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Shin knelt down in front of the blond haired teen, lifting a canteen to his lips in hopes of reviving him. It hadn't been this one that was behind all of the atracious acts, in fact he didn't even looked like he was capable of sin from the looks of him. An angel he'd guessed from the wings and halo though an oddly done up one. And why would he be here anyways? At a church it would make sense but at this particular church after all that had been going on, it seemed rather odd to him. One would think an angel would be somewhere more holy, not in a church that barely got any visitors at the edge of an almost forgotten township, "You need to wake up." He murmured, giving Keiji a little shake when the water hadn't helped to wake him from his unconscious state, he hoped he hadn't hit him to hard... Would be a shame to have to put on his record 'beats up angels'.

Keiji's eyes gave a fluttered came slowly open, gazing up at the man that was kneeling before him almost confused at first... then it all feel into place in his mind. Keiji lifted a leg up, bracelets chiming, and kicked Shin in the chest sending him falling backwards. Keiji scrammbled up to his feet and was able to make it a couple steps before a powerful hand caught him around the wrist and gave a great yank backwards. The blond angel gave a gasping cry as he found himself on his back, "No! I don't want to die!" He exclaimed and started to kick, punch, and bite at the man in his deserpate struggles to get free of him. He wasn't about to fall prey to some killer! Not now, not ever!

"Should knock you silly again." Shin muttered to himself then settled for swinging Keiji around, pinning his arm to his back between his wings, "That is enough, calm down now or else this will be made worse for both of us." He hissed.

Keiji's form stilled some and he gave an unpleasent curse at Shin, something that drew the hunter's manhood into question which only made him respond by pushing Keiji's arm farther against his own back, and more painfully too at that, "Ah! You... jerk! Let me go!" He hissed, struggling. Amazing how he'd gone through the abuse of his own kind without saying a word but now that he was in his present situation and getting mauled by some stupid human he was finding himself less then serene.

"Not sure what kind of angel you are but unless you want me to tie you up and hand you over to the man in charge here I would behave myself." Shin warned, "I'm here on a job that doesn't concern little brats like you so I would suggest you behave." With that he released Keiji with a little shove then pushed up to his feet, stretching out then looked around, "Lets see now..." He'd been on the right trail before his run in with the boychild angel, he'd mistaken him for the prey would could have cost him everything, what if the angel were some kind of bait? To make Shin give away his position and let the beast he was hunting know what he was like and how best to defeat him? What a pain in the neck that would be...

"Not... concerned with..." The guy wasn't after him? That made no sense now did it, the way that the idiot had attacked him! He'd hit him! Keiji lifted a hand to rub at the back of his neck that still ached a bit from the blow it had received. He wasn't about to believe that it was all just some big mistake, the guy was no doubt up to something. That meant that Keiji couldn't turn his back on him for a second!

While Keiji was off musing to himself Shin had moved along, back to find the trail he'd been following before growing distracted with the teenager, lets see... where did it lead too? Odd to find a demon's trail that would lead towards the doors of a church, it made no sense when you thought about it. All he'd learned in his years of hunting pointed towards demons being unable to enter such buildings due to conflicting powers between Heaven and Hell, yet this one enter the building from the looks of it, "You, angelchild. While you were inside did you see anything, anyone odd?"

Keiji's wins fluffed up and he gave Shin a nasty look, "Why? So you can make me an accomplise to your killing ways? I think not." Not that he really had seen anything or knew anything but he wasn't about to become the helper in the death of someone. Demon or not he wanted no part of it, it would make him as bad as some of the people in Heaven that proclaimed themselves Guardians while in fact they were heartless and cruel.

"Useless." Shin muttered the followed along the trail himself, should have known not to as an angel, so unright and snobby. Ever one he'd met, though there had been very, very few, were exactly the same. Shin stopped at the door to the church, looking inside he could see a figure standing up near the alter, head bent forward in prayer, hands clasped as he spoke the words so ferverently. For a moment the hunter would see him as the priest in charge, had even taken a step forwards towards him to question him... when he saw the man's hands.

How... odd. For a man to pray so desperately to God when his hands were red with blood.

Keiji peeked around the stone wall that he was hiding behind not wanting to see what was happening really but for some reason his curiousity forced him to look anyway. As if to say 'look at what is happening, see what the human you insult does for you'. He was a little shocked to see the human standing against the demon with nothing but a pair of knives, was he so foolish? So suicidal that he didn't care what happened to him? That he didn't think about it or conside what migt happen to him? What... a... what a b*****d! He didn't want it on his conscience that some human died for him! So what if that was all that humans seemed to do, fight and die but he didn't feel like being the cause of it. He shoved himself up to his feet, looking around for something, anything that could be used for a weapon. He found a large stick and lifted it up in his hands. He could do this right? There were many stories about great angels fighting off demons, like the war between Lucifel and his army, the first fallen when they stood against Heaven... Though he was more likened to being one of those from the losing side wasn't he? Oh well... either way he'd come this far why no get in a fight so he could really cement himself as a Fallen?

He waited for an opportune moment before he lunged forward, branch coming down hard on the back of the demon's neck and the motion seemed to drop him, "Phew... are you o..." And there was a counter attack that sent Keiji flying to the air, back colliding with a nearby tree and he slumped to the ground, stars blurring his vision, "Un..."

Shin blinked a couple times, cursed fluently enough that it made the demon pause and he threw a knife, sticking it into the shoulder of the thing but it didn't even seem to slow it down, not that it would. Not when a tasty angel was presenting itself all but asking to become a meal, why did things liek this always have to happen? The boy could have stayed hidden and let him deal with this but nooooo... he swore once he was done with the demon was gonna teach that angel a lesson or two about things as well. Shin forced himself to move quickly, moving into full contact, full combat with the demon in human skin...

Keiji lifted his hands to his head, rubbing at it. Ok so that wasn't a very good first strike or a very heroic action either, in fact he was sure that he had looked quite the fool in Shin's eyes as the man was someone used to combat. Damn but he was an idiot... when his vision had cleared he lifted his gaze to the ensueing fight before him, to close for comfort as the demon tried to fight off Shin to get his claws into Keiji and Shin didn't his best to keep the demon from obtaining its goal. He couldn't let the angel get hurt while he finished up his job that was killing this thing. The angel pushed himself up to his feet again, staggered a bit and was forced to lean against the tree as he took an account of the damage caused by his intimate introduction to the tree. Wing ached something but it wasn't so much broken as just jarred, back was burning though as the collision made all the old wounds on his back feel as if they were fresh, damn but that hurt... knot on the back of his head that left him dizzy but aside from that he was ok.

His attention was sudden called straight back to the battle when something warm and wet hit him, he looked down and felt a roiling in his stomach as he found himself covered in a spray of blood... blood but whose? He jerked his head up seeming both of them standing quite still, locked close to each other. The demon's claws hands digging into the human's back while the human had both his knives buried in its chest. They were locked there, unmoving for what seemed like eternity... then they staggered back away from one another both collapsing to their knees. Shin was kneeling right there before Keiji, even wounded it seemed that he was trying to protected the angel...

"Why? You could have just left!" Keiji snapped at his back, looking passed him in time to see the demon collapse forward and start to dissolve, "You didn't have to help me."

"Didn't have to... wanted too. Don't... let innocents get hurt just... kill the bad... all..." He murmured then sank forward onto his front, unmoving but alive, victorious another day it seemed.

Keiji's eyes got wide and he moved to kneel down next to him, "Ahh... come on now. No dying..." He said, lifting his hands to shake the guy but got no response. He looked around, as if he were going to call for help before realizing that the only help would have been the priest which had become demon food... so he that meant that he was all on his own in this. He had to figure it out, had to help the Hunter as he'd helped Keiji.

Keiji followed along quietly, eyes darting back and forth. He had no idea where they were headed, were they going out on another of the hunter's 'jobs' or were they going somewhere else? He quickened his steps so that he could walk alongside of Shin, gazing up at him for a long moment, "Where...?" He started before he the Hunter's gaze turned to meet his.

"Where what?" Now that he was no longer on a hunt, now that he was no longer in a dangerous situation it was as if the man's eyes had changed. They were softer, they were gentle now, easy going, the killer from before ceased to exsist in those blue pools... Keiji shook his head rapidly and looked away. It ahd to be some sort of trick, that was all that could explain why the man was able to switch back and forth between killer and kind, that had to be it since that was all that made sense in his mind.

"Huh? Oh... where are we going?" He asked when he was able to voice his thought again, the hunter already walking along ahead of him again.

"Home. I don't know about you but I could go for a hot meal, a shower, and some rest that takes place on a bed." He told the angel, stretching out in such a way that everything seemed to crack, pop, and settle back into place. A loud enough sound that it made the fallen angel wince, "Yeah. Shower would be the best part to try to get these knots out of my muscles." The way that they were aching one would think he got hit by a train instead of just in a fight. He would just have to make sure not to bring Keiji along with him ever again, the angel was a liability at best. To dangerous to bring someone so soft, so green into a battle that was life or death.

Keiji chewed on his lip, nodding. He looked up at the sky, it was clouded over, dark puffy clouds that threatened them with rain. With them in the way he couldn't absorbs the sun's light so he found his stomach rummbling, hungry himself. He'd never indulged in human food before, it was a vice that was unneeded after all. An angel didn't need anything more the sunlight and water but now... now that he was on Earth he supposed there was always the chance of being unable to come by things like that, things that he had once taken for granted. He'd never seen it cloud up in Heaven before... He gave a growly sound and shook his head rapidly, "No... I am not going to think about that place!" He said, hands clentching.

Shin turned his gaze over onto the angel, giving him a look that clearly said that he thought the angel was going crazy. He reached a hand over to pat his head, "What place?" He asked, even though the blond had said that he didn't want to think about it. When a person didn't want to think about something that meant that they were both going to think about it, they were going to worry, they wanted to talk about it.

Keiji looked over at Shin for a long moment before he pointed upwards.

"Heaven? Why would you not want to think about some place like that?"

"Why should it matter to you! Just because I don't want to talk about that awful place. I shouldn't have to explain myself to someone like you!" Keiji said, eyes narrowing in a way that wasn't very angel like.

Shin reached over to catch hold of the angel's chin, forcing his head up so that he could meet his gaze for a moment. It made the angel feel as if the guy was trying to either read into his soul or maybe use some sort of power to force Keiji's emotions into check, "Calm down Bird, I am not questioning you. I am just made curious by your words that is all." He said then released him, turning to walk along again.

"I'm not... not part of it anymore." He said, standing still, looking down at his feet.

This brought the hunter to a halt, he turned around to look over at the angel who was shaking like a leaf in the wind, "Not a part?" He asked, giving the blond the opening that he needed to let out whatever what bothering him.

Keiji lifted a hand to his chest, laying it over a certain spot before he lifted it up to show the marking that was there, the one cut into his flesh. He looked up at the Hunter and then away, "They marked me as a high class criminal and then threw me away. Blamed me... for so many awful things. I didn't do them, didn't even think about such things! Why did they do this to me?" He sounded as if he were demanding answers from Shin even though there was no way the hunter could know.

Shin's eyes went wide, that explained why the little bird was lost, why he had no where to go. Shin hurried along forward to him and wrapped his arms around the little angel, "I see, I am sorry for pushing you." He murmured quietly, "Come on then, you can come with me. You can stay with us as long as you need too."

Keiji leaned against the hunter, eyes sinking closed as he seemed to feed off the other's strength, "Are you... sure?"

"I wouldn't have said it if I weren't sure." He said then smiled as he started to lead him along, "Come on. We will go home."

Keiji gave a smile, "Home." He murmured, liking the sound of that work. He found himself wondering though idly what the 'us' meant. Were there others that lived with him? More Hunters perhaps?

He looked down at the list, reading over all of the items that he was supposed to be fetching from the store and gave a little sighing sound. He wasn't sure how he had been talked into this, into going shopping on his own when he didn't really want to leave home quite yet. He wanted to just stay there with the new family that he'd been adopted into, a whirlwind group that made him feel a bit overwhelmed at times but tried all of what he thought he knew about humans and demons alike. The twins were difficult yes, Yoko most of all as there were times when he would at random attempt to get a piece of the angel that was living in the same place as him. He did it in a way that involved taunting until Keiji made the first move, so that it wouldn't be his fault when Shin came across them fighting. He'd fallen for it so many times now that it was almost rediculous... He was to gullible Shin had told him on many occasions.

Keiji's blue accented wings gave a little flap as he tried to make sense of a few of the things on the list, who needed that much salt? Shin said that he would explain it when Keiji got back. Things were moving faster today then they usually did, Tsukiko had helpfully informed him that Shin was getting ready for a job. The word made Keiji go cold all over, a job meant that the man would be fighting, it meant that he would be off risking his life against something huge and dangerous once again. He hated that idea, that the Hunter could get hurt again, that he could die with the three of them oblivious until he never came home. Keiji gave a sigh as he slipped into the store and got himself one of the carts following suit of the woman that came in the store just before him. He then set to work attempting to find the items that he needed, lets see... he supposed that the best way of finding all of these oddly named things would be to go up and down the aisles until he found them.

Why of all people he was sent on this job... he didn't even know what half of this stuff was since he didn't eat much in the way of human food yet. Some things yes, milk and honey, some types of fruit, vegetables, bread but nothing more then that yet. He couldn't bring himself to eat meat as it used to be alive and eggs were supposed to hatch into babies so the idea of eating those made him ill. His choices were limited in some aspects but he wasn't about to let himself become a ravenous demon like the twins, they anything, everything, and in large portions. Some days he wondered why they even bothered with forks, not that Yoko used one when Shin wasn't around mind you. Another sigh as he put the first item into the cart shuddering as he did so for having to touch the package of meat that was on the list, his hands felt clammy and his body sick but he was able to do it. He wanted to be helpful and thus far he wasn't, the skill of cooking eluded him and he hadn't figured out how to do half of what the twins did for Shin. He could clean and do laundry and he'd figured out how to stitch up clothing as that seemed to be something useful with the twins always play fighting and with Shin's line of work.

The next thing on the list was added for Keiji himself by Shin's hand, a couple bags of various frozen vegetables and fruits for him to enjoy. They were fun to pick out as everything seemed to come in a wide variety of colors. He wondered what this stuff tasted like, pineapples... hrm. Sounded odd since he knew what pine trees were and knew what apples were... was it a cross between them? He put some of that in the cart, what a weird idea. There were many things that he still didn't understand, were still above him but he was sure that he would learn all about the human world and all the weird things in it now that he was a part of it.

He started down the next aisle to get a couple of loafs of bread and some peanut butter, it was good too he'd decided the other day after sampling it with a spoon. Jelly was needed too, he looked over the different sorts then picked out the one called apricot due to its bright orange coloring. He set those items into the cart before once again moving along. He made his way back and forth, back and forth, up and down all of the aisle picking up what was needed from each one that coensided with what was on his list. So many things to get that it made him wonder how he was going to get it all home, he would figure it would he was sure. Lets see... the last thing on the list. He starred at the list, looking at the cooling shelf, back to the list... then hurried off. He refused, REFUSED! He would not buy those awful eggs! Never! He gave a growling sound as he headed towards the front of the store to stand in line, the money in his pocket for the purchase given to him by Shin.

He was soon walking out of the store, arms full with bags and started for home. It was a long walk and the bags were heavy but if he could make it home on his own then that would be an accomplishment! It would prove that he was completely useless. He wanted to be helpful to Shin, wanted to be able to do things for him as the twins were able too. And he did too! Though barely. He staggered into the door and set the bags on the table then collapsed into a chair, panting heavily. He'd done it! He gone there, gotten the food, and got back! He'd done it all on his own!

By the time Shin found the young angel the boy was already dozing at the table, bags still sitting in front of him. The hunter gave a smile as he set to work, first putting everything away then easily scooping up the light weight boy to bring him into his room, laying him down on the bed so that he could rest up, "You did good." Shin murmured, brushing back the boy's hair from his face before leaving the room, closing the door quietly behind himself.

(( Cross posted here and Vishal's Journal ))

So he was off, heading for home with his pockets lined with the money the bounty on the manticore had brought him along with the case of money that the blonde from before had gifted him with. Another bounty if you asked him since the money was given to him for a job that he was going to be doing in the near future. The taking care of, and not in the killing sort of way, of a damned monster child. He looked down at the necklace that hung around his neck to give it a look before he gave a grunt of dislike at the entire situation. He found himself looking off into the distance as he walked along, a Monster God of all things. Well at least he had the three at home already and they could surely help out when it came to keeping an eye on the new kid when it decided to arrive. Until then he was going to use the money that he had been given to go towards some things that his small place really needed.

First and foremost he was in need of one of those pull out sofas for the livingroom, the twins while seeming to be quite cuddly with one another were going to grow out of the the sofa that he currently had soon enough. A pull out one would give them plenty more room to sleep on even after they got bigger. After that he would need to get something for the newest of his charges to sleep in, Maybe one of those gaves that people used for babies? No... wait. He was pretty sure that the word wasn't cage but something close to that... What in the world was it called again? Oh! Yes, a pen. So a pen for the Monster God? That sounded rather suiting of you asked him. Random toys would be needed as well to keep the attention of the Monster Godling, maybe that would keep it it out of trouble? He wondered if the toys would need to be tough, to be able to take chewing on. He was having currently a hard time differentiating between a Monster and a Monster God baby, he wouldn't be able to figure out which the child was going to be until he met it he supposed. Until then he would get tough toys...

He gave a grummbling sound then looked to the third and final prize that he was bringing home from the farm, the tail of the manticore, "You see? Monsters are nothing to me, a way of living and a means of getting some good thought dangerous weapons. Aside from that there is little more to it, don't think that because you are here that I am going to quit my job or anything like that. Its what I am good at, what I know how to do best." He told the Relic around his neck.

He was met with silence though it wasn't as if he were really expecting it to talk back. An answer from the Relic would no doubt give him a heart attack...

Shin gave a sound of frustration, he felt rather trapped and that wasn't a feeling that he found as a pleasent one. He came and went as he pleased even with the three charges that he had at home. They knew how to take care of themselves so it wasn't really that he was obligated to be there with them twenty four seven, seven days a week. He was used to going away for however long was needed for various jobs and getting no complaints, they knew when he came back he would have money and they would get something out of it. The only one of the three that ever fussed was Keiji but that was due to the fact that Shin normally came home beat up, today though the blond would have something be happy over.

Babies though... babies only did three things they ate, they slept, and they crapped. They were rather useless until they started to walk, talk, and be able to take care of themselves, "Even with all of their weirdness the twins aren't nearly as bad as that." He muttered.

He gave a sighing sound of delight as he arrived at the his place, lifting a food up to kick it against the front door to get the attention of those that were inside. There was a moment before the door opened up, "What? Ah! Shin! Your home." Keiji said, a smile of delight appearing on his lips as he saw the head of the family outside of the door and not only home but looking rather well, "I am so glad that your home I worry when your away."

"It was nothing, the jobs rarely are." He said, shrugging then held out the case he held in one hand to the winged boy, "Here, hide this in my room."

Keiji blinked in confusion, "What?"

"Nothing, now get going alright." He said, turning and headed around the house. The work on his new weapon to be was done in a quick, careful, and through sort of way before he tied a rope around the tail to leave it out to dry out. When it was done drying he could complete it. It would be a good weapon when it was all finished.

He wasn't surprised in the lease when he returned to his room to find the blond teen waiting on his bed for him, "Shin... what is it that is in that case? Its nothing bad right? Nothing... stolen?" He asked sounding rather worried over it.

Shin rolled his eyes before he lifted his hand to pat the boy's head, "I do a lot of things Keiji but I don't steal, I just ended up taking on a second job while I was out and that case contains the payment that I got. I just wanted the box hidden away since its a lot of money. Do you understand?"

Keiji seemed to think about it for a moment, thoughtful, "So what is it that you plan on doing it?"

"A lot of things can be done with it but the thing high on the list is going to be getting us a new place. Until then we are going to make the one that we have liveable." Shin told the angel, he had looked it over how much he had in the case, it was enough.

"A... new place?" He asked, sounding a little confused.

"Well its going to be the same land just bringing in one of those manufactured homes." He explained.

"Really?" Keiji asked, excited.

"Yes, really." He said then gave a sigh, "Its really a good thing, right? Even if what I am doing in exchange isn't something I enjoy?"

"Do you always enjoy your work?" Keiji asked, curious.

"Yes, there are somedays that I rather enjoy what it is that I do. When a person does their job and does it well it feels nice."

"But not this time?" The angel asked, wings a flutter.

"Not this time." He lifted a hand to cover the relic that wore around his neck, groaning.

Keiji tilted his head to the side, watching Shin closely before he reached out to take hold of the hunter's wrists and drew them back and away so that he could see what it was that he was trying to hide, "That necklace..." There as something about it that made the angel stare in a wide eyed sort of way. He lifted confused blue eyes to meet Shin's gaze awaiting an explaination.

"Can you sense it?" He asked of the angel, flopping back on his bed.

"Shin! What is that?" He asked, scooting closer. He could tell that it wasn't just a necklace and it wasn't some prize that the hunter had taken off of one of his kills. It was... something more then that. It felt alive somehow and that gave the angels the shivers, his wings tremmbling a little.

"You don't need to worry about it. This is... the second job that I took on. The one that comes forth from this relic is going to need cared for and it would seem I got roped into doing just that." Shin explained, crossing his arms behind his head, starring up at the ceiling, "You can feel free to play with the kid all you want when he appears."

The angel nodded, reachinga hand out to pick up the necklace in a rather reverant sort of way, "B-But... is there not only one God?" He asked suddenly, this made no sense at all to him. This feeling was familiar to him it was the same feeling that he had gotten when he was basking in the light of the Heavenly Father before he had been banished from Heaven, it was the feeling of a God. A sleeping soul inside the necklace, that confused him that much more.

"Its nothing that you should worry over Keiji, this God is not from this world but from another one all together." He explained hoping to ease the confusion that was coming off the teen in waves. The angel was already confused enough about God, Heaven, the world, and his place in it. He didn't want to make it worse with the appearance of the Monster God into his life.

"Other... worlds have their own Gods?" He asked, mind trying to wrap around that concept.

"So it would seem. Like I said you can play with him all that you like when he appears, see what sort of God he is. I am sure an Angel can judge well." He said, yawning, "I'm gonna take a nap, its been a trying day."

Keiji nodded, laying down next to Shin so that he could watch the necklace while the hunter slept as if he expected it to do something spectacular...

(( cross posted here, the twins, and Vishals Journals ))

The second day had gone without any huge incident, breakfast had gone about as smoothly as any meal in his family did. It would seem that the twins had no real interest though in any sort of fruit thusly the bananas that were on there plate were shoved off onto the table and ignored while the bacon and eggs were wolfed down like tomorrow there would be no meat left in the world. He then left Keiji in charge while he went out telling them that he had a small job not far from home so he would no doubt be home before dark. After all he didn't know exactly how the Godling was supposed to appear before him, he hoped that it wasn't anything like how he had been given the relic that hung around his neck. Either way he didn't think that he wanted for it to happen when he was out and that it would be the best to wait at home for it to happen. The job though seemed simple enough, an older woman said that there was something terrible infesting her barn. Whatever it was it made the most God awful shreik before it attacked!

Already it had claimed the lives of some of her precious, prize winning birds and she wanted for something to be done about it.

When he arrived and set to looking around it took him about five minutes to discover both the problem and the 'monster' that was within the barn. He had ended up helping her with repairs to the coops that the birds were kept in as the 'enemy' was little more then a screech owl and he wasn't about to kill a random animal since it wasn't doing anything harm it was just feeding chicks. He couldn't feel any sympathy for someone that left the cages her birds were in without tops on them. It was the same as saying: 'Here you go Miss Owl, time for dinner'. Of course the bird of prey would make its nest near to the barn given such an opportunity. Odd that he was able to see animals in a good light and monsters in such a bad one. There were other factors though that he wasn't about to share with the world though.

A wasted afternoon if you asked him but he did get paid a little bit for being such a 'helpful young man'.

He arrived back at home as the sun was starting to set once more, he found himself looking down at his relic for a moment as if he was wearing. It was still hanging around his neck in the form of the necklace, no sign of any change like there had been in his dream. He gave a yawn, was odd that he was feeling rather sleepy even though he hadn't really done anything today that should be making him sleepy at least not if you asked him. He walked into the house finding the twins playing around in the kitchen, dancing around the angel somewhere in a cross between trying to drive him crazy or speed him up with the cooking. Hard to tell. Shin gave a yawn before walking by them and to his room plopping down on the bed.

"Bad day?" Came a voice a moment later.

Shin looked over at the door seeing Tsu standing there, watching him.

"Naw, I was chasing owls all day." He said, shaking a hand then rolled onto his side, "I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when dinner is ready?"

Tsukiko nodded his head, "I will!" He yipped, tail wagging before he turned to hurry out of the room, closing the door behind him.

The hunter gave a yawn before letting his eyes close and a moment later he slipped in sleep...

It was rare for the baby to be ready to change back to its form in the daytime. But Shin had a rather quickly developing kid. As he slept his soul seemed to leave his body, floating above it, the soul of the relic around his neck. The godling's spirit must have taken the form of the relic so it would be used to being in a body again. However, Shin had other things to worry about.

After all it's not usually that you go to sleep, leave your body, and see a crazy ghostly door on the other end of your room. Wait-Ghostly door?! Where the heck had that come from? And what was with the funky doorknob? It was an old black door and had a gold knob that was in the shape of one of those oriental dogs-or dragons. Whichever. Anyway it seemed to be beckoning him to enter it. What was that about? Probably the god-kid's doing.

At first the man was rather confused at where he was, well both where he was and why it felt as if he were floating instead of laying down like he remembered being. Shin starred at the door blankly for a moment before he stepped forward towards it, finding his hand reaching out to take hold of decorative knob to turn it and turned it. He had seen the animal depicted on it before though never a live one, only the statues of the ones that were sold in certain shops in the mall. He pushed the door open and looked inside, he didn't see anything aside from darkness from this time so he forced himself to step forward through the door.

There was something on the other side of this door so he was going to have to face whatever it was, "Hellos?!" He called, voice seeming to echo into the darkness.

Behind him the door closed and vanished. But what was more interesting was what was laying on the ground before him. A young man with fang-like teeth and a rather odd hairstyle seemed to be dead on the floor. He had the tail of a large scorpian and batlike wings. His lower body was somewhat spider like. While there seemed to be a headdress that had been hiding his face it was ripped to shreds. His skin was dark, possibly obsidian. Upon it there were strangely colored markings. He looked rather exotic but what was most interesting was his hair. He had two rather large bangs that jutted from his forhead and fell forward near his eyes. His hair went back in a strange spikey version of a mohawk and on the sides he seemed to have cornrows. But they all joined at the back to form one long braid at the top of his head. This braid had feathers and claws hanging from it, just as they hung around his neck. Oooooookay then.

What showed that he was dead was a giant gaping hole in his chest. And there was a mark around his neck. As if he'd been decapitated and his head had somehow been returned in this ghostly state. Shin, having had his job for the time he had, knew the mark of a monster hunter who'd taken his prize.

And lucky him. The strange beckoning was seeming to ask him to touch the body. Oh joy.

Shin was frozen place for a moment as he looked the body in front of him over, moving forward studying it intently. It was like no creature that he had ever see before and for a moment he felt the desire to try to figure it out, what was it exactly? He had pieces to several of the monsters that he had before separately seen. A giant scorpion, a giant spider, the wings of a large bat... he wondered if the wings could carry his large form with what it was like... maybe? The hair style was quite interesting too, flashy.

He had to applaud whatever hunter took this beast down, that had to be one hell of a fight against something like this.

He took another step closer to it, why was it that he felt the urge to reach out to the body? Was this... was this it? This was the Monster God? Couldn't be... well it would make sense for God to have pieces of several different monsters. He tried to draw his hand back but he couldn't seem to do it, couldn't seem to draw it back, "No..." He murmured, giving a little jump as his hand came to rest on the creature's body.

And yet as he thought it couldn't have been it was. The Tison Monster God had been taken down-by a sub-par monster hunter even. While he'd been able to slay any foe before seen this one had been possessed by another Deity and therefore had power the young god did not. He'd quickly fallen at that.

When Shin's hand touched the body it began to glow as did the chain around his neck. The relic and the body were both covered in a strange light-making it impossible to see anymore. The necklace shot from it's position and into the form. And after the glowing ceased there lay a dark skinned baby on the floor where the god had been laying. His skin didn't have all of the markings and he looked a lot more human then that god had-what with no tail, no fangs, human legs, and no wings-but it was most noticible that he had nice hair. It was a shade of red with golden tips. No mohawk right now but that may return as he grew. Well at least he was cute. So this was a baby godling. But what to do with him? Could he leave the child? Probably not they were both stuck in here. And the baby was awake anyway. Little did Shin know that when he picked up the baby the door would reappear, but only when he took the child.

Shin starred down at the body as it started to shift and change, instead of the massive form created by several different monsters pieced together. He found himself instead looking down at the creature... child. It was now human shaped and for the most part rather normal looking aside from the skin and hair colors. He knelt down in front of the kid before reaching out to pick him up. The baby gave a yawn and a grummbling sound, then gazed up at Shin with big eyes... before he gave an excited sort of sound before he leaned over and started to gnaw upon Shin's hand. Luckily for him though the kid was lacking in teeth, rising to his feet he saw the door had appeared once again behind him. He shifted the baby so that it was resting in the arm of the hand he was chewing on and walked forward towards the door. He paused to look over his shoulder around the darkened room.

"Come on brat. Lets go home shall we." He said, giving the boy a look. As he stepped back through the door again something occurred to him, unlike the twins and the angel this one didn't come with a name. He supposed that would be the first thing that he would have to do was figure out something to call him aside from 'brat'. Until he picked he supposed that 'brat' would be a sufficient nickname.

When they walked through the door they were again in the room. There was a small baby boy in the bed beside him-sleeping as well. When the two went back to their bodies they'd be pulled in and be able to wake up. After that he could deal with dressing, well introducing him to his brothers. And naming him of course. That'd need to be done soon. Maybe he should call Rouge to let her know even.