Rent Money (Open)

Zarakc sat quietly on top of a building overlooking an entrance to a warehouse on the docks. He was wearing his usual grab, and toting a backpack, it resting on one shoulder. He shifted, letting the backpack slowly lower itself until it was resting on the rooftop. His eyes studied the scene down below, watching a group of men seemingly waiting for something. There were three of them, one of them holding onto a briefcase, and what was in that briefcase, Zarakc was certainly interested in.

For a moment, he considered the thought of finding a more conventional way to get money, and then why and how he had started to acquiring money in such a manner that most certainly endangers himself. He shrugged the thoughts away, things had worked out so far, and after all, he didn't have to do this very often thanks to the amounts these deals involved. He eyed the group of men down below, taking note of their spacing between each other. Gently pulling down the zippers to the backpack, Zarakc reached in and set the contents of the bag in front of him: a pair of goggles, a respirator, and a large bag filled with a large amount of glass dust.

Thankfully, for him at least, there was little to no wind tonight, so the glass dust would persist a while longer, giving him vital time to get in and get out. As a car approached the three men standing in front of the warehouse, he took the respirator and slipped it on, soon followed by the goggles. He looked out at the water for a moment taking a deep breath as he heard the car doors open and close, followed by some exchange of dialog between the two groups. Taking the large bag in his hands, he undid the knot slightly to ensure that it would come undone with enough force. He looked down at the men who seemed to be proceeding along with whatever exchange they arranged, one of the three men from the car walking to the trunk, no doubt to retrieve something in exchange for the money.

"No time like now I guess." Zarakc murmured to himself from behind the respirator as he stood up, brought his arm back with the bag in his hand and then lobbed it towards the group down below. While the bag was in midair, Zarakc took a breath and gathered some energy, his arm following the motion of the bag as he concentrated. When the bag was at the top of it's arc, he quickly brought his hand down, a sudden gust of wind surging downward from above the group of men and the vehicle. The bag's knot came undone in the gust and as the gust continued for a moment, the glass dust was sent everywhere.

Swears, accusations and coughs could all be heard inside the cloud of glass dust as Zarakc leaped down from the rooftop, landing in a roll before running into the cloud toward the man with the briefcase. His hands grabbed both sides of the briefcase before twisting and yanking it away from the grasp of the man. Not wasting anytime, he turned and ran, letting out another, though smaller, gust of wind with a downward thrust of his hand to ensure the dust stayed moving around in the air, giving him more time.

Running back to the building he leapt from, he threw the briefcase onto the rooftop before he jumped up onto the side of the building, grabbing hold of a pipe to hoist himself up before he got hold of the edge of the roof and pulled himself up. As he quickly stuffed the briefcase into the backpack and slung it over his shoulder, he was paying minor attention to the various sounds from the group down below, parsing for something around a, 'Get that guy up there' or something akin to it.

(im joining ^^)

Not so far in between the dock and sandy beach coast was lying a strange lizard skinned being,as then the weird distant smoke didnt really tentalized her to come there however she just felt like to check it out,who knows?,amybe the odd creature girl could find something fun to do in this area.Bounding off towards where the accident was happening,her track ended on a distant warehouse roof,with the eyes narrowing sharply the unknown alien liaard could clearly spot Zarakc standing on another roof.

Entering in camouflage mode not to get seen as she blended perfectly with the surroundings,she quietly jumped on the roof where he was and stalked forwards mysteriously.Tough others mens noises was heard but she only stood invisible and slyly gazed at Zarakc's bagpack,something smelly in there was sneakily attracting her attention as he was unaware of the lizard girl presence.On the next she took full chance,by secretly staying under camouflage and snatched the guy's bag,afterwards the unseen creature began to snuck away with Zarakc's bag much to his surprise,it felt like a ghost was carrying off his precious bag with this briefcase in it.

But to this very moment,he problably had no choice of chasing the invisible girl to retrieve his valuable bag on the other roof,since it had leaped on the next one.

Zarakc was quite ready to get out of the area as quickly as he could, having been ready to take off sprinting after he had slung the backpack over his shoulder, though there was going to have to be a change of plans.

"Why you!-" Zarakc growled out from behind the respirator as he swiftly turned around, being quite ready to deal with whoever took his bag, though he only saw his bag being taken away, and with it, all of his hard work. His eyes narrowed behind the goggles as he took off after whatever had his bag, certainly not just going to let the briefcase go so easily after the time he had put into knowing when this deal would happen. He sprinted across the rest of the rooftop and jumped over the gap between the two buildings, landing onto the other roof. He started back up to a sprint, chasing his 'floating' bag, determined to get the it back.

With Zarakc starting to chase after the bouncing invisible person that tightly held the bag on the warehouses roofs,since it was remarkably changing from one to another,even thought he didnt wanted quit till he regain his bag,the unseen being had already something else in mind which he couldnt get aware of.Along the chase,the ghostly camouflaged lizard girl that Zarakc hadnt the chance to see except his soaring bag that suddenly descended from a random roof and it seemed to ran off by the ground surface,right into a shady old warehouse entrance with the lights out for the moment.

In the abandoned dusty building,full of boxes,the invisible thief had just suddenly hidden itself in the dark place,leaving Zarakc into scouting the shadowy warehouse interior for the unsighted creature that took his bag.In a quiet corner of the place,the green skinned girl,still in camouflage,zipped open the bagpack and began to fiddle inside it,not interested about the briefcase,she just ignored it and grabbed the food that rested into it and engulfed them whole,but yes she was crunching making noises that caught the boy's attention.

Zarakc continued with his pursuit of his bag and who/whatever was carrying it. Keeping pace with the bounds between the rooftops he let out an aggravated groan as he saw the bag drop down from the roof and head towards a dark warehouse. He jumped down from the roof, landing in a roll to cushion the fall. He got up from the roll and got back to running towards the bag, regretting having been careless enough to have the bag taken from him after all the work he put into getting it.

Running into the dark and dusty warehouse, Zarakc peered around, looking for any sight of his bag. He slowly stepped around large stacks of boxes, trying to listen in for footsteps or anything that could tip him off as to where his target had went. He took notice of how much dust was collected on all the objects in the warehouse, perhaps he could stir some around and try to see if whatever took his bag would cough from it being thrown around in the air. He was about to go through with that idea just before he heard faint crunching noises that caught his attention. He quickly took off towards the direction in which it came from, jumping up on some boxes until he was standing over the corner that the briefcase, the bag and whatever was eating his food.

"Care to return that?" He asked, a mix of annoyance and anger mixed in his voice as he dropped down from the boxes, landing in front of whatever was cloaked or camouflaged. His eyes shifted between the area in the corner where the noises where coming from and the briefcase, though it had been left untouched, he was ready to make a grab for it if it started to make off again.

On this very moment,when he finally caught up with the ghostly stealer,it mysteriously glomped the lunch he had in this bag,on his irritated tone and request,there was a large silence clouding into this building,under her sneaky disguise,totally unaware of what Zarakc came to tell her.However,the weird thief,slyly stood up,eyeing him with a unseen confused look,but then,she took off her camouflaging skill and revealed to just be a young green skinned lizard girl.

The thing now was,would she be able to reply back?,but anyway she still held his bag and gazed at Zarakc with a quizzical expression,obviously knowing this English wont make her understand now Juju???.. the youngster demanded in her odd alien native language,she couldnt even get what he was saying nor speak his language,however an unactivated translator watch was on her left wrist,that allowed her to have English tanslated into her own strange language,but yeah this watch turned off right now.

Zarakc's eyes narrowed as he glares at whatever was in the corner, waiting for a response, either verbal of physical. As the camouflage faded away, he was left looking at what appeared to be the cross of a young girl and a lizard. He blinked at her for a moment, not having expected someone so seemingly young to be in this area. It appeared that this girl was more interested in the food he had in his bag than the briefcase he had stolen, which was good. His eyes watched the girl, waiting for her reply to his inquiry, wondering if she was by herself or perhaps working for someone else. With her reply, he blinked at the girl, certainly not drawing any meaning from the phrase 'Juju'.

"Really? Zarakc asked in a hypothetical manner, once again sounding annoyed by the situation. Of course this girl wouldn't end up speaking something he could understand after she took his bag and he chased her here. He shook his head for a moment before quickly reaching forward and grabbing hold of his bag, intent of bringing it back into his possession and getting out of the area, having no interest in sticking around here more than he needed to.

Yes it was indeed totally confusing,but overall he was about to get his bag back,the young teen didnt felt like to quit having it and just thought of keeping it..she began to pull forwards to her more closely,making him let it go completely.However a new problem was on its way,the mens that had been coughing earlier were starting to scout this shady warehouse with theirs armed gun since they had located somes noises in there as it was supposed to be abandoned.The odd creature grumbled on the sly sight of these armed guys to search for this stolen briefcase and stood hidden with Zarakc on the large wall of old boxes they were at.

The main person that lead the group of mens,told the rest to split up and find the culprit,somes started to approach there location,as something came into the alien lizard girl mind,it would problably sound gross though.She had easily heard the word 'luggage' from a guy and reacted,she trickily but in a silent hit,took out her gluey long froggy like tongue and swallowed Zarakc's bagpack whole,plotting to get these mens out of here or the two of them.

Two adult mens sighted them and pointed theirs guns at them,they couldnt see the briefcase near them what are you doing in such a place kids,have you seen ours briefcase?! the first dude asked,kind of freaked out by the alien female beast appearance.Speaking of which,she seemed wanting to already help out Zarakc in leaving this place but she cant answer in English,so he would maybe tell them a perfect lie.

"So help me.." Zarakc growled from behind the respirator, getting quite fed up with this girl. He didn't exactly want to take it back through force, though it seemed like it would be the option since there certainly wasn't any exchange of dialog that could be had. He looked back towards the entrance of the warehouse, where it sounded like people where coming in now. He swore under his breath as he looked back at the girl, wanting to get out as soon as possible since there was certainly going to be a problem soon enough. About to reach out for his bag again, he watched the girl's long tongue come out and swallow his backpack and the briefcase along with it.

He wanted to yell at the girl, but that would most certainly raise attention. His jaw tensed up in his annoyance as he took a deep breath, trying to think of which set of actions he should take. He wasn't even sure he could get the bag back now, though he figured it was possible since the girl had been interested in the food and not just swallowing the entire bag from the get-go.

As the man asked the question, Zarakc tensed up. He figured they couldn't see the respirator and goggles that he was wearing since he was turned around, but if he turned to respond to them, they would certainly be able to put two and two together and figure out he was the one behind taking their briefcase. His eyes looked down at the girl again, still not sure what to make of her, though she didn't seem to ditch him once the men spotted them. If he responded to them right now, they would most certainly pick up on the muffled sound of his voice since it would have to go through the respirator first. If he made a move to lift it up so he could speak without its interference, he wasn't sure how they would react. After all, they didn't seem the type to be too concerned with leaving a couple of bodies in an abandoned warehouse on the docks, and he didn't want to do something to make them even the slightest bit jumpy when he was unprepared.

Zarakc decided to simply shake his head in response to the man's question as he took in a breath as he readied to create a gust of wind that could send a large amount of dust in the warehouse swirling around their area. If he needed to do so, hopefully it would cause the men some issues in their pursuit of them.

Quickly the alien girl gave herself a facepalm,that the armed mens couldnt predict,she had completely forgotten about the item stuck into Zarakc's face,this was definately not supposed to be in her untold plan.Both bulky adults had still theirs guns rose at them as they only a shooking head gesture from the teenager boy,secretly the green skinned kid had no intention of staying here with those big mens.

Wheter it would cause somes death corpses or not,she just really wanted to exit this old dusty warehouse without the cops and such,the alien female,swung her stretchy long tongue and engulfed theirs hands weapons,as one of them realized the respirator of Zarakcwhats with youre mask-,hey! they both said,alarmed by what the weird girl did and well became more vulnerable to the eyes of the teen boy and her.

They growled as then somes others dudes heard the noises and went to check it out,it was kind of time to fight these muscled weirdos away,the alien beast leap forwards,kicking off the two main guys that had saw her and Zarakc first,as the others began to shoot with theirs guns.Hands rising up,a huge rock wall stood in the way to deflect the launched bullets.

Zarakc rolled his eyes at the girl's facepalm, as if he was the one responsible for getting them into this situation. Ready to let out a gust of wind to kick the dust up around the men, he waited to do so as he watched the alien girl's tongue wrap around the mens' hands and weapons. As they realized he was wearing the respirator he knew the rest of them would be coming, too bad the two group of guys didn't just blame each other for the whole incident and keep themselves occupied with fighting where this had all started.

~Great, now they're all here with guns..~ Zarakc thought to himself as the huge rock wall jutted out of the ground and blocked the bullets shot towards them. Raising his hands upward and then bringing them down in an arc, a large gust of wind could be felt starting from where he and the girl were behind the rock wall. The gust of wind arced over the wall and then proceeded to slam down around the area where the other men were, certainly powerful enough to stagger them if they quick enough to gain their footing or knock them on their rears if they weren't so quick to react. In addition to possibly staggering or knocking the men down, the dust that previously coated the boxes in the area where the gust hit was now sent into a tumbling cloud of dust.

"Lets just get out of here." Zarakc told the girl, hoping she could at least follow suit if she didn't know what he was saying as he dashed down in the other direction from their corner, away from the men behind the wall of earth and towards the entrance. Not that he was opposed to trying to square off with the men, though with them having firearms, he wasn't going to have an easy time of trying to just knock them out, and he would certainly feet better if there wasn't any blood on his hands from this whole ordeal. He could diminish the mens' ability to see in the warehouse thanks to all the dust that had been collecting in it throughout the years and it seemed that the girl could certainly provide cover if that was needed as well.

Somes had gotten in safe shelter as the rest got brought down and away with hard stumbles from the wind as the loudly crashed into a nearby wall,the dusty mist and boxes debris were lying all over a part of the huge warehouse.The unknown girl watched them trying get up as they made faint movements to get up and had those bunch of painful marks,she took down the wall of rock,she had summoned and saw Zarakc head off to the exit of this messed up building.She scurried along to keep his track,knowing she had to since well.. no her equal no briefcase for him whatever it did contained.

On the back view,the sheltered armed dudes that had hid off properly during the windy attack,started to run for them while shooting somes bullets that likely missed both of them for the moment.Mumbling oddly,the alien teen stopped her track rapidly turning at these muscular gunners mens,obviously becoming tired,she swiftly sended out boulders from mid air in attempt to really escape for good,the rocks flew down to occupy these annoying persons.

Then she kept dashing away from this area with Zarakc,as suddenly behind the two runners,the limousine conductor drove its way towards them,the green skinned creature swifted to it and in a leap on the car roof,she formed a rock made boxing glove and pierced throught the vehicule's top view and got in.After somes punching noises,the black car halted right next to Zarakc,the door opened as the young beast had her hands on the driving gear,her eyes easily beckoned the boy to get on the free seat next to her quickly,the human driver could be seen in it but fainted,she tossed the unconsious men out of the limo for caution..

Zarakc looked back for a moment to see if the girl had picked up on the idea of getting out of here instead of trying to fight all the men off. Thankfully, she was behind him. He leapt over a box just as some of the men opened fire, hearing some of the bullets hit the wall behind him or plant themselves in the box beside him. He would have let out a sigh of relief had he the time to, but he continued to run out of the warehouse, hoping they could get away without too many more issues.

As the limousine pulled up, as the two of them reached the warehouse entrance, Zarakc half-expected another wave of armed men to get out of it and open fire. He was surprised to see the girl quickly get on the top of the limo and punch through the sunroof and dive in. When the door was thrown open, he didn't exactly take the time to assess the idea of getting into the limo with the young girl who couldn't speak English but could presumably drive, what an interesting city. He ran the rest of the distance to the vehicle, turning and sending a small gust of wind to the entrance of the warehouse, enough to kick up more dust to try and conceal their escape, hoping to lower the chance that gunfire hit them with more dust dancing inside the warehouse.

"Drive." Zarakc urged her, his voice sounding a somewhat hurried, as he motioned forward with his hand. He wasn't exactly fond of sitting in such a large target when there were men with guns chasing them. Thankfully though, being in the car offered him a moment to catch his breath at least, if this was some elaborate plan or something by someone this girl was working for, he could at least be ready to escape.

Yeah she could actually speak but to help her out she could read reactions,feelings and such,so that was a good start,after the next gust currents,the mens stood up ready to fire on the car again,but in no time,the weird alien closed his door whe he had hopped in and just rapidly drove away from this wide place.To admit she wasnt used to car drive but luckily for her,it was like a conducted spaceship so it pretty much sounded easier for her to do that,the rolling vehicule had black window not allowing the streets citizens to see that a lizard girl was the actual conductor.

After finally had left this warehouses location,the youngster that drived saw a lightpole's glow turn red,she made the car stop and waited for it to be green,in this case,she recognized red as danger and green as fine,overall she wasnt dumb.Able to continue on the road,she decided to halt the limousine next to a quiet garage and went out of this stationned car.Knowing that she would problably not understand Zarakc language,she cleverly turned on her watch translator and now had to chance to talk like the boy Merv Dik... she said,as the wrist watch translated in English.

Translation = For you..

The next second she spitted out his bagpack out completely with the briefcase,somes slimy substance flooded on it but she shook it off to let Zarakc take it all cleaned off,even though both didnt really knew each others,it was pretty fine for an escape.

Zarakc sat back in the seat, taking in the surroundings as he was driven around by a young lizard girl that had just stolen his backpack and the briefcase inside of it just a while ago. Oh, and she had swallowed it whole, this city was quite weird sometimes. He looked up at the streetlight when they stopped, taking the moment to look around, hoping that they weren't followed by another car associated with the group of men or someone else. As they pulled up to the garage, he peered outside the windows of the limo, trying to see if he could spot anyone around the area, still keeping his suspicions. Better to err on the side of caution.

"Hmmm, what now?" Zarakc questioned as he looked at the watch that translated what she said to him. As she spit out the bag he made a face behind the goggles and respirator, figuring that she had eaten it for storage essentially, but still, that stuff covering it was pretty nasty. As she shook it off and then proceeded to offer it to him, he somewhat hesitantly took it, though it seemed to be dry. He gave the girl a nod of his head in thanks as he took the back, opening the zipper to find the briefcase inside of there. Deciding to make sure everything was there and this girl didn't manage some crazy stuff whilst the backpack was inside of her, he undid one of the clasps and opened it slightly, enough to see that money was still inside of it.

"Uh.. thanks, sorta.." He offered his thanks to the girl as he opened the door after looking around again, looking around for anyone who looked like they might have been watching them.