Superhero Rp

(double post Izen and Jaz :) )

As Izen Hears the cocking of a shotgun he puts his hand on his pistols and in telepathy tells zia" i dont no what your problem is but youve got some nerve alright" as Izen slowly gets up he takes out both of the pistols and points them towards zia and says" make your move, i dont understand why the suddent attack on a poor blind man"

Jasmine sits on the floor shaking as she trys to prosses every thing that has just happened. He wants to pretend like nothing HAPPEND! We can't ever go back to the way it was........... Can we? she thinks as she suddenly becomes awwar of what is going on. "YOU STUPID JELLOW HEADS! Put those things away! Yer gonna hurt some one!" she yells at all three men as she gets up shakaly and walks to each and makes them lower there guns. Then she notices the reporter and frees as all the color from her dark taned face. "You wreched valtuers! What are you doing here!? Ya all already traked me down to hond me fer another story!?" Jasmine yells at the reporter.

Izen tells vlad " well seems as though the problems we currently had have ended" points finger at Vlad And Zia " dont doubt my skills my friends i could of killed u before both of you had time to pull the trigger". As Izen puts his guns back into his holisiter he Tells Jasmine in Telepathy" whats the problem and whats going on around here havent been in this house for a minute and im already being attacked"

Jasmine turns on Izen and snarls, "That man on the TV! Hes my old man and ruined my life by getting involed with those gang family! Then he gets locked up on my birthday and fer the entire year I have been disliked and hated fer his stupid action and then getting caught! And now he want to go back to being a happy family! And i hate when he calls me Jazzy!" she says as she turns on Zia, "And you leave him alone! Hes blind and I ran him over. I said he could stay fer a week and after that he has to talk to you bout renting a room." Jasmine then snarls at the report one last time before turing and looking at Vlade. As she walks to the room she was staying she grabs his hand and drags him behind her so she can talk with him

Zia's eyes lock onto Vlad as he busts in and growls lowly at the Russian man before jumping at the telepathic communication as his eye flick back to Isen then about trying to figure out where the voice came from. Confusion and fear of having several guns on him force him to lower his own as he listens to Jas. A sigh of relief wiggles it's way out of Zia as he wheezes faintly as his lungs burn painfully. " Damd it girl your scream scared me. sounded like someone managed to get through the back and up to here and attacked you." Zia let his weariness enter his face as the safety clicks back on the shot gun. After a few moments tick by before the information of Firon being out of jail hits him and he looks up and pales slightly. " Wait your dad is out? Never mind we can talk about this later." He quietly hooks the reporter by the arm and says as jokingly as he can manage with his chest feeling like it is on fire, "The reporter is after me cause he thinks im the pally. Can you believe that?" He shunts Vlad out of the way knowing the Russian will most likely lash out at him as he escorts the reporter away from the top floor, with the shot gun shouldered.

Because of the incident at ESU, most classes were ended early. Alastor made ample use of this opportunity to go home, and looked up all the information he had on Wrath, mostly info pertaining to his superpowers and the way he operates. Alastor also pulled a newspaper with a picture of Wrath on a recent rampage in Soho. "Who are you?" he asked himself, looking at the picture intently as if hoping an answer would come to him. "You don't believe he found out about us?" Thanatos asked with a hint of concern. "If he had learned my secret, he would have just come straight to me. No... This was just to slander you, but he went too far this time," Alastor answered as he rubbed his chin. "The little parasite wouldn't dare to attack you in the middle of a class, though."

"That's just it, though. Subtlety isn't his style." Alastor adjusted his glasses. "He would, and he wouldn't care how many others he'd have to kill in the process. He's a danger to everybody around him. I just hope we can stop him before he does something really serious," said Alastor, taking another sip from the hot mug of coffee on his desk. "Another thing that really worries me is how someone snuck into my office. Nothing was stolen, though. But who? And why?" "Maybe it was a janitor." "I don't know. Whoever it was, they turned my CD player on but didn't bother to turn it off. This perplexes me..."

Evening starts to come upon the city
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The reporter was trying to keep his cool during the chaos of Jasmine’s scream, Vlad’s bursting in and the ensuing gun draw, and then getting pushed out of the room by Zia. He was just a newbie, he had barely been hired more than a few weeks and this was just something he had been picked to follow up on. He knew of Jas’ father and was terrified at even being in the same building as his daughter.

If Arthur knew that a reporter was bugging his daughter then he would be found at the bottom of the river with a bullet through his skull. The reporter eyes the shotgun and tries to say in a level voice, “so can I get out of here before I get killed?” What could he do? He would have to warn his news station to stay away lest they get targeted by the mob boss.


As Cleo started to get water for the spaghetti she saw that clear water came out for a few seconds before it plugged to stop until a spray of thick, black oil started spewing from the tap. Lance would recognize it as the same oil he had seen under that bar.


Edward closed up his club and started cleaning up, he had no intention of going out tonight, he would stay to keep watch on his building. He was expecting Jasmine to come back and from her he could find out who else she was with who broke into his building. If nothing else he could try and figure out what was wrong with his plants, why were they starting to wither?


As Denis headed to the bathroom he saw something peculiar that couldn’t be from just the janitors missing their mark. He saw hanging from each of the sink taps a thick and oily strand of webbing that had started to creep its way over the entire sink area. If he went in closer he could see bone fragments within the oil web.


In a morgue underneath a police station Blake was looking over the report as he walked alongside a surgeon in scrubs who was wheeling the girl who had been raped to death. Walking into an elevator which would take them deeper underground Blake didn’t even have to look at the surgeon to know he was on edge; those who knew of him did not generally enjoy being around the ‘worm.’ Probably because of how he got information from the dead but no matter, they would solve this case one way or another and Wrath would be put down once and for all.

More surgeons would come with the remains of the jocks found in the lockers and the ‘worm’ would decide if he could get anything from them or not. At least the girl was in tact. He closed the folder with all data on the girl, Sally, as the doors opened to reveal a wide opened room that looked exactly like the morgue above. Music was playing and Blake lead the way into the room, the surgeon coming up behind him. He grumbled, “hello Dave,” and a pale gray skinned man swiveled around on his chair to look at them, “hello again Blake, what mind do you want me to drill through this time?” Blake set the folder down on an empty iron table which Dave would use to probe the minds of the girl on.

“Another stiff thanks to Wrath, he had himself a nice killing spree and killed not only her but also the football team of Empire State University. So you’ll have your hands full tonight.” Dave reached out with one of his long and skeletally thin arms as he looked over the folder, bringing down his glasses with a flick of his head as he read over her file. His fingers had unusually large pads which he would use to break into the skull and read the minds of the dead. Though this probably wasn’t what really put people off, it must have been the eyes. Dave’s eyes were sunken in and looked like ones you would see on a corpse. It didn’t bother Blake, whatever to get the job done.

As the surgeon placed Sally’s body on the table Blake continued, “you know you could get a better place to work in, something not as closed and more open. Even have a place for all of your books.” Dave waved this off as he wheeled his chair around to the head of the girl, “you bring it up every time you come down here and every time it is the same answer. I like it down here, it’s quiet. Now you’ll want to know what she has in store so if you don’t mind I have work to do.” Blake turned and headed to the elevator where the surgeon already was inside, pulling up a cigarette to light it as the doors closed. “We’ll get you Wrath, and I look forward to putting a bullet in between your eyes.”

" Excellent all thins are in order for tomorrow... I will have my men inconspiculously around the park to keep a look out for trouble and I will have a couple of telepaths there to keep away any psychic intrusions." thinks Arthur as he walks towards his meeting with the detective who is following Jassie.

At the meeting he finds out that Jassie had left school and been staying with the hero known as The Paladin, made friends with a deranged Russian mercenary, been pick pocketing to get by unnoticed, and had a run- in with some sort of time traveler that had some interesting insights on the Paladin and then ran away in a huff after Jassie broke her arm.

" Interesting the way Jassie has always been able to make such interesting friends, but she seems safe enough at the moment. Hmmm... but that reporter could be an issue..." he thinks to himself. He gets out his his phone and calls Frank again.

" Hey Frank I just got out of my meeting with the detective.... what can I say she definitely take after her mother in the getting into trouble department but there is a bit of a snag. She seems to have gotten a reporter attached to her."

" You want I should whack 'im boss?"

" No, no Frank nothing so crass... I think this is a situation that can be solved with a little infusion of currency."

" Um... you want me to pay to have 'im whacked?"

" No Frank I was thinking something more subtle. Call up the head of our entertainment division and start the process to take over the company that owns Weichert News. Tell him to pay whatever it takes to get the deal done quickly."

" No problem boss I'll take care of it."

" Thanks Frank. I'll see you tomorrow. Have the limo pick me up around 8:00 AM."

Arthur hangs up and sits in his leather chair to listen to the tape that the detective brought him.

Lance grumbled and walked into the kitchen. "I think you are just seeing things.....wait a minute." He pauses when he sees the sink and recalls the stuff beneath the abandoned bar. "So it was not just muck and grime...what is this stuff?" He thinks out loud and turns off the sink. "...I think I need to check out something with our good friend..." "<I am just curious what this stuff is and where it came from.>" Lance nods alittle after Wrath speaks to him. "Me too." He looks at Cleo and nods. "I'll be back when I get back..so don't wait up for me." He says before heading out.

Zia leads the Reporter down and hands the shot gun to gloria as he says to the reporter, " Well if you are done here you can go. It's not like i have any reason to keep you here." He watches the reporter look rather relived as he leaves before he kisses Gloria and whispers in her ear, " I got about no sleep last night. I'm going to be resting for a while if you don't mind watching the shop."
She smiles as she waves him off, " Alright well go on sleepy head." Zia smiles gratefully as he heads up stairs and opens the apartment door and frowns at those up there. "..." He turns away from them before heading to his room as exhaustion starts kicking in.When Zia open his door he see Vlad sitting on his bed as Jasmin paces back and forth as she yells and cursing and cry all at once. For some reason Vlad is just sitting and listening to her. As Zia opens the door she turns on him and walk to him and holds out a jar of the ontment she made to help him heal. "Here! Apply it to yer wound, it will help it heal faster." she says and hands him a fresh gave pad and ace wrap. Vlad watches all this impassively, but snickers as Jasmine hands Zia the pad and wrap

Zia frowns as he looks at the ointment and walks over to his bed as he places the jar down muttering, " Im not putting that on. But i will change my bandage." He glares at Vlad as he starts unbuttoning his shirt that slides off him and he groans in slight pain as he hicups gettign a bloody bubble up and out of his mouth before poping,

Jasmine narrows her eyes as she puts some of the ointment onto a pad and hands it to Vlad."MAke sure he use that. I'll be right back." she says as she turns and leaves pulling out several bag of un used water ballons.
Rusty: *Vlad knife casually and gets up. He grins at Zia and picks up the ointment with his free hand.* Go on, little boy, it puts the ointment on the gaping wound or else it gets another one... Not as catchy, but it works. *Vlad chuckles and gestures at Zia with his knife*
Zia's eyes widen as he backs away from Vlad as he coughs slightly as pain flares up. finding him self in a corner he glances off to the side wondering if he could get to the window before he receives a new wound. "Jas! damd it don't leave me in here with your rabid guard dog!" His eyes foucse on Vlad as he removes the bandage and tosses it into the trash can near by before hesitantly holding his hand out for the ointment that he severely distrusts.
Jasmine comes back about fifteen minuets later and is dressed in her gear. Her mouth and eye covering are hanging around her neck and in in her hands are two large buckets and her black wig on one of them. She puts them down next to vlad and ties her hair up and puts the wig on as she passes the bag that was hanging from her shoulder to Zia. As he opens it he finds his older Paladin outfit. "I need to blow off some steam. So were doing some night training boys!" she say with a grin of determination on her face as she looks from Zia to Vlad.
Zia looks at Jasmin with a very unamused look as he says bluntly, " I have had no sleep and been in pain all day. Im going to sleep. And you cant keep me from resting." He drops onto his bed stubbornly and closes his eyes. He wheezes faintly from his lung slowly healing but prefers to try to rest. Vlad chuckles and walks over to the head of the bed. He grabs Zia by the upper arm and hauls him out by the shoulder, not particularly caring if he dislocates the joint or not. If Zia does not get up even then, he kicks him in the ribs Zia growls in pain as he pulls his arm free from Vlad as he stands there stubbornly not wanting to move as he kicks away from Zia and rolls over to the other side of his bed if he can break Vlad's hold.

As Vlad help Zia out of the bed Jasmin lays out Zia gear on the bed and then looks over the water balloons she has filled with varying liquids she found in Zia garage. She looks as Zia and shakes her head and Mouse then jumps up onto her shoulders. "We are going out training. I have had the crappiest 16th birthday and now on my 17th its just as bad so suit up or Vlad can help ya." jasmine says in a huff as she waits.

Vlad stubbornly grips harder and hauls mightily on Zia's arm, intending to fling him across the room if he can in the general direction of his stuff. Zia goes to knee Vlad in the balls before pain flares in his knee from his knee hitting somethign quite solid and harder then what he was expecting. Zia softly curses in Arabic as he tries to get Vlad off of him self while relying on a good leg and a numb leg.Vlad laughs at the soft metallic noise and shoves Zia towards his stuff "Put it on, little man, give the girl her birthday present." Vlad chuckles and puts the knife away

Jasmine glares as she takes each of the pices of Zia's gear and puts him into it. "We are going out. You need the training and bad. So lets get geared and ready." she says as she opens Zia window after she hands Zia the last of his gear. Zia bites his lip and slips his old gear on as he twitches in pain from his knee that is seeping in over the chest burning feeling. " Arg why do i have to train with you two...I get enough exercise with my outings." He ties the bandanna about his face and his grey eyes watch her for a moment before turning on vlad with hate for the man in his eyes. Vlad makes an obscene gesture and picks his nails with his knife.

Jasmine,"Ta night training is simple. Get to freaky plant bar. Each of us will have these." hands both men a bucet of water balloons filled with unknown liquids in them. "The person hit the least win. And if yer up to it Zia ya can try ta break into it again. Its evening know so it will be full dark when we get there." Jasmine says as she steps out onto the fire escape and down it to the ally below.

Zia snorts slightly as he follows her out and grumbles, "I'm not keen on attacking that place with out proper equipment.." He looks back at Vlad before motioning for him down first since he has not wish to be under the heavy Russian man.
Vlad gestures brusquely for Zia to go first, so he can't sneak back into bed. "Go on, little boy, go train yourself for the nice girl." Vlad grins horribly at Zia. "I will come last, don't want you sneaking off, do we?"
Zia glares at Vlad as he says before he can catch him self, " Make me commie."Vlad bull-rushes Zia before he can react, gets under him and throws him THROUGH the window, not really caring which bit goes through first
As Jasmine looks up and see both Zia and Vlad arguring over who is gonna go first she pulls out two water ballon and throws them at them. There is a splat followed by another as each one hits there target. She watchs as the one for Zia misses and the one fer Vlad gets his foot. "Its like herding dogs!" Jasmine says as she makes her ways back up to the window.
Zia chokes in fear as he crashes through and he hits the railing painfully and nearly going over as he grabs onto the safety railing keeping him from the 5 story plummet. Zia pales as he gets his footing and wheezes and coughs hard from the force of the impacts. His body trembles for a while before he starts down the ladder shakingly. Vlad kicks the stuff off his shoe then he stands at the top of the ladder and glares down at Zia for several moments before starting down as well, the metal plates in his coat making soft noises as he heads down, grumbling irritably in Russian

Jasmine was half way up when Zia started down so she went back down and waited for the two of them. "Okay guys. This is nice and easy. Nothing lethal or maiming of each other k. After you can get some sleep and and you. I will find some good vodka fer ya, k? Lets go." Jasmin says as she takes off and throws two more balloons behind her. Zia looks away and jumps as he is hit with a balloon and glares at her. Vlad steps aside from the balloon and pounds Zia on the shoulder 'companionably' "Look at it this way, little man, I could have torn your arm off, but I didn't, for the sake of the little girl. So let's all play nice tonight, yes?"

Zia rubs his shoulder at the painful reminder it felt like it was going to come off. Before he hisses out, " For the girl....yes" He starts off and tails Jas more to entertain her since he has no real want to train at all tonight. As Jasmin set a steady pass she pivots around and keeps throwing the water balloons at Zia and Vlad and soon a calm comes over her and what started out as a very angry night soon became fun for her as the easy running and dodging went on till they reached the club.
Zia has a lot of the balloons hit him as he shakes off periodically only marginally trying to doge the balloons. He looks up at the club as he gets there and dose not look very amused or happy with being soaking wet. Vlad stumps behind, letting the balloons hit Zia primarily, dodging occasionally as a balloon gets too close, but primarily pushing Zia along if he falters. ZIa squeezes out his shirt and looks at Jas wearily. "Please tell me this is it."

Jasmine is breathing hard as Vlad and Zia finaly get closer. As Zia gets closer she suddenly hugs him. Then hugs Vlad. "Thanks guys I need that. And yes i promised that this was it. We can go back and rest. Here Vlad." she hands him hundred and fifty dollars. "I cant buy the vodka since Im under age so here the money so ya can buy it yer self." she says as she gives them each a hug again feeling much better after the work out. She then stops and looks at the plants. "I wounder what Ed used on these things ta make them grow so much."

Zia winces slightly fro the hug before giving her a half hearted hug and wheezes in pain, " Easy on the hugging." His eyes flick over to the club as he leans against the wall and huffs and pants as his lung bruns painfully as he waits for the pain to go down, lisening to her, " Dunno just does."
Vlad takes the money and chuckles "Ah little girl, but I did not get you anything. *Vlad eyes the plants and snorts* Probably some new chemical or some such. I'm out of here"
Zia pulls out the blade from his pants and looks at the plants before fliping over a garbage can and gets it ready as he starts cutting the plants. As he cuts so far in to his horror the plants reach out and encases him before he can react to them moving as they encase him.
Jasmine freezes as the plant suddenly eats Zia,' Zia? VLAAD! HELP!" Jasmin yells as she runs after Vlad for help.
Vlad is already booking it back towards the wall. He looks at it, then at the lumpy section. He levels his pistol and cracks his neck. "Zia, curl up if you can, I shall see about getting you out of there..." Zia feels fear coarse through him as he can hear the muffled commands and trys to bring his legs up but lets out a faint gasp of pain as the plants hold him in place.
Jasmine looks around for anything to help but finds nothing, "I hate my birthday!" Jasmine says as she stands ready to do what ever Vlad ask her to do to help him get Zia out. Vlad points his pistol and attempts to shoot a vaguely man-shaped hole in the foliage in the area where Zia is.

After the big commotion in the living room, Izen sits back down to relax and hears alot of commotion going on deciding not to get involved in it he remains were he is.He decides to take out his gunsand to start to polishing them with his shirt till he cant feel any hard surfaces on the gun" ah found you in the ground as a old dirty messed up piece of crap, and from what im thinking your looking twice as better as youve ever had, or at least i hope". As he finishes polishing his weapons he decides to get familiar with the house.As He gets up he walks towards the wall and gently brushes his hands against the wall as he walks around the room recollecting what it once felt to have a home of his own. Suddenly he imagines what it felt like to be around the people he loved and cherished " be grateful for what you have now, for any moment after that it might dissapear". Hearing his fathers voice he suddenly decides to gather his mind and finally move on from the past but noy yet forgettin his lost memories.As he is walking he smells an unusual scent deciding to follow it he goes into the kitchen and begins to brush his hands against the stove and refrigarator. he decides to topen it and feel the things in there and learn thier scent, after hours of learning everything he finally came to the conclusion that "maybe i can be the cook of the house"

When Denis saw the mess in the bathroom, there were a few things on his mind. Foremost:

"Fuuuuu-" he started to say out loud. Flipping open his cell phone, he quickly started to snap several photos of the black mess enveloping each sink and it's wall. Taking a few steps closer, he made sure to get a shot or three of the bone fragments once he managed to keep his lunch down from the recognition and mildewy smell. After finishing up, he bolted to the office of his boss, knocking on his door and waiting impatiently. Waiting for what felt like an eternity, he was about to knock again when his boss finally said "Come in."

"Ah, Denis, I trust everything is fine after yesterday's incident?"

"Sir, that's not why I'm here." Denis said as he started walking up to his desk.

"No? Then what is?"

"I need you to take a look at this sir." Flipping open his cell-phone, Denis started showing images of the bathroom and the thing starting to seep around it.

"I don't quite get why you're showing me these images Denis. Where did you take these photos and why did I need to see this?"

"They were from the men's bathroom on this story, sir. And I took them just a minute or two ago."

There was a moment of silence as his boss looked at the images before he grabbed the phone out of Denis' hand. He spent another few seconds looking at the images before saying "This better not be a joke Denis, to be frank I don't quite need this shit after yesterday's ordeal."

"It's the real deal, sir." Leading the man from his office, Denis rushed to the Bathroom that by now had a small crowd outside it looking at the mass against the wall.

"Damnit, let me see your phone again. No one leaves the building until the cops get here and give us the go-ahead, we have no idea just what the hell we're looking at or who put it here."

As Lance headed to the nearest sewer entrance, when he pulled it up he saw that the black oil which had been under the bar was now covering the walls of the sewer and stretched out in both directions. He could see some of the oil had banded together into thick, long strands of what could be considered single web lines, were hanging from the ceilings or sides of the sewer tunnels. He could see half digested bone fragments scattered about in some places but no indication of how old they were.


While Cleo followed Lance but kept her distance, when she saw Lance go into the sewers she waits a little before going in after him. But as soon as she slipped in she saw the cover of the sewer be slipped back on by a hooded man who had bits of metal drilled into his face, looking like it went under the skin, into his cheek bones, and into his lower jaw. The sides of his cheeks and lips had been cut out. When she tried to push the cover off she heard a welding sound as the man welded the cover on, sealing them into the sewers.


At Edward’s bar, as soon as it had closed Ed had gone up to the roof of his building to prepare in case the robbers came back. Jasmine hadn’t shown up so that was a bust but it only left him more time to prepare. Thanks to it being dark he was able to be in his super form freely and made several pods filled with acid. In the meantime while the pods grew and filled, he connected himself with the plants surrounding his building so he would know exactly where to go in case some plants were hurt.

Time passed and when he heard voices draw near he waited patiently, feeling Zia start cutting into the plants and then his subsequent getting trapped. Pulling himself free of the plants he picked up the pods he had and paused when he heard Jasmine scream, he recognized that voice. “ so she did come back, just with more this time, the one drenched in acid must have died.” Creeping towards the edge of the roof, staying close and blended in with his surroundings, he watched as Vlad returned and shot at the plant outcropping where Zia was trapped. The moment was so perfect it was hard to believe.

As he was shooting, Vlad felt himself be hit with several things that felt like harder water balloons. Except this quickly was sent from his mind since as soon as the pods hit Vlad they splashed his entire body with acid, hitting his gun as well as the rest of him. Ed pulled back after he had lobbed his plant pods and crawled over as quickly as he could to a section of the roof where he would be behind Jasmine. He waited for the sounds of gunfire to stop, either from his running out of bullets, the gun simply melting away too much, or death coming for him. As soon as that was done he leapt off the side of the building, his legs changing into a kind of springy vine so when he landed his vine legs absorbed the impact. He sprang forward to wrap his vines around Jas tightly to pin her arms at her side, holding her like a shield in front of himself in case there were more coming and yelled at Jas, “who sent you!”


Gloria sighs as she streaches out and yawns, Cursing Zia for his elusiveness to day as she has Jacob help her lock up. He and Gloria joke about as they lock about as they both manage to scare each other and laugh about it afterwards.

No sooner had Gloria locked up than she heard someone knocking against the door hard, practically pounding it. When she opened the door she saw someone in a dirty sweater with the hood pulled up but it did not cover his face much. She saw that the sides of his mouth were cut and in his bottom lip were a pair of metal studs on either end. The man had blue eyes but the general air about him was an uneasy one. As he spoke she could see there were metal pins in his mouth where several teeth should be, "the russian came here, get rid of him while you still can."

Gloria looks rather worried as she rubs her head, " I'll pass that message onto the owner of this place... I dont actually live here."

The man smirked and said, "get rid of him or you will also be on the list." He turned and started running off, having delivered his message for his order. Now to see if they would listen

Gloria's eyes widen as the threat extends to her and she backs away. Locking the door and yeels at jacob to come with her. " Glory? What gogin on?"
"Zia is going to end up in a mental insatution i swear to my gods. He just got a death threat that extended to us."


Cops in biohazard suits came into the work office, security tape being sectioned off at the front of the office while cop cars came up to seal off the street. One of the men in a biohazard suit came up to Denis’ boss while the others went in to check out the bathroom. Hearing about the condition of the bathroom as well as the odd nature of what the oil was, the man talking to the boss nodded, “we have seen this before. Has anyone touched the gunk yet? Regardless everyone will need to be stripped down and washed to ensure there is no contamination.”

A few cops wearing gloves and face masks were starting to set up a cleaning tent at the front of the office, clearing out the area of any desks. The plastic was darkened so the office workers would have some privacy as they were washed. They could see testing kits being brought in and taken to the bathrooms to inspect this newest batch of the strange oil. The men in the biohazard suits seemed open to any questions that could be posed to them.


As Alastor listened to the broadcasting frequencies for the police he heard reports of several areas in downtown were having riots as the homeless were up in arms. Also there was a report of a break-in in the museum and the police were on their way to secure the perimeter.

Jasmine froze and things seemed to move in slow motion as the event unfurled around her. Time returned to normal as she was suddenly grabbed and constricted from behind. She barely heard what the man behind her said as she cursed at him, "YOU FUCKER! WHAT DID YA DO TA V AND PALADIN?" she yells and then feels the vines pinning her arms tighten and make it hard for her to breath. As they loosen and she get her breath back Mouse leap from her shoulder and jumps claws first onto Eds face. As each paw lands and sinks in Mouse lunges in and bites onto Eds nose. He shakes his head from side to side and tries to head butt Mouse. Jasmine feels as Mouse is slammed into the back of her head. Fear goes through her. She looks at Vlad drenched in acid and then at Zia being eaten by the plant and then Mouse being thrown around well on this weirdos face. All the fear triggers something in side Jasmine and Ed stop's shaking his head as he tilts his head and looks at her between Mouse legs oddly as she suddenly weighs more. In the brief instance Mouse moves her paws to Eds eyes. But before she can claw them out Ed lets Jasmine go and grabs Mouse and rips her off his face and throws her.
"MOUSE!" Jasmine screams as she pivoted and punched Ed across the face. As she dose this part of her glove gets snagged on the bark of Ed costume and tears. As Ed staggers back she runs over to Moues and kneels down and picks her up.
"It will be okay Mouse. We just need ta get he others and out and I'll get ya to the vet." she cry as she holds a softly meowing Mouse. If any one looks at the exposed hand they see that its turned to diamond.

*Vlad fires until his gun jams, then rolls in the filth of the alley, trying to get some of the acid off, ditching the heavy coat as he does so with a muffled clang. He strips completely, then continues rolling until he's pretty sure he's not actively dissolving anymore. He feels blood and filth run down his face. Half his face feels like it's on fire, he feels wind blowing into his mouth through a hole where his cheek was, and one eye is completely gone, but he sees Jasmine in trouble with the good one. Everything else vanishes from his mind at that point, and with a sick grin that looks all the sicker for half his face being gone, he slowly gets up. Vlad looks around and finds that his gun is a melted wreck. He looks up at the man screaming at Jasmine from his kneeling position and forces himself upright. He staggers over as quietly as he can, wincing as his rather disgustingly exposed ribs slide across the broken flesh of his front. He catches Ed as he falls and 'helps' him into the ground, slamming him hard into the hard asphalt. He growls like a demonic thing.*
"You should not have hurt the little girl..."
* Then he simply leaps onto Ed and starts punching, not caring what tears, what he hits, or if he's beaten unconscious. He just keeps going, living on the thread of adrenalin. He starts to laugh, blood bubbling up from his damaged lungs, but the sound is undeniably laughter. The laughter of someone genuinely enjoying themselves, of someone truly unafraid of dying. He just keeps punching, the rage in his one intact eye as palpable as the flow of blood from the eye that is not as it splatters all over Ed during the beating. Even if he does no damage, Vlad's going to keep punching until blood loss knocks him unconscious or he's killed.*

Arthur was sleeping when an alarm on his bedside table goes off loudly. It is an emergency signal from the MAUS unit that he had watching Jassie. He sees that she is in trouble with some sort of plant creature and that she and her friends are not doing so well. He grabs his phone and makes a call to Frank.

" Frank this is the boss. There is a situation with Jassie."
" Yeah boss I just got off the phone with the detective I was about to call you."
" OK, I want to give her her space but I want you to take a team of enforcers to the area and if things get too hot put a stop to that fight by any means necessary. I will be along shortly just in case I need to become personally involved. Remember Frank this is my daughter, nothing else matters besides her safety."
" Right boss the boys are already at the limo and I am climbing in now. We'll be there soon."

As Arthur hangs up he gets dressed and calls to have his limo readied. He does not want to give himself away at such and early date but it is his little Jassie after all. As he strides towards the car he replays the last image sent from MAUS. The one of his daughter's hand and the strange crystalline glow coming from it and he cannot help but wonder if his little Jassie is finally coming into her own power.

Zia's eye widen in pain as a few shots rattle him as one does hit his leg, getting a cry of pain with him lacking his normal protection. He gasps and wheezes in pain in his constrictive plant pod. His ribs throb as he curses silently as they stay about to help him. He wheezes as hears Jas freaking out as he chokes out through his pain, "Scram kid!." He strains against his prison as much as he can. He listens to the fight as he rummages about the pockets before muttering curses to him self about not getting any thing into the pockets before leaving or leaving items in them. He groans as he stops fighting for a moment to try to get his arms up to feel the hidden pockets finding them empty as well. He groan weakly as he works at finding any openings that Vlad shot into, extending his arms off to the side while truing to keep pressure from tightening about his chest, seeing he can do nothing for his leg at the moment as the blood slowly works it's way down his calf and his pants, into his shoe

As Vlad jumped Edward and started punching, he felt like he was punching a particularly hard tree, his knuckles starting to bleed and crack from the force of impact from his punching. In retaliation to all this Edward used the exposed Vlad to its fullest, first quickly bringing one vine covered arm up to go into Vlad's open mouth, forcing its way in so he can't easily close his mouth in an attempt to try biting down. He pushes his vines down into both each lung and his stomach where he hardens the tips into a sharp solid wood which broke off after its initial movement, leaving wood bits in Vlad's lungs and making three holes into his stomach to let his stomach acid seep through his body and melt him from the inside.
As one vine arm was busy with attacking Vlad's interior, the other was attacking Vlad, curling and hardening into a knobby fist that looked like an outgrowth bump you would see on the side of a tree. As Jasmine picks up Mouse the wall comes alive and vines shoot out to grab onto her and try to pull her to the wall but because of how much she now weighs the vines can't. Edward couldn't believe E.L., they recruited a mere girl to try and bring him in? And now with this odd Russian who he would have to give them credit for, he could take a hit.
Knocking Vlad off he headed towards Jas, the ends of the vines on his arm that had been inside Vlad dripping a greenish blood, every spot where a drop hit a small spot of grass started to grow there. He huffed as his face and chest looked pocketed in some spots where Vlad had hit, grumbling to himself, "a child and a Russia, what next E.L." Saying louder to Jasmine, "so what did E.L. pay you? Didn't bother to even equip you properly, seems they care little for their hit men, or children it seems." The spot where Mouse had bit had some mossy scabbing
Zia wheezes as he feels confusion nag at him, " WHat the Hell is EL? And not this is all my doing cause of curisousity" He vaguely wonders if they could hear him considering he can barely hear them through his pod.
Jasmine lays Mouse down and looks over at the unmoving body of Vlad, "YOU FUCKING MONSTER!" she says as she get up and faces him, "I don't know who E.L. is but yer gonna pay fer hurting my friends!" she says as she pulls out a kinfe in each hand.
Ed pointed at Jasmine with his non bleeding hand, "hey! You are the one who started this all. What, was trying to break in last night not enough for you?" The tentacles on his right arm curled up together to form a pocket to try and keep the bleeding localized to try and get it to scab over. He didn't get close enough for her to be able to lunge out at him with the knives. He was a bit curious how heavy she must be for the vines attached to her being unable to pull her in.
ZIa reaches out in his mind for the name of the voice coming to the bartender from the other day as he strains at the pod and coughs hard as pain flares in his chest. He claws at the inside of the plant as he waits for the pain to pass as soap cover his togune making him feel like he wants to rech from the taste. He can feel his face paling as he stops fighting for a moment before frosing as much room about his chest as he can.

Jasmine snarlas at Ed as she slash at the vines never taking her eyes off of him. Under normal sitiation that would have been a foolish move since blindling swingin she could of cut her self. But as the last vine falls away Ed can she that she did get her self a few times but is not bleeding. He cant make out what it is but something shiny were she cut slits in her outfit. Once Jasmine is free she throw the kife in her left hand at Ed. And as he moves to avoid it she slips her hand into the bag and pulls out a watterballon and throws it. As it brakes open on the floor the ally sliper motoer oil spreads.
Ed wasn't too concerned about the wild throwings of a knife but as soon as the water balloon fill with the oil hit the ground he froze in his tracks and backed off. Instead of running towards Jasmine he ran towards the wall of his building to climb up it and out of her reach, the vines curling around his hands to help him ascend the wall. He kept his distance since if she had cut herself with her knife yet was not bleeding then she must have very good body armor on. One thing to do then, he started forming another acid pod in his left hand while his right arm was wrapped in the vines of the building.
Zia gasps for breath as he yells between labored breathing, " Jas! Damd it. Get out of here!" He arches an arm about looking for holes he can work at hating he does not have his normal armor.
Jasmine screams in anguer as Ed flees from her and she slips her left hand back into the bag and pulls out another water ballon as she jumps over the motor oil and lobs it as Ed. As it brakes open the smeel of Weed BE Gone fills the night air. Jasmine reached down and picks up her fallen knife. "PALLY! DONT MOVE!" she yells as she looks away from Ed for the few seconds need to throw the knife at the pod. Zias eyes go wide as only the tip of her four and a half inch throwing knife suddenly peeks through just missing his nose.
Zia jerks back and his eyes go wide as he presses him self into the plant as far as he can. " FOr the love of! Why towards the face!?" He brings his hands up and pokes out the dagger as he gets in fingers into the hole and works at breeking him self as much as he can.

As soon as Ed was hit with the balloon he felt the poison from the chemical start to seep into his body. In a panic he dropped the malformed pod and leapt from his spot on the building to hit the ground hard as he shedded the parts of his body that had been covered by the poison. The spots on his body where he had thrown off the vine coverings revealed his humanish form but it looked raw, like he had been skinned and revealing an earthy colored body.
Jasmine reaches into her pack again and pulls out another water ballon and aims it at Ed. "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! Ya killed one of my friends and hurt my cat. Now let my other friend out NOW!" Jasmine says trying to keep her temper in cheek. If she loses it shed get sloppy and lose this fight.
Ed snorted and kept his back to Jasmine as he stood up, his back which hadn't been covered in the poison still had some of its viney covering, "go ahead and throw it then. Better to die now than be dragged back and killed there."
ZIa claws at the hole before trying to open it t ohel, "I have no need to drag you any where damd it. Jas Stand down PLease."
Jasmine scream in anguer lobs the ballon at him and as it breaks open some foul and sticky smelling liquid splash on him. Jasmine pulls out of her fighting stiks fand puts away her knife and pulls out a water balloon and throws it against the pod. Once again the smell of Weed Be Gone fills the air and the two smells fusing causing one rotten stench.
Ed started to wobble drunkenly as his senses started hitting a high from the stench. He staggered towards his bar, hitting the wall and trying to clear his mind enough to figure out the right direction to go. The pod holding Zia in place lessened its grip on him so he could break out of it.

Zia works his way out and falls to the ground as pain spikes in his leg before he gets up and lips towards Jas and trys to pull her away from Ed. He is looking a bit pale as he trus to get a tight hold on her and huffs in pain, " Jas. PLease stop and lisen!" He glances over at Vlad with no love for the man in his eyes other then contempt for the russian man. If failing to hold her away he attempts to get in her way placing him self between them.
Jasmine shoves Zia as she walks over to Vlades broken body. "Vlad? Vald?" shes says as she shakes him and starts crying
Jasmine can feel that Vlad still has a heartbeat and despite all odds, he is still alive. Ed is still trying to figure out which way to go in order to get into the bar.
Zia pants in pain as he is shoves as he forces him self to relie more on his un wounded leg before looking after Ed and limping after him, " Wait! er "He catches him self on calling outthe Bartender's name still un sure if he should yell it out
Ed still tries to keep his face concealed despite there not being anything to hide his identity. He says hazily, "Cyrus. Get inside and drag the others in as well."
Jasmine had stayed near Vlads body once she saw that some who he was still alive. She fished out the small first aid kit from her pack but it would not be enough to help Vlad. "Pall, we need to get him to a hospital befer he dies. And i need to get Mouse to a vet." shes says through her tears. Now that the fight had ended she was shaking and crying even more.
Zia pants and wheezes slightly as he chases after Ed not sure why he is confronting the weakened man on his own terratory before looking back at Jas as he feels two duties tugging at him.
Ed says louder, "i have plants to slow his body and numb it so it will not start getting even worse. As for the cat, bring her in and first see if anything is damaged."
Zia looks back at Ed as he hears this and stops as consirn flashes in his normally consiled eyes. He smiles behind the bandana as he limps bac kto Jas and carefully scoops up Mouse. " Take mose inside to the bar but please dont attack the man. I'll...get vlad." He looks at Vlad with a hate in his eyes for the russian but willing to save the man for protecting the kid he took in.
Jasmine still crying feels the cold fear at the thought of Vlad dieing replced by anguer at the plant man and get up and gose to him and spins him around and shovers her finger of her ungloved hand at his chest. "Why should be trust you! You attcaked us and now ya want us to go into your bar and-." Jasmine cuts off as she suddenly notices her hand. As she looks at it Ed and Zia can also see that it is turned to dimond. She stnda there flexing her hand. She suddenly screams and starts backing away as she pulls off her other glove to find it to is dimond."WHAT HAPPEND TO ME!?"

ZIa's eyes widen as he moves fairly quickly as his chest heaves and he covers her mouth, "i dont know but plese lisen to me. We will figure this out later." He looks at Ed with a slightly pelading look of what the hell do i do.
In addition to getting a full frontal shot of Ed's bare body, they saw his face as well. To try and clear up his senses he pulled in the rest of the vines outside of his body and used them to grow some fig leaves over where his genital area would be even though there isn't anything really hanging there. Looking at Jas' hands as he winces from the scream, "you have super powers it seems. And You attacked me first by assaulting my bar."
Jasmine didn't hear what the men said and all she could do was see her hands. She is shaking so badly that if she could she would shake her self to pices. She suddenly screams again as she pushes Zia away from her and she runs away from Zia, Ed and Vlad.As Jasmine runs away Mouse squirms and wiggels out of Zias arms and limps after Jasmine.
Ed turns back to his bar to open the door with a push as it recognized him, not bothering with any thought of stopping her, "drag the Russian inside so we can call the hospital."
Zia groans and snaps at Jas as he sways slightly before cutting his paants and binding his leg, " Kid Shut up and lisen." He winces as he tightens the runin black jeans about the wound and stands up again, "I attacked first. and Damd it All." He gives Ed aploagetic look now seeing that the plant man seems like a good gus and pulls off his shirt revealing a wife beater undernetih as he throws it at ed, hissing, " cover your face with it." Zia starts off after Jas to try to calm her down before stoping as he looks back at Vlad and groans as Being a good guy kicks in and he drags Vlad into the Bar.
Ed wraps the shirt around his face, "you can't keep up with her with that leg, leave her, she will be alright." He was acting oddly welcoming for someone who had just been attacking them so recently. His way of apologizing it seems for the misunderstanding. He went into the bar and over towards the counter to grab a vine hanging off the wall. Breaking it in half with a twist he pushed it against his back where the end melded itself to his flesh.
Ed started to gather some plants scattered around the back of his bar by the drinks, setting it on the table so it could be crushed. "There is a phone somewhere near the entrance, call the police to get an ambulance while i make this."
Zia wheezes as he drops Vlad not too carring as he doubles ovre in pain from his lung having to over exert it's self as he starts couching hard. " I was just trying to figure out if you were a good or bad guy. Didnt mean for things to escalate like this...and thanks for letting me do this for....er him." There is a clear tone in Zia's voice of not likeing the russian man as he starts for the phone to call for an ambulence.
As Jasmine runs away and the men head into the bar a limo that was parked aways a bit lights turn on and drives off in the vauge direction that Jasmine ran.

AS Jasmine tacks off it isn't long till Mouse loses her sight of her and is forced to track her by her smell. As Jasmine runs blindly in her panic she turns down an ally way and as she is blinded by her tears she is not aware of her surrounding and is sent sprawling on the ground as a bum hits her on the back of her head with a heavy pipe. She shakes her head and tries to get up but curls back into a tight ball as the enraged homeless bums begin to hit her with pipes and other things they have found. She remains curled up in a ball to protect her self out of instinct even though at best the bums are only taring her cloths and causing miner bits of diamond to chip off.
"LEAVE ME ALON!" Jasmin screams at them. Why is this happening to me!? WHAT is happening to me!? she thinks to her self as she lays curled on the ground as the bums just keep hitting her. Vlads dead. Zia wont want a freak staying with him. What am I going to do? she cry to her self.

Zia finishes with an odd end deal with Ed and calling for an ambulance for Vlad before setting out to look for Jas after getting his leg patched up by Ed. He starts the way he saw where she ran off but ends up asking people as he tries to figure out where she went. He paused as he grabs a broken boom handle to use as a staff not liking he has no weapons on him self.
As he walks his unease grows. He feels as if he is being watched from somewhere but the farther and farther he walks the more empty the street becomes until he gets to a part of the city where the street lights have been knocked out. As he continues to look for Jas a long black limo slowly pulls up next to Zia and begins to keep pace with him. The window goes down and a voice from inside says... "Greetings Mr. Heino... I was wondering if I might have a word with you?"
Zia looks over and swallows, " er...im kind of looking for someone... A teen age girl about 17. 5 foot, blond hair..." He looks about for any sighs as worry for the young super gnaws at him.
" Actually it is that girl for which I would like to speak to you. But worry not about her she is being looked after at the moment and will be fine. Please get in."

Zia looks over as his eyes flick to the window as he trys to see in before hesitantly walking over and opening the door. As he gets in ge looks at how has been addressing him as he shifts uneasily realizing this man knew his full name. "If you say so...i rather see that she is ok with my own eyes tho."
" Ahh... yes it is that care that we are having this conversation. You see my name is Arthur Guinness and I am the girl's father and her continued health is very important to me. You may have guessed though that currently any contact with her might hurt her more than allowing her to stay on her own for a bit until she gets used to the idea that I am not the horrible person that she must believe me to be."
Zia pales slightly and shifts holding back oppinons seeing this man seems to be quite reasonable at the moment. "Ah...yes she seemed rather upset about your ...Tv conference. Seemed to think you were a horrable man." Zia watches him carefully judging the movements he can see.

Arthur smiles slightly at that and says "Yes, I can imagine her reaction. My little Jassie can be quite emotional at times though this time with very good reason. It has been a very trying time for our family. I want to thank you for taking care of her and helping her through this trying time. In fact I truly like to see you continue at this. I cannot think of anyone better suited to being a role model for her that a person of your moral stature. Especially if what I believe just happened and her powers have begun to surface. my wife turned out to be quite powerful and I would not be surprised if hers were equally as powerful. As she can be a handful though I would like to give you my card just in case you think that she might need special help." He hands the card to Zia
Zia silently takes the card and smiles slightly seeing a man that has turned over a new leaf. " I will keep trying to keep her as safe as i can, for a book shop owner that is." Zia watches him as something flickers through his eyes, " May i ask how you know this much about me? Seeing i only know of what the media has told me of you and that im just a man hoping to make it in the world."

Arthur takes a pull from his cigar before he answers and for the briefest of seconds Zia thinks he sees a hint of red in the man's eyes. " My daughter is the most important thing in my life and I am not someone who gambles with that which is important to me. Yes, I know who you are Mr. Heino and if I did not think you were such an upright citizen the I would not be having this pleasant conversation with you. Still I find that amazing power can reside in anyone even a mere lowely book shop owners. Have a pleasant evening Mr. Heino. You will find my daughter down near the Park. It has been good to get to know you Mr. Heino now do not let me detain you." And Zia realizes that the car has come to a halt and that the driver has opened the door.
Zia passes the glow off as the glow from the cigar or his eyes playing tricks from his painful last day of no sleep. " Thank you Mr. Guinness. I will keep her safe." He smiles light heartedly as he closes the door behind him and sets off looking for Jas as tension eases from him, as the optimistic side sees the man is a changed man while some part of him nags at the slight uncertainty before he brushes it off.

As Jasmine laid curled on the floor she was only vaguely aware of someone wading in and knocking the enraged bums off and away from her. She gets up slowly into a sitting postion and despite the shaking of her hands manages to pull off her mouth and eyes cover.
"Uncle Frank?....... Uncle Frank!" shes says and makes her way to him and throws her arms around as much of him as she can once he finishes chasing off the bums. He patts her shoulder and just lets her hold him till her shaking passes.
"Whats wrong with me? What is happening to me!" she says as she holds up her still diamond hands. And now that she has removed her face covering he can see that the its not just her hands and arms but her entire body that has turned to diamond.

Frank holds her out to look at her and begins to chuckle.
" Kid it looks like your powers have finally come out. You really shouldn't be surprised considering the parents you have. Heh... Your dad always did say you were his little diamond in the rough and it doesn't get much rougher than this area."

Jasmine just stares at at her uncle, "Oh fer the love of. I'M BEING SERIOUS HERE! Look at me! I'm a freak! I thought if this was gonna happen it be ice or fire! Not, not... NOT WHAT EVER THE HELL THIS IS!" she yells at him as she slow get back to her normal self. She stands they glaring up at him with her arms crossed over her chest.

Frank smiles down at her and shakes his head.
" From what I understand of such things powers tend to be random and sometimes poetic. Your dad was fire and mom was ice. Brings that together and you get pressure. And what come out of pressure but a diamond and that is what it looks like you've become... but hey I'm no jeweler just a common workman who happens to be 7' 2" and around 600 lbs. What do I know of random mutation." He looked serious for a moment then smiles brightly at her again.

Jasmine looks very confused and covers her face withe her hands. After a few moment she moves some of her finger out of the way so she can look up at her uncle. She slowly lowers them as she says,"But look at me. I'm a freak. It not like moms or dads power! its not going away! What am I suppose to do? Walk around like a mummy all wrapped up in bandages so no one can see. Or better yet how bout I move into the sewers so no one can see me. I cant live like this." She turns away from Frank as she hears meowing. As she turns around she sees Mouse limp over to her. Jasmine kneels down and picks up Mouse.
"I mean. Were the heck am I gonna go. Specially if this wont go away?" she says as she turns back to him.

"Look kid I know it seems tough now but I'm betting that like your parents you too will be able shift back to your original form. When my powers kicked in I didn't realize it. I got into a lot of fights as a kid. For some reason people always want to pick on the big guy. Funny thing was that the more I got hit the bigger I got then one day when I was a little older than you one of my tormentors got his license and thought he was going to scare me by pretending to hit me with his new car. Sad part was that he lost control of it and ended up actually hitting me. The pain was instant and somehow I knew I had to release the energy that seemed to have built up inside me. So I punched the car that hit me and sent it end over end crushing my tormentor killing him instantly. I didn't know what to do so I ran away and ended up on the streets. I'd still be there if your father hadn't offered to help me control my power. Now I'm only stuck at 7'2" and now 9'8" that I'd been after the wreck. I guess the point that I'm trying to make is that if you have friends they can help you through the tough times. Also your father wanted me to pass on the message that whenever you are ready to come home he will be waiting but until then he wanted you to know that you have full access to your credit cards in the interim. Heh, interim can you tell that was one of his words or what?" He laughs at this a bit then continues.
" He wants to see you but he doesn't want to rush you. Think about it kid... might do you some good to see him. You could clear the air and junk. Anyway you hungry, or could I give you a lift some place?"
Jasmine stokes Mouse fur as she listen and finally nodes as she follows Frank to the limo. They stop briefly and frank get out to pick up some chinese food before dropping Jasmine off near Zia's shop. Before she gets out she pulls out the hoodie out and putting it on and pulling the hood low as she get out and goes in. She stop and looks confused as she sees the mark that is painted on the door.
"What the hell?" she says as she opens the door and goes in. Hurrying up the stairs before Gloria can stop to talk to her. As goes up them so fast that she almost runs Izen down again on her way up.
"Sorry Izen." shes says as she goes to her room and closes the door. As Izen get up he notices that Jasmine has a much heavier foot fall then when he had first met her.
As Frank watches her go inside he tells the driver to head for home and he calls up Arthur.
" Well boss I think things went well. I talked Jas through her initial panic and passed on your message. I thought you might want to know though that the door to the bookie's shop had some strange occultish looking mark on it. I'm faxing it to you now."
" Thanks Frank you did a good job as always. Get the mark analyzed. I want to know everything about it by the time I get back from the clean up at the park tomorrow." he pauses for a second. " So my daughter can turn into diamond... how do you think she is doing Frank?"
" Well boss she's a tough kid. I think she'll be alright. She recovers quickly, no surprise there I'm sure. Anyway, I'll get the mark to the lab and see what turns up."
Arthur sighs... "Thanks again Frank for being there once again when I cannot. Pass a message on to Mr. Heino letting him know that Jassie is home safe."
" Sure boss no problem" and Frank hangs up and sends a text to Zia about Jas.

(co post with me and reep)

as Jazmin is in her room Izen is on the floor trying to catch his breathe feeling like a train hit him he rolls over on his side and begins to breathe slowly"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!!" getting up and hearing that the shuting door came from Jasmines room he starts thinking to himself "should i interfer in other peoples problems or should i just leave it alone?". Having a change of mind he slowly begins to brush his hands up against the wal trying to get to the door. As he gets closer he hears someone in the other room. Izen knocks on the door waiting for who ever it was that knocked him off of his feet to answer
Jasmine was looking at herslef in the mirror when Izen knocked. She jumpped and spun around but now that she is closer to 565 pounds when she lands it is felft throught the floor. She pulls the hood down low and finds some spare gloves and put them on as Mouse jumps to her shoulder. "Umm. Wh-wh-who is it?' she calls.
Hearing jasmines voice Izen slowly begins to calm down."Was that you who just ran into me like a bus out of hell?.Last time you were running like that there was a problem, is anything the matter?".as he slowly turned the knob
jasmine stops and breathes in deeply slowing her hart rate, Its just Izen hes blind he can't see me like this so I'm good., she thinks to herself. "It was just a rought night is all. Ya hungry? I got chinese food." she says and hopes her voice is lave and not shaking like she is.
Izen walks into the room "im ok off the food but as a person with disability or well a blessing i like to call it, i no when someone is having a rough time, i can tell something is wrong by the way your acting,is there something you wanna tell me perhaps anything i can help you with?" as Izen trys to find a seat he accidentally knocks down mouse to the floor and steps on his tail.

Izen suddenly feels his face get clawed as Mouse jumps onto his face befor she retreats back to Jasmine and hisses at him. "Umm. No. Nothing that i want to trouble ya with." she says as she turns her back on him and looks at the mirror again.I'm a freaking engament ring!, she thinks to her self and sighs. "My birthdays suck and the night after my birthdays suck." she says as she pulls the hood back a little and her bangs fall into her face. She looks at her hair in the dimand state. "Huh. And here they say red dimonds dont exsiste." she says as she looks at her red bang and the red dimand strands.

As Izen feels cuts and his skin burn on his face he puts his hands on his face and feels liquid....tasting it he fnds out its his own blood." WOW FIRST I GET RUNNED OVER BY A BUS NOW I GET MY FACE SLASHED BY A CAT.. LIFE JUST CANT GET ANY BETTER THEN THIS". Izen suddenly begins to retrace his steps and head back to the hall. with blood on his hands he brushes his hands up against the wall and heads towards the bathroom.closing the door he turns on the sink and begins to wash his face.As he walks out with wounds on him he walks back across the hall for if he had vision it would seem as though someone has been murdered in the house with all the blood stains up against the wall. he walks back in the kitchen and brushe his hand against the table deciding to sit down on it. he takes his cape and wraps it around his face to cover his wounds and leaving only his emotionlesss eyes sticking out.

Zia feels his chest burning as his lung seems to repressureise so he can breath someone normally. He gasps for deep breaths not caring every breath sent a new found pain through his wounded lung. He pulls out his Cell as he hears it beep at him and sees the text from someone he does not know. Worry and relief battles in him as he reades it wondering how someone had his cell number but relived Jas is back as he heads home. Exhaustion shows as he comes back and runs into Jacob who had pulled out one of the pistols behind the counter and jumps. Zia dives off to the side in alarm as he sees this. "Damd it all jacob! what the hell was that for?"

"Z! oh thank god its you. Glory gots a message for you and well it kind of concerns every one here that works or comes to the shop." Zia gets up only to be tackled by a worried Gloria who clings to him tightly as he wheezes in pain from her hold.

"Zia... i was told to get rid of the russian man. A weird man threatened us to get rid of him before it becomes our problem." Zia holds her close only to let go as she hits him in the chest with her fist and in tears, " And i thought you were up stairs." zia is unable to hide the true amount of pain from the hit before she pulls him up stairs as Jacob locks the back orr and bolts it closed before following them up.

"Gloria... please head home and take Jacob with you. Please...." He looks at her with a pleading look before she lets him go and nods slightly and Jacob heads back down with her now personal guard.
"Hey Z you going to be ok?" Zia heads down after them and nods. "Good to know seems like your going to have a long night man."Zia lets them out ANd waves fair well before turning and seeing the strange symbol on te out side of the door and he frowns as he moves to rub it off before stopping as he gets it down into his mind and heading back into the shop and locking every thing up as secure as they can be. He heads up as he checks all the doors to make sure they are lock out of his paranoia before entering his living area and looks about and sees Izen and looks towards the door of Jasmin. " Ah ..." he falls quiet before heading to Jasimen's room and knocking, " Jas?... are you ok? Look you can talk to me...Vlad is in the hospital...he is going to be ok."

as he hears Zia trying to talk talk to jaz through the door Izen in telepathy says"... i might be blind but not dumb enough to know whats not going on.. why dont you let her relax and sit down and tell me in details whats going on?"
Zia twitches as he hears a voice in his head as he looks over rembering what happened earlier. He slowly pulls away with a relectent look. "i hope that was you and im not going insane. But well things happened and herskined turned to dimonds...Had a run in with her father as well.:
"her skin turned into DIAMONDS??, No wonder i felt like a bus ran over me" Izen yelled. "and yes if you must ask i have an ability to speak in telepathy and i have the ability to read peoples minds if i choose to, i usually dont invade peoples privacy thats why i dont read thier minds, but at times curiosity kicks in"as Izen gets up off his chair he exposes his scar, and says" yeah i forgot she had a cat...dont ask about them just pretend ike you never saw them, everyone can learn something from me, dont mistake my blindess for a weakness... if you guys ever need me done hesitate to call.. i can do stuff some of you cant"
Zia slumps back against the wall as he coughs and shudders in pain, "Ah nice to know and i never taken blindness as a weakness. But please dont make a big deal of her....skin... its going to be hard enough for her to deal with the changes if we reject her."
revolver764: Izen puts a smile on his face and puts his hand to his mouth and in telepathy says"oh i no she is made out of diamonds and all, i read her mind, i just act as though i dont no anything so others around me wouldnt get worried.". "I believe today is her birthday right?"
Zia nods slightly before rembering to say, " Yeah it is...need help with making a cake?"
Izen laughs as he hears the word "cake". " my friend im the cook of all cooks i can bake you what ever it is you need, but i have something better in mind" come with me to the old burnt church a couple blocks away from here.."
Zia swallows back the soapy taste in his mouth and looks back at Jas's room in worry. " Ah.. maybe it can wait a little bit since...well she might need us...also i think we should talk about where your going to stay since well your going to need your own place...if i rember what Jasmin said earlier today...and sorry about pulling the gun on you i thought she was in danger."
"no worries my friend and i can sleep in the living room i prefer to sleep on the floor though, and as for jasmine let her have sometime to herself dont worry ill no if something goes wrong but if you dont want to go at least help me get to the door and ill return in 10 minutes"
Zia looks over his shoulder and smiles slightly. " I'll come with you since you dont know the negobor hood right? Also the people around here know me." He gentally takes Izen's hand and leads him towards the door moving slowly not to pull the blind man over.
Upon gettin out the front door he begins to run towards the old burnt church just a few blocks away from the house as he is running he turns and tells zia" i can smell the scent of the burnt church as though it happend yesterday". reaching thier destination. Izen walks up to a little burial and begins to dig in the dirt, after a while of digging he finally finds what he was searching for" Voila here it is lets head back"
Zia keeps close knowing that even with people knowing who he is does not mean that they are safe seeing its bad at night in the area he is in. He helps Zia back, letting them in and closing everything back up to it's secure statious.

revolver764: they get back into the house and back into the kitchen.Izen walks up to the sink and washes what he found. He turns around and puts it out for zia to see " here check this dog tag out it was givin to me by father before he was murdered". He turns over the dog tag and on one side there is a quote that says" 1000 years of sorrow can bring a 1000 years of joy", and on the other side of the dogtag there is an empty slot were you can put a picture.."i really think jasmine needs this more then i do give it to her and tell her happy b-day from me im going to the living room and sleep on the floor". Zia smiles weakly as he head hit his room and leaves itopen as he collapses on the bed and doses lightly.

As Jasmine paces back and forth from the wall with the mirror on it to the other and back again she stops as her necklace with her parents wedding rings catch her eye. She stop and holds them out as she looks at them.
"Dad...... Mom......... What the hell is wrong with me?" she says as she thinks about them. She didn't know what to do or who to talk with. Zia was the pally but he seemed like a normal person. I mean if he is a super its not an obvious power. He said Vlad was at the hospital alive. If he survived he might be a super. Then there that freaky plant guy, he is defiantly a super but I don't think I want to talk to him. she thinks as she walks over to her bed and lets her self fall onto it from not caring and utter fatigue. As she lands on the bed she hears it creek and groan a bit. A concerned look crosses her face but passes as the bed stops and she sits their look at the wedding rings on her necklace.
"They said I could talk to them bout anything. But yer gone Mom. And I can't find you. And yer... I don't know what yer up to Dad..... But you might be one of the few people who can show me how to control this."
She suddenly turns over and hits the bed in frustration and hears a creaking sound followed by a snapping sound and finally a crashing sound as the bed frame gives out.
"Great now Zias gonna yell at me fer breaking this!" she grumbles as she pulls the covers over her and tries to go to sleep.

"I suppose we should help with that rioting, then," Alastor remarked as he climbed up into the bell area. Thanatos took over and flew out an archway, heading for the area where the riots were happening. "Just try not to get carried away and kill too many of them, okay?" Alastor asked kindly. "Heh. I make no promises." Below him, officers in riot gear were doing their best to hold several homeless back. As he touched down, an officer ran over to him. "I don't know what's going on. A bunch of these people just went berserk! There's no stopping them!" "Leave this to me," Thanatos said, and a couple of officers cleared a path for him as he walked up to several of them, a blade sliding out of his wrist. "Pay attention. You will all lay down your weapons and- surrender?" He noticed several of the homeless had some kind of black fluid oozing out of their mouths and eyes. "What the hell?" Several of them broke through the line of officers and rushed him, prompting him to quickly form armor over his chest as he engaged, being careful only to wound them, and not kill. "Something's wrong! They're infected with... I don't know what! Try to restrain as many as you can!"

As Lance and Cleo fall asleep they are wracked with terrible nightmares, the oil skinned baby creatures were crawling up their bodies to start devouring them while their own tendrils strangled and gutted themselves. And no matter how hard they tried they could not wake up, leaving them to writhe in the terror until daybreak.


Despite the officer’s attempts to restrain the rampaging homeless, there still was a lot of loss of life as the bums fought as if madmen. Nobody was sure what to make of the oil coming from some of the mouths and eyes of the bum but those who had been beaten into submission were taken to a nearby hospital. Thankfully the riot was on a small scale so overall damage was minimal.


Vlad woke up in a hospital gown and a terrible pain coming from his chest. The only way to get out the wood bits safely and to spot his stomach from melting himself from the inside, the hospital had to do an emergency operation, cutting down the center of his stomach and through his sternum, cutting it in half. After they had cauterized and stitched up his body, they had given him powerful painkillers that made him feel sluggish so it would be easier for him to be restrained when he woke up if it was needed.

As for exactly where he was when he woke up, he was inside of a full body tube x-ray machine so the doctors could see how much additional damage there was without having to operate more. Vlad heard a doctor say with some surprise in his voice since he expected Vlad to be dead, “oh, welcome back to the world of the living. Just hold still, the x-ray is almost done.” The tube was pitch black yet Vlad saw what looked like a flicker of a face with a rather plain looking, smiling mask on. Also when he said something to try and get the doctor to respond, none came.

When he crawled out of the tube he found himself in the middle of an examination room but nobody was there and the lights didn’t seem to light up everything, only giving adequate light to their direct outward path from the opening. The door leading out of that room was open but the hallways were clear and the entire building dead silent. Some doors were locked but others were open yet there was no way out of the building.
(to be collab-completed whenever Rusty and I can get to it but this still happens during the night)

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Morning comes and on the news was a special news bulletin, “last night in one of the saltier areas of New York city, a few riots broke out involving a small band of homeless in several areas there. The reason for this newest outbreak is uncertain but several of the homeless were reported to have some strange gunk coming from the corners of their eyes and mouths. Interestingly enough the same gunk has been reported coming out of several sinks throughout the city. The plumers will be checking this out and further reports on what it is will be brought to you as soon as we get it.”

The view switched to the area where Arthur would start cleaning up, “but in more recent news, recently released and redeemed criminal Arthur, will be helping in a cleanup of one of the parks here in our lovely city. Stop by and help out with keeping the city clean.”

After giving some more details about the event a picture of the school Lance had visited, "there have yet to be any further reports in the massacre with the students but the culperate is the villain who goes by the name Wrath. The police have yet to comment but they are saying they will find out soon enough Wrath's true identity and they will bring him to justice."

The scene changes again to show the museum, "no further word from the police on the museum which was raided last night but from what we have gathered the rioting extened to a break-in of the museum. The police did confirm that the hero Cog was present to deal with the uprising. As for public access to the museum, the police have barred all entry in order for the damage to be repaired and assess whether or not anything was stolen."


Edward rubbed his forehead with a sigh, after all that had happened last night he wondered what the alliance would mean or what all it would entail. He went to check on the plants which had been withering the other day and furrowed his eyebrows as an even larger patch of the plants had withered, making a noticeable blotch. He walked around to check out the rest of his plants and saw that even more were dying. That raised a warning flag, something was poisoning his plants and he needed to find out what it was before it destroyed his entire building.

With a sigh at how quickly it is he would need to be calling on Zia he went over to the phone and rung up his shop, waiting to see if he answered.


When Alastor entered his office his CD player was on again and this time there was a bookmark near the CD player, it was rather plain looking except for the hand drawn open eyelid with a circle but white where the iris and pupil should be, looking exactly like the one on Zia's shop's door.