Dance in Sin City
Disclaimer: I own nothing here, tis a shame, the only thing I own is the plot.
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Chapter 7
The following weeks came and went quickly. Eventually the Senshi, minus Hotaru, would meet Ai, Sakura, Asagi, Murasaki and Yukikaze. The groups were able to work together for the most part.
The first real test would happen two weeks later...
Nabiki raised an eyebrow as Murasaki and Minako brought in a short man wearing a green suit, hat and had red hair and a beard. The two girls looked rather beat up and exhausted. Behind them was a young man and woman who couldn't be any older than nineteen. "Alright, Murasaki," she looked at the blue-haired woman, "might I ask what's going on?"
"I want me gold!" The short man growled in an Irish accent. The feeling of magic had Nabiki on edge as she realized exactly what she was dealing with.
"A leprechaun?" Nabiki asked rhetorically as Murasaki and the others nodded. "Alright, can you explain?"
The blue-haired ninja flicked a loose strand of hair out of her eyes. "Minako and I were doing our patrols when we heard a scream of help with these two," she gestured at the boy and girl, "ran past us and then this one," she motioned to the leprechaun, "ran after them."
"They stole me gold and I want them to pay!" The leprechaun yelled in anger.
'Lovely, Fae are such a pain in the ass to work with.' Nabiki thought to herself. She didn't even have the experience that Ranma had with dealing with them, but knew they were difficult. "Alright, Mr..." Her eyes glowed as she looked at him, causing the two humans to jump in surprise, "Lubdan," the leprechaun nodded, "I understand you're upset about your gold and I have no intention of stopping you from getting it back." When he perked up, Nabiki held out a hand, "that said, let's see what you've been up to..." She looked at the two spooked humans and sighed. "Miss Tammy, Mister Scott, relax, I mean you no harm. In fact, I plan on helping you."
"There's a teeny tiny problem," Minako had a grimace on her face, "it seems like these gold coins that are Mr. Lubdan's have the power to grant wishes and..."
"YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT SOONER!" Nabiki yelled loudly as screens popped up all around her. "I don't give a shit about much else right now, how many coins are you missing?"
"Ten," Lubdan answered as he looked at the screens, "and they can only be used once per person."
"And if someone figures out what they have..." Nabiki trailed off, not wanting to think of what kinds of horrors could be unleashed by someone who knew what was going on. "If someone had two coins..."
"Two wishes." Lubdan answered with a nod.
"Restrictions?" Nabiki asked as her hands flew over a clear keyboard.
"Hmm..." Lubdan thought about it for a moment. "Well, nothing they can do can't be undone by Fae magic, so there's that."
"...Lovely." Nabiki said with a grimace. "Alright, it looks like five coins have been used, but four of them have lost their coins. The last one just simply wanted extremely good luck for gambling." She saw the annoyance on Lubdan's face. "We will get your gold back." She pushed a few buttons and Ami's face appeared on screen. "Ami, are you busy?"
"Not especially." Ami answered back, "I was enjoying my day off."
"You're on the clock today, double pay and you get tomorrow off." Nabiki told her, causing Ami's eyes to widen in surprise. "Minako and Murasaki are going to meet up with you at the Lucky Clover casino. I'll send you real time information, there's ten wish granting gold coins floating around Las Vegas and you need to get them back immediately."
"Understood." Ami nodded in determination.
"Go." Nabiki looked at the Senshi and Taimanin, both girls nodded and quickly left.
"You're not going to leave us here with him, are you?" Scott pointed at Lubdan, who grinned.
"Mr. Lubdan, behave yourself or I'll call Raven to deal with you."
Lubdan sneered at Nabiki. "Now you listen here, you she-Devil, just because Raven is here in the mortal realm doesn't mean..."
"Queen Mab's daughter happens to be living in Japan, took a liking to the Red Dragon Emperor and Raven is playing bodyguard." Nabiki interrupted him, "and don't think that I can't fight you just because you're a Fae."
Suddenly a metal pole was pressed against Lubdan's neck from behind as a person appeared behind him. "Mistress Nabiki, should I remove his head?" Ai asked and Nabiki shook her head.
"That wouldn't kill him," Nabiki said as she rotated her wrist and a four leaf clover appeared in her hands, causing Lubdan's eyes to widen in surprise. "This, however, is far more effective."
Suddenly Lubdan started to laugh and cackle. "Hahahahahahaha! This is why I like dealing with Devils like you over other Fae and humans. You know what I am and aren't afraid to stand up to me." A toothy grin came to him. "Very well, so long as I get me gold tonight, I have no problem doing nothing."
"By the way," Nabiki looked at a screen that showed Lubdan using his powers to attack Minako, who had been Sailor Venus at the time, and Murasaki, which resulted in massive clothing damage and even had Murasaki's massive breasts burst free, which caused Lubdan to stop and stare, which allowed Venus to defeat him, "the next time you decide to attack my associates like that, I'm making sure you get sent back to Oberon."
"Noted." Lubdan nodded as Ai removed her staff. When he tried to stomp her foot, Ai slid back and smacked Lubdan in the face with the end of her staff, sending him flying into the wall, where several follow-up knives pinned him to the wall. "...I LIKE 'em feisty."
"Not interested." Ai told him. When Lubdan continued to grin, Ai growled at him. "First of all, I have plenty of experience with mind control magic, you'll have to work harder than that."
"Ah..." Tammy spoke up and the others looked at her as though they had forgotten she was there. "What happens now?"
"Now?" Nabiki asked as she walked up to them and smiled, patting them on the shoulder, "you two are going to go down into the lobby," she walked over to the elevator and pressed the button on it, "and don't worry about a thing, have a meal on the house and enjoy your time in Las Vegas."
Scott opened his mouth and paused, nodding as the elevator door opened and the two young adults walked in. Nabiki pressed a button and stepped back, smiling. "Don't worry, Mr. Scott, just relax and enjoy your vacation."
After the doors closed and the elevator took off, Lubdan whistled in surprise. "That was quite impressive hypnosis, she-Devil."
Nabiki gave him a side-eyed look. "I am the Deadly Sin of Avarice after all." There were very few that she had to answer to, which she was thankful for. "Anyway, we have to talk about your killing humans who take your gold."
"You think that I shouldn't kill them?" Lubdan asked with a shrill in his voice. "You some goody-goody?"
"Not at all." Nabiki said as she walked over to a chair and sat down not far from the leprechaun. "However, I am trying to integrate humans and non-humans to live in relative peace." Conflicts would always happen, she knew that, but limiting the amount of conflicts was important. "And your killing of humans who offend you doesn't help that effort out." She narrowed her eyes at Lubdan, who stared back at her defiantly. "We'll deal with the humans who have your gold and I can't undo what you did." A screen came up showing some of the humans and the things that they had wished for using Lubdan's gold. "In fact, I can't say that I completely disagree with what you did to some of those people."
"So what is it you want?" Lubdan asked her.
"To simply contact me if someone does steal your gold." Nabiki informed him. "First of all, I can get it back much less violently than you could. Secondly, your methods cause too many problems and would only bring humans down on the supernatural harder than they already do."
"Is there a third reason?" Lubdan asked and Nabiki nodded.
"It's a pain in the ass to clean up and cover up."
Lubdan laughed and nodded. "Ah, very well, very well. If it means not having to deal with Oberon being a pissy pants at me, I'll follow your rules. But I can sense someone's intentions." He waved a finger at Nabiki. "You'll forgive me if I take matters into my own hands if someone really nasty gets me gold."
Nabiki waved her hand, knowing that was the best she would get out of a Fae. Even if leprechauns weren't the most powerful of the group, they were still sadistic, dangerous and capricious.
It would be another fifteen minutes before a screen popped up with Murasaki's face on it as she called in. "We got the ten gold pieces. We'll be heading back now."
Nabiki nodded.
(-)
Sailor Venus casually flicked one of the coins up in the air and caught it on the way down. "A pleasure doing business with you." She winked at the young man, who was drooling and blushing.
"To think all it would take to get some of these men to part with their gold was simply letting them feel miss Murasaki's boobs." Sailor Mercury sighed and hung her head, knowing why. Before she had met Murasaki, Sakura and Asagi, she would have never thought that women could even have breasts that large naturally. At least not without being obese.
Sailor Venus put the coin in the bag that she had and the three jumped out of the area to head back to the casino. "It's almost too bad." Sailor Venus said and both Sailor Mercury and Murasaki looked at her. "If that little guy wouldn't mind us making a wish on them, I wouldn't mind getting a hunky boyfriend with them."
Both Mercury and Murasaki gave her a flat stare and Venus, for her part, blushed and shook her head. "It's just me talking out loud, I don't really mean it."
"I really hope that doesn't count as a wish." Sailor Mercury muttered. "If it does, Mina..."
"I know, I know." Sailor Venus shook her hands. "I promise, I'll apologize to him and try to fix it, I wasn't trying to make a wish."
(-)
After getting back to the office, Sailor Venus handed over the bag to Lubdan, who tipped it over and allowed the coins to fall into his hands. He quickly counted them out and nodded. "Excellent! I got me gold back..." He trailed off and looked at Sailor Venus and narrowed his eyes. "Just so you know, lassie, wish magic requires you to directly say you want something, rather than talk out loud, but ye should be careful either way." Seeing her grimace, he waved his hands. "No, no, I'll behave. You didn't make a wish and I got me gold back."
"I would ask you to leave and never come back," Nabiki said and shook her head, "but that would be more troubling than it's worth. Someone would find your gold and try to take it and you'd get pissed off and try to kill them again."
"Ye know me too well." Lubdan said with a grin. "What? Would you want me to stick around in yer back yard?"
"That... Might not be a bad idea." Nabiki said with a nod. "It's better to have you where you're close and easy to deal with rather than running around and causing problems. But the biggest problem is your gold, you always seem to have it stolen." She snapped her fingers and a compartment on the wall opened up to reveal a safe. "I have no use for your gold."
"And you expect me to trust you?" Lubdan asked while hissing.
Nabiki walked over to the safe and pushed a sequence of buttons. "Not at all. That's why I'll set up a palm scanner that will only let you open this safe. Meaning no one will steal your gold."
Lubdan gave her a serious look. "If I find ye be lying..."
"I'll stake my life on it." Nabiki answered him. "No one who works for me, nor myself or anyone associated with me will take your gold even if they could open the safe up."
"Very well," Lubdan nodded, "but I will show no mercy to anyone who steals me gold. Those who take me gold don't live to see the sun rise in the morrow after all."
Lubdan then counted all the coins and nodded as they were all there and put the pot in the safe and Nabiki sealed it up, only allowing Lubdan to put his hand on a scanner, which would allow him and him alone to open the safe to get his gold.
After he was given some money to gamble and he left through the elevator, Mercury looked at Nabiki. "Are you sure that's wise?"
"No." Nabiki sighed and shook her head. "But he's a Fae, even if a weaker one, and they're extremely difficult to deal with. The only reason he was willing to listen at all was because I happen to know a relative to the ruler of the Fae and Oberon and Titania aren't exactly kind to Fae who cause too much trouble." She snapped her fingers and some screens formed behind her, showing the three of them some of the more sadistic ways that Lubdan had killed people over the centuries.
One of them had him tying someone up to four horses, which he then made run off in different directions, tearing the person apart in the process.
"So long as he thinks his gold is safe, he'll behave..." Nabiki trailed off and sighed as she watched Lubdan shove an over-sized pineapple up a woman's ass before it exploded inside of her. "...I think."
"We'll have to keep an eye on him." Ai said and Nabiki nodded in agreement. "Hopefully he doesn't stick around too long."
"Hopefully." Nabiki said with a nod.
(-)
Meanwhile...
Standing in front of a building that was a typical looking gym, Haruka Tenou looked at her lover, who nodded. "This seems to be the place." Michiru said as she looked at the address on the paper and at the building. "I'm guessing that the fun stuff is in the back?"
Haruka gripped a transformation stick. "Shall we find out?"
"Of course." Michiru said as she held a similar stick and the two transformed into their Senshi forms before jumping into the alley and into the back of the building.
Stopping in front of what looked like an over-sized, old-style meter box, Sailor Uranus knocked on the wall three inches to the left of the box. It looked like she was knocking on brick, but the sound that came out was metal.
Suddenly a panel opened up, revealing a face that looked at them. "Yes?" A male voice spoke up.
"We're here on suspition of illegal activity." Sailor Neptune said with a polite smile on her face. "I hope you don't mind letting us in so we don't have to break anything."
"You're the Deadly Sin's enforcers, aren't'cha?" The male voice asked and Sailor Uranus nodded. "Very well, let me unlock the door." He said and he slid the face panel back into place.
After a few moments, the door opened and a large, burly and obviously non-human man stood in front of them. "Ladies, welcome to the Abyss." He said with a bow. "Before you ask, that's just the name of the place."
"Lovely." Sailor Uranus said as she and Sailor Neptune walked inside as the door closed behind them. The ground in front of them became a dimly lit slope that went under the upper building, past various pipes and wiring before ending at a wooden door, which opened with no resistance. As they walked through, the light suddenly became much brighter and both Senshi winced as their eyes adjusted to the new brightness.
When they could see clearly, they saw a large area filled with tables that had lots of people, both human and not, eating food while, in the center of the room, was a giant ring that had a chain-link fence around it that went up to the ceiling.
In the center was a large man as he fought against a smaller, wolf man. The Senshi watched in some surprise as the wolf man easily beat the larger man down with his speed and agility, eventually being declared the winner while the cage was raised up.
A thin man wearing a black pinstriped suit with pointed ears, purple hair that went to his shoulders and orange skin walked over to the two Senshi, smiling as he adjusted his glasses. "Greetings ladies." He said with a bow. "How might I be of assistance? Are you interested in joining the Abyss for the fights? Making a wager? Or is there something else I can do for you?"
Both Senshi looked at each other and then back to the man as they wondered just who he was and what exactly was going on.
End Chapter 7
That was basically Leprechaun 3, Lubdan is the name of the Leprechaun from those movies.