This is the next installment of the two part Beginning of the two Revy's. I hope you enjoyed the first one, and acquired an understanding of the life of Revy. This chapter will discuss the changes in Revy's new life, as she finds herself within Rin's grasp. Stay tuned and PLEASE REVIEW. Enjoy…
As I walked further into Roanapur City, I realized I was being followed by a car. As I turned around I saw Rock in Benny's car, riding close to the sidewalk that I was walking on.
"Need a lift?" he asked with a smile on his face. I realized this would be the perfect opportunity to tell him I'm leaving for a while. It would be best this way, because I don't want him to react in front of Dutch and Benny.
"Yeah, it's fucking on fire out here." I said opening the car door as Rock tried to step out and beat me to it. I then used the heat to break the ice on my travels as I sat down in the passenger seat and lit an American Spirit. "I wonder if it's this hot in Japan this time of year?" I said looking out the window; I could feel his eyes on me.
"No its rather cool now. Our summers aren't tropical. The highest temperature we get is no higher that eighty five degrees Fahrenheit." He said as he ran his hand up my thigh. "Why do you ask?"
"I'm going to Japan today with Rin for a we…" I said before he stopped the car yards shy of the docks. "What the fuck Rock?" I said as I swung forward, I never wore my seatbelt.
"What do you mean you're leaving?" he asked as horns of angry car drivers honked behind us. He didn't care.
"Just a week or two. Rin wants me to meet some people. Apparently she has an agenda for the world to come." I said.
"Why are you just now telling me this? She just came yesterday. How long did you know you were planning on leaving me?" he asked. His face was contorting in anger and he sped his questions in dissatisfaction.
"Fuck, I just found out yesterday night before leaving the Rip-Off Church. She said she would give me a day or two to think about it, but something happened in Shinjuku. She is leaving at one this afternoon, and she asked that I come with her." I said as pissed off as I could sound. Rock is going to have to realize I can do whatever I want whenever. I can't and won't be tamed by anyone, never have been.
"So why didn't you inform me last night or your apparent plans of leaving me?" he asked as the honks behind us became rapid. I decided to roll down the window, crawl through it, and point my cutlasses at a group of annoyed cars. The beeping came to an abrupt stop.
As I came back inside the car, I noticed Rock was attempting to calm himself down. He was gripping the steering wheel tightly, and shaking his head whispering something to himself. I couldn't make out what it was, I think it was Japanese.
"Yo psycho, can you go to the docks now? I need to talk to Dutch." I said putting my guns back in the brown leather holsters they slept in.
"Answer my question Rebecca." He said staring at me so fiercely, I felt his eyes in my soul.
"Because when I came home last night, the first thing you wanted to do was fuck. I didn't have time to talk about anything, if I remember correctly my mouth was full in less than three minutes." I said laughing. He didn't find humor in my answer.
"What about the crew Revy? We need your guns. Dutch won't let you leave." He said reassuring himself as he put the car in drive.
"Dutch isn't my keeper anymore. He told me I needed to take some time off last year remember? Besides I do whatever I fuckin' want no questions asked. Eda will take my spot until I get back, when she's not praying at the church and selling shi…" I said before he cut me off.
"Eda! Eda is going to be your replacement? Are you out of your mind Revy?" he said pulling up to the dock where Dutch and Benny were preparing the torpedo boat for another journey.
"And what's wrong with Eda? You liked her before, when she flirted with you and invited you for numerous night caps." I said throwing out my cigarette. He just opened the driver's door without a sound and made his way over to open my door. But I quickly opened it myself, hitting him in the groin and stomach with the door. I didn't want Dutch and Benny to become suspicious. Especially Dutch, he had a habit of beating up guys he seen coming on to me to strong. One night while he and I were drinking, mind you he has never let intoxication get the best of him like me, he said that he wanted to be the one to walk me down the aisle if that day should ever come. The man, and he must be a real man, must ask him for my hand in marriage. That was the first time Dutch ever hinted that he cared about me. He was my daddy.
"You two ready for the next job? You don't look dressed for the occasion Revy?" Dutch said as he loaded his shotgun, and Benny looked up at me in confusion of my attire.
"I need to talk to you Dutchy." I said grabbing Dutch by his green vest, leading him inside his office in the lagoon. "Alone" I exclaimed as I saw Rock begin to follow us. Once we made it inside, Dutch grabbed two beers and threw one to me. As I cracked the can open with a pocket knife, Dutch began to speak.
"So what's this about? Please don't tell me your pregnant or joining a nunnery." He said as he sat down at the Captain's station of the boat.
"No it's something else." I said sitting next to him on the arm of his chair. "I got an offer from Rin today. That green haired Japanese broad that posed as my doc. She wants me to come to Shinjuku for a week or two. The plane leaves in two hours, she's picking me up in an hour." I said gulping down the cold beer. "I will be back I promise."
"Oh I know you will be back." Dutch said. "I'm not cool with this plan of yours though Revy. You don't know this woman from a can of paint and I don't trust her. But you're an adult now, and you make your own decisions. It's not my job to babysit you anymore, you're not that ninety pound fifteen year old anymore, that I had to hold down in your sleep from those screaming fits you had damn near every night." He said tinkering with the boats dashboard. "And what is your plan for your absence. Who is going to take your place?" he said looking up at me.
"Eda during the evening jobs, if they are available." I said as I thought further. "And Shenhua, she could be used during the day. I'm sure Cheng won't have a problem with that as long as he gets a cut." I said getting up and stretching. "I will call both of them and arrange it."
"I want to know exactly where you are over there Revy. I want the address of where you're staying and an extra phone number as well. Better yet, I want this Rin's phone number and I want you to send pics to Benny's computer so I can be assured you're not in any danger." He said pointing his big long finger at me to justify my understanding.
"I thought you weren't my babysitter anymore, Dutchy" I said teasingly.
"I'm not, but I am your father." He said exuding seriousness.
"Okay I will. But do I have to send the pictures to Benny; knowing him he is going to wank off to them." I said with a look of disgust.
"Alright send them to me on my cell. Rock will show me how to open them. I still don't know how to send or retrieve text messages." He said showing his age.
Rock, I thought, Rock is going to have to manage without me for a while. I'm sure he can. He has for twenty two years. I can't be concerned with him when I have problems more important than him. Right? Me being immortal and not understanding it is a greater importance than a man, right? Someone named Alphard and her minions, planning to destroy me is far more important than Rock, right? But no matter how much I try to convince myself, he is always in the back of my mind. Climbing his way to the front and embedding himself there. I want him out. I want to be Revy again. Not Rock and Revy.
-Driving through Roanapur-
"Valmet pass the dim sum, I'm starving" I said on my way to the docks.
"I'll feed it to you baby, your driving." Valmet said placing a delicious bite into my mouth. "Um…Rin…?" Valmet questioned.
"Yes?"
"Why are you going to the docks? I thought the kid was at her apartment?" she asked.
"She was but my Spidey Senses tell me she is at the docks with her crew." I said placing a finger on my temple. Valmet smiled and gave me another bite of my meal. As we arrived to the dock I saw Rokuru. He was stepping out of the driver's side door and making his way to where Revy was, attempting to open the door for her. But she wouldn't accept it, and she swung open the door and hit him with it.
"Ouch I'm a woman and I'm sure that hurt." Valmet said sipping her water. I silently laughed.
"Yeah she's a little fire ball. With the hair to match." I said. "We are about an hour or so early. I wanted to see her in her comfort zone. Witness Revy, when Revy thinks no one is looking." I said as I locked in on my target. She then went to the tall and bald African-American and drug him inside. Rokuru, looked at her in dismay. He must know she's leaving already.
Thirty or so minutes passed as Valmet and I sat in silence, then Revy came out on her phone. I could barely make out what she was saying but her lips motioned Eda's name. After five minutes or so of chatter she hung up the phone and began to walk from the docks. That's when I stepped out and called for her.
"Hello Revy." I said with a smile on my face. She was clearly alarmed.
"What the fuck? Are you stalking me?" she asked walking closer.
"As a matter of fact I am. But I'm clearly not the only one" I said as I saw Rokuru stammer up behind her.
"Hello Rokuru." I said as the smile quickly fell from my face.
"It's Rock, just Rock, okay Rin? And I'm here to tell you to take care of Revy. I don't want a scratch on her when she comes back, because she will come back" he said as we scowled at each other.
"No more scratches than you put on her Rokuru." I said patiently waiting on him to react. He only scowled deeper and turned Revy around as he rubbed her cheek and kissed her forehead. She said nothing.
"I will call you in the morning Revy" he said looking up from her eyes into mine "Answer the phone."
"Yeah I'll try" she said pushing away from his grasp. He then sighed and walked back to the boat.
"Are you ready?" I asked opening my car door and putting one foot in.
"I don't have any of my clothes, and you are hella early Rin. I need to go to my apartment and get my suitcase and then I need to go by the Rip-Off church and see Eda. I promised her. I keep my promises." She said opening the back seat door as we both got in. I started the car and drove away; watching her look back at the boat she grew to love.
"Don't worry about clothes. I have that under control. I will take you shopping and you can buy whatever you…" I said.
"Hold up a fucking minute. I don't need any favors from anybody. I already said if you help save Rock I will do what you want, so don't attempt to splurge on me with useless bitch shit." She said looking at me through the rear view mirror of the Audi.
"Revy… it is quite chilly in Japan right now. I don't mind buying you clothes, but if you feel that uncomfortable about it, how about you work it off by working with me on discovering what Historia and the bloodhound are doing next, okay?" I said looking into the mirror to meet her eyes. "Yeah okay but nothing free."
I shook my head in understanding and told her we will drive to the church for her to say bye to Eda. She seemed determined to do this above all other things. As we made our way to the yard of the church I parked. I decided not to get out and give the two a bit of privacy. As Revy stepped out of the car, she called Eda. Eda came outside and waved at Valmet and I as she motioned for Revy to come inside. All the while wearing her usual nun habit and pink sunglasses, chewing a wad of bubble gum. Revy walked in and didn't return for twenty minutes.
"Everything okay?" I asked as Valmet turned to look at Revy who's hair was out of the messy bun she put it in and cotton candy pink lip gloss was smeared all over her lips.
"Yeah lets go. Drive, fuck." She said somewhat embarrassed as she tried to redo her hair in a failed attempt.
-On the plane to Shinjuku-
"How long is this flight?" I asked Rin who was waving at the airline attendant to bring champagne. I hate champagne.
"It's 2859 miles so divide that by 540 mph, the speed of an average plane, I would say about, give or take, five to six hours." She said as she and Valmet took a glass of champagne. Then the flight attended offered one to me.
"I don't drink that. Got any beer or rum?" I asked as the flight attendant was taken aback.
"We have the millya lat." She said in her Thai accent.
"Miller Light, fuck, I'll take it. No cup or ice." I said as she bowed her head and walked to retrieve it.
"So Rin, what was so important that you wanted me to come to Japan earlier than expected." I asked as the flight attendant handed me a cold one and bowed again.
"A very special friend of mine called me today and said that her lover has gone missing. I know who has her. So my friend is in Shinjuku waiting for me to return to seek her out. But I fear it's too late." Rin said as she rubbed her head.
"Then why leave early if you think she's dead. Why not tell your friend to suck it up?" I asked as she lifted her hand from her head and placed it on my knee. I looked over to her right to see Valmet sleeping soundly.
"You have many centuries' maybe even millennia to go Revy. You will find that friendships are as important to you as the air you breathe. My special friends name is Ahenkye. She was a slave in the Americas over six hundred years ago. She was taken from her tribal home in Ghana and witnessed the murder of her entire family as her father, the chief of their tribe, rebelled against the Spaniards. She then was raped and murdered after she used a spear to open the stomach of a soldier. But then she came back to life, and the Spaniards thought it was some form of witchery of the African people, and took her to the Caribbean to be exercised. They killed her every day to see if the spell was taken off, in attempt to turn her from her heathen religion to a Christian one. It didn't work. So they grew tired of trying and forced her to work in the sugar cane fields. Then I came on a boat to the Americas with a few immortals, most of which are dead now, because of Angels. I saw the degradation of such a beautiful and ancient people by the hands of cowards with gun powder. So I decided to attack all the plantations on the islands I could find. Freeing the people, as most mixed in with the native tribes and taking a few others back with me that were not willing to intermingle with the natives of America. That's when I met her. Ahenkye, she had one of the strongest immortal scents I ever smelled. It was her passion. Her aura was stronger than immortals five times her age. She refused to die. She couldn't die," Rin said yawning as I listened intently, wanting to learn more about history from a person who was actually there.
"Ahenkye, it's Ghanaian for crown. Her people were one of the tribes that migrated from the Sahara and Egypt over three thousand years ago. Migrating to the Ivory Coast where water was always plentiful. I haven't seen her in a year since our last immortal convention in Okinawa. I'm sure she won't be coming this year." Rin said turning her head to look at me. I must have looked like a kid listening to stories about Santa Clause because I was so interested in hearing more. Her voice was as smooth as satin, it caressed my ears softly.
"When is this convention?" I asked.
"In three more days. It's a weekend at a bath house and hotel. It has a hot spring and great food and…"
"Why isn't she coming?" I asked interrupting her.
"The woman who is lost and I'm quite sure will never be found is a seven hundred year old Saudi Arabian immortal. She was Ahenkye's lover and confidant. She took Ahenkye in after I took care of her for a century. She loves her. Unfortunately I can't sense her aura in this world, which means she's in the next with Historia. As I said before Historia has been kidnapping and destroying immortals without the use of Angels. Angels have always been the chosen way to be rid us, but Historia isn't using them. She's smarter than that. Sometimes Angels can have a mind of their own and attack the hand that feeds them. She would never risk such a venture. She's unlike any villain I have ever faced before, she's craftier than that. The battles between she and I remind me of the stories I heard long ago. The story about the war between Spartacus of Thrace and Marcus Licinius Crassus of Rome. Both were unbelievably tactical, yet only one could win. But in the end they both lost. Spartacus was killed by the Roman legion called the Thirteenth, and Crassus was killed by his greed for money and power a few years later. Men of an opposing side he was battling captured him and poured molten gold down his throat. I feel that is Historia and I." she said leaning back on her first class cushioned chair. I did the same.
"So who are you? Spartacus or Crassus?" I asked rolling over on my side to look at her face from the side, her eyes were closed, and she was asleep. I stared at her features for a moment. Looking at her as she slept with her geek glasses on. Her ears were kinda pointed like an elf. I began to wonder if this is the way Japanese people were born over a thousand years ago. Her eyelashes were thick and green, accentuating the beauty of her kind sensual eyes. Her nose was perfect as if she had a nose job by the best surgeon in the world, yet I knew that was impossible, due to her immortality. Her lips full yet small and pink. I wanted to kiss them. She dressed in a pink and green private eye suit, the style she wore every day though the colors changed. She was so still and stiff, anybody would have thought she was dead. She didn't make a sound. As I watched her I slowly drifted off myself.
"Revy? Wake up doll, we're here." I heard Rin say as I slowly started to prepare myself for full awakening. As I opened my eyes I saw Rin pointing at the window to look out of it. I opened the white blind and looked out noticing the lights of the Japanese city. Last time I came to Japan, I was asleep until it was time to go into the airport. Rock didn't bother waking me for fear of receiving a couple of bullets to his cranium. But Rin held no such scruples or fear of me.
"See that's the airport coming up on your left. That's why I insisted you had the window seat. I want you to experience all you can." She said as she and Valmet smiled at me.
"Beautiful isn't it?" Valmet asked.
"Yeah it's kinda like New York." I said turning my attention back at the scenery thousands of feet below. Lights flashing on hundreds of buildings, advertisements of animes, food, and clothing lines. The lower the plane got to make landing I noticed people walking that looked like ants. This is the first time I ever looked out of a plane window. How did Rin know?
"Where am I staying tonight?" I asked looking at the time on the screen that had a movie playing, that wasn't in Japanese. It was 7:16 and already dark outside.
"That's entirely up to you. You can stay with Valmet and I at my condo, or I can get you a suite in the city if you prefer more privacy." Rin said fastening her seat belt as the flight attendants ordered for all to do as we landed. I then fastened mine as well. "I'll stay with you." I said looking out the window again. I noticed her reflection in the glass as she looked at Valmet and they gave each other a look of satisfaction.
-Traveling through Shinjuku-
I could tell Revy wasn't tired anymore after the flight so I decided to take her to the agency to meet Mimi. Once we arrived at the building, Revy looked corner to corner to, assumingly, monitor an attack.
"Revy you're safe here believe me." Valmet said shaking Revy's shoulders causing the smaller girl to wiggle from Valmet's strong grip.
"Hell are you the world's strongest woman, damn" Revy said as I put the key in the door. When we walked in passed the receptionist desk that Mimi usually occupied, I opened the door to my office. And there sat Mimi with Genta, as she tapped away on her computer, not noticing that I arrived home.
"Mimi I'm home" I said wrapping my arms around her and lifting her from the chair.
"Rin…" she said laughing and giggling "Stop I'm working." She then wrapped her little arms around my neck and tongue kissed me in front of everyone. I looked over at Revy who was looking back and forth between Mimi and I and Valmet, who walked over to lift Mimi up from my arms and kissed her as well. Revy seemed a tad bit confused on our three way relationship.
"Mimi this is Rebecca Lin, just call her Revy." I said as Valmet placed Mimi back on the ground. Mimi walked over to Revy, about four inches shorter than her, and placed her hand out for Revy to shake.
"I'm Mimi." She said as Revy shook her hand, easily showing she was not used to such sophisticated introductions. "It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope you enjoy your time here, and I hope Rin doesn't annoy you to much." She said looking up at me as I knelt down and bit and licked her ear. "Rin Asougi!" she exclaimed laughing. Then Genta ran up to Revy and lied down on her shoes. She liked her already.
"Um what is this mut doing?" Revy asked trying to retrieve her feet.
"Her name is Genta and you should get used to seeing her around." Mimi said as she bent down to pet Genta. "She's older than you and I combined. She's been around since the late seventeen hundreds. She's seen it all." she said as she got up and sat back down at my desk continuing her work.
"Wait" Revy said laughing, "The damn dog is immortal too. No fucking way."
"Yes fucking way" Mimi said diligently tapping away on the keyboard.
"Then how old are you? You look ten?" Revy asked sitting on a chair at the table.
"I'm immortally thirteen, but I'm over a century old. The first time I died was in Hiroshima after almost fifty years of not aging. The elders in my village sent me to a shrine in Hiroshima. But in August of 1945, my entire residence and I were incinerated. I was the only one who woke up screaming in agony as my flesh started to regenerate to the bone followed by healing of my blistered skin. That's when I met Rin. She was posing as an American soldier." Mimi stated as I thought back to the Second World War when I met her. "When I fully regenerated I scratched Rin in the face like a cat, mainly because I thought she was American. The Japanese, during this time, hated all things American. I learned to fit in with their ideas, I was forty eight."
Revy looked intrigued by the tale. "In school in America, they taught us about the war and Pearl Harbor. They told us that they had to bomb Japan because you all attacked us first." Revy said.
"We did, but we did it with reason. In 1938, President Roosevelt was planning to destroy Tokyo in a crusade to stop us from creating the first atomic bomb and sharing the information with Russia. Because Alaska was so close to the frontier of Russia, he sent in a militia, undercover of course, and killed hundreds of innocent business men working at Tokyo International Sciences. Not to mention civilians in the streets walking by. Whole families died tragically." I answered. "It was a great loss to our patriotism, equal to the loss America had when they were ambushed in Hawaii that day. I bet they left all that out in your history books." I said opening a cubby to get a bottle of scotch.
I began to search for four glasses when Mimi shrieked. "What's wrong?" I asked walking over to the computer screen she was staring at.
"Rin, the bloodhound was spotted, traveling near Chiyoda to the east, in a caravan, see?" she pointed as I looked at the screen at the flashing signal, alerting me of a possible attack.
"Do you think she is looking for you? Where would she go? All the immortals in this side of the world are aware of her." Mimi said as she zoomed in closer to view the immortals living in the vicinity. "What are we going to do? We need more info. Somebody, besides Historia, must be aiding her." She said still searching.
"Do I need to gear up?" Valmet said as the militant god she was.
"No, I don't want to attack her outright, not right now. We need more of our kind. If you beat her in a fight, she will come back and Historia will leave Yggdrasil and wreak havoc on innocent bystanders. I can't have that. We will sit it out and gather more information." I said looking over at Mimi, who in turn was giving me her all-seeing eye look. She knows I have something up my sleeve.
"Revy are you ready to start working?" I asked as she jumped up excited for a fight.
"Fuck yea, just let me grab my cutlasses, I will wreak fucking havoc." She said with a wicked grin on her face.
"Valmet take her to the house and set up triggers throughout every room, if she decides to pay us a visit, then we will be ready. Also call all the immortals on the list capable of protection and non-capable, and warn them of the intruder. Let any that want to come be ready. Don't call the army just yet." I said.
"Roger that." Valmet said as she and Revy made their way out.
Once the coast was clear, Mimi questioned my motive.
"Rin, are you ready to tell me the truth?" she said walking over to me as I sat on the top of my desk.
"I knew she was coming. I used Ahenkye's loss of Fathiyya to lure Revy to leave sooner. I got an alert at nine this morning in Thailand." I said as Mimi ran her hands up my legs to my stomach.
"But we need information about who would be hiding her…" Mimi said as I gently cupped her face.
"She's not hiding. She wants me to seek her out. She wants me to fight on her terms, her way. I can't lose this next battle like I did the last. The bloodhound and Historia are unbelievably tactical. They're not afraid. They instill fear." I said as I got up to retrieve my cell phone from my luggage to set up an appointment with a local informant.
"Are you afraid Rin?" Mimi asked clearly afraid my answer would be yes. And it was.
That is the end of this chapter. I am now writing the next one. And I can tell you now it will contain brutality and lemons. Also this will be the first chapter that will include Historia's take on the events coming up. PLEASE REVIEW AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS.
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