Hello again another day with two chapters!! I have a real problem folks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade (probably a good thing!)
Hilary awoke stretching, for a moment she was confused as to where she was but after a few seconds of thinking she remembered. Sitting up she looked around everyone else was still asleep, in the next bed Kai was lying on top of his cover dead to the world. Hilary thought hard she couldn't remember ever having seen Kai asleep, he was usually the first up and the last one to go to bed. She giggled silently, looking down at him she saw for the first time a completely calm and relaxed Kai. Powerless to stop herself she leant forward and brushed his hair off his face, GET A GRIP she inwardly screamed. Standing she brushed herself down briskly and made her way up to the deck.
"Hilary?"
"Phil!" smiling Hilary turned to see him walking up behind her
"How you feeling this morning?"
"Great!" Hilary laughed "a little seasick but hey anything's better than being back there" she inclined her head towards the distance behind them.
"Yeah.. Look Connor said that I might've been a little insensitive yesterday"
"Insensitive?"
"You know announcing in front of your friends what those guards almost did to you."
"Right, yeah, you know what don't worry about it"
"You sure 'cause I would never do anything to upset you" Phil was staring at her intensely, she blushed.
"Thanks!"
"So… how you feeling"
"We already did that" Hilary reminded him
"Oh yeah your great!" Phil nervous spoke loudly,
"Hn" a new person had joined the conversation, Hilary turned
"Kai you're up!" Hilary's smile wavered as she saw the look on Kai's face, all Kai had heard from the conversation was Phil's last declaration of 'your great' and he didn't like the way Phil was looking at Hilary
"Hello again Kai" Phil gave him a friendly smile but it died on his face when he saw the glare sent his way." Well I better go I need to see to the radar, so we can move undetected we set up an EW style jammer so that we only register as flicker noise on the radar"
"Phil I have no idea what you just said" Hilary laughed "But I trust you to know what your doing" Phil grinned and walked off quickly. The minute he was out of earshot Hilary turned on Kai angrily "what the hell was that!"
"What?"
"Why are you being so rude?"
"I felt like it"
"Oh for Gods sake Kai! You know for a minute back on the island I thought that you were a human being, I thought you were… I don't know nice."
"Nice?"
"Kai you were so kind, and for the last few years I have actually been dreading the day that I had to tell you about Dranzer. I thought you would hate me."
"Hilary I don't blame you for that"
"Well what's your problem with Phil?"
"He just seems…" he stopped unable to think of something to say! Actually the guy was nice, there was nothing wrong with him at all.
"He just seems! Good one Kai!" Hilary turned to leave
"Hilary" Kai sighed as she started to walk off
"Kai you had better have something good to say!"
"I was hoping that we could have a walk" Hilary stared at Kai, he was staring at the deck but she caught something in his eyes, a look of vulnerability.
"OK" Kai's head snapped up and a slight smile played on his lips Hilary grinned, "But if you're rude to one more person today I'll take a leaf out of your book and clam up for a week. Deal?"
"Hn" Hilary walked over to Kai and to his surprise slipped her arm through his, together they walked around the deck enjoying each others company
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After a few days travel the escapees and their rescuers arrived on another slightly smaller island. On this island Phil, Connor, Michael and Niall took them through wood and into a large building. The building was unfriendly and cold looking, there were guards everywhere each wearing the same black and Blue uniform as Niall. Hilary was beginning to feel a little worried was this a case of out of the frying pan into the fire?
Kai looked around he was impressed by the base that they had been taken too, the building was a decent size it had hi-tech security and the guards that stood around were friendly but serious. They were left in the care of an officer who introduced himself as Calvin apparently everyone here was on first name basis. Calvin took them into a lift and when they got to the top floor they were taken into an incredibly luxurious office. The room had several sofa's and by the window there was a large ornate desk.
"Kai?" Hilary was looking up at him and she looked concerned,
"Hey don't worry" He brushed her cheek lightly with his hand "these guys can't be any worse then Boris" he watched as she gave him a slight smile. They sat down as directed and then Calvin left them, they were all sitting and making small talk for almost half an hour when unexpectedly the door they had come through opened and in walked a tall man with bark brown hair and deep grey eyes. The man walked slowly and with a limp but was steady on is feet, he looked quite old his eyes were cold and hard. Kai heard Hilary gasp beside him, looking down at her he saw her eyes full of amazement
"Hils" he whispered gently into her ear pulling her close "what is it?" she shook her head unable to answer and clutched his arm tightly. Kai watched as the man was followed in by a group of boys all dressed in blue and black uniforms, in contrast to their leader the boys all laughed jokingly as they entered.
"Are these them?" The mans voice was cold and unfriendly
"Yep" Phil winked over at Hilary not noticing how she grabbed Kai's hand and clung to it, Kai lifted the hand to his lips and kissed it tenderly, part of him did this to comfort her obvious distress, the other part observed with satisfaction as he saw Phil take notice. Kai watched Hilary's face relax, and tinge lightly pink but she didn't take her eyes off the older man who now sat behind his desk oozing disapproval.
"These are the people you wasted your time rescuing?" one of the young men came forward, he was tall and thin, his hair was dark almost black and he had grey eyes,
"Dad…" again Kai felt Hilary tense, as the boy corrected himself "I mean Sir, these are the protectors of the four sacred bit beasts, Boris was after them."
"All of these children are the protectors of the bit beasts?" the man spat the words out disbelievingly "How the hell is that possible those four I recognise but the rest are nobodies"
Kai felt rage well up in his body and dropping Hilary's hand he walked over to the desk.
"How dare you!" Kai rested both hands on the desk and leant down to look into the mans eyes.
"And you are?"
"I am Kai Hiwatari protector of Dranzer…" God it felt good to say that again,
"And Grandson to Voltaire" The man stood threateningly "I know about you and your little team from Boris' files, of course the file said that the team consisted of four males." He glanced up "Who are these others?"
"Friends"
"Oh well, rescuing them was foolish, next time only take the team Phil leave the rest behind"
"You have got to be kidding me" Tyson joined Kai followed by Max and Ray "As though we would ever leave them behind"
"Yeah!" the others chorused in agreement
"And you are?"
"Ray Kon Protector of Drigger"
"Max Tate protector of Draciel"
"Tyson Granger protector of Dragoon"
"Tyson Granger?" the boy who had addressed the old man as dad looked at him.
"Got a problem with that dude?" the young man made no response but stared at Tyson confused.
"You are all still to young to understand" the older man was scornful "you need to forget friends, family anyone you care about who is dragging you down. We know what we are talking about we have been working against Boris and his minions for some years now
"Me too" Kai could see he had surprised them.
"How exactly have you been working against him?"
"We got him put in prison a couple of years ago"
"Prison? Ah that would explain the ease with which we escaped."
"Pardon?" Kai stared at the man but it was the younger man, the son who answered
"We were all taken prisoner by Boris at different times for a lot of us my father and I included, we were captured over nine years ago, we were tortured, experimented on, it was horrible," he paused and shivered, before giving a grin and continuing cheerfully "a couple years ago the security went all lax, they would forget to lock up and sometimes they would just not come in to work. We saw the opportunity to get out and took it"
Kai stared at the young man in surprise that little action of shrugging off the misery, it looked so familiar, why? where had he seen that before?
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Hilary stood listening unable to get the intense feeling of nausea to leave her, she was going to throw up she knew it. Suddenly Hiro stood next to her he looked just as shocked
"Hilary, he looks like" he whispered lightly
"Jordan" she finished for him, shivering she pointed to two of the boys sitting next to the desk watching as Jordan told the story "they are my cousins B-Benny and Andy"
Hiro felt her trembling and put his arm around her for comfort she smiled at him and moved to stand behind his back trying to get out of sight of the men behind the desk
"I can't do this, I feel really sick" she muttered under her breath
"What do you want to do?" He hissed not looking at her, he removed his sunglasses to get a clearer look at Jordan and then immediately wished he hadn't
"Hiro? Hiro Granger?" the younger man was staring at him in complete disbelief Tyson looked at the excited boys face and gasped
"Jordan Tatibana!?!" Tyson couldn't believe his eyes he looked from Jordan to Hiro, Hiro remained silent trying to block Hilary from view, the others all looked at the boy disbelief in their eyes
"Hiro!" Jordan ran forward and Hiro found himself caught up in a bear hug "Oh my god it's so good to see you!"
"Jordan man we thought you died" unable to think for a moment Hiro returned the hug and grinned as his friend pulled back and punched him on the shoulder
"Me dead! Nah not for a while yet, how could you even think that?"
"Well your boat kind of sank!"
"Takes more than that to get rid of me!"
"You haven't changed a bit!"
"And never will" Jordan grinned and turned to face the people at the desk "So that must beTyson your brother, I wondered, dude you've grown"
"Hi Jordan" Tyson looked over at the group standing behind Hiro, Hilary looked as though she was about to pass out.
"Jordan Tatibana" it was Max who was first to speak "Not Hilary's brother?"
"You all know Hilary?" The man behind the desk caused them all to stare at him as he stood up frowning. Ray was the first to break turning and looking over to where Hilary stood. Following his gaze Hilary's father gasped as he saw his daughter for the first time in years, she had his hair but her mothers eyes and figure. Jordan looked at her standing behind Hiro and was shocked.
"Hilary?" He walked to her side "You've changed so much" still Hilary said nothing, nausea was threatening to overcome her and she could feel the tears in her eyes, she watched as her cousins stood staring astonished. For a few moments silence reigned,
"Could someone please tell me what's going on?" Mariah looked from one person to the other confused, Hilary couldn't stand it any longer turning she ran out of the room.
"Hilary!" the voices behind her became quiet as she ran through the hallway and darted up the first flight stairs she came to. In front of her was a door marked ROOF, KEEP CLOSED she pushed the handle and walked out. She looked around no one was there, no one would hear, staring into the sky she stretched her hands out and screamed.
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