Sonny slowly walked inside the hotel with his hood up and goggles on. It was so dark that he could pass easily. He just wished for D'Jok to be awake. And for Dame Simbai too. None of the cameras didn't notice him as he walked down the hall and to the elevator, but the lights were turned on when he reached the Snow Kids' level. This time he went a bit faster. He entered his son's room, and sadly the lights were turned off.
The boys are sleeping at this hour? he asked himself taking off his hood and goggles. When he glanced at the clock on the night stand, it said 22:53 PM. Usually they were staying up until midnight, chatting, or whatever else they were doing. Not wanting to wake up Micro-Ice, he took out a small lantern and walked to his son's bed.
Ok, that is strange... D'Jok is not in his bed, and neither seems to be Micro-Ice. He went to turn on the lights, and saw their room being crystal clear, and their beds made perfectly, and he knew the two teenagers haven't became obsessed with cleaning over the night... maybe they were still at practice?
He went to the practice room. And no. They weren't there either. Nobody else is there, besides Clamp, who's under the Holo Computer, connecting some wires probably.
"It's good to see your still into your machines Clamp" hearing his voice out of sudden, scared Clamped, who hit his head into the metal, before he rolled off and got up, glad to see his friend.
"You know what they say Sonny, always and forever" Clamp laughed. Sonny smiled, but as soon as it came, his smile dropped. If Clamp was already here by himself... where is his son? In the coach's office? No. D'Jok doesn't get in trouble, he is proud and has a big ego(just like him in his younger days), but he never gets in trouble. It's not in his nature, which comes from his mother's part of family. "What brings you here?"
"I'm looking for D'Jok. He is not in his room and I thought he might be at practice, but it's clear for all three of us that he isn't" he tried not to sound too worried. After all, his instinct says his son is fine. But his protective father side, says he is in danger. Clamp looked at him for a second with a weird expression. Then he chuckled loudly, wiping his full of oil hands with a rag.
"You sounded so serious, you almost got me for a moment" Sonny had no idea what was so amusing.
"And what is so funny if I may ask?" he wasn't asking. He was demanding for an answer. He was getting a really bad feeling about this. He crossed his arms to his chest, which made him look more dominant. That would've worked with anybody else in the galaxy. Everybody else besides Clamp.
"Sonny..." Clamp realized the man before him was deadly serious. Which was confusing the old man beyond words. "You really mean it, when you say you don't know anything about D'Jok? You didn't hear anything from him? Or saw him during the last period of time?"
"No...Clamp... did something happen to my son?" his fists were clenched tightly, his voice grew dangerous. He would go at extreme lengths to protect his son. Clamp honestly hated he had to be the one to tell D'Jok's father about all of this. More worried he was about the red haired boy... if he lied telling everyone he's going to his father... where did he really go?
For the next hour, Clamp explained to Sonny, how it all began and how it ended up, with many details, leaving nothing to be untold, until Sonny knew the story by heart. Without any word or sound, he turned around and literally, he ran back to the Black Manta.
"Pirates!" he called for them "Please do accept my apologies for bothering you all at this late hour. But I need every post to be occupied and I want it to be done fast. I want you to monitor every corner, every inch, and every movement made in Genesis! Leave nothing out! Even if a leaf falls from a tree, I must know first. Understood?"
They all nodded and proceeded to fulfill his order. He might have been to hard on them, but he'd rather do that. Who the hell knows where D'Jok is? Is he safe? Is he well? Or is he starving or living on the streets?
"Sonny" Corso interrupted his mental debate "Why all of sudden, you want us to monitor on Genesis? Did you find anything linked to Technoid?"
"No... it's worse... it's about my son..." he put both his hands on Corso's shoulders, and shook him, but not too hard "He has disappeared Corso. No one knows anything about him. No one knows where he is. It's been a week and only now I've been told. I don't care if I don't sleep or eat for days, but I won't give up until the last meter of Genesis is searched! Then we'll head straight to Akillian! If D'Jok is not on Genesis, he must be on Akillian!"
"He was kidnapped?" Artie asked, and Sonny looked around, realizing only the four of them (including Bennet) were in the room. He sighed, and thought it was better to tell them all now.
"No...he left on his own. Apparently, the League suspended him to play, when a mother of a Snow Kid player made a complain about my son and Micro-Ice, forcing her son to consume alcohol. D'Jok took the blame of it all and it was proved the bottles were bought by D'Jok himself. When he was told he was suspended to play, D'Jok, left when no one was there to stop him. He lied to Mei and Micro-Ice, telling them he was coming to stay with me. And since then no one else has heard from him..."
He needed to sit down, which he did, a deep sigh escaping his lips involuntary. Seems like he had failed his son as a father. He felt horrible and blamed only himself for not knowing earlier about this. Maybe he could've done something if he was there...
"Don't worry Sonny. We won't stop until we find your son" Corso said
"There is more... seems like, shortly after D'Jok left, Micro-Ice left too. No one has heard anything from him either. No one knows where they went."
"Which gives us an advantage" Bennet grinned "Most likely, those two must be together. We find Micro-Ice, then be sure we will find D'Jok close by"
Sonny wished for Bennet to be right with all his heart and soul. He can't shake off the feeling he has failed D'Jok as a father. The more that feeling stays there, the more Sonny starts to believe in it.
