Misguided Bodies

Chapter 8

By

Midnight Siren

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"Where is she?" Ryo roared in anger at Kento, who flinched and hid behind Sage. His one violet eye was wide and alert, looking with fear at their steamy leader. Mia hadn't come home that night and no one had bothered to tell him until now. No one had even checked out her work.

"She didn't come home, she doesn't have her cell phone on her either. No one at work said they had seen her either…" Sage said getting a creepy feeling in his stomach. Something told him she wasn't kidnapped, something else happened to her. "They have been having this disappearances at the D-mix…."

"No don't say that," Ryo growled standing up, but was forced back down from standing to quickly. His vision spun and he lost his balance. The doorbell ringing brought hope into his eyes and his heart. "That might be her," Sage nodded and jogged down stairs. He reached the door but stopped, he could feel something on the other side of it. Breathing a sigh of relief as he heard girls voices, but frowned when he heard a sniffle. Yanking it open he stood face to face with Gwen, Tess and Casside.

Gwen's eyes were puffy and red, her nose a light pink. She held her black leather jacket tightly around her, holding a tissue to her nose. Her long sea green white stripped hair was up in a ponytail again curling all over the place. She had on a knee length black skirt with ankle black boots.

Tess on the other hand was in a pair of black flare jeans and a crop top white shirt with an opened black jeans jacket. Her long silky brown hair was straight down hanging over her shoulders.

Casside was wearing a short black mini skirt with a white cap sleeve shirt. Her black boots laced up to her knees with a jacket draped over her arm. Her black and white hair was pulled back in a French twist, curls falling out around it. Her eyes too looked a bit red

"Mia's not here if you're looking for her," Sage nearly snarled ready to shut the door but Tess's hand shot out and kept the door open. Her green eyes narrowed in on him.

"We're here to see you guys," Tess said in a low tone as Kento walked up behind him. Kento pushed him out of the way while smiling, but it faded when he saw their faces.

"What's wrong?"

"W-we need t-to…." Gwen stumbled over her words, tears coming to her eyes again and Casside placed a hand on her shoulder looking down at the floor, then back up at Sage and Kento.

"We have to talk to you all, it's about Mia," Kento and Sage exchanged glances and nodded. Allowing them to walk in Casside kept her hand on Gwen's shoulder, almost to help comfort herself too. They took a seat on the sofa as Kento and Sage ran up to get Rowen Ryo and Cye.

"I'm going to tell them," Gwen managed out meekly. Casside's eyes protested but she shook her head, "I was there…I should tell them,"

"Tell us what?" they looked up to see Ryo standing at the bottom of the stairs with all the other guys coming down. They looked at each other then back at them.

"You'll want to sit down for this," Tess finally said looking back down at her hands. They took their advice and sat down. Kento was on the floor, Rowen and Cye on the love seat while Sage took the chair and Ryo sat on the arm of it. Tess nudged Gwen and she took a deep breath while nodding.

"As you probably have noticed…Mia didn't come home last night…"

"You know what happened to her?" Ryo asked standing up, Sage grabbed his arm and forced him back down.

"Let her finish man," Sage looked back at Gwen and she gave him a sort of soft smile then it disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.

"Yes…I do know. See, we," she motioned to Casside and Tess, "along with Eveon know who you are Ronins,"

"What?!" they all yelled.

"Mia wouldn't tell you," Cye protested almost jumping up.

"She didn't have to," Casside snapped at him, her lightning blue eyes narrowing at him.

"We can sense this stuff….the reason the Dynasty wanted us…and had us…"

"What do you mean, had you?" Kento asked cracking his knuckles.

"The D-mix….it's ran by the Dynasty," their eyes narrowed in on her, all but Ryo's. His widened and started to fill with tears.

"Don't say it….don't tell me they…" Gwen just looked down letting out a soft sob. "They have Mia,"

"Yes," Gwen choked out wiping away her tears again, "we didn't think…she wasn't suppose to…" she started crying again and Casside cradled her in her arms hushing her.

"Why are you crying, you're just Dynasty scum who helped them take Mia away from us," Kento snarled glaring at them all. Tess returned the glare standing up.

"Forget this shit, lets go girls. We'll get Mia back on our own," Tess started towards the door with Gwen and Casside still on the sofa.

"Wait," she kept walking so Kento jumped up and grabbed her arm, "Hey I said wait." She looked back at him her eyes lit with rage.

"You tell us we're Dynasty scum, then tell me to wait when I try to leave? That's a little hypocritical isn't it?" she yanked her arm away from him giving him a death glare.

"Why'd you come here anyway? Just to tell us Mia was gone with the Dynasty?" the guys looked at Kento oddly. He was being more mature and caring then they had been before.

"No, we came to ask for your help….we know how to get to Mia, sort of, but we can't get her back ourselves," Tess stated looking directly at Kento.

"How'd you know we were the Ronins?" Cye asked from his spot on the love seat.

"Power Seekers," Gwen whispered causing him to look at her, "we're power seekers. That's why the Dynasty wanted us…to get to you."

"So this could all be a trap?" Sage snapped.

"We wouldn't do that with Mia and Eveon's life on the line!" Gwen screamed, sending tears flying through the air as she jerked her head towards him.

"What about Eveon?" Sage's eye narrowed at them.

"Mia was dragged into one of the rooms by some guy, Eveon went after her, they took them both….it wasn't suppose to happen that way. Johovan promised, he promised no one would get hurt," Casside whispered the last few parts, tears brimming her eyes.

"Johovan is behind this all?" they nodded, eyes downcast. Rowen gritted his teeth looking at the three girls standing in the room crying for two of their friends. "We'll help you."

"what?!" the ronins cried looking back at him. The girls looked at him with wide eyes.

"We will? Rowen are you out of your mind?!" Kento yelled thrusting a hand towards Tess, "they could be setting us up!"

"We wouldn't play God with our friends lives," Tess growled.

"But you did with all those other peoples!" Tess shrank back and turned on her heel heading towards the door. "Where are you going?!"

"I knew you wouldn't understand,"

"Tess! You have to give them a chance to understand, like Mia did!" Everyone looked at Casside's last statement with shock.

"Mia knew about this?" Ryo croaked.

"She knew what we were, yes, she didn't know about the Dynasty though," Gwen said looking at him with sad eyes, "she just knew not to go into a room, ever. The guy, he was to strong for her."

"Enlighten us please, what don't we know and understand?" Sage cut in knowing fully well what he was getting into.

"The power seekers, there's only 4 of them left. Us 4, so he played mind games with us, got us to join the Dynasty….by the time we realized what was happening it was to late. We were sworn into the Dynasty, to be dishonorable would cost us our lives," Casside explained partly.

"So we stayed, we captured the men, the void, what ever it is, it feeds off people's sexual desires. The beds would take them to the void and drain them, Johovan promised to let them go afterwards, that they would be okay," Gwen continued wringing her hands and playing with her tear drenched tissue.

"But it got out of control, first it was just a few people here and there, then it was 30 a month, now…now it's hundreds. You couldn't stop, they wouldn't let you…" Tess stated looking at Gwen and Casside, "we're putting a stop to it now though. Mia and Eveon are gone, and we helped it get that way…it's time to get them back and put things back to normal. But we need your help, the only powers we have are seeking those with stronger powers out…you."

"So you want us to go into the void, which you really don't know what it is, and fight what ever is in there? You've got to be joking," Kento blurted out.

"Kento shut up," he looked back in shock at Cye, who was just looking at Gwen's trembling figure. "we'll do it."

"Good,"