"This way." The policeman guided him towards a cell.
"Don't touch me!" he snapped. 'How dare you touch me! How dare you look at me with such contempt! I will not forget this slight! Once im free-I will deal with 'kirito-kun' and Asuna, the freak girl and you too! Stupid kids! Stupid cops! You all will regret crossing me!'
"I demand a phone call."
They nodded, though still kept processing him-taking fingerprints and photos before letting him call. Treating him like a common criminal!
"Are you going to call your lawyer?"
"You wish I were to call my lawyer!" Sugou sneered.
He called his contact instead- not the one to the main branch of the Yuuki family who represented the Technocracy here, but the one a more practical branch, from the main offices in America.
"I need your help!"
"The brat took it-but I made it, I have the data on my computers and know how to finish it again-it's all but done!"
"Ruined? The whole computer lab? Then… the program data is destroyed? I can recreate it all-I know what to do and doing it a second time won't be hard!"
"W-what do you mean don't need me! I am the one who even thought of this program! I am the one who made it possible! I am the one who –Hello? Hello?"
Stunned, Nobuyuki Sugou kept his surprised gaze on the phone, uncomprehendingly staring. "He just hung up on me-he said I was useless and hung up on me!"
When he was led to a cell, he was unresisting.
Yuma was in the shower when her phone rang.
As droplets of water fell down her heavily muscular body, accentuating her Amazonian build, her firm, hard musculature, in what might have been called erotic fashion; she paused, and closed her eyes.
She felt a change. Not in the shower, or in the house, not within herself…
But somewhere, something changed, and won't be the same anymore.
Yuma, the Same-Bito, one of the asian weresharks, and commoner of the Beast Courts of the east, wondered as to the fury of the coming storm.
The call she did manage to answer as she exited her shower, informed her of news that momentarily stunned her.
Her Grandpa was awake.
She closed her eyes, and for an inordinate amount of time, basked in the sheer relief she felt, tears of happiness falling down her cheeks.
She loved her human grandfather.
She owed Kirito.
Another call was made, and then she sent her eel spirits, even as she was hastily changing for the hospital. She wanted to visit Grandpa after finishing dealing with that last issue.
'It would be great if Kirito will be there too-maybe he will agree to go fishing with me? I'l need to buy a cute bikini for it, though…'
She then wondered if he saw through the Veil yet.
The Yuuki clan head, brother of Yuuki Shouzo, had been frowning more and more, as he had been debriefed about the orders Sugou have been giving to HIS men, losing HIS assets, and even ordering a few of his deniable black ops units into what turned to be their doom. Causing unrest and agitation among the workforce with his demands, and with the Anomaly populations with his unthinking aggression. There was even report of a deal Nobuyuki did with a Creature of the umbra… one involving his own niece no less!
"Pass to everyone-Nobuyuki Sugou is no longer part of our organization and as such may no longer give any orders, nor is he eligible to our protection or services. He is also fired from his position at RETCO. What a mess…"
But now, he needed to wrap it all up, deal with those loose ends.
A tall, Caucasian man wearing black suit, with black gloves, looked from the inside of a car parked at the end of the street, at a hospital, where battle involving anomalies just commenced. Listening to his orders on the phone, as his debrief was conducted.
"Understood. I will recover the program and clean the mess. What about Nobuyuki?"
"Yes, sir."
"And the test subjects and survivors, sir?"
The next instruction was long.
In the Deep Dreaming, a true Fairy, a lord of the Seelie court, worked on a desperate plan that, if successful, could just be the salvation so needed.
'What a foolish man, that Sugou be… as if he could ever come even close to the grand majesty and magnificence of King Oberon! But you… The Queen he chose, you just might be worthy… '
"Nothing like a bit of fairy tales to banish some banality out of mortal life, hahahahahahahaha…."
He laughed maliciously at his own clever joke.
Yes…this would be his masterpiece.
The prone figure he worked on, was unresponsive, as it lay sleeping, within an encompassing transparent golden cocoon of power. Its mind, body and soul under the effects of Fae magics.
An hour later, Sugou, mage and onetime ally of the technocracy, initiator of the brilliant plan to gain total control over the sleeper masses, still in his prison cell, felt the gauntlet growing thinner, as someone pushed through to enter.
"I knew you wouldn't just leave me here to rot!", He started, his mind calculating best arguments to have the newcomer help him escape and find his Asuna, only as he turned to get a better look, all thought of manipulating was forgotten. " I-wh-what are you! Guards! Help! Monster! Monster! Somebody help me! Help!"
What appeared in the real world inside his cell was not an agent, as he thought, but a monster right out of nightmares and dreams of too much pizza…
It was ten foot tall and bipedal horror, an unholy fusion of man and shark, with a mouth like a cavern, its teeth stalactites and stalagmites of death, and its black, soulless eyes holding naught but bottomless pits of hunger.
The Sharklike monster circled him, in an ever shrinking radius, its shark head always towards Sugou, whose ceaseless shouts grown more frantic, but were ignored.
Once the monster got close enough, it bit his left arm off, in a sprey of blood and scream. It then circled again, just like the animal it resembled, before his other arm bitten off, too. Next circle had a clawed had raked his chest, causing him to fall, and only then, The hoarse Sugou, rapidly bleeding to death, with his ribs broken, was engulfed by the enormous maw, and bitten in half-the swallowed upper part still screaming from inside the beast.
Author Notes: First of all, i apologize for the great delay! I had a big trouble writing this chapter, and multiple times tried to no avail, only to go and write one of my other fics in hopes of regaining inspiration for this one later. A loss of my HardDisk at the start of this year only made things more difficult...
I can only hope that it is no longer on that Hiatus, and next update won't take as long as this one did. Also, what did you think of Yuma? of the end Sugou received here?
Reviews help motivate me and make my writing smoother and faster, though.
Criticism and comments welcome.