Tracking
Present day
Tsuki's silver hair flapped in the wind. Silence reigned around the three teenagers, yet inside their minds they were shouting with all their might. Eventually the pressure became too much and their cries became audible.
"Kazuki!" screamed Tsuki, her voice echoing across the fields.
She watched in despair as the distant speck of the eagle began to fall from the sky, straight into the waiting arms of a band of vicious men in the long grass below. In a flash Tsuki was sprinting off in that direction, heedless of the protesting calls of her comrades who were struggling to keep up with her. Reluctantly, she reduced her speed slowly as she skimmed over the muddy surface of a bog, allowing Kaito and Aya to run up alongside her. Aya closed her bright red eyes momentarily, opening the psychic channel wide open to the others. Instantly all three could hear Kazuki's panicked thoughts as if he was screaming them into their ear
"Stay away!" his mind blared out at them, more cohesive this time, "It's a…"
The voice was obscured by a violent mental shriek which stabbed into their minds like a rusty axe, then it petered out into nothingness.
"Kazuki?" inquired Aya tentatively.
After a moment of silence the three of them slowed to a stop by a patch of elderberry bushes, all drowning in a rising tide of dread. Aya repeated her question several more times, each attempt becoming even more desperate and worried. When only silence greeted her, she looked at the other two with a concerned look on her face.
"He's gone," she whispered after a deliberating pause.
They looked at each other for a while, nobody willing to break the awful silence. Kaito looked down at where his feet would have been. Aya ran her tongue over her teeth anxiously. Tsuki stared out into space with glazed purple eyes. All of a sudden Tsuki screwed her eyes shut in speechless anger. Without a word, she turned and shot towards the long grass. Not stopping to deliberate, Kaito and Aya were at her side like lightning, speeding off in what could have been a rescue mission, or a revenge mission.