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Heart & Heat [Leon \ wiki234]

“ hmmm...” looking around and walking off “ I guess that maybe...” shrugging as she walked over to the skee balls, being a very common game and figuring it out for a moment before crossing her arms and waiting, “ of course that should work...or maybe that weird game with the wheel thing...” looking over to see one of the common racing machines before her face turned into a frown again as she had to sit down completely and melt the seat even.
 
Lei would follow the lava girls attentions as they made their way over the games, searching for the one with the best chances of mechanical failure from that of high temperatures. Lei would stop as she would point out the skee ball game and he would nod in agreement. "That is really fun and it's simple!" He would then turn around to look around as she spoke about some sort of 'wheel' thing and she would be pointing out a racing machine. He would smile a large smile but would soon fade as with the current problems they were having, playing something like that would end in disaster. Lei would hold out the gloves so that Makabe could put her hand in. "Let's try out the skee ball, you'll love it. I'm a bit rusty myself so it'll be fun for us both."
 
“Hmm well ok then I guess, at least we have something then though...” as she turned and very slowly slipped her hand in as there was some sizzling that could be heard as the liquid made contact with the fabric itself before quickly waiting for him to start the game for her and take one of the balls before rolling it up the ramp and hitting one of the holes and doing it again a few times as she pulled her arm back and rolled the ball, the movements like a pendulum. “ at least humans seem simple even with games, maybe that’s why they have places like this. Everything is all gooey and has weird noises and stuff that make you excited...” continuing to do it until she managed to finish the game right on time as the gloves started to deform a bit from the heat.
 
Lei watched as she would slide her hand into one glove and then to another, the sizzling sound that was made sounded just like someone dropping water onto a stove that had been on for awhile but luckily, the gloves didn't burst into flames and nobody died a horrible crispy demise. "Awesome, now lets get this ball rolling....hehe, get it?" He would make the terrible pun and hope that she got the joke or would after they began. Lei would put in some change and a line of large balls would unlock and come down in a slot for them.

Lei would take one and look to Makabe and slowly move his arm back "All you have to do is this, just rock your arm back and then let it roll out of your hand when it gets forward. You have to do it just hard enough so that it can get up the ramp and get into the center hole up there..." Lei would point at the many holes but the one in the center with the highest number. "but not too much or else it will go to high and roll back to the lower scores at the bottom." Lei would roll the ball up the ramp and it would go into one of the lower scored holes off to the side. "It's...easier once you get the hang of it."

As they played, Lei would listen as Makabe would talk about how simple the games were and that was why this place was here, for the humans. "Yeah, it's simple but it is mainly just fun. You don't have to worry about anything if you get something wrong. You can try again and again and when you get a prize or a high score, that accomplishment is just big enough to matter." Lei would look to see that the gloves were starting to take on an odd shape. "Here, let me get those off before they melt through all the way. You wanna play again? See anything else you might be able to play?" Lei would reach into his backpack and pull out a pair of gloves and put them on himself as he would await Makabe to let him try and remove the gloves she had.
 
She looked over at him then away as she held her hands up slowly in front of herself so he could take them off. “ w-well thanks for all the help too though I really hope it doesn’t bother you a ton to be doing something like this...” seeing as she was still bothered herself that she didn’t have to worry too much about anything compared to him. “ I know I said it already but I still feel guilty sometimes...” shaking her head to snap out of all the negativity and slip her hands in the new gloves before quickly looking around and seeing someone throwing some basketballs at a moving hoop, “ mmmm maybe that one...”
 
Lee would look at the gloves as he would slowly take them off, making sure that none of the burning insides would drip. 'She's so cute.' Was the only thing that could repeat as he would glance up at her as she was looking away as he removed the gloves, then just as quickly looking back down as he would become just a bit flustered in the cheeks but would simply chalk it up the the heat she emitted. He would fold the burned out gloves and place the new ones on her hands.

She would thank him and speak of hoping that it wasn't a problem. He would bring his bag around and open a side pouch and slide the folded burned gloves into it to be thrown away later, he would then shake his head. "No problem, it's really fun going out. Plus, it is great to see you having fun. If your having fun." There were a lot of times where it seemed impossible to tell just what Makabe was thinking but there were moments where when she did, it was either really cute or ungodly terrifying. Very opposite of the scales kinda girl.

Lee would look around as she would look around and point toward the basketball game. "Oh, that is a great idea!" He would rush over to the game and insert the coins to release the balls down to them. Lee would pick up a ball and toss it up just a few inches, not wanting to drop it and look the fool. "It's like the skee ball but instead of rolling the ball, you throw it and try to get it into the one hole." He would turn and throw the ball, it landing on the rim and bounce off, rolling back down the ramp to them. Lee would grow a light shade of pink as his failure. "It was never my best sport but it I like to think that I'm a late bloomer." He would hold out a ball for her to give it a try.
 
“Hmmm...”taking the ball as she turned and waited for a moment making it in by throwing it at the hoop, bouncing at the edge of the hoop, and hitting the cage beside it as it bounced again and even made it in by a bit of luck. Soon she got the idea as she would quickly take the ball and throw it over again till the game ended as she didn’t really wanna waste any time with the gloves so she would able to even finish it.
 
Lee would watch as Makabe as she would take the basketball in her hands and line up her shot. When it left her hands, it would bounce a few times, of the rim and the wall to the side but would fall into the hoop nonetheless. Lee would smile as he would lightly clap at the achievement. "Awesome!" He would watch as she would sink far more shots that he was able too. While the game was fun and he enjoyed it, it wasn't on his lists of talents he was able to do with any degree of improvement, a fifty-fifty chance of success.

After the game would finish, Lee would reach down and pull from the long line of tickets that spit out of the machine. He would hold them up in a bundle. "If we get enough, you can pick out a prize at the counter." He would look around now for something else for them to do.
 
“ hmmm strange but weird...” tilting her head again to the side as it would seem to commonly show her innocent and confused look on her face for the moment. Putting her hands behind her beck and leaning forward a bit as she watched the tickets come out the girl looked around again seeing that most of the games either seemed too easy like pressing a button and having a random chance to have tickets or something else that required her to use her full body. “ it’s weird why they would put games like that...” pointing to a ball dropper game with only a single button in front of it, “ I don’t see how that would be fun..”
 
There it was again, that pose that would cause Lee to turn to look off to the side at some unknown machine so that he wouldn't look directly at her. He would glance up at her and back to a machine or the floor and do this several times in quick secession. He would turn to look at the game that she pointed to. He would walk over to the machine and watch the machine spin around with its various holes. He would look at the button and speak.

"It's all about chance so anyone can do it. The goal is basically to get the ball to fall into one of the holes as it spins. You try and press the button when the hole you want to get gets close. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't but that means when you do hit the jackpot, it feels great!" He would lean forward and put a coin into the slot and present the game to her. "Try it, you might get something cool!"
 
“ that’s weird though? It’s not challenging or anything humans can be weird too to see how these things of chance are fun...” she sighed deciding to try it then as she turns to slip only one glove on and turning for the game to start before pressing the button and watching the ball drop. After a moment she walked away from it, “ anything else we could do then?”
 
"Yeah, I guess it can be but it is something that anyone can do. You could do better than someone who is better at everything but this, there is no control. It is just letting it drop and hoping for the best." He would watch as she would decide that she would try it but found it rather okay and would ask what else they could do. He would look around, walking a bit, searching and then finding something they could both try and he snapped his fingers and pointed toward a machine. "There we go, right here!"

He would walk over to a machine that read 'Whack-A-Mole' on the screen and Lee would pick up a mallet and show it to her. "You use this to hit the little moles that pop up and you get points." He would hold up a second mallet that was on a nearby machine. "And we can both play to see who can get the higher score." He would smile as he extended the mallet to Makabe. "It speeds up the longer the game goes on so you have to pace yourself to start."
 
“ hmm feel like it would be even fun to actually break this machine then...” teasing a bit as she liked the challenge of being fast and that it felt better to just punch them more than anything. Makabe sighed now even wanting to do something like that already where she could use her powers fully now as she felt board, quickly taking it and trying the game then.
 
"N-no, that would make it more difficult for anyone after you though!" He would look at the machine as she spoke about simply breaking it as he knew it wouldn't take anything but a simple motion for her. But he would look to her and pause for a moment before his face breaking into a smile and then into a bit of laughter. "H-ha-haha, okay, okay, that was a joke." He would move to his machine and place a coin into both of them as he would hold his mallet in both his hands, taking an almost samurai-like stance as he would stare down at the holes.

There was a ring as the game would start. As the first mole popped up in front of him, Lee would slam the mallet down with a great and unneeded force as a single '1' would appear on the scoreboard. Lee would quickly pull the mallet back and take his stance, slamming another and then another. He would then turn to see Makabe, a mole showing itself before going back under, going unwacked.
 
She looked over, “ stupid creatures...I really want to just hit it and not with this stupid thing..” shaking her head as she just wanted to really slam her fist down on it but of course that would probably break the machine as he already knew with just one hit. “ fine then I’ll do this...” closing her eyes as she relaxed before she formed her arm into some tendrils from the cracks and started hitting the moles, burning their faces and other parts but not damaging the machine at all accept for the now black look that was branded on them from the tendrils sizzling as it hit the metal and the machine getting the score.
 
Lee listened as Makabe seemed more irritated at the fact that someone would dare give her a weapon when she was so much more than it ever could be. He was actually a bit afraid of what she might do and when she declared that she would use something else, he was worried more so. Her arm would form into many different tendrils and he would turn to watch as she would strike the moles as they showed and he would look up to see that the machine was actually acknowledging the strikes, the number rolling higher still. Lee would quickly turn to his own, the moles had moved from the slow pace of before to a more rapid one.

His stance no longer serious as he would try and hit one but it would disappear before the mallet would fall. "Crap, crap, Crap!" He would continue to try and hit mole after mole, actually hitting more on accident as his number would go up in slow motion compared to hers. There was a ringing sound to signal that the game had finished. Lee would look to his, '27' and then looked over to Makabe's. '163' He would stare, a hesitant smile would cross his face as he would laugh. "I didn't even know they could get this high."
 
“Hmph...” putting a hand on her hip as she reformed the tendrils back into her hand. “ that was better than that stupid thing i wonder if there’s something like this but much much more challenging..” she felt a bit hyped up to prove herself using her powers than objects right now as the machine was mostly ruined now with the moles being in a terrible state with the charred burns of her attacks, possible even giving off a visible smell now from the machine...with that she walked away looking around, “ it’s been kinda...fun I guess...” seeing as she didn’t really had much fun accept with the game she just had finished with.
 
Lee would laugh hesitantly as he watched her body conform back to its natural state and she seemed to enjoy the game more than the others and wanted more of a challenge. It was then that the smell started to linger into his nose and he would glance to the machine. While it was still operational, it was ruined otherwise. The Moles had been replaced with molds of black metal and burnt plastic casing. He would watch as she walked away to which Lee would look to see the arcade owner staring at the boy with a very 'your going to pay for that' look. Lee would have to pay the man before he left, under the table.

"H-how about we head to school." He would look around to see if the girl would take to the idea.
 
“ and do what then...” turning and crossing her arms as she made it to the entrance. Makabe sighed and stretched wondering why he would even want to go somewhere like that hoping it wasn’t even more boring than before though she had to learn about the more boring stuff eventually then.
 
"I just figured we might want to go ahead and get a head start on...things?" He wasn't rightly sure as to what but after what happened to the machine, her having any more 'fun', what great for him, wasn't all that great for the owner of the store. As they left, Lee would pull out a small stack of bills and place it on the counter before taking off after Makabe. "But hey, we might be able to see if there are any interesting clubs accepting today. We might not be able to get into the same one but at least it'll get us out there and then you'll sure to have fun then!"
 
“ hmmm I guess..” following out mostly out of just being curious of course of whatever he wanted to even show her today as they got back out into the street where people moved away from her and now following toward the school.
 
Lee would make it out of the arcade fast enough and found his way to Makabe's side fast enough, giving just enough room to feel the heat. He used this to form what he called her personal bubble and so long as it felt warm, just on the boarder of being hot, he could stand. He was building himself up to take the heat more and more but it was only so much his body could handle. He wanted her to feel as though not everyone was keeping her at arms distance or just never coming around her and most didn't really try too. He would pull out a notebook and flip through the pages and speak up. "So, I found some interesting clubs and narrowed down things that would work for us and some that don't. Like the swim club wouldn't be the best mix for you but you could do archery if you had the right kind of bow. There is also the debate club, either of us could try that. The band looks like it's looking for members too, their short this year."
 
They continued to walk before finally at least making it to the front gates of the school as she stopped and looked around, taking in the new surroundings around her again as she glanced over at him wondering what was even the plan before he started to talk. “ jeez are you really trying to make fun of me you dummy!” Taking even a bit offense to not going to the pool as of course she knew just by experience that water hurt her but only a little bit. With that the girl stuck her tongue out as she quickly walked through.
 
Lee would quickly shake his head back and forth as she would call him out on his words as well as calling him a dummy. "I-It's not like that, I promise! I was just pointing it out." He had wanted to see what she would look like in an actual swimsuit but such things were not something she wore...or that she could even ware in the first place the more he thought about it. Sure, he could use his imagination, but that was the extent of it. He would continue forward when he would hit something, causing him to stumble back and fall onto his backside. "Ow!" He would slowly raise his head to see a young man whom was almost twice his size, standing there, glaring down at him. 'Watch where ya goin short stack.' Lee would laugh hesitantly. "Y-yeah, my bad, sorry."
 
She walked, going through to the door before turning and seeing he wasn’t even there before walking back, “ jeez...come on already...” crossing her arms as she stood behind the other boy with crossed arms. “ humans can be dumb...” making the comment not caring if the other boy heard her as she could attack him and lightly burn him with her tendrils if he did anything or just stand there and let him do something to her before walking back toward the door if nothing happened then.
 
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