Raiding Nature(open, wont be long)

[Kane Hikari]

It was afternoon and Kane had decided that he was going to start up the guardians… who are the guardians you ask? Well the guardians were a little ‘gang’ that took up the slack from police and handled ‘special’ problems that police weren’t permitted to handle in certain ways. Since he had decided to start up the guardians he had also decided that it was about time to take on a new costume and a mask. Walking up to a near by tree he picked the biggest branch he could see, just about the size of his head at the base and narrowing down slowly to the tip that was at least six or seven feet away. The tree was pine so it had nice strong wood that could be whittled well.

He raised his wood chopping axe high in the air and brought it hard down on the base of the branch, causing a loud crack and a dull thud at the same time. He raised his axe again and brought it down, going half way through the branch this time. Pulling back again he went as far back as he could and came down full force severing the branch completely causing it to fall to the ground with a thud. Kane would slip the axe into his baseball equipment bag, grab the branch and walk away as if nothing had happened. Its not like the thing would be important to anyone, all he did was take one branch.

[olesya]

Olesya was busing tables at her family's cafe/florist when a flustered looking woman with a large hat came in. She approached the girl, taking a moment to compose herself before speaking in a rushed tone.

"Some...some hoodlum is chopping down trees in the park."

"Wha-? Ma'am, I don't-"

"He's right across the street! You need to do something. Call the police! He's cutting down the trees!"

"Here, I'll take care of it. Take a seat and Gabrielle will get you a glass of water."

Olesya passed the woman off to her sister, who set her down at one of the tables and went to fetch her a drink of water. Olesya untied her apron, slipping it over her head and leaving it on the counter as she left the cafe and walked across the street just as the boy put the axe back in his bag.

"Um, sorry, but what are you doing?"

She asked, still i her customer friendly tone but with a hint of authority. Not just anyone was allowed to cut down trees in the park for goodness sake!

[Kane Hikari]

Kane laughed as he hauled up the branch and looked at her, and then said “what’s it too ya?” he then hefted the thing up on one shoulder and took a step or two towards his house. He didn’t care about the rules, if the police wanted to bother him they would, but a little girl from a café was useless to him, she wouldn’t be useful in his gang as either guardian or scout by the looks of her. She bothered listening to a flustered hag who probably spent all day just searching for something to complain about.

He then paused as he looked to the girl and said “If you wish to find out you may follow, but you better be able to keep a secret otherwise I will have to hurt ya badly.” his Japanese accent was rather strong and it was obvious he meant what he said with the dark look in his gray eyes. He then shifted the weight of the thick branch on his shoulder and walked off, not caring one bit on what happened next.

[olesya]

'What's it to ya?' Eyebrow quirk. Oleysa personally couldn't care less what he was doing, but a customer had come in her shop complaining so she was to investigate it. Catching up with his quick enough she kicked at the branch, kicking it away from his body with a decent amount of force to jar it from his shoulder. She would then stomp down on the end putting her weight on it before speaking.

"Hurt me badly? Like you hurt this tree? Forgive me for not being too worried."

[Kane Hikari]

Kane took his chance and moved rather unexpectedly, aiming to jab his index and middle finger just above the connecting piece of the collar bone, right on the wind pipe. If it hit it would close her wind pipe and cause her to panic which would make her step off the branch and quickly try to fix the problem as best she could outside the body. It was only a temporary closing so in about thirty seconds, after he was far enough away, it would open up and he would be gone. He would look her in the eyes as he took the branch away and say “Try that again and I will put you in so much pain you wont be able to stand.”

[olesya]

This boy was cockier than she had first expected, without another word, sending a jab at her collarbone. Tensing the muscles in her arm, the limb snapped up in an inside block to knock the jab aside.

"I take that as either a challenge or a threat, and either way you better have moves to back up that mouth of yours, boy."

Olesya rarely got angry, she found fighting fun for the most part and tried to see the good in everyone. Right now she was slightly displeased at this kids attitude..I mean, he just cut down a tree! What had the tree done to him? Nada.

[Kane Hikari]

Kane smiled as he twisted his arm around hers and gripped her wrist, she had strength and speed on her side, but he had intelect. “I can tell by the look on your face your thinking about the tree, I didn’t chop it down for no reason, and you basically attacked me for no reason, so I returned the attack, either you back off or I will call the police, and they always believe the rich kid before the little café waitress. I could easily blame the whole thing on you and they would believe me, now back off before I get you arrested.” he wrapped an arm around the branch and yanked it out from under her with all his might and walked away.

He smirked once again as he headed towards his god-parents house, but he had to have one last word. “you really shouldn’t listen to old hags that walk in from the street, the limb aint from the park, its just outside its grounds, public property, public wood, I chose to access the use of said wood, it does belong to the public after all.” he then continued on his way, not even bothering with her anymore, if she followed him he would make sure she kept a secret and show her his plans for the mask.

[olesya]

"I'm not the one with the saw in my bag, sonny, so you let me know how that logic works. Money doesn't make you invincible as much as your deluded brain would like to perceive. I could probably lay you out faster than you could whip out your credit card. If you're so rich, why don't you have Daddy buy you a tree instead?"

Alright, so now she really didn't like this guy. And who's to say she was just a 'little cafe waitress?' Her parents owned that business, and even though she didn't live in ignorant luxury, she was financially comfortable. And besides, her manners were far better than this kids as far as she could tell.

"Take your little branch, see if it'll grow money, but if I catch you here again I will call the police and we will find out who they'll believe. Savvy?"

[Kane Hikari]

Kane smirked at her “your idle words don’t bother me, and you couldn’t call the cops on me for anything if I were to come around again. What would you say, I endangered you? I attacked a tree? I insulted you? I threatened you? that’s like crying wolf, and we all know how that story goes…” he smiled a weird smile to expose the rows of teeth that were filed to a point that looked like wolf fangs, of course they were fake but it was pretty real looking.

He took the branch once again and walked off towards his home, but before he did so he wanted to be an ass once again. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a leather wallet and then pulled out one of the many hundred dollar bills and handed it to her saying “buy yourself some better clothes” before he walked off once again, whether she kept it or not wouldn’t matter to him, he had the wood, now for the cloth…

[olesya]

Little boy who cried wolf? Apparently someone hadn't read the story but she wasn't about to argue because Olesya was beginning to realize that arguing with this oaf was as constructive as arguing with the tree behind her. There was no way she could make headway because his logic made no sense. Whatever, nothing to get worked up about.

With a disgusted look at the insult, she caught the bill as it floated down to her. Buy some new clothes? She liked how she looked. Screw him. She would give this money to a charity, so at least the smarmy little rich jerk would do something useful with his money. Ha!

Waving him off dismissively, she turned and headed back to the shop. What an ass, Olesya hoped she would never have to come face to face with the likes of him any time soon.