"Hey! Let us outta here! What about our rights?! You're meant to say that we have the right to remain silent! No one said we had the right to remain silent!" Tyson yelled, rattling the bars of their dungeon.
"Tyson, we do have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity." Kenny groaned.
"I hope that Kai and Hilary are alright." Max sighed.
"They'll be fine. If what Kai said about Hilary is true, then they'll be putting up a pretty good fight." Ray replied. "And would you stop rattling the bars, Tyson? You're giving me a headache!" he added.
MEANWHILE
Hilary was bandaging Lily's injuries. Kai rubbed his neck. Relane had placed an electric collar around his neck. Hilary and Lily had collars as well. "Tell me what happened to you." she begged.
"It was yesterday. Relane said that she wanted to know what I'd done with your body after you "died". I told her that I'd dumped you in the nearby river. I'd thought that she'd bought it, but as you can see, she didn't." Lily sighed.
"Then what happened?" Kai asked.
"She restrained me in some sort of laboratory. She said that I was about to "fulfil my destiny as a Guardian". I had no idea what she was talking about, and she kept calling me Demeter." Lily explained.
Hilary looked puzzled.
"Then she put some sort of needle into me, and said that once the power locked within me had awakened, it would only be a matter of time before Iphigenia and Apollo's reincarnations would come to help free me." Lily continued.
"What was in that needle?" Hilary asked.
"I'm not sure, but it caused any injury I'd be inflicted to be ten times more painful. I felt like she was killing me. To be honest, it felt like what you went through as a child, only worse." Lily replied. She shivered.
"Hilary, what is she talking about?" Kai asked.
Hilary swallowed hard. "When I was little, Relane...used to abuse me, physically and mentally." she sighed.
Kai covered his mouth in shock.
"She inflicted many scars on me. Most of the time, she got the children to abuse me, using their Beyblades." she continued.
That explains why she screamed when Tyson and I were training... Kai thought. "What do you mean by "scars"?" he asked.
She lifted up her top and showed him a scar along her torso.
Tears filled his eyes. "H-Hilary..." he whispered.
"The abuse nearly killed me, but that bitch didn't even care!" Hilary replied.
He hugged her. "I-I never knew you'd been through so much..." he wept.
"It's OK. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?" she smiled bravely.
"Y-Yeah..." Kai nodded.
Later that night, Kai was drifting off to sleep, when he heard someone singing. It was Hilary. "Lily, what's Hilary singing?" he asked quietly.
"It's something she used to sing every night for the last ten years. She told me that it was a song her mother used to sing to her." Lily explained, sleepily.
It's beautiful...Just like the singer...Kai thought as he nodded off.