Chapter 9
"Hmm... That's interesting..." There was a shuffling of feet. Rina's eyes followed an invisible figure stand up and move around behind the camera.
"So... he was confused?"
"Yea."
"Can you describe how this 'light' looked when he was confused?"
"It was dark grey and very dim."
"Alright... tell me why you think your teacher was confused."
"Well... I thought he was probably brought up in a- What are you doing?"
"What? Oh, I need to take a picture of you now."
"Why?"
"It's near the end of the questioning, Rina."
"But why do you need to take a picture with that type of camera?"
"What do you mean?"
"That's analyzing camera. You take pictures of evidence of DNA with it and it analyzes that evidence to match it up with someone or something. Why do you need to take a picture of me with that?"
"We want to find out who you really are. Now... back to the previous statement, please."
"Ok..." Rina shifted in her seat.
"As I said, it was probably from when he was growing up. He was most likely raised in a city where vampires are looked down by they were highly educated in both mental and physical states. I think he was raised from his family to be kind and curtious to others, but as the others treated him may have affected his way of thinking and added a violent side to him. To defend himself."
"Is that all?"
"Yeah..."
"Ok, say cheese!"
"Cheese!" There was a flash.
The screen went black. Rina trembled and looked up at Abel. His face was serious. His glasses were in his hands and he was also looking at the screen.
"Can you tell me anything about that teacher of yours? Do you remember anything at all? You've had years to think about it." Abel stood up. He put his glasses back on. Rina pulled her arms against her chest.
"I need to know Rina, not for this mission I'm on, but personal matters. Please, have you remembered anything about this man?" He asked calmly. The moon reflected off his glasses.
"Non. Meus scio nil. No. I know nothing." She whispered.
"Are you lying?" He asked. She took in a quick breath.
"Tell me the truth."
"Meus memini melius breve. I remember very little."
"Then tell me what you know." Abel said patiently. Rina lowered her gaze to her feet.
"Is haveo nigrans crinis, ruber genae, ac a cicatrix deorsum suus rectus umeri. He had black hair, red eyes, and a scar down his right shoulder." She said softly. She gripped her wrists tightly.
"You're leaving something out aren't you?" He asked. Rina shook her head.
"Rina, you have to tell me. I may not be here tomorrow at all! Please Rina." She cleared her throat and looked at him in the eyes.
"His nam-" The window in Rina's room shattered into a million pieces. Rina shrieked and fell out of her chair. Six people leapt through the window and surrounded Abel.
"You aren't going anywhere!" One said. Abel turned to the door. He saw that the door was open and there were three thugs standing with guns in their hands.
"Rina!" He yelled. A man wearing a black cape with a hood was standing over her. Rina cowered under him.
"Hello Rina-chan..." He said softly. Rina whimpered.
"No no... don't be afraid! It's me, remember?" His hand slid down her cheek. She shivered.
"Leave her alone!!" Abel yelled. The man looked up.
"Make him quiet for a while." A couple of thugs kicked and punched Abel in the face. He fell in the middle of them. Rina tried to crawl towards him. The man grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet.
"I have tormented all you loved for years. It was hard for me. But... It's time for you to uphold you part of the wishes deal, Rina-chan!" Rina screamed. He picked her up bridal style and started towards the window.
"Rina!" Abel called. The man turned towards him.
"I'm afraid that Rina will be gone for a while... you should just forget about her," He said.
"Who are you?!" Abel yelled. The man smiled. His fangs gleamed in the light.
"You are allowed to call me Ethan. That's all you're allowed to call me! Remember, Rina is mine. She agreed to it of her own free will! If you come after her, you die!" He jumped out the window the the squirming Rina, his thugs followed him. As soon as they left, Abel contacted Caterina.
"What is it Abel?"
"She's been taken! Rina's been taken!"
"What?! How!!??"
"A man she mentioned from her past showed up. He took her, he took her!"
"How did he get in, Abel?!"
"He had followers, they killed the guards and pretty much took over the entire building. Then as soon as the took her, they just left! Left! Disappeared and gone! And they have Rina!" Abel yelled.
"I'm sending over Father Tres, a medical squad and an investigation team over. Just stay there and try to look for anyone who's still alive." Abel stood up and rubbed his neck. He hurridly jumped out the windown and started to look around for some sort of trail left behind by the thugs. Abel saw faint footprints. He ran after them quickly and stopped after a few minutes. They had faded away. Abel fell to his knees and punched the ground.
"Why can't I ever protect people?! Why am I always so weak?" He whispered to himself. A tear rolled down his cheek. He stood up and wiped his eyes.
"She gained trust in me.. she realized that she couldn't hide anymore. She was about to say something in complete english! She was about to say his name! She's made so progress! And now... THIS!" He yelled. Abel stormed back to Rina's room. He went through the drawings that Rina had made from her dreams. He looked at each one, searching for something that might lead to the man who took her. He threw the pads down to the ground, there was nothing that related to the man. Abel punched the wall by her little library. A chunk of rubble hit his cheek.
"Huh?" Abel saw some loose indents in the wall from where he punched it. He ran his finger over it.
"What is this?" He started to peel away at the chalky wall. Bits and bits of the wall fell to the ground. There was a hole behingd a few inches of wall. He pulled out chunks of wall and reached his hand through the hole. He grasped a pad of paper. Abel pulled it through. He opened up the pad and gasped. Rina was peaceful and being held in the arms of one man. A man with black hair, red eyes, and a scar on his right shoulder. He flipped through the pad quickly.
"Rina has a... secret collection?? And they all contain that man..." He whispered. He heard shouting. Abel stuffed the pad of paper into his coat and turned around. Father Tres and Sister Ester came through the door.
"Father! What happened here??" Ester asked. Tres looked around and started examining the busted window.
"Father Abel, damage report."
"I'm fine. What matters is where Rina is. I don't know what'll happen to her. The man who took her said that I could call him Ethan."
"So it isn't his real name?" Ester asked.
"Yeah... unfortunately. I managed to get a look at him. I couldn't see his face well though. The aura around him seemed really desperate. I'm almost afraid for Rina," Abel said. Tres started out the window.
"Father Tres, where are you going?"
"Surverying the area for clues," He said. His eyes light up as he surveryed the ground for any footprints and anything left behind by the kidnappers.
"This is horrible. On our way here, all the guards had their throats ripped out and most of the women had been sexually assulted. Some were killed horribly... whoever this is is absolutly black hearted!" Ester exclaimed.
"No, only his minions," Abel said calmly.
"What? You mean the leader himself isn't bad? How could you deduce that Father?" Abel pushed his glasses up.
"When he took Rina, he spook to her like a small child, but not as if she was a stranger, but as if she was like a little sister or a daughter. He didn't force her up roughly or harm her in any way. When he took her, he merrily lifted her up off her feet and carried her like a fragile object. He was very protective over her. And what's really odd is that he didn't even damage her library..." He said.
"How does Rina's personal library have anything to do with this?? That doesn't matter, what matters is why he took her," Ester said.
"No, Ethan said he tormented all she loved. He also killed all the caretakers Rina got connected to as friends. So he only hurts and destroys the things the Rinas loves. And Rina loves her books."
"But what does that have to do with any of this??"
"Ethan just wants to harm Rina. Even if he was kidnapping her, he would have damaged something permenently in here if she were to escape and come back. It would scar her..."
"So? This Ethan man most likely won't give Rina-chan back. He probably wants to kill her!"
"Ester-san, are you aware of Rina's background?"
"Yes."
"Then you should understand that Rina is very sensitive about losing things. If she was taken away from a friend or vice versa, that would nearly kill her. If her friend is killed, it kills a little part of her soul. Or at least that's how she puts it... This man named Ethan is an old friend of hers. He saved her three times. Rina repaid him by promising to do whatever he wishes. She lost him and didn't know where he went so she just forgot about it. Now Ethan is back and he took Rina to fulfill that promise. I don't know why anyone would hold something like that for so long against somebody, but Ethan must be planning something," Abel explained.
"Father Abel, Sister Ester, I have found something that may lead to Rina's disappearence," Father Tres called. Abel and Ester ran out to him. Tres held up a small pad.
"It contains drawings of Rina and another man. It does not have Rina's fingerprints. The fingerprints on the pad are of an unknown." Abel took the pad a flipped through it. He gasped.
These are exactly like the ones in Rinas! Maybe he just made a copy... but how could he have gotten to it?
"I need some time alone please." Ester and Tres nodded and went back to Rinas broken room. Abel kneeled down and opened each notebook.
"I'm sure Rina must have signed her pictures... but did anyone sign these? No... the drawing style is different from Rinas, so these aren't hers. Hmm..." He flipped to the back. There was a poem.
"'Goddess of Dreams and Goddess of Darkness,
Your beauty controls all mans desires,
A child you bore under the name of nothingness.
Goddess of Lust eneveloped by jealousy
Stolen was the baby under the name of nothingness.
Found was the child,
Buried in the human realm.
Taken in by one who lives in Darkness and posses no Dreams.'" Abel read it over and over. He flipped back through the pad.
"This last picture has Rina in the air. Feathers are around her... she has wings... and the same man is below her. He looks like he's praising her... What is he doing??" He muttered. Rina had her arms crossed and she was looking down at the man. He was on his knees and holding his arms upwards, hope and love on his face. Abel turned the picture from one angle to another, trying to figure out what it was about.
"I don't get this picture. I understand that he's prasing her, but why is Rina just up in the air? She sort of looks like a god... dess..." Abel thought about the poem.
"Does he think Rina as a child of a Goddess??"
