"Talking"
'Thinking'
Stressed
Song
File 23: Club Anthemoessa
Club Anthemoessa is a small nightclub established over a hundred years ago. Recently there have been reports of missing men around the area. A strange melody is said to float around the club and leaving everyone with a sense of missing time. Dried husks of the missing men have been found near a lake a few miles from the club. Causes may be due to supernatural activity.
Dib sighed as he listened to Tak grumble. Her depressed and angry demeanor was causing him ill ease. She had taken on a new disguise since her last had been lost. Her long blue hair was pulled up in a short bun with a baseball cap to cover it. Her violet eyes glared at him and Dib nervously chuckled. The baggy sweater she wore hid all feminine traces, but she was an alien and had none anyways. Dib sighed as he wondered about this. She had fallen to earth and he had agreed to help her fit in since she had nowhere else to go. Her race banished her for her humiliating failure, and being beaten by Zim.
"This is ridiculous," Tak sighed.
"Only an hour," Dib grumbled as he crossed his arms and stared down at her.
"If this is some strip club…I'm leaving," Tak growled.
"It's one of those Goth clubs," Dib informed.
"Even better…I get to listen to some angst ridden teens sigh their anguish," Tak dryly stated.
"I just need to disprove or prove if there's anything supernatural," Dib said.
"Earth to Dib…my pod crashing into your room proves that," Tak grumbled with a smirk.
"Yeah it does…but I can't turn you in," Dib sighed. Tak's grin fell.
"Why not?" Tak questioned.
"Never mind," Dib replied with a small blush. Tak raised a fake eyebrow but left the subject alone.
Dib and her walked over to the cement colored building. He pushed open the metal door and held it open for her. Tak walked pass him and ignored the small smile he gave her. There was no light save for the small dimness of the candles. In the walls, there were small squares with metal bars for windows. In the middle of the room, there was fair size stage with musical equipment. Dib let the door shut and everyone ignored them. Tak huffed and Dib immediately took her hand when a guy turned and grinned at them. Tak raised another fake eyebrow in question and chuckled. Dib led her to a small table close to the stage.
Tak took a seat and wrinkled her nose at the smell of smoke. The room was enshrouded in cigarette smoke. Dib breathed through his mouth as he coughed on the smoke. Tak glared at him and he shrugged.
"This is pointless," Tak pointed out.
"It's my job and life," Dib spoke while looking away.
Tak turned her gaze away from him and glanced at her surroundings. There were only men in this club. She knew it wasn't a Goth club because half of the men looked like jocks and businessmen. Her violet eyes narrowed when the room filled with a soft laughter. Tak turned her gaze back to the stage and her eyes widened at the woman upon the stage.
"Pretty," Dib mumbled as he gazed up at her.
The woman's hazel eyes gazed at each man in the room. Her long chestnut hair flowed down to her knees. She wore only a corset and a short skirt with nylons. She turned around and Tak noticed the tattoos of bird's wings upon her pale flesh. She spun around with another melodious laugh and the men began to cheer.
"Velcome to Club Anthemoessa," her soft German accent leaked passed the American words. "I hope you have a gut time here."
The woman flashed another smile and leaned over so her cleavage could show. Dib reached into his pocket and pressed play on the voice recorder.
"How many of you vish to see my show?" The woman teased as men hooted.
She slowly brought her index finger to her mouth and shyly smirked. A soft melody began to fill the air and Tak noticed that the woman was humming. There were no speakers in the entire club. Tak's eyes narrowed.
"Days turn to nights and each moment I find my way…into a beautiful oblivion."
She twirled as the music turned the air warm. Dib cupped his chin as he watched the woman.
"Inside and outside all I find within is sin."
Tak's eyes narrowed when she felt it. Something was hypnotizing the people much like her implant.
"Take me into the water…carry me out to the sea…"
Dib shifted as his eyes glazed over. Tak reached over to him and dug her claws into his arm. He yelped and glared at her. She glared back.
"I'll lure you into my beauty…drown you with your ignorance…"
"What did you do that for?" Dib hissed.
Tak tore her sleeve and stuffed the material into his ears. He grimaced at the harsh treatment and she motioned to the stage. The woman spun around and the tattoos upon her back began to glow black.
"One taste of my bliss will give you a final wish…"
Dib went to remove the material in his ears and Tak slapped his hand away.
"Sweet melodies tangle you within…"
The black glow upon her back flashed and Dib's eyes widened. Giant eagle wings stretched out from her back. The golden feathers were as long as his arm. They ruffled and stretched as she continued her song. Dib looked to the other men and found that their eyes were shut. Tak smugly smiled as the woman's features darkened as she looked out at them.
"Come with me to my sea…travel with me to eternity…"
The men stood up and she continued her soft melody. One man began to glow black and he walked over to the woman. She held her now clawed hand to him and he took it. The woman brought him to the stage and danced with his hypnotized form. Her wings brushed against him as she held him close to her body. They vanished and Dib blinked in shock. Another woman appeared on stage and began to sing.
"Within in the wings of time…you've all been lost..."
The men opened their eyes and looked around in confusion. They began to cheer and Dib wondered how they didn't notice that the woman had changed. Dib quickly stood up and pulled Tak along with him. The woman upon the stage grinned at the two as they ran out of the building.
Dib glanced at his watch and noted that they had been in the club for twenty minutes. He knew that song didn't last twenty minutes. Tak held her gloved hand to her chest and pushed a button. Her disguise vanished and she wiggled her antennae, they were getting stiff. Tak had managed to grow a bit; she claimed that something in the Irken diet kept their height short. Her large violet eyes blinked and Dib raised an eyebrow. She cracked her fingers and raised an antenna.
"We have to find that guy!" Dib exclaimed.
"Why?" Tak questioned.
"That thing took him," Dib pointed out.
"So," Tak drawled.
"He's in danger," Dib explained as she blankly blinked.
"I still see no point," Tak sighed.
"Let's go," Dib growled and Tak chuckled.
"Where are we going?" Tak smugly questioned.
"I don't know…I just don't know," Dib sighed in defeat.
"Where did they find the bodies?" Tak questioned.
Dib's face lit up and he quickly hugged Tak to himself. Tak sputtered before she was dragged off into the night with Dib.
Tak gazed down at their connected hands as Dib dragged them down through the woods. She could care less about the man with that monster. Her violet eyes blinked as Dib squeezed her hand. She wondered why she didn't pull away from him his touch. They stopped walking and she broke her gaze. She raised her violet eyes and looked pass Dib's back and to the scene ahead of them.
A large pond was ahead of them, or you could call it a small lake. The water was a pitch black that left no way you for you to see the bottom. In the middle of this lake rested a rock big enough to seat two. The woman was upon this rock cradling the man to her body. His eyes were blissfully shut as she continued to hum her song. His flesh was slowly aging as her skin became softer.
"Stop!" Dib called out.
The woman turned her gaze to Dib and her laugh came out in harmony with her hum. Dib ran forward and the woman continued her hum.
"What are you?" Dib questioned.
"I am everything und nothing…I vas beauty turned vile," the woman replied.
"Why are you doing this?" Dib growled out.
"These men listen to voice and come villingly to feed me…I need my beauty," the woman hissed with a laugh.
"That is not a willing victim," Tak dryly pointed out.
"Silence! You vill never know mein struggle!" The woman growled.
"How are you going to stop her?" Tak questioned Dib.
Dib tensed and Tak chuckled at this. All his searching and he seemed to never believe that anything would happen. Tak reached into Dib's pocket and pulled the heavy tape recorder from his pants. His eyes shot open at this and his mouth dropped. Tak held the recorder and chucked it at the woman. The recorder hit the woman in her head and began to play her song backwards. She screamed as her own song tore at her ears. The man fell from her grip and into the water. The woman's wings began to shed as she continued her horrible screams. Feathers floated around her as her skin slowly shriveled. Dib covered his ears as he watched her slowly age.
Tak simply watched and pulled a set of earplugs from her PAK. Tak growled and handed them to Dib when she realized she had no ears. The woman's' body turned to a dry husk and her wings were nothing more but bones with dried skin. Her mouth was open in an endless scream. She fell into the water and the man shot up from the water as soon as he floated to shore.
"Hey! That's my tape recorder!" Dib shouted out in anger.
"It's an alien!" The man shouted as he pointed to Tak.
Tak glared and kicked him in the head. He fell backwards and Dib glared at her. Tak smirked at him and watched as Dib began to ramble. The tape recorder met a watery grave, but the man was safe…unconscious…but safe. Tak turned her disguise back on and huffed. She wanted to get back to her little base. Dib followed her back to club and they found that it had erupted in flames. They stood there watching the flames dance in the night sky.
"What was that woman?" Tak questioned as she opened the car door.
"I think a Siren," Dib replied as he started the car.
He still had no proof, only Tak, and his mind.
"My song remains the same…nothing every changes as you hear my beat…the siren song will always feed…"
File 23(Unsolved): Club Anthemoessa is closed and all owners have vanished...
Author's Note:
Just another pointless one-shot...I'm just getting ready to add Dib and Tak into my other story. I need practice with their characters.
Please leave a review, and I know legends about the Siren so I purposly screwed it up a bit.