As the car pulls up, Gokudera throws the car door open and jumping out before the car even stops.
"Where is he Raven?" The silver-haired teen looks around wildly. "We're running out of time!"
Tsuna follows after Gokudera, worried about his right-hand man.
"C-Calm down, Gokudera-kun. We can't just rush in."
Raven steps out of the car, his hand on one of the many knives strapped to his knife belt which rested across his chest.
"Calm yourself Gokudera, he's right over there."
Raven points to the tall man with short brown hair and brown eye leaning against the building, when the man sees Raven he runs over, obviously mad.
"You made my daughter cry Raven."
Gokudera gives Hawk a disbelieving look.
"Look, I don't know you, but this is not the time!" He runs towards the torture house doors but Raven grabs the back of his shirt, holding him in place. "Aydan's life is at stake! We need to go!"
"I agree, but storming the front doors isn't a good idea! I know you want to save her, but it won't mean anything if you're dead Gokudera-kun!"
The worried look that Tsuna gives Gokudera forces the Italian teen to calm down and breath.
"Hawk, the kid's right, you can yell at me later. Right now we need to get the Boss out."
Hawk nods.
"What's the plan?"
"You take Hayato to the first torture floor and search it. Me and the Vongola kid search the second torture floor. If one of us finds Phoenix, signal the other with a text and then we get out."
"And if we don't find her?"
"Same plan just on the living floors."
Gokudera's eyes snap to Raven as he explains the plan.
"No! You idiot! Juudaime doesn't know that it's a torture house!"
His eye's shift to Tsuna to see his reaction and see that the brunette looks…mad.
"…Torture house?" "Okay, this is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for that type of violence." Tsuna thinks as his eyebrows furrow. "Right, let's go."
"Right."
Raven pulls out two knives out of his knife belt and Hawk loads his cross-bow, smiling slightly at Gokudera.
"Wish I could've met you under better circumstances."
Gokudera nods in agreement as Tsuna goes into Hyper Dying Will mode.
"Be careful, everyone."
With that the group breaches the door and Gokudera sees a group of men running towards them
"And so it begins."
"Hawk leads Gokudera down the hallway while Raven and Tsuna make for the stairs, shooting men as they advance. Every single one of his bolts find the marks neck.
"Check the rooms."
As Hawk opens a door Phoenix is thrown out of a door three down, covered in both dry and fresh blood, bruises, and brands. As she hits the wall, the red-haired girl cries out and crumple's to the floor as a man steps out of the room and picks her up by the neck.
"So girly, what do you say now." Phoenix kicks her feet, which are hanging off the ground, and scratches at the man's and. She looks to the side and sees Gokudera and Hawk, her eyes widening as she tries to formulate words. "H-Hay…a…to."
Phoenix goes stiff and there is a sickening squelch as the torture pulls the knife he uses to stab Phoenix in the ribs from her body. The blood bubbles from the girls' mouth as she drowns in her own blood and soon her eyes roll back, her hands dropping to her side. The man holding Phoenix drops her and smirks.
"Oops, I killed her too soon."
Gokudera freezes up at the sight of the bruised and beaten Phoenix, whispering.
"Aydan..." His eyes widen when the man stabs her and when her hands drop he screams. "AYDAN!" The silver-haired teen runs over to Phoenix's side, barely noticing that Hawk shot the torture in the neck, and grabs Phoenix's shoulders. "Babe…babe, it's me…Hayato." He looks down at his girlfriend with eyes filled with sadness before wiping the blood away from her mouth. "Come on, I'm back…" Hayato shakes Phoenix slightly as tears threated to fall from his mint green eyes. "Aydan…"
Hawks runs over and pulls the bolt from the tortures neck, leaving him to bleed out slowly and kneels across from Gokudera. He presses his fingers to the side of Phoenix's neck, looking up with horror covering his face.
"There's no pulse."