Disclaimer: Padfootlet: Can I have Tala?
Lawyer: no
Padfootlet: how bout Rei?
Lawyer: no
Padfootlet: Kai?
Lawyer: NO!
Padfootlet: (sigh) fine…as you can see…I don't own anything…
(2 days till the match)
"I still can't believe you didn't tell me you were coming!" Rei said through the speakerphone, grinning.
"Well, I wanted it to be a surprise. I wasn't going to tell you until I was actually there. But Kai had to go and open his big mouth." Came his sisters' reply from the other end of the line.
"I heard that."
Rei could practically see his sister roll her eyes at Kai's remark, but resisted his urge to laugh.
"So, any word on Korimi?" Catty's voice said, suddenly serious.
The neko-jin sighed sadly and sunk down onto the couch. "No, but we have a feeling she might be blading." He said.
"Hm. Not surprising."
"So how's England?" Rei asked, wanting to keep the conversation away from Korimi.
Catty sighed, but caught on that her brother didn't want to talk about it. "Wet. But other than that it's ok, look I have to go, my match starts in 10 minutes."
"Ok, c-ya tomorrow, and good luck with your match."
"Listen, don't get too worked up about the match ok? Bye Rei. Love you Kai."
"You too kitten." Kai smirked.
The line went dead, and Kai looked at the raven-haired teen, from where he leaned against the wall. "You should listen to your sister." He pushed himself off the wall and headed towards the door. "She's smarter than she looks." With that, he left the neko-jin to his thoughts, and went to train for the match.
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The Demolition Boys and Korimi were in the training room; Tala, Spencer and Ian watched Bryan and Korimi battle, to decide who would be battling against the Bladebreakers.
"Go Falborg!"
"Keizer Attack!"
A falcon and a wolf emerge from the 2 blades, which clashed together, causing the dish to crumble under the beasts' power. Korimi concentrated on the battle and nothing else around her. She began to feed her energy to Keizer, causing her bitbeast to slam into Falborg, causing Bryan's blade to be slammed back to the edge of the dish and Bryan to stumble back a few steps.
"What's she doing?" Ian said, as Bryan and Falborg continued to get torn apart by
Keizer.
"Something's not right." Tala answered, concentrating on the match.
"She's tearing him apart."
"I know…." The redhead growled. "Boris got to her…I didn't think it was possible but he's turned her into one of us…no emotion…no…nothing."
Ian looked back at Korimi, and noticed her eyes seemed glazed over, like she had no control over her power. He looked at Keizer as well and noticed something similar. 'Well, the power isn't coming from Keizer, but that means…' He looked back at Korimi. 'SHE'S holding all of that power. But…that's impossible! How could ONE person hold so much power?!' Tala was having similar thoughts. Both bladers were snapped out of his thoughts by Korimi's voice.
"Keizer Flame storm attack!"
Fire spread from her blade and began raining down onto the dish, hitting Bryan's continuously causing Falborg to be thrown off balance and eventually stop spinning; the blade was steaming from the heat and Bryan to fall to his knees in exhaustion.
Keizer returned to Korimi's hand before the girl passed out.
Boris stood in the overlook box in the top most corner of the training room, smirking. 'Excellent. Once I upgrade her blade she will be unstoppable!' He chuckled evilly at this thought, pressing the intercom button. "Tala, kindly take your sister back to your room and wait until she recovers, I will send dinner for you. Spencer, Ian take Bryan to his room as well, I will also be sending dinner to his room."
Tala cursed, as he walked swiftly over to his sister, picking her up, he carried her back to their room and laid her in their bed. The redhead turned to go into the bathroom to get a wet cloth, when he heard a weak voice.
"Tala?"
He turned around and saw Korimi sitting up, looking at him.
"Yea Korimi."
"What happened? I remember Keizer and Falborg coming out of their blades and…well…now I'm here…who won the match?"
Tala looked at the girl strangely. "You don't remember anything from the match?"
Korimi shook her head. "I saw Keizer, and I guess I blacked out. It's only happened once, when I first used Keizer in a match against Catty…who won?"
Tala shook his head, not bothering to ask who Catty was, and trying to sort out his sister. 'This just keeps getting weirder. It seems the more I know about her the more confused I get. She can burn people. And now she has this enormous power, that she obviously can't control.'
"Tala." Korimi said a bit annoyed that he wasn't answering her question.
"Hn."
"Who won?"
"You did. Before you passed out."
The girl looked out the window. "So, how's Bryan?"
The redhead looked at her, surprised at her question. " He'll live. You really beat the crap out of him though. And he's ego probably went down a few notches."
The brunette smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that."
Tala chuckled, "It's ok with me. I wasn't the one beat by my captains' little sister."
Korimi laughed, both feeling better than they had since their stays in the Abbey. Though in the back of his mind, Tala still worried.
The door to the room opened, and Boris stepped in, grinning when he saw Korimi was wide-awake. "Ah…it's good to see you awake Korimi." He said in a falsely sweet voice.
The girl glared at him, but said nothing.
"I would like to congratulate you on your win today…splendid performance."
Again, Korimi simply glared at him. "May I ask why you're here? I know you didn't come her only to tell me that." She bit back at him.
The man smirked at her, and motioned for her to follow him. "I have something to discuss with you in my office."
Korimi snorted at this, knowing full well that for one, he was going to do anything BUT talk, and two, she had a feeling that he would be taking her to his bedroom and not his office. She only knew this because it had been happening ever since that night when he finally broke through her defenses, and that had been a week ago, and each time never got easier for her.
"Do I sense a hit of insubordination?" H sneered.
"Boris, she's been through enough today can't-"
"This is none of your concern Tala!" Boris snapped, grabbing Korimi roughly by her upper arm.
"Damn it get off! I'm sick of this!" Korimi growled, trying to pull away from the Abbey director, but only succeeded in getting a fist dug into her stomach, knocking the wind out of her.
"Don't you DARE disobey me again Ivanouv." Boris growled into her ear, as Tala stood helplessly, as Boris led his sister out of the room; it made him sick that he could do nothing to help her.
(Day before the match)
The Bladebreakers were once again, running late, because of Tyson's stomach, if you could call it that. They had to pick up Catty from the airport at 11 and it was almost 12. The team finally made it, and found a girl with cat-like ears and a tiger striped tail. Her hair was bound back like Rei's being his twin sister, only 5 minutes younger than him. She wore black cargos with chains scattered all over them, and a dark blue coat that went to her ankles over her blood red turtleneck.
"It's about time. I thought you guys forgot about me." She said jokingly.
"We're late because of Tyson's bottomless pit HE likes to call a stomach." Kai said bitterly, making the tiger demon laugh.
"I should have guessed."
"So, how was England?" Rei asked, as he and Kai helped Catty with her bags, and headed out to the limo.
"Yeah, how was the food? Was it all fancy and stuff?" Tyson asked eagerly.
Catty rolled her eyes. "England was wet. I swear in the month I was there I may have seen the sun about 5 times."
"How was the food?" The navy haired teen asked again.
Again, Catty just ignored his question, as she and the team got in the limo. "So, who's battling tomorrow?"
Rei sighed. "Tyson, me, and Kai."
"Oh, well you guys should do fine."
"How was the food?!" Tyson asked again, annoyed that Catty kept ignoring him.
"Tyson, if you don't SHUT UP I swear I'll beat you so hard your clothes will hurt!" The tiger demon growled, glaring at the younger teen, successfully causing him to back off.
"You've been spending too much time with Kai: Rei said, amused.
Catty just smiled, looking out the window. "Hey, today I was thinking about going to the park. You know, walk around and get some fresh air, maybe even check out some bladers. You guys wanna come? I mean it'll give you some time to relax before tomorrows match."
The whole team looked at Kai, who had his eyes closed with his arms folded over his chest. He opened his eyes, and looked over to Catty, who was giving him her famous kitty eyes.
"I really wish you wouldn't do that." He muttered, before sighing. "Fine."
"Yes." Everyone chorused.
Catty smiled at Kai, and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thanks Kai-kun." She whispered in his ear.
He responded with his usual "Hn." Before kissing her back (AFTER making sure Tyson and Max were occupied with something else of course.). He pressed his finger on the intercom button, and told the driver to take them to the park instead of going back to the hotel.
Since it was the day of before the match, Boris only had Korimi and the Demolition Boys train until 12, and then they were to relax, but not leave they Abbey. Of course, Tala and Korimi didn't follow orders, and snuck out of the Abbey to go to the park. Since Tala had never REALLY been out on his own, Korimi was determined to get him to spend the day in Moscow, especially since, tomorrow, there was no guarantee that they were going to be alive by the end of the day if they lost to the Bladebreakers. So, currently, the two siblings were walking in the park in a comfortable silence.
"Shit." Korimi cursed, stopping dead in her tracks.
Tala looked to where his sister was looking, and saw the Bladebreakers walking towards them. "Bladebreakers." He said shortly.
"C'mon." Korimi grabbed his wrist, and began to walk quickly the opposite direction. Before she could get away, Tyson spotted them.
"Korimi! Hey Korimi!" He bounded over to her, with a big smile on his face, with the others close behind.
"What do you want Tyson?" Korimi said coldly, causing the boy to shiver.
"Uh…well…just wondering what you're doing here I guess. We were worried sick. Especially Rei…why don't you come back with us?"
Korimi narrowed her eyes. "No thanks. I'm fine without having to watch you stuff your face every chance you get." She turned to leave, when Tyson called her again.
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going?"
"Back to the Abbey. Where do you think? We need to get back before Boris finds out we're gone." She turned and began to walk away, leaving her friends behind.
"Korimi." Rei whispered, as he watched his koi walk away. He was hurt. She hadn't even glanced at him, the whole time she was talking with Tyson, not to mention, she had changed, he eyes held nothing of the Korimi they used to know.
Before Korimi left however, she looked over her shoulder. "A word of advice, be on your guard tomorrow." 'Because Boris is planning something…and it's nothing good.' She added silently, before leaving and retuning to the Abbey.
"Be on OUR guards!" Tyson said, incredulously, when they were back at the hotel, and were sitting in the living room of the suite. "HA! As if! She should be taking her own advice, because tomorrow, they're going down!"
"Quiet Tyson." Kai said. "I don't think she was talking about the match."
"Yeah, knowing her, AND knowing Boris, she was warning us to be on our guard incase something happens, which something undoubtedly will." Catty said.
Everyone looked at the couple.
"You guys think too much you know? And you are standing up for a person that betrayed us for them!" Tyson said angrily
At this, Rei stood up abruptly, startling everyone in the room, including Kai. Before anyone could say a word, Rei walked out, and closed the door to his room, locking it.
"What did I say?" The navy haired teen asked stupidly.
"You idiot! You upset him!" Catty growled, glaring daggers at the younger teen.
"…"
"God Tyson..even YOU can't be THAT dense!"
"…"
"Listen, Korimi's not gone…she's still her even if Boris made her SEEM like she changed. We'll get her back, and we'll get the Demolition Boys out of the Abbey with her. Because I have a feeling that was the only thing keeping her from leaving with us today." The tiger said.
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R/R!! I FINALLY updated!! KUDOS FOR ME!! WHEE!