Part 3
The Return
"He's suppose to be better!" Ken was yelling when a man in white simply walked into Omi's hospital room.
"NOS policy 0098B, section C, no persons attacked by Night Breeds may leave until sanctioned by NOS top agents," the man pointed to a small booklet. "If Kritiker Agents read these they would understand why Bombay couldn't return until we are sure he is safe from all Night Breeds."
"This is shit!" Ken growled and walked into the room, he saw Omi looking out the window with a distant look in his eyes. "Hey, Omi." He tried to give a false smile, but he saw that the Night Breed really did its damage to Omi.
Omi turned and looked at him. "Nani?"
It had been made clear by Shido that Omi's memories were severely damaged, so far all Omi remembered was the night of the botched mission. "Can I come home yet?" he asked his eyes wide. "I don't like it here."
"Sorry, Omi, but only a few more days, you know how doctors our. Manx would want you to stay here for your health."
There was no getting around it, the NOS agent walked in and told Omi his visitation time was over and he had to go back to his original room.
**
"You can't keep him penned up like an animal, Yayoi!" Manx was saying when they walked into the room that Omi was being kept in.
The boy was seated on a bed in a corner, his knees pulled up to his chin, he looked so different than he did a week ago.
"I'm sorry, Manx, this is out of my hands," Yayoi looked rather angry herself. "My bosses are scared half to death of losing him, he's the first human to survive a Night Breed attack like this. So far there have only been two people to survive this and they ended up repossessed by Night Breeds."
"At least allow his team to spend more time with him."
**
"You can't keep him in a cage, he isn't some sort of.." Yayoi was saying as a doctor from NOS walked into the boy's room.
Omi looked up as the doctor brought out the needle and made a sort of yelp. "No, I gave a sample to you last week!"
"We just need another sample of your blood, Mr. Tsukiyono," the doctor soothed him and then put the needle in one of the veins.
"He's not a lab rat, he's going to die in there," she was yelling, this time she saw that she wasn't the only one protesting about Omi's treatment.
"I said it before, Yayoi," a girl walked up, it was Minma who worked in the special cases. "The NOS is going to far, this is dealing with human rights, look at him, he was a lot better in the hospital."
"I know, the truth is he didn't solicit a Breed, this isn't his fault, we have to get him out of here," she looked around and sighed.
**
"They keep him in a cage," Ken told Aya who only pretended to listen to him.
"NOS knows what they are doing," he told Ken. "Calm down, they said it will be another week of testing, soon Omi will be back here."
"Do you really believe that?" Yohji finally walked upstairs from the store after closing. "NOS does this all the time, if there is a Breed attack the suspected person who is the breed simply disappears. Shido said they pull this shit of 0098 section C as away to distract people from the truth."
"What do you mean?" Ken blinked, holding up the booklet, he flipped to the page and read it. "Any person or persons known to have been attacked by Night Breeds must be isolated from the main population to make sure a repossession does not occur. If not, the person will be poccessed by other breeds."
"The chances of that happening again are one out of a hundred according to what Shido just told me this afternoon. Most Night Breeds avoid repossession because the human's body produces a sort of way of kicking them out."
"So they're just lying to us?"
There was the sound of a door bell and they turned to the survilence and saw Schuldich standing outside. "What the hell does he want?" Yohji growled grabbing his watch.
They walked down stairs and saw their enemy smiling. "Well.is that anyway to greet someone who is going to help you get your little kitten out of NOS?"
"What do you mean by that?" Aya asked quietly.
"I just got something you might need to see," Schuldich held up a video. "All you need to do is let me in."
"Fine," Yohji scowled and directed him to the television and VCR.
/I'm only trying to help you guys out,/ they heard Schuldich saying mentally and put the video in. "You might not like what you see, but here it is."
The image of Omi appeared on the screen showing him strapped down onto a bed, he was evidently scared. "They've been trying to figure out how Shido manage to get the Night Breed out of him without almost killing him. If this keeps up, I don't know if your little kitten is going to be the same. The NOS track record isn't too good about keeping people sane."
"How do we know you're not lying to us?" Ken finally spoke up.
"I have no reason to. After all who supplies Detective Shido information? Me, simple as that, I've had my eyes on Night Breeds for awhile."
They continued to watch and then saw the look change on Schuldich's face. "NOS has been doing this for years, when Takatori had control of them, it was worse, Reiji didn't even know what Night Breeds were. So far the whole group of them would make Eszet look good. I was lucky there was Nagi fine after all this."
Ken blinked. "Nagi had this happen to him?"
"Yeah, Nagi still has nightmares from it, how else do you think we got him, as soon as we walked into the lab, Nagi got up and ran to us, he thought we'd come to save him. They said that a Night Breed processed him for most of his childhood, they were lying, Nagi never had a Night Breed in him. Now you can see Schwarz is bringing up a temporary truce until this whole Night Breed thing is gone."
**
Do we believe him? Ken blinked, he didn't realize he was being watched, he stood on the roof looking at the night sky, that was when he heard the crash, he saw Shido standing there. "Do you know how to use a door?"
"Right now, I can't risk it," Shido whispered and then looked around. "Listen, Schuldich brought the tape right?"
"He did, is it all real?"
"It is, it took Yayoi an hour to get it to me, but listen, you have to drop your war with Schwarz. I don't know why you are fighting and I don't care, but we have to get Omi out of the NOS labs. He's in more danger there than you realize."
**
Omi woke staring at the ceiling, he felt it again, the strange feeling someone other than the doctors were watching him. He looked around the empty room and pulled the blanket tightly around him. "Its not real," he whispered. "Only a dream."
Then he heard a footfall and the blanket fell on the floor, he was shaking. That was when the man appeared, with long blond hair and dark red eyes. Omi pushed himself against the wall, trying to scream. "Hush now, pretty one," the man's voice was soft and angelic. "So pretty." The man reached out his hand and caressed Omi's throat.
Falling onto the bed, Omi felt a soft sting on his neck, then he felt someone wrapping him in a blanket. "Time to go," he heard the soft voice again, this time passing into darkness.
**
The next morning, Ken heard Aya yelling in the hall. "Slow down!" Aya was saying. "What about Omi?" There was a pause, then he hung up and knocked on Ken's door. "Get dressed!"
Ken was dressed in five seconds, though it looked like he got dressed in the dark, he ran out and looked around. "What is it? What happened to Omi?"
"He gone! Vanished from his room at NOS. I just got the call from Manx, she's livid!"
This was a wonderful start for a morning, Ken thought when he heard someone running down the alley. He saw Nagi standing at the door looking around for the door bell. "Its on the left side next to the door opener," he yelled down. "We already heard the news, Nagi, Omi was snatched from his bed last night."
Nagi looked up stunned and then nodded. "Crawford said something about it. He wants to talk to you and the rest of the Weiss right now in the park. Can you make it, at least by 1:30?"
"Yeah, I'll tell Aya, thanks!"
He heard the sound of Yohji yelling something that sounded like a muffled "Screw you, Aya!" coming from his room. That wasn't the right thing to say and Yohji came out of his room holding his eye. "Geez!"
"There is an ice pack in the icebox, Yohji. You need to stop doing that," Ken told him.
"Yeah, he's just mad about me being right for a change."
Aya nodded when Ken told him what Nagi said. "We'll be ready to see him by then."
**
Shido looked at his fellow vampire, Riho who was looking at him. "They won't let anyone into the lab, Omi's totally vanished," she whispered and shook her head.
"I know it is Cain that did it, it smells of him. But what would he want with Omi?" Shido blinked and then heard Guni.
"Maybe it has something to do with the Night Breed that was in him. You said yourself that this Night Breed thrives on human kindness," the urban fairy whispered.
"Yeah, but it doesn't go with Cain, it makes him sound like he's being good and saving someone."
"I found that Omi's treatment wasn't very kind," they heard a voice coming from around them, Cain appeared in the alley across from him. "If you please, this is more proper don't you think?"
Walking into the alley, Shido could tell Cain was up to something. "Where is he?"
"The little angel boy, he's sleeping soundly, at least if you want him to be," Cain smiled chuckling again. "Of course I wouldn't be so silly to bring him with me, the boy needs his rest after the amount of blood I had to take from him to keep him from screaming." With that the vampire vanished.
"Cain really did it this time," Shido whispered.
**
Cain smiled appearing back in his hide away, it was kind of small, though it suited his coffin and a bed, and it wasn't as big as he was used to. He smiled entering the small bedroom that Omi was now in; he heard the sound of Omi's breathing. "Patient, patient, you'll be getting your dinner soon, Omi."
Walking into the room, the small Weiss boy had his right ankle chained to the bed, he was still dressed in his pajamas and looked pale. Placing a bowl of fruit on the bed, he looked up at Cain with a look of distrust. "Why do you want me?"
"It has something to do with what is inside you, the Night Breed gave you something, did it not?" Cain smiled at him. "He opened some little door, didn't it? You do know what I am talking about?"
"No, I don't know!" Omi cried out.
"I know you don't know, but when it comes to the fact that you're part of something a little bigger and better." Cain smiled at him again and touched his face. "Such a sweet child, so beautiful. I could hardly believe I could small death on that innocent little body of yours. I could grant you a gift after all, even Shido must admit I'm a snob sometimes and go for beauty and not love."
This scared the boy more and he pulled away, or at least tried to, the vampire pinned the boy to the wall and bit into his shoulder. Screaming in pain, Omi kicked and tried to push him away. "Don't! Leave me alone!" his voice became weak.
"I can't do it yet, little sweet Omi," Cain smiled and forced Omi to kiss him. From that kiss the boy passed out. "Soon, you will know the bliss that Shido and I share."
(to be continued)
The Return
"He's suppose to be better!" Ken was yelling when a man in white simply walked into Omi's hospital room.
"NOS policy 0098B, section C, no persons attacked by Night Breeds may leave until sanctioned by NOS top agents," the man pointed to a small booklet. "If Kritiker Agents read these they would understand why Bombay couldn't return until we are sure he is safe from all Night Breeds."
"This is shit!" Ken growled and walked into the room, he saw Omi looking out the window with a distant look in his eyes. "Hey, Omi." He tried to give a false smile, but he saw that the Night Breed really did its damage to Omi.
Omi turned and looked at him. "Nani?"
It had been made clear by Shido that Omi's memories were severely damaged, so far all Omi remembered was the night of the botched mission. "Can I come home yet?" he asked his eyes wide. "I don't like it here."
"Sorry, Omi, but only a few more days, you know how doctors our. Manx would want you to stay here for your health."
There was no getting around it, the NOS agent walked in and told Omi his visitation time was over and he had to go back to his original room.
**
"You can't keep him penned up like an animal, Yayoi!" Manx was saying when they walked into the room that Omi was being kept in.
The boy was seated on a bed in a corner, his knees pulled up to his chin, he looked so different than he did a week ago.
"I'm sorry, Manx, this is out of my hands," Yayoi looked rather angry herself. "My bosses are scared half to death of losing him, he's the first human to survive a Night Breed attack like this. So far there have only been two people to survive this and they ended up repossessed by Night Breeds."
"At least allow his team to spend more time with him."
**
"You can't keep him in a cage, he isn't some sort of.." Yayoi was saying as a doctor from NOS walked into the boy's room.
Omi looked up as the doctor brought out the needle and made a sort of yelp. "No, I gave a sample to you last week!"
"We just need another sample of your blood, Mr. Tsukiyono," the doctor soothed him and then put the needle in one of the veins.
"He's not a lab rat, he's going to die in there," she was yelling, this time she saw that she wasn't the only one protesting about Omi's treatment.
"I said it before, Yayoi," a girl walked up, it was Minma who worked in the special cases. "The NOS is going to far, this is dealing with human rights, look at him, he was a lot better in the hospital."
"I know, the truth is he didn't solicit a Breed, this isn't his fault, we have to get him out of here," she looked around and sighed.
**
"They keep him in a cage," Ken told Aya who only pretended to listen to him.
"NOS knows what they are doing," he told Ken. "Calm down, they said it will be another week of testing, soon Omi will be back here."
"Do you really believe that?" Yohji finally walked upstairs from the store after closing. "NOS does this all the time, if there is a Breed attack the suspected person who is the breed simply disappears. Shido said they pull this shit of 0098 section C as away to distract people from the truth."
"What do you mean?" Ken blinked, holding up the booklet, he flipped to the page and read it. "Any person or persons known to have been attacked by Night Breeds must be isolated from the main population to make sure a repossession does not occur. If not, the person will be poccessed by other breeds."
"The chances of that happening again are one out of a hundred according to what Shido just told me this afternoon. Most Night Breeds avoid repossession because the human's body produces a sort of way of kicking them out."
"So they're just lying to us?"
There was the sound of a door bell and they turned to the survilence and saw Schuldich standing outside. "What the hell does he want?" Yohji growled grabbing his watch.
They walked down stairs and saw their enemy smiling. "Well.is that anyway to greet someone who is going to help you get your little kitten out of NOS?"
"What do you mean by that?" Aya asked quietly.
"I just got something you might need to see," Schuldich held up a video. "All you need to do is let me in."
"Fine," Yohji scowled and directed him to the television and VCR.
/I'm only trying to help you guys out,/ they heard Schuldich saying mentally and put the video in. "You might not like what you see, but here it is."
The image of Omi appeared on the screen showing him strapped down onto a bed, he was evidently scared. "They've been trying to figure out how Shido manage to get the Night Breed out of him without almost killing him. If this keeps up, I don't know if your little kitten is going to be the same. The NOS track record isn't too good about keeping people sane."
"How do we know you're not lying to us?" Ken finally spoke up.
"I have no reason to. After all who supplies Detective Shido information? Me, simple as that, I've had my eyes on Night Breeds for awhile."
They continued to watch and then saw the look change on Schuldich's face. "NOS has been doing this for years, when Takatori had control of them, it was worse, Reiji didn't even know what Night Breeds were. So far the whole group of them would make Eszet look good. I was lucky there was Nagi fine after all this."
Ken blinked. "Nagi had this happen to him?"
"Yeah, Nagi still has nightmares from it, how else do you think we got him, as soon as we walked into the lab, Nagi got up and ran to us, he thought we'd come to save him. They said that a Night Breed processed him for most of his childhood, they were lying, Nagi never had a Night Breed in him. Now you can see Schwarz is bringing up a temporary truce until this whole Night Breed thing is gone."
**
Do we believe him? Ken blinked, he didn't realize he was being watched, he stood on the roof looking at the night sky, that was when he heard the crash, he saw Shido standing there. "Do you know how to use a door?"
"Right now, I can't risk it," Shido whispered and then looked around. "Listen, Schuldich brought the tape right?"
"He did, is it all real?"
"It is, it took Yayoi an hour to get it to me, but listen, you have to drop your war with Schwarz. I don't know why you are fighting and I don't care, but we have to get Omi out of the NOS labs. He's in more danger there than you realize."
**
Omi woke staring at the ceiling, he felt it again, the strange feeling someone other than the doctors were watching him. He looked around the empty room and pulled the blanket tightly around him. "Its not real," he whispered. "Only a dream."
Then he heard a footfall and the blanket fell on the floor, he was shaking. That was when the man appeared, with long blond hair and dark red eyes. Omi pushed himself against the wall, trying to scream. "Hush now, pretty one," the man's voice was soft and angelic. "So pretty." The man reached out his hand and caressed Omi's throat.
Falling onto the bed, Omi felt a soft sting on his neck, then he felt someone wrapping him in a blanket. "Time to go," he heard the soft voice again, this time passing into darkness.
**
The next morning, Ken heard Aya yelling in the hall. "Slow down!" Aya was saying. "What about Omi?" There was a pause, then he hung up and knocked on Ken's door. "Get dressed!"
Ken was dressed in five seconds, though it looked like he got dressed in the dark, he ran out and looked around. "What is it? What happened to Omi?"
"He gone! Vanished from his room at NOS. I just got the call from Manx, she's livid!"
This was a wonderful start for a morning, Ken thought when he heard someone running down the alley. He saw Nagi standing at the door looking around for the door bell. "Its on the left side next to the door opener," he yelled down. "We already heard the news, Nagi, Omi was snatched from his bed last night."
Nagi looked up stunned and then nodded. "Crawford said something about it. He wants to talk to you and the rest of the Weiss right now in the park. Can you make it, at least by 1:30?"
"Yeah, I'll tell Aya, thanks!"
He heard the sound of Yohji yelling something that sounded like a muffled "Screw you, Aya!" coming from his room. That wasn't the right thing to say and Yohji came out of his room holding his eye. "Geez!"
"There is an ice pack in the icebox, Yohji. You need to stop doing that," Ken told him.
"Yeah, he's just mad about me being right for a change."
Aya nodded when Ken told him what Nagi said. "We'll be ready to see him by then."
**
Shido looked at his fellow vampire, Riho who was looking at him. "They won't let anyone into the lab, Omi's totally vanished," she whispered and shook her head.
"I know it is Cain that did it, it smells of him. But what would he want with Omi?" Shido blinked and then heard Guni.
"Maybe it has something to do with the Night Breed that was in him. You said yourself that this Night Breed thrives on human kindness," the urban fairy whispered.
"Yeah, but it doesn't go with Cain, it makes him sound like he's being good and saving someone."
"I found that Omi's treatment wasn't very kind," they heard a voice coming from around them, Cain appeared in the alley across from him. "If you please, this is more proper don't you think?"
Walking into the alley, Shido could tell Cain was up to something. "Where is he?"
"The little angel boy, he's sleeping soundly, at least if you want him to be," Cain smiled chuckling again. "Of course I wouldn't be so silly to bring him with me, the boy needs his rest after the amount of blood I had to take from him to keep him from screaming." With that the vampire vanished.
"Cain really did it this time," Shido whispered.
**
Cain smiled appearing back in his hide away, it was kind of small, though it suited his coffin and a bed, and it wasn't as big as he was used to. He smiled entering the small bedroom that Omi was now in; he heard the sound of Omi's breathing. "Patient, patient, you'll be getting your dinner soon, Omi."
Walking into the room, the small Weiss boy had his right ankle chained to the bed, he was still dressed in his pajamas and looked pale. Placing a bowl of fruit on the bed, he looked up at Cain with a look of distrust. "Why do you want me?"
"It has something to do with what is inside you, the Night Breed gave you something, did it not?" Cain smiled at him. "He opened some little door, didn't it? You do know what I am talking about?"
"No, I don't know!" Omi cried out.
"I know you don't know, but when it comes to the fact that you're part of something a little bigger and better." Cain smiled at him again and touched his face. "Such a sweet child, so beautiful. I could hardly believe I could small death on that innocent little body of yours. I could grant you a gift after all, even Shido must admit I'm a snob sometimes and go for beauty and not love."
This scared the boy more and he pulled away, or at least tried to, the vampire pinned the boy to the wall and bit into his shoulder. Screaming in pain, Omi kicked and tried to push him away. "Don't! Leave me alone!" his voice became weak.
"I can't do it yet, little sweet Omi," Cain smiled and forced Omi to kiss him. From that kiss the boy passed out. "Soon, you will know the bliss that Shido and I share."
(to be continued)