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"Alright" Dr Kim pointed to the screen that brought up the brain scan "as you can see here there is less activity in this part of the brain than in this part." He indicated various coloured areas on a brain shaped picture that had his watchers totally flummoxed.
"Right, and that means...?" Mr Dickenson nodded, he and Kai as watched the man explained everything, it was just the three of them... and Hilary lying unconscious on the bed. Kai had one hand resting on Hilary's whilst the other one held a cup of coffee that Mr Dickenson had provided to help him get home still conscious.
"This proves that the serum was successful in wiping Hilary's memories away, however..." he paused looking concerned.
"However what?" Kai asked worriedly, he had just finished the coffee Mr Dickenson had given him
"This part of the brain is very restful... too restful."
"She is unconscious" the angry boyfriend argued desperately.
"Yes but this sort of restful state I would associate with someone in a vegetative state."
"You mean like a coma?" a yawning Kai asked his eyes flitting worriedly towards the still figure of Hilary on her bed.
"In a way" Dr Kim agreed. "but, I must admit there is a real risk that this may be the case."
"I don't understand"
"I didn't want to tell you but people who are given the serum twice within a six month period have been known to suffer certain side affects. A coma is one of those side affects."
"How bad of a coma?"
"None of the test subjects have woken up yet. There's been one in a coma for over two years"
"No" Kai shook his head and held Hilary's hand a little tighter "I won't let that happen."
"I'm afraid there isn't much we can do about it" Dr Kim informed them sorrowfully "There has never been any change in those people. Normally they would have had the machines turned off but Dr Wingblade is eager to see what state they will be in when they awaken."
"There must be something we can do." for once in his life Kai sounded incredibly close to begging and didn't care about it.
"I'm sorry" Dr Kim sighed apologetically "she's stable but if she doesn't wake up after the thirty six hour period is over it may be that she'll never wake up"
At that moment there was a knock at the door, Mr Dickenson snapped a quick 'come in' and Tala entered the room. "Is everything alright?" Mr Dickenson asked worriedly.
"Fine, we're all set for you, Kai Ray and Hilary to travel to the dojo. The rest of us will travel to the BBA headquarters and make an appearance there. We've been away for a while, it should cause enough of a stir that no one will question where Ray and Kai are."
"Excellent, we'll get into the ambulance within a few minutes.... Kai?" Mr Dickenson watched the Russian beyblader nervously "Are you alright my boy?"
Suddenly feeling very tired Kai stood and turned to face Mr Dickenson "What's going on?" he asked as the world around him began to spin.
"You'll forgive me for this one day" Mr Dickenson told him. Kai seemed to realise what the older man meant, he grabbed the mug his coffee had been in and stared into the remaining dark liquid. The smell of coffee drowned out any other scent that may be there but there was a slight film on top of the remaining liquid indicating that there was some other ingredient to the drink.
"How could you?" Kai hissed angrily, he took a swipe at the older man but missed and dizzily followed his hand around in a full 360⁰ circle before clumsily falling precariously onto a nearby chair. Tala who had seen all this jumped to grab Kai before he fell from the chair. Kai grabbed his friend's collar and stared at him "Watch her" he told Tala fiercely "don't let her out of your sight, if anything happens to her I'll kill..." no more was said as Kai finally gave in to the drugs power and slumping forward fell into a deep sleep.
There was silence in the room as Tala looped and arm around Kai's shoulders and shifted him more safely into the chair "You did the right thing" the redhead informed the worried looking older man "he wouldn't have slept any other way and I've been worried that he would collapse or get seriously ill going on the way he has. I do understand why he's been acting like he has, she was taken away last time and we never even noticed. I think he's afraid it'll happen again."
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"I do not understand this delay" Voltaire muttered angrily as he sat drinking from a tumbler of whisky.
"Of course you do not" Horatio replied simply "you think of action but we cannot make a proper plans until we know of the situation. Boris is AWOL which in turn means that Kendall and Lando are gone, we have no idea if the serum was applied successfully and what sort of affects it has had on my granddaughter. You cannot deny that we know where they will go."
"The people we have sent out to enquire after them in Japan have discovered nothing."
"Then they are merely covering their tracks very well. I'm willing to bet you any amount you name that, if the serum worked, my granddaughter is at this moment sleeping off the affects at that damn Granger kid's house."
"They would not be so foolish to go there."
"Why is it foolish?" Horatio asked with a smile "They know for sure now that she is alive, if we make any move they can reveal to the world what we have done and my family will be very inclined to believe them. When we know how Hilary has been affected, even with most of the affects that were listed we could still use her body for our needs."
Slowly nodding Voltaire realised that he couldn't argue with his friends logic before finally staying "Then I agree, we wait until we know what Hilary suffers... if this was any other plan, any other business deal I'd suggest backing out, we are quite hemmed in right now."
"But this isn't just any plan is it?" Horatio asked with a smile "we have spent too many years on this to give up now, this is a lifetimes work. Not just our lifetimes work, our family's as well.
"We will not give up."
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"Where is she?" Kai asked the moment he had woken up, he was lying on a couch covered by a tartan blanket which he soon discarded. Looking around he was surprised to see Mariah in his line of sight, she was kneeling on the floor and had many books and pictures covering the coffee table.
Turning Mariah smiled at the immediate question "She's right here" Mariah pointed to the corner of the room where Hilary's bed had been set up. The brunette now lay against the white pillows looking very pale in comparison to her usual colour. "We have made sure that someone was in the room every moment you were out, asides from moments where we were reading no one has taken their eyes off her. That the same one that you picked up in America" she smiled as she placed some papers into a folder.
Staring at the girl in the bed Kai seemed to sigh in relief "How long was I asleep?"
"I'm not sure, ages!" Mariah shrugged "You've been lying there for at least fifteen hours"
"Fifteen?" Kai asked jumping to his feet, he stumbled unsteadily as the room seemed to spin, the affects of the drugs had not fully left his system.
"Are you alright?" Mariah asked moving instinctively forward.
"Fine" Kai shook his head discouraging her from offering any more help. Once the room was steady again Kai walked forwards making his way to Hilary's side, she lay with her right side up against the wall so he took her left hand in his and sat in the very convenient chair placed by the bed. Her skin was satisfyingly warm, leaning down he pressed his lips to her hand.
Looking away Mariah prepared to leave but was stopped when Kai turned asking "Has there been any change?" as he asked this his hand brushed up her left arm lifting the sleeve of the hospital gown and inspecting the small round scar that permanently marked her as his Hilary.
"No, none." Mariah shook her head "Either myself or Dr Kim's been checking on her every hour, she's still stable but..." shrugging Mariah tried to forget the dire forecast that Dr Kim had predicted. "There is something else"
"What?"
"We think Voltaire and Horatio are looking for us, there've been reports of people searching the local hospitals and Boris's cell phone is going off all the time, he's unable to talk right now so we can't make him answer and find out what's going on. Kendall and Lando have has no contact so we can't use them."
"Why can't he talk?"
"I don't know, Tia and I have kind of been staying away from that side of things.... after seeing what you did to Kendall and Lando and knowing the history you guys all share I don't really want to know."
"I understand, you don't really need that kind of stress in your condition."
"Just having Ray back has helped... there's something the others don't know yet, I thought I ought to tell you before I tell anyone else."
"What is it?"
"It's your name... and hers... Tia and I were doing research on Hilary, we even gathered together the stuff her parents wanted to get rid of, old school projects and stuff."
"I don't see where this is going..." Kai frowned confusedly.
"Just stay with me here. When she was younger she did a project on her ancestors. She went into great detail, she always had to be top of the class, the name Tatibana goes back centuries in Japan, the original bearers of the name were a noble family, now... most people with that name don't descend from the family but Hilary does... she managed to trace her name right back to the nobility!"
"That's impressive..., but what's this got to do with everything that's going on?"
"Bear with me..., I had always recognised the name Tatibana but like I said it is a common name so I thought nothing of it until I saw this. Back when they were nobility Hilary's family owned a bit beast..."
"But she had never heard of beyblading till she met Tyson and the others, how could...?"
"Bit beasts are not immediately synonymous with beyblading, Tyson's Dragoon was stored in a sword for years! Beyblading is not as long standing everywhere as it is in places like my home town. The bitbeast could have been used for anything..."
"I still don't exactly understand..."
"The bit beast was Dranzer"
"What?" stunned Kai tore his attention fully away from Hilary and focussed it on Mariah
"There were two very important families back then, the Tatibana's and the Hiwatari's, they were allies, for centuries there was hope of joinning the two families but it would appear that it never happened. I don't know why. They were powerful families and the bit beast remained in a weapon of sorts, after thte nobility were reduced to penury it was sold, and placed in a museum until the weapon was purchased some years ago by a private collector."
"My grandfather?"
"Exactly, look I don't know if all this stuff is relevant but... there is a chance that it is."
"No you're right" Kai nodded before turning back to the bed "When she's woken up I'll get in touch with someone who will know more about it. I can't do anything until she has woken up... it may sound stupid but..."
"It doesn't sound at all stupid, I can do some research on my own and I'll talk to the others, they'll have some ideas. With Millie and Kenny on our side we can access any secure system in the world and find out whatecver we want." Mariah said in an understanding voice. She smiled at Kai, when she and Ray had first found out about Kai and Hilary she had worried that the Russian was indifferent to really care about Hilary. She had hoped for Hialry's sake that it would last but hadn't really thought it would. For once she was glad to have been proven wrong.
"It'll be ok Kai. We can do this, and we won't give up."
"Is it alright if..." Kai left the sentence hanging but Mariah knew what he wanted, she nodded and left them alone together. Leaning back towards the bed Kai pressed his lips to Hilary's soft hand again, she was warm, she was living.
Raising his hand Kai wiped away the tears that had started to fall.
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Normally when Mariah meditated she would sit cross-legged on the floor but due to her recent growth in the tummy area she found it difficult to sit that way comfortably. Today as she began to meditate she sat comfortably outside on a deckchair revelling in the sunshine warming her skin. Without anyone around to disturb her Mariah began to think of a perfect moment to disappear into. The obvious one today was her recent reunion with Ray, she had been so pleased to see him again, their embrace had been tender yet exuberant. The kiss he had bestowed first upon her forehead, then her lips and finally on her stomach as he whispered a hello to his unborn child.
Slowly her mind began disappear into the blankness, peace and tranquillity.
The blankness became dull, grey, and then a light pink shade of light fell over her, turning Mariah nodded happily to the cat and sighed happily.
"I suppose that you know she's back again, I should have meditated and consulted with you before but I've been busy and it's not like you don't know whats going on."
The rich velvety voice beside her was comforting, and then confusing 'She has returned, I told you that you would see her again someday'
"Galux!" Mariah stared angrily at the pink figure before her "Wait..., you knew she was alright?"
'Indeed, I did try to make it clear that this was not the end.'
"I thought you meant I'd see her in the afterlife or something!! Why couldn't you have told me, we could have gotten to her sooner."
'I could not. I am allowed to be present for certain events, I am even allowed to help you win battles but this was not part of my duties'
"Cheers, this has been much appreciated" Mariah spat sarcastically, after a moment or two she simply stared at her hands, saying dejectedly "What does any of it matter? She won't wake up and even if she does then..."
'I know the dangers she faces, do not worry we are not alone in wishing her well, you may want to get in touch with people that understand the bit beasts better than you do.'
"Like who?"
'The others know of defensive angels that can aid them in this task.'
"What does that mean? Galux?" there was no response "Galux!" in her imagination Mariah stood and looked around the blankness she had created "GALUX!"
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