Jay had been staring at the grass now, watching the ants wandering through the newly-green spring grass. He jumped when he heard a somewhat familiar voice. "Oh, it's you." He stood and walked down the two steps to the ground, meeting Loki on the sidewalk in front of his home. "You know.. maybe. Get off my grass." While he had a small smirk on his face as he spoke, Loki would notice how quiet his voice was. Jay motioned for Loki to step onto the sidewalk, before taking a step back to sit cross-legged on the ground.
Jay tilted his head at the older boy. Curious how this one kept coming around to talk to him so often. Jay was almost starting to get used to his presence. "so, anything interesting planned for the rest of the weekend?"
As Eriko walked down the street towards Kato's house, Tori spotted him through the window while he was still a whole block away. "Phantom! It's the Cat-boy! He's approaching fast down Tree Street!"
Kato looked up at her from the map on the table. "Battle stations?"
"Got it." Without another word spoken between the two, they went to their respective spots. Tori went to the toy chest and pulled out a handful of water balloons, already filled since the last time they had been attacked. Grabbing a slingshot off the top shelf of the bookshelf, she went back to the window and took aim at the approaching threat. While she did this, Kato phased through the floor and landed on the ground below the treehouse, taking an aloof stance. He'd wait for Eriko to show up and try something before actually attacking the guy.
The bus was crowded and the seats were sticky as Carol and Henri rode home. Carol got off at Henri's stop, like normal, and the two made their way to Henri's basement as quickly as they could. Carol changed into her costume with a wave of her wand, which had been hidden in her backpack until now. The wand grew into a staff and she sat on one of the chairs that were set up around the rectangular ping-pong table in the room. A map of town was hung up on the wall by the door to the stairs, with multi-colored push-pins scattered across it in a seemingly random pattern.
Henri changed into his costume by simply stepping into a shadow, coming out the other side as Midnight, lord of darkness. He sat at the opposite end of the table from Carol, and glanced at the clock in the corner of the room. Crossing his arms and kicking his feet up onto the table, he smiled at his most trusted accomplice. "Now then my Lady Crimson, we wait once again. Where is everybody?" Carol just shrugged. She knew he was mostly just getting into character at the moment. He didn't actually do anything when people were late.
