Everissa's breath was even and measured as she jogged. With no work today she was exercising to keep in shape, a necessity for being a hero of any sort. The shurikens in a pouch at her side bounced unevenly, but they were a comforting presences, for more than one reason. Though she wasn't actively 'hero-ing' right now she still couldn't bear to be without a blade of some kind, and being alone on her run meant she was always at risk for something happening to her, especially where she lived. Everissa turned down an alleyway and her footsteps came to a crawl as she heard arguing ahead.
A large angry looking man was standing outside a taxi glaring the driver who was holding a gun, not quite pointed at him. A black body-bag on the ground beside the taxi. They seemed to be arguing about the bag, which Everissa noted was moving slightly. Was there someone inside? Everissa opened her pouch, stuck a shuriken in the wooden door next to her and approached the men with a shuriken in her hand, not visible to the two men. The man outside started as he saw her and said angrily, "Just keep your trap shut and get out of here, or else the Community
will come for you."
The taxi driver looked back at her before shaking his head and driving off. Everissa took a deep breath and spoke,
"What's in the bag?" She was nervous, her fingers running loosely over the edges of the shuriken she held at her side.
The man snarled at her,
"Get lost girly." He hefted the bag under one arm and began walking off. Everissa frowned and said more firmly.
"I said what's in the bag!" She took a few steps after him and stopped as he turned around and glared at her. He roughly dropped the bag and cracked his knuckles. He was at least a good foot taller than her and had muscles to match. In just about any kind of fight Everissa would lose normally. But she wasn't normal.
"Fuck I'm in a hurry but I could break some bones real fast." He said with a leer as he swaggered towards her. Everissa smiled and her hand flicked upward, sending the hidden shuriken towards the man's face. She'd never had any sort of practice throwing blades before, but ever since she'd triggered the skills came naturally so the weapon flew with frightening speed. Her target flinched backwards and raised his hand in defense, letting out a yelp of pain.
"The fuck is this!" He said angrily and removed the blade tossing it to the ground before looking back at Everissa.
Or where she was anyway. In the moment his gaze had been shifting from the shuriken he'd tossed to the ground she had teleported to it, grabbing the weapon carefully and planning her next move. She didn't want to kill him, just knock him out or inflict enough damage to make him leave. So the next thing the thug felt was a sudden kick his ankle followed by a smashing force applied to opposite side of his head. The unexpected combination of events caused him to crash to the ground. Whether it was the blow to the head from behind or his violent collision to the ground her victim didn't get back up.
Everissa stood there for a moment, trembling from the adrenaline still rushing through her, waiting. After a good twenty seconds she turned around and quickly moved over to open the body bag to be met with a fist flying out. Still energized from her short fight, Everissa blinked backwards to the shuriken she'd planted earlier, also checking to make sure the baddie was still down.
"Hey I'm here to help." She called out, surprised by the sudden attack. The blonde women in the bag shucked her entrapment away and crawled backwards to lean against the closest wall. In doing so Everissa observed she had a poorly bandaged wound on her left thigh. Everissa approached slowly and stopped around 5 feet away, sitting down and holding her palms up.
"I'm just here to help, what's your name?" Everissa asked softly.
"A-Alice." came the shaky reply.
Everissa smiled and continued speaking,
"I'm Everissa, I don't live very far from here and I have a first aid kit that I could use to fix up your leg. Or I can just give you some money and make sure you get back to wherever you live safely." Everissa stayed where she was and continued being very passive as Artemis seemed terrified of everything.
Alice swallowed nervously and her eyes darted all over the place before finally fixating on Everissa as she seemed to think it over.
"P-please?"Everissa stood up and offered Alice a hand up. Everissa cautiously wrapped an arm around Alice to support her and the two of them slowly made their way back to Everissa's apartment.
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