Kidnapped Night 2

Trigger Warning: This chapter has graphic torture depictions, viewer discretion is advised.

Aidoneus paced his room rubbing his eyes with his fingers. He glanced over at his laptop and saw that the time read at 6:00 am, the date read November,17, 2035, he ran his hands through his hair, frustrated. He stormed up to his laptop as a notification popped up. It read "New email from Detective Alexander". He pulled his chair out and sat down, pulled up the email and read:

"Subject: Report on evidence item number 44

Dear Aidoneus ,

I apologize for the response of the police force last night. I put a rush on the evidence you requested, in hopes of making up for the incident. Please see the attached file.

Sincerely,

Detective Alan Alexander.

Aidoneus opened the file. The report read: White rose, encased in a substance that our lab read as resin. The blood stain was processed and cross matched to a Kore Catarino, no other DNA markers were found. Aidoneus threw his fist through his wall.

"She... she's been taken by the Doll house killer?!" He gritted his teeth as he pulled his fist out of the wall. He turned to storm out of his room, he almost knocked Phillip over who was right outside his door.

"O fílos mou, sorry, I found something from the city's surveillance system, come, come!" He gestured to him to follow him, Aidoneus followed close to his heels.

Phillip sat down at his laptop at the table in the guest room, Aidoneus stood behind him as he quickly pulled up the system.

"I found the back door Detective Alexander wrote down for me" he said as he typed quickly "I unfortunately had to fight off the Technologia anti hacker system but got around it" He tapped his temple "Can't outsmart the man they stole the software from!" he chuckled as he pulled up the camera that was right across from the dinner.

Aidoneus could barely see the silhouette of Kore and Katrina, if it wasn't for Kore's hair he would have completely missed them. Phillip zoomed in on them as they were exchanging words. A white van slowly pulled up to obscure the view of anyone in the diner. The girls hugged, Katrina pulled out and drove out. Kore turned, and then she was immediately on the ground as the figure dragged her off into the van. The van then pulled out and Phillip stopped it, able to get a clear license plate, it read 6987-H.

"I managed to follow it throughout the city, it pulled into an alleyway and that was the last I've seen it" he said he typed away "The person was heading towards the North end of the city, if he managed to switch cars to throw us off, that is the direction he was going" he took a breath as he pulled up a page that had the license plate typed into it, clear as day it read "Registered to Vasileios Hyperion".

Aidoneus 'eyes narrowed onto the name. He slowly stood up from leaning over Phillip s shoulder. He knew the doll house killer was working with the Hyperion family, and now he knows which member. His eyes turned turquoise as steam started to roll off of him. It was time to pay Vasilios Hyperion a visit.

Vasilios Hyperion sat in the warehouse scrolling through his phone. He received a message from an unknown number, it read: "Task is done" with a picture attached of a Kore, tied up in her underwear. He grinned.

"Too bad she's with Aidoneus , I would have gladly taken that gyní*̱" he made a lewd gesture with his hands, the men surrounding him laughed.

*Woman*

"Not just that, but to think the Doukas brothers haven't figured out what she is" Konstantin Hyperion chimed in as he lit a cigarette. "I tailed her, and I figured it out" he said as he puffed out smoke.

"Tell me again adelfós, how were you able to figure it out?" Vasilios leaned on the pillar with his eyebrow raised.

Konstantin Hyperion took a long drag from his cigarette and puffed the smoke into his brother's face, grinning. He put his cigarette out and pulled out a notebook. He tossed it to his brother, he caught it and turned it over, looking at it.

"Adelfós, what's this?" He ran his hand over the cover, it was leather bound and black. He opened it, shock washed over his face.

"This... This is..." He stared at his brother, mouth opened.

"Yup, it's one of Chronos's notebooks." He grinned as he turned to head to the exit.

Collin had a pair of scissors in his hands when he got a text message. He groaned, set them down and headed to read what he was sent. It was Vasilios Hyperion telling him to not kill this woman, they needed her for the foreseeable future.

"Oh! Oh my!" He was elated. He could keep her alive as long as he wanted, the perfect doll! He picked up the scissors and headed back to the limp Kore. The venom he kept pumping her full of was taking its toll on her, but it wasn't keeping her as stiff or still as he wanted. He walked up to her and continued cutting her hair to resemble the short hair she had 4 years ago. He took a handful of the cut hair and stuffed his face in it. He took a long sniff and then rubbed it all over him.

Kore was staring daggers into him. She was limp, but she refused to take her eyes off the man. If he was getting off to do this to her, she was going to fight him as much as she could. She gritted her teeth as his fingers brushed against her ear. She didn't know why, but for some reason the rope tied around her hands was calling out to her.

Collin finished chopping Kore's hair to a chin length, took a picture and turned around to head back to his desk full of torture items. Kore watched him walk off. She took a deep breath and focused. She felt all the fibers in the rope as if they were plant roots, connecting to her through her wrists. She opened her eyes, they were glowing bright pink as the rope slid off her hands, returning to their original form of cotton as it drifted slowly to the floor.

She fell to the floor, Collin turned around quickly. He hurriedly limped his way to her as she dragged herself on the floor.

"No, no, no!" He grabbed her by her ankle, flipping her around onto her back. She was dizzy, her body didn't want to work with her, her eyes were closed as she focused on expelling the venom from her body.

He yanked her towards his table to tie her back up, she flung her eyes open and managed to kick him in the back of his bad knee with her other foot. He let out a painful scream letting her go. She scurried across the floor to the best of her abilities, struggling to get to her feet. Collin grabbed her leg again and bit her.

She screamed in pain as she tried to kick him again, he grabbed her foot in both of his hands and snapped her ankle with a sickening crunch. Kore screamed a blood curdling scream as he was laughing and climbing on top of her.

"You're full of surprises!" He lent down and bit her neck, she managed to claw his face with her nails, getting him off of her. He held his face in pain as she used her good foot and shoved him off. The venom was starting to kick in.

"MY FACE!!!WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO MY FACE!!" He screamed, before she blacked out due to the pain, she saw roots starting to sprout from the cuts she left.

Collin quickly ran to find something to see what was going on, he was pulling at the cuts Kore placed on his face. He pulled his phone up, turned on the camera and saw the thorns of a rose bush sprouting from his face. He yanked, screaming as he pulled out the partial roots. He threw it on the counter, smiling. He's never felt so alive!

He spun to look at Kore, she was finally still, her ankle turning purple due to the break. He frowned, he didn't want to break his doll, but that's ok, he'll fix her right up. He grabbed some metal wire, it was all he had at the moment, but it'll do. He grabbed her and dragged her back to the chair, propping her up and tying her up once more. He now understood why the Hyperion family wanted to keep her alive.

Aidoneus sat with his head in his hands, griping his hair in frustration. Every bone in his body was telling him he needed to find her. The longer she was with that monster, the less likely they'd find her alive. He scoffed 'monster' he thought as he looked down at the ground. He spent his whole life being scrutinized, tortured and humiliated all because of the title.

He stood up from the bed as he glanced over at Phillip who was diligently working on pinging the Hyperion's phones so they could get a location. Peter and Adrian were out getting half of the guards to go with them, they needed one of the Hyperion's alive, but it was going to be a war just to get them. He knew his men were well trained, but it didn't help ease the fact the Hyperion's had them out numbered.

He walked over to Peter and asked for his phone. He inputted a number; he hesitated as his finger hovered over Zen's number. Part of him wished his brother would finally step up and be what he needed; he dialed the number as he stepped out into the courtyard.

"Adelfós!!!" Zen boomed as he answered the phone. Aidoneus held the phone away from his ear. He gritted his teeth and responded "Adelfós..." He absolutely hated using their native tongue to people he despised.

"To what do I owe this pleasure? I sure hope it's an apology for killing half my staff, destroying my dining hall, humiliating the Doukas's families name, you pick!"

"Zen... I'm calling because we need to get to the Hyperion's." He responded through clenched teeth.

"...Hmm... why?' Zen asked, Aidoneus could tell that Zen already knew the answer and was just toying with his brother.

"Brother... if you have ever had an ounce of humanity in you, you'll listen to me" Aidoneus pinched the bridge of his nose. He was trying to figure out a way to spin this, so it'd benefit Zen in the long run.

"Brother, the Hyperion's are responsible for all the trouble in your districts, yes I exposed us, but if you take them out and start doing damage control you can..." Aidonoeus was cut off.

"Aidon, I know why you want us to destroy the Hyperion's. My sweet, dear little monster, the answer is no..." there was a pause "You wanted the crown, now you have it, enjoy burning with this city" he hung up. Aidoneus closed the phone. He got the answer he was looking for.

He looked up at the sky as it started to rain, the courtyard slowly filled with steam as Aidoneus stood there. His shirt slowly started burning off.

He was hoping he could hear his brother denounce him for himself, he was tired of the games, he was tired of them pretending. Now he didn't have too.

Fire started engulfing Aidoneus as he felt like something was close to unlocking in him. He brought his gaze back down, his eyes burning brighter than ever. Steam rolled out of his mouth as he said "This is what you asked for.... brother".

"BINGO!" Phillip jumped up yelling. He turned to see Aidoneus re-entering the room as he put on a new shirt. He ran up to Aidoneus and grabbed him, pointing to the computer.

"I got them!' Phillip smiled, Aidoneus grinned as Peter and Adrian walked up. Aidoneus turned to Peter and handed him his extra phone that he borrowed. Peter noticed how scorched it was and frowned

"I'll program you guys' new ones when you get back go!" he shooed em off

"Afentikó, please put on a vest.

They'll defiantly have guns that can kill you" Peter told his boss with concern in his voice. Aidoneus nodded and headed to grab one of the vests that was laying by the door.

"Peter..." Aidoneus started as he pulled the vest on "We need to make a stop". He turned, looking at his friend, who nodded in agreement.

"This is... this is gold!" Vasilios said as he held up the notebook. He didn't question how his brother got his hands on Chronos's notebook. It was a skill his brother had, always finding and taking things that someone needed.

"Right?' Konstantin responded by picking his teeth as their guards moved their cache.

"I mean... Chronos put locks on Aidoneus ? Power locks?" Vasilios's asked while raising an eyebrow.

"Yup, even as a fetus the man was a monster. He was zapping his mother's life force away because he was too strong, so Chronos locked him to attempt to save Rhea." He flicked his toothpick

"We can use this, no one knows this, we can extort them!" Vasilios jumped up excited.

"No, didn't you continue reading?"

Konstantin looked at his brother with a look of disappointment. "If you continued you would have read that there was a power source born 4 years after Aidoneus was, this being has the ability to unlock anyone's abilities themselves and is said to possess god like abilities as well" he took the book from his brother "It says 'A child was born that has the abilities to enhance anyone, but in order for her to awaken she has to find her equal power source. I must find her before Aidoneus or he will awaken". He shut the book, holding it up as he shook it.

"I have strong reason to believe it's this girl, her appearance is what he described, and her birthdate aligns, not just that people around her are awaking dormant powers, look at Collin. He could barely produce venom 4 years ago." He tucked the book in his coat pocket.

Vasilios's phone went off, he pulled it out and put it up to his ear.

"Yea... Oh? Really?" He hung up. Konstantin cocked an eyebrow at his brother.

"Ready to avenge Atticus adelfós?" He grinned.