Chapter 9

Lexus stand in her room looking out her window when she sees Sora pull up with Bobby. They get out carrying a few bags and they walk into the house. He cell phone rings on the table beside her and she answers, "Yeah?"

"Lexus it's Yelen."

"What do you want?"

"We need you to come back to Hong Kong for a while."

"Fine. How long?"

"A few weeks." Says Yelen surprised that she isn't putting up a fight about this.

"Can I tell them where I'm going?"

"No, not even the leaders. Just sneak out tonight and there will be a ticket waiting for you at the airport."

"Fine." Says Lexus as she hangs up her phone and begins to pack.

Sora and Bobby walk into the house to see Li standing in the hallway talking to Eli and Ka. Li looks at Bobby and again he glares. Sora walks up to Li and taps him on the shoulder. Li looks at her and smiles.

"Dad, um well Bobby wants to be a Black Heart."

Li instantly looses his frown and looks at his daughter, "Sorry?"

"I want to join Sir." Says Bobby as he steps up beside Sora.

Li looks at this boy and his eyes narrow.

"Li maybe we should let him." Says Eli as Ka nods.

"Fine but he fights me." Says Li so calmly it's rather scary.

"Dad that's not fair, no one can beat you."

"That's not true. There is one girl but you don't have to worry about her."

"You mean mom?" asks Sora as she watches her father carefully.

Li shakes his head no. "Fine he fights Ying Fa."

"I heard my name?" asks Sakura as she pokes her head out from the study.

"Bobby wants to join and dad wants you to fight him." Says Sora as she looks around Li at her mother.

"Fine. Tonight at midnight. It's a full moon so it will be bright enough." Says Sakura with a nod before he goes back into the study.

Sora nods and smiles, "Come on Bobby let's get you settled in then."

Bobby nods and follows Sora upstairs, while he can feel the cold stare of Li on his back.

Once in Bobby's room Sora sits on the bed and watches him unpack, "Bobby are you sure about this? My mom isn't going to go easy on you. She beat Ka with one move and she is almost as strong as my dad."

Bobby turns around and looks at Sora, he walks over and kneels on the floor in front of her. "I have been wanting to join for quite a long time now. I just never knew how to get around to it. Then one day I saw you in your combat class and I saw the way you just sat there and studied the others fight. And I saw your tattoo."

"Yeah mom and dad had a fit when I got it on my shoulder, they said that it should be on the small of my back but I don't want to hide who I am. You were watching my combat class?"

"Yeah it's during one of my frees and it's actually kinda funny to watch. I was there the other day. I saw you fight Alas and Lexus. When you fought Lexus you staged it didn't you?"

Sora looks at Bobby surprised but she smiles, "Yeah and if class hadn't of ended and if Nick had of fought us it would have been a better show. But when I fought Alas that was real. He insulted me at the beginning of class and he had to pay."

"Well you got him good for sure. I heard him when he came out of the locker room complaining about the pain."

Sora laughs and lays back on the bed and looks out the window, she sees the full moon in the sky and sees a red color creeping in.

Bobby sees the frown on her face and looks outside, "Sora what is it?"

"Someone is going to die tonight."

"How do you know this?"

Sora pulls Bobby on top of her and points at the moon, "See the red creeping in on one side?"

Bobby pulls his eyes away from her face and looks at the moon, "Yeah."

"Someone either has already been killed or will be killed."

"Sora it may not have anything to do with us." Says Bobby softly as he moves Sora's head to she is looking up at him and not out the window.

Sora blushes and swallows hard, "I've been raised around death. I know."

"Well for a child brought up in this world I think you turned out just fine."

Sora now blushes harder and studies Bobby's face and eyes. Bobby leans in to kiss her softly on the lips and just as their lips are about to touch the window explodes as something comes crashing through it. Sora screams and pushes Bobby off of her and gets up on her knees on the bed and comes face to face with the barrel of a gun, she looks up and sees the same person from the woods standing here.