Envy's Call
By: nightmaiden
AN: Sorry the wait…Writer's block stood in the way and an ear infection…
Disclaimer:
Chapter 4
Kidnapped
The secret to live is wanting to live. Many people don't understand that. Many just live life as much as they can without thinking or looking ahead or if it harms others. Regret and guilt takes its place among those who plays it safe and slow. And those who play it rough and reckless have no thinking, but to themselves on how life leads to them. There is so much to do in the world that people find themselves at deaths' door trying to do it all before old age reaches them. And by that, their life span is shorten to those who want to take over what the previous person hadn't finished and that might lead to their graves. In life there are two reasons why people live. Of course there is the people who wants to live for the right reasons, but who is afraid of death and try too much to live. The other is an unexplained reason. Some people want to live for those who make them living. Who is with them through thick and thin, with the good and bad decisions, and to live for them.
Sora was the reason why Tai wanted to live. He wanted to live for her….
Josh watched as Tai moved from the living room to his room. After a few moments, Tai walked out the room with his coat half-on and heading to the front door. His expression held an emotion that Josh couldn't read. Josh ran over to block the door. Tai stopped dead. Their eyes met. Tai's was hard and cold. Josh grabbed hold the same glare, but sweat formed above his brow.
"Wait, where are you going?"
"To find Sora, what do you think?"
Josh moistened his dry mouth, "How are you gonna find her? Call the police."
Before Josh could react, Tai, lighten fast gripped Josh's shirt and pulled him towards him and whispered, "Get the fuck out of my way."
Tai pushed Josh aside and stormed out.
"Shit…" Josh hurrily moved to the telephone and dialed 911, "Yeah, I wanna report a missing person…"
"Tai?"
Josh turned his head to find Tai's little sister, Kari by the door. She looked over at him in confusion. He turned back when he heard the lady on the other side asked him a question. He held up his hand to Kari to wait.
"She has red orange hair, brownish orange eyes, about five, five…" He tried to search the right words, "And very skinny." He couldn't. "…I don't know. Last night, this morning? I don't know…Sora Takenouchi…I think, I really don't know…Okay." He hanged up.
"What the hell's going on?"
"…Sora's missing."
"What? Missing? Wha…How?…"
"I called the police. We have to get Tai before he gets in trouble by looking for Sora by himself." Josh removed himself from the apartment with Kari close behind.
~o~
Howling silently, the black mask stirred in the dark, wanting to break free to the freedom of light and not feel alone. That's what it felt like, a black mask, covering the victim from the light and the feeling of freedom. Most love the darkness. To be alone. To think. But if not on it's own free will, the mind grows frighten when forced to face the darkness. Slowly fear took over her body as Sora tried to open her eyes, but no matter how much she does, her eyes weren't open as if nailed together.
A dream?
Or she is conscious?
She couldn't know…
After for a few minutes, Sora came to. Confusion took set. Her head bounced over, to the right, and left. Her mouth felt numbed and dry, but she ignored it. Sora tried to move, but something held her body back. She moved her fingers. They moved. She sighed in relief, then she tried to figure out what was the matter with the rest of her body. She jerked, but went limp from the sharply defined pain traveling through her entire body. She screamed loudly. With the feeling on her fingertips, Sora soon figured out that thick rope was tightened around her hands and legs. The rough rope slowly cut on her skin when she moved. Another bond of ropes was wrapped around her waist.
Sora worriedly looked around the area. She was in a large old broken building. Shadows loomed over the surfaces and corners. Only the streetlights from outside gave the only light in the building. Thick dust collected on boxes and tables. The brown stained windows add a gray brown gloom to the now darkness. Spider webs inched at every corner and insects hanged within to the meals of the hungry spiders. A stairway hidden in the darkness led up, but Sora couldn't focus her eyes. She ignored the stairway. Her body went limp with exhaustion. She tried to fight again the bonds of the rope around her hands and body, but gave up when it didn't loosen. Suddenly a dry feeling reached into her throat and Sora rained herself in a frenzy fit of coughs. Small breaths entered her lungs, but not enough entered her throat. She moved her tongue to find what was in the way, but found a dry fabric at the opening of her mouth. A large cloth was stuffed in her mouth, letting her unable to talk. The cloth didn't help which only worsened her coughs. Sora swallowed when her eyes started to mist. Then she turned her head as she threw up, that removed the cloth. She coughed until she moistened her mouth again before she calmed down and the sickened feeling and touch of her mouth didn't help throat. She blinked back the tears, not wanting to cry again.
"I guess the gag cloth wasn't a good idea. They always end up throwing up."
A shadow took form as a man. He crept closer to Sora, but his face wasn't visible due to the dark building shadows. He placed something down on a nearby box and walked to Sora. Sora's heart slowly lost its' pace as the man squat down and placed the tip of a glass cup against her lips.
"…Water. It won't help the throat, but it will clean the waste."
Sora tried to breathe and sip water at the same time. Her throat burned as the cold water traveled through her sore throat. Sora lost her breathing pattern and took in too much water. She coughed. The man slightly back away but wiped the water from Sora's lips. Sora stiffened. Silent tears escaped from her red eyes and watered down her cheek, felling down to the fabric of her pants.
"Why are you crying, sweet Sora?"
Sora jerked in short breaths.
"Look, I brought roses for you. Wanna know a secret?…This roses are from your shop."
More tears came down.
"Don't worry. I won't let anyone take you away from me." He tried to touch her cheek, but Sora frightfully quivered her head back.
"Please…" Sora started before he left.
"Hold on, I'll be right back."
~o~
Josh worked over the counter, helping people in the shop. He couldn't stop thinking about Sora. He had to find her. He couldn't just stand here and later find out that the police found Sora's- He didn't let the thought finish. He can't think that way.
"Where's that wonderful young girl? Is she ill?" An old lady spole, breaking Josh's zombie mode.
He faked a smile, "Yeah, she isn't feeling too well. I'm taking over for her."
"Oh, such a gentlemen." She smiled under her wrinkled face.
She took hold of her lilies and left. Josh looked down and heavily sighed.
"Hey, I heard about Sora's missing. How you holding up?"
Tai and the others stepped into the shop when at the same time, Josh jumped over the counter and seized a man's shirt, then punched him. Tai and Matt rushed over and held Josh back while Izzy and Mimi helping Ryke up.
"Josh, what the-"
"He did it! He's the son of a bitch! You took her, didn't you!? Where the fuck is Sora!?" Small tears showed in Josh's eyes.
Tai turned sharply to Ryke, who held his hands up in defense, "Woah, What? I didn't do anything."
"Fuck you! Don't play stupid! Sora knew you were the stalker! It's him, damn it!"
Tai let go of Josh and threw a punch across Ryke's face. Izzy and Mimi stepped back from the attack. Ryke fell to the ground with a bleeding mouth. Joe came over and held a flaming Tai.
"Where the hell is she!? Where is she!? If you don't tell me, I swear, I'm gonna kill you!"
"Tai, stop!" Joe had no problem holding Tai back, but it was thrusting that Tai was making that bruised him.
"Mimi, call the police."
Mimi nodded.
Ryke stand up slowly, "I didn't do anything. I'm not who you think I am. Please listen to-"
"Shut up! I should kill you right now! Let me go! He kidnapped Sora! He took her!"
"The police will take care of him, Tai." Kari tried to calm her brother.
Just then, a cop came into view. He eyed the group, then at Joe and Matt.
"Let them go."
Joe leashed Tai and Matt let go of Josh.
The police stood between the two, "You better not start a fight, gentlemen or I will take you to the station."
"He's the stalker!" Tai shouted.
"Hey, quiet." The cop eyed Tai, then at Ryke.
After an hour and another fight later, Tai and Ryke were taken to the station for questions and suspicion.
~o~
"All right, thanks…" Yolie opened the door and allowed the policeman to step outside. He slightly touched his hat saying goodbye. She closed the door and turned to the group.
Two days passed and the police search still kept on. No leads connected to Sora's disappearance. The snow had stopped, but the cold weather still made it hard for the police to find anything. Tai had moved to his room when the police stopped by for more information. The group with the absence of Izzy and Cody spoke with the cop and didn't like how the search was failing. The group talked. Yolie sat between Davis and Ken and joined with the conversation. Minutes passed when Tai stepped into the living room, then everyone grew silence. The lack of sleep was shown in his brown eyes. Black bags were visible below the eyes and red veins redden the white part of his eyes. His looked the same, but uncombed and messy. A slight of hair grew around his chin and below his nose. He glanced at the others before he proceed to the kitchen. Mimi stood up and trailed over to him. They heard the refrigeter open, then close. Something was poured into a cup. Tai moved into view and drank orange juice. The door opened and Izzy and Cody came inside with a laptop and other devices at hand. Izzy sat on a small couch in the middle of the room and started to connect stuff in the laptop. He clicked on the laptop and typed something in before showing the rest.
"This is areas that the police searched for Sora." The map showed yellow circles around the city, but only a few were on the map. The cops didn't look hard enough.
"Those fucking idiots! Can't they just at least try harder? I mean, isn't that what they're being paid for?" Matt argued.
Izzy shrugged, "They're losing faith…With the killing of the young girls these passed three weeks, the police aren't having luck."
Kari looked up to Izzy, "Six girls were killed, you said?"
"…Yeah."
"Their bodies were reported, right?"
"Where are you gotta at?"
"Could you pull up a map to show where the bodies were found?" Kari looked to the lap.
"That's confidential."
"How can it be confidential? We just want to know the buildings where the girls were held in." Davis said.
"Dunno. I guess, they don't want people being curious."
"The hell with that! Hack into it!" Josh entered the apartment with a large pile of newspapers.
Izzy frowned and sighed, "I could try."
Josh dropped the newspapers on the coffee table, "I guess, we think alike. This has all the information about the deaths of the girls."
They searched through the newspapers. Josh took out a city map and Tai joined him.
"Got it."
The group hovered over Izzy.
"Here are the names of the buildings…"
"They're all abandoned." Kari pointed out.
Ken pointed to the screen, "Yeah, but expect these two."
"No, there are. The sellers tried to find buyers to sell the buildings, so they kept the building up." T.K. informed them.
"That's it! It's abandon buildings! There's where the killer took them. If we locate all the abandon buildings, then we should be able to find Sora!" Kari laughed.
Tai kissed Kari on the forehead and smiled, "I love you, Kari!"
Joe turned back to Izzy, "Could you find all abandon buildings in the city?"
"Yeah, hold on." He typed away until a map came up. Six buildings were colored red, showing the previous deaths of the girls. Twenty green squares scattered around the map.
Everyone looked at the screen in confusion. Mimi spoke first, "Izzy, what does the green colored buildings mean?"
He gave a nervous smile, "The rest of the abandon buildings…"
"Shit…"
"What about Ryke? Is he the stalker?" Mimi turned to Tai.
Tai crossed his arms over his chest and sighed, "He's clean. The cops didn't find anything wrong with him."
"Bullshit. Sora was frighten of the guy." Josh said.
Matt looked at Tai, "He's right. We met him a week ago and scared the shit out of Sora."
Tai grabbed Matt's shirt, "And you didn't even report him to the police!?"
"Where is she? Where is my daughter?"
Tai and the rest of the former digidestineds turned from the city map to find Sora's father stomping over to the young group. Mr. Takenouchi's eyes burned and nose flared. Mrs. Takenouchi tried to stop her husband from killing Sora's friends. Tai and the others glanced to each other before Tai walked over to Sora's father.
"Mr. Takenouchi…"
But Mr. Takenouchi didn't let Tai finish. He grabbed Tai's shirt and forcedly hurled him forward, "Where is my daughter you son of a bitch!? Where the hell were you!? I shouldn't have left her with you!" He spat anyway his mind came up with.
"Please, stop!" Mrs. Takenouchi, with the help of Joe and Matt, pulled her ex-husband from a guilty Tai.
"I knew something was wrong with you! You can't even protect my daughter! You son of a bitch! You don't deserve her hand!"
"Shut up!" Mrs. Takenouchi snapped Mr. Takenouchi across the cheek. His stunned face turned to her, his cheek slowly turning red.
"Wha…"
"Shut the hell up! You have no right to talk to Tai that way! You don't think he's anxious to find her too!? Ever since the call was made, Tai hasn't rested for the passed hours. His friends had to hold him down from tearing the whole city apart in order to find our daughter!
Mr. Takenouchi turned from her to the young adults, then turned around to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Mrs. Takenouchi asked.
"To find my daughter…"
Then he disappeared into the white fog snow outside.
Mrs. Takenouchi stepped up to the group, "Please, forgive him. He's just-"
"No, he's right."
Everyone turned to Tai, who had his hands on the table with his head facing down.
"…I didn't protect her."
"Tai." Kari started.
"She told me something was wrong, but said not to worry about it. I shouldn't have listened to her…"
"Tai…" Mimi.
Fast and forcedly, Tai thrust his clenched white fist to the table, creaks can be heard.
"It's my fault." He whispered.
Tai's body sank to the floor with his hands still remaining to the table. Wet tears rained down to the carpet. Kari was beside her brother's side.
"I should have done something…"
Kari hugged him, fresh tears in her eyes, "Tai, we are doing something to find her. Tai?"
Tai slightly turned his head to let Kari know he's listening.
"Come on. We will find her. All of us will find her together."
Tai let himself breath and time to collect himself before rising up to the group, "We're splitting into groups and search the city at all costs."
Please R&R…
