Ninja's Story

Kina looked outside her apartment window. Her first week in Kirkroft had been pretty slow. She hadn't really seen anything of that great of importance, mainly because she was so busy unpacking, trying to find a job, the works. She had heard many rumors that Kirkroft was a busy city with much madness and mayhem. Kina started to doubt that anything special happened in Kirkroft. Nothing had happened right IN FRONT OF HER....

Crash. A man had dropped onto the ground from about a twenty story window. Surprisingly the man didn't scream on his way down. Right before he hit the pavement, Kina shielded her eyes.

Kina opened her eyes to see the man dead on the street, blood everywhere. Suddenly, there was some sort of flash, and Kina could see a young man with a black cloak observing the squashed body. Kina could hear him mutter something, then, the man took off again.

Kina was surprised. Shouldn't the man have drawn some attention to the incident or have called the police? Kina searched frantically for her costume in one of her suitcases. It was the first night in Kirkroft where she would put it to good use.

Once dressed, Kina ran outside next to the building with shattered glass. She thought she could hear some kind of shouting from inside the building. She turned invisible, and looked around. She made sure nobody was there as she used her wind abilities to fling herself up into the air. She quickly grabbed unto the ledge of the building, and watched inside.

It was a young woman and some greasy businessman having a conversation. She didn't make out the first half of the conversation, but the only statement she caught was,
".....So if you could pretend you didn’t see that there may be a place for you in my company. What do you say? I’ll even try to forget that disgusting ‘ass-hat’ comment you made.”

Kina was disgusted by the comment. She would have easily taken out her katana blade and thrown it at the man's neck, but she didn't want to draw any attention to the window. She didn't want the two to know that she was invisible. All the pressure was on the girl now.

Meanwhile...

The silhouette named "Darkside" got to work chasing down its counterpart. Prime used the rest of her serum to create a teleportation device that transferred her to a random location. Prime could send telepathic messages to the silhouette since it was made out of hypernatic DNA. Darkside's first mission, as it remembered, was to, "kill the idiotic human being known as brightside and anyone who tries to help him. With him out of the way, nobody in the world could stop my plan.", as quoted by Prime before she left.

Darkside looked down at the street from ontop of a building, searching for Brightside, when the man crashed down to the ground from the building, meeting his fate. The shadow figure considered mutating the man, but then realized the man was already dead, so it would be no use. Just then, Brightside appeared as if out of nowhere. Darkside followed him from on top of the buildings, looking down at the rouge from above the many buildings of Kirkcroft.

Darkside
When Prime created Darkside, she stripped the power of super speed away from the silhouette for a crazy, dark, twisted reason. Prime thought if the silhouette couldn't run or fly that fast, it would be forced to teleport repeatedly, sending the gas everywhere.

As the silhouette teleported, more and more clouds of blue gas began appearing behind it. Though, Brightside was obviously a little bit faster than the silhouette, and Darkside was trailing a little bit behind Brightside every time it teleported.

Suddenly, Darkside's completely black silhouette started to turn a charcoal gray. If Prime could have seen what was happening to her creation, she would have realized that it was a major flaw.


Ninja
Kina decided to silently climb through the window cill as she watched the girl and the businessman. She slowly pushed her way up into the building, and started to crawl on the floor, still invisible.

Suddenly, Kina felt a piercing pain in the palm of her hand. It hurt so bad, she had to keep herself from grunting. Kina looked down to see a shard of broken glass from the window stuck in her hand. Without trying to lift her hand, Kina pulled the shard out of her palm, causing her hand to bleed. However, Kina didn't know this since she was invisible, and she continued to crawl. Drops of blood were imprinted unto the floor, making a trail from the windowsill to where Kina was located.

The Nobleman: Kizakura Kamadake

While Kamadake waited for the young lady to respond his patience began to wane swiftly.” Is this impertinent girl actually ignoring me?” he thought to himself. As his eyes honed in on her he noticed red spots on the carpet that seemed to be forming a trail before his eyes. Kamadake was very observant, as most controlling tyrants are. “We are definitely not alone…” he pondered to himself. He made no obvious moves to alert the newcomer to his awareness. Suddenly the police and the press were on the scene on the ground below and bursting into Kamadake’s office.

Kamadake smirked at Nakii and gave her a quick wink. “Oops, time’s up. Offer’s off the table.” He said in a very sharp and mocking manner.

The businessman swiftly turned to face the reporters and policemen who were now entering his office. The authorities were trying to keep the press out of the room and from contaminating the crime scene with little to no success. Kamadake adjusted his glasses and his face. He began to look scared and rattled as is he was simply a harmless businessman in the middle of a threatening situation.

“Thank god you all made it here! It was horrible! This young woman broke into my office furiously demanding an explanation as to why she wasn’t hired after she applied to the company. I-I…. told my employee Mr. Jones to call security to have her escorted out of the building b-but…. She went ballistic!” Kamadake spoke as if completely out of breath and hyperventilating. “She tried to stop Mr. Jones from leaving the room and knocked him forcefully through the window! She’s not normal I tell you! Please arrest her! Arrest her NOW!!!” Kamadake exclaimed and began to face the accused as he backed away in false fear.

The police ate his story right up. They began to surround Nakii in an attempt to arrest her. Kamadake was actually excited to see how this would play out. He wondered who the mystery person in the room was and what they wanted. “I wonder how inviso-person will react.” He thought to himself. Kamadake looked so fearful yet he was beaming with laughter on the inside, given the calamity that was caused with the death of Mr. Jones, who he considered a nuisance. “Killing that fool was more trouble that putting up with his snide comments and incompetence…” Kamadake thought as he watched the police attempt to arrest Nakii.

Psionic: Yoshimoto Jiro

Jiro’s vehicle raced through the streets in an attempt to find Brightside. Using his empathic abilities, he could pick up on Brightside’s emotions of surprise and slight worry. He was some distance behind Brightside but he could finally see him and another figure shrouded in smoke up ahead. Brightside was indeed being attacked. Jiro couldn’t pick up on any emotions from Brightside’s attacker. That was indeed stranger to him. Brightside began to pick up speed and hopped from building to building. Jiro’s car couldn’t keep up with the super-fast Brightside and he couldn’t fly fast enough to keep up with him either. Jiro gunned his engine avoiding the other vehicles on the road with expert precision. He could only hope to keep up with the two.

“Perhaps I can slow that smoke covered guy down if my telekinesis can reach it. This will be tricky cause if I focus too much on trying to pull that guy out of the sky I might hit something so I’d better time this right.” Jiro said to himself. He waited until the road was clear for a bit. When he finally got a clearing he used his telekinesis to drag the dark being down onto a building top. Jiro smirked in success but was seconds away from colliding with a car. Jiro quickly phased him and his vehicle through the car in front of him and brought himself a stop at the nearby curb. He then got out of the car as quickly as he could and flew up to the roof where the dark being fell. He hoped Brightside noticed and was willing to finish the fight. Had he not wanted any help, Jiro would have gladly returned to Guang at home. This dark fellow creeped Jiro out. He still couldn’t read any emotions from him. He prepared himself for a fight. “Guang you owe me dinner and a movie after this!!” He muttered to himself.

Darkside

When Jiro had used his telekinesis on Darkside, he had slammed the silhouette into the building right after it had teleported, dropping it out of the blue gas that surrounded it.

The dark silhouette made a loud, booming, sound that seemed to be some sort of alien scream. For a couple of seconds, the silhouette started to turn a bright red, it's eyes becoming purple. It slowly started to lift it's head off the rooftop, and silently stared at Jiro, it's red eyes turning purple, then blue, then green, and finally black.

Then suddenly, the being teleported, making the biggest cloud of blue gas since the beginning of the battle. It covered the rooftop as well as the other two rooftops next to the building. Darkside was nowhere to be seen. It had fled the battle.

Ninja

“We are definitely not alone…” the greasy businessman seemed to mutter to himself. Kina wanted to curse, but she knew she had to stay silent.

“Oops, time’s up. Offer’s off the table.” the businessman said to the girl. Kina grabbed one of the smoke balls hidden in her shawl so that she could become visible again, (just in case this man decided to attack the girl) but before she could do so, dozens of reporters and cops came into the room. Kina prayed that none of them would bump into her. Fortunately nobody did.

“Thank god you all made it here! It was horrible! This young woman broke into my office furiously demanding an explanation as to why she wasn’t hired after she applied to the company. I-I…. told my employee Mr. Jones to call security to have her escorted out of the building b-but…. She went ballistic!”

“She tried to stop Mr. Jones from leaving the room and knocked him forcefully through the window! She’s not normal I tell you! Please arrest her! Arrest her NOW!!!”

The police then circled around the girl, attempting to arrest her. She resisted, grabbed a piece of glass, flicked it, and suddenly a loud, piercing noise encased the building.

Kina winced in pain, closed her eyes, and covered her ears. Before she knew it, she could feel somebody crashing into her, then falling. They started falling pretty quickly, but suddenly their speed dropped, and they landed smoothly on the pavement.

"Who are you - And what the hell do you want?" Kina then realized that the girl who was about to be arrested was speaking to her. Kina didn't bother throwing a smoke ball on the ground; the girl already knew of her invisibility power.

As soon as Kina turned visible again, she quickly got up from off the pavement, and in one swift motion, took out her katana blade and pointed it at the girl.

"LOOK MA'AM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN THERE, BUT I DO KNOW THAT A MAN JUST FELL OUT OF THE WINDOW AND CRASHED ON THE PAVEMENT! NOW I DON'T WHO'S RIGHT AND WHO'S WRONG, BUT I KNOW THAT A MAN WOULDN'T JUST CHARGE RIGHT INTO A WINDOW LIKE THAT AND FALL TO HIS DEATH!!! SOMEONE MUST HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE!!!"

Kina had a gut feeling that the girl was innocent, but then again, Kina had dealt with some pretty freaky crimes in her past. Kina looked the girl straight in the eyes as she waited for some sort of answer.

Yoshimoto Jiro

The cloud of smoke that engulfed Jiro and the surrounding rooftops was thick. Jiro quickly phased into a intangible state, it was somewhat of a natural reaction to danger for him. While intangible, Jiro was in an astral form which kept him from inhaling the possibly harmful gases. He used his telekinesis to clear the smoke away from the rooftop only to reveal that the strange being had fled. Jiro breathe a sigh of relief and tried to pick up on the presence of Brightside. “Where the heck did he go off to? After having plowed through the city looking for him too… he runs off when I make it here to help.”

Jiro pulled out his cell phone and called Guang. “Hey pretty boy it’s Yoshi.”

“Ah! Is he okay? What happened?” Guang, who sat in bed at home, inquired anxiously.

“(Sigh) Well I finally found him after a crap ton of searching. However, he was running from someone or something. I was able to stall the guy but Brightside didn’t seem to stick around to help me out much. Good thing I didn’t need it after all because whoever I stalled took off in a cloud of nasty looking gas. They obviously didn’t want my autograph.” Jiro explain tiredly.

“Oh… I see. I hope he’s alright. Well in any case, thanks a lot Jiro! I owe you one big time.” Guang replied in appreciation. He smiled while holding the phone.

“Oh you bet your fan base you owe me big time! You can be sure that I’ll collect when I get back too!” Jiro joked.

“Alright see you soon. I’ll cook something for you, so we’ll call it even okay.” Guang snickered.

“No, we’ll call dinner only half. Later firefly.” Jiro ended the call and took one last look around the rooftop, just in case Brightside was actually still around.

Kizakura Kamadake

Kamadake instantly placed a shield around himself when the sonic sound wave shot throughout the building. The sound waves bounced off of his force field. However some of the initial piercing sound waves managed to get encased in the force field just before he constructed it. His ears stung but he managed to tough it out. Many of the others in the office were incapacitated by the attack.

Kamadake looked to the others who lay on the floor and rolled his eyes in disdain. “Humans… they sometimes infuriate me…” Kamadake said with a sigh. Kamadake then looked over his left shoulder and called “TARO-KA, SABU-DAKE, my servants come to me at once!!” Kamadake called in a demanding tone befitting a prince. Two businessmen appeared quietly and bowed.

“Yes my lord.” The two responded simultaneously.

“I was you to find out anything you can on the two people that escaped here just now. I know you are aware that you should be discreet while doing this.” Kamadake spoke while not directly looking at the two.

“Consider it done.” The two replied and quickly vanished.

“I dislike the fact that the little tramp waltzed in here and thought she’d challenge me. And that other person who hid throughout it all… well, whatever. If Kirkcroft desires to produce two more enemies then so be it.” Kamadake smiled pleasantly as he fixed his tie and opened the door to his office where the media waited anxiously outside to ask questions.

Kina made a quick decision to run off from the girl. The crime would be her business, unless she asked for help.

Kina jumped high using her wind abilities and scaled a building. As Kina jumped from rooftop to rooftop, she almost forgot how much she loved streetrunning. Just then, on another rooftop, she could see a man from afar, with an expression that told Kina he was looking for something. Kina was awfully curious, so she scaled the building he was on, and watched him from over the ledge.

Yoshimoto Jiro

Jiro could see nor pick up empathically on any sign of Brightside. He let out a sigh and began to walk toward the edge of the roof closest to the side of the building where his car was located on the ground below. He took a few steps and suddenly picked up on a calm yet curious emotion nearby. He knew that someone was there possibly watching him. He wondered if the person would reveal themself. He continued a few steps forward and stopped to turn around. “Who’s there?” Jiro asked calmly.

Kina was debating in her head whether or not to reveal herself to this guy. For all she knew, he could be an evil hentchman of some sort. She was just curious as to why he was on the roof. She turned invisible, and tried to lift herself up, but her hand slipped, and she started to fall off the building. Right before she had time to think, she could feel her body collide with the car. Kina wasn't in that much pain, so she got off the car as quickly as she could. There wasn't much damage, but she had made an awfully large crack on the windshield.

"shit" kina muttered silently, and she started to run. Kina thought that she was still invisible, but forgot that when her body takes extensive damage or experiences a sudden jolt, she automatically becomes visible.

Yoshimoto Jiro

Jiro could hear something fall and then a crash below. He ran to the edge of the roof and peered over the edge. Below was a woman that fell flat into Jiro’s vehicle. “My Porsche… damn… “, Jiro groaned.



The woman flickered back into invisibility and fled most likely. Jiro levitated from the roof and descended to the street below. As Jiro descended he spotted a young man examining the damages to his expensive Porsche. After the young man examined Jiro’s car he ran off. Jiro had to breathe a sigh of relief. He had thought that boy was going to loot his car for valuables before Jiro could reach the ground. Jiro then called a tow truck to tow his car. He could have used his telekinesis to carry the car home but he was tired and didn’t feel like it. “Who was that guy?” Jiro said quietly to himself.

Kizakura Kamadake

Once Kamadake finished speaking with all of the policemen and reporters who swamped him with questions of the previous events, he got into his car and left for the day. He went to his condominium and closed the door. He let out a sigh. “Gosh this city annoys me. Why must it be so difficult to dispose of trash in this town?” Kamadake looked toward the large glass window and saw a man float from the rooftop of a building across the way. He rushed toward the window to get a closer look. He rushed down to the first floor lobby and stepped outside to find the man. There he saw Jiro on his cellphone calling a tow truck for his smashed car. He was sure that this man was the once who floated from the rooftop surrounded by a pink aura.

Kamadake approached Jiro curiously. “Excuse me sir, do you need some help?” Kamadake asked with a raised eyebrow. The closer he got to Jiro the more he realized how attractive he was. Kamadake smiled as he waited for Jiro’s reply.

“Oh, I’m alright. Something crazy crushed my car just now. It must have been some super powered maniac. This city is filled with them. Thanks for asking though.” Jiro responded cheerfully. He didn’t want to let a stranger know about his abilities if he didn’t have to.

“Waiting on a tow truck huh? Those things take forever. I live over in that condominium across the street, why don’t you come wait at my place while the truck is on its way? I promise I won’t bite.” Kamadake smiled and chuckled. He was enamored with Jiro and wanted to know more about him. Was Jiro a hero or a villain? Was Jiro nice or annoying? Kamadake intended to find out.

“That’s really nice of you. Well… sure I’ll take you up on your offer.” Jiro responded with a smile. “I’m Yoshimoto Jiro, nice to meet you!” The two began to make their way to Kamadake’s condo.

“I’m Kizakura Kamadake. I see that you introduce yourself last name first as well.” Kamadake began to surf for information.

“Ah yes. That’s because I’m Japanese. It’s a habit that I’ve never been able to break. And You?” Jiro responded cheerfully.

“Me? Oh, I am Korean but I grew up in Japan so I’m practically Japanese. So I know what you mean.” Kamadake lied to Jiro. He wasn’t even from the planet Earth, he was from the planet Azaka. However he heavily favored the Korean ethnicity of the planet Earth so he simply told people he was Korean. His name sounded heavily Japanese so he crafted a story about him growing up in Japan to explain his Japanese sounding name. He felt lucky that Earth had a couple of ethnicities that aided in concealing his true identity.

(Kamadake’s Condo:)



The two bonded relatively quickly. They went up to Kamadake’s apartment and Kamadake offered Jiro a glass of wine. They sat and talked over wine. “So Jiro, What do you do for a living?” Kamadake smiled as he crossed his legs.

“I’m a producer of television and music. I also do some P.R. and managing as well. I currently manage and produce the singer Hanabi. Have you heard of him?” Jiro asked and then took a sip of wine from the expensive glass.

“I thought you were a man of means! You look it indeed. I have heard of that singer. I actually wanted to attend the concert you put on the other day but I was a bit busy. As for me I own the Tech-company Kamakura. I am the company founder and head CEO.” Kamadake sipped more wine and loosened his tie a bit. He was enjoying his conversation with Jiro quite a bit.

“Wow! I thought your name was familiar! You like own half of Kirkcroft with your company’s connections! Who’d have thought that I would be drinking wine with a billionaire!?” Jiro exclaimed as he almost choked on his wine.

“You flatter me too much Jiro! Is it okay if I call you by your first name?” Kamadake finished his glass of wine and began to pour a second. “Would you like more wine?” Kamadake tilted the bottle in Jiro’s direction as he inquired with a bright smile.

“Sure, you can call me Jiro, and I’ll call you Kamadake. Also yes I would love more wine.” Jiro smiled cheerfully in return.

Jiro was having such a good time that he almost ignored his empathic sense. He picked up on a strong sense of excitement from Kamadake as well as a serious curiousness. He began to pay more attention to the emotions his empathic sense informed him of from Kamadake. Jiro could sense that Kamadake was increasingly enamored with him and he personally didn’t have a problem with that. Jiro was growing quite fond of Kamadake as well.

“I’m really glad that we met Jiro. I’m going to go out on a limb here so I hope you don’t take this negatively but here goes. I like you a lot, both personality wise and physically…. I would much like for the two of us see ‘more’ of each other…” Kamadake began to approach Jiro closer while staring him in the eyes.

Jiro was surprised and excited. “I… I would like that as well...” Jiro hesitantly responded. This Kamadake guy is really taking charge, he thought to himself. Jiro’s empathic sense could feel the intensity of Kamadake’s emotional state. Kamadake was ready to devour him and Jiro wasn’t quite sure if he was ready to go that far that fast.

Kamadake leaned in and kissed Jiro on the lips. Right before it could go any further Jiro’s cellphone rang. The Japanese pop song ringtone startled both men leaving both gasping in surprise. Jiro scrambled to answer the phone while Kamadake sat back down with a seriously annoyed expression. It was the tow truck driver who called to let Jiro know that he was there and ready to take the car and Jiro home. Kamadake was so internally angry with the tow truck driver that he wanted to go downstairs an crush him for ruining such a moment. He took a deep breath and smiled.

“So I’ll walk you down. Better yet, to keep from having to leave you sitting with a possibly awkward tow truck driver I’ll drive you home myself. The truck can follow us. How about that?”, Kamadake suggested.

“Sure I would love that.” Jiro replied. He was a little glad that the call put a halt to all of that previous momentum. The two headed down to the lobby and to the tow truck and prepared for the ride to Jiro’s condo.

Kamadake looked viciously at the dull tow truck driver. He could imagine himself crushing the oblivious man to death in revenge. While he fantasized he felt relief and a very pleasant smile crept across his face. “Ready to roll Jiro?”

“sure, things are all set now.” Jiro replied with a smile.

The group reached Jiro’s place and after the tow truck left, Jiro and Kamadake exchanged numbers. Kamadake pulled off and drove swiftly to catch up with the tow truck. He projected a force field in front of the truck and it collided head on into the force field. The driver managed to avoid harm but the truck was totaled. “Serves you right you little gutter snipe…” Kamadake muttered to himself as he drove home.

Kina could sense that somebody was behind her. She stopped in her tracks, waiting for the mysterious person to catch up to her, and then threw a smoke ball on the ground. It let out a white gas that made it extremely hard to see Kina. She changed to visibility right before the smoke cleared away, giving the effect that she had teleported. She looked at the young boy with piercing eyes.

"Why are you following me? What do you want?" Kina said to the young boy, her hand on her blade, just in case. She could tell he was clever enough to follow her footprints, so he may have had a feeling of what was coming to him.
"If you have something to say, spit it out now. I've got important research to do" Kina said. She wasn't lying, when she got back to her apartment, she was going to do research on the man she had encountered earlier.

"...Assist me? What are you on about?"
Kina pointed her blade down at the ground like the boy had told her. Kina didn't trust this guy. He seemed very shady and a tad bit overconfident. But, if he could help her with the incident that had happened before, then maybe he could be useful.

The boy started to feel around Kina's arms. Kina hadn't noticed it, but her arm was covered with wounds and blood. Most likely from colliding with the car.
"would you like to tell me about that car accident? Did you fall, or were you attacked?" the boy said. Kina realized that the boy must have noticed Kina's fall. Kina couldn't help but be a little bit embarrassed. As Kina talked, she could feel the boy rubbing down her arm with a cotton ball.

"I actually just fell. I'm probably the most uncoordinated person in the world!" she said. She didn't know if she should mention seeing the other guy on the roof, but she decided to take the conversation one question at a time.

The boy started to wrap her arm up. After she found out that his name was jokester, she replied, "nice to meet you. I'm ninja. I'm glad I'm not the only villain here. Thanks for umm...this" she said, motioning to her wrapped arm. "do you have any more questions? If not, I've got some things to ask you."

(ooc-meant to post this a LOT earlier, but every time i tried to write this, something random would avoid me from doing that. let's hope this works)

Kina couldn't help but laugh at the Jokester's...joke. Everything about it applied to her. Kina thought that maybe she should make an alliance with this guy. After all, Kina didn't know what to expect in Kirkcroft, and just in case something bad where to happen, it would be good to have someone to rely on.

" i got a few more questions but yo have some to so.... hows about instead of looking suspicious we take these outfits off go to a diner & ill answer any question you have for me? , Sound good " he said. This struck a nerve in Kina. She didn't like the part with revealing their identities.

"Woahhhh....chill down hot shot. Look, we just met like, three minutes ago. I don't know if i can trust you, and you REALLY don't know if you can trust me. Then again, i do owe you for your hospital service there...."
Kina thought hard, then came to a conclusion.
"Tell ya what, we'll meet up somewhere...let's say the Kirkcroft central park....at six.....under the willow by the lake. We'll get the question stuff done, and if i trust you, i'll tell you more about myself. Deal?"
Kina held her hand out for the jokester to shake.

" sound's like a plan ill meet you there , but just so you know you can trust me "

Kina held in a laugh as she saw him disarm his joy buzzer. She had a gut feeling it was coming. The jokester left and vanished in mid air. Kina sighed, looked around a bit, then turned invisible herself. As she free ran back to her apartment, she made a mental layout in her head of what she was going to do.

Once Kina got back to her apartment, she took off her black outfit, unveiling her white tanktop and black shorts, and turned on her laptop. She sat on her bed, her legs criss-crossed between the laptop, and she silently said, "Now let's see if we can find out who that businessman was...."

Kina started by entering the coordinates of the street near her unto google maps. She found out that the building was owned by a company called Kamakura. She then entered Kamakura on to the search bar, and after pressing enter, Kina didn't like what she saw.

The first ten results were all about the incident that had happened earlier in the day. A photographer had snapped a picture of the two girls right after they had jumped out of building, and now Kina was wanted by the police. "Great, a week in this damn city, and already i got people wanting to catch me" she said silently to herself. Although Kina couldn't bear to see all the news about her, she did manage to find out that Kamakura was a tech related company, and Kamakade Kizakura, the CEO and founder of the company, was the greasy businessman all along.

Kina didn't really do much the rest of the day. She had made plans earlier with her apartment neighbor to go out to eat at eight, but knowing her neighbor, she would probably cancel it. (Kina's neighbor was one of those people who loved to make plans, but was too lazy to plan them)
Instead of keeping on her tank top and shorts, she put casual clothes on before putting on her costume, just in case. She looked at the clock; it was a half hour until six. Kina grabbed her keys, and headed out.

Kina could see the jokester below her with two ice cream cones in his hand. Would they be another part of his jokes? who knew, but for some reason, Kina found it amusing.
"6:00" she could hear him say from below. Kina quickly and jumped out of the tree, became visible after spending 10 minutes invisible in the willow tree, and tapped behind Jokester's shoulder.
"Boo." she said from behind him.

Kamadake returned home and took a shower. He sighed as he sat down in his living room in his silk black bathrobe. He looked over at the bottle of wine that he and Jiro previously finished earlier. “Why must you have been so infectious…?” Kamadake sighed. “Goddamn tow truck driver. I shouldn’t have stopped at destroying his truck. I should have iced him off too. But then again, getting rid of that Jones fool earlier caused sooo much drama… Look at me now still talking about someone I couldn’t stand to look at for a second longer, that I knocked him through the window of a 20 story building. I suppose life has hit an all-time low for me.” said aloud to him-self in a depressed manner.

He went into his bedroom and put on a pair of black pajama pants and flopped down shirtless on the couch back in the living room. “Why did I have to become stranded on this backwater planet? And I just simply don’t have the means to fix my ship. I can’t even pay to have someone from earth work on it because they’d find out who I really am. A prince of a planet being demoted to a simple Multi-millionaire businessman… I have sunk low indeed… “, Kamadake sulked while staring out of the window at the city.

Kamadake looked over to the door of his bedroom where seemingly there was no one there. “Taro-ka, you’ve come back to me, hopefully with something informative to tell me.” Kamadake spoke to the still bedroom air. A tall man appeared in a flash of light.

(Taro-ka Image)


“I bare news regarding one of the young women that were present during today’s event at the office sire.” Taro-ka said as he bowed. His voice was deep and stern.

“Good. Well out with it Taro-ka.” Kamadake replied plainly.

Taro-ka stepped forward, “her name is Ninja, she is formerly a rouge operative. She seems to demonstrate powers of invisibility and I believe wind generation. However I am unable to determine the extent of these abilities or if more exist. I’m sorry to come up so short-handed sire.” Taro-ka apologized.

“No matter Taro, that’s good enough for now. Pray tell how did you run your intelligence? I’m curious.” Kamadake sat up and turned to face Taro-ka.

“I used our company’s satellite technologies and monitoring system to compare the sightings and observations made within.” Taro-ka replied with a raised eyebrow.

“How resourceful, and where is my other guardian? Subu-dake?” Kamadake looked at Taro-ka.

(Sabu-dake image)


“I’m here sire.” Sabu-dake appeared after his heavy yet relaxed voice echoed in the room.

“I was wondering about you. I’m sure you have things to say.” Kamadake smiled while waiting for Sabu-dake’s response.

“I have finally completed an analysis of our ship’s damages. The ship Muroyoi is damaged at its energy generation core. It was, as you know, a self-sufficient system. It produced its own energy and was completely self-powered. However the blast fired at Muroyoi during the incident with the Kirkcroft military, was strange. It neutralized the energy generation core’s generator cell activity. The ship is still alive but won’t be able to produce its own energy now however it can still hold energy if gathered.” Sabu-dake looked down to the floor. “I don’t think we will be able to go home sire.” Sabu was sad he didn’t mind the earth or kirkcroft but it wasn’t his home.

“Those wretched… what did that girl call me earlier? Oh yes, ‘ass hat’. The Kirkcroft military are a bunch of wretched ass hats…” Kamadake bit his lip. He was pondering.

“Well I suppose this means we should get used to this city and planet sire.” Taro began to get comfortable with the idea.

“Absolutely not!” Kamadake snapped. “You both have the ability to call forth malicious spirits from anything do you not?” Kamadake asked calmly.

“Yes sire.” Both Sabu and Taro responded in unison.

“Those malicious spirits specialize in sucking the life energy out of things do they not?” Kamadake continued.

“Y-yes sire.” The two replied nervously. They were afraid of what their master would ask them to do.

“Well now. Then I believe we have a way to repair our ship then. You two shall conjure up spirits, but only one creature at a time, we don’t want to draw too much attention to ourselves. We need a mass amount of energy for the ship’s core to function properly so it will take time. However, we shall suck the life energy from people of this city one isolated incident at a time until we have enough energy to power our ship again.” Kamadake smiled widely, he waited for the two guardians to respond. This scheme played well into Kamadake’s goal of getting back at Kirkcroft city for marooning him on the planet.

The two looked unhappy with this plan. They weren’t really in favor of killing masses of people. They didn’t mind humans and saw them as more frail versions of Azakians. “Um… I’m not sure if the spirits of this planet will obey us.” Sabu replied in a cautious manner. This was Sabu’s attempt at getting out of having to hurt people.

“Don’t deny me. I know you both have the power to do this.” Kamadake snipped sharply.

“We’d do anything for you sire. We care for you most of all. If we can’t persuade you to another less violent course of action we will simply follow your decision. If Kirkcroft’s energy must feed our ship, then so be it. Right, Sabu-dake?” Taro spoke with resolve in his voice.

“Yes Taro, you are right. We will follow your plan to a tee sire.” Sabu confirmed.

“Good. I can always count on you two. Taro-ka, Sabu-dake, you’re my only friends and always will be.” Kamadake spoke affectionately. He was indeed a lonely prince. He beckoned for the two to come closer and they both hugged him. “I don’t feel like being alone tonight. Sleep in here with me.” Kamadake laid down and let out a sigh.
The prince cherished his two guardians and they had been together since they were young. Kamadake used the two for protection, affection, and even as an added conscience. Sabu and taro went into their rooms and changed into their night clothes and returned to their master’s room. They both climbed into Kamadake’s bed and drank wine until they all fell asleep.

"are you gonna help me up?" the jokester said to ninja with a devilish look across his face. Ninja looked around his hand, seeing if there were any joy buzzers still there, and finally helped him up. She picked the little duck up from jokester's head, petted it and said, "i didn't think you would get THAT scared" and placed the duck back on the ground. It waddled back to the pond.

Kina thought that the pond at night was the best place to discuss something secret. At around six, people started to leave the park, and nobody really ventured to the pond anyway. "Alright. Question time. Ask me anything." Kina said, sitting on the grass, and gently blowing a leaf in midair using her wind abilities.

"Alright" Kina said, thinking a while before saying the question. She wasn't quite sure how to word it.
"I'm assuming you know a lot about Kirkcroft....do you know anything about a man named Kamakade Kizakura?" she asked.

Jiro returned home and let out a sigh after shutting the door. “Wow… what just happened?” He said to himself quietly. He was somewhat overwhelmed with all that had happened in one day. Guang’s concert, the bank robbery Hanabi stopped, the duel with Brightside, helping Brightside which resulted in Hanabi being knocked unconscious, being begged by Guang to help Brightside after finding him, helping Brightside, having his car windshield smashed, meeting a handsome billionaire, the billionaire came on to him, and finally making it home. He was beat.

“Hey you finally made it back! What took you so long? Your food is getting cold…” Guang greeted Jiro who was standing with his back pressed against the front door. “Are you okay?”

Jiro looked up and let out another sigh as he walked past Guang and tapped him on the cheek with his hand. “I will live after a long nap oh and I’m taking tomorrow off of work.” Jiro replied. He walked over to the dining-room table and picked up his plate of food so he could microwave it.

“Wait, I have that K-wave radio interview tomorrow. You’re not going with me?” Guang replied as he leaned against the entryway to the dining room.

“No, I’m not. You can handle yourself firefly. I’ll call my secretary, Mitsuko, to go with you and take over for me.” Jiro replied as he slowly ate dinner. “And by the way this is very good. Did you learn to cook while in Japan or in Britain? I think Japan because I hated the food in the UK.” Jiro added with a mouthful of food.

“Okay, something obviously happened out there after you called me. So out with it already!”, Guang exclaimed. He sat down at the table across from Jiro.

“Fine, I didn’t really feel like talking about it but okay…” Jiro swallowed his mouthful and began. “After getting off the phone with you I could pick up on the presence of someone else. They were on the room watching me but I think they were invisible or something. When I called out to her she got startled and fell down on my Porsche so needless to say that my lovely car is totaled. The woman became visible for a sec and then ran off. Some guy ran over to examine my car but then he ran off too.” Jiro Explained rather flatly.

“Oh… Wow… sorry to Hear that Jiro. If I hadn’t asked you to track Brightside down and help him this wouldn’t have happened. Sorry… I’ll pay for the repairs. I promise.” Guang felt bad.

“Well you haven’t heard the full story yet. While waiting for the tow truck to get there a really good looking guy walked up and asked me if I needed help. I found out that the guy was Kizakura Kamadake, the owner of Kamakura industries! He and I had wine at his place while I waited for the truck. He actually came on to me!!” Jiro exclaimed.

Guang sat with his mouth dropped open. “He wha-what?”

“Yeah, he’s gay! And he’s totally into me! Isn’t that awesome? I thought that me hitting the big 25 was the end of having it come easy looks wise, but I suppose I supposed incorrectly. So he drove me home when the truck arrived and we exchanged numbers.” Jiro smiled.

“Wow… I’m actually a little jealous…” Guang replied as he somewhat stared off into space.

“What? Why? Awe… Firefly, I’m still going to pay attention to you! It’s my job to do so!” Jiro used his telekinesis to slide Guang’s chair over to him. He placed his arm around Guang’s waist pulling him closer.

Guang placed his hand in front of Jiro’s face and a bright flash of white light beamed from it. Stunning Jiro and temporarily blinding him. “UGH! GOOD NIGHT!” Guang huffed in Japanese and stomped off to bed.

Jiro closed his eyes tightly and flinched. “AHHH…. Firefly why!? Hey don’t go! I’m sorry Guang it was only a joke!” Jiro called after Guang in Japanese. He sat grabbing at the air because he couldn’t see a thing. He stopped looking for Guang and sat still. “Why didn’t my empathic sense pick up on his disposition quicker than that? Geeze power fail that time…” Jiro sighed.

Guang sat down on his bed. His face was puffy with annoyance. He over the years grew very fond of Jiro and at this point somewhat had a crush on him. He was really glad to be living with Jiro and the two somewhat acted couple-ish without actually being one. He laid down and closed his eyes in an attempt to force himself to sleep.