Chapter 111: New Outfit
Soon Jason had found a set of aqua scrubs for Katrina to wear for the moment while they walked out of the hospital, soon approaching a purple Dodge Challenger, the trunk popping open as Jason held up a ring of keys, revealing Katrinas weapons inside. She quickly dashed and strapped Soul Reaver to her back, her Blades of Exhile to her waist, and placed Sektors Gauntlets onto her forearms, pressing a pair of buttons that made them vanish in a flash of green numeric code, causing Jason to step back in surprise,
"Whoa! Fancy tech! Where did you get that?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," answered the Goddess of War, readjusting her scrubs to accomadate her weapons.
"Try me," said Jason, crossing his arms. Katrina rolled her eyes,
"Fine. I killed a ninja robot, and cut his gauntlets from his arms when my teachers weren't around." Jason paused, eyebrows raised in surprise,
"You killed a what now?"
"Told you."
"No I believe you," said Jason, "you got the gloves to prove it. But a what?"
"A damn robot. Tough to beat too," said Katrina, "But I've come out on top against tougher bastards." Jason nodded his head,
"Alright well here's the deal, miss...?" It just occured to Katrina that she still hadn't even told him her name yet,
"Katrina. Katrina Lagos," she told him.
"Alright, Katrina, here's the deal: I'm going to take you over to Planet Saints so you can get some new threads. While you're doing that I'm going to try getting a hold of the Saints over in Steelport to see what the situation is, and where to go." He then stepped into his car, with Katrina sitting in the passenger seat,
"Have you not already been to Steelport?" She asked him.
"Never left Stilwater before," said Jason honestly, "so this will be new for the both of us."
Sometime later...
Katrina now stood inside of a purple dressing room inside of a purple store inside an equally purple building, and the color was beginning to get to Katrina,
"So if you don't mind me asking, why purple? I mean, when I hear 'Saints,' I instantly think of white and gold being the color or something. Instead it's purple and...more purple."
"It's the color of the Saints," said Jason, "and it's been that way forever. You got something against purple?"
"No, I'm fine. There's just so much of it," said Katrina, slipping out of her scrubs, standing nude for a moment and looking in the mirror, letting her wings unfurl so she could look at her right wing, seeing it was still bent at an odd angle, and still tender to the touch, causing her to take a sharp breath in and quietly wince, "...ow!"
"You okay in there?" Asked Jason, causing her to put her wings away, grab the clothes she picked out before stepping into the room, and quickly stepped into a thin g-string thong with fluer-de-lis printed on the front.
"Just a minute!" She called out, sliding into a matching bra, followed by a pair of dark low rider jeans, a purple tank top with a white fluer-de-lis, and finally dark shoes with the same symbol on the sides. She made sure the sides of her thong were peeking out over the sides, giving her reflection a smile, "Yep, Akeno is going to love this outfit."
"Who's Akeno?" Asked Jason through the door, "Boyfriend?" Katrinas' smile vanished, turned around, and opened the dressing room door, seeing Jason raising a curious eyebrow,
"Akeno is my girlfriend," answered Katrina, walking to the front counter with a grin worthy of a devil as she left Jason with a dropped jaw and wide eyes. The War Goddess then stopped by the cash register with a fist full of tags, offering them to the Planet Saints employee, who began ringing up Katrinas' outfit.
"Two hundred fifty," he said. Katrina swore under her breath, finally realizing that her backpack was gone,
"Hey Jason? When you picked me up to take me to the hospital, did you happen to see a backpack laying around?" Jason slightly cringed,
"Was it black with a little bit of orange and red on it?"
"Yeah."
"Uh..."
Thirteen hours ago...
Jason, having just hit Katrina, dashed out of his challenger, rushing to the grey girl on the side of the road with a stick in her abdomen and a loose bandage on her hand. He carefully scooped her up in his arms, carrying her bridal style and about to grab her backpack that had fallen, until he saw a large mass exiting the woods, letting loose a lazy roar, and Gat froze,
"Oh give me a fuckin' break!" The large mass turned out to be a large brown bear, and it was slowly approaching the two, but it stopped by Katrinas' backpack, sniffing it, and then clenching its teeth on the fabric and running back into the woods.
Back to Planet Saints...
"...You probably won't believe this," said Jason, "but a bear ran off with it." Katrina frowned at the young gangbanger,
"That had my money in it, Gat!" Jason held a hand up defensively,
"Easy your highness! I'll pay for the clothes. It's the least I could do." He then walked up to the register, but instead of pulling out his wallet like Katrina expected, he pulled out his gun, sending a pair of shots into the ceiling. "Hey, I want to apply my celebrity discount if you don't mind," he lazily said to the employee.
"Jason what the hell are you doing?!" Shouted an alarmed Katrina, only to recieve raised eyebrows and glares from Jason and the other patrons.
"Excuse me, miss?" Said the cashier, "No yelling during a robbery." Now it was Katrinas' turn to drop her jaw, turning and staring at the Planet Saints employee.
"Sorry about that," said Jason, "she's new to this." Katrina could only dart her eyes back and forth between the cashier and Jason, unsure of what was happening.
"It's quite alright. Do you want the money in the register today?"
"Nah. Just the clothes for her today," said Jason, putting away his gun. The chasier pressed a button on the register,
"Have a good day Jason."
"You too Bart." Jason then walked out of the store, with Katrina still looking between Jason and the chasier, unsure of what took place, but eventually followed the young Siant,
"W-w-whoa! Hold up!" She said, dashing in front of him and stopping him, " Did you seriously just rob that place?! And why was the cashier so calm about it?!"
"He was calm because this is the third time I robbed him this week," said Jason, stepping into his car and turning the key in the ignition.
"'This week?!' You're a full blown criminal!!" Shouted Katrina, stepping away from the vehicle. Jason rolled his eyes, pulled his car keys out of the ignition, and stepped back out of the car, glaring at Katrina,
"No, actually, I'm not," said Jason, "but you know what? A part of me wishes I was! 'Because the Saints used to be more than a logo on bodyspray and some ass-tasteing energy drink' as my dad used to say. So much so in fact, that a day before that good heist gone wrong, the one where he got killed afterwards, he was talking about me and him packing our shit and going to a new town, starting over. Stealing, drinking, fucking and getting crazy while standing up for the little guys! THAT'S the best part of being a Saint, Kat! Because while we may be criminals at heart, we do what we do as a family!" Katrina was taken aback by Jasons' outburst, and for a moment was speechless. "Now let's go! We got a plane to catch if we want to get to Steelport." Jason was once again about to enter his car when Katrina stammered,
"W-what's in Steelport again?" Asked the young goddess.
"The motherfucker who had my father killed..." said Jason, "...as is the rest of my family...and if you want, it could eventually be your family too." Katrina paused, and images of Adrian, Damon, Rias, Akeno and the rest of her friends of the Gremory House floated through her head, among them an image of Calvin, follwed by an image of Zeus killing the Last Conduit, and Katrina snapped out of her trance as Jason snapped his fingers in front of her face, "You still with me Kat? You looked a little out of it." Katrina wiped away a loose tear, and for a moment, she wasn't looking at Jason Gat, she was looking at Calvin Hicks! The vision soon faded, and she was looking at the young man in sunglasses again, "You okay? Why the tears?" He asked, using the back of his hand to gently wipe the tears away. Katrina wiped the remainder away herself with a sniff
"It's nothing Jason. Let's just go to Steelport, dish it out with your dads killer, and see where things go from there..."
A/N: I apologize if this next set of chapters run by a little slow, I apologize in advance. Until next time!
