open Nothing personal, it's just business...

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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A feeling of smugness came onto Ghost as Ravage looked through his findings. Though he was genuinely surprised at his look of shock from the notes; he didn't think he was capable of actually showing emotion!

 

"I found it in a chest in the apartment," he explained, calmly and with total composure, "along with that spell book and the diary of I assume the place's old owner. The chest looked relatively cleaner than everything else, though."

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"I see," replied Ravage, regaining his calm demeanor.  Normally not one to show emotion, the discovery was more then he was expecting.  "You said the chest was cleaner then the rest of the place?  That must mean because it was newer."  When did this happen?  I've never observed my Master going anywhere near that part of the city.  Nor have I seen him order others there.  Ravage was genuinely confused.  What had started as a simple exercise to get some dirt on Sakuya was escalating quickly.  He was starting to think this was more then he bargained for.  "All right," he began slowly, "I will see to the safe keeping of these."  He folding the pages and tucked them into the spell book.  "At the moment, I have no other requirements for you."  He started off towards the shadows, then paused.  "Open the third crate to your left.  I arranged some compensation for your troubles...."

 

(ooc: whatever you'd like it to be, lol)

[P-Jay 1,987]

rebilac walked along the streets, and was vaguly aware of the police (guards?) coming up behind him. "drop the sword! now!" one of them demanded. 'great. just peachy.' rebilac thought, before turning around, and un-sheathing his sword at the same time. "by order of celestia, we command you to come along quietly!" the guard said, rebilac looked at him. "thats not in your best interest. why dont you drop the spear there, and go away?" rebilac said darkly. then he noticed more were coming. rebilac sighed, and raised his sword. "if i must, i will take on all of you." the guards looked at him weirdly. rebilac smiled. "time to die." the guards rushed him, and he ran at them, too. twenty-two guards later, he continued on his trek towards sayuka's house. he got there, with a guards helmet on, and some blood on him. he walked in. "whats up?"

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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"That's what I thought as well," Ghost said softly, agreeing about the chest. He nodded at his instructions, and glanced over to the third box on his left, as Ravage instructed. As the large stallion made his leave, the thief cracked into the box to see what he'd won.

 

Inside was a small sack, the weight and jingling of it confirming it to be a healthy sum of bits. He shrugged and put it into his saddlebag; He already had a mass wealth at his disposal, but some pocket change never hurt.

 

What really got his attention was the peculiar device that came with it. He picked it up and inspected it; it was pocket sized, with a sliver of glass that looked eye-sized. Curious, he flicked it on and put it on his face, revealing the warehouse in a green hue, with the darkened corners visible.

"Night vision goggles?" He muttered, taking them off his face to inspect it more. A button on the side got his attention, and the goggles clicked with a bright flash when pressed. "And a camera function? Well, I certainly got on that guy's good side."

 

With a smirk, he popped the goggles into his saddlebag and make his dramatic exit out the warehouse window, changing inside the storage tank.

 

Dusk Waltz emerged, and nonchalantly walked out of the container, making sure nopony was around before nonchalantly walking back toward the city. Perhaps, now that he was free for a while, he could have a little R&R. A coffee sounded particularly nice, and perhaps a sandwich.

[Gloomfury 243]

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"It's alright, Take your time." He said as he looked around a little. He walked slowly from room to room, looking at everything. The kitchen. the bedrooms the pictures on the wall. He couldn't help but feel a little sad that a place so dear to the pony he cared about could be so dirty. He started thinking he could do something nice like have someone clean it from time to time for her.

 

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While in the shadows himself,Gloom slowly followed the other pony who left the warehouse.  Her heard everything they talked about and he wanted to find out more. Even though he wanted to test the red eyed stallions strength.  But he could track him anytime he wanted to. For now he followed the other stallion.

 

And lucky for him this stallion had a scent that was pretty easy to catch.

[Unicorncob 5,714]

Dusk travelled into the city, looking for somewhere to relax. He considered the café he followed Sakuya and the others from earlier, noting that nopony should suspect, or even remember him returning. He popped inside, the place as calm as ever, and took a seat at a table by the window.

 

A waitress, different from the one he had before, walked up to him with a smile. "Can I take your order, sir?"

"Just a coffee please, milk and two sugars," he nodded, returning the smile, "and a hay sandwich?"

"Of course sir, won't take a minute," the mare smiled, jotting down the order and walking off.

 

The thief-slash-socialite let out a deep breath. He'd certainly had a busy day, and he deserved a little unwinding before returning to the hotel. Or perhaps he'd check out the sights for an hour or two.

 

Or perhaps he could look into this little project Ennex was working on. He'd be interested to see just what was happening there.

But he'd cross that bridge when he came to it.

[Gloomfury 243]

@@Unicorncob,

 

 Gloom stepped into the café a minute or two after the stallion. So he wouldn't seem like he was following him. He took a seat two tables away and sat down with his back towards him. All he needed was his nose and ears.. After he took his seat a waitress. "Hello, sir. May I take your order?" She said  in a polite tone. Gloom looked up at her with a small smile. "Aye, darlin'. A steak would be grand, medium well." The waitress looked at him with a lot of confusion on her face. "A steak?" 

 

Gloom chuckled. "Sorry, of course a small place like this would't have that.  Just a  coffee, black." She nods with a smile. "Right away sir." She then head off. Not to long after she came back. "Anything else. " Gloom shook his head. "No, this'll do dariln' thank ya." She smiled again and walked off again.

 

GLoom then reached into his bag and pulled out a flask and poured whatever was inside into his coffee.

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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Dusk stretched out his forelegs as he sat at the table, aknowledging a stallion's entry into the café. Nothing to think of of course, just another patron.

 

"Your coffee and sandwich, sir," the waitress smiled, returning with his order and setting it in front of her.

"Excellent, thank you," he smiled up to her and took a sip of the coffee as she went on her way. Excellent brew.

 

A newspaper sat across from him, in front of the empty chair. He pulled it toward him and flicked it open. Thankfully it was today's paper.

[Gatekeeper Giggle 2,902]

 

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"One year," repeated Ennex.  "You sound quite confident.  Previous experience in this sort of work?  I take it?"  He chuckled to himself, and pressed a small button on his desk.  A buzzer could be heard from out in the lobby.

 

After a moment, the doors to the office opened, and a young mare entered.  "Yes sir?" she asked, a bit of anxiety in her voice.

 

"Please bring in-" he paused, eyes looking her over.  "You are not my normal secretary."  It wasn't a question.

 

"No sir.  Mr. Ravage had her replaced," she replied, her voice weak.  "Something about letting anypony into your office without checking."

 

"I see.  Well then, please have a bottle of wine sent up from my personal store," he ordered.  With a nod, she backed out of the office.   It was only a few minutes before another mare entered, pushing a cart with a wine bottle and two glasses.  She parked it, and left the office.  Ennex took the bottle, popped the cork, and poured the glasses.  "Fireberry wine.  Extremely rare, and expensive.  I was saving it for a special occasion."  

Dividend Yield frowned when he saw the wine being carted in, and became very nervous when he heard Ennex say that he didn't recognize the secretary. That was sloppy. Very sloppy. If somepony he didn't recognize walked into his inner office, they were getting gunned down. Nopony walked into his office without him knowing exactly who they were. That mare could very well be an assassin with a good cover story; there was no way he was drinking anything, for all he knew it was poison, or worse.

 

"Oh dear, I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Ennex, but I don't drink. In fact, it's rather late, I had better get going. I don't know where my bodyguard ran off to, he can get into a lot of trouble if he's out on his own..."

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Sitting back in his chair, Ennex took a long drink from his glass.  The wine slightly burned going down, as was the normal effect since it was made from fireberries.  Lovely, he thought to himself setting down the glass.  

 

"Very well," he replied to Dividend.  "I presume we can continue when you are ready.  Your plan does interest me, and I look forward to seeing positive results.  Whatever resources you require, please do not hesitate to ask."  Getting back up, he walked around the desk to stand next to Dividend.  "If I may speak frankly, you appear nervous about something.  While personal matters are none of my concern, if it is related to our business deal, I would like to know..."

 

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 Wandering around the apartment, Sakuya finally drifted into the spare room...  where a large chest sat against the wall.  "What the..." she muttered, slowly approaching it.  This wasn't something that belonged to her OR her mother!  Where had it come from?  She reached over to open it, noting that the lid was unlocked and slightly ajar.  Somepony was careless, she thought, opening the lid all the way.  Inside was some random objects, some loose sheets of paper that seemed to have shipping information, and...

"Her diary!" she exclaimed, her voice full of excitement.  Origins of the chest forgotten, she pulled out the small notebook, and carried it back into the front room.   "I can't believe it's still here!" she said, giving Malachi a big smile...

[Gloomfury 243]

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He smiled back at her as he walked over to her, looking at the book she had. "A diary, hu? My grandma had one of those too. After she past, ma found hers and read it about a hundred times.  She said it helped her feel closer to her for some reason. It also help her understand her better."

 

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After taking a long sip of his now Irish coffee, he leaned back in his chair and kept his ear aimed at the stallion. After a few minutes he started to get bored. And whenever he got bored he would do random stuff. Or things that most wouldn't do. So he got up and went over to the stallions table, taking a seat in the chair in front of him. "How's it going, mate? Mind if we chat a bit?"

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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Dusk perked up at the sound of creaking wood; somepony was taking the seat opposite him. Her looked up with a raised eyebrow and noticed a stallion. The same one he'd seen walk in, actually.

 

"Oh, certainly," he began, lifting his head to look at him properly, "my apologies, is this your table?"

[nx9100 1,013]

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 Sakuya clutched the diary close to her.  "I hope to feel the same way," she replied to Malachi.  "After what i've been through today, I just want-"

 

She broke off at the sound of hoof steps, and turned to see 'Caliber' standing there.  "So, how was your dinner...." she broke off, noticing the helmet.  And the blood.  "What did you do?" she exclaimed, "take on the Royal Guard or something?"

[P-Jay 1,987]

"yeah." he replied, as he walked over to a chair in the room, and sat down in it. "they said something about how i killed some ponies at the bar. then they attacked me. soooo" he looked at sayuka, "they had to go." he took out his sword, and began to polish it.

 

(i think ill make it to where when he goes to sleep, he'll revert back to caliber)

[nx9100 1,013]

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"They had to go," Sakuya repeated, scowling at 'Caliber'.  "Hopefully you got away clean.  We don't need heat like that on us."  Opening the small chest still hanging on her neck, she tucked the diary inside, then locked it again.  "Assuming it still works, you can use the bathroom over there," she pointed," to clean yourself up."  She sighed, "and perhaps we should work on that temper of yours...."

[P-Jay 1,987]

rebilac's eyes narrowed. "fine..." he got up, and walked in the bathroom, mainly focusing on his sword, getting all the blood off. he threw of the helmet, and started washing his hair, when as fate would have it, the floor broke. he was thrust forward, hitting his forehead on the edge of the sink, breaking a hole into it. he yelled "SON OF A BI-" before the sink fell of the wall, and hit his already hurt head, getting knocked un-conscience.

 

(rather weak, but hey. what can ya do?)

Edited April 15, 2015 by Peytonjay

[nx9100 1,013]

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Sakuya had turned to Malachi, and was about to suggest that they head back, when she heard 'Caliber' cry out.  "What the!" she exclaimed, before running into the bathroom, to find her new bodyguard collapsed in a pile on the floor, which now sported a hole in front of the sink, opening to the floor below.  "Oh, for Luna's sake," she muttered.  "Malachi!  Help me pull him back before the rest of the floor collapses!"

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber looked up. it only knocked him out for a couple of seconds, but that was all it needed. he looked around, and saw he was in a bathroom. furthermore, he had no idea how he got there. he turned around, and saw sayuka and malachi walking towards him. getting himself in a more dignified position, he said "what in the name of celestia happened?" he grabbed his sword, and before sheathing it, he stopped. he gave it a sniff, and caught a faint whiff of blood. "what the...?" he stood up, and looked in the mirror, seeing blood spots on his coat, and cloak. "what the...?" he looked at the bloody helmet on the ground next to him. then he realized. his eyes widened, and he looked at sayuka. "i...didn't...change, did i?" he asked, afraid of the answer.

[Gloomfury 243]

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"Yeah, you did. Into a bigger prick then normal. He wanted to know where a bar was so I told him one a friend of mine runs. From the looks of it your bigger prick self killed a guard for some reason." He shrugged." It happens. A few of the guards are on my payroll so no big deal."

 

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"Not at all. I just feeling a little bored and thought why not talk to a stranger." He gave a light laugh. "Anyway, you having a good night so far? Anything interesting happen to you? Lie  meeting a pretty lass, finding a bag of bit on the ground.... doing some dark dealings in a warehouse..." He smirked. "You know, like in the movies."

[Unicorncob 5,714]

@@Gloomfury

 

Dusk raised an eyebrow at the stallion's question. He was oddly specific...and accurate.

But, nopony got very far on truth alone, right? He may as well play along, see where this goes.

 

"If by a pretty lass, you mean the lovely waitress there," he replied, returning the smirk, "then you could say that. And perhaps I was lucky enough to pick up some loose change on the sidewalk, but I haven't been anywhere near a warehouse all night. Couldn't tell you where to find one, honestly."

 

He rested his elbows on the table, putting his hooves together. "How about yourself?"

Edited April 16, 2015 by Unicorncob

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber blinked. "oh..." he got up, sheathed his sword, and walked out. "i need a moment to think..." he went out, climbed onto the roof of the house, and thought. "now, why would i change...? who was it...ah! it was that one guy. what was his name? ghost." he pulled out his adventure log, and scribbled in an entry. "and i wanted to go to a bar? and i killed some guards? was i wanted?" he kept writing. "i probably killed some other ponies at the bar..." he closed his book. "i might have to leave...but not yet." he slid off the roof, and walked up to sayuka. "anyways...do i just follow you, or you have something you want me to do...?" he was kinda ignoring malachi, though. either way, he just wanted something to do.

[nx9100 1,013]

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Sakuya took a moment before replying.  "Alright, let's go back downtown.  I need to talk to Ennex about some things.  Come with us for now, Caliber.  He'll probably have Ravage with him, and I want him to see I have my own muscle," she grinned, "working for me.  After that," her eyes shifted softly to Malachi, "I suppose we could go out for some dinner, I guess."  

 

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As Dividend Yield let the office, Ennex continued to finish off the bottle of wine, savoring the fiery taste.  Ah.. elegant as always!  He was just pouring another glass, when Ravage stepped out of the shadows.

 

"You replaced my secretary," Ennex said.  It wasn't a question.

 

"She allowed an unknown entrance to your office," the dark pony replied, "as did two door guards, whom were also replaced."

 

"Very well.  I trust no harm was done?"

 

"I have already handled the situation."

 

"Excellent," the crime lord replied, turning to face the cityscape out the window.  He noticed smoke in the distance, the remains of a fire.  "Sakuya should be returning soon.  I want you to remain here for now..."
 

[P-Jay 1,987]

'okay, its behind me' caliber thought. 'rebilac's gone' he walked behind them. "ill just follow you, until dinner." he said, grinning. "im starving, no, literately." his ribs were poking out his side. "i hope ya got serious cash, cause i eat quite a lot." he heard her talking to malachi about going out for dinner. "oh...ill just eat somewhere else!" he followed behind her. 

[Gloomfury 243]

@@Unicorncob, 

 

Gloom smirked. "Well I had an interesting run in with a pony with a short fuse. Had to make him clean up the bodies out of my pub.  Also noticed A dark looking Stallion in a body suite with a Stalliongrad ((Russian)) accent.  And for someone whose never been to a warehouse sure have a strong senate of the one I just came from." His smirk got bigger.

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Malachi smiled back and placed a arm around her. "Sounds like a good idea. And you know you can count on me as well. Even though I'm not working for you, I'm here for you. Plus I'm pretty sure I'm better muscle then the little prick." He said pointing at caliber.

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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Dusk raised his eyebrow as he listened to this stallion go on. That stallion with the short fuse made him automatically think of Caliber, and the other stallion sounded a lot like Ravage.

Upon his last comment, however, he took a whiff of himself. Indeed, the scent of the warehouse had followed him. He had neglected to think of that, and internally chided himself for it.

 

His smirk was enough to tell him that he wouldn't take any more excuses, so Dusk simply looked him in the eyes.

"I'm not going to beat around the bush any longer; there is a reason you wanted to speak to me, yes?"