Chapter Ten - Face to face
A rather tall almost western styled house was in full swing with a raucous party. People were in the front and back yards, and some others were standing on the sidewalks, drinks in hand as they chatted away. There were lots of them there, and the din of noise reflected that point.
Just down the street, two figures stood in the shadows, watching the goings on intently. The were standing still, behind as large tree, shielding themselves for the time from being seen by anyone.
Amon stood looking at the party, his eyes searching the best they could through the gloom of the night. Robin did so too, squinting a little as she scanned faces of the guests of the party.
" They might be inside..." Huffed Amon, putting his hand on the girl's shoulder." Or they could be out in the back area too."
Robin said nothing, for she was still peering hard at the milling around of the Artist's people. She watched, as people came and went, noting that there was no real police presence on the scene either, even though the music was very loud that came from the house that she could feel it on the ground.
The tawny haired girl stood straight up, and quickly brought something out of her coat pocked. It was a hair elastic, and she quickly pulled her hair into a ponytail and set it.
" I have an idea..." She said, finishing her hair.
" We are sort of looking for them right now." The man said, looking at the girl. " What pray tell is your idea?"
Robin nodded, obviously checking if her hair was done up right.
" I am going to walk past the party, and look curious at what is going on..." She started, her face turning serious. " If I spot them, I will pull my hair out of the ponytail, and come back as quickly as I can."
" Could be bad if your made..." He said, thinking about the girl's plan. " If you are spotted by them, they could simply vanish like they did yesterday."
" Do you have any idea other than standing here and watching for them?" She came back.
" No!" He admitted.
" Then just let me do this." She said, walking off, her mind was already made up to try it her way.
Amon stayed hidden, and watched as the girl walked toward the party, and all of the people that had gathered there. He knew that the girl just might have the right idea, but he was a little fearful for her too. He snickered, as her stubbornness had actually impressed him.
As Robin neared, she could here people talking on the sidewalk. She noted a few different languages were mushed together. She noted one pair was speaking her native tongue from Italy, and knew what they were just talking about was simple small talk between them. She kept nearing the place, her eyes searching the faces for the two they were hoping were still there.
She was almost in the midst of the people on the street, when her eye caught movement just a little up the street. She could see a man and woman standing off to the side, talking to a strange looking man with a odd hat. Something had really caught her attention, but she did not know why just yet.
She took a second more harder look, and gasped a little without showing it to outwardly. The two that were speaking to the man with very animated gestures were the people they had tailed the day before from the museum. It was the Witches named Asha and Kano.
She reached up and took her hair out of the elastic, and turned to look back in Amon's direction so as to head back like she had said she would.
Amon was already on the move quickly, crossing the distance between them with a foot eating stride that belayed his very massively built body. In seconds, he was at her side, as she had backtracked a little into some shadows.
" See them there... with the man in the odd hat... is that them with that man?"
Amon looked over quickly, and nodded.
" It's them." He said.
" Now we got to find out if one of them is the Witch..." She said, thinking on what was their mission now. " And I am hoping you have an idea on just how to do that.?"
The tall man went silent in thinking on the matter. Whatever he was thinking on, it was with every fiber of his being that he was. Robin kept eyeing the suspects, not wanting them to disappear like the had before. They had worked too hard to have that happen again, she thought to herself.
A odd noise broke the din of the party. It was like a blood curdling scream, only louder as it rose over the music so easily. Amon and Robin both looked over with a snap of their necks, shocked at hearing the noise.
The man in the hat was shaking and gurgling out this horrific scream, blood could be seen coming out of his eyes and ears while his tongue lolled out of his mouth and seemed to have been very swollen. Around the two suspects they had found, there was the hint of a greenish glow surrounding the both of them as they stood over a yard away from the man gurgling away.
Amon looked at the orbo cross he had on, a remnant of the old STN which now was simply used to detect Witches and the usage of their power. It was glowing, the tell tail sign that it was Witches.
" We have our answer." He bluntly stated, looking right at Robin.
Amon quickly had a large caliber gun out, cocking it as he readied for the hunt. The tawny girl already had her small spectacles on, her emerald eyes flaring with the glow of flames in them. They looked at one another for a second, then hurried to apprehend these two Witches.
The brother and sister team spotted the two people running at them, the simply took off running in the opposite direction and were at a dead run in seconds. The people around the now fallen man looked horrified as the man and young girl pushed past them, following the others.
" What's happened?" Asked one patron of the party, spilling his drink as he whirled around.
" Londi is dead... who killed him?" Shouted another, as they all seemed to be ignoring the goings on.
Into the side streets of Oja, Amon and Robin ran to catch the two that fled from them. The suspects were obviously very fast on their feet, and they were not about to stop, even to fight their pursuers. They kept on going, into the deadness of the other streets, trying to elude the large man and the girl.
Robin stopped dead in her tracks as they came onto a very empty street, and nodded her head as she eyed the two. A large wall of flames shot up right in front of the two Witches, and grew to well over ten feet high and many times as wide. The two stopped dead, as the flames made a barrier they could not cross.
" Fuck!!" You heard the man of the two spit, as the flames flickered in front of them.
Amon sunk to one knee, and took aim with his weapon. When the two turned towards them, he fired off one round. The bullet hit true, knocking the woman down with its blast. The man of the two looked horrified, as he saw his sister going down.
" Why do you try to kill us?" He yelled, the glow that had been there back at the party now was back. " We do what we have to do!"
" You are witches... that's why we do what we are doing!!" Called back Amon, his teeth clenched.
Amon suddenly began to guggle and his body vibrated uncontrollable, as a glow was now around him. He seemed to not be able to breath or move, his weapon had fallen from his hand to clatter to the pavement. Blood started to trickle from his ears, as he quickly collapsed to the ground. A loud giggle was heard again, and then he was deathly still on the pavement.
Robin was horrified to see her man like that, as the witches power was crushing his insides like all of the others had been. Knew she needed to do something, as his life was now solely in her hands. She put a determined look on her face, as she knew, she had to face these two in order to save the man that she loved so much.
Robin turned to face the man, her anger flashing through her body to fuel her rising powers.
" Stop t, Witch!" She found herself pleading as she prayed inside for Amon's life. " Your killing him."
" One human more or less, little girl.."The man replied, with a tinge of anger in his words. " Just leave here child, and I will spare you that man's fate."
" Your killing the man I love." She called out, almost hesitant to use her own powers against the Witch.
" So be it..." Was the man's only reply, his green glow now flaring to become a very bright light around his body.
She shook her head and glared at him, her fists clenched against her sides, her fingers were turning white with it all.
" You give me no choice then, Witch.." She said, a hate filled snarl crossing her pretty face, as she knew he was baring his power on to her.
The man screamed loudly, as he instantly burst into flames. The pyre of flames engulfed him, eating at him like a hungry lion at a fresh kill. The man screamed once more, staggering back as the flames became brighter as the tawny haired girl glared at him. In a second, only ashes were left in the flames, as he was consumed by the Huntress's need to save her man.
The woman on the ground, moaned and began to move a little, as she was obviously not dead. She pulled herself to half sit up and looked to the scattered ashes and the blanked spot on the road where her brother had been. Her face was a mask of pure pain.
" You killed my brother!" She groaned, as Robin neared her.
" He was a Witch." Said Robin, looking back and being relived when Amon started to move. " And he was a killer."
The woman called Asha, shook her head and made a glance over at where her brother had been
" They all were related to who took our Uncle's money and left us destitute in the slums here in Oja." She explained, coughing up a little blood. " They had to die and suffer as much as we could have inflicted on them, since the ones who had done it already were gone from Japan years ago."
" The police handle things like that... not Witches who take the law into their own hands." Robin said, watching as a glow came out from her too. " They deserved jail, not to be put to death."
" Fuck you then..." She said, looking at the girl with great hatred towards her. " Trying to stop us, you need to die to girl."
The remaining witch was going to do the same thing to Robin, as her brother had done with the others. The glow that was gathering around Asha noted that fact all to well. The woman was going to use all of her strength left to kill the young Huntress.
Robin found she had been given no choice again. In a flash of searing flame and heat, she used her flames on the woman where she lay, as she was trying to do her final gambit against the slip of a girl. The flames flashed brightly for a second, then died off almost as fast. There was only a black smudge on the ground left where the Witch Asha had layed. The two witch siblings were now no more, only the smudges were left as their murderous legacy.
Amon limped slowly down the street, after he had pulled himself off the ground. When he got to where Robin stood, he slowly put his arm around her while he looked at the aftermath of the battle.
" Come on, Darling..." He said softly, squeezing her against him. " You did what you had to."
" Never makes it any easier." The girl said, in a monotone way. " I did what I had to... and we are both alive to tell about it."
He looked at the smudges for a few moments, and snuffed as his mind went over what he had head in the midst of the battle.
" They took the law into their own hands, and use their powers to kill people that were not even involved in the stealing of their family's money." He said. " The two young men who they killed... ones that we know about... were probably just babies themselves when their relatives cheated the family out of the money."
Robin nodded, and looked up at the taller man.
" I know. They used their powers against humans, to exact revenge..." She started, then she shook her head. " Killing them was necessary, but I still cant get over knowing that they had souls too." She bowed her head down and took a small sigh. " They would have killed more though, killing you would have just added to it all."
Amon put away his gun he had gotten back when he had came to. He held the girl's hand and began to lead her off.
" We have to report back to Michael and the others. They were waiting for our reports..." He said. " The witches are taken care of, and we are free to head back into Tokyo after SOLOMON has come out and surveyed all of this stuff."
Robin began to shake a little, her small frame vibrating uncontrollably.
" Hold me close tonight, Amon." She said, leaning into the large body of the man as they walked off. " Please."
" Your scared?" He asked, a little worried over her reaction to everything.
" I am not sure of what I am feeling..." She said, her voice even trembling when she spoke. " Just say that you will hold me tonight, and forever?"
Amon leaned over and kissed the girl on the cheek, his big arm still holding on to her tightly.
" You know I will." He said. " And that is forever."
" Always?" She added her question.
" I will... Always" He said, as they walked off, heading back to the Swan Hotel.
The girl took a long breath as she walked beside the man. She put her own arm around the small of Amon's back, and hugged him too.
" Thank you for loving me..." She whispered like a feather on the wind to the man, as they left the ending place of Kono and Asha.
The night was eerily silent. Even the party that had raged on for hours, had stopped. The police were on hand, tending to the dead man in the odd hat. They looked at the two figures that were walking up the street to them. No one officer was daring to go and interview them, as they seemed to know right off not to ask anything of the two.