Chapter Ten: The Room

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Kai was left in utter darkness and complete silence; he could barely see his hand if he put it in front of his face. The fire master was unsure how long he had been there but he was pretty sure it was getting late because the room had gotten a bit colder with the sun setting. Kai decided that he should sleep so he would have his energy the next day to get out, besides sleeping sounded absolutely wonderful right then. Laying on the hard, cool floor, Kai quickly fell into a dreamless slumber.

He had only been asleep for a little over an hour when he woke up because it had gotten colder. To this particular ninja, even a slightly chilly day made him put on a sweatshirt, but this cold wasn't cold just to Kai. He felt like he was a piece of meet freezing in the freezer. It soon got even colder in the room and he began to shiver uncontrollably while his nose began to run.

"Great," he thought, "now I'm going to get sick. I never get sick."

As Kai was huddled against the wall, shivering, freezing, he understood why the room was so bad. It finally stopped getting colder and stayed at a constant temperature of way colder than he would like degrees. Kai began to get sleepy but he wouldn't let himself fall asleep; he knew that wouldn't be good at all in his shivering, cold condition. Soon, he got sleepier and sleepier and couldn't stop himself anymore.

The red ninja was nearly completely asleep when he felt a prick on his leg. It wasn't as bad as a shot or a bee sting but still unpleasant. He soon felt another on his arm and another on his leg. He concluded that there had to be some kind of bugs in that room. Kai stood up, shook himself around, patted his clothes, and stomped around to get whatever was on him off. Even with only a few bites, they began to itch, they itched horribly and Kai wanted to scrape off his skin to make it stop. The bug bites had swollen to the size of a marble and he could feel a liquid substance coming out of them. It was then that Kai was glad it was too dark to see them.

Still, the itching continued. He wished he were in pain rather than the itching. But, be careful what you wish for. The bugs ceased to bite Kai's skin because they found something better-his cuts from when he had pulled away from the woman's knives. There were more than one in each cut and Kai could feel them biting him. He had no idea what kind of bugs these were; he had never heard of such creatures. This caused him so much pain that he not only forgot about his itchiness, but also forgot about how freezing it was in the room.

To Kai, it felt like the bugs had been biting him forever. He tried everything he could think of to get them off-scraping and digging but that only increased the size of his wounds; he even attempted spinjitsu but he couldn't in the blasted room. The creatures eventually stopped biting him and there Kai was left, exhausted, nose running, coughing, hurting, tears in his eyes, and above all, tired. Kai didn't have much control over himself, when the pain subsided a bit, he promptly fell asleep.

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Kai was abruptly awoken when the woman and two others Kai didn't recognize loudly came into the room.

"Rise and shine," the woman said.

Still lying on the ground, Kai looked up at her and he looked bad. He was pail, all of his cuts were infected and bleeding, and his hair and clothes were drenched in sweat from his fever all while he was still shivering.

"Oh," the woman said, "someone doesn't look too good,do they? Maybe you're ready to cooperate now."

Kai sat up despite his body yelling at him to lay back down and said, "I still will never help you. In fact, I'm willing to help you less."

One of the people with the woman placed a shiny, silver, triangular object on Kai's forehead. He tried to rip it back off but he was unable to.

"Don't worry," the woman said, "you won't be saying that later."

Kai's head began to feel very light and he soon lost consciousness, dropping back to the ground, passed out. He awoke within minutes and his mind was a jumbled mess. Sitting up, he rubbed his head and looked around.

"Now, Kai," said the woman, "Are you ready to serve me?"

Kai? Was that his name? He couldn't remember but it felt right. He also had no idea who this woman was or anything about her or where he was, but there was one thing still in his mind set aside from the jumbled mess-don't help her. She could be his mother for all Kai knew right then, but those three words "don't help her" kept running in his head. He had to stick with his gut instinct.

"No," Kai said with bitterness, "I will never serve you!"

The woman was taken aback by Kai's response. Never had this happened before.

"Tox, wipe his mind again," the woman said to one of the people with her. The look of Tox frightened Kai, she had lime green hair pulled into a loose ponytail and wore a bright green crop top with a black symbol and a studded collar. What frightened Kai most was her green lips, eyes, eyeshadow, and what appeared to be some sort of green rash all over her face and stomach like she had just been poisoned.

"But we have never done this twice before," Tox said. "It could ruin his mind."

"Toxikita, do I look like I care? I have given you an order, now do it," the woman said sternly.

Tox bowed. "Sorry, Master."

She approached Kai and pulled something off of his forehead. It was silver and shiny but Kai wasn't sure what it was. Tox pressed a few buttons on the bottom of it before placing it back on Kai's head. He went up to touch it, but before he was able to, his jumbled mind became even more jumbled. Then his whole head began to hurt and throb; he gave a cry of pain before again loosing consciousness.

The three others in the room stood over Kai, waiting for him to shortly awake. The usual few minutes passed and he still laid on the ground, out of it. A few more minutes passed and still there was nothing.

"Do you think we killed him?" the other person, a man with a helmet and a beard, said in a Russian accent.

"Must have, or he would have awoken by now," said the woman in her usual robot-like voice. " Too bad though, he would have been very useful if we could get him to cooperate."

She left the room without even looking back at Kai lying on the ground. Tox followed her master and left Kai and the other man in the room. The man felt bad for Kai, he really was only a kid after all. He peeked out of the door to make sure no one was coming and carried Kai's limp body down the hall a bit and into another room. This room had a hanging light on the ceiling and was very simple. It had a plain bed, a small wooden dresser, and a colourful rug on the floor. He placed Kai on the rug and took the silver device off his forehead and stood in the doorway.

"Karloff is sorry for what Master has done," he said to Kai. "Karloff has been here long time and realize my memory has been erased. If it ever returns, Karloff will tell your family of your braveness of standing up to our master."

Karloff left Kai lying on the rug in his room, shutting the door behind him as he left.

Duh. Duh. Duhhhh. I am a wicked person that loves cliffhangers. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review as I'm sure you have many mixed feelings about this chapter.

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