Red Rose here, I am sooooooo sorry this took so long to update, please don't hate me! (cries) I would make up a good excuse to why this is so late buuut I'll just come out and say it, I am a lazy ass. There. Moving on then.

SchoolBoredom- yeah, I was thinking it was Jeff Foxworthy, but I wasn't sure, well I'm glad you like this, here's an update!

Bffimagine- well planets are so fun and round...and in the sky...who wouldn't want to be named after Uranus? I know I would! Thanks for the review here's an update for you!

Fallen Pheonix- (turns her head around backwards) I think I need more practice...Kai, could you please call an ambulance?

Kai- what? Why?
Me- Time is a factor Kai...(is twitching on the ground)

Yeah...DIE DAYTIME HUMANS!!!!...except awesome ones like Kai...and Ray and my enormous list of awesome anime charas...glad you like the chapter and I don't have the tattoo yet, but hopefully I will soon!

Eyriess- oh thank you for the review, I'm glad you like my writing! Well Kai with a lot of troubles is cute to see, ne? thank you again and here's your update!

"Cop dude, man what do I do? Poke him?" Mars asked Kai, leaning over the sleeping Jack.

"I don't know...but..." Kai squeezed around Mars in the back seat of the truck and grabbed on to Jack's shoulders. Then he violently shook the sleeping man, who woke with a scream.

"DEAR GOD, DON'T KILL ME!!!" Jack's eyes were the size of saucers and he was panting heavily "....ummm sorry?" he said as he looked over to the glaring Kai and giggling Mars.

"Well it's good you're awake now" Mars smiled at Jack, then turned around and jumped out of the truck "Joe! Joe!!! Dammit, Joe, get your lazy ass out here!!!" she yelled into the gas station/auto shop.

A little blond boy came running out of the building holding a giant slushie cup. "Joe went to town to get some tools or something like that" He took a sip of his slushie, he was wearing a blue shirt with a character from some TV show on it, and shorts that went down to his knees and black sandals with more TV characters on them. "Look! Joe fixed the slushie machine...oh! She wanted me to tell you that...ummmm...she was taking your car stuff cause ummmm....she needed them for something..."

"A little late to tell me that little'un" Mars patted the young boy's head.

"Don't call me that! I'm not little!" the blond shouted.

Kai looked over to see what was going on outside, there was a little boy arguing with Mars, who was sipping some of the boy's slushie. Jack was finally fully awake and he jumped out of the truck with Kai right behind him. Kai looked at the building, it was white and looked like it had recently been painted. The roof was a bright red and there was a sign over the gas station part that said "Jolene's Gas Station and Auto Shop." Kai's attention focused on the boy when the kid dropped his slushie.

The boy was staring straight into Kai's eyes in a trance, he didn't even notice his slushie melting away in the sun on his sandals. "K..k...k...." Mars was waving her hand in front of the boy's face saying "Mer...Mer? Mer??" the boy's name.

Kai cocked an eyebrow and looked over to Jack, who just shrugged. "What do you want, kid?" he finally said.

"K-Kai? Are you the Kai???" Mer asked.

"Depends who the Kai is, I'm the only Kai I know."

"YOU ARE MY HEEERRRROOOO!!!" Mer ran up and hugged Kai's leg.

"Did Joe put caffeine in that slushie machine??" Mars said.

"I don't think you want me as a hero, kid" Kai said, a little shocked at the boy's outburst.

"but you hhaavvee to be, you are the greatest blader there is! My friends say Tyson is, but no, you are, and I hope that someday I can grow up to be a great blader like you, Kai!" Mer looked up in admiration at Kai.

"ummm..." Kai squirmed in the grasp of the small child

"Mercury! Get inside now! You are being so rude!" Mars said.

The boy stuck his tongue out at her "It's not like you're my mother or anything! I hate you!"

"But I am your guardian you devil child! And I said Get. Inside. Now!" She pointed to the gas station.

"You suck!" Mer screamed and kicked sand at Mars, then ran away.

"Damn it" Mars wiped some tears out of her eyes, looked away and sniffled a little.

"Hey, I can't stand it to see a lady cry..." Jack put an arm around Mars.

"I'm so sorry about that...I guess I just get a little testy with him around..." Mars bowed her head down.

"Having children around is a big responsibility, its tough on anyone...." Jack comforted her.

Kai rolled his eyes and looked down the desert road, and noticed the dark clouds building up on the horizon. He thought he could smell rain in the air and hoped the gas station was a sturdy as it looked.

"Kai! Snap out of it! We're going inside!" Jack said, walking next to Mars.

Kai headed with them to the building, inside there was a fairly small room that held a couple rows of chips, candy and various other snack foods. A small cash register sat on top of a small counter in the back of the store with rows of cigarettes lining the back wall. A phone suddenly rang and Mars Ran over behind the counter and picked it up.

"Hello?" She said into the white receiver "...Really? Yeah, that's fine...No you do that. See you later, bye-s" Mars turned around to face Kai and Jack. "Well, apparently there is a big storm coming and Joe's gonna stay in town for tonight. So I guess you're staying with us tonight...that reminds me...where is Mer?"

"Huh? I don't see him..." Jack said.

"Maybe he's in the back...Mer?...Meeerrrr? come out come out wherever you are" Mars said, opening a door on the back wall with Jack and Kai following her.

Kai looked around as he was led into a small, dark room that he figured everyone slept in, judging by the two beds on either side of the room.

"come on Mer, this isn't funny, Joe's not coming tonight, please come out, we'll make popcorn...Mer, come out now" Mars looked under one of the beds.

Jack looked at Kai and shrugged "Mer, come on out, little guy" He looked under the other bed, finding it empty of any chilled he moved on to look in the closet by the foot of the bed.

"I don't think he's in here maybe he's outside...damn and the storm's coming...I may not like the little brat that much, but I don't want him dead..." Mars stood up.

"I'll help you look, Kai, why don't you stay here if he comes back..." Jack said.

"Whatever" Kai followed the two and sat down in a chair behind the front counter in the store. He watched as the two ran outside near the auto shop, and out of sight.

Kai sat back and closed his eyes this is gonna be a long night... his thoughts were interrupted when he heard a small rustle of clothes on the other side of the counter. He opened his eyes to see a small bustle of blond hair, peeking up.

"Mer..." Kai said and the small blond jumped back down, then slowly came up again revealing that the hair really did belong to Mer.

"Oh hello" he said and smiled.

"Were you hiding?"

"Yeah..."

"From Mars?"

Mer's cheeks flushed red. "Yeah, what's it to you?"

Kai sat back a little bit wow, this kid changes attitude pretty fast "Well you know she's pretty worried about you...her and Jack are outside looking for you, there's going to be a big storm."

"So, I don't care, she's evil for what she did..." Mer shot at Kai.

"That's not very nice of you" shit, look at me, I'm preaching to a kid! What she did? What did she do...?

"You're one to talk, Tyson said in an interview once that you're a jerk!"

"He said what!?" Kai growled, then clamed himself down. "Listen kid, I know I'm not the best person there is, but I also know that you're a kid, you should be happy carefree, I'm sure Mars is doing her best to be good to you...and besides, Tyson's a jacka- ummm stupid..."

"Jackass, you can cuss in front of me, Mars always does." Mer glared at Kai as harshly as his light green eyes would let him.

"Alright, you don't like her much," Kai sighed "why don't we forget this...what do you want to do?"

"Cool, then can I show you my blade?" Mer asked and Kai ran into the other room when Kai nodded his head.

Kids are so difficult...dammit, I have more important things to do than babysitting, stupid storm... Kai thought.

Mer walked back into the room and proudly presented his blade to Kai, who mouthed the word "shit" after seeing the blade. It was a dark green and relatively small, but it looked like the size was doubled because of six metal spikes sticking out of it.

"Vicious little blade now, isn't it...but isn't the endurance low? And speed? If someone can out run you for long enough, you're blade will stop spinning pretty quickly."

"Yeah, I know, but nobody else in town does yet! That's why I win a lot!" The small boy smiled.

Kai quickly looked up when he heard the bell above the front door ring and saw that the door was wide open but nobody was in it. He stood up and glanced around the store, and outside, noticing that the wind wasn't strong enough yet to blow the door open. Somebody was inside the store.

Before Kai could even blink, a man appeared, standing on the other side of the counter. He was tall and wearing a big, black coat. His face was hidden by the large cowboy hat he wore, and his black jeans lead down to his equally dark cowboy boots. The man leaned over and had his face inches away from Kai's own. "Well, well, well. Seems like we have a celebrity in here, Kai Hiwitari"

"What do you want?" Kai growled.

"I have something I need to take back, now if you'll just hand over...what do they call him now?...Mercury?"

"What do you want with me, mister?" Mer asked.

"I want to take you back to my lab, I think you are an excellent blader and I want you to join my team."

"Really? That sounds awesome! I would live to go! I–"

"Shut up, this guy doesn't want you to join some team" Kai narrowed his eyes at the man "I suggest you leave now."

"My, my, aren't you perceptive." The man looked over at Mer "Your hero's right, you are a crappy blader"

"Leave, now." Kai ordered, looking straight into the man's eyes.

"I will, once I take him" The man reached over the counter, but moved his arm away right before Kai could slam his elbow down on him. "Feisty, but this will be over quickly." The man reached into his coat and pulled out a black crowbar.

"Mer! Hide!" Kai shouted at the small shaking form in the corner. "Go now, dammit!" he shouted again when Mer didn't move.

"Just let him stay there" The man swung the crowbar at Kai who immediately ducked out of the way. The man swung around and tried to bring his weapon straight down on Kai's head, but cursing himself after he saw that Kai blocked it with his arm.

Kai shook in pain and swore that his right arm was broken. He looked around for something he could use against the guy and to protect himself. While Kai was distracted looking for his own weapon, the man took his opportunity and slammed his crowbar into the side of Kai's head. Kai didn't even notice he was hit, all he knew that his world suddenly became black and he slipped out of consciousness.

Well I'm gonna stop there right when Kai gets knocked out...yup weeelllll school is starting soon and if I don't get good grades, mum wont let me drive (how can anyone be so evil???) and seeing as I'm not the best of students (I failed English honors, passed Bio by a hair cause I went to summer school for the Algebra I failed first semester) I'm gonna have to be working really hard...But I'll be writing on weekends!

Well please review!

Bye-s All!