Spirited Nights
Sept 5, 2014 2:04:57 GMT -5
Post by Kenji on Sept 5, 2014 2:04:57 GMT -5
(this is going to metamorph into a Kenji as the Ghost open thread, but it's going to take some writing so for now I have a placeholder and will slowly add more SEEING AS I DON"T GET A Sub-BOARD ANY MORE LOL)
It was by no means his finest plan,hell it wasn't even close. it was quick , it was dirty and there was more than a small chance that he may not come out of this still breathing free air.
But that was the risks he took hen he took this job about a month. It had started out simple, a neighborhood being shook down with nowhere to turn. They had come to him as a last resort, becuase the police where to busy still cleaning up after some big spirit debacle and helping out a neighborhood was the last thing on their list. Kenji had tried to steer clear of this job, because it smelled rotten from the get go. However the second time they came to him, they had scraped together a nice chunk of yuans, probably their life savings based on the way they were treating it. So Kenji took their money and the case.
....he was still wishing he hadn't.
Turns out the people shaking down this neighborhood were the Triple Threat Triad. While they didn't have quite the power that they did back in the days before Amon, they were still a force to be reckoned with. Now while he didn't exactly respect the Triple Threats (to be honest he didn't respect any of the triads) he was aware that tangling with an organization like that was hazardous for his health. So instead he focused on the trio that was running the neighborhood shakedown, trailing them and their various habits.
Siku: Waterbender and the face of the operation.He was the one that showed up in the local shops,all slick suits and fake smiles coercing those in the neighborhood that hadn’t hadn’t given in to join up for their own protections.
Ratna: The resident earthbender and muscle of the crew, when folks didn’t pay up, it was his earthbending that busted up their stores and smashed their store front either with his bare hands or with some very sizable boulders.
Akai: The collector, he made is rounds each day and collected the “donations” from the locals and he had more than enough “firepower” to deal with anyone that tried to put up a fight when he made his rounds,rumor had it he had even put a couple of people in the hospital with some rather serious burns when they refused.
While they weren't the smartest or even the strongest crew out there, they had vision and ambition, which was a dangerous combination. Kenji could read behind the lines. This neighborhood is where a lot of new families got displaced to after the spirit vines swallowed up other neighborhoods. If they kept their hold on the neighborhood, soon the kids were going to figure that the only way to get ahead was to join the gang, and these three could make a nice little army out of the future teen soldiers they could get in the gang.
For the past several days Kenji had been slowly skimming off their take, a few brush passes and pick pocketing bumps here and there. It was enough to get them suspicious but not enough to get him noticed. However it had all been leading up to tonight, as he watched the building that was their hideout from a nearby perch as he was in full gear. The modified metal suit underneath dark clothes and a black longcoat. Taking a deep breath, the then exhaled and slid his mask over his face,
Time to go to work.
He came in through the skylight that was shockingly easy to pry open and then lowered himself down on a metal line his feet lightly hitting the ground. Once on the ground and secured he got moving. Some time and a pathetically easy to crack safe later he was in the lower sections of the building in a three car garage that house the Trio's Satomobiles and closing the trunk down, getting in the car. He had just got in when suddenly there was click and he was bathed in light.
"Well ,well what do we have here?" Kenji turend around and saw Siku walking down the stairs form the floor above. He then saw the doors below open as the other two joined him slowly closing in around him.'
"So your this Ghost, we've heard about? You know they say you can walk through walls, walk on ceilings, that you leave no finger prints or boot marks. The triad members I've heard talk about you make it as if your some sort of spirit out to balance out our wicked deeds." Siku laughed at that " what a bunch of superstitious nonsense. i suspect your just as human as the rest of us just with an extra set of brass ones for trying to rob us while we're all here."
There was a flash of light as Akaj suddenly had a flame in his hand as Siku continued " Tell you what? You, you got moxy, so give us back our money and we'll only give you a minor beating and some burns, should heal by the winter solstice. I think that's being more than generous what do you say?"
There was silence for a bit before Kenji tilted his head " I say probably shouldn't have let me get in the car before you made the big thretening speech." With that he flicked his hand revving up the engine with the key he had formed from a coin as he then trust his hand out and the metal garage door flew off the hinges, as he took the wheel ducking his head to dodge the bolts of flame that shot at him as he peeled out of the garage and down the alley, before he came roaring out into the streets in the bright red Saitomobile. The tires squealed as he made the turn and shot down the street
It was by no means his finest plan,hell it wasn't even close. it was quick , it was dirty and there was more than a small chance that he may not come out of this still breathing free air.
But that was the risks he took hen he took this job about a month. It had started out simple, a neighborhood being shook down with nowhere to turn. They had come to him as a last resort, becuase the police where to busy still cleaning up after some big spirit debacle and helping out a neighborhood was the last thing on their list. Kenji had tried to steer clear of this job, because it smelled rotten from the get go. However the second time they came to him, they had scraped together a nice chunk of yuans, probably their life savings based on the way they were treating it. So Kenji took their money and the case.
....he was still wishing he hadn't.
Turns out the people shaking down this neighborhood were the Triple Threat Triad. While they didn't have quite the power that they did back in the days before Amon, they were still a force to be reckoned with. Now while he didn't exactly respect the Triple Threats (to be honest he didn't respect any of the triads) he was aware that tangling with an organization like that was hazardous for his health. So instead he focused on the trio that was running the neighborhood shakedown, trailing them and their various habits.
Siku: Waterbender and the face of the operation.He was the one that showed up in the local shops,all slick suits and fake smiles coercing those in the neighborhood that hadn’t hadn’t given in to join up for their own protections.
Ratna: The resident earthbender and muscle of the crew, when folks didn’t pay up, it was his earthbending that busted up their stores and smashed their store front either with his bare hands or with some very sizable boulders.
Akai: The collector, he made is rounds each day and collected the “donations” from the locals and he had more than enough “firepower” to deal with anyone that tried to put up a fight when he made his rounds,rumor had it he had even put a couple of people in the hospital with some rather serious burns when they refused.
While they weren't the smartest or even the strongest crew out there, they had vision and ambition, which was a dangerous combination. Kenji could read behind the lines. This neighborhood is where a lot of new families got displaced to after the spirit vines swallowed up other neighborhoods. If they kept their hold on the neighborhood, soon the kids were going to figure that the only way to get ahead was to join the gang, and these three could make a nice little army out of the future teen soldiers they could get in the gang.
For the past several days Kenji had been slowly skimming off their take, a few brush passes and pick pocketing bumps here and there. It was enough to get them suspicious but not enough to get him noticed. However it had all been leading up to tonight, as he watched the building that was their hideout from a nearby perch as he was in full gear. The modified metal suit underneath dark clothes and a black longcoat. Taking a deep breath, the then exhaled and slid his mask over his face,
Time to go to work.
He came in through the skylight that was shockingly easy to pry open and then lowered himself down on a metal line his feet lightly hitting the ground. Once on the ground and secured he got moving. Some time and a pathetically easy to crack safe later he was in the lower sections of the building in a three car garage that house the Trio's Satomobiles and closing the trunk down, getting in the car. He had just got in when suddenly there was click and he was bathed in light.
"Well ,well what do we have here?" Kenji turend around and saw Siku walking down the stairs form the floor above. He then saw the doors below open as the other two joined him slowly closing in around him.'
"So your this Ghost, we've heard about? You know they say you can walk through walls, walk on ceilings, that you leave no finger prints or boot marks. The triad members I've heard talk about you make it as if your some sort of spirit out to balance out our wicked deeds." Siku laughed at that " what a bunch of superstitious nonsense. i suspect your just as human as the rest of us just with an extra set of brass ones for trying to rob us while we're all here."
There was a flash of light as Akaj suddenly had a flame in his hand as Siku continued " Tell you what? You, you got moxy, so give us back our money and we'll only give you a minor beating and some burns, should heal by the winter solstice. I think that's being more than generous what do you say?"
There was silence for a bit before Kenji tilted his head " I say probably shouldn't have let me get in the car before you made the big thretening speech." With that he flicked his hand revving up the engine with the key he had formed from a coin as he then trust his hand out and the metal garage door flew off the hinges, as he took the wheel ducking his head to dodge the bolts of flame that shot at him as he peeled out of the garage and down the alley, before he came roaring out into the streets in the bright red Saitomobile. The tires squealed as he made the turn and shot down the street