T5: Challenge Accepted

[Ash]

Ash appears exactly in the spot she was thinking about at the time she blew her whistle. She looked down at her hand just in time to watch the used whistle shatter into light and float away.

Its job was done, hers had begun once more.

At her back was the Library she had gone to with Jaixe to research the topics that interested him the most. Specifically, she could remember Diablo and a couple of places that were important to his mind. 

She looked back over her bare shoulder at the solid wood door’s chipped finish. The dark stain was speckled with the lighter wood under it showing the damage. Some might find it symbolic that there was something gorgeous under the darkness. This metaphor was lost on her, or at least so needlessly happy that Ash wouldn’t give two shits even if someone pointed it out to her.

The Demoness stepped out and onto the steps, her nearly naked form bare to anyone lucky or unlucky enough to see her. She caught the colorful graffiti on the walls, decorating it with words that were difficult to read unless you squinted your eyes and cocked your head. She could make out some tags, had she not been on a mission she might stop to layer her own name on it.

Glancing down the other way she could hear hover cars passing the alley’s entrance, the little library almost lost to this world. She watched as a tumbleweed of trash drifted past her view, bouncing across the stage with utter delight. Opposite walls to her were stained with layers of green and red from various liquids oozing out of the pipes that occasionally appeared in the walls or along them. 

Ash grinned to herself. Like when she was hacking a computer, she found a back door and exploited it successfully. In her heart she was a little sad that she didn't get to see her ultra-marine boyfriend, but this way she might live long enough to go meet the man of the hour. Harlan Higgs.

She grinned wickedly. Ash paused long enough to summon two very important things.

First is a set of clothes as it was too dangerous to walk around Tier 5 with nothing on. The blue light began as a single circle at her center and split like a reproducing cell. One floated up and the other floated down, creating a magical girl method of changing her clothes but it worked. When it was done she had on her usual tiniest skirt possible - rust orange in color, skin tight leggings stretch across her ass that vanished behind knee high tight brown leather boots with laces up the front, her bright orange shirt clung to her upper body but only reached down past her rib-cage showing off most of her tattoo along her belly, it’s unusual amount of sleeves is covered by an army green crop-top jacket that was much looser than her skin; its sleeves were rolled up into large cuffs which were held up by brass colored buttons. Lastly, her arms up to her elbows were covered with dark army green and black arm-warmers, the single silver cuff still firmly locked on her arm.

Secondly was a Warp Whistle that sat around her neck. It worked with the ‘combat ready’ look she was going for, but the greens half clashed with her skin color, not by too much. 

Ash fished out a packet of chewing gum out of her pocket while she stepped much more confidently into the streets as she popped two pieces of the fruity stuff into her mouth. As she did it brought attention to both the tongue piercing and freshly summoned lip ring. In her brows were half circles of silver, a much-missed silver ring in her nose, and an almost long lost ring in her navel. From one of her ears hung a peculiar gold key, but the other holes were filled with the usual simple silver rings.

With her habit of gum satisfied and the rest of it stuffed back into her pocket, she used her communicator with the map she’d downloaded prior to decide where to go from there. She was only guessing where a classy vampire might be, but she wasn’t going to get anywhere standing around.