It was a good hour before the two arrived back at the mansion, their hair all mused up from the wind. Turning the engine off, Dante put the kickstand down and gently pried her hands off of his waist.

"Now don't tell me that wasn't fun?" He asked her, smirking in a knowing way.

"It's always fun on a motorcycle."

Kari said chuckling as she let go,getting off the bike with a small hop

"Seriously..."

Corbin uttered in a frustrated tone as the two ran off without even bothering to take part in a briefing or at least in what Corbin was about to share. He blew out a smoke cloud and smothered the rest of the cigarette in an ash tray whilst waving a clip of papers in his other hand.

"Shall we get started? I was recently contacted by one of my customers and had a request of tracking down a missing person, apparently related to magic seals of sorts. I won`t go trough the over important riff-raff as you can read it yourselves...."

He explained with a calm, almost dreamy tone that hinted a lack of sleep. He tossed the papers before Alexander and Jillian before stretching his arms as, if he had just woken up.

"The man goes by the name of Marcus Obel, but I doubt that`s his real name, supposedly he has had many aliases in the past and seem to be a little dodgy about the authorities these days. He`s not supposedly dangerous, but if left alone, people reckon that he`d be more harm than good to the society at large..."

Corbin continued with a monotonous voice and grinned as he felt cold gazes being directed at him, but did not flinch, stating his own seriousness about the matter.

Jillian raised an eyebrown. She looked at Corbin *I guess the only way to figure out what is he up to, is following his game* She thought. Alexander humphed angrily as he looked at the papers. Jillian rolled her eyes and snatched the papers out of Alexander's hand, she knew he could hardly focus when Corbin was near, cause half of the time Corbin managed to get Alexander's short temper out *Talk about a friendly relationship* She thought sarcastically as she looked at the papers. "We'll have to find more about this "Marcus Obel" guy, so I suggest we go back to the mansion and start a little research. Corbin if it is possible we'll need more info" She said "And I suggest we call Naja, he is an expert in this type of people". Alexander nooded as he got up "Ok let's get going" He said. He then walked toward the dark blue car, he stopped and gave Corbin a nasty death glare "He is not coming with me" He hissed, Jillian sweatdropped "Ok, he will go with me" She said as she got into her car, the black one, and signaled Corbin to get in.

Corbin shrugged innocently as Luc spread it`s wings and leaped into the air and began to circle around the car, waiting for the departure. Corbin took a seat in the back of the car and stared at Jillian with an amused expression on his face, wondering whether she would dare being the matter up when Alex was not present. Certainly it should have been alarming, but he pondered whether she simply was intending to play along.

Corbin sighed and leaned his chin against his fist whilst the elbow rested against the door of the car. As they got on the move he gazed again at Jillian and decided to break the silence.

"You didn`t tell him, did you?"

He inquired with an amused tone of voice as he was referring to the fact that she did not seem to have told Alex about yesterdays incidents.

"No" She mumbled. She shighed angrily "Stop this little game and tell me what you are up to. You would make things easier" She said "You were lookin for someone last night. The question are: who? and why? You turn that room into ashes, clearly you werent there for just a chat" She asked/said.

Corbin stared forward down the road with a empty gaze and an amused, faint smile on his face.

"Oh where`s the fun in that?... No excitement, revelations nor surprises left for the rest of you to experience...."

However in contrast to his words he suddenly ripped open the collar of his shirt, revealing a tattoo formed out of several circles that were lined by magical inscriptions. Each of the circles seemed to connect with one another trough a series of zigzag lines and the circle in the center surrounded a hexagram. A grin flashed trough Corbin`s face as he turned to stare at Jillian with eyes filled with pure anger that might have given the impression he was ready to kill anyone in his sight.

"This tattoo designed to seal away the powers of my eye and more was apart of Dr. Lebons ` treatment` during my stay at the asylum, oh shall I not forget the term they used of us? Guinea pigs, meat, test subjects. A hell, which I endured for years and all because Alex was quick to be rid of me. Had he ever wondered what laid beneath the surface of the asylum then he would have discovered a place of death and sickness...."

He continued, but his words were distorted and he mumbled something in between as, if he was going back in time and all the memories were pouring back. He recalled the burning of his flesh as the needles were stuck in him, the agony of being cut open in the lack of proper anesthetic. His eyes were blank and cold, but there remained a bloodthirsty grin on his face as he stared down the road.

"And now... sick, yes, that`s what I am and it is not going away until I rid myself of the stench by killing the one`s responsible. Not Alex tough, he shouldn`t know anything yet, not until I´ve gone trough with this... Meanwhile you`ll have to keep your lips sealed darling.... won`t you?"

He inquired with a threatening tone and could feel his eye beginning to awaken, sparkling from magical energy as a threat of what might come to pass should she change her mind about not telling Alex.

Ed was stuck in the car with Alexander, though the ride was a bit better than with Jillian, it was still fast.

Dante opened the door and was suddenly attacked by a small mass known as Maria.

"Kari-nee-chan!!!" She exclaimed, but when she opened her eyes, she saw she was sitting on Dante's stomach. She blushed a deep red.

"Oops. Sorry Mister Dante," Maria said, getting up off of his and waving her hand, using the wind to pick him up. She then turned towards Kari and tackled her in a hug. Allen came out and felt himself sweat when he saw the scene, but also what he was wearing. He thought they'd be longer, so what he was wearing was a pair of his gray trousers, a white, button up shirt, and a light blue apron on over that. It was a sight to see. Dante fell over laughing when he saw the short exorcist, finding the image funny

"Awwwwwwww!Allen-kun you look so cute!"

Kari teased holding Maria as she continued doing the monkey grip,and the snowy white wolf came out of the door and went over to Kari,glaring at Dante knowingly,and started licking her free hand which made Kari start cooing over her shikkigami.

She looked at him from the corner of her eye as he spoke. She couldnt understand. A part of her mind told her he was not to be trusted, but the other part actually trusted him. And somehow she knew how he felt. She knew how it felt to be used as a test subject, how it felt to be used as a lab rat.
The grip of her hands around the wheel went tighter. "I swear Corbin, if you hurt Alexander or someone else, I'll kill you myself" She hissed angrily. She then felt the flow of magic coming out of his eye and she cursed silently.

Her answer, a threat that did not decline nor agree with him was the most amusing thing Corbin had heard in a long time. She would allow this to go on yet she would draw a line to somethings, exactly what he needed in order to carry out his plans. Corbin chuckled and even seemed thankful for her notion.

"I would not have it any other way.... after all we both know Alex doesn`t have the guts to kill me, he couldn`t do it before and he wouldn`t be able to do so now....

Ah life... with it`s peculiar mysteries..."

He muttered with a glee in his eyes as he was pleased that all would go according to plan.

Dante picked himself up from rolling on the ground, holding his stomach as he tried to stop laughing at the little ducks on the said apron. Maria wiggled free from Kari's grip and headed off back into the mansion, Hiro following her in the unsaid game of tag.

"Let's just get inside," Allen said and stepped out of the way for them to enter, the look on his face not particularly nice to see.

"Dante-kun stop it,he's gonna turn kuro."

Kari whispered patting him on the back to stop laughing,how she had said that with a straight face would probably only make him laugh harder.

Allen undid the apron and hung it up in the kitchen, catching Maria as she tried to run by and threw her over his shoulder upside down, making her squeal in delight. He saw Dante grab ahold of Kari's hand and an evil smirk came upon his face.

"So, it seems you found someone. I can't wait for the wedding," Allen said, teasing Kari while setting Maria back down.

"Perhaps he dosent but I do" She hissed as her icy blue eyes sparkled with all the magic inside of her. The mansion came into sight and somehow Jillian felt she was betraying her brother. *It's for his and everybody safety* She thought trying to reassure herself.

Kari automatically turned bright red and started stammering which only made Hiro,now in his full aged form for once,come in with his long white hair swishing past Maria,most likely making her sneeze,and he started ruffling his mistress' hair and rubbing her ears,completely ignoring Dante.

Dante raised an eyebrow at how Hiro was acting towards Kari. He knew the wolf turned human was her shikkigami, but Hiro didn't have to act all cold towards him.

"Well, if there is a wedding, I bet it would be spectacular," Dante said, smiling down at Kari, noticing her blush. Allen blinked and helped Maria blow her nose when she sneezed.

"It's obviously not going to be in a few weeks, that's for sure," Allen commented, and picked up Maria, and set her on the counter top, giving her an apple.

"What do you guys want to eat, if you're hungry?" Allen asked them, giving them his cheery smile as he searched in the fridge.

"Cake!"

Kari said automatically smiling cheerfully,bouncing up and down,and Hiro simply snorted at his mistress' cheerfulness and he took out a new collar from his pocket and hesitated before saying sighing handing it to Dante

"Put it on her,it'll keep her from making light bulbs explode.When you put it on you have to say a trigger word or sentence so she can take it off when she needs too,make sure it's not used often by other people so it doesn't snap off at the most un needed time."

Dante held the collar in his hands and thought for a long while. He suddenly smirked when an idea hit him. He got the collar around Kari's neck, made sure it was loose enough so she wouldn't choke.

"My little kitten angel," Dante said, snapping the collar shut around her. Allen rolled his eyes and set Maria back on the floor, her apple still clutched in her hands.

Kari blushed bright pink,and noticed it was her energy sealment collar and she couldn't help but ask chuckling a little at the irony of it as she flicked the bell around her neck bemused

"Ya know,next time you say that it's gonna be a lynx demon,not a kitten angel."

And then she turned to Allen smiling again,this time not threatening to make light bulbs explode when she got hyper and bouncing up and down

"Cake please Allen-kun!Or should I call you Maid Allen for the apron?"

Allen's eyebrow twitched some as he got out a small platter of straberry cake for her. Meanwhile, Dante shrugged at her comment.

"It doesn't matter. You'll still be my Kitty," he whispered in her flickering cat ear. Maria took another bit out of the big apple and just watched all of this go on in curiousity.

Kari only blushed redder and she said sheepishly eating some of her cake as she climbed up onto the chair

"Sweet talk isn't allowed around the 8 year old.Allen and Hiro will kill us if we soil Maria's innocent mind."

"Whoever said it had to be around her?" Dante countered, before sheilding the kid's eyes and kissed her as she made to put a forkful of cake in her mouth.

"See? She didn't see it."

"See what?" Maria asked, clearly confused at what they were talking about. Allen was really trying not to kill the half demon but his other half of his mind was winning, thus calming him down.

"If you're going to do that, get a room please," and with that, he led Maria out of the kitchen.

Hiro glared at him as well with his eye twitching and Kari groaned hitting her head on the island's table top and she said to the wolf

"Out."

He nodded stiffly and left the room as well and Kari sighed and put cake in his mouth making him stop talking for the time being and she said bluntly playing with his hair

"Dante-kun,we're going to annoy the h*ll out of people if we keep doing that.Kisses and sweet talk are for when there's nobody else around,we don't want them letting Jillian take it out on us with the cooking knives."

"That's mean" A voice said behind them, Jillian pouted an offended look in her face but then just chuckled as she grabbed an apple and a muffin "Dont worry, I promise that wont happen again" She said as she smiled and walked out of the kitchen. She started eating the apple and walked out of the house, and into the forest that surronded the mansion, her favorite place. She sat down leaning against a tree looking at the sky lost in her thoughts.
"Cast light upon the darkened earth.
Save those lost in despair.
Oh mighty dragon
guide us as we journey trough
the darkest pit of night.
May time ever fleeting forgive us.
We who have forsaken our song
and buried our future" She whispered softly.
Suddenly she felt the presence of someone behind her, a heartbeat, and when she turn around her eyes widened lightly with what she saw.

Dante whipped his head around and just chuckled nervously, watching as she left and turned to Kari.

"Well, kitchen knives couldn't kill me... unless she chopped my head off with them," Dante stated, looking up at the ceiling and held his chin in thought. Dante took a sudden swip at the frosting on the cake Kari was eating and stuck in his mouth.

"That is good cake," he commented, a look of surprise on his face.

"Hey!That was mine!"

Kari complained pouting,there went most of her frosting.And she added mock frowning at him,having a feeling that would keep him from eating all her frosting since he pretty much demolished her poor strawberry cake.

"My cake,or I'll never wear a skirt again in our life times."

Dante heard this and gasped slightly, before giving a pitiful pout that wasn't worthy for him or anyone.

"But you looked so cute in a skirt. But if you insist," he whinned slightly and sunk into the chair next to Kari. She didn't say he couldn't sit next to her.

"Don't give me that face......"

Kari said with her eye twitching and then sighed a little eating her cake and added after finishing her cake and turning around to flick some whipped cream onto his nose

"I'll wear a skirt once in awhile,but you'll have to get somebody to tie me down with the strongest stuff they have to get me in a dress."

Dante couldn't help but chuckle at her threat, but he nodded.

"I can deal with that part," Dante said, giving a mischevious grin then looked around the kitchen, trying to find something else interesting.

"You really are a devil,well half."

Kari said with a snort at the slight pun as she handed him a piece of cake,eating a good portion of it before he could start eating it,as pay back.And then she left the kitchen up to her room to change in shorts,t-shirt,glasses,lab coat,and her inventors hat before starting to make a robot of sorts and blasting this song .She had put up a sign on her door that said

'Busy making stuff,don't disturb so I don't drop hot lethal stuff on me and burn,if you need me then come in without any sudden noises to scare me thank you

~Kari-chan *she drew a chibi kitty version of herself with pencil*'

"We have a situation" Jillian said as she stormed into Alexander's office "Define "situation" He said as he rubbed his eyes "Trouble, disaster, conmotion, havoc etc etc" She said, he nooded "Ok what is it?" He asked, she took a deap breath "Remember the mission in Italy?" She asked "Yeah" He said as he nooded "This is worst than that" She said, his eye twitched "That's imposible, that was...an...apocalipse" He said "Well I dont know how it happened, but it happened. And they are about to arrive" She said, he groaned as he poked his own forehead trying to come up with a good plan.

Dante just chuckled at her comment and made to smoosh some cake in her face but he didn't reach her quick enough when she left the kitchen, making him land on the floor. the small handful of cake that was in his hand smeared across the floor and Allen happened to step in at the time.

"......You just dirtied the floor I just mopped....." he said and a dark shadow passed over him and Dante. The half demon had the feeling of he should run now and just passed by Allen when the said boy dashed after him with his arm clawed and ready to cleave someone.

Kari turned off the heat thing that she was using to make the metal stick together and she took off her protective mask showing her face was all dirty and she blinked letting her ears wiggle a little as she mumbled shrugging before pulling her mask back on and going back to her robot to be

"Told him not to make Allen go black."

Both Alexander and Jillian walked downstairs a frustrated look in both the siblings expreccion. "Call Naja and tell him to take care of the paperwork. Find Dom and tell him to get everything ready. Inform Bou-san, Iru and Eru about the current situation" Alexander said "Roger" She said as she ran toward the phone, Alexander rubbed his temples.

Dante skidded on the marble floor and ducked into a room, hoping he could hide there. Now he knew why Kari said not to make him turn 'black', because Allen Walker, was scarier than his brother without Yamato and haven't had his usual morning routine. Not a pretty sight mind you.

"When Allen goes by, I'm gonna clean up that mess," Dante whispered ever so quietly and then held his breath when rushing footsteps came by, but passed by the door, going further down the hall.

Kari continued inventing her new 'toy' upside down and hanging by her tail as she continued using the blow torch to make the last couple finishing touches of the body of the machine,which is hidden to all but her by a curtain,and she turned off her torch and made her tail let go of the piece of machinery and she fell down landing on her feet and she took off her metal mask and yawned as she continued humming Seal's Kiss From A Rose as she played with the black/blue/purpley rose that was always in her hair and she took off her lab coat and turned off the stereo and went outside of her room yawning and stretching and went to go find Allen and tell him to cool it and just have Dante clean it up.

"We gotta get them out of here" Alexander whispered as he looked around in case if there was people around "Are you sure? How are we supposed to do that??" She asked "A little distraction, I'm sure it will work" He said "They arent stupid Alexander, they'll notice. We have to take 4 people out of the mansion in 5 minutes, how are we supposed to do that?" She asked as she raised an eyebrown "We can tell them it's a mission, a fake mission, but after all they wont know" He said, she noooded still not convinced of that "fake-mission-plan" working.

"We're not deaf either."

Kari said behind them with a 'do I look that stupid?' expression on her face with her glasses and hat still on her,her hat had holes in them for her ears and they were currently wiggling,clearly she heard all about the 'fake mission' plan and she said bluntly rolling her eyes

"If your going to kick us out then at least ask if we need to go shopping or something and just tell us to get out of the house and have the day off."

Alexander shighed "Look it's not what you are thinking, we didnt want you guys to get involved,but that dosent matter now, we just need you guys to get out of here as fast as you can, there is not time for explanations" He said "Tell the others Kari. You guys can use any of the cars in the garage, just hurry, we have 3 minutes left" Jillian said.

"Aye Aye captain.Don't die."

Kari said bluntly saluting before racing off to find everybody and drag them to the garage explaining on the way with Hiro already at her ears with Maria riding on his back

"Bou-san, Iru, Eru you guys go too" Alexander said "Are you crazy? Do you think we'll leave you guys?" Bou-san said "We'll be ok. Just go!" Jillian said "Watch over the others" Alexander said, Bou-san groaned in defeat but did as he was told, he dragged Iru and Eru to the garage. "One 1 minute left" Jillian whispered.

"And counting...."

Corbin added dryly, having suddenly appeared behind them with his hands in his pockets and a bored expression shadowing his face. This hell that was about to be set loose made him all giddy and he was not going to miss out on all the fun about to happen. Be it an army of men or one god, Corbin knew he was not going to miss out on such an event.

"Angered someone influental lately?"

He inquired from Alex before staring out of a window with a gloomy face.

Allen was running as fast as he could with Maria on his back, his dress shoes clicking against the floor. Edward was running next to Dante as they followed.

"My opinion on them has just gone down," Ed said to himself, skidding and entered a car with Allen and turning the engine on, Dante and Kari on the motorcycle.

"You better tell us what the hell is going on when we get back you two!" Dante exclaimed and revved up the bike, causing the wheels to spin in place before getting traction.

"Get the hell out of here Corbin" Alexander hissed as he clinched his fists "For your own safety Corbin you shouldn't be here" Jillian said "Wait. You know what? Stay" Alexander said as he smirked evilly "Just go Corbin" She said, Alexander rolled his eyes. Jillian looked at the clock "30 seconds" She muttered "Get out of here" Alexander said to Corbin.

"And away we go."

Kari said bemused as Hiro had turned into his puppy form with Maria and she held onto Dante tightly and asked as they started driving down the long twisty roads with the wind already messing up they're hair.

"Where we going?"

Suddenly the shape of an star with 5 tips and circles of words writtein in an ancient languague appeard in the middle of the living room, a purple light engulfed the whole place.
Suddenly 12 cloaked figures appeard, all their faces being covered by the hoods of the black cloaks "The Council Of The Elders is now on sesion" One of them announced.
Jillian and Alexander looked at the 12 figures. "What a surprise, we didnt expect to see you here Alucard, dont you think you should change the outfits?" Alexander said as he smirked, the only figure with a dark purple cloack walked toward them "Descendant of Solomon, Descendant of Taliesin the pleasure is all mine" He said as he bowed lightly almost in a teasing manner "What do you want? I doubt you came here just for tea and cookies" Jillian said as she raised an eyebrown "We came here to warn Rental Magica about the result of their reckless actions" Alucard said "You alredy send a messanger or what you alredy forgot? Senior moment perhaps?" Alexander asked as he raised an eyebrown "That was just the 1º warning and here goes the second and last one" Alucard said as a silver scythe appeard in his hand.

Dante didn't answer Kari but he drove off, the wind creating some friction but it wasn't bad enough.

"Anywhere in the town for a couple of hours," Dante stated, turning and roaring through the streets, giving a loud whoop when he figured out where they were going. The local club. It was always fun there.

"Well,there goes the thought of Christmas shopping."

Kari joked as she figured out where they were going,she made a mental note to delay her shopping trip until tomorrow or just make them all something,shouldn't be too bad right?

*A Few Hours Later*
A black smoke rose into the dark sky. The mansion and the headquarters of R.M was now just a half-destroyed building, yes the the estructure was still standing but the windows were broken, there was black smoke coming from the living room, the doors were all laying on the floor, all the decoration was destroyed, and some walls were falling to bits. All the mansion showed the same result: there had been a nasty fight inside those walls.
Jillian looked at the destroyed mansion and shighed angrily, her snow-white hair and her dirty clothes plus the pale moon light gave her the appearence of a ghost. "How bad is it?" Alexander asked "Mmm....nothing that cant be fixed" She said, he just got up as he tried to take all the dirt from his clothes, failing miserably "Damn this was a brand new Armani" He mumbled angrily "This is great, just great" He said sarcastially "It could be worst, at least we won" She said "A battle but not the war" He mumbled, she rolled her eyes "I love your spirit and attitude right now" She muttered sarcastically. There was a minute of silence as both the siblings looked at the mansion. "Do you think they attacked the others quarters?" Jillian asked, Alexander shook his head "Well I dont think so, after all with destroying the headquarters is enough" He said, he looked at her "We had luck today" He mumbled, she nooded slowly.