Red's POV
The emotions of being alone pierced my little heart, screaming unheard voices that were kept throughout the years of being hidden.
Like an abandoned place, no one seems to want to wander around the thought, what had happened before it was left without a word? What had happened to make such unreasonable reason for it to be left alone in the dark, away from the light? What had happened?
Maybe that was why darkness ruled over me, it never left as they did. It was with me through thick and thin that they never even bothered to do. It was within that caused it to bloom inside me that I can never tell if I can ever lift myself from drowning in it. I can never tell.
Staring at myself in front of my whole-body mirror, I can't help but be astonished as I look fine than usual. From my red hairband down to my red crop top and black tattered shorts. I'm wearing my comfortable black-red converse as I tied up my hair in a high bun.
I look closely at my face and I can't help but sigh. An image of a man that looks like me suddenly appeared in my mind. I can just only smile sadly. It's been years of his absence in my life yet I felt like, it'll happen soon. I can feel it, we'll be meeting soon in an unexpected way. Bearing that little chance and hope in the shattered pieces of my heart, I heaved a sigh.
"What are we doing at your school?" Z asks me while we're walking in the dark corridor. I didn't look at her as I answer.
"What do you think?" I asked back, she seemed not to be affected by how I answered her. Well, maybe she is used to it. For that matter, I don't like it if they questioned every move I make. They can never understand, or I just don't want them to. I have reasons alright, but that reasons seemed to be out of their reach. Out of their grasp.
"D, lead the way," I said to the guy at our back whose silently taking his steps and his eyes cautiously roaming around the place. We're currently taking the route to the back of the Engineering building.
Our steps are calculated and weighed enough for others not to sense our arrival. Doing this for years, we're already used and it's a miracle if someone could hear and sense us.
We took turns and turns around the trees that surround us that seemed like a maze, we finally are right in front of the metal door that Keiko and Ziara entered a while ago.
"Thought it'll take us years to be here, geez!" Z exclaimed as I roll my eyes and kept my silence. I watch D as he takes a step forward and reached a certain block. When he did, the key that we saw is still there. Seems like it is a fine day for us. I can't wait to have some actions in my life again. It's been a while and my body aches for it.
"Let's go in" excitement filled my heart as it beats like crazy. The metal door slowly opens upwards and from the way I observed it a while back, it was like an elevator. We entered and place ourselves on each side of the elevator-like thing.
I settled myself at the right end as Z stand at the left side. D settled himself in the middle. We cautiously sense the surroundings. It was quite like we're not moving down the ground. It must be underground for an organization.
Now that I think of it, A said that she only talk to Keiko in secret once. Remember A? Well, do try to remember her, tsk. Am I getting closer and closer to the truth? Or am I being thrown out away from it? I don't know, let's see.
After a while, it elevator-like thing stopped moving. I almost fell to the ground we're stepping in when the wall behind us suddenly opens. Tsk, what a shocking move, note my sarcasm.
"You two okay?" I heard D asks. I looked at him and nod my head a bit. It's nothing serious.
We stepped out from the elevator thing and looked around us. Nothing shocking but a one-way straight path, not to mention, it's an endless pathway as darkness slowly caught up in our eyes. I couldn't see anything but darkness. It's too dark for my liking but I knew, there's danger waiting for us at the end of it.
"Here, use it" I heard Z say, even though I can't see even a little bit of light, I sensed her beside me. I felt her hands reaching mine as she drops a cloth. Yes, a cloth.
"Use it, I saw that right beside me before that metal elevator-like closes" I just nod my head and held it tight before I blindfolded my eyes. Surprisingly, I can see everything in green. Not that green, it's a shade of black and green that explains one thing. A night vision in the form of a blindfold? Is there such a thing? Well, I am witnessing it with my own two eyes. No doubt it is.
"Let's go" I was out in my trance when I heard his voice. I sigh silently and start to move. While walking ahead, I stared at the wall beside us. It's just a normal wall but I can feel that something is going on. Like, eyes are watching us, waiting to devour us completely.
Now, there is just only one thing that we should do. I concentrate my eyesight in front and didn't mind the eerie feeling I feel every time I look at the wall. I'm certain that whoever owns this place is aware of our arrival. Not that it matters. I, we can fight with our lives. Even death can't touch us, how so with their sinned hands?
"St--" before I can even say stop, I heard a 'swish' sound in the air as I lift my dagger from my holster in my right leg. It seems like a slow-motion that I observed how a bullet kissed its body to the edge sharp of the blade. It made a sound that I can't help but tilt my head when my ears hurt.
"That was close" I whispered. I glanced at Z whose hands are now gripping on her gun with two hands and are aligned with her face looking straight ahead of the oath while her body is facing the wall. D is just standing, hands on his pocket, and had a chill look on his face. I sneered and just calmly held my dagger in my right hand and stared at the door in front of us.
We are caught with what happened that we didn't realize we're already at the end of the hallway, if that what is called this pathway.
We waited for a minute before we heard the door make a screeching sound as it takes a while to open. Upon the opening of the door, there stood in the middle, is a guy that is not familiar to me. A new face, a new identity to research about. Like we aren't gonna do that.
If they are an enemy, we would love to do a background check. If not, then what the hell do they want that they reached the point of Tori's abduction? Now, they do have a lot to explain and clarify things up before hell breaks loose from my tight grip.
"Who are you?" I heard Z's voice then I'm back to the present. The guy in front chuckled which makes me want to raise a brow. He had this look of a badass guy. A messed jet-black hair, a piece of piercing in his left ear, and one in the right part of his nose. A deep jet-black eyes, pointed nose, and a jaw of course. He didn't even match D's cool and handsome looks. Now, where does that come from? Geez, concentrate on the situation, Red!
"You don't have to know, honey" his voice is playful but I don't know if you can name it that way when it is super deep like he's just currently out from his grave.
I felt the man's movement beside me. I reached his hand and slightly shook my head. When I'm sure that he calmed down, I let go of his hand and stared at the git in front. He has this wicked smile etched on his lips as his eyes are mockingly staring straight to-- I followed where he's staring at and my brow raised instantly.
Z and this guy? Do they know each other?
"I see, you're alive" I tilt my head but my eyes remain staring in front. I am just listening. That statement proves my intuition that they do know each other. I glance at D but his brows are already clashing with one another, seemed like he doesn't know this guy and importantly, his twin knows the latter.
"Given the fact that I am here in front of you, yes you could say that" this guy knows how to cut Z's patience huh? How deep is their relationship?
"Zero, that's enough" I can't say enough that I am shocked, but I truly am. Do I hear voices now? Am I only hallucinating? Do I need to have an appointment with a doctor? No, I think I don't need it as I saw the person who owns that voice. That certain voice I couldn't forget since time immemorial.
"Long time no see, MY DAUGHTER"