Sandra: Sorry for the late update, but hey, at least I am updating!!!

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Chapter 3: Dreams

*Normal P.O.V.*

It's been one week since chibi Tala has stayed with the Bladebreakers, causing trouble and sticking to Rei. This day is no less the same.

"REIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Rei turned away from the T.V. and saw chibi Tala jump into his arms and scramble behind him and Tyson and Kai come running out, Tyson had blue splotches on his face, and Kai held an empty case with drops of blue face paint coming out.

"Tala…what did you do this time?" He said pulling the chibi in front of him.

"Tala bored!!!! Tala went Kai room and seeing pretty blue paint! Tala want paint, and take paint. Then Tyson sleeping and Tala want make Tyson pretty, so I no call him fatness monkster no more, and make Tyson pretty, then Kai and Tyson chasing Tala!" The chibi said in one breath.

"Rei, that kid just put paint all over my face! I don't think you should keep protecting him from the things he does wrong." Tyson said trying to wipe off as my face paint as possible, only making it worse.

"I agree with Tyson, if you keep siding him, he won't learn." Kai said.

Rei started to panic, he doesn't want to punish chibi Tala, but his friends were right.

"Tala, because of what you did, you're not having any dessert today!" Rei said, thinking up something not too harsh, but something good enough.

"But…but…"

"No buts Tala, now go to your room and think about what you just did." Rei looked at the chibi, his eyes were watering and they looked hurt, but Rei turned away, "Go on Tala, go to your room and come down when you learned your lesson."

Chibi Tala just left his head hanging and got off the couch and walked slowly towards his room.

"About time you punished him Rei!" Tyson said, before heading to the bathroom to wash his face.

Kai just turned on his heel and walked out the house to the shops to buy more face paint.

*Rei's P.O.V.*

"Guys! Dinner's ready!" I yell, Tyson was the first to get here, then Max and then Kai. I sit down at the table and notice something was wrong, someone's missing, Tala…

"Max, didn't you go get Tala to come down to eat?" I ask Max.

Max looked at me and said, "He said something about lessons and that Rei's mad and something like that." I sigh and get up, I head up the stairs and went to Tala's Room, and knock on the door.

"Tala, open the door, it's Rei." I say, I hear a little sobbing then I hear, "Tala no coming out."

"Why not?" I ask.

"Tala being punished, no come out till Rei forgive Tala."

"Oh Tala, don't be silly, come out and go to dinner, or your foods going to be cold!" I say, I try the handle, the doors locked.

"Rei no forgive Tala, Tala no come out." I hear him say,

"Ok, Tala, I forgive you now open the door." I say, I hear a click and then the door opened and I looked down at the Chibi, his blue eyes gone red and you can see where the tears were. I knelt down and stretched my arms out, the chibi looked at me, fidgeting, I hope he isn't scared of me.

"Come on Tala, I'm sorry." I say, the chibi looked at me a little longer and ran into my arms and hugged me tightly.

"Tala sorry, Rei no mad at Tala?" I hear if through muffled sobs.

"Of course not, I wasn't mad at you, I just had to be fair on Tyson and Kai." I say stroking the chibi's hair.

I hear a few more sobs, then Tala said, "We go eat now? Tala hungry!" He rubbed his tummy.

I laughed and said, "And you call Tyson the fatness monster."

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I come out of the bathroom after tucking Tala into bed, I took a shower, I rubbed my hair dry and looked out the window, it was raining and it looks like there's going to be some thunder and lightening.

I sit on my bed and plat my hair when I hear my door creak open I look over, I then see a little black blur before I felt something hug me tightly on my back, I look and see Tala, I tie off my hair and picked up the chibi, "What's up Tala?" I say, the chibi said, "Tala scared." Just then a boom from the thunder and a flash from the lightening caused Tala to hide under my shirt, I pulled him out and looked at the frightened chibi, "You want to stay with me tonight?" I ask him, he just nodded frantically, and I smiled, switched off the lights and got under the blankets, the chibi snuggled up to me and I hugged him, just to reassure him its ok.

The chibi got closer to me and I could smell his scent, a sort of fresh grass after rain smell, it was relaxing, I gave the chibi a kiss on the forehead and said, "Good night Tala." I closed my eyes but didn't fall asleep before feeling a small peck on my cheek and Tala saying, "Good night Rei."

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*Tala's Dream*

I looked behind me, the guards were chasing me, why I was running, I don't know, but I knew that if I didn't run, they'd kill me, just then I ran into someone, I looked up and see Boris, he smirked and gripped my arms, I turn my head and see the guards running up and surrounding me, I wriggle about and break out of Boris' grip, as I run I turn and see them catching up to me, then I turn back and I see the rest of my team, "Wait!" I yell out, they looked at me, then turned and walked on, just then, as I ran towards them I stretched out my arm and was about to grab a hold of Spencer when my arm went right through them and I fell into the ground, down and down when I saw the ground nearing, I closed my eyes to take in the impact when I felt someone catch me, I opened my eyes and saw a dark figure, the darkness hid their features, then they let me down and walked off, but I remember the scent that radiated off this person, it was a mixture of strawberry and cream. As I stood there wondering if I could make out any of this persons features, I felt a sharp pain go through my back and out my front, I looked down and saw the blood pour down from the hole where I believe a bullet went through, I turned and saw Boris smirking and I fell, the guards and Boris himself surrounded me, they kicked me and stomped on me, then, Boris laughed manically and raised his foot, it came down fast towards my face…

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*Rei's P.O.V.*

"AHH!!!!!!!!!" I jump, I heard someone just scream and I looked around frantically then looked down by my side at Tala who started to cry, "Shhhh….come on Tala, it's ok, it was just a dream, it's ok, don't cry, shhhh." I said soothing the child just crying his little self out.

"Rei! Rei! Tala scared!" Tala said through hard sobs, I lifted the chibi's chin so that he could look me in the eyes, but his eyes were closed tightly shut, I wiped away the tears that were pouring down, and hugged him, "Shhhh….it's ok, I'm here for you Tala, come on don't cry…" I moved him away, just enough so that I can look at his face, "Tala, look at me." I say, Tala opened his eyes and looked at me, still crying, I wiped the tears with both my thumbs and said, "If you want, I'll take you to Kai, and you can stay with him tonight, ok?" Then his eyes became more hurt and more tears came out, "Rei, please no kick Tala out, stay with Tala please."

"But Kai can take care of you…"

"Tala no want Kai, want Rei to take care, Tala sorry for waking Rei up, please no send Tala away!" The chibi said gripping onto my shirt tightly. Then I heard him muttering things like, "Please Rei no hate Tala." and "Tala sorry."

"It's ok Tala, I'm not sending you away or telling you off, I just thought that you might want Kai to take care of you, that's all." I said, then I realised I was talking to myself, the chibi cried himself to sleep whilst mumbling "Tala sorry."

I sigh and lye back down, I hugged the chibi close to me and put the blankets over us before I fell asleep again.

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*Chibi Tala's P.O.V.*

Yawn…me tired, but no go back to sleep.

Me look around, huh, Rei not here…Rei leave Tala? Rei no like Tala no more! Tala go find Rei!

Me climb off bed and run to door, open it and run down hallway.

Oof! Me run into someone, it's Maxie.

"Hey there Tala! Where you going in such a rush? You wanna play?"

"Tala want Rei!" Me run away from Maxie.

Me run around house, no find Rei! Rei leave Tala behind! Rei hate Tala? Rei must be mad at Tala for crying at night time…sniff…sniff…

"WAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Someone pick me up, REI! Me turn around and see Kai…not Rei…Rei hate Tala…Rei no like Tala no more…

"WAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

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*Kai's P.O.V.*

OH boy, why is Tala crying again? Argh! I start bouncing him up and down a bit, I've seen Rei do this a few times, but so far it doesn't seem to be working.

"Tala, what's wrong? Why are you crying? Are you sick?" I ask.

Then the chibi started to cry more, now adding, "Rei hate Tala! Tala want Rei! Tala Sorry! Rei come back play with Tala!"

Man, this kid is obsessed, always Rei this, Rei that, honestly, if he wasn't a chibi, he wouldn't be saying that! But then again, he's a chibi, and Rei is the nicest, apart from Max. That's it!

"Why don't you play with Max?" I said.

"WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WANT REI! WANT REI! WANT REI! NO WANT MAXIE! WANT REI!!!!!"

Bloody hell, just shut up! Why does he like Rei? I was his friend in the Abbey! He didn't even like Rei at the beginning!!

Just then, I heard a click from the front door and before I knew it, the crying stopped, both mine and the chibi's eyes turned to the front door, they had their back to us, then they turned around, it was Rei, he was holding grocery bags, and just then, my arms felt a lot lighter and then I saw Rei on the floor with chibi Tala placing mini kisses all over his face and hugging him like he would disappear if he doesn't. This is getting too mushy for me. I'm out of here!

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*Rei's P.O.V.*

"Rei! Rei back! Tala sorry! Please no leave Tala alone! Tala thought Rei mad at Tala and left! Tala so scared!" The chibi said placing kisses all over my face and hugging me with all his might.

"Tala, I just went to buy some groceries, I didn't want to wake you because you looked so comfortable, I wasn't mad at you or anything." I said, the chibi just hugged me tightly, not letting go anytime soon, I just stood up, the chibi was hanging from my neck, and I picked up the grocery and took it to the kitchen.

I sat down on a chair after putting everything away and Tala was still clinging to me.

"Come on Tala, let go now."

"NO!"

"Tala, come on, let go."

"NO! WHAT IF REI RUN AWAY AGAIN AND NEVER COME BACK!"

"Tala, I'm not going anywhere ok?"

Tala let go and plopped himself on my lap, and smiled up at me cutely, man, this kid really knows how to get to me!

"Tala likey Rei a lot! Lot's and lot's and lots!" The chibi said stretching out his arms, yet to emphasize the word 'Lots'.

I chuckle and tapped Tala's nose, "I like you a lot too Tala." The chibi squealed and I picked him up and went to the living room, yet to watch some more T.V.

"Tala is going to grow up very big, and going to marry Rei, and Rei and Tala going to live in big, big, BIG house together!" Tala continue saying, I laugh, he's very imaginative.

"And if we do get married, what present would you want as a wedding gift?" I say as I sat down on the couch.

"Tala want Rei! And want lot's of kisses! And want a giant kitty cat teddy bear!" He said, I laughed some more and grabbed the remote and turned on the Tele, not really watching it, but more listening to Tala tell his wish list and story about 'after they got married'.

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*Normal P.O.V.*

"TALA!!!!! TALA!!! WHERE ARE YOU??!?!?!?" Ian yelled as he climbed the snowy mountain, Bryan and Spencer just followed, "We're climbing a snow mountain in a blizzard and he's screaming at the top of his lungs for Tala."

"Yeah, well, he has been missing for over a week now, it is strange that Tala hasn't come back or even sent us some sort of letter or anything about his whereabouts." Spencer answered Bryan.

"Could you two hurry up a bit!?!?! We got to find Tala! What if someone kidnapped him!" Ian yelled at his other two team mates, "oh boy, Tala is so going to get into trouble when I get my hands on him." Bryan said but was smacked over the head by Ian who landed from his jump, "If you lay a finger on him, I will make sure you're the one who's going to be in trouble!" Ian warned.

Spencer just shook his head and continued walking up the mountain.

"If Bryan doesn't get his hands on Tala, I will!" Spencer mumbled under his breath, only to be hit over the head by Ian too, "Don't you even think it Spencer!"

"TALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ian yelled.

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"Huh?" Chibi Tala said looking around him,

"What's up Tala?" Rei asked the chibi who was eating his lunch.

"Tala think someone call Tala!" The chibi continued to look around.

"I didn't hear nothing, and I got bigger ears than you." Tyson said whilst chewing on his fifth helping.

"And you have bigger belly than Tala too, and bigger mouth, but smaller Brain!" Chibi Tala said whilst sticking his tongue out.

"Why you………." Tyson glared at the chibi, and then, the chase is on, yet again.

TBC-------------------------------------------------

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Sandra: I hope you like it? I sure liked writing it! What's this, Tala is dreaming about his normal self, more strange things happen, I think…..lol, anyway, REVIEW FOR A NEW CHAPTER!!!!

Love you all who reviewed! Yous are the ones who give me the support to continue this!