Tail Red

Red-tinted Baboon
"Here I come, grandfather!"

It had been three weeks since Jason, Giselle, Iris, Nozomi, and Seika had returned from Edolas. It had been a difficult task to explain to the guild that, so soon after losing Gaikou Ryuusei to the hands of an enemy, yet another comrade had fallen.

In truth, the guild was not over Blake's sudden death, but with three weeks of their own way of grieving, the group had decided the time for mourning was over. To try and take their minds off it, Jason, as well as Nozomi and Seika, had engaged in a sparring match; their first form of familial bonding since the girls had arrived.

"That's right; babysteps." Jason insisted, as Nozomi propelled her own body forward at inhuman speeds; enhanced further by her lithe form and light weight. Spinning on her heel, the girl delivered a swift kick towards Jason, which the oranged-tressed man caught with relative ease, flipping Nozomi in mid-air with a simple flick of the wrist.

Straightening herself out, Nozomi landed directly onto her own palms, and flipping onto two feet, quickly releasing a flurry of punches in Jason's direction...only to quickly see he'd vanished.

And then she felt a light tug on her braided ponytail.

"An interesting thing, long hair," Jason quipped, having Nozomi's hair so tightly gripped she dared not move for fear of it being ripped out by the roots through her own movement alone, "is that it's nearly as dangerous as having a cape. No matter how fast you are," he tugged on her hair gently for emphasis, "your little braided lock will always trail behind you."

"...Tch..." Nozomi clicked her tongue in irritation. How could she move without ripping out her own hair?

"Now...where'd your cousin go?" Jason's brown irides shifted left to right.

Iris herself was...chasing her own tail. "What IS this thing that keeps ELUDING me?"

Momoko sighed, "It's your own tail."

"I feel like dabbing her tail in toilet water and rubbing her tail on her face to make sure she doesn't do anything else retarded." Giselle, reading a book titled, "Quantum Mechanics and You", snarked off to the side.

Seika, meanwhile, approached Nozomi and Jason. "You two seem to be getting along. Not like the older you, who, while an okay guy, was a bit distant. It seems you've taken some antidepressants. Or that cape-swooshy lady slipped something in your tea."