Sunday, May 27, 2007

Tabula Rasa

BIG NOTE: No POV (3rd person).

Chapter 13

“Sure. As if we couldn’t find a solitaire addict anytime we’d need one.”

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“Hey Kaoru, what do you think Anya’s doing right now?”

“Why are you asking me that?”

“Well what do you think?”

Kaoru flips her pen a few times before going back to her report. Sam gets up from the floor and sits on the couch.

“I have a feeling it has something to do with spiders.”

“SPIDERS?! YUCK!”

“…and that it’s going to get a lot worse soon.”

“Huh?”

“Never mind.”

“So how’s your love life?”

Kaoru’s eyes twitch. She reaches for her paperweight and throws it at Sam. She barely dodges.

“Hey no need to get so violent!”

“I told you to stop asking me that all the time!”

“OOH! SOMETHINGS GOING ON!”

“And why do you think that?!”

“YOU’RE TOO CRANKY ABOUT THIS! SPILL IT, WHO IS IT?!” Sam seems to be having the time of her life.

Kaoru sighs. She goes back to her report.

“WELL?!”

“…”

“NAH NAH YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THIS! WHO-IS-IT?!”

“You don’t know her.”

“Her? KYAA~ KAORU HAS A GIRLFRIEND!” Sam starts jumping around.

“I’ll NEVER introduce you to her.”

“WAAAH! Of course you will, I’m your best friend!”

“Says who?”

“Says me!”

“Well that sure makes it true.”

“WAAAH YOU MEANIE!”

“SAM GET OFF ME!”

~*~*~*~*~

“So who’s going to tell the boss?”

“Not me! I don’t want her wrath upon me!”

“Then who will tell her that we screwed up?”

“How about you?”

“Hey what’s so scary about her anyway?”

The other four turn to look at the girl. The rookie, been a member for a week. Figures.

“What’s so scary about her?”

“It’s clear that you haven’t met the boss.”

“No, so what’s so bad about her?”

The other girls look at each other and then at the rookie.

“Oh I don’t know, maybe the fact that she can kill you in seconds if you really get on her nerves!”

“So, the one who tells her about this is practically risking her life!”

“Hey I have an idea!” Everybody turns to look at her.

“Let’s send rookie to tell the bad news.” Four girls smirk.

“Great idea.”

“Hey I didn’t say- hey let go of me!”

~*~*~*~*~

“Yo Kyoto!”

“Hi Stefan.”

“You heard anything about Nabooru’s gang recently?”

“No, I haven’t. Why?”

“Well I was just wondering that they’ve been a bit too quiet lately, if you know what I mean.”

“So you’re saying that they’re up to something?”

“Well it’s always a possibility.”

Kyoto sighs.

“Well I’ll look into that after I’m done with this thing.”

~*~*~*~*~

“So you’re telling me that one of my best squads, and I mean the BEST, got caught?”

“Yes.”

“While stealing the target?”

“Yes.”

“One of my best squads.”

“Yes.”

“…” Nabooru walks around a little before laying her amber eyes on the trembling rookie.

“What’s your name again?”

“Alycia.”

“Alright, Alycia, how long have you been a member of us?”

“For a week.”

“Do you know what I do to people who screw up?”

“Y-y-you k-kill them?”

“Correct. But tell me Alycia” Nabooru leans closer to the shaking rookie who looks right about ready to faint any second “how can I kill those morons when they’re not here?”

“I-I-I d-d-don’t know-”

“WHY aren’t they here?”

“B-b-because they were c-caught by th-th-the Witches.”

“Correct. But WHY were they caught by the Witches?”

“I-I-I d-d-d-don’t-”

”Yes, you don’t know because NO ONE does!” Nabooru waves her hands and walks around again. Then she stops.

“Alycia, was it?”

“Y-y-yes.”

“Go get all the squads- all of them, I don’t care if they’re even in the middle of a bath- to the main room. Tell them I have something to tell to everybody.”

Alycia shakes and won’t move anywhere.

“WELL WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU STANDING THERE FOR??!! GO GET ALL SQUADS!!! NOW!!!”

“Y-y-yes boss!” Alycia runs as fast as her legs can carry her. Now she knew what was so bad about their great leader Nabooru.

~*~*~*~*~

“SAM GET OFF ME RIGHT NOW OR I WON’T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONCEQUENSES!”

Kaoru’s cell phone rings.

“HEY LET GO!”

“Okay.”

Kaoru answers the phone.

“Yeah? Kyoto? What’s up?”

A pause.

“WHAT?! Demon activity in the Colosseum?! How did that happen?!”

A pause.

“…sure, the minute we get some peace and quiet-”

A pause.

“Okay, Sam’s right here, I’ll take her to the Office. We’ll be there in a minute.”

She shuts the cell phone.

“Sam, you got a case.”

“YAY! What is it?”

“The Colosseum. There’s been some demon activity all of a sudden.”

“The Colosseum?! But I though it was cleaned up long time ago!”

“Well there’s something in there now so we need you to investigate.”

“Okay…”

~*~*~*~*~

“Dear fellow thieves! We have a problem. The Witches are awake again!”

Mumbling and whispering is heard everywhere.

“And my spies have informed me that the Office has been alerted of demon activity in the Colosseum! For now they have no idea what’s really going on, so we gotta move fast!”

Everybody’s listening.

“I myself will go to the Colosseum and retrieve the Medallion.”

Gasps and more whispering.

“The rest of you will stay here, take care of the people coming here from the Office- yes, I’d say they’ll be here any minute- while I’m on my mission. I’ll be leaving the Valley and while I’m away everybody does what Saleec tells you to do. This is my order! And all those who oppose-” she smirks “well do I really have to tell you?”

No one opposes. These women can be cruel and kill without hesitation, but they’d rather keep their heads attached to the rest of their bodies.

~*~*~*~*~

“Should we let Malice know what’s going on?”

“Yeah, it might be the best. You can call her.”

“Why me?”

Kyoto smiles widely.

“Because in Finland it’s around 4 AM and Malice hates it when people call her when she’s trying to sleep.”

“And I can be sacrificed?”

“We can replace you, but I’m not replaceable.”

“Sure. As if we couldn’t find a solitaire addict anytime we’d need one.”

“Tell that to the upstairs.”

“I’d rather not.”

“Then off you go.”

~*~*~*~*~

“…and we need to take it down before it gets away for good- AYA! ARE YOU LISTENING?!”

“…”

“Y’know, I have no clue why we need to work with a brat like him-”

“AYA!”

“…”

“Maybe he’s deaf?”

“FOR THE LAST TIME, AYA: ARE. YOU. LISTENING??!!”

Aya raises his eyes from the floor.

“Hai, Jarrod-san?” (Yes, Jarrod-san?)

“Listen you brat-”

“GET BACK TO YOUR SEAT HENRY!”

Aya doesn’t react.

“But sir that little idiot doesn’t even bother to pay attention-”

“Which is not your problem!” Jarrod turns to the young man at the end of the table.

“Aya, have you been listening?”

“Hai.” (Yes.)

“And you know what you’re supposed to do?”

“Hai.” (Yes.)

“You’re really trying to piss me off, aren’t you brat?!”

Aya looks at Henry and smiles wickedly.

“Haai.” (Yees.)

“WHY YOU LITTLE-” Henry ties to get off his chair but Jarrod holds him back.

“HENRY CALM DOWN! Do you really want a katana through your heart?”

“BUT THAT LITTLE-”

“I don’t care about what he did, you should learn to control yourself! Aya, you’re free to go now.”

Aya gets up from he’s chair and leaves the room. Once the door closes Henry starts shouting.

“What the fuck is wrong with you?! That bastard just-”

“He does that to everybody he meets for the first time you ass! It’s his game and you lost!”

“What?!”

“You’re not dealing with a teenager even though he looks like it.”

“What is he then?”

“Classified information. But I’ll tell you one thing: never piss him off. He can kill you before you even blink.”

“Sir, is there anything you can tell about him?”

Jarrod gets up from his chair.

“Let’s just say that he does his job and he does it damn well as long as we don’t annoy him. He’s the only one we’ve got and finding a new one-”

“What do you mean only one?”

Jarrod opens the door.

“Just make sure you won’t get in his way. It might get bloody.”

~*~*~*~*~

“Wow, this is strange.”

“What?”

“We got an alert from Vietnam’s local forces.”

“What about it?”

“They’ve met a demon that’s not in the database.”

“WHAT! That’s impossible!”

“Not anymore.”

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A/N: Well we have some new characters! Now I don't want to hear any complaining about having too many characters, I don't have that many (not even close to Naruto and Bleach and they both have about 100 characters).

Summer break is getting closer! ^^ More chapters, hopefully faster!


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