Chiaki was starving. The jerks who tied him up decided he also did not need any food and the last they fed him was yesterday and it was a bowl of gross soup. Oh how he wanted to be back in his apartment eating Tori's food.
"Is it him?" The same voice he constantly heard ask the other voice. He hated being blindfolded.
"No. His blood is dark red. Even if we send him through a Judgement Circle his wings would just turn black." One of them groaned. "This is the 43rd angel we tested in the last year. I keep telling you we need to look at fallen angels."
"Just shut up." Chiaki had no clue what they were talking about other than they were looking for a specific angel whose wings could stay white even if they go through a Judgement Circle. "What should we do now?"
"Continue searching. We already got the blood of five white-winged fallen agels and we need one more so it can fully work." Chiaki felt someone near him. "And get rid of this one. Before Emerald finds out. They were here earlier." He heard footsteps and a door slamming close. "Let's get this over with then." Chiaki was then lifted on to his feet. "Walk!"
Chiaki did not know where he was going until the man stopped him and sat him back on the ground. "Wait here." Not like I'm going anywhere else. When Chiaki heard no other movement he felt hands freeing hands. Once they were free he pulled off his blindfold to see a middle age man untying his feet. "Who are you?"
"Just a friendly ghost who is tired of seeing these men kill off every angel they bring." He untied his feet and helped Chiaki stand up. "We must hurry before he comes back." He led Chiaki out the smelly room and into the hall.
"Do you know what they want?"
"I'm afraid I cannot say. When they started killing the angels I thought it was simply out of hatred but then they brought one angel in and drained his blood and cut his white wings off."
Chiaki gasped. "That's terrible. What do fallen angels want with us?"
"Whatever is going on you should be prepared for a war." Turning down the hall Chiaki found himself face to face with a blonde hair man. "HOW'D YOU ESCAPE?" Chiaki dodged his arms and ran when he heard a loud explosion.
...
Around 10 was when the group transported themselves to the hall outside of Miyagi's door. "Miyagi said there was a basement in the science building so we can start there." Hatori was close to running but Akihiko held him back. "Let me go. I can feel Chiaki around here."
"If that is the case then we need to assume the people who took him are around here and this may turn into a fight." Everyone nodded and advanced to the science building. Once there Takano started smelling the air and led them to a locked door in one of the science labs. "The smell comes from here."
"Stand aside." Hiroki put his hand up to the lock and a flash of red appeared. When it was gone Hiroki opened the door. "I love when you use magic Hiro-san." Nowaki smiled, making Hiroki roll his eyes. Even in Aessa, any form of magic was banned and only few were granted access to use them. Hiroki being one of them. They were greeted with a flight of stairs into the darkness. Hiroki held his hand up and a white orb lit up the place. "Careful."
The basement was creepy and if not for the chemicals and skeletons on the side Yukina would not believe that they used this for a simple storage room. It was only one room with no doors until Takano walked over to a vacant wall. "Through here."
"How are we supposed to get through?" Ritsu was pushing on the wall but nothing was happening. "There has to be some way to open this."
Hiroki pushed him out of the way and waved his hand open. The wall made a pounding noise before opening, sliding on the ground as it swung towards them. "It seems the door can only be opened by the touch of a fallen angel."
"So fallen angels are behind this." Hatori growled. "Is this some way to get back at us for sending them down here? They deserved what they got."
Yukina patted his back. "Calm down Hatori and focus on where Chiaki is." Hatori took a deep breath before pointing. "He's down there."
"INTRUDERS." They turned to see two men standing at the entrance, taking out guns. "DON'T MOVE."
"Hiroki." Akihiko stepped out of the way as Hiroki threw the light orb, making the two explode into piles of dust. Akihiko turned to the others. "Yukina, you take Hatori and the others to find Chiaki, we'll make sure no one else gets through this way."
"But Hiro-san…" "Just go." Nowaki sighed before following the others down the hall. Hatori led them down when they ran into another fallen angel. Takano kicked the gun out of his hand and took out his knife, stabbing him in the heart. Yukina watched him turn to dust when he saw someone else running down the hall. Nowaki went to fight when they realized it was a spirit. "This way." The man said, motioning for them to follow him. Helping them.
They had just turned when someone ran into Ritsu and started screaming. "Chiaki?" The struggling man stopped and looked up. "TORI!" Hatori lunged for him, pulling him into a tight hug. "You found me." Yukina looked to see the spirit gone. "Get him out of here Hatori." Nowaki instructed, pulling out their walkie talkie. "Hiro-san we got him."
"Head back." Hiroki replied. Pressing their portal keys they all were back in the penthouse. Akihiko and Hiroki were not there. "Hiro-san where are you? Do you need back up?" No answer. "Hiro-san?"
Seeing the familiar blue and purple swirls there came Akihiko, holding a beaten up man, and Hiroki, holding his bleeding shoulder. "HIRO-SAN." Nowaki helped him sit down and then ran to grab a first aid kit. "What happened?" He glared up at Akihiko as he helped Hiroki take off his shirt.
"We were about to leave when this idiot appeared out of nowhere and Hiroki got hit." Akihiko shrugged, dropping the man. "These bullets aren't lethal so he'll live."
Hiroki grunted in pain as Nowaki wrapped it. "At least the bullet went through."
"He's fine. Give him an hour and he'll be fit for the Pope." Hiroki and Nowaki glared at Akhiko. Yukina looked to the man who was now unconscious. "What about him?"
"I already summoned Asahina to come grab him." Not two seconds later the said man was in the living room with the man in a spherical prison; A large cloud that surrounded the man and kept him from moving. "We will update the King about this and send a group out to investigate Mituhashi. Good work Emerald." He bowed his head and turned to Chiaki. "Is there anything you can tell us before I leave?"
Chiaki nodded, trying to get up from Hatori's lap but with no luck. "I couldn't see the two who were always around me but they kept talking about finding a certain angel, one that wings stay white even through a Judgement Circle. They drew some of my blood and said that since it was dark red I could not be it." Yukina could see Hatori growling. "A spirit down there added that he saw certain angels with white wings get their blood drained and wings cut off."
"Is that possible?" Ritsu asked. They all looked to Asahina. "It is an urban legend but it is said there are fallen angels whose hearts are so pure that their wings will always be white. Once such angel was born during a difficult time in Aessa and said to hold Aessa's entire being. Something about such angel could be Aessa's savior or demise. Of course this is a legend created millions of years ago. For now you and everyone here should stay hidden while we continue this investigation. We shall inform you of any new information. Goodnight." All at once the two left.
"So the fallen angels are trying to take over Aessa?" Yukina thought out loud. "How can that angel determine that?" It was surprising to hear there may be angels whose wings will never turn black.
"Not our problem." Takano grabbed Ritsu's hand. "I say we all get some rest." He pulled Ritsu up the stairs, Ritsu struggling the whole way, and closed their door.
"Ignoring what just happened," Hiroki stood up, ignoring Nowaki tell him to sit back down. "We all should get some sleep."
"Thanks for saving me. They were planning to kill me that night." Hatori did not like to hear that.
Yukina smiled. "Of course. It was easy since whoever took you dropped a piece of fabric in your apartment and that old man helped us find you." Chiaki smiled back and Hatori took him to the spare bedroom. When everyone went to their rooms Yukina laid on his bed, wondering about Kisa.
...
"You seem nervous Kisa-nii." Kisa looked up from his bowl at Misaki's concerned eyes. "What is wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. Why would you say that?" Misaki narrowed his eyes. "You suck at lying. Is this about Yukina?"
That had Kisa narrow his eyes, "I don't appreciate you boys eavesdropping on our conversation."
Misaki scoffed. "Would you have told me?" Kisa did not answer. "I think it's great. I have never seen you with anyone else and you said before you never went on an actual date so this Yukina must be something special."
You have no idea. Kisa did not like to keep secrets but he was afraid how Misaki would handle knowing Yukina was part of Emerald. He still could not believe it himself. "I don't know."
"Too late to cancel. He is picking you up after work tomorrow." Kisa sighed, "When can I meet him?"
Kisa shook his head. "This is our first real date, a little too soon to introduce the kid." Misaki rolled his eyes. "No it is not."
"My answer is still no." Misaki pouted but it did nothing to Kisa as he finished his food and did the dishes. The door slammed open. "Misaki, Miyagi pissed me off so I'm sleeping here." Shinobu walked in, pillow in hand.
"What did he do?" Misaki asked, chuckling. While Shinobu was talking Kisa got a text from Miyagi, saying Shinobu was going to be spending the night because he cannot accept that Miyagi has to work in the morning and so has to go to bed earlier. "And then he called me a brat with too much libido and so I left." Shinobu finished his story. Misaki was dying of laughter by now. "It's not funny Misaki!"
"Miyagi has a point. Maybe you should stop thinking so much with your dick."
"MISAKI!" Kisa gasped. "What is with the language?"
He shrugged, "I'm with Shinobu." Kisa sighed, "I'm going to bed."
"Night Papa-Kisa." "Night Kisa-nii." They said at the same time. Kisa just chuckled and headed for his room.
