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Our favorite male detectives walked wearily through the forest. They had been wondering blindly for quite a while now and were getting discouraged. No Mariah. No murderer. Not even a clue! And they didn't seem to be getting any closer to Moscow either. Finally Tala stopped.
"You guy!" Ray and Kai stopped to look at the redhead. "This is so hopeless, Barney would even give up on this! We keep going like this and the forest will eventually do the murderer's job."
The other two could not deny Tala's logic, so no protest was made. Kai then sighed, "But just stopping here won't help either. That'll definitely get us no where."
"I don't mean stop, but we need to look for a water supply; a lake! Because us dieing of exhaustion and dehydration would not be very exciting." The boys nodded in agreement.
"O.k. Ray, do that neko-jin stuff and find us a lake!" Kai ordered feeling a new rush build up inside of him. But before the teens could go on their next journey they felt a tremendous gust of wind beating down on them. Shielding their eyes, they struggled to look up to see a helicopter. But not just any helicopter, a personal Hiwatari helicopter! A rope later was let down.
Kai's instinct told him that it was safe to go up. But when he tried to walk, two different hands firmly grabbed his arms. "We can't just go up there unarmed!" the raven-haired teen shouted over the noise of the wind. Tala nodded.
"We have no other choice! This is our best bet!" while the boys were bickering the person in the airborne machine decided to land.
With Mariah
Once again, unsuspecting golden eyes opened to the gold and red room. The pinkette's disoriented thought were telling her that it was all just a dream, until she realized that she was still in the same fairytale room, but was indeed not a princess. She blinked a couple times to get a clear look around.
"You really are beautiful! The boy spared no detail." Mariah looked up to see the gorgeous woman admiring the portrait of her and remembered all that she had learned from the last time she was awake. "I have no intension of hurting you, darling so you may relax." She turned to face Mariah.
"The… paper says that you're…" Mariah couldn't find the bravery to come to term with what she had read and what she had seen.
"Dead?" LaKaiara finished the sentence. "Oh, it's just one big misunderstanding!" she laughed. "As you can see, I'm right here." He laugh was like a wind chime, very pleasant to the ears. It was a calm laugh almost a giggle. Through Mariah's fear, she found an ounce of comfort. The woman didn't seem to be any sort of perilous.
The neko-jin slowly rose out of the bed and stepped onto the crimson carpet. She didn't know why she was walking up to the wall again; to the mysterious female, but she was. LaKaiara seemed to be waiting for Mariah to say something. "So… why am I here?"
The older female gave a feeble smile. "Um… I don't really know." This comforted Mariah even more. The woman knew nothing about the kidnapping! "It was kinda like someone ringing your doorbell and leaving a baby on the porch." She laughed again. Mariah smiled.
"So, can I… call my mama?" she asked hopefully.
"Sure, follow me." The pinkette smiled brightly, but something was nagging at her, telling her to keep a very strong guard up. The woman led her out the door and into a long hallway. Unlike the room, the hallway wasn't filled with pictures and paintings. The walls were a nice, plain sky blue.
"So, do you live here by yourself?" the pinkette decided to make conversation.
"No, there are a few more people here. I couldn't possibly live here alone." They came to a phone at one point in the hallway. Mariah picked it up, but there was no noise. "The phone's dead." LaKaiara screwed her face up.
"What?" she took the device from Mariah and put it to her ear. "That's… really weird. I just used this one this morning to call my aunt." That fact did not make Mariah feel good, but at least she wasn't alone anymore. "Let's go to the one down stairs."
With The Guys
They were currently riding in the helicopter with an old friend… Voltaire. As much as they hated him, they knew he couldn't possibly be the killer, on the count of, he couldn't exactly leap on and off trees as he wished.
When they got in, they were shocked by the information the elder Hiwatari shared with them. Everything was so unbelievable and everybody was connected to something.
"So you're telling me, Tyson was the one trying to kill Kai by the café'? Tyson?!" Ray yelled hysterically. "Then how many of these henchmen does the killer have? Emily first, now Tyson! I wouldn't be surprised if Mariah was in on it!" the little space suddenly got quiet. As quiet as a helicopter could be.
"No!" Kai started. "Mariah wouldn't!" Nobody challenged him for a while, but everyone had their thoughts.
Tala, being his best friend, thought he should entertain this thought for just a second. "But Kai, think about everything that Hilary said while we were around the campfire. She is a good candidate and all the victims seem to have some connection to her. Maybe it was her plan for you to fall for her."
"But why would she do that!? What would she gain?!" Kai felt a knot in his chest. All that we've been through, all that we shared… No. No! I won't believe it!
"She already has L.J. and L.A.'s inheritance." The redhead pointed out. Ray dared not speak yet, Mariah was his best friend, he couldn't bear to think of her as a killer, but… the evidence did point to her being seriously involved.
Then he thought of something. "How did Hilary know that Mariah would get L.A. and L.K.'s money?" Nobody had picked that up at the time. The brunette had no business knowing that, there was no way she could have known.
"See! She was just trying to frame Mariah! Mariah didn't do it." Kai took a breath of air, feeling relieved.
"But we can't rule her out just yet, a lot of the things Hilary said were true." Tala is really good at this detective stuff.
"Kai!" they heard Voltaire call from the front seat. "If Mariah is kidnapped, where is Karma?"
"Oh no! She left with the others. Hilary and Tyson! But would they killer want her, too?" Ray asked no one in particular.
"Of course. She's Kai's sister." Tala received glared from the other two teens.
"And how long have you known this!" the younger Hiwatari shouted at his best friends.
"I figured it out about twenty minutes ago. I mean, Kai, your siblings are getting killed off. Why else would Voltaire, your grandfather, send a little girl your way? When you say it out loud, it sounds stupid because you have people after you, but Mariah seemed to be doing a good job protecting you, so…" he smirked, feeling like he was on a new high. "Hey V, am I right?"
"Yeah, Tala." The gray haired man affirmed dryly.
"Oh yeah! Five point for Tala!" he grinned. Kai glared at the hyper-ness his friend could harvest in a situation such as this.
The bluenette rolled his eyes. "Anymore information granddaddy?"
The old man seemed to be contemplating something. They knew her knew other facts about what was going on. He knew way more and they were about to find out. "About four years ago your mother and father started having some problems," he started, the first sentence catching the boys' full attention. "Women started calling your mother day and night and sending letters telling her that they had Lunar's, your father's, children. This really upset your mother and to make matters worse, she was three weeks pregnant with your sister, Karma, at the time."
"What does this have to do with anything?" Kai asked, with a dazed look in his eyes.
But Voltaire went on like Kai hadn't said a word. "Your father would come home, furious at the other women for calling LaKaiara's home."
"Who's LaKaiara?" Ray asked, even though it should have been obvious.
"My mother." Kai said simply.
"Lunar knew good and well he was wrong, he knew he shouldn't have been sleeping around. But he never liked to own up to what he did, so he started to blame everyone else. At first he kept denying that he knew what the women were talking about. Then he admit to sleeping with one woman. But after LaKaiara started to show in her pregnancy, she told him about it. He then decided to confess about all his affairs, but turned it around on LaKaiara and accuse her of being unfaithful and said the Karma wasn't his!" this was the craziest true story they had ever heard. Kai didn't know his father was that sly and awful!
Voltaire continued. "They had so many arguments and Lunar had come home many times enraged, grumbling about how he was so angry "almost"… and "could have"…" the man paused. "I knew, that he had already put his hands on LaKaiara, she had come and told me once or twice about how she thought he was trying to kill her and the baby. One day he… succeeded." Loud gasps were heard on the copter. "Lunar called me crying and wailing telling me how he drowned a seven months pregnant LaKaiara, along with their unborn child in a bath tub after she wouldn't have sex with him."
"But you can't have sex with a girl when she's seven months pregnant!" Ray shouted as if the guy was there.
"He was looking for an excuse… that was the best one he could come up with." Voltaire looked down in shame.
"Well, surely he's still in jail right? So he can't be the killer!" Tala said hopefully.
"I'm not saying he's the killer. Boris and I arrived at the crime scene, Lunar was long gone and LaKaiara was still alive, but there was no way she was going to make it. She told us to just take the baby and make sure it would be o.k. Somehow she managed to push the baby out. She got to hold and name Karma before she died. Boris had a plan though, the baby need a womb to dwell in, unless Karma wouldn't have made it." Even though they knew Karma was very much alive and growing, they were still on the edge of their seats.
"What was the plan?" Ray asked.
"To make a cyborg LaKaiara, with all her memories, talents and features. Indeed Boris did a good job, for having such a short time. After Karma was reborn, he modified LaKaiara and made her exactly like the previous one. She still lived in Australia, we had been keeping track of her." Kai didn't like how he was saying this. They treated his mother like an experiment, but then again, it wasn't his mother. Somehow, he still felt a tinge of anger about it. "But about a year and a half ago, we lost her. She just disappeared! Then six month later, we heard that Lunar's first born was murdered. We saw the connection after the next killing and I immediately sent for someone to look for her. We never found her. I didn't think she would go after her own children, but apparently she wants to get rid of all traces of Lunar."
"But she's not my real mother." Kai stated. He never knew his mom, but he didn't want to think of her like this.
"No, the real LaKaiara was a very sweet girl. I don't think she would ever do this no matter how evil Lunar was to her. But the final thoughts she was thinking before she died must have been somewhere along the homicide lines. Boris thinks the cyborg LaKaiara is feeding off of those final thoughts and running away with them. We think after this, she will go on a killing spree."
"That's why she named Karma, Karma!" Tala was thinking again. "Lunar tried to kill her and her child, so she's going to kill him and his. What goes around comes around."
"So now where are we going?" Ray asked.
Then the unnoticed pilot finally took off his helmet to talk. "L.K.?" Kai yelled in shock.
"We're headed to a very special place in Russia." He answered with a smile.
"But you're the killer!" Kai felt trapped, what if L.K. decided to take all of them out at this very moment!?
Yeah, I know, too much dialog, but that's what happens when you're doing these murder fics. The next chapter will probably be the last.
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