Broken
...Fifteenth Part: Dark...
I flipped through different channels since our movie had finished, simply out of boredom.
"Dark, go back to that other one!" Emiko said, her worried words coming out in a rushed slur.
Confused, I turned back to the channel that looked to be a newscast.
/'...violent explosion, creating a massive hole at the back of the building. We're not sure yet how many have escaped, or how many even survived...'/
The three of us stared, wide-eyed at the reporter and the scene behind her, deaf to the rest of her speech.
/'Look!'/ someone shouted. The camera refocused, aiming deeper into the smoke. /'It's... Commander Hiwatari! He's made it out safely! But who is that with him...?'/ Through the smog, we could see Daisuke, helping Satoshi walk out of the disaster, couching, choking, and smeared with ash, but otherwise alright.
A microphone was held out to the red-head. /'What's your name?'/ they asked him.
/'Daisuke Niwa'/ he answered. With a smile he looked into the camera. /'Hi, Mom. I'm okay.'/
"That was really reckless, Dai!" Emiko scolded his image, but it was evident from her voice how relieved she was that he wasn't toast.
Firefighters finally arrived on the scene and doused the fire quickly. /'Stay tuned for more updates.'/
"I'm going to go pick up Daisuke and Satoshi," Emiko announced, rushing out of the house.
I noticed then how incredibly tense Krad had become. His eyes were wide with a terror that I hadn't seen in him for at least a month, if not more. I thought it had been gone for good. ...Wishful thinking.
"Krad? What's wrong?"
"Some of them escaped?" he squeaked.
"We don't know that, yet," I reasoned, smoothing his blond hair back, away from his color-drained face. "They could be nothing more than charcoal now, for all we know."
'They', of course, being Hotarou and Amelia Ogata.
"I highly doubt that," Krad quavered. "If they managed to figure out a way to restrict my magic, they definitely got out of there alive."
"They did what?" I asked, perplexed.
"Honestly, Dark," he said, gripping the dark fabric of my shirt in his fist. "Did you think I ever would have left that goddamn place in-tact if I had been able to use my magic?" Krad looked exasperated beneath the layers of fear clouding his eyes.
All those fears were doubled as the news reporter listed off the names of missing individuals, both employee and criminal.
"Don't let them find me...!"