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Chapter 8:

Shay stayed up for two and a half hours waiting for Kite to come back. During this time he paced around the room going from wall to wall and corner to corner. During his pacing something suddenly caught his attention. Sticking out from under Kite's pillow was a piece of paper. Shay pulled it out and read it.

Everyone here looks worn out and tired. No one looks at all happy. You look like you might fear this man and I get the feeling something is wrong here from that look in yours and the other cadets eyes. I'll see what I can figure out about this place and what I can do to help. Hold on. Sorry it took a while to respond Hart has been unwell. He's doing fine now so don't worry.

Shay knew the note was from Kite's father. It had to be he didn't have it earlier before lunch. Why hadn't Kite showed him this earlier? Shay knew for a fact Kite would not want the note to fall into the hands of the Professor or anyone else at the academy so he placed it under the mattress of his friend's bed before finally settling down on his own bed.

He fought hard to stay awake so he could make sure Kite was okay when he was brought back but he lost the fight to exhaustion. His eyes closed slowly despite his will to keep them open.

"Kite I hope you're alright," Shay said in a tired whisper to himself just before he closed his eyes.

Shay awoke to the door being opened and someone being roughly thrown in. He glanced at his clock and read 12 O'clock. He jumped up as the door slammed shut and turned on the light to see Kite lying on the floor. He was covered head to toe in slashes and bruises and looked to be in a lot of pain.

"Kite," Shay called out as he rushed to his roommate's aid.

"Sh-Shay," Kite managed to respond back as he weakly opened his eyes and struggled to his feet.

Shay caught Kite as he collapsed and got him to his bed. He cleaned and dressed his friend's wounds quickly before putting the first aid kit away. It was 12:30 by the time he finished.

"Kite this happened because your father showed up here didn't it?" asked Shay.

"He…knows…some-thing…is up…with the a-cad-emy…He's g-going…to try…and h-help," Kite weakly told Shay.

"I found the note. I hid it under your mattress so the academy won't find out about it," Shay confessed.

Kite nodded weakly. Shay turned the light out as Kite allowed himself to slowly drift off to sleep. Before falling asleep though Kite felt Shay put his covers over him and opened his eyes half way before Shay went back to his own bed for a little more sleep.

"Have you seen Shay or Kite at all today?" Yuto asked his roommate Yuri as they headed to the dining hall for lunch the next day.

"No I haven't," Yuri answered back

"It's not like them to miss breakfast or not socialize with the rest of us," Yuto mused.

"They could have decided today they would skip breakfast for a little more sleep," Yuri told him. "I know I have a few times."

"Okay I guess I could see even them skip breakfast from time to time. What about not showing up for their classes though?" Yuto wondered.

"Are we sure they didn't go to their classes this morning?" Yuri countered trying to keep his roommate calm.

They entered the dining hall and headed to their table. Shay and Kite were both absent when they got there. The rest of the group noticed the absence too and they all were worried.

"Maybe their talking to the Professor or something," Sora suggested.

"Yeah they could have gone to their classes and in between class we could have just missed seeing them. Then they got called to talk to the Professor," Dennis chimed in.

"The only time anyone is called to talk to the Professor is if they are in trouble," Sylvio reminded his friends.

"Something's wrong," Yuto whispered to Yuri.

"Something is wrong," Yuri agreed.

Yuto and Yuri looked at their friends then at the door. They locked eyes then with a nod they ran for the door. The rest of the group quickly followed after them.

Yuto got to their destination first with Yuri right behind him followed by the others. They stopped a few feet from the open door. They knew who was inside but neither knew if their friends were being taken away for punishment or returning from one.

"You thought you could skip a day of classes and training and get away with it," Yuto heard Barrett yell.

Two juvenile officers exited the room dragging Kite with them. He didn't seem to have the strength to struggle. Sounds of fighting could be heard from the room before two more juvenile officers come out of the room. Between them was a struggling Shay. Barrett came out last and struck Shay knocking him out.

"Shay, Kite," Yuto called out as Yuri held him back.

"Yuto don't join them," Yuri told him.

Yuto stopped struggling against Yuri knowing he was right for trying to stop him from also being punished. The rest of their friends watched in utter shock wondering what was going on.

"We'll come back after our classes and military exercises to make sure they're okay," Yuri whispered so Barrett couldn't hear him.

"Okay," Yuto whispered back as he watched his friends being taken away.

Several hours later Yuri and Yuto were able to go back to Kite and Shay's room to see if they had been returned. Yuri knocked but no one answered. He tried the door and found it unlocked.

"That's one rule they didn't break at least," Yuto quietly said.

Yuri pushed the door open and stood with Yuto looking into the room to a sight they did not like. Shay was lying in the middle of the room on his back where he had been carelessly thrown. Kite lay next to him on his side facing the door. Both were breathing laboriously and their eyes were closed tightly.

"Shay, Kite," both Yuri and Yuto said at the same time as they went to the aid of their friends.

Yuto pulled Shay to his feet and helped him to his bed. Shay's eyes opened a little at his best friend's approach and he allowed himself to be pulled up but was too weak to really do anything to help Yuto get him to his bed.

"Shay what happened? Why did you and Kite skip a day of classes and exercises at the risk of punishment?" Yuto asked.

He looked over to Kite's bed where Yuri was tending to Kite's wounds. Unlike Shay Kite was unconscious and unaware of Yuto and Yuri's presence. Yuri locked eyes with Yuto wondering the same thing Yuto had just asked.

"T-ell…you…later…t-time. T-too…t-tired…now," Shay whispered weakly as his eyes closed and he lost consciousness.

It took Yuri and Yuto just over an hour to deal with all the wounds Shay and Kite had. Yuri took stock of the items left in the first aid kit with the intention of restocking it. He knew it would be some time before Kite and Shay woke up so he asked Yuto to help him restock it then they needed to let the others know the conditions of their two friends.

"We won't learn anything from them for a while so we might as well make ourselves useful to pass the time until we can learn something," Yuri said as he led Yuto out of the room.

After returning the restocked first aid kit back to Shay and Kite's room it was time to inform the rest of the group about their friends.

They found the others in the rec room. Yuri told them Shay and Kite were back in their room. He also told everyone about the injuries they received and that he and Yuto had taken care of them.

"So they'll be okay?" Sora enthusiastically asked.

"Maybe," Yuto told him. "They have some nasty injuries and the training here is bad enough without added injuries."

Little did the group know it would be some time before they would learn anything about what happened to their friends. They had no idea the two roommates would be laying in their room unaware of anything going on around them for the next several hours.


There you go. What will happen next? Will Shay and Kite be okay? Keep reading to find out. As always read and review. Let me know what you think.