Chapter twelve:

Hikaru and Kaoru head down and find that the fight has ended with the spiritual fighters having won.

Though they have lost some members of their own in the fight.

"We got it." Hikaru tells them getting their attention as he shows the USB in his hand.

"Great. Let's get it back so we can look over all of the information that we can." Another one of the spiritual fighters nod. "Come with me." He turns. "Whoever was closest to our fallen comrades please help in taking care of their deaths. Their families will understand their fall to fight against the enemy for the greater good. Everyone else may go home to get some rest." He leads the twins away as everyone else does as told since it sounds like a good plan. He takes them to his house where he is given the USB from Hikaru. He plugs it into a spare laptop in which he begins looking through all that is on there.

Hikaru and Kaoru settle on the couch letting the other work with the laptop on the coffee table.

Kaoru slightly glances to Hikaru who is looking down in thought. "Hey." He speaks softly causing his twin to look to him. "What is going on in that mind of yours?"

"I'm just wondering that if there is a way that the beasts could be created or controlled by whoever this group calls themselves then…." Hikaru slightly dips his head as his eyes are cast downwards. "Then what kind of damage could they really do with such information? Can you imagine what could happen since that knowledge is in the wrong hands?"

Kaoru slightly glances away at his brothers questions. He recalls what he had heard while spying on the group that he had found. "They could destroy the world with the right plan." He answers after replaying what he had heard in his head.

Hikaru turns to look to his brother slightly raising his head to do so. He gazes at his brother who doesn't turn to look to him. He opens his mouth to speak to the other until their attention is brought to the other person in the room.

"Whoa!" The other male spiritual fighters eyes are flickering around at something on the screen. "You should see this."

So the twins get up off of where they were sitting only to join the other. They look to the screen finding that it some writing about some experiments that have taken place.

Kaoru notices there is a list of beasts, with numbers, then what happened to them along with how well they did in the fight. He sees that though most are failures there are ones marked as success usually when the spiritual fighter was killed. "They're keeping track." He realizes. "So that they can try to learn from their so called mistakes to make even better beasts than before."

"They're planning to build the perfect beast." The ghost gasps at this his eyes widening.

"A perfect beast…" Kaoru slightly glances down in thought at this. "Then comes the question if it is to rule the world or to destroy it…"

"Either way this could be vey bad." The other in the room responds and scrolls through a bit more of what is on the USB. "A perfect beast that we cannot defeat is a true threat. They could do both rule the world or destroy it. We cannot let that happen!"

"I have a question though." Hikaru speaks up as his eyes meet the other males own eyes. "How in the world are we supposed to know where to go next? Unless it says something somewhere on there we have no idea where we are even supposed to look for all of this happening. We found one place. Not the actual base of operations."

"Settle down. There has to at least be a clue on here somewhere." The other male turns to look to the information on the laptop. "Or even another location that we could start our investigation." He scrolls through more of it. "I'll just have to go through every single detail of all of this that we managed to get. Which might take a little bit seeing as there is quite a lot of information to sift through. Why don't you two head off to get some rest while I go through it? I'll contact everyone if I find anything in all of this."

So the twins leave the house and head back home to do just that.

Hikaru glances to his brother as they walk along since his slightly younger brother who has been pretty quiet. "Kaoru?"

Kaoru turns hearing his name being spoken.

"What is going on in that mind of yours?" Hikaru inquires to the other hoping to get his brother to talk to him. "Come on. You can tell me."

"I am just thinking about the information that we found out." Kaoru responds glancing away to where they are going. "How close could they be to making that perfect beast?"

"Well if the latest beast battle is anything to go by, then they still have some work to do before they create anything that could be considered a perfect beast." Hikaru responds also turning to look where they are going. "I'm sure that it'll be fine."

"Yeah." Kaoru nods softly. "As long as we find out where they are and to stop them."

After getting home Hikaru passed out on the couch a bit tired.

Though Kaoru is still awake. He glances to his sleeping brother then leaves the mansion hurrying off back to the home where they had recently fought at. He walks inside finding only the enemy bodies are left behind. He tries to ignore all of the death as he looks around the house. "There has to be something here that can help." He starts going through drawers, lifting couches and chairs, glancing under cushions, under beds, under the tables, and so on. He tries to leave no place unchecked. "Come on. Give me something to work with." He heads into the place where he and Hikaru had downloaded the information from the computer. He moves closer to the computer and looks to it though right now it's on a black screen. He turns to glance to the person that he had killed once Hikaru had left. He stares at the body for a good while then turns away. "Hey." He speaks to the ghost. "Can you maybe see if there is a secret room somewhere?"

"Sure." The ghost starts poking his head into the walls to look to the other side while Kaoru slightly glances down in thought.

"Will we really be able to stop them before something really really bad happens…?"