Hey everybody!
Sorry for the wait...but I recently got my hands on a Nintendo DS and haven't stopped playing with it since! But today I figured I'd better give it a rest and start writing again.
Thanks for all the great reviews!
I'm truely surprised at how many people enjoy this story, even though it lacks originality and...a good author. LOL
Hopefully you all will continue to enjoy this story....well for this chapter and the next at least.
Well...here's the next chapter!
Enjoy if you can!
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It had cost Kai almost all his energy to break one of his arms free and get his friends out of his sight.
He took a moment and rested, closing his crimson eyes.
Slowly, he unclipped the belt across his chest, immediately taking a deep breath of fresh air.
The restraint had put a lot of pressure on his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.
He laid there on his bed, not moving a muscle, but letting his free arm drop over the side. Listening to the soft beaping of the various machines around his head, he slowly began to drift into a deep sleep, but was interupted as a familiar voice penetrated his thoughts once again.
It was a menacing chuckle from a dark corner of the room.
"The great Hiwatari...in a hospital?!"
Kai's crimson eyes shot open in surprise as he recognized the voice.
He sat up instantly, pain running throughout his sore body at the sudden movement.
A dark outline appeared and walked closer to the foot of his bed, a metalic object gleaming in the dim lighting of the examining room.
"You again!" Kai growled, narrowing his eyes at the intruder.
"I told you I'd be back young Kai....and I intend to finish my job....tonight!"
"Boris!" The blue haired teen breathed as his enemy raised his right arm, revealing a polished knife.
Boris brought the knife down at Kai's torso, but the teen managed to roll off the side of the bed just in time.
Kai tried to run away, but noticed that his other arm was still bound to the bed!
Cursing, he tried to unlatch it, but Boris already brought his knife out of the matress and across the top, heading for Kai's hands.
In an instant, the blue haired teen fell on his knees and skidded slightly on the cold tiled floor.
He looked at his hand, seeing the thick leather band still around his wrist, then up in surprise, seeing that Boris had missed again and cut the leather restraint clean off the bed.
Not wanting to push his luck any further, Kai kicked the center leg of the bed, sending it over toward Boris.
The older Russian was forced back into the bluish privacy curtains that hung from the ceiling.
Kai got to his feet, glancing in every direction for his opponent, who seemingly vanished again.
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"What was that?" Hilary asked suddenly, hearing a crash from inside Kai's room.
"He's probably throwing more things around...." Tyson sighed. "He's such a baby!"
"Do you think something's wrong?" The brunette headed back toward the door.
"He just needs to calm down a bit. I'll check on him later." The doctor said, placing a hand on her shoulder.
Suddenly, there was another crash from inside the room, but this time it sounded like glass shattering!
"Kai!" The teens pivoted on their heels and burst through the door.
"Oh my God...."
The room was in complete disorder.
The curtains had been torn from their tracking, and ripped in various places, Kai's bed laid on it's side, along with the machines he had been hooked up to. But the most frightening thing was that the blue haired teen was nowhere to be seen!
It was like any trace of him vanished, except for some blood splatter on the window, and bloody shards of glass that laid below the window sill.
Hilary, Rei, Max and Tyson rushed to the window, looking out into the dimming night.
"Did he....."
"Look!" Hilary pointed to a large oak tree, it's bare branches reaching over toward them in a welcoming manner.
The coarse bark had been darkened by what looked to be blood.
The brunette studied the position of the tree, and came to the conclusion that Kai must have broken out of the window, and climbed down the tree like a fire escape ladder.
"There he is! KAI!!!!" Tyson yelled, seeing his captain across the street.
Kai paused, and turned around to face the broken window, a sheer look of horror on his face.
He could hear his friends' faint cries for him to return, but he shook his head fiercely and retreated back a few paces.
Suddenly, he's attention was drawn in a different direction.
Gasping slightly, Kai spun on his heel and fled as fast as he possibly could.
"Come on!" Tyson exclaimed, leaving the window and rushing back down the hallway.
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The heavy drops of rain beat down relentlessly on Kai's pale skin as he ran through the streets, water splashing up on his sore legs.
Kai could feel the strength leave him as he ran, but continued despite all the pain.
"Why are you running Hiwatari? Isn't death something you've longed for?" A voice penetrated his concentration.
The blue haired teen slipped on a puddle of water, and came crashing down against the hard concrete.
With a moan, he picked him self and turned over on his back, the cold water soothing to his exposed skin.
A dark shadow appeared in front of him, standing omniously above him.
Kai gritted his teeth, seeing his enemy had caught up with him.
With a sadistic laugh, Boris picked up the teen and threw him against the wall.
Kai cried out in pain as his already wounded back contacted with the rough brick of the building and slid down to the sidewalk, creating fresh scratches in his tender skin.
"Death is fast approaching you young Kai." Boris loomed over the injured teen, his glowing red lenses reflecting down on him.
"Bring it on."
With a loud growl, Boris slammed his foot against Kai's side, sending the teen down to the ground.
Taking a few steps over to the teen's weak body, he dug his boot into Kai's torso, grinding his heel down as hard as he could.
Kai cried out in a newfound pain as his already injured ribs cracked under more pressure.
He had no hope in fighting back. Even if he wanted to, his body was too exhausted to try. All Kai could do was just lay there and take the beating, hoping that he could find peace in death.
"This can't be happening.....am I....really dying?" Kai asked himself as the pain throughout his body increased tremendously.
"So you are still insisting to live are you?" Boris chuckled, digging his heel further into the teen's bandaged chest.
"Ahhh!" Kai cried out, pain sweeping his body and his vision darkening.
"Even in death you will never escape me. Where there is darkness, there I will be. Wherever you hide, I will find you. I'm forever connected in your mind. You cannot escape me!"
"My...mind?!" Kai's eyes widened at the words, immediately recalling something Hilary had told him earlier.
"Kai! Boris is gone! What you think is him is not real! He's a shadow of your nightmares!"
"Heh....they were right..." A smirk grew on Kai's face.
"Who young Kai?" Boris asked, applying more pressure.
"My....friends.....they were right..." Crimson eyes glared up at the evil Russian, burning intently with a fire once thought to have died.
Boris took a step back off the teen's chest.
"You aren't real....just a figment of my imagination....a shadow from an old nightmare....you aren't real!" Kai exclaimed, clenching his eyes shut.
With an omnious growl, Boris lundged out at the teen, his arms extended with the intent to kill.
Kai's crimson eyes shot open, burning brightly and grabbed his attacker's fists, stopping the attack.
"What?!" Boris exclaimed, his eyes going wide in surprise.
"No more Boris! I won't let you torment me any longer!" The injured teen got to his feet, squeezing harder on his enemy's fists and twisting them slightly.
"Impossible!"
"This ends today!" With that, Kai brought back his right arm, and sent a powerful punch right at Boris's face.
With a loud cry of pain, the older Russian fell back on the pavement, his nose and mouth bleeding severly.
"You....you shouldn't have been able to hit me!"
Kai stood over his fallen enemy, breathing heavily with his fists clenched by his side.
He shook his head slightly, droplets of sweat and mist from the morning dew sparkling in the rising sun.
"N...n...no!" Boris exclaimed, looking at his arm as it slowly began to fade.
"You aren't real! I won't allow a hallucination to plague my mind any longer!"
He glared at the man before him, his figure slowly fading into the background.
"No! This is impossible! Hiwatari! I will......" Boris's voice faded, and his body disappeared, leaving no trace of the evil nightmare.
Kai sighed, leaning up against the brick wall next to him. He felt like a tremendous weight had been lifted off his shoulders.
Looking up at the brightening sky, he chuckled softly, knowing the tormenting presence of his former trainer had finally been destroyed.
He drew a weazy breath, his eyelids drooping slightly.
His body had been exhausted twice over, and for once in a long time he felt like he could finally give into the craving of sleep he'd so long desired.
Kai heard faint cries, coming closer with every second.
He looked up, seeing the blurry images of the BladeBreakers rushing to him.
"Heh..."
With that, the teen gave in, and let his exhausted body fall.
"Kai!"
Rei rushed ahead of the group, slipping slightly on the wet concrete as he came to his captain's falling form, but managed to catch him.
"Kai?! Kai?!" The rest of the team formed around the injured teen, all overcome with worry and relief that he was still alive.
"Kai?" Rei shook his captain gently, earning a soft moan.
The blue haired teen opened his fiery eyes, gazing at the worried faces surrounding him. "You were right." He turned to Hilary. "You....were right. He only exsisted in the darkness of my mind....only in the dark...." With a gentle sigh, Kai drifted off into a deep sleep, a slight smirk on his face.
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That was kind of long....oh well...hopefully it was decent.
I hope it didn't go by too fast...I was trying hard not to rush it.
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