Editing Iron Seraph (section)

=====Story Highlights=====

Some of the defining stuff that has happened to Seraph:

'''SERIES 01 - NIHAO HONEY 2: THE NEW CHALLENGERS'''

* At the start of NH2, he entered as a Black Crane student. A later flashback revealed that he was shipped off to the Crane because he wasn´t welcome at his old school, [[Two Mountain School]],  any more after he killed another student (his own best friend, [[Ten Mountain Ox]]) who has become a Devil Warrior to get revenge on Seraph, claiming that Seraph had tapped his girlfriend ([[Akiko]], unnamed in the flashback) behind his back. (The whole flashback sequence begins in NH2 post #828, linked [[http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Nihaohoney2/message/828|Here!]].)

* Along with [[Zero]] and [[Red Star Dervish]], he confronted [[the Iron-Winged Devils]] gang as his "entry mission" for the Black Crane. Failing to get the Devils (and their leader, the [[Devil King]]) to listen to reason, the trio fought and defeated the gang - including the Devil King and [[Four Kicks Down]] - the latter later joining the Black Crane School. During the fight´s climax, the Devil King revealed a hiherto unknown source of power as he transformed into a ten-foot Devil Bishounen form. After a hard fight, Seraph laid the King low with his Three Kings Style. Four Kicks Down revealed that the deceased leader had accepted power from a woman who had served as his concubine/advisor, and who had conveniently skipped out before the battle took place. She seems to be connected to the hellish conspiracy named [[RAIN]] - which Seraph and the gang has vowed to destroy!

* Competed in the Tournament, where he was mangled in his second match by [[Black Oasis]] - a fight that left the latter bleeding profusely and Seraph in the hospital after being smashed down into a crater and then blown all across the stadium by Oasis´ last blow.

* During the Tournament, he was possessed by [[Red Star Dervish]] through her [[Legacy]] power, and made to piss of [[Thunder Executioner]] through behaving like an arrogant ass.

* Got into an ongoing soap opera back-and-forth with [[Thrice-Radiant Ping]], who has a differing attitude to the Xia Virtues and the edicts of Heaven than the old-fashioned swordsman. He has currently set his mind to showing Ping that there are alternatives to her lonely, Baneful ways.

* This got complicated somewhat when, during the Tournament, he was painted into a corner by a demon emissary who explained that Ping going forth in the tournament and thus proving the validity of her philosophy was unacceptable to the Thousand Hells. Consequently, they gave Seraph the choice to remove her from the tournament altogether before the demon lords´ chosen assassin took care of her in a more permanent manner. Lost for directions, Seraph accepted and battled Ping in a recreation room the same night - managing to beat her up with a ruler (and his Three Kings Style) so bad that she was forced to concede. 

* Ping later pumped Seraph for his motives to fight her, and he explained them to her. It is uncertain if the letter of the situation was translated perfectly, but Ping accepted Seraph´s reasons for his actions even though she warned him off from doing something as stupid ever again.

* After the tournament, he became embroiled in a plot of a more personal nature - the internet writings of (XX), that slash-paired him with [[Torrent of Serenity]] in a potpurri of yaoi sex and abominable prose. He has tried to investigate the matter since any serious school work became nigh-impossible because of all the unwelcome "attention", but has so far had minimal success. Only [[Zero]]´s prediction techniques provided any kind of lead, and things being what they are he hasn´t had the time to fully follow up on them.

* In the following **Halloween 1-Hour Special**, the team (Seraph, Dervish, Zero and Ping) entered the newly created shadowland in the middle of Zhen Zhou City and fought against the legions of living dead that was all that remained of its´inhabitants! After an epic battle, they entered the center of the zone and discovered the cause for the destruction and the influence of the Creation-Hating Radiance - the reincarnated Three Powers Sage! Long story short: the Sage wanted us to bring him warriors that interested him, but the negotiations disintegrated when Zero decided that the only good approach was a lethal approach. In a split-second decision, everyone backed up the loliroid - with the consequence that the Sage sent them all off the mountain with but a slight display of his mighty Rare kung fu style!

* Seraph and Dervish went on a sort-of fake date as a way to start taking care of the yaoi issue. They both had a great time, even though the evening ended with a gang war before they even had a chance to enjoy the main dish. That´s the main dish in *the restaurant*, perverts!

* Back in the Black Crane, they learned that [[Red Star Dervish]]´s mentor [[Blind Fox]] had been beaten up and hospitalized in an incident that had also comatized [[Four Kicks Down]]. Some investigations pointed towards [[Torrent of Serenity]] being responsible. [[Red Star Dervish]] gathered a posse of [[Six Phantoms Consortium]] gangers and some of the D-rankers from [[Black Crane High]] to storm Torrent´s residence and return the favor, and Seraph reluctantly joined the mission.

* After Seraph almost managed to smooth things over with the Jade Dragon guardians, tempers flared and the inevitable battle followed. One one side was Seraph, [[Red Star Dervish]], [[Zero]], [[Sorrow of the Crestfallen]], [[Guardian of the Eclipse]], [[Ace of Hearts]], the Six Phantoms and some E-ranker rabble. On the other was a gathering of students from [[The Jade Dragon School| Jade Dragon]] and [[The Scarlet Tiger School| Scarlet Tiger High]] - a surprising alliance! The battle went sour for almost everyone involved, and the Cranes were finally forced to withdraw. Seraph got his ancestral blade shattered against the God-Weapon [[Bone Bows Before the Steel]] and got massively shot up, cut up, pierced by arrows and set on fire. Life is hard on the pretty ones.

* Returning from their misadventures, the team found the Black Crane in disarray and the dorm a burning wreck - [[Torrent of Serenity]] and co had launched a sneak attack while they were gone! Needless to say, this didn´t help tempers any. Seraph settled for trying to find out the hows and whys himself and arranged a secret meeting with Torrent.

* During downtime at the Black Crane school, [[Thrice-Radiant Ping]] managed to find a hidden chamber by falling down through the floor and into it. Seraph found the hole and the unconscious Ping, and was technically the first one to set eyes on the actual chamber. Some sexual tension later, Ping claimed ownership of the chamber. They have settled for a sort-of compromise that allows Seraph to help her decode the texts contained in there - something that he accepts on the grounds that it allows him to stay close to her and perhaps even realize his ambition to make her see the viability of the virtuous ways! Just recently, Ping found references to Kuafu and the Light-Body Form in the texts and got into her head that Seraph tried to steal her secrets. This caused a short but intense battle in the chamber that had an enraged Seraph pull one would-be fatal strike in favor of leaving Ping completely naked. This got really uncomfortable really fast, but not *just* uncomfortable...

* Romantic tension turned into an all-time high as Red Star Dervish went to work with sneaky courtier Secret Arts - not only did some unexpected fallout from a fight with Ping turn the latter completely obsessed with Seraph, but Dervish managed to ensnare the young demon hunter beyond wits or coherent thought! Seraph is crushing on Dervish, Ping is crushing hard on Seraph... whatever will happen next?

'''SERIES 02: ZAIJIAN HONEY BLUES'''

* '''THE YEAR OF THE BLACK CROW''' episode (ZHB s01ep01) showed us the unfortunate proceedings - Dervish left the Black Crane to run the streets with Blind Fox for her own reasons and Seraph retreated into his own studies. When the Black Crow Brigade hit the Crane, Seraph and Ping were assaulted and defeated by the black-clad teenaged enforcers of the King´s new rule. Never the less, things kept on going on - though darker times had fallen over ZZ City. [[Sheguai]] and [[Scarlet Wake]] were gone. Principal Mountain had died some months before, and no one wants to tell the students just how that came about. The new Principal - [[Contentious Thorn]] - introduced herself, and Seraph was reintroduced to Dervish, who had returned to the Crane at the request of [[Four Kicks Down]].

* '''S01E02 - ALWAYS TWO, THEY ARE'''
In this episode, Seraph is haunted by the legacy of the [[Jin Shen]] and [[Red Star Dervish]] is drawn into the mix as their friendship is reevaluated after the almost-romance of NH2.


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