Ow...

[Marth Arain]

The last thing Marth would remember was...well...He couldn't remember a whole lot at the moment. The moment he became conscious, his head began to ache, his hands moving to press to his temples. "Ow...What happened?" He asked himself, slowly taking a look around the area..It appeared he somehow got himself stuck up in a tree, the branches seeming to almost be grabbing onto his leg, holding him a good distance away from the base or anything he could grab onto. He looked up from his perspective to see how far up he was...If he were to fall, it'd only hurt for a few moments...but... "How the hell did I even get here?...Where is here anyway?" He asks himself once more, somewhat hoping the tree would suddenly speak and explain where he was.

He looks down to see if he could somehow free himself, lifting himself up to pull at the branch and free his leg, a wide grin spreading across his lips before shouting in slight joy, "Aha!...Wait." He began to fall again, landing with a small thud among the foliage and various fallen leaves, groaning as this only made his head hurt a wee bit more. It took him a few moments before he sat up and took another look around, the dark crimson eyes scanning for anything or anyone but only found the trees, a few bushes, and himself in the middle of it all. He began to remember he found this area not too long ago, he figured he thought there was ground where there wasn't and fell. "Well...That was pretty stupid, I'd say...At least let there be a town or something nearby." He looked down over himself to see if anything was horribly broken or maimed, nodding with satisfaction to see there wasn't anything too out of the ordinary. He rose to his feet slowly, deciding to start walking in a random direction, hopeful to find shelter..or at least something to hunt nearby.

[Tenjou, Utena]

As emotions ran high in the young woman the only place in Moon Valley where she felt any solace was in the forest area of the town and so she headed there to get away from it all. The revelation that only two people, one of them she didn't consider a friend, still knew of her existence back home was like a brick struck her on the head. Even if Anthy did find her here where would they go from there? Neither one of them could go back to Ohtori. Could they stay here?

Utena was shaken out of her thoughts by a thud up ahead and the falling of leaves as she picked up the pace slightly to investigate. What she came to find was a man with dark hair and strange looking clothing which indicated that like her he wasn't a native to this place. Stopping in front of him she looked at him for a moment before her eyes wandered up to the tree.
"Are you all right?"
Her eyes left the tree he fell from and back to him.
"What were you doing up in the tree?"

[Marth Arain]

Ah..So there were others around this area. Well, at least he knew he wasn't in the middle of nowhere. His crimson eyes stared at the woman in front of him for a few moments before a grin spread across his lips slowly, nodding to her. "I'm quite fine, thank you...As for why I was in that tree...I have no clue, I sorta woke up in it. Do you happen to know where exactly I am? I'm not very familiar with the land around here." The crimson orbs pry away from the woman to look around once more, seeing nothing more than trees and other plants. The demon turned back to the woman, the grin still on his lips, feeling a little sheepish someone had caught him in the tree like that...At least they weren't a demon hunter...as far as he knew anyway.

[Tenjou, Utena]

Utena was beginning to have flash backs to when she first arrived in this world and didn't have a clue where she was or what was going on. It only led to more painful memories of decisions she came to long since regret. It appeared that this man was in a similar situation and Utena hoped that it wouldn't go down the same road as her own. At least this one could actually speak.
"You're in the forest located near a small mountain town called Moon Valley. My name is Tenjou-"
Utena stopped herself. Remembering that people here introduced themselves with their first name first instead of their surname. Habits died hard.
"I mean Utena Tenjou. What's your name?"

[Marth Arain]

The demon's smirk only grew more, happy to see someone else that was perhaps from the same land he was. The man lowered himself into a bow for the woman, his eyes looking up to her. "I am Marth Arain...A pleasure to meet you, Miss Tenjou." He rises from his bow, pulling a few twigs out from his hair, flicking them away before pulling his attention back to her, his hands running over his jacket a few times to brush away some leaves and dirt. "I guess I'm lucky to come across someone friendly...I half expected to run into something big and nasty first." He laughs quietly, tilting his head to the side as he now slowly starts to walk around the woman, examining her. He sniffs at the air, coming a bit closer to her, the area around her would start to warm up quite a bit as he did. "You're the first human I've come across in quite a while...Might I ask, you're not a supernatural entity hunter, are you?"

[Tenjou, Utena]

Utena observed the man still unsure of what to make of him. With all the things she's seen since coming here and a decaying mind to boot it was hard to figure out friend from foe. It was a miracle that she had any friends at all in this world though with the exception of Kara and June most of her friends didn't belong to this world either. When Marth talked about being grateful that he didn't meet something big and nasty the girl had to refrain from laughing.
"There's still time."

Joke. After everything it was amazing she still had it in her. Now it was his turn to observe her apparently as he walked around her and came in close. The air around them began to grow warm as he sniffed it prompting an eyebrow to rise on Utena but it was what he said that would stick out most of all.
"Human?"
So this man wasn't human. Was he a vampire like Chloe? A demon like Clash? Some kind of super alien like Kara was? Utena had no way to tell aside from asking and he could always lie. She thought about his question some more and thought back to all the 'supernatural' things she fought that threatened this world. In a way Utena probably could qualify as a hunter of sorts. Albeit not a very good one.
"That depends. You're not an evil creature hell-bent on world domination, are you?"

[Marth Arain]

He would snort at her mention of it taking time, this would be his kinda place...Perhaps he could move here for a bit. "Perhaps Darren would enjoy this place for a little while..." He trails off for a few moments, shrugging it off. He grins once more, tilting his head to the side slowly. "World domination? Naah, that takes too much work...It would be nice though...Lots of food for Darren. As for being evil..Possibly. But I don't think I'll be acting up any time soon...As long as there's candy..Maybe." He nods a few times and moves in a bit closer, staring at her hair now. "...Interesting."

[Tenjou, Utena]

"Darren?"
Utena frowned at how casually he admitted to being evil. That was all Moon Valley needed, another potential villain to wreck their streets when he finally did feel like acting up but there weren't much she could do on her own. She noticed he began eying her hair and sighed as Utena could no longer keep count of how many times this had happened with the people she's encountered.
"Yes it's naturally pink..."
Utena folded her arms, a slightly annoyed yet far more serious expression than earlier covered her face as she spoke again, "Who's Darren?"

[Marth Arain]

"Oh..Very interesting then...Well, I think it looks nice." He nods a few times again, standing straight to his 6'3 height again. He motions for her to follow him, now starting to walk into a random direction, hoping it'd be the right way to town. "Darren is my best friend...He's a man-eating plant too...But don't worry..I don't really feed him people...Not unless they're burglars...I keep him on a healthy diet of red meats...Boogen likes to help sometimes, he's a little Boo that follows me around back home..He's awfully shy though...He's slow to warm up to others." As he walked, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a couple of suckers, holding them out a bit toward her. "Candy, little girl?" He asks in a deep voice, snickering as he sticks a grape sucker into his mouth.

[Tenjou, Utena]

"M-man eating plant!?"
Oh you had to be kidding. Just when she thought things couldn't get any stranger around here they go and become stranger. As if there was some unspoken intergalactic challenge in the universe.
"Yes, because thieves deserve to be eaten," said Utena sarcastically.
Noticing the direction Marth was heading in, Utena unfolded her arms and pointed to the right while clearing her throat.
"Moon Valley is this way. And no thanks."
Utena headed back for town after turning down the candy, hoping that leading him to Moon Valley wouldn't be yet one more decision she'd come to regret later but at least she had friends there that could help if he tried anything. And if nothing else the Isafaro troops in the area has shown that they can handle almost anything.

[Marth Arain]

He had stopped when she cleared her throat, heading into that direction with a sheepish grin. "Yeah, well..That's where I was going to start going..You know..Just wanted to make sure you knew the area and all." He tucks the candy back into his pocket, sucking and gnawing on the sucker. "Some thieves do...Not my fault they decided to go out into the middle of the forest and sneak into my yard...They just might mess up the garden." He nods more now, shrugging as he catches up to Utena.

[Tenjou, Utena]

"Right..."
Utena led Marth through the forest until they started to see the town itself in the horizon. The place looked like it was hit by an earthquake as houses were destroyed and people were working left and right to rebuild what was lost. Thinking back to what happened with Doomsday and then the follow-up with Darkseid, Utena couldn't help but feel sorry for them and wonder if there was more she could have done in that battle with Darkseid.

Utena shook her head and turned back to Marth to explain some things.
"The people here aren't fond of outsiders like us. Neither are the soldiers that patrol here daily."
Utena pointed over to a couple of patrols down in the town dressed in black military uniforms, helmets with visors and a closer look would show a crimson vulture head on their right shoulder. They were working directly alongside men in the standard green military uniforms that actually made up the original Moon Valley military before Isafaro took over.
"Although the people like the soldiers even less so maybe you'll be able to find some common ground there."

[Marth Arain]

The demon would remain silent, looking around the town slowly. "Must've been one hell of a battle..What went on here?" He asked, tilting his head to the side slowly, taking note of the soldiers she pointed to, smirking to himself. "As for those guards...Well..Maybe a few might go missing...maybe." He laughs quietly to himself, reaching up to run a finger over the scar on his neck slowly. "I certainly wouldn't bother anyone here, it seems they've already been through a lot..Especially since they're stuck cleaning it all up."

[Tenjou, Utena]

Utena wondered how much of the previous battles she should disclose to the man. While she wasn't there for the first battle she did have information through eye-witness accounts who watched all hell break loose before their very eyes. There couldn't be any harm in repeating the facts.
"A powerful monster being called Doomsday attacked the city. A hero by the name of Superwoman fought it off at the cost of her own life. To make matters worse during her funeral an unknown alien of some kind attacked the city and nearly wiped us all out. We're lucky to still be standing here."

[Marth Arain]

"Oh?" The demon's interest was piqued. He couldn't help but start to grin once again, the air around him growing even warmer. That would be interesting, getting to fight something THAT strong...It was certainly worth getting into training again. He shivers at the thought of such a terrible display of power, the grin becoming even wider, if possible. "That sounds interesting...I wonder what would provoke such an attack...I do wonder if it'll come back, now that this...Superwoman..Has passed..A terrible shame, I think." He looks back toward the town, shrugging to himself before he started to walk again, chuckling darkly. "This town...Does it have a tavern of sorts?"