17/Central Park Confrontation

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Central Park Confrontation
Date of Scene: 07 April 2017
Location: Central Park, New York City
Synopsis: A lovely afternoon ruined by villains!
Cast of Characters: 64, Yokai (Sakara), Starfire, Crusader




Holly Winters (64) has posed:
Its a lovely Saturday afternoon. Mid 50's and Central park is bustling. Everything is just wonderful really. People move around just enjoying the unofficial start of Spring. People are playing baseball, catch and gods knows what else. A few people are even playing chess.

Sitting in the park with a sketchpad, A young girl with cyan hair is drawing. She is taking time, focusing on her work. Its something that she hasn't been able to do in a while.

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
Sunny Saturday afternoons are a great time to be in Central Park drawing on the sidewalks. A tall man with vaguely asian features is doing just that. He's rather built, and has a tiger inked on his pale, otherwise uncovered torso. His shirt tied around his waist, one color-dusted hand pulls his below-shoulder-length blond hair back out of his eyes as the other hand applies a broad swath of dark blue into the "sky" portion of the section of sidewalk he's coloring. The picture is realistic, but also quite artistic, a depiction of the Taj Mahal at night.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The young woman continues sketching. Adding shading where she can and making the image almost come alive. Its a challenge for her as she's mostly been doing fast sketches of late. To actually be able to take the time to put her heart into something, So as she works, her heart almost skips a beat.

Finally she blows the excess graphite off the paper and smiles at her work. She looks around. Its this point she sees the man drawing on the sidewalk. Quietly she walks over to observe for a few minutes. Her eyes light up when she sees the Taj Mahal. "Wow. That's gorgeous!"

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
"Thank you," the man says. "I haven't been there but I've seen photos."

He looks up and smiles, almost too many teeth. Next to the Taj Mahal is another chalk drawing of a beach, and one next to that of a tiger. It seems to be the same style as the one he has inked around his torso.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
Holly Winters smiles as she continues looking over the various pieces of art. She looks at the man, "Wow, so you did that all from memory? Cool!" She gives a little smile. "I do art too sometimes." She states quietly, not wanting to steal the man's thunder in the least.

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
"Yeah, I've drawn it enough times that I remember it. You do art too? Nice! Anything I can look at?"

There's a small ceramic bowl resting on the tiger drawing, between the tiger's front paws. It has a few coins in it, and a few bills. Not a huge haul, probably enough to buy more chalk, or a hamburger from a McDonalds. The Taj Mahal at night complete, Rory dusts off his hands on the shirt around his waist.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
Holly Winters quietly puts a few dollars in the bowl. She nods, "Yes I have something I was just working on." She pulls out a her tablet and opens it. The first image is a three dimensional snowflake shaded in cyan. The next image is an image of a unicorn in a pasture. She's raw but she does have talent.

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
"These are excellent. I like the nearly-transparent effect with the unicorn."

The tall man looks around, cracking his neck a bit because of the hunched-over stance drawing on the cement slab of the sidewalk.

"I'm Rory. Hey, would you like to do the layout for the next square? I'll buy you cart food for late lunch in trade."

He offers a charcoal stick for drawing.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
Holly Winters smiles softly and accepts the charcoal. She looks at the square and just begins thinking about what she is going to do. Finally she kneels down and begins sketching. The image begins taking form. The layout if for a fairy sitting on a frozen rose. After a few moments she stands and smiles, returning the charcoal.

With a smile she looks at Rory, "My name is Holly..."

"...Winters? You are the one in this video correct." A man dressed in black with dark sun glasses holds up a phone showing Holly at the bank just the day before, freezing the living daylights out of several robots. The man touches an earpiece in his ear. He gives just a little nod. "We know what you are. We know that you are a threat to everyone around you. Your kind does not belong here amongst normal people."

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
Rory frowns a bit at that. He stands up, looming at over 6 1/2 feet tall (or 204 cm for those in Metric Land) and says, "Pardon. You are interrupting a conversation. Who are you to talk about 'normal people?'"

Starfire has posed:
Koriand'r stretches as she arrives in Central Park, carrying the Silkie as her pet. She wanted to get some sunbathing in by the lake as she glances. That new girl who Bjorn took in is there... and... there's a crowd around her. Curious, the purple-garbed orange-skinned alien heads that way - slowly.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The man dressed in black puts his phone away. Looking towards the tall man he smirks. "We have no business with you. You are not a mutey and definitely not as much a threat to the entire human race as this little brat is." The man is making assumptions thinking the man is just a really tall human.

He turns his attention to Holly, "Miss Winters, You are going to come with us. You're going to walk to the black SUV over there. My friends are going to open the door, and we are going to take you somewhere that you can't hurt anyone when we deal with you. If you don't comply, Lets just say things won't be very peaceful in Central Park. You don't want that do it?" he grins Sharply.

Holly frowns and her body begins to tremble with fear. Looking around she can feel eyes on her. All she can hear are the people in her school, laughing at her. Making fun of her for being clumsey and teasing something she put so much work into. Suddenly the air starts feeling much colder. "I... I don't have a choice..." She frowns and looks at the vehicle. slowly she begins moving towards it.

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
"Mutey? What are you talking... HEY!" Rory reaches over to Holly, intending to grasp her hand. "You don't have to do what they say. SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE! These men are HUMAN TRAFFICKERS!"

Meanwhile, it's not likely that anyone notices that the bowl of donations has become a drawing of a bowl of donations and that the tiger in the very realistic chalk drawing is looking speculatively at one of the other black-suits. The drawing of the beach begins to show different shadows and the people in the distance move around, and the stars in the Taj Mahal drawing are flickering like real stars.

Starfire has posed:
Koriand'r walks over towards the black van. "What are you two doing? I haven't been here long - but I'm quite sure that she doesn't want to go with you." She glances at Holly, eyebrow raised, as she is still holding the Silkie, which looks like an overgrown moth larva. And... Kory could be mistaken for a mutant as well. "You are my roommate now - do you want to go with them?" she asks, staring at them. "They do not look like the good people."

Crusader has posed:
Bjorn was actually nearby. He knew Holly and koriand'r were going to be here, and thought to bring them some food! Borgi in tow, he was strutting through the park... untill he hears Roary suddenly shout out for someone to call the police! Bjorn immediatly dials "Hello, police. Yes, yes. Someone shouting about human traffikers in the central park, trying to take someone, please come quick!!!"

Police called, Bjorn sprints over! And seeing where the trouble was...he puts the pedal to the metal as he charges over like a bull seeing red. "What is going on here?" his eyes where on the two men near Holly and Kory, as well as a suspicouse look at Roary (as he does not realize he met the man before as an Oni a few days past).

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The man smirks as she begins moving, even if the air gets a little cooler. All he cares about is getting one more mutant off the streets and removed from the realm of the living. So when the man exclaims human traffickers and the orange girl interjects, he looks more then a little peaved. He nods. A shot is fired causing dirt to go flying up from the ground right in front of the orange girl's feet. "Stay out of this because the next shot won't miss. You have no business here, unless you want to share her fate."

Holly stops and turns to look at Kory. "I umm... I don't want to go... but they are going to hurt a lot of people. I can't let them do it." Clouds begin to roll in as an arctic chill sweeps through the park. "They... They're Mutant hunters."

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
"Really? Hunters? How is that allowed?" Rory says, jumping back as there are bullets. One good thing about Japan -- there are not so many guns casually shooting around. Well, outside anime anyway. And yokai hunters are just about as stupid as these guys seem to be.

The sudden chill and the clouds are interesting, because they make it darker and therefore more clear that the beach picture is brightly lit for a moment, but then it changes. Fog appears on the water, and moves in rapidly, then begins pouring out of the picture into the park, especially near Rory and Holly. The tiger is gone from the picture in a flash of orange, and a sound is heard from the bushes behind one of the other blacksuits.

Of course when the fog bursts out, Rory tries to get Holly out of the way of reflexive bullets, hoping she won't punch him in the face.

Starfire has posed:
Koriand'r nods. "Very well," she states. She gently sets the Silkie on the ground who crawls towards Bjorn and Borgi. She points at the gunman - as a green beam of light fires from her finger with pinpoint accuracy... and explodes the barrel of the rifle in a spray of molten metal, probably making it blow up in the sniper's face. Bjorn has known Kory for a few days - she has always seen fun-loving and a free spirit - but a much darker version of Kory is showing as she walks right up towards the seeming leader. "You are scum. Kidnapping someone just because she is different - a scared girl. You have one minute to depart my sight. Or you will suffer my wrath." She just glares.

Crusader has posed:
Borgi isbarking like nuts! From the would be kidnappers to that rustling bush... and even at the fog. Borgi ran circle barking out an alarm of trouble.

Bjorn looks to Roary "It is not, it is illegal" for obviouse reasons. With Roary seeming to try and safeguard Holly, Bjorn stay calm "Bjorn thinks you best listen to her" the less violence this takes, the better....though his fist were balled up, and he was ready to spring if needed

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The man in black just gives a little smirk. He looks at Kory and the way she attacked the sniper. His dark sunglasses conceal the glee in his eyes.. A simple raise the hand is given. Almost like he's giving an order to stop. Then with a sharp smugness, he points forward. Fifteen more men in black come pouring out, pointing guns at innocent civilians. "Stand down. Or I will give the order to open fire on civilians. Is one little mutey as important to you as all of these peoples.'

As Rory touches Holly to move her out of the way, he would definitely feel the levels of cold she's putting off and they are getting more intense. Snow begins to fall from the sky and wind starts howling. "You will not hurt anyone!" Holly snaps to the man. A ball of ice begins forming in her hand. "You can't give an attack order if you're frozen."

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
So the girl is a yukionna. Or something like that. Good. Rory releases Holly further back and crouches down low in the increasing fog. The tiger from the drawing is joined by a few more, and concealed by the fog, Rory vanishes from sight. There's a shriek of terror from one of the men who has a gun set to attack civilians, as a tiger claws him across the face, leaving his eyes a shredded mess. Another man feels teeth meeting in the base of his neck and falls, helplessly paralyzed. One collapses around an invisible fist, and is launched into the air as something seems to have punched him hard enough to fly into his fellow. A moment later, another tiger has gutted a shooter. The park is becoming increasingly foggy, for anyone who doesn't have the power to see through illusion. Five down. Twelve to go. Too bad the damage isn't real.

Well. Mostly isn't real.

Starfire has posed:
Koriand'r charges into the gunmen, and deals devastating blows. She doesn't care about collateral damage. And... each of her powerful punches sends the gunmen flying. She dispatches one easily, and grabs the gun of antoher and melts it solid... and then blasts the third right on the stomach with a starbolt, who falls over. Kory takes no prisoners.

Crusader has posed:
Great, a blood bath. That JUST what they needed. Bjorn gets down low "Holly, freeze the guns, not the man." he knowx from experince, if the leader is taken out...the the grunts just go forward with pre-made Best to take out the weapons first

"Koriand'r, please leave them alive" as for Roary.... he couldn't tell where he went. But that sudden tigers and invisble man... it was a thought to say the least. But there were civilians and possibilty of shooting. Thank goodness for this fog

Bjorn seems to dissappear into the fog. Once gone though, his body will shapeshift a doom around the entire group that shows what is happening on the other side. Essentially making a see-through shield to stop any stray bullets from hitting the civilians in the crowd, as well as help to thicken the fog. He just hopes no one sees him dothis or are to distracted to notice.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The man in black snickers at Holly's comments. With a simple nod, everything goes to crap. Thankfully the fog and the mounting blizzard make it very difficult to see. The men miss as they begin firing and are taken down one by one.

Holly listens to Bjorn. She's not a happy camper right now. The storm begins to rage. No one is seeing anything beyond half a mile. With a quick motion she sends ice flying towards the man freezing the gun and maybe causing a mild case of severe frostbite to the man's hands. His eyes go wide and he begins running away.

As the man runs off he begins calling out, "Retreat Retreat!" Then to Holly, "You haven't seen the last of us mutie!"

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
Fog glorious fog. So opaceous and pervasive. He has to be faster. Rory stops being human; the purple oni has become the color of fog, and there are still enough of the criminals... he moves like a ninja from one of those absurd television shows and relieves three closely positioned shooters of their guns, by way of a twist that breaks fingers and bends the barrels so they won't work right. Meanwhile a tiger is shot and evaporates, and two other tigers shred the shooter.

They have only enough existence left to do this, though. The remaining tiger, the one that was drawn directly, bites two of them in close sequence, as they're clearly trying to escape.

And then there is a terrifying HOOOOOOMMM and a shaking, and the giant thing with the octopus for a face awakens from out of the sea (in the sketch of the beach) and strides out into the park, stepping on a black van as though he were aimed. Oops. Were you using that?

Starfire has posed:
Koriand'r hadn't killed anyone yet. But... the leader of the group, the one who holds them together. She'll make an example of him. She clenches her fist, and concentrates - and blasts a hole through his head, the size of her fist. He collapses, most of his brain gone as she lets her work speak for itself. She finds the Silkie and picks him up, petting the lovebug happily.

Crusader has posed:
If Bjorn had hands right now, he would so be facepalming, as he sees Koriand'r killed the man. But right now, he had to concentrate. Van is crushed, so the crooks begin scattering... only to find themselves meeting the seemingly invisible wall, trapped. But not for long, as quite suddenly they are forcebly taken through the 'wall' and slammed into the ground, or thrown at tree knocking them out.

When the fog begins to subside, Bjorn invisible domed self will gradually shift back into Bjorn, avoiding being seen. He will look like he has a few bullet wounds and holes in his shirt.

Holly Winters (64) has posed:
The Leader is dead. Many of the henchmen are down for the count or running for their lives. This fight is mostly over. There is just one small problem really. One slight issue. The storm is becoming much more violent. Thunder and lighting join in the driving snow. On top of this it's spreading well beyond central park.

Holly is in shock. She was right in front of the man when his head got fried. She is flat out freaking out as she drops to her knees. Waves of icy air flow from her as she continues melting down.

Yokai (Sakara) has posed:
AND, the yuki-onni is summoning a winter storm. This is bad. Uhm. The cold is pouring off her, and really, it's not brisk. It's like a trudge across the top of the world. Rory is an oni, so he can endure it, but it's terribly inconvenient. Probably the best way to do this would be to take her someplace safe, so he appears next to her, and ... well. The nice tall human is not a human, as much as a horned, fanged, tailed demon wearing a tiger-skin belt and having purple skin.

"Holly! Come with me!" he says, and lifts her, stepping into the sketch of the Taj Mahal and bringing her with him to another place.

The air is warm. The perfume of lotus drifts in the air. The sky is clear. There is no head-shot bleeding human-trafficking corpse in the evening in front of the beautiful buildings across the long pond. But this isn't the real Taj Mahal. This is just an ideal vision.

"Relax! Holly, calm down, you're safe."

Outside the sidewalk sketch, things MIGHT begin calming down. Maybe.