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Aegis Monster Hunter Academy
Back in the 1980s, drilling for oil grew too extensive and too deep. Humanity started breaching ancient caverns miles below the Earth's surface. They weren't uninhabited caves either. This extensive cave network was the home of unknowable numbers of massively beasts who now regularly escaped to and rampaged across the surface.
Some of the beasts were not hostile, though. They wanted to protect the surface world, and found the best way to do so was to symbiotically bond with humans, combining the deadly power of the depths with the agile minds of humanity. People who took these creatures into their own bodies became Hosts, and they were the only hope humanity had int protecting themselves.
As most people who become hosts did so at a relatively young age, though, they still have to go to school. To learn how to control their newfound powers AND to learn how to be a productive member of society. YOU are such a Host, and YOU have been accepted in the best school in the world for Hosts:
AEGIS MONSTER HUNTER ACADEMY
Set on the Japanese coast, a few miles south of Tokyo Japan, Aegis is a marvel of modern architecture and a beacon of hope to the nation. It includes on campus housing for student, state of the art training facilities, and is practically a self contained town in and of itself. Kohaku Yuhara is just now becoming a first year student here. What adventures will the new kid have?
Possible thread hooks
- It's orientation day! Time for everyone to figure out where their classes are going to be and meet their classmates/roommates
- It's T-T-T-TIME TO DUEL! As graduates from Aegis are expected to be badass monster hunters, getting some combat experience is a must. That means it is accepted policy for students to resolve differences via public duels
- Combat training! This time it's not against each other, but against simulated monsters. How well do you work as a team?
- Class! This teacher is boring and never stops talking. Exchange whispered conversations. Pass notes. Doodle in the margins of your notebook.
- Day off! A good time to catch up on your studies/training, or to go and actually relax! Read a book! Go for a walk! Watch a movie! Go on a date!
- Or anything else you can think of.
Some of the beasts were not hostile, though. They wanted to protect the surface world, and found the best way to do so was to symbiotically bond with humans, combining the deadly power of the depths with the agile minds of humanity. People who took these creatures into their own bodies became Hosts, and they were the only hope humanity had int protecting themselves.
As most people who become hosts did so at a relatively young age, though, they still have to go to school. To learn how to control their newfound powers AND to learn how to be a productive member of society. YOU are such a Host, and YOU have been accepted in the best school in the world for Hosts:
Set on the Japanese coast, a few miles south of Tokyo Japan, Aegis is a marvel of modern architecture and a beacon of hope to the nation. It includes on campus housing for student, state of the art training facilities, and is practically a self contained town in and of itself. Kohaku Yuhara is just now becoming a first year student here. What adventures will the new kid have?
Possible thread hooks
- It's orientation day! Time for everyone to figure out where their classes are going to be and meet their classmates/roommates
- It's T-T-T-TIME TO DUEL! As graduates from Aegis are expected to be badass monster hunters, getting some combat experience is a must. That means it is accepted policy for students to resolve differences via public duels
- Combat training! This time it's not against each other, but against simulated monsters. How well do you work as a team?
- Class! This teacher is boring and never stops talking. Exchange whispered conversations. Pass notes. Doodle in the margins of your notebook.
- Day off! A good time to catch up on your studies/training, or to go and actually relax! Read a book! Go for a walk! Watch a movie! Go on a date!
- Or anything else you can think of.
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Kohaku stood up so she could properly loom over the bed. Being on the tall side was good for that kind of thing.
"Please get out of my bed."
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Hrm. No. Not Kohaku.
Instead, she pulls down the covers so that they're not over her face. She fixes Kohaku with a look. A look that promises pain and anguish.
Then, in a very clear tone, "Make me."
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...A physical fight, at least. Kohaku slumped her shoulders, as if defeated, then sat back down at the table and turned on the TV. She flipped channels until she found a movie with lots of things exploding, then turned the volume way up.
Try sleeping through THAT.
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As the movie goes on, though, there's a lot of turning under the covers. And then a whiny "Turn that doooown."
Can't you see some people are trying to get their beauty sleep, Kohaku?
...Beauty nap.
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She's never seen this movie before, as it turns out, but living as the only girl in an all boys school taught her to stand your ground no matter how passive aggressive you have to be about it.
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Toyo stands up, the sheets and blankets falling off of her and onto the edge of the bed and/or floor. Despite it only having been, like, ten minutes, she seems to have bags under her eyes now.
She sluggishly moves over to the television set. And sluggishly moves to turn it off.
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Walks back over to the TV.
And turns it off.
This time, though, her fingers keeps going in, poking a hole into the TV where the power button was. It is not going to be turning back on.
Ignoring that she also poked a hole in her own glove and there is now a claw peeking out, Kohaku turns. Walks back to the bed. And climbs back in.
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"You're making me tired, walking around like that."
Kohaku wandered over to the bed, lay down on it next to Toyo, and closed her eyes.
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She tenses up noticeably. But then lets out a small, tense laugh, trying to play it off.
"You just wanted an excuse to get in bed with me, didn't you Kohaku?"
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"I'm allowed to use my own bed whenever I want. You're the freeloader."
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She gets up. "Fine, fine. I get it. You win this round."
So she walks over.
...To Shogo's bed.
Flops facedown onto it.
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Eh, good enough. Shogo can deal with her now. After another minute or two, Kohaku gets up and smooths out the sheets and blankets again so it looks all nice, then goes back to making her card castle.
"By the way you owe me a TV."
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At least, it seems that way until she speaks. "...These sheets don't smell as nice."
And then she makes her way back over to Kohaku's bed. SORRY BRO, you move you lose.
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"Don't make me come back over there."
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A pause.
"Besides, it smells nice. Lavender. I like it."
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Or at least pretending to be so she doesn't have to respond to Kohaku. (Probably the latter.)
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Kohaku strained her hearing for a moment. Toyo's heartbeat was all wrong for someone asleep.
"There's no way you can fall asleep over all this racket."
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Kohaku added in just the tiniest twinge of concealed yet hopeful eagerness, as if she actually liked the idea of sharing a bed with a dragon but didn't want her to know it.
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She sits up in the bed. Well, Kohaku insists on not letting her sleep, so-
"Very well, I accept your offer. You can help me clean my room."
By 'help me', she means do it for her.
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"Oi oi, I never agreed to that. Just to showing you how to use the-"
Look.
We all know how this scene ends: In Toyo's room, staring at the horrifying mess.
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She's also holding all of Kohaku's sheets in her right arm. She fully intends to replace her sheets with them. Once they uncover the bed.
Speaking (Thinking) of, she puts her free hand on Kohaku's shoulder. "Good luck!"