An all Consuming Flame [Akiva]

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[attr="class","grBody"]He had most of his mornings in the bakery, then took hours off for a walk as he had nothing to do before he would have to come back to prepare something or go to his other job. But his other job was not fun because the people drunk in the bar were getting annoying, day in day out. He was the one to kick them out as he looked tough and like a ruffian himself with his blue eyes, tattoos and all. Not that most people knew he had his shoulders covered in tribal tattoos but that did not matter. God he got so tired of himself the last few days, the day in day out same thing. The day in day out trying to train and lose control over his quirk, it was something very shitty. He had done better, how the heck did he manage military school if he was so crazy as he was now. Maybe because he couldn't remember much of the past was what made it going crazy. He wanted to know but there was nothing to remember, there was nothing he could find and he didn't want to tell Lilith because he could already hear her cynical response and he wasn't ready for that. Who knew what his crazy side would do, after all, look at what he did to Enda, or well what he tried to Enda. Only because he got angry for being left behind, because he thought he was forgotten, it was nothing.[break][break]

At this time he was holding his general walk, albeit not so normal as most normal people. Akiva preferred it high up, so people could not look at him and judge. Though he wasn't sure if they did, he wasn't the only one with strange hair colour in town. Heck, even some of the heroes and other vigilantes had interesting hair colours and he wondered what it was, maybe it was his body language. Especially now with his panther strange thoughts-period, how else to call it, but maybe now it was even worse. He still wasn't sure why he was a vigilante, was it then to make up for all the shit he did? That did sound reasonable. But he did not know, the choices he had to make felt very difficult, it was just that, right? Not knowing what to do and rather using the easy way out than working on the hard and difficult road. He swore he heard something, even as human his ears were still as sharp as his panther transformation and he heaved his head. It helped sitting on the roofs that sounds carried up and he heard something and a strange sound he could not place. He stealthy and balanced walked over the roofs and jumped to the next without making much of a sound and when he got closer, it wasn't that far, he stood there and looked over the ledge to see what was going on.[break][break]

He frowned, not entirely sure if he grasped what was going on. There was a man on his back on the ground, looked knocked out, there was a kid in front of him and what was that colourful thingy, his quirk? Then there were a few on the opposite of him. So this kid was protecting whoever the guy was. Great. Vigi work was calling. He moved a few steps back to silently jump on the ground and he used again his soft steps to walk through the dark of the alley before appearing behind the boy with his hands in his pockets and looking as if he couldn't care less. He was maybe a little more known here now with the last activities that he had accomplished, he might be in the top list with stupid luck but his arrogance would like to think about that. He looked up with a grin, showing his sharp teeth. "Why did no one invite me to a party? I could use a fight, my hands are itching."

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[attr="class","grBody"]The cat appeared and although he looked uninterested on the outside, the smirk on his face and his sharp canine showed another aspect. His silent aggressive statement about wanting to fight in this party was another one. He would just see what was going on. The fact that they targeted a boy was stupid, like what did they tried to achieve on their own, be bullies? The cat would roll his eyes at that thought but he only did it mentally as he shouldn't show any signs and weaknesses, rolling your eyes meant losing focus for a few seconds. He had trained, was basically battered and bruised to be stronger about himself than being a cat. He was going to be fine but he just looked at what was going on, a mistake in quirks? Mistakes in places and times, well he was a vigilante now, he was made for the latter. Okay... stay away from the kid's quirk was one as the panther watched how the man cried out and the hand turned a blue... ice blue. Akiva shuddered, bleh cold, he could deal with that as he was a furry in the end, but panthers like him weren't made for the cold like that either.[break][break]

Even though the inner-villain of himself thought eh this kid could handle himself, let them become ice popsicles. A world with fewer criminals like who would care? But he had to do better, he had to fight his instincts, his nonchalance and just literally say something about it. "Control it, call it back." Whatever it was this boy had to focus and not be scared. The cat knew exactly how that worked, that's how he had become feral and although there were probably going to be a little shit about that today as well cuz his anger was soaring that they were butchering someone who was already knocked out and still trying to harm a kid, that made him too angry. It reminded him of how Teruko protected him and although he wasn't going to hold and care for this strange kid in the way that Teruko had done for him, he was going to protect. Though at least the smile and the cynical remark made Akiva laugh shortly and gave him a thumbs up. "Well after this you will know me and I look forward to other invitations." He turned his changing eyes on the man. He put his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Look it's three against one, I am great but maybe one slips on, you take that one on." Cuz the panther did notice how the boy still stood there to protect the knocked out man, "He is alive right?" He indicated towards the man behind the two of them. "Try to focus, you are in power okay, I know the struggle." The blue-haired would then turn and look to the criminals who told him to get going. He took a step before Natsu, having let go of his shoulder, "Aha, let me introduce myself guys." He said with a wide grin, "You bumped into the territory of Beastbane and I am not willing to share." He morphed, his tattoos showing as the shirt lifted up and changed into the black patterns and in the end the complete black fur, he dropped himself with the change on hands and legs or more front and hind legs and made a snarling sound. He wasn't going to hold back, this was a test and a show he was in control, no matter his level of anger. That's how he dashed forward, made the first snide to the man who had spoken before. He would leave the one with the hurt hand alone, if he would sneak past him, the boy would know his weak side after all.

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[attr="class","grBody"]He knew it, he felt it. Focus was important and as he had just told the boy he should, it felt like an extra motivation for Akiva to focus on it on his own. He could not afford to go feral while this boy needed his protection and support and not his own slashing claws. Nor the person that lay behind the boy who had definitely bad injuries that needed to have medical attention. That meant even that he had to hurry if he wanted that man to stand a chance, flame guy over there had no healing aspects right? Bleh, only Akiva himself could heal his own body. The pretty black panther dashed forward and avoided whatever sharp object the man was holding, ha silver. Come on, get in line next. It wasn't even silver, the man was holding a knife, which was stainless steel if anything. No one would carry a golden weapon so he was basically good. He jumped around in his agile movement before kicking down the man from his back and slashing the third in the shins to make him topple over. He looked up when he heard something, right, the kid.

He turned to look at what was happening but it seemed to be going fine until, in Akiva's angry opinion, the coward try to ran away. He would stand up on his hind legs when he crossed the short distance and pulled the man back. "Oi, I wasn't done with you yet," Like a sort of bowling ball he moved the man (who was probably very much hurt) with a flick of his arm into the two that were trying to scramble up. He rolled his shoulders, cracked his neck and moved in front of them. "So, now that I got you attention, here's a quick list of don'ts. Don't hurt kids. Don't hurt people that are already out and most importantly, don't come hanging around me. I am very good at remembering faces." That was bullshit but maybe if he got better at this he would recognize their smell.[break][break]

The thing was, the party wasn't over, although using the man who had assaulted Natsu as a bowling ball, he got the sting of the knife, just below his left ribcage. He looked at it, looked back up at the man he had smacked before, looked back at the wound and as the hand was still there, shaking and so on, he put his claw on the man's wrist and pulled the knife out in a swift motion. His body immediately started to braid his skin and fur back together to regenerate.[break]
Akiva shook his head softly, putting his claws in the skin of the man which was at least four of the small knives that he just used. "Bad choice. Very, very bad choice." And he slashed more with his free hand and turned the man around, holding his own knife to his throat. "Any other special requests or will you take your two idiots who don't seem to know how to stop and you leave?" The third man with the slashes on his shins nodded and took both by the hand and pulled them out and on top speed tried to get out of the alley.[break][break]

"Hmm, to follow ad have more fun or just meh?" Akiva asked out loud to himself.

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[attr="class","grBody"]Hmm... chasing was fun and would mean he had a moment to let out the adrenaline but he had other duties. Vigilante work started to be a little dull sometimes if he had to give up the fun stuff to be nice... No wait, he was going to try to be a good vigilante instead of being what they called a villain. He really needed to become better at it, because he did not want to become that monster anymore. He needed to keep the control over what he wanted and how he wanted it. Especially now as a panther, he did not want to hurt himself or go too far and kill one of the enemies or opponents he made. He had enough stripes on his knuckles. He would see what to do, once he yeeted the person away, gave them a final warning and watched them run off as fast as their wounded legs could carry them, he was just standing there in doubt if he shouldn't. But he wouldn't and turned around. He crossed his arms and tried to focus, if his ears wouldn't pick up any other information or noise that would bring him back to alert he would slowly turn back. Stretching from left to right with his neck and just rolling his shoulders.[break][break]

"You are right, it sounds rather stupid though, they are criminals, should have turned them to the police." But he rolled his shoulders again and loosen his stiff stance as that would hurt his muscles. "Hm?" Akiva looked up as he had been looking at the man that Natsu had tended to before as he was still considering if he should make a call to the police and chase the guys there or just indeed let it be, maybe he can bump in them again. He lifted up his cut shirt and stared at the red line on his stomach. The skin was already attached again and there were a few blood drops near the rim that had not disappeared, "Yea, I am fine." The usefulness of having a regeneration ability, probably due to the fact that he was a big black cat, he didn't ask questions it just worked this way. It might become a bruise soon enough and be just sensitive but he could deal with it. "And you kid? Not hurt? All good?" The strange fire was gone so that was something, they should probably call an ambulance for this man though and he was hesitant, how to explain what happened? Or maybe he could disappear so the kid would fix it by himself? Difficult questions that he did not want to consider.

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Hm, he hunched down at the man on the ground and the boy, did not look all too well if you asked him. Good he jumped in, that was f-... he wanted to say fun but interrupted his own thoughts. The man did not think it was fun and neither was the boy, which was both a sensible reaction. He checked his own wound after standing up again but it was fine, rather quickly patched up, still some red markings and so on but with a few hours that be okay again, hm, he should keep an eye out on it, in case the wound was bigger then he initially thought. Stab wounds, god he hated them. He nodded that was nice to say and he gave a small smile and tried to hunch down again to see what was going on, the kid was shaking.

Akiva frowned, not entirely sure how to react but he got it, and it was good the boy was so responsible. He nodded when he spoke bout what would happen and gave a small smirk when the boy told him that he knew he was a vigilante. Hard to miss really when he announced it and started to beat up guys and he shrugged but nodded again. "Sure my boy, that's the plan indeed, helping people. I be around okay in case the thugs show up." If he was leaving he could try and find them anyway and fix their asses towards the police as well. "Sorry you have to deal with this." Shouldn't be fun, couldn't be fun to be honest and Akiva's sea-green eyes looked at the boy a little more tentatively. What would he say? There was not much to say about this situation, he stretched as he got back up and stood straight. "Keep working on the good work boy, we will see each other again someday." Because why not, Akiva was always convinced paths might bump into each other again.

He took a few steps away before looking back to the boy who was calling the ambulance now, which indeed would mean officers would come to check the situation as well. The panther easily jumped on a few boxes and pulled himself on the roof and stood there to look for a bit before changing again, oh well, people will get used to spotting Beast Bane around the streets, he had gotten a smell of the blood of those tugs. Time to see if his nose would not disappoint him today and off he went, but keeping eyes and ears open in case someone else would try to get into the street that he so proudly declared his own territory to protect.