Open Log: Night Shift

[swornprotector]

WHO: Goliath, Open
WHERE: Uptown
WHEN: 10/6; midnight hours
WARNINGS: Perhaps general street crime.
SUMMARY: Goliath is gliding over the city on patrol, working his night shift. Feel free to be discovered or noticed.
FORMAT: Para

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[hellcommander]

Hiruma doesn't patrol. Hiruma simply flies, nightly, and enjoys the freedom it affords him. Looking down on the streets, its up to HIM which robberies or muggings he foils and which he simply takes pictures of. The perpetrators often became some of the most useful of his blackmail slaves.

But the City was nothing if not absolutely huge, so night patrols rarely ran into each other. It was nice for the bat, since it meant he didn't have to interrupt his flying. At the moment, he was breaking for a bit of a snack, digging a few apples out of the pack he'd had designed to carry with him whilst flying. Below, the sounds of screaming reached his large ears and he groaned a chittered, likely a bat version of his usual cursing. He looked below. Nothing special... seemed to be a robber that he already had dirt on and the lady wasn't in any explicit danger. But then, a dark winged shape swooped down from the sky and roared, sending the would-be mugger scrambling.

Kekeke, probably thought it was me. But who was that mysterious winged thingamabob? Curiosity getting the better of him, the bat took to wing and followed.

[swornprotector]

That dark, winged shape then reached out of shadows to grab the criminal fool and soar skyward with him.

His eyes glow a frightening white as he pulls the trembling man close and growls in his face.

"You will change your ways, or I will show you the true meaning of fear."

The man just nods, gasping and sweating in panic, unable to speak, before Goliath just drops him into a dumpster.

[hellcommander]

Kekeke! Two points!. Hiruma had to admit, this thing had style. Whatever it was.

Hiruma continued to follow, flying about 10 feet above the other winged being at any given time, hoping not to be noticed until his observations were complete.

[swornprotector]

One does not ride the winds for as long as Goliath has without having a sense of being followed. His wings suddenly expand, catching an updraft that sweeps him backwards and upwards, hoping to pass his pursuer and catch him by surprise.

[hellcommander]

Surprised he was. He honestly didn't expect to be spotted or heard. Hiruma jerked a little midair, then opened his wings to move backwards. He took a sharp turn to the left and landed on top of a building, digging in with his claws and folding his ears back.

[swornprotector]

Wings shift, and he banks left as well in pursuit. This creature is definitely acting suspicious, at the very least.

He moves in an arcing circle around the bat's landing spot. He's heard talk of a bat-man often enough, so there is likely something more to this.

"What manner of creature are you?" Goliath says, half to himself, and half enough for it to respond, if it can.

[hellcommander]

Hiruma hates that he's unable to speak in this form. Shifting is painful and wastes a lot of energy.

But he also didn't want to get his face pounded in by this large, purplish dragon man thing.

Decisions decisions...

He opted for option one. His body cracked and creaked as he shifted. Quick, nigh instantaneous, but fuck did it ever hurt. What remained was a fairly lanky boy with bright blond hair and pointed ears, dressed in red and black. His mouth opened to reveal a row of sharp teeth.

"Porter metahuman! Shapeshifter, of the fuckin' bat variety," he proclaimed in English, visibly agitated, "And what are you? A fuckin' dragon? Kekekeke! And here I thought I had tabs on ALL the night patrols... Guess I missed one."

[swornprotector]

Goliath alights on the rooftop to observe this shift, eyes not losing their glow.

That... snicker sounds familiar. He has heard it on the network before.

"I am no dragon. I am a gargoyle. Why are you monitoring night patrols?"

[hellcommander]

Hiruma dusted off his clothing and shrugged nonchalantly, grinning calmly.

"Gargoyle, huh. And why not? It's good information to know. It helps me avoid running into others. As you can expect, it gets fucking annoying to explain myself to every do-gooder I fly into, kekekee."

[swornprotector]

There's a rumble deep in his throat as he eyes this man suspiciously.

"Perhaps you should stop doing things that require you to explain them to those who seek to prevent crime."

[hellcommander]

If Hiruma was scared, it wasn't showing. Instead he just smiled even wider, as if his face would split in two.

"It's not against the law," Hiruma sticks out his tongue childishly, "There's no rule against me collecting information. Or enjoying a balmy October night with wind under my wings, keke. You fly... glide... whatever. You can understand that much at least."

[swornprotector]

Goliath's face contorts in annoyance at this fool's antics.

"You have just told me that you collect information on night patrols specifically to avoid them. The only question that remains is what it is that you do while avoiding them."

[hellcommander]

"I told you! Avoiding them means avoiding unnecessary shapeshifting! I can't speak in my other form, ergo, I hafta fucking shift to THIS one and it hurts like hell, ergo I like to avoid it whenever possible." He shrugs, "It would be much easier if people didn't always have to ask about the bat! But no one is going to see a giant bat and NOT wonder... kekeke. Whatever, why should I even bother explaining myself to you, gargoyle-guy. I do what I fucking want to do."

[swornprotector]

Goliath sneers at the obnoxious language, but ignores it.

"Remaining in your human form pains you, or is it simply the process of transformation?"

[hellcommander]

Hiruma sneers and scoffs like the question is the dumbest thing he'd ever heard, "No, just the transformation bit hurts! I'm a natural human! Geez."

[swornprotector]

"Yet you spend your nights skulking around the city as a bat. If you wished to avoid suspicion and the pain of transformation, why not simply avoid becoming a bat entirely?"