After the strange ordeal, I booked it straight to Shinra and retold the events to him and Celty.
"You just left him there?" Celty's phone was shoved in my face.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"You do realize that he has to walk a far way to get home, right?" Shinra asked.
"Yeah."
"He can't fight in that condition, Shizuo."
"I know." Celty was typing away on her phone. Looks like she is angry with me. Oh well, Izaya is a piece of crap. He deserves to suffer. She showed Shinra what was on her screen before throwing her helmet on and running out the door. How does a headless dullahan wear a helmet, anyway?
"There are several gangs that are targeting him lately. I'm not sure what he did, but it was bad and they must have found out about it. Since he can't fight well if he can barely walk, they could kill him." Shinra was looking at me like I was stupid.
"I'm aware of that, Shinra. He deserves what's coming to him."
"If they kill him, you won't get too."
"Shit!" I yelled and ran outside after Celty. I caught up to her as she was starting her motorcycle. "Wait!"
I jumped onto the back of the motorcycle and we sped off toward the pool. Once there, we checked inside just to be sure but there was no Izaya in sight. I came back out, shaking my head at Celty, "He wasn't in there."
Celty started typing on her phone and turned it toward me, "I'll drive through the back alleys and look for him. If he started home in his condition, he would want to avoid the gangs."
I nodded in agreement and jumped back on her bike, only to almost fall back off when she floored it. Either she is even angrier with me, the gangs are more serious than I thought, or both. Yeah, probably a little bit of both. After driving for a bit, we were cut off by a large group wearing green clothing. Celty went charging in on the motorcycle, only to see them throwing Izaya in the back of a van. Before we could pursue them, people blocked our way and Celty was forced to come to a screeching stop. Other members started hopping on motorcycles of their own, ready to intercept us if we broke through.
Celty turned back and zipped down a different alley in order to get to the road. Once we were out on the road, she spotted the van and followed it west. The gang cut out of an alley ahead of us though and kept us from catching up until the van was well out of sight. Celty turned back in the direction of Shinra's apartment, defeated.
When we walked into their apartment, Shinra hopped up from the couch with bright, hopeful eyes. He saw there was no Izaya with us and the look faded from his face and he sank back down onto the couch.
"Is there any chance you dropped him off at his apartment?" But the look on his face already showed that he knew the answer. I just stood there worried about his look of concern while Celty typed out a long message that I assumed told what happened in detail. The only words I could form were, "They took him."