Just a Hayate thought, John the Giant wasn’t going to let him have all the fun to himself. And with only a few moments apart he and his fine lady joined Hayate out in the foggy court yard. Not a few moments past before all hell broke loose and the very atmosphere itself began to chuck and churn all around them. The shinobi was ready though for the very moment the ghostly fog took the shape of a grotesque grin he flicked his wrist sending forth two razor sharp shuriken soaring towards it.

“Everyone get back!” Hayate yelled as he saw his weapons fly straight through the fog and hit the brick of the restaurant they came from. The guards all seemed to panic and flee towards the crowded restaurant in what Hayate only hoped was with a goal of protecting the patrons inside, otherwise he would be ashamed of their cowards. Unlike the other John had only one thing on his mind, to protect her, and as he ran to his lady’s side the large man seemingly fell to the ground unconscious.

“John!” the young Akashiman yelled towards to his mechanic. His senses were on overdrive as he strained his vison trying to see what had just happened. From his position all he saw was the ghostly apparition manipulating the fog appear before his friend and a moment later John was sprawled on the ground.

What should he do? What could he do?

Without putting much though into it Hayate formulated a half-assed scheme to handle the situation. If the thing behind this is using the fog as a weapon then he had to get his friends out of here, and be careful not to let whatever happened to John happen to him. Firstly Hayate tore a sliver of his cloak with his teeth and fashioned a mask to cover his mouth and nose, if this thing was truly gaseous he would have to block out as much as he could while he acted.

And not a moment later Hayate sprang into action using his grappling hook to latch onto the ground a foot or so from John, between him and his partner, before jettisoning over. Summoning what strength he had the Shinobi grabbed the woman that was with John, lifting her onto his shoulder before quickly using his grappling hook once more to ascend to the roof top of the restaurant. And just as he hoped the fog wasn’t nearly as thick this high up and felt it was safe to leave Jamie here for now while hedid what he could to help the giant below.