hi again. Sorry for the long wait....I forgot about uploading this chapter. XP
Thanks for all the reviews!
enjoy!
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"How is she doctor?" Mr. Dickinson asked.
Tyson, Kenny, Max and Rei were all seated patiently in the waiting room as the doctor came around the corner to talk to the BBA president.
"Well...." He paused and looked at his clipboard. "She has a gunshot wound just under the collar bone in her right shoulder. She's also lost alot of blood, and has the beginning symptoms of hypothermia but...." The doctor paused again.
"But what?" The elder prodded.
"But she should be okay, if we can get her body temperature back up to where it should be."
Mr. Dickinson sighed with relief. "Thank you doctor. When can I see her?"
"You can see her when she wakes up."
The elder went back into the waiting room and sat down next to Kenny.
"Well Mr. D? Is she going to be alright?" Tyson asked.
The BBA president nodded. "She'll come through."
"I think you owe us an explanation sir. How do you know her, and how does she know Kai and Hilary?" Rei asked.
The elder nodded. "Her name is Izumi Chouwa. She's a dear friend of mine, Kai and his parents.....but I don't know if Kai would even remember her...."
"Wow! Small world huh?" Tyson exclaimed.
"Tyson!" Kenny interrupted.
"She grew up with Keira, Kai's mother and moved to Russia with her when she got married. She helped out around the mansion. I knew Kai's father and that's how I eventually met Izumi...then later on, Kai."
"You've known Kai for a long time then huh?" Rei commented. "I didn't know...."
"Well, after Kai went to the abbey, I only saw him once after that....then didn't see him again until the tournament in Japan where the BladeBreakers first formed together!" The elder continued.
"So Izumi is like a part of Kai's family..." Max said outloud to himself.
"You could say that." Mr. Dickinson smiled.
"Kai....Kai? KAI!" A voice called
The blue haired teen moaned and turned his head to the side.
"KAI!!!" The same voice repeated.
He opened his crimson eyes slowly and looked straight in front of him.
"Stay awake Kai....you can't fall asleep!" It was Tala.
The teen mumbled something inaudibly. Darkness was tugging at all his senses. He didn't think he would be able to stay conscious.
Soon, he realized his surroundings. His arms were once again strapped down to a metal table away from his body, and straps were fastened tightly around his waist and legs. Familiar wires hung down from the ceiling and connected to his arms and neck. He looked over to Tala, who was in the same state.
"Hil....ary?" He managed to say.
"Over here Kai."
The teen moved his head to the other side and saw Hilary, who, like Tala and him, was strapped down to the same kind of table with the same wires inserted in her body. She winced slightly, and felt extremely uncomfortable with the wires under her skin. Every movement she made caused her body to scream in pain.
A sinister laughter snapped Kai closer to reality. He tried to look up over his chest, but a sharp pain prevented him.
"Hello children. Comfortable?" Nikolai smirked at his nephew as he walked around to the other side of the room.
Tala recognized the place they were in. It was the same machine that took his powers, but two new tables had been added to it and the machine itself looked larger than it once was.
A cylinder shaped computer sat in the middle of the room. The three tables holding the teens were all connected to the computer.
"I've seen you've done some updating...." Tala growled.
"How perceptive of you!" Nikolai tried to seem surprised by gasping at the teen's comment. "I've changed it so it can now fully absorb all of you're powers at once, instead of one at a time." The older Russian finished typing data into the computer and walked back around, staring intently at each one of the teens.
Kai cursed and tried to shake his arm free.
"Now now Kai...be a good boy, and you won't suffer pointlessly." Nikolai said, pressing down on the large bruise covering his stomach with a finger.
Kai tried to hold back a cry of pain, but it was no use.
"Leave him alone!" Hilary called out.
Nikolai smirked. "Let's begin!"
Another man that had gone unnoticed in the room threw a switch on the wall. The machine began to power up, and sparks began to emit from the central computer. The electricity soon traveled down the wires and ran through each of the captured teen's bodies.
They all suddenly screamed in pain, their bodies bucking against their bindings. Nikolai placed his goggles over his eyes and watched on in amusement.
After what seemed like an eternity, the machine began to make strange noises, grabbing the attention of Nikolai and his goon.
"What's going on!" The Russian demanded, grabbing the assistant by the collar.
"I...I don't know sir!" He stuttered.
Nikolai threw him away from him. "Find out!"
The man rushed over to the back of the machine, and typed away furiously. "It...it seems the computer can't hold all this power! It's off the charts! We have to stop or it will explode!"
"No! Continue! I must have all their power!" Nikolai yelled over the roar of the machine and the screams of the three teenagers.
"But sir!"
"Enough!" Nikolai rushed over and hit the man away from the computer screen. He began typing at it, growling at the results that kept showing up.
Suddenly, the screen exploded, sending glass flying out into the Russian's arm.
He cursed.
"Stop it now!" He commanded.
The man ran back over to the switch and flipped it back up again.
The machine's sounds of torture soon began to die, and the sparks stopped. Kai, Tala, and Hilary all laid motionless on the metal tables.
Nikolai chuckled and removed his goggles. He looked over at another screen that hadn't exploded on the side of the computer. He began to laugh. "Yes! I have their powers...all of their powers!"
The man checked the pulse on Hilary's motionless body. "Sir....they're still alive."
Nikolai dismissed it with his hand. "I'll deal with that later. I want this power now!"
"Huh? Yes sir....." The man seemed slightly scared.
Hilary moaned as she began to regain consciousness. Pain continually shot throughout her body, her skin burned, yet she felt so cold.
She was laying on her back on a fluffy, plush carpet. She opened her eyes and stared painfully at the ceiling, which was so far away from her.
The brunette wanted to call out to her friends, but no words came to her tongue.
Stiffly, she managed to shift her head to her left. Tala laid on his chest, head turned away from her.
"T....T....Tal...." She tried to call out to him.
She wanted to sit up, or at least turn to face him completely, and try to awaken him, but her arms felt like led, and were still bound together with a small rope.
"This pain....it's unbelievable!" Hilary thought to herself.
Her forehead wrinkled in pain, but it felt different. She thought about it for a moment before realizing that the annoying metal headband had been removed, along with that collar.
"Why? Did Nikolai take our powers? Did he....kill us?" She gasped. "Am I really dead?"
Her arm suddenly twitched and another wave of pain ran through her body.
"I...I can't do it!" She felt hot tears pulling at the corners of her eyes.
A different moan caused her took look back over to her left.
Tala's body quivered slightly.
"T....T...." She started.
The red head pushed himself up on his elbows, but quickly collapsed to the carpet again.
He hissed in pain as he forced himself to look over at Hilary.
Suddenly, the brunette felt her body slowly warming with hope. Her friend was alive, and it gave her a new courage.
"Tala..." She managed to gasp.
"Hilary...."
"He's so much stronger than me...I wonder if I'll ever be like that...." She thought to herself.
The two teens rested, trying to gain some energy to move.
It took a long time, but Hilary finally forced herself to sit up, despite her pain. Tala soon followed, and they both sat on the floor in deep concentration.
"Where are we?" Tala asked, looking around the new room.
"I don't know....I guess Nikolai doesn't think of us as a threat anymore, so he just locked us up in another room..."
The darkly painted room had a window at the far wall, and a closet was immediately to the left of the window.
"Here..." The red headed Russian extended a shaky arm to Hilary. Slowly, he undid the knot that bound her arms together.
"Thanks." She smiled as she rubbed her wrists.
"Tala? Hilary? Are......you......okay?" A faint murmured came across the room.
The two teens snapped their attention to their right to see the still body of Kai, laying on his side. His arms laid lazily in front of him, his blue hair covering the pained expression on his face. Hilary could barely see his crimson eyes beneath his bangs, but they seemed darker than usual.
"Kai!" They both exclaimed and crawled over him.
Tala turned him on his back, causing him to cry out in pain at his touch.
"This is bad..." The red head said as he examined his friend.
"Kai? Stay with us. I promise you can sleep all you want when we get home, but you can't now!" Hilary said, shaking her boyfriend.
The blue haired teen's eyes were barely open. His skin was pale, and dried blood from his mouth provided a deep contrast. Bruises decorated his cheeks along with scorch marks.
The white shirt he was wearing had become dirty once again with soil and blood. Tala lifted up the bottom of the shirt slightly to examine the place where Nikolai had punched him. He winced.
Kai was breathing heavily now. Hilary picked up his head and rested it on her lap. She carefully ran her fingers through his hair.
"His ribs are broken. He might not be able to move much, so we need to find a way to escape without running into many guards." Tala said.
"What can we do? Are powers are gone! We're just normal kids now!"
"Do you just want to sit here and wait for Nikolai to obtain them for himself and then come over here and kill us then?" Tala nearly shouted.
Hilary looked sadly down at her boyfriend without replying.
"Well? Do you!?" He exclaimed.
The brunette's head dropped closer to Kai's and her shoulders began to shake. Hot teardrops fell onto his skin, causing his crimson eyes to open. He squeezed her knee softly, trying to calm her down.
The blue haired teen glanced over at Tala and gave him a short glare.
The red head sighed. "Sorry....I didn't mean to yell...."
"Of course I want to get out of here Tala....but there's no way we can without getting caught!" Hilary dried her tears quickly.
"There's always a way of doing things...after all, we aren't dead yet, so that means we can still recover our powers...." Kai's weary voice surprised them.
"That's right!" Hilary gasped.
"We just need some time...." Kai sighed deeply.
"Ummmm.....just one problem.......I don't think time is on our side." Tala suddenly replied as the furniture began to rattle, and loose plaster from the ceiling began crumble and fall.
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don't forget to review!
I'm stopping here....just because. I'm thinking there will be about.....maybe 3 more chapters to this story.
Oh! Sorry about Izumi's name....Chouwa means harmony in japanese...and I couldn't really think of anything else for her last name....it's really lame huh?
lol
Thanks for all the reviews!
enjoy!
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"How is she doctor?" Mr. Dickinson asked.
Tyson, Kenny, Max and Rei were all seated patiently in the waiting room as the doctor came around the corner to talk to the BBA president.
"Well...." He paused and looked at his clipboard. "She has a gunshot wound just under the collar bone in her right shoulder. She's also lost alot of blood, and has the beginning symptoms of hypothermia but...." The doctor paused again.
"But what?" The elder prodded.
"But she should be okay, if we can get her body temperature back up to where it should be."
Mr. Dickinson sighed with relief. "Thank you doctor. When can I see her?"
"You can see her when she wakes up."
The elder went back into the waiting room and sat down next to Kenny.
"Well Mr. D? Is she going to be alright?" Tyson asked.
The BBA president nodded. "She'll come through."
"I think you owe us an explanation sir. How do you know her, and how does she know Kai and Hilary?" Rei asked.
The elder nodded. "Her name is Izumi Chouwa. She's a dear friend of mine, Kai and his parents.....but I don't know if Kai would even remember her...."
"Wow! Small world huh?" Tyson exclaimed.
"Tyson!" Kenny interrupted.
"She grew up with Keira, Kai's mother and moved to Russia with her when she got married. She helped out around the mansion. I knew Kai's father and that's how I eventually met Izumi...then later on, Kai."
"You've known Kai for a long time then huh?" Rei commented. "I didn't know...."
"Well, after Kai went to the abbey, I only saw him once after that....then didn't see him again until the tournament in Japan where the BladeBreakers first formed together!" The elder continued.
"So Izumi is like a part of Kai's family..." Max said outloud to himself.
"You could say that." Mr. Dickinson smiled.
"Kai....Kai? KAI!" A voice called
The blue haired teen moaned and turned his head to the side.
"KAI!!!" The same voice repeated.
He opened his crimson eyes slowly and looked straight in front of him.
"Stay awake Kai....you can't fall asleep!" It was Tala.
The teen mumbled something inaudibly. Darkness was tugging at all his senses. He didn't think he would be able to stay conscious.
Soon, he realized his surroundings. His arms were once again strapped down to a metal table away from his body, and straps were fastened tightly around his waist and legs. Familiar wires hung down from the ceiling and connected to his arms and neck. He looked over to Tala, who was in the same state.
"Hil....ary?" He managed to say.
"Over here Kai."
The teen moved his head to the other side and saw Hilary, who, like Tala and him, was strapped down to the same kind of table with the same wires inserted in her body. She winced slightly, and felt extremely uncomfortable with the wires under her skin. Every movement she made caused her body to scream in pain.
A sinister laughter snapped Kai closer to reality. He tried to look up over his chest, but a sharp pain prevented him.
"Hello children. Comfortable?" Nikolai smirked at his nephew as he walked around to the other side of the room.
Tala recognized the place they were in. It was the same machine that took his powers, but two new tables had been added to it and the machine itself looked larger than it once was.
A cylinder shaped computer sat in the middle of the room. The three tables holding the teens were all connected to the computer.
"I've seen you've done some updating...." Tala growled.
"How perceptive of you!" Nikolai tried to seem surprised by gasping at the teen's comment. "I've changed it so it can now fully absorb all of you're powers at once, instead of one at a time." The older Russian finished typing data into the computer and walked back around, staring intently at each one of the teens.
Kai cursed and tried to shake his arm free.
"Now now Kai...be a good boy, and you won't suffer pointlessly." Nikolai said, pressing down on the large bruise covering his stomach with a finger.
Kai tried to hold back a cry of pain, but it was no use.
"Leave him alone!" Hilary called out.
Nikolai smirked. "Let's begin!"
Another man that had gone unnoticed in the room threw a switch on the wall. The machine began to power up, and sparks began to emit from the central computer. The electricity soon traveled down the wires and ran through each of the captured teen's bodies.
They all suddenly screamed in pain, their bodies bucking against their bindings. Nikolai placed his goggles over his eyes and watched on in amusement.
After what seemed like an eternity, the machine began to make strange noises, grabbing the attention of Nikolai and his goon.
"What's going on!" The Russian demanded, grabbing the assistant by the collar.
"I...I don't know sir!" He stuttered.
Nikolai threw him away from him. "Find out!"
The man rushed over to the back of the machine, and typed away furiously. "It...it seems the computer can't hold all this power! It's off the charts! We have to stop or it will explode!"
"No! Continue! I must have all their power!" Nikolai yelled over the roar of the machine and the screams of the three teenagers.
"But sir!"
"Enough!" Nikolai rushed over and hit the man away from the computer screen. He began typing at it, growling at the results that kept showing up.
Suddenly, the screen exploded, sending glass flying out into the Russian's arm.
He cursed.
"Stop it now!" He commanded.
The man ran back over to the switch and flipped it back up again.
The machine's sounds of torture soon began to die, and the sparks stopped. Kai, Tala, and Hilary all laid motionless on the metal tables.
Nikolai chuckled and removed his goggles. He looked over at another screen that hadn't exploded on the side of the computer. He began to laugh. "Yes! I have their powers...all of their powers!"
The man checked the pulse on Hilary's motionless body. "Sir....they're still alive."
Nikolai dismissed it with his hand. "I'll deal with that later. I want this power now!"
"Huh? Yes sir....." The man seemed slightly scared.
Hilary moaned as she began to regain consciousness. Pain continually shot throughout her body, her skin burned, yet she felt so cold.
She was laying on her back on a fluffy, plush carpet. She opened her eyes and stared painfully at the ceiling, which was so far away from her.
The brunette wanted to call out to her friends, but no words came to her tongue.
Stiffly, she managed to shift her head to her left. Tala laid on his chest, head turned away from her.
"T....T....Tal...." She tried to call out to him.
She wanted to sit up, or at least turn to face him completely, and try to awaken him, but her arms felt like led, and were still bound together with a small rope.
"This pain....it's unbelievable!" Hilary thought to herself.
Her forehead wrinkled in pain, but it felt different. She thought about it for a moment before realizing that the annoying metal headband had been removed, along with that collar.
"Why? Did Nikolai take our powers? Did he....kill us?" She gasped. "Am I really dead?"
Her arm suddenly twitched and another wave of pain ran through her body.
"I...I can't do it!" She felt hot tears pulling at the corners of her eyes.
A different moan caused her took look back over to her left.
Tala's body quivered slightly.
"T....T...." She started.
The red head pushed himself up on his elbows, but quickly collapsed to the carpet again.
He hissed in pain as he forced himself to look over at Hilary.
Suddenly, the brunette felt her body slowly warming with hope. Her friend was alive, and it gave her a new courage.
"Tala..." She managed to gasp.
"Hilary...."
"He's so much stronger than me...I wonder if I'll ever be like that...." She thought to herself.
The two teens rested, trying to gain some energy to move.
It took a long time, but Hilary finally forced herself to sit up, despite her pain. Tala soon followed, and they both sat on the floor in deep concentration.
"Where are we?" Tala asked, looking around the new room.
"I don't know....I guess Nikolai doesn't think of us as a threat anymore, so he just locked us up in another room..."
The darkly painted room had a window at the far wall, and a closet was immediately to the left of the window.
"Here..." The red headed Russian extended a shaky arm to Hilary. Slowly, he undid the knot that bound her arms together.
"Thanks." She smiled as she rubbed her wrists.
"Tala? Hilary? Are......you......okay?" A faint murmured came across the room.
The two teens snapped their attention to their right to see the still body of Kai, laying on his side. His arms laid lazily in front of him, his blue hair covering the pained expression on his face. Hilary could barely see his crimson eyes beneath his bangs, but they seemed darker than usual.
"Kai!" They both exclaimed and crawled over him.
Tala turned him on his back, causing him to cry out in pain at his touch.
"This is bad..." The red head said as he examined his friend.
"Kai? Stay with us. I promise you can sleep all you want when we get home, but you can't now!" Hilary said, shaking her boyfriend.
The blue haired teen's eyes were barely open. His skin was pale, and dried blood from his mouth provided a deep contrast. Bruises decorated his cheeks along with scorch marks.
The white shirt he was wearing had become dirty once again with soil and blood. Tala lifted up the bottom of the shirt slightly to examine the place where Nikolai had punched him. He winced.
Kai was breathing heavily now. Hilary picked up his head and rested it on her lap. She carefully ran her fingers through his hair.
"His ribs are broken. He might not be able to move much, so we need to find a way to escape without running into many guards." Tala said.
"What can we do? Are powers are gone! We're just normal kids now!"
"Do you just want to sit here and wait for Nikolai to obtain them for himself and then come over here and kill us then?" Tala nearly shouted.
Hilary looked sadly down at her boyfriend without replying.
"Well? Do you!?" He exclaimed.
The brunette's head dropped closer to Kai's and her shoulders began to shake. Hot teardrops fell onto his skin, causing his crimson eyes to open. He squeezed her knee softly, trying to calm her down.
The blue haired teen glanced over at Tala and gave him a short glare.
The red head sighed. "Sorry....I didn't mean to yell...."
"Of course I want to get out of here Tala....but there's no way we can without getting caught!" Hilary dried her tears quickly.
"There's always a way of doing things...after all, we aren't dead yet, so that means we can still recover our powers...." Kai's weary voice surprised them.
"That's right!" Hilary gasped.
"We just need some time...." Kai sighed deeply.
"Ummmm.....just one problem.......I don't think time is on our side." Tala suddenly replied as the furniture began to rattle, and loose plaster from the ceiling began crumble and fall.
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don't forget to review!
I'm stopping here....just because. I'm thinking there will be about.....maybe 3 more chapters to this story.
Oh! Sorry about Izumi's name....Chouwa means harmony in japanese...and I couldn't really think of anything else for her last name....it's really lame huh?
lol