Rise of the Omnimage

Kyrain found a stairwell, then opened his phone. He zoomed out to see the roof. Finding a clear spot in the satellite picture, he opened a rift and looked out. It was clear so he stepped through.

He sat down next to a vent and thought. He could try multiple different ways of going about this hunt. This person's last known address was here, but that didn't mean it was there currently address. He would need to do some fact finding, but he would have to be careful.

He found a nearby hotel where he would stay as he tracked down his POI. After checking in with a moniker, he placed what few belongings in the room with his packet in the safe then jumped to the top of the hotel in order to watch and wait to see if his target would show. If by a week of observation he found nothing, he would begin a new strategy.

- Nyx -

Nyxara, or Nyx as she was known, was on her way to New York City. Her target was a peculiar one. With a nullification path that nobody had ever seen. She took pride in the amount she knew of the system and paths, but in her years, she had never seen a nullification path or knew how it worked.

It was her Hunter program graduation exam hunt and they assigned her a low level target to hunt. She knew it was the requirement to capture a target on her own under observation, but felt it rather tedious to capture a level 1 target. She had aced everything in the hunter's course and it was way more exciting than she had anticipated.

One of their guest speakers, a man by the name of Gavin De Becker put the icing on the cake in the human condition and behavioral prediction.

A few quotes he said stuck out to her that he had even repeated in his book "The Gift of Fear." They shocked her because,where she was from, it was even true.

"Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death."

In her former country she was rarely the target of these actions, but she heard of it and even saw justice handed down to men who commited these acts. She knew that if some men had the opportunity, they would have tried for her, but she and her family never gave them a chance.

Mr. De Becker was right about a lot of things including

"intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart."

Many times, she had been saved by nothing more than a gut feeling that she didn't understand, but didn't ignore. When she looked back she realized that she had all the signals and answers to why she felt that way.

It was crazy how locked down that man had the mind and behavior of people.

She looked down at her warrant again for the umpteenth time.

Warrant of Capture

Name: Kyrain Ekart

Status: Alive

Crime: Fellony evasion and general disorder

Bounty: 2 B rank cores

Path: Spellbreaker

Last known tier: 5

Threat level: 1

Notes: Person of interest's last known address is 582 University Avenue New York City, NY 10001. Little is known about person of interest save for he became a US citizen a year ago and quickly moved up in the ranks of the guild. He has had many altercations with his neighbors and when the officials attempt to address the issue he ignores them, is belligerent with them, and then will flee when detainment is attempted. No violence or threats of violence in any interaction. Extreme flight risk in all situations. Detain first before identifying and questioning or risk losing target as many have had happen.

She had an idea of how she would track this guy down. Humans are creatures of habit. They frequent the same places, they like their routines, and detest deviating from them. Once she confirmed the last known address, she would begin narrowing things down.

She had to be extremely careful, this person was extremely flighty and with his nullification path, which she had no idea how it would stack up against her strength. Under normal circumstances she wasn't concerned with a lot as her strength tended to make everyone seem beneath her and often led to arrogance which she should never be as that was her sister more than her as well as the rest of her family.

She activated one of her skills to make the wait go much faster to her. Time dilatation was activated slowing her perception of time, but leaving everything around her moving at normal speed which made it seem in fast forward. What was a 16 hour trip, was over in 30 minutes to her perception.

As soon as the bus made it to the destination, she rose and went into the hotel she had picked out for her hunt. She watched her surroundings very carefully.

After she checked in under a moniker, she went to her room, dropped her few belongings off, locking her packet in her room safe then began to get to work.

- Kyrain -

Kyrain waited on top of the roof of the hotel watching the front of the apartment complex. He would see the sidewalks all around it and though there were many people, none of them matched the description of the woman he was looking for. Days went by and nothing. He decided to head down and walk the streets a bit and ask a few people if they had seen her using the picture he had or her.

He figured he would ask a few in the hotel lobby. Unfortunately they all shook their head no. He looked up at the worker behind the counter who had a perplexed look on his face.

Kyrain set the picture on the counter. "Excuse me sir, have you seen this woman?"He asked.

The man looked at the photograph then spoke. "I can't say either way I'm afraid. The hotel policy states I can neither confirm nor deny if someone is in the hotel."

Kyrain just nodded. In his mind only one phrase came to mind. "Verbage matters." He didn't ask if the person was staying here or not, just if this man had seen her. It could be a mistake of speech from the man, but he had time. He went to the nearby ladder well and went back to his roof.

He stepped out and began looking down at the people passing by when he heard steps behind him. He turned around and his eyes went wide as he looked into the deep blue, very familiar eyes from his the picture of his target. Her eyes just as wide as his.

"You!" Was all they could say as they activated their abilities to keep the other from fleeing and exploded toward one another.