[Cross Fox] A Bear, A Fox, and an Idiot

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"I think it is the next street over. Keep going." Milk said, patting the giant bear she was sitting on as they moved slowly down the street. Cell phones littered the area as people took videos or pictures of this bus sized beast carrying a woman. The woman in question was Milk, who was looking at a piece of paper with printed out directions to a location just on the edge of the underground. She had finished training with Murphy, and had found his wallet left behind on the dirt. She didn't actually know where he lived, but he had mentioned working at some place called...'The Cross Fox'.

Milk had never heard of it, but directions were easy enough to come by once she asked enough people. She and Bear eventually came across a large red-brick building, large columns holding wrought-iron braziers.

"This looks like the place."

The stoic woman murmured to herself as she slipped off Bear's back, looking at the logo that her directions described. The people in line were staring at the unlikely duo of woman and bear, the bouncer pressing a few buttons on what looked like a cell phone, talking into it. Presumably he was alerting those inside that a woman showed up on a Dire bear.

Milk frowned as she looked at the door, turning to Bear. "You are too big to fit inside. Stay here. We will resume our training when I have concluded with this."

Bear raised a paw in acknowledgement, sitting on his haunches. "Gwar."

Milk strode into the building, brushing past the bouncer who made no move to stop her. If she was strong enough to make a Dire bear submit to her, there was no way in hell he was stopping her.

Once inside, Milk looked around, confused. She had no idea what she was looking at. Why were those people spinning on poles? Was this some form of training exercise? Or a class, perhaps. People were giving these young men and women money. Hm.

"Murphy works in a very strange place." She said to herself, looking around. The bone manipulator couldn't see the unlucky soul anywhere. "I wonder where he is?"

She certainly made a sight, standing near the center of the room, looking around with confusion on her face, no shoes and only bandages and a vest covering her upper body.

She might be mistaken for one of the dancers, if it wasn't for her lack of nipple pasties and general aura of strength. The woman definitely looked like she needed something though, it was only a matter of time before someone confronted her.

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After all of these years, Yoka still made an effort to actually work at her own club. It would be easy to micromanage, to take long trips away, to rely on her staff to do their job.

And oh! her staff were wonderful. They did their jobs.

It was just that, they were all so much younger than her. Yoka was used to time stretching into nothingness. But for her newer employees, her younger employees, time passed slower, and Yoka wanted to make sure she was seen as a significant figure during that time.

So here she was, on the floor, finishing up assisting the bar with stocking bright red cherries when she had a notification that there was a visitor who seemed a little...out of place.

It didn't take a genius to spot the tall, bandaged woman standing awkwardly in the center of the place. She was clearly not here to watch, and judging by her posture--even, that of a fighter, not a dancer--that she probably wasn't here seeking employment.

So Yoka was left to wonder what she was here for.

She approached the young woman. Yoka was in her normal guise,a beautiful young Japanese woman with long hair in a thin, sheer butterfly print kimono-style shirt that made it obvious that she was wearing bright scarlet underthings beneath it.

"Can I help you?" Yoka asked the young woman.
 

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Milk was pulled away from her confusion by hearing a voice, seemingly addressing her. The stoic woman turned to see who was talking to her, raising an eyebrow. A young Japanese woman, wearing...a weird blanket or something. Why did it look like that? Milk noticed the bright red underthings that Yoka was wearing, and became even more confused. From what Milk understood, people who wore things like that generally were not supposed to have them visible. Milk never understood why people wore stuff like that, it made it very hard to move and fight, in her opinion.

"Yes. I am looking for Murphy. Where is Murphy."

Milk spoke in her normal monotone, but with a hint of confusion lacing her words. She didn't break eye contact with the young woman in the strange outfit, her caramel brown orbs locked onto Yoka's own orange eyes. She crossed her arms across her chest and waited for a response.

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"Oh, Murphy?" Yoka grinned. She looked out over the poles. "I could never quite persuade him to get up on one of those for me."

She didn't really try to hard.

That's not to leave the impression that Yoka wasn't the sort of person who would let an opportunity to make someone squirm go by, but rather, she was saving it for a better opportunity. His services were especially valuable right now and she didn't want them to go to waste.

"What is your business with Murphy?" she asked, tilting her head to the side. She crossed her slender arms and pressed one finger against the bottom of her chin.
 

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Milk nodded, turning her head to look over the poles with Yoka. So Murphy had been asked to get onto one of these poles? Odd. Milk wouldn't recommend that for Murphy, he didn't have the leg strength that the people currently spinning on the poles did.

Milk wondered what the purpose of the poles were. Maybe the money was incentive for these people to spin faster? It would be something for her to ask Murphy about later. He did work in an odd place indeed. The tanned woman turned back to Yoka.

"He left something at training. I am going to return it. Where is Murphy." She replied in her normal monotone, her arms remaining crossed over her chest. This woman was rather strange, her outfit and her mannerisms. Milk could tell she was hiding something in the way she moved. It was too fluid, almost no energy wasted. This woman was trained in...something. Milk hadn't seen her move enough yet, but she knew that this woman was dangerous.

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Yoka began to understand.

Oh.

This woman was….Yoka didn’t know what word to use to describe what she suspected the woman was. Not all there was what she felt safest to think. It certainly explained her manner of speaking. Yoka could not tell for certain. In her many years, she’d been more focused on her own gain and wellbeing, not that of others, so medical school or mental health had never interested her.

“Murphy isn’t here.” Yoka said. She patted the woman on her arm. The woman was quite taller than Yoka was, but that wasn’t unexpected. Many people were. “Is whatever he left urgent that he has it immediately?”

She wouldn’t call Murphy or offer his number to this woman, even if it did seem like she knew him, because Yoka did believe in privacy.
 

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Sometimes you'd have a day where everything just went right. You got your work done, got to enjoy yourself and just felt a general sense of accomplishment and contentment with how things had gone your way.

This was not one of those days for Murphy.

He trudged up the street, soaked to the bone, his left pant leg shredded, bag missing and his shoes were nowhere to be found. He'd been fine with the hot water going out this morning, hell even losing his wallet hadn't bothered him THAT much, it wasn't like there was much in there anyways. What had really gotten the pain train rolling was when the baby hydra he'd adopted had escaped and ran rampant among a Siren concert along the shore. Long story short it was probably wise to avoid the beach for the foreseeable future.

Now, three hours late and on the verge of either exploding or breaking down he paused in front of the Cross Fox and made a laughable attempt to straighten himself up before entering. He gave the usual crew a polite greeting; the barkeep smoking in the alleyway, the giant of a bouncer at the door, the twelve foot bear sitting patiently at the- wait, what? A quick double take reassured him that it was indeed a bear, and moreso it was a very, VERY familiar bear. Milk was nowhere to be found which could only mean... oh... oh gods no...

He pushed his way into the club and forced himself to slow down and think. Why would Milk be here of all places? Hell, how did she FIND the place? Sure he'd told her he worked there, and MAY have exaggerated his importance there a TINY bit but he was fairly certain he'd never actually told her where it was. He found her talking to a dancer he didn't immediately recognize but then again there were more than a couple of workers who could alter their forms, not least of all was the boss lady herself which always made it a bit awkward striking up a conversation with anyone. He drifted to a stop a few yards away, making a half-ass attempt at remaining inconspicuous.

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Milk tensed up when Yoka made a move to pat her arm, unsure of what the smaller woman was attempting to do. Milk's bone armor shifted into position, forming almost instantly when Yoka's arm started to move, leaving Yoka patting what felt like solid steel with a layer of skin stretched over it. Yokas keen eyes would likely see Milks skin shift slightly as the bones shifted under her skin to form her armor.

The stoic woman would nod at Yoka's question, her chocolate eyes never leaving Yokas. "Yes. It is. Where is Murphy." She asked again, her monotone voice completely unfitting to her current surroundings.

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Outside the Club, Bears POV
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Loud. Smelly. Weak.

These were Bears thoughts as he waited outside the club for Milk to return. The dire bear was getting many a strange glance from people in line, as well as the crew. He growled at the few people who tried to approach him, and eventually they stopped, just glancing nervously at him from time to time.

Bear lifted his head and sniffed the air, swiveling his head.

Not food.

Bear had smelled Murphy and was looking at him. The bear lifted one of his paws and growled in greeting, recognizing Murphy as one of the few bipeds he had any form of respect for.

It was true that that respect was mainly because the unlucky soul hung around Milk, but it was still respect.

Sort of.

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To her credit, Yoka's eyes caught Murphy's approach but she didn't train her head to look at him and draw attention to his arrival. Instead, they dropped back to the young woman's arm.

Damn. She felt...

What was the words the kids were using now? Thic??

"Only Murphy knows where he is or is not right now," Yoka said. She crossed her arms and then drummed her painted red nails across her elbow. "Is an alternative course for you to perhaps leave the item Murphy left behind with me?"

She had no idea what this woman's relationship to Murphy was.

Actually, it rather surprised her that Murphy had a relationship of some kind with this woman. She was under the impression that, with his, well, luck (or lack of it) he probably did something dramatic and maybe untowards this woman that was actually a misunderstanding.

Judging by the woman's arm though she'd be able to snap him like a stick, and Yoka rather liked her employees.
 

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After only a few moments of trepidatious observation, Murphy relaxed a little. He was almost sure that the worker was Yoka and she of all people would likely be able to handle Milk's... unique personality. After all, there weren't many things a century old... spirit? Demon? Goddess? Meh, whatever she was... couldn't handle, although he grinned as the conversation kept coming to abrupt halts as Milk's brevity shone.

The grin quickly turned to panic as he recognized the subtle movements beneath his friend's skin. Months of training had taught him that it meant she was armoring up, and things that made her armor up tended to end up in trauma. He squelched up behind Milk quickly and put a hand on her shoulder perhaps a little more heavily than he meant. "Easy there, Milk. She doesn't mean any harm, I'd like to introduce you to my employer Miss Yoka..." Crap... he'd forgotten his own boss's last name.

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