Chapter 10

Searching High and Low

Things weren't going so well at Blaze's appartment. The group had been waiting for Hanon's return for over four hours now and had begun to worry. What if something had happened to Hanon and they weren't there to help her?

It was obvious that the question had entered Blaze's mind, because one moment he was sat down, tapping his fingers on the table impatiently, then the next moment he was racing across the room towards the front door, which Luchia, Rina and Mia weren't expecting, judging the look of surprise on their faces.

"Blaze, where are you going?" Mia asked quickly, following Blaze along with Rina and Luchia.

"I'm going to find Hanon." He said without looking at the others, and so didn't see the look of protest that had just appeared on Rina's face, replacing the one of surprise.

"But we agreed that we'd wait for Hanon to come to us!"

"But what if something's happened to Hanon because we weren't there to stop it?" Blaze questioned as he turned to face Rina, putting her on the spot, which Luchia noticed and so imput her answer.

"I hadn't thought of that. I mean, she's not aware of people like Alexander or Trio the Minor."

"Fine, but once we know that Hanon's safe, then we let her make her desiction on whether or not she wants to talk to us." Mia declared finally, recieving a nod from the others before they departed.

After agreeing what they would do after they found Hanon, the group went out and began to search for her and things weren't looking good. They'd searched everywhere for Hanon, including the melody house, the park, their homes and even the alleyways, but couldn't find her anywhere.

They were about to give up when Blaze noticed something in the window of the clock tower, and had begun to head in it's direction, along with Luchia, Rina and Mia. Before long they had reached the top of the clock tower, and were surprised to see Hanon stood at the window, looking out at the world.

"Hanon, you're safe!" Blaze exclaimed in relief, but was silenced by the glare he recieved from his sister.

"Stay away from me!"

"Hanon, I know what I did was wrong, but you don't know what danger you're putting yourself in by being here." Blaze explained, though it was obvious that Hanon wasn't listening to him.

"I don't care! At least here I won't get lied too!"

Blaze winced at this, he didn't know what to do, he had to find a way to make his sister listen to him, but how? He was about to open his mouth again but Luchia beat him to the punch.

"We didn't mean any trouble by coming here. We just wanted to make sure that you were safe, Hanon."

"Well, now that you know I'm safe, you can leave, and don't bother coming here again!"

"But, Hanon...!" Blaze began though once again, he was interupted.

"I suggest you do what she said." Came a familiar voice, causing the group to turn round and see Kyle, who looked down at his nails before answering.

"After all, we wouldn't want any trouble now, would we?"

After this was said, Aaron and Kaito appeared behind Kyle, which put Blaze, Luchia Rina and Mia in a tough possition. They didn't want to get into a fight in front of Hanon, But they didn't want to leave her here either, though knowing there wasn't any other way to get Hanon to come back with them at this moment in time, they decided to turn back for now.

"I'm not giving up on you, Hanon." Blaze told his sister stubbornly before glaring at Trio the Minor and leaving the clock tower along with Luchia, Rina and Mia, not noticing the conflict in Hanon's eyes, which Kyle noticed and walked over to her.

"Relax, they're gone now." Kyle told her, watching as she nodded before looking away.

"I know, but I need some time alone to get my head around all this." Hanon told him before walking out of the clock tower.

When she'd gone, a look of worry appeared on Kyle's face. What if Hanon was starting to believe Blaze and the Pretty Cures? It would ruin his whole plan. Though after a moment or two, Kyle decided that he should wait and see what Hanon's next move would be, after all, if he didn't put up a convincing act, then Hanon was bound to find out and then she'd return to her friends, which was something that Kyle wasn't about to let happen. Hanon was finally in his grasp and he would do everything to make sure that it stayed that way.