How did I get here...how do I get out!? [Bilby]

[Iris|Kairi]

It was possible that Shyne was not meant to travel the worlds by herself. Ever since she'd been by herself, she'd possibly gotten into more trouble herself than actually helping people out of it. She did save a lot of people of course, but it was never very good to a ninja's ego to be in need of help herself...which she was now.

She was trapped.

One moment she'd been rushing after her treasured possession as it was ripped away from her by a mysterious person..thing.. while she was fighting heartless off a young boy. The red scarf fluttered just out of her grasp while she growled and wailed for it to be returned.

Then she tumbled into some sort of...dark realm... and before she could get her bearings, she was hurled back out of it into a dark, wet alley puddle that reflected strange neon lights. And the scarf just disappeared around the corner.

"NOO!" She hopped up, wobbled, and started on the chase again.

[Heroic Bilby]

"Keep the racket down you kids!"

Honestly, some people couldn't let a guy nap. He'd been having a wonderful little sleep here in the rain on top of a building entrance's awning waiting for his body to catch a cold or something else interesting to experience but the Nobodies around here were always so darn noisy.

"This'll learn ya's!"

Chaosin grabbed a bucket he'd been letting fill with rainwater for later use and dumped it over the side of the awning as the second person came around the corner to pass underneath it.

There was plenty more to fill it with again anyway.

[Iris|Kairi]

"AUGH!"

*thud*

Again Shyne was laying on the ground in a puddle of water, only now she was completely drenched and stunned by the amount of water from above. A cloudburst?

No, it was a bucket. And she knew the voice that had sounded just before gravity and luck brought the water down on her...

And to her ultimate dismay, the scarf and the thing that had filched it was now out of sight. She was angry..she was sad..she was cold and wet and felt like crying!

"THE SCARF!!!" she cried, then scrambled up to glare up at the awning. "SPARKY!" the ninja found herself growling, crossing her arms tightly and pacing in a tight path.

Her treasure...how would she ever get it back?

[Heroic Bilby]

"Hi love!" Chaosin answered with a bright smile. He was still holding the empty bucket tilted forward with his right hand, but rose his left to wave enthusiastically. He wasn't surprised... which seemed to indicate that he knew it was her when he dumped it if one thought about if for long. He didn't really intend to give her time to do so, though.

"What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" the Nobody asked sweetly, leaning over the edge of the canopy with interest. His question, while cliche, was actually quite appropriate considering where they were.

[Iris|Kairi]

Resisting snarls and growls, she closed her eyes and took a breather, calming before speaking to the strange ghost. "Someone..or something took my treasure-- the SCARF! The BIG RED ONE! I was chasing after it when I somehow got in this dark portal and then here...and I was catching up with it when you....dumped that big bucket of water on me.." she informed him, though her voice shook toward the end to emphasize her twitch of annoyance. Was that an artery thumping in her forehead?

Sighing, her shoulders slumped and for the moment she plopped defeatedly back down into the puddle, spirits low. She looked like a whipped drowned puppy, and had the facial expression and eyes to match as she looked up at him. It was like this was the last straw to shatter her will. "How about you? What are you doing here...where ever here is.

[Heroic Bilby]

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Apparently Sparky found her story of heart-wrenching loss quite amusing.

"What kind of a ninja can't even keep her clothes to herself? Hahaha!"

Chaosin hung over the side of the awning now, doubled over with his amusement. After a while the Nobody rubbed his eyes and then pulled off his own shiny light blue scarf.

"Here love, you can have mine if your neck is cold."

Apparently answering her questions wasn't on his agenda today.

[Iris|Kairi]

His laughter only added injury to insult. Her brows drew down, and she could barely resist the hot tears that burned her eyes. How could she ever thought him to be a ghost of...him? She frowned at Sparky.

"The scarf wasn't to keep my neck warm. Keep your stupid scarf!" Shyne shouted at him, standing up in a huff and shoving his scarf back at him, then turning her back to him. She didn't need this. She had her treasure to reclaim.

"Thanks anyway." she grunted, stalking off down the alley the red scarf has traveled. Not only did he laugh, but he insulted her ninja skills!!

[Heroic Bilby]

"Now love, don't be so huffy," Chaosin chuckled as the girl walked away. "Ah but I can see that I have insulted your honour."

The Nobody fell to the wet street and stood tall with a fist held in front of his out-puffed chest. His red eyes looked forward with an upward incline, as if facing royalty.

"To right this heinous action I must see to it that your treasure is returned to its rightful place!"

He held the air of seriosuness in his voice and presence.... for about four seconds.

"Hahahaha! Yeah right. I'm totally going to ask you to pay me back once I get that scarf back," he concluded.

[Iris|Kairi]

"This isn't funny, Sparky. This scarf was very special to me." she leveled her voice, but didn't pause for him. She already expected him to not understand. He seemed the type that really didn't think or care about much, truly. While it didn't bother her before, it did now, but possibly just because she had to get the scarf back or she felt like everything would just be ruined.

Everything. Life, universe, all that's right with the world RUINED.

"I'll get it back, I just have to find whatever took it. Then I'll save the scarf." and the voice will come back. Surely it will...

Shyne was obviously far more irritable and nervous than she had been their previous meeting.

[Heroic Bilby]

"Oh? You think you can beat me to the scarf?" Choaisn said, now at stride beside her but picking up speed slowly into a jog, smiling childishly. "I doubt it! I'm definitely gonna make you pay up! Especially if its that big a deal. Haha!"

And with that Sparky took off running towards the direction the scarf disappeared... Until he took completely the wrong turn and ran off to the left.

[Iris|Kairi]

"What in the world would I even PAY?!" the princess demanded, jogging to keep up with him. It was hard to stay too mad at him, even if she felt like strangling SOMEONE over her lost scarf..

Then he ran off!

With a sigh, it seemed the race would begin. She ran in the same direction only a few feet behind him..until he took the wrong turn. She shrugged and went to the right, keeping her eyes open for any signs of red. She was assuming that whatever took the scarf from her was trying to lead her here for whatever reason, and should be waiting for her to follow before it ran again. She didn't see it yet though. Maybe it WAS just random...she really hoped not. That made finding that beloved scarf seem like a lost cause..

If Sparky found it, she'd pay anything.

However, it seemed that neither of them would find it. It was running along an alley between the two, but at least the two streets were going to converge into the one the scarf was traveling.

[Heroic Bilby]

"Hey wait... where am I?" Sparky asked himself after coming to a stop several minutes and several turns later. He turned and looked behind himself. Shyne wasn't there.

"Ha, silly girl got lost!" he exclaimed with a laugh(Which made perfect sense to him) before turning and just walking at a stroll's pace in whatever direction he pleased.

[Iris|Kairi]

Well...a stroll before whatever/ whoever had the scarf ran him over, followed closely by the ninja princess. "Come on, Sparky! Stop being so slow!" she squawled as she ran by, grabbing his arm and hauling him along a good few feet before she let go. If she'd been mad at him, she'd forgotten it now.

"I gotta get it back! I'll buy you dinner! I'll..buy you...a top hat! I don't care, just heeeelp!"

She bounded down the damp alley after the red scarf, still unable to make out exactly what had it...and still she didn't know even as the scarf stopped and something flew at her, exploding right at her feet.

"WAAAH!" She fell backwards.

[Heroic Bilby]

'I should get trampled by things more often,' Chaosin thought in a quick mental note before getting hauled forward again by the ninja princess.

"Top hat? Man, that's tempting," the Nobody seemed to agree, though the utterance of the word tempting seemed to imply he still had other ideas.

"OK then. Back in a flash!"

Apparently this was meant literally, because Sparky stopped, knelt and then burst forward in a flash as jest of purple electric-like energy fired out from his heels. He yelled in jubilation as he rocketed towards the scarf-snatcher!

And then crashed clean through a building's door and out of sight after the thief turned a new way and he didn't.

[Iris|Kairi]

She skidded to a stop at the poor splintered door, staring at it with a stunned expressions. The "intentions" were good...at least.. She watched the scarf go around another corner, but no doubt it would be waiting for her again like before. So she could stop... Her ankle kinda hurt from the blast anyway.

Shyne poked her head into the building. "Sparky?" she called out, making sure he was alive. Surely something that small wouldn't kill him. She pegged him for one to...get himself into rougher spots, a couple she'd seen before. Tapping her foot, she leered back out of the door. "C'mon! I don't know how long it'll wait! And maybe you should take it easy on the FLASHes."

A chuckle broke free from her lips. This guy really was a hoot. Well, when he wasn't pouring water on her.

Running in place, it was time to limber up that ankle. The chase would be a long one. "Didya happen to see what the thing was?"