Well, I was going to update Trapped first, but I decided to wait until I got my car back so I could get the part that I had written out, and go from there. So, until then, I shall update this one. Hmm, whatever will happen? I dunno. Who will die? I do know...but I'm not telling yet! Anyway, enjoy!
Polaris18: I have no logic, what are you talking about? Nope, not Eyes; he wasn't even one of the options! It was Ryoko, Kalelle, or Ayumu. It might be in this chapter, if not you get another guess. Heh, I had to include the melon at some point, it's not a spiral fic without the melons! Thanks for reviewing!
CeTe: Yay, you guessed it! Though, I was pretty much telling you that without actually saying the words. Heh, Connor could only ever sneak up on Kalelle and Ayumu if they were worn out from having sex all night...oh wait, they are! Hmm, I'm not telling you if you're right or wrong yet, though I'm pretty sure you can put two and two together by now. Don't want to ruin it for the rest of them, though. Thanks for reviewing!
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Beyond nervous by now, Rio couldnt stand not seeing Ryoko any longer. If she was right, then she had to do something to try and prevent what was going to happen. So, she stood up and headed for the door, "Where are you going?" came Eyes' voice, wondering what had made the girl jump up so suddenly.
Rio spun around, "I'm going to go find Ryoko." she explained, "I...need to ask her something." Convinced that it was nothing serious, Eyes nodded and turned back to reading his book.
As soon as the door closed, Kanone looked up to Eyes, "Did she seem nervous to you?"
Eyes shrugged, "Rio's always a bit jumpy." he pointed out.
Kanone laughed, "I suppose so, but I wonder why she had to find Ryoko all of a sudden. It's not like her to forget to ask a question, and she's had all day to do it."
Eyes considered this., and found that he had to agree with Kanone; it really wasn't like Rio to be so absent minded, especially about something that seemed to be so important. Still, he didn't seem worried, "It's none of our business either way." he replied.
Kanone, however, didn't like to be left in the dark, "Yes, but..." he was cut off by Eyes' lips pressing over his.
When they finally broke, the younger one looked down at his boyfriend, "You talk too much sometimes." he informed him.
Kanone smirked, "Only sometimes?" he asked, then pulled Eyes into another kiss.
Breaking once again, Eyes smirked right back, "Well, sometimes it's not so bad." he said, and sensed that was the end of the conversation. He went back to reading his book as Kanone laid his head back down on the Blade Child's chest. A few moments passed by, and both realized that wasn't much of a makeout session at all. They looked at each other, and smiled a little. With that, Kanone got into a more comfortable position, and they began kissing once more.
Wandering through the halls, Rio noticed they were eerily empty. Every room she passed, the doors were shut, and she desperately wanted to find Ryoko. Figuring that Ryoko either went down in the lobby to talk to Kousuke, or to get some more water, she went for the latter option; she really didn't want to go down to the lobby yet.
She found where the closest vending machines that carried water were, and also found that they were unoccupied. Sighing, Rio went to the elevator to go down to the lobby and face whatever she might find down there. Pressing the button to go down, the elevator came almost immediately, way too fast if it were down on the first floor like it should be if Ryoko had used it to go down. That only meant one thing; that someone else had used it! Rio knew she would feel loads better once she saw another person. The doors opened to reveal, "Ryoko!" Rio yelled, and latched onto the taller girl.
Ryoko was a bit startled, and stumbled back a little, but quickly regained her balance, "Rio, it's okay, what's wrong?" the taller one asked, concerned that her friend was this excited to see her.
Rio stayed glued to Ryoko for a moment longer, and finally let go to move into the elevator as the doors were closing, "I just wanted to see you." she said, hesitantly. Now that she knew Ryoko was okay, she felt a little foolish for letting her imagination get the best of her. Then, another thought occured to her, "What were you doing on the floor above this one?" she asked, confused. If Ryoko had been on her way down to the lobby, then the elevator wouldn't have come back up when Rio pressed the button; it would have taken Ryoko down, then come back up.
"I was looking for Kousuke." Ryoko expained, "I went down to the lobby, but he wasn't there. So, I started checking the other floors for him."
Rio hesitated slightly at this. Why would Kousuke go anywhere other than the lobby, "Were there other people there when you went down to the lobby?" Rio asked.
Ryoko nodded, "Yeah, there were a couple guys there, and the receptionist. I think I saw a couple of doctors and nurses down there, too. Why do you ask?"
Rio sighed a breath of relief, and shook her head, "No reason." she said, smiling.
Ryoko looked at her a bit suspiciously, but just shrugged it off as Rio being the weird girl that she is. When they finally reached the lobby, the doors opened to reveal an all too familiar sight to Rio. She gasped as she saw the same lobby as from her nightmare. Completely deserted, and half of the lights were out, giving it a very ominous and foreboding look. Ryoko stepped out of the elevator first, looking around, "What's going on?" she wondered out loud, "It wasn't like this a few minutes ago."
Rio very hesitantly took a step foward to exit the elevator, when all of a sudden the doors closed a lot quicker than Rio had ever seen. She tried to squeeze through before they shut, but despite her small size, they closed too fast, "Ryoko!" Rio yelled as her friend vanished from her sight due to the now fully closed elevator doors. Frantically pushing the emergency stop button, Rio realized that it had been disabled, "They were coming for us." she thought, as realization of exactly what was about to happen dawned on her. Knowing this, she pressed the 2nd floor button, hoping that the elevator would stop by some miracle. Of course, she whized right by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors to stop at the 5th and top floor. She took a deep breath, and stepped back to wait for who or whatever was on the other side.
Ring, ring , ring. The phone in the hotel lobby of the Abyss rang impatiently, waiting to be answered. A new employee that had just been hired the previous day answered it as part of her training, "This is the Abyss, Hannah speaking, how may I help you?" She waited for the person on the other line to talk, and quickly grabbed a note pad and started scribbling a note down.
Jenna Bridges, Blue Lion real estate. For Kanone Hilbert. Re: Call in regard to the apartment we discussed earlier.
Heather smiled into the phone, "Okay, I'll get the message to him right away. You're welcome, have a nice day."
She turned to Wallace, who had just emerged from Turner's office to discuss what they would do if Connor failed them again, "Poor guy." Wallace thought, shaking his head. Turner definitely wasn't the forgiving type. Sure, Connor needed to be set straight if he screwed up again, but killing him? Wasn't that going a little too far? Apparently, though, Turner didn't want to risk Connor doing what Kanone, Kalelle, and Ayumu had done, which was abandon the Hunters to side with the Blade Children. Wallace sighed at Turner's brutality, "It's not like they would trust him even if he did decide to turn on us." he thought. From what he had heard, Kanone had already won the Blade Children's trust when he revealed that he was a Hunter. Then, he supposed, his brother was pretty much a given to join (heh, how little he knows), and then he knew that Ayumu and Kalelle were together, so he figured that's how he came to be part of the group (so very little).
Hannah turned to him as he appraoched her, "Mr. Wallace?" she asked, timidly, seeing that he was deep in thought.
Wallace turned to her, glaring a little. She was another one of Turner 'brilliant' ideas. Turner suspected the Blade Children of suspecting them to be Hunters, so he decided to hire another employee that knew nothing of the subject to throw them off. Wallace thought it would do nothing to help, but figured that Turner didn't get the respect that he had from the others by coming up with bad and unsuccessful plans. So, he would have to put up with her for now, "Yeah, what is it?" he asked, trying to not sound as rude as he wanted to.
"Someone called and left a message for one of our guests." she informed him, "What should I do with it?"
Wallace sighed, not only was the girl annoying, she was ditzy as hell, "What did Turner tell you to do when someone leaves a message for a guest?" he asked.
She thought on it for a second, "Umm, write it down?" she guessed.
Wallace swore he was about to smack the girl, "Yes, and then what do you do?" his impatience growing every second.
"Give it to them?" she guessed once again. She really hadn't been paying attention when Turner went through all of this.
Wallace sighed in annoyance and frustration, "No." he said, "That's wrong. You find out what their room number is, and you put it in their mailbox. Then, when they check their mailbox, they will get the message." he said, now in full glare at her stupidity, "The only exception to this rule is if the message is urgent. Did they say it was urgent?"
Hannah bit her bottom lip in thought, then looked down at her note, "No, I don't think so..." she trailed off, not remembering much of the phone conversation.
Wallace just shook his head, "Then look up their room number on the computer, and put it in thier mailbox, can you handle that much?"
Hannah smiled, "Yes, sir!" she said, the computer was the one part that she had actually paid attention to.
"Good." Wallace replied, then headed to the back to get some asprin. He seriously got a headache everytime that girl opened her mouth. Hannah looked up Kanone's room number, and stuck the message in his mailbox.
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Don't worry, you don't have to commit Hannah to memory or anything, she's not going to be a big part of this fic. She's just there so that neither of the Hunters would get the message and just throw it out. If they did that, then we might never get them out of that hotel! Also, I made her completely ditzy for my friend's sake. I don't even know if she's reading this fic, but if she is, she'll get it. Heh, so, we're pretty much figuring that Ryoko's dead, right? Okay, then what is our dear Rio going to find on the top floor of the hospital? More Hunters? Maybe Nik...who knows? Review!