When Worlds Come Crashing Together {Devil May Cry Fanfic~} #2

Part 14

 [Part 14]

Meanwhile…

The sky hung heavy and grey, and there were few people on the streets. Even if there were any, the people were rushing around, not wanting to get caught in the downpour that was about to come. No one wanted to be drenched.

Looming above the quiet and silent town was the one tallest building. It was an office building, with strong foundations. The outside was plastered with sophisticated tinted windows, looking every bit the professional building it had to be.

There were no words to proclaim the name of the building, but everyone around knew this building. This was the building every student dreamed to work in. This was the building that kindergarten kids got short tours around, to encourage the young minds to dream and aspire. This was the building that brought in the bread for the town.

Inside, the lobby was a never-ending mess. Like an internal city, there would be no time in the day or night where anyone stopped their pace. Countless of questions asked, countless of chatter filled up the lobby –almost like a marketplace. But it was a marketplace.

The lobby was a marketplace for many people. Businessmen took this building as a centre for making deals. They argued and played their tricks here. Here was where corporate tricks worked their magic. Here was where everything was money-orientated.

A few stories up, there was layers of offices and labs. This was where the technicians, the scientists tried out their new experiments. Then, at the fifth floor, the lights were turned off. This sector was led by one of the family members who made this building in the first place. This sector was closed –had been closed for the past one week.

“Mr. D still not here yet?” A worker that had been working in the fifth floor asked the woman at the counter on the first floor.

“Not yet. The company will send an email to all workers affected when we have news of them.” The woman replied with a sweet, condescending smile, and the worker grunted, walking back out the entrance. This was the seventh day of the week, and the workers were getting restless. Even though they were still paid, they loved their job on the fifth floor, and usually got restless when it wasn’t opened.

“Someone needs to hunt down Mr. D’s ass and drag him back here, man.” The same worker that had been at the building sat down at a café nearby with his co-workers, all of whom shared the fifth floor together.

“It was Mr. Kries’s job, but this time it seems like they’ve disappeared together. You think something happened to them?” Another worker asked worriedly. One week had gone without news of either of them, and everyone from the fifth and tenth floor had been affected. The tenth floor workers had been glad for the break, but everyone was wondering what had suddenly made their two bosses go missing.

“What about their sister? They have a younger sister studying in the University don’t they?” A third worker asked, sipping delicately on his cup of coffee. Working with Mr. D and the Kries family had given him and his family a comfortable life, and he thanked the day he met Mr. D, and managed to impress his boss enough to let him stay on the fifth floor.

“My little brother studies in the same course as her. She hasn’t been turning up in classes either. Something must be going on in the Kries family. It isn’t like her or Mr. Kries to up and leave like that.”

“What about the hot-soon-to-be-Mrs-Kries? Trish, the model?”

“I heard she’s missing too and putting back schedules for this month’s magazine. Something must be wrong.”

“But their parents are back, aren’t they? Mr. Kevin Kries and Madam Erica?”

Someone grunted. “You know Kevin; his head would be up in his ass trying to save his precious company rather than finding his children. Mr. Kries is way better than his father.”