“Why me?” asked Ranma, lying on Nabiki’s bed, staring at her ceiling. Hmm, it looked different the last time I was in here. Did she paint or something? Maybe excess chi from her practices?
“Little Azusa just wants to sleep now,” grumbled the figure skater, as she nestled into his side facing the window.
Nabiki just growled, trying to still overcome her need to slice the kleptomaniac for being anywhere near her Master.
Only her will, her belief in her Master to not take advantage of the skater, and the fact it would likely mean harder training, kept her from doing so.
Besides, her Master wasn’t the type to sleep with other girls like that. If he were, then the others would have bedded him a long time ago.
Then again, he had never even known that sex could be a great thing, until their first time. But he didn’t seem to get into it until the second round.
But then, something could be said for protecting your man. “Why are you cuddling him like that?” she growled out.
“He’ll keep the bad people away,” said Azusa, her voice not filled with sweetness, but more the frightened tone of a child who had seen a real monster.
Nabiki had to sigh at that, wondering once again exactly how grown up the little girl was in her own head.
“Can we get some sleep?” asked Ranma. “We have ... practice ... before school when we get up.”
Nabiki cringed at that, glad that she had a fast recovery time. Of course, that just meant he could go farther in their spar.
“Can you teach Azusa to be a Vampire Slayer, like that American show?”
“...”
“Please tell me she didn’t just say that, Master,” pleaded Nabiki.
“Anything?” asked Uranus, as she and Neptune stood upon a rooftop at the edge of the Juuban District.
“Nothing yet,” said Neptune, looking into her mirror. “I get only a glimpse of something, like a beast moving between shadows.”
“Damn,” muttered Uranus. “I was hoping we could try our luck tonight.”
“They don’t come here.”
The Outers’ eyes widened, spinning around to find Venus leaning against the other edge of the roof.
“They don’t have a reason to come here,” Venus continued. “They may doubt we can take them, but they know what even a near miss will do,” she finished. “That’s why they haven’t come past Tokyo Proper yet. Depending on how bad things get on that side, it could be as early as next month before they try and expand into here, and that’s assuming that Furinkan couple isn’t going to keep them in check.”
“Something you learned from this Hellsing?” asked Uranus.
“Yes and no, just something I learned from my training,” said Venus. “They wanted their Interpol teammates to know the enemy, and trust me, they made sure we did.”
“Why can I not scrye for them?” asked Neptune.
“Different powers, an unnatural power cannot be sensed by a natural one like your mirror?” she guessed. “Think of it like a fish trying to see a desert.”
“So,” started Uranus, “does that mean you’ll show us where we can find them, and how?”
Venus sighed. “I was really hoping that you would have taken my advice, considering how your other plans had all worked out.”
The two cringed at the reminder of their former battle plans, such as the search for the talismans, and the fight against Galaxia.
“But I suppose reality will have to do,” she finished, stepping towards them. “We have two hours before we need to be back, or we will be missed. Mercury is probably trying to scan for the energies like what she found around the two at Furinkan, which also means she will be trying to make certain none of us pull something stupid.
“We look for two hours, and I’ll start teaching you with what I know.
“But if I find out you went out without me, I’ll have Moon strip you of your powers. These are not the types we can challenge openly. And I will not have my hometown turned into a local war zone to suit two overzealous fools. Understood?”
The two wanted to argue, forgetting that this was a Venus they had never seen.
But her eyes... They left no room for argument. They showed only coldness, and no care for what they wanted.
Uranus smirked. Now this type of Senshi, she could follow.
Pluto sighed as Alucard left ... with the Zamboni. “Why the Hell does he want with that?” she wondered.
“You know, it is probably best if I don’t imagine that.”
She looked around at the carnage before her. “So many senseless deaths... What a waste.”
Shaking her head, she began to deploy several charges. The last thing she needed was the locals finding this scene. Better to have them think a freak accident took their loved ones away, than the fact that an invasion was already under way.
“Not like humans, not like us.”
What did she mean?
“Not like those two down there and not like the dead things that walk the night.”
Am I a thing, a creature?
“What will history say about Kodachi Kuno? Will she be the demoness responsible for centuries of pain and torment, or will she just be one of many of a new race that will finally come forward to share the life of humanity? And do I risk the one in order to hope for the other?”
If I am not a monster, than what am I?
Kodachi slowly opened her eyes, trying to figure out where she was, her hand going quickly to her chest. “No hole,” she murmured, still remembering the feeling of her chest being pierced during the battle.
She didn’t know what was going on, but she knew someone she would need to talk to. That green haired woman just made her head hurt.
As she put her hand down to push herself up, she felt a wet stickiness on the floor. Raising her hand to her face, she looked at it in the dim light, trying to identify it.
But when the odor hit her, she knew at a moment what it was.
And she screamed.
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