Description: May Lee, Maki and Naerose, what does this mixture create? If you answered mild zany in the middle of the night? Then you win a free ride on a scooter. Maki isn't into this but May Lee and Naerose are totally tricking it out and probably going to crash into something. Property damage almost certainly ensues.
Night. Sound beach. These two things meant that sometimes there would be parties in the warmer months, but in general besides the occasional jogger, this place was going to be relatively quiet. Besides which, it was a strange beach to swim in, probably not particularly clean. That didn't always stop people, and certainly not someone who didn't particularly care about any of that stuff. The vendors along the beach are closed, thanks to the time, though not late in the night, past dark and past closing time. This is why a particular figure chose to be here now. Having ridden her scooter, a red vespa down to the beach and parked it nearby, the first goal was to see if this location was acceptable. The woman, dressed in a red dress, with knee high boots, reddish white gloves with poofy sleeves- quite a bizarre look- and a red pointy hat which flops to one side and shades, yes shades in the middle of the night, stood there, just off her scooter. Out of her hat she pulls a red gps device and eyes it for a moment, the glow illuminating her face with red painted lips.
"Aw darn, this is totally not picking it up yet. I need something higher," the woman states and then looks around. Finding one of the closed vendors she states, "Perfeect." Then reaching to her scooter she pulls from a odd sheath like structure of rings and a card board tube, a long old fashioned broom stick. Climbing was for the not so lazy. The red witch mounted the broom tried to calculate exactly the trajectory she needed before blasting off into the air and promptly crashing on the roof of a small vendor by the beach.
"Ooow," she whines.
Naerose isn't the only one who's out on the town tonight. Miss Maki Genryuusai happens to be taking a walk by the beach, apparently looking for something to do downtown, but for now just walking and chilling out. Sure, it may seem weird to be walking on the beach at night, but when it's night time, it's a bit cooler, and there are less people likely to bug you. Not to mention, you'd be less noticed by people while walking in a ninja-style outfit.
Currently, Maki is barefoot as she walks along the sand, her shoes and socks held in one hand as she walks along, enjoying the cool breeze and the sound of the ocean, with the smell of the sea water filling her nostrils. She smiles as she walks through the sand, looking around and feeling quite at ease.
That is, untill she hears a strange sound. Something like a crashing noise of some sort. And it comes from very close by.
"What the hell?" Maki thinks to herself as she quickly slips her socks and shoes back on (apparently, she's not keen on running barefoot right now,) and then heads in the direction of the noise.
Cracking wood and whines of pain from not so far away interrupt May Lee(, Champion of Justice and Certified Heroine) on her brief jaunt along the beach. She is sporting a number of bandages around her exposed arms and forehead, as well as a few mostly healed bruises in the places through which skin is actually visible. Her throat is especially bad off with purplish-blue markings like a hellacious choker standing out against her skin.
Until Naerose's unfortunate landing, her hands were in her pockets, her lips were pursed as she whistled a few notes from the ending theme of Kamen Rider 555, and her eyes were mostly on the stars. So the red streak followed by the crash is more than enough to bring her to a sudden halt and force her to draw her hands up before herseof in preparation as she stands before the vendor.
"Who goes there?!" she calls up to the roof. "I swear, if this building is about to blow up, I just--I am going to be /so mad/! Don't do it!"
It wasn't like Naerose was trying to break into the food vendor, even if she did accidentally make a hole in the soft roof with her foot. How was she to know it wasn't built to handle the weight of a person. With a moment of struggling, more noise, she eventually gets her foot free and takes a look around at her new vantage point. High places never bothered the Red Witch particularly much, considering falling wasn't the biggest concern of hers. It wasn't like she could fly, to the contrary she was better at crashing into things, but she did have something a lot closer to that than most people you were likely to ever meet. "Right, now then, Suiryuu, where are you.." The witch wonders aloud and then starts to peer at her GPS device. How well would the devices she placed on it help her track it? Apparently well enough as she gets a little 'blip'. Casting a suspicious glance around, Naerose just starts to sit down when she notices Maki in the distance moving closer at an alarming rate.
"Aww man, it's totally the po po," she complains, not knowing at first glance who Maki is, but it happens to her enough times that people come running her way. Her only chance of getting away was to get off of the vendor roof and then to her scooter before Maki got close enough, get it started and then..
May Lee. That's what. Great so the police were working together. It never occurs to Naerose that she hasn't done much to warrant their anger, except property damage, but it was still minor right? Well gotta bite the bullet,
"Woah, hey, blow up? Are you nuts? I'm totally on this building, why would I and I mean like how?!" She decides to climb down, CAREFULLY and ends up slipping and falling on her backside anyway,
"Aw man." Naerose complains further.
At first, Maki's continuing to advance to where Naerose is, not knowing who she is or why she's even there. She doesn't want to beat her up or anything, she just wants to see what happened and if anyone was hurt. But then she hears May Lee's voice, and then she abruptly stops. That's a new voice to Maki, and she's not sure what to make of it either.
"Who are you?" She shouts. "Identify yourself!"
"I don't know! Things keep exploding! I keep walking by them and there they go!" May Lee exclaims, gesticulating with her arms as she speaks for emphasis. "Gedo High, the Todoh Dojo... I mean, you could be a terrorist for all I know!" A beat, and then another, and then her finger presses thoughtfully to her bottom lip as she looks Naerose over. "Although... I've never seen a terrorist with a broom stick."
Wait a moment, there is something wrong going on, if Maki doesn't know about this person on the ground, then they can't be working together and if they arn't working together. You can almost see the gears turning in Naerose's head as her lips remain stuck with this really dumb grin. It's like, woah, maybe I'm not screwed, she seems to be thinking and then starts to let things play out. She could answer Maki, but she doesn't, she stays quiet for that part, calculating? Imagining a big bowl of ice cream? Or whatever goes on in Naerose's head. Many have cautioned against asking the sort of questions you don't really want to know the answer to and that was probably one of them. So she confusion sort of swims around her, making the air thick. Naerose as awesome at confusion, even better at being confused, but that maybe a story for another day.
It doesn't pan out though. Is Naerose a terrorist? good question. She's not sure herself, though some people would probably say yes, come to think of it.
"Hey, I'm a journalist," the witch states, and then yells to Maki, "Nothing to worry about, just the press."
Maki can't believe that. Why would someone with the press crash into a vendor's spot? And then, when Maki gets closer, she does a double-take, ending with a scowl. Just what kind of press wears a witch's costume... and a broom to match? Maki's obviously not buying this whole witch get-up thing. But then, Maki pauses as the costume seems to ring a bell in her head. Hasn't she fought this woman in the Neo League before?
"Of course," Maki thinks to herself, "It's Naerose!"
Calming down a little, but still remaining stern, Maki looks at Naerose and says, "All right, would you mind explaining just what exactly you're doing out here at this time of night?"
"Naerose? Who in the world is Naerose?" May Lee asks with a slight cant of the head. She manages to flash a smile at Maki before lapsing back into full thoughtfulness, on account of recognizing and remembering her, but as soon as that's done, she's back to piecing things together.
"A rose that isn't a rose, but a witch instead? But then, why is she /red/..." she wonders aloud.
Aww man, busted. Maki is not going to let her get away so easily this time. Naerose might as well come clean. Reaching into her hat, she pulls out the GPS device she was using to program coordinates on, really who was likely to care about her current aim? Most people probably forgot the name of that old ship already, likely busy with things going explody. Actually that might interest Naerose too if she werent' so busy tracking down something entirely unrelated. Of course this was all nice and well until May Lee starts to piece together what her name means. The viewers out there naturally would all say that her name has literally no meaning, exactly as seemingly meaningless as every other aspect, but that my friends, is another story.
"Hey, I was just looking for something, " Naerose tells Maki and then adjusts her shades to peer at May Lee, "Umm, hey, do you know her?"
Looking to May Lee, Maki looks back at Naerose and shakes her head. "Afraid I don't know her. As for you," Maki seems more intrigued this time, "What exactly were you looking for? And why would you be flying into closed vendor buildings?" Maki chuckles a little at that last remark, realizing it kind of slipped out, but it's funny all the same. It seems Miss Genryusai isn't as strict about these things as Naerose might have thought.
May Lee begins to respond... but Maki beats her to it, and at that her eyes go wide with surprise. Any further ponderings as to Naerose's name fall by the wayside as her eyes flick between the other two young women.
"We were on TV, for the--" Beat. "Weren't we?" Another pause, a little scratching at the underside of her chin, and then she flips her goggles down to squint at Maki through them. "I guess you aren't the /only/ woman with clothes like yours." Another pause, and then her arms cross over her chest as she looks contemplatively towards the stars. "Maybe Mai Shiranui got herself a wig..."
" I don't know, " Naerose begins, "Hey maybe I was hungry?" Which isn't even the remotest of stretches. Naerose, trying to get into a closed food shop, hoping that there would be something lying around the she could snarf for free? Totally something she would do. So the response that Naerose gives is to sort of nervously laugh, because it seems to occur to her just then, yes she is hungry, yes that is a food vendor. Quick thinking though and likely further failure results in her expounding on the question, "Well you see.." Naerose begins, "I was trying to track a celluar device I placed somewhere a little over a year ago." Luckily May Lee gives Naerose a perfectly good excuse to talk about something else, "Huh?" Naerose says with a total blank blankness while looking at May Lee, "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I think I've done fight commentating for this Mai person."
Folding her arms as she looks at Naerose, Maki starts to give a more stern look. "A cellular device?" She narrows her eyes a little, not sure whether to believe Naerose or not. She knew Naerose was rather eccentric, yes, but this is starting to get more bizarre by the minute. Nonetheless, Maki shows a bit of discipline and patience and just waits for Naerose to answer.
"Hungry? For a cellular device? There's no such thing as an edible cell phone," May Lee remarks as she breaks her thoughtful reverie and... tries to pick up on the threads of the conversation happening around her. She looks between Maki and Naerose quickly, then folds her hands loosely behind herself with a small and disbelieving frown. "Honestly, you must have had a better reason than that to damage this poor vendor's roof," she chides.
"Aww dang you caught me, " Naerose replies and tucks the GPS unit back under her hat, "I totally don't have a better reason, I just wanted to distract you two long enough that I could get on my scooter and ride away, shouting something neat like, See ya later suckers, I seriously always wanted to do that." Naerose looks longingly at her scooter, "Hey, " she begins, looking from Maki to May Lee, "Wanna see me start up my scooter and ride it really fast? It goes really fast." Naerose is all sorts of giddy, because her scooter goes like 35 mile per hour and that is really fast for her on a scooter. Meanwhile she starts edging toward the vehicle.
"See, watch this."
Maki suddenly narrows her eyes a little more. "Just _where_ do you think you're going?" It appears Maki's getting a bit more suspicious about Naerose and what she's up to. As if the eccentric costume and her actions weren't enough, now she's trying to leave without a proper explanation? This sets off some alarm bells in Maki's head. But she doesn't go for her tonfa just yet. She doesn't need any bloodshed tonight if need be.
May Lee brightens when the vespa's speed is mentinoed, and in spite of her bruising she starts to jog towards it at rather a quick clip. "Just /how/ fast? Is it Battle Hopper fast? I'd love to see!" She turns towards Maki to beckon for her to follow along. "Come on, we should all be able to squeeze on!" she calls to the lady ninja before returning to facing the vespa with evey intention of vaulting onto its back to take a seat.
Many people have been on the Vespa before, Maylee speaks great wisdom. Naerose has to give slow nods, before sputtering and realizing what is going on. She practically falls over herself to catch up, telling Maki over her shoulder, "Oh, I'm just trying to track down the sunken Suiryuu, no big deal." Before grinning to May Lee and stating, "Yes, it used to be the official vehicle for the Strongest! team. That is until Li X left town and then. . Actually I forget who else was on that team. Yuri .. and umm. " Naerose scratches her head and then fumbles for the keys, nearly losing them into an ark in the air, flying like sly motion style toward.. Oh crap. May Lee.
"The sunken Suiryuu?" Maki is now genuinely confused and uncertain about Naerose's true intentions. She also refuses to board the Vespa, since she's not exactly up for a ride right now. She's got other plans tonight, although they didn't include bumping into Naerose on the beach. "I think there's more going on here than meets the eye, and frankly, I'd like you to start telling me the truth." It sounds like Maki's losing her patience rapidly.
The flying keys clink softly when they hit May Lee's palm; she wasn't necessarily ready to have the keys thrown to her, but her reflexes are good enough to respond accordingly when they just so happen to be. She holds them up to her eyes with that one hand while the other is used to flip her goggles up; there's a reasonable amount of surprise and wonder both at being so suddenly entrusted with the right to drive the vespa right off the bat, but she tries not to let herself be paralyzed by it for too long.
The keys are slid into the ignition once she's scooted forward into the driver's position. She looks over her shoulder to Naerose, and with her best heroic smile she says, "Well, in /that/ case... hop on and we can go for a ride? You can tell me what you did to the scooter to make it go so fast!"
Naerose knows what she wants, she wants to get on that scooter and to get away from having to explin more to Maki, so she'll leave Maki with something extremely vague.
"Look if you want to know, seek out Blackjack." Naerose states and then tries to hop onto the back of the scooter. She points to the throttle and says, "You pul back on that and the less control you have the faster it goes, it's just like magic. And I should know, cause I'm totally a witch." Naerose states and gives the biggest smile to Maki, really really really hoping this works. It isn't like her investigations of the sekret organization of Blackjack is a big deal, just, it would take forever to explain.
Maki hmmphs and folds her arms, but doesn't say much else. "Very well, I'll make a note to do that." Some sarcasm can be detected in her voice, but it's obvious she's somewhat serious about that too. "For now, I have other things to attend to. If you're done here, then I suppose I shall see you later?" Who knows what might happen next...
With a look of disappointment, May Lee leans to the side and turns her gaze towards Maki. Her bottom lip is even poked out slightly in a pout. "You /don't/ want to ride? Well..." A pause, and then hesitantly she nods and says, "Well, okay, if you're /sure/, but I can't really see why /not/..."
With that, she grips the vespa's handlebars gently, squints at the throttle, and very carefully pulls it out to get the vehicle going.
Naerose is so happy to just.. get out of that bad situation, being that she hated explaining things and besides, didn't Blackjack have something to do with Mad Gear? Isn't Naerose branded widely as a member? Maybe mentioning her old hang outs was a bad idea. The thought.. lingers and, oh what the hey,
"We should totally do some tricks, think you can jump stuff?" Naerose asks, stupidly. Yeah, this was almost certainly going to result in serious crashage, but since when did crashing bother Naerose? She literally did it all the time. Luckily her vespa had yet to explode.
Log created on 21:13:33 04/12/2009 by Naerose, and last modified on 00:12:54 04/13/2009.