Chapter 201: Phone Call (1/2)

”Yeah! Well duh! I already know she's gone! I'm not blind! At least not anymore!” Jayden said, laughing at her own rather dark remark, Moby staying dead silent with a serious look on his sweating face.

”Okay, but for real, where did she go off to? She should really join us for a party at my place!” She added, calming herself down from her previous outburst.

”Jayden, Abby has been kidnapped!” Moby announced, yelling into Jayden's mind-link, making her snap out of her bubble of happy thoughts and realize the severity of her situation.

”....S-she's gone… B-but how… A-abby…” Jayden muttered, her expressions and attitude shifting a full 180 degrees as she felt her heart suddenly lurch deep down in her chest, sending shivers down her spine, her eyes becoming watery like the dam that had just been resealed was about to overflow once more.

Despite the fact that the Griffiths and the Reids were meant to be long time enemies, they managed to bridge that almost taboo bridge and become each other's first true friends. They only knew each other for a few months but those few months felt more like years, it had almost been like their life was on autopilot before they had turned into demons. Jayden saw Abby as her little sister sometimes and as her older sister in others, a source of true joy, and now, all of that was ripped away from her and all of those emotions began to sink in and ferment in her heart.

”Kidnapped!? Kidnapped by who!? The gang!? Where? Are these fuckers to blame!? My precious Abby… Where are you!” Jayden yelled, overwhelmed by her own emotions as the news was so sudden to her, a waterfall of tears running down her face as she tightly clenched her still accelerating heart that felt like it was about to leap out of her chest.

”Please explain what happened to me! I need to know! What's happening! Is this real?! Why the hell are we still even here! Let's get the fuck out and start looking! Where do we look!? What are they going to do to her?! Wh-” Jayden continued, delving deeper and deeper into her own madness before Moby once again planted both of his hands firmly on her shoulders, a serious, rock hard expression on his face.

”If you really want to know everything, stare deep into my eyes…” Moby said, trying to calm her down.

”No-no! Not that skill again! You promised me you wouldn't do it!” Jayden mumbled in a low, shaky voice.

”We are low on time! If you want to know what happened as fast as possible please just trust me! It won't be as big of a change as last time! I promise!”

The passion in Moby's voice rang into Jayden's ears and unsteady heart, making her feel somewhat comforted despite the fact that he was yelling at her. Moby had never in his life let her down, other than the last time he used this exact same skill on her which made her end up hating him for 30 minutes straight, an experience she did not want to repeat no matter what. Yet, that was only once, and right now, she was desperate to find answers and desperate to find Abby as soon as possible, meaning that she was willing to do anything.

”F-fine! I trust you! Just make it quick…” Jayden mumbled with a low nod, and a bright smile that completely contrasted the waterfall of tears still flowing from both of her eyes.

”This will only take a minute,” Moby replied, returning her smile with one of his own, making her slightly calmer and more at ease despite everything that had just happened.

Nags raised an eyebrow, a mix of confusion and curiosity on his face while Jason just gazed with intent as he prepared for the unexpected as from their perspective, it only seemed like they were having a staring contest, but why a staring contest at a time like this? That was why they had a feeling that it must have been some sort of unknown demon skill that he had yet to show them.

After a minute straight of what looked like awkward staring, getting lost looking at each other's eyes, not a single word was spoken giving the situation an air of odd seriousness when suddenly, both of their eyes closed simultaneously, almost like they were in sync. Their bodies looked completely unconscious yet at the same time their bodies stayed sitting up straight, not dropping on the ground like dead bodies.

If Nags and Jason still had a vendetta to pursue or had been some sort of assassins, now would have been the perfect time to take them out as they were both in such a vulnerable state. Yet, they did not even attempt to lift a finger or even test the waters of Moby's absolute control to see if it was still in effect when he was in such a state because the answer was still most likely yes, and if he knew what they were attempting, they would no doubt greatly be punished so they would rather not take the risk as they both continued staring intently to see what was going to happen.

They had long accepted and come to terms with their fate and their new lives, seeing how Moby was treating every other demon in his household as literal family made them feel hopeful that it might also happen to them one day if they proved themselves enough, hope in a tunnel that was simply pitch black from before as they thought that they were only his tools to be thrown away once he had no use for them.

Not long after they both fell asleep, they reawoke once more, Jayden looking calmer yet more distressed at the same time. All of the information that Moby had extracted from Alex, everything that had happened to him, why those two seemingly random people were here and both demons, why Ray was being turned into a demon, who it was that kidnapped Abby, the memory of her own body lying almost dead on the ground and Abby's neck being tightly gripped by a devilish, black-eyed, black-haired witch.

That information flowed into her mind all at once as she knew that Moby had used his memory manipulation ability to implant all the information he knew into her mind.

Her calmness stemmed from the fact that she was now much more informed about the situation than before, but from that knowledge came the realization that Abby had been kidnapped in her attempt at trying to save her after their mind-link was somehow severed. Yet, she managed to suppress her guilt in order to have a clearer outlook on things, taking deep breaths to calm herself down, what had happened had already happened and there was nothing she could have done about it.

They were simply outmatched, no matter what they through, there was no way of victory, even Alex who was definitely much stronger than her was defeated with but a single slap, if anything, the opponent was way too cautious when fighting her, probably because they had not gauged her power, unlike Alex who she had been spectating the entire time.