Heero tried turning the doorknob first to see if it was locked or not, surprisingly it
turned smoothly and opened a crack. He took in a long, relaxing breath and whispered,
"Ready?" Once Heero received a nod from the blonde boy standing right behind
him, he proceeded to enter the mansion. They found it to be very creepy and the only light
provided was the candles on the sides of the walls. The classical music was louder now and
Heero took notice that there was not a person in sight accept for Quatre and himself. They
both had their weapons drawn and ready to fire if necessary. Quatre almost jumped when he
heard a very painful scream coming from downstairs. Heero and Quatre gave each other quick
glances and ran downstairs as fast as their feet could take them.
As they took a flight of stairs, the horrible screaming kept on…'that man must be torturing a woman to make her scream with such agony like that' Heero thought. They both practically jumped off the last few steps and raced to the door where the screaming was right behind. They tried several times to break the door down. Quatre mostly shoved his body against the door, while Heero relied on kicking and punching. After all the hard attempts they both made, the door was hardly even dented anywhere. The screaming was driving Heero crazy with anger; he took out his gun and fired at the handle. Unfortunately, the handle was made out of pure iron, along with the rest of the door, so it was helpless. Heero tried kicking once more in desperation, and as he did that Quatre heard the lady's screaming start to fade out and eventually turned into quiet whimpers.
Quatre slumped back against a wall, "What are we going to do now?" Heero decided not to answer Quatre question because he wasn't really sure himself, instead he just wondered down the hallway that consisted of many identical wooden doors. He chose a random door and tugged the knob, at first it wouldn't turn because it was aged and very rusty, but after a hard jolt to the side it finally opened. Heero congratulated himself silently as he peered in. Inside, he saw nothing but a long, carpeted hallway leading to who knows where. Heero wanted to find Duo so badly, he'd take any chance.
"Quatre, I'm going to see where this hallway leads!" Quatre saw that Heero was going to go anyway with or without him, so he decided to let him go off alone. "Alright…Heero be careful!" Quatre watched the perfect soldier leave his sight as he passed through the doorway. "Hmm…I hope he has SOME luck."
Quatre leaned against the iron door, not sure what to do at the moment. Just as he closed his eyes to think, his keen hearing was able to detect a slight click of the lock on the other side. Quatre immediately snapped his eyes open.
Quatre turned around and aimed his gun with shaking hands at the iron door. He stood like that for several minutes, then finally cursed himself for being so paranoid as he tried the handle again. Only this time it turned completely, Quatre gave a quick prayer to Allah for the sudden luck and kicked the iron door open with all his might. As Quatre entered he almost retched when the almost unbearable metallic smell of blood filled his nostrils.
"Hello?" Quatre gave a shaky call hoping the woman who had been screaming earlier would answer him. Silence filled the room for a long time, which made Quatre frown deeply. The room was pitch black because no candles were lit, so he had to lift his hands up blindly in front of him to help prevent himself from any injury. He wandered around the room like this and suddenly stumbled on something hard. He fell sideways and landed on his arm with a loud thump…fortunately nothing broke. He ignored the pain and did his best to stand, he realized his gun was no longer in his hands "Oh great, where did it go???" Quatre searched frantically for his gun. His heart sped up every second he felt around, and only received smooth, tiled floor. He tried reaching out once more and felt incredibly relieved when he skimmed something that seemed like his gun. He tried to grab it, but the more he touched it…the warmer and softer it felt. "It's a shoe!' Quatre nearly shrieked as the belonger to that shoe stepped on his hand with his other foot. The person doing this obviously wanted to inflict pain on him as he pushed down nearly crushing his poor hand, but it was nothing compared to what happened next.
The man kicked him squarely in the face, breaking his jaw in the process. Quatre was thrown back by the impact and nearly blacked out at the sudden rush of pain the kick caused. Quatre was barely able to remain conscious, he tried to stand but the blow to his jaw made him so unsuitable to fight, so he slumped back in defeat. The man saw this and crawled on top of him and whispered "Awww…look at you, all beaten up by an old-timer." Quatre winced at the man's sinister laughter. As he did this, the man grabbed a handful of Quatre's hair and pulled him real close. Quatre knew he was in deep trouble and tried his best to scream but having a broken jaw only let whimpers escape his mouth. "You're mine…." That's the last thing Quatre heard before darkness enveloped him.
Trowa arrived home to see Wufei in a chair with his head bobbed to the side…sleeping. He also noticed a cup of tea on the table that was half drunken. He didn't blame him, this entire episode exhausted him too and he had something do to, Wufei just sat around waiting for Duo or anyone else to show up. Trowa lifted him up and went upstairs and placed him in his bed with great care. "Night Wufei…" Trowa decided to do what he was doing earlier…wait. Although this time he's going to try his best to stay awake.
Heero had been walking in and out of various rooms. The first one turned out to be a fine art room, and the last one he inspected was some sort of sick, sex toy room. It had been full of various things and most of them Heero never seen. Seeing all those made Heero not want to venture into another room. Who knows what he would find. He realized he had been gone for a while without communicating with Quatre so he decided to head back to that stubborn iron door.
He made his way back rather quickly considering how many hallways and doors we wandered through. As he came to a stop he didn't see the blonde boy in sight. "Quatre?" He received no answer. "Hn." Heero sighed and had no clue where that boy had gone off to. He stood there, looking around and noticed a creak in the door. Heero figured Quatre to be in there since there would hardly be any other logical explanation. He tried pushing the door with barely any effort but found the iron door to be extremely heavy. He had to put some work into his pushes to get it open all the way. As he entered, he almost vomited. There in the middle of the cell, chained to a bed…was a woman. She must have been the one screaming earlier, he took note that she obviously was tortured severely, seeing some of her fingers and toes were cut off.
Quatre woke to Duo's voice, "Hey Quatre! Finally you came to!" Duo gave Quatre a generous bear hug showing how much he missed him. Quatre then tried to speak but choked and whimpered instead. "It's ok pal, I can see you're in no shape to talk, but ill ask you some questions and just nod or shake your head from side to side…alright?" Quatre nodded weakly. "Ok, good!" Now, was anyone here with you?" ::nod:: "Oh, was it Heero?" ::nod:: "Damn, where is he then?" ::shrug:: "Well Quatre…I'm hoping he comes and rescues us dude, cause right now, he's our only hope.
"HAHAHA you're last hope!" Tom boomed from the main cell door "You guys don't start getting your hopes up, I doubt that Japanese boy will be able to make it down here…I have some things planned for him, very BAD things." Duo and Quatre both looked at each other and thought 'Shit"
"Oh Duo…you're so beautiful, and Quatre is it? You quite attractive yourself. Tom rubbed his hurt jaw with a finger, "Ooh I almost regret giving you this my sweet…almost." Quatre was disgusted so he smacked Tom's hand away. Tom grinned wide. "Fine pets…now I want you two to sit tight, don't make me tie you up Duo. Tom was about to exit the main room when he spoke, "Heero will be my ultimate slave…magnificently gorgeous he is. Overhearing this made Duo angry "DON'T YOU DARE LAY YOUR FILTHY HANDS ON HIM YOU BASTARD!" Tom whirled around "Oh my my my, a little jealous are we Duo?" That comment made Duo shut up and fold his arms. Tom smiled and opened the door before leaving he quickly poked his head back in "Heh, I'm always right about everything." Hearing this Quatre gave Duo a funny look, Duo just sighed and shrugged.
Leaving them with that statement, Tom locked the door and skipped away. Roberto coughed to get Tom attention. "OH!" Tom turned and headed back to the door, "hey Roberto, I need you to go find that Japanese boy, and keep him ALIVE…you'll know where I'll bee if you need me." Roberto wasn't about to ague with his master, "Yes sir, will do!"
Heero couldn't stand looking at this woman any longer, he looked around again and noticed an adjoined door hopefully leading into another room. He turned it and opened it with cautioned ease. When Heero walked through he was given a great surprise…being whacked in the ribcage with a golf club. Heero almost totaled over in pain, but kept himself together. All in a matter of seconds he took out his gun and fired at the person who hit him, with his great aim he hit the guy right in the chest where he intended, and Heero saw the man crumple to the floor in defeat.
Tom watched through the surveillance camera with amusement as Heero went over and noticed Roberto was still breathing, Heero then snapped his guard's neck with little effort, but as he stared to rise, Heero winced as the pain in his ribcage started to worsen. "Hmm…Heero." Tom thought aloud. "Let's see how good you are at playing detective."
Heero at first thought he killed the man he talked to at the café but as he got a good look at this man's face he realized it was someone else. He wasn't so sure what to do now, whether to keep searching for Duo or try to find Quatre. "Well, Quatre might have found Duo…and they could be together." Heero considered. He decided to search for them both, figuring that they were together. Heero searched the room where he shot the unknown man and ended up finding a door that adjoined to the room. He opened it and peered through noticing another long hallway. Heero decided to not enter because of his last experiences with the rooms, but then made up his mind to go, he really had no other place to look.
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