The hunted (open)

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Gaston made his way through the busy people carrying bags and lingering around stores as he headed through the mall. He was aiming to purchase himself a new pair of sportsman hunting boots from the sporting center and also scout out for any sign of hunting gear and weapons. This place had many forms of entertainment that he had never seen before, but it didn’t have much talk of hunting. He knew of the forest bordering the town, but without weapons he would surely have a hard time showing off his abilities as a huntsman.

The tall man stomped past store to store. He knew a sporting store was supposed to be here somewhere. What town didn’t have a need for hunting? This mall was just too confusing to navigate around. Every shop, every person and every direction looked the same.

Suddenly though, he heard steps clomping right behind him, followed by what sounded like an odd growling and screeching. Gaston turned to look behind him. There wasn’t anything there; just a small boy in a hat. Convinced that he might of just been hearing the roar of conversations echoing off the walls of the mall, Gaston ignored him and continued forward in search of his store. But then… there came the growling again, and this time the small boy was running around him in circles, wildly screeching and growling as he stared up at Gaston and bared his teeth in some sort of monster imitation. The boy never ceased to stop, even when Gaston paused in his tracks.

“What sort of boy is this? A maddened beast in disguise?!” Gaston looked skeptical and taken off guard. He was sure he had never seen a young boy run around his village acting like a monster. A brave hunter like Gaston maybe, but not a monster. Monsters were the enemy, and the hunted. What was worse was that there was no woman around who might presumably be his mother that he could see. Where had the strange beast-boy come from?

"RAWR. GRAWL. RRRR. GRRR." The boy was punching the side of Gaston's arm with his small hands and then quickly darting to the other side of the man to growl and screech some more. "I'm A VELOCIRAPTOR! A VELOCIRAPTOR! Grrr RRR grr grawr!"

[Hinata Hyuga]

Hinata was walking through the mall, picking up some new clothes since her roommate's recent Mustard accident damaged some of her shirts. She had a few bags and was enjoying how fast she was able to finish it up with the new bracelet. Oh that party had some memories. She already had a bag from three different stores, but she was starting to get hungry. As she made her way to the food court she saw what was perhaps the cutest scene she had seen since she came here. A little boy was "attacking" some poor guy like a dinosaur. She only knew of that from Abaranger.

then she saw who the man was. Her gym coach. Part of her wanted to walk away right now before he said something that would just upset her again, but part of her, and a quite large part at that, told her that it might be in the boy's best interest and safety to leave him alone. Walking over to them, the kunoichi tapped the boy on the shoulder. "Mr. Ferocious Velociraptor. You don't want to eat him. All of his muscles are tough and he's not in the least bit sweet. You would get a tummy ache if you tried to eat him." She just gave the boy a small smile before noticing a few younger kids off to the side. "Why not try those dinos over there?"

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Gaston saw a girl with dark hair approach, of who he hoped was this child’s sister coming to relieve him. There was something familiar about her though, and he was sure he had seen her before. He wasn’t really sure what she going on about, why it was a joke, and what a velociraptor even was. Some sort of beast, perhaps? Regardless, he too spoke to the small boy; “Yes, I have way too many manly muscles for you, young lad. If you want to be a real tough and strong man like I am when you grow up, you should try hunting outdoors and eating a lot of eggs instead of… well, people.” He patted the boy on the head before the small child growled and wandered over to the other kids. “That beast-child needs some help. Whoever heard of a boy eating people?” He frowned. Whoever taught this child how to grow up was clearly a madman who ought to be locked up in the asylum. Gaston sure hoped the boy would see men like him and realize he should be acting like Gaston, and not a monster.
 
“Hmm, you look familiar…” Gaston looked down at Hinata with thoughtful expression on his face and his hand near his chin, “Ah yes, you were in my gym class,” the man smiled. “I hope the exercises did not tire you. You know, women can take a break whenever they want to. It is only the lads I really worry about,” Gaston nodded as if this were reasonable. Of course, in his era, it pretty much was. Women were not expected to do anything but become housewives then. Why would they need a gym trainer? 

[Hinata Hyuga]

Hinata just stood back as the Coach racked his brain figuring out who she was. Normally she was nice quite and very very polite, but there was something about this guy that got on her nerves. Though she wouldn't be outright rude to him, seeing as he as her elder, she didn't seem to give too many thoughts about him. She was more worried Gaston would try hunting the boy. "No class isn't tiring at all. In fact, since it is my last class of the day, I stay behind to work out some more and put away the equipment."

Looking over to where the boy ran off to she smiled seeing them play. "The boy was just pretending. He was playing like an ancient dinosaur. They went extinct millions of years ago. Popular with the boys."