Case 1: The Smell of Troll

During the period of Years, the humans discover the supernatural world, the existence of demons, mystical creatures and fairy tales legends, the humans made peace with the creatures and share their worlds, they even made a group of Agents to make justice with demons and humans, there are known as Supernatural Criminal Investigation Service, also known as SCIS, among that group, their Forensic Scientist , 24 year old Scarlet Hope Walker works a long side with her partner 35 year old, Nicolas Stone, his features are dirty blond hair color, with his brown color eyes, he wears glasses and he isn't too fit, but his wife loves him like that, not much like Scarlet, her features are Black, short hair color and honey color eyes, her skin is smooth and white, she wear a lot of baggy clothing and black glasses. Both of them were sleep walking out of the lab after days of long nights working, Scarlet's tattoo on her right rib-cage, has the shape of the black dragon, is like he likes to hear the sound of her heart. Scarlet and Nicolas haven't slept in two days after finishing a cold case murder by a human framing a demon for it, in the end it turn out good with the family that wanted closure for it.

They were heading to the door when a bunch of special agents ran pass them, Nicolas is piss as hell and grouchy, as for Scarlet she is so tired that she doesn't have the strength to insult the damn agents. She arrives to her apartment not too far from her working place, she happily purrs of the thought of a nice hot shower and a cozy warm bed.

The next morning, she heard her cellphone ring, she groan and pick it up "You had reach a sleeping Scientist that is going to murder the person on the other side of this line" Scarlet said growling

"Jeez, Good morning to you too. Unfortunately, we need you in the lab and you are so going to love this" said Nicolas on the other line with sarcasm on his voice

Scarlet got out of bed tossing the sheets and tripping on it and kissing the ground, she groans in pain "I thought you were going to spend the day with Monica and your two year old kid, Nick?"

Scarlet went to the bathroom "I know but the chief call me and ask us to take the case" said Nicolas on the other line

Scarlet rub her eyes off "Ok, I'm on my way" she hung up

With a sigh she takes a quick shower, she got dress in her black jeans, bottom up white shirt, she brush her short black hair, grab in one toast and her bag and she left her apartment. Scarlet stated to walk toward her work, she arrive when Nicolas was about to start on the evidence box that they brought in, when Scarlet enter the lab; she bid her good morning to him and started to work. Later on an old man came down the lab; he is still in good shape, his hair gray and wearing a nice suit.

"I need answers guys and very good ones for all I care, it could be a giant!" the man loud talk to them

Nicolas turn toward the man "Oh I wish, that way we could wrap this up and go home" then he turn back to work.

"Well I am waiting for my answer" said impatiently the man

Scarlet is getting irritated by his impatiens, but she can't do anything to him, because he is their boss, the Captain of the force, Luther Rome, in his younger years he was the best agent of all, in fact he is also Scarlet's father best friend. The machine made a loud beep sound and Scarlet walk toward it, she opens the machine and grabs the probe tubes, and she twirls it then she smirk. She turns to her boss and shows him the probe.

"Well you wanted answer here they are Cap" shows Scarlet

Nicolas celebrate because he was right in his theory and happy that he can get to home early, the Captain is confuse and look at Nicolas with worry of the poor overworking man, he looks at Scarlet.

"Well girl don't let me hanging, what does the little tube is telling you?" encourage the Captain

"This my dear boss is the result of your previews question, we are going to look for some sort of a giant, we have a troll as a murder, one that stinks like hell too" Scarlet walk over the victims objects as she explain the Captain "There is a foul smell on the victims clothing, the smell is stronger in the chest area witch the autopsy report said that the chest was crush hard, that would indicated that the victim was on the ground when it happen"

"But according to Dr. Stellar, the Vic has more than just the chest bruises and bumps" explain the Captain to Scarlet

"True and that is why we took more than just the foul smell, your Vic was murder by a group of gangsters" finish Scarlet

Later that day, the Captain enter his office with the surprise of the big man of the city, with a group of people, he watch the people, he notice that there are scaring looking ones and that they are fit to be bodyguards.

"Mayor, what brings you here? With such escort?" ask the Captain

The mayor turn around and smile at the Captain "Luther my man, how is the work treating you?" he hug the captain and he hug him back "Is good to see you old friend, I got a request, here let me present to you, your new Special Agents, the Knights team, Otto Maroon, Titania Whiter and Aron James Kingston" presented the mayor the three people in the office

Otto Maroon has a very nice figure, he wears long grey pants and a black bottom up shirt, with a brown coat on it, he notice a tattoo on his shoulder that looks like a bronze color. As for Titania Whiter, her figure is to die for, her slim curves and tight clothing make it hard to concentrate, her brown long pants and white bottom up shit make her more intimidating, her hair is long and straight with a dark red color hair, tie up into a high pony tail, her tang skin tells her the time she's been on the field, he also notice a Silver color tattoo on the back of her neck. Lastly, the man in the team, the leader of it, Aron Kingston, a man that if looks can kill it will murder you, he is the right definition of power and promise, his figure is to drool for, he has a Golden color tattoo on his right arm, his black hair and blue eyes could make a women soak her undergarments, he is wearing black jeans, with a white bottom up shirt and a black coat. The captain look at them like gods, for some reason they emit power, he turn his head back to the mayor in fear and shock.

"Mayor with all due respect, we got a well-built team here, why do we need another?" ask the captain confuse

The mayor answer with happiness "Don't you see these guys are Dragons, as in the real deal, the Golden Dragon's fourth generation, Aron James Kingston, the Silver Dragon fourth generation, Titania Whiter and the Bronze Dragon fourth generation, Otto Maroon. With these guys things will get faster in here and your Forensic team could get well night rest. I hear that they take five teams cases in the last 3 days and they have any time to sleep or spend some time with their family" said the Mayor

The Captain scratch his head, he knows that he been pushing the Forensic Team to the brick that they don't care been hit by a bus, in fact he even made sure that there was a couch for them to rest if they need to, but how much of a rest they have, maybe two hours of sleep or less. The Captain didn't see this as a joke and accept the new team on board, now he has to take them to meet their new co-workers (in slavery on the basement lab).

Scarlet's been working none stop since she arrives, also Nicolas is passing papers to Scarlet every time he pass by her, then he made sure to keep the strong smells of trolls away from her, since he knows how strong her nose is. Nicolas knows about Scarlet's secret of been the Black Dragon, he happen to be on the lab when Scarlet was making an research on the cold case 3 years ago and a foul smell cause he to grow claws and fangs out, not to mention dark lines over her arm and half of her face, ever since then he's been keeping her secret and her existence from the rest and he is the only one that can speak to her about it, they heard the elevators beep sound, then the Captain appear once again, Scarlet could hear him and a few more steps, she was about to complain about his timing in every moment, when she turns around she sees the new people in her lab, but her eyes were all on Aron, as well Aron's eyes were on Scarlet.

"Alright, new team, these are the Forensic Scientist team in the building, there are more, but now this one are part of your team, meet Dr. Nicolas Stone and Dr. Scarlet Walker" presented the Captain "Doctors these are the new teammates, Otto, Titania and Aron"

Aron didn't stop staring at Scarlet, Scarlet on the other hand, stop staring at him and turns back to work, she grabs a bunch of papers and went to her office in the back of the lab, everyone stare at her strange behavior. She thought to herself that she never thought that Scarlet would meet him again here, she shakes her head and fought herself again, her instincts tell her to kill him or castrate him, but her heart and mind is keeping her sane and she knows that Aron and her there couldn't be anything between them.

That evening, Scarlet went back to the main lab, working on the troll case, Nicolas stops in her tracks "Guess who was at the bar across the streets when our little smash man was in the pub?" ask Nicolas with a smile on his face

"Who?" ask Scarlet

"Our dear informant, Jackie Lane" reveal Nicolas "The new team is heading on their way to get him" said Nicolas

"Oh, that is great" Scarlet let out a frustration and sarcasm tone

Nicolas eyes her from head to toe, she moves faster than lightning as he stares at her wondering what could had happen between her and the new team.

In the interrogation room, Aron is sighing in annoyance and frustration, Jackie is a hobo in the streets and he is a very well informant to the SCIS, he talks a lot, but even though that Titania is inside with him to talk to their informant, his mind is wandering on Scarlet, for him is been years since he saw her, he notice that she cut her hair shorter, her light brown hair still has the same shine as he remember, she grew too, even if she is wearing baggy clothing, because she feels comfortable in it, she is wearing her usual black glasses, but what stun him more is the way she was looking at him with hate and disappointment, also she is wearing the golden pendant he gave her when they were together. Titania hit him on the shoulder and he snaps out of it, they walk out of the interrogation room and walk around toward their desks, they heard that their victim was having a nice drink when suddenly a big guy came reclaiming something he has no right of hurting other people or monsters, he describe the guy to be tough and strong, green and with a foul smell, also a bunch of smaller guys around him. Aron and his team walk into the Forensic lab and see they were no one inside.

"Scientists!" Aron shouted and then he heard a bang under one of the tables

"Shit!" yell Scarlet that was coming out under the table

Aron looks at her in amusement and mischief "Sorry if I scare you Scarlet" said Aron

"A little warning would be nice, Agent Kingston" she glare at the guy with a massive headache to worry about "Ow"

Titania speak before she runs away again from them "Dr.Scarlet Walker was it?"

"Yes?" she looks at the woman weirdly

"Nice to meet you, Titania Whiter, Silver Dragon SCIS Knight Team, we are here about the troll case, have anything new to share with us?" said Titania very politely

"First of all, we don't like to be polite, so stop by the identification, second of all, yes we have something that might interest both of you" she walk toward her microscope wield talking to them "At first I thought that it was just a napkin or a wipe, but it turns out that is a very specific fiber of a very specific shirt, you are looking at the Dark Navy Blue shirt witch happen to be the same shirt that this guy..." she click the mouse and a video showing the argument from a group of guys and the victim "...is wearing, I manage to make a facial reconcile on the face, it will take me like 30 minutes or so to tell you his name and all"

Titania smile at her "Thanks Scarlet. Let's go Aron" she said to the staring man, drooling on Scarlet

Once in the lobby "So you know her?" ask Titania

Aron look at her "I don't know what are you talking about" he answers in a monotone voice

Titania chuckle "Please Aron you can't lie to me, so what's the story?" she look at him with curiosity

Aron sigh when they enter the elevator, with a silence, before the door open, Aron spoke the only word that he ever release to her "She is my Woman" with that he continue to walk toward his desk, leaving an open mouthed Titania in the elevator, she knew Aron since college years and she knows that every woman that look at him would do anything to get his attention, however he didn't look at anyone the same way, not until now that she sees his eyes glowing with love and passion toward Scarlet, wield she reflect hate and betrayal in her eyes. Titania started to wonder what happen to the two of them, but she knows that she has a case to close with her team.

Scarlet is working hard when Nicolas came to the lab with some more evidence, Scarlet smell the room and scrunch her nose in disgust "Oh my heaven and earth, Nick you stink!" growl Scarlet pushing a stinking Nicolas away from her as she started to gag, wield she found her lilac splash and spray almost half the bottle on him, he glare at her with a 'really?' kind of look, and she made an apologetic kind of look.

"I'm sorry, but you know how my sense of smell is sharper than a bloodhound dog, the thing is that even with my splash on you, you still stink" Scarlet cover her nose and search for an oxygen mask

Nicolas glare at her "First of all, I took a shower, five times and I can't get rid of this stinking smell. Second of all that comment hurts, and third, could you please start to work on this horrible, smelly, thing and then we can throw it in the evidence room, far far far away from your super-hyper smelling senses powers"

Scarlet nods and shows two thumbs up, she wore gloves on and giant tweezers, she is gaging all the way into the evidence table as she is starting to work to extract some evidence on it, a few minutes later, Otto and Titania came to the lab, they both smell the lab and scrunch their noses, then cover it with their bare hands, Nicolas came close to them as Scarlet is working on the damn thing.

"What the hell just die here!" disgusted Titania

"That would be me" answer Nicolas

"Dude, what happen to you?" ask Otto gaging

"I don't know, I was in the crime searching for more evidence in the crime scene when suddenly a Siren decided to clean the fish tank and pour all the dirty fish waist in the only guy that it was in the scene, luckily the evidence wasn't tamper, but it also stinks, so I have miss clean-goody-two-shoes, doing the examination" explain Nicolas as he points his finger at Scarlet with a gas mask on.

Otto scrunches his nose but smell something else on him "Dude, you smell like a woman's perfume"

Nicolas glare at him "That's because Scarlet decide to pour on me half of her lilac scent splash!" Nicolas snap at them

Otto and Titania took a step back from him and let him breath in and out, as he prepares himself to face his wife and be kick out to sleep in the couch of the house. As Nicolas left the lab, Scarlet came out with her gas mask, gloves and big tweezers in hand with the evidence on them, Otto and Titania started to gag by the disgusted smell, beg her to run that thing away from their noses, she was about to until she hits the next guy coming in the lab, Aron scrunch his nose and gag in disgust, wield, Otto, Titania and Scarlet, widen their eyes and look at him with pity and disgusted.

"Scarlet, please tell me that that smell isn't coming from that thing?" said Aron trying not to gag hard

"Sorry about that Agent Kingston, but this evidence is also the Key of our murder. If you guys excuse me I would like to dispose of it and then return with the information you all are looking for" with that Scarlet ran toward the evidence room, screeching how disgusting that thing is. When she came back, Aron had a change of shirt; the lab still stinks, but not as much as the back room of the lab and the very far end of the evidence room. She pushes her black board in the front of the Knight team.

"Alright" she started to scribble "We have our Victim, that dies here, but the argument was here. According to the evidence it pointed to a troll, but our troll is part of a gang, but this gang is not as deadly as the other, they have just a troll as the leader, the rest are humans, but get this, I found traces of cotton fiber on the thing that Nicolas brought..." they all shiver "... also traces of cement dust and latex glove on it, meaning that your Killer isn't the troll leader, is more like one of the minions that are following him, witch I manage to find out big bad troll leader.." Scarlet click one again the mouse, revealing a picture of the troll "...Meet our gang leader Trevor Swamp, born in June, 19, 1987, in Michigan, travels all around the world helping other demons, he settle here in the year 2000, and created gang that helps others. I thought at first why would a good gang gets involve with murder, the answer is simple, because 3 of those gang members are release from prison two years ago, those are Michael King, Adrian Solar and Ethan Alvarado. One of them is your murder" explain Scarlet with a proud smile on her face.

Scarlet is picking up her stuff and turning the lights off, once out of the building, she started to walk to her apartment when she notice that a car is following her in a slow pace, she glare at the driver knowing exactly who it is, she stops on her tracks and the car stop, she turns around and walk to the drive's window, the driver pull down the window revealing Aron there, she glare at him as he stares at her honey color eyes.

"May I ask Agent Kingston, what are you doing?" ask Scarlet fill with irritation on her voice

"I am making sure you get home safe Scarlet" Aron said in a direct answer

"As long as I remember, I can take care of myself and I don't need you to escort me back home, good night" Scarlet fast walk away from the car

Aron got out of the car and yelling back at her "What happen between us Scarlet?! Everything was fine until one day that you didn't show up anymore of our classes, and when you see me, you treated me like some kind of pest" Aron said as he walks toward her "I need to know what I did wrong to deserve such hate from you?" ask Aron gazing at Scarlet's eyes

She look at Aron's blue eyes, Scarlet can't escape those hypnotic eyes that drawn her to him, begging him to take her the same way he did back in High School, but then a flash of image of what he has done to her came in her mind, she closed her eyes "There is no us anymore Aron" with that she left him in the street alone.

Scarlet close he apartment door, she slide to the floor and started to sob, she knows that no matter what she can't bring herself to hate him, but what he did to her has no forgiveness, nor mercy, he play with her, but his eyes reflect everything that he want's with her, he loves her and she loves him back, but she rather bite her tongue than been with him again.

She calm down after crying her eyes out, she walk toward the kitchen and started to make rice balls with miso soup (Scarlet likes Japanese cooking and food), she finish her cooking, wield eating she reads the forensic fields about the troll case, there is something that has been bothering her, but she can't put her finger on it. Then she open her laptop and look at the forensic results that she's been working on, then she sees that inside the latex glove there was a dead skin there, she make the search and the result came as a snake dead skin, she got even more confuse, because all of the trolls minions are humans, she made a background check on the three convicts, there is a sentence that shock Scarlet and she made sense of all the crime, the Vic was a lawyer in a case where a Hibiki is the murder of five more crimes, she watch the sentence with disgust "You F******g, son of a b***h, I've should have known" she girted her teeth.

Scarlet gulp her food, she left the apartment in a hurry, arriving on the Forensic Lab, and she turn the equipment on and started to work her ass off. When dawn appear, Nicolas enter the lab, waling to the back office, he notice the scatter papers all around the desk and all the things out of place, he slowly backs away, then he sees Scarlet sleeping on the couch, he walk closer to her, she is sleeping peacefully and with research papers on hand, Nicolas bend his need close to her ear.

"Wake up!!!" he shouted near her ear

Scarlett jump in fright and surprise, falling on the floor with a scare beating heart, she jump on him and mess his hair "Get off me! Get off me! You heavy Reptile!" yell Nicolas

Now it was Scarlett's turn to laugh her ass off "That is what happens if you mess with a sleeping Dragon, only you get off the hook, others would probably bleed to death"

Nicolas manage to get Scarlet off his back, glaring at his co-worker "Not funny"

Scarlet rubs her sleepy eyes, Nicolas let go his bag and coat as he talks to her "Anyhow, what are you doing here, I thought that you were happy sleeping in bed, it takes me 3 phone calls to wake you up" said Nicolas confuse

"I found something that can help us close this case..." she walks toward her test results "... Adrian Solar is our Murder, he is not human he is a Snake demon" she hands over her results to Nicolas "... Our snake was sneaky, but I manage to get him, it turns out that he uses some kind of splash that hides his scent very well, but he got careless, you see, every reptile tent to move their old skin to a new one, which includes snakes... " explain Scarlet to Nicolas

"I know, I remember the day you move skin, it was the grosses day of my life" answer Nicolas

"... So it just so happen that our murder Adrian, has just change skin, leaving some traces on it" finish explaining Scarlet

Nicolas widen his eyes "So the traces of the old skin in the latex glove, were snake skin" finish the conclusion "All we need is Adrian's skin DNA to close the case" fast walk Nicolas to tell the Knights Team, he turn back giving a Kiss on Scarlet's cheek "You are a genius, that is why I love you" Grab the paper of Adrian Solar's profiled

The Knight's team manage to capture the 3 convicts, Titania's phone is vibrating, she pick it up, the caller is informing Titania what the Forensic Team found out, at the revelation of things, Titania eyes widen, she let go of the phone and walk toward the interrogation room, where she finds Aron interrogating Ethan, on the other room Otto is listening to the interrogation, when Titania enter in a hurry, she inform Otto about the results of the Forensic Team, He call Aron to the lobby, once in the lobby, the three Knights with Aron.

"This better be something important, I was about to crack him open like an egg" said Aron frustrated

"Even better, the Forensic Team found our murder" answer Titania happy

"It turns out that there were four demons on the group, the leader, Ethan Alvarado..." said Otto

Titania finish his sentence "...Michael King and Adrian Solar, but Adrian happen to be a snake demon that used some sort of Splash to hide his identity"

"It turns out that, Adrian was convict of five other murder cases and the victim was none other than the lawyer of the people" Explain Otto

"Finding him again wasn't an easy task for Adrian, so he join in the gangs to hear information about his whereabouts, that is when Trevor sees our Vic, Trevor informs the Vic about demons or people that had been doing bad things to the innocent and gives the evidence to him, that is why Adrian kill him, Trevor is the spy and the Vic is the authority" finish Titania

Aron got all the information he need it, he walk toward Adrian's interrogation room, he confront him, that damn snake wouldn't stand a chance with a Golden Dragon, Otto is there to put a stop to Aron in case he gets overboard. As Aron question Adrian, the others could see that he is losing his patience, when Adrian made a silly comment that made Aron snap at him, Otto grab him around his fist wrist holding him back as he insults the scare snake by his outburst, Titania swore that she saw a vein popping on his forehead, he calm down and glare at Adrian as he confess his murder. They put him behind bars and this time for good, Aron let go a deep sigh as he walks down back to the Forensic Lab, he sees Nicolas getting ready to leave the building. Aron look around the room to see the short hair beauty.

"If you are looking for Scarlet, she isn't here" said Nicolas closing the door and locking it "Chief gave her the rest of the day off since she spend it working all night just to get the evidence you guys need to catch this murder"

"I see, thanks Dr. Stone" answer Aron

As they walk by each other toward the elevator, Nicolas turns toward Aron "I've been wondering what is wrong with the two of you, I mean, I try to ask Scarlet, but that woman can rip me to shreds just by looking at me. So what's the story?" ask Nicolas

"To tell you the true, I don't even know, just something that happen in the past, but she won't say a word of it" answer Aron in the elevator

"You know, when I was in High School, I meet a very beautiful girl, her name is Monica, she is the light of my eyes, I ask her out couple of times, it took me almost a year for her to accept, we became the weirdoes of a couple, then one day she broke up with me, I never understood why, until I heard that because her parent's didn't want their daughter to be with a no body's son. I remember that the day we broke up, she grabs my hand and tells me something that gave me hope, she said 'Don't worry Nick, one day in the future we might meet again, and if that day comes, then that would mean that I've been destine to be with you for all eternity'. A few years past and we reunited once again, ever since I reunited with her, I've became the best in the Science world, and Monica and I got married, now she is my lovely wife with a two year old and a second on the way. All I am saying Agent Kingston, if you believe destine brought you and Scarlet together again, don't miss the chance to make things right now that she is here with you" they manage to get out of the building

Nicolas bid his good-bye and left, Aron is standing in the middle of the entrance, on thoughts of what Nicolas said to him, with those simple words Aron can't give up on what he feels for Scarlet, he knows that she knows that they are meant to be together