Central
Park (Eastern End)
This is
an incredibly huge park, very well maintained despite crowds
that
move through here at any hour, though it tends to be more
deserted
at night. Cobblestone paths run through the grassy areas,
benches
scattered everywhere. The park itself is divided into many
sections,
featuring even a restuarant at the center, a zoo, several
statuary
monuments, a fountain, and a floral garden.
To the
south, the path slopes downward, passing beneath a bridge over
which
cars drive, and emerging into a wider opening, where the Zoo is
locathed.
Glancing further, you can see a red brick building with an
intriguing
clock on top. Once an hour, on te hour, the bronze statues
of
animals dance around the clock while an animated little tune
chimes
their rounds.
Tomite
is here.
Obvious
exits:
Central
Park (NO) 67th St. (EA) Central Park (WE) Zoo
It's
time to play 'give several seishi a heart attack', aka, watch
Anana
wander around in Central Park on her own. Being cooped up was
getting
a little bit too annoying, and so, leaving a note for Tori
and
Nicholas, the girl caught the subway up here, in need of a bit of
outdoors.
At the moment, she's tossing a snowball up and down
thoughtfully
as she walks along one of the cobblestone paths.
Chase
is out of a jog. Yes, a jog. Pack over his shoulder, bounding
through
snow and plowed walks alike with his usual exuberance for the
cold
weather and typical enjoyment of life. Yeah, so he likes the
snow,
is this really so wrong? Taking things at a steady, but ground-
eating
lope, inevitably, his path draws him towards Anana like the
proverbial
moth to a flame. He leans down, scooping up a bit of snow
as he
continues, pats it neatly and then, deliberately, misses and
strikes
the ground with it at her feet.
Anana
blinks as a snowball splats at her feet, then follows the
trajectory
and laughs. "Don't make me throw this one at you. I've
been
juggling it for a while; it's icy and hard." But at least there
aren't
any rocks in it. The pink-haired girl is all but bouncing with
energy
at the moment, quite akin to the chibi of yore. She waves her
snowball,
then tosses it halfheartedly at him, intending on missing.
Chase
chuckles to himself as he trots up to her, dodging the snowball
about
as half-heartedly as she threw the thing. "Hey, I was just
teasing.
Notice that I /missed/. I'd sure hate to mess up your hair
or
anything." Of course, he follows that with a dramatic wink.
Drawing
in a long breath of the cool air, he looks down at her, "What
brings
you out here? Trying to tempt unsuspecting children into
making
a snowfort with you?"
Anana
giggles merrily, shaking her head. "I hadn't thought about
that,
but that's a fun idea," she replies, latching onto him in a hug
as soon
as he's within hugging distance. Looking up at him, she
grins.
"Are you volunteering to help, then? We can build a big fort
and
throw snowballs at Brice and Travis and Setsuna when they come
looking
for us."
Chase
is apparently getting a lot of hugs lately as well. Wow. How
fortunes
change. He laughs, giving her a hug right on back. "Hey, I'm
game if
you are. But maybe we'll get lucky and some lone Seiryu will
happen
by." Ohhh, wouldn't /that/ be fun? "You simply can't take the
chibi
out of the teenager, can you?" Yeah, another wink follows.
But no
smooches. Poor Chase. "I thought you'd prefer to throw
snowballs
at the Suzaku. I'll help mess up Trevor's hair if he stops
by..."
Anana offers brightly, stepping back and grinning all the more
at the
wink. "Or we could use Johnston's hair as a target, too.
Of
/course/ you can't take the chibi out of the teenager, I'm still
the
same person, just a little older, and..." Mischief mingles with
hope in
her eyes. "You wouldn't happen to have any candy, would you?"
Chase
winces, gloved hands patting at his pockets. "Ack. No, I don't.
Clean
out. When one goes out for a jog, you try /not/ to bring
sweets."
Because, that would just be defeating the purpose. "Now, I
deliberately
didn't mention the Suzaku at all, otherwise I know I'd
get a
scowl for even saying it. But seeing as you brought it up..."
Anana
pouts. "No fun," she says, quivering her lower lip like a pro,
until
in the next moment, she's laughing again. "Those two are just
being
dumb. I like them, but... meh." She looks up at him in brief
concern.
"You're all right now, though? If you are, let's go build
our
fort!" With all due drama, she points at a patch of somewhat
undisturbed
snow. "There!"
Chase
rolls his eyes, waving a dismissive hand at her. "Perfectly
fine."
Just a couple of left-over welts, but other than that he is
right
as rain. Or ice. Or whatever. He chuckles following after her,
dropping
off the pack and dropping to his knees in the snow. Cold is
fun.
"Never met... Trevor. At least, I don't think I did. Bah, I
can't
remember any more. Too many sei running around the city. Met a
Byakko
yesterday. Screams like nobody's business." Gloved hands push
around
the snow into something of a pile.
Anana
balls up a snowball again, then begins rolling it into a larger
ball,
turning it over on its side to make sure it keeps on being
even.
"Trevor McConnell. The pop star. He's the former Emperor, and I
think
he's scared of ordering people around this time." Irony. "A
Byakko?
Who screams? What did you do to make her scream, or what
happened?
And who is she?"
Chase
blinks for a moment, and then facepalms. "Wait. Yes, I did.
Damn, I
really can be an idiot some times." Thank you, aniki. "Yeah,
and you
were there, pip-squeak." Duh. He moves to stand, going over
aways
to push over yet more snow. Good thing there is plenty around
here.
"How'd you know it was a girl? Could have been one of their
guys,
you know?" Screeching Byakko guy. That'd be great. "But no, it
wasn't.
Mina? I didn't /mean/ to sneak up behind her and Brice, but
it
happened. He yelled, she screamed. It was something to warm your
heart."
"Oh,
when was that? You're right, it's hard to remember who I know
nowadays.
Meh." Anana waves a hand dismissively. "Don't give him any
good
information. He talks to Lexie way too much, and... eh. Never
mind.
Girls usually scream, boys usually yell, like you said, so I
thought
it was a girl. Mina?" Blink. "Oh, yeah. Amefuri. She's nice."
She
pushes that snowball around until she can't move it anymore, then
turns
to Chase with a helpless look. "I can't get it to where I want
it to
be, right next to your pile there."
Chase
nods. "A /long/ time ago. Not long after I found you guys.
Well,
its good to know I'm not the only one with a fuzzy head from
time to
time. Remember, we were going to try to sneak in to watch one
of his
recording sessions. He said it was okay. And Brice had no clue
who he
was." Chase blinks back over to Anana and then comes over to
push it
instead. "Yeah. Amefuri. The girl was awfully mopey though. I
gave
her a squeeze. You know, to be friendly." And it was a pretty
girl.
She looked like she needed it. "Did you know that Brice is
avoiding
you guys?"
Anana
blinks. "Oh, /right/. I'd forgotten all about that," she says,
grinning
suddenly -- though it might be the fact that she doesn't
have to
push the snowball around anymore. "It'd be funny to see if
he'd
still want to let us in. And you /squeezed/ her? You mean you
hugged
her, don't you?" She surveys the beginnings of their fort. "I
didn't
know that, but I'm not going to let him avoid us. Might have
something
to do with Travis, though. They never did get along." She
balls
up another snowball, then glances aside at Chase. "What else do
we need
for the fort? We have to smooth the walls a bit, no?"
"Canni
cheat in smoothing the walls?" Chase asks, looking at Anana
with
his best innocent smile. You know, the one complete with the big
eyes
and lifted eyebrows and everything. Gloved hands continue to
smooth
out the surrounded fort area of their creation. "That could be
it.
Hell, I went to you guys to apologize, one would think he'd have
enough
guts to see you all as well. But... being the stubborn guy
that he
is. Oh! Guess what. He want me to move into the same building
as
him." And if the tone of Chase's voice is any clue, that isn't
going
to happen any time soon.
Central
Park is becoming Mina's home away from home and so it's with
no
surprise that her bundled up figure can be seen making a slow
circuit
around one of the many cemented paths.
Her attention is
focused
more on the sidewalk before her than on the beauty of her
surroundings,
the sun glimmering off the soft whiteness ignored as
she
seemingly scours the ground for those nasty ice patches that can
send a
body flying with no warning whatsoever.
There's a pack slung
over
one shoulder, Mina's bookbag. Hrm,
could she be ditching class?
"Go
riiiight ahead. Just watch my feet, all right? I don't want to
get
stuck here," Anana says, winking at Chase teasingly. If it saves
her
work in the boring stuff of smoothing over the fort, hey, she's
not about
to argue. The sooner they can lay in wait for their
unwitting
victims, the more fun it'll be. She begins to make a stash
of
snowballs, compacting the snow between gloved hands
expertly.
"Sorry about the other day. I was... a little freaked out."
And
that's all she'll say about it for the moment. "Please tell me
you're
not moving in next to him? That'd be really weird, and..."
Pause.
Blue hair is almost as distinct as pink around here, and a
slow,
impish smile grows upon her face. "Chase? We have our first
target."
Amefuri
Seafoam
tresses fall in undulating waves around shy, pixie features
before
trickling to an end in the smooth caress of her lower back.
Fey
aquamarine irises peer out at the world from beneath a dark
fringe
of lashes, managing to look lost and knowing at the same
time. Petite and lithe, there doesn't seem to be
much substance to
her
small frame, but as in many cases, appearances can be deceiving.
There
is an indication of stubbornness in the tilt of her angled jaw
and the
firm set of her generous lips.
Well-worn
jeans swath limber limbs in denim so tight that it could be
considered
a second skin while a snug sweater skims over her upper
torso
in a vain attempt at warmth. Cowboy
boots peek out from the
flared
legs of the pants, their dusky leather setting her apart from
the
cosmopolitan feel of the city that she now calls her home. You
can
take the girl out of the country, but it seems you can't take the
country
out of the girl.
Amefuri
appears to be 18 years, 3 months, and 26 days old.
She is
awake and looks alert.
Chase
snickers, sits up just the slightest to lay his hands upon the
snow of
their little snow fort. With the weather the way it is right
now, he
hardly has to do anything to create that fine sheen of ice
over
the outside of their fort. There. Perfect. Indestructable -well,
unless
you get a team of kindergartners to happen by, then it would
be in
danger. He flickers Anana a glance askance and smiles
wryly.
"Don't. And don't worry about it either. And /no/, I'm not."
Brice
would have to drag him kicking and screaming. His head nods
slowly.
Yes, screaming girl. *snicker* Head peeps over the edge of
the
fort at Mina and he reaches over for one of the snowballs. Yes,
innocent
balls of snow. Wait for it... Wait for it... And then he is
tossing
it right at Mina.
"Gaaak!" Mina's ruminations are rather rudely
interrupted by a
snowball
to the head. And it's cold! It takes her a moment to scan
the
area for the source of that sniper attack, but the fort's noticed
easily
- rather hard to miss - as well as a familiar pink head and
the top
of a faded blue baseball cap. "All
right you two," she calls
out as
she dashes behind a nearby tree.
"This means war!"
Dropping
her
pack, she hastily rolls up a rather miserable excuse for a
snowball
and tosses it in retaliation.
Anana
nods approvingly at the work done on the fort, handing Tomite
another
snowball and picking up one of her own, popping up over the
fort
just in time to get half of Mina's snowball in the face. Her
expression
is that of comic disbelief as, with her free hand, she
wipes
the melting snow out of her eyes and stares at where Mina
went.
"That was /such/ a lucky shot!!" she protests, then tosses her
own
snowball in the direction of the Byakko. Her aim's good, but
whether
or not her /range/ is, well, that has yet to be seen. She's
just
going to duck now.
"Score,"
Chase crows before immediately ducking back down. Sure, Mina
isn't a
Suzaku, but she'll definitely do. It was only a matter of
time
before a seishi of some breed or another passed by this ambush
point.
At the explosion of snow, primarily upon Anana, he bursts into
laugher.
Yes, the classic point and laugh. Back to seishi attacking,
two
balls are taken up as he watches Mina hide behind a tree. Really
now.
Fairly stationary target. You are talking about the boy that can
take
out the eye of a turkey at a hundred yards. One ball is aimed
for one
side of the tree, the other for the opposite side.
Overconfidence
has Mina peeking out around the side of her tree to be
hit
with a one-two whallop as Anana's and then Chase's snowballs
hit. "Hey, no fair," she calls back,
disconcerted. "Two against
one." She needs to even up the odds. Concentrating on the snow-
covered
branch above the fort, she releases a brief spurt of chi and
a small
chimpanzee suddenly appears.
"Jump," she asks the little
semian,
who proceeds to do so, hooting and hollering happily. Watch
out
below!
"Oh,
we're going to play it that way, are we?" Anana asks, eyeing the
monkey
with outright curiosity. Oh, this is going to be fun. Wiping
the
last of the snow from her face, she sticks her tongue out briefly
at Chase,
then picks up a snowball and tosses it in Mina's direction,
swiftly
tossing another at the chimpanzee. "Fine. Chase? We're
playing
with powers." And the Genbu have unfair advantages when it
comes
to snowball fights with powers. See that evil grin?
Aieeee!
Falling snow and simians. What is a seishi to do? Well, that
would
be Chase rolling to the side to try to avoid the majority of
the
'avalanche', but more than likely managing to gather up more snow
about
him with the roll. Silly boy. He bursts into laugher once more,
more at
Anana then anything. The teenager is pushing up, only to
launch
over the rim of the fort and stand in the open
ground.
"CHARGE!" Spontaneously running in to face an 'opponent'.
Come
on. It's Tomite. Of course he is gonna do that. If the ground
wasn't
ice before, it is gonna be now. In a flash, there is a fine
sheen
of ice crusting over the snow between him and Mina. Run-run-
sliiiiiiiiiide.
Right for her. Yeah, laughing the whole time.
Doubling
over with laughter, Mina's concentration wavers and the
chimp
vanishes just as quickly as he arrived.
"Powers? Awww, Anana,
I was
just-ack!" Whomp. Another hit. And the snow from the
previous
attacks has started to melt and run down the inside of her
jacket. Aurgh.
"Okay, now things are getting serious," she mutters,
balling
up another missile to toss in the Genbus' direction. "Ack!"
There's
a mad seishi rushing straight for her!
Pivotting on the ball
of her
foot, snowball still in hand, she attempts to run. But it's
that
last slide that undoes her, and down Mina goes face first into
the
powder. "Ooomph!"
Gravity's
a force, and having snow dumped on her by a jumping monkey,
of all
things, is a threat to not only her dignity, but to her
physically
-- being buried isn't fair, after all. Thus, most of it
gets
sent off to one side as Anana pulls a face at the monkey, then
giggles
helplessly at Tomite's reckless charge. She'll just deal with
the
monkey, tossing snowballs at him, while Chase can try to tackle
Mina.
The Genbu really do have far too much with snowball fights --
and
they cheat, too. Not that Anana can do much about getting the
monkey
down from the tree, though -- climbing trees is not her thing,
after
all, so she'll just... throw snowballs. Yep. As Mina goes down,
Anana
cheers wildly. Pink-haired cheerleader. Fear.
Chase
is sliding. Sliding is fun. Extremely fun. He flickers a glance
behind
him as the momentum of his slide brings his quickly closer to
Mina.
Anana and chimpanzee. Heh. This is definitely one that'll have
to be
told to the others, if only for entertainment value alone. But,
yes,
back to the matter at hand, or not. Oh, but look, the Byakko is
down,
and he is still sliding. Hard to stop when you are sliding. He
reaches
the end of his sheet of ice, promptly gets tripped up as feet
meet
snow rather unexpectedly, and *WHOOSH* down he goes as well,
rather
by accident, and right for Mina. "Ack!"
Mina
weakly tosses her snowball at Anana, though from her prone
position
it would take a miracle to actually hit the pink-haired
cheerleader. "Hey, what about some sort of show of
sisterhood,
huh?" Yes, she's trying to form an alliance with
the female Genbu.
There's
a prickle of warning that shivers along her spine and she
rolls
suddenly to the left, scooping up loose powder as she readies
her
attack. Yup, as soon as Chase
faceplants, he's going to find
that
snow and collars do not mix well.
The
snowball that Mina threw doesn't hit, but it does drop like a
stone
mid-flight, and with a mischievous laugh, Anana reverses the
Byakko's
tactic, redirecting the force into the branches of the tree
above
Mina, shaking down snow. But it's at this point that, her
attention
distracted, she gets snow dumped down upon her by the
jumping
monkey, and her laughter cuts off abruptly. "Cold!!!"
Apparently,
some of it got down her collar. You'd think that a
Genbu'd
know that yes, snow is cold, but it's an instinctive
reaction.
Solution? Get out from under that tree, Anana. She skids
across
Chase's ice-path with less finesse than the man, but it sends
her
skating towards the pair faster than she could run, leaving the
monkey
behind. "Aieeee!" Okay, so control needs to be worked on. She
lands
on her butt on the end of the ice with a yelp, well within
range
of Mina now.
*FLOOF*
A cloud of kicked-up snow rises into the air where Chase
fell,
only to slowly settle about him once more. Nice one, duffus. If
the
aniki isn't here to say it, he will to himself. Shoulders are
immediately
hunching at Mina's snow, and he is rolling over to look
over at
her. Well, he was. But then he saw Anana sliding towards
them.
And, naturally, a sight like that just begs to be watched. He
sits
up, snickering, watching.
Added
to Chase's cloud is the snow that rains down thanks to Anana.
Great. Now Mina's buried under a light dusting of
snow. Her once
blue
locks are now as white as Subaru's.
Still, she can't help the
giggles
that escape and she curls, holding her stomach. "Ooh, ooh,"
she
gasps out between waves of laughter.
"Stop, stop... I give.
You're
killing me here." Watching the
pink-haired teenager slide,
she
can't but help laugh harder.
"Oooh, my tummy hurts from laughing
too
much!" What a defeat - undone by
the shinnanigans of the Genbu.
She'll
never live it down.
Saved
by the fact that Mina's laughing too hard to do anything, Anana
pulls
another face at Chase. "You're /so/ supportive," she says with
mock
severity, faking a sniffle of abandonment before she, too,
begins
to giggle helplessly, still sitting on the end of the ice.
What a
trio, really -- sitting in Central Park with a monkey likely
howling
at them in a tree back a ways. And they don't even have the
excuse
of being elementary school kids.
Chase
dusts his hands off upon his thighs, chuckling ever more, but
then
the laughing comes out as well. When you hear someone else
laughing
the way that Mina is, you simply can't help but get drug in
as
well. He sniffles once, reaching a hand up to rub over his
eyes.
"Genbu prevails again!" Or something. He crawls over to Anana
to wrap
an arm around her, "Aw, come on. You know I love you. But...
damn,
that was the richest..."
Okay,
them's fightin' words. It's the 'Genbu
prevails again' that
has
Mina rising to her knees and launching herself at both of the
turtle
god's seishi, snow cupped in each hand.
Attempting to
whitewash
both at once, she giggles wildly.
"Obviously your daddy
never
taught you to beware of false concessions." Or maybe it's only
in
Mina's family where snowball fights are never over until someone
goes
racing into the house, screaming.
Anana
squeaks as she ducks, waving a hand at the jumping Byakko
and
'nudging' Mina's jump so that, if Chase doesn't duck, he's likely
to wind
up with a double-whitewash and maybe an armful of Byakko. The
nearest
solid object in this case is... Chase. "Revenge!" she calls
gleefully,
balling up a snowball and lobbing it at the pair before
scrambling
to her feet... and slipping and falling on her rear end
again.
Today, it seems, is not Anana's day for grace. "Ow! Darnit!"
Chase
is not known for keeping his big mouth shut, and today is no
exception
either. He will eat snow with those words. Yes. "Dad told
me
never to hit a girl." Yeah, well... that has pretty much well been
blown
out of the water. But he is spitting out snow, falling into the
drift,
and simply laying there to look up at the revenge-taking
Mina.
"Never trust a Byakko to lay down and give."
Mina's
eyes widen slightly as she's nudged off course and she blinks
over at
Anana briefly before thudding against Chase.
The jarring
doesn't
stop her from gleefully stuffing his face full of snow. "You
better
believe it, buster." Another
whallop of snow has Mina wincing
as she
rubs the back of her head. "Okay
girlie," she growls, rolling
off of
the other Genbu to stalk Anana. You can
run, but you can't
hiiiiiide.
Anana
looks gleeful as Mina thuds against Chase, pointing and
laughing.
"You deserved that one, and, eep, who said that was me?"
She's
innocent, really. And she's going to try to make a run for
it.
"Chase! Stop her! Tackle her! Kiss her! /Something/!" she yelps
as she
gets to her feet and starts to skid off again, managing a bit
more
control this time, but still slipping from time to time.
Chase
isn't the kind of guy to mind at all when girls go thudding
against
him. Nope. Even if it is a Byakko with blue hair that he is
in the
midst of a snowball fight with. *floof* Yes, back in the snow
he goes
before managing to scramble back up. "Hah!" And the boy keeps
on
going, pivoting upon his knees to fall forward with hands that are
straining
to grab ahold of Mina's ankles before she can scamper after
Anana.
*Whomp* Down goes Mina face first into the
powder. Drat that double-
team
action. And so the whitewasher gets
some of her own
back. "Ack, ack, lemme goooooo..." While she twists slightly, one
hand
makes a grab for some loose snow that she tosses at the ankle-
grabbing
Chase - at least he's not an ankel biter? - as she twists,
propping
herself up with the other arm.
"You can run all you want
Anana,
but I know where you liiiiive," she calls after the pink
confection.
Anana
stops out of range of the older two, sticking her tongue out
again.
"Thanks, Chase!" she calls, then begins to giggle again,
standing
carefully on the ice. "And you can't get iiiiiiiin to where
I
liiiiive!" She takes great delight in drawing out the i's, even if
she's
still trying to control her mirth. Another snowball is
halfheartedly
lobbed towards the two, unlikely to come near them.
Chase
snickers at Mina falls, immediately ducking his head to the
side to
try to avoid any more snow going into his face. One can only
have
that happen so many times before having to turn away. "She won't
even
let me visit where she lives, and I'm practically her brother,"
Chase
adds, shooting a glance to Anana, along with the inevitable
sticking-out-the-tongue
pose.
True. Urgh, save her from smart used-to-be
chibis. Mina brightens
as she
remembers something, "Ah, but I have Nicholas' number and I
can
tell on you," she shoots back quickly. Of course the other
seishi
may not quite fear the Seiryuu, but she bets her right boot
that
Anana doesn't want another lecture.
Mina's received her share
of them
to know just how long-winded they are.
"Hey Chase," she asks
innocently,
trying to tug her ankle out of his grasp.
"Are you
ticklish?"
Anana
makes a face at Chase. She's really good at that, even going so
far as
to pull at the corners of her mouth before letting her grin
take
over again. "Not my rules, and you were over at my house before
my
parents moved, so nyah," she points out, then blinks at Mina
before
bursting out laughing. "You want to admit to Nicholas that you
lost a
snowball fight to me and Chase?" she asks, batting her
eyelashes
at the Byakko. "And... what're you going to do to Chase?"
Uhoh.
At
Mina's words, Chase is immediately letting go of Mina. "No." Said
that
awfully fast, didn't he? But notice now that his arms are most
certainly
down at his sides. He is sitting up as well, but still in
that snow.
"No, you all just end up over at my place half the time,
eat me
out of house and home." Although considering that the last
gathering
was at Namame's, there might be a change.
"I'm
an innocent victim," she retorts easily.
"I was just walking
along
when I got ambushed by you two. So see,
there's nothing else I
could
do but retaliate." Free at last,
she debates about going after
the
taunting Anana or the oh-so-ticklish Chase.
"Oh, reeeaaally,"
she
giggles down at the other teenager, but she decides that Anana
seems
safer target. Rising to a standing
position, she sort-of edges
in the
Genbu's direction, casting a wary gaze down at her partner in
crime
every so often. Wouldn't do to be
foiled again.
"Heeeeey,
we brought food the last time we did that, and drinks and
everything,"
Anana protests, waving her arms wildly to indicate her
indignation
at the accusation. "And he's ticklish, Mina, but /he/
started
it, not me." What're little sisterly types for if not to
drive
their older brothers nuts by embarrassing them? She's entirely
innocent,
of course, of any wrongdoing -- just look at her
expression.
All that's missing is a battery-operated halo.
Chase
draws up to his feet as well, purposely making quite a bit of
noise
as he proceeds to try to dust as much of the snow from him as
possible.
"That's it. Blame me." Again, nothing new, even if it is
partially
true. Can't buck tradition. "Yeah, Mina... but I believe
that
you started using your powers first? We were just in it for the
fun."
At least he is getting a lot better at not letting all those
shivers whenever someone not Genbu starts in with
the chi distract
him.
Every time he is looked at by Mina, the teenager responds with a
broad
grin. Look. Innocent. But never all that far from her.
Mina
points a questioning finger at herself.
"Me?" Oh, that's
right,
she did start using her powers first.
Still edging towards
the
smaller Genbu, she shrugs her shoulders at Anana's words. Every
good
predator knows that once you pick out your prey, you can't get
distracted
or you don't succeed. Step. Step.
Step. Blink. "Hey,
are you
following me, Chase?"
Anana
is rather aware of Mina's edging towards her, and an amused
look is
cast Chase-wards. "Yes, you started that one, Mina," she
replies
innocently, mischief lurking in her eyes, but showing nowhere
in her
tone. "Aww, Chase, it's /tradition/. You get blamed for
everything,
don't you know? We love you dearly, you know it." She's
just going
to brace herself to go skidding a different direction,
indeed.
"No."
Liar. Chase follows after Mina. He smirks at Anana, "Isn't that
the
truth." But,of course, he is chuckling rather softly. After
awhile,
one really doesn't mind. Naturally, being something of a
hunter
himself, and his own prey being Mina, his gaze is trained upon
her.
*pounce* Yes, Mina... you are about to get Chase-pounced.
Mina
bunches up her muscles, deciding that she's close enough to
Anana
to - "Gaak!" What is it with
Chase and these attacks from
behind?!? She goes skidding in the snow face first
once again. The
good
news is that she goes flying in the direction of Anana, and
therefore
she snakes out an arm, hoping to grab the younger seishi.
Hey, if
she's going down, she's taking the pink thing with her. The
other
hand goes towards the other Genbu, hand hooked in that 'oh-now-
you're-going-to-be-tickled
position that bodes ill for those who are
highly
ticklish.
Anana
had been expecting something of a move like that from Chase,
but she
didn't expect to be dragged down with them! With an outraged
yelp,
the pink one goes down as well, landing beside Mina in a spray
of
snow. "Arrrgh, more cold! Bad timing, Chase, bad, bad timing!" she
sputters,
trying to get snow out of her face. He deserves being
tickled,
really, and at this rate, she'll /help/ Mina with it.
The
thing with pouncing people, that means you hit the ground as
well.
And indeed Chase does, only to be accosted with fingers. Evil!
Evil
Amefuri! "Ack! Back, I say! Ho.... Hah! Stop!" Mina is instantly
release
as he rolls away and right on up to his feet, /away/ from the
girls.
Good. Safe distance. "Well, it is your fault for being such a
tempting
target, shorty."
Having
succeeded on one attack, Mina moves to retaliate the second
pouncing. Very undignified it was. Chase is just as bad as Tigger.
Rising,
Mina follows him to his feet and charges, ticklers at the
ready. "Oh no, boy-o," she grins
evilly. "You don't get to make the
calls
anymore." What a trio they make,
the pink Genbu sputtering in
the
snow while the Byakko seishi chases the other around the park.
Just
how fast can Chase run? *repose*
Anana
gets indignantly to her feet -- she deals with with standing on
snow,
if not on ice -- and simply glares at Chase, an expression akin
to the
most stubborn of Hatsui-looks. She'll just chase after Mina
and the
other Genbu now, yes. "I am not a tempt... wait, never mind."
Ooh, it
makes her more annoyed than ever that she can't refute being
a
tempting target /or/ being short.
Chase
can run pretty durn fast when chased. And he takes this moment
to try
to dance out of the way of Mina and her own 'attack'. Must
stay
out of the way of the woman's fingers. And now Anana?
Sheesh.
"Back!" Girls. This is definitely a situation that calls for
more
ice. He is skittering back, but not before conjuring up a bit
more of
the pretty cold stuff in his wake at an uneven rate. All the
better
to hinder them. Finding that slick skating ice from before,
she is
scampering over towards it.
As fun
as it is to chase Chase - apt name that - Mina finds it much
more
fun to watch him run away from the pink thing.
And so she just
strolls
back to the tree, giggling as she picks up her pack. Really,
where's
a camera when she needs one. "Ja
ne," she calls, slinging
her bag
up onto her back and hastily heads in the other direction,
before
they can ambush her again.
Amefuri
goes home.
Skid,
skid, thud. "Oyyyyy!!" Anana calls, picking herself up from the
snow
again and pouting at Chase. "Mean!" She's just going to stand
where
she is now and grumble under her breath and try not to whine as
Mina
abandons her pursuit, and she knows full well that she can't
catch
up to Tomite. "Chicken!"
Chase
turns back around, ready to bellow out some ultimatum or great
battle
cry at Mina. Mouth opens... but she is gone. Awww man. Sneaky
Byakko.
He offers a smirk to Anana, "Call my Suzaku and I'd be even
more
effective, shorty." He stops though, running out of steam. A
blink
and then a chuckle, "Think Hiroshi will fine you so cute with
your
hair looking like that?"
Anana
blinks at Chase, then laughs softly. "I think the thing with
Suzaku
is that they're courageous in insane ways," she replies,
trekking
across the snow towards Chase. "Not that they're chickens.
Different
thing entirely. I mean, we're not slow, and yet our god's a
turtle."
The comment about Hiroshi draws a grin. "He and I are just
friends."
"Uh-huh..."
Chase adds, giving her a slow smile. He returns back to
the ice
fort to begin the task in trying to unearth his pack. After a
bit, he
finally finds it, shouldering the strap. "Are you going to be
okay
getting home, or do you want me to walk with you? I'm meeting
Brice
later today."
"No,
really," Anana says honestly, shrugging. "I love him dearly.
It's
just... not the right sort of thing, you know? And I'll be fine.
Go home
and get hot chocolate." And, with that and a quick, damp hug,
she
trots off towards the street to catch a cab.