A/N Don't own anything, just playing around! :D
Ok, FYI for my readers, in the orginial anime of this Iason and Riki both get them killed which I thought was both stupid of them to do so as well I thought it was a horrible ending for an interesting anime-so I changed it! :) Tell me what you think if MY version!
Enjoy!
Chapter 27
Third POV
On a Midas street, Guy is standing at a bank entrance. He spots a rich-looking old man leaving the cash dispenser after using it. Guy moves closer to the old man and after knocking the man out, takes his wallet.
Sometime later, Guy meets up with a dealer and exchanges the money Guy stole for a suspicious looking case which Guy opens and looks inside.
In a darkened room, Katze is sitting in front of the comm. unit, smoking a cigarette as usual.
"You mean, Riki in the Black Market?" He asks.
"Yes. He used to work for you before. Could you still use him?" Iason asked Katze, seeing as Katze didn't know about Riki's true gender.
"Well yes, he was skilled enough to go by the name of Riki the Dark. Don't see why he couldn't, once he's got his touch back... Are you serious?" Katze asks, hesitantly.
Iason's face is blank on the screen as he says, "Seems like the water of Eos does not agree with a mongrel from the slum. He came pleading that he would suffocate here."
Iason chuckles softly and lowers his head, with amusement. "HE came to ME. That's why if you can use him, I'm willing to loosen his chain a bit more." Iason told Katze, looking up once more.
"The Market is, so to speak, a double sided knife. Rumors will be exaggerated and spread like wild fire... Do you not mind that?" Katze asked as he puts out his cigarette in an ashtray.
"It just means that an open secret is no longer a secret. I won't interfere once you have taken over. And as long as he doesn't break loose." Iason warned Katze.
"Even if Riki's existence becomes an Achilles' heel to you?"
"It's better than letting him suffocate in Eos."
"Do you love him... that much?" Katze asks slowly and in response, Iason closed his eyes. He was silent for a moment before he looks at Katze again, but with a pained expression.
"I'll leave it to you, then, Katze." Iason says, not answering Katze's question and the screen goes black.
Katze leans back in his chair as he thought to himself, 'What are you going to do, Riki? You've completely dragged down a Tanagura Blondie to the level of the low-class human. What are you going to do from now on?'
In the Bison's hideout, Guy is tinkering with the stuff he bought from the dealer as the rest of the gang sits on the couch, watching him, curiously.
"Guy, I've got no idea what you're up to, but just give it up." Syd says.
"That's right. Riki's left us and from what I hear, he's doing handsomely, riding in the lap of luxury in Apatia. Strictly a rumor, though." Luke added, cautiously.
"Apatia's that prominent area in Midas where they keep their Pets in exclusive apartments." Syd adds, but Guy doesn't seem to be listening; he is so focused on his work. "There are not many chances for mongrels like us to climb up. That jerk, he's done it good."
"Hey Guy. Was Riki that good?" Luke asked suddenly, causing Guy to finally turn and look at them.
"Don't talk big..." Suddenly raising his voice, Guy continues, "When you don't know anything!" Quickly calming down again, he finishes, "Mongrels like us, making a big riot, being released and not even getting beaten to death. Do you guys really think that we were just lucky?"
"You saying there was someone behind all this?" Luke asked, confused.
Guy rises from his chair as he says, "To cut a long story short, there was someone who wanted Riki so much as to crush Bison. And that someone, instead of squeezing our necks is making a toy out of Riki in Apatia."
He bends over his working board and continues to work with a deadly determination in his actions as well as in his voice, "So! I'm gonna retrieve him."
"From...who?" Norris asks as Luke next to him takes a drink of beer.
"Tanagura's... Mr. Blondie!" Guy announces which causes Luke to choke on his beer before Guy walked out of the hideout.
"Hear that? 'Tanagura's Mr. Blondie'. Riki leaving him twice must've, ha, made him go nuts." Luke says to the others, startled.
"Do... you think he really means it?" Norris asks, slowly.
"Don't be stupid! What can a slum mongrel do against the Blondies?" Syd asks, shaking his head.
From a shadowed corner, one of the Clan members was hiding as he listened in onto the Bison's conversation. Feeling the need to get backup with Guy acting very strangely, the Clan member flashes away back to Dana Bahn.
Chapter 28
Lillian's POV
Feeling somewhat better at not being in the same building as Iason's new Furniture who really got on my nerves as well as just doing something, I was standing behind Katze in the control tower in front of a terminal as he talked to someone on the comm. unit.
"You incompetent moron...!" Katze yelled, angrily. "If you've got time to make stupid excuses, get the men!"
He breaks the connection by slamming on the button with his fist. I was wearing my regular work overalls as I watched him, trying to not laugh.
"How many years has that idiot worked in the Market?" Katze asked out loud, almost to me and to himself slightly.
"Seems like your cargo's not gonna arrive on time." I observed once I had recovered.
"We'll have to send someone from this end." He told me, sighing.
"I'll go." I said as I knew that I could get the job done as Katze liked. "If it's Daars, it's a day in the shuttle."
But as I turn to leave and do so, Katze's voice said, "You can't go."
I stop and as silence fills the control tower, I figured out what Katze meant.
"So my chain isn't that long." I said softly; half in anger, half in frustrated.
"I'm glad you understand, Riki, I don't have to waste words then. Here," Katze says as he holds out a pad with the work schedule on it. "Go to the basement and do some work."
Obeying, I grabbed it angrily from Katze's hand and left the control tower.
In the basement, filled with boxes, forklifts, and other things, I brought my own forklift to a stop at a scan unit before I look at the schedule. I pull out a card and slid it through the scanner before pulling it out again.
I started driving away when suddenly there is a slamming sound behind me. I turn my head as I stopped my forklift to see what had, had happened.
"Stop!"
A young man was running through the basement, being chased by two guards.
"Stop, you idiot!"
One of the guards finally catches up to him and knocks him down with a powerful blow.
"Stay down!"
I watch the scene with a frown, not liking what I was seeing as the beating continued as I got down off my forklift.
"There are hundreds of ex-Pets like you! If you disobey, we'll cut your arms and legs off and send you down to Ranaya Uugo for the rest of your life!" One of the guards yelled before grabbing the runaway by his hair, forcing his head up, making the young man wince painfully.
I instantly recognized his face with a flashback – one as the boy who had slapped me during the Showing party my first month with Iason.
"Enif?" I asked softly to myself as my eyes widened in disbelief.
"Just causing more trouble, you!" A guard says to Enif.
Suddenly I felt someone put a hand on my shoulder, startling me. I turn to find Katze standing next to me, also looking at Enif.
"Even the Pets in Eos, who were aloof and patronizing, grow old and lose their Masters' interest. Doesn't matter if they're from the Pet Academy or the Harlem, the only thing left is to fall from one whore house in Midas to the next 'till you get to heck." Katze tells me and we both turned to watch as the guards walk the ex-Pet away.
"The fate of a Pet is more or less the same. Riki, have you ever thought about just how lucky you are to be here?" I turned to look at Katze as he talked, slightly confuse. "And how much of a risk Iason is taking behind all of this?"
I gasped, startled as I realized that I truly didn't know, but I found that the idea of Iason finding me still very interesting though I'm twenty-one years old now and was a mongrel. I felt myself give something like a half-smile; half-scowl as these thoughts crosses my mind.
My emotions weren't any help either.
Lillian's POV
I was on Iason's bed lying on my side, watching him with a hand propping my head up. He had brought some of his work home and he had ordered me to be in the room while he worked, so here I was.
I had planned to go to bed so I was dressed in my nightwear which was a skimpy silk light green top with matching silk boy shorts when Iason showed up unexpectedly.
I fiddled with the bed spread as my thoughts kept flashing back to what I had found out that day at the Market. Finally getting up the courage, I sat up.
It was another night in the city of Midas as it lived its own life. Apatia towered over the town.
"Iason, is it true that you're in a bad position because of me?" I asked him as I leaned on my right hand, looking at him seriously.
Guy stood by a wall on some street, looking as if he was hiding from something.
"Who did you hear that from?" Iason asked, looking over at me as he paused in his work.
A hand curls into fist; Trembling.
"Oh, you hear rumors from everywhere. As it is, I'm supposed to be THE rare animal." I told him casually, looking away.
Guy leans angrily with his fists against the wall, like he had just punched it.
Iason chuckles at me, making me snapped my head back towards him "It's no laughing matter!" I told him, scolding.
"So, you're worried about me?" he asks me softly as he got up from his chair and walked towards me.
Back in the Bison's hideout, Luke is slumped on the floor, drunk; Norris was breathing out cigarette smoke, holding a ball as its lights switched from blue to red and again, like in some night club; Syd was on a couch with some woman...
"Who, me?" I try to play it off as I shrugged casually at Iason. "I'm just a bit concerned if I'd be sent back to Eos." In truth, I was slightly worried for Iason.
"If you've got time to worry about that, you'd better improve your skills. I'm not saying you should be a hacker, but..." He leaned down towards me and grabbed my chin. He chuckled softly as I tried to move away, but I was unsuccessful as Iason grabbed my arm and pulled me up towards him. "Find something or else you'll always be just a rare animal."
Chapter 29
Lillian's POV
I was wandering down a street in Midas, Katze had allowed me to go for a walk and I took that golden opportunity to meet up with all my spies.
From there, I was informed as to just what the risks and taboos, Iason had broken in just keeping me for three years and the fact that Iason intended to keep me forever.
My spies then all informed me that they would all follow me if I chose to reveal myself as an Assassin Lord to the world of Tanagura.
I had to cover the bottom of my face as I flushed slightly as I was handed the green sash that Iason had given to me so long ago where I then untied my red one and replaced it with the green one.
Our happy expressions sobered at the sudden news of Guy's strange actions the past few days, but most at the news of the presence of bombs in Dana Bahn. Quickly, I order for my spies to go help the others build a thick, heavy metal wall to protect our Clan's city in that area of town as well as evacuate the people living there.
It was then that I was given a ring that just about almost looked like my own Pet Ring around my neck which I hid under my leather choker when I was at work or walking about. I placed the fake Pet Ring on my right hand ring finger.
Finally my spies all left quickly after I dismissed them all and I started to just walk aimlessly through Midas. Night had fallen without me noticing it, but my mind was filled with thoughts of the information I had just received a few hours ago and what I should do about it.
I had finally come to terms with my feelings concerning Iason. Since I had become Iason's Pet once again, Iason hadn't hurt me even once. He had just been very gentle with me; something I found to be very strange as Iason wasn't usually like that, but I found that I liked it.
As I turned down a smaller and darker alleyway, I heard behind me the sound of a motorbike speeding up before the sound of two cars crashing into each other. Whirling around, I spot the bike as it raced past me, before making a sharp turn, and coming back straight for me, knocking me over onto the pavement as the bike skids to a halt in front of me.
I watch the unknown person, cautious as the motorcyclist slowly raised a gun which I instantly recognized it to be a stunner gun, and pointed it at me. But it was just as I was about to attack the person before they could use the gun on me that I manage to see the part of his face through the helmet visor.
"Guy...?" I ask in disbelief and shock, freezing in place.
Taking this opportunity, Guy shoots the gun and a small dart shoots out and hits me in the neck. I cried out in pain and yanked the dart from my throat as I tried to get away, but it was too late as I grew dizzy and passed out cold onto the ground.
Third POV
In Iason's office, the phone rings and Iason picked it up, unhurriedly.
"Katze... what is it?" He asks before he listens for a moment before his eyes widened in shock.
"What? When?" He listens some more before calming down, closing his eyes. "Alright... It's not necessary for you to move. This is private. Is that understood, Katze?"
He disconnects and puts the phone back onto the desk. Dismissing his work for the moment, Iason turns on the tracer screen and enters Riki's pet number. First he checks Eros, then Midas and finally Ceres, but Riki is nowhere to be seen.
Turning off the computer, Iason sits at his desk, pressing his fingers to his face. For the first time his always blank mask was gone to reveal a man that would willingly commit murder as he whispered out loud, "Have they gone outside? If so, where!"
Later, Iason visits Jupiter and after they talked for a while, Iason finally just shakes his head, rise to his feet, and leaves.
Jupiter, who had been face to face with Iason, watches him leave before flowing back to his pedestal.
Neither person, man nor machine apparently gaining anything from their short conversation.
Back at his office, Iason's sits alone before the elevator doors open and Raoul enters Iason's office. Raoul walks over to Iason's desk and sits on top of it.
"Has there been any trouble?" Raoul asks.
"Not really," Iason informs him.
"It's very rare that you get such a concerned look on your face." Raoul told Iason, but Iason didn't answer, and he also didn't look at Raoul either.
"Seems like you were called out by Jupiter," Raoul continues which makes Iason frown. "It's between us so I'll come out straight. Rule breaking, in its own way, should have its strict rules. Unless you start facing facts, you'll get everyone backed up. No one's going to trust you anymore."
"You mean keeping Riki in Apatia?" Iason asks.
"When an Organization's boss starts to lose their appeal, that's the end of it; a scandal with a Pet, a Mongrel Pet, is the lowest of the low." Raoul says.
"Jupiter said that too; that the name, Iason Mink, would be blemished."
"Iason…Don't forget this. I flatly refuse to be the one to tamper with your mind." Raoul informs Iason as Iason closed his eyes and they sat for a while in companionable silence.
"And you won't have to!" A young girl's voice suddenly says into the room. Both Blondies look around, but sees no one.
"Who's there?" Raoul demanded as he looks around.
"A person who only wants to help," She says from somewhere in the room. "I'll reveal myself as long as you both let me talk without hurting me or calling the guards."
"Why should we?" Raoul says and a shadowed figure suddenly appears near the elevator. All they could see was that this person wearing completely black from head to toe and she was wearing a dark hood that covered the top of her face.
"You're looking for Riki, right?" She asks Iason, ignoring Raoul for the moment. Iason sat up and looks suspiciously at her.
"And if I am?" He asks, slowly.
"Yes or no," She said firmly and a loud silence fell as Iason considered her and she waited. Slowly and silently, Raoul activated a camera so that Jupiter himself was watching.
Resigning, Iason said, "Yes, I'm looking for Riki." and what happened next shocked both of the Blondies as well as Jupiter.
She flashed over to the Blondies, allowing her hood to fall revealing beautiful long silver-blonde hair, but what caught their attention was her eye color; it was almost auburn in color.
"Good, Iason-sama!" Standing in front of him, she continued on, "Right now, I can't say who I am, or where I came from because right now, Riki is in danger. A man by the name of Guy has kidnapped and taken her to Dana Bahn which is, as of right now, covered with over 20 tons of explosives."
She panted slightly before pleading, "I don't know what Guy's plans are, but I know that you need to get there now!"
"And if this is a trap to just kill Iason?" Raoul jumps in seriously. The young woman looks at the Blondies straight in the eyes while saying, "If this is a trap to kill Iason-sama, I will personally let either of you stick my own knife in my chest." She pulled out a wicked looking blade as proof to her words.
"...I'm going." Iason said before getting up and rushed past the young woman.
"Iason!" Raoul yelled, but Iason ignored him as the elevator doors closed. "You idiot!"
As soon as he was gone, the young woman headed over to Iason's desk and started fiddling with the controls.
"What are you doing?" Raoul demanded, reaching out and grabbing her arm.
"Watching!" She said before yanking her arm out of his grasp and continued fiddling with things.
"Since I have to be here for you and Iason-sama's reassurance that what I'm saying is true, all I can do from now on is watch, pray, and hope that both he and Riki come out of that building alive and safe."
She took something off of her person and pausing slightly, she looked up. "Please forgive me for my transgressions, Jupiter. This is an emergency." And plugged the device into the desk and suddenly, Raoul could see everyone in Tangaura. Hundreds, if not thousands of cameras filled the desk.
'She easily hacked into the camera system!' Raoul thought in shock and awe as he watched the young woman work.
He watched as the young woman typed in Iason's name before entering and the screen zoomed in on a dot that was blinking with Iason's name. Pushing another button, a speaker box appeared and the young woman spoke out loud.
"Jason… You still there?"
"Yeah, I'm here." A man's voice answered back.
"Has anything changed?" the young woman asked, nervously.
"No, I can still hear Riki and that moron talk-"
Silence.
"Jason?" the young woman called as she pressed a few more buttons. "Jason? You still there?"
"I don't hear them anymore."
The young woman froze before slowly sitting down in Iason's chair.
"What does he mean by "don't hear them anymore"?" Raoul asked the young woman who slowly looked at him before answering.
"He means that something bad has happened to Riki; something that would cause her to go silent. Jason has been there watching and observing the scene since I came here to inform Iason-sama. Through that entire time Riki and Guy have been arguing and fighting about something, but it's quiet now."
"Iason-sama is here." the man's voice cut in.
Raoul and the young girl turned back to the voice box as Jason continued. "And now I see Guy coming out. They're talking... Now they're walking into of Dana Bahn."
"But what about Riki!" The young woman asked, fearful. "Didn't you see her leave?"
"I think she's still inside."
The young woman's eyes widened as she covered her mouth in horror as she turned to Raoul whose lips thinned.
"All we can do now is wait..."
Chapter 30
A few minutes before the young woman showed up to inform Iason...
Lillian's POV
I slowly open my eyes to see a dull yellow light which as I turned my head to the left to see an old lamp sitting on a table. I was apparently lying on the floor as everything was taller than me at the moment.
"How do you feel?" I heard a voice nearby suddenly ask me.
Turning my head the other way, I look over to see Guy sitting on a chair at another table.
"Just great, thanks!" I snapped, angrily.
"Thought so," Guy said, smiling at me as I sat up and looked around.
"Where are we?" I asked, though to me, it looked way too familiar to be comfortable with.
"Dana Bahn." Guy says, while I rubbed my aching head which at Guy's words causes me to freeze momentarily in my hand movements before I continued rubbing.
I had finally figured out at last what the information my spies had discovered beforehand, meant and how they linked to each other. Dana Bahn filled with powerful explosives and Guy's strange behavior lately.
He was literally on a suicide mission. I guessed that he planned to lure Iason here before setting the place off with explosives, but did Guy plan to kill me as well?
"Dana Bahn?" I repeat, trying to act like I was totally clueless. "The underground shelter when they had the revolution?"
"Yep, looks pretty run down, but hey, it's not every day that you come across a place like this." Guy says casually, looking around.
I hid my face in my hand as I continued to act completely clueless, but I couldn't hide the fact that I was far from happy with him. "We'll soon be found. The Pet Ring is combined with a tracer."
"It won't be of any use here. This place is shielded. I had to take these measures to hear your true feelings." Guy said as he turns to look back at me.
"What's the use of saying what's true or false now?" I ask him with my hand still on my face. "It's been three years, Guy." Three years, if at all, too late for Guy. I was in love with Iason Mink. The Iason Mink who had dominated my entire being.
"Do you know what a Pet really is? I didn't have a clue until I came back to the slums. The weight of being his Pet for three years. Iason's poison has stained my blood." Yes, his poison of him continually on my mind and in my thoughts.
The year I was 'released' I was constantly being reminded of Iason everywhere I went. Whether it was certain smells or sounds, he was always around me and it drove me almost insane.
Feeling very frustrated with Guy for having done this which not only endangered his life, but Iason's life as well, I lower my head even more as my voice grew frustrated.
"There's no way to get out of it! The reality that I am a Pet, won't change!" I told him and I didn't want to leave Iason's side. Iason was truly my one and only equal in life.
"Then just forget the whole thing." Guy tells me and I angrily look up at him.
"You don't understand! You don't understand at all!" I yelled. I really didn't know what he was truly going to do, but I knew that it would only end with horrible consequences on his side.
"Yeah, I don't want to understand your pointless arguments. What are you so afraid of? Don't tell me you don't mind being kept for the rest of your life?" Guy asks me, like everything he said meant nothing at all.
I angrily got to my feet as I fought my Assassin blood as I yelled at Guy, "How long do I have to put up with this stupidity?"
"'Till the storm blows over." Guy says offhandedly, looking up at me.
Enraged, I leaned towards Guy and strictly informed him, urgently, "It's never gonna blow over! Don't you understand? What you've done isn't just a slap on his cheek! It's like pissing on a Blondie's pride!" If I knew Iason well, he would be far from just enraged with Guy.
"Such confidence!" Guy smiles cockily at me. "You're saying a Blondie's gonna get so hot about having a mere Pet kidnapped."
I jerked back like Guy had slapped me across the face. For a moment, I stifled an angry sob, before I got a hold of myself.
"Do you really want to know the truth?" I asked Guy.
"Yeah, I do; until I'm completely satisfied." Guy says and we looked at each other in the eyes for a few seconds while I considered.
Making a sudden decision, I straighten up and start to strip off my coat, belt pouch, wrist guards, and t-shirt in front of Guy, peeling article after article of clothing off my body. Guy watched me in almost surprised shock.
I've never stripped in front of him before; in fact, in front of no one, but Iason had been the one who had forced me to get used to being in front of others, partly clothed.
It was part of my forced 'training' as a Pet.
I straightened up, proudly, letting Guy gaze upon me as I only wore my black tank top and jeans as I snarled at him, "This is the truth, you wanted to know. Open your eyes wide and look!"
Guy slowly looks me over to see several, if not hundreds, of hickeys all over my shoulders and arms.
I had noticed these a few days ago when I was taking a shower. It was almost like Iason was claiming me, but I didn't recall him doing so when I was awake. I watched with almost glee as Guy's smug face changed to almost horror at what he was seeing.
"Did you know? It gives me the shivers when I'm caressed lightly here." I said softly as I gently caress my cheek with the back of my hand.
"Here, and here too," I said as I touched my collar bone then the back of my neck.
Guy angrily closes his eyes and turns his face away with a painful expression.
"He says they're my good points." I told Guy before slamming my ringed hand onto the table in anger. I barely noticed Guy looking down and seeing the ring; I had placed it on my ring finger on my right hand since I didn't have a ring finger on my other hand.
"As long as the Ring is on my flesh, I can be with him. And you have no right to wreck that!" I scream at Guy, praying that at last, I had finally gotten through to him.
I look angrily at Guy as Katze's voice from a past conversation rang through my mind.
"If you really care about Guy, cut Guy off completely. For Guy's sake."
And that's what I was trying to do, but so far it hasn't been working! Zatracene! I didn't even know why Guy was even doing this!
"You're saying I'm pleased with myself?" Guy asked me before swiftly rising to his feet and grabbed me by my arms. "Don't I even have the right to feel for you?"
My eyes widen in realization as Guy looks at me with hope and pain flashing in his eyes.
Not wanting to look in Guy's eyes anymore, I violently pull free from Guy's grip as I turned away. Guy's eyes reminded me of Mimea's when she had begged me to have sex with her. I even felt the same; sick to my stomach.
"That's right! I'll do as I please! Don't make me repeat myself!" I told him as I bent down and redressed myself quickly as the place was a bit cold now that my fury had subsided a little from my shock and surprise.
"Why? Is he better than me? I won't approve of that. Never! You were OUR leader!" Guy yelled at me before he unexpectedly walks up to me and hugs me tightly from behind.
I gasped in surprise to find that Guy was taller than me; I've never thought Guy in this way before. He had only been my second-in-command in Bison and my good companion in Ceres.
"When we used to hang out together, everybody would turned to look. I was so proud of you. With you, I didn't care how dangerous it was. Riki, you gonna destroy that? Can you betray us? I'm not saying come back to Bison. You don't even have to be my Riki, but just don't be his. Not his!" Guy pleaded with me and I closed my eyes, feeling very lost.
Guy never really cared about what I did, but I leave for three years and suddenly I was to return to being the person I was? The personality has been dead for almost four years now! And Guy was now more conscious of my actions?
I was confused. When had Guy changed into this person that I didn't know? When?
I felt Guy bring his lips closer to my ear as he whispers, "I won't approve of you being his toy for the rest of your life.
Suddenly, I was whirled around by my right wrist as Guy lifted my right hand to look at the ring. "I won't let you say I'm a nosy guy and should mind my own business, Riki." Guy said before he looked at me and I felt chills of alarm running down my spine. "He's the one who hit my cheek first. He's the one who picked the fight. You can't leave him because of this. Then, better take it off."
I gasp, stunned, but before I could do anything, Guy swiftly pulled me towards him and sprays something onto my face. I swayed back and forth as I got weaker and weaker before I collapse hard on the ground at Guy's feet.
A/N So what do you think? R&R please!
