Street Kids

Jason caught sight of Kira out of the corner of his eyes. He watched sideways as she emerged into the alleyway. He saw her hold out a hand, and make some noise; but he couldn't discern the purpose of it.


He gave a little yelp and jerked to the side when three hawks soared past him into the alleyway. He stopped himself with his hand, which- still red and raw- hurt horribly. He quickly picked his hands up and grasped it with his other hand, as if it could stop the pain. Ah, sliding down the ladder had been a bad idea. It had hurt enough to write all that in his journal!


Still clutching one hand with the other, Jason staggered into the alley. Kira stood there, petting the birds, and smiling contentedly. He was amazed at first at the trust these birds displayed... But then again, this was the Animorph girl. And those might not even be birds. Jason grinned, too- the sight of the girl surrounded by hawks, fluttering their wings and regarding everything royally, was strangely touching.


The effect was ruined by the blood the hawks avoided stepping on.


"Hey, Kira," said Jason, stepping closer, and receiving a shrill cry from one of the birds. "That's pretty cool," he said, motioning to the three avians. "Wish I could do that."


He glanced at the two bodies slumped over each other unceremoniously against the alley wall. Devoid of emotion, Jason monotoned, "I guess we should take care of these two...."
 
Kira smiled and then nodded. She looked at Jason and then maked a short hawk sound. The hawks flew to the shoulder of Jason. Then stared at him and then stretched out their wings as if to show off. She chuckled and then looked at the bodies. SHe shivered. "Um yeah..." She let out a bark. "Wait for it." A dog pack showed up. Mixed dogs of all sizes wag their tails seeing Kira. She smiled petting them all and then pointed to the bodies. They all barked and then drug it away. Kira shivered again and then swallowed a bit. "Sorry....I um....hate blood." She said holding her stomach not feeling to good at all.
 
The creature of blackness glared at the man, all traces of a smile leaving his face as the man spoke of him being a puppet and the change in him. The change in eyes, the voice. All of it was beginning to make the one called Hood furious. "You are beginning to TEST OUR PATIENCE!" he shrieked, at least six voices all calling out in unison as he slammed the man to the ground. From under his coat, tendrils of blackness began to emerge, all pointing at the other male. Hood stood hunched, his breath coming ragged and angry after the outburst. "We are puppet to none, nor do we obey the rules of one such as you!" With this roared sentence, Hood pulled the tendrils of darkness around the man and, with one last glare from his white eyes, leapt from the roof, sending them both down toward the pavement.
 
"Wha- whohoa," said Jason, not too eloquently, stepping backwards as the hawk landed on his shoulder. He craned his neck in the other direction, not wanting to be pecked, but smiled anyways at the bird on his arm. He winced as it dug into his shoulder. "Thanks," he said to Kira weakly. He had never seen a bird of prey this close before, off of TV of course. Its eyes were perfectly round and flecked hazel. It regarded him sideways, with one eye, and its feathers merged perfectly into a continuous wave. These hawks were cleaner and better-looking than him!


The other two hawks had settled onto the dumpster, but all three flew away at Kira's dog call. Jason shivered slightly at how precise the sound was. He watched incredulously as the canines dragged the bodies away, leaving a trail of blood behind; where would they take them? Would they eat them?-


Jason was beginning to feel a little queasy as well. He felt his shoulder with his right hand absentmindedly, slight pain registering from both surfaces. The blood was still there, and it would be hard for people to miss it.


A drop of water suddenly fell on his arm. Jason looked up; but the only thing above him were the sky and the clouds. He watched another droplet splatter against the metal dumpster. "'S raining," he commented, still looking skywards.


He heard a thump from the main street. He snapped his head down to look out of the alley, then at Kira. "What was that?" he said quietly, not knowing why he was whispering.
 
The man glared and then just smiled. Suddenly he surrounded himself in red energy. He stopped dead in the air. He laughed as his skin turned red. He grew claws and black ripped wings tore through his clothes. "Fine then...." He roared himself braking free of the shadow. He flapped his wings bolting up into the night sky. He looked down at the black figure and laughed waving his hand. "You see now?"


--- Merged Double Post ---


Kira shrugged and then looked at Jason. She walked up and looked at his shoulder. "Oh sorry." She said and then looked at Jason shrugging. "Um no." She said and then sighed deeply as she rubbed the back of her head. "I get the feeling I really don't want to know." She looked at the blood trail and then looked at kira. "Um....b-but I could....um ah could get out of here?"
 
"How could we get out? The noise came from..."


Wait. Oh, yeah. She could just fly out in the other direction. Or race away as a squirrel. Or scuttle along as a spider. "Oh. Yeah," he said. "Well... Don't mind me," said Jason. "Go ahead and leave if you want to. If it's something bad, I think I can trust May and Legs to protect me." He shuffled his feet; if Kira thought that something was worth being wary of, he didn't want to be alone.
 
Kira sighed. "I'm not going to leave you here." She said holding out her hand. "Let's just both get out of here." She said smelling the man nearby. She shivered hearing another set of wings. "Ok let's get out of here now, How about somewhere less bloody and dangerous. Maybe quiet." She sighed deeply and then looked around. Suddenly growing wings, she looked at Jason. "We both can fly."
 
From inside the building Sheena had still been fighting dozing off; as all this is going on she sits up with a start, then looks down, nudging May awake. "May...May, something's going on."
 
"Oh- whoa, kay, I didn't see that coming," blustered Jason at Kira's sudden wings. "Ah- I mean-" he began to hear voices from the street and, creepily, the air. "Yeah, maybe you're right." He glanced around, uncertain. "What about Legs and May? Or would I slow you down? If the man wants to kill you, then I don't want to slow you down... But... You know...."


Jason was thinking something completely irrelevent and probably silly at the moment. He had always wanted to fly.
 
As they fell, Hood began to smile wide again. He would show the other, teach him. Before they hit, however, his smile faded as red energy pulsed around them and the other stopped. The blackness that bound him writhed away pulling back into Hood's body. The creature's white eyes went wide at the transformation, watching as the other male got smaller and smaller. Was the other flying higher with those wings?


The thought only had a minute to twist through Hood's mind before he hit the ground hard, a cracking thud echoing in the empty street. Looking up at the man, the blackness began to pull back, revealing glaring yellow eyes and pale flesh. He spoke normally again, but was sure the other could hear him. "Yes... I see," he gurgled, leaning his head to the right to cough a bit of blood onto the pavement. "And you called... ME demon?"


Giving a pained laugh, he watched as the other waved and moved from his vision. Trying to get up, Hood scowled at the white hot flashes of pain behind his eyes. "That does not... seem well," he choked, beginning to drag himself toward the building with his right arm. The left was twisted in an awful way. "Surely... I've not broken... this Host..." he continued, finally making his way up to the building and leaning against it. "That could prove.. problematic."


Sighing, he looked toward the sky again, feeling something hit his face. "Rain," he stated simply, smiling again. "Always... relaxing."
 
As it starts to rain, Sheena sits up, lightly shaking May again; as she glances out the window and sees Kira's mysterious captor suddenly shift into his monstrous winged form, her eyes bulge, and she hisses at her, more anxious now. "MAY! May, get up, look, LOOK!"
 
As the man flew off Kira sighed and looked at Jason. "No he left." She said and then sighed and heard poor hood. She looked at Jason and then ran up. She saw Hood and shivered. "Oh God what did he do to you?" She said looking him over. "Well this is just great." She shook her head worried that he'll come back and now not even hood could protect her. "Oh this is bad!"
 
Sheena sees Hood falling from the roof and thinks at first he's flying, but when she hears the sickening crack of his body hitting, she gasps, realizing that he fell...and he actually sounds hurt. Badly hurt...that...whatever Hood is...could get hurt?! Who hurt him, did he get thrown off the roof by that...winged monster thing after Kira? Holy shit...


"MAY!" Not waiting for her to respond, Sheena jumps up and runs to the window, half leaned out of it as she tries to see what's going on more clearly, looking around wildly for the winged creature.
 
Hood swallowed roughly and started laughing. It ended, however, in coughing. Wiping a bit of blood from his mouth with the back of his hand, he spoke, voice a bit less broken than before. "No. What I did to me. Awfully stupid decision... jumping off the roof. We-- I thought he was... just human. Should've known," he sputtered with another wet sounding laugh. "It's funny... because he had a gun... acted scared of you, Kira."


Stopping for a second, he looked over himself, hardly flinching as he touched his broken left arm. . "What an awful... mess this is. Actually have to sleep. Heal. Glad that He's a Lycanthrope. The Host, I mean. Should speed things up." Snickering, he looked at his legs. "Glad I landed... on my back. Broken legs are harder to heal..." he muttered, not making much sense really.


Looking over to Kira again, he shook his head and managed to smile. It was an awful looking sight, with all the blood on his face, but not a menacing one. "No, not bad. Next time, I won't under... underestimate him. Know what we're--I'M up against." His smile turned into a grin. "Going to make him scream... eventually. Now, if I may. Can you all get me inside? Can't risk being seen... all torn up like this. Could bring unwanted attention."
 
Her stomach turning over at the sight and smell of his blood, even more blood on top of all she's already seen today, Sheena looks up to the sky, noticing the small figure becoming smaller still as it flies away, and thinks that it seems as if they're safe for now...certainly Hood won't be able to hurt them in this condition. And they can't leave him out there, to attract the attention of other people who might call the police...


It's the thought of the police arriving that spurs her into action, and she scrambles through the window to join the others outside, yelling back to May that she's going to help before dropping herself down to the ground beside them. once there she hesitates, not sure how to hold or pick him up best, and not pleased at the thought of touching his bloodied form.
 
Kira nodded and then looked at him. "I should have remembered he was a demon..." She said slowly starting to lift him up. "I made a few dogs get rid of the bodies....I bet they got well fed." She sighed deeply getting blood on her. "Oh crap...I hate blood." She shivered and looked at him. "Oh right sorry." She said helping him to stand. "Yeah...wouldn't want you going after anyone else." She chuckled.
 
Helping Kira to support him, shuddering at the feel of him against her both because of her knowledge and remaining apprehension of who he is, and because of the blood, Sheena looks to Kira, asking, "How are we gonna lift him up that high? Can you...fly him up?"
 
Kira nodded. "Yes I should be able to fly him." She said smiling a bit trying to hide the fact that the blood was freaking her out. "However if I throw up....because of the blood....well just keep a look out." She said sighing deeply as she grew wings again. She looked at Hood. "Um Ready?"
 
"Um...I'll just go back up there and...help pull him in," Sheena said quickly, not relishing the idea of being splattered with vomit from below, and she helps shift Hood's weight more fully onto Kira before scaling the building again and re-entering teh window. She remains stationed there, ready to help pull him in.
 
Jason felt like he should help, but first off, he didn't think he could handle touching that man (bloodied as he was), and besides; he looked down at his hands. He'd be useless at heavy lifting for some time in the future.


So instead, he stood back, where the blood didn't reach, and felt the rain pour steadily faster as Hood was lifted into the building.
 
At both Legs' and Kira's reactions to all of the blood, he chuckled a little, actually wincing as he was helped to his feet. "I apologize... for the mess," he joked, laughing then swallowing roughly. The creature wasn't used to this much pain, however calm he seemed during it. He also had never been impulsive enough to simply throw himself from a rooftop. Perhaps the other male had been just toying with him? He didn't know enough about Demonic beings to be sure. As they discussed flying him up, he smirked, expecting it to be quite the interesting trip. When Kira asked him if he was ready, he nodded, steadying himself and taking hold of his broken left arm. It was painful enough, but he assumed hitting it on anything would be much worse.
 
Glancing back briefly at May, then down at the others, Legs asks Kira hesitantly, "Um...what are we supposed to do once he's in?"


Addressing Hood now, "Uh...do you have fast healing, or something...because we don't exactly have medical stuff here...and nothing's really open to go steal from anymore." Also, she's not sure she wants to stay that close that long, but she doesn't mention that part.
 
Kira nodded but made her wings twice as big. It was hard enough to fly herself with normal human bones. Now she had a man with her who was probably twice her weight. She started flapping hard, her wings still growing a bit. She kept a tight hold on Hood as she started to lift up. Her wings beated faster and faster creating a nice wind. She was already panting half way to the window. "Man....who knew you were so heavy." SHe chuckled trying to get her mind off things as she worked her wings. It was very tiring not to mention she hadn't slept good in a long while. She still managed to get him up. Trying to get his legs in first she used her own legs to lift his. "Legs...in first so I can set you down sooner." She said her breathing heavy. Human like bones were just to heavy to fly with out her huge wings. She thought about how bummble bees do it. She sighed it was amazing their big bodies could be held up in the air by such small wings. This seemed no different.
 
As Legs spoke again, Hood turned his attention toward her, quietly chuckling at her words. "I can heal... will not be very fast, though," he tried to explain, swallowing roughly again. The last thing he wanted to do was cough up more blood and make the girl helping him ill. "It may take awhile... due to the severity of injury. I may have to regrow bone. It can be a... very taxing process."


He stopped speaking as Kira lifted him, wings beating the air around them loudly, sending the rain moving in strange patterns. At the mention of his weight, he smirked. "Blame this... host," he murmured, gritting his teeth and trying to ignore the flashes of pain in his vision. Nodding again at her words, he lifted his legs, extending an arm as well. Slowly, the black goop emerged, going around his hand. Pushing it forward with a grunt, he pulled it around a jutting part of the window, easing some of the weight. "That should... help with weight and... getting inside... as long as... hurry."
 
Sheena moves quickly to take his legs through the window and help drag him inside, grasping him gingerly by the waist and helping to haul him the rest of the way in to give Kira a rest. She drops him a little less than gently to the floor and quickly backs away, before saying somewhat begrudginly, "I guess he needs one of the mattresses."


Damn it, if he gets one to himself, that means the other four have to share two...well she claims the one with May, is all she knows, and she glances back at May as if to silent communicate this. Although she guesses if Kira wants to be a cat Jason could have one to himself.


Waiting for Kira to come back in and help her haul him to one of the free mattresses, Sheena stands over him kind of awkwardly, not saying anything.
 
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