Monster Hunter Memoirs: Wolf and Red
Chapter Twenty One
The wedding was beautiful. The ceremony was a hybrid of Christian and Shinto traditions, and there were TWO priests. The women kissed in front of the altar, and the guests and bridesmaids cheered.
"So, how did the succubus thing play out?" Red quietly asked as they sipped wine.
"The one mother and her are now DATING," Shiro Azuma, the chief of the occult cops noted, "they plan to elope after the ceremony. The husband is pissed, as you can imagine."
"Ha!" Wolf shook her head. "We aren't going to have to get involved, are we?"
"We checked, no enchantment involved," Shiro shook his head.
"Just really, REALLY good sex," Red grinned.
Shiro gave her a disapproving look.
"All right everyone! It's the bouquet toss!" Akira called, the one bride smiling.
"Get ready," Catherine held the bundle of flowers.
All the Bridesmaids and lady guests pressed forward. Interestingly, Wolf and Red moved away from the mob.
"Not interested in catching it?" Shiro wondered.
"God no," Wolf shook her head.
"One two... THREE!" Akira tossed the flowers over her shoulder. They arced up and landed right in Yoshi 'Anne' Shiroe's hands.
"Eep," Anne blinked as everyone cheered.
"Now, on to the reception," Catherine called out, grinning, and they headed off to eat cake and a light dinner.
"Think everything's okay back home?" Red wondered aloud.
"i'm SURE Mimi and Dolores are handling it," Wolf told her.
"Uh huh," Red sighed.
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"COVER RIGHT!"
"KEEP FIRING!"
"MOMMY!"
"Calm down, damn it," Dolores Clark barked.
"I have never fought a TIDAL WAVE of raccoons before, boss," Nic Carter noted breathlessly as they looked around.
"No one hurt?" Susan Bishop asked, toting their spare ammo and the medical kit. Unlike Mimi who had just stayed at the entrance...
"Thank god no," Gail Ward puffed out.
Dolores look around, annoyed, "I just wish Wolf and Red had made a damn MAP!"
"I figure just follow the mobs of crazed animals," Susan offered.
"NOT HELPING," Nic chuckled.
Gail hefted the rifle, sweeping the passage grimly. They had faced a wave of rats, then coyotes, and now a bunch of foxes. And nor, raccoons...
"Everyone, reload," Dolores ordered as she looked around.
Susan unloaded ammo from her backpack as she noted, "I think it's been about an hour or so, since we went in the tunnels."
They had went into the sewers looking for a research team from the university, who had gone in looking for the lost temple of Artemis. So far, they had found some chalk markings on a few of the walls, but that was it.
"What do we do if we can't find them?" Gail wondered aloud.
"We need to go deeper before we decide that," Dolores noted calmly.
"We're probably about half way," Nic mused. She added, "Assuming we haven't actually gotten lost, of course."
They heard dogs barking in the distance, and everyone readied weapons.
"Here they come," Gail warned as she brought up her weapon.
The dogs came into sight and they started firing shorts bursts into the mob. The high veelocity rounds punch through the beasts, tho in some cases they kept going, unaware they were shot until the damage fully registered.
"Ready shotguns," Dolores ordered as the charge broke up.
They blew away the last few, then moved forward as they reloaded.
"This REALLY sucks," Nic muttered.
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Sophia Gardnier was going over the documents she had received from the vampire, Sebastian, and was VERY happy with them. The diaries alone were a treasure trove of data, and the deeds and such were in good condition.
"The university called," her secretary shouted through the open office door, "you were right, his story about meeting Elvis was fake."
"I thought so," Sophia smiled at her assistant, Heather, "vampires seem to feel the need to claim they've met famous people, I guess to boost their reputation."
"Considering their a hundreds of year old vampire, why would they care?" Heather asked, the pretty redhead shaking her head.
"Some left over bit of human insecurity, maybe?" Sophia shrugged. "Have you contacted Wolf and Red about the next job?" she asked.
"They're apparently out of the country," Heather replied. "Their office manager, Mimi, said they expect them back in a few days."
"Ah," Sophia frowned.
"There ARE the two other Hunter Teams in BC," Heather pointed out.
"I don't like Baen's Brawlers," Sophia noted dryly. She sighed, "I think we'll wait until they get back, then."
"Fair enough," Heather agreed.
Sophia sat back, "Okay, we'll need to contact Monster Hunter International on the other project. Do you need to use my name or the University President?"
"I think it should be fine," Heather reassured her.
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Dolores lead the way into the passage, the four looking around warily.
"At least no sea life, this time," Nic noted.
"So, is the cavern they found the statue nearby?" Susan wondered, reloading her pistol. She had had to shoot a weasel that went for her throat.
"From the description Red gave," Dolores agreed.
Gail tilted her head, listening. "Is that... moaning?" she wondered.
Nic nodded, "Sounds like my upstairs neighbour when they have company."
"Ugh," Susan sigh. She looked at Dolores, "It COULD be someone hurt, I suppose."
Dolores REALLY didn't think those were pain noises. Still... "We'd better check it out," she sighed. "Weapons ready, everyone," she added as they advanced.
They came around the corner, then froze.
"Yup, that's sex noises," Nic noted.
There were six people in there, the boys and girls paired up. And two women, interestingly. All their clothes were torn and they looked almost... feral.
"Well, ick," Susan noted.
"Is Alison here!" Dolores called, HOPING they were still coherent.
The lesbian couple pulled apart, the one woman shuddering. "God this is hard to fight," she muttered. "Help?" she managed.
"They're all near the glowing statue. Get them away from it?" Gail suggested.
"Good as any idea," Dolores agreed. "Do it."
Nic was surprised by how HORNY just getting near the statue caused her to be. But she resisted the urges and, working with the others, dragged the rutting men and women away.
"Oh thank god," Alison managed as the people scrambled to get dressed.
"What happened?" Gail asked as the embarassed men and women cleaned up.
Alison said tired, "We actually reached the site easily, and were cataloging the artifacts."
"Then THIS IDIOT decided to reassemble the statue," the one woman jumped in, glaring at the guy beside her.
"I didn't think THIS would happen!" he protested.
"That and someone cut themselves on a piece of it," a third woman noted.
"Blood sacrifice," Nic nodded wisely, "that'd do it."
"PLEASE tell me no one was hurt because of all this," Alison begged Dolores.
"It's driving animals nuts, again, but no fatalities so far," the older woman answered.
"So, we smash it, again?" Gail waved to the statue.
"It's a priceless artifact," one nerd tried to say.
"SHUT UP," everyone chorused.
To be continued...