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Who: Jin and Zangetsu
What: Prayer #16
When: April 24
Where: Various places throughout the city.
Warnings: It's Jin and Zangetsu. Something somewhere is probably getting violently eaten.

Jin, despite his best efforts, can't just stay and laze around the temple all the time...which sucks, as far as he's concerned. "Tch, let's just find the dog and get it over with." Starting at the home of the person who had lost the mutt in the first place seemed like a good idea, but man, it's going to be a pain. "Or find something of the dog's to get started with..."

...he should probably do something helpful, but he's just leaning against a wall whining. He's got to do work, oh, the humanity of it all.

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Apparently gods needed followers to get more powerful, or some shit like that. In a way, it made sense; gods were only as powerful as those who believed in them. But it meant doing... stupid piddly little jobs.

Were humans always this petty and pointless?

But at least missing a pet is... somewhat legitimate. The person had done everything they could, and now prayed for divine intervention.

Didn't mean Zangetsu was any more happy about the whole ordeal.

"I gotta wonder if someone stole the damn dog," he says inspecting the fence. "There's really no places for a dog to get out of here. Not unless the dog can jump 6 feet straight up."

Really, Jin is feeling a bit miffed that this is the best work he's getting right now. He sighs like it is the most horrible thing in the world that he's got to do something and that something is hunt for a lost dog, and he starts shaking the fence, checking for weaknesses. "Unless the fence is shit or the dog flies, huh? Who'd even want that mutt, you think?"

Man, Jin could be a big whiny baby. Zangetsu rolls his eyes.

"I don't know. Maybe some psychopath that kills animals for fun?" said the kettle about the pot. "Quit mopin' around, man, you're bumming me out. Why don't you sneak into the house and see if there's any pictures of the dog? I'm gonna see if I can find something with the dog's scent on it."

Just think, Jin hasn't yet unleashed the full power of his amazing whiny baby abilities. "Tch, not much of a hunt, if that's what they're doing." Jin sighs and starts going to check the windows of the house. "Oh, score, they left one open..."

Minutes later, Jin emerges both with a framed picture of the dog, as well as some eggs. He's cracking one into his mouth. It is raw. He does not care. "Got somethin'. Just a mutt, medium-sized, I'm guessing." That's good. It's not a little yappy thing with a bow. He would have gone home then and there if it had been a little yappy thing with a bow.

Zangetsu WILL drag him around by the ankles if he has to. Answering prayers equals followers, and followers equal POWER! And like hell he's gonna let a lazy god get between him and being the best.

He casually snatches an egg from Jin and puts the whole thing in his mouth. Just a little pressure is all it takes to crack it, and he sucks down the innards before swallowing the shell. Like a really awful snake. Zangetsu then looks at the picture before holding up a towel.

"Dog's been sleeping on this, has it's smell all over it. I've never tracked anything by scent before, but I think I can do it."

Jin can't even judge eating the egg whole like that, really. Granted, having it taken in the first place is kind of a pain. "Alright, try to sniff it out, let's get this over with." He looks around. "Hold on, let me grab a leash for when we find it..."

And with the leash in hand, he's ready to move out.

You can't bring eggs out here and expect Zangetsu NOT to take one. Especially when he's the one doing all the work, you lazy bum.

He holds the blanket up to his nose and mouth and breathes in deeply a few times. He pauses, looking at Jin for a moment. "Aren't you a god of the hunt or some shit? Don't you have some sort of tracking power or something to go along with that?" He shakes his head and takes another breath.

He's got a good idea of the physical odor now, as well as the unique spiritual signature of the dog. It's not strong, and definitely not like the energy of a human, but it's better than nothing. He shoves the blankets at Jin, and drops on all fours, closing his eyes and taking another deep breath.

Then he starts walking, exiting the yard through the gate.

Jin will happily do some of the work when he thinks the job is interesting, but looking for a lost dog is not at all interesting. Give him a real challenge to hunt...

"Actually," Jin says with a shrug, "only extra power I got when I showed up here was the ability to expel toxic gas." There's a pause. "Seriously." Another pause. "I actually set it off accidentally once when I belched..." He follows along after Zangetsu, eating another egg as he goes. "So I can immobilize prey really well when I find it, pretty much."

At least he's trying to look for the prey, even if it might look a little halfassed. (Spoilers: it is a little halfassed.) "Oi! Doggy! Here, boy!"

Well, they can have a REAL challenge later. But the stupid rules of Heaven.... they had to do shitty entry level crap first. It's such a pain... why can't they just get to the fun stuff?

"... Toxic gas," Zangetsu says, pausing to give his God a completely incredulous look. "That is... completely goddamn useless, you know that? Immobilize prey and ME if I'm with you, idiot!" he shakes his head and rolls his eyes, then gets back to sniffing, and checking out spiritual energy with tendrils of reiatsu.

"I can probably cover a wider area if I really put my mind to it," Jin says lazily. "Even you can't wipe out a city block all at once." Not that he knows exactly how much area he can cover with the gas. It sounds good, alright.

There's a pause. "Hey, there's some dog shit over there. Could be from ours."

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