(GS3) Field: Hotel

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren blinked at the spread. He loved things like this. How would she know that though? It didn't really matter as he sat up, beginning to eat the chicken before anything. It was really good.

"Thanks, I really needed this," he said to her with a smile. "Thinking about it, I don't think I've eaten all day. A lot really did happen, wow... He looked down for a moment, then said, "I feel like I haven't sat down with someone for a meal in ages... Feels nice."

[xateramusa]

Xat looked at him and smiled softly. "Yes it is nice to sit with someone and eat." she said agreeing with him. "You don't have to thank me." she told him and took a bite of her chicken. Xat was not use to eatting with someone or actually being around someone like Darren. All her life she has been fighting and killing so this new life style seems really confusing to her.

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren smiled as he gave a small laugh of enjoyment. He held his side from the laugh as he continued to eat. "I've been on my own a long time so I never really knew how to be around people. I mean, I do my best but it only goes so far. This is kinda what it led to." That wasn't completely true but he felt like the Reverse started for him that day at the Culture Festival when the one he now knows to be Chaos Breaker Dragon accepted his Cardfight. Maybe if he was more careful he would have thought a big guy in a cloak would be dangerous.

[xateramusa]

Xat placed her food down and looked at the ground. "I wouldn't know. I was raised to learn not to trust others, and was on my own most of the time unless i was training". She explained then thinking back to when she was reverse how good the power felt.  The thrill of the fight was a feeling she hasnt felt sence her assissen days where her targets always ran and she hunted. Did the reverse bring out that side of her, or was it lerking there waiting to be released.

Shaking her head she picked up her meal and took anouther bite. "How is it?" She asked him

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren sighed again as he said, I guess that's something we kinda have in common... Wait, what kind of training?" At first when he heard that, he thought she meant Cardfight training. She was good with Murakumo, a rarely used clan. Maybe it took a special kind of training to use them well. I don't think that's how that works...

[xateramusa]

Xat looked back at him wondering if she should tell him, after all they havnt known each other long. She decided she wouldn't tell him not just yet. "It dosn't matter, its all in the past now." She said not wanting to talk about it. Shirayuki sighed and knowing the risk went and talked to Dayusha.

"Its hard for her to talk about. She was raised as an Assissn and it still haunts her. The only reason she quitted assassnation was due to vanguard. I guess in a way we protect her from falling back into that past." Shirayuki told Dayusha before sighning. "Darren has had a good influance on her, at frist she wouldn't bother helping someone but she went out of the way to help him, not because you called but cause she felt something was wrong. Weather she wants to admit it or not she ha sees him as a friend."  Shirayuki exsplaned hoping that Xat wouldnt be to mad for telling Dayusha.

[Cipher Izanagi]

'Who's Xat? Oh right that girl that was with you earlier. I'm on my way I guess. Some stuff I need to get off my chest.'

Darren's phone would vibrate with Seifer's answer, the brunette having wandered this way from the battlefield earlier. Apparently Darren had been seriously hurt and was taken here. Why not a hospital he didn't know but he didn't really need to know. In any case, the crimson eyed brunette made his way to the room that Darren was in after asking someone that worked at the counter. Given the male's appearance (his red eyes), the clerk was hesitant at first, but when Seifer mentioned they were friends he was pointed in the right direction. Striding down past several other hotel rooms, the male started to wonder a few things. Did he make the right choice in throwing away Vanguard? Maybe... Maybe it didn't really matter. This WAS the right thing to do. Stopping just in front of the door he knocked once, then waited a moment before following up with three more.

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren didn't think to press matters, but when Daiyusha told him what Shirayuki said, he frowned lightly and said, "Well... I guess it doesn't matter much. The past is the past. Looking at it too long makes it harder to move forward, right?" He smiled lightly as he hoped that his words helped to ease the tension a little.

That was when his phone went off. He looked at it with a blink and saw that Seifer was on his way. As he was about to post the room number, a knock came at the door. "Oh, that must be a friend of mine," he said to her. "He's safe to let in. Xat, could you get that. I would but... still kinda hurts to move around.

[xateramusa]

Xat didn't say anything only placed her food on the table and went to open the door yet this time she had her mask on. when she opened it she looked at the guy. "welcome please come in." Was all she said as she stept out of the way.  "Darren I shall be back i have to go to the train station quickly to pick up someone." She said and walked out of the room.

[Cipher Izanagi]

Seifer was met... a really strange woman. She didn't seem to be acting normal, considering this was probably the Xat that Darren mentioned. That was really shady but as she let him in and departed, he shut the door behind himself, locking it and walking to the foot of the bed. Both of his hands were in his pockets and he was just staring at Darren with... What was that? Apprehension? Even though both of his crimson eyes were shut halfway, there were definitely a bit of apprehension apparent behind his stare. It took him a few moments to say anything but when he did... "You really do look like a mess." that was the first thing out of his mouth. It may of come off as rude but... He wasn't really sure how to start this conversation. He himself was relatively unscathed, save for the outline of a scar that could be seen... albeit very hard to see, through the white of his dress shirt. Seifer really didn't get to talk to Darren much, so he wasn't sure how to act either.

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren nodded as Xat went to the door and then stepped out. It was probably best he had a moment alone with her anyway but he didn't like that her cold personality returned the moment someone else appeared. That's something to remember for later. When Seifer came in, he looked at the male and saw his red eyes. He looked like he had something serious on his mind. With his opening line, he couldn't help but laugh. Not the best way to start a conversation but not a false statement either.

"It happens when you're one third of a battle between two giant dragons and a super fighting robot that's just as large." He looked down for a moment as he moved his hand onto his stomach, his heavily bandaged stomach with his heavily bandaged arm. Yeah, he really was a mess. "You probably wanna hear about the text I sent... I know Yugu... I mean Yukino wanted to know about it. Or... does it have something to do with what happened at the Shopping District?" The last part was a fairly open ended question question but he was of course talking about Seifer throwing away all of his decks.

[Cipher Izanagi]

The brunette stared at the male quietly for a few moments, somewhat getting the gist of what Darren was getting at. His phone buzzed, but he didn't check it. Not yet. "...I'm almost not surprised you noticed I threw them away, but I guess that's why I came here." glancing up at the ceiling above he thought about where to really begin. "...So probably one of the other Generals..." he sighed looking out the window before back to Darren giving him a moment to guess where he was going with it before out right saying it. "The reason I threw away my decks is because I'm one of them myself. With everything that happened at the battlefield... Me losing control a while before that as well. I felt to... Weak. I couldn't protect anyone, and hell..." he pulled up his shirt a bit, revealing the scar on his stomach before dropping it. "I couldn't even protect myself. Though, admittedly this was... self inflicted." actually now that he thought about it, just what was the reason he revealed it? Anyway, he waited for Darren's answer.

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren remained silent and let him speak. It didn't take long to confirm that they were on the same page. The moment he said "other generals", Darren looked at him with confusion. How could he say other first unless... He confirmed it with what he said next. Looking at the scar made it worse. Darren thought he had problems. That was probably going to be there for a long time. Darren looked down before he took a deep breath.

"I guess you're a victim of all this too... in your own way, he said lightly. "Even if you say you did it to yourself, this situation gave you the opportunity to do it in the first place. Things like this don't happen on their own. He tried to sit up, wincing as he did so as he continued on. "I can only assume that you threw them away so you couldn't hurt Rose... Yuki, and all the others. I mean, I would probably do that in your situation if I didn't see an out. But at the same time...

He turned to Seifer, looking him dead in the eye with a serious expression. "If you don't do anything, people are going to keep getting hurt. That's what I told myself after I came out of the Reverse. If I just sit and do nothing, others will face the same fate. If you really try that hard not to be a General, who's to say they won't get someone else that's more willing? And without you there to help... I mean, Yuki lost today... I know she and everyone else need everything they can get. And let's be serious... you've got a much better chance at making a difference in this than I ever would." By his tone and words, he obviously wasn't angry at him, nor did he distrust him. With all that happened, he understood his reasoning. At the same time, his comics taught him, With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility. If he didn't take responsibility and do something about this, who really would?

[Cipher Izanagi]

Seifer sighed out softly shaking his head for a moment before looking out the window. Surely he made sense, but he didn't actually understand. Might as well explain starting with the scar. "I shouldn't be alive right now." that came out of no where. It seemed out of place. The male hesitated for a moment before looking back at the male. "Yuki nee-san was in a fit of rage, to the point that it would be impossible to calm her down without doing what I did. I just did it. I didn't think about the consequences, my body just acted. I let myself be impaled on the blade, since I couldn't get to her any other way and hugged her so she couldn't move away. ...My existence as a general... That revelation coupled with the reverse fighter that was there at the time drove her over the edge. ...It was my existence." he cut off at that point looking out the window. "...I died there. And yet somehow I'm still here... Like some kind of fairy tail." he intentionally left out key details, like the light but oh well. "My existence hurt someone I considered family. So how do you explain that?"

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren looked down at what he said. There wasn't much he could even say to that. The idea that he died, that the scar was a fatal one and somehow he was back here  and now. From being teleported up a mountain to manifesting a giant robot to punch a scythe wielding clown dragon in the face, Darren wasn't going to disbelieve his words. At the same time, the idea that him being around hurt people...

"I'd start by saying that your death probably would hurt them a lot more than anything you could do in life... What you did was pretty stupid, but I've already done close to the same since being here. As far as you being around, in my comics... and it might be weird to compare this to those... even if the hero is at a point where they should die, they find a way to come back. That's because they still have something important to do. Maybe you're still here because there's something important YOU still have to do. Are you really going to be able to do it if you give up now? Even if you are one of them, if that's your fate... isn't it your choice at the end of the day whether you do that or not? I mean... I saw when you lost control, but if that is a part of you, isn't there a way to at least take the General out even if not the whole thing?"