It
was the week after Christmas and Jake was sitting in his room, taking
advantage of the uncommon peace and tranquility of the household to
play his videogames for the entire day, particularly his newest,
Blood Slasher 3, to unlock the new scenes and characters. Jessica
and Sarah were at their respective jobs, Dawn was out causing some
sort of havoc as usual, Fawn was in her room working on some new song
lyrics, while Jen had taken Yuta and Lucia with her out shopping as
they needed groceries among anything else that might take their
fancy.
The
morning had already flown past and Jake’s stomach started growling
since he hadn’t eaten anything for breakfast and had not yet had
lunch, so he decided to pause his game as he had reached a point
where the game did not have much action. He descended to the
kitchen, intent on making a sandwich that he would take back to his
room. After gathering the necessary items for his masterpiece and
closing the fridge door, he turned around and much to his surprise,
found himself face to face with a male elf dressed completely in red,
lined in faux white fur. A red Santa hat tipped with a silver bell
finished the elf’s ensemble. Before Jake could say anything, the
elf raised his hand, inclining his head slightly, saying, “Jake,
could you please fetch the professor? Needs must I speak with both
of you. I will meet with you here when you have completed that task.”
He seemingly disappeared in the blink of an eye leaving Jake alone
in the kitchen.
Jake
stuffed the sandwich stuff back into the refrigerator and ran down to
Mato’s lab where Mato promptly started to show Jake his latest
projects.
“Look
at this, Jake my boy,” Mato announced. “This’ll revolutionize
life as we know it!”
“Professor,
I don’t think now is the time for that,” Jake argued. “An elf
just appeared upstairs and wants to talk to both of us. He didn’t
say what, but I don’t think that would have happened if whatever it
was wasn’t important.”
“Nonsense,
the security system would have picked up any intruding presence,”
replied Mato, puttering about his lab. “Homeshield hasn’t given
any alarms.”
“Can’t
you at least come upstairs and tell me up there that I was seeing
things?” asked Jake, getting frustrated.
“Oh,
no can do, my boy,” commented Mato. “Much too busy right now.
Why don’t you just go back to playing your video games or whatever
you were doing? Or, I could use your help down here.”
Their
argument went on in a similar strain for about half an hour until
Jake was finally able to convince Mato that some elf had actually
appeared before him in the kitchen and really did ask to speak to
them. Mato trudged up the stairs and grumbled as they entered the
kitchen, but once they crossed the threshold, the same elf appeared
before them and sat down at the kitchen table.
Calmly
folding his hands in front of him, the elf motioned the two
flabbergasted humans to sit opposite from him.
“How
did you do that?” asked Jake, incredulously.
“Quite
simple,” answered the elf, holding up his wrist, displaying a
strange looking watch. “Cutting edge technology, allowing
instantaneous transportation to anywhere on the globe, but this is
not what I’m here to speak to you about. Professor, please put
your eyes back in your head and your tongue back in your mouth.
You’re making a mess on your table.” Mato had been drooling at
the sight of the transportation device, itching to study it, but
dutifully complied with the elf’s request, a bit embarrassed.
“Anyway,
what I have to tell you, I must have the two of you sworn to secrecy
for few know the truth of what I am about to speak,” the elf
continued. “My name is Biku and I work at the North Pole under
Santa in the Investigations Department…”
“You
work for Santa?” interrupted Jake, earning a glare from Biku.
“You’re a lot taller than I would have imagined. Aren’t elves
at the North Pole supposed to be midgets?”
“For
your information, YOUNG MAN,” snarled Biku. “Unlike the stories
from your world, we elves that work for Santa are not less than four
feet tall as a group. And yes, YOUR WORLD. We know that you are not
really Professor Mato’s grandson. Now, please, let me continue.”
Jake silently nodded.
“As
I was saying,” Biku continued. “I work in the Investigations
Department at the North Pole. This past Christmas Eve we were called
into duty to this very home. Now, at this point, you both must swear
that you will not reveal anything that I’ve told you or anything I
will tell you. Do you both swear?”
Mato
looked over at Jake and whispered, “Must be pretty heavy stuff for
us to have to swear to secrecy.” Jake nodded and asked, “What
if, hypothetically, we accidentally tell someone?”
“Then
I’m afraid we’ll have to tie up those loose ends and take care of
the problem, if you get my drift,” Biku glowered.
“Wait
a moment,” countered Mato. “For you to have to swear us to
secrecy there’s obviously something rather wrong for anyone from
Santa’s workshop to come to us. And, if that’s the case, then
there is no way that the boy and I could do this alone. We will need
some help.”
“Fine,”
Biku consented. “You may have the help of three people, but it
will be up to you to tell them what I’m going to tell you and it’s
not my fault if they do not believe you. Choose well those that you
will tell for you may only tell the three that will help you. Now
may I please continue?!”
“Thank
you,” ventured Jake in an effort to placate the elf who merely
acquiesced with a grunt.
“Now
where was I? Oh yes. This past Christmas Eve, we were called to
this house in part of a case involving the disappearance of one of
our own. Her name is Nerual and she is a member of the group that
aids Santa in delivering gifts and monitoring the behavior and
actions of people over the year. She disappeared in the middle of
her route on Christmas Eve, the victim of an assault by a being that
we have come to believe to be was an incubus. I was sent here in
order to ask you to help us discover her whereabouts as well as to
rescue her from the incubus’ clutches.”
“What
made you believe that it was an incubus and what does our house have
to do with it?” asked Jake.
“I’m
coming to that,” Biku replied. “That night we found Nerual’s
sled across the street from here, on top of your friend Mina’s
house. The snow on the roof was covered in the tell tale signs of a
struggle while the sled stood abandoned. It appeared as though
someone had riffled through the gifts and we found that one of the
gifts was missing. It was the mistletoe that was meant for you,
Jake. We also saw the very end of your struggle with the creature.
We could sense that elven magic had been used here, but it was
incredibly corrupted, which led us to believe that it was used by the
incubus. Our conclusion was further supported by finding several of
occupants of this house drained of energy. We fixed your window and
cleaned up the traces of magic after making sure all of you would not
remember any of the untoward events that had taken place.
Afterwards, we investigated the area around Mina’s home and found
Nerual’s bracelet. Unfortunately, our locators are found in the
bracelets so it would make finding Nerual’s location even more
difficult.” Biku gave Jake and Mato two tiny disks and as soon as
the two closed their hands over them, all of the memories from the
events on Christmas Eve were unblocked.
“Even without
the locator, why are you unable to locate this girl?” asked Mato,
realizing that he had seen what Biku had just described in the
security video that he had found on Christmas Day, but keeping quiet
about its presence.
“We haven’t
found any traces of pure elven magic. The traces of corrupted magic
are very few and were found in seemingly random areas. We could not
pinpoint where she is,” Biku admitted. “We have to believe that
she is in no position to even use her magic, otherwise, she would
have tried to give us some sort of clue as to her whereabouts by
using it. So? Will you help us find Nerual and rescue her from this
dastardly incubus?”
Jake
looked over at Mato who was deep in thought, mulling over the
information that the elf had given them. Jake himself was a bit
peeved at the fact that the elves hypnotized them all, but felt sorry
that he was unable to completely stop the incubus from draining his
friends and others. He looked up at Biku, who was himself starting
to show signs of strain, worry, and nervousness.
“Yes,”
said Jake. “We’ll help you out and we’ll keep what you’ve
told us a secret from most everyone. I promise you that we’ll do
our best.” Biku sighed with relief and smiled slightly.
“Thank
you. We are looking forward to your success,” Biku replied,
standing up. “I’ll leave a picture of Nerual with you so that
you can recognize her when you find her. We’ll know when she’s
with you and safe.” With that, Biku pressed a button on his watch
and vanished
Mato
smiled at Jake. “Well, my boy, it looks like we’ve got an
adventure on our hands, but who are we going to tell and ask them to
help us?”
“Well,
I’d have to say at least Dawn and Sarah,” Jake commented, mulling
over which of the girls should participate in the search and rescue
mission. Dawn’s going to want a chance to get this guy back for
what he did to her. Sarah because once she learns of this, she’ll
want to arrest him on a number of charges. But who else do we
chose?”
“Hmmm,
what about Jen?” suggested Mato. “She’d be a ready source of
magic if you needed anything.”
“Good
point,” agreed Jake. “Ok, so now all we have to do is tell them
about this.”
No
one knew what had become of Nerual and the incubus known as Xander
after he had fled with Nerual’s unconscious form from the area
outside of Mato’s house. He had flown across town to a long
abandoned warehouse that he had converted into incredibly lush living
quarters furnished completely by stolen goods. Xander entered his
bedchamber and laid Nerual gently down on top of the covers of his
four post, canopied bed. Just as he was turning around to take off
his shirt, Nerual began stirring. Not wanting to have to deal with
the girl while he was exhausted, Xander quickly jumped onto the bed
and drained even more of her energy. Unfortunately, even with
additional energy and power coursing through his body, he was so
exhausted that all he could do was collapse on top of Nerual and fall
into a deep, dreamless sleep.
Several
hours later, Xander awoke to the sight of Nerual glaring down at him
and before he could even react, she punched him square between the
eyes and bolted off of the bed towards the door. Hardly even
stunned, Xander stretched out his tail and tripped the fleeing elf
before she could get too far from the bed, his tail entwining around
her legs. He eased off of the bed and wrapped his arms around
Nerual.
“And
just where do you think you’re going?” Xander nonchalantly asked.
“Away
from you, you ba…,” Nerual began, but slumped back against
Xander’s chest as he drained even more of her energy.
“Mmmm,
you taste good, doll,” Xander commented and gazed down at his hand,
attempting to create a hypno-orb like the one he had been able to
create after he had drained that gorgeous succubus, Dawn. The orb
started forming, causing Xander to nearly leap out of his skin in
excitement, but then it sputtered and died. Grumbling, Xander
resorted to using a low concentration of Nerual’s own power and
brought his hand in front of her face as it slightly glowed. Due to
the fact that most of her energy was being drained from her, Nerual
couldn’t help but look at the incubus’s hand and fall under its
hypnotic spell in spite of the low amount of power that Xander was
using.
“You
aren’t going anywhere, sweet thing,” Xander instructed, bending
down to whisper in her ear. “You want to stay here with me and be
mine for as long as I want you. Whenever I leave, you will remain
here and wait for my return. You will never argue with anything I
tell you. Do you understand?” Nerual nodded slowly as Xander
picked her up in his arms and deposited her back on the bed.
“I’m
going to go out and pick up a few things,” Xander announced,
tracing Nerual’s jaw line with the back of a finger. “I want you
to sleep a bit and when you wake up, there will be no more attempts
at escaping from me. You may wander about these inner rooms as you
like, but do not leave this place. I’ll be back shortly.”
Nerual dutifully settled back and went to sleep as soon as Xander
turned his back on her. Within moments, he was gone, flying off
across town, imagining the dress that he would steal for his sexy
acquisition.
Back
in the lab, Jake had called Sarah, Dawn, and Jen down to talk with
them. Before he could even attempt to explain why he had asked them
to come to the lab, the girls started asking questions.
“What’s
this all about?” demanded Dawn, eyeing the other girls in the room.
“What’s
wrong? Hot date?” mocked Sarah while Jen just rolled her eyes as
she was used to the two girls bickering with each other over the
slightest provocation.
Dawn
looked at Sarah and smiled. “At least I can get a date,” she
retorted.
“Oooo,
you little! Oooo, I’ll…,” Sarah started before she was cut off
by Jake.
“Ladies,
please!” he begged. “Focus for a minute. This is important.”
Despite the obvious tension, the girls managed to focus for a second.
“Remember, how we all woke up feeling incredibly well rested on
Christmas morning? And how we all slept really deeply the night
before?” Jake asked.
“Oooh,
Jake, what did you do?” ask Jen, groaning and slightly annoyed
Jake
rolled his eyes. “It wasn’t me!”
Sarah
glared at Mato. “Professor!”
Mato,
who wasn’t paying attention jumped, blurting out, “I’m a
genius!” Then looking around, he asked, startled, “Umm what did
you say Sarah?”
Sarah
glared at Mato and was about to repeat herself when Jake interrupted.
“Mato didn’t do it. We have evidence of an intruder that night.
Put in the video, Professor.”
Mato
smiled as he put in the security video. “This is such great
footage!”
The
girls watched as the incubus went through the house, draining girl
after girl. Jen watched with her mouth gaping as she was drained in
the kitchen. Sarah’s eyes flared as she watched Xander drain her
with a kiss. Dawn just smirked, giving her a nudge.
“Most
action you have had in months,” she said with a laugh.
Sarah
was so angry that she didn’t even respond to Dawn’s ribbing. Then
Dawn’s smirk faded as she watched herself fight Xander. She looked
proud as she was tossing him around, and beating him up. Then she saw
the part where she tripped off the table and her mood turned to
anger. Seething as each minute progressed on the video, as the
incubus tranced her and took her to her room, her eyes flared as she
realized what happened.
Outside
the Mato house, everything was quiet. The snow was falling gently
from puffy clouds. It seemed perfectly peaceful until a sound
shattered the tranquility. “Oh no he didn’t!” Dawn could be
heard shouting angrily, echoed by the crashing of the falling icicles
around the neighborhood.
Dawn’s
eyes were neon red, and her skin was starting to steam. Jake, Mato,
Sarah and Jen were sprawled on the floor with stars spinning around
their heads after being knocked over by the sound wave emitted from
Dawn’s outburst. Dawn’s breathing was heavy and deep and steam
was coming out of her nostrils. “He’s mine!” she demanded.
Jake
tried to clear his head by shaking it. “Umm, ok. He’s your’s,”
he replied, not wanting to disagree with the succubus.
Behind
Dawn, Katia could be seen walking down the stairs. “What the heck
was that?” she asked, more annoyed then concerned. Two seconds
later she gasped and was hit directly in the face with one of Dawn’s
hypnotic orbs. The orb caused her eyes to swirl with color as she
tilted back, leaning against the wall and sliding down it, deeply
hypnotized.
Jake
shook his head with a smirk and a shrug. “Well this saves us the
trouble of making her forget about this later,” he commented and
was immediately hit by Sarah angrily.
Dawn
glared at the rest of them angrily. “I’ll patrol the skies. If
this punk can fly, I’ll find him,” she stated with furious
conviction. With that she turned and stormed off towards the steps,
stomping past a dazed Katia.
“Dawn,
wait a second!” shouted Jake, but when Dawn turned around and shot
him a look of death with her glowing red eyes he backed off and
meekly replied, “Never mind.”
Dawn
spun back towards the stairs and stormed off, raising her hand
towards Katia and sucking the orb out of her head. Katia, completely
drained of her energy, sighed and closed her eyes, slumping on the
floor in a deep sleep. The rest just watched as Dawn stomped up the
stairs.
Jake
looked at the other girls, a bit nervous after Dawn’s reaction.
“Umm, she’s pissed!” he said.
Jen
and Sarah looked at Jake with a sarcastic look. “Ya think?”
replied Jen. “I’d say she’s past pissed.”
“The
worst part is that she isn’t mad at anything that incubus did to
her. She’s just angry that he beat her,” said Sarah, the
realization sinking in. “I’ll head off to the station and see if
they have anything in the files on him,” she offered.
Jen
was looking at the ceiling thoughtfully. “I’ll do some quick
research on incubi and see if there’s a way to track him based on
his magical abilities,” she said then glanced at Katia “I’ll
also drop her off in her bed” she suggested, shaking her head.
Jake
nodded to both girls. “We’ll try and figure out a plan of attack
based on this video footage,” Jake commented, nodding to the
security screen. The girls agreed and headed up the stairs with Katia
in tow. Sarah held Katia under her arms while Jen grabbed the
unconscious princess’s feet and helped carry her up the stairs.
Jake
grimaced, looking at the screen and then at Mato. “Professor, do
you think that special suit of your’s could stop this guy?”
Mato
looked up wild eyed, “Captain Anime has that suit now, Jake. Maybe
he could help!”
Jake
replied sarcastically, “Yes, if we could only find him. It’s not
like he’s standing right in front of us or anything.”
Mato
looked around excitedly. “Is he here?”
Jake
slapped his forehead forcefully, not noticing Jen coming down the
stair case “Yes, Professor. He is right here!” he answered,
pointing to himself. Jen’s eyes went wide as she hid as best she
could on the stairs.
“Jake
is Captain Anime?” she whispered to herself.
Mato
just smiled at Jake “Jake, you’re not Captain Anime. He’s
taller.”
Jake
sighed exasperatedly and asked, “Fine, are there any new inventions
that might work for the suit that he wears if we can find him?”
Mato
bounced up and down excitedly and ran over to a console, picking up a
gauntlet. “This should do it,” Mato announced, handing Jake the
gauntlet.
Jake
examined the gauntlet, groaning at the fact of it being pink like the
rest of the suit with a yellow jewel on the front as an addition.
“What’s it do, Professor?”
Mato
smiled proudly. “You aim it at your target and it shoots out a
highly hypnotic beam of energy that trances them immediately. It’s
based off of the tiaras that I made.”
Jake
looked at Mato and grinned. “The ones Katia used to trance the
girls?” he asked.
Mato
beamed proudly. “Exactly! I’m a genius!” he declared, then
turned and excitedly ran over to his work bench.
Jake
rolled his eyes and turned around, noticing Jen on the stairs for the
first time. As soon as she saw Jake noticing her, she gasped and then
teleported away. Jake snapped his fingers. “Dang it,” he muttered
and ran up the stairs.
Jen
appeared in her room and began pacing, half nervous, half excited
“Jake is Captain Anime” she said in disbelief. “Jake… is
Captain Anime!” she said in shock. “Jake… is Captain Anime…,”
she said with a very feminine twinkle in her eye and a smirk. “Hmmm,
this could be fun.”
Just
then Jake burst through her door, “Jen, we need to talk!” he said
urgently.
Jen
just smiled and moved towards him, wiggling her hips back and forth
with the same smile on her face. “Yes Jake? Or should I say,
Captain Anime!”
Jake
stopped dead in his tracks, thought, and then sighed. “Ok that
answers question number one.”
Jen
laughed, spinning around. “This explains so much. When were you
going to tell us?” she asked.
Jake
frowned. “What I’m doing isn’t exactly legal, you know?” he
explained, knowing the answer was obvious. “You’re not going to
tell anyone, are you?”
Jen
grinned. “Are you kidding? This is great news. Just wait ‘til
Sarah hears this!”
Jake
sighed then raised his gauntlet at Jen. “That’s what I was afraid
of.”
Jen
looked at the gem on the edge of the gauntlet. “Where have I seen
that before?” she asked. A second later a bright orange electrical
bolt struck her in the head. She gasped and her eyes turned to bright
orange and her body completely relaxed.
Jake
smiled looking at the gauntlet. “Nice,” he said then looked at
Jen. “Sorry Jen, but when you wake up, you will not remember
overhearing me and Mato talking about Captain Anime. Understand?”
Jen
blankly replied, “Yes Master.”
Jake
nodded then looked her over, realizing how long it had been since he
took a good look at Jen. “Say, why don’t you show me that new
belly dance you have been working on?” Jake suggested with a smile.
“Yes
Master,” replied Jen as she raised her arms and began to dance.
At
the police station, Sarah was busy searching through the records of
recent events to see if there was any mention of incubus related
events. She had found several unexplained cases of people reporting
falling asleep in odd places, like alleys and coffee shops, but
wasn’t sure which ones that Dawn was responsible for and which ones
were caused by the new incubus. “If only I could figure this out,”
pondered Sarah as she poured over the evidence.
On
the roof of the police station, Xander was focusing at his hands. He
had discovered that if he concentrated enough, he could get an orb to
solidly form, but it would only hold for a moment before he lost
control. He was practicing, biding his time for his assault on the
police station since he had heard that they had custody of the stage
hypnotist that he had seen at that club called ‘Spirals.’
Beneath
Xander in the holding cells, a blue-haired bunny girl was being
escorted into her cell by blonde haired male officer, and a dragon
girl. They gently pushed the bunny girl who was wearing a skin tight
halter top and a pair of revealing daisy duke shorts into her cell.
The bunny looked at the back of the cell next to hers and saw a huge
cryogenic tube with a young woman inside of it.
“What’s
that?” asked the bunny.
The
dragon girl looked at the tube then at the bunny girl. “That is
someone very dangerous so we keep her in cryogenic stasis. All we
know is that her name is Nadia.”
The
officers were about to walk out when Xander came crashing through the
skylight. Landing on the male officer and forcing him to the ground,
he kept one foot on his chest and started to drain his energy from
him while attempting to create an orb to deal with the dragon and
bunny girls.
He
didn’t get a chance to fully form his orb before the dragon girl
knocked him off of her fellow office with her tail, sending him
slamming against the bars of the holding cell with the bunny girl.
The bunny girl reached her arms out from around the bars and grabbed
Xander by his collar. “Get him, get him!” the bunny shouted.
“I’ll hold him…here….whaaa….” was all the bunny could get
out as she started to feel very weak. Xander was draining her through
her grip. Her eyes started to glaze as Xander grabbed the bars
behind him, pulling himself up and slamming both feet into the chest
of the oncoming dragon girl police officer. He kicked her so hard
that she fell against the wall, crashing back first into it. She
grinned a bit as her eyes crossed and she slowly slid down the wall.
Xander breathed heavily as the bunny girl finally released her grip
and landed on the cell floor, completely drained. The dragon girl
sat slumped against the wall on the opposite side of the room, her
miniskirt riding up a bit to expose more of her legs as her eyes
fluttered closed and her head slumped to the side. Xander moved to
the two unconscious officers and drained their energy as well.
Then,
using the key he got off of the male guard, he opened the lock on
Nadia’s cell and began to examine the controls on the cryogenic
chamber in which she was held. Behind him, Sarah entered the holding
area trying to figure out what had caused all the commotion a few
moments earlier. As soon as she walked in, she gasped at the sight
of the bunny girl and the other two officers passed out on the floor.
Xander heard Sarah’s gasp and spun around just in time to see Sarah
notice him. “You!” she shouted, reaching for her side arm.
Xander
didn’t have time to think and jumped straight for Sarah, grabbing
her and pushing her against the concrete wall. He quickly slapped a
hand over her mouth and starting to drain her energy saying, “Easy
Cutie, easy. This won’t hurt a bit.”
Sarah
was trying to remain focused, but the energy drain was quickly taking
its toll. Her gaze shifted from focused and angry to relaxed and
blank. Her struggle was evident, but her body was already starting to
lose its energy. Her arms dropped to her sides, dangling gently. As
her eyes fluttered closed, Xander smiled. “That’s twice now my
dear, and I do thank you for this pleasure,” he said, gently
lowering her to the ground.
Xander
looked around to see if anyone else had noticed anything peculiar in
the holding area then slowly moved back to Nadia’s containment
device. Popping the lid, a hiss of cooled gas and air left the
containment unit as the door slid open. Inside, Nadia’s eyes were
closed, but she was starting to stir. Xander took a deep breath and
concentrated, focusing on how it felt to create an orb when he had
had Dawn’s powers. In his hand an orb slowly started to form,
flickering as usual. Only instead of it flickering in and out of
existence as it had always done in the past, this time it was
flickering between dimmer and brighter. Xander smiled, but as he did
the orb started to fade. He refocused his concentration and the orb
stabilized. He slowly moved his hand to just in front of Nadia’s
face and waited for her to awaken.
The
dazed hypnotist slowly opened her eyes and immediately encountered
Xander’s orb. She gasped slightly as the muscles in her face
slackened just a bit. Her eyes were already glazed from just coming
out of cryogenic sleep, but they lost any and all focus they might
have otherwise had.
Xander
smiled and let the orb fade away as soon as Nadia was under his
control. “You will do whatever I tell you. Isn’t that right,
Nadia?” he said, glancing at the name plate on the cryogenic
container.
“Yes…,”
came Nadia’s sleepy reply. Xander’s smile grew to twice its size
as he was incredibly ecstatic at his successful trance with an orb.
He instructed the girl to step
into his arms and fall asleep, a command which Nadia dutifully
obeyed. Sweeping an arm under her legs, Xander picked Nadia up into
his arms and took off for his converted warehouse lair.
Across
the way, Dawn was perched on the roof of a building trying to figure
out what the crash was that she had heard. As she looked over at the
police station she saw Xander appear on the rooftop with Nadia, deep
in a hypnotic sleep, in his arms. She smiled wickedly as she
stealthily followed him back to his warehouse lair, memorizing the
location and its surroundings. “Time for some fun,” she thought
as she flew back to the police station, ignoring the opportunity to
exact revenge on her own. “Sarah’s gonna love this.”
Xander
sat within the inner chambers of his lair upon a plush chair with his
new ladies that he had acquired over the past few hours with the help
of his hypnotic orbs and Nadia’s own abilities, which was at his
beck and call after he had hypnotized her into aiding him, sprawled
on a multitude of oversized pillows reminiscent of a sultan’s
harem. Nerual lounged at Xander’s feet gazing off into nothing as
he played with her luscious locks of hair.
“I
really just can’t leave these lovely creatures to fend for
themselves in the delicious state that they’re in,” mused Xander,
leaning down and pulling Nerual into his lap to fondle as he pleased.
“I must aquire protection for them as well as my lair itself. I
don’t want anyone coming in here without my knowledge and doing
whatever they pleased. What if they discovered that this wasn’t
really a warehouse?” That last thought was the deciding factor
that Xander needed guards and after locking his prettiest possessions
in the inner chambers, he left to look for suitable candidates for
guards.
Xander
glided over the city, musing as to who he should ‘convince’ to
become his bodyguard. In fact, he figured he might even need at
least two guards, one to guard his ladies and the other to guard the
rest of his lair. Unfortunately, Xander had not been paying
attention as to where he was flying and crashed into billboard.
Peeling himself off, he glanced at what the billboard was
advertising. It displayed a large portraiture of Shadow who was a
decently well-known boxer and announced that Shadow’s next match
would be in Yoto in the concert center. The date was set for that
very evening and it gave Xander a fabulous idea as to who he would
recruit for his first guardian.
Back
at the police station, after some time spent scoping out the
neighborhood around and seeing Xander several more times with a
different girl in his arms each time, Dawn landed on the roof to
avoid detection from the other on-duty officers. Looking around, she
spotted the hole that Xander had created for his earlier intrusion.
Gazing down into the hole, she discovered the still comatose bodies
of the dragon girl officer and her partner. Off to one side in a
cell lay the bunny girl in similar conditions, though not as bruised.
Near the door, Dawn was surprised to see Sarah, unconscious once
again and again as a result of someone else’s actions. Dawn jumped
down into the room and checked Sarah over for injuries or other
causes for her unconscious state, discovering that her friendly
arch-nemesis had been completely drained of energy. She gathered the
girl into her arms and speedily flew off towards the Mato household
and Jake.
That
night, Xander attended the boxing match. Shadow and his opponent,
Arch, seemed to be extremely well matched and the match was over all
too soon in Xander’s opinion. Shadow had won after four rounds,
but he had received nearly as many hits as he gave Arch. It had been
an uppercut jab that had ended the fight and Xander had enjoyed every
minute of it. Xander exited the seating area with the rest of the
audience, but quickly ducked into an alley. He spotted a car parked
nearby and easily realized that it belonged to Shadow as he had
overheard some of the staff earlier remark on just such a car that
Shadow had been seen driving. Instead of having to reenter the
building, Xander decided that he would lie in wait for Shadow to exit
and head towards his car. Xander did not need to wait long for
within minutes, Shadow emerged, waving goodbye to those still inside.
He was slightly banged up from the fight and had a bandage around
his hand. Without warning, Xander dropped down from a overhead fire
escape, landing directly on Shadow, knocking the man silly, but not
quite unconscious.
Xander
threw one of Shadow’s arms over his shoulder and grabbed the man
around the waist to make it look like the two were great buddies and
Shadow had just had a bit too much to drink. Dragging Shadow to the
corner, Xander hailed a cab.
“Where
to, bub?” asked the cabby, turning to look at the two passengers.
“Corner
of Sixth and Haverstrom, please,” Xander replied, making sure to
look like he was taking care of the needs of his “inebriated”
friend.
“Bit
too much fun tonight, eh?” the cabby commented with a smirk as
they drove away. “He gonna be ok?”
“Oh,
yeah. He just had a little too much to drink and unfortunately, a
really hot chick turned him down and belittled his manhood. He’s
still a bit shocked from that,” Xander glibly explained.
“Sorry
to hear that, but completely understandable,” replied the cabby.
“Drink and women’ll do that to ya. That’s why I have sworn off
of messin’ with dames. They’re too much trouble, especially if
one’s lookin’ to be a wife.” Xander nodded in agreement, but
smiled thinking of his ladies back at his lair.
“Good
thing they’re so good looking, eh?” Xander mentioned.
“Oh,
definitely. Well, here ya go Bub,” the cabby said as he pulled up
to the designated curb. “You gonna be ok around here? “
‘Oh,
yeah. We’ll be fine. Should walk some of the drink off so he
doesn’t get completely sick later,” Xander answered. “Our
apartment’s not too far from here.”
“Well,
you two be careful and have a good night. Hope your friend gets over
his trauma,” the cabby replied as he drove away after Xander paid
him. Xander only smirked and as soon as the cab was out of sight, he
dragged Shadow over to the warehouse around the corner and into his
waiting lair.
Once
inside, Xander dumped Shadow into a chair and went to retrieve Nadia.
Returning, he commanded that she hypnotize the boxer for him into
being a body-guard for the inner chambers of the lair. Nadia dazedly
nodded, completely entranced herself. Inducing the boxer, Nadia
instructed the confused boxing champion to relax as he watched the
pocket watch swing from side to side. With each passage, Shadow’s
eyes drooped lower and his body relaxed more and more until he
slumped in the chair, deeply asleep and completely open to
suggestion. By the end of the session, Shadow was repeating, “Xander
is my master. I will protect his belongings.” Xander could only
laugh at his good fortune.
“Now,
Shadow. As my minion, you are to do whatever I tell you,
understand?” Xander told Shadow, who slowly nodding in answer.
“What I want you to do now is to go, find your opponent, Arch, from
tonight’s match and bring him here. Come tell me when you return
and I will have this lovely lady here,” Xander motioned to Nadia,
“hypnotize your friend to aid you in protecting my lair. Now go.”
Xander watched as Shadow trudged out of the warehouse and into the
street. Once Shadow was gone, Xander put an arm around Nadia and led
her back into the inner chambers, awaiting his newest employees’
returns.
Jake
and Jen were busy trying to establish a tracking pattern for the use
of elven magic based on the signature they had received from the
security video. “The elf was right. There isn’t really any
pattern here,” said Jen rubbing her eyes.
“Yeah,
no kidding. This guy really moves fast, doesn’t he?” Jake asked,
trying to work a kink out of his neck.
“I’m
a genius!” shouted Mato from the other side of the lab. Jake and
Jen quickly jumped up from their seats and ran over to Mato to see
what he had found.
“What,
what is it? Did you find a pattern?” yelled Jake.
“What?
Pattern? No, I just finished my new invention, a toaster that adds
jelly to the bread as it pops out! Watch!” With that, Mato pointed
to a seemingly normal toaster that shot two pieces of toast clean
into the air. As the pieces of toast spun, two globs of jelly flew
out from another area of the toaster, hitting the toast perfectly and
sending them spinning into the ceiling fan. One piece of toast stuck
to the blade of the fan while another bounced off and hit Jake dead
center in the face.
Jake
sighed, not even wanting to argue over Mato’s newest invention. He
just walked away with the piece of toast slowly sliding down his face
while he walked back to the console. Jen tried not to laugh but a few
giggles escaped. Then she looked up and shouted, “Dawn! That’s
not what you’re supposed to be doing!”
Dawn
entered the lab, carrying an unconscious Sarah in her arms with a
devious little smirk on her face. “How often do I do what I’m
supposed to be doing? Besides, I didn’t do this.”
Jen
was fuming so badly that steam came from her ears. Jake also looked
infuriated and walked towards Dawn in an aggravated manner. “Dawn,
come on now. We don’t have time for your games.”
Dawn
dropped Sarah on the floor with a rather loud thud and crossed her
arms over her chest, completely ignoring Jen. “You think I don’t
know that? I want to get this guy even worse then you do! I have a
reputation to keep up here you know!” Dawn shouted, starting to
turn bright red although Jake wasn’t sure whether the coloring was
from embarrassment or anger.
“So
you drained Sarah to keep up your reputation?” asked Jen
sarcastically “I can see how that would work.”
Dawn
continued to start directly at Jake, but raised a hand in front of
Jen’s face. Jen didn’t have time to notice the orb until it was
directly in her line of sight. The genie tried to protest, but the
orb kept pulsing and shifting its colors. Her eyes reflected the
colors as her will to argue drained out of her. Her arms slid down
limp to her sides as her shoulders slumped forward just a bit. Dawn
lowered her arm and Jen’s eyes slammed shut while she was still
standing, slightly slouched forward and completely limp.
“Jake,
I didn’t do this,” she demanded angrily. “Do you seriously
think I would do something this stupid right now?”
“Hmm,
let me think. Drain Sarah, and track incubus at the same time….
That seems to be easily within your grasp now, doesn’t it?”
Jake’s replied, casually sliding his hands into his pockets.
Dawn
turned an even brighter shade of red as streams of steam erupted from
her ears. “If I really wanted to get Sarah that badly, I would drop
her off at the incubus’ lair and hide out. I don’t have time to
deal with you accusing me of every ….little…thi…,” Dawn
trailed off as Jake pulled out his brightly glowing pendant.
“That’s
it, Dawn. Just focus and relax,” suggested Jake, swinging the
pendant back and forth before Dawn’s eyes. The succubus’ bright
red color started to fade to her normal skin tone while her arms
slipped inch by inch until they were free from being crossed and
hanging at her sides. Her eyes were completely glazed and the last
look of defiance disappeared from her face and into a gentle, relaxed
expression.
Jake
sighed contentedly, “No matter how many times I see that look, it’s
always worth it.” Then he refocused on the problem at hand. “Dawn,
did you drain Sarah?” Jake asked, believing he knew the answer
already.
“No,”
came Dawn’s monotone reply.
Jake
blinked in shock. “Who…? Who did?”
“The
incubus drained Sarah and three others in the police station. I
followed him to his hideout, picked up Sarah, and flew her here,”
Dawn answered.
“Whoops,”
said Jake with a guilty look. “Hmm, I could erase her memory…,
but…oh dang it. Dawn, wake up,” he declared, snapping his
fingers.
Dawn
shook her head, looked around, and then glared at Jake. “What did
you do?”
Jake
looked like a kid who had just been caught stealing a cookie. “I
put you under and found out the truth. I’m…I’m really sorry I
didn’t believe you,” He said honestly.
Dawn
tried to be angry, but Jake looked too pathetic for her to retain her
anger. She sidled her way over to Jake and ran a finger under his
chin. “It’s ok, Jake,” she cooed seductively. “You can make
it up to me if you want,” she said with a knowing smile.
Jake’s
expression went from guilt to shock to a deep eye roll complete with
a groan. He shot Dawn a scathing look then woke Jen. Explaining the
situation to her, the three worked on a plan of attack to take on the
incubus while Sarah slept on the couch to recover her energy and Mato
worked on a new butter and jelly toaster hybrid.
Two
hours later, Sarah awoke, and a plan was ready to go. Jake walked
over to Mato’s work space and proudly announced, “Professor, we
are ready to go.”
“That’s
wonderful, my boy….Go where?” asked the professor, only half
listening.
The
girls all rolled their eyes while Jake just sighed. “We’re going
to go rescue the elf girl, Nerual, and to capture the incubus,”
said Jake, without much enthusiasm.
“Oh!”
shouted Mato, moving to a desk drawer. “Excellent. Here, I made
these for you,” he said, handing all four of them what looked like
a small shoulder shield that would fit over the top of their right
shoulders.
“Umm,
thanks, Professor,” commented Sarah, looking over the device. “What
exactly does it do?” she queried, confused.
“It’s
a scanner. It will record any and all hypnotic activity while you’re
on your ‘mission’!” proclaimed Mato proudly.
The
four just sighed and all dropped the devices and began to walk away.
“It will also allow me to know if something happens to you four
while your out,” added Mato quickly. The three girls and Jake
immediately turned around, grabbed the devices eagerly thanking the
professor, and then ran up stairs.
Mato
smiled warmly, “Ah kids.” Then he thought to himself. “Hmm with
Jake gone, I can run a few experiments,” he said with a smile
moving to a computer console.
By CK and
SleepyHypno
Jake, Mato, Dawn, Sarah, Yuta, Jen, Katia, Lucia,
Jessica, Mina, Diana, as well as Yoto and the world in general are
all copyrighted to Adv913. This is his world, I'm just playing in it.
Nerual, Shadow,
Arch and Bikh are copyrighted to CK
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