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Through rivalry and friendship... and a bunch of Grimm [closed]

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DEXES:
It was a quite Saturday morning in Beacon, and a cold breeze filled the air outside the big academy. It was the perfect morning to lie in bed and recover from all the lessons and learning of the last few days. Not for Mikado Drak. The young Huntsmen-in-training left his dorm room a long time ago and has been sitting in the Academys library ever since.
A book with many drawings and texts about Grimm was opened infront of him and he flicked through the pages. The text itself was only read briefly, what he paid more attention to were the the drawings and the corresponding features added on it's side.
Just as he was about to turn over another page, his scroll vibrated. It was a text message, the transmitter was the Academy.


Dear Mikado Drak

We send you this message to inform you that you have been selected for a training mission in the mountains.

Following is the description of your mission:

A horde of Grimm is approaching the mountain village 'Monaha' at high speed. The inhabitants of Monaha have already begun their evacuation to the neighboring village, but the there prevailing storm and the uneven path to the next village slows down this process to a critical point. The goal here is to get as much time for the evacuation as possible and, if possible, eliminate the horde.

According to reports about the horde we could determine that this mission is suited for a first year student.
Despite all this, we decided not to send you alone.
Your teammate Smokey Emberstone will be accompanying you on this mission, as well as the Huntress Siu Ceong.
We kindly ask you to gather with equipment at the landing platforms outside the Academy by the time stated below. From there, a bullhead will pick you up and bring you to Monaha.

Best regards, Beacon staff.


Mikado stared at his scroll for a moment. He read the message again. Nothing changed. He couldn’t help but let out an annoyed sigh. Of all his teammates, no, of all students at Beacon, it of course had to be Smokey. He could still remember how his 'teammate' pointed his motherfucking cannon sniper at him. And no matter how much it bothered him to say that, not only did the weapon look good, but it could probably also bring a trained Huntsmen to his knees with a good targeted shot. However, this didn’t change his attitude and view towards Smokey. So, why, out of all people, did it had to be him?

He got up and closed the book. The noise of pages being slammed together made Kiro, who lay next to the book on the table, raise his head. Mikado gave the dragon a quick pet on his head and gestured him with a wave to come along, while picking up the book with his other hand. The black dragon responded immediately, jumped at his owners arm and made his way from there over the shoulder to the head, where he then made himself comfortable on the boy’s hair.

Mikado brought back the book before leaving the library to get his equipment. He would leave it to Smokey to tell the rest of the team about their little 'adventure' they’re going to have...

Hm, Siu Ceong...
He never heard that name before, but according to the message, she was supposed to be a graduate Huntress. That didn’t sound to bad. Well, nothing could sound worse that the fact that he and Smokey, alone, went on this mission. Well, not alone-alone, because Siu would be there, but alone in the sense of their team. Alone in the sense of all students at Beacon. It couldn’t get any worse...

It was not long before Mikado geared up with his weapon, dust crystals and bullets, heading for the landing platforms. The bullhead was already there, along with the associated pilot.
"Ahh, the students, excuse me, but shouldn’t there be two?"
"He'll come," Mikado replied as bored as possible. He decided not to wait for Smokey and immediately entered the open Bullhead

ReaperJoe:
Smokey was spending his Saturday morning like most people his age would.  Asleep.  He was only woken up by the sound of his scroll going off.  Still mostly asleep, Smokey rolled over and patted on his nightstand before he finally clasped the rude device in his hands.  As he flipped the scroll on, he squinted as the brightness forced his eyes to readjust far more rapidly than they wanted to.  When his eyes finally re-acclimated to the light, he read through the message he just received. 

He then read it again.  There was an internal struggle in his mind.  On one side, there's the opportunity to hunt down Grimm and save people's lives, which is one of the reasons he signed up for the job in the first place.  On the other hand, he had to work with Mikado.  Ever since they first met, Smokey's opinion of Mikado had been...okay, let's not beat around the bush, Smokey thinks Mikado's a prick with a bad attitude.  He tolerates the guy simply because his abilities as a fighter has earned Smokey's begrudging respect.  He can't deny the usefulness or power of Kiro, even if that glorified gecko tried to set him on fire. 

So, despite supposedly being teammates, Smokey and Mikado had an unspoken arrangement to deal with each other as little as possible.  During training, classes, or whatever situation they found themselves in, Smokey made a point to stay out of Mikado's way.  Likewise, Mikado has done the same for him.  But this mission has called for Smokey to work specifically with Mikado, as well as a huntress he had never met.  He'd heard the name "Siu Ceong," but there's no face or notable event that he can put with it.  So, to put it simply, he's working with an asshole and a complete stranger.

Well, despite Smokey's reservations about his teammate, people needed help, and he was called for the job.  On the bright side, he'll be working with a full-fledged huntress, so that should be cool.  Rolling out of bed, Smokey quickly got himself ready for the day and packed his equipment. 


Arriving at the landing platform, Smokey would arrive just in time to see Mikado disappear into the bullhead. Giving a curt nod to the pilot, he joined Mikado in the airship, though he found a seat moderately far away from his colleague.  Fortunately for the two, neither character were very conversational, and would be perfectly happy to sit in silence.  Smokey spent the remainder of the wait checking through his supplies.   

Siuwa:
In a bullhead, 15 minutes before the scheduled takeoff of her mission sat Siu Ceong. She is to be shadowed by two first years, Mikado Drak and Smokey Emberstone. Although with the estimated difficulty of the mission it might just be the reverse. What complications exactly are the staff foreseeing to send a huntress to accompany first years on a first-year-level village defense? Couldn't they have picked a level more appropriate for shadowing if that's what they're going for? The wondering mind of Siu rushed to work out possibilities. Starting from the likely ones: White Fang activities? Bandit targets? To less so: Criminal subversion? Border skirmishes? ...Anyway, somewhat out-of-the-way villages like these usually have an interesting heritage of their own, which I can tell Dad about. Cool.

Seeing both of her teammates board is the cue for her to double check everything. Barricades, check. Point Defense, check. That would be it, but there's still a bit of time before takeoff, so she should take the time to get to know them better for the good of all of us, given she's is a complete stranger to them and vice versa, plus even if she's working with two teammates as they are, she does not know anything about the relation of them, but hopefully a good one.
"So, who are you, where are we going to and what would we do there?" A fairly useless question, checking if each of them went on the right bullhead, plus if any of them received more or fewer instructions than she did. In addition, from their reactions Siu might be able to figure out a thing or two about their characters and on each other.

DEXES:
When Mikado entered the Bullhead, he could already see a young woman, who he assumed to be Siu Ceong, sitting in one of the seats. Even though this was the person he needed to work with, he was not up for a conversation and instead sat down quietly in one of the unusually many seats. Just in time to see Smokey enter the Bullhead. He still wasn’t enthusiastic about going on this mission with him, but he slowly started to give it up and accept it. Really slowly.

Quiet prevailed for a short while, until Siu decided to speak up. Mikado gave her an annoyed look. It wasn’t the fact that she was trying to start a conversation that bothered him. It was the question with which she did it. Those questions had been answered quite clearly in the mission description.
"To Monaha," he said with a roll of his eyes, "You know, stop Grimm from killing people." The sarcasm in his voice was clearly audible.

He hadn’t been in the Bullhead for five minutes and the situation already started to annoy him. What a wonderful start!
He paused for a moment, then stood up and walked to the Huntress.
"I'm Mikado, and I suppose you’re Siu Ceong, right?" he asked, hesitating for a second before reaching out his arm for a handshake.

ReaperJoe:
"What he said," said Smokey in response to Siu's question.  He was doing his best to keep his mouth shut, both for the sake of the mission and for his own sanity.  Despite the fact blasting Grimm was basically his entire shtick, he was finding he wanted to be here less and less each minute.  And from the looks of things, this was one of the rare moments where Mikado agreed with him.  But they're both here, and they're here to do a job, and they're going to do it.  Or at least, Smokey is. 

The gunslinger is carrying enough ordinance to take down a horde and a half by himself.  If he didn't have to worry about shooting the dragon, Smokey'd wager he could blast through the monsters fast enough to be back by dinner.  But they didn't call just Smokey, noooo.  They had to call Mik--

Stop complaining, he's here at Beacon for a reason, and he got picked for this mission for a reason, just like you.  Get over it, Smokey's thoughts interrupted his internal complaining.  It wouldn't do to arrive at the job site with an already elevated temper, especially in a high stress environment like a village evacuation.  Instead, he turns toward the huntress that would be joining them, as Mikado gets up and makes his introduction.  Smokey, for his part, merely gives a half-hearted wave and says, "Smokey."

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