Awesome: Ok what we miss?
Wicked: A lot apparently.
Lemony: You guys choose to sleep instead of reading so now you have to go back and catch up.
Awesome: What the fuck ever, you're the one who posted 4 chapters in one day!
Lemony: And? I might post 4 more just for the hell of it!
Silver Moon
Gin blinked at Mushi for a moment. Had this old man been playing with him? This was serious! Mushi laughed at Gin's blank expression, Gin Ichimaru wasn't the first man he gotten with the ball test and he certainly wouldn't be last.
"Mushi, you know a lot about weird stuff…can you help me?" Gin pleaded, Mushi gave him a toxic smirk.
"I only help paying customers." Mushi responded with a sparkle in his eye, Gin knew what he talking about.
This was extortion.
If Gin wasn't so desperate he wouldn't have fallen for it. He glanced around the store and picked up a jar of…well…God only knows what.
"I'll buy…whatever this is." Gin said studying the jar of slimy green stuff, Mushi shook his head.
"You don't want that. You want that." He said pointing to a funny looking necklace with a purple crystal on it. Gin looked at the price tag and frowned,
"But this is more expensive!" Gin said to Mushi who laughed wholeheartedly,
"That's the point, fool." Mushi replied. Gin rolled his eyes and dug into his pockets and pulled out the necessary amount of money, Mushi didn't bother to put it in the register, instead he slipped into his robes.
"Now step into my office, Gin." Mushi said motioning for him to jump over the counter, Gin did so effortlessly and followed Mushi through the back door.
The pair appeared to what looked to be a double staircase. One stairway leading up and the other leading down, Mushi began to descend down the stairs and Gin followed with his nostrils overrun with dust.
"Mushi, how do you stand all this dust?" Gin coughed, Mushi smirked.
"Because I'm short, there's a fresh layer of air down here." He laughed, Gin shook his head. This old man was crazy.
Like a fox.
They approached a large door that looked to be made of steel, it had a giant padlock on it. Mushi shuffled around his robes before pulling a huge key. Unlocking the door, Mushi pushed it open, the room looked like a some kind of cell. No it couldn't be a cell, it was much bigger. Gin followed Mushi inside and looked about the room, it had a little rickety twin bed in the far corner void of any bedding. The walls were grey and the floor was solid cement. A lightbulb hung from the ceiling, which was the only light in the room without windows. There was a small bathroom that looked to be no bigger than a closet, all it had was toilet and shower without a tub or a current that also looked very filthy. On the farthest wall a chain was bolted to the wall, attached to it was a gargantuan steel collar. Gin gulped, this place looked like something out of a concentration camp.
Mushi shuffled about the room examining everything.
"This may not be what you want to hear but…you have to stay here for the time being." Mushi explained, Gin shrugged. He didn't mind, he was a werewolf, what could he need?
"Also, if you have a job you need to take a league of absents." Mushi continued going to the steel collar and tugging on it. Gin nodded, he'd be sure to do that. He had already finished his workload for a month, surely his boss wouldn't mind. Gin would just tell him he had a family member in hospital or something.
"Last, if you have friends or family it is best to let them know that you're here." Mushi told Gin. Gin stood in the doorway thinking. There was no way in hell Rukia would believe he was a werewolf, she'd probably think they were both crazy.
"I only have a girlfriend, and I'm sure she won't believe me." Gin said, Mushi turned to him and laughed.
"They never do." He said, "Until they see it for themselves."
Gin visibly swelled at the comment. He had seen himself when he…changed…he didn't want Rukia to have to see. But Mushi had a point, she'd never believe him if he told her.
So Rukia had to see, it was for her own good.
"Listen, I know you want to spare your lady friend from having to see you like that. But trust me its better that she knows. Werewolves also hunt those closest to them, you may kill her and not even realize it. Its better that she knows." Mushi said softly, he had dealt with werewolves in the past and a few family members where lost in the crossfire. If he could spare one person from being hurt, Mushi would sleep like a baby a night.
He pointed to the collar, "When the full moon comes, I have to lock you up." Mushi explained, Gin nodded. He understood fully that he would have be restrained to keep from hurting anyone.
"Alrightie, call up your lady friend. There's a full moon tonight, and sooner she knows the better."
*later that night*
It was nearly dusk once Gin shuffled Rukia into his car. He said they'd go to dinner, but strangely he didn't give her time to get dressed. She clad in her black turtle neck and slacks once she got home from the theater. Gin was didn't have a shirt on and had a pair of two-sizes-to-big sweats on. Rukia knew for fact they weren't going to dinner and Rukia nagged his ass the entire time he was driving. Gin didn't answer her assault of questions, instead he put the petal to the metal and sped through the city. He went so fast, Rukia was clutching the seat belt praying that Gin didn't crash into anything. Gin swerved into a side street and nearly crashed into Mushi's shop.
The old man was standing with arms crossed in the front of his store. He jumped out the way the moment Gin hit the breaks.
"Goddammit Gin!" Mushi shouted, "Werewolves can't drive for shit!"
"Gin! You almost hit that man!" Rukia yelled at her boyfriend, Gin wasn't listening , he was looking at the horizon and the sun setting.
"What? Oh, Mushi's fine. Come on!" He said snagged Rukia by the hand and running her into the shop, Mushi followed behind the pair grumbling obscenities. Gin leap over the counter with Rukia to the back door with her kicking and screaming the entire time. Gin had kept her in the dark about things recently and she want some damn answers! So Rukia turned into the Wicked Witch of the West! Mushi caught up with couple once Gin reached the steel door. He quickly unlocked it and Gin plopped Rukia down on the twin bed. Mushi motioned for her to stay put. She watched confused and irritated as the two whispered in the corner next to a huge steel collar. Now she was really confused.
What the hell was this? First Gin pushes her out of the house, nearly kills them with his reckless driving, puts her in a large filfthy room, and was no talking to some man (or midget) that she hadn't even been formally introduced to!
That it! This ends now!
"Hey!" Rukia shouted at the men, the stopped talking and turned to her, "What the hell is going on here!" She demanded stamping her dainty foot. Mushi approached her, and bowed respectfully.
"I'm Mushi. You must be Rukia, Gin's told me a lot about you. And as for what going on…well cupcake your about to find out, just stay put and don't move…and don't scream." Mushi said,
Don't sceam? What the fuck? Now Rukia was really confused, she was on the verge of cussing Mushi out, but he had already shuffled back over to Gin and began locking the collar around his neck. She watched silently as Gin paced back and forth with the chain rattling behind him. Mushi stood a good distance away, he motioned for Rukia to join him. Mushi had a smile plastered across his face.
"Watch this." He whispered to her reaching inside his robes and pulling out the yellow ball. Rukia looked at the ball confused. Mushi wagged it in front of Gin's face, his eyes followed the ball.
"Do you want the ball, Gin?" Mushi asked, Gin nodded furiously panting.
"Go get it, boy!" Mushi cried throwing the ball to the farthest corner of the room, Gin ran after it only to have the collar catch him around the neck and his legs snatched from beneath him. He hit the cement floor with a thud. Mushi doubled over in laugher, as badly as Rukia didn't want to laugh, she giggled.
"That not funny to Mushi!" Gin yelled at the elder male who was tearing up from his all his laughter.
"Like hell wasn't!" Mushi laughed, "But seriously, I had make sure you couldn't break the chain."
Gin looked at Mushi and frowned. He knew he was lying and just enjoyed playing with him like him.
"Have ever heard of Golden Retriever, Gin? Well you're a Silver Retriever!" Mushi cracked laughing even harder. At that moment Rukia lost her compusre and cracked up with Mushi. Gin was turning red from his embarrassment. This was serious and Mushi was making jokes. He be sure to strangle that old man once he got out of this. Mushi rolled up the sleeve of his robes and looked at his watch.
"It is now 10:30 and the full moon should be coming out in…3…2…1…" Mushi said keeping his eyes locked on Gin. Once he got one Gin fell to the ground cringing and withering. Rukia clasped a hand over her mouth, just as she about run over to him, Mushi stood in her way.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, cutie pie." Mushi said using his back to shield her.
"B-but he's in pain!" Rukia argued as Gin continued to wither his face contorted in agony.
"We'll be the ones in pain if we let him lose, now stay put!" Mushi said his green eyes flashing, "Gees, young people are so impatient. Sit your happy-ass down and watch!"
Rukia was to worried about Gin to even respond to Mushi, she watching in horror as Gin bulked up each muscle popping out and becoming veiny. He was growing hair all over his body, his nails began to grow into sharp claws. And his eyes held murder. Within a few minutes Gin was fully transformed and Rukia was speechless.
She wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes. Her boyfriend, her lover, was a monster.
"Gin?" She whispered to the silver-haired beast, it looked at her snarled. Rukia hid behind Mushi, which looked silly, because he was twice as short as she was. Mushi rolled his eyes, typical girl friend response.
"At least she didn't scream." Mushi thought, and right then Rukia let out a shout.
"I spoke to soon."
Lemony: So now Rukia knows the truth.
Awesome: Wow, Mushi really does sound like Granddad.
Wicked: I think I would drop dead if I watched my boyfriend turn into a werewolf.
Lemony: you'd probably like it.
Wicked: And you'd be right about that…REVIEW.