The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
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Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
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Aurion nodded his head and licked his lips. "Steak wrapped in bacon. Thick bacon. It really good. Come have sometime. Yes?" He looked at her while nodding a bit. "I sure you like. Sanc good place, good food."
He had been a bit hesitant to ask questions of Gina. Not all questions, but some. What questions others, even Gina herself, might have thought were tame and okay to ask, sometimes seemed a bit..personal to Aurion. So when she smiled and answered easily he relaxed.
He watched as she lifted her foot for him to see her lack of webbing between her toes. After just a couple heart beats, he lifted his own foot to compare it to hers. Aurion looked at her foot closely then back to his a few time. He couldn't help but wiggle his own toes a bit. They looked different on the outside, but the basic structure and design of their feet seemed very similar.
Aurion made a soft long 'Hnngnnn' sound as he put his own foot down. He couldn't understand how her feet would make it harder for her than him, her hands seemed basically human. Even when he was a kid, he remembered swimming using only his arms to propel him. Now, he used his tail for the most part, but still used his arms and hands. "Stone?" He gave her a questioning look as another thought came into his head. He wasn't sure how to ask it though. He sputtered for a couple moments before intelligible words came out. "How..When...Umm....Have you always ahh...," He couldn't quite get it out, but he motioned to both of them.
Aurion spotted a drinking fountain up ahead. Pointing he hopped up a bit and took a few quick steps towards it. He looked at her, smiled and held out a hand to her.
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Gina looked mildly confused as Aurion raved about bacon-steak. It sounded as though he was inviting her to “a sink” to have bacon-steak with him, which earned a quizzical look from.
“Come have bacon-steak, where?” Gina echoed. Had Gina been any the wiser, it would have sounded like a date. Except… the salt-and-pepper beard made him seem older, even if his personality was contrary to that. So perhaps he just needed a friend, which Gina would not turn-down.
Gina laughed as the lizard-man echoed the word “stone”, and Gina quickly explained, “I’m not really made of stone, I was just speaking figuratively.”
Aurion struggled through another question, but Gina had been asked it enough times that, without even uttering it in its entirety, she knew exactly what he was saying.
“How long have I looked like this?” Gina finished for him, strolling casually towards the water fountain as Aurion hopped ahead of her. He then extended a hand towards Gina, which Gina smiled at and accepted the hand.
“I was born like this,” she explained, as she was ushered towards the fountain, “-Thank you.”
The gargoyle took a few, long sips of water, paused, and then took a few more.
“I mean, I was born with the wings and all of the… bodily uniqueness, but only my tail, wings, and lower limbs had been grey,” Gina explained, and after having her fair share of water, continued, “But then the grey skin spread, and I developed horns as I got older, and the rest is just history.”
Gina tilted her gaze towards Aurion, and returned the question, “Have you always looked like this?”
"Where?" He looked at her for a long moment, thinking back to what he had said. "Oh, Sanctuary. Where I live. Cooks really good. Nice people." Aurion knew his speech was bad sometimes, and he hated it. It made him feel stupid and he was sure it made him sound it too. He was thankful that most mutants seemed to overlook it, glaze over it, ignore it, or down right not notice it (outwardly at least). He wasn't sure why, but the most he seemed to get from them was just as Gina had done, ask for clarification.
He was also thankful that Gina didn't take any offense to his much tripped over question. In his time at Sanctuary, he had noticed that though mutants like him, the completely inhuman, were rare, there were many that were like Gina, mild to heavy physical mutations, and many of those were sensative about it. So sensative that they seemed, well, irritated and mad would be putting it lightly.
Pointing to her skin, "If not stone, does feel like stone?" He was curious about that because it was something he wouldn't be able to know himself, ever. His scaled body prevented that. "Do think horns keep growin? Get bigger?" Aurion wasn't sure how those kinds of things worked, and if she hadn't changed too much since she had been born, maybe he wouldn't change more than he already had.
A bit lost in thought it took Auiron a moment to realize she had asked him a question. "Ah..No." He said shaking his massive head. "I maybe 11..12? Can't remember. Went," He pointed a finger at his head and made a circular motion, for crazy, "Like this after. Didn't know mutant was till bit ago. Thought I only one different." He gave her what he hoped was a happy smile.
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Gina nodded as Aurion explained this “Sanctuary” to her, inclining her head politely, as if to show that she was listening. It couldn’t have been a restaurant that Aurion was talking about. That was too odd of a name for a restaurant. Perhaps it was some sort of haven for mutants—some sort of hostel—like the Mansion! The thought was so sudden and exciting to the young gargoyle, that her inquiry all-but spilled out of her mouth.
“Like a mutant sanctuary?” Gina inquired, a smile illuming her face, “I go to school at one of those, I didn’t know there were others!”
As another question was sent her way, Gina felt her own hand contemplatively, murmuring, “No, not stone. Just tougher than normal. Leathery. My horns have been the same size for quite a while.”
Aurion began to talk about his own mutational experiences, how he’d shifted at a young age, went slightly crazy, and came out the way he was now. He hadn’t known he was a mutant, just unique.
“Yeah, kids who grow into mutations always seem to have a tougher time,” Gina breathed, nodding her head sagely. Gina had been a freak for her entire life, and she wore it like a badge of pride, “Spend their whole life being one way, before turning into something much different. I’d probably have a nervous breakdown if I woke up human one day.”
She laughed. It was so contrary to how must people though, but this was Gina’s perspective. She was okay with who she was, and the idea of being a human mortified her. She didn’t hate humans, she just couldn’t imagine being one. Couldn’t imagine what life would be without flight, without her own, distinctive looks.
Gina finally quelched her thirst, and righted herself with a sigh of, “Ah, better.”
Her eyes skirted around the park. The sun has set enough that it had fallen into the tall shadows of the buildings surrounding it, and darkness was nearly there. Gina would have to fly home and do so fast, or catch a bus. Her eyes spied a group of questionable-looking men, and a frown touched her face. They were scrutinizing Aurion and Gina with a malevolent air, and something simmered in Gina’s stomach that screamed for them to carry on in a different direction than from the one they’d come from.
“Thirsty?” Gina asked, touching Aurion’s arm and gesturing towards the water fountain.
Aurion's head tilted sharply, his mouth slightly agape, when Gina said she went to a school that was like the Sanctuary. A place for mutants. "Yes," He said slowly still surprised. "I not know there more. Friend showed me there after human give us...trouble. Took me in, no ask questions, treat like...good friends." His face was full of a genuinely wide, soft (for him) smile. After a few moments, he stuck out his bottom lip a bit as a thought came to him. "You have go school to be at.." He trailed not recalling if she had mentioned the school's name or not, "School place?" Another slight pause before he spoke in a soft voice, remembering, "I not go school in...six...seven years? Not since change."
Aurion had a slight pang of loss as Gina described how her skin felt, he assumed her wings were much the same, they looked like they would. He would never know what anyone felt like, or anything for that matter. He couldn't feel anything anymore, not through his thick scales, and dragging his claws along something didn't really tell him much And he couldn't really do that with people. Even though she said her skin was tougher than normal, he was sure his sharp claws could cut into her skin, or at the very least give her a very visible scratch that would probably bleed a bit.
"I think be weird be human 'gain after being mutant. Probably put me nut house," He chuckled a bit forcefully, "I feel naked I think, weak, vun..vulr...hurt easy." Aurion visibly shivered. It hadn't been easy, or pleasant, but he had gotten use to what he had become and couldn't think of being human anymore, because he wasn't. The though of him being human gave him a bad taste in his mouth.
It wasn't that Aurion wasn't paying attention or that he hadn't noticed the humans, but it hadn't given him cause for concern. At least not until Gina had touched his arm, of course he didn't actually feel her so much as feel the pressure of her touch. He glanced at her then to the fountain, then around their current area. The group of humans had come closer since he had last noticed them. Close enough to catch a few words that carried through the air. He moved to the fountain so he could watch the men. Opening his large mouth he turned the water on, letting it fall into his now wide, very toothy mouth, and kept his eyes on the men.
"...disgusting freaks, gonna have'ta tear that thing down now." "Or sanitize that s**t, can'..." The man was cut off by another jabbing an elbow into his ribs. "You can't clean anything good 'nough to get rid the filth after muties touched it. Prolly tainted the water now too." Aurion didn't like how the humans were talking about them, but it was fairly normal behavior, though it didn't stop his hand from gripping the fountain hard, bending the metal a bit.
The tall of them spoke up, "Ya know, my dad's got a rifle I could swipe..." "Have us a little fun mutie huntin, I like the sound of that." "Like that buggy mutie that we squished!" He laughed, "I'm pretty sure we could stuff and mount the big one there." "Pfft, I don't know about you, but I'm thinking of stuffin and moutin someone else." He man said as he leered at Gina. The other humans gave him an odd look before laughing.
Aurion's grip tore into the fountain, crushing and tearing it. Water started spraying out from the destroyed thing as Aurion moved between Gina and the humans. The more burly of the men stepped in front of the others, "Look she's got a guard dog." As he took some sort of fighting stance, a younger man from the group pulled out a gun and aimed it at Gina. "Jesus Christ man! Where you been hiding that?! Put it away!" The younger man didn't seem to care as he pulled the trigger.
Aurion had just enough time to stand and get his body to cover all of Gina's own. The small caliber bullet hit him in the chest, a little below his heart. The thing didn't have enough stopping power to even push Aurion back, but he could feel the impact. A growl grew in the big mutant. He could easily kill all of them, and wanted to, but he had a sinking feeling that Gina would get hurt. She didn't seem to have any physical protection.
Still holding the torn off chunk of the water fountain he flung it at the one with the gun as quick and hard as he could. As soon as it left his hand, Aurion turned. With a quick sweep of his tail he picked Gina up under her legs and caught her in his arms. He hoped it hadn't been too rough and that he hadn't hurt her wings. He tried to keep her covered with his body as much as he could as he ran full speed out of the park.
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It was as if the two mutants had just discovered that the other was a lifelong Girl Scout. Except… well… Aurion was a guy. Gina shrugged her shoulder, smiling as Aurion explained how he’d come to his Mansion.
“My friend’s father gave me a brochure to the school,” Gina said simply, “I was living in-hiding up until that point in time, because of the Registration, and I just never went back to school,” More questions followed, trickling out of Aurion’s mouth. Gina shook her head, “No. I mean… there’s short-term rooms for mutants with nowhere to go. And, there are some adults that live there, too.” Superheroes, Gina nearly murmured, before swallowing that term quickly. Even if everyone had a hunch that the X’s were there, no one talke about it to outsiders, much.
Aurion explained how strange it would be to be human once more, and Gina nodded, “Me too.”
It was difficult for the conversation to carry on much farther than that when the humans drew within earshot. Gina had uttered a question to Aurion, but it went unanswered. He seemed to notice the approaching band of men. Aurion hazarded to take a drink, and Gina acted as a lookout, brown eyes peering towards them openly. These ones were true pieces of work, talking about what they’d have to do to clean the water fountain. This threw off all kinds of bad vibes, and Gina’s stomach knotted. The sooner they left, the better. Aurion fastened onto the water fountain, claws warping the metallic sides.
“Steady, Aurion,” Gina cautioned coolly, her tone wavering slightly, “They’re just punks, just talking. We get people like this in my hometown all the time.”
Their conversation took a darker turn as they drew closer, and Gina started to edge behind Aurion, her throat tightening against a rising sickness. She was getting freaked-out, and though she was innocent and kind-of clueless, Gina had a feeling that they all wanted Aurion and Gina dead.
“We should go,” Gina squeaked, “Aurion, we should get out of here, now.”
It was about that time that Aurion absolute tore the water fountain apart, wedging himself between Gina and the men. Her adrenaline spiked, urging her to bolt now, but she wouldn’t leave without the certainty that the other mutant would leave. One of the men drew a gun, and the adrenaline that hammered through the young girl’s head made the moment pass in slow motion.
Oh God, was the only thought that crossed Gina’s mind, Oh God, not again.
The man pulled the trigger, and Aurion rose to his full height, taking the bullet, and Gina tried to cry out for help, but she hadn’t the air in her lungs to scream. Instead, he wheezed, tears springing to her eyes. She ducked, hands pulling over her head protectively as if the duck-and-cover would do her good. Gina choked for a second, and then she screamed.
“No!” she yelled, expecting the other mutant to fall, “I hope you humans… rot! I hope you rot!”
Her voice was full of pain, but Aurion never fell. His snarl absorbed her hoarse, horrified shout. He wasn't dead. Aurion lobbed a chunk of water fountain at the man, before quickly turning towards Gina. She was in too much of a shock to cry, or to scream anymore.
Her eyes were wide and tearful, and she found herself powerless to fight back as the reptilian man caught her with his tail and scooped her into his arms before breaking into a sprint. Gina clamped her wings to her back, her arms reflexively twisting around the man’s neck.
Her expression was hollow, perhaps a touch astonished, but numb overall. That was the second time that she’d looked death in the eyes. The second time she’d been at the business-end of a gun and hadn’t met her maker. Gina shuddered, her hold on the other mutant tightening. The park slipped away around them and the cityscape arose. The surroundings weren’t familiar to her.
The wound scraped-up against the gargoyle’s leg, the warmth cueing some form of a reaction. Gina made a disjointed observation, her breath hitching as she stated, “Oh my god… they shot you... You’re hurt... Where are we going?”
“We need to go to a doctor—there’s a doctor at my school who could help you,” Gina offered. But she had no idea where she was, so giving directions to her school wouldn’t be an easy… or even possible… task. It would take too long to get there. When she realized that she had no idea where they were, and that she was essentially powerless to help her new-found friend, tears managed to spill and Gina sucked air into her lungs.
Her arms were shaking, as was the rest of her petite form, and she clung protectively to the essential stranger, anxiety taking a strong toll upon her rationale.
“Y-y-you don’t have to carry me,” Gina stammered, “I’ll follow you. To the nearest doctor’s. No- we should stop and find someone to help us near here."
The vice-like embrace around the other mutant's neck spoke volumes that were contrary to what Gina had said.
Aurion was torn as his feet pounded along the ground. On one hand he wanted to get Gina away from the humans, far away, and make sure she was okay; On the other, he wanted nothing more than to put her down, where she could see, go back and tear all of them to pieces. Wanted to leave their body parts strewn around the park. 'F**king humans! I'm gonna kill'em!' That ran through his head over and over and over ahead in an extremely fast loop that seemed to overlap itself many times.
It was't until they had made it past the park and he had scaled a somewhat shorter building, like one of those funny looking lizards that run across water, did he hear Gina. She was clinging so tightly to him that he was sure if he had been human, she would be suffocating him. As softly as he could, "Gina, Gina. S'ok. Gina, shhhh." He tried to stroke her back with his thumb as best he could. "I ok. Are you ok? You hurt?" Aurion tried to pull his head back from her so he could get a better look at her, but her grip didn't really allow it.
Aurion couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "It not shotgun, I okay. I hate shotgun. They hurt, that thing like...pea shooter." With each breath he took he felt something...stuck to him. It wasn't painful, or really uncomfortable. It was like the itch in the middle of your back you couldn't reach, or not being able to recall something when it's right there in your mind, just out of reach. The spot was near her leg, and he didn't think it would be...polite to try figure out what it was at the moment, especially with what the humans had been saying. Aurion may not look at women the way others his age did, he had no sexual thoughts towards them, hardly noticed it really, but he sure as hell understood what they had been insinuating.
"It okay, I no mind carry you. It no trouble." He smiled at her. Picking her up with his tail was one thing, it was strong in and of itself, but it couldn't compare to the strength his own body possessed. Gina was very light, she didn't seem to weigh much at all in his arms. Aurion oriented himself in the direction he knew would take him home. "We can go Sanctuary. Safe, calm. It not too far." He rested his head on hers gently as he gave her, what he hoped was, a light comforting squeeze.
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The reptilian man scaled a squat building (at least, squat by New York standards), and only paused atop the building’s roof. It was only then that he registered Gina’s confused complaints, the trembling, the tears, and the overall state of things. And, for a man who’d just been shot, Aurion handled things rather well. His rubbed her back reassuringly, muttering her name and trying to silence her, trying to calm her. Gina swallowed the anxious babbling that kept bubbling forth, but she couldn’t stop the shaking. She rubbed her eyes against her own forearm, and breathed a shaky sigh. Aurion assured her that he was fine, asking if the younger of the two was okay, or if she was hurt.
Gina didn’t release him.
“I saw you get shot,” Gina murmured. This earned a faint laugh, and more reassurances. And as he spoke, Gina managed to loosen her vice-like grip on the lizard-man. She unfolded herself, and as she did, she slid free of his grasp, watery brown eyes surveying Aurion as he gave her excuses about how only shotguns hurt him.
“I-I want to see it,” Gina insisted, her voice wavering as she mopped at her eyes, “Come on.”
Gina cursed inwardly at her own panic. She hadn’t been the one who’d been shot, so why was she getting so incredibly scared? She probably looked like a fool, with how she was trembling and clinging and crying. Gina dropped her gaze as Aurion countered that it wasn’t a problem to carry her. They could go to the Sanctuary, where it was safe.
Gina nodded in muted agreement.
“Maybe… yeah… yeah, maybe there I can look at a map, figure out where to fly to get back to my school,” she murmured, And get home before Agnes freaks. Ginas’ eyes watered at the thought of Agnes. Her sister would know that something had happened inherently, and then Gina would have to tell her… she’d probably never be permitted to leave the room again. Her thoughts reeled as Aurion gave her a light hesitant hug, and Gina shifted her gaze towards his face.
“Let me see where you were hit,” the gargoyle insisted. She wouldn’t give it a rest until she saw with her own eyes that her cohort wasn’t bleeding to death.
Aurion looked at Gina with a somewhat odd expression. ' "I saw you get shot." What does she mean by that? Yeah they shot at me and it hit. Had she never seen that before? Or been sho..No I doubt that. That doesn't fit her, a gunshot victim...Naaw. I figured it was fairly normal for mutants like me to get shot at. Well, not that there are many like me, even Gina could pass as human, maybe.'
Sighing a little he let Gina down to the roof of the building, not letting her go completely until he was sure she could stand steadily. "Okay, I show." He moved a step or so away from her. Looking down he flexed the muscles in his chest and abdomen trying to pinpoint where the odd pressure was. "See, no blood. Not hurt." He tilted to the side a bit and ran one clawed hand over the area where he was sure the feeling was coming from. 'There!' He thought to himself as he found where bullet had gotten stuck under one of his scales.
Holding his fin against his body under the area, he pried the squashed and deformed piece of metal from his scales letting it fall to land on his fin. Cupping his fin a bit he moved it closer to Gina so she could see. "Scales tough, hard to..break." He gave Gina a smile. "No worry, but thank you."
Reaching out with his hand, he went to brush a knuckle against her cheek. "Are. You. Okay? Not hurt?" She still hadn't answered his question.
"I carry you to Sanctuary. We have bacon steak maybe?" He was trying to lighten the mood as best he knew how.
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Gina watched as the reptilian man complied, prodding for the bullet. Now that they were on the roof, and Gina was standing back to survey the damage, she noticed there was not blood, as a matter of fact. After a brief search, Aurion pried the bullet free, moving it closer to the young gargoyle for her inspection. Gina was still shaking, but she wasn’t crying.
There it was—a contorted pile of metal, tiny and insignificant in the fin of Aurion’s tail. It was most definitely a bullet. Gina refused to touch it, but breathed a shaky sigh. Okay, she saw it. It was a bullet, but there was no blood. He was okay.
“Bulletproof,” Gina finally acknowledged, in agreement, rubbing her shoulder as she tried to swallow her fear. Of course she was worried, she couldn’t help but to worry. But… he wasn’t hurt. Aurion touched her face lightly, and Gina tilted her gaze towards him. She smiled, the anxiety still flickering beneath the surface of her expression.
“I’m okay,” Gina confirmed, patting his hand, “Not hurt.”
Aurion decided that they would pay a visit to the Sanctuary, and maybe grab some bacon steak to eat before sending the gargoyle on her way. The gargoyle nodded her head slowly in agreement. Bacon steak. Sure. Besides, Agnes couldn’t be too angry at her for going to a “sanctuary” right? Gina shifted her weight, and nodded more assuredly, mopping at her eyes.
Now that they weren’t fleeing from psychotic gun-toting humans, Gina didn’t see being carried as wholly necessary as before. But her limbs wouldn’t stop shaking, which meant flying might be pitchy. And could she really keep pace with him, if she didn't really know where they were going. She wasn't as self-conscious about being carried as others might be-- maybe because, if she'd been any stronger, Gina might carry someone when she was in flight.
“Okay,” Gina agreed, “Let’s get this show on the road.”
Aurion wished he was bulletproof. He remembered the first time he stood up to someone wielding a shotgun. Gods above that had hurt. If it wasn't for the adrenaline that slammed through him he didn't think he would have done more than whimper and curl into a ball. It hadn't been a slug, thankfully, and his scales had absorbed most of it, but the impact! Pain was a great motivator, and it had motivated him to learn quick that those things were meant to be avoided, and to kill the bastard who pointed one at him as fast as possible. Anytime he saw a shotgun now, a slight phantom pain blossomed across his chest where he had been hit.
The lizard man found himself smiling and feeling better and better. He liked it much better when Gina smiled opposed to her crying and upset. Some women look pretty or somehow look good while crying, Aurion didn't really think that was the case with Gina. It seemed to him those feelings shouldn't touch the girl in front of him, it didn't seem right to him. Some things just shouldn't happen, things like parents beating and torturing their children, adults abducting children and selling the, like the guy who would have gotten Chase, mutants being murdered, excluded, forced to live like lepers in the human's word. Or Gina shedding tears that were not tears of joy.
Aurion gave Gina a broad smile when she agreed to go to Sanctuary. He didn't really care if she didn't eat, or if she coming with so she could figure out how to get back to her school. He wanted to get her away from the park and to lighten the mood. He waited for her to ready herself before he crouched down a bit and put one arm around her. "Hold on." He said as he looked at her. When she was ready Aurion aimed them towards street edge of the building that would take them towards Sanctuary. "Ready?" When she was he ran and jumped off the building into the street, to pound pavement to Sanctuary.
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The petite gargoyle was once again gathered into the mans' arms, and Gina had already begun to wrap her arms around his neck before Aurion could even shift her into one arm and caution her to hold on. Flying off of buildings meant one thing, but diving off of them was something else entirely. They weren't flying. In fact, Gina was fastened to something that looked like it couldn't or shouldn't have been able to take to the air. She was not in control, as she always was, and that made her very nervous.
>> "Ready?"
Gina shifted her gaze towards he lizard man, before quietly nodding her head, and replying, "Okay. Yeah, I'm ready."
Aurion bounded into action, scampering along the roof and leaping off the side, descending down the face of the building towards the sidewalk. Gina tensed her hold on the lizard-man, averting her eyes from the impending ground-plane. Aurion leapt off of the side wall and onto the sidewalk down below. And, once she wasn't facing the fear of falling, Gina loosened her hold slightly, and lifted her gaze, her eyes taking in the unfamiliar network of avenues. Things fell into a sort of pattern, Aurions' heavy footfalls falling to the pavement fluidly, in a steady stacatto. It became a pattern, as Gina focused on the sound, and before long, the pattern was interrupted.
They came to a halt, and Gina looked up, her eyebrows stitiching. Before them loomed what seemed to be an neormous church with golden doors. That felt a little ostentatious, for a shelter of homeless mutants.
"Is that it?" Gina murmured, consulting her reptilian cohort.