Author's Note: I don't know if people mind me not updating in like months then suddenly updating three chapters. Plus I might be able to add another one later one, seeing as I'm currently working on Chapter 31. Oh well. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Again if you review I will reply!

Chapter 30

It didn't take long for the papers to announce that 'one' killer had finally been caught. However after the visit from such an influential family, most papers said something positive and uplifting about the police.

Although that didn't stop crowds of people demanding to see said killer and start chanting about how he should be put to death. No questions asked. The whole thing was rather stressful for Aton and Sota seeing as they had been the centre of the news. The news being that Kai had disappeared again. Some people still made snide comments about him being one of the killers.

It was convenient for them because he was gone and only one killer had been found. The ideas some people came up with when they were scared were simply unbelievable. However there was something oddly assuring about the police investigation now... as if it were about to end, and come to a screeching halt. It was almost over for everyone. They only needed one more killer and they would be safe again.

David had been asked every question thinkable. Even the investigator who was in charge of the whole thing was becoming rather stuck with David's attitude. "Tell us – we can make a deal." The police officer frowned in David's direction. He'd just got in and already he was interrogating someone. This was one of those Angel Killers as well. In all honesty, he had thought David would have looked different.

More dangerous, crueler - a few scars or something to set him apart from being like everyone else. The fact was, the reason why both killers had managed to evade arrest for so long was because no one 'thought' they looked capable of such a thing. If they had been suspicious then they wouldn't have been serial killers - they would have been caught already. Being so normal made them both blend it...

"I'm not saying anything." David had tried to think about what he had done. He knew he had fallen into his brother's trap: he was probably going to pay the death penalty for this. The public would want him to die in such an inhumane way... being put down like some animal. David didn't want to die, but he also didn't want his brother to die along with him. That would be tragic, in his mind.

Still David couldn't hand over his brother after all: he was still blood, he was still the eldest brother who had been there for him in a sense. Even though James had smashed his self-esteem at such a young age, at least he taught him how to be thick-skinned, at least he had taught him something. Especially when father had been carted off, and then eventually with their mother leaving them... It was a little much.

The officer couldn't handle the blank stares he was receiving, it was as if this guy didn't hold any remorse on what he had done. He didn't even appear to be bothered about being caught. He just sat there, staring at the wall for some unknown contest. What was this guy thinking? Was he even listening to him?

The investigator hadn't seen anything quite like this before, usually a killer would boast about such a thing. Or wouldn't have utter a word, David appeared to be polite and civil whenever he was asked a question. Not exactly the personality he was thinking that a killer would possess. "He's not opening his mouth we've been here a good few hours."

The two law-enforcer nodded to one another before silence smothered them. "I have an idea." The Investigator muttered. He had told those two kids a few hours ago about their brother and the fact that he was missing along with a friend of his. The thought of the other killer - James - being able to catch both of these rather stubborn teenagers did bring a fear to the investigators mind. Perhaps the death penalty could be reserved for that killer first.

"Aton, Sota." He didn't want to let the Hiwatari siblings in to see the killer. No doubt Sota would cry and Aton would launch himself into a fit of rage. "You could try to help us find your brother." Sota jumped off the chair she had been curled up in, her face was slightly red and puffy due to the tears. If Kai was gone then something was terribly wrong. "David-"

"The killer?" Aton grumbled, he hated when people would try to humanise such horrible people, to him they weren't human... They were monsters that should just disappear off the face of the Earth. He would gladly try to get something out of the person who was responsible for so many deaths.

"We need to know where the hideout is, they move around a lot so no doubt it'll be some derelict house or cheaply rented area." Unfortunately there were far too many places that the brother could be.

"What can we do?" Aton stood up, standing next to his little sister hoping that she wouldn't start bawling again. Tears wouldn't help anyone. There was a pause in the Investigators idea. He didn't know if it would work, if it didn't he had no idea if they would be able to find Kai and the other boy, Tala, in time.

"I believe out of the two...killers – David would be more emotionally inclined to giving information if he knew certain things." From listening to the mother of the two boys, David wasn't meant to be the cold calculating one that was James. So perhaps there was still a human side in him, which would help them find where his brother was?

On the other hand he appeared to be incredibly loyal: even while the others insulted his brother, told him about the framing. He didn't utter a word about him. "You want us to try to get information out of him?" Aton frowned and hoped that the Investigator didn't want Sota to go into the room which held the killer of numerous people. "Worth a shot, I guess." Aton sighed and squatted down to speak to Sota on her level.

"Sota, you know that Kai's missing." She nodded numbly, last time Kai had been missing he had ended up hurt very badly. "Well the man in there knows where he is, so would you like to help me get an answer?" Aton sighed when she gave another small nod. So much for being hyperactive on the plane, of course that was before she had found out the disappearance of Kai.

The two Hiwatari siblings were told that they could say pretty much anything they wanted, however seeing as the killer still had human rights. Violence was out of the question. "This is Aton Hiwatari and Sota Hiwatari." David glanced up to see the two of them walking in, the small girl close by her brother's side. "Your brother has kidnapped their brother."

"How sad," David stated, he knew that the police were becoming more frantic in trying to find whoever James had kidnapped now. He found it amusing how he had blindly allowed himself to become a scapegoat for his brother. Sadly enough, he wouldn't get out of this alive either way: why not try to help his brother?

"Where's Kai?" Aton hissed as he sat down and gave David a glare, his hands were balled into fists. He had to stay calm. No matter what he couldn't hit this guy - no matter how much he wanted to.

"I don't know. I'm not my brother." David shrugged. He hoped that possibly Olivia would come to visit him, to at least acknowledge that he was alive and that the few years of their relationship hadn't been a complete waste. He would be dead in a few days.

"Aren't you?" Aton wasn't sure that he wanted Sota to be in the room, he wanted to shout such horrible things at this 'thing' and yet he couldn't because she sat innocently beside him. Her chin on the worktop of the table, she was just gazing at the man in front of her. "Just tell the police where your damn hiding place is,"

There was a pause of silence until Sota muttered a few things to herself, "He looks the same..." Aton frowned, who looked like whom? The little girl grabbed on her brother's shirt and pointed to David. "Look-" The action had caused David to become somewhat more aware of the little girl who seemed to be even more upset than before she had came in, "he has the same eyes as Kai when mother left us."

David blinked, what was this little girl talking about? "Did your mother leave you too?" She kept asking. She knew that this man knew where her brother was: she just didn't understand that the reason Kai was gone was because of this person. "Is that why you're sad?"

David frowned slightly at that. He had been told years ago, for years, that his mother was dead. Only recently did he find that was all a lie, another cover up from James. The only thing that troubled David was the reason behind it... there didn't seem to be any logical explanation.

Sota and Aton tried to question David as much as the could, Sota usually pointing out peculiar things that didn't exactly help, and Aton soon became too angry to speak. The plan had failed. The Investigator hadn't believed that the kids would have as much of an impact... "I want to talk to David." He was jerked out of his thoughts when he noticed that it was none other than Ms Kenzie that was speaking to him.

"I want to talk to him, I've given a statement. Now let me speak with him." Her voice sounded strained: she had spent a good few hours crying over the idea that David had murdered children - and had been living with her.

"Alright, but – we are in need of some information. Perhaps you can get it for us," She didn't care what she needed to do to have the chat with her 'to-be husband'. Still, Olivia couldn't help be feel terrified at the thought of seeing David again. Maybe his kindness was an act? If she went in there would he become a violent and horrible person?

The whole thing was a nightmare, Tala and Kai had ended up sleep deprived as they continued, aimlessly to escape the car. "If you don't let us out-" Kai yelled but was suddenly interrupted and the blader fell silent as it caused a somewhat odd atmosphere between the two kidnapped bladers.

"You'll what? Want stabbed again?" James mocked, all he did was need to kill these two morons and the woman in the trunk. That would be it over, his father's work would be done. Those bitbeasts wouldn't have any owners - those bitbeasts were the cause of all those problems years ago.

Tala glanced at Kai when he had heard the reply of the killer. He couldn't help but send a rather puzzled look his way: did Kai really demand to be stabbed? Surely not? He wouldn't have been so desperate, the redhead refused to believe that he would do such a thing.

The car halted and the killer got out, pistol in hand.

The passengers door was opened and at gun point the two boys slowly came out of the car. "Get out and open the trunk." James hissed and slowly moved round to the back of the car. Tala and Kai glanced at one another, they were too far away from him to try to attack him... He could shot them both here if he wanted.

The trunk opened after a low clicking noise, "Ms Tate?" Kai blinked when he saw the unconscious woman. James was going to try to kill all three of them? Then again where was the other one? Didn't they work in pairs?

"Carry her inside. Don't try any stunts." James waited until the woman was carefully taken out of the car by the two teenagers. He didn't mind that they were being as slow as possible: David was probably still being interrogated and by the time the sap actually said anything useful - he'd be long gone.

Tala put Judy down gently on the floor - seeing as there wasn't much else - and tried to see Kai wincing in pain and holding his side. Must have ripped a stitch or two, and that was not good news. "Shit." Tala hissed he kept an eye on the killer, at the moment he was locking the door. "What are we going to do?" He turned to look at Kai who was still holing onto his side.

"Hope that someone finds out where we are?" Kai shook his head, right now things did not look good. No one would really know where they were and not only that but James was probably the more dangerous of the two. Seeing as Kai had experienced first hand how much damage he could cause.

"Even then it'll take a while till they get here." Tala sighed and slowly he started to believe that this was the end. It wasn't as if he was giving up but logically there as no way out of here. Especially since that serial killer was holding a gun and had locked the door. "You think we'll die here." Kai blinked at the question.

It was a little too close to home, "I don't know...but it's not looking good for us." Both of the bladers knew that they needed to do something, even if it meant waking Judy and letting her escape to go find help.

James entered the room and made Tala stand the closest to the kitchen door, meanwhile he made sure that Kai was the furthest away from Judy. Judy was still completely out of it - Kai had a brief fear that she was already dead and that Max had lost his own mother. He was relieved when he noticed she was still breathing.

Shallow, and slow breaths, but breathing nonetheless.

James disappeared into the kitchen, "Stay where you are: or I'll shoot you when I come back." Kai and Tala glanced at one another, there had to be a way out of here. Not many people would have believe it, but from where Kai was standing - he could see James fill a pot with olive oil. That was weird... was this a punishment for one of them? It wouldn't be surprising, considering what the others had had done to their bodies.

Tala glanced behind him, he was near a small window - and there it was. A small glimmer of hope, shaped in the manner of a fire-escape. Or in this case it would be an escape route away from a serial killer.

"Pst," Tala made the slightest noise hoping to gain Kai's attention, not as if he was doing much but standing and watching James fill even more pots up with oil. Kai frowned when Tala mimed something and motioned towards the window.

The killer came back to the room and glanced at the woman on the floor. He snorted, "After I get rid of you three, my father's work will be completed." Kai frowned, he thought these guys were doing this because they thought God told them to? Or was that all a cover for a more sinister ploy?

"Work? To kill as many innocent people as possible?" Tala spat, hoping that the killer would continue the conversation. It bought them time and time was definitely a factor which they needed most.

"No of course not, to destroy as many bitbeasts as possible is what I plan." Kai frowned: he looked down at Judy. Judy didn't have any bitbeasts - well not of any that he knew of... unless she had Draciel with her? Which was highly doubtful. The entire thing was confusing, surely if he wanted to destroy bitbeasts he would just steal them and then destroy them... Not massacre people.

"Bitbeasts can't be destroyed." Kai snapped at James, who didn't to take the gesture all too seriously. He was holding the gun in this situation after all. Though the two boys had done something that had always been a highly annoying to James, and that was to doubt him.

"Rubbish of course they can." He had seen it on television, how some of those bladers bitbeasts would just disappear. They wouldn't come back either, not the ones James had seen.

They get reborn. Whether they appear again after a few days or if they end up on the other side of the world." Kai hissed, he should know: Dranzer had sacrificed itself so he wouldn't die after the tournament a few years ago. Even Rei had managed to get Drigger back after a battle.

"He's right, you can't destroy a bitbeast... Even if a bitbeast absorbs the other you can always get them back." Most bitbeasts wouldn't absorb the others. It wasn't meant to happen, which was probably why so many bladers had been driven insane when wielding a bitbeast that had absorbed too many.

Kai would know: he had to try to control Black Dranzer after all.

"Do not mock my father's work." James hissed and hoped that the oil would boil soon. He disliked talking to children, he disliked the fact that they sounded as if they knew what they were talking about. James was not about to be proved wrong when the end of this was so close.

Author's Note: This was actually a little different from what I had in mind, in fact after leaving the story for a few months my ending seems to have completely changed. Not as if that's a bad thing... I think. Anyway I am trying to get this whole thing over and done with... Hopefully I still have readers... O.o Seeing as its been a while since I've update!