CHAPTER 6- RUN AWAY ONLY TO BE KIDNAPPED AGAIN!
Serena's POV.
I opened my eyes and I noticed I was in an unfamiliar room that wasn't my room or my bed. I slowly sat upright on the bed as I looked around confused. When I looked to the right, I saw the man I bumped into in the parking lot of my building, sitting on a chair next to the bed asleep. I looked at him puzzled when suddenly what happened yesterday hits me like I had taken a swim that had clashed down on me like ice cold waters. I sat frozen as I looked at him for another three minutes, then I started to shake like a leaf. I slowly started to go into shock as I tried to grasp everything and tried to make sense of it. The only thing I can think of getting way from this place. I slowly pushed the covers off me and I quietly slid off the bed shivering slightly as my bear feet touched the cold floor. I looked at...what was his name? ...Soryu I think that's what they called him right? He was asleep on the grey accent chair. For a moment I stopped and looked at him, then shook my head as my cheeks start to turn beet read when I realized I was staring at him.
I turned around and just as I was about to open the door, something shinny reflected on the door. I got curious and looked back to see some type of golden key card was on the table near Soryu. I shivered as I thought of the man. I took the key card with me thinking it might come of use to me as I quietly closed the door to the room. I tip toed down the stairs and was met with a huge and I mean HUGE living room. Luckily no one was here so I quickly ran to an elevator, which I saw almost immediately.
As I waited impatiently while looking back countless of times making sure no one followed me at the same time silently praying that the elevator was empty. Luckily it was so I ran in and started pressing the 1st floor button but the elevator wouldn't close! I looked to the side of the buttons and saw one of those things... I can't remember what they're called at the moment. But it's to insert a key card it's to usually open doors for hotel rooms. I look at my left hand which held the golden key card that I was tightly grasping as to not lose it.
And just as I was about to put the key card in, I heard hurried footsteps and I looked up and saw Soryu running down the stairs. I panicked and pushed the key card in and started to push the close door button. Just as the door closed and the elevator started moving downwards, I heard Soryu punch the closed doors, I stated to get scared as I waited for the door to open. When it did I ran into a brown haired man with yellow brown eyes. He wore a three piece suit underneath his black jacket was a light purple long sleeved shirt and a grey stripped vest. He looked down at me in surprise until he got a call. All the while not letting me out of his site, the phone call was short as he looked at me with some amusement still cold eyes.
"...You're a very lucky girl to get away from the 2nd in command of the Ice Dragons, but not lucky enough to get away without being caught." He said with a small smirk as he reached to grab my bandaged arm. Just as he was about to grab me, these women started to crowd around him.
Woman #1: Hey! What are you doing with our Eisuke!?
Woman #2: Just who do you think you are!?
Woman #3: Have you seen yourself in the mirror lately?
Woman #4: Why are you dressed like that huh? Trying to seduce my Eisuke?
Woman #5: YOUR Eisuke his mine!
Woman #2: Oh please, we all know that he loves me!
Women #3: Give a break! Just because he slept with you one night does not mean he loves you.
All the women who were just glaring at me and pulling at my hair and clothing, which was my nightwear!...WAIT WHAT?! OMG I'm in front of so many people in me sleepwear SHIT! That's so embracing! I start to blush as I looked down, when I suddenly I remembered the reason for coming here. I looked up and saw the man Eisuke looking irritated at the women that were blocking his way when he tried to get to me. This is my chance! I went around the group that had Eisuke surrounded, and ran like hell was at my feet.
When I got outside, I realized I didn't know where to go. I stood frozen for a moment not knowing what to do.
"Wait princess!" I looked to my left and saw a guy running toward me in a hurry. He was blood with some brown in his hair. He wore a white dress shirt and some black pants, which were attached to black and white stripped suspenders. Freaked out by being called a princess after being kidnapped and treated like some type of vicious animal that needed to be drugged, I ran like the three headed dogs of Hades was behind me. I ran for what seemed like an hour what was actually about thirty minutes. I felt like my lunges were about to collapses, while my feet burned not only from running bare foot at the same time getting cuts and blisters later on, but from running in the hot heated sun! But neither the less I still ran to Red Rose Cafe, which was the closest to where I was, from what I gathered. I walked up the few stairs with some bloody footsteps trailing, holding onto the railing not being able to breath. Every breath I took hurt so much, every breath was a pain inside my side of my stomach, I don't know if it's the ribs or kidneys or both! I sat at the stairs not being able to do much, but then I realized that I still must have been followed. I grabbed the railings and forced myself to stand up, but before I can do much my boss Mark came running out with a worried and panicked face.
"S-Serena! What happened are you alright!? Of course you're not look at your feet!" I looked down and saw my usual creamy white feet were covered in blood and cuts.
"...Mark...do... you...by...any...ch...ance...have...m..y...key..s..." I asked while still having very hard time breathing, well more like heaving.
"Y-yes I do, I found it last night after you left, it was in front of your car." He said as he examined my feet but not touching it.
"...C..an I...ple..se have...it" I asked as he looked at me like I'm crazy, but didn't question it. He went back into the restaurant and came back two minutes later. I was sitting on the steps not being able to handle standing up so long.
"But before you leave, let me at least bandage your feet." He said firmly as he kneeled down before me and was about add alcohol on my feet. I looked at him like he was crazy.
"NO!...please... just the ...bandages..." I looked at him as I slowly got my breathing in control. He looked back at me in shock before nodding gently and slowly started to wrap the bandages around my feet. Then he helped me up and carried my mostly to my car and sat me in.
"Okay I'm not going to ask Serena...but if something happens just give me a call okay?" I asked me in a concerned tone that I think a father would have as he gave me his number on the back of our cafe restaurant card. "And don't bother showing up for work until those feet of your heal." He gave me a stern look I just nodded at him with a smile as much as I able to due to the pain in my feet and stomach.
"Okay,...and sorry for leaving a mess" I said to Mark apologetically.
"No worries...as long your safe is all that matters" he said with a smile as he waved it off.
"Thank you" I said to him as I started to drive away.
I got to my building in ten minutes, now came the hardest part, going to my apartment. I slowly opened the door of my car, and slowly sled my feet on the ground. Let's just say the pain was excruciating, I had to bite my lip to stop from yelling. For some reason it hurt more now than it did for before. I closed my baby's door and locked it, while I slowly started to walk all the way toward stairs, and then up the stairs. As I slowly started to climb up the stair putting most of my weight on the railing as blood started to soak into the gauze, while I was cursing the owner of the building for not fixing the elevator for a whole two mounts now. Cheap ass bastard.
When I finally made it to the first floor, I wanted to start crying because I had another floor to go. But then someone called my name, I look behind me and see two tugs behind me.
"Miss. Serena Sumiko Howl you need to come with us." One reached forward to grab my injured arm when a familiar hand with a red suit stopped him.
"Now now, let's not be rough with the little lady hmmm." I looked to my right and I see Baba with a smiling face standing next to me. Though in his eyes you can clearly see the irritation and anger, I couldn't help but shiver at the look of his eyes. It was pretty scary combined with that sweet and carefree smile of his.
Thug #2: "Hey pal were here for the girl, if you don't want to get hurt move aside."
Thug #1: "Y-yeah! And let my hand go."
Baba continued smiling pleasantly at them. "I'm sorry but it seems the little lady here doesn't want to go."
Thug #1: "It doesn't matter if she wants to go we got strict orders from the Red Seas to bring her." He said trying to pull out of Baba's grip on him.
"And when did you get these orders?" Baba said as his grin turned smug.
Thug #2: "Like three days ago why?" He said with his eyes narrowing suspiciously.
"Oh nothing, just that there is no more Red Seas and there is no one to inherit it. So, I think you no longer have business with is girl. Unless you and possibly the Red Seas join the Red Eyes Dragons and maybe the Ice Dragons. And of course you'll be treated more fairly there, than you have ever been in the Red Seas." Baba said not, while I could not understand a word he said, but the thugs did and they grew pale as Baba let go of Thug #1.
Slowly thug #2 made a phone call. "What happened to the boss? What is this carp I hear about joining the Ice Dragons and the Red Eyed Dragons?" There was a pause then the man grew stiff as he starred at me in shock. "...Wha... he's dead...I see." He looked at me like he was making a decision. "John... we the formal Red Seas will be joining with the Red Eyed Dragons and the Ice Dragons, I have a feeling we all will like it there better than being with the Red Seas…. Heh you were already planning on it weren't you, alright then." And with that he closed his phone and looked at me, and then he bowed at me in respect. "I.. we are sorry for our behavior...princess of the Red Eyed Dragons, we the formal Red Seas will protect you until and when you are ready to be the boss and queen of the Red Eyed Dragons."
"What!?" I looked at him like he was a lunatic.
"That'll be enough for now, how about you all report to the Ice Dragons Department. Ask for Soryu Oh, he will know what to do." Baba said in an unusual business like tone.
Both thugs nodded and gave one last bow before they left. While I stood in complete shock, eyes wide starring after them with my mouth dropped open like a complete moron. Suddenly two fingers touched the bottom of my chin and closed them, then the room started spinning for a moment and all I saw was the ceiling. It took me a moment to realize I was in Baba's arms.
"Look at your feet, there soaked in blood, poor pretty lady. What did you do to your frail feet when you're already injured as it is?" I just looked at him in bewilderment, not saying anything as he plucked the keys from my clenched fist and opened the door like some pro with me still in his arms, and laid me on my bed. "Where do you keep your first aid kit?" He asked with that terrifying smile stapled on his face. I just numbly pointed at my bathroom, still staring at him like some weirdo, eyes wide open analyzing his every move. He just chuckled and went to inside my bathroom and came back and a minute later and slowly started to unwrap the gauze from my feet. I looked down and sucked in a breath, I didn't think it was that bad. There were some really bad cuts, like about a half of a centimeter deep. That's pretty deep when you think about it, if you don't, grab a ruler. "I am going to have to clean it Serena." Baba said with a sorry face as he looked up at me.
"NO!...No!" I said shaking my head wildly trying to pull my feet from his grip but failed quite miserably if I do say so myself.
"Serena, I'm so sorry but if we don't disinfect it now then it will hurt later on ten times worse." He said to me in a serious but apologetically tone, I looked at him in shock for a moment because it's the first time he used my name. But he didn't use my distraction to rub the alcohol on my feet. When I realized this I slowly nodded my head as I turned to look away, knowing the familiar burning feeling is going to hurt ten times worse. "Okay Serena here we go." He said in a painful tone, like he really didn't want to hurt me but he had to. I slowly nodded my head and soon I felt the cool liquid on my right foot that only lasted a second before the excruciating pain hit. I bit into my arm to keep me from screaming in agony. That was until Baba gave me his pocket handkerchief along with an extra that he had. "Here bite into this." I took it with a grateful but with a tearful glaze. When I bit into it he started to finish my right foot, he started to add some type of cream and then he wrapped my foot with gauze and repeated the process with my left foot. All the while my right hand was digging into the sheets of the bed with my nails and the sheets clenching and clenching my fist, with my left arm over my eyes to stop myself from looking at what he was doing and also to stop from screaming in pain. "There all done!" He said with a sigh as he helped my sit up and slowly took out the handkerchiefs out, knowing I didn't have the strength to.
"Thanks...I am sorry for the handkerchiefs...I'll clean it and give it back soon." I said with a sorry but still pain and thankful tone.
He just laughed it off. "It's okay pretty lady, your pretty stronger than you look you know, not once did you scream...you're a very brave girl." He gave me a small smile, and then he grew serious. "But I want you to keep off of your feet as much as you can okay I'm serious, I don't think neither of us want to do THAT again, it was scary for the both of us." He said while joking around but I knew that I really did not want to experience that again so I just nodded quickly and he chuckled at my reaction. "Okay go ahead and get some sleep and tomorrow morning I'll come in with something to eat." He said with a gentle smile as I just nodded in response, not knowing what else to. It's just so weird having someone take care of me in so long. Then he just left with the spare key I had with me, that I had no idea how he got. I didn't think so much of it as my eyes drifted off to sleep.
~~~~~Time Skip~~~~~
I woke up to sounds near my window, I slowly stood up and realized it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, must have been the cream Baba used rubbed on my cuts before he wrapped it with gauze. I went to my window thinking it might be a bird or something when suddenly a dark figure popped up in front of it I fell back to the ground terrified. That's when I saw the man who called me princess when I ran out of the hotel. I started to panic when he started to wave at me like I'm an old friend of his, which freaked me out more due to all the horror movies I watched. I got up as slowly as I could without adding too much pressure on my feet. I went to grab my keys and put on my fluffy koala bear slippers and opened my door. When I did I saw the man with the silver suit had crossed his arms as he looked down at me with a glare from those stormy gray eyes, as a few strains from his slicked back hair fell on his face making him look even scarier than before.
I tried to close the door, but he blocked my attempt by pushing his way in with his hand. I slowly backed up with each step he took, when I tried to go around him he simply blocked my with his body and rose an eyebrow as if waiting for my next move. When I tried to put some space between us by backing up more, I hit my already injured foot on the corner of the bedpost at the worst area... right in between a cut on my heel. I let out a painful scream as I dropped down and clinched my ankle avoiding touching the cut, as blood started to soak into the gauze. The man before me kneeled and was about to touch my foot, when suddenly we heard a crash. We both looked toward it and saw the man who was leaning against my window fell into the room that we were in.
I quickly used this distraction to bolt, I made it half way to my car before I felt arms ensnare my waist, and lift me up into his shoulder. I started to scream at him to let me go and yelled for help, but before I could, my feet touched the ground and a hand covered my mouth. I bit into his hand hard might I add, but he still refused to let go. I would have stomp on his toe, but that would injure me more than it injure him. It didn't take long for him to drag me into the car, someone opened the back door and I was taken from his arms into another's.
"Well well... looks like we caught you little bird." The man said as he covers my mouth with duct tape. I looked back in shock when I realized his voice sounded familiar. It was the man that almost caught me when I was escaping from that hotel, that man surrounded in women!
"Awww but I thought we called her Alice!" Another voice came from the man beside us. I didn't look to see who it was as I tried to get out of the man's iron grip. He just chuckled and held me closer to his chest as my legs were lifted up the mysterious man's lap. I froze in shock realizing my position, I was sitting sideways on the man's lap, making me look up at him as he glazed down at me with a million dollar smirk. I started to blush as I looked away to see the other man with blond hair holding my feet and legs on his lap. Both men started to laugh at my reaction like it was the funniest thing in the world.
Then the man, who dragged me here, came back after talking to the guy who broke my window. He sat in the driver's seat and turned back to look at me.
"Hey Soryu, can I have her, she's so cute!?" Asked the blond man who looked familiar, Soryu looked at him with a glare as he took out his gun.
"HEY HEY HEY! Calm down geez, you could have just said no you know." The guy said with his hands up in surrender with a panicked face.
Soryu just continued to glare at him as he put the gun back in his jacket and threw my first aid kit at him." Ota bandage her left foot and make sure after adding this cream after rubbing the alcohol on her left heel." He said in a voice that you could not say no to or else...
"Okay okay" Ota said with his still hands up, but one held my first aid kit and the other a white creamy colored container. But this time he held a smirk on his face, I didn't like it. Also soon as his finger touched my left foot I started to struggle again. I screamed into the duct tape which made it into a whining sound. "Hey hey hey! Calm down, I ain't gonna hurt you see." He said raising his hands up "I'm only going to wrap your feet okay?" He asked me looking all panicked.
The man holding me to his chest started to chuckle. "I like this girl, she got away from Soryu twice and she lived, she bit Soryu just now, she got away from me, she doesn't like you Ota, she made you raise your hands and made you look all panicked which only Soryu can do, she's still fighting against us now, and I have a feeling their will be more surprises along the way." He said looking at me in an amused face when I started to get away from him too. I tried to use my palms to push against his chest while he just continued to look at me struggle hopelessly as the smirk on his face slowly grew wider and wider. When I saw that he was enjoying my struggle I stopped and looked at him as my anger grew. Then I started to slap and hit him as much as I could, and he just continued to laugh at my attempts. But when I started to get close to his face he stopped, and grabbed my wrists with a small squeeze making me whine in pain, as I struggled even more than before to get out of his grip. But not before hitting my feet against the door making it bleed more as some healed cuts started to open again.
"Geez Eisuke, get a grip, you can't always get what you want, but that doesn't mean you have to take it out on poor Serena." I looked up to see Baba leaning the car winking at me. I froze looking at him and he just started to chuckle at me. "Ota, I'll take your spot, you sit next to Soryu instead."
"Awwww but it's fun to see Alice struggle against boss *sigh* fine." Ota opened the door and lifted my feet off his lap and went to sit next to Soryu, while Baba sat inside with my feet on his lap and closed the door.
Baba turned toward me with a smile. "I thought we agreed to not injure your feet anymore and for you to rest, *sigh* now we have to do it again." He said looking at my now red gauze feet. I started to whine again as I shook my head. He just looked at me sadly. "I am sorry Serena but I have to, or else it'll hurt even more." He said while starting to bandage my feet, as my sippers were now on the floor of the car, due to my struggling.
"Damn! I didn't think it's that bad, how was she still running barefoot when she left the hotel and from Soryu right now!?" Ota asked shock in his voice clear with a baffled expression. I looked toward Soryu to see him looking at my feet shocked.
I was about to pull about to pull away from Baba when the arms around me tightened. I looked up at Eisuke to see him looking down at me not saying anything. The car was quite until Baba said something that scared me. "Alright Serena...here we go again." He said looking sad to see me start crying as he slowly started to rub the alcohol on my feet. I quickly turned away into Eisuke's chest and started to cry as my nails dug into my palm again. Someone took my hands and started to rub the area my nails bit into my skin, and held my hands with a squeeze, like he was giving me strength.
Inside the car was silent as I cried into Eisuke's shirt and he held me in comfort, but still in a grip I could not get out of, while another guy held my hands as Baba finished with my left foot and started to do my right foot.
"There it's all done sweetheart." Baba said with some happiness in his voice, but I can tell that he really didn't like seeing me cry. I just stayed silent in Eisuke's chest waiting for the pain to end. The man holding my hand was about to let my hands go but I didn't want him to. "Sweetheart you need to let go of Soryu's hands, he needs to drive." Baba said in a calm gentle voice, as if he might break me if he said so otherwise. I slowly let go of Soryu's hands as mine fell limply to the side. I tried to use my hands to push Eisuke's arms away, but Eisuke just took my arms and hands into his grip too, leaving me helpless.
The car then was turned on and it was a quite ride back to what I assume the hotel. When we made it there Soryu came out first and opened Eisukes and my side of the door first. Eisuke got out of the car after adjusting my body to carry me in his arms. Then he handed me to Soryu, I looked up to see him looking at me with a sorry expression as he met my red eyes. I just laid my head on his shoulder exhausted from... everything. I didn't struggle, as he carried me into the hotel and into the elevator along with everyone else. I didn't have the energy to look at anyone, I was so tired. My eyes started to close as the elevator opened and I was laid to a couch.