TT: I updated! Happy, my fans are??
Kai: Shouldn't you be studying? Your exams start next friday!
TT: ;; I just wanted to finish this...
Kai: Grovelling for forgiveness?
TT: nods Thats it exactly!
Kai: How like you...
TT: Oh, just let me say a BIG congrats to my friend Katie, who looks like she's getting published! Yay for her!
Kai: Shameless link time?
TT: No, but I will say that if anyone wants to read her stories, her site is www.opfiex.org And that I really recomend them!
Kai: --'
TT: Alright, bed time for me. yawns G'night all. REVIEW!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: Too sleepy... Read others...
He's dead! Boris, the only one who could possibly know how to get me out of this mess... He's dead!
The last word seemed to echo in Kai's mind in time with the pounding footsteps underfoot. As much as he loathed and hated Boris, to be torn apart like that-...
Kai shuddered, curling into a ball in his mind. He'd known what sort of power Black Dranzer possessed, but to use it in that way...
And that was the sort of power he'd always wanted?! Kai couldn't think properly anymore, and the warm-seeming darkness around him coaxed him into a relaxed state. Finally, he curled himself up, hiding the flash of red light that suddenly appeared at him chest. Closing his eyes and submitting to the desire to let it all wash over him without a thought, Kai pushed away the knowledge that, despite everything, a part of him still exhilarated in the power he now had. "I don't believe it! He's gone- again! And Black Dranzer's in control- again! And we don't know where he is or how to help him! How are we supposed to..." The rest of the BladeBreaker's had long since stopped listening to Tyson's repetitive rambling, instead staring at each other with similar looks of despair, anguish and helplessness.
Finally, Max couldn't stand it any longer; he turned to Ray, staring at the older one in desperation- "Isn't there anything we can do? Anything at all?!" Tears of desperation had appeared in the corners of his blue eyes.
Ray sighed, "There's no way we'll be able to find him. And even if we did, we wouldn't know how to get Kai back in control. And only Boris could possibly know how to reverse what he- it- did to Kai." His amber eyes flashed, and he bared his fangs and growled at the thought of what Boris had done to Kai. He refused to think of Boris as a human, no human could possibly do what Boris had done.
Max looked at the ground, trying to rid himself of the tears that were threatening to fall. Tyson had become silent and subdued, trying to comfort his friend.
They remained like this for a few hours, the sun moving slowly across the sky until it caused something on the ground to flash in Ray's eyes.
"What in the world?" He bent down to pick it up. Then, after glancing at it, he froze, eyes widening slowly in what seemed to be horror.
"Ray?" The others finally noticed to expression on Ray's face, "Ray, what is it?"
The dark haired teen opened his mouth to answer, but no sound came out. Finally, he gave up at that and simply held the object out in his open palm for the others to see.
After identifying it, they froze almost in sync. Gazing at each other wordlessly with forlorn expressions.
From where it lay innocently in Ray's palm, Dranzer's bitchip gleamed in the sun. Then, for a second, a faint red glow. Kai knew what the dark abyss that surrounded him was, what it meant. But he couldn't bring himself to care that it allowed Black Dranzer free reign over their now-shared body. He couldn't find it in him to worry about what the dark being might do. And he couldn't bear to think about trying to fight against the soothing, warm darkness around him. Here, he could just drift, and forget everything for a while. Forget what was happening, forget what had happened to Boris… he could push it all to the back of his mind and not worry about it.
He knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't help it. All his life, the darkness had been both a place of dark secrets, and a safe haven. Despite what he knew about, he couldn't help feeling safe where he was. For the first time in what seemed to be months, though it couldn't have been more than a few days.
It was only when the memories started up again that he started to resist and struggle. Utter darkness gave way to complete light, light so bright it was painful. It took him a few moments to realize that someone was shining a light into his eyes.
The light was taken away, and Kai was left to blink rapidly as he tried to get used to the room again. He realized he was in a lab at the abbey. That meant he was going through one of the bi-monthly checkups. The scientists would do tests on them, to note their physical status and their improvement rates. You always had to feel sorry for anyone who didn't improve as quickly as the scientists wanted them to.
For some reason, Kai was expected to improve his skills at an impossible rate. Which meant that if the scientists were giving him a checkup, he could expect Boris' treatment immediately after.
Needless to say, he hated these checkups.
It took him a moment to realize that he had been walking during these musings. No longer in the lab, he was walking back towards his quarters. He paused at the cell's door, hesitating and aware of what would happen next.
Knowing that waiting would only serve to make Boris angrier, Kai swallowed hard and, with a trembling hand, opened the innocent wood door and walked in.
He didn't have time to blink before the eight-year-old found himself pushed up against the door, held up in the air with a hand tightly around his neck. The back of his head throbbed from where contact had been made, and his lips were slowly turning blue from lack of oxygen. He struggled to get a sound out, succeeding with nothing more than the slightly of gasps.
Still held up, the second hand came forward as a fist to his face. Kai could he could to nothing but hand their limply as blow after blow hit his body. If Boris was speaking, Kai couldn't hear it- the blood pounding in his ears was too loud. Head swimming, Kai finally found himself released from the grip, falling hard on the stone floor beneath him.
Air! The young Kai drew in the vital thing desperately. Finally, his panting subsided, and he realized that Boris was still standing there. Gulping to himself, he looked up at those hard eyes. The child's garnet eyes widened in fear, his punishment was not over by a long shot...