Location: A dark cave
Time: ?
Red eyes gleamed in the darkness as the creature finished her meal. His skin was torn off, now bloody strips in the corner. His organs she'd devoured slowly, delighting in the man's dying screams as she did. The tangy blood left a mess on her face, but she'd licked off most of it. The rest of it she'd wiped away with a piece torn from the man's discarded clothing.
Looking back, she remembered the look of incredulity on his face as she showed him her feeding tube. He had one, too, but while it was used in a similar fashion to hers, it didn't collect or transfer energy like hers did. Equally strange was that females of his race- female "humans"- didn't have them. They had everything else, but instead of feeding tubes between their legs, they had what the man described as a "vagina", which men's feeding tubes went into. How very…intriguing. Did men feed the females? But why would they do that? Shouldn't such a thing kill them? It seemed terribly ineffective, until he explained that those parts were used solely for reproduction.
She dug her face back into the man's exposed chest cavity and began tearing at the meat and tissue she found, further coating her silver hair with his blood.
Her kind only lasted one use, as feeding tubes drained their life energy. But humans didn't feed like they did, and couldn't have their energy transferred. It was physically impossible. That meant she could play with them for far longer before she grew bored and feasted on their meat!
She pulled out of him with a tiny schlop and wiped at her face.
She couldn't wait to get her hands on a female.
OoooOoooOoooO
Tokyo Police Force-Time Travel Enforcements Branch Headquarters
Time: 13:00 18 April 3016
Kagamine Rin was one of the youngest members of Tokyo's secret police force, but she'd done a fair amount of time traveling in a series of incidents involving her comatose brother Len.
A couple years into this field, Rin was approached by her superior, Kamui-yakuin. He'd offered to go back in time to look for a way to wake Len up. Since Rin knew the two were good friends, she didn't think it was such an odd thing, and accepted the offer.
But when the man didn't return, she began to worry.
The file on her desk was a reminder of her guilt, and she tried hard not to dwell so much on that as she read through it.
MISSING PERSONS CASE FILE
NAME: KAMUI GAKUPO
OCCUPATION: UNKNOWN
LAST SEEN AT: ? AT ?PM
CHRONOLOGICAL LOCATION: MESO-JURASSIC ERA
Attached was a photograph and a detailed summary of important persona and events from that time- a necessity to ensure that no reporting officers accidentally created a paradox.
Rin ignored the photo and skimmed through the summary. This time period was incredibly dangerous- only the best of the best of the best of senior officers could ever go there, and even then, it was risky to stay for too long. If Rin knew he was going to travel there, she would've never accepted his offer!
But it was too late to worry about that now. Officer Gakuko, his cousin, had accepted the mission, and as her partner and friend, it was only right that Rin come along, too.
The violette peeked her head into the doorway of Rin's office.
"Ready to go?"
Her voice was cold and distant. Not that Rin could blame her for that.
"Yeah."
Gakuko wordlessly tossed her a backpack. It was heavy in the smaller girl's arms, but her partner just tossed it as if it were a ball they used to play with when they were younger.
Rin began digging through the pockets, mumbling to herself.
"energy bars, water, handgun, extra ammo, extra ammo, extra ammo-" that was why it was so heavy then, "-pepper spray, notepad, pens, rope-?" she sent Gakuko a questioning look before continuing, "hammer, grappling gun, knife, knife-okay, seven knives-, heating block, freezing block, bandages, healing cream, aaannnddd a heated sleeping pallet."
She looked again at Gakuko.
"Are you sure we'll need all that?"
"Where we're going, that might not be enough. Grab your C.A.T.T. and meet me at the central hub in five."
She left again, and Rin zipped up her backpack completely before grabbing the golden Clock-Activated Time-Turner and securing it to her wrist. She glanced at herself through the mirror before heading out. Blonde hair down to her hips. Blue eyes. A really terrible black and white uniform that clung to her like a second skin.
She grabbed her black hat off the hook on the door and put it on before turning the lights off and locking her office up.
It was a two minute walk to the hub. Two minutes of stifling silence and boring white walls.
By the time she got there, Gakuko was already there, waiting for her. She nodded and Rin returned it. They didn't need words for this.
They went to stand next to each other and turned their CATTs in near-perfect synch, and suddenly Rin found herself flying rapidly through the multicolored tunnel that was the timestream.
She was alone in this, not that she expected any different. Everyone's timelines went through different events. It was a well known fact. It was why two people could never be in the exact same timestream. When they both reached the appropriate time, though, they'd wind up next to each other. Or at least, that's what was supposed to happen.
But as Rin stumbled into a tropical clearing, she found that Gakuko was nowhere near her.
Rin righted herself quickly, accidentally kicking up a cloud of red dust.
"Gakuko-chan? Gakuko-chan? Where are you?" she hollered. There was no answer, so she began walking around.
"Gakuko! Where are you!?"
It was quiet. Eerily quiet.
"Gaku-AAAHHH!"
She tripped on a rock and was sent headfirst over the edge of a small cliff. There was a small crack as she landed, and she looked at her wrist in alarm. While it wasn't hurt, her CATT was broken! Now she'd never be able to return home!
Rin wanted to cry. But she couldn't- not until she found Gakuko!
She pulled herself up, only to fall back down again as pain shot up her calf. She took off her backpack and dug around till she found a knife, which she then used to cut off her pant leg. She stuffed the cloth into her backpack before pulling out the tin of healing cream and a roll of bandages. After feeling around for a little bit, she came across a deep gash in her calf, probably caused by a rock. It didn't seem infected, but Rin knew very little about medicine- just that if you were injured, you needed the wound to be wrapped tightly- and decided to spread the cream over the cut, just to be safe.
She wrapped it tightly with the bandages and then let it sit for a few minutes before she felt she could stand again. It still hurt, but not as much as before.
Confident now in herself, Rin began walking again.
"Gakuko! Gakuko! Answer me!"
OoooOoooOoooO
Location: A tropical forest
Time: ?
Rin had been wandering for hours. Her voice had grown hoarse, and she reluctantly gave up on searching for Gakuko. She was a senior officer- surely she could handle herself, right?
Now she just had to find Gakupo. Though she knew it was likely he was dead, she didn't want to think that, for Gakuko's sake.
A hissing sound drew her from her thoughts.
"sssssssilly girl. You won't find your friendssssss. The king already got to them."
Something cool wrapped around her injured leg and squeezed it, but in the dark shade of the thick trees, she couldn't see a thing.
Rin fell with a pained hiss.
"play with me, misssy. I'll make you better."
There was a sudden weight on top of her, and Rin let out a surprised gasp.
"Aahh…sssuch lovely sssoundsss you make…" the voice was right in her ear.
"I want to hear more!"
Sharp teeth bit into her earlobe, and Rin whimpered. That leathery appendage that'd grasped her leg was gone, and a cold hand was suddenly forcing her hands back. She couldn't move with this weight on her legs.
The cool, leathery thing wrapped itself around her waist, pinning her to her assailant. Something hard pressed against her buttocks.
"S-Stop it! L-Let me go!"
Long hair that certainly wasn't hers brushed over her shoulder.
"I can't do that, misssy. Your ssscccent isss sssimply…divine…"
A forked tongue licked at her neck before sharp teeth dug into it. They pulled out a minute later, and Rin suddenly felt lightheaded.
She heard the sound of something being torn, and then she felt humid air brush against her skin.
The serpentine thing above her licked her lips and prepared to enter the youngling she'd pinned down.
Rin was only vaguely aware of what happened next. All she knew was that suddenly her captor was gone, and strong arms were now carrying her to safety.
She looked up into blue eyes identical to her own. Her mind registered them as belonging to Len.
But Len's in a coma…
She closed her eyes again, and let sleep take her.