Tears of Twilight
Chapter 12.
Flash stood up and dusted herself off as she looked around. She wasn't quite sure what had happened, but she knew it wasn't good. They had been so close to getting their friends back only to be thrown all the way back to the main gate, which was about five hundred miles away. She let out an angry growl and was seriously thinking of just letting everything go, when Ryo suddenly beat her to it.
"Damn it! We were so close! I swear they'll pay for this!!"
"Ryo, calm down!" Sage said.
"No, I won't calm down! You saw what he did, Sage!! He sent us all back to the starting point and separated us! I shouldn't have let this happened! It's all my fault!" Ryo let out one deep breath, but he stood there shaking violently as his kanji flashed powerfully.
Sage was worried. If Ryo didn't calm down, it could cause chaos within the realm, and they couldn't have that. He tried to speak softly to calm him down, but that didn't work. So he did the only thing he could think of. SMACK!
The force of the blow resonated off Ryo's right cheek, echoing across the vast lands of the Dynasty. Ryo looked stunned for several minutes and he couldn't utter a word. He stared at Sage with wide eyes, and looked as if he wanted to say something, but no words would come out. Flash was watching the two of them. She decided to say nothing, figuring they could talk it through. She just stood back and thought on how to get Thunder out of where he was being held at. Ryo slowly shook his head and took deep breaths. When he finally came under control, he looked apologetically at Sage. "Sage, I.."
"No, don't. It's okay, Ryo," Sage smiled at him. "Right now we need to find the others and think of a way to get into that castle, and defeat Talpa once and for all."
"And destroy that Jakada," Flash put in.
"Right.. Sage, can you sense where Rowen and Kento are?" Ryo asked his friend.
Sage closed his eyes and tried to concentrate. After a few minutes he opened up his eyes and shook his head. "I can't sense them at all, Ryo."
"Well, we'll have to just head off and search," Flash said.
"Yeah, it's our only option," Ryo said. He then started walking in a certain direction, keeping his eyes peeled for any danger that was lurking nearby. With determined eyes, Flash and Sage, and White Blaze took places either sides of him, and followed along.
Kento spit out sand several times from his mouth as he slowly stood up. With a disgusted grunt he wiped his mouth and looked around. Immediately, he started cursing up a storm, his voice echoing across the lands. Rowen wasn't too happy himself, but he was more calm than his friend. He gave Kento a stern look. "Kento, don't! You have to keep yourself calm so we can do this!"
"How can I keep calm when we're back to where we started from basically, and separated from the others?!" Kento shouted, his fists clenched tightly at his sides.
"Kento, don't," Scorpio shook his orange brown head with a sad look to him. "I want to get Thunder out just as much as you want your friends out, but if you lose control then it could be disastrous."
Kento stood there quietly for several minutes, just staring at Scorpio. Lightning stood beside him, watching him quietly. For a moment silence reigned and it seemed Kento was struggling deep inside himself to make the right decision. He couldn't screw this up, but he was so worried for his fiance, it was driving him to the brink of insanity. And with Cye also being trapped in there, that just added to the stress.
"They're right, Kento," Lightning's voice came to him inside his head.
Kento blinked and looked at the tiger with a "huh" expression. He frowned a little as he replied back, leaving Rowen and Scorpio to give him confused looks as they wondered why he kept staring at the tiger. Rowen thought it was because he missed Kaye so much, perhaps looking at Lightning soothed him a little. Though it was hard to say for sure.
"Lightning, I know they are, it's just.. Kaye.. Cye..'" Kento trailed off with a bowed head.
Lightning nodded in understanding as he rubbed up against the Bearer of Hardrock. He understood how he was feeling, because he was feeling it too. For several minutes, the two remained that way, until finally Kento had calmed down.
He looked at the other two and nodded. "Okay, let's find Ryo, Sage, Flash, and White Blaze and rescue our friends!"
"Right on!" Scorpio cheered.
"Let's go then!" Rowen said. And the four figures set off, going in a direction they hoped would lead them to the others.
Talpa stared at Dais as his eyes glowed, highly interested in all that his Warlord had just told him. For a while nothing was said as he was thinking about what he had been told. Dais continued to keep himself bowed before his master as he waited for him to say something. Finally, Talpa did speak. "How interesting," Talpa mused. "It seems that Dream Walker can also see part of that missing Prophecy."
"Master?" Dais said, a little awed.
"Keep an eye on her, if she has any more dreams of this, report it to me," Talpa ordered. "But do not let her see you spying on her."
Dais bowed even lower. "As you command, master."
"Now begone!"
Dais rose up and vanished from sight, and Jakada spoke up. "Do you really think she did see it?"
Talpa nodded his head. "I'm certain of it, but how to access that power?"
"We still have two more to train for yet," Jakada reminded him.
"Yes, I know," Talpa replied. "Kaye of the Tiger is next. Unfortunately, it's hard to determine her weaknesses, but I know one weakness that will knock her for a blow."
"And that would be?"
"Her love for Hardrock."
Cye stared amazed at Kaye after she had told him the entire dream. "So what do you make of it?" he asked her, curiously.
She shook her head slowly as confusion flashed through her eyes. "I'm not sure, Cye. It's all too weird, and frankly it scares me a little."
Cye nodded in understanding. He wished he could help her with this, but he wasn't really sure what was going on himself, and in a major way, it bothered him that he couldn't help. All he could do was just be there for her the best he could.
Thunder had eventually fallen asleep from exhaustion on his bed. His sheets were soiled with blood, and as Kaye glanced toward him she was wondering if they would be able to have them washed so he wouldn't have to sleep on such dirty sheets.
"Poor guy...I still can't believe they hurt him that bad. What did they do to him? Do I even want to know?" Kaye wasn't sure on how to answer herself.
Then a small glitter of a flash caught her eye and she blinked. "Eh? What was that?" she wondered as she craned her neck for a better look at Thunder.
"What was what?" Cye asked curiously as he raised an eyebrow at her.
"I thought I saw something," Kaye said as she stood up and walked to Thunder.
"Kaye, what are you..?"
Kaye made no reply as she reached Thunder and pulled his shirt collar down a little. There it was. Some kind of amulet hanging around his neck. She gasped a little in awe. Cye joined her side and saw it too. For a moment he frowned as he didn't recognize it. "Kaye, do you think Talpa..?"
But Kaye did recognize it, and she looked ready to pass out a little. Her eyes were wide as saucers and she glanced at Cye quickly. "Cye, do you know what this is?"
Cye shook his head, wondering if she would say it was a controlling device of some kind that Talpa or Jakada came up with while they tortured Thunder for that amount of time they had him alone.
"Cye, this is the royal amulet of Germany!" Kaye gushed.
Cye blinked and his mouth dropped. "You're joking!"
Kaye shook her head. "No, I'm not. I recognize it. It's one of the highest amulets in that country. Cye, this means that.. Thunder is.. is a prince."
"So is that why all those guards were there with them, when he and his friends moved in across the street from us?" Cye asked.
Kaye backed away from Thunder but nodded her head. "Yeah, I believe so."
"Wow, amazing!" Cye said.
Kaye nodded again, still a bit shocked. Suddenly the door opened up and Talpa and Jakada stood there. Jakada licked his lips seductively at Kaye and she growled at him. Once again Cye nearly exploded, but one look from Kaye calmed him down.
"Let's go, girl," Talpa said impatiently. "It's your turn."
Kaye growled in response, but looked at Cye. "I'll be back, Cye."
Cye nodded his head, feeling worried about what was going to happen to his elder sister. He swallowed a lump in his throat as he watched her leave, and the door lock tightly shut. He drew in a shaky breath and sat down on his bed. "Kaye," he whispered.
Kaye was led to the throne room, and when Talpa and Jakada stopped, she found herself stopping too. Confused, she looked at Talpa. "Why did you drag me here?"
"Be quiet," Talpa commanded.
Kaye rolled her eyes at him, but she did shut up. Talpa then raised a hand and two poles appeared on either side of Kaye, at least five feet apart from each other. Chains immediately exploded out from them and connected to her wrists and ankles. She tried to struggle against them, but the collar wouldn't let her move.
Jakada chuckled. "Now this should be interesting," he said as he watched Kaye. Kaye wanted so much to flip him off, but she couldn't even raise her middle finger. Instead the only thing she could do was glare heatedly at him and silently curse him, wishing in vain that he could hear her. Talpa nodded with a small smile as his eyes glowed red. In an instant, Kento of Hardrock appeared in the room, in full armor and carrying his nanjinta in his hand.
Kaye gasped in shock. Kento? What was he doing here, and alone? No, something wasn't right. That couldn't be Kento.. It just couldn't.. But why did it feel like it was?
Talpa looked at Kento. "Attack her."
Without protesting, Kento summoned his surekill and launched it at Kaye. Kaye screamed in pain as she felt it envelop her. Her body rocked back hard, and if not for the chains that held her, she would have been blown back, regardless of the collar freezing her in her place or not. Blood dripped down her nose and lips and she struggled to keep her head up.
Again and again the attacks came, and Kaye screamed continuously, begging Kento to stop. Her heart was slowly breaking, as she couldn't believe he was attacking her. Finally, Talpa made Kento stop and sent him back to wherever he had come from. He nodded toward Sekhmet who was in the room as well, and the Warlord of Venom pressed a button and a metallic headgear came down and settled on Kaye's head.
After pushing a few buttons, Kaye felt herself being electrocuted basically, but it seemed to be drawing out her energy, instead of frying her. And it hurt even more than the surekill. She thrashed about wildly, causing the thing to probe deep into her skull, causing more blood loss and weakening her even further.
Finally after several long minutes, the device was taken away, and the chains released Kaye. Talpa unfroze her, and looked at her. "Armor up, and draw your weapon."
"Gladly," Kaye hissed through pain. "Armor of the Tiger! Come forth!"
Instantly her armor appeared around her, and she drew her weapon. Suddenly without warning, Jakada attacked her. Kaye grunted in pain as she staggered back. She returned his attack with a swift kick to the head, but he avoided it quickly. She cursed out loud, realizing she was still pretty much weak from that experience she had. "This was training? she wondered bitterly. More like torture."
Jakada swiped her feet out from under her and she fell hard to the floor. Just as he was about to strike her again, she suddenly thrust her weapon under his chin, and sent him flying back. Jakada quickly flipped in mid air, and landed on his feet. He grinned. "Not bad. But unfortunately, you'll have to do better."
"Kiss my ass!" Kaye growled at him.
"Later," Jakada smiled at her.
Kaye's eyes flashed, and she was ready to call her surekill, but for some reason she couldn't summon it. What was going on here? She had no time to find an answer, because she was suddenly attacked again. The two went across the throne room as Talpa and Sekhmet watched. Both were trying to knock the other down in hopes of winning, but so far neither was about to give up. Then suddenly Jakada did a somersault behind Kaye, and just as she turned around to face him and block him off, his weapon slammed against her forehead, knocking her down and sending her flying back across the room. She came to a stop, but didn't get up.
Jakada slowly approached her and knelt down beside her as he checked her. Alive, but unconscious. He smiled as he looked back at Talpa.
"Take her back," Talpa ordered with a look at Sekhmet.
Sekhmet lifted Kaye up and picked up her weapon, and took her back. Cye looked up in horror as Sekhmet threw her in. As soon as Sekhmet had left, locking the door, he quickly picked her up as gently as he could and placed her on her bed. With tears in his eyes he began to tend to her wounds. What horrible monsters their captors were. He gently bathed her wounds with the water from the bowl and the rag he had, wishing in vain she hadn't gone through what she just had. He could feel her pain through his link and it made the tears threatening the corners of his eyes finally spill down. Kaye groaned in pain as she came to, and looked at him with tear filled eyes.
"Cye.. it hurts so much.."
"Shh, I know," Cye said sadly.
"Cye.. Kento.. he.."
Cye frowned at her, waiting for her to go on. "Kento what, Kaye?"
She closed her eyes as she felt overwhelmed. "He attacked me.."
Cye shook his head. "Kaye, are you sure? I don't think Kento would do that to you."
Kaye shook her head. She wasn't sure what to think anymore. And it hurt too much to do so. All she wanted to do was just lay there and sleep. Thunder awoke from his sleep and glanced towards them. A frown came to his lips when he saw the condition Kaye was in. He got off the bed and approached them.
"Cye, step back. I'm going to heal her."
Cye did as he was asked to, and watched as Thunder placed his hand on Kaye. He closed his eyes and concentrated, and began to glow red as his lightning bolt symbol flashed in his forehead. A few seconds later he withdrew his hand, and Kaye's wounds were immediately healed. She looked gratefully at him. "Thank you, Thunder."
"Don't mention it," he replied.
Cye was quiet for a few moments, before he finally asked what was on his mind. "Kaye, do you think that was really Kento?" he asked her.
Kaye thought about that for several minutes. She shook her head, her eyes full of determination as she answered him. "No, I don't." And she was now more certain than ever. Kento would never ever attack her, and nothing would get her to believe otherwise.
Chapter 12.
Flash stood up and dusted herself off as she looked around. She wasn't quite sure what had happened, but she knew it wasn't good. They had been so close to getting their friends back only to be thrown all the way back to the main gate, which was about five hundred miles away. She let out an angry growl and was seriously thinking of just letting everything go, when Ryo suddenly beat her to it.
"Damn it! We were so close! I swear they'll pay for this!!"
"Ryo, calm down!" Sage said.
"No, I won't calm down! You saw what he did, Sage!! He sent us all back to the starting point and separated us! I shouldn't have let this happened! It's all my fault!" Ryo let out one deep breath, but he stood there shaking violently as his kanji flashed powerfully.
Sage was worried. If Ryo didn't calm down, it could cause chaos within the realm, and they couldn't have that. He tried to speak softly to calm him down, but that didn't work. So he did the only thing he could think of. SMACK!
The force of the blow resonated off Ryo's right cheek, echoing across the vast lands of the Dynasty. Ryo looked stunned for several minutes and he couldn't utter a word. He stared at Sage with wide eyes, and looked as if he wanted to say something, but no words would come out. Flash was watching the two of them. She decided to say nothing, figuring they could talk it through. She just stood back and thought on how to get Thunder out of where he was being held at. Ryo slowly shook his head and took deep breaths. When he finally came under control, he looked apologetically at Sage. "Sage, I.."
"No, don't. It's okay, Ryo," Sage smiled at him. "Right now we need to find the others and think of a way to get into that castle, and defeat Talpa once and for all."
"And destroy that Jakada," Flash put in.
"Right.. Sage, can you sense where Rowen and Kento are?" Ryo asked his friend.
Sage closed his eyes and tried to concentrate. After a few minutes he opened up his eyes and shook his head. "I can't sense them at all, Ryo."
"Well, we'll have to just head off and search," Flash said.
"Yeah, it's our only option," Ryo said. He then started walking in a certain direction, keeping his eyes peeled for any danger that was lurking nearby. With determined eyes, Flash and Sage, and White Blaze took places either sides of him, and followed along.
Kento spit out sand several times from his mouth as he slowly stood up. With a disgusted grunt he wiped his mouth and looked around. Immediately, he started cursing up a storm, his voice echoing across the lands. Rowen wasn't too happy himself, but he was more calm than his friend. He gave Kento a stern look. "Kento, don't! You have to keep yourself calm so we can do this!"
"How can I keep calm when we're back to where we started from basically, and separated from the others?!" Kento shouted, his fists clenched tightly at his sides.
"Kento, don't," Scorpio shook his orange brown head with a sad look to him. "I want to get Thunder out just as much as you want your friends out, but if you lose control then it could be disastrous."
Kento stood there quietly for several minutes, just staring at Scorpio. Lightning stood beside him, watching him quietly. For a moment silence reigned and it seemed Kento was struggling deep inside himself to make the right decision. He couldn't screw this up, but he was so worried for his fiance, it was driving him to the brink of insanity. And with Cye also being trapped in there, that just added to the stress.
"They're right, Kento," Lightning's voice came to him inside his head.
Kento blinked and looked at the tiger with a "huh" expression. He frowned a little as he replied back, leaving Rowen and Scorpio to give him confused looks as they wondered why he kept staring at the tiger. Rowen thought it was because he missed Kaye so much, perhaps looking at Lightning soothed him a little. Though it was hard to say for sure.
"Lightning, I know they are, it's just.. Kaye.. Cye..'" Kento trailed off with a bowed head.
Lightning nodded in understanding as he rubbed up against the Bearer of Hardrock. He understood how he was feeling, because he was feeling it too. For several minutes, the two remained that way, until finally Kento had calmed down.
He looked at the other two and nodded. "Okay, let's find Ryo, Sage, Flash, and White Blaze and rescue our friends!"
"Right on!" Scorpio cheered.
"Let's go then!" Rowen said. And the four figures set off, going in a direction they hoped would lead them to the others.
Talpa stared at Dais as his eyes glowed, highly interested in all that his Warlord had just told him. For a while nothing was said as he was thinking about what he had been told. Dais continued to keep himself bowed before his master as he waited for him to say something. Finally, Talpa did speak. "How interesting," Talpa mused. "It seems that Dream Walker can also see part of that missing Prophecy."
"Master?" Dais said, a little awed.
"Keep an eye on her, if she has any more dreams of this, report it to me," Talpa ordered. "But do not let her see you spying on her."
Dais bowed even lower. "As you command, master."
"Now begone!"
Dais rose up and vanished from sight, and Jakada spoke up. "Do you really think she did see it?"
Talpa nodded his head. "I'm certain of it, but how to access that power?"
"We still have two more to train for yet," Jakada reminded him.
"Yes, I know," Talpa replied. "Kaye of the Tiger is next. Unfortunately, it's hard to determine her weaknesses, but I know one weakness that will knock her for a blow."
"And that would be?"
"Her love for Hardrock."
Cye stared amazed at Kaye after she had told him the entire dream. "So what do you make of it?" he asked her, curiously.
She shook her head slowly as confusion flashed through her eyes. "I'm not sure, Cye. It's all too weird, and frankly it scares me a little."
Cye nodded in understanding. He wished he could help her with this, but he wasn't really sure what was going on himself, and in a major way, it bothered him that he couldn't help. All he could do was just be there for her the best he could.
Thunder had eventually fallen asleep from exhaustion on his bed. His sheets were soiled with blood, and as Kaye glanced toward him she was wondering if they would be able to have them washed so he wouldn't have to sleep on such dirty sheets.
"Poor guy...I still can't believe they hurt him that bad. What did they do to him? Do I even want to know?" Kaye wasn't sure on how to answer herself.
Then a small glitter of a flash caught her eye and she blinked. "Eh? What was that?" she wondered as she craned her neck for a better look at Thunder.
"What was what?" Cye asked curiously as he raised an eyebrow at her.
"I thought I saw something," Kaye said as she stood up and walked to Thunder.
"Kaye, what are you..?"
Kaye made no reply as she reached Thunder and pulled his shirt collar down a little. There it was. Some kind of amulet hanging around his neck. She gasped a little in awe. Cye joined her side and saw it too. For a moment he frowned as he didn't recognize it. "Kaye, do you think Talpa..?"
But Kaye did recognize it, and she looked ready to pass out a little. Her eyes were wide as saucers and she glanced at Cye quickly. "Cye, do you know what this is?"
Cye shook his head, wondering if she would say it was a controlling device of some kind that Talpa or Jakada came up with while they tortured Thunder for that amount of time they had him alone.
"Cye, this is the royal amulet of Germany!" Kaye gushed.
Cye blinked and his mouth dropped. "You're joking!"
Kaye shook her head. "No, I'm not. I recognize it. It's one of the highest amulets in that country. Cye, this means that.. Thunder is.. is a prince."
"So is that why all those guards were there with them, when he and his friends moved in across the street from us?" Cye asked.
Kaye backed away from Thunder but nodded her head. "Yeah, I believe so."
"Wow, amazing!" Cye said.
Kaye nodded again, still a bit shocked. Suddenly the door opened up and Talpa and Jakada stood there. Jakada licked his lips seductively at Kaye and she growled at him. Once again Cye nearly exploded, but one look from Kaye calmed him down.
"Let's go, girl," Talpa said impatiently. "It's your turn."
Kaye growled in response, but looked at Cye. "I'll be back, Cye."
Cye nodded his head, feeling worried about what was going to happen to his elder sister. He swallowed a lump in his throat as he watched her leave, and the door lock tightly shut. He drew in a shaky breath and sat down on his bed. "Kaye," he whispered.
Kaye was led to the throne room, and when Talpa and Jakada stopped, she found herself stopping too. Confused, she looked at Talpa. "Why did you drag me here?"
"Be quiet," Talpa commanded.
Kaye rolled her eyes at him, but she did shut up. Talpa then raised a hand and two poles appeared on either side of Kaye, at least five feet apart from each other. Chains immediately exploded out from them and connected to her wrists and ankles. She tried to struggle against them, but the collar wouldn't let her move.
Jakada chuckled. "Now this should be interesting," he said as he watched Kaye. Kaye wanted so much to flip him off, but she couldn't even raise her middle finger. Instead the only thing she could do was glare heatedly at him and silently curse him, wishing in vain that he could hear her. Talpa nodded with a small smile as his eyes glowed red. In an instant, Kento of Hardrock appeared in the room, in full armor and carrying his nanjinta in his hand.
Kaye gasped in shock. Kento? What was he doing here, and alone? No, something wasn't right. That couldn't be Kento.. It just couldn't.. But why did it feel like it was?
Talpa looked at Kento. "Attack her."
Without protesting, Kento summoned his surekill and launched it at Kaye. Kaye screamed in pain as she felt it envelop her. Her body rocked back hard, and if not for the chains that held her, she would have been blown back, regardless of the collar freezing her in her place or not. Blood dripped down her nose and lips and she struggled to keep her head up.
Again and again the attacks came, and Kaye screamed continuously, begging Kento to stop. Her heart was slowly breaking, as she couldn't believe he was attacking her. Finally, Talpa made Kento stop and sent him back to wherever he had come from. He nodded toward Sekhmet who was in the room as well, and the Warlord of Venom pressed a button and a metallic headgear came down and settled on Kaye's head.
After pushing a few buttons, Kaye felt herself being electrocuted basically, but it seemed to be drawing out her energy, instead of frying her. And it hurt even more than the surekill. She thrashed about wildly, causing the thing to probe deep into her skull, causing more blood loss and weakening her even further.
Finally after several long minutes, the device was taken away, and the chains released Kaye. Talpa unfroze her, and looked at her. "Armor up, and draw your weapon."
"Gladly," Kaye hissed through pain. "Armor of the Tiger! Come forth!"
Instantly her armor appeared around her, and she drew her weapon. Suddenly without warning, Jakada attacked her. Kaye grunted in pain as she staggered back. She returned his attack with a swift kick to the head, but he avoided it quickly. She cursed out loud, realizing she was still pretty much weak from that experience she had. "This was training? she wondered bitterly. More like torture."
Jakada swiped her feet out from under her and she fell hard to the floor. Just as he was about to strike her again, she suddenly thrust her weapon under his chin, and sent him flying back. Jakada quickly flipped in mid air, and landed on his feet. He grinned. "Not bad. But unfortunately, you'll have to do better."
"Kiss my ass!" Kaye growled at him.
"Later," Jakada smiled at her.
Kaye's eyes flashed, and she was ready to call her surekill, but for some reason she couldn't summon it. What was going on here? She had no time to find an answer, because she was suddenly attacked again. The two went across the throne room as Talpa and Sekhmet watched. Both were trying to knock the other down in hopes of winning, but so far neither was about to give up. Then suddenly Jakada did a somersault behind Kaye, and just as she turned around to face him and block him off, his weapon slammed against her forehead, knocking her down and sending her flying back across the room. She came to a stop, but didn't get up.
Jakada slowly approached her and knelt down beside her as he checked her. Alive, but unconscious. He smiled as he looked back at Talpa.
"Take her back," Talpa ordered with a look at Sekhmet.
Sekhmet lifted Kaye up and picked up her weapon, and took her back. Cye looked up in horror as Sekhmet threw her in. As soon as Sekhmet had left, locking the door, he quickly picked her up as gently as he could and placed her on her bed. With tears in his eyes he began to tend to her wounds. What horrible monsters their captors were. He gently bathed her wounds with the water from the bowl and the rag he had, wishing in vain she hadn't gone through what she just had. He could feel her pain through his link and it made the tears threatening the corners of his eyes finally spill down. Kaye groaned in pain as she came to, and looked at him with tear filled eyes.
"Cye.. it hurts so much.."
"Shh, I know," Cye said sadly.
"Cye.. Kento.. he.."
Cye frowned at her, waiting for her to go on. "Kento what, Kaye?"
She closed her eyes as she felt overwhelmed. "He attacked me.."
Cye shook his head. "Kaye, are you sure? I don't think Kento would do that to you."
Kaye shook her head. She wasn't sure what to think anymore. And it hurt too much to do so. All she wanted to do was just lay there and sleep. Thunder awoke from his sleep and glanced towards them. A frown came to his lips when he saw the condition Kaye was in. He got off the bed and approached them.
"Cye, step back. I'm going to heal her."
Cye did as he was asked to, and watched as Thunder placed his hand on Kaye. He closed his eyes and concentrated, and began to glow red as his lightning bolt symbol flashed in his forehead. A few seconds later he withdrew his hand, and Kaye's wounds were immediately healed. She looked gratefully at him. "Thank you, Thunder."
"Don't mention it," he replied.
Cye was quiet for a few moments, before he finally asked what was on his mind. "Kaye, do you think that was really Kento?" he asked her.
Kaye thought about that for several minutes. She shook her head, her eyes full of determination as she answered him. "No, I don't." And she was now more certain than ever. Kento would never ever attack her, and nothing would get her to believe otherwise.