A Wolf's Tale

The next day, the battles went smoothly. All three teams, the Bladebreakers, the Element Cats, and the White Tigers, had progressed and were scheduled to blade in the semi-finals. In A block, the Bladebreakers vs. the Element Cats, and in block B, the White Tigers vs. the Tsunami Bladers. Kira, since she wasn't blading, took her time to look around at the people in the stadium. One person caught
her eye in particular. The girl who was sitting next to Rei the other day, who looked very much like Megumi. 'So, Kai wasn't hallucinating after all,' she thought. 'Maybe its time to see what the cat dragged in. "Kai." She caught his attention. "See you at the hotel tonight, okay?"

"Sure. Where are you going?"

"Oh, just checking out some stuff." she replied casually.

"What time?"

"Do you have to ask so many questions? How 'bout at dinner?"

"Sure."

She left toward the section in which the girl was in and stepped down the stairs to the row in which the girl was sitting. "Well, well, nice to see you again Celeste."

"Huh, what?" the girl turned around, her eyes widened. "Kira!"

"It is amazing to see that you're okay!"

"It is amazing to see you! I've missed you guys so much. I've missed Kai and Megumi most of all."

"Out of all of us, I saw Kai missed or, I guess, misses you the most. I mean, even his personality is completely different. Why don't we go and grab some lunch."

at a restaurant

"So what happened Celeste? Your uncle said you were kidnapped at the airport."

"Well that's true. I don't really remember what happened at the airport. I just remember someone grabbing me, and then it went black."

"Well I'm sure that's not all that's happened, after all it has been almost six years."

"I remember waking up in a dark room. I couldn't really see anything, but there were a couple of guys in room. They told me that if tried to leave they would knock me out again.

"I lived in, what I found out was a basement, for a year. Then they moved me to another room, a nicer one, and I had to stay in there at all times. I stayed there for the next four years. I escaped after finding out who had ordered those men to kidnap me. After a few months they came after me, but I escaped them again. I went into hiding after that, and have been for the time since."

There was a pause, then Kira spoke up, "Who was behind it?"

"Your… Grandfather"

"It sounds a lot like something he would do. I wonder what Kai is going to think of this... Anyway, what do you want to do? I told Kai I'd be there at around dinner. That gives us," she glanced on the clock on the wall, "a couple of hours. So, what will it be?"

"There are a lot of nice souvenir shops..."

"That sounds good. I haven't been to many of them actually, so let's go!" They paid for their food and made their way to the first of the souvenir shops.

TBC...