Part 1: Hunters and The Hunted
Arc 6: Kuragari.
(Inside Able's room in Reaper Hunting Co.)
Able: (He is looking at the cipher) Okay, Able. You're a sorta smart guy! You can figure this out! Ggg.Kjah,jhvdhjb.jds can't be that hard to decipher! You figured out a single line of the Zodiac Killer's puzzle, once! You can solve a cipher created by your best friend! Deep breaths, deeeppp breaths. It's gotta be a link to a website. (He starts typing it into his computer) So what if I just... nothing. Great. What if I... (He types, "WWW.GGG.KJAH,JHVDHJB.JDS.COM" into the search bar and also gets nothing) Aaah this is gonna take a while. (Someone knocks on the door) Come in! (Elizabeth walks inside the room) Oh, hey Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: You find something out?
Able: Yeah. There's a cipher on the back of the photo. I don't know the code to crack it though. And knowing Sam, he's gonna make us go through a thousand loops, before we get the answer. That is if it isn't all a wild goose chase. It's days like this, where I wish I had the Batcomputer.
Elizabeth: Maybe... it's a Caesar cipher?
Able: (He runs the code into a Caesar Cipher translator) Let's see. (It comes up even more scrambled than before) And... nothing! It's like trying to understand badly drawn Kanji!
Elizabeth: We could try to brute force it.
Able: Do you want to die of old age? There are over a million words in the English dictionary. That not counting in Japanese, German, Latin, Spanish and, French. Which are languages Sam also knows! And hell even a bit of Italian!
Elizabeth: Relax, we'll figure this out. We always do, right?
Able: Yeah... yeah.
(Downstairs)
Louis: So how exactly are we gonna find, Sam?
Kane: That part is the tricky one, he's gotta have a hideout somewhere. But knowing him, he'll probably do something big and noticeable soon enough. When that happens, we'll take him down. He may look like it, but that isn't the man you know, not anymore.
(Someone walks inside Reaper Hunting Co. it is Ren Hirata. Yes, I didn't forget about him)
Kane: Well if it isn't the man, the myth, the legend himself. Why are you back here?
Ren: (He puts his clothing bags on the floor) This is my house too... kinda.
Kane: Well then, where were you for the past week?
Ren: Visited a relative out of town. (He looks around the room and sees Sam's broken desk as well as the physical state Kane is in) Oh! What the hell happened in here!? Where's Samuel?
Kane: None of your business Renny. Just go up to your room and do whatever the hell you normally do.
Ren: Such a shame you don't bother to take interest in me! Like a mother bird after the baby falls out the nes-...
Kane: What did I say about the philosophical bullshit!?
Ren: Right! Right! Sorry.
Kane: *Tch* Bastard. Alright, I guess you guys can stay here for the night. You're just gonna have to get your own food, I don't want to put too much strain on Annah. The Minute- no the second we hear something about Sam. We go at the bastard! He's strong, but he can't beat Three Reapers and One Pendragon! Humanity relies on us now to save it! They won't remember our names, nor what we've done. But that's good, in their eyes we're just normal people, living normal lives. Right?
Peter/Louis/Gabriela: Right!
Kane: Good! You all have my phone number, tell me if you find something on Sam. I'm going to find alleys or anyone that'll help us. So I'll be gone for a few days.
(Later that night, around 20:00)
(Able is sitting at his desk, still trying to figure out the Cipher. Elizabeth walks inside and hands him a cup of coffee)
Able: Thanks, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Got anything?
Able: Nothing. Oh it's hopeless! Even if this cipher leads to a website. Who knows if that thing will still be up.
Elizabeth: Wait... website? What if... what if "ggg" is meant to be "www"?
Able: Hmm... (He types www.Kjah,jhvdhjb.jds.com into the search bar, but still nothing) It's useless, Elizabeth. Maybe we should just give up.
Elizabeth: NO! We're not gonna give up, right now! Maybe... maybe! ".jds" is ".com"? Try that!
Able: (He types it in, and as usual nothing) Anything else?
Elizabeth: Now... I got nothing.
(Later around 24:00)
(Able is working hard on trying to figure out the cipher, from testing different things with the alphabet to searching up different ciphers. Elizabeth is sleeping on his bed)
Able: (He looks down at the QWERTY keyboard and notices something) W... s... d... f... g! I-... I think I got it!!! Elizabeth!!!
Elizabeth: (She jumps awake and holds onto her head) What? (She starts rubbing her eyes) I was having a nice dream...
Able: Jeez... you really do sound like Sam. I figured out the cipher! I think.
Elizabeth: (She pulls a chair next to Able) How does it work?
Able: I think. (He points at the keys on the keyboard he names) Look at where W is, then at G. You were right about "ggg" being "www". The cipher works with a QWERTY keyboard! It moves down one single key and skips over two keys to the right. W becomes G. J becomes C. And so on!
(Basically W --} S --} G. It's the best I could come up with, take it or leave it. I'm not a super genius.)
(He deciphers it and gets www.True,Reapers.com")
Able: I shall call this cipher! The Able to Cipher! Because I Able Pendragon am able to decipher!
Elizabeth: That's a shit ton of "Able"
Able: Where'd you learn that language young lady!?
Elizabeth: I live in a house FULL of adults. I pick a thing or two up.
Able: Right well, one warning little missy!
Elizabeth: Just check out the damn site, please!
Able: Right!
(He searches for www.True,Reapers.com and finds a website with a riddle on it and a small bar to enter the answer)
Elizabeth: " I always go on, I never stay. I can't die. Who or what am I?".
Able: "Be cautious for if the riddle is failed three times, the website shall lock". And just when I thought I was done using my brain for the day. Well the answer has to be Reaper related so let's try. (He types in "A True Reaper", but nothing happens) Shit.
Elizabeth: See!? That's where I get it from! Try... try "The Grim Reaper"?
(Able types it in and indeed it works)
Able: Well, I'm glad that didn't take us 50 hours!
(It leads them to a website in German containing a Poem)
("Wahrheit ist nicht das, was Sie wollen; es ist, was es ist, und Sie müssen sich ihrer Macht beugen oder eine Lüge leben". He translates it over to English and the Poem reads "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie")
Able: Well, who wrote this fine piece? Let's see.
(He searches the poem up and finds that it is written by the famed, feared and legendary Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. Yes the poem is one HE wrote, I can't write like an absolute master)
Able: "Where the Sakura flows in the wind and Ryukyu robin chirps. Past the trees, there a pure and noble heart rests. Who has sworn to use his sword, to protect all innocent living beings".
Elizabeth: Do you think Sam wants us to find this Miyamoto Musashi?
Able: Well, Elizabeth. Pack your things, we're going to a Harima Province fishing village.
Elizabeth: Let's go then! Ain't got a moment to waste!
Able: (A smile grows on his face as he looks at Elizabeth, but he notices something is off. He hears a faint noise from outside the window. He looks out the window and sees a C-4 charge planted below the window and a man dressed in what resembles a black SWAT uniform jump down from the roof) Elizabeth!!! Get down!!!
(He runs away from the window and covers Elizabeth as the wall explodes, bringing the floor down with it. The entire 2nd floor comes crashing down. Able is hit badly in the head and is barely conscious)
(Several soldiers/agents start dragging Annah, Louis, Peter and Gabriela out of the collapsing building)
(Inside Reaper Hunting Co. as it slowly collapses and fire starts spreading from the kitchen)
Agent: Is that everyone!?
Ren: (He sees the barely conscious Able covering Elizabeth on the floor) No, you missed a few! (He bends down besides Able) Well you know what they say Mr Pendragon, constantly check your back. You'll never know when it'll start bleeding! Get this bastard and the bitch out of here! (They start dragging Able outside and carry Elizabeth out, they throw her in a different truck from the rest) We're missing Ms Lancelot, but she's dead anyway! Kane and Reyes are the only problems left! And make sure this shit stain on planet Earth is burned down, properly!!!
(Ren waves at Able one final time, Able with his last bit of energy gives Ren the middle finger, before he falls unconscious and the truck doors close)
(Several Black Trucks drive away from the burning and collapsing Reaper Hunting Co.)
(A picture of Sam, Kane, Able, Annah and Elizabeth standing outside Reaper Hunting Co manages to fly out of the building, but it catches fire and quickly burns away as well)
(Just hear me out, imagine "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival playing over that. Just imagine it.)
(End of Chapter 45)