Author's Note: Hey Guys! First off i've got to say i'm extremely sorry for leaving you guys hanging about a month ago. Basically two days after i finished that last one we got a call for our apartment and moved in, as soon as we moved in i had to pack and leave for Germany which was amazing! I've only been back for a few days but i wrote this while i was away. Hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter 15

Jiro moaned as he struggled to open his eyes. Suddenly Cassa's face appeared in his mind and he jolted up with a growl, looking around for the threat only to find himself in a deserted ally surrounded by piles of grey ash. "Mimiko?" he murmured, "MIMIKO!" he yelled stumbling forward past the piles until he found her sword. He stared at it, his eyes wide and his head rushing with pain and horror.

"She's gone." He whispered.

He bent down grabbing the sword and felt his fury building, his fangs elongated and his eyes sharpened as he clenched his teeth, growling low in his throat. "CASSA!" He screamed his anger overflowing, he jumped up on the top of an adjoining roof, looking around for any source of the foul woman who stole everything away from him again. Growling he knew the only way he could find her would be to go ask Sei for his help.

Jumping into the air Jiro began flying towards the Lord Dragon's home, hoping they would be able to find Mimiko before something horrible happened to her. He arrived within minutes to find Sei's mansion in chaos. Men and women ran out screaming as crazed vampires attacked them. Drawing his sword Jiro charged slicing through the Kowloon and making a path to the door. He feared the worst as he made his way into the mansion, searching for Kotaro and the others. Suddenly he saw a large crowd of the crazed vampires trying to get into a room.

"ENOUGH!" Sei's voice called from inside the room, "I banish thee into the darkness." At that a golden light surrounded the crowd and all disappeared instantly.

Jiro rushed in to find Sei leaning heavily against a couch and Cain and Jinnai hovering over him, concern plainly showing on their faces. Kotaro stood by the large window overlooking the city and frowned heavily. He turned when Jiro arrived, his frown deepening when he did not see Mimiko behind him.

"Jiro?" he asked, "Where's Mimi?"

Jiro felt his heart clench and looked around as all gazes locked on him. "Mimiko and I were on our way here when we were ambushed by Cassa and a hoard of Kowloon's," Jiro began, "She's taken her and I have no way of knowing where she is."

"You imbecile!" Cain cried. "Do you know what you have done; she is the main weapon the Kowloon King can use against us!"

"Cain!" Sei reprimanded and the large vampire growled and began pacing, trying to calm down his rage. "Why were you on your way here Jiro?" Sei said calmly, though his face was slightly paler than usual.

"Mimiko said that the day she died she had found a small warehouse filled with crates of blood packs," Jiro explained, "she believes they were filled with Kowloon blood and that they were most likely positioned around the special zone."

"But if this is true, why wouldn't the vampires have turned into Kowloon Children as soon as they had consumed them." Jinnai asked.

"The bags were full of diluted blood," came a silky voice from the door. Jiro turned around and saw Zelman standing there, hands in his pockets as he grinned cockily. "And where may I ask is Mimiko, Jiro?" he asked with a bite to his voice as his eyes glared fiercely at him.

"Now's not the time for your petty jealousies Zelman," Kotaro began, "right now we need to focus on finding Mimi and stopping this outbreak."

"She wouldn't have been kidnapped if she were in my care." He growled and Jiro stiffened his gaze narrowing to blue slits as he glared at the flame master.

"You're right, she wouldn't have been kidnapped," Jiro replied, "she would have been killed just like the last time you were in a battle and she was near."

Zelman lunged for him and they both tumbled to the ground punching at each other. Zelman got one in on Jiro's cheek and Jiro returned with an elbow to Zelman's ribs. Suddenly they were both picked up by their collars and shaken like dogs. "ENOUGH!" Cain growled. "THIS IS NO WAY TO BEHAVE IN FRONT OF THE LORD DRAGON, ESPECIALLY AT A TIME LIKE THIS!" He tossed them to separate ends of the room.

Both men continued to glare heatedly at each other but decided on a silent truce for the moment. "So what are we going to do?" Jinnai asked.

Sei sighed, "Luckily I had a feeling this would happen and placed a tracking spell under the sealing spell. Cain you know my magic well, you, Kotaro, and Jiro will find Mimiko. Zelman you shall help me with the Kowloon outbreak and Jinnai you are to stop every hospital and source of medical assistance from giving blood out. We will need to purge the city of the Kowloons' blood for a while so we don't have this again."

Every man nodded and soon split off to go to their separate missions. Zelman stopped Jiro before they headed off to find Mimiko. "If you don't bring her back safe and sound," he growled, "it will be my pleasure to burn you from the inside out."

"You have no worries, Crimson-Eyed Zelman, I'll bring her back, after all, "He growled back, "she is the love of my life and if she died I would die right along with her."

Zelman's eyes widened slightly before he frowned and nodded, suddenly Sei walked down the stairs and said, "Zelman, I'm afraid I've just gotten word that a Kowloon outbreak has just hit your home."

Zelman's eyes became pure fire as he turned towards his home. "Really," he growled, "they're such a pain in the ass."

Using his vampire speed he ran to his mansion, preparing to ignite the whole thing to get rid of the damn parasites. Cain growled at Jiro to hurry up and they set off, the large vampire turning into a wolf, the better to sniff out Sei's magic. Jiro hoped once again, that where ever Mimiko was, she would be safe until he was able to get to her.

Mimiko groaned and tried to sit up, opening her eyes to complete darkness. She moved her hands only to find her arms chained above her and her ankles chained as well. She lay upon a hard concrete altar and she frowned at her black surroundings trying to remember what had happened to bring her here. She gasped as her memories of the battle returned to her and she began to earnestly struggle against her steel bonds.

"Ah, you're finally awake," Cassa's voice came from behind her. She arched her back to look behind her but she couldn't see anything in this darkness.

Suddenly a bright light was flicked on over her head and she shrank back against its brightness. She blinked and could see a womanly form over to her left. She stared at her, her green eyes shining like a cats in the darkness. Cassa sighed, stepping forward into the light, "Mimiko, Mimiko, Mimiko," she murmured running her hand through her long dark hair.

Mimiko bared her teeth at Cassa, snapping at her hand. Cassa grinned and grabbed her hair pulling her head to the side to reveal the mark behind her ear. "Damn," she growled, "you just had to make this harder than it has to be didn't you Mimiko."

"What do you want?" Mimiko growled, trying to shake her head lose from Cassa's grasp.

Cassa laughed, her voice slightly crazed as she peered into Mimiko's blue eyes. "You have her eyes, did you know that?" she murmured pressing her face closer to Mimiko. "She used to look at me with those same eyes when Jiro came around. As if I was no longer needed and my methods of killing every enemy were unnecessary."

She let go of Mimiko and walked towards a small table next to the altar. Mimiko couldn't see what was on it but she heard metallic clinking as Cassa moved things around. "She was my mistress and my most important person in the world. But when she cast me aside for Jiro it made my blood boil. I just wanted a place to belong, and so I found it." She grinned, picking up a knife and staring at its sharp edge before glancing at Mimiko. "The Kowloon King made me his child, and I found a place where I belonged, but still I could not take my mind away from Alice. You see we had been together for so long, one doesn't just let go of an old friendship like that quickly. It pained me when the Kowloon King killed her in front of me, but I could do naught but watch as she turned to ash in Jiro's arms. You know I guarded her ashes after Hong Kong, that is, until Kotaro was born. It was then that I was summoned." She became quiet.

She turned to Mimiko her expression pained and sad. "Once you are a Kowloon Child you can do naught but obey the words of your master," she murmured, "how I wish I could turn back time and never meet him. I'm sorry Mimiko, but I can't go against his orders."

With that she walked towards her reaching up to grab a hook from the ceiling above and hooking it beneath her chained wrists. She pushed a button from a box hanging down and Mimiko was raised up and pulled to the side, her body hanging down like butcher's meat. She stopped and looked up at Cassa quizzically as she picked up a rope of what looked like silver. "I hope the seal breaks soon," she said quietly before grinning madly, "or I shall have to torture you to an inch of your life."

She walked behind her and suddenly Mimiko knew what the chain was for. Hearing it whip in the air she tensed her body, waiting for the cutting sting. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed, her cry echoing around the room as the silver cut into her back with acidic precision. The pain was unreal, her body arching away from the burning on her back and her body rejecting the smell of cooked flesh. She cried out again as another slicing burn cut through her.

Her body's instinctive defenses turned on and her arms pulled at the restraints above and below her, hoping to break them. When that didn't work her body called on its magical properties, the chain hitting her back once again as she tried to call on water. Suddenly her body seized and the mark on her neck burned as the seal kept her from using any magical powers whatsoever. Her eyes rolled back as she started to lose consciousness from the pain when suddenly she was punched in the stomach. The air left her lungs in a whoosh as she looked up into the maniacal face of Cassa.

"Uh-uh!" she tsked, "Can't have you passing out before I break that seal and extract the Kings' powers. Sorry girl, but you're in for a long ride." She laughed and then punched her again, this time in the face, her head thrown back with the force of it.

Blood dribbled out of her mouth and splashed onto the floor. She glared up at Cassa and grinned, her teeth bloody and her fangs extended. "Give it your best shot." She growled.

Jiro cried out and fell to the ground clutching at the grass beneath his hands. Acidic pain wracked through his body as he felt the pain Mimiko was experiencing through the bond. Kotaro too cried out, tears beginning to stream down his face at the pain. They writhed on the wooded floor as Cain changed back into his vampire form and rushed to them.

"What's going on?" he growled.

"It's begun." Jiro growled back, his body tensing as another wave of pain crossed his back. He could only imagine what Mimiko was going through, as these were just phantom pains that reflected only a fourth of the actual pain she was going through.

"They've already started to extract the Kowloon Kings' powers?" Cain asked.

"No," Kotaro breathed heavily, "they've begun the torturing to break Sei's seal. If the extraction process had started this pain would have been much worse."

"Well come on then, we need to find her before the seal breaks!"

Jiro nodded scrambling to his feet, he helped Kotaro pick himself up and they both felt the air leave their lungs as if they were punched. Gasping they rubbed their stomachs before turning to Cain, "We must hurry." Jiro said and they took off in the direction they were headed before.

Kotaro ran beside him and looked up at Jiro, concern all over his young face. "Do you think we'll make it in time brother?" he asked panting.

"We can only hope," he replied. Wait for us Mimiko.