Day One

Finally it is time for their introductions and it has only been six hours not like they have been waiting. Dante walks out with them behind him as none are in their suits and he leads to the mic on the giant floating stage. "My name is Dante Cross. I am the Captain of Supplementary Academy 92. Our aim for this competition is easy, we are hungry." All stare shocked as most have been saying long speeches. Some have said great things but they come out, just say that, and now all of them are walking off.

Carter laughs as he watches it from his seat and shakes his head. "So many are wondering what that kid is meaning but anyone who knows them, would be running in fear right now."

Edna is sitting as she smiles and leans over to Ally. "Is it me or is Dante a little mmff today?" Ally looks over and blushes as she nods but not about to make the same sound.

Dalila looks to the holo and to her mom as she sighs. "Mom, if you won't watch this than you must cook tonight." her mom jerks and looks to her as she narrows her eyes "He faces it head on like you taught him so why can't you?"

Dante sees the floating numbers as he sighs seeing the 3 before he turns and walks away from all of them. They have their own designated area but being known where to send another killer robot doesn't sound fun. He walks over and heads over to 54 and looks around before blinking seeing a familiar face.

She looks over and smiles as she heads his way. "Well if it isn't the sexy chef?" he laughs nodding as she smiles "Oh yeah, figure you are curious of your two sweethearts and I hear they will be changing academies. The Principal isn't happy but he can't prevent Cassandra from leaving however none really fought for Nina."

Dante laughs as he smiles. "Keep this up and I just might start thinking you are a good person Vix." she laughs and shakes her head like she wants to avoid it with a big smile "Now that is the proper way to make friends."

Vix laughs shaking her head. "Stop you are going to ruin my bad reputation." Dante gives a few suggestions to make it bad as she blushes to his statements "Damn boy, you got a set."

The two talk for a while before parting ways. He looks around and now has an idea where to look for more friends later. "By now everyone should be ready so guess time to show up."

The rest of her group looks to her as she smiles and looks to them. "If you get matched up with him go all out as if your life is on the line." they look to her blinking "Otherwise you might get devoured."

One of them motions the direction he left. "Who was that for you to say such a statement?"

Vix looks to him. "That was the God of Beasts." as everyone jerks and looks after him in shock she nods her head "He offered a great reward so you think he will not make you earn it? I don't know much about his team but if you get him, it is a fight to survive."

Dante is now laughing as they are throwing balls around to amuse themselves as they wait to get matched with another team for the fighting today. He is happy someone came up with this idea as it has ended the tension and stress. When one of the staff comes in he fights the impulse to peg them with a ball as he waves. "Team SA 92 has been matched with team SA 37. They have twelve members so you will have twelve matches"

They all get excited and relocate before the excitement dies down looking at their options. They all look to Dante who feels this is some sort of cosmic joke. Onya shakes her head. "Am I taller than most of them, is it a middle school?"

As the team captains walk out Dante feels like he is bullying children. As the girl looks up he can't help it and takes a knee so not towering over her. "Okay quick question, why are you here?"

She looks up and faints. He catches her shaking his head as he lifts carrying her to her side he asks and gets directed where to take her. While there one of the others speaks up. "Um, we were told to show up as our advanced class was busy so we are the standard forced students."

He looks to the guy and shakes his head. "Instantly surrender all fights or pull yourselves out of this competition. Those in this will go at it with no restraint and your advanced team was too scared so sent you here instead." he shakes his head "Otherwise you will get severely hurt and if unlucky enough, killed."

All of them pale as he nods his head. "I will go and let them know. We were told they couldn't go too far." Dante looks to that guy as his mouth goes dry "We will do it now."

Dante walks back to his side and shakes his head sighing as the rest have already taken up tossing various balls around again. "Their advanced class sent some of the standard forced members here to avoid facing others." they are going to remove themselves from the competition so we should get opponents."

Forty minutes pass and one of the event staff comes up to them. "We are sorry to inform you that your opponents have withdrawn from the event so you get a pass for this event. You will be awarded the points for a full sweep." the look on their face is that was a given either way "We will be going over the other teams in this event to make sure no other situations like this arise for you or any other teams."

They are all sitting there blinking before Janet speaks up. "Wait doesn't that mean we wasted our entire damned day here for nothing?"

Dante is leading them as they are heading for a gate and as Edna comes over the holo he smiles. "Is there anything you want Dante?" He gives an answer as she flares up and closes it as he shrugs with a devilish smile. She looks to Ally who has a slight smile and shakes her head. "I think I woke up a monster." Ally laughs and shakes her head unable to help.

He is working now and after some trial and error, thankfully none are major errors. He has a few of his team working decently with a couple of his companions. Now that they lost more than a full team they could send out he is hoping they can help improve their success rate.

He is sitting next to a tree watching the Carrion Boars. Because of his desire to get them used to it they are doing the lower missions once more. He laughs as he sees Sava ignoring the boars and slobbering all over Erica but since she won't stop petting her he isn't shocked. "Turns out the humans are too distracted to hunt."

He drops down starting forward at a sprint and once closer he grabs lifts the boar up as he swings his body sideways to slams it down so it is stunned before it vanishes. He repeats this for four more boars before walking back to those with him. "Oh hey you guys, you scared the boars away!" He looks over seeing Cory has just noticed the boars are gone and as everyone is looking around shocked he really wonders how humans have lived so long.

He looks to them. "Alright I have learned something today." they all look to him "You can't hunt with Sava." he gets a lot of complaints but Dante motions around "I took out all the boars and you didn't even notice."

He taps his watch and locates the other team and motions as they are following him as they head off. He gets there to see just utter chaos. Most are trapped in webs while Ta was fighting nearly three dozen spiders on her own and those not in the webs were busy trying to get the others. He motions as the eight with him rush forward to help their friends as he heads for Ta to assist as she is looking a bit haggard.

Now he really does see the limitations without communication. "I think part of this is my fault honestly everyone." they all look to him as he has Ta and Sava at his sides. "I was counting too much on just reactive and instinctive understanding." he shakes his head "You wouldn't have ever needed that so to ask you all to just jump right into it, I am sorry."

Cory shakes his head as he speaks up. "Honestly Dante we failed you as much if not more. Our team just went to petting and snuggling her like we always do so she wasn't even able to hunt even if she tried."

Onya sighs and looks down at her feet. "Our team figured it would be easy with momma here so we walked right into a trap and didn't think it mattered until too late. We just figured if you did so well it would be easy and we didn't treat them with the respect they deserve."

Dante smiles as this was rather mature and he feels even if they failed, this was still good experience. "We all made mistakes however we can see them and that means we can work on them." he smiles as the two vanish now and steps forward "Do you all know why I don't actively use my companions in hunts or fights?" as a few say several things he shakes his head "They are my family, I must form a real connection with them before this works. They are not tools I can send in to get repaired. They are living breathing entities and most importantly, they are those who chose me like I chose them." he smiles some and looks to them "We can be so much stronger but first, we need to understand just what we really need to work on."