Yeah, haven't updated in a while, but I have very good reasons! One I am back at my hellhole of a school, two I couldn't be bothered, and three was down.

On with the fic.

'Geez, it doesn't take you long to realize that life sucks.' Marth was having a bad day. School. He couldn't believe it. He was a warrior, not a scholar. He knew his sisters felt the same way he did about this. All three honestly believed that it was just a way to keep them out of their parents' hair. They may have been strong, but they were anything but stupid. However, although they had expected to fit in reasonably well, they had gone the complete opposite way, being called freaks and the like by the 'normal' kids there, and being ignored by the other crystal senshi in training, who were all terrified of the three siblings. Particularly bad, was one girl and her friends, who seemed to always get their own ways either by flirting or means of reverse psychology. He sighed, he needed to freshen up. He turned into the corridor that led to the bathroom, and pushed the door open slightly. However, that's as far as he got because he heard some sort of panting sound from inside the room. He looked up only to see one of the people who teased his sister and himself lying on the bench, with some guy on top of her. Marth's eyes widened and he stifled a gasp. He then immediately turned and ran as fast as he could away from the bathroom.

Kirra was having a day that was equally, if not worse than Marth's. She came out of the science block, lugging her books like a packhorse. She looked and felt terrible. Suddenly someone edged past her, and she felt a sharp shooting pain on her cheek and forehead. Kirra put her fingertips to her forehead, and then drew them away after it stung. Her fingers were covered in blood. She turned around and glared down the hallway, but it was empty. Or so she thought.

"FREAK!"

Brittany the ultimate blonde dimbo shot out and ran away, giggling crazily.

Kirra looked down at her bloodied finger and blinked.

'It matters not, I have had worse injuries than this.' She sighed before wiping away the blood and continuing to hold her jumper there to stop the bleeding. She sat down on a bench in the hallway, she felt slightly dizzy. 'Don't worry, the pain will pass, all I have to do in concentrate...' she thought before closing her eyes and staying there in a trance-like state for about five minutes. Her golden eyes then shot open and she took the jumper off her forehead. The gash was completely gone, but her jumper was covered in blood. 'That is gonna be impossible to get off.' She sighed, before standing up and heading off towards the lunch hall. But before she could get there, she heard someone calling her name.

"KIRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she spun around again, and came face to face with Marth who then threw his arms around her and attached himself to her waist.

"Kirra, it was horrible!"

"What happened, buddy?"

"Brittany and some GUY..."

"...were what?"

"Doing something HORRIBLE, Kirra, it didn't even look human!"

Kirra guessed what that thing was. 'Aa, the naivety of a thirteen year old.'

"C'mon boy, we'll go get you lunch and settle you down huh?"

Marth sniveled and nodded before starting off down the corridors with his arms still wrapped around Kirra.

Trinity was sitting at the table in the lunch hall at the school- basically all the kids around those parts, especially the Crystal Senshi in-training. Suddenly Kirra and Marth came over to her table, which only she occupied because everyone else was pretty scared of her. "Hey guys, what's with the faces?"

"Brittany again."

"Oh I see, what this time?"

"Still think we're freaks."

"Plus Marth caught her screwing Crystal's boyfriend in the bathroom."

Suddenly, the very object of their conversation came over. She smiled at Trinity and glared at Kirra and Marth.

"You know Trinity, I think you've changed. We should let you be part of our little group, right guys?" The others nodded.

"Really?" Trinity said, standing up. Brittany nodded. "I don't think there's any reason that you should be sitting here alone. Come and have lunch with us." Trinity walked over to

Brittany, they were so close they could have kissed.

"Excuse me, but I'd rather swallow glass than eat with you. Shove your lunch up your arse, Brittany. If you ever come after Kirralee or Martheo again, you are fucked.."

Kirra and Marth looked slightly angry with Trinity for using their full names, but otherwise were smirking with triumph.

"... although by what I've heard you've been doing quite a lot of that lately anyway! And I'm not alone..." Trinity turned around "I have my little bro and sis." With that the group

of girls stalked away.

"Trin, you have really got to teach me how to do that," Marth grinned, showing his fangs. He looked like some maniacal rabid animal.

"This, my dearest brother is one occasion where my parents taught me all I know."

Meanwhile, everyone was still pretty stoked about baby Trinity. She was only about a week old and yet there was something special about her. Everyone loved her and was extremely proud, but not as proud as Ray and Mariah. You could practically see their eyes light up whenever they saw her, as though she had brought them new reason to live. And, surprisingly even Kai had seemed to grow attached to the child. He always seemed to be concerned about her and looking after her, and sometimes even tried to tell Ray and Mariah what to do with her. Although this got extremely frustrating at times, they knew he meant well. Kai had just brought her in after she had been asleep.

"Here she is, Kami-sama, she is so beautiful!"

"Can you give her to me please Kai, I need to feed her."

Kai handed Mariah baby Trinity so she could breastfeed her, (AN: It has been clinically proven that it makes babies healthier and smarter) and then sat on the couch. Mariah started to sing softly to Trinity and stroke her face lightly with her finger. Ray had his arms around Mariah's shoulders.

'They look just like a happy family, with nothing to worry about whatsoever, it's sad that the world is in this state.' Kai leaned back on the couch, and Tyson walked in.

"Hey Mariah, are you sure it's warm enough for her?" Tyson questioned.

"What? You think I can magically adjust the temperature do you?" Mariah looked up and glared at Tyson, who turned red. Kai and Ray sweat dropped. Emily and Max entered the room holding each other's hands.

"I am so glad that we can live normally for a while, that we don't have to worry about all this youma-and-demolition-boys thing at the moment. You guys deserve a break, with the baby in all," Emily smiled.

"Yeah, but I have a really bad feeling it isn't going to last forever..." Ray said, looking down at Mariah and his baby.

Trinity was huddled up on her bed in the corner closest to the wall, and cried into the top of her knees. She heard her parents and siblings enter the room. She didn't care.

"You know, don't you?"

"Of course I know. Do you think I'm stupid or something?"

"Of course we don't little one."

"Well maybe you are smart enough to know I want to be left alone."

Kai had been missing for the last year. They had just assumed his tough-guy nature and free spirit had led him to greener pastures. However, this had been a wonderful dream too far short lived. Trinity had been on scouting. She was up in the mountainous region around her White Tiger Clan's village. That's where she had found him. Kai, her best friend in the world, unconscious. She screamed and jumped down to him.

"Kai, wake up, please wake up..." she sobbed. He didn't respond. She choked back tears, and grabbed him, and rushed back to her village, where the Crystal Senshi base was. She had run to the medical ward sobbing the whole way. The doctors had tried everything, but couldn't revive him. And now her best friend in the whole world, the only person who she felt understood her, and the person she had known her whole life, Kai Hiwatari was dead. She couldn't come to grips with it.

What was worse, she was sure she had spared the person that had killed him, after he had begged her not to kill him.

"...Trinny?"

She spun around on her bed, her eyes red from crying. Marth was sitting on her bed, his eyes were filled with tears, yet he refused to cry. He tried to impress her by being tough.

"I'm sorry, Trinny."

Trinity nodded and stared down at her bed, wiping the tears from her eyes, only to have new ones bud. Suddenly she was angry. So angry.

'Don't worry, my friend. I will get revenge for you.'

Trinity stood up, and walked calmly out of her room. Her parents looked after her, worried. She had to stop relying on her anger alone. She needed to use her feelings in war, as well.

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on her," Marth muttered. "I won't let her do anything stupid."

His parents nodded. "So be it."

Marth nodded, bowing slightly, and started off after his sister.

(AN: Here's the bit I previewed in chapter 6. And Kai isn't dead in the present, just in the future.)

Kai sat on the floor, playing with the baby, Ray and Mariah just sat and watched with their arms around each other, occasionally looking lovingly into each others eyes. Trinity was now about 5 and a half months old, and had started to speak and crawl, so everyone was pretty excited. Kai smiled at her, and tried to get her to speak. "Say, 'Kai', Trinny..." Trinity looked up at him, confused, and then looked up at him, and pointed. "Sourpants!" she said clearly, Ray and Mariah looked at each other, eyes wide, and laughed. Kai's eye twitched slightly, and the repeated what he had just said. "Pwetty," said Trinty, and grabbed the triangle marks on his face. 'Jeez, this kid has a hard grip, not surprising when you consider what she's like when she grows up...' Trinity then bit his hand. Kai yelped, she had two very sharp front teeth, which she used to great extent. "I'm gonna get you for that one!" he said, smiling.

"Uh-oh!" Trinity said before starting to crawl away at top speed, her little red pigtails bobbing up and down as she went. Kai smiled evilly and crawled after her.

"Gee, I never knew Kai could act like that until Trinity came along."

"Yeah but at least it gives us time to ourselves," said Ray, with a devilish look on his face.

"I suppose so," said Mariah, getting what he was implying.

"Well, then..." said Ray, a genuinely evil loom on his face "Shall we?"

"Yes, I think so..." said Mariah as Ray scooped her up in his arms and headed down the hall, towards the bedroom.

Trinity was blinded by rage, heading towards Voltaire's house. Bastard, she knew he'd done that. To his own grandson. Sick bastard. She wanted to kill him, Kai hadn't wanted her to, but this was a dog eat dog world, and this was an eye for an eye. She walked in, ignoring the guards that fired at her. Her went straight to Voltaire's private quarters. She tried the door handle, it was locked. 'No time for games!' she thought before kicking the door in. Voltaire spun around in his chair and smirked.

"I had a feeling I'd be seeing you."

Mariah went into her and Ray's room, to check on baby Trinity. Their bed was still unmade due to the events that had taken place a few hour previously. She turned to look at Trinity's cot, only to find it empty. She gasped and screamed. Ray rushed in and saw what she was screaming at. His eyes widened and his mouth hung open.

"Where is she?"

"How the Hell should I know?"

"Oh shit..."

"Trinny? Little one, where are you!"

Mariah and Ray throughout the house calling Trinity's name. Soon the others had started searching too. At the end of 15 minutes of searching they still hadn't found her. Mariah had started crying uncontrollably. Ray had her in his arms, his face pale. Kai was still looking. He ran into the spare bedroom, calling her name. He suddenly heard a sound from behind the curtains. He swept them open, to find baby Trinity sitting perfectly still, glaring out the window, not making a sound. Kai's eyes grew wide as he watched the infant sitting there. He grabbed her and picked her up, and she appeared to snap out of the trance and stare at him.

"Sourpants!" she said irritably.

"C'mon, we need to get you out of here, your parents are worried sick."

"NO! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!" Trinity started screaming and struggling.

Kai was startled, she had never acted like this before. He took her into the lounge room, and Ray and Mariah jumped off the couch and embraced their daughter, relieved that she'd been found, however, Trinity was still screaming and struggling like her life depended on it.

"BAD! BAD, BAD, BAD!"

Ray stared down at her, and then looked up and gave Mariah a puzzled glance. She still looked worried. Suddenly, Ray heard a sound from outside. He ran out the front door, and came face to face with Tala.

"Surprise." Tala smirked.

Ray gasped before running back inside.

"TALA! HE'S HERE! MARIAH TAKE TRINNY AND RUN!" Ray yelled.

Mariah didn't react for a minute, and then realization crossed her face. She ran towards the back of the house, still carrying Trinity.

"NO! NO! DADDA, DADDA! SOURPANTS, NO!" Trinity hollered. Mariah tried to calm her so she didn't give their position away. Ray and the others had been totally unprepared, and had already been captured.

"Find the woman and that child, we can't let them get away," Tala snapped at the youma, who made some sort of weird liquid sound before starting to search. Ray, who had been chained up, closed his eyes and silently prayed that his one true love and daughter would be safe.

Mariah ran through the back of the house trying to find a place to hide. However, she couldn't do it quick enough, the youma had already spotted the mother and daughter, and were quickly gaining. Mariah looked back and kept running. Suddenly one of the youma sped ahead of the two. Mariah turned back around in time so see its fist come towards her head. She fell against the wall, out cold, still holding Trinity protectively. Trinity's eyes welled with tears.

"Mumma? MUMMA?" Trinity cried trying to revive her mother, to no avail. Tala stepped in and smirked a truly evil smirk.

"Looks like we finally got you, brat. There is not point in resisting now."

Trinity looked up at him, and Tala jumped back, completely surprised. The child's eyes were glowing pure gold, and a small white tiger paw mark had appeared on her forehead. She crawled over to Tala, and pointed to him.

"Eternal Sleep!" the baby yelled. Tala suddenly screamed and disappeared. The youma also followed suit. Trinty's eyes and tiger paw mark flickered for a second, before disappearing completely. She then fainted. Due to the fact that the youma had been vanquished, Ray was free and ran to find his child and love. When he found them, she saw both of them collapsed on the floor, with no evidence of the youma being there.

"Darn right you were, you asshole." Trinity stepped forward one step, looking completely menacing.

"Did you find the present I left you outside your hole of a village?" Voltaire smirked.

"The hell I did. And now you are going to pay. Why did you do that, he was your grandson!"

"He grew weak and incompetent, I had no further use for him, so I disposed of him."

"HOW DARE YOU!" Trinity screamed.

"I could give you details of just how we tortured him, and how he begged us to leave you alone..."

"THAT IS ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD IT! I AM SICK OF YOUR BULLSHIT, THREATENING MY FAMILY, KILLING MY FRIENDS, I JUST WANTED TO BE NORMAL!" Trinity hollered, before screaming. Her eyes turned completely gold, and the white tiger paw mark burned on her forehead. "AND YOU HAVE TAKEN EVERYTHING NORMAL IN MY LIFE AWAY, AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE IT!" she screamed before rushing up to Voltaire and punching him in the stomach. He doubled over, gasping for air. She then continued to beat him around until he could no longer stand. She then held her palm out flat, pointed at Voltaire. He tried to crawl away.

"Please spare me, it was my grandson's wish!"

"And you killed him! He spared your sorry life, and you killed him, well, that isn't going to cut it with me!" Trinity screamed, before her eyes glowed even more so than before, and a pinkish beam shot from her hand. Voltaire screamed the obligatory bad-guy-is-dying scream, and dissipated. Trinity then fell to her knees, sobbing. She stared at her hands, who had made so many people and things victims of her own hatred and anger.

"What have I been reduced to? To do things like this and consider them part of everyday life! Why did this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this?" she sobbed, alone in the room.

Kai was walking through the town, he did so to clear his mind, and it usually helped. He knew his grandfather was behind the attacks that kept occurring- the Demolition Boys were his team, after all. He sighed as he walked, filled with grief, and decided to go to the rooftop where he had first met Trinity. He hated to admit it, but he missed her a little more than he would have liked to. When he had finished jumping buildings with Dranzer, he was startled to find her on the rooftop also, sobbing into the tops of her knees. Kai simply stared for a while, before taking a step forward.

"Trinity?"

Trinity instantaneously snapped back to reality, and saw Kai, her best friend forever, looking down at her. She stifled a sob, before running forward and throwing her arms around him. "Oh Kai, in my timeline, your grandfather caught you and tortured you after you spared his life, and now you're..." she continued to sob, unable to complete the sentence. Kai blushed at the close contact, but gently started to stroke her hair.

"Don't worry, I'm still alive here, and I know now that if I ever get the chance I will kill him. Don't worry Trinity, I will always be here for you."

Trinity looked up at this, and met his warm smile and kind eyes. They just stared at each other like this for quite a while, before Kai moved his head a little closer to her. Instinctively, Trinity raised her head slightly, and closed her eyes. She could feel his breath on her lips. Suddenly her eyes shot open, this wasn't right! She quickly pulled away, and looked away, blushing.

"I'd better get going Kai... Stella!" The great purple cat appeared, Trinity jumped on it's back quickly, and it bounded away, sensing that she was uncomfortable. Kai simply stared after her, with sadness and loneliness in his eyes.

Aah, the good old drawn-together-by grief effect.