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The buzzer sounded and Cesear and the audience applauded him as he bowed and left the stage. Cesear called for Martial

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Fulminare halted near Derek's bedroom when she heard the mention of the Seraphim, and immediately, a dark indignation flooded her senses. She wasn't sure what exactly it stemmed from; her brutal resentment toward her celestial parentage, or was it the unlawful uttering of their name? Either way, the silvery brute followed her hearing to where she had last heard him, her wings starting to flare out as dangerous anger flooded her senses. She turned the corner to see Derek...and a very very messed up room, with electronic junk and cyber trash lining every wall. It was a catcomb of anger and she was able to read the wall. Kill Snow. Very relatable. "What exactly are you doing?" the brute snarled

Derek rotated at the waist, his arms flying out in front of him. His hands lit up with heat, his remaining glove charring and falling off. His legs turned themselves a second afterwards, stepping one after the other as if he were only then turning. "What does it look like?" His shirt had come untucked, and for once he didn't seem bothered by it. "And why do you care?" The puddles of porcelain had solidified again behind him, the heat from his hands now radiating towards Fulminare.

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"Why did you mention the Seraphim?" Fulminare hissed suspiciously, coldly, every inch of her body now fixated with brutal intensity on the brute. None of her body seemed to be moving an inch, although slender golden talons soon crowned her fingers, at least four inches long and sharp as a dagger, and her eyes soon lost their kind glow, becoming wholly animal and feral. "If this is about the Capital, I'd mention for you not to bring up the holy beings above."

(Imma just add Eve in the convo somehow-)

Eve heard the noises from Derek's room and with quiet foot fall followed them to find Fulminare and Derek having a converstaion but it didnt sound pleasent. Eve stopped within a few feet of them in case they started fighting.

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"Why did I mention the Seraphs above? Oh, you don't get it... This isn't about the capitol.." He dropped his arms and slowly walked forwards. "This doesn't even involve you. It doesn't involve you, Shiloh, Hayden, or even Snow... You don't need to bother with my affairs, or even how the Seraphim blessed me. In fact, I suggest you leave, lest you want those pretty wings scorched." His voice had gained an ominous tone, something like a shallow echo adding to it. "Besides, the one to take this up with would be the Seraph who blessed me. Not me myself. I'm just a little devil, powered by rage for the sake of my Crusade." He emphasized crusade with something like pleasure, almost like it was something he had been planning on doing since he could first think.

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Hailey heard her name being called next for the interviews, she was shaking hard. But she had to do this. She elegantly strolled out, it took so much for her not to turn invisible. She greeted Cesar and sat down.

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Fulminares wings flared out, something like celestial fire outlining each feather. The tribute was unstable that much was clear, but the fae had too much faith in her culture. The fire grew, “I suggest you leave before I reduce you to a bucket of liquid ore. I won’t let you speak if my heritage sacrilegousily again.” Her voice commandingly snarled, the deathly aura blazing free in a terrifying display of dominance. it wasn’t Fulminare speaking, but the angel possessing her, the one who had been buried for so long.

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”Welcome Hailey. Hope you are having a good evening.” Cesear said warmly, giving her a congenial smile. “How has your experience in the Capital been so far?”

Hailey smiled, “Thank you, Cesar. My experience has been quite amazing. I mean, I’ve never seen so many people. Especially how amazing some of the people here are” she said with a bright smile. She was going for the cure affect.

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Standing outside Derek's room, Natsume stood stock still, fear running through his body as he unintentionally listened into the conversation. He hadn't meant to, he simply wanted to find Kanata and maybe have the elder would allow him to just curl up on his side, but instead he had caught the snippets of a conversation that scared him. He was aware of the existence of the supernatural, he had dealt with otherworldly clients before, but to think that an angel was among them was unthinkable. Even more unthinkable was the other voice that was fighting Fulminare. He trembled as he thought about what repercussions there might be simply raising one's voice against a holy being but Natsume loathed to think what kinds of punishment would befall those who decided to clash verbal swords with such a powerful person.

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Derek seemed anything but shocked at the powerful display. "What's your true name? Your capsule, it is truly Fulminare, but what is your name, Angel?" He chuckled a little bit. "And, to add a bit of a damper to your quick wit, I think you'll find.. What was it they called it? Hellsteel, I'm quite sure.. I think you'll find my body quite hard to melt. And besides, was I the one that barged in to your room? Did I come knocking at your open door asking why you said a simple title?" He smiled, his clothing suddenly catching alight from the intense amount of heat in the room. "And.. Is it really sacrilege if I had nothing to do about it? Hmm? I had no choice in my creation. I had no choice in the fact that my infant soul got to see Seven Circles of Hell in just an hour. I had no choice that the blood of a demon was infused into the iron of my body. I had no choice in anything that was done to me! Now, I plot to reverse it all, to annihilate those that have done me wrong! Snow, my father, my mother! The man that was in charge of all of my hell has already been burnt, his soul charred by my hands." He held up his palms, then asked the Angel, "Were did he go? Did you carry him? Or did a pit open and claim him?" A terrifying smile spread across Derek's lips. "Or were you already banished into that container by then?" his clothing was charred, gone from his body. His mechanical atrocities weren't simply his hips, the metal spreading down to about halfway down his thigh. The mechanisms seemed almost like bees, working their hardest despite the lack of need. There was nothing to proclaim he was a human, nothing at all. Every time he shifted his weight, something in his thighs moved, pistons adjusting to his every need. The metal went up, too. Everything from his collarbone to his knees was exposed, the mechanical parts seeming right at home in the doomsday heat of both the air and their feud. He seemed disgusted at his own lack of clothing, his metal skeleton exposed.

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Indignant anger flooding her senses, Fulminare had just opened her mouth to deliver a stinging retort before four Peacekeepers wrenched her back, away from Derek with alarming force. Their invasive presence flooded her, only adding to her annoyance. Three others pinned the snarling male before her to the wall, standing fast against his constant attempts to break free. She hadn't even noticed them approach, and as the leader snarled that it was in their best interest in return, she gave him a rather vulgar gesture with her left hand.

The angel growled at the sudden contact, her wings flapping madly until they pinned her against the wall as well. Clearly, another tribute - possibly one from District one, those pricks, - had noticed her absence and reported it. To think that she'd come here for some peace and quiet. Restrained now, she allowed herself to mull over his words perhaps a little more tactfully, without letting her headstrong nature get in the way. While some inner part of her was still spitting in defiance, especially when he'd brought up her angelic core, she forced her feathers to lay flat. For now. Her eyes were still blazing with restrained brutality, as if there was nothing she loved better than to pounce on him and rip him apart; rend him until he was nothing more than a piece of mangled garbage.

And frankly, if he was going to rip her throat out over her being protective over a (flawed) culture, she really couldn't change his mind. Her name - her name wasn't any of his business, either - it was a name that she had stopped going by for the centuries for reasons known to her alone. She had no question that he ... likely had touched upon Hell, and she could give him that. Perhaps, they were similar. Two souls trapped and welded into something else. Something worse than what had been intended. "There is pride to be found in hell."

Enough had gone on tonight, and she felt about ready to knock all four males off of her and retire to her quarters. Ire, and not just at Derek, was eating away at her senses, and part of her was waiting for the day that this whole vapid cycle would end with her head on a pike. What would the next few hours bring?

"I'm glad to hear that Hailey. What are your plans after you win?"

Hailey moved her hair away from her eyes, “I plan to help my family out, and open a free school for the children in our district” She said while putting her hands in her lap. “I hope I can win” she said with a smile.

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As the Peace keepers moved the two tributes apart they both noticed Eve by the wall with absolute fear in her eyes at teh almost showdown between angel and metal creature.

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Backing away from the fight, Natsume trembled slightly as he cowers away like Eve. His footsteps where silent as he tried to slip away but got into the very unfortunate luck of bumping right into a tribute from District 1. "Watch where-" The tribute's words trailed off as she realized who had ran into her and her scowl turned into a malicious grin, one hand yanking Natsume away and out of sight.

"So you're the brat that Kanata look a liking to. Huh, I don't get what he sees in a defective failure like you. Running away from such a simple question." The career sneered, caging Natsume in within her larger and stronger body. "Watch your back, freak. I'm coming after your sparkling ass once the bell sounds." Ripping the fabric of Natusme's costume, the tribute's hyena laughter rang long after she left, leaving Natsume shaking as he tried to process the threat suddenly shoved his way

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"Eve?" Lilith calls as she nears the hallway where Eve is cowering. She had just finished her interview and noticed that she was gone. She passes the District 1 girl on her way past. She lowers her head down as to not gain attention. It works, the girl walks past without giving her a glance. She raises an eyebrow at Natsume as she passes him. He didn't seem to be doing well, she felt inclined to help him, but she was more focused on finding Eve. The most she gives him is a soft smile. She rounds the corner and finally spots Eve. "There you are! Are you okay!? What happened!?" She asks

Derek heard a few other tributes. He spotted Lilith and Eve as he was being hauled by the pair of Peacekeepers. His body was fully shown off, all his mechanical bits and pieces ready to soak up the sunlight, if it ever came. He was tempted to swing his legs, to shatter the soldiers dragging him along. What wasn't metal was covered in ash, that being, his shoulders and arms, and his shins.

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Eve watched as Dereek was hauled away with Fulminare, her eyes widening at the mechanical parts. He wasn't human, wasn't that illigal? Or didnt they care? Eve looked up at Lilith, her face saying what the child couldn't voice.

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Natsume didn't really see Lilith walk past him, instead picking up the ripped cloth and tucking it away. He shivered at the reminder of the threat and hugged himself close to keep himself from seeming too scared. He had been fully prepared to die, but to know that he had a target drawn on his back was a frightening thought. His first instinct was to run to Kanata who had protected him thus far but he couldn't do that anymore. He had to think of something himself, something so that he could survive on his own.

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The buzzer went off and Hailey walked off stage.

*Short timeskip*

It was later that night, Eve had tried to rest but was failing to do so. She went to the balcony on the top floor and watched the people below, she didn't hear Lilith come up behind her because of all the noise.

Roxy and Aurora were fast asleep.

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