The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
Chapter 5:
Discovery
& Escape
"Master Shishio, I got urgent news for you." In an undisclosed location was a man came running into a large room where sitting on a fabulous throne like chair was none other than Shishio. "My master, I've received word about your newly acquired servant."
When he heard that Shishio became completely focus on his follower. "Due pray tell, what has become of that young troublemaker. Was he able to do what he was suppose to do?"
"I'm afraid not. He indeed made contact but was captured and is currently being held at the main target's home." When given the information Shishio actually seemed to be amused by it. "May I ask master on what will you do about this? If they are able to get him to talk it may result in problems later on." Shishio's response was a simply nod of the head. "Should some problem solvers be sent out to make sure that nothing is said?"
"Set a group of them to the location but advice them to not kill anyone. Have them simply bring him back here with only a moderate amount of damage. Anyone who fails to follow those instructions will suffer greatly because of it." Understanding what his master was telling him, the servant hurried out to inform the others on their mission. "So the time will soon be upon us and I have to say that I can't wait to see what will happen because of it."
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"Isn't this something?" asked Dai. "I never expected you to be here. Boy, don't I feel special."
"Why don't you just shut up?" questioned Serenity who wasn't in the mood to have a conversation with the vampire. "I'm only doing this as a favor and to make sure that you don't escape."
"Does it look like I'm going to be going anywhere?" Driving his point further Dai slightly tugged at the chains that were holding him. "Besides, you shouldn't really use that kind of tone with your father."
Immediately after that was said Serenity gave him a glare that would make any average person cowered in fear. "You are not my father. As much as I hate to say it but the person upstairs is my father and there's nothing that connects me to you."
"Now who are you trying to fool here, me or you?" Even with the chains securely holding him Dai pushed himself to his feet. "You say that there's nothing that connects us. But where do you think your enhance abilities came from? It certainly didn't come from my former human half. You can't deny it my daughter. We're more a like than you realize. We kill all those who're close to us. Take your foster mother, Rowan for example."
When that name was said Serenity instantly became enraged. Going over she grabbed Dai by the collar so that he was looking directly at her face. "You shut your fucking mouth. You don't get to say her name." Calming down slightly she shoved the demented vampire back against the beam that he was chained to. "I don't know what you're trying to do but I had nothing to do with her death."
"Is that so? That's some poor memory you have there. As I recall she got shot because she tried to help you. That's of course after she was captured and tortured by the Takenaka Corporation simply because she helped you to escape from them."
The not so pleasant reminder really shook Serenity up as she backed away with her facing the ground. "It wasn't my fault." she said, mostly to herself but it sounded like she was trying to convince herself with little success. "I didn't mean for it to happen."
"But it did happen, didn't it?" Dai quickly retorted. "Face it Serenity, you wish to have people close to you only for them to leave you. Let's not forget about your real mother, Katara." The mentioning of that subject Serenity flinch. "You can try to lie to yourself but we both know that behind all that rebellious attitude is a little girl wanting her mommy and daddy.. Unfortunately that'll never happen as all those who you come into contact with suffer."
"Shut up!" yelled Serenity as she wished to hear him anymore. To her dismay Dai continued with his taunting.
"Sooner or later everyone will leave you. I wonder how long it'll be until your aunt Jun realizes what you really are and leaves you to."
Dai's words were having their desired affect as Serenity didn't know what to think or do as she had her head in her hands and quietly muttering something. While that was going on Dai was smiling like an idiot. It was unfortunate for him that someone decided to enter the scene. "What's going on here?"
Walking down from the stairs was Hikari who was no doubt confused about what she just walked into. Ignoring the smiling Dai she went over to the shaking Serenity. "Are you okay? What happen?" When she got no response she reached over to Serenity. However, when she made contact with her, Serenity immediately backed away.
"Don't touch me!" shouted Serenity. "If you wish to stay alive you'll stay away from me. You don't want to wine up like Rowan did."
Slowly it dawned on Hikari to what was wrong with Serenity. Not allowing this bit of information to deter her she again tried to reach over to the troubled young woman. Like before Serenity tried to back away but Hikari didn't allow her to get away as she managed to grab her arm. Serenity tried to free herself but due to her present state she wasn't to do so.
"I don't know what that bastard Dai told you but you had nothing to do with Rowan's death." By what Hikari could tell it appeared that her words weren't really getting through. "Remember, I was there when that unfortunate even took place and I recall that she willing gave her life so that yours could continue." Right after those words were said Serenity flinched slightly that didn't go unnoticed.
"I may not know everything that there is to know about what has happen to you but I know that there's goodness in your heart and that all those who truly know you would say the same." Thankfully it seemed like Hikari's words had gotten through to Serenity started to calm down.
"Oh, how touching." muttered Dai in mocked amusement. "If my heart was still beating I'd be getting that warm feeling inside. Fortunately I've been freed from that pathetic human emotion." Looking at the two woman in the basement with him he couldn't see Serenity's face but he could see Hikari's as she was giving him a cold glare. "What's with the look? Did I happen to strike a nerve?" Dai mocked. "What are you going to do? Give me a heavy scolding?"
Believing that Serenity would be okay, Hikari went over to Dai but kept her distance. "You're a real piece of work you know that? With you being unable to hurt anyone physically you go for the next best thing." On how Hikari was talking it came as somewhat of a surprise as she was being so calm about it. "Using the memories that you got while being a part of Daisuke you're attacking whatever doubts we may have. Causing us to lose our focus and weaken us so that you could hurt us where it counted."
"Hey, I do what I can." shrugged Dai. "Besides, you guys have so much crap going on in your lives that it gives me plenty of material to work with."
"That's funny if you think about it as it wasn't that long ago that you were nothing more than a nagging voice that was inside Daisuke's head." When she said that Hikari could see a scowl come across Dai's face even if was only for a moment but it was there. "It must've been hell for you. See all of the good that Daisuke has done and you being unable to do nothing but look on. Watching on but never being able to act on your demonic urges."
"Hell is putting it likely to what I had to go through." admitted Dai with venom in his voice. "Having to watch all those sickening good deeds made me ill. If I wasn't already dead I would've killed myself. But there was something that I and the person that was my former prison saw in the same view." Dropping the anger he switched to an eerie calm. "And that was you, Hikari." Not expecting that Hikari nearly stumbled but stopped herself.
"Out of all the pathetic people that Daisuke has come across after becoming a vampire you are perhaps the one person that he holds dearer than anyone else. As a result it has opened my eyes to you." Looking right at Hikari, he made sure that her eyes were looking at his. "Imagine how much suffering I could put Daisuke through if I were to have my way with you. There are so many ideas that I don't know which one to choose. Like, I don't know if I should rape you before or after I kill you. Do you have any preferences?"
Not allowing the demented vampire's words to affect her, Hikari remained steady. "You're one sick vamp, you know that? But I shouldn't be all that surprise. Wanting to torment others is how you get your rocks off seeing as how you're nothing but a pawn in whatever game that Shishio's playing."
It was apparent that Dai didn't take to kindly to the title that Hikari gave him as he glared at the girl with absolute distain. "Now you listen to me little girl. I'm nobody's pawn. Shishio may have been the one to help set me free from my hellish prison with those Yin-Yang demons but in no way that I'm going to become someone's lapdog." Dai stopped with his tirade when he noticed the expression on Hikari's face. "What in the hell are you smiling about?"
"Oh, it's nothing. It's nothing at all." Walking away from the chained up vampire, Hikari went over to Serenity, who was slowly recovering from her recent emotional breakdown. "Are you up to staying here and keep watch on him?"
"Yeah, I think so." Though still somewhat shakey Serenity seemed capable of handling the assignment. "Go on, I can manage. He won't get to me again." Understanding what she meant Hikari turned around to head back upstairs but stopped when Serenity called out to her. "Before you go I just want to say thank you. I appreciate what you said." Acknowledging the young woman's words with the nod of the head, Hikari left to rejoin the others.
When she got upstairs she saw that Daisuke was answering the questions that the others had after hearing about the past between him and Shishio but stopped when Hikari reentered the scene. "So, did you happen to get anything useful from our guest?"
"Actually, I did. I believe I got information that'll prove to be very useful." an almost cocky Hikari answered. "Do any of you happen to know anything about Yin-Yang demons? Dai inadvertently blurted it out."
"I think I have heard of them." mentioned James. "Shortly after the demons that were doing their whole protection scam I read numerous books about all sorts of demons. By the way, number of demons in existence is staggering. It still amazes me that there's so many-" James stopped babbling when he noticed the looks that he was getting from the others.
"But getting back to what I was trying to say. As I was going through the books I came across something called Yin-Yang demons. They're two demons considered as one and usually are siblings. Never been known as being that bad, they're really been known as just being mischievous. They usually split things or people into their opposites. Split light and dark, happy and sad or in this case Daisuke's good side and his dark side, namely his human and his demon side."
No one said anything as they allowed what James said to sink in. It wasn't until Ken asked a question did the talking resume. "Are you saying that these Yin-Yang demons did this just for fun?"
"I don't think so. They usually only do their tricks for a day or two. Since it's been over a week since the separation took place it's safe to say that someone is pulling their strings." James stopped as he thought of something. "Now, I'm not certain about this but I believe that there's a ritual that if done correctly it'll allow the person to have control them and make them do whatever they want. Apparently Shishio was able to do the ritual and used them to use their ability to separate the demon from Daisuke's humanity. For what reason, who knows."
"The reason isn't important at the moment." informed Daisuke with determination in his voice. "What matters is can you break the control that's been placed on the demons?"
"Perhaps I could. I'd need to go through the books to find a way to break the ritual. It'll take sometime though. Maybe if I had help it could go faster."
"Fine then, if it quickens the process. Mimi, you and the others will help James in looking for a way to break the ritual. As for me, I'll be out searching for where Shishio could be hiding and deal with him if possible." Heading to the weapons' cabinet Daisuke grabbed a few items. Not giving his friends the chance to argue he headed for the door.
He got about two feet from the door when it literally exploded. Adding to the already confusing moment a couple of smoke bombs were thrown inside. Soon the entire place was covered in a thick smoke that made it impossible to see anything. "Hikari, Ken, where are you guys at?"
A variety of shouts could be heard but where they were coming from exactly was impossible. As Daisuke tried to find the others he heard shouts of surprise followed shortly by what sounded like a body hitting the ground. Becoming worried about the well being of his friends, Daisuke quicken his search for them. "Come on you guys; say something so I can find you."
Stumbling through the smoke Daisuke happen to trip over something which caused him to fall to the ground. Looking to what caused him to fall he saw that it was the prone body of one of his friends, to be more precise, it was Hikari. Placing a hand lightly on her face he let out a sigh of relief when he realized that she was just unconscious. Finally the smoke was starting to fade away and it was then that Daisuke saw what had become of his friends.
Throughout the room were his friends, who like Hikari were unconscious on the ground. The reason behind their current condition was also discovered as there was several men dressed din black and it was obvious that they weren't there for a social call. Daisuke was about to ask what was going on but was struck hard in the back of the head that resulted in him becoming unconscious like the others.
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Sometime Later…
"Damn it, what the hell hit me?" Once regaining consciousness Daisuke and the others tried to figure out what happen. "Within five minutes we get attack and we're taken cared of like we were nothing." recalled Daisuke with embarrassment in his voice. "Let they didn't seem to take anything and none of us appears to be hurt."
"He's right." remarked Mimi. "They had the perfect opportunity to take us out if they wanted to but they didn't. Why would they do all of this and not do anything to us? What could they wanted to do if it didn't involve us?"
Letting a curse, Daisuke hurried to the basement with his confused friends following close behind. "What's up Daisuke?" asked Ken as he hurried after the former vampire. "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I have a hunch on what those people were after." In no time they had reached the basement. "And unfortunately my hunch was correct." There on the basement floor was an unconscious Serenity. However, what worried them more was where Dai was chained up was nothing more than a support beam surrounded by broken pieces of chain. "Something tells me that things just got a whole lot worse for us."
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"We've captured the cargo. It's time to return to base." Speeding through the streets of Kyoto a black van was heading to an undisclosed location. Inside the van were the men dressed in black that attacked Daisuke's place and the cargo that they were talking about was an unconscious Dai. "The sooner we get back to the base the better. I don't want to be this close to this thing than I need to."
"Relax, he isn't going anywhere. He was pumped with so much tranquilizers that it'll keep him out for hours." If to prove what was said to be the truth the guy smacked Dai in the face a few times which got no reaction. "See, he's completely conked out. There's nothing to worry about."
Unfortunately for the man, right after he said those words, Dai's hand came up and gripped the man's neck tightly. "It seems you spoke too soon." With a quick twist of the wrist the man's neck was snapped, resulting in his death. Letting go of the now lifeless man, Dai turned his attention to the other man.
"To be honest, I should be thanking you. If it wasn't for you I may have never gotten freed from my captors." Believing that he was going to be spared the man began to relax. "As thanks I'll give you all a quick death." Changing his face into its vamp form Dai lunged over and sank his teeth into the man's neck. Shortly after doing so the van started to swerve before heading straight for a lamp post.
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"Do you see anything at all?" Right after discovering that Dai had escaped Daisuke hurried into his car so he could go search for his former demon half. He wasn't the only one as Hikari was accompanying him. Also, Serenity was helping as she went searching in a different direction.
"I see nothing, nothing at all." That was the answer that Hikari had been giving for the last half hour. "What are we doing Daisuke? We don't even know if we're searching in the right area."
"I know that Hikari. I'm completely guessing on where they could've taken that bastard demon." Driving through many of Kyoto's streets Daisuke hoped to find some trace of who they were looking for but the search was proving to be a futile one. "If only we had a clue on where they could be." Suddenly Daisuke's cell phone began to ring.
Turning on the phone he started to talk to whoever was on the other line. "This is Daisuke. Were you able to find anything?" Apparently he knew who he was talking to. Even though Hikari couldn't hear what was being said she could tell by the shock expression on Daisuke's face it wasn't all that good. "Would you please repeat that, Serenity?"
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In another part of the city, on the rooftop of a building was Serenity who was relaying over the phone to Daisuke about a particular incident that was happening before her eyes. "On the other side of town from where you are an accident has taken place. From what I can see there are definitely some fatalities." On the other end of the conversation Daisuke asked what that had to do with their current situation.
"I'm getting to that. The accident involves a van with the people matching the ones that attacked us earlier. What's strange is that even though they all died it wasn't because of the crash." Peering down to the scene of the accident Serenity could see the mangled bodies of those who earlier that day ambushed them.
"It seems as though they were killed before and moments after the accident took place. As for the 'guest' that they took with them, he's wasn't with them. Meaning that he got away during the commotion and that's not everything that's unusual about what I'm seeing."
Being sure not to draw any attention, Serenity got closer to the scene. On the side of the van that wasn't smashed up were the words, 'IT'S TIME TO MEET THE FAMILY' written in what she could tell the blood of the people who died in the van.
"What do you think it means Daisuke?" Even though she was on Daisuke's side, it would be quite sometime until she would call him dad. "And please tell me it isn't what I think it means."
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"I'm afraid it does." answered Daisuke who was trying to keep his composure. "Listen very carefully to what I'm going to tell you Serenity. Get to Jun as quick as possible and stay with her until its safe." Apparently getting no argument from Serenity the phone call came to an end.
Parking the car as quickly as possible, Daisuke got out but leaned down to talk with Hikari. "Drive back to my place and help the others get the spell working. Tell them what's happening." Closing the door he started to head out but stopped when Hikari called out to him.
"Where are you going Daisuke? Do you even have a clue on where to start looking?"
"My parents' home is a good place to start." Daisuke answered without turning around. "Dai practically spelled it out. He's going to try and do the most painful thing imaginable to me." When Daisuke looked over his shoulder to Hikari she could see that his eyes held the intensity like they usually did but also a trace of worry. "Dai's going to try and kill my family."
"Oh, my God." muttered Hikari as she was shocked by what she heard. She didn't even stop Daisuke when he ran off. She just got into the driver's seat of the car and drove back to where the others were.
Going as fast as his legs would allow Daisuke hurried to his parents' place. "Let me get there in time. Oh please God let me get there in time." Those thoughts kept going through Daisuke's head as he quickened his pace hoping that he wouldn't be late.
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"I'm coming, hold on." shouted Anzu Motomiya when the knocking at the door continued. Opening the door she became happy when it was revealed that the person on the other side was Daisuke. "Hello son, it's good to see you. May I ask for the reason for this unexpected visit?"
"There's something important that I need to tell you guys. Is dad here?" When he got a yes from his mother he went in. "Good because the both of you should hear this." Seeing the seriousness in her son's eyes, Anzu hurried to get her husband.
Unfortunately for her she didn't see that Daisuke quietly locked the door. It got even worse as Daisuke's face went vamp. "Now I get to have some fun." stated the person that was revealed to be actually Dai.
Isn't that a bitch? I'm not that fond of living a chapter in a cliffhanger but I go ahead and do one with mine. We got to see more of Dai's cruel side with the moment that he and Serenity as well as the back and forther banter that he had with Hikari.
As for the next time I update, like with the last few previous updates I'll most likely have it on within two to three days. That is of course if I don't get tied up with school and other things. Anyways, see ya until next time and go ahead and leave a review if you don't mind.