Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ True Oracle ❯ two ( Chapter 2 )

True Oracle: Embodiment of the Oracle

By: Authoress K. C.

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"Yohji-kun, you said she changed from a child to a young woman. Living people don't metamorph. I think the Aino Minako we're meeting, is dead. I think she's a rogue spirit. I think she refuses to sleep."

"How the hell do you defeat a fucking SPIRIT?!"

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Minako smiled as she swept the run down little shrine. An older man walked over the top stair and approached her with a condesending smile.

"Young woman, is there an adult around I can talk too?"

"Sumimasen, otoko-san, there's no one else here right now. Can I help you?"

"Oh, no, I was just wondering. Are you left here alone all day?"

"Oh, no, no. Not ALL day. And sometimes, I have to leave as well. I have errends. No, my friend comes to help me sometimes, she's at work right now. 'Jichan will be back soon."

"Where are your parents?"

"Gone."

"Where too?"

"Gone as in dead, otoko-san."

"Poor lady. Would you like to walk around with me?"

Minako was instantly on alert. Hell NO she did not want to walk around with him, hentai. What did she look like, a gisha? She was the picture of the innocent shrine girl.

"I can't, I've got to finish sweeping, then dampen the dirt so it doesn't get dusty. Gomen."

She kept him in front of her the whole time. Finally, she heard the sound of Meiou Setsuna's boots on the hard stone stairs. She dodged widely around the man and ran to the top.

"Setsuna-chan! Ichi no da! Onegai!"

The girl below hurried up the stairs and put a protective arm around her. Minako smiled at her.

Meiou Setsuna was a tall girl, with long honey coloured locks, and dark red eyes. She had pale china doll skin, naturally, she never could tan without burning in moments, and she was a waitress durring the day, and a gisha at night. But she had her morals, she was choosy.

Setsuna glared at the man. She wore her work clothes over her day clothes. Her black pants were still on, but the red shirt and black jacket were unbuttoned, her favorite green tank top underneath. Her black dress shoes were in her hand and her tennis shoes were red and black striped.

"Go away. I know what you're doing here, mister, get away. Does she look like a gisha too you? Get lost, or I'll make you."

"No she doesn't, but she's pretty cute. But, you look like one. Whaddya say, honey, wanna come for a walk with me?"

"No, so get movin'!"

The man tried to grab Setsuna's arm and the girl kicked him in the chin, sending him flying back to land hard on the stone. He climbed up and glared before running away. Setsuna turned to Minako and sighed.

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Minako ran into the office building, hurrying up to the front desk.

"Is Bradly Crawford here?"

"Nande? Who're you?

"Tell him Oracle is waiting."

"Alright, kiddo."

The blue coated guard pressed a button.

"Crawford-sama, someone named Oracle is waiting too see you."

There was a silence and then Brad Crawford's voice came across.

"Send her up."

"You heard Crawford-sama."

Minako bobbed her thanks and ran to the lift, pressing the button and waiting on feet that couldn't hold still. She'd worn her shrine clothes, no time to change. She lept into the lift the minute it was open, pressing down the close door button and pressing the fifth floor button. She waited impatiently while the lift bore her upward and when the doors were open wide enough, she shot through them, and raced to Brad's office. She lept in and bowed hurriedly too him.

"Brad! I've had a vision!"

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Minako led the two through the maze of dimed halls, a buzzing, flickering ball of electricity in her palm. It lit the way for her clearly, though she was melded in with the shadows on the walls. She finally emerged and pulled them into a room. Fujiyama Aya's back was too them as he searched for something in an old desk. She gestured to the turned assassin and then vanished easily into the darkness. She retraced and led the other two on to another area.

"Grab the turquoise vial and lets go! The others will get the file!"

She hurried them out once they had the vial and the other two emerged soon after, panting, but successful.

"We have the file. Lets go!"

Minako nodded and changed herself into a young woman in a black dress. She spread her inky wings and gave a mighty sweep and all of them were back at the Schwartz lair. She was back to her normal form, nothing left behind of her but another blood stain and a inky feather. She smiled at them all.

"I told you I was the true Oracle."

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Aya cursed in annoyance as Ken bound his ribs tightly.

"Those two ambushed me... I didn't know they were there. How the fuck did they know what I was looking for?!"

"I don't know, but when I got to the place the vial should have been, it had been ransacked and the vial was gone."

"Well, it had too have been Schwartz."

"Why?"

"Because I found another feather and another bloodstain."

"KISAMA!!!! That girl!"

"Spirit! She's dead!"

"Hn."

Aya pulled his shirt on without even a wince and glowered at Omi.

"So, how do you defeat a spirit."

"I don't know."

"How did she die?"

"In a fire."

"Then why is there always a bloodstain? Shouldn't there be a burn mark, or a pile of ashes or something?!"

"Well, it WOULD make more sense.... If she was burned up in a fire, you're right, there SHOULD be evidence of the accident. But, we keep finding bloodstains, not burn marks or ashes.... I'm going to look for anything that could explain the reason why."

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Omi sat up all night.

"Mysterious deaths.... by fire.... five years back...."

He kept typing and clicking until he sighed and rubbed his eyes. He peered at the clock in the corner.

"Seven A.M.! Shoot! I'm NOT giving up!"

He glared at the screen.

"Age.... nineteen.... Location... Hikari Shrine."

He finally got a match.

"Yes!"

He clicked on the article. Then he took a nap.

Omi woke up at four P.M. Ken was sitting on the couch.

"We thought you could use the sleep."

"Oh, thanks. I found an article about that girl."

"Let me get the other two, and then you can read us the article."

Omi nodded and it was a few minutes before they were all assymboled.

"Okay, ready?"

Everyone nodded.

"On March 13, five years ago on a Friday, Meiou Setsuna, a waitress at a hotel near Hikari Shrine ran into the police station screaming about a murder. Upon police investigation, the Hikari Shrine was found to have been set a blaze before anyone could make it too the murder victim. Meiou stated, when questioned, that a man she didn't recognise had been attempting to take a young woman named Aino Minako, age nineteen, the adopted neice of the owner to the shrine Minomari Takahuto, away from the shrine.

"He had admitted to Meiou that he was going to rape her, and then offered to take Meiou instead. Meiou declaired that she had struck him and run him off. She had then assisted the victim in straightening up the shrine before Minomari returned, at which time she had left, with thanks from both Minomari and Aino.

"Meiou had returned moments before running into the police station, at her usual time after work, to help with the shrine before going home to her flat for the night, and found Aino Minako laying in a pool of fresh blood that was still spreading when she ran to get the authorities. Meiou thought that the man she had put off the day before might have been responsible. The fire, how ever, could not be explained. Meiou said, when asked how the fire might have started, 'Minomari-san had a few bowls of fire that he kept burning twenty-four hours a day, he may have come home and upturned one on accident, then flew from the scene, in shock and grief. He really did cherish Oracle.' Meiou refered to the victim as Oracle often, Aino seemed to have been the shrine's oracle to Megami no Hikari for several years.

"Minomari was found dead in the woods behind the shrine days later, with a bullet hole in his head, a gun in his hand. He was several days dead. The fire has never truly been explained. Aino Minako was cremated fully and Meiou was chosen to keep the girl's ashes, as she was the only friend or relitive left."

Omi sighed.

"So, she was murdered, THEN burned."

"That explains the bloodstains. But, why would she still be haunting the place?"

"Because the murder was never caught, they didn't know the guy that had assulted her."

"But how do you defeat a SPIRIT!?"

TBC?

Okay, yes, I'm just begging you to make me feel popular so I'll have a good enough reason to keep going. I like this one, but not that much. Get your cults together and do some demanding of my lazy fecknering arse.