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Rith chuckled and said, ”See I don’t want either kid anymore... Was here to tick off Dane and you succeeded with that. Keep em…” he started to say and he cleared his throat taking a few side steps away from River. He agreed a fight would be a poor idea. He would be no match for the guy. Though he would have fun... Not worth it... not now. Rith eyed Giglamesh, trying to read the guy. The single cold blue eye brought Rith back to being sixteen and lying bleeding to death on his dining room floor. Blinking Rith exhaled a puff of breath he did not realize he had been holding and he decided to go to plan d, seeing how the first three were blown to s**t. He paused and hopped up halfway on the fire escape and he squatted on the railing with perfect balance. He then added "You know I gotta say, I'm kinda glad Dane is still alive. He’s one of the few who creates a challenge. I thank you for the bit of information and seeing how I probably will be dead in the next few days, get that kid somewhere safe. They will send another.” He jumped to the roof saluted loosely and he left quickly hoping to pick up a few souvenirs.

Jakobe blinked and paused, eyes growing wide. The beast actually talked! Kerria was not yanking his leg. Holy s**t! More questions of how and why popped in his head. He had just been talking aloud earlier, not really expecting an answer in return, but that sarcastic little comment had backfired. … Hang on… This is actually really cool. Jakobe said and a wide grin immerged. ”This is SO awesome! I mean I’ve never heard of anything like this. Oh my gosh! Is it true all animals can understand one another? I mean I would so love to know what that ratty little dog Esther has is actually saying. I mean she always talks for it, talking to it like some loon…” He started to say excited then he realized he was gushing, and he also realized the early hour comment was probably out of annoyance for being woken. ”Ah! Sorry I woke you… wait… why are you sleeping in the kitchen? I mean there are like a ton of spare rooms here…” he started to say and his phone rang again with another text; again it was Dixie. ”T-T I hate you… Thank god Kerria went to bed… NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE WITH HER AGAIN! Where are you?... we REALLY need to talk…” Jakobe laughed and he looked up at the beast and his grin grew. ”Hey purple dude… think you can do me a favor?” he asked as he texted Dixie,”In the kitchen still…” Dixie had no idea what he would be walking into…

”WHY ME!!! Why does stuff always happen to me!” Duderomus asked being much more lucid than before. Exercise was a wonderful trick to sober up. Not so much fun with three Doberman’s chasing after you though. Dude turned another corner trying to find a place he could duck into, or a way to lose those damn dogs. He did not know it, but he was about two blocks away from Giglamesh, Guiness and River; heading right towards them if he kept it up. The dogs kept barking, snarling at him as they ran full speed they were closing the gap slowly and Dude inwardly swore he would never drink again. The leader of the pack; with a new bloody nose thanks to Dude’s drunken stumbling’s, lunged snapping at Dude’s leg. His teeth tore through the cloth and nearly pulled Dude back. Dude panted as he shoved a trash can at the dog; hearing a high pitched whine as it fell back. God damn this hellish night! Dude thought and he kept right on running.

{Search. (eye. get 40) Open lock. ( get 15) Search. (capacitor get 35)}

Rith crept, not really caring about sound but watching where he stepped. He would spend no more than two minutes on this search. It was silly really. He didn’t need it but he searched anyway. {use search} He heard a faint noise and looked down. Guess I don’t need two minutes… He thought seeing a rock oozing clear liquid from underneath. He then went to the Kanan district to find Duderomus Mc Coy’s house. Eugenius Lock turned out to be Duderomus’s brother. Go figure. That remark from Giglamesh sparked plan d. Rith hoped that with all the back luck lately, the good luck would come back with a vengeance. Rith boldly went to the front door and he quickly picked the lock {use open lock then search} and went inside. Going from room to room Rith searched quickly leaving no trace of him being there. That was when he found a workbench and saw a duffle bag on the chair by the desk. There was a purple shirt sticking out of the bag. So either Duderomus or his brother were cross dressers, or this bag belonged to River Grimm. Rith dug through the bag and he was happy to see a glow attacked to the broken prototype. Removing the Capacitor, Rith took the part and placed the scrap on the table. He jotted a note, and left it on the desk. Leaving the house he closed the door behind him. He started heading to where he had hidden his bike trying to figure out why he couldn’t finish that job before. By the time he had reached his bike he had no answer. Deep down, his sense of morality cheered, finally able to reach the guy.

Jakobe raised an eyebrow not seeing the problem. Aww man… Dixie would have flipped! He thought with a sigh. He figured he would take advantage of being in the kitchen and he started to grab something to eat being always hungry. Dixie was looking at his cellphone as a king behemoth walked by carrying something with one of its paws. What the?? Dixie thought glancing back unsure what he really saw. There was a chirp from his phone and he saw Jakobe was demanding he would come to the kitchen. Sighing Dixie shook his head. Even if I saw what I thought I saw I’m sure there is a good reason… he then headed to the kitchen.


Guiness stumbled a little regaining his balance seeing how he had been mid-step when the spell took place. A gruff, wild looking man was standing before him asking him something. It took Guiness a moment before he nodded, “Ya… why are you?” he asked. The guy just walked over to River and gave her a pill. He then kicked her. “Hey!!” Guiness said angrily. River woke slowly still feeling slightly numb from the aftereffect. She looked around and scowled seeing the strange soldier was gone. She did notice Guiness was alive much to her surprise; and he seemed unharmed. Giglamesh offered his hand to her to help her up, but she refused his help as she got up on her own. What I saw? ”No… this is SO much more than that… I… Gig? Hey... what’s wrong? Guiness!! Get over here now!” River said worried. All her anger suddenly melted as her brother collapsed. She pulled the Hydra away from him feeling the heat and she glanced at Guiness who came over with a mixed expression. ”Do you have any emotional attachment to that jacket?” River asked. Guiness looked at her blank and he said, ”What?” River exhaled slowly before she said, ”Do you… have any emotional attachment… to that jacket?” Guiness shook his head and River pulled it off him saying, ”I’ll pay you back then.” she then started pulling off Gig’s jacket before she cast water on the hoodie and rolled it placing the cool jacket; making a cool compress, on the back of Gig’s neck. She may be mad at the guy, but she would never let anything happen to him if she could help it. She was no medic; though Kendra taught her stuff over the years. River didn’t have any ice packs, nor was she going to check his temp. ”Stupid… moronic… jerk!” River said frustrated as she looked around to find something useful. They were in a freaking alleyway pretty far from the mansion, and if she brought him anywhere else someone may take advantage wanting to take out the Grimm Reaper. ”Who is this guy?” Guiness asked. River sighed and she took out her cellphone. ”My big brother…” She then muttered as she dialed a number. ”Why do you always have to cause problems?” she asked Giglamesh, as if he would be able to answer that. The person on the other end answered and River sighed saying, ”Isis? Sorry to call so early… but I need your help. I need a car…” She then explained what happened, and the crisis. It was either that or use cardboard and drag the guy taking forever and a day. River just hoped Isis wouldn’t get into trouble if she really did in fact take one of the cars… Isis was good at coming up with a plan.

{xD my muse is being a pain in the arse. Mm tried to make something like a reeves stretcher with like a tarp and rope, but nuuu muse was like bah. Tried to have river call jakobe, get Fuzzy but Jakobe was like Nuu! Have dude show up? Nope. Guiness run home take dude’s car? Nadda. Going to another building? Nope nope and nope. Muse rebelled the entire time shooting down even the random ideas. REVENGE WILL BE GIVEN! blaugh }

Isis said she would call River back if she could come up with anything and River sighed. Isis was not a morning person. She probably went right back to bed… Dammit… River thought and she started to pace. That’s when Giglamesh started to wake. Thank goodness. She thought and she was unsure how she really felt. River scoffed at the comment with a tiny smile as she said, ”Or what.” He looked like he was deep in thought but suddenly he stood. A bit wobbly, but he succeeded. Weapon? How did you know about it? She said wrinkling her nose. ”I brought it to Dude’s… with my stuff… why?” She said crossing her arms trying to make herself remain calm. ”So you did have it? Man this is such a nightmare…” Guiness said messing his hair up as he looked away. River scoffed and she said, ”Tell your story and I’ll tell mine.” she said. She glanced at Giglamesh and saw him lean against the wall. ”Look… you should go home. I thank you for… whatever help you gave but you need rest.” She said clearing her throat. Guiness glanced at the two awkwardly and took a few steps back. Uhhh looks like they need some privacy. He thought. There was the sounds of dogs barking coming from the distance, one of the few sounds at this hour.

River watched Giglamesh with unease. When hearing that stranger probably took the weapon, she was furious. What!! That jerk! River thought fuming. River found herself following Giglamesh; she pulled Guiness to follow as well. Guiness looked like he wanted to just go home and sleep away this nightmare. They heading towards the sound and River stared at all the beautiful cars. I want! Her first primal thought was. She missed most of the conversation having her eye on a Lamborghini Diablo SE30. She turned back to Gig about to tease saying give me that car and all sins will be forgiven; when she saw the driver of a Dodge charger toss his keys at Gig. She hopped in the back seat and she glanced at Guiness. ”If you think this is your fault; then fix it. Now come on. That jerk is not gonna get away with taking my new project.” she said. Guiness hesitated a fraction of a second more and he slipped in the back seat next to River. ”Sorry…” he said softly.

As Rith drove he kept an eye out for any potential visitors. He followed a dirt path, this one was less traveled than others he had been on, but not as bad as the rarely traveled paths. He knew he should be careful but he raised the speed a little more whipping past beautiful landmarks hidden by the low light. It had taken a few years but Rith no longer knew what to do. Racing was one of the few ways he felt proof of life. Adrenaline pumping, blood racing, quacking of breath… it was a rush like no other. By the time Rith would be back in Shinra it would be after noon. With some luck Rith could have some time to just relax. His mind was racing, unable to give him peace. He didn’t quite know when it happened, but nearly everything was boring these days. Those so called friends and allies, the simple jobs, the meaningless trail of relationships. Everything. Rith sighed and he looked at the quarter moon muttering to himself, ”Thought midlife crisis was to happen at like fifty…” He could turn on the radio. Draw creatures, but silence his mind. God help him he was sorely temped to do just that. Instead he increased his speed some more. He needed to get back to Shinra. Hopefully because he finished Dane’s job, Rith would be given another job. He had a long list of excuses for his first failure. Dane’s interference and Giglamesh’s arrival were the top two, but neither touched the truth, and neither excused his first failure. ”Aww hell…” He muttered and he turned on the radio softly catching a quiet song.

Rith glared at the radio and switched the station to bring something more upbeat getting this song halfway through. What the hell man… Rith thought and he shut off the radio.
{XD will add more later... gah I think my muse depressed all my chars >.<}

As Giglamesh drove, River and Guiness were texting back and forth, River then asked what happened, why Shinra was after Guiness. He explained, then River asked what went wrong. ”I was stupid… I know this. I believed them so I did the job thinking I was making a difference. I hid the weapon when I ran into a snag and thought the others could go grab it while I strung the soldiers along. When I managed to catch up with my so called friends they were pissed I didn’t have the weapon, even after I told them where to find it. Well I learned my lesson. Licked my wounds as I headed to Wutai only to run into the other half of the first retrieval team. Been healing stuck at my brothers place since. So serous... what's your story?” Guiness typed up the text and hesitated before he pressed send. River got the message soon after and she quickly messaged, ”What jerks!! Man we have to pay them back. And not some silly prank. No send Shinra after them, after we’re done with them of coarse… Well my story is I was in the area before. Went back for some scrap metal, and I found that scrap yard. I lucked out that’s all. How bad were you hurt?” she sent it and sent Guiness a concerned look. ”Well… it’s one of the reasons I let you fight alone. But I’m awesome so no worries. How are you by the way? That last guy seemed tough.” Guiness replied and River laughed when she got the text. ”Awesome eh? Lol no worries. I’m fine the guy was not even trying.” she admitted then sent the text with a frown. She had been wondering about this ever since she woke up. The guy had plenty of chances to kill Guiness. He had stated Guiness was in fact his target so what the heck? He even had the chance to kill me… so why? She frowned and felt her phone buzz. ”Yup awesome. Don’t worry you are awesome too” River glanced over at him and she smiled sending him a quick thanks.

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Rith kept messing with his radio unable to find something that wasn’t mocking, taunting, hinting, bringing up memories or just plain annoying. Bad luck… he thought sighing. He then heard a car with loud music cut through the nature’s quiet. Some loon was driving ahead of him. Or was it someone else? Rith thought and he slowed down his bike turning off the radio once more. Rith couldn’t really see far into the inky black surrounding him, but he knew by the sounds; the driver was acting strange. Suddenly out of the darkness, Giglamesh Grimm lunged at him, aiming for his left arm. Rith moved his arm in time taking a deep slice in his side. He winced and let go of his bike handlebars; clutching his side Rith leap up onto the seat of his bike as it started to go out of control. He waited for it to slow and he hopped off grabbing his bow case. The car behind him had now stopped, while his bike was stuttering to a stop as well. b*****d just scratched my bike… Rith thought with a frown and he looked down at the nasty cut oozing blood down his left leg. Where the ******** is he? Rith thought opening his bow case, getting ready to fight. He used the spell Aerora and notched two arrows staying in the shadows as he aimed at Giglamesh spotting him by the light left behind by his bike. Tiny movements made by his fingers guided the arrows just before he let them both fly; each aimed at the neck.