AN: Here's the next chapter! Beware the Ratigan angst... Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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"Always be mindful of the present, but never forget your past, because it has a nasty way of biting you in the tail when you least expect it." -Me
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Meanwhile, Adrian Elessar, aka Professor James Ratigan, woke up from a terrifying nightmare. He quickly glanced around the room. Nothing. Just the stillness, and the pale lantern that was the moon. He sighed, and sank back onto the bed.
He had been having very sparse nightmares like this ever since he had secretly reformed. Sometimes about being revealed for who he really was, other times fearing for others close to him.
It was at these times when he realized the irony of how he converted.
But who was this converter? It certainly wasn't any friend of his...
It was the detective. Basil of Baker Street.
Ratigan sighed again. Even though he put his past as a rogue and a scoundrel behind him, it still scared him to pieces. But his fears were obviously baseless. Nothing had happened, and he was certain nothing ever would. Besides, those days were behind him, and he intended to keep it that way.
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"Are you ready to go, Shina?", James asked. Silence. "Shina?"
He heard the door open. "Yes?", Shina asked in her male voice. "But he's busy-"
"But it's important", an unfamiliar female voice asked from another room.
In the other room, Shina sighed in her normal voice. "All right, I'll let you in."
In stepped a female rat, strangely feline in appearance, walked calmly in, carrying a nondescript remote control, followed by a normal rat, and, strangely enough, a humanized wolf/dog hybrid. While the normal rat and the wolf looked around, the rat/feline hybrid walked towards him. "And you are?", James asked with a hint of curiousity in his voice.
"Excuse me, sir" the girl said, bowing slightly, "but I came to have you examine this device."
"That is all well and good, but who are you?"
The girl smirked, which was strangely chilling. "My name is Veeken Salmakia Ratigan."
Tsuzuku...