The Dragon's Thunder
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by Elements of Desire

Part III
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Present time Crystal Tokyo, Astrology center?
	"You liar, you cheater, you no good, back-stabbing, 
bastard, you?" She swore in every language she could think 
of at that moment, and all he could do was stare at her, 
enchanted by her beauty and totally ashamed of himself, not 
really understanding why.  Her eyes crackled with anger, 
like angry lightening in a storm, he thought bemusedly, as 
she continued to shake him.  "Why I ought to slap you silly 
for cheating on me like this!"  Finally deciding that this 
had gone on long enough, he rested his hands and rapped 
them around her slender wrist to stop her from throttling 
him any farther, which left her gapping at him in surprise.  
Using her surprise as a moment of advantage, he gently, but 
firmly pried her fingers away from his, now, crumpled lab 
coat.
	"My name is Nephrite, Dr. Nephrite."  He said, acting 
as if nothing had happened, and thinking that he actually 
did need a good throttle to snap him out of whatever trance 
he had stuck himself into.  Shaking her head slowly, she 
finally relaxed, as he let go of her wrists.
	"Where's the mad woman?"  A guard yelled out as he 
rushed into the door, that is, before he run into a wall 
when he saw Makoto standing there looking at him, puzzled 
at his outbursts.
	"Her."  The secretary pointed, as she put her head in 
her free hand, sighing in disappointment, does all the men 
react that way to her?  She thought in distress.
	"Me?  A madwoman?  Are you crazy?"  Makoto asked 
startled, and began to laugh.  "Don't you know who I am?"  
She finally pushed down her mirth at the people that 
surrounded her.  For there were now three security guards 
lying one on top of another from crashing into the same 
wall or tripping over each other's bodies when they 
entered, the secretary who was still holding her head in 
her hand pointing at her, and her stargazer smiling at the 
men in bemusement, the ones that were laying on the ground 
that is.
	"Who are you?"  The secretary asked, looking up at 
her, a spark of annoyance shinning in her eyes.
	Startled at the woman's hostility, she looked to her 
stargazer to find him looking back at her questioningly.  
Stepping back, she opened her purse, everyone in the room 
tensed as she pulled out her wallet.  Opening it for 
everyone to see, she state, smiling sweetly, "My name is 
Kino Makoto, personal body-guard of Queen Serenity, as well 
as the Chief Chef of Crystal Tokyo.  I am also owner of the 
famous chain-restaurants Kenji, which is named after my 
dear late husband.  Any questions?"  She asked looking 
around to see the shocked faces of the people around her.
	"You're the personal body-guard of 'the' Queen 
Serenity?"  The secretary gapped, no, not this beautiful 
and yet psychotic woman.
	"Hai, oh, the badge was a gift from my good friend 
Hino Rei, I worked on a case with her once."  She said 
smiling.
	"'The' Hino Rei?"
	"Who else?"  She frowned, and turned back to Nephrite, 
"Well, we're on the subject."  She said, before pulling 
back her free hand and slapping him across the cheek.  
"That's for cheating on me."  She said, eyes misting 
slightly.
	"Do you know how long I've waited for you?" She asked, 
the earlier anger ebbing, somewhat.  "Three thousand years!  
Imagine being celibate for three-thousand years!  And the 
only time I was ever serious about anyone was at least Five 
thousand years ago, before my Kenji-chan died from old 
age!"  She glared at him.
	"How old, exactly, are you anyway?"  He asked startled 
at the beautiful and fiery woman before him.
	"Baka!  Didn't your mother teach you to never ask for 
a woman's real age?"  She asked as she whacked him on the 
head.
	"She does have a point Dr. Nephrite."  The secretary 
said with a nervous smile.  So Naru-chan has competition 
now, and a very beautiful one at that.
	"Some soul mate."  Was all the secretary heard from 
the muttering auburn haired woman, standing over a dazed 
Nephrite laying on the floor.
	"So many stars?" Was what he kept saying dazedly, as 
he stared unfocusedly at the ceiling.
	
	"Nephrite-chan?"  A red-haired woman asked 
questioningly, as she stepped into the marbled entrance of 
the laboratory, "Are you still here?"  She asked, as she 
stepped into the darkness, the only light came from the 
moon outside, but she was able to enter since Nephrite had 
programmed the lock before to answer to her voice. 
"Nephrite?"  She asked again, as she stepped forward, for a 
moment she thought she saw a shadow disappear into the 
laboratory room itself, so she followed hesitantly, even 
though apart of her told her that something was not quite 
right.
	"Lights."  The blinding light came on, surprising her 
so much so that she jumped.  
"Who-Who's there?"  She asked frightened at the 
prospect that danger was nipping at her very heels. 
	"Is that a who, or is that a what?"  A being stepped 
forward, then retreated, then forward again, weaving in 
between the light and the dark.  It's voice chuckled, yet 
its form was still unseen, the only thing she could tell 
was that the ripples in the between the outline of the 
figure and the rest of the room.
	"Why are you here?"  She asked, backing toward the 
entrance, but the shadow swiftly moved and wrapped tiny 
invisible hands around her.
	"Why are you here?  Why are you here? Why are you 
here?"  It laughed.  "You don't belong here or there or 
anywhere."  The tiny tingles came, and then she felt it, an 
icy touch on her skin.  Screaming in fright she struggled, 
pain shot through her back as she stumbled toward the 
entrance, blood splattered onto the white marble floors, 
the walls and the windows.
	The gushes in her back hurt immensely, and just when 
she reached the door.  "Now, now, little girl, let me have 
my fun.  Girls are fun, girls are fun, girls are fun."  
It's voice deepened as a masked face appeared, beautiful 
actually, painted in the color of deep gray, a blue dropped 
tear on its left cheek, silver fringes around dark hollow 
eyes, purple star symbol on its forehead, one that was so 
distorted at the ends that it swirled as it rapped their 
long purple fingers onto the surface of the mask.  "Give me 
pain, give me pain, give me pain," It shrieked in laughter, 
as the silver claws finally came into sight, slashing into 
her flesh. "Give me fear, give me fear, I like to feed upon 
your fear."  The laughter never ended as she stumbled 
around the room, gasping for help and trying hard to stay 
conscious enough to try to get away as the ghostly 
beautiful figure danced and chanted, like a fairy, only it 
longed for torture of that of the living.
	"Why?"  She whispered, as the pain radiated through 
her being as she was about to collapse from the pain.
	A silent pause came and for a second she thought she 
was alone again, that she was safe, but the silver claws 
that bit into her flesh, piercing through her slight form, 
trembling in ecstasy at her shock, her pain, her fear.  And 
finally, before her last breath ended, it leaned closer, 
pressing its porcelain face into her once pretty face, her 
blue eyes widened in fear, her red-brown hair plastered to 
her face from sweat and blood, gaping at it, as it 
whispered the final words that she heard before her death.  
"I-want-your-" it twisted the claws imbedded within her, 
making her whimper in pain, she had no more energy for 
screaming, not anymore.  "-soul."  It laughed as her eyes 
glazed over in fear before the last sparks within them 
disappeared.  "May death find you a peaceful sleep, while 
you lay within my grasps, may death find you a lullaby, to 
rock you through my pits, my nightmare hell!"  It laughed 
wickedly and insanely, before the lights flicked out, and 
the silence resumed, the only sound being the dripping of 
blood onto the floor, as she laid in her own marbled tomb.

	The sirens stopped ringing, but the lights kept 
flashing just as two women stepped out of a sleek-black, 
hover car.  "By the Gods!"  One whispered, her dark hair 
spelt over her shoulders in curls, held back by a thin 
thread, away from her face.
	"Hai, I can smell the fear still!"  A darker-haired 
woman said beside her, though the second woman was at least 
half an inch sorter than her friend; she had more 
experience with these types of things.  Grabbing two pairs 
of gloves from her bag the latter handed her friend the 
other pair, but gave her a warning look that said 'don't 
touch anything.'  The woman nodded in understanding before 
the two headed toward the door.  "Open."  The woman said, 
and the door automatically responded with a click, there 
were definitely rewards in being the head of defenses and 
the head of security in Crystal Tokyo, everything in the 
city was programmed to respond to her voice, anything that 
didn't would be illegal and destroyed as soon as they find 
the owner and discover the purposes of the device.
	"Rei-chan?"  The dark-haired woman asked, before the 
other silenced her, and reached in her bag again to produce 
to face masks, handing her the spare one.
	"Mako-chan, this can wait."  Rei said, as she 
approached the police car closest to the door, and threw 
her bag on the car.  Opening her dimensional pocket she 
took out her communicator.
	"Hai?"  A sleepy voice could be heard.
	"Don't wish to intrude on your sleep Ami-chan," The 
former said with a smile, but the seriousness could be 
heard in her voice.  "But we've got a homicide here, and it 
looks to be the worst I've seen in a thousand years, 
prepare to analyze whatever body part we are able to come 
up with, I don't trust the others."  Clicking the 
communicator closed before the other could answer she 
motioned for Makoto to join her again at the door, checking 
to see if Makoto had put on her gloves or not, she 
cautiously opened the door and the two stepped in.
	"Careful."  She said, as she reached out with her 
senses for evil.  None, but there was a signature of it, a 
residue, she could fell it at the back of her mind.  "Okay, 
guys, the coast is clear, you can put down your guns."  
Everyone relaxed a notch.  "Lights."  She said to the 
onboard mainframe, one that was constantly on, there were 
two gasps, accompanied by a scream.
	"Oh my God!"  The two women turned to see a dark-
auburn haired man, similar to the color of the chocolate 
haired Makoto, but who was staring past the two women in 
shock at his laboratory, and not just that, at who laid 
there, dead, and staring right at him.  Her red hair was 
now limp and soaked with blood, a color dull and yet 
painfully bright to him, but it was her expression that 
forever was embedded into his mind, "Naru-chan!"  He 
screamed as he ran towards her.
	"Stop him."  Was all Rei said as the cops rushed 
toward him, but he passed them easily.  "I'm sorry Mako-
chan, but you will have to do this, I don't have the time."  
Was all that the dark-haired woman said before turning and 
walking into the room, leaving the brunette to contemplate 
what to do, and how to stop him with minimal pain, for both 
of them.  But she knew that he could not grasp the 
seriousness of the entire situation at this point, just 
like when her mind was fogged when she found her parents 
had died without her.  She stepped away from the gruesome 
scene and walked toward his approaching form, he tried to 
go around her as she stuck out her arm and hit him on the 
chest knocking him down to the ground, with lightening 
speed after years of practice, she produced the cuffs and 
hand cuffed him to the nearest poll she could find.
	"Gomen nasai Nephrite-chan, but this is for the best, 
I know you probably won't understand now, maybe never, but 
if you go in there now, and I don't stop you, Rei-chan 
might never find out who her murderer is or will we be able 
to prevent this from happening again."  Nephrite glared at 
her as he tried to struggle with the cuffs, but it did not 
help.
	"Leave him for now Mako-chan, I have something I want 
you to see."  The auburn-haired woman looked concerned and 
got up and ran into the blood-spattered room.  Feeling 
somewhat glad that she wore the mask to keep out the smell, 
but the atmosphere was oppressing nonetheless.  "Look at 
this Mako-chan."  Rei said worriedly, and pointed to the 
wall.
	She gasped, unable to believe her eyes.  'This is for 
you, my beloved Makoto, for your happiness.'  It was edged 
in blood, Naru's blood, her soulmate's girlfriend's blood, 
"No!  It can't be, I didn't do this Rei-chan, you've got 
to-"
	"I don't blame you Mako-chan."  Her friend smiled at 
her from behind the mask, and though the other could not 
see it, she saw the warmth seep through into those hard 
onyx eyes, ones that were always as hard as ice whenever an 
investigation like this came up.  "We at least know one 
motive of the killer now."  She stated with a smile.
	"One?  Do you mean there could be more?"  She gasped.
	"Hai, and I'm afraid Crystal Tokyo would not sleep 
easy in the next few nights, nor us for that matter, a 
homicide this is, and it will stay so till the murderer is 
found.  The murderer will be found."  Rei frowned, the 
coldness came back as she looked to the wall.
	"Who can do such a thing?"  She asked in disbelief.
	"You'd be amazed Mako-chan, you'd be amazed."  The 
senshi, reached in her pocket and came forth with a small 
pentigon like object, clicking it open, she set it in the 
air, as it hovered.  The two stepped out of the room and 
Rei closed the door, before she reached in and took out a 
rectangular slate like thing.  The two stepped away from 
the door before Rei finally commanded the object from 
outside.  "I want 3-D image control, texture control, 
signature, everything, power to 100%, and now!"  She told 
the thing, as a brilliant white flash appeared in the room.
	"Data complete, collected 100% accuracy, all Data 
complete."  The machine answered five minutes later.

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Isn't it intense?!  I'm personally amazed I actually wrote this thing, or 
maybe it was my evil twin! hehe ;)
Anyho, I as I said before, I have NO idea where this popped out of
only that I know have a villian!  YEAH!  *Runs around her room in
excitement*  Isn't it amazing?!  *Everyone look's at her weird bc she
thinks that getting an evil murderer without a face very cool*
Okay, okay, so I'm a little too out there, but what can I say? *shrugs*

hehe...hahaha...muwhahahaha *Slams her evil twin back into the closet*
Okay folks I'm back, hope ya liked that!  I know, I'm changing my style
a little, from total emotional, physcholical thought and description to
a wicked plot, but hey, what can I say, I'm excite!   Feel my heart beat
in excitement!  *thump, thump*  Opps, that was my evil twin falling down
the stairs, ignore that.  Keep on reading!

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Elements of Desire