Street Kids

Hood thought on this for a moment. "Well, I HAVE stolen numerous vehicles, but I've never hotwired them, come to think of it," he said with a slight frown of concern. He smiled again, however, looking to her. "You know how to do that though, yes? I suppose we could help each other then. And I assure you, neither of us will be 'caught'."


Smiling wide, he worked over the plan in his head, hardly noticing Kira leave them. After a second, he looked around. "Hmm, I wonder where she seems to be off?" he asked no one person in particular, still looking up and down the street for a suitable vehicle. "We may have to walk a block or two, Sheena, until we find something that could comfortably hold everyone."
 
Sheena smiles slightly at Hood and then nods, willing to agree to this. As Kira slips off, she looks around, letting out a slight growl of frustration.


"Okay, does that girl want to come or not? The way she keeps slipping off...and all those GUNS..." she hesitates, then moves to May, saying under her breath, "Do you really think we can trust her? I mean, there she is, off again...for all we know, she could be calling someone to take us out."
 
(Sorry, took the wrong pills, knocked myself out.)


"Time does that to people." He shrugs, and smiles, "Me either! What do you say we go grab some food? It's been a long time, and you look a bit hungry." He says, proffering his arm. He wondered if she remembered his little "magic" tricks, levitating rocks, then turning the rocks into turtles and other miniaturized animals.
 
Kira shook her head no. "Sorry but I must be getting back to some others. Besides I'm not very hungry today." She said smiling and then walked out. "However I do wish to catch up with you." She said smiling at him. "It's really been to long joe." She said looking around. She looked back inside the cave. "Soon they will notice I'm gone."
 
"Well hey, I've got nothing to do and nowhere to go. Mind if I tag along?" Joe smiles, then adds, "I would really love to talk to you about a few things, especially something I found out. It has something to do with... transforming." He says, bending down and picking up a dead leaf. He closes his hand around it, and envisions a bird, and a soft glow emanates from between his fingers. The atoms in the surrounding air, and the dead leaf, are all pulled together, forming the compounds and chemicals that make up a bird. He opens his hand, and a small bird, as small as a humming bird, looks around, tweeting, before flying out off into the trees. "What do you say?"
 
At Sheena's nod of agreement, Hood smiled and began to head down the block slowly. He could hear the girl talking about Kira, tuning it out mostly as he looked this way and that, blending in with the few people on the street surprisingly well. As he peeked around the corner of an alleyway, his black-tinged eyes happened upon a white, unmarked loading van. Watching it, he saw no activity in or out and grinned, turning around the alleyway again to give a bit of a wave to the others, trying to draw them over.
 
Kira looked at the bird and looked amazed. "That's awesome joe! Hey looked what I can do!" She said shifting into a german shepherd. She smiled wagging her tail. SHe then shifted back her clothes having shifted with her. She smiled and then looked at him. "Cool i think you will fit in very well." She said grabbing his arm. "Come on then!" She said smiling and started to tug him along as she ran back towards the others.
 
Sheena moves toward him stealthily, her eyes peeled, senses sharpened for any movement or approach nearby; she is also staying aware of Kira's possible return, still uneasy about her disappearance. She walks alongside the car casually and raises an eyebrow towards Hood, as though to ask which part of it will be his doing.
 
Jason trailed behind the two, his sneakers quietly scuffling against the sidewalk. He observed the derelict buildings all around, and the few automobiles and pedestrians, a bit jealously. Ignorance was indeed bliss.


He peered around Legs- no, Sheena, he reminded himself- to the white van. Nice coincidence, he thought. Seems sorta unlikely, though....


"Well," he said casually, trying to fill the silence. "Are we taking this ride?"
 
Sheena, for her part, is somewhat suspicious too as she thinks more about this. White van- aren't those usually symbolic for something? What if this is an undercover car, for cops, or worse...what if this is like one of those dogooder vans that go around giving sandwiches to homeless kids, or even worse, someone posing as that to try to lure them in and then take them off to pedo rings or something? What if it only looks empty?


She looks around again, then back at Hood, before lifting her chin and stepping forward. Worse comes to worse, she and May could run, and Hood too probably...Jason, well...he could ride on her back in her wolf form, maybe.
 
Joe stood there, his eyes fixed on the German shepherd that had once been Kira, before she turns back and begins pulling him along. He laughs out loud, "You can change into animals? That's so cool!" He says, allowing himself to be lead. They finally arrive near a strange looking trio, a dark, demonic looking man, with a strange, twisted face, a girl who looked as worn as Kira, and a kid, probably not older than thirteen, all standing near a white van. He whispers to Kira, "Are these the people you had to meet up with?"
 
Kira nodded smiling at him. "Yeah." She said looking down, she looked at Sheena. "What's going on?" She whispered unsure of what's going on. She looked down. "Sorry I had to return something to my bag." She looked at Joe smiling. "But I found an old friend of mine...I was hoping he could tag along?" She asked carefully.
 
Hood moved up next to the van, looking inside. It seemed to have various logos for a delivery company. There were a few bundled up stacks of paper in the back, confirming this. "Yes. It would seem we're safe," he said, as if to settle all the silent worries around him and to answer Jason. Going to where the door met, he lay his hands along it, blackness beginning to creep over them, then into the door. After a moment with a concentrated look on his face, the driver's side door lock popped open. Smiling, Hood turned to the others. "It would appear that we are 'in business'."


He began to say more, when he noticed the return of Kira, with one more person in tow. He eyed the newcomer, quickly pulling the blackness back from his fingers. "An old friend eh?" he asked, smiling wide and extending a too-slender pale hand. "Pleased to make your acquaintance. I am called Hood." Behind the hood that covered his head, his yellow eyes watched the new one, something behind them shifting strangely.


(By the way, Magic Hobo, Hood isn't TOO messed up looking at this point. Not his face anyhow. There are a few signs of something odd, but nothing too monsterous just yet. =P That's mainly when shifts forms. Welcome, by the way!)
 
"Hello," said Jason, cocking his head at the newcomer. His choice of clothing interested him; he wore a rainbow-colored scarf and appeared to have a playing card on him. Eh, he thought, this one's probably got powers too.


"What's with the card?" asked Jason, skipping introduction. Rude, maybe, but he didn't really care at this point.
 
When Sheena whispered into her ear May shrugged lightly, "You can never really trust anyone Sheena." She notices how dark and ominous this sounds so she quickly adds something, "Besides, I'm sure that that someone who she could be calling to take us out would fall miserably. We have Hood, and of course me and you aren't defenceless." She then follows Hood and when the other boy appears she tenses up for some reason, another person coming with them? She swallowed nervously, she was still in her fake shifter form of a 13 year old girl with long blonde hair and pale blue eyes and she decided to stay that way for now, she didn't like the reaction she got from a lot of men and even boys when she changed back into her freakishly perfect real form. Did she really want this other boy to come along with them and witness the reaction she might have to seeing her monster of a step-dad? She didn't speak, moving her eyes back to the van, she spoke in the fake voice of the 13 year old, "Shall we get going before the owner comes back?" She directs her question to Hood, her pale blue eyes sliding over to look at him.
 
"Ah, that my friend is the Ace of Diamonds, a lovely card. I have it because it is good luck, and can turn into anything I wish, so long as I know what it's made of..." He says, reaching up into his hat and pulling the card out. He places it in the palm of his hand, and puts his other hand over it. He pulls more atoms out of the air, and turns the card into a hundred dollar bill. He holds it up, showing the others and smiling, and snaps his fingers. The bill turns back into a card, and he places it back into his hat. He reaches into his pocket, and pulls out a coin. He tosses it up into the air, and holds it there. He spins the coin around and around, so fast that it would appear to anyone as a perfect sphere of metal. With another snap of his fingers, it turns into a rose, which he admires for a few moments, before tossing it away.


He eyes the strangers hand cautiously, than shakes it, not wanting to be rude. "The name's Joe, The Magic Hobo, but please, call me Joe." He looks at the rest of the last one, the one who looked cautious, afraid, threatened if you will. He takes off his hat and bows to the girl, saying, "Madam." He looks over them all, "So, if I'm correct, you're not all here because you feel like going for a pleasant ride in the town, no? What is it that you may be doing?", the implied question being 'What are you all doing?'
 
Kira smiled at Joe and then chuckles. She looked down and then back at everyone. She saw how they always were unsure when she was around. She looked at the ground rethinking this whole thing. SHe looked at Joe and then at the others. Maybe she was acting a bit out of the ordenary and came back with a friend? It was odd but weren't they all?
 
Sheena openly stares at Joe, not bothering to hide her present distrust of him, before looking over at Kira, not much more trust in her expression aimed towards her than at Joe. Staying near May and Jason, she says bluntly to Kira, "You just invited some guy who doesn't know what's going on but DOES know you're like a gangster with guns? Who is he, your boyfriend, your initator...what?"
 
Kira looks at her and crosses her arms. "I'm not a gangster! I just have guns! I got a demon after my A** and you think I'm not intitled to protection!" She glared and then crossed her arms. "No he's my friend....I just wanted to catch up with him." She said looking at them and then looked down. "I know you don't trust me...if you want me to leave just say so....I just thought....I wouldn't have to be alone."
 
Sheena swallows, looking away, and struggles inwardly with a response to this. She /doesn't/ trust Kira, and definitely not this Joe...but it is true that Kira has helped protect her and the others...she hasn't hurt them yet...and if she wants to, couldn't Sheena protect them? Unless it's a gun...even Sheena can't win out against a bullet...


But the look in her eyes, when she says she doesn't want to be alone...
 
Hood grinned, an almost maniacal look about him. This one was VERY interesting, especially the card he wielded and the tricks it could do. "Joe, The Magic Hobo?" he repeated, laughing. "That is quite the name! And, as for your assumption, you are somewhat correct. We are going to use this vehicle to find a better means of shelter." He stopped there, not wanting to explain TOO much of what they were doing. Unlike Sheena, Hood trusted Kira, but did not know what to make of this newcomer. He was interesting, though, so that would have to do for now.


At Sheena's harsh words, Hood tilted his head, but still smiled. "Now, now, Sheena, no need for such harshness. It is not as if we cannot take care of any problems that arise, correct?" he asked, eyes flickering as he turned to Kira, trying to straighten things out. It was interesting, watching them squabble, but it would be very bad if they got caught near the car. "I very much doubt we are going to leave you alone, but we SHOULD be leaving soon. We can discuss trust and mistrust and old friends once we are on the road."


He looked at Sheena again. "If I may make a suggestion: could you get this vehicle started so we may be off? I am getting very nervous simply sitting here bickering, when someone could emerge from that building at any moment." He opened the door for her, gesturing inside. Unlocking the doors, he slipped into the passenger side, meaning to watch the girl get the van running. It was a skill that seemed very useful, especially if he became separated from the group.
 
Kira looked at hood and sighed. At least he was nice to her. She looked back at Joe and then tilted her head to the van wanting him to get in. She got in herself and then sat down behind hood. She looked at her lap and then closed her eyes for a bit. It was so hard to fit in. Why? Has it really been so long that she doesn't know how to act around people? Or was it that her way of getting money was something that no one would like to hear.
 
Sheena eyes Hood, then Kira and Joe, for a few more moments, then nods somewhat stiffly, dropping it and her concerns for now. Opening the hood to the van, she begins to fiddle with it out of view, then briefly pulls her head up to give Hood instruction. After a minute or two the car, between the two of them, starts up, and she straightens, closing the hood, and gestures to the others. "Hurry up, get in if you're all coming."


(Sheena knows how to hotwire, not me, so sorry, no detail on that end lol)
 
Joe nods, and gets in the van, sitting next to Hood. Something was strange about this guy, but Joe just couldn't put his finger on it. He turns around and looks at Kira, saying, "Well she's a rude one. It's not like I've killed anybody that didn't deserve it. Only the worst of criminals..." He turns back, and pulls out a piece of paper, and shifts it into cheeseburger. It's cold, but he vibrates the molecules and heats it to the point that it begins to steam. He stops heating it, and begins eating it. As soon as he's done, he pulls out some headphones, and plugs them into his mp3 player, bobbing his head and moving to the sound of Skrillex.
 
Kira watches him and then looks at the ground. She didn't respond to Joe. She looked at him and shook her head at him. "What are you listening to?" she asked leaning forward and then carefully listening to his music. "..." she leaned back suddenly not interested anymore. She looked out the window. She was a bit happier to have an old friend around. Someone that would make her laugh at his silly actions and tricks. Well at least she remembered I being that way when they were younger.
 
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