In her hand, sat what seemed to be some kind of device. On the device, was a red button that seemed to be glowing. With a flick of the wrist, the small trigger was tossed into the air. It would flip a few times before landing back in her hand. A pearly white smile reflected the setting sun as a small yet annoying beeping began to emanate from somewhere within her belt pouch. "Oh, looks like it's time." she said with a chuckle. Stepping from the wall, Hex took a breath and looked at her surroundings.
She had chosen a simple alley way to loiter in. While normally this might have been some concern for a seemingly frail girl like her, however, there were two very large deterrent to keep the grabby type fellows from approaching her. With the Tomikan weapons sitting on her hip and back, Hex looked to the device in her hand and then at the sun. The star was about three-fourths beyond the horizon, one of her favorite times to have some fun. The beeping once again returned. Her small smile soon grew wide.
"Boom Boom!" she cheered, her finger pushing into the glowing red button.
For a moment, nothing. Silence and strange looks from a homeless man were all that were awarded to the scantily clad woman. But in a few more seconds, what seemed to be rumbling converged all around them, only followed by an immense BOOM BOOM. The sounds of crashing steel and explosions echoed through the numerous alley ways and Hex could only laughed in a joyous move. "Fourty-seven strikes again! Haha! Scurry my little peons, scatter in fear! Your favorite terror has returned!" she whooped, beginning some elaborate victory dance.
But what did she mean by returned? Could it be that Hex had previously come to Kumo and ensued chaos among the populace before? No it couldn't be! The main branch of the village would have surely caught her! Speaking of...
With chopsticks in my hand, I was about to ingest a few noodles when a slight rumbling cause them to fall out. I glared down at my bowl and sighed. But then it hit me, Kumogakure didn't have earthquakes. "A fight!?" I gasped, throwing my chopsticks at the table. I looked to the waiter and was about to tell him I would be back to pay for my meal when the true force of the explosions hit.
I lost footing and covered by ears as the jarring sounds reached us from somewhere in the village. "Impossible, how was I not notified?!" I exclaimed as I stumbled up to my full height. I yanked the headset from my ear to check the channel. "Are you- Gotta be kidding. Out of power. I swear these fucking things are more unreliable than Nemoto Senna." But as I pushed through the door of the noodle house, my eyes were immediately drawn to long neon blue locks of hair swaying from side to side. "What the? Dancing?" I questioned.
Across the courtyard, some woman was cheering and proclaiming her greatness to the world. The words rang in my ears, and slowly registered. While I was hesitant to assume that the explosions were her dealings simply due to her lack of...well smoke and dust and all sorts of debris on her person, the things she was saying certainly made it seem that way.
She was still rocking out, oblivious to her surroundings. I slowly began to circle her position to get a view of her face. People all around seemed to be making their way inside, as was the usual procedure upon some kind of attack in the city. But not this one. The sounds of chaos kilometers away slowly drifted along the wind. Screams and shouts, cries of pain and fright reached us with an eerie feeling. With a slight shudder, I focused my power, generating three shuriken in my hand made of solid sand. At this slight use of chakra, the woman turned to face me. "Chakra sense...a shinobi!?" I thought in alarm.
In her moment of glory, Hex was unaware of the large chakra source making his way toward her. However, the moment he made use of some of that chakra, her time in the clouds ended and she was back on earth. Red eyes quickly turned to check her surroundings, falling upon Zaku's with a judging glare. As if asking... friend or foe? But what she saw was not the answer she was thinking. His face, though concerned, seemed to be frozen. In his moment of hesitation, fourty-seven looked to his hand and looked at the weapons. With a pouty face, the young woman put her hands on her hips. "Why you gotta ruin the fun?!" she whined, reaching into her belt pouch for something. With speed matched only by another kunoichi, three very scary looking grenades were tossed directly at Zaku.
As Hex turned to run, she sent a look over her shoulder to see how the young man faired against her explosives. To her surprise, he seemed to be encased in some kind of protective cocoon. "Hmph! But can the cat catch the mouse!" she shouted to him, turning into an alley on her right. She was heading away from both Zaku and the explosions, attempting to make her escape. Meanwhile, the sand that encompassed Zaku fell to the ground beneath him, a very cross look on his face. "I'm allergic to cats." he grunted and quickly jumped onto his nimbus. Rising into the air, Zaku began to follow through the alleys, looking for signs of the escaped assumed perpetrator.
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Meanwhile, Gekido ate a lambchop.
[Hex - dNPC]
[Gekido - iNPC]
[Zaku - PC]
[Information can be found in the Mini-profile area]
[Occurs after the Medical event]