Iniunie sat glumly in the corner as he half listened to Kat and Aludra rattle on about something or another. Probably Ying and Yuki again, or their videogames. It didn't really matter anyways. He was saved from their endless chatting as his pager began to beep. All four ears pricked up as he looked at the marqueeing screen: Randville, 4:00. Due East. Without paying much attention to the twittering teenage girls and their pets, he dashed out.
Agent H, a female yellow xweetok leaned against her motorcycle. "Took ya long enough." She said, grinning and mounting her bike.
Iniunie rolled his yellow eyes. "You know perfectly well we don't have time for this, Hibiscus, now let's get going." He rushed to the back room of the house and grabbed his own motorcycle out, and rode it into place behind Agent H's own.
"Alrighty then, hotshot." She said with a wink behind her, revving up her motorcycle and zooming off, Iniunie close behind. Hibiscus, or Agent H as she was generally called, annoyed the heck out of Iniunie, but was a big help with sightings and locations of supposed kidnappings or abuse.
Hibiscus stuck with Iniunie for a few reasons. She needed something to do, she thought he was cute, he didn't label her even though she didn't mind interspecies, and her old partner Agent M, or Missy, left and got some new morphing kid named Zycke for a partner. Oh well.
They stopped near the edge of Randville, some small redneck town with people who were either extremely nosy, or people who hardly knew you existed. Iniunie got off his motorcycle and walked up to where Agent H stopped. "So where is it?" he asked coolly.
She smirked and pulled out a printed map. She pointed to a rickety old house on it. "There you'll supposedly find some kid." She replied as Ini peered over it.
"Alright….thanks." he said, running off. Agent H shook her head. Some things never change. Ini slunk around the side of the building to see a truck with a cover over the back, and some big men chatting about what to do with 'the kid'. Iniunie cracked his knuckles and grinned. "Time to save more lives." He thought.
He ran head-on into the fray and sent a blow to the eyrie's face, with a follow up knee-kick to the gut. He span around and sent a blow to the kyrii, very nearly winding him. The eyrie came back at him, and Ini kicked him into the grarrl. Iniunie chuckled. He was used to street fights and they were used to people running. How amusing. The kyrii came back and Ini kneed him. The trio scrambled away, or at least tried. Iniunie knocked them down first.
"Alright….that was rather fun. You almost gave me a black eye. Almost. So where'd you stash the kid?" he said, smirking all the while. He had expected a better fight from these three. It turned out that the young lupe had seen the whole fight and was now whimpering beside the shed. Iniunie knelt in front of him.
"You okay kiddo?" he said kindly, ruffling his hair. The boy nodded, trembling. Ini smiled. "You got a family anywhere?" the young lupe shook his head, and stuttered a bit as he explained.
"Th-they u-uhm you know…..muh-muh-" he couldn't think of the word 'murder', so instead he blurted out "killed them." Iniunie clucked sympathetically as a mother or sibling would, for he did have a brother himself.
"Are there any others here?" he asked. The lupe shook his head. Ini turned and offered him a piggyback ride, which the child accepted happily.
Agent H gave Iniunie a thumbs up sign. "I'll go take care of them; you go do your hero business." She said. Ini rolled his eyes and grinned. He liked saving lives; he felt it was slowly making up for what happened to Lily.
In the end Iniunie took "Vinn" out for ice-cream sherbets, took him to the orphanage, and gave him his number. "Call me sometime." Ini had said before he left. Vinn looked at him wide-eyed, and hugged him, much to Ini's surprise. Later, after Ini had gone back home and Hibiscus had taken the culprits to the Chia Police, Vinn told the other orphans his story, and said that he wanted to be just like both his rescuers, for indeed, Hibiscus didn't play that small of a part either. ;