[ Gotham City, New Jersey ]
[ First-person POV ]
[ Kairo ]
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So I figured out where to start practicing my spells. As it turns out Gotham has some pretty big junk yards. The only problem I faced then was transportation.
My persuasion basically allowed me to come and go as I pleased but as a kid, it took forever to get anywhere on foot. I didn't have the money to take a train, and none of them led to junkyards or any abandoned subways.
I could have used persuasion to get a ride but I wasn't dumb enough to try my luck hitchhiking in Gotham City.
So I took the long way and started walking. I figured if it got dark, not that it basically wasn't always dark in Gotham, that I could beat up anyone who wanted to try me within reason.
Plus when has a little mild vigilantism ever hurt anyone? Don't answer that question.
Still, my main issue during my walk wasn't my age it was my appearance. White hair, white eyes with slit pupils like a cat or a reptile, and dark skin like wood.
Safe to say I was a unique-looking boy with rather attractive features if I do say so myself. So it wasn't very long before some random thing tried to mess with me.
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[ Gotham City, New Jersey, Near Chinatown]
[ Third-person POV ]
[ Kairo ]
Through the dim streets of America's most crime-ridden city, the familiar sounds of Gothamites living Gotham life reached Kairo's ears.
Civilians rushed home, Dealers haggled, thugs beat down randoms, and whores moaned in half-drugged ecstasy. Pimps slapped bitches and mobsters did hits without a care for the police and the constant ringing of police sirens filled the smog-choked air.
Gotham City remained the seat of sin and depravity it had always been. The voice of Lady Gotham calling out madness and debauchery.
Meanwhile, on a sidewalk, a small white-haired boy made his way along sidewalks and past alleyways. He was nearing the border of Chinatown, which was basically Gotham's equivalent of the red-light districts in foreign lands and less reputable locations in America as well.
That didn't disturb the boy though he's grown used to all the violence and sin in the city for the most part.
So Kairo walked along happily humming to the tune of Friday by Rebecca Black. On his back, Mimi stayed shifted into bag form and had been silent for quite some time.
Kairo wasn't foolish enough to read the grimoire while he was walking around but he couldn't keep his mind off the kinds of spells he wanted.
Most people would probably start small or with a basic blast attack. Kairo didn't want that; instead, he wanted a lightning spell that would allow him to drain electricity in exchange for more magic energy.
Kairo had figures that, since most of his skills took energy to use, even with his ring, he'd eventually get tired or run out of energy in a big fight. Plus he had no idea how much magical power he actually had, but he wasn't very familiar with the intricacies of how exactly magic worked.
The main concept had been inspired by senjutsu but he didn't want to run the risk of accidentally turning himself into electro or some other bad nonsense from whatever magical backlash might happen.
He'd considered trying to find a teacher but that was honestly a long shot. Going somewhere like Kamar-Taj was basically out of the question for obvious reasons and he doubted anyone local would be easy to find or willing to teach him.
He could try his luck looking for Zatana but she was usually a Batman or Nightwing age group character and firmly a hero. So he resolved that he would have to be self-taught for now.
"Oi you!" A voice called out from a nearby alleyway Kai was passing by. Kairo kept walking not even bothering to listen.
It was an older man bald and fat sitting on the porch steps of some decrepit apartment.
"Hey, Whity I'm talking to you!" The voice called again, Kairo kept it pushing, walking past an alleyway where a big black bulky-looking man was fucking the shit out of some small ginger white woman in a loose pink dress and underwear slid out of the way.
*SMACK SMACK PLAP PLAP*
"AHHH AHH YESS YEESSS FUCK YES!" The girl was a bit of a screamer it was rather distracting actually.
'Damn, he's really giving it to her. Looks consensual though. Not my problem.' Kairo glanced over at them briefly before returning to his song and walking merrily through the Gotham streets.
"Oi brat I'm fucking talking to you!" A man ran up behind him reaching out a hand to grab Kai's shoulder. The moment his hand landed Kai turned smacking the hand away. Mimi had warned him mentally in advance that the man was approaching but he didn't want her to attack the man in broad daylight, but Kai would be damnd if he let some random stranger put his hands on him.
Especially not some old man who looked like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force with a swastika tattooed on his shoulder.
"You a Mutie boy?" the fat man snarled spewing spit which nearly touched Kairo's face. Kairo stood there for a moment his inner anger rising. Then something colder settled inside him.
"And what if I am, old man?" Kai said and the street went near silent. Passerbyes glanced at him guiltily and kept moving. Other stationary people simply diverted their eyes not wanting or caring to see what was going to happen next.
"Cape or clown mutt?" The man asked his growing red, no it was already red and Kai was just now noticing the bottle of alcohol and the stench coming off the old bastard.
Kairo frowned in confusion at the man's words. The hell did he mean by cape or clown? "What?"
"Cape or clown you little mutie mutt. Are you one of those wannabe x bastards or a criminal like the rest of your kind?" The man spewed venomously, like a broken water line.
"I'm neither asshole, now why don't you fuck off before I show why?" Kai warned the man that his eyes began to glow a blueish purple with his next skill.
"You ain't shit but some black and white looking Ni-" Kai didn't let him finish, instantly floating the man with his anti-gravity before spaying the fuck out of him a mild toxic gas. It burned the man's skin as he writhed mid-air in a bubble of acid mist.
Then Kairo launched him away into the nearest dumpster which just so happened to be by the alley of the rutting couple.
The two popped their heads out of the ally see what all the noise was. They saw the bald man groaning on the floor in a pile of trash, broken glass, and covered in mild burns and scraps.
Then they looked at the white-haired boy then they looked at each other.
"Maybe we should just do it at home from now on." The girl, covered in sweat and still flushed from their recent passionate lovemaking said, staring into her husband's eyes.
"Yeah. Let's go home." Her husband said quickly taking his wife's hand tucking his cock back into his pants and walking away swiftly.
Kairo shook his head turning around to keep going to the nearest junk yard. What he didn't realise was the eyes of a certain man following him from the same porch from which the old bald man came.
"Hmm," The man stepped down and started to follow.
"The boy has potential." He grumbled putting his hands into his pockets pulling out a phone. Before he could make a call, though, another man charged out of the house after him.
BAM!
He didn't even look, he lifted his fist almost casually, and the idiot stepped right into the line of fire.
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[ Gotham City, New Jersey, Junkyard]
[ Third-person POV ]
[ Kairo ]
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
Kairo lept atop a pile of scrapped cars and took a seat. On his back, Mimi shifted into her cat form with a yowl. Meanwhile, Kairo focused on the system screen in front of him.
He had earned a single bronze Gacha ticket for humiliating that racist guy from earlier. That wasn't what was bothering him, though; instead, he started contemplating the future of mutants as a whole.
He wasn't the most familiar with all the different lore of the X-Men but different mutant massacres tended to happen pretty often.
The few that he did remember were quite terrible as well. The days of Future Past timeline, the Phoenix, Scarlet Witch's no more mutants moment, the genocide of Genosha, and the destruction of Krakoa. Along with so many more events.
These events were things he knew for a fact could happen and more than that he could prevent them if he tried hard enough.
It was an odd guilty feeling that filled him. Knowing so many tragedies could happen yet he had no idea if he could stop them all. He still had no plans on becoming a hero but he couldn't just sit here and let it happen.
Kai sighed staring down at the ticket, the weight of this whole odd world on his shoulders. He stared at it blankly his face reflected in shining bronze, but his eyes were far away, more distant than the potential futures.
He had the power to change things, to stop them from happening, but if he didn't do that, did that make him responsible for them?
He didn't know but what he did know was that vigilantism would probably be an excellent source of tickets. Something which hadn't crossed his mind for an embarrassingly long time.
It had kind of sent him into a spiral of negative thoughts like he used to do in his last life. Luckily for him Mimi was there to help cheer him up and so with the feline rubbing into his shoulder Kai snaps out of the cycle.
"Is meowster okay?" She says in he with a feline pur and staring up at him with whatever the cat equivalent of puppy dog eyes are.
"Hehe thank Mimi in fine," Kai replies as the faint frown on his face converts into a small smile. So instead of continuing to think about the far future he decides to think about the here and now, more particularly the bronze ticket currently waiting to be torn in his hands.
The thought of that made him smile. So with a swift pull and a pleasing sound Kai tore the bronze ticket, then he froze. The ability wasn't just good.
It was a while game changer.
[Light Step]
|Rare Ability|
[You can step and walk on anything, water, air, space, you can even treat nothing as a solid surface to walk on.]
(A/N Not only was Light Step useful and a lucky pull but it was literally the highest rarity a bronze ticket could actually give him such a busted pull I swear but now I have to rewrite a whole thing I had planned.)
Kairo quickly switched his Hawk-Eyes ability out of its slot and put Light Step in its place. Then he stood up slowly he took a deep breath and then leaped into the air.
He didn't fall though; no, he floated, or rather he stood, mid-air, completely and utterly unaided by the rest of the world.
A sudden and emaculate sense of euphoria overwhelms him.
Then he laughed.
The air feels absolutely wonderful around him as if it's exactly where he is meant to be, and subconsciously he casts a windspell for the very first time. It was just a gentle breeze around him a simple spell he had briefly glanced at inside the confines of his grimoires' pages.
All it does is clear away a circle of clouds above but thanks to the dreary Gotham sky that's all it takes for a truly beautiful beam of golden hour sunlight to split the sky like a lightning bolt and fall upon Kairo like a spotlight.
The wind fans out and rustles the old metallic air and washes through the fur of Mimi as she stares up at him in cat form.
Then a thought pops into his head. His arms fan out in an unhinged manner, and his smile is just as disturbing. His eyes, wide and filled with joy reflect only the glorious sky above.
In this moment not a single thing about Gotham City or this crazy world or even the trash around him can bother him.
"The world just feels so good right now!" Kairo spreads out his arms, basking in the golden light of the heavens above.
Suddenly he activates a field of anti-gravity and begins to invert his position in the air. Then motioning with arms he strikes a pose and says the words he's been most eager to let out.
"THROUGHOUT HEAVEN AND EARTH, I ALONE, AM THE HONORED ONE!"
[New Achievement! Path of the honored one.]
[Congratulations! You have temporarily reached a minor form of enlightenment! Reward x1 Silver Gacha Ticket]
Without hesitation, Kai grips the silver Gacha ticket between his fingers and pulls. His reward is only pure joy at his next roll.
[Blink]
|Rare Ability|
[Allows the user to instantly teleport a short range in their line of sight that must be normally accessible to them(can't teleport through glass) the basic range is 10 meters but this can be improved with training. There is a slight cooldown between every blink and overuse causes intense vertigo.]
[Congratulations! You have rolled ten abilities! Reward! Plus one new ability slot!]
With that Kai now has a total of seven ability slots at his disposal providing him a level of devastating power most could only dream of. Suddenly another epiphany hits him thanks to his temporary enlightenment and he tests out a new combo that came to mind.
He combines the use of sonic boom with his new skill in a combo so devastating that it sends a shockwave of trash huddling away from him.
He teleports forward directly in front of the tallest pile of scrap he can see in front of him and then with one hand held out towards it, he snaps into a finger gun.
The energy within him pours out swiftly and fluidly as if his control over it is even easier than ever before.
Then all hell breaks loose and the sonic shockwave breaks through the air like shattering glass. Metal objects simply go flying in a torrent.
Meanwhile, Kai slowly re-shifts his position back to being perfectly vertical and touches the ground once more. The blue and purple light coming from his eyes stops before he even realizes it was there. [Image]
Mini who had been stunned at the display of her master's new powers quickly shifts form into something new and runs towards him shoving him into her embrace.
Said embrace is particularly suffocating thanks to her shoving his face directly into her rather voluptuous chest.
[Mimi's new form image]
"Master is awesome!"
[insert chapter meme here]
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Rip Sylvester Ritter the junkyard dog.
Anyway, I went to a baseball game the other day I was writing this while I was in the stadium.
We had damn near front row seats unlimited free popcorn and ice cream thanks to these passes we had. All in all, it was very fun 7.5/10 would do it again. My dad did keep bugging me to collect b-roll though which was annoying and I'm not entirely sure if he understands what b-roll even is.
Also, I can't help but get the feeling of deja vu when I wrote this chapter. But I did a little practice for future r18 scenes at one point so hopefully that didn't make anyone too uncomfortable. I'm sorry if it did.
Speaking of R18 stuff there is NSFW stuff in the index but some can be reroled if you don't want them. Personally, I don't like the idea of rerolling because it does kind of feel cheating adjacent so I probably won't if I do get one.
More than that this chapter Kai literally had two amazing rolls from the Gacha which are definitely going to sway the story in the future. Even I didn't really suspect where this chapter was going as I didn't really have a plan going in so it took even me by surprise.
Of course, he could have technically gotten something better since Blink is only 3.4 in rarity and a silver ticket goes up to 4.3 but I think y'all know what I mean.
Anyway, Yap session over see you all next time, and remember to drop some powerstones so that more people can read the fic.