It had been four long years since Shi-Long had thought back to that horrible night but then again it was the reason he worked his way up to an Interpol agent. He was then pulled from his thoughts by the older scruffy detective coming into the room. "I see you're here again, Lang." Shi-long smirked and hopped off the balcony ledge to greet the detective. "Admit it Badd. You like having me around!" He chuckled as he began to rummage in the fridge. "I wish you would get your own apartment, you can afford it after all." Badd then unwrapped another sucker and popped it into his mouth. "What would I want with my own apartment? When I'm never in one place for long?" Shi-Long then chugged the the juice and crushed the container. Badd finally threw his coat on the couch and looked over to Shi-Long. "So what is your job this time?" Shi-Long pulled out a folded up piece of paper. "I'm here to collect some guy named Daryan Crescend. He murdered an Interpol agent and was also involved with smuggling. Apparently some pup named Apollo made him crack a few days ago." He then tucked the paper back into his pocket and then plopped onto Badd's couch. "So I'm crashing here!" Badd sighed and nodded. "Daryan Crescend? Better be careful, something isn't right about that guy." He rolled the sucker around in his mouth as he continued to flip through the paper. "Don't worry. I never let my guard down…" Shi-Long rolled over and slowly closed his eyes; praying that dream didn't try to haunt him again.
It was bright and early when Shi-Long arrived at the Tokyo Maximum Security Prison, he walked through the doors and showed his badge to the man behind the glass. "I'm here for Daryan Crescend." The man nodded and called for Daryan to be brought out; about 15 or 20 minutes had passed before they finally arrived with him though his hair entered the room a good 3 or 4 seconds before Daryan did. The man looked worse for wear, almost like his will to live was sucked out. "This shell is Daryan Crescend?" The officer nodded. "Yes, sir! We had to sedate him after he attacked some of the guards. So please be careful!" Shi-Long shook his head as Daryan continued to mumble to himself and then shoved him into the back seat of the cruiser where he continued to repeat the same thing over and over again as they drove. "This pup couldn't handle being defeated could he?" The officer driving peeked at Daryan through the rearview mirror, Shi-Long then let out an annoyed sigh and kicked back in his seat. "I'm glad everyone seems to be so talkative!" The remainder of the ride was in silence until they finally arrived at the airport.
Shi-Long got out of the car and made his way into the building to finish the arrangements for Daryan's transfer. In the back seat Daryan shifted his attention to the officer now standing guard outside of the car; he twitched a bit as something crawled under his skin and into his eye before his eye turned completely red. "You can help me?" A creepy smile crawled onto Daryan's face and he began laughing insanely. The cop held his hands tight behind his back as they began shaking, the only thing he could do was pray that Shi-Long and the other officers would hurry and take this man. "Hey!...Mister Policeman…" The officer hesitated to look but finally turned to see what he wanted, Daryan was pressed against the glass; his right eye was blood red and some sort of black ooze had engulfed that side of his face. "W-What the hell?!" The officer stumbled back and drew his gun but dropped it, his hands now shaking fiercely. "Don't worry I can let myself out!" Daryan pushed himself against the door and numerous black tendrils inched around the door and ripped it off the hinges. He stepped out; his entire face was covered in that black ooze, his other eye had also been turned red and his upper body had been covered with the ooze. "See that wasn't so bad, but now I'm starving!" Daryan threw his head back as a violent shiver shot up his body and then through his torpedo like hair, before the long extension ripped itself open to reveal a large mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.
The sounds of the officer's terrified screams caught Shi-Long's attention even inside the loud airport lobby. "What the hell…?" Suddenly a flood of terrified people came rushing past him, however Shi-Long pushed his way through the crowd as a low growl swelled in his throat. A couple brave officers rushed out with him into the nightmare unfolding in front of them. "Oh my…*gag* god!" The officers aimed their guns at the now completely mutated Daryan Crescend. "Oh? More food? Let me finish this first!" The mouth that emerged from his torpedo like hair crunched and chewed on the officer that was left to guard him; arms and legs dangled from the mouth before being flipped into the air and gulped down.
"You sick bastard!" Shi-Long growled; baring his fangs at the demon. The two officers began shaking more and more as they watched this pure evil thing. "I…I-I can't!" One officer dropped his gun and ran screaming from the scene, leaving Shi-Long and the other officer with demon Daryan. "We can't have food running away now can we?" Daryan threw his arm out and a large black tentacle flew at the remaining officer. "Ahh..AHHHH!" The officer tried to fire his gun at the tentacle but the bullets bounced off. The officer covered his head; not wanting to see his own death, he waited for the pain but nothing ever came. "Wha-What?..." He looked up to see Shi-Long with the tentacle gripped in his hand . "Get out of here." Shi-Long glared over his shoulder at the officer who didn't hesitate to run off, leaving Shi-Long with the demon.
Shi-Long held up his hand as his claws extended before he slashed the clean from Daryan's body and then he tossed the severed limb to the ground where it squirms before turning into a lump of black hair. "Aah! W-What?!" Daryan clung to the stump as it slowly reformed. "Lang Zi says: Mess with the pack and you will earn the anger of the leader!" Shi-Long glared at Daryan as his body began to snap and stretch as black fur coated his body and razor sharp fangs filled his snouted mouth. "You're not human either? That would explain why you weren't scared of me…but a mutt like you won't stop me from getting my hands on that Apollo brat!" The threw out numerous black tendrils at the large werewolf; Shi-Long growled and then dodged through the tendrils, a few of them tore into his body but he paid no attention to the damage.
Shi-Long then jumped at Daryan and slammed into the cruiser as Daryan slithered away. "I told you it was useless mutt!" The mouth on his head shot out and sunk its fangs into Shi-Long's shoulder. "Raargh!" Shi-Long clawed at the extra mouth viciously to knock it lose but Daryan had already regained his footing. "Damn Mutt!" He petted the demon jaws before they both snarled at Shi-Long and lashed out at him but this time he caught the snapped mouth in his claws and pulled Daryan to him. "This wolf doesn't let prey…GET AWAY!" Shi-Long then slashed deep into Daryan and pinned him to the ground with his claw. Daryan let out a painful howl and tried to squirm free but Shi-Long's claw just got tighter in his chest, he tried clawing at the massive wolf's arm but soon stopped as his red eyes met those gold eyes glaring down at him. "You can't do…this! You have to take us in!" Daryan strained to talk or breathe as those claws got ever closer to his ribs. "No. Daryan Crescend was to be taken in; you're just some beast that messed with the wrong wolf!" Shi-Long viciously ripped the demonic jaws from Daryan's head and sent a spray of black blood flying into the air. "AAAHH! I-I won't…Die so easily!" Just as Shi-Long raised Daryan into the air numerous black tentacles shot out and pierced into Shi-Long's body but the pain didn't seem to faze him. His gold eyes stayed locked into Daryan's red ones and then Shi-Long shoved his other claw into Daryan's chest. "Lang Zi says:" He pulled as hard as he could and ripped the demon in half above his head. "…The evil must be punished!" Daryan's two halves bounced lifelessly to the ground before Shi-Long let out a piercing howl and turned back into his human form and collapsed to his knees, the wounds still fresh but healing themselves. "That went longer than I wanted." He pulled himself to his feet and said a prayer to the fallen officers he failed to protect and the lost soul of Daryan Crescend. "Please rest easy and find peace." Shi-Long bowed his head; unaware that the black ooze had taken form behind him.
Just as it was about to strike a single gunshot rang out; Shi-Long turned to see the creature burning in a white fire before disappearing completely. "You're welcome, Agent." Shi-Long turned only to see the tail end of a cloak disappearing behind some buildings. "Who?" Before he could investigate the mystery figure he heard police sirens in the distance. "I better get out of here. This will be really hard to explain." Shi-Long dropped to all fours and ran off and down the alleyways; making sure he kept the sirens to his back, all the while trying to make sense of what had happened and who it was that saved him.