Purple Moon(CM2)

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Purple Moon

 Crescent Moon 2

    Kat and Cade walk into a huge gray building that is in the middle of the busy City. Inside a man is waiting for them. He has a muscular build and scars that cover his body, but the most noticeable scar is the one that cuts across his left eye.

    "Kat, Cade." He says with a small bow to each of them, "Welcome back the Council has been waiting."

    Kat bows deeply, "I'm sorry, Silias, Cade was playing around."

    Silias looks at Cade "That seems to be the routine. Kat, go report to the council. Cade...I'm going to have a little chat with you."

    Kat bows again then moves past Silias, ignoring Cade's pitiful mews and heads towards a door with a sun on it. Through the door is a long hallway that leads to another door with a sun. Kat takes a deep breath before walking down the long hallway and opening the door to a big round chamber. Surrounding her is a ten-foot tall wall, and sitting above it are thirteen people who all look the same. They wear long golden robes that have red accents. A headdress covers their eyes and falls across their shoulders down to their chests.

    Kat kneels and bows her head. She though she can only see a part of it she knows from past visits that the tiled sun takes up most of the floor., but she knows from "Cade Darshan and I, Kat Adair, have returned Council of the Sun."

    "We have been waiting for your report, Ms. Adair," A man's voice replies.

    Kat doesn't look up as she continues, "We traveled to one of the old towns that were abandoned after the War. There we found a Bone Alteration of a D2 caliber. We fought, and killed it. No one was found to be living there, and Cade Darshan didn't find any other Alterations."

    "Were you the one to kill it?" A woman asks.

    "Yes."

    "That is all you may go," A different man dismisses.

    Kat stands, bows then backs out of a room. Once the doors close in front of her, she stands up straight and walks back down the hall. Cade has gone, but it doesn't faze Kat. She had been asked to speak to some people in training and Cade would only hider her.

    Kat takes the elevator to the fifth floor. Ignoring the stares of the trainees, she slips into a black classroom. People sit in desks facing a woman who lectures with a projector.

    "...There are five total A through F, and each letter has three subcategories. Even if you are not going into the field, it is important to know this so that you can correctly categorize the power and send in the right Field Hunter." The woman hit a button on the remote, and the lights turned on, "Now I know that most of you want to be in the field and have a lot of questions about it, so I asked a Hunter here to talk to you."

    Kat walks up to the front of the classroom, aware that everyone is watching.

    "Thank you for coming," The woman murmurs with a slight bow.

    "My pleasure," Kat replies.

    The woman turns and addresses the class again "Please be respectful. She has taken time out of her busy schedule to talk to you. And if that won't keep you quiet remember that she is trained to kill and will feel no guilt in taking out one of you."

    The woman steps back, and Kat steps forward, "I'm not here to tell you to stay away from fieldwork or that it is dangerous, you should already know that. What I'm going to tell you is that even before you start training to hone you skills, you have to take a test to see if you qualify to be in fieldwork. Ninety percent of you will take that test only about ten percent will come out alive. Half of that ten percent will come out mentally unstable and will have to be hospitalized, four percent will want to change to a different job, which only leaves about one percent that will qualify. But qualification doesn't mean you are guaranteed to become a field agent. My suggestion is that if you have any doubts at all to change your career."

    Kat stops talking, and hands shoot into the air. One by one she takes them on.

    Is it true you need a partner? Yes. How many types of Alterations are there? Hundreds. Have you ever fought an F3? No, and I don't want to. Do you get jobs every day? No. Have you ever fought another Hunter? No. Could you fight me? You'd die.

    "Alright, that is enough," The woman steps in, "I'm sure our guest has places to be."

    Kat bows before leaving. She takes the elevator to the ninth floor, where her room is, and finds Cade waiting for her.

    "We have another job," He says. 

 

 

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