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Chapter Three

All the teams were seated on couches and chairs or on the floor in the lounge room, Tala was standing at the front with his team, Caitlin and Kai.

"On behalf on my team and I, I would like to apologise for the way we acted during the world championships. We know that you probably wont forgive us that easily for what we have done, so we have decided that we will answer any questions that you have regarding to our behavior there." Tala said looking around at the people infront of him, his confidence rose when he saw smiles appear when he apologised.

"Or we can just tell you all about the abbey and what they did to us there, it's your choice," Caitlin said smiling at them

Everyone looked around and seemed to agree that Caitlin's offer was better and easier.

"Ok then, get comfy this is going to be a long story," she said

Bryan, Spencer and Ian all sat down at the back of the other teams and waited for Caitlin to keep talking.

"Well for those of you who don't know, Voltaire is Kai's and my grandfather, and he runs the Biovolt Corporation in Balkov Abbey in Russia with Boris Balkov. The main goal for Biovolt is world domination through the use of beyblades; therefore they needed skilled beybladers that they could train to become the ultimate warriors, we were all included in that. Many of the children recruited by Biovolt were taken from orphanages or straight from their parents, usually after their parents had been killed. All of the Demolition Boys were taken using the second method while Kai and I were different. Voltaire pretended to care for us while our parents were still around so that we were left to him in their wills. When he was sure we were, he killed them by poisoning them at dinner with large amounts of arsenic. He also poisoned me with arsenic as well as my identical twin sister Nicolaia, but she didn't survive. I only survived because they had been injecting arsenic into me while I was little so I would build up a sort of resistance to it. They thought that they were injecting both of us at different times, but because they couldn't tell us apart they didn't realise that only I was being poisoned. He only wanted one of us so the one who was less affected was granted with life. After he poisoned them he called in some guards, one to take Kai away and three others to throw my parents and sister into the fireplace to burn. When they had burned to death he took both Kai and I to Balkov Abbey in Russia, which is where we all met each other. We were set apart from the other kids because we were the best." Caitlin stopped for a bit to see if anyone had any questions

"Can I ask a question?" Emily asked, she continued with a nod from Caitlin, "Before your bitbeast was Driablo, was it two different spirits?"

"Yes, the dark part was Shadow and the light part was Luminous. Luminous was mine and Shadow was Nica's. After she died they combined to become Driablo" Caitlin said simply, "Anyone else?"

"How old were you?" asked Robert

"Um, I was four and Kai was five, I think," replied Caitlin "Anyone else? No? Okay, someone else can have a turn" she said looking at Tala and Kai. Tala got up.

"We all shared a dormitory there, it wasn't the best, but at least we could take care of each other. We started beyblade training under Boris's watch, if we did not do everything perfectly we were continually beaten and whipped until he thought we had learned our lesson. We hardly saw Caitlin, she was taken away train for other things that would eventually get them lots of money, she only trained with us three times a week. When we weren't beyblading we were learning combat fighting or being over trained in the fitness center. We were all given minimum food and water, but we all learned to survive on the little we got. From the day we got there were taught that crying was showing weakness and that we should never cry or show any emotion except hate towards our enemy. If we cried we were hit until we stopped. They used the fact that we cared about each other to threaten us into doing what they wanted." Tala paused, Kai got up and motioned for Tala to sit down.

"Any questions before I continue?" Kai asked

"What was Caitlin doing?" asked Michael

"She was being trained to become a gymnast and a ballerina and a spy. In Russia they will pay alot for the good gymnasts and dancers. Both the sports are very big there; they generate a lot of money. Later on she was doing equestrian stuff, show jumping, dressage, cross-country and racing. That stuff is not as big in Russia, but other places in Europe it is. And they needed a spy that no one would ever suspect so they trained her" Kai said "Anyone else?"

"Why were they teaching you combat fighting?" asked Lee

"We were all being trained to become part of Project Destiny 6. If the project were to have been completed we would have been turned into killing machines, and Caitlin into a spy and infiltrator. The point of it was to be able to send us to any enemy building of Biovolt and have Caitlin break in and then let us in, she steals stuff or shuts stuff down while we kill people who try to interfere. Any of us could also have been used as assassins. The only part of Project Destiny 6 that was ever completed was Caitlin's training and tests, but it was only ever used once for real because she and I escaped when we were 12 and 13." Kai told the stunned faces of his audience.

"What do you mean by enemy buildings?" asked Mariah

"The BBA headquarters and there were some organisations in Russia including the one she shut down that Biovolt was opposed to. One of her tests was a replica of the BBA headquarters, she permanently shut down the building, undetected, in one minute." Kai answered "Anyone else?"

Kai looked around, but no one spoke up "Well I'll go on. As we got older we started to rebel against them, so we were spending lots of time bleeding and injured down in the dungeons. To make it worse though they would chain us to the wall and leave us there for days on end. It was Boris's favourite thing to do; punish us for no reason, but that wasn't the worst, not even close." Kai paused and looked at Caitlin like he was asking for permission, she nodded and then looked away from everyone. Kai continued though, "The worst only really applied to Caitlin and maybe me, it started from the day our parents died and happened every chance they got from then on. They raped us, molested us or anything else they felt like at the time. It wasn't only Voltaire, but Boris and most of the guards too." Kai finished and looked back at Caitlin, she had tears in her eyes, but they did not fall. Tala got up and Kai sat back down and looked at the ground.

"We can only repeat ourselves now unless you would like detailed descriptions of 'punishments' and the injuries we got from them. One thing I would like you to know is that after we lost in the world championships we were separated and taken to different parts of the dungeon to receive our punishments. We were all left there, half dead for three days until the BBA came to shut the abbey down; maybe you can see that as punishment for our actions. If you have any questions ask them now, otherwise please accept our apology and forgive us of what we have done." Tala said

Everyone in the audience just sat there, shocked at what they had just heard, Mariah looked like she was going to cry.

"Do you guys have scars?" she asked

"Yeah, everywhere, you have to look hard to see most of them, but they are all there" Tala answered

"But Caitlin doesn't have scars," Emily said

"Yeah I do. I had some of the really obvious ones removed because of gym and stuff like that, it's not the greatest look with a leotard. I just cover up others with makeup and stuff like that so they aren't as obvious. But I do have a tattoo they put on my back, I can't get rid of it," she said and then she stood up and lifted up the back of her t-shirt to reveal a five pointed black star with a capital B in the center of it. "B for Biovolt, I got branded so I would never forget, not like I could anyway," she said and put her shirt back down and turned around to face the other teams "Any other questions?"

"I think we have tortured you all enough, please accept our forgiveness, " Robert said and he got up to shake Tala's hand, the other captains followed his example.

"Thankyou," Tala said smiling

"It's late maybe there will be some dinner in the dining room!" Tyson yelled and ran out of the room, everyone laughed and followed except for Caitlin, she went the opposite way, Tala and Kai saw her.

"I'll get her, don't worry about it," Tala said and he followed her

Caitlin walked all the way down to the beach; there was a slight breeze, but not much. She walked to the top of a sand dune and sat down, she closed her eyes for a bit and when she opened them a single tear rolled down her cheek.

Tala followed her and sat down beside her, when he saw her tear he put his arm around her and hugged her. She leaned in to him and couldn't hold back her tears any longer, she cried for the first time since she was four. Tala pulled her onto his lap and hugged her tightly while rocking slightly; she hugged him back, but didn't stop crying.

Tala didn't say anything, but he understood. For eleven years she had live with the pain of her past, present and future. Even though Tala was there for much longer he had not been raped, molested or sexually abused by anyone, only physically and mentally abused, but they were all used to that. Caitlin eventually stopped crying, but she didn't let go, neither did Tala.

"Sorry," she whispered

"I should be the one who's sorry, I should have protected you from them, we all should have, we all feel the same way, Kai and Bryan especially," he said

"You all had your own problems, you would have got hurt even more if you tried to help me as well," she said "You probably thing I'm weak now, crying like this,"

"No, you have to show emotion, it's human," Tala replied and kissed the top of her head.

"You don't," Caitlin said

"I'm not human," Tala whispered

"Yes you are, would a robot do this?" she whispered back and kissed him softly on the lips and he returned it.

Everyone was in the dining room, they were amazed. When they got there the table was full of freshly cooked food.

"But how? We are the only ones here," Michael said

"Did you do this Oliver?" Max asked

"No, I was in there listening the whole time," he replied

"Who cares who made it? Lets just eat it!" Tyson yelled and launched for the food, but Kai caught him practically in mid air.

"Sit down Tyson and wait for everyone," Kai said in a threatening voice, the two other Bladebreakers, Max and Rei sighed and motioned for the other teams to sit down

When everyone was seated except for Kai who was still holding Tyson back, Kai said, "Get everything you are planning to eat now and eat it before I let this thing go. You are guaranteed to loose your appetite if you don't," when everyone had done that Kai reluctantly let Tyson go. As soon as he did, Tyson jumped onto the table and started stuffing food into his mouth, everyone understood what Kai meant.

"I guess we are supposed to go to bed now," Rei said

"Yeah, lets go. No doubt there will be some kind of voice that will give us something to do tomorrow," Steve said.

They all said their goodnights and went to bed.

Neither Caitlin nor Tala were hungry so they stayed out on the beach. Tala saw the dining room light go out and thought that everyone must have gone to bed and was about to tell Caitlin this when he noticed that she had fallen asleep.

He smiled down at her before he picked her up and started walking back to the house.

Kai was out on his balcony watching the waves roll in from the ocean, he saw Tala walking up the path to the house with Caitlin in his arms.

Kai heard a small knock on his door; he walked over and opened it.

"Hi Kai," Rei said

"Rei, come in" Kai said letting Rei in

"Thankyou for trusting us. It must have been hard to tell us that," Rei said

"Yeah, it just sends the memories flooding back, nothing good though," Kai said, once again remembering the pain of his past

"I can't believe that stuff really happened to you," Rei said sadly

"We haven't had easy lives like you lot, Rei. Even though my Grandfather and Boris were sent to jail, they will escape soon enough. My Grandfather wants me, Boris wants me, maybe Caitlin and the Demolition Boys as well. They wont give up until they get what they want," Kai sighed

"Kai, I don't care about any of that stuff, I love you for who you are, I wont let them hurt you," Rei said and then covered his mouth when he realised what he had said

"Y-you love me?" a shocked Kai asked, Rei turned away from him, "Rei, look at me," Kai ordered, he paused "I love you too," Kai said then he leaned in and kissed Rei

This was the last thing Rei had expected, he thought that Kai would be disgusted that he felt like this. Obviously Rei had been wrong.

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