Serena smirks, " Well, what did you expect. I'm the pranking queen. I have to be exceptionally light on my feet. "
Russell looks at her, " You are definitely something else, Ms. Hades. Is there anything we can all do to help keep Mikina safe? "
" Who's Mikina? " Rowen asks.
" Mikina is one of Tenku's littermates, and is witness to a murder. Her owners, the Takedas were murdered. She's the only witness they have and now I'll have to work exceptionally hard with her, Rekka, Mikina ni futatabi sanka shimasu. "
The Irish Setter pup races off to do so and Serena grins when he opens the door himself, " Definitely like the human Rekka, and before you ask, Ro, I do have a Suiko and Kongo. Kongo is my only St. Bernard and spends all his time protecting Suiko. "
Rowen smirks, " A St. Bernard, huh? Yeah, I cin see dat being a Kento type dog, just tell me Suiko isn't a poodle. "
" Suiko is not a poodle. Yappy, prissy, little things. Suiko is an Irish Water Spaniel, I'm still looking for a female companion for him and for Kongo actually, as I do want to breed those species as well. " Serena says just as Dr. Maris drives in.
" I hope you don't mind, Ms. Hades, but I had the time today and I figured I might as well get in as many shots and updates as possible. Can you get me your record books and I'll update those for you as I go. " Dr. Maris says.
" You need any help? " Serena asks.
" I'd appreciate it. "
" Ro, come on, you're going to be Dr. Maris' assistant. He knows where to go and he knows the commands necessary to get the job done, you'll need to write in English and write neatly, then you can computerize them as well. I keep hard copies as well as electronic versions using a security program that Ami wrote for me. "
Rowen follows her in and is loaded down with several binders worth of information. " Kuso, Rena. " Rowen mutters.
The dog breeder just smiles at this as Rowen follows the vet. She personally couldn't wait for her human Rekka to be the in house vet. The dog breeder goes over to her Rough Collie pups and pulls out the girl, Felicity's Dazzle, she sits the pup down, " Dazz, sit! "
She sits immediately, " Now, Dazz, Suwari! "
Dazz looks at her confused and Serena works patiently with her, awing her audience with her capabilities in training. Once Serena has her understanding that sit and Suwari were one in the same the pup caught on to the other commands fast. Serena gives her a chew bone and a firm Taizai or stay command and walks over to her audience, " So, what do you think? "
Russell shakes his head at this, " I think that you are a very rare talent, not only are you a breeder, but you're a trainer as well. "
" I happen to love animals, Russell. I also have the patience necessary to train them, plus, the local kids that can't have pets can come play with them and not miss out on some key experiences growing up. " Serena says.
Nick answers a call, " That was Sara, we need to get back to the lab. "
" I think I'll stay here for a while, maybe check on our witness, see more of how our breeder here operates. " Greg says.
" All right, the rest of us will be going back. " Russell states.
" Let me guess, you want to play with the puppies, right? " Serena asks him.
" I do, any you need played with? " Greg asks.
" Boss, we have a problem. "
Serena looks at her new trainer, " What is it, Mickey? "
A harried looking red head stops right in front of her, " It's Macinda. "
Serena pales, " Where? "
" Back quarter. "
Serena took off running, Topaz, Tenku, and Korin joining her, Mickey bringing up the rear. Greg blinks as he sees her take off, the young woman actually looked like she was flying. In truth it was all Serena could do to keep from summoning her wings. Macinda happened to be one of her stock chocolate labs. She curses in ancient Lunarian when she sees Macinda, " Mickey, I've got this. Have CSI Sanders get back here now. "
Mickey races off to do so and Serena continues to curse, " Damn, what happened? "
" I don't know, but I need you to process now and then I can get Maris back here to work on Macinda. You have to process her and the immediate area surrounding her first and fast, that way no evidence is lost due to trampling. There is no way in hell I will allow this to go unanswered. "
" Do you have a tracking dog for after I get done processing? " Greg asks.
Serena smirks and whistles long and loud in five short bursts. A Dalmatian comes running up, " This is Neflyte, once you're done I'll have him help you track the scent. He's been trained for search and rescue, I may call in one of my handler friends to work with him while you follow, he won't need the scent refreshed. " Neflyte had on a forest green collar, along with up to date tags. Greg sets to work, being meticulous and fast, as he knew the dog's life depended upon how fast he could get everything accomplished. Once he has a ten foot radius in every direction cleared Serena sighs.
Rowen, I need Dr. Maris at the back quarter now. Tell him one of my stock chocolate lab females has been injured, badly.
While she leaves Rowen with covering that she had sent him a text about the situation she approaches Macinda's Pride, " Hey, girl, we're going to get you patched up. Topaz, go get Malachite and Zoisite. "
When two German shepherds show up, Serena had rescued them before they could be put down, they were non-pedigreed, she looks at them, " Junkai, yogo. "
The dogs set to work immediately and Greg whistles, " You think the idiot could still be lurking around here? "
" I'm not taking any chances. " Serena states, whomever had hurt her dog was going to pay, big time, as she allowed no one to harm her animals. Macinda knew that if Serena could have prevented it, she would have. Now Serena would have to be taking extra measures to ensure the safety of her animals. She couldn't get more dogs to patrol and she didn't have enough money to set up an electric fence, she'd have to talk to Trista and hope the Plutonian scout would have some tech ideas she could use.
There had to be some way she could protect her borders and not have to worry about invasions and her animals getting hurt. She would find it to, maybe she could call Ami, see if she had anything she could use, or have Trista ask Ami. Trista was the only one of the scouts that Serena could talk to telepathically and not risk Darien finding out where she was. When Dr. Maris arrives he sets straight to work on saving Macinda. Serena knew her credit card expenses through Trista were going to go up and sighs internally. With Serena talking to Macinda softly in Japanese while Dr. Maris worked on the dog work was accomplished quickly.
Mickey had rigged a liter to carry Macinda back on and the gal dog whimpers softly. Serena's brown eyes take on a hard cast that Rowen easily recognized. They'd had that same cast after Ryo had been run down by Darien and the bastard had, had the audacity to think that she would turn to him for comfort. Instead she had turned to Rowen, as she was as close as she would get to a brother. Rowen had understood her pain in a way that only a brother could, couple that with the fact that they could both breathe in space and go there at a whim, and they got along well, the arguing was just to keep their verbal sparring skills sharp, as Serena had no intention of ever losing another verbal spar with Raye ever again.
Raye had really hurt her the last time they had spoken. She had essentially accused her princess of screwing with their destiny. She wasn't proud of what she had nearly done then, Ryo was already in his coma and she couldn't even hear his thoughts. He had kept her grounded and sane when she had first become Sailor Moon, he had given her a much needed outlet, as she couldn't talk to anyone else about scout business, Luna had bawled her out for letting the Ronins know who she was. So, she had gone to the roof of Crossroads Sr. High and stood on the edge, entirely ready to end her life.
Rowen had been the one to talk her down and she had told him everything, sure, Sage had been the only one that was allowed to stay in contact with her of the Ronins, except for Ryo, as his telepathic control was beyond anything any of the scouts could accomplish, or Lady Kayura. Pluto and Kayura had both placed the strongest protections they could on her, so she could potentially be safe. Sage had been the one to tell all of the scouts that their leader had tried to kill herself because of how she was treated by certain individuals and it wasn't like she could tell a therapist what was going on. Raye had apparently gotten really pale, as Serena had cut herself off completely from the scouts, save for Pluto and Saturn.
" Ms. Hades, I found some red rose petals about one hundred yards out. " Greg says, coming back.
Serena pales at this, " Kuso-, kare wa watashi o hakken shimashita. "
Rowen curses as well, " Dis is not good. If dat kusotarre gits aholda ya, yer toast, Rena. "
" Whoa, hold up, what's going on here? " Greg asks.
Serena has sunk to her knees, Tenku, Korin, and Topaz were all nuzzling up against her, sensing her distress. " She has dis ex, she basically did a WITSEC on 'er own, wit' a little help. He's not too thrilled wit' da fact dat she kicked 'im ta the curb, red roses are 'is signature. " Rowen explains.
Rowen, what the hell is going on, I can feel Rena's distress here.
Ryo, buddy, yer not gonna like it. Darien's found 'er, nearly killed one of 'er breed stock bitches, left some rose petals behind as a callin' card.
Shimatta, thank god for accelerated healing, I'll get there as soon as I can. Though I will have Kayura do something.
No need, somethin' tells me dat Serena is gonna be using da crystal to keep all with ill intent towards her or her dogs offa da property, she didn't before cause she had ta keep a low profile, now dat he knows where she is all bets are off.
True, and Darien will be hard pressed to get past the power of the crystal when Rena is determined.
Righ' now she scared. Talk ta her.
I will, in a little while, when she's calmed down some.
Disclaimer: I do not own CSI, Sailor Moon, or Ronin Warriors.
Author's Note: I use Google translate for all my Japanese words and phrases, any inaccuracies are not my fault as I am not fluent in Japanese, though I am learning how to swear in Japanese.