A/N: Hello everyone here is the long awaited episode 3 of Red LaGooN. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get this out to everyone; my life's been an up-and-down roller coaster the past few months. I am trying not to let my grandmother's passing distract me too much in my writing as that is not what she would have wanted for me. So I sat down and decided that after I got chapter 9 of Lightning Fingers out that I would work on this chapter/episode as this story is a few episodes behind. I will be working on episode 4 and 5 and I hope to have them out to you all in short order.

Also my first Beta Reader Taka Ryo's Birthday is on Aug. 23rd so this is a little surprise birthday present for her. Happy Birthday TR! (Sorry I don't know how to say Happy Birthday in French. Gomen.) ^_^

If you have not seen Black Lagoon I do suggest that you watch the episode first then read my chapters/episodes as I do not embellish the background activities and also this way you don't end up kind of lost. This suggestion is not absolutely necessary, but I do suggest that you do watch the anime if you have not already seen it.

Warning! Strong Language, and Violence. Warning! This is not a Crossover.

Disclaimer: I do not own or make a profit from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha or Black Lagoon. I am only borrowing the story and the characters. The only thing of this that I own is my embellishments.

The cast from MGLN will be majorly Out Of Character (OOC) as they have taken on the personalities of the cast from Black Lagoon. Also this is a Yuri/Shoujo-Ai/Girl Loving Girl type of story. If you don't like it then you can stop reading and thank you for your time.

Casting:

Rock as Fate Testarossa

Revy as Nanoha Takamachi (The Two-Handed White Devil)

Dutch as Arisa Bannings

Benny as Suzuka Tsukimura

Owner and Barkeep of the YELLOWFLAG Bao as Arf

Hotel Moscow as TSAB- Balalaika as Lindy Harlaown with her is Chrono Harlaown, Amy Limietta, and Yuuno Scrya.

Triad as Yakuza- as Hayate Yagami with her is Signum, Vita, Shamal, and Zafira.

Nuns with guns- as Carim Gracia with her is Schach,

President of Asahi Company as Precia Testarossa with her is Rinis.

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'Fate's Thoughts'

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Now I present to you my version of Black Lagoon enjoy the read.

ZR~*

{A Mimic Series}

Red LaGooN

By

Zona Rose

Episode 3 Ring-Ding Ship Chase

Fate's POV

'At the entrance to the gulf, a Buddha statue that is supposed to bring peace to the world stands in ruin. Beyond that lies the port of immorality, Roanapra. From the overland entrance to town, there's always a noose, hanging for some unknown person. Beyond that lies the city of pleasure, Roanapra. At one time I was a businesswoman in Tokyo, now I'm a pirate here.'

A bird in a cage squawks. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! You bastard! You bastard! I'll kill you! Cheating bastard! Die you bastard! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

As I walked down the sidewalk, the voice of the bird fades into the distance. I come up to a building that is two levels, the bottom level is storefronts and the top level is both our office and our place of living.

Normal POV

"Nanoha, I'm going out for a bit." As Arisa heads to the door.

"Got it, be careful Arisa."

Fate's POV

Carrying my bag of groceries up the stairwell, I see Arisa walking towards me. She had her usual grumpy face on.

"Going out?"

"Yeah, for a while." Arisa reaches her hand into my bag and grabs some fruit off the top.

When I reached the top of the stairs, I hear her scream. "What the hell is this?"

When I walked in, Nanoha is lounging on the couch reading a magazine.

"Nanoha."

"Hmm."

"Where is Arisa going?"

"Who knows? It doesn't matter what Arisa does when she's off." With a slightly disgusted look on her face she puts down her magazine. Once her hand is free, I toss her one of the fruits inside the bag.

"I was just curious."

"Curious types don't get popular." Nanoha took a big bite of the fruit and her face contorted. She suddenly sat up and spit the fruit out of her mouth screaming at me. "What the hell is this? I don't know how much you paid for this, but its worth less than nothing. You got burned."

I collapsed with exhaustion into a chair across from Nanoha. All energy was sapped out of my body as I'm not used to this extreme heat. "I guess so. So, the situation downtown in this place is the same too."

"Yeah, international villains run around here locking horns." Nanoha sits up and leans heavily on the back of the couch draping her arms over the top. She looks as exhausted as I feel. "They all trick one another, from the top to the bottom." She slides back down and sprawls out on the couch. "You're not qualified to live if all you can trust are your eyes. But that's great while you're still alive."

"I'll take that to heart." As I slowly close my eyes.

'I may still be too soft. They're so protective of their own independence that I still don't know about their pasts. But I don't care. That's how I feel. At least that's what I keep telling myself over and over again. But the young woman named Nanoha; I wonder what in this world has caused her to be so cold, even to her closest friends if they even count as friends.'

Normal POV

At a payphone far away from the office, Arisa makes a phone call. "Hello, it's me. You doing okay?" Arisa listens to the reply. "Yeah, thanks. International number 100 13. Yeah send $120,000 under 'Flyer's Company'. Yeah that's right."

The car drives up beeping its horn. "Hey, Arisa."

"I'll talk to you later." She then hangs up the phone. "Geez."

"Nice weather, huh? How are you guys doing?"

"Not bad, Mr. Chin." She leans up against the side of the car putting her arm on the roof. "We're pulling through somehow."

"That's great by the way. How long are you going to work with that two-faced bitch?"

Leaning down so she was face-to-face. "I don't know, Mr. Chin. What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about that crazy TSAB woman. Ever since she got here, the markets have been down. Chrono's taken all the hotel rights and the heroin routes. Not even a shred of honor among them. And if they get the sea routes on top of that, we're dried out from head to ass."

Arisa sighs.

"Got it? What I mean is: pull out, quickly."

"Let me give you some advice, Mr. Chin. Even villains have sense. When you're ships jump to the NPA, we did it. It wasn't even close to a 'no problem' situation, but who pulled out then?"

"Don't fuck with me, Arisa. Don't bring up the past like some old hag."

"I don't know much. But, at the very least, Lindy has more honor than you do. We'll ship our goods at our rate, we're done talking."

"You'll regret this, Arisa."

"You don't get second chances with us. Use your head to survive, Mr. Chin."

Arisa walks away from Mr. Chin with a wave over her shoulder. As she gets closer to the office, she sees some girls of the night eating some lunch.

"Hey Arisa. Why don't you drop some money on to us from time to time?"

"I know what's inside your bottles. I shipped them, after all."

"What a bitch."

Arisa walks by a restaurant and the mob boss is eating his lunch. "Is it true that that torpedo boat was bought by some country bumpkin TSAB?"

"Yes sir it's true. But it seems that they'll take jobs from pretty much anyone."

Arisa mutters to herself as she overheard the conversation. "This city sure has fallen."

Another car beeps its horn and stops in front of Arisa; Suzuka is at the wheel and gives Arisa the thumbs-up.

"Arisa I got it." Smiling with excitement she reaches back to grab hold of a box. "The new computer board is here. This is the pure, unadulterated, real deal."

"Pure is a funny word to use in this city."

Suzuka giggles.

"Just get it ready and on board the boat, Suzuka girl."

"Sure thing." Suzuka drives away towards the docks where the boat is kept.

Arisa continues walking shaking her head in wonderment. "Geez. Our crew's so damned simpleminded."

"Hey Arisa." A merchant calls out to her as she's walking by.

Fate's POV

I was enjoying my afternoon siesta when all of a sudden Nanoha kicks the chair that I'm in and almost knocks me over.

"Wake up, sailor! We've got a job!"

Sleepily, I stand up and try and comprehend what she's saying. "Oh, okay a job?"

Normal POV

Suzuka started up the car and revved up the engine. Arisa was standing by the car with the door open looking over at Nanoha.

"Where's Fate?"

Getting ready to get into the car she complains. "I told her to wash her face, but she's taking her sweet time."

Fate's POV

I come running up to the car. "Sorry I kept you waiting!"

The moment I'm in the back seat, Suzuka hits the gas and the tires squealed. I'm instantly thrown back into the seat and the door closes with the motion of the vehicle.

After a few minutes Suzuka looks at Arisa out of the corner of her eye while adjusting something on the dashboard. "What is it today?"

"An adventure. It was Donnie Yen's influence."

Nanoha looks out the window. "Tch."

I looked up at Arisa in the front seat. "Donnie Yen?"

Arisa nodded her head yes. "He gives us jobs from time to time." Looking over her shoulder towards Nanoha. "We are receiving a package from the Vietnamese military at Phu Quos Island. And since our schedule is open… They say labor is to be respected."

Nanoha hits me upside the head, her face still looks irritated. "What are we going to do with all of these pathetic jobs, Arisa? No wonder we can't get her out of these fucking white-collar suits."

"Stop that already Nanoha. I've already told you these are my work clothes. Besides I like wearing these."

Nanoha gives me an evil look like she's ready to blow my head off again if I'm not careful.

"I remember now. What did you do with that aloha shirt I got you at the market?"

"That ugly aloha shirt? I thought that was some kind of punishment." I protest.

Nanoha gets into my face. "You saying I don't have taste?"

"Nanoha, stop that will you!" I'm trying to get Nanoha out of my face.

Suzuka cuts the corner to the right extremely sharp throwing Nanoha on top of me. Her right hand ends up on my left breast and our eyes are locked.

Normal POV

In a Chinese restaurant somewhere in the city of pleasure and immorality.

"Got it." Mr. Chin hangs up from one conversation and dials another number. "Looks like they fell for the trap. It's do or die from this point on, Mr. Luak." Laughing at what the other man was saying. "I know you've been down on your luck lately. You fucked up the last hunt and got chased around by a battleship. Huh? You take care of this, and you get all of the tolls between here and Kalimantan. Yeah, yeah, that's right think about that."

Hanging up, Mr. Chin slams the phone down on the table with an evil and sadistic look on his face. "I told you, Arisa. You'll regret this. No one fucks with me."

Fate's POV

'We headed out of the safe harbor that we were in and out in open waters. Out here the air was fresh, the skies were mostly clear with white clouds, the water was clear you could see almost down to the bottom. Everyone seemed to be preoccupied with the job that we were about to do.'

"This… like this…then this… and then. Like this." The rope I have been trying to tie a knot in fell apart instead of holding like it was supposed to. "Hey. That's odd."

Nanoha was watching me intently and getting more and more frustrated as she watched me. "You're desperately clumsy, or aren't you trying?"

With shame, I look at Nanoha out of the corner of my eye. "I'm sorry."

"You're not cut out for this. Like this. A monkey could do this."

Nanoha ties the knot I've been trying to tie since we set off. "Don't be so hard on me. I never did this at work."

Nanoha looks at me with sad eyes. "Fate, what did you do at work?"

Leaning back on my hands and crossing my legs Meditation style in my skirt, I looked up at the sky. I didn't realize I was giving Nanoha an eye full. "I was in the raw materials research department. So I went on business trips, wrote reports… made phone calls, but I think being a subordinate was my real job. At night I had to deal with my superiors drinking and ogling me. I almost got raped once when they were drunk."

Nanoha was silent for quite a while so I glanced down at her. She seemed to be staring at the deck when I suddenly realized she was actually looking at my crotch. I quickly closed my legs and then wrapped my arms around them and that seemed to wake her up a bit, but not before I saw a small blush painting her cheeks.

"That's fucked up, Fate. What a disgusting story, putting up with all that crap. Are you a masochist or something?"

"Putting up with it is part of the job. No one wants to be jobless do they and everyone survives like that."

"Pathetic."

"Nanoha, what did you do before coming here?"

"What I did hasn't changed from then to now."

"So you were going wild at the River, swinging around a Cutlass, as a kid?" Remembering what Nanoha looked like back in the mangroves when she first met the crew of the Red LaGooN.

"It's true. I stole, I killed and I did all sorts of bad things." Nanoha had this haunted look in her eyes, but there were things in her past that even she couldn't deal with. "It was beyond fucked up." She said in a whispered and sad tone.

Normal POV

Suzuka was keeping an eye on the radar when she noticed some blips that shouldn't be there. "Arisa, we've got several ships 76 (1) to our 20."

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Mr. Chin smiles with confidence that his planned trap will work. "You better pray Arisa, so you know which heaven you're going to." He laughs like a crazed hyena.

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"There shouldn't be any merchants around Suzuka, its Pirates Bay. Can you find out what they are?"

"By the looks on the radar, they're small and fast. It's either cops looking for pirates or… Arisa, it's a 33! This is a Red Alert!"

"Passing right by yellow, straight to a red lamp. Geez."

"They're coming in at 28 knots." Arisa hits the throttle to try and get ahead to outmaneuver the incoming ships.

Fate's POV

On deck Nanoha and I were thrown around by the increased speed of the ship. I ended up landing on top of Nanoha with my face buried in her cleavage and my hips tucked in between her legs. I dragged my face along her cleavage and looked up at her face, which was turning tomato red. I rolled off from her and out of reach so she couldn't hit me. But she never made a move to strike me.

"Arisa!" Nanoha screams into her earpiece.

"Hold on, Suzuka will explain it."

"Wait a sec. Arisa there's three more, which makes a total of six. The first three started accelerating from the island we just passed. The three on the port side came from behind a different island."

I climbed up into the crow's nest with binoculars around my neck and the earpiece snug into my ear. Through my binoculars I could see that they were all gunships. They all looked like they were lighter and probably faster than the ship that we were on.

Suzuka was still giving directions as she was keeping an eye on the radar. "Changing course to the left is dangerous: the ones there will get us, the same with the right."

I could hear Arisa in my ear piece. "A basic hunting pattern."

"They're fast too Arisa."

Nanoha chimes into the conversation. "Hey Arisa."

"Huh?"

"I smell it."

"You too?"

"It stinks all the way up to here. They aren't cops. This is the stink of blood and smoke."

I'm terrified at what I see. "Pirates! We're being targeted by Pirates? Arisa, what's the background on our client?"

"Fate, that observation hurts. I've been neglecting checks on Donnie Yen's financial situation."

A voice breaks into our radio communications. "Hello! ...Hello! ...Can you hear me, LaGooN? It's me; it's been a while, Arisa."

"Oh, I see. It's Luak." Picking up the radio mike. "There's no prey here. Go home before you get lost."

"There's prey right here, Beans. An old torpedo ship with a nice wingspan."

"Six on the right, Arisa. If it's Luak, then he brought everything."

"Dammit, all those bastards." Over the radio Arisa asks. "Did Chin get you into this, Luak? God must feel sorry for your stupidity."

"Once you have a pint of lead in you, maybe you'll shut up."

In the crow's nest, I had a good view of what the other ships were trying to do. As I looked from side to side, I noticed that they were trying to box us in. "Arisa, the enemy's got us on both sides. These positions, Arisa~~…"

"I know Fate. Get down or inside."

I make my way inside just in time as Arisa has a death grip on the throttles. The moment she heard gunfire, she killed the throttle effectively stopping the boat before the bullets could hit us. Instead, the shower of bullets went right past our bow and made mincemeat out of the boat on the other side of us.

I could hear the crew on that boat that was becoming Swiss cheese scream. "Don't shoot us!" Just before their boat explodes.

As I run back up to the crow's nest, I was amazed by the scene. "It worked."

Kicking up the throttle again, I could hear Arisa muttering to herself. "Its common sense to position yourselves out of reach of each others line of fire. Such amateurs. They're not even worth the time of day."

Over the radio we could hear his anger. "You bitch, don't get too excited. I'll send you straight to hell!"

Suzuka's voice came over the earpiece. "They still have five ships. Arisa they're coming in again."

"Nanoha, it's your turn. It's the Two-Handed White Devil's turn."

Standing on the deck, loaded up with weapons and grenades. Nanoha calmly replies, "Leave it to me."

"It's Showtime Nanoha. Show them that they don't mess with Red LaGooN. Can you make them dance?"

"Tch, of course I'll make them dance to my tune."

The look on Nanoha's face, it was the same as when we were in the bar. "Nanoha, what are you going to do?"

Looking over her shoulder at me. "Fate, take a break from talking about your world. I need to concentrate on this world."

With that said, she hit a button on something on her hip. It almost looks like an iPod and she looked like she was getting pumped from whatever she was listening to.

Meanwhile down below I could hear Arisa. "Suzuka girl, there's two on the left, and two more on the right just behind us. Am I right on this?"

"And one more right behind us too, Arisa."

Nanoha was walking across the deck listening to Arisa and Suzuka on how many targets she had.

"That's it, Nanoha."

"All right." Nanoha was now standing on the port side of the ship not far from the bow. "Then let's start with this shit on the left." Lifting up one of her rifles, she takes point-blank range and fires the grenade launcher blowing up the engine.

She then pivoted around and headed for the other side; the starboard side of our ship. "Let's dance the Jitterbug!" Taking a running leap, she flew over onto the other ship on our right side.

"She flew!" I screamed in astonishment.

She took the crew of that ship by surprise as the moment she landed; she opened fire with both her machine gun and her grenade launcher. The back of that ship exploded just like the first one she had targeted.

Over the radio we could hear one ship warning the others. "She's jumping ships! Do something about that bitch!"

"I can't see through the smoke boss!"

"Whatever you do don't shoot an ally!"

Gunfire erupted on the other ship that was still smoking. The group that was on the ship behind it decides to open fire. The next thing I could see was Nanoha jumping from the back of that ship straight for the one behind it.

I could hear the men on that boat scream in panic. "Kill her! Kill her! Kill that crazy son of a bitch!"

Nanoha landed and started to open fire on her new victims. The way she moved again was a ballet of death. Her bullets never missing as she kicked and shot her way through another group of men.

"Dammit!" The crew was yelling.

She continued firing her bullets even though they were already dead. It was like she wanted to make sure that none of them came back.

"Fate, which ship is Nanoha on?"

"She's on her fifth." Looking through my binoculars I spot something. "Wait, the third one is still alive. How I don't know, but it is."

I could see the third ship pulling up to the port side of the ship that Nanoha was on. I could hear the men screaming even from this distance. "Kill her! Kill her!"

Nanoha must've heard them because she pivoted around and fired the grenade launcher straight into their engines and the ship blew up instantly.

Over the radio we could hear Luak. "Dammit! My ships…"

We picked Nanoha up from the next to the last ship. Arisa over the radio said, "It's a dead-end. The one who ended up dancing with hot lead was you, Luak."

Luak must have been terrified as I could see he took over the controls of the ship. The microphone was still alive so we could hear him. "Dammit! Get the hell out of here! We are not dealing with those demons anymore!"

Nanoha was reloading the grenade launcher. She took aim at the ship as it veered away from us trying to escape. With one shot it exploded.

"She did it all herself." I said that out loud, but I thought something else. 'I don't know what broke to make her like this, but I must be broken too if I'm standing here praising her destructiveness. What is this that my heart is doing as I stand here and watch her sad face at the carnage that she has caused. Or this urge to go up behind her and wrapped my arms around her and protect her from the outside world; our world.'

Normal POV

Meanwhile back in Roanapra, Mr. Chin gets news of the bungled trap and now he's in a panic to escape their wrath. He's shoving money and valuables into a suitcase so that he can still live comfortably after he escapes.

"Dammit! Luak fucked up. That idiot. I'd like to see what his mother's like."

Footsteps of many men and women were coming down the hallway.

"He shoved a burner up my ass before he croaked. This is a disaster!"

The footsteps are getting closer to their destination.

"I'd like to kill that Luak bastard all over again." As Mr. Chin starts to turn around and head for the door to make his escape the handle slowly turns, and the door creaks open. There stands one of the most feared groups of men and women in all of Roanapra, The TSAB.

Stepping into the doorway was a teal colored haired woman. "Well, well, well. Moving out so quickly Mr. Chin? Such hard work, shall we help Mr. Chin?" Her voice was pleasant and did not give away her true feelings, but her face and body language said something else.

Mr. Chin steps back in surprise. "You must have something mistaken. It's a pathetic rumor running around." Mr. Chin continues to step backwards as Lindy walks into the room with a smirk on her face. "If we sit down and discuss it over lunch, we'll get it sorted out."

With a round house kick to his head, she glares down at him with murder in her eyes. "Okay, you piece of horse-shit, listen up. We've got nothing to ask you. We know all we want to know." Grabbing a hold of his shirt and jacket she pulls him up to her face. "Pray. That's all you can do while you're still alive."

Fate's POV

Nanoha is lying on the couch again. Her head is on the head rest, her arms and legs both crossed. She gives a sigh as if she's disappointed.

"Geez. We busted our asses for nothing. This is so damn stupid."

Suzuka walks by with a box in her arms and glances over at Nanoha. "It's all right. It's just like being bitten by a dog."

"It's not all right moron. Bullets aren't free you know." The phone starts ringing. "Now give me another piece of that pizza before you eat it all up on us Fate."

I walk over to the phone with my piece of pizza in hand and answer. "Hello, LaGooN Company."

From the earpiece of the phone. "Oh, Japanese businesswoman! It's been a while. Is Arisa around?"

I handed the phone over to Arisa before she takes it. She looks at me and then the phone. "Who is it?"

"It's Ms. Lindy."

Arisa takes the phone cautiously and puts it up to her ear.

"Hi Arisa. I heard you went on a goose chase and you got stuck playing with Chin."

"Who told you?"

"He told me himself. He's a bit too loud to conspire about anything. I told the other groups in the area what was going to happen. He was dead from the start. We'll make sure that this doesn't happen again. It was a pain for you, wasn't it?"

"No, it was fine. We don't even need aspirin."

"Thank you, Arisa. It's not much of a return but I'll let you hear something amazing. What they call 'pleasure and pain'."

"Is it cooler then J.B.?"

"Of course." *click*

*BOOM!*

"That's cool."

"We'll have a job for you soon. I'll call you then."

Arisa pulled the phone away from her ear and hung up. She looked satisfied about something.

"Was that a call about a job, Arisa?"

"Something like that. She told me some gossip. Nanoha, Fate, do you have somewhere to go after this?"

The bored voice of Nanoha replied. "Not really."

"How about you Suzuka?"

"Just the maintenance on electronics, but there's no rush on it."

"Well then. Considering the mental anguish incurred due to external interference as your employer, it is my duty to provide entertainment as compensation. Therefore, I propose a trip to the YELLOWFLAG to drink away our pain. Of course, it's on me. So who's coming?"

Nanoha now wide awake exclaims, "So, we can go until dawn?"

"I'm coming!"

"Me too!"

"Suzuka, it's decided, get the car! Fate, it's not a job. Wear that aloha shirt!"

"I don't want to."

"If you don't put it on yourself I'm gonna strip you and put it on myself."

"Okay! Okay, I'll go put it on just for you." I could feel my cheeks burn with a blush at the thought of her stripping me.

'Why was that such an appealing thought having her hands on me underneath my clothing? Why is my heart starting to race just at the thought of her touching me? What is wrong with me? I've been this way ever since… that kiss.'

Next Episode Die Ruckkehr des Adlers

"Despite that, there are fights that you must still take on. Let's go. Prepare the submerging torpedo ship."

Authors Notes: Well here is the end of Episode 3. I hope that you have enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you.

I have been working on and off on Lightning Fingers Chapter 10 and I'll try get that out to you guys as soon as it's done.

(1) APCO Ten Codes: I just dropped off the 10 part of the codes in the story. Although I may periodically put the 10 back in so please keep this in mind for future chapters/episodes. The codes are as follows.

10-1 Receiving Poorly

10-2 Receiving Well

10-3 Stop Transmitting

10-4 OK, Message Received

10-5 Relay Message

10-6 Busy, Stand By

10-7 Out of Service

10-8 In Service

10-9 Repeat

10-12 Standby or Stop

10-13 Weather Update

10-18 Quickly (I'm assuming this means get your butts here fast, or something along those lines. That is what I will be using it for anyways.)

10-20 My Location is ... or what's your Location?

10-33 Emergency

10-34 Riot

10-76 En Route (I have also found that this is under a different code as well '10-17' as most of my resources have it at 10-76 that is what I'm putting it under.)

10-77 ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)

10-78 Need Assistance (I'm assuming this means I need Help. That is what I will be using it for.)

The 10 codes were not used in the original story, but as Nanoha found Suzuka in the United States, I figure she would know what the 10 codes were and teach it to the team so that their conversations would be short, as well as confusing for anybody who wouldn't know the 10 codes system. That is the reasoning behind me using this in the story.

Please review. Let me know what you think. Again this is a mimic of Black Lagoon.

In Love & Light,

Zona Rose };-

8/19/2011