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The mask of Zeo
The Note
The car was in sight and Zeo put the boy in the back.
"In the car!" Zeo yelled and he got in.
He started the engine and drove away, he turned the corner and stopped.
"No Brian...I don't need you, oh no...all I need is the boy."
"Tomoko?"
"Your usefulness and your life has come to an end..." Zeo aimed the gun at Brian.
He closed his eyes and Zeo opened the door...then he squeezed the trigger.
BANG.
Brian was blown out of the car at the force of the point blank bullet.
"Sweet dreams!" he closed the door and started driving again leaving the bleeding body on the side walk.
Hiro and the Police Officers watched Zeo drive away and tun a corner.
"SHIT" he thought, they heard the car stop and a few seconds later, they heard a bang that sounded like a gun firing, then more driving.
Hiro got into his car.
"We have to see who was shot and if they are still alive" the Sargent nodded.
"Call an ambulance" he ordered.
"Yes sir."
Hiro saw in the darkness a body, he drove on and the lights hit it.
"Brian" he whispered.
He parked the car and got out, he fetched a flash light from the back of the car and turned it on.
Hiro approached the body and he covered his mouth with his free right hand.
There was a trail of blood coming from a hole in Brian's forehead.
"Dead" a car pulled up behind them, the Sargent got out.
"Who is it? Are they okay?" Hiro turned around.
"It was Brian and he's dead."
"I'm sorry for your loss."
"Thank you...mourn the dead later, we have to find Zeo, did you get the licence plate?"
"No, he took it off but we got photo's, lots of photos."
"Good but I'm afraid that might not be enough to find Zeo"
"Actually...there is...its a red Honda, all we need to do is look in the car registry database and find his name which will be by his address" Things looked up when the Sargent said this.
"Perfect...do it...Zeo wont be missing long and that's for sure."
"Okay,but it will take a very long while to do that, maybe a couple of hours to about five hours so I'll put multiple officers on it."
"Has the ambulance been called?"
"Yes, its on its way."
"Again, the innocent has died, when the others get better enough I will have to order them to leave the Country...I'll break the news to everyone in the morning but now I have to go and see Spencer and Ian."
Ian was holding the mask in his hands and staring into the eye holes, the mask was staring back at him.
There was a knocking at the door.
"I'll get it" Spencer got to the door and opened it.
Staring back at him was a pair of glaring blue eyes.
"H...Hiro" he gulped, he had never seen the man so angry.
He didn't say anything and backed the Russian into the room and closed the door behind him.
Hiro closed his eyes and took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly before opening his eyes again, he seemed calmer so the others relaxed before he started and boy was he mad.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?!" his voice boomed through the apartments main room.
"What are you talking about?" Ian asked.
"I phoned you all last night saying that Zeo knew where you were...do you remember?"
Spencer shook his head.
"You said you would leave but you're still here, you said you didn't want to leave and interrupt dinner so you would leave when you finished it but I guess you forgot...you also said you're sure he wouldn't attack and you said you were ready for him... well you weren't!"
Spencer then realized what Hiro had been saying, he had said those things.
"Where's Brian?" Ian looked up from the mask.
"You better sit down for this" they sat down on the sofa and closed his eyes for a second.
"Well?" the younger asked
"Ssshhhh" the blond replied.
Hiro opened his eyes and looked at the Russians and said calmly but very slowly indeed.
"Brian...he's...dead" Hiro looked serious.
"You can't be serious...you're bluffing right?" Ian's face was now pale with shock and so was Spencer's.
"H...o..w how?" Spencer's voice was shaky, they were shocked and would be, he stopped talking and tried to calm himself down enough to actually speak to Hiro.
"How did he go?" he finally managed to get out.
"Zeo used him as a human shield to get to his car, he got into it with Zeo and they drove away and stopped, he opened the door and shot Brian in the forehead before driving away."
"Just to think, if we had left, Brian and Tomoko would be with us...not dead...Kai and Tyson are going to murder us" Spencer and Ian looked at each other and gulped.
"Can I see that mask please Ian?" Hiro wanted investigate one of Zeo's masks himself.
"Sure" he passed it to the man sitting beside him.
"Do you want a drink or something?" Spencer said trying to be polite to the unexpected guest sitting on their sofa.
"Tea would be nice."
"Ian?"
"Coffee......please."
Hiro looked at the mask and around it, inspecting the wooden object in his hand.
He inspected it with amazing detail, he ran his hands along the smooth wood and through the eye holes like he was looking for something.
"Are you looking for something?" Ian asked as he watched the man inspect the wood.
"Maybe" was Hiro's simple reply, he was in fact looking for something, Zeo wouldn't have kidnapped Tomoko if he didn't want anything.
"I have an idea...can I have a knife please?" Spencer gave him one.
"Why?" Ian was curious.
"There's one place I haven't looked."
Hiro started to pry at the metal running on the front and back of the mask that was there to make it stronger.
The two front bars lied on the coffee table and he started at the back two.
Again nothing as it fell away.
"One more to go, if there is a note in the mask...it's here."
"A note?" the blond asked curiously.
"He wouldn't kidnap Tomoko if he didn't WANT anything in return so he would leave a note" the metal came away and a bit of paper fell out.
"BINGO."
Ian reached for it but Hiro swatted away his hand.
"Hey!"
"Hi" Hiro said as a joke.
Spencer gave Hiro the tea and Ian the coffee.
"There's no sugar in it."
"I like it without...thanks."
"Read the note" Ian whined.
"You really need patience."
Hiro picked up the paper and unfolded it, he read it out loud.
"Hello, Ian, Brian or Spencer... I have taken the boy to a secret location, you have one week to find this location or the boy dies, you are to surrender yourselves to me...remember you have seven days from now to find the boy or you will be getting a peace of him back bit by bit in a box, you are to surrender to me to allow my revenge to be complete and remember...you all have to be there...good luck finding the place...I'm sure you wont need it though...you've been there before... plenty of times actually" Hiro put the note down and took a sip of the tea.
"I'm sure you wont need it though...you've been there before... plenty of times actually" he said again.
"What does that mean?"
Ian looked at Spencer and they knew instantly.
"The dream."
"I've heard about this before...I think I have anyway, can you refresh my memory please?"
"O...kay" Ian agreed.
"Basicly each night when we sleep we have a nightmare where we switch positions, there are three, either you're with everyone being killed or searching dark corridors and the final position is you're the one leading the searcher to everyone before you vanish and go to everyone and get killed."
"And you have this nightmare every night?" Hiro asked and Spencer nodded.
"It's in a mansion...I'm thinking that special place is the mansion, in the dream we do see the outside of it."
"Hiro, what's going on? I heard Brian is dead?" Kai was at the door, they didn't expect him to be awake.
"What are you doing here?" Hiro asked.
"Tyson called and explained what he knew and an officer told me about Brian being dead" Gou was on his fathers shoulders and sleeping quietly so Kai had to duck down coming into the room.
"Tomoko has been kidnapped by Zeo."
"......" Kai was horror struck.
Author notes
Beywriter: See, that dream DID have a purpose
Tyson: Are we all going to die or something
Beywriter: I can't answer that question, I know that's what people are thinking
Max: Please review, its a crime not to, it doesn't take long and they reviewed the last one, why wont you?
Ray: Huge thanks to Lirin Sama, the Light Shadow and AmTheLion
Story- Beywriter
Editor- Lirin Sama
