First Vertice: Japan

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Robert responds to Link, "I need to keep you somewhere until we can get you a place to hide and store your stuff and clothes that won't put you onto a Wanted sign or into a Renaissance faire." Robert goes up the stairs to Aiko's door, motioning Schala along and saying, "Don't worry, your brother's going to be okay. I have his cellphone number, and I'm willing to bet that the kid with the demon found him, and while I don't like the idea of a demon being with your brother, that kid seems to be a good one. I might even know his father, well, through reputation..."

Shinji says, "There are many blacksmiths and shops that sell weapons that you may not be familiar with in the city." He follows Robert up the stairs, surprisingly quickly for an older monk, waiting for Schala and Link.
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Hazuka immediately growls, "Step off!" His crew circles around Gin. Hazuka then listens and follows them down the alleyway, which luckily happens to be where the group was going into the first place. The ten gang members back away and the tension reduces. One of the crew goes down a staircase, steam rising from a vent in the ground in the an unusually small boy clearly in his teens with a very strange arm and leg. "I'm carrying him because he went ahead and made that big sparkly boom. At the moment, we need to lie low for the cops. Robert's probably coming for this kid and he'll call his cellphone. I'm Hazuka Kuwabara." Dai recognizes the name: This is Kazuma Kuwabara and Yukina's son. A natural psychic sensitive and half ice spirit. Hazuka then looks around. "Wait, I think the pushy guy's right. Some nasty shit is coming too. Dammit! If we leave, we're gonna get arrested. But if we stay around... Quick! Vote. And tell us your name, dude." The gang votes 6-4 to stay in the apartment until the heat dies down.

OOG: The "boy" is Fayt.

[DUNCE]

dang, i guess i gotta wait up for these guys if i wanna find Brieka, i guess it can't be helped with the creator of the mini-sun incapacitated

Chrono sits down in a corner of the room (if its not furnished, if it is, on a couch or something) Chrono then changes back into demon form slowly to avoid people thinking there is trouble about, he'll then stretch his wings out, extend and retract his arm katars to make sure everything is in order "aaaah! that feels sooooo good! being cramped up in human form like that wa beginning to get on my nerves, now, down to buisness" chrono changes back into human form "what is your afiliation with the society?"

OOG: i love the google ads at the top of the page, they're always something loosely related in some way, like this time its 'find a japanese bride' HA! funny stuff

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The room itself is dank and underused. There is a hole in the wall where cable has been stolen, a small TV with a distinct prefence for red, a couch with a seat missing, some pads and blankets on the ground. Past the room is a narrow hallway that leads to a strange dark room, clearly formerly used for developing film; a bedroom with a dirty mattress in it; and a bathroom with a rusty sink and bathtub.

The gang screams and backs away. Though they know a bit about "weirdness", as they keep uttering to themselves, they haven't seen a demon before. Dai, of course, knows perfectly well what this is and is not afraid. Hazuka says, "Guys! Quit illin. Man, my Dad's gonna be pissed..." The moment is quiet, as Hazuka awaits Dai's introduction and response.

OOG: JAPAN FASHION!

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Isaac feels the distant explosions and light. He also feels the arrival of a very nasty presence, lurking about. The wind tells a story of panic and screaming, but there is something besides the obvious creating it, yet another force at work. Today there seems to be a bomb going off in Tokyo...

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

OOG: Gin is not there just yet. You mean Dai. You know, your own character, not Hunter's .

Fayt's wounds are mostly healed already, the work Dai is doing is essentially bandaging. The arm and the leg seem to heal and work based on wholly different mechanics than a human body: In fact, they have the odd accoutrements of the mechanical, seeming to be built off hydraulics rather than muscle. No, his problem is a one Dai knows and is largely incapable of treating: Spiritual exhaustion. It is quite lucky that the power of... whatever this boy manipulates, as Dai cannot feel any reiki to speak of, has not shorted out or burnt out in the body, but at the moment it is quite dormant.

Hazuka says, "Yeah, so, can we get an answer? We sort of need to know if you're going to try to kill him or what not." His gravelly voice expresses fatigue from a mile of running and a strenuous fight, but also a bit of fear, as if something else is approaching, making him claustrophobic. Someone says, "Hey, who painted this happy face on the mirror in the bathroom?" The sounds of panic intensify outside.

[hunter]

OOG: sorry about that it was still logged in on xeno's account im posting at his house cause my computer crashed on me. And sorry I thought I was there due to your previous post but guess not.

Gin will ask the police what is going on if they wont ask then she will back away momenterily then try to climb a fire escape or find someplace to get a better view.

[xenocide]

OOG: Yeah sorry if that happens once or twice tonight she is staying at my house tonight since her compy crashed.

"smily face? show me..." he will say moving back towards the room where it is getting an odd feeling in his stomach like something is wrong, really wrong.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

OOG: I thought that may be a possibility. No biggie.

"That's confidential, ma'am." The police are stonewalling like mad. The fire escapes are also swarming with people, but Gin sees an opening between the cops that she could rush through.

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The moment Dai sees the yellow smiley face, he knows what's wrong. Iit is a Hollow. A massive one. The smiley face grins even broader, and the mirror explodes. Reality begins to alter, the whole place becoming a "tween", a place inbetween realities. The Hollow now screeches and comes to its full size, and the apartment becomes truly massive now, spatially altered. Hazuka says, "Goddamit!" If the rules of space were normal now, the thing would be sixty feet tall. The gang members begin to push to go outside...

[クインӥ]

It will take me a bit to post I need to catch up on whats happened thus far.

[xenocide]

Dai will summon his soul slayer to him each individually as he thinks im suprised I actually went ten minuets without one finding me he then will aim a heaven slash at the hollows face starting off the combat.

[hunter]

Gin will rush through the opening to see what exactly happened.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The Hollow's massive bipedal form with long black clawed limbs is struck by the Heaven Slash... and simply moves back harmlessly, leaning backwards as if blown back by a wind then moving forward. Hazuka says, "Hey, dude, if we lead it out of here maybe the cops can handle it!" Indeed, it seems that the distortion of reality around the Hollow is making this job very difficult.

[DUNCE]

Chrono will calmly rise from the couch, quickly go demon in a blur of black energy, drape his wings, extend his pony tail ( it greatly resembles doc-oc's tentacles from spiderman ) he will flip his bangs out of his eyes, extend his katars, walk to the anomoly and scream with all the power his abyssal speech can let him, "YOU DARE TRY TO DISTURB MY PLACE OF BUISNESS!?" chrono will then hover right above ground ( what are the dimensions of this place? ) rush over, about 30 feet away from the hallow and yell in abyssal " I'm chrono the sinner, now if you dont want to be another digit on my body count which is 100,000,000 strong i suggest you leave now and never let me see you again"

if the hallow isn't intimidated Chrono will create an energy ball in his hands and point it menacingly at the hallow

[クインӥ]

Isaac will leave his uncles apartment and look around before heading back inside and turning the television on to the news hoping to catch a glimpse of the chaos that is insuing.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The television crews are quite limited in their ability to see what is occuring. The military is inches away from declaring martial law in a fifteen block section of Tokyo. The riot is expanding, as if fear has turned into blind anger. The wind is telling him far more: There are at least two malevolent forces at work very close by.

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Gin bursts through the barricades, running with an experienced leg. A cop about twenty feet in front of her bellows, "HEY! WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!" He is reaching for something in his holsters...

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The dimensions are hard to describe. IA fifteen by twenty room (a slight rectangle), a five by ten hallway, a six by eight bathroom, a fifteen by fifteen dark room, and a eight by ten bed room is being stretched like rubber to be anywhere from five to ten times as large. Things stretch more and more as they close next to the Hollow. Its smiling face sees Chrono and says, "REVOLUTIONARY... FOOL... HELL WILL NEVER BE YOURS..." Hollows are many things, but they are not easily intimidated. The energy blast seems to take a larger toll than the shinigami's strike, surprisingly, but the thing raises its hand to block it, making the damage only to a far extremity.

The hollow's clawed hands now rake. From one direction doom comes at Hazuka and Dai, from another at Chrono...

[fistandalus]

Link will wait and Fallow Robert and Shinji. Also he will try and stay out of the confrontion between Robert Aiko.

[クインӥ]

Should I go or should I stay here? I haven't gotten my daily excercise yet so I guess I'll go check it out, hell it might even be fun.

I'll ask the wind to lead me to the closest one, jogging to get there quickly but trying conserve energy.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The closest one is in a large park and baseball field, in the center of the rioting.

[songstress]

"oh he isnt my brother he just lives with the family although he does treat me like his sister sometimes.. I guess" Schala face falls although she tries to hide it, it still shows that she seems like she wants to cry but holds it in and suddenly looks back up seeming to have gotten over it but her smile is slightly fake as she says "but it doesnt matter he can take care of himself I should know."

[hunter]

if its a gun or other dangerous ranged weapon (anti-air tazer ((unlikly I know but hey ya never know)) or something similar) then she will shoot it out of his hands while running forward away from him, if he draws a melee weapon then she will try to outrun him if she cant then she will turn to face him with a spinning kick to the head to try to stun him.

[クインӥ]

I guess i'm going to the park then even if it's the center of the rioting. when I get to the park i'll stop beiefly and look around before continuing

[xenocide]

Dai will take a large jump backwards to evade the attack he will then grab Fayt and yell to everyone else "we need to get out of here we cant damage it inside the apartment!" he will start to back towards the door while watching the hollow for attacks against him and Fayt.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"That's your brother, Schala. Genes don't matter. Relationships do." He looks at everyone still there, crosses his fingers, and knocks as fast as he can on Aiko's door.

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It actually appears to be a very powerful tazer. Gin's expert shooting easily disarms him, and the man says "Yow!" as the weapon is taken from his grip. The officer is caught off guard, but others are not, and now a few have pulled weapons. Luckily, she's getting to the point where people and chaos will provide some protection.

[songstress]

Schala will stay quiet while thinking but I dont want a brother.

[hunter]

she will run into the crowd of chaos to protect her from the guns while moving towards the disturbance.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Gin unfortunately is not able to use the crowd to her advantage quick enough, and she is struck by a tazer. She miraculously flips forward and continues, this time getting into the crowd, another tazer striking a passersby. As if the passersby were on PCP, the person bullrushes the police officer and pummels him.

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Isaac, unlike Gin, finds a path through the chaos. He slips through an alley by a public laundromat and sees a pathway to the park that has relatively few rioters.

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Dai barely passes over the claws. Hazuka also flips back but is not so lucky, getting struck by the claw and flipping onto the ground. His defensive aura is not breached, but he does careen through the air for awhile and has the wind sucked out of him. He stands shakily and nods, joining Dai running. The two cross 43% and 24% of the space respectively before the hollow spews a thick black bile at the two.

[hunter]

Gin will continue onto her goal of the cause of the distress making sure to watch her back for stray gunfire.

[xenocide]

Dai will turn around quickly combining his two spirit slayers to create the demon blade agni and rudra he will then use rudra's whirlwind power to push back the bile with wind.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Gin manages to avoid rousing the ire of the crowd. A fire truck is now blasting the rioters.

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Amazingly, despite the simply massive torrents coming out, a prodigious blow from this creature, Dai similarly excels for a brief moment, Agni and Rudra producing a galeforce that pushes it back and shoves the bile back into its mouth. The thing is momentarily stopped and indeed quite possibly vulnerable. (Chrono's turn).

[seraphina]

Aiko answers the door to see robert and she says in a obviously fake sweet voice "oh hello robert this must be schala but where is fayt" as she finishs her voice turns deadly waiting for his answer.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Robert avoids eye contact as he powers through the sentences at high speed, "Yeah, umm, Fayt is... Well, the dumb kid rolled out of the car to stop the police chasing after us after this guy drew cold steel in a Buddhist temple and started a riot, and now I think he's with a street gang and a.... demon." He whispers the last part, then realizes how absurd it is to whisper. "This is Link and this is Shinji, by the way." Shinji says, "Also Zarela, as I assume you are not unused to the supernatural. I am coinhabiting Mr. Shinji's body for now.", in his womanly voice. "Look, Aiko, I know I screwed up, but kick my ass after we find Fayt. I need to keep Schala and Link here so they don't get lost or do any more harm. And there's something else big going on."