32: War 1

A M E L L I A

In the middle of our hugging session, Alec's phone rang. He answered the phone.

"Who's this?" Alec asked.

"It's Tio Manuel." Alec said.

"Put it on speaker." Dad said.

"Manuel. How is it going?" Dad asked.

"Inigo found something, it's unsure, but a place called Marino Pizza Place, Raven's hideout might be there." He said.

"Anything else?"

"Hmm, I've been checking the file that Inigo gave me, but it's something I can't comprehend properly."

"Can you send a picture?"

"Yeah, sure. There, sent it."

Dad and Alec looked at the picture with confusion.

"What is this?" Dad asked.

"I also can't understand it." Alec said.

"Can I take a look?" I asked.

Alec handed me his phone. I looked at the picture.

File 1298

Name: Raven Vencar Sokolov

Sex: M

Age: 35 years old

Information gathered: Raven Vencar Sokolov, real name is Xhien Veneventura, the only child of Elizalde and Carvin and the successor of Ventur World of Skies. With limited time his parents decided to give him to Gerald's parents.

Being chased by Demtri Azar, he was given to Elizalde's best friend, Mayra. But even after the fight between Demtri, Xhien decided to stay with Gerald's family.

Everything seems normal, not until I reached a certain part.

Additional information: Red vessel. Unattained vessel. Cross vessel. King vessel.

Vessel? What does he mean by that? I looked at it trying to comprehend and remember. Vessel is a hollow container, it's commonly used to hold liquid stuff.

He isn't a liquid, he isn't a thing, but he could keep information from groups!

"Is there any group under this names?" I asked.

"Yes, most of them are our enemies. Red Venge Gang, Unattained Freedom Gang, Cross Will Gang, King Rev Gang. Our only ally is the Unattained Freedom Gang." Alec said.

"Are they? 'Cause it could be that Raven is keeping important information for them."

"I am sure that they are our Ally, Amellia. Killem's cousin is the leader of that gang."

"Then, they might know something about Raven."

"I'll call him."

"You should go up to your room and clean up, you smell." Enzo said.

"No I don't! Your the one who smells."

"Go on, go on. Clean up." I did as Enzo said.

I cleaned up a d decided to just stay in my room for a while, there's nothing much to do anyways.

I was just reading on wattpad when I suddenly heard a noise down stairs.

"What the hell?"

I stood up from my bed to go and check what's going on, I was about to open the door when it opened and Arthelesis came in.

"Art, what's going on?" I asked.

"We're being attacked. Amellia." He pulled me near my walk-in closet, "Go inside, on the side for your coats, there's a button there. Press that and a door will open, go inside and hide. You are not allowed to get out whatever noise you hear. It will alert everyone in the family, in this case even our Allied families. Someone from Herrera or Nozaki family would come. Understand?" Art explained.

"Yes, I understand." I nodded.

He smiled at me and kissed my forehead.

"Everything will be alright." He said before leaving.

Like what he said I immediately went inside the walk in closet and went to find the button.

I kept on pushing the wall until I felt something soft. Then a door opened.

It revealed a small room with a fridge, tv, a phone, and what looks like weapons.

I stayed in that room like what Art told me. I stayed there for what felt like hours, no noise could be heard, as if I'm waiting for nothing at all.

I can't feel anything, I don't even have enough energy to touch the phone beside me.

I'm just staring at the wall with blank mind. It's like I'm useless again.

I've tried working, learning, even holding a gun, but here I am staring at a wall, hiding.

I could not even cry, I can't feel any emotions.

Then the door opened.

"She's here." A familliar voice said.

It was Inigo. And Nikio.

"Finally found you." Nikio said.

Inigo offered his hand, I accepted it.

"You must've been scared."

"I don't if I even felt anything, Inigo."

"You're in shock. That's natural. We'll be bringing you with us, to Japan. This will be for a while." Nikio explained.

"What? To Japan? Why?" I asked.

"To keep you safe. This is only temporary, just while we are still looking for Raven's hideout. It won't take a long time." Inigo explained.

"They were taken? By Raven?! His going to kill them!" I shouted.

"He won't." Inigo calmly said.

"What do you mean he won't?! Of course he will! He hates them! He loathes them!" Tears are finally starting to fall out of my eyes.

"Amellia," Nikio made me look at him, "He won't kill them. He needs them, to get you."

I looked at him confused.

"Why would he even want me?"

"Because, for him, you're the only key to everyone's downfall." Inigo explained.

"Then we should just give myself to him." I said.

"No!" Both of them said.

"Gosh, no. Your family would hate you for thinking like that." Inigo said.

"It's not the solution for it Amellia. It will never be." Nikio.

"For now, you'll be staying with us."

And at that moment, we flew to Japan, in somewhat a place owned by Nikio's family.

Inigo and his family are also here. The first few days that we're there, Nikio and Inigo took turns on taking care of me, I got pretty close with Inigo, and Nikio.

But after a while, I started doing everything I could to help them out. I need to start standing up on my own two feet if I want to survive.

We stayed in Japan for 3 months already, and in those 3 months, we kept looking on where and how we would find Raven. I also got to know Inigo and Nikio more.

Nikio is bisexual. He's also a college student, finishing culinary arts. He said his name was taken from his grandfathers, Nijii and Kioji. He loves quiet places, he's a bookworm, he loves to read BL stories. He hates sweets.

Inigo, is the only son, he's expected to be taking on the family business as he is the only one to take up Business administration. He loves skating, horror movies, he loves to have fun and live out his life. Not a fan of sweets.

And about my family, we still couldn't find them. We found endless clues that lead us to nowhere.

It's starting to stress me out, I miss them, I want to hug them. I miss their little good nights to me.

I'm always thinking how they are doing there, wishing that Raven won't give them too much burden. He's a demon, but still I'm expecting.

"What happened?" I heard Inigo's father ask the man that just walked in.

"Negative. No one's there, not even a single trace." He informed us.

"Fuck..." I couldn't stop myself from crying anymore, this is taking a toll on me.

I've been carrying and stopping every emotions to come out, but right now, I can't. This is too much. That's the last clue we had.

Inigo and Nikio sat beside me.

"We'll find a way." Nikio said.

"Of course we would. Just keep having faith and trust, Amellia. We'll find them." Inigo tried comforting me.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath before standing up and looking at the evidences again.

I looked carefully making sure that we didn't miss anything.

A small piece of paper with a necklace, a piece of paper again with a pendant, a business card, a pencil with my mother's name curved on it. And last, this evidence is the last thing we found, a stone carver.

Wait... I looked at my necklace and compared it to the pendant, it's almost similar, as if it's a defect one. The chain of the necklace is also same. I connected the paper, it formed a letter.

This shall represent the love and bond between you beautiful masterpieces.

I flipped the paper and the design of our necklace is drawn there, with my brother's name on it, but my name is missing.

I wrote my name in the paper using the pencil, and it spelled out Akvalhaxx KH.

"Akvalhaxx KH?"

"That's where your necklace were made. It's shop owned by a friend of your mother, it closed 10 years ago because the owner and it's staff were raped and killed inside that place, it's place is still abandoned till this day." Tio Manuel explained.

"He kept them there. I'm sure of it." I said.

Author

I updae rarely this past few months, I haven't even updated this for a month or two. I'm really sorry about that. School's been busy. I'll be trying to finish this story in two weeks time, so stay tuned!