by Ms. Elsewhere » Saturday 3 October 2009 5:55:54pm
Inu turned at the sound of Neko's voice and his face softened. "Sorry to wake you. " and he beckoned her over to him. He met her half way and took her hands. He stood for one moment and just looked at her. She was still tired, but she was looking...ravishing. Inu shook his head and turned to face the man. "He is a ministry official. But not for Japan. For England. Buta has brought him here only because he seems to have something to share he thinks is worthy of a trade... his life being the item."
"Oh I do l love it when they have something to trade!" Ouki said quietly, but there was a shrill to her voice. Her eyes had gone round and she walked over to the man, and bent down on one knee. She looked him over, down then up, and then put her face into his. "Please don't give your secret away too easily.... I want to..." she reached up and ran the back of her fingers down his swollen face. "...play with you first." Ouki brought her other hand up swiftly and her switch blade was there, at the man's throat.
"Ouki." Inu said in a tone Ouki knew well. She often slipped into a mad sort of frenzie at the thought of torturing. It was sucha drug for her that she often forgot herself. She backed away a bit, and reset her blade.
"Calling off you dog, eh?" The man had not moved, and his eyes only shifted over to Inu as he said this. Inu took three strides over to the man and back handed him so hard that he fell to floor, and blood licked across the wall.
"Dammit!" Inu turned around, and then back again, stepping over the realing man who was now on the floor, holding his face and moaning. He approached the wall where the splatter had hit. He returned to the man and grabbed him by his hair, forcing him back on the chair. "You have to BLEED..." Inu grabbed at the man's broken nose, causing him to scream, "on the PLASTIC. " Inu let him go, and the man started to whimper.
"I can give you information! " the man screamed. Inu stared at him.
"Kill him, Yuta." he stated, turning to Yuta, who was still sitting intently on her chair, watching the battered man. She shifted threateningly in her chair. The man put his hand up.
"I can give you access to the Japanese Ministry of Magic!" the man spat out quickly. Inu tilted his ear toward the man.
"What.. did you say?"
"I can grant you access to the ministry, the very people who are seeking you."
"And WHY would i want to go into the lions den?" Inu knelt down now so he could look into the mans face. The old man took a deep breath, his breathing already very laboured.
"Undetected. " he breathed. "You could move through undetected. But that's not the prize, oh no.. there is more."
He put one hand up to show he was not going to try anything, and then reached into his coat, his hand shaking. He took out a glass ball, the size of a baseball, and held it up.
"Look." he said, and Inu looked into the ball.
"Careful!" Ouki shouted and started toward Inu. Damien pulled her back, equally cautious about the introduction of a strange magical object. Inu waved them away.
"It is a pensieve, a mobile one. Very clever. " Inu spoke out. "This must be the ministry, and what is this thing here?" he pointed to the ball as he watched the images rolling around in it.
"That, is a weapon you will be very interested in ataining."
"Would I? Why is that? " Inu asked without looking up.
"Enough of this! He is full of tricks and means to lure us to the ministry so we can be captured! Who cares about a weapon. We are each fierce enough! " Ouki blurted out. She looked around at the others. Inu stood up and faced Ouki.
"The ministry is the one that makes us hide. That has seperated us for so long. They are the ones who simply monitor groups like the cult that mutilated Neko. What is this weapon?" he turned to the man once more.
"It was designed for six...." the man spoke quietly. "It is ancient magic, and it enhances and shares the magic of six wizards and witches.. a kind of small coven potion. We have tried to use it to better connect our Aurors around the world, but it had to be small, and the potion..." the man paused...."It sent people... mad... homicidal..." the pensive changed for the moment and Inu took more notice. He smiled when he recognised one face. "This man is an auror I know of.. you witnessed this? " he asked the man. The old wizard nodded.
"He killed all of those men." he sighed. "He volunteered for the test, along with 5 others. They were all able to share their magic, but after 5 days.. they were unable to stop the blood lust. It is my understand that if blood lust is already there..." he waved at the people around them, "Then the potion will simply make you more powerful, and not insane. ... because.. well.. you already are..."
Inu smiled. "He says we're crazy! How sweet!" he stood up and tossled the man's hair. He walked over to the kitchen sink and leaned over it, thinking. "You have access to the ministry, why not just bring us the potion?"
"It cannot be moved. You have to go in, and take it there, yourself. It is too unstable."
"You are a fool. We will never agree to this. You think us to be power hungry, but we simply want to be free. But you and your collegues will never allow that, because none of us will agree to stop killing...." Inu sighed. "You will show me where the ministry is. And I will destroy it. Yes. I like THAT idea. And if we can gather some toys before we go, like this potion you speak of, well, all the better! Now..." Inu pulled the pensive out of the mans hands and shook it. "Where is it? Which city? "
The old man shrieked. "Stop shaking that! I ... can't tell you where.. I can show you.. I will take you."
"Smart man. " Inu knodded. "But you can't go out looking like that." Inu pulled his wand out and the man's nose repaired itself, his body and bones started crunching and adjusting, and the man coughed as his ribs started to weld back together. "Damien. Can you make a potion to heal his insides? I don't know of a spell that can help internal bleeding. He will need to be fully healed before we set out. Oh... and I will be going with him to the minstry tomorrow.. I will need explosives and weapons. Who would like to come along?"