Delicious Torment
Ch 8
At the police station...
"Aw come on chief, you can't be serious!" detective Taki said in disbelief.
"Detective, I'm very serious. Either you do as your ordered to do, or you can consider yourself off of this case!" the chief replied as he slammed his hands down on the desk.
"Chief, I'm telling ya, Kaye's not going to do it. She won't go into hiding no matter what.
Trust me, I know her, she'll want to fight this head on!" Taki shot back.
"This is the first major break that we've had in a long time, and I don't want to lose our only witness due to her own stubbornness. And come to think of it, I should take you off the case anyway." the chief replied hotly.
"Care to tell me why?" Taki asked as he crossed his arms.
"Because you're too involved with the people that are tied to this case, that's why," the chief replied as he started to back away from the desk.
"Chief! I can be as objective as the next guy. I'm asking you, to please don't take me off of this case." Taki said as he stared at him.
"Besides, there's another reason why I'm considering taking you off." the chief replied.
"I get ya, you mean because I put Jakobe away the first time. And now you think that I'm going to go vigilante on you, just because of the fact that he's been targeting friends of mine," Taki said. The chief didn't give him a verbal response; he turned around and looked out the window.
Taki knew that his suspicions were right, he then grew angry and took out his badge and gun, and then slammed them onto the chief's desk. "Then consider this my resignation! Because I quit!
I'm not going to just stand by and watch this like some kind of spectator. I'll stop Jakobe in my own way."
Taki then angrily walked out the chief's office, and slammed the door with enough force that the windows shook. "Taki, I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that," the chief said as he picked up his cell phone and placed a call. "Yea, he's leaving now." the chief said as he sadly hung up.
A few blocks away...
"He's coming." Dante said as he hung up his cell phone.
"Good, I think that now is a good enough time to speak with the man. Don't you?" Jakobe asked with a grin. Dante nodded in agreement, because he too wanted to see detective Taki, for his own personal reasons.
At the same time that Taki was leaving the station, Kaye and the Ronins were a few feet away.
"What makes you think that Taki will have anything more to go on," Kento asked skeptically. "I say that we just go and find Jakobe and kick his sorry ass!"
"That's easier said than done, Kento. We don't even know where to start looking, but Taki does."
Cye replied as they kept walking.
"Speaking of Taki, isn't that him over there?" Sage asked as he saw him walking into the deserted park.
"He doesn't look like he's in a very good mood." Cye replied as they were on their way to meet him.
"Hey, Taki, wait up!" Ryo called out to him. Detective Taki stopped and turned around to see his friends running towards him.
"Hey! What are you guys doing here?" Taki asked as they finally caught up with him.
"We came to see if you could tell us any more about the case." Sage replied, as they were all now walking in the park.
Taki looked at them, he knew that they had to be told, "you might want to sit down, before I tell you anything." Taki said as he motioned them to sit.
"You have that look. I hate it when you have that look." Kaye replied.
Taki nodded, and then he began to fill them in. "And that's the whole story." Taki said as he finished.
"You didn't have to give up your job! What were you thinking?" Kaye asked him with a hint of anger.
"I was thinking that my superior was totally wrong about taking me off this case! And that I was right when I told him that I was going to get him myself!" Taki shot back.
Just then, "actually detective, you've should have listened to your boss. Now I'm gonna make you wish that you did." Dante said as he and Jakobe appeared, and made them quickly stand up.
"You know Mrs. Faun, it's not healthy to but into other peoples affairs. Especially when you weren't asked to in the first place." Jakobe said as he pulled a dagger out from behind his back and quickly threw it before anyone knew what had happened.
"Rowen," Kaye yelled as the dagger impaled itself into his stomach. Rowen grabbed onto his stomach and fell to the ground. In a blink of an eye, Kaye was down by his side, with tears suddenly running down her face, she grabbed onto his hand and looked into his eyes. "Rowen...I."
"Shh, Kaye, everything is going to be all right, you'll see." Rowen replied as he squeezed her hand.
"You'll pay for that!" Kento said angrily as he charged at Jakobe.
"Kento, wait! Ah dammit! Sage, get over to Kaye and Rowen, Cye, we have to go and back up Kento." Ryo said as they took off.
"Sage, hurry!" Kaye urged as he finally made it to them.
"Hang in there, Rowen, you'll be good as new real soon," Sage said as he got ready to heal him.
"Kaye, I have everything under control here, go and help the others."
"I've had more than enough of these two. They're going down." Kaye growled as she took off to help them.
"Sage, I don't want to rush you or anything, but in case you've forgotten, I have this dagger kinda embedded into my stomach. And I would like to get it out some time this century." Rowen said as he finally got Sage's attention.
"I'm already on it, Rowen. Now just lay still, this will only take a few minutes." Sage replied as he closed his eyes and concentrated as he pulled out the dagger and then the wound started to close. When Sage was done, he opened his eyes and fell back.
"Sage, are you ok?" Rowen asked as he saw that Sage was breathing kinda heavy.
"Yea, I'm fine, just give me a second," Sage replied as his breathing went back to normal. "How are you? Do you think that you're up to fighting?"
"If you think that a small dagger is going to keep me down, then you have another think coming.
Come on, let's get 'em." Rowen replied as he and Sage joined the others.
"It looks like were out numbered again, Dante," Jakobe said as he saw that they were coming. "To quote an old cliché, run away, run away, live to fight another day."
"Hey, come back here, you cowards!" Kento yelled out to them.
"Rowen, are you feeling better?" Cye asked as they turned around and faced them.
"Yea, feeling much better," Rowen replied. Then he noticed that Kaye had that twinge of guilt look. "Kaye, see, I told ya that everything will be all right."
"Rowen, I'm sorry, I..." Kaye started to say.
"It's not your fault. They're the ones that started this whole thing. So don't start beating
yourself up over this. Besides, the guilt trip deal is more of Ryo's department anyway, and he'll probably feel threatened if someone else took over his job." Rowen replied with a smirk as he tried to reassure her.
"Yea, Kaye, so don't...Hey, wait a minute, Rowen!" Ryo replied as he threw a glare at him.
Kaye gave a small laugh, "Ok, I get the point."
"Good, now we can get back down to business. So Taki, where do we start looking for those two low lives? Taki?" Rowen asked as he gave the ex-detective a confused look.
"How, how could you be standing? You had a dagger thrown into your stomach, and you're acting like nothing happened? Would someone tell me what's going on?" Taki asked in complete confusion.
"It's a long story, and we don't exactly have the time to get into it. Besides, you wouldn't
believe us if we told you." Ryo replied.
"Fine, but don't think that you'll be able to get rid of me that easily." Taki shot back as he
gave a smirk.
In the Dynasty...
"Dais, come forth." Talpa summoned.
"You called, master Talpa?" Dais asked.
"What do you know about this power that I've been sensing?" Talpa asked.
"Power, master Talpa? I haven't sensed any power levels except for the Ronins." Dais replied.
"Dais, I want you to go and find out what this new power is, and then report back to me." Talpa ordered.
"Yes, my lord." Dais replied as he disappeared from the throne room.
Back in Toyama...
"Where have you two been," Sian asked as Jakobe and Dante finally returned. "You said that you would be gone for only an hour or two."
"Aw, did you miss us while we were gone?" Dante teased sarcastically.
"Shut up, you half twit!" Sian replied hotly.
"For your information, we were taking care of some business." Dante said as he crossed his arms. "What kind of business?" Sian asked.
"Since when have you cared about what kind of business that we do anyway?" Dante shot back.
"Ever since you've started to attack the center." Sian replied as he glared at him.
"Why is, oh sorry, wrong tense, why did that place mean so much to you anyway?" Jakobe asked with a smirk.
Sian's memories of that night came back to him. Out of nowhere, Sian found himself laying on the cold wet ground, his clothes torn, soaked with blood. Sian then tried to stand, but he found it difficult because his legs felt like rubber. He grabbed for a nearby fence so he could steady himself. His vision kept on going in and out, not really focusing on anything in particular. He knew that he had to keep moving, because what or whoever was chasing him wasn't too far behind.
After he took a few more steps, he fell right in front of the center. The doors opened up and then a blonde female rushed down to him, calling inside for someone to help her bring him inside.
Then a few hours later, Sian found himself in a bed with fresh clothes and fresh bandages.
Nearby was the same blonde female that helped him inside. She looked over to him and gave him a small smile. "How are you feeling, sweet angel?" the blonde asked.
"Sweet angel? Why did you call me that?" Sian asked.
"Because you look like an angel when you were sleeping. That doesn't bother you, does it?" the blonde asked as she looked at him.
"No, I guess not. Hey, what's your name anyway?" Sian asked curiously.
"My name is Kaye Faun, you can either call me Kaye, or Mrs. Faun. Which ever you feel comfortable with," Kaye replied with a warm smile. "Now, you know my name. It's only fair that you tell me yours."
"My name, is Sian." he replied as he returned a smile of his own.
"Well, you're welcome to stay here as long as you want. Just as long as you follow the rules, then we'll have no problems." Kaye offered, as she was about to leave.
"Sian, do you intend to answer the question this century?" Dante asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"Lay off, it's none of your business!" Sian replied as he threw a very hard punch at the punching bag, making it swing high hitting the ceiling.
"Ouch, it looks like I've hit a nerve." Dante said as he grinned.
"SIAN!" Jakobe said with enough force that it made the boy stop in his tracks.
"What?" Sian asked in annoyance as he kept his back to them.
"Don't let your emotions get the better of your judgment. If you do, then you'll jeopardize the mission, and then it'll be all over. Do you understand what I'm saying?" Jakobe asked back.
"Yea, I hear ya, you can stop your preaching already. I just want to be left alone." Sian
replied as he went up to his room.
"So Jakobe, what's the next part of the plan?" Dante asked as he glanced at him.
"Dais will tell us when the time is right. For now, we just keep doing what we've been doing." Jakobe replied.
"Humph, I suppose so. But I still don't see why we have to take orders from a warlord that serves someone like Talpa." Dante said in annoyance.
"Having powerful allies like the warlords, and especially Talpa, is a good thing to have when you're fighting people like the Ronin Warriors." Jakobe replied.
"Why? I mean, we can take care of them ourselves." Dante asked.
"Because, they know how the Ronins think, and besides, they'll be less of a threat now, instead of the future." Jakobe replied.
"I suppose that you're right. But how can we be sure that they won't cross us when the time comes?" Dante asked.
"We can't be sure, that's the whole point. We can only depend upon each other, and no one else." Jakobe replied.
"What about Sian?" Dante asked.
"What about him?" Jakobe asked back.
"Will we be able to depend on him?" Dante asked.
"I guess that time will tell us the answer to that question. In the mean time, what do you say that we have some fun?" Jakobe asked with a twinkle in his eyes.
Ch 8
At the police station...
"Aw come on chief, you can't be serious!" detective Taki said in disbelief.
"Detective, I'm very serious. Either you do as your ordered to do, or you can consider yourself off of this case!" the chief replied as he slammed his hands down on the desk.
"Chief, I'm telling ya, Kaye's not going to do it. She won't go into hiding no matter what.
Trust me, I know her, she'll want to fight this head on!" Taki shot back.
"This is the first major break that we've had in a long time, and I don't want to lose our only witness due to her own stubbornness. And come to think of it, I should take you off the case anyway." the chief replied hotly.
"Care to tell me why?" Taki asked as he crossed his arms.
"Because you're too involved with the people that are tied to this case, that's why," the chief replied as he started to back away from the desk.
"Chief! I can be as objective as the next guy. I'm asking you, to please don't take me off of this case." Taki said as he stared at him.
"Besides, there's another reason why I'm considering taking you off." the chief replied.
"I get ya, you mean because I put Jakobe away the first time. And now you think that I'm going to go vigilante on you, just because of the fact that he's been targeting friends of mine," Taki said. The chief didn't give him a verbal response; he turned around and looked out the window.
Taki knew that his suspicions were right, he then grew angry and took out his badge and gun, and then slammed them onto the chief's desk. "Then consider this my resignation! Because I quit!
I'm not going to just stand by and watch this like some kind of spectator. I'll stop Jakobe in my own way."
Taki then angrily walked out the chief's office, and slammed the door with enough force that the windows shook. "Taki, I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that," the chief said as he picked up his cell phone and placed a call. "Yea, he's leaving now." the chief said as he sadly hung up.
A few blocks away...
"He's coming." Dante said as he hung up his cell phone.
"Good, I think that now is a good enough time to speak with the man. Don't you?" Jakobe asked with a grin. Dante nodded in agreement, because he too wanted to see detective Taki, for his own personal reasons.
At the same time that Taki was leaving the station, Kaye and the Ronins were a few feet away.
"What makes you think that Taki will have anything more to go on," Kento asked skeptically. "I say that we just go and find Jakobe and kick his sorry ass!"
"That's easier said than done, Kento. We don't even know where to start looking, but Taki does."
Cye replied as they kept walking.
"Speaking of Taki, isn't that him over there?" Sage asked as he saw him walking into the deserted park.
"He doesn't look like he's in a very good mood." Cye replied as they were on their way to meet him.
"Hey, Taki, wait up!" Ryo called out to him. Detective Taki stopped and turned around to see his friends running towards him.
"Hey! What are you guys doing here?" Taki asked as they finally caught up with him.
"We came to see if you could tell us any more about the case." Sage replied, as they were all now walking in the park.
Taki looked at them, he knew that they had to be told, "you might want to sit down, before I tell you anything." Taki said as he motioned them to sit.
"You have that look. I hate it when you have that look." Kaye replied.
Taki nodded, and then he began to fill them in. "And that's the whole story." Taki said as he finished.
"You didn't have to give up your job! What were you thinking?" Kaye asked him with a hint of anger.
"I was thinking that my superior was totally wrong about taking me off this case! And that I was right when I told him that I was going to get him myself!" Taki shot back.
Just then, "actually detective, you've should have listened to your boss. Now I'm gonna make you wish that you did." Dante said as he and Jakobe appeared, and made them quickly stand up.
"You know Mrs. Faun, it's not healthy to but into other peoples affairs. Especially when you weren't asked to in the first place." Jakobe said as he pulled a dagger out from behind his back and quickly threw it before anyone knew what had happened.
"Rowen," Kaye yelled as the dagger impaled itself into his stomach. Rowen grabbed onto his stomach and fell to the ground. In a blink of an eye, Kaye was down by his side, with tears suddenly running down her face, she grabbed onto his hand and looked into his eyes. "Rowen...I."
"Shh, Kaye, everything is going to be all right, you'll see." Rowen replied as he squeezed her hand.
"You'll pay for that!" Kento said angrily as he charged at Jakobe.
"Kento, wait! Ah dammit! Sage, get over to Kaye and Rowen, Cye, we have to go and back up Kento." Ryo said as they took off.
"Sage, hurry!" Kaye urged as he finally made it to them.
"Hang in there, Rowen, you'll be good as new real soon," Sage said as he got ready to heal him.
"Kaye, I have everything under control here, go and help the others."
"I've had more than enough of these two. They're going down." Kaye growled as she took off to help them.
"Sage, I don't want to rush you or anything, but in case you've forgotten, I have this dagger kinda embedded into my stomach. And I would like to get it out some time this century." Rowen said as he finally got Sage's attention.
"I'm already on it, Rowen. Now just lay still, this will only take a few minutes." Sage replied as he closed his eyes and concentrated as he pulled out the dagger and then the wound started to close. When Sage was done, he opened his eyes and fell back.
"Sage, are you ok?" Rowen asked as he saw that Sage was breathing kinda heavy.
"Yea, I'm fine, just give me a second," Sage replied as his breathing went back to normal. "How are you? Do you think that you're up to fighting?"
"If you think that a small dagger is going to keep me down, then you have another think coming.
Come on, let's get 'em." Rowen replied as he and Sage joined the others.
"It looks like were out numbered again, Dante," Jakobe said as he saw that they were coming. "To quote an old cliché, run away, run away, live to fight another day."
"Hey, come back here, you cowards!" Kento yelled out to them.
"Rowen, are you feeling better?" Cye asked as they turned around and faced them.
"Yea, feeling much better," Rowen replied. Then he noticed that Kaye had that twinge of guilt look. "Kaye, see, I told ya that everything will be all right."
"Rowen, I'm sorry, I..." Kaye started to say.
"It's not your fault. They're the ones that started this whole thing. So don't start beating
yourself up over this. Besides, the guilt trip deal is more of Ryo's department anyway, and he'll probably feel threatened if someone else took over his job." Rowen replied with a smirk as he tried to reassure her.
"Yea, Kaye, so don't...Hey, wait a minute, Rowen!" Ryo replied as he threw a glare at him.
Kaye gave a small laugh, "Ok, I get the point."
"Good, now we can get back down to business. So Taki, where do we start looking for those two low lives? Taki?" Rowen asked as he gave the ex-detective a confused look.
"How, how could you be standing? You had a dagger thrown into your stomach, and you're acting like nothing happened? Would someone tell me what's going on?" Taki asked in complete confusion.
"It's a long story, and we don't exactly have the time to get into it. Besides, you wouldn't
believe us if we told you." Ryo replied.
"Fine, but don't think that you'll be able to get rid of me that easily." Taki shot back as he
gave a smirk.
In the Dynasty...
"Dais, come forth." Talpa summoned.
"You called, master Talpa?" Dais asked.
"What do you know about this power that I've been sensing?" Talpa asked.
"Power, master Talpa? I haven't sensed any power levels except for the Ronins." Dais replied.
"Dais, I want you to go and find out what this new power is, and then report back to me." Talpa ordered.
"Yes, my lord." Dais replied as he disappeared from the throne room.
Back in Toyama...
"Where have you two been," Sian asked as Jakobe and Dante finally returned. "You said that you would be gone for only an hour or two."
"Aw, did you miss us while we were gone?" Dante teased sarcastically.
"Shut up, you half twit!" Sian replied hotly.
"For your information, we were taking care of some business." Dante said as he crossed his arms. "What kind of business?" Sian asked.
"Since when have you cared about what kind of business that we do anyway?" Dante shot back.
"Ever since you've started to attack the center." Sian replied as he glared at him.
"Why is, oh sorry, wrong tense, why did that place mean so much to you anyway?" Jakobe asked with a smirk.
Sian's memories of that night came back to him. Out of nowhere, Sian found himself laying on the cold wet ground, his clothes torn, soaked with blood. Sian then tried to stand, but he found it difficult because his legs felt like rubber. He grabbed for a nearby fence so he could steady himself. His vision kept on going in and out, not really focusing on anything in particular. He knew that he had to keep moving, because what or whoever was chasing him wasn't too far behind.
After he took a few more steps, he fell right in front of the center. The doors opened up and then a blonde female rushed down to him, calling inside for someone to help her bring him inside.
Then a few hours later, Sian found himself in a bed with fresh clothes and fresh bandages.
Nearby was the same blonde female that helped him inside. She looked over to him and gave him a small smile. "How are you feeling, sweet angel?" the blonde asked.
"Sweet angel? Why did you call me that?" Sian asked.
"Because you look like an angel when you were sleeping. That doesn't bother you, does it?" the blonde asked as she looked at him.
"No, I guess not. Hey, what's your name anyway?" Sian asked curiously.
"My name is Kaye Faun, you can either call me Kaye, or Mrs. Faun. Which ever you feel comfortable with," Kaye replied with a warm smile. "Now, you know my name. It's only fair that you tell me yours."
"My name, is Sian." he replied as he returned a smile of his own.
"Well, you're welcome to stay here as long as you want. Just as long as you follow the rules, then we'll have no problems." Kaye offered, as she was about to leave.
"Sian, do you intend to answer the question this century?" Dante asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"Lay off, it's none of your business!" Sian replied as he threw a very hard punch at the punching bag, making it swing high hitting the ceiling.
"Ouch, it looks like I've hit a nerve." Dante said as he grinned.
"SIAN!" Jakobe said with enough force that it made the boy stop in his tracks.
"What?" Sian asked in annoyance as he kept his back to them.
"Don't let your emotions get the better of your judgment. If you do, then you'll jeopardize the mission, and then it'll be all over. Do you understand what I'm saying?" Jakobe asked back.
"Yea, I hear ya, you can stop your preaching already. I just want to be left alone." Sian
replied as he went up to his room.
"So Jakobe, what's the next part of the plan?" Dante asked as he glanced at him.
"Dais will tell us when the time is right. For now, we just keep doing what we've been doing." Jakobe replied.
"Humph, I suppose so. But I still don't see why we have to take orders from a warlord that serves someone like Talpa." Dante said in annoyance.
"Having powerful allies like the warlords, and especially Talpa, is a good thing to have when you're fighting people like the Ronin Warriors." Jakobe replied.
"Why? I mean, we can take care of them ourselves." Dante asked.
"Because, they know how the Ronins think, and besides, they'll be less of a threat now, instead of the future." Jakobe replied.
"I suppose that you're right. But how can we be sure that they won't cross us when the time comes?" Dante asked.
"We can't be sure, that's the whole point. We can only depend upon each other, and no one else." Jakobe replied.
"What about Sian?" Dante asked.
"What about him?" Jakobe asked back.
"Will we be able to depend on him?" Dante asked.
"I guess that time will tell us the answer to that question. In the mean time, what do you say that we have some fun?" Jakobe asked with a twinkle in his eyes.