Disclaimer: Same again, same again…sounds like a song?
Authors Notes: Took a while but I'm back in action. Hope you enjoy!
Dominus Grim:
Chapter Five: The Separation
From being in the darkness so long, piercing white light causes a bit of irritation. Though, Akabane with his gigantic hat, and Laughing Phantom with his flat headed derby hat were less affected then the wincing Himiko.
As the light settled and the assorted three adjusted to the light around them, their new location was revealed. Though the walls and floor were still the golden ornamental brick they once were, there was now no roof and the trio had a perfect view of the gray sky. Where the roof should have been their was only one jutting platform only a little above floor level with an odd assortment of figures populating it. "Odd" being stretched as far as the meaning would and could allow.
"Hmm," Akabane murmured looking to the group on the platform and then to the increasingly chuckling Laughing Phantom. "A betrayal Phantom-Kun? How shocking." Akabane said with no lift in his tone and no trace of surprise on his face. Himikos' eyes widened quite a bit, though they quickly went back to normal. With all that had happened, a betrayal was almost a welcome reprieve.
"A betrayal? Come now Aka-Kun. When did I actually say I would help you in any other capacity other than guiding you and your little hottie friend to this exact point in time, space, continuum, Trek, Wars, Shatner, Skywalker-"Phantom continued his babbling as he backed up slowly, one hand on his hat obscuring his eyes, and the other grasping the chain from his right sleeve. With that, Phantom babbled his way into the darkness of an adjoining hall, all the while his chin expanding out southward coming further and further to a point. Though, with the sounds still coming from there, one would wonder just how far away he actually was.
"Jackal, what's going on-"Himiko was cut off by Jackal.
"Looks like they've dropped the façade." Akabane said, his smile oddly wider, showing just a hint of white teeth. Himiko looked up to the platform, and saw no one there.
"Sorry about this and your damn book." Came from nowhere. Suddenly Himiko and Akabane looked down and saw something akin to an extracted human heart with a spray can shoved neatly inside, spewing forth a greenish yellow fume. With no time to act with each other, the pair split up and dashed to opposite ends of the room. A wind quickly picked up, the gas was then spread around the room in a torrent cycle. If one were to look up they would find that even the gray sky was now yellow, the storm of amber fog had cascaded about and forth. But from within, steps could be heard.
"Mr. Jackal is back, what the fuck kind of welcome were you expecting?" Jackal shot his head up as a total of eight scalpels from each hand. From out the yellow mist came a man. Though this could be hard to figure if one did not know the figure as a certain Doctor knew. The man was covered in a black and green hazardous material suit with several precision tears and gashes all over it showing his wrists and a bit of his under shirt respectively.
What made this man a sight was the fact that his gas mask was only half complete; while his face was completely covered with two black lenses and a long over used air tank his black scraggly hair jetted out of the opening of the back of the mask giving him the look of a nuclear technician who just didn't give a damn. Acting on the honed impulse he prided himself on, Jackal lunged at this figure between the ticks of a second. Yet neither were surprised at the outcome.
"I see your abilities are the same Kanryu." Jackal stated with near pride as his scalpels were sucked out from his knuckles and into Kanryus chest, not seconds later did Akabane feel the majority of his scalpels rattle almost wanting to leave his body and go to his absorbent opponent. Kanryu took his turn lunging at the Jackal, bringing his right arm across in an arc made crueler by the glint of a knife appearing from his gauntlet. Saved by a quick backwards dash, Jackal grunted in annoyance as Kanryu disappeared into the mist with a nod.
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Himiko wasn't exactly enjoying her time in the mist either, having jettisoned herself to the side of the room opposite Jackal. Thinking for a moment that the forces they had seen earlier were focusing mainly on the scalpel wielding good Doctor, Lady Poison was quickly corrected of this assumption by several lit matches tossed at her at a speed rivaling a souped up Subaru. Narrowly dodging by virtue of highly trained legs, Himiko positioned a vial in each hand as a laughing silhouette ambled out of the piss colored fog.
"Shit, figures I get stuck with the fucking girl." Himiko ignored this statement while the figure in a ripped up black and green hooded sweat shirt dusted his black slacks in a show of piss arrogance.
"Who are you? And why the hell are you people attacking us?" the Mistress of Poison was answered by another laugh, this one a little more grating.
"Why? Leave it to something as pathetic as a woman to ask such a dumbass question." The man, who barely looked out of his teens upon showing his face from the fog, clenched his fists and smirked as several matches flipped out from between his knuckles once unlit, then the second time lit like flares. The bandanna around his black dashed silver hair flowed with a combination of the wind and his own mad dash at Himiko. So close did he come to Himiko that the woman saw the irises of his red eyes before ducking out of the way. Coming to a tumble, Himiko stood up and saw with satisfaction that the man was caught in the Erosion scent she had left behind. However her look of relief quickly turned to one of cautiousness and surprise what with the man separating the cloud of smoke by repeatedly spreading his arms in a makeshift crucifix.
"Come on you stupid cow, do it better bitch!" he yelled out as he dashed forward again. Himiko, incensed by this and the other insults dodged his flame topped fists waiting for an opening. Finding one she breathed in some flame scent and let out the stream of fire with her breath as guide. Instead of hearing the screams of an agonized man in flames, instead the man on fire laughed.
"You whore. Using fire on a flame user, you stupid-"the man was cut off for while he was able to absorb the flame from his skin into the lit matches in his hands…this did little to help him defend a double kick. One to the face and one to the throat left him hacking up some saliva and plasma. Jumping back a step or two he grimaced while he dropped the used matches from his knuckles. Before the spent matches even completely left his hands, new ones popped out once, then twice flipped were lit.
"I take it you're not into strong women, are you?" Himiko asked with a smirk across her face and vials at the ready. The mans eyebrows twitched however Himiko then noticed that his eyes were not quite looking at her, rather they were focused on something.
"Behind you, dig doggy style." Before Himiko could turn her head she felt something hard and linked wrap around her neck. A quick jerk and she was out.
"Bastard…clown…" Himiko managed to utter before passing out. Apparently the face of Laughing Phantom had changed quite a bit from the handsome one from before. Now; his bottom teeth were so long that his chin had to drop a couple feet to accommodate, as well as his eyes narrowing to match his slightly sunken cheeks. Remaining this way a moment Laughing Phantom then changed his face manually, by shoving his chin back into his head.
"You asshole!" the man with the matches yelled out. Rather than respond immediately Laughing Phantom scooped up Himiko in his arms and cradled her, his chain making slight chinking noises. After a second or two of this Laughing Phantom decided to respond:
"Asshole huh? Come on Harukai, I know you have this passionate hatred of women thing going on but…I weallllllly want to keep this one!" Phantom said without any semblance of shame. Harukai glared and then spit to his side saying one thing to Phantom before walking back into the yellow mist.
"I was about to finish it and you sneak up, fuck you!" Harukai yelled, giving Phantom the one finger salute. Laughing Phantom did just that…laughed to which he carried out his new "acquisition" with.
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"Miss Himiko." Jackal thought to himself as he had been keeping mental track of his partners' aura through the whole situation so far. Finding that the aura fighting her had moved on and that her weakened power was still being moved, he could only come to the right conclusion.
"Phantom, how disgustingly predictable." Akabane stated, though whether it was out loud or in his mind he wasn't really sure, nor did he care, as he had other matters to attend to. Namely the little boy who had stepped in about three and a half seconds after Kanryu had disappeared.
"Luther, you're looking…rather perturbed." Jackal said his smile only a hint of what it once was.
"Your friend…is food." He said without malice or joke. Just as the last word left his lips his eyes exploded into a white and black haze. Not wasting time, Jackal dashed towards Luther with a speed that almost surprised his own scalpel wielding self. It was not meant to be though as Luther's eyes returned to normal only to have him spin around and have the man standing at his back take his turn. The sound of a scalpel hitting a gold chain of a fourteen carrot pocket watch could be heard.
"Hirutsuai, I see you still act as Little Luther's guardian." Akabane murmured in key with his memory regarding the figure in front of Luther. Said figure was a sight, wearing a black robe varied a bit with several gold and jewel encrusted chains and clasps, more similar to something a female devotee of Islam would wear than a Japanese man. Though even if his Asian heritage could be argued, his blue eyes and gray borderline white hair made it an awfully hard call. Again, his hair was a hard call in itself as a black hood covering a turban made that a hard call.
"Why did you come back Kuroudo, didn't you swear you would never return when you left?" Hirutsuai stated with half lidded eyes and a smile defining casual.
"Come on Hiru, the infamous Dr. Jackal is a liar. Nothing more and everything less." Luther said from behind his guardian, one hand in his pocket and the other scratching his borderline violet hair. Jackal then grimaced a smile followed quickly by a slash from his other hand. His gold chain cut to bits of yellow and diamond, Hiru grabbed Luther by the hand and dashed into the gas.
His eyes closed, Akabane felt what aura he could and found none. He was alone.
"A liar…possibly, but these walls will do nothing to override my chivalrous nature." Akabane said looking from left to right, slowly, and then sashaying casually to where he felt Himikos aura last.
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Light splashing, usually caused by bobbing was heard as disconnected hands typed feverishly at seven different keyboards, the only ones not broken yet. Somewhere else in the room the Dominus Grim was on a scanner, its pages being flipped back and forth by mechanical strings. Lights flashing, analyzing monitors shifting images rapidly.
"Judas…what were you trying to tell us…what if anything…something…" said a slightly garbled voice. The typing continued furiously as one key board gave out from the pressure; it was quickly shoved aside and replaced with a fresh one.
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Outside the building, a white car pulled up.
To Be Continued
Authors Notes: Took awhile to get this one done, but hey, here it is. This was particularly fun to write just to introduce some new characters. Well I hoped you enjoyed now on to the reviews:
Atropos' Knife: In terms of classmates, well let's just say we just saw some old and new candidates. Also I agree, Himiko doesn't seem to have a lot of luck with men, brother murdering Ban, stalker Kagami and now my very own psycho. And of course I'm overjoyed that you like how the story is going so far, I just gotta maintain!
Rabid Lola: I'm happy Laughing Phantom caught your interest and the comparison to Emishi was welcome as he is quite the kick ass character. For Himikos attackers good thing you liked them because they (or their companions) will be back. As for hitting Ban go for it! The guys had it coming for awhile now for going with Hevn in my opinion…
Anyway, I hope you had fun guys and gals and I'll see you when I see you…hopefully soon.