exsiliumlogs | woken up like an animal

Date & Time: July 3rd, afternoon & evening
Location: Everywhere
Characters: Dragon & OPEN, Dragon & Kirika, Dragon & Nitoh&friends
Summary: Haruto's phantom wanders around being an asshole, then Nitoh kills and eats him. Fun times were had by no one.
Warnings: Dickbag despair monster ahoy. Certainly violence and probably just general rudeness. At least one fight scene.

{ a | OPEN }
It is strange, to be so free, but Dragon enjoys the feeling of the rain on his skin (his skin, not Haruto's, not any more) and the sights and sounds. He has no sense of smell or taste, like any Phantom, but from the looks of some places, he thinks that might be something of a blessing. He's already a little overwhelmed by his sixth sense, the sense for despair, which covers Exsilium like a fog in places. He wanders, wearing Haruto's face, following the strongest despairs and sifting through Haruto's memories for the faces and names of his friends. Occasionally he ducks into a shop, but mostly he walks down the middle of sidewalks without regard for anyone else around him.

Manners are alien to him--and if he's crossed, that's easy enough to take care of. Sometimes, he knocks into someone on purpose, if their despair is sweeter, or darker.

{ b | closed to Kirika }
Knowing now what Oriko is, what she is capable of, Dragon assumes Kirika is much the same. Oriko's words about Kirika in the conversations she's had occasionally with Haruto lead him to believe her young, cheerful friend is her partner in more ways than the tender ones.

That makes her dangerous, and that means his approach must be more careful. Dragon follows Kirika until she is alone.

"Kirika Kure," he says, from behind her. "I have been looking for you."

{ c | closed to Nitoh&the Dragon Exterminators }

For a Phantom enjoying his freedom, he's been leaving a trail. Well, that, and he left the Garuda PlaMonster behind instead of fetching it to keep with Haruto's ridiculous rings, his conduits of Dragon's powers. He catches the PlaMonster, and looks up at its companion, Kousuke Nitoh's green abomination, and crushes Garuda in his monstrous fist, the pieces falling unpowered to the ground.

He is prepared, this time, fully in command of his powers and faculties. "Come," he says, to the Gryphon. "I will wait."

Threaded | Flat

Lucy is still riding high on the waves of happy from the surprise party her friends threw for her, and she even got gifts from her spirits, courtesy of Virgo and Leo. It was great to be loved by so many, lemme tell ya. The rain isn't even enough to dampen her spirit- well it never is, really. She had been in one of the shops checking out some random goody out of curiosity when Haruto's form passed by outside.

"Oh! Haruto!" She scampers out the door of the store after him, always happy to say hello to a friend - and she's known Haruto for quite a while. "Hey, Haruto~!" If he doesn't turn at that though, perhaps he will when Lucy means to catch up with him and put a hand on the back of his shoulder. Maybe he didn't hear her?

Raven comes out of the coffee shop, reading her book and not paying much attention to the world around her, as per her habit. ...Until people shouting and complaining loudly manage to distract her. She frowns, looking grumpily over the edge of her book. That's when she notices that man walking in the middle of the sidewalk and randomly bumping into people.

What's wrong with him? Is he drunk or something?

That's when she recognizes the man she's been warned against. She takes out her netbook to check. Yup, that's him.

If he's looking for angsty and tortured souls, Raven's bound to attract him. Though she's suppressing her emotions, muffling them somehow and he might notice it's not so easy for him to feed off them as he might be used to. Unless he's familiar with Empaths or half-demons.

After agreeing to take down the phantom monster, Keith wastes no time getting onto the scene. He has himself geared up in his hero suit and for a rarity he actually isn't flying over there. Instead he sticks to the ground as per Nitoh's instructions.

His first thing is to shield people with his wind powers, using them to deflect any attacks coming so that Nitoh can get an attack in.

"And you've found me," she replies, turning on her heel. If Dragon's presence had startled her, she doesn't show it.

Their surroundings are secluded, a location with as few bystanders as possible. It was not chosen under considerations like keeping people from becoming involved, but a more ignoble reason -- to prevent him from taking hostages to complicate matters. There is no need for others getting in the way. That said, she had expected him to lose his patience and reveal himself sooner.

All the walking made setting up large-scale spells nigh impossible. But as long as he is within range...

"State your business."

Nitoh makes it on scene not too long after the unsubtle message relayed through Gryphon. He swallows and meets with Dragon's horrifying face. "It's over, Dragon," he shouts, turning on his driver and slotting his regular transformation ring in with the customary flourish.

He keeps an eye out on the people he's called to help, periodically shouting out suggestions or warnings, to keep people from running into each other and civilians from getting in the way.

A) ...celestial wizard and a phantom walk into a bar-- wait, no

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