Hunting Holes

**Date Started:** 1 November, 2022
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Next Role-Play**: N/A
**Users Involved:** User:EmperorSigma, User:Sekiro of the mist
**Setting:** Houston,
**Characters Involved**:
* **Present:** Michael Davis, Jaeyun Hua

*We are all born dead.*
*The end exists before anything begins.*

*If living* is a constant quest for awareness,
*The awareness we gain at the end is the real goal.*

*In other words, death*

*Is the discovery and complete understanding*

*Of the end.*

"Damn, I just needed to go to practice." Said Michael as he held his hand up to block an attack from a Hollow. Fighting Hollows had become a job of his over these last past couple of months and to be quite frank he was sick and tired of it. The worst ones always seemed to appear on the days he had practice.

"Do these people ever get a off day?" Michael asked, head turned towards the person clad in armor.

With a mighty grab, he who had been clad in the shining armor gripped the Hollow they had been facing and slammed it into the solid concrete, knocking it unconscious in one fell swoop. Then, with a single strike at the throat, they destroyed the Hollow's tube. They seemed to have been quite acquainted with Michael considering their actions of working alongside him in this instance.

The helmet of the armor opened like some sort of mechanical door. The window of the eyes letting down first before it folded and collapsed upon itself to reveal the person within it. A girl of opposite complexion when compared to Michael's and blond short hair tied into a ponytail. It was clear that this was his long time friend, Dianna Smith, whom he had learned was also someone who possessed special powers but was far more used to them that he was.

"It's not like they want up and become Hollows, idiot." She said, flipping her hair as she continued to watch him struggle.

Michael pushed back, creating a gap between himself and the Hollow, before rushing forward and clashing once again. "I wish it fuckin' was! I ain't got time to do this every day that I wake up. I've got much better shit to do."

"Hey you smell like a Hollow," The Hollow said to Michael, just before swiping its claws at his face in an attempt to remove his skin. "It's not polite to stand against your own kind in favor of the humans!"

Evading through the use of his **Body Flicker** technique, Michael reappeared behind the Hollow with his fist lifted and a heavy punch to the gut which sent the creature flying in the opposite direction. The wind waved in ripples, sending a shockwave to the surrounding area which lifted up nearby dust and debris. It was safe to say that Michael had grown strong over these past couple of months.

He sighed, "And that right there," he said, pointing towards the direction the Hollow had been sent. "That! I'm tired of hearing that shit. All day.. Every day... with each and every fuckin' Hollow."

"Get over it." Dianna said, waving her left hand and placing her right one on her hip. "Oh shit!" She said, jumping up. "I've gotta meet with my advisor in five minutes I need to get one of my classes taken off." She deactivated her armor and pulling on the soul of the air where she began to walk on it. "You can handle the rest on your own right?"

Without giving him a chance to even respond, she rushed off into the distance, fading away with the sun through a burst of speed thanks to her Fullbring mastery. Honestly, she didn't care what his response would be.

"I've got practice too! What the fuck!?" Michael shouted towards the fleeing Dianna.

Returning back to his feet, the Hollow faced Michael. Jerking its neck to the left and right, it cracked its bones as if it were ready to have another go at him. "I won't feel bad for killing you now!"

"Tch! I guess it's time for round two then." Michael said, walking closer.

"K-hiap"

*Swish*

The gym was full of students and guest. Many of them Coming to see the Star student of the entire city. The boy in question blitzing down a path of boards and punching bags. As he reached the last bag, His eyes trailed with a sharp trail of wind before moving his body to twist into it.

"Hm, They really expect us to be impressed by this stuff. Its just foot fencing man." A teenage kid says through the combined noise of students training and citizens being in awe. The noise caught Jaeyun's attention and just briefly ticked him off. Everyone from the dojo knew their usual set up but they didn't know he asked for the bag to be filled with rocks and iron. So he couldn't kick through it. But that brief moment threw all of those plans out the window.

The instant his leg made contact the room was filled with a *WHAM*, Stopping all conversation and greeting the room with a gust of wind despite the doors being closed and windows shut. The bag that Jaeyun blew apart and released the rocks it contained all in one direction. Strait for the wall where they cracked it upon contact.

Silence filled the rooms for almost an eternity. Jaeyun lowering his leg to the ground and letting out a sighing breath. He began to turn and walk away, crowed cheering him on but he didn't pay them any mind. He simply began packing his things and made his way for the door.

Placing his hands on the door. there was a pause. But just as it had come it passed. Putting pressure on their surface, He opened them and walked through into a bright light that was outside. As the light faded he looked down the street and. Well of course it wasn't something he could explain but... unfortunately. It was something he saw.

Weird creatures with mask where gathering around a location. Nothing new there with this town. In fact he even saw other types of things like people in black and white. Huston got it damn near everyday but it was still surprising. Although it was a new thing today. Other than the creatures. He saw a guy who seemed roughly around his age. But also some body in armor, Real life armor. It wasn't even like it was Hogu It was real life armor.

"Haaa...The fuck is with today man"

Michael continued his trails of handling the Hollows, but they were flowing in one after another. He wasn't familiar with how the summoning of the creatures even worked, only that he were to deal with them. At this point, he wished he could turn on the faucet and allow for the water to just wash them away, especially considering he had something he needed to do today too.

He grit his teeth as he recollected himself. His body slid backwards after he was pushed away by one of the Hollows, with his shoes collecting dirt behind them. He shook his head in disgust and let out a sigh, "I just bought these yesterday! What the fuck?!" He loved his shoes just as much as he loved music and viewed them as some sort of holy grail. It was weird considering them getting dirty was what pissed him off. Michael wasn't even the type to wear a shoe more than once.

"Alright, fuck y'all!" He said, holding his hands at his sides in a cupping manner and sending off a blast of dark energy towards the Hollow, leaving a hole right in the middle of its body. He didn't stop there though. Turning and still firing off the blast, Michael took out all of the other Hollows as well with this technique.

"That's what ya get," Michael said, kneeling down and wiping off his shoe.

Just above him. The sky warped before forming a line that traces along like the formation of a dark mouth. From this the line opened, showing its deformed teeth and fogy innards. It was from this mouth a hollow emerged, fighting its way through a sea of arms fighting to grab ahold. The hollow broke free and fell strait toward the ground aiming right for the easy prey.

*Thump Thump Thump,* The sound of footsteps hitting across concrete approached. Jaeyun looked up at the skull creature above the guy. Even though he had just seen him take aim and gun down every other one of them. So he really didn't see the reason to jump like he was going to save whoever the hell it was. Still he ran closer to them, at speeds a human should not be capable of. Putting pressure on his leading foot. The Green haired Korean caused a crack in the ground. Before launching himself into the air strait for the hollow. Those amber eyes of his gleamed, and his face seemed to distort. In that same moment his leg came up and hooked across the hollows neck. Catching it before aiming toward the ground.

*BOOM* the now decapitated body of the hollow slammed into the ground. With both pieces hitting the concrete at the same time. landing right beside Michael with Jaeyun following soon after. He landed on the ground with a small raise of his heels to balance out the gravity.

he turned his head to see the head of the beast looking strait at him. Dead into his soul, almost like it couldn't tell what the hell just happened. This caused Jaeyun to contort his face. It got to the point where he was too annoyed from the entire day so he shifted. Shifted, and his leg teleported past the beast neck, with the head exploding into a shimmering light. "Yo, You strait." Jaeyun said looking down Michel.

"What th-" Michael turned his gaze to Jaeyun, a face he had never seen before. It didn't take rocket science for him to note that whoever Jaeyun was, had to have clearly been someone like he was with the ability to see the spiritual entities. The real problem was, he wasn't sure if he liked that he could or not.

Standing back to his feet, the young athlete gave Jaeyun his full attention. "Yeah, I'm good. Who the fuck're you?"

Jaeyun flashed a face that read *The fuck I do?"* before he even opened his mouth. "J. Since when do people fight those things with beams" Waiting for the response Jaeyun stepped away to make sure his bag was still in the same spot.

"Ayo wait, how did you do that anyways"

"What?" Michael said, honestly confused by his question. "Beams? It's just blasts of energy, I don't fuckin' know how I can do it. I just can, sorta like Nike." He paused for a moment and turned his head in the opposite direction, "Then again, you ain't the first person to ask me that it's like everyone's got this question." He mumbled softly, almost as if he were slightly irritated.

Despite the phenom being explained to him in the past, it sort of went inside of one of his ears and out of the other. Michael's blasts were very similar to that of a Hollow's Cero if not the exact same thing verbatim. He'd definitely be scolded if Zerafin learned that Michael had forgotten everything he'd been taught.

"So you do know what these are? You fight with a sword. I fight with blasts and fists. Preference I'm guessin'."

Putting his hands in his pockets, Jaeyun shrugged while lifting his leg up as if he was putting it on the display. "I mean I only kick foreal. Still I feel you on that one."

"As for them," He said putting the foot down on the ground. "I dunno exact names of them or any terms an shit. Be foreal, I've just been calling them skull creatures. When he finished, Jaeyun walked over and bent to grab his bag. But he stopped right before he could get his hands on it. Rather he got back up and turned over towards the two. "Hold up, you know what they are?"

For the first time Michael had met someone who was more uneducated in this whole thing than he was. His eyebrow lifted in confusion, "Huh?" He asked out loud, but the question was more so for himself to answer. Then it hit him right after. He realized that Jaeyun not understanding what truly was going on didn't mean it was a good thing.

The wind settled over the two of them. If only Dianna hadn't run off and stayed behind for just a couple minutes longer, he wouldn't have found himself in the corner he was in. She found ways to conveniently depart from him when Hollows were present, leaving him with all of the work. It was about time he finally gave her a piece of his mind.

*"Been quite a while.. Zeehahahahaha.."* The voice of Emperor said in Michael's head.
*"And what do we have here? Someone as dumb as you are."*

Michael grit his teeth. Emperor was taunting him and he wouldn't let him be successful in it. "They're called Hollows. You might wanna be careful engagin' in somethin' you don't understand.... Trust me."

Hearing the words wasn't the best thing to deal with right now for Jaeyun. Not after the day he had.

"See I hear you, but its hard not to, when them shits chase you." He said with a distasteful tone. In his mind the only thing they where where annoying beast who make it so he cant have any peace. Cant walk down the street, cant go to a park. There wasn't shit he could do because wherever he went there was always one of those things.

After readjusting the bag on his shoulder. Jaeyun Wrinkled his nose before returning it to normal. The act was like when a bunny would twitch its nose. As much as he wanted to just go home, this was an opportunity he would probably never get back. "So these hollows, Fuck is they deal. Why target me and no one else. Shit you the only person I met who has to deal with them too. And you don't even feel fully human."

Around them people where starting to pile up, with the occasional nosy one stopping to look at them. Even when neither of them where being violent or even loud. But them being what they where was enough to catch the gazes of others. Some even looking like they where the lowest of the low.