Dance in Sin City
Disclaimer: I own nothing here, tis a shame, the only thing I own is the plot.
Chapter 15
Appearing in his lab, Dr. Kiryuu watched as Rei and Murasaki were both put into pods. The tops of the pods were closed, leaving just a window to allow someone to look inside. A mask automatically went over Rei's face as the tube was filled with a liquid. "Now then..." A grin came to his face as needles were injected into Rei's body. "I'll have fun with you and your friend over here." He said as he walked over to where Ami's body was in a tube next to Rei's. The girl was unconscious while her face was covered in a mask and needles were injected into her body at various points while some fluid was injected into her. "I'll have some fun..." He looked to where the Fallen Angel maids were. "Why haven't you three left yet?"
Suddenly two of them shifted and changed as they resembled Rei and Ami. "Because we needed time to assimilate the memories of these two Senshi." The fake Ami said as she held Ami's transformation wand. "This won't work for us, but with their memories, we can fake the powers that they have."
"Well, I can help with that." A female voice said and the two fakes, one maid and Dr. Kiryuu turned to see Melinoe walking over to them. She extended a finger and tapped both of the transformation wands. "There. You won't have their power, like you said, but at least you'll get that disguise magic that they have when you transform."
"The question is, how long can you confuse the Senshi and the others for?" Dr. Kiryuu asked them.
"Not long." The fake Rei shook her head. "A couple of weeks, maybe a month. Two months if we're really lucky."
"Then you best use your time distracting and redirecting them for us." Melinoe said as she looked at Murasaki's pod. "I'll find that item for her." She smirked. "And in the off-chance that I don't find it, I have another way to keep her docile."
Dr. Kiryuu scratched his chin. "Well then, I hope you ladies don't mind if I experiment on their bodies then?"
"Of course not." Melinoe said as she disappeared. The fake Senshi both disappeared as well, leaving just one maid and Dr. Kiryuu behind.
(-)
Meanwhile...
Sailor Venus and Yukikaze walked through the streets of Whitney as they made their way towards Henderson. "I always found these kinds of cities neat." Sailor Venus said with a smile as she looked around. "Las Vegas," she pointed to the Northwest, "is like a few blocks that way and the next city over isn't even a twenty minute walk." Left unsaid was that it wasn't a hard walk for them, regular people would have taken much longer to walk through Whitney, which was an unincorporated town, to get to Henderson. To most people, they would mistakenly think that both Whitney and Henderson were part of Las Vegas, which was easy to do, considering that all three cities touched each other with no rural area to divide them.
"Yeah, that is neat." The petite tanned girl said with a nod. "But there's a place we need to check out." Venus nodded and the two continued their walk. It only took them another five minutes, which included crossing over a small creek called Duck Creek before ending up at a place called "Minks".
"There are Demons here?" Venus asked Yukikaze, who nodded.
"Yeah," the brunette said as they walked around the building. "I got some information the other day about Demons setting up in a strip club and turning it into a brothel."
"From what I know, those aren't illegal here." Sailor Venus said and Yukikaze nodded.
"I know, but we need to check it out to make sure that everything is okay." Yukikaze paused and sighed. "So you know how I wasn't around a little while ago?" Venus gave her a nod, confused as they walked up to the door and opened it up. "This is why."
"Okay."
Once they got inside and their eyes adjusted to the dim lighting, the two were surprised to see various demons, both male and female wandering around with regular humans following after them.
"It looks pretty normal." Sailor Venus said as she noticed that there was a pleasant smell in the air. "So far..." She trailed off as a muscular and blue-skinned demon walked up to them.
"Ladies," he said with a gruff voice, "might I ask what you're doing here? The last time I checked, we were doing nothing that would attract your attention."
"Just a routine check-up." Sailor Venus said with a smile. "We heard that there were Demons running a brothel here and we wanted to make sure everything was by the looks."
Both Yukikaze and the Demon gave her a weird look. "...Do you mean by the books?" Yukikaze asked and Sailor Venus laughed while rubbing the back of her head and nodding. "Sorry, she's sometimes like that."
"...Are you the reason that blondes are thought of as dumb?" The Demon asked, getting an eye-twitch from Sailor Venus. "Ah!" He waved his hands in front of him. "Sorry, that was, ah, how do you humans say it? An intrusive thought?" Seeing Sailor Venus nod and calm down, the Demon sighed. "Anyway, if you want to..." He trailed off in confusion as he looked at Yukikaze. "You look familiar to me. For some reason I'm reminded of..." His eyes widened in surprise. "By the abyss! You're the brat of that slut!"
Yukikaze felt her eye twitching and a gun appeared in each of her hands. "What... Did... You... Say?!" She knew who this Demon was talking about, it wasn't the first time some Demon had taunted her about her mother.
"Enough." A new male voice spoke up and Yukikaze's eyes widened as she recognized the voice and saw who it was that walked up to them. "You're disturbing the other patrons." He said as he adjusted his outfit, which was a business suit and tie. He was a fair-skinned man with eyes that were purple and his blue hair was combed back. "George, go." He waved his hand and the demon walked off. "I apologize." He smiled at them. "It's hard to keep them in line."
"T-Tatsuro?" Yukikaze trembled as she looked at the man. "I-Is that you? You're alive?"
His smile became more gentle as he nodded. "It's been five years, Yuki-chan. Shall we go into my office? We can talk there and I might have something you want." Yukikaze nodded and the two and Sailor Venus walked down a fairly wide hallway, which was understandable as a giant mountain of muscle stood outside of the room Tatsuro was leading them to. "Bob, keep everyone out."
"Yes, Mr. Akiyama." The large creature said with a nod before looking at Sailor Venus and leering. "My shift ends in a few hours, want to..."
"No thanks." Sailor Venus said with a smile. She waved and walked into the office where the door closed behind her. "So, who..." She paused as Yukikaze hugged Tatsuro and kissed him on the lips while he hugged her back, returning the kiss. "Oh, I didn't know you two were that close." She blushed as Tatsuro's hands squeezed Yukikaze's butt. "OOOOH!"
The kiss ended and Yukikaze was blushing as he let go of her. "Sorry, Venus. This is Akiyama Tatsuro, my ex-boyfriend."
"Well, we never technically broke up." Tatsuro said with a chuckle. "To keep it simple, five years ago, I was with Yuki-chan and her friend, Asuka." Venus looked confused and he clarified, "another Taimanin, don't worry too much."
"We used to fight over your affections." Yukikaze said and sighed. "But then..."
"We were ambushed by some powerful demons." Tatsuro said. "I was just in training and a bit of a coward at the time and Asuka ended up getting badly hurt and both Asuka and myself ended up at the end of a cliff. Yukikaze saved Asuka and I fell down."
"How did you survive?" Yukikaze asked, her body trembling. "We couldn't find your body and we thought you had died. Asuka blamed me over your death."
"I ended up with most of my body broken in the fall." He shook his head as he remembered it. "I rolled over into the river and was washed away. I was found by someone and he saved my life. During my recovery, I ended up here in America and I work for him." He shrugged. "Sorry I didn't contact you sooner."
Yukikaze trembled and nodded, her eyes watering up. "I'm just glad you're alive." She wiped the tears from her eyes. "But... Why are you working with Demons?"
"Well, after the Sin of Avarace took over," Tatsuro said as he walked behind his desk and sat down, "the idea of working with friendly Demons who don't mean actual harm to humans appealed to me. So I set this place up, hired a few succubi, orcs and other Demons that are willing to not hurt humans and set this place up." He reached down and opened a drawer up and pulled out a piece of paper. "But..." He put it on the desk and slid it across to Yukikaze, who took it and her eyes widened in shock.
She looked at him. "I-is this true?" She couldn't keep the hope out of her voice as it trembled and her body shook.
He nodded. "Your mother is still alive. I can't say what her mental or physical state is, but she was still alive when I got this information."
Yukikaze slumped and fell backwards, only to be caught by Sailor Venus. "Um, if it's not too much..." Sailor Venus looked at Tatsuro. "Can you explain if it's okay?"
"Yukikaze's mother disappeared when Yuki-chan was only ten years old. There was a mission that went bad. A group of powerful blood thirsty demon-like creatures known as Youma appeared and slaughtered most of Yuki-chan's mother's group. There was one survivor, who watched as Shiranui, that's Yuki-chan's mother," Tatsuro explained while Venus nodded, "by the way, her mother killed all of the Youma that appeared, but then she disappeared when another demon appeared and grabbed her. She was thought dead by everyone but Yuki-chan."
"Youma?" Sailor Venus frowned in worry. "But I thought those were Beryl's monsters?"
"Beryl?" Yukikaze asked as she focused on Venus and stood back up. "Who?"
"The first enemy I fought as a Sailor Senshi. She used monsters known as Youma. But they were all wiped out after we beat her and Metallia." Venus knew she wasn't the smartest of the Senshi nor the one with the most information, but there hadn't been sightings of any Youma anywhere in the world in over five years. At least not that she knew of.
"It could just be a case of the same name?" Tatsuro said with a shrug. "After all, Jiro, Haruka, Shiro and Ichiro are common Japanese names. Either way, I came across information that your mother was still alive, but..." He sighed. "I haven't had time to do a follow-up on it. If you give me a month, I might have more information about her." He looked at Venus. "And I can look into those Youma for you to see what I can find."
The two nodded and after exchanging some information, they left. Tatsuro watched them through the security cameras and waited until they had left the building before pushing a button on his desk, which caused a monitor to rise up out of the desk. "You were right, Mr. D. Both Sailor Venus and Yukikaze came here."
"Ah, I only anticipated Sailor Venus, oh well."
Tatsuro nodded with a small grin on his face. "In one month they'll be back. I'll need new information by then."
"Of course." The dog avatar said with a nod. "Until then."
"Until then." Tatsuro said with a nod as the screen shut off and lowered down.
End Chapter 15
Well, this isn't good.