The Wolf's Den

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

"There really is no story behind it, I gave you a hard test thinking you would get killed, I was wrong" James thought for a moment "Nah, I dont feel like mindless grinding, As much as I do not really want to have to deal with those skulls again, It would be good to fight with Ryan again, I guess I will head off there" James drains the last of his beer and leaves a stack of hundreds on the counter as he heads off toward the lewiburry Complex, Blood stain still visible on his Trenchcoat as he walkes out the door.

[CrazyHobo]

Suddenly, a tranquiliser dart rushes from the western wall, hitting Viktor in the neck.
As Viktor slowly realises, that he has been drugged, he has vague memories of his past life, before falling to the sleeping poison.
As his sleeping body falls to the ground, an Adren commands some cliaths and fosterns to take Viktor to his room.
((this is my way of saying "Sorry, I gotta go sleep"))

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

After quite a long loot run with Ryan and some skulls, of whom not all survived, James picked up quite a large supply of ammunition for his weapons and some food, A skull picked up a machete, James had considered killing him and taking it, but decided it was more trouble than it was worth and let the gang banger have his prize, When they had finished their loot run James had told Ryan he was heading back to the bar to do some thinking and slunk off into the darkness.

When he reached the bottom floor of the twelve story complex he knocked on the thick steel door and he heard Sean's voice "Password?" James replied "Open the door before I shoot you" The door opened "Heh heh, Sorry, Didn't know it was you" James walked by stating "Do not make me warn you again" before beggining his climb up the stairs leaving Sean with a worried look on his face.

Halfway up he noticed the Female Cliath from yesterday, she had not noticed him yet and James just continued on his way, Just as he was about to climb the next flight of stairs he heard a shout from behind him, This was what he was trying to avoid, he should never have helped her. "Hey, Sir Wait up!" She cought up with James as he was climbing the stairs "What is it?" James asked in his usual cold and emotionless voice, his face showed no inkling of intrest at all and he did not even look at her. "Sir...I umm..Never got to say thank you for yesterday..You know...up in the Wolf's Den" James kept walking as she followed him up the flights of stairs "Don't think about it" She looked arkward "Are..you heading up to the Wolf's Den?.." "Yes" came the simple reply "Mind if I join you? I could use someone to talk to" James replied "Im afraid you are out of luck there, I am not a good conversationalist" She said "Well, Can I come anyway? I like company" James started reciting the rule about Cliaths and Officers having a relationship when she interupted him "I know that, But does that really mean we can't be friends?" James replied simply "I don't make friends very easily, I doubt you would find my company very warm" She smiled "What about those other guys you were with yesterday?" James halted outside the Wolf's Den door "I did not really have much say in the matter there, they kind of forced themselves into my life"

James opened the door and walked in, the Cliath was still following him despite what he had said, he simply ignored the stares he got from everyone in the bar and went to the counter "Jack, Beer" "Coming up" Came the reply "Anything for the lady?" James shut his eyes for a moment and sighed, she seemed not to notice and said "I'll take a beer too" "Coming up" Jack brought up two beers and opened them, handing them to James and the Cliath, James went to his usual table and sat down, she sat down next to him "My name's Ashley by the way" James just sat there drank some beer and light a ciggarette

[CrazyHobo]

After finally waking up from the tranquiliser, Viktor just started the day like he did yesterday, with the word "****.... Who the **** drugged me yesterday? Ah **** it, doesn't really matter. Atleast I get to spend more time in the Wolf's Den...Think I'll ignore the looting today. Considering the stuff I found, I can be free until a mission comes." - thought to himself the russian.
This time, Viktor decided to put on his labcoat, since the looting gear was uncomfortable in the Wolf's Den, plus he wanted to make some people make more dumb rumours. It always was funny.
As always, a bunch of people saluted him, he ignored it. When he got to the Wolf's Den, he went to the barmen.
"Coca cola and a cherry pie this time, Jack" - sayed Viktor, before putting half a box of .50 in the jar.
And as always, he made his way to James's table, only he noticed the female only after he sat down.
"Nice little company you got here, eh James?"

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

"Shut up Viktor" James said without even once opening his eyes "She just came by to say thank you for yesterday.." James took another drink of beer, Ashley the cliath looked a little arkward, she leaned over towards Viktor and said quietly "Is he always like this...?" James heard this but decided not to comment, instead he light up another smoke, finally opening his eyes revealing those deep grey cold eyes of his, James never seemed to open his eyes wide, they always looked lazy and uninterested in everything.

[CrazyHobo]

"He wasn't like this before the outbreak. Hell, we all changed after the outbreak. So...James, I'm ready to listen to that story of how you put me on a brutal cliath test"
But the Viktor noticed how James opened his eyes wide. That's actually a rare thing..and a bad sign. Last time he did that, he went on a mission to kill a bunch of outpost guards.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James Took another drink of beer before opening his mouth "There actually is not a whole lot to tell, I was put in charge of keeping an eye on you and performing your evaluation test, I decided to see how well you could survive with little or no weaponry down a narrow street full of longarms" Ashley sat listening in amazement looking back and forth between James and Viktor "I had you armed with a skorpian and a minimal ammount of ammunition, my hopes where that you would primarily dodge them and not engage, I was pleasantly surprised when you had not fired a single bullet but instead weaved your way in and out through the horde making it to the other side" James paused while taking another drink, closing his eyes once more "I had not really expected you to survive it" Ashley looked a little horrified that James would put Viktor into such a horrid situation but kept her opinion to herself, James drained the last of his beer and said "Im going to get another." With that he got up and walked off toward the bar.

[CrazyHobo]

"...I guess I'm full of surprises, aren't I? Yep, weakest cliath back then. I heard an Adren bet 3k on my death and was really pissed off, when he found out I'm still alive". - remarked Vik with a voice with a small laughter.
Though James forgot to mention, that the test trully was rigid. Probably because he didn't like to go into details, or didn't want to scare the already scared girl. Thing is, a longarm talon got stuck in Vik's hip, when he made it there. Ever since that day, no zombie has managed to lay a finger on Vik. Looks like he got his dodging skills exactly at that day.
"So...you must be Ashley? Your new here, right? You got the rest of the month to prove yourself worthy of promotion, or it's to the same test James there put me through, eh James?"

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James had come back to the table in time to hear the last part "Right, Though it probably wont be me testing you, the odds of that happening are quite slim with so many testers and trainees" Ashley looked a little shaken by the story and also a little sad she had hoped someone she knew would be testing her, James picked up on this "Don't think that is someone you know is testing you that they will be going easy on you, I put Viktor here in a death situation even though I knew him well, It is not the way of the Fang to go easy on anyone, We only accept the best here" James took a sip of his beer and closed his eyes again before speaking once more "I have a feeling you might just make it though, call it a hunch.." Ashley seemed to brighten up upon hearing this "Thanks sir!" she said cheerily "Do not mistake that for a compliment, I a meerly telling you my opinion" James opened his eyes once more and looked directly at Viktor "I have to head to Nastyas later today need anything from there?"

[CrazyHobo]

"More grenades and coca-cola. Oh, and some 7.62, cause I found an AK-47. And say "hi" to Jarki from me, if you see her at Nastya's"
Jarki, good ol Jarki. Used to be in Fenrir's Fangs, made her way to Black Dragon, served in the Empire, but kinda left without telling a word. For a social person, she's been really quiet these days.

[Thuggernaut]

"Yeah, gimme a cheeseburger, plain." Lincoln answered James from almost across the bar. "Oh, and 12 gauge, lots of it." He stands up and strides toward the bar and sits down next to the cliath. "More wine please, Jack." Jacks slides a bottle down the bar and into Lincoln's hand. As he casually sips his wine he begins to plan a looting route.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

"Sure, I can get you all that" James turnes to Ashley "Need anything?" She turns a little red and looks away "N..no sir, thanks" James turns back to his drink "Okay then" James ignored the comment on Jarki, it had always been a sore spot for him since she left, she had been one of the few friends James had allowed himself to make, he made sure to never show it visibly but it left an open place in what was left of his soul, James light up another smoke and turned silent once more.

[CrazyHobo]

"Hmm...time for a blade dance" - muttered Viktor out loud, so Ashley heard it.
That was a way, in which Vik, James and Craig called a blade training session.
Vik's a surgeon, so it's natural, that he loves blades.
Making his way out of the bar, he noticed, that Ashley took an interest in what Vik sayed, so after Vik took the first steps on the staircase, he knew, that Ashley was following him.

Vik and the guys used the old warehouse of the building as the training spot. There was dummy, representing their opponent.
Vik grabs his knife, an ancient kris, that he found in the museum. It's more for silently and quickly killing a human, rather then fighting zombies.
He stood next to the dummy, conforting it, Kris in hand.
Six vital parts of the human body, any strike with a knife in any of those six parts is a fatal wound.
Slash the throat, stab the liver, thrust into the lungs, stab the groin, deep cut from neck to the groin, that strike needs two hands, then a knife uppercut, slightly pulling it to yourself with your free hand, you stab through the neck into the nose.
One, two, three, four, five six.
Six deadly attacks, all take only one second.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, six.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James heard Viktor call for a Blade dance and said "Why not..." James stubbed out his smoke and rose, following Viktor downstairs to the old warehouse section of the building, Ashley followed behind rather bewildered,, when they reached it Viktor opened the door with an old key they had found when they were still fairly new to FF, they kept it as a training ground for the three of them which they still revisited often to touch up on their skills.

James watched as Viktor performed some expertly executed attacks on the training dummy, when he was finished James stood up from the wall he was leaning on "I suppose it's my turn" James walked past the totaly stunned Ashley whom they never really invited, stopped at the dummy and slowly unsheathed the black machete from its sheath on his leg.

With expert movement that only comes from intense Zero training James runs foreward and performes a piruete around the dummy, stabbing it with almost inhuman speed through the nerve centres of the back and neck, effectivley rendering it paralysed if it were a human opponent, After this he performed a slash to the stomach, which would have left a victim with his entrails pouring from his body and leaving him to a slow agonising and sure death.

[Thuggernaut]

The 3 here the door open behind them. "Christ, Jim, I'm tellin ya, just slice their melon off instead of all this flash. Here." Craig unsheaths an old sabre from his hip and takes a deep breath. With literally inhuman speed he close the distance with another dummy and seemingly runs through it before coming to a stop. As his peers just gaze in bewilderment at his strange stunt, they hear a crackle and the dummy's head finally just lops off and falls to the ground. "See?"