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Disclaimer: I do not own beyblades or any of its characters, but I do own any unrecognizable characters, which unfortunately are not up for grabs, sorry.
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Flashback: ~~~~~
Change Scene: ~*~
Chapter 11: Words Of Comfort. Part: 1
Kai strode home, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. His crimson eyes were blazing and full of rage, as he stormed down the street, shoving by people without a seconds glance as if the street belonged to him. Kai couldn't help but muse over what had happened earlier that night. He still didn't know whether to be angry with Rei, or to have compassion. (If Rei continues to act the way he does he won't live very long.) Kai thought to himself, with a shuddering sigh. (Wait a sec. Rei specifically told me he doesn't care if he dies, so why should I?)
But, Kai couldn't do it. He couldn't just 'not care' about the young vampire. Rei was still new to the dark lives of vampires. Abandoning him would leave him completely defenseless and vulnerable against vampires who would probably be dying to take advantage of someone so innocent. Rei still needed someone to watch out for him, to care for him. (But I'm that person. I do care for him!) Kai told himself. (I'm doing my job. I'm teaching him the ways of the vampires. I'm doing my job!) Kai repeated mentally. (It's Rei who seems too thick, and stubborn to learn anything!) And with that he headed on home.
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Rei stood there, in the forest where Kai had left him seemingly hours ago. Kai's last words continued to resound in Rei's head. 'You'll come around soon enough... they always do.' What had those words meant? (Did he mean that I'd turn out to be a cold-hearted, blood thirsty killer? Cause if so, he's wrong!) Rei decided mentally. He glanced down at the dead woman on the ground, still unsure of what he'd do with her. (Should I bury her? The least I could do is pay my respects. After all she was middle-aged. She was most likely married, with a husband whom she loved dearly, and maybe even...) Rei's eyes filled up with tears. (Maybe even children, who will be absolutely crushed when they hear of her death. Just like I was when my parents...)
Rei was disrupted from his thoughts when loud sirens echoed throughout the area. Rei jerked his head up, immediately recognizing them to be police sirens. (Somebody must have found out about this woman's death! But who?) Rei panicked. His heart beat quickly in his chest, and he was sweating bullets. 'Suppose the police were the ones who found you and that woman, instead of me? How would you have explained yourself to the police, Rei?' Kai's voice rang through Rei's head once again. (Fuck! How *will* I explain myself?!) Rei asked himself, alarmed. However, there was no time to think, as the sirens seemed to be getting louder, meaning the police were getting nearer. Rei waited anxiously...but to his astonishment and relief the police never came.
Feeling curious as to why he wasn't being hauled away in a police car by now, Rei stepped out of the forest. Unfortunately the police *had* arrived! And by the looks of it they were not alone. The Police, the FBI, a few freelance reporters and a large crowd of people were standing near the entrance of the forest, which encircled the banquet hall. But, not in the area that Rei and the dead woman were. They were on the other side of the forest. (I wonder what's going on over there.) Rei thought to himself. His curiosity got the best of him and he carefully walked over to the large group of people.
Rei managed to weave through the crowd, finally reaching the front of the crowd he was confronted by a long strip of yellow tape with black writing on it which read: CAUTION. "Hey," Rei whispered to the young teen, which stood beside him. "What's going on here?" he asked, the girl. "Man! Where have you been?" the teen inquired, her brown eyes narrowing slightly. "Didn't you hear? A guy found two murdered girls here just a couple of hours ago! The police have been investigating this case ever since." "Oh," Rei said slowly, immediately suspecting who could have committed this crime. (...Kai)
"Want to know what the weirdest part of these murders is?" the girl continued. Rei nodded. "Okay, the weirdest part is that these girls died from a loss of blood, but they didn't bleed to death. And they weren't stabbed or shot, and what's even freakier is that however their blood was taken out of their bodies, it's nowhere to be found now." "Man! That is freaky," Rei said, trying to sound like an innocent bystander. The teenage girl ran her fingers through her short and spiky midnight black hair, sighing loudly. "These murders are extremely similar to the murders that took place a couple of nights ago, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Kon. It's such a shame that these things happen to people."
Rei was about to say something when one of the tall, burly police officers stepped over the yellow Caution tape, and blew his whistle. "OKAY!" he yelled loudly to the crowd, "nothing to see hear people! Go home! Everyone please go home. We do not want to alarm you but the murderer is still out there. We are trying to solve this case and we haven't the need for distractions such as yourselves. Please everyone, go home!" he said again. Slowly, and reluctantly the crowd dispersed. Until only Rei stood there, looking over the yellow tape at the Police who surrounded the dead girls bodies, the FBI right beside them, taking notes, and the reporters snapping pictures.
Rei continued to watch the investigators, grateful that they didn't notice him, or perhaps just didn't mind him being there at the investigation scene. Rei watched as a reporter walked over to one of the police officers, looking extremely nervous. The reporter looked as if he was in his early twenties, he was quite thin, with short chestnut brown hair, and large, thick, round spectacles framed his green eyes. He was clad in a white shirt, suspenders and plaid pants, as a camera hung from his neck.
"Excuse me sir," he whispered quickly to one of the police officers. "I've just made a discovery," he said, anxiously. "Go on," the officer said, crossing his arms and narrowing his cold gray eyes. "Well, I've discovered that the girls, now identified as Alex and Sam have something in common..." "They're dead?" the officer inquired rather sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "Yes, but also the fact that twin bite marks were found on each of their necks." "Yes, that *is* rather suspicious," the officer said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "So...what exactly are you inquiring? About the 'bite' marks?"
The reporter adjusted his glasses, while shifting from foot to foot, seemingly nervous. The police officer began to tap his foot, impatiently. "Well, sir," the reporter finally spoke up. "Personally, I think their deaths were caused by none other than...VAMPIRES!" he screamed throwing his arms in the air, in a rather insane manner.
The word echoed through the air loud and clear, even though Rei hadn't known what the conversation between the two had been about, that single word was audible. "Conner!" the man yelled. "Out of all the shit I've ever heard in my entire life this has been the most ridiculous! A: you can not confirm that those are bite marks B: They need to have an autopsy to determine what really happened and C: They are NO such things as VAMPIRES!"
"But sir," Conner began, before he was cut off. "If you ever mention the word vampires again, I'll fire you from this case so fast it'll make your head spin! Do I make myself clear?" the officer demanded. Conner nodded, sighing, well aware that protesting would get him nowhere.
(What the hell happened over there?) Rei asked himself. (Why had that man screamed out the word vampires?) Rei's musing was cut short when a police officer over walked up to him. "May we help you?" the police officer asked, eyeing him suspiciously. "Uh...um...n-no, not really." Rei stammered. "Well, then what are you doing here?" the policeman inquired, raising an eyebrow. "N-nothing," Rei replied quickly. "I-I'd better be going now," he offered, turning quickly on his heels and attempting to walk away. But, he immediately froze when a firm hand gripped his shoulder and spun him around to face the officer once again. "Not so fast," he said. "Why were you standing there so long if you 'claim' you were doing nothing?"
(Oh man!) Rei thought to himself. (This guy's on to me, and I didn't even do anything! How the hell am I suppose to get out of a mess I didn't even make?) "I told him to wait here for me, sorry about that," a voice said out of nowhere. Perplexed, Rei and the officer spun around only to come face to face with a midnight blue-haired teen. "Well," the police officer said in a less serious tone of voice. "This seems to make a lot more sense. For a minute there I was tempted to take you back to the police station, on a count of suspicion," he laughed. Rei faked a cheerful laugh.
"Well, you kids better be getting home now, wouldn't want anything to happen to ya'll," the police officer explained, before walking back over to the other police. Rei turned to the other teen. "Thanks for...you know, helping me out back there," Rei said, suddenly very interesting in staring at the grass beneath his feet. The teen cocked his head to the side slightly, smiling as he examined this attracting boy's anxious behavior. "No prob. Good thing I came when I did," he smiled. "The name's Takao," he said, extending his hand. "And you are..." "Rei," the amber-eyed boy answered quickly, shaking his hand. "My name's Rei. Uh...well Takao I'd really better get going now, see ya!" Rei grumbled, finally turning and walking away. Takao stared after him, "weird kid," he sighed shaking his head.
Rei soon found himself walking down the Main Street, despite how late it was at night the Main Street was always busy. Rei was almost immediately reminded of his and Kai's little dispute earlier that night. There was absolutely no way he could return to the mansion with the state Kai had left in. Their squabble hadn't ended well at all. Kai had left furious, and Rei was left feeling extremely depressed. He couldn't go back to the mansion, not now anyway. He continued to walk by shop windows, stopping in front of a particular store, a memory of his parents seemed to flash into his mind.
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A five-year-old Rei, and his parents were walking down Main Street, looking through shop windows. "Rei, honey," his father whispered kneeling down in front of him. "What do you think mommy wants for Mother's Day?" Rei lashed his head from side to side, twirling some of his shoulder length raven hair in the process. "That!" Rei pointed a chubby, little finger toward an item in the store window. He and his father entered the store, leaving his mother outside to wait. Moments later they exited the store, gift in hand. Rei held the large wrapped gift in his hands, which was almost as big as him.
"This is for you," Rei said, giving the present to his mother. She took it from him and began the task of unwrapping. Finally, the wrapping was off and the naked box remained. She opened it and pulled out a little brown teddy bear holding a heart shaped pillow, the words: 'Love U always' were written on it. "Oh!" she cooed. "It's adorable!" she squealed hugging her son tightly. "Thank you so much, honey! You shouldn't have, I would have been perfectly happy spending Mother's Day with my two favorite guys," she smiled, referring to her husband and son. "Besides sweetie, you're my the best Mother's Day gift I could ever have!" "You welcome mommy," Rei blushed, "I chosed it cause I wanted to make you happy. I'm glad you like it," he said hugging her back.
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(I'll never be able to spend another Mother's Day with her again) Rei sighed, as a single tear escaped his tear filled eyes, making its way down his smooth, but ghostly pale skin. (Get a hold of yourself! She's gone and so is your dad, and crying won't bring them back. They're gone forever!) Rei told himself as he hurriedly wiped away the tear, and stifled a sob. Taking one last look at the store, he began to walk away, that is until a voice startled him.
"Hey! Wait up!" a familiar voice called out from behind him. Turning, Rei's amber eyes grew slightly. "What do you want now?" Rei grumbled, sounding irritated. "That's not a nice way to treat someone who got you out of a jam," Takao grinned teasingly. Rei just glared, he really didn't have time for this, and he just wanted to be alone. The mysterious teen leaned in close to Rei, studying his face.
"Were you crying?" he asked, bluntly, eyeing Rei's tear stained face. "No," came Rei's quick answer, and he turned his head to look away. "You *look* like you were crying," the teen insisted. "I wasn't crying!" Rei retorted angrily. "Okay, you weren't, sheesh," he grumbled rolling his navy blue eyes. "Why are you following me anyway? Can I help you?" Rei demanded, crossing his arms and narrowing his amber eyes, reminding himself of Kai. "No, you can't help me, but perhaps, I can help you," the teen answered sincerely.
"You're hurting...I can tell by the look in your eyes," Takao said simply. Rei averted his gaze, "Takao please..." he muttered. "Let me help you," Takao interrupted, placing a finger under Rei's chin and forcing Rei to look at him. "One person shouldn't have to carry so much pain." "I-I don't know if you can help me, I don't know if anyone can," Rei answered, looking away. "I highly doubt that, follow me!" the navy blue-eyed boy said, taking Rei's hand in his own, and beginning to lead him out into the night.
There! A lot of reviewers have been asking me when Takao would show, and he finally did! Yeah! As for Max, you'll have to see in the next chappie. Sorry for taking so long to update. I've been having a little writer's block, but I think I'm back on track, so we'll see how things go from here. I just found out that less and less people are reviewing, and it makes me feel like the fic isn't being read, and if it ain't then it doesn't make any sense to continue updating, so kick it into high gear people and start reviewing!
Till then, see ya! CHOW!
Silverstorms
Silverstorms: Where'd all my reviewers go?
Rei: They were all abducted by aliens, who don't want them to review u
Silverstorms: Nice try...
Rei: Just tryin to make u feel better
Silverstorms: *sighs* Well, if there's anybody out there...onto the fic!
Disclaimer: I do not own beyblades or any of its characters, but I do own any unrecognizable characters, which unfortunately are not up for grabs, sorry.
Thinking: ( )
Speaking: " "
Me: (SS:)/(A.N:)
Flashback: ~~~~~
Change Scene: ~*~
Chapter 11: Words Of Comfort. Part: 1
Kai strode home, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. His crimson eyes were blazing and full of rage, as he stormed down the street, shoving by people without a seconds glance as if the street belonged to him. Kai couldn't help but muse over what had happened earlier that night. He still didn't know whether to be angry with Rei, or to have compassion. (If Rei continues to act the way he does he won't live very long.) Kai thought to himself, with a shuddering sigh. (Wait a sec. Rei specifically told me he doesn't care if he dies, so why should I?)
But, Kai couldn't do it. He couldn't just 'not care' about the young vampire. Rei was still new to the dark lives of vampires. Abandoning him would leave him completely defenseless and vulnerable against vampires who would probably be dying to take advantage of someone so innocent. Rei still needed someone to watch out for him, to care for him. (But I'm that person. I do care for him!) Kai told himself. (I'm doing my job. I'm teaching him the ways of the vampires. I'm doing my job!) Kai repeated mentally. (It's Rei who seems too thick, and stubborn to learn anything!) And with that he headed on home.
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Rei stood there, in the forest where Kai had left him seemingly hours ago. Kai's last words continued to resound in Rei's head. 'You'll come around soon enough... they always do.' What had those words meant? (Did he mean that I'd turn out to be a cold-hearted, blood thirsty killer? Cause if so, he's wrong!) Rei decided mentally. He glanced down at the dead woman on the ground, still unsure of what he'd do with her. (Should I bury her? The least I could do is pay my respects. After all she was middle-aged. She was most likely married, with a husband whom she loved dearly, and maybe even...) Rei's eyes filled up with tears. (Maybe even children, who will be absolutely crushed when they hear of her death. Just like I was when my parents...)
Rei was disrupted from his thoughts when loud sirens echoed throughout the area. Rei jerked his head up, immediately recognizing them to be police sirens. (Somebody must have found out about this woman's death! But who?) Rei panicked. His heart beat quickly in his chest, and he was sweating bullets. 'Suppose the police were the ones who found you and that woman, instead of me? How would you have explained yourself to the police, Rei?' Kai's voice rang through Rei's head once again. (Fuck! How *will* I explain myself?!) Rei asked himself, alarmed. However, there was no time to think, as the sirens seemed to be getting louder, meaning the police were getting nearer. Rei waited anxiously...but to his astonishment and relief the police never came.
Feeling curious as to why he wasn't being hauled away in a police car by now, Rei stepped out of the forest. Unfortunately the police *had* arrived! And by the looks of it they were not alone. The Police, the FBI, a few freelance reporters and a large crowd of people were standing near the entrance of the forest, which encircled the banquet hall. But, not in the area that Rei and the dead woman were. They were on the other side of the forest. (I wonder what's going on over there.) Rei thought to himself. His curiosity got the best of him and he carefully walked over to the large group of people.
Rei managed to weave through the crowd, finally reaching the front of the crowd he was confronted by a long strip of yellow tape with black writing on it which read: CAUTION. "Hey," Rei whispered to the young teen, which stood beside him. "What's going on here?" he asked, the girl. "Man! Where have you been?" the teen inquired, her brown eyes narrowing slightly. "Didn't you hear? A guy found two murdered girls here just a couple of hours ago! The police have been investigating this case ever since." "Oh," Rei said slowly, immediately suspecting who could have committed this crime. (...Kai)
"Want to know what the weirdest part of these murders is?" the girl continued. Rei nodded. "Okay, the weirdest part is that these girls died from a loss of blood, but they didn't bleed to death. And they weren't stabbed or shot, and what's even freakier is that however their blood was taken out of their bodies, it's nowhere to be found now." "Man! That is freaky," Rei said, trying to sound like an innocent bystander. The teenage girl ran her fingers through her short and spiky midnight black hair, sighing loudly. "These murders are extremely similar to the murders that took place a couple of nights ago, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Kon. It's such a shame that these things happen to people."
Rei was about to say something when one of the tall, burly police officers stepped over the yellow Caution tape, and blew his whistle. "OKAY!" he yelled loudly to the crowd, "nothing to see hear people! Go home! Everyone please go home. We do not want to alarm you but the murderer is still out there. We are trying to solve this case and we haven't the need for distractions such as yourselves. Please everyone, go home!" he said again. Slowly, and reluctantly the crowd dispersed. Until only Rei stood there, looking over the yellow tape at the Police who surrounded the dead girls bodies, the FBI right beside them, taking notes, and the reporters snapping pictures.
Rei continued to watch the investigators, grateful that they didn't notice him, or perhaps just didn't mind him being there at the investigation scene. Rei watched as a reporter walked over to one of the police officers, looking extremely nervous. The reporter looked as if he was in his early twenties, he was quite thin, with short chestnut brown hair, and large, thick, round spectacles framed his green eyes. He was clad in a white shirt, suspenders and plaid pants, as a camera hung from his neck.
"Excuse me sir," he whispered quickly to one of the police officers. "I've just made a discovery," he said, anxiously. "Go on," the officer said, crossing his arms and narrowing his cold gray eyes. "Well, I've discovered that the girls, now identified as Alex and Sam have something in common..." "They're dead?" the officer inquired rather sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "Yes, but also the fact that twin bite marks were found on each of their necks." "Yes, that *is* rather suspicious," the officer said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "So...what exactly are you inquiring? About the 'bite' marks?"
The reporter adjusted his glasses, while shifting from foot to foot, seemingly nervous. The police officer began to tap his foot, impatiently. "Well, sir," the reporter finally spoke up. "Personally, I think their deaths were caused by none other than...VAMPIRES!" he screamed throwing his arms in the air, in a rather insane manner.
The word echoed through the air loud and clear, even though Rei hadn't known what the conversation between the two had been about, that single word was audible. "Conner!" the man yelled. "Out of all the shit I've ever heard in my entire life this has been the most ridiculous! A: you can not confirm that those are bite marks B: They need to have an autopsy to determine what really happened and C: They are NO such things as VAMPIRES!"
"But sir," Conner began, before he was cut off. "If you ever mention the word vampires again, I'll fire you from this case so fast it'll make your head spin! Do I make myself clear?" the officer demanded. Conner nodded, sighing, well aware that protesting would get him nowhere.
(What the hell happened over there?) Rei asked himself. (Why had that man screamed out the word vampires?) Rei's musing was cut short when a police officer over walked up to him. "May we help you?" the police officer asked, eyeing him suspiciously. "Uh...um...n-no, not really." Rei stammered. "Well, then what are you doing here?" the policeman inquired, raising an eyebrow. "N-nothing," Rei replied quickly. "I-I'd better be going now," he offered, turning quickly on his heels and attempting to walk away. But, he immediately froze when a firm hand gripped his shoulder and spun him around to face the officer once again. "Not so fast," he said. "Why were you standing there so long if you 'claim' you were doing nothing?"
(Oh man!) Rei thought to himself. (This guy's on to me, and I didn't even do anything! How the hell am I suppose to get out of a mess I didn't even make?) "I told him to wait here for me, sorry about that," a voice said out of nowhere. Perplexed, Rei and the officer spun around only to come face to face with a midnight blue-haired teen. "Well," the police officer said in a less serious tone of voice. "This seems to make a lot more sense. For a minute there I was tempted to take you back to the police station, on a count of suspicion," he laughed. Rei faked a cheerful laugh.
"Well, you kids better be getting home now, wouldn't want anything to happen to ya'll," the police officer explained, before walking back over to the other police. Rei turned to the other teen. "Thanks for...you know, helping me out back there," Rei said, suddenly very interesting in staring at the grass beneath his feet. The teen cocked his head to the side slightly, smiling as he examined this attracting boy's anxious behavior. "No prob. Good thing I came when I did," he smiled. "The name's Takao," he said, extending his hand. "And you are..." "Rei," the amber-eyed boy answered quickly, shaking his hand. "My name's Rei. Uh...well Takao I'd really better get going now, see ya!" Rei grumbled, finally turning and walking away. Takao stared after him, "weird kid," he sighed shaking his head.
Rei soon found himself walking down the Main Street, despite how late it was at night the Main Street was always busy. Rei was almost immediately reminded of his and Kai's little dispute earlier that night. There was absolutely no way he could return to the mansion with the state Kai had left in. Their squabble hadn't ended well at all. Kai had left furious, and Rei was left feeling extremely depressed. He couldn't go back to the mansion, not now anyway. He continued to walk by shop windows, stopping in front of a particular store, a memory of his parents seemed to flash into his mind.
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A five-year-old Rei, and his parents were walking down Main Street, looking through shop windows. "Rei, honey," his father whispered kneeling down in front of him. "What do you think mommy wants for Mother's Day?" Rei lashed his head from side to side, twirling some of his shoulder length raven hair in the process. "That!" Rei pointed a chubby, little finger toward an item in the store window. He and his father entered the store, leaving his mother outside to wait. Moments later they exited the store, gift in hand. Rei held the large wrapped gift in his hands, which was almost as big as him.
"This is for you," Rei said, giving the present to his mother. She took it from him and began the task of unwrapping. Finally, the wrapping was off and the naked box remained. She opened it and pulled out a little brown teddy bear holding a heart shaped pillow, the words: 'Love U always' were written on it. "Oh!" she cooed. "It's adorable!" she squealed hugging her son tightly. "Thank you so much, honey! You shouldn't have, I would have been perfectly happy spending Mother's Day with my two favorite guys," she smiled, referring to her husband and son. "Besides sweetie, you're my the best Mother's Day gift I could ever have!" "You welcome mommy," Rei blushed, "I chosed it cause I wanted to make you happy. I'm glad you like it," he said hugging her back.
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(I'll never be able to spend another Mother's Day with her again) Rei sighed, as a single tear escaped his tear filled eyes, making its way down his smooth, but ghostly pale skin. (Get a hold of yourself! She's gone and so is your dad, and crying won't bring them back. They're gone forever!) Rei told himself as he hurriedly wiped away the tear, and stifled a sob. Taking one last look at the store, he began to walk away, that is until a voice startled him.
"Hey! Wait up!" a familiar voice called out from behind him. Turning, Rei's amber eyes grew slightly. "What do you want now?" Rei grumbled, sounding irritated. "That's not a nice way to treat someone who got you out of a jam," Takao grinned teasingly. Rei just glared, he really didn't have time for this, and he just wanted to be alone. The mysterious teen leaned in close to Rei, studying his face.
"Were you crying?" he asked, bluntly, eyeing Rei's tear stained face. "No," came Rei's quick answer, and he turned his head to look away. "You *look* like you were crying," the teen insisted. "I wasn't crying!" Rei retorted angrily. "Okay, you weren't, sheesh," he grumbled rolling his navy blue eyes. "Why are you following me anyway? Can I help you?" Rei demanded, crossing his arms and narrowing his amber eyes, reminding himself of Kai. "No, you can't help me, but perhaps, I can help you," the teen answered sincerely.
"You're hurting...I can tell by the look in your eyes," Takao said simply. Rei averted his gaze, "Takao please..." he muttered. "Let me help you," Takao interrupted, placing a finger under Rei's chin and forcing Rei to look at him. "One person shouldn't have to carry so much pain." "I-I don't know if you can help me, I don't know if anyone can," Rei answered, looking away. "I highly doubt that, follow me!" the navy blue-eyed boy said, taking Rei's hand in his own, and beginning to lead him out into the night.
There! A lot of reviewers have been asking me when Takao would show, and he finally did! Yeah! As for Max, you'll have to see in the next chappie. Sorry for taking so long to update. I've been having a little writer's block, but I think I'm back on track, so we'll see how things go from here. I just found out that less and less people are reviewing, and it makes me feel like the fic isn't being read, and if it ain't then it doesn't make any sense to continue updating, so kick it into high gear people and start reviewing!
Till then, see ya! CHOW!
Silverstorms