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TO KILL A PART OF YOUR HEART: chapter 8
When there is day, there is sun.
When there is sun, there is drought and famine.
But the only terrors in the night are those made by men.
None deserve to call the night evil
Those who thieve and steal are the evil ones themselves.
Those who do not, they are asleep and cannot know.
Rei kicked an unfortunate can which lay in his way. Kai was irritating him. A while ago he was trailing behind them, but now he was gone. Tyson didn't seem to care. Did that guy ever care about anything but food and dragoon?
Max was being oh-so-positive and giving all kinds of possible reasons why and where Kai left.
Kenny was deep in discussion with Dizzi. And he, Rei, was kicking cans out of his way.
Idiotic motherfucking bastard son-of-a-bitch.
A bit later he realized he wasn't actually dissing Kai but putting his knowledge of swear words to a test.
"C'mon Rei, calm down, he'll be back like this morning." Max pleaded.
"Yea, grinning like an idiot!" He snapped.
Tyson stared at them. Kenny looked up from his laptop. "Let's just get back to the hotel." He mumbled.
~~~~~~~~~Next morning~~~~~~~
California felt Punk licking her. Confused for a while to find herself on the floor, she looked around. After a slight shock of Kai being so close to her, she remembered the last night. Why had he come back?
She got up slowly, taking great care not to wake him up. Walking downstairs with punk at her heels, she laughed softly when she saw the state of the living room. Cushions and pillows were lying all over the place and there were the burn marks from their battle yesterday.
Unwillingly she remembered Kai's shriek. And that shriek. She remembered again that darkness. Running, running after Lance. She had heard his cries, but she had no idea of what was about to happen. It sounded like he was being robbed then. Not a good thing, but he wouldn't have been hurt if it were true.
Then she had heard him scream, followed by evident sounds of struggle.
It was at that time that the shriek had echoed throughout the alleys, followed by nothing but silence. Silence so loud it hurt her ears.
Next thing she knew, her brother lay dead at her feet. Investigations later showed that the wounds on his body were that of beyblades, although the final one was that of a knife.
Cali shook herself out of her trance. Not now. Soon, she promised herself. One of these days I'll settle the thing with those Stormhawks. And the law wasn't going to have anything to do with it.
"Right, Punk?" she asked the Scottie. Punk just wagged his tail and left her to wrestle with a cushion.
She walked to the kitchen and made coffee. Two cups. As if on cue, Kai stumbled in.
"The guys are gonna kill me." He sighed. Thinking, especially of Rei.
"Awww, c'mon, why would they?" She pushed a cup towards him.
"Thanks. I've been gone for two nights in a row."
"Nah, its not that." She laughed. "I don't think they'd dare to."
Kai grinned. "You don't know them well enough."
California raised an eyebrow. "Where were you anyway?" She watched Kai shift in his seat uncomfortably.
"Chinatown."
"Chinatown? What the heck for?"
Kai drank half the cup of coffee in a go. He had no idea what to say. After a moment of silence, Cali tactfully made a point of withdrawing the question.
"Anyway, I'm going back today." After a moment she realized Kai would not know what she meant. It was a term she used with her team.
"Back to the place where you first saw the Stormhawks."
Kai looked up. "What for?"
"Search. We've pretty much narrowed down the area where they could be."
"Who with?"
"That was what I wanted to ask you about. Wanna come?"
Kai looked at her. Why should he, he thought? But then if he didn't, would she be safe? He remembered what she said yesterday. Could the Stormhawks really have murdered her brother? Was Kylie there? He was so confused. Wishing he hadn't gotten himself into all this, he had no choice but to agree.
"Sure. But when are you going? If I'm not back home tonight I'm gonna become nocturnal. And Rei is going to kill me."
"Pity. You'd have survived the Stormhawks only to be killed by your own team member."
The hatred in her voice every time she spoke about the Stormhawks made Kai feel guiltier and guiltier the more time he spent with her. Cali finished her coffee and stood up.
"You going back now?" She asked.
Kai smirked. "Wanna get rid of me already? Yea."
He thanked California for the coffee again and started off.
"I'll call ya tonight." Her voice followed him to the door. As he stepped out, he smiled. It was nice hearing her tell him that. Then he shook himself and walked back to the hotel.
~~~~~~~~~~~Somewhere else~~~~~~~~~~
Kylie crept along the rooftops, following Evan. At the end of the alley, she him take out a handphone. Wiping sweat of her forehead, she watched, wishing that it was night.
She crept closer to listen, but even when she heard his whispers she did not understand what they were about. Never being the subtle type, she dropped to the floor silently, crouching.
His back was facing her. She stood up and, with a decisive kick to the back of his head, knocked him up. She caught the handphone as it fell, and put it to her ear.
".searching tonight. Make sure you're near them. We'll be able to pick up your signals if we're close enough. Be careful."
The person on the other end hung up and Kylie laughed.
"Too late now, isn't it?"
She chucked Evan into a sewer and jammed the entrance. Not really caring about what happened to the guy, she took to the roofs once more. She knew exactly where to find Flyer. Hopefully the others would be with him.
Kylie had a pretty good idea about what the call had been about, and knew that the guys would want to know about it.
"What's her deal about a stolen laptop? At first I thought she was just bitching around, but if she got a guy to spy on us. I really gotta speak to Leo on this. I have a feeling there's something I don't know." She muttered to herself.
In the shadows, a tall girl with three dark purple streaks running through the left side of her black hair watched her.
"Oh yeah, girl. There's a lot about this you don't know." She whispered. No one heard her but she herself. She sneered. We were more lucky than I thought that day. not only did we get a nice pile of cash from his wallet, they had managed to lay the blame on the Stormhawks without meaning to. Now if only that cop would get done with it and bust the four of them, then these alleys. She paused her train of thought to look around at the buildings behind her.
"They're so ugly when sunlit. The only time they are worth anything is at night." She sighed.
.Then these alleys would be hers.
Black Neptune left to get some sleep. She was going to have a long night. And hopefully, she thought, a good one.
~~~~~~~At the hotel~~~~~~
Rei stared out of the window, when he saw Kai approaching with his coat flung over his shoulder, he growled.
Minutes later the door opened and Kai walked inside. Before Rei could shout at him, he threw the coat at his bed and answered the question that the he was going to ask.
"With Cali. Now shuddup."
Rei raised an eyebrow.
"Hmm..?"
"I said shuddup."
Rei went into Tyson's room, smiling to himself.
Kai threw a pillow at the wall. A painting fell down, but he managed to hop over the bed and catch it before it did.
He was now standing beside Rei's bed. It was cluttered with things, and among them Kai noticed a folded piece of paper.
Never being really respectful about people's privacy, he picked it up. It was a letter. From Mariah. The pink words were written in straight, neat rows although the paper was not lined.
He did not respect privacy and did not respect people's love lives as private, and he didn't care about them either. He threw the letter aside. It landed beside Drigger. Kai picked that up. Then he took Dranzer out and held the two blades up together.
However, while he was doing all this he was thinking neither about Mariah's letter nor beyblades. His mind was on Kylie and California.
Had Kylie been with the Stormhawks when they killed California's brother? He tried to convince himself that she wasn't, but he kept recalling how Kylie had told him she had known the Stormhawks for ages. Since she was eight.
"Oh god." He moaned. "I hope nothing happens tonight."
~~~~~Cali's house~~~~~
She freaked out. She knew she wouldn't be able to do it unless there were more people with her, but she didn't dare admit it. True, she'd feel much better if Kai was there, but the shriek.
That again. She groaned. She couldn't help shake off the feeling that something was wrong. California picked up the phone and called the BladeBreakers. She wanted the entire team to be with her that evening. She hoped they wouldn't freak out like her.
~~~~~Hotel~~~~~~~
Kai too, like Rei, stared out of the window. But he wasn't waiting for anyone to come. He was waiting for the sun to leave.
END OF CHAPTER 8
Yay! Another chapter done. Not much longer to the end. I need your help now. California of Kylie? Who will Kai choose? VOTE!
Kai baby-girl: yeah. But I just can't decide!!!
LightningAurora: Thankiez.
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-DranzerDemonBikrGal
TO KILL A PART OF YOUR HEART: chapter 8
When there is day, there is sun.
When there is sun, there is drought and famine.
But the only terrors in the night are those made by men.
None deserve to call the night evil
Those who thieve and steal are the evil ones themselves.
Those who do not, they are asleep and cannot know.
Rei kicked an unfortunate can which lay in his way. Kai was irritating him. A while ago he was trailing behind them, but now he was gone. Tyson didn't seem to care. Did that guy ever care about anything but food and dragoon?
Max was being oh-so-positive and giving all kinds of possible reasons why and where Kai left.
Kenny was deep in discussion with Dizzi. And he, Rei, was kicking cans out of his way.
Idiotic motherfucking bastard son-of-a-bitch.
A bit later he realized he wasn't actually dissing Kai but putting his knowledge of swear words to a test.
"C'mon Rei, calm down, he'll be back like this morning." Max pleaded.
"Yea, grinning like an idiot!" He snapped.
Tyson stared at them. Kenny looked up from his laptop. "Let's just get back to the hotel." He mumbled.
~~~~~~~~~Next morning~~~~~~~
California felt Punk licking her. Confused for a while to find herself on the floor, she looked around. After a slight shock of Kai being so close to her, she remembered the last night. Why had he come back?
She got up slowly, taking great care not to wake him up. Walking downstairs with punk at her heels, she laughed softly when she saw the state of the living room. Cushions and pillows were lying all over the place and there were the burn marks from their battle yesterday.
Unwillingly she remembered Kai's shriek. And that shriek. She remembered again that darkness. Running, running after Lance. She had heard his cries, but she had no idea of what was about to happen. It sounded like he was being robbed then. Not a good thing, but he wouldn't have been hurt if it were true.
Then she had heard him scream, followed by evident sounds of struggle.
It was at that time that the shriek had echoed throughout the alleys, followed by nothing but silence. Silence so loud it hurt her ears.
Next thing she knew, her brother lay dead at her feet. Investigations later showed that the wounds on his body were that of beyblades, although the final one was that of a knife.
Cali shook herself out of her trance. Not now. Soon, she promised herself. One of these days I'll settle the thing with those Stormhawks. And the law wasn't going to have anything to do with it.
"Right, Punk?" she asked the Scottie. Punk just wagged his tail and left her to wrestle with a cushion.
She walked to the kitchen and made coffee. Two cups. As if on cue, Kai stumbled in.
"The guys are gonna kill me." He sighed. Thinking, especially of Rei.
"Awww, c'mon, why would they?" She pushed a cup towards him.
"Thanks. I've been gone for two nights in a row."
"Nah, its not that." She laughed. "I don't think they'd dare to."
Kai grinned. "You don't know them well enough."
California raised an eyebrow. "Where were you anyway?" She watched Kai shift in his seat uncomfortably.
"Chinatown."
"Chinatown? What the heck for?"
Kai drank half the cup of coffee in a go. He had no idea what to say. After a moment of silence, Cali tactfully made a point of withdrawing the question.
"Anyway, I'm going back today." After a moment she realized Kai would not know what she meant. It was a term she used with her team.
"Back to the place where you first saw the Stormhawks."
Kai looked up. "What for?"
"Search. We've pretty much narrowed down the area where they could be."
"Who with?"
"That was what I wanted to ask you about. Wanna come?"
Kai looked at her. Why should he, he thought? But then if he didn't, would she be safe? He remembered what she said yesterday. Could the Stormhawks really have murdered her brother? Was Kylie there? He was so confused. Wishing he hadn't gotten himself into all this, he had no choice but to agree.
"Sure. But when are you going? If I'm not back home tonight I'm gonna become nocturnal. And Rei is going to kill me."
"Pity. You'd have survived the Stormhawks only to be killed by your own team member."
The hatred in her voice every time she spoke about the Stormhawks made Kai feel guiltier and guiltier the more time he spent with her. Cali finished her coffee and stood up.
"You going back now?" She asked.
Kai smirked. "Wanna get rid of me already? Yea."
He thanked California for the coffee again and started off.
"I'll call ya tonight." Her voice followed him to the door. As he stepped out, he smiled. It was nice hearing her tell him that. Then he shook himself and walked back to the hotel.
~~~~~~~~~~~Somewhere else~~~~~~~~~~
Kylie crept along the rooftops, following Evan. At the end of the alley, she him take out a handphone. Wiping sweat of her forehead, she watched, wishing that it was night.
She crept closer to listen, but even when she heard his whispers she did not understand what they were about. Never being the subtle type, she dropped to the floor silently, crouching.
His back was facing her. She stood up and, with a decisive kick to the back of his head, knocked him up. She caught the handphone as it fell, and put it to her ear.
".searching tonight. Make sure you're near them. We'll be able to pick up your signals if we're close enough. Be careful."
The person on the other end hung up and Kylie laughed.
"Too late now, isn't it?"
She chucked Evan into a sewer and jammed the entrance. Not really caring about what happened to the guy, she took to the roofs once more. She knew exactly where to find Flyer. Hopefully the others would be with him.
Kylie had a pretty good idea about what the call had been about, and knew that the guys would want to know about it.
"What's her deal about a stolen laptop? At first I thought she was just bitching around, but if she got a guy to spy on us. I really gotta speak to Leo on this. I have a feeling there's something I don't know." She muttered to herself.
In the shadows, a tall girl with three dark purple streaks running through the left side of her black hair watched her.
"Oh yeah, girl. There's a lot about this you don't know." She whispered. No one heard her but she herself. She sneered. We were more lucky than I thought that day. not only did we get a nice pile of cash from his wallet, they had managed to lay the blame on the Stormhawks without meaning to. Now if only that cop would get done with it and bust the four of them, then these alleys. She paused her train of thought to look around at the buildings behind her.
"They're so ugly when sunlit. The only time they are worth anything is at night." She sighed.
.Then these alleys would be hers.
Black Neptune left to get some sleep. She was going to have a long night. And hopefully, she thought, a good one.
~~~~~~~At the hotel~~~~~~
Rei stared out of the window, when he saw Kai approaching with his coat flung over his shoulder, he growled.
Minutes later the door opened and Kai walked inside. Before Rei could shout at him, he threw the coat at his bed and answered the question that the he was going to ask.
"With Cali. Now shuddup."
Rei raised an eyebrow.
"Hmm..?"
"I said shuddup."
Rei went into Tyson's room, smiling to himself.
Kai threw a pillow at the wall. A painting fell down, but he managed to hop over the bed and catch it before it did.
He was now standing beside Rei's bed. It was cluttered with things, and among them Kai noticed a folded piece of paper.
Never being really respectful about people's privacy, he picked it up. It was a letter. From Mariah. The pink words were written in straight, neat rows although the paper was not lined.
He did not respect privacy and did not respect people's love lives as private, and he didn't care about them either. He threw the letter aside. It landed beside Drigger. Kai picked that up. Then he took Dranzer out and held the two blades up together.
However, while he was doing all this he was thinking neither about Mariah's letter nor beyblades. His mind was on Kylie and California.
Had Kylie been with the Stormhawks when they killed California's brother? He tried to convince himself that she wasn't, but he kept recalling how Kylie had told him she had known the Stormhawks for ages. Since she was eight.
"Oh god." He moaned. "I hope nothing happens tonight."
~~~~~Cali's house~~~~~
She freaked out. She knew she wouldn't be able to do it unless there were more people with her, but she didn't dare admit it. True, she'd feel much better if Kai was there, but the shriek.
That again. She groaned. She couldn't help shake off the feeling that something was wrong. California picked up the phone and called the BladeBreakers. She wanted the entire team to be with her that evening. She hoped they wouldn't freak out like her.
~~~~~Hotel~~~~~~~
Kai too, like Rei, stared out of the window. But he wasn't waiting for anyone to come. He was waiting for the sun to leave.
END OF CHAPTER 8
Yay! Another chapter done. Not much longer to the end. I need your help now. California of Kylie? Who will Kai choose? VOTE!
Kai baby-girl: yeah. But I just can't decide!!!
LightningAurora: Thankiez.
Adreal: Thanks. :)
-DranzerDemonBikrGal
