Chapter nine: Retreat &Win

NERV dorm Li's room.

Li practised his sword moves, ever since the Deathsake incident Kai had locked himself in the training area. Presumably he was training to beat Deathsake seeing as how his powers had increased a lot but Li couldn't shake the feeling that this wouldn't end in a happily ever after.

*This whole situation is a damn mistake.but at least everyone knows about our powers so after this we won't have to hide it any more.wait.after this is over we'll probably have reporters and.DAMN!* Li thought frustrated when it came to the last bit.

NERV dorm Sakura's room.

Sakura's room was next to Li's and she could hear him training quite clearly through the wall, she giggled at the thought of him wearing no shirt and training hard sweat dripping all over him.she then did something so unlike Sakura. She closed her eyes and became semi-transparent, she opened her eyes and walked through the wall. She regained her solid form and smiled at Li, he was indeed shirtless but wasn't sweating like Sakura had predicted. He had stopped training when she passed through the wall and was staring at her with a surprised look on his face. Sakura giggled and took a few steps forward and put her arm arms around Li then leant upwards to kiss him leaning on his chest still smiling.

A ship in orbit.

Sureal sat in his chair, now alone with all his companions dead, with Deathsake's betrayal it makes him want to go as far as.the holy impact.

*They have Lilith.it can be done.* Sureal thought.

Suddenly a portal opened and Sureal saw a strange disfigured shape on the other side.he knew the shape instantly.

"Why have you contacted me?" Sureal asked calmly.

The shape replied "by orders of our lord you must return here"

"Why?"

"It has been planned to the last detail and you must return.send Kai a message."

The portal disappeared leaving Sureal alone in the dark room, he started laughing quietly.then louder and louder until his sides were splitting. His dark laughter could be heard throughout the ship.

"I will send Kai a message.and I shall return." Sureal said.

NERV special training area.

"Huaaaaaaaa! Huaaaaaaaa!"

Kai let several sword swipes go at blinding speed, he stopped and threw his sword away. It fell clattering to the ground near him, Kai stood there in the middle of the training area and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel. Suddenly a skull shattering pain hit him, Kai fell to his knees clutching his head. He clenched his teeth as hard as he could to stop himself from screaming.

I will be back Kai and next time be ready.

The pain stopped but Kai remained on his knees breathing heavily, he slowly stood up and straightened his senses.

*Sureal is leaving but.he will return.* Kai thought.

932 kilometres away underground cavern.

The only sound in the cavern was that of dripping water as it slid off the stalactites and onto the floor of the cavern, in the centre of the winding tunnel system in the cavern was a huge empty room where all the stalactites and such had been cut making the place perfectly smooth on the floor and ceiling. In the middle of the room was the shady figure of Deathsake who sat in a meditative sate with his sword in its holster on the floor next to him. Deathsake slowly started to glow red getting brighter and brighter until it was so bright it disturbed bats in the cave which flew everywhere in the centre room, Deathsake picked up his sword and stood up. He hung his head for several seconds then raised it, he disappeared and reappeared in a different place before disappearing and reappearing again. After several seconds of doing this he reappeared in the centre of the room, all of the bats exploded their blood spraying everywhere. Their body's or what remained of them fell to the floor all around Deathsake, Deathsake looked around at the scene.

"I shall tell you who I am and when we will fight again soon Kai but first.I must get stronger"

NERV special training area.

Mero, Kero, Spinner, Ruby, Yue and Senosa stood in front of Kai who sat in his chair hanging his head silent until Yue finally spoke up.

"What do you want now?"

"Considering the current events I have been thinking you can sacrifice all of your other forms except for you two Yue.Ruby considering you two need t continue school life" Kai said.

"What's the point of that?" Kero asked.

"It's quite simple really by absorbing our other forms we can stay in our training forms indefinitely and become a lot stronger" Mero answered.

"What about Julian?" Yue asked.

"That's why I said about you and Ruby keeping your forms as you still need them.well your human ones anyway" Kai said.

"Sounds like it'll help." Senosa said.

"RIGHT!" Kai exclaimed clapping his hands together "lets get started."

NERV dorm Li's room.

Sakura lay her head on Li's chest and put her arms around Li's waist, Li hugged her back for a few seconds then smiled and put one arm under her legs and the other under her back. He lifted her up causing her to yelp and sat down on the bed cradling her in his arms, she smiled and put her arms round his neck leant forward and kissed him.

Slowly they parted "how's Madison?" Li asked.

Sakura looked down "still locked up in her room."

Li sighed "lets go talk to her"

Sakura looked at him "but the doors locked."

"You have the lock cards power remember?" Li said.

Sakura rubbed the back of her head "oh yeah."

NERV dorm Madison's room.

Madison lay on her bed and gazed up at the ceiling, she had locked the door because she needed to think and if Kai wanted to see her he would have been able to enter easily.

*Why has Kai stayed in the training area? And what happened when Omega was killed and that red light entered me?* Madison thought she then clutched her head and rolled onto her side *this is all so confusing.*

Suddenly she heard the door unlock and sprung to her feet, the door slowly opened and she expected to see Kai standing in the doorway however instead she saw Li and Sakura staring at her. Madison sighed and collapsed onto the bed losing her energy almost instantly.

"What do you want?" she asked.

Sakura and Li walked into the room, Li leant against the wall next to her bed while Sakura sat next to her "what's wrong Madison?" Sakura asked.

Madison didn't look at her instead she merely replied "leave me alone.please Sakura I don't want to talk right now."

"But Madison I."

Madison sat up and glared at Sakura "LEAVE NOW!"

Sakura moved back a bit her eyes showing hurt, she stood up and left with Li close behind her. Li took a look at Madison before he closed the door but unlike Madison expected he didn't glare.instead his eyes showed some kind of sympathy.

NERV special training area.

Kero stood in his training form opposite Kai, he held his hand out and concentrated. His hand started to glow yellow then a yellow orb formed in his palm, the orb slowly floated upwards then exploded forwards a bright yellow beam shooting straight towards Kai who gracefully dodged it. Kero collapsed to his knees from using up so much energy, Kai looked at him and motioned for Mero to help him. Mero who was in her training form nodded and helped Kero to the edge of the room and allowed him to rest on the wall. The training from of Mero was that of a teenage girl with Raven hair like Meilings and was tied into a ponytail, she was slim and quite tall and wore jeans with a black T-shirt, her eyes were green like Sakura's and her skin was about as normal as any human beings would be. "That's it you can all attack and such in your training forms but note Kero, Senosa, Mero and Spinner you cannot return to your other forms now while Ruby and Yue have only lost their previous fighting forms but Ruby still has her human form and Julian still exits within you Yue" Kai said with a smile. The guardians left one by one after thanking Kai individually leaving Kai once again alone in the dark training centre. Kai picked up his sword and made it disappear, he raised his head and disappeared reappearing sitting on the chair in the middle of the room.

*That's it for today.* Kai thought before drifting off to sleep.

932 kilometres away underground cavern.

Deathsake walked through the winding tunnels of the cavern, he eventually made it to the surface where he was temporarily blinded by the light as he exited the cavern. He stared at the blue skies and then at the fields far below him, he walked to the edge of the ledge and took off into the sky heading towards NERV.

*Now that I know Kai.you shall know too.I'm counting on you to free me from this shell!* Deathsake thought as he flew into the distance.