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I believe that eventually we'll get what we're after [Open]

Hana had, of course, been napping when he’d felt something that stirred him.

Slowly, he opened his eyes and yawned. Rubbing his face, he sat up and ran a hand through his untameable mane of hair.

He could have sworn—There! He’d felt it again. Suddenly wide awake, he pushed himself up off the sofa he’d been resting on and stood still, waiting for the feeling again.

It was faint. But it was there. A pull. A call. And he knew it. He’d been waiting for it. Hoping for it.

He looked around. He was alone aside from aside from Taro, who was napping up on one of the rafters. Clearly, he hadn’t felt anything.

Well, he wasn’t really alone, because he was at Ruffs place, so the ghosts were here. He watched them to see their reaction. Most of them were pretty set on their own business and a few were curious about what had suddenly woken Hana up (because he had a reputation of sleeping like one of them), but none gave an indication of sensing the same thing he had.

But he was certain- Yes! Definitely this time. A little clearer. More desperate.

This time, a few spirits stirred and looked about confused before turning to Hana for confirmation. He didn’t say anything, he could feel something stirring within him and he wasn’t sure if he should let it out.

Summoning his resolve, Hana broke into a run and burst out of the front door, making his way down the street like a shot. The spirits called after him, but he ignored them in favour of that weaker cry that tugged at his soul.

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It seemed like forever but he followed the calling, it growing stronger and stronger until he reached the Weapons and Possessions Lockers. Hana knew this place. He’d been a million times looking for…

Well, needless to say, he’d never found it. And he’d not been back since the robot battles.

But today, something was different. From within was a feeling that practically screamed for him to come closer. It was so familiar. It coiled around his soul and beckoned him.

As he went inside, he walked with purpose. His previous visits where often desperate, disorganized searches and always fruitless, but this time, he knew exactly where to go.

Hana didn’t know how long he walked in the locker, or how far in, the place was huge, but he did know he never felt lost, the call told him exactly where to go.

Finally, there. On one of the lower shelves. Breath catching in his chest, he crouched. This was it. The moment of truth. He didn’t realize he was shaking until he raised his hand to gently push aside some kind of sword and see what lay behind it.

There it stood there. So bold and clear some far part of couldn’t believe he’d ever missed it.

A mortuary tablet.

Hana suddenly became aware of something wet trailing down his cheeks and he didn’t know he’d been holding his breath until he let out a sob. The feeling was now pulling him with such desperation he felt part of him might tear off.

His fingers reached out and wrapped around black, deceptively simple looking object. From within the smooth, black carving a wave of emotions washed over his soul.

It was so happy to see him. And he was so happy to see it. And so sorry he’d not found it sooner. So sorry that he’d ever given up. How could have been so cruel and thoughtless?

The tablet wrapped his guilt up in understanding and forgiveness.

Hana pulled it to his chest and wept openly for what seemed like hours as the soul from within embraced his.

Once his face was completely tear stained and droplets of salty water had coated the top of the tablet, Hana opened his swollen, red eyes and looked at the object he’d pressed against his heart. A grin of pure joy broke out across his face.

“Hey, buddy.”

“I missed you.”

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Hana was laid on one of the patches of grass in Ruffnut’s garden, grinning madly up at the sky. He’s completely immersed with chatting the ghosts around him, which obviously means to a lot of people he appears to be laughing and joking with himself, but it seems Hana couldn’t care less, because his face holds a look of total happiness.

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Ruffnut didn't hesitate, charging straight for him fist's clenched and roaring like a beast. The best way for him to show off after all would be to give him as many opportunities to block and strike as she could.

Feet churning up soil she was watching him intently excited for the opportunity.

She definitely wasn't surprised to see Ruffnut charging at him like that. It was what she usually did anyway, going straight into a fight and thinking fast on her feet. Never mind she just warned her for a reason.

"Pretty good. Don't beat up Ruff too bad!" She called out.

Hana laughed out loud and threw up a block with his right arm, the spikes thrusting upwards towards his attacker as the skull protected him.

She saw the block coming and threw her weight behind the punch. Upon contact lightning burst from her fist adding more force to the attack. The vibrations it sent through her arm number her and she winced. It was strong after all! As strong as it looked. And only by nature of her lanky arms had she avoided having to get too close to the spikes.

She jerked back and tried to duck around it looking for an opening.

Ooh, wow. Ruffnut had actually gotten better. There was no mistaking that she had actually started to think with her head much more. How well thatwas going to help her here, though, was anyone's guess. Hana had quite a bit of strength now, and beating him at all depended on how upped his stats were and how well he moved.

As it was turning out, training with Morgan was actually making her watch her opponents much more carefully.

But Hana didn’t move. At least, his main body didn’t.

As Ruffnut came around for another attack, suddenly Hana’s weapon seemed to move by itself, shifting his arm into a position so it could block her. In fact, Hana turned his head to look at Ruffnut just after making the block as if he’d just realized where she was.

For a moment, two eyes appeared on the skull of his weapon and looked at Ruffnut before vanishing again. Hana used this moment to try and bash Ruffnut with his spikey shield.

The eyes were what threw her off. Startled by their sudden appearance and trying to process the nature of the weapon she was wide open and took the hit stumbling back and away with some fresh puncture wounds in her arms and shoulders.

In the split second before impact she'd at least put them up to defend her vitals.

Shaking off the pain she grinned manically apparently thrilled by this and began running in an arc around Hana, circling him faster and faster in an attempt to find an opening. It was another one of her experimental techniques that could go horribly wrong.

When she thought she saw her moment she lashed out once again this time with her left, trying to throw him off before she'd hammer it home with her right.

Hit Girl sighed. Letting her guard down, really? That was just inviting disaster, and true to form, Ruffnut took the hit. She shook her head, hoping that her girlfriend would be a lot smarter than this.

Well, she recovered pretty quickly. That was good.

"Don't wear yourself out Ruff!" She called out.

Hana watched her as she ran around, digging his heels into the ground and preparing himself.

When she came in for the attack, he threw up his shield then widened his eyes when he saw it was a bluff and had to move his head to narrowly avoid her right fist. It just grazed his cheek and he felt the zap of her power travel painfully across his face.

Quickly, he threw himself backwards to avoid anymore hits and took a different stance. No more defending. Time to attack.

With sudden agility, Hana ran at her, ducking at the last moment to vanish from sight and reappear just underneath her less than a few steps away, coming up with a powerful vertical slash.

Ruffnut was feeling pretty good about that almost success. The only real downside is if the enemy wasn't dizzy from it...odds are she was.

In this case she barely lunged out of the way of the vertical slash in what looked to be a clumsy dodge. Then again fifty percent of Ruffnut's moves looked clumsy even if they were practiced. It was just part of how she moved.

She was going to have to get Ruffnut working on being faster on her feet. She always thought one of the biggest assets the girl had was using her limbs to avoid getting too banged up. They could really be put to better use.

The match would be over soon if the viking didn't use her head.

That slash had only been the start.

Next came a series of lightening quick attacks, one after the other, the onslaught was endless. And fast. It seemed the weapon wasn’t the only improvement in Hana. His speed, his endurance, even his form and physical strength seemed to have increased.

And his skill. No longer was he wildly swinging his sword around and hoping for a hit. Years of experience seemed to have taken place over one night.

There was still that flash of playfulness in his eyes though.

Ruffnut's eyes were alight with excitement as electricity pulsed through her limbs. She was good at dodging even if she chose not to half the time. Cuts were appearing in her clothes though and fresh scratches on her helmet and gauntlets as she moved quickly, but not quick enough.

She was just as amazed as she was thrilled. Hana's new weapon was several levels of cool and with how confident he was while using it, he seemed like a whole new man.

Seeing another opportunity she jammed her helmet up and into one of the strikes rushing forward hoping to land a solid strike on him while he was focused on the helmet which was now stuck on his sword. It was just a seconds worth of distraction though and who knew if it would even work.

Hit Girl could see what was coming now, mostly because she figured it was going to happen anyway: Hana's new form was showcasing exactly how good he was once he had his strengths with him, and was more than a formidable opponent for Ruffnut. In fact, looking at it, Hana was pretty much being what the Overlord had been for HER when they stumbled upon his date.

Granted, Hana was no Overlord, but for Ruffnut, who was aspiring to be one, it was a start.

No point in cheering though. She was too busy watching how both of them moved.

Hana was certainly confused by her actions of sticking her helmet onto the skull but it didn’t stop him from noticing her attack, smiling, this time he opted on using his left shoulder guard to protect him from Ruffnuts fist.

With a flash in his eyes, as soon as he felt the hit and saw the lightening dance across the surface of the spiritual shield he retaliated with a massive slash of his sword.

Hana’s close combat skills were certainly something else now.

Ruff let out a yelp and took the hit. It didn't slice through her though she knew if Hana wanted to it would have. Instead it send her flying like she'd been hit by a truck. She bounced across the ground and landed in a tangled heap in the dirt.

Slowly she rose to her feet again winded, catching her breath and trying to stand up straight again, she was impressed! And determined to keep going till he was satisfied as well. A cut in her shirt displayed where she would have been sliced if Hana hadn't blunted the edge for the spar and she was definitely gonna have a new bruise there.

You had to give her points for tenacity. If there was something that Ruffnut had in spades, it was the ability to get the hell back up after she had been knocked down so hard. Was she worried? A little: stupid girlfriend worry feelings came and went without warning, and she had to deal with them as they surfaced.

But she was paying careful attention to what happened next. What Ruffnut decided to do next depended on how she used her own instincts. If she didn't use them wisely, teh battle would be over pretty soon.

He felt that had been enough to showcase to the two of them the major increase of power he had.

Hana grinned at Ruffnut from over his weapon and began chuckling, dropping his whole stance and defense. Totally relaxed despite the threatening blade still attached to his arm.

"Well, what do ya think?"

Ruffnut lowered her own stance and grinned a big broad grin raising bother her hands into a pair of thumbs up, blood dripping from the punctures on her arms.

"Totally awesome!!!!" And she felt pride in having helped him show off. "Dude you are gonna be so bad ass!"

"Oh for the love of-" Hit Girl was already there, ripping off two parts of her cape to bind the blood back in, and hit Ruffnut in the head. "We don't have the healer here so you can do what you want, dumbass!"

She shook her head. "It was pretty awesome if you like all that flash and skulls and shit, very anime. Can't complain though."

"Thanks, Ruff. Heh, sorry about the cuts."

Hana blinked confused at Hit Girl's comment and looked at his weapon before casting Hit Girl a wary glance. "Oh... Um... Thanks? I think..."

He just couldn't catch a break with her it seemed.

"It's not supposed to be flashy it's just... What it is."

"Aw don't listen to her!" Ruffnut laughed and put Mindy in a headlock, "She loved it too. We're both totally happy you got it back!" Apparently Ruffnut wasn't bothered in the slightest by the cuts. She had had a great time and now was happy to be teasing Mindy.

"Hey man, if you want to go around praising, be my guest," she said. "I'm sure Hana knows how awesome he is. But I wanna make sure he can hold his own in any situation. So just because you got a soul upgrade doesn't mean you should ever quit training."

But there was a smile creeping on her lips, and she walked over, punching him in the arm. "Congratulations, man. I'm glad you have your strength back."

Hana shuffled and gave a half smile as they argued amongst themselves, unable to deny that he felt a bit dishearten than maybe Hit Girl had just insinuated she found his souls manifestation and true power rather boring.

When Mindy came over though his smile grew into his naturally large grin and he gave a sigh of relief. “Heh, thanks.”

He turned his head to speak to his weapon. “See? Told you they’d like it.” And suddenly the thing had eyes again.

"GAH!" Ruff gave a jump and then pointed at the eyes "Look see? I'm not crazy right you can see them too?" She asked Mindy desperately.

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