Chapter thirteen:
"What happened?" Maria questions.
The male quivers as tears return to his eyes. He stutters an incoherent word as he doesn't notice the blood from the kill is still on him.
"Speak boy!" Mello slightly snaps getting impatient.
The mal bursts out sobbing. "I'm sorry." He repeats for a bit then just sobs. "G-Ghost is dead!" He has another sobbing fit. "I was forced to kill him." He finishes as the only coherent word out of his mess of sobbing words is I'm sorry.
Most of the other orphans feel their hearts sink.
Does this mean that they'll need to kill each other like how Ember had to with Ghost.
Mello turns to Near and nods.
Near closes his eyes and establishes the link.
The connection is full of thoughts of the scared orphans but they calm down as Ember continues to even think that he's sorry.
"Did you find out anything for our map?" Mello asks in the connection.
Ember starts chocking on dry sobs but speaks in the connection. "The windows were barred and we were put in cramp metal square places. Released and had to build a weapon to kill the other or be killed. I looked outside and I saw a field with some trees in the distance. I screamed but no one came or anything."
Mello glances back to Near but holds his thoughts since the other's don't need to know right now.
Near knows either way and nods.
"Where could we be?" Linda whimpers speaking in the connection.
There is footsteps approaching the door to the place where the cells are.
Near quickly cuts the connection.
The door opens and in walks the woman that dragged Matt.
She goes around looking at the orphans then pauses at Ember looking right at him. "Who knew you had a special talent of building guns." She says. "Well done." She then continues on her way only stopping again at Near and Mello's cell.
Mello stares her in the eyes not backing off while Near just kind of watches from where he is sitting.
The woman only smirks. "The famous rivals. Yet you seem quiet." She says.
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"I must be going." Rodger says. "Keep up the good work." He leaves with that and drives back to Whammy's humming happily. He stops as he sees Whammy's up ahead. "Soon we'll get more taken away. Soon there will be nothing left for Whammy's to stand for." He smirks then quickly puts on a mask of worry as he approaches the gates that open allowing him in. He heads inside once his car is parked in the hidden garage.
A female teacher comes over to him. "Any luck?"
Rodger sighs and glances down shaking his head. "I'm afraid not."
The woman looks disheartened at his words. "Oh….. Ok." She turns and walks away.
Rodger moves away heading to his office.
A smirk returns to his lips.
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"Maybe if you were us you'd understand that things like this can make even the worst rivals come together to stop those like you." Mello retorts.
"Whatever." The woman says not caring. "It would have been entertaining if you still fought." She says. "But I don't care. You all are going to die in the end. So it doesn't matter either way." She heads off.
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The woman walks away from the door leading to where the cells mumbling to herself about how she wished the two were still rivals as it would be entertaining.
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No one else is taken out and Ember cried himself to sleep.
Some of the other orphans managed to fall asleep either on their own or passed out from lack of sleep.
Mello glances to Near who looks to be staring off into space.
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"How ae we doing?" Rai asks as the Shadows continue to try to find where the Whammy's could possibly be hiding.
"We've found a few possible places but we need to narrow it down to less places since there is too many." One of the Shadows report.
"Ok." Rai agrees. She turns and see Silver is staring off into space. She approaches him but stays quiet waiting for him to snap back to reality.
A few minutes later be blinks back to the real world.
"What was it this time?" Rai asks.
Silver turns to her lowering the hand that had been supporting his head in a slightly thinking position. "Near sent me more about what's going on and some more information." He reports.
Rai settles in a chair across from Silver. "Do share."
Silver shifts to lean forward with his elbows on his knees and hands joined together.
Rai is more relaxed leaning back with one hand in a fist resting on her cheek as if supporting her head and she is watching her brother.
"One of the others there were forced to kill another." Silver says.
Rai frowns. "Then it becomes imperative that we find them." She says worriedly and seriously. "What else did he tell you?"
Silver explains all that his brother has explained to him.
Rai lowers her hand to be like her other hand resting on the arm rests as soon as Silver is finished. She turns to the other Shadows. "Narrow down your searches and fast." She tells them. She then slightly glances down. "I fear we may not have long left."
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L and Light are working together on the case when L receives a call.
L answers it. "Yes?" He listens.
Light continues working.
L's hand that has his thumb he had placed on his bottom lip falls to one of his knees. "Is that so?"
Light, seeing movement, looks over to L only to frown worriedly.
"Alright keep a sharp eye out and carefully watch the few left." L orders then hangs up.
"What happened?" Light asks thinking that another might have been kidnapped.
L doesn't look at Light instead is looking at a file in front of him. "Ghost …. One of the orphans was found dead. He was shot and his body dumped on a corner not far from the orphanage."
Light gives a sympathetic look to the other. "Well we are on the case. If we work hard we can find them before anything else bad happens." He says trying to cheer the other up.
"I hope so." L agrees with Light and gets back to work.
Watari comes in bringing the two some cake.
L turns to Watari. "Ghost is dead and I want you to see if you can narrow the buildings down to try to find the one most likely to hold the others."
Watari nods. "Working on it." He assures L then leaves to continue working.
L stares at the cake for a few moments then picks it up to get back to work.
They have to find and save the others before it's too late.