Part 12

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(Kanako: This whole chapter more or less takes place in Talon's fortress.)

It was a gathering of powers such that the world has never seen before or will ever see gain. At the head of the table was General Andrew Joshua Talon, mercenary lord and leader of the neutral forces. Beside him was the Empress, goddess of Fire herself, Naru Narusegawa, with a shy girl's grin on her face and Silver Raye Adams, his lieutenant. There as well were Kitsune, the goddess of Water and Ice, and her close companion Eijentu. There was the quixotic Knight Commander James Ray Edwards and his goddess, the goddess of Lightning and Wind, Motoko Aoyama. There, released from their marble prisons were Keitaro Urashima, the Immortal and Mutsumi Otohime, goddess of…well, nobody really knows. Su, goddess of Earth was also present. At the end opposite Talon and Naru were the goddess of shadows and darkness, Kanako Urashima and Kana, Master Necromancer. On the floor was the impaled body of former Imperial Ambassador Leon, one of Kana's Bone Spears driven through his heart. Nobody seemed to care.

"Where is Kebinu?" Silver asked.

"I left him in one of the empty rooms." Naru answered with a smile on her face as she made suggestive gestures with her tongue, directed at both Talon and Silver. "Carrying a marble slab around is tough."

"If everyone will excuse me, Naru's blatant and disgusting display of…" Silver blushed as she spoke before running away from the room. "I feel sick…"

"Anyone willing to take a bet that she's going to look for Kebinu? And give him a little pie too?" Naru smiled sweetly as she moved her hand into Talon's pants and giving him a nice, invigorating massage. "Well, since Silver's going to take him off my hands, I need someone else to help me with my late night…activities. Would you like the job, Talon?"

"Err…Naru…err…" Talon, from then on, was reduced to a drooling idiot. "Oh yes…"

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"Hello Kebinu." Silver gave a sarcastic scowl as she walked closer to the marble slab, her eyes desperately avoiding a certain, non-marble area. "It's been a while."

"I knew it. I knew you would come for a little something." Kebinu grinned like a hentai. "Come and get it."

"You're unbelievably disgusting! This is exactly why I broke up with you in the first place!" Silver found herself frustrated enough to forget about seeing that area of Kebinu's anatomy that Naru caught her staring at before. "You damn hentai!"

"You mean it wasn't because I refused to have a threesome with you and that cute blue haired girl? Rei was her name, wasn't it? Yeah, Rei Ayanami." Kebinu grinned. "Or maybe it was because you were interested in Mutsumi…"

"Keep me out of your sick fantasies about two girls getting it on, Kebinu."

"Yeah, right. You know you want some."

"Kebinu, you have the biggest di…err…co…err….wa…err…schl…EGO I've ever seen!"

"It's cold being a marble slab. Maybe, you could heat things up a little for me…" Kebinu suggested, aggravating Silver even more. "All I'm asking is you give me a little warm loving…"

"Oh, I'll give you something warm loving…" Silver smiled sweetly as she wrapped her hand on Kebinu's non-marble area and promptly set it on fire. "Very, very warm…"

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"Did I jus hear a male scream of ultimate pain?" Kanako, and everyone else, heard Kebinu scream as Silver gave him the 'warmth' he asked for. "Sounds like he's getting his equipment burned off."

"Speaking of equipment…" Naru smiled as she kept on doing whatever it was she was doing to Talon. Suddenly, she bobbed her head down. "Yummy…"

"Disgusting." Kana slammed his head to the table. "Utterly disgusting."

"For once, we agree, Kana." Edwards sighed, slamming his own head to the table. "The world is doomed."

"What are you two doing?!" a shocked and appalled Keitaro asked.

"Having fun." Eijentu answered before smothering her face in Kitsune's chest again.

"Here? Now? This is neither the time nor place!" Keitaro complained.

"This is why I don't have much faith in the majority of the male half of the human race." Kanako whimpered as she patted Kana on the back a few times. "Exceptions can be so rare nowadays."

"We…oh yes….have…damn you're good at that…to plan…faster…how to…I didn't know you could do that…stop Baka-Alaskan…" Talon managed to mumble. "…before he…yes, Naru, yes…dooms us…lower, faster…all."

"Surprisingly enough, I managed to understand that." Motoko said with sincere shock.

"We know he can't use the power himself. He needs a goddess to contain the power in. He considers himself a patriot to Shinobu; I assume he plans on using Shinobu's body to contain the power." Kana said, lifting his head for a moment and seeing Eijentu and Kitsune's activity. "…"

"I take it back. There are no more exceptions." Kanako sighed as he pulled Kana's attention away from the two girls. "Look at them again and I'll pull your eyes out, understood?"

"Hai…"

"Ara, I guess we should find him before he gets either the Necronomicon or Shinobu-chan." Mutsumi smiled. "Ara, Talon-kun seems to be enjoying that. Would you like me to do that to you, Kei-kun?"

"Keep your hands and mouth away from Keitaro!" Naru's head suddenly popped up from under the table, pushing Mutsumi away from Keitaro. She licked her lips of some stray liquids while placing her hand where her mouth had been previously. "He's mine! He loves ME!"

"What in the world are you talking?! I'm no nutcase! I love Mutsumi-san!"

"You weren't screaming that when I was getting sweet loving from Kebinu in the throne room."

"Get a room you…err…four!" Kana shouted.

"Four?" everyone seemed to blink at him.

"He means Keitaro, Naru, Talon and Mutsumi." Kanako answered, sipping her green tea. "Anyway, let's ignore our infinite supply of raging hormones and over-active libidos for the time being and get to the business at hand."

"Yes." Talon said, concentrating hard to not feel Naru's hand's movements that had previously made him turn into a drooling, hentai idiot. "We have to find Baka-Alaskan first."

"The CokGB has tracked him down just now." Kana said, closing the screen on his communicator. "He's using the Book of Shadows to keep Shinobu from attacking him or disappearing while he goes for the Necronomicon."

"Then we'll have to guard the Cathedral of Shadows." Eijentu noted. "That IS where that book is right?"

"No, the Necronomicon is not in the Cathedral." Kanako answered as she removed Kana's upper garment. Underneath were scars but written along the scars were markings in an ancient language, long dead. Kana gave out a slight smirk, he closed his eyes and glowed green for a moment. "Kana IS the Necronomicon."

"That explains why he can summon an entire army worth of skeletons." Edwards grunted. "Writing the book that holds the secrets to the powers of the realm of the dead on your body, that's low, even for scum like you Kana."

"I didn't write the Necronomicon on my body." Kana answered calmly. "The Void wrote it on me. As Master Necromancer, the main burned is that my body becomes the Necronomicon and as I learn more secrets, more text is written so that the next Master may know of it."

"So, if Baka-Alaskan goes to the Cahtedral…" Eijentu's voice trailed, staring at the green glow. It somehow terrified her. "What's there?"

"He'll find the Grimoire, the Church of Kanako's bible and religious codec." Kanako answered. "It was written by me, of course."

"If Baka-Alaskan isn't as absent-minded as Edwards is, then he's sure to figure out that the Grimoire isn't the Necronomicon." Talon noted, still concentrating as hard as he possibly could to keep himself from fully succumbing to Naru's charms. "He'll come looking for Kana, thinking that he's hidden it."

"Let me get this straight, we have to guard HIM?!" Edwards complained, his eyes flaring with anger.

"Do it for me, Edwards-san…" Mint's telepathic suddenly sounded in his head. "Do it for me."

"Fine, I'll be that scum of the world's bodyguard." Edwards grunted, seeing Mint's ever charming, ever enticing, ever kawaii smile. "All for Mint-chan…"

"Mint-chan? I dare say you're infatuated with her." Motoko raised a doubting eyebrow.

"No! I only adore you Motoko-sama!" Edwards accidentally grabbed Motoko's chest. Promptly, Motoko sent him flying three rooms away.

"You betrayed me. I'm leaving you!" Mint's telepathic sounded again.

"What? No Mint-chan! I only love you! NNNOOO! Don't leave me!!" Edwards said. "Don't leave me!"

"Ara, why is the floor all sticky?" Mutsumi suddenly asked.

"My fault..." Naru smiled with a deep red blush and grin. "I was trying to aim Talon for the table…"

To Be Continued…

Kanako: Kebinu, I have a special surprise for you in the next chapter which will make you bow down and worship me! Or kiss me! Well, maybe you won't worship me or kiss me but I'm sure you'll be willing to give in to anything I ask of you from here on end. *smile* Not that I'll ask for much. Kebinu, since you say you already got the whole re-writing of "Road Trip" for Kana's involvement done, I guess there's no point for you to re-write it just because he wants out. Anyway, we have some comedy for the next chapter too. Why? Because we finally find out what happens when the heads of all the factions AND the Angel-tai are all under one roof. And why is Kana getting a lot of e-mails from girls swooning over him from that scene in part 10, all asking for his picture and address, a few even sending *shrugs* pictures...Don't they realize that he's TAKEN?! He's MINE! MINE you hear me?! MINE! "Be For You, Be For Me"...not exactly a happy song. I can't imagine why Kana would even consider having it on his HD. For some reason, he loves that song, specially the Kanako version.