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This chapter is mainly about Kai's parents and what happened to them...yes, it will become relevant to the story later on.

Oh! And it's also pretty short too...sorry about that. But I guess it doesn't really matter. It's a bad chapter lol and if it were any longer, people would probably kill themselves with boredom and stuff.

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Chapter 11 : Mystery of the Past

Hilary moaned as she awoke. She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand and yawned. She then gasped suddenly as she opened her eyes. She had forgotten that she was still a prisoner, and now she was in a strange room.

"What happened?" She asked herself. She rubbed her face with her hands. Suddenly, her fingers came into contact with a cool metal piece on her forehead. She traced it around her whole head.

"What the heck?!" She tried to pull it off, but it was no use. She quickly gave up and decided to look around the room.

It was a large room, with crimson red bedding and window treatments. The floor was covered in a thick plush carpet that was a soft cream color. The walls were barren of decorations, except for a few sconces and outlines of pictures that had once hung there. She noticed a table at the other end of the room. She threw the warm sheets off of her and stood up. The brunette made her way over to the table and examined what lay on top of it. The table was lined with different kinds of pictures and a few forgotten books in different languages. Hilary's attention was drawn to the pictures. The first one was of a man and a woman. Both were very attractive, and were dressed in wedding outfits. The woman had long, light blue hair and crimson eyes, and the man had thick, navy colored hair and bright green eyes. Hilary continued to examine the photos one by one with interest.

The next one pictured the same woman with a baby in her arms. The baby was almost invisible except for a patch of two toned hair sticking up from the blankets. The next picture showed the man from the first picture playing with a toddler in a yard filled with flowers. Hilary recongized it as the garden she had seen earlier outside. She looked closer at the toddler. The child had two toned blue hair, and bright crimson eyes. The boy was so happy in the picture. Hilary gasped as she relized who these pictures were of! This was Kai and his parents! Hilary took a step away from the table in shock. There was one last picture, flipped upside down. Curiosity overwhelming her, she reached out and picked up the frame and studied it. She immediatly recongized most of the people in the photograph. Kai, around the age of 3 was standing in front of Voltaire, with his parents on both sides of him. An unknown woman stood next to Voltaire. She looked to be about the same age as him. Hilary figured that must of been Kai's grandmother. Behind them stood Boris, looking somewhat normal without his goggles, and next to him, a young Nikolai, his crimson eyes flaring. Hilary was shocked to see how much the two brothers had in common. Nikolai was obviously younger, and had longer hair, but the resemblence in the face was scary.

"You know, that was the last picture of Kai and his parents before he was taken to the abbey." A deep voice stated behind her. She jumped and dropped the picture.

Hilary spun around only to be greeted with unfriendly crimson eyes. She growled under her breath.

"It's a shame. Such a beautiful family, destroyed because they didn't want their son to become strong."

Hilary gasped. "...what happened to them..." She dared herself to ask.

Nikolai turned his attention to her again. "Kai was a perfect child, or so you knew. Lord Voltaire had a great plan. He would make the strongest warrior, the most powerful leader to gain control of Russia, and the world through that little so called sport, beyblade, but he needed one little boy. Voltaire's son, and his foreign wife Keira were against it, and fought to protect young Kai. They became too much of a problem, so they were eliminated."

"You...you killed them?!" Hilary spat out.

"Oh not just me, my brother too." He smiled, taking pride in the fact that he murdered innocent people.

"....you monster!" She managed to say, her voice failing her.

"Keira looked just as you do right now when I took her son from her before sticking a knife through her heart." Nikolai bent down closer to Hilary, who was pertrified.

His lips got closer and closer to hers, nearly brushing against them. Hilary suddenly snapped back into reality, kicking Nikolai as hard as she could. He gasped in pain and fell backward. The teen bolted for the door, tears running down her cheeks. She cried out as a sharp pain errupted from her back. She fell to the floor, paralyzed.

Nikolai limped up behind her. "You'll pay dearly for that."

Hilary's surroundings became darker and darker and suddenly, she drifted off into unconsciousness.

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This was a pittiful chapter wasn't it? Sorry...I hope to make this story better as it goes...I hope...