KRWN Part 4

Team Meeting Part 2
             “Gather around, Team KRWN.”



D.L. and Grun sat opposite one another on a bed with Cerise with her knees to her chest on one side and Stella on the other.

D.L. started, “Okay, first we’ll do names. I’m … well you know but don’t use it. Call me D.L.”

Grun bounced to his feet and said, “My name is Grun. But my friends in school used to call me Billy. Y’know ’cause of the horns.”

“Okay then, Billy Boy. Who’s next?” D.L. urged the odd conversation onward.

“I,” Stella puffed up her chest as she began, “am Stella Reign. My family is th—“

“Next,” D.L. interrupted what he was sure would have been a very long speech.

“B-but, I’m—” Stella whimpered.

“I said, ‘Next!’”

“I-I’m Cerise.”

“Well, we’re gonna be fighting together so let’s introduce our weapons,” D.L. reached into his jacket and took out his revolvers, “These bad boys are Ferrous and Ignis. The rounds are filled with powdered burn Dust,” D.L. activated the transforming mechanism and the barrels along with the rotating chambers moved to face the rear at the opposite ends of the brass knuckle shaped grips, “They also pack a punch. If you know what I mean.”

Cerise spoke up this time, “Here,” she pulled her sleeves back to reveal mechanisms attached to her arms from her wrists to just below her elbows. There were coils of cable or wire around each of her arms between two thick metal bands, “They’re whips,” The coils unwound and two whips slid out from each of her arms one on both sides of either wrist, “I call them Spinnerets.”

“Cool, Cerise,” D.L. tried to make the shy girl feel more comfortable, “How ’bout you, Grun?”

Grun energetically dove under what must have been the bed he claimed. He pulled out a long shovel. D.L. looked a bit confused, “It’s a- a shovel.”

“My brothers helped me make it. They call it ‘The Gravekeeper,’ but it always seemed a little morbid to me. It’s a Ballistic Grappling Battle Spade!” Grun said with pride, “And it can do this!” Grun seemed to move his hand a bit and the head of the shovel flew off the end followed by a metal cable. It hit the ceiling and stuck there. Grun noticed the head hadn’t come down and tugged a bit until it came crashing down with a chunk of plaster.

<p class="MsoNormal">“They’re gonna make you pay for that, y’know,” D.L. commented dryly. When Grun’s smile didn’t fade, he continued, “Let’s move on. Shall we.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“My North Star is a piece of absolutely exquisite craftsmanship,” Stella started to brag about her weapon, “It is a sharpened disk in the shape of my emblem attached to an arm guard. Also the double ended dagger sits inside the disk when I don’t use it. Like I said my exquisite craftsmanship is unpara—”

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’ll be enough,” D.L. once again cut her off and she pouted, “So since the little braggart here brought up her emblem, Let’s go with that next.” He grabbed the sleeve of his jacket and tugged showing a patch on his bicep. It looked like a yellow circle with a crown and a line just below cut out of it, “My little sister gave this to me ’cause she thought it would fit since our name is King.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Stella pointed to her hairband above her ear. There was a small button that was a powder blue circle with a four pointed star out of the middle. Before she could get her mouth open D.L. glared at her.

<p class="MsoNormal">Cerise wanted to break the tension so she spoke up, “Here’s mine,” she turned around and pulled her hair off her back to show the scarlet hourglass shape with eight crescents radiating from its center, four on each side.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh, mine next,” Grun almost shouted and kicked the air. The others were confused until they saw that his emblem was on his foot or his shoe rather. Across the sole of his shoe there was three green blades of grass and an oval at their base.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Okay then,” D.L. checked the time on his new Scroll, 3AM, “It’s getting pretty late so unless there’s something else anyone would like to share, I as team leader say we should crash. We do have classes in six hours.”

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