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It was a sunny day in Moscow Russia, the snow sparkled where the sun hit it, snow dripped off window ledges and roofs. It was calm and peaceful despite the fact that the Demolition Boys had failed to win the championships.

Boris was furious, he stood in front of the stadium glaring at his now former team as everyone cleared the room. Soon only a few stray teams were left. "How could you lose Tala! After all the money and time I invested in you alone! HOW? ANSWER ME!" The russian looked at Boris as though he didnt really care. "You win some, you lose some." was his answer.

Boris wasent happy with that response at all. He would of hit the smart ass teen, but decided against it. He had said if they lost they weren't to return to the Abbey. And he meant it.

Boris made the boys follow him into the locker room they all shared, he made a few calls while Tala and the others just sat there. Ian and Spencer looked a bit nervous. However Tala and Bryan looked as though they really didnt give a damn.

Within the hour he had the few belongings that the boys had delivered to the locker room. "You are no longer welcome at the Abbey, I would of gotten rid of you but I have a more important matter to settle." And with that Boris left, leaving the door open.

"What do we do now?" Ian asked as he looked at Tala. Tala shrugged as though he didnt care. They werent a team anymore. The Championships were over, therefore what happened to the others, really wasent his problem. The red-haired russian stood and grabbed the duffle bag he kept his few belongings in. And headed for the door. "Where are you going Tala?" Bryan asked, as he watched his former team mate.

"No where Bryan." he answered and then walked out. The other boys looked at eachother. And sighed Tala was just like Kai, you wouldnt know where he was at or what he was doing unless he wanted you to know.

The White Tigers looked out their door down the hallway just in time to see Boris stomp down the hallway and a few moments later, they saw Tala leave as well. "Looks like the Demolition Boys are over," Kevin said casually. "Yea" Mariah answered. Lee just ignored them while Gary ate a candy bar.

They had heard Boris yelling-hell everyone in the stadium had to of heard him. Mariah glanced down the hallway again wondering why the other boy's werent following. She decided not to think about it. After all, they were her enemy so she need not concern herself with them. But still...

Several hours later all the teams were at the boat dock waiting for the order to board. It was one of the fastest ships around. The Carpathia would take them back to the U.S.

Tyson was excited, Kai was annoyed and everyone else around just didnt seem to care.

Tala was in the far back of the crowd watching everyone. He knew his former team mates were there, he had seen them several times, just as they had seen him. But they never talked to eachother. After an hour most of the passangers were loaded onto the boat and among the final to board were the Demolition Boys-all four of them.

Tala went down the hallway to find his room without even so much as giving his old team a second glance. He found his room #B36. Only to find that his room mate was none other than Lee of the White Tigers. Now he was a bit annoyed. He had really hoped that his room mate would be someone like Kai. But that obviously wasent what had happened.

Lee turned to see who had opened the door. He went from looking curious to pissed off almost instantly. "Oh no you dont! This is my room!" Lee said angrily. Rather than comment, Tala held up his boat ticket and Lee looked at it.

"Oh man! There is no fucking way I can handle a few days in the same room as you!" Lee was yelling which was quite unneccesary really. "Whats going on in here?" A female voice asked.

Both boys turned around to find Mariah standing at the door, her hands on her hips.

"Your brother is flipping out." Tala replied casually. "Hell Yea I am! Mariah he's my room mate!"

Mariah giggled at her brother. "Relax Lee, Im sure you'll be fine." The black haired teen looked at his younger sister as though she was crazy. "But-but-but" he stammered. The pink-haired girl frowned. "Dont make me babysit you two." It was a simple comment but enough to shut Lee up.

Mariah studied them both for a moment then said "Finish unpacking you two, then come down to the main room. We will be eating in less than an hour-and I expect to see both of you there."
With that said she turned and walked away.

Lee and Tala laughed, clearly amused with the way she had acted.

"Is she always like that Lee?"
"Yeah, you should see her back at the compound, I swear there are days if she could get by with killing Gary or Kevin she would!"
Tala chuckled. In the back of his mind he wondered what it would be like to be part of a team that was more like a family than an actual team.

He shoved his duffle bag into a corner and headed to the main room. He hadnt even had time to look around before someone grabbed his arm and reeled him to a table. Mariah forced him to sit down right across from Tyson. Tala took a moment to look up and down the table, and then around the room.

He could see the All Starts, the Bladebreakers, the White Tigers of course and the other members of the former Demolition Boy's team. He glared at Mariah, she had drug him there and now he was siting with the one group of people that would love to kill him.

That meal was tense and there was very little talking. Everyone seemed to be thinking about the world finals and how the Demolition Boys had caused them alot of trouble. The Demolition Boys sat there thinking about how they were going to survive this trip while they poked at their food with a fork.

Mariah seemed to be the only one in a cheery mood. And that seemed to make matters all that worse. She kept trying to get Kai to eat but he wouldn't eat anything. All he would do was sits back and drink his tea quietly. Kevin and Ian found it amusing that Mariah kept trying to get Kai to eat untl he finally threatened to throw her over board if she didnt shut up.

That was effective in silencing her. For the rest of the meal no one spoke. Finally Mariah couldnt bare the silence anymore. "I'll be outside on the deck if anyone needs me." And with that she was gone. Ray was started to get up and follow her but Bryan beat him to it. That pissed Ray off, he didnt want Bryan anywhere near Mariah, especially after what had happened to him during their match.

Mariah leaned against the railing and looked out at the open sea. The sun was setting across the horizon. Giving the sky an orange-red glow against the blue sea. "Something bothering you?" A slightly familiar russian voice asked. Mariah knew who it was. And she didnt turn around.

"No. Bryan everything is fine." she replied softly. The pale russian stepped up beside her and rested his forearms against the railing. "Nothing always means something." He spoke casually, and it was obvious to Mariah that he wasent going to let her go anywhere without telling him what was bothering her.

The pink-haired girl sighed and looked over at him, her voice was soft, but it shook slightly. "I know Boris was behind everything that happened at the tournament, a few times I passed by your guy's locker room and I would hear everything he said I had hoped that with him out of the picture, everyone would lighten up some. But I was wrong."

Bryan studied her quietly. It was true, Boris was out of the picture now and he had had a little hope that everyone would lighten up too, but it hadnt. In fact, it only seemed to get worse.

A strong wind blew and Bryan glanced at the sky, "Its going to storm, lets get inside." Mariah sighed and nodded. They got inside just as the rain started to pour. The captain said the storm was bad and everyone was to stay in the main room until further notice.

Everyone spread out around the room. Quietly waiting until they could return to their rooms. The ship began to shake violently and everyone looked around. Lightning and thunder crashed outside as the sky lit up with each crash. Mariah moved closer to Ray and he put his arm around her. The rain fell harder and louder against the boat. The waves became higher and higher as the captain fought to control the ship.

All the lights went out and that was the last thing anyone of them knew. The darkness, the sound of water rushing in, the creak and groan of the boat, and screams and yells breaking out around them. The storm ragged on for hours, remains of the ship floated on the see. Everywhere you look, some blader was clutching onto some object in attempt to stay alive. Kai and Ray were among the first to awake. They swam around and grabbed those they could.

After awhile everyone was in a circle. Holding onto a large piece of wood. Fear could be seen on all their pale weary faces. "What are we gonna do?" Asked Micheal as he watched Emiy shiver. "We have one of two options: Stay here and hope a rescue team finds us before the sharks do, or we can swim to what appears to be an island way over there in the distance." Kai replied casually.

Everyone glanced in the direction Kai had motioned too, indeed it did seem as though there was some kind of land there. And there was no need to talk about the decission. They were going to swim for it or die trying.

After a couple hours of swimming and stopping to rest, the weary group of bladers made it to the island. One by one they pulled themselves and eachother up onto the shore. And collapsed there to rest. All of the bladers fell into a deep sleep. And awoke a day later as the waves washed up around them.

Tyson convinced everyone that they needed to move farther into the island away from the waves. Ray and Max went in search of fire wood while Bryan and Lee went in search of food. They were able to find a bunch of berries and nuts, while Ray and Max found plenty of wood. Kai got a fire going as Mariah and Emily pulled what remains from the ship onto the island.

The girls found a couple suit cases containing clothes. So they hung them over tree branches to dry, once those were dry, the clothing was split between everyone. Once they changed, they hung them over the branch to dry.

Everyone huddled close together and close to the fire as they nibbled on the nuts and berries. This was awful to them. Just the day before they were happily arguing on a ship with the finest food around. Now they had damn near drowned and felt as though they werent in the best of company.

Even after everything they had been through, and had to work together to do, there was still the almost hated feeling between them. And it was all because of Boris. For the longest time no one said anything. And the silence remained. Tyson was the first to break it.

"aaaarrrgggghhhhhh! I cant take it anymore!" He was scratching his head fiercly and looked annoyed.

"Cant take what anymore?" asked Kenny. "All this tense silence. We need to get one thing straight right now. We're all in this together. And we need to get along if we want to make it out of here in one piece. So cant we all just get what that shady creep Boris did out of our minds and be friends?" "Tyson is right guys. It was Boris's fault that everything happened the way it did at the finals. No one here is to blame." Mariah replied in response and support of Tyson.

There was a murmur as everyone thought about it. It did seem fair enough. After all Tyson was right. There was no reason why they couldnt be friends and they had no damn idea how long they were going to be on the island. Finally everyone agreed that they would call a temporary truce and go from there. Maybe in the end they would just become friends naturally.

The night was a long and cold one, the guys took turns watching the fire in shifts, keeping it burning brightly. Kenny agreed to make up a chart of chores for everyone to do. And the main one was to keep that fire burning at all costs. This way if a search team flew over the island, they would see the fire and hopefully land.

Everyone woke up at sunrise, and the chores began. Wood needed to be hauled, more berries and nuts gathered, clothing washed and dried, more suitcases and wood had washed ashore, so the girls were taking care of it. Everyone was busy tending to every small detail around the island. Kai of course had went to explore the island to see just what all there was.

By noon all the anger and tension was gone and everyone was quite pleased with what they had accomplished. Bryan and Ray had managed to construct two simple huts out of wood and vines. They actually looked nice considering what they had to work with. And once they sat down to eat, laughter rang out around them.

It was amazing how much a simple truce could change everything. Kenny still had Dizzy so he was thankfull. He looked around at everyone and took note of who was there. Tyson,Max,Ray,himself,Emily,Micheal,Steven,Eddy,Tala,Bryan,Spencer,Ian,Lee,Gary,Kevin,Mariah, there was one person missing. Kai.

"Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news guys, but Kai is still gone and its been a few hours now." The group instantly hushed as they looked around. Kenny was right, there was still no sign of Kai.

Meanwhile deep into the island forest, Kai was only able to see by the moonlight above him. Not that it mattered. He knew the way back, he didnt need a light. He looked around, it was quiet, the bluenette sat down on the ground with his back against the trunk of a tree, and pulled one knee up close to his chest. He rested one arm across his knee as he looked up at the clear night sky.

It was quiet, too quiet. He knew the others would worry if he didnt come back soon. But he really didnt care at the moment. it was peaceful here. It wasn't like anywhere he had ever been before. And for once Kai felt at peace with himself.

There wasnt a desire to be cold, or to dredge up a yearning to train. He was just content with where he was and who he was. This was something he had never felt before, and it was a nice feeling. He wanted to stay there until morning.

Kai closed his crimson eyes, he could feel energy radiating from Dranzer, he was content too. Once he knew Dranzer was content with him, he went to sleep. Only to awake before sunrise. He was back at camp before the others awoke.

Once they saw him they wanted to know everything he saw. And why he was gone so long. They were throwing enough questions at him, Kai had enough and walked back into the forest to be left alone. He didnt want to talk now. At first he had. But he hadnt even opened his mouth and everyone had started asking questions at the same time.

Kai sat down again with his back against the same tree as before and closed his eyes. It never failed everytime he went to open himself to the others, something stopped him. And he was begining to think by now that maybe they just werent meant to know the real him after all.

"Hm." Kai looked up when he heard soft footsteps. It was Mariah. "Hey Kai." she said softly as she took a seat beside him. Kai didnt answer, he just went back to staring at nothing again. Mariah watched Kai quietly, there was something bothering him she could tell. But she wouldnt ask. If he wanted her to know, he would tell her.

Mariah could hear everyone back at the camp. They were far away enough that she could just barely hear them. By the way it sounded, another argument must have broke out between Bryan and Tyson. That was happening on a regular basis, but it was friendly argument so there was nothing to worry about.

Finally Kai spoke after what seemed like an eternity of silence. "Do they think Im as cold as I think they do?" he asked almost too softly for her to hear. "Well I wont lie to you Kai, they think your a cold-hearted bastard. But they dont mean it." Mariah replied casually. Kai looked at her he hid his suprise well, and he hid the tinge of pain even better.

"Here is some good advice Kai, wait until tonight when we are all around the fire. Then tell them what you want. They'll have to listen then." Mariah stood up and dusted off her pants. Kai watched the pink-haired girl for a moment before muttering "Thanks"

Mariah turned and walked away, leaving Kai to his thoughts. It was best to leave him be and let him do what he needed. Kai wasnt as cold as everyone thought. After all, everyone deserved a second chance to prove how they are.

And after the whole Black Dranzer situation, Kai defently needed a second chance. Mariah just hoped that the others were ready to give it to him.

Well there is chapter one. I'd really appreciate it if y'all told me what you think!