A silver wolf....

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro stared down at the scurrying SMILE agents moving around the truck. He couldn't believe it take them this long to discover his theft. He had had enough time to scurry up to the roof of this building.He glanced fondly down at the silver blaster. Now he had a weapon to go along with his Lazer Blade. Kuro chuckled when an agent held up a box of smashed gun parts, decorated with a spray paint outline of a wolf, done in silver paint. chuckling even more when they all crowding around the agent, yelling. That made the 60th sucessful thieving he'd done this year.

[Melissa Clark]

Some might say that Melissa was crazy. Letting herself enter the greedy hands of SMILE so easily. Walking into their grasp as if carrying a white flag. 'Surrender', people thought as she moved past them. Blood was smeared down her face, and her arm hung limp at her side. Broken. Melissa had put up a fight, and was still fighting now. Just, more quietly.

Once inside the van, broken arm tied to her good one, alone in a dark compartment of a chamber, she began her work. Ray guns and knives were all very good and well, but holding a knife inbetween one's shoulder blades and not getting slashed was an achievment in her eyes. Dropping the weapon from inbetween her shoulders, she held it in her one working palm behind her back. Sawing through the ropes that held her, Melissa was now free to move about the vehicle. The vehicle that would transport her to SMILE any second now. "Fuck that," she mumbled to herself as she stretched out her able limbs. "I-I-I wanna rock and roll all nigh-t-t," Melissa picked up a box, tucked it under her arm, and shifted about some more. "And party ev-ery day." She sung to herself quietly as with one more box, she opened the doors of the vehicle and stepped out, just as it begun trundling off.

"And that, is how you do it!" Melissa laughed and shook her head, before placing her bum down on the pavement and began to root through the boxes she'd picked up for anything useful. Quite a shock was all she met however. The boxes contained smashed up rubbish. No use to her. On the side of the box, was a silver painted wolf. Not again, Melissa huffed and threw the boxes into the road. That must've been the seventh time she'd picked up a box from SMILE and discovered it to have nothing useful. Whoever this wolf person was, they were making her job a hell of a lot harder.

On a whim, Melissa leaned back in the sunlight and looked up. There! A figure on a roof. If she were lucky this person might be who was ruining her work. "Oi!" She called up, waving her good arm, as her damaged arm stung painfully. "Get your arse down here!"

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro looked down into the street, where someone was waving madly at him.'Blast it!!She's gonna point me out to those morons any second!!" Pulling on his mask, he ran down the flights of the floors, coming out into the street. Skidding to a stop and pulling off a mask, He grumbled at her, grinning to avoid being detected by SMILE agents."What do you want?"

[Melissa Clark]

She watched him turn away, as if to leave, and Melissa momentarily thought she'd be caught with a fight, or a chase at least. Something she really didn't have enough energy for. So if the stranger was running, she'd have to save the chase for another day.

There was a great sense of appreciation when whoever this person was reappeared at street level. Melissa stood, facing away from the vans whizzing by, and wore only a half arsed smile. "You. Have you been the one ruining all the SMILE stuff? It's useful in the right hands. And these hands don't look right, right now, but they are. These hands -" she waved her sweaty, dirty, bloody hands in the mask of the slightly smaller figure, "- would take them weapons to where they could be to good use." She rambled, then held her free hand on her hip. The other dangling uselessly.

Realising she may have said too much, Melissa leaned back a little and eased off the intensity. "So, did you? I ain't gonna hurt cha, but if it is you, give me some warning, y'know? I don't want to go wasting my time grabbing boxes that are of no use." She explained, looking downwards quite seriously.

[Kuro Okami]

He looked around nervously. He'd love to be able to fight SMILE agents, but not yet, not when he didnt have the experiance of a Rebel.Kuro glared at the girl.'Yes, yes I did. And can you keep it down? Im not ready to fight SMILE full-on yet." He pulled off his mask, revealing his face, with only a little grin on it to keep away the SMILE agents."Look, Im sorry for ruining your plans, whatever they are.From now on I'll leave one box untouched, and that'll be the box that dosn't have a wolf on it,deal? Now can we get to a safe location already?"

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa narrowed her eyes. Strands of pale blond hair falling over her eyes. "One is not enough. Five minimum." She demanded, looking to the left, then the right. "Not much is safe around here. Back to the roof?" She offered, walking around him and heading up the many flights of stairs he had descended upon her calling him down without waiting for an answer. Whether he'd follow her or not she didn't know.

Climbing the stairs, she rubbed at her pained limb, and wiped the blood on her face. There were tears there too, tears formed out of pain. Melissa often got scared, so there were probably some scared tears on her pale face too. But hey, she had no problem with that. Humans got scared, SMILE did not. "Hurry it up if you're coming with me!" She called bravely. SMILE wasn't fond of shouters.

[Kuro Okami]

He followed her, glancing around nervously.When they got to the roof, he looked at her more closely."What happened to you?"

[Melissa Clark]

"You're obviously not SMILE, so I see no harm in tellin' ya. SMILE enjoys catchin' rebels, and this rebel enjoys escapin'." She explained, carrying her broken arm as she sat on the edge of the building. Her legs swinging down, shifting every now and then in the breeze. "Come come, sit sit. I'm Melissa." The blonde informed, her arm in her lap as she looked out at the country. "Such high hopes." She laughed, then looked to the stranger. "But seriously, stop smashing so many boxes. I need 'em."

[Kuro Okami]

I grin in releif.Finally,someone I could trust. Sitting down, I look at Melissa."Names Kuro Okami. My other name you already know, The Silver Wolf." Suddenly his face turned serious,and he looked down at the Smile agents, his eyes blazing with hatred."Sorry about smashing so many boxes. It's just...they killed my parents, right in front of me, when they gained control. They thought they had me too...." He raised his shirt, reavealing a long scar on his side,"..and left me for dead. Fortunalitly, they used regular guns with silencers, so I managed to survive. If it had been a raygun I would have been a goner." He clenched his hands."Im gonna take SMILE down, one way or another." Calming down, Kuro looked at Melissa again."Anyways, I'll leave five boxes from now on."

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa smiled sweetly. "Thank you dear." She didn't mention much on his story, it seemed like a sensitive thing to talk about. And Melissa was a complete, pretty much, stranger to him. So it couldn't have been easy to talk about harsh histories. The blonde decided not to press it and leaned on her good arm. She fidgeted, a lot. Not one to stay still.

"Alright, well, five boxes for me to bring back to base every now and then should be good enough. I'm just gonna lay down." She mumbled, laughing softly as she laid on the flat edge of the roof. Her legs going over Kuro's lap. If he didn't like it, he could move her. "Something says to me that you ain't a rebel." She stated, rooting around in her pockets for a cancer stick.

[Kuro Okami]

He smiled wrly."Nope. I'm just an..er...'concerned' citizen." He sighed."I'd like to join he rebels, but I aint got enoug experiance yet."

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa smirked, upon finding an empty carton of smokes. She let them fall over the edge of the building. "Mm, many people would. But it's no party. Yeah you get at SMILE, but so many die that it's really not that big a victory." She laughed softly, a quiet dry chuckle. She looked at him. "How old are you?" Melissa narrowed her eyes, he didn't look all that old. He looked a little young to be so..well, rebellious.

[Kuro Okami]

He smirked. Obviously she thought him a little young for this stuff. But she didnt see how his parents died..."Fifthteen.And you?"

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa peered at him. "Fifteen? Really? You look older." She told him, gathering that what he'd seen and where he'd been in life had probably aged him a little. "I'm twenty years old," she explained, ruffling her hair idly. "Have you actually got anyone looking after you? I mean, you are kinda young to do this stuff on your own." She mumbled, shifting to a sitting position and casually throwing litter from her pockets down onto the street below. The country had already gone to hell, a few scraps of paper would do no more harm.

[Kuro Okami]

He shrugs."Nope, the only people who could look after m are gone now..." He shook his head and grinned.'Saay, since your so worried about it, why dont you take me to your HQ and put me through training or whatever. At least then I'll be too busy to be smashing boxes." He pulled out his deactivated Lazer Blade and started fliping it through his hands, kinda like a coin. It looked like a futuristic version of a broadsword hilt and handle, sleek and silver.

(Im not trying to find a passkey or whatever around the ban. Truth is, I'd like to 'meet' some of the other chars.)

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa stretched, sitting up a little. "Hmm..I don't know. Training isn't really..Well..Erm..I could take you back, but it's not up to me whether or not the rest of the rebels will accept you. Let alone train you." Melissa looked at him. "Then again, you know your way around weapons, obviously..Alright, well, I'll take you back, but for your age, I doubt you can be trained yet." She mumbled, generally in a muddle about the situation. Rebels hated seeing newcomers in their territory, and it was generally frowned upon. But considering Kuro was just a teenager, they could sympathize and allow him a meal. Who knew.

[Kuro Okami]

He grinned. Finally, a place to belong again! True, he will have to work a little hard to get them to accept him, but still! No more sleeping in abandoned buildings, not being able to talk to anyone in case they were enemies! "That's great!!" He cleared his throaght. If he was gonna get any more knowladge and ability to fight he was gonna have to start acting more mature."Er, I mean, good. I hope I can be of use to the Rebellion."

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa arched an eyebrow. "Calm down, it's not that brilliant." She smiled, standing and stretching. "Let's get going then, before SMILE perform their rounds on the roofs. They do that now." Melissa rubbed at her shoulder, with her one good arm, then inspected her broken arm. Bruising, and a lot of it. "You know anything about broken arms?" She asked hopefully. Melissa wasn't a medic, and had very basic medical knowledge.

[Kuro Okami]

He winced."Sorry, but Im a fighter, not a healer, otherwise I would help ya. Guess I should start learning about medicine now that its not only me on the fryer.Hmm, if it was deslocated, now thats another thing." Holding his L.B. loosely, he grinned confidently."Dont worry, I got your back till we reach HQ."

[Melissa Clark]

Staring at Kuro, Melissa wrinkled her nose. "You're fifteen, I'd feel a bit odd with you covering my back. But thanks all the same." She smiled, then began heading down the stairs again. They could pretty much just walk to base, as long as they smiled and didn't misbehave along the way.

Once outside, Melissa headed down the street with Kuro, rubbing her arm and keeping an eye out with a wary smile. "Tell me more about you. We'll see if you're really a rebel on the inside."