DD: I'm sosososo sorry! I know that I promised to update faster, but I've had over-load with exams and stuffs at the moment – ew.
So anyway, I'm still gonna try and update faster, but if I'm crappy, and don't do it fast enough…I'M SORRY!
DISCLAIMER: Don't own, don't sue.
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CHAPTER 10
It was early morning when Phoenix returned from his run in with the dark bird, and it had been difficult, without a doubt, to escape her power…she was enthralling…
And as he quietly crept back into the small room that he shared with the other boys, he was met with the icy blue eyes, of the first little boy he had met at this abbey, one Tala Ivanov.
'Where have you been?" he hissed ferociously.
Phoenix, to this very day, could remember the conversation that followed. It was hardly a chipper one, and it was the first of which the two children were able to become more than those 'acquaintances' and actually call each other…friends.
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Well, it has definitely been a while since I put my two cents in here, hasn't it?
Charlotte again, and Phoenix has just gone to get a drink…
Things are confusing and hard to explain…he's told me the next part of the story already…he told me about an hour ago, to just let him explain it all first, and then I could write him.
It was too hard for him to write it himself.
Because what he just told me, what he just said, ends this chapter of his life…at least temporarily.
It explains a little, on Black Dranzer, the Abbey and the Demolition Boys, and a little on Rosa, Immogen and Doli too.
But first, perhaps I should explain this conversation…this conversation that led one firey haired boy, and the other, firey eyed, to pass the world of acquaintances, and into the world of a lasting friendship…a brotherhood, if you will…
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Tala quickly pulled the slate haired boy to the back of the room, shoving him swiftly against the side.
'I wanna know!"
"Know what?"
Icy eyes hardened as he stared at crimson.
"YOU! What the hell is your deal! Just tell me!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Look, I know…I know that you're the one that Boris…loves…I know that you have twice the experimenting, twice the training, twice the abuse and hurt than the rest of us do, but still…You have to feel something…"
And for some reason, that was what made the Phoenix snap.
"Feel something? Ivanov, you have no idea what goes through my head! You have no idea how much I feel!"
And with that, the slate haired boy started to stomp towards his bed, stopping when the red-head latched onto his arm.
"Well, tell me then!"
"What?"
Tala pulled the other into a sitting position on the grotty floor.
"See this?"
Tala pulled a crumpled photo from his pocket, showing a fair haired woman, and a pale, crimson haired man.
"That's my Mother…and my Father…They died in a car accident four years ago. They were really great parents…They looked out for me, and took great care…And one night, it was snowing and we were driving home…The doctor doesn't know why I survived…It was a fluke…You saw me arrive with Ms. Pictov? She was my care taker, she was to find me a good home after they died…and she shoved me here…"
It was silent, for a good ten minutes before Phoenix began to speak,
"None of my parents have ever been decent people…"
Tala stared at the slate haired boy.
"…My Mother was a druggie…My Father abandoned us…And Sergery…he was the worst of them all…Most people only have two parents…but I have three."
Phoenix shrugged slightly.
"My real Mother and Father had eight children, but Sergery killed Myra…Sebastian ran away first…he was scared, and he wanted to be as far away from Sergery as possible, then Ana ran too, she went to find Sebastian, I don't know if she ever did though…Mardi and Dmitriy, they were twins…and they fled together…And lastly, I ran too, but I took Immogen and Doli with me."
He sighed.
"After Grandpa found us, he made it so that Immogen was hurt…and now she can't walk, and then he sent both Doli and her to live with my grandmother…a woman that I haven't met…And Grandfather put me here, where he trained me to be the best…He and Balcov discovered that my genetic make-up was perfect, and I just know they're gonna use that."
He starred at the other boy.
"Then there's Black Dranzer…I do love my Dranzer, make no mistake, but…Black Dranzer…her power is so intense…I need that…I need it so that I won't be afraid anymore…"
"Afraid?"
"Yes…I'm so scared, I mean, for Sebastian and Ana and Mardi and Dmitriy…are they alright? Or are they somewhere dying? Are they thriving, have they found each other, or somebody else to love…I dunno…and Immogen and Doli, are they okay? Does Rosa treat them well…I'm not sure…no one else in our family is decent, should she be any different… I'm afraid of what Boris and my Grandfather are going to do with me…They know my genes are perfect…what are they gonna do with that?"
Phoenix sighed gulping in a deep breath.
"Tala…eveything's happening at once…I can't keep doing it…Not now, not right now."
It was the kind of thing where you'd be expecting one, if not both boys to be crying, however they'd both been trained out of that long ago.
And so, instead, Tala opted to speak again.
"We're only 11…Only 11."
Phoenix sat beside Tala again, having jumped to his feet during his speech, and without realising it, he lay his head down on the red-heads shoulder.
And Tala, at the same instance, reached his hands and lay them around the others shoulders, in something suspiciously like a hug.
…And that, my friends, is how the wolf and the phoenix became brothers…
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Okie dokies, I hope you all liked, and I'm really grateful to the people who continue to review, despite my slackness with the fic…
Oh! And Black Dranzer, a little of Immogen and Doli, and Japan, are next on the agenda.