The guards dragged Rei away from other Demolition Boys. After few corridors, they stopped before big iron door. After a second the door opened mechanically and the guards literally threw Rei into a big white room. Rei immediately jumped to his feet and charged back, only to ram into the door, which closed.

"Let me out," Rei called out as he banged at the door with his right hand. He was scared and wanted to go back to others. He would do anything. Because he knew what was waiting for him. But Boris obviously didn't plan to let him out of this room soon.

Rei heard some sound behind him and stopped banging on the door. His breath was shortened. He bit his lower lip and gripped the front of his shirt, to stop himself from trembling, but failing miserably. He knew what it was. If it wasn't for that thing, he wouldn't be standing here. Boris wouldn't even spare him second look if that thing didn't exist.

Soft whisper. There was heard a soft whisper heard in the room. Too quiet for anyone to hear. It was calling single word, "Rei… Rei…" When the voice got louder, Rei flinched. He knew that voice, but he hoped, he would never hear it again. He didn't want to look behind him. But it was as if it was pulling him.

Rei slowly turned around. His breath was quick and he was sweating. One second he was cold and the next too hot. His trembling was obvious now. When his eyes landed at the stool in the centre of the room, it was as all the surrounding world disappeared. There were no other sounds and the background got blurred. He could hear the calling very clearly. And he couldn't resist it.

Rei slowly took one step forward. And then another and another. He was visibly swaying as he walked, but that didn't matter. Nothing mattered now. Only that, that he had to get to the stool. To what was lying on top. Just a little bit more. Just a few more steps and everything will be fine again. He would be united with his original blade.

The closer Rei got, the louder the voice was. It was calling to him so sweetly, like mother to her long lost son. It was a voice nobody, whom the voice choose, could resist. It was the voice of the blade. Voice of bit beast residing in it.

Rei got to the stool. He slowly reached his hand to that blade. He couldn't, didn't want to resist the calling. Then his fingers finally touched the blade and then curled around it and lifted it. And the calling voice changed into ear-splitting scream.

The air around Rei changed dramatically. It was full of energy. And it was moving very quickly. The air was literally heavy from the energy that Rei felt like suffocating. He more heard than actually saw, as the strange energy expanded like in an explosion with such force the glass and the walls cracked.

What happened next, Rei didn't know. Some powerful presence forced itself into his consciousness. And it wasn't very pleasant experience. As the explosion passed through him, the darkness crept into the edge of his vision and then it sucked him inside. He closed eyes and let himself fall into welcoming silence.

- BB - BB - BB -

All the surroundings were white. But maybe you wouldn't even call it surroundings. Because there wasn't anything to see. You could look in any direction, but you wouldn't see a thing. Just white light everywhere where you looked.

And in the center of this nothingness, was single, oh wait two persons. One was not really a human, but rather an enormous lion with a human woman's head, a sphinx. It was lying on its side, supposedly sleeping, with half lidded eyes. And beside the sphinx, half on the belly of the creature was laying unconscious Rei. He was so small compared to the sphinx, you would probably overlook him at the first glance. He looked so peaceful, lying there so relaxed, with his eyes closed. Almost like a sleeping angel.

The same soft voice echoed again. This time it was coming directly from the sphinx curled around Rei. It was echoing with gleeful tone, "Finally you are here again… My little Rei. Now you will see what we can together do. We will take revenge for our kind on those who made us suffer…"

- BB - BB - BB -

Kai angrily kicked non-existent dirt on the floor. It was obvious that someone was there not so long ago. Maybe just few hours before he and the rest of Blade Breakers together with Bryan arrived.

Bryan looked paler than usual. But that was understandable because he lost quite a lot of blood because he was shot in the left shoulder. His shoulder under the shirt was now heavily bandaged. His shirt was a bit torn up and his jacket was missing. Because he was forced to leave it behind while he was escaping from this place.

- BB - BB - BB –

The Blade Breakers barged straight into the lounge of the Moscow's BBA filial. All people who were in the lounge flinched and looked at them. On secretary even dropped the papers she was holding. Kai walked swiftly over to still shocked receptionist, followed by the rest of Blade Breakers, who were calling loudly and demanding to see Bryan. Then Kai coldly asked about the Demolition Boy, at which the scared receptionist just pointed.

After a few minutes and few more questions, the Blade Breakers finally got to the medical wing and to Bryan's room. "Hey," Bryan greeted them weakly. As soon as the younger Blade Breakers saw him, they did something that nobody would have guessed. They threw themselves on Bryan crying. Bryan winced from pain and Kai only shook his head. "Good to see you," Kai said. "Good to be back," Bryan said, trying to push the annoying crying trio on his hospital bed away, which wasn't easy, because they were so happy to see him alive, they clung there like glued on.

- BB - BB - BB -

The Blade Breakers were searching through now empty corridors of Abbey. "God damnit, they are gone," Bryan said the heavy truth out loud. As soon as he said it, all hell broke out. Few things happened at once. First, Max fell on his knees and started to cry, then Kai kicked abandoned table so hard, that it fell over, and Tyson dropped the light he brought with him, just in case, which ended breaking into million pieces on the floor. "I will kill you, BORIS!" screamed Kai into the empty corridors of Abbey.