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Previously...

"You're one cocky bastard." Kai seethed.

Omen smirked and slid his hands casually into his pockets.

"I bet you're ticked about what happened to poor Max yesterday, aren't you Kai?"

Omen felt the cold steel of his thumb blade in his pocket.

"Shut up!" Kai said harshly. "I want to ask you something..."

"Ask away."

"Did you kill those two cops, Gary Armstrong and Anthony Malcom?"

Omen discreetly slid the deadly blade onto his thumb and snickered. "Yes I did."

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Now...

"I knew it." Kai said darkly

Omen's mind switched to the blade on his thumb, still conceiled in his pocket. He pondered for a moment then switched it from his thumb to his pinky finger, deciding he would have more luck at wounding Kai.

"I pulled off murders right under the cops noses again!" He said proudly. "And they are supposed to be the best of the best! Ha ha! Yeah right! But now I'm getting sidetrack. I forgot that you wanted a fight! If you're so eager for an early death then fine!"

Omen suddenly charged at Kai with speed that the russian didn't think was possible. Omen struck out with his hand at Kai's face. Kai noticed something glimmer on Omen's hand and dodged quickly, but not fast enough to feel something slicing his cheek open. Kai punched out at Omen but he jumped back and smiled. Kai touched his hand to his cheek and brought it back, seeing the scarlet blood on his finger tips. He looked back to Omen. Max was shocked.

"How did that happen? How did he become so fast? Are you alright Kai?"

"Surprised?" Omen asked in his soft, dangerous tone. "I told you I've been training Kai. Didn't you believe me?"

Kai growled. Omen was just toying with him. Kai took up his fighting stance and glared at Omen. The red eyed boy snickered.

"You're not giving up? Good."

He ran at Kai again and struck out his closed left fist. Kai grabbed it with his left hand and pulled it back so Omen would spin and his ribs and back would be exposed. Kai punched his fist at Omen's ribs but Omen whipped behind Kai and grabbed his left wrist, twisting it nastily behind his back. Kai growled and kicked back, forcing the evil teen to release him. Omen took one step away then back Kai harshly in the back, sending him forwards. Kai regained his footing before he fell and turned to face Omen. But to his shock, he wasn't there. Max's voice suddenly rang out close by.

"Kai! Look out behind you!"

Kai turned and saw Max run in front of him. Omen punched Max brutally in the cheek and sent the blonde staggering back into Kai. Kai grabbed Max's shoulders and held him up as his knees buckled. Max looked around in a daze, his eyes not focussing on anything and bordering on the line between here and unconsciousness.

"Max! You alright?"

"Y... yeah K-Kai..." He muttered. "Get him!"

Kai sat Max down on one of the seats just as he lost conciousness, and then looked back at Omen who was standing boldly on one of the desks.

"Come on Kai!" Omen laughed, "This is just too easy! I can't believe I lost to you in the forest! You disappoint me Kai. I thought I was going to get a good fight out of you."

"Don't count me out just yet."

Kai ran at Omen this time and punched at his opponants knees. Omen jumped off the desk, grabbed Kai's wrist and twisted it behind the Russians back before slamming him down onto a desk, all in one gracefull, flowing move. Omen held both of Kai's hands to his back and kept him pinned on the table. Kai struggled but Omen had become ten times stronger than what he had been in the cave a month ago. Kai felt Omen take both Kai's wrists in one hand then put his other hand on the back of Kai's head, forcing his face into the desk. Omen leant down close to Kai's ear.

"You are no match for me now Kai." He whispered sinisterly. "I am stronger than you will ever hope to be. I am going to kill you Hiwatari, but not yet. I am going to drag out your torment then kill you when I am done. I am disappointed Kai, you let me down. I was hoping for a challenge. Your performance was pitiful so as a punishment, I'm going to take it out on your friends. One by one they will be targeted and you never know, I might even get the same person twice! I wont kill them the first time, but if they are unfortunate enough to tick me off then I hope you remember to farewell them."

"Don't you dare-"

"What will you do to stop me huh?" Omen threatened. "You think you'll be able to kill me? Or fight me? You will only lose again. I have already gone after Max once."

Omen released Kai's head and gazed at the small, glittering blade on his finger.

"You will know when I am ready to come after you Kai." He said quietly. "I am going to keep a tally. Once that tally hits 10, that's when I'll come after you."

Omen suddenly sliced a line into Kai's arm with the blade. Kai hissed in pain.

"So far, only one strike to begin the tally." Omen laughed. "I trust you'll remember to check it every day?"

Omen let go of Kai and stepped back. Kai stood and looked at his arm. The cut was made near his wrist and was emitting a thin stream of blood. Kai gared at Omen, who merely smiled back.

"In case you do forget, I will post another tally board some where."

Kai went to say something when the door suddenly opened. Both boys turned and saw a male teacher looking at them in shock.

"What are you boys doing in here?!" He asked, anger growing in his voice. "You should both be in class!"

Omen thought quickly and stood beside Max who was still unconscious and slumped in the chair, his cheek bruising horribly.

"We were waiting for our friend to get a teacher!" Omen replied with false concern. "My friend Max must have fainted or something because he fell and hit his face on the edge of a desk!"

Kai glared at Omen as he held Max's shoulders in concern. The teacher was obviously fooled by Omen's 'concern' and hurried over to them. Omen shot a sly smirk at Kai when the teacher wasn't looking.

'This isn't good,' Kai thought, 'I can't beat him! How could that bastard get so much stronger in just a month?! This is not good!'

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Hilary and Trixie walked silently through the school halls towards their next class. Both girls were wondering how the fight was going. Even though Trixie didn't want to admit it, she was worried about Max and Kai. Hilary figited restlessly with her dark brown singlet. Trixie put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry. I'm sure Kai'll be okay. Have some faith in ya man."

Hilary smiled at her.

"I think thats the first time you've used Kai's name in a sentence without putting some sort of insult in there."

"Don't go gettin used to it." Trixie countered with a small smile. "What you got now?"

"Home Economics."

"Damn, I got Maths. What about after?"

Hilary scanned her time table. "Geography, English then Art."

"We have nothing together again!" Trixie complained.

Hilary stopped. "Here's my class, see you later!"

"Later." Trixie said, continuing to walk and waving a hand above her head.

Hilary smiled and walked into her Home Ec class.

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Trixie didn't really care that she was almost twenty minutes late for class and took her time getting there. She didn't recall Maths being a requirement for a career in singing and police work.

'Though I guess having good grades in everything helps a lot when you want to be a cop.'

She strode casually into the maths wing and spotted her class room. Without even knocking she opened the door and entered a room filled with a surprised teacher and students. The male teacher looked at her for a moment then cleared his throat.

"Miss Mathers, where have you been?"

"Sorry Mr Croft. I was caught up with stuff."

"Well make sure you aren't held up again. Hmm, theres one seet left up beside Mr Valkov."

Trixie snapped her eyes to the back of the class in horror.

"Oh hell no," She cursed under her breath.

Tala was sitting in the back row and looked just as disgusted as her. Ray was sitting on his other side and smiled at her. Trixie looked over to Mr Croft but he merely cocked his head towards the seat, starting to get impatient. Trixie growled and made her way grudgingly towards the seat. Mr Croft turned his back on the class and started going through the quadratics on the board. Trixie stopped behind her desk and swung her bag off, catching Tala on the back of the head. He glared at her as she sat down. Trixie merely gave him an innocent smile then rolled her eyes.

"Why on earth did I have to be put in the same math class as you?" She hissed over to Tala.

"I was wondering the same thing." He whispered back. "I'd prefer to have even Tyson here rather than you."

"This aint no walk in the park for me either Valkov."

Ray felt the tension between the two slowly intoxicating the air. He tapped Tala on the shoulder timidly.

"Um, are you two alright?"

"Yeah, I'm just peachy," Tala muttered dryly, "I'm sitting next to an annoying bitch and will have to put up with her through every math class for the rest of the semester, possibly year."

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Hilary sat next to Mariah and finished copying down the rest of the work when the bell rang out across the school. Luckily for her, she go Miss Persijn -a young, pretty and very nice woman- for a Home Ec teacher.

"Something tells me that Kai didn't kill Omen." Mariah whispered to her friend after glancing out the window.

"Why do you say that?" Hilary asked.

"There aren't any cop cars or ambulances out the front. And some one would have noticed a corpse lying around by now."

Hilary nodded, feeling both relieved and anxious. Relieved that Kai hadn't been murdered, anxious because he and Omen might have left the school to finish their fight elsewhere. The two girls left the class room and entered the packed hall.

"Have you got Geography now?" Hilary asked.

"Nope. I have to go the other way." Mariah said. "See you at lunch."

The girls parted and Hilary walked with the flow of people towards the Geography room.

'I hope Kai's okay,' She thought nervously. 'And Max.'

She stopped at her class room and walked in. She froze at the door. Sitting in the back row, leaning in his chair with his feet rested on the desk was Omen. His arms were crossed over his chest and his eyes were closed. He opened his eyes slowly at the sound of the door opening and smiled cheerfully at Hilary.

"Hello there." He said. "Too bad you skipped out before. You didn't get to see me make a fool out of your boyfriend."

Hilary walked fearfully towards him but her anxiety for Kai's well-being drove her right up to Omen's desk and she slammed her hands on the table. Omen watched her with amusement.

"Where is he? You better not have hurt him!"

He laughed softly.

"He's just fine." Omen said to her surprise. "I haven't killed him yet so don't worry your pretty little head about it. I did seriously maim his ego though. I think he's realised now that he can't beat me."

"You're a liar." Hilary seethed. "Kai is stronger than you-"

Omen was suddenly on his feet and towering over her with a sly smile.

"Kai is a weakling compared to me. If Kai was stronger then I'd be dead right now... wouldn't I?"

Hilary felt the blood drain from her face and her hands began to tremble, she was frozen under his intense stare. Other people began to walk into the class room and Hilary finally tore herself away from the red-eyed teen and sat down on the opposite side of the classroom. Unfortunately for her, none of her friends were in this class. Omen on the other hand had spotted Drake in amongst the students, sitting in the row just before the last with his two friends.

'Well, this is going to be a very interesting class.' Omen thought.

Drake had noticed Omen also and could feel his sinister red eyes staring at him. Drake focussed on his work and ignored the teen completely. Hilary wasn't as strong willed though. She couldn't concentrate at all and had no idea what their teacher was talking about. She merely prayed that the lesson would finish quickly.

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Kai leant back in his chair at the back of his English class. Shana sat beside him and quietly did everything the teacher told them to do. Kai's mind was else where. How could he protect his friends, if Omen was stronger than him? How could he save them? How could he prevent another one dying? He clenched his fists and looked at the blank page of his book.

Tala had guns, he could always use one of them, but that was low and sneeky to Kai. Omen had used a gun to kill Kenny, so if Kai used one to kill Omen, would that make Kai any different from him? It would make him a murderer and would double his jail sentence if he was caught. After all, Omen may not have a gun any more and it could be classed as an unprovoked homocide. No one but he, Hilary, Tyson, Max and Ray knew what happened in the cave and who would believe a bunch of teenagers anyway? Trixie, Shana, Mariah and Tala knew, but they only heard about it from Kai and the others and wouldn't really stand as evidence in trial. And it wouldn't be of much use any way. Omen has amnesia, he can't remember what happened and the jury would take pity on him. He could butter them all up and feed them a bunch of lies to prove his innocence and they would most likely fall for it. One item that would stand up in court however would be Omen's criminal record. He had murdered cops when he was a kid and was increasingly violent in Juvenile Hall. Though Kai also had a criminal record and no doubt the brawl he and Omen had after Tyrone's death had been marked down on file.

Kai sighed wearily and stared around the classroom. All the students had no idea of the murderer in the school and if he warned any of them, they would call him a loser and send him to the closest mental institution. Great. Shana noticed Kai's anxious face and it made her nervous. The stolid Russian never displayed his concern... ever. Not since the minute she'd met him. He'd always be silent, and moody, not really caring about anyone else.

"Are you alright Kai?" She whispered.

Kai glanced down at her and nodded, his face returning to its regular façade. Shana gave a shy smile and returned to her work. Kai's air of superiority sometimes intimidated her. She was a shy and timid girl, but very pretty and thin. Max absolutely adored her and she was in love with him. She could be pretty brave at times but wasn't really very strong. She was a delicate blossom with all the beauty of a rose as Max had once whispered so seductively in her ear. But she was also intelligent and smarter than both Hilary, Tyson and Mariah. Her and Max shared the same IQ but Max would always petend to be dumber around her, not that it was very hard for the ecstatic boy.

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The bell rang out and the Geography students began packing away their books quickly, anxious to meet their friends out in the courtyard and grounds for lunch. Hilary packed her pencil case away and looked back at Omen. The murderers attention however was focussed on someone else. She followed his line of sight and saw him staring at Drake Summers. She and Drake didn't talk much and never hung out, they were just extras to each other, filling in the backgrounds of each others lives with the rest of the people.

'Why is he looking at Drake?' She thought curiously.

"Miss Tachibana?"

Hilary heard her teacher, Miss Dante calling her from the front of the class. Omen glanced at Hilary then walked pass her with a smirk before leaving the class room. Hilary shivered at the sight of the smile but made her way to the front. By the time she broke thought the crowd and made it to Miss Dante's desk, the classroom was empty. Dante gazed at her through the thin rimmed glasses placed on the bridge of her freckly nose. Her stylish, blonde fringe shaped her face prettily and the rest of her blonde hair was tied back in a sensible pony-tail. She was almost 30 years old but not as crabby as most other teachers.

"I'm so sorry to hear about your friend Hilary," She said kindly. "I know Kenny was close to you. If you need anything, then please, just let me know."

Hilary nodded quietly. Her tears had long been cried out. After they'd left the forest, she's cried for a full week, holding Kai's hand the whole time, even though he was in a coma.

"Thank you Miss Dante." She replied. "I really appreciate it."

Dante gave her a warm smile. "Alright then. Go to lunch."

Hilary nodded respectfully then exited the class room. She glanced around the empty halls. Every one was downstairs eating lunch. Hilary continuously checked behind her and walked swiftly, scared that Omen could pop out from anywhere. She made a left turn and walked into the girls toilets, needing to check that she looked at least presentable. In this school, image was everything. Especially considering most of the girls were bitches and snobs, ready to find the smallest flaw in another girls appearance and rip and tear at the poor victim like a pack of ravenous wolves. Hilary, Mariah, Trixie and Shana were a few of the girls who weren't like that, though Trixie had a few moments where she was savage towards Kai and Tala. Hilary put her handbag on the bench beside the sink and sighed at her appearance in the mirror. She honestly didn't know what Kai saw in her. She herself thought she was ugly, a typical thought for many girls who were actually quite beautiful. She pulled out her lipgloss from inside her bag and leant close to the mirror. She was so consumed by her application of glossy Pink Passion that she didn't notice the dark shadow slip into the room behind her.

"God Hilary, who knew you were so vain?"

Hilary dropped her lip gloss. Her scream was muffled by Omen's firm hand, grasping her mouth almost cruelly. He smiled into her ruby, terror struck eyes which already brimmed tears.

"Wow," He said with mild amusement, "You are really terrified of me, aren't you?"

Hilary tried to back away but her tailbone pressed against the bench, digging in painfully as she still tried to retreat further. She finally managed to bring her trembling hands up and pull Omen's hand away.

"What do you want?" She breathed.

His body was less than a foot from her and she could smell his sweet yet terrifying aroma. She tried slipping sideways but Omen slammed his hands down on the edge of the bench, either side of her waist. He had her trapped and even though he had to lean slightly, he still stood almost a foot above her.

"I just want to talk," He said, a nasty smile playing on his lips. "You didn't really think Kai would kill me did you?"

"It was more of a hope or expectation rather than a thought." She said icily.

Omen laughed darkly. "Now that wasn't a very nice thing to say. Some one might be offended by a statement like that!"

Hilary tried to push him away but he was as immovable as Tyson was when he was playing his playstation. If anything, Omen was closing the gap. His torso was inches from her.

"Get away from me!" She said loudly, "Get away now or I will scream!"

Omen raised a hand to her face. She closed her eyes tight and gritted her teeth fearfully. She felt his thumb gently wipe away one of her tears and a soft laugh.

"Oh yeah, you're so going to scream."

Hilary opened her eyes and looked back at him angrily and was caught completely off guard as his lips feathered over hers. She was shocked for a moment, just staring into his satanicly handsome face which was smiling evilly at her. She finally gathered her senses and brought her hand up quickly to slap him.

"You basta-!"

Omen caught her wrist before she struck him. He smiled then snickered evilly.

"Don't be all hostile now. I have something to talk to you about."

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Here ya all go... please don't kill me because I always leave it in a cliffie!!!!! ducks a knife HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being evil! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You can all suffer!!! Sorry... please review!!!!!!