before, the demon slayer was in the door talking with someone. Marik smiled and gave some steps to the door after taking a heavy breathing, he realized there was someone there, not only Cirven... There was someone else...
Marik appeared behind of the slayer with his hand in his shoulder "Cirven... Don't you think you are being kind of rude?... It would be a better idea to introduce your self" the ice mage stretched his hand against the girl in the door "My name is Marik, welcome to Sabertooth"

Akame turned around and looked behind her, surprised to see that a guild member had appeared behind her; the guild doors still closed. The man seemed immediate with his actions, asking Akame about herself before her expected invitation to the party. Akame's expression did not change as the person before her was obviously male, meaning her speech would be limited, at most. "New Recruit: Akame Seito." Akame replied, her tone serious and her facial expression emotionless. The mood had lightened up, however, as yet another person seemed to arrive and interrupt the man. The only problem was this person was a guy too. Akame didn't really know what to say at this point, and so she only stated her name, and offered a handshake to both men. A slight smile appeared on her face to express gratitude, but nothing more. She was going d at hiding her emotions, though Akame wondered how long this side of her would last as she had just been welcomed into a new guild. Akame followed what the first man said and opened the door, herself. What was inside was beyond her expectations, and she couldn't help but gasp from the sights she was seeing.

It was one of those crazy days in the glorious guild called Sabertooth where people drank, played around and fought with each other but they were tightly connected with their sense of unity and what not. Oh who was she kidding?! The guild was in a complete chaos! There were shoes AND food flying around. Apparently, the whole thing started when someone accidentally spilled their drink on some other person and by the time Raven came down singing, the guild was pretty much in that messy stage where people were just "starting" to throw food at each other.

Things got worse when some drunken member threw an empty bottle at someone in the guild that made use of smoke magic. Well, she doubted she had to explain more on the situation as she flew a few feet above the whole predicament with Kuroe on her left shoulder. The silver haired girl had manage to avoid everything that was hauled at her so far with how most of them didn’t even reach her. When someone opened the door however, she had to pray for their sanity.

“Someone just chose the worst time to make an entrance….” She said more or less to herself as she saw Cirven and Marik along with another girl that she had never seen around before. “Perfect…She is a new recruit too…” she trailed off watching something she thought looked like a pizza flew straight towards the new girl. “Well there goes her respect for the guild….lasted longer than the last recruit…”

"Oh yeah! Sorry!" He scratched the back of his head nervously after Marik scolded him. He was pretty bad with his manners sometimes which many of his guildmates had gotten used to over his time being there. If anything he blended right in with the chaos the others brought. "I am Cirven Mizune. Nice to meet you Akame and welcome."

He then managed to hear Raven speak to herself as she approached them. She sounded as bad as him with his introduction for the new recruit. "Guess we are on a team for the reason of being so a like, huh?" He spoke to his teammate who stood near him. He watched as a pie came sailing to Raven's head and moved her head down before it could hit her. "Yeaaaaah... I am thinking she chose a great time to come join too." He laughed out loud as Hikari came up and welcomed the new recruit also.

"Fun... Right?"
Marik was with the orange haired girl when other two guild partners appeared trowing stuff, the slayer laughed and looked around the guild, then he turned around with his back against the girl "Nice to meet you, Akame Seito... A big mess don't you think?" Marik laughed again with both hands in behind his neck "What do you say, would you like to sit a while to talk?... Cirven, Akame?" the slayer stretched his hand waiting to see the mage's reaction, there was a big mess in the place but anyway he wanted to know better the people in the guild, and a new member was perfect for that.
"It should be a nice feeling to know someone the first day of being in the guild..." the slayer smiled remembering how amazed he was the first time in Sabertooth, its nice to see new people there.

"Nice to meet y--" Akame attempted to reply before she saw the movement of a flying pizza head towards her. With the corner of her eye and swift reflexes upon her sword, Akame unsheathed her blade and sliced through the pizza in a split second. Immediately after, Akame dug into her pocket and pulled out a cloth, removing what was on the pizza from her now-dirty sword blade. The sight she had seen beforehand was an utter joke, but in a good way. Gleeful mugs inhabited the place, and seemed to be having tons of fun, despite both the physical and emotional damages, in the process. Akame couldn't help but suddenly laugh for a moment before she turned back to Cirven. "As I was saying, nice to meet you." Akame confirmed before she turned to Marik. It seemed this funny incident strangely made Akame more comfortable around the guild; even the men. "It surely is a big mess...but one I can handle." Akame commented, her gaze now set upon the lady who was laughing tremendously inside the guild. She walked in, regardless of the others, and approached the young woman. "You seem to admire this guild. What's your name?" Akame asked, this time more confidently, "Well, whatever your response, this looks like my kind of place already." Akame then faced Marik once more, and thought about his question before she so suddenly entered the guild. "Getting to know you all would be quite pleasant." Akame remarked before she turned to the last lady: Raven (though she had yet to know her name). She winked towards her, aware that she had caused a ruckus too. It seemed as though Sabertooth was much better than Akame thought. Although she hated to admit it, for once, Akame was overwhelmed with joy.

Raven raised an eyebrow at her teammate in confusion at what he said when she got to them having no idea of their previous conversation. She however was thankful when he pulled her down so that the pie flying at her completely missed and hit the wall opposite to them. “Ugh…who?” she wondered out loud before her eyes zeroed in on a giggling Hikari. She stuck her tongue out at her before straightening herself, Kuroe floating somewhere behind her. “Yeah…Definitely a great time,” she muttered under her breath before moving out of the way of another flying pie, taking Cirven along with her. “I swear everyone in our guild is mental!” she exclaimed brushing something like jam from the right sleeve of her black shirt. When the new girl turned to her with a wink, Raven smirked, winking back to confirm her suspicion. She indeed did help in taking the initial situation to another level and all she needed was a few of her crows. “Nice to meet ya. Name’s Raven and my partner is Kuroe,” she said gesturing towards the floating crow that was probably busy avoiding other things. “And as for sitting and talking somewhere in this mess….ahh…I’m not so sure….unless you want a pie for a face that is,” she joked, looking around the guild that was getting worse with each passing second.

Cirven noticed the skill the new girl had with a blade. She was probably as skilled with a blade as he was even though he would probably not admit that until they sparred. The only way to compare the skill would be clashing the blades together after all. "Nice cut there, newbie. You already look like you will fit in here with your skills."

He then walked with them some as Akame and Raven spoke to each other. He then wrapped his arm around Raven and pointed his finger up into the air. He lit the tip of his finger in his white flames. "And we are part of the number one team in Sabertooth, Holy Tempest!!"

Cirven had spoken so loudly that the guildhall went quiet as everyone who was throwing stuff earlier looked towards him and the group. He looked around at the people near him, all of which were holding some sort of food. "..Uhh.. Hey guys..."

As if Cirven speaking was a sort of cue the crowd of people started to throw food at him and Raven. Cirven quickly picked up Raven and used his Flames of Propulsion spell to take them out of the way of the food attack at the speed of sound. White flames singed into the ground where he last stood as they shot out through the front door of the guildhall.

Cirven then stuck his head back through the door. "Sorry! Got to go guys!" He quickly pulled his head back through the door and shut it before more food came flying his way. He then brought his attention onto Raven. "Sorry about not warning you before doing that. Couldn't have my teammate and star singer getting swarmed by thrown food. Oh yeah!" He suddenly yelled out. "I gotta go before he gets annoyed at me!" He then started to run off towards the teleporter. "Tell Akame I will get to know her some other time!" He then stopped on the teleporter and left the floating guildhall.

Maik was getting kind of confused, to much stuff was happening, the food was flying and suddenly white flames appeared... Marik hated the flames. When Cirven called his team Marik felt kind of pathetic, he placed his finger in his chest and with a big smile he replied "And I am part of..." Marik didn't even have a team, only Becky but she wasn't there at the moment "I am part of sabertooth!" the slayer didn't realize why did he say that, but anyway he just sated down while the new girl was speaking with other people.

"Anyway Akame... I see you have practice with the sword... Is your magic a holder? Or why do you use that well the sword?" Marik knew there was a reason of using the sword that nice, he got distracted in something interesting, only because of that, he didn't try to flirt with her.
A dragon appeared behind Marik, it was Becky "Becky! Good to see you, she is Akame a new Sabertooth member, Akame, this is Becky, my partner" Marik presented both of them and then Becky turned into her human form smiling and hugging the new member "A new girl in the guild! We are going to be best friends!"

Akame sighed heavily as Raven was right. There was no way the group could talk in a peaceful environment while these sort of ordeals occurred. Akame laughed, however. She was proud to see a guild like this; where men could act like boys, and women could act like little girls. Nobody even seemed to care that the guild hall was currently a huge mess; the only thing that mattered was the fun they were having. Akame got distracted from this strange sight as Cirven began to speak again. It seemed to had to head elsewhere, and so with a weak wave, Akame gestured a goodbye signal towards him.

Marik seemed to take the approach next, and noted Akame on her swordsmanship. "It is a Holder-type Magic: Heavenly Sword Magic. I've practiced with this sword everyday; even before I discovered I had magic. It was tremendous sight when the sword started to glow, and next thing you know, I was doing some crazy stuff." Akame had no idea why she was speaking so much to a man, all of a sudden. Maybe it was due to how much she liked to discuss her sword: Antei. She was interrupted by the thoughts, unfortunately, as a dragon appeared behind Marik, turned into a human, and suddenly hugged Akame. Akame blushed, confused as to what was happening currently, and looked at the girl hugging her. She grinned and hugged the girl back gently. "I'm sure we are..." Akame replied softly.

"HIKARI!" he said, driving the tip of his sword's sheath into the floor of the guild, hard. Everyone who was throwing food stopped and he was staring daggers at his guild mate. It wasnt that he was angry, it was just that they stopped if he raised his voice, so he did. "This is not just your home! It is the home of everyone in the guild! Do NOT make a mess of our home, no matter what. Now, get to cleaning up this mess." he said, recreating a mop and bucket and giving it to Hikari. "Before you get to it though, I want to take this chance to greet our newest recruit." he said while walking up to Akame. "Welcome to our noble guild, I am Zenshin, the guildmaster. You can call me Zenshin, Zen, master, king, I really could care less as long as you show respect. Do that and I will show you the same. If you need anything I am here to help, as is the rest of our family and I can only hope you do the same for others. Represent this guild with honor and you will be treated as one of us." he said, extending his hand to shake.

What did that proud word ever mean to a knight? One could argue that it was an object of duty; an exalted visage of purpose, perhaps? Others would claim that it is the battlefield of honour amongst their brethren. A symbol of dignity and might. A milestone. A goal. Even deified presence! Though surely all that would be a mere euphemism, for to the one that created it, it was no more than-


Many could surely argue that Sabertooth was something holy, but anyone with at least a little bit of sanity would just frown with a witty 'what, this isn't Fairy Tail?'
And they would be right. The scene within the guild was, for a lack of a better word, colourful, and those exotic shades drew a painfully bright contrast. Yet one was to wonder if what they contrasted with wasn't the beholder himself; but wouldn't that just deem him a misfit?
He's probably not sure either, to be honest. To a philosopher like him, trivialities like that were just too superficial to be complex and, by extension, to superficial to be understood. What really mattered were 'simple' things, such as what the meaning of life was or what truth really is. Or, in that case -- why was everything so damned noisy.

The azure knight had stopped caring quite a long time ago. In stead, he simply sat on a girder conveniently located above the heads of the 'food warriors' in the main hall, and watched.
"Unbearable." he mumbled to himself with a look that was half exasperation and half annoyance.
However, that gaze soon shifted onto a different kind of rowdiness he sensed. It seemed like it was centred around yet another new person who willingly condemned herself to the nonsense of Sabertooth.

Despite the overwhelming sound pollution, there was something subtly interesting about the presence of the new person. Interesting enough to stand out and muffle the banterous distraction around.
The hidden spectator followed the girl with his sharp sight; it was such an interesting sight. Despite the scrutiny lasting less than 3 minutes, what he glanced at beneath her thinly-veiled shell... was dangerously familiar. A wonder to make him wonder, perhaps.
But that wonder was too short-lived.

A pain-inducing yell, less pleasant than a screech even; it stung the vigilant knight like a 2-year-old hyperactive cello player. In a flash of murderous intent, the cyan-haired magus looked at the equally-cyan faker that proceeded to bark orders left and right, bearing the hypocrisy any proud student of Recreation should have attained.


Without much thought, the azure knight threw himself over the edge of his vantage point. His trajectory brought him to a landing right in front of Hikari, and for a reason; the burst of mana he expelled from his feet when they touched the floor caused a wave-like tremor throughout the room. The magical lash it caused also resulted in all the stains and food to be shot into the air at shoulder level, which Aegis then neatly collected with the mop he snatched from Hikari; all within the span of a moment. What followed was a cold glare, piercing Zenshin.
"... This place was already noisy enough without you trying to look tough, hypocrite."
A flick of the wrist was enough to discard the mop somewhere in Zenshin's general direction and, with that, end the oppressive stare. The violet gaze of the audacious knight in stead shifted on to the girl that intrigued him so and guided his steps in her direction, his stoic approach cracking through the deathly silence.

When the monotony of heels and stone ceased to resound, the young-looking man bowed gracefully before the new arrival; then came a faint smile, as if to soften the scornful air around him.


He, once more reinstated the monotonous clatter of walk, the slow pace of each step he made vibrating closer to the door than the last.


His long coat billowed after him, leaving only his equivocal words behind as the azure knight, Aegis, made his way to the platform before Sabertooth's gates.

Akame became startled as it seemed a rather fearsome presence welcomed itself to the scene. This was, of course, the guild's master: Zenshin. Akame had only heard rumours of this man, though Akame never trusted rumours. They were only worth hearing, but nothing worth using for such things as predictions or assumptions. Due to the current circumstances, Akame was overwhelmed. She had to process so much information at once, that her head began to ache, and what made it worse was actually the great tone of the master's voice. It silenced everyone, including Akame, and ultimately ended the chaos that once corrupted the guild's fine establishment. A slight grin appeared on Akame's face, however, as it seemed Zenshin noticed her, and even welcomed her, in that matter.

"Thank you. It's a pleasure." Akame replied, almost as if she, herself, were making an announcement- this was the level in which she set her voice when making her response. In addition to this response, Akame watched as Hikari was forced to clean up, for she had caused most of the ruckus. "Such discipline in these people..." Akame thought to herself. Her headache calmed itself quickly, which was quite convenient as, two seconds after, another individual took the stand. Just from seeing him, Akame could tell this man rivalled even Zenshin, himself. Everyone was put in fear, except Akame, who had no clue as to who he was, or where he came from. Perhaps Akame was lucky, in this case, or perhaps the feelings of her fellow members were more fragile than she thought. Akame further spectated the new scene as the man snatched the mop Hikari was assigned, and threw it back towards Zenshin. It seemed the man did indeed rival the guildmaster. Albeit, Akame had nothing to worry about; she was just a newcomer. It was strange in Akame's mind, however, to soon see that the man desired her attention. "Consider what's happening at the moment, I suppose there's no harm in seeing this man. Everyone here seems to possess similar qualities, anyways. Besides, what do I have to lose?" These were Akame's thoughts as she walked outside the gates, near where this man stood.

"A longsword and a pen?" Akame confirmed, "I like swords, but please...elaborate."

"I don't have to try, Aegis. I just like to bother Hikari. She's been amongst us longer than most, so she should know better" he said casually to his mentor who seemed to come into and out of existence at will. It really didn't surprise him when he made an "unexpected" appearance into the guild hall. "You too Raven, don't think I missed you. Use this mop and start cleaning up the food you threw around" he said, recreating another mop and walking over to hand it to the other mage that helped make the mess. After this, Zenshin walked outside to Akame and Aegis who stood on the balcony that led to the guild's entrance. Before she could get to close, he stopped her and told her, "Be wary when talking with Aegis. He speaks in nothing but riddles and has this aura of superiority to him. He's incredibly idealistic to the point of insanity and he is the strongest man I have ever had the honor of meeting. He's also the previous guildmaster, so beware. Don't try to think too much into what he says unless you want to lose yourself trying to make out some sort of definite meaning because I can tell you right now, there won't be. Also, it's good to have another swordsman around here. Aegis is the only true one on this floating castle. I am as well but I prefer my scythe. So if you ever want to become a better swordsman, he's the one to talk to."

Observing the two knights before him, Aegis stood cross-armed, subtly enjoying the breeze that occasionally revealed itself between the warm rays all around. It seemed that there was a lot of contrast in that day -- the thought delighted him quite a lot, perhaps instilling a sort of peace in his mind. Sharpened focus came soon after, lured into view by the azure magus' curiosity. And indeed, he was intrigued.

With absolute disregard of both Zenshin's presence and words, Aegis slowly approached the woman until there were only two metres left to separate them.
"Both the sword and the pen," the blue man paused for a calm smile, "are the same."
A brief period of silence, its void filled only by Aegis as he peered deep into the woman's eyes; as if scrutinising her soul.
"Both are tools used by the poet to write his cryptic tale, yet the eloquence used is what distinguishes the two weapons."
Aegis turned around halfway, every instance of his movement seeped with a certain calm that seemed to put the chaos from before far into the past. His look now fixated onto the boundless horizon, a longing smile curved his lips once more.
"Whereas one retells the tale of the hero, the other inks it in blood. One speaks to the heart, the other acts on its whims. And so I wonder..."

Raven, who walked back inside after all the chaos with Cirven was met with the amusing site of Zenshin punishing Hikari for something that she had a hand in creating. While she wanted to giggle at this, the mop that appeared in front of her thanks to her lovely guild master had her pouting and huffing. “I didn’t start the thing, you know…” she muttered under her breathe as she blew a strand of silver hair off her face, kicking an empty bottle out of her way.

In the middle of all that however, what surprised her the most was Aegis’ appearance. He didn’t come out of his Den often and when he did, he left many questions behind. As confusing as they always seemed to be, Raven somehow liked listening to him. Maybe it’s because she was a lover of poetry and literature and that his words left a few puzzles here and there. Anyhow, resting her head on the back of her right palm holding the mop, Raven stared at Aegis and then moved her gaze towards Akame. To her, he reminded of a bear going on hibernation and coming out once in a long while.

His words, she tried to juggle them inside her head to arrive at a conclusion. Both the sword and the pen are powerful tools that can pierce through anyone with its precise and appropriate use. The sword, while cutting deep to draw blood, the pen with words can hit even deeper. While the sword is direct and impulsive, a pen is sharper and astute. She would say it’s good to be both. Be a pen, be outspoken and straight. Make your words count and make sure it hits the mark. Be a sword, stab into the flesh of the corrupted. Be strong and protect what’s more important. But then again, that was her opinion. She could have been completely wrong from what Aegis was thinking….that would just show she had a lot more to learn.

Marik got even more confused, suddenly a powerful mage that he never met before appeared, but it felt like someone very powerful, all the ideas and words that were being giving were being ignored by Marik, he was processing the moment trying to understand what was he forgetting to do, the slayer stood up away from the table and yawn "Nice to see everybody, I need to admit that this is a very nice meeting... Nice to meet you by the way, but I think I should go to see my sister..." the slayer took one step and disappeared quickly from the room going out from the guild "To much people in this guild..." Marik laughed with a big smiled in his face, very happy of his guild, it was very fun to be in their, anyway he realized that he didn't even know the most powerful mages in the guild, how many other mages would he find in the future? people that he never knew about but where in the same place than him many many times, its a question that Marik will never be able to answer.

Akame took a recommended pause after Zenshin approached her, and spoke about the troubles Aegis could cause unintentionally with his form of literature. Akame wondered why he spoke this way- with riddles. Albeit, she assumed Aegis wouldn't like it if she were to ask during the time, especially after he had asked just an interesting question. "I'm a sword." Akame replied, "And no ink will taint my tale." Akame stood there with a grin on her face. With the form of literature Aegis used to converse with others, Akame doubted she would ever give an impressing answer to the man, for it was obviously that if the man spoke with such complexity, that he judged humanity more than anyone she had ever seen. This is when she had an epiphany, one she thought she'd never have.

"It's true that the sword and the pen are the same, though it's the holder that matters in both tales. A sword could still taint another in blood, whereas a pen could be used to write the tales of heroes." Akame remarked, "Alas, I am a sword, either way, though I'm a sword that strikes for the greater good." It was then Akame realized she had ignored the exits of two others. It was unfortunate, but she was sure she'd meet everyone again sometime. This was only her introduction into the guild, after all.

"What's your opinion of me?" Akame asked.