XXVI
My eyes opened. At least I thought they did. Cuz it felt no different from when I was blacking out.
Nothing was in front of me. It was pitch black. The only thing I'm sure of is that I'm tied to something...not sure in what position, I feel gravity beneath me, but I'm not sitting. It feels like I'm tied up in a standing postion.
What is it that they want? Thoughts flash through my mind while I have nothing to do. Who are the White Racoon? Where the hell am I.
"...Lillie? Are you awake?"
"Huh?! Riki!" I whisper shout desperately, "where are you?"
Riki: "pretty sure in front of you, by the sounds. And plus I'm tied to a chair."
Before I could respond, there was a banging sound to my far right.
"Ow...."
"Kenny! Is that you?" good, all three of us are in the same room...or there are only bars between us...and the other two might be, as well.
Riki: "Kenshi! Any idea where the other two are?"
Kenshi: "No, leader. We all blacked out at the same time. Plus, I feel like I'm cramped in a cage! I can feel metal bars around me!"
Lillie: "Huh. Guess we're all held hostage in different ways."
Riki: "Any chance you can break the bars, Kenshi?"
Kenshi: "...no...I'm not Thunderman."
I could literally visualize Takkun rolling his eyes right about now if he was here.
Lillie: "Are Takkun and Hiro at least in here, too?"
Riki: "not sure. If they are, they still haven't made a peep."
Lillie: "Hmm....Though I say myself came through a lot. I don't know what to do now. THIS has never happened to me."
Kenshi: "Where you're tied up?"
Lillie: "NO. THIS IS WHERE I'M FRICKIN LOCKED WITH METAL CUFFS AGAINST A THICK METAL BAR RIGHT SIDE UP."
Riki&Kenshi: "...Oh...."
Lillie: "Now for the more important part. How'd we get outta here? Actually. Where is here??"
"I'll tell you where--no wait. I ain't." suddenly some voice rang through the--i think--room. Wow. What a terrible pun. If she can even call it that.
Riki: "Rabenda! What do you want now?!"
Okay. I am literally getting more confused by the minute. Riki obviously encountered her before, probably Takuto too.
"Oh let's see...we wanna--how do I put this delicately--KILL HER."
"What? Hey! What've I ever done to you for crying out loud!" I shout back and she raised her voice half an octave: "You've stole him from me! That's enough--"
The mic was cut off before anything more could be heard. Oh right, I almost forgot. She's crazy.
Lillie: "Riki. How did you and Takuto know Rabenda? Answer me first or else."
Riki: *sigh* "This is no time to threaten your teammate, Kuin. Anyway, at one of my father's many parties, I got drunk once and kissed her. I made it clear to her that there was no feeling behind it but she got attatched. She kept on contacting me, which I declined, even though she was pretty she had a very...let's say...unclean past. After that one time when I firmly rejected her. She became all...how she is now and...she joined our opposing group--the White Racoons--just to get revenge on me."
Lillie: "So she knew you were a Black Fox?"
Riki: "Well. She didn't until the joined the WR."
Lillie: "What about Takuto?"
Riki: "That. You'll have to get the story from his perspective. I don't know if he's comfortable with me telling you."
I understand now. I was right from the very beginning! She's frickkin insane!
Suddenly, with no warning at all, strong light shone.
Kenshi: "This can really make someone blind."
I closed my eyes tightly and try to adject to the blinding light.
Lillie: "really? Just, really?"
A screen lit up through the room. As predicted, only the three of us were here. Hiro and Takuto are nowhere to be seen.
The screen showed Hiro tied up dangling. His feet just inches away from a dark hole in the ground. What is this? Some kind of TV crime drama? He was still passed out, his head hung.
"You have two options." the mic rang again, still Rabenda's voice. "One, tell us how to open the case to your grandad's painting that can give us billions, possibly trillions! And we'll let your friends go, and you die. Two, you do nothing, and you will witness your friends being killed, then, you die."
Kenshi: "What the heck! So she dies either way?!"
Kenny was crouching down in a cage that's barely two inches bigger than him, his arms were bind.
"Kenny, dear. You're cage is snapped to electricity. Don't push me to use it." Rabenda said, starting with a sweet tone, getting to a death voice for the last five words.
Riki: "Kuin, don't do this. The thing in the case isn't only worth trillions of money." he whispered as lightly as he could, making only myself could hear. What else is it worth other than money? What else could a simple painting do?
"Rikkun, if you continue whispering stuff purposely making the microphone not able to hear. There are spikes inplanted in the seat you are currently stuck on."
"Oh that's right! We have a plan B just in case you wouldn't negotiate properly." she sang. I felt the metal board I was cuffed on turn 180°....that makes me upside down. Okay this is bad for my brain.
Riki: "H-hey! Don't do that! She could get strokes with blood gushing towards her brain!"
Kenshi: "Humans aren't made for dangling upside down...."
"We could do much worse if you don't 'fess up." this time it was a male voice.
riki: "You sound like--ow!"
Kenshi: "What? What's wrong?"
"Blades will be cutting through your organs next time." the male voice said once again. He probably activated a spike on Riki's chair. Who is this guy? It looks like Riki knows who he is.
Lillie: "Wait a sec...where's Takuto?! Is he alive? He better be!"
"Relax. Of course he is." That's all Rabenda says before compete silence falls over us again. And thank god the metal board rotated back. Five minute longer my head could've exploded.
Riki groaned and I sighed when our surroundings were pitch dark again.
This is getting nowhere. We need an escape plan.
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Soooooo Under two peoples request. I tried to give kenny more lines.......okay so far...?
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