Jurano woke slowly trying to process what was happening, he looked over and saw the time and note on the side saying 'Meeting with the crew today early' he saw the time and it was 8:05, he slowly began to realise that he was late by an hour for meeting.

"Oh no." he said realising he did it again.
"That's the third time this month." he got out of bed and tripped over landing on the floor with a thud, he got up massaging his head and quickly pulled on his uniform, it was a black jacket with gold angelic patterns weaving around it, with two holes on the back for his wings, his combat pants were a similar fashion except no holes. He ran out the door forgetting his weapons and ran back in, again tripping and landing with a thud. He strapped his rifle on his back and sheathed his two swords on his waist. He ran full sprint down the corridor to the briefing room. He opened the door and fell inside, agian landing with a thud. He was feeling like a fool, again.

Cassius was lost in thought, quickly he was snapped out of it when he heard someone's voice, complaining of their lateness far away but for him it sounded close. Then he heard a thud, likely whoever it was had fallen, possibly tripped over something. The fast paced steps coming toward the briefing room, thinking it was an intruder he almost used his powers but was relieved to see another person, he was sure that was a member of the team. Upon seeing him fall on his face Cassius helped him up, puling him to his feet in a helpful manner.

Jurano took cassius' hand, who quickly pulled him to his feet making him almost falling over again.

"Thanks for that," he said realising it was the newby "oh you're cassius aren't you, i don't think we've met before." He said with a smile "I'm Jurano Lightwind." He said gleefully, his expression darkened when he remembered that he was late again. "Uh, so what did i miss this time?"

"I'm new here..." Cassius said with a small smile on his face looking toward Jurano, noticing his expression change he frowned a bit. "We were all getting placed into groups by Mina." He said to him, he was glad he had remembered her name, it would have been embarrassing to have not know at that moment.

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Blake stood up quickly. "It's a nice plan, but what if the enemy silently slipped passed us, from behind us?" he asked knowing he had a good point. "I'll be more then honored to help with the sealing but, I would also like to volunteer as a lookout." He said placing a hand on his sniper. "I'm more then capable of being able to detect any movement and let along anyone who hides in the shadows." He said his eyes turning silver then a demonic purple then back. He sat back down and shook his head and rubbed his eyes. he never switched so fast between eagle vision (The silver) to heat vision (Demonic purple) then to normal sight in his life.

Mina looked over at Blake as he stood up, but spoke to Mike first. 'With all due respect Captain, I think Nari should use her skills to her full potential. She is not one of long range combat and protecting the sealers will require that first and foremost. Furthermore we do not need anybody getting distracted by one another, as the others already stated.' she said.
She returned her attention to Blake again. 'The offer is generous and I will gladly accept it if the sealing turns out to be an easy task. It will be one of the most draining tasks at least, so the more people can help with it, the better. As for the look-out, I've managed to contract a Banshee some time ago. She, alongside two of my elite hell-hounds, will keep watch at the entrance. My hounds can take out any threat ranging from small to medium and the banshee will notify us of any intruder, as well as attempt to paralyze them on sight.' she explained.

Upon spotting Jurano walking in her gaze darkened a bit. 'You're late... again.' she stated and rubbed the bridge of her nose. 'Next time I'll buy you an alarm clock in Hell. It will be fun to watch you as you try to get it off your face.' she stated.
She quickly summarized the story and mission so far and sighed. 'Either way, when we seal the artifact I want you to stand by us as protector. Also, I will overload the circuits when we get there, so I want you to light up our path a bit when we go in. The place is quite a maze inside and I don't want anybody to wander around and get lost. Every group will get a certain pattern and mark the walls at every turn so we know which path is clear and which isn't, okay?' she explained to the entire group again.

'That is, unless you have any objections, of course?' she stated to Mike.

Cassius' eyebrows went up when he heard what Mina said about the alarm clocks in hell. It sounded very unpleasant so getting on her bad side was clearly not smart, she was probably scarier than anything when she wanted to be. Cassius nodded when she explained the plan, he was a little excited though, fighting alongside people was something he had done before in his younger years.

Blake grumbled unsatisfied. He sat completely still and messed with the match box in his pocket. "I still don't like it" He said. "But, if that's how you wanna do it then I'll do it." He said a bit with self-hatred for just giving in like a little wimp. He took his sniper off and messed with the scope for a while then he grumbled. "Why, do I even have one I could just use my eagle sight like I did as an assassin for hire." he said messing with the scope some more.

Ryan looked at Jurano, who was late once again. "Perhaps, rather than an alarm clock that attaches to his face, he would prefer I take the form of whatever he fears and wake him up?" He glanced to Zayne, "What do you think, Zayne? If he can't wake himself up, how shall we do it for him?" It could be a good choice to possibly use both methods. As soon as the alarm clock gets off of his face, he would see his fear and would likely not go back to sleep for a bit. If done correctly, he may be awake until the next day...

Mike nodded to Mina about the plan as he agreed with her, "Nope, I'm perfectly fine with your plan Mina" Mike said to her with a smile as he closed his eyes to have a little think of his own before he heard on the com "Captain, we are about 30 minutes from Nightwing", "Alrighty Joker" Mike said before he looked at his squad with a massive smile as he said "Alright guys, get the last bit and pieces ready and meet me at the cockpit and the door, Dismissed" ending the meeting. He brushed past Nari arm with a wink to her before he moved on. Sashia chuckled and followed him.

Blake stood up and did a non serious solute then walked over to the bridge to hang with the pilot like he has often done. On the way he lit a match, he let it burn for a while then started to toss it back and forth while talking to the pilot his sniper sat neatly next to the door and he acted as friendly as he could. He took down his hood and showed off his demonic horns that grew over the night. He realized he was slowly growing into a full demon and not a newbie as some of the others had called it.

Jurano sighed as the meeting was adjourned,

"You know one of you could've woken me, it's not like you don't know where my room is." he said walking out the room,
he walked down the hall and into his room grabbing his visor and placing over his eyes. The visor lit up with different systems activating, it settled down revealing the room but with a very faint white covering everything. He exited the room heading towards the cockpit.

"All this talk of alarm clocks from hell and ryans' bloody shape-shifting have got me worried about the next time, i should just wake when the alarm goes off." he said to himself as he walked towards the cockpit, he noticed Blake talking to joker and gave a nod in his direction. Jurano leaned against the wall waiting for everyone else to arrive.

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Ryan looked at Jurano, who was late once again. "Perhaps, rather than an alarm clock that attaches to his face, he would prefer I take the form of whatever he fears and wake him up?" He glanced to Zayne, "What do you think, Zayne? If he can't wake himself up, how shall we do it for him?"

Zayne glanced at Ryan and a light smirk appeared on her lips. 'That sounds like a most appetizing idea Ryan.' she grinned. She threw Ryan an amused smile and got on her feet when the meeting was adjured, walking over to him. 'Seriously though, we could do that.' she said with a grin.

Nari smirked playfully when Mike brushed past her skin as he passed by. She got up and skipped after him, quickly catching up and putting her arm around his. 'So cappy, we're not in the same team this time.' she said. 'Aren't you disappointed? I can come comfort you afterwards.' she suggested playfully.

Mina smiled as everybody agreed with her planning and the meeting was adjured. She got on her feet and stretched, limberly moving her body in every direction while she got used to her new clothes. She made walked along with the rest of the group, looking around while petting the drake on her shoulder again. 'Well that went well, huh, little demon?' she asked. The drake purred and screeched, rubbing his head on her cheek again and causing her to grin.

Ryan nodded to Zayne, also standing at the ending of the meeting. He smirked as well as he watched Jurano leave the room. "I welcome you to join me when I wake him up the first couple times whenever I learn of his worst fears." He looked back to Zayne, still smirking. "Our control over darkness will make it even better. His room will be pitch black until we wish it otherwise." He began walking towards the door, stopping and moving to the side so that Zayne could go first. And now, I have a plan to figure out his main fears... I'll tell Zayne my plan on the way to the cockpit.

Cassius was relieved that the briefing was over, he quickly exited the room, making sure no one was around him he ran quickly. A few seconds later he got to the dueling room, he felt like getting in a quick round of training would be nice, hopefully no one came in. He began throwing a series of lightning fast punches and kicks in the air, he didn't want to train against a drone for fear that he would break it.

Mike chuckled a little as Nari offered to comfort him after the mission which made him smile as he said to her very flity "I think I would really like that my playful little fox". Sashia chuckled at the two of them as she said "Awww, you two are so cute together". Mike blushed at Sashia comment and gave her a playful punch. She did not feel the power behind it because her dragon skin formed over the area that Mike was about to punch. Sashia then looked at Blake talking to Joker which made her smile, she then focused as she asked "So, what do you think this artefact looks like?" Mike sighed and said "Sashia, were you not paying attention?" Sashia smiled sweetly as she said "Maybe".

Schal left the briefing room after the end of the meeting he quickly headed back to his room not wanting to hear the flirting between Mike and Nari. He quickly walked back to his room, once in side he gathered up his equipment. Schal proceed to do some maintenance on all of his equipment making sure it I was ready to go. After he was done with that task he went over to the Verim shrine in his room, he knelt before it he said a quick pray before leaving his room. He decided to head to the mess hall to get something to eat before they arrive at the planet.

'Well maybe like the orb that's in my room" he said tossing the ball of fire at mike then when it was about to hit his face pulled it back. "But, who knows magical objects are different for all we know it could just be a book or a person." He said tossing the ball in a trash can then put it out. "Look, I'm changing and that's that." He said looking at joker. "And mike a really have a bad feeling about this mission." He said knowing he said that about all the missions. "I mean in it something feels different." He added as he walked to the shuttle bay and waited for the others.

Jurano overheard Blakes comment,

"Well whatever it is Blake im sure we can handle it, i mean what can't we handle?" He said with a cheerful smile. Jurano then pulled out one of his short swords and went to polishing it with a rag, he did the same with other.

"How long are they gonna take?" He said smirking at the irony in his question.

Blake laughed and began to un screw the scope from his sniper. "Stupid scope impairs my vision it has no benefit to me." He took and tossed it in the trash. He grabbed his rapier and sat down sharping it. "I mean sure those methods of waking you are complicated I just say burn you every time your late I mean that's what happened to me as a kid when I was late for sword practice." he said not looking up from his rapier.

Jurano ignored the comment about him being burned, instead he looked around and saw that Mike, Nari and Sashia had arrived. He saw Nari and Mike flirting as usual and decided to sing a wedding tune under his breath, he looked over to see if the others could hear him.