Disclaimer I do not own Martin Mystery.
I do own the Miyabes', Hiro, Takakura, and Arashi.
Taki raised an eyebrow at Martin's sorry state, "What's up with you, Martin?" she asked poking the boy in the arm, Martin made an unintelligible noise when Taki poked him.
Diana rolled her eyes, judging from the way her brother was acting he wasn't planning on answering Taki anytime soon.
"He tried to tell Jenni that you were really a girl." Diana stated. Taki's eyes widened a little bit.
"Oh really?" the dark haired teen asked, "How did that go?"
"Horrible." Martin mumbled not really noticing his voice was barely audible, without taking his eyes off the blank wall ahead of him he took the plastic fork on his food tray and stabbed the meat.
Suddenly, as a boy she had sworn she had never met passed by Taki got a strange feeling in her gut, like she did know him. "Taki are you okay?" She heard Diana ask, Tatsuki shook her head and dispelled the thought as common Déjà vu.
"I'm fine." She said and leaned over to get her bag, from it she retrieved a yellow text book.
"What's that?" Martin finally spoke up, Diana didn't miss a beat.
"That's a text book, Martin." She said, "Does it look familiar?"
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Takakura touched the device in his ear, which turned it off, he had to quickly come up with a way to get Tatsuki alone, but how? Those other two teenagers seemed to always be somewhere close. I could always try to seduce her away from them…he thought, he shook his head and buried that idea, he knew from description that Tatsuki had about as much perception in the romantic arena as a doorknob. She would just think he was being friendly….
Wait that could work. Be friendly. When he came out of his thoughts he noticed that Tatsuki had somehow managed to escape from his sight. "Where did she go?" he asked out loud to himself looking from side to side.
-The Red Monarch-
This time M.O.M had decided she wanted Tatsuki to stay behind with her at the Center instead of going to Italy with the other three this time; but it wasn't just sitting around being babysat. M.O.M made sure to put the girl to work while the others were solving the other mystery across the globe. Her work being, help the Center workers with whatever they need if they ask for it, and do everything with the power of the Center technology to find out about Sousuke's followers, starting with the one that was captured back in chapter one.
Not that the guy was much help, seems he was one of the lower rank guys that usually have no idea what was really going on. Probably just told that Sousuke would be indebt to him and grant him some sort of 'wish'; Taki snorted, the only 'wish' Sousuke would grant was death. Currently, the Center psychiatrists were busy working to help the prisoner, whom Taki found out to be named Ryou Suo, regain what little sanity he had left. (For some reason at the Center, they assume the worst.)
The young Miyabe looked around, clearly very bored searched for something—anything—to keep herself entertained till the next person, alien, demon; you get the drift, asked her to do something.
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Takakura was not pleased, to say the very least. He turned up nothing in his search for the young Miyabe child which meant he would be in huge trouble if Hiro were to find out. He couldn't believe it; he had only taken his eyes off her for a second or two, there was no way anyone, not even his master, could move that quickly!
He brushed away a stray strand of light brown hair that had been pestering him for the past couple of minutes. There has to be something anything that would please Hiro! Takakura thought in frenzy; Takakura begun slink away from the classroom that he knew Tatsuki was not in, the girl must have owned something that would help him and the rest of Sousuke's followers bring their master back from the other side! He decided to start with her locker, and then move on from there, but how would he find out which one was hers?
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Something was up, Taki could feel it, and as she sat playing video games with Billy she began to feel that someone was very close to bringing her brother back from the Spirit Realm. She shivered involuntarily, "Something wrong Taki?" Billy asked as he blasted her character repeatedly with his own character's laser guns, Taki's character's HP went down to zero and the TV monitor blinked 'Player 1 Wins!'
Taki's grip on the controller slackened as she took it as a chance to rest her stiff fingers.
"I'm fine." She said half heartily; Billy didn't have time to inquire further as his hover chair seemed to have a spasm spewing a long sheet of paper filled with strange markings and a foreign language. Taki raised and eyebrow at the sight of it, her brown-red eyes sparkling in what could have been amusement at Billy's irritated sigh and muttering of, 'Always! Right when I start my video games!'
"I'm sorry; the guys need me to decode this." Billy said in an exasperated sigh, this must have happened on a regular basis. Billy would have just settled into a video game and the others would send him work to do, poor guy. Taki's eyes flitted over the long sheet of paper, unconsciously taking note of all the strange symbols on the page, she stopped on one; her eyes widened.
"Wait a minute!" She said taking the page from the small green alien's hands, "This symbol! I've seen it before!"
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Takakura pursed his lips as he searched through the many large books that Tatsuki kept in her locker. So far he had found nothing that would assist Hiro and the rest of there cult bring their master back, he slammed the locker closed with tremendous frustration, this should not have been so difficult. "Aaron?" he heard a voice ask, he looked over to the speaker mere feet away; he had forgotten he had stolen the identity of one of the students at the school, presumably this 'Aaron' fellow. "What are you doing?" the new character asked his dark hair kept neat and his bright blue eyes dulled with confusion and distrust. "That's not your locker." He said.
Takakura rubbed his temple, he could feel a headache coming on, he had no idea who this boy was, or what he might have meant to the person who's identity he had stolen, but he wished he would leave him to his duties. "Who are you, again?" Takakura asked rudely of the boy. The male student, who ever he was; his eye filled with an immeasurable amount of hurt, confusion, and spite.
"You ass!" the boy turned and ran away, leaving Takakura standing there wondering just what exactly had just happened—and just what 'Aaron's' relationship was with that boy.
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Taki looked over the symbols once more just to make sure she was right. "It's no mistake. These are near exact replicas of the symbols in my book." She said, "Whatever this is, it has something to do with either possession or resurrection." She stopped noticing that Billy was writing this all down, she sweat dropped, "but you still might want to run a check on it." Billy gave an overdramatic sigh; he had really thought he had gotten out of the toils of translating ancient runes. Taki felt bad for him as he floated away leaving their game forgotten; she silently hoped that Martin, Diana, and Java were doing okay on their mission in Italy.
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Takakura ran his fingers over the cover of the book he had painstakingly ransacked Tatsuki's dorm room for. The indentures from the press that made the leather bound cover of the book sent tingles up the tips of his fingers, "Finally, we're one step closer to bringing back Lord Sousuke." He said. From his waist he took out the machine that was disguising him now and pressed an orange button, dispelling the illusion of a light brown haired high school boy and returned to looking like a middle aged Japanese man with obsidian hair and eyes. He touched the device in his ear effectively turning it on and contacting Hiro.
'Yes?' the voice slithered through the speaker in his ear.
"I have good news, Hiro." Takakura said in a confidant tone, "I found a way to bring Lord Sousuke back from the Spirit Realm." He could hear Hiro smirk from on the other end.
'Good, I am pleased to find that at least one of us was able to find away.' Hiro said in an elegantly dark way. 'Go ahead and return, don't concern yourself with the young Miyabe anymore.'
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Hiro touched the cover of the leather bound book tenderly, wondering if this was really what he had been waiting for, that this text would be the one thing to reunite him with his master after years.
It no longer would matter if Tatsuki Miyabe had been left alive anymore, as soon as he found out how to bring her older brother back from the Spirit Realm she would die anyway. He flipped through the pages of the tome, admiring the neatness of it all as he searched for the enchantment he needed. His eyes fell upon it and he smirked, laughed even; causing the nearby Arashi to shiver at the sound of it's pure sinister intention.
Arashi curled and uncurled his fingers in a spastic way; he still didn't understand how he had gotten entangled in this mess. He wanted out so badly, but could never come around to make an official escape. "This is it Arashi." He heard Hiro say, "Soon, Lord Sousuke will be with us again!" Arashi cringed with fear; Sousuke was finally going to be back in the living world.
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Taki dropped the pen she had been using to do the crossword, something was very wrong.
Well, it took me long enough, now if only I could get started on other chapters for other fan fics.