The Serpent Queen

The Right Path | Part One

Daniel had moved on from the Doyona headquarters to a high-end bar in the Japanese capital. He pondered on his failure to keep Doyona on his side while drinking a glass of expensive whiskey.

His attention suddenly was drawn to the TV on the wall on the other side of the counter when the barman had moved away. A traditional but soothing Japanese song began playing from the TV. On the screen was a travel advertisement which featured absolutely picturesque views and ancient shrines.

The British male voiceover of the advertisement began speaking luring any watchers to come to the place on screen. "The nature. The tradition. Spend your four seasons...in Okinawa."

Daniel grinned to himself, hearing the universe loud and clear on where he had to go next on his journey. Back to somewhere he hadn't been in a very very long time, except this time, he was flying solo.

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Phoebe tapped a pen against the reception desk of the country club while holding a clipboard in the other. She had to manually write the list of the top names of the rich families and people that went there and the ones that her grandfather approved of that weren't rich. She also had to score off the ones that no longer made the cut, due to late or lack of payments or the ones Stavros didn't want on the property anymore.

She shifted in her seat while she scored of all the Cobras in the list that weren't allowed in any more. Glancing down to the floor, she asked, "Are you nearly finished?" 

Demetri glanced up at her, "I have to re-wire all these cables and reboot the entire computer system to get it up and running again. That takes time, Phoebe."

She sighed. "Well, can you hurry up? Grandpa's having a cow with the system down. Nobody can process payments for the upcoming Halloween season and it's supposed to be booked out." Looking at the list quickly again, out of all the Cobras she left Miguel and Hawk's names on it.

"You can't hurry perfection."

She rolled her eyes and waved hello to Xander as he walked by with a man's luggage.

He couldn't wave back so he just nodded his head instead and went into the elevator with the bags.

Phoebe went back to her work until she noticed someone standing at the desk.

"Excuse me, I'd like to see if there's any rooms available for me and my girlfriend?" A voice asked.

Demetri's head hit the desk in surprise. He recognised that voice.

Phoebe also recognised the voice. She smiled. "Unfortunately, our systems are down at the moment, but as soon as they're up, I'll make sure not to check. You know we can't book a room. I'd be grounded for life and you'd be six feet under."

Hawk sighed, "Well, I could only try."

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

"I wanted to check on you and see how the new job is going. I hope it's going well."

"Yeah, it is. But it's my third shift here in a row."

"I know. I wanted to wait to visit to make sure used to everything."

"I am. Thank you."

Demetri stood up, "Okay, wires are done and it's just the system that needs rebooted now!" He glared at Hawk.

Hawk glared back.

"Thanks to me, you're still on the list." Phoebe told her boyfriend to take his attention from her cousin.

"The list?"

She nodded. "The VIP one."

He grinned, "Awesome."