Thank you Russell and Cold-Heritage for reviewing!!! I guess my threats paid off hehehe. Anyway another chapter coming at ya. Sorry that the update was late. Easter weekend was really busy and I didn't have any time...

Kaie is awesome in this one, although all the guys will sympathise with Drake, well all the ones who have ever been sacked.

or ## or depending...

If you are wondering what is up with the -----ect... it is where I pasted two chapters together and it is after that that Drake appears.

... Oh ya there is some interesting stuff in this chapter between Max and Kaie. Let me know if you like it or not.

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Smoke Angel

"Everyone got everything?" Judy asked. Five heads answered her. Judy led the All-Starz through a white hall to an office where an important looking lady was sitting. The lady stood upon their entrance.

"Hello Judy, All-Starz. You all will have the rooms in the west wing, you may choose any that you want. Kaie I would like to speak to you and Judy, but the others can go and settle themselves in."

After the other All-Starz had left the woman began.

"Kaie, we don't have any of your grades so we were hoping that you would write some tests for us so that we could place you in the appropriate grade."

Kaie shrugged. "Sure." The lady smiled and then motioned to the woman sitting behind the desk. After whispering in her ear she lad Kaie off to a little room.

"The test consists of six parts, reading comprehension, Math, Science, Social Studies, French, and writing. There is also a page at the end to inform us of any other languages that you speak." The lady went and sat at the other desk in the room

Kaie nodded and flipped over the test. At the bottom of the page it said "Page 1 of 30" Kaie groaned. She hoped that everything was the same here as it was on earth. She picked up the story and began to read "A girl looked out a window..."

Three Hours later.

"Done!" Kaie exclaimed. The lady looked up from reading and took the test, then motioned for her to follow.

In the office the paper was place into a scanner-like contraption and started humming. Then after a series of bleeps, grinding and clunking it spat out a piece of paper.

The lady picked it up, read it over and handed it to Kaie. She walked over to the desk and picked up the phone. Kaie shook the paper and read it over.

Name: Kaie Logan

Should be place in Grade Ten

Reading comprehension – 89

Math – 79

Science – 90

Social Studies – 69

French – 79

Writing – 89

Over all average – 82.5

Other languages: Russian, little Japanese

Kaie looked at the women, hoping to hear her assessment. She looked at Kaie and then said "How much Russian do you know? Are you fluent?" Kaie guardedly answered "I am fairly fluent, although I don't speak Russian too often."

At that moment a man with long black hair walked in. "You called?" The lady nodded and gestured at Kaie "She says she speaks Russian. You are needed to verify that." He nodded and the lady left the room.

He seamed to relax as she left the room. "Hello" he said in Russian "How are you?" Kaie shrugged, "Fine, although I would be better if I didn't have to take all those tests."

He smiled and then posed a harder question, "What do you want to be when you grow up? What characteristics do you have that would make you a good person for that career choice?"

Kaie thought for a moment then answered, "I don't know what I want to be. Most people would say that I was quiet and people who really don't know me would say shy, but I'm not really. I just don't like people. I like to think of myself as more of an observer, as a person who sees things that the average person doesn't."

He nodded and asked a final question, "Why are you attending this school?"

Kaie hesitated before answering, "I am a member of the All-Starz, and our whole team is attending this school, as boarders. It helps keep away the press. This school also has an excellent reputation and the teachers are more than willing to give us any extra help that we need before and after a tournament."

He nodded then spoke in English "You speak Russian quite well. In our standards you would probably be doing the grade 12 3rd Russian course. That is the highest Russian course that the school offers. You write essays and work on the finer details of the language. By the way, what is your fist language?"

Kaie was stumped by this question. She answered after a long pause, "I think it was English, although it could have easily been Russian." Then she felt as if part of her mind had thawed out after a long time and she continued, "You see my parents spoke both languages fluently and spoke both around us. My first word could have been either, but I can not ask them."

Wait how did she know that? Her father spoke more English and French, and no one had known why she could speak Russian. When she had been adopted she had spoken Russian, as that was where she had been adopted from

He nodded, then said "You can go to your room now. I believe that your team mates put you in 188West." And he was gone.

Kaie sighed and went to find her room.

The next morning she woke up and immediately wondered where she was. Then it hit her.

All-Starz

School

Bedroom

Right.

Kaie got dressed in a pair of pants and pulled on a blue shirt. She grabbed her necklace off the dresser and slid it over her head. Next she took her gloves and slid them into her back pockets. "I'm hopless." She muttered. Kaie then opened her door to three pieces of paper, which after further investigation, revealed that it was in fact two identical timetables and a map.

At that moment the door across from her opened up and there stood Max, wearing only a pair of boxers. His hair was ungelled and it fell all around his face, and with his pupils completely dilated he looked cute.

Wait, did she just think that?

No. Max was not cute!

He wasn't!

Kaie shut out the other voice in her head, trying to ignore his firm chest that he never revealed. Blading had made him really fit! She gritted her teeth and banished that voice out of her head.

"What's this?" he said in a sleepy voice.

Cute, the voice whispered unable to control itself

Arrrrrrrrrggggggggg she thought and banged her head against the wall and entered her room without saying a word to Max.

What did I do? He thought.

At breakfast they all compared timetables. It turned out that apart from Russian in Kaie's case and Japanese in Max's case, their timetables were identical. Joel, Michael, and Emily were all in grade 10, although Emily and Joel were both taking the advanced courses. Joel and Emily had ganged up on Michael and were making him feel stupid.

"Kaie" Max said "After third block do you want to meet outside the language office and go to Socials together?"

Kaie looked at her timetable and nodded. "Sure"

Period

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

1

English

Capp

English

Study

Writing

2

Math

French

Science Russian Capp

3

Russian

Drama

Math English Science

4

S.S

Writing

French

Math

French

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

5

Science

Study

S.S

Capp

S.S

6

Drama

Math Russian

Writing

Drama

The morning passed uneventfully, although she loved Russian. She was at the same level as the rest of them and everyone in that class loved the language. Throughout class many witty remarks were exchange and she found herself letting down her guard, so she was in a good mood when she met Max.

Her good mood, however, was about to be shattered.

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Max stood in front of the office and smiled when Kaie arrived.

"How was Russian?" Max asked

Kaie smiled, something Max rarely saw her do. "It was really fun." She replied. "How was Japanese?"

Max nodded and was about to launch into a response, when all of a sudden he found himself face to face with a rather large teen. He was at least 6' and very burly. Two 'sidekicks' appeared on either side of him.

He was known as Drake and was the son of a very rich multi-million dollar tycoon. He also was quite stupid.

"You must be new. You are standing in front of my locker. No one stands in front of my locker and gets away with it." Drake said with a sneer and then before Max had a chance to move he grabbed the front of his shirt.

"Don't move..."he growled. Max froze wondering how to get out of this. It was then that he noticed Kaie

"Oh, you have a pretty girly too. Nice..." and he reached up to place his hand under her chin. Kaie immediately slapped away the offending hand away.

"That's not nice, you know." Drake said in a mocking tone.

Then turning back to Max he said, "You've got yourself a feisty one. Now move." And before Max had time to move he was pushed hard into the lockers. Max fell to the floor, winded.

Kaie quickly knelt next to him "You all right?"

Max tried to speak but couldn't.

Drake watched this scene with amusement. Oh he would have fun with her.

"Girly how about you ditch that creep and you come with me. I will show you what a real man is like."

Kaie said nothing, not even acknowledging him as she attempted to get Max to speak.

Drake was getting irritated so he dropped down next to her and picked her up by the arm. "Come on." He said.

Kaie, who had been looking at Max the entire time, looked at Drake for a moment as though he was lower than dirt.

"Don't look at me like that." he snarled. He felt hurt for some reason. He liked this little girl, and she was rejecting him. No one rejected Drake Maxamillion Pensive Irvine.

He whispered to his cronies and they picked up the shallowly breathing Max. A crowd had now gathered around the group and there were many knowing glances exchanged.

Drake walked up to Max and slapped him across the face. Then he punched him in the stomach and pushed him once again into the locker.

Max slumped to the floor nursing a bleeding lip and nose. That was when Kaie snapped.

She had been holding her anger inside her because if she got expelled she would be kicked off the All-Starz. But after that cowardly attack she couldn't hold back. Kaie pulled her hand out of his grip, spun, and using to oldest trick in the books, she kicked him in the groin. Not very hard, but hard enough to get the message across. He grimaced and watched angrily as she went over to the blond, and helped him up.

Kaie was fuming and she also knew that she was going to be in big trouble. She helped Max through the crowd and went to the nearest water fountain, across from the girl's washroom. She grabbed some paper towels from the bathroom and handed them to him to stop his nose from bleeding.

"Tanks" he managed to say.

"Welcome. Here is another paper towel." She said quietly before looking away. "I couldn't stand them beating up on you. I had been trying to hold my anger, but when his two cronies held you while he hit you I ...I lost my temper." Kaie sighed and took away the bloody towel to the garbage.

Max was attempting to get his nose to stop bleeding and said nothing.

Max, now cleaned up and Kaie entered the Socials class later that everyone else, but were not made to get late slips. They slid into their seats and opened their books. Almost immediately a flood of notes came their way. Some congratulated them, some told them of what was to come and some couldn't believe they were so stupid, but none of them sympathised with Drake.

Twenty minutes into class there was a knock on the door and there was a whispered conversation between the S.S. teacher and the lady from the office. The teacher straightened, then said, "Kaie, would you please go to the office."

Kaie nodded and slid her chair out from under her desk. Max gently grabbed her arm before she left and he slid a piece of paper into her hand, his eyes glinting a sober silvery-blue.

Max said nothing, but silently wished her good luck.

She would need it.

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Here are some question, kind of things... when you review, and you will lol

I just need to know what you guys want, after all I write for the reviews.

Should Kaie and Max be paired together and to what degree

Should Kai tell Kaie 'the truth' before her first battle or before Kai's last battle

Should Kaie (at the end of my fic) stay with Kai, or go 'home' to where she was raised?

Thanx,

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Smoke Angel