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Summary: Tory and Izzy are amazed by Pallaton and Terry's 'secret selves'.
Date: January 31 2009
Log Title Big Children
Rating: G
NYC - South Sea Port
Located at the mouth of the East River is South Street Seaport. What was once a fishing port is now a mall. Outside, the docks are lined with people and street performers, from contortionists to singers, mimes, and living statues. Large boats are on display for tourists on the side of the docks. If you're lucky and are here at night, a live band might sometimes be performing.
It's still afternoon and there are a few people out shopping at the seaport dispite the cold. Tory is at the seaport too, but he's not here to shop. Instead the silver haired teen? has found the seaguls to be a better sort of entertainment. Standing at one end of the walk, he starts running as fast as he can towards a group of seaguls, making them fly out of the way, giggling the entire time. It seems he keeps doing this, finds a group of seaguls, charges at them, giggles and then looks for a new group.
Pallaton looks lost more than anything as he wanders around the mall. Strangely, the cold doesn't seem to affect him at all, even in that vest top. Regardless, he's squeezing through the people and taking a look around. Noticeably, Tory seems to catch his attention, and Pallaton watches the boy play his little game from afar.
Cue the Jaws theme! Something is approaching Tory slowly from behind. Something just barely visible as distorted air. The seagulls would likely notice him long before anyone else. Once he gets close enough, Nightshade becomes visible and tries to pick Tory up from behind. "Tory!"
Terry just likes the sound of the city, people doing things people do and…aparently the sound of children terrorizing poor helpless animals too since he has wandered over where he can hear Tory giggling like mad. At the moment he has his white cane in the right hand and a travel mug full of steaming hot chocolate in his left as he finds some railings to lean against. Almost to himself the blind teen says, "Now all I am missing is a cressoint and a shot of rum…"
There's a squeal of laughter that comes out of Tory as he's picked up by Nightshade. "NIGHTSHADE!" He says trying to squrim out of the hold to give his friend a hug. "Hi Nightshade, I was playing with the seaguls and it was fun, they fly when you run after them unlike the pidgeons, I don't like pidgeons they try to peck at me when I'm a ferret! Oh! And as a ferret I slept in the park and found another…wait.." Tory says sniffing the hair and squriming out of Izzy's hug to run over to Pallaton. He then sniffs Pallaton and looks at him. "You smell like a dog!"
Pallaton is surprised by the teen charging at him and sniffing at him. He doesn't really notice anybody else, but then again, someone just charged at him. He scratches his neck nervously as he replies. "I-I do? W-weird, I don't know why that is… I-It just is, I guess…" Yeah. He's convincing nobody with that acting. But he's trying hard not to make eye contact with Tory.
Nightshade allows the hug, returning it happily and laughing with both voices. He listens closely to what Tory says, nodding vigously the whole time. "Another wait?" the human voice asks. When Tory runs off, Nightshade follows quickly. Bouncing off the railing, he waves to Terry. "Hi, Silly-Boy!" the alien voice greets before Nightshade vaults away and lands next to Tory in a 'Spider-Man crouch'.
Terry cocks his head to the side as he hears someone shout out a familier name. Well, today is just getting more and more interesting. Smelling a bit like chocolate and ozone the blind youth reaches out to use his powers for just an instant to see where everyone is so he can walk over to Torry, Pallaton,a nd Nightshade without any real trouble. Comming up behind the worlds worst actor Terry laughs a little and says, "Hello to you too Nightshade. Not cuaseing any trouble are you?"
Tory leans in and sniffs Pallaton again. "Yup, you smell like dog!" He leans in and whispers something to Pallaton. "Can you turn into a dog?" Hey it makes sense to someone who can turn into a ferret. "Nightshade never causes trouble! Nightshades my friend! Nightshade resuced Teddy!" Tory says with a giggle as he looks to Terry. "Who is silly boy, is he silly, he doesn't look silly, just…like a guy with a cane. Did you hurt your leg?"
Pallaton looks at Tory in horror, then quickly shakes his head. "No, no, no, no such thing, no! I-" He's cut off as Terry comes up behind him and speaks, startling the teen and making him jump. He calms down, though. A familiar face is good. "Oh, Terry… I didn't notice you there. How are you?"
Nightshade peers at Pallaton curiously, leaning in to sniff after Tory does. "You do smell like doggies," the alien voice confirms. When Terry comes over, Nightshade grins behind the 'mask'. "He is Silly-Boy because he was wearing silly clothes," the human voice explains to Tory. "But Nightshade likes Silly-Boy. He gives us nice chocolate drink," the alien voice adds.
Terry grins at Tory and shakes his head. "Nope, this is not hte kind of cane you get for a hurt leg, this is the kind they give you when you can't see so you don't run into things all the time." After giving Pallaton a good scare the blind man reaches out to pat him ont he shoulder and says, "I'm good. I have a feeling Nightshades friend here is a bit more than he appears like the rest of us. Hmm, and speaking of chocolate…" With an almost comsperatorial grin Terry slides his back pack so that he can reach into a pocket and pulls out a handfull of small chocolate treats. "Anyone want one?"
Tory tilts his head a Pallaton curiously. "There is such thing!" He then looks at Terry for a long time. "You can't see?! Wow…and why do you dress silly? And I can't have chocolate, I'm a diabolictical. Sugar is bad for me, I get sick." Tory says nodding. "I like sugar free ice cream though! And spoons, spoons are awesome! And you can eat ice cream with a spoon! And Nightshade is Nightshade and he's not like me cause I'm Tory and he's Nightshade and I'm not purple, well my eyes are purple but my clothing isn't."
Pallaton blinks, then looks back to Tory. "It's strange? This … isn't my true form, it's just a disguise. I'd show you it, but I'm not sure this is a safe place to do it. I mean, if Terry trusts you, then I think I can trust you too." The rest, though, just gets a look. An odd look.
Nightshade perks up as he sees Terry's grin. "Nightshade wants chocolate please!" the alien voice declares. "Why can't ya see. Did you forget your glasses? Or little eye thingy?" the human asks. "It's safe. I'm here and I'm strong!" Nightshade's third voice tells Pallaton. "and I don't wear clothes," it adds to Tory.
Terry grins and can't help but laugh a little at Tory's rambling. "Any chance you mean Diabetic there Tory?" After a second Terry does stage whisper for Pallaton, since he is probably the only one that would get it, "Although for some reason I am not sure Diabolical is not too far off." Terry just hands the chocolates over to Nightshade, after at least seeing if Pallaton wants one. "I can't see because my eeys don't work." He says simply to Nightshade, "He is a bit strange Pallaton, but Nightshade is the trustworthy type and a bit of a hero."
"I don't know Terry but Nightshade is friends with him and I'm friends with Nightshade!" Tory says as if that's reasoning enough. "And it's okay, I can become a ferret if you wanna see that!" Tory knows he's supposed to keep it a secret but he has a child mentality and gets excited that he has superpowers. "You don't wear clothes?" Tory says as he reaches over to feel Nightshade. "Do you get cold? I get cold without clothes on but I'm naked when I'm a ferret! And yes! Diabetica! And your eyes don't work? I'm sorry. And Nightshade is my friend! He's a good guy!"
Pallaton shakes his head, declining the chocolate. "I don't know if I should. It's poisonous to dogs, after all. Not sure how it would affect me." He then looks around, checking for people looking his way, but shakes his head. "No, I shouldn't show you just yet. I don't want to scare people, but basically, this isn't me. Some would call me a lycanthrope or werewolf, but I can't change forms. I'm stuck as a half-man, half-wolf beast. That's why I smell like dogs, to you."
Nightshade lets out a happy noise as he takes the chocolate and just absorbs it into his 'suit'. Wrappers of any kind are discarded in seconds and the teen's jaw starts moving seconds later. "Mmmsph mrghph!" the human voice tries to say, mouth full. After a moment, he swallows. "Fix your eyes?" the human voice asks. The oddity then quickly hugs Tory just because. "What?" both voices ask after Pallaton speaks.
Terry just grins and shrugs at Tory, "Not your fault I am blind, and there have been a few things that make up for it here and there sono reason to feel sorry." Terry does laugh again at Nightshade, and at least around him and Tory things are entertaining. "Can't fix my eyes. Although…if you wanted to show them Pallaton I could make sure no one but the two of them could see you…Since we are all being out in theopen with our special gifts."
Tory hugs Nightshade back with a big smile on his face. "Werewolf?! Aren't they dangerous and eat people?" Tory says looking at Pallaton with a bit of fear for a second before looking at Terry with a smile. "Really?! You can do that?! How and you have a special gift? Is it a spoon? I like spoons, I have a collection of them in my room, under my bed along with my paperclip chain! Oh! Once She-Hulk gave me paperclips!"
Pallaton looks over to Terry, then nods. "That'd be great. I… Don't like using this disguise if I don't have to. It's a personal thing, I guess…" He then looks to Tory, shaking his head. "I know a couple of people in similar situations that don't. Besides, it's more a, how to put it… a mutation than lycanthropy itself, so I don't follow the stereotype. Not that that would would people making them, but still." He then looks to Terry, waiting for the word to switch off the disguse.
Nightshade tenses when he notices the fear in Tory and his fingers sharpen slightly. "Nightshade will break bad people," the alien voice hisses. When Tory brightens back up, so does Nightshade, 'blades' going away. He just waits quietly to see what happens next.
Terry gives Tory something akin to a mishcevious grin as he props his long white cane against the railings and holds his travel mug in Pallaton's directions saying, "Hold this a second please." Terry holds the cup out a second waiting for it to be taken, and weather it is ornot he lets go. If Pall has not taken it the cup just floats in air held in place till it is taken by Terry's powers. "A spoon…a poon..lets see…" The blind teen pats his pockets a second before appearing to pull a plastic fork out of one, and then reaches down to pull a plastic spoon form his back pack laying on the ground. "Lets see, a spoon and a fork, both useful in deed, whats better though is both in one…" Letting his voice trail off he taps the fork and spoon together and in a small flash of light he is holding a spork, which he hands to Tory. "Here, a spork is better than just a spoon, it is a spoon and a fork all in one. And you can drop the disguise when you want Pall, I can keep us hidden for a while but…no more than. "And you can drop the disguise when you want Pall, I can keep us hidden for a while but…no more than twenty minuets or so. I use my powers too much I tend to get some wicked headaches."
Pallaton nods to Terry and he presses something in his pocket. Then he just shatters, bits falling away like shards of glass to reveal… my, he's a big one. An eight foot tall wolf-beast, absolutely covered in fur. "This is my true form. Has a few benefits, though. I don't have to worry about staying warm, most of the time, for one." He chuckles, making light of his situation. He sighs, before speaking again. "And it's this form I'm stuck in, but it's what I'm given to protect people."
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Tory looks at Pallaton curiously and as he shifts, Tory can't help but poke him. "WOW! You're really big! Like The Thing or The Hulk big! But you're not green or rocky!" He takes the spork from Terry and looks at it for a bit and even licks it. "Can you eat ice cream with this! Oh I know!" He says as he moves the spork forward to use it to 'comb' through Pallaton's hair. "You protect people? Are you a superhero? I like superheroes they're really cool!"
Nightshade lets out an odd little noise in both voices as Pallaton shows his true form. And suddenly he's leaping up onto Pallaton's back. "You're a big, pointy doggy-man!" the human voice declares happily, settling on the wolf-man's shoulders.
Terry's cheep magic trick gets totaly ignored, dang and he had put a whole quarter of a second worth of thought into that. Oh well, at least whil ehe is using his powers he can get a good view of Tory trying to comb Pallaton wiht the spork. "Well that tears it Pall, looks like these two pups like you. Well, at least your lucky to have a mutation that does not threaten you with drain bamage."
"I'm not a pup, I'm a ferret! Sometimes." Tory says looking the spork over in his hands before moving to comb his own hair. "And what's drain bamage? I know what a drain is, it's in the sink it's where the dirty water goes, along with toothpaste spit. But what's a bamage? It is like BAM! like the sound that Captain America's shield makes when it hits badguys?!"
Nightshade hops off his perch and next to Tory again. "Nightshade is Nightshade!" the alien voice insists. "There's always this CRRRRRACCCKKK! sound when we hit the bad guys," the human voice remarks.
Terry laughs at Tory, and almost wishes Pall hand not been forced to run off because at least would have gottent he joke, probably…hopefully. "It is a pun, a kind of joke. I was taking the first to words of brain damage and putting them with the wrong words. Hmm, you know that does raise a question Tory? what do they call young ferrets?"
Tory shrugs. "I don't know, I wasn't born a ferret." Tory says not really having that sort of knowledge about ferrets. He doesn't even know they're illegal in New York City. "Oh..who has brain damage then?" He asks curious as he decides to hop on Nightshades back. "When I bite bad guys they usually go "Ow! Get this rat off of me" and I can't say, I'm not a rat because I can't talk and they usually taste bad."
Nightshade crouches on the ground next to Tory, keeping strangely quiet. After a moment, he lifts a foot and starts scratching at his ear much like a dog or cat would. Otherwise, not much else strange going on.
Terry bites his tongue as Tory asks about who is brain damaged, the smart assed part of him so wants to make a joke that is meaner than he wants to be. "No one that I know yet, but if I use my powers too much I run the risk of ending up with brain damage. The human brain is just not ment to run as hot and fast as mine does when I use my powers for too long."
As Nightshade scratches as his ear, Tory looks at him curious. "Do you have fleas Nightshade? If you do, you might need a bath." He doesn't say it in an insulting way, it's just that innocent childlikeness of his. He honestly thinks he's trying to be helpful to Nightshade. He then looks at Terry with a worried look. "I don't want you to get hurt, you're nice and you gave Nightshade chocolate and gave me a spoon fork brush comb thing and let that big doggie show us his big doggie form."
Nightshade shakes his head. "Nightshade has no little buggies," the alien says. "Yeah, we were just itchy," the human chimes. He looks up at Terry curiously and pokes. "Why don't you wear the silly clothes anymore?" the human voice asks suddenly.
Terry grins and shakes his heada at Tory, "Theres no need to fear. I am careful and make sure I do not push myself too far. As for the costume, you just keep finding me when I am in my civilian clothes. Some super heroes have secret identetys and all you know."
Tory's eyes go wide with excitement as Terry talks and he grins. "Are you a superhero? I love superheroes, I actually live with a few. I think superheroes are the coolest people ever! I have a Ms. Marvel figure at home and I once tried to pick up Captain America's shield but it's too heavy so I couldn't! And Captain America didn't know what Spongebob was!"
Nightshade just seems confused as Terry talks, both voices letting out a confused voice. When Tory starts talking, Nightshade nods along.
Terry grins and nods with Tory, "Well I want to be a super hero, but seems things got a bit quiet the instant I came to town. All I have had to fight were a couple of bullies picking on a green kid, and some muggers. Never had a Ms. Marvel toy, but I used to have a Captain Marvel action figure."
"Oooo…whose Captain Marvel?" Tory asks mostly knowing the bigger names. He love superheroes but he can't be bothered to study them, that's boring. "Do you have a name picked out, and a costume, and do you go KAPLOWIE! When beating up bad guys? And a green kid? I've just met She-Hulk, she's green, and really really big.a"
Nightshade growls slightly at the mention of the bullies, not liking them at all. He's got no idea who Captain Marvel is so just waits for Terry to answer all the questions. Hopping up onto his hands, he starts doing handstand pushups.
Terry grins and alughs a little. "Captain Marvel was a great hero, he could fly, had super strength and shot light beams from his fists. I always liked him because he could fly, that and had blond hair and a good tan like I do. I have not heard anythign about him in years, so I have no idea what happened to him…" Terry shakes his head after a second of thought. "Yes, I call myself Wave since I can control light and…" After making sure that he and the boys are hidden behind an illusion again there is a flash of light and Terry appears clad in a full body white leather costume with a white starburst over his heart that has a single point that reaches down and across his chest and stomach. His face is covered with a mask much like Booster Golds only white and with the lenses made of a reflective metal. "I have never gone Kaplowie, but I have been know to go KERPOW when i hit things with lasers."
Tory gasps with amazment. "Wooooooooooow." He breaths out, obviously impressed. "THAT IS SO COOL!" He says sounding beyond excited. He seems a bit 'starstruck' at the moment, just staring at Terry with an impressed grin on his face. He'll get over it soon but his ADD like tendancies have been slowed for a bit.
Nightshade jumps at the flashes of light, tensing and rippling a bit. "Silly clothes!" the human voice suddenly exclaims as he sees Wave's costume. "Yayyyy!"
Terry grins and just laughs at the reactions he gets from Nightshade and Tory. With far less fan fair than his creating the illusion of his being in costume the teen just waves his hand through the air and he is surrounded by sparkly motes for a moment and then is back as he was. "Cool yes, but my first pictures of me in costume still garnered a slightly disapointed tsking sound from the rents, something about having to wear such revealing tight clothes."
Tory claps with a big smile on his face. He leans in to ask Terry something with a hushed voice. "Do you want to see me turn into a ferret?!" He's forgetting that Terry's blind, but he wants to show off too even if it isn't as impressive.
Nightshade claps as well. "Nightshade likes when Tory turns into a ferrt. He's fun to play tag with," the alien voice chimes. "We like hide and chase too," the human voice states.
