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			      Final Attempt VII
				Aum Shinrikyou

              A story by Suika Roberts, Saint of Eris Discordia
  Based on the work of Takahashi Rumiko, Takeuchi Naoko, Fujishima Kousuke,
                                 and others.

	`Mercury, take out the door,' Moon tells her, standing to one side, the
camera crew watching from further back.

	`Right!' she sprints towards the door, her skirt flaring.  She gives
it a single double-footed kick, and it explodes out of its frame into the
room.

	She lands with a soft click of bootheels, her short hair swishing
against her face, as the foam-core steel door slams into a pillar.  Shouts
arise from inside, and she steps through, her pair of automatic pistols in
hand.

	`Down on the floor, hands on your heads, NOW!' she barks, and there is
a quick scrabble, as all of the warm bodies in the room comply.

	`OK, that's the last of them,' Moon says, softly.

	`Which them?' the reporter asks.

	`The ones directly involved in the attack.  Everyone else will be
released after I deal with these ones, and do a bit of spot-checking amoung
the rest.'

	`Deal with them?'

	`The enforcement treaty gives me that privelege.  Anyone who endangers
Dark Kingdom citizens while breaking Japanese law and the rules of the Dark
Kingdom may, at the whim of the Special Police, be dealt with under the
rules.'

	`Which means?' the reporter asks, as she follows Moon into room.

	`That means,' Moon says, kneeling next to one of the men on the floor,
`None of these people will leave this room, if what I fear is correct.'

	She takes a deep breath, then places her hand on the cowering man's
head.

	He goes still, his body relaxing.

	`They were trying to destabilize things, to prepare for the end of the
world.  This one fully believed that he was doing the right thing,' she says,
then makes a face.

	`Done,' and she stands, walking to the next person on the floor.

	The process is repeated twelve more times, then we move to the holding
room, where people in Dark Kingdom Militia uniforms stand watch over the rest
of the prisoners.  The rest of the cult leaders are sitting, staring
white-eyed at the youkai Militia personnel.

	She deals with them much faster, taking less time between them.

	Finally done, she turns to the reporter, `As per the rules, the people
who perpetrated the cowardly, criminal poison gas attack this morning are no
more, their personalities shredded and rebuilt as I saw fit.

	`The rules are clear, and anyone who choses not to follow them risks
much.'

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Log:
Eris knows (Probably 1998):	Started
2004 Jan 4:			Title block and log