Hello, all my fine reviewers. This is going to be my last upload till... September? I will try to get one in faster, but I am going to Scotland, and then to the States, so I have no time till school starts again. Sigh
So onto my reviewers that had reviewed as of Thursday,
StarAngel Caelum SunSoar – Hey. I am very glad that Kaie isn't Mary-sueing on me. It takes a weight off of me sweat drop. Keep uploading!
Ramen II – As always, the faithfull ex-russle. Boris – there has to be at least one recognisable bad guy, and besides he is cool – and comes into the plot this chapter. Rage knows too much? About that...um...trying not to give away plot Man you ask good questions --'.Glad to know that you like Max again, and Kaie won't let her guard down the same way that Kai and Tala won't. they can't afford to.
Um...I really hope that you aren't holding out too much hope that Kaie is battling soon. She isn't up till day 8 and today is day 6. Sorry..., but this chapter is really good, and really long.
AngelDranger – Great to have you back again reviewing!!! Take your time, there is no big rush to read my other fic. I won't be updating it for a while I don't think.
Day 6
Kaie swore in Russian as the alarm went off that morning in Max's room. Sometimes she hated being able to feel Max's reactions, as it was Max's loathing toward the clock that had woken her up.
With a sigh Kaie slid out of bed and got dressed blindly. She pulled on her glowing necklace hoping for some enlightenment, as she looked for her rip chord.
She couldn't figure out why her socks were so bad tempered until she realised that she was attempting to put the All-Starz geeky hat on her foot. Kaie sighed.
Kaie met Max waiting for the elevator. Neither of them said anything as they made there way downstairs to the cafeteria. Judy had told them last night that she had to go 'elsewhere' today to train and that it was up to them, as she felt that they were mature enough, to handle the training preparation.
"So..." said Max "Where are you going to train today?"
Kaie though for a minute then said, "The park maybe, or at the stadium, but I was thinking more of the gravel pit or at the beach."
Max nodded. "Mind if I tag along?"
Kaie shook her head.
Before Kaie knew it she and Max were practising their moves at the beach. They would launch their blades into the sand and then execute their attacks and see how long they would last, each time building up their endurance. Kaie managed to add an extra twenty minutes to her spin, while Max added twenty-two.
Both of them wanted to blade each other, but they had no idea if the tournament's Sending-People-Off-To-The-Other-World would affect them, and they both had a feeling that it would be a really bad idea to try and find out.
Max also noticed that her bit beast never came out of its chip, even though she was commanding her bit beast, Dranzer, to attack. He asked her about that, but she just changed the subject.
The sun rose into the west sky, and then just as it was setting the two walked back to their hotel. They arrived, weary but happy knowing that there was a chance for them to help their friends, they now had the skills they needed in pristine condition. Or so they hoped.
After a quiet dinner Kaie and Max were on their way to their rooms when they found an ashen-faced Kai sitting at the top of the steps, his black shirt torn, his scarf in shreds.
"Kai!" yelled Max "What happened?"
Kai looked at Max with auburn-grey eyes. "Where is Kaie I need her? I need to talk to her."
"I'm right here." Kaie said, stepping forward.
Kai looked at her for a moment then tried to stand. He nearly fell, but Kaie and Max managed to catch him and help him to the top of the steps.
"Can we go to the Demolition Boy's hallway?" It was a statement not a question. "Max can come if you don't mind Kaie." Kaie just shrugged, so Max followed.
Kaie felt like she knew everything about him, as she had watched him so much on TV and because she bladed, she felt a connection to the TV show that was aired on 'baby' channels.
Once they reached the hallway, red in colour, Kai pointed to a door, his room. Max was surprised at how tidy his room was. He would have bet money, that there were few other rooms, if any, this tidy.
At that moment Tala came out of this room to see who it was in the hallway. He was surprised to see an All-Starz girl helping Kai out, as well as that blond haired goody two shoes from the Blade Breakers trailing behind. Tala kicked himself as he remembered that Kai was as well a member of the Blade Breakers.
"Kai, what happened?" Tala said seeing torn shirt.
Kai looked at Tala. "Boris attacked me with one of his 'special' blades, wielded by some guy. He knows that my memory wipe has become ineffective."
Tala turned grey. As punishment in the Abby, sometimes bladers that Boris had hired would get out knife edged blades and then attack them. Bryan was one of those such bladers, and had really been a replacement for a member of the team that was unable to blade in the Worlds.
Kai looked at Tala. "Mr. Dickinson said he would make sure nothing happened to me, or us. He said that he would watch Boris for us."
Tala opened his mouth and then shut it again. There was no one else that could help them other than Mr. Dickinson.
Kai took a breath then said "Tala, I trust you. You need to know this."
Tala mentally frowned. He rarely showed any emotion, as he had been trained not to. What was this about? Especially with the All-Starz?
Kai sat wearily on his bed, Tala next to him in case he fell. Kai looked at Kaie. She looked back. What was this all about?
Kai sat on the bed and began, at the beginning.
"When I was four, before Bio-Volt I lived a relatively happy life with my parents and my sister."
"You have a sister?!?" said Max and Tala at the same time
Kai sighed. "Yes. I was four –"
"How old was your sister?" Max asked
"If you don't stop interrupting me I won't tell you. My sister was four as well. Yes, Max we were twins." He said before Max could ask.
Tala was trying to look like he already knew this but the truth was he had no idea about Kai's life at all before 'The Abby.'
"We lived in Russia in a big house in the country. We had everything we needed. It was all fine until just before I turned four and Voltaire's wife died. That changed him into the man that wanted to rule the world and made him started the Abby.
I was suppose to join as one of the first recruits, but my mother and father wouldn't let me go anywhere with my grandfather who had 'cracked', as my parents put it. Voltaire wouldn't stand for that so five months after I turned four he came for me.
He was smart and shrewd. He poisoned my dad's mind, his son, into killing his wife, my mother. I remember feeling that my sister was afraid, so I woke up and was about to leave my room when I was grabbed. I could hear my sister shrieking in the other room.
Our rooms were at the top of the staircase, overlooking the main entrance. My father lay kneeled over my mother's dead body, looking at it but not really seeing it, a bloody knife in his quivering hand. Voltaire just looked calm and stood in the doorway.
From what I could see from inside the arms that held me, my sister was carried down the stairs and out the door. I never saw her again.
The 'hooligans' who held me, carried me down the stairs to my grandfather. He motioned for them to put me down and they did.
"Kai" he said "you are going to a special school for special children. You are going to learn so much. Come with me and you can have all the freedom that you want."
"What about my sister?" I asked.
"If you are good then we will let you see her."
After I tried to control Black Dranzer at the age of twelve, they exiled me to Japan where I lived in a house, alone. All my memories of the Abby were gone. Voltaire was just a lost rich relative who fed and clothed me, my parents had died in a car crash, I had no sister, I was an only child and Dranzer was my only friend. It was only when I met her that I remembered."
"Who is your sister?" asked Max unable to control himself.
Kai looked at the wall behind Max. "One week before Voltaire came for me my mother made my sister and I switch our necklaces. I had a blue necklace because I was the oldest boy in my house, my sister a red one for them same reason.
The blue markings on my face mean that I am the oldest and youngest boy in my house. My sister had the same markings except in red, for the same reason.
My mother made me give my sister my necklace and made her give me hers. She told us that one-day we would be together again, and that was when we would get our real necklaces back. I still have hers..." he said pulling it out from under his shirt.
Kaie stood up and walked, almost trance like, over to Kai. She pulled out her necklace and took it off of her head. It was shinning brighter than ever before as she held it up. He looked at it a smile, not a smirk, on his face.
Tala and Max were silent. Then Max asked "How can you be twins if you are different ages? Kai you are sixteen and Kaie is fourteen."
Kai had the answer to that. "Voltaire opened a time portal with one of his experimental bit-beasts and sent her through to a parallel world. Her world's time is different than ours. It is slower, and ours faster. Since we were four, two extra years have lapsed in this world. That is also why her pulse was so slow when she came here, her body was used to her...world."
Kai stood up and slid the red necklace over her head. Kaie, the blue necklace glowing in her palm, did the same.
Just then Kai and Kaie hugged, and Max and Tala were surprised to see that tears were sliding down their cheeks.
They were all that were left of their family except for their grandfather. Memories flooded back, as the tears flowed. Max stood and nodded toward the door, and Tala followed.
"I had no idea that they were related much less twins." said Max once they were on the hall way
"Same here." said Tala.
Max looked at his watch. "Well I guess I had better get back to my quarters. Lights out is in ten, so I guess I will have to cover for Kaie."
Tala nodded and took one last look at Kai's door before going back to his room. Sometimes the world was just too crazy.
Kai took a picture out of his top drawer and handed it to her. She looked at him as he handed her the paper.
"Our family." Said Kai managing to choke out the words.
"They found it...at the Abby...in Voltaire's room...Mr. Dickinson gave me two copies."
Kaie looked at the picture. Voltaire, recognisable after watching so many shows was wearing the usual, but looking genuinely happy. He stood at the top right hand corner. Kaie could see that his arm around a beautiful white haired lady. That must be his wife, she thought
In the other corner another white haired man stood, glasses perched on his face next to a white haired woman dressed in a pretty blue dress.
Sitting on a chair in front of the lady in the blue dress was an intelligent looking woman with long dark blue hair wearing a white shirt and a black skirt, her hands folded in her lap, her glasses hiding beautiful green eyes.
Sitting in front of Voltaire sat a man who had silver light blue hair, which was neatly brushed, and was wearing black pants and a white dress shirt.
But the most surprising about the picture were the two children, about three, who sat quietly in the front with smiles on their faces.
The boy had messy light blue bangs, but the rest of his hair matched his mother's. His eyes matched his father's and were auburn, but with much more life in them. A blue necklace was around his neck, just below the two blue triangles. He wore black dress pants and a light blue T-shirt.
Kaie looked at the girl sitting next to him and was mesmerised by her. She had long blue hair that flowed down to her waist, and straight blue bangs. Her hair was the same colour as her mother's, but with a silvery hue. Her eyes were a beautiful green, full of the same life that the boy's possessed.
Her cheeks had two red triangles on them, and below them was a red necklace. She wore the same thing as her brother, smiling at the camera.
"That is me." Kai said pointing at the young boy. "And that," he said pointing at the girl, "is my twin, Kaie. You."
Kaie looked at him in disbelief. "But how do you know?"
Kai looked at her. "After I was banished from the Abby, they wiped my memory. There was a side effect though that some scientist wisely did not tell Voltaire about. If they see something that reminds them of their past, and erased memories, the memories come back.
I was walking with the Blade Breakers when I felt something pull me toward where you were. I found you lying there and I knew who you were; My twin sister, Kaie. I remembered everything, all the memories with you in them that were erased. Ever since then I have been trying to figure out how to tell you.
I knew that it was now or never because tomorrow I face Rage.
Kaie looked at her brother and realised just how much she looked like him. "Kai, you know that if you loose you will go to the Other World. You also know that you are either destined to or you are not. What do you think?"
Kaie looked at her. "I am going, Dranzer told me." His alburn eyes held an unknown emotion. It wasn't fear, of hatred, it was acceptance.
Kaie looked at him in a new light. Her brother she would know for merely hours before he was taken away. And he was bravely facing it.
There was a knock on the door, interrupting her thoughts. It was Tala's voice. "The matron is in the next hall." He whispered from the other side of the door.
Kai looked at her. "Go."
Kaie staired back. "I won't forget you." She said holding the red necklace then tucking it under her shirt, she ran into the hall and down it with the noise of a mouse.
Kai just sat on his bed thinking.
It was his last night...at least now he had no regrets
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Did you see that coming???????? Sigh, you probably did. My foreshadowing tends to stick out. Especially to russle, or Ramen II as he now calls himself. Ah well...
Questions...
1) Did you know what was going to happen?