Chapter Fourteen Dead Fear

"Danny?" Hikari questioned, flabbergasted at his sudden appearance. "What are you doing here?"

"I believe this is close to where you lived at least. So, I waited here, at the top of this hotel with the sliver of hope that you'll soon arrive here as well," He responded flatly, the smirk never left his face. "Now let me ask you a question, Kinomoto. Why is it we are all alive? Why is it that we, the seemingly only sole survivors of this disastrous apocalypse, are still standing?"

Alexis moved a bit in front of Hikari. Using her left arm, she extended her reach to metaphorically protect Hikari from the verbal onslaught of Danny.

"Oh! Alexis is here too!" Danny licked his lips as if imagining he was devouring a thanksgiving meal, and as if he had so many options going through his head, "This has just turned out to be quite the extravaganza!"

Hikari raised an eyebrow at Alexis to symbolize the surprise that was already evident upon her face. Danny's smile twitched. He moved fast and flicked a knife in Hikari's position that passed barely by her nose and out the door.

"I'm right here, bitch!" Danny snapped not-so-Danny-ish. "No need to make faces," Immediately his smirk was back, "It'll contort that beautiful face that I have came to admire so admirably."
Hikari and Alexis were in shock. Their faces were frozen as they stared straight at Danny's smirking face and watched silently as he quickly erupted in laughter they easily edged on the line of crazy.

"Do you need me to fix your faces? Just like I did this two?" Danny motioned to the two people on the floor; his smirk fell slightly. "I mean, I just wanted some food, and they stared at me like an animal. The man here even had the bold thought to point a gun at me! AT ME! Can you believe it?!" Danny erupted back into his laughing fit, "He never saw it coming! Now his face will always have that hideous smile that plagues my dreams!"

Danny had a crazy look in his eye that was easily distinguished. He wore a giant grin on his face by this moment, but both Hikari and Alexis had no idea how to respond to the situation they were so violently thrown into. To make matters worse, both Sicarius and Arashi were outside fighting them and holding them off, counting on Hikari and Alexis to succeed in their scavenger hunt. So they were alone. Hikari slightly edged her hand toward the door, in hopes of getting out of the room as fast as possible.

"Don't even think about it, slut!" And before she knew there was a knife held against her face. Alexis was pushed off her feet and landed only couple of meters away, but still too far to deal any real damage to Danny. Danny crooked his head slightly in her direction.

"You move and I stretch her smile so wide, it spreads all over the room!" Danny snapped. Hikari's eyes widened ever so slightly at the amount of pressure that seemed to throw itself upon her as his hungry eyes stared straight into her terrified eyes.

"I watch you fly on paper wings high above the world; time for you to finally see reality," he picked her up and slammed her against the window that oversaw the entire city, "Does that look like it's still happy and cheery?! DOES IT?!" Hikari slowly started to shake her head and mumble a no between the tears that began to fall down her cheeks. The Danny she knew was gone.

"So answer my question!" He snapped at her and slammed her head against the glass. Immediately he was jumped from behind, "What the-!"

Masako, who had seemed to remain hidden from Danny, had appeared at the last second, but Danny was not ill prepared. He grabbed her by her right arm and half yanked it from her socket in the process of flipping her over his back. The breath was knocked out of her when her back collided on the floor and a large ringing shot through her spinal cord.

"Bitch!" Danny had reached a new level of anger, "Me and Hikari were sharing a comfortable moment," And proceeded to kick the helpless girl at his feet. For Masako, the pain was unbearable for just a short while before her entire body went numb from the physical abuse Danny put into the kicks. When he felt satisfied with the beating he had carried out, he left her sprawled out on the floor and turned his attention to Alexis. Her eyes wide with fear as he approached her.

Hikari was out with a gash in her forehead that bled down the side of her face and Masako could do nothing but stare helplessly at the ceiling for the pain was too unbearable for her to even move. Alexis was on her own, and Danny knew it.

"You seem like an intelligent girl," Danny seemed to ponder openly, "Answer this question for me and you're free to run; of course knowing that their lives are on your hands as well. If you answer successfully you leave! If you don't, well you still leave, just not the way you want to!" Danny burst out laughing as if he told the best joke he's ever heard. "So let us begin!"

Alexis slowly nodded as she reached into her back pocket for her pocket knife, "Alright."

"What happened here?" He motioned to the half-naked man and woman. Alexis followed his motion to where they were lying.

"They were killed."

"Obviously! How?" He asked.

"Man ate the female it seems," Alexis responded matter-of-factly. Danny smile grew.

"Wrong!" He still wore that freakish grin, "I ate them both!" He flashed her his teeth which had been stained blood red. She flinched involuntarily at the grotesque revelation. She looked over at Danny to find him staring at her, with that same hunger in his eyes and a wild smile plastered on his face. Only when she noticed where he was looking did she finally break her cool.

His eyes were fixated on her breasts with that hungry stare. Disgusted, she flipped her pocket knife open and slashed at his face and cut him right along the left cheek. Stunned, Danny's eyes shot in the direction of Alexis next incoming attack and did a split second decision of jumping into her and sending them both sprawling over the floor. The unexpected attack forced the knife from Alexis's hand and she rolled fast to try to get to her feet before Danny took advantage of a lying down opponent.

Danny was up just as fast and slapped her extremely hard in a flustered rage. Alexis barely had the time to react before he threw her onto the floor and clubbed her in the back of the head, effectively disorienting her. She crawled on all fours on the floor as she tried to gather her scrambled mind.

Danny, taking advantage of her momentary weakness, clubbed her again. Alexis dropped from her crawling position and felt her scrambled brains go even farther from returning as she felt his hand slam against the back of her skull for a third time. This time she was completely disoriented and offered no resistance as Danny rolled her over on her back and immediately gripped at her pants.

His fumbling fingers were only able to get the pants half way down both her legs revealing the black panties she wore underneath. Again, licking his lips, Danny began to get impatient with the amount of time it was taking to actually begin the disastrous event. Alexis barely saw the flash of silver, red and black as it passed through, but she did immediately feel the presence of Danny get lifted her body. Alexis could barely move her own body, yet comprehend the extremely fast set of events that were passing by her like a race car, but she did see the head of silver hair pointing a wooden sword directly at her would-be assaulter.

"Sicarius!" Danny yelled as if he was greeting an old friend. Sicarius's eyes narrowed. "This extravaganza is getting even better!"

Sicarius wasted no time with ill necessities this time around and bolted straight at Danny who had not seen the sudden attack coming. Danny only felt the dull thud as his lights went out forever and he felt his brains fly against the wall and floor. Alexis closed her eyes slowly as she let her own exhaustion take over; her last view was of Sicarius standing for just a short second before collapsing onto his knees next to Danny; his old friend who couldn't make it out of the danger zone, and joined the world of the crazies.

He could almost hear Danny's last words.

"I was already a dead man."

End of Chapter Fourteen

Who would have guessed it would have taken me so long to finally finish this chapter! My apologies readers, I'll try to stay on top of things this year, but it is much, much more challenging to remain on top of this story as well my other story as well as school. Well I hope you all enjoy and if you do remember to

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