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 Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:49 am
When Briar slipped out on superhero detail as Oort, he quite often ended up in the park.
In part it was because the park was close by and in part it was because the park was familiar - after all he spent a lot of time in the park on non superhero days - particularly in summer when the days were long and the evenings warm.
Tonight was no different and with his brother away visiting with friends and both parents working late, Briar had taken the opportunity to slip out.
It wasn’t actually that late into the evening, was in fact still early enough for it to be relatively light out. He had found somewhere secluded to go superhero mode during the walk over and it was as Oort that he walked into the park.
The first order of the evening, well second really but who was counting, had been to find himself a branch because - whilst it wasn’t an always thing - there were monsters in the park.
Well correction there had been a monster in the park once and in the playground sand pit.
But it didn’t mean that all the monsters had gone away just because there hadn’t been a monster since the day when he'd met the blue-haired girl who was a superhero like him and besides sticks worked well on monsters.kuropeco Hope this works as a start Kuro :3 Let me know if anything needs changing
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:08 pm
He walked quietly along the edge of the park, hair pulled back, hat pulled low so that the brim shadowed the majority of his face. Aurostibite's normal patrolling shifts started later, but he'd gone out earlier this time, leaving Durumi at their house to take care of things and hopefully get some rest.
It was quiet, for the most part. There weren't that many people that had come through, the park all but deserted by the time Aurostibite made his rounds, and he maneuvered himself around the nearest bench, gloved fingers grazing absently over the back of it. He'd thought it would be an uneventful night, but -
- a gentle power signature wafted towards him, softer than his own, and unfamiliar. Aurostibite lifted his chin, brow furrowing, and took a few more cautious steps, one of the feathered daggers hidden in his sleeve slipping out so that he could wrap his fingers around it.
"Who's there?" he asked, voice level, Aurostibite turning his head from side to side.
"Show yourself."
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:30 am
Oort’s search for a suitable branch had been successful in that the red-haired chibi had found two branches that he thought might suit.
One had been long (or at least relatively long) but kind of on the thin side, whilst the other had been shorter, but thicker and Oort had been in the process of studying them in an attempt to work out which of the two to take along with him on superhero detail when he heard the voice speak up from a point down below. A point that was from somewhere close by since the voice seemed kind of close by.
He frowned from his position on the ground for a few moments, but it wasn’t as if he had been hiding and so he stood up, before peeking out and round from behind of the trunk of the tree that - moments earlier - he had been sitting against.
“Wasn’t hiding” his voice was matter of fact as he spoke, reddish eyes glancing about in the direction where he thought the voice had come from before eventually locating the figure over by the park bench.
“Wasn’t hiding” he repeated, this time in the other’s direction.
After all Oort was a superhero and no superhero worth their salt went hiding about.kuropeco sorry to take so long with this Kuro
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:14 pm
The voice came - and it took a moment for Aurostibite to even find the source of it. It sounded surprisingly young, not quite what he'd expected, and he glanced first to his left, and then to his right, before his gaze landed on a small, redheaded figure that was half hidden by the trunk of a wide tree.
It was a child.
Or at least, someone that looked particularly childish. But the voice and the appearance gave every indication that Aurostibite was not, in fact, hallucinating, and it was indeed a child looking at him with a stubborn tone to his words. A child that, much to Aurostibite's continued bemusement, was wearing a uniform similar to those of the White Moon senshi.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, none too politely, most likely because he was annoyed at being taken aback by someone so...small.
"What's your name?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:25 pm
Oort stood and watched as the figure looked first left and then right but on both occasions effectively looked pretty much over him, which was kind of annoying because he was standing right in plain sight (or at least at any rate what he thought of as plain sight).
Before Oort could point it out, however the figure finally looked over to where he was standing over by the tree.
And it turned out that the figure was actually a mister adult - well at least he sounded like a mister adult as he asked him what he was doing out.
"I'm Oort" he said matter of factly, although he didn't make any moves to get any closer to the other. "And I'm keeping an eye out for monsters."
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:57 pm
Aurostibite stared for approximately thirty two and a half seconds at the tiny figure in front of him as though trying to figure out if it was just a very small human or if it was a child. After he spoke, however, it was determined that, yes, it was a child, and yes, it was a senshi, even though he couldn't quite figure out how.
His lip curled in disgust before Aurostibite tamped down on this particular emotion, reigning in everything in order to remain calm and collected in the face of...well, not danger, but confusion, really.
"So the White Moon is collecting children to be their soldiers now?" he asked flatly, head tilted to the side, curls tumbling down his shoulders. "Can they find no one else to do their bidding for them? Have they run out of normal adults to do the work?"
Aurostibite frowned slightly at Oort. "What sort of monsters are you looking for, exactly?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 7:16 pm
The mister adult's response was to stare at him like he had something on his face or something, but before Oort could ask about it, he started talking about White Moon and soldiers and Oort figured he'd better correct him because he was obviously confused.
"I'm not a soldier" he interrupted his voice matter of fact "I'm a superhero."
In fact he was obviously a superhero, or at least to Oort it was obvious, although he put down the other's confusion down as perhaps the mister adult not having seen any
"And I'm looking for monsters - like the monster that was in the sandpit in the playground" the other's question serving to pretty much back up his view that the mister adult had no idea what a superhero was.kuropeco sorry put the wrong tag in ^^;
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 7:35 pm
Aurostibite opened his mouth, and then promptly shut it again, confusion evident on his face. He wanted to say something along the lines of that's not a superhero, but something told him that it would be a bad idea. And it wasn't so much that he was bad at handling children, exactly - he just had no idea how. He'd dealt with Kodi growing up, but they had been close enough in age that he hadn't really needed to do a lot.
(Except constantly make sure she was doing okay and play the proper overprotective big brother role.)
Aurostibite's gaze flickered towards the sandpit, still frowning.
"What sort of superhero are you, exactly?" he asked, had tilted to the side. "And what sort of monster did you see in the sandpit? Did it - well, did it try to eat you, or something? Was it - was it a human, or an actual monster that was big and scary?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:10 pm
It was perhaps just as well that the other hadn't voiced his thoughts aloud given that it would have only served as yet more ammo to the fact that the mister adult had no idea what a superhero was.
More ammo that is on top of the ammo that the other was providing - such as the confused look that had been on his face earlier.
"One with magic" he said because he did have magic even if the magic was pretty much just the sparkle-sparkle stuff when he went into superhero mode and the key thing that was very much not impressive. "Which is kind of okay, but it's just a key" and the key was kind of a small one at that - hardly the stuff of superpowers of awe.
"Horatio has much cooler magic though. She's a talking cat and is the one who told me I was a superhero and she has the cooolest laser."
His own gaze shifted to the sandpit at the mister adult's question about the monster, the enthusiasm that had been in his voice at the mention of Horatio's laser fading away.
"It was really big and it tried to attack me and this other superhero" he said, adding seriously "But I wasn't scared" because no superhero worth their salt was scared of these things "And we took care off it and after we did it turned into dust."
He looked back at the mister adult "By the way mister do you have a name?"
After all he'd given the other his name - well at least his superhero name - and fair was fair.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 11:53 am
"One with magic" did not exactly help. Aurostibite's gaze narrowed a little, but since he wasn't about to get angry at a child, he couldn't quite say what he was thinking aloud. Instead, he just let himself listen to what he was being told, trying to focus on the facts.
"Horatio?" he repeated with a frown. Talking cat was obvious - one of the guardians had awakened him, though he didn't get the laser part, or understand who the boy was talking about. Aurostibite was having difficulties putting two and two together, though he felt the pieces were not quite meant to fit in the same puzzle.
"Ah," he said, and nodded - clearly a youma. "Well, I suppose you...did well, then, getting rid of monsters. But you shouldn't go looking for them, yourself, that's dangerous."
He didn't want to give his name, because child or not, names were dangerous advantages one over the other, and Aurostibite had always been rather careful about to whom he gave his. He gave the young senshi a scrutinizing look, frowning a little more.
"Auro," he said finally. "Do you often become a, er..superhero?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:50 pm
Oort nodded as the mister adult repeated Horatio's name, "Yes, she's really, really cool," adding a second 'really' as if the repeated word could impress on the other just how cool the talking cat was. "But I haven't seen her for a while."
He'd gone back to the bakery where he had first met her from time to time, mostly as Briar but occasionally as Oort, however he hadn't seen any sign of the tail flag-wearing cat.
"I guess she's just busy though" the quietly spoken words were spoken more to himself, although the mister adult's words had him glancing back over.
"Umm well I try to" he admitted at the other's question about whether he did the superhero thing often. There were things that got in the way sometimes like when his parents had done the super hovering thing after the concert with the big monster, but he did try to get out - because superheroes weren't supposed to shirk their superhero duties.
His voice was firm as he added "And I have to fight the monsters Auro," because whilst Horatio hadn't really told him that much, she had mentioned fighting monsters and he had seen the monsters. "But it's okay - I'm not scared - and sticks tend to work."
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:29 pm
Aurostibite wasn't familiar with many of the cats, which was probably why not finding Horatio a name he recognized was not surprising. He lifted a hand, tugging idly on a multicolored strand of hair, Aurostibite glancing down at the child in front of him.
He was just so small. Why on earth were the White Moons collecting children to fight on their behalf? It was a positively ridiculous tactic.
He opened his mouth and then shut it again, frowning.
"Sticks work against monsters?" Aurostibite said. "That's still dangerous, you know, what happens if your sticks don't work?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:53 pm
It was perhaps just as well that Oort was not aware of the direction of the other's thoughts as he wouldn't have appreciated being thought of a just a child. Because he wasn't a kid - he was all of twelve, relatively soon to be thirteen - and he was a superhero to boot.
Instead he nodded at Auro's question "Uh huh - much better than my magic and they work better than balls of dirt too."
His reddish eyes looked thoughtful for a moment as the other asked him about what would happen if a stick didn't end up working, although there was no hesitation to his voice when he finally spoke "Well so far using a stick has worked the best, but if that didn't work then I'd just have to find another way."
Because no superhero worth their salt just upped and gave up.
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:14 am
Anyone under the age of probably sixteen was still a kid to Aurostibite, even if the higher end of those ages was technically a teenager. But he still thought of Kodi as a kid, and she was only a few years younger than him; and granted, she was his sister, but that was beside the point.
"Throwing balls of dirt seems counter productive," said Aurostibite with a frown. "And useless."
He probably shouldn't have been talking to a mere child like this and a sigh escaped him, Aurostibite taking a moment to pinch the bridge of his nose between his fingers. He swept a hand through his head of dark hair and wondered if he should actually like...do something about the fact that there was a child here.
Probably. He had no idea what.
"Is that all you have to fight with, then?" Aurostibite added. "You don't have any...superpowers?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:18 am
Actually the balls of dirt had kinda worked on the monster bear with spikes running down its back that he had had to fight with Pavo.
Well at least Oort was going to count it as working because it had made the monster bear howl and he was pretty sure that it would have worked better if he'd managed to hit it in the eyes like he'd been trying too.
He gave a little huff when the mister adult - Auro - asked him about having super powers. "I do have super powers" he said, because magic was kind of like having a super power and he had already said that he had magic. "I already said that I did."
He didn't make any moves to actually show it however, because his magic just wasn't that impressive - unlike lasers.
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