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19 | Training

Who: Hajime and Philip.
Where: A quiet park somewhere.
When: The afternoon of February 1.
What: Hajime's concerned about this kid who keeps leaking apocalypse energy and can't control the shadow-things he spawns. He's going to try to help.
Warnings: Shadow monsters. Oooh, scary.

Hajime didn't object to training sessions for the other members of the network. Really, it was a good idea to get one's abilities under control. No, what made this instance a little weird was that Philip was so young, and that he was pretty much leaking some sort of crazy energy. It made Hajime's bugmonster instincts uncomfortable, and he had to make sure to keep an eye on himself. He didn't need to run around attacking kids because his monster instincts objected to the sense of sameness there.

So he'd offered to try to help Philip get things under control. It made sense; if Philip's shadow-things couldn't be controlled, then Hajime could defeat them.

He gave the kid a nod. He hadn't transformed into his bug-self yet, and he was hoping he wouldn't need to. "You ready to try making one of those blob-things?"

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Phillip was glad to have someone to train with too. He felt a little bad asking Toushirou, since his energy gave him a headache, and Luke was dealing with his own problems right now. He didn't really want to ask Grandpa to deal with this either, and Henry didn't like killing things. So Hajime offering was really nice.

"Yeah, I'm ready!" the boy says, nodding. It wasn't hard to summon them, after all. He just didn't know what to do with them after.

"Alright, then..." Hajime's form rippled as he assumed his giant bug monster form. Easier to take care of whatever it was Philip was making without having to take the additional step of changing.

"I won't attack them unless it looks like they're getting out of control. Just try making one, and try telling it to sit and stay or something like that."

Phillip nods in understanding, for the moment just summoning one little creature. It's clearly quite freaked out just on arrival, instinct having it dart away from Phillip but once it sense the giant bug monster it doesn't want to go towards that either.

Phillip still has no idea why it does that. "Um, sit!" He focuses really, really hard on the blob, trying to get it to listen.

At the sight of the blob being summoned, Hajime is momentarily distracted by an all-too-familiar pulsing sensation inside his head. With it came a memory, of looking over at his shadow and seeing something spring forth from it. It was another roach-thing, different from him but still similar enough to be his, a manifestation of the worst of what he was capable of...

He shook his head, trying to will away the memory. He could freak out over it later. "Come on, little guy, listen to him..." The big bug moved to try to herd the blob back towards Phillip. To Phillip, he said, "So they don't actually do anything?"

"Usually they attack things and just run away from me... I don't know why it's doing that." Hajime might have a better idea, however, since when the thing runs away it appears to actually have anime like sweat drops coming off of it. "Sit!" No, it's still not listening to him at all.

"Weird...I'm going to see if I can get it to attack. Don't worry; I think I can handle it." Hajime made a sudden lunge at the monster like he was going to attack it with his big wrist blade. Maybe that would provoke some sort of response?

That counts enough as an attack to engage the creature, so it will settle down and attack back. The almost comical sweat beads remain as it feebly attempts to slash at Hajime. It's clearly a fairly weak creature. Anyone with the ability to defend themselves would probably be ok against the one.

"Does it feel any different?" Hajime asked Phillip as he blocked the creature's assaults on his large wrist blade. He'd gotten pretty proficient at using the thing, and given the blob's relative skill, he thought he'd be able to snuff it out very easily if the situation called for it.

Phillip thinks for a moment, before shaking his head. "Not really." Heck, he barely registers that the blob is a thing, next to Hajime's energy and power. "I don't think it's listening."

Hajime continues to fend off any feeble attempts at attacking that the blob is making as well as trying to keep it contained. "You think I should finish it off, then?"

"I guess so..." Phillip's a little disappointed that it's not working, but it's probably not going to do them any good right now. He does wondering why it runs away like that.

"Alright." Hajime suddenly struck hard and fast with the largest of his wrist spikes. Hopefully, he'd at least make the little blob-thing's demise quick.

It's gone almost immediately, just dissipating. It was very weak indeed. "D'you think I should try again?" Phillip asks, sounding a little doubtful. He's not sure if it'll do anything.

"If you want. What happens if you make more than one of them?" Hajime didn't seem exhausted in the least, though he was a little concerned about the way his own monster instincts wanted to get riled up at defeating the other's minions like that. So much power...

"Um, well then just more of them show up! But maybe they'll do something different?" Phillip will try it! He summons up three little blobs this time, all three of which try to get away from him and Hajime. They don't appear to be working together at all, though.

Hajime's just going to try to herd all three of them into the same small area. Maybe they'd do something all together like that?

They don't attack each other, at least, but when they finally start ganging up on Hajime they are particularly coordinated in their attacks.

With three of them instead of just one, Hajime's returning his attacks with more strength than he was using when he was only trying to keep the single blob-thing contained. "Are you telling them to work together?"

"Um... I am now!" The answer was 'no,' then. But there's really no difference in their behavior after he starts.

"They don't seem to have changed any..." Hajime slashed at the blobs here and there. Tried not to think about how they were annoying his monster instincts. "You ready for me to try finishing them off, then?"

"Yeah, I guess so." This wasn't turning out like he hoped at all.

Hajime swiped at the three monsters in much the same way he'd finished off the first one. He just attacked one to begin with; perhaps the remaining two would behave differently after seeing one of their fellows meet its end.

Still nothing. They seem to be mostly focusing on individual survival, even though they both seem to know it won't happen. Phillip is watching, still looking a little sad. "Does this mean I can't control them?" he asks.

"I don't know." Hajime's making another strike at one of the remaining two. "Maybe you just need it to be under the right circumstances. Or maybe control comes with another pulse."

"Maybe. I hope so." They're not very useful if he can't get them to do what he wants.

"Could be worse. At least they're not too vicious. They only attacked me because I started it." Really, uncontrollable monsters were easier to deal with when they weren't violent.

"They've attacked other people with them starting it, though..." Phillip doesn't know what to make of this, thinking. "...Maybe they were scared of you. They seem to always run away from me."

"Makes sense that they'd run away from me. Most people don't like giant roaches." But no, it couldn't have been a visible thing. He could sense Phillip's power, and he wondered if they could sense his. "When they attack other people, what were the other people doing?"

"Well, I mostly summoned them when I was in trouble." Phillip shrugs. "So usually something's been attacking me or my friends."

"I wonder what would happen if you summoned one and they didn't think there was any threat around..." Hajime wonders as he pulls a card from the box clipped to his belt. He swipes it through the belt buckle, and with that, returns to a human form.

Wow... that was cool. Enough to distract Phillip for a minute. "Maybe. I don't know how to do that while making sure they won't hurt anyone."

"Whoever you tested with would also need to be able to defend themselves...which might scare the blobs away anyway." Hajime sighed. "Maybe if they had a gun?"

"Yeah..." This is hard. "I'll think about it, I guess." It can't be a non-network person, though, and pretty much everyone he knows from the network has powers.

"Maybe I could ask Shou to help...he's a pretty good shot with a gun, and he's got one of his own already." Hajime decided that mentioning that he'd seen Shou shoot out the kneecaps of a couple of Blood Keys wasn't at all a good idea.

Phillip probably wouldn't care. "D'you think he'd be ok with helping?"

Still, Hajime clings to the idea that keeping quiet on violent gang-related activity around ten-year-olds is a good idea. "He might. I haven't seen anything he won't do yet."

"Ok. Um. I don't know him, so could you ask maybe?" You're not supposed to ask for favors from strangers, right?

Probably not when the strangers have Yakuza ties and guns, certainly. "I can ask him, yeah."

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