(Preshow) Preshow Facility

[Ash]

Ash was turned on by the ripping out of every atom in her body as it was dismantled in a matter of nanoseconds - about only half of that you feel - and then digitally forced through space in an instant. The feeling of motion sickness bubbled into her stomach -whenever she could feel her stomach - which was not common but in fact was a result of not eating before she teleported. It reminded her incredibly of jacking into the matrix, it was a high that she enjoyed to the fullest, it has always been. It felt just as it was described by Emory when they were summoned to earth by their magicians. As deep into madness as the Djinni had been, it had been helpful.

Unlike the first opponent from Nippur, Ash was weak not because of the sickness, but because of the pleasure. She heard a voice, “Are you, okay miss?” A young attendant asked the same one that had just cleaned off the vomit from his shoes before she arrived. He was a bit gun shy, but he had a job to do. One that Karl Jak would not let him skip out on just because of little body fluids.

The Storm Demon had to take a moment, leaning on the two walls that made up the corner the teleporter pad was in. She took deep slow breaths and closed her eyes, Leon’s image briefly washing over her mind. She laughed a bit to herself, humored by the idea that the elf is what she thought about when she was slightly aroused. Especially given her previous experience with the nobleman from Nippur, Erik was still on her mind.

She took the time to calm herself before looking around.

Right out the gate, she was already being observed by one figure. A gorgeous young man with dark hair sitting near a tree in close proximity to the teleport-pad who was giving her a cold stare judgemental stare. He pierced her with his deadly gauze that made her bite her lower lip.

“Miss?” The attendant asked again for her attention. She smiled at him. “Everything’s fine. Thanks.” She said, passing up the easy target by patting the kid on the shoulder as she made her way down the hall towards the stranger who’s giving her a dirty stare.

“You like something you see?” Ash asked, walking right up to the demon slayer himself. She cocked her hip and put her hand on it, waiting for him to comment and offering a friendly smile all the same.

“You’re dressed worse than a Nippur peasant.” He said sharply.

“Funny, I received this from a Nippur peasant,” Ash replied just as quickly.

Respect. “Will you not dress more appropriately?” Kanda offered a solution this time.

“How does one dress appropriately for a fighting competition?” She asked the air was less hostile already.

“In armor, generally.” Kanda quipped, stating the obvious.

Ash smiled first and chuckled secondly. “Very well. Let me see what I can do.” She stood straighter and lowered her hands to be in front of her stomach, she closed her eyes and concentrated for a few moments. The rainbow display came to her fingertips, in that instant she announced her Prime status to the stranger on the bench.

After a few moments, the lights absorb back into her body. At that moment an electric blue ring appeared around her entire body about waist high. She lifted her hands and spread them out, as she did the ring tightened around her waist. This then splits into two rings. One goes up and the other goes down. As the rings split the shirt she wore was replaced with a different outfit. The rings split again, the lower one turned to two different rings to travel over her surprisingly toned legs. The upper ring splits from her chest and traveled down the length of her arms.

When they were done changing her outfit, the rings burst into pixels of light and vanish after floating away, like simple soap bubbles.

The Storm Demon stood before him in more modern clothing than the primitive tunic. From head to toe, her hair was pulled back into a ponytail that mimicked his, a dark mauve hooded crop top covered her shoulders in the tinies sleeves, under this was a bright orange strapless crop top that only poked out in a triangle against her chest. It might surprise anyone who knew Ash that she covered up her cleavage completely, but as if to compromise she has seemed to cut out the rest of the shirt. So the man, and anyone else who could see her,  would see the elvish message inked into her skin on her left side.  Her shorts were tight and clung to her hips and ass, squeezing her muscular thighs, the legs of her shorts ended about three inches off her knee. Her shoes were thick brown leather, to match the rustic theme the shirt had been. Her boots had steel toes and tied right up to below her knees.

In addition to an outfit, her weapons appeared. On her right hip, Red Devil’s Claw hung, its braided rope made of human black hair collected neatly as well to the side. On her left thigh, Red Devil’s Quil was strapped, in a way that the full feather looking dagger could be seen in all its unique design. Upon her back was the monster of her collection; Royal blue and gold trim. Invictus. Her prized possession because of what she has gone through to get it. That and it was extremely effective in battle.

As well, Kanda would notice an addition on her right arm, some kind of monstrous contraption that was a merging between modern weaponry and medieval. As to what the thing did was beyond him as she didn’t seem to carry arrows nor crossbow bolts.

She cocked her hip to the left this time, better to place her hand that way. “Better?”

“Well, you don’t look worse than a Nippur peasant anymore.” Kanda addressed, looking over the weaponry as well. She looked as if she did both close range and long range.

“You’re still staring. So it must look good enough.” She said as she winked at him. In her hand, she was unraveling some bubble gum.

He watched her toss a soft purple cube into her mouth, seeing yet another piece of metal piercing her cobalt blue tongue. The ones in her face and ears were gold, where this one was silver. “If indeed I am staring, it is because I have not seen anything quite like you around here.” He said bluntly.

She began to chew on the lump of bubble-gum in her mouth. For a moment he wondered if he offended her, not that he cared. “Haven’t seen many half-naked women? You poor man.” She cocked a grin at him that implied she was about to say something questionable. “If you want, I can show you what a fully naked woman looks like?”

Kanda sat there stoned faced as ever. “I meant your kind.”

Ash never stopped smiling. “What do you mean by that?”

The exorcist didn’t see the humor in this. “Demons.” He said bluntly, finally. “Your race.”

Ash still grinned as she stuck her tongue out of her mouth, it was covered with a thin layer of purple. He watched as she slid her tongue back into her mouth and began to blow. She took another breath which slightly deflated the bubble, only for her exhale to expand the bubble past her head. It exploded with a solid pop but deflated anticlimactically instead of going all over her face. There was a bit more silence as she gathered the bubble gum once more into her mouth. “Is that what you think I am?” She teased.

Leaving Kanda a bit confused. After a moment to compose his tone: “Is that not what you are?”

“Nope,” Ash said bluntly but offered nothing else to help him understand.

“A succubus, then?” Kanda tried a new approach.

“Haven’t heard of that one in a while.” Ash scoffed, “but no.”

Kanda stared at her hard, and long. “You sure like your games like demons do.” He made one final comment about it before turning his eyes off of her.

Ash gave a soft chuckle. At this point, she gathered he might rather she leave him be. While leaving him all alone was tempting, she was having a bit too much fun with this one, and decided instead to take a seat beside the handsome stranger. Her legs stretched out in front of them while she supported herself with the palms of her hands. When he looked over to see what in Gilgamesh’s name she was doing, he found her smiling a devil’s grin his way. "My name is Ash, by the way. Yours?"

...Apparently, she means to stay.