At the Beach [Open][NR]

A fight against a gang of Werewolves in the jungle. It was going to probably be one of many episodes that he'd save in the memory banks of his armor suit. Stretch was sure to like watching that, but he probably be watching the part where he was following Cala here the most, the perv. He wasn't yakking away in his ear telling him to tell Cala to pull her shirt up, so he wondered where the fat boy was.

After re-tracing his steps through the jungle back to the beaches, Vigilante slid to a stop, storing away his armor within it's housing which was clipped conveniently on the side of his dark blue knee length swim trunks where one would have to look hard to see it. Even if they did manage to catch a glimpse, no one would know what the device was. He straightened his black wife beater and situated his feet in either of the black sandals on his feet. Lastly Matt pulled from his backpack a dark blue sun hat, putting it on his head. The sun hat had the ears of a bear, similar looking to his Gengar hoodie. His Company Pendant on the necklace glinted from the sun. He looked down at himself, averagely muscular but not bodybuilder built.

It was hot as hell and time for 2 days of vacation on a beach, stuffing his face with foods, and possible alone time between he and Cala. While walking toward the areas where the mini bars and such were located he adjusted his Nanoid sunglasses, which gave him the same functions that the heads-up display in his armor suit did. The sunglasses looked just as ordinary ones did. The beach was live with people having a great time; the water somewhat crowded with people, mostly kids. "Fun" just hovered within the atmosphere, and one couldn't help but grin and feel great hearing all the joy and laughter about.

Matt stopped to just stare at it all. If Cala wasn't next to him he was sure she was somewhere nearby, and finding her through his scanner took but a thought...

Cala had paused as they walked out of the jungle and back onto the beach, to take in the sight of everything. She had been to a beach before, but it had been an awfully long time since the last time she had done so. She slipped out of the sneakers she was wearing and stored them nearby; not really caring if they got stolen, or lost, since she could just replace them later on. She walked barefoot after Matt, following him.

She threw her tank top into the nearest trash can since it was ripped to shreds and otherwise pointless to keep, leaving her in her jean short shorts, and blue bikini top that matched the color of the ocean on a bright and sunny day. She took a moment to wiggle her toes in the sand, enjoying the warm soft feeling of it rubbing against her flesh, before she took to following after Matt again.

She reached into her pocket, pulling out a cellphone. She sent two quick text messages; one to Amaranth to inform her about the werewolves being taken care of and that some clean up was needed, and the other to her sister, ensuring she was still alright, before she slipped the device back into her pocket. "So! What do you want to do first?", she asked Matt, grinning as she caught up to him and walked beside him. She was rather excited about all of this: the vacation, the atomosphere that was filled with excitement and fun, and most of all being able to spend several days with Matt without a care in the world or a responsibility in sight now that the werewolf problem had been taken care of.

He kind of felt like he was in a dream. All of this seemed too perfect, especially seeing Cala showing off so much skin now. The Nanoid sunglasses zoom in to take note of all of her lines, curves and dimples in close sun shinny detail. Wow...she was in great shape to be over 400 years old. He kind of imagined something like a mummy but her body was young like a girl close to his age.

Yes, staring at cleavage and bare stomach and thighs was an awesome thing, and he was fine doing just that. But just standing here staring with the zoom on would look wrong. He thought of many things to do with her, yes many things, but those things he could only do in his imagination for now.

"It doesn't matter to me, we can do anything," he responded. "2 whole days here. What do you want to do first?"

Cala grinned slightly; she had a feeling that he was checking her out behind those sunglasses, and she couldn't really bring herself to care. A soft giggle escaped her. As she had been waiting for his response she remembered something that she had wanted to do after that whole issue with Xan and being kidnapped, but had never got the chance to do with all of the go-go-go they had been doing since leaving the Massage Parlor.

"I think I know what I want to do first... because I haven't yet got a chance to do so, even though you rescued me..."

She moved closer as she spoke, just as she had before when she had given him a hug for helping Devon back in Darkman Tower. She lightly and slowly placed her arms around his neck as she moved closer, and then brought her head forward, pressing her lips against his as her body rested up against his own. It was the perfect place after all, nice island paradise, for a first kiss. She kept the kiss going for several seconds before she moved back, breaking the kiss. Her hands folding behind her as a grin slowly spread across her face once more.

It couldn't have happened at a better time. This day would forever be with him, burned into his memory. Fighting through 3 floors of Gangsters and beating up a gang of Werewolves was all worth it in the end, to have his first kiss in paradise. He put his hands on her sides when she came close, tilting his head opposite of hers, and tried his best to go along with her lips while they were pressed up against his own.

In his mind, Bullet Time seemed to make the kiss and the moment pressed up against her last much longer than it actually did. Like last time but moreso worse this time, she created a growth below. He knew she would likely feel what she'd done but this time he didn't care.

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When she pulled away and grinned, so did he, putting his hands into the pockets of his swim trunks. He couldn't keep his eyes off of her, letting them travel up and down her torso. "I must have done something right in a past life," he said. "I don't think today could get any better, heh?"

Cala had felt the growth during their kiss, but she wasn't offended by it in the slightest: she was almost half naked after all, and she had pressed herself against him during that kiss. She bit her bottom lip for a moment, still grinning, and blushing lightly - her cheeks a light pink color. "I agree, today's been awesome..."

She glanced towards the water, noticing that most of the children were being rounded up by parents trying to get them 'home' for dinner, or otherwise before it got too dark. "So, why don't we go swimming? I can't promise we'll see any tropical fish - my inner predator tends to scare them away... but, still, could be fun." If he agreed, she'd be more than willing to follow him down to the waters edge; she figured the water would feel very nice, just like the sand felt.

This island was going to have to be a regular visited spot, that much was for sure...

That was nice. There would be chances to do that again. Maybe there would even be chances to french her. Matt hoped she didn't taste like blood though. That was unlikely. She wanted to go into the water, and Matt was all for that idea. A hot body soaking wet as well as half dressed was just more icing on the cake.

Yep, with no gangsters or jobs or freaks trying to pound him into hamburger, and 2 days in this place, he figured he might as well concentrate total attention towards Cala. All of the smooching, free feels and glimpses of body parts along the way were gonna be awesome, as long as something didn't happen to prevent or get in the way of this, which would suck.

He took off his backpack and Sun hat, leaving them somewhere out of the way where he could remember to come get them later on before moving toward the water line. The water was nice and warm, not too hot as he walked in. He walked in until he was up to his neck, navigating his way through children and adults playing. Matt made his way a distance out from everyone else, where it could be just he and Cala. It was a pretty shallow area with crystal clear water that let one looking see everything below as if through a giant magnifying glass.

"We are going to have to start coming here like, every weekend or something like that, I am in love with this place!"

Cala stopped by where he had left his backpack and sunhat and after a quick unbutton job, and a little shimmy of the hips to help get the jeans moving in the heat of the island, she removed her jeans since they'd be counter productive to swimming, and very uncomfortable to boot once they got wet. Now just in her bikini she followed Matt into the water, enjoying the sensation of the water lapping at her feet for a moment.

She kept following him, maneuvering around the adults and children who got into her way, noticing that any fish which had been nearby while she was on the sand began to flee from the natural predator vibe she gave off. After a moment of following via walking she dived beneath the surface, completely going beneath the surface of the water as she continued to follow Matt by swimming after him.

When he stopped she came back up for 'air', not wanting to draw unwanted attention by staying down beneath the surface for too long. She pushed the few loose strands of hair out of her face and grinned, just in time to hear him speak about coming back on the weekends. "Heh, I was thinking that myself. This place is just gorgeous. Amaranth sure does know how to make a paradise. I'm going to be the first vampire to ever get a tan, I swear."

His Nanoids moved away from his face when he went underwater himself, quickly returning to his bloodstream through very tiny entrances in his skin. Oh man, she was in nothing but the bikini now, the first Vamp to get a tan. His heart began to thump in his chest, visualizing himself running his hands all over her delicious looking flesh.

He swam beneath her staring long the entire time at under boob and between her legs, before coming up behind her and slipping his arms around her waist, pushing black hair out of his face beforehand. "So...400 years, Cala Jo," he began to say, his head close to the right side of her head and neck. "You must have had a few boyfriends in that time frame, maybe someone who can live forever like you too. Is some jealous Ex going to have hard feelings if he sees me with you?"

In the meantime while sparking a conversation that could lead to other things he took the opportunity to rub both of his hands up and down her sides and stomach; his fingers moving and examining the skin, remembering the touch. If she didn't swat them away and call him a pervert, that is.

Cala watched him disappear beneath the water to then swim around and up behind her. The grin that spread across her face this time was less crazed and more... well, filled with enjoyment. She was rather liking the attention Matt was giving her; especially as he began to speak from behind her and touch her again. It caused a feeling of butterflies to float up in her stomach; an enjoyable feeling.

She leaned backwards, lightly against him, and then tilted her head to rest it against his. "Nope, no jealous ex floating around in the shadows somewhere." She chuckled softly. "There's not a lot people willing to date a psychopath after all..." She placed her hands on his, keeping them pressed lightly against her flesh, another giggle escaping her. "That tickles." But, she didn't move his hands way, she enjoyed the touching, and wasn't about to put a stop to it.

"So, I should ask you the same thing... Do I have to worry about some random crazy chick coming out of the woodwork trying to pull my hair out or some other Jerry Springer type stuff?"

"You're the first girl who's ever let me get close to them like this," was his answer. "Everyone else, they just wanted me to do their homework for them or something like that...all nice and smiling and 'you're sooo smart!'...until they get what their after, then it's back to planet la la land and forgetting I even exist."

She didn't seem to mind him feeling and touching like he was, and had even leaned back into him. The side of her head resting on the side of his felt right. While within the embrace of his slightly muscular arms he'd continue to rub his hands lightly across the flesh of her stomach, feeling the vibrations of her giggles; the fingertips of his right hand briefly encountering the groove of the navel.

"I guess we've known each other for a while now, since you chased me down...Since you're asking me that, I suppose you wouldn't be opposed to the idea of... maybe me and you...You know. I mean, dating someone insane would rock ass, honestly. To me, at least..." A Vampire for a girlfriend. Making it official would definitely give him keys to unlock new doors, door that would let him into even cooler positions than the awesome one he was in now. It depended if she was for it or not...

She listened carefully as he explained that she was the first girl to ever let him get close like she was: she couldn't see why, he was a very nice guy, and she personally was enjoying his closeness. But, then she listened to him explain how the others just wanted to use him for his brain, and then screw his feelings and such in the end basically. She hated people like that, very much so. She knew those types: and she also knew that karma was a horrible bitch to them.

But, she couldn't focus much on the negative like that: not with his hands still exploring her stomach, which caused another giggle to escape her. "Well, those girls don't know what they were missing...", she said after a moment, before listening to him ask her officially to date him. Her grin spread across her face again. "I have no problem being your girlfriend, Matt. In fact, I've thought about it for a little while now, I just didn't say anything because I didn't want to scare you off." She had too, there was just something, or a lot of somethings if she was honest, that drew her to him in ways that no one else had in a very long time, if not for forever.

She pulled away only slightly, enough so she could turn her head and kiss him again without bumping her head against his. She reached backwards, lightly placing her hand against his neck as she did so.

He had a girlfriend that was older, faster, stronger and somewhat taller than he was. Where someone would see something wrong with that, he thought it was pretty cool. This had to be better than the suite, the job or the money he'd been given. Cala had to be the best prize thus far, and now she was all his officially. Honestly, he had been pretty scared at first, but that fear had now been replaced with something causing him to be poking hard at her behind while engaging in his second kiss with her.

He wasn't brave enough to move one of his hands south toward the love below yet, or northwards toward the ample peaks of her chest. He was content with rubbing wet lips together with intermingled bodies; his left hand atop her ribcage while she was turned, his right hand fingertips hovering just above the navel to touch lightly since she seemed to be ticklish there, listening to and manipulating her giggles.

While this close to her and with things official, some of the Nanoids that could manipulate themselves out of his bloodstream would leave Matt's body to enter into Cala's. Not many would make this journey, only several few. Cala would not be harmed at all by these several Nanoids, and most beings even with the most tuned senses would not even know they were there. This was just a way that Matt would always know where Cala was, no matter where she was on the planet Earth.

Cala knew that her grin, even through their kiss, wasn't going to go away for a very long time. She was overly happy about everything; Matt and her were officially an item. She was with the person she had been hoping to be with for a while now; Matt, who ran around in a suit like a superhero and beat the shit out of bad guys, who had helped her to create a special piece of armor, who had given up one of his secrets to ensure that her sister was safer and less breakable, who had saved a bank with her, then came running to her rescue when she had allowed herself out of stupidity and boredom to become kidnapped. But, above all... who made her happy.

A chuckle escaped her as she felt herself being poked from behind, and after another moment she pulled away gently, breaking the kiss. She hadn't felt the Nanoids enter into her, not that she had been able to pay much attention to anything besides that kiss, in fact she was sure the world could burst into flames and she wouldn't have even glanced its way at that point.

But, now that she had broken the kiss she could focus again. Not wanting to continue to put him into an 'uncomfortable' position she nodded further out towards the ocean. "Why don't we go look at some of the fish while we've got the chance to be here if any will come close while I'm around... before we have to head back to Edge since Xan wants to try and fight you."

There was another period of time spent where Bullet Time seemed to make touching lips with her a longer experience. He thought he better not get carried away with her out here, since there were kids around. There would be plenty of time to mess around with her in more detail later...

He began to head further out in the warm waters. "That Xan guy, what can you tell me about him? What should I expect?" Might as well get as much intel now as possible, as to have an idea of what's coming. "He was the leader of that Inc, that means he had to be pretty good, right?"

She followed him out deeper into the ocean, treading water as she did so. She could see a few more daring and very colorful fish swimming around beneath the surface: getting close to her and then darting off: as if testing the danger that they felt. At Matt's question she turned her mismatched gaze onto him.

"From what I can remember... Xan's very dangerous. Or at least he was, he might be more so now, or less. I dunno.. he didn't used to look like that. I remember he had these knives, and I guess, from what I was told and stuff, that when he licked the blood off of them he could absorb someone's power. So, he had a lot of tricks up his sleeve... But yeah, he's a hell of a lot stronger and faster than those goons that were hanging around."

She watched another fish dart closer to her and then swim off. "I suppose you should expect him to probably hit like a truck, and as fast as lightning... if he's still as good as he once was."

It sounded like he knew martial arts. He was probably a master at hand to hand and weapon combat. There was the strange ability to absorb things from other people by ingesting blood, so he'll use moves stolen from other people. He was a Human modified with bionics, so the guy would be judged about even with himself in terms of strength, but Matt figured he was faster than the old man. If he could land some hard, truck-like strikes of his own faster than the old man could dodge, that fight wouldn't last very long.

Instead of vacating when it came to Cala, some of the fish gathered around Matt, possibly due to his Good Heart. Some of the fish he'd never seen before, some of them able to change their colors. Sometimes it caused flocks of animals to be attracted to him, even if it was sometimes annoying. "If that guy and you used to be friends back in the day I can understand that, but he's going down. There's all kinds of back room dirty dealings going on in that place and he runs it all. They're not above kidnapping your loved ones and trying to lure you into traps either, i'm too far involved to stop now."

"I can't blame you for wanting to... the only reason I wanted you to stop when I said so was because I wanted to be able to give you the heads up about the guy before you went and attacked him. Other than that... if you want to go after Xan than go for it. Besides, after hearing some of the things I did while there, both of what all those idiots kept threatening to do to me, and the way they had talked like they had done those things to other females... well, they all need broken beyond repair in my mind."

She watched the fish converge around Matt and watched as several of them started to change colors: she wondered if Amaranth had created those particular fish, she did control everything else around here, so it wouldn't have surprised her that she had created some tropical fish that changed colors. "I just can't believe that he went to the dark side of things like that though... A crime boss..."

Something shiny caught her attention beneath the surface of the water and she dived under, swimming to the bottom. She picked up the shiny object, which happened to be silver teddy-bear shaped charm with a little hook on top where it had once been connected to a bracelet or anklet. Her head popped back up above the surface once more, her arm following as she dangled the thing in front of herself and stared at it, turning it in the sun as it glinted off of it. "Oooh, shiny."