Lynn Hart. High school student. 16 years old.
Her height is average. Her skin color is light. Slim body and brown, long and smooth as silk hair on top of her head, which she always makes sure to arrange behind her ear. Her large eyes are decorated with two green pupils, reminiscent of grass after the rain. In her front, a small nose and wide lips.
"Mom, there's no way! It's excessive and unnecessary!" Lin complained. "-It's not!" insisted Natasha, "with the current situation it's not. It's better to be careful than to regret it later." she stated with her eyes closed. "-You always say that! Because you're so afraid of everything! Stop being so paranoid! How will my friends feel when a bodyguard sits next to them at lunch?!" Lin asked decisively, "They'll think I'm out of my mind!" she said with a theatrical wave of her hands.
-"Okay.. okay...! You are so stubborn...!" Natasha despaired, "But promise me you'll be careful. Don't stay out after dark. Come back before sunset." Natasha requested, tired of the long argument.
"No problem! Thanks mom!" Lin said cheerfully and picked Natasha up in a crushing hug that only she could produce. "Lin! Take me down! You'll break my back!" Natasha shouted with a stunned look of surprise and pain.
After a few days, Lin stayed downtown, at the end of a shopping spree with her friends. To her hands, bags of products she purchased. "Bye!" Lin called out. Her friends waved goodbye. A moment after they parted, rain began to fall.
Lin started walking towards her house. She entered a long and narrow street. The narrow street was empty but suddenly, a man in a raincoat appeared a few dozen meters away from her. His face had a mask on it.
The eyes of his mask were rounded, with a blackened lens over them. For each of his eyes, a red horizontal stripe. The nose of his mask is square like a monkey, and a small stripe below it marks the position of his mouth.
The masked man raised his hand and despite the impaired visibility due to the rainy weather, a knife with a glinting blade could be seen.
"Give me your money" demanded the man in the raincoat.
Lin's heart skipped a beat, she knew the situation on the streets but still didn't believe it was happening. However, she quickly came to her senses.
"Here" Lin answered quickly as she showed her purse to the robber. The bandit's eyes opened wide in surprise as the pupils of his eyes narrowed. A thud focused him again as he heard the purse Lin had thrown land at his feet.
He stood there, without moving.
A few seconds passed, but he didn't move. Just staring at the floor.
Lin, who expected him to disappear after getting what he wanted, felt uneasy. She tried to move slowly back as she looked at him, but sudden alertness appeared in the figure.
Lin returned to standing still, her eyes never leaving the figure in front of her. "What do you want?" Lin asked worriedly.
The figure continued to stand and stare into the air.
After a few more seconds, he raised his right leg. With a light kick, he tossed Lin's purse to the side of the road.
Lin was surprised as fear crippling in.
Right after, he raised his head and looked directly at Lin's face.
Lin felt panic as her heart start racing.
Suddenly, the figure leaped forward at high speed as the knife he was holding was swung to the side of his body.
"He's too close! I can't run away! I must fight!" Lin thought quickly, as she sent her right hand out to the side of her body. Light pink Energia began to gash out of her body pores as it starts to envelop her right palm.
The bandit jumped into the air, his hand with the knife raised high.
Suddenly, there was a deep landing sound. Drops of water from the wet floor flew up into the air quickly as a figure in a black body suit stood in front of Lin and the robber. His head is bald, and his triangle upper body is big and muscular.
In the air, the bandit got surprised and startled.
Quickly, the figure hit the robber's palm with a blow, and the knife fell from his hand to the ground. As fast as he jumped, the robber ran away and disappeared.
Lin released the Energia lingering around her hand and dropped her arm down.
"Th-thank you..." Lin said relieved.
"A kitchen knife? He's an amateur!" stated the character with a loud voice. "Hi Lin, I'm Pit. One of the bodyguards of the "Grit" unit. The one run by Fit. You know Fit right?" asked Pit.
"Y-yeah..." Lin replied.
"Your mom assigned me here. She wanted to keep an eye on you. Just to be safe." Pit shared.
"It suits her so well..." Lin said, "She's always so fearful of everything... this time, it came in handy..." Lin said to Pit while questioning her own decisions.
"Yeah, I noticed that..." Pit admitted, "But, that's the trait that brought her to the position she's in." said Pit with a smile.
With a brief delay and a surprised face, Lin's actions caught his attention. "You were going to fight him right?" he asked when he was aware of the answer. "You are a brave girl." Pit praised Lin.
"But seriously, a kitchen knife? Even for a bandit this is unusual. He could have found a much more threatening weapon in the simplest Energia weapon shop. Those sellers are everywhere." Pit thought out loud.
He looked at the knife in his hand.
"So delicate-" Pit grinned, as he placed the blade and base of the knife between his huge finger and thumb.
"-that I could break it with the strength of my fingers alone" Pit boasted smugly facing Lin, with a sly smile.
His well-known party trick.
He pushed it hard with pressure as his Energia surrounding his hand. The knife, penetrated his finger, creating a deep cut. He stood there, with blood dripping from his hand, a smile full of himself still on his lips.
Lin looked at him with a confused look as she awaits for him response.
"Huh?!?!" Pit screamed in panic, as the realization belatedly reached him along with the feeling of pain. "I'm bleeding!!! What's going on here?!" he asked in a high-pitch voice, shocked and in a sudden panic.
"Are... you okay?" Lin asked awkwardly, still confused.
"A-Ahm" Pit cleared his throat as he pretends the scream didn't come from him. He didn't respond, as his panic was replaced by unusual concentration.
He surrounded his palm with Energia, bringing it closer to the blade. Suddenly, he noticed, that his Energia vibrant and evaporates in contact with the blade.
"A-Amazing! I've never seen that before!" Pit said in excitement. "This is no ordinary blade! I need to take it for investigation!" Pit called out loud. "Lin, come with me!" Pit called as he carried her shopping bags.
Lin quickly caught him within a light skip.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Lin asked worried and slightly embarrassed. "Of course! Aha! Nothing a real man can't handle!" Pit exclaimed proudly as he covers the wound with the fabric of his shirt.
"My mom is amazing... she knew what's right more than I imagined…" Lin thought to herself. "Maybe she's a little less crazy than I thought" she giggled happily.
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