Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been studying for my final exams, which by the way, was fun. -.- Anyways, Here's the third chapter. Hope you like it!
The white Turkish Angora cat looked to the trio studying them closely.
"Yes ma'am." Nicky answers. The feline takes a minute before answering. No one knows what's going on in her mind. They just know to be prepared to run in short notice.
"My name is Gisele. I am your escort to your hide out. I have already claimed your van and have it parked in the entrance to the airport. Let's go." She says with a sweet smile. She doesn't seem to be the least bit harmless. She turns and see the little luggage we have with us. She asks the nearest employee for help. He nods and walks over to the trio and loads the luggage onto a cart. "Hop on." She says.
They drive through the sea of people towards the airport's main entrance. Many are lost and trying to find the right terminals. Others looking for their parties, exits, restrooms, or a place to sit.
Once they reach their destination, the man driving the cart looks over to Nicky and winks. He raises his hat enough for her to recognize him. Her expression was priceless, though her friends didn't notice it. He smiled and drove off.
Gisele jumps in the driver's seat of the van after it was loaded with the light luggage. Everyone hopped in with Jake in the passanger seat and Nicky and Skye in the back. The hideout was about 30 minutes away from the airport. They pull up infront of a small building with cherry blossom trees around it.
Gisele helps them settle in and then sits to explain what's going on.
"Nicky, do you know the guy who was in your room about two days ago? The one who gave you the flight tickets?"
"No. I have no idea who he was! He wouldn't tell me."
"He is also a part of a gang of thieves. His name is Adrien Roulier. I am not allowed to say what it is he needs from you, but I can tell you why he brought you here." She opens up her laptop and opens up her folder. She opens a picture of A purple tiger. "This is Neyla. She used to be a constable and worked along side Carmelita. She wants to get revenge on your father."
"Why?"
"We're not rightly sure. We don't have enough information ourselves to know. You're goal, while in Tokyo, is to retrieve something for us." She opens another file read 'M. 1:' A picture of a dual sword pops up. "As you know, the Coopers only steal from other thieves. This just so happens to be stolen from us. We need you to get it back for us. The one who took it was Takeshi Takuni. He's a very large macaque. Beware."
The trio looks at each other nervously. This is their first real mission. One slip-up and they're done.
Gisele nods and collects her things. "If you need anything, feel free to find me." She stands and walks to the door. "Bon jour."
"Okay you guys," Nicky says to the other two in front of her, "we need to begin planning."
"Gadgets?" Jake asks looking at Skye.
"I've improved the binocucoms a bit... now they have internet access. It's also touch screen... and has an iPod built into it. There's a couple that I can't think of but I'll explain them when the time comes."
"Alright Skye, hand me some things I need while I go do some recon." Nicky says pulling out a small backpack. Skye throws random gadgets in the bag before Nicky leaves the safe house.
Once outside, Nicky heads to the highest point in the area and brings out her binocucom.
"Alright, Nicky, according to Gisele's files, we need to retrieve Adrien's swords. Therefore, we need to get some background information on this Takeshi guy. See if you could find any strange behaviors around the city. Afterwards, see if he's running any businesses or anything like that. Any little detail that will help. Most importantly, find out if you can find out where he is hiding. Skye out!"
"Skye you're such a loser!" Nicky whispers with a grin on her face.
With that being said, Nicky climbed down the building and began walking the alley a couple blocks away from the safe house so she can blend in the moving inner city crowd.
"If I was a known thief where would I be?" Nicky thought aloud. Stopping on a corner and taking in her surroundings and the sea of people that seemed to be endless and move and all directions. "Where do I start?" picking a random direction and walking for what seemed like forever she ended up in what seemed to be an old shopping district with some vendors still open and others packing up calling it a night.
"Nicky can you hear me?" Skype said over the ear piece that's discretely hidden by Nicky's fur.
"Yeah I hear ya."
"Any luck yet?"
"Nope. I've been walking for hours and I think I'm lost."
"Hold on, I'll try to pinpoint your location."
"All I know is I'm in some old shopping district."
"Gotcha. You're in Koenji. It's a really old neighborhood place thing that mainly old people go."
"So pretty much I'm in old people land...awesome. Did you find anything out about that Takeshi guy?" Nicky asks as she idly walks around.
"Nope nothing yet. Whoever he is...he's really good at not being found."
"Yeah but something is bound to come up eventually."
Nicki heads back to the Safehouse with dissappointment. The night sky begins to move in. Just as she almost gets to the safe house, she sees a trail of light out the corner of her eye. She quickly climbs up the nearest building to get a better view. She notices there are multiple guards patrolling the area.
"Well this is new." Nicky mumbles to herself "So not suspicious and very cliché might I add." grabbing her binocucoms Nicky scopes out the area.
"Skye, Do you copy?" Nicky says as she takes pictures of what she's seeing.
"Yeah, Find anything?" Skye says anxiously
"Yeah I found something all right. I'm taking pictures now, you should get 'em any second now." a couple seconds go by.
"Got 'em. Well first of all that's so not cliché or suspicious."
"Same thing I said."
"But everyone's walking pass them like it's nothing. Maybe this kind of thing is normal." just then the front gate is opened and an expensive all black car with tinted windows come out.
"Or maybe it's not." Nicky says as she tries to take a picture of the license plates but her binocucoms get a static screen and her ear piece makes a high-pitched sound.
"Aaahhh!" Nicky yells as she snatches the earpiece out. Quickly running to the edge of the building she sees that the black car is gone and so is all the guards.
"They're gone." She whispers "Where'd they go so fast?"
"NICKY! NICKY CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" A panicking Skye yells. Putting the earpiece back in her ear Nicky keeps her eye on the spot where there once had been patrolling guards to a now empty street with a few pedestrians.
"Skye I think we found a lead."
"Oh yeah, I know. Take pictures of the building that he just left, and if you can, get inside and see if you can find anything."
She put her binocucom back in her backpack and climbed up the tall building. As she reached the top, she looked around to see if she found anything suspicious. Just then a shot missed her by about an inch. She quickly jumped off of the building and to the ground for safety. She looked for a place where she could quickly escape.
A few moments later she noticed an open window. She quickly climbed it as she heard foot steps closing in. She turned to close the window and then began looking around the room. There were many empty display cases. After a close observation, the building began to look some-what like an abandoned museum.
Just then, the sound of muffled footsteps were to be heard not too far from Nicky's position. She quickly climbed inside a giant suit of armor that was conveniently next to her. A large macaque walked right passed her hiding spot. Turned out to be THE macaque that she's been searching for. Nicky decided to snap a picture with her binocucom.
"Now that the guards are positioned throughout the city, I can easily get to work." Says Takeshi. He pulls out the dual swords and holds them up in the air. "On the day of the solar eclipse, I will have extraordinary powers!"
"Takeshi-San, we have great suspicions of someone breaking in. While I was patrolling the street, I saw someone and shot at them, but missed. So I took a look around and couldn't find them."
"Thank you. Let us take a look around, and be sure to place the highest ranking guards around the Tea Shop. Make sure no one, and I mean no one, enters that shop! You are dismissed."
The large guard and the macaque exited the room. Nicky climbed out of the armor in relief. "Skye, you there?" She waits a moment and gets no reply. "Guess I'd better take a look around." She says to herself.
Just as she enters the next room, a soft hand grabs Nicky and covers her mouth. Nicky's heart begins to race. She tried wiggling free, but instead her body became suspended in the air. The grip around her began to tighten.
"Nicky?! Nicky what's wrong? Are you okay? Nicky!?"