Underage motorcyclist getting a job... No problems there, right?

It was the middle of the day. It was a full week after Niko's 14th birthday... A full week after the sad events that was before his birthday... Niko shakes his head as he drives down the city of New York on his motorcycle. His pride 'n joy motorcycle didn't breakdown over the hundreds of miles between New York and Nevada. He had decided to go to New York, the place where he was raised by the worst parents ever, before getting saved by his real parent. Haruko...

Niko again shakes the memory out of his head, as the light turns green. He turns the corner, passing by a cop who double takes at
Niko, noticing the facts that there were weapons attached to his dusty-ish motorcycle and the fact that a little kid is driving a motorcycle. The cop then takes action by chasing after Niko and his motorcycle.

Three blocks later, the cop manages to catch up with Niko as traffic gets clogged in front of the Coalition HQ. The cop has Niko pull over, and standing in front of the the Coalition building with Niko starts doing a mini-interrogation.

"Little boy, why are you driving a vehicle around the city?" the cop named Officer Johnson says.

"Why are you chasing a driver on foot, officer? In fact, why aren't you in a vehicle of your own?" Niko retorts back in a melancholy type of tone.

"I caught up to you faster than someone in a vehicle?"

"Why would that make a difference?"

"Because... God damnit your wasting my time!"

"And my time is being lost because of you."

"Are you... GAAH... Alright, do you have a license? In fact, what's your age?"

"I do not believe I was given such a thing. And my age is 14."

"Why the hell are you driving a motorcycle at such a young age!?"

"Because I can. And do it better than most cyclists."

"That's besides the point. Also, are those weapons on your motorcycle?"

"Did you forget your glasses today, because you can see for yourself."

"Kid, you are lucky that I am a patient guy that I just don't snap at you."

"Didn't you just do that not even more than a minute ago."

"You're aggravating..."

"I'm just a kid apparently"


This little quip went on for a minute... which stretched on for about twenty minutes until the officer loses his cool. He handcuffs Niko to his motorcycle and says to him, "Stay there until I find someone to help me find your parents."

"Rude, insinuating that my parents are alive. That is a big mistake" Niko replies, with some anger as he touched a very sensitive part of his relative life.

The officer just keeps walking off, trying to figure out where the police headquarters were again. Leaving Niko handcuffed to a motorcycle... In the middle of a summer day... What a jerk.

Leaving a kid to rot in the heat. At the rising of summer... And Niko was wearing his usual motorcycle gear with a silk-white scarf under his light black motorist jacket, which poked out. His brown belt being wound around the waist through the belt loops of his light-black matching motorist jeans. Along with that, shiny black military boots. On top of his short black hair was a motorist cap with motorist goggles hanging on the front of the cap. Dying of heat right now...

A five foot 6 tall blond boy saw the cyclist pull over with the running police officer. As he overheard the conversation, he was highly amused. He didn't recognize the officer. Of course, after the attack on New York, the police force was out hiring in force. Then he just left. Did he not know how to use the radio? His father must be slipping in an area to let this peice of work in his department. He was wearing a green T-shirt and jean shorts with blue tennis shoes. His eyes were green and had two rings, one on each middle finger, and carried a bag.

Sifting through the bag, he got a nice cold soda out. Walking up towards the hand cuffed boy, he placed the cold beverage on the back of his neck. And essentially offered it to him as he was taking out a couple things from his pocket. A wire and a paper clip. Whether the beverage was taken or not, he started to pick the handcuff lock. Succeeding in that just a minute later, he took out a high tech cell, keeping one hand on the motorcycle, specifically so that the kid didn't try to book it out of there.

Jun's father appeared in a hologram in front of him. "Hi dad. An Officer Johnson pulled over an underaged driver that has a bunch of weapons on the back of his motorcycle...and handcuffed him to the motorcycle...on a hot day like today...and didn't bother using his radio to find the guy's parents, assuming he's not an orphan."

"Let me speak to him." The teenager handed the boy his cell. "Name please?" If he got the name, he would look him up. And frown at what he saw. "First of all, you need to be 15 before you even start the process of getting your license. Second of all, your weapons need to be registered. If they can harm spiritual beings, take them to the Coalition. If they're just normal weapons that can only harm humans, take them to us. I'm gonna let you go with a warning. Walk your motorcycle to whereever you're going. And I must apologize for the officer's misconduct. My son can escort you to whereever you need to go to get your weapons registered." It then went black.

Handing out his hand to get his cell back, the teenager spoke. "You heard my old man. Best to get it done right away. I'm Jun Tomoshibi, by the way."

Niko, out the corner of his eyes notices a blond boy walking towards him. Niko stares, keeping his blank, green eyes on him. The boy walking over to him also had green eyes... but much brighter than the dullness lying in Niko's own eyes. The boy reached through the bag and pulls out a soda. Niko just looks at the boy for a good ten seconds, registering his face. His eyes scan the blonde boys face with deep intent. After the ten seconds, he grabs the soda, pops the top, and takes a drink.

Niko wasn't paying attention to what the blonde haired boy was saying, but notices that he was handing the phone to him. Niko waits a couple of seconds, seeming to scan the phone with his eyes... He accepts the phone, and puts it up to his ear. When hearing the man's voice, Niko waited a couple four seconds and was about to reply with 'didn't your mother give you a name?', but decided against it seeing his circumstances. He says to the man, "N... Niko... Niko Viction..."

After that, he starts letting his mind drift. What was I here to do again. I don't have any plan of getting revenge on them, I only have the guns on my back... what was I thinkin'? Then, something the man says seems odd... 'If they can harm spiritual beings'... Spiritual beings, what? Does he mean ghosts? Or does he mean... Things... like Masked Creatures... Niko was about to say something, but by that time the call had ended.

Throwing the phone lightly back over to the blonde kid named Jun, Niko says, "Jun... Like the month? Anyways, I'll still drive whether I'm of age or not. I made this motorcycle myself. What did your dad mean by Spiritual beings? Did he mean masked, murderous monsters or does he really mean ghosts... I would like to believe the former, because I will otherwise have to call your dad Mr. Ghostbuster"

The teen nodded. And answered him. "I understand that. I would just avoid it here in New York. I just don't want you to be put in jail for a while for being underaged and all, since father is rather strict. He only let you go with a warning because of that guy's misconduct. And technically, those masked, murderious creatures are ghosts...a type of ghost called a hollow. There's a stronger type called an arrancar, but those are more human like. But still share several similarities. There are other different types, too. The police department here helps defend the city from hollow attacks. Most departments in major cities do. But here, they're better prepared because of them *cue thumb pointing behind him at the Coalition HQ* making this place their home and giving the police half off of basic defense items, like special guns and the like. Had some experience against them huh?"

Jun looked the kid over. He was...very short compared to him. Just over a full foot shorter than him. "Anyway, if you'd like to learn more and get those weapons of your's registered or checked out, follow me." The poor kid looked soulless. Something major must have happened. Too bad he was about to leave to continue training of his own. He walked into the lobby and headed towards the elevator, keeping an eye on their guest. Punching in the appropriate code, the elevator went down. When the doors open, it revealed a green haired man with a black bucket hat, black trenchcoat, dark brown vest, black tie, white dress shirt, dark grey slacks, and black dress shoes tinkering with something.

"Aren't your supposed to be getting ready to leave for your trip, Junny? I'll take care of our guest." The man didn't even turn around.

Turning to Niko, Jun spoke again. "This is Alexander Kerensky. We call him the Swiss Army Knife of the Coalition. He'll check out those guns and help you register them. He's mostly a scientist. Anyway, I better get going. Try to behave against him." The boy left.

Alex turned around with a cheshire grin. "Pleasure meeting you. How may I help you? Registering your guns, but anything else?"

Niko just watches Jun speak. The blonde kid didn't seem too old. But Niko being 14 and so short sometimes makes him think that people are older because height. But that's a different story. The way that he described the masked creature of being murderous was spot on, but there was another version of them... Arrancar. Much stronger. Although the Coalition must be a big shot, Niko has never heard any mention of it until a minute ago. So hearing that they are like the police except dealing with murderous ghosts...

"Yep, definitely Ghostbusters.." Niko mused to himself silently, in the middle of Jun's speaking. When Jun asked a small question about some experience against hollows, a second-long flashback of that day occured, and he winced a little. That image hurts every time. If it wasn't for its ravenous cravings, Niko would be dead already. If not worse.

Well, since he's here anyways, and won't want to run into more trouble with the police, he's nods. He unhooks his rifell off the right side of the motorcycle and straps it over his back. He does the same with the shotgun thats hooked onto the left side of the motorcycle. Niko follows Jun into the building, through the lobby, and into the elevator. He watches as Jun pushes the codes in the elevator... Aaaaand memorized.

The idea behind the elevator is so complex, but only seeing how it just moved up and don't, without paying any mind to all the gears and ropes and weights used to control the movement of the metal box makes it seem magical.

The man behind the other side of the door, who was known as Alexander Kerensky as Jun pointed out, had green hair... That's a first, but then again masked ghosts that can murder people is also a first for Niko.

Jun had left and now Niko was alone with Alexander Kerensky. Kerensky asked him a question, and Niko just looks into the eyes of this man. Seconds pass, the clock on the wall marking each second with an audible tick which was loud in this somewhat silent room. Niko just ends up shrugging, and walks up to the table where Kerensky was tinkering with something. He pulls off his shotgun and rifell, and places them on the table. He then pulls out the two pistols he keeps in his holsters that were stitched onto his belt loops and place em right next to the other weapons.

After that, unzips his motorcyclist jacket. He folds it inside out, revealing pockets within the jacket. With a quick unzip of three of the pockets, which would be on Niko's right side of his body, bullets slide out of one pocket and shells slipped out the other. The 3rd pocket stood firm holding four clips of rifle ammo.

"Just assumed you would like to look at the bullets as well," Niko says dullfully, as he keeps his attention on and fiddles with the sniper bulllet that's hanging from his silver necklace, which is over a white, slightly over-sized tanktop.

The man took a look at them. Nodding once, he started to input what they were...and recording it too. "New custom weapons were brought in today. The boy seems to be a teenager, and just as strong, at least in terms of spiritual pressure, as Jun, our benchmark for any decently powered humans, though he's short for his approximate age group. The weapons include two pistols, a rifle, and a shotgun. *cue taking one of the bullets and looking at it and doing it to several others* It seems some bullets have different properties, but privacy laws forbid me from finding out without the owner's permission or fighting him. These bullets and weapons each can harm spiritual beings such as hollows and arrancars, hence why they're being registered by the Coalition. End recording."

Putting the bullets down, he let the boy take them again as he was finishing up the written report. "What's your name, young man?" After getting the name, he spoke up. "Do you know what the Coalition does? Beyond what little you spoke with Junny." If it was just the Ghostbusters bit, Alex would chuckle. "It's an international organization that handles spiritual activities throughout the world. The primary purpose is to defend it against hollows, arrancar, and sinners, though that doesn't mean we won't go against other spiritual beings, although one organization's goals coincide with our's. We also register all humans with spiritual powers and just make sure that they're behaving if they don't join our ranks. We're also a superpower in the way that we provide defenses and items to help people defend themselves against such beings, giving us quite the large funding along with help from the United Nations. Even to offering certain agentcies half off for certain items. If you wish to join our ranks, the offer is there. But standard practice also means I need to test you.

If Junny wasn't leaving today, I would rope him into doing this since you're the same strength. Unfortunately, aside from a steady paycheck, some laws in the U.S. state we have to restrict your hours due to your age and make sure you're not in harm's way. But we've found ways around it, depending on your living situation. The choice is yours. If you need some time to think on it, that's perfectly alright."

It was a bit long winded, and a lot of information to digest. It wasn't uncommon for potential recruits to head home and think about it before actually signing up. After getting the boy's signature on the registration forms that the printed out, he was free to go.

Niko listens to Alexander ramble as he was talking, and was amazed that his guns were actually able to harm spirits. Would that mean that the gun he used to try to hurt that monster wasn't able to. And another thing from that worries him... Why did the monster not attack him, it's as if it was fulfilling some mission, taking care of the murderers rather than the unarmed people which would've made for easier snacks. As he thought that, he missed a portion of the ramble and came back as Alexander mentioned not being able to examine the bullets more closely due to laws.

Then Alexander ended the recording and turns around. He asks for his name.

Niko stood, thinking his thoughts out as he blankly stared. After a couple seconds of silence, Niko replies, "My name... Niko. Niko Viction. And you can undress my bullets, see what's under their protective casing clothing. I haven't tested them myself, so don't be surprised if they explode or something." As if on cue, one of the incendiary rounds for the pistol rolls of the table, bumps the floor and bursts into flames. A half second later, the boy stomps on the fire, killing it quickly. This brings a half-second small smile on his face, but a small one that it is hard to determine whether it was a smile or not.

With the next question, Niko again doesn't reply immediately. Waiting a good 1/4 of a minute, Niko replies with, "Well, I have never heard of the Coalition until Jun explained that you guys fight evil ghosts... Ghostbusters, but with a different name." The remark making the hatted man chuckle, he goes on a bit of a soliloquy for Niko.

'So I have as much power as that blonde haired kid... Wait, spiritual powers? Does he mean I can do things like Ghost Trick or is it like Dragonball Z super powers... Meh, probably the latter' Niko mused in his thoughts.

After the last words Kerensky said, a full minute passed with Niko standing as still as a statue, thinking about his thoughts on this. He says with a melancholy-filled demeanor and an unchanging voice, "I think I will take you up on your offer. But don't worry about sending me in harm's way or having me work many hours. Just treat me as if I was an equal. I have nowhere to return to, no one to return to. Only back to a cruel, harsh world that keeps throwing punches at me for no reason. And before you ask if I have my parents consent, they aren't around anymore; and the ones who are, are dead to me." The final sentence he says had some emotion in the final half.. In fact, two emotions... Sadness, and then anger. A small noticeable tinge of anger.

The last bit only made sense to Niko, as the parents he was talking about in the former are his real parents, while the parents he was talking about in the latter were his fake 'family' if that's what he could even call it. And even if people wanted to figure out what he meant by that, he isn't ready share it yet. Even if anyone tried to search up who he was or who his parents were, there would be no records past his birth, as he was Niko Victori up until he moved into isolation with Haru...

He realizes that he hasn't signed a legal document that allows him to work for the Coalition, so he grabs a pen on Kerensky's desk and attempts to write down his signature on the paper. When nothing was written, Niko clicks the pen and starts writing, and now he sees his signature in ink on the document.

Alex's interest was peaked. He helped out Jun whenever he could, because he knew of the boy's harsh parents and even rescued the boy when he was younger from a hollow. This one was in a worse place. "Unfortunately, laws forbid us to do so. But you also have school to attend. We can work out the details later..." He was now taking one bullet of each type, some a couple of different ones, for analysis later and suspending them in a capsule. "We may be a superpower, but we're still subject to the country's laws, as Jun's parents demonstrated when they forced us to demote him..." He took the registration forms for the weapons and filed them away.

"I'll talk to Kai about your...unique situation. For now, if you wish, we can give you a test to determine your battle capability. After recording the fight, we can work out a training regimen to better prepare yourself and the like. Or send you on missions that better fits your power level and the like. There isn't much the U.S. can do about it outside of the country. For the test, it's gonna be me you'll be fighting with me, since Jun should be on the plane by now. Feeling up to it today?"

If the kid was up for the test, Alex would give him all his remaining ammo back. Naturally, the boy would be allowed to use his guns. Alex was stronger than he was by a good amount. Grabbing his odd cane, he lead the way...towards the elevator. He didn't even touch the code pad as it moved further down on it's own.

When it stopped and opened, it revealed an expansive area to fight in. Mountains, lakes, forests, streams, urban areas...the place was huge. "Prepare yourself and choose your battle grounds wisely. You have ten minutes before I start my search for you." The bounto said as he walked out and just stood...waiting...

Niko interjects Kerensky when he was talking about school, saying with a nonchalant shrug, "I've never went to school. I guess I was home-schooled." But remains silent and nods every once in a while letting Kerensky know that he was listening. When Kerensky asks if Niko would be up for a fight, he responds with a shrug, but acts as if he had said yes by accepting his ammo and guns back and arranges them in his pockets accordingly, his guns strapped over his back and pistols in their holster, and follows him into the elevator, which started descending without any input for the number pad.

After a good couple of seconds in the elevator, Niko notices that Kerensky grabbed his cane, which caused Niko to think, 'Is this guy crazy!? Is he planning on fighting me with just a cane, and he allows me to use my guns!? What's his game, because no one in their right mind would attempt this without being sure of their own abilities!' All of this was confusing to him, but his only explanation his that maybe spirit powers made people bulletproof or something, because he doesn't know what the hell they do in the first place.

Minutes pass in this elevator, as it descended at what felt like a quick rate... Where are we going!?

Finally it stops, and the elevator doors slid open, revealing a huge landscape... Well, huge would be a complete understatement to this area, as it was filled with huge landscapes. A training area perhaps? What the hell kind of things does the Coalition do!? It was so amazing, Niko lets one of the first semi-positive things he said in a while, even though it was a short and simple, "Holy hell, this place is amazing."

Then Kerensky tells Niko to prepare, and Niko looks at all of the choices he could make. He took notice of the city-like area, and thought of going there, but there were way too many factors to figure in as he doesn't know what are inside of the buildings. Then he say the Mountainous region, and decides that it would be a great place to be at, so he started walking at a brisk pace in that general direction.

What felt like a long seven minutes pass, and Niko finds himself at the entrance to a rocky gorge/ravine. It stood hundreds of feet above where Niko was standing as he was at the bottom of it. The gap between the two rocky sides was about ten to fifteen feet wide, and he can spot at least a 30ft stretch of land in the middle of the ravine being probably having a 30ft wide gap between the opposing walls.

Niko then formulated ideas, as probably shooting Kerensky (as he seemed so confident as to give him his guns) would most likely not work as he still hypothesized that spiritual powers could potentially make people bulletproof. Then Niko decided on a final idea.

He pulls out his shotgun and loads all of his acidic rounds into his shotgun. He takes aim at various spots of the mountainous walls, and shoots them, letting the acid start dissolving and eroding parts of the wall. Afterwards, he walks into that thirty foot wide gap area in the middle of the gorge, and found that there were apparently cave systems or at least pockets of space large enough for grizzly bears to slip in that riddled the outside of the walls. A noise sounds nearby, and Niko turns to face it, seeing a bone fall down from a high distance. Squinting, he finds out that the pockets of space has some skeletons.

The nine minutes have passed by, and Niko feels confident in his prototype ammo staying reliable and won't fail him, as he feels that they would be a vital component in this fight. Niko straps his shotgun over his shoulder after loading it with a full clip of blast shells. Niko walks into the midway point of the gorge's spacious opening and the enterance to the gorge. Now he takes some deep breaths, waiting for Kerensky to arrive as he had said he will do.

Ten minutes...

Alex waited and felt the boy's spiritual pressure, and tracked it. The ravine and mountainous area was a good place, in theory, for a gunman to use. Especially against a mostly close range fighter like him. He looked at his cane. A bronze, robotic snake head was at the top with a blade at the bottom. He wondered if Niko had noticed that. It was his doll's sealed form. He'd rather not use it yet.

Ten minutes passed. He had heard some gunshots earlier...probably setting up a trap. The six foot tall man walked towards the area...while gaining elevation. As a bounto, he cannot be sensed by normal means, often requiring a special piece of gear to do so. Or a unique type of sensing. He was pretty far above now. He could see the entrance...and how a single shot or well placed energy dagger/sword could make the entrance collapse. About midway through was his target.

Putting his cane on his belt, he formed several energy daggers. And threw them at the ridge with a very large amount of force. He didn't know how Niko weakened the entrance, but he did. Alex decided to keep his distance for now, forming a simple bow and arrow out of green energy. And firing about six times at the boy. Nothing strong, but not weak either, the boy should be able to handle them. Feeling him out to see what he'll do and how he'll react to a flying opponent.

Niko, as he waited for Kerensky to come, pulls out his pistols and checks if they were loaded. Proving his memory right, the pistols were not loaded. The boy reaches into his pockets and grabs the regular pistol ammo, then loads his pistol. As he was finishing up his loading of the second pistol, he hears rumbling noises, causing him to look around. He spots rocks and boulders falling down, some that are as small as pebbles, some as small as baseballs, and there were a couple as large minivans.

Niko was kind of freaking out, seeing his own trap is activated on himself. Seeing as he doesn't have enough time to switch to his explosive ammo to explode the rocks away, he turns around and runs for the wide gap further in the ridge. As he was running, he realizes that he didn't cause them to start falling. He turns his head and looks at the top of the ridges, trying to find Alexander who must've had the same idea he had.

Niko mouths, "What the !@$%" as he kept running when he spotted a flying Kerensky. Was that his spiritual power!?

Then, even more to his amazement, he spots Kerensky pulling a green bow out of nowhere and starts shooting green arrows at him. Niko hops backwards, narrowly dodging an arrow that grazed his head, then continues running. Niko turns around, running backwards now, aiming his pistols at the arrows. Two shots, one arrow... dissappears!? Arrows are supposed to shatter or break when shot, not turn into nothingness.

Niko shoots the other four arrows, at the expense of six bullets, rendering his left pistol empty and his right pistol two shots out.

Niko aims his pistol at the flying Kerensky, still running, missing the first shot which was off course because Niko stumbled a little, but the other three shots headed straight for Kerensky's chest. At this time, Niko loads his right pistol with all of his explosive rounds and his left pistol with regular rounds, then holsters his guns and continues running into the large area.

Niko enters the large spacous center of the ridge and pull out his rifell, having his hand in his pocket, hand over his clips and waits for Kerensky to act before choosing what ammo Niko will use.

The boy started to run when Alex destroyed his trap and used it against him by limiting his escape. And backtracked when he started to fire the arrows. The boy had pretty good aim, taking out his arrows with his gunshots. Three shots were actually aimed at him. Due to the distance, he simply side stepped to avoid them. He found the look he gave him rather amusing. "Pro tip: All spiritual beings can fly with virtually no expense of energy. So while your plan might've worked against a human or normal hollow, it would not against an arrancar or sinner of at least decent intelligence. Most humans can't fly without assistance from the floater device or their own powers. If this wasn't a sparring match, I'd trap you and crush you with the ravine."

He spoke and watched as Niko loaded up ammo and moved to the center of the ridge, which was more spacious. Alex still kept his distance, but kept the same distance between them as when he was firing the arrows. "I should also mention that I'm not human. I'm a creature called a bounto. You can't sense my kind without special equipment or some very unique sensing capability. I work with the Coalition for several reasons. But you can find out why later..."

He blurred at full speed straight down, smashing into the ground and lifting a van sized chunk of rock. The green haired man pushed and essentially threw it at the lad. Moving, he jumped, doing an axe kick while forming a tonfa in his right hand while drawing his cane with his left. He swung the cane and aimed a tonfa at the boy's torso. He slowed down a lot from the axe kick on, giving the boy a chance, but still pushing him, making him struggle.

What annoyed him somewhat was the new spiritual pressure that just got off the elevator. Alex knew who it was...which only made him think that maybe he'll at least give the boy some assistance. But for now, he was going to ignore it and focus purely on the gun toting child.

Niko heeds his advice, but is kind of weirded out by the last sentence. The one about crushing with help from the ravine. A bit sadistic it sounded like, but Niko shrugged it off as battle tactics 101. In fact, Niko's plan kind of relied on that, but hearing it said aloud is just sadistic sounding. Perspective gives things a different meaning, doesn't it.

When Alex started his second small tangent, Niko decided to load his Rifell with a regular clip. Then another peculiar thing that Kerensky said sparks something. Not human... A bounto... sensing... What does he mean by all of that? Apparently Niko might need to take a course in spiritual stuff after this sparring match, because all of what Kerensky says about races are somewhat passing over him as Niko himself doesn't understand much to begin with.

Then Kerensky disappears, causing Niko to jump back a little. With a rumble, Niko finds Kerensky immediately on the ground, holding a van sized chunk of rock. Niko's face grows with more states of awe as the battle gradually progresses, as the amount of irregularity from what Niko found as the norm grew.

Knowing what Kerensky was going to do, Niko brainstorms many ideas, thinking of some rational ideas but immediately throwing them aside as this is not a normal battle against a normal person who normally can't pick up van sized rocks. So, Niko picks one of the crazier ideas that he generated in his mind. When the green-haired man threw the boulder at Niko, the boy threw his Rifell high in the sky as he sprints towards the boulder and Kerensky. Then he slides under the boulder, while unslinging his shotgun. Narrowly avoiding getting crushed, Niko hops up and continues sprinting at Kerensky, who was lifing his leg for an axe kick.

Niko holds up his shotgun, gripping the side of the barrel and the grip and caught the axe kick. Niko was instantly brought down to his knees by the intensity of Kerensky's strength, barely holding the shotgun up as it is. Niko was mentally shaking from the attack, wondering how much strength this man had and how he himself was still conscious or not too damaged. Waking up to reality, Niko sees Kerensky swinging his cane at him. This attack, unlike the kick, was slightly easier to avoid due to the 1.5 foot difference between the two. Niko hopped back just enough to get out of reach of the attack, and decides to take this opportunity.

Niko flips his shotgun around, barrel pointing towards the ground at an angle, with the grip of the shotgun angled towards Kerensky's chest. Niko swings his legs up using some momentum to get both legs off the ground, also pointing at Kerensky's chest, then with a squeeze of a metal trigger, Niko gets propelled by the blast shell he just shot and connects his feet with Kerensky's chest, probably at least pushing him back at least due to the attack. Not done there, Niko flips the gun around again, pointing the shotgun, but at an angle with the grip heading towards the sky, and the barrel at Kerensky's chest. He pulls the trigger again, blasting Alex back a distance and blasting himself rapidly towards the sky.

Niko's Rifell was still in the air, and Niko was flying towards it. In air, the kid quickly straps on his shotgun and then catches his Rifell and aims it at Kerensky, but couldn't get a good shot because of how he was flying in the air. The kid looks back and sees the ground coming close. Preparing himself for impact, Niko crashes into the ground, rolling backwards once and slides against the ground on his seat. His back then collides with the wall of the ravine, luckily being one of the flat and smoother parts of the wall. The collision knocks the air out of him, but Niko quickly had enough time to regain his air quick enough to react to whatever Kerensky was doing next.

The idea was grand. It interrupted Alex's final attack, pushing him back some. But the explosive round stumbled him back. His durability, speed, and strength were among his largest strengths. A mostly close range fighter. He looked up to find Niko struggling to aim properly. He smiled when the boy didn't take the shot. He stored the idea of what to have him improve on in his head. The boy slammed into the ground, rolling backwards. Alex turned his tonfa into a simple staff, and darted forward with the point. If it wasn't a sparring match, he would use his cane instead.

The boy reacted fast enough after slamming into the wall to dodge the energy staff. As he watched, he noticed weird symbols on the exposed parts of the boy's body, namely his head and hands (if his gloves aren't on), and he moved twice as fast. "And just how much assistance are you willing to give him? This is a test on his combat ability and with what he'll need to improve on..."

On the top of the ridge was a five foot eight tall man with silver hair and red eyes, fairly well tanned too. He was sitting down and looked like a mere office worker. "Just minor assistance. The physical enhancement spells I used on him only doubled his speed and strength. If he takes to the air again, I'll give him a Mage Disc to control so that maybe you two can get some aireal combat going on."

"So long as it is only minor. But I think we should turn it up a little bit..." He held out his cane. "Zeige Dich: Loran." His cane suddenly transformed. The snake head got bigger and so did the blade. The only thing connecting the two parts were bands of black outlined by green reiashi criss-crossing each other...technically the doll's weak spot. It coiled around Alex. "This is a doll, one of the main things the seperated a bounto from other spiritual beings." The midsection of the doll suddenly fired three dozen energy beams. The snake head also striked at the boy's new location, releasing green gas that started to spread slowly, with an effective area of 30 yards. It would give the boy phantom pains and a really itchy rash in a random spot. But it would also give the boy diaherria at some point during process. The gas's effects would only last 3 posts and would only effect him if he breathed it in.

Niko, seeing Kerensky's charge towards him after turning his tonfa into a staff, quickly hops up and dive-rolls to his right.  The boy, being surprised at how fast he was and how Kerensky hit the wall with his staff mere moments after he rolled, realizes that something felt off.  That's when Alexander addresses someone, a different person, making Niko confused about the assistance part.

Niko walks backwards, away from Kerensky, and scans the area...  No one down here, but what about...?  The boy looks up at the ridge top and, peering over and responding to Alexander, was a man.  The guy was too high up to give specifics about his appearance, but it seemed that he had tan skin and silver hair.  Yet another thing that piqued his interest by what they were saying, was mage disc.  Aerial Combat...  Meaning it can help him walk on air basically...  Or at least that's what it seems to mean.

Niko's attention returns to Kerensky, as he was saying that he was turning it up a notch.  The boy, getting more and more confused and amazed, watches as the man's cane turns into a metal 'chain-link'-like snake being.  Even though the green haired man explained what it was, Niko didn't catch the true importance of this, only knowing that this snake-thing was a 'doll'...  Where the hell do people get the ideas for the names from!?  It does not at all look like a doll.  Accidentally saying his thoughts allowed, Niko murmurs to himself, "Apparently a barbie doll might be as deadly as this thing, then again Ken has much more strength then barbie...  My head hurts from this, heh heh."

Going back to reality, Niko witnesses the snake's body unleashing an extreme amount of energy-beam-like-things towards him.  As the boy walks back into the wall, as he was walking backwards and away from Alexander the entire time up to this point, Niko also witnesses green gas emanating from the snake's body.  Niko would like to have believed that the gas was harmless, but from watching many movies with Haru, the boy corelates weird, colored glass (especially green gas) as being a type of poison.  He would like to believe the harmlessness of the gas, but after witnessing everything he just saw in the past couple of minutes, he wasn't willing to take the chance.

Quickly looking over his shoulder, the boy looks to see where the barrel of the shotgun was pointing.  The shotgun barrel was pointing downwards.  This makes his next crazy plan much more achievable.  Quickly, Niko pulls out his Rifell's smoke clip in his free hand, holding Rifell in his left hand.  Niko pays attention to the closest energy beam, about 5 ft from collision.  With the hand that's holding his smoke clip, the boy angles his back a little, reaches over his shoulder, and pulls the trigger of his shotgun.

With that, Niko launches up and past the energy beams, slamming into two of the beams in the process.  Niko looks down and sees the snake charging for him, green gas still emanating.  He holds his breath and curls in the air, and rolls in the air so that the snake is parallel to Niko's back with his head pointing away from the snake.  Still having his hand on the trigger, Niko waits until the snake is practically feet away.  Even though Niko is assuming the snake is going fast, Niko feels as if the world feels slower...  Twice as slow actually (It's Niko's first time experiencing something like a speed boost...  Basically, world is still normal, but Niko's speed causes what he percieves as normal speed twice as fast, making things twice as slow for him.  ).

As soon as Niko believes he's as close as he could get to the snake without harm for him, he pulls the trigger.  This would blast him further up into the ridge and the snake back downwards.  The boy, flying through the air, turns around and throws his smoke clip downwards.  Aiming his rifell, he shoots it as soon as it descended 10ft (which Niko is about 50-ish feet in the air).  As the bullet penetrates the clip, a set of small-mini-explosion sounds punctured the air as white smoke enveloped 20ft below the point it was shot at, hopefully keeping the green smoke below it.

Then Niko collides with one of the many gaps in the wall, landing on a skeleton.  He lets out a shout of pain as a random piece of rib from the rotting skeleton pierces his leg.  Pulling it out, Niko puts it aside and comes up with another idea, albeit a minor one.  He pulls out his rubber shells and loads them into his shotgun.  Aiming downward, where Kerensky would still probably be on the bottom, and shoots all of his shells, each shot aiming towards a different portion of the ravine's bottom.  The idea was that the rubber pellets within the shell would bounce like crazy in the bottom of the ravine gap, meaning a high chance that Kerensky could get hit.  Then again, Niko can't see through his own smoke and doesn't know what else this man has up his sleeves.

(OOC: There was no gas when it was summoned...only when it attacked. Just saying)

The explosion trick again. But the boy still hit two of the energy beams. Good thing they were weak...even more so since this was a spar with someone far weaker than he was. The boy held his breath and pulled the trigger...the explosion sending the boy even higher up. But it did nothing. While the chain link black reiatsu was definately Loran's weakspot...the dust settled to show a green barrier around the creature. But still did what was intended. The boy's increase in speed wasn't helping either...though nothing that he couldn't handle.

He threw one of his clips and shot it, making a smokescreen in addition to the gas. Loran retreated back to Alex, floating in mid-air and coiled very loosely around him. He would use his energy snakes...but that was just too strong of an ability for a spar against someone weaker. As he thought, he heard gunshots...and rubber bullets going everywhere. "Loran!" His doll immediately transformed into a sword.

Alex started to move, watching every bullet. He only got hit a few times, speed was one of his strengths. He flowed energy into his doll, it's weakness now covered, and spun, firing waves of green energy, destroying each bullet and scarring the ravine. The explosions and shockwaves blew the smoke away, since the gas had dissipated much earlier. But nothing went towards the boy himself. "Interesting...any other tricks? You're reminding me of Junny...except a more long ranged version of him..." He was starting to get ideas...and fear the day the two kids team up.

Alex waited as a magic circle appeared in front of Niko. It was Kai's turn to speak. "You can stand on it. When you do, full control is yours. Just imagine which direction you want to go and it'll go." The young CEO leaned back and watch some more. He knew it was mandatory for a test to be taken upon entry, but he never thought that one of his top people would actually be a part of it.

The fourteen year old boy started to feel a burning sensation on his left hand and his right shoulder.  He looked at them, noticing that the energy beams have singed his coat's shoulder and burned part of his left hand a little.  Then something more interesting was the symbol on his left hand.  This must be that man's enchanted enhancements.

Then, as the smoke clears away, he hears the man say his doll's name, Loran, Niko assumes, and the snake turned into a sword.  Kerensky then used his sword to unleash energy beams to destroy his rubber bullets and scar the innards of the ravine, which blasted the rest of the lingering smoke away. While watching this, Niko pulls out his other six explosive pistol rounds and the clip of acidic Rifell rounds.  Niko then rummages around in his coat pocket and found a piece of chewed up gum.  Niko knew it was always there for the past couple of days, but was never bothered to deal with it.  However, the gum was the basis of the plan after all.

Niko chews the gums to make it more sticky and malleable, and once it was at an acceptable malleability the boy pulls out and stretches into a stringy form.  Niko then puts his 6 free explosive pistol rounds on this gum-string, then puts the Rifell clip onto the gum-string.  Finally, Niko sticks the two ends around the backside of the clip and made sure that the gum was stuck to the clip.  The gum worked too well, as some of the gum stuck his finger to the clip for a good couple of seconds.

Niko the jumps in surprise when he looks up and sees the magic floating disk in front of him, and hearing the mysterious stranger tell him that he could use it to fly.  Interesting.  As Niko hops on, he hears Alexander muse out loud about similarities between him and Junny.  As far as the boy was concerned, he did not see the similarities the green-haired man saw.

The fourteen year old walks onto the disk and just visualizes himself going downwards towards Kerensky.  The disk obeyed, and was charging towards Kerensky faster than Niko had originally anticipated.  He pulls out his pistol with the explosive rounds still loaded into it with his right hand, and held the Acidic round clip that was strapped with his other explosive pistol rounds.  Niko, when he was within throwing distance, threw the clip at Kerensky, but overthrew it so it went over Kerensky's bucket hat.

Niko quickly pulls out his other pistol and willed his disk to move backwards, which it did at an abruptness that launched Niko off the disk.  The boy instinctively grabs the edge of the moving disk with his left hand, accidentally dropping his other pistol onto the ground.  Niko aims the pistol in his right hand, which was loaded with the explosive rounds, at Kerenksy and fires 4 times.  The first two were aimed at Kerensky's right shoulder, and third aimed at the man's thigh, and the final one shooting over the man's head, which would hit the wall where the clip was stuck onto the wall due to the sticky gum.  When the explosive round hits the wall, it would cause the other explosive rounds to spread the acidic mist in a 10 foot radius of the clip, mainly splashing upwards and corroding the already decimated ravine walls that Kerensky had helped weaken.

Niko makes the disk drop to the ground, which made him slightly stumble from going at a fast speed to a stop as he reaches the ground.  Spinning on his heels, he faces Kerensky once more, and aims much higher above Kerensky.  Pulling the trigger twice, Niko explodes a small portion of the wall about 20ft above the Green haired man, which would have done nothing if it wasn't for the acid and Kerensky's energy beams weakening the wall.  Since the wall was weakened at it's base, a good portion of the wall starts collapsing and avalanching upon Kerensky's location, ranging from rocks about the size of baseballs to ones the size of mini-vans.

At this point, Niko is breathing hard and is getting worn out.  But he doesn't want to stop, because he feels like as if he should go on.  This is supposed to be a sparring match, but it is like a wake-up call to Niko.  A wake-up to what the world really is and has.  He stands at the wall opposite to Kerensky, reloading his right pistol with regular rounds this time.  The boy waits for the man's next move.

Alex rose an eyebrow at the sight of the bubble gum. What was this boy planning? The look on the CEO's face mirrored his own thoughts. Then Niko made his move and charged at him. Alex created a shield made of energy and prepared himself for whatever trick he was gonna use. He threw the clips above his head and moved backwards, so abrupt that the disc nearly flung him off. And shot at him. He moved the sheild in front of him to block three of them...as the fourth wasn't aimed at him. The rounds destroyed the sheild, which he merely reconstructed into a broadsword.

The acid didn't feel good. It was destroying his hat! He flung off his hat and trench coat. Most of it splashed upwards though. Then two more shots rang out, hitting the wall above him. Alex grinned creepily. From the Loran Blade came two anaconda like energy snakes that mingled with the debris. And exploded with tremendous force. "The reason I didn't use that move or its lesser version is because it is too powerful for you to handle. Unlike my other abilities, that one is a bit tougher to control its power."

Alex walked out of the devastation, and kicked Niko's lost gun at him, hoping the boy would catch it. Not hard enough to hurt him though. "Overall, I think you would be my biggest bane, as you use purely equipment. And bullets for that matter. I believe I've acquired all I need to give you a list of things to improve on. Including learning Blur and improving your accuracy." His doll was back in its normal form.

"Plusssss either buying the floater device or learning that mage disssssc would do wonderssssss." The doll spoke, sounding very serpentine. Alex had dissipated his broad sword while walking up to the boy. He kneeled down to take a look at the wound on his leg, then took a look on the other two wounds. The burns were minor, but could still use a little bit of treatment. The cut on the leg needed stitches though...at least for an hour or two.

"The cut needs stitches to keep it sealed while a dermal regenerator heals the wound. It'll take an hour or two. The burns aren't bad, but some cream and a shot will make sure they're healed good and proper. Let's head on over to the infirmery." Alex noticed the markings were still there.

"The enhancements won't last much longer. I think it's time I introduced myself. Kai Allard-Laio, CEO and Leader of the Coalition. Pleasure to meet you." The man had jumped down and joined them, offering Niko his hand.

When they arrived at the elevator, Alex again didn't touch the codepad. He helped build this place...he could remotely activate this place from anywhere and send the code through a phone if he wished. Just like he did here. He noticed what the boy did in the elevator with Jun. "You must be on break then, if you decided to come down here. Perhaps now is as good a time as ever to tell you of Niko's situation." They stopped at the infirmiry. Alex told Niko to sit on one of the beds as he and Loran got the necessary medical supplies and started treating the boy's wounds.

Kai waited to hear out the boy's story.

(OOC: Kerensky doesn't know the rules of gun-handling.  It will change the situation a little, )


Niko was pleased to see that his plan seemed to work.  However, reality is a cruel mistress as his plan wasn't enough.  Kerensky's snake had exploded the falling debris after Kerensky himself took off his burning coat and hat.  The explosion the snake caused made Niko fall down to a knee, as the force he felt was tremendous.  If this man had used that attack while fighting Niko, well, that could be more than trouble for him.

Alexander then says what Niko was just thinking, and then kicks Niko's gun.  Niko, right as Kerensky wound up his leg, shouts, "Don-"...  Too late.  The gun was now flying through the air towards him.  Niko then shouts at Kerensky, "You Idiot!"

Niko forced himself to get up, and tried his best to sprint out of that location as soon as possible.  As Niko ran a good 7 feet, the pistol hits the ground with enough force to cause the bullet in the chamber to go off.  At first, it didn't seem to have hit anyone.  Niko, after seeing his gun had shot, walked back to his now safe gun and carefully picks it up and puts it in it's respective holster.

"Two problems with what you did," Niko begins, sounding slightly ticked off, "First off, never kick or throw a loaded gun.  Dangerous it is!  Second, it's gonna take me an hour to get this boot smudge off the barrel of my gun."

The boy then listens to Kerensky saying what he could improve on.  Improving accuracy is a given, but learning blur...  what was blur?  That'll be a question for later as it seems as the fight is over and Niko is just going through the motions.  Then the doll adds on the part about a floater device or the magic disc.  Apparently this snake has a bad lisp...  Next was Kerensky walking over to Niko and telling him that he needed to get fixed up, which was followed up by the suited man's introduction of being the leader of the Coalition, Kai Allard-Laio.

Kai had offered Niko his hand, but Niko refuses as he pushes himself up off of his knees.  The boy follows the two into the elevator and into the infirmary.  When the group was almost at the infirmary, Kerensky makes a comment about Kai being on break or something like that, and that it is time to tell the both of them why Niko was here.  At that point, Niko started feeling a tingling in his right arm.  He looks at his arm and sees some blood seeping in the back of his right arm.  Apparently the bullet actually hit him, and the enhancements along with the adrenaline helped Niko be unable to feel it.  However, the tingling started to become severe pain for Niko, and the pain can even be seen on his face.

"This...  Is why...  you don't...  throw or kick guns!" Niko says to Kerensky, as Kerensky was gathering the materials to fix him up after the battle, "You got me shot...  It hurts like hell..."  Why did his adrenaline wear off at the same time the enchantments did, because that didn't gradually bring Niko into pain.  He was dropped into it.  Niko wasn't able to tell by looking, but the bullet did more than hit him.  The bullet actually had entered his body through the arm, shatters right through radius, then it had hit his ulna with enough force to fracture it.  The bullet is still in his arm, but it had done it's job on Niko's arm.  Niko, with his left hand, points at his right arm's bullet hole at the next opportunity Kerensky looked at him.

"You want to know my story," Niko says, having a slightly strained face as he's dealing with the first big physical pain of his life, "Well, this was my first battle, and it appears that...  I need to learn mo-...  oh wait, you mean why I'm here.  Well, up until recently, I lived with...  my big sister, Haruko....  She taught me how to drive a motorcycle and build guns...  I believed she knew her death was...  coming, so she taught me those things...  Then last week...  She was murdered by hitmen...  I was locked in the basement...  by my sister, as she knew that the men...  wanted me...  I got out of the basement...  by shooting open the lock with the spare gun...  and I saw my dying sister...  and a masked monster eating the hitmen...  The monster disappeared after killing the eight or so men...  and I had a chat with my sister...  After that, I loaded all my guns and ammo...  and drove straight here...  to deal with the two that killed my m-...  big sister...  So now here...  I am, a fourteen year old orphan...  driving a motorcycle with an array of guns with me...  all the way here, crossing...  half the country..."  Niko nearly told the whole truth.  Niko wasn't ready to tell anyone of his real history...  as it was both too emotional for him to tell and too hard for others to believe.  Even as he was nearing the end of his story, his voice started sounding more strained with anger and sadness...

After saying that, Niko waits for the response he would be given.  Niko told a portion of the truth, but the truth nonetheless...  He wasn't ready to tell the whole truth...  Maybe he won't ever be ready...  but that would be only when time passes on.  As he was telling his quarter-truth story, Niko's eyes were blank and empty, but a couple tears were welling up in his left eye as he reached the part about his m-/sister, and as he reached the part about two people and the hitmen it seemed Niko was biting his lip out of anger.

Alex frowned when the gun went off...and saw that it had hit the boy. After the boy's small scolding, the man glared at him. "It's not very well built if it misfired like that. Only time the guns we make misfires is if they somehow get jammed. With some work, I'm sure the two of us can improve them so that that doesn't happen again. As far as the so called boot sludge *picked up the mostly clean gun* that's just dirt from the area. I keep my boots squeaky clean thank you very much."

He gave the boy some pain killers as he did his work, including pulling out the bullet. The fractured ulna was gonna take two weeks to fully heal. The full story was given. Kai had a feeling that it wasn't the whole truth...but also had the feeling he wasn't gonna get much more out of him.

"I see. That's gonna be a problem for us, at least legally. You're not old enough to become an independant. I recommend finding yourself a fostor home or finding someone here to adopt you. Though it's odd for a hollow to eat normal humans, it's not unheard of. Your sister obviously cared a lot about you...enough to teach you those things...so that you can take care of yourself. However, I don't like the fact there are men after you. If you don't want to tell us now, that's fine. But eventually we do need to know. We take care of our own. And that includes you now. If you're in trouble or just need to talk, don't ever hesitate to come to us." Kai put a reassuring hand on the boy's shoulder. He was charismatic and meant every word he said. He had his own share of misfortunes, having had a psycho aunt and a cousin, who is still living, that was jealous and even lashed out at him. "You're strong, and can easily become stronger. But even the strong needs someone to watch their back. Myself and Mr. Kerensky here included."

"And done for now. The fractured ulna will take two weeks to heal. Come in here once every day for the bone regenerator treatment and you'll be good. Keep your arm in the sling except when you shower, and try not to use it too much. If you come back in about another hour we can take those stitches on your leg out. Let me get you set up your priviledges in the system and then you can start on your homework, rest, start looking for a home, whatever you wish." The green haired man took out an ipad looking thing and started typing it. "Your temporary password is NikoV32Alpha. Change it as soon as possible. Contact me or anyone else whenever you feel up to training. I better get going. Mr. Allard-Laio" With that, the bounto left.

Kai looked at Niko. "You gonna be ok?"

Niko returned Kerensky's glare with an even more intense, but still blank-ish glare back when he insulted the quality of his two guns.  Sure they are not made to be thrown, but these guns are more potent than regular guns, as they can withstand the abuse that the special ammo does within the gun.  The he just sits and lets Kerensky wrap him up and stitch him up.  

Then Kai starts going on a mini-speech about being worried about Niko and that Niko should depend on them for help and blah blah blah.  Niko nods to this, just so he can give him the answer they would like, when in reality, Niko can't burden anyone else with the duty he set himself to do.  In fact, Niko almost seems happy that he would kill his ex-parents, who had killed his real mother.  Besides, it would be just wrong of him to not wrap up the final loose end that ties him to his old life.

Keresnky then gave Niko medical instructions, which Niko accepted that knowledge.  Then at the mention of computer access, Niko internally smiled at the realization that through the Coalition he could gather information on the Victoris.  Niko nods at Kerensky, letting him know that he was listening.  Soon after, the green haired man departs.

Kai and Niko, now all alone.  Niko was already thinking of new ammo types, thinking all personal conversation was done.  However Kai broke the silence and asked Niko how he was...  This was a question that Niko usually looooves to dig deep into.

"For someone who has what was his only family dead not more than a week ago, getting in a sparring match with a spiritual being for the first time, got shot, broke a couple of bones...  I feel pretty damn ok, do I?" Niko says without any inflection of his voice, as the sarcasm is pretty obvious in his own words, "But seriously, I am not feeling physical pain due to the strong painkillers here, but truthfully I feel worse than death in my heart.  Having the one person you've known your entire life just taken away right in front of you by bad men, it would take much much much much muuuuch more than a miracle to even get over it in about a week.  But if you mean about with the match and sll, I am surprised I did as well as I did.  First time I even fought like that, and I can already tell that it just gets crazier..."

"Do you have anything to eat right now, I'm quite peckish."  Niko asks, doing a complete 180 from a serious, analytical tone to a more innocent-ish, lax tone.  As if to agree with him, The boy's stomach growls.

(OOC: I return, had lots of RL issues, will return to more frequent arrivals soon once again)

Kai rose an eyebrow. Kid has been through waaayyy too much too soon. He nods and beckons him to follow him. "If you're thinking about revenge...makes some friends here or tell us. My mother even needed help to satisfy her revenge on her sister for killing my father. We can and will support you." The man had a distinct feeling the kid was stubborn as all hell. He knew Jun was...he heard of the many arguements with his parents, and even witnessed one.

He showed the boy to the cafeteria. The worker there immediately looked up Niko on their database and nodded. "All meals here for members are free. Please enjoy." She was perky and smiling all too much.

The silver haired man looks the kid over. "Well, I need to get going and get back to work. If you have any questions or anything, don't hesitate to ask." He left and went back to his office. One of his cadre was in. All Kai did was nod at him. The other magic user knew what his boss wanted. As Kai sat back down in his chair...he knew exactly who could help Niko in both training him and finding the men that traumatized him. The question was though...would he do it? The two already didn't get along with each other. They hated each other really. He picked up his phone and called the Amesbury Magical Library. Helping one of his own was something Angel and her werewolf pack respected. Hopefully she'll agree...

(OOC: Your choice to leave it here or end it with your post. Idc what.)