The True Meaning of Love

Chapter 5- Evil's first strike
By: DestinyBabee


"Interesting.." A person with black hair and blonde streaks murmured in the shadows, as he hide between a spruce tree. "This lake can prove quite useful than I thought."

"Well, we should get our camp set up before night falls." Kenny spoke again, walking over to the mounds of stuff.

"I agree." And Serenity walked over helping Kenny unpack her 8-person tent. Kai, Ray, and Max also walked over and joined them, while Serenity took the leader role and gave out instructions, since she has the most experienced.

"What do I do?" Tyson asked.

"Well..Since we have more than enough people here..You can go gather firewood." Serenity suggested.

"What? Why I do get the hardest job??" Tyson complained.

"Tyson! That's the easiest job!" Ray replied.

"Unless you want to help set up camp, I'll do it for you!" Kenny added.

"Uh.. No thanks. I'll stick to gathering wood. It can't be THAT hard right?"

"Oh yeah. When I say wood, I mean any type of DRY wood. Kindling, tinder, dead branches, birch bark, logs etc. And remember we need lots and lots of it. Especially the logs, we need those to last us through the night."

'This is gonna be harder than I thought!!' Tyson exclaimed in his head. He then headed in the woods and started gathering wood, occasionally coming back with some dead branches and a couple logs, and then going back for some more.

After 3 hours, of setting up camp and gathering food. They were finally finished.

"Wow, the tent and everything looks great." Tyson said taking a looking inside, seeing all the sleeping bags laid nicely, and all their luggage placed neatly at the side." 'So that's why she send for a eight-person tent.' He thought. 'Smart thinking..' "So is THAT enough wood for you, Serenity??" Tyson said pointing to the mountain of firewood.

"Yep! Thanks a million Tyson." Serenity thanked Tyson.

"No Problem! I mean it IS a man's job after all! haha" Tyson gloated.

"Don't get all cocky over such a small task." Kai rolled his eyes.

"Do I smell jealousy?" Tyson bragged even further.

"Psh! If you think its such a great task fine, believe what you want." Kai said walking over to the beautiful view of the lake.

"Well, we should get our fire going now." Ray said.

"Yeah." Serenity grabbed some tinder and kindling from the huge pile, and struck the match. On her first try, she got the fire got within 5 minutes.

"Wow, you're good." Kenny awed in amazement.

"Guess all the camping paid off." She laughed.

"Yeah, let's go to the lake now!" Max suggested. They all nodded and heading towards to lake where Kai was.

"Wow, wouldn't it be nice to live by lake?" Serenity said starting to daydream. She fantasized THAT she would someday have a cozy cottage by the lake, and she would be living with her knight-in-shining-armor, and their kids, and they were happy. (mushy ain't it?)

While Serenity was still daydreaming, and the others caught off guard. The person hidden in the tree took advantage of this moment to strike. He saw Tyson, who was conveniently standing behind Serenity, so he decided to use him as part of his plan. About 1 minute later, he move closer to his target and suddenly BAM! You couldn't even see he movements, all THAT was visible was a blur. *slow-mo* Swiftly, the boy ran up behind Tyson quickly and quietly, shoved him hard with all his strength, and then ran back to his hiding place, and watched. Tyson fell forward, bumping into Serenity really hard, causing her to be push forward and landed right on the lake, where the thin ice was. As soon as she touched the surface, it broke and she feel through the freezing water. Luckily, Tyson didn't fall in as well.

"Ahh!" She screamed.

"Serenity!!" The bladebreakers yelled.

"Tyson! You fucken idiot! What'd you do??" Kai barked at Tyson, struggling to control his temper.

"Someone pushed me! I swear!!" Tyson said.

"You guys! Let's just concentrate on saving Serenity! She could drown, and the water is so damn cold!" Max interrupted. So Kai, and Tyson stop arguing and quickly grabbed the rope from camp, and hurried to save Serenity.

"How are we going to use this rope to save her?" Ray asked.

"Well you better hurry and thinking because now is not the time to take your time and think!" Tyson rushed. He ran over to his bag, and grabbed the pair snowshoes (don't ask, why he has it with him.) and started walking on ice. (remember big surface area, spreads out the pressure.) He then reached in the freezing water wave it around trying to feel for Serenity. It took a few minutes, but he finally felt a hand, so he pulled her up quickly. Meanwhile, the boy behind the shadows had already left assuming she was dead. The bladebreakers were extremely nervous, specially Kai.

'Why am I so scared??' He asked himself.
[because you love her.] His conscience spoke again.
'You again?!'
[Look Kai. Tyson's pulling her out! Go help, the ice is beginning to creak by her added weight!]

Without thinking, Kai ran over to Tyson, who was almost at shore, but the ice was cracking fast. Tyson saw Kai coming and gave the shivering Serenity over to Kai, and he himself (Tyson) took a big jump to shore, just as the ice broke.

"Is she okay??" They all scrambled over to Serenity.

"Move aside! Let's get her over to the fire!" Kai demanded. He was surprised at how light she was. Even thought he didn't want to admit it, he was very worried about her all the time.

At the fire, everyone was really worried, she looked paler than usual, and her lips were blue.

"Serenity, can you stop shivering?" Kenny asked. Serenity tried, but she couldn't, so he shook her head.

"Damn, you guys she has hypothermia! We hafta get her warm and fast or else she could die!" Kenny yelled.

"hypothermia??" They all said. Now Kai got really worried, he had once heard of a case where this person became hypothermic, and died. (AN: Hypothermia- loss of LOTS body heat. body cannot make enough heat to keep you warm)

"Yes! we hafta get her into dry clothes, and get hot liquids inside her! Hurry! people get cold 20 times faster when they're wet!" Kenny ordered.

Max went into the tent and grabbed some of Serenity clothes. He grabbed a black long sleeve shirt, a gap hoodie, and track pants, and socks. And quickly ran back with the clothes. Ray went and grabbed an extra blanket he had. And Tyson began boiling the water over the fire. Kai was desperately trying to keeping her warm by rubbing his hands against hers. Serenity was almost on the verge of faintly, she could barely make out what was going on.

"So going to change her?" Max asked as soon as he reached the fire.

"One of us have to. THAT isn't perverted." Kenny said. "Hm..I think.. Kai would qualify."

"Excuse me?" Kai said raising an eyebrow.

"Kai, we have no time to argue, just do it!" Max said handing to clothes over to him. "We won't tease you! Not for something this importance, we're talking losing a bladebreaker here!"

Kai then change Serenity into dry clothes, he was blushing immensely, and avoided looking at her. When she was finally changed, they wrapped and blanket around her, and gave her hot water to drink.

"I'mm c-coldd.." Serenity said. But speech was slurred, meaning she was still very cold.

"Hm.. you guys. I hate to say this but she's still hypothermic. We're gonna have to stick her in a sleeping bag with another person." Kenny said. "We need someone who is never cold, and has a fast metabolism."

Everyone thought for awhile, and Ray came up with the perfect person for the job. "I think Kai should do it." Kai glares at Ray. "I mean, look at you, you wearing a light jacket, while everyone is wearing winter jacket, and you don't look the least bit cold. With your body heat, you warm her up in no time." Everyone agreed. After a couple minutes of refusing Kai, was finally force into doing it.

So, Kai and Serenity were stuck together in one sleeping bag. Everyone knew THAT Kai was really mad for having to do this, so they left him alone in the tent.

[Inside the tent..]

'Why me?' Kai said looking at Serenity who had fallen asleep. He felt her hands, and they were like frozen icicles. He then wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer to him. 'She's so cold..' She then glanced at her. She was truly the most beautiful goddess he was ever seen, and this goddess was in his protective arms right now. For some reason, Kai felt THAT it was his duty to protect her from any harm, at any cost. He knew Love was for the weak, but he couldn't help it, this new emotion was consuming his whole brain. This emotion called 'Love', influenced his thoughts, and his actions. He then pulled her even closer, as her breast diminished against his rock hard chest. She snuggled against him, causing Kai to smile, kissing her on the forehead.





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I know I know. It doesn't seem like Kai right? but hey! its love! Love makes people do crazy things!

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Vienna: glad you like my story! :) don't worry, I read your story! its coming along great! hope u continue with the next chapter soon!

... : da hell? haha no im NOT afraid to continue the story. I'll tell u now THAT I update my stories roughly once a week!

Anonymous reviewer: doesn't it? I asked my sis if 'Ryu' means dragon in Chinese and she said it does. haha I didn't know that. I was thinking of my friends EO (EdmontonOnline) username, which is RYUSHI, and that's how I came up with RYU. lol

Nadeshiko: What's with you and action girl? don't worry it'll be here soon enough!

crystal of psyche: haha I know. we sit back and watch them struggle with mother nature, while we sit here in a WARM heated house lol

Anime Fan: yes I love it when Kai's conscience talks. its hilarious haha yes yes Tyson can be so stupid sometimes haha. I love THAT racoon idea! yes! I'll definitely use that idea in later chapters! thanx a bunch! you're so creative! that's what I love about you stories! its so interesting! haha hell ya! I AM a big fan of CCS. Yep, I watched all the 2 movies. the second one is so swweeeeeeeett!! I love it haha you live in Ontario? cool! yeah I heard it was freezing over there. its not as cold here in Alberta. one days it warm, and the next its so damn cold! the weather has been crazy these days!