Author's Note: Relative died, and of course the content of this fiction was just impossible for me to write without, well I'm sure you can imagine. Still, all is now on its way to being complete and after this I'm hopefully going to upload a happier fiction to keep spirits high. Anyway to those who reviewed Chapter 30, 29 and 28:
Ma. anda- Clean the chimney? Poor Sota, haha. Anyway both James and David will... get what's coming to them in all due time though I have a funny feeling that everyone shall hate me for the outcome. Anyway you'll have to wait amd see what Tala and Kai and whatnot have in store for them. By the way thanks so much for reviewing each of the last chapters.
Amanita Virosa-Amaranthus- - Haha, yes well they should come up with something. Hopefully. I'm just teasing, you'll find out now. Thanks for reviewing!
ShadowBlade7330 - Well there'll be no more updates soon... mainly because the story will be done very soon! Woo, can't wait for this epic to end haha, well later. Thanks very much for reviewing!
isthatnecessary - Yeah, they have a father, but sadly he shall not be entering the story mainly because - oops. Well, thanks for reviewing this chapter!
The people had read that one of the killers were to be married, expecting a child on the way too. There were only two opinions of dear Olivia Kenzy, either she was stupid and didn't notice her evil husband or she was as disgusting as he was. "How could you?" Olivia had gathered her strength when she had requested that the officer let her in to speak to her... to that horrible man.
David wasn't sure if he could handle the woman yelling at him, he knew what he had done and he would pay for it in his afterlife. "You're a monster," Olivia choked back tears as she slowly sat down, a hand protectively held against the bump in her abdomen, "and to think you have we have a child on the way..."
Olivia shook her head, a few tears falling, however the woman quickly dried them away with the back of her hand. "To think I wanted to be married to you." She hissed, why hadn't she seen the signs before? Really, maybe she had been naive - to think this man wouldn't, no, couldn't hurt a fly.
"I'm sorry," David didn't dare look at her, she was stressed and adding to it probably wouldn't be good for the baby. He stared at the table hoping that she would leave soon. He could keep his mouth closed against most people, with the small exception of her.
"Sorry? You think that's going to bring back all those poor children?" Olivia continued to remember the details about the deaths, the horrible ways in which the people had been tortured. How could the man before her think that all he needed was to apologize? That wasn't going to ease the pain for anyone.
"It wasn't my fault..." He frowned at himself, he sounded like a scolded child, what was he becoming? All he could think about was where James was, what he was doing, what he was doing to those other kids. He shouldn't have got involved in the first place.
"Not your fault? It wasn't your fault that you had a dead body in my car?" Olivia wanted to tell David to look at her, to speak to her like he normally would but that was impossible. Not when she knew what he had done, not when she could imagine the same evil smirk which James held on David's face.
"James-" David opened his mouth to answer but Olivia merely slammed her hand on the table. Her sniffing made it clear to David that she was very nearly at breaking into hysterics. He glanced up at her but for a first she wouldn't dare look at him.
"Don't blame everything on him, please don't." Olivia didn't want to hear what had happened, she didn't need to hear David had been tricked into the whole thing by James. It would take all of her pride from her, her husband had no free-will. He liked to please too easily, James had probably preyed on that.
"James needed help – I only helped him drug the guy first time..." The words were coming out of his mouth before he could tell what was happening, he wanted to tell Olivia that this whole situation was just a mistake. "I got in too deep..." James was no doubt grinning to himself when he had driven away. That bastard had done this.
"Don't – don't you dare try to make excuses for yourself!" David winced when he heard the woman begin to cry, he would have stood up and embraced her. Yet his hand was handcuffed to the table, she wouldn't want a kill hug her would she? "You killed those children. You could have stopped at any time – but you didn't, did you?"
"I didn't want you to find out." David muttered, sure he knew that it sounded stupid. Although he knew if he had uttered a word to Olivia at the beginning she wouldn't have accepted the engagement ring and that's all that really matter to him.
"Mighty plan that was," Olivia snapped her voice coming back to her. She didn't believe what he had done, that poor child in the car. Why, how could someone do this to another living being? "Just please," Olivia slowly stood up hoping that she had managed to convince the man she had been in love with to tell the location of the last hideout. "If you know where those other boys could be – tell the police."
David was gazing awkwardly at the floor, he was trying to reason with himself. There was no point in letting James be killed also. Surely it would be best if one of them lived. On the other hand his chest burned with hate: why did he need to take the fall for that sick moron?
"If you have any, any kindness, any decency left in you...Tell them where they are." "Please, David." He closed his eyes, it was the first time anyone had used his first name in around two days, the thought of being labelled a serial killer made him almost sick. His child would be born, and his father would be dead - his father would be a killer in the publics eye. How could he do that to his own child?
Olivia pushed her chair in, she didn't want to see this monster again - this wasn't the same man she was about to marry. He'd been replaced by someone she didn't know nor did she care if he ended up on death row. "He'll be at the port-house." Olivia blinked, "It's a stupid little place, high up..." David never went to that hideout mainly because he hated heights, the idea of falling was unbearable.
"Just tell us the street." The Investigator had opened the door, he had been listening in and he was glad that Olivia had enough courage to speak to the man again. This way at least they could save the kidnapped victims.
"I can't, I don't know it." The Investigator was about to sigh in defeat, apparently all of these questions hadn't helped the fact that Judy, Kai and Tala were now missing and they still had no idea where they were. "I could take you there though." The Investigator frowned, perhaps this was trick - he would be reunited with his brother and turn into the serial killer again.
"You had best not be lying to us," Olivia watched David's face as he was speaking hoping to see an emotion that would explain this nightmare to her. His eyebrow twitched again, he was worried...
For the first time both of them looked at one another, although Olivia didn't dare smile or show tears this time, "He's not. Now please hurry." She pried her eyes away from the small frown on David's face. At least now, he was human again: Olivia couldn't help but cry once more as she noticed the little girl and young man across the hall. Where those the Hiwatari's?
James had fun watching the two teenagers shift uncomfortably as they hadn't a clue what was in store for them. He smirked when he grabbed a small egg-timer, and turned the top of it to five minutes. "When this goes off -" He turned to look at the redhead who was glaring back, fists clenched, "-you're going to get your punishment."
"Which is?" Tala hissed not daring to let the killer feel a moment of power, he had a gun but if he hadn't Tala would have launched himself at the maniac. He was just lucky that he had that damn weapon. There had to be a way to disarm him, there were two of them and of him.
"Boiled alive in oil." Tala frowned, everyone that had died so far: Emily even that Julie girl had died horribly. What was with the weird ways they murdered people? Tala grunted and folded his arms, trying to rid himself of the image of blistering skin.
"Lovely." Tala whispered, he had to admit it, he was scared. James exited the room again, going back to the kitchen. The egg-timer beginning to click the time away. "Kai, we need to get out of here quick." He didn't need to say it, they both knew that time was running out and they needed to escape from the area. Yet how could they do that when James had locked the door and was armed?
"From what it looks like, he's going to kill you very slowly. He's got one tiny pot – I doubt you'll be boiled alive in it." Tala's eyebrow twitched, that wasn't exactly what he wanted to hear, couldn't they talk about how to, say, get the fuck out of here?
Tala frowned as he looked at the floor, if he had a small pot then maybe he would life long enough for help to come. That was if they even knew they were missing. "How much oil does he have?" Kai tilted his head as he tried to look into the kitchen.
"I don't know." Kai sighed, this was bad. He could have stocked the entire cupboards with oil and they wouldn't be able to know. "Well, we need to wake her up first..." He looked down at Judy who appeared to be still alive as her eyes moved under the lids.
"What are you doing?" James had seen the redhead and the depressed boy darted over to the woman. He didn't know they all knew each other but nevertheless they would all be dead together.
Tala tensed once he realised that the timer had stopped, that would mean the oil had boiled, right? "Making sure she's alright." Tala muttered and shook Judy gently hoping that she would at least become conscious then they could try to escape without having any second thoughts.
"Looks like your punishment has come," Kai and Tala watched as the killer walked back into the room, a gun in one hand and a small pot in the other. Steam rose from the pot, a danger of being scolded by it made Tala wonder just how hot that oil was.
Kai and Tala quickly glanced at one another, they needed to stall. "Hey – what about Judy and I, how do you plan to kill us?" Kai blurted out not sure if the madman would even stop for a second to contemplate his question. For a few moments it looked as if Tala was going to be drenched in the burning all but James turned to face Kai.
"I'll make you kill yourself." Kai frowned, he thought that this guy would go into elaborate details, "she's almost dead anyway." he turned back to Tala. Kai couldn't do anything, the gun was pointing at him. "Round one, kid."
A mere twist of the wrist and the boiling contents of the pot landed on Tala's arms and hands as he tried to shield his neck and face."Ah!" He yelled out in pain, instantly trying to throw the zipper off, attempting to stop his skin from being burnt further. Kai went to move but James merely smirked and cocked the gun, "Bastard..." Kai muttered through clenched teeth.
The three of them were silent for a moment until they all heard sirens, a frown appeared on the older man's face. "Don't move." He walked off towards another room, to look out - to hope that those sirens were what he thought they meant. David had finally betrayed him.
Looks like he'd have to skip the torture and kill those three idiots as quickly as possible. If he wanted to get away with it that was. He grunted as a few police cars, and even S.W.A.T appeared from the main road. Looks like the chance to get away with it was long gone...
James grunted, at least that meant he could continue to kill in a slow, and very painful manner. They shouldn't have come here just yet, David shouldn't have betrayed him. Now those kids were going to go through as much pain as humanly possible.
James growled as yet again the police yelled, "Come out with your hands up. You're surrounded!" Like he was really going to listen to them, he had hostages which he would gladly use to get out of this mess.
"Damn it," He punched the wall suddenly filled with rage, his little brother had actually ratted on him. The man was always weak the police must have got the location from him in a few minutes. "He must have sent them here..." He gritted his teeth, he wouldn't be able to get out of here now. He'd have no chance with the amount of police and who-knows what else down there.
Inside the living room, Kai was glancing down the hall every now and then hoping that James wouldn't suddenly use his rage against them all this was the only chance they were going to get after all. Tala was trying to wake Judy up. "Ohh..." Her hand came to her head as she rubbed it gently, her head was killing her.
"Judy?" Tala hissed, as she began to frown as if realising there was something wrong, "Judy? You have to wake up, we have to get out of here." He shook her roughly hoping that the woman would hurry up and wake fully. James was down the hall at the minute and this was about as good as they were going to get in chances to escape.
"Tala?" She frowned at the redhead as if she weren't sure if she were correct but eventually she sat up, and looked around thinking back to how she could have got here.
"Kai?" She frowned when she noticed the beyblader hovering behind Tala. "He has you both?" Tala couldn't help it but he shut the woman up by placing a hand over her mouth and quickly putting a finger over his lips. Maybe she would stop talking now?
"Go out the fire escape, now." Tala muttered and glanced down the hallway, James was still looking out of them window. He sighed as Judy slowly got to her feet. If only they would hurry it up, they might be able to escape without him noticing.
Kai wasn't surprised that the woman almost ended up falling as soon as she stood up, see seemed to have a gash on her head. It wasn't good - Judy muttered a quick sorry as she leaned on Kai however both of the teens helped her over to the window.
His heart was about to burst with the adrenaline pumping through it, all it would take was a loud enough noise to make James turn back around and fire at them. Tala shook his head, he needed to open this window up and quietly.
There was small squeak as Tala lifted the window slowly, Kai was beginning to become paranoid as Tala ordered him to leave first, "You can help Judy out," he hissed as the boy quickly climbed out of the window. The three of them winced physically when the metal of the fire-escape shook generating another creaking noise.
Judy was grateful beyond words when she realised that both Tala and Kai were helping her get out of this terrible situation. She had been rather cruel to Kai at the start of the tournament, at least they were almost out of this terrible situation.
"You think you're going somewhere?" The voice rang through the hall, and the three of them panicked. Kai pulled Judy roughly to the side of the window hoping that Tala would have had enough time to escape.
A gunshot. "Ah!" Tala could feel a burning sensation in his back, he couldn't believe this. He stumbled towards the window and held onto it, hoping he had enough energy to pull himself through the hole in the wall. "Get out of here, morons." He muttered when he saw Kai and Judy at in horror, apparently they too knew what had happened.
Tala refused to let the killer take a shot at Judy or Kai and stood still at the window - at least this way they had a chance. On the other hand Judy was almost fainting again, and Kai ended up having to carrier her down half way - before the police noticed and the paramedics rushed over to them.
"She's the one that needs the help." He pushed Judy to them, hoping that he could speak to the police and have them storm the flat so at least Tala would live. Tala had told him not to play Hero - the damn hypocrite! Kai seethed with sadness, that stupid bastard.
"Tala got shot...You have to get in there." Kai held his side painfully, he'd definitely over done it by climbing out that window and carrying Judy. The investigator frowned, he knew that Tala's life was in grave danger but they couldn't just go inside now.
"He'll no doubt finish Tala out if we rush in." That was if Tala was still alive, the kid had been shot and he was no longer at the window. He'd either fallen to the ground or else James was continuing the torture on the poor boy.
"Can I go in?" The voice made Kai almost jump through his skin, why the hell was a killer here? Why was David here? The Investigator frowned at the request, there would be no way he would let this guy go so easily, it could be all part of their plan.
"I want this to stop," David frowned at the Inspector, he understood everyone's dread at having him here and even could understand the reluctance in forbidding him into the building. Yet he wanted this whole bloodshed to end, he wanted his brother to join him in prison and die just like he would.
"Why should we let you in there? For all we know, you'll just turn on Tala too." To let two sadistic killers into the building wouldn't go down well with anyone if it happened to backfire. On the other hand the Investigator had seen that even when they showed the photographs of the victims he wouldn't look at them, he looked sick. He appeared to have some form of conscience.
"Please, let me go in: I get the boy out, you can wait by the front door if you must." David was desperate to redeem himself, even if saving one life didn't necessary make him a saint, he would at least feel better.
A knock on the door was a surprise for James especially since the yelling voice belonged to none other than the betraying brother, David. "James, let me in." He frowned, there had to be a catch: were there armed police outside there? That would shot him to pieces as soon as he opened the door.
"David? How did you manage to get away from them?" James had no intention of letting his brother inside, not unless he started to make sense. Then again, David was always so naive and forgiving maybe he was still up for killing one last soul?
"I made a crappy deal - they think I'm actually going to do it, idiots, now let me in." James smirked, and opened the door slightly glancing at his brother. From the look of it there was no one else in sight.
"What deal is that exactly?" James opened the door to his little brother and allowed him to step inside. What was he doing up here anyway - if he so much as looked at the height he'd be sobbing like some mere woman.
"Give it up, James." David sighed as he walked down the hall, following his brother, "we've lost." James turned on his heel quickly, which caused David to freeze, he could see the gun in his hand.
"We have not – if only you had kept everyone occupied for a longer time." David nodded, he had thought about yelling at James but right now he needed that boy out of here. He couldn't risk putting him in danger when he was going to deliberately wind him up.
James was aiming the gun towards the boy, and David wouldn't let another child to be hurt by his brother. "Weren't you meant to kill him with oil?" He challenged his pride, maybe now was his chance to get Tala out of here.
His reply was a grunt and James disappeared into the kitchen again, probably filling another pot up with oil. David frowned as he looked at the redheaded boy slouched on the floor."Come on, kid." David didn't think he'd still be alive but a deal was a deal: he had to get this kid out of here.
He could feel himself being lifted up by someone, "Who the hell are you?" Tala mumbled not too sure whether he should make any noise and alert the killer in the kitchen or speak and satisfy his curiosity.
However David heard the boy and as he quickly carried the teenager to the front door he couldn't help but reply with his most honest answer. "A dead man walking." He took the to the door and opened it, a member of S.W.A.T pointing a gun in his face before grabbing hold of the redhead.
Instead of coming back down with them, David slammed the door in his face, he didn't really know what would happen by staying here but he wanted to - he needed to - tell James at what he had done. About how truly disgusting he was.
Of course by the time Tala, Judy and Kai were rushed to hospital, Olivia had demanded to be taken to the scene where David apparently was still inside with an armed James. It was then explained to her that they had been in the building along for the past ten minutes.
"He's still in there..." Olivia turned around to look at the building but suddenly a gunshot was heard. The Investigator ordered the sweep team to find out what had happened – but before he managed to finish the order another, final, gunshot was heard.