[IC] Date A Live - Alternate

[nichinichisou]

In front of the chinese diner, apparently still noonish.

"Nice boys and girls, don't hit-"

Ni-FUCKING ERIN, was standing in front of the chinese diner. And guess what? He was in a panda bear outfit. Sorry, GIANT panda outfit, gotta have it, air-quote with me, 'politically correct.'

So, he had just told these boys and girls crowded outside of the chinese diner to not hit him. And guess what? Them being idiotic, small children, went to hit them. OOOOOFFFFFF course they did. Oh, and Erin was talking in an incredibly high pitched voice, so he was annoying. To him. Maybe to the children too.

But, inside of this bear costume, the long-haired man was sweating to no end. There was no way to get actual air inside of this fuckin' outfit, and it was incredibly hard to hear him as well. So, only the people nearby heard him. Anyways, he was getting pelted from all angles. Elbowed on the back of the head, closing the outfit on him, kicked from the side, making him almost roll over, all kinds of attacks. And when they finally stopped, he took this chance.

"GO!"

And he did. He set off at super speeds, purely for entertainment in this post, away from the kids. He ran all the way, to an alleyway that was near this stupid park, only to take off this costume. The head, at least. His sweat dripping all over the costume and the concrete in the alleyway. He got out of this FUCKING costume, finally.

"Teddie's got it beary tough."

"All Ratatoskr ground-operatives in the vicinity of Tenguu City Central Park, heads up! We think we might have located the spirit from last week! Move to the location and aid Suichiro in confirming if she's really there. Do not try and seal or even approach her! We just want visual confirmation."

AND NOW HE HAS TO WALK ALL THE WAY TO THIS PARK THAT'S ONLY, LIKE, FIVE SECONDS AWAY! UGH. NOW HE'S GONNA- oh wait that's a girl thing. Sorry.

But, he did walk over to this park, sighing. There was nothing for him to do, and there was some fucking music BLASTING ALL THE WAY, BREAKING HIS FUCKING EARDRUMS. N-ERIN was near this place, music getting louder literally each fucking femtosecond. And then there was the random people cheering to no end, probably until they died of exhaustion.

Why.

[CondorTalon]

"Hey, Suichi-kun," Mayumi purred, wrapping her arms around him, "I kind of told some of those people over there that you were my boyfriend, so..."

She left that word trailing off as long as she could. The longer her words sunk in, the better his reaction would be.

"So, Suichi-kun, how are we going to find this girl? There's a huge crowd... oh! Maybe we should climb a tree, we'd have a better view of the crowd... or maybe like, a building, hmm..."

Her arms retreated from the boy so that she could do an exaggerated thinking pose.

"Are you thinking maybe she like sweets? All girls love sweets. Hmm..."

Her arms crossed.

"Well, I guess since you're in charge for now, you give the orders," she said, playfully pouting, to show him she wasn't serious.

"Aww man, why did it have to be here? Why can't more Spirits appear in less populated places so I can have them all to myself...?"

[drewccapp]

Kyoko nodded as Mayumi mentioned something suddenly about a boyfriend and ran off. However, something felt off about how she went about it. She felt like it was an excuse for something else, but everyone has their secrets and Kyoko didn't pursue. Kyoko could tell the white-haired girl that had approached and asked a question earlier wasn't all that comfortable. Simply from the way she spoke it felt like she wasn't used to being around people.

"Ah, OK," she brushed her fingers through her hair. "I like it. You have pretty hair too."

She paused a short while. "I'd like to help you, but I have a bit of responsibility with taking care of my club's booth." She looked over at the food booth that was now bustling with customers and stood back up. "I don't think you'll find a quiet place around here. Good luck though." She smiled and made her way back to the food booth to help with keeping things from getting too crazy.

---

Suichi blushed as Mayumi wrapped her arms around him. He always thought she was pretty if a bit too much of a flirt for his heart to handle. Then she mentioned how she said she was his boyfriend to others and steam started to pour out of his head he was that red. "B-boyfriend?" Whisker purred and rubbed her head against Mayumi's forehead.

He took himself a moment while she spoke to gather himself together. "Well, I think we should have someone in the crowd just in case she's lost in there somewhere. I can't see anyone skittish being comfortable in a crowd like that and if she is in there we need to help her." He knew that the Commander had told him not to seal the girl yet, but nothing had been said about helping her out. "She must feel uncomfortable in a crowd like that. It'll be hard to see any details from a distance, but if we get someone looking through the crowd from a distance, that'll help." He looked around for Erin as he liked to be called at work and saw him entering from the edge of the park. He then looked back at Mayumi. "We'll need all three of us to do it."

He felt a bit of urgency to find the girl as soon as possible, because he didn't want anyone to be hurt if she ended up being scared.

[TheWendil]

The pulsing sounds of the singers on stage were almost enough to make Reika decide to just reap the entire area clean. Almost. The same feelings of wrongness sprang up, something that was just barely holding her back from killing every person here. Was it sad? Why should it be? Humans lived an eventual cycle that ended into an eternity of silence. So why? Reika did not understand, and she was beginning to question most things lately. All because of this damned concert or whatever humans called it. In any case, she shouldn't break her vow of killing in the middle of the day.

Back then...she murdered Sora when the moon was high....thus, she would wait until then. Wait until the sun had plunged into the depths below. Only a few hours left before sunset...and Reaper would bring forward swift deliverance. Well then. Enough of these thoughts; the Spirit would simply have to bear the noise for just a little more. All of these thoughts were processed in the span of a mere moment, and Reika blinked to register what the blue-haired girl was saying. Something about a class booth...

"No...wait...."

Reika wistfully followed the bluenette back to her work station; she quickly picked up a delicious smell that wafted towards her nose. Food? She didn't necessarily need it...but she wanted to at least have someone to hang around with during these "fun" times. Besides, weren't friends made over empty stomachs?

Luckily the line itself was just a few steps away, and soon, with a little waiting in silence, Reika found herself at the front of the booth to place an order. She locked her gaze on the blue-haired girl before nodding. "I...didn't get your name. I am Kuroki Reika. What edible products are you selling at this establishment?" A pause. "Also...thank you for the compliment about my hair." As the words escaped her mouth, Reika had the briefest of worries cross her mind.

Should she try smiling? Did humans like that?

[Mr Nim]

As she closed in on the crowd, she managed to spot Suichi and someone else who grabbed his hand and stuck next to him. So he had a girlfriend, which was a disappointment. Yoshikuni sighed but kept approaching the crowd, deciding she should go ahead and do what she previously wanted to do.

After a few more moments she reached the crowd and slowly begun making her way through the happy people that moved a bit to the sound of the music and singing. She felt like she was in heaven, with so many shadows touching her own. She then looked down and saw two shadows that were especially deep into her own shadow. Smiling, she closed her eyes and moved slightly on the spot, making her appear as if she was moving to the sound of the song as well, while the shadows of the two people slowly faded away.

Opening her eyes, Yoshikuni licked her fingers as she saw the two people move slower now, somewhat sweating and appearing to be paler than before. One of them soon collapsed, so she kneeled next to him and looked around with a worried face "I need help over here! Someone just fainted!" She shouted and then procceeded to put her finger on his neck, trying to see if there was a pulse. Upon feeling a fair pulse, she removed her finger and placed her hand on his forehead as a few other people came to help carry him out of the crowd. She then moved out of the way as he was taken out of the crowd, and decided to look around.

Yoshikuni sighed upon realising that she lost sight of Suichi, and then slowly got out of the crowd, moving to its edge, not wanting to be tempted to start making a feast out of shadows, but those two shadows made her feel very satisfied.

[Xaltwind]

"Oh no, is he alright?" The music stopped abruptly.

It would seem the singer of the band had spotted the man who collapsed in the crowd, showing that she was paying close attention to her listeners from up on the small stage. The band, also, seemed tob be perfectly attuned to her observatioon, as they all stopped playing at the exact moment she asked this question out loud over the speakers. It was almost uncanny. With the music stopped and the passed-out person being hauled out of the midst of the gathering, people started to murmur and chat with one another. It was clear this little spiel had severely damaged to mood and atmosphere of the concert.

Some of the people who carried the man away waved that made signs taht the fellow was alright, hough he still hadn't woken up. The singer frowned, turning to her band and talked to them - having set the mic back in its stand so as to avoid letting the spectators hear what they were saying. With the continued delay and absence of music, more muttering and disgrunlted talk washed over the crowd, and it soon began to move and shift, people trying to leave and bumping into one another. A group of delinquent-looking young men caught the sight of a pretty young woman with long hair, making their way over to her while she was talking to a younger man with a cat on his shoulder.

"Hey, hey, hey, Nee-chan!" The leader of the group, a greasy sunglasses-wearing punk, started up with the typical, tough-guy attitude. "How 'bout you ditch that kid and come hang with us instead, eh? We'll show you a good time."

Over by the food booth, people who had been previously lined up and queuing to buy some food were now dispersing at an alarming rate, apparently no longer interested in buying stuff if the whole event was going to implode on itself. You could hear people complain about how things had turned sour and how this whole thing had been a waste of time or a real let-down with the guy who keeled over. The two girls who were discussing hair and other things soon found that they were being bumped into and told to get out of the way as more people began to leave the park.

The youngster delivery-boy who had run here in a panda-costume would find that he was being spared the swarm of people, as he had been far away enough to avoid te thick of the crowd and ony had to deal with small groups or lone individuals passing him by without paying any heed to him. That is, until this one, really big guy with a tan and a chin that looked like it'd been chiseled from stone, and with muscles that would probably let him crush a walnut between his biceps, walked in a straight path into the guy. Grunting with irritation, he towered about a head-and-a-half above the swaggy scooter-waiter, and snarled with gritted teeth.

"Wha'chu standing there for? You in my way, punk. You wantin' to start something, huh? You fuckin' with me?" Apparently, he was a very edgy gentleman and was already craning his neck to loosen the muscles there...

As the band finally finished talking things over, they turned back out towards the crowd and saw the disorganization and dissolving crowd. They all looked very disappointed, the singer and drummer especially so. Still, there was not much they could do - trying to draw the crowd back in could just cause more problems, not to mention injuries, and the last thing they needed or wanted was to end up in the newspaper as the indie-group who caused a bunch of trouble with their live. Sighing, the singer picked up the mic again and called out to the people.

"Well, uh... It looks like we had a little incident there, didn't we? I think this'll be a good time to leave off and let everyone go back to their own business! I hope you all enjoyed our little performance again, and I look forward to seeing you all again!" This time though, there was no cheering or overwhelming response from the crowd, just people leaving and walking in a hurried way. The band began to put away and dismantle their equipment and instruments in a quiet, dissatisfied fashion.

Meanwhile, back at the spot where Suichi and Mayumi, and the punks who were hitting on the latter, were - something happened. There was a high-pitched yelp, followed by an angry voice. Looking into the mass of moving people, one could see an angry, older man in his thirties - bald and with a beer-guy - looking down at the ground, where a small figure, dressed in a yellow coat, was now sitting. The figure had a hood over its head, so you couldn't see its face, but it was a young person, judging from the small size of its body - probably around their pre or very early teens. The man was angry over something and yelling at the coat-wearer, probably because he had been bumped into or something.

In any case, the whole park was descending into a very unpleasant state, very fast...

[drewccapp]

Whisker hissed at the punks that approached them, and Suichi was inclined to agree. He generally liked people, but these kinds of people were worthless in his eyes. All they did was push people around because they felt superior doing it. He tensed up and got into a defensive stance in front of Mayumi. He didn't look it, but he had a fair bit of strength behind him due to lifting potted plants often at his job. Then he noticed the only thing he could think of as the Spirit they were looking for being yelled at by some equally unpleasant men.

He glanced over his shoulder towards Mayumi. "She's here, yellow coat." This situation was not an easy one to deal with, on one hand he didn't want Mayumi to get hurt by these scumbags and on the other hand he didn't want everyone to get hurt by an upset Spirit. His tone was serious, but definitely fishing for suggestions. He didn't want to have to fight these guys, which is likely to happen if he gets pushed into a corner. He very much didn't want Mayumi to get hurt at all.

---

Kyoko smiled at the odd girl and opened her mouth to introduce herself, but suddenly the crowd dispersed in a fashion where she ended up getting pushed around by the crowd. She bumped uncomfortably into several people as she tried her best to stay in one spot. The mass exodus from the park had completely surprised her. The band was supposed to be great, so why were they leaving? She finally found herself on the edge of the park when the crowd finally let her go and she looked around to see her clubmates standing around the booth with confused expressions on their face. There was a group of punks addressing Mayumi and a boy with a cat on his shoulders. Then there was an older man yelling at someone wearing a yellow coat.

She frowned as she took a short time to figure out who to help. She decided rather quickly and made her way towards the older man dealing with the coat-wearer. She felt sorry she couldn't help Mayumi, but no one was helping the coat-wearer. She stepped in front of the man with a disappointed and irritated expression. "What is wrong with you? This is no way to behave towards anyone."

[Mr Nim]

Seeing the yellow coat worn by someone fairly small being yelled at by an elderly person, she became irritated. Who yells at someone who appears to be so young?

Approaching the person in the yellow coat, Yoshikuni watched as another girl was speaking to the person who was previously yelling. She kneeled and Placed her hand on the yellow person's shoulder, and from being this close she managed to see that it was a girl.

"Are you alright? Did you come here with someone else?" She asked with a kind smile, hoping the young girl had someone around who was looking for her. She also took another glance at Kyoko, wondering if she knew the young girl.

[CondorTalon]

"Geh."

Mayumi slunk back as the creepy dudes decided to hit on her. She looked around, noticing the crowd starting to disperse around them.

That was confusing, but her attention was drawn by Suichi towards a young girl with a yellow coat, being harrassed by an older man. It looked like they had found the girl they were looking for, but considering they were pre-occupied with this situation right now there wasn't much they could do. She smiled at Suichi; it made her feel happy that he was willing to protect her... but she had no idea what to do now.

Looking back to the girl she saw Kyoko and another girl were coming to the Spirit's rescue. That would either buy them some time or shorten it very quickly.

---

There was nothing Kouhime hated more than creeps that thought they could do whatever they wanted to girls.

She'd left for just one second and already things had gone south, with the concert abruptly ending and bad situations popping up everywhere. It wasthe group of delinquents that caught her attention, though. Mostly because they were hitting on that girl, but also because the boy with her was the same boy from before.

She gripped the soccer ball she'd held in her hands. She didn't have much of a throwing arm, but she did have the ability to send pressure waves through an object. She'd learned over the course of using her powers that she could use that power to compensate and turn her normally weak throws into terrifying pitches.

She threw the ball, aiming for the leader's head.

That would, hopefully, draw the gang's attention, at which point she'd lead them to that place.

As for where she found a soccer ball, well...

A few seconds earlier...

"Hey, boy. Onee-chan's going to borrow this ball for a bit, okay?" she said to the little boy on the street.

"Ehh? Why?" the boy whined in response.

"I want to bean some guy in the head with it."

"Oh... okay!" the boy replied, happily handing her the ball.

Kouhime feared for today's youth.

[TheWendil]

Things happened so fast...first the end of the "concert"...people started moving around everywhere...then the blue-haired girl was swept up in the ensuing chaos. That being the closest she could relate to a "friend", Reika searched through the crowd calmly to look for her short-lived companion. She eventually found her, along with several others including the two Spirits she had detected before, centered over a group of delinquents and a girl in yellow being yelled at by an older man.

Her blue-haired "friend" seemed to be helping the girl in yellow; upon a closer inspection of her surroundings, Reika also noticed the older woman from before as one of the individuals being confronted by the group of men. Blue-Hair was defending the girl in yellow...a possible Spirit signature? Regardless, she was protecting the weak....Reika will so the same. But how to go about it?

Frowning, constant thoughts plagued Reika's normally calculated mind. Should she go ahead and reap both the group of instigators? But in broad daylight? But justice had to be served! Death had to act...didn't she? How confusing...how annoying...could she wait a little longer?

Still debating on the course of action she should commit to, Reika unconsciously walked past the girl with a soccer ball-another Spirit-and found herself standing right in front of the boy and woman being harassed. Seeing the soccer ball gracefully pummel the lead man's face, Reika concluded that the other Spirit's intentions were similar to her own.

The man no doubt being enraged by such actions, Reika didn't even consider his behavior when she addressed the group of delinquents with a tense voice. "You will all be judged...."

[Xaltwind]

At the edge of the Park.

"Eh? What's wrong with you, girly-man? Cat got yer tongue? Well then, how'bout I loosen it up for ya?" The tall, muscular and very annoyed man roared at Nigel, who had yet to do anything but stand around and look utterly nonchalant about the eholw 'getting socked'-deal. With a remarkably quick motion, unbefitting a man of his size, the giant grabbed hold of Nigel's collar and raised the long-haired delivery boy well above the ground, causing the young man's feet to dangle helplessly in the air. With an expression which was a mix between a smirk and a scowl, the tanned aggressor spoke again.

"Any last words, shit-stain?"

---

Over by the scene.

"Eh? Wha's this? You gonna get in our way, four-eyes? Fine, I'll teach you what happens when you get in the way of u-AUCXFLMTPT!?"

"ANIKI!!" The rest of the punks cried out in surprise as their leader's face was temporarily squashed by the arrival of an unlikely projectile.

Sprawled on thje ground in a degrading, but humorous, fashion, the delinquent leader's entire body twitched spasmatically for a bit. He soon managed to regain compsure and stand up again though, albeit his precious slick shades had been bent and broken out of shape - and he had he looked much flatter across the face now. He and his ggoons peered about before spotting the girl with the headphones, who was standing in the perfect direction from whence the ball had come soaring. Enraged by the prospect of not only having been beaned in the face, but by a girl no less, the punks were in an outrage now.

"You bitch! Da hell do you think you're messin' with, huh!?" Their leader snarled angrily.
"That's right! We're gonna teach you a lesson now, missy!" Another punk called out, backing his dishonored and embarrassed bro up.

Of course, before they could advance any further or make good on their threats, another woman appeared. This one a white-haired young lass, who proceeded to spout something very religious-sonunding out. Her emotionless voice and emotionless face only caused the group of delinquents to get even more riled up.

"What is this? Bitch-behavior Saturday!? Enough! Boys, let's get'em and show'em what happens when they mess with us!"
"OHHHH!!" The gang roared in unison.

ANd with that, the group of a little more than a dozen or so high school delinquents chjarged at Mayumi, Reika and Suichiro - as they were the closest and the most immediate aggrevation to the group.

"You idiots! What're you doing down there?" Mayumi, Nigel and Suichi all got a very angry voice ringing in their ear-piece. It was Commander Kasumi, and she didn't sound pleased. "[i]You were supposed to find and confirm the Spirit's presence, not get into fist-fights![ I'm docking all of your pay for today!/i]"

---

Closer to the stage still:

The middle-aged, beer-gut man looked with a face red as a tomato - from anger - at the two new arrivals. He bared his teeth like he was a wolf ready to lash out and bite them.

"And just who the hell are you!? Mako!" He turned to the girl in the coat. "Are these bastards your friends or something!?"

"N-no, uncle! I-I've never seen them before!" The young girl stuttered.

She also proceeded to pull away from the girl who was trying to touch her, apparently not wanting physical contact or to show her apparent uncle that she had no connection to these two girls who had shown up out of nowhere and started meddling in their family affairs.

"Listen here, girlies." The man said sourly, folding his arms and glaring daggers at them. "I dunno who you are, and I dun care. You don't poke your nose into other peoples' business!" He was very upset still, turning to his supposed niece. "This has been a disaster, Mako! This was the last time I let you convince me to take you outside to one of these things!"

"B-But, Uncle..."
"No buts! Hells bells, you've got that condition and have to wear that stupid coat, just cause you can't handle the sunlight. Then we get here and they stop the concert early, and then you get knocked to the ground by the people leaving. Jeez!" He didn't sounbd as much angry as he sounded stern now though... Perhaps this uncle hadn't been actually yelling in anger, but out of concern and worry... And the girl...? She appeared to be a regular person, with some kind of skin-condition... Albino perhaps?

[Mr Nim]

Standing back up and taking a step back, Yoshikuni quickly moved her sights from the young girl to the elderly man "Excuse me for interferring, mister. It appeared as if your niece was in trouble, so I merely wished to help. If it will make things slightly better, I will arrange for you a free choice of baked goods at the bakery I work at, which is the Magical Baker. And once more, I am truly for interferring with private matters." She said before giving the man a small bow and then looking at the girl again "I apologize for attempting to help with things that were not related to me." She added before walking away from the spot with a quick step, hoping to get away from being shout at by the uncle again.

After walking away for a few minutes, she reached the edge of the park and stopped there, moving to rest against a sign of a bus station and sighing. This turned out to be an interesting day, but she did kind of wish that she could've enjoyed the concert a bit more. If she knew that her actions would cause the whole thing to fall apart like that then she would've waited until the near end. But eating those two shadows made her satisfied. She did want to have a few more, but she decided that nearly getting attention to herself there was enough for one day.

Yoshikuni then resumed walking for a couple more minutes, and then stopped in front of a couple of refreshments machines. She took placed a coin inside and then got herself a can of orange juice before opening it, taking a sip and then walking away, slowly drinking and wandering around the area of the edge of the park, curious to see if she can spot anyone who she knew from school.

[CondorTalon]

Kouhime facepalmed. Really, she did. Legit head down, hand cupped, nose in palm action.

She'd had their attention, but then some other girl had to step in, and now she couldn't bring them to that place. She kind of wanted to yell at the other girl for doing that. She'd wasted all of that effort, and the boy's ball, for nothing. Of course, she wasn't the type to yell. She didn't even know the girl.

She didn't have anything else to throw at them, so that was out of the question. She had to think of something else then, didn't she?

She sighed. Her face still covered by her hand, she snapped the fingers of her other hand, and, right on cue, police sirens began to sound in the area.

Well, of course it was right on cue. That was the cue. That was the entire point of the cue.

She was creating the police sirens with her power, is what I'm saying.

[TheWendil]

Reika didn't exactly know what was going on. To be fair, it had been a pretty hectic day, and she made a metal note to swiftly negate any mention of attending these "concerts" ever again. What she did gather was that the group of males were charging at them with the intent of harm and who knew what else. Furthermore, they ignored her given predictions of their fate; that they would be judged for their sins by Death incarnate. And finally, to add more fuel to an ever growing flame, sudden sirens were beginning to blair out; Reika recognized them as those of human authorities.

It was too much, and frankly, Reika saw no reason to hold back anymore. The majority of people had left, yes? She would first reap the fools who sought to harm her...and then if anyone were left alive, she would finish off the rest. "All people die...all people must be judged...I will judge you all....you shall be judged."

And with that, the pale girl lifted her hand towards the heavens above and waited. And then it came. No doubt it would strike pure dread into the hearts of all around her, especially her attackers. It rang loud and clear, intermingled with the current noise of the police horns.

The shrieking cries of the Spacequake alert soon drowned everything out.

[drewccapp]

Kyoko blinked at the older man as he explained in an irritated fashion. She realized very quickly how in the wrong she was and her expression changed to apologetic. The fires of her passion put out. "Ah... Oh, I'm really sorry. It was hard to tell what was going on where I was. I thought she was in trouble in a different way." She bowed respectfully. "I didn't mean to interfere in family issues."

She felt completely embarrassed. She had the best intentions, but the result was not nearly what she was hoping for. "Please excuse me."

She moved to step away, but she noticed that the punks nearby had started to actually attack Mayumi and the cat boy. She was going to move to help when police sirens went off. Apparently someone had called the police. She was certain that the punks would disperse quickly to avoid getting into trouble. Shortly after though, the white haired girl she had been speaking with earlier raised her hand and the Spacequake alarm system went off. She turned back towards the family and called out. "Get your niece and yourself to shelter quickly."

Kyoko knew she wasn't equipped to deal with the Spirit right now and rushed to the AST barracks to get geared up. She had to report to her superiors as well about the white haired girl that she now knew to be a Spirit.

---

Whisker leaped off of Suichi's shoulders as the first guy attacked and leaped into his face a flurry of claws and hisses. I would have been funny except Suichi then had to deal with another punk. He hated this. He couldn't run away. There was a Spirit nearby that needed help. The ball that had knocked out the leader had only escalated the problem. He couldn't leave Mayumi to deal with these jerks alone, although it was obvious now that they had support from a couple others. Either way, Suichi was pushed into a corner and he hated it. He lashed out at the boy attacking him with a fast jab of his own stunning the kid. "Damnit, Kasumi! We didn't even start this crap! You don't even pay us!"

This was why he hated being pushed into a corner. His filter stopped and his thoughts would just explode out of him. This wouldn't stop until he had calmed down enough, which in this situation wouldn't be for a while. The situation wasn't helped much by the fact that police sirens went off. He tried to collect himself then, as he figured the kids would run away. Then the Spacequake alarms went off and he knew the kids would run, but that also meant that a Spirit was coming. Then he looked over as a white haired girl began a transformation and realized that the Spirit was already here.

Her expression was that of someone intending to exact serious harm. From what little he knew of Spirits, most of them didn't actually understand human society. This meant that drastic actions might be taken out of confusion or fear. He had to calm her down. Still in his pushed-in-a-corner mode he stepped in between her and the group of punks which he figured would be bolting for safety by now. He remembered that she had tried to warn the boys with her earlier "you all shall be judged" statement. At first he had thought it to be odd, but now he realized its true intention. Normally, his first words to someone new would be jumbled up and messy, but thanks to his adrenaline his thoughts were processing to words pretty well. "Thank you for your help, but can you calm down now? I would like to help you in exchange." He wore a smile, but a part of him was worried. "I can help you learn about humans. I bet you don't really understand us, right?" He extended his hand towards her. "If you want I can help you learn. Without having to hurt anyone."

[CondorTalon]

Okay. Fuck this. Fuck you.

Kouhime balled up her fist, and the police sirens abruptly stopped. It's not like it mattered; the Spacequake alarm had already drowned out any other sounds she would have wanted to make.

She looked at girl who now had her hand in the air.

"Tsk..."

She then turned, running for the nearest shelter.

---

Mayumi shirked back as the punks charged them, as she watched Suichi fight off the punks. The police sirens going off didn't help either. Mayumi wanted to help Suichi, but she... she couldn't fight. She couldn't do anything but watch.

So when the Spacequake alarm went off, she had no idea what to do. There was too much happening for her to handle, and she fell to her knees. She felt exhausted and mentally drained, and she only watch as the girl raised her arm to the air.

That probably wasn't the Spirit they were looking for. But at this point it was... the best... they would do...?

Mayumi didn't know.

She just didn't know.

[Mr Nim]

A Spacequake alarm. Things just turned from interesting to intense, but Yoshikuni decided that she did not want to get involved too much now, nor did she want to get the AST's attention once they arrived at the area, which was bond to happen soon. She turned to look in the direction of the nearest shelter, and noticed the girl from earlier, the one she talked to with Suichi next to her, heading to the same shelter. She decided to go to it, figuring she can get to know that girl better.

After a couple of minutes of running she was inside the shelter and looked around. Yoshikuni couldn't spot the girl instantly, so she wondered if she managed to enter the place before her. Sighing, she moved against one of the walls and slide down against it until she was sitting on the floor. She closed her eyes and hummed a tone to herself, hoping the spacequake will be over soon and she could go back to the normal life soon enough. The spacequakes were quite annoying in her eyes, but she knew that as long as it was in the spirits powers, some will use them without hesitating, and the thought of that made her roll her eyes underneath her closed eyelids.

[TheWendil]

Reika frowned as her transformation paused only slightly. The alarms were still blaring out their hellish noise; an indicator that the Spacequake would still be arriving shortly. Upon seeing the boy step in front of her, Reika considered her options. Was he defending these violent fools? No...no he was speaking to her. Asking her if she wanted to be taught? About...humans?

"I...admit I don't know very much about you," she said, referring to all of humanity. "But what little I have studied, I believe I am confident in making my judgements. Humans are...interesting creatures yes, but there is one aspect in which you all share. And I understand that completely."

With her right hand still held aloft above her, Reika summoned forth her Angel: a curved black scythe in her left hand. Bringing it down, she rested the blade around the boy's neck. "All humans die and are judged by me, Death. You will die eventually as well. What more is there for me to learn when I already know your fates so clearly?" Reika's robotic tone never wavered and her gaze never lessened.

"Why do I need to listen to you when I can release your soul from suffering right now?"

[Xaltwind]

At the edge of the park

After having been pummeled into a complete and utter mush, the larger and more muscular man had tossed Nigel aside as if he were a dirty, undesirable rag. Now lying on the ground, arms and legs twitching in a spasmatic way, Nigel only let oput pained, gurgling noises as he had been reduced to a living sandbag for the time being. When the police sirens went off however, the larger man started to leave, spitting to the side and showing visual discontent at not being able to continue... When the Spacequake Alarm went off however, he shrieked like a little girl and ran headlong as fast as he could towards the nearest shelter, his masculine aura all but gone.

With nobody in the immediate vicinity of him anymore, Kasumi deemed it safe to finally assist Nigel - and using the Ratatoskr ship's ability, teleported the beaten and broken sack of meat onto the ship. He was quickly carried over to the med-bay, where he'd be trated by the doctor for his... unfortunate injuries in the field of duty...

Meanwhile, over by the stage

The punks were ready to lay down a smackdown on the poor group - until they heard the blaring noise of the cops. Realizing someone must have called the law on them, they quickly regrouped and began to hurriedly walk away, shouting things back at Suichi and the others like; We'll remember this! and You'd better watch yourselves!. Of course, when the white-haired girl stepped forth and raised her hand, causing the SPacequake alart to go off, their hasty walk turned into a panicked disaster. Running in each and every direction, their unity as a gang had all but vanished and it was now clear that it was 'every man for himself'.

Some ran and bumped into each other, or other people, or objects, some froze in place and just stared in horror and some of them vanished so fast you couldn't even believe that humans could run that fast. Whatever the case, the punks had broken apart and now the gang of miscreants had been reduced to a whimpering, screaming flock of terrorized chickens. However, it wasn't just the gang that noticed the white-haired girl's actions, other people who had yet to leave the park also became witnesses to her little display, causing them to also scream and rush for cover, or freeze in place and stare in fear and shock.

Suddenly though, the blue-haired Kyoko received a call on her cell phone. It was likely her superiors at the AST, telling her to go get suited up and that a cadre of AST agents had already been deployed and were on their way., Of course, it could just ber friends, calling to make sure she'd gotten to a shelter... She'd have to check the caller ID to find out.

The buildings of the surrounding area were now beginning to lower themselves into the ground, covered with the secure sheets of blast-resistant metal. One by one, the structures of the area submerged, into the ground, leaving the vicinity around the park looking vacant and empty. It wouldn't be long before all buildings were sunk and gone, and the spacequake could occur without casuing any severe damage, though of course, some buildings didn't have the function and were forced to remain above-ground and suffer whatever fate was coming.

"Mayumi! Snap out of it, Mayumi!" A familiar voice called to the girl who were on her knees. "If you're not going to help Suichiro, get away from there! We'll teleport you onto the ship once you get a ways away, but you have to leave first. C'mon, get up!" It was Kasumi again, instructing her field operative to pull herself together and hurry up with evacuating.

She wasn't calling Suichiro anymore though - probably because he was too close to the Spirit to be teleported and also partly because he had engaged it into a conversation. Maybe she believe he could disarm the situation? Who knows.... The crew on her ship were all on edge though, shouting and barking about readings, updates and how things were changing in the area around and within the park.

[drewccapp]

Suichi was loosing his steam when she started talking about how everyone died. He didn't like her intent to kill. He lowered his arms since the punks were already out of the park and continued to look the Spirit in the eyes. Eye contact. I have to keep eye contact. Just like Kasumi told me. He tried his best to keep his expression neutral, but he couldn't completely erase his concern. Surprisingly, he managed to keep his voice calm. "You're right. We do die. Why do you think we're suffering though?" This scythe was scary close.

Whisker walked up to Death's leg and sniffed at her fearlessly and then purred and nudged her leg. Suichi wanted to cry out at Whisker to demand what the cat was thinking, but his focus had to be on this seemingly emotionless Spirit. "How can you be confident in your judgement if you don't know everything there is to know about us?" He steadily reached a hand towards her in an inoffensive fashion. Kasumi said not to interact with them, but I have to think fast. Besides I don't have a crystal on me. "Maybe, you'd like to get to know me before you... end my life. How about we go on a date?"

His heart pounded hard. He was pretty sure that he was blushing really hard right now. This is the first girl I've ever asked out... and she's not even human.

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Kyoko answered her phone as she was running to the barracks. She was impressed that she heard it ringing. "I know. I'm on my way right now. I'll be there soon to get geared fast." She didn't feel the need to wait for a response and hung up her phone. She couldn't waste her breath talking while running.

Kyoko made it to the barracks in good time, but she still hard to change into her gear which would take time she didn't feel she had. Several other of her comrades were rushing to equip themselves as well. She nodded and greeted a few of them as she made her way to her locker and opened it after entering her code and presenting her identification. Her Combat Wiring Suit hung there ready to be put on and she quickly began to get herself changed.