Chapter 10
Evening
"Has there been any news?" asked Kensuke.
He stared intently at his computer screen. On it he could see Asuka (not exactly the person he wanted to talk to, but Shinji was out).
"No nothing." replied Asuka, "Misato is coming to town, we can keep a better eye on her here. As to the virus, it's just sitting there. Chronos says that they have no way of removing without Sayoko present. And to do that...."
"...She has to be found." finished Kensuke.
Asuka nodded. "You hit the nail on the head stooge."
Kensuke glared at Asuka. "I hate it when you do that."
"Oooooo the stooge grew some balls." Asuka smirked, "Wonder what the ladies think? Oh wait....he doesn't have one!"
"Shows what you know." muttered Kensuke. From the expression on Asuka's face, he hadn't spoken quietly enough.
"What? You have a girl?"
Kensuke cursed silently. "I did."
"Awww what happened? She too good for you?"
"She had her job," replied Kensuke, "and I had mine. It wouldn't have worked out."
Asuka's face froze as she heard the words that had been uttered by a certain goddess only a month before.
"Kensuke.." Asuka said, her voice strangely lacking her usual bluster, "Exactly how long ago was that?"
"Asuka..."
"Answer the question."
Kensuke sighed, knowing from her voice the cat was out of the bag. "10 years ago."
Asuka was silent.
"It was you she was talking about."
Kensuke sighed. "If you mean Sayoko, yes."
Asuka sighed, "Well at least it was only a one time thing. I mean, it's not like you guys had sex or got to.." Asuka frowned as Kensuke slowly lowered her head. A thought hit her mind. "No way.."
Kensuke only nodded.
"She said she didn't have sex!" shouted Asuka, "She told Hikari and me she did not have sex how could she lie to us like that?! Wait! How the hell could she even lie?!"
"What were her exact words?" asked Kensuke softly.
Asuka frowned for a moment, scanning her memory. "She said she did not do it with some stranger. It was not some one-night stand. I asked her who she did do it with and she said she didn't do it with anyone."
Kensuke snickered, then started to laugh. Asuka frowned.
"What the hell are you laughing about?"
Kensuke laughed a bit longer before calming himself down.
"It's all in the wording." He said between breaths. "She told me, depending on how the question is worded you can find a way to bend the truth. When she said she did not do it with a stranger, she was telling the truth. She KNOWS me. Also you never specified what IT was. For all you know, we gone to a movie or gone to a bar."
Asuka rubbed her head, "Ugghhhhh I'm gonna kill her."
"Over my dead body." replied Kensuke seriously.
Asuka was quiet for a moment. "You really care for her hmm?
"She's all I've been thinking about for the past 10 years." replied Kensuke.
"Well, you never heard it from me, but I think she's been thinking about you too. You made her happy."
"I did?"
"Yep."
Kensuke smiled, "You know Asuka? Sometimes you can be a real Angel. Now I see what Shinji sees."
Asuka smiled, "Hey! Don't spread that around! I have an image to uphold!"
Kensuke smiled, "Your secrets safe with me devil."
"Yours too Stooge" replied Asuka. She vanished from the screen.
Kensuke leaned back in his chair. A smile crept across his face.
'She's been thinking about me.'
Suddenly the world didn't seem that bad any more.
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Across the street, 3 figures sat on the roof, carefully studying their target.
"So, that is the UN eh?" the brown haired demon looked at the others, "Doesn't look like much."
"The building is primarily administrative." replied Ceres, "The military is divided between the Air Force Base near here and Nevada."
"No military, too bad."
The brown haired demon looked over at the third figure.
"Lucy, tomorrow, you strike."
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That night.
"Momma!! Momma!! They made me a pilot! I'm going to be a pilot!!"
A little red haired girl ran down the hallway, heading towards the closed door at the far end.
"Momma! Momma!"
The girl reached the door and swung it open.
"Mom..." her voice choked up at what she saw.
Hanging from the ceiling was her mother, obviously dead. Beside her hung a young girl with long brown hair, blue diamonds on each of her cheeks and an elongated diamond on her forehead.........
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Asuka sat up in bed in a cold sweat.
"What the hell?!" she shouted.
Shinji sat up. "Asuka? What's wrong? What's the mat-UGH!"
Asuka wrapped her arms around Shinji and pulled him to her tightly, his face buried in her cleavage. The door to their room open to reveal a sleepy Yui Ikari.
"What are you.." Yui took in the site of her son's faced pulled tightly to the chest of her daughter in law. "Never mind." Yui turned around and closed the door behind her.
"Asuka?" came Shinji's muffled voice, "Can't...breathe."
Asuka released Shinji just enough so that he was able to gasp for breathe.
"I'm sorry Shinji." She said softly, "I just had a weird dream."
"Want to talk about it?"
Asuka was quiet for a few moments. "Remember, when I told you how I found my mom?"
Shinji nodded.
"I dreamed of that again, only...instead of a doll, it was Sayoko hanging next to her."
Shinji frowned. "Sayoko?"
Asuka nodded. "What do you think it means?"
"Don't know." replied Shinji, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
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Kensuke walked into his office and sat down to read the e-mail that had been delivered during the night. He found nothing of interest until the last two.
To: Adia, Kensuke From: UN INTEL EUROPE
Re: SEELE
Agent 456 was found dead this morning in an alley in London. Death appears to be similar to those of Ex-NERV personal, though there was a knife wound in stomach area. More details after autopsy is completed later today.
Kensuke sighed. Another good man dead. He turned his attention to the second e-mail.
To: Adia, Kensuke From: ?
Re: ?
Death has come for you.
Kensuke frowned. "What?"
Then the lights went out.
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Across the street from the entrance of the UN Building in Washington, a side mirror of a car began to glow. Within seconds, the black clad figure of Lucy appeared from the mirror and began to walk towards the building. She opened the doors and moved purposefully towards the stairs, walking right past the security desk.
"Hey you!" shouted the security guard, "You can't.." He was silenced as the pot of a plant slammed into his head, then crushed it as it continued to the wall.
Lucy then entered the elevator and pressed the button for the appropriate floor. The door closed and the elevator began to rise. As it rose above the ground floor, a fireball ripped through every room, incinerating all who worked there. The fireball continued up each floor as the elevator passed it.
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Kensuke felt the entire building shudder every 5 seconds or so. Outside his window, he could see the red glow of flames blasting out of the windows from the lower floors. He grabbed his phone. No dial tone reached his ear. Kensuke tossed the phone aside when he felt the floor rock slightly. He glanced out his window to see that the floor below him had erupted into flame.
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With a ding, the elevator doors opened. The 4 security guards outside turned and saw the black clad figure exit.
"FREEZE!" shouted one of the guards.
Lucy paid no attention to them and continued to walk forward.
"FIRE!" shouted the guard.
The 4 guards immediately opened fire on Lucy. A blue shield surrounded Lucy as she walked, deflecting all the bullets. The bullets ricocheted foyer, eventually either burying themselves into the chairs...and the guards who fired them.
Lucy continued down the hallway, each office she past exploding into flame.
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Kensuke heard the gunfire and calmly sat down in his chair behind his desk. He reached over and opened a drawer, pulling out a hand gun. He checked the clip, and waited, his eyes on the door. His eyes picked up the sound of footsteps stopping just in front of his door. With bang the door slammed open, and a black clad female stepped in. Kensuke's eyes narrowed.
"Who are you?!" he shouted.
The figure just stared at Kensuke. She then started to walk towards him. He raised his gun and started firing. The first bullet caught the figure in her shoulder, the rest were deflected by a blue shield. Kensuke continued to fire until his gun was out of ammo. He then stood up and rushed at the figure, using the gun as a blunt weapon. The figure grabbed his arm, stopping him from smashing the butt of the gun into her helmet. Her other hand grabbed Kensuke around the throat and easily lifted him off the ground. Kensuke dropped the gun and tried to pull off the hand that was slowly strangling him. He stared at the visor that covered the figures eyes, trying see the eyes hidden beneath them. His vision slowly began to go red as blood became trapped in his head.
'Good-bye...Sayoko.' he thought, 'I wish..I could have seen you...again.'
Suddenly he was on the floor, gasping for breathe. He looked up to see the figure holding on to her head, her mouth open in a silent scream. She then turned and vanished out of his office. He scrambled to his feet and stumbled towards the door. He looked out in the hallway to see destruction everywhere. All he could see was smashed plants, doors, pictures, mirrors, and windows. With a groan, he slowly slide to the floor, rubbing his throat. He glanced back into his office to see blood on the floor.
"Well.." He said, "At least I'll figure out who you are.."
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Yui looked up as a sleepy Asuka and Shinji entered the kitchen.
"Good morning." She said.
"Morning Mom." replied Shinji with a yawn, "Boy I'm tired."
"Well maybe if you didn't stay up late doing things with Asuka, you'd get more sleep."
Shinji's jaw dropped while Asuka started choking on her orange juice.
"It wasn't like that!" shouted Shinji.
"It wasn't like what?"
Yui smiled as Rei entered the kitchen. "Shinji was up late last night with Asuka."
Rei rolled her eyes, "I don't really want to know what they were doing. It's too early for that."
"We didn't do a thing!" shouted Asuka, finally finding her voice.
"Asuka had a bad dream!" added Shinji, "Nothing more!"
Rei frowned. "Bad dream?"
"Yeah." replied Asuka, "It was really strange too."
Rei sat down and looked at Asuka. "What was it about?"
Asuka looked over at Yui who was staring intently at her. She then looked at Shinji with pleading eyes.
"Please...I don't really want to talk about it."
"But it will help to talk about it." replied Shinji. He then looked over at his mother and Rei. "Basically it was one of her old dreams, but something in it was replaced by Sayoko."
Rei frowned, "Sayoko replaced..." She looked over at Asuka. "Which dream was it?"
Asuka poked at her breakfast on the table. "The one where I found my mother at the hospital."
"Sayoko replaced your mother?"
"No..the doll."
Rei frowned. "This is weird."
Asuka glared at Rei, "Thanks for the help."
"No. I had a dream too." Rei looked up at Shinji. "We were at NERV HQ. Dr. Akagi was taking you, Misato, and myself down where...my clones were kept. Only, when we got there, the tanks were full of Sayokos with blue hair and red eyes."
Asuka and Shinji looked at each other.
"You know what this means?" asked Shinji.
"Yeah." replied Asuka, "I'll make the call."
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"Is the report true?" asked Anubis.
"We have no reason to doubt the report." replied Peorth as she stood in front of the council. Most of the members were present, except one: Belldandy.
Saturn looked up from the paper he was reading. "Am I correct in seeing that this report was made by a mortal?"
"Yes sir that is correct."
"Since when do mortals submit reports to the heavens?"
"If I may..." Everyone turned to look at Commander Mist as she stepped away from the wall.
"Yes Commander?" Kami-sama asked.
"The mortal in question is an..associate of Goddess Sayoko. He has also attained a high rank in UN intelligence and has supplied much information regarding the missing souls."
"And what of the demoness we have in our possession?" asked Saturn, "What has she told us?"
"Nothing."
"NOTHING?!"
Mist looked down at the floor. "She has given us no relevant information."
Saturn sat back and stared at Mist. He then looked at Peorth.
"What about the bug infestation?"
Peorth looked slightly uncomfortable.
"The ultimate force briefly flashed an error message, 3 bugs were created and debugged."
"Why did the Ultimate Force error?" asked Athena.
"We..don't know."
"You don't know?!?!" shouted Saturn, "You are the SysOp of Yggdrasil! You SHOULD know!"
"The investigation continues."
"I think time should be given for each of us to go over the mortals report. And allow the investigation to continue. We will meet again tomorrow. Peorth, Mist, would you wait a moment."
The rest of the council left the room. Finally Kami-sama, Mist and Peorth were the only ones that remained. Peorth looked nervously at Kami-sama.
"My Lord," she began, "I'm very uncomfortable with holding back information from the council."
"I understand." replied Kami-sama, "They will be informed eventually."
"Informed of what?" asked Mist.
Kami-sama motioned to Peorth. Peorth turned and looked at Mist.
"As you know, there was an attack earlier today against a building in Washington. The mortal reported being attacked by a demon-like person. At the same time, the Ultimate Force began to..error. When the attacker released the mortal..the error.ended."
"Demon-like?"
"He does not think it was a demon."
Mist frowned and looked at Kami-sama. "I don't understand sir. Why are you keeping this from the council?"
"There is more." replied Kami-sama. He held out a piece of paper. "This is a graph of the power distribution system. Note the highlighted number and the time."
Mist looked questioningly at the numbers, then began to pale.
"In the name of every thing holy....."
"Exactly." replied Kami-sama, "I have placed the information under a protection program."
Mist's jaw dropped. "But sir! You can't do this! She....They all must be told!"
"The protection program is in place and will remain." replied Kami-sama, "You will only be able to discuss it with me. That is all."
Mist's mouth moved, but no words came out. Kami-sama turned and walked towards the door.
"And yes...I know what I have done." He added, "I alone will be responsible for whatever happens."
He then left the room.
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"She failed." muttered the brown haired demon, "My Lucy failed."
Ceres smirked. The brown haired demon noticed.
"Don't be so cocky my dear Ceres. You failed me as well."
Ceres' smile faded. "What will you do now?"
"More....training is required." The demon said sitting back. "Yes, more training. Then I will send her out again." The demon glanced at Ceres. "You didn't fail me this time did you?"
Ceres shook her head. "No Milady. I have the pictures you requested." She handed over a pack of pictures. The brown haired demon went through the pictures until she found the clearest one.
"It took a bit of time to hunt her down." added Ceres.
"No matter." The demon replied. "When Lucy is ready, she will go after her." She let out a loud cackle.
On the picture were 4 people. Two adults, and two children. One adult was Misato Ryoji, the other, Hikari Suzuhara. The two children were Kirika and Mereille Suzuhara.
"When Lucy is ready, she will go after her." The demon let out a loud cackle.
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Author's notes: Dennisud is usually pretty good with his hunches. wonder what he's thinking after this.
The curtain rises and Cayla steps out on stage.
'Sigh'" Poor me...no dialogue this chapter." Cayla pouts and stomps her feet.
"Anyway, Who will Lucy sent at next? Miss Misato? Miss Hikari? Or the kids, Kirika and Mereille (btw, I think the author has been watching too much Noir, don't you?)"
CAYLA!
"oops!" Cayla pales slightly. "Next chapter, Lucy vs. the Guardians! And hopefully a bigger part for me. Ja ne!"
Evening
"Has there been any news?" asked Kensuke.
He stared intently at his computer screen. On it he could see Asuka (not exactly the person he wanted to talk to, but Shinji was out).
"No nothing." replied Asuka, "Misato is coming to town, we can keep a better eye on her here. As to the virus, it's just sitting there. Chronos says that they have no way of removing without Sayoko present. And to do that...."
"...She has to be found." finished Kensuke.
Asuka nodded. "You hit the nail on the head stooge."
Kensuke glared at Asuka. "I hate it when you do that."
"Oooooo the stooge grew some balls." Asuka smirked, "Wonder what the ladies think? Oh wait....he doesn't have one!"
"Shows what you know." muttered Kensuke. From the expression on Asuka's face, he hadn't spoken quietly enough.
"What? You have a girl?"
Kensuke cursed silently. "I did."
"Awww what happened? She too good for you?"
"She had her job," replied Kensuke, "and I had mine. It wouldn't have worked out."
Asuka's face froze as she heard the words that had been uttered by a certain goddess only a month before.
"Kensuke.." Asuka said, her voice strangely lacking her usual bluster, "Exactly how long ago was that?"
"Asuka..."
"Answer the question."
Kensuke sighed, knowing from her voice the cat was out of the bag. "10 years ago."
Asuka was silent.
"It was you she was talking about."
Kensuke sighed. "If you mean Sayoko, yes."
Asuka sighed, "Well at least it was only a one time thing. I mean, it's not like you guys had sex or got to.." Asuka frowned as Kensuke slowly lowered her head. A thought hit her mind. "No way.."
Kensuke only nodded.
"She said she didn't have sex!" shouted Asuka, "She told Hikari and me she did not have sex how could she lie to us like that?! Wait! How the hell could she even lie?!"
"What were her exact words?" asked Kensuke softly.
Asuka frowned for a moment, scanning her memory. "She said she did not do it with some stranger. It was not some one-night stand. I asked her who she did do it with and she said she didn't do it with anyone."
Kensuke snickered, then started to laugh. Asuka frowned.
"What the hell are you laughing about?"
Kensuke laughed a bit longer before calming himself down.
"It's all in the wording." He said between breaths. "She told me, depending on how the question is worded you can find a way to bend the truth. When she said she did not do it with a stranger, she was telling the truth. She KNOWS me. Also you never specified what IT was. For all you know, we gone to a movie or gone to a bar."
Asuka rubbed her head, "Ugghhhhh I'm gonna kill her."
"Over my dead body." replied Kensuke seriously.
Asuka was quiet for a moment. "You really care for her hmm?
"She's all I've been thinking about for the past 10 years." replied Kensuke.
"Well, you never heard it from me, but I think she's been thinking about you too. You made her happy."
"I did?"
"Yep."
Kensuke smiled, "You know Asuka? Sometimes you can be a real Angel. Now I see what Shinji sees."
Asuka smiled, "Hey! Don't spread that around! I have an image to uphold!"
Kensuke smiled, "Your secrets safe with me devil."
"Yours too Stooge" replied Asuka. She vanished from the screen.
Kensuke leaned back in his chair. A smile crept across his face.
'She's been thinking about me.'
Suddenly the world didn't seem that bad any more.
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Across the street, 3 figures sat on the roof, carefully studying their target.
"So, that is the UN eh?" the brown haired demon looked at the others, "Doesn't look like much."
"The building is primarily administrative." replied Ceres, "The military is divided between the Air Force Base near here and Nevada."
"No military, too bad."
The brown haired demon looked over at the third figure.
"Lucy, tomorrow, you strike."
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That night.
"Momma!! Momma!! They made me a pilot! I'm going to be a pilot!!"
A little red haired girl ran down the hallway, heading towards the closed door at the far end.
"Momma! Momma!"
The girl reached the door and swung it open.
"Mom..." her voice choked up at what she saw.
Hanging from the ceiling was her mother, obviously dead. Beside her hung a young girl with long brown hair, blue diamonds on each of her cheeks and an elongated diamond on her forehead.........
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Asuka sat up in bed in a cold sweat.
"What the hell?!" she shouted.
Shinji sat up. "Asuka? What's wrong? What's the mat-UGH!"
Asuka wrapped her arms around Shinji and pulled him to her tightly, his face buried in her cleavage. The door to their room open to reveal a sleepy Yui Ikari.
"What are you.." Yui took in the site of her son's faced pulled tightly to the chest of her daughter in law. "Never mind." Yui turned around and closed the door behind her.
"Asuka?" came Shinji's muffled voice, "Can't...breathe."
Asuka released Shinji just enough so that he was able to gasp for breathe.
"I'm sorry Shinji." She said softly, "I just had a weird dream."
"Want to talk about it?"
Asuka was quiet for a few moments. "Remember, when I told you how I found my mom?"
Shinji nodded.
"I dreamed of that again, only...instead of a doll, it was Sayoko hanging next to her."
Shinji frowned. "Sayoko?"
Asuka nodded. "What do you think it means?"
"Don't know." replied Shinji, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
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Kensuke walked into his office and sat down to read the e-mail that had been delivered during the night. He found nothing of interest until the last two.
To: Adia, Kensuke From: UN INTEL EUROPE
Re: SEELE
Agent 456 was found dead this morning in an alley in London. Death appears to be similar to those of Ex-NERV personal, though there was a knife wound in stomach area. More details after autopsy is completed later today.
Kensuke sighed. Another good man dead. He turned his attention to the second e-mail.
To: Adia, Kensuke From: ?
Re: ?
Death has come for you.
Kensuke frowned. "What?"
Then the lights went out.
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Across the street from the entrance of the UN Building in Washington, a side mirror of a car began to glow. Within seconds, the black clad figure of Lucy appeared from the mirror and began to walk towards the building. She opened the doors and moved purposefully towards the stairs, walking right past the security desk.
"Hey you!" shouted the security guard, "You can't.." He was silenced as the pot of a plant slammed into his head, then crushed it as it continued to the wall.
Lucy then entered the elevator and pressed the button for the appropriate floor. The door closed and the elevator began to rise. As it rose above the ground floor, a fireball ripped through every room, incinerating all who worked there. The fireball continued up each floor as the elevator passed it.
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Kensuke felt the entire building shudder every 5 seconds or so. Outside his window, he could see the red glow of flames blasting out of the windows from the lower floors. He grabbed his phone. No dial tone reached his ear. Kensuke tossed the phone aside when he felt the floor rock slightly. He glanced out his window to see that the floor below him had erupted into flame.
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With a ding, the elevator doors opened. The 4 security guards outside turned and saw the black clad figure exit.
"FREEZE!" shouted one of the guards.
Lucy paid no attention to them and continued to walk forward.
"FIRE!" shouted the guard.
The 4 guards immediately opened fire on Lucy. A blue shield surrounded Lucy as she walked, deflecting all the bullets. The bullets ricocheted foyer, eventually either burying themselves into the chairs...and the guards who fired them.
Lucy continued down the hallway, each office she past exploding into flame.
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Kensuke heard the gunfire and calmly sat down in his chair behind his desk. He reached over and opened a drawer, pulling out a hand gun. He checked the clip, and waited, his eyes on the door. His eyes picked up the sound of footsteps stopping just in front of his door. With bang the door slammed open, and a black clad female stepped in. Kensuke's eyes narrowed.
"Who are you?!" he shouted.
The figure just stared at Kensuke. She then started to walk towards him. He raised his gun and started firing. The first bullet caught the figure in her shoulder, the rest were deflected by a blue shield. Kensuke continued to fire until his gun was out of ammo. He then stood up and rushed at the figure, using the gun as a blunt weapon. The figure grabbed his arm, stopping him from smashing the butt of the gun into her helmet. Her other hand grabbed Kensuke around the throat and easily lifted him off the ground. Kensuke dropped the gun and tried to pull off the hand that was slowly strangling him. He stared at the visor that covered the figures eyes, trying see the eyes hidden beneath them. His vision slowly began to go red as blood became trapped in his head.
'Good-bye...Sayoko.' he thought, 'I wish..I could have seen you...again.'
Suddenly he was on the floor, gasping for breathe. He looked up to see the figure holding on to her head, her mouth open in a silent scream. She then turned and vanished out of his office. He scrambled to his feet and stumbled towards the door. He looked out in the hallway to see destruction everywhere. All he could see was smashed plants, doors, pictures, mirrors, and windows. With a groan, he slowly slide to the floor, rubbing his throat. He glanced back into his office to see blood on the floor.
"Well.." He said, "At least I'll figure out who you are.."
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Yui looked up as a sleepy Asuka and Shinji entered the kitchen.
"Good morning." She said.
"Morning Mom." replied Shinji with a yawn, "Boy I'm tired."
"Well maybe if you didn't stay up late doing things with Asuka, you'd get more sleep."
Shinji's jaw dropped while Asuka started choking on her orange juice.
"It wasn't like that!" shouted Shinji.
"It wasn't like what?"
Yui smiled as Rei entered the kitchen. "Shinji was up late last night with Asuka."
Rei rolled her eyes, "I don't really want to know what they were doing. It's too early for that."
"We didn't do a thing!" shouted Asuka, finally finding her voice.
"Asuka had a bad dream!" added Shinji, "Nothing more!"
Rei frowned. "Bad dream?"
"Yeah." replied Asuka, "It was really strange too."
Rei sat down and looked at Asuka. "What was it about?"
Asuka looked over at Yui who was staring intently at her. She then looked at Shinji with pleading eyes.
"Please...I don't really want to talk about it."
"But it will help to talk about it." replied Shinji. He then looked over at his mother and Rei. "Basically it was one of her old dreams, but something in it was replaced by Sayoko."
Rei frowned, "Sayoko replaced..." She looked over at Asuka. "Which dream was it?"
Asuka poked at her breakfast on the table. "The one where I found my mother at the hospital."
"Sayoko replaced your mother?"
"No..the doll."
Rei frowned. "This is weird."
Asuka glared at Rei, "Thanks for the help."
"No. I had a dream too." Rei looked up at Shinji. "We were at NERV HQ. Dr. Akagi was taking you, Misato, and myself down where...my clones were kept. Only, when we got there, the tanks were full of Sayokos with blue hair and red eyes."
Asuka and Shinji looked at each other.
"You know what this means?" asked Shinji.
"Yeah." replied Asuka, "I'll make the call."
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"Is the report true?" asked Anubis.
"We have no reason to doubt the report." replied Peorth as she stood in front of the council. Most of the members were present, except one: Belldandy.
Saturn looked up from the paper he was reading. "Am I correct in seeing that this report was made by a mortal?"
"Yes sir that is correct."
"Since when do mortals submit reports to the heavens?"
"If I may..." Everyone turned to look at Commander Mist as she stepped away from the wall.
"Yes Commander?" Kami-sama asked.
"The mortal in question is an..associate of Goddess Sayoko. He has also attained a high rank in UN intelligence and has supplied much information regarding the missing souls."
"And what of the demoness we have in our possession?" asked Saturn, "What has she told us?"
"Nothing."
"NOTHING?!"
Mist looked down at the floor. "She has given us no relevant information."
Saturn sat back and stared at Mist. He then looked at Peorth.
"What about the bug infestation?"
Peorth looked slightly uncomfortable.
"The ultimate force briefly flashed an error message, 3 bugs were created and debugged."
"Why did the Ultimate Force error?" asked Athena.
"We..don't know."
"You don't know?!?!" shouted Saturn, "You are the SysOp of Yggdrasil! You SHOULD know!"
"The investigation continues."
"I think time should be given for each of us to go over the mortals report. And allow the investigation to continue. We will meet again tomorrow. Peorth, Mist, would you wait a moment."
The rest of the council left the room. Finally Kami-sama, Mist and Peorth were the only ones that remained. Peorth looked nervously at Kami-sama.
"My Lord," she began, "I'm very uncomfortable with holding back information from the council."
"I understand." replied Kami-sama, "They will be informed eventually."
"Informed of what?" asked Mist.
Kami-sama motioned to Peorth. Peorth turned and looked at Mist.
"As you know, there was an attack earlier today against a building in Washington. The mortal reported being attacked by a demon-like person. At the same time, the Ultimate Force began to..error. When the attacker released the mortal..the error.ended."
"Demon-like?"
"He does not think it was a demon."
Mist frowned and looked at Kami-sama. "I don't understand sir. Why are you keeping this from the council?"
"There is more." replied Kami-sama. He held out a piece of paper. "This is a graph of the power distribution system. Note the highlighted number and the time."
Mist looked questioningly at the numbers, then began to pale.
"In the name of every thing holy....."
"Exactly." replied Kami-sama, "I have placed the information under a protection program."
Mist's jaw dropped. "But sir! You can't do this! She....They all must be told!"
"The protection program is in place and will remain." replied Kami-sama, "You will only be able to discuss it with me. That is all."
Mist's mouth moved, but no words came out. Kami-sama turned and walked towards the door.
"And yes...I know what I have done." He added, "I alone will be responsible for whatever happens."
He then left the room.
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"She failed." muttered the brown haired demon, "My Lucy failed."
Ceres smirked. The brown haired demon noticed.
"Don't be so cocky my dear Ceres. You failed me as well."
Ceres' smile faded. "What will you do now?"
"More....training is required." The demon said sitting back. "Yes, more training. Then I will send her out again." The demon glanced at Ceres. "You didn't fail me this time did you?"
Ceres shook her head. "No Milady. I have the pictures you requested." She handed over a pack of pictures. The brown haired demon went through the pictures until she found the clearest one.
"It took a bit of time to hunt her down." added Ceres.
"No matter." The demon replied. "When Lucy is ready, she will go after her." She let out a loud cackle.
On the picture were 4 people. Two adults, and two children. One adult was Misato Ryoji, the other, Hikari Suzuhara. The two children were Kirika and Mereille Suzuhara.
"When Lucy is ready, she will go after her." The demon let out a loud cackle.
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Author's notes: Dennisud is usually pretty good with his hunches. wonder what he's thinking after this.
The curtain rises and Cayla steps out on stage.
'Sigh'" Poor me...no dialogue this chapter." Cayla pouts and stomps her feet.
"Anyway, Who will Lucy sent at next? Miss Misato? Miss Hikari? Or the kids, Kirika and Mereille (btw, I think the author has been watching too much Noir, don't you?)"
CAYLA!
"oops!" Cayla pales slightly. "Next chapter, Lucy vs. the Guardians! And hopefully a bigger part for me. Ja ne!"