In the Cafeteria (Private:Raziel/Teru)

Raziel almost fell flat on her face as she came out of her roll and Teru snuck up behind her. She turned to face the girl. “Damn... you're good,” Raziel said between breaths. Well this was just great, she was now a mildly winded, soaking wet fox girl. “I blame you for this,” Raziel said jokingly while sniffing her hair. Damn that was bad, horribly bad, she would need to clean herself off when they got to the locker room.

“Well if you want to meet Aka'Ken we have to go this way,” Raziel began towards the lockers. She had been defeated and walked with her ears sagging down rather than poking up as they usually did. Her tail didn't swish back and forth but instead just kind of hung there sticking out of her skirt. Loosing was not something Raziel enjoyed. This wouldn't affect her friendship with Teru though. Just because someone beat you was no reason to suddenly not be friends anymore.

Raziel agreed, a change of clothes would be nice, unfortunately the only other outfit she had was her combat uniform. She needed to buy more clothes some time soon. Two outfits was a little low.

“Oh me? Yeah I'm fine,” Raziel lied unconvincingly. Was that really the best option, lying to her new friend? And only so soon after they met. Sure she hadn't been completely honest so far, but she hadn't explicitly lied either. This was not the proper way to make friends or keep them. “No. No. That's a lie. Sorry I just don't like being beaten. Don't worry I'll feel better when we reach Aka'Ken,” Raziel said still downtrodden.

There was no way she would let herself stay this depressed. She would feel better later once she took a shower, and as she said, reaching Aka'Ken. She was not used to being beaten, sure she understood that it was almost impossible for her to win all of the time, but it didn't change the way she felt.

“Yeah, I probably would. I guess it was kind of unfair from the beginning anyhow,” Raziel said as they reached the locker room. Inside she went directly for her locker. After punching in the code the locker opened and Raziel extracted Aka'Ken. She immediately pulled him close and hugged him. She immediately felt a thousand times better. “I missed you buddy! I don't think I am going to keep you in this locker,” Raziel spoke to Aka'Ken. Just being away from him for a short period of time had been emotionally draining for her.

Aka'Ken had been one of the only quote true friends she ever had. And she didn't mind sharing him with others, his weighting was about double that of a regular sword so it would be hard for most other people to wield him properly.

“Teru meet Aka'Ken,” Raziel said turning to Teru and Holding out Aka'Ken for her to take, “Don't worry he's nice.”

“Yeah I know, but I just don't feel right without him with me,” Raziel said as she began to take off her soaked clothing. Dropping them to the ground, “But Aka'Ken is so much more than a regular old sword. He's polite, very nice and also quite heavy.” The last one became apparent as Raziel say Teru using quite a bit of strength to heft Aka'Ken. She was in for a surprise if she thought that he was just a sword. As Raziel said he was a person.

“Hello!” Aka'Ken said to Teru, “I don't suppose that you would like to destroy some evil to day would you?” A quote from one of his favortie characters in a book that Raziel had read to him quite some time ago. Yes he could talk, but only to those who were wielding him at the time. It was more of a new voice in the persons head than a voice from someone else.

Raziel removed the last of her soaking clothes. “I'm going to take a quick shower,” Raziel said heading for the showers, “You two have fun now.”

“It's a pleasure to meet you as well,” Aka'Ken said, “I'm sure that you've met plenty of swords, you've just never met one that talks.” He was quite the personable sword. He liked people, though honestly some he liked to stab. This girl was not one of those people though. She seemed nice enough, and Raziel had handed him to her so he figured she was alright.

“Julyet gave him to me,” Raziel called from the showers, “At least I'm pretty sure that she did. I've had him forever now so I don't exactly remember.” She honestly couldn't rememebr where she got Aka'Ken but she was ninety percent sure that it was Julyet.

“Well she's not wrong,” Aka'Ken said laughing. She didn't know the half of it. But he wasn't going to tell her anything.

Raziel finished her shout shower and headed back for her locker while drying herself off. It was weird to her, to smell clean. This was definitely not something she was used to. Heck back in the day she would have been lucky to have bathed once every three months. Once at her locker she began to dress in her combat uniform.

“Don't rightly know. Just kind of happened. One day I was just a regular sword and then the next poof I'm suddenly me,” Aka'Ken said sounding somewhat confused himself, “That's really the best way I can put it.” It was like something out of Warbreaker a fantasy novel. Many times when one thought they understood the world, then the universe would snicker in their face and throw them something to completely throw them off of their game.

Now fully dressed Raziel approached Teru again. “You two getting along nicely now?” She asked almost jokingly.

Now having showered and wearing a pair of clean clothes Raziel remembered something, she had class in like half an hour. Her eyes went wide in surprise. “Oh crap, I have to go, I have class in a little while,” Raziel said almost forcefully taking Aka'Ken back and putting him in the locker. “Here I'll put your contact information in my scroll and we can hang out some time, okay?” Raziel said pulling out her scroll and punching in Teru's contact information.

With that done, Raziel smiled at Teru then turned to run off. She could not be late for class again, last time not only was she late, but she had fallen asleep in class before. The teacher was already had her on their bad students list, and she could not afford to have to do any remedial work or get sent to detention, not with her White Fang work.


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