Chapter 9
2 weeks later.
"Any change?" asked Peorth as she stepped onto the SysOp platform to begin her shift.
Urd shook her head. "No."
For the past two weeks, the operators and administrators had tried to find the missing Sayoko and had failed. They still had her signal, but it continued to flicker. But they would not give up.
"How's Keiichi?"
"Doing better then we expected. Belldandy's the one I'm worried about. The longest Sayoko was missing before was about 2 days."
"Yeah but Yggdrasil wasn't in our control then." replied Peorth, "So we didn't know if she was dead or alive. At least here we know she's alive."
Urd nodded, "That's what Keiichi told Belldandy. Now if we can just........."
Alarms all over Yggdrasil went off at once. Operator hands flew over their consoles.
"VIRUS!" shouted Chronos.
"Raise all firewalls!" ordered Urd.
"Firewalls went up automatically." replied Erie, "Virus is contained..........But we can't get rid of it."
"Where is it?" asked Peorth.
"Checking.........It's in the PDS.......it's......" Erie's face went pale. "It's localized in Sayoko's connection. She is the source of the virus."
"It gets worse......." added X.
"How can it get any worse?" asked Urd.
"The virus appears similar to another virus we've faced before." X looked up at Urd. "Almost 40 years ago."
Urd sighed as she realized what X meant. "Celestine."
"Yes Ma'am."
Peorth looked at Erie, "I want Sayoko's access completely blocked off."
Erie worked the controls, "I can keep her from accessing files and Yggdrasil system it's self........but I can't cut off her power supply. The virus is preventing me from cutting it off."
Peorth glanced at Urd. "What do you think it's doing?"
Urd shrugged, "I don't know. It's not affecting anything else. If anything maybe it will make her easier to find."
"Really?"
"Damned if I know." Urd sighed, "I'll flip you to see who tells the boss and who tells Belldandy."
Peorth shook her head. "Nope. I'm SysOp on duty now. I'll tell the boss. You get to tell Belldandy."
"Somehow I knew it would end up that way."
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3 days later.
Hikari Suzuhara walked along the sidewalk with Belldandy. In front of them a little ways were Hikari's two girls, Kirika and Mereille. Belldandy had been silent the entire time, refusing to speak no matter how many times Hikari had tried to get her to speak. From what she had heard from Keiichi, Belldandy's silence had started within minutes of hearing from Urd about the virus that Sayoko had been infected with. The fact that no one knew what the virus was doing, nor where Sayoko was also had an effect on the Goddess. With Urd in the heavens, and Skuld watching Misato, and the Guardians out searching the planet, Keiichi had called Hikari in the hopes that Belldandy would open up to her.
The two followed the children into the park. They sat on a bench and watched the two girls run around.
Hikari glanced at Belldandy. "We've been checking like you said, but Kirika and Mereille still haven't shown any sign of having powers."
Belldandy said nothing. Her eyes simply followed the children.
"You know Keiichi's worried about you." Hikari continued, "He misses hearing your voice."
Silence.
'Ok.......time for the big guns.' Hikari got up and walked over to Kirika. She whispered in Kirika's ear. Both then looked around the park. Seeing no one else, Kirika ran to Belldandy.
"Auntie Belldandy!" Kirika said with a smile, "Can Blessed Bell come out?"
Belldandy turned her eyes downward towards Kirika. The young girl looked up at Belldandy's face with pleading eyes.
"Please Auntie? Pretty please?"
Belldandy finally relented.
"Blessed Bell!" she called out, her voice a bit horse from disuse. "Come forth!"
Pure white wings burst out of Belldandy's back, followed by the form of Blessed Bell. Blessed Bell rose from Belldandy's back and stretched out, her wings reaching well over 10 feet.
"Come on Blessed Bell!" shouted Kirika, "Come play!" She ran back towards the playground, followed closely by the Angel. Hikari sat back down next to Belldandy.
"Well I think you're back in the running for favorite Aunt." Hikari said with a smile.
Silence.
"Come on Belldandy!" Hikari said, getting angry, "Talk to me! You can't keep it inside it will destroy you! Yes I'm upset that Sayoko's missing too, but she's still out there. We will find her. You just can't give........." Hikari's voice trailed off as she noticed Belldandy's eyes narrow. Hikari followed Belldandy's eyes to see Kirika, Mereille, and Blessed Bell taking an interest in a bush. Belldandy stood up and raised her hands, a force bolt forming in between them.
"Kirika! Mereille! Get over here now!" shouted Belldandy.
The two children ran from the bush and Blessed Bell flew behind Belldandy as she released the force bolt. The bolt ripped into the bush, and then with a flash of blue, blasted it's way out of the bush through it's top.
"Come out of there!" shouted Belldandy, "Or the next one won't be as weak!"
A figure with light purple hair slowly rose from the bush.
"Sempai?"
"Cayla?" Belldandy asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"
The young goddess walked up to Belldandy before kneeling at her feet.
"Please Sempai," She said, "don't be mad. Lady Peorth asked me to."
Belldandy let out a sigh. Hikari looked at the kneeling goddess and then at Belldandy.
"Who is this?" she asked.
"Cayla, 2nd Class Limited, Goddess of the Moon." replied Belldandy, "She's been assigned to me for training. And now apparently has been assigned to spy on me."
"No Sempai." Cayla said looking up. "We're worried about you."
Belldandy frowned, "We?"
Cayla looked down at the ground. "Lady Urd and Lady Skuld knew I was here as well."
Belldandy let out a long sigh.
"I'm think it's time I had a little talk with my sisters." She muttered. She turned and started to leave the park. She then stopped in her tracks, turned and looked at Cayla.
"What are you doing?"
"Following you." replied Cayla.
"No."
"No?"
"No." replied Belldandy, "You stay here with Hikari."
"But....." Cayla's voice trailed off as Belldandy left the park.
Hikari walked up next to Cayla.
"Don't take it badly. She just upset about her daughter."
"I understand." replied Cayla.
"So," began Hikari as she watched her children begin to play again, "First time on earth?"
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One week later.
Kensuke Adia sat behind his desk at the United States UN base. On his screen was the latest report from an intelligence agent in the field.
'..........reports we received earlier are true. SEELE currently operates one or more bases in the European theater. Large quantities of equipment, both computer, medical, and shop, have been purchased. The type of equipment are listed in the attached file. All efforts are being made to enter the SEELE bases. By time this communication reaches you, insertion into SEELE base should be accomplished."
Kensuke turned his chair away from his desk and looked out the window. The UN base was located inside Washington DC, at least the administrative portion. Some elements of the military were based at Andrews Air Force base, while the rest were located at the former NERV base in the Nevada desert. It was from that base that Units 3 and 4 had been built and sent to Japan. Kensuke let out a sigh. Unit 4. He turned his chair around till he could see the pictures that sat on his desk. Especially one in particular.
It was from 2027. He had returned to Tokyo-2 to attend wedding of a High School friend. Also there were of course Shinji and Asuka, Touji and Hikari, Rei, Sayoko, and many other friends from his time at Toyko-2 and even Toyko-3. And he had been depressed.
Very depressed.
His job with the UN had allowed him to travel the world, from The North Pole (boy was that a blast.....) to South America (rain, rain, and even more rain). During that time he had tried to date, but things kept getting in the way. Either he wasn't their type, they were just using him to make their boyfriends jealous. One only dated him because he was friends with the Eva pilots and she hope to meet Shinji and date him. Other times work called him away for one thing or another. Time and again, something happened that drove woman away.
Until that one night.
Then one week later, it was over.
They kept in touch with each other over the next 10 years.
And then one week ago, she disappeared.
Kensuke looked up at the picture. He reached his hand over and carefully touched the glass that covered the picture.
"I will find you Sayoko." He said quietly.
He then turned to his computer and compressed the entire file down to the smallest size possible. He attached the file to an e-mail and sent it to an e-mail address that was known only to a select few people. In fact, upon sending the e-mail, his computer would deny that the file had been sent. In fact, a search for the e-mail or IP would turn up nothing. He pressed send. The e-mail went out and then vanished from his system.
He turned his chair and looked back out over the city.
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The e-mail flashed across the internet, and then into a network that few on earth even knew existed. In fact, had someone been told about it, they would have laughed and thought the teller of the story insane. The e-mail raced through the network until it arrived at it's destination and announced itself with a small ping.
Peorth looked up as her console pinged at her. She opened the mail that had arrived and briefly read it. She then forwarded it to three separate terminals. One went to Kami-sama, the second to the head of the Valkyries, the last to an apartment in Tokyo-2.
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Shinji glanced over the e-mail.
"Well Kensuke seems to be busy."
Asuka looked up from where she was watching the television.
"Oh? What's double-o-stooge up to these days?"
Shinji frowned at Asuka. "You know I hate it when you call Kensuke and Touji stooges. You wouldn't like it if I called Hikari that."
Asuka grinned, "Hikari is too smart for you to call her that. And you're too polite to do it."
"Yeah well......."
Asuka got up and read the mail over Shinji's shoulder. She then glanced at the header.
"Hey! This came from the heavens!"
"Yeah so?"
Asuka glared at Shinji, "Since when does Kensuke have Heaven's e-mail?"
Shinji shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe Peorth gave it to him so he could update her on SEELE. How should I know?" Shinji sighed. "Makes sense though. Demons working for SEELE would smell a Goddess a mile away."
"But just a regular mortal human?" asked Asuka, "They wouldn't be able to get away if their cover is blown."
"What's the worse they could do?"
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The brown hair demon strode quickly through the hidden base. Behind her Ceres and another figure hurried to keep up. As she walked, Ceres stole glances at the figure beside her. You could see she was female, dressed all in black, her face concealed by the eye shield, only the lower portion of her face could be seen. The left side of her glistened in the corridor lighting from the bleed that seeped from her body. Ceres shivered and looked back up to see their leader had stopped at a door.
Mortals stood guard on either side. From inside, the sound of growls and grunting could be heard. As well as a body being tossed about.
"Open the door." the brown haired demon ordered.
The two mortal guards bowed and pulled the door open. The three then entered. Inside, a mortal male was being beaten by two 2nd Class Demons. Upon spotting the three new comers, the demons grabbed the mortal off the ground and slammed him against the wall. The mortal could barely lift his head. The brown haired demon walked up to him and helped him, slamming his head into the wall.
"We know you are a spy." She said, "Make this easy on yourself, just tell us who you work for."
The mortal stared at the demon, then spit in her face.
"Go to hell." He muttered.
The demon wiped the offensive matter from her face. "I was born there."
"Lucy dear," she said, looking at the helmeted figure, "Would you mind persuading our friend here."
Lucy pulled out a knife from her belt and slowly pushed it into the mortal's stomach. Still being held by the two demons, all the mortal could do was cry out in pain. Lucy then began to twist the knife. The mortal cried out. The brown haired demon moved next to his head.
"It can all be over in an instant." She whispered softly, "All you have to do is tell me who you work for. Or we can drag it the pain as long as possible. My last lasted for almost an hour and fifteen minutes, a new record for me. Lucy has shown interest in trying to beat that."
Lucy, the part face not covered, showed no emotion as she twisted in a new direction. The mortal let out a scream, and broke.
"The UN!!" he cried out, "I work for the UN!"
Lucy removed the knife as the brown haired demon smiled, "There that was easy now wasn't it? Who do you report to?"
"Adia" replied the mortal, wincing, "Director Kensuke Adia."
"Thank you." The demon turned and looked at the two supporting the mortal. "Release him."
The demons dropped the mortal and moved out of the way. He fell to the floor in a heap, clutching his side where the knife had been. The brown haired demon bent over and whispered at the mortal.
"Painful isn't it?"
The mortal could only nod.
"It's nothing compared to this." She raised her hand at him. Her hand began to glow red. With a loud scream that progressively got loud, the mortal began to twist and twitch. His eyes rolled into his head as his scream reached a pitch no human should ever reach. Ceres closed her eyes and looked away. Suddenly a cloud of red burst from the mortal's body into the demon's glowing hand.
As soon as the cloud vanished, the mortal's body fell to the ground dead.
The brown haired demon straightened up and flexed her hand.
"Mmmmmm." She groaned, "It's been so long since I've done that. SEELE has been so mean to me for the past few years."
"Somehow I doubt that." muttered Ceres.
The brown haired demon just smiled.
"Now now Ceres, behave." The brown haired demon walked up to Lucy and looked at her in the visor, where her eyes were hidden. "Kensuke Adia Hmmm? I think perhaps we need to pay mister Adia a visit, don't you agree Lucy?"
Lucy remained silent.
2 weeks later.
"Any change?" asked Peorth as she stepped onto the SysOp platform to begin her shift.
Urd shook her head. "No."
For the past two weeks, the operators and administrators had tried to find the missing Sayoko and had failed. They still had her signal, but it continued to flicker. But they would not give up.
"How's Keiichi?"
"Doing better then we expected. Belldandy's the one I'm worried about. The longest Sayoko was missing before was about 2 days."
"Yeah but Yggdrasil wasn't in our control then." replied Peorth, "So we didn't know if she was dead or alive. At least here we know she's alive."
Urd nodded, "That's what Keiichi told Belldandy. Now if we can just........."
Alarms all over Yggdrasil went off at once. Operator hands flew over their consoles.
"VIRUS!" shouted Chronos.
"Raise all firewalls!" ordered Urd.
"Firewalls went up automatically." replied Erie, "Virus is contained..........But we can't get rid of it."
"Where is it?" asked Peorth.
"Checking.........It's in the PDS.......it's......" Erie's face went pale. "It's localized in Sayoko's connection. She is the source of the virus."
"It gets worse......." added X.
"How can it get any worse?" asked Urd.
"The virus appears similar to another virus we've faced before." X looked up at Urd. "Almost 40 years ago."
Urd sighed as she realized what X meant. "Celestine."
"Yes Ma'am."
Peorth looked at Erie, "I want Sayoko's access completely blocked off."
Erie worked the controls, "I can keep her from accessing files and Yggdrasil system it's self........but I can't cut off her power supply. The virus is preventing me from cutting it off."
Peorth glanced at Urd. "What do you think it's doing?"
Urd shrugged, "I don't know. It's not affecting anything else. If anything maybe it will make her easier to find."
"Really?"
"Damned if I know." Urd sighed, "I'll flip you to see who tells the boss and who tells Belldandy."
Peorth shook her head. "Nope. I'm SysOp on duty now. I'll tell the boss. You get to tell Belldandy."
"Somehow I knew it would end up that way."
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3 days later.
Hikari Suzuhara walked along the sidewalk with Belldandy. In front of them a little ways were Hikari's two girls, Kirika and Mereille. Belldandy had been silent the entire time, refusing to speak no matter how many times Hikari had tried to get her to speak. From what she had heard from Keiichi, Belldandy's silence had started within minutes of hearing from Urd about the virus that Sayoko had been infected with. The fact that no one knew what the virus was doing, nor where Sayoko was also had an effect on the Goddess. With Urd in the heavens, and Skuld watching Misato, and the Guardians out searching the planet, Keiichi had called Hikari in the hopes that Belldandy would open up to her.
The two followed the children into the park. They sat on a bench and watched the two girls run around.
Hikari glanced at Belldandy. "We've been checking like you said, but Kirika and Mereille still haven't shown any sign of having powers."
Belldandy said nothing. Her eyes simply followed the children.
"You know Keiichi's worried about you." Hikari continued, "He misses hearing your voice."
Silence.
'Ok.......time for the big guns.' Hikari got up and walked over to Kirika. She whispered in Kirika's ear. Both then looked around the park. Seeing no one else, Kirika ran to Belldandy.
"Auntie Belldandy!" Kirika said with a smile, "Can Blessed Bell come out?"
Belldandy turned her eyes downward towards Kirika. The young girl looked up at Belldandy's face with pleading eyes.
"Please Auntie? Pretty please?"
Belldandy finally relented.
"Blessed Bell!" she called out, her voice a bit horse from disuse. "Come forth!"
Pure white wings burst out of Belldandy's back, followed by the form of Blessed Bell. Blessed Bell rose from Belldandy's back and stretched out, her wings reaching well over 10 feet.
"Come on Blessed Bell!" shouted Kirika, "Come play!" She ran back towards the playground, followed closely by the Angel. Hikari sat back down next to Belldandy.
"Well I think you're back in the running for favorite Aunt." Hikari said with a smile.
Silence.
"Come on Belldandy!" Hikari said, getting angry, "Talk to me! You can't keep it inside it will destroy you! Yes I'm upset that Sayoko's missing too, but she's still out there. We will find her. You just can't give........." Hikari's voice trailed off as she noticed Belldandy's eyes narrow. Hikari followed Belldandy's eyes to see Kirika, Mereille, and Blessed Bell taking an interest in a bush. Belldandy stood up and raised her hands, a force bolt forming in between them.
"Kirika! Mereille! Get over here now!" shouted Belldandy.
The two children ran from the bush and Blessed Bell flew behind Belldandy as she released the force bolt. The bolt ripped into the bush, and then with a flash of blue, blasted it's way out of the bush through it's top.
"Come out of there!" shouted Belldandy, "Or the next one won't be as weak!"
A figure with light purple hair slowly rose from the bush.
"Sempai?"
"Cayla?" Belldandy asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"
The young goddess walked up to Belldandy before kneeling at her feet.
"Please Sempai," She said, "don't be mad. Lady Peorth asked me to."
Belldandy let out a sigh. Hikari looked at the kneeling goddess and then at Belldandy.
"Who is this?" she asked.
"Cayla, 2nd Class Limited, Goddess of the Moon." replied Belldandy, "She's been assigned to me for training. And now apparently has been assigned to spy on me."
"No Sempai." Cayla said looking up. "We're worried about you."
Belldandy frowned, "We?"
Cayla looked down at the ground. "Lady Urd and Lady Skuld knew I was here as well."
Belldandy let out a long sigh.
"I'm think it's time I had a little talk with my sisters." She muttered. She turned and started to leave the park. She then stopped in her tracks, turned and looked at Cayla.
"What are you doing?"
"Following you." replied Cayla.
"No."
"No?"
"No." replied Belldandy, "You stay here with Hikari."
"But....." Cayla's voice trailed off as Belldandy left the park.
Hikari walked up next to Cayla.
"Don't take it badly. She just upset about her daughter."
"I understand." replied Cayla.
"So," began Hikari as she watched her children begin to play again, "First time on earth?"
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One week later.
Kensuke Adia sat behind his desk at the United States UN base. On his screen was the latest report from an intelligence agent in the field.
'..........reports we received earlier are true. SEELE currently operates one or more bases in the European theater. Large quantities of equipment, both computer, medical, and shop, have been purchased. The type of equipment are listed in the attached file. All efforts are being made to enter the SEELE bases. By time this communication reaches you, insertion into SEELE base should be accomplished."
Kensuke turned his chair away from his desk and looked out the window. The UN base was located inside Washington DC, at least the administrative portion. Some elements of the military were based at Andrews Air Force base, while the rest were located at the former NERV base in the Nevada desert. It was from that base that Units 3 and 4 had been built and sent to Japan. Kensuke let out a sigh. Unit 4. He turned his chair around till he could see the pictures that sat on his desk. Especially one in particular.
It was from 2027. He had returned to Tokyo-2 to attend wedding of a High School friend. Also there were of course Shinji and Asuka, Touji and Hikari, Rei, Sayoko, and many other friends from his time at Toyko-2 and even Toyko-3. And he had been depressed.
Very depressed.
His job with the UN had allowed him to travel the world, from The North Pole (boy was that a blast.....) to South America (rain, rain, and even more rain). During that time he had tried to date, but things kept getting in the way. Either he wasn't their type, they were just using him to make their boyfriends jealous. One only dated him because he was friends with the Eva pilots and she hope to meet Shinji and date him. Other times work called him away for one thing or another. Time and again, something happened that drove woman away.
Until that one night.
Then one week later, it was over.
They kept in touch with each other over the next 10 years.
And then one week ago, she disappeared.
Kensuke looked up at the picture. He reached his hand over and carefully touched the glass that covered the picture.
"I will find you Sayoko." He said quietly.
He then turned to his computer and compressed the entire file down to the smallest size possible. He attached the file to an e-mail and sent it to an e-mail address that was known only to a select few people. In fact, upon sending the e-mail, his computer would deny that the file had been sent. In fact, a search for the e-mail or IP would turn up nothing. He pressed send. The e-mail went out and then vanished from his system.
He turned his chair and looked back out over the city.
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The e-mail flashed across the internet, and then into a network that few on earth even knew existed. In fact, had someone been told about it, they would have laughed and thought the teller of the story insane. The e-mail raced through the network until it arrived at it's destination and announced itself with a small ping.
Peorth looked up as her console pinged at her. She opened the mail that had arrived and briefly read it. She then forwarded it to three separate terminals. One went to Kami-sama, the second to the head of the Valkyries, the last to an apartment in Tokyo-2.
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Shinji glanced over the e-mail.
"Well Kensuke seems to be busy."
Asuka looked up from where she was watching the television.
"Oh? What's double-o-stooge up to these days?"
Shinji frowned at Asuka. "You know I hate it when you call Kensuke and Touji stooges. You wouldn't like it if I called Hikari that."
Asuka grinned, "Hikari is too smart for you to call her that. And you're too polite to do it."
"Yeah well......."
Asuka got up and read the mail over Shinji's shoulder. She then glanced at the header.
"Hey! This came from the heavens!"
"Yeah so?"
Asuka glared at Shinji, "Since when does Kensuke have Heaven's e-mail?"
Shinji shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe Peorth gave it to him so he could update her on SEELE. How should I know?" Shinji sighed. "Makes sense though. Demons working for SEELE would smell a Goddess a mile away."
"But just a regular mortal human?" asked Asuka, "They wouldn't be able to get away if their cover is blown."
"What's the worse they could do?"
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The brown hair demon strode quickly through the hidden base. Behind her Ceres and another figure hurried to keep up. As she walked, Ceres stole glances at the figure beside her. You could see she was female, dressed all in black, her face concealed by the eye shield, only the lower portion of her face could be seen. The left side of her glistened in the corridor lighting from the bleed that seeped from her body. Ceres shivered and looked back up to see their leader had stopped at a door.
Mortals stood guard on either side. From inside, the sound of growls and grunting could be heard. As well as a body being tossed about.
"Open the door." the brown haired demon ordered.
The two mortal guards bowed and pulled the door open. The three then entered. Inside, a mortal male was being beaten by two 2nd Class Demons. Upon spotting the three new comers, the demons grabbed the mortal off the ground and slammed him against the wall. The mortal could barely lift his head. The brown haired demon walked up to him and helped him, slamming his head into the wall.
"We know you are a spy." She said, "Make this easy on yourself, just tell us who you work for."
The mortal stared at the demon, then spit in her face.
"Go to hell." He muttered.
The demon wiped the offensive matter from her face. "I was born there."
"Lucy dear," she said, looking at the helmeted figure, "Would you mind persuading our friend here."
Lucy pulled out a knife from her belt and slowly pushed it into the mortal's stomach. Still being held by the two demons, all the mortal could do was cry out in pain. Lucy then began to twist the knife. The mortal cried out. The brown haired demon moved next to his head.
"It can all be over in an instant." She whispered softly, "All you have to do is tell me who you work for. Or we can drag it the pain as long as possible. My last lasted for almost an hour and fifteen minutes, a new record for me. Lucy has shown interest in trying to beat that."
Lucy, the part face not covered, showed no emotion as she twisted in a new direction. The mortal let out a scream, and broke.
"The UN!!" he cried out, "I work for the UN!"
Lucy removed the knife as the brown haired demon smiled, "There that was easy now wasn't it? Who do you report to?"
"Adia" replied the mortal, wincing, "Director Kensuke Adia."
"Thank you." The demon turned and looked at the two supporting the mortal. "Release him."
The demons dropped the mortal and moved out of the way. He fell to the floor in a heap, clutching his side where the knife had been. The brown haired demon bent over and whispered at the mortal.
"Painful isn't it?"
The mortal could only nod.
"It's nothing compared to this." She raised her hand at him. Her hand began to glow red. With a loud scream that progressively got loud, the mortal began to twist and twitch. His eyes rolled into his head as his scream reached a pitch no human should ever reach. Ceres closed her eyes and looked away. Suddenly a cloud of red burst from the mortal's body into the demon's glowing hand.
As soon as the cloud vanished, the mortal's body fell to the ground dead.
The brown haired demon straightened up and flexed her hand.
"Mmmmmm." She groaned, "It's been so long since I've done that. SEELE has been so mean to me for the past few years."
"Somehow I doubt that." muttered Ceres.
The brown haired demon just smiled.
"Now now Ceres, behave." The brown haired demon walked up to Lucy and looked at her in the visor, where her eyes were hidden. "Kensuke Adia Hmmm? I think perhaps we need to pay mister Adia a visit, don't you agree Lucy?"
Lucy remained silent.