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Broken Angel
Chapter 38: A Lesson in Carnage
"So it has finally made it's move against us?" Hiruzen Sarutobi stated, as he and the rest of the council sat discussing the event that had occurred recently.
"Yes… the Angel killed two of our men, and allowed the other two to live and send a message." Minato replied.
"But why did it allow them to live?" One of the civilians asked.
"Guilt." Shikaku Nara answered.
"What do you mean, Shikaku?" Utatane inquired.
"The two didn't agree with what was being done. It was a simple assassination mission. We were asked to kill a merchant and his family to eliminate the competition for our client. There were children involved, one as young as ten. Izumo and Kotetsu didn't agree with killing them, and if I had to guess, it's because of their moral choice, that the Angel spared them." Shikaku explained.
"So… all we have to do to make this monster go away, is not take any more missions and allow ourselves to go broke?" One of the civilians asked, sarcastically.
"That seems like a reasonable conclusion. The Angel doesn't care about our finances, or how well we all get paid. It simply wants to destroy sin, so as long as we do terrible things, it'll keep attacking us." Shikaku stated in a drawl tone.
"This is bull! We need to do something about this monster, and we need to do it now! Next time it may not be some no named Chuunin who get's offed, next time it could be one of our elites, then what are we going to do?" A civilian asked, his statement, while crass, earned a series of sighs and murmurs of agreement from those on the shinobi side.
"We need to think of something. This monster will continue it's attacks until we put it down." Another civilian added.
"It's not as simple as just going out and fighting it. The creature is as powerful, if not more so, than even a kage. It also possesses a form of intangibility. None of our attacks will connect. We need to be smart and come up with a plan." Inoichi Yamanaka stated, earning nods from his fellow ninja.
"Well, if that's the case, does anyone have any ideas?" Another Civilian inquired.
"Not a one." Shikaku admitted.
"Dammit. First the Uchiwa girl, then Orochimaru, now an Angel. How many more problems could we possibly have to deal with?" A councilor whined.
"Hmm… perhaps therein lies the answer to our problems." Danzo mused, loud enough for the council to hear him.
"What do you mean Danzo?" Sarutobi inquired, eying his old teammate intently.
"Narumi. The girl possesses her own form of Intangibility, does she not? Perhaps we can convince her to deal with this threat for us. She is a shinobi of the Land of Fire after all. I say we send a mission request to the Daimyo and ask for his assistance and by extension the assistance of Narumi Namikaze, in dealing with this threat." Danzo suggested.
"You really think Narumi will go for that? What's stopping her from quitting?" Minato asked in reply.
"Well, she'll be labeled as a Missing-nin for one. But that's besides the point. We simply need for this to remain a business arrangement. She wont assist us out of the goodness of her heart. That's why I suggested we hire her. She is a ninja after all, and a Ronin to boot. Ronin are loyal to one thing, their paycheck. If we keep this strictly business, we should have no problem." Danzo replied.
"She's already rich. Our current estimation of her net worth, with all of the investing the goblins have been doing for her, is around Three hundred million galleons. That translates out to about 6.7 Billion Ryo. Even if we offered her a fifty million Ryo bounty on the damn Angel, what is that amount of money to her? Plus, from what our spies in the exams tell us, she doesn't really go anywhere or do anything. She isn't spending large amounts of her money. So it's not like she needs a source of income. The interest off her investments are enough for her to live comfortably for the rest of her life, and that amount grows each month as the goblins make more investments for her." Shikaku stated, earning reluctant nods of agreement from some of his fellow councilors.
"What makes us think that girl can help us anyway. I'm sure we can figure out how to deal with this ourselves." A civilian offered up indignantly.
"Narumi Namikaze took down a S-level demon, in the Triwizard Tournament. Our spies tell us that she has more power than any of them have ever felt. Hell, she nearly choked out the Tsuchikage, not even Lord Fourth has been brazen enough to choke out an adversary, and then let them walk away. Not to mention, we all heard what happened when she was confronted after the first round of the Triwizard tournament. Her Chakra was potent enough to knock three Kage, Two Sannin, a legendary Wizard and a large group of powerful ninja and magicals, on their asses. Master Jiraiya probably has the largest reserves of any of our veteran ninja, and not even he could put a kage on their knees with the weight of his chakra alone." Shikaku explained in a bored drawl.
"...And let's not even get into the part where she used Genjutsu to dominate the late Kazekage's mind, and humiliate him in front of his allies and rivals." Inoichi added earning nods of agreement from his fellow ninja.
"We understand that the girl is good. But how do we know she can help?" A civilian asked.
"Well… Demon summonings are rare. Most of the time the demons are just sealed away, or driven back into hell, she however, was able to face one in single combat and not only best it, but kill it as well. Demons and Angels are polar opposites, but that doesn't mean that the methods for killing them differ. If Lady Slytherin possesses that kind of power, perhaps it's best to see if we can cultivate it, and use it to our advantage." Shikaku explained the council.
"I agree with Shikaku. The girl is exceptional, and with her assistance we may be able to put an end to this monster." Danzo stated.
"There is one other method we could explore." Jiraiya stated aloud.
"What would that be master Jiraiya?" Tsume inquired.
"Well, Shikaku did state that Demons and Angels are polar opposites, and we do know that the two races are in an eternal conflict with one another. Maybe we can utilize the Kyuubi within Naruko?" Jiraiya offered.
"How so?" Minato asked, eying his sensei curiously.
"Well, Demon Chakra has been known to be highly corrosive to humans, massive amounts of it, might have the same kind of effect on an angel. What if we gather up a large quantity of Bijuu chakra, seal it away, and then seal the angel within it. Theoretically the demon chakra should begin to attack and break down the angel, and then we just continually pump demonic chakra into this seal, the angel should degrade and be destroyed by the corrosive energy." Jiraiya explained. Many of those present began to nod their heads and adopt thoughtful looks as they considered that plan.
"Would it be possible to create such a seal, lord Fourth?" A civilian inquired.
"Anything is possible with seals. There are millions of different seal characters, each one does something. The trick is to find the right combination. The seal I created for the Nine-Tails was thought up on the fly, but with enough time to prepare and with master Jiraiya's help, I'm sure I can come up with something." Minato stated, his look thoughtful, as he began to wonder if this could possibly be the threat that Naruko was meant to face, to save the world.
"We should explore both options. We still need a way to hold the angel in place long enough to seal it." Danzo stated after a moment of silence.
"Well, if that's the path we wish to take, then how do we go about it? We haven't really addressed the 'how'? We still have a very slim chance of even getting Narumi to agree to help us, so we need to come up with a good incentive." Lily inquired.
"Threatening her, or her girlfriends is off the table." Minato stated almost immediately, to stop anyone from even attempting to entertain the idea. He'd seen firsthand how she got when her lovers were threatened. The way she always got between them and any threat that appeared, and the way that she reacted when Fleur Delacour fought in the first round of the Triwizard Tournament. Naruko had told him how Narumi nearly lost her mind with worry as her girlfriend fought the demonic knight.
Narumi was good at appearing aloof, but she had a weakness when it came to her lovers.
"Well… she doesn't need money, what about power, or jutsu?" Homura inquired.
"What if we just ask her what it'll take?" Lily asked.
"What do you mean?" One of her fellow councilors replied curiously.
"Well… we approach her with the mission and ask her what it would take. Then we can try bartering if the cost is too high." Lily explained.
"I like it… however we face a problem with all of this." Minato stated.
"And what is that Lord fourth?" Utatane asked of him.
"The Triwizard Tournament. Neither of my daughters can come to help us until it is finished. Both are magically bound to participate. We need to think of a way to hold off until the end of the tournament before they can be free to return and assist us." Minato informed them.
"So what do we do until then? That's at least two months away." Inoichi inquired.
"We run interference, and I think I know how." Shikaku stated.
"How?" Minato asked, eager to hear what the Nara genius has come up with.
"We'll have to charge slightly more for certain missions, however for the next two months we'll take only missions that render aid to clients. Like escorts or protection. Perhaps we can offer D-Rank missions outside of the village. However, we'll have to cut back on the assassination of anyone whom isn't a well established criminal or tyrannical individual. That way, we can avoid the angel's wrath. Maybe we can try filtering those missions to places like Iwa." Shikaku explained.
"You want to give Iwa more financial backing? What good will that do us in the long run?" A civilian asked.
"No I want to make Iwa a bigger target. If Iwa is carrying out more petty assassinations against people whom aren't necessarily evil, then hopefully the angel will turn it's attention on them. Giving us breathing room." Shikaku stated.
Understanding dawned on his fellow councilors. It was a gamble he was talking about. Hopefully the angel was just targeting injustice and if so, it would go after Iwa or whomever was taking those dirty missions, while if Konoha was only helping people, sure their coffers might take a hit, but maybe the angel would leave them be for a while.
"Alright, let's adjourn this meeting and begin it anew tomorrow. We all have much to think about. Dismissed." Minato ordered as the council rose and began to break apart.
Meanwhile in the corner of the room, hidden in shadows under a powerful Notice-Me-Not charm was Riley.
'Interesting thought process. You're not wrong. If only you would establish a permanent plan for following that mindset. If it was just my own grievances with this place, then I wouldn't give it a second thought. However… most of you are corrupt cunts that only care for your money, and power. You're afraid now, but how long will that last? How long until you return to your corrupt ways, and continue to murder innocents? How long until you come after me or my loved ones?' Riley thought to herself as she strolled out of the chambers, passing the Hokage's assistant on the way out. She noticed she was carrying a newspaper and knew that Minato's addition of the Daily Prophet had arrived. She had to force herself to keep walking, otherwise she would have stayed to relish in the fear that the Fourth Hokage and his wife were about to feel.
"My lord… your paper has arrived." His assistant offered him. Minato was still sitting at his place in the council chambers, alongside the elders and his wife. An Anbu quickly took the paper and scanned it for seals, before passing it off to the Hokage.
It took only a second for Minato's eyes to harden.
"What's wrong Minato?" Lily asked as she noticed the look in his eyes.
The other elders turned to look at him as he dropped the paper down on the table in front of him. On the cover it read, "Angel strikes again, 57 dead."
-The previous night-
"Please… Riley… just end it." Katie got out through her tears.
Before her stood the ghastly form of Ralael, shrouded in darkness. As Katie let those words slip from her lips, a monstrous smile stretched across Ralael's face, and the angel turned and glided away ready to begin it's slaughter.
Katie felt Daphne rub her back, while Fleur and Luna held each other. All four of them were crying. When they had asked Riley to teach them to be like her, they had thought she would train them like she usually did. They had not expected for her to immediately grab the four of them and take them to some giant apartment in France where women were being drugged and raped. It only took a few minutes to figure out that this was a brothel, but not the kind with willing participants. There had to be like forty girls here, all of them young, they had to be between the ages of thirty and fifteen, though it wouldn't surprise them, if there were some younger ones as well.
Riley had brought them here, and hid them under Notice-Me-Not charms. She then made them watch for almost half an hour as girls were beaten, drugged and raped. It sickened them to their very cores. Now it was finally coming to an end, as screams echoed throughout the building. They heard a loud crash as a nude man went flying through a nearby wall. He tried to stand up only for a blast of magic to slam into his chest, causing his skin to bubble and melt off. He screamed in agony as his organs spilled out and he continued to scream for several moments before finally dying.
The girls stood wide eyed as they found themselves floating, following after the carnage, as Ralael slaughtered the dozens of people in the building. She made them watch as she killed without mercy. Cutting people to pieces, burning them alive, melting them with curses, it was the most horrible thing any of the four girls had ever seen. But deep down inside of them, they felt a spark of something. Something that had surprised them all. It was satisfaction. They had watched these monstrous men, brutalize and torture these women, and now they were finally getting what they deserved.
This continued for several minutes, all of the doors and windows were magically sealed, so no one could escape. The girls, the ones whom weren't drugged beyond sanity looked on with reverence as their many prayers were fulfilled. Though a few… a few were beyond saving.
Katie, Daphne, Luna and Fleur watched with broken hearts as Riley hovered over the body of a young woman, she couldn't have been more the twenty. She could still be seen breathing, however her face was frozen into a thousand mile stare. She had been drugged into insanity. Probably fed Ecstasy and other drugs until she eventually overdosed. Her eyes were unmoving and the girls began to wonder if she was in a coma of some sort. They saw Ralael extend a hand and green energy coursed out of it. They could tell she was using medical chakra to try and heal the girl. But a second later she pulled back. For a quiet moment nothing was said, then Ralael placed her hand on the girls head, and pulled back. To their surprise they saw what could only be described as the girls soul float out of her body.
"Her brain wasn't working anymore. Mercy sometimes falls on the unwilling." Ralael stated as she turned to glide through a wall, off to continue her slaughter.
Her four mates stood staring at the dead girl for several minutes, before finally, Katie spoke. "Why is she making us see this?"
"Because we have to." Daphne answered as she took a deep breath. She was obviously not comfortable with any of this. However instead of anguish and horror, like the other three were feeling, she was just angry. She wanted these people to die for what they did.
"Zis place is so horrible." Fleur stated, tears of sadness and rage stung at her face. This place was an awful reminder of what was often the fate of her kind. She hated this place and all that it stood for. Not now, but later, when she reflected on this moment, she would be surprised at the joy she felt knowing that this place would soon cease to exist.
"This is a den of monsters. Riley is instilling in us the understanding of doing what needs to be done." Luna agreed as she swallowed loudly, probably trying to keep the bile from rising in her throat. Luna didn't care about the dead men. She wanted them to suffer and die. What made her sick was the innocent young women, whom were tortured. It tore at her heart to see such things happening.
"But why'd she make us watch? Why didn't she just end this a while ago?" Katie asked with tears streaming down her face. This was all to horrible. What these people were doing to these poor women. And it wasn't just men, there were more then a few women whom were here playing along in raping and torturing these girls. Hell the one whom seemed to run this place was a woman. Thinking of that… the woman's face flashed in her mind.
The other girls saw the image as well, the powerful thought from Katie, echoed across their connection to Riley. They all felt hatred fill their hearts, to think that someone, a woman no less, would do this to people, innocent people, made their blood boil. Before they could put too much thought into it, Ralael descended from the ceiling. In her arms was the very woman they were thinking about.
The woman was older, probably in her mid Fifties. She wore a nice shirt and pants, and seemed well off. She had light greyish blonde hair, and dark eyes. She was probably quite beautiful at one time, though now she just looked mean, or at least she did before. Right now she looked terrified and reeked of piss and shit.
Ralael dropped the bitch on the floor. She was screaming and crying in fear and terror. She quickly tried to crawl away but was stopped as Daphne stepped in front of her and released the Notice-Me-Not charm.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Daphne bit out, her eyes alight in rage.
"What? Who are you? Did Alexander send you to do this?" The woman asked in French.
"Why? Why would you do this? Why hurt these people?" Fleur asked back in French, as she to released the charm. Katie and Luna quickly followed suit.
"Please… it was just business." The woman pleaded.
"Business!" Fleur shrieked. The word making everything so much more wrong. This was all just business? Raping and torturing innocent young women, for money and the pleasure of horrible people, was just business? What the hell kinda world were they living in if that was a thing?
"Please… I'll give you whatever you want. Money? Men? Women? I have connections with the local government… please… just tell me what you want?" The woman begged, but all she managed to do was piss Fleur off even more.
"You are a monster." Fleur stated in English for the other girls to hear. "All zis is, is business to you? Zese were innocent people! Zhey had lives of zeir own… you are ze most evil woman I have ever met!"
"Horrible rotten bitch." Katie got out through tears.
"Riley, please... make it hurt." Luna ordered her once whimsical and inquisitive eyes, now were filled with fury.
Ralael stared at them for a second before her wand snapped into her hand. She raised it and pointed at the woman's back. "Crucio."
The woman let out an ear piecing shriek of pain. She fell to the ground writhing in agony. Riley's mates watched, each one feeling something different. Daphne felt a sick satisfaction echo through her being as she watched the woman writhe in pain. Luna felt nothing as she watched, not caring even an ounce for the piece of human filth before her. Fleur felt that what ever the woman was feeling, she deserved it. And Katie, well Katie just wanted the bitch of a woman before her to die. She brought such suffering and pain to the world. Katie just wanted her gone from it.
It was a full twenty seconds of writhing and jerking in unimaginable pain, that the woman endured before she finally spasmed violently and broke her own back. Ralael finally let up, and put her wand away, she then absorbed the woman's soul, being sure to feed it to Kurama. She then turned and glided back down the hall to continue the slaughter.
Her four mates stood staring down at the dead woman's corpse. Each one sickened by her mere presence. The four decided to leave and followed the sounds of screaming to locate Ralael.
The Angel stood before about ten men, each one was cowering in the corner of a large room. They had their hands up and were begging to be spared. One was even on his knees, and two more were laying in the fetal position screaming their hearts out.
"Please god… save us!" One of the men cried out as he fell to his knees, while Ralael drifted closer.
"You deserve no such mercy." Fleur bit out, hearing his words.
"There is no god." Ralael's ghastly voice echoed across the room, the men began to scream louder as they levitated off the ground. Ralael raised her hands, as large wooden beams tore from the walls and shot out the windows.
-Outside-
Normal people outside were just casually strolling down the street, unaware of the massacre occurring in the nearby building. Suddenly they heard windows break and all eyes turned to the large brick apartment building. About two dozen large wooden beams shot out the windows, they floated over the streets mesmerizing the muggles below. Each beam floated over to a section of street before angling vertical to the ground. The muggles saw the bottoms of the beams glow blue and then without warning, they slammed into the earth, embedding into the concrete.
More boards floated towards those imbedded into the ground and stuck to them in a horizontal position forming several large crosses. The crosses lined the streets and the muggles below stood fearfully, some began to run, while others were mesmerized by the magic they were seeing.
Suddenly screams filled the air as ten men shot out of the windows. Each one was floating towards a different cross, carried by some unseen force of magic. They were forced onto the crosses, screaming in fear the whole time. The people on the streets were terrified, they all knew what was about to happen, anyone whom had ever taken even a passing interest in society would recognize a crucifixion.
After a moment of struggling in the air, the men's arms were forced wide and they were placed against the crosses. Peoples eyes were locked on the men, though some found their eyes drawn the exploded windows. There they saw the true terror.
People began to scream in terror, or simply let their jaws fall in awe. There, floating from the window was Ralael, the Angel of Carnage. People on the streets stood in complete awe as they watched the angel float into the center of the street between all of the struggling men, whom were still begging for their lives. A wooden plank floated up in front of Ralael and splinted into large shards of wooden debris. The shards floated over the street four positioning in front of each man, then with a final scream of fear, all of the spikes shot forward embedding into each man's wrists and ankles.
The people on the streets were horrified, though many were still completely mesmerized by the angel's appearance.
Ralael stared at her work for several moments, before smiling wickedly. She then faded from sight, and reappeared next to her mates, whom were watching from the windows, after reapplying the Notice-Me-not charms.
"Let us depart." Ralael stated as she reached out an touched each one, drawing them into Kamui.
-Three hours later-
Riley stood at the foot of her bed, staring at her four lovers. Each one was sitting or lying down, each deep in thought.
"How do you feel?" Riley asked eying them closely.
"I know why you made us see that… it was to harden our hearts and test our resolve… that doesn't mean that it didn't suck. That was horrible… terrible..." Daphne replied eying her, obvious pain and disgust in her eyes.
"Riley… is that… is that what you… usually deal with?" Katie asked, her voice breaking.
"No… it's usually not that horrible. Most of the time it's one person whose doing all of the bad things, and I just kill him or her and be done with it. While not the largest operation I've destroyed that one was up there. I just needed you to see the extreme of it first. I wasn't going to hold your hands through this. You needed to see humanity at it's worst. As women, I thought that would hit much closer to home. These people deserve no mercy." Riley answered, her eyes cold and firm.
"I know… it's just… that was..." Katie started to reply as she felt tears building in her eyes again, but they were cut off by a hand on her chin. She felt her face turned towards Riley.
"You did well, my love. You were the one whom told me to do it. You were the one to finally give me the order." Riley told her, there was love in her eyes now. Gone was the cold uncaring glare, the Riley they all knew and loved was back.
"What will you have us do next?" Luna asked.
"You'll see it again. The horrors of the world. I will make you watch, and judge. You will be judge, and jury, I will be the executioner. I took Katie's order since I knew you all felt the same. However, next time, I wont act until you all give me the order. You will watch and decide for yourself, when someone has gone beyond the point of saving. You will deliver their punishment, I will execute it. I will follow your instructions to the letter. You will learn to read people like I do. Is a thief stealing because he is selfish and wants more for himself, or is he trying to feed his children? Is a man murdering another man for revenge, or out of malice? You will judge these people, and I will carry out their punishment. Every other night, we will do this. And we will continue until it becomes second nature to you, to judge all those around you. To understand why they do the things they do. Once that is done… the rules will change, and a new game will begin. Once I have finished my tests, once you can choose to end life, with ease, you will begin to carry out the executions yourself. Until then… my loves… harden your hearts." Riley told all of them as her tails extended and wrapped around their waists pulling them close.
"How do you deal wiz it, Riley? How do you stop the images of all zose faces, from flashing in your mind?" Fleur asked as she and the others were pulled close to Riley.
"I tell the images of the victims that I'm sorry for not being there sooner, and to the monsters… I say good riddance." Riley answered.
Fleur stared at her for a second before nodding. It would take a while, but she felt she could move past this. She had seen the monsters, seen what they were, and she had seen them die… she would move past this… she just needed time.
"Why did you reveal yourself Riley?" Daphne inquired.
"To the muggles you mean?" Riley asked, earning a nod she continued, "Well, it's simple… the magicals know of me, the muggles should know too. They are all guilty and must repent. I'm not going to leave the muggles in the dark about this, they will have to work to change themselves too. Plus… an angel wouldn't care about the statute of secrecy, demons sure don't. So I shouldn't make it seem like I'm hiding, otherwise the magicals might suspect something."
Daphne nodded in understanding. It made sense to her, the muggles and the magicals were now on the same playing field. The whole point of Ralael was to serve as a distraction for Riley to build her kingdom. It was the 'Abra-kadabra', it was what would draw their attention while Riley moved in secret.
"Can we go to bed now? We have school in a few hours." Luna inquired.
"Sure… let's go to Kamui, we can sleep there. So you guys can get a full nights sleep." Riley offered, earning nods she pulled them all into Kamui.
-Later that Day-
News traveled fast about the attack last night. Fifty seven people killed, and ten more soon to be. The men that were crucified were still there. The wooden beams were magically hardened and runed to be indestructible. The muggles were stumped, they couldn't get the men down, they couldn't cut the posts they couldn't pull the men off the crosses, they were stuck, just waiting to die.
Riley had stuck them there with semi-permanent sticking charm, that would last for four days. Enough to makes sure the men died of dehydration, if not of blood loss, or being eaten by the birds. The ten men she had gathered had been the enforcers of the operation, the men whom captured and broke the girls, forcing them to prostitute themselves.
The place had been cleared out, and the still living and unbroken woman were taken to the hospital. Riley hoped they'd survive, but in the end, those kinds of trauma are difficult to come back from. Her mates were quiet the whole day, drawing the attention of all of their friends, but Riley kept them away, telling them she had started to train them in very dark magics, the kind you didn't approach lightly.
Aside from all of that, the only other interesting thing of note, was that the news reported that the French government had been in contact with the Vatican in regards to the appearance of this Angel. Many were calling it a hoax but the unbreakable wooden pillars and the eye witness reports of over two dozen French citizens was making it hard to believe that. Needless to say, those with a belief in such things found themselves at their holy places offering up additional prayers to their gods.
From that day forward things continued as such. Riley offered her mates a night of reprieve from the bloodshed, where they spent the whole night fucking each other senseless, and then Riley would take them to Kamui so they could sleep, and then go to school. Then the following night it was back out on the hunt. True to her word, they didn't go to another brothel, or slave ring. They ended up at the sight of a murder in progress a man had stabbed his wife repeatedly for cheating on him, and now he was going to murder the man she was cheating with, poor guy seemed to have no clue the woman he was with had a husband and was trying to reason with the murderer.
The girls quickly shared glances with each other, they knew that the husband was in the wrong, and that the man whom had been the one his wife was cheating with, was a mostly innocent party. He had no clue she was married and was terrified for his life.
Of course they also understood the husband's anger, if they were in his position they'd be pissed to. However he'd gone to far, did that mean he needed to die? No. But he needed to suffer.
Riley knew what her mates were thinking. She easily read their minds and the moment Luna told Riley to do it, Riley reacted, her tail lashed out and speared the murderer through the shoulder. The two men were stunned by the angel's sudden appearance. Riley's mates winced at the spray of blood, but otherwise kept their composure.
"You were betrayed by the one you loved. Yet instead of offering her redemption or condemning her for her actions, you gave her death. Suffer for your crimes." Ralael stated in her ghostly tone. The man was thrown back onto the bed, next to his wife's body, he was stuck there with a sticking charm and his head was forced to turn towards hers. He was forced to stare into his wife's lifeless eyes.
Ralael turned towards the cowering other man, she slowly approached him, reading his mind, assuring herself of his innocence. She saw how he had just met this woman a few nights ago in a bar. She had never once mentioned a husband and never wore a ring. He had even asked her if she was married when she had driven him here to her house for a night of sex. She had said that she was, but not anymore.
This guy wasn't even a bad person. He wasn't a sleaze ball, he was just some regular young man whom met a good looking woman and was tempted by the offer of sex. There was no maliciousness in what he'd done.
"You are innocent. Call for help. Tell them what happened here." Ralael ordered, the man's head swung up and down so fast Riley assumed his head might have went flying off if it continued.
With that the Angel turned to leave, ensuring the sticking charm would break as soon as the police arrived. She heard the murderer crying as she and her mates left. His rage had faded and now he was forced to literally face what he'd done.
"You did well ladies." Riley stated as they walked down the street, all of them hidden from sight by charms.
"Thanks Riley… you were right… after what happened a few days ago… this was much easier." Daphne stated.
"True, but the understanding of the situation was much clearer here. It may not be next time." Luna offered up, earning nods of agreement from her fellow mates.
"Where to next?" Katie inquired.
"Far away." Riley answered as pulled them all into Kamui
The night continued, things went from tolerable to terrible, to tolerable again. Slowly but surely, Riley's mates were hardening their hearts to the cruelties of the world. However to reach Riley's level, they were still a long way off.
This trend continued for several more days, alongside the regular outings Riley stepped up her lovers training to a whole new level. She began to incorporate Kamui into their training, taking them into it for an extra few hours each day to train or sleep. She ran each of them into the ground, training them harder and faster then she ever had. The five also began to focus on their connection. While Riley could easily use it to read their minds or emotions, the girls couldn't really utilize it very well. They could feel Riley's emotions with ease, but not each others, and only extreme thoughts or images actually showed themselves in their mind, when one of them was having an intense thought.
Riley and Daphne began to teach Fleur, Katie and Luna Occlumency, they showed them how to build mindscapes and how to organize them, and then protect them.
It was slow going at first but the ladies persisted. Soon the second round of the Triwizard Tournament arrived. Due to the debacle of the first round this one was handled internally and was a test of the champions ingenuity and thought processes. The test was insanely simple and yet could nearly be impossible to figure out if you didn't know the trick.
The task was to get past a locked door. The problem was that there was only one kind of way to do it, and the test was optimized so that each person had to think completely against their normal way of thinking in order to figure it out, their only hint was a clue written above the door. This led to some insanely humorous moments.
Karui went first, her door could only be opened by answering a riddle. Karui was by no means a fool but she was also very blunt, and sucked at thinking underneath the underneath. She stood in front of her door for an hour swearing and cursing trying to figure it out, before finally guessing the right answer which ended up being one of the words in a long string of insults she had fired around in frustration. Turns out the answer was traitor and after having reread the riddle she felt like a moron. Her score out of fifty was twenty-five.
Next was Dmitri Whom simply had to get a key to open his door. The catch, the key was tied to a squirrel, the squirrel was in a tree, and he couldn't use his wand, or any magic to catch it. Took him twenty minutes and a ton of cuts and bruises before finally diving off a tree branch and catching the squirrel when it wasn't looking. Of course since he jumped from a tree he also fell, and bruised some ribs. His score was thirty out of fifty
Next was Dianna. Her door also required a key. Which was hidden in the stomach of a dead pig. She didn't know this and stood staring at the pig for about twenty minutes. She finally managed to piece together the riddle and was disgusted by it. It took another ten minutes just to psyche herself up to do it, and then it took about forty more minutes to find the key, since the girl obviously had no idea how to gut a pig. She got twenty-seven out of fifty
After her was Shikamaru who's lazy ass had to run through a physical gauntlet to get to his key, the problem was that if he didn't actually run, he'd be teleported back to the start. You see he only had eighteen seconds to make it to the end, or else he'd have to restart. Watching the Nara genius try and fail about thirty times was hilarious especially to his teammates. Finally after about a half hour, he finally managed to do it, but then it took him another ten minutes of lying in front of the door, trying to catch his breath, for him to manage to get up and actually open the door. He got a thirty out of fifty.
Next came Kurotsuchi, her test was by far the easiest and yet she almost started to cry in frustration from it being so hard to do. She had a strong pride, and thus was easiest to anger. All she had to do was walk through a crowd to her door. The trick was that all along the way, people in the crowd would say some of the most atrocious things, like calling her a slut, or a worthless nobody or bumping into her without apologizing. The trick was that she couldn't react to any of it. If she so much as turned her head she would be sent back to start, and she couldn't run or move very fast so it took about two full minutes to get through the crowd. After failing about sixty times she finally made it through. It was probably the saddest and yet funniest thing many people had seen in a while. She got a thirty out of fifty.
Next was Oboro and his was by far the funniest. He simply had to reach the door, the catch, his mother was standing in front of him the whole time, chewing him out. She wouldn't let him take even a single step forward. If he tried he took a shoe to the face. It took him almost thirty minutes before he finally started to speed scream at his mother telling her he loved her but he needed to get through this and she was in his way and he'd make it up to her later but she needed to shut up and move. She did just that and he made it to the end. His score was a thirty-one out of fifty
Next up was Krum, his was pretty funny too. Krum was by no means stupid, but math wasn't exactly his strong suit. To open his door he had to guess a number. To get that number he had to solve an advanced Calculus problem. He was given the formulas and just had to do the work. Of course being a pureblooded wizard with no experience in that kind of thing led to him sitting there for nearly forty minutes struggling to work through the problem. He finally managed to get it and like the others felt embarrassed when the answer turned out to be the number one. He got a thirty-five out of fifty
Next up was Fleur, her test was, well… Riley would have found it offensive if it wasn't so funny. Fleur had to get the key from a man, the catch? He was blind. And mean. And had been deprived of alcohol and thus was in a bad mood on top of being mean. Of course Fleur tried flirting with him first and after being shot down so fucking hard, it made even Dianna feel bad for her, Fleur tried other options. Flirting didn't work. Her Allure didn't work. Being nice didn't work. Finally Fleur managed to get him talking about himself and after twenty minutes of talking about the good old days, and a gal back in the states named Betsy, he finally fell asleep, and Fleur got the key. Feeling embarrassed and a little put out, Fleur went through her door. She got a thirty-three.
After her came Cedric, his task was much like Oboro, except he dealt with a pissed off version of his father, a pissed off Tracey, and some older homeless looking gentleman named Ted, who kindly pointed out all of his flaws, which his father and Tracy quickly slipped into rants about. After spending about twenty minutes getting chewed out by them, Cedric did the only thing he could think of at the time and kicked all three of them in the crotch, and made a run for the door. He managed to get a thirty-seven and was currently the fastest participant.
Finally it was Riley's turn and hers was the funniest by far, at least to the muggleborn in the audience. Riley's test was to open a door using a computer. The catch? Or at least what the ministry assumed would be the catch was that she didn't know how to use one. Of course the method to unlocking the door was to go into the command prompt access a file called door and click, who'd have guessed it, 'Open'. Of course since Riley had absorbed the memories of muggles she knew how to use a computer, she just needed to do some searching to find the file she needed. So after spending ten minutes looking for it, she finally found the file, she didn't know what she needed to do with it so she just opened it and of course the door opened and she passed. She got a forty out of fifty, mostly because Karkaroff was an asshole whom thought she cheated.
The final person to go was Naruko and hers was by far the most embarrassing, and it made Riley laugh so hard that she literally fell to the ground, doubled over, and was crying to boot.
Her door had a riddle above it that asked for 'The' magic word. Naruko thought she had this synched and began spouting out every magical word she knew. She even conjured up a magical dictionary and just recited all of the words. It took nearly an hour before she finally began to scream in frustration. Finally she shouted to the heavens "PLEASE WILL SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO OPEN THIS FREAKING DOOR."
At 'please' the door opened and Naruko was left standing there dumbstruck. Finally she hung her head and walked through, obviously embarrassed. She got a thirty out of fifty.
Once the test was done they were told the final test would be two days before the Chuunin exam finals. This gave them a little over a month to prepare.
After the exam Riley returned to her mates. Fleur was in desperate need of some reassurances, since she had never been shot down by a man before and this old fucker and managed to damage her pride. Sadly the old guy wasn't really real, he was just an illusion, if he had been Riley would have found him and given him a new asshole in his forehead.
It was around two in the morning after a long night of fucking that the girls were forced out of bed. They were told to get dressed, and the moment they saw Ralael hovering at the foot of the bed, they knew that the time had come for more blood.
-To Be continued-
Alright, Riley has revealed Ralael to the muggles. Next chapter will be the last one for forth year I promise. How are the muggles and magicals reacting to the attacks? What will happen with the Leaf's attempt to approach Riley, and defeat Naruko? How will Riley's mates react to more carnage and bloodshed, Find out soon. JA NE!
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