Just An Innocent Day at A-Kon (Invite Only!)

Each convention drew a particular crowd, but this one took the prize. Fresh off of her adventures in Japan, Bliss made her way from the hotel clad in in knee high boots and a pleated pink and blue skirt with a black skinny tie loosely hanging from the collar of a white button up shirt. For some reason she liked the fish nets around her arm, although she would never admit to liking such an off beat fashion statement herself. Wind picked up softly down the avenue pushing the blue streaked extensions falling off of her ponytail. She kept her hands pressed inside of the pockets of her hooded sweatshirt with the middle zipper pulled up halfway.

For some reason infiltrating Japanese inspired events became a specialty for Bliss. A specialty she came to despise almost initially after first steeping foot in an oddly dressed world with peeping eyes, but if she did her homework correctly, this job would pay off. A new girl in town with a minor penchant for trouble popped up on her radar and that drew her like a moth to flame. If nothing else she could make sure this girl kept her nose clean and stayed away from any unsavory elements.

Noise broke out from outside of the convention center. Looked like after all her disguise options just fell along the roadside in front of a pretzel cart. A young girl pushed a side a rather unsavory looking man, but it seemed her luck changed at the arrival of a new band of ruffians approached. It looked like her girl, but the outfit didn't seem fit for street fighting, although Bliss could hardly judge as she tugged on her fishnet arms. Nonetheless, she handled herself in a way beyond what a normal eighteen year old normally would. She looked impressive putting down the mohawk, but he gained a foot up when the rest of his foot pads showed up. Markings on the van looked very suspicious, tipping Bliss off as to what to stay focused on during this skirmish.

Moving in to a fight blasting everything she possessed didn't suit her; she needed to grab the injured girl and then get the other girl out of here before it could escalate anymore. The traffic flow of people moved away from the scuffle as it seemed no one wanted to help out an eighteen year old girl versus a street gang. As the squaring off began to settle in with the six members circling Tyuki, Bliss threw her arm around the rotators cuff of the closest guy to her. Momentum propelled him over her should and threw him hard against the concrete ground. After he plopped on the ground, Bliss threw the palm of her fist into the chest of a large man who instinctively grabbed her hand. With a sly smile Bliss tossed a forceful blow of ice into his chest, sending him flying back into the van.

Not watching her back one of the gang members grabbed Bliss from behind and pinned her arms to her side. She tried breaking her shoulder against his conjoined hands, but his motion spun her around and threw Bliss into the van. His fist came at her again but his knuckle broke against a block of ice she put up to take the shot. Behind her the large man struggled for breath, but she noticed in spite of her minor accomplishments her position now worsened.

It shook her a little when she felt herself tugged out of the van and tossed to the ground. The small girl looked more than able to handle herself in this dangerous of a situation, but her skill looked a little unrefined. Whether true, or whether Bliss just didn't want to admit the younger girl could handle these guys better than she could rested solely in how egotistical Bliss wanted to get. In her arguing she remembered she held her ice powers back from these goons, she could just blame it on that.

With her fingers brushing against the ground, Bliss began to push her ice through the ground and into the foundation of the blocks. Ice slowly pulled the gang members back to the ground, while hiding the power itself. "Good job, but..." Bliss reached out her hand to take the crow bar. "I'll take that, missy." With safety slightly more in hand, Bliss felt well enough to ask the young girl to disarm herself. "Using that is beneath you." She didn't know if the adrenaline kicked in to ease her pain, but any signs of a fight failed to show up after the fight. "Check the van for anything unusual." Bliss made her way out into the alleyway. "I'll check for anything else."

While Bliss moved to investigate any other interlopers from the gang she found herself taken from behind by her new companion. "That's not surprising. Being Bible dealers from a very extreme sect of Mormonism would make me more shocked..." She gritted her teeth while surveying the thugs kept in place by her ice. "How hard of drugs are we talking?" The crowbar tapped gently against her head. "Are would you know something like that?" The new position of venerated master really didn't fit Bliss, but if she could teach Gwharr not to eat people this shouldn't take too long. "I'll take a look."

As Bliss started to move towards the van she found herself taken by surprise as two more vans blocked their entrance. "Shit." Not wanting to leave her partner without a tool, Bliss tossed the crow bar back to her "Take it, but when you tell people about this say you used your fist. Honor is all about perceptions, not reality." Five men who looked like they meant business stepped from the van in front of Bliss and started to move to circle her.

The first man swung at Bliss and impacted against a shield of ice protruding from the ground. More ice wrapped around his fist keeping him in place while Bliss spun around the barricade and fired off an ice blast against the nearest thug, knocking him back. As the man in the ice tried to struggle out his predicament, Bliss threw a clog of ice at his head to incapacitate him. Unfortunately, as she took her eyes away a chain wrapped around her chest. A thug with a quick finesse wrapped her arms up and threw her to the ground, landing on her hands. "Hold her down and get the other girl."

Struggling against the chains felt like she could get out until she saw Tyuki fall next to her in the same situation. Tyuki spit up some verbal heat with her words that made Bliss a little uneasy. "Save it for later." With an alley of armed thugs standing over two bound girls, Bliss knew they needed to get away from anyone watching to make an escape. "This could've gone better." She muttered as she felt her legs pulled together by ropes.

Two men picked Bliss off of the ground and tossed her in the van. The hard surface followed by the entourage of low life scum made for an uneasy ride. "Don't be brash, or they'll either shoot you or gag you, and I wouldn't take either as a step up." Taking her own words of advice, Bliss remained calm and relaxed for the remainder of the trip while keeping her powers at bay. If they saw her make a move for her ice powers it would certainly end with the two girls dead. She didn't need to ask any questions; these guys mentioned a boss and he would meet the two girls soon enough.

"Call me Eclipse." After she spoke those words she could feel the van come to a stop. The rough bag covered her face, but left her without the terrible feeling of her own hot breathe; she could assume Tyuki didn't fare so well on that front. With the bag secure, Bliss didn't know who grabbed her or what the noisy base looked like; she only knew the surface of a hard floor. The pounding music didn't offer her any reprieve from the already bad situation, and it dampened her ability to make mental notes of her surroundings. Whether they did it on purpose or merely to make an already obnoxious atmosphere worse, they accomplished their goal.

Finally the door closed, blocking out the loud music. Sadly, Bliss realized it meant no one could hear either of them. Tyuki maneuvered herself faster than Bliss in getting the bag off of her head, leaving Bliss to wonder in the dark about their next course of action. "Now..." Bliss positioned herself in a sitting position with her pinioned hands holding her up. "We try to get out of here..." As Bliss started to move to try and find Tyuki in the dark the sound of footsteps sounded in the dark. "I don't know if I can freeze those things fast enough, but get back to back with me and I'll try."

With her vision and speech blurry from the bag over her head, Bliss needed to take extreme caution as to not harm Tyuki, a flaw that possibly cost them an initial opportunity to escape. Even if she got the bag off of her head, she would still need to apply her ice with a great precision to get her out of the chains around her hands and then get the ones around her arms as well. "If I can freeze those things, do you have enough strength to pull them off?"

It felt good as Tyuki pulled the chains off of her wrist and untied her arms. With the bag no longer covering her sight she could start to take in the surroundings of cramped little prison they decided to keep the girls in. As Bliss started to untie her legs Tyuki started asking questions about their next course of action. A bobby pin solution would only intensify things if that door opened and the boss stationed guards to watch the door. "If we make a break for it now, we'll be going through a good deal of armed guards with no leverage." Her pink and blue nails struggled getting the knot out of her ropes keeping her knees bound together. "Since we're assuming this room is sound proof to keep anyone from hearing us, it could be safe to assume they can't hear us making our plans." Finally the knot gave way and Bliss dropped the ropes to the ground before starting on her ankles. "If this room isn't sound proof and we're just telling them our secrets or they have someway of tapping this room, well we're screwed." When she pulled the ropes from her ankles she thought of something.

"Put the bag over your head and try to position the chains around your arms like you're still tied up." Bliss started wrapping the ropes around her legs again in a fashion so she could easily break out of them once the boss came in. "We'll sit back to back and keep our hands untied. When the boss comes in, I'll freeze the door and we have the boss to ourselves." She placed the bag back over her head and loosely wrapped the chains without any binding for easy removal. "Get close so we can make the chains look tight. If we don't sell this just right being tied up will be the least of our problems."

As the situation looked to gain some control, Bliss knew everything rested on this guy coming in alone. While his guards would remain close by even if he tried this by himself, Bliss made an even bigger bet on just how much sound these walls kept out. After a minor verbal dispute, it sounded as though everything went according to plan. The goon stayed out and the boss waltzed over to the bound girls. As he made his opening remarks regarding his most recent catch, Bliss felt a tap at her wrists. With how impulsive and reactionary her companion acted Bliss appreciated merely getting a heads up on her next actions.

As Tyuki accosted the man, Bliss kicked her legs apart and threw off the chains around her arms. While pulling the bag from her head she dashed for the door to begin sealing it shut with ice. "Let's tie him up. He'll have to be our meal ticket out of here, but first we can ask him a few questions." Once she felt safe enough in her work holding the door shut, she grabbed some ropes from the ground and tied the man's hands behind his back. "I'll start with the most obvious and work my way in. Why are you kidnapping girls from A-Kon and what happened to last years batch?"