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baekhvuns · 2 years

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YGE went from o to 1000??? Kpop stans are going to jail, finally! No but seriously whattttt. Thankfully I don't remember much from that dream, hehe. I only remember me saying "you don't need to walk so close to me" 🙃

Oh my sweet summer child, haha. Idk I used to be all for Damon, but I started to despise him, tbh I hated all the characters at some point, but also Delena was boring 😭 sorry I spent years obsessing over them and then was like "ok nvm". The mental gymnastics I went through because of PLL, don't even. Shadowhunters yes, rip to that show </3

Yeah I'm afraid we're all married then. No, but he needs to get a grip, who does he think he is pls. Okay perhaps you should've gone for YH x SH x Y/N fic then 😅

THOSE CUTE HOODIE SELCAS WERE TAKEN ON THE SAME DAY SANHWA RECORDED THE RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE I THINK??? I can't with him

Seonghwa talked about the cherry PC, he knows... and the way he mentioned putting a lot of thought in his photocard selfies. Yes WE FUCKING KNOW YOU'RE DOING THE MOST. I gotta tell him there's a stealer who wants to get his photocards 👀 he'll guard my body photocards

Isudishsjudgdgdhs I actually quite like Love in Contract, but I just can't stand the SLS, it's too much even though he's dumb, but I find it hard to care for the apparent main relationship </3

That's right not even crumbs. Didn't get Hyunlix and Kai, didn't get Ateez and Kai either. Some fucking bullshit

Yes, SM was slacking this time wtf all those pretty shots for nothing. 😭 they gave us INVU and Gasoline and reached their limit. Dark Seulgi so so so true I love her, need more of her

Yo what's with all that Soohyuk talk I missed 😭 y'all not gonna see the gates of heaven if you don't stop. I'm so sorry for not mentioning the Lee Soohyuk to Hwa though, but maybe next time? 💔💔💔 but what the fuck should I say lmaooo. I have a mission: I need to speak to blonde Hwa. I met Seonghwa as blonde for the 1st time and we started our relationship by hip thrusts in my face

Okay but that bathroom selfie is peak Seonghwa. He looked adorable, but then there's that sinful shoulder. So biteable

I know you're gonna hurt me bad with the new series, so I will simply pretend not to see whatever ending you've prepared. You'll not destroy me again! I have a vivid imagination 🤗 my simp king is coming and I have to smile!

It was the anniversary of the death of long haired Hwa, but at least he was pink at that time, so it softened the blow... I keep forgetting he's blonde now because of all the black hair content 😭

Uh oh miss Baek! Skz had a comeback, and you need to listen to this if you haven't already. Maybe it'll give you some ideas 😊😉😘 This and Red Lights....... why - DV 💖

hi helloo!

FOR ONCE, THEY DID 😭😭😭😭 no bc they better some deserve them so they can get in touch with reality,,, OH??????????? HELL;LOKDJFHKE THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED A LIL AND THE QUIET GASP,, BETSIE HWY WAS HE WALKING CLOSE WHAT AU WERE U IN WITH HIM,, PPT FORMAT POINT FORM APA MLA FORMAT SIZE 12, TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT RIGHT NOW

😭😭😭😭 PLS WHY DID U HATE HIM,,, i also just started so far so good it has a very cozy feeling esp bc it's christian girl fall now and the little crappy quality of it just makes the mood,,, is ppl actually a good show to watch bc finding the 'x' in the game alone got me pissed 😭😭😭😭

Yeah I'm afraid we're all married then. No, but he needs to get a grip, who does he think he is pls. Okay perhaps you should've gone for YH x SH x Y/N fic then 😅

i never thought id see u write the word m*rried fbjhdfblb NO LITERALLY SOMEONE, PUT HIM ON A LEASH JUSEYO 😭😭 i think i would have passed away instead of writing that bc that would mean three people in one smut and id deteriorate BUT the yunho fic is getting along bc my brain had a moment so the inspo is back, 15k atm hopefully will get this done fast for hwa to begin <3

THOSE CUTE HOODIE SELCAS WERE TAKEN ON THE SAME DAY SANHWA RECORDED THE RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE I THINK??? I can't with him /// Seonghwa talked about the cherry PC, he knows... and the way he mentioned putting a lot of thought in his photocard selfies. Yes WE FUCKING KNOW YOU'RE DOING THE MOST. I gotta tell him there's a stealer who wants to get his photocards 👀 he'll guard my body photocards

i LOVE HOW WE KEEP SAYING WE ARE DONE WITH HIM BUT THEN HE POSTS, AND WE FORGET HOW TO BEHAVE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 oh HE KNOWS he's deff a moot with some fan acc, AND U KNOW HE DID IT ON PURPOS TOO, WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD OUT A CHERRY ON THIER LIP LIKE THAT AND POST A PHOTO WHILE LOOKING BOTH HOT AND CUTE HOW IS THIS MAN POSSIBLE !!!!!! u gotta tell him his pc stealer is just doing work for the charity <3

Isudishsjudgdgdhs I actually quite like Love in Contract, but I just can't stand the SLS, it's too much even though he's dumb, but I find it hard to care for the apparent main relationship </3

have no watched since ep2 but i saw some spoilers, bestie was aDOPTED????? LMFAOO HE'S DUMB BUT HE'S OUR DUMB <3333

That's right not even crumbs. Didn't get Hyunlix and Kai, didn't get Ateez and Kai either. Some fucking bullshit

NOT EVEN CRUMBS OR A MISNCULE DUST,,, hyunlix and kai,, sitting on the table next to each other,, oH THEY MADE ME SO FURIOUS FLSBFLH HOW SHY ARE U ALL 😭😭😭😭 kai and hwa met backstage??? no proof hwa we need it LIVE ON STAGE AND HOPEFULL AT THAT FESTIVAL THEY MEET AND ID LIVE MY HWA KAI FANTASY MY FICS WOULD COME TRUE ID CRY JHGEJHK

Yes, SM was slacking this time wtf all those pretty shots for nothing. 😭 they gave us INVU and Gasoline and reached their limit. Dark Seulgi so so so true I love her, need more of her

they really wasted those pretty shots for the teasrers, which wow omg was so so pretty, could've got miss sulgi in some cathedral doing her choreo but instead we got studio choom sm basement version,,, invu and gasoline was sO stunning visually, the costumes and everything,,, miss seulgi could've gotten that dark villain costume omg 😭😭😭😭 but like her solo lore is so interesting i hope sm makes her have a CB where they go full in

FGSKDFGF IT WAS A FEILD DAY LAST NIGHT 😭😭😭😭 oh bestie nEXT TIME THE FIRST THING U BETTER SAY TO HIM HIS LEE SOOHYIK AND PULL UP A SIDE BY SIDE PHOTO OR IM ONTO U HFABKJ pLS THATS SO FUNNY EVERY TIME U SAY IT "we started our relationship by him thrusting in my face" CRYINGHEGKJHG;

Okay but that bathroom selfie is peak Seonghwa. He looked adorable, but then there's that sinful shoulder. So biteable

his slight skin made the internet panic this mf 😭😭😭😭 how can one be the deadliest combo of cute and sexc what the hell 😭😭 sO BITEABLE UR RIGHT,, CHOMP CHOMP IT

the ending or the beginning <333333 does miss yn even end up with him? who dies? who lives? what goes wrong? what secrets are revealed? i just know one thing will surprise everyone <3 i WILL TRY NOT TO DESTROY ANYTHING AIMING FOR A GOOD ENDING FOR ONE (8) OF THEM AT LEAST

It was the anniversary of the death of long-haired Hwa, but at least he was pink at that time, so it softened the blow... I keep forgetting he's blonde now because of all the black hair content 😭

no literallly i keep forgetting he's blond bc we had that other colour for os long,,,, it feels like im seeing edits instead of reality 😭😭😭😭

Uh oh miss Baek! Skz had a comeback, and you need to listen to this if you haven't already. Maybe it'll give you some ideas 😊😉😘 This and Red Lights....... why - DV 💖

OHHHHHH BESTIE THIS IS PHEWWWWWW THIS SCREAMS VILLIAN YN OH THAT DROP WAS NASSTTYYYY leeknow's vocals omg,, my mind exploded a little i listened to its slowed and reverb too and fell a little,,, this song goes so well omg this one too! king taeyeon's vocals, i also think this would fit this villain notion very well but slowed is insane

bestie the fact awards is today which means new hwa photos…BETSIEBRBNWHDKWDH

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i-cant-sing · 3 years

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Imagine Y/N putting filters on Snapchat on yanderes dad president Kai when he's doing a speech or w/e and it going viral and there's just videos on the Internet of Kai with cat ears or the dog filter luRlututzits

Kai is talking about how he's grateful to the army and their service, and reader has that bucket hat filter on his face, or the anime filter, or the dancing rabbit filter. And the Internet is going wild and making memes and like loving that Kai is not even spared from his own daughter.

Definitely takes a picture of a fork in front of the camera, making it looking like Kai is in jail, all because he didn't allow her to go to a concert. Or maybe because he didn't cancel student loans, with the caption "JAIL TIME DAD. FOR 1000 YEARS"

#yandere president kai #yandere president dad kai #yandere kai chisaki #yandere overhaul

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swampythesweetsketch · 2 years

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Ninja hurt Jay?! Hurt Jay like evil thug!!

Oh jail for ninja!! Jail for ninja for 1000 years!!!

And phycological trauma for Kai!!!!

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duhragonball · 2 years

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[FIC] Luffa: The Legendary Super Saiyan (194/?)

Disclaimer: This story features characters and concepts based on Dragon Ball, which is a trademark of Bird Studio/Shueisha and Toei Animation. This is an unauthorized work, and no profit is being made on this work by me. This story is copyright of me. Download if you like, but please don’t archive it without my permission. Don’t be shy.

Continuity Note: This story takes place about 1000 years before 66 years after the events of Dragon Ball Z.

[2 September, Age 749. Earth.]

One story continues with a little girl pleading for help from an Invincible Old Master. So great is her desperation that she feels no one else can save her homeland. So great is her resolve that she has braved dangers on land and sea to find him.

Master Roshi was short, bald man of advanced age and poor manners. Living in solitude on a tiny island, the Turtle Hermit had long forgotten the social niceties. In the outside world, he would surely be put in jail, if any prison could possibly hold him.

As Pansy made her plea for assistance, his island was attacked by a submarine from the land of Gurumes. Roshi's house was destroyed, but he retaliated with an even mightier assault. Before Pansy's amazed eyes, the old man swelled to three times his size, and launched a beam of blinding light from his hands. The Kamehameha. The Turtle Destruction Wave.

It was an invincible power!

And he refused to use it on her behalf.

The Turtle Hermit claimed that he was far removed from worldly life and desires, as though this forbade him from interfering. Yet he advised Pansy that she did not need his assistance, for she already had wonderful friends who had already joined her cause.

"I'm certain there are times you feel all alone," he said. "But helping each other is what people do! I believe that bringing friends and strength together can always make any wish come true!"

Pansy found these words hollow and meaningless at the time. But she had the ride home to ponder their meaning. She had felt all alone, even as Bulma and Oolong and Son Goku had joined her crusade.

And her friends did have power. Besides Bulma's weapons and Oolong's shapeshifting abilities, Son Goku learned the Kamehameha technique on his first try. His blast was far weaker, but it was a testament to his boundless potential.

Roshi seemed to believe this would be enough to make the difference, but Pansy was not so sure.

"He can wax philosophic all he wants, but I say that old pervert is just too lazy to make the trip!"

That was Oolong's opinion of Roshi's decision. The pig-man was a cynic and a coward, so it made sense for him to project his own sentiments onto the Turtle Hermit. And yet... Oolong was going along, where Roshi had stayed behind. If Oolong wasn't too lazy to join them, then why not the Invincible Old Master?

Unless he was certain that Pansy and her new friends would be enough. His words had seemed like empty reassurances, but what if--in his infinite wisdom-- Master Roshi had sized up the situation and decided his power truly was unnecessary?

Was it really that simple? Was it just a matter of friends working together to help each other?

And if that was true, then why did Roshi live alone on an island?

Perhaps his brief contact with the outside world had been enough. It had been enough for Goku to learn the Kamehameha, and to receive the gift of the flying cloud, the Kinto'un. So the trip to his island had not been a waste after all. Each fateful encounter made subtle changes to the story, like the gears in a clock, or the cells in the body. Each corpuscle flowing through the veins, alone, but never truly alone.

The heart beats, and the blood of this tale continues another lap on its endless course.

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[16 May, Age 767. Earth.]

It was called, unofficially, the Ruby Loop. The Supreme Kai of Time and her agents, the Time Patrol, had been studying the phenomenon for two years. From the outside, the Ruby Loop looked like a chunk of red crystal that floated and glowed in one of the Kai's storage rooms. But it was possible to enter the crystal, and find a world that could only be described as a time loop. Events would proceed, then suddenly start over from the same date.

According to the Supreme Kai of Time, such time loops and other anomalies were able to form "naturally". As the divine steward of the timeline of the universe, one of her duties was to prune the flow of history, removing such anomalies when they proved dangerous to the main timeline. But the Ruby Loop had proven far too strange to be easily dealt with. Unlike other time loops, which could be trimmed down to under fifteen minutes, the Ruby Loop was neither brief nor consistent. Some cycles lasted mere days. Others spanned eighteen years or more.

Still, the Kai was unwilling to give up on the matter, and so she sent two Time Patrollers to explore the Ruby Loop once more. Excitebike was a Namekian from the Deep Time Investigation department. He had traveled the Loop a number of times, using a custom-built time machine designed around a motorcycle. He was condescending and anxious and irritable, but there was no more qualified expert on the matter.

His partner for this expedition was Luffa, an ancient Super Saiyan recruited by the Time Patrol to defend history from the evil machinations of Towa and Demigra. Luffa's power and ferocity were undeniable, but the Supreme Kai of Time harbored doubts about Luffa's fitness for Time Patrol duty. And so, she assigned Luffa to the Ruby Loop as a test of skill.

And so, Luffa found herself on an alternate version of the Planet Earth, staring at a large wall, while Excitebike lectured her about its importance.

"The Kingdom of Gurumes," Excitebike said. "In the real timeline, it's just a humble nation with an agrarian economy. But here? Oh, here here here... it's a mess. Why else would they build a wall around the place?"

Luffa rapped her knuckles on the surface and listened to the metallic clang they made. Then she looked up to take in the size of the structure. According to Excitebike, it was one hundred meters tall, and three meters thick.

"And you said this thing surrounds the entire country?" Luffa asked. "How did they build it? And why? If they're just a bunch of farmers--"

"Gurumes didn't build it," Excitebike said testily. "It's not there to keep people out. It's to keep him in. That's what the Capsule Corp. records show, anyway."

"Capsule Corporation?" Luffa asked. She only knew the organization through Trunks, the leader of the Time Patrol, whose family ran the business. "How are they wrapped up in this?"

Before Excitebike could answer, a patrol robot flew toward them. It bore a Capsule Corp logo, and a pair of laser-rifles mounted to either side of its body.

"Attention!" it said with a dispassionate, tinny voice. "Trespassing is strictly forbidden in the containment zone! This unit is authorized to use lethal force, as per Royal decree number KC9211900..."

"Well, come on," Excitebike said. "It'll be easier to show you in a different time period."

Luffa followed him back to the time bike he had used to bring them to this place, and the robot sentry did not follow, apparently satisfied that it had frightened them away.

*******

[1 September, Age 749. Earth.]

Because of the nature of the Ruby Loop, Excitebike could drive his vehicle forward ten days into the future, and end up seventeen years in the past. As surreal as Luffa found this, Excitebike seemed to enjoy the convenience of it. "Fuel economy" was something he cherished greatly.

They materialized in the same location on the borders of the Land of Gurumes, but this time the great wall was gone, and in its place was a wasteland. In the distance, Luffa could make out heavy machinery and other signs of heavy industry.

"Is that some sort of mining operation?" she asked.

"You're sharper than you look," Excitebike said. He stored the motorcycle in a Hoi Poi Capsule and stowed it in his jacket. "We'll fly over so you can see it up close."

Luffa knew little about Earth history, aside from what little she had picked up from Time Patrol missions. She had quickly determined that ki adepts were practically unheard of in this time and place. As the two Time Patrollers flew over the land, no one sensed their powers, nor did anyone think to look up.

Below them, Luffa saw construction crews and survey teams milling about in all directions. Some of them were erecting mining equipment, while others were demolishing houses and silos. Nearby, a crowd of civilians stood by and watched.

"It looks like they're building all of this on top of farmland," Luffa said. "And they seem to be in a big hurry."

"That's because they are," Excitebike replied. "King Gurumes brought in hundreds of contractors during this year. Every one of them is being paid handsomely to produce results as quickly as possible."

"But what are they mining?" Luffa asked. "Gold?"

"Gold. Hmph. Guess again," Excitebike sneered.

"Praseodymium?" Luffa asked.

"No, it's not--" Excitebike's smug grin suddenly fell into a confused grimace. "What the hell is that?"

"I did a tour on a planet where they fought a whole war over lanthanoid refining," Luffa said. "Everyone kept telling me praseodymium was worth a lot of money. Superconductors or something."

"Well it's not prase-- priso-- whatever you said," Excitebike muttered.

"Neodymium?" Luffa asked.

"It's rubies!" Excitebike shouted. Fortunately, they had moved far enough from the people below that he wasn't heard.

"Rubies?" Luffa asked. "I thought those were made synthetically."

"Not on Earth," Excitebike said. "Not in this era. Besides, these are no ordinary gems. The locals here call them 'Blood Rubies', and they're said to carry a curse."

"What kind of curse?" Luffa asked.

Excitebike waved his hand at the ground below. "What kind? Isn't this enough for you, Luffa?" he asked. "On New Namek, we were taught to take care of the land. The Earthlings use it to grow food, and yet these Earthlings are bent on tearing it all up for the sake of a few baubles! But if you really want to get into the heart of it, we need to pay a visit to the king..."

He pointed to the horizon, and began flying in that direction. Luffa took one last look below, then followed him.

*******

Minutes later, they arrived at the castle. It stood in the center of what had once been a majestic lake, but Gurumes had drained it and stripmined the lakebed for Blood Rubies. When the operation had finished, the miners moved on, leaving the castle surrounded by what resembled a crater.

Security in the palace was impressive for the era, but still no match for the Time Patrollers. Luffa and Excitebike could fly over walls and force their way through locked doors. As they approached the dining hall, they encountered a handful of guards, but these were easily dealt with.

"A few precision nerve strikes," Excitebike said as the soldiers surrounded them in the corridor. "I can render them unconscious and no one will ever know how it happened. I'm sure you'd rather blast their heads off and drink their blood, but--"

Before he could finish speaking, Luffa seemed to vanish, then reappear an instant later. The guards suddenly froze in their tracks, their eyes wide with shock. Then their limbs went slack, and they collapsed to the floor like puppets whose strings had been cut. Their weapons clattered on the stone cobble, and then all was silent.

Luffa looked at Excitebike and held up her left hand. Her fingertips glowed with a faint yellow light.

"Was this what you had in mind?" Luffa asked.

"Er... something like that," Excitebike said.

"Maybe they'll wake up in time for you to take them out as we leave," Luffa suggested. "I'd be interested in seeing it done in the Namekian style."

Excitebike muttered something under his breath as he stepped over the guards and led her into the dining hall. It was a spacious room with marble pillars, designed for elaborate banquets and glamorous occasions, but with most of the windows shuttered and all of the lamps doused, it reminded Luffa more of a mausoleum.

She sensed King Gurumes before she saw him. His ki was low, but it was still much stronger than she would have expected for an ordinary Earthling. More importantly, there was a peculiar darkness to his strength, which resembled the kind of wicked magic used by various demons and wizards Luffa had fought in past battles.

What little she could see of Gurumes was almost as unsettling. He was four times larger than any typical Earthling Luffa had seen. His ears were pointed and his skin looked rough and lumpy. His wide mouth hung open like the maw of some enormous fish, revealing a thick, slimy tongue that moved restlessly back and forth.

Luffa raised her hand and produced a brighter glow of ki energy to illuminate the room. She immediately regretted it, as this revealed the purple color of Gurumes' flesh. His entire body looked like a septic wound. His right eye was bulging out of its socket, while the left eye winced as he growled with discomfort.

"So... hungry..." he moaned. His voice was like the sound of the machines he had purchased to grind up his land.

"What... happened to him?" Luffa asked. "Are you saying the Blood Rubies did this?"

"We aren't sure how," Excitebike said quietly. "But it's almost a certainty. In the true history of Earth, King Gurumes never looked anything like this. And we've had geologists examining the land of Gurumes very carefully in the main timeline. There's no sign of anything like the gems found in this world."

Luffa held her hand in another direction, and noticed something shiny next to Gurumes' throne. It was a pile of rubies, scattered around his swollen feet.

"Those are the Blood Rubies?" Luffa asked. "I expected them to look... well, different. They're pretty enough, I guess, but they look like any other red gemstones. Hardly worth tearing up a kingdom over."

"The whole castle is full of them," Excitebike said. "I can show you storerooms with nothing but sackfulls of these things."

"But why?" Luffa asked. "You said he's spending a fortune to mine these things, but he has so many already. If no one wants to buy the things..."

"Buy? Buy?" Excitebike said. "Hmph. That's not it at all. I'm sure he could find a buyer, but King Gurumes doesn't want to sell. At least, not anymore."

Luffa looked back at Excitebike in surprise, then looked back at King Gurumes. "He's bankrupting his kingdom... mining all these gems, just so he can keep them?"

"We think the Blood Rubies have some sort of influence on the king," Excitebike said. "That's why we saw that wall around the entire country eighteen years in the future. In some of the cycles, Capsule Corp builds it to contain the Blood Rubies, so no one else will end up like King Gurumes here."

"S-so... hungry." Gurumes muttered. He began to cough, and for a moment Luffa thought he might drop dead that very moment. Instead, he opened his mouth and unrolled his tongue to reveal four Dragon Balls. They glowed orange, briefly illuminating the spittle gathered around Gurumes' inhuman mouth.

"He ate the Dragon Balls?" Luffa asked with growing disgust.

"They're his only hope now," Excitebike explained. "Gurumes has been cursed with insatiable greed. One Blood Ruby isn't enough for him. He wants them all. But he also can't be satisfied by anything else. He can't ease his hunger with food anymore. Whatever dish he tries, it can only satisfy him once. The next time he eats it, it's like he didn't even have a meal. And Gurumes had a passion for fine dining. So by the time he understood what was happening to him, he had already eaten almost every unique kind of food on Earth. His chefs had to get creative, inventing all new dishes for him, and when that no longer worked, Pasta and Bongo came to him, offering to track down the Dragon Balls for him. Gurumes believes the Dragon can sate his hunger once and for all."

Luffa was familiar with the Dragon Balls. It was the Eternal Dragon, Shenron, who had brought her to the Time Patrol in the first place. Trunks had wished for a powerful ally, and Shenron had chosen Luffa out of all of space and time. The Time Patrol seemed to trust the Dragon, but they still had doubts about Luffa herself. She wondered if Shenron could actually solve Gurumes' problem, or if the Dragon's solution might leave Gurumes' dream unfulfilled.

As she contemplated this, Luffa stepped closer to Gurumes' throne. Repulsive as he was, she was fascinated by his pitiful condition. She had grown up on folk tales, which often featured characters succumbing to gruesome fates because of their moral failings. To witness King Gurumes being transformed and consumed by his own avarice, for Luffa it was like seeing one of those folk tales brought to life.

Without really thinking about it, she crouched near his throne and reached out for one of the Blood Rubies that had fallen away from the pile. Luffa cared little for the gems' monetary or aesthetic value. It was their power that now intrigued her. Whatever they were, they had somehow dominated a man and compelled him to sack his own kingdom.

"Luffa, don't touch that!" Excitebike cried out.

Her fingers stopped less than a centimeter from the Blood Ruby when she noticed King Gurumes beginning to stir.

"Whoooo darrres--?!" he growled.

Luffa glanced up to find him staring straight at her. His right hand curled into a swollen fist, which he raised menacingly above his head. As he rose painfully to his feet, his left hand clutched at the side of his face.

"Those arrre... miiiiine!" he slurred. "Lousy... theeeeiivessss!"

"He... he's still conscious?" Luffa asked. "Before, it was like he didn't even know we were here."

"It's the Blood Rubies, you clod," Excitebike snarled. "After everything he's done, did you really think he would let you take one?"

Gurumes lurched towards Luffa with all the grace of a reanimated corpse. His regal clothing, tailored to fit his distended body, only made him look even more horrific. Drool spilled from his mouth as he grinned stupidly at Luffa. Then he stumbled and fell flat on his face.

"So... hungry," he wailed.

"We need to leave," Excitebike insisted. "If this keeps up, we might aggravate his transformation, and that could alter the timeline of this loop..."

"Aggravate?" Luffa asked. "You mean he gets worse?"

*******

Following their visit to King Gurumes' castle, Excitebike took Luffa to a forest, where they set up camp for the night. The time-cycle was supplied with Hoi Poi capsules containing a small dome-house for shelter, and enough rations to sustain them for a full year. Luffa built a fire and sat outside as she gobbled down servings of freeze-dried ham and vegetables. Nearby, Excitebike nursed a canteen of water.

"These things aren't half-bad," Luffa said as she wiped her face. "Put a little of this nutrient-paste on it, and it gives it a nice tangy flavor. Reminds me of some combat rations I looted from an enemy camp on Planet Bultran."

"Oh that's nice. Very nice. Well, we'll see if you still enjoy it after a few more days," Excitebike said. "After all, you won't be eating anything else for a while."

Luffa ripped open another tube of nutrient-paste and squeezed the entire serving into her mouth. "So why is that, anyway?" she asked after swallowing. "You and Chronoa acted like there was something wrong with the food in this place, but it seems normal enough to me."

"That's what Swepo thought too," Excitebike said. "Until he began to show symptoms."

"Symptoms?" Luffa asked.

"He's a Saiyan like you," Excitebike said. "No, not like you at all. He has some table manners. But he still liked to pack it away, and at the time there didn't seem to be any harm in it. Then he started acting funny. His appetite got out of control. He ate more and more, and it never did any good. And his skin started to look different, like he was bruised all over."

Luffa's eyes narrowed as she took in the Namekian's story. "You think he came down with the same curse that got King Gurumes," she said.

"We spent a lot of time in and around Gurumes' Land," Excitebike said. "If the Blood Rubies are responsible for what happened to their king, then Swepo could have easily been exposed to a Ruby or two. He might have inhaled some ruby dust. Some of the mining equipment can crush a Blood Ruby."

"What happened to him?" Luffa asked.

"We went back to the Time Nest," Excitebike said. "Then he made a full recovery in less than a day. After that, we made strict rules against eating and drinking anything in the Ruby Loop."

"But if it's the Blood Rubies that caused the problem," Luffa said, "then it should only be an issue in the Land of Gurumes, right? The rest of the world should be uncontaminated."

"The whole planet is contaminated," Excitebike said. "There may only be Blood Rubies in one small country, but the fact that they're on Earth at all is at odds with history! We can't take anything for granted here, not until we get to the bottom of this. And I doubt we'll be figuring that out anytime soon."

Luffa stood up and wiped the dust off her pants. "This all feels like one of Towa's schemes," Luffa said. "If she turned out to be behind all of this, it would make a lot more sense. Like she's corrupting and mutating King Gurumes as part of one of her bizarre experiments."

"Well, it's not Towa," Excitebike insisted. "I keep telling you, this is a natural anomaly."

"How can we be so sure?" Luffa asked. "You said it yourself. You've been studying this thing for years. It all comes back to Gurumes and the Rubies, but we can't even see the moment when they first came into contact. If I were Towa, and I wanted to cover my tracks, I might try to disguise my tampering... make it look like it happened naturally."

Excitebike replaced the cap on his canteen and took a deep breath. "Fine," he said. "Fine. Fine. Let's say you're right. Let's say there is someone behind all of this. How do we find them?"

"Neutralize Gurumes," Luffa said after a short pause. "Whoever it is, they wanted Gurumes to get cursed and turned into that... creature we saw. They wanted Gurumes to interfere in Bulma's search for the Dragon Balls. But Towa's spells would burn out after I beat up her victims, and Demigra's power sort of works the same way. I bet if I hit Gurumes hard enough, the curse would be lifted."

Excitebike shook his head. "Why do you think they walled him up in his own country?" he asked. "Left unchecked, Gurumes eventually becomes an unstoppable menace. Un-stop-a-ble! I've read enough reports from past loops to know that this planet has thrown everything they have at Gurumes. Conventional weapons don't put a scratch in him. He survived having Shenron emerge from the Dragon Balls he had swallowed. Goku even tried to fight him as a Super Saiyan. None of it works."

"But the wall does?" Luffa asked.

"By that time, he's practically mindless," Excitebike said. "He won't wander far away from his hoard of Blood Rubies. The wall is mostly there to discourage him, and to warn the authorities if he breaks out. No one seems to know how strong he really is, but he seems to be practically indestructible. And his hunger makes him lash out sometimes. So the wall is a safeguard, but no one knows how effective it really is."

Luffa held up her fist and grinned. "Yeah, well... I'm pretty sure I can dish out a little more than Kakarot could. And even if I can't do much damage to Gurumes, fighting him might flush out whoever's behind all of this. Or if that doesn't work, maybe separating him from the Blood Rubies would do some good--"

"There! Right there!" Excitebike said. He rose to his feet and began angrily pointing his finger at Luffa. "This is exactly why I can't stand rookies like you!"

"What'd I say?" Luffa asked.

"What, what, what? The same thing all of the others said whenever they learn about the Ruby Loop for the first time! 'Well if the Blood Rubies aren't supposed to be there, why don't we just remove them?' Don't you think we've tried that?"

Luffa crossed her arms and made an expectant face. "Well, what happened?" she demanded.

"Nothing! Everything!" Excitebike shouted. "We did a cleanup operation a long time ago, gathering up every single Ruby-- by force when necessary-- and everything seemed to go fine, until we found out we couldn't remove them from the Ruby Loop. The cargo container would be empty when we got back to the Time Nest. Then we tried to haul the Blood Rubies into outer space, but as soon as we reached the upper atmosphere, they vanished! And do you know where they ended up?"

He waited a moment for Luffa to answer, and when she shrugged he thew out his hand and pointed to the west. "They went right back to the Land of Gurumes!" he said. "And the whole loop started over again, like nothing had ever happened!"

"Oh," Luffa said.

"Ohhhhh," Excitebike groaned sarcastically. "We even tried using the Dragon Balls in this world to remove the Blood Rubies, but it ended up the same way. As soon as they're removed from the planet, the Loop resets. We think that's why the duration of the Loop changes from one cycle to the next. Either something happens to the Rubies, or something happens to the Earth. The cycles we've managed to chart always end at some major event. Vegeta and Nappa's invasion, the day Mecha-Frieza landed, and the whole mess with Dr. Gero's androids. Or maybe something else happens, but it seems unlikely that it's a coincidence-- What... what are you doing?!"

Luffa reached out with her left arm, and it began to glow with yellow energy. She then turned her palm downward at her feet. "You mean if I destroyed the Earth right now," Luffa asked, "I mean, right this very second. Then this would all reset to the beginning?"

"Nownownow cut that out!" Excitebike shouted.

"I'm not going to do actually do it," Luffa said with a mischievous smile. "Just answer the question."

"Yes!" Excitebike said. "The world would reset and we'd be standing right here, a few hours earlier! But it wouldn't change anything! So just put that away!"

Luffa nodded and the glow on her arm began to fade away. "All right, all right," she said. "You're too jumpy, Excitebike. I thought you Namekians were supposed to be calm and spiritual."

"And I thought you Saiyans were smart enough to control yourselves..." Excitebike muttered. "You might not be able to destroy the Earth we're standing on, but you'd probably kill me at least. So why don't you just knock it off with the theatrics you... you...!"

But Luffa was already busy considering her next move. "It sounds like all we've got is the change in history, which we can't even observe because it happened before the beginning of each cycle," she said. "Wait... the people in the Loop know what happened before, don't they?"

"What are you babbling about now?" Excitebike asked.

"I mean, Kakarot has a Dragon Ball because it's been sitting in his house," Luffa said. "And Bulma invented the Dragon Radar to find it. That all happened before the first day of the Loop, right?"

"Of course," Excitebike said. "Those moments aren't actually part of the Loop, but the outcomes of those events are still in tact."

"Then Bulma remembers things that happened before the beginning of the cycle," Luffa concluded. "We can't travel to the day she invented the Dragon Radar, but if we asked her, she could tell us all about it."

"That's true," Excitebike said, "but what does that get us?"

"I'm just using it as an example," Luffa said. "It's actually Pasta and Bongo I'm more interested in. King Gurumes may not have a clear memory of things, but Pasta could probably shed some light on all of this. From what you told me, it sounds like they never had anything to do with the Dragon Balls in the true timeline."

"That's right," Excitebike said, somewhat impatiently. "But what can they tell us? Gurumes hired them to track down the Dragon Balls for him. They're just mercenaries."

"Good," Luffa said. "Because mercenaries sometimes know things that their clients wouldn't want to share with the regular army. Pasta and Bongo could shed some light on things."

"Why should they talk to us?" Excitebike objected. "Unless you plan to force them, and that still wouldn't stop them from lying..."

"Oh, I have my ways," Luffa said with a smirk. "I just need to touch them, and--"

"What was that?" Excitebike suddenly said as he whirled around and began to scan the darkness around them.

Luffa was confused, but only until her Saiyan nostrils caught the scent that accompanied the noise picked up by his Namekian ears. For a brief moment, she expected to find an enemy, one of King Gurumes' soldiers, or perhaps even some demon wizard who had chosen to reveal himself as the mastermind of the Ruby Loop.

Instead, it was a small Earthling child who stepped out of the shadows. She wore a red dress with a white pinafore apron over it. The ensemble matched her red hair and the white meshback cap she wore. From under the bill of the hat, her inquisitive brown eyes scanned the Time Patrol Campsite and took in the pair of aliens. There was an awkward pause, until finally she took a step back and blurted out one question.

"Which one of you is Oolong?"

"Oolong?" Luffa asked.

"Better move along, kid," Excitebike said nervously. "Go on, get out of here!"

The child did not need to be told twice, and she turned and ran as quickly as her legs would carry her.

"What was that all about?" Luffa asked.

"That's Pansy," Excitebike said. "She's one of Gurumes' subjects. When they found Blood Rubies in her village, King Gurumes ordered it demolished so the mining crews could take over. She didn't like that very much, so she ran off to seek help from Master Roshi. She made it to this forest, where she eventually runs into Son Goku and Bulma."

"So that's another change from the genuine history, then," Luffa said. "Hmmph. She never would have gotten involved with them if it weren't for the Blood Rubies."

"Even if she had," Excitebike said, "she wouldn't have met Bulma and Goku here anyway. If Pasta and Bongo hadn't stolen the Dragon Ball from Goku's house, they would have taken a different route, leading them to Aru Village."

"Aru Village?" Luffa asked.

"One of the Dragon Balls was there," Excitebike explained. "The six-star ball. But Goku had to save it from Oolong first before they could get it. Oolong was terrorizing them with his shape-shifter powers. Apparently, in this altered time, Pasta and Bongo got to Aru first. They might have forced Oolong to prey on this forest instead. Of course, he didn't realize it was so close to Yamcha's territory. So in this timeline, they all met in one night."

"That seems like a strange coincidence," Luffa said.

"We can track down Pasta and Bongo in the morning," Excitebike said. "I doubt it's much of a lead, but it's better than doing nothing. Now let's get some sleep."

*******

Luffa wanted to follow Excitebike's orders. She was still sore from her loss to Beerus, even after Chronoa had partially healed her and given her time to rest. And while they had not spent long in the Ruby Loop so far, it had been a lot to take in. But sleep never came easily to Luffa, and so she found herself lying awake, staring at the ceiling of her small bedroom.

The entire mission frustrated her, and while Excitebike had done much talking and explaining, she felt just as confused as she was at the beginning. As irritating as Excitebike was, she suspected that he was just venting his own frustrations with the Ruby Loop. It was difficult for Luffa to grasp the problem, and even harder to suggest any actions that the Time Patrol hadn't already tried.

And yet, Luffa had to come up with something, for Chronoa believed she was the only one who could solve the mystery. She had sent Luffa back in time, with a note for the Chronoa-of-last-week. The note cryptically read "SHE'S READY", and the Chronoa-of-last-week concluded that this was in reference to the Ruby Loop. And past-Chronoa's guess must have been correct, or otherwise future-Chronoa would have written the note to be more clearly. This was Chronoa's reasoning, anyway.

At first, Luffa had been willing to play along, but staring at the ceiling in the dark had given her time to reflect on the absurdity of it. No one actually wrote the note. Chronoa had penned the words on the paper, but she didn't think of them herself. She was simply transcribing the note when it arrived from the future with Luffa. The whole thing depended on this idea that "SHE'S READY" was this profound, unmistakable message that had to be true, and yet no one actually sent the message; it was merely forwarded through time in an endless cycle.

Worse, it bound Luffa to a destiny she was now obligated to fulfill. Her impulse was to step back and support Excitebike as he took charge of the mission, but if that were possible, he would have solved the case on his own a long time ago. If Chronoa was right, then Luffa would have to do something, because she already had.

It was the certainty of it that Luffa found so paralyzing. If the outcome was so inevitable, then what did any of it matter?

It reminded her of the way Luffa's wife would speak of divine purpose. Providence, Zatte had believed, would use Luffa for some important role in the grand design. Apparently, the Dragon Balls must have agreed, as Shenron brought Luffa to the Time Patrol to grant their wish for a powerful ally. And now Chronoa had created a prophecy for herself, stating that Luffa was the key to an entirely different problem.

Luffa raised her left arm and looked at her knuckles in the faint moonlight from the window. All she wanted to do was fight. It was one thing to inspire people. That was just a matter of being a great warrior, and setting a standard that others could look up to. But this business of "special destiny" was something else completely.

As she mulled over this, and several other grim thoughts that had been on her mind for some time, she suddenly noticed a strange noise coming from outside the window. At first, she thought it was some wild animal lurking around their campsite. Then she saw a flash of light, which was followed by an obnoxious alarm.

Luffa sprang into action immediately. She clambered out of her room and headed straight for the door, slowing down only to check on Excitebike. The door to his room was wide open, and his bunk was empty, which did not surprise her. Namekian hearing was far more sensitive than her own, and he might have heard the intruder long before Luffa.

She stepped out into the night and found a figure squatting over his motorcycle. The glare from the headlights made the intruder look like an indistinct shadow, and the shrill horn of the timebike's security system drowned out whatever he might have been saying.

He was hunched over the side compartments of the cycle, rummaging through the bags of Hoi Poi Capsules that contained their supplies.

"Get away from the bike!" Luffa shouted. She would have thought Excitebike would have already intervened. He had beaten her outside, and yet there was no sign of him, even when a bandit was threatening his prized vehicle.

As she approached the raider, she wondered why Excitebike hadn't just stowed the timebike in its own Hoi Poi Capsule, the way he normally did. He seemed to cherish the machine like it was a member of the family.

And then she suddenly remembered that Excitebike had put the bike in its capsule. She remembered seeing him put the capsule in the pocket of his jumpsuit before they went to bed. Then what was it doing out here?

She reached out to grab the intruder by the shoulder. Whoever he was, he paid no heed to Luffa's warning. Judging from the size of him, he was probably used to intimidating people with his bulk.

"I said--!" Luffa growled, but as she pulled the intruder away, she finally got a look at his face, and her eyes went wide with horror.

"What?! What?! What?!" he snarled.

It looked like a pale-skinned Namekian, but his body had swollen, and the cuffs and legs of his orange jumpsuit had been torn to rags by the expansion. His mouth was covered with half-chewed food: freeze-dried ham, mixed vegetables, and nutrient paste. There was no mistaking it, as the wrappers that contained the rations lay scattered at his feet.

"Excitebike?!" Luffa gasped. "What's the matter with you?"

"Leave me alone!" he screeched. "Can't a man have a midnight snack in peace?!"

NEXT: Lonely Among Us.

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Embezzlement in Utah

Many people are involved in businesses. But one day you come to know that expenses incurred and project invested cost is lesser than the total cash outflow. Receipts are no there but the transactions are written in ledger account. You will be discombobulated for a while and will think that where this all money went. You will see the historic data of your company that if this happening for the first time or you just came to know just now, this vanishing of money was happening for six months. Facepalming your face, you will be angry, disgusted, and may be sad because of some one from the work was involved in embezzlement, sucking the money of very company that gave him salary for his hard work so he or she could rivet his or her desired bread and circus. Notwithstanding even the most honest employees of the company are sometimes involved in this monkey business.

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Embezzlement is another one of the forms of white collar crimes, falling under the umbrella of theft crimes. The crimes involves a person or an entity who misappropriates the assets which was entrusted to him or her. In this fraud, these assets, either real estate or monetary assets, are obtained lawfully. But after that they misused for the personal gain or they are simply taken over. The person, who is involved in embezzlement, destroys the fiduciary relationship the entity, person, or government and himself or herself. The nature of the embezzlement can be variegating from the person to person, or entity to entity. It can be of small and large variegating from the clerk slipping some bucks from the cash register to his or her pocket to the executive officers of business entity who are swallowing millions of dollars, as an expense incurred, in their own personal accounts. The bigger the size of embezzlement, the more harsh will be the punishment of large fines and prison. One of the most famous embezzlement cases in history of U.S. was that of Bernie Madoff, who embezzled over $50 billion from investors through a Ponzi scheme. An embezzler might not be working alone, he or she mostly befriend other people to his or her line to work on embezzlement more effectively and efficiently like befriend the contractor or consultant who pays the invoices, receives the payment, have control over some assets. And they do not do their jobs properly.

Even in embezzlement, there might be the cases where this theft fraud is accompanied by another fraud; such as Ponzi Scheme. In these kind of cases, embezzler asks the investors to invest for him or her on his or her behalf. But then rather than using that invested money as per these investors were told, money is used for the personal use or gain. Addendum to that embezzler may invite more investors to maintain the theft and furthermore clear the doubts of the aforesaid investors. But its not the only money that is embezzled, notwithstanding assets like real estate, company’s vehicle, smartphones, computers and other hardwares such as projectors and laptops are taken by them that belonged to company they were working. Embezzlement’s gamut is not only limited to corporations or private limited companies but this also happens in government institution where government funds and issued assets are ordinarily taken the officers w who had these all under control. Embezzlers might take small take small amount of large funds, so that they unnoticed. This is also phrased as “skimming off the top”.

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In order to prove some one’s that he was involved in embezzlement. He must prove given statements by the Criminal Code. The typical elements of the embezzlement are as follows:

• There should be fiduciary relationship between the person who is accused of embezzlement and the one or entity that has charged other one of embezzlement. • The person charged with the embezzlement must have been given control over the funds of the person or the entity that charged him with the embezzlement. • Person used the funds for his or her private use or gain. • The person’s action showed the intentions of his or her to get the owner deprive of his or her assets.

If these elements are proved in the court, person can be proved as an embezzler which will get the punishment according to nature of the funds or amount he or she has embezzled so far. This substantial control the employee — embezzler — can be proved by either from the employment records or contract they made up for further business or proceedings. But embezzlement not only get charged when the funds are under the control, but it is also charged when they transfer the funds to different party or separate bank. Addendum to that, embezzlement can be charged over the hinge of intent, if only and if it can be proved in the court that he was willing to use the funds for personal gain or use.

In some states, there are special cases pre-defined already for which embezzlement charges can be applied if that situation occurs. Like taking any animal for the sake of the animal fights can be charged in Arizona. In Connecticut, if some one steals biological sample, microorganism, culture or any kind of scientific record, he is termed as an embezzler. In Hawaii, stealing aquatic animals from the private, fenced area is embezzlement. Stealing religious items or artifacts costing more than 100 dollars are embezzlement in New York. In Wisconsin, property stolen from the corpse is also termed as an embezzlement. And there are many more special cases in other states.

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Utah is one of the states where frauds are making their places in business entities sucking their life forces that are money and other assets. It has been reported that more than 35,000 counterfeit cheques were presented to the credit unions and banks every month. And about half them were belonging to the Utahns, who were victimized of the fraud. According to credit unions and banks, the average loss of Utahns, that fell victim to sweepstakes, inheritance, employment online, or dating or any kind of similar things, are $6,000. If these are multiplied by all the Utahns that are victimized somehow. The amount exceeds to the millions of loss. If this loss overlooked in terms of year, It reached billion dollars of amount that goes to the wrong pockets. “It’s a phenomenal problem,” says Karen Nelson of Wells Fargo Bank, a member of a task force alarmed and frustrated by the tide of frauds rolling over the state and the number of citizens falling for it. Lynda Worden of Ogden met this man on an Latter Day Saints (LDS) dating site on the Internet. “Seemingly he was supposed to be LDS and all that,” she said. The man said he was in the textile business and asked her to take over his business while he was in Spain on some kind of a buying trip, she claimed. He used to send a check for $43,000, and Worden initiated an account using some of her own money and began making checks and sending them out as the man directed. Soon, however, she found out he was part of a Nigerian fraud operation and it was her money, not his, going to non-existent customers. For Worden, the bottom line was $6,200 lost. “You sure learn things the hard way with the heart,” said Worden.

There was this another case that happened lake town where woman was caught red handed with the fraud of embezzling $300,000 over the period of nine years. Fayette is a town of only 250 civilians in Sanpete County. But its town clerk — for which she was sent to the prison and repay the restitution — embezzled more than 300,000 dollars over the nine years — or 12 to 13 percent of total budget of town in that span of the time, a new state audit says. The clerk, Tracy Kay Mellor, was found guilty to three misfeasance counts of misusing public money, and in November was sentenced to 45 days in jail and ordered to repay $153,391 plus interest in restitution.

Then there was this firm too which was struggling to get the profits from their business, but they were having the hard times. But soon they started getting profits once they fired their general manager McKean Strong. The firm was Sonic Plastics. As per federal prosecutors per se, Mr. McKean Strong was involved in the embezzlement of 01 million dollars from the company he used to work as general manager. He did that by making the fake company Grand Design which was supposed to deliver raw materials at discounted rate. But No one in the company ever saw those plastics resin being delivered by Grand Design people. Notwithstanding Mr. Strong was sentenced to prison pf six years and was ordered for the repayment of $911,394 to the Sonic Plastics and rest of money from 01 million to the internal revenue servicers. Before that he was living the lavish life with six bed room house and Mercedes.

To tackle all these kind of problems and frauds, Utah announced online registration for the white collar crimes offender in 2015 and became the first state doing so in USA. This registry does not take the place of any sentence or court order of restitution that was imposed on the person that was involved in white collar crimes. This is to inform the other people about the people that might try to hurt them with their fraudulent tactics. The information stored there had been public record there so that any can use it. This white collar registry is monitored and maintained by State District Attorney of Utah.

“This registry has been a goal of mine for years and will further equip citizens to protect themselves from financial fraud by making information much more accessible in this digital age. A simple search could curtail a fraudulent investment and save an entire nest egg.” – Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes.

Like all the states, Utah state has set some punishment based on the amount or type of embezzlement of assets. As per Utah Code Ann. 76-6-412, embezzlement is punished as given below:

• Money or property costing under $500 are termed as Class B demeanor. In this scenario – punishment may range up to $1000 or prison of 06 months or both. • Money or property costing more than $500 fine and less than $1.500 are termed as Class A demeanor. In this case. Punishment may range up to $2.500 fine or prison of one year or both. • Money or property costing more than $1,500 and less than $5,000 are termed as third degree misfeasance. Thus they are punishable by fine of $5,000 and up to five years in jail or both. • Money or property costing more than $5,000 are termed as second degree misfeasance. Thus this type of crime is punishable by the fine of $10,000 and 15 years of the imprisonment or both. Addendum to that, as per the court orders Utah State embezzlement convicted persona might have to give restitution to the owner of the assets who he or she was stealing from. Embezzlement usually involves the defendant’s hegemony over the credit, cash, and negotiable instruments like cheques or promissory notes. Following are the core areas of business where ordinarily embezzlement happens: • Cash: Cash are usually embezzled whenever their hug amount is given under the control of. This is where money is being pocketed rather than being used for the benefit of organization or as per the established demanded for. • Account Management: This is the core area where people can falsify the band statement for their own benefit. Not only this even financial statements, payment to the vendors can be injected with falsification as per liking of embezzler. • Payroll: People with power such as managers or executives with powers can draw money for their own use even though they are not real employees. • Lapping: This is where funds collected from different people and business entities are miscalculated, then they are later used for person use. • Other Company’s properties: No one money is not sucked by these embezzlers, sometimes they also are informed in taking other assets like lands, buildings, flats, vehicles, and other gadgets that are owned by the owner or the company.

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In order to prove some one’s that he was involved in embezzlement. He must prove given statements by the Criminal Code. The typical elements of the embezzlement are as follows:

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Top 10 Cults

Cult roughly refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers outside the mainstream, with a notably positive or negative popular perception. Many cults are destructive or suicidal though others, whilst being controversial, do not commit extreme acts. This is a list of the top ten cults. In no particular order: 1. Church of Bible Understanding

Stewart TraillThe Church of Bible Understanding (formerly known as the Forever Family) is a destructive cult started in 1971 by former atheist and vacuum repairman Stewart Traill in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The cult targeted teens as young as 13 by drawing on their weaknesses. Throughout the 1970s, the cult expanded to many other parts of the United States.Traill, born in Quebec in 1936 is the son of a Presbyterian minister, who teaches that he is the reincarnation of Elijah, and that he knows the date of the return of Christ. Members of the cult live in a commune and donate 90% of their income to the cult. Traill amassed a fortune and owns four planes and a half million dollar mansion. According to former members, Traill controls every aspect of members’ lives through harsh criticism, shame, and public humiliation.Ron Burkes, a staff member at a residential treatment center for former cult members says this: “[Traill] has one of most effective means of shutting down critical thinking I’ve ever seen. Of the hundreds of people I’ve treated, COBU is definitely in the top five in terms of harm and psychological damage.” The cult also runs a mission in Haiti, where some former members claim Haitian children are indoctrinated in exchange for food and clothing. According to an article originally appearing in the Manassas Journal Messenger, COBU receives government funds for its Haiti Mission as part of President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative.

2. Manson Family

The Manson Family was a cult started by Charles Manson. Manson was born to Kathleen Maddox, an unwed sixteen year old girl, in 1934. It is said that his mother, an alcoholic, sold him to buy beer. When he was returned to her she had him sent to a boarding school. After a number of years living with his religious aunt and uncle, he returned to his mother who rejected him. After a number of robberies, he was put in jail for the first time. One month before his parole hearing in 1952, he raped a boy in jail by holding a razor to his throat. Two years later he was paroled. Manson began to pimp a young woman he met and eventually took her, and a second woman to New Mexico to work for him as prostitutes. He was caught and tried under the Mann Act (a 1910 act that prohibited white slavery and trafficking for immoral means).In 1967 he was released (having spent more than half of his life in institutions). Upon release, he requested permission to move to San Francisco which was granted. When he arrived he became part of the Hippie movement centered around the Haight-Ashbury region and he set himself up as a guru. He moved in with 23 year old student Mary Brunner and convinced her to allow other women to join them. Eventually eighteen other women were living with them – this was the beginning of the family.

By 1968, Manson had established a home for the “family” at a ranch owned by George Spahn. Manson convinced one of the family members, Lynette Fromme, to sleep with Spahn in order to get free rent. Manson began teaching his followers that social uprisings were coming – using the assassination of Martin Luther King as evidence. He also told them that the social turmoil he had been predicting had also been predicted by The Beatles. The White Album songs, he declared, told it all, although in code; in fact, he maintained, the album was directed at the Family itself, an elect group that was being instructed to preserve the worthy from the impending disaster.In 1969, on August 8, Manson told Family members at Spahn Ranch, “now is the time for Helter Skelter.” That evening the family, under the direction of Manson, would commit the famous murder of Sharon Tate, leading to other murders over the two day period.

3. Aum Shinrikyo

Aum Shinrikyo, is a Japanese religious group founded by Shoko Asahara. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways. In 2000 the organization changed its name to “Aleph” (the first letter of the Hebrew and Arabic alphabet), changing its logo as well. In 1995 the group had 9,000 members in Japan, and as many as 40,000 worldwide. As of 2004 Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph membership was estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 people.The movement was founded by Shoko Asahara in his one-bedroom apartment in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward in 1984, starting off as a Yoga and meditation class known as Aum-no-kai and steadily grew in the following years. It gained the official status as a religious organization in 1989. It attracted such a considerable number of young graduates from Japan’s elite universities that it was dubbed a “religion for the elite”. Aum’s PR activities included publishing. In Japan, where comics and animated cartoons enjoy unprecedented popularity among all ages, Aum attempted to tie religious ideas to popular anime and manga themes – space missions, extremely powerful weapons, world conspiracies and conquest for ultimate truth.

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Aum Shinrikyo had started as a quiet group of people interested in yogic meditation, but later transformed into a very different organization. According to Asahara, he needed “to demonstrate charisma” to attract the modern audience. Following his decision, Aum underwent a radical image change. The rebranded Aum looked less like an elite meditation boutique and more like an organization attractive to a broader, larger population group. Public interviews, bold controversial statements, and vicious opposition to critique were incorporated into the religion’s PR style. The cult started attracting controversy in the late 1980s with accusations of deception of recruits, and of holding cult members against their will and forcing members to donate money. A murder of a cult member who tried to leave is now known to have taken place in February 1989.At the end of 1993 the cult started secretly manufacturing the nerve agent sarin and later VX gas. They also attempted to manufacture 1000 automatic rifles but only managed to make one. Aum tested their sarin on sheep at a remote ranch in Western Australia, killing 29 sheep. Both sarin and VX were then used in several assassinations (and attempts) over 1994-1995. Most notably on the night of 27th June 1994, the cult carried out the world’s first use of chemical weapons in a terrorist attack against civilians when they released sarin in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto. This Matsumoto incident killed seven and harmed 200 more. However, police investigations focused only on an innocent local resident and failed to implicate the cult. 11 cult members have been sentenced to death, although none of the sentences have been carried out, nor the time and date for the executions to take effect has been publicly established.

4. Restoration of the 10 Commandments

The full name of this cult is the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway group from the Roman Catholic Church that formed in Uganda in the late 1980s. As the name implies the group strongly emphasized the Ten Commandments. This emphasis meant they even discouraged talking: out of fear of breaking the commandment about giving false witness. They also believed that their strict adherence to the Ten Commandments would be advantageous after the apocalypse.This proved significant as the group had a strong emphasis on the apocalypse, highlighted by their booklet A Timely Message from Heaven: The End of the Present Time. New members were required to study it and be trained in it, reading it as many as six times. They also taught that Mother Mary had a special role in the apocalypse, and communicated to the leadership. They saw themselves as like Noah’s Ark, a ship of righteousness in a sea of depravity.The group tended to be secretive and as mentioned above, was literally silent. Therefore it was relatively unknown to the outside world until 2000, although in 1998 the school they ran was sanctioned by the government due to unsanitary conditions and violation of child labor statutes.In March of 2000, around 300 followers died in a fire in what is considered a cult suicide. Investigations conducted after the fire discovered mass graves, raising the death toll to over 1,000. This may mean it was larger than the Jonestown murder/suicide in 1978, but some speculate the death toll was around 800. There are also allegations that the event was more of a mass murder by the leadership.

5. Raëlism

Founder, Claude Vorilhon (right)Raëlism or Raelian Church is a UFO religion founded by a purported contactee named Claude Vorilhon, who is known recently for supporting Clonaid’s claim that an American woman underwent a standard cloning procedure, which led to the birth of her new daughter Eve in December 26, 2002. National authorities, mainstream media, and young adults have increasingly investigated the church’s activities as a result of controversial statements by Clonaid’s head Brigitte Boisselier the day after.Members of the Raëlian Church consist of people who have been baptized by Raëlian clergy in quarterly ceremonies, and among the converts are members of Raëlian-founded free love groups such as the Order of Angels and Raël’s Girls. The organization—which preaches a sensual philosophy and a physicalist explanation of the origin of life—could have as many as sixty-five thousand members.

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Raëlians emphasize secular and hedonistic ideas, rather than worshiping a supreme metaphysical deity.[30] The Raëlian Church members follow a UFO religion that favors a strong version of physicalism – the belief that everything consists only of physical properties. Raëlians deny the existence of the ethereal soul and a supernatural god, and believe that the mind is a function of matter alone. This ties into their belief that mind transfer is possible and that it will be possible to create an identical human clone in terms of mind and personality—as long as the clone and the original are not alive at the same time.

6. Scientology

The Church of Scientology is a cult created by L Ron Hubbard (Elron) in 1952 as an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system called Dianetics. Scientology and the organizations that promote it have remained highly controversial since their inception. Journalists, courts and the governing bodies of several countries have stated that the Church of Scientology is an unscrupulous commercial enterprise that harasses its critics and abuses the trust of its members. Journalists, governments, religious groups and other critics worldwide have often referred to the organization as a cult.

Reports and allegations have been made, by journalists, courts, and governmental bodies of several countries, that the Church of Scientology is an unscrupulous commercial enterprise that harasses its critics and brutally exploits its members. In some cases of US litigation against the Church, former Scientologists were paid as expert witnesses and have since stated that they submitted false and inflammatory declarations, intended to be carried in the media to incite prejudice against Scientology, and deliberately harassed key Scientology executives, by knowingly advancing unfounded opinions, either to get a case dropped or to obtain a large settlement.Although Scientologists are usually free to practice their beliefs, the organized church has often encountered opposition due to their strong-arm tactics, directed against critics and members wishing to leave the organization.

7. Order of the Solar Temple

Joseph Di MambroThe Order of the Solar Temple also known as Ordre du Temple Solaire (OTS) in French, and the International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition or simply as The Solar Temple was a secret society based upon the new age myth of the continuing existence of the Knights Templar. OTS was started by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret in 1984 in Geneva as l’Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire (OICTS) and renamed Ordre du Temple Solaire. It is believed that other members were also involved who have remained unknown to the public.In October 1994 Tony Dutoit’s infant son (Emmanuel Dutoit), aged three months, was killed at the group’s centre in Morin Heights, Quebec. The baby had been stabbed repeatedly with a wooden stake. It is believed that Di Mambro ordered the murder, because he identified the baby as the Anti-Christ described in the Bible. He believed that the Anti-Christ was born into the order to prevent Di Mambro from succeeding in his spiritual aim.

A few days later, Di Mambro and twelve followers performed a ritual Last Supper. A few days after that, apparent mass suicides and murders were conducted at two villages in Switzerland, and at Morin Heights — 15 inner circle members committed suicide with poison, 30 were killed by bullets or smothering, and 8 others were killed by other causes. Many of the bodies when found were drugged, possibly to prevent the members from objecting. The buildings were then set on fire by timer devices, purportedly as one last symbol of the group’s purification.In western Switzerland, 48 members of a sect died in another apparent mass murder-suicide. Many of the victims were found in a secret underground chapel lined with mirrors and other items of Templar symbolism. The bodies were dressed in the order’s ceremonial robes and were in a circle, feet together, heads outward, most with plastic bags tied over their heads; they had each been shot in the head. It is believed that the plastic bags were a symbol of the ecological disaster that would befall the human race after the OTS members moved on to Sirius.A mayor, a journalist, a civil servant and a sales manager were found among the dead in Switzerland. Records seized by the Quebec police showed that some members had personally donated over $1 million to the cult’s leader Joseph Di Mambro. There was also another attempted mass suicide of the remaining members which was thwarted in the late 1990s. It is believed that The Solar Temple group continues to exist, with thirty surviving members in Quebec at the St-Anne-de-la-Pérade center, with from 140 to 500 members remaining worldwide.

8. Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate is a destructive, doomsday cult centered in California. 21 women and 18 men voluntarily committed suicide in three groups on three successive days starting on March 23, 1997. Most were in their 40’s; the rest covered an age range of 26 to 72. Two months later, two additional members, Charles Humphrey and Wayne Cooke attempted suicide in a hotel room a few miles from the Rancho Santa Fe mansion; Cooke succeeded. Humphrey tried again in the Arizona desert during Feb 1998 and was successful.They followed a syncretistic religion, combining elements of Christianity with unusual beliefs about the nature of UFOs. They interpreted passages from the four gospels and the book Revelation as referring to UFO visitation. In particular, they emphasized a story in Revelation which described two witnesses who are killed, remained dead for 3 1/2 days, were revived and taken up into the clouds. They look upon earth as being in the control of evil forces, and perceived themselves as being among the elite who would attain heaven. They held a profoundly dualistic belief of the soul as being a superior entity which is only housed temporarily in a body. Applewhite said that bodies were only “the temporary containers of the soul…The final act of metamorphosis or separation from the human kingdom is the ‘disconnect’ or separation from the human physical container or body in order to be released from the human environment.”

Members called themselves brother and sister; they looked upon themselves as monks and nuns; they lived communally in a large, rented San Diego County (CA) home which they called their monastery. Most members had little contact with their families of origin or with their neighbors. Many followed successful professional careers before entering the group. Some abandoned their children before joining. They were free to leave at any time. They dressed in unisex garments: shapeless black shirts with Mandarin collars, and black pants. They were required commit themselves to a celibate life. Eight of the male members, including Do, submitted to voluntary castration. This seems to have been a form of preparation for their next level of existence: in a life that would be free of gender, sexual identity and sexual activity.Thirty-eight group members, plus Applewhite, the group’s leader, were found dead in a rented mansion in the upscale San Diego community of Rancho Santa Fe, California, on March 26, 1997. The mass death of the Heaven’s Gate group is said to be one of the most widely-known examples of cult suicide. In preparing to kill themselves, members of the group drank citrus juices to ritually cleanse their bodies of impurities. The suicide was accomplished by ingestion of phenobarbital mixed with vodka, along with plastic bags secured around their heads to induce asphyxiation. They were found lying neatly in their own bunk beds, with their faces and torsos covered by a square, purple cloth. Each member carried five dollar bills and a few quarters in their wallets. All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike tennis shoes, and armband patches reading “Heaven’s Gate Away Team”. The suicides were conducted in shifts, and the remaining members of the group cleaned up after each prior group’s death.

9. Branch Davidians

The Branch Davidians are a religious sect who originated from a schism in 1955 from the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, themselves former members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who were disfellowshipped during the 1930s. From its inception in the 1930s, the splinter movement inherited Adventism’s apocalypticism, in that they believed themselves to be living in a time when Christian prophecies of a final divine judgment were coming to pass. They are best known for the 1993 siege of their Center near Waco, Texas, by the ATF and the FBI, which resulted in the deaths of eighty-two of the church’s members, including head figure David Koresh. However, by the time of the siege, Koresh had encouraged his followers to think of themselves as “students of the Seven Seals” rather than as “Branch Davidians,” and other Branch Davidian factions never accepted his leadership.Some former members of Koresh’s group alleged that he practiced polygamy with underage brides, physically abused children, and stockpiled illegal weapons, legal authorities investigated these charges. On February 28, 1993, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) conducted a raid on Mount Carmel, a property of the Davidians. The raid resulted in the deaths of six Davidians and four ATF agents after a firefight broke out. Following this confrontation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) laid siege to Mount Carmel for 51 days, during which time the FBI and ATF conducted around-the-clock operations including psychological warfare (psyops) on the occupants of the complex.

The government’s siege on the Branch Davidians ended on April 19 when federal agents released CS tear gas into the compound. During the assault, several fires broke out and spread quickly through the buildings, killing approximately 79 Branch Davidians, 21 of whom were children. Autopsies confirmed that many of the victims, including David Koresh, had died of single gunshot wounds to their heads.The government put some of the survivors on trial. All were acquitted of conspiring to murder federal agents but some were convicted of aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter.

10. Unification Church

The Unification Church (Mooneyism) is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. The beliefs of the church are explained in the book Divine Principle and draw from the Bible as well as Asian traditions and include belief in a universal God; in the creation of a literal Kingdom of Heaven on earth; in the universal salvation of all people, good and evil as well as living and dead; that Jesus did not come to die; and that the Lord of the Second Coming must be a man born in Korea early in the 20th century who must marry and have children.In the United States in the 1970s, the media reported on the high-pressure recruitment methods of Unificationists and said that the church separated vulnerable college students from their families through the use of brainwashing or mind control. Moon dismissed these criticisms, stating in 1976 that he had received many thank-you letters from parents whose children became closer to them after joining the movement. Moon and his wife were banned from entry into Germany and the other 14 Schengen treaty countries, on the grounds that they are leaders of a sect that endangered the personal and social development of young people. The Netherlands and a few other Schengen states let Moon and his wife enter their countries in 2005. In 2006 the German Supreme Court overturned the ban.

In 1993, Chung Hwa Pak released the book Roku Maria no Higeki (Tragedy of the Six Marys) through the Koyu Publishing Co. of Japan. The book contained allegations that Moon conducted sex rituals amongst six married female disciples (“The Six Marys”) who were to have prepared the way for the virgin who would marry Moon and become the True Mother. Chung Hwa Pak had left the movement when the book was published and later withdrew the book from print when he rejoined the Unification Church. Before his death Chung Hwa Pak published a second book, The Apostate, and recanted all allegations made in Roku Maria no Higeki. Bonus. Jonestown

On 18 November 1978, more than 900 people died in the largest mass murder/suicide in American history. Most of the deaths occurred in a jungle encampment in Guyana, South America, where members of a group called Peoples Temple lived in a utopian community and agricultural project known as Jonestown. Most died after drinking a fruit punch laced with cyanide and tranquilizers, although some may have been injected; two residents died of gunshot wounds. Earlier that day a few other residents of the group had assassinated a U.S. congressman along with three members of the media and a departing Jonestown resident. And in Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, yet another member of the group killed her three children and then herself after receiving word of the deaths in Jonestown. In all, 918 Americans lost their lives that day.

Since that time, Jonestown and its leader Jim Jones have entered American discourse as code for the dangers of cults and cult leaders. The expression “drinking the Kool-Aid”—which means both blindly jumping on the bandwagon, and being a team player—is one manifestation of this. The story of Jonestown, and of its parent organization Peoples Temple, however, is more complicated than sound-bites comparing strict parents to Jim Jones, or pundits relating religious violence (such as the suicide air strikes of 11 September 2001) to Jonestown. Instead, Jonestown serves as a lesson in how a combination of media, government, and citizens can create a climate of persecution and fear. It also provides an example of how uncritical acceptance of the status quo and social and geographic isolation can lead to violence and even death.

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