Review- Xing (Yue) and Cooga finally located 2 of the members of the circus group. This group has the same faces as the WH Black class members and the questions are "why and who are they really? What is their objective?" However, Yue never would have guessed that his own brother, Xing (the real Xing who should be dead because of Lee) is part of the circus group and Cooga is still hung up on the kiss from earlier. What will happen next? Keep reading to find out…
BTW: sorry for the wait
The Time Bridge
Cooga: "Why?"
Yue: "How?"
As our two black class agents continued to gape at their opposites, Xing (the real one) slowly walked up to his twin, placed a butterfly-like kiss on his cheek and pulled Yue in a gentle embrace.
Finally snapping out his shock, Yue realized that he was being hugged. But he couldn't get himself to push away, let alone to fight the urge to tightly embrace his brother back. Expecting no hug in return, the hug ended and Xing pulled away. He slipped a slip of paper into Yue's hands, gave one last smile and went off back into the alley.
Cooga, on the other hand, stood frozen on the spot. The shadow figure glided across the ground and stood in front of Cooga, his face barely visible under the shadow of the hood and only an inch away from his face.
"Why", Cooga asked again in shaky voice. "Why did you do that? Who are you?"
A short pause, and then the shadow figure once again pulled Cooga into his embrace, this time much gentler and no kiss to follow.
"Because I love you," he bluntly stated and released Cooga from his arms.
When he saw that Xing was retreating, he gave one last look at his "beloved" and then followed closely behind into the shadows. Yue and Cooga soon sprinted after them, after their surprise had worn off. They barely kept up with the edges of their capes before completely losing them at a dead end.
"Hey! Where are you?" Yue shouted, "Come back! I have so many question I have to ask you!"
"It's no good. We lost them," said Cooga, slightly gasping for air, "If they were nearby I would have detected a small trace of electrical waves. They're gone."
"Tch," was Yue's only response, frustration etched his every breath.
As Yue and Cooga left the alley and back towards the main road, feeling defeated, they were greeted by their fellow teammates, who have already finished searching their ends of the city. The rest of the team had no luck in tracking down their target. Yue and Cooga beg to differ. They explained their chase of cat and mouse, with the mouse winning. Yue left out the details about how he wasn't "Xing" and Cooga kept quiet about the confession from the shadow man.
"So that's what happened," Tasha said, arms folded across his chest, trying to process the information, "You guys should have called us anyway. We could've caught those guys and put them into interrogation."
"I- We both were too shocked to do anything at the time. We were only able to chase them in the alleyway after the shock wore off," Yue stated.
"Ugh, More confusing clues that don't fit each other!" Halloween exclaimed.
"The only thing that one of the performers left behind was a slip of paper that he gave me before he left," Yue added in, holding out his hand for the rest to see, "The only thing that it says is 'The answers to your questions are close by.'"
A moment of silence, no one understood what their only clue meant.
"Sheesh! We finally get somewhere but our only clue is a riddle?! What's up with that!" blasted Halloween. Everyone was on the same page; no one was able to find an answer.
Just then, a yellow-orange Tabby cat scampered out of an alleyway, wearing a white ribbon around its neck. It cantered up to Tasha's feet and began purring and rubbing against his leg, asking for attention.
"Huh?" Tasha looked down, breaking the groups concentration," Hey there, where did you come from?" He picked up the cat and it purred even more softly against his chest.
"Well, look at that. Tasha the 'Cat Charmer'" Cooga sneered.
"Hut, looks like you're back to your regular mojo, short stack" Tasha sneered back.
"Look at its neck, there's something written on it," Ryuhwan replied.
Upon inspecting the sash around the cat's neck, the name Kun was sewn on the front.
"Kun, huh?" Tasha asked the cat. Kun looked up to Tasha and meowed loudly in response. "Wait, 'Kun'?," Tasha questioned, "Doesn't it sound like the first part of Cooga's last name, Kunein?"
Wait for it… and 3, 2, 1… LIGHT BULB!
Xing: You're right!
Tarras: Then, could this cat be the answer to all our questions? I mean it said: "The answers to your questions are close by" and the cat was close by and walked up to us
Ryuhwan: Maybe. He nodded in agreement. But it all seems too easy, what if it's a trap?
Cooga: Maybe "Tasha the Cat Charmer" can talk to it and ask it questions, hahaha
Halloween: Watch it shorty! She tugs at her stocking which transforms into dual swords. You're the one with connection to the cat. So I guess you're Cooga the little kitty cat. She said while sneering back.
Cooga: hah! You picking a fight, you pumpkin soup?
MEOW~!
Everyone froze in place for a moment and turned their heads back to Kun, still in Tasha's arms. Cuddled, comfortable and playing in his arms, the purring continued with the occasional mews. When the group was done with their blank stares, they slowly stalked towards the cat. Kun, feeling some forms of hostility approaching, hissed at the encroaching group and leapt out of Tasha's arms and ran towards the semi-busy roads of the square.
"Wait! Our precious clue, come back!" Everyone shouted.
"It's all you guys' fault. You all scared the poor thing," Tasha retorted.
"It's your fault for letting it go!" Ryuhwan retorted back.
MEOW~!
The cat called out to them towards an older and abandoned looking square, far from the bustling streets.
"Hey! Slow down! Wait up!" the group called out.
Dodging corners and littered crates and wagons in the darkening streets, the group left the surveillance of Kun to Tarras and his Earth Scan. Kun headed towards an alleyway after making a quick turn around a corner.
"Hah! Nowhere left to go. It's a dead end up ahead." Tarras informed the rest of his team.
With his back against the wall, Kun's back arched up to the sky and hissed menacingly to the approaching WH agents. Tasha walked ahead of the group to try to calm him down and to regain his trust.
"Come on Kun. It's alright." Tasha cooed, "Come here Kun"
Kun slowly returned to a normal stance and the hisses stopped. When the group took a couple steps closer, Kun turned around and leapt above a small pile on garbage on the ground before pulling a disappearing act through a stonewall.
"How did he-?" Xing asked in amazement
With his mana-indicator goggles on, Ryuhwan was able to confirm that the cat had disappeared but something else remained.
"There seems to some sort of mana powered portal on the wall." Ryuhwan said, continuing his research with his goggles, "There are also a lot of interference in the front of the portal. I can't get a good lock on where it's headed."
"Well, only one way to find out!" exclaimed Tasha, followed by Halloween. Both leapt over the garbage, the same way Kun did, and disappeared into the wall. After a few moments, so did the rest of the team. When everyone was inside, the entrance to the portal closed and the group was found in a swirl and streams of color and falling, fast.
"Stay together!" Xing called out
All the members tried to swim their way towards each other and managed to get close enough to not lose track of each other.
"Where is this taking us?" Halloween asked.
"Probably to wherever our cat had run off to." Tarras answered, "But who knows. I can't tell what the heck this thing is to begin with."
At that moment, a bright flash of light shined at the end of the stream. The agents were blinded for a moment and when they all got their focus, they found themselves falling from the sky, and into an underground pool. One after another, each WH got a chance to get dunked headfirst into the deep end of the cold pool and resurfacing with a gasp. The portal that dropped its riders closed above them, leaving only a tiled ceiling.
Looking around their surrounding, it appeared to be a basement pool with two windows and a single door. After catching their breath they heard small mews coming from one side of the pool.
"Kun! There you are!" Tasha happily exclaimed, and he swam his way to the cat. Taking a closer look, Kun was sitting on top of a pile of towels.
"Are those for us?" he asked and Kun gave him a simple nod, "Thank you. Guys, dry yourself off here."
"Where are we exactly?" Cooga asked, while drying his hair and then wringing his hat.
"Your at WH headquarters in the future." A voice answered back, coming from the entrance/exit, "It looks like you guys crossed the Time Bridge with no problem."
Everyone in the group turned their attention to the man walking in and towards them. He was a tall male with a long pure snow-white hair, fashioned in mismatched layers, and wearing a black suit and tie. Followed by a young girl with light brown blonde color hair with blue eyes and wearing a white blouse shirt with a dark brown vest and black slacks.
"Who are you people? And what's a 'Time Bridge'?" Tasha questioned.
"Don't worry, everything will be explained in due time. Please come this way." The man gesture towards the exit
"Kun, come here" the girl cooed and Kun immediately left the table of towels and pranced onto the girl's shoulder.
"Wait, that voice sounds like…," Tasha hesitated to believe that it might be her.
"Is that your cat?" Cooga asked.
"You can stay that. He is, more specifically, Ryu's cat," the girl answered kindly.
"Who's Ryu?" Xing asked
"Oh, you'll meet him and the others soon enough." the girl said.
After the group had dried off completely, they followed their hosts up a couple flights of stares. Once they crossed the threshold of the last set of stairs, they found themselves in a small office room with low-rise cubical walls and several people bustling about.
"Welcome to WH headquarters," the young man announced, "Now, if I may introduce myself. I'm Allen Florence and this is Aria Godspell, my assistant."
Shocked to see his own sister, but one who doesn't look like his sister, standing before him posed many more questions.
"You're Aria? MY little sister?" Tasha asked with disbelief, "But you look nothing like her."
*** What to do you all think? Please Review, I need to know what to improve.
***From here on is where I will start incorporating a lot of things that may or may not be familiar to you readers. SO, I will say this now, what ever is in this fanfiction, whatever characters or details are the same as other TV shows and series, the credits for the original belongs to them. See the list below, all content belongs to their owners. Again, I only own this fanfiction but not the Manhwa or the details from other shows.
Details I used/will use are as follows:
Witch Hunter (Manhwa)
NCIS
Teen Titans
Kingdom Hearts
Shugo Chara
Digimon
Final Fantasy 13
Fruits Basket
Pokemon (from the series and movies)
Kuroshitsuji
Kuroko no Basuke
Silver Diamond (Manga)
Okane ga nai (Anime/Manga)
And others that I will add later on, what you see above is what I have already enlisted to be in the story; others may be added in later chapters.
