American Beybladers
Chapter 9
Pawn
Three days after Alkira had traded herself for Kavien, Kai awoke in his bed. He had been out cold ever since the operation. His eyes opened and he sat up in his bed, looking around to see who was there. Kai was expecting Alkira to be waiting for him, but she wasn't there. Jake was asleep, standing, and leaning against the wall next to the chair that Kavien was sleeping in. Kavien had his head and feet hanging off of both of the arms of the chair. David was sitting up straight in his chair with his arms crossed; he was asleep as well. Kenny, Max, Tyson, and Rei were all over the bed next to him. One of them curled up, another stretched out, another laying across the width of the bed on his stomach, and Rei falling off the side of the bed.
Kai began to get a little worried. Alkira wasn't there. she was always there. always. Kai sighed and leaned back down and set his head on the pillow. "Kai." The blue-haired Bladebreaker sat up quickly. "Kai, settle down."
"Huh?"
"I'm over here Kai."
"David?"
"Um. Duh," David said, uncrossing his arms and opening his eyes.
"Where's Alkira?"
"It will all be explained when you rest up," David responded.
"Actually." Kavien sat up from the chair. "We should explain it now and give Tyson the morphine button."
Jake opened his eyes. "Let Kai rest. If he stresses himself too much."
Rei fell off of the other bed. "Ow! Son of a. Oh. Kai's awake." Rei shook the others. "Guys, wake up. Kai's awake." Max and Kenny woke up immediately, Tyson took a little while, but he did get up.
Kai yawned and stretched his arms. "So, where's Alkira," he said, yawning once more. At the same time, everyone looked away. Kai couldn't make eye contact with any of them.
"Hit it Tyson," Rei said.
"Gotcha!" Tyson ran over, grabbed the morphine button and pushed it repeatedly.
"Damn it you guys! Tell me. where. Al. kira. isss."
Jake sighed. "We can't keep it from him forever. he'll find out, and when he does, he's gonna flip." * * * * * "Like hell!"
"You'll do as I say!"
"Bull fricking shit!"
"Get back over there!"
"Bite me you old goat! You sick mother!"
Alkira, now sat in the room she was being kept in, held her head in her hands and sat on a cot. There were cuts all on her arms. She had been whipped all over her body. There was a cut that spanned from above her left eyebrow to her cheek. She bled heavily, but would not cry. She wouldn't give in to them. She felt that she was stronger then them, and she would prove, that she could not be broken so easily.
"Voltaire, sir."
"What is it Sauko?" Voltaire gave his helper a stern glare.
"Sir, she took down one of our guards."
"Sauko, I thought you and your men were better than that."
Sauko shifted his weight nervously. "Sir, she won't break."
"Give it time Sauko. give it time."
* * * * * "Rei! Give me back my jello, damn you!" Kai shouted. It was the next day, Kai was still in his hospital gown and still a little under the weather. Every time he would say something about Alkira, Tyson would press the morphine button. And to keep from going to sleep, Kai just stopped trying to get information about her. He had already been 'put to sleep' about twenty four times.
"Ha!" Rei laughed, he stood in the doorway and ate the jello.
"That's just rude," Kavien laughed.
Max and Tyson sat in the corner with a portable beystadium and battled it out, just for friendly competition. "Hey! Monkey man!" Max yelled to Kai. "Why don't you get better so I can try and beat you?"
Kai smirked. "You can't beat me!" he laughed.
David smiled. "He can't, but I probably can!" David walked over to Kai's bedside and got him in a headlock. He then completely messed up Kai's hair with his other hand.
"Ah! Baka!" Kai shouted and bit down on David's arm.
"AH! Son of a. Kai! Let me go!" Kai released his teeth from David's arm and laughed. David stepped back and rubbed his arm. "Dang. you gotta bite so hard?"
Kai smiled and scratched his right arm, and at the same time, taking the IV needle from his arm. He took the needle and stuck it into the side of his mattress and then looked directly at Jake. "So," he said casually, the smile receding from his face. "Where's Alkira?"
Jake looked at Tyson and he hit the button in his hand. The button did nothing. "What the?" Tyson said.
"Tell me. I need to know." Kai looked at everyone and their eyes went directly to the floor. "Damn it! Where the hell is she?" Kai shouted.
"Voltaire took her," Kavien said.
"What?" Kai's eyes widened.
Kavien began to sniffle and tears began streaking his cheeks. "He took her, in exchange for you and me."
"Kav, come on." Jake said. "You're gonna make me remember. stop it."
Kavien continued crying. "Stop it God damn it!" David shouted, getting to his feet. "Knock it the hell off, Kav!" Kavien stopped crying and looked up at David. "She wanted us to be better than this! Don't feel sorry for her, or ourselves." David paused for a long time. "We're going home."
"No!" Kavien got up from his chair and grabbed David by his shirt collar. "What the hell are you talking about, you bastard!" he shouted. "We aren't going to leave here! We aren't going home to tell her father that she was taken! And we aren't going to tell Kyo that she might never see her big sister again!" Kavien drew back with his other arm and punched David in the face, sending him to the wall. "What do you think you're talking about? David, you should know better!" Kavien picked David from the wall and repeatedly began hitting him.
"You guys! Knock it off! Now! Kavien!" Jake shouted. He ran over to separate his two friends, but was punched in the stomach and in the face, and was then sent flying back to the door. He hit the door and slid down to the floor. Jake breathed heavily. "Kavien." he exhaled. He didn't get to finish his sentence, for he passed out on the floor.
* * * * * "Baka! Let me out of here! And where the hell's my food you assholes?"
The door on Alkira's cell opened up and the man known as Sauko entered.
Alkira blinked slowly. "What are you looking at?" she growled. "Freak."
Sauko continued to stand there; he spoke no words, but continued to stand there, arms behind his back, and stared at her.
"Look buddy, you're really freaking me out! What the heck do you want?" she shouted. Sauko continued to look at her. She got to her feet. "You psycho retarded fruitcake! What is your problem?" Sauko grinned. "What's your malfunction?" he asked.
Alkira growled. "You are."
Sauko turned to the side and looked out the door. "Tala! She's all yours."
Tala slowly entered the room, and Sauko left. "What's your name?" asked the red-haired boy.
"What the hell's it to you?" Alkira crouched down against the wall.
"I just wished to know, that's all," he said. He took a step towards her. Alkira shifted her weight nervously. "Don't be afraid."
"HA! Easy for you to say. bastard," Alkira shouted at him.
Tala walked over to her. "Now, why'd you have to insult me, I said nothing bad to you."
"Why must you be so damn creepy," she said, looking up at him from her almost seated position on the floor.
"You need to relax, Miss Alkira," Tala said.
"Heh." Alkira stood up. "You asked me for my name, and you already knew it." She smirked. "I ought to beat the hell out of you! Just because I can!"
"You really think you can attack me?" Tala shouted. Alkira crouched down a bit, fearing his voice. "Do you fear me now?" he said, his voice a little quieter.
Alkira stood up straight and crossed her arms. "No."
Tala smirked. "What makes you so brave? Huh?" He paused. "What do you hold so dear to you that fills you with courage?"
"Two things." Alkira leaned against the wall. "My pride. and Kai."
Tala growled. "Hiwatari Kai?"
"Of course." Alkira responded. She sighed and closed her eyes.
Suddenly, Tala was in front of her. He slammed his hands on the wall on each side of her head, her eyes opened wide. She was scared and he could see it in her eyes. "What does that blue-haired moron have that I don't?"
Alkira was against the wall. She couldn't say anything, but she managed to get out the words, "What doesn't he have?" Tala drew back his right hand and slapped her across the face. Alkira's head moved, but her body didn't. She looked back at him, a red handprint on her face.
Tala quickly put his hands on the sides of her face and kissed her. When he released her, Alkira's eyes were shut, and she growled angrily. She rapidly raised her right hand to slap him in the face, but he caught it. She opened her eyes and looked at him with a surprised look upon her face. She crouched down and jumped on him, praying for at least one punch or kick to make contact.
Tala threw her down onto the floor. She winced in pain and he laid on top of her. "If you don't get the hell off of me, I'm going to kick you where the sun don't shine." He pinned her arms to the floor.
The door opened and Sauko walked in. "Tala!" he shouted. "What the hell are you doing?" he shouted.
Tala looked up at Sauko. "What are you even doing here? I thought Voltaire fired you!"
"I'm here to keep you from doing anything to our guest!" Sauko shouted. He walked towards Tala, grabbed him by his arms, and forced him to stand. "Now, I may have given you permission to be in here, but not to hurt her!" Alkira crawled away from the two. Sauko then turned and forced Tala out the door, closing it behind the red haired boy. He then turned to Alkira.
"T. Thank. Thank you." Alkira said. She stood silently and walked over to the bed. She sat down and looked at her feet.
Sauko went to another bed, across from Alkira and sat down. "Don't worry," he said. "I won't do anything." he sighed. "I'm as much a prisoner as you are."
Alkira looked up. "What do you mean?"
"I started out here just like you. A pawn, created and molded to Voltaire's liking." He sighed and laid down on the bed.
"This is your room too?" Alkira asked.
"Yes. only once a week. the other days. you don't need to know about that. never mind. just go to sleep now." Sauko closed his eyes. "By the way, don't take off your shoes, you never know what's gonna crawl in your shoes."
"Right." Alkira leaned over onto the pillow and drifted off in a light sleep.
Chapter 9
Pawn
Three days after Alkira had traded herself for Kavien, Kai awoke in his bed. He had been out cold ever since the operation. His eyes opened and he sat up in his bed, looking around to see who was there. Kai was expecting Alkira to be waiting for him, but she wasn't there. Jake was asleep, standing, and leaning against the wall next to the chair that Kavien was sleeping in. Kavien had his head and feet hanging off of both of the arms of the chair. David was sitting up straight in his chair with his arms crossed; he was asleep as well. Kenny, Max, Tyson, and Rei were all over the bed next to him. One of them curled up, another stretched out, another laying across the width of the bed on his stomach, and Rei falling off the side of the bed.
Kai began to get a little worried. Alkira wasn't there. she was always there. always. Kai sighed and leaned back down and set his head on the pillow. "Kai." The blue-haired Bladebreaker sat up quickly. "Kai, settle down."
"Huh?"
"I'm over here Kai."
"David?"
"Um. Duh," David said, uncrossing his arms and opening his eyes.
"Where's Alkira?"
"It will all be explained when you rest up," David responded.
"Actually." Kavien sat up from the chair. "We should explain it now and give Tyson the morphine button."
Jake opened his eyes. "Let Kai rest. If he stresses himself too much."
Rei fell off of the other bed. "Ow! Son of a. Oh. Kai's awake." Rei shook the others. "Guys, wake up. Kai's awake." Max and Kenny woke up immediately, Tyson took a little while, but he did get up.
Kai yawned and stretched his arms. "So, where's Alkira," he said, yawning once more. At the same time, everyone looked away. Kai couldn't make eye contact with any of them.
"Hit it Tyson," Rei said.
"Gotcha!" Tyson ran over, grabbed the morphine button and pushed it repeatedly.
"Damn it you guys! Tell me. where. Al. kira. isss."
Jake sighed. "We can't keep it from him forever. he'll find out, and when he does, he's gonna flip." * * * * * "Like hell!"
"You'll do as I say!"
"Bull fricking shit!"
"Get back over there!"
"Bite me you old goat! You sick mother!"
Alkira, now sat in the room she was being kept in, held her head in her hands and sat on a cot. There were cuts all on her arms. She had been whipped all over her body. There was a cut that spanned from above her left eyebrow to her cheek. She bled heavily, but would not cry. She wouldn't give in to them. She felt that she was stronger then them, and she would prove, that she could not be broken so easily.
"Voltaire, sir."
"What is it Sauko?" Voltaire gave his helper a stern glare.
"Sir, she took down one of our guards."
"Sauko, I thought you and your men were better than that."
Sauko shifted his weight nervously. "Sir, she won't break."
"Give it time Sauko. give it time."
* * * * * "Rei! Give me back my jello, damn you!" Kai shouted. It was the next day, Kai was still in his hospital gown and still a little under the weather. Every time he would say something about Alkira, Tyson would press the morphine button. And to keep from going to sleep, Kai just stopped trying to get information about her. He had already been 'put to sleep' about twenty four times.
"Ha!" Rei laughed, he stood in the doorway and ate the jello.
"That's just rude," Kavien laughed.
Max and Tyson sat in the corner with a portable beystadium and battled it out, just for friendly competition. "Hey! Monkey man!" Max yelled to Kai. "Why don't you get better so I can try and beat you?"
Kai smirked. "You can't beat me!" he laughed.
David smiled. "He can't, but I probably can!" David walked over to Kai's bedside and got him in a headlock. He then completely messed up Kai's hair with his other hand.
"Ah! Baka!" Kai shouted and bit down on David's arm.
"AH! Son of a. Kai! Let me go!" Kai released his teeth from David's arm and laughed. David stepped back and rubbed his arm. "Dang. you gotta bite so hard?"
Kai smiled and scratched his right arm, and at the same time, taking the IV needle from his arm. He took the needle and stuck it into the side of his mattress and then looked directly at Jake. "So," he said casually, the smile receding from his face. "Where's Alkira?"
Jake looked at Tyson and he hit the button in his hand. The button did nothing. "What the?" Tyson said.
"Tell me. I need to know." Kai looked at everyone and their eyes went directly to the floor. "Damn it! Where the hell is she?" Kai shouted.
"Voltaire took her," Kavien said.
"What?" Kai's eyes widened.
Kavien began to sniffle and tears began streaking his cheeks. "He took her, in exchange for you and me."
"Kav, come on." Jake said. "You're gonna make me remember. stop it."
Kavien continued crying. "Stop it God damn it!" David shouted, getting to his feet. "Knock it the hell off, Kav!" Kavien stopped crying and looked up at David. "She wanted us to be better than this! Don't feel sorry for her, or ourselves." David paused for a long time. "We're going home."
"No!" Kavien got up from his chair and grabbed David by his shirt collar. "What the hell are you talking about, you bastard!" he shouted. "We aren't going to leave here! We aren't going home to tell her father that she was taken! And we aren't going to tell Kyo that she might never see her big sister again!" Kavien drew back with his other arm and punched David in the face, sending him to the wall. "What do you think you're talking about? David, you should know better!" Kavien picked David from the wall and repeatedly began hitting him.
"You guys! Knock it off! Now! Kavien!" Jake shouted. He ran over to separate his two friends, but was punched in the stomach and in the face, and was then sent flying back to the door. He hit the door and slid down to the floor. Jake breathed heavily. "Kavien." he exhaled. He didn't get to finish his sentence, for he passed out on the floor.
* * * * * "Baka! Let me out of here! And where the hell's my food you assholes?"
The door on Alkira's cell opened up and the man known as Sauko entered.
Alkira blinked slowly. "What are you looking at?" she growled. "Freak."
Sauko continued to stand there; he spoke no words, but continued to stand there, arms behind his back, and stared at her.
"Look buddy, you're really freaking me out! What the heck do you want?" she shouted. Sauko continued to look at her. She got to her feet. "You psycho retarded fruitcake! What is your problem?" Sauko grinned. "What's your malfunction?" he asked.
Alkira growled. "You are."
Sauko turned to the side and looked out the door. "Tala! She's all yours."
Tala slowly entered the room, and Sauko left. "What's your name?" asked the red-haired boy.
"What the hell's it to you?" Alkira crouched down against the wall.
"I just wished to know, that's all," he said. He took a step towards her. Alkira shifted her weight nervously. "Don't be afraid."
"HA! Easy for you to say. bastard," Alkira shouted at him.
Tala walked over to her. "Now, why'd you have to insult me, I said nothing bad to you."
"Why must you be so damn creepy," she said, looking up at him from her almost seated position on the floor.
"You need to relax, Miss Alkira," Tala said.
"Heh." Alkira stood up. "You asked me for my name, and you already knew it." She smirked. "I ought to beat the hell out of you! Just because I can!"
"You really think you can attack me?" Tala shouted. Alkira crouched down a bit, fearing his voice. "Do you fear me now?" he said, his voice a little quieter.
Alkira stood up straight and crossed her arms. "No."
Tala smirked. "What makes you so brave? Huh?" He paused. "What do you hold so dear to you that fills you with courage?"
"Two things." Alkira leaned against the wall. "My pride. and Kai."
Tala growled. "Hiwatari Kai?"
"Of course." Alkira responded. She sighed and closed her eyes.
Suddenly, Tala was in front of her. He slammed his hands on the wall on each side of her head, her eyes opened wide. She was scared and he could see it in her eyes. "What does that blue-haired moron have that I don't?"
Alkira was against the wall. She couldn't say anything, but she managed to get out the words, "What doesn't he have?" Tala drew back his right hand and slapped her across the face. Alkira's head moved, but her body didn't. She looked back at him, a red handprint on her face.
Tala quickly put his hands on the sides of her face and kissed her. When he released her, Alkira's eyes were shut, and she growled angrily. She rapidly raised her right hand to slap him in the face, but he caught it. She opened her eyes and looked at him with a surprised look upon her face. She crouched down and jumped on him, praying for at least one punch or kick to make contact.
Tala threw her down onto the floor. She winced in pain and he laid on top of her. "If you don't get the hell off of me, I'm going to kick you where the sun don't shine." He pinned her arms to the floor.
The door opened and Sauko walked in. "Tala!" he shouted. "What the hell are you doing?" he shouted.
Tala looked up at Sauko. "What are you even doing here? I thought Voltaire fired you!"
"I'm here to keep you from doing anything to our guest!" Sauko shouted. He walked towards Tala, grabbed him by his arms, and forced him to stand. "Now, I may have given you permission to be in here, but not to hurt her!" Alkira crawled away from the two. Sauko then turned and forced Tala out the door, closing it behind the red haired boy. He then turned to Alkira.
"T. Thank. Thank you." Alkira said. She stood silently and walked over to the bed. She sat down and looked at her feet.
Sauko went to another bed, across from Alkira and sat down. "Don't worry," he said. "I won't do anything." he sighed. "I'm as much a prisoner as you are."
Alkira looked up. "What do you mean?"
"I started out here just like you. A pawn, created and molded to Voltaire's liking." He sighed and laid down on the bed.
"This is your room too?" Alkira asked.
"Yes. only once a week. the other days. you don't need to know about that. never mind. just go to sleep now." Sauko closed his eyes. "By the way, don't take off your shoes, you never know what's gonna crawl in your shoes."
"Right." Alkira leaned over onto the pillow and drifted off in a light sleep.
