19 | Training

[chalicejoker]

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?"

Comments

[darkhourdear]

"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.

[chalicejoker]

"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.

[darkhourdear]

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

[chalicejoker]

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."

[darkhourdear]

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

[chalicejoker]

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