A large humanoid stands on a deck overlooking a sandy beach; he wears a long robe of crimson with a necklace of teeth adorning his muscled chest. The dark gray skin clashing with the red tinged eyes and the various tattoos that adorns his massive frame from head to toe. Behind him a thin young woman busies herself with reading a magazine and sun tanning while the figure observes the beach like a king passing judgment on his kingdom.
A cell phone rings; playing the beat for Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”, and the young blonde woman answered the phone, snapping on gum. She sighs and holds the phone up for the gray humanoid, “Eric its for you, its one of those… guys,” she says with a look of disgust.
Eric turns and snatches the cell phone from the woman, and brings it to his scarred face. A wicked scar crossing his left eye, moving down to his white-tusked teeth, yet his intense red eyes close as he listens to the high pitched voice on the line.
Speaking in a strange guttural tongue a high pitch voice speaks, “Boss, I left the message just as you said, such a bold move on our part should let the Golden Serpents know we will not back down from their challenge. Are you sure you did not want him dead?”
“No, I need him alive, they need to know that we control their lives, that we can decide who lives or dies, who suffers, and who shall survive,” Eric replies in his deep voice in the same tongue. The girl pops on her headphones and kicks her feet as Eric turned away and continues to listen.
“Then I have done as you asked, there was another with him, a woman,” the voice replies.
“And?” Eric replies.
“And nothing boss, I am just relaying what I saw. She may become a problem if she is connected to the Golden Serpents,” the voice replies.
“If she proves dangerous then eliminate her, for now lay low,” he cuts the line and smiles. The war was about to begin, and the serpents would stand no chance when the blood began to flow…
Sakura
Shalimar said:
"I hope you don't mind if I'm late for dinner Detective." she says numbly, her eyes wide, and her lip trembling without her even noticing it. "I, I had the operator get a message to my Dad, but, I want to go with Koga to the hospital. Can you wait to take my statemnt until later?"
“I can do you one better Sakura, I am headed to the hospital let me give you a ride. I am not here to get your statement, your dad is like a brother to me, this is a hit against the family, I assure you the force will do whatever it takes to get the psycho that did this,” Detective Rose states flatly, a flash of anger in his oddly shaped eyes.
Something she never really noticed before were the strange slant and size of his eyes. They were intense but also somewhat different then anything she had seen, his face was angular and flawless, and his long hair hid what looked to be pointy ears, maybe her eyes are just playing tricks with her, its probably the stress…
Detective Rose raises a brow, as the ambulance with Koga pulls away, “Uh, Sakura you alright, come on let me give you a ride over.”
James and Dexter
Outside near the car Selene turns to James, “She must really trust this M guy, I wonder, and do you guys think it might be Myron? If so, why would he be hiding his identity unless he is hiding from people? Dexter what was Myron into? And a better question, what is that language everyone seems to be obsessing over, is that like some lost language of the scions or something?”
