Chapter 2 Meeting Boris
Somewhere in the middle or maybe end of goodnight sleep which was partly a sweet lonely slumber, loud, very loud distant voice resounded around the hall, reaching Arwen's closed room, of course waking her up instantly.
Feeling absolutely broken, she groaned quietly and slowly opened her heavy from sleep eyes, blinking and still not being able to see anything in the heavy pitch black darkness. Another pack of voices sounded.
Ugh, do they have to start talking at...she thought all tired, looked around and half closed her green eyes, looking at the dark blue watch on the wall across of her, seeing that it was...5 am in the morning! Shoot...she let out something mumbling and inarticulate, almost like a long sigh and rose up from the pillow, feeling like kicking absolutely everyone for daring to interrupt her sleep.
She stood up fully from the bed and reached for the lamp on the small side-table, pressing on the creamy white button slightly, it making a clicking sound, and the whole room lighted up right away, and so unexpectedly that she had to squeeze her eyes as she already adjusted to the dark.
Almost blindfolded she walked over to the chair beside her bed, where she remembered to put her clothes on last time, reached for them and with 2 slight touches grabbed her clothes, opening her tired eyes moments after. Having yellow circles before her eyes.
-"...Oh yea, sure, take his side now. We don't have to follow his every order!" sounded a perfectly irritated voice, with a slight wheeze in it.
-"Geeze, relax Tala, but I don't agree. We have to. What do you think, Kai?" sounded another voice, this one being really low and bass like.
-"Both of you shut up," answered quiet stern voice, seeming quite annoyed, and Arwen smiled unnoticeably – Kai. The smile disappeared right away, as she remembered that she promised herself to ignore the way she felt so suddenly. He's right, why can't all of you just shut up?
-"Hey, what the fuck, we can't ask you an opinion now? You are the part of this team, don't forget," interrupted pissed off Tala's voice, swearing from left to right.
-"Tala's right, behave," added, always agreeing with his only friend, Spencer.
Arwen could now perfectly hear every word, as the distant voices were not distant anymore, Tala, Kai and Spencer, the talkers, were so close to her door now. Quickly putting the last bits of her clothes on, she grabbed the brush from the wooden table, brushing her long hair quickly, the light glittering slightly on the shiny black waterfall.
As soon as she put the black brush back down on the table, a thundering knock on her door sounded, so loud that Arwen's heart leaped from the unexpectedness, the fist knocking was probably going to make quite a hole if she wasn't going to open now.
-"Hey, Goth, wake up, if we don't get to sleep in, you don't either!" shouted Tala, and let his fist down, nothing, not even a slight redness or aching was on his knuckles after banging so loud.
Goth? What the hell? Arwen frowned at Tala's rudeness and harsh tone, especially unfairness, and without answering, grabbed the doorknob, pulling the door open, and meeting with Tala's lifeless eyes once again, regretting that she didn't have a chance to hit him open with the door as she opened it. "It's 5 in the morning...do you have brains or not?" she asked dryly, and confident, looking up in Tala's sight, without any fear in her eyes...though he could kill her easily whenever he wanted to.
Kai unclenched his teeth when the door opened, forgetting his plans of knocking out Tala from waking up Arwen, and closed his eyes, looking down. His hair closing half of his face. Believing that Arwen had a good reason for addressing that to Tala.
Tala stared at her for a moment or two, being startled by the sudden door opening...and harsh comment towards him, which was even more unexpected. But nevertheless he "woke up" and took a step back, bumping slightly on Spencer who was standing behind him.
His lifeless brown eyes burned into her green calm ones. Arwen braced herself for a barrage of insults right away; having no doubt that this would be exactly what she will get. Instead, he looked away, hit Spencer hardly with his pointy elbow somewhere around his upper stomach, and without answering, he began to saunter off. Spencer followed, rubbing his stomach from the hard poke.
That was easy, went through her mind as she surprisingly stared at Tala's walking away figure, wondering what had just happened, absolutely forgetting that she was staring at him leaving for so long...that Kai, who was standing somewhat a meter away from her, started feeling something weird inside. Why is she watching him for so long?
Her eyes moved to look down on the floor, and she slowly closed the door after her, letting go of the doorknob finally. Arwen than looked up, and glared at Kai, thinking of smiling, but finding a good reason not to.
-"So why isn't everyone sleeping?" she asked narrowly, half closed her eyes for a moment there, and than opened them wide again...being really tired and sleepy. I want to sleep so much...
Kai knew that he should ignore her; he knew that he really should ignore her, but he just couldn't bring himself up to do so.
-"Boris' orders," he replied calmly, his voice faded away slightly after he responded, but Arwen noticed that anyway. But didn't find that important though.
-"Orders? What kind of orders?" she questioned in a quiet voice, her eyes pierced at him, really wanting for him to look back at her, but he wasn't planning to. She wanted to know more about these orders, more than Kai told her, she would like to hear at least one more sentence coming out of his mouth.
Kai thought of answering yet another question of hers, but however fondly he thought of her, he decided not to...he did have an ignoring I-don't-care reputation to hold.
Without answering he unfolded his arms and walked away from the wall he was standing leaned on, and started walking in the direction his other teammates disappeared to, his eyes still closed.
So? She asked in her mind, watching him walking away from her as well, waiting for the response, and seeing that she will get no more attention from him (very odd after what happened yesterday), Arwen hanged her head down slightly, and followed Kai after sometime...quite a big distance kept between them, and each one of them didn't seem to mind that at all.
Confused Arwen, silent Kai, gloomy Tala and crossed Spencer were either sitting or standing in some kind of large antique guest room, waiting for something...or someone. Arwen did not know what was going on, and felt quite uncomfortable, not trusting anyone, except maybe Kai. But the Dejavous was not really making any sense...and she didn't not feel too trustful to him because of that.
She slowly leaned back in the big pillow on the fur coach she was sitting on and closed her green eyes. She was so sleepy; she couldn't believe that there was something so important that everyone had to wake up so early.
But apparently, everyone else seemed to be just fine with that.
Silence.
Arwen was listening to the light calming click of the sparks of the burning wood in the rich stone fireplace at the wall across of her, everything else being so quiet that she not really caring about anything anymore, hanged her head down and started to fall asleep.
Kai, who was standing at the wall near the door, opened his eyes, and his eyes quickly traveled around the room, noticing even the smallest detail, including Arwen's lowered down head, and literally snoring loudly Spencer. Tala was maybe the only one really interested in waiting, and was probably going to wait forever if he had to. But however, even he grew impatient after some time.
Finally, a door to the right beside the big bookcase opened with a loud squeak, and a very tall adult, with spiky purple hair came in. His appearance would most likely scare some people, but not the ones who were in the room with him there. The black face mask was worn on his eyes; the red lenses in the mask for the eyes were shining with red brightly, without any reason anyone else, except him, would know. The long dirty-brown trench coat was worn around him, there were little bits of rain-water on his shoulders, which meant that he just came from outside.
-"Finally you're all here. Couldn't it take you even more time?" he stated rudely and harshly, his voice being really cold and uncaring. He looked around the room at his team, almost angrily.
Arwen winced at the sudden loud voice sounding out from almost no where and seeming really angry for some reason and harsh, and opened her eyes quickly, staring at Boris almost helplessly, herself looking like an innocent pray for the predator supervisor like him. Even more time? You are the one who's late!
Kai stayed silent in the dark, Spencer woke up and just stared at Boris in after-sleep-not-getting-anything mood, but Tala shaded with a deep frown. "Hmph, what exactly do you need us here for, Boris?" he asked, raising up from the comfortable arm-chair he was sitting on, wondering if these teammates of his will back him up.
Boris looked to Tala, not liking his pupil's attitude towards him, but pretended to miss it through his ears. "The tournament is today, in the afternoon, like most of you already know," he snarled at Tala loudly, his ignoring of the comments never being too successful, watched Tala sitting back down on the arm-chair, and continued. "And you all need more practice, because with the power you had every last tournament that YOU LOST, you will lose this time as well. But we have another strong team player this time, and this should bring us some more success," Boris finished, grinned evilly, and turned his head to look at Arwen, who was sitting on the couch with her knees slightly brought up to her chest.
Arwen's eyes widened and she looked down, feeling ashamed for some reason. Feeling and sensing the eyes on her, as everyone started to stare at her after Boris stopped talking. But she wondered if Kai was looking at her as well, slowly turned her head to the left, just to see in her side-vision...that he wasn't. He was just standing there like a statue without moving, his arms crossed across of his chest, head lowered down a bit, eyes closed. Arwen started feeling sad right away, forgetting about all of the promises she made herself, just feeling really lonely....
Tala, still shaded with a frown, stared at Arwen, clenched his teeth, and turned away from her, looking straight at Boris. He did know that Arwen was here to take the place of Bryan, but what makes Boris think, that she is just as strong as he was?
-"Wait," let out Tala, and sat down straight in the chair, waiting for Boris to change his place of staring at him now. "If she took Bryan's place...where is Bryan anyway?" he asked, his fists clenching.
Boris looked away from the miserable looking Arwen, and looked at Tala, really feeling like sending for the security to throw him out. Great, now I have another traitor on my hands. That's what happens when everyone hangs out with him, thought Boris, his eyes moved to look at silent Kai with hatred, and than back at Tala. "First, you have no right to ask me this. Second, it's none of your business. And third...forget about him," answered dryly Boris, looked away and gazed around the room at each one of the teenagers. "Now, everyone off to practice. You think you're here just to lie on my sofas? OUT!"
Spencer, without saying a word, rose up from the chair, and exited the room, not wanting to hear yet another harsh word from someone he was made to respect and worship. Kai didn't even move, and Arwen gasped slightly at the loud "OUT" right before her, jumping up from the coach, not wanting to make Boris even angrier than he already was. Tala bared his teeth, but knowing that there is nothing much he can do against the man who seemed to dislike this team much more after he had BEGA, he stood up from the arm chair, and rushed out of the room, slamming the door open on his way, actually wishing for it to break down under his slam.
-"And are you two waiting for a special invitation?" asked Boris, and clenched his fists, looking at Arwen and Kai with most...hatred. Maybe more to Kai, than Arwen, because it was his choice for her to join this team anyway.
Arwen bit her lip, rose up from the comfortable sofa she was sitting on, and without looking at Boris anymore, hurried up to leave the room, passing by Kai and not looking at him, though she did want to. He didn't even open his eyes as she walked by him, only did so, when he felt his hair on his forehead moving a little bit as she passed by him, and glared up at Boris calmly and at the same time, with hatred, reflected perfectly in his cold light purple eyes.
For a moment of time both of Boris's and Kai's eyes met, but than Kai looked away, finally leaned away from the wall, and left the guest-room, not really caring how Boris thought of him that moment.
Practice? Asked Arwen in her mind as she was walking the empty hallway from the room, looking around for the figures of Tala and Spencer. I'm not going. I will lose in the battle if my energy won't be renewed, she thought, and without looking back to see Kai walking somewhere behind her, she walked by the exit outside, and entered her room, closing the door.
Kai saw that, lowered his head down and soon caught up with arguing Tala and Spencer, who got stuck somewhere in one of the endless hallways of the Dom.
Tala was really furious and pissed off, almost screaming of saying that he has a good point of dropping out of this team and that Boris is not supposed to order them around like that. Spencer was just nodding his head slightly.
-"Where's that Arwen?" questioned loudly Tala, as he looked to the closuring Kai, not seeing Arwen anywhere with him, or behind him.
Kai could tell the truth, the truth that someone who became somewhat dear to him for some reason, was too tired, and left. But he did believe that Arwen had a right on that...and he respected it.
-"Stayed with Boris," answered Kai, and closed his eyes, feeling...the warmth inside of him growing.