Get Back My Monster
It was hot day outside the Honky Tonk Café, even so, nothing felt better than a warm cup of Paul's coffee, call me a bohemian if you want, but the idea of spending the entire day inside a café, reading and spending time with my partner Ginji Amano was simply very appealing, waiting for a job simply come our way.
"Hey Ban Chan, I'm hungry? He whined, his stomach rumbling loudly, distracting me from my Paradise Lost book.
"Go ask Paul to make you sandwich or something."
"But Ban Chan, we have no money, and our tab so high already I couldn't ask him." He said pulling my arm annoyingly.
"Dammit Gingi, I'm trying to read here, I'm sure we'll get a job soon enough, just sit tight and wait okay." Just then the door opened with the soft ring of the bell, and as if God himself had heard me, entered a woman, a rich looking woman.
She had creamy dark skin and golden blonde hair, her steel blue eyes looked around contemplatively behind her clear glasses, she wore a dark olive suit with a strange looking red tie, despite her looks she dressed like a man, odd.
Behind her was another imposing person, a tall dark man, dressed completely in black, his shirt, vest, pants, shoes and even some out of place looking half fingered gloves, he had the same firm stare of his companion, hidden instead behind a round monocle, his ebony hair tied in an elegant ponytail, a few strands of hair did fell on his face however.
"Is this the office of the Getbackers?" asked the woman at Paul.
"Yes it is." I said running towards her to shake her hand, the dark guy stepped in front of her, to stop me from coming any closer.
"Its okay Walter, I'm sure they mean no harm," She said reassuringly to the man, pushing him aside and accepting the hand shake, "Forgive my butler; he can be a bit overprotective at times."
"Don't worry, please, sit down." I said motioning her to our traditional table, where Ginji was still sulking in hunger, but brightened up as he saw our new possible client.
"How may we be assistance Ms…?"
"Integra, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing" she said most formally.
"That's a long name, your accent sounds familiar, are you British?" I asked embarrassed by Gingi´s perplexed face, "that means she is from England, you dimwit." I told him angrily.
She nodded and snapped her fingers, immediately the man came to her side, bowing formally before taking her order.
"Walter, some tea if you please." The man nodded and went to the counter, requesting Pore´s permission to use the kitchen for the lady's request, Paul agreed kindly but mostly out of fear from such a scary looking guy.
"Like I said, I'm here to propose a little job to the two of you." she said taking an expensive looking cigar from her vest pocket, but she didn't light it, simply placing it between her lips to bite it.
"What do you want us to get back, a jewel, a purse, a lover perhaps, come on you can tell us."
"I need you to recover my… pet, I'm afraid he found a way to cut his leash and escape, its very dangerous so I need to recover him fast before he hurts somebody, you think you can help me, Getbackers.2
"You know, we usually don't take this type of jobs, I mean we got our pride and a reputation to look after, looking for animals, it's just not our thing."
"I'll pay you ten million yen."
"Then again, since you insist so much, I guess we could make an exception this time, consider the Getbackers hired," I could hear Paul sniggering behind the counter as the butler returned with the tea, serving her mistress a steaming cup, and lighting her cigar.
"By the way, what kind of animal did you loose?" She and the butler looked rather nervously at each other, as if not knowing how to answer best.
"A vampire." She said simply.
"Come again."
"A nosferatu, a demon from the night, a blood sucking freak with deep red eyes, is that clear enough." Our blank faces should have been answer enough; she sighted and blew out some smoke.
"The organization I lead has the obligation of destroying those monsters from the face of the world, however, one can hardly depend on a human hunter, they die so easily and last so little time, so my great grandfather, the great Van Hellsing himself captured the most dangerous of those beast and forced him to work for us." She paused to inhale and blow some more smoke before continuing.
"But recently he managed to find a way to cut his bonds to me, then he escaped here, our last Intel said he had come to Shinjuku, and we believe he is still around, although we don't know why."
"A monster to hunt other monsters, clever." I admitted, Ginji just looked scared by all the monster talk.
"I don't like this Ban; maybe we shouldn't take this job."
"For ten million yen, I'll bring you the damn loch ness monster too if you want, I keep what I said, you got yourself a deal lady." I said stretching my hand, this time she accepted it.
"You don't mind the whole vampire business; I'm surprised you believed it so fast, most people need to see one of them before accepting their existence."
"We've seen our fair share of strange things too, so don't worry, will get you your fanged pet back; just tell us where to start."
"Good, but I must warn you, he's very strong, unlike anything you've ever seen, if that negotiator hadn't assured me of your strength, I wouldn't have come here, but I'm desperate as it is." She finally turned out the cigar, giving it to her butler to be disposed off.
"My informant said he had last entered a place not so far from here, I think it's called the infinity fortress or something." I looked at Gingi immediately, he was thinking along the same line as me, the guys were in danger; we had to hurry up before something bad happened to them.
"In that case well leave immediately, well call you when the jobs completed, just leave you phone number with the owner." I said running to the door along with Gingi.
"Wait, there something else you must know, the woman that talked me about the two of you, also mentioned someone else first, so I hired him as well, you'll be working with him in this job."
"Who?" Asked Ginji, just then the door bell tinkle again, we turned around to meet…oh God, not him.
"Ah good, you're here already, Mr. Akabane right?"
"Yes, a pleasure meeting you Miss Hellsing, and how are my two favorite companions today, when she mentioned I'd be teaming up with you I just could resist." He said smirking deviously, with that perturbing smile of his.
Just great, another job with this psycho, I'm going to kill Hevn for this, ten million yen, ten million yen, just keep repeating it, I told myself.
"Hello Ginji Kun, I'm so glad to work with you again" Gingi just squirmed nervously as he looked at him with those murderous eyes.
"Well we're off; I got feeling this is going to be one long day." I said while stepping out into the street, with Gingi and that whack job behind.