Issue 1 Downtime

The morning after meeting with Nailah, a groggy and haphazardly dressed John trudged into the student kitchen for a much needed cup of coffee. He had bad dreams all night long about spiders eating everyone he cared about. Yay him.

Bear entered, skipping the refrigerator and heading to John.

"You.. Don't look so good." She began, with a smile, but hesitatingly.

John looked at her and immediately felt all the worse for not keeping her in the loop.

"Shit... I never told you did I?"

"I've heard.. Things. Bits and pieces. Want to fill me in on the complete picture?" She asked, firmly.

"I really hope all you heard was precious little. Gossip could be... dangerous."

"Then turn the gossip into what's really going on." She replied, again firmly.

He sighed.

"The thing in my dad's head was a Japanese spirit creature. It was there to deliver a warning from one of my ancestors..." he said before recounting the details of the message.

"Then, we need to go set things right. And you need to claim one heck of a giant baseball bat to do it."

"Preferably before they start killing my family," he said with worry.

Bear nodded, solemnly.

"My best chance is to locate this Japanese wizard, but unless I get lucky with a facial recognition search I have no idea how to do that."

"Hmm.. I'm not sure. We might need to talk to an expert."

"I already talked to Professor Weaver, which is how I'm sure this isn't someone's sick joke. She's willing to help if I can't find him."