Monster Investigation (Exam)

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This restricted area looked to be amazingly different as compared to the rest of Fiore, however at the same time it felt as though it was off of that of the same land. The same internal connection between the lands, however that in it of itself was something only she could feel. A creation of the Earth itself, the blonde bunny walked along it acting as if her origins were not of the thing she stepped on constantly, sometimes even slept on. Never the less, she never shared anything of the sort regarding what she was and made her become what she was today if she could help to do so. Even then, the act of her fear just made things much easier to be able to get these things kept from others. Something about taking a curse and making it into a bit of a blessing.

As for what she was doing in this area in specific? Well... That wasn't something entirely remembered why to be honest. She knew herself and some of her members had tried to come over to this area under orders from the Council, which was new to her. Unfortunately, the Council had denied her members the chance to enter this area. They deemed it as something only the guildmasters had clearance to enter for the time being. It took explaining who the Magic Council was to realize whom she reported things to and why things continued to pop up in her office. At the very least that had cleared up one pending mystery since she took charge of things for her guild. Of course there were tons of things to learn, but that was half the fun of doing it. Maybe if she got together with Aiyana some time soon, she'd be able to take a couple lessons in trying to run a guild. Being that she was the only person she got to know whom was one of course, it was a no-brainer in whom would be the best candidate of choice.

Following the voiced guide of her papa, she maneuvered within the area surrounding this large castle, not really knowing where she herself had been going. Whatever this place was, she could already sense a horrid amount of a demonic essence inside the place. So much so that she had become extremely skeptical of the whole thing from the get go. Despite that, here she was, bunny tail and all standing before this large castle and nowhere else to go on from there. The ground felt corrupted and soiled as well... No pun intended. It was even so that she had to go it alone entirely as the essense of her papa could not move any further due to the demonic aura through the ground. All of the holy spirit within him was used to help purify the creature he'd created in Gisen, which allowed him the chance to be able to help cure the demonic ailment that was known as the surface.

This demonic aura was different to the spirit known as Gaia. Normally, this feeling would carry more of a heavy and vey substantially painful essence to him.... But this was different. Demonic aura like this never sunk into the ground like it had, and the entire premise of it had made him more silent than ever. Natural aura of the sort would never have been able to do that, but maybe if some human or demon was able to- No. Only a corrupted human could be able to artificially create a demonic aura like that. Much more so one that could leak out and soak into the earth around it. The land around and inside the castle was cracked and the life within it was beyond dead. The aura had become too much and began to literally rot the ground and everything else within it to the point even living creatures within it had quickly been overcome with the feeling and died as a result.

Needless to say, that didn't fly well as the demon slayer simply watched this poor, innocent creatures having to suffer this type of death. "Remain calm, child. Remember what I taught you. You... you feel the aura already, don't you?" The telepathic voice went unanswered at first while her eyes glared at the castle arch. The open gate was met with the very stench and sight of this deadly toxicity settled within the walls, almost impatient to wanting to escape and corrode more of the earth from the inside out until it all looked like some illpercieved version of an ancient cematary from a zombie movie. Gisen took a single step within the grounds of the castle, unadvised and without any warning of doing so only to have seen the opposite reaction to it. The smokey looking aura seeping from the ground retracted from her body, going out of its way to circle around the foot she had within its borders. The peculiar actions had caused her to remove her foot to watch the reaction of the grounds, only seeing it return to it's normal state as if nothing had even happened.

"Gisen, you're oddly quiet. Is everything okay?" As any concerned parent, the question arose from the air and fell upon deaf ears as she simply started to walk inside the grounds of this castle. Given that her bunny ears were quite open to sounds, ignoring him must have been for one reason or another. Still, he could only remain away from her for the time being and allow her a chance to do things on her own. She'd done it once before, so now might be a nice addition to it as well. Just as her foot had been, the seeping aura had formed it's own separation from it, even to become dissipated from existence once it had come to hit her head on. For one reason or another, this demonic presence left her be and she hadn't bothered to question the reason why it happened, but she mainly came to disagree with the idea that she was going to care about any real reason why it happened, or rather hadn't happened.

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The castle doors slowly pushed their way open as the bunny girl had pushed her way through them. Splitting her strength to get them both open at the same time only made it harder in the end, but the stench of demonic aura vanished once the air of the inner castle had hit her nose. Hopping inside, the doors snapped shut with one hefty and loud crash shut. The sound alone made the pair of ears standing on her head twitch while the blank and serious expression on her face hadn't made a single movement aside from blinking. What was running through her mind was an absolute mystery to everyone else except for the bunny girl herself. What was driving her so seriously wasn't like herself as not a carrot had been eaten since the pair had come across this demonic essence. Normally, she'd be a little more observant and very much so chomping down on something to calm her nerves, but not this time. The sounds of her feet clicking upon stone flooring was rather obvious and very much louder than one could expect, but nowhere near as loud as the door had made. If anything was alive in this place, they knew someone was here. It was just a matter of time until that would be discovered and sought after.

There was a rather large issue with the task at hand in such a large place like this castle; Where to begin? Of course, she could always blow away this castle and let things just happen, but she could risk possible people or animals being held captive in the castle, so there wouldn't be any of that for now. Suddenly, the scent of demons caught her nose and drove her path an alternative route. Up the stone stairs and to a path on the left that led to a small amount of more steps had stopped her in front of a doorway. The sound of munching and chewing from the other side had her grab onto the handle without a second thought. Once she had, the noise stopped. Stopping herself, Gisen simply starred at the door and refused to open the door in the moment of that noise stopping. A low growling began to come through the other side of the door and the sudden sound of the wooden door cracking caused a panicked and quick diving reaction. A black hand shot through the door, colored darker than the night itself and pulling the door off of its hinge's.

The blonde scrambled to her feet and faced that doorway as a regal looking male stepped through the door. His clothes covered in spatters of blood and his teeth clamped between muscle and flesh. His eyes had been pure red and he reeked of a demonic aura. Blood dripped from his arm and mouth from the person or persons he'd gone into a rage and killed, but the possession that took place horrified the bunny girl into remaining still. The blank look on her face was replaced quick with one of suprise and hesitation. With some force, the male through the door at her with such a velocity, it hardly gave Gisen time to react. Letting it pass by her, she took her eye off of him to see the door crash into the wall. The sound of the male bark like sound made her swing back around and a white wind propelling it forward, clocking him in the face with her Wind Demon's fist and making him crash through the stone banister and down the height of this floor to the ground, where one exhaled breath released a black cloud into the room.

The cloud began to take form into one of a spectral looking spirit. The spirit shaped itself two holes in it to form the look of eyes, turning into a glowing red color. It hovered and starred down the demon slayer for a moment, remaining still while she stood defensively. A slow, deep cackle started to bellow from its.. wherever it would speak from until it had come to grow louder, filling the room. The cloud slowly began to approach Gisen before it simply vanished. A small groaning noise made her jump to her senses and rush over to the doorway, looking in as she saw the grotesque sight before her; arms and legs ripped and shredded with sharp teeth, pooling blood slowly growing in diameter as another male laid still. Running inside, Gisen dropped to her knees before him and pulled his head to face her own and tried to gain his attention, but his eyes grew cold and blank.

Her hand slammed into the ground and shook with the brewing anger she had. Just seconds earlier and she could have been able to save his life, if he even wanted to. Placing a hand over his eyes, she pushed down slightly and moved her hand downward so his eyes would be closed and he could at least look like he was in peace. "Damn it... I'm so sorry..." Tears began to well up in her eyes as her silence had finally been broken, disheartened she couldn't save this person. The blonde bunny shook off the feeling and stood up to her feet. She was going to avenge this boy somehow after having this travesty done onto him by some ugly, devious low-life with no regard for others. Once she had turned away from the limbless corpse, the sound of something tearing made her pause. As she did, so did the sound. Brushing that off, she took a couple steps away and the noise began again. A large black arm had tore through the chest cavity of the male and extended out, piercing through Gisen's stomach and pulling her off the ground before she knew what was coming. Quickly, the arm flung her against a wall and yanked itself out as her limp body crashed to the ground wherever it happened to fall, leaving her slowly fading from consciousness as a pair of black shoes approached her line of sight, snickering evilly.

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"Good. And the new experiment is still unconscious, sir... Yes, I'm telling you she's an elemental. A real life 'born from nature- creature!" The voice rang through her mind as her body started to awaken itself from what felt like a blackout since she'd been taken by surprise and knocked out by a sneak attack she never saw coming. Part of her believed this was all her fault since she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings like she should have. "Right. She's also a mage from inside the towns of Fiore.... No, she's not dead. In fact, I see she's coming to right now, I'll put you on speaker for a few moments." With the press of a button, a small beep noise came to have her pop her eyes open and look around. Reaching up to push herself up, she found she wasn't able to even budge her arm at all. Trying with the other arm, she found herself in the same position as the former and finally making her need to look down. Upon doing so, she discovered her body had been coiled from the end of her shoulder down to her elbows tightly with rope. Her arms from there were bent from the elbows and placed together and also tied off with rope. Her clothing had been removed and discarded elsewhere, leaving her bare down to a pair of panties and a bra, only to be covered up with the rope and the very position she laid in. "So good of you to wake up, bunny. You know, you're quite the treat. Able to resist the demons aura around the castle and defeat my experiments? Simply lovely!" A coy chuckle caused her ears to twitch with annoyance before she adjusted herself and was able to see whom her new captor was.

The man bore a large ear-to-ear grin, his eyes a piercingly sickly green color and his face painted white. His hair and lips were both as black as night, hair slicked back and lips that looked like he had just put on lipstick. Truthfully, she was more mortified by his appearance than the fact she was tied up at the current moment. He wore a purple suit underneath a white lab coat and simply watched the captive bunny girl try to escape the bindings he put her in himself. "My brand of demonic aura is invulnerable to those whom carry demonic traits of any kind. Anything naturally demonic of course. But young lady, why don't you answer me a few questions, kay?" Picking up a clipboard and pen, he clicked the top to make the point poke out from inside and held it in front while looking down on her from his chair. The blonde bunny threw herself up and onto her rear end, finally not laying on the ground herself, but now able to gain her full view of the area she was in. Just like his coat suggested, a fully formed lab hid in this castle it seemed, and it appeared to be much more advanced than she had thought could have been built in here before. "Gisen. Gisen Ceostra. W-Where am-" "NEXT QUESTION! " He interupted, writing down her response and disallowing her any chance to speak. "And you're a member of Lamia Scale, the legal monster hunting guild?" Peeking over his clipboard, he noticed the change in the expression of her face upon that question.

She began to panic at the thought of trying to tell them the truth, but there wasn't much of a choice in the matter of what she could tell them otherwise. "How do you know what guild I belong to!?" She asked, quickly forgetting the lack there of in clothing she had on had made her guild mark clear as day to anyone. "Bunny, you're clearly afraid of something. I'm just asking questions, so why don't you be a good little rabbit or I start CHOPPING OFF LIMBS YOU LITTLE BIT-" He stopped himself, clearing his throat and adjusting the tie around his neck. "I'll just have to resort to torture. Besides, I saw it as I undressed you before I tied you up. Doesn't take a genius to put 1 and 1 together." He tapped several times on the clipboard as she had a puzzled look on her face, trying to figure the problem out herself. "That equals to.. 2, right?" The most sincere look plastered onto her face, the scientist simply starred quietly for a moment, waiting for some kind of punchline. When one didn't happen, he sighed and simply wrote something down on the clipboard and placed it down, following him standing up. "I'm going to put it simply. You're going to test my most grand experiment. There's no yes or no about it. You beat it, you live. If you die, then I'll just revive you as a little pet or something for myself. Quite simple terms, no? I turned an adorable dog into probably the most evil looking creature to cross this earth. Kill it, or it'll kill you. Oh, and untie yourself because once it's released, I won't come out until he's eaten. The poor boy is dying for some rabbit." His sick grin formed once more before he walked off and into a room, locking the door and leaving her to the wolves, so to speak.

A grim sounding growl began, starting to echo as she had looking around to what the sound could have been. A loud buzzer had began to ring loudly before a large cell door on the other side of the room had shot up into the cieling . Two pairs of glowing red eyes were the only thing she could see in the shadows, followed by another 2 pairs on the first ones left side and another on the right just after. Slowly, the loud sounding footsteps encroached toward the bound bunny, frozen with fear at what obomination she was going to have to fight. What she saw before her was something she never could have imagined; the creature was like a strangely morphed tiger, golden tints mixed with a strangely nice color of black or midnight blue. The creature darted towards her instantly and with a loud scream, she narrowly managed to miss being bitten into. A white wind began to quickly gather to her hands, forming a longsword with a curved edge and giving her a sharp blade to cut her restraints. With her forearms freed, she took notice of the creatures three heads stuck in the wall, cutting more into the ropes to free herself before a light would cover her body, redressing her into her former attire just as the creature pulled free. The bunny girl swung upward, slicing off the head of the beast on its left shoulder, causing it to jump back and roar out in pain.

The angered look on the girl turned into one of anger, letting more white winds cover her body and start to swirl, creating a large breeze and with one surge of her magic energy, shattered the glass behind her through the sheer force of her magics wind pressure building up and expanding outward. The beast seemed unphased while the iris' of the bunny turned a bright red, glowing secondary with a white color as her Demon Force propelled itself into a newly akin type of power. Her Zantenkeshun had split into four, forming claws on her hands and feet, leaving her with a new ability she hadn't thought of until she had seen one like the creature before hers. The beast lept at Gisen once more, angered and still starved for food, its mouth had been wide open to take a large chomp from it. She remained calm and still as it came forward, crashing into a slightly transparent white bubble like barrier. The wind pressure around it lessened for sure, but didn't stop the beast from retracting. Instead, Gisen waited and let the beasts other head bite into it and crush the barrier, letting it fall right into her range. A swift uppercut swing had clawed up the jaw and face of the entire right side of its face and it stammered backward, blood slowly dripping. A step backward sparked a sudden rush in Gisen, one that led her to take an offensive turn and rush in at the creature, striking her newly claw like hand through the skull of the beast. She watched the life leave its eyes before she discarded the creature like nothing and turned herself to face the direction of the scientist, who stood in astonishment by what he'd just witnessed.

He started to press all sorts of buttons as the bunny girl slowly approached his window, the dead stare of anger in her just overwhelming her sense to think civically, but not so much to simply annialiate everything around her. She got within several feet from the window, getting ready to reach out to grab the opening and jump through, when a heavy claw struck her body and sent her flying. She skipped on the ground like a stone on the water before she dropped to the sea, or in her case, hit the bars of the cell the creature she killed had laid dormant. The place stunk of rotting flesh and blood, as well as that same artifical demonic energy. In front of the broken glass stood another creature, 3 tails waving around and it's ghastly looking face staring her down with no look of life in it. "Well done, bunny. Now I want you to deal with my cute little fox here while I leave. She'll be more than up to par for you, so ta-ta for now!~" A metal window of sorts slammed shut behind the broken glass of the window from before, leaving her blind to find out where he had gone, but now this fox like creature stood before her, ready to do what the prior beast had done, and that was kill and devour the little bunny. So Predator vs Prey does come in all shapes and sizes it seems.

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The fox and bunny clashed claws against one another and began to fight for control over one another. Pushing it out as a stalemate, Gisen swung her body around and went in to plant a kick to the face of the creature, but had been halted by a tail that wrapped around her leg. Hanging in the air, the beast swung her into a wall and then threw her back into the cell the previous creature had lived in during its time being alive. Her body collapsed onto the ground and began to struggle up to her feet. A white wind washed over her body and healed her up some, enough so to give herself an edge of nearly her former health, only to have to roll out of the way as the demonic fox had crashed into through the cage door, tearing it off and bent through the metal bars. In a swift reaction, the bunny girl had taken her right leg and landed a forceful strike to its face, sending it a ways back and creating a decent enough distance that Gisen had thought would make use of as soon as possible. Taking some of the winds around her, she began to shape them into a javelin of sorts, cocking her arm back as the creature had started to get its bearings back.

"Sorry this had to happen to you, but it'll be over soon." Her words were needlessly mumbled, knowing the experimented fox that was now this creature was suffering more than she could ever think it would, and she was prepared to help rid it of that through having to end its life. Launching the weapon in hand known to be "Gungnir", the wind created weapon soared through the air, striking the fox dead on in the face and creating a rather large scale explosion in the direction that it was sent. The very wall protecting that fleeing scientist was now blown away and the creature with it was sent backward, crashing into a wall down a somewhat narrow hall. Quite only used for a small walkway from one section of the lab into either another or to a section of the actual castle, this place was far larger than she gave him credit for. Or rather that she had even come to know yet. Astoundingly, the creature hadn't been so easily killed off like the other one, falling onto its stomach before pulling itself up and onto its feet.

The tails strightened out and pointed upward, making the demon slayer on guard as it prepared for it's next attack. She watched to see as the fox demon had began to charge a ball of black and red energy. The tails began to glow red and black, flashing between each other color and growing faster and as it continued to charge. In response to the attack, Gisen began to tke in a deep breath and gather more from her lungs, forming it all into her mouth as the magic began to change its properties into her demon slaying type. The two had launched their attacks at one another, clashing and causing a large implosion throughout the entire castle, creating an even larger scaled attack that would consume them both and reducing the castle to rubble. One hole had been carved into the rubble from underneath as the blast had propelled the bunny girl outside of the castle and through the start of the rubble, only encasing part of her body into the rubble the buried the creature she had just faced off with. If not for the fact her magic was made to fight demons, this could have gone much worse for her, but there was plenty of ease in the whole thing for her, and that was just the relieving part for the bunny girl.

"Gisen! Gisen, wake up!" Gaia called out, knocking some sense back into her dazed mind. The rubble on top of her began to shake before she had taken some of the winds beneath her to push the rubble off of her and pull herself out from it. She'd found herself inside the courtyard of the castle now, sitting on the ground and looking around as she had tried to wonder why she could hear her papa's voice now. Looking around, the oozing artifical demonic energy around the area from before was now gone. Perhaps when she'd collided with that fox and created the explosion, that had caused some form of a chain reaction and destroyed whatever it was that had been corrupting the land here. The ground and all was stil cracked up and ruined, but at least with papa's influence, it could regrow into normalcy once again. With time of course, but it would all end up becoming real well like it used to be and she knew he'd try his best to do so. "Y-You're in demon force? Child, why on god's green earth would you have used that!?" Her ears twitched for a moment before she had gotten herself together again and looked around. Maybe she'd try to find that scientist and chase him down for answers... Maybe. She could always ask the one coming to her guild soon, but that was days from now. "It's a long story, papa... I'll explain on the way to Era. I need to do some in person reporting asap." The winds settled as she rose to her feet, still trying to scan the area, slightly hoping he did get away so that she could simply rush to the Council to report her findings. They needed to be on the lookout so they could keep an eye out for more sightings so she could personally handle them. Afterward, the other guilds would need to know too. At least the guild masters first, and then the way down.

The silent but not so silent hum of the spirit had gotten her to stare down at the ground, as if staring at him. She wasn't so much so ready to be dealing with the annoyance that was him wanting to know but not going for actually saying the words as if his all knowing pride would make her do it for him, but she let out a vocal sigh and folded her arms at her chest. "Alright, mister pushy. If you really wanna know know, I'll give a short version. There's a scientist who's making animals into demonic beasts for whatever use, and he got away while I was fighting something else. Like, these things are so creepy, but cool at the same time. I just can't help but feel bad for all the animals involved... Ya know? They didn't ask for this..." The bunny girls expression had started to sadden, looking down and sighing softly before she pepped up and slammed a fist into her other hand, open palmed. "We're gonna get em, and make em pay! NOW ONWARD TO- ...Uh.. Where were we going?" A small sigh that shifted into a chuckle had cooed through her mind from the spirit, amused by her slight absent mindedness. "Era, my dear child. Onward to Era." And with that, she continued on her way toward Era as soon as possible... Meanwhile, the rubble at the castle began to shake and a black and red claw broke through, leaving a low growl to escape from underneath. The rocks underneath began to shake and crack, breaking open until enough had broken out enough for the creature to escape.

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