It was quiet until Troika spoke.
"Riku would probably have done that too." Takuya and Kouichi burst out laughing at the realization that Troika was most defiantly right. Zoe just looked at the two boys.
"What so funny?" She asked. Takuya calmed himself down and sighed in content.
"Oh Zoe you wouldn't understand even if we told you!" Takuya laughed. Zoe pouted at Takuya and groaned.
"Fine you guys go ahead and laugh at nothing! I'm going to go fly around a bit. I will show you what real fun is about!" Zoe shouted. Kouichi and Takuya just looked at her and Zoe blushed in embarrassment.
"I'm Leaving!" Zoe yelled and disappeared. Kouichi blinked slightly confused.
"Um what just happened?" Kouichi asked as he turned to Takuya. Takuya closed his eyes and waved his hand in the air.
"Ah don't worry about it. You haven't been around girls enough to know how they work. Basically she got mad over nothing, she'll cool off in an hour or so." Kouichi sighed.
"I will never know how girls work." Takuya reached for the remote and turned the TV off.
"Nothing good is ever on." Takuya stated boredly. Kouichi looked at Troika.
"Is there anything you want to do?" Kouichi asked trying to make Troika feel comfortable. Troika shook his head.
"I don't really do much. I'm normally always busy following Riku's orders." Takuya gave Troika a weird look.
"You pretty much would give your life for him wouldn't you?" Takuya asked. Troika nodded. Takuya faked coughing as he became unsure of his next question.
"So are you two…like gay or something?" Kouichi quickly glared at Takuya.
"Takuya mind your manners!" Kouichi scolded. Troika rolled his eyes and sighed.
"No we are not. It's my job to protect him." Takuya scoffed.
"What do you mean job? Who would hire you to watch him?"
"Not that kind of job. He is my little cousin." Takuya continued with the questions.
"Little cousin huh? Shouldn't his mom be doing that job?"
"…He doesn't have a mom. She died a good year after he was born." Kouichi's eyes widened. Troika looked away as he continued.
"My mom took him in after because his dad didn't want anything to do with him. We were pretty much like brothers and I did everything I could to make sure he would be okay. My mom told me to stay by his side and to make sure he lived a long life. And I am still planning on keeping that promise no matter what." Kouichi turned his gaze away from Troika.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Troika smiled."It's nothing for you to be sorry for. I'm glad our life has been going into this direction." He looked back at Kouichi and smirked.
"You know, I think even after our two months is up it's going be a lot harder to go after you." Kouichi looked at Troika and frowned.
"You're kidding…Right?" Kouichi asked nervously as he glanced at Takuya. Troika shrugged.
"It depends if our master lets me and Riku to stay as her personal servants." Takuya lowered his voice to a deadly tone.
"You better watch yourself. If Koji heard you talking like that he would kill you before you could say Lucifer sakes." Troika sighed.
"Well I'm sorry if I'm telling the truth. If Riku does get the chance to be at her side again he would do it in a heart beat." Kouichi tilted his head to the side.
'Why would Riku want to follow her? It doesn't make any sense to me.' Kouichi looked at Troika.
"Why would Riku follow her? Is she manipulating him or something?" Troika turned his head towards the room Riku was in before turning back to Kouichi.
"It's sad to say it but after being near both Riku and our leader I've realized that Riku might like her…a lot. He might do anything for her but he will never admit it." Kouichi's eyes widened.
"He likes her?" Takuya smirked.
"This is some good dirt! What else do you have on him?" Kouichi glared at Takuya.
"Takuya that's rude. You don't say that." Takuya rolled his eyes.
"I was only joking." Takuya laughed at first but suddenly stopped. His ears raised high into the air, knocking his cap off his head. Kouichi immediately knew that was Takuya's way of saying that he heard something that wasn't right.
"What is it Takuya?" Kouichi asked.
"I thought I heard a window break." Takuya stood up and walked around the house. Nervously Kouichi followed Takuya. Takuya entered the kitchen to see the broken window above the sinks.
"What the?" Kouichi mumbled as he bent over and picked up a rock with a note attached to the rock.
"This must have broken the window." Kouichi said as he tore the note from the rock. Troika came up behind them, curious to see what was wrong.
"Damn kids." Takuya muttered. Kouichi looked at the note and read it.
"'I know what you did. I know there are more of you, and now I know where you live. This is for Pier.'" Takuya hissed as he heard Kouichi read the note.
"Who is it from?" Kouichi shook his head.
"No clue just says Amp at the bottom so I guess it's from the entire company." Takuya snarled.
"Great. They know. But why would they do such a childish way to let us know? Throwing a rock through a window? Please." Takuya muttered. The werewolf walked over to the living room and picked up his hat.
"They are a bunch of chil-" Takuya stopped and sniffed the air.
'Something isn't right.' Takuya looked out the living room window and saw smoke outside. He felt the wall and hissed as he quickly pulled back.
"Burning hot." He stated. Kouichi walked into the living room and looked at Takuya.
"What's hot? Did you see another chick outside?" Takuya looked at Kouichi.
"We need to get out of here." Kouichi gave Takuya a startled look.
"What why?"
"Because I don't think the rock was the only thing they decided to give us." Kouichi frowned and looked out the window.
"SHIT." Kouichi cursed. He turned and ran for Troika.
"Troika! We have to leave now! I think they are trying to burn us alive!" Kouichi shouted when he entered Riku's room where Troika had wandered off to. Troika's eyes widened.
"You have got to be kidding me!" He quickly picks up Riku causing the vampire to wake up.
"Huh? Troika what's going on?" Riku asked as he looked up at Troika. Kouichi ran off to his room and grabbed his jar of the new pills and shoved it in his pocket. He turned towards his window and noticed a blue smoke already entering through the small cracks.
"That's an odd smoke color." Kouichi muttered. He walked closer towards the window and carefully took a small whiff. His eyes widened.
"That's not smoke from a fire! If it's not a fire smoke then what's causing this heat?" Kouichi started coughing as more of the smoke entered his body.
"I-it's a mix…of holy water-" Coughs roughly.
"And sleeping…gas." Kouichi muttered as he fell to the floor and felt the world cave on him. Takuya paused as he heard a thud noise.
"Troika where's Kouichi?" Troika shrugged.
"I don't know. But this smoke is coming in real quick so we better get out quick." Several men stood outside the house, holding up heat generators up against the house while they tossed in more specially made gas bombs into the house. They waited patiently making sure their gas masks fitted properly. Takuya ran off to Kouichi's room and gasped as he saw his friend on the floor.
"Kouichi? Kouichi! Get up damn it! What's…Wrong with…you." Takuya yawned and quickly shook his head.
"God what's wrong with me?" Takuya's eyes drooped lazily and he yawned again.
"Shit…this smoke is making me tired…Why?" Takuya muttered as he dropped on to the floor. Troika cursed and gave up waiting for the others. Riku was currently in a coughing fit and Troika didn't want Riku to be in here anymore. Troika hissed as his vision became blurry. His walk was unbalanced and he couldn't stay up right as he ran to the door. Riku whimpered as he felt Troika's unsteady steps and knew something was wrong besides the smoke getting to him.
"Troika what's wrong? C'mon it's just smoke. You can get through this." Troika shuddered as he heard Riku's voice echo in his head.
"I can't…see. And I'm…so tired." Troika muttered as he reached for the doorknob. Riku frowned and grabbed Troika's shirt.
"Damn it Troika! Get a hold of yourself! It's- It's just smoke." Riku blinked. It felt as if somebody just dropped three comforters right on top of his chest. He coughed again this time feeling a weird pain run throughout his body when he breathed in.
'Smoke shouldn't be affecting me this bad.' The thought echoed in his own head as Riku tried to shake off the dizzy feeling he had. Troika's hand slipped off the doorknob and his whole weight fell on to the floor. Riku yelped when he felt his body make contact to the floor.
"Damn it Troika…can't do anything…right." Riku muttered as he tried to get up. The wound on his back suddenly throbbed in pain and he hissed. His whole body ached and it was hard for him to move. He stumbled back on to the ground next to Troika. Riku turned his head to see Troika passed out.
"Damn…it." Riku coughed. His chest throbbed and he gave up moving. Riku let himself lay on the floor and allowed sleep to come. The men outside looked at each other. One of took out a small black mechanical box that was blinking and looked at it.
"The last one of them is finally knocked out. We should clear out the area of the knock out gas and holy water fog as soon as possible and get our prize." He said as he turned to the man next to him. The man nodded.
"Good work. Air out the area and we will proceed inside." One of the workers put a gas mask on and slowly approached the house. He opened the door and quickly took notice to Troika and Riku.
"We won't really have to search the hard now will we?" He chuckled softly. A few more men with gas masks on helped him carry the bodies over to a large black moving van and shoved the extra weight inside.
"That's two down." One of them called out. Several men entered the house and instantly split up to look for any others. Two men found Kouichi and Takuya. One of them picked Takuya up and dragged him into the van while the other man picked up Kouichi. As he picked up Kouichi the small jar of pills fell from his pocket, landing quietly on the floor. It rolled a little bit on the floor before the cap opened and some of the pills spilled on to the carpet. The man took no notice and walked out of the house. Soon everyone got out of the house.
"That's all of them. Only three vampires and a werewolf." Muttered one of the men when he spoke into a walkie talkie. A voice boomed back in response.
"Roger. Come back before you are noticed."
"Understood." He put the device in his pocket and turned to the others.
"Alright head back to base! We got what we wanted." He shouted before climbing into his black car. Zoe was walking down the street towards the house when she noticed a good half a dozen black vehicles driving away from the house. She frowned levitated herself to get a better look but huffed when they were already out of site.
"Odd…" She whispered as she continued to her temporary home. She smiled as she thought about how nice her walk was. It certainly had cooled down and was ready to hang with the boys again.
"Maybe Riku will be up so I can talk to him!" Zoe giggled in excitement. She ran even faster as her excitement grew. She closed her eyes for a minute to imagine being greeted home by Kouichi's friendly face but when she opened her eyes she frowned.
"Why is the front door open?" She asked herself. Her eyes widened when she thought about all of those vans. She lifted herself off the ground and quickly flew to the house. As soon as she was inside she began to holler.
"Kouichi! Takuya! Where are you?!" She cried out. She ran to the kitchen to find nobody. She ran to Riku's resting room to find the covers messily off the bed. She panicked and ran to Kouichi's room. She gasped when she saw the pills half dumped on the floor.
"What the hell happened!? Where is everybody? Did Koji came yet? What do I do?" Feeling lost and scared she drifted over to the living room and cried. Her head popped up as an idea sprung through her head. She looked over to a small table stand near the opening to the kitchen and stared at the small shiny cordless phone. She disappeared into the phone.
'I can't remember Koji's cell phone number for the life of me. This is going to take a lot more energy so I hope I can get through.' She mentally cursed to herself as she began toying around the phone.
'Please Koji! Pick up! Please!'
Koji stopped flying when he felt his cell phone vibrate. He had gotten his fill of blood and was heading home. He took out his cell and looked at the number.
"Our house phone? Is Takuya trying to call?" Koji muttered. He pushed accept call on his phone and held it up to his ear. All he heard from the other end was static. Suddenly there was a low moaning noise and as quickly as it started it ended but was followed by a high pitch in-human screech.
"AAGH-!!" Koji yelped. He pulled the cell phone away from his and heard a sudden click.
"Call ended? What the fuck!? What was that?" He looked at his phone before putting it away.
"That's never happened before. My phone must be getting some sort of weird signal, either that or it's busted." Koji grumbled. His wings flapped harder as he began to head home again.
Zoe sat on the couch and buried her face into her hands. She cried out in sadness as she tried to breathe.
"I-I'm a stupid gho-ghost! Why the he-hell am I try-trying to breathe? I'm not use-useful at all…" Zoe sobbed even louder. She could feel hot tears run down her face but when they fell they left no stain on the floor. The air began to chill as her sadness slowly turned to anger. She glared at her hands and clenched them tight.
"I feel it only because I think I do. I think I'm crying because I want to. But in real life I can't do anything." Zoe hissed in anger and rose up from the couch. She stormed off into the kitchen and opened up one of the cabinets. She found cups and glasses and raised her hand in front of them. She levitated the cups and threw them to the ground. She listened to the loud shattering noise that echoed. Zoe smirked as she looked around the floor at all the broken glass.
"This is a nice way to relieve stress." There was a loud slamming noise and Zoe jumped. She turned towards the living room where the front door was slammed open. Koji's voice boomed through the house in rage.
"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. WHY THE HELL IS IT SO FUCKING FREEZING IN HERE?!" Koji shouted. He slammed the door shut and shuddered when he couldn't protect himself from the cold. Zoe cautiously went over to him.
"Uh…Sorry Koji. I had a small meltdown." Koji glared at her.
"Well stop it. You'll make everyone sick. Speaking of everyone where are they?" Koji asked. Zoe's eyes widened and she nearly sobbed again.
"I don't know! I left them for a few minutes or so and when I came back they were gone! Even Riku and Troika are gone!" Koji's eyes widened.
"Did Kouichi leave a note? He always leaves a note if he leaves." Zoe shook her head.
"No. The only thing I found was this jar on his floor." Koji frowned and headed for Kouichi's room with Zoe following him closely. Koji gasped when he saw the familiar jar opened on the floor. He knelt down next to it and picked it up.
"Something is wrong. These are Kouichi's pills." Zoe gave him a confused look.
"I didn't know he took pills."
"Remember when I told you he doesn't drink blood? Well it causes his body to die off slowly. If he doesn't take these pills to replace the missing nutrients we get from blood he'll die." Zoe gasped but was quiet afterwards. Koji paused before continuing.
"If he grabbed these then something bad must have happened. But the fact that he doesn't have these with him is really serious. Zoe when you came back was anything different? Did you see anything odd?" Zoe blinked and frowned.
"Oh yeah! I remember now! When I was coming back I saw a whole bunch of large black vans driving away from here. At least half a dozen or so." Koji's eyes narrowed.
"Did you see a license plate number?" Zoe frowned.
"No. I didn't see any." Koji groaned.
"C'mon! We have to find them!" Koji shouted as he closed the lid tightly on the jar and shoved the pills in his pocket. He ran out the door and spread his wings as far out as they could go. Zoe appeared next to them.
"But Koji, how will we find them?" Koji bit his thumb.
"We will search from high above. That's the only thing we can do. Plus I have a strange suspicion who is behind this." Koji muttered before taking off into the air. Zoe gasped at Koji's sudden speed and quickly followed him.
"Koji. Who do you think is behind this?" Zoe asked. Koji turned to look at Zoe.
"Isn't it obvious? Think about the transportation they used. It has to be those damn Amp people. They are definitely pissed about us killing that one guy. I just don't know how they were able to find us so fast. That's the thing that is bugging me right now." Koji explained. Zoe nodded and smiled.
"I'm sure we'll find them!" Zoe shouted as she tried to brighten the mood. She turned her head and stared at the ground, trying to find the black vans or at least some kind of clue.
Clean. The smell of Windex and sterilizers filled the room as Takuya came too. There were people in white long coats running around the room not bothering to notice he was awake. He was strapped to a chair. In another room with clear glass as walls so people could look at him when wanted. He glanced at a white table in front of him to see his shoes, hat, and gloves on the center of the table. Takuya's eyes widened as he realized what was going on.
'Shit that's right we were kidnapped!.' Takuya glared at the so called scientists and growled loudly to catch their attention. They stopped what they were doing and huddled around the room to stare at the werewolf. One of them wore a different lab coat. It was the same color and length but it was designed differently somehow. It was also the only one to be covered in fresh blood.
"So you are finally awake?" He asked as he leaned against the glass, smearing some of the blood on to it.
"Where are the others?" Takuya snarled in a low voice. The scientists looked at each other, making small chattering noises. What seemed to be the main scientist had got off the window.
"You mean the other subjects? We have so many that are brought in everyday." Takuya's glare worsened.
"Riku, Troika, Kouichi! Where are they?! Where are my friends!" The blood covered scientist walked over to the clear door and opened it. The other scientists looked at him nervously.
"Sir, um mister Canon? What are you doing? It's too dangerous, he seems highly hostile." Said scientist turned to them.
"Don't worry, he can't do anything. He is tied to the chair with a special kind of rope." He walked up to Takuya. The smell of blood on his jacket over powered the once sanitized room and Takuya nearly wanted to gag until the scent seemed too familiar. Takuya's eyes widened.
"Riku…."