Jerry moved and caught Tala's hand, smirking because he thought that he had avoided Tala's attack, April knew better, and winced as Tala's knee went up and hit the poor guy right where the sun don't shine. Jerry fell down, holding his nuts, cursing Tala in as many different ways as he could. Tala went down on top of him and began to take his anger out on him.
April watched as Tala's punches went faster and faster, leaving Jerry's skin to be bruised. April closed her eyes, she couldn't watch this. Though she was glad that Tala was doing something, she didn't like this. It was making her nausea, and if she threw up, most likely she'd move her head and end up being dead.
April could hear Justin move to go and break up Tala and Jerry but Wilbur put his hand up to stop Justin from moving. Justin didn't know what to do so he hung back and April could almost feel his worry for Jerry. With Tala as mad as Tala was, April was worried for Jerry too. There was no telling what Tala was capable of anymore.
Jerry didn't know what to do and it was obvious that he was expecting Justin to come over and give Tala a good punch or two and when Justin didn't, Jerry began to panic. Wilbur chuckled at this and April felt sick. What kind of guy laughed when his own employee was being beat up?
The knife was pulled against April's throat even harder and she stiffened. Wilbur pulled it to the side a little bit, causing blood to leak out and drip down to her chest. April whimpered at the feel of the cold liquid. Tala heard her whimper and immediately looked up, still straddling Jerry, with one fist poised to hit.
Wilbur's voice was unassuringly calm when he spoke. "Let him go or I hurt your girlfriend."
Tala took one look at April and saw the fear that April knew was still there and stood up, giving Jerry a good kick before stepping back. Jerry got up and brushed himself off, trying not to touch his face where most of Tala's hits had connected.
April watched as Kai motioned Tala to come over to him. Tala took a look at April, who nodded for him to go, and then went over to Kai who began to tell him something
"Don't even think about anything Kai! I have the power here, I have April right in my grasp and there's nothing you can do about it." Wilbur's voice called out. "So you might as well just give up now.
Kai turned to look at Wilbur and smirked. "Why? This is when the fun starts."
April didn't know what that meant but she sure as hell didn't want to know and whimpered even louder as Wilbur's knife tore her skin again. Kai flashed her a worried look but didn't do anything more than that to comfort her. April didn't know what was going on, but hoped that it would be over soon
Tala did not like the sound of April's whimpering and a grunt told Wilbur, and the two bodyguards so. Wilbur didn't flinch, but the other two sure did. Tala smirked, glad that he had scared them some.
Kai's plan was simple but a good one, unfortunately, they had no way of telling Rei about it without raising suspicions. Tala wished that there was some way, it would make this so much simpler. Unfortunately, there wasn't, so Kai and him would just have to find another way to put this plan to work.
Tala looked at Kai, who winked at him, giving Tala the signal to start their plan. Tala took the necklace from Kai and walked towards Wilbur.
Wilbur pressed the knife into April and moved back a step. "What do you think you're doing?" He asked, thinking that this was a setup.
Good thought, too bad you won't be able to stop us "I'm giving you the necklace." Tala held the necklace in front of him. "That is what you want, isn't it?"
April squealed as Wilbur roughly moved her ahead. "Try anything boy, and you won't have to worry about getting her back."
"Come on," Tala said, hoping April wouldn't hold this against him later, "We both know that she's useless. Good in the bed maybe, but that's about it. Of course, by now, you would know that."
April closed her eyes, as if she was trying to block that sentence out of her head and Tala mentally hit himself. Wilbur, on the other hand, smirked. "Who do you think I am? You? I haven't touched her that way." Wilbur rolled his eyes. "I still remember watching her run around in her diapers, I don't think you should mate with someone you see like that. It's just not right."
Tala took a breath and another step. "What do you mean? How did you know her when she was that young?" Tala could almost hear Kai applauding him in his mind.
Kai had told him to be creative, and to make Wilbur comfortable enough to ignore the fact that he was advancing still. Well, this was as good as he could think of, after all, no one thinks good in a hostage situation unless you're not really involved in it.
Wilbur grinned. "I used to be their butler. By them, I mean Kai and April's mothers'. They had different fathers you know. Neither of their fathers really came around that often."
Tala took this information and filed it for later use. "Interesting, but tell me, why do you need this necklace anyways?"
Wilbur shrugged. "I told you, I'm working for someone. I don't know what's so interesting about that necklace. I just know that it's what I'm supposed to get for my boss."
By now Tala was only five feet from April and Wilbur. Wilbur was so busy talking that he didn't even notice that the distance had changed. But Jerry and Justin sure did and they took a step backwards for every step that Tala took forwards.
"Come on, you must know something." Tala urged, taking another step.
Wilbur shook his head. "Nothing." Wilbur grinned and pulled April behind him and held one of his hands in front of him. "Now, hand over the necklace."
"You hand over April first." Tala said and smugly stood with his arms crossed.
Rei saw Kai sneak up behind Jerry and Justin and realized what was going on. He moved to sneak up behind them too, ignoring the presence behind. April had obviously seen it, but with all this commotion, she had forgotten about it completely. Rei realized that if it had been that bad, she wouldn't have forgotten about it so it couldn't have been too bad.
Kai saw that Rei had caught on and nodded to him, which made Rei grin and Rei tucked his bangs behind his ears, crouched and got ready to pounce on the closest guy to him
Tala was ready to his job, Rei could see, he was just waiting for a signal from Kai. Rei wondered why Kai was taking so long to give him one when he saw where Kai's attention had suddenly turned to. April was facing them and she was silently shaking her head at the both of them, as if to tell them that their plan wouldn't work. Kai was getting pissed off at her a little bit because he obviously wanted to get her out of there, and back to the house. Rei felt that way too and turned back to Kai and gave him a nod. Kai got it and nodded at Tala, who lunged for Wilbur
Rei didn't wait to see what happened after that and pounced on the guy, beginning to do what Tala had done to him earlier. Rei didn't even have to put any thought into what he was doing, the punching was just starting to come naturally to him. Rei wondered if this was what had happened to Tala and shruged it off, not really caring.
Rei could hear the sound of Kai and Tala's punches as they hit their target and Rei was sure that they were going to win this, no problem. But that second of pride did Rei's target good and he flipped Rei over on his back and began to punch Rei.
Rei couldn't help but flinch as the punches contacted with his face.
April did not like this, not one little bit. There were six guys rolling around on the ground, fighting each other and three of them were people she didn't want hurt. April didn't know what to do.
Someone grabbed her and then, April realized, that it was no longer up to her.