Ga-Rei Hime, a Ga-Rei Zero/Mai Hime fusion
Two
Fujiko Mine was the scariest grandmother that Nao Yuuki had ever met. The wizened old grandmother had ran the Agency before the more pleasant and polite Ayame took over, and still wielded considerable power. As the majority of their forces chased after Yomi Isayama, their star agent who had apparently turned on them, Fujiko was organizing another hunt.
Nao frowned as the young redhead sat in the office in Tokyo, a branch of the Agency apart from the main facility. It was a bit of an insult they were meeting here, but she could understand it too. She and the others weren't 'ace' exorcists, like the lead team.
Nao herself was a 'binding' style exorcist. She used common variety threads to entangle spirits, then chanted the sutras to send them on their way. It wasn't spectacular looking, but it usually worked. However so far she had only succeeded in banishing lesser spirits, not the more powerful ones.
"So, where are the others?" Nao demanded impatiently, slouched in one of the uncomfortable chairs in front of the desk.
Fujiko looked amused as the older woman said, "They're finishing up a errand for me, first."
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"Ah think that may not have been a good idea," Shizuru Fujino noted mildly, the brown haired woman leaning on her as they watched the building burning down. She was attractive, in her mid twenties and was dressed in a fine if now smudged woman's suit. In her hand she carried her Naginata, a pole based weapon with a slightly curved blade at the end, which she liked to call Kyohime.
"I didn't MEAN for that to happen!" Mai Tokhia complained, the reddish brown haired younger woman looking at the burning building in dismay. The quite busty teenager looked sheepish, but not TOO alarmed, since the burning building was empty.
"Now, now," Shizuru patted her arm awkwardly. "Did you call the containment teams in?" she asked politely. They heard the sirens off in the distance and both cringed as Shizuru pressed a hidden switch and collapsed her weapon before stashing it in her large handbag.
"Oh, even better," Mai whimpered.
Police and fire department both arrived, and only showing their government IDs saved both women from arrest. Even with that the police tried to grill them, while the fire department worked to contain the flames.
"No, I don't know how the fire started," Mai lied firmly, staring down the police officer.
"I appreciate you two calling this in," the older cop scowled, "but that's bull. I want to know what really happened."
"Now, sah, you are not acting at all like a gentleman," Shizuru drawled in that sweet, beguiling way she had.
Mai occassionally envied that ability, but it was a talent she just didn't have. Sadly, in her case men, and not a few women, were too distracted by her tits. "We really don't know what happened, we were just passing by," Mai said, taking a deep breath to help distract him a bit more.
Sadly, that didn't distract him enough. "Ladies, you're both banged up pretty badly, you smell of... something, and I don't think any of it happened just while you were out on a walk," he said grimly.
"Sah, I..." Shizuru started when a door slammed. Both girls looked up to see a stylishly dressed man stride forward, and both puffed out a relieved sigh. Their fixer had arrived.
Reito Kanzaki was related to the family that ran the agency, but he had no real supernatural talents. What he DID have was a gift for gab, charm and a smile that instantly identified him as a heart breaker. As Mai WELL knew. Within moments he had them convinced he was a federal agent, he 'arrested' both women and had them in his car and off.
"Did you HAVE to arrest us?" Mai complained as she sat in the back seat.
"I thought you liked handcuffs," Reito smirked, receiving a glower from a sigh he passed back the key and the two women uncuffed themselves.
"Sorry we had to call you in," Shizuru apologized gracefully, "but my Kyohime wasn't enough to stop the creature, so we needed to fall back on Mai's powers."
"And why is my power the one we always have to use as a last resort?" Mai wondered, pouting slightly.
"Because kill it with fire usually gets out of hand," Reito noted dryly.
Mai crossed her arms and pouted cutely.
Shizuru covered her mouth to hide a smile. She got her smile under control as she asked, "Ah understand we're on our way to the meeting?"
"Indeed," Reito conceded, "great-grandma has another job for you two..."
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Nao Yuuki looked distinctly unimpressed as the three walked in, as well as amused at their slightly singed state. "I see the pyro was at it again," she smirked.
"Do not mock my partner," Shizuru answered mildly, "I doubt you could have banished such a creature on your own."
Nao scowled, but the others ignored them as they took seats in front of the desk. Reito sat by Nao, while Mai and Shizuru sat on his other side. Fujiko Mine calmly watched them take their places, but there was a dangerous tension in the older lady.
"If everyone is ready?" Fujiko asked wryly.
"Of course, grandmother," Reito answered smoothly, "should I remain? Or will you...?"
"Stay, please," Fujiko said calmly. "You may be needed as a driver, if nothing else," she added.
"Oh great," Nao muttered, "host club boy is tagging along..."
Fujiko ignored that too. "Some of you may already be aware of this, but I will summarize the situation that we currently face," she said coolly. "Yomi Isayama, previously a valued member of the Agency, was corrupted and attacked a military team of exorcists, as well as Agency members."
Shizuru didn't comment of that bare bones description, though she knew from rumors that it was woefully incomplete. If what she had heard was correct Yomi had practically been framed and betrayed by a family member... then accused by the Agency itself. Of course, no one was admitting anything...
"Kagura Tsuchimiya, along with her team, were able to defeat Yomi, at least for the time being," Fujiko said seriously.
Mai raised a hand. "What do you mean, for the time being? I thought Kagura killed her," she asked, looking confused.
"Yomi had become a Entity, a supernatural force," Fujiko explained patiently, "I rather doubt that death will actually stop her for good."
"Ah," Mai nodded a bit sheepishly.
"In her combat with the military espers, Yomi killed the entire team," Fujiko said darkly, "but somehow, she... reanimated a member of the team, Natsuki Kasuga. We are currently classifying her as a Entity, but she is to be your assignment."
"Which means?" Reito asked as the old woman passed out photos of the young woman.
It was a official photo, so the young lady was staring straight at the camera. She looked stiff and uncomfortable, but despite that was quite attractive, with long blue-black hair and eyes that seemed quite soulful.
"We do not know her current intentions," Fujiko admitted. "So far all she has done is attack and kill other hostile Entities. In fact she has saved civilian lives and assisted local police forces. However, we are concerned her basic nature may come to influence her."
"So what, exactly, do you want us to do?" Shizuru drawled, but fixed the old woman with a intense gaze.
"We want you to bring her in," Fujiko said firmly. "It is our hope that you can subdue her, then we can either exorcise the spiritual invasion or otherwise try to help her."
"Kill her, you mean," Nao noted cynically.
"That's not necessarily...," Mai started.
"Oh bull," Nao cut her off, "if what I heard is right, the only reason she's even up and mobile is because of the supernatural. We exorcise her, she drops dead."
"We also use supernatural guardian beasts to kill other entities," Fujiko pointed out, "it is not a either or proposition." Having quelled the debate she continued, "We need to find her and make sure she is not harming innocents."
"Do we know where she is?" Reito asked reasonably.
"She's been sighted in and around Tokyo, we believe searching for Yomi. She's annoyingly hard to pin down, and our espers don't seem to be able to reliably track her," Fujiko sighed.
"Track her, find her, bring her back," Mai paused, "how hard could it be?"
"Don't SAY that!" Nao groaned.
To be continued...
Notes: Shorter than I planned. I've been struggling with a update for this for awhile. Two scrapped versions of this were VERY serious, after which I realized I needed to lighten the tone a bit.
Fujiko Hime is a canon character in Ga Rei, though she mostly shows up in the manga. She ran the Agency in the past, but handed control over to her daughter. However she still keeps her hand in, and takes over again when her daughter is injured.
As for the Mai Hime cast, I'm MOSTLY trying to keep them in character, but move them over into the Ga Rei universe. As there are esp powers I made Mai pyrokinetic... sadly her control kinda sucks. Fujino uses a rocket powered blde like the Ga Rei characters have, while Nao is a binding type character, which fits canon I think. Reito will be their driver and expediter... no idea if I wanna have him be as much of a man-slut as Mai Hime canon implies.