[center][h3][b]Erika Frost and a Robot Catgirl Ready Up[/b][/h3][/center]
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Erika had took the early morning to gather her supplies.  One could never know how long they would be stuck searching for Artifacts.  Or, perhaps, if they would ever come back from searching at all.  She scratched the back of her head and sighed as she stuffed a small amount of supplies into a backpack. Should be enough for the day, perhaps she could push it to tomorrow easily.  Worst case, had to come back for a resupply.  This would be easy enough.  Well, it would be normally.

The tanned girl looked over to the other inhabitant of the room.  An odd... creature?  No, what she was told was...  Magitech Robot? Something of the sort. Omega... Something, something.  Tanja was what she was sure this girl was called.  Her teacher had mentioned an agreement with Alhein.  One of her disciples would watch over the catgirl, the disciple in question being Erika herself.  What Fuuka got out of it?  Well, that was a good question.  She was rather vague about it.  Though, Erika might have been distracted by other things when she was told about it.  There was likely something good for her master to agree to it.

Well, either way, it was just her normal job with an extra person along.  She fastened a couple of items to her belt.  A light source that one could attach to their head, a small portable laser cutter and a flashbang device.  Then, one of the more important items, her magitech sword.  She attached the sheath to her side and pulled the blade out to check on it quickly enough.  Yes, it seemed to be in fine condition.  With a smile, she put it back in it's home and double checked.  Yep, that was everything.  After that she looked at the Artifact on her wrist, Medusa, and rubbed it with a small smile.  Her partner for ten years or so now was one of the few constants in her life.  She hoped it would stay that way.

Either was, now wasn't the time to think on the past.  She walked over to Tanja, hoping she'd be ready to head down into their new brand of hell.  "You cute little thing."  Erika said, rubbing the catgirl's head a small bit.  The cat had seemed friendly enough so far and that was fine with Erika.  "Hope you're ready to head down.  It's the start of Tanja and Erika's big Artifact hunt.  Our goal is at the very least ten."  The girl said with a confident smile.  Of course, it was most likely an unobtainable goal of course.  One was lucky if they would find even one artifact, let alone ten.  "Something tells me that we're up to a very good partnership!"  Her arm wrapped around Tanja's head and pulled her close.  "You know how to get to the site right?"