Ghost

Seeking revenge, an assassin seeks out the organization that took everything from him even if it costs him every.

The beaming rays of heat flourishing the leaves that had ran away from every tree, the bright summer's sun gleaming in everyone's eyes, in an attempt to not get burned by the sun the clouds had ran away causing the sky to remain clear, and the scarce streets which carry no car for miles however the sidewalks traffic had thicken with students stampeding to the beach and pool area in an attempt to beat the heat of the day. The heat waves in the air cause the surrounding winds to feel as hot as a heater on full blast, but that meant nothing once screams of enjoyment and excitement surrounded the pool which sadly had come to an end with the sound of a single gunshot which caused the clear chlorine crystal blue water to darken into a rose red which started to emit the ugly stench of death. With the pool area thrown into a complete chaos, the cries of little children fill the air as their parents along with many others got injured by the ones who had also attempted to get out of the pool area, and a midst the chaos several more gun shots were seen completely destroying the pool side, but the bullets fail to take another's life. After everyone had finally fled, the marksmen whom was firing his gun finally came out of the shadows to reveal his spiky brown hair, dim red eyes, pale skin, dressed in a black trench coat that overshadowed his red shirt, dark blue jeans which had been torn at the knee, white sneakers, and the gun he was carrying was a pitch black sniper rifle with the words "continue to get up until the lamb becomes a wolf." The mysterious marksmen fishes the dead body out of the water to confirm he's dead, as he fishes the body out of the water he can hear police sirens in the distance, but he pays it of little attention. After confirming the person's death, the mysterious marksmen takes the silver lighter from the back pocket of his dark blue jeans and sets the body ablaze making sure that there's nothing remaining. Alas when the police had finally arrived, neither the burning body nor the mysterious marksmen was there. Bewildered, the police begin their search for the dead body, and possibly the whereabouts of the marksman, but after hours of searching they found nothing, but the injured bodies who've been nearly killed by the stampede. The screeching of a car is heard as it jets down the street, and away from the pool area, naturally the police jump back into their cars to chase after the black car with white wheels which makes it seem as if there are flashes of light under the car. Managing to catch up to the car, the police surround the car with their cars blockading it, but to their amazement it wasn't the marksman only an old lady with white hair, clouded gray eyes, wrinkles and liver spots, who was dressed in a light blue gown with pink pigs on it. Asking if there was a problem, the old lady reaches for her glasses to get a good look at the policeman. Embarrassed by his blunder, the policeman tips his hat and tells his squad to let her through, and she casually drives away. Several minutes pass by, and the policemen had began to set up numerous amounts of check points all around Japan, however none of them dared to stop the old lady whose on her way to the doctor in fear that their guns will give her a heart attack. Arriving at the doctor's office, the old lady checks the mirrors in the car then says.

"Okay, it's safe now. There's no policemen in sight."

Suddenly, there's a slight ruffle in the back of her car under the back seats. Popping his head out to make sure there's no policemen around the mysterious marksmen thanks the old lady whose removing her make-up revealing herself to be a female with long blond hair and light pink eyes, then she takes off the gown to reveal her light blue tank top and cotton candy skirt which matches her sandals, as she pulls the wrinkles and liver spots off of her smooth pale skin she hands the mysterious marksman a long black box which begins to tick. Unlocking the door of her car, she tells the marksman to complete the job and then return to the car.

"Aye."

Taking the long black box inside of the doctor's office, the marksman walks pass the guard booth and into the office where he sees men and women in long black trench coats all waiting to be seen by the doctor. Sitting the closet to the door, the marksman casually drops his black box then checks his watch to remember what his mission that the 'old lady' assigned him was.

"Listen up, your mission is to assassinate the head chief of a clinic along with his coworkers and staff, but before you do that you'll need to draw the attention of the police away from the clinic long enough so that you'll be able to slip in and out of the office discreetly. You'll do so with this black box which holds a highly dangerous explosive, but you'll have to place it in a twenty diameter radius for it to be effective enough to kill everyone fore the explosive is compacted so that it could fit inside of the box. Lastly, to activate it all you have to do is open it which will trigger it to explode instantly."

Back in the present, the marksman is called into the doctors office, and on his way he renders his escort unconscious, locks all of the exits, grabs his lighter once more and puts it up to the fire alarm causing it to go off, places the black box in the same hall that the exit is in, and after hearing the staff dash towards the door he ties a string that's used for stitching to the latch. Just before all of the staff including the head doctor arrive near the location the black box, he quickly unlocks the door only to lock it again with the key that he stole from the unconscious escort, then yanks the string detonating the bomb to go off. However no one in the waiting room heard it explode since the doctor's office was sound proofed in case there was a screaming child or a man writhing in agony, they didn't want anyone to be worried or annoyed by the sounds. Casually walking out of the building, the marksman gets back in the black car with white wheels and receives his payment for the contract.

"There you go, ten million yen just as we agreed upon."

After counting his money, the marksman asks why did he have to get rid of the staff.

"They're the ones who've been treating an infamous group of bandits who are responsible for every terrorist attack in the past two years, and the head doctor has been giving the money that the hospital received by donations and funded them financially."

"Why not just use a banker? I'm sure they're better in case of money."

"I don't fully understand their actions either, but one thing I'm sure of is that this is barely the beginning of their tunnel."

"Probably."

"Anyway, I'll take you home for today. Good job, Jun."

After arriving at a double layer tan house that has columns surrounding it, and a garage, Jun gets out of the car with his sniper rifle in a sliver case, approaches the driver's window and says.

"Thanks for the ride, Fiona."

Before driving off she says.

"I'll call you when the next contract is ready."

"Okay."

As she drove off, Jun walks into his house and clicks the light on, revealing a flat screen television to his left and a sliver plated kitchen to his right, and in front of him was his super computers which were used to gather information about his targets. Walking up the white spiral stairs, Jun opens a door which leads to a room that's full of weaponry, takes the clip of his customized sniper, lays the sniper next to his others, then empties the bullets into a case where the others were, and makes his way back downstairs after locking the door to the weaponry room. Taking a picture of a little girl with hazel hair and eyes, with the brightest smile you'll ever see, from his pocket and thanks her. Looking unto the sky watching the golden sun turn into the white moon before his eyes, the starry nights sky reflecting into his dim red eyes as he sees an image of the same girl from the picture in the sky with the same smile.

"Wait for me a little more. I'll come for you, I swear."

Closing his eyes, the image inside of his mind changes from a void darkness to an image of a house burning down, and the girl from the picture is screaming for help as her mother was buried underneath burning wood, falling into a cold sweat Jun keeps his eyes close, and sees a group of men with guns in their hands, and a man in a black suit with a red tie holding a flame thrower as his men start starting anything that walks, the smell of burnt flesh fills the air as he watches the girl get kidnapped by the group of men as she was kicking and screaming "daddy save me!". Quickly opening his eyes screaming "Lora", he wipes the cold sweat off of his gray pale face and attempts to tame his raging heart. The next day, Jun gets a call from an unknown number who tells him who his next target is.

"You'll be going to America to assassinate the head judge of the supreme court, whose cleared each of the bandits from any and all crimes they've committed. Then you are to blow up the entire courthouse afterwards to get rid of any and all of the bandits  that hide behind their badge. At your front door, you'll find a first class plane ticket to Washington along with a hotel suite registration for a week. Your orders are to go to Washington where you'll meet up with Fiona waiting for you at the entrance of the airport, she'll help you carry out the assassination while she stays with you in the suite. Afterwards, you are to stay in Washington for the week to surveillance the movements of the President, we suspect that he's someone whose involved himself with the bandits as well. If that is the case you'll need to be very careful as long as you're in America."

Hanging up the phone, Jun retrieves his things from the front door and then gets ready for his trip to Washington. Boarding the airplane that'll depart for Washington in five minutes, Jun makes his way to the first class section of the plane where he sees a female with an orange sun dress that laid softly upon her long snow white legs just barely covering her knees, dark orange high heels, and a tan sun hat that's blocking her face, who's also reading a book. Astonished by how the female looks, Jun goes to sit next to her, and before he could even greet her the female says.

"What took you so long Jun? The organization began to think you weren't going to come."

Jun's eyes began to slowly increase in size as he begins to realize the identity of the female by her voice.

"F-F-Fiona?!"

Taking off her tan beach hat to reveal her long wavy blond hair that slowly flowed through the air, Fiona looks Jun in the eyes with a sly look on her face.

"Did you begin to get indecent thought from the way I looked..?"

Starting to blush, Jun attempts to hide his embarrassed face from her while trying to maintain a steady speech pattern.

"N-N-No, I just thought you looked...nice."

With a disappointed look on her face, Fiona says.

"You're so easy to read.."

Attempting to change the subject, Jun asks for the details about the next target.

"As you've already heard, the organization believes that the head judge of the Supreme Court is an accomplice of the bandit terrorists, but it seems that he has a case soon concerning one of the bandit members. However, you're not to kill the bandit member yet. Only after the trial ends can you kill him."

"Meaning that, the reason I'm going to blow up the courthouse is..."

"Correct, to execute both the head judge along with any other judge in the building at the time along with the local police. Killing the terrorist is just an extra bonus, the organization thought they'd give you that chance to find out about Lora if you so chosen so."

"I see..., so what method was authorized?"

"It seems you'll be using C4's which we'll go retrieve once we've reached the hotel."

"Why? Do they have them stored somewhere?"

"Jun, the very existence of the hotel is solely for the use of the organization. Meaning that everything you'll need has been given to the information cleric already, including an interrogation room in the basement if you choose to interrogate the terrorist."

"Lastly, why did they send you to come with me?"

"Simply because I requested to go, I wanted to see how the beast would react when met with an opportunity to see a properly dressed female."

"Are you suggesting that I only hang around poorly dressed women..?"

Avoiding his question, Fiona goes to sleep.

"Hey...."

Shaking her in an attempt to wake her up, Jun repeatedly asks her the question until he finally gives up, and realizes that the plane had already taken off so he just looks out of the window thinking about what he should do when faced with an opportunity to finally get closer to finding the female from the picture whose name was Lora. A day and a half later, the plane lands in Washington, DC. After, leaving the airport both Jun and an awakened Fiona take a cab to hotel "Ghost Carrier", as they go down the dark streets passing a row of street lights on every street which worked together with the traffic lights on every corner, people driving to and from work, the countless number of people filling the sidewalks amazes them as the night's sky quietly watched over them without a cloud in sight, they see to the left of them the white house which appeared black since it reflected off of the sky. Finally arriving at the hotel that's lit with extravagant red and white lights which complimented the outside of the hotel making it seem like more of an movie theater than a hotel. Walking down the red carpet that lead into the hotel, Fiona checks in with the cleric at the front desk.  

"Suite number 660, the Eagle Suite."

The cleric with pitch black hair cleans her glasses long enough to reveal her pasty purple eyes,  fixes her blue and white uniform shirt and skirt then walks Jun and Fiona to the golden elevator and tells them that they're luggage was already brought up to their room. Ascending to the highest floor in the hotel, Jun and Fiona walk down the narrow well lit halls which had red carpeting that lead to only one room. Wondering where the other doors were Jun asks Fiona weather or not the hotel is even a actual hotel, but all she says is that the entire floor was kept for meetings only. Entering the dark room which used an entire wall for a single window, and after turning the lights on Jun looks around the room which only had one queen sized bed that had red and gold sheets laid upon it , a bathroom, a kitchen, and a room with a golden lock on it. Asking for the key, Jun awaits for Fiona to come out the bathroom so he can open the door to the mysterious room. Several minutes later, the shower had stopped and the door had opened to a Fiona dressed in a long pink shirt which covered her torso and barely her waist. Drying her blond hair in a white towel she tells Jun that the key is under the pillow, however Jun is unable to move, speak, or take his eyes off of Fiona while she continued to dry her hair Jun had finally worked up the nerve to say something.

"T-T-There's only o-one b-bed."

Puckering her lips to the side as she looked towards the queen sized bed, Fiona already knew there was only one bed then she slyly moves closer and closer to Jun causing him to scream "stop" as she got within reaching distance. Unable to contain her laughter anymore, she falls past Jun and onto the bed where she threw Jun the key. Finally able to unlock the mysterious door, he slowly opens the door that contained an army supply of weapons such as a Cult forty-five, a peacemaker, two snipers which were equipped with a scope and silencers on the ends, ten stacks of C4s, five grenades, and even a Dragon Fire grenade launcher. Suddenly the mood in the room changed to a very serious one as Jun looked upon the weapons and remembers why he came to Washington, turning to Fiona with a serious look on his face he asks her what's the real reason she accompanied him.

"So you've noticed then? Oh well."

"I've known you for awhile now."

"More or less~"

"Stop play around, and tell me why you're here, Fiona."

"Fine fine. It seems the organization considers you a flight risk for this kind of mission considering your past with the bandits so they want me to watch over you so that you won't do anything that'll cause problems for them or yourself."

"A flight risk?! They took my daughter from me!"

"Which is why they're giving you a chance to get answers. However you can't act on the answer as of yet."

"Why the hell not?!"

"The organization considers you a valuable asset, and they don't want to lose you yet."

"I'm not just some pawn that they can use whenever they want!"

Getting off of the bed with an angered look on her face, Fiona walks to Jun and slaps him so hard that his right cheek turns a bright red.

"Remember you're an assassin before a father now, and stop acting like a little brat who throws a tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way. When you decided to walk down this path, you've let go of any ideas, images, plans, and actions that'll put your supplier in danger. Do you understand that you no longer have the right to care solely for yourself anymore?!"

Remaining quiet after Fiona's outburst, Jun is only able to bring himself to apologize for his tantrum, and with a satisfied look on her face, Fiona jumps back unto the bed, and asks what's the plan for the target. Noticing the change in subject, Jun turns his attention to his mission, and begins to conjure up a plan. The following day, Fiona awakens out of the bed to find Jun asleep in the weaponry room. After getting dressed, she kicks Jun in the stomach in order to awaken him from his slumber, then says that she's hungry. Waking up with a pain in his stomach, Jun agrees to take her to the buffet in the hotel. Walking into the seemingly empty buffet which makes Jun once again wonder if the hotel is actually a hotel, the dazzling multicolored lights which blends with the white tables and booths, an endless array of food from every part of the world, and a world class chef at every stand. While they're eating, Fiona once again asks weather if Jun has a plan ready.

"I was looking through the file I brought with me containing information about the bandit including why he was arrested, if they have help on the inside of the law, his history, crime record, and all the way down to his personality, and with this information I've discovered the he's a married man whose wife just happens to be in DC. So that was when I began thinking, what if we kidnapped the wife would he react, but then I found out from the local information cleric that resides in this strange hotel that the wife had divorced him once she found out who he really was, but he still stalks her. So for today, I suggest that I 'occupy' the ex-wife's time while you watch from afar."

"So that I'll be able to record his movement from dawn til dusk."

"Bingo, and then the next day you'll switch with me, and while you're with the wife I'll be safely hidden to make sure his pattern is consistent. Then on the fourth day we'll disguise ourselves as cops to sneak into the courthouse."

"Wait isn't the target, the head judge? Not the bandit."

"I know, but once we've followed the bandit's movements all the way until his trial we'll be able to kill two birds with one stone, but prior to the trial we'll set up the C4s inside of the courthouse where you'll wait outside for the signal."

"You told me to disguise myself, but why if I'm not going inside of the courthouse." 

"If the bandit feels like he's in danger he'll leap and make a run for it."

"Right."

"I've also found out that he's been visiting the head judge in order to talk over his case."

"So in order to keep him from seeing the head judge until the case...."

"Right, we'll keep his attention focused on us, since we'll be with his wife which he has an obsession with."

"So let me get this straight, we're going to occupy the bandit's ex-wife to keep his attention focused on us until the day of his trial where you'll sneak into the courthouse dressed as a cop, and you want me to stand outside of the courthouse with the C4 activation button in hand then press it when you give the signal, killing the both of them in the same place, but you'll get caught in it too."

"No I won't."

"Why not?"

"Last night I examined the C4s, and there's a limiter on them which only lets them affect anything within a fifty mile radius."

"Soooo, why won't you get caught in it again, and even more so won't I get caught in it as well?!"

"The entire three blocks will get caught in the explosion, but there's a delay of five minutes which is enough time to get in the car and escape, but promise me one thing."

"What?"

"If I'm not out of the station by five minutes after you've pressed the button pass, you'll leave me."

Hesitating for a moment, Fiona promises that she'll leave him.

"Now then Ms.Fiona, shall we start the operation?"

Extending his hand to her, Jun offers to help her out of her seat. Wiping the food away from her mouth, Fiona takes his hand with a smile on her face.

"We shall."

Walking out hotel and into the back seat of a gray town car, Fiona and Jun are being driven around Washington in an attempt to find the bandit's wife. Turning to Jun, Fiona asks if he knows what the bandit's wife looks like, after searching through his pocket Jun pulls out a photo of a female with black hair with light purple highlights in them, gray eyes, who was wearing a black trench coat which failed to cover her sparkling purple dress, tan legs, and show girl shoes. Pointing out that her outfit is identical to something a showgirl would wear, but he doesn't know her name or where she lives. Jun shows the driver the photo, asking if he knows of a showgirl who matches the description of the female in the picture, 

"I believe there's a club who tells their dancers to wear purple dresses, why do you ask?"

"I want to go there, do you know where it is?"

"I do, however you cannot go."

"Why not?"

"Because you're Jun Terusuka."

"How do you know my last name?"

Realizing that the doors are sealed tight, Jun takes out his pistol and points it at the driver, and asks who the he is. Jun turns to Fiona only to discover that she's unconscious next to him, followed by the wicked laugh of the driver.

"Not to worry Mr.Terusuka, we've only inserted sleeping pills into her food just so we could have a little talk with you."

"When did you drug her food?! We've only been here for about fifteen minutes, and no on-"

Suddenly feeling sleepy, Jun's eyes begin to feel as heavy as a ten ton weight.

"My you're slow Mr.Terusuka, ALL of the food in the buffet was drugged. That's why no one was there when you ventured there for food."

Falling asleep in the back of the car next to Fiona, and waking up in a dark room that only has one light that hovers over him. Tied up tightly, Jun awakens from his slumber only to be greeted by a man in a Washington state police uniform. Grabbing Jun's chin, the man in the police uniform pushes him and the chair over to make sure he's awake, laughing at the pitiful state Jun is in, the police officer tells his coworkers to help their 'friend' to the interrogation room. Putting a brown bag over Jun's head, a male and female in police officer uniforms untie the rope that confined him then drags him into the interrogation room. Laughing to the point of crying, the head officer introduces himself.

"My name is Michael, one of those bandits you're so focused on."

After having his comrades leave the room after having confined him to a chair once again, Michael locks the door leaving only the two of them inside of the room then begins interrogation by hitting Jun on the side of his head with the side of his pistol then licks the blood that's flowing from the side of his head with a sadistic smile on his face as he does it. Listening to Jun breathe heavily, Michael tells him that he has enjoyed his daughter which causes Jun to go berserk.

"I swear to god, if you've done ANYTHING to her I'll f*****g kill you."

"My, my you're a feisty one. No matter, soon you'll be joining her and your wife. My the screams that your wife made was just tingly, it brought back some delicious memories."

"You sick son of a b***h..."

Taking his gun out and shooting Jun in the leg, and listening to his screams of agony Michael brushes Jun's hair back and smiles in his face.

"What were you saying? Sorry I have terrible hearing."

Unable to repeat himself since he's in an enormous amount of pain, Jun just spits in his face.Backing away from Jun's face to wipe his off, Michael puts his gun away and sits on the edge of the investigation table.

"So now to what we've brought you here for, we need you to do a job for us."

Building up enough strength to talk, Jun replies.

"Why would I help you..."

"Because you want to find your daughter, do you not?"

"How do you lose a person you've kidnapped? You're proving yourself to be third rate if you can't keep an eye on your prisoner."

Digging his finger deeper into Jun's bloody bullet wound, Michael says with an annoyed tone as Jun screams in pain.

"We didn't lose her, she was taken. By your organization."

Ignoring the pain long enough to demand an explanation, Jun stares into his eyes as his blood lust began to scream through his skin.

"Oh? You didn't know? We figured so, apparently our boss made a deal with your boss that if we gave her over to them they'd give us all the weaponry we'll need. I guess they were going to have you keep running in circles like a dog with its tail cut off."

Jun continues to listen to Michael silently.

"You do know who's also betraying you?"

Only able to think of one other person, Jun begs Michael.

"Don't say it..."

Putting a file on the table with an image of Fiona veering out of the side, Michael tells Jun to open the file. After opening the file, Jun is frozen in place with his pinball eyes.

"Now that you know the truth, I ask you again Jun Terusuka, will you do this job for us?"

"What do you want me to do..?"

"It's simple, just bring the girl back to us. Being that you no longer work for the organization we'll say you died, shall we?"

"Fine, but not here, not like this. I need to gather my equipment first."

"Why not just have us retrieve it for you?"

"I'm an assassin, not a murderer."

"Same thing."

"...Maybe."

"Now then, where do you wish to die?"

"In three days, at the trial."

"The organization's most valuable killer, killed on the job? Seems plausible, but I hope you understand until the trial begins we'll have you stay with us, and of course we'll treat your leg and head while you're here."

"Fine, but she'll come look for me. What will you do then?"

"She's of no consequence. Even so, we'll keep her alive for now."

"Good."

After Michael calls in his comrades to personally drive Jun to the hospital that's near the station, he wipes his hands, and tells a mysterious person that was well hidden to keep an eye on Jun until the three days are up.

"Understood."

Meanwhile, Fiona wakes up in front of the hotel, and calls the organization whom sends out an entire army of assassins to rescue Jun from the cold grips of the bandits before it's to late. Getting up from her seated position she grabs her wounded arm and begins her own personal pursuit to rescue Jun. The day seemed long and vigorous for her as she looked around, but it seems that no one had seen anything unusual. Checking her watch, Fiona realizes the whole day had past, and decides to stop for the day. The following two days seemed like an eternity for Fiona, as she attempted to find Jun before the organization had the chance. After checking nearly every hospital, there were no signs of Jun anywhere, and that was when she went into the last hospital on her list, the clerk who looked exactly the same as the one from the hotel. Looking at her curiously, Fiona asks if they've met before, but the clerk declines ever meeting her.

"Anyways, I'm looking for this person."

Fiona shows her a photo of Jun.

"Is he registered here? His name is Jun Terusuka."

After looking through her computer and deleting the file named 'Terusuka', the clerk says that he's not listed in the computer.

"Thanks for your time."

The night before the trial had finally come, and there's a mysterious knocking on the door of suite 660. Grabbing her gun and cocking it back before opening the door, Fiona slowly opens the door, and surprisingly it's Jun with a bandage on the side of his head, and a bullet hole in his pants. Unable to speak, she just hugs him tightly with no sign of letting go.

"Long time no see, Fiona."

"I've been looking for you.."

"Sorry I worried you."

"Where have you been?"

"Discovering the truth."

Quickly chopping the back of her neck hard enough to knock her out, Jun leans the unconscious Fiona against the wall nearest to the window so that the assassins from the organization wouldn't see her through the window then begins to collect his equipment with the assistance of several of the other bandits including Michael. After everything is packed into the town car, Jun rests a black rose upon her chest and says goodbye. The rising golden sun signals the curtains to rise on what seems to be the beginning of a blood thirsty journey for Jun as he watches the sun ascend to the sky, from the roof of the station. Walking onto the roof, Michael asks him if he's ready to die, and without turning towards Michael, Jun replies.

"I am."

"After your death, you're going to help us retrieve the girl, right?"

"That is correct, but she is MY daughter so will you release her to me?"

"Can't say."

"Why not?"

"I'm not the boss."

"Either way...it doesn't matter."

"Now let me ask you a question, Jun."

"What?"

"What do you intend to do after you fulfill your agreement to us?"

"I...don't know."

"Join us then."

"No, I may be an assassin, but I'm not a savage."

Leaving the roof with a smirk on his face, Michael tells Jun that everything is set up for him to die. Still looking out to the horizon while the golden sun emerges from the ground as the wind flowed through his black trench coat and brown hair, Jun knows what he has to do if he wants to get his daughter back. Leaving the roof quietly, Jun begins to start operations. A hour before the trial begins, Jun enters the empty courthouse to make sure everything is as planned after, making final preparations to the courthouse he looks to the right side of him, and sees a confused Fiona staring at him full of questions, but before she could speak, Jun says.

"Join me."

"What?"

"Join me in order to save my daughter."

"You're on the wrong side, Jun. The bandits are the ones who have your daughter."

"How did you know I'm working with the bandits?"

"Before I lost consciousness I saw them enter the room and help you move the equipment."

"So the organization wants me dead then."

"No, I didn't tell them what had happened last night."

"Why not?"

"Because I....we need you on our side more than you realize."

"Tell them to give me back my daughter then."

"We don't have your daughter!"

"Lies!"

"We don't!"

"So."

Walking closer to Fiona with eyes of a beast which begins to scare her, Jun says in a outraged manner.

"So why didn't you tell me who you really were."

"What?"

"Under that blond hair, tell me your real name!"

As Fiona remains silent, Jun continues.

"I thought you had died that night in the fire! Why didn't tell me who you were?! Why didn't you tell me you were alive?! Why did they have to tell me who you were?!"

"I'm sorry...."

"No, it's to late for that, Dear. Our marriage ended when you 'died' that night in the fire."

Before she falls to her knees Jun catches her, and carries a sobbing Fiona out of the courthouse and back into her car.

"Tell the organization I'm coming for our....my daughter."

Unable to move an inch, Fiona just sits there sobbing in her hands as Jun walks away to prepare his equipment at the bandit's hideout. Ten minutes before the trial, Jun changes his shirt revealing the scars he received from the two gun shots which were positioned extremely close to his heart, and a third bullet wound which is positioned in the center of his stomach, the pitch black shirt matched the black trench coat he used to cover up the shirt, as he stores his loaded peacemaker into his coat and puts his strapped sniper over his shoulder he walks out of the bandit's station and into the town car that's waiting for him outside which is packed with several bandit members. As they drive to the courthouse, Jun asks Michael what's the name of the bandit group.

"Jester."

"A laughing clown? Seems kind of a contradiction for a terrorist group don't you think?"

"A jester as in a dark trickster, who only knows to kill in order to have fun. Anyways what's the plan?"

"I'll make it look like an assassination attempt by firing at the head judge, but I'll miss his vitals so that he'll survive."

"That'll throw the courthouse into chaos."

"Correct, which will give you enough time to swap your real gun with this."

Jun gives Michael another gun.

"What is it?"

"A gun filled with rubber shots, it'll only sting, but it has enough force for me to fake my death."

"Okay."

"You cannot let anyone confirm my death or the operation will fail, and if they discover I'm alive the organization will come to kill us all."

"Okay, anything else?"

"No."

Entering at the courthouse as the trial was underway, Jun, Michael, and four others sit in the stands awaiting for the final vitric that signals the start of their plan. Several hours later, the judge gavel falls and so does he with a bullet in his chest. Turning into a madhouse, everyone in the courthouse stampedes towards the locked doors that Jun had secretly locked when they entered. Bewildered by the locked door Michael asks what did Jun do, but he doesn't answer, as Michael with the rest of Jester attempt to break the lock along with other people Jun gets up and walks to the Jester that was on trial and shoots him square in the head with his pistol then again in the chest three times with two of those times in the heart instantly killing him. Then standing over the wounded head judge, Jun slowly aims his gun at the throat of the judge then shoots making him choke on his own blood, and calls out to a fretting Michael to say thanks for the information then tells him that there's C4 that's going to detonate in three...two....one, with a bright white light followed a huge explosion that sends the doors to the courthouse flying open with black smoke bursting out along with millions of dead body parts flying everywhere, the sudden explosion causes the passing by cars to crash into one another, and the people that were passing by the courthouse were affected to, but they're still alive only unconscious, as the ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars arrive one by one at the explosion scene they confirmed that everyone inside of the courthouse was either killed by the explosion or was shot. After Fiona had seen the report on the news it was as if she was struck by lightning when a sudden knock sounds at the door of the suite, but it wasn't Jun only a mailman who delivered a letter Jun had written to her before the trial had started. The letter reads:

"If I wasn't the one to deliver this to you it means that I've died in the explosion at the courthouse, meaning that you need to know the truth about everything. Starting back to the point when we were taken by the bandit's whose official name is Jester, so anyways I was taken to be interrogated by this person named Michael whom should have died with me. The organization does have our daughter, I've checked it out and it does appear that they've had her for two years now. If you don't believe me then look at the back of this letter where I've attached a photo of her being taken by the boss of the organization, but only look after you finish read this. I've left my weaponry....my real weaponry inside of the room hidden underneath floorboards I want you to use it to kill the head of the organization, and save our daughter. At first I was going to do it after I've faked my death, but I've realized that I should have died a long time ago in that fire when I was shot three times by a bandit. Anyways that concludes my letter, forever within your heart, Jun Terusuka."

Staining the paper with her tears as she looks at the photo on the back of the letter, Fiona calls the organization telling the leader that the contract is done and that she wants to have a meeting with him, and he tells her in a month he'll be free to converse with her and until then she should just come back to Japan to receive her pay. Hanging up the phone, she takes all of the weaponry Jun left her, stores the photo in her purse, burns the letter, and goes back to Japan. On the private plane ride back to Japan, the pilot asks Fiona if she enjoyed her stay in America, but she doesn't answer him since she has immersed into the photo of her daughter. A day has passed since she returned to Japan, and as soon as she slept off the jet lag she raided Jun's old house in an attempt to collect the equipment and information she needed to kill the leader of the organization, but all she found were photos of their daughter, and any reports of anyone who looked like her. Feeling a sense of shame that she didn't try as hard as he did to find their daughter she swears that she'll kill the leader of the organization even if she has to die with him. As the weeks passed, Fiona dedicated those weeks to tracking down the leader since she knew that the meeting between them would most likely be a trap so she wanted to be prepared, and she even prepared an escape route which leads back to Jun's old house via a series of back streets, and prepared all of the weaponry she'd need if the leader actually did show up including additional items such as a a flash grenade or smoke bomb. Forgetting about the bandits who she thought had taken her daughter, she focused primarily on the execution of the leader of the organization. The day had finally came for her meeting with the organization boss, and instead of entering the potentially explosive building she decides to watch from five houses away with a sniper equipped with a scope loaded and ready to fire, as she focused the aim at the back of the leader's head, she's suddenly attacked by two of the leader's guards, but then hears two gun shots go off and watches the guards slowly fall to the ground with bullet holes in their heads then loses consciousness from the attack beforehand. Waking up with a terrible headache in an empty basement with a single light hovering over her, and equipment surrounding the walls around her ranging from simplest pistols to the most dangerous rocket launchers, the cold air made her grow weary of the situation she's currently, and at that moment she saw two men, one with a white mask that was shaped as a cat, and the other's mask was black with only one eye hole. In a darkened voice the man with the cat mask asks why was she on the roof of that building, but she doesn't answer. The man with the cat mask steps into the light to reveal his black suit and red tie then says that they're going to help her kill the leader of that organization, and he also says that as long as she helps them they'll help her get Lora back.

"How do you know her name?!"

"We've had people watch over you ever since you've enter the organization with Jun Terusuka."

"So you know..."

"He's dead, we know, we're sorry for your lost."

Hanging her head in a mixture of shame and sorrow she requests that they help her get her daughter back for Jun's sake.

"We are, but from this moment on you cannot act on your own even if it's in the name of revenge."

"I understand..."

"If you understand why are you so sad?"

"I failed...to succeed his last wish."

Interrupting the conversation, the man with the black mask with only one eye hole blurts out.

"Bull! If you truly believed that you'd be dead, and not here with us right now! You would've taken your own life after you were caught by those guards! It just wasn't your time to kill him yet."

"WHEN is the time to kill him then?!"

Jumping back into the conversation, the man with the cat mask says.

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose."

"You're saying I'm suppose to let them keep my daughter captive?!"

"That's the thing, they don't have her."

"What?"

"Neither the organization nor the bandits have her, they're simply watching over her."

"I have photos of the bandits trading her over to the organization."

"We've checked them out they're fakes."

"How would you know?!"

"Like I said, we've been watching over both you and Jun since you've entered the organization."

"Who are you people..."

"We're but simple men. Now then lets get you out of those cloths, you smell like dog piss. Go take a shower."

Embarrassingly asking where the bathroom was, Fiona runs out of the basement to the bathroom to take a shower. Meanwhile back in the basement, the two masked men converse between each other.

"Are you sure you want to keep it from her?"

"I'm sure, we're doing this for Jun's sake after all. What about you? Are you sure you want to do this after what happened?"

"This is my redemption for all the sins I've committed. Besides this is all for Jun's sake, correct?"

"Right."

Fading into the darkness of the room, the two masked men disappear into the darkness while Fiona takes a shower. After getting out of the shower, Fiona sees a pair of cloths to change into with a note resting on top of them telling her to come to the roof after she's dressed. Arriving on the roof which overlooked the dark streets which were lit by the overwhelming lights that surrounded Tokyo making the scenery beautiful as the warm wind flowed through her blond hair calmly revealing her bright smile which rivaled the brightest stars in the starry night sky, Fiona awaits whoever wrote the letter to her in her pink shirt which covered her torso barely covering her pink underwear. Suddenly a voice appears next to her.

"I see you've got my note."

"I did, but why won't you reveal yourself to me."

"There is a time and a place for everything, Fiona Terusuka."

"What did you want?"

"Why do you wish to find your daughter? Is it because Jun requested it as his dying wish?"

"No..."

"Why then? Before he had found out who you really were, you seemed happy without her in your lives."

"That's not true.."

"So why search for her now? After all of these years?"

"It's only been five years."

"Five years, three months, and two days."

"Why do you know all of this? Who are you people?!"

"I told you, we've been watching over you since you've joined the organization."

"Is this all you wanted? To question me?"

"No."

In an instant Fiona is taken to the edge of the roof next to the man with the cat mask before she even realized where she was.

"I wanted to bathe in the moonlight with you."

Speechless, Fiona looks at the man with the cat mask and senses a slight feeling of sorrow within him so she changes her attention to the moonlit starry sky, and watches the glimmering moon together with the man with the cat mask for the rest of the night. Waking up the next morning in her bed, Fiona is escorted to the dining room where she sees a buffet of food on a huge and long table before her, and the only people sitting there were several of the children whom the two masked men had taken in and the masked men themselves all eating breakfast. Of course the masked men couldn't eat with their masks on, so they only wore half of their masks still hiding their identity, overwhelmed by the calming atmosphere Fiona can't help, but to sit with the children to help them eat and gather more food while she eats. After breakfast is finished, the children go out into the garden to play while the masked men and Fiona decide what their first course of action is going to be.

"We'll need to flare up the friction between Jester and the organization before we move on our own."

"Which will most likely cause a war between the two."

"Correct."

"Why do you two want to do that though? Aren't you two highly trained assassins? Killing the boss of each group would be easy for you two."

Slightly chuckling to himself, the man with the black mask says.

"We aren't assassins, but killers."

Confused by the masked man's statement, Fiona asks.

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"Heavens no, we don't get paid for the things we do. We do it because we love the sight of blood, and we love to paint red roses."

"That is correct."

Sending shivering chills up Fiona's spine, the man with the cat mask continues.

"So I'm thinking we disguise ourselves as members from the organization and the bandits to infiltrate their bases then start killing everything insight within their bases."

"No, no that's the oldest trick in the book. I say we storm into their bases and start killing everything that's in our way."

"That's the same as my plan...just we'll be dressed as ourselves in your plan."

"Of course, that's what makes it genius."

"What? Blowing off the entire idea of creating more friction between the two while possibly getting ourselves killed?"

"We'll die the same way we lived at least, as cold blooded murders."

Interrupting their argument, Fiona says.

"Why don't we just do both? Mr.Cat will dress up as a bandit and send a deceleration of war to the organization, while Mr.One eye, sends one to the bandits. That way they'll think that the bandit's have gained an alliance from somewhere which will put pressure on the organization to attack the bandits before they can grow even larger causing a war between the two."

Agreeing to the plan simultaneously, both the man with the cat mask and the man with the black mask which has only one eye hole considers making Fiona part of their group, but she quickly refuses then exits the room in a hurry. Several minutes later, she's escorted back to the basement so that they can begin operations. Standing in the center of their circle which included the mask with the black mask, Fiona, and two others, the man with the cat mask began to construct their plan by pulling out a map of Japan which included the locations of the Jester's hideout and the organization's base, off of the dusty self that was positioned in the far right then places it on a dusty brown table that only had one leg. Putting his finger over the Jester's hideout he tells one of the two mysterious people to scout their hideout for a week so that they'll know exactly is the right time to steal uniforms then he orders the person to steal them, and then he tells the other mysterious person to do the same to the organization's base. Then, once they've returned he wants Fiona to enter the organization's hideout as a prisoner whose being escorted by one of the new recruits which will just be the mysterious person in a disguise. Sliding his finger to the street that surrounds the organization base he tells the man with the black mask to use the Jesters underground tunnel to quietly set up multiple bombs beneath the streets that circle around the organization's base so that when Fiona and the 'new recruit' successfully enter the base he can blow up the ground around their base so that it will make it seem like Fiona is working with the Jesters.

"Why would you want them to think I was working with them? What will that do?"

"You're a traitor to the organization, so when they begin to think you're working with their current enemy, and the war breaks out. There won't be any chance of a treaty unless they turn you over to them."

"I don't work for the Jesters though."

"Correct, meaning that they'll look like they're covering for you when they say they don't have you, but even if they do allow the organization to look through the base you won't be there meaning that it'll be a slaughter house within the Jesters hideout."

"So they'll be chasing a ghost?"

"Precisely. It's a win, win."

"Also how do you know there are tunnels underground?"

The man with the black mask interferes.

"A long time ago, the Jesters thought that they could get around unnoticed if they were underground so that they could pull off heists easier. However it was shut down by the police once they figured out the trick behind their disappearing act."

"How did they find out?"

Full of arrogance, the man with the black mask continues.

"Some insanely clever and witty person left mines under the police station which was one of the Jesters most used routes, and after a loud explosion along with a few dead bodies the police followed the tunnel back to one of the Jester's bases."

Mr.Cat interferes in the man with the black mask statement.

"Barely any of the Jesters was arrested though, most of them already abandoned that hideout since some clumsy idiot accidentally blew away damn near every part of the tunnel which connected the other hideouts away causing them to crumble."

Reverting to silence, the man with the black mask allows the man with the cat mask to continue. Clearing his throat, the man with the cat mask continues construction of his plan.

"Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, once inside there's no doubt that they'll lock Fiona away so that the Jesters can't rescue her, and in that time I want the person in disguise to take any and all resources you can and throw them out of the window where I'll go and collect them with a pick up truck."

"You have a pick up truck?"

"More or less. So while Fiona is in captivity Shadow will use the remaining uniforms and make sure he's caught on camera as he frees her from their cells."

"Who's Shadow?"

The man with the cat mask points to the man with the black mask with one eye hole.

"So who are you then?"

"I'm Mr.Cat."

"Should have guessed....."

Pointing to the two mysterious people whose also in the circle, Mr.Cat says.

"The one on the left is Ghost, and the one on the right is Michael."

"Why Michael? Is that his real name or something?"

"He barely looks like a arch-angle under that hood. Even if he was one, I doubt he'd stay with me for so long."

"Why?"

"Cause she doesn't like being touched."

"A minute ago you said 'he'."

"While on the mission you'll see what I mean."

As Michael growls at him, Mr.Cat continues.

"We'll need the organization's uniforms since me and Shadow are going to take our automatic rifles and waste some Jesters the night before the attack on the organization which will give both sides more ammunition against each other."

"What if we fail?"

"Failure means death, everyone is prepared to risk their lives on each and every mission."

Everyone around Mr.Cat and Fiona nod their heads in agreement as she looks at them with amazed by their loyalty to Mr.Cat.

"That concludes the briefing, dismissed."

While everyone shattered about to do what was requested of them, Fiona quickly latched her arm to Mr.Cat's arm then quickly dragged him up the stairs and into the flowered garden that had blooming flowers everywhere and sitting benches in the middle, the sweet smell of the yellow lilies complemented the bright red roses which were perfectly arranged. Overcome by the scenery, Fiona had almost forgotten what she wanted Mr.Cat for, but after several minutes of taking the scenery in she turns to Mr.Cat and asks him.

"You're Jun aren't cha?"

Taken by surprise, Mr.Cat says.

"No."

"How do you know so much about me then?"

"As I said when we met, we've been watching you and Jun since you two entered the organization."

"What about when I was almost killed? How did you know I would try to take the organization leader's head? Unless you were Jun who had wrote me the letter, no one should have known about it."

"Simple, check inside of your shirt, the one you were wearing before we retrieved you. You'll find a rather simple bug or at least its remains."

"You had me wired? Why?"

"It was Jun's last request to keep you alive. No other emotion led us to helping you."

"Lastly, how do you know Jun?"

"We were the ones who gave him those computers he used to do his own research. Listen enough of these silly games would you just like to look at my face?"

"Gladly."

Slowly unbuttoning his mask from behind, and allowing the mask to fall off of his face causes Fiona to be surprised to the point she's frozen with her eyes widened.

"Told you I'm not Jun."

Under the mask was a man with a scar across his nose, a red dot in the center of his forehead, and black paint under his eyes which forms triangles that lead down his cheeks.

"S-So Jun really is dead...?"

"That is correct. I am sorry."

Picking up and buttoning his mask back on, he watches Fiona run away with a trail of tears following closely behind her. Grunting then shouting "you can come out now, Shadow", Mr.Cat asks if he has done the right thing.

"That's for you to decide, you've known of the conditions we've made in other for us to truly be free."

"What tis freedom if you've no one to share it with?"

"Quit quoting playwrights, it's annoying."

"Maybe. Anyways have you set up the explosives surrounding the organization's base?"

"I have. All that remains is the uniforms."

"Good, but before you go make sure she doesn't do anything that'll cause trouble."

"You've known she was trouble when you first met her, but you just had to bed her"

"It's in the past now, everything is. All the remains now is getting rid of Jester and Prophecy."

"Correct."

Walking back inside of the mansion, Mr.Cat says.

"We have a busy week ahead of us."

"Indeed."

Unable to accept the well known fact that Jun was actually dead, Fiona decided to check through Mr.Cat's room, but the door was locked so she used a skill she had learned from the organization, and picked the lock which set off a silent alarm within the room alerting him immediately however he decided to ignore it since he knew Fiona wouldn't take his word on it. Searching the room, Fiona finds nothing interesting, only stacks of books, and some of them were hallowed out to fit a well sharpen knife inside.

"I told you before Fiona, Jun is dead just accept it. We'll take care of you by any means, but you have to let Jun rest now. He's been through enough, don't you think? I can take you do where we buried his remains if you wish."

Frighten by the unexpected visit from Mr.Cat who suddenly appeared at the entrance door, she asks.

"How did he die...can you tell me that?"

"As a honorable assassin, in the process he dealt a major blow to the Jesters, one we cannot let go to waste."

"Before he died..he asked me to come with him. At the time I had no idea what he meant so I refused."

She continues to talk as her voice begins to crack slowly.

"Only after ten years of being married, he always told me he cherished me, and that he'd never allow me to shed tears."

Slowly walking towards Fiona whose like an injured dog, as he watches her cry he feels like a heavy anchor is hanging onto his heart. Fiona continues.

"Soon after we got married....I told him, I was going to have his child and in three months he made that happen, but after the Jesters attacked it was as if a part of him had faded away, and he was no longer completely with me anymore. I didn't know what else to do, so I ran away to join the organization in hopes that I could find her, but after he joined only a year after me I had forgotten about her. I'm terrible..."

Remaining silent, Mr.Cat kicks the hallowed out books out of the way as he makes his way to Fiona.

"When he had found out who I really was, the look on his face was enraged...I could never forget that day in the courthouse...nor can I forgive myself for what I've done."

Finally breaking down in tears, she loses the feeling in her legs and begins to fall, but Mr.Cat catches her before she does, and holds onto her tightly allowing her to scream and cry in his arms for the rest of the night. Soon the week had passed, and Ghost and Michael had returned from their scouting mission. Handing Shadow the disguises, Ghost dashes upstairs and barges into Mr.Cat's office and screams.

"We've been found! I saw a group of people heading up this way, what do we do?!"

"They're already here? That was quick."

Calming down, Ghost is confused by Mr.Cats lack of emotion.

"My, my, those aren't invaders, they're the help I've called in. My 'pick up truck', did you really expect a huge pick up truck to fit in that little space? We're a group of assassins not savages."

Embarrassed by his misreading of the situation, Ghost excuses himself out of the office, and goes downstairs to greet the helpers. Slowly walking down the stairs, Mr.Cat in a black robe welcomes his visitors and asks for their names. The group of hooded people in black robes introduce themselves as "B.Box", and only a moment after their arrival Fiona arrives up the path as well with two huge white plastic bags filled with substances such as garlic, mouse poison, and bleach. Paying her no attention, Mr.Cat shows B.Box to the basement so that they can briefed upon what is requested of them and to make arrangements of payment. The bright gleaming sun is soon overcome by the sparkling moon as Mr.Cat takes both an automatic and a semi-automatic rifle while Shadow takes an automatic along with two chains of ammo which is wrapped from his shoulder all the way across his torso and hangs all the way to his shin and the other chain of ammo is just as long, looking at each other with no masks on Mr.Cat says.

"Ready?"

Cocking his gun and putting it over his shoulder, Shadow says.

"Time to raise hell."

The shadow of night cover their faces as they make their way to the Jester's hideout. Arriving there in Prophecy's uniforms, they kick the door open and begin to shoot at anything moving, painting the walls, floors, and windows red as they march further in killing everything in sight. Making it to the center of Jester's base they're stopped by men with their own set of guns who begin to fire back at them. Taking cover behind a wall, Mr.Cat takes his flask out of his back pocket, opens it and throws it into the room, and shoots the alcohol instantly igniting it that part of their base ablaze while burning the shooters alive. Listening to their screams of pain, Shadow laughs sadistically then says.

"Lets finish this."

"Aye."

Charging into the flames, they barge into the Jester's barracks and shoot everything within sight. The thick lingering stench of blood which looms within the Jester's hideout makes Shadow overjoyed and laugh kindheartedly as Mr.Cat checks each of their bodies to make sure they're all dead, and that was when he saw a little girl no older than two years old under the bed shivering in fright, and he gets a headache. Extending his hand to the little girl, Mr.Cat tells her to follow him to paradise, and as she takes his hand he sends her to Shadow and tells him that she's coming with them. As dusk turned to dawn, Mr.Cat, Shadow, and the little girl make their way out of the hideout through the cracked window and back to their mansion on the top of the hill where Mr.Cat sees a note that's written in Ghost's handwriting. It reads:

"We started without you, don't mind the mess, me and B.Box were playing. Also-"

Interrupting his reading, a masked Shadow runs to Mr.Cat shouting.

"It's gone!"

"What is?"

"All of our riches!"

Hastily going back to the note which changes from Ghost's handwriting to Fiona's.

"Also, I've decided to look for Jun, I can't explain it, but I just know that he's alive....somewhere. Thank for you that night, goodbye."

Furiously Shadow slams his fist on the table.

"I told you it wasn't a good idea to bring her into this, now we're screwed!"

"We have to find her."

"No s**t! Wait til I get my cold hands on her throat.."

"What do we do with the girl until we return?"

"I don't give a s**t! You took her in you f*****g figure it out!"

"Look around the house to make sure she didn't take anything else, I know what to do with the girl."

"Fine, we're putting the war on hold until then. I'll get ready to travel as I look, we leave at dusk."

Furiously screaming loud enough to make an everlasting echo through the house, Shadow begins his search. Carrying the now sleeping girl back down the mountain and rests her in front of a nearby orphanage then silently leaves her there. On his way back up the mountain path, Mr.Cat sees an image of someone who looked like Fiona then chases after the image.

"Wait!"

Suddenly, the image disappears into the crowd of people at the bottom of the mountain path. Another phone call from Shadow rings, telling him that there's multiple Jester and Prophecy members coming up the back trail.

"She told them everything! I told you she couldn't be trusted!"

"We'll continue with our plan then."

"How! All of the members are most likely here!"

"Do you have anymore explosives?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We're setting them all off, including the ones that lay underground. Set the rest of them around the mansion."

"What will that do?!"

"Do you want to survive this?"

"....."

"Then do it, and after you're done meet me."

"Where?"

"At the bottom of the mountain, make sure you bring the detonator."

"I'm trusting you, don't let me down."

"You've always trusted me."

Hanging up the phone, Shadow begins to set the rest of the explosives throughout the entire mansion as Mr.Cat awaits his arrival while watching the sun gleam brightly in the clear sky. A hour later gunfire is heard coming from the top of the mountain, but Mr.Cat won't move from his spot nor is he fretting. Calmly waiting five minutes later, he hears foot steps creep up behind him.

"Took you long enough."

"I wanted to take a shower."

"The dead doesn't shower."

"The dead doesn't love either."

"Fair enough. Did you bring the detonator?"

Shadow throws Mr.Cat a five inch black plastic stick that has a red button on the end of it. Catching it, Mr.Cat says.

"You're ready?"

Snickering, Shadow says.

"Raise hell."

Pressing the button which throws Tokyo into peril as the streets randomly explode along with an enormous flame engulfing the mansion that's big enough to make it look as if a volcano had erupted. Saying their goodbyes, Mr.Cat and Shadow throw away their masks, but what lied underneath them weren't the faces of merry men only the faces of death whom they stared in the face was implanted on their faces. With the veins on the right side of his face reacting to the intense heat that's coming from the fire that rests on top of the mountain, Shadow asks Mr.Cat what now.

"Stop calling me Mr.Cat, the dead has no need for names."

"So what're we then?"

"Ghosts sent from the chambers of the Grim Reaper."

"What's first then?"

"We find and kill."

"Who?"

"Jesters, Prophecy, and the Fiona."

"So you're finally ready to kill her then?"

"I am."

"Why the sudden change of heart?"

"Shes looking for a ghost, a mere figment of her imagination."

"What about that girl?"

"Which?"

"Lora."

"I'll find her, no matter what."

"Sounds like your chasing a figment of YOUR imagination now."

"Perhaps. Did you bring pistols?"

"Of course."

"First, we'll pay Prophecy's building a visit."

"Aye, then finish off Jester."

"Right, but what about Ghost and Michael we have no way to make sure they're alive."

"There's no doubt that they're probably with B.Box."

"Shouldn't we find them first then? That'll give us at least some perspective on what transpired while we were away."

"Where would you start?"

"Lets take advantage of the chaos we created in the city, and move through the crowds."

"To go where?"

"Osaka."

"Why? There's nothing, but American troops now."

"Which is why they'd go there, for protection against both Jesters and Prophecy."

Accepting Shadow's reasoning, they both venture towards Osaka in search for the missing Ghost and Michael.

"What if they refuse to let them go?"

Cocking his gun back, Shadow smiles and says.

"Put a bullet in their heads."

"I can live with that."

"After we regain our numbers, we'll deal with Prophecy since that's most likely the first place Fiona will go."

"What makes you think that?"

"She's searching for Jun, it's common to start where it all began."

Turning to Shadow, Mr.Cat says.

"Lets go."

Snickering, Shadows says.

"Right."

Author's Note

Enjoy, be honest, and please point out everything that was wrong with the story so I can improve my writing.