Dinner For Demons (Selene/Inverno/Closed)

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"Alright, we're finally here. Dear God, that was a long flight." Selene sighed, leaving the airport with a bag of lugage in tow. "God save the queeeeeeeeeeen!" Selene called out to the terminal. She rummaged through her bag to find two pieces of paper. One was an envelope sealed with the Shinigamis mark, and the other a simple printout from Mapquest. "Okay then, we have a reservation at the Ritz Carlton hotel. Oooh, fancy!" She said to her partner, annoyed about her last mission. An easy one, just to deliver a package to the Asia branch, and come back. More like an errand, she assumed. But then she had to sleep at some crummy motel. She shuddered at the memory of the bedbugs. Not fun.


Selene took a short moment to remember her teams mission. Their job was to find a kishin egg posing as a guest at a dinner party. The party is being thrown by the Prime Minister of England, so many distinguished people will attend. Using the means Shibusen provided and her teams wits, they are to infiltrate this party as regular guests, and kill the kishin. She would be more of a fan of coming in and attacking, but a flaming pitchfork wielding 15 year old might cause a panic.


She sighed thinking about swallowing a juicy red soul, but that was dangerous business. Craving them leads to eating too much, and most students knew the rest. So she decided on having a smoke. Not to much, just one or two drags. She tossed the cigarette on the floor, and with the now empty hand she hailed a cab.

[Inverno Costa]

It was Inverno's first mission with his new partner, Selene Jagger. It was funny how they ended up partnering in a bar. But then, who was Inverno to complain, right? Despite the fact that the bassist was quite the wild girl, whereas Inverno was the meek, rather conservative boy, it made up a good partnership. And while trident was rather unconventional for a brute-over-speed fighter like Inverno, he would do his best to make it work.

After exiting the airport, the weapon dug out two documents, one being issued by Shibusen, while the other was just a set of directions for them to follow. Meanwhile, Inverno was carrying his own luggage, which included a few medical supplies, and his suit for the event. Included in his pack of supplies was not only his nice suit, but also an invitation to the party. Unfortunately, he only got one invitation, so that meant Selene was to infiltrate by other means.

The girl lit up a smoke, and Inverno turned away to avoid inhaling the smoke. Luckily, the smoke was quick, and after a couple of drags, she disposed of the thing, and hailed a cab. As soon as the cab driver parked to let them in, Inverno got the cab money ready. Once they were on their way, Inverno faced his partner.

"S-so how do you p-plan on getting in?", he asked his partner.

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Selene shrugged. "We'll figure it out." She said. She hadn't really thought about how to get in. She just hoped that there was a band, a simple way to get in without too much work. But things were never that easy. She doubted asking someone to randomly be part of the band in which they get a big cut would be smart. But, she could get more information at the hotel and make a new game plan. A taxi screeched to a halt, seeing Selenes hail. She kicked her lugage in, and jumped in after it, hitting her nose. "Ow!"


In the taxi, she opened up the envelope, revealing a guest list. Deciding that talking with the driver around was a bad idea, she signalled Inverno to look. There wasn't anyone who stood out, but there was a small list of important people.


Angela Marr- Generous Donator to English Government

Samson Winse- Editor of Scotland Informational (Newspaper)

Daisuke Kisaki- Diplomat for Japanese Government

Pierce Meri- British Superstar

Alexander Nook- Retired Captain of Scotland Yard

William Pristin- Prime Minister of UK and Party Host



"Well this isn't much help, is it?" Selene whispered,crumbling it up and putting it in her jacket pocket. The cab skidded to a halt, and she gave the driver some cash. "Here we are, the Ritz. Reminds me of that catchy-ass song. Puttin on the Ritz..." She continued to hum as she walked in. It was a nice place, to say the least. She hoped the plane out would be delayed for a bit, maybe long enough to say for another day. She did want to see some sights. Not Big Ben or anything, but more interesting places, like the Beatles Museum in Abbey Road. Or shopping. Or a lot of shopping? Selene broke her trance and walked to the desk. "Hey, me and my.. boyfriend here have a reservation." The girl asked for a name. "Costa?" She guessed, wondering what name they would be under. The girl shook her head no. "Jagger?" She asked, another no. She sighed, and simply flashed her student id. The girls eyes widened as she searched the computer franticly. "OhereyouareheresyoukeyhaveawonderfulstayBYE!" The woman stuttered, then walking away to the EMPLOYESS ONLY room. Selene giggled sadisticly.

[Inverno Costa]

While the girl ended up hitting her nose upon entry, Inverno simply walked in, keeping his luggage close to him along the way. During the ride over, the two of them looked over the guest list. Among the guest list were six notable guests, including the Prime Minister himself. The others were a former captain, a superstar, a Japanese diplomat, a newpaper editor, and charitable woman. While his partner brushed it off, that was apparently five notable people that could potentially be the Kishin Egg. For the rest of the ride, Inverno mulled over each of the five notables.

Once they parked, it was Selene who paid the cab driver. The two of them headed in, talking to the desk lady. But before Inverno could bring up the name of his master, the girl spoke instead. The cover she used was that they were dating. After failing to see their names brought up, she instead flashed a Shibusen badge. This caused the girl to search, eventually bringing up their key. The girl then rushed into the Employee's Only area, leaving the two "lovers" to head in and get ready.

Once the team made it to the room, Inverno pulled his suit out of the luggage, carefully inserted so that it didn't get wrinkled too badly. He then put it on a nearby table, and took a steam gun from the nearby closet, and blasted at the wrinkles. While he was getting ready, he was thinking about where to sit, how to conduct himself, and if being close to the Prime Minister was a good idea or not.

"Any i-i-ideas yet?", he asked his partner, not even looking in her direction while he got his outfit ready for the night.

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"Well..no." Selene said, grabbing her laptop. She searched for the party in recent news, as she scanned around, she found a small blip on some cooking webmag. Apparently a famous restaurant was doing the catering, and brought the whole stores waitstaff for the party. Selene sighed. "I guess I have to pose as a waitress..ugh." She growled.

Within around 20 minutes of playing with various outfits and disguises, she finally finished her waitress disguise. It was simple, a white shirt with a red blazer and a black undershirt, along with a white tie. Of course, this was for Older men, and the outfit had cleavage. Selene rolled her eyes. "Well, I guess we better go."

((This is her outfit, btw))

[Inverno Costa]

While the girl searched her laptop for information, Inverno kept getting his outfit ready. Needless to say, under the cover provided to him, he really needed to look presentable for the Prime Minister and all of the others attending. Eventually, the girl mentioned having to go as a waitress. On that note, Inverno's face went bright red. Now, whether or not she noticed, Inverno developed a crush on the girl overtime. And the fact that she was dressing up like a waitress for the event would only add fuel to said crush.

By twenty minutes, Inverno had finished steaming his suit of its wrinkles. The blush had worn off, and a smile of satisfaction stretched across the shy meister's face. From his suitcase, he grabbed his dress shoes, and black socks. Then his weapon came out in a rather nice outfit for the occasion. While it wasn't the typical maid-like waitress outfit one normally came by, it was more of a business woman-like outfit, with cleavage of course. Needless to say, Inverno immediately turned back to his outfit, hiding his red face from his weapon.

"S-See you at t-the p-p-party. . .", he said to the Demon Trident sincerely as she exited. Meanwhile, the meister slipped out of his sweatpants, hoodie, muscle shirt, and undergarments. He then got into a new pair of boxers, along with his black socks. He then got into his pair of black slacks, and slipped into his dress shoes. Before putting on an undershirt, the meister applied deodorant on his armpits first. He then put on the button-up shirt, followed by a black tie, and his black blazer.

The albino meister then combed his white hair neatly before gargling more mouthwash to be safe. He then headed out the door, fully presentable for the event.

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The meister handed his invitation to the guard. Immediately, the albino Italian was cleared for entry into the gathering. Once inside took a look around him. Everyone around him was extremely well dressed. The room itself was extremely beautiful. Sadly the closest he would probably ever come to such status was as the live-in servant to Laurant, his sentient cat master.

((Hope this was alright))

[25precentcrazy]

((Musical Accompaniment))

Selene walked into the busy party, making sure her experesion was in a complete pokerface. Where was Inverno, already? She scanned the room carefully, and noticed a few people. The Prime Minister was getting quite the attention as he scoffed down a large boars head. Yuck. There was an older woman in a red dress, chatting with a man in a ceremonial police uniform. That must have been the woman who donated a lot of money to the government, and the Scotland yard captain. To people of interest, must have some information.

"I hope all of the terrible criminals are serving hard time for what they've done. Eating innocent souls, how vulgar. Who would have known there were so many? And how many are out there, Captain?" Marr stated firmly, the old captain was going to say his piece, but Selene had a cover to keep. "Red wine, ma'am?" She asked in a sweet cheerful voice. It pained her to talk like this.


The women rolled her eyes no, but the captain grabbed one quickly. Selene was going to stay close and listen in, but she saw her partner walk into the hall. She walked slowly but surely closer to him. "Red wine, sir?' She asked loudly, then began to whisper. "I got some intel on the captain and that donator woman. Try talking to the editor of that newspaper."

[Inverno Costa]

After walking in, the frankly cute Selene asked him if he wanted some red wine. Somehow, the meister managed to will himself not to blush. Inverno shook his head to decline the offer. Then the girl suggested that he approach the editor of the newspaper for intel with a whisper. He then walked away from the girl, and sat at the table with a lone man.

The Scottsman was a man with a full head of brown hair. His facial hair was a neatly groomed mustache and goatee. The black suit itself was similar to his, only his button-up was pink, and his tie was a dark blue. "Awful, isn't it?", asked the Scottish man. "I-I'm sorry I j-just arrived. . .", , replied the boy meekly. "No, not the party. The fact that this party even exists. It is simply meant to keep the allies the Prime Minister already has. He probably invited me to influence the press. What an animal.", said the man. Inverno wasn't sure if the motivation for the attack was a political attack, or just some stunt for personal gain or just infamy. But if it was the former, then this man was a suspect. Oh, s-sorry. . .", replied the boy again. "Stop apologizing, kid. Tell me your two cents.", the Scottish man told the boy.

To be honest, he didn't know what to tell the man. He didn't know if he was actually on the Prime Minister's side, if he was really against the man, or if he was indeed the Kishin Egg. Therefore, he didn't know if he should be honest in his response, or lie to the man. Either way, it probably wouldn't matter much. But with someone as nervous as Inverno, he couldn't help but worry.

((I'll leave it to interpretation, but please make it relevant XDD))

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Selene watched the conversation, scanning every word. She growled, clearly this conversation would not work out well. She was going to go and break it off by asking for Wince's order. All the sudden, the Japanese diplomat and Prime Ministers civilized conversation turned for the worse and turn into a yelling fit. Many people came over to the two in attempt to break it up. Selene raised her eyebrows, as everyone looked on in the chaos.

Selene fastwalked cautiously to her partner again. "Whats going on?" She said, it was quite the argument, apparently, as onlooker could not calm them. Just about everyone was in the crowd, and the others were looking on with horror.

All the sudden, the screams of interjection turned into screams of fear. Everyone started to dash away, while others stayed put frozen. Selene looked at her partner, and then ran into the crowd. There sat the Prime Minister, dead. And his soul was gone.

[Inverno Costa]

In the end, Inverno found himself telling him his true view on the situation. How he disliked the Prime Minister, how he was doing a terrible job with England. Just when Selene was about to approach the editor for his order, the Japanese Diplomat and the Prime Minister himself were in a heated argument. Inverno listened, and watched Selene approach the two. Meanwhile, Samson was taking notes of the situation, remaining in place with the teenager.

However, the situation quickly made a turn for the worse, as screams of panic filled the room. Inverno walked up to his partner, surprisingly calm. The two of them found the Prime Minister dead and without his soul. Unfortunately, they could not defend the man. Even though he did a terrible job, that still didn't change the fact that the assassination was successful.

"We can eliminate Samson Winse as a suspect, he was at the table with me the whole time. . .", he whispered to her. "However, Daisuke Kisaki seems to be the prime suspect here. But keep an eye on the other three. . .", he whispered to his partner.

At this point, it'd be up to her to determine whether or not to reveal themselves as Shibusen agents. However, at that point something occurred to him. "And what of Pierce Meri, has she been accounted for yet?", he asked his partner again. Surprisingly, he hadn't stuttered during the whispers, showing he was much more comfortable with whispering.

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"I'll try talking to her if I can find her. Or we can reveal ourselves, but we have chance of the kishin hurting someone else." Selene said. The guards were checking him over, in hopes he wasn't dead, hence the missing soul, but no avail. They quickly locked all the doors to call the authorities. "We gotta move quick, if the police come, they can let the egg out. Try talking to the donator and the captain, or at least eavesdrop. I'll deal with the diva."

"Red wine, ma'am?" Selene asked the woman. Meri already had a glass in her hand, but she quickly grabbed another. "Dry throat. How..gruesome!" She said. She seemed distracted, but not with the recent events. She was a busy woman, but it still struck her as odd. She drank down the glass very quickly, and it was pretty big. The woman looked at her, and started a shooing motion, so she got out of her hair.

[Inverno Costa]

In the ensuing panic, the guards locked up the exits to the building. His partner said she would account for Pierce Meri, while he was to check the contributor and the ex-captain, whether through conversations or eavesdropping. Obviously, Inverno chose the eavesdropping option. He slowly crept over to the two.

"All these disgusting criminals should die for what they've done. As you can see, suspicion is true sometimes. Our poor prime minister is dead, while one "innocent" is going to go free. If you suspect them, they will die.", said the woman firmly. At that point, Inverno's eyes widened. While the ex-captain would say his piece, Inverno quickly left the area undetected, and grabbed Selene discretely.

"W-when you listened in on t-them, what did Angela M-M-Marr have to say?", he whispered to his partner, clearly in a bit of shock. "Bec-cause I d-don't think she's the ph-philanthrop-pist we know her as. And Mr. K-Kisaki couldn't be our m-monster. The sources s-s-seemed to indicate that the K-K-Kishin Egg in question was a local m-menace. . .", he continued.

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Selene shrugged. "She was just...disgusted by the rumors. Weirdly calm." She explained. She looked at the woman again. Her dress revealed almost nothing, and as a glamorous woman in her early 50s, she didn't expect it. Selene looked at Inverno. Altough they just partnered up, she trusted his judgement. "If you think shes our target, maybe you can get her in another room somehow, she'd probably try to bite me if she thinks we're alone. Try getting her to go to the downstairs kitchen. Maybe give her a reason to complain?"

The downstairs kitchen was just for the custom orders, and it was empty now that the Prime Minister was dead the chefs all went upstairs, deciding not to work on custom orders. But the head chef was still working on the already placed orders. All the big meals were coming to and fro there for a while. Selene stood in position, awaiting the possible killer.