You Can't Catch Me...[Open]

[THE GINGERBREAD MAN!]

Ah the great city of los Angeles, the sun was bright and happy, the sand was warm and comfortable, and the beach was busy with people. Ginger was having a great time basking in the sun with his white t-shirt, jeans, and sandals, his hair covering his face. He stood there leaning on the edge of the boardwalk looking down at the ground, specifically his feet which were moving left to right, up and down. You'd never guess how bored the Kishen Egg was by the large smile on his face, in fact he looked so positive you'd think he just had the best time ever.

In reality Ginger was standing there talking to himself...literally he was talking to his insanity but it was basically the same thing as talking to himself since the voice sounded the same as his and seemed to have no real personality change to it. 'So Ginger what can we do today? There are so many people we could find tons to do, I mean just look at all the young blood out there.' The smile on his face only grew as the voice in his head vispered sweat suggestions into his ear. He could very well go on a crazy killing spree, but that wasn't his style, so instead he would pick an individual target to slowly harass to keep himself occupied.

His shielded eyes scanned the boardwalk through his hair, attempting to select an unfortunate soul. Then he saw his target, a young boy carrying a single red balloon in one hand, and icecream in the other, wearing his blue and white swin shorts. From the looks of it his mommy had left to do something so the boy was un attended, perfect no distractions. Ginger stood straight and casually walked down the boardwalk with hands in hid jean pockets, nothing but pestering and troubled thoughts in his mind as the voice egged him on to do it. Once Ginger was right in front of the small boy he leaned down to establish eye contact. "Why hello there little boy, wow that's a lot of icecream you got there, you must be one lucky little guy."

The kid looked confused for a second but then smiled at the tall man in front of him. Ginger looked up at the balloon hovering overhead with a big smile on his face. "I bet you won that at a swell carnival game didn't ya? It would be such a waist to lose it huh?" Ginger's voice was soft an sincere the entire time he talked the boy simple nodded his head to his questions. Suddenly the a loud POP could be heard as Ginger swiftly poked the balloon with a pin and then quickly put it back in his pocket. "Oh how unfortunate, the wind must have poped the balloon, tsk tsk, too bad" The child started to cry as a group of people on the board walk looked at the scene. Ginger moves his hand up to his mouth and started to softly laugh as if he had just witnessed something cute.

"Aww you're so precious, I could just eat you up...or give this a try." Just as swiftly Ginger took the icecream right out of th boys hand and started to walk away with it, leaving the kid balling his eyes out as he sat down on the boardwalk, his mom struggling to figure out what happened. Ginger obviously was getting some looks as he happily licked the icecream waiting for the one person that would confront him on this foul deed. It should be fun...

[COCO "CANDI" MCALLISTER!]

Coco was walking down the boardwalk overlooking the beach, she was feeling kind of lonely despite the wonderful environment. She decided it might be a good idea to get some ice cream. She had just bought a double-scoop of mint chocolate chip when she noticed the sounds and sights around her. People were laughing, waves were crashing, ice cream was being taken from small children. A normal day on the boardwalk, wait, what?

A small child began bawling in the middle of the boardwalk as Coco walked along. She saw enough of the scene to catch the man who took the ice cream slink away and out of her immediate sight. She resolved to catch up to him later, but first she had something else to attend to.

Coco, in her two-piece string bikini attracted a lot of attention in the area, and many people disregarded the crime as it was. As she walked over to the boy, many heads turned her way. Upon getting close to the boy, she bent down and offered the boy her ice cream. The boy smiled, teared up a little and took the ice cream, taking Coco's hand and gently squeezing her fingers. The mother turned to thank Coco, but Coco waved the thanks off saying that the smile was thanks enough.

Coco was able to get away from the scene and followed in pursuit of the man. His silver hair should make him easy to find. It's funny though, he seemed... familiar. She didn't get a good luck at the man's face, but from what she saw she felt like they had met before.

Suddenly, a strong killing intent seemed to rise around her. She had gained proximity with someone or something so deadly in it's own right that it perplexed ever her own insanity.

"What's this?! It seems like there's some interesting company around here. Could this be our silver-haired friend?"

"What it is isn't important, what's important is that I've got to find that 'silver-haired friend' before he can terrorize any more innocent children."

"And what will you do when you find him? Hmm? Stuff him with cupcakes? You're nothing without me..."

"Just shut up!" At her bidding the voice seemed to die down, but she couldn't help but feel it pricking the recesses of her mind. Now where was that man? Surely he had gone this way.

She turned a corner and saw a glimpse of silver and white. She now began to sprint after the man. Not even she understood why she was going to all this trouble now, but for some reason she knew that this man was someone she needed to talk to. She finally caught up to the man, and grasping his shoulder with one hand, she finally realized who he was.

"Ginger?" The memories flooded back in. This was her brother, taken by their father for so many years. What was he doing here?

Then, the insanity echoed loud enough for both her and Ginger to hear. "This should be fun!"

[THE GINGERBREAD MAN!]

The icecream was delicious, so delicious in fact that Ginger's tongue was now shoveling giant scoops of it off the cone and into his mouth. The sweet sinsation of the cream flooded his senses with pleasure, he honestly couldn't remember the last time he ate something sweet, but he knew it had been a while, or had it? That's the thing with being insane you often lose your mind at times. Ginger smiled as he got down to the cone of his... well his stolen icecream, also known as the tastiest kind, because it's always better when it's free, and covered with childrens tears. Ginger giggled at this thought as it crossed his madness filled mind.

As Ginger continued walking he had a feeling he was being followed, maybe his trickery had paid off and someone was trying to stop him, what fun! Ginger made a sharp left at one of the booths and then slowered his pace as to give the moron time to keep up. Ginger could hardly contain his excitment as he got to the last little knub of the cone. With hair covering his right eye, he licked his lips slowly then opened his mouth wide for a big bite, and then... "Ginger?"

His mouth closed and his face became surprised, Gingers mind started racing so fast he could hardly move, and suddenly he found himself in a strange but familiar field, on filled with pleasant little animals like bunnies and deer, not to mention giant candy treats everywhere and a shinning sun with a smiling face on it. Ginger looked around this fantastic place with his back hunched and smiled, this was a place he had visited before when he was thinking hard, the only place that only he could go, this... was Ginger's Soul.

Just as suddenly as he realized this a puddle of brown bubbling liquid started to seap up from the ground, and from it slowly arose a hatted figure with a dark brown jacket and outfit and long silver hair smiling at Ginger. The entire landscape then started to change, the bunnies and deer's eyes turned a glowing red as they started to attack and eat each other, the lolly pop trees turned dark and cracked as the brown liquid touched them at the root, and a group of gingerbread men that were playing near it crumbled and started to bleed, looking like zombiebread men now as they ate the remains of the deer and bunnies.

"Ginger... it's time" The dark figure said with a smile in a deep scary voice that seemed to echo around Ginger.

Ginger smiled at the man who stood tall and straight compaired to Ginger who was slumping. "Time for what Mr. Night Time? More games and sweets?" The man shook his head slowly at Ginger."Is the sun down? Time for killing?"

"It's still day Ginger." Mr. Night Time said amused. "It's time... for you to meet your family..." Mr. Night Time and the giant field dissapeared as Ginger slipped back into reality. He looked at the last little bit of the icecream cone as he threw it up to his mouth and caught it with a big "OM" then after the crunches of the cone and the big gulp of Ginger swallowing the tasty cone, he turned around with a big toothed smile on his face at the woman he knew to be Coco McAllister. "Well sis I have to say... you look even more sexy than I thought you would be... heheheheh AHha AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ginger then gave a sigh as he finished his evil laugh. So how are you then?'"

[COCO "CANDI" MCALLISTER!]

It's not every day one runs into their long lost brother. Coco hadn't seen Ginger in years, at least a hundred. Give or take a decade. So this was really shocking. Coco couldn't help staring at his silver hair as it reminded her of someone, someone that was once very dear to her. Oh well, putting that aside, there were much more important things to attend to.

She stepped forward, reaching out her hand for her brother's shoulder, seeing as how he had been frozen for some time. She thought perhaps something was wrong with him, or maybe he felt some remorse for the child whose ice cream he had stolen. And she would have been wrong.

Suddenly Ginger spun around on the spot swallowing the remnants of the ice cream, and began speaking and laughing evilly in a loud voice. "Well sis I have to say... you look even more sexy than I thought you would be... heheheheh AHha AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" This outburst in itself caught her off-guard, but what was still more shocking was the look in his eyes. He was completely and totally insane. The madness had gotten to him, and she could only imagine what happened to their father.

"So how are you then?" He stopped laughing just as suddenly as he had started and the outburst was replaced by such a calm nature that the gentle breeze blowing across the boardwalk would have seemed like a hurricane in comparison. And there was no shock either, after seeing his sister for the first time in so many years. She was amazed.

"I'm doing well, I'm just so surprised to see you!" She hugged her brother tightly. "And on the boardwalk in LA, that's the last place I would have expected you to be."

She could still sense the killing intent, and when she got closer to him, it seemed to only grow stronger. He was definitely the source. "I told you it was going to be fun! Now that you're reunited, there's no telling what'll happen. Perhaps you'll finally go over the brink! And when you do... I'll be in control. Ha.. ha ha... HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA...!" As the voice's mad laughter slowly faded out of her mind, she tried her very best to look pleased. Still, she knew that the voice was right. She grew more insane the closer she came to the killing intent, and if she stayed too close for too long, she may not be able to control herself.

Still, this was her brother...

She looked at Ginger quizzically, not knowing whether she wanted to risk harming others for the sake of reuniting with her family. Some decisions are truly difficult.

[THE GINGERBREAD MAN!]

"I'm doing well, I'm just so surprised to see you!" Ginger was then ensnared in a giant hug from his sister, which he really enjoyed by the look of his smile that was unscene by his sister. "And on the boardwalk in LA, that's the last place I would have expected you to be." Ginger shrugged in response the same smile on his face.

"I like the icecream." His tone was deeper and more serious that usual as if he were a normal guy having a normal conversation, his shoulders still slumped and his hair covering his eyes. "And the children, they just do the cutest things. My favorite part is there smiles." Ginger said in the same calm tone as he spoke before, but then there was a sudden change in mood. As his hair moved away from one of his eyes there was a pure malicious intent in them, they were bright red and gleaming with the want to kill. "Especially when they dissapear as I plunge a knife into there small fluttering hearts, and watch as the life slowly leaves there bodies and I know they will never see the light of day again"

His tone completely change at that point, it was a low whisper but it was filled with so much madness and pleasure that it would cause a grown man to run in fear screaming like a little girl. And if you had soul perception and just happened to be looking at Ginger in that small moment of speech you could of clearly seen the madness rising from his body and soul as he spoke, and then see it quickly die down as hid mood quickly changed again. His head fell for a second only to rise back up with a pleasant smile and a little blush that was more noticable because of Ginger's pale skin. Ginger then reached into his pocket and took out two lolly pops, giving one to Coco and then unwraooing the other one and putting it in his mouth.

"Shhow shis, what ah ou oing in LA?" Ginger asked, his language slured because of the candy in his mouth.

[COCO "CANDI" MCALLISTER!]

Coco was enjoying the conversation with her brother. The madness seemed to calm down as he became seemingly more calm himself. He seemed to be happy to see her and she was equally excited seeing him.

"I like the icecream." He was definitely more casual now than he was before. His tone lowered and he appeared to relax. "And the children, they just do the cutest things. My favorite part is their smiles." Wait, how can he enjoy childrens' smiles when he himself was moments ago causing their suffering?

"That's great! I love that t--" She was cut off mid-sentence by Ginger in a horrific rant.

""Especially when they disappear as I plunge a knife into their small fluttering hearts, and watch as the life slowly leaves their bodies and I know they will never see the light of day again...!"

"Ginger,..." She took a step back. "What was that? Are you okay?" Most people would have ran away screaming, but a combination of her own insane thoughts and a familial connection to Ginger kept her fixed in the alley. She was no stranger to this behavior seeing as how she exhibited these symptoms herself.

Then, just as suddenly as it had appeared, his madness vanished. He was looking down and as soon as he looked up he appeared normal. These lapses were apparently a genetic condition. She had no time to ponder this before her brother offered her a lollipop that he pulled from his pocket. She accepted, taking it and removing the wrapper gingerly, licking the candy before resting it on her tongue inside her mouth.

""Shhow shis, what ah ou oing in LA?"

"Oh, pleasure more than anything. I was supposed to be meeting my ex that lives around here. Maybe you've seen him floating around?" She thought about it for a second, and it was impossible that Ginger had met her ex, so she quickly retracted the question. "Oh, never mind. That Genie'll get an earful when I catch him."

Then her madness chimed in with sarcasm more than anything else. "Yea, and he'll give you a--" It was cut off by Coco.

"So,... I say we down to the beach and walk and talk. What do you think?"