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Flowers and Mr. Detective: Aeternitas

Chapter Two: Found


For about the first time, Count D was truly worried.

Really, truly worried.

He had not notice that Leon had gotten bit, for if he had, he would have tried harder to end the fight. Bites from mythical creatures tend to do more damage than normal. The carnivorous creatures in his shop, mythical or otherwise, were no exception, especially from Totetsus. With Leon lost, he could attract those creatures to him. Or even worse, her. Count D couldn't let that happen.

He had to find his Leon.

At all costs.


Leon could here the spiders hissing and shrieking in anger from behind the door, probably angry that they had missed such a juicy meal.

He tried to peer into the darkness ahead of him, but was only able to deduct that the room seemed empty of even furniture, and the floor of this room was probably made out of cement.

As he sat down, he sighed and rubbed his eyes, which were beginning to hurt. 'Signs of a migraine.' He thought. 'Could this day get any worse?'

Just then he heard a young voice echoed around him.

"Good evening, sir. What brings you here?"

Leon's eyes snapped open.

He looked around wildly to see who had spoke, seeing nothing in the darkness until a dim light came on to his right. The only thing he could see from his position was an odd, deformed shape. He could feel the hairs rising up the back of his neck but ignored it as curiosity won over. Slowly, he stood up and as silently as he could, he crept over to the light.

As he got closer he realized that he deform shape was in fact, a sophisticated, antique sofa, probably circa 1800. And in it, sat a little girl, who appeared to be chained to the chair.

'What the?' Leon thought, surprised. 'A child?...'

Sticking to the shadows, Leon silently came closer to observe the girl more closely, and when he came close enough to look at her fully, the first thought that came to his mind was 'She's not human'.

The girl had incredibly long, white (except for the pink- tips) hair in two looped pigtails; the excess hair braided into many thin braids. She was wearing an exotic dress that was strapless (yet had sleeves) and revealed her shoulders, which had equally exotic tattoos. On closer look, she had extremely long fingernails which were painted a neon green, and an olive pale, almost translucent skin. But the most unnerving yet alluring thing about her was her eyes.

She had none. Just two blood red sockets that made her face seem much smaller that what it probably really was.

All thoughts Leon had melted away from his mind. The only thing he could do was stare, hypnotized, into the girl's eye sockets, which, in the middle, a strange, bright red light appeared and was growing larger and larger...


Aeternitas had had visions.

She had sensed the creature come into her chamber, and had called out to him. Although she had no eyes, in her mind, she was able to see his body shape and body heat, almost as if she was wearing heat- seeking and night- vision goggles.

She had also sensed his presence coming closer, examining her with his eyes.

It was then she had her vision.

She had seen the destruction of her kind by humans, as seen through the eyes from an ancient ally. Only one of her species had been salvaged from this attack, with the help of said ally and others of his kind, but it was slowly dying. The ancient allies experimented and worked on restoring her species and had even come close to finding the cure. But as it would seem, the humans had deemed them too dangerous as well and condemned them to the same destruction as was seen with her kind. Only one had escaped, and with powerful magic, had sent her ancestor through time to the grandfather of her current captor.

He, after realizing what it was, took it upon himself to carry on the research of his ancestors, in which he then entrusted to his grandson. While he could not save her ancestor, he fused his blood with the last surviving root and had created her.

But as it would seem, her current captor also labeled her as dangerous (to his clients), and had locked her up here. She never knew why, and still doesn't know.

She looked into the human's eyes and was struck with another vision.

Of a young human child (with an uncanny resemblance to her human) and a Totetsu, playing peacefully together, and her human attacking the Totetsu.

She now looked at the human before her with hatred and disgust, and let her instincts take over.


Count D knew what he had to do.

The good thing about the bite wound is that Testu could track it down, which he "kindly" asked him to do.

The bad thing is that it will not stop unless the Bitten seek proper medical attention.

So he decided to also enlist the help of his infamous incense. He closed his eyes, lit the incense, and after it burned for a short while, coaxed the smoke to him. He felt the smoke surround him, hearing his call in which he proceeded in communicating with the smoke through his mind.

'Please obey my request. Find the one named Leon, he with the wound from a Totetsu. Find him and return to me.'

The smoke, forming a hand, caressed him cheek gently, felling the pain and worry in his thoughts to them. Then, as if a vacuum was sucking it away, it went to through the door and out of sight. Testu followed in swift pursuit.

Count D sighed and sat down. He didn't know why he was doing all this. Then again, he did have a soft spot for the detective, whom had become something of a pet to Count D. His smile and his eyes held irony with those thoughts.

'Please be safe, my golden lion…'

Meanwhile, Chris watched these displays of emotions cross Count D face, and a determined look set into his eyes. He knew what he had to do. He was going to find Leon.

Glad that Count D was lost in his own thoughts, Chris slowly snuck past the Count and went through the door, following at a distance T- Chan and the mysterious smoke.


Leon snapped out of his reverie.

When he looked back to the chair, there was a beautiful, red- eyedwoman sitting in a seductive pose.

"Who are you?" Leon finally asked, regaining his voice.

The mystery woman giggled, in a voice that sounded a vaguely childish (and somewhat familiar). Then she eyed him warily. "Come closer" she demanded in a sexy voice.

'That's strange' Leon thought. 'Wasn't there a girl there a moment ago?... A girl with no eyes. Wait, there was! How could I forget!' that thought whisked away as he suddenly looked into the young lady's blood red eyes. Mindlessly, he slowly sauntered closer to her.

"Yes… come to me… closer…" the woman purred. Only a little more and she'll have him in her grasp.

Leon was lost in her eyes. They called out to him, but in a strange way. He wanted to turn away, but his body refused to obey. It's as if they were keeping him there; keeping him there and looking into the very depths of his soul…

He reached her seat, and kneeled in front of her.

Aeternitas smiled. Victory.

She heard him ask again, "What are you doing here? This is no place for a beautiful woman like you, miss. What is your name?"

"My name is not important." Aeternitas began, "But if you must call me by something, call me Nita."

"Nita?"

"Yes, Nita. Short for Aeternitas."

"Aeternitas? What a strange name…"

"And you?"

"What about me?"

"Your name. What is your name?"

"Leon."

"Hmm… equally strange."

'This is almost too easy', Aeternitas thought smugly to herself. 'He doesn't even notice the vines wrapping around his arms and legs, pinning him to the ground.'

She looked him over.

He was very tall, about 6'0, and muscular, with blonde hair and pale skin, but it was a sickly pale, probably because of the loss of blood. And beautiful baby blue eyes, that were somewhat glazed, slowly drawing her in…

"Let me take a look inside your soul… see what animal lies beneath…"

But Leon heard naught, for he had once again fallen into a daze, Nita's eyes glowing once more…


Chris took out his flashlight (the one Leon had given him when he had had night terrors), when it became so dark he could not even see the smoke anymore, let alone T- Chan.

He had been walking for quite a while and was tired, but refused to stop until he found his brother.

'How big is this place?' Chris marveled to himself. It doesn't seem to have an end…

Just as he thought this, he was met with four forks in the road. The smoke was not deterred, however, for it just divided and continued on though all of the forks.

Chris was stumped.

'Oh great. What am I supposed to do now?'

Just then, something grabbed him from behind.


Leon felt as if he was in a dream. He was watching everything happen as if it were all in third person view, and had no control over his body. He watched as Nita leaned towards him, grabbing his head and caressing it as if it were the most precious thing in the world.

Then she began to change, back into the little girl who was hiding behind the illusion.

'Holy Cow! That's not right!' Leon thought to himself. 'I should try to go back…'

And back into his body he went, since (lucky for him), Nita let her guard down.

When he awoke in his still unresponsive body (wait, did he ever leave?), he was met with the sight of the young girl leaning towards him, smelling his hair. Still in a daze, Leon tried to move with no avail, finding out that he was rooted to the spot by vines that seemed to be growing out of the cement.

His attention was brought back to Nita ('Is that even her name?' Leon pondered. 'She tricked me into believing she was a woman…'), who had begun to make strange hissing noises.

Or rather, her tongue was.

Nita's mouth was open and her tongue was moving/ growing out of it as if it had a mind of its own…

Leon watched with a morbid fascination as her abnormally long tongue split into four equal quarters from the tip, and continued to watch as what seemed like a shiny black thorn slowly push it's way out from the center of her split tongue.

"What the f-!"

Leon was interrupted from that exclamation when the thorn suddenly shot out and lodged itself in his throat. Right at contact, Leon's sight began to blur as his body began to convulse. He tried to yell out in pain but could not even do that, how much it hurt. It felt as if his body was burning, spreading from the prick. The world was spinning and slowly fading away, and once again, Leon found himself giving in to the darkness.

The last thing he heard was Aeternitas' cold, evil laugh, echoing in his mind…


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