The S-Files von abgemeldet (A Scientific Treatment on Structure and Workings of Athena's Saints (Well, sort of...)) ================================================================================ Kapitel 5: File BS02-Uni-T004 - The Arrow Of Justice! Two vs. the Unicorn --------------------------------------------------------------------------- File BS02-Uni-T004 The Arrow Of Justice! Two vs. the Unicorn "I'm glad that I allowed for a three digit number of attempts in the file names," Himiko sighed when she opened the next file. "I hope we won't need it, though," Makoto said. "I only wonder how many attempts we'll need for the more difficult Saints! You see, there's still this absolutely kawaii Gold Saint with the long, curly dark blue hair whom I want to examine," Himiko looked dreamily at the notice board. "I'll leave him for you to hunt him down and catch him all on your own!" Makoto was sure that he was dangerous as he gazed pretty darkly from the photo they had. "Sure I will! But don't think I'll leave you one little piece of him in this case! Hm... Maybe I can keep him or one of the others? Or do you think I really have to give him back?" "Of course you have to give them all back!" "That's unfair. I'd be content with only one of those cuties..." She gazed at the notice board. "Or maybe this cutie with the long, blond hair..." "We haven't even caught the second of the little ones!" "I have an idea how we'll get the Unicorn for sure. We'll simply shoot him!" "We do what? Remember, we're supposed not to damage them!" "Don't worry, I think he's robust enough to survive a little arrow coated with a narcotic." "As you say. You do it and I watch." Makoto fetched a bow and some arrows. "Just keep out of my line of fire," she cautioned her colleague. They went into their van, and Himiko inserted a CD that played Ennio Morricone's main theme of Once Upon A Time In The West. Shortly after, they parked next to the Kido mansion again. "Okay, let's look for cover and wait for the Unicorn to come out," Makoto said and cleared herself a way through the bushes. Himiko followed her in some distance and readied her camera. She didn't want to miss this, especially as Makoto refused to put on her glasses as she did ever so often. Stupid vanity! Makoto stormed in the direction of the house. As she had problems to see properly, she put on her glasses for some seconds to orient herself. "Left!" it thundered from the headphones Himiko had given her. Startled, Makoto jumped into the next bush and her glasses fell to the ground. "Shhht," Himiko hissed via the headphone. "They might see you!" "But I can't see anything - my glasses are gone." "Why don't you keep them on in the first place?" Himiko asked tragically. "Be cause I look horrible with glasses on." "Then I suggest contacts." "But they are much harder to find when I lose them." "Oops, hurry up, the Unicorn is at the door of the house!" "Where? I don't see anything." "Approximately 30 metres in front of you. Now he's closing in... I guess he discovered you." "Damned, where are those cursed glasses?" "Hello? Who are you?!" Jabu asked the tall redhead who rummaged through the bushes. She had bow and arrows slung over her shoulder and looked somehow peculiar with it as she was dressed in a lab coat. "Are you looking for something?" "Yes. I don't find my glasses." "Why have you lost them here in the first place? And moreover - what are you doing here with bow and arrows?" "Ahm, I wanted to shoot a little with it, but I can't aim without my glasses." Makoto squinted her eyes and tried to figure out to whom she was talking. Was it really the Unicorn? "So you're on the hunt? But what do you intend to hunt?" Jabu was more than a little amused. "Dunno. I guess I'd have found something..." She crawled still through the underwood. "In the garden of the Kido Mansion?!" "Yeah, why not?" Ah, finally she found her glasses. "Maybe I should introduce myself first - I'm Jabu. And who might you be?" "Makoto." Finally she could see again. She sighed in relief. "Hello Makoto," Jabu grinned. The young woman was rather weird, but not absolutely uncute. No comparison to Saori-san, though, of course... Makoto got up and fidgeted around. She felt awkward with the silly bow on the back, and from this distance she couldn't shoot Jabu anyway. Slightly confused, she started to pull some stray leaves from her long braid. "Mako-chan, why don't you ask him to go with you into a café?" Himiko thundered through the headphone. "Waaaaaa," Makoto squealed and cursed that she still hadn't turned the volume down. Jabu lifted an eyebrow and looked to the weird woman. Probably she had escaped from some funny farm. "Ahm," Makoto began. She really made a mess of this attempt... She ripped the headphone from her head and threw it behind her, bow and arrows followed, before she tried to brush the dirt from her clothes. Jabu scrutinized her from head to toes. Well, now that she had gotten rid of the stuff she looked at least half sane. "And other but hunting ...whatever you had no intentions here?" "I forgot what I wanted to do," Makoto said miserably. She was so embarrassed, especially when she saw Jabu looking at her like this! "Maybe you should come in and freshen up a bit before you tell me exactly why you sneaked in here!" "I think you may be right..." Makoto was sure that Jabu wouldn't let her go without a thorough interview, and so she began to clean her glasses with a point of her lab coat, as usual when she didn't know what to do or say. Himiko almost got a fit when headphone, bow and arrows hit her on the head, How was she supposed to tell Makoto what to do without the device? Her colleague had probably already forgotten about their intent when she talked to the cute Unicorn Saint. "Where's the house?" Makoto wanted to know. She was still occupied cleaning her glasses. Jabu looked at her quizzically and pointed in the direction from which he had come. Then he reconsidered, grabbed her arm and tugged her in the proper direction. "Over there!" Makoto put her glasses on at last to see where Jabu led her. Himiko sighed and went back to their van. At the moment she could neither help Makoto nor take any interesting photos. Finally they entered the house, and Makoto, again without her glasses, looked nearsightedly around. She didn't want to know how she looked like, it was certainly horrible. Suddenly she could hear light footsteps coming down the stairs. "Oh, hello Doc Terada! What are you doing here? Your colleague already told me the results," Shun chimed. "Oh, hello Shun. My visit has another reason." "Ah." He grinned. "Do you want to play with my chains again?" "Me? No, that's Himiko's domain..." Jabu stared openmouthed at Shun, then at 'Doc Terada' and back. What had this green-haired boy that he didn't have? He'd never have suspected... Makoto put her glasses on once more and examined Shun with interest. "And how's your backside?" "Better, just as you promised." Now Jabu was really fascinated. Shun certainly didn't tell everything of what he did in his free time. "Ahm, I still want to know what you wanted back in the garden," Jabu asked the 'Doc'. "Ahm, I was there for a research project..." "With bow and arrows and a headphone?" "Don't worry, Jabu," Shun saved Makoto. "The Doc is okay. She loves to take photos, but otherwise I can't complain." "Ah well, taking photos is a hobby of mine," Makoto claimed. "Want to take some of me, too?" Jabu offered with a broad grin. "Sure!" Makoto's eyes lit up. This got better than she had hoped for! "Be my guest." "Fine," she said and pulled camera and films from her lab coat. Jabu posed for her with Cloth and without, and even agreed to accompany her for some further examinations in the Research Lab. Probably they should rethink their 'hunting down' approach, Makoto mused afterwards. - File BS02-Uni-T004 Closed - Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)