Chapter 6
Race for your life, literally.
Hello people, sorry for the delay, so here's a really long chapter, see where you can find the movie clichés.
Time passed as the plane came to San Fran Cisco. Before it even hit the runway though the man simply bowed in n argent manner and spoke as his eyes looked at the floor. "And I thank you for the ride; your lives will be spared this day." He then stood up. "Be thankful I'm still full from earlier." He left the cabin then and went to the pressurized door. He opened it and the hinges broke causing the door to fly off and hit a bus below. The man jumped then, wings unfolded from the coat and the man landed with ease on one of the skyscraper roofs.
The pilot ignored all of this as he started to make his accent. "Everyone I'm landing." He shouted to the intercom, put your belts on and get in the crash position. We are going down." Conan got into his seat and buckled his belt. 'I gotta tell some one but who will believe me.' He thought as the plane descended to the runway. Already cops and rescue vehicles were waiting on the sides as the plans wheels touched the concrete. A staircase was brought forward as the police came on first. "Where's the perpetrator?' They shouted as the pointed their guns in all direction. The pilot sighed in sadness. "You're too late. He jumped on our way here." He then got angry. "You couldn't help us anyway. Look at what he did to her." He pointed at the dead stewardess. "Jesus." One of the cops said as he looked ad the mostly severed neck. "You should see what he did in Hawaii. We're lucky to be alive." He then started to move past the police. "Sir we need every one to stay for interviews."
People began to talk words of confusion and monsters to demons and vampires killing people. "These people are nuts on officer said as he looked over the notes. "Hey Orccot this sounds like one of your stories." Conan looked to where the one had talked to curious. "Yeah, yeah, you weren't there though. I'm telling you though the count was selling killer animals." Now Conan new who might believe him. It was a blond pony tailed man. He went over too the man and spoke. "Excuse me sir, but can I talk to you?" The guy go down on his knees. "Are you one of the passengers?" He asked and Conan nodded. "Yes sir, I am. I think you're the only one who'll believe me. The man wasn't human or an animal. I saw what he did to her." The detective held up his hands whoa hold on a second why tell me I'm not even on that case." Conan smirked at that. "Because of what that man said. Obviously something happened to you that involved something that no one else believed. Something that involved death and strange murder by strange creatures." The mans mouth was agape for a moment. "Wait what are you one of those genius's I always hear about coming from Japan." He then put his left hand behind his head. "Besides no one's ever believed me anyway." Conan spoke back then. "Actually sir, my story's completely different. You tell me and I'll tell you." They both went to one of the food areas and sat down. "You know kid I really shouldn't be doing this, but oh well."
So the detective began to talk about what had happened when he began to investigate count D's pet shop. D was supposedly selling dangerous pets, causing the death of many people. Leon though couldn't get any evidence to get the count arrested. It became even stranger as Leon explained what happened when he met D's father. He had battled his way through a monster filled forest to stop him. After every thing d had disappeared and he hadn't heard or seen him since. "Interesting tale. The count seems very clever with that contract, so long as the people followed it they didn't get hurt. But when they disobeyed it they suffer. He comes out clean." Leon smirked as he took a sip of his coffee. "Yeah, so what's yours kid?" Conan asked a question before he started. "Do you want my full story or do you want to just hear about the plane?" "Might as well start at the beginning since I told you mine." So Conan started at the beginning, of how he was changed in to a boy and his real identity jimmy Kudo. When asked for proof he showed Leon some of the gadgets he used. "Yours at least make's some sense, if you heard what the men had said then they had to try and take you out. So jimmy tell me about the plane." So Conan continued to talk about the mysterious man and his monstrous form. "So he jumped from the plane and into the city. You think he might still be here?" Leon asked. "I don't know, he said he was searching for some one, all I know that he's hunting them." Leon put his fingers to his chin. "Hmm, if he's after someone then maybe they were on an earlier flight."
They then went to one of the terminals and began to check. "Bingo, there was a flight before that heading to America, licensed under a Richard palmer; the police there are investigating the destruction of hanger and a car that was there. The car was seen through a security camera crashing through the gate followed by a large monster." Leon looked at Conan "kid your fast, any chance we can see who the cars registered to?" Now it was Conan's turn to smirk. "Better than that, I can get identity of some of the people in the car. He summed in on the still and began to work. "Kid, now you're too fast." Conan continued to work. "Got one from a wanted file. Vicky Wolken, alias Vixenly, wanted for tomb theft, destruction of property and general mayhem." He picture came up then. "She's a looker to. There are a lot of blank spaces though. So the thing was chasing a thief and the thief ran to the airport, and the plane was heading too…. Chicago?" Leon looked at Conan. "So all the answers may be in Chicago. Let's get moving, we don't have much time. I can charter a flight and be there under half a day if we're lucky."
The two left the station then and headed back to the airport. "We need a flight to Chicago now!" Leon demanded. "Sorry but you'll have to get a privet plane." She then pointed over to a side door. "Talk to Garry beyond that door. He can get you to where you have to go." Leon and Conan went out the door and saw a chubby man. "You Garry?" Leon asked. "Yep, that I am." He then spat on the ground. "We need to get to Chicago now." "That'll be 750 bucks, 500 for you and 250 for the kid. There's an atm machine over there." Leon went to the machine, got the money and paid the man. "Now gentlemen onto Chicago, for we have little time." With that said the three took off.
A roar filled the night as the thing ran through the desert night as it passed the Californian boarders and into Nevada. From the moon its true form could finally be seen. That of a wolf and cat, a variety of spikes and sharp ridges bursting from various points. Folded on the back were two large bat like wings, its tail was full of barbed spikes. A long roar and howl filled the sky as he bayed at the moon.
He was free. They could not stop him, for they were now old and hopefully dead. For so long he had been trapped, sealed in a place long forgotten of the human world. The six stones were lost through the ages, lost to the greed of the humans. Strangely enough it had been a man seeking revenge for the family he had lost that had sought out his tomb of sorts. Another howl filled the night as he passed over a dune and took flight gliding over the dissipating heat. He landed in the dirt and sand as quickly as he had took flight and continued to run.
The monster had made it out to the human world once, causing the death of an entire people called the Mayans. The magic's had become aware of him then as he had fed on them in the jungles and they feared him for he feasted on their bloods and organs, draining that which made them powerful. Each kill had made him stronger and hungrier; he soon started to where there was more and began to feast again. The wizards and witch's came then, each held a stone holding the powers of the elements. Surrounding him they sealed him in that of a jade statue. He was aware as they placed him in a closed tomb of an emperor of china. There he stayed in wait until an archeological team found and put the small jade statue on display at a museum in Japan. The boy had been in a tour and his mind called out to him. 'Smash me boy and they will be avenged, do it, DO IT! DO IT!' With that the boy had smashed the glass with his bare hands and lifted the statue as the guards came running, it shattered as it hit the marble floor. Releasing the spirit of him into the boy.
The boys rage at the monsters fueled the possession faster as he began to kill again. The boy never even realized it until it was to late and the destroyer known as Kalma began his hunt again. He could feel his power return and grow with each death, but now something had caught his attention from the ones he was now chasing. It was the cat spirit; he had been in the process of hunting it when they had sealed him. He wanted it bad and he would get it or else.
The flight for the most part remained quiet, what had surprised everyone though was that Akito had fallen asleep and was drooling down his chin. "Ok people wake sleeping crabby up, we're getting ready to land, so seatbelts please." Rick said over the intercom as every one went to buckle their seats. "No don't leave me alone…" Akito muttered in his sleep as Tohru shook him awake. He glared at them as they snickered. "What're you looking at?" He yelled as he put his belt on. They landed safely and got ready to leave the airport with Rick waving goodbye. "Hey kid don't forget to pay me, cause if you don't, I'll sent a merc after ya!" He said smiling as the group left for the field museum.
"So who are we seeing again?" Kyo asked as they pulled up to the steps. "Her name's Amy Meldrum, and she's basically one of the heads in our science department of were creatures." They still looked at her with some confusion, so tried a different way. "When one of us is found in the media, or discovered, she documents it, and then destroys the evidence that points to us. To a point she does cover ups. Infact some of the things in here are from our people's heritage. Infact there's two monsters in there that went on a rampage." Tohru looked at her with some shock. "R-r-rampage?" She stammered as they entered the front doors. "Oh don't worry their stuffed." Vixenly said as she paid for them to enter. You three go and look at some of the exhibits while I try and find Amy." Vixenly then moved away from them.
"Let's go and look I guess." Kyo said as the three of them started to look. Each of them kept quiet as they looked at both American and world history. From mummies to fossils and to the stuffed animals, that is until they came to the two lions. "Wow, hey Tohru, I think these were the ones that they were talking about." Kyo said as he looked at the two large cats. "Well, where are their manes? They look like pansies." Akito said as he began to read the sign. "Wow, they were man eaters." He commented. "They sure were. Infact, they were two shamans that went feral when the railroads came into their territory." A voice spoke up from behind them.
They turned and saw a thin small woman with coke rim glasses in a lab coat. "Hi." She said waving at them. "And who might you be?" Akito asked her. "Why I'm Amy of course, please follow me, and maybe we can unravel this mystery." She then walked off humming a tune. They then followed her to a room with a security officer. "Hey Gary, they're with me." She motioned to the three and they all went in. They continued along a long corridor full of doors until they came to one marked paleontology, they entered and went past desks and file cabinets and to a closet marked junk. Inside were shelves of artifacts, Amy lifted up a large skull and hit a switch underneath it. The floor opened up and revealed a stairway. "This way to the world of the mystical animals." She said as she and everyone began to walk down, the floor finally closing as Tohru stepped through.
When they reached the bottom Amy flipped on a switch, rows and rows of lights came on revealing shelves of skulls, bones and an assortment of weapons. "As you can see we have a variety of things." She then waved her index finger at them. "But I wouldn't touch any, one wrong move and you'll be cursed, and believe me, there's some things out there that worse than just becoming something with claws." She then brought them to where Vixenly sat in a chair reading a book. "Hey Amy." She said as she put the book down. The title read springs of Jusenkyo. "So let's get started on finding out who our monster is." By Vixenly was a computer and a fridge, Amy opened the fridge and got a container out. She opened it and they all saw some grayish pink stuff with a spoon. A slurp could be heard as she started eating. "Wanna know why they call me brain drain Amy? It has to do with my curse, remember when I said there are worse things than having claws? I become a monster that carves glands that can only be found in humanoid brains, if I don't eat my mind regresses into a primal state and I would change and try and eat your brains." At this she took another slurp of her goo. "Want some? It's pretty good." Everyone shook their heads, Tohru looked like she was about to throw up. "Oh well, I never even believed in mystical stuff until I pierced my hand on that statue over there." She then pointed to a statue of a small gargoyle like monster. "It was found in South America; after I cut myself I slowly changed into a large reptilian like monster and killed some men. People came to me and helped me change back, but if I don't eat at least one brain every two days I begin to change back." May then set the brains down and began to type and research.