Jori stomped back into her office and opened the file she had thrown down before her meeting with Yoichi the other day. This one may take her as far as Tibet, and she did not relish the isolation, not one bit. She thought about seeing if Maschera wanted to go, but she seemed to remember Chera just having returned from a trip herself. Second thought.. Yoichi. Could she trust him enough to have her back in Tibet? Was this a good first run for him, and thirdly could he even go? Sighing heavily, she lifted the receiver on her phone and pressed the extension for his office, getting his voicemail. -"Yoichi, when you get this, can you come see me? I have an assignment and I'm curious as to whether you'd accept and feel comfortable with the partner you'd have for it. Talk to you soon."- cradling the reciever, Jori opened the file, two agents in Tibet. This wasn't the case which involved Cree's death. This was entirely new. And very political.
?Flashing back into his office after a night out in the lower lands of south America hunting for his personal amusement. Seeing the a flashing red light on his desk he pushed it while melting away his dirty cloths and replacing them with new ones. Hearing the message left by Jori, he flashed into her office with a smug look on his face. "So what's the death wish in now?"
Jori gave a smug smirk. "You're quick. I like that. I have an assignment. And I've chosen you for my partner for the assignment if you choose to accept the mission. We have two targets in Tibet. But ... you'll have to trust me. Do you accept?"
Thinking about it for a minute he had a feeling that something wasn't completely right about what she was asking him. "What is the exact mission?" He asked finally his curiosity at it's peak.
Takes a deep breath, and looks him in the eye. "I will tell you all I know. Search me and see I don't lie. There are two covert operatives in the highlands in Tibet. They are a national security risk and it's up to us or in the case you refuse, to me to take them out. That's all I know, and have to go on, except this." slides the dossier across to him so he can look through the descriptions and possible whereabouts in Tibet of the two.
Raising an eye brow he picked up the dossier on the two that they'd be going after if he went with her. Slowly he read threw it, reading everything about them and what they looked like before closing it and laying it on her desk. Well, it is pretty close to where I once lived... Same Pantheon that's for sure.. since it's not all that different.." Thinking about it for another minute, just for the dramatics of it. "I'll go. It'll be interesting if we ended up running into some folk that I know over there that don't want me dead." He said before quickly rubbing his nose to get an itch. "Just tell me when you want to leave. I don't like conventional means of travel. Blasted human transportation takes to long."
Jori arched a brow. "If we run into those who DO want you dead, they'll find it not so easy. I will stand with you Yoichi." Since they were a team, she wouldn't let him be killed if she could help it. She thought a moment over his words. "We'll need the jet, for the office capabilities. If you don't want to take the time to fly, we can ..." makes air quotes ... "Transport it." By transport she meant, use the ancient power to put it there with them in it. Not normally how she did things when it came to working, but she would if it made a partner more comfortable. For once trusted, it was all in or nothing with Jori and with Bella Morte Inc.
"That sounds like a pain... Why do we need an office while we're there? Can't we just go in, kill the two f*ck heads and be back for dinner?" He asked popping his neck before taking a seat in a chair. "But if we need the plane Im not going to argue with it. Not like falling from the sky can kill me anyways. Anything we need to discuss? Or you wish to pass on?" He asked sitting there, and still as a statue.
?she sighed. "Slow down Yoichi. This takes precision and planning. They aren't going to be so easy. They have tricks up their sleeves too you know. You read the dossier. What did it tell you?"
Taking it slow was something he was use to that was for sure. He normally would just go in, get friendly with the targets get alone with them and just destroy them. But since it wasn't just his mission, he'd play it her way instead of his. "Well from what I read, it said one of them is a known human spy. Favor's handguns and rifles. The other said something about them being a half human were. Likes to be a b!tch about fighting." he said adding that last bit in himself since the report didn't really say that.* "Four possible hide-outs two in the mountains and a couple in the city. So, I don't know what you want to do. But I'd prefer hitting the mountains first."
She nodded, listening to him and then his idea of hitting the mountains first. Thinks a moment, folding her hands in front of her and placing them under her chin. "I agree. Let's hit the mountains first. We'll take the jet because we will need to report back here. Can you check and see if there's a bunker or anywhere we can hide the jet? We'll also need the motorbikes for ground transport. So those will go on the jet with us."
Thinking about it for a minute he did recall having a little hide-out while in his first few years on the surface in Tibet in the mountains that they could possibly use. "Well, we could use a place that I use to live for the jet. It's at the base of these mountains here." he said pointing at the desk with her finger before a map appeared under it, and the area where he was pointing on it showed the mountain range. "When we get there I can just manifest some motorcycles for us. The chances of a human coming across us up here will be very unlikely since they have legends about a demon that eats people in the area. So they won't be coming around." He said with a shrug, considering the legend was about him, but it didn't really matter to him.
Jori nodded. "Travel light... I like it. Alright... We need to move soon though." thinks a moment, before getting up and crossing the room pouring a drink for each of them, and walking back handing him a glass. Puts her own glass to her lips and knocks it back. "How does tomorrow sound?"
He shrugged, as he took the second glass and slapped it back and set the glass down. "I don't really have a proper meaning of time yet... So when the sun rises again, we leave right?" he asked with a cheesy grin.
She chuckled, nodding. "Yes. That's right. IF it works for you that is. We are partners remember. You are not a subordinate." takes his glass. "Another?
"Tomorrow's fine. I'll just figure something out about seeing if some of the folk I know will keep their traps shut while I'm there." He said while waving off the offer for seconds.
As she takes their glasses to the bar and sets them down, she asks "Will your.." turns back and looks at Yoichi " ..disguise hold up for the whole trip? Or do you have to change periodically?" She had asked the question merely to determine his needs in the matter and hoped he understood she meant no sleight to him in asking.
Yoichi was laughing at the obscure question. "I can go without changing if need be , if that's what you need me to do." He said looking at her as she took the glasses.
She shook her head. "No. You do what you need to do. This will ensure no complications while we work. Do you have any other questions?" she spoke as she walked back over to Yoichi and reclined against her desk.
Thinking about it for a moment he started to stand he, had no more questions. "Nada, and generally you won't even know I'm missing. But ill see you at sun rise tomorrow then."
He said before flashing back to his office to set some things in order.
As quickly as he'd came, he was gone. He was fast, she'd give him that. She just hoped that he proved to be a loyal friend and ally while they were on assignment.
The next day.....
Yoichi flashed into his office after his
late night meal he used his powers to hit play on
the answer machine. Listening to the message
left by Jori. Flashing again to the outside of her
office he knocked once on the door before
opening it and poking his head in.
"All ready to go get this done?" He asked with a
toothy grin.
Jori had been sleeping pretty hard, as she’d not
slept much recently, and at the sound of the
knock, she was up and out of her chair, gun
drawn looking at Yoichi. She frowned, a small
laugh escaping her.
"Yoichi…"
She said putting her gun away, thinking
loudly at herself.. Sheesh Jori wake up much?
And hopes he isn’t insulted by her quick action
as she walks across the room.
"I think it’s the fangs." She said with a sly
grin."They add to your all around charm."
Grabs a katana off the wall and hands it to
him. "You want me to strap on a few extra
weapons just in case?"
He raised his hands defensively and laughed
slightly. "Won’t need any weapons. Fire
breathing dragon, remember." He said as he
walked into the office and placed the katana on
his belt anyways. "I think it might be a good
idea, just in case a few escape. Ya know?" He
said as he stood there.
Jori nodded in agreement and watched him place
the katana in his belt. She walked over to her
wall and grabbed a couple more blades, a sai,
and a few shurikens she tucked in the back
waistband of her jeans, a 9mm in her boot, and
a 10mm Glock Subcompact tucked into her bra.
She looked up at Yoichi. "What?" She grinned.
"I like to be prepared"
"Thats not an issue. As long as your ready." He
said holding out his hand for her to take. "Don’t
for get to breath." He said before focusing his
powers on the air space above the area they were
going to be assaulting from. Getting a clear
picture of what was in the general area. "Good
thing it’s night time there right now, or this
would be three times as hard." He said as she
took his hand and flashed them both into the air
space over Tibet, five thousand feet in the air
and started free falling.
As they suddenly vanished from the office and
reappeared in a free fall, she squeezed his hand,
pure terror momentarily crossing her features.
"Yoichi?!" She said looking into his face for any
sign that she needed to do anything.
A devilish smile crossed his face, as he
transformed. His body expanded, letting the
clothing rip off his body as his skin was
replaced with scales. His hands turned into
large claws as his body grew wings. Growing in
size he angled himself so that his wings were
behind Jori before opening them to full length to
slow his decent. ~"Don’t worry. Why would I
kill someone like this? Theres no fun in it."~ He
spoke into her mind with as he turned his head
to look at her on his back.
Jori smiles and runs a soft hand over his scales,
he was so beautiful, as she secured herself onto
his back, she laughed softly. "It wasn’t that I
was afraid of you… it was just the sudden drop!"
She shouted over the wind.
Circling down in a wide arch towards the
building that he a feeling was the place the
double agents were hiding out, Yoichi responded.
~"Well it seemed to me you were afraid of me
just letting you falling from the sky."~ He
smirked, showing off the fangs in his muzzle.
~"We’ll be on the building shortly."~ He said
as the lights of the town slowly started to come
into view. Letting out a loud howling rawr that
echoed for miles he angled his body straight for
the building going into a nose dive. Folding his
wings in to gather more speed, they would be on
the building in a matter of minutes.
Drawing on the ancient power Jori manifested
her pack into her hands and pulled out two
exploses, waiting for the right moment to strike
them and drop them onto the building. "This
should announce our arrival Yoichi." She said
simply as she puts both explosives in one hand
and gently runs her hand over his scales on his
neck. " And, No, I don’t honestly think you’d let
me fall my friend. Now, let’s see… when would
you like me to drop these?"
Grinning, it was amazing that she was so
trusting even though they hardly knew each
other, which was something he was not used to.
~"Feel free to drop your explosives off any time.
From this height you might want to wait a few
seconds before setting them off unless they’re
impact detonated."~ He said and for some
reason he found it rather conforting when she
ran her hand over the scales on his neck. Which
was strange for him to admit to himself.
Deciding it was better to use her power to
detonate the explosives, Jori took one in each
hand and in order to get a good angle, she
squeezed her knees and leant forward just a bit,
pitching underhandedly and watching them
fall. "They’re gone Yoichi!" She called out to
him, gently righting herself on his back and
waiting for just the right moment to… there..
now.. Jori focused and threw her hands forward,
sending a blast of ancient power out and
slamming into the explosives, instantly
detonating them just as the hit about halfway
down the building. As the building began to
collapse Jori slipped sideways from the
shockwave and started to fall. Thinking
quickly she wrapped her legs around his neck
and dangled slightly, holding on for dear life
by just her leg muscles. "Yoichi!! Bank left! I’ve
got a problem!" Desperately hoping he banked in
time for her to pull herself up by her legs.
Hearing her yelling about the explosives being
gone, he started to expand his throat, activating
the glands that helped spark the gases that
caused a dragon to breath fire. Just before he was
ready to shoot balls of fire into the building
after the explosion. There was a more desperate
call for help from Jori. ~"Hold on tight Im going
to do something extremely stupid.. Just trust
me."~ He said as he rotated his body to the
point that he should of died mid flight in order
to get her back onto his back. Shooting two large
balls of fire off, one just barely missed the hole,
and caused the roof to cave in raining debris
into the building and the other hit the street just
outside the front door, due to having changed
sudden directions with his wings on the other
side.
Squeezes tighter with her thighs as that is the
only way she can hold on, her arms were free
falling through the air, Her hair dangerously
close to the explosions happening below. As he
rolled she was thrown half up and onto his back,
instantly wrapping her arms around his neck
and sending some power into him, feeling that
that was hard for him to do. She held onto his
neck while he shot some fire at the building,
then she saw some people scrambling out the
doors at ground level, calling in some more of
the power of the tigress she gazed down at them
as though they were prey, seeing the two marks
fleeing together, with the two that Yoichi had
discovered right behind. Sitting back upright,
Jori drew the guns from her bra. "Yoichi," points
at the ground with her glock "You see them?? I
need a little closer since they are moving."
~"That won’t be an issue, just hold on it’s
gonna be a sharp turn"~ Tilting his body and
wings into a tight turn to make it around the
burning building he started down the same
street as the four men that were running for
their lives. Flying down the street with his tail
hitting most of the cars and setting off the
alarms and leaving large dents in the side of
them. As he got closer to the two that he’d
marked as his targets he started snapping his
jaws, before he caught one of them in the chest
and tore him to shreds of nothing but meat in
his mouth. Swallowing the body whole he
started for the next one but just kept missing.
Wrapping her arms around his neck to hold on,
hoping she wasn’t hurting him, Jori waited til he
righted himself in the sky, and barely flinched
as pieces of man meat flew past her, she merely
took aim, glock in one hand and 9mm in the
other. As soon as the two men were in her sights,
Jori squeezed first one trigger and then the
other. Watching as the kneecap was blown out of
one and the other lost a chunk of his ear.
"D@mn! That sucked."
As the other man fell to the ground, he finally
managed to get the guy he was after into his
mouth, spraying blood all over his muzzle and
mouth. Dropping the two halves of the man on
the road just in time to pick up the one on the
ground with a blown out knee in one of his
claws. ~"I can eat this guy right? We don’t need
to ask questions or any of that spy bs?"~ He
asked tightening his grip on the man causing
him to squirm like a worm.
Jori laughed. "No, eat him up Yoichi." She said,
taking aim again at the other guy. "Don’t know
what’s up with my guns skills, but he should’ve
been dead." laughs again, then holds her breath
as she aims at the other man who was trying to
run again, while he held his ear. Time stood still
momentarily as the great dragon that was
Yoichi flew by, and Jori squeezed the trigger,
watching the bullet enter his heart via his
ribcage. He crumpled. "All yours if you want
him." She said as she once again became aware
of the world around her and began to breath
again.
Grabbing the body of the other man in his other
free claw he started their ascent back up in the
cloudy skies leaving a trail of dented cars and a
couple of broken windows on a few buildings.
He could already see people coming out of their
homes in the middle of the night pointing up at
them and then to the burning building down
the road. ~"Sounds great, the souls in these two
are gonna be delicious together."~ He said before
he leveled out again out of sight of everyone
below and brought the body of the dead man to
his muzzle and placed him on his tongue and
swallowing him whole. The other man fought
and as he was about to put him into his mouth,
the man rolled out of it. Falling to his sure
death. ~"That guy was a coward anyways.
Taking the easy way out. Ready to go back
home?"~
Jori laughed and ran a hand softly down his
scales. "Let’s do! And you don’t want the soul of
a coward anyway Yoichi. You’re too good for
them." She watches everything go by so fast
and turns to look at the destruction behind them
for a moment.
Taking a deep breath, he slowly started to get
smaller, just enough to fit into his office back
in the main headquarters building so he
wouldn’t damage too much of the things in
there to the point his intern would ask
questions. After folding in his wings, he
immediately started to fall from the sky before
he flashed them back to Bella Morte and into his
office. ~"Here we are. Safe, sound, and I believe
we still have our nine lives right?"~ he asked in
a joking tone.
Before she even turn back away from the
destruction they had wrought, they were safely
in Yoichi’s office back at Bella Morte Inc. "That
was awesome! Yes, of course we do." She was so
happy, she had felt instinctively she could trust
him and it seemed she could.
~"Well Im glad you like my way of just
getting the bad out of everything. Makes a few
people happy to be alive I guess."~ he said before
lowering his body to the floor, and crushing the
coffee table he was standing over with his mere
weight. Not to mention his claws where already
starting to dig into the hard wood floors. ~"But
could you hop off? I don’t want to change with
someone on me. Never done anything like that
before and I don’t honestly think you’d like
what would happen."~
Climbs down, feeling her boots hit the solid
floor, she turned to look at Yoichi and smiled.
"There you go, let me get you a drink while you
change." Walks over to the bar and gets him a
glass of blood.
Slowly the scales on his body started to melt
away, and his wings receded back into his body
along with the tail. His rear legs turned back to
normal and his arms as well. Cracking his neck
his head was the last thing to change back into
the last form he’d been in before they’d gone out
on the mission. "Thank you. And the only
reason why I didn’t want you on me was
because it might of ended badly for the both of
us. My body won’t digest living beings of any
sort, that's why they have to be dead. Or they’d
still be alive in me… Which would be
uncomfortable for the both of us." He said before
waving his hand over the places his claws had
dug into the floor and fixing them instantly.
Jori smiled and nodded in understanding. "No
worries Yoichi." she handed him the glass,
sending a wave of ancient power into him,
refreshing him, soothing him. We all have our,
different..." allows her eyes to flash the feline
look of the tigress and her teeth to elongate as
she purred out the rest of the sentence.
"...Anomalies, I guess you’d say." Returns to
normal and grins.
"Oh I know we all have our differences, so, its
not a big deal." He said taking the glass and
downing the whole thing in one setting and
without breathing. "So whats next? We wait for
something else to come in pretty much?"
Jori nodded. "It won’t be long, and you can now
have your choice of partners for your cases. It’s
up to you. Alexa is working on her first now, she
is in Rome."
He snorted, and started laughing at the idea of
going to Roma on a mission. "Okay, Imma lay
this out just for future knowledge. I can’t step a
toe on any ground that’s been blessed or is
hallowed. Rome is 89% blessed so if I don’t watch
where I step I’d turn to dust in a instant." He
looked at her with an all but joking look on his
face.
Her jaw drops as she looks at Yoichi. "Ok, you
are going no where hallowed. Got it?" Grins, she
so wasn’t losing her friend after she just found
him.
Smiling at her he walked over to his desk and
took a seat. "Thats good to know that I won’t be
sent over to any hallowed places."
Jori arches a brow and walks over sitting on the
desk a moment. "Well, you can be trusted, and
you’re with us here. So you won’t be sent
somewhere that you cannot go. How do you feel?"
He smirked, showing off one of the fangs that
normally kept hidden from eye sight. "I feel
fine, like I could take over the world fine I guess.
But that’s to much of a bother to even try to do."
he said rolling his eyes jokingly.
Jori chuckled. "I don’t think it’s even worth the
effort honestly. The world is in such need of
saving, there’d never be any rest. When you
decide on your next assignment, I told you you
can pick any of us to work with, but you don’t
have to pick anyone. There are some cases I know
which are just such that it’s a waste of manpower
for more than one person. That being said
however, I’d be willing to work with you
anytime Yoichi." Gives a half grin. "I actually
enjoyed doing that job."
What was he feeling, for some reason he
couldn’t help but act slightly funny around
her. Something he never was or had been in the
past years. It was slightly confusing for him to
actually figure out. "Well Im glad I can pick
whom I want to work with. Since I'm not all that
sure about the others. Granted you do trust
them, Im just wary about people in general…" he
said moving slightly closer to her in his chair to
where she sat on his desk.
She nodded, noting that same stray hair that
insisted falling across his face in whatever skin
he was in, she smiled as she gently brushed it
back. "I know you’ll be fine with them Yoichi.
Just remember that they have your back just as I
do. So, don’t fret or eat them." she grinned
joking with him.
Frowning slightly as he sat there and watched
her brush the loose strands out of his face again
with a slightly confused look. "Well I can’t
promise either, as long as I don’t get shot they’ll
live. That’s how I work."
Jori leaned back crossing her legs and smiled.
"Well then I think we’ll be in for a long and
very interesting friendship, cause Chera won’t
shoot or kill anything that doesn’t directly
threaten her, a member of this facility, or isn’t
on a case. And Alexa John Just seems to really
want a new life and to fit in somewhere. She
seems kind yet lethal. You see, you all were
picked long before you crossed my path. None of
you here by accident."
Raising an eye brow. "So you’re saying the
fates are the ones putting us here? Cause I hate
those b*tches." He said blatantly, but it wasn’t
all that bad having to worry about being cased
through hell, or some allyways just to get away
from a group of dumb @ss demons so he figured
it worked out. "Never liked them to begin with…"
he said with a heavy sigh.
Jori laughed softly. "No, not them. I am just
saying, there are few accidents in life. The power
that created me to be what I am is putting in
place my life just as it is yours… whatever all
that even means. It’s just, I guess I mean
everything happens for a reason." smiles softly
"Besides," she started to lay a comforting hand
on his arm but hesitated recalling his dislike of
being touched much. "if anyone comes looking
for you here Yoichi, they will have to go through
me, and Chera. Those two I know for sure. And
it takes a lot to cut us down." Sighs and
finally places her hand back on her knee,
squeezing gently to alleviate the comforting
energy she had flowing through it.
As soon as her hand touched him he felt a
burning in his body, which he’d never really
felt before. He’d only ever been touched in ways
that caused pain, but with her, there was none at
all which was rare to him. And as soon as she’d
touched him it was gone. "Okay well, if we ever
start taking orders from those Greek b*tches
count me out. I’d rather go back to free lancing
and how I was living than take orders from
them. And thank you for offering to protect me
even though Im a lot older then you and Im
pretty sure I can handle my self." he said
slightly joking about it even though he was
glad that she was willing to lay down her life
for his, which slightly upset him at the same
time. "I think we should get some rest. Granted
we were only gone for about…" he looked at the
clock on the wall over by the mini bar. "A half
hour our time, it would seem."
Jori smiled at all of his words and leaned
forward. "There is one thing you will learn about
me, I don’t take orders from anyone. I give them,
when needed. And Certainly not to my friends.
Of which you are. And yes, rest and a hot
shower sounds good to me so that’s where I am
headed. You relax and have a good rest of your
day." She hopped down off the desk and went to
the door, pausing and turning around. "And
by the way. Thanks, and good job out there my
friend." winks and disappears.
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