Here is Chapter Ten, enjoy!

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"Blah" – talking

'Blah' – thinking

Change of place/time

Chapter 10

As the four teens walked into the darkness, it was suddenly replaced by light as the candles on the wall suddenly lit up, making them jump. Now they could see a dark tunnel in front of them, a sense of foreboding coming from it.

"Are we supposed to go down there?" asked Tyson turning to the others.

"It may lead us to Kai," said Ray.

"But it's so dark down there," pointed out Tyson.

"I still have my watch torch," said Max.

They turned to look at one another before walking towards the tunnel. Once they had stepped into it, lights again went on all the way down the corridor, which scared them again.

"Do you think someone was expecting us?" asked Tyson. The others just shrugged and carried on walking.

Soon they came to a fork in the road, and they had no idea of which way to go. One way was lit up, while the other was dark.

"I say we go down this one as it's lit up which means that this is the right way, right?" pointed out Tyson.

"No wait; remember where we could be right now guys. Boris could be tricking us saying that it's that way and leads us into a trap, but if we go this way we may find Kai," explained Ray.

As Max turned on the torch they were about to go into the darkness when Hilary dropped what she had been holding. They all turned round to look at her.

"Whoops, I must have kept it with me."

"It's a good thing you did, look what fell out," said Tyson picking up another piece of paper. "It's a note in Chinese I think."

"But none of us can read it," stated Max.

"I can," piped up Ray.

"Oh yes," said Max

"It says:

I see you have figured out all the clues. And yes your 'friend' Kai is 'fine' for now. And if you haven't stupidly taken this home, in front of you will see a tunnel; it's a long tunnel with lots of twists and turns. Have fun Bladebreakers. Don't come it's –

Boris."

"Great we could get lost in here, and why didn't you finish the last sentence?" said Tyson.

"Yes we could, but we won't. But since this place is such a maze it could take at least a day before we find Kai. Oh and the last bit of the sentence was scribbled out, see," said Ray as he showed them the paper.

"But who wrote that?" asked Hilary.

"Kai," was all Ray said.

"How do you it was him?" asked Hilary.

"Well, Boris doesn't speak Chinese I know that for fact, and Kai once told me that he knows Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Patwa. So Boris could have told him what to write and then he wrote this last bit to warn us, but he must have got Kai to tell him or someone there must have told him," cleared up Ray.

"But what happens if we do get lost?" asked Max.

"We'll be able to find our way out, right Ray?" said Hilary as she started to look down the corridor. Ray just nodded.

So they carried on down the darkened corridor, finding a clear path ahead of them. This went on for some time, until they came to a choice of four tunnels. Now they were confused as two were alight while two weren't. Hilary looked at each one and her instinct was telling her to go into the second dark one.

"Guys I think we should go into this one," she pointed out walking towards the dark one on the right.

"Why?" asked Ray.

"Because it feels like the right one," she stated simply. So they travelled down this one, glad Max's watch hadn't run out of battery yet.

They carried on down the corridor, only to find that there a door stopped them from continuing. The small window on near the top of the door wasn't dark, so they guessed that the corridor or room on the other side was lit up. Ray cautiously walked up to the door and slowly turned the handle, a sigh of relief leaving his lips as the door swung open. In front of them lay another stone corridor, so they had no choice but to carry on walking.

The corridor they were currently walking down seemed to go on forever, so the four teens began to race down it, Tyson in the lead. Suddenly the corridor made a sharp right turn, which made them slow down. Now tired, the four of them began walking again not really having an idea of where they were going; they just kept on turning corners hoping that the ones they were taking would lead to where they wanted to go. Then again their intuition hadn't been wrong yet.

Sounds of light footsteps echoed down the corridor, as the four teens quietly walked down the partially lit stone corridor. Suddenly they all stopped due to coming to a section where they could go straight across, turn left or right. They were deciding which route to take when they heard voices which caused them to freeze. Ray lie flat against the wall and signalled for the others to do the same. He then whispered for them to go back the way they had come. Once they were around the corner, the voices continued to get louder and the teens turned to look at one another scared at getting found out. The blonde of the group peered round the corner only to see two guys dressed in all black holding guns walk through the intersection they had just been at.

"They've gone you guys," Max whispered to them as they sighed. "But I don't think we should go left," he added as they nodded.

"So are we going right or straight across?" asked Tyson.

"Right," replied Ray, "They had to be coming from somewhere right?"

"Or maybe they were going somewhere," said Hilary. They turned to one another confused. If they went the way the guards did they could get caught, but it could lead them to Kai. Or they could go in the opposite direction and find Kai. Or maybe those guards had not been in any contact with Kai which means they had to go straight across.

"I saw we split up," said Ray suddenly causing them to stare wide eyed at him.

"But, but we could get lost we don't even know our way around here," said Tyson worried at the thought of getting caught.

"I've got a plan don't worry, Hilary and I will go left and you and Max go right. We meet back here in an hour, right," he told them as they nodded. "Try to keep to the walls as best as you can and most importantly if it's not a straight corridor remember the way you came, okay?" he added as they nodded again.

They looked at each other as they came to the intersection before nodding and walking off in their respective directions.

The brunette and dark haired blader slowly walked down the lit corridor wondering why it was getting lighter. They could hear the faint sounds of voices and machines and wondered where they were going, and if they should go on. They soon found themselves faced with a steel door, a small window at the top in the middle. Ray looked through it his eyes widening slightly.

"What, what is it?" asked Hilary as Ray turned to look at her.

"Out there is completely different from in here, it looks like a proper building rather than a dungeon. Actually it looks kind of like a hospital. But I saw a smaller room in there and the walls were made out of glass, and there were several guys in white labs coats milling about the place, looking at different machines etc," he described to her.

"So I take it Kai's not there then," she sighed as Ray nodded.

"Come on, we'll go back and see if Max and Tyson have found anything, if not we know exactly which way to go now," he said as they started to walk again.

Meanwhile Max and Tyson seemed to be having the same luck as their other two teammates, except all they found were endless corridors barely lit. They didn't find any indication that anyone was down here, not even a mouse. As they seemed to go deeper into this maze like place, it just seemed to get colder. The two teens lay against a wall taking a rest, wondering if Hilary and Ray had found anything interesting. Max took this opportunity to take a glance at his watch.

"Hey Tyson we should get going, we don't want Hilary and Ray to worry about us," he whispered as the navy haired blader nodded pushing himself off of the wall.

Ray and Hilary reached the intersection first and waited where they had hid from the guards, hoping to hear the footsteps of their two friends soon.

"Hey where are they?" whispered a familiar voice which caused Hilary and Ray to smile and walk towards them.

"Hey guys," greeted Ray which caused the other two to jump and turn around.

"Don't do that, we thought you were someone trying to get us," said Tyson as Max nodded.

"Did you guys find anything?" asked Hilary as they sadly shook their heads.

"How about you?" asked Max this time.

"We found a lab of sorts but nothing that we thought that would lead us to Kai," replied Ray.

The four of them then walked down the corridor in front of them praying that this would take them to their friend.

Just when they thought they were getting somewhere they heard a loud scream. They all froze, whoever that was it sounded like they were in an awful lot of pain.

"What was that?" whispered Max now scared.

"I don't know you guys. But you don't think it's Kai do you," also whispered Hilary the worry shown clearly on her face.

"But that means someone's hurting him," stated Tyson.

"Boris," growled Ray.

"But he said that Kai was fine, right?" sniffed Hilary.

"You can never really trust Boris," replied Ray. "Come on, it sounded like it was coming from this way," he turned the corner, the others quickly following him.

They had been running for what felt like ages when they heard the scream again, which caused them all to stop again.

"It's louder, we must be close," pointed out Ray as they started to run again.

With Kai

"Now, now, you know you're not supposed to do that, you're showing weakness, and I will not tolerate anything like that," said Boris as he got ready to kick Kai, on his already badly damaged ribs. Boris again kicked Kai, but this time he managed to keep his mouth shut by biting his lip so hard it bled.

"Oh, I see you've gained control of your emotions. Well let me try again to see if it stays that way," sneered Boris, as he kicked him again. Kai again managed not to scream again. "Good, now I'll come get you for training later, you worthless brat," said Boris as he slammed the cell door shut.

As soon as Boris had left Kai let out a little yelp of pain and leant against the wall, but quickly leant forward again as the cold brick wall stung the raw skin of his back.

Kai moved his weight from one foot to the other, trying not to put too much strain on his wrists, which there was no point in as they were already bleeding and bruised.

With the Bladebreakers

"The screaming has stopped," stated Max, as they all stopped walking.

"At least whoever was hurting him has stopped," sighed Hilary.

"Wait," said Ray.

"What?"

"Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?" asked Hilary.

"Footsteps," replied Ray. Ray was right; they could hear the light tap-tap of someone's shoes echoing in the old stone hallway.

"Where are we going to hide?" whispered Hilary as Max and Tyson hugged each other in fright.

Ray looked around them seeing a door a few paces back, he raced back and let go a breath he hadn't realised he was holding when he found out it was that it was unlocked, "In here," he said, as everyone rushed in not being needed to be told twice.

The person who had been walking had heard voices and stopped were the teens had been moments ago, and he looked around to see if there were any guards about. He thought he had been hearing things, shrugged and carried on walking.

They waited until they couldn't hear the person anymore before quickly shuffling out, thankful for that room being placed there.

"Who do you think that was?" asked Max.

"Well, and I'm only guessing but that was probably the person torturing Kai."

"That means we're close right?" asked Hilary. Ray nodded, but he still wasn't really sure. They continued to walk down the cold stone corridor, but as they got deeper, it got darker.

"Hey guys, I've just realised aren't there cameras here?" asked Tyson, as they all froze wondering why they hadn't thought of it before, even though they had been here for hours.

"Oh no do you think they've seen us?" whispered Hilary, worried they might hurt Kai again.

"But we can't really see anything, how are we supposed to see the camera?" asked Max, as he looked around the corridor.

"Maybe there aren't any down here," said Hilary, really hoping there weren't.

"We're most probably right near Kai, don't you think there would be cameras all over the place," reasoned Ray. "And if not then at least one of us must have been picked up before after trailing about the place for so long."

"But don't you think that they would have come after us by now," asked Tyson. The others nodded, praying that they hadn't been seen yet.

"I think I can hear something," shushed Ray.

"What can you hear?" asked Tyson.

"I don't know, but if you would shut your gob, like he told you only two seconds ago, he could and figure out what it is," almost shouted Hilary covering her mouth,

"It sounds like someone breathing," finally replied Ray.

"Breathing?" asked Tyson and Max.

"Kai," whispered Hilary, as they all started running.

With Kai

Kai's head snapped up as he heard lots of footsteps, and it sounded like they were running.

"Hey they are lots of cells down here."

"Ssshh."

'Those voices sounded familiar, but I can't work out where I've heard them before.'

"Kai is probably in the last one."

"Do you think he can hear us?"

"What happens if he's not in there?"

"What happens if Boris is with him?"

"Well if you guys would shut up, whoever was in there wouldn't hear us."

Kai didn't know whether to be happy or upset when he realized that it was his team mates' voices he could hear.

"Guys do you think Kai is okay, Boris said he wasn't hurt."

"But you heard him yell right?"

"Yeah."

"So he most probably is hurt."

Kai took a deep trying to fill his lungs with the precious air but instead it made him go into a coughing fit.

"Hey did you hear that?"

"Yeah it was coming from down here." The teens started running until they reached the end cell.

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