Chapter Four of The Stalker's poisoned dart.
The shuttle landed at the nearest MiB's landing strip. Dive opened his eyes and quickly stretched to finish waking up. "How long was I asleep?"
"About an hour, we're here at the MiB's landing strip." Duke replied, looking at him as he, too, stretched his limbs before he stood up in the aisle.
Siris yawned before he got up from his seat. "So the boring job of going through MiB customs wait for you, Duke, we'll be rushed through."
Duke frowned, "I'm sticking with Dive."
Siris just smiled as they headed out of the shuttle towards the custom area, but they were halted before they reached the custom area, checked IDs and escorted past the custom area to meet up with the West Coast's MiB leader M. Duke wondered why were they being taken to him. "Dive, Siris, what's going on here?"
"Well, since we're high ranking diplomats, Duke, I guess they want to see us personally." Dive replied.
"Oh," Duke said, as he followed behind them. Duke wanted to see what was going to happen; he'd glimpsed this side of the kid once when Mallory had pointed the gun at him, at the time he had just thought the kid foolish. He should have paid more attention. This time around he was going to make sure he knew exactly where the kid stood.
They walked into an office to see a gray haired man talking to several screens. They could see one man from New York called Zed. He turned and smiled before turning to look at the men on the screens. "I must go now, I have diplomats from the Rim World and the Dove lands here."
"Best of luck, the Doves can be hard to deal with."
"He's one of the resident Puckworldians that live here." M replied, as the screens went dark. He turned around from the screens to look at them. "Lord Siris Winddancer, a pleasure to see you. I didn't expect to see you come for another nine months. Is this trip a pleasure visit or business?"
"A bit of both, M, my nephew Grin Winddancer is living here and I came to see how he is and plus help young Lord Nosedive Flashblade here with a stalker problem of his brother's future wife Kaladan." Siris stated.
"Stalker, why didn't you come to us first, Mr. Flashblade?" M asked, turning his attention to Dive.
"Personal reasons, we wanted to deal with it in house so to speak, bringing in those who may not keep their mouths shut would only make guarding Kala a lot harder." Dive stated.
"Then why is Lord Winddancer helping you in this when it's in house?"
"Because as Grin's uncle he will not be too out of place and I doubt he'd allow himself to be visible to humans."
"I will be hidden from view by hiding in the rafters of the Pond and of course, a vehicle transporting us into the garage of the Pond too would be nice," Siris stated.
"That can be arranged, though our sensors have detected weapons that Lord Flashblade didn't leave with."
"Those are his assigned weapons . . . they were left behind and were just recently returned to him."
"May I see them please?" asked M.
Dive smiled. "Sure." He said as he withdrew his daggers. He held them by the blade showing off the hilt of the daggers, just so M knew that they were his Dove daggers.
"You may put them away, Lord Flashblade." M replied, as he jotted down how many daggers he brought onto the planet. "I'll summon a car for you to leave for the Pond immediately, Lord Flashblade."
"Thank you," Nosedive said, as he looked at him picking up the phone and barking an order into it.
Duke was surprised that M didn't insist on the confiscation of the daggers, Siris and Dive really had that kind of authority. He watched as M escorted them back down to the ground floor to where he took them to a garage where a black car waited for them. After they got into the car and drove away from MiB headquarters, Duke sighed a sigh of relief.
"Why so worried, Duke?" asked Siris.
"Well, M didn't take the daggers from Dive. He could have taken them." Duke replied.
"Not really unless you know about current Dove politics its best not to do anything that might cause a war."
"What do you mean?"
"Lord Collin isn't their concern really, it's his Shadow. She controls the Dove more then Collin does at the moment but also has a direct means of controlling the Seabird fleet which means she can hit with more then military, but galactic trade embargos."
"Ouch, that would bite for Earth," Duke replied.
"Yup, so they tread very carefully around any Dove. No matter who they are, they are scared that if they report back to her, they would be in a heap of trouble," Dive said.
"So if you're on the line then what sort of clout do you have with her?"
"She's a close friend to me and Wing, and was Canard's love of his life."
"Wow," Duke was awed. He had no clue. He noticed that they were getting close to the Pond. He opened his com and beeped Tanya. "Hey Tanya, can you go down to the garage and open the garage doors for us, we're back plus one."
"Ok, who's the plus one?"
"A Mr. Winddancer,"
"Oh one of Grin's relatives, I'll get him on the system then."
"Thank you and let Wing know we're home." Dive said over his com.
"Will do and I'll tell him we also have a guest with you." Tanya replied, as she closed the connections. Tanya turned her com to Wing's com and spoke, "Wing, Dive and Duke are back and they brought one more person with them. They'll be in the garage shortly."
"Who is this other person?" Wing asked.
"Grin's relative." Tanya stated.
"Okay, I'll alert him that his family is here," Wing replied, closing his connection and heading from his quarters to Grin's and rang the chime. "Grin, it's me, Wildwing. You have company coming in a few minutes in the garage."
Grin got up; "Do you know who it is?"
"They didn't say, I don't think it will be much of a problem."
"That depends on who it is."
"Why do you say that?" asked Wing, as they started to walk down the corridor.
Grin smiled. "You will see."
Wing went with Grin to the garage to see Dive, Duke, and Tanya along with a fox being kissing Tanya's hand. Grin sighed with relief, his uncle had the composure of business, he'd have enough time to make sure he didn't flirt with anyone at inappropriate times.
"Siris!" Grin cried out, as he hurried towards Siris, who turned away from Tanya to see Grin coming down the stairs.
Siris smiled. "Oh Grin it is so good to see you again. I . . . I mean your family was worried sick over you when we couldn't contact you at all. What happened?"
"Saurians from Dimensional Limbo attacked Puckworld and conquered it." Grin said. He basically gave Siris a quick discussion on what happened on Puckworld while he was there for a visit to his parents' grave and that of his mentor who had died a few days before.
Siris scowled. "I have half the mind to drag you back home when I go back, it depends if Nina will allow you to stay after all the worry."
"Well, I will be returning home as soon as we capture Dragaunus and send him back where he belongs." Grin said. "But you can send my love to the rest of the family and to my lover."
"Grin, if Nina orders you home, with or without the Saurian you will return, until your younger sister is old enough, Nina's orders will be obeyed."
"I know, but Nina will understand. She probably will want me to be in contact with her on a weekly basis if I am permitted to remain here," Grin replied.
"That might be approvable by her at least little Nami will be able to see her big brother more often." Siris said.
"True, have the assassination attempts stopped?"
"They've gone down but you know they won't go away till Nami can stand her ground on her own, she's too young still so Carter and Nina protect her."
Dive looked at Siris. "I pulled you away from another bodyguard duty, you better go and get back to your charge, Siris, and I'll handle this on my own."
"No, Carter and Nina can handle it while I'm gone. Besides, they both would whip my tail if I didn't remain here. Friends of Grin are friends of ours and we support our friends," Siris stated. "Now, where is this rafters, you spoke about, Dive."
"I'll show you, oh but please try not to flirt too much with the clothed females, they are dressed because of being used to a cold weather world."
"You mean you haven't had several molts to get accustomed to the weather here?" Siris asked.
"That and humans have opposite customs to the rest of the Rim, so they insist on females' being clothed as a modesty thing."
Siris nodded as he followed Dive to where the rink was at. He scanned the whole arena before his eyes laid onto the rafters above. "That area is a good place to hide out at. Let's head up there now and plot where we will be staying at."
"Alright, it's a good view of everything as well."
"We'll see when we get up there and plan where we will be at, Dive." Siris stated, as they headed to the rafters. Once, there Siris figured out the perfect place for both of them to be hidden in. He even showed Dive where he would hide out and with his coloring he was barely visible in the shadows of the rafters.
"I can barely see you in the shadows, Siris." Dive replied.
"The shadows will be darker when we're on duty, Dive." Siris stated, as he looked at the ice and then to Dive. "So when is the game?"
"Tonight at 8pm." Dive replied. "I tried to get it pushed back but Wing didn't do it."
Siris looked over at Wing. "I never had to work on protecting anyone this fast and do we know who the person is who is stalking her?"
Wing shook his head. "We do not know what he looks like at all."
"Great, that will really make this nine-hundred times harder than it is." Siris replied. He looked at Tanya. "My dear lady; is there a way for me and Dive to be in communications with each other while we're on the rafters as I do not want to reveal ourselves to the stalker before we act."
"I got several ear and microphones that is in my lab." Tanya said, looking at him.
"That might work. May I see them please?" asked Siris.
"Sure, I'll get them right away."
Siris watched as she hurried away. "Is she married or at least seeing anyone? She's sexy?"
Dive looked at him. "Tanya . . . no, she's not married nor is she seeing anyone. She's . . . I would say is not interested in having a relationship."
"Oh, maybe she would be interested in a one night stand?" Siris suggested, his tail flapping from one side to another.
Grin shook his head as he placed his hand on Siris's shoulder. "I don't think she would, uncle."
"Spoil sport, at least a game of tezga then, Adrian told me you had taught her that some time ago."
Wing raised a brow; he hadn't known that Grin and Tanya had been friends before they were a part of the strike force. "As long as you are here before the crowd comes in and that will be about 7pm."
"Not a problem, I've been playing the game since I was a pup, I'll go easy on her I don't like taking advantage of novices."
"Okay, but I should warn you, my fiancée doesn't know that she has a stalker so make up something as to why you are here if you see her, which is most likely as she does stay in the recreation room." Wing suggested.
"That will not be a problem, Wildwing," Siris replied, as he looked at him.
They headed down to the recreation room where Siris was introduced to Kaladan who was interested in him. "Are you by chance a dancer?"
"Not really, my younger brother is, though I do indulge in it at times along with some singing."
"Oh, you look like you are a dancer. Your frame is lightweight and thinner than most Foxes from the outer planets. Perfect for a dancer," Kala stated, as she looked at him.
"Thank you, Lady Kaladan," Siris said, as he smiled at her.
"Are you by chance related to a Carter Winddancer?" she asked.
"Carter is my younger brother and Grin's adoptive father." Siris replied.
Kala looked at him in surprise. "I've seen many holo cubes of his performances from my friend Lola, there is nothing like that on Puckworld,"
"It is a shame really; usually a dancer has to be adept at alchemy or magic to be able to do high caliber performances."
"But he does look like he is wielding at least either alchemy or magic to perform those performances," Kala said. "Lola told me that she saw him dance before and she believes that he is using alchemy in his dances or at least one form of it."
Siris smiled, "Water illusion alchemy as well as air vibration alchemy."
"When I was at Cassiopeia, those were taught to those who were well versed in all of the other alchemy, I couldn't do any of those let alone the fire illusion alchemy," Kala replied.
"Alchemy is too difficult for a magic user to master, just like alchemists have no magical potential."
"So why are you here?"
"I'm here to see how my nephew is living and to see how healthy he is, Lady Kaladan," Siris replied.
Kala didn't get any hint of lies from Siris; it made her smiled since he was telling the truth. "Then, I shouldn't keep you two from each other."
"Thank you," Siris said.
It was 7pm when Siris and Dive started their setup, the small microphones and receivers Tanya had lent them worked within range. Both Siris and Dive were clothed to hide in the shadows. They were ready for anything as they watched from their perches as the crowd filtered into the arena.
"Dive, when will we see action or will this guy not show up?" asked Siris, as he scanned the crowd looking for anyone suspicious.
"Not sure, it could be in the middle of the game or close to the end," Dive replied.
"Do you want him alive or dead?"
"I think that depends on how much of a fight he puts up."
"Maybe we should just wound him and try to find out why he did something like this, so you and the others can prevent another stalker from attacking another member of your team?" Siris suggested, as he looked at the stands.
"I'll go for that. Capturing him live will be the best for all of us," Dive stated, as he looked towards Siris. "So how was your time with Grin?"
"It was good, made him call Nina and have him explain why he'd like her permission to remain."
"So, did she say yes to him remaining or ordered him to return home?"
"He can stay but she does want to have him vacation at home once a year for a few weeks," Siris replied.
"Sounds like he got off easy,"
"He did, she was much stricter with Carter and I."
"I bet," Dive whispered. He pointed to the staff only door that would lead to where they were at but the person just walked past. "Sorry, false alarm."
"Well, good thing Tanya suggested that we should video tape that door when it opens so the person who is after Kaladan will be viewed sneaking into this section of the arena. Plus getting this area videoed will assist in putting him away." Siris stated, looking at all the video recorders that hung around the area.
"Yeah, that took us a good hour to attach them up here before we had to hide." Dive replied. "Hopefully, they're recording everything. It is a ten hour video and the game will be done in about three hours or less."
"Did you remember to set up a camera or two on the roof?"
"Yup, just in case he or she decides to slip into the arena by the roof," Dive stated.
It was about five minutes into the second period did Siris notice something strange about one male who stood by the staff only door and then stood in front of it blocking what he was doing. "Dive, the staff only door, we have action." Siris whispered into his microphone.
Dive turned his attention just in time to see the door close. "Damn it, I missed him. He's in the stairwell to get up here. Stay alert, Siris, this guy may be the one we're looking for."
Siris nodded and took his position beside the door to apprehend the guy when he came through.
"Siris let him past. We need to get evidence on tape if he is the stalker. He has to show something that would do harm to Kala before we take him down. Okay?" Dive said, as he looked towards Siris.
"Gotcha," Siris drifted further into the shadows and watched the door.
The door opened slowly as the man walked out and went to the rail. He watched the game for a few minutes before a duffle bag dropped to the ground by his feet. He reached within and pulled out a high powered dart gun with a silencer on the end.
"Now?" asked Siris, his tail was now swishing fast as he was wanting to jump the man now.
"Now," Dive said as he drew his daggers and knocked the gun out of his hand and got the side of his pant's leg pinned to the ground.
Siris had already leapt onto him pushing him to the floor of the walkway, but the guy started to fight. Siris bent close to his ear and whispered. "Continue to fight me and I will break your bloody neck faster than he would,"
The man stopped fighting Siris as Dive walked over to the man and with handcuffs slapped them onto his wrists and yanked his dagger from his pant's leg and sheathed it. "Now, you are in a heap of trouble, dude. Well, it looks like the game got stopped because the gun fell on the ice." Dive flipped on his com. "Wing, that gun was to shoot your woman, and tell the ref not to handle it. We got the stalker. Get Klegghorn here, we'll be down shortly."
"Ok Dive, looks like we'll have to postpone the game."
"Don't, Siris and I are the only ones who will be tied up with this." Dive replied, as they started to take their prisoner down to where security was located at.
They didn't like that this guy had managed to slip into a staff only location and got onto the rafters and tried to do one of the Ducks harm. They called the police but learned that Captain Klegghorn was already on his way with couple officers.
Dive smiled. "One thing I like about Klegghorn is that he's always on top of things."
Siris raised a brow. "You mean he was watching the game too and the gun falling tipped him off?"
"Yep, his mistrust of us comes in handily."
Siris hung back into the shadows of the room which was not much of a shadow as he was still seen. "So, the question remains, why did this guy go after your future sister-in-law?"
"Not sure, not till he tells us why?" Dive said, looking at the man who was staring at Siris. "What? Never saw a humanoid fox before?"
The man shook his head but said nothing.
"So why did you do it? I know humans are savages but I thought they'd have more common sense."
The man refused to speak.
Dive looked at Siris. "Maybe his wallet will tell who he is and we can go to Kala's office to get the letters that he sent to her?"
"That is a good idea," Siris replied. He got up from where he was kneeling and walked towards the door. "So where is her office at, Dive?"
"I'll show you where it is, we'll bring the letters back to show Klegghorn and we need to get the videos from Drake One up here so he can have the evidence of this guy sneaking in here and pulling out a gun to hurt one of the Ducks." Dive said, as they headed out of the office and towards Kala's office.
Siris followed mentally seeing where the securities points are were. He was a bit taken back by several places where the security was lacking at, as he shook his head. "You need to tighten your security system and people up around here, Dive. There are several access points that a person could get into and do harm to your people."
"Make a report to Wing, since Kala is here he'll do what we can to tighten them."
Siris nodded as he made sure to remember where they were located at as Dive came upon a door which he typed in a code and opened the door. "Is this Kala's office?"
"Yeah, she likes to be here with her PR person Jesse. Now where did she tell us that the letters were located at?" Dive mumbled to himself as he started to open some of the files. It took him about ten minutes to locate the letters. "Got them, now for the security tapes,"
They headed downstairs to Drake One where Tanya was working fast in getting everything dealt with the man on CD disk for Dive to give to Klegghorn. Tanya looked at them both. "So who is the stalker?"
"His name is Stefano Concord. He lives only three miles from here from what the address states on his letters that he sent to Kala." Dive said.
Tanya cringed, "So he's been watching for some time then, scary really it could have been any of us. Looks like Dragaunus aren't our only concern."
"Looks like it, Tanya." Dive replied. "From what I can tell from the postmarks he started a few days after the NHL Tonight appearance by us all."
Tanya shook her head. "Why didn't Jesse tell Wing sooner?"
"By how the last few letters got, they seem to be very normal sounding fan, Tanya." Dive replied, looking at her and then over to Siris. "The last ones that Jesse read for Kala was what prompted this whole thing."
"Ah, I see. Do you still have the letters that threatened her?" asked Siris. Dive nodded as he opened the safety deposit box that they had in Drake One's computer panels and pulled the letters out, one was obviously crumpled up. "Wing did that?"
"Yeah, from what Jesse told us later, he punched the locker after he read that letter." Dive stated.
Siris read the letter and was appalled by what was within it. "This guy demanded that she meet with him or he'll make sure that no one will have her. He is in my mind a mad man and that was clearly a threat to her life."
"I was shocked when I read that letter. I wanted to know the address and go after him personally but this way was the best as I cooled down and thought out a good plan while I was in space." Dive replied.
"I'd have him tried galactically but since he's human I'll let the human authorities have at him first."
"Yeah, he'll freak if he went to the galactic courts," Dive said, as they walked back to the security room to see Klegghorn standing there with one of the security guards by his side. "Hey, Klegghorn, here's the tapes of the rafters and us capturing him and the letters that will reveal why he is captured." Holding the tapes and the bag of letters in his hand out to Klegghorn.
"Why did you take this in-house and not inform me about this?" asked Klegghorn, hands on his hips as he glared at both Dive and Siris.
Siris smiled. "Not quite in-house, simply quietly. Oh before I forget." Siris said as he handed Klegghorn a few folded documents and a bounty hunter license card. "My bounty hunter license and guild rank, they are authorization papers as well as references if you need to double check my background. The final document is a warrant to capture the party intending to do harm to Kaladan, it's issued from the Seabird trade fleet of the Suscan trade federation."
"Okay, first things first, who the heck are you and who tried to harm Kaladan?" asked Klegghorn.
"I'm Siris Winddancer, as who tried to harm Kaladan, Nosedive Flashblade managed to get his name."
"His name is Stefano Concord, he lives about three miles from here per the address that are on the letters that he mailed to Kala." Dive said, as he held out the letters to Klegghorn. "Do you have the gun that fell to the ice?"
Klegghorn nodded. "It was the first place I went to was the ice. Seems that Duke got Kala against the wall of the rink and his saber was in his hand."
"Guess the old man shoved his saber up his sleeve for tonight's game." Dive smiled.
Siris looked at them. "Didn't Wing also assign Duke to guard Kala on the ice just in case he was able to fake his way onto the ice to harm Kala, Dive?"
Dive nodded. "He did, but you didn't tell any of us about the Suscan warrant."
"There wasn't any need to, though I think for his sake the culprit should be tried by a human court then by a galactic court."
Dive nodded. "The human court will be easier for him, if he goes to the galactic courts, they'll eat him alive, they will not let him live unlike the human court will."
"Exactly, which is why he was caught without you knowing sir, but will be handed over to you, humans are at a great disadvantage in a galactic court."
"May I read one of the letters?" asked Klegghorn, as he pulled on a latex glove.
"Sure, the first one is the threatening letter towards Kala." Dive said, handing the letters over to him.
Klegghorn read it and glared at Stefano. "I have enough evidence to arrest you for attempted murder and stalking of one Kaladan Thunderbeak." Klegghorn proceeded to read him his rights, before he hauled the man out of the room and to the waiting police car.
Klegghorn returned to the Pond and met up with Dive and Siris. "The DA will want to talk with both of you about this."
"Well, it will have to be just Dive as I have to get going in the morning." Siris replied, as he glanced at some of the women who walked past him.
Dive smiled as he noticed that Siris's tail was swishing from side to side as he gazed at the ladies. "Flirt."
"I can't help it; women are so attractive when completely clothed."
"They are very attractive," Dive said.
Klegghorn raised a brow. "Can I get a statement from you then?"
"Sure," Siris replied, looking towards him.
Klegghorn opened his note book and Siris gave him his account of what happened and left him with copies of the Seabird fleet warrant and his reference papers. Klegghorn also interviewed Dive.
Siris looked at Dive, "So do you think any of the ladies of the pleasure sections here be sterile?"
"Are you really hard up on a one night stand here, Siris?" asked Dive.
"Well, do you have a pleasure section here?"
"Yes, but they're all human. You might want to head back to the space port and jump a few gates to get to a real nice pleasure port." Dive replied.
Siris sighed. "I had heard there was a nice place around here; WCNHF was supposed to have a club around here?"
"WCNHF?" Dive asked.
"West Coast Non-Human Federation, it shouldn't be hard to find."
"Maybe it's in the phone book?" asked Dive.
"Nah, I have the address where it is located here. Want to come join me for a relaxing evening after we ditch the cop?" Siris asked. "I'm sure we can find a pretty lady to hang out with tonight."
Dive looked at him. "Sure, it will give me a place to hang out other than the comic book shop,"
Klegghorn watched them talk in a strange tongue, it was totally different from any tongue he heard them speak before.
Siris smiled. "I think we got Klegghorn confused by Suscan tongue, Dive."
"Yeah, he doesn't know that tongue and there is no way, I'm going to teach him how to speak it either," Dive replied.
"Very wise, humans would get into too much trouble with it."
"Yeah and besides it is good to speak in another tongue when we need to discuss private things and not have the humans overhear it," Dive replied.
Siris grinned. "I'll meet you back here in an hour, so you can finish dealing with the human,"
Klegghorn watched as Siris walked out of the room. "What did you two talk about?"
"Oh, we're going to get together later and talk about Earth, he's very interested in the planet." Dive said. "So is there anything else you need to ask of me?"
"Oh, would you be able to go to the trial if the DA needs to call on you, Dive?"
"Sure, just give a ring and I'll come put my two cents into the trial as will Jesse who was the one who alerted us to this guy." Dive said, as he escorted Klegghorn out of the Pond itself to his waiting car. "Drive carefully, Klegghorn."
Klegghorn drove away from there with Dive waving goodbye to him. Dive smiled and headed back to the rink where he gave thumbs up to Wing, before jotting something down in Puckworldian and giving it to Phil to give to Wing and hightailed it to his room where he changed clothes and headed to the security area where Siris was standing at. "Are you ready to go, Siris?"
"I am, do you have a vehicle we can use? Don't think humans are going to react well to seeing me."
Dive checked Siris out and nodded, "I think I can come up with something. Come on," Dive headed to the locker room and slipped into the elevator where they headed to the lower levels. Dive walked to where the garage was at as Siris noticed several helmets hanging up. Dive opened one of the lockers and pulled out a jacket and some loose looking pants. "These are called leathers; they're for riding on motorcycles. Put it on and if your tail can't really fit in the pants very well, I'll cut a hole for it and you can hide it under the jacket."
"I'll wrap it around my waist; a tail in pants is rather uncomfortable."
"Okay," Dive pulled on his leathers as he walked towards the garage and turned on the lights to reveal several bikes and other vehicles. "We're taking this one. Did Nina give you a time frame on getting back home, Siris?"
"Not really, but I was planning on leaving in the morning."
"Okay, we'll make this an all-nighter then," Dive said, as he hopped on the motorcycle and started it up. "Hop on, we can get out of here and head for the ladies,"
"You know your brother will not be pleased that you pulled an all-nighter with me," Siris said.
"I know but I don't pull them very often and he knows that if needed I can get up real fast." Dive replied, looking at him as he climbed behind him. "So what is this place called?"
"Raven's Nest, supposedly one of the more interesting clubs around this part,"
"I know where it is, I go past it when I'm just cruising the city at night," Dive said, as he started to drive in the direction of Raven's Nest.
It took them not long to get there, Dive parked the cycle not close but enough to where he could see the door. "I don't know how we're going to get in there, Siris. It's for members only and I'm not."
Siris smiled. "That's the cover, Dive. They'll let you in as they will me." Siris stated as he started to walk towards the bouncer looking around the area for any cameras, when he was happy with the lack of cameras, his tail came out from around his waist.
The bouncer took one look at the tail and then Siris, he nodded his head as Siris and Dive walked past him and into the club.
Dive's beak nearly hit he floor when he saw inside, there wasn't a human in sight, even the strippers on stage were either in fur or feathers, and even one had scales. He took another look, there were beings that looked human but he was sure humans didn't have pointy ears, or fangs, or could make their drinks hover. "What is this place, Siris?"
"It's a non human club, to drink, to be entertained and good for a one night stand."
"I hope none of the ladies are in their Lust as I'm too young to have a family." Dive said, as he eyed one of the feathered females on stage.
"Ladies who do nights of pleasure here don't expect the male to be responsible, but the west coast leader has been trying to encourage non human population growth so those of them who get knocked up are actually encouraged to be single parents."
"So they won't be coming after me for child support payments or anything?" asked Dive.
"Nope, unless you want them to look you up so you know what you got if you got them with duckling, Dive." Siris replied, as he pulled off his helmet and got the leathers off and handed them to the attendant who gave him a number to retrieve them with.
Dive removed his leathers and handed them to the attendant who gave him a number as they walked towards the bar. "So this west coast leader, what is he like?"
"What I know is more from rumor, he really doesn't like humans, his mate is avian, and he's trying to encourage non human population growth. One thing is for sure he cares about his people."
"Avian as in like a Puckworldian or more like the birds that live here?" asked Dive, as they took a seat at the bar. "Or is this the same female that I heard Trithria make mention of back on the station."
"The female Trithria mentioned back on the station."
"They call her Kalashira, she's the west coast leader's woman and she is one hot lady." The bartender spoke as she looked at them.
"Do they come here often?" asked Dive.
"They come twice a year when Lord Loki is doing his rounds to make sure everything is alright. The Representative for this city is Dominique."
"Who is Dominique?" asked Dive, looking at the bartender.
The bartender gestured to what looked like a black male feline type being. "He is Dominique, Lord Loki's representative in this city."
"Ah, okay." Dive said, he turned away from looking at the male. "Though I must say the name is somewhat deceiving,"
"So what do you two good looking's want to drink?" asked the bartender.
"Your strongest drink on the rocks," Siris said with a grin.
Dive raised a brow. "Rye and Coke." was his answer.
"Coming right up," The bartender started to pull something strange from a stack of bottles.
"What's that?" Dive asked.
"Our strongest drink from Pluto, that planet can make some pretty strong liquor. The MiBs don't like us bringing it in so they make us pay a good fee in bringing any amount in," He said, as he placed the amber liquid in front of Siris and the rye and Coke in front of Dive.
"You can get galactic drinks here?"
"Yeah, though the MIB and the Non Human Federation are not on good terms, Lord Loki made sure they had no control over native non humans."
"Ah, that is good to know; besides they have to go through us to even work on this planet." Siris replied, as he took the glass and took a sip of the liquid.
"They need to go through you to work here?" asked the bartender, making a motion towards one of the waitress to get the attention of Dominique.
"Yup, Earth is a Rim World planet and belongs to my niece Nami Winddancer," Siris replied.
Dominique walked over and heard what Siris stated. "Nami Winddancer owns this planet?"
"It belongs to the Rim which when she gets older, she'll take control." Siris replied. "But I'm sure she will be more than happy to let Lord Loki have his control over his locations."
"So the MIB isn't necessary?"
"They're for dealing with humans since they're not ready for the galactic level, I can't see any reason for them to have any authority with your non human federation."
Dominique smiled. "I shall inform Lord Loki of this information."
"I'll be here till tomorrow morning." Siris replied.
"Will you be having one of the ladies of pleasure tonight?" asked Dominique.
"Yes, if I like what I see of the clothed female." Siris replied.
Dominique snickered. "Interesting fetish,"
"The people from the Rim find the females who are naked to be in the mind for business but those who are clothed are looking for a long-term relationship or a one night stand," Siris replied. "And most of the females here look very lovely."
Dominique smiled. "So who are you interested in, a fox, avian, Saurian, Suscan, Fae or mage?"
"Saurian," Siris answered.
Dominique turned to look at Dive. "And you?"
Dive looked at him. "Uhm . . . avian please and they don't have to be fully dressed like what Siris likes,"
Dominique nodded as he walked away from them. His hand pulled out a cell phone and he started to talk on the phone with someone as he went to couple skimpy dressed females and told the Saurian to get dressed even further and entertain the Fox by the name of Siris and went to an avian and pointed Dive out to her, before he walked away from them.
Dive and Siris sat there on the stools talking with the bartender when the two ladies came to their sides and started talking with them. It didn't take them too long to pull them towards the private rooms and they went into their own private rooms.
Dominique watched as they headed into the rooms. "Dari, interrupt him if you must. He needs to know about this,"
Dari raised a brow. "What's it about, you know I can't interrupt without good reason."
"There is a Lord Winddancer here, he rules over Earth as a member of the Rim. He wants to meet up with Loki about his West Coast holdings."
"I see, I'll go interrupt him, but be prepared."
"He'll be here till late morning about 5am," He said, before hanging up the phone. He walked over to the bar and ordered a drink. "Be prepared, Loki's coming."
The bartender nodded as he made sure that Loki's favorite drink would be prepared to hand over to him when he arrived. "So why is he coming? Not because of those two?"
"It is because of the fox," Dominique replied.
"You think he can help Lord Loki deal with the MiB problem?"
"Probably, he makes them pay a fee for doing work here, from what Siris stated," Dominique stated.
"Really? Now I wonder what's going to happen when the fox guy finds out about what sort of problems they have been causing Loki."
"Who knows, till Loki meets up with him," Dominique replied, as he sipped his drink.
"Are they being . . . entertained?"
"Yes, both of them have ladies with them. They'll be busy till Loki gets here,"
"I'm guessing you picked some of the finer girls in the place, who knows how long they'll have to entertain till Loki shows up."
"Yeah, they'll be entertained till Loki gets here in couple hours from now, knowing Dari, she interrupted him immediately after I hung up the phone with her. I hope he doesn't hate her or me for it," He replied.
"He'll be in a mood at least till it gets down to politics."
"Yeah, but at least he'll be able to speak with one who has authority to do something about the MiBs,"
"That is true,"
The Saurian girl was grinning; she had never entertained someone who got horny from a girl being fully covered from the neck down. Even so he made the cloth work to his advantage and was getting her aroused as well to the point of her not knowing if he was entertaining her or if she was him. But she was enjoying his company so she kept on entertaining him when they heard a knock on the door. She wanted to snap but she knew something had to be wrong for them to interrupt a guest being entertained. She climbed off of him and opened the door.
"Lord Loki is here to see Lord Siris Winddancer." Dominique said.
She frowned. "Ok, he'll be out in a minute."
Siris looked at her. "Who was that?"
"That was Dominique; Lord Loki is here to see you." She replied.
"Ah," Siris got up and headed for the private bathroom where he took a quick shower and dried off just as fast before getting dressed. He went to Dive's door and knocked before he entered to see Dive pulling on his clothes. "You heard?"
"He came to my room as well as yours Siris; I want to meet this Loki." Dive said.
"We'll meet him together; you need to keep track of politics while you reside on this world."
"Yeah, I know." Dive replied, as he buttoned his pants as his girl was brushing out his hair and pulling it into a ponytail.
It was not too long before both men were walking down the stairs to see Dominique standing with a black man with long white hair.
"My Lord Loki, they're here." Dominique whispered.
Loki grinned. "A pleasure to meet you both, Dominique has informed me that the MIB may be overstepping their allowed boundaries, I'd like to know what those boundaries are."
"They are not to interfere with non humans meaning your people are off limits to them as they are native to this planet, only non native aliens are to be dealt with." Siris replied. "And if they are bothering native people then I shall make them realize that they are close to losing their permit to operate their business here,"
"Ah yes, the permit. You see right now their regulating our off world imports and making us pay a large duty fee for things they are trying to ban. Tell me is there a way to counteract that?"
"First of all I can't see why they are regulating like that, it shouldn't be within their boundaries, your federation has it's own trade port does it not?"
"The MIB have control over the trade ports, so our federation doesn't have one."
Siris raised a brow. "So that's how they're doing it." he sighed. "Find a safe city to have a port set up at, there will be a small trade tax till the cost is paid off, but it would be an open trade port for the non humans."
Loki thought about it and knew there was a safe city outside of Vancouver that he could have it operating at. But the noise itself would have to be hidden somehow. "I have a location in mind for it."
"Good, looks like I'll head back with you to survey the location, so I'll have to delay my return home for a few days."
"We can leave now if you wish. My mate Kalashira will escort you around the location after the sun rises for the day." Loki replied, as he looked at him and then noticed Dive standing there. "A Puckworldian and a male, excellent,"
Dive looked at him a bit taken back by how excited he sounded in seeing him. "What's so excellent about that?"
"It just means that my mate will be thrilled to know that there is a male of her species here," Loki replied.
Dive bit his bill. "Not sure if that's a good thing, she's been here much longer then myself and the others."
"Others?" asked Loki. This now perked his attention. He didn't know that there were more Puckworldians there.
"Yeah, my brother, his mate to be, Duke, Mallory, Tanya, and Grin,"
"Any images of them?" asked Loki. "And are there any offsprings on the way?"
"I've got a couple pictures, though offspring is probably at least a few years off."
Loki looked at the photos that Dive showed him. He nodded approvingly. "Good." He turned to look at Siris. "My car is waiting out front. We can leave now if you wish?"
Dive looked at him. "Go on, Siris, I'll be fine. Besides, I still got a good woman back in the room waiting for me,"
"Enjoy yourself here, Dive. You're a member of the club anyways," Siris replied.
"How did I become a member? I didn't sign any papers, I think," Dive asked.
Siris laughed, "Your not human, that's all that counts."
"And there is one rule here, no humans unless they're your pets," Loki stated calmly.
Dive nodded, he wouldn't bring any humans into the club, he kind of liked not being gawked at. "I like how I'm not looked at all the time when I go places. This place will be a welcome place for me and the others if they're interested in going out clubbing with me."
"The others will be welcome here too. There is nightly strip shows of our ladies and sometimes if you like what you see on the stage, just ask me to ask the lady of your choice to head for one of the rooms and you can have a more private entertainment in the room of either more of a strip show or sex or both," Dominique stated.
Dive grinned, "I'm gonna love this place," he said as he waved good bye to Siris and then headed back to the private room in hopes that the girls will still be there.
Siris smiled as he left the club with Loki to check out the location for his future space port.
Twenty-five days later, the trial for Kala's stalker went smoothly, Jesse and Dive testified in front of the jurors. The defense team tried to make it out to be a whole misunderstanding since they were aliens on the planet and that Stefano couldn't really harm Ms. Thunderbeak anyways. But that comment got the DA arguing in front of the jurors that why did Mr. Concord steal into the staff only sections and appear on the rafters of the Pond with a dart gun with a silencer on it and the darts that was examined was filled with enough tranquilizers to kill a horse, if it was just a misunderstanding. The judge had to calm them both down and advise the jurors not to take account of what was argued but consider the facts of the case. It took them only five hours before they rendered their verdict on Stefano Concord. The Ducks initially didn't want to be there when the verdict came in but Dive went there to hear it so he decided to represent them there. When the case was finalized, he walked out of the court house, he quickly radioed Wing.
"Dive, is the verdict in?" asked Wing.
"Yes, it came in just five minutes ago." Dive replied.
"And what was it?"
"He was found guilty on all accounts from stalking to attempted murder," Dive said.
"And his sentence is?"
"The judge gave it to him immediately instead of waiting a month for any appeals to come from the defense team. His sentence is life in prison without the possibility of parole, Wing, he will not be bothering your woman anymore," Dive noticed that the reporters started to surround him with their tape recorders close by. "Wing got to go, need to get away from the reporters."
"Okay," Wing replied.
Dive hurriedly left the area with them trying to follow him. After he ditched them, he reconnected with Wing. "I swear we need to keep our guards up for any more possible stalkers, Wing. Also have you secured the holes in the security around the rink, per Siris's suggestions?"
"Yes, Tanya finished those this morning."
"Good, I'll be coming home shortly. Just got to go thank the DA for a good job," Dive said.
"Okay, thanks Dive for being there. I don't think I could be there and they find him innocent of all the charges," Wing replied.
"If they did that, I would have rearrested him and sent him to galactic court and they'll find him guilty for sure," Dive said. All Dive saw was his brother's smile before he signed off. Dive headed off to the office where the DA was and thanked him for a great successful case, before he headed for home via the garage.
Duke looked at Dive when he entered the room. "So do you get paid for what you did, Dive?"
"Catching the guy? I don't think I'd charge Wing for that, and Siris gets the reward from the Seabirds."
"Shouldn't you let them know the verdict?" asked Duke.
"Already done, I went to the command room and called the Seabirds to inform Siris that he has the reward coming in from the stalking case and that the verdict is guilty on all charges." Dive smirked big.
"Too bad you don't get any of the reward money."
"Got something better then that, I'll have to show you sometime," Dive said with a grin.
TBC . . .
