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Chapter 9 The search

Ichii POV

Damn it! I let her get away. I needed to calm down, so I breathed in and out. For ten seconds I did so. Jeff stood beside me waiting patiently before he turned around and walked towards Zero's room. I was behind him and neither of us said anything. Jeff opened the doors to Zero's room and automatically checked the monitor.

I found Nina sleeping beside Zero, and held his hand in hers. I smiled. Zero must've finally told her. It's about time. Nina started to stir, her eyes slowly opened, as it took time to adjust itself. She smiled and greeted me.

I rubbed her back. "Hey Nina."

She looked up to see Zero was still there and started to play with his blue hair. "He's such a deep sleeper"

I laughed. Don't we all know it. Suddenly Nina jumps out of the bed and hastily ran to the wash room. Jeff seemed to focused on the monitor that he almost didn't see Nina running towards him.

"What was that about" I asked.

Jeff started to curse. He rang for the maid and asked her to bring Sarasa along with something, I don't really know what it was since I wasn't really paying attention. When Nina came back I realized how awful she looked. Her hair was messy, there were bags underneath her eyes. When she met my eyes I could see how tired she was.

"Hey, Nina are you feeling ok?" I asked with concern.

Nina shrugged it off as if it was nothing and grinned. "I'm fine Ichii, thanks for asking."

She's turning into Zero.

Zero POV

I heard people talking and shouting, I'm pretty sure that's what got me up. I scanned the room and noticed four blurry figures, as my eyes adjusted to my surroundings and I was fully awake. I glanced at Ichii, Nina, Jeff and Sarasa. They seemed to be deep in the conversation.

"He's awake." Declared Jeff.

Nina turned around she met my gaze but she doesn't look happy. "Nina, what's wrong?" I croaked.

She continued to sob as Sarasa led her away. "Come on honey, let's get you something to eat." Then they left.

Jeff doesn't look too happy to see me that's for sure. He still wore that disapproval look. Ichii on the other hand was just calm. Whether or not he was angry as well, he didn't show it.

"What's going on?" I asked trying to sit up. Ichii gently helped me up as Jeff started to pace around the room.

"Zero there's something you need to know." Jeff said. He started off with the training session, how the radiation was no accident. Then talks about the suspect, Sarafina Dacosta, she was also some nurse who gave me 'medicine' to help with leukemia. Only then to realize she was just increasing the chances of me never getting better. He explained that Sarafina was a rouge sorcerer that hated our family, because of what our parents have done to her clan. "They were ruthless Zero!"

I winced when Jeff raised his voice. He never usually yells or screams, only when he was angry. "How come I never knew of this?" I spoke fighting off drowsiness.

Jeff rolled his eyes. "It's because you never pay attention to our home school teacher." He said coolly.

"Also...you need to know something about Nina" Ichii spoke softly.

"And what was that?" I asked rubbing my temple. This obviously can't be good, and I could kind of tell what he was going to say. Ichii never got to say anything since one of the guards came in.

"Sir, the fugitive got away." He said.

At the corner of my eye I saw Jeff's jaw twitched. Uh-oh. "How could you lose her?" He spoke so dangerously low, that I wished he just yelled. The soldier's brows furrowed and he began to tremble, but impressively kept his posture.

"She found our secret tunnels."

Oh boy. Not good. Those tunnels lead to a lot of secrets in our family. I looked at Jeff, his face was white as sheets. Then I averted my eyes to the guard.

"Go in groups and search for her. Those tunnels were very important to my family" I said sternly. The guard nodded and left. I slowly tried to push myself up. Jeff and Ichii began to protest but I shut them up with glares.

"I have to go and help them" I gritted through my teeth. And held on tight to the IV.

"Stop it! Zero you have to get back and-" I cut Ichii off.

"And what? Mop around cause I'm ill? You're out of your mind then" I said angrily, and successfully got up. I hastily got changed and began to walk out the door.

Jeff didn't stop me only gave me a nod. "Jeff!" Yelled Ichii. "Stop him."

Jeff chuckled. "Ichii, we both know Zero's to stubborn to be stopped, besides...I believe in my baby brother."

My eye twitched and took a last look at Jeff before heading out. "Baby Brother huh?" I muttered frustratingly.

Going down the tunnels was like going down a sewer. This place was rarely being cleaned since the maids weren't aloud here. As I led my group the tunnel 6 I think about how was I going to beat Sarafina Dacosta.

"Sir, it's a dead end over there." The soldier beside me said.

"I know, but we might as well check it up." I said and kept going.

Then I spotted a shadow that just zoomed by. Quickly shifting my heel to that direction I sprinted. "Hurry up, before we lose her." I panted. The guards quicken their pace, and we heard laughter. The evil kind except with a woman's voice.

"Think you've got what it takes to find me?" She hissed.

I gritted my teeth. "Hell ya."

"Destruction Magic." I blasted fire balls around me.

Nothing, I barely hit anything, but a wall. Her shadow appeared once again and she giggled.

"This was the BEST you can do?" She taunted.

The guards were so confused as they tried to catch her. This was so frustrating how were we suppose to catch her if she won't show herself?

"This was getting boring. Let's end where I have started." She spoke as she appeared from the shadows. I guess my prayers have been answered.

"Sabotaging your training was brilliant. I didn't actually expect you to get Leukemia, but I guess luck was on my side after all. Then to help with that I have a friend who found this rare poison, that increases the chances of you never getting better. Now? You're dead Zero, it's time I kill you." She said her green eyes glowed and she sneered. "It's time I take what's rightfully mine."

"Elemental Magic. Ice shards"

Pieces of icicles shot out of her palms and I had to act quickly and countered it with his destruction magic. "Fire balls"

Sarafina dodges the attacks and kept attacking using the five main elements. She's trying to tire me out. "Elemental Magic. Wind of destruction". A blast of wind came from behind her and it doesn't look like I could counter that. I guess she's going to get her wish after all.

Me: dun dun dun...Zero! Don't give up!