Fragments of a Distant Star (Darker than Black rp)

[kai the pkk]

Takumi: { watching the event from a roof top over but being as inconspicuous as possible which isnt much cause hes standing on a roof} hmmmmm a daggger in wire is he the black reaper? if so then maybe I should go and talk with him but I havent received any news within a day or so

[GamerKale]

Reflected on the mirror atop the man's head Cale spotted Takumi's figure atop the nearby building. Partner? No, if anything he's a watcher. But he could have just been drawn by the gunshots, how did he get here so quickly then? No, he must have been sent to watch this dentist. He didn't wait any longer for a response before he bent down and placed his left hand on the man's neck, with a specific twist a small needle plunged into the man's neck and knocked him out. I'll deal with you later, Dr. Shwartz, if you are indeed him. He made no indication that he had noticed the man and instead first put Dr. Shwartz in the car and replaced his expended gear, all while keeping an eye on his observer with various reflective surfaces. If he's content to wait then that's fine by me.

While he was putting Dr. Shwartz in the back of the car he hit a small button under his seat that signaled the CIA that something had happened. A team would arrive in a short order. The other assailant had made his appearance known from the beginning this next one could be more of a challenge, though his attempts at discretion were horrendous. Cale walked towards the dentist's office and then brought his gun to bear on Takumi. "Identify yourself and state your business, or I will kill you. You have until the count of three. One,"

[kai the pkk]

Takumi: ah Crap! { he stand up as cale continues counting he panics and then makes up a lie} SORRY! { he bows in a respectful manner} srry I ummm I'm a manga author and I was looking around for inspiration you see my boss really wanted me add the next chapter of my issue in the monthy jump Im pressed for time and when I heard the gun shots I thought mabe stupid me I would find great story ideas and I just have I'm srry if Im tresspassing

[GamerKale]

Cale continues aiming at Takumi for several seconds before lowering his gun. "I see, well you certainly have fast legs for a writer. You must be in track too, or" He threw the knifeless wire and caught Takumi around the throat. "A RAT!" With that he yanked Takumi down off the rooftop and down onto some trashbags. The sound of breaking glass could be heard and shards could be seen jammed into Takumi's legs, not far enough to cause major damage but he was bleeding. Cale sprinted over and as he yanked on the wire he slammed his foot into Takumi's gut sending him crashing back down onto the trashbags. He kept his boot in Takumi's gut and put his spur into his chest. "Now then, we can do this the easy way," He pulled the wire a little tighter and ground his spur in a little harder, "or the painful way. I don't much care which. Show me some proof you are who you say you are, or I will strangle you to death. I long since squashed any qualms I had about putting down a calf, so don't bother pleading."

It was at this moment that Becky finally got over her shock and tackled Cale from behind. Although the spur went in some more before coming out the wire went slack as Cale wrestled with Becky. "Get off me girly!" "He's just a boy, what could he possibly do?" "Honestly?! You don't want to know, office girl!" He threw her off of himself and into the shack behind him. He could hear her moaning in pain as he picked himself back up. At least she's alright, stupid girl.

[kai the pkk]

Takumi: h-here { he hands him a id card for the company he works for} and if you want more prove ill show you the manuscript in my backpack please mr. Im not looking for trouble......... { he sits up slowly} * Ow damn this guy can hit pretty hard Ahhh damn*

[GamerKale]

Cale scans the ID and then tosses it onto the trash heap next to Takumi. Could be a fake, no real way to tell at this point. "Get it out, slowly, and read it aloud and don't forget to project with your voice. I can barely hear your yammering as it is. The full first chapter mind you, and this had better be good." The backup team should be here soon, wherever here is, they can sort this out from there. I just need him to stay put until they show up, or the police if somebody actually called those gunshots in.

[kai the pkk]

Takumi:.................... fine { he takes out pages that arent finished but looks retty well drawn} here you go { he hands it to him} its not done yet but its cold can I get going home yet

Hei: { standing beforethe body of a syndicate contractor} dammit their begining to move again

[Helbaworshipper]

'Get up you stupid fool!' Moving up from his spot, as if possessed, the doctor recovered from the drug injected in him. The car's top was discarded while the doctor remained adamant at his job. His eyes didn't show emotion, moving forward with reflexes that could match Cale's previous attempt.

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Standing near Hei's location, Emi's body began to emit a glow. Her body slowly became diamond, including the clothing she wore. Though sent to attack Hei, another presence caught her attention. She turned around, cutting into the cheek of a male figure. "Ah...so you must be one of them. After BK201, are you?"

[GamerKale]

Cale started to hand the papers back, "I told you read them. You don't listen- Now way." He said as the roof came off the car. He's still moving!? Inconceivable! That should have kept him out for a good hour. Was this guy just stalling until he could get back up? He threw the papers into the doctor's path as he dodged to the side. Horseshit, stupid girl's still out. I'm going to have to make sure he doesn't go back over there. He wasn't able to put enough distance between himself to get a line on Shwartz, but the doctor certainly had gotten close enough for his drills to bite into Cale's arms and chest. He crossed he smashed the drills off his left arm and chest while yanking the ones on his right off, causing massive damage all across the board.

He began trying to get his hands either far enough back to get a line on the doctor or in close enough to shoot at point blank. At this point all he'd managed to do was miss and some of the ricochets had landed near Takumi and one had taken out a street light. Well that's just great. A drill bit into his hand and forced him to drop one of his guns. After a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to grab hold of one of the doctor's many appendages and hold him for a moment, but it came off as Cale pulled the trigger and Shwartz moved out of the way. "You're really starting to piss me off!" He flipped his gun around in his hand and smashed the doctor in the side with the solid steel frame of his revolver, he felt something break and give way and then got himself skewered by a dozen tools again, this time he got thrown backwards into the doctor's office, fortunately his head landed on something soft. He looked to see that it was Becky. Well at least the girl isn't completely useless.

He couldn't see the doctor's shadowy form outside. "He's probably up above the door waiting to pounce the second I step outside." He whispered to himself as he reloaded his revolver. "Damn, it's so dark. I can't see too far." He glanced down at Becky, shrugged, she wouldn't be needing it after all, and took her sidearm. "Semi-auto, standard issue. Probably can't shoot straight, but that's fine for what I have in mind." He took several calming breaths and withdrew three of the metal balls from a pocket, nodded to himself and began firing with the semi-automatic. One, two, three, FOUR! He jumped outside and threw the balls up. He waited till his back had hit the pavement and the balls had bounced off the building far enough and then he blew them up. Unlike the last batch these were actually explosive. The concussive force caused the sign to fly off the building and Shwartz who had been pouncing down towards Cale from one of the side roofs was knocked off-course and landed on his back next to Cale. He unloaded everything that was left from the semi-auto and three of bullets from his revolver, and the doctor just sat there, twitching for a few seconds as Cale slowly stood up walked over to him and fired into his skull twice. He ripped off the mask and was pleased to see that the face was more or less untouched so that the big wigs might be able to ID him, but unless the man could regenerate a brain Cale was pretty sure he was dead. Cale walked over to what was left of the car, the sign had embedded itself in the hood. He rummaged through the glove box and to his delight it seemed girly was a smoker. He took out the last cigarette and lit it as he sat down on the hood, leaning against the sign. "So much for quitting." He said to himself, he would just wait until the team arrived to pick up the kid, maybe he could get a little more leave to recover before heading off after The Black Reaper, probably not. Oh yeah, the kid. "Hey calf, you still around here?"

[Helbaworshipper]

The doctor's body continued to twitch, eyes going back to normal. For just a single moment he seemed to be calling out to something. A star seemed to twinkle, but not fall from the sky. A figure unseen by any of them merely shrugged, moving away from the area. On command the body began to become completely cold, as if something had been removed.

[kai the pkk]

Takumi: { he picks up his papers and crawls away} * ahhhh man I got get out of here fighting now is pointless it looks like Im going to have to redraw these} HEY BAKA! { revering to cale} I WORKED HARD TO DRAW THIS STUFF DONT JUST THROW IT AT SOME WEIRDO! { he walks off} IM OUT OF HERE { he runs off}

Hei: { he looks around as he turns his back and breifly notices emi as he throws the wire and he basicaly ziplines away as he notices the twinkly star} .....Hm?

[Helbaworshipper]

"You're...Emi Wakahisa..." Katsu Yukimura chuckled, looking over her features. "The one who claims to know nothing about how that contractor-" He felt a hand against his throat, finding it hard to breath. "Why...why are you a con-"

"Be quiet." Her voice was soft, almost completely gone. "Filth. Unclean." One hand formed a single knife on her wrist, about to stab Katsu.

'****...am I about to be killed by...a contractor?'

[kai the pkk]

Hei: { he stops and turns and sees the reporter in trouble and is about to leave but instead turns around and throws the wire that wraps around emis arms as he sends electrical current and shocks her enough to knock her away from katsu}............ Run{ he runs off}

[Helbaworshipper]

Another star in the distance twinkled, but only for a second. Emi seemed confused for a moment, not seeming effected by Hei's attack. "You're Yukimura-san."

"Wakahisa are you a contractor?"

"Contractor? What are you talking about? You mean the one that died?"

"Miss Wakahisa, please, you tried to kill me."

"I did?" She seemed blank, as if confused. "I don't know what you're talking about." She moved back a few steps. "Really, you must be joking." She walked off into the night.

(Day 1 Ended) Day 2: Morning

[GamerKale]

"Baka? What is that runt talking about? If he was so worried about them then why didn't he just read 'em like I told 'em to?" He shrugged, looks like the kid wasn't there to cause him trouble. Good thing too cause I'm in no shape for another fight right now." He picked Becky up out of the doctor's office and set her on the hood. "I'll leave checking that place out to the other guys, speaking of which." Several cars pulled up and a dozen agents stepped out, they secured the area quickly, checked Becky's vitals, began tending Cale's injuries, and even began clearing the office before the leader addressed Cale. "Sir, what happened?"

Cale looked around at the area gave the man a 'What the HELL do you think happened!?' look and then reported, "We were driving, Becky was lost for the third-fourth time, we turned all the tires got apparently cut out by that guy there. He was a contractor, I'm guessing Dr. Shwartz," he said pointing to the name on the sign next to him. "His power seemed to be to generate dentist's tools at will, kind of strange but whatever, he used his power an awful lot and didn't seem to have to perform an obeisance, which seemed extremely strange now that I think about it, but I had my hands full at the time. He also recovered from a fast acting sedative I administered directly to his bloodstream. I thought I had given him enough to keep him down for an hour, but he got up after less than 5 minutes. He had the option to give up and live but didn't take it, I can't believe a contractor had that much loyalty but he did. Also there was another man here, well more kid than man, but he looked maybe 20. About yea tall with hair that was ,you know that color. Claimed to be an artist, I think he left his ID. You might check the trash bags over there. I think his name was Takumi Nishima, he worked at some cartoon company. Well, he called himself a "manga author" I think." "Japanese comic books." "Really? Here? In Aledo?"

"Sir, we're in Washington D.C." "Right, yes, sorry, it's been a long day. Anyways, he called me something, Baka, I think it was. Know what it means?" "I believe it's Japanese for idiot, sir." "Ah, I see. Well, I did toss his papers into the air, but I was being attacked. I'd rather they get shredded than me, not that it saved me too much." "Speaking of which, should we take you to a hospital?" "No, no, I'll be fine. Just get me to the airport, I need to head to Tokyo." "Japan?" "Yeah, why?" "Well, you don't seem to know any Japanese." "I don't." "Why are they sending you to Japan?" "It's above your paygrade." The agent just nodded his head and went "Ah, I see. Well, uh should we take her to a hospital." "Yeah, just contact your superiors and have them change my travel schedule, and have somebody come replace girly so that I can get my gear through security."

The rest of the night passed without incident, and before leaving the agent suggested Cale pick up an English-Japanese dictionary or something. Cale agreed and downloaded a rosetta stone app for his phone and studied it on the plane ride over. The sun was coming up when Cale finally landed and the first thing he did was check into a hotel. His eye twitched somewhat when he discovered that the rooms were about as big as a closet, smaller even. And the beds made a cot look roomy, but he went to sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

[kai the pkk]

Takumi: { reading a letter as he hops on a flight to tokyo and then he realizes he forgot his idea} Chi damn this sucks I guess when I get there I'll have to get another one as welll as fix these...... { he starts drawing the pages alll over again}


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Hei: { he arrives at a even more run down apartment then he had in the series with groceries}

Yin: { sitting there casualy on the edge of the tub}

Hei: here I got us some more food { he starts cooking it}

[Helbaworshipper]

The radio played as Emi made breakfast that morning. "Last night at about one am three people were found dead in an abandoned alleyway. There is a clear cut case of murder, but the murder weapon is missing. According to authorities this can only be done by an organization, but it is unclear what one could be pulling off these murders. There seems to be no motive for them. On to today's weather..."

Emi's eyes were shut, cutting what looked to be a few pieces of toast. "Emi! Did you find any eggs?"

"Yes, I bought them before I came home." Turning around she noted that someone else was in the room. The room seemed to be frozen in time, Anahita standing before her. Her eyes immediately turned back to the way they were just a few hours ago.

"This time you will not fail. Do not attack BK-201 tonight. There is a more prone target." She nodded, turning back to the toast.

"Emi...come on. We have to leave soon."

"Yes father." Her eyes had turned back to normal.

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Sitting at his desk, Katsu Yukimura looked at all the articles about the Wakahisa family. He knew that something was strange. The odd murders with the missing weapon started with the death of that contractor. Of course that was classified. Emi, the daughter and target of the stalker seemed to know nothing about the person trying to kill her. In fact, she seemed to forget she had killed him or whoever had killed him instead..

"There have been too many of these incidents lately..."

[GamerKale]

Cale sat up, hit his head on the low ceiling and crawled out of bed. "What time is it? Ugh, I didn't get two hours of sleep and feels like ten minutes of rest." He stretched and heard his back pop several times. "Not near enough room to do a proper workout, just the stretches then." After a brisk workout he took a quick shower and got dressed, pulling out a leather duster from his suitcase that served both to conceal his armament, but also to hold more and provide some extra protection. Although not perfect, it was designed to provide a decent amount of protection from gunshots or blades. His normal vest did too, but this helped cover his entire body. Plus, it was warm.

He walked outside nodded to the receptionist and sought out an energy drink before he struck out to look for Katsu Yukimura. All he had to go on at the moment was the name of a newspaper. He took one look at one of the papers and shook his head, he had no idea what it was saying. "So much for learning Japanese. Couldn't they have sent somebody who can actually speak the language instead?" Still, he got the paper and more or less figured out where their office was. It still took him another hour of looking more or less straight at the building before he realized it was where he wanted to go. "Uh, pardon me miss, but I'm looking for a man. Katsu Yukimura I think was his name. Could you tell him that Casey Ingram Armstrong is here to see him, please?" Now all he could do was sit, wait, and hope that he was in the right place. Who came up with such stupid contact names anyways? Any five year old could pick out the letters for CIA in that name. Couldn't they just give him a simple cover ID and an appointment?

[Helbaworshipper]

"Yukimura, someone is here to see you." Looking up from his computer, he blinked. "Someone named Casey Ingram Armstrong." He nodded, standing up with a yawn.

"I'll go and see him then." Adjusting his glasses and placing on his coat, he exited the office area. 'CIA... This is odd...' He continued walking down, letting the attendant lead Cale to a meeting room. Once Cale entered Katsu was already there with some tea and coffee ready. He waited for the door to close before he spoke.

"What does the CIA want with me this time?"

[GamerKale]

"Straight to the point, how refreshing. I'm looking for a man they call BK201, Hei I believe is what he calls himself. Supposedly he travels with a doll named Yin. Do you know where I can find him or this doll?" Cale stood next to the door. Maybe this meeting won't take as long as I was afraid of normally they have me more as an errand boy for various people or as the clean up man for when their strike teams get completely wiped out. But this gig should be pretty simple, I make contact, I make the offer, and I leave. I might even be able to make it back to the states in time for Christmas.