Envy's Call
By: nightmaiden
AN: First of all, I'm sorry that I took so long. Writer's Block was involved…….You know what? I'm not going to lie to you. I was lazy and didn't want to write this anymore. ^_^ Yeah…next week will be the last chapter and I will finish, I promise you that…Oh, please read the message in the end of this story. Thank you.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything of Digimon. Only my characters I do own. Ryck, Frank, Josh, and Kristen.
Chapter 6
Discovery
Frank threw Ryck's wallet to aside when he announced his true identity to Sora. She caught a glimpse of something gold and realized it was a police badge as Frank searched through Ryck's coat for any weapons located on him. Finally, Frank ripped something open and came up with a small gun. Sora's fear crept up to her spine, sending the hairs on the back her head up. Frank tucked the gun into his pants, in front of his stomach, then hid the gun beneath his shirt. He kept searching for anything else and bent down to grab Ryck's arms to drag him away.
"I have a gift for you…but I need you to close your eyes."
Sora's panic leveled up as her fear to form as swear and left her shaking her whole body. Her mind didn't let the eyelids to close due to the fear what Frank might do to her when the eyes were closed. She didn't say anything or didn't do anything.
"Come on. You don't think I'd cut your throat this soon, do you?"
Her throat gave a little sound at what he said.
Frank laughed, "Oh, I understand. Fine, you don't have to close them."
Sora heard him walk through the darkness, but away from her. Ryck was nowhere to be seen. Not even his shadow was visible against the blackness of the building floor. Suddenly, bright lights blind Sora's vision and cause her to shut her eyelids hard. The lights send pain and dizziness through her head. Even her eyelids didn't block the brightness. Red-hot light surrendered inside her eyes. Slowly, Sora opened her eyes, but closed them quickly when the light was too much for her to stand. Again she tried, but the same result of closing her eyes took place.
"I thought you didn't want to close your eyes." Frank said, amusement touched his tongue.
Once again, Sora painfully tried to open her eyes even though the light caused her otherwise. The color red snapped her eyes open. She spoke out a small scream. She thought of blood all over the place, but only soon found out that the red was only fresh roses beautifully arranged around the building, surrounding her. The roses were all over the place. They were on top of large wooden boxes, on the floor, on the windows, and the stairway that she saw before, but ignored it. Ryck's body was nowhere to be found. Frank must have dragged him farther from her view.
"All of this is all for you…I guess I over did it a bit."
Frank!
Sora saw him. He stood to her right, near the stairway with a bunch of roses in hand. A smile slowly formed as she watched him eye her across the room. Gray eyes flashed as he blinked. Dark brown hair ran along his head.
"I know you."
Frank smiled, ignoring Sora's confusion, "Do you?"
"You're that guy at the laundry room…"
Frank's smiled faded, "I lived there."
"You did?"
"I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't knew that before."
"But I thought Ryck…"
"Was the killer? Stalker? No, my dear. He isn't the guy who knows everything about you. I came by your shop every Friday, but sometimes I couldn't help myself that I always purchase bunch of roses from you everyday. I'm not sure if you know, but I was the tall man with the dark glasses coming to you. And you know what? Ryck seemed to happen to be behind me all the time. I feared he might have caught me under the disguise and had to quickly exit the shop without talking to you or even greet for that matter."
Frank walked towards her, laying the roses on a table as he took his place beside Sora, "I know everything about you…Where you used to live with your mother. And now, with that fello. Oh what's his name? Tai? Yes, Tai. Tell me something…Matt wasn't the right man for you?" Frank circled around her, touching her exposed neck," Oh yeah, I know about your little triangle with those two boys. I know everything. I even know about your little adventure in that digi place. Biomon? Birdmon? Well, it doesn't matter what your little birds' name was."
"Please…" Sora slowly sobbed out, her head facing down. Her shoulders shaking as she cried silently.
"Speaking of Matt. He and some girl came along here days ago, looking for you."
"…Please, they're worried about me. Please, let me go…"
He ignored, "I stood behind them, ready to kill if they got too suspicions and wondered inside. And I couldn't let them find you. I hate killing pretty faces. And after that, a trio of kids came by too. I think Davis was one of called that. Anyway, I walked up to and talked with them. Interesting friends you have. Curious too." Frank thought for a minute, "Maybe I should start killing who's looking for you."
"No…" Sora whispered.
"Just hope no one else comes by."
Sora widened her eyes as Frank walked towards her with an evil smile lingering on his face.
~o~
"Tai?"
Tai stirred, but sleep kept him down.
"Tai?"
Tai slowly opened his eyes, "Sora?"
"…No."
Tai lift up his head from his arms and found Kari beside him. Her hand rested on his shoulder.
Kari smiled softly, "Hey."
Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Tai sat up, "Sorry…"
"It's okay. Tai, what are you doing?" Kari looked over some paper where Tai took his sleep.
"Just looking at some stuff…" Tai stood up, heading to the kitchen.
Kari followed. Tai opened the refrigerator, pulled out an orange juice carton. He grabbed a glass from the counter and poured the juice into the glass. He drank the juice without breath. He questioned Kari if she wanted a drink. She shook her head and watched as Tai took a second drink from the carton. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve before he placed the glass into the sink and put back the juice inside the refrigerator.
"Tai."
Tai placed his hands to the counter and brought his head down, facing the floor, "The police ain't doing anything…It's up to us…It's up to me…"
"Tai…"
"Where is she? I…I just want her back. Want her back with me. But…" Tai smiled as tears rain down to the tile floor.
Kari watched helplessly, tears of her own formed.
"I remember the time when her hand got caught in the car window because we locked the car with the keys inside. The car window was cracked open and Sora said that she could fit her hand between the window, but the trouble was that she couldn't reach the keys and her hand some how got stuck when she tried to pull out."
Kari smiled sadly, listening to one of Tai and Sora's wild stories.
"I didn't know what the hell to do. Sora kept yelling at me to shut the hell up as she tried to pull herself free without my help. And this was at night, right? We had a good twenty minutes trying to figure out what to do. Then this cop came by and asked us what we were doing. I swear I thought he was going to pull his gun at us 'cause I think he thought we were car thieves acting stupid."
Tai turned to Kari and sat down on a chair, near the table, "He asked me if we were drinking or something and he flashing that damn light into my face. The cop ignores Sora and makes me walk on the white line of the freeway. And you won't believe this. I wasn't drinking, okay? I tripped on a rock, but I don't think the cop saw that because the cop tackled me down 'cause I think I was falling towards him and I think he took it the wrong way. Sora starts yelling at the cop to get off of me and of course the cop doesn't listen and digs his knee more into my neck."
Kari mouthed a 'ouch'.
"Yeah, it was hella funny."
"What happened after?"
"…I don't know. The cop looks at our ids and breaks the car window."
"With Sora's hand still in?"
"I guess… I don't remember. I was trying to breathe in air still on the ground. But she did get a little scratch…" Tai was trying to remember.
"That is crazy. How come you never told the rest of us?"
"Slipped my mind, I guess."
"Hmm…"
Silence hovered over them in a thick cloud.
"The police are doing their best looking for her, but…I don't think…"
Not wanting to hear what she wanted to finish, Tai stood up and grabbed his coat, " I'm gonna take a walk for a while…"
"Want me to go with you?" Kari stepped towards her brother.
"Nah, I wanna be alone…" He opened the door, then turned to her.
"Oh, okay."
Tai took one last look Kari before retreating to the cold air outside.
~o~
From out of the shadows, the smoky gray cat lingered over to a sleeping Sora. Before he reached her, the cat found another body. The cat smelled the new stranger. Blood reached its' way down the stranger's forehead. The cat came up to the man's back, knowing by the rising and falling of the back, the stranger was still alive. The cat hopped off and made his way to Sora. Her head was bouncing up and down as she slept. Silver duct tape was wrapped over her mouth. Sweat ran everywhere. It plastered her hair against her head and neck. Dirt painted her face and clothing. It started its' way behind her and again bit into the rope that tied Sora's hands together. The cat heard something and retreated back to the darkness.
Sora moaned as she came awake. She opened her eyes when she heard someone stirring awake. The light was turned off once again. She saw Ryck's dark form slowly standing up from a distance behind a few boxes. He held his head up and wearily walked over to Sora. A small trail of blood rained down from the hidden of his hair to the side of the cheek when he came into view of Sora. He slowly removed the tape that shut her mouth. He crumpled it up and turned to Sora.
"You okay?"
She nodded. Ryck moved behind her to loosen the rope.
Sora waited was he worked the ropes, "You're a cop?"
Ryck briefly looked at her, then to the bonds, "Yeah, I've been working undercover to find Frank. He moved from America to here. So I followed him to catch him, but that son of a bitch is good."
"I'm sorry…" Sora held her head down.
Ryck paused, then went back to work, "Why?"
"I thought you were the killer."
Ryck grinned, "I guess I have kind of face. That really sucks."
"No, I mean…you're really handsome…"
"Gee thanks, but I don't think this is the time to be talking about this. How about if I get you loose and get out of here?"
Sora nodded.
A door slam was heard from a distance.
"Shit." Ryck half whispered and breathed, "Hold on."
He reached into his trench coat, but thrust his coat open, "He took my gun. Shit." He walked back into the darkness.
Sora watched him, "Ryck, what are you doing?"
"I'll handle this. I'll be right back."
"Wait…"
But Ryck ignored her. He once more disappear into the dark shadows. Sora could hear Ryck's faded steps as he made his way to Frank's being. Nothing can be heard. She heard another footsteps that belonged to Frank. Suddenly, someone was pushed towards through wooden boxes. She heard creaked and crashed wood as she heard Ryck and Frank fighting. Probably fighting for the gun that Frank might have. She heard curses being said and punches were threw to each other. Someone fell and the gun was fired. Sora jumped.
"Ryck!"
Is he okay?
Was he shot?
Footsteps echoed through the dark and Sora found herself facing a shadow.
"Ryck?"
"Don't worry, Sora dear. He won't bother us again."
Cold chills ran through her body as Frank made his way to Sora.
He threw the roses down, "Now look what he did! He put all his blood on these roses that I bought for you! Now I have to buy more." He shook his head.
"Why are you doing this?" Sora helplessly grew small back against the chair.
Frank smiled, "I'm doing this for you. Don't you know that?"
~o~
Tai kicked the snow as he walked along the sidewalk. His hands in his coat as he walked aimlessly around the neighborhood of building. All his close friends lived here. Five minutes passed by when he came up to Sora's place. The floral shop below it. Josh was working late, but Tai didn't feel talking with him. The close sign hanged behind the glass door. He looked up to the window where Sora always sneaked out of to watch movies and just hang out with him. Tai quickly turned his head down to the left, trying not to think of anything happening to Sora right now. Sora's voice echoed through his head from the past memories.
"Come on, Tai. It's just a little scratch. Let's play a last row of soccer."
"Way is it that when you're in trouble, I'm the one that have to get you out?"
"Tai, get out! I need to change."
"I love you, stupid."
Tai lowered his head and whispered, "Sora…"
"Tai?"
Tai kept his head, knowing Matt and Mimi standing a few feet away from him.
"No, just leave me alone…" And with that, Tai left.
~o~
Izzy typed for a while, then cursed suddenly. He looked at the screened closer and jumped out of his chair to the phone. He almost dropped the phone when he dialed Tai's cell. It ringed once and a few times.
"Come on, Tai! Pick up the phone! Shit!" Izzy ended the call and dialed Matt's cell. He picked up.
"What's up, Izzy?"
"Where's Tai? Where is he?"
"Dunno. Why? What happened?"
"I'm stupid!"
"…Yeah? And?"
"Shut up, I didn't see this early. Remember those abandon buildings that we think the killer's there?" He didn't wait for Matt's respond and continued, "Well, all the buildings that those girls were killed at, they were all abandon floral shops!"
"Holy shit!"
"Yeah, and there's still one more that he didn't use yet-"
Matt had hanged up before Izzy could finish. He looked at the phone.
R&R…
Hello, I'm here right now to ask the readers if they have any questions for this story if you guys got confused along the way. When you guys review this story could you please include a question that's bugging you so I could answer it? A reader already sent me a question and I will use that question in the last chapter.
Ask me a question and tell me which of the 12 digidestines, who you would want to ask the questions for you.
Example, if your question is 'Who was the killer?' Pick Tai, Sora, Matt, or the others to ask your question so Ryck could answer the best as he could to them…
Hopefully that wasn't confusing…
But if you don't have questions, then please just tell me how the story's going.
