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 Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:03 pm
It was just another normal day at the park. The ducks were quacking, the children were playing, the dogs were fetching, the rock monsters were rising from the lake--... Alright, maybe it wasn't just another normal day, but it was Destiny City, so it wasn't as though any of this weird stuff was uncommon.
A woman by the edge of the lake let out a scream, dropping her book and grabbing little Timmy, carrying him as she ran from the strange creature that was now making its way up onto the shore. It was green, from the years the concrete had spent under the surface of the water, and had metal rods poking out of it in various places, evidence that the now mobile... thing... had once been debris from some kind of construction project, left in the lake and out of the way. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
The rock creature, the size of a horse on all fours, climbed up onto the shore, dripping water everywhere as it stood on its hind legs and seemed to look around. It wasn't as though it had any visible eyes, so where exactly it was looking wasn't easily determined. But it seemed to set its sights on a group of unknowing girls who were lounging about in their bathing suits, obviously wanting to take advantage of the warm weather after such a rough winter.
After some strange grinding noises of rock on concrete, it started its way towards them, ignoring other passersby who saw it and screamed, before running away.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:34 pm
Nathan wasn't expecting to run into rock monsters when he came to the park, but he supposed it wasn't exactly surprising. There were monsters everywhere, all the time, and recently there had been particularly strange ones popping up. First those flying ones, and now, apparently, rocks.
He heard a woman screaming, trotting over and stooping behind the trunk of a tree to see a woman screaming and running with a very confused looking boy in her arms. The look he had on his face was fairly priceless, in fact, like he hadn't seen the monster himself, and was trying to figure out why his mother was being so weird.
Ah, kids. He didn't like them.
When he was sure no one was watching him, Chaonis powered up and the super senshi hurried out to see what he could do about the monster. A moving rock didn't exactly instill a feeling of fear in him, so he wasn't exactly worried about it. In fact...
He ran over when it began to wander toward some hot chicks, his head turned toward them rather than the monster as he trotted over. He looked back in time to leap up at it, wondering if it also had a weakness to being stomped on, like the flying ones. Of course... this one was a rock.
So.
Probably not.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:09 pm
Highly doubtful, indeed. The rock monster didn't even realize that it had been spotted by someone trying to stop it! Of course, by that point, one of the girls had just finished a rather lengthy conversation with her boyfriend, and while hanging up, happened to see the monster in the reflection of her phone. It was only natural for her to let out an ear piercing scream. Her friends reacted similarly and began to scramble to get up their many possessions.
Rocky, on the other hand, didn't really mind that they started running around. It ground its rocky... uh... what was probably its mouth... together and followed after them. Although, it did happen to pause once it was stomped on. It shook, similarly to what a wet dog would do, spraying green slime and water everywhere, and then turned to see the opposing being that was getting in its way.
Oh, goody, another person with bright colors.
It reached out what could only be described as a rocky hand, trying to grab the Senshi, grinding its parts together, as if trying to communicate. Or maybe just to say it was hungry — it was still hard to tell anything about this creature.
It wasn't the most intelligent of monsters...
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:08 pm
Chaonis really wished hot chicks wouldn't scream so much.
"Aw, gross!"
This is what he got for watching screaming girls and stupid people trying to pick up very important things like phones and clothes while at the same time trying to run for their lives. He was really only watching the screaming girls, though. His attention was quickly drawn when he was splashed with what he hoped was just water and lake muck, and nothing that was excreted from the rock monster itself.
"Whoa!" He bounced back, slipping on green grossness and nearly falling over because of it. He hadn't expected the rock to sprout an appendage, though, really, he probably shouldn't have been surprised. "No hands, buddy. Second date, at best."
He looked around, seeing that there were still too many people gawking around stupidly because they were mistaking the live, dangerous fight for a walk in movie theater or something for him to use his attack. He still wasn't exactly sure how to control it since his power up, so he had to try and bat the thing around until it turned to dust instead.
He aimed for what must have been its face, maybe, trying to stomp on it with his cleated shoe has hard as he could. Jumping on it hadn't worked, by maybe it had a weak point in its head nub. If it could be called a heard. Or was one. Whatever, maybe this part of it was the weakness.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:00 pm
Oh, of course people were going to stand around and gawk! It's what they did best! Why flee for their lives when it looked like the situation was under control? Obviously the terrorist would take care of these strange monsters that were coming from the ground and from the sky. They were probably the cause of them, to begin with!
"Look mommy! A clown!" a little girl giggled, pointing to the Super Senshi, and whose mother promptly pulled away from the scene. The hot chicks, when they realized that the strangely dressed man was taking care of things, giggled too, pausing in their running and screaming to stand by and watch.
The monster, on the other hand, would have very much liked to run after these humans and scare the poo out of them. Unfortunately, it had a Sailor Scout to deal with, first.
It groaned, as though it was tired, before making an even more annoyed sound (how do rocks sound annoyed, exactly??) when it was jumped on, a few pieces breaking off and crumbling into dust. But other than that, the cleats weren't very effective. The monster tried swiping at the Senshi again when he got close enough, before flailing one of its arms out, sending pebbles flying everywhere.
And with that, the girls were screaming again, though more as if they were running away from mice than a rock monster.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:57 pm
Chaonis heard the little girl and shot her a withering glare. A clown?! What kind of clowns did she see, to think him one? He took it personally, thinking the little girl was probably a d**k, and debated using her as rock bait. But her mother seemed to have a good hold of her, like she could read the terrorist's expression all too well.
He glared at her, too, for good measure. He even pointed at her, just to see her go skittering away.
At least the hot chicks were watching. It was time to show off.
The monster 'attacked', if that was what it could be called, flailing its arm until it got one glancing hit on Chaonis' hip. It was enough to make the senshi bounce back, pushing down on the rock after stomping it one more time for good measure, then kicking off of it and back flipping a short distance away. He thought that was a handsome display, and turned to see what the ladies thought.
And of course they were screaming.
"Oh, come on, it's just a walking rock! It's like fighting a turtle!" he yelled, though they probably couldn't hear them in the middle of their banshee impersonations. A giant turtle that ate a horse at some point, maybe, but that wasn't the point. He sighed and looked back at the rock monster, debating his next move. It seemed blunt force wasn't the right tactic for this thing, but that was unfortunately all Chaonis had. Cracking his knuckles, he grinned.
"Warning! Earquake zone!" he called, feeling strength surge through him. His attack boosted his strength for a short time, and he charged forward again with renewed vigor, this time opting to grab onto one of the rods sticking out of the rock to try and swing it into the earth like a giant, living sledgehammer.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:24 pm
Hey, that was 'Mr. Walking Rock' to you! Or maybe not.
Turtle or not, it still was going to have some fun before it was turned back into dust — if the Senshi could accomplish that, of course. It tried swiping at the young man again, flinging more pebbles this way and that, before it suddenly realized that it was being attacked again!
The monster let out a, uh... grinding noise once more as it was attacked, and then lifted up and brought down like a sledgehammer?! What?! That wasn't fair at all! It groaned as it broke into pieces, no longer one solid monster, but a pile of rubble on the ground, metal rods sticking out of the various broken pieces.
And the girls were back, giggling about how strong~ their savior was~... Even if he looked like a clown, apparently...? Children these days watched too much television, anyway. But no matter! They'd been saved by a devilishly handsome young man~
At least for the moment.
The mounds of concrete twitched, before three little monsters popped up and started scurrying in different directions! It was round two!
One headed straight towards the girls, who were once again screaming. One of the blonds even tried climbing a tree.
Another went towards the playground where a group of kids were hiding out on their jungle gym fort, ready with the mudpies they'd been collecting to throw at attackers. Defend the fort!
The third... was still in the same spot, flailing and struggling to get onto its rocky feet. Ugh... talk about embarrassing.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:39 pm
Chaonis let out a triumphant whoop when he managed to hoist the rock off the floor and swing it through the air. Gravity was on his side now, and that wouldn't do good for the monster, for sure. It might be able to stop cleats, but how would it like a taste of its own medicine? Like the hard ground it seemed to be made out of.
Chaonis heard the girls and grinned, looking back at them and giving them a super heroic wave and point, winking. They giggled stupidly and he thrived on it, enjoying every moment.
Hey, it was better than being attacked or verbally abused for being a 'terrorist', after all. Hell, one time he did one of these hero gigs in public the cops started shooting at him, despite the fact that he had nearly gotten himself killed trying to save civilians. But he wasn't bitter about that: he knew very well that most humans, particularly in this city, were morons. Instead of getting down on them about it, or questioning himself, he just took pride in how awesome he was compared to them, and decided he didn't need their approval or their condemnation.
Unless they were hot chicks.
"Hey, hey! You're really messing with my chances here, you little punk... punks," he said, seeing the monster trying to get to the girls. Maybe it was jealous. They were jealous? He hoped this wasn't one of those monsters that would keep splitting if he kept chipping away at it. Only one way to find that one out, though.
Most of the lessons Chaonis learned were done so 'the hard way'. He left the turtled one to give chase to the one hurrying toward the girls, using his boost of speed to catch up and punch straight down at the thing with as much strength as he could muster. Maybe shattering it into microscopic pieces would work!
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:40 am
The hot chicks were definitely running around like the morons they were, as though their high pitched shrieking would somehow make the rock monster want to stop running after them. It was only when the supposed terrorist came over to crush the rock monster did they come to a stop, and started giggling again.
Nope! It seemed as though those last three chunks was all that was left of the monster! The one currently under Chaonis's fist had crumbled into pieces, now lying motionless like any rock should.
There were only two left, and the children at the playground were running out of mud pies to throw at the creature. It was a lot smaller now, but it was trying to get its rocky limbs to try and pull itself up onto the jungle gym, using the plastic slide as a way of access. Because it was as dumb as a rock. Literally.
The one on its back was still on its back, but it seemed to have given up in struggling for a little while, though it would twitch every few seconds and then struggle for a little again. Bad day.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:46 am
Chaonis decided he wasn't much a fan of the soundtrack the girls were providing now. They were better when they were just there to be looked at, certainly, but all the shrieking was really killing the attractive quality they had sported just moments before. He did his best to ignore them, though, as he had this rock monster to focus on.
At least the one he had stomped on was dead. Dead? He wasn't sure that was the proper word, as rocks could never really be alive, and he certainly didn't consider youma to be 'living' things. They were monsters, not animals, and they turned into dust and debris when they were destroyed rather than, say, a furry corpse.
Now wasn't really the time to be debating the definition of life through youma, however. And anyway, that s**t was boring. It flitted out of his head almost as fast as it had come in, leaving a bitter taste in his mouth in its wake.
He ran towards the kids now, because the one on its back really was the most pathetic thing in the world and probably deserved to suffer the embarrassment it had brought upon itself by being a rock on its back. He made sure to act as super-heroic as possible, slamming his foot into the rock monster in an effort to kick it as far as possible, away from the kids. His foot immediately sparked with pain, as he was still not learning his lesson about kicking rocks, but he tried not to show it.
Super heroes didn't wince.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:23 am
"Hey! That was our monster!" one snot-nosed little brat yelled out when Chaonis came over to help them, picking up one of his mud-pies to lob at their 'hero' instead of the monster. They didn't need any help defeating a monster! It was child's play, literally! And now there was some strangely dressed person coming over to take their monster and 'protect' them?? Ha! That's a likely excuse!
"Shut up," a little girl who was with group stressed, her hands and play clothes covered in dirt from trying to attack the monster with mudpies, "He's gonna help us!" She happened to think that the Senshi looked very super-heroic! And he was obviously better at fighting these monsters than they were!
"I'm telling your mom you said that!" said another little boy, helping the first to lob a mudpie in the direction of both the rock monster and the Senshi. Not that he was throwing very hard to hit the rock monster... but if it hit the Senshi, that would be funny, too.
The rock monster, on the other hand, definitely didn't like having mud pies slung at it, much less did it like being kicked. So it served Chaonis right for trying to get rid of it that way! As for how far it was kicked? It mostly just rolled over, onto its side, before quickly flailing its limbs to try and get back up — which it did, unlike the other one who was still pathetically flailing on its back.
It turned to try and grab at Chaonis's leg, since it was too short to grab onto anything else, wanting to beat him up for kicking it.
That hadn't been very nice.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:17 pm
Nathan stared long and hard at the small child that had spoken up to him. He glared, as if weighing the pros and cons of smacking the kid in the face. People generally considered punching kids to be a 'bad guy' thing, right? And he couldn't just say the rock monster did it. No one believed terrorists. Maybe if he accidentally kicked one of the pieces and it hit the kid...
He didn't see why people took it so seriously. Kids were obnoxious. If an adult were that annoying it would be okay to make him pay for it. But no. Not kids. Kids were precious and important and whatever.
When the mud hit him he almost changed his mind, deciding that this little kid was just a youma in disguise and was clearly worthy of at least getting his face jammed into the mud he seemed to love so much. Someone needed to teach him some manners: clearly his parents hadn't. At least there was one voice of reason in the group.
"Yeah, listen to her. She's smart, for a girl," he grinned at her teasingly, giving her a thumbs up. "Now stop throwing goddamn dirt and get the hell out of here!"
Oooo, he said a swear.
When the rock monster came over to him, Chaonis grunted and decided to try and kill two birds with one stone. Two stones with one... bird? He didn't have a bird. No, two stones with one stone. Or something like that. He shook his head and decided to stop thinking about it and just do: that was his usual method, anyway. It always worked better. He adjusted his angle, aimed, and kicked the rock as hard as he could toward the other one, which was still flailing on its back.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:40 pm
Yeah, it was usually agreed that people who hit kids were pretty bad, so if he actually cared about things like that, he might have a few things to make a decision about. Grated, it was a decision that would have to be made while there were annoying little kids throwing dirt and yelling things at the guy who was supposedly helping them. Or at least one of the small group thought so.
"You get out of here," the first little kid piped up again, chucking another wad of dirt at the Senshi from his perch on top of the jungle gym, frowning when apparently the guy wasn't going to leave the monster alone for them to fight. Jerk.
The monster continued to try and claw at Chaonis as he stood there and thought about... who knew what, trying to grab at his shin-guards and shoelaces. Of course, it should have seen the cleat coming, since it had just been kicked. But it was a monster, so it didn't have any visible eyes... and was pretty stupid, anyway. It let out an angry grinding noise as it momentarily flew through the air, clipping the side of the monster still flailing on the ground, with enough force to break them both into a dozen pieces, leaving nothing but harmless rocks and concrete and metal reinforcement bars on the once pristine sidewalk. But who really cared about all that right now?
The little girl cheered when the monsters seemed to have been taken care of, jumping up and down on the landing of the jungle gym, while the little boys groaned in disappointment...
... and flung the rest of their mud pies at the Senshi for ruining their fun. After all, when would they actually get a chance to be superheros, themselves??
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:04 pm
Chaonis quickly decided that he hated children and would rather not be anywhere near them then be forced to have to deal with them even for a few minutes at a time. How anyone could actually want them was beyond him. Of course, his own parents hadn't done much to instill in him a sense of family loyalty, and he was sure no one really wanted kids anyway.
Kids were just accidents, and then trouble to have to deal with.
"Look, if you want to stay here and fight monsters by yourself, by all means. You do know rock monsters eat little brats for dinner, right? And mud is like cake frosting to them? But if you want to be a delicious, puny little snack for the things, fine. I'll remember that the next time you or your family are in trouble."
Ah, threatening children. Almost as good as hitting them, without the mounds of trouble to go with it. And anyway, he was still saving them, and that was the important thing, in the end. How he got there was not important, so long as no one died his job was done. And well.
Besides the monster, anyway.
"There," he grinned, nodding at what he considered to be a very impressive shot. He looked at the kids. "See? You couldn't have done that. I bet you a dollar you couldn't have done that. You should practice at home, though. You know. With rocks. Inside the house."
And then, of course, he was hit with more mud.
"Well that's gratitude for you."
He grunted and moved away from the kids. He had to fight back the impulse to shake the jungle gym to make them fall off it, but he managed to walk away without doing them any bodily harm. Another success to add to the list for the day, he imagined. Despite the kids, he was feeling in a pretty good mood. Besides an aching foot, anyway.
Kicking rocks. Not his best idea.
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