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Warnings: Look to previous chapters.
Note: The Wolfen in this chapter is based off of a race of mine, modified a bit to fit better with this story line. "(((" followed by italic writing is a flashback. Hope it's not too confusing. Please forgive any errors I may have made…I do type this stuff up around 2am. XD
Chapter 5: New Threat
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Dee sighed as he stepped out from the small shop. Speaking with that man had given him a headache, and his stomach had begun to nag its demand for supplement. He pulled out a clear bag from his jacket pocket. It was a packet of blood from one of the blood drives that snake of a shopkeeper held. The blood did save lives, just not in the same way the humans believed it to. Someone would die today, but not by his hands...that, he was sure of.
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"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Ryo muttered to the air around him as he headed for the phone that kept blaring out its alarm. "Hello?…Drake, something wrong?…What! Are you sure?…Yeah, I'll head there right now." The call ended with a soft click as he hung up before putting on his shoes. After he grabbed his coat, he was out the door and on his way to meet up with Drake.
When Ryo arrived at the crime scene, his ears were greeted with a mad cackling that belonged to a man, being pinned down by five officers.
"Yo. What kept ya?" Drake muttered to Ryo, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I don't live far from here, so sue me," he shrugged, "Anyway, what's with this guy?" He motioned to the man being restrained and Drake sighed,
"He…would be the one we've been looking for, I guess. The fact that he's completely psychotic explains most of it too." Ryo's attention snapped away from the man to Drake.
"Most? Meaning…?"
"There was another killing today, in the park. We think it was a jogger, male."
"Think? How can..?"
"The body was shredded apart, even several bones were missing. Very little skin tissue was left unmarred and most of the muscle tissue, along with all of the organs below the neck were gone." Ryo felt his stomach turn as Drake continued, "It was like some sort of animal…or perhaps monster, tore the person apart while--" He was interrupted by a sudden outburst from the cackling madman. "What are you doing? Get him under control and get him inside the car all ready!" Drake yelled at the cops, who were still struggling to keep the upper hand. "…Damn, I'll say one thing, that guy may be a psycho, but he's stronger than he looks." Ryo frowned at that and Drake waved him off, "Don't worry about this any more for today! Go home and get a good night's rest for once. Your case has been solved. The one about the park incident hasn't been assigned to anyone's full attention yet." He gave the other officer a smile, trying to convince him to relax, at least for one night. After a few moments, Ryo gave him a nod and muttered,
"Thanks. You try to not work too hard then too, eh? Just give me a call if you need help with anything, or if anything comes up with that guy," he said, pointing at the man just being locked into the back seat of a car. Drake gave him a nod, "Right! Will do. Take care, man." With that, Ryo turned to head back to his apartment.
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Ryo sighed as he fell onto his bed and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he was staring into a pair of green eyes, "Hello."
"Whaah! Geez, can't you ever knock?" Dee just gave him a grin before sitting down beside him on the bed,
"So…Case closed?" Ryo gave him a sigh before replying,
"I guess one will be closed, but a new one is about to open up."
"What do you mean?"
"Someone was torn apart…possibly eaten…in the park today."
"What!" Ryo's eyes widened slightly and he looked over to see Dee angry, "That damn snake, what did he release into the city!"
"Release?" Ryo sat up, now worried.
"It doesn't concern you," he then added very lowly, "I hope." Dee then tried to stand, but Ryo's hand wrapped around his wrist stopped him from moving any further. He turned to Ryo as the man spoke,
"Doesn't concern me? I somehow can't believe that. What have you done?" Dee gave him a soft smile, before he leaned in closer to Ryo, causing the other to fall back onto the bed while trying to regain some distance. When their noses were only a few inches apart, Dee replied,
"If all went as it should, it really wouldn't matter what I have done, but I believe I have been double-crossed and so there might be a far bigger commotion than what I was causing."
"Bigger commotion! Wha—"
"No matter what happens to this town, I will see to it that you are not harmed." Dee then leaned in further kissing Ryo deeply enough, that he could not protest. He slowly pulled back before whispering, "I promise…" and he shimmered out of sight. Leaving Ryo to deal with a torrent of mixed emotions, alone.
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'Damn, damn, damn, damn!' Dee mentally cursed as he bounded between the trees. He had to hurry.
((("You damned snake!" Dee yelled as he rammed the shopkeeper into the wall before sliding him upward, to where his feet dangled a few inches off the ground, "What did you release into this city!" The man gave Dee a defiant, almost insane, grin,
"Something that hasn't been seen in a very long time. It was given to 'e not too long after you left, I just had to le' the new pet out for a walk, y'know?" A growl of anger welled up in Dee's throat as he threatened the man's neck, jerking him slightly too as he yelled, "I'll ask you one last time…What did you release into this city!"
"You're a bright vam'ire…What else could it be but a Wolfen?" he began to chuckle, "Quite mad one at that…" his chuckling burst into an insane laughter as he added, "This whole fucking town 'ill be full of 'em in a month's time! Nobody 'ill be safe! Not even you damn, ungrateful vam'ires!" Dee threw the man across the room, into some crates of various vials. He walked firmly, but slowly towards the groaning man. "You'll not live to see another day," He glanced over at a pile of various traps. Meant for anything from a bear to a werewolf, "Let's see how you like your traps while you're in them." The man lost his grin as his eyes filled with true fear.
"N-no! You wou—" He stopped to yell as he tried to get up and run away. Dee gave him a cold grin before lunging after the man, "You will not be leaving this place alive.")))
Dee's running came to a sudden halt as he spotted the creature, feeding off of another helpless human. The creature stopped eating and stared at Dee, it's hallow, blazing white eyes a strong sign that it had long since lost it's mind, yet alone the ability to gain it's humanoid form and speak. The disease running through this thing's body seemed to have made it grow in size slightly. Which made it about two heads taller than a normal wolf, and it's fur has become so course that it bristled out even when the beast was calm…or at least as calm as the disease would let it be. It began to snarl at Dee, and he bared his fangs as he spoke to the beast,
"How did you manage to escape to this side of the realm? Your kind is smarter than that, and you know that this realm is a poison to your mind and body…but…returning now would not save you." The beast took a step forward, growling while a bit of foam began to well up in its anger. "And I can't have you going around just biting people either, that would give this world werewolves to worry about once again." The beast stopped growling and seemed to almost smile before it took off running, away from Dee. He cursed under his breath before dashing after it, pulling out a gun he'd 'borrowed' from Ryo. The beast was a bit faster than he was, so it was able to pull out of his sight. Just when he was afraid he'd lost its trail, he heard a yell, then some gun fire.
Dashing off towards it, he came to a clearing, he saw blood but no body and no Wolfen. The blood led off in a trail, and Dee promptly followed it. He was rewarded with finding the beast, lying down and nursing it's wounds. "Damn…You don't care anymore, do you?" Dee gave it a bitter grin, "You bit someone back there, you damned beast…You also chased him off so that I couldn't find that person too…Looks like you're not as mindless as I thought." Dee held up the gun, aiming right at the creature's forehead. It looked up at him and seemed to grin at him. A shot fired, and it fell to the ground, dead. Dee lowered the gun before looking up to the crecent moon, "Damn…looks like it won't be long before the new arrival will show itself." He then bent down to work on burying the Wolfen's corpse. Neither human nor animal needed to run across it.
When he finished, he cleaned himself up the best he could before shimmering out of sight.
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