Blaze

The Face of Danger

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"Notice anything yet?" Donghae asked from the front.

Tao glanced around; saw crowds of people among people, and stores after one another. Nothing seemed unusual or out of place for him.

"No," he replied. "It's so normal here."

"I know," Donghae agreed. "It's not here."

Tao stopped behind Donghae and looked around. Across the vast street was an alley among the other few between the extending restaurants to the other block. He spotted smoke and steam swirling out of the restaurants and a large green dumpster in the alley. Tao's eyes swerved over to the other alleys, which were all lifeless and dark. No one would bother entering such dirty places that looked creepy, but that particular alley looked bright and almost alive.

"Tao, are you listening to me?" Donghae's voice crept into his ears before he turned.

"What?"

"I said lets to look for the others and..." Donghae began, but suddenly turned his head when a door in that alley Tao had been eyeing opened and a figure popped out.

Tao quickly followed his gaze to see a man in a blue jacket turn his back to them. He seemed to be speaking with someone else before patting that person on the shoulder and walked off.

"Stay here," Donghae ordered before running off.

Tao frowned and watched Donghae run across the street toward the alley before turning upon hearing Victoria's scream.

"Where's Donghae!?" she questioned.

"What's going on?"

"The police tracked down a missing girl," Victoria panted, "it looks like a few other girls are going to be transported to who knows where."

"Here!?" Tao asked.

"So where's Donghae!?"

"Over there," Tao stretched his arm out to point toward the alley.

"Victoria!" Lay shouted running toward them. "They're here! We need to look for a host club."

"A what!?" Victoria partially shouted.

"They're running an illegal gambling club at night, debtors pay in girls," Lay went on. "We have to find them before they disappear."

"Go get Donghae," Victoria ordered as they ran across the street.

Tao watched Lay and Victoria try to pull open the door that had just opened a few seconds earlier only to find it was locked.

"Shoot!" Lay swore and pulled at the knob helplessly.

"Lets find another way around," Victoria ordered before turning around to find Tao standing there watching them. "Go get Donghae!"

"O...oh..." Tao nodded before darting off.

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"Eunhyuk!" Donghae screamed running as fast as he could.

If it was Eunhyuk, this person definitely wasn't stopping.

"Eunhyuk! Stop! It's me!" Donghae shouted still running after him.

Urging himself to move even faster he felt a whirl of wind brush by before he suddenly caught Eunhyuk's hood. Pulling him back with all the force he had he twisted Eunhyuk around to face him and felt a mental slap hit his face. An overwhelming shock grabbed him completely cutting off his senses and he immediately wished this person wasn't so much like the friend he knew so well. They were complete identicals.