Catse: Okay, I updated! Finally! Whew, and only two days late! Not five like last time. Well, hope you enjoy this chapter. Got to go, Ja Ne for now!
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"Seika! Wait up will yah! We don't walk in Super Speed Mode!" Katai shouted as she caught Seika's shoulder in a tight grip. The group was struggling to keep up, as Seika had been walking so fast a path of dust followed him.
He finally stopped and turned around, revealing the two pieces in his hands.
"I don't know how I did it…" He confessed a moment later, staring at the puzzle pieces. "I don't know how I knew…"
"But you found it didn't you?" Katai shouted back, and Seika nodded, with Cole and Christy stepping up to have their own looks at the pieces.
"So those are the pieces you guys were looking for? They don't look like much." Cole commented as he took one from Seika's hand to have a look at it. Christy took the other one and did the same thing.
"Yeah. But it was strange…That kid spoke Japanese. I didn't think anyone here did other than Christy." Seika commented, but he quickly stopped and stared at Cole.
When they asked him what was wrong he inquired if Cole could speak Japanese too.
"No man. That's not my thing." Cole commented back, handing Seika his puzzle piece again. "Only Christy speaks it. I only do the fighting and the Rodeos."
"But I understand you! And you understood me!"
He was right. He was speaking directly to Cole and they could understand each other.
"That is quite strange." Haku commented a moment later. "You spoke English to the boy too. You don't realize it?"
Seika shook his head in answer. "Nope. I had no idea."
"Hm…" Haku mumbled, one hand on his chin as he thought. "That's very peculiar. Tell me, did something tell you where the piece was? Was there a sign of some sort?"
"Yeah. This lady from my dream pointed me in the right direction. And then when I went, she told me there was somebody at that hut that had what we needed."
"A Lady? From a dream? Please, explain this dream."
Seika nodded and complied. Once he was finished with the dream and the appearance of the woman, Haku was silent.
He tried to evaluate everything he knew of the pieces already, and the mystery behind them, but nothing could tell him who the woman was or why she was helping them. He decided that on their trip to Ireland, he would do a little research on it.
"Weird…Hey! Can we try some of that Rodeo stuff?" Katai shouted, looking similar to a young girl who's had candy waved in her face.
"Yeah! Can we!" Seika yelled, seeming to have forgotten his worries of earlier for something more interesting.
"Um…sure I guess." Cole said a little squeamishly after Haku translated what Katai had said. Although everyone else seemed to know a little English, she was still on the far end. "But I don't know. Some of the bulls can be rather feisty. And they don't like riders they don't know."
"Aw! It'll be okay! We're detectives like you. We can handle anything." Katai commented once Seika told her what Cole had said.
After a few more translations from Japanese to English and vise-versa, Cole was pulling out the bull known as Loco Siento, whom wasn't at all happy about being brought out for something other than a show.
Since Katai had asked first, she was the first one situated on the bull, and after a good five seconds, she was bucked off.
"The hell! How the hell did that happen!" She shouted, growling at the bull. Loco replied by blowing a thick steam of hot air from his nose and marching away like he was too good to be ridden by someone like her.
"Hey! Get back here you deranged animal!" She shouted, leaping back on the bull's back. Another few seconds later and her face was in the ground. "Ow…" She mumbled, standing up. She rubbed her back and glared at Loco. "You really are a deranged animal."
"Hey! That's okay Katai! Ladies aren't always expected to hold on tightly to something! Men on the other hand are!" Seika commented with a smile. Everyone there that knew Japanese heard him, and broke into laughter a moment later.
Katai glared at him and walked out of the arena, a look on her face that said she was disgusted.
"The way you men talk about yourselves is so disgusting…" She commented, and Christy gave her a thumbs up. "I agree! Men shouldn't talk about that in front of ladies. Come on, you and me will talk about clean matters, alright!"
Katai nodded and the girls disappeared off to the side of the fencing of the arena to chat about who knew what. To say the least, Seika and Haku hadn't known Katai could actually get along with ladies.
"But she is changing a little bit. Two years ago she would have shunned the fact that women actually wear dresses. Now she's beginning to look at skirts as if they might have a style to them." Haku commented, as Cole asked Seika if he wanted to try.
Of course, being the person he was, Seika agreed, and was no longer on the bull than he was off again. And, of course, he had to get on it another two or three times to prove he had no grip to him at all.
"You're sad." Christy commented to him as he came back rubbing his rear and his head.
"Not my fault that bull has society issues." Seika said back, growling. "I have no idea who could possibly ride that giant chunk of beef, but it isn't anyone human."
"Then I guess you're saying your little sister is a little demon right?" Cole spoke up, and instantly the entire group turned around to find little Tsuki on Loco's back, not holding onto the fur in any way particularly, but just riding. And the bull was going along in a slow gallop as if he were a pony giving her a ride.
"I don't believe this." Seika growled, and he immediately marched up to get Tsuki off of the bulls back.
But Loco Siento wouldn't have that. As soon as Seika was anywhere within distance he snapped and even reared to hit him, in which it took a few words from Cole and a snatching of the nose to calm him down. Cole truly was good with livestock, and had a talent for the rodeo that these Japanese warriors did not. It was just a gift of his.
"Um…guys. I think we have trouble." They heard Christy shout, and in an instant, the group knew why.
There were several beasts running amuck around them, some with wings that were airborne, and others like demonic versions of the bulls and horses here. One in particular, that they thought to be the leader, had a pair of ram horns on its large forehead, and a pair of large bat wings that extended out to the length of it's entire body.
It reared up its front legs and ran through the detectives for an attack, but their excellent practice allowed them to swoop out of the way.
Katai smiled with a glitter in her eye. "Now this is what I'm talkin' about. Bulls I can kill." She whispered, slipping her gloves out of her pockets and placing them meekly over her hands.
Haku nodded and pulled from his free hand a set of thorned daggers that glistened with small lilies on their ends. Not to say lilies had thorns, but Haku's version did.
Seika, as he found, was missing his staff, which was still in Cole's van, and that was a good distance away. He'd have to fight with sheer ability, and he smiled when he notice that one of the bars on the fence was rather weak looking in the ends.
"Ah-ha…" He whispered, leaping in just as a demon tried to attack his back. He kicked the bar out of place and then into the air where he caught it and proceeded to slash through the demons with it's rusty ends.
Satou and Tsuki, although only eight, were also prepared for a fight. Although they hadn't really taken on a weapon to master, Satou used a short dagger as her usual weapon, and Tsuki used a simple version of a YoYo that she could carry with her rather easily. They too had a rather easy time with the demons, especially with Christy and Cole's help. They lashed out with a combination of actual hand to hand combat and bullet sprays. The gun play came from Cole of course. The melee attacks were from Christy, in which she had no real weapon in mind. She just kicked ass. Throughout most of it, the demons were easy, and within two or three minutes, everything there except for the leader was annihilated. The leader on the other hand was no so easy.
He could not be hit because he could somehow see the blow coming before the person even landed it. Everyone tried, even the detectives of Texas. But none of them could actually land a blow to the monster. Until a horse came riding in to leave a black dot on the creatures back.
That same black dot killed the leader and left it so poisoned that gas came out of it's eye sockets and it keeled over.
After a little close inspection, they found Yoru with a sort of happy grin on her face, and the creature as nothing more than a mere stain on the ground do to evaporation.
"Yoru?" Seika inquired, looking rather confused. She looked very happy…not an expression that fit.
Yoru stood up, and upon finding the crowd looking at her, frowned and glared again.
"I'm surprised at how weak you are that you couldn't take out a simple mutant." She growled so as to cover up for her behavior earlier. The horse she had ridden, in which Cole called Moonlight, was the very same mare Cole had come out on on the Rodeo. The fact that Yoru road her confused him greatly, because he stated later, that that horse allowed no one on her back except him, and only him.
When he ran up to the mare, she softly nudged him with her nose, revealing that she was not harmed or forced into anything she hadn't wanted to do.
"What did you do to Moonlight?" Cole inquired as the horse huffed and stamped. Yoru turned her head only slightly, with a look of true malice, and glared.
"I did nothing. Your damn horse wanted me here. I could have run but that goddamned beast picked me up and dragged me here."
Cole glared back and shook his head. He knew that Yoru was lying. Moonlight didn't do that, and besides, she ran faster than this horse any day. But then why was she riding Moonlight? Unless…
Haku glanced around at their surroundings. All of the demons they had killed were vanishing into a mist, leaving little stains on the ground to show that they had been there.
This was good, because the people wouldn't become frightened because of the odd creatures there.
But that left another question. Where were the people?
"They ran off scared. We'll handle them later." Christy answered Haku without hearing his question. "They thought it was the chubiquabra here with a few friends, the very beast of the Mexican legends."
Haku gave a little smile, knowing the legend of that beast. It was an alien like creature that supposedly ate the livestock of Mexico, leaving dead carcasses and frightened animals in it's wake. He figured it was probably a run off demon over there, more powerful that the little ones, but two weak to handle the big ones, so he stayed hidden and ate the flesh of the animals so he could survive.
"So what happens now?" Katai asked, looking around. "We're pretty much finished here."
"Yeah, but I have a bad feeling about these demons." Seika added, tossing his railing to the side, now that he was done with it. "The whole time we're here, we rarely see a demon. Then suddenly an entire flock attacks us, right after we get the puzzle piece."
"Yes. I believe I know what you're getting at Seika. Someone is following us, and testing us. I have a feeling the Dark Lord is trying to see how powerful we are, while not revealing his own strengths to us as he does so. That demon that Yoru killed near the van Yesterday was probably a spy of his." Haku agreed.
Cole nodded. "Yeah, the one at the Airport also seemed suspicious. I think this new Lord is trying to pick up on what he can, little by little. If I'm right, this means he isn't as stupidly powerful as the others."
"So he's sticking to the shadows to watch us. Clever." Christy shook her head and folded her arms.
"And not only that, but we have what he considered his secret weapon. Goth girl there." Seika finished, staring at the ground.
"Well, there is one thing for certain. We know he is keeping his eye on us, but that is all the better. Perhaps the more he sees us gain, the more desperate he will become. If I'm correct, he's the type of warrior that will try to convince our own leader to attack us, and then, just to get out, Kenya would listen. Then he'd be in for it!" Katai shouted gleefully, punching the ground as if to decide that that might actually happen.
The others stared at her strangely for getting so excited over something that probably wouldn't happen.
"I'm am sorry." Haku said. "But we also must be going. Two weeks is not much time and we've spent two days here. We cannot waste another moment. I'll contact Mom and tell her to arrange a flight to Ireland. We have no more time to loose."
"Right." Seika added. "I'll go collect the girls. Hey Cole, can you give us a ride back to the hotel?"
Cole nodded. "'Course. We treat our visitors here with the utmost respect. It's the Texan way!"
"Right. You're only treating them with respect because you know I'll kick your ass if you don't." Christy mumbled to him, and Cole turned with a glare.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am NOT!"
"ARE TOO!"
"Yep. They're twins." Katai growled in boredom as Seika came back with Satou holding his pants on the left and Tsuki holding his pants on the right.
Both girls giggled at the fighting before them, and Satou had to pull out her camera and take a picture. Of course, no one realized she had brought the camera with her, and even less realized that she had gotten a picture of each of them trying to stay on the bulls, getting pictures of them when the fell off for memory's sake.
"Well…I guess that's about it. Should we pile into the van?"
"Yep." Cole agreed. And the group left for the van and drove back to the apartment.
It only took them a few minutes to gather together their luggage and for Haku to give his mother a call, and then they were at the Airport again, getting their tickets from the front desk.
Of course, Cole and Christy promised them that the next time, should they come around, they'd give them a grand tour of the place, and show them what Texas really was. The group promised they'd return, next time with a living breathing Kenya, and then boarded the plane. The flight attendant there didn't give them any trouble, and got them on the plane safe and sound.
They waved goodbye as they flew out, and Satou took one last picture of the brother and sister standing together before they were too far out of range to do so.
Catse: Okay well, did you like the chapter? I thought it cut off a bit too quickly, but it took me three days to write this up. I had trouble trying to figure out where I wanted to go with it. But well, I've updated now! And now they're off to Ireland. If anyone knows the country and the customs there, please tell me so I can get a headsup on the research! Oh, and for those of you that wanted to see the pictures of the characters I drew, but either I didn't send it to you or the picture wouldn't work for you, I've now got them on a website along with a few others of my pictures. Just click on the link in my bio! Okay? Thanks! Ja Ne!