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November 23rd, 2013

Backdated to October. @ 10:31 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:
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They have a lot of investigations on their plate, and Swallows games against the Giants are among the times one could actually catch them on television. But there's nothing Amiko can do about any of their pending investigations right now, despite how much she's worked, and television is only a last resort in terms of watching baseball like a civilized person. Especially since it's the Swallows' last shot at the playoffs. Her boyfriend doesn't like baseball, so Amiko is in the stands with the world's second-greatest samurai.

"I wish it were a home game," she grumbles just slightly. "Feels more right. Anyway, what else needs explaining? I covered scoring, the positions, the difference in the two leagues..." The Central League's forbidding of designated hitters being obviously better, in Amiko's extremely biased opinion.
 

April 18th, 2013

Not-So-Hot Hands. (Meme, Hajime.) @ 11:10 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:

After all the previous revelations and recriminations, Keiji's contacts had come through with more specific information. Names to trace and sift through. Information continued to progress. Much progress was being made.
Well, on the manhunt. Not so much on the fixing things. But the only blaming Amiko there was Amiko. She decided to stop, for a while, worrying if she was failing her various responsibilities and her friend and actually go to see her friend. He should be finishing his grueling routine right about now.
 

January 12th, 2013

A Sea of Blood @ 08:27 pm

[info]ng_divine_ones5:

Ophois unleashed the Egyptian goddess Sakhmet on the city of Budapest. The goddess' blood lust was insatiable and she tore through the city leaving a sea of blood behind her. Anyone that got in her way was cut down and the blood flowed freely.
 

June 3rd, 2012

The Youkai @ 08:22 pm

[info]nextgen_orochi:

He'd underestimated their power. Or perhaps he had overestimated his own. He was in a human body after all. Then again, perhaps it was a combination of both. Either way, it didn't change his current predicament.

After the attack Orochi had used the distraction of breaking the water from the street as a means to escape. Using his control over water he had found a small underground cave, usually flooded over. Ir was here where he was currently recovering. His body was healing, but not as quickly as he would have preferred. It would need to be sped along. He needed the remainder of his power. He would require assistance.

"If only I had the power to revive my servants. I suppose I must make do with what the current age provides me with." He began to chant, raising a hand as four of his fingers began to glow. "Find me four souls who hate those that attack me and grant them each a portion of my power. Bind to them the armors of the old times and bring them forth to serve me..my Youkai!"

Four beams of magic erupted from his fingers, seeking out those chosen.
 

April 21st, 2012

The Serpent Awakes @ 06:47 pm

[info]nextgen_orochi:

Kazama Goda, foreman of the construction crew, oversaw the removal of the debris left in the wake of the dragon attack. All the damn monsters..he was seriously considering moving. Maybe to South Korea, he had family there on his uncle's side,

"Goda-san, you've got to see this!"

"What is it?" Goda asked, annoyed.

"I don't know, I think it's a dinosaur fossil!"

Officially intrigued, Kazuma went over to where it looked like a partially unburied, reptilian skull.

"Kami," he gasped, moving toward it.The attack must have uncovered it. It was magnificient, he thought, mesmerized and moving toward it.

"Goda-san?" one of the workers called.

He didn't hear it. He reached out and touched the skull..and Kazuma Goda vanished in a wave of primal power. A burst of energy enveloped the body, practically exploding with raw energy. It mutated and shifted, scales forming and muscles shifting as the body transformed in mid-air. Some of the workers fled, others seemed transfixed by what was happening. Finally it stopped as he majestically floated back to the ground, eyes closed.

"Kazuma?" One of the braver workers asked.

The eyes opened, yellow with slitted pupils.

"No," and a burst of lightning sends the man flying into a group of his colleagues. "Finally...flesh..blood. It is not much, but it is a start." He turns in the direction of a strong pulse. "Yes, merely the beginning." And he casually walks in the direction of the signal, energy crackling the ground as his feet touched.
 

March 17th, 2012

Returning home (Meme- Fluff, Meeting Again) @ 02:13 am

[info]weakerlink:

It was supposed to just be a week long trip to a dig site. It was going to help her finish off her degree so she could focus on her other duties full time. And really everything should have gone smoothly! It had. Mostly.

Except she got talked into staying for another week when they stumbled across a big find that was more of Kayura's area of specialty. It was really hard to say no because it was a fantastic example of mid-thirteenth century armor and it had been exciting.

Then she had wrenched her knee badly the day before she had to leave. She had to delay going back because of that. The site medic didn't want her to risk tearing something since they had to hike to and from the dig site. So now it was almost three weeks later and now she is finally back and so happy to just have to wait for the date to graduate more or less.

But boy was this a little embarrassing. Almost two weeks late coming home even though she had sent word explaining everything.
 

November 27th, 2011

Gathering together @ 05:06 pm

[info]nextgen_misc:

For many reasons most of the Big Hero Six will find themselves directed towards a group of trees near a small shed like structure. The ghosts of the village don't seem to want to go near it at all.

Though they will see one ghosts moving back and fourth near the structure before it flees with something like fear. Not from them. Something about the structure made them need to flee.

Something has drawn them all here. They must finish this battle tonight.
 

November 9th, 2011

Just what she didn't need @ 01:55 pm

[info]weakerlink:

Kayura had been hounded by her Uncle to go to dinner with him at this new place. It was driving her up the wall how much he was trying to get her to go out more and socialize. She didn't have time for that. Between training, school, monster hunting, and whatever the Big Hero Six needed she had little time for herself and liked to try and stay home to relax and unwind.

But he had made this new place sound like fun. She figured she could at least go and meet him there, share a meal and maybe talk. Then she could go home and just take a long soak.

So there she was at a table he had reserved sipping water and wondering over this whole thing. The table was oddly placed in her mind's eye and this place didn't have the feel of somewhere her Uncle would like to go normally. Just what the heck is up?
 

November 8th, 2011

A Normal Evening Out. @ 06:07 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:

Amiko called Hajime and Keiji into her office. "Gentleman, I have a suggestion it's possible neither of you will be comfortable with, but I want you to humor me."
 

October 31st, 2011

All Hallow's Eve @ 01:20 pm

[info]nextgen_holiday:

All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween as it has been come to be called, is a popular holiday with children and adults alike. It is a holiday that had its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain or Summer's End. Samhain celebrated the end of the "lighter half" of the year and the beginning of the "darker half".

On this evening the barriers between this world and the Otherworld were believed to be thin and the spirits, good and bad, of the dead could pass through. The spirits of the family's ancestors were welcomed in while evil and bad spirits were warded off by the wearing of masks and costumes. The costumes and masks disguised one as a harmful spirit and avoided harm from others.

It was also a harvest celebration and time to take stock of food stores for the winter. Livestock were slaughtered and the meat prepared for storage. It was the final harvest of the year and the crops were then stored for the winter. Celebrations included bonfires and tales of the family's ancestors.

It was a celebration of the dead and of the harvest.

Today we dress up in scary and not so scary costumes and masks and go door to door for candy or attend costume parties. It is a night for revelry, pranks and fun.
 

October 23rd, 2011

And the locals treat us so well @ 07:30 pm

[info]weakerlink:

Kayura slides out of her seat when they reach their destination. She brought a backpack with her that has several extra things in it. Everything is for the eventuality of something happening. The entire trip here she has been tense. She knows what has to happen and she doesn't like it at all.

"Amiko-san, according to the map the trail we need to take is just over there," Kayura announces as she glances up towards the tree line. The trail looks slightly over grown but almost natural as if it has always been there and looks wide enough for even Grogg.

Kayura rolled her shoulders again. She was very tense because she could feel something somewhat distant calling to her armor. She fights that feeling for now because she isn't ready and they need to find the village. They need to find it so they can try and save the missing people and cleanse that place of the taint.
 

September 22nd, 2011

Moonlight duels? What could be more exciting! @ 11:11 pm

[info]weakerlink:

Kayura should have been more careful. She should have watched from further off. Or done more research on her computer at home. Things would have gone better. She realized that she was very lucky to be limping into the area reserved for training the next morning.

She didn't feel it. Normally she would dress in demure calf-length skirts with big shapeless tops not wanting to look too pretty or too eye catching. Besides, it was comfortable to dress that way. Today was a pants day though.

And the first time she was going to ask someone for assistance dealing with the supernatural since she had taken over her father's duty. She feels a touch of shame she has to ask for help.

"Hajime-sempai?" He has been here longer than her, he deserves that respect. "May I speak with you?"

She was glad it appeared that they were the only ones here this early in the day. She hadn't slept much after her defeat last night.
 

September 15th, 2011

Ham-fisted recruitment @ 08:59 pm

[info]weakerlink:

There had been a big incident with monsters and the armor. Followed by her having men in suits from the government bringing her in to have a very long conversation with her. She had been very tired from the fight and had to fight to not let anything slip.

But they knew about the armor. They knew about the fact she fought monsters and was pretty good at tracking information down on them. They knew pretty much everything about her.

It was very unnerving. And even more unnerving to be left alone in that windowless office to just wait.

Apparently someone wanted to talk to her.

She was having an 'oh crap' moment.
 

August 28th, 2011

A return @ 11:43 am

[info]get_medieval:

Hajime waits patiently for Kikuya's return. She's been gone... well, not that long, actually, but he's found that her absence left him feeling somewhat lost. Sure, he can get by, and she did her best to make sure he was provided for - which just makes him adore her that much more, but its not the same.
So when he heard she was returning, he made sure preparations were all made. Normally, one might assume that would mean having things ready for her so she could sit back, relax, and have tea - but he believes he knows her better than that. From what he's seen of the Americans, they might be alright, but they certainly don't appreciate her and her art properly. As such, he found a space out of the way, and set up a proper tea ceremony table and set with matcha and a tea set, and made sure a chef was free to prepare a full kaiseki meal for two, though the staff is forbidden to serve, just prepare.

That is timed with her arrival to give her enough time to wash and re-dress. It would not do to expect her to get a chance to serve while still looking like she just stepped off a plane.

That done, he waits in quiet contemplation
 

July 9th, 2011

Fight or Flight? Flight. (After Amiko gets back) @ 09:17 pm

[info]binary_soul:

The creature was still confused, but it had found something resembling satisfaction. It had been given clothing it deemed suitable by a blind priest at one of the nearby temples, and had begun traveling through the city. There were so many that carried injuries or illnesses with them, how could it not help them? It was such a simple thing, really. Just a correction of their own energy was all it took. Their bodies wanted to be healed.

There were people without homes, living in the streets. It could not do anything to give them shelter, but the weather could be held back. The rains made more gentle, the sun less harsh, the clouds more soothingly placed.

Then the men in suits came. Men speaking in words it could not understand. It understood some. Words like 'miracle' and 'construct' and 'rich'.

They had lashed out at it. It could do nothing but flee. It did not want to hurt anyone, but it would not let itself be taken and sundered.

The sky rumbled and turned black, and the plants swelled, as it took refuge in the forest once more. The old world was strong and good. It would protect it from these new ways of man.

----

At the Big Hero 6 headquarters, alarms go off, as cellphone and local news footage of the forested areas in Kyoto have begun consuming the city, and a strange energy seems to be emanating from the center of the growth.

 

June 26th, 2011

Fancy meeting you here. @ 02:15 pm

[info]quadrimanial:

Sylvie liked her new pink Hello Kitty barrettes. Misha had had to excuse himself for just a moment, so she was turning herself around in her chair, taking in all the sights of the street.
 

May 29th, 2011

Acclimation. @ 10:18 am

[info]supergeisha:

When she spent time in private with Hajime there was no issue with his limited understanding of contemporary culture.  When they were alone Kikuya and Hajime understood each other perfectly as her very traditional training matched up with the world he knew.  It was when they were with the others or in public that things became ever so slightly more complicated.  There were simply things that Hajime had no frame of reference for.  Kikuya felt it was her duty to assist in helping him understand.  It would make his daily life easier.  That was important to her.  One afternoon Kikuya decides to correct this and she shows up at the offices with three large shopping bags in tow--dressed in street clothes.
 

May 7th, 2011

Matter of Honor: Showdown. @ 12:26 am

[info]hotlittlehands:

As they'd all suspected, Jushiro didn't let them get back to Tokyo. She spotted some of his thugs in the shadows.

"Good evening, Cousin. Come out like a big boy."
 

April 18th, 2011

Matter of Honor: Raiders of the Honor Sword (Bendytimed, BH6) @ 04:47 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:

Amiko looks at the cavern opening in the mountains. "My uncle said the first section of the cavern is trapped, even before one gets the opportunity to disabled the wards on the sword. So please, we must go in one at a time, and watch our step."
She looks at them. "I appreciate all of your being here."
 

March 29th, 2011

Matter of Honor: The Enemy of My Enemy is My... Uncle @ 09:11 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:

Amiko certainly didn't see eye to eye with her foster mother's brother. But they'd had a polite truce for years, ever since he and Logan had come to something resembling a truce of their own.  Which had involved her, and involved the Sword. That gave her an additional sense of responsibility to see such an important symbol of Clan Yashida restored to a branch of the clan that still had some concept of what honor was.

She was grateful that the others had come.

... She was grateful, but quite some ways away from the small cottage where Kenuicho was convalescing, she stopped.  "Asako, Grogg, I need to ask you something in particular."
 

February 17th, 2011

Matter of Honor: Prelude @ 09:47 pm

[info]hotlittlehands:

She got the message about her father's calls after coming in from an official assignment.  It was a shock, at first, to realize taht Jushiro had sunk so far, even if she'd known he was garbage.  She thought very unkindly of many in her adopted clan -- of anyone who didn't believe that Lady Mariko had fully and completely restored the honor of Clan Yashida by her efforts and her sacrifices. -- but Jushiro was a special sort of scum.  But this was a new low.  As she obtained more information about what had happened, Amiko felt terrible that she hadn't been there to help. At least they were safe now.

But as she realized that Jushiro was both utterly inaccessible and still essentially in control of clan operations, she knew one thing she had to do.

When she'd finished drafting the letter, she opened communication to the rest of the team. "Please meet me in the briefing room. I would appreciate it."
 

February 13th, 2011

Valentine's Day - Japan Style @ 08:44 pm

[info]get_medieval:

Hajime got up, and went about as close to his normal routine as he could. Work out til he was almost falling over, then draw the sword 1000 times, insisting upon perfect draws each time, just as the swordmasters had demanded.


The holiday doesn't change a thing - for a couple reasons.
1. in Japan, girls get gifts for the guys, the romance and expectations of the day are almost entirely one sided.
2. 1 is rendered moot by the fact he'd have no idea what a valentine, or a day dedicated to it were anyway.

That, of course, doesn't mean nothing is happening about BH6 HQ in the meanwhile, among those with slightly less self-abusive morning routines than Hajime.
 

February 1st, 2011

Team-Building Exercise. @ 03:41 am

[info]hotlittlehands:

"Yes, Kenishi-san," Amiko said on the phone. "He seems to be settling in as best he can. No, I haven't had much chance to see him in action yet. We're going to work on that. Yes, Kenishi-san. Ryota's transfer has gone smoothly. Do not worry; I will not, as Logan-sama would not, hesitate to tell him to 'quit his bitchin' if necessary."  Amiko pauses to listen for a time after that. "...Yes, sir. Why do you ask?  No, I have left that, for the most part, to Kikuya-san.  Excellent. Then we are agreed, Kenishi-san.  Thank you.  I'm going to hang up now."
And she did. Amiko was grateful Mr. Kenishi hadn't used the video communication system. Her hair looked atrocious.  After working on that for a few minutes, getting it out of the way, Amiko went to round up the five members of the team available so far.
 

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