~Chapter 5- Lost~

By now, about 8 months had passed Thrax had meet Nari

The sound of police sirens zoomed past the apartment windows, apparently looking for something.

"Give it a rest!" Thrax shouted at them through the curtain. Thankfully, they didn't seem to hear him.

Nari was sprawled out on the couch, her feet dangling off the side of the arm. "I'm ready!" she moaned in boredom. "I want to take down some bodies, see the REAL WORLD!"

Thrax tapped his foot impatiently, then stopped and started walking towards her. "How's 'bout we go down to the brain and give things a go?"

Nari sat up. "You'll come?" She wore a happy expression on her face.

"All the way, baby."

Nari jumped up to get her whip. Thrax put on his sunglasses and a wicked grin. The city was almost theirs.

THE HYPOTHALAMUS- 6:30am

"All right, we've been over this---,"

"Yeah, yeah. Watch the master!" Nari interrupted. She lashed her whip as hard as she could and broke a hole in the hypothalamus tube as loose electricity flew around in bolts and the DNA beads inside became vulnerable.

"Go on," she said. "Take it."

Thrax looked for the one DNA bead that he needed, found it, took it, and then added it to his…where was his chain?! His DNA bead chain! Thrax traced his memories. Frank…… and the eyelash……

"JONES!!!!!" Thrax screamed at no one in particular.

"What?! What is it?!" Nari asked, a little shaken by Thrax's outburst.

"Jones has it. We have to get back to Frank!" Thrax started to storm out, but Nari stopped him.

"Ok, what's going on? Where are you going?!"

"I'll explain later. Right now, we need to get out of this body and into Frank!" Thrax cursed silently to himself for being so stupid as Nari pondered who in the world 'Frank' was. How was it that for eight whole months, he didn't notice his missing chain? What could be so great to distract him from something that important?

He looked at Nari. Then he quickly looked for something else in the room that could've distracted him, but his eyes kept coming back to her. He forced himself out of that thought and said, "We have to do something." Thrax put the DNA bead back (a bit reluctantly) and ran off with Nari. The hypothalamus membrane closed around it.

But the alarms had already gone off, and the pair was racing down the hallways. They halted abruptly.

"Dead end," Nari said breathlessly as she stared at the solid wall in front of them.

"Not for long," Thrax said, and drew a deep line through the wall, with a now glowing orange claw. Sure enough, a hole opened in the wall, and the wind hit them hard. They were at least 100 floors off the ground. It was so loud that they had to shout at each other in order to hear.

"We have to jump!" Nari yelled. She knew that the guards would be searching for them, even though they had put the DNA bead back.

"I'm too tired to carry you this time!" Thrax replied.

"You don't have to!" Nari outspread her arms and her fingers, which were now webbed, and elongated, like a bat's. Wings.

Whoa, didn't see that coming! Thrax thought.

Nari jumped, with Thrax following. They soared over houses and cars, hoping that no one saw their escape.

She's so beautiful, Thrax thought (he seemed to think about her appearance a lot. So graceful…

He was so engaged by her enchanting flight routine that he almost hit a "nerve receptor" pole.

Nari giggled and flew ahead. Thrax heard sudden screams from below and growled at the people who ruined a "perfect moment". But the people weren't screaming at him. They were pointing at… something else in the sky.

A long, hollow tube had broken the outside skin and was now sucking up blood cells from every direction.

"Thrax!"

He had almost forgotten about Nari. The gusts of wind tugged at her as she beat hard with her wings as to not get sucked up. As she got closer, she looked more and more helpless.

"Thrax! Help!" she screamed.

"Nari!!!" Thrax screamed back and zipped after her. But his attempts were in vain, for she was dragged into the tube by the powerful current, and there was nothing Thrax could do. Still, he raced after her, but the tube began to pull back, and he got shoved off. The tube disappeared and Nari's faint screams could be heard, and the skin closed up. Thrax's heart felt heavy. He felt himself weakening as he fell from the sky and crashed, skidding onto the sidewalk next to their apartment building.

He felt tears coming, but he did not want to cry. She was gone, not necessarily dead, but Thrax couldn't help fearing the worst. He let himself cry anyways.