When Everyone's Gone by Blader Fairy Everlasting aka Fairy of Life

Chapter 1-Home Alone

"Tyson!" If you don't get up now we'll go without you!" yelled Max. Tyson lay still, snoring.

"Fine" said Max, "Rei, you got the bus money?"

"Yep" said Rei, "Kenny! Are you coming?"

Kenny hurried out onto the landing with Dizzi tucked under his arm, "I need to upgrade her scanner at the PC Chop, that shopping centre has everything."

"Yeah" said Max, "all those sweetie shops and beyblade stores! And don't forget Toys 'r' us!" "I need some new gloves" said Rei, flexing his fingers, one of the red gloves had a rip in the back of the hand and the stitching was becoming tattered.

"Isn't Kai coming?" said Rei as they went out of the house.

"Nah, he's not that type of guy, you know how he is. He wanted to get rid of us I bet. He even said we should get the 9.15 bus so we'd be there earlier," laughed Max. Their voices faded.

Tyson opened his eyes blearily then cried out, "hey! Don't go without me!"

But the door was shut and they had gone. No one else was around. He was all on his own, apart from Kai and Kai didn't really count as a social being to have fun with.

"Great," he muttered, "a whole day with Mr Grumpy, yay."

It never occurred to him to phone the others up and then meet them at the shopping centre later.

It irritated him, they should have waited, he was the main guy on the team, well that wasn't fair, Max and Rei were great bladers too, and Kai...he could just forget about.

He sighed and dragged himself out of bed, nearly tripping over his belt on the floor. Today didn't start off well.

Still in his pyjamas he walked downstairs, leaning against the banister and yawning.

His feet were sluggish as he entered the kitchen.

Then something jolted him out of his sleep mode.

Kai was eating. Yes, he eats but more importantly.....

KAI WAS EATING THE LAST POT OF JELLY!!!!!

"Kai!!!" shouted Tyson angrily. "You know I love jelly! That last pot was for me! I put it especially at the back of the fridge for breakfast!"

Of course being Tyson, he didn't even think of making some more jelly or all the rest of the food in the fridge that he could eat.

Kai froze when Tyson yelled.

He knew it had been a bad idea eating something. He knew it was, it was just like at the abbey, if you were caught eating food without permission you were done for.

He glared at the jelly.

But he'd felt so curious about this food that all the others seemed to love and bought every week, six packets of the stuff was left to Rei to make.

Kai had never tried jelly before; the Abbey never gave them anything better than a half rotten apple to eat.

He kept silent. May e he'd give Tyson extra training later.

"WELL?" yelled Tyson, "Are you dumb or something? Or maybe you're DEAF!!!!!!!!"

Kai didn't even look at him. "Oh, so maybe you're blind to" said Tyson sarcastically.

Kai inwardly cringed, cold tingled in his legs and sent shots of numbness up his body. He couldn't have found out. He couldn't have... No....

But Tyson had unknowingly got it right.

Kai was blind.