Unexpected
Chapter Twelve
Enrique had been inconsolable during the quick, uneventful trip. The Blitzkrieg Boys were unsuccessful in their attempts to make him talk. All they did was bandage his wound and tried their best not to move him to allow recovery.
But as soon as they arrived at the Hiwatari Estate in Moscow, the blonde had to explain what happened...for he burst into tears when they gathered about him in the living room.
"Enri? Where's Oliver?" Claude demanded in a shaky voice.
"Why are you hurt?" Mariah asked.
"The murderers found you in the townhouse?" queried another.
"Do you already know what happened to Aaron and Emily? someone added, causing a violent uproar.
"MIINA-SAN!" Tyson yelled. "DAMATE! SHUT UP!! Can't you see the man's upset?!"
With this, the party quieted down and the dragon boy sat beside him.
"What DID happen?" he asked gently. "And no interruptions!" he told the rest.
Enrique sniffed and tried to steel himself. "It turns out that Oliver had been kidnapped by the murderers before Johnny and Robert were killed. He was experimented on like Aaron and Emily before hand."
"What did they do to him?" was asked in chorus. Every single individual in the room was fearing the worst.
"A second personality was incorporated in him," the blonde continued. "His name is Jenny and he's designed to kill me. He comes out whenever the murderers call my name."
"Oliver's been with us all this time..." observed Brooklyn.
"...That's...that's how the murderer's found our hideout in Manhattan," Bryan said darkly.
"And that's how they knew our plan when we fought them in the White Tiger Hills!" added Rei. "They knew we were using guns!"
"That's also how they found out the private airbase in Barcelona..." Miguel finished.
"Through Oliver," was the realization.
"We need to kill the murderers as soon as possible," Garland said.
"Oliver knows we've gone to Russia," Michael argued.
"Yes but now he isn't here. Can he still know what we're up to?" asked Max.
"I still don't believe it,." Ian said blankly.
"Garland's right," said Rick. "We need to track those murderers pronto before anything worse happens and kill them. Then maybe we could all help Oliver lose Jenny...everything's going to turn out fine."
Tala nodded. "Allow us to get started."
- - - -
Spencer sneezed and shifted slightly in his position behind the pillar. He wasn't ready to accept the fact that they (the Blitzkrieg) as well as their friends were back in the Abbey, waiting to ambush the murderers.
Results from the Russian's tracking told the group that Nathan and Ralf along with Jenny were returning to Boris' underground laboratories to pick up some things. Special, newly-developed firearms boosted the bladers' confidences and they were prepared for anything that Fate would throw at them.
Night had fallen and everything was almost unrecognizable in the dark. Three newcomers, however, did not go unnoticed.
Jenny's boots rang out loudly on the cobbled stone of the courtyard floor. He lagged slightly behind two, heavily cloaked and hooded beings carrying huge axes identical to Johnny's and Robert's shooters. The deadly trio was in a hurry.
Enrique trembled inside as he beheld the stern face of his best friend, frightfully altered because of the entirely different being dominating his delicate form.
"We NEED to hurry up," the Frenchman's voice resonated sharply.
The murderers said nothing and continued to cross the expanse of stone, surrounded with hallways supported by pillars, each concealing a lethal weapon.
The darkness wasn't so bad after all.
In a flash, Jenny was quietly knocked out by Raul and Ed. He was hurriedly dragged behind a wall where the pair, along with Enrique, stripped him of any remnants of his alter ego.
Immediately, slim and viciously sharp bullet-like needles treated with poison flew from all sides, impaling the unguarded murderers. The holes in their bullet proof amour did little to defend the skin beneath it from the dangerous projectiles.
This was kept up for a good half hour, even long after the two cloaked men had collapsed on the ground. Only when each of the bladers ran out of ammunition did they step out from behind the pillars, specially developed guns in tow.
"Enri, how's Oliver?" Kai was the first to speak.
The blonde emerged, carrying the fragile, unconscious greenette in his arms. Jenny's tight leather jacket, pants and boots were discarded and ready to be burnt. The pale French boy was clad once more in his regular outfit.
"Fine but still out," was the shaky reply.
The two-toned bluenette nodded and turned his attention to the two corpses on the middle of the cobbled court. The colorful party was awkwardly crowding around it.
Daichi came closest and nudged a body with his shoe, embedding the needles even further, making the murderer look more like a petrified porcupine that he already was.
"They're dead."
"Finally," said Rick. "Now let's see on who's so bent on killing Enrique."
The silver-haired American bent down and ripped the hoods off their cloaks.
Almost everyone swore.
"They're their own screwed up experiments," Kevin remarked.
The faces of the murderers were patched up like Frankenstein's. It looked like their skins were taken from five different dauphins of the past three centuries. Their cheeks were fat from being harvested from the choicest of dead royals. Their eyes were of different colors and their lips seemed to be taken from ancient fair-haired princesses. Their multicolored hair looked like a collection of precious locks from the rich and famous.
Rotten air hung about them and their garments reeked of death.
Crusher gravely proceeded to pour kerosene on the fallen figures. Ed threw in Jenny's clothes. Lee threw in a lighted match to the pile and they watched the entire thing brilliantly erupt in flames.
The warmth brought Oliver back.
"Enrique?" The quiet voice broke the monotony of silence and the crackling fire.
Twenty-eight heads turned to look at him; all broke into a genuine smile. Sighs of relief rose into the crisp, starry Russian sky.
Oliver was set on his feet and fussed over before given space.
"Is it over?" the youngest Majestic asked his dearest friend.
"It's over," the blonde replied and they hugged each other, fire light illuminating tears.
"I'm sorry..." the greenette whispered.
- - - -
"In order to suppress Jenny," Brooklyn began, pacing back and forth. "Our proposed therapy is quite simple."
The group was back in the Hiwatari Mansion and had gathered in its living room. All of them were exhausted but cared enough to listen anyway.
"Oli should focus all his energies on activities he loves doing," the carrot-topped teen continued. "Talking about this incident is best avoided. Healthy conversation should be encourage, though you won't find that very difficult."
"For our part," he turned to the rest. "It's best if no one knew of this therapy and perhaps it would be best if we all made this estate our home. But of course you guys are free to visit your home countries regularly," he added at the sight of the faces of the Americans and the Chinese.
"We have to do all we can to let Oliver lose Jenny." Blue-green eyes glanced at the two tired Europeans on the couch.
Oliver was leaning heavily on Enrique. The latter had one arm around the former's shoulder and held his hand, stroking the back of it his with thumb.
"...seeing as the trigger for Jenny's, uh, emergence is Enri's name," Garland continued. "We proposed to change his name."
The playboy and the snob sat up to look at him.
"Into what?"
Garland smiled. "From now on, you're Giancarlo, Giancarlo Tornatore."
"We took care of the papers," Ming-ming assured.
Summer blue eyes widened and exchanged an amused look with lavender ones.
"As for Oliver," Brooklyn added. "We've taken out your second name, so you'll just be known as Oliver Les Desmond only."
Mystel held up some documents. "Covered that too."
Things were starting to take a turn for the better. The thick, oppressive atmosphere was clearing up. Sunlight streaming through an open window heralded a new dawn.
"Guys," Kenny said with a smile. "We can finally move on..."
Epilogue in a mo...
A/N: No they did not kill the REAL murderers...watch out for the Epi soon ...enjoy!xD and ciAo...