The memories of her and Haji, from the last time she saw him. He had been kept from escaping when he took Saya's sword and stabbed it into Amshels core. Part of the building had collapsed. Saya was so torn up. But she had to go on.
Saya clenched as she thought about this. She gripped onto the cello case. Min looked over at Saya and sighed, trying to focus her attention to both Saya and the road. Her cell phone rang. It was David. She flipped it open and spoke.
"Hello David. What is it?" Min asked, looking straight at the van in front of her.
"Does your brother work a day shift or a night shift?" David asked, figuring out when they were going to be able to see Mins older brother.
"He works both, but trust me, you'll see him. He's still working right about now. We'll be there in another hour or so right?" Min asked.
"Yeah, we will, why do you ask?"
"He'll be on break at that time. We need to make sure we're there before he decides to leave for the hour and a half that he is off."
"All right then. Talk to you in an hour." David hung up. Min did shortly after. Min looked over to Saya, she sighed.
"Are you sure you're okay Saya? You've been silent throughout the whole car ride so far. So have you twins!" Min realized. The twins both blushed at this, they were slightly embarrassed that they weren't talking. Kohana and Akatsuki wasn't thinking heavily like Saya had been.
Saya on the other hand didn't respond to Min's question. All she heard was the sweet sounds of the cello that Haji played whenever he could. She looked out the window at the moving street. She stared at the people that walked by. The small ocean line they had driven by. The brightness of the sun that collided and shimmered off of the water. It was beautiful. The scenery blended with the sound of the cello. She opened her window and closed her eyes, smelling the smells of the outside air. It brought her to a place where she would love to just lay back and enjoy everything around her. Only her... and Haji.
She opened her eyes and looked back at the ocean. She saw a man standing at the edge of the water. He looked as if he was staring right at her. She felt like it was suddenly slow mode when she saw this man too. Her eyes widened. He looked like Haji. Her heart began to pound crazily, thinking about who it could be. She blinked suddenly, and the image of the man she thought was Haji vanished. She looked to Min and back out the window and sighed. Min noticed what Saya had just done. She sighed as well.
"Are you missing someone Saya?" Min could tell. She had both hands on the wheel as she looked over to Saya several times, still trying to focus on her driving.
"Yeah..I guess you could say that." Saya admitted.
"Who's the fella` being missed?" Min asked.
"Remember the gardener at the school Min?" Saya had, she kind of chuckled, remembering the way he looked when he stood out in the garden.
"Haha! Yeah, I remember him. He was so cute! Ah, wait... You're missing him? I thought he was just a gardener. Also, you said that he wasn't your boyfriend." Min giggled, trying to make Saya become a little bit more happy.
"Yeah...Well. There's a thing about the gardener. He wasn't really the gardener at the school. He's my chevalier. A chevalier is someone who drinks my blood and ends up having ciropterian abilities but stays as a human." Saya explained to Min. Min gasped a little and then quickly realized that that was the reason they seemed so close. They had known each other for a long time.
"Oh, Well--" Min was about to finish her sentence until she then noticed they had arrived at the business at which her brother worked at. She sighed and looked over to Saya. "We're here..." Min stopped the car in a parking spot and parked the car. David parked in the spot conveniently placed right next to Mins car. Saya turned around and looked at the twins.
"Girls, we're here. Do you remember what we told you to do if anything goes wrong?" Saya asked Both Kohana and Akatsuki. They had a small taste of fear written in their eyes. They knew that this was the time to act, as if any. The twins needed to bring there "A" game whether they wanted to or not.
"Yeah we know Saya. That's why we have our swords... The ones we got from last night." Kohana replied clenching the handle of the sword that she held in her right hand, closest to the door.
"Alright, lets go talk to David and she what he wants us to do." Saya said. And with that, Saya got out of the car, strapping the cello case around her shoulder. After she got out of the car. Min did. Then it was the girls. They held their swords in their hands. David walked around so that he was in between the two cars with the rest of the crew.
"Okay. We made it here in an hour. So we have a half an hour to find him. Min do you know where he normally goes?" David asked, hoping that she would know at least one place he would be at.
"Hm, right about now, he would be in his office at the seventh floor of this building." Min said. David was quick on his toes. He wanted everyone to go find him before he decided to move.
"Min...?" David asked curious to know something. "Don't you have your brothers work number on your phone?" he asked. As soon as he mentioned that, Min had her phone to her ear. That was an obvious 'yes' to David. They all listened as she had a brief conversation with her brother.
"Hey Bro." Min was silent as she listened. "Yeah I know. But hey, I need to come see you for a minute. Stay in your office..." She paused again, listening to him. "Yes I know! But I need to see you for a minute! Go on your break earlier! I'm in the parking lot I'm coming to see you just wait for me!" Min was flustered with her brother. She snapped her cell phone shut and chuckled a little.
"Well that was the most cutting edge phone conversation I've seen in a while." Kai joked. He even laughed a little bit.
"Yeah well, my brother can be a bit of a pain sometimes." Min chuckled some more as she took off her jacket and set it back into her car. " Well, we better go catch him before he decides to do off on his own."
With that, they walked into the building. When Saya got into the building, she felt a little uneasy about everything around her. The environment had a musty feeling too it. It made Saya cringe a little. They were only at the first floor. Though they quickly found the elevator and hit the number '7' out of the number of floors there were in the building. The list of numbers seemed to go on forever. They waited for the elevator doors to open, and when they did, they got on and waited to get to the seventh floor. It didn't take them that long, but it seemed like forever, having a herd of people all at once swarm in to get onto the elevator. It was ridiculous.
"Next time everyone... we take the stares..." David said, feeling rushed with the elevators. Everyone walked down the hall, following Min and they reached her brothers office. It looked like a really big office too. Her older brother was probably a very special man in the business. Min knocked on the door.
"Come in!" They heard a man's voice say. Min opened the door revealing what her brother looked like.
"Brother, you need to answer some of this mans questions..." Min said, looking to David. David took over from there. He sat down in a chair on the other side of Min's brother's desk. The tag on the desk said Ayano Etsuko.
"Ayano, am I aware that you are a big part of this corporation?" David asked. He hid a tape recorder up his sleeve, but it received good sound. So he could use it and it wouldn't even be noticed.
"Yes, you guessed right. I am a big part of it. I'm guessing my little annoying sister told you about me?" He said hatefully towards Min. Min crossed her arms and looked away from her brother.
"Aside from that, What do you know about the ciropterains That are supposedly being created here?" David was blunt with asking this question. He wanted to get down to the point. Ayano was quiet for a minute, he had his hand under his desk. He shifted his eyes from left to right slowly.
"Well, I've heard the boss tell me some things about the monsters and where they have been hidden. But I'm not classified to show you myself. I could have one of my trusted workers escort you to the hiding place. He said happily. Taking their attention away from what he was doing under his desk. He had his right hand on a small yellow button. He pressed it. A womans' voice came up on a small intercom that he had propped up neatly on his desk.
"Yes sir, what can I do for you?" It was the woman that sat at the desk as they first entered.
"Yes. I have some guests here... Not just any ordinary guests either. I need you to show them around." When he meant 'show them around' he had really meant to take them to where the cirpoterans were.
"I can bring them down there sir, but our information getting out all at once to that many people I will only be able to bring down three at a time sir." She informed them. The crew looked at each other. Saya stood up from leaning onto the wall and spoke up.
"I'm going." She quickly agreed, along with Kai and David. That was the first pair of three. Min decided to stay up with the two girls. "I'm sorry Kohana and Akatsuki. But I need you two to stay up here." Saya whispered something extra into their ears. "Make sure Ayano doesn't do anything suspicious..." Saya walked out with the cello case wrapped around her still.
Ayano still sat at his desk. His hand was still under his desk also. This time, he pressed a red button. "I'm sorry Min. But you need to take those two girls out of the room so I can finish what business I have here left do finish. " He said, acting sweet. Min nodded and had the twins follow her out of the room and sit in the waiting room. As soon as the girls had left. Ayano pushed a red button and the deck flipped open where his monthly planner laid flat on the desk. It showed a small flat screen TV. It was the monitor to the empty rooms where the ciropteran should be. He was poorly saddened by what he had to do to the secretary but it was what he wanted to do, and he would do anything to get it. That power that he had not obtained. Saya's power.
"Their with me now sir. We're at the bottom floor."
"Perfect..."He said chuckling. Ayano looked outside. It was beginning to get dark. He noticed that there wasn't to many people in the building anymore. Everyone had either gone for a break or they had gone home for the day. It was brimming to be the perfect time to get them while they weren't expecting anything. He looked on his monitor and saw the group of three walk past the first monitor. Once they got to the end of the monitors' reach, he pushed another button. Before his eyes, he transformed his secretary into a cirpoterain.
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Saya turned around to see that the person they were following turned into a ciropterian. She reacted quickly and drew her sword. David and Kai both brought out their guns. They heard rattling coming from the entrance. They backed up, realizing there were now more than one to fend off. There was at least five now. More started to crash down from the ceiling. They had been surrounded. Saya didn't want to set down Haji's cello case, but in that case she had to. She set it on a metal table beside her, making sure that she didn't move to far away from it. Her sword clung tight to her hand, letting it rise up so that it was level to her chest. She took her left hand and cut herself on the sword, letting her blood drip to the tip of the blade. The sword shined as she adjusted it with the light from a small window. She charged at one of the ciropterian and struck him though his stomach. In minutes the ciropterian crystallized and cashed to the floor in billions of little pieces. She kept doing this for some time, not knowing what happened to David or Kai. They were further down in the room and couldn't get back to Saya to help her. She was on her own as far as defending her and the cello case. The monsters seemed like they would never stop. There was so much blood everywhere. On the floor, on Saya's hands, on her sword, on some of the equipment that was in the room, and the walls. She was killing so many of them at once, her energy was starting to wither down and she didn't know how much longer she would be able to handle this kind of pressure. She kept killing and killing and killing. At first she thought it would never end. The light from outside got darker and darker. So as an effect the room began to grow darker and harder to see the monsters that were coming her way. She tried killing several more and was forcefully tossed to the side, slamming to a blood covered wall. With a grunt she fell to the floor. She was now starting to become tired. She felt so weak, it didn't even seem like she could lift a hand.
The ciropterian grew closer to her. One threw her to another side of the room. With a scream and a grunt, she hit the wall hard and slid down. She couldn't do anything more. Saya was loosing to much blood to fight back. She began to believe that this may have been the end for her. When in her mind she was talking to herself.
"Haji.... Haji... Where are you? I need you here..." She thought. Saya tried calling to Haji, and it brought her to tears. Focusing on the cirpoterians, one of them was about to swing at her. She closed her eyes and was believed to be thrown across the room again. But something didn't feel right. She heard the ciropterian being thrown across the room instead. It crashed into the wall opposite her. Saya was hesitant, but she opened her eyes. As she opened them, a figure stood in front of her. The figure was in fact a man.
"Saya... you must fight." It was Haji's voice. It was Haji. Saya's heart fluttered, feeling herself stand. She suddenly got the energy she needed back. She wanted to jump and hug Haji right then and there, but she knew that that wasn't the right time or place to be doing that. She fought with Haji in perfect rhythm. Fighting off every ciropterian left and right.
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Ayano was frustrated by this. He saw how easy it was for Saya to kill the monsters. And now with her chevalier was back, he knew that he was going to have an even harder time trying to find something that would kill Saya. He watched the cameras for a short time. But then decided to leave everything up to them. He shut everything down and walked out of his room, seeing that Min and the twins were still in the waiting room.
"Everything is shutting down now Min. Its time for you to head back home now. " Ayano said, tossing his coat over his shoulders. and walking off, not letting Min talk to him. She sighed and looked down at the twins.
"Girls, stay here please." She said, getting up and catching up with Ayano.
" What about Saya and the others? I thought they were still down there." Min wondered.
" I've already had my secretary escort them out. Don't worry, just go back to where you were parked. They'll be there when you get there." Ayano smiled.
"Alright then, I'll go get the girls and be on my way. You better not be lying to me Ayano..." Min said, frowning. She walked back to the waiting room and got the girls and walked out of the building. She walked to her car with the girls, It seemed like her car was parked so far away. Her and the girls talked on the way to the car.
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The ciropterians were all gone now. Saya and Haji had killed what was left of them. Saya put her sword back in her casing and it fell from her hand into Hajis'. Haji stood behind her. He looked down at Saya to realize that tears fell from her eyes. They fell like rain drops from the sky as the tear drops fell to the ground. Her head hung low. She turned around now to face Haji. He still had the same face that she remembered. She quickly latched onto him, hugging him. She let out a full fledge sob now.
"Haji.... I thought...I..." She couldn't say what she had to. What she wanted to. Haji hugged her back and comforted her. He was happy to see Saya again. He also thought that he would have never seen her again. He looked down at her and smiled.
