Bones to Pick [Kai/Horus]

In Japan, more specifically Kyoto, the strangest individuals were those who dressed oddly or had some sort of weird power or ability. In the business sector, which is where a young man named Jian Yijun spent most of his time, "strange" wasn't really a thing. People bustled about busily wearing drab suits and carrying black or brown suitcases. Not exactly anything the average person would look twice at. Though for someone like Jian this was a great benefit of living here as strange sometimes meant bad, but for someone only in his mid-20's it wasn't exactly the most fun environment ever.

For the past two days Jian "Kai" Yijun had been vacationing in a foreign land, something he had not done since he was just a boy. Though usually Kai would detest spending time away from work, as of late he'd been desperate for any kind of thrill or something to give him some meaning outside of just career success. This is what led him to move outside his comfort zone, traveling to a resort in Mexico for week of relaxation and exploration.

The marketplace near the resort was swarming with tourists and locals alike, all flitting about searching for a great deal or some trinket to take home. Dry heat radiated from the bright fireball in the sky, blanketing the city in sunlight and near-desert warmth. Dust shot up from behind the wheels of cars as they drove on the hot concrete caked in dirt. The roads were in good shape despite the old, crumbling sidewalks on either side of them.

It was on one of these streets Kai found himself confronted with a rather peculiar scene: What seemed to be a skeleton man wearing a hoodie, shorts, and most strangely a pair of slippers, was looming over a very young, sobbing child. With a, by any definition of the word, creepy smile on the skeleton's face it seemed as if it might be attacking the boy.

What on earth... Kai acted quickly, drawing forth a small handheld device in the shape of a cylinder from the left side inner pocket of his jacket. Using the band on the gadget, he strapped it to his left wrist and pressed a button on its end in a single smooth motion. This caused the machine to flash a light for about a half second while at the same time another light flashed in Kai's right hand causing a futuristic black handgun to appear in said hand. In a few more seconds the young man clad in a green suit cut the distance between himself and his target to just a few yards, after which he lifted the gun and aimed it directly at the skeleton in front of him. "Hey! Whoever, whatever, you are! Stop what you're doing or I'll shoot!"

Kai kept staring at the strange skeleton man in front of him as its bony hands reached into the sky signifying his surrender. Thankfully it seemed this creepy thing understood the situation it was in and didn't plan on going down fighting. This very much pleased Kai as he wasn't exactly a trained warrior or anything even remotely similar. To him an end to conflict before it even really begins would be the optimal result of his interference in this rather strange situation.

Unfortunately things would not go as smoothly as Kai had hoped. In the blink of an eye the skeleton man had disappeared and then reappeared just a few inches away from the young man. Kai watched as the skeleton flicked chips of what seemed to be bone at him, both of which grew rapidly. One knocked his right hand away and prevented him from reacting with the gun he held while the other hit Kai's chin and knocked his head up, causing pain to reverberate through his jaw.

Again his opponent moved quicker than his eyes could keep up with, this time giving him a good position to send three more bone chips at Kai which promptly grew and elongated around him. Though still reeling a bit from the earlier attack, Kai was a bit more ready this time which gave him just barely enough time to reactivate the device still strapped to his left wrist. This time a light flashed in his left hand right before a magnificently ornate guandao, or polearm type weapon, appeared where the light had been. This tremendous weapon was both durable and sharp allowing it to survive in harsh combat like this specific instance.

Dropping low, Kai lifted his right hand and shot an energy-infused round from his handgun right through one of the bones that was growing around him. This weakened the calcified object created by his enemy enough for Kai to break right through it by swinging his other weapon, Erphtal, at it. The moment this happened Kai sent the legendary Chinese weapon back into his wrist device and dove out of the "teepee" the skeleton had tried constructing around him through the newly opened gap. At the end of this dive Kai positioned himself in one smooth motion so he was now kneeling on his right knee facing the skeleton man and as fast as he could lifted his handgun up and aimed a shot directly at the creature's right leg, hoping to slow the thing down without necessarily killing, or he figured killing again, it.

After listening to the skeleton man introduce himself as Sonny, Kai was a little caught off-guard. This entire time the weirdo standing in front of him, who just dodged a frickin bullet, had been making bad puns and acting like an actual person. The young man had not stopped to consider maybe what he had first seen to draw himself into this situation wasn't quite what he thought. Maybe Sonny hadn't been scaring the boy, maybe the kid was just being a toddler. You know, like toddlers do. It's not like Sonny had really tried to kill anyone yet, and Kai had no doubt in mind if the skeleton wanted to kill him he'd be able to.

He didn't really have time to sit around debating with himself though as Sonny created more of his little super-grow bone chips above and below him. Knowing what would happen if he sat around and allowed himself to get caught between them, Kai immediately dodged out of the way by running away from the scene until reaching the corner of a building only a few meters away. Kai peered around the corner and observed what would have happened had he stayed as the bones grew to full size. He shuddered at what he saw. If he got caught again by Sonny's bones he would likely be crushed or taken out of the equation entirely. Scary stuff... Kai thought to himself.

Static seemed to appear in mid-air above his opponent, and the only thing Kai thought was this skeleton man had more up his sleeves than just bones. That is of course until a strange-looking white haired man appeared and, almost comically, dropped to the ground. Is...is he sleeping? This wasn't some ordinary man, though this was perhaps abundantly clear merely because of how he entered the fray. When Kai looked at him he got a sinking feeling as the man seemed to give off a sinister aura even while apparently napping. "I'm in way over my head." he mumbled to himself.

Taking stock of the current situation he had somehow landed himself in, Kai thought about what he could to get out or resolve it. If he just ran away he would probably survive, but if his initial assessment about Sonny was correct then that little kid would still be in serious trouble. Running back in wasn't really an option either as the skeleton was clearly his superior in combat and this newcomer seemed pretty dangerous to and he hadn't even woken up yet. The only option was a surprise attack, something that could at least remove this new obstacle before things really got messy.

With this in mind Kai shifted so he was no longer behind the building corner and was aiming his high-powered handgun at his enemy again. This time however the barrel of his M-13 Mantis was lined up square with the newcomer's head, a shot Kai could easily make with good accuracy from where he was. Squeezing the trigger, a loud BANG! resounded through the area as an energy-coated round capable of damaging fearsome spiritual beings launched from Kai's weapon at over two thousand kilometers an hour directly at the white-haired man's head. Kai sincerely hoped this would hit...