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Chapter Two: The Storm's A' Gathering

[Midnight]

1

Ukyo looked up into the amaranthine eyes of her captor and tried not to feel the how cold press of stone stuck on her back because of the drying blood, or to smell its tangy metallic smell. She strained against her ropes as her captor began an eerie chant even as she tried to convince herself that she was hallucinating, that she'd been slipped something, that she was dreaming. The alien expression in her kidnapper's eyes sent some evil, icy little monster who had painful little pinpricks for feet running up and down her spine. And then the cold prick of steel on her flesh…

She screamed.

[4:23AM]

2

Her brown eyes stared sightlessly into the leaves above, while the face to which they belonged screamed silently, eternally frozen in a look of fear and horror. The mahogany brown tresses that outlined the victim's now-empty visage held, oddly, no ground-up leaves or dirt, indicating that the victim had not died at the scene. There was no evidence of dried blood, either on the victim or surrounding her, indicating that the victim had been cleaned and moved after death.

And Detective Yoshidata, despite being inexperienced, and despite the sickening macabre, could not tear his eyes away. The strange, cross-like marks on Sarah Ebullient's breasts were also present on this woman, as were the signs of sexual assault on Ebullient.

His partner, Detective Tanaka, spoke quietly, "How much you want to bet it was the same killer?"

"No bet." Yoshidata spoke in the same quiet tone, as if he was trying to spare the victim the knowledge that there was another. He mentally scorned himself, but old habits die hard and he had grown up in a temple.

"I'll get that forensic guy…what's-his-name…?" Tanaka trailed off.

"Hibiki, Hibiki Ryoga," Yoshidata supplied.

"Yeah, I'll get Ryoga…or what's his name…? Kuno?"

But Tatewaki Kuno had finally arrived. His hair was mussed, as though he had just woken, and his eyes were sleep-crusted. He looked at the body for only a moment before starting to cry.

"Uh, Kuno?" Yoshidata was at a loss for what to do.

"Ukyo…" He sobbed.

"Who?" Tanaka and Yoshidata asked together.

"That's Ukyo…she was my best friend's fiancée…" Kuno wailed. "That bastard killed Ryoga's fiancée just like he killed Ambassador Ebullient!"

[9:57PM]

3

The scent of danger clung to the air, a heavy, damp smell that made his nerve-endings flare to life even as his hunger honed his senses, making him feel leonine and dangerous and at the same time made him incredibly wary. Seiji expanded his mind, allowing it to encompass his territory, reveling in the familiar feeling of omniscience. His nostrils flared in anger and puzzlement as he noticed odd law enforcement activity in his park, where emotions-mostly fear, anger and horror-now ran riot, and the scent of death was particularly strong. But there was another scent, tantalizingly familiar, moist and heavy so that it nearly dampened his senses.

It was Obsidian's scent, he knew it.

But he was in no condition to track Obsidian at the moment, not with his hunger, even though the thought of the bastard was enough to send power coursing though Seiji's aura. He needed energy and quickly, but there was no good prey.

Unless I count…no, I can't…well, if she offered…perhaps…

[10:12PM]

Seiji could barely move without experiencing physical pain, and he couldn't meet Nasuti's concerned eyes when she asked him if he'd skipped a feeding this month. He had, but he didn't want to worry her by saying that he'd skipped his feeding in favor of taking Hikari to feed at a circus. So he curled up in a corner and tried to draw energy from the "noisy" couple nearby and blocked out everything else.

Nasuti's hand on his shoulder nearly startled him into drawing energy from her.

"You aren't doing any good, Seiji. Hikari told me that you didn't feed the night you took him to the circus. He said he never saw you go near any girls. So tell me how you're going to keep from killing the next human you see."

He moaned and opened his eyes. Her concerned face seemed blurry.

"Shit, Seiji, you jackass. Why do you insist on feeding alone?"

He moaned again as she teleported them to the bedroom.

4

Seiji brushed her lips with his own, making her shudder with delight. Nasuti wrapped her arms around his neck, and fell backwards on the bed. He slowly drew her shirt up over her head with trembling hands, trailing his lips along the skin he revealed. She stiffened. He cast her shirt aside and unhooked her bra, sweat dotting on his brow. He cupped her breasts in his hand under the sagging garment, then drew back, shocked, when she shrugged it off. She pulled him closer invitingly. She tugged his shirt off, then bent her forehead against his chest.

Got to get her pants of NOW.

Seiji unzipped her jeans, tugged them off. He slipped his hand in between her legs. She clenched her hands in his hair and arched against him in response.

The moist heat of her arousal reminded him that he was feeding, and he buried his fangs in her neck, drawing blood and energy. She cried out against him.

He unzipped his jeans, his entire lower body throbbing. She ripped the buttons off his shirt, any hint at seduction having vanished in the desperation of passion. He managed to undress after enlisting her "help", and again buried his fangs into her neck.

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Hmm. Notice that Seiji "buried his fangs in her neck"? And remember how he warned her in IDN to never let his fangs touch her? He can do that now 'cause he won't let himself kill her. Lately, I've been interested in collecting fan-art…and…yeah. I'd like a drawing of that scene. If anyone would draw it, 'cause I can't draw a stick figure. Nope. Not even a one. Don't look at me like you think I'm lying…well, I'm exaggerating, but my artistic talents are limited to vocals and words.

And Ukyo, Kuno and Ryoga are, yes, the same Ukyo, Kuno and Ryoga from the ever-popular Ranma 1/2. Yoshidata and Tanaka are the Unnamed Detectives from Birdy the Mighty, if you've seen it. If you haven't seen Birdy the Mighty, then you should see it (both tapes of it)! And should you ever see Tsutomu or Birdy/Tori, then know that they are either Tsutomu from aforementioned Birdy the Mighty or the title character. Torii doesn't count, as she doesn't have pink and white hair and her last name isn't Altirasafaan.

And yes, I know, I'm not creating a whole lot of original characters and cross-over characters don't count: so Ryoko isn't mine, Lloyd isn't mine, Yoshidata isn't mine, Tanaka isn't mine, Ukyo isn't mine, Kuno isn't mine, Ryoga isn't mine, Tsutomu isn't mine and neither is Birdy/Tori.

[Finished on Tuesday July 30, 2002]