WHO: Calvin and OPEN
WHERE: Near one of the City's library branches
WHEN: Wednesday afternoon, after school
WARNINGS: Pigeon and rat-related horrors
SUMMARY: Calvin's trip to the library is interrupted by swarms of homicidal vermin. Someone save him.
FORMAT: Quicklog! Calvin will be getting into trouble repeatedly, so multiple threads of multiple
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[Freedom Ring concentrates and forms a rather large net in the air for all the pigeons to run into.]
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[Calvin bolts behind the superhero and clings rather desperately to his leg, watching wide-eyed as he creates a net out of seeming nothingness. The boy's pursuers fall to the ground in a tangled, fluttering heap.]
Wow! How did you do that?
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[He pauses a moment.] You know you probably shouldn't be out here on your own with all the rats and stuff goin' crazy...
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[Calvin looks up at Freedom Ring for a moment before an idea strikes him]
Hey, I know! Why don't you just protect me until I get to the library? You can be my bodyguard!
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[Calvin immediately focuses on what's important in this situation]
Wow, nice costume.
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I just wanted to visit the library! I didn't know it would be this bad!
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[So, Calvin. How would you like to be rescued by the truck-sized, overly-fanged, prehistoric monstrosity barreling up the street after a swarm of rodents? He's no tiger, but you can imagine stripes on him if you want.]
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HEY! Big furry guy! I hope you're hungry, because I've got a whole buffet right behind me!
[Only when he's close to the big mass of claws and teeth does it occur to Calvin that he might count as edible too. Too late now!]
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[Several car alarms go off when he lands, snarling and shaking his head to rid himself of a mouthful of dead pigeon. He stands sideways in front of the boy, hissing and slashing at the air with his claws--Calvin is a bright, unspoiled spark of life in a dark city full of bitter people. Trowa has to protect him.]
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[Calvin was hoping for help, but this is like watching a hurricane! A furry hurricane. He cowers behind the big cat, partly for safety and partly to keep from getting any julienned pigeon parts on him.]
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And oh what luck he has. Running into that werewolf kid being swarmed by birds.]
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Caught between two sources of imminent doom, Calvin settles for screaming, panicking, and diving beneath a car in the hopes that the pigeons and the pug will distract go after each other instead of him.]
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What are you doin', kid?!
[He calls out inbetween barks, glancing to the car for only a moment.]
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Hiding from you! And the birds!
[He wonders how the dog is going to kill him. Is there a way for pugs to shoot silver bullets? He decides that he doesn't want to find out.]
Please don't kill me! I didn't ask to be a werewolf! I don't want to be one!
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Hey, you're that -- Um, don't think I caught your name.
[ Then he sees the rabid pigeons and rats that are hot on their tail. ]
But now's probably not a good time, huh?
[ Don't blink, Calvin! Did you blink? Because if you did, you'll find yourself in an alley five blocks from where you were previously. ]
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[Suddenly, alley! Calvin turns around, dizzy and confused.]
-vin. Impulse? What the heck just happened? Did you save me?
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You're not mad, are you?
[ The last person he saved in these alleys chewed him out for it! Sigh, life. ]
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