Chapter 10
Kira and Vlad followed Kyoko inside as if they didn't have a care in the world until they came upon a crying Miyuki sitting on the stairs. Immediately Kira and Vlad thought that the worst possible thing had happened and that neither of them was going to see Danny again.
"What's wrong Miyuki?" Kyoko asked sympathetically as she walked over to her.
She sat down next to her and hugged her which only made Miyuki cry harder.
"He's going to die." Miyuki cried and Kira and Vlad were up the stairs in a heart beat and realized they didn't even know where Danny's room was.
Kyoko glared up at them in a way that said get your asses back down here now, which they did obediently.
"Who's going to die Miyuki? Is it Danny?" Kyoko asked.
"Cain's going to die and then Danny is." Miyuki sobbed.
Kyoko helped Miyuki up and guided her down the hallway with Vlad and Kira close behind the three of them panicking more then ever. Kyoko seemed to know where she was going, but then again Kira suspected that Miyuki was giving her directions to Danny's room or that she already knew where it was located. After a few minutes they were standing outside of a really tall black door that had gold patterns carved and inlaid into it. The markings were similar to the ones that were on Hero's door but Kira noticed that they said something completely different. It was a protection charm as he saw it and was about to ask Kyoko until she said something in another language and the door opened to the command. They stepped inside to see a sleeping Danny that looked perfectly well, but then again some people when they died looked like they would wake up at any moment and realizing that terrified Kira.
"Danny's fine for now." Miyuki sobbed.
Kyoko was able to get the entire story from Miyuki and both Vlad and Kira were frozen in their spots and Kyoko looked dumbfounded. It was quiet now all of them looked at Danny except for Miyuki who seemed distant now then how she had sounded on the phone. Kyoko's mind was racing at the same speed as her heart and she began to fear that the stress would ultimately destroy her. Kira's whole being was shaking in terror, he wanted to know who would be so sly as to sneak poison into anything Danny ate or drank without any of them knowing. Vlad was more in shock to see his lover and knowing that he was probably going to die and it was entirely his fault for fighting with him. The shadows in the room seemed to threaten them with despair and death at any given moment and knew they were powerless against it. Danny woke to the eerie silence looking in shock at the four that were now in the room; Kyoko sat silently staring off into space now, Kira was still shaking in fear, Miyuki was bawling, and Vlad was standing closest to him.
"Vlad!" Danny screamed happily as he hurled his body out of bed and into Vlad faster then any of them had guessed possible.
Vlad was still in shock but hugged Danny close to him.
"I'm back, I'm sorry what I did was wrong and now you're in danger." Vlad said as if all the weight on his shoulders was lifting.
Danny didn't seem to hear because he started chanting over and over again "I love you."
Vlad looked at him guiltily; Kyoko looked upset as well in away as did Kira and Miyuki.
'How could anyone want to hurt someone so innocent and sweet?' They thought simultaneously.
Silence filled the room, none of them wanting to speak nor say anything about the harsh and cold reality stirring about in the dark cover of the night. Their world falling apart at the seams right in front of their eyes and it felt as if there was nothing the could do to stop it.
"Are you guys ok?" Danny asked breaking the silence between everyone in the room that he loved.
"We're fine Danny." Vlad forced himself to choke out.
They thought it better to lie then to tell him, but they didn't know if it was safer or putting the beloved boy in more danger then he already was in.
'There has to be a way to make sure that he doesn't die.' Kyoko said to Miyuki telepathically.
'We're dealing with someone whose like us its near to impossible but…' Miyuki started and then trailed off keeping it strictly a conversation with her and Kyoko through telepathy.
'But we're Fate and Destiny Miyuki there has to be something we can do!' Kyoko yelled.
'You're right but there is only so much we can do Kyoko, we're dealing with Time for Christ's sakes! If there was something I could do too stop both of them from dieing I would have done so already!' Miyuki said before crying again and that got the attention of the other three in the room.
"She's fine Danny just a little stressed." Kyoko said to Danny and then turned to Miyuki. "Out in the hallway now we need to talk."
Miyuki nodded not wanting to make anymore of a scene they left the room quickly.
[Out in the hall]
"Everything can't be hopeless! There has to be something we over looked or missed!" Kyoko hissed trying not to yell.
Neither wanted any of their friends coming into the hall and asking why there was so much commotion.
"Perhaps we should go to the library instead because I know for a fact that this is going to turn into a shouting match." Miyuki replied.
Kyoko sighed before agreeing and both walked down a long dark corridor and opened the huge doors to the library then closed and locked the door so they couldn't be interrupted for anything.
"Thank god this room is sound proof no one can hear us and we can't hear any of them." Kyoko said before sitting down on the couch in the center of the room.
The library was more elaborate then the one in Vlad's castle and much more decorated and with twenty times more books along with three to five more stories to the room.
"That I agree with you upon." Miyuki said.
"Going back to the matter, you don't think we missed or over looked any clues or anything?" Kyoko asked.
"No I don't think we did we found out as much as we could." Miyuki said sounding a lot more pissed off then earlier.
"Then why is Danny going to die? And why from something such as poison? There's just no way for that to happen with so many people here watching over him and helping us. It just doesn't make sense and you know that Miyuki, it's not like he can waltz in here or set a spy lose without getting caught and persecuted." Kyoko replied.
"I don't know, if Cain was here I'd be able to think more clearly see things better but the fact is that he isn't. He's probably dieing as we speak." Miyuki choked out unsure of anything any more.
Immediately Kyoko shot up and practically glided over to her best friend's side.
"You just gave the answer of how Hero's going to be able to pull all of this off." Kyoko said and Miyuki looked at her strangely with her glassy eyes.
"How did I give you the answer?" Miyuki asked sniffing and whipping away tears.
"Hero can't get by the defenses unless you don't realize he's coming and the only way he can do that is to make you think of something else. For instance Cain dieing would cause you not only pain but it would distract you long enough to slip a spy into the coven and do his bidding." Kyoko said as if everything finally fit together.
"How would he be able to do that still? You would know when he was coming before he even set one foot into the coven's grounds." Miyuki replied.
"When me and Kira were at his house he said something that pretty much gave away that he had sent an assassin out to kill Kira, but he didn't know that we were the ones he was talking too." Kyoko said delightedly.
"What are you saying?" Miyuki asked tears falling to the ground.
"I'm saying that he can't get into the coven anymore, his plan failed Miyuki. He never killed Kira and he thinks he'll be able to set lose a spy, you can't think of Cain right now Miyuki you just can't." Kyoko said practically jumping up and down.
"Cain's going to die! How can I not think of that!?" Miyuki shouted before moving away from her friend.
"No he's not Miyuki." Kyoko replied.
This reply made Miyuki whirl around to face her.
"What do you mean?" Miyuki asked suspiciously.
"The assassin he sent to kill them both is no longer in the lands Miyuki he's already been slain by villagers of the eastern villages." Kyoko said.
"So then where is Cain?" Miyuki asked.
"I don't know where he is, but I do know that he's no where near Hero's castle." Kyoko said.
"Why won't he come home then? Why worry me beyond all recognition?" Miyuki asked.
"If I knew exactly why, I would tell you." Kyoko said.
"But you do know you just don't know EXACTLY." Miyuki said.
"If I had a guess I would say because he either got lost or he is on his way back and its just taking a little longer then he intended." Kyoko said as if hinting.
"If you had to pick one of those guesses which would it be?" Miyuki asked curiously.
"I would chose the one where he's on his way back and its just taking him longer then he intended." Kyoko replied.
"So he's on his way back." Miyuki said.
"I didn't say that." Kyoko said putting a finger to her lips and Miyuki smirked.
"Hero's plan backfired because he waited to long to deliver the shot he needed in order to succeed." Miyuki said and Kyoko nodded.
"He waited to long and his own power messed up his plan, but he doesn't know that." Kyoko said.
Both walked out of the library and into Danny's room to find Vlad, Danny and Kira fast asleep. They too began to feel sleepy and realized they had spent to much time talking and that the sun was nearly up now. Soon they found themselves in the trance of dreamless sleep.