A/N: This is the late we know ... but it sure would be something promise;) Also something important Thanks to Neha, Makoto, Rock the road, princess, ASNTwlight,guests and The-next-voldemort--
blade breakers*gasp*
every other beyblading team*gasp*
voldemort*rolls around in his grave*
Harry:Yup they just said it #proud
Beyfanatics:Thanks Harry.
Anyway, we wouldn't have made it without the lovely reviews. ;)
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Kai rushed into the kitchen along with everyone else. He had heard Mariam's screams along with everybody else and tried to do everything in his power to not run toward the kitchen.
Their screams had stopped abruptly (at some point Max's screams had merged in with Mariam's) his insides froze , surely the sudden quite would only mean one thing...
Hilary knocked him out of his trace when she pushed him sideways to get to the Kitchen door(They had been standing in front of it for a long long time) She flung it open and ran inside
"MAX" She screamed as she ran in, no one moved Tyson and Serena weren't talking, Ray and Mariah were staring at the door that had sung shut after Hilary had gone in
Tala and Julia were sitting against the wall hand in hand clearly trying not to think of the worst.
He took a deep breath and walked in after Hilary, The room was uncomfortably hot in contrast with the corridor outside. He saw Hilary bent over Max and Mariam who were sprawled across the floor.
He ran across the room and skidded to a halt next to Hilary who was shaking Max.
"Max ,wake up!" She whispered shaking him vigorously. He knelt down beside her without saying anything and let go of the breath that he didn't know he had been holding. Max's chest was rising and falling in calm even breaths, he was okay.
Hilary kept shaking Max
"If you shake me one more time I swear I will die Hilary" Max said opening his eyes slowly. Hilary threw herself on him without waiting for him to get up.
"Mariam.." Kai started but Max cut him off
"She's fine" Max choked as Hilary let go of him.
"We should get out of here you guys must be hot" Kai said
"We are" Max Said with a wink.
Kai rolled his eyes and lifted Mariam up. Hilary supported Max and they walked out of the room where questioning eyes met them .
"Everything is fine. They're both fine" Hilary told them hoping to calm them down no doubt but the fact that Kai was carrying a dead looking Mariam, who they probably thought was still possessed, made them think otherwise.
They bunched around Kai in a flash and were looking at Mariam , worry etched on their faces as if this had'd been the girl who had chased them down a while ago. 'It wasn't her fault though' Kai reminded himself furiously , he of all people should believe that.
The anger he suddenly felt had been under the surface of his cold pretense , always. It was always directed at people who treated the Blizkrieg boys like it was their fault , like they'd asked them to be experimented on , like they wanted to live in the abbey , like they weren't being controlled by Boris who was an excuse for a human being, like they'd had a choice. He hadn't even known that it bothered him so much until the day when he say Tala on the bed , wrapped in bandages and realising what had gotten him there- trying to prove that he hated Boris , that he wasn't controlled. What angerd him most was that Tala had to almost die proving (and still not managing it completely) an he was pardoned immediately , was adored and understood(apparently).
"Kai you should put her down now" He heard Hilary say as if from a mile away. He hadn't realised that they'd walked back to the reception and everyone had formed a circle , with him in the middle , clearly expecting him to lay Mariam down which he quickly did before backing away , accidentally knocking into Hilary.
She was about to say something (probably curse) when Ray let out a scream which seemed to have startled everyone including himself. Kai looked at Tala instinctively and nodded once with a pleading look in his eyes , like he had expected Tala reacted at once
Just as Ray undid his bandages Tala swooned and swayed on his feet until he landed on Julia , who caught him reflexively but overbalanced and fell to the floor (Kai rolled his eyes).
"Tala can't stand the sight of blood" Kai stated as if everyone ought to have known this(which was ridiculous he knew ,since it wasn't even real, he couldn't stop himself) but everyone stared blankly at him.
"I'll take Ray out , Tala wont stand back up until the blood's gone" He said looking over at Tala tangled on the floor , who hadn't gotten up (For completely different reasons though , Kai thought hiding a smirk) .
Kai grabbed Ray's arm and positively fled the room before anyone could read the carving.
He led the way down to the corridor where Julia had left the sword when they'd run away from possessd Mariam.
"Kai..." Ray said, looking at is bleeding hand.
"What does it say Ray?"
"It says I the demon who was trapped in the walls of this ruin for centuries , by your kind. I require assistance in breaking free of the enchantment unjustly put on me for a long long time..." Their eyes widened as the skin began to seal itself back together and new words began carving themselves onto his skin.
I need a sacrifice a willing sacrifice of blood...Haven't you taken enough of mine ,already?" Ray asked his hanc skeptically ,in a different situation even Kai would have cracked up at the sight , but now it would probabaly add to his nightmares the sight of Ray standing in an empty halway, clutching his bloodied hand at the elbow, looking imhumanly pale and slightly swaying on his feet.
"It means death not just blood" Kai said as the rest of the words carved out and Ray wiped the blood off with is finger ,wincing ever so slightly, and read the rest of the horrifying carving.
One death and the rest of you children will be free to go , without having to ever bother about me."It has to be me" They both declared at the same time.
"Ray no"
"Kai no" .they said yet again at the exact same time.
"Look I know everyone hates you Kai but you don't have to do it" Ray said with a smile.
"Atleast you have something to live for, someone you love and someone who loves you back!" Kai yelled.
Ray stated at him." Hilary-"
"She hates me now! Ray please, let me do this.."
"Kai I would never forgive myself "
"If you don't do it I would never forgive you!"
"Everyone else will kill me if I do it!"
"They won't , They hate me Ray, don't you understand?"
"No! They don't- "
"Anyway,if they don't, They will ...now" Kai said ,he sould feel the cool air on his skin, the floor felt hard under his feet('it does have a kind of wecoming, feel about it..' he thought) He could smell Ray's blood mixed along with the scent of horror. He felt like what happened inside him didn't quite matter anymore.
"Why the hell did you have to have such an attraction to death?" Ray muttered but Kai mouthed a "please" to him which seemed to have decided him.
Kai moved forward in a flash , seized Ray's bloody hand and dropped it before taking him by the neck , Ray let of a scream that brought everyone down in seconds.
"KAI LET GO OF RAY! THIS MOMENT" Mariah's scream pierced the air.
"I will not! , he has to die! " Kai screeched in a hoarse whisper.
"HE IS POSSESSED TOO!" Max yelled,horrified.
"I am not, you pathetic fool. All of you are fools, to not have realised that I had planned all of this, it was I who raised the demon whose name is of too much power for mundanes to bear hearing, he was the one who wanted me to do this for him." Kai said in the same voice.
"Kai no!" Hilary bellowed
"Yes, the girl you love so dearly , to have faith that she will live on, will be dead, and do will the boy who is loved by so msny, so dearly, master shall be happy , I will be rewared!" Kai was screaming now, he increased the pressure on his throat, he saw Mariah snatch up the sword in his peripheral vision but pretended not to notice.
"You..you are good Kai, you aren't this crazy person ,snap out of it!" Julia said.
"Easy is the descent.. into hell" Kai could almost see Tala's eyes widen in horror behind him.
Ray let out a strangled scream and Mariah droved the sword neatly into Kai from behind, Kai let go of Ray who staggered back.
Kai turned around and said" I have nothing to prove now..." and fell to the floor in a heap, not before thanking god for Mariah's awesome aim.
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A/N: mwahaha we killed Kai!!!!
JUST KIDDING
Lol here's the real ending:
"That's dumb Kai ! I will not let you or anyone die!" Mariah heard Ray scream on top of his lungs. She rushed down, following his voice and ran in on Kai and Ray who were clearly having an argumemt about something there should never be an argument about.
"What the-?" Mariah said
"Mariah" Ray started and Kai opend his mouth but she held a hand up that silenced them both.
"I heard enough, no one has to die , come back up, a lot of shit happens whenever you both make plans" She snapped and led them back to the reception.
Relief washed over Mariah when she saw Mariam standing up and talking animatedly.
She briefly explaied the whole carving to them.
"It's obvious what we have to do now" She finished. Everyone stared at her.
"No no no no no no no no no..." Tala said suddenly and everyone looked at him but he was looking at Mariah, "Ray, your girlfriend's crazy!"
"Wha-" everyone started.
"She wants to raise a god damned demon!" Tala said as if everyone was stupid. At everyone's blank expression he sat down.
"You know what I'm in" He said
Mariah cheered,she didn't know how much Tala knew about demons but he probably knew a lot.
"In on what? can somebody bloody tell us something!?" Tyson said , losing his head.
"You explain, pink" Tala said. Mariah rolled her eyes at him.
"This demon-"
"Marax" Tala supplied
"-he has been giving dumb orders to us , is trapped here, it wants a sacrifice , if we raise it we could possibly make some sort of compromise which would save one of our lives and help us get ou of this wretched place" She finished. She saw Ray look at her with surprise and probabaly a little bit of terror.
"What if we all die?" Tyson said
"Well it is our only choice left, I say go for it" Tala said.
"Or I could die and all of you could go free" Kai said
"It's no guarantee Kai" Hilary started
"yeah your pathetic life won't be enough for the demon anyway" Tala cut in.
"I'm sorry? what life?" Julia asked,Kai scowled.
"Also your fangirls would have our blood anyway" Serena added.
"I'm sorry? What fangirls?" Tyson asked.
"And your popularity would probably get us all Jailed for murder" Max said
"I'm sorry? What Popularity?" Mariam asked
"okay, my conscience tells me that You all hate me" Kai started
"I'm sorry? What conscience?" Hilary said and everyone started laughing , everyone except Kai ofcourse.
"Okay! I get it , pink and red can raise the demon." Kai said ,his eyes shut but no one was listening to him, Mariah and Tala were already busy drawing a pentagram in the middle of the room.
"Thanks for the permission Kai, looks like they really needed it" Ray said laughing.
Mariah and Tala were discussing on the words they would use to call the demon when Ray walked over.
"Why do you guys know so much about demons?" He asked.
"To be prepared!" Mariah and Tala said at the same time.
They both looked at eachother, They probably looked like two people who had a common fandom. They squealed in complete fangirl/boy joy which was probabaly weird.
Ray just looked at them , he had a look in his eyes that Mariah couldn't place.
"Ray could you come to the library with me, I thought I saw a book there which could be helpful" Mariah said.
A few minutes later they returned with a book and found the others had formed a circle around the pentagram.
She walked over right to the edge.
"Don't go in , whatever happenes" Tala instructed everyone and Mariah began chanting.
She kept on for a while and finished with the word
"Marax"
Blue flames erupted from the pentagram, and a dark figure rose up and spoke
Its voice seemed to come from everywhere
who is it that dared to call upon the greater demon Marax"It is I Mariah Wong, we have called upon you to arrange a compromise, the price you named is too high, we do not give away our own" Mariah Said in a steady , loud voice.
"Haven't you taken enough of my blood?" Ray asked.
Marax laughed It wasn't I who carved orders on your arm Raymond kon , It was your grandfather, he was the one who brought you here , foolish human, he thought he could defeat me through you. He just used you, what a dimwit , you didn't even follow his orders He just wanted someone dead, so he could channel his spirit through the dead body and then destroy me.He was the one who arranged you to come here , manipulating Ryu Granger to plan a vacation.
It gave another rumbling laugh
Ray opend and closed his mouth like a fish "So it was a well planned holiday huh" He said
I shall make a compromise, I will take one of your happy memories... Give it and I shall let you walk freely away.
"I don't mind giving a memory, it is your choice" Tala said , addressing everyone. Everyone nodded.
Mariah closed her eyes , a happy memory..she had plenty of those, something with her team in it..she thought but a different memory rose to the surface, Her dad had her raised on his shoulder and her mother was ahead ,playing a game of catch with Lee . ' No not that please not that memory' She thought as she felt a cold finger on her forehead.
She opened her eyes "But I wasn't thinking of anything" She protested
The demon laughed yes, you were.
She saw everyone blink and wondered what memories they had lost. She saw memories swirl into the pentagram, Raul's face, a young red headed woman, A blond boy, Tyson's grandpa and her own face before they swirled into nothingness.
She hugged Ray, he looked down at her with a puzzled expression "Who are you, again?" He asked.
"Ray!"
"What? too soon to joke about the happiest memory thing"He said, she punched him. Before he could react the room around them vanished and they found themselves outside the dingy hotel.
"What the-?" Everyone said before realisation dawned on them. They looked at the hotel , it had no doors but they did see a window where the kitchen should have been.
"What?" Everyone said "There was a window there all this time!?" they all screamed except Tyson who said "oh, you guys didn't see it there?"
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A/N: How was it? Do review.
Also we should have mentioned it before but this story is slightly based on The mortal instruments(this chapter) and Stranger Things(ch8).
