Kai has a girlfriend III Chapter Twenty, a beyblade fanfic

Hi People that reviewed me! I've updated again...I'm so sorry that I took so long to update this fanfic this week *begs forgiveness* I guess that's what happens when you try to split your inspiration...it just doesn't work does it. Anyways...like I said...I'm sorry and the story is almost over, a couple more chapters I would say and then that's it. Pretty good I think. Anyways...for all you people that are upset because I said that April is going to die...I'm sorry but just cross your fingers and hope for the best..I ain't going to tell ya if she lives or not, you're just going to have ta figure it out for yourselves.

Chapter Nineteen

Kai wrapped his arms around Shanna comfortedly (a/n: Man we haven't talked about Shanna for awhile and this is supposed to be about her...*shakes her head...sorry I'm ruining the mood again}. Kai stroked her hair and tried to get her to take deep breaths but unfortunately it wasn't working and she was sobbing, her tears running down her face violently and her black hair clinging to her face. Kai hated to see her like this, it almost made him want to kill everyone in the world that could hurt her, right down to the slugs in the garden that make her scream whenever she sees one.

Kai was sure, positive actually, that April was going to come and find a way to make this all work out for the better. April was good when it came to stuff like that. In fact, that's why he and April had gotten along so well for so long. She knew her place and she was flexible, she knew what she was doing and when she was over-stepping the boundaries. But how to tell Shanna that? How was he supposed to tell Shanna that April was going to come and get herself killed most likely just so that they could go home? I mean, how in the hell are you supposed to tell your girlfriend that your sister, her best friend, is going to kill herself so that you and your girlfriend can go home free as a bluebird?

Kai leaned down and wiped a single tear off of Shanna's eyes and then pressed their foreheads together in a comforting gesture. "It'll be alright." Kai said simply, not knowing what else to say. "Nothing's going to happen to us. I won't let it."

Shanna sniffled and when her voice filtered into Kai's ears it broke his heart because he could hear, feel, all of the emotions that she was feeling. All of the hurt, the pain, the anger, the love, all of it, that was floating around in her head. "Then why are we here Kai? If nothing bad's going to happen to us, why are we here? Why was I kidnapped? Why Kai? Why?"

Kai shook his head, he didn't have an answer for that. "I don't know, you're just going to have to trust me on this one. You're just going to have to hold on and I promise that as long as we're together in the same room, that nothing will ever happen to you again."

Shanna shook her head. "You're wrong Kai. I know you try to be, but you're not superman. You can't protect me forever and you know what." Shanna didn't wait for Kai's answer. "That's what scares me the most. That you're not going to be able to save me from everything. Kai...I'm so scared right now and I just realized that you can't do anything about it." Shanna burst into tears.

Kai didn't know what to do anymore and he just wrapped his arms around Shanna tighter and held her closer to him. Hoping against hope, that April would come and do what he couldn't. Save Shanna...

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April stopped in front of the room that led to Tala and Kai and them. April took a deep breath and tried to walk into the door, only to find that there was a barrier there. April gritted her teeth. How in the hell was the magick supposed to get her if it wouldn't even let her in? April reached into her pocket and was surprised to find that her beyblade was in it. But she had left it at the house. Hadn't she? April heard a noise behind her and she immediately turned around to see what it was but it was gone. April closed her eyes and then smiled. She knew who it was.

"Thanks." April called out to the empty room. "Thanks alot."

April fingered the bitbeast on the top of the beyblade and tried for a connection. A small whimper came out of the bitbeast and April smiled as she reached a connection with it. Her bitbeast, Heera, a vibrant golden lion, roared and then waited for instructions. April took a second to think and then realized what she had to do in order to get them all out of this. She didn't have to kill herself after all.

~What do you want?~ Heera asked, unhappy about being woken up.

~I made magick and now I need you to help me fight it~ April replied and smirked, knowing her bitbeast couldn't resist a challange. ~That is, if you think that you can.~

~I can~ Heera said stubornly. ~Don't worry about whether or not I can do it. Trust me, I can do it all~

April decided to keep her comments to herself and shared with Heera the piece of information she had just thought of. Heera grinned and they quickly began to think of a way to get in the room to put the plan into action.

Shanna didn't know why, but all of a sudden she felt better, like someone had come and changed her attitude completely. Shanna saw a trace of a golden lion and smiled. It was April, April was coming to save them.

Shanna briefly remembered what the stupid lady had said that either they had to die, or April did. Shanna sucked in her breath. No, that wasn't how it was going to be. April wouldn't leave them. She would do everything in her power to stay with them and that was that. There was no way around it and there was no way that it was going to happen any other way.

Shanna looked at Kai, who seemed to be asleep. Shanna kissed him on the cheek and then stood up, realizing why the lion had come to her, realizing just like she always had, deep down, why that lion and April always came to her. It was time for Shanna to be the strong one for once.

Shanna took a quick look down at Kai and felt regret that she had to leave him, even if it was only for a second, a minute at the most but it couldn't be helped. Shanna sighed, touched him on the head, giving him a memory somehow, it couldn't be explained how she did it, she just did. That's all that was really needed to be known.

Shanna kissed Kai on the cheek once more and then moved to where she had seen the golden lion, ready to help out in anyway that she could.

April was glad that Shanna was going to help them. April would have asked Kai to help, but something told her that Shanna was going to be more helpful for this than Kai ever would be. April took a deep breath and focused on her bitbeast, like she had done in countless meditations. Just like Shanna was focusing on her blue dragon, Kala, right now.

April could feel her bitbeast's emotions reaching out to her, and April reached for them as well, meeting them half way and then intertwining in them until they were all wrapped up in each other, and it was impossible to tell April's emotions from Heera's. In that way, there were one and in that way, they were impossible to beat.

April found herself in a dark chamber, that was cold and dusty, filled with spiderwebs and rats. April fought the urge to scream and looked for Kala, hoping that she was in the right spot. Thankfully April spotted Kala easily and was glad to see that Kala's usual eye color, of black, was changed for Shanna's more innocent eye color, green.

April walked casually over to Kala, hoping that they would know what to do but before she even got half way across the room, a black fire bird, appeared in front of her, and April realized for once who it was. It was black dranzer and with that realization, April also realized who was behind it and who she was.

{A/n: Yes I realize that it's getting a little confusing but just work with me for a minute here, I'm sure that if we just hang on, we'll all get this eventually...I hope}

April didn't have any time to prepare and the next thing she knew, a huge tail swung for her, hitting her painfully in the back. April moaned and fell down, pain over taking her but Heera urged her to get up and April slowly got to her feet. The bird opened it's mouth, getting ready to send a trail of fire for April and April took a deep breath, willing herself to get ready for it, but it never came.

April looked over and saw Kala. Kala had lunged for the bird, and was now attached to it's next by her teeth. The bird was trying to shake Kala off frantically but it wasn't working and Kala continued to hold hard. April was just about to jump on the bird to help Kala when another lion, a black one, jumped out of the shadows at her.

All that April could do, was turn and get ready to attack the lion, hoping that this would work

Kai opened his eyes and then jumped up, shocked that he had been asleep. Next to the door, Tala did the same, and off in the corner, Kai could see Rei stretching cat-like to wake up. Kai wondered what had just happened and then looked next to him, immediately missing Shanna.

"Guys? Where's Shanna?" Kai asked, his voice full of worry.

"You mean she's gone again?" Tala asked, his voice concerned too.

Rei took a deep breath. "I'm sure she's around here somewhere." Rei began to look around. "She couldn't have gone anywhere. There's no where to go."Kai felt his whole heart split in half. It had happened, the magick had claimed it's first victim.

{A/n: I was really tempted to leave it right here and wait until later to give you what happens next but then I realized that I'm just not that mean of a person, so here I go, oh and I'm sorry I keep ruining the mood}

Shanna growled and shook the neck of the creature she currently held in her mouth around a bit. Then Shanna looked up and saw April, well Heera technically, fighting with a creature that looked exactly like her, except it was pure black.

In the few seconds that Shanna used to look at April, the creature underneath her, flipped itself up and on top of Shanna. Kala hissed with anger and was ready to take matters into her own hands when Shanna did so herself, using her big tail to wrap around one of the giant bird's wings, which pulled the bird enough off balance for Shanna to use the advantage and begin to lead the fight again.

Blood sank into Shanna's mouth but Shanna couldn't tell if it was her own, or if it was Black Dranzer's. Personally she didn't care, not did she want to know. This was something that didn't rely on your usual instincts, but on instincts that most people never have to use. The instincts of war.

Kai felt something drip down his leg and when he looked, there was blood gushing out a wound that Kai hadn't even felt happen, immediately he took off his shirt and wrapped it around the wound, only to have another one appear on his arms. Rei saw what was happening and came over.

"Oh god Kai. Here, use this." Rei said and handed Kai his own shirt, which Kai took thankfully and wrapped around his new wound but he knew it was only a matter of time before another opened up, and another and soon he was die from lose of blood. A slow and perishing death that Kai never wished on anyone.

Shanna noticed that the wound she had just inflicted on the bird's arm was bound somehow and Shanna quickly put two and two together. "APRIL!" Shanna cried out quickly. "This isn't going to work. I'm hurting Kai by hurting this thing."

"It's alright Shanna, just kill it. Trust me." April's soothing voice came back but Shanna could tell that under it was loads of pain.

Shanna took another lunge and went for the shoulder but the stupid thing moved and Shanna ended up going for the head and the next thing that Shanna knew she could taste blood, a lot of it. Too much if you ask me. And the creature on top of her wasn't moving.

Rei noticed first and rushed over to Kai, shaking him. "Kai? Kai? Wake up buddy, don't do this to us."

Tala went over too, quickly checking for a pulse. "Come on Kai...come on."

Rei stared at Tala meekly. "What are we going to do?"

{A/n: I'm sorry but I have to leave you with some sort of cliffie...so this is the cliffie I'm leaving you with...have fun and please don't flame me for this ^_^}