AN:Um, so don't kill me for this chapter. That is al I have to say.

" I can remember when you fit in the palm of my hand

Felt so good in it, no bigger than a minute

How it amazes me, you're changing with every blink

Faster than a flower blooms they grow up all too soon

So let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while

Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day

Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle

Oh just let them be little"

Let Them Be Little - Billy Dean

Chapter 12

"Hide Away"

By Sparky16

She was laying on something cold and hard. A concrete floor somewhere. She was blindfolded, with her feet and her hands tied behind her. She listened around her intently for any form of life near her; she wasn't about to give herself away that she had come to, not just yet.

She heard an ever familiar mindless chatter of her baby daughter not far from the other side of a room, well she supposed it was a room. Kanna's voice sounded like it didn't travel far and it didn't echo.

"Kanna?" Robin whispered. The baby chatter stopped, she must've caught Kanna's attention. "Kanna, come to mommy." She said softly again and she pulled herself into a sitting position. This time she could hear little shoes pad softly towards her and she soon felt tiny arms latch onto her side and the smell of baby powder next to her nose. Robin affectionately nuzzled the toddler's soft head and dropped a small kiss onto her little forehead. She sighed with slight contentment as she rested her cheek on the baby's head once more. Kanna was safe, though that was not the least of their problems right now. Suddenly she heard footsteps approach them and her daughter vanished from her side. "Kanna?" Robin repeated.

"Weeeeee!" came the toddler's reply.

"So the queen of witches awakens" a dark voice said.

"Lucifer!" Robin spat.

The man chuckled lightly. "What's the matter dear, you sound a little bitter."

"Leave my baby alone!" Robin said, "I don't care what you do to me, but you leave her out of this."

"On the contrary, she is part of this game as well" Robin heard Lu say. Robin growled. Lu smirked and looked at the wide eyed baby he held in his arms. "She played the part of bait perfectly."

"When I get my hands on you-"

"Oh yes, about that. I wouldn't use your flame if I were you. You see, we are currently located in an underground containment facility that stores hazardous waste and material that is extremely flammable, so one little spark could kill us all, including your precious little doll here, as well as hundreds of other workers currently working 1 story above us" He lied. The truth was they were in a cellar of an apartment in the city center, just minutes away from the mall where he had kidnapped the two from, but she didn't need to know that. Lu grinned to himself.

"Okay, we'll play by your rules," Robin said suddenly, "and in accordance to your rules I suppose you have won."

"We have been playing with my rules from the start you incompetent teenager, and yes, I have won."

"Then before I die, please, indulge me in some answers, like who has hired you to kill me?"

"First off, that party wishes to remain anonymous, secondly, I am not quite done yet."

"How so?" Robin asked.

"My orders were to kill you specifically, however you guys have been an absolute hoot. If I am going to wipe out one then I might as well wipe out the whole lot of you. Besides, my pay will be double if I do I suppose."

"Fair enough" Robin muttered loud enough for him to hear. "Do you know why this party wants me dead?"

"Not a clue." Lu said, "But if the price is right and they are paying enough then I'll knock off whom ever they please."

Robin grinned, "It's not going to be so easy getting my husband. Power isn't anything without skill, something which you lack."

"I beg your pardon?" Lu asked as he walked over to a blanket covered couch the apartment stored down there.

"You've been sloppy," Robin said, "in gathering info on myself and my family, in using your powers and trying to do your job."

"Nothing a little mass destruction can't fix." Lu chuckled.

"You're a sick man." Robin murmured.

Lu grinned as he reached into his back pocket for something. "You have no idea."

It was then Robin heard him shuffle around for a moment then mutter "Smile Kanna" and the toddler's sharp scream pierced the air.

Robin heart stopped beating. "LU STOP IT! LEAVE HER ALONE!" Robin yelled and struggled against her tight bonds. But the young mother was helpless and she knew it, all she could do was plead and struggle against her bonds. Her heart was breaking, why couldn't she protect her baby?

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Amon was going to murder the bastard. He was going to rip out Lu's intestines and make him enemy eat them, then boil him in battery acid. He had felt Kanna become fearful through their bond. It was that same horrifying fear he felt whenever Lu used his craft around his daughter. This time there was nothing he could do. On top of that the team had found Robin's communicator, at least what had been left of it, and was trying to salvage the little bits of hardware to find the number or signal Lu had used so they could track him down. So far... nothing. Amon gave a gruff sigh as he walked through the malls. There had been no witnesses except one. A young teen had spotted Lu placing Kanna in his car only in the underground parking lot. Fat lot of good that did.

They had the police currently trying to find Lu's car, and already had detectives roaming the streets in patrol cars and on foot for the man. The last thing the STN-J needed to do was tell Solomon about the kidnapping, if anything, there could've been a faction within Solomon who had planned this, this supposed second party. If anything it would only cause Amon and Robin more grief and it was really the last thing their friends wanted for them.

Amon drove carefully as he returned to the office. He was looking for any signs of Lu, his family or Lu's damn car.

He had no success. Amon rubbed his head as he walked up to the main floor. Maybe if he asked Nagira to send his contacts out looking... There would be money involved for the information but there wasn't no amount of money in the world he would give for their safe return. If only he knew their situation, if only he knew where they were, what things were like, then he could help them, he could use Kanna but he knew nothing and the child was to afraid to respond.

Amon would give his life to get them back.

"Excuse me, Mr. Amon." a voice called out to him. It was the gate keeper. Amon looked over at the man with an expression of indifference. What could this guy possibly want that would make his day any better?

"A package came for you."

His day just got better. Maybe, just maybe, if Amon was lucky, it would be a ransom letter.

The gate keeper held up a large yellow envelop with Amon's name written clearly on the front. The young man walked over and took a hold of the envelop. He didn't examine it, he probably had a good guess who it could be from, and he wasted no time opening it.

His gloved hand reached inside and dug out it's contents. Photographs. He looked at them, deshelved slightly in his hand. His eyes widened at the images in his palm.

'Oh god... please don't let this be true' was perhaps the only thought that was running through his mind.

"Mr. Amon? Sir?" The gate keeper asked again but his got no response from the shocked man. He couldn't see what was on the pictures, only Amon's eyes were mirrors of the images.

In one photo, a hand holding a knife against a blindfolded Robin's bloody throat. In another picture, his two year old looking like she had just seen her worst nightmare. Another picture, again of Robin this time hunched over in pain, her shirt partly torn at the front but mostly at the back exposing what looked like slash marks torn into her flesh. The pictures all repeated this process, both his girls looking like their were either being scared to death or tortured.

His mind finally snapped back to reality and he could feel the rage within his heart start to boil. This bastard was not going to live. The moment he found him... Amon swore to himself that LU would die at his hands. His fists clenched and photo's crumpled.

He had to find them and now.

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Nightfall had come and it had found the lonely father standing on the roof of the Raven Flats looking up longingly into the sky. The full moon shone it's brilliance down on the slumbering city of Tokyo. It was so bright that it over shadowed the city street lamps below. He had made the call to Nagira and explained the situation, Nagira was shocked but didn't hesitate for a second to help out. Now with the numerous cops patrolling the streets there were also Nagira's cronies, just regular looking people, most homeless, some not and they probably stood a much better chance at seeing Lu or his car than the cops.

The next day Amon found himself walking around City Limits, an area were the nightlife hibernated in bars, clubs and motels during the day. Surprisingly most of the people he and his colleagues had questioned already knew about the missing girls because of their connection with Nagira. Go figure.

Amon made foot patrols of the mall and it's surrounding area and questioned random people. He viewed the security tapes again and again, trying to take in the smaller details, something that would be able to help him. He went out searching for any gray car he could find but still, he had turned up nothing.

For once in his life he felt that this whole search was hopeless though that moment was only fleeting before he got back on the road again to continue his search.

One full day without finding hide nor hair of Robin and Kanna. The STN-J had the photos but they could do nothing. The pictures had been taken with Robin or Kanna filling up all of the shot so their whereabouts couldn't be identified. Even with the police force, STN and Nagira's cronies scouring the city... somehow, this wasn't very reassuring to Amon anymore.

Another day passed the same way of finding no new information and Amon was getting frustrated and tired. He wasn't sleeping cause his loved ones were in danger. He had felt his link between him and Kanna flare again as Kanna became frightful of something... no maybe she was in pain? What was Lu doing to her? She was only just a baby and Robin, though capable of keeping her head, was still, really in the whole scheme of things, only 19, still a teenager! Amon growled in frustration at himself. Why wasn't he out there doing more! So he committed himself to patrolling at night as well. Sleep was for the weak! During the nights the police would stake out one section of the city, the STN another and Nagira's contacts in another, during the day, they all questioned people.

The second night Amon walked through the park. It seemed so cold to him, and he felt so terribly alone, first time in a long while too, but Amon wasn't going to reminisce on the past, he was out to find his daughter and his wife Robin.

He came across a man, probably in his late 30's, smoking a cigarette as he leaned against a tree staring out over the park's vast river. He was wearing sunglasses, strange time to be wearing those Amon had thought, but then again this world took all types. This didn't detour Amon away from asking the man if he had seen his girls.

Amon walked up to him and flashed a photo of Kanna and Robin taken months prior and asked if he had seen them. The man removed his sunglasses and looked at the picture. He then smiled and laughed.

"You know, last night I was watching the big ol' moon like tonight and I saw this girl, oh she was a young one, probably just ten of twelve, standing under that cherry tree over there," The man said and pointed to the one at the entrance of the park, "Anyway, didn't catch much of her, but by the way that moon was on her last night it just seemed to make her glow, she just looked all white from head to toe, I tell yeah," the man laughed at this, "God the bugger was bright last night," the man sighed as he took a drag from his smoke, He looked back down at the photo, "I don't know what made me remember that really," he then pointed lazily at the picture with the cigarette between his two fingers. "It was her hair, it's silver. That other girl's hair was just as bright; but to answer your question, no I haven't seen either of your girls. Your daughters silver hair just reminded me of the meeting last night."

Amon sighed, "Thanks anyway" he replied and walked away. Another utterly useless person with a pointless story in this utterly useless world. What an idiot. He didn't have time to be held back by idiotic ramble. Amon scowled, god must've really loved idiots cause he had sure made a lot of them.

He just wasn't going to be happy until they were found.

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Lu grumbled from his place on the couch. Robin was still tided up tight in her little corner with Kanna on the other side of the room sleeping on the floor. Both were perfectly unharmed despite the pictures Amon had received earlier.

Lu loved his craft.

Robin smirked, "What's the matter?" She asked "They getting on your trail Lu?"

"There's been an unexpected development" he grumbled and stared at the sleeping baby. "As a result I'm killing the both of you in the morning."

"Development?" Robin asked, trying to keep him talking. Lu went over and picked Kanna up.

"Even I can't answer you this one because even I don't know for sure. Until then, say goodnight to your daughter, you won't be seeing her till morning."

"Wait! Lu please!" but Robin heard a metal door slam. He was gone. Robin called out for Kanna, hoping for a response. There was none. She chocked back her tears. How on earth was she going to get out of this mess?

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Masaru Takumi's office phone gave off a shrill ring. The older man sitting at his desk, picked it up. On the other end there seemed to be a very angered voice.

"Relax, I just found out now myself" Takumi answered the angering voice. It yelled at him some more before crossing over into a more firmer tone. The older man's brow creased in seriousness, "I see. I already have some men out hoping to stop this nonsense."

The voice continued on in it's firm tone over the line.

"And just where are you right now?" he asked. He got his answer, "I see, very well. I'll send some people your way if you please."

The voice answered to the statement.

"What do you mean you mean you do not need them?" He asked in curiosity. Suddenly his eyes widened, "What? That's impossible. How on earth can she-"

The tone came back over the phone in argument.

"But I just don't see how she can be standing ten feet in front of you."

There was some more argument from the other voice before it hung up on him. Masaru sighed and rubbed is eyes. "Either he is going senile or-" he turned his chair too look up at the full moon shining high in the sky, "What are you up to young goddess?"

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The next day had passed by without incident or any new developments but that night there was a meeting to be held. It was time to go over the reality of the whole situation.

"There's no mistaking it. This guy is good." Nagira said as he lit up a cigarette. They had all gathered in his office. The whole of the STN-J, the police investigators in charge of the case at the JPD and a few of Nagira's more reliable sources.

"We've combed well over half the city, made sure no one matching Robin or Kanna's description got out of any of the city ports and boarders and I'm pretty sure we have questioned the entire city population twice now," Nagira looked at Amon as he leaned back in his chair, "Amon, I know it's to early to come to conclusions but I also want to say not to get your hopes up to soon."

Amon nodded but inside he was furious, were they really thinking that Robin or Kanna might be...

No. He wouldn't think that. His mind caressed the bond he shared with his daughter. She was okay, she was just sleeping. Amon sighed, "In other words you are tired and want to give up early." The man summarized.

Nagira looked shocked "No no! oh hell, they are my family too, I'm not about to give up searching, I am just saying-"

"Then say it for what you mean" Amon said gruffly. Silence ensued between the two as they looked at one another.

Nagira sighed again and leaned forward in his chair, "So has anyone found out something new?"

"Not since yesterday but that tip proved to be pretty much false" Karasuma said.

"Same here, I got nothing" said one of Nagira's friends, he was a short graying old man.

"I thought we was close when someone mentioned a little kid last night," one of the police investigators said, "Turns out she was to old."

"Lemme guess, she probably had the same eyes or something?" Sakaki smirked.

"No, the witness said that it was so bright last night that her hair looked white."

"I got that same story." Karasuma said.

"As did I." Amon added.

The short graying man laughed, "I saw that little rascal and it's true, The moonlight just seemed to follow her. It was like seeing one of those things from a movie."

"Did you ask her if she had seen Robin or my niece?" Nagira asked.

"I tried to but when I approached her and tried to get her attention she just took off. She probably thought I was some sicko."

"Well that is an easy mistake," Nagira grinned, "Maybe if you had a bath every now and then."

"Oh you're a real wise guy, you know that?"

"I saw her too." Doujima finally cut in, "At least I think I did, it was brief, she was running, probably from you, but it did seem like she was glowing sorta."

"Where did you see her, Doujima?" Amon asked curiously. For some reason a little girl running around at the dead of night didn't sit right with him. Where were her parents? He being a father himself, he'd be ashamed if that were Kanna.

"I'll show you, do we have a map?" Doujima asked.

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Nagira unceremoniously dumped a map on his table and rolled it out for all of the STN-J and a couple a police investigators to see.

"I was right here when I saw her." Doujima said, putting her finger on a spot of the city map.

"Where were you?" Amon asked the short graying man.

"Right here" the old man pointed, it was nearly a block away from Doujima.

Something nagged at Amon and when Doujima and the man went to move their hands away he made them pause. "No, wait. Karasuma, where did you get the witness report?"

"The witness was in the mall but said said she saw the girl here." and she tapped the map about a full block down from here Doujima had her finger placed.

Amon looked up at the officer and he instantly put his finger half a block down from the short man's position, opposite to Doujima. The other officer place a finger between his partner's and Karasuma's.

"And I was right here when I heard that account, she was standing here" Amon placed a finger between Doujima's and Karasuma's

Nagira took a pen from his breast pocket and connected the positions together. It highlighted a triangular section that was part of downtown perfectly. Block for block. It was only a corner of the shopping district. The very area Robin and Kanna had been kidnapped in.

"Amon, I'll tell you right now, I don't believe in coincidences but this is just to strange to ignore."

Doujima looked displeased "She probably lives in the neighborhood, and if I see her again, I'm going to drag her home and have a word with her parents, having a young girl roam around late at night."

"Trust me, I feel the same" Amon said casually, "But back to the situation at hand here."

Nagira scratched his head, "Yeah, this is getting complicated. We need to split up again and search more sections of the city."

"Why don't we try over lapping the boundaries this time?" Doujima suggested.

"Yeah that sounds like a good course of action." Nagira said.

"I'll be in this section," Amon said as he pointed to the triangle outline of the shopping district.

"Why don't we all take the section," Karasuma suggested, "and half the JPD overlap this half." and she circled half of the boundary with her finger, "Nagira, your friends could probably do this area over here, overlapping our other half and part of the polices."

"That sounds reasonable, we still cover one heck of a section." Nagira said.

"We'll focus our search efforts around there then" one police investigator said and turned to his colleagues.

People started to move and retreat the building. Amon's friends had turned to address him but the man was gone. Nagira sighed and rolled the map back up.

"Where the hell are you two?" he asked more to himself than anyone else but the STN members were looking at him.

Where on earth where Robin and Kanna?

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The Downtown area was crawling with police officers, investigators and the likes. There wasn't a minute where Amon didn't see a squad car turn down the street corner he was staking out. The stars were shining, the moon, full for the last night. was lighting the streets and it was cold. It was the only thing keeping him awake; the cold.

How long had it been since he had seen sleep? 34 hours? no, much longer. He was slowly approaching day three of his loved ones disappearance and had not slept the night before nor was he sleeping tonight. It had to be well into the 40's now. He was leaning against a lamp post. The light above was burnt out but the moon's light was sufficient enough to light everything up for him. He pushed himself off the cold steel turned on his heels and continued to walk down the bare street. He passed a solitary officer, each giving each other a slight nod in acknowledgment assuring one another the other's alertness.

He weaved in and out of alley ways, buildings and streets, passing other police officers and occasionally his own team mates. It seemed like all the regular inhabitants within this one section of the district had vanished into thin air. All ready this was looking like a quiet night, they had heard or seen nothing yet. Wasn't Lu going to try and draw him in as well or was he just going to wait until he saw fit? Maybe he didn't want Amon? That was starting to seem more like the case the more he thought about it as the night continued to drag on.

He glanced up the next street he turned down and stopped short of an empty food stand outside a small fruit market. The moonlight seemed to shine brightly down on this street, giving everything a brilliant glow. He looked up and couldn't help but be taken back by his memories. His daughter was born an a night as bright as this. He remembered Robin laying in bed completely exhausted but she couldn't have been happier. He remembered what if felt like to hold his child for the first time, the little moment all three shared when they had first greeted Kanna into the world. It nearly brought him to tears at the thought of what might be happening to his child and wife as he just stood there looking up at the sky, probably looking like someone hoping for some great being to look down and take pity on him and tell him the answer.

'If only' Amon thought as he returned his gaze to the streets. His eyes suddenly caught a bright flash in the corner of his vision. He turned to see a flash of something white, what looked like hair, and running footsteps take off down the street ahead of him. Was it that girl? Amon followed at a dead run more than determined to keep her in his sights. He turned the corner just in time to see her take another corner.

Damn she could move! He took off after her again.

Amon had nearly lost her several times in the process of the pursuit. When the girl and Amon broke out into the main street were 'base' had been set up not one person had missed it as the moon light seemed to make this girl glow. It was barely a shot on her, she was moving so fast they couldn't get a description and only seconds after she had run out onto the streets Amon appeared running after her only a few mere feet behind. No one wasted time taking off after the two as they tore down another alleyway.

Amon followed her pace for pace as she took left turns, right turns, jumped fences until they hit the mall. She jumped a hedge, he jumped a hedge and he took a fall, slamming into the dirt. The girl stopped and turned back to look at him. He looked at her, his teeth clenched as the searing pain of his muscles from the run caught up with him. His vision was blurry from running so fast.

Still, this was something he had to ignore, she could get away and he wanted to at least question her. He pushed himself up and stumbled as he caught his footing and wasn't even given a full minute before the girl took off again through the parking lot and across the street. Amon was quick to follow and caught up with her about two blocks down from the mall. She turned down another alleyway and Amon followed, only a mere ten feet behind her, but she was gone!

"Damn it!" he shouted.

POP Amon's attention was drawn to a small basement window that had just slammed itself shut. He walked over to it. It was unlocked. He lifted it up and looked inside. It was pitch black, he couldn't see a thing.

"Hello?" he called into the room.

"Amon?" came a very familiar, yet frightened, voice from within the darkness.

"Robin?" he asked, not sure whether he was willing to believe what he had just heard.

"Amon!" Robin responded. He could hear the joy in her voice, "I'm in here! I'm tied up and blindfolded, I can't see a thing."

"Hang on, I'll get you out of here!" Amon said and rushed around to the front of the apartment building and made his way in. His colleagues had caught up and saw Amon rush into the building.

Robin heard the pounding of feet from above her and then something slam against the metal door. The slamming continued until she heard it literally break off it's hinges and fall down a set of stairs.

"Amon! Amon!" Robin called from her place on the floor. She could hear his familiar footsteps pounding down the stairs until she suddenly felt the blind fold being ripped off. Robin blinked and looked up to see Amon leaning down to untie her hands from behind her.

"Are you okay, did he hurt you?" Amon asked, the images of the photos flashing in his mind.

"No, I'm fine but he's got Kanna!" Robin panicked as she was dragged to her feet the moment the bonds were undone. Amon embraced tightly, more than over joyed but it was brief. Robin's words had set into his mind and the two took off out of the basement.

"Any idea where he might have gone?" Amon asked.

"Not a clue" Robin answered as they made their way out of the building and through the search party.

Amon looked at the young teenager seriously, a look he hadn't given her since they had been partners at the STN-J so long ago "Robin can you recall anything that he might have said before he left, any clue?"

Robin shook her head "All he said was that there had been some sort of setback in his plans and he was going to kill us both come sunrise."

"Set back?" Amon repeated. He wondered what that set back was. "Kanna..."

"Amon?" Robin questioned as the man's expression seemed to change from serious to solemn for a moment. He looked at her, his expression "Nothing," he replied, "I'll tell you later."

"What do we do now?" Robin asked him softly. Their daughter was gone and they didn't know where too go. It had only been by some freak of nature, or miracle as others would call it, that Amon had been able to locate Robin. He had hoped that Kanna had been with her when he did find her.

His shoulders hung, almost as if in defeat, and sighed "I don't know."

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Lu had made his way to Walled City before the place had been taken over by cops. He shut himself up in an old apartment and set the sleeping child down on the ground. He knew that Robin had most likely been found by now. This was something he had not counted on. He was going to turn the young Robin in by morning to his boss, he would've then had the joy of killing her himself and use the daughter to lure in the father and then kill the final two. Fast, simple and sweet. He'd get his money and be on his way. That had not happened.

Earlier, the previous day, when he had gone to get those photo's developed he saw her. A young girl, no older than 10 perhaps, with silver hair and angry eyes glaring right at him from outside the photo shop window. She seemed to glare so forcefully at him at him that he had got this dangerously uncomfortable feeling in his gut. When he went outside to face her, she was gone. He shrugged it off as stress. But he saw her again. This time from across the street from where he was keeping Robin and her child. Again she continued to glare at him and when he blinked she had vanished. That's when he knew he had to move before something happened.

"I should've taken her with me but that would've been to obvious" he muttered to himself as he sat at a small wooden table in the middle of the apartment. Well, he still had their daughter. He looked over to where he had placed her. She was gone! He stood up sending his chair crashing to the floor. His eyes darted around the room and he relaxed when he saw her. Kanna had awoken and found herself a nice big box on the other side of the apartment and was now attempting to climb into it. He walked towards her, and Kanna only spared him a glance before attempting to climb into the box once more.

Lu took the cardboard box and flipped it over right onto the child. "There you go, knock yourself out." he said and returned to his chair, setting it upright and settling down in it and placed his feet upon the table before closing his eyes for a cat nap. He heard giggling from underneath the box then the sound of it skidding along the floor.

Wham!

He opened his eyes and looked to see the box had made its way stealthily across the room and slammed into the wall on contact.

"When I said knock yourself out, I didn't mean it literally." he muttered and closed his eyes again. The box giggled and then continued to move its way along the floor at a relatively fast pace before slamming into another wall, then another and another. Kanna was just merely giggling every time the she hit the wall. Lu was getting steadily annoyed. It was interrupting his nap. Just then Lu's head met the hard concrete floor as Lu's chair was knocked right out from under him. Kanna had run right at him, full throttle, and rammed his chair, sending the man to the ground.

"That's it!" he raved as he got to his feet. He grabbed the box and the child then set the box upright and dumped Kanna in it. Kanna looked up at it as if to ask "Play time over?"

Lu looked down at the child in a menacing manner. Kanna didn't seem to notice. "You stay there and be quiet you little brat" he hissed and went back to his seat to try again for a nap. He didn't know how long his eyes had been closed, he only knew the the sun was just starting to peek through the sky and that there was a smelly baby in a box when someone knocked on the door.

Lu was more than suspicious, no one knew he was here. He approached the door and leaned his ear against it. He heard children running away giggling. So that was it. Just a victim in their little game. He'd teach them. Most people around here were witches and he was positive those children were no different. He was a witch hunter. He'd make sure that this was the last prank those witchlings ever pulled. He followed down the four flights of stairs, hearing children giggling as he went but never seeing a single one. He broke into a run down the last two flights and exploded out the back door, expecting to see the children. He saw none. A blast of air suddenly hurled the man into the steel door of the building, knocking the wind right out of him. That had clearly been an attack of a witch. This time when he opened his eyes there was the silver haired girl looking at him smirking. She giggled and started to fade away. Lu blinked, what the hell was that? Foot steps approached from where the girl had vanished and a tall silhouette of a man with a cane stood there with a cape fluttering slightly behind him.

"It's a dangerous business to mess with an italian family with power" spoke the figure in an old rough voice. Lu glared from where he had fallen as the old voice continued to speak. "Snooping around where you shouldn't be, you and your employer alike. Solomon does not take kindly to traitors. It is a dangerous business. It's even more dangerous when it is my family you are snooping around." The dawning light caught the figure's face, one that was old and wary, the mouth frowning so deeply that the lines around it were crisp, as though that had been his expression most of his life. Then the light caught his cold hard eyes. They were brilliant emeralds.

"Juilano" Lu muttered as he recognized the powerful Solomon man.

"Where are my grandchildren Lucifer" the old man demanded in a low growl.

Lu's face turned sadistic but it did not phase the old Father in the least. "Dead!" Lu simply replied as he stood up and took a few steps towards the old man.

Juliano smirked and scoffed as he rested both his hand on the top of his walking stick in front of him. "Robin is alive. I have been told this already. There is one missing and I know you have her. Return her to me, and don't try any tricks. I'm skilled at see through illusions."

"Is that why you are here old man? To take your family back to their safe little nest that you had them hidden away at?" Lu grinned.

"Not hardly. I've come here looking for you. They just had the misfortune in being caught up in this on my hunt for you."

"HUNT!" Lu screamed sound absolutely furious and astounded all at the same time.

"That is correct. Solomon has had enough with your shenanigans. You are good at collecting information but that is all you are good for. You are sloppy in your work and your human body count is over 70 times higher than your witch count. And with our resent knowledge of your boss that you are working for, this only proves to us that you are no longer worth keeping around, as I had wanted from the start."

"But inquisitor Koushon has done several inquiries on me at the councils behest and I am just fine." Lu said.

"And then we discovered how crooked the man really was and we have had all the witches inquired by him redone but two. Robin and yourself. Robin can no longer be touched. You however, well the council has decided you are to much of a danger to have around s is. A threat."

Lu's blood red eyes narrowed. "Damn right I'm a threat" he muttered and the ground shook before dagger-like rocks erupted from the ground and flew at Juliano. Fire erupted from mid air and the rock disintegrated into nothing. The flames erupted towards the younger man and would have hit him had he not dodged the attack. Instead the flames hit the building, lighting that one section ablaze. Lu smirked at the fire before returning his attention to the older man, had he done so a second later he would have been dead. He just barely saw the wave of flames that headed directly at him and commanded the ground to rise and create a shield for him, splitting the fire, causing it to go around him and feed the flaming building behind him. The flames were now starting engulfing the second floor.

"Well old man, do you truly want to know where your family is?" Lu grinned from behind his rock shield. Suddenly his shield shattered and Lu looked shocked. Juliano looked even more displeased than he had before.

"If you have something to say then say it to my face" the old man said.

"I thought your powers were weakening!" Lu said, unable to get past the fact that Juliano had broken right through his rock barrier.

The old man's smirk returned. "They are, but they are still more than efficient enough to do away with you."

"Well I'd think twice before you send my body into hell." Lu grinned and looked up at the burning building, it was half way engulfing the 3rd floor. People were running in and out of it, carrying buckets of water in a futile attempt to put out the magically induced fire. "You see, right about now that fire is probably all ready reaching the 4th floor where little Kanna is, most likely sitting in the nice big cardboard box I put her in earlier!" Lu gave a sadistic chuckle. Juliano for once looked shocked. "You have a choice old man. Do away with me now and let your young great granddaughter die a horrible death or go get her now while there is still a sliver of hope. What will it be?" Lu grinned wildly.

Juliano stood there looking quite frustrated.

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The shrill cry of a child echoed in the burning room. Flames where engulfing every inch of the place. Kanna's eyes and lungs burned as the thick black smoke filled the floor and the immense heat seared at her skin. The only thing stopping the full heat from burning her alive was the box she was in, but that wasn't going to last long. All ready the board's edges were starting to smolder.

The baby stood there, wailing for all she was worth. Suddenly the door imploded from the heat and a burning piece of debris landed inside the box with the baby. The cardboard caught a blaze almost instantly. The flames burned as Kanna tried backing away in the small confined space. She hacked and coughed as more of the deadly smoke filled her tiny lungs. The flames licked at her clothes and skin and she cried out in pain. There was no escaping.

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They hadn't meant to fall asleep, both Amon and Robin. They had returned to the office after a very thorough investigation of the area and to their disappointment they found nothing. They looked through file after file, case after case, including the most resent slaughter done by Lu the day of Robin's kidnapping, still they could find no connection as to where they man would be hiding. Michael had found his hotel room and they had stormed it almost immediately but Lu had vacated the premises long before. Now they were pack to square one. They both had taken a seat on the couch next to one another, intent on scouring over reports of supposed sightings to find a common area but in the process Robin had ended up leaning against Amon and he in turn leaned against her, his head resting against hers and slowly their eyes shut.

Their coworkers let them sleep while they continued their work to find the missing baby witch.

The office phone rang and Michael answered it in a slightly melancholy tone. "Hello?" The voice over the phone caused Michael's eyes to widen. "Uh yeah, yes they are" Michael looked towards the sleeping agents, "They did?" he suddenly said over the phone but then his expression dropped and he seemed to droop into his chair. He leaned forward and rubbed his eyes from under his glasses. "Yes, thank you. Yes I'll tell them" he said in a low tone and he hung up.

"Michael?" Doujima asked in worry. Everyone looked at him.

"Wake up Robin and Amon." He said grimly.

"Michael what's going on? What's wrong?" Karasuma asked.

The young man looked at her with sad eyes, "They found Kanna."

To Be continued...

Q&A

Q: WHO'S THE CHICK?

A: whistles - You'll find out soon.

Q: OMG You Killed Kanna! You bastard!

A: I did? o.O

Q: Can we threaten you in reviews?

A: Knock yourself out!

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