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 Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:27 am
For once Vesuvius was taking patrolling seriously, or trying to. He was walking through the park and trying his best to use his new senses to reach out to the world around him and try to detect the danger. Camelot told him to train, to practice using his powers for the greater good, or something, and he was trying...honest he was! (except for that one night he was drunk but whatever...ouchie)
But for now...he had nothin. Nada, zip, zilch, goose egg.
Kind of annoying to be a super hero with no one to rescue. Most of the time he was running headlong into battles with guys that didn't seem to want to fight (or didn't know how) and meet ups with others like him. While educational, definitely not as much fun as rescuing a damsel and getting the girl. It was all terribly inconvenient, enough to make him want to quit altogether.
What fun was all this if you can't get the girl? He was reasonably attractive, fun, and new to town. That should be enough to get him a one nighter if nothing else....
He sat on a convenient bench to contemplate his opportunities.
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:22 pm
"Well you look like you're having a rollicking good time," Zia half purred as she flopped her arms aver the back of the bench.
Energy blind and aura-less, she still had the sense to know that a guy dressed as a pirate walking around Destiny City was not our average bear. Er, human.
Leaning over the back of his bench she totally reached for his belt buckle to angle towards her for a better look, because holy lack of personal space, Batman. Not that people seemed to mind articles of clothing being tuged on when you were a feline.
"Pluto, huh? And you're wearing a shirt! Disappointing, I guess I was hoping that was a costume staple-- Whoa, what's that?" And with absolutely no invitation, she tumbled ungracefully over the back of the bench to land on the seat.
"What's your weapon?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:47 am
"Excuse me?"
Just as he'd been thinking about getting laid suddenly there a girl was! Heck, he should do this more often! Maybe he had more powers than he knew about. She looked legal (not that he hadn't been fooled before) so that was a good place to start. When she leaned in and started pawing at him he thought she was a little forward but was willing to roll with it.
"Pluto?" No one had mentioned that to him but clearly she knew -what- he was even if she didn't seem to know who. "If you want my shirt off all you have to do is ask, lass."
When she tumbled forward it was practically into his lap until he scrambled away. He normally didn't mind pretty girls in his lap but right now it was just...even he wasn't that easy. He was standing now, watching her get settled into the bench while he tried to puzzle through who exactly she was.
"I'm Vesuvius. I guess this thing is my weapon but I don't think it's good for much." The plastic at least wasn't very strong.
He blinked at her a little.
"Just who or what are you?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:44 pm
"Oh well then," Zia was about to say something snarky back about his shirt but the rapier had her attention as she sat upright with one kick of a leg and leaned forward with an anticipatory whimper.
"Like, the one that appeared? Yours? You are a knight, though?" She sounded almost hopeful as she turned her wide eyes back up at him. "Aren't you?"
She quirked one unamused eyebrow and pursed her lips at the 'what are you' comment. "You space boys are hi-lariously self centered," She said, kicking back and resting one leg over the other and crossing her arms. "Negaversers used to harvest humans, they can have a clue."
Not that she was human. Or even had a clue, half the time.
"I'm Zee, what's your name?"
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 2:13 pm
"Yeah, I'm a knight. Vesuvius, of Pluto."
Self centered? How had that come up? He had pretty much only answered her questions and asked who she was to ask what she did. As far as he could tell she was a civilian and a rather forward one at that. Though forward wasn't necessarily a bad thing he did hesitate a moment or two. Women. He'd never really understand them. That was probably why he didn't bother with relationships. Pappy said women only ever drive you nuts and he was inclined to think that was true.
He scratched his head.
"How do you know about all this? No offense but you're pretty plain clothes to be this knee deep in information."
Of course, he was still pretty new to all this, too. Maybe there were some plain clothes people in the operation. Under cover, that was what it was called, right? Maybe she was under cover and if so how did he get in on that gig? The costume was pretty awesome but some nights it might be nice to be incognito.
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Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 5:35 am
"Well, maybe some people just don't like sitting quietly after they've been victims," Zia mumbled. Her enthusiasm seemed to have taken a sharp downturn when he confirmed he was a knight in spite of the misleading rapier.
Arms already crossed, she sunk in her shoulders and looked in another direction, like her feelings had been hurt or something.
Well that was a whole lot of hope before it all came crashing down. Ouch.
A snarl in the near area snapped her out of her self indulgent moping, though. "Course, you could always take care of that, before we're both eaten, oh sir Knight," She said, forcing a nervous laugh.
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:02 pm
He shrugged, as if to suggest the why wasn't really so important after all.
Youma. He came to know that violent tingle well of the past few weeks and recognized the stench of chaos. Great! Well, since seemed all butt hurt, or skeptical, probably both, he figured her could take care of two birds with one stone: prove himself and distract her from whatever it was that she was aching over.
"Alright but if I save you, you owe me a kiss. No one's kissed me yet and what's the bloody use of being a hero if none of the damsels appreciate the heroics?"
He'd expected a lot more swooning ladies when he agreed to this gig, that was for sure. The movies always showed the hero getting the girl in the end. Spiderman had MaryJane and Superman had Lois Lane. Hell, even Ironman had Pepper! As far as he was concerned this was only what he deserved, someone who knew his secret and still appreciated him and how hard he tried.
"Be right back."
He moved off to meet the approaching threat.
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:31 pm
Zia laughed. "Do all your daring rescues come with a condition?" She asked, following him. She was energy blind, so she couldn't actually feel any youmaness, but somehow it sounded too big to be a dog.
She still sauntered along behind him.
"I think I prefer betting to conditional rescue," She mused, and stopped when a larg,e twisted claw stepped out from the shadows. "And you're gonna try to fight that with a dinky toy?"
She put her hands on her hips, doing a quick analysis of the danger and the assets. Statistics were her forte and she adored them. "Well I like to bet. If you can land a hit on that thing, you can definitely have a kiss. I don't expect you to dust is or anything. I mean," She laughed, "If you dust it... eh, more than a kiss."
She wasn't planning on letting him get so far as to dust it, though, so it wasn't like it was a promise she meant to keep. In the back of her mind she was already figuring in that energy blast every cat had in their arsenal. And one good shot at a weak spot could toast this puppy.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:39 am
"I've dusted others like it. Managed a big scorpion deal on one of my first nights out...with Camelot."
The big claw made his confidence falter just a little bit but he was in too deep now to back down. She'd set the price. Not that he was the type of guy to assume a girl would have sex with him just because he saved their lives or anything. He liked a little fun as much as the next guy but he kind of had this gentlemanly streak in him that prevented most of his one night stands. Most, only cause when he was drunk sometimes it was hard to form the word no.
"A kiss was all I asked. You're the one upping the ante."
And, in the end, he probably wouldn't accept more than a decent make out session if she absolutely insisted on keeping to her word. His Pappy's advice about being aware of strangers with gifts came to mind, though.
When the youma burst out much larger than he expected it made him pause. It was not as large as the scorpion had been but seemed to him much more solidly built and, yeah, his sword wasn't going to do jack s**t against a creature of this mass. What the hell did they feed these things, anyway? Steroids? He could only ********>"
It was certainly time to improvise.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:33 am
Zia laughed. "Assumptions will be the death of you," She announced.
She was just playing a game at this point. She had a boyfriend, she wasn't looking for any one night stands, which was why she was only teasing him with vague statements and bets.
As the large thing came at him an energy blast from behind him shot past to meet it, burning the creature on contact and causing an unpleasant shriek in pain to screech out from it.
The energy blast gave way to another energy sensation, this one auric and powerful and coming from the cat girl that had taken Zia's place, it seemed.
"Agggh doing that always gives me a migraine," She complained, crouching down to her knees and rubbing her head with both hands just below the fluffy purple cats ears.
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:11 pm
"Well that certainly wasn't fair."
He looked back at her once and then watched as a phantom wind picked up to scatter youma dust over the area. He hadn't had to do a thing, apparently, and she'd certainly made the bet under false pretenses. Cheating didn't seem to quite cover it. It was only when he turned back to chide her about that that he finally noticed the cat ears.
"huh."
Not so much a question or a sound of confusion as a simple accepting exhalation of breath. In this war he was learning not to let things surprise him overly much simply because this entire thing was all going to be new and he didn't want to be perpetually surprised. He wasn't ignorant to culture, even geek culture, and knew Nekos were kind of a thing. He'd always assumed them to be the product of a japanese imagination but that was hard to keep hold of when he was staring at one...sort of.
"So...catgirls."
That would take some getting used to, for sure.
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:52 pm
"It was a jooooke," Zia whined, but she was still holding her head, and by now she flopped back on her butt to sit in the grass, bare toes curling as she tried to get over the feeling of suddenly losing a large chunk of life energy.
She never really got used to that, so it was probably silly to begin with that she was using it to make fake bets and tease people.
She lifted her head, looking exhausted all of the sudden, and took a moment to adjust her collar and ribbons. "I wouldn't have let you try to kill that thing all by yourself. It wasn't quite novice level anyway, and you're just a baby with a training weapon! I don't want you to die or get maimed, you're the second Pluto knight I've ever met."
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:39 pm
"You know, a kiss probably would have hurt less." he joked, perhaps inappropriately considering.
He scooped her up out of the grass gallantly and set her gently on the bench so she could recover out of the dampness of the night's dew. Pappy taught him to be a gentleman like that and manners that far ingrained into his very bones were hard to forget or ignore even if he thought she was a sneaky so and so for teasing him as she had.
He was still trying to get used to this whole thing and felt he was being rather remarkable with his acceptance, really, all things considered. Monsters, soldiers bent on his very destruction, catgirls. Yep, all of this seemed definitely real and not in any way unrealistic or absurd. Yet, for however improbable it seemed to be he was staring at it with his own two eyes so that left him with two choices: declare himself batshit insane or accept everything as it was presented to him and just try to make the best of an impossible situation.
When she mentioned other Pluto knights he lifted an eyebrow.
"So there are more of us?"
He wasn't sure how everything worked. So far the only knights he'd met were Camelot and Luxor and neither of them were from Pluto.
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:30 am
"Probably! But I doubt a kiss would bring you back from the dead," Zia joked, fluffy tail flicking behind her. "Besides, I have a boyfriend, and he would not like me kissing other dudes, sor-ee."
She flailed a little when he picked up, the bangles around her bare feet jingling a bit, but settled into a sigh when she was put down on the bench.
"It's not super painful, it's just a reaction to losing a lot of energy. The burning energy I fire is part of my life source," She explained, powering back down to her civilian form and patting the top of her head as if to double check the ears were gone.
"Yeah! He has some costuming issues, though, I think. Like, he have no shirt," She babbled. "His name's Luxor. Also I think instead of a kiss you owe me a cheeseburger to recover some of this energy I expended saving your fabulous butt."
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:27 am
"Luxor? You're kidding, right?"
As it happened that knight was the only other one he'd met besides Camelot. The man did indeed have a costuming problem in that he didn't have a shirt. He looked more like he belonged working at the Vegas casino of the same name than on the streets smacking down the Negaverse but who was he really to judge. Maybe the guy liked his costume. It was hard to tell, though, because he didn't seem to get excited about anything. Especially not being attacked by the youma they both fought. How, then, did he manage to end up with a pretty piece of trim like this? It was beyond his ability to understand. First Camelot has a wife and now Luxor's dating a catgirl.
Yeah, he definitely got the raw end of the stick.
"Never had a girl give up part of her life to get out of kissing me before," he joked. "Not sure how to feel about that one."
Was he simply not as attractive as he felt he was? That would be impossible, right? He was a good guy! Handsome enough and with decent pay and some seriously good skills for how to treat the ladies. Well, at least she admitted his butt was fabulous. That had to count for something and soothed his wounded pride a bit.
"Sure, fine, a cheeseburger's just as good as a kiss." Said no guy ever but this one... /sigh
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