Chapter 10
Sirens rung loudly through the city. Kai ran as fast he could in their direction with Rei hot on his tail. Sirens meant someone was in danger, and if they were lucky whoever was in danger had a run in with their sires. Of course it would be upsetting to know someone suffered at the hand of their sires, but at least they would have a clue as to where they could find the two now.
"Kai!" Rei shouted from behind the dual haired vampire. "Doesn't this seem like the way to Tyson's house?"
The vampire froze in his tracks. Rei was right. The sirens sounded like they were heading for Tyson's house. Kai's instincts took over and he ran as fast his inhuman abilities would allow him while shouting over his shoulder, "Rei, go back to Max! If our sires attacked Tyson there's a good chance they attacked Max!"
Kai didn't need to tell Rei twice. Before he even finished his first sentence Kai could hear the other vampire running in the opposite direction. Kai could only pray they weren't too late.
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Max groaned. His head felt like it was spilt in two. What had happened to him? The last thing he remembered was a scary man being in his house.
"Are you awake Max?"
The mentioned blonde moaned in response to the question. Shivering Max curled into a little ball. It was so cold. The ground felt as if it were a rock frozen in ice. And as hard as he tried his body wouldn't warm up. Why was he so cold?
Opening his eyes Max tried to find out where he was, but whimpered in fear when he saw nothing but darkness. He couldn't even see his hand in front of his face. Max shivered again, but this time in cold terror as realization dawned on him. He had been captured and without his sight there wasn't anyway to know where he was, thus there was no way to escape. Sure he could try to escape, but there chances of him escaping uninjured were slim to none.
"Max?"
Max turned his head to sound of the voice. Frowning he tried to place where he had heard that voice before. He knew that it was familiar to him and he should be able to recognize it easy, but his mind was too muddled to place it to a person. "Who are you?"
The voice laughed at him. "I'm your best friend and you forgot me. I feel so loved now," the voice responded sarcastically.
"Tyson?"
"The one and only!"
"Tyson!" Max shouted and joy and searched frantically for his friend, but he knew it was pointless. He couldn't see anything. All he could do was wait for Tyson to speak again and try to locate the bluenette through sound. "Keep talking Tyson. I'm going to try and find you."
"I'm right in front of you," Tyson replied cheerfully. "I'm so glad the woman didn't lie. She said her friend was going to get you, and then Kai and Rei would come and get us, and that's when the party would start."
As Max crawled towards Tyson's voice his face paled. "Tyson, I don't think that's a good thing."
"Why?"
Max's hand touched something. It felt like jeans. Figuring that he must be touching Tyson's leg he removed his hand from the jean like material and moved to sit next to where he guessed the boy to be. "Because the person who came to get me wasn't exactly what I would call nice."
"Oh Max," Tyson laughed at his friend and Max felt the boy lean against him. "He was probably teasing you."
"He wasn't Tyson," Max said bitterly. If there had been any light in the room Tyson would have seen Max's eyes cloud over with fear, worry, anger, and some other unidentified emotion. "For the first time in my life Tyson I was scared, and I don't mean I'm scared of heights scared. I mean pure soul wrenching terror. I could barely breath, and it felt like my heart was beating a thousand miles an hour. For the first time ever I thought I was going to die."
"It was just a joke Max," Tyson tried to convince his friend, but Tyson's own voice reflected his doubt and fear.
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Police cars swarmed around the dojo. Hiro was busy talking to one of the officers explaining the situation, while Tyson grandfather listened intently, trying to understand what happened while he had been gone. Once the old man had found out about Tyson's disappearance he began to yell at everyone and everything in frustration.
In the trees sat Kai, who was too deep in shock to take notice of everything going on around him. He didn't even bother to hide himself in the shadows. Tyson was gone. The one person he had ever cared about after he became a vampire. The one person who ever cared about him after finding out what he was. To think that it took centuries to find someone who loved him and it was child. A child that could now be dead because of him.
It's all my fault, Kai could only think. The phrase repeated over and over again in his head like a chant. Tyson could be dead because of me. Because I wasn't here to protect him.
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Rei wasn't fairing much better. He had returned to the place that had become a second home to him only to find it trashed and Max's father calling the police, saying that his son had been kidnapped. The news had been too much for Rei to handle, so he ran for Max's room and locked the door. He knew he had to leave before the police arrived or else they would assume he was the one that kidnapped Max.
Punching the wall in frustration he tried to vent out his frustration. The house was filled with the scent of Max's fear, which drove him to greater depths of insanity.
Thoughts ran rampant in his head. Blurring together and becoming unclear. The only thought that could be understood in his head was thirst for blood and revenge against Max's kidnapper.