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 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:05 am
Things slowing down in his life obviously wasn't meant to happen. In the past week, Chris had been in more strange situations and fights and run-ins than he'd ever expected, and things didn't seem as though they were going to be getting better any time soon.
He wasn't a pessimist, no, but he also wasn't always an optimist. He liked looking at how things were and gauging his abilities from there. Trying to fight a General in the negaverse and his creepy Corrupted Eternal friend? Pretty grim looking from his side, but at least he still had his head after that. Literally. One thing he was looking forward to, though, was his birthday coming up. He never really cared about his birthday before, but his girlfriend had been hinting that it would be worth it, despite being stuck in a house filled of extended relatives and family friends.
At the moment, though, all of that was far from his mind as he backpedaled with a grimace up at the youma that decided to make an appearance at an otherwise populated park. His dog, on her pink leash, decided she didn't like the youma either, and decided a good way to get its attention would be to yip and bark and growl at it.
"Anna," Chris hissed at the Spitz to be quiet, but she seemed intent on 'protecting' her best friend. The youma easily took notice, which was all fine and dandy because now it seemed to be heading for him instead of a group of children running in the opposite direction, but now with people watching to see what he would do, he couldn't exactly power up.
Well, this sucked.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:46 pm
He so wasn't going to let being the best youma duster in town go to his head. Okay maybe a little but he wasn't going to let that be an excuse to slack off. The stupid things were fun to dust even if they did end up making him dirty most of the time. It was a challenge he hadn't expected he'd like so much.
So he'd powered up that evening and started stalking the best one he could feel. It was too bad it had decided to go for a children's park but it had left him with an interesting dilemma. Save the children or save whatever idiot the youma was chasing?
Lucky the idiot's dog made that choice as he leveled himself on top of the fence surrounding the park. As the little dog yipped he finally got a look at the idiot holding the leash.
...."No.. oh that's precious." He laughed as he recognized the guy. "Fluffy dog and a pink leash. Too good."
The youma seemed to have heard him and looked up from it's pursuit of the yippy pup.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:03 pm
Hey now... this idiot was keeping the youma from running off and attacking other people. As soon as the immediate area was cleared out he fully intended to take care of the monster, himself.
Chris blinked in confusion, glancing up and around for the voice he'd heard, before frowning at the strangely dressed person perched on the fence. Precious, huh? "What are you supposed to be?" he asked, feigning ignorance. He knew what the young man was — he could feel his energy due to him being powered up. He was a senshi, of course. They certainly came in all shapes and sizes and eras of fashion, didn't they?
Realizing that the youma had been temporarily distracted, Chris rushed forward to scoop up his dog into his arms, before stumbling backwards and making more space between himself and the large rodent-like monster. Why were they always so vicious looking? Or at least the ones he'd run into.
"Are you going to take care of this guy or what?" Chris called over to the senshi, trying not to sound too judgmental or snippy with his words. He thought that less time teasing civilians and their dogs with pink leashes (his mom bought it for her!!) and more time fighting the monsters was a little more, uh, productive.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:46 am
"i'm working on it pretty boy." He laughed as the rodent snapped it's teeth in his direction. "Alright alright. Attentions' on you. If you're that impatient come get me." He grinned, holding out his arms to beckon the youma.
As the youma came at him he vaulted off the fence and over the creature's head. It would have been a perfectly timed jump if he hadn't misjudged the monster's ability with it's tail. As he landed the youma whipped it's tail in his direction and landed a heavy blow against his back.
Grunting he tumbled over and ended up on his hands and knees. ".... right. rat tail. Memo made." He looked up at Chris for a moment. "I'd suggest running any time now."
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:55 pm
Pretty boy...? Chris wasn't entirely sure how that was supposed to be meant. Was he just making a comment (although he didn't think he was anywhere close to being 'pretty') or if he was making fun of him. Just because he actually brushed his hair and didn't walk around in ripped jeans and a teeshirt...
He stumbled backwards again and out of the way of the youma as it moved to attack the senshi, and Chris winced as the darkly clad senshi was hit with the tail from behind. That sucked...
The youma was starting to turn around and prepare for another attack, and Chris hurried forward, the Finnish Spitz still in his arms and now yipping and growling at the monster ahead of them. He reached out a hand to try and help the senshi up if he'd take it, making a face at his comment. "Run? And leave you as rat bait? Yeah right..." he said, his hand still out. He didn't know how much this guy wanted to kill this monster on his own, but he wasn't going to sit on the side lines and watch him get beaten up by a very large rodent.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:08 am
He eyed the hand for a moment before he accepted the help up. "You have any idea how many of these bastards i've taken down?" He raised a brow as he tugged Chris around behind him as the youma chattered at them. "Just take your puppy and run."
He didn't want to have to be responsible for protecting someone too. It was hard enough dealing with the youma on their own.
Setting his heels into the ground he braced himself for the youma as it charged at them. Dodging it wasn't going to be useful with that tail. He'd have to find some other way and right now that looked like grabbing it's teeth.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:26 pm
Chris raised an eyebrow in return at the senshi as he pulled him to his feet, but then blinked in surprise as he was placed behind him like some damsel in distress. "Take my... Hey, just wait a second! I can figh--"
But the senshi had already bracing for the youma's next attack and probably wasn't paying that much attention to him. Chris frowned and quickly took several steps backwards, before dashing towards a nearby tree to set Annabel down and tie her leash to it. If he knew she wouldn't try attacking the monster herself, he would have just let her run around on her own. Unfortunately, she would probably try to take the youma, head-on. And for a dog that didn't even reach one and a half feet in height... she would probably be eaten.
He knew he was taking a risk, especially since he didn't know this dark haired senshi very well, but he needed help (whether he would admit it or not). Once powered up, Valhalla grabbed a fallen tree branch and raced back over to the senshi battling the youma, and shoving the branch in front of him and the broadside into its mouth so the senshi wouldn't have to hold onto its teeth, or get his face gouged at with its teeth. "Push it back to the fence!" he suggested, betting that if they could corner it, they'd be able to attack it and kill it easier.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:11 am
He had been prepaired to take a probably nasty injury when he found a branch shoved in front of him and the youma's mouth closing over it. His eyes widened as his head snapped to the side and he saw someone standing beside him.
Where the hell had he come from? And what had happened to Chr... "Oh no. Really?"
He would have gotten sidetracked if the youma hadn't started screeching and trying to claw the branch out of it's mouth. While it was occupied he ducked under it's head and shoved the creature's chest. It didn't do too much good but he did manage to tumble the stupid thing back and watched as it rolled over and ended up close enough to the fence.
"I really hope you have something useful tucked up under that tunic pretty boy."
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:37 pm
Valhalla breathed a sigh of relief when the senshi wasn't hurt and they managed to get the youma back. Annabel was still yapping up a storm several yards away, but he had to ignore her for now.
"Oh yeah, let me just pull out my magical weapon that will take this guy out, no problem," he deadpanned, handing what was left of the tree branch over to the senshi and pretending to feel around his tunic for a few moments, before glancing down to the ground to look for something useful. "I have a compass," the knight admitted, trying not to sound too bitter about his pathetic excuse for a weapon. "No magic, either," he added, reaching down to pick up a decent sized rock, wind up, and release it as though pitching a fast ball.
"s**t, that was horrible..." he grumbled to himself as the rock hit the youma in the face and ricocheted off as Valhalla rubbed at his right palm with his other hand — rocks were always rougher than baseballs. "I was aiming for its eye," he explained, quickly scanning the ground for another rock as the youma flailed about in pain from the sudden lump on the side of its head.
He paused in his frantic search to frown up at the senshi, not wanting him to start poking fun at him again. "Unless you have a better idea, oh experienced one?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:44 pm
"Compas?" He just managed not to laugh at that idea as the knight threw a rock at the youma. He was all for make-shift weapons, having hit youma with line poles before, but a rock was a bit dinky. A compas seemed like a pretty silly thing to have in the fight against things like this.
He heled his hands cuped over each other in front of him as a bright grin slid across his face. "Arachne's Venom!" A glow started between his palms and after a moment he held it up. "Magic is always my preferred method of madness."
The youma, finally deciding that one of them had thrown the rock, managed to claw the stick out of it's mouth and howled. "Okay. Stick tasted bad ... lets see how you like this."
He reeled back and threw the glowing ball into the youma's open maw. Acid on it's tongue would give the stupid thing something else to think about for a bit.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:17 pm
Rocks were pretty dinky, and Valhalla would admit to that readily, but even he didn't want to get in the way of one going eighty miles an hour. If it was a baseball, he would have been able to get it at least ten mph higher. But as dinky as it was, he still scrounged around for another rock to pitch, or a bigger stick to swing.
He paused momentarily as the senshi used his magic, and he stared in awe and a bit of envy. He wished he had magic... "Yeah, I bet," he breathed, watching as the ball of venom was thrown into is mouth. "Nice aim," he said, taking a step back to watch and see what the youma did now. He knew they shouldn't stand around for too long, but he also couldn't help but be curious.
"So..." he started cautiously, glancing over at the intricately dressed senshi. He looked a lot fancier than he did, at least. "Are you the... senshi of venom...?" Ever since discovering that senshi more or less specialized in a specific sphere of magic, he'd been trying to guess what they were based on their magic. It didn't take him long to notice the brooch at his neck and that the lace was much thinner than anything he'd seen before.
"No... Spiders. Are you?" With his luck, it was probably venom, but it was a good enough guess, right...?
"Ah... I'm Valhalla... of Jupiter," he introduced, figuring since he was asking for information, he should offer some of his own.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:22 pm
"Valhalla? You should have come with a hammer then i could just call you Thor." He grinned for a moment as the youma clawed at it's tongue and howled in pain.
"And it's Spiders. Arachne at your service though introdouctions should be left for after we've dusted the rat. It's not going to concentrate on it's tongue forever."
Which he said just in time for the creature to lull it's burnt tongue out of it's mouth and level it's beady eyes on them. He took a few steps back and picked up the other half of the stick that Valhalla had dropped and swung it a few times.
If anything he could try to clock the youma on the head while the other boy kept it distracted with rocks.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:09 am
Valhalla forced what looked like a strangled half-grin as he tried to do anything but roll his eyes at the Thor comment. Yeah, yeah, he knew he wasn't that impressive, what with a compass and no magic, but he didn't think he was completely useless.
"Arachne...? See, I would have guessed spiders had I heard you-- s**t," he stopped his yapping when he realized that the youma was getting ready to try and attack them again. "Yeah, well," he mumbled awkwardly, realizing that the senshi had definitely been right about the distractions of introductions. It wasn't his fault that he rambled from time to time, though. Anyone who had gone to school with him would know that.
"This is taking too long," he said, throwing another rock at the monster, before he was looking around for something better to use. "You think if we trap it against the fence with that bench, we could finish it off...? Or you could, if you want to keep adding to your tally," he offered, trying not to sound too mocking of Arachne's tone when he first commented on killing them. There was a bench only a few yards away, and being powered and all that, it shouldn't be too difficult, right...? Maybe?
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:32 am
"Don't knock the tally. Less of these things more safe people." He grinned and set his heels as the youma snarled at them trying to pick out which would be the easiest target. He wasn't used to having to do this with help so he'd never -really- bothered to go for group tactics.
"Bench could be a good idea. You wanna get that while i keep ratasaurus here occupied?" He really didn't give the other much of a choice as he took off toward the youma so he could try to start edging it toward the fence. At least it seemed like the youma wasn't stupid enough to want to get smacked with a stick and kept just out of arms reach of him.
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:11 am
"No problem," Valhalla mumbled, taking a few steps back as Arachne took necessary measures to keep the youma trapped up against the fence. The page ran back over to the bench in question, momentarily wondering if he would have enough strength to lift something like this, but managed it somehow. Ah, he would have to replace it so the park management wouldn't fuss at them.
"Got it," he called over to the senshi, his holding onto one end and positioning it like a battering ram. He just needed Arachne to grab hold of the front so he could steer it while he gave it a bit more muscle. Eh, it helped that he was a jock sometimes.
"Ready when you are," he said lifting the bench up from his side. As soon as the senshi came back to help after successfully cornering the youma, they through off after it, ramming the monster in the side and watching as it burst into dust.
Valhalla coughed lightly, shaking his head in disbelief. "I'll let you take credit for that one," he offered, not interested in keeping track of how many he'd killed. Just as long as they were killed. "Thanks," he said with a nod, offering a hand to shake the senshi's. He wasn't so bad...
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