[Thread] What's Coming To You

[thieveryofstars]

Characters: OU!Jing, OPEN (tag on entry)
Where: Various places
When: During the Belldandy plot, post the meeting, about a day after Selphie's announcement and his own post
Summary: With the cat out of the bag and the whole compound aware he's the thief who destroyed people's precious things, there's not a whole lot of places Jing can stay out of

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The Empty Lot

[black_seaweed]

To say that Yusuke was still upset would be understating it. Greatly.

He had already cried as many tears as he was physically possible of crying, though mentally he felt as though he could have never stopped. The Clear Monsters were a second family to him, and to have their cards destroyed...

(Yes, that rather rude woman in the journals had suggested that perhaps they weren't destroyed, and the kind man in front of the church had suggested that he keep up hope that they hadn't been harmed, but what if they were? And besides, being stolen - being kidnapped - was worse, in some ways

Re: The Empty Lot

[thieveryofstars]

Jing had been heading back from the park when an unusual sight in the empty lot caught his attention. Whatever the man standing there was doing, it made the power inside Jing burn and awaken, raising a taste like ozone in the back of the thief's throat.

Almost drawn, he approached the lot. "What is that?"

Re: The Empty Lot

[black_seaweed]

Hearing the person who had just come closer, Yusuke didn't break his concentration, merely breifly glancing in the direction of the speaker. No one he knew, or had any reason to know.

"The power of Darkness," he responded quietly, truthfully. "My power." Technically only a portion, but was there any reason to tell this stranger that?

Re: The Empty Lot

[thieveryofstars]

Jing took another step closer, but then halted. He could feel his right hand warming inside his mitten; indeed, faint green light had begun leaking from the sleeve of his coat.

"But it feels... familiar."

The North End of the Park, by the Cemetary

[darkrangerqueen]

She didn't know what had been wrong with her mind these last days...She had heard surface thoughts as though spoken aloud, and she had witnessed one of Leon's nightmares that featured her. Disregarding the strangeness of the vision happening at all, she had been surprised and yet pleased by the role she had played in it. Someone still feared her. The knowledge invigorated the displaced queen

Re: The North End of the Park, by the Cemetary

[thieveryofstars]

Jing has already gotten an assortment of bruises by this point, and was taking (what he thought) was the quietest way out of the park area. So when a low voice spoke his name, he tensed until he saw who it was.

"Sylvanas."

Re: The North End of the Park, by the Cemetary

[darkrangerqueen]

She advanced until she stood only a hand-span away from him. The Banshee Queen brought her face closer. She smelled of grave-earth and dried flowers, tinged with sweet rot and a faintly noxious fume: the essence of the Undercity, which lingered tenaciously in her clothing.

“What do you hope to accomplish with these thefts?” She studied him up and down, noting the visible bruises. “Choose your words wisely.”

Re: The North End of the Park, by the Cemetary

[thieveryofstars]

Jing was not used to women being taller than him, but Sylvanas stood taller than his even 6', and this was a little intimidating -- even though he knew that her weapons could've taken him down long before she got this close, regardless of her stature.

"Do you know what the best lie to tell is? The truth. Belldandy came to see me, and she wanted to know... what I was like. And I thought, it's really not smart to try and lie to a goddess, right? So I didn't lie. And at the end of it, she said that she would give me a chance, because I had an interesting trait. Now... what do you suppose an evil goddess, who kidnaps people and generally causes terror and strife... would find interesting in little old Jing?"

He hadn't answered her question directly, and he knew that, but he wanted to see what she did in response.

The Plaza

[yesiamkaiba]

After reading the posts that had happened, Kaiba was out to get a bit of payback. The Elder Kaiba sibling could have cared less if Jing had taken and destroyed something else of hers, but he had to take the one thing that she cared for the most.

Sure there was a Mokuba here, but he wasn't her brother. He was the younger brother of the other Kaiba Seto that had been in Econtra. Her own brother was dead and she couldn't get him back. The only thing that she had left of him was the picture that she always wore around her neck.

Now it was gone and after finding out who had done it, she was on the hunt. She didn't know who Jing was, but she was going to make him regret what he had done.

Re: The Plaza

[thieveryofstars]

Jing was still recovering from Atem's cheap shot and was trying to catch his breath, sitting on the edge of the fountain. Every time he tried to stand up (he was sort of an easy target here) his nether regions protested very painfully and he decided he wasn't quite ready to move on yet.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a tall young woman stalking around. "You're going to put dents in the pavement stomping like that," he said.

Re: The Plaza

[yesiamkaiba]

She stopped in her tracks when she heard someone talking to her. She turned to glare at Jing silently for a moment, looking him over before approaching.

"I take it you're Jing." She said simply. It looked like someone got to him before she did. Oh well, she was still going to have her bit of payback.

"Looks like someone else got to you before I did."

Re: The Plaza

[thieveryofstars]

"Shh," he said, putting a finger to his lips. "It's supposed to be a secret. I'm trying the 'hiding in plain sight' approach."

He rolled his eyes at her observation, but clearly failed to shrug off the accusation due to the fantastic black bruises he was developing.

The Plaza

[star_swept]

{OOC: I'm going to jump in. If it's too late, that's fine!}

Though she had learned to master an exquisite stoic front that had probably saved her life on more than one occasion, the loss of her deck had finally gotten to Yuusei. She was only able to maintain a half-semblance of indifference as she plodded across the plaza in search of the inane thief she had been hearing so much about. Surely it had to have been he who had had the audacity to steal the bonds of her friends---the only symbol and vestige of the fragile dreams that had been entrusted to her.

Regardless of who they were, the next person to meet up with her would not be left with the impression of a cool, aloof woman who was at peace with herself and the world.

By the Church

[hikariartangel]

Krad was not pleased. Twice now, it had been stolen. The first thief, he could only punish a bit. A temporary spell to blind him, but at least he had recovered his cross. THIS time, however, it had been destroyed.

And no one besides a Hikari could hope to replace it.

And when he spotted the one named Jing from his rooftop perch, he didn't hesitate. He pulled out a feather, energy surrounding it before he threw it at the thief. It didn't matter if it hurt to use the magic.

He was too angry to allow any mercy.

[thieveryofstars]

Jing spun at the last moment, his sword springing out and slicing the feather cleanly in two. But then he stared in puzzlement at the halves, uncertain why his instinct had registered that as a dangerous projectile. Locating the source of it, he stared up at Krad coldly.

"I take it this means you have something to say to me?"

[hikariartangel]

Krad stepped off the roof, descending slowly with his wings. "You have destroyed what can never be replaced." Krad said, pulling out another feather, energy charging around it.