Chapter 253: The Cavalry (2/2)

In the blink of an eye, as if he had teleported from his place, he appeared directly in front of Jayden, giving her a warm, tender hug around her bloody, injured body, tears running down both of their faces, everyone around them looking with a mixture of emotions at the scene ahead of them, unable to believe what had just happened and how they were found.

”You must have been so scared honey boo… But don't worry… You're safe now… You're safe now... Daddy is here...”

”How did you even get here?”

”Oh, I had an extremely powerful tracking chip installed in your body since birth, and I only just reactivated it now… Which may or might not be illegal in a lockdown. For some reason, the signal was all messed up like your body had eaten half the chip or something, that was why it took me so long to arrive and find your planet…”

Jayden slightly looked away, knowing the exact reason for it, her eyes landing straight on Alucard who was almost completely invisible, cloaking himself in the darkness of Abby's shadow, Jayden only able to see him most likely due to her demon eyes.

”Ryker! You fucking idiot! I'll kill you! How could you let this shit happen!? I thought the school was in full secure mode! Look at what happened here!”

Mason yelled, only for a fully armoured Ryker to enter the cave behind him, wearing a magnificent set of black armour fit for a military general.

”It was fully secured, Mason! I swear it on my life! I'm telling you the truth! It must have been the doing of a shalker! You saw the security footage too! They went into that corner and disappeared! No teleporter is that small! And it needs to be plugged into a power source for it even to work!”

”Shut your crazy ramblings! You're just trying to save your ass with the only excuse you got!”

Ryker inwardly cursed, praying in his heart of hearts yet confident of his theory as his gaze caught onto someone else in the cave.

”Yami!? What are you even doing here! You were supposed to be in your elite private classes! You're gonna need it where you're going! If anything happened to you… I might have been-”

”Shut the fuck up General! I'm not your fucking plaything! I can do what I want!”

Her voice and emotions were unlike anything he ever heard from her. Her rage and negative attitude were normal behaviour for her dark side yet there was something else underlying everything.

Mason then looked up at everyone else, a mixture of hope and fright on all of their faces injured, All except for 1 red-haired girl that looked completely far gone from everything around her, grasping into the air as she spoke.

”Hey… Where did you go… Y-you can't leave me like this… Not after you said you loved me, that you would always be there for me… and pledged your loyalty to me too…”

Abby Reid… The youngest daughter of the Reid family, one of his daughter's best friends… She must have seen or experienced some extremely heinous stuff for her to turn into something like that… Her mental health seemed almost beyond repair… He just hoped that such a thing did not also happen to his precious daughter and that her friend's state did not tear her down too much as well…

The other faces he saw in the cave was the little girl who was meant to be top secret, only known by a few and a random light blue-haired boy, staring at him with shaky eyes.

He also noticed that Jayden's boyfriend, although seen with them prior when they were at the back alley, was nowhere to be seen.

Yet… Other than him... He could not help but feel like someone else was missing before it suddenly hit him in the head.

Yet, before he could even speak, another voice interrupted him, almost like he was reading his mind…

”Where's Alex? Where's my son? Why is he not with you? Where is he? Please... I need to know...”

Another elegantly armoured man entered the room, his keen eyes looking around the cave, his purple hair and beard on full display on his middle-aged face.

Mason lifted his body away from Jayden's wounded, blood-stained armour, looking at her dead in the eyes and spoke...

”Also Jayden, where is your boyfriend? And the older Reid sister? And where is that other boy, Jason that went with you? Are they safe? Why are you in the state you're in? Why did you even come here? Please tell me what happened…”

”F-father… We don't have much time, so I'm going to make this short and simple… Emilia was actually a shalker and is now dead, defeated by Moby. Abby was brainwashed by her and was forced into doing things she didn't want to do. HikariYami was also manipulated by her as well. After Emilia died, her master, another, far, far, far, more powerful shalker appeared and was about to kill us all, but decided to kill the brainwashed Abby before everyone else. That was when Alex stepped in to save her… Alex is now dead, incinerated, no trace of his body left… And in a display of rage, Moby transformed into his spirit mode and distracted the shalker enough for us all to flee, and now he is all alone fighting it in the north… But at this rate, he is undoubtedly going to die… F-father… Please save him… Save us all... I beg of you...”