(I still don't own Inuyasha.)
Part 5: All the Time in the World
The Ravencraft family cemetery, southern Scotland; The U.K.: Ten am.
Mist hung low to the ground. It was ten in the morning in southern Scotland. The only sounds to be heard were a single bagpipe, playing from the belfry of a church nearby, and the sound of crunching gravel as Lord Edward Ravencraft walked up the road.
Ravencraft was wearing a black suit today. He carried one long stemmed rose wrapped in paper under his arm and appeared to be alone.
He stopped at one grave, took of his sunglasses and stared at the headstone. The head stone was very simple. It had no pictures or decorations on it. The words upon it said, 'Elizabeth Ravencraft. 1945- 1997. She had all the time in the world.'
Ravencraft continued to stare. He stared and stared until a feminine voice spoke from behind him, "It wasn't your fault she died, Edward." Ravencraft didn't look around, jump in surprise, or appeared to have noticed the women behind him.
She was a very beautiful woman. In her mid twenty's. Her skin was pale like Edward, but unlike Edward's her skin still had some color and warmth. The women's red hair was drawn back into a tight bun and she was also wearing a black suit. The women's eyes were jade green like Ravencraft's, but unlike the cold emotionless stare Edward always gave the women's eyes were full of a humanity that was missing from Edward's eyes.
This woman is Anne Ravencraft, Edward Ravencraft's younger sister. The second child of late Lord Richard and Lady Elizabeth Ravencraft, Anne had always been overshadowed by her older brother. Ironically, Anne seemed the represent everything her older brother lacked mercy, kindness, and humanity.
"But it is my fault," Edward said still starring at the grave, "she
spent her life caring for a husband that was never around and wasted
away at her eldest sons hatred of him."
"Edward," Anne said putting a hand on his shoulder, "she wasted away
from grief of father's death."
The Ravencraft children had faced a dark past they couldn't forget. Their father, the late Lord Richard Ravencraft, had been a serious influential member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament. Therefore the man spent very little time with his family in the country, and most of it in London. The lack of a father in his life made Edward extremely bitter toward his father thinking his father didn't have feelings for the family. Even though Anne and the youngest son Thomas weren't as bitter about their father, they were all caught by surprise when Richard died in a car accident. It wasn't long after this that their mother, the late Elizabeth Ravencraft, died of grief leaving Edward in charge of the family estates and finances.
"Hi, everyone." Another person had joined Anne and Edward. He has 18 or 19 at most his dark brown hair and the same green eyes as the other two. This was Thomas Ravencraft the youngest sibling in the family.
After that the three of them just stood and starred at their mother's grave. After almost half an hour in silence Thomas strode off toward a waiting limousine. Shortly after Anne left for her car, but Edward continued to stare at the grave.
Then quite suddenly there came a tap on Edward's shoulder. Edward looked around to see one of the clergymen from the church at his side. "Forgive me for intruding my Lord," the man said, "but your office just called, they said they knew you were busy but something urgent has come up in your export firm and they need you back in London immediately, they said they'd send a helicopter." "They usually do." Edward replied coolly.
Suddenly he heard the whirling of a chopper. Very quickly Ravencraft took the rose out of its paper and placed it on the grave. The next second the copper was coming into land. Ravencraft climbed aboard and looked back in time to hear the clergyman sought "God's Speed" and the chopper took off.
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Sub-basement three: The SkyGate Tower: London; 2 p.m.
As Ravencraft stepped out of the elevator he looked around. It was odd that the CEO of SkyGate would be in a basement containing only storage facilities.
Edward walked down the hallway until he came to a door. The plaque next to the door merely said Chemical Storage. Ravencraft swiped a card in the lock next to the door and the door slid open. Ravencraft walked into a tiny room with a door in front of Ravencraft. After the entrance door closed a delicate female voice said, "Please state verbal identification." Ravencraft then said, "The lion and the Unicorn, fighting for the crown." Next the room was bathed in blue light as a scanner system went to work. After that the voice said, "Identity confirmed, Lord Edward Ravencraft CEO and supreme commander, please proceed." The wall on Edwards left opened up and he continued down the next hall of doors.
The plaques on the doors in this hallway were the strangest so far. Offices of Transit, Offices of Ground Forces, Offices of Media Control, Medical Offices, Offices of Research and Development, Offices of Supernatural Research and Defense, Offices of the Air Force, Offices of the Navy, Offices of Demon Extermination, and Offices of Weaponry were just a few names on the doors.
A nervous looking young man came forward toward Ravencraft. The man was a tall, slender, Englishman with dark brown hair. He was wearing a well- worn brown suit and tie, we appeared to by in his late twenty's. This man's name was Richard Hollands, and was Ravencraft's personal assistant.
"Good afternoon Sir," Hollands began, "I'm sorry for disturbing you today, but
something has come up that needs your immediate attention, your
advisors are waiting for you in operations."
Ravencraft stopped walking abruptly and looked at Hollands with his
perusing stare and asked, "Do you know what day it is Hollands?"
"Of course Sir," Hollands replied with a looked of pity on his face,
"the twenty-third of May."
"And that is never a good day." Ravencraft said and continued walking
down the hallway.
The next minute they had reached a door that read, Operations Command. Hollands left Edward were who went in. He found himself in a large meeting room. There was a long rectangular table with a hologram projector in it, A huge map of feudal Japan, and a huge window on one side looking out into a huge room with a transit wheel portal like the one on Blackgate island but much smaller. There were three people sitting around the table. A large man in his early fifties wearing a military uniform, a smaller hunched over man in his mid forties in a black suit, and a tall, young women wearing a lab coat. These were Ravencraft's advisors.
The older man's name was John Stanson. A very muscular man Stanson had once been the commanding general of the British Special forces. He had been dishonorably discharged for his reckless and dangerous way of commanding. But to Ravencraft he was an ingenious strategist the like of which the world had never known and hired him as commanding general of the SkyGate armed forces.
The hunched over man's name was Christopher Striker. In the mid 1990's Striker had made a name for himself as a London criminal defense attorney. Through Striker's natural gift for the courts he had kept some of the most dangerous criminals in London out of the hands of the law. In 1998 he was hired by Ravencraft as both a legal advisor to the corporation and Ravencraft's personal attorney. Since then, he has pulled the company out of several tight slips including the memorable occasion when Stanson shot a man in a bar in New York.
The woman at the table was named Diane Irons. Irons was an American. Graduating top of her class at Yale in chemistry, she went into the research field of new toxins at Hartford but was kicked out for performing human tests without FDA approval. Raven craft however saw the use of someone like her in his plans and hired her to lead his research team.
"What's this about," Ravencraft said, "you all know better than to
bother me today."
"We wouldn't of Sir," Stanson said, "but that Higurashi girls on the
move."
"Really," Ravencraft said with interest.
"We've been able to pinpoint her portal in this dimension and the
Feudal dimension," Irons said, "and her getting powerful enough field
bucks to guess she'll use her portal soon."
"Set a trap," Ravencraft said, "this could be are only chance to
administer the toxin and get her out of the picture."
"We'll be ready." Stanson said.
:
Kagome tumbled through the portal. It had been two weeks since she'd last been and she still didn't know why she was going back. 'That's an easy question.' she thought. Going back had to do with three things. First, she was sick of her modern friends and their blind talk about Inuyasha as though he was her boyfriend. Second, she knew the gang would just hang out in the village until she came back which was not a comforting thought considering SkyGate might be overrunning the land. Third, because recently the media had gotten hold of some information about SkyGate's secret project. To relieve pressure on the company Ravencraft accepted an interview on the BBC and Kagome couldn't deiced what was worse, the interview or the discussions on the news about whether Ravencraft was telling the truth. All she knew was she couldn't take anymore of either.
When Kagome climbed out of the well it was night. She started for the village when she noticed lights floating in the tree's of the forest. Starting for the forest now she thought, 'If he's making out with Kikiyo again, I'll kill him.' When she entered the forest she found that the lights here just LED's on long sticks. Just when she realized it was a trap she felt a hard knock in the back of her head before she blacked out.
:
When Kagome woke up everything was spinning. When she got control over her eyes she found herself handcuffed to a hospital bed with a tall blond women standing over her talking to none other than Lord Edward Ravencraft.
She groaned and Ravencraft looked over at her smiling a victorious smile. "This should put you out of my misery." he said to Kagome taking a needle of some amber liquid from the women and injecting it into Kagome. As Ravencraft started giving orders to an officer in the room Kagome became drowsy. Just before she nodded off Ravencraft's voice floated to her ears saying, "This is the last time we will meet so goodbye Ms. Higurashi. Then Kagome fell into a deep sleep as SkyGate's memory altering toxin went to work.
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Part 5: All the Time in the World
The Ravencraft family cemetery, southern Scotland; The U.K.: Ten am.
Mist hung low to the ground. It was ten in the morning in southern Scotland. The only sounds to be heard were a single bagpipe, playing from the belfry of a church nearby, and the sound of crunching gravel as Lord Edward Ravencraft walked up the road.
Ravencraft was wearing a black suit today. He carried one long stemmed rose wrapped in paper under his arm and appeared to be alone.
He stopped at one grave, took of his sunglasses and stared at the headstone. The head stone was very simple. It had no pictures or decorations on it. The words upon it said, 'Elizabeth Ravencraft. 1945- 1997. She had all the time in the world.'
Ravencraft continued to stare. He stared and stared until a feminine voice spoke from behind him, "It wasn't your fault she died, Edward." Ravencraft didn't look around, jump in surprise, or appeared to have noticed the women behind him.
She was a very beautiful woman. In her mid twenty's. Her skin was pale like Edward, but unlike Edward's her skin still had some color and warmth. The women's red hair was drawn back into a tight bun and she was also wearing a black suit. The women's eyes were jade green like Ravencraft's, but unlike the cold emotionless stare Edward always gave the women's eyes were full of a humanity that was missing from Edward's eyes.
This woman is Anne Ravencraft, Edward Ravencraft's younger sister. The second child of late Lord Richard and Lady Elizabeth Ravencraft, Anne had always been overshadowed by her older brother. Ironically, Anne seemed the represent everything her older brother lacked mercy, kindness, and humanity.
"But it is my fault," Edward said still starring at the grave, "she
spent her life caring for a husband that was never around and wasted
away at her eldest sons hatred of him."
"Edward," Anne said putting a hand on his shoulder, "she wasted away
from grief of father's death."
The Ravencraft children had faced a dark past they couldn't forget. Their father, the late Lord Richard Ravencraft, had been a serious influential member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament. Therefore the man spent very little time with his family in the country, and most of it in London. The lack of a father in his life made Edward extremely bitter toward his father thinking his father didn't have feelings for the family. Even though Anne and the youngest son Thomas weren't as bitter about their father, they were all caught by surprise when Richard died in a car accident. It wasn't long after this that their mother, the late Elizabeth Ravencraft, died of grief leaving Edward in charge of the family estates and finances.
"Hi, everyone." Another person had joined Anne and Edward. He has 18 or 19 at most his dark brown hair and the same green eyes as the other two. This was Thomas Ravencraft the youngest sibling in the family.
After that the three of them just stood and starred at their mother's grave. After almost half an hour in silence Thomas strode off toward a waiting limousine. Shortly after Anne left for her car, but Edward continued to stare at the grave.
Then quite suddenly there came a tap on Edward's shoulder. Edward looked around to see one of the clergymen from the church at his side. "Forgive me for intruding my Lord," the man said, "but your office just called, they said they knew you were busy but something urgent has come up in your export firm and they need you back in London immediately, they said they'd send a helicopter." "They usually do." Edward replied coolly.
Suddenly he heard the whirling of a chopper. Very quickly Ravencraft took the rose out of its paper and placed it on the grave. The next second the copper was coming into land. Ravencraft climbed aboard and looked back in time to hear the clergyman sought "God's Speed" and the chopper took off.
:
Sub-basement three: The SkyGate Tower: London; 2 p.m.
As Ravencraft stepped out of the elevator he looked around. It was odd that the CEO of SkyGate would be in a basement containing only storage facilities.
Edward walked down the hallway until he came to a door. The plaque next to the door merely said Chemical Storage. Ravencraft swiped a card in the lock next to the door and the door slid open. Ravencraft walked into a tiny room with a door in front of Ravencraft. After the entrance door closed a delicate female voice said, "Please state verbal identification." Ravencraft then said, "The lion and the Unicorn, fighting for the crown." Next the room was bathed in blue light as a scanner system went to work. After that the voice said, "Identity confirmed, Lord Edward Ravencraft CEO and supreme commander, please proceed." The wall on Edwards left opened up and he continued down the next hall of doors.
The plaques on the doors in this hallway were the strangest so far. Offices of Transit, Offices of Ground Forces, Offices of Media Control, Medical Offices, Offices of Research and Development, Offices of Supernatural Research and Defense, Offices of the Air Force, Offices of the Navy, Offices of Demon Extermination, and Offices of Weaponry were just a few names on the doors.
A nervous looking young man came forward toward Ravencraft. The man was a tall, slender, Englishman with dark brown hair. He was wearing a well- worn brown suit and tie, we appeared to by in his late twenty's. This man's name was Richard Hollands, and was Ravencraft's personal assistant.
"Good afternoon Sir," Hollands began, "I'm sorry for disturbing you today, but
something has come up that needs your immediate attention, your
advisors are waiting for you in operations."
Ravencraft stopped walking abruptly and looked at Hollands with his
perusing stare and asked, "Do you know what day it is Hollands?"
"Of course Sir," Hollands replied with a looked of pity on his face,
"the twenty-third of May."
"And that is never a good day." Ravencraft said and continued walking
down the hallway.
The next minute they had reached a door that read, Operations Command. Hollands left Edward were who went in. He found himself in a large meeting room. There was a long rectangular table with a hologram projector in it, A huge map of feudal Japan, and a huge window on one side looking out into a huge room with a transit wheel portal like the one on Blackgate island but much smaller. There were three people sitting around the table. A large man in his early fifties wearing a military uniform, a smaller hunched over man in his mid forties in a black suit, and a tall, young women wearing a lab coat. These were Ravencraft's advisors.
The older man's name was John Stanson. A very muscular man Stanson had once been the commanding general of the British Special forces. He had been dishonorably discharged for his reckless and dangerous way of commanding. But to Ravencraft he was an ingenious strategist the like of which the world had never known and hired him as commanding general of the SkyGate armed forces.
The hunched over man's name was Christopher Striker. In the mid 1990's Striker had made a name for himself as a London criminal defense attorney. Through Striker's natural gift for the courts he had kept some of the most dangerous criminals in London out of the hands of the law. In 1998 he was hired by Ravencraft as both a legal advisor to the corporation and Ravencraft's personal attorney. Since then, he has pulled the company out of several tight slips including the memorable occasion when Stanson shot a man in a bar in New York.
The woman at the table was named Diane Irons. Irons was an American. Graduating top of her class at Yale in chemistry, she went into the research field of new toxins at Hartford but was kicked out for performing human tests without FDA approval. Raven craft however saw the use of someone like her in his plans and hired her to lead his research team.
"What's this about," Ravencraft said, "you all know better than to
bother me today."
"We wouldn't of Sir," Stanson said, "but that Higurashi girls on the
move."
"Really," Ravencraft said with interest.
"We've been able to pinpoint her portal in this dimension and the
Feudal dimension," Irons said, "and her getting powerful enough field
bucks to guess she'll use her portal soon."
"Set a trap," Ravencraft said, "this could be are only chance to
administer the toxin and get her out of the picture."
"We'll be ready." Stanson said.
:
Kagome tumbled through the portal. It had been two weeks since she'd last been and she still didn't know why she was going back. 'That's an easy question.' she thought. Going back had to do with three things. First, she was sick of her modern friends and their blind talk about Inuyasha as though he was her boyfriend. Second, she knew the gang would just hang out in the village until she came back which was not a comforting thought considering SkyGate might be overrunning the land. Third, because recently the media had gotten hold of some information about SkyGate's secret project. To relieve pressure on the company Ravencraft accepted an interview on the BBC and Kagome couldn't deiced what was worse, the interview or the discussions on the news about whether Ravencraft was telling the truth. All she knew was she couldn't take anymore of either.
When Kagome climbed out of the well it was night. She started for the village when she noticed lights floating in the tree's of the forest. Starting for the forest now she thought, 'If he's making out with Kikiyo again, I'll kill him.' When she entered the forest she found that the lights here just LED's on long sticks. Just when she realized it was a trap she felt a hard knock in the back of her head before she blacked out.
:
When Kagome woke up everything was spinning. When she got control over her eyes she found herself handcuffed to a hospital bed with a tall blond women standing over her talking to none other than Lord Edward Ravencraft.
She groaned and Ravencraft looked over at her smiling a victorious smile. "This should put you out of my misery." he said to Kagome taking a needle of some amber liquid from the women and injecting it into Kagome. As Ravencraft started giving orders to an officer in the room Kagome became drowsy. Just before she nodded off Ravencraft's voice floated to her ears saying, "This is the last time we will meet so goodbye Ms. Higurashi. Then Kagome fell into a deep sleep as SkyGate's memory altering toxin went to work.
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