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If there was one thing that could scare Kai, then it was needles. Memories flashed in his mind, memories that reminded him of his time at the abbey. The use of needles was popular as a form of punishment, and for experiments. Kai was very familiar with both forms of use. And those tubes he'd dreamt about, they had needles too, hundreds of them piercing his skin. All the needles brought were pain, in the form of shocks, chemicals and serums, and for control. He couldn't go through it again, not now he was free of the abbey!
Everyone turned to Kai as the heart monitors beeps increased greatly. He sat on the bed, his fists clenching the sheets. Sweat shone on his face and bare skin, his chest rose heavily with laboured breathing. His eyes held terror as they shone with unshed tears.
"Kai, what's wrong?" asked Samantha, heading towards him.
This caused Kai to panic; he edged away from her, a strangled cry stuck in his throat.
"It's just me, Samantha, remember?" she said, she was really concerned, none of her patients had acted this way before.
Kai looked around at everyone's faces, eyes staring at him. An image from deep in his mind distorted the image.
He cried out as he held his head in his hands, clutching at his temples. He closed his eyes shut till it was painful, but still the image wouldn't go away. Eyes stared at him, boring into his soul. Watching for reactions, waiting for his screams. He had to get away from them, he couldn't take any more.
"Kai.." came from someone, but Kai wasn't paying attention to the people in the room anymore, he had to get out.
He ripped at the tubes attached to his body, pulling at the suckers stuck to his skin; they fell away at his desperate clawing. He was beyond feeling any pain. He moved on to the I.V tube on his left hand, ripping it out of his skin. He yanked at the tube in his nose, the tape holding it coming away easily. He was free from the machines and wires now and took the sudden opportunity to leap from the bed and to push past everyone in the room.
"Kai, come back!" yelled another voice. Kai ignored it and ran through the door, blood flowing from his nose and hand where he had roughly removed the tubes. The guard went to reach out to him, to stop him. Kai's palm heel met with the mans nose, crushing the cartilage beneath the flesh. The guard fell back with a cry.
Kai was running on instinct and adrenaline now. He ran through corridors, startling staff and patients alike. No one else tried to stop him, they just watched as the bandaged and bloody boy rushed past them.
They didn't try to stop the other teens following him either. He was so close to the door. He leaped over a bench at just the wrong time as someone came through the door. It was Tyson's dad.
"Dad! Stop him!" yelled Tyson.
His dad reacted instantly and leaped at Kai, just as Kai jumped over the bench. They collided and landed in a heap on the floor, skidding on the just recently washed tiles. Blood streaked in a trail behind them.
Kai fought with everything he had, and he had a lot. Tyson's dad was having a hard time trying to hold the smaller teen still. Kai struggled like he was being chased by hell. It was almost true; Kai's past had been hell. He fought the bigger man like a wild cat, striking out with his legs as Tyson's dad got hold of his arms. He fell back with a grunt as Kai's feet connected hard with his stomach.
Kai scramble up again, only to be brought back down by his friends. They would've been easy to get rid of if Tyson's dad hadn't recovered so fast and joined in. He pinned down Kai's legs as Tyson and Ray held down Kai's arms. Max held Kai's face against the cool tiles, and even Kenny and Hilary helped by sitting on his back, one on each side, below his ribs.
Kai struggled with renewed strength when he saw Samantha approach with a syringe in hand, Mr. Dickenson hurrying behind her.
"Hold him still, it's a sedative!" she told everyone that had attached themselves to the panicking bluenette.
The look in Kai's eyes as he watched her kneel down almost made her stop. But she decided to carry on when she saw the damage he was doing to himself in the process of struggling. He was mumbling something as she loaded the syringe with liquid from a small bottle from her pocket. Tears slid down his face as the needle pierced his skin.
It was like he had given up on escaping from them. He laid there, his eyes glazed over, like he was waiting for the effects of the injection to take place.
Everyone holding him seemed to feel the sudden change in Kai as he tensed instead of fought. They got off of him, ready in case he flew of again. But he just lay there. The sedative wasn't working fast enough, not like it should do. Samantha made the decision to give him some more. He closed his eyes as she injected him the second time. The hands on the clock in the waiting room slowly journeyed round their circle as everyone waited for the sedatives effects to take place.
Finally, after what seemed like a long wait, Kai visibly relaxed. Everyone sighed in relief. Tyson's dad leant down and straightened, Kai held in his arms. He nodded at Samantha and followed her as she walked down the corridor to Kai's room. The rest of the group followed behind. It was a sombre procession as they marched past shocked and startled faces. An old janitor started to clean up the blood, just turning the incident to one of the 'i've seen it all' moments he had seen so many of since working at the hospital for most his life.
Mr. Granger gently laid Kai onto the bed.
"Good thing I turned up when I did, he was almost out that door! What happened?" he asked.
Samantha answered as she started working on Kai's bandages, starting at Kai's head, "he seems to have a very severe fear of needles, but i've never seen anyone react so violently before. What on Earth could make someone so scared of something that they will ignore painful wounds and still be able to take down stronger people!"
"There's a lot we don't know about Kai's past ourselves Samantha, but we do know he was raised in Balkov abbey in Russia. A lot of people heard about it on the news, how it was shut down after the beyblade tournament was over. Kai was subjected to some very painful and severe training, we've barely scratched the surface of Kai's past there i'm afraid." Answered Mr. Dickenson, his speech was met with nods from the others in the room.
"I can't believe he was still going after the amount of sedative I gave him. I had to give him double and he still isn't out." This was true as Kai was still muttering to himself, tossing and turning as the redheaded nurse tried to sort his bandages out.
"And his eyes! He had given up. It was like he had tried and failed to escape his fear, so he just let it happen. Other people I have dealt with phobias either get hysterical at that point or pass out on me, but he just accepted it. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget the way those eyes just gave up, it was like something had died in him." she paused in doing the bandages as she remembered what had happened.
Ray stepped forward to help her as Kai twisted harshly in his tortured mind. No one could understand what he was saying.
"He's speaking in Russian!" exclaimed Kenny suddenly.
"Russian?" asked Tyson.
"Yes Russian! He lived there remember! He may have even been born there, none of us know." Answered Kenny as Tyson bushed at the question he hadn't meant to speak out loud.
"Oh, yeah. That's why I came in today" said Tyson's father, turning to Mr. Dickenson, "i've done the research on Kai, and he has no birth certificate or medical files, and there's no information on his parents either. There was at some point but none of the files can be found and some are blatantly deleted. I couldn't find anything."
"Thank you, I was afraid of such a thing to have happened, and it makes the hospitals job harder as there's no knows information to go on." Replied Mr. Dickenson.
"Is this the work of Voltaire and Boris?" asked Max.
"We have to assume so; it's very likely this is their work. Only Kai will be able to tell us, and we can't ask him until he's ready to answer the questions we throw at him." answered Mr. Dickenson, fingering the end of his moustache.
They looked at Kai; he seemed to have calmed down. He had finally stopped fighting the sedative and was breathing easier. Samantha worked and replacing bandages and tubes, Ray helping as she needed it.
"I never knew Kai had this sort of thing in him, how could he have done what he just did in his condition?" mused Hilary aloud.
"None of us did, I wonder if Kai knew he could do that!" added Tyson.
They all stared at the now deep sleeping Kai, each with their own thoughts, but they all agreed only Kai could tell them what happened.
"Bad news again i'm afraid" said Mr. Granger, "Kai was the only person they found at the warehouse, everyone else had gotten away, even those two people you saw with Kai had gone. The place you were held in was also equally empty. We have nothing to go on."
Kai was now the only one who could bring down Biovolt once and for all, and they would back him the whole way.
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If there was one thing that could scare Kai, then it was needles. Memories flashed in his mind, memories that reminded him of his time at the abbey. The use of needles was popular as a form of punishment, and for experiments. Kai was very familiar with both forms of use. And those tubes he'd dreamt about, they had needles too, hundreds of them piercing his skin. All the needles brought were pain, in the form of shocks, chemicals and serums, and for control. He couldn't go through it again, not now he was free of the abbey!
Everyone turned to Kai as the heart monitors beeps increased greatly. He sat on the bed, his fists clenching the sheets. Sweat shone on his face and bare skin, his chest rose heavily with laboured breathing. His eyes held terror as they shone with unshed tears.
"Kai, what's wrong?" asked Samantha, heading towards him.
This caused Kai to panic; he edged away from her, a strangled cry stuck in his throat.
"It's just me, Samantha, remember?" she said, she was really concerned, none of her patients had acted this way before.
Kai looked around at everyone's faces, eyes staring at him. An image from deep in his mind distorted the image.
He cried out as he held his head in his hands, clutching at his temples. He closed his eyes shut till it was painful, but still the image wouldn't go away. Eyes stared at him, boring into his soul. Watching for reactions, waiting for his screams. He had to get away from them, he couldn't take any more.
"Kai.." came from someone, but Kai wasn't paying attention to the people in the room anymore, he had to get out.
He ripped at the tubes attached to his body, pulling at the suckers stuck to his skin; they fell away at his desperate clawing. He was beyond feeling any pain. He moved on to the I.V tube on his left hand, ripping it out of his skin. He yanked at the tube in his nose, the tape holding it coming away easily. He was free from the machines and wires now and took the sudden opportunity to leap from the bed and to push past everyone in the room.
"Kai, come back!" yelled another voice. Kai ignored it and ran through the door, blood flowing from his nose and hand where he had roughly removed the tubes. The guard went to reach out to him, to stop him. Kai's palm heel met with the mans nose, crushing the cartilage beneath the flesh. The guard fell back with a cry.
Kai was running on instinct and adrenaline now. He ran through corridors, startling staff and patients alike. No one else tried to stop him, they just watched as the bandaged and bloody boy rushed past them.
They didn't try to stop the other teens following him either. He was so close to the door. He leaped over a bench at just the wrong time as someone came through the door. It was Tyson's dad.
"Dad! Stop him!" yelled Tyson.
His dad reacted instantly and leaped at Kai, just as Kai jumped over the bench. They collided and landed in a heap on the floor, skidding on the just recently washed tiles. Blood streaked in a trail behind them.
Kai fought with everything he had, and he had a lot. Tyson's dad was having a hard time trying to hold the smaller teen still. Kai struggled like he was being chased by hell. It was almost true; Kai's past had been hell. He fought the bigger man like a wild cat, striking out with his legs as Tyson's dad got hold of his arms. He fell back with a grunt as Kai's feet connected hard with his stomach.
Kai scramble up again, only to be brought back down by his friends. They would've been easy to get rid of if Tyson's dad hadn't recovered so fast and joined in. He pinned down Kai's legs as Tyson and Ray held down Kai's arms. Max held Kai's face against the cool tiles, and even Kenny and Hilary helped by sitting on his back, one on each side, below his ribs.
Kai struggled with renewed strength when he saw Samantha approach with a syringe in hand, Mr. Dickenson hurrying behind her.
"Hold him still, it's a sedative!" she told everyone that had attached themselves to the panicking bluenette.
The look in Kai's eyes as he watched her kneel down almost made her stop. But she decided to carry on when she saw the damage he was doing to himself in the process of struggling. He was mumbling something as she loaded the syringe with liquid from a small bottle from her pocket. Tears slid down his face as the needle pierced his skin.
It was like he had given up on escaping from them. He laid there, his eyes glazed over, like he was waiting for the effects of the injection to take place.
Everyone holding him seemed to feel the sudden change in Kai as he tensed instead of fought. They got off of him, ready in case he flew of again. But he just lay there. The sedative wasn't working fast enough, not like it should do. Samantha made the decision to give him some more. He closed his eyes as she injected him the second time. The hands on the clock in the waiting room slowly journeyed round their circle as everyone waited for the sedatives effects to take place.
Finally, after what seemed like a long wait, Kai visibly relaxed. Everyone sighed in relief. Tyson's dad leant down and straightened, Kai held in his arms. He nodded at Samantha and followed her as she walked down the corridor to Kai's room. The rest of the group followed behind. It was a sombre procession as they marched past shocked and startled faces. An old janitor started to clean up the blood, just turning the incident to one of the 'i've seen it all' moments he had seen so many of since working at the hospital for most his life.
Mr. Granger gently laid Kai onto the bed.
"Good thing I turned up when I did, he was almost out that door! What happened?" he asked.
Samantha answered as she started working on Kai's bandages, starting at Kai's head, "he seems to have a very severe fear of needles, but i've never seen anyone react so violently before. What on Earth could make someone so scared of something that they will ignore painful wounds and still be able to take down stronger people!"
"There's a lot we don't know about Kai's past ourselves Samantha, but we do know he was raised in Balkov abbey in Russia. A lot of people heard about it on the news, how it was shut down after the beyblade tournament was over. Kai was subjected to some very painful and severe training, we've barely scratched the surface of Kai's past there i'm afraid." Answered Mr. Dickenson, his speech was met with nods from the others in the room.
"I can't believe he was still going after the amount of sedative I gave him. I had to give him double and he still isn't out." This was true as Kai was still muttering to himself, tossing and turning as the redheaded nurse tried to sort his bandages out.
"And his eyes! He had given up. It was like he had tried and failed to escape his fear, so he just let it happen. Other people I have dealt with phobias either get hysterical at that point or pass out on me, but he just accepted it. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget the way those eyes just gave up, it was like something had died in him." she paused in doing the bandages as she remembered what had happened.
Ray stepped forward to help her as Kai twisted harshly in his tortured mind. No one could understand what he was saying.
"He's speaking in Russian!" exclaimed Kenny suddenly.
"Russian?" asked Tyson.
"Yes Russian! He lived there remember! He may have even been born there, none of us know." Answered Kenny as Tyson bushed at the question he hadn't meant to speak out loud.
"Oh, yeah. That's why I came in today" said Tyson's father, turning to Mr. Dickenson, "i've done the research on Kai, and he has no birth certificate or medical files, and there's no information on his parents either. There was at some point but none of the files can be found and some are blatantly deleted. I couldn't find anything."
"Thank you, I was afraid of such a thing to have happened, and it makes the hospitals job harder as there's no knows information to go on." Replied Mr. Dickenson.
"Is this the work of Voltaire and Boris?" asked Max.
"We have to assume so; it's very likely this is their work. Only Kai will be able to tell us, and we can't ask him until he's ready to answer the questions we throw at him." answered Mr. Dickenson, fingering the end of his moustache.
They looked at Kai; he seemed to have calmed down. He had finally stopped fighting the sedative and was breathing easier. Samantha worked and replacing bandages and tubes, Ray helping as she needed it.
"I never knew Kai had this sort of thing in him, how could he have done what he just did in his condition?" mused Hilary aloud.
"None of us did, I wonder if Kai knew he could do that!" added Tyson.
They all stared at the now deep sleeping Kai, each with their own thoughts, but they all agreed only Kai could tell them what happened.
"Bad news again i'm afraid" said Mr. Granger, "Kai was the only person they found at the warehouse, everyone else had gotten away, even those two people you saw with Kai had gone. The place you were held in was also equally empty. We have nothing to go on."
Kai was now the only one who could bring down Biovolt once and for all, and they would back him the whole way.