Street Kids

Kira looked at her and nodded. "Yes...I only keep them around for that demon. Not even my shifting ability is good enough against him." She said and looked at Jason. "Come on." She looked to may. "Sorry for all the trouble though. As long as I'm still welcome, I was hoping to stick around. Although it seems my troubles may be to high for you." She said head heading out the window and then once on the ground, she went silent. She looked around her gun bag over her shoulder. Although making sure to hide all signs that they were guns. SHe looked at the others. "I'll be right back ok?" She said rushing off to find a safe place to hid her bag.
 
The creature who called himself Hood felt severely out of place in the situation, with everyone trying to comfort their companions. He was not good at such things in any sense, seeming to only give comfort on accident or without realizing. He watched and listened to all their interactions, eyes meeting May's as she turns toward him. He gave a simple knowing nod, confirming that he had seen the change in appearance, but saying nothing of it. He only hoped that people did not see the change in HIM during the gunshot.


It was not a fear of guns that drove him away from them, but the noises they made. Any loud noise in general could risk sending the black mass of his true form into a frenzy. The louder the sound and the closer, the more violent and chaotic the reaction could be. It bothered him, in these moment, having a very pronounced lack of control over his own twitching form.


Turning his gaze toward the window, he saw Sheena stand and move toward it, being helped by May as she climbs out and lowers herself. Giving no words, simply another nod, he slips out of the window quickly and with an almost predatory grace, shoes scraping the ground quietly. Hearing the boy's name finally form inside, Hood took mental note of this, as well as noting the boy's humanity. No wonder he seemed to fearful of them all.


(Sorry for the crappy sort of post. I can't really think of anything Hood could be doing at the moment besides being lost in his mind.)
 
(i think it's also his post in ToT possibly lol...guy is in sooo many things)


As the others join her on the ground, Sheena is almost entirely back to normal now, enough that she has the presence of mind to try to act as though she never showed the reaction she did. She hopes no one else will ask about it as she looks to May, asking, "So...are we going now? To your step- I mean YOUR place?"
 
When Sheena empthasizes the 'your' in her sentence, May gets a feeling in her gut, as if it is being twisted around and around until it is too late to un-knot it. She nods numbly, then looks around at the others, she walks a little bit so that she is infront of them all and stands confident, her eyes raking over each of them, "I just want to make sure, before we go anywhere, that you guys actually want to come with us." When she says us she obviously means her, Sheena and possibly Hood, since they both already agreed to go with her. She looks to Kira and Jason, "It will probably take about a day or two to get there including the stops we have to make for food and sleeping" She looks at them all, "But once we get there...we can stay there."
 
Kira leaned on the wall and looked at her. She looked down. "..." She pretty shaky about sticking around. They would start to notice her random disappearences. She kicked at the ground thinking to herself. They already don't like it that she has guns. She bairly got away with explaining that. Sometimes she may have to be gone for days at a time. How is she going to explain that? Yet she still wanted to stick with them.
 
Jason had followed Kira half-heartedly as she moved to the window, but slunk back to the room after she had faded out of sight. Man, did he feel small right then.


He kicked at the abandoned paper french fry container back in the room, not meeting anyone's eyes. He didn't know what to do. Hell, he was in a room full of teens who could turn into animals and kill people who he had just almost shot with a frickin' pistol. He must be the most lost preteen in all of the universe.


Jason only glanced up when May turned to regard him and Kira, who had slid back into the room. Did he want to go with them? Well, wherever they were going? He hadn't been there when they discussed where to stay. Again, he was indecisive and troubled. He was probably more trouble than a help. No, scratch that, there was no way whatsoever he could possibly be of help at anything. He couldn't pull his own weight.


"I... I'd love to, uh, go with you," said Jason, but added quickly, "If you'd have me. I can't, uh, really do anything at all." Then, wanting to get it all over, he asked, "Where are we, I mean you, going, exactly?"
 
May noticed his nervouness as he stumbled over his words and she smiled gratefully at him, "I know I wouldn't mind at all. I cant speak for the others of course" She swept her eyes over Sheena and Hood before looking back to Jason as he asked of their next location, she bit her lip lightly, her eyes showing pain and old memories before she blinked and shoved it away, she spoke in a voice that was supposed to sound secure and confident, but instead came out a bit wobbly, "My step-dad's." She quickly followed it up with an explanation, her voice now sounding secure, "We need a place to stay that has heating and water and such, and once he is out of the way, the place will be ours." Her voice wobbled once more on the 'he' part of the sentence, it was obvious that she had a mix of anger and fear of this step-dad of hers. Who wouldn't after what he did to her?
 
"It's okay with me," Sheena said quietly, shrugging. "If he wants to go."


She looks at Kira, waiting for her response, but she is already fairly sure the girl will go with them too. What she's curious about is Jason's reaction if he realizes what they intend to do with May's father...Sheena still isn't sure how that will work out, exactly...
 
Kira looked at her and then shrugged. "Fine I'll go I guess." She said looking at Sheena. She looked at all of them. SHe would have to be extra careful now. With that she stood up straight and then sighed deeply glancing at jason before looking back at Sheena. She rolled her head around since her neck was a bit tight.
 
Since it now seems agreed that everyone will be sticking together, Sheena is ready to move on. She has to admit to herself that she is kind of relieved...it would have been fine to just be with May, way more than she had expected, even...but in a group, surely that's even safer, right?


Well, other than the fact that Kira is a huge mystery with a bag full of guns, Jason nearly killed May with one of them a few minutes ago, and Hood is....well, not exactly anything she understands....


Turning back to May, she asks, "So, where do we go first...do we need to figure out a way to get a ride, or are we walking?"
 
(Oh, just to clarify, they are all standing outside the building right now)





May frowns, her eyes scanning over the peculiar group they seemed to have become. "Well, we would get there much quicker if we got a ride." She then looked back at Sheena, "But I'm not quite sure how we could do that." She looks around and sees an alleyway that leads to a busy street, she smirks lightly. "Wait here." Before she moves from her spot she closes her eyes and her body moves and shifts until she is a slightly shorter girl with blonde wavy hair that reaches to her elbows with paler skin and a smaller bust and hips, May opens her eyes and they are now a pale blue icy colour and you can see by her shortened height and smaller figure that she has changed her age to that of 13. She runs off in the direction of the alleyway and slips through it, vanishing from their sight as she walks behind a group of tourists, snatches up the map they have sticking out of their bag and then returns to the others quickly. She pulls out a pen she somehow acquired and circles a spot on the map that is a little bit away from where they are, probably a day or two's travel. She hands it to Sheena, "It's there." Her voice sounds younger and completely different.
 
Sheena, who is not exactly gifted at map reading, frowns at it, then shrugs. "Okay, so you know how to get there, fine. Are we gonna take a train or something because Hood," she nods at him, "isn't exactly one to blend...I mean, I stole cars before, we could do that, but if I got caught they'd know straight away who I was, and...I'm...kind of supposed to be dead."


She mumbles the last part without explaining it, then quickly moves on with her next suggestion. "Hitching, who in their right mind would take on five people in their car...so...that kinda leaves walking."
 
Jason felt the sting on his hands as he climbed down the ladder to the alleyway, and felt his sore tailbone smart when he jumped the last few rungs to the floor. Now that he thought of it, his shoulder wasn't feeling that good either, but he tried not to show it. No one else was complaining.


He shifted the bag of fast food- that he had brought with him- from one hand to the other. He was thinking about May, or rather, what she had said earlier. "When he is out of the way..." what did she mean? It didn't seem as if they were going to take lodging with her step-father, but what else could she mean? Except....


Jason purposely derailed that particular train of thought and listened to the conversation. As May transformed into a girl his age, he- proudly- managed not to gasp or jump. She was a shifter, after all; but he felt strange, seeing the older girl turn into someone as short as he was. Well, not that he was short, but compared to the others, he may as well have been.
 
Sheena glances at Jason briefly, having noticed him wince, but then looks back to May, continuing. "Walking might be kind of noticeable in a big group like this...but I guess we could take it slow, make stops along the way. And you and Kira could switch forms a lot, anyway."
 
Taking in all of this, Hood stayed silent for a moment as he thought things over, moving to eye the map a bit. At the mention of the train and him 'not blending in', Hood chuckled. "A train would not be a poor choice, especially for such a large group of people, but you are correct, Sheena. I do not exactly blend in well. However, I am very good at staying hidden and, if anyone does notice my face, I can simply explain that I am ill. It has worked before," he said calmly, tapping his fingertips on his leg. "Or, stealing a car might not be a bad idea. Walking could lead to trouble, no matter how many forms the others would take."


He stopped, pacing back and forth for a moment. "I could get a car for us, if you would like. More than likely something bigger, to house all of us in a comfortable fashion," he thought aloud, eyes shifting around the street. "Even around a sparsely populated area as this, it should not be difficult to find a car that is unmanned."
 
May listened as Hood spoke and she grinned, the dimples of this 13 year old girl form - which she seemed to be staying in - showing as she spoke, "Okay then, I vote for Hood's idea of getting us a car or something larger." The girl's blue eyes scanned around the area and then fell back on Hood, "Would you mind getting one Hood?" She looked over at Jason and gave him a small smile, glad he hadn't freaked out when she switched forms.
 
Sheena isn't sure she wants to know exactly how Hood will be getting a car. Something tells her he won't simply hotwire one, which is something she could quite easily do if she chose, and she says slowly, "Well, if you're gonna kill someone to get it or something, you could just let me do it. I guess I could keep from getting caught."
 
Hood tilted his head at May's question, but it was mostly at her change in form. "No, I would not mind at all," he said, eyes going down the street to look for something. As Sheena spoke, he began to chuckle, finally erupting in giddy laughter. "Though violence is a choice for many things, it is not always the right one, Sheena. I don't plan on harming anyone, especially not in broad daylight such as this. I was going to steal something that was unoccupied, if you must know. I've not lived for this long by running around slaughtering everyone I meet." This last line was said without a hint of coldness in his voice. He took no offense to her words, but was simply explaining his process in his own strange way.
 
"Oh," she muttered, somewhat relieved, then shrugs, looking over at him. "You ever done this before? Because it's not something you just guess at. I know how to."


Now that he's actually going to do it, seemingly, she feels almost competitive; though she hadn't wanted to hotwire the car, really, when that was one of the very things she'd gotten arrested for in the first place, she also sort of felt like it was "her" area of expertise. She wasn't sure she liked another person getting the job.
 
Kira suddenly relized she still had a hand gun. She looked at everyone who wasn't watching her so she slipped away. Running quickly to a small park. Past that was a little wood of trees were she and an old friend would go. It was a place that had a few old fallen trees that made a small cave like place where she was hidding her guns in. She grabbed the hand gun and opened the bag once she pulled it out.
 
Joe had been thinking about his old childhood friend recently, and wondered what she could possibly be doing at this moment, wherever she was. He stands up from the bench he had been sitting in, and slowly strolls into the park's interior, into the deep wooded area. She and he found a small cave when they were little, and they agreed that if they ever ran away, or had problems, they would go and live there. He reaches the tree cave, and hears the sound of a bag being opened, and the dull clank of cast metal. He cautiously peers inside, and sees a girl, putting a gun into a bag. Curious, he walks up behind her, tapping her on the shoulder and saying, "Nice gun. Tell me, why are you in my cave? There's only one other person I know of who knows where it is, and I don't even know where she is." He towers over her, waiting for her to turn and answer him.
 
Kira looked back at him and then stared. She couldn't quite remember why he looked familiar. She stared for a while before she spoke. "Your cave, this was mine since I was a child." She said looking around it. "Of course it has been a long time since I've been here." She said looking at him. She tilted her head trying to remember.
 
"Wait a minute..." Joe mumbles, squinting at the girl. He has seen that face before, but he can't remember where... KIRA! The recollection hits him, causing him to physically step back, a look if astonishment coming across his face. "Kira? Is that you? I mean... don't you remember me? It's Joe! We used to come here s kids, but now... What happened?" He frowns, looking at her battered, half-starved appearance. "Let me guess, you don't have a home either?"
 
Kira istantly remembered him when he said his name was joe. She smiled and then frowned when he said something about her parents. She looked down. "No...no...they....were killed." She said grabbing her arms and looked at the floor. "So..." She looked at him and smiled. "It's been so long...I'm sorry you just look well older." She smiled giggling a bit. "It's very good to see you." She said and then looked around. "Never thought I'd meet you here in this old thing." She laughed.
 
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