Author's Note: Yeah…it's been quite a long time… Like two months. I'm quite shocked. I barely have any time to do stories anymore. I have lots and lots of stuff to do for school and if my own PC still broke well... I have no idea when I can post again. (Hopefully within a few weeks...and not two months...) I'm on holidays at the moment only a few more days left and I have quite a lot of homework. Anyway thank you to those people that reviewed and hopefully will still read this even though it was kind of on hiatus. I am incredibly sorry for the long wait. I would like to say a special thanks to;
Blade - :( Oh dear, hopefully you won't tell your cousin -hides under bed- but anyway, I am actually debating on whether I should kill Rei or not. Hmm... Oh well thanks for reviewing and sorry for the long wait for my update. (Woo that rhymes!)
Ma.anda - I've not to kill Rei. Okay... and I can't kill everyone...awww. I'd love to go to Rome, but I'm poor and well I doubt I'll ever leave the UK because I'm a hermit...basically heh heh, thanks for reviewing! Hope you enjoy this chapter! (Sorry it took me so long to type.)
kavbj - Sorry, for, em, taking so long. Heh heh. Don't throw anything heavy or sharp now... Heh hehe. Yes he's creepy and weird which makes him a great serial killer. I'm sure you'll be really happy with this chapter if you really need to know what Kai knows...Cause you find out! Well half anyway. The other parts you need to figure out yourself! Whahaha--thanks for reviewing!
Meifa - You hope the killer doesn't show up? I suggest you don't read this chapter then. -grins- And your English is fine, if I can read my brothers writing (which is the messiest writing in the world full stop) then I can understand your review very easily. Anyway, thanks for reviewing, and well waiting so long for it to be posted.
glitteredvixen06 - Hopefully your alerts worked this time. I mean who knows the site could have crashed because -gasp- I updated. Not quite but I am really sorry for the wait. Then again I'm sure everyone was busy with Christmas. That is if you celebrate it. Rei or Kai? I've not to kill them, what if I do? No, no -- no review is a waste of time! Well thanks for reviewing! Enjoy!
isthatnecessary - He should have run, but neh, the BladeBreakers just have to be hero's. I hate the blade sharks they were really mean. (Minus Kai of course) I actually like Ian. I don't know why, maybe it's because he reminds me of me (very very very small.) You're not being shallow... of course not. :P Anyway hope you enjoy this chapter even though there was a LONG LONG wait for it. Sorry.
Irn2 - You're confused? Well hopefully you won't be by the end, but I like confusing people that's why I kind of like writing mystery! Confusion is my middle name. Anyway thanks for reviewing and I hope you can forgive me for the long wait.
Chapter 14
Kai hadn't been outside in what felt like years, his headache had vanished as the cold air seemed to surround his whole body – another reason why he usually went for walks when he was annoyed. Thoughts usually just disappeared if he went of for an hour or so, then again that was why he had suddenly stopped. He did not want to forget anything that he had learned or found out.
"So what…is it you wanted to show me?" Lilita jogged to catch up with the taller teenager and began to wonder if it really was a good idea to go for a walk so late. The sky was completely black and the only light came from street-lamps and even they weren't much comfort as some of them were broke.
Kai decided that if he were to tell someone then they would end up hating him, for not speaking to the police… Then again if he were to suddenly turn up and state that he knew who was next, it would look suspicious since he was supposedly the last to see Emily. "The killer…he's not randomly killing people." The sudden topic caused Lilita to think about what he meant: so there was a pattern? So then Kai knew this pattern? Why didn't he just tell the police or did he want another opinion?
"How do you know?" Lilita frowned a little worried about the direction of this conversation was going in but at least now he was talking and not accusing her of things. Again, Kai did not give the girl a straight answer as he began to think about how he could tell her... Then again he could just say he was making it all up and tell her to go back and he could just continue to feel incredibly guilty - especially if one of them got killed.
There was silence in the street, as everyone else had gone to the so-called party. Kai paid no heed to Lilita when she tried asking yet again about what he knew. There was something troubling her - maybe she knew about it as well? Kai doubted that as she probably would have told everyone, or maybe went to the police. Kai's mind argued with itself and only made the headache he had been rid of come back. Again.
The entire journey only consisted of Kai starting off a sentence then trailing off as if he had decided against saying anything, and then it would be Lilita's turn to suddenly ask a question, only to be ignored. The noise from the street-party was the only thing that made the entire thing bearable, there were fireworks which ended up somehow overhead: giving the teenagers something to look t besides the ground and one another.
About twenty minutes it took the two teenagers to get to where Kai had wished to go - he had taken them both to the park and monument which stood, with the crimson graffiti of blood, in the centre. "I don't really know why he's doing it: I know who's involved though..." Kai muttered, his pace slowed to a halt as he stood in front of the stone which had the blood still smeared on it. The smell made Lilita and Kai grimace, "So...who is it? How do you know for sure?" Lilita watched as Kai simply stared at the letters and names.
"Point." Kai said leaving Lilita slightly perplexed at what Kai was doing, but trusted him nonetheless and pointed. She watched as he moved her arm to the very bottom of the list and started calling out letters - moving her hand back and forth between the first name, middle name, and surname. Lilita's eyes widened as she realised what the last name 'Leroy Ki Yom' spelt out.
"Oh my god..." Lilita watched yet again, as Kai moved her hand to the next name, 'Hill Tai Tesia' slowly Kai started to point to each letter. However he simply stopped when he had only finished half way through the name as he saw Lilita freeze and before she knew it she was crying. "Who else?" Kai looked away, knowing that he could have simply kept his mouth shut about the second last one, but if he had suddenly missed it out and down the rest it would have looked suspicious anyway.
"Tyson...Selene...Me...and a few others you haven't met." He looked up at the red letters, they had puzzled him when he had seen them. It was obvious that they were not really names but what else could they have been? So Kai had decided to simply stay up on night and work it out - only rearranging the top. When he found it to be none other than Tyson he simply couldn't believe it and stopped trying to figure out the others. Then when Emily had been killed he felt worse because - well he could have made sure that she wouldn't go anywhere alone. As long as he had finished the anagrams.
Looking back at Lilita didn't really help, since she seemed pretty upset. Who wouldn't be? "Lita, I didn't mean to make you cry. I just thought it would--." Kai was surprised to find Lilita wiping her tears away quickly and smiling at him. "--Thank you, Kai. Really, but I think we should go to the police. So we can warn the others about this." Kai nodded, he didn't want to go to the police since they had never really been fond of his family and with the fake policeman that had helped his father try to kill him. Well there wasn't much trust.
"Tomorrow?" Kai didn't really feel up to doing anything else. He felt like a villain himself, he'd just told someone that they could die. How nice was he? Sighing Lilita nodded, knowing that she probably would break down if they went right now. Still the shock of seeing her name wrote in blood did not help her nerves and the walk home was silent except from the occasional sniff coming from Lilita.
The dojo was in sight and Lilita stopped, maybe she should just get a cab and quickly get back to her hotel. At least there would be adults around to stop anyone from killing her. She was numb from the thought of someone wanting to kill her. She wasn't that naive to think that the world loved her: sure she knew people that hated her, and wanted to do her harm but actually kill her. It was a horrible feeling: it was as if someone had flipped a switch and she could no longer stand silence or the darkness or the very thought of others being near her in case they were they ones that wished to hurt her. Was this what Kai felt? "I'm going to go back to-."
"I just told you someone wants to kill you and you're leaving yourself? You're staying here. Don't be so stupid." The interruption was not taken as an insult, but in fact Lilita felt better as she did not need to go outside until morning. She just hoped the others would get back soon so she could stop worrying. What if something had happened to them? Sighing she smiled again, one which showed how weary and tired she was, and Kai simply nodded and went inside the dojo.
There was a faint ringing sound, and Kai wondered what the hell it was for a moment: until he remembered that the others were gone and this was probably just to make sure there was nothing wrong at this end. "Hello? What is it?" Kai sounded bored but when he heard a stifled cry, he went to find Lilita just in case she wanted to talk to the other girl.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean for him to get hurt!" Kai blinked so someone had been hurt? Tyson maybe? Then again he remembered that Tyson would have been surrounded by people, he wasn't the type to go off into darkened alleyways and try to look for trouble, so who could it have been? "Rei's in hospital. That stupid Angel attacked me...again."
Kai frowned - Rei was hurt? Why did he get hurt - he wasn't on the list? "What happened?" Kai asked bluntly not caring if Selene felt guilty, he wanted to know what hospital he was in. By personal experience, he didn't trust hospitals and wanted to be at least there to make sure no 'cleaner' or random nurse came in to give Rei some needed drugs. Lilita placed the phone on loud-speaker so she also could hear, she knew that something really bad had had to have happened to make Selene sound so devastated. "He attacked me - and Rei ended up getting stabbed - in the shoulder - I didn't think - then we ran. But then Rei ended up unconscious - so I phoned here... His blood was everywhere..." Then there was a half-whimper half-cry which escaped Selene. She didn't sound very stable but how could Kai complain about that?
"Which hospital are you in?" Lilita called out hoping that Selene would hear her. There was a silence in the room - Kai and Lilita stayed still so they wouldn't miss anything that Selene said. Meanwhile Selene was just trying to pull herself together.
"The usual one." In other words the same one where Kai had been on more than several occasions and that was just counting last year. Not to mention the place where his mother died, and where his father killed her. Kai nodded and ended up yelling out, harsher than he had intended, "Fine, we'll be there soon." The line went dead a few moments later.
Kai shook his head, and hung up hoping that Selene wouldn't leave the hospital to try to calm herself down. He should have told her to stay in the hospital... but there was no point in phoning her back: she'd probably be using a phone box inside the hospital. 'I wonder how she got this number?' Rei had his phone with him, or maybe she had managed to find the others and they had given her the phone number - why on earth was he thinking about how someone got a phone number when a friend was hurt. He scoffed and hoped that they would be able to get to there quickly.
"Don't you have a key to lock the door?" Lilita wondered if the house would be okay if everyone was out - but Tyson and the others could still be unaware of what happened and Lilita ended up scribbling down a piece of paper, "Hospital - Rei hurt - Call Selene..." and then rethought the note, Selene wouldn't be able to take another phone call and scrubbed out Selene and put her own name down.
"Hurry up." Kai was gone before Lilita put her shoes back on and ended up chasing after Kai, a little worried about being left alone on such a dark evening. Kai wasn't sure if he should just run there (but he doubted that Lilita would be able to keep up with him) or take some public transport - but the buses were off because of the party so that left a taxi. He wondered if it would be possible to get into one which would let him pay with plastic...
"I have money - so come on." She and Kai quickly went to the taxing bay - there wasn't that maybe taxi's left as many people had used them to get to the 'next party' as it were. Lilita sighed and wondered if their would be a taxi left as she spotted a large group of people walking down to where they were. "Great..." She rolled her eyes and watched as every last one of the taxi's were filled. This was certainly not their night.
"Hello, you need to go somewhere?" Kai narrowed his eyes as he looked at the taxi, it was licensed and the guy didn't seem to creepy, plus he surely wouldn't do anything too weird if there were two people he was transporting.
"Fine, we need to the General Hospital in Central." The man smiled kindly and Lilita and Kai got in, exchanged looks which could only mean that they were both a little uncomfortable with the thought of taking a taxi. Damn buses.
"So, why are you both going to hospital? You both look find to me." The driver asked, and Lilita left out a nervous sigh hoping that this guy was normal and not some psycho that had decided to kill them both. Kai on the other hand was sure that they were fine: he didn't sound like the person that had wrote those messages, his accent was strange though...
"Our friends been hurt." Lilita spoke up, looking back out of the window hoping that this car-ride would be over quickly she had never wanted to get out of a vehicle so much in her life but she reassured herself that she was being a little paranoid. This guy would not take on two teenagers which could inflict some serious damage - that was if he didn't have some form of weapon.
"Oh, the poor boy, I'm sure he did not mean to sin." Kai and Lilita glanced at one another, they thought that this was slightly weird, no one that they knew would call someone being hurt a sin. Yes the person who hurt them had committed one, but the sin would not be on Rei it would be on the other. The driver however slowed down, and Kai physically tensed, "Speaking of sins..."
"Where are they?" Selene muttered under her breath, and looked at the clock. It was getting really late, past midnight in fact. Selene was standing at the desk of the ward. Rei had been given a blood transfusion and she had left to get herself something to drink, the only problem was that she didn't want to go into the ward as other people had arrived. A girl with pink hair whom she vaguely remembered from a year ago, when she had been told to deliver a message to Kai about the sins. The girl had been clinging onto Rei as if her life depended on it. Another, cat-like teenager had come in: resembled a lion of some sort.
The thought of him waking up and her not being there to say thank you was a little ungrateful, well that's what she thought. So she decided to walk to over at least to the window which was near Rei anyway, however she was stopped. Mariah had jumped to her feet, knowing that this girl had been the cause of Rei being hurt. "You! You have some nerve coming here!" She spoke boldly believing that the more people that heard the better. Selene stood there with her arms folded and watched as Mariah exploded.
"If he hadn't been with you he wouldn't been here! He wouldn't need to get blood!" Selene swallowed quickly and tried to avoid eye contact from the other girl, she knew that what she said was true. "He would be happy and able to walk! He wouldn't be like this!" She ended up breaking down, and Selene had to bite the inside of her lower lip to stop herself from breaking down. She still had to go change since her hands and shirt were covered in blood.
"Hey, hey! Mariah calm down." Lee, the older sibling, tried to pull some distance between the his sister and this other girl. He knew that if the person who had been with him was still at hospital that they would have got an earful but then again it was nice to know that Rei hadn't been abandoned.
Her mobile vibrated inside her pocket and she gave a quickly glance to Lee, Mariah and the still unconscious Rei. "Excuse me." She muttered as she left the ward and stood out in the corridors hoping to be as brief as possible so she could go to the bathroom and sulk. "Tyson? How did you get this number?" She frowned when she heard his reasoning, supposedly Kai had her number, and had left his phone. Apparently they couldn't get hold of Lilita - whom had told them to call her to find out what had happened to Rei.
"They should be coming to the hospital - they should be here by now. Just come - it's the usual hospital." She ended the call and couldn't help but start to worry about Kai and Lilita, where were they?
Author's Note: So, I gave you a few names, it will become clear who exactly is being targeted and if you can't wait for an update just solve the anagrams and you'll be ahead of the game! I know that I don't really deserve reviews since it took me so darn long to update, but feedback would be appreciated!
