Re: Runic

[Shadoe Mayari]

"...No," Kaizo muttered, sighing. "Maria isn't my sister."

[Rose Hathaway]

"Cousin? Father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?" Sam smiled at the reference to an awesome movie, and would smile even more if he caught it too.

[Shadoe Mayari]

Kaizo chuckled, before shaking his head. "Actually...Believe it or not, she's my mom." He paused, waiting for Sam's reaction.

[Rose Hathaway]

Sam nodded, pursing her lips together. "Hm. I guess she really is older than she looks. And does it have anything to do with that Daughter of Memory thingy?"

[Shadoe Mayari]

"Yeah. Her body is permanently the way it is. She can't age or anything." Kaizo shrugged. "I guess it's necessary."

[Rose Hathaway]

"Necessary for what, exactly?" Sam asked. "I mean, every woman's dream is to be forever young, but it must be a pain in the ass sometimes, right?"

[Shadoe Mayari]

"She has more than three thousand years of knowledge in her memories," Kaizo said. "We can't let her die that easily."

[Rose Hathaway]

"I see." Sam said, and an awkward silence came over her.

[Shadoe Mayari]

Kaizo sighed, stuffing his hands in his pockets. It really bothered him, having to tell a normal person like Sam all about this Runic stuff. Someone like her shouldn't be caught in the middle of this.

[Rose Hathaway]

Soon they reached Wayne's apartment building. Sam climbed up the flights of stairs with Kaizo, and pulled her key out from her pocket. When she went to unlock the door however, she discovered someone had already done it for her. Someone had broken in to the apartment. "Oh shit." she muttered, freezing. "Kaizo... I think someone's in there." she said, her voice shaking.

[Shadoe Mayari]

Kaizo placed his hand on Sam's shoulder and the bandages on his other hand began to unravel and harden, turning into an iron knife that was attached to his arm. He opened the door and headed inside.

[Rose Hathaway]

Sam followed him quietly, terrified of who they'd find in the apartment. She knew it was someone who wasn't supposed to be there. But she wasn't sure what they wanted. Wayne's guns? No, even she didn't know where he kept them. And his money was in a bank account. She had no idea what they would want.

Unless it was an ambush.

[blackoutEquinox]

Wayne froze in the middle of cleaning his last bullet when he heard the door open. It could be Sam but she was usually louder than that. After zipping up his jacket he grabbed his pistol and threw in a mag and quickly attached the supressor. The door to his room was opened slowly as he stuck his supressor through the crack. There was a glint from a blade so Wayne burst through his door with his weapon raised. "Drop the blade and get on the ground now!"

[Shadoe Mayari]

"Aren't you supposed to be in the hospital?" Kaizo asked calmly, raising his hands in surrender. The knife turned back into bandages, wrapping tightly around his arm.

[Rose Hathaway]

Sam jumped when she saw Wayne was the one in the apartment. "Wayne, what the hell are you doing here?! Why aren't you at the hospital you ding dong?!" she shouted at him, but then went up to him and gave him a gentle hug. She was relieved to see him, especially after her near death experience.

[blackoutEquinox]

As soon as he realized it was Kaizo, Wayne lowered his weapon and flicked the safety back on. Almost as soon as he did that Sam proceeded to shout at Wayne for not being in the hospital. She hugged him so he threw the gun on the couch and hugged her back. "Our little friend Xyriel paid me a visit and was kind enough to fix me up. I had to bribe a few workers and cops though in addition to wiping a few things off several computers. It'll never even reach the news that I was involved in any way with what happened at the school." Wayne let go of Sam and streched his hand out to Kaizo, "Sorry about pointing my gun at you."

[Shadoe Mayari]

Kaizo shrugged, not even looking at the hand. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but then he shook his head. "'S okay. A ton of shit happened yesterday, huh?"

[Rose Hathaway]

"Yay, Xyriel. She's such a sweet little girl. And I'm sorry I wasn't home when you got here. I had some... trouble on the way home from the hospital and Kaizo helped me out. I ended up sleeping at his place. I was hoping you wouldn't hear about it, but... Guess I can't really dodge that bullet now can I?" Sam laughed nervously now as she sat on the couch.

[blackoutEquinox]

"Yeah a lot of things did happen. But the good thing is we're all safe now. Due to recent events though I'm going to start teaching Sam how to shoot and fight." Wayne looked over to Sam, "Grab my gun please and then follow me. I'm going to show you where I put my weapons and sometime soon I'm going to take you out to a firing range." He walked back into his room and put the last bullet back into its magazine as he waited for Sam to come in.

[Rose Hathaway]

Sam picked up the gun from the couch and followed him into his room quietly, sitting down on the edge of his bed. There was a cabinet of guns open that Wayne was standing in front of, weapons she had only seen in movies. "Damn. That's quite a stash." she said, giving a low whistle.

[Shadoe Mayari]

Kaizo frowned. Even though it would be good for her to learn how to defend herself, he still didn't like the idea of getting her involved. "Well, I'll be going now," he said, looking up at the ceiling. That Runic was here.

[Book the Hero]

James eyes opened to see Isabella awake. "Morning..." He said with a smile, sitting up, and stretching. "Feel any better?" He asked, slightly concerned if she was ok since yesterday's events.

[Shadoe Mayari]

"Y-yeah," Isabella said, tugging the ends of her jacket. Maybe if she moved around a bit, it wouldn't hurt as much. She zipped her jacket up, hiding her bloody shirt.

[Book the Hero]

But James had already noticed, and had remembered since last night. "Yeah...we should get you some new clothes." He said, standing up, before feeling a chill. It was at this point, he noticed that he was still shirtless, since his last one burned off yesterday afternoon. Oh man...Please tell me I'm not actually getting used to this...

[Shadoe Mayari]

"Yeah...I can probably ask Sam," she said, before sensing a certain Runic. "...Kaizo's downstairs as well." She didn't know how she could sense him, even though she couldn't sense a Madness Runic if it was inches away from her face. Something about his presence irritated her.

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