cloudy with a Chance of freedom

chapter 2

Skull expected many things. Seeing the hellion that was a younger Fon was not one of them and he is rather gleefully commiting this sight to memory to get blackmail later on the smiling storm. Then Fon sees the grin of Skull's face and scowls, looking so much like a younger, stormier Hibari Kyouya that it's positively hillarious.

It is the clouds that stir the storm into action, which Spurs on the rain and lightning. A it's only natural that Skull impishly does something to piss off Fon by swiping his snack when he wasn't expecting it and getting the young storm to chase him.

Skull is rather proud he had committed all the moves Fon's older counterpart had taught him into muscle memory as a way to escape the nightmares. It means he is more of a match for the increasingly irate storm who thinks his limited martial arts gives him the upper hand against a 'mere theif'.

Seeing Fon seething on the ground with his face in the dirt after Skull cheerfully kicked his assistant was hillarious. The fact Fon's Sensei had evidently figured out what the purple haired boy was doing and allowed it, even more so.

Fon glared at him, and Skull grinned

"There's always a bigger fish," he quoted, grinning with his hands behind his head. "And when it comes to martial arts, mastery is a little more than an illusion that keeps you away from acheiving your full potential. Way too many descide that acheiving Black belt is enough and don't bother to push themselves to learn everything they can to be the best."

Fon takes a calming breath and realized the wisdom in the words of the youth who had beaten him so easily. He had been LAX in his training, he saw that much now.

"Besides, I've yet to find a style that is so strong that it's impossible to beat everytime. Better to diversity, so that you can remain unpredictable like the unrelenting hurricanes and tempests."

Seeing the approving look on Fon's teacher and the thoughtful one on the storm,Skull inwardly chalked it up to a victory. Especially when, after Fon got over his humiliation of being beaten by a complete stranger (a foreigner no less), he quietly asked how to contact Skull.

His clan was always complimenting him on his accomplishments without truly pushing him to be better. They acted as though his skills and dedication were enough as they were, rather than convincing him he could be so much better.

This foreigner with the strange hair had beaten him with rediculous ease, but cared enough to give him advice that his shifu agreed with wholeheartedly.

Later, Fon would come to appreciate the amusement that came from being the 'eye of the storm' as he watched both men and women lose control in the face of his Serene mask, even if his flames were inwardly raging.

Skull is rather pleased with the stunt, even as he continues world tour, stumbling over his lanky form along the way. He still had two more years before those letters were sent and he had to decide wether it was worth pretending to be the 'downtrodden and overwhelmed' Harry Potter that Dumbledore was almost certainly expecting.

There was no way in hell Dumbledore was that ignorant to the way the dursleys treated him. The old bastard openly admitted to the fact that he had "reluctantly" molded the child everyone considered his protege into a bloody martyr because of some half assed prophecy that only came true because the old bastard and the Hippocrates believed in that crap.

He could continue as he had been, wandering the world freely as a drifting cloud.

But that would only alert the old goat to the fact that "Harry" was no longer under his 'careful watch', being discreetly turned into a weapon against riddle.

Besides, last time he had barely scratched the surface of the Hogwarts library and he had long since learned how to get past the wards on the restricted section before the war had ended. Once he had his invisibility cloak back, he was going to hit that section hard.