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Ferro smiled as the dart sank into G. He spat into the fourth dart and fired that one too, just for good measure. He didn't know how effective the poison would be on somebody like himself, so he wanted to play it safe. Both darts had been loaded with full strength paralysis toxin. Any normal person would be out for a week. Ferro lowered his blowgun. He did not reach for a fifth dart.

So maybe wings will help you, Ferro thought. He spat and loaded the third dart. He blew as Yassen was firing, hoping to catch G off guard by the combined fire. His hand reached for a fourth dart.

Ferro was only mildly surprised at the wings. So he can transform too. Ferro spat into the next dart. Paralysis again, but also a hint of real lethal poison. It would hurt, but not kill. Wings won't help you, Ferro thought. They only make for a larger target. He loaded up and blew another dart at G. His hand reached for a third. Ferro only hoped he could end the fight without having to transform himself.

(Ah, finally some combat!)

Ferro bent backward Matrix-style as the knife whizzed through where is body had once been. He turned the lean into a flip which brought him back standing on his feet. The facts clicked together in his mind. Of course! Iwata had been all obsessed about this G guy, and they turned out to be the same person. Ferro dropped the dart into his blowgun and blew a mighty breath behind it. The dart went whizzing toward G. Ferro was already removing another dart from his belt.

"We have to? I don't think so. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place. We can capture you, or we can kill you. I would be fessing up if I were you. A confession will get you captured, a lie will get you killed." Ferro spat into his dart and loaded it. He was prepared.

Ferro stepped away from the newcomer and ran to the hulk. "Kai, come on — Huh?" Ferro noticed the knife stuck in the driver's neck. "Hold up, Iwata!" Ferro pulled Kai out of the wreckage. "There had been three people in the ambulance: the driver, the man who shot Iwata, and Iwata himself. The driver had been stabbed in the neck. The man who shot Iwata couldn't have stabbed the driver, because I had paralyzed him. And even if the driver was possessed, I don't think self-harm is something a possessed person would do. And a knife wouldn't be in an ambulance in the first place. . . Unless somebody brought it on with them." Ferro slipped his blowpipe and a dart into his hand. "You have some explaining to do, Mr. Iwata."

"Kai! We don't need you dead too! We already have the bodies." Ferro turned to the man who had removed the bodies from the wreckage. "So you're an investigator too? Great, we need all the help we can get. I suppose we have become an unofficial task force for the possession outbreak." Ferro let out a short laugh.

"Well, he would be getting medical help, if the damn emergency line wasn't down." Ferro grumbled. He had tried calling two more times, and both times it had gone to the machine. Ferro put his phone away and sighed. "So what are we going to do? We can't just leave Iwata here, and no ambulance is coming. But then again, if the possessions are widespread enough to take down emergency services, we have a serious problem on our hands."

Ferro had been so deep in his thoughts that he did not see the newcomer carry over a corpse. He jumped slightly at the pronouncement of death. He noticed the man holding his head. "Were you in that crash too? Or did you happen upon us? And do you know anything about possessions?" Nobody was picking up at the end of the emergency line. Ferro frowned at his phone, then his eyes widened. "I just had a . . . chilling thought. What if these possessions have occurred across the country? Nobody is answering the emergency line."

(I'm hardly paying attention to anybody else, actually. There are too many back-and-forth conversation posts.)

Ferro was stroking his chin. Not that he had a beard or anything, he just did it when he was thinking. "I. . . I wonder if the possessed people are possessed to kill certain people, or if they just kill randomly. It would have been easy enough for Danny to leave our apartment and find targets more readily available. I had been gone for most of the day. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't possessed the instant I came home." Ferro took out his phone. "I'll call the hospital. Kai, go check on the driver. And don't forget the man who shot Iwata." Ferro looked at the ambulance. It was on its side, engulfed in flames. Ferro flinched. "Actually, don't bother." Ferro dialed the emergency number and waited for somebody to pick up.

Ferro had been running a few meters behind Kai. He ground to a stop at the scene of the crime. A vehicle crash. Luckily Gen had survived, but he looked pretty banged up. "This may seems a little ironic, but I think we should call another ambulance."

Heh hi Sikota

(Oops, posted too late. I got rid of the stuff.)

Ferro raised an eyebrow and pointed to his chest. "I killed your daughter? I'm sorry sir, but you are mistaken. But if you are looking for a killer, we have a detective. He could help you. Hey Kai, this guy has a dead daughter!"

Ferro calmly and swiftly pulled his blowgun and a dart from his belt. He loaded the dart into the metal tube and raised it to his mouth. Before he fired, however, he spit into the hollow back of the dart, then closed it. Ever since he started transforming, Ferro had found he could secrete his toxins even in his normal form, through his saliva. This one was a paralysis toxin. He blew into the tube, firing the dart through the air and into the running man's shoulder. He fell to the ground, the gun clattering on the pavement. Ferro was already running toward him.

(Is this Gen who got shot?)

Ferro thought for a moment. The octopus thing wasn't new, but a power like that was probably the kind of thing Kai was talking about. Of course, Ferro wasn't about to tell him about it. We'll just keep that in my bag of tricks for now. "No, nothing strange. Danny was perfectly fine too. We had actually gone out for ramen a couple nights ago. And then he attacks me out of the blue one day." Ferro listened to Gen's story about G. "Seems like the guy is a psychopath. He couldn't be responsible for tonight's events. I think something else is at work. Do you think it could be supernatural?"

"Well, whoever this G guy is, he is definitely not a part of my incident. Danny went berserk by himself." Ferro looked back at the ruined home. There must have been a really big problem there, he thought. "So, where to next, detective?" he said, addressing Kai.

Learning he was mistaken, Ferro slipped underground, returned to the alley, transformed back to human shape, and turned the corner into the street as Kai and Gen exited the building. He held his hand up in greeting as he approached. "Learn anything?"

Name: Ferro Heldenning Age: 19 Gender: male Appearance: medium height and build, clean-shaven and bald like most airbenders, brown eyes and eyebrows, blue arrow tattoos (he is was old and skilled enough to be a master before he was exiled), wears monk clothes of varying shades of grey, his clothes and hood are designed to hide his airbending tattoos, carries an airbending staff/glider he customized himself Nation of Origin: Air Nomads Life Story: Ferro had always been an aggressive boy. He would get into fights with other young monks, and his teachers could do nothing to curb his behavior. They even said he would have made a better firebender than airbender. When he was sixteen, he received his airbending tattoos, signaling he was a master. But soon after the ceremony, he got in a quarrel with another monk, and became so angry he cut the monk in half with an air blade. He was exiled for his crime. He has wandered the world separate from the nomads ever since. He has spent most of his time in the Earth Kingdom, where he has stolen to support himself. He has a fair bounty on his head in many areas of the Earth Kingdom. He knows he is taking a risk, participating in the tournament, but he feels he must prove his worth. White Lotus

(I thought we were going to the place where Neko's characters are. Neko specifically said we could arrive at her house any time we wanted.)

As the group of three approached the house Kai had designated, Ferro saw two people come out. He turned to his companions. "I'm going to get closer and see what they are talking about." With that, he slipped away down a nearby alley. As soon as he was out of sight, he quietly transformed and phased into the street. He moved beneath the asphalt until he was near the pair. He took a few seconds to alter the color, texture, and luminescence of his head, then slowly poked it up from the ground. It would be nearly impossible to detect him. He pricked up his ear-hole-things and began listening in. . .

"All right then. To the evidence!" This was an interesting diversion. Ferro felt like a detective, investigating horrible possessions. "My name is Ferro, by the way."