The Angels of Vengeance

[Defectron]

Several days after mission 10

Brandons location

Brandon had gone out to go get some clean diapers for Mariahs baby. Nothing much had been happening, Millenion hadn't found them and no new gantz teams came to attack. Everything was peaceful, or so it seemed. Mariah, looked down at the new born baby girl named Mika that sucked on one of her breasts. This was the baby of Big Daddie the former head of Millenion. How she wished he could see her.

But the pece was suddenly interrupted by several cries and what sounded like a blade slicing through the air at high speed.. Those cries sounded like the pot watching aliens! Suddenly the large body of one of the aliens was sent crashing through the wall where it landed dead at Mariahs feet. Clutching her baby she backed away in fear of whatever had just killed the alien.

"Mariah! It's been too long!" a familiar voice said, it belonged to Ballad Bird Lee, a long haired Chinese man who worked directly under Harry, one of his four subordinates. Or rather three since Bob was now dead.

"Lee! How did you find us?" Mariah reached for a gun as Mika began to cry. Before she could touch it a needle shot through the air impalling her hand , pinning it against the wall.

"You think you can hide from Millenion?"

"If you know what';s good for you, you should leave now! Brandon will..."

"Be killed by me! I'll never forgive him for what he did for Bob! I already killed all of those things out there! I don't know what those creatures were you were living with, but soon you and Brandon will both be joining them. Where is he anyway?"

The truth was Brandon was just out on an errand, but she had to make Lee think otherwise "You'll never find him!"

"He's not here? Fine, it'd be too quick to end it all this easily, I want him to suffer for what he did. I'll just take you and the baby as my hostage for now."

Suddenly a little green kid ran in front of Mariah "Leave alone...go away!" he uttered out, Mariah had been trying to teach Onion Junior more human words with a little bit of success.

"Another freak?" Onion Junior ran at Lee slashing at him with his claws but before he could touch him, a five foot long blade grew out of Lees hand slicing his head off.

Somewhere else

Jack sat at a table in one of the many Star Bucks cafes located in Tokyo as he sipped a cup of coffee. He had tried to get Tomo to come along and help him but after killing her freind predictably she didn't want anything to do with him. He wasn't sure how useful she would be later on but at least during missions it might be handy to keep her alive.

he checked his watch, according to that bug they should be coming here soon. Walking through the crowd of people a tall blond haired man stopped in front of Jacks table. "Are you the man named Jack Steel?" he asked. He was an odd looking guy dressed in black, a long gold cross dangled from his neck.

"Your one of the people I'm supposed to meet here?"

"Indeed, by gods will I Constantine Maciavelli , angel of retribution will be at your disposal!"

God? The deluded human must think the black sphere was god, well it didn't matter, these fanatical sorts would even sacrifice their lives for what they believed in. In this case that would work to his advantage. Constantine sat down across from Jack.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are a child of darkness are you not? A nosfuratu, I'm not one to question the will of the lord, but why are you fighting on the side of god?"

"We have a common enemy."

"I've slain many of your kind myself." Jack frowned, was this guy trying to pick a fight with him? Now that he thought of it, this man Constantine looked familiar, he rmembered now, on the hitlist of vampire enemies he was rated as high as the tentacle girl alien herself! No matter, first things first, after she was dealt with, he'd kill Constantine as well if he was still alive.

The two of them waited awhile for others to show up, that bug had said that there should be two others as well. That would bring it to four against seven if all of the tentacle girl aliens bodies showed up in one place as Junior predicted would probably be the case. Last time he fought her, his strength and speed was above hers, hopefully she hadnt consumed any more powerful aliens since then, if she had it could turn the tide of battle against them. But then again, he had no idea what abilities Constantine or the other two had so he would just wait and see.

Another person wandered through the crowd of people, unexpectedly , it was a school girl this time. She was unmistably a delinquint dressed in a skanky outfit with a hiked up short skirt and bleached hair.

Constantine looked at the new arrival dissaprovingly "A servant of god should show more modesty child!"

"Shut the fuck up old man! I'm here to kill aliens, not listen to some stupid lecture."

"You dare insult a servant of god child!I will put the fear of hell into yea!" Constantine said starting to get up but Jack held up one hand.

"Easy there, were all on the same team here, so lets just try to get along. What's your name kid?"

She made a cocky grin "You two can call me the Princess of Razors! Scum like you don't deserve to know my real name!" Jack made a mental note to kill her as well when this was all over. Why couldnt he find someone reasonable to work with for a change?

they waited awhile longer until someone new showed up, it was a japanese man who looked to be in his late twenties and was dressed like salaryman , however he was clearly wearing a gantz suit under his clothes.

"Are you the lost guy?"

"I have been sent here on the behalf of lord Kira. He will speak to you now." the man seemingly with no will of his own pulled out a labtop computer. Displaying on the screen was the letter "K".

"Well now, this is an interesting group we have here. From what I understand, if we kill this alien, each of us will get an additional weapon from Gantz? Is that the same deal he made with the rest of you?" a garbled voice said through the lab top. A webcam attached to the labtop was taking in what all of them looked like.

"K-Kira?" Constantine said reckognizing the name. He kneeled down on one knee. "You are a fellow servant of God, I am honered to make your aquantence!"

"You know this guy?" Jack asked

"You havent heard? For the past month many criminals been dying all over the world, most of them killed by heart attacks. Rumor has it that those deaths weren't coincidence though , that somehow someones been killing them, and the one responsible was named Kira. I thought it just some tabloid urban legend bullshit myself, even if more criminals then usual have ben dying they couldnt be killed by a human. A paranormal killer that could take peoples lives without touching them couldnt possibly exist!" Princess said.

"But I do indeed exist. And I will help you kill that alien." the voice in the labtop said.

"This is bullshit! You won't even show us your face and just sent this lacky!" Princess grabbed the man by the throat but he didn't react.

"That man is one of the people from my Gantz team, right now he's being controlled by me, I don't particularly care if you kill him. But one of you will have to carry this labtop so that we can communicate if you kill him. We all want the same thing, fighting together will accomplish nothing."

"Then why won't you show us your face?" Princess slammed her hand down on the table in anger.

"Now child! I too would like to see the face of the great Kira, but I'm sure he has his reasons for keeping his identity secret from us!" Constantine said.

"Shut up old man! How do we even know he's the real...arghhh..." Princess clutched her head in pain.

"Do you want to know how I kill all those criminals without touching them? This is well kept secret, but since were working together, I feel it's nessecery to tell you. A certain set of conditions must be met, but once they are, I can control humans, even their bodily functions, if I so wish, I can stop their hearts. Do you still doubt me?" Princess frantically shook her head. Whatever the person on the other end of the labtop had done, he stopped and she could breath easy again.

A drop of sweat went down the side of Jacks face, whatever those condtions were , they apparantly had been met. He could see them through that camera on the labtop, could he control and kill them just by seeing their faces? This was bad, Jack had a feeling why Kira didn't come in person, he probably was planning to do the same thing he was, kill all the others after this was over, or maybe he'd control them and make them his slaves? These two were too dumb to see how he was thinking, but Jack knew that chances were when this was over Kira would try to do the same thing he was. Kira could sit back safely watching the show through his labtopo and kill them with no effort. But would it work on vampires? He was no longer human, some of gantz's weapons seemed to alter the physical makup of those who use them such as in the case of D.J, if this atack only worked on humans, then Princess's weapon should be something different then the sort D.J received. If Kiras attack worked against aliens, he wouldnt need their help, so there was a very good chance that it wouldnt work on him. That was good if that was the case, Kira would just make cleaning up afterwards that much easier for him.

"So then, how exactly should we do this?" Jack asked the labtop.

"I think we should observe the girl that has made contact with the target for now. Once we know more about her, it will be time for us to act."

Meanwhile

Kazuo wandered the streets in stealth mode, when he had tried to return home after the mission, he found his house burned to the ground and destroyed. Probably the same group that had killed him was responsible.

Right now he was just hiding out in a hotel room that no one was using. He looked down at the tiny red haird figurine in his hand, this was all that was left of his house, one of the figurines he had made as a hikkikomori. He'd been on edge ever sine then and hadn't gotten any sleep in the past few days. The days without sleep were strating to get to him and he was starting to see things that werent really there.

"Your just like them, the people you killed." he hallucinated the figure speaking to him in Toris voice.

"But you can trust me, I'm your only freind now."

"You won't leave me? You'll forgive me?" Kazuo began crying while hugging the red headed figurine.

"Of course, I'll always be by your side, you just have to do one favor for me. Please die, you can kill yourself, you've become evil, like the pople you killed, but if you die you'll have a clean slate, we can be together."

"Me...die....should I? No this is trick!" Kazuo threw the figurine against the wall "Gotta get a grip, it's just a doll, can't relaly talk, it's all in my head!"

Suddenly the door opened "No ones supposed to be using this room, hope the beds better at this hotel. Jeez, I gotta take a bath too, I smell like crap after that mess at the supermarket I made." Kazuo couldnt believe his eyes, it was that same alien that had helped to kill Aiko. Shadow who could see through his invisibility met his gaze and pointed at him with a shocked look on her face.

"You...your alive!" After Shadow had tried so hard to kill Kazuo when they had last met. Tori had thought it best if she didn't mention to Shadow that their former enemy was a gantzer now.

"W-wait a minute now, I'm not loooking for a fight!" Kazuo began to back away, but Shadow had already transformed into her battle form, the area around her had caught on fire as her dorsal fins were powering up. Kazuo ran diving out the window moments before a huge blast of white fire ripped through the room. He fell two stories but was ok because of his gantz suit. Quickly he began to run away as Shadow leapt through the burnt hole she had made giving chase.

[®onnie ®ude]

(OOC: Aww shit i dunno who to feel more sorry for, me or Kazou...)

Her room was pitch black...

Tori sighed in relief and placed her arms over her head as she performed a cat like stretch. After a moment of doing so she worked out the kinks in her seemingly tired body. It was a good thing Gantz restored all sorts of fatigue after missions but she had just finished packing away some things.

She looked down at the last open box. It had a few pictures of her and Miles smiling. There had been one with him in chemistry class with smudges of black smog from a accident. It was never smart to partner up with a blind guy in those types of classes but she did so anyway.

Over top of the pictures she placed GmR's goggles. She had attempted to let him go many times but it was too hard. She just couldn't release her grip of the goggles. She bit her lip hard and dropped the eye wear. She was running away again trying to force herself to forget her problems.

"Let...him...go...Tori." She found herself whispering trying to encourage herself. After three more chants of this she hastily shoved the box in her closet and closed it. She silently swore an oath never to open it again as her back formed a barricade to it.She had done it. All the reminders of that boy were gone and she could go on living her life.

She sighed once again and collapsed on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. Mocking gantz in morbid humor she whispered..."A new day has begun..." Then she rolled over and turned on her lamp on her nightstand. Her room once being very pink and lively had changed to that of purples blacks and dark blues.

As she approached her mirror you could see that her hair had been pulled out of the pony tail and bun that she always wore and was died black. Along with her room and a change of hair she wore a little bit of dark eye shadow and black lipstick. She eyed her reflection with a sense of boredom."I got to get out of this house..." As she announced this she grabbed her coat and purse and left her room.

[Defectron]

Mini shadow was sitting on top of a newspaper, report on more mysterious criminal deaths. For the past month , around the world criminals had been dying alot more then regularly. It couldnt just be a coincidence, the internet had already given a name to the hypothetical perpetrator of the crime "Kira" probably derived from the word killer. What could be behind the killings? But at the moment , she had no time to think of this, one of her other bodies had just made contact with Kazuo and was giving chase. He actually wasn't too far away from here, but there would be no escape, one of her other bodies was already heading over to intercept where he was going.

Tori was heading out "Wait!" mini Shadow tried to call out, she didn't think it was a good idea for Tori to go out when Kazuo was nearby, but then again with two of her around, he probably couldnt do anyhting. Lately Tori had been pretty down because of Gmr, hopefully she was going to be ok.

Outside

Kazuo was running away as fast as he could, but even with his suit Shadow was gaining on him, morover she didn't seem to be trying very hard to chase him. He fired several shots with his X-gun at some nearby parked cars causing them to explode in an attempt to slow her down. Shadow stopped as the cars blew up in front of her. Kazuo quickly ran around a corner leaping over a wall and landing in someones back yard.

he ran through several more yards and walked into a shed full on bonsai trees.

"Ahhh...damn it....at least I'm safe now, finnally lost her."

"Hey, you know, these trees are pretty small arent they. If you were a tree, don't you think it'd be kind of frustrating being kept all small like this?" Shadow was sitting right next to him looking at one of the little trees.

"Arrghh..." Kazo backed away knocking over a rack of bonsai.

"That wasn't very nice, it's bad enough that their kept all small but now you knocked them over too? You just like being mean don't you? That's fine, I can be mean too!" Shadow stood up and slowly walked towards Kazuo who was backing away tripping over bonsai.

"Please! I know in the past I caused you some problems but...."

"Oh, your pretty scared, I can tell by the chemicals your body is generating, not so brave now that my offspring isn't here to protect you huh?" another voice said from behind him, the first one who had been chasing him before was standing right behind him.

"Two...why? How?" Kazuo tried to back away from the two of them with his X-gun up.

"Why don't you put that away. You can't hurt me with that." both of them said in unison. Kazuo dropped the gun and took out the sword Aiko had given him.

"But this can!" he ran foreward slashing , Shadow dodged out of the way and then delivered a spin kick to his mid section sending him flying through the wall.

On the other side of the wall Tori happened to be walking when suddenly it exploded, Kazuo flying across the street.

"What the?" Tori began to say as one of the two Shadows leapt across the street landing on top of Kazuo, she was pulling back one hand, plasma fire crackling around her claws as she was about to drive it into him.

"Shadow stop!" Tori shouted as she ran over trying to pull her off of Kazuo.

Somewhere nearby a man with a camera was watching all of this.

Somewhere in the Kanto region of Japan, a teenaged boy sat in front of his labtop. "So this is the tentacle girl alien and that other girl. But whose that guy she's attacking? Looks like another gantzer, I wonder if I can use him?"

he flicked on the tv with the news playing in the background

"At 4pm today, there was a shootout in the Akihabara region of Tokyo as the perpetrator 21 year old Junpei Yamada made off with three Nintendo wii video game consoles. One store empoyee is confirmed dead three girls were also injured in the shootout and are in critical condition."

"Hmmphh..." the boy said to himself as the perpetrators face was displayed on the news, he concentrated on his face for a moment before turing his attention back to the alien on his computer monitor.

Somewhere in Tokyo the 21 year old wii killer Junpei Yamada died of a heart attack. Yet another vitim of Kira, the paranormal killer wispered about in rumor who proclaimed himself the judge jury and executrioner of the worlds criminals.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori hadn't put her suit on but sort of wished she did,"Don't hurt em Shadow!" She wrapped her arms around Shadow and began to tug at her very weak compared to how strong Shadow was. "He's different now...he's a gantzer!" Tori knew how much Shadow hated Gantzers but she wasn't really on a mission to kill each and everyone of them either.

"He helped me out during the last mission so please don't hurt him!"

[Defectron]

Shadow reluctantly put him down "He helped you?"

"Yeah he helped save me from some worms."

"You should have told me earlier that he survived."

"I was a little worried how you would react, from the looks of it I was right to be."

"I'm not a vengeful person by nature. Even if it's this bastard if I don't think he poses a threat I won't kill him...but then again that's a big if."

"Aikos dead, what could I possibly do to you?" Kazuo said fromt he ground.

"It's not me I'm worried about you might try to kill Tori."

"I won't! Really!" he seemed to be telling the truth according to Shadows sensors that could usually tell if someone was lying.

"Oh....so the killers turning over a new leaf huh?" Shadow said a little sarcastic. Kazuo frowned at her.

"I really won't do anything...really."

"I believe you, so I won't kill you, but...." Shadow reached out grabbing his nose, using the Master Monkey Aleins ability she altered his flesh stretching his nose about a foot away from his face. She released it , Kazuos stretched out nose dangled off his face.

"M-My nuuse! What'd yuu du tu my nuuse!?"

"I just thought you could use a change of looks, the sephitroth look is out."

"Change it buck!"

"No!"

"Why nut?"

"Because I don't like you. If you mean what you said , I suppose I'll let you live, so for now just keep your nose clean." Shadow said vanishing as she went into stealth mode.

"Nuuu cume back!" Kazuo said covering up his face with one hand.

Somewhere else

Brandon had read the note Lee had left. It was just him, even with the special rounds Shadow had given him, would he be able to take on Lee, Harry and whatever else was waiting for him all on his own? He had to, Mariah and Mika were both in danger, but if he could find Shadow he would have a much better chance. But where was she? All the aliens which could have contacted her were dead now.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori began to giggle before she stopped. Her voice became sarcastic and dead pan,"What it was funny, just give Shadow some time it took her awihle to warm up to old man pika."

She bit her lip in thought for a moment. It was still a badt habit,"How did you both happen to run into each other?" As she asked him this she began to walk handing kazou a scarf to tie around his face.

[Defectron]

"Well, thu thing is my huuse got burned duwn, I think it was dune by thuse same puople who killed mu. I dun't knuw if they knuw I'm still alive su I've been un the run using the stealth mechanism un this thung to sneak into hutel rooms nu ones staying in. I think she had the same idea as me which is huw we ran into each uther."

"Oh...that sucks, you have no place to stay."

Later at Toris house

Mini Shadow was watching TV in Toris room. Old Man Pika after getting defeated once more was sitting in the corner sulking. He'd thought he could beat mini shadow now that he had his suit but somehow he still lost.

The door opened and Tori walked in followed by Kazuo causing Mini Shadow to frown slightly.

"Shadow could you turn his face back? His nose is starting to run and it's getting kind of gross."

"No, after what he did, he's lucky I didn't take his penis and stick it on his face, the only reason why I didn't is because I don't want to touch his dick."

Old Man Pika backed away "Man am I glad I'm not you!"

Kazuo got down on his knees "Please, I knuw what I did was horrible, I'm not asking for you to forgive me but. I cun hardly breath und my nuse is running!" several globs of snot fell out of it

"Ewww..." Mini shadow back away.

Suddenly the TV screen changed interupting their conversation

A man was displayed sitting at a desk in a suit. He looked to be in his twenties with long dark hair. "What the hell's this?" Mini Shadow said as the tv changed. The man began to speak

"My name is Lind L Tailor, more commonly known as L, the sole person able to mobilize police in every country worldwide."

"Whus this guy?" Kazuo asked wiping his nose.

Tailor continued talking "Criminals have been the target of a killing spree, which has turned into the biggest mass murder case in history. This monstrous crime must be stopped at all costs. Kira as the perpetrator of these crimes is commonly called will be caught. This I can gaurantee! Kira, I think I have a pretty good idea why you are doing this, but what you are doing is EVIL!"

Somewhere else in Tokyo

A young man sat watching the telision, he smiled "Your too damn stupid L. If you'd been smarter, this could have gotten interesting!" he knew it might not be a good idea killing this man since right now there was no real evidence that the perpetrator of these crimes was human. But he wasn't about to let this fool say what he wanted, an example would be made here and now!" he looked at Lind L Tailors face concentrating.

Back in Toris room

Before Lind L Tailor could say anything else he clutched his chest in pain "Arrghhh!" he collapsed on his desk dead, killed on National television!

"What the? Is this real?" Tori asked.

"Hmmm...just as I expected, these Kira killings aren't coincidence." Mini shadow said as she watched with interest.

Suddenly the screen changed, instead of the video feed of the dead Tailor a single L was displayed on the screen in gothic lettering type. A garbled voice spoke "I don't believe it! This was an experiment to test a theorie I had, but I never really thought....Kira, you can kill without making any direct contact. So...I was correct? I couldnt believe it until I saw it with my own eyes but you can...of course, otherwise it wouldnt make sense. Listen to me Kira, the man you just killed on tv, Lind L Tailor was a condemmed criminal scheduald to die today. His arrest and conviction were kept secret from the media and went unreported even on the internet. Even you had no way of knowing about him it seems. But I L do in fact exist! So come on, kill me if you can!"

Shadow, Tori, Kazuo and Old Man Pika waited.

"What are you waiting for? Go ahead and kill me! I'm still here! It seems you can't. So there are people you can't kill, that's a valuable clue. Now I'll give you some information in return. Although it was announced that this was televised globally, this was only broadcast in the Kanto region of Tokyo. You are in the Kanto region of Japan Kira! Although the police missed it your first victim was the Shinjuku killer who took 8 hostages at a local nursery school which was only reported in Japan. Moreover, several weeks after the Kira killings began, a series of mysterious dissapearances occurred at Tamatebako high school, also in the Kanto region of Tokyo. I believed that there was a high probability that you were involved in those as well. This was the deciding factor in broadcasting first to Kanto which also has the highest population in the country!"

Both Tori and Shadow turned to look at Kazuo "Nuu! It's nut me! It's true I had Aiku kill thuse bullies, but I'm not Kira!" he said backing away.

"I didn't expect this to work so perfectly according to plan but...now I dare say it may not be so long before I send you to die! Kira, it would interest me greatly to know how you carry out your murders, but that's something I can find out after I catch you!"

Somewhere else in Tokyo

"Send me to die huh? L..."

"Kira"

"I'm going to find you and dispose of you if the last thing I do! I'm Rightious!" both the boy in his room and the unknown speaker on tv both said at the same time.

"Till we meet again Kira." the TV went back to its regular programming.

Back in Toris room

"Nuu! Yuu huve to beleive me! I'm nut Kira!"

"I believe you."Mini Shadow of all people said from where she sat on Toris bed. "This Kira, he seems to be able to kill with no contact, if you had been in possession of such powers , Tori would not be standing here right now." to be able to kill someone silently from a distance, that wouldn't be bad ability to have, she needed to find Kira before L did, if she could get that ability, there would be no more need to hide from the world any longer.

Somewhere else in Tokyo

The boy had heard the name "Tamatebako high school" mentioned by L. Where had he heard that name? Of course, when he was investigating Tori, the girl who was freinds with the target, that was the school she went to. It was destroyed at the end of october and she had transferred to another school in the area. So L thought he was involved in that? That was good, he could use that to throw suspicion from himself. He also knew where Tori had transferred to, the very same high school he attended, although he was a third year and she was only a second, this way he could keep tabs on her easily.

Somewhere else

Captain Tachibana turned off the tv " I want you to send this message to interpole immediatly telling them this case is out of their hands, it's a matter of National security. If L wants to catch Kira, he'll need to work on the case through our organization."

"We don't need L's help, we can catch Kira on our own."

"Don't be so hasty to dissmiss him, L is renowned as the greatest detective of the world, and he managed to get a reaction from Kira, someone that even our vast organization has had no luck in locating. For that he deserves our respect. I want contact to be made with L within the next 24 hours do you understand?"

"Yes maam." Tachibanas underling walked away to carry out her order. With their resources and L's detective skills, they may be able to catch Kira and maybe more."

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori took a seat on her bed next to Shadow. She pulled up one leg and thought about everything that might have been said,"You don't suppose this Kira guy could be G-" Tori stopped mid sentence to clutch her head as a terrible migrane came on. "Why can't I say..." With a pained expression she looked towards Shadow. She had almost let it slip that time.

"Maybe we should tell the others about this..."

[Defectron]

"That's extremely unlikely. Kira, whoever he is, he's killing criminals, in other words, it appears he's trying to improve human society. That wouldnt fit Gantz at all, Gantz's only motive appears to be killing aliens, so far he's shown little to no concern about the welfare of human citizens that get mixed up in his hunts. Whoever Kira is, he's most likely human or an alien whose being used by a human like Aiko. A regular alien, or Gantz probably wouldnt have a reason to do this."

Elsewhere about 25 minutes earlier

Brandon had been scoping out the areas that Shadow used to hand around, but as expected she was nowhere to be found.

"You seem to be looking a bit lost." he heard someone say. Brandon whirld around, his guns ready. Standing behind him was a girl with white hair and the purest blue eyes he had ever seen, she also had pointy ears like an elf. Strangest of all she had what appeared to be tail dangling out from under her skirt.

"Who are you?" Brandon asked.

"I'm called Sayura, I can take you to the person your looking for." she said with a smile.

"Why are you helping me?" what was this person? This didn't sit right, but there was too much at stake for Brandon not to accept her help.

"I just couldnt bare to see you looking so down, take my hand, I can take you to her much more quickly."

Present time at Toris house

Jack sat outside hidden with a gantz stealth device, he had been staking out Toris house for awhile now to see if anything special would happen. Kiras plan was to observe her for awhile before any of them tried to move against the alien. They would each report in again with their findings at the same cafe within the next three days.

It was then he noticed a ghostly figure floating through the air moving over Toris house.

"Oh? What do we have here?" Jack said with a smile.

In Toris room

"But a regular person can't do that."

"Maybe, but a six inch tall girl with tentacles shouldnt exist either. Yet I'm here, so the possibility of a person who can kill by some unknown means from a distance doesnt sound far fetched at all to me."

"Ummm..." Kazuos nose dribbled

"Stay away from me!"

"Please chunge it buck!"

"Fine fine! Just stop! Lower your face." Kazuo lowered his face and mini Shadow reluctantly reached out touching his nose. It was then that two glowing figures passed through Toris ceiling. Mini Shadow was so suprised that she screwed up and completely made Kazuos nose vanish.

tori fell backwards trying to reach for her X-gun she had hidden under her dresser, but the glowing figures soon became clearer and it was apparant they werent enemies, or at least one of them wasn't. Brandon looked around and saw Mini Shadow.

"Shadow, we have a problem."

"B-Brandon...who?"

"My name is Sayura, we met breifly when I saved you from being destroyed with that monster that attacked the school."

"Oh yeah, that was you....but who the hell are you?"

"A freind, a more detailed explanation of who I am can wait until later though, since I don't think Brandons problem can wait."

"Mariah and Mika have been kidnapped by Millenion, all the aliens are dead."

"What!? No!" Mini Shadow fell off the bed "Damn it, if I hadn't left this wouldn't have happened!"

"There's no time to regret that, I want your help in getting them back. Lee left a note, he said that if I don't come to the exchange area by midnight tonight, he'll torture them both to death."

"Wait, whose Mika?"

"Mariahs baby, she was born a few weeks after you left."

"I see, alright , I'll help you."

"Wait what's going on here? What are you guys talking about?" Tori asked slightly frustrated at the situation.

"Brandons freind Mariah and her newborn baby have been kidnapped by Millenion, the organization responsible for the death of Gmr." Tori remembered, Shadow had told her what she knew of Millenion, the massive criminal organization that had tricked Gmr into becoming a beserk killing machine in exchange for eyesight.

"So what exactly was the deal?" Shadow asked

"Lee specified, that I need to come to our old hide out by midnight today. If I do so, he'll relese Mariah and Mika in exchange for my own life. However , I have no intention of dying before I've settled things with Harry if at all possible. That's why I need your help."

"Of course I'll help...if it wasn't for me, this might not have happened." Mini Shadow reponded, she had left them because she thought if she stayed with them they would just be in more danger, but that seemed to have the exact opposite effect. "But , I sitll would like to know what part you play in this." she said looking at Sayura.

"Lets just say that we have some common enemies, if I help you, it'll also be helping me. I'll explain more about my cercumstances when we have the time."

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori looked away when Sayura mention Miles' nickname everyone always seemed to call him."Miles' murders..." She looked uncertain for a moment. Her eyes regained the glow they use to have for a moment before she looked back at the closet.

"I would like to go to Shadow. If its okay with you...I want to know who was responsible for turning Miles' into that monster!"

She grabbed her suit and gun before looking at the occupants in the room. Toriyuki cleared her throat before speaking,"I have to get changed...get out."

[Defectron]

Everyone moved out into the hallway while Tori changed

"Soooo...hows about giving my nose back?" Kazuo asked.

"No."

Later

All of them met with Sayura outside Toris house "I'll be staying here right now, all my larger bodies are converging on our old hide out as we speak. But how exactly are you all going to get there in time?" Mini Shadow asked.

"I can transport anyone who touches me. I'm guessing that includes the both of you." Sayura said looking at Tori and Brandon.

"I'll come too." Kazuo said, didn't really know what was going on but didn't want to get left behind.

"Alright, then you three grab onto me." Tori, Brandon and Kazuo touched Sayura, as soon as they did so Sayuras body seemed to go luminous , the ghost like appearance of her body spread to the three of them and they floated into the air.

"What the?" Jack who was watching Toris house saw the ball rising into the air and take off moving extremely fast. Using his suits power he began to pursue it, but even for him, it was idficult to keep up.

At Tokyo tower

Pavarti sat on one of the steel girders making up the building "Everything is going according to plan, I don't think they trust me completely though."

"That's to be expected, just stick with the story I made and everything should work out."

The old hide out

About three of Shadows bodies arrived ahead of time in stealth mode, sure enough, there was something in there, two human life signs as well as a number of org men and at least one being that was more powerful then the org men. There couldn't just be one of them?

[Defectron]

A faint white glow lit up the area as Sayura arrived accompanied by Tori, Brandon and Kazuo. They looked around, the area appeared completely deserted.

"Hello? Shadow?" Tori called out

"I'm back here." Tori felt someones hand touch her shoulder and jumped.

"I'm only detecting one enemy whose strong enough to be a threat. Brandon, you go ahead, when he's destracted I'll nail him." Brandon nodded and walked over to the wearhouse opening the door.

When he was inside the first thing he saw was Mariah dangling from a rope tied to the ceiling. Lee, a chinese man sat on a crate next to her holding the baby. "Brandon!" Mariah called out.

"Well, your finnally here Brandon Heat!" Lee smiled as he stood up generating several long needles from his hand.

[Defectron]

ooc: time to get things moving again maybe...

IC:

Brandon didn't say anything "Nothing to say after all this time Brandon?" Lee asked as he walked towards him. "You betrayed the organization and more importantly you killed Bob, am I right?"

"I did kill Bob but..." before Brandon could Finish Lee hurled dozens of needles into Brandons body spearing him.

"I don't care what you had to say, you took my only freind and for that I'll make you suffer!" Lee generated a blade from his heel kicking Brandon cutting into him and sending him flying.

"Brandon! Please stop, don't hurt him anymore!" Mariah called out

"Inflicting physical injuries just isn't effective enough, maybe I should kill your lady freind and make you watch instead!" Lee generated another needle and was about to throw it at her body Brandon whiped out a gun with his good arm firing. The powerful blast ripped Lees hand off.

Lee generated another blade from his hand and was about to attack Brandon with it when something ivisible caught it in mid air.

"What the?" Energy crackled around one of Shadows duplicates as she materialized

"Suprise!" With her other hand she fired a jet of white flame into Lees torso sending him flying backwards. Burned badly, his flesh melting off his body Lee slowly got up.

"Brandon, you...no matter what I'll kill you even if I am outnumbered!" Lee attempted to get up but Shadow was already getting ready to blast him again. Her dorsal fins lit up as another volly of flames was sent at Lee, however the flames idn't even touch him. Something invisible was blocking the pathway. Materializing in front of Lee was what appeared to be a huge fiery glowing bird.

"What the hell?" Shadow hadnt sensed this things presence, what was it? Somehow it seemed to give off the same sort of feel as the chimeras created by the master monkey aliens and Aiko. But Aiko and those aliens were both dead!

Three more chimeras materialized around them, a huge turlte, a dragon and a giant white tiger. It was just like the four sacred beasts of Japanese legend.

"Damn it Bunji! This is my fight! Stay out of this!" Lee shouted from the ground as he tried to stand up.

In addition to the four mysterious beasts a number of org men were also begining to come out of the shadows.

[®onnie ®ude]

"Uh oh Shadow this is getting bad..." Tori whispered as she used her controller to cloak. She then ran out from her hiding and began to head for a different spot. She couldn't let herself get caught from her previous location.

A bit farther away she began to try and pick off the orgmen from the distance with her X-rifle.These things were at the factory where Miles transformed. They were the ones who helped do that to him!

[Defectron]

Before anything else could happen, the serpentine body of the chinese style dragon launched intot he air coming down on Lee who was trying to get up. Grasping him in its claws it begean to fly away.

"You won't escape me that easily!" Shadow began to pursue but was cut off as the white tiger leapt between her and the dragon knocking her backwards. It slowly opened its mouth as white smoke poured from it, when the smoke touched the ground it formed a sheet of ice. Gradually more ice crystals began to form in the area around the tigers body.

"It's leaching all the energy in the area." Shadows force field wasn't functioning in the tigers presence. For the first time since she had gotten this form, Shadow was feeling the cold despite her bodies temperature resistant nature. "Sh..shit....mayube I shouldve dressed warmer..." she said shivering as ice crystals formed around her, even her dorasal fins weren't working in this things presence.

The fiery phoenix like bird flapped its wings a glowing cloud of dust was emitted, without her force field the dust began to cling to her body, it was burning through her armor. One of the other Shadows fired a barrage of metal spikes from her tentacles at the phoenix forcing it back, but the white tiger was still there. It leapt on the injured shadow biting down on her neck, but then just as suddenly as it had attacked it let go.

"I see, you leach energy from your surroundings, this renders energy based defense systems such as the force fields around gantz suits useless. However, I can do much more with energy then that." The person speaking was Sayura, when the tiger had attacked Shadow she had appeared behind it, her hand phazed right through its body, when that had happened the beast had stopped frozen. "That energy you took, there's no need to contain it any longer."

Without warning the white tiger exploded in a fiery bang sending bits and pieces of charred flesh flying all over the place covering Shadow.

"Wha...what just happened?" Shadow asked getting up covering her wounded neck with one hand.

"I released the energy that beast had contained in its body." Shadow stood up shivering.

"You look cold, I can warm you up." Sayura walked over to her putting her arms around her hugging Shadow close to her body.

"Uhhh..." Shadow blushed green as she felt Sayura rub against her own naked body. Sayura had a pretty nice figure, her boobs were alot bigger then hers were. No this wasn't the time to think about that, more enemies were stilla round. Just as that happened all the ice melted and her temperature control system was functioning normally again. "Wha...what did you do?" Sayura just smiled.

"SKREEEK!!!" The phoenix looked at the two Shadows and Sayura, it didn't seem to be too happy that Sayura had just killed one of its partners.

"Without the tiger, your force field should be able to protect you against that dust." Sayura said.

"Good, leave this one to me then!" Both of the Shadows said in unison.

"Be careful, even without the tiger, that bird is still dangerous."


Outside Tori was blasting the org men , as usual while they were strong, the org men werent too bright and were falling under her fire.

Suddenly she could feel the ground rumbling, the pavement beneath her feet exploded as a huge spikey shelled turtle came up out of the ground. She had breifly seen it in the wearhouse, but has lost track of where the four beasts were when the org men began to attack.

A carelous org man who had gotten in the turltes way was grassped in its curving talons and crushed. The zombie squirmed in its arms but slowly it seemed to change, it stiffened up as its molecular structure was being rearanged. In the dim light it was difficult to tell what exactly had just occurred but the turtle had in fact just turned the org man into solid diamond!

"ROUUGGHH!" brandishing the org mans body like aclub it ran at Tori swinging at her. Tori barely got out of the way as the org man club was met by another object. Shadow had countered with her sonic mace causing the transformed org mans body to shatter into hundreds of diamond shards.

"Diamond? It can't be..." More diamond crystals formed around the turtles fists like gauntlets as it charged at them.

Somewhere else

"Let me go! Damn you!" Lee struggled in the cluches of the dragon as it took him above the wearhouse. He landed with a thud. Lee had seen these freaks before, they were made by that thing Bunji had found last month. "I need to kill Brandon! I need to go back!"

"Stay right where you are." a small female voice said. He looked down to see a white kitten standing in front of him. "Bunji told me to save you if you got in over your head. Even with your new abilities as a superior, youll die if you stay here."

"I don't need his help! I just want to kill Brandon!"

As they talked Brandons gunshots could be heard from inside the wearhouse as he gunned down attacking org men. "Brandon!" Lee began to make a run for it but the dragons tail cracked like a whip knocking him down. "Seiryu, Bunji said we needed to make sure he didn't get himself killed. Remove his head, I'll keep him alive after that." The drgons tail lashed out slicing off Lees head in one blow. Spilling blood his body toppled over, this was bad, even a superior could survive being beheaded. The little white kitten walked over to his head, "Don't worry, I won't let you die, my master was very worried about you so he sent me here to save you. My guardian beasts will destract your pursuers until were gone."

Lees head looked like he wanted to curse the feline as several tendrils came out of its body connecting with his severed head, but no sound escaped his mouth. The little white kitten picked up the severed head in its mouth before leaping off the wearhouse roof, two wings sprouted from its back as it flew away carrying the head.

[®onnie ®ude]

"Shit!" Tori swore long giving up on excusing herself for speaking crudely. She had changed alot since her and Shadow last fought side by side. Diving out of the way she uncloaked seeing that there was no use now that the turtle knew where she was.

As she slid to a hault she fired repeatedly at its feet trying to slow it down,"How do we kill this thing!?"

[Defectron]

Toris shots hit its legs blasting them apart, but like some of the other chimeras they began to rapidly regrow. Shadow swung the mace down on the turtles shell cracking it , but before she could swing a second time all the stpikes on its back shot out like missiles, several speared her body before exploding.

"Shadow?!" Her head tumbled over to Tori.

"I'm ok...I'm kind of starting to get used to this." The turltle stood up once its legs were done healing and was about to advance on them again when suddenly it squeeled in pain, Kazuo using his disruptor katana speared its shell, his blade melting through its tough armor. The turtles tail lashed out knocking him away and laving his sword stuck in its shell.

Inside the wearhouse

Brandon had gunned down most of the org men making his way over to Mariah and Mika who were both tied up. But before he could get near them the wall exploded, the huge fiery phoenix shot throguh it as it fled the two Shadows, it turned back to look at them before fully unfolding its two huge wings.

One of them attacked with a gantz style katana, but when the blade came down on the birds wing it was repelled as if its feathers were made of some incredibly strong material. The other shadow fired a volley of fire engulfing the birds body.

"Shadow, be careful, that bird I think it might be bad if you rely on close combat to fight it!" Sayura called out.

One of them delivered a powerful kick to the birds head sending it sprawling backwards through the wall.

Once outside two more Shadows leapt on the birds wings driving disruptor blades through its armoed feathers pinning it to the ground.

"Skreeek!" it attempted to slash at them with its talons only to have its feet chopped off by a third Shadow who had just arrived. With the exception of the Shadow who had been helping Tori and mini Shadow all of them were there.

One of them generated a halbard style weapon spearing the birds neck.

"Stop struggling you damn bird!" the Shadow next to the birds head began to release her nanites. The bird stopped struggling and seemed to go comatose.

"Shadow wait , what are you doing?" Sayura ran over to one of them trying to pry her off the bird.

"I'm trying to get some clues about where this thing came from, don't worry, with five of me here, its not going anywhere! Whats with you?!" she motioned to its limp form.

"That bird has a bomb inside it!"

"Wha....you didn't just say this thing was a bomb?" Sayura nodded with a nervous look on her face.

Right as Shadow asked this the phoenix's body seemed to glow for a moment, moments later the entire left side of the wearhouse was ripped apart in a deafening bang armored feathers were sent flying through the air like shrapnel from a cluster bomb ripping through the five Shadows bodies like paper.

Watching all this sitting in a tree was Jack. He picked up an x-gun viewing the area of the explosion. Only two of them were mostly intact, the rest of them had been ripped apart in the blast. Now would be his chance, he would kill every last one of the tenticle girl clones before any of the other three even had a chance to move. He wasn't sure what those things were they were fighting but whatever they were it made his job a whole lot easier!

Sayura coughed from the smoke, for some reason she hadn't even been scratched in the blast. "Hmmm...I've never seen you before." she heard someone say. She turned to see Jack, as soon as their eyes met Jack took a step backwards, was this fear he was feeling? This girl was giving off the same feeling as those defectives, but he'd never seen her before. Well one thing was for sure, she was his enemy!

"Your a vampire?" Sayura asked calmly. "I thought I felt the presence of one of you watching us."

"If you think I'm just another vampire, you have another thing coming. Your one of those defectives aren't you?"

"What if I am?"

"Then your my enemy, but I didn't come here today to fight you. If you value your life, you'll stand aside and let me finish off the tentacle girl alien."

"And if I won't?"

"Sayura...get out of here, I've thought this guy before, he's too strong for you to take on alone." One of the Shadows who had come away more or less in one piece said getting up out of the rubble. Shadoiw pulled several armor plated feathers from her body. Some greenish colored blood dripped down her fore head getting into one of her eyes. Sayura bent down , her face comiung next to Shadows "Sayura?" Shadow blushed a bit as their faces were right next to each other, no this wasnt the time for this, Jack might attack if they let their guard down!

Sayuras pink toung slowly came out of her mouth lapping up some of the greenish blood on Shadows face.

"Uhhh...S..Sayura? " Was pretty much all Shadow had been able to say as Sayura took her by suprise, if she wasn't in so much pain she would probably have reacted a bit more then that. Normally she'd be happy to receive this sort of attention from someone like Sayura but alot of things still didn't add up. Who was this person? Shadow didn't know who she was or what she was, but she was going to put her life on the line to help her fight against someone like Jack , why was she doing this?

"Hmmm...tastes kind of strange almost like vegetible juice. Don't worry, I won't lost to a lowly creature like him!" Sayura said with a smile as she stood up to face Jack.

[®onnie ®ude]

Coughs could be heard from the rubble as a hand became visible. Slowly it pried itself from the rubble going into a coughing fit. It was Tori whom had been searching around for Shadows head. "Shadow?! What happened?"

Digging a bit she pulled out the head. She ignored how disgusting it was and cleaned some of the dirt off her face. "Are you ok Shadow?" Sure it seemed dumb to ask this but, she really wasn't sure of the aliens limits.

[Defectron]

"Oh sure...this is just a walk in the park for me." the head said "But you better watch out, I think the turtles still around."

The turlte had been knocked over when the phoenix had exploded, but it wasn't dead yet, rising out of the rubble it slowly began to plod towards them. Kazuos sword was still lodged in its back. A series of loud bangs rang out as Brandon began blasting the turtle with the large coffin like gun he carried on his back. Brandon had also been injured in the explosion, from the looks of it, he had sheilded mariah and Mika with his body and had been cut up pretty badly.

The shots were powerful enough that they were damaging the turtles shell even though it was negating this somewhat by destablizing the bullets using its carbon manipulation. "While it's destracted, shoot the ares on its shell that are damaged." Shadows head said.

Sayura and Jacks location

Without his suit jack could move at 50 mph, but with it on he could move at nearly half the speed of sound. Faster then the eye could see he vanished reapearing in front of Sayura slashing at her with his sword. But somehow amazingly she was undamaged as she appeared behind him. Flying around with a spinning kick Jacks foot seemed to pass right through her shattering one of the walls that were still standing after the explosion. In his moment of Suprise Sayuras hand reached out, her fingers jabbing into one of his eye sockets ripping out his eyeball.

"Arrghh...!" Jack leapt backwards away from her. She had some weird powers, now wasn't the right time to face her. "Don't think this is over!" Jack said with one hand over his bleeding eye socket. With that said he leapt away retreating full speed.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori looked up and saw Brandon pelting the alien with shots and preceded to do the same. She tried to shoot a different spot on the turtle each time she shot. First she shot at both legs and then preceded to shoot at its arms and legs. She did this so the alien wouldn't predict her points of fire and wouldn't be able to deflect them at all.

[Defectron]

The turtle was partially able to deflect Brandons bullets using the carbon manipulator to destroy them when they got close to its body, but it had no way of defending against Toris shots. The places her X-gun hit all exploded sending pits and pieces of shell and turtle flesh flying through the air. When this happened it seemed to destract it enough that Brandons shots got through its defenxses hitting with full effect. Within a matter of seconds its huge body was ripped apart by the shower of bullets shooting from Brandons coffin.

"Was that all of them?" Tori asked looking around, even the remaining org men had vanished.

"There was also a dragon and that weird guy witht he needles...and possibly something more..." Shadows head said."However it seems that all remaining enemies retreated."

"What do you mean something more?"

"These chimeras are simialr to the beings made by Aiko and those aliens from that one hunt. I don't think that was coincidence."

Kazuo slowly got up out of the rubble "What do you mean? If Aiko was alive I would have felt it!" he said running over to the severed head.

"Thing's arent always as they appear to be, in any case we can't say for sure that the one who made these is Aiko."

The only Shadow remaining who was completely intact arrived carrying a pile of severed limbs that belonged to her other bodies that had been destroyed by the phoenix. Sayura didn't seem tobe around anymore though she had vanished as mysteriously as she had came right after defeating Jack.

"Brandon, who was that guy?"

"Ballad Bird Lee, one of Harrys four executives." Brandon said softly, he had worked with Lee for about as long as Bob. Lee had actually betrayed the organization once when Big Daddy was still in control, Harry had been the only one to find out. Despite the code of iron he had kept Lees betrayal a secret on the condition that he work for him from that day foreward. The only person besides Harry that Lee had any sort of feelings for was Bob, his only good freind who had recently been killed by Brandon.

"That means we can assume that Harries other underliungs may have also gone through simialr transformations. Confronting Millenion may become signifigantly more difficult if that's the case."

Tori frowned hearing this, they were the ones who had done that to gmr, even if they were more powerful she wanted to get revenge on them for that.

"Anyway, we should leave now. Jack was here earlier, Sayura beat him, but he isn't dead."

Brandon had never met Jack "Who?"

"A vampire gantzer, its a long story, but even I have trouble beating him, if he finds out about you, he might come after you too. Errghhh.....!!!" Shadows face scrunched up as two huge firey red wings erupted from her back similar tot he ones the phoenix had "Heh, I did get something for my trouble. Lets get out of here." she walked over to Tori picking her up.

"W-wait Shadow, what about your other body parts?"

"They just need to pull themselves together." Shadow said before lifting off the ground, she didn't need to run or anything as these new wings seemed to generate some sort of propultion.

"Wait don't leave me here alone!" Kazuo ran up behind Shadow grabbing her tale. Struggling one of his hands grabbed her ass.

"WAAUUGGHHH! You asshole! Stop doing that!" Shadow tried to kick him losing concentration Shadow fell out of the air landing on top of Kazuo and Tori landing on top of them both.

"But I have nowhere to go, can I stay with you guys? I won't let your parants see me, I'll live in the closet or something!" Kazuo said begging Tori.

"You already came out of the closet, so you have no business going back inside!" Shadow said pointing at him accusingly.

"That insult didn't even make sense! Come on, I'll even help you do your homework and chores!"

Later

Somewhere in a big expensive looking house in the kanto region of Tokyo a very handsome looking teenaged boy with reddish brown hair answered his phone(Benrys avatar is Light if you want to know exactly what he looks like).

"Hello?"

"It's me!" Jacks voice was on the other end of the phone

"Your calling a bit sooner then I expected." Light replied.

"I got some news for you, we should meet back up with the others as soon as we can. Someone else is helping our target who could be a problem."


Later that night


One of the full sized Shadows was relaxing in some hot springs bathhouse after it had closed and everyone had gone home. Absent mindedly she began to play around with her boobs as she often did when no one was looking. "Ahhh...this is the life, maybe I ought to make this hot springs place my new hideout."


"The springs are nice, but during work hours I think it'd be too much of a hassle." Someone said.

"Yeah you might ri....what the hell? Sayura? What? Why?" Shadow said in suprise to see Sayura was naked sitting next to her in the spring. Shadow jumped out of the water backing away.

"I followed you back over here after the fight." Sayura said following her out of the water. Sayuras naked form was now completely visible to Shadow, she had smooth ghostly skin and large smooth breasts. One thing that hadn't been visible when she was wearing clothes was that appeared to be a short slender furless tail. Shadow couldnt help but stair at her body but Sayura showed no sign of being ashamed.

Shadow pointed one hand at the side of Sayuras head, her microwave gun ready. "Who are you? Jack called you a defective, he referred to Indra and his buddies the same way."

"That's true, I am a child of Shiva, Indra is my older brother. But I'm not your enemie, you should know that since I've already helped you three times."

"I can say for sure you don't want me dead, but that doesn't mean you aren't my enemy. Why are you helping the enemy of your father and brother?"

"Your enemys enemy is your freind. They also want to kill me, all the others are under Shivas control, but when I was created, for some reason, I lacked the mechanism that allowed this to happen. I was a defective among defectives I suppose you could say." Shadow didn't know if Sayura was lying or not, Sayura and others like her were made differently from humans, Shadow couldnt detect lies by analyzing their bodies bio readings. Indra and the others seemed like they had acted of their own will, were they really controlled?

"I don't know if I can trust what you say."

"I'm not lying!" Sayura said forcefully showing anger for the first time they met. "What can I do to prove myself?"

"I don't know, if your telling the truth, I think it will become apparant in time, but until then I don't trust you."

"I'm helping you because I think you have the best chance of taking them down! You don't know what their like! Please, I'll even let you assimalate me, with my abilities, you may be able to stop them!" Sayura was crying now, her naked body rubbed up against Shadow. She could feel her heart beating faster as Sayura rubbed up against her, no she had to stay focused and not be distracted.

"I...I'm not going to assimalate someone who isn't an enemy, I don't trust you but I won't do that."

"Alright that's good enough, in time I'll prove to you that I can be a valuable ally, and maybe more." Sayura took a step backwards stepping on a bar of soap "Woaaahhh!" she knocked Shadow over and falling on top of her, one of her hands landing right on Shadows right boob with a squish. For a moment the two of them stayed that way. Sayura glanced at her hand"Hmmmm....you were squeezing these when I got here, is it fun to do that?"

"Uhhh...yeah..." Shadows face blushed greenish as she tried to calm down, she couldnt lose control around Sayura, if she was an enemy, she couldnt take her lightly.

[®onnie ®ude]

(OOC: Wow hrm...you and your crazy sexual alien fantasies..."

Tori sighed irritably. She couldn't let a bunch of freeloaders live in her house like this. It was begining to bother her and invade her privacy. Besides last time Kazou had had a weird obsession and who knows what he could be plotting. She eyed Kazou angel like display with a piercing eye.

"I'm still trying to get rid of them, speaking of them,"She let her head drop as if just remembering something,"Old man pika is probly doing something perverted at home...ok you can stay Kazou but, only until we sort this stuff out and Shadow fixes your nose, inwich she will!" She pointed warningly at Shadow poking her in her boob. She stopped immediately afterwards and blushed muttering a few curses. She still preferred if Shadow wore clothes. She would have to make that a household rule o when discovered her parents might see her as a lesbian or something.

[Defectron]

Shadow smiled at Tori after she did that "Ok, I'll fix it." she said before reaching out and poking Toris own boob.

"H-hey Shadow!" Tori said backing away.

"Hehehe, just giving you a little something in return." Shadow walked over to Kazuo and reluctantly touched his nose which seemed to more or less go back to its original shape. Shadow picked up Tori once more and began to hover into the air.

"Hey what about me?" Kazuo said running over to them, one of Shadows tentacles lashed out grabbing him by the legs as she took off.

Later at Toris house

"Blaargghhh..." Kazuo was puking in her back yard

"H-hey..." Tori ran over to try to minimize the mess he made.

"Moition sickness...blarghhh..." was the only words he got out before puking some more.

Kazuo had been pretty scary back when he was the enemy, but underneath it all he was kind of a pathetic guy. Tori had almost forgotten that before this had happened he was a quiet hikkikomori who hid in his room all day doing who knows what.

The full sized Shadow walked over to the house where she was greeted by her mini version "Here, take it!" Shadow said cutting her hand, mini Shadow walked over and stuck her hand in the wound.

"What the hell?" Old Man Pika who had just come out of the bathroom spotted the two of them, for some reason he hada bottle of hand lotion under one arm and some of his fur looked kind of messed up.

"What I'm just sharing some new dna I got with my mini version. But uhh...ewww, you weren't doing something nasty in there?" Shadow noticed what it looked like he must have been doing "Glad I don't need to use the bathroom."

Mini Shadow after taking in the new dna sprouted two miniature versions of regular sized Shadows wings. Before leaving Shadow turned to Tori "Be careful, sooner or later , your going to be facing Jack again, he knows you have some connection with me, so he'll probably try to take advantage of it." The larger Shadow unfolded her wings before flying away.

The next morning

Jack, Hirono and Constantine once again were sitting around the same table at starbucks, the man with the labtop was also there.

"Wow, I saw you kill that guy on tv, that was pretty hard core, but how come you couldn't kill L?" Hirono asked.

"A certain set of cercumstances must be met before I can kill. But L will die, he's only prolonged the inevitible." The voice from the labtop said.

"We didn't come here to meet about that. Jack, you said that someone was helping her and she was also fighting some unknown enemies." Constantine asked.

"I don't like the fact that a wild card has been thrown into the mix. Before we act, we should find out exactly what it is that is aiding them." the voice from the labtop said "I would also like to know what these enemies were."

"The guys they were fighting seemed to give off the same feel as those defectives and their zombies, but they were different. That's about all I could tell you. As for that blond girl, it was weird, I couldn't land a blow on her , it was like fighting a ghost."

"So it appears physical attacks may be innefective. We do have other options open to us though." On the other end of the labtop Light considered telling them that he was planning to make a direct confrontation with Tori later at school, but no, he couldnt give any clues about his identity, not even to them, if one of them were to talk it could become troublesome. Tori was a new transfer student, he'd pose as a freindly sempai who wants to help her adjust to her new school. Yes, he'd approach her at lunch. Light smiled at his plan.

Elsewhere

In a hotel somewhere in Tokyo a strange looking man sat crouched on his chair with his knees against his chest. He had dark wild hair, his skin was ghostly pale and had dark rings aorund his eyes from lack of sleep. Slowly he ate a piece of cake sitting in front of him. Right after he had made his announcment the government had halted the npa investigation of Kira. This all seemed horribly rushed, were they that afraid of Kira assasinating government officials that might oppose him? It seemd the only obvious answer, but something just didn't seem right. Well, it didn't matter, he would continue the investigation with or without their help.

"L, you have some visitors, they say they have information about Kira that hasn't been made available to the public." the voice of an old man said from his labtop.

"I see... Watari can you patch them through to me, I would like to ask them a few questions." did these people have something to do with the npa's investigation being halted?

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori began to mumur as she awakened from her sleep. She was exhausted from last night's episode. This was an everyday thing for Shadow and she didn't seem fatigued in the slightest. She attempted a yawn only to discover she couldn't move."Whaa?"

She looked around her to see Kazou, Old man pika, and Shadow all snuggled up against her...and their was a wet spot...."Ok..I'm not even going to ask who wet the bed...BUT WHY IN THE HELL ARE YOU ALL SLEEPING WITH ME!"

She attempted to struggle more forcefully, sure it wasn't bad when it was only Shadow and oldman pika sleeping with her but now it was Kazou. She had to draw the line somewhere.

"Toriyuki dear, everything ok in there!" Her mother could be heard outside her room. Their was a bit of concern in her voice."I heard you scream...are you on your period?" Tori turned white in response and three shades of red as she tried to hide her embarressment.

"N-no mom everythings swell..." She elbowed Kazoiu to try and get him out of her bed, maybe using swell hadn't been the right choice of words because Kazou had a disgusting case of morning boner.

[Defectron]

L's hotel room

"My name is Captain Kitsurabami Tachibana, I'm a member of a secret government agency that keeps track of abnormal elements like Kira. The reason why the Kira investigation was closed was because it involves certain things we would like to keep out of the public eye. However we recognize your talents as a detective, we would like to have you help us investigate Kira. This is only a request, if you say no we will leave now. But I beleive it would be in both our best interests if you agree with our proposal. If you agree to our propostion, we'd like you to come with us, I think it would be better to show you rather then explain to you exactly what we do." Tachibana said into the speaker on L's labtop.

"I see, what you say is interesting. Very well then , I think I may go with you, but first I would like to ask that each of you indevidually comes to my room so that I may ask each of you a few questions. Those are the terms to my agreement."

L had been very good at hiding, they hadn't been able to track him down by their usual methods and had had to use Watari, an old man that was L's liason tot he public in order to get in touch with him.

When L agreed to meet them Watari had been mildly suprised, L's policy was to keep his idenitity secret from all he interacted with. But then again, this wasn't an ordinary case.

Each of the five people accompanying Captain Tachibana went into L's room for a moment. Lastly it was Captain Tachibanas turn. When she entered she saw something very unexpected, sitting on the couch with his knees up against his chest was a deshoveled looking young man wearing a hockey mask to conceal his face.

"Uhhh...why?" she began to ask

"I've determined that Kira can only kill if he can see a persons face. The only criminals killed were those whose faces were made public. I've determined that Kira is not among any of your men. Now I have a few questions to ask you, this is just a precaution to make sure you aren't Kira."

"Your sure a paranoid guy!"

"If I wasn't, I would have been dead a long time ago."

A bit later L walked out of the room accompanied by Captain Tachibana "It appears you all were telling me the truth." L said still wearing his mask.

"Can't you take that off?"

"If I come with you, this mask stays on, those are my conditions."

"Very well then, I want you all to do everything you can to make sure that mask stays on his face. Those are my orders!" Captain Tachbana told her men.

"Yes sir!" all of them said all to seriously to her odd command. She opened the door to a black cadilac as it pulled up in front of them.

"You and Watari can ride with me. I know its a bit of a cliche, but your about to see just how deep the rabbit hole really is." Captain Tachibana said with a smile as she put on some sunglasses.

Back at Toris house

Mini Shadow sat up "What's all the noise...huh?" she noticed Kazuo and old man Pika "AHHH! How many times do I have to tell you! Rodents don't get to sleep here! This is a monopoly, not a democracy!" Mini Shadow was about to attack old man pika only to notice Kazuo was there too.

"You bastards! You want some of this too huh?!" Mini shadow leapt at Kazuo who batted her away with one hand tiredly. He was still wearing his gantz suit which made the morning boner all the more visible.

"But it was all cramped in the closet!" Kazuo protested to Tori.

"Stay out of my bed! I need to go get ready for school now, but were going to have a long talk about where it's not ok to sleep when I get back!" Tori said walking out of the room to get ready for school. Once she was out of the room, mini Shadow tried to attack him again but he grabbed her by the tail chucking her against the wall.

A bit later

Tori left for school with Mini Shadow and Oldf Man Pika in her bag "Hey...you sure it's ok leaving that guy alone in your room?" Mini Shadow asked.

"I can't exactly take him to school like you guys."

Back at Toris room

Kazuo was going through Toris underwear drawer "Ahh...I'm in heaven!" he had dreamed of this moment for so long!

Back at Toris school

It started out like any other day at Toris new school, most of her freinds that had survived had transferred elsewhere and she didn't know anyone here. Tori sat down at the usual place for lunch, as usual none of the kids felt like approaching her. But then to her suprise someone sat down beside her, he was a very handsome guy who looked to be one year above her. Tori couldnt help but stare for a moment.

"Hello there, my names Light Yagami, your one of the new transfer students here aren't you?" Lights voice was very soft and polite as he spoke.

"Uhhh...yeah."

"I heard about what happened to your old school, I can't believe it was bombed by terrorists! Really, this world needs to be cleaned up if people like that will even use schools like that. Oh I'm sorry I shouldnt have brought that up..." Light mistook the look on Toris face for sadness, but she was actually thinking about what a bullshit explanation that was. She hadnt been the only one to see that monster at the school, how had it been covered up like that?

"Oh, it's all right!" Tori said in response had heard that name Light Yagami before, it was a very unusual name. That's right, on the tests scoring she had seen his name, he was ranked first in the entire school, a genius.

Light smiled slightly, he'd use his weapon to force Tori to tell him everything she knew about Sayura and Millenion and then he would erase her memory of the conversation. But was this the right time to do this?, He needed to make sure that no one else heard their conversation, this girl was a gantzer like he was so he couldnt let his guard down. Before he made his move he'd make her trust him on her own, there was no need to rush things.

"I know it can be tough switching schools, if your having any trouble in any of your classes I would be willing to tutor you." Light had also looked up Toris grades. even before the destruction of her school her grades had been slipping. Probably stress from being a gantzer was taking its toll on her, they were actually pretty good up until a month prior to her schools destruction.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori seemed at a loss for words for a second before she turned away and looked back at her lunch. "I-I'm ok really, no need to worry about me." She mentally slapped herself for sounding so uncertain.

It wasn't like this guy was going to pull a Kazou on her or something. It seemed that all the pretty boys wanted to rule the world and etc, etc.

She looked down for a moment at her clothes, she was wearing dark clothing that she had now became accustomed to wearing now a days. It wasn't that she wanted to commit suicide but, when Miles died it had felt like she had lost a part of her.

She looked back at the other tables,"Is it okay to be talking to me? I'm not what you'd call one of the popular girls..."She continued to play with her food dipping her fork continuously in her vegetables next to the pizza that seemed a mouse nibbled on it. She would have given it to the occupants in her bag but, going around with a reputation of storing food in her bag made her think otherwise.

[Defectron]

"The unpopular kids are usually the ones who need freinds the most. Anyway, my offers still open if you ever need some help. In any case, I've never been concerned with popularity, I suppose I am among the more popular kids, but in the long run that sort of thing has no meaning to me."

"Listen, I'm not one of those people who cut themselves or anything, I'm just going through some stuff right now so if that's why your worried..."

"No that's not it, although I would advise against doing something like that. You just seemed too alone for me to turn my back on you."

From inside Toris bag Shadow looked over at Light, this guy almost seemed to trustworthy, was this really ok? She wasn't detecting any irrgularities in his bio readings, either he was really sincere or lying just came so naturally to him that he could do so without triggering her sensors.

"Damn it...I wish I could be young and handsome like that again!" Old Man pika was crying.

"You were like that?.... yeah right, before worrying about your age I'd worry about being a rodent."

Light thought he heard something from Toris bag, had that just been his imagination? When everyone had made their report this morning Hirono who had been trying to folly Tori at a distance did say something about her doing something odd with her bag.

L's location

L had been taken inside a secret base somewhere in the mountains "So the government has places like this?" he was lead past a room where it looked like some sort of animal was being kept but he couldnt see what was inside. They eventually came to a small lounge area where Captain Tachibana sat down, L sat down as well, pulling his knees up against his chest as he always did in his idiosyncratic way of sitting.

"So you have something to show me?"

"Before we begin, would you like to take a look at this? These are reports concerning several confirmed killings." She didn't say what was killed , instead she waited for L to look through the folder.

L came upon a page that showed a photo of the dismebered body of a huge Buddah statue, but looking closer he could see that it wasn't made of rock, it was made of flesh and blood a huge pool of blood beneath its body. Beneath the photo was details of what lead up to its death.

"At 18:00 hours the assualt on alien camoflaged as Rakien Buddah statue begins....Alines..." L seemed to pause reading for a moment before he threw his hands in the air emitting a scream and falling out of his seat.

"L...what the..." for a moment captain Tachibana thought he had a heart attack but L sat back up almost instantly. "Aliens...on earth....are we supposed to accept the existence of such things?"

"We don't know for sure, but that's what they appear to be, countless creatures of all shapes and sizes such as the buddah monster in that photo co-exist with us. It's the job of our organization to keep such things under control. If you want, I can show you a real live alien right now." given how L had reacted to the very thought of aliens co-existing with them she expected he would say no but instead he stood up.

"Yes, I would like that very much." She lead him to the room that looked like some sort of animal was being held and opened the door, as soon as she did so a huge White wolf stood up trotting over to them.

"This is Mantacore, don't worry, despite appearances he's freindly towards...hey what are you?" before she could even finish talking he walked over to the huge wolf and had pet its face.

"This creature...it's really an alien?" just what made this guy tick? One moment he was literally floored by the very idea aliens might exist among them and he had adjusted to the idea so fast he had starting petting Mantacore before she could even finish explaining what he was.

"Yes, this is Mantacore, he works with us in dangerous operations."

""Kitsurabami, who is this guy?" the wolf asked.

"Amazing, he talks..."

"This is L, he'll be working with us on the Kira case."

"But it makes no sense that Kira would be an alien, why would an alien suddenly choose to go around killing human criminals?"

"This I agree with you on, like you we believe it to be likely Kira is human. Some aliens like Mantacore become attached to humans, the incident at Tamatebako high school was the result of this, but the culprit of that crime has already been killed by our forces. That incident appears to be unrelated to the Kira crimes. Another possibility is that Kira is a human that has a special weapon. Besides our own organization, there appears to be a rogue group hunting down aliens both dangerous and otherwise." she held up a blurred picture of a man wearing a gantz suit fighting an alien. "After we took this photo, that mans head exploded, we have no way of figuring out who they are because every time we come close to capturing them they die. They have a set of standard weapons that they use on the hunts and some of them appear to have access to other weapons beyond those. These special weapons come in all shapes and sizes. What if one of them was given a weapon that allowed him or her to kill from a distance? Aside from using them during hunts, it appears these people are free to use their weapons however they please as long as their presence is not given away. It's not impossible Kira could be someone like that."

"Indeed, all this information will be of great help to my investigation Tachibana san." L took the files on the gantzers from her and sat down to look it over.

[®onnie ®ude]

Tori laughed uneasily as she saw Light looking at her bag. Hurriedly she pushed it under the table. While puting her left hand behind her head she chuckled before stomping on it repeatedly,"Well, then I'll just have to keep that in mind next time I'm having trouble with my geometry." Her grin widened hoping that Light wouldn't mind her weird behavior.

Just then the bell rang so Tori quickly grabbed her bag and got the hell out of there, at her locker she opened the bag and spoke to the two inside it,"I'm sorry but, he was looking right at you guys!" She shouted this as she whispered.

People around her questioned her actions and she held up a cell phone and they walked by with. "o's"
She turned back to Shadow in her bag before asking,"Well could you sense anything bad about this guy?" She mentally crossed he fingers.

[Defectron]

"Hmm...she's hiding something in that bag." Light thought to himself, it could be her gantz stuff, but no it had made a noise, it was something alive. That alien was much too big to hide in her bag though, was she allied with another one as well, or was something else going on?

Old man Pika was crying "Owww...Why'd you have to stomp? I'm alot more delicate then Shadow you know!"

"Oh shut up!" Shadow sealed his mouth shut, she looked up at Tori "I didn't pick up anything unusual when he talked with you so he's probably ok. But you should keep in mind, my sensors aren't innfalable, just like lie detector tests they can be fooled."

"Come on Shadow, he's a high school student. There's no way..."

"I suppose your probably right, I've just gotten to be kind of paranoid."

On top of Tokyo tower

Pavarti sat on one of the steel girders looking out at the city as the cold winds blew against her. "Sayura?" she felt Sayura trying to make her report through their telepthic link. "I see...that's good, but I think you should show a bit more discretion. If you come on too strong, Shadow might get suspicious. You only met her yesterday so it'd be best to take things one step at a time." Pavarti had told Sayura that her best bet at getting close to Shadow would be to come onto her sexually.

"I don't know, she already suspects me, if something goes wrong right now this whole plan is finished. And as it stands, that girl Tori is a potential obsticle in what were trying to do, isn't there another way?"

"The way I see it, our best bet is to keep going the way we have been, just be careful." Pavarti shut off her telepathic link

Shadow and Sayuras location

"Hey, what are you doing?" Shadow waved her hand in front of Sayuras face.

"Oh, nothing I just spaced out for a moment..." Shadow was sitting against the wall flipping through tv channels.

"There's a couple of specials on about Kira, but all these Japanese tabloid shows are just bullshit, if I really want to find him, I'll need to use a more reliable source of information."

"Your looking for Kira? Why?"

"My goals to evolve to become the most powerful being on the planet, the power to kill from a distance could come in handy."

"You want to rule the world? Seems tough!" Sayura said smiling.

"No, I have no interest in political power. I merely want to become strong enough to move freely without being hounded by gantz or your siblings or anyone else."

"You sure you don't want to assimalate me? I'm pretty strong, I can just give you some of my dna. You might even be able to get bigger boobs like me if you do that!" Sayura said sitting down next to her.

"Thanks for the offer, but I still don't trust you yet. Besides as much as I like big boobs, I like mine the way they are."

Sayura looked confused "So why won;t you...?"


"You do know what a trojan horse is?"

"Jeez, your so paranoid, I just want to help but you don't trust me! You trust that human girl, is she your master? Or is she your girlfreind?" Sayura began to get angry, no this was no good, she needed to be patient, victory wouldnt be this easy, if need be she would spend months or even years at Shadows side to gain her trust.

"Tori's just a freind, I'm my own master and that won't change."

L's location

"I think we can narrow down our suspects a bit. According to this data on the times of death, Kira is most likely a high school student." He looked over the data. The one responsible for the Tamatebako high school massecer was dead, however there was also reports of a female gantzer in the area at the time when the school was destroyed that looked to be a high school student. The description was that she was short with reddish brown hair. There were no pictures of her though. All he knew was that Kira lived in the Kanto region, was most likely a gantzer and also a high school student. This was the only solid lead he had at the moment so he would follow up on it first. L took out his cell phone holding it to his head between two fingers. "Watari, I want you to get me a profile of all the female students that transferred out of Tamatebko high school." if the gantzer was among the student body, iut wouldnt be hard to pick her out, naturally reddish hair was very uncommon among japanese girls.

"You found a lead?" Captain Tachibana asked

"I estimate a 6% possibility that this could lead us closer to Kira, but it isn't 0. By the way Tachibana san...."

"Yes?"

"If you could send your men out to pick up some cake and two bags of marshmallows, that would be helpful. My reasoning abilities rise by 15% when I have a high sugar intake." L had left most of his snacks back at the hotel.

"Uhh...ok...I'll get right on that."

[®onnie ®ude]

"Is that so..." Sekihara zoned off in thought on the possibility of this guy being a threat or not. She looked at Shadow again and frowned,"Well it doesn't really matter right, its not like I like the guy." She crossed her arms over her chest for a moment and began gathering her stuff for her next classes.