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Patrols had been particularly stressful lately. Young people trashing stores, reports of monsters, a chunk of the force missing due to sudden onset of coma. It was in that situation that Kaden found himself in his cop car, patrolling alone. Parks where always particularly creepy at night, seeing that they tended to be dark, and make odd noises. Nevertheless, that was the route he had been assigned and he would do it. He parked his car in the parking lot, making sure to click the doors locked after leaving. Normally he would leave it open, but for some reason he felt it would be better locked. Less chance of being stolen (that was the last thing that Kaden needed, was the Chief on his tail about a stolen car).

In the dusk, he could make out someone in the park. Kaden approached quickly, flashlight drawn. Once close enough, he pointed it at the girl, trying to get a good look. That was quite the outfit she was wearing! It was filled with bows, lace, and flowers. It was about the girliest thing that Kaden had ever seen, and it even came with a matching tiara. The funny thing about it, however, was the age of the girl in question. She had to be a teenager, certainly not the little girl you would be expecting to wear such a thing. "Don't you know its past curfew for being out, Miss?"

Every cop instinct screamed that she was being incredibly fishy. She was avoiding his questions, looked jumpy, and wasn't acting in general how a teenage girl should behave. Kaden shoved her firmly in his 'strange cosplayers/japanese wannabe's' box and left her there with every other cosplayer, lolita, and wapanese person he'd ever had the pleasure of meeting. Her last question particularly got to him though. Was she famous or something?

Kaden was about the farthest thing from media-savvy as you could get. He hadn't even known what a zombie was until the little punk kid at the arcade had told him. "Uh, no. Other than too old to not know better than being out past curfew...in whatever you are wearing." He laughed softly, hoping to put her off of her edge. It wasn't ever good to have a jumpy suspect. The older male dropped his flashlight to point at the ground, finding it rude to keep it shining in her face. "I'm Officer Kaden Smith. Who might you be?"

On the other side of the playground, a rather large gelatinous blob was squishing around the monkeybars, oozing over everything that it could touch. It left behind a rather large sticky web, like some kind of gelatinous goo spider that had decided its new nest would be a Destiny City Playground.

"Flora, right." Kaden noted the name in his mind. The hesitancy in the telling of her name sent up a few red flags in his head, but he'd leave it be for now. "There are strict curfews for everyone not directly dealing with the crisis Flora. Even for the lucky few who grow up without parental curfews." He smiled light halfheartedly in her general direction, trying to make some kind of connection. He hadn't quite fully understood her previous quip about not having a curfew, clearly.

"I can escort you home, if you'd prefer." She'd clearly gotten to the park on her own, but it was gentlemanly to ask. She was a cute girl, after all, regardless of costume. The squicking noise registered in the back of his brain, causing him to gland about. Squicking noises didn't normally happen in playgrounds, at least not in playgrounds devoid of children. The young cop turned his flashlight from the ground to the surrounding park, trying to catch a glimpse of whatever was coming.

The monster on the other hand was completely unphased by the flashlight being pointed in its direction. It was just another delicious object to be consumed, though the senshi would be first.