Meeting up with Mel.

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa gazed around, it was still daylight, so the small glazed windows up near the roof were allowing in strands of light. Causing trails of dust to swirl and dance in the air. Had they been in a safer area, or there at a safer time she would have probably watched it for some time. Just observing, for no real reason.

Rubbing the back of her head, Melissa looked at her cast, then around the room. "Righto, I don't know if anyone's here. But I think, from this point on, no mentioning of names." She nodded. Then, turning away, she looked to some crates. They were towered up high, along with other crates in other areas. Creating large walls that transformed the warehouse into a labyrinth. "If two of us move around on the crates, we can direct the third of us who remains on the floor. I don't mind staying down there if you two won't get lost." She looked to her friends. Perhaps taking charge wasn't her thing at all times, but when life and death rested upon a very thin line, she liked to make sure nothing dangerous happened.

Glancing around, somewhat on edge, she waited for responses.

[Brandon Napier]

Bam nodded along with her words and moved towards one of the crates. He then glanced around and pulled himself onto the crate.

"Would be better to have one of us up there..." He told her, wriggling. "Especially considering neither of you two can really climb..." He pointed out, stood and looked around before lifting himself onto another crate and standing. He looked around again and stretched. "So... Which way we goin'?" He asked, putting his hands on his hips and looking from Melissa to Kuro, and back again.

[Kuro Okami]

"Hmm, I agree with Mel's idea.I shall be the one to remain on the floor." Kuro nodded, crossing his arms in a mock Im a wise sage way.

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa looked from Kuro to Bam. If Kuro stayed down, and he was confronted..Then he may walk into some trouble. And from his earlier issue, he may not be able to kill again. Which was why she had suggested him going up, considering there was a much lower chance of him running into any SMILE agents up there. Still, he seemed to have made his decision. She didn't mind that too much, but she wanted him to be safe.

Still, with Melissa and Brandon with ranged weapons, they could probably take out any SMILE members without too much hassle.

Slowly, she agreed. "All right then, just be careful." She warned, then began to climb. Using the power in her arms and legs, she eventually reached the peak of the crates. They were very near the ceiling, but not to an extent where they couldn't move about as if on ground. Still, a fall from up there would definitely break some bones.

[Brandon Napier]

Bam began dancing while waiting for the pair to decide and, when he saw Melissa, Bam nodded to her then yelled down to Kuro: "Y'gunna be alright down there?"

He then cackled and began running in a random direction while beginning to bounce. He then looked at Melissa, then at Kuro, and back to the front. He giggled while waiting for the pair and looked at Melissa.

"This would prob'ly be a dumb suggestion... But..." Bam grinned at Melissa. "Split?"

It wasn't that he didn't want to stay around the pair of them, but more that he was curious as to the whole room... And he wanted to see how much he could do without getting injured... It would probably make the pair of them worry if he were to do that around them.

[Kuro Okami]

Kneeling down, Kuro prepars himself to kill."may God forgive me for the sins I shall commit in the name of freedom. Amen." Crossing himself, Kuro starts looks up,ready to destroy any SMILE agent he comes across now."Im ready when you guys are!"

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa chuckled, nodding as Brandon suggested a split. She felt like the more responsible of the two, and didn't mind at all that Bam wanted to sprint off. She was going to stay above Kuro though, ready to direct him around.

Waiting respectfully for Kuro to finish his prayer, she allowed Bam to jog off on his own and nodded down to Kuro. "Come on then, we'll say you later red head." She called to Brandon.

Placing her good hand in her pocket, she moved a few steps ahead of her white haired friend, so she could not only direct him, but keep a look out too. Not too long later, and there was a shady figure around the corner. "Keep quiet short-stop," she hissed. "There's a person around the corner, be stealthy." Melissa warned.

[Brandon Napier]

Bam nodded at her and jumped across the gap between two lots of crates. He missed the top row of crates but got the second row and so climbed up to the top row. He then sprinted off and giggled hysterically.

Another thing, that Bam only just thought of, was the fact that the person that Melissa had spotted maybe distracted by Bam, and so that would help the pair, no doubt... Though this thought went as he jumped across another gap and continued moving before dropping down and out of sight.

((Am I continuing to post all the while Bam isn't with those two or not?))

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro sheathed his gun, setting his Blade on combat knife length. Crouching down to the floor, h crept foward, ready to stab upward into the jaw.When he came around the corner, there was a noise, and the armored SMILE agent turned around, distracted. That was all he needed.He rushed foward, bending the agent backward,and snapped his neck.Closing the dead mans eyes with his finger tips, he murmered,"please forgive me...rest in peace." Kuro lowered the agent to the ground, and continued on.

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa watched in silence as Kuro did what he had to for their safety. "Alright, no one ahead for about one hundred yards. Then there's a turning, we'll go from there." She said quietly. Melissa didn't want to disrupt the way of killing her friend had. It was respectful, and it was definitely what was required for him. Melissa always felt that there was often something left unsaid when a murder was committed. Like the elephant in the room. Something that was definitely there, but was clearly being avoided. But it was nice to see that someone took the time to respect the dead.

With the sense or morbidity still in the air, Melissa began walking. The flat rubber soles of her shoes thupping softly on the wooden crates. "I don't really know what we're looking for.." She shook her head. "Maybe if we find somewhere safe we can check through some crates for stuff then get back to our friend. He might as well be bouncing about, but we don't just want to leave him here. Well.." Melissa chuckled, placed her hands in her pockets and looked down towards Kuro.

[Brandon Napier]

While walking around alone, Bam was humming a tune that his Grandad Arthur had told him about... Now, understand, his Grandad was very sarcastic, so to be told something for real is a surprise and a half for Bam... So, Bam was humming the Mission Impossible theme, because his Grandad had told him all about it, and Jack had helped him find it, and so, why not?

While humming, Bam didn't notice a SMILE member behind him and, only when the guy missed Bam by literally millimetres, did Bam notice that he was there and Bam shot and ran. He then climbed on a number of crates, narrowly avoiding another SMILE member coming the other way. A couple of ray shots went up, hitting the ceiling and Bam scrambled up the crates before dropping down the other side, laughing as he did so.

One of the SMILE members followed the sixteen year old and Bam turned and shot the guy in the neck. The man fell and Bam got to the top of the crates as the body fell. Bam giggled and jumped down the crates again, not realising that the pair may have seen that and, instead, began laughing loudly, insanely...

Because, at the end of the day, life's a laugh and death's a joke...

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro nodded."yeah, I more safe place would be a great help."Sighing, he shook his head."But it would be even more use to..." Suddenly his head shot up as he saw raygun fire."Gotta go! Bam might be in trouble!" Fixing his mask firmly in place, Kuro ran along the boxes, seeing Bam laughing ensanely on a pile of boxes. He also saw a SMILE agent limping toward Bams location. Dropping silently down behind him, Kuro activated his Blade to combat knife length. Walking up behindhim,Kuro suddenly latched around his neck,putting him in a firm hold. With his mouth beside the mans ear, Kuro murmered,"Please forgive me...rest in peace..." Suddenly he drove his Blade into the area behind the ear,instatnly and painlessly killing him.lowering him to the floor, Kuro closed the mans eyes.\,wiping his own as he lifted up his mask, murmering,"My god, what am I?"

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa could see what Brandon was doing from her position, and was about to stop Kuro from going over. Bam could protect himself, but it was too late. He was already running over. Silently, Melissa sat on the top of the crates and left her hands on the sides of her thighs. Just watching how it all played out.

It struck her that, Kuro was so young - How could he be killing so easily? She knew he wanted revenge, but that could wait until he was older. Placing her head to her hand, she sighed. There would be a time where the two of them, Bam and Melissa, would need to take Kuro away from all of this. Or at least stop him until he was older. It was tough for anyone to go through that with a certain history. Bam seemed fine with it, even though he was just a little older than Kuro.

Shaking her head in the confusion, she rubbed at her sore temples. What to do..

[Brandon Napier]

Bam spun on the spot and pointed his gun at Kuro. He hadn't realised that there was anyone behind him until then... So, when he realised it was Kuro, Bam lowered his gun, turned and began to walk off. He had no reason to stay, and, really, when it came to being helped, Bam didn't tend to thank people... At all...

Climbing to the top of the crates again, Bam looked at Melissa.

"Keep your kid on a leash?" He suggested with a grin and rabbit hopped down the other side of the crates. He tripped, fell, then rabbit jumped around the ground now, having no reason to not have a little fun...

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro limped back to Melissa's location, murmering when he got to her."thats three gaurds down......" Wiping at his eyes, he said,"I think I'm done. I'll get on the boxes now...."He still rememberd the look of terror in the first man's eyes, and his masked face reflected in them.

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa watched Bam, she said nothing and instead helped Kuro up to where she was. They were on top of crates, so it made sense to start at the top and begin rooting through them. A breeze blew in just then, ruffling her hair, and sending a few blows of air across her neck. She felt bad for what Kuro was experiencing, but there was nothing that could be done. Melissa had been the same. Her first time killing someone had broken her heart, and she still felt bad for what she did today. But she just had to keep reminding herself that it was for the greater good.

Once Melissa and Kuro were in a quiet spot together, she began opening boxes. Glancing at him out of the corner of her eye. "Are you alright?" She asked quietly, rummaging through the box she had opened. Guns, armor, first aid, all things she could take with her. "You don't have to remain in the Rebellion. You can leave any time you like if you feel it's too much for you, especially at your age." Melissa looked to him, her features serious.

[Brandon Napier]

Bam was bouncing around on the ground. He then stopped, opened a crate and put the contents of the crate on top of it before climbing up the crates again then dropping down and shooting another SMILE member. The body fell and Bam cackled before jogging off and shooting another SMILE operative.

Each time, it was a shot to the neck, because that was the easiest place to target, as opposed to what most people would think, which would be the chest. For Bam, the neck was easiest because of the armour, and because his ray gun wasn't adjusted. He couldn't shoot someone in the head, as the shot wouldn't go through the victim's skull... Unless Bam were to aim for the eye or nose...

[Kuro Okami]

Kuro sighed, looking down on his gloved right hand, his sword hand.."Yeah,Im alright." When she told him he could leave anytime, he shook his head."No. I cant leave.I,I swore a Blood Debt against SMILE and anyone else who was involved in my parents murder..." He tugged off teh right hand glove, showng a scar on his palm."If I leave now, I wouldn't be fit to carry the name Okami, nor to carry this Blade." He wiped at his eyes."I don't like fighting and killing, but they started this war, and its my duty to my parents to take down SMILE and iend it...

[Melissa Clark]

Melissa looked at him. "No one said you had to do that now. You could give it a few years, build yourself up, mentally and physically so you're ready to kill without crying." There was a little jest in her voice. She brought the white haired boy over and gave him a quick hug. "It isn't an easy thing to do.." Melissa mumbled against his ear, rubbing his back lightly before letting go and leaning back, before going through the boxes once more.

[Brandon Napier]

Scrambling along, Bam shoved a crate from the top and began jumping up and down, cheering when he realised that he'd crushed a SMILE member. He then began laughing fell over a crate, and then jumped from where he was down to the floor. What he didn't realise, was that he'd landed in front of a SMILE member.

"Criminal." The SMILE member growled and Bam scrambled to his feet as the man gave a cruel smile. Bam shot the man in the eye and where the bone at the back of the socket is thin, the shot shattered it and bone went into the man's brain.

Blood dribbled down the SMILE member's cheek and he looked shocked before he fell over and Bam began giggling. He then cheered softly, cackled, and ran off into the maze of boxes, hoping not to come across any other SMILE operatives.

His footsteps sounded, soft thudding echoing around the alleyways made by the stacked up crates while he wondered where he was going, though keeping his yellow ray gun drawn just in case of conflict.