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"writing": "Chapter III\n\nThe Long Night Ahead\n\nJill woke up in a hospital bed with her friends and family about her. To her left, she saw Desiree and Isabella; to her right, baby brother, James Jr. and her father, James Sr. Her father rubbed her cheek and asked her\n\n“Is there anything you want baby?”\n\nShe wanted to say that she wanted to see the rat that had saved her but, she refrained knowing how her brother gets about her personal life. Then, almost as if it were an instant cosmic answer to her wish, the nurse came in saying that she had another visitor. It was him.\n\n“Hey, there; just thought I’d drop in and see how you were doing.”\n“Hey, hey! Ease off rodent!” Junior said while barring Jacob access to his sister.\n“Cool it, Baby Brother, it’s partly my fault anyway. Well, mostly my fault. I don’t know what I’m even doing here; I wasn’t even hurt; you and Dad worry too much.”\n“But…”\nDesi interrupted before Junior could continue.\n“No buts! Besides your sister ain’t all that innocent.” \n\nShe winked at Jill as she finished. Jill hid her embarrassment. Defeated, her brother walked out of the room; everyone else followed suit leaving her to exchange words with her savior. \n\n“Well then, quite an interesting lot of people you surround yourself with.” He remarked.\nShe jokingly raised her fist at him while she said in a mock-weak voice\n“Oh, shut up; before I lay one out on your pretty face.”\n“No, I’m serious. I only wish my family were anything like this. We were always too busy for each other.”\nShe sat up so she could see his eyes again. They were such a unique shade of violet. She put her hand in his and he kissed it.\n“Oh my, a charmer…”\n\nSuddenly, Junior burst in through the door. (He had been eavesdropping and was beet red by the time he’d heard the word charmer.) He grabbed Jacob by both his ears and dragged him out amidst protests and odd stares until he got to the elevator where he hurled him in as soon as the doors parted. All Jacob could say after that was\n\n“What was that all about?”\n\nThe dawn broke on another fine day in the coastal city of Corpus Christi. This morning, however, was to be a little bit different. This day began on Corpus Christi Beach. A fox couple was basking in the morning sun. They both were making love on the beach by the tide. The male fox fondled and licked his girlfriend’s breast whilst undoing her shorts. She opened her eyes for a brief second and screamed. He turned to see what it was and in the sand by the rocks lying very still was the nude body of a female meerkat. He went down to check on her while his girlfriend watched from close by.\n\n“Oh my god, is she dead?”\nNot being able to find a pulse, he said\n“I think so…”\n\nSuddenly, Hidaya grabbed his arm and twisted it tearing an elbow joint. She came to, pinned him to the ground and knocked him out with a headbutt. Then, she turned her attention to the vixen. \n\n“Your clothes; give them to me!”\nThe vixen did nothing. Hidaya powered up an energy blast and then said in a firmer voice\n“Give them to me now or I’ll vaporize your boyfriend!”\n“No!”\n\nShe removed her pink blouse and miniskirt then threw them to Hidaya. Once she was finally covered, she walked off leaving the two completely bewildered. She hadn’t managed to get but two feet away from the shore when the couple ran to an officer. Having no other alternative, she ran out to a carnival across from the beach. She stole a cap from a random kid and put it on. She pushed past the crowd trying her hardest not to look back. One look showed that now there were two officers. The vixen spotted her and yelled out to the police. Hidaya picked up pace. She jumped over a railing and pushed by a ride operator. She looked up at the tall ferris wheel and began climbing the still moving metal behemoth. She had been trained in the ways of le parkour so a task such as this would be nothing for her. She had made it to the center when officers made the operator shut off the machine.\n\n“Shit!”\n\nShe muttered under her breath. Her gaze turned to a bucket at the top. She saw as a figure leaning forward toppled out. It was a rabbit child. She reached into the metal frame catching him by his red shirt. She clenched her teeth as the added weight cut her arm on the frame. She called to the frightened child.\n\n“Hey, Kid! You’re going to have to try to climb on my back. Do you hear me? I’ll get you down.”\n“How’re you going to do that?”\n“Just trust me, okay? Now, hurry!”\n\nBracing her legs around two beams, she reached out with her free arm and pulled him up. He wrapped his arms firmly around her neck as soon as he was in place.\n\n“Okay! Now, on the count of three you have to close your eyes tight as you can!”\nThe boy was still unsure.\n“Why? What are you going to do?”\nShe lost her temper.\n“Just fu- just do as i say!”\nHe gasped “You almost said a bad word!”\n“Shut up! Now, 1...2...3!”\n\nShe leapt from the ferris wheel causing several cries of despair from below. She powered up light energy and fired a full continuous blast towards the ground using the force to soften her descent to a float. She landed safely on all fours with the rabbit dazed but just fine. The boy’s frightened mother ran up to them hugging the child. She looked up with thankful eyes to the stranger.\n\n“Thank you, madam. Oh god bless your heart.”\n\nHidaya watched as the two walked away. She began to smile at what she’d just done. It made her feel good, reborn... at least until she smelled what the rabbit had done on her back. He had peed on her back.\n\n“Oh, son-of-a-bitch!”\n\nJacob got back to Bill’s flat by noon.\n\n“Ho shitcheah! You finally made it back!”\nBill yelled with such credibility-damaging excitement whilst holding a frying pan and wearing an apron.\n“Yo, listen you have GOT to tell me everything you know about this girl.”\n“Why?”\n“Why?! So I could have a shot at her!”\nJacob grabbed Bill by the front of his shirt and said\n“It’s not like that you sick little pervert!”\nBill brushed him off indignantly.\n“Humph! Little? Shit, I’m taller than you!”\n“And I can still kick your ass!”\nBill nodded leaning against the stove.\n“True. Besides I saw you last night, what you did, how you saved her.”\n“What the fuck did you see?”\n“Oh, not much; just you and your shadow. Oh, don’t worry your secret’s safe with me. It’s not like you’re doing much to hide it anyway.”\nHe put the frying pan back on the stove.\n“Oh, um by the way how do you like your eggs?”\nHe asked as he picked up a spatula and started cracking eggs.\n“Uhhh, omelet?”\nBill feigned shock.\n“Really, I always preferred scrambled. Okay, omelet it is.” \n“So, where’s that friend of yours?”\n“You mean Jonathan? Oh, he’s down at the Harbor Playhouse probably trying to score his breakthrough role.”\nHe brandished his spatula like an award.\n“I do hope he gets it this time. That’s what I admire in him, he pursues his dream of acting just as I intend to pursue my dreams of cooking, but, you know since he probably won’t be back for another hour or so, you could probably, maybe, I don’t know show me.”\n“Show you… what exactly?”\n“Show me your manhood. What the hell do you think I’m talking about?!”\n“……”\n“Your powers! Show me your powers.”\n“Why?”\n“Why? Because that was so cool what I saw last night! You have a gift, man! You should be using it more instead of just bullshitting all the time!”\nJacob held his arms up.\n“Okay, you want to see it so bad? Here!”\n\nHis Shadow Arm shot forward and grabbed Bill’s tail and pulled him away from the stove. With Bill out of the way, the Shadow Arm picked up the frying pan and poured the omelet on Jacob’s plate. His other arm shot up to the fridge and took out a cold vodka and placed it on the table next to the eggs. He used his dark tendrils as his knife and fork and began eating. The phone rang. Bill, still mesmerized, waited a little bit to answer the phone. Before picking it up he said\n\n“Wow, you know you could probably get freaky with that thing. Stay handy I may need you later…”\nHe finished with a positively slutty tone.\n“Hello, oh hey, Jonny Boy…” off the phone “It’s Jonathan.”\n“Uh-huh, duh-huh, oh really, oh, ok see you then.” He placed the phone back on the hook before shrieking\n“He got the part! Oh this is unprecedented, we must celebrate. TONIGHT, WE EAT CHINESE!!!”\n\nBack at Prescott Manor, Jill had not spoken with her brother since they all got back home. She was still mad at him for chasing away her hero like that. He didn’t think he had done anything wrong. He was just protecting her from “home wrecking riff raff like that RODENT!” Desiree took it upon herself to be the peace keeper. First, she went into Jill’s room.\n\n“Good evening, your royal sexiness. Wouldst thou require something of me?”\nThis, as always put a smile on her face.\n“Come on now, sweet thing; you can’t rightly blame him for what he did, eh.”\n“I know I just sometimes wish he wasn’t such a fucking hypocrite. He has his boyfriends over all the time and nobody, not even dad, objects to it.”\nDesi sighed as she ran a hair brush through her friend’s short brown hair.\n“Well, he’s a guy. A gay guy, but a guy no less; they’re all entitled to their asshole moments. It’s obvious; he cares a lot about you. ”\n“I know.”\nJill groaned as she realized what she had to do now.\n\nAt this moment in time in his own bathroom, Junior was having his way with his latest little boy toy in his personal shower when Jill came knocking.\n\n“Yeah, who is it?”\n“Who do you think it is?”\n“Jill? I’m, uh, kind of busy right, oh, now.”\nRight now, his raccoon lover was pleasuring Junior orally. \n“Oh please, you can wreck his butthole later I need to talk.” \n“Well actually, I am in the process of wrecking his vocal cords.”\n“Whatever!”\nHe tugged on his lover’s left ear and said\n“I’ll be right back sweetie.”\n\nHe put on a robe and stepped out of the bathroom closing the door behind him.\n\n“So we’re finally speaking now are we?”\nHe said with his arms crossed.\n“Yeah, I just wanted to say that I understand why you did what you did. You care about me a lot, we all know you do; though sometimes it’s almost like you’re trying to be the older sibling here.”\n“Yeah, well I just can’t stand the idea of some strange guy getting his dirty mitts on my big sis.”\n“Oh come on; you know as well as I do he’s not some strange guy… I caught you checking him out.”\nShe playfully poked him in the ribs. He blushed slightly as he admitted\n“Well, he did have a nice ass but, then again so do I.”\n\nHe opened the door to his bathroom, but she stopped him briefly so she could hug him tightly. She made a quick gesture to his boyfriend.\n\n“By the way, how big is this one, you know where it counts?” \nJunior mouthed some words to her which she giggled at saying \n“seven inches, Baby Brother I know you could do better than that.”\n\nJill got back to her room where Desiree and Isabella were anxiously awaiting the verdict.\n\n“Junior thinks he’s got a cute ass, I think I’ve got a chance.” \n\nHer room was instantly filled various hoots and hollers from the girls. All three (even the normally quiet Isabella) spent the night gossiping about their dreams. Soon they all got changed into nightgowns so they could spend the night together.\n\nLater that night, Jill woke up from the same dream but this time with the rat, Jacob, in place of her mysterious hero. It was here when her mind was made up. She woke up Desi and asked her to follow her.\n\n“Where’re we going?”\n“To a part of the manor my father has not allowed any of us to go in a long time.”\n\nThey went down to the 2nd basement where they came across a couple of big old wooden doors. Placing her flashlight down, she asked Desiree to help her move the big wooden bar. They both accomplished this and then, with one final push the doors opened. Desi was positively stunned by what she saw. It was a giant armory filled with a large assortment of ancient medieval swords, maces, longbows and much more.\n\nJill explained “It was my grandfather’s.”\n “Which one?”\nDesi asked to which Jill proudly proclaimed\n“All of it. He collected them from all over the world. He loved adventuring; he would tell me many great stories about the knights and the samurais, you know great warriors of the old untamed world.”\n“So then, why does your father not allow you down here?” \n“Easy, Martin was my mother’s father and my father never got along with him.”\n“Wow!”\n“Wow is right. You know, he even taught me how to use some of these.”\nShe walked up to a glass case in the middle of the room.\n“Come look.”\nDesi picked up the flashlight and shined it on the case.\n“This was his favorite.”\n\nShe opened a secret compartment and took out a key. She unlocked the padlock and removed it, then she opened the case and took out a big beautiful broadsword in a jewel encrusted scabbard and it dawned on Desi.\n\n“Oh no, you’re going to take it aren’t you?”\n“I have to find him. My hero is out there somewhere and you know chances are eventually he’ll end up saving a girl that’s prettier than me and I’ll have lost my chance. I have to do this. Please understand and please tell no one…”\n\nMeanwhile, Hidaya was at the police station being interrogated. The CCPD were trying to figure out why she did what she did or even how she got here in the first place. She was for the most part compliant. Then, they began to inquire about a certain boat captain and his armed service coupled with reports of a meerkat matching her description. She knew this was her and she knew they suspected her now that she had used her powers in public. She leaned forward to tell her interrogator this.\n\n“You know what, you’re right, you are fucking right; do you hear me you piece of shit?” She grabbed the interrogator by his whiskers. She dropped him down and rolled her eyes. “You stupid fucks, though; yeah, you’re probably creaming your pants right now at the thought of locking away poor little me. Well, you get this straight fuck-stick, pretty soon you’re gonna need me because you see what I’ve done is I have just made myself public and even worse I’ve allowed myself to get caught. You see the people that I work for they are very strict about not getting my stupid ass public!”\nThe interrogator, a beagle, shook his head and straightened his collar.\n\"Oh, really now? We are going to be needing you? I must say that's the first time an accused has tried to make that claim, now just why should I believe you?\" he snickered.\nShe narrowed her eyes at him, she looked to the police officers standing around him, then she raised up her cuffed hands. She watched her right hand is it got warmer, then a ball of light began to grow in magnificence. The beagle and the other cops were watching intently when the dog's acute hearing picked up a peculiar sound from behind. Hidaya heard it too.\n\n\"Oh shit.\"\n\nShe reached across the table and pulled the interrogator out of the way just as the wall came down on both of his bodyguards, smothering them both in rubble. The beagle was watching intently, as several menacing figures in cybernetic suits came walking through. An officer came out to try his luck with the Powersuits. He was killed with a single shot to the head. Six or seven more came out and a brutal gunfight began with Hidaya and the interrogator taking cover outside the interrogation room.\n\n\"Do you want to live?\" she whispered to the beagle.\nHe nodded his head.\n\"Then help me out of here.\"\n\nThe beagle immediately understood as he watched five officers fall without the Powersuits numbers having fallen. He uncuffed Hidaya's hands then, helped her up and they made there way to the garage. They took the one S.W.A.T. van that still had the keys in the ignition. They got in, she turned on the ignition.\n\n\"Here.\"\n\nThe beagle gave her his gun, before pulling another one from his ankle sock. She looked at him then nodded a silent thanks before the Powersuits broke through the last door. She slammed her foot on the gas pedal and crashed through the garage door going as fast as she could possibly manage with the van. The beagle thought the coast was clear and looked out his side only to have his head blown off.\n\n\"Shit!\" She exclaimed.\n\nThe Powersuits had activated their jetpacks and were now in hot pursuit blasting any unlucky motorist that crossed their path. She took all of the least crowded roads in order to minimize casualties. One powersuit landed on the roof of the van. His magnetized boots prevented him from getting thrown off; two more did the same. The van entered a construction site. She rammed a low hanging beam killing all three powersuits on the roof. With the van now stuck, she abandoned it taking the beagle’s guns with her. She also took a swat uniform from the back and put it on. She ran into the abandoned site to hide as she prepared for the long night ahead.\n\nElsewhere, Jacob, Bill and Jon were celebrating Jon’s new supporting role he’ll be playing in the upcoming Playhouse production. They were currently at a Chinese restaurant. Jacob had ordered sweet and sour chicken, Jon some crab and Bill was also getting sweet and sour.\n\n“Oh, sweet Buddha do you realize how long it’s been since we’ve gone somewhere this fancy?”\nBill chimed in.\nJon said with a raised eyebrow “This is fancy?”\n“Yeah, fancy on our budgets! You’re paying too right, Jake?” \n“Only if it’s good.”\n\nAs they were talking, the waiter arrived with some noodle soup while they waited for their orders.\n“Ho, shitcheah!”\nBill exclaimed as he instantly began downing some of the hot soup.\n“Ow!”\nHe yelled as he bit into something hard.\n“What the fuck?”\nBill looked in the soup.\n“Hey, it looks like the waiter dropped his jewelry in here.”\n\nHe dipped his chopsticks in the soup and pulled out a small glowing grass-shaped rock. Jacob instantly recognized it, but before he could act, the shard jumped out of Bill’s hand and pierced into his chest near his heart. The shock would’ve sent him flying if he hadn’t been seated. Instead, it knocked him over in his seat spilling the scalding hot soup all over him. Jacob and a waiter attended to him while Jon called 9-1-1 on his cell phone. It was just as Jacob suspected; as soon as he got Bill to relax the burns instantly healed. As Bill slipped out of consciousness, Jacob pulled open his shirt and there it was.\n\nThe dragon-head tattoo.\n\nTo be continued...\n\n",
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The Long Night Ahead
Jill woke up in a hospital bed with her friends and family about her. To her left, she saw Desiree and Isabella; to her right, baby brother, James Jr. and her father, James Sr. Her father rubbed her cheek and asked her
“Is there anything you want baby?”
She wanted to say that she wanted to see the rat that had saved her but, she refrained knowing how her brother gets about her personal life. Then, almost as if it were an instant cosmic answer to her wish, the nurse came in saying that she had another visitor. It was him.
“Hey, there; just thought I’d drop in and see how you were doing.”
“Hey, hey! Ease off rodent!” Junior said while barring Jacob access to his sister.
“Cool it, Baby Brother, it’s partly my fault anyway. Well, mostly my fault. I don’t know what I’m even doing here; I wasn’t even hurt; you and Dad worry too much.”
“But…”
Desi interrupted before Junior could continue.
“No buts! Besides your sister ain’t all that innocent.”
She winked at Jill as she finished. Jill hid her embarrassment. Defeated, her brother walked out of the room; everyone else followed suit leaving her to exchange words with her savior.
“Well then, quite an interesting lot of people you surround yourself with.” He remarked.
She jokingly raised her fist at him while she said in a mock-weak voice
“Oh, shut up; before I lay one out on your pretty face.”
“No, I’m serious. I only wish my family were anything like this. We were always too busy for each other.”
She sat up so she could see his eyes again. They were such a unique shade of violet. She put her hand in his and he kissed it.
“Oh my, a charmer…”
Suddenly, Junior burst in through the door. (He had been eavesdropping and was beet red by the time he’d heard the word charmer.) He grabbed Jacob by both his ears and dragged him out amidst protests and odd stares until he got to the elevator where he hurled him in as soon as the doors parted. All Jacob could say after that was
“What was that all about?”
The dawn broke on another fine day in the coastal city of Corpus Christi. This morning, however, was to be a little bit different. This day began on Corpus Christi Beach. A fox couple was basking in the morning sun. They both were making love on the beach by the tide. The male fox fondled and licked his girlfriend’s breast whilst undoing her shorts. She opened her eyes for a brief second and screamed. He turned to see what it was and in the sand by the rocks lying very still was the nude body of a female meerkat. He went down to check on her while his girlfriend watched from close by.
“Oh my god, is she dead?”
Not being able to find a pulse, he said
“I think so…”
Suddenly, Hidaya grabbed his arm and twisted it tearing an elbow joint. She came to, pinned him to the ground and knocked him out with a headbutt. Then, she turned her attention to the vixen.
“Your clothes; give them to me!”
The vixen did nothing. Hidaya powered up an energy blast and then said in a firmer voice
“Give them to me now or I’ll vaporize your boyfriend!”
“No!”
She removed her pink blouse and miniskirt then threw them to Hidaya. Once she was finally covered, she walked off leaving the two completely bewildered. She hadn’t managed to get but two feet away from the shore when the couple ran to an officer. Having no other alternative, she ran out to a carnival across from the beach. She stole a cap from a random kid and put it on. She pushed past the crowd trying her hardest not to look back. One look showed that now there were two officers. The vixen spotted her and yelled out to the police. Hidaya picked up pace. She jumped over a railing and pushed by a ride operator. She looked up at the tall ferris wheel and began climbing the still moving metal behemoth. She had been trained in the ways of le parkour so a task such as this would be nothing for her. She had made it to the center when officers made the operator shut off the machine.
“Shit!”
She muttered under her breath. Her gaze turned to a bucket at the top. She saw as a figure leaning forward toppled out. It was a rabbit child. She reached into the metal frame catching him by his red shirt. She clenched her teeth as the added weight cut her arm on the frame. She called to the frightened child.
“Hey, Kid! You’re going to have to try to climb on my back. Do you hear me? I’ll get you down.”
“How’re you going to do that?”
“Just trust me, okay? Now, hurry!”
Bracing her legs around two beams, she reached out with her free arm and pulled him up. He wrapped his arms firmly around her neck as soon as he was in place.
“Okay! Now, on the count of three you have to close your eyes tight as you can!”
The boy was still unsure.
“Why? What are you going to do?”
She lost her temper.
“Just fu- just do as i say!”
He gasped “You almost said a bad word!”
“Shut up! Now, 1...2...3!”
She leapt from the ferris wheel causing several cries of despair from below. She powered up light energy and fired a full continuous blast towards the ground using the force to soften her descent to a float. She landed safely on all fours with the rabbit dazed but just fine. The boy’s frightened mother ran up to them hugging the child. She looked up with thankful eyes to the stranger.
“Thank you, madam. Oh god bless your heart.”
Hidaya watched as the two walked away. She began to smile at what she’d just done. It made her feel good, reborn... at least until she smelled what the rabbit had done on her back. He had peed on her back.
“Oh, son-of-a-bitch!”
Jacob got back to Bill’s flat by noon.
“Ho shitcheah! You finally made it back!”
Bill yelled with such credibility-damaging excitement whilst holding a frying pan and wearing an apron.
“Yo, listen you have GOT to tell me everything you know about this girl.”
“Why?”
“Why?! So I could have a shot at her!”
Jacob grabbed Bill by the front of his shirt and said
“It’s not like that you sick little pervert!”
Bill brushed him off indignantly.
“Humph! Little? Shit, I’m taller than you!”
“And I can still kick your ass!”
Bill nodded leaning against the stove.
“True. Besides I saw you last night, what you did, how you saved her.”
“What the fuck did you see?”
“Oh, not much; just you and your shadow. Oh, don’t worry your secret’s safe with me. It’s not like you’re doing much to hide it anyway.”
He put the frying pan back on the stove.
“Oh, um by the way how do you like your eggs?”
He asked as he picked up a spatula and started cracking eggs.
“Uhhh, omelet?”
Bill feigned shock.
“Really, I always preferred scrambled. Okay, omelet it is.”
“So, where’s that friend of yours?”
“You mean Jonathan? Oh, he’s down at the Harbor Playhouse probably trying to score his breakthrough role.”
He brandished his spatula like an award.
“I do hope he gets it this time. That’s what I admire in him, he pursues his dream of acting just as I intend to pursue my dreams of cooking, but, you know since he probably won’t be back for another hour or so, you could probably, maybe, I don’t know show me.”
“Show you… what exactly?”
“Show me your manhood. What the hell do you think I’m talking about?!”
“……”
“Your powers! Show me your powers.”
“Why?”
“Why? Because that was so cool what I saw last night! You have a gift, man! You should be using it more instead of just bullshitting all the time!”
Jacob held his arms up.
“Okay, you want to see it so bad? Here!”
His Shadow Arm shot forward and grabbed Bill’s tail and pulled him away from the stove. With Bill out of the way, the Shadow Arm picked up the frying pan and poured the omelet on Jacob’s plate. His other arm shot up to the fridge and took out a cold vodka and placed it on the table next to the eggs. He used his dark tendrils as his knife and fork and began eating. The phone rang. Bill, still mesmerized, waited a little bit to answer the phone. Before picking it up he said
“Wow, you know you could probably get freaky with that thing. Stay handy I may need you later…”
He finished with a positively slutty tone.
“Hello, oh hey, Jonny Boy…” off the phone “It’s Jonathan.”
“Uh-huh, duh-huh, oh really, oh, ok see you then.” He placed the phone back on the hook before shrieking
“He got the part! Oh this is unprecedented, we must celebrate. TONIGHT, WE EAT CHINESE!!!”
Back at Prescott Manor, Jill had not spoken with her brother since they all got back home. She was still mad at him for chasing away her hero like that. He didn’t think he had done anything wrong. He was just protecting her from “home wrecking riff raff like that RODENT!” Desiree took it upon herself to be the peace keeper. First, she went into Jill’s room.
“Good evening, your royal sexiness. Wouldst thou require something of me?”
This, as always put a smile on her face.
“Come on now, sweet thing; you can’t rightly blame him for what he did, eh.”
“I know I just sometimes wish he wasn’t such a fucking hypocrite. He has his boyfriends over all the time and nobody, not even dad, objects to it.”
Desi sighed as she ran a hair brush through her friend’s short brown hair.
“Well, he’s a guy. A gay guy, but a guy no less; they’re all entitled to their asshole moments. It’s obvious; he cares a lot about you. ”
“I know.”
Jill groaned as she realized what she had to do now.
At this moment in time in his own bathroom, Junior was having his way with his latest little boy toy in his personal shower when Jill came knocking.
“Yeah, who is it?”
“Who do you think it is?”
“Jill? I’m, uh, kind of busy right, oh, now.”
Right now, his raccoon lover was pleasuring Junior orally.
“Oh please, you can wreck his butthole later I need to talk.”
“Well actually, I am in the process of wrecking his vocal cords.”
“Whatever!”
He tugged on his lover’s left ear and said
“I’ll be right back sweetie.”
He put on a robe and stepped out of the bathroom closing the door behind him.
“So we’re finally speaking now are we?”
He said with his arms crossed.
“Yeah, I just wanted to say that I understand why you did what you did. You care about me a lot, we all know you do; though sometimes it’s almost like you’re trying to be the older sibling here.”
“Yeah, well I just can’t stand the idea of some strange guy getting his dirty mitts on my big sis.”
“Oh come on; you know as well as I do he’s not some strange guy… I caught you checking him out.”
She playfully poked him in the ribs. He blushed slightly as he admitted
“Well, he did have a nice ass but, then again so do I.”
He opened the door to his bathroom, but she stopped him briefly so she could hug him tightly. She made a quick gesture to his boyfriend.
“By the way, how big is this one, you know where it counts?”
Junior mouthed some words to her which she giggled at saying
“seven inches, Baby Brother I know you could do better than that.”
Jill got back to her room where Desiree and Isabella were anxiously awaiting the verdict.
“Junior thinks he’s got a cute ass, I think I’ve got a chance.”
Her room was instantly filled various hoots and hollers from the girls. All three (even the normally quiet Isabella) spent the night gossiping about their dreams. Soon they all got changed into nightgowns so they could spend the night together.
Later that night, Jill woke up from the same dream but this time with the rat, Jacob, in place of her mysterious hero. It was here when her mind was made up. She woke up Desi and asked her to follow her.
“Where’re we going?”
“To a part of the manor my father has not allowed any of us to go in a long time.”
They went down to the 2nd basement where they came across a couple of big old wooden doors. Placing her flashlight down, she asked Desiree to help her move the big wooden bar. They both accomplished this and then, with one final push the doors opened. Desi was positively stunned by what she saw. It was a giant armory filled with a large assortment of ancient medieval swords, maces, longbows and much more.
Jill explained “It was my grandfather’s.”
“Which one?”
Desi asked to which Jill proudly proclaimed
“All of it. He collected them from all over the world. He loved adventuring; he would tell me many great stories about the knights and the samurais, you know great warriors of the old untamed world.”
“So then, why does your father not allow you down here?”
“Easy, Martin was my mother’s father and my father never got along with him.”
“Wow!”
“Wow is right. You know, he even taught me how to use some of these.”
She walked up to a glass case in the middle of the room.
“Come look.”
Desi picked up the flashlight and shined it on the case.
“This was his favorite.”
She opened a secret compartment and took out a key. She unlocked the padlock and removed it, then she opened the case and took out a big beautiful broadsword in a jewel encrusted scabbard and it dawned on Desi.
“Oh no, you’re going to take it aren’t you?”
“I have to find him. My hero is out there somewhere and you know chances are eventually he’ll end up saving a girl that’s prettier than me and I’ll have lost my chance. I have to do this. Please understand and please tell no one…”
Meanwhile, Hidaya was at the police station being interrogated. The CCPD were trying to figure out why she did what she did or even how she got here in the first place. She was for the most part compliant. Then, they began to inquire about a certain boat captain and his armed service coupled with reports of a meerkat matching her description. She knew this was her and she knew they suspected her now that she had used her powers in public. She leaned forward to tell her interrogator this.
“You know what, you’re right, you are fucking right; do you hear me you piece of shit?” She grabbed the interrogator by his whiskers. She dropped him down and rolled her eyes. “You stupid fucks, though; yeah, you’re probably creaming your pants right now at the thought of locking away poor little me. Well, you get this straight fuck-stick, pretty soon you’re gonna need me because you see what I’ve done is I have just made myself public and even worse I’ve allowed myself to get caught. You see the people that I work for they are very strict about not getting my stupid ass public!”
The interrogator, a beagle, shook his head and straightened his collar.
"Oh, really now? We are going to be needing you? I must say that's the first time an accused has tried to make that claim, now just why should I believe you?" he snickered.
She narrowed her eyes at him, she looked to the police officers standing around him, then she raised up her cuffed hands. She watched her right hand is it got warmer, then a ball of light began to grow in magnificence. The beagle and the other cops were watching intently when the dog's acute hearing picked up a peculiar sound from behind. Hidaya heard it too.
"Oh shit."
She reached across the table and pulled the interrogator out of the way just as the wall came down on both of his bodyguards, smothering them both in rubble. The beagle was watching intently, as several menacing figures in cybernetic suits came walking through. An officer came out to try his luck with the Powersuits. He was killed with a single shot to the head. Six or seven more came out and a brutal gunfight began with Hidaya and the interrogator taking cover outside the interrogation room.
"Do you want to live?" she whispered to the beagle.
He nodded his head.
"Then help me out of here."
The beagle immediately understood as he watched five officers fall without the Powersuits numbers having fallen. He uncuffed Hidaya's hands then, helped her up and they made there way to the garage. They took the one S.W.A.T. van that still had the keys in the ignition. They got in, she turned on the ignition.
"Here."
The beagle gave her his gun, before pulling another one from his ankle sock. She looked at him then nodded a silent thanks before the Powersuits broke through the last door. She slammed her foot on the gas pedal and crashed through the garage door going as fast as she could possibly manage with the van. The beagle thought the coast was clear and looked out his side only to have his head blown off.
"Shit!" She exclaimed.
The Powersuits had activated their jetpacks and were now in hot pursuit blasting any unlucky motorist that crossed their path. She took all of the least crowded roads in order to minimize casualties. One powersuit landed on the roof of the van. His magnetized boots prevented him from getting thrown off; two more did the same. The van entered a construction site. She rammed a low hanging beam killing all three powersuits on the roof. With the van now stuck, she abandoned it taking the beagle’s guns with her. She also took a swat uniform from the back and put it on. She ran into the abandoned site to hide as she prepared for the long night ahead.
Elsewhere, Jacob, Bill and Jon were celebrating Jon’s new supporting role he’ll be playing in the upcoming Playhouse production. They were currently at a Chinese restaurant. Jacob had ordered sweet and sour chicken, Jon some crab and Bill was also getting sweet and sour.
“Oh, sweet Buddha do you realize how long it’s been since we’ve gone somewhere this fancy?”
Bill chimed in.
Jon said with a raised eyebrow “This is fancy?”
“Yeah, fancy on our budgets! You’re paying too right, Jake?”
“Only if it’s good.”
As they were talking, the waiter arrived with some noodle soup while they waited for their orders.
“Ho, shitcheah!”
Bill exclaimed as he instantly began downing some of the hot soup.
“Ow!”
He yelled as he bit into something hard.
“What the fuck?”
Bill looked in the soup.
“Hey, it looks like the waiter dropped his jewelry in here.”
He dipped his chopsticks in the soup and pulled out a small glowing grass-shaped rock. Jacob instantly recognized it, but before he could act, the shard jumped out of Bill’s hand and pierced into his chest near his heart. The shock would’ve sent him flying if he hadn’t been seated. Instead, it knocked him over in his seat spilling the scalding hot soup all over him. Jacob and a waiter attended to him while Jon called 9-1-1 on his cell phone. It was just as Jacob suspected; as soon as he got Bill to relax the burns instantly healed. As Bill slipped out of consciousness, Jacob pulled open his shirt and there it was.
The dragon-head tattoo.
To be continued...
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