The Dragon's Thunder ------------------------------- by Elements of Desire Part III ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Present time Crystal Tokyo, Astrology center… "You liar, you cheater, you no good, back-stabbing, bastard, you…" She swore in every language she could think of at that moment, and all he could do was stare at her, enchanted by her beauty and totally ashamed of himself, not really understanding why. Her eyes crackled with anger, like angry lightening in a storm, he thought bemusedly, as she continued to shake him. "Why I ought to slap you silly for cheating on me like this!" Finally deciding that this had gone on long enough, he rested his hands and rapped them around her slender wrist to stop her from throttling him any farther, which left her gapping at him in surprise. Using her surprise as a moment of advantage, he gently, but firmly pried her fingers away from his, now, crumpled lab coat. "My name is Nephrite, Dr. Nephrite." He said, acting as if nothing had happened, and thinking that he actually did need a good throttle to snap him out of whatever trance he had stuck himself into. Shaking her head slowly, she finally relaxed, as he let go of her wrists. "Where's the mad woman?" A guard yelled out as he rushed into the door, that is, before he run into a wall when he saw Makoto standing there looking at him, puzzled at his outbursts. "Her." The secretary pointed, as she put her head in her free hand, sighing in disappointment, does all the men react that way to her? She thought in distress. "Me? A madwoman? Are you crazy?" Makoto asked startled, and began to laugh. "Don't you know who I am?" She finally pushed down her mirth at the people that surrounded her. For there were now three security guards lying one on top of another from crashing into the same wall or tripping over each other's bodies when they entered, the secretary who was still holding her head in her hand pointing at her, and her stargazer smiling at the men in bemusement, the ones