The Midnight Sky

Part 9

Chapter 17

The first sign something was wrong within the halls of Vongola was the darkening of the Meeting Room the Vongola Nono and the CDEF Leader holding their annual meeting.

The second sign was the shadows as they stretched across the room, releasing a dense fog that made a chill travel down both men's backs but not quite as much as the soft jingling of chains.

The darkening of the room despite the sunroof over overheard, the shadows reaching to devour them, the soft rattle of chains in a non-existent wind. Neither man dared to breathe as they simultaneously reached the same conclusion:

Vindice.

"Vongola Nono; Timoteo Vongola " A taller bandaged creature emerges from the darkness, shadows clinging to its cloak and melding into the one's upon the floor as though he was apart of them- knowing those abominations for they could not possibly be for they could not be human- as its unnatural voice filled the deathly silence, "You have been fount guilty of two separate charges of Assault Upon a Child, there counts of Neglect upon three separate children and one count of Abuse upon a child within your care, alongside the practicing of Sealing a Child Sky."

What?! Assault, Neglect, Abuse? Sealing... No, they couldn't know, what reason would the Vindice have to enter Namimori? Yet one of the Shinigami was standing before them, charging him of all people! Did it not realize who he was?!

" CDEF Head; Sawada Ietsmu. You have been found guilty of Neglect and assault upon a child alongside Abetting with the Sealing a Child Sky."

For a brief moment, the memory of his beloved Tuna-fish dressed in bandages, tattered cloak and a top hat filled Ietsmu's mind. He had put it off as a harmless coincidence but now.....

The Vindice knew- they knew he and Nono had sealed his son's Flames- the only way the Head of CDEF could think of them knowing was the possibility the creatures were watching- and likely had been for some time- his little Tuna-fish. The CDEF Leader clenched his fist, allowing his Sky Flames to fill him while keeping them from bursting just yet, as the thought of thought of those Monsters being anywhere near his civilian filled his head.

"To resist would only be to prove your guilt and lengthen your sentence but please, by all means, Try It."

"Ietsmu," Timoteo's sharp voice barked out a silent order- he could already feel the suffocating killing intent that made Intuition scream for him to run radiating from the creature before them- before focusing on the Vindice, "Do you not know who I am? I am The Vongola Nono; Head of the Most Influential and Power Mafia Famiglia-"

"No one is above the Law."

"If you take either Myself of Ietsmu it will be an outcry of War towards The Vongola and Our Allies. They will come-"

"Let them come, they shall share your Fate."

Neither man gets a chance to speak further as they find themselves yanked forwards by a chained collar around their necks- when had the creature even moved?- that was slowly dragging them into the shadows the creature was disappearing into.

　

Later, Sawada Ietsmu would be relieved to know he could at least write a letter to his wife once every six months. For some reason one of the Guards had shuddered at the idea of allowing his wife to visit him in Vendicare- Being around such purity as his beloved Nana must be agonizing for these creatures of the darkness- before all but shoving the parchment and quill into this hands yet the blond Mafioso fount himself with a dilemma.