Kali Goes Hunting (open!)

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The Harbinger of Chaos was hunting. It was a new city, a new territory to terrorize. And it was likely that, with all of the media hype and panic, everyone would blame it on the aliens instead! How amazingly awsome was that?!

Kali wasn’t like many villains who wanted to see her name in lights or printed in the paper. In fact, she’d probably blown up more camera and film than anything else in ensuring her face was not ever replicated and so identifiable. She was perfectly happy to be the unknown agent of chaos and just sit back, relax, and watch the show. The only problem was she was still trying to find that channel to tune into in order to watch said show. That was why she was down by the docks.

It was twilight, and the western sky was still orange against the creeping violet. Rather pretty, were it not for all of the container ships and cranes blocking half the view. A good bit of her wandering around had been focused on simply finding a better vantage point to survey the area from. If she had to wait until she found someone, she could at least get a pretty view! At least she knew she couldn’t be too conspicuous in a town full of aliens and heroes and villains, dressed in her uniform as she was. Well, maybe the two long sheaths for her scimitars fastened to her back were unusual, but hey, she wasn’t about to go anywhere alone without some form of sharp, pointy protection. That was why she was here in the first place.

The police had already arrested several members of a gang she had been with temporarily. They were discovered after their hideout had been… mysteriously destroyed in a big old explosion. Hey, it wasn’t her fault that they didn’t tell her about the old dynamite in the basement… She only (intentionally) collapsed part of the building. A bit surprising when the blast became about three times bigger than planned. But this left her again without her “bodyguard,” someone who had the physical strength to complement her superpower.

So she was on the hunt for a new bodyguard. Hopefully one who was just the right mix of super strong, protective, and dim-witted to not argue or fight her, but still be of use. That was the problem with the gang she first met up with – the dimwits couldn’t have worked their way out of a cardboard box. Even a small one.

Perching herself on a some boxes near what looked like a large, potentially secretly active warehouse, Kali decided to wait for a few minutes to see what might be going on. She was cocky, not stupid; if there were other super-powered people in this city, she wasn’t about to engage with them completely blind. Not without her strongman backup. One hand reached up to flip stray strands of black hair back behind her shoulder and her scimitars, Kali looking remarkably comfortable and self-satisfied in her two-piece red and black uniform. One leg was crossed over the other while shifting the skirt farther up her leg, an arm situated a little behind to support her as she idly studied the nails on her free hand as she waited for… something to happen. Given this was a city where heroes could come sweeping by any moment when she was waiting to find fellow villains, she seemed remarkably calm. Collected.

Mostly, she was just bored. Wasn’t there an alien invasion going on or something? Kali had been in the city for a few weeks already. Shouldn’t SOMETHING big be exploding by now?

[Richard]

Justice whistled to himself, his earphones were plugged into his head as he listened to 'Through the Fire and the flames' at 90% speed. The young Daxamite pulled out the Titan Comm from his pocket and flicked it upwards. "Hmmm, no new crimes recently. Also, no one has called for any backup... Well, might as well take this as a lazy day today~" Richard grinned to himself, his mind made up of an idea, as he flew upwards into the sky and made his way to a nearby hot dog stand, and paid for a single treat. "Mmmmhmm! Don't mind if I do! Lets add some onions, and A LOT of mustard!" The Daxamite grinned, as he began to slowly take a bite of the mustard filled hot dog. Apparently, it seems that aliens such as him loved mustard.

Justice removed his hoodie, he revealed his young, handsome facial looks. His medium spiky hair style, the eyes that could pierce hearts, such youth within the boy! Noticing that the particular area was clear from any trouble, Justice flew to the top of one of the nearby rooftops, allowing a more wider view of the city. Nearby to his location was a Television shop, that displayed the current story involving the alien invasion. "I guess the news is just repeating the same story huh? Well done for causing mass panic...Idiots. Anyway, I'd better check out the docks, see if anything is happening over there."

Once more, Richard took to the skies, he flew towards the docks and made a soft landing by the side of the road. His eyes scanned the area before him, he wondered if anything interesting would happen. "Well, the night is young. Better patrol the area." Richard started his usual patrol routine, and hovered in mid air, as he began his monitor duty. "Lazy day~ Hurray for flight skills~"

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Cyrus was down by the docks for several reasons. First, scoping out abandoned warehouses as potential lairs. (Noneof them had yet qualified -- things in Jump City were seldom truly abandoned.) Second, excitement. Third, food. Rats were common by the waterfront, and there were always food shipments waiting to be loaded.

Well hunting, though, he had come on a mildly intriguing scent. A lone female, youngish. Girls didn't normally wander around here at dusk. So he followed the trail, thinking that it probably belonged to either a budding villainous or vigilante. Please God it wasn't a Titan.

When he got closer, he jumped up on the roof of a warehouse. He was in his true form, but on all fours. His claws scratched a little against the corrugated metal of the roof, and scraped softly against it as he walked across it. It was annoying but could not be helped. When he got to the end, he had a view of a number of boxes stacked up across the way, and a girl sitting on top of them. A sniff confirmed she was his quarry. But it also broguht another scent. A confident male in the vicinity who did not smell quite human.

"Hm." He sat on his haunches, looking down with glowing eyes at the young woman, while his ears swivelled to pick up any clues as to the male's whereabouts.

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Silence. Absolutely quiet. Well except for the annoying cawing of some sea gulls off behind some other boxes, so she couldn’t even throw something at them that’d explode. The hand that had been studying her nails was now a rest for her chin, the bored expression beginning to clearly show on her face.

It vanished as soon as she noticed the sound of… what was that, scratching? Metallic scraping. Instead of jumping, however, she froze, waited until she could determine roughly how far away the sound was and in which direction, and then slowly turned around. Instead of maintaining the cool, collected appearance, she blinked wide eyes in surprise at what she saw.

“BIG doggie,” she mused softly but aloud, watching over her should for a few moments. Wait… there was a Titan that could change into animals, right? But… wasn’t he a funny color, like… purple or something? Despite the moment of uncertainty, her curiosity grew and she twisted around, managing somehow to make the gesture look semi-graceful. At least she could play up being the innocent good girl until it suited her. Although she didn’t move away from her perch, as she did like having the boxes as something to blow up close by in case the… the uh… was that a giant fox? Well whatever it was, it was big enough that she liked having protection of a bigger, boomier sort than just her scimitars.

“Hey handsome,” Kali called out a little louder, moments after her initial remark about the creature. The smile was coy, confident and just the right touch of flirty, having been able to notice from the noise it made that there was a masculine tone involved. What she didn’t know yet was that there was another male in the area.

[Richard]

"Oh come on! No crime in this area as well!? ugh, I should have known to stay back at the gym rather than going out on patrol. This is total boogus!" Richard complained in his mind, disappointed over such low levels of crime in the city. Not like it was a bad thing, far from it, though a rather boring day to say the least. Justice sighed to himself, which followed by a shrug. "Ah well, no point in complaining. I guess it's for the best I suppose." Feeling a small wave of disbelief, Richard began to take flight towards the sky.

However, from the corner of his eye, he noticed a someone or something ontop of the warehouse roof, and it appeared as though it was...watching something? "Well, thats a clue for starters... Perhaps this won't be such a boring day afterall." With a gleem in his eye, Justice prepared his move, he flew up high, he attempted to gain a birdseye view on what the figure on the warehouse was doing. "What are you doing up on the warehouse buddy..." Justice asked himself in his mind, he squinted his eyes which he tried to gain a better vision of the scene.

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She noticed him. His keen ears picked up her initial comment, and he huffed in disgust. Her second comment was much better though. He smiled, surprised and pleased at a positive reaction. He also heard someone else, but the words made no sense and, while he noted them, he chose to ignore them in favour of the girl. Jumping down, he glided towards the boxes, tail wagging.

"Good evening," he replied in his warmest tones. "It's not often I have the pleasure of meeting someone who combines good taste with beauty of her own. Though I am a werefox, not a dog." Of course a male fox was called a "dog", but he figured bringing that up would only confuse things.

He sat again at the foot of the mound of crates, tilted his head up to look at her. She looked foreign and her outfit was definitely that of a super. She smelled confident (if maybe a little wary). He couldn't tell if she was a "hero" or "villain" though, but if she were a Titan she was a very new recruit.

"My name is Cyrus. And you?"

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The compliment was very well received; the smile grew as she twirled her fingers through a few thin sections of hair that had fallen over her shoulder. Kali didn’t lose any of the flirtatious look despite the compliment. “Ah… I’ll keep that in mind next time,” she apologized with a tease, crossing her legs as he approached. The pleasant conversation was settling her nerves, not quite so wary of the giant fox. As far as she knew, the shape-shifting Titan was not nearly so eloquent. Rather the opposite, from what she’d gathered in the dark dens around the city…

At being asked to introduce herself, she drew herself a little more upright, emphasizing her confidence in this situation. “The name’s Kali,” she said with a bit of a wicked smirk showing on her lips for a moment. “Do you know how to show a girl a good time in Jump City here, Cyrus?” she asked, the tone flirty and bordering scheming, yet worded carefully enough just in case this was some Titan in disguise. She didn’t know many of the villains in this city yet, and she wasn’t about to go la-de-da straight into the arms of one of the Titans… which, given the company that she both did and didn’t notice, was probably a safer bet than being more open as to her quest there.



Richard