Chess shifted into a cat form as they prowled the streets going from vendor to vendor and secretly stealing food enough to fill their belly yet not enough that if they came back they would have leftovers in a sense, which hearing rumors about a giant explosion plus a possibly demon sighting did spike their curiosity after all its not everyday the world’s might be ending soon and you always wanted to be on the winning side for one or whoever had food.
***
Kassandra was scrolling through the books in the library with one arm already full of books on demons from a variety of mythologies that may or may not be useful in either identifying who ‘Hunter’ really was or possibility of finding his weakness that could help them defend and fight against him, all myths held some facts or truths to them despite some being way out of the box you could find some patterns if you were looking for it.
“Sure thing,” Jason replied with a grin with him taking one of the elbow padding’s and putting it on the kid’s elbow, “Have you always worn this hoodie?” He asked which so far the kid seemed not be clingy with the red hooded jacket yet always wore it from what he could tell and there wasn’t a smell so he figured it must’ve been washed at some point or had air fresheners in the pockets he couldn’t really tell. “Heh, maybe your nickname can be Red.”
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
"Well, obviously you don't know that yet," Sora said, shrugging. "So talking about hypotheticals won't do any good." A good way to avoid answering directly, for now at least. What would he do if he knew where Hunter was? Sora really didn't have an answer to that yet. Honestly, as angry as he got at the thought of what had happened, he really did feel like talking. There had to be a reason for everything. At the same time, talking sounded like a dumb idea.
Shaking his head, Sora did laugh, though. "But actually, knowing how trouble follows me around, chances are I'm gonna be the unfortunate soul running into him, anyway," he joked, winking at Daniel again. "Guess I gotta call you as the firefighter then, hm~?"
Himiko tilled her head to the side at that message. It was clear what Rikki wanted from her, but at the same time, it didn't sound like Rikki's texting. What had that idiot gotten into this time? Biting her lip thoughtfully, she replied, 'okaaaay will do. does that mean we're not gonna meet up like we usually do? you never miss thaaat'. It was a straight up lie, at least the second part of her message. They didn't have any set times or dates to meet up, but Himiko wanted to see what she may be dealing with.
Elizabeth jumped as the phone got a message back, which resulted in Rikki laughing at her. Elizabeth read the message out loud to him for him to decide a response. "Apologize and just tell her no." Rikki never apologized, he may have been messing with the huntress a bit. 'sorry no. ive got some important business to attend.' She ended up writing. If she had't have written sorry it actually would've sounded like Rikki being avoidant.
Post by The Angry Unicorn on Dec 19, 2018 1:47:27 GMT -5
Jacob looked at his hoodie, then back up. "Doesn't everyone where their clothing all the time?" As far as he could remember, he has always wore this red hoodie, he heard a few people calling him Red, but never did he realize why. From all his days scavenging through dumpsters it never seemed to loose its brightness.
"Believe what you will, I believe the hypotheticals are quite important." Daniel cracks a smirk, more or less confident in his victory. "Well, I more or lessmight know where he is..." He was of course bluffing, but he has a good idea of how to find out, several ways perhaps, maybe not the demon directly, but enough to gather clues. But in all seriousness this might get them into deep trouble, whether that is Eliza or Hunter.
"911 what's your emergency, whats that? You angered a demon? Well good luck to you." He replies with a rolls his eyes. Well, he better not do it.
Well, that settled it. There was no way this was Rikki. Himiko pursed her lips at that, thinking it over. There was no way Rikki would tell her 'sorry', so somebody else had his phone. While she figured that the 'order' to tell the others had come from him, somebody else had the phone for sure. She sighed as she got up to pour herself some more orange juice, leaning against the counter as she thought it over.
Then, finally, she decided to at least try something by pressing the call button to call him. Maybe it'd freak somebody out.
"Do you now? That's very interesting. Why didn't you tell Eliza if you might know?" Sora hummed, moving a little closer. He pouted a little at Daniel's other comment, then threw an arm around his shoulders. "C'mon, that sounds mean. I totally wouldn't anger anybody on purpose-" His smile told otherwise, "-so it really wouldn't be my fault!"
He dramatically put a hand up to his heart, pretending to be sad. "I can't believe you wouldn't help me, Daniel. That's so sad to hear. After all we've been through together~"
Elizabeth jumped again as the phpne startes ringing, than her face morphed to annoyance. She was so not dealing with this today. Just as she was about to press ignore, rikki swiped the ohone away from her and answered it. "Hey, caught in some crazy stuff but I am okay." Within a moment elizabeth had her gun drawn and trained on him. "Oh relax shes not even a part of anything. I wasnt going to tell anyone in my gang directly, they would over think and do something stupid." The huntress looked very confused. "Yeah, guess im now a witness for some hunter stuff. Plus they don't like me. Its pretty funny how nervous this woman is of me." He sat down in Elizabeth's desk chair. Definitely a power move.
“Well Yeah people wear clothes, just that people tend to wear different clothes for either different occasions or if clothes are dirtied...” Jason explained the best way he could which he only figured since he hadn’t seen the kid change clothes and the red hoodie seemed rather clean for someone his sister picked up from the streets however she could have taken it and cleaned it yet he wasn’t sure, “Honestly I only change clothes when Ka says they smell.” He shrugged which he was telling the truth sometimes he would wear clothes for a week straight until his sister would ‘threaten’ to get the apartment’s fire hose on him and she got pretty close to doing it a couple of times or throwing a bucket of soapy water at him that also happened.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Himiko couldn't help but sigh at that. "Okay, so, you got into a lot of trouble again," she said, shaking her head. It reminded her of something else, though. "Ah, guess that means I can't actually talk to you about this one thing then, though." It would mean that Asher would have to keep Hazel with him a little longer, at least.
"Also, please don't annoy them so much that they kill you off," she added as an afterthought.
Post by The Angry Unicorn on Dec 20, 2018 16:38:15 GMT -5
"Well, not yet." Daniel said with a smirk. "I have an idea to find out though." He looked back at the entrance. "Elizabeth must keep records of this? Of each individual I mean- such as emergency contacts, if she didn't then how come she didn't call us? She must have a house address as well... he couldn't have lived on the streets, that would be too suspicious already." And would easily get himself caught. "You follow?"
"O-Oh! I guess I clean myself too often." He laughs, all the nights of grooming finally paid off! Though his fur shines, doesn't mean that he would get a good night sleep- but this would make it easier! He then turned to look at the skateboard wearily. "How do I get on?"
(The Angry Unicorn XD Jacob’s Too adorable, should we ‘timeskip’ the skateboarding lesson?)
Jason gave a simply nod which at least he didn’t have to worry about getting a bucket of soapy water thrown/or dumped on him one time he had been late for school and his beloved sister poured ice cold water while he was sleeping that resulted in a small prank war between the two before calling it a draw when he almost set the house on fire while trying to make something he saw online and she painting his room glow in the dark pink which he snapped out of that lovely memory to reply to Jacob. “Oh yeah, you just put one foot on the board, if you need to hold my hand or that handrail you can.”
***
Kassandra sat down at her desk and pooled over the various books with notes sticking out of them for references to a demon, demon’s weaknesses and anything that could connect really which was a lot. “Let’s see..... salt? Holy water?” She mumbled to herself with a pen armed in one hand and a notepad in the other which she had expected there to be many different or similar stories which she did love stories don’t get her wrong but she was starting to wonder if she was reading the same book twice, she briefly turned her laptop on for any incident reports in the area to take her mind off of demon-stalkinghunting books which she clicked one file labeled ‘Red’ that had come in possibly a couple of days ago however upon reading the file did her eyes grow wide in shock. “Ah...... well.....” she of course had been curious about the boy she took in and then left at home with her brother who was a skeptic when it came to the ‘supernatural’ side of things yet she never didn’t expect that Jacob was a werewolf then again that would explain why she thought he acted like a puppy at times. Do I report this? Geez... what will Elizabeth say? He’s only just a kid....Or Jacob say? He probably has a fear of hunters...What is protocol?! she thought to herself already forgetting the demon studies to her new werewolf friend who she took in.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
"I've been to his place before," Sora replied, cocking his head to the side. "But wouldn't it be pretty dumb to go there again after what he did? Would be the first place I'd check if I was searching for somebody, after all." They wouldn't need to steal anything off Eliza or the system. Sora had been over at Hunter's place a few times, but he doubted it would lead to anything.
"But we could go check there, yeah~" he said, then suddenly smirked. "I'll rely on you to protect me from scary demons, then~"
(Elizabeth would want Jacob reported to her just to know but hes a good boy so shed be like "hes fine. Especially if he seems new cause then you can help him stay good.")
"No promises." He joked before the phone was yanked away from him. "Enough of that." Wouldve been the last thing himiko wouldve heard before the line was cut-off. The huntress was looking quite angry with Rikkis behavior. But just as she did that, her own phone rang. "Roth here." She introduced herself. Her demanor changed immediately as she was informed of a fire statting at one of the employees homes. "Thank You for the notification." She couldnt stand to be on the phone, she ended that call quickly. That did not seem like an accident. "When its all cleared out were searching there."
Post by The Angry Unicorn on Dec 21, 2018 16:21:37 GMT -5
"Pffff I thought you were the one who wanted to find him." Daniel laughs, "I don't really without information, but his house is definitely a place to find them... and so is the destroyed ring." He looked back into the office. "They must have something about his ring right? Before it was destroyed he didn't have that urge to destroy the world, if he wanted to he could've taken the ring off any time... what else is the ring suppressing?" He mused out loud.
"Oh good God no." He looked back at him with a smirk and a frown combined. "As epic as it is for you to see two uppoosing elements battling each other," He cocks an eyebrow. "That usually results in destroying half the house and what little evidence it hold in it- besides we don't even know if he can be destroyed.... yet."
"Like this?" Red slowly got on, but the skateboard moved a little and he freaked out and hopped back off. "Yes please." He almost laughs, support is much welcomed with these things, and then he slowly managed to get both feet on without skidding half way across the park.
Sora frowned at Daniel's last words. "Everything can be destroyed somehow," he replied slowly. "The question is just if it's really necessary to do." Yes, sure, Hunter had talked about burning everything to the ground, but Sora didn't like killing anybody. While it probably did sound stupid, he wanted to talk to him and figure out what had happened. There had to be a way to get him off that path, right?
This was exactly why he was never sent on missions where eliminating the threat was the only solution, because he'd put himself into unnecessary danger as he tried solving it differently. Still, he nodded, "Okay, let's hit up Hunter's place before Eliza notices what we're doing," he finally said. "Follow me~"
Post by The Angry Unicorn on Dec 22, 2018 7:19:46 GMT -5
"Well, until we know, we'll just label him as- 'almost indestructible'. " He shrugs, "Well, if you want to put it into a 'philosophical' perspective there really isn't any necessity to do anything," He had a guess that Sora was a... more pacifist hunter, but pacifist only get anyone as far.
"Lead the way." He gestures, he checked that his rapier is still secured next to him- good, hopefully, there won't be any trouble.