Get of Fenris
Part Seven: The One named Kenshirou





"Dear Albrecht, I am sorry to write this at such short notice. But this is at my request. Please, for whatever reason you have for my presence, do not summon for it. I cannot say, but I have my reasons for this seclusion." ~~Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes



Jonas folded the note and sighed, then turned toward Yugo and Fang. He noticed the hyperdermic in Fang's hand. "What is that?"

"We found out what have poisoned Nonomura." Fang handed Albrecht the hyperdermic. "There's a new drug on the street, it's called 'Spark'. All it is, is liquified Wyrm-Taint, that's why people are tainted at such rapid rates."

"Because it's injected into the blood stream." Yugo began, trying to explain modern science to an Arcane man.

"Do not trouble me with your gibberish." THe king ordered, standing up. "Find any available Spark supplier and have them killed."

"Yes, sire." They stood up and headed for the door, Yugo turned toward Fang. "But why would anyone decide to use Alice as a test subject?"

"Because..." Fang reminded him. "It's not the body chemistry that the Wyrm sees, it's what in their souls... their hearts... their minds. No one knows what evils lurk in the hearts of mortal men no better than the Garou and the Wyrm."

"But why would they target Alice? She was a very nice girl!"

"Think about it, Yugo." The Garou frowned somewhat, then shook his head. "Your brother and his friend said it themselves. You and Alice had a falling out in Granar, it's possible that she had regrets for all she said and found it impossible to try and talk to you about it. This kind of despair is what the Wyrm feeds on."

"I don't like it, Fang. I don't. All these Garou myths, all these legends and yet... you are unable to stop it??"

"We could stop it if we can get all of Weaver's children to stop misbehaving so. The Wyrm is only stirred trouble and by doing that, it's multiplying and growing in strength. It's waiting for that Big Bada-Boom when it finally unleashes the Apocalypse into the world."

They walked down the hall until the wolf-zoanthrope stopped and turned toward Fang. "What caused the Wyrm to be so evil? Didn't your say it used to be part of the Big Scheme of Things?"

"The Triat." The Glass Walker answered politely. "The Weaver, the Wyld and the Wyrm. It was true that the Wyrm didn't used to be this way. But it was because of the Weaver went insane and tried to consume everything her web... when she went, so did he. Since then, we've all suffered. It wouldn't have been this way if the Garou didn't try to kill all the other shifters in the Impergium over 1000 years ago!"

"There's a lot of things that could have been done differently."

They walked down the hallway until they came across a familiar figure in purple pimp clothes. The wolf zoanthrope stopped and recognized the figure.

"Shenlong?"

Shenlong didn't take a cigarette from his lips but he held up some papers. "I got yer street research right here, Ohgami."

Yugo took the papers and opened them, reading it. The look on his face made Fang suspect something.

"The hospital that Alice worked in was a subsidiary of Pentex Multinational Corporation. They did all kinds of bizarre experiments with not only the hospital's patients but with the medical staff as well!?"

"It seems the good nurse was a test subject to experiment with the concept of Spark." Shenlong continued, the cigarette getting smaller. "Many doctors and nurses vanished around there. But for some reason there's always a doctor there that is never taken."

"R-really?" Fang asked, looking at the street thug. "What's he look like?"

"Well, the dossiers there should describe him." Shenlong began, turning toward the two. "I personally haven't seen what this mystery doctor looks like but that doctor is usually never alone. He's always with two people... another man who looks almost exactly identical except his hair is black and red and his eyes are pale silver and the other is a teenage boy with gold hair and gold eyes. Those two people I had seen with my own eyes. That man with the black and red hair though... he's something else."

"You know him?" The Glass Walker asked, looking at the papers.

"The guy comes around my shop every now and then, asking for favors for the right amount of Yen. Usually it's to ice snoopers that try to pry into his corporate affairs in Shinjuku, Tokyo. I guess you can call him a regular customer and he does pay a very hefty chunk of change."

"What's his name?"

"Sorry, Ohgami. That's one thing yer not getting." Shenlong grinned and began to walk away. "Client-Confidentiality."

"What a pompous ass." Fang frowned, then looked at his partner.

"That's Shenlong for you." Yugo shook his head and looked back. "Should we pay this hospital a visit?"

"We should ask for help though."

"I'm not kissing up to anyone."

"You don't have to. You're not Garou." Fang walked by and headed down the hallway.

"What's that supposed to mean? Fang!" He ran after him.


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Brad gently put the spoon to Basara's pouty lips, the beauty slurped the soup softly. He took the napkin in his hand and dotted his lips. "Do you feel any better?"

"Yes, I do, Brad. Very much so." Basara smiled at Brad, but there was a lot on his mind.

"What's wrong, my love?" Brad took the lovely young man's hands into his. "Whatever it is, I'll help fix it."

"I know you've been sad these past few months, and it saddens me too. It makes me feel I'm not good enough for you."

"That's not true." Brad frowned very sadly. "I love you with all my heart, nothing will change anything."

"I know, Brad... but...." Basara tipped his head down, tufts of white hair hit his face delicately.

"Basara... I have a confession to make." Slowly, he began.

"Yes?"

"You are aware that I am many millenia old. But there is one thing I know that no one knows. I am the one who wrote the Prophesy of Phoenix."

Basara's eyes widened, his hands trembled lightly. "B-but..."

"Phoenix came to me in a dream, he told me these things. Since then, I've have low hopes for the future... even now. I don't want you to see what I saw those years ago... but I don't want to face the Apocalypse alone. For the first time in my entire life, Basara.. I am truly scared."

"Brad!" Basara slung his arms around him and buried his face in Brad's shoulder. "I don't want to face the End of the World without you."

Tears slowly slid down Brad's cheeks, he buried his face in Basara's shoulder and wrapped his arms around his slender lover.


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"So it is true that Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes is the author of the Prophesy."

"Yes." Albrecht stared at the sunset, a forlorn look on his face. "And of all who carries this weight on his shoulders, it's a Shadow Lord. This weight is one that even I can't compete with." He held the note in his hand. "It's tragic, really."

"Why?" The older Stargazer asked, turning toward his King.

"All this time, I was looking up to Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes to lead us away from what he saw in his visions of the future. But what I saw in him was the same look I see in all Garou's faces. He's scared, even more so than any of us. It's not because of how, or where, or why the Apocalypse is... he knows... exactly when. And it's because of this..." His eye closed as it watered. "...that he's sealed himself away without an answer... without a fight. It's like he's giving up... giving in. The weight had finally crushed him."

"I cannot totally disagree with that, sire. But then again, I cannot agree with it either."

"Why do you say that?"

"Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes fights for one thing only... his total beliefs that his true love for an individual will pull him through. He hasn't lost all hope, Sire. He's there by his lover's side, willing and able to protect him from all the Wyrm has to throw their way."

"...I didn't know Splinter-in-the-Mind's-Eyes had a lover."

"That is one thing, Sire, that makes Splinter an unpredictable lot... even for a Shadow Lord."

Albrecht smiled the turned toward the twilight. "That guy never ceases to amaze me."



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"Hi! We're here to see a doctor!" Yugo walked up to the recpetionist's desk.

"What's your ailment?"

"My friend, Daniel has a bladder infection, I was just wondering if we can get that cured."

Fang gave Yugo that odd look and groaned, he turned to look at a hallway when he saw the man from Shenlong's description walking down a corridor. He nudged Yugo and pointed that out, Yugo smiled at the receptionist. "My friend wants to use the little boy's room, which way is it?"

"Down the hall, to the left."

"Thank-you." They followed the man in the black business suit. The man stopped shortly after reaching a door, then turned his head slightly. Yugo and Fang hid behind a gurney with an old man on it. The man in black walked right into the men's bathroom and didn't come out. The two followed him, but they didn't see him. "Where could he had gotten to?"

Fang and Yugo looked under all bathroom stalls, but frustrated that they lost him, they left. The man jumped down from standing on the toilet and adjusted his necktie. He walked out of the bathroom to see the teenage wolves looking around for him. The sly man slipped behind a wall and waited for them to pass while heading for the receptionist's desk. Then he made a break for it, which the two saw to their surprise and followed. The man in black proved to be too fast for even Fang in Lupus form, indicating that he was a supernatural himself. He ran into a doctor's office and closed the door, he turned his attention on a man in the room who looked exactly like him except the doctor's hair was auburn instead of black and red.

"T-tanaka??"

"Kenshirou! To the window! We been caught!"

The doctor ran to the window, followed by Tanaka. They leapt out, assuming a new form... two silver foxes. When Yugo and Fang ran into the room, they saw the window open. Looking out, they saw the foxes running into the forest behind them.

"W-what are those!?" Fang shouted as they vanished within the forest's darkness.

"Let's follow!"

"Y-yugo!!"

They gave the foxes chase, the pair of vulpines were joined by a sparkling energy being in the shape of a little bird. They heard the footsteps behind them and split off at a fork in the path. The bird decided to follow Tanaka instead of the doctor, so Yugo and Fang decided to chase Tanaka. A grin came on Tanaka's snout as he dove into the bushes and assumed another form. The bird landed on a perch and took a solid form, into a blue bird. Yugo and Fang stopped directly under the blue bird, looking around with their hands balled into fists. When their backs were turned in one general direction, the song bird made a certain call and springing from the bushes in full werefox form complete with nine tails, was Tanaka... and he was holding a silver ninja-to. He made five sharp and quick slices into each person before twirling around and nailing them with his foot.

"H-he... he's a shifter... also." Yugo said through fangs beared, holding his bleeding arm.

"I never seen a fox-shifter before." Fang looked more hurt than Yugo.

"And this will be your LAST time seeing a Kitsune, western-trash." The fox spoke while in a ninja stance.

"It can speak!"

"We can speak very clearly, child." Tanaka snarled, still holding the ninja-to. "Which organization of Pentex sent you??"

"None! We came here investigating the reason my girlfriend was injected with Spark!" Yugo shouted, trying to stand.

"I don't believe you." Tanaka's eyes narrowed, then he dove at them, howling a Kitsune warcry. He handsprung off of Fang's shoulders and smashed Yugo on the back with his feet on the descend down, causing him to leap back up. Tanaka did a backflip and nailed Fang in the chest with his feet, springing off. The Kitsune did a handspring, two back flips and on his feet he was.

"Can't.... believe... defeated by a fashion statement." Yugo growled before losing consciousness.

Fang lost it also, giving Tanaka and the bird enough time to make their escape.




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