After breakfast (and after Max had cleaned the butter off his face and
washed it out of his hair, with help from Tyson) the group assembled in the
front lobby.
"Ok, Dizzi, tell us what you know!" Kenny said.
Dizzi replied, "Right chief. Ok, as you all know, Martha's body should be around here. We should split up in two groups, since there are only two locations I can determine where her body would be."
"Yeah," agreed Kenny. "Since Martha wants her body hidden, but she couldn't bare it to be buried in an underground graveyard -"
Tyson interrupted Kenny, "Hey, wait, aren't graves underground anyway?"
Kenny shook his head, "No, like underground as in under a building type. Anyhow, since she couldn't be buried there, there are only two locations where she could be."
"Kai and I will go there!" Rei said instantly, pointing to one of the locations on Dizzi's screen.
"Ok," Kenny agreed. "Tyson, Max, and I will check out the other place. Meet back here tonight, so get lunch sometime. I know Tyson won't forget to remind us, but you and Kai will probably get so involved in finding her body that you might forget."
"Don't worry, we won't!" Rei assured Kenny while Kai made a comment along the lines of, "Acting like he's my mother or something."
"Oh, Kai," Rei said, "Be happy! We're going to fix you up in no time at all!"
"Fix me up?" replied Kai. "You make it sound like I'm broken. I'm perfectly fine, save for the fact that there is a person inside of me trying at all times to break through and control me."
"Right. Perfectly fine," repeated Rei sarcastically. "You won't be until we get Martha out of you and you become the old Kai we all knew and loved." He smiled happily.
"Right." Kai looked a bit skeptical, but said nothing else as the group split up.
Rei looked up at a street sign, and turned right, while Kenny, Tyson, and Max turned left. They all wished each other luck and whatnot so that they'd do this quickly.
"Ok," Rei said, looking around. "Let's hurry up."
Kai nodded. "Where exactly are we going, anyway?"
"To the . . . old abandoned Fluffy Factory." Rei said, slowly. "Apparently, Martha was a big contributor to the factory and made them decorate the entire warehouse. It cost them so much money that the warehouse had to shut down a month later. The warehouse is abandoned now, but it's still decorated and stuff because who knows what type evil spells Martha uses."
"Oh, great," replied Kai. "Let's get this over with."
They started walking in the general direction of where the warehouse should be, and Rei hoped that it wasn't as pink as Dizzi had said it was.
~~~
Tyson, Max, and Kenny, meanwhile, were off to the Martha Ground, which was where Martha held all of her shows that needed fancy rooms. It was, basically, a big mansion.
"Wow, it's huge!" Tyson said, stating the very obvious.
"I've never seen something as huge as this! Every room must be incredibly big," said Max, eyes wide open.
Kenny nodded, and Dizzi said, "The whole house has about thirty-six individual rooms, two kitchens, and three living rooms."
"Wow," repeated Tyson.
"Well, what are you guys waiting for?" Kenny said, "Let's go look!"
"Yeah," said Max, "But FIRST, we've got to get up these stairs."
The three stared in awe at the stairs, which seemed to go up and up forever, even though the house wasn't really that far up.
"This could take awhile."
~~~
The inside of the warehouse was not just pink.
It was also light pink and rose pink and dark pink and tickle me pink and carnation pink.
Oh, and there was some purple too.
And a lot of fluff.
"Kill me now," muttered Rei as he glanced into the warehouse cautiously. "But . . .I must do this for Kai!" That being said, he walked bravely into the hellish room.
After looking around for awhile, and not finding much, Rei sighed. "This is really annoying. We're amidst the most pink I've ever seen in my life, in a pink factory. The pinks are color-coded and patterned, and the whole thing is more organized than I've ever seen in my life and it's only a warehouse." He paused, "If you were Martha, where would you be buried?" He asked Kai, and Kai gave him a loathsome glare.
Rei grinned sheepishly, "Oh, I forgot. You are, indirectly, Martha."
"Yeah. Thanks."
"Sorry," mumbled Rei, eyes downcast. Suddenly, he glanced down even further and noticed a door he hadn't noticed before. "Hey, I just noticed a door I hadn't noticed before!" He said proudly. "Come on!"
Kai trailed behind him, muttering, "That sounds like something Tyson would say."
Luckily for Kai, Rei didn't hear.
And so they went through the door that Rei had just noticed and had not noticed before. Neither had Kai, so he couldn't say anything. Anyhow, when they went through the (pink) door (decorated with engraved flowers), both Rei and Kai blinked.
"Well then."
Martha's body lay there, in all its evilness, in the middle of a flower bed/fluffy pink arrangement. Around the edges of the 'grave' were pieces of paper, all which had been written upon with 'perfect' calligraphy.
"Spells?" Rei wondered, "Do you suppose she'd put spells around her grave if it was this easy to find?"
Kai shook his head, "I don't know. I wouldn't suppose so, but . . ." He took a step into the room, and suddenly, fell to his knees, clutching his head.
As Rei ran over to Kai, "What's wrong!" he couldn't help but think, 'how typically anime style! I should have figured!'
Kai groaned; he was have the whole eyes-roll-back-and-stuff-type-anime- thing. Typical.
"Martha doesn't want to leave her body," Kai groaned, "So she's trying to take me over once and for all."
Without bothering to ask Kai how he knew that (hey, he just did!) Rei told Kai gently, "Lie down." And he went to the edge of Martha's grave and picked up a piece of paper.
And blinked.
"This is a recipe . . ." he said, "And this is another one . . ." He picked up more papers, and flipped through them, "In fact, these are all pages from her books, copied down."
Kai WOULD have said something, but he was a bit preoccupied with Martha at the minute; he really couldn't hurt her physically since that would mean hitting himself. "Get . . . out!" He said fiercely, and Rei turned back around.
"We'll get the others - they'll know what to do." He said, helping Kai stand. Kai was able to walk, but Rei picked him up anyway; "We have to get you out as fast as we can, and you're in no condition to run like that," Rei said sternly, bolting out of the room.
Sighing, Kai allowed himself to be carried out of the factory. It wasn't until they were out of the factory and quite a bit away before Martha- induced pain ended. "Well, that sucked," He said, grumpily.
"Well, I doubt that was fun for you," Rei agreed. "We do have to go back, you know," he added after a pause.
"Yeah, I know. We will." Kai paused as well, and looked up at Rei. "You can put me down now."
Rei grinned.
~~~
"We've been through at least thirty rooms," groaned Tyson, "And they're all so perfect I almost want to get out my blade and destroy them. And plus, there hasn't been one sign of her body! Not one!"
"I have to admit," agreed Max, "It's really annoying."
The three of them were taking a short break in one of the kitchens. The walls were painted cream, and there was a dark wood border. The counters were cream colored as well, and the cabinets and furniture was all dark wood. The chairs were even exactly opposite each other around the perfectly circle table.
"It is annoying," Kenny said, "But for the sake of Kai, we really have to keep looking. Unless you want Kai to be wearing a dress at the tournament, we have to get the exorcism performed!"
"Which reminds me," Tyson said, "What do we have to do with this whole exorcism thing? Does anyone even know how to perform an exorcism here?"
Kenny groaned. "Its not that complicated, Tyson. You should have read the books I had you check out of the library and it would make perfect sense. All we need to do is stick Kai and Martha's body in the same room, and someone has to perform the exorcism."
"You make it sound simple, but how is an exorcism done anyway? What do you do? Chant and do a funny dance?" asked Tyson. He wasn't willing to do that for Kai.
"Nothing like that," replied Kenny, and Tyson immediately looked relieved.
"Well, then, that's good." He said, and jumped up from his chair. "I wonder if there's any food in here." He began rummaging around in the cabinets and cupboards.
Max turned to Kenny and said, "So if you don't do a funny dance, what do you do?"
"The actual process is quite simple," replied Kenny. "Dizzi, explain it to them."
"Gee, thanks," Dizzi said, "Make me do all the work."
"Come on, you can explain it better than me," Kenny said.
"Oh, fine," Dizzi agreed. "Well, really, I don't see how people got those weird exorcism ideas, but I guess it's understandable in a way since for a long time exorcists never let anyone see the exorcism. When people die, and their souls stay in this world instead of passing into the next, their souls are something like a bit beast."
"No way!" Max said, and even Tyson took a second to look up from the pantry he was digging in to listen.
"Yes," Dizzi replied, "So all the exorcist has to do is use his bit beast to force the soul to go back into the proper body."
"Wouldn't you think," Kenny said, musing, "How would the soul of the person be forced by a bit beast to go back into the body? How does it come out of its host body?"
Dizzi sighed and continued to explain, "Something about the bit beast draws out the soul. Some scientists are trying to figure out the connection, but that's not very important. Anyhow, we just need to have our best blader perform the exorcism."
"That would be me, then!" Tyson said, mouth full of some food.
"Actually," Dizzi said, "I should think Rei should do it; he's pretty good at beyblading to begin with, and he's read the books."
Tyson groaned, "Oh fine."
"But we still have to find the body," Max reminded him.
Tyson, Kenny, and Max sighed.
~~~
"Now, they went into this mansion," Rei told Kai, "So all we need to do is find them in there. Seems a bit big."
Kai rolled his eyes. "It's not that big. Can I walk by myself now please?"
Rei shook his head, still holding Kai. Never mind the fact that his arms were beginning to hurt a little, he was enjoying holding Kai. Of course, he told himself he was just helping a friend.
"There is no way you can carry me up those stairs," Kai told Rei. Never mind the fact he wasn't trying at all to get out of Rei's arms.
"You shouldn't be walking yet," Rei said slowly, trying to think of an excuse to continue to carry Kai.
"We'll find them faster if I'm walking," Kai replied, trying to not sound like he wanted to Rei to carry him around.
In the end, Kai reluctantly got out of Rei's arms and they walked up the stairs to the house, with Rei standing right next to Kai, just in case he fell.
They went inside the house, both shuddering at the perfectness of the house, and Kai groaning that this setting made him more prone to Martha attacks.
"Don't worry," Rei said, "I can hear them upstairs!"
Following Tyson's voice to the kitchen, Rei and Kai entered it, scaring Max and Kenny.
"How did you guys find us so fast?" Max asked, "We thought you guys were still looking for Martha's body!"
"We already found it," Kai informed them, "And Tyson's voice carries."
"Hey!" Tyson said.
Kenny interrupted him, "So if you found the body, did you perform the exorcism?"
"No," Rei said, "Kai sort of had an attack by Martha or something, and we figured we'd get you guys and then go perform the exorcism."
"Yeah! Let's go!" Max said, "And Rei, I hope you've perfected the exorcism techniques, because you get to perform it!"
Rei smiled; he had hoped he would have gotten to perform the exorcism. He put his hand into his pocket, and felt around for his beyblade, grabbing it and smiling.
Kenny stood up, closing his laptop, "Why not lets go and get this over with right now. I'm afraid there is nothing we can do for Kai other than the exorcism, so the faster we get done with that, the faster he'll be perfectly fine. Now, can you show us where the body is?"
They exited the room, and Tyson called behind them, "Wait, can I bring the food?"
~~~
In much less time than it took to get from the warehouse to the mansion (seeing as how Rei wasn't carrying Kai this time), the group arrived at the warehouse.
"The fluffy warehouse," Max said, half in awe, half in terror.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up," Kenny said.
"Gee Chief," remarked Tyson as they walked inside, Rei leading, "You make it sound like we're just on a midday stroll rather than finding an evil persons corpse."
Kenny shrugged, and Rei lead them to the door that didn't seem to always be there. Luckily for them, this time it was. Inside, the room was still as perfect and . . . yeah . . . as it had been when Rei and Kai were in there the first time.
"Well, this is the place," Rei said.
Kai stood in the doorway. "You know, when Martha tries to take me over, it hurts quite a bit."
"After this, Kai, you'll be back to normal!" said Kenny happily. "You've just got to come over by her body for a minute so Rei can do this."
Kai nodded, and waited for Rei to give the 'I'm ready' nod before stepping forward and sitting down next to the body of evilness that was Martha. A second later, he was standing up again and saying in that feminine voice that could only mean one thing - Martha had fully possessed him.
"I advise you not to try to wake up the boy - this time, I'm almost complete . . . and then . . . there shall be no stopping me." Kai smiled at them all, "Would you like some water?"
Rei turned to Kenny, eyes open wide, "Chief, what should we do?"
Kenny looked at Kai, and then at Martha's body. Kai had produced a dress and a pair of underwear out of seemingly nowhere, and was in the process of putting them on. Kenny turned away for a moment, and said, "OK, Max, Tyson. You hold Kai down. Rei, get your bit beast out, now!"
Max and Tyson grabbed the now-in-a-dress Kai, and pinned him to the ground.
"Hey, please be careful . . . you'll wrinkle my dress," Kai said, squirming around.
"Rei, this is not the time to be trying to see Kai's underwear!" Kenny called out, "Do it now!"
Rei blushed bright red, and grabbed his beyblade. "Let's go, Drigger!" He said, and his beyblade lit up as Drigger came out of it, in all his flashing glory. "Drigger, get Martha's soul out of Kai!"
Drigger padded over to where Kai was, and started growling in the back of his throat. After a minute, Kai stopped struggling to get free, and Martha's image seemed to float above him.
"Whoa, no way!" said Tyson.
"Unbelievable!" agreed Max.
"Go back to where you came from, Martha!" Rei called, heroically. He would do this for Kai! 'No, not like that!' Rei told himself quickly, and that instant of messed-up concentration made a small but important miscalculation in the exorcism. "Go on!"
"I don't want to," replied Martha's spirit, but in one of those dual voices; both Kai and Martha seemed to be speaking.
"What's going on, chief?" asked Max.
"I don't know," Kenny said. "Dizzi?"
"Don't look at me!"
Rei growled, and yelled, "C'mon Drigger! Banish Martha back to herself!"
Drigger leaped forward and clawed at the image of Martha.
"I don't want to go back! It's dark and icky, and hot and full of lava! The people there suck! They all wear red and orange and the rocks kill my complexion when I sleep on them!"
Whatever else Martha was going to say was lost as her spirit flew into her own body. A moment later, Kai sat up. "What happened?" He groaned, and noticed his dress, "Damn it, not again!"
"Kai, you might want to stand up," Rei said, blushing again; Kai's skirt was twisted up in a way from when Kai was squirming to get loose of Max's and Tyson's grips that his underwear (which, by the way, was VERY lacy this time) was showing.
"Oh. Right." Ever so faintly, he blushed too.
"Let's just get out of here!" Kenny said, "This place gives me the chills, and now we don't need to worry about Martha anymore!"
"Yeah!" echoed the others.
As they turned and filed out of the room, Rei cast a half-glance back at Kai who was walking swiftly back to the hotel to get decent clothing on. 'I wonder if he's going to be just like his old self now, and be a total jerk,' he thought, 'I sure hope not.'
They got to the hotel with no problems at all, except for when some icky pervy guys tried to get Kai to come with him, thinking he was a girl. After Kai had knocked all three of the icky guys unconscious (causing Rei to blush YET AGAIN when Kai's skirt flew up. Apparently, Kai's skirt did not follow the Laws of Skirts in Kids Anime - that no matter what you do, or from what angle, you'll never see the underwear.)
"Well, I guess that ends our adventure," Kenny told Dizzi, "But it was rather interesting now that I think about it. Really, . . ." He went on and on and on.
"I'm just glad to be me again," Kai said softly, but no one heard him.
Except Rei.
~~~
And meanwhile, at a pink fluffy factory, in a certain room behind a certain door, a certain dead lady sat up and laughed. "That fool! His concentration wavered and instead of fully sending me back, he only knocked my soul into my body! I live again!"
And Martha rose up, thinking only one thing, "Now I must get him out of the way so that he can't finish the job.
"And then I can start my cooking show again, what fun!"
Oh, this is hardly over =p
"Ok, Dizzi, tell us what you know!" Kenny said.
Dizzi replied, "Right chief. Ok, as you all know, Martha's body should be around here. We should split up in two groups, since there are only two locations I can determine where her body would be."
"Yeah," agreed Kenny. "Since Martha wants her body hidden, but she couldn't bare it to be buried in an underground graveyard -"
Tyson interrupted Kenny, "Hey, wait, aren't graves underground anyway?"
Kenny shook his head, "No, like underground as in under a building type. Anyhow, since she couldn't be buried there, there are only two locations where she could be."
"Kai and I will go there!" Rei said instantly, pointing to one of the locations on Dizzi's screen.
"Ok," Kenny agreed. "Tyson, Max, and I will check out the other place. Meet back here tonight, so get lunch sometime. I know Tyson won't forget to remind us, but you and Kai will probably get so involved in finding her body that you might forget."
"Don't worry, we won't!" Rei assured Kenny while Kai made a comment along the lines of, "Acting like he's my mother or something."
"Oh, Kai," Rei said, "Be happy! We're going to fix you up in no time at all!"
"Fix me up?" replied Kai. "You make it sound like I'm broken. I'm perfectly fine, save for the fact that there is a person inside of me trying at all times to break through and control me."
"Right. Perfectly fine," repeated Rei sarcastically. "You won't be until we get Martha out of you and you become the old Kai we all knew and loved." He smiled happily.
"Right." Kai looked a bit skeptical, but said nothing else as the group split up.
Rei looked up at a street sign, and turned right, while Kenny, Tyson, and Max turned left. They all wished each other luck and whatnot so that they'd do this quickly.
"Ok," Rei said, looking around. "Let's hurry up."
Kai nodded. "Where exactly are we going, anyway?"
"To the . . . old abandoned Fluffy Factory." Rei said, slowly. "Apparently, Martha was a big contributor to the factory and made them decorate the entire warehouse. It cost them so much money that the warehouse had to shut down a month later. The warehouse is abandoned now, but it's still decorated and stuff because who knows what type evil spells Martha uses."
"Oh, great," replied Kai. "Let's get this over with."
They started walking in the general direction of where the warehouse should be, and Rei hoped that it wasn't as pink as Dizzi had said it was.
~~~
Tyson, Max, and Kenny, meanwhile, were off to the Martha Ground, which was where Martha held all of her shows that needed fancy rooms. It was, basically, a big mansion.
"Wow, it's huge!" Tyson said, stating the very obvious.
"I've never seen something as huge as this! Every room must be incredibly big," said Max, eyes wide open.
Kenny nodded, and Dizzi said, "The whole house has about thirty-six individual rooms, two kitchens, and three living rooms."
"Wow," repeated Tyson.
"Well, what are you guys waiting for?" Kenny said, "Let's go look!"
"Yeah," said Max, "But FIRST, we've got to get up these stairs."
The three stared in awe at the stairs, which seemed to go up and up forever, even though the house wasn't really that far up.
"This could take awhile."
~~~
The inside of the warehouse was not just pink.
It was also light pink and rose pink and dark pink and tickle me pink and carnation pink.
Oh, and there was some purple too.
And a lot of fluff.
"Kill me now," muttered Rei as he glanced into the warehouse cautiously. "But . . .I must do this for Kai!" That being said, he walked bravely into the hellish room.
After looking around for awhile, and not finding much, Rei sighed. "This is really annoying. We're amidst the most pink I've ever seen in my life, in a pink factory. The pinks are color-coded and patterned, and the whole thing is more organized than I've ever seen in my life and it's only a warehouse." He paused, "If you were Martha, where would you be buried?" He asked Kai, and Kai gave him a loathsome glare.
Rei grinned sheepishly, "Oh, I forgot. You are, indirectly, Martha."
"Yeah. Thanks."
"Sorry," mumbled Rei, eyes downcast. Suddenly, he glanced down even further and noticed a door he hadn't noticed before. "Hey, I just noticed a door I hadn't noticed before!" He said proudly. "Come on!"
Kai trailed behind him, muttering, "That sounds like something Tyson would say."
Luckily for Kai, Rei didn't hear.
And so they went through the door that Rei had just noticed and had not noticed before. Neither had Kai, so he couldn't say anything. Anyhow, when they went through the (pink) door (decorated with engraved flowers), both Rei and Kai blinked.
"Well then."
Martha's body lay there, in all its evilness, in the middle of a flower bed/fluffy pink arrangement. Around the edges of the 'grave' were pieces of paper, all which had been written upon with 'perfect' calligraphy.
"Spells?" Rei wondered, "Do you suppose she'd put spells around her grave if it was this easy to find?"
Kai shook his head, "I don't know. I wouldn't suppose so, but . . ." He took a step into the room, and suddenly, fell to his knees, clutching his head.
As Rei ran over to Kai, "What's wrong!" he couldn't help but think, 'how typically anime style! I should have figured!'
Kai groaned; he was have the whole eyes-roll-back-and-stuff-type-anime- thing. Typical.
"Martha doesn't want to leave her body," Kai groaned, "So she's trying to take me over once and for all."
Without bothering to ask Kai how he knew that (hey, he just did!) Rei told Kai gently, "Lie down." And he went to the edge of Martha's grave and picked up a piece of paper.
And blinked.
"This is a recipe . . ." he said, "And this is another one . . ." He picked up more papers, and flipped through them, "In fact, these are all pages from her books, copied down."
Kai WOULD have said something, but he was a bit preoccupied with Martha at the minute; he really couldn't hurt her physically since that would mean hitting himself. "Get . . . out!" He said fiercely, and Rei turned back around.
"We'll get the others - they'll know what to do." He said, helping Kai stand. Kai was able to walk, but Rei picked him up anyway; "We have to get you out as fast as we can, and you're in no condition to run like that," Rei said sternly, bolting out of the room.
Sighing, Kai allowed himself to be carried out of the factory. It wasn't until they were out of the factory and quite a bit away before Martha- induced pain ended. "Well, that sucked," He said, grumpily.
"Well, I doubt that was fun for you," Rei agreed. "We do have to go back, you know," he added after a pause.
"Yeah, I know. We will." Kai paused as well, and looked up at Rei. "You can put me down now."
Rei grinned.
~~~
"We've been through at least thirty rooms," groaned Tyson, "And they're all so perfect I almost want to get out my blade and destroy them. And plus, there hasn't been one sign of her body! Not one!"
"I have to admit," agreed Max, "It's really annoying."
The three of them were taking a short break in one of the kitchens. The walls were painted cream, and there was a dark wood border. The counters were cream colored as well, and the cabinets and furniture was all dark wood. The chairs were even exactly opposite each other around the perfectly circle table.
"It is annoying," Kenny said, "But for the sake of Kai, we really have to keep looking. Unless you want Kai to be wearing a dress at the tournament, we have to get the exorcism performed!"
"Which reminds me," Tyson said, "What do we have to do with this whole exorcism thing? Does anyone even know how to perform an exorcism here?"
Kenny groaned. "Its not that complicated, Tyson. You should have read the books I had you check out of the library and it would make perfect sense. All we need to do is stick Kai and Martha's body in the same room, and someone has to perform the exorcism."
"You make it sound simple, but how is an exorcism done anyway? What do you do? Chant and do a funny dance?" asked Tyson. He wasn't willing to do that for Kai.
"Nothing like that," replied Kenny, and Tyson immediately looked relieved.
"Well, then, that's good." He said, and jumped up from his chair. "I wonder if there's any food in here." He began rummaging around in the cabinets and cupboards.
Max turned to Kenny and said, "So if you don't do a funny dance, what do you do?"
"The actual process is quite simple," replied Kenny. "Dizzi, explain it to them."
"Gee, thanks," Dizzi said, "Make me do all the work."
"Come on, you can explain it better than me," Kenny said.
"Oh, fine," Dizzi agreed. "Well, really, I don't see how people got those weird exorcism ideas, but I guess it's understandable in a way since for a long time exorcists never let anyone see the exorcism. When people die, and their souls stay in this world instead of passing into the next, their souls are something like a bit beast."
"No way!" Max said, and even Tyson took a second to look up from the pantry he was digging in to listen.
"Yes," Dizzi replied, "So all the exorcist has to do is use his bit beast to force the soul to go back into the proper body."
"Wouldn't you think," Kenny said, musing, "How would the soul of the person be forced by a bit beast to go back into the body? How does it come out of its host body?"
Dizzi sighed and continued to explain, "Something about the bit beast draws out the soul. Some scientists are trying to figure out the connection, but that's not very important. Anyhow, we just need to have our best blader perform the exorcism."
"That would be me, then!" Tyson said, mouth full of some food.
"Actually," Dizzi said, "I should think Rei should do it; he's pretty good at beyblading to begin with, and he's read the books."
Tyson groaned, "Oh fine."
"But we still have to find the body," Max reminded him.
Tyson, Kenny, and Max sighed.
~~~
"Now, they went into this mansion," Rei told Kai, "So all we need to do is find them in there. Seems a bit big."
Kai rolled his eyes. "It's not that big. Can I walk by myself now please?"
Rei shook his head, still holding Kai. Never mind the fact that his arms were beginning to hurt a little, he was enjoying holding Kai. Of course, he told himself he was just helping a friend.
"There is no way you can carry me up those stairs," Kai told Rei. Never mind the fact he wasn't trying at all to get out of Rei's arms.
"You shouldn't be walking yet," Rei said slowly, trying to think of an excuse to continue to carry Kai.
"We'll find them faster if I'm walking," Kai replied, trying to not sound like he wanted to Rei to carry him around.
In the end, Kai reluctantly got out of Rei's arms and they walked up the stairs to the house, with Rei standing right next to Kai, just in case he fell.
They went inside the house, both shuddering at the perfectness of the house, and Kai groaning that this setting made him more prone to Martha attacks.
"Don't worry," Rei said, "I can hear them upstairs!"
Following Tyson's voice to the kitchen, Rei and Kai entered it, scaring Max and Kenny.
"How did you guys find us so fast?" Max asked, "We thought you guys were still looking for Martha's body!"
"We already found it," Kai informed them, "And Tyson's voice carries."
"Hey!" Tyson said.
Kenny interrupted him, "So if you found the body, did you perform the exorcism?"
"No," Rei said, "Kai sort of had an attack by Martha or something, and we figured we'd get you guys and then go perform the exorcism."
"Yeah! Let's go!" Max said, "And Rei, I hope you've perfected the exorcism techniques, because you get to perform it!"
Rei smiled; he had hoped he would have gotten to perform the exorcism. He put his hand into his pocket, and felt around for his beyblade, grabbing it and smiling.
Kenny stood up, closing his laptop, "Why not lets go and get this over with right now. I'm afraid there is nothing we can do for Kai other than the exorcism, so the faster we get done with that, the faster he'll be perfectly fine. Now, can you show us where the body is?"
They exited the room, and Tyson called behind them, "Wait, can I bring the food?"
~~~
In much less time than it took to get from the warehouse to the mansion (seeing as how Rei wasn't carrying Kai this time), the group arrived at the warehouse.
"The fluffy warehouse," Max said, half in awe, half in terror.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up," Kenny said.
"Gee Chief," remarked Tyson as they walked inside, Rei leading, "You make it sound like we're just on a midday stroll rather than finding an evil persons corpse."
Kenny shrugged, and Rei lead them to the door that didn't seem to always be there. Luckily for them, this time it was. Inside, the room was still as perfect and . . . yeah . . . as it had been when Rei and Kai were in there the first time.
"Well, this is the place," Rei said.
Kai stood in the doorway. "You know, when Martha tries to take me over, it hurts quite a bit."
"After this, Kai, you'll be back to normal!" said Kenny happily. "You've just got to come over by her body for a minute so Rei can do this."
Kai nodded, and waited for Rei to give the 'I'm ready' nod before stepping forward and sitting down next to the body of evilness that was Martha. A second later, he was standing up again and saying in that feminine voice that could only mean one thing - Martha had fully possessed him.
"I advise you not to try to wake up the boy - this time, I'm almost complete . . . and then . . . there shall be no stopping me." Kai smiled at them all, "Would you like some water?"
Rei turned to Kenny, eyes open wide, "Chief, what should we do?"
Kenny looked at Kai, and then at Martha's body. Kai had produced a dress and a pair of underwear out of seemingly nowhere, and was in the process of putting them on. Kenny turned away for a moment, and said, "OK, Max, Tyson. You hold Kai down. Rei, get your bit beast out, now!"
Max and Tyson grabbed the now-in-a-dress Kai, and pinned him to the ground.
"Hey, please be careful . . . you'll wrinkle my dress," Kai said, squirming around.
"Rei, this is not the time to be trying to see Kai's underwear!" Kenny called out, "Do it now!"
Rei blushed bright red, and grabbed his beyblade. "Let's go, Drigger!" He said, and his beyblade lit up as Drigger came out of it, in all his flashing glory. "Drigger, get Martha's soul out of Kai!"
Drigger padded over to where Kai was, and started growling in the back of his throat. After a minute, Kai stopped struggling to get free, and Martha's image seemed to float above him.
"Whoa, no way!" said Tyson.
"Unbelievable!" agreed Max.
"Go back to where you came from, Martha!" Rei called, heroically. He would do this for Kai! 'No, not like that!' Rei told himself quickly, and that instant of messed-up concentration made a small but important miscalculation in the exorcism. "Go on!"
"I don't want to," replied Martha's spirit, but in one of those dual voices; both Kai and Martha seemed to be speaking.
"What's going on, chief?" asked Max.
"I don't know," Kenny said. "Dizzi?"
"Don't look at me!"
Rei growled, and yelled, "C'mon Drigger! Banish Martha back to herself!"
Drigger leaped forward and clawed at the image of Martha.
"I don't want to go back! It's dark and icky, and hot and full of lava! The people there suck! They all wear red and orange and the rocks kill my complexion when I sleep on them!"
Whatever else Martha was going to say was lost as her spirit flew into her own body. A moment later, Kai sat up. "What happened?" He groaned, and noticed his dress, "Damn it, not again!"
"Kai, you might want to stand up," Rei said, blushing again; Kai's skirt was twisted up in a way from when Kai was squirming to get loose of Max's and Tyson's grips that his underwear (which, by the way, was VERY lacy this time) was showing.
"Oh. Right." Ever so faintly, he blushed too.
"Let's just get out of here!" Kenny said, "This place gives me the chills, and now we don't need to worry about Martha anymore!"
"Yeah!" echoed the others.
As they turned and filed out of the room, Rei cast a half-glance back at Kai who was walking swiftly back to the hotel to get decent clothing on. 'I wonder if he's going to be just like his old self now, and be a total jerk,' he thought, 'I sure hope not.'
They got to the hotel with no problems at all, except for when some icky pervy guys tried to get Kai to come with him, thinking he was a girl. After Kai had knocked all three of the icky guys unconscious (causing Rei to blush YET AGAIN when Kai's skirt flew up. Apparently, Kai's skirt did not follow the Laws of Skirts in Kids Anime - that no matter what you do, or from what angle, you'll never see the underwear.)
"Well, I guess that ends our adventure," Kenny told Dizzi, "But it was rather interesting now that I think about it. Really, . . ." He went on and on and on.
"I'm just glad to be me again," Kai said softly, but no one heard him.
Except Rei.
~~~
And meanwhile, at a pink fluffy factory, in a certain room behind a certain door, a certain dead lady sat up and laughed. "That fool! His concentration wavered and instead of fully sending me back, he only knocked my soul into my body! I live again!"
And Martha rose up, thinking only one thing, "Now I must get him out of the way so that he can't finish the job.
"And then I can start my cooking show again, what fun!"
Oh, this is hardly over =p