The Package of Doom

[phoenixwiz]

Who: Harry and Open
What: Mistaken Identity Adventure
Where: Somewhere in Anastara
When: Somewhere in the middle of August
Warnings: Killer rabbit on the loose and animal death
Notes: From here


Harry has given a mysterious package from a tall gruff gentleman who shoves it to him so hard that he literally landed on his behind onto the sidewalk. Aside from the aching on said body part, he is doing fairly alright. A shy small pygmy owl pokes his head near the box to see what is hiding inside it.

There is a lot of shifting inside said box, but the identity of whatever it is carrying is unknown. Harry is staring at that box as if it is an alien object with no clue of what he has gotten into. He had shaken it to see if the thing inside could react to his action, but there isn’t much besides the rattling from within.

Perhaps somebody can try to help him in taking the package to its rightful destination or maybe cause some ruckus in the city by daring him into opening this delivery Pandora’s box?

Comments

As planned...

[whose_son_am_i]

Loki was out on his own errand, and taking a short-cut that was suddenly impeded by a barrel. That was rattling, and shifting places, and clearly there was something very upset inside. An eyebrow rose, but he didn't open it. Yet. Just watched it warily a moment before looking around for anyone who might have an explanation.

If anyone wants to fill him in, that would be grand.

[phoenixwiz]

Since he was the one who is unlucky to receive Harry the Killer Rabbit in the mail, wizard Harry raises his hand up to explain himself of what led to him and Crowley to seek higher rooftops.

“Um, hey. Listen, I can explain: I got this package containing that vicious rabbit in the barrel a while ago,” he begins to recall the story, “After I opened it, he lifts his head, I pick him up with my hands, and he decides to attack me and the other guy with me. And that’s how we ended up being stuck on the rooftops.”

[serpentinthegarden]

The 'other guy' peeked over Harry's shoulder. His arm ached from where he had been stabbed by the vicious rabbit, it might even have been bleeding but Crowley hadn't bothered to check. His eyes were on that barrel.

"You might not want to stand too close to that! It could...--"

The barrel gave a last shake and splintered into a thousand shards like a bomb had gone off. From the center of the explosion the evil ball of fluff emerged. Growling like a Pitbull it glanced towards the roof, judging the distance, but Loki was so much closer. It dived for Loki's feet, intending to sink those long teeth into his calf.

[whose_son_am_i]

Good thing Loki had good reflexes. A quick step back, and a shoving gesture and the rabbit was knocked back with telekinesis. Then he flicked one hand out to the side, summoning a dagger to his hand. Blue-green eyes narrowed as he eyed the rabbit and took a defensive stance. Hopefully no one would mind if he just killed this thing.

[phoenixwiz]

While he was pretty scared that the rabbit might go after Loki as he did for him and Crowley, Harry could finally have a sigh of relief once the God of Mischief brings in a dagger into the mix as the vicious rabbit attempts to lunge at him.

And honestly, he is probably begging him to end the terrible rabbit’s life right now so he and Crowley can get down from the rooftops. No really, just end the Killer Rabbit right now, Loki. Just do it.

[serpentinthegarden]

Having observed the great conflicts of history Crowley stood back, content to observe this one too. Shame if the rabbit had to die really... but it was rabid, or mad, or possessed with an otherworldly evil... Rabbits didn't usually go for blood like that!

Harry, this time I do mean the rabbit, shook his head as he recovered from the force push but he was no ordinary rabbit. The gleam of Loki's daggers didn't dissuade him for more than a second before his claws grew three times in size and the battle was on. Using his claws like swords the bunny attacked with a vengeance, slashing right, then left, as he tried to impale whatever got in the way of his attack.

[whose_son_am_i]

Loki was two things that would be very important in this battle; a trickster and trained as an Asgardian prince should be in combat. Even if he wasn't like the other warriors. When the claws grew out, multiples of Loki appeared, all with that dagger. Illusion magic and duplication casting, but it would help keep the rabbit off-guard from the real one.

Dodge right, block left, put himself at an angle to the rabbit and reaching out to grab its ears and pull its head back. A shift of the dagger, and then it was slicing the killer rabbit's throat. Magic? Evil? Rabid? It didn't matter so long as the beast died.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry (the human wizard, not the killer rabbit) watches in bated breath as he sees the Killer Rabbit Harry and Loki engaging in an all out dagger vs claws fight from the rooftops. Add in the multiple Lokis and it does get very chaotic to follow what happens next. The young man is worried that if the Killer Rabbit doesn’t meet his demise, then chaos will ensue throughout Anastara.

All because somebody thought it was a good idea to deliver to him that evil rabbit of doom in a box. Oh Merlin, he is so going to be in big trouble if word got out that he almost endangered the entire city with a deadly rodent with sharp pointy teeth.

Then with a quick slash from the Asgardian’s dagger, the rabbit was finally dead? Is the rodent dead for real? Crisis over?

[serpentinthegarden]

It wasn't much of a battle, one experienced fighter against, well... a rabbit... but it was over quickly enough and there wouldn't be anymore killer bunnies flying at anyone with their claws. Good enough. Crowley stepped away from the roof edge in his search to find a cool and classy way down from here. Only there really wasn't one so he was left to clamber down the tree he had been thinking about hiding up in earlier. But he climbed down as cool as possible!

Now where was that box? He saunter past the dead bunny and their rescuer, intent on picking up what remained of the box and searching it over for clues.

"There has to be a return address on this thing?"

Oh yeah, and Loki was still standing there with his daggers wasn't he?

"Pretty handy with those."

This might have been as close to a thanks as one could get from a demon.

[whose_son_am_i]

Definitely not much of a battle. But necessary--even if Loki wouldn't mind a little chaos and mischief. "I've had some practice." Loki said back, which was him acknowledging the form of thanks. A flick of the dagger to get it clean, and then he re-vanished it in a shimmer of greenish-yellow.

"Anything useful in the box?"

[phoenixwiz]

Harry the human (not the rabbit) then teleports back to the ground, staring at the remains of the box that held Harry the Killer Rabbit in a blank stare while his pygmy owl has yet to recover from the whole experience and seeing Loki ending the rabbit.

“Eh, hardly anything much besides recycling the box? There is hardly anything else besides the rabbit,” he explains when he notices that there is indeed a return address to whoever sent in the rabbit on one of the box, “Oh hey, I found one!”

[serpentinthegarden]

Crowley snatched the tattered bit of cardboard from Harry's hand and read the return address aloud.

"Doctor Kilinu - Purveyor of Rare and Dangerous Familiars."

He frowned, only now thinking that maybe they should have read that before opening the box. What could he say? It had sounded like a good idea at the time!

"And there was this carrot," Crowley held up a partially gnawed carrot which other than the purple leaves looked like a pretty standard sort of carrot. "Maybe it's what kept the creature quiet in the box?"

[whose_son_am_i]

Loki crossed his arms. "Time to find this Dr. Kilinu and explain what happened? I'll leave you both to it." He'd just come along at the 'wrong' time so to speak, and been attacked. Hardly his fault the rabbit had to die--it had struck first.

[phoenixwiz]

“So carrots are what kept him from going ravenous? That is really interesting,” Harry also takes note of the carrot, “Yeah, I think so too: we should find the doctor and ask him why did he sent the package to me in the first place? He really owes me an explanation.”

He then turns to face Crowley and ask the demon for some suggestions, “And if he doesn’t want to explain himself, what should be our back up plan?”

[serpentinthegarden]

That was a fine plan. Find the original owner and sort out this mess... Only they were talking to Crowley who was not the most savvy demon when it came to this sort of thing. He was the demon who had mislaid an Antichrist and had been unable to locate him.

"How do you go about finding a lost human? I've never had much luck with it... Besides! It doesn't say where he lives. We only have the guy's name and a carrot! I think, we just chalk this up to experience and make it a habit to only open strange boxes inside of other boxes, like scientists do in labs, so what ever is inside can't attack."

Note - he was still advocating opening strange boxes in the first place.

[whose_son_am_i]

"You have a point about how difficult it might be to find him." Loki agreed, crossing his arms. "Are you expecting to get strange boxes often?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Not at all. In fact, I wasn’t expecting the package in the first place,” Harry answers while looking at the semi-eaten carrot, “But dealing with dangerous animals and creatures, yes. It happens to me probably quite often back in my world.”

[serpentinthegarden]

"Oh well, there you go then."

Crowley sniffed and began sauntering away as if that explained everything. His arm ached where the psycho rabbit had stabbed him and he was looking to wander away to lick his wounds.

"Probably sent it to you because of your reputation."

[whose_son_am_i]

"Assuming he has the same reputation here. It could also simply be his unlucky doom to be hounded by dangerous animals and creatures." Turning back to Harry. "Have you been here before, to develop that reputation here?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Back in my world, I have a bad luck of attracting trouble,” he told Loki while trying to wrap his head around on why he got that killer rabbit, “It seems as if no matter what I try to do, trouble has a way of finding me a lot.”

Also they all need to get to this Dr. Kilinu as well and maybe get even with him for that killer rabbit incident.

[serpentinthegarden]

"Unlucky doom~"

Crowley parroted with a generous soupçon of demonic mocking as he found that an unusual way to state it.

"I think you've just been pegged as a sucker."

[whose_son_am_i]

Loki shot him a look, that pretty much agreed with Crowley's assessment. "Which still doesn't explain why you'd have that reputation here." With a shrug; if Harry's going to find this Dr. Kilinu, he'll be doing so probably on his own.

[phoenixwiz]

Well, it looks like he doesn’t have that much options to go after this Doctor Kilinu and get him to explain why he was given a killer rabbit for some reason. He could do this on his own, but how to go about it without getting caught.

“Say, does anyone know where the nearing post office is located?” he asks around, “Maybe I can send in a letter of complaint to him and hopefully he could read it.”

[serpentinthegarden]

...

Hold on while that processes.

"You want to send this guy a sternly worded memo?"

[whose_son_am_i]

"How sternly worded are we talking here? Because the right words can do a lot of damage."