Close to the Marx

Entry 9

Entry 9

20 Krishna

Vinnie surprisingly is an okay person when he was on his anti-hormonal regime. I found out who his girlfriend was quite easily. Her name was in fact Persephone Jeune she was the daughter of Cassandra Jeune who was put as the director of SPADE not too long ago. Cassandra did not even look old enough to have a daughter who was as old as Persephone and yet she did. I did not even begin to think of how it was that Vinnie could come up with the name of Beth from the name Persephone but that was besides the point.

“He’s not always like that, sir,” Persphone said after I had tracked her down and she agreed to a video conference call. “He is a very nice guy that’s what made me fall in love with him. I never thought my Sigmosis would have transferred to him. Seeing how I am asymptomatic.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Well I have it but…its kind of inactive…if that makes any sense.” Persephone said.

“Inactive?” I asked.

“Well you know how that Doctor guy who found the cure?” Persephone said and I nodded. “Well, it doesn’t really cure Sigmosis, it makes it inactive. That is probably what happened to that girl he was using to make the supposed cure.”

“But you can still give it to someone else?” I said.

“That’s right,” Persephone said. “I didn’t know that, I always told Vinnie to be careful around me just in case I could spread it to him. But he was insistent and we didn’t really fool around for years. When we started to, we used protection and didn’t do a lot of foreplay and he would get sanitized with Hydrogen Peroxide, that was his choice.”

“Huh…” I said. “So how the hell did he get it?”

“We don’t know actually we were so careful.” Persephone said.

It seemed like she was hiding something all the sudden as her eyes seemed shifty and started to look all over the place except at me.

 “As much as he jerks off, I am shocked your still with him.” I said.

“He can’t help it sometimes,” Persephone said. “I’m not exactly a prized person myself.”

“Hmm…well alright, well Ms. Jeune if you can please be on top of him taking those meds, I will appreciate it.” I said. “I would like to have him fully functional despite current circumstances.”

“I will try my best captain.” Persephone said and ended the call.

When she did that monkey was again sitting on the chair in front of me.

“Cute girl huh?” the monkey asked.

“I know you have some sort of cloaking device,” I said.

“Nothing gets past you huh?” the monkey smirked.

“Meaning that you are not some omniscient god,” I said. “You are a being from another world, one that has technology far superior to what we have here on Golordia Prime.”

“You lesser beings wouldn’t understand.” The monkey said.

“Try me,” I said.

“Well okay, I am from a race that your people call The Star Builders.” Qida said.

“You mean of legends?” I said.

“They were not all legends.” Qida said. “Like for example, you are only at the tip of the iceberg. You ever wonder why Sigma of all the moons this planet had, was the only one that had the Sigmosis plague?”

“Quarantine?” I asked.

“Oh yeah that stupid thing everyone adhered to.” The monkey said sarcastically. “Please, I am sure you haven’t even looked into what they are doing on Rho, yet.”

“Rho?” I asked.

“Oh yeah you’ll find all sorts of goodies on Rho,” The Monkey said. “But that is besides the point. Have you found out who killed my friend yet?”

“No,” I said.

“Then what good are you?” Qida asked.

“Hey I just started,” I said. “At least give me a lead if you want to be all cryptid.”

“Hmm…what can I tell you.” Qida tapped his chin. “Oh, I know, how about if I tell you about the Black Knights.”

“I know about them,” I snorted.

“Yeah but did you know that you can beat the one that they call Tiger?” Qida said.

“I can beat Tiger?” I said.

“Yep,” Qida said.

“How do you know that?” I asked.

“I saw you do it, it happens about 3 weeks from now.” Qida said.

“Bullshit!” I said.

“You were protecting the Honor of your Colonel and your future girlfriend, well wife I guess…I don’t know you kind of get set up with her because of the new strain of the Sigmosis plague.” Qida did air quotes when he said that.

“What the hell are you talking about?” I asked.

“That’s your way in,” Qida said.

“Defeating the Tiger?” I asked.

“You need to beat the tiger to find the dragon so the legend goes.” Qida shrugged

I knew what legend he spoke of. It was kids’ story about a bear that was sent out looking for somebody who stole honey from his race of bear people I guess you can call him. He had to defeat a tiger on the way to find a dragon who had been the one who had stole the honey. I did not know how Qida even know such a book existed, but he did know.

Seeing how the son of a b***h had given me a tip earlier I decided to look up this book. I found a scanned version of this and discovered that there was more than one book and it was part of a series that was called the Bearserker. I never quite remembered the name of this book I just remember seeing it when I was a kid.

I looked through several pages that were scanned.

It was a story about a brown bear that for some reason had a bow tie.

I stopped and thought of what the monkey had said earlier.

“To think you were based on a brown bear with a bow tie that the guy writing this got from his sister when he was little.” I remember the monkey saying. I thought about that for a moment but shook my head as it being ridiculous.

I was getting uneasier and uneasier as I looked through this book.

First the brown bear had met a fox that called itself of all things named Justin. This was while waiting to talk to a pink (probably was Fuscia) bear. The pink bear was attractive to the brown bear and the fox. The bear went into a den where the Fox had just splurted his junk all over.

I c****d my eyebrow when I saw the next few pages.

The brown bear went with the pink bear to meet…it was hard to describe. It was a clearly female creature with beautiful wings. The wings reminded me of a butterfly, she had them folded over herself to cover most of her body, especially the upper part. The brown bear, the pink bear and the butterfly woman walked down this garden when the brown bear saw the Fox jerking it. The brown bear threw a f*****g knife that it hid in the back of its neck at the fox.

“This is too f*****g much!” I said looking up from the scans and saw that the monkey was gone. I looked back down at the scans.

There had to be something to this book. I flipped several pages and saw things of note. The Bear defeats a tiger that was protecting some sort of serpent that was sitting on top of a pile of gold. The Bear goes after the serpent but is suddenly held back by of all things a sudden war that starts erupting around him.

Everything around him started to die. Everything. All plants all animals, everything. The Pink Bear died, the butterfly woman died, but a young bear cub that looked pink and brown survived and the bear had frozen her to protect her. I skipped a bunch of books and suddenly a much older looking Bear meeting a silver wolf.

The bear teaches the silver wolf how to fight. Teaching him different maneuvers skills and techniques. The silver wolf was tricked into killing the bear by an ape. But the Bear was not dead a monkey with a golden cape saved him.

“Son of a b***h!” I said getting up from the computer.

What in the f**k was this? I wondered I looked back at the series of the books and just saw “Author Unknown” as the by line. I had to show someone this. Maybe Heather? Could she decipher this? Sure, as hell probably won’t be Vinnie.

Well the thing started to beep again so I will continue my log in the next track.