I'm sorry this one took so long to post. I was doing a lot of...plotting.

But at least its up now, so enjoy and please review. :3

Oh, and a huge thank you to my other reviewers.

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Only an hour had passed.

Everybody in the conference room was thinking the same thing. How could she leave the STN, murder somebody, let the police find out and assume they would call Amon? All in the space of an hour? Theres no way that was possible. Then again, they weren't dealing with a real witch. Maori's abilities were still somewhat of a mystery.

The room was dead silent. What was there to say? They all knew she had to be stopped, whether she was playing an 'innocent' game or not. "...What do we do?" Dojima worked up the courage to ask a very silent Amon. He hardly appeared to be breathing.

"Its a trap. I'm sure of it. She wants to separate us, in order to get to us one by one." He said, more or less to himself than anybody else, staring off into space.

"Or it could be an actual witch this time..." Robin mused, staring at the table, "and the timing could just be coincidence..."

"You have a point there, Robin." Karasuma said, sighing. "I think shes right Amon, we're all just paranoid because we've never delt with anything like her before."

It was his turn to sigh. "Too bad we can't afford to send anybody out to take a look."

"What we need to do is scope out the building. Find out how shes getting in here and go from there, maybe even set up a trap." Karasuma said, trying to put together a plan as she went.

"We're better off just setting a trap. Forget figuring out how she gets in and out." Amon said bluntly. "She'll know somethings going on if we start looking."

"You talk like she can't hear you..." Dojima pointed out quietly

"I know shes not here. Shes out hunting." He replied, reffering to the call he just got. The tone he used somewhat said he knew what he was talking about.

Nothing more was said on the subject, they all knew Amon was right. Maori needed to be caught quickly. Amon and Robin ended up leaving to investigate the call about another death while Dojima and Karasuma stayed back to keep an eye on things at HQ.

As Amon had suspected, Maori had made an attempt to scare them with another murder. Only thing different about this one was, she mutilated the body beyond recognition. By the time they got to the scene, the police had already confirmed her 'signature' move, paralyzing the victim first.

Robin could only wonder how Amon could look at the body with such a calm look on his face. She felt sick at just one glance. She watched as he talked to the officers quietly, getting all the info they would need at HQ, while mulling over her own thoughts. For some reason, she couldn't understand Maori's intentions or her reasons. Was she just bored? or was there something else going on that Robin was missing?

Her thoughts were interrupted when Amon nudged her shoulder and gestured at the car. Evidently there was something that needed to be discussed privately. She sighed softly and climbed back into the passenger side, not knowing what to expect at this point.

"It would seem we now know what other form she can take on." Amon said bluntly, staring out the windshield at the police wandering around the scene. "The most of the marks on the body were made by claws. Judging by how paper thin some of them are, they're suggesting it was a cat."

Robin looked at him skeptically. "A Cat?"

"Its a far out theory, but yes. Theres no way a big cat such as a leopard or jaguar would escape from a zoo and kill a single person without tearing it up and dragging pieces away. Besides, it would have been in the news as well." He elaborated, starting the car now.

They didn't go back to HQ like Robin had thought they would. Instead Amon when to another part of town she had never been to. It was more like what the Americans would call the 'middle class' area. The houses were not traditional Japanese and seemed rather out of place to Robin.

Amon pulled up in front of a smaller, white 2 story house. Robin blinked a few times, watching Amon as he parked the car and climbed out without saying a word to her. He didn't even look at her as he walked up to the door and let himself in.

She waited what seemed like hours for him to come back out. When he finally did, she was about ready to demand and explanation when he got back into the car. But she didn't have the courage to when she noticed how worried he looked. She was confused, but held her tongue until they finally got back to HQ.

Dojima and Karasuma smiled weakly at the both of them as they got back. However their smiles disappeared when Amon explained what they saw at the scene and his theory for it. He also told them (More directed at Karasuma than anyone else) That he had stopped at Sakakki's house.

"...Hes not there. He hasn't been there for a while judging by how the place looked." Amon said.

They gaped at him for a full 2 minutes before Dojima finally commented, "She didn't..."

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Dun dun dun. There you have it. Please review. :3

Oh, and sorry for spelling errors. Didn't quite have time to edit well.