Haunted dreams

PART ONE: KAI'S LAST MEMORY

Disclaimers note: I don't own beyblade, toys 'r' us, Tiger Tiger, Russia, snow,( Kai butts in: half if these things aren't mentioned in this story any way!) (me: they are now! so shut up and go sulk somewhere) (Kai: turns back and pouts) rain, a decent computer or anything else I want apart from fumitory (who is based on a character from the book I am writing myself but not getting very far with but when it eventually comes out I want you all to buy it so I can have money.) and the poem which will also feature in said book. And to any one who's interested yes… I am insane

Voltaire burst through Kai's door and pushed the seven year old to the cold stone floor of his room advancing on a terrified and shocked child who was sat in the corner.

"Excellent work Kai I knew you wouldn't fail me. And now you are free… just as we agreed."

"Kai? Did you tell them I was here?" Fumitory whispered as two guards marched in and took hold of the defenceless girl.

"Fumitory I didn't mean to I swear please let her go, PLEASE I DIDN'T MEAN IT! I had no choice they said they would kill Tala if I refused to tell them I didn't know! FUMITORY!"

Kai screamed at both Voltaire and Fumitory. He took one look at her and immediately knew it was no use, her face was blank and her eyes were broken there was no way she could listen. She knew the truth… She knew he had betrayed her.

Voltaire grabbed Kai and took him to the labs where multiple instruments awaited them placed in the middle there was a holding cylinder made of glass where Fumitory was dragged by the guards and left crumpled into a ball her face still one of despair broken-ness. Kai tried to turn away but his grandfather forced his head back round, he tried to close his eyes and got a lash from a whip across his face. So he sat and watched. A black gas started to slowly come up from the floor of the holding cylinder and Fumitory moved for the first time since she had been captured. She stood and began to bang on the walls screaming frantic with fear. The gas eventually took effect Fumitory slumped to the floor the gas cleared. A doctor rushed forward pressed a button to open the containment cylinder checked her pulse and smiled he nodded to Voltaire who returned the nod. Fumitory was taken to an operating table and tied down. She came back into consciousness and struggled to brake free but her efforts were in vain the doctors came over and plunged a needle deep into the pale flesh of her left shoulder and drew blood, she bit her lip in pain but refused to let them hear her scream. She was bleeding badly but no one took any notice. Her blood was taken to a scanning computer and tested the screen flashed 'compatible DNA.' Kai's face drained he screamed at Voltaire "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HER YOU BASTARDS?" tears streamed down the small boys face his heart was throbbing and his hand bleeding from digging his finger nails in too hard.

"Only what we couldn't do with you, she will become the fastest and most powerful not to mention beautiful and deadly, blader there ever was. Now silence and watch what we condemn your so called 'friend', who you so willingly betrayed, to."

Fumitory looked up to Kai he saw there was no hope in her eyes no disobedient glint that he loved and feared, no happiness, no spark and most of all no love. She was dead on the inside and it was entirely his fault. She looked away before Kai could say anything to her. The doctors returned this time they plunged a full needle into her right shoulder and injected the turquoise liquid. Her hair grew to the floor, her pupils turned into slits, her nails grew and a tail produced from her lower back. Another doctor rushed forward and injected a smaller needle into her left shoulder again, the liquid in this one was divided on the upper half was a clear green substance and on the lower half was a deep blue. This time her eyes stayed as slits but glowed black, her hair turned blonde then back to jet-black and its normal length, finally the tail withdrew leaving Fumitory looking almost normal apart from her large pointed ears, fangs, and strange symbol burned into her head by another doctor.

Kai was desperate to get too Fumitory. He thrashed around kicking and screaming. The guards came in again and dragged her off. Kai was pulled off his feet sobbing hard and punching the air, blinded by tears. He was thrown out into the cruel winds of Russian winter falling face first into the snow his tears almost froze upon contact with the outside world, which he had been cut off from for so many years. He got up and ran to the doors. Kai began pummelling it with his fists. Nothing happened he was walking away when he heard the screams of the 5 year old Fumitory and the cracking of a whip. Her voice was muffled but one sentence rang clear:

"убейте меня пожалуйста, Kai помогите мне, котор я хочу умереть" (Russian).

Blood splattered on the window Kai was looking through on the far side of the room he could see the shadow of the Fumitory hunched over and Voltaire brandishing a whip more blood splashed on the glass. Kai threw up, more screams the same sentence over and over being screeched in different languages each time but Kai didn't have to understand to know what it meant: kill me please, Kai help me, I want to die.

Kai woke in a cold sweat shivering. The same dream had been force through his mind for the past three weeks, no not dream, memory. He glanced at the trunk at the bottom of his bed before opening it and taking out a tear stained, crumpled, smudged, very old, piece of paper. It was the poem he had tried to send Fumitory that was supposed to have been a letter:

'The despair in your eyes,
As they drag you away.
Destroyed by my lies,
I was too willing to say.

A rose,
That's been crushed,
A voice,
That's been hushed.

Torn from my arms,
Because of me.
Your fate in my palms,
Why couldn't I see?

For my own selfish gain.
I've forced you to stay.
Your heart I have slain,
My role you shall play

My blood is now,
replaced by yours.
My hearts screaming how,
Could I give to his lures?.

I'm forced to look down,
Your face bares no emotion.
Not a smile nor a frown,
Your body's still without motion

I know you're not dead,
I wish you would bolt.
Your heart is like lead,
It's all my fault.

Run away from this hell,
leave just this once.
From light youjust fell.
Repay me, this once.'

Right on queue tears fell from his eyes he wiped them away only for them to be replaced who in turn they too got wiped at. Kai remembered that he had persuaded Fumitory to stay with him to be safe from Voltaire. She was sleeping silently in the other room. Kai heard her stir and went to check on her. The moonlight played elegantly on her radiant face making her gothic features stand out even more than usual he sat down at the edge of her bed and stroked the younger bladders soft raven hair. Ten years had passed since he had last saw her he couldn't believe how little she had changed. He closed his eyes and started to remember all of the times she had helped him, how proud he had been that she had only trusted him enough to reveal herself to, of course she had watched over everyone at the abbey healing their wounds while they slept, but never had any of them fully seen the mysterious 'черный ангел' which, translated, means 'the black angel' Kai had to bite his tongue every day when the others would brag about her coming to see them and how she had made them strong. Kai had always wanted to put them straight about this and tell them that it wasn't an angel it was just a lost five year old with her family's spell book and that she just made them feel stronger. But he had been sworn to secrecy about it by Fumitory. She said they needed something to believe in and that if word got out about her true identity then she would be hunted down. So with each passing day the healing continued, and so did the rumours, until eventually Kai was tied into them and Voltaire found out and began to torture him for answers. Every night Kai would stagger back to his dorm half unconscious and every night Fumitory would be their to comfort him holding him in her arms when he was too weak to walk reading to him and singing him to sleep then in the morning she would disappear like always, to return at sunset. Kai remembered the rare nights she would risk taking him out of the abbey to a ceremony the coven she had taken refuge in allowed him to observe but swore him to secrecy. He looked at Fumitory, a million questions swam in his head. 'why was she back? How did she escape, how could she be so forgiving?... what is she thinking?'

PART TWO: FUMITORYS RECOLLECTION

Fumitory ran down the corridors of the abbey wishing that she could take all the others with her. For ten years she had been building her power and strength in the very walls that held her and had made her what she was today in Voltaire's mind perfection in hers… a demon.

She came to a turning and met about six guards she snarled and vaulted over one of them. She was almost at the exit she could see the big old door, guarded heavily. She called upon the god of destruction and burnt the rope that held a chandelier over them it fell and knocked half of them out. The other half she took by hand each went down as easily as the next she burst through the doors and got her first breath of freedom since this night eight years ago. She was tired, hungry and absolutely exhausted, but something inside kept her running she had to get away and she had to find Kai so she could finally rest in peace. The rain thundered down upon her body and she remembered her last entry in her diary she had left it in Tala's room in hopes he would find it and gain the strength and courage to lead the others to freedom.

Fumitory last entry.

I'll be gone soon. No one will miss me, care or even remember I existed, apart from maybe you. If they do remember they'll probably want to forget. Fumitory, the annoyance the freak, the girl with the weird empty eyes who never smiled. Something uncomfortable they hated and had to put up with. The one who listened to the strange music they couldn't stand. Something they avoided in fear that they might catch what I had, the stupid English girl who always dressed like someone had died. If I am remembered, it will be with satisfaction or maybe relief that I no longer exist to them. To them… I'm dead. Maybe I'm giving myself too much credit, no one could really care. At least the world is decent enough to rain today. The only reason I stayed here for so long was for Kai. So he could be safe and happy but I can't stay here any longer I have had as much as I can take. I guess I loved Kai, he is my best friend, even when he sold me out, I had to stay… for him. I couldn't hate him. If I had more than one friend they couldn't be better than him. When I think of him I don't want to die as much. When I was a child I used to pray to be abducted, just to be away from this shit hole, sad? Maybe. I have decided I want to say goodbye to Kai before I leave this hell of a world. There's nothing left for me, how will I tell him? Tala please, I hope you find this, I hope you understand when I say run to the sunrise and you will be safe. I cant tell you any more already I have said too much. Look after the others. Don't let any one else see this they wouldn't understand.

signed

Fumitory, the cursed, the damned… the doomed.

Kai got up and left his sleeping companion basking in moonlight. He placed the poem back in his trunk, and crawled back into bed. Fumitory woke and looked after him "Kai…" she sighed sadness welling up in her. If she was going to die she would have to do it soon. She couldn't let this love grow. She didn't want to hurt him. The phone rang but Kai didn't wake so she answered. It was Ray

"Is Kai there?"

"Shh! No he's sleeping."

"That's not like him, he's usually a light sleeper… who's this?"

"Fumitory." she smiled sensing his heart rate quicken at her answer.

"Oh erm hi what's wrong with Kai lately he has been acting strange."

"Well I'm sorry to say but it's me. I have known Kai for a long time things, terrible things have happened to the both of us seeing me brings them back."

"Oh I'm sure it cant be ALL your fault"
"No not fault. You see I really shouldn't tell you any thing but I can't help but feel I can trust you… would you like to come for breakfast before I go to work?"

"Sure I'll come round and pick you up now"

Ray's pov

Why did I agree to meet her I barely know her. But still I feel she needs to talk to someone. I'm proud she chose me .

Fumitory left a note or Kai explaining where she had gone, And left the apartment. Ray was waiting for her out side in his jeep. When Ray saw fumitory, he immediately felt little Ray jump up and thought about how glad he was for his baggy pants. She climbed in the passenger seat and stroked the leather seat arousing accidentally arousing Ray even more. He hastily turned the engine on and headed towards the local café. Fumitory and Ray sat at a booth, ordered and began talking.

"so what's all this stuff that happened to you and Kai?"

"well…" she said looking around "you know about the abbey?"

"a little bit I know it was some sort of school or something ran by Kai's grandfather"

"you're partly right. It was more like a legal torture house passed off as a boarding school. Kai, and many others, were held captive and trained to be emotion less power hungry drones"

"shit" Ray breathed

"I know. Kai had been there for years when I met him. He was about seven I was five. And he helped me without question. I told him I was from England and my mother died giving birth while my dad burned to death in a fire a week after I was born. I was sent to an orphanage but I hated it there I would get the cane every day for being loud and cheeky."

"why didn't you just stop being rude then?"

"Because I refused to change myself for anyone I was the way I was supposed to be and no one could stand me being so different. Anyway I wasn't rude I just had different ideas, I was unconventional, an outcast if you please. They taught me different languages including Russian so I could talk with Kai I became close friends within a matter of weeks I would tell him about myself and comfort him when he was wounded, which was almost everyday. But then Kai betrayed me he told Tala about me, who in turn told someone untrustworthy who ratted me out to Voltaire. Voltaire, I knew, had been after me for a long time he wanted to get me into his prison of a school and conduct tests on me. He knew that the only way to do this was do destroy my hope and break me inside. So he threatened to kill Tala if Kai didn't tell him all he knew about me."

"So poor Kai was forced to choose?"

"Yes, give me to numerous unknown experiments and torture, or condemn his oldest friend to death. Obviously he chose to tell. He poured his heart out to Voltaire and Voltaire upon hearing all knew Kai was no longer any use to him. They made a deal that if Kai would lead him to me then Kai would be free. And Kai accepted straight away."

"And you're still able to forgive him?"

"Yes I have never been one to hold grudges I could never hurt or even hate Kai no matter what he did to me."

"That's what I call a loyal friend"

Fumitory smiled at Ray she couldn't believe she was telling him all this.

"I have never told any one about this before. I feel so much better to finally get it of my chest."

"Hey, you can tell me anything."

"thank you. But I'm afraid there are things that would make you want to destroy me if you knew them."

"Try me."

Fumitory looked squarely at Ray "you promise you won't scream and run away. Or laugh in my face?"

"I promise"

"fine then, but you asked for it. Here goes… I'm a vampire, an elf and a Neko jin."

"A vampire? but they don't exist, and neither do elf's"

"that's where you're wrong you see at first I was just a normal child until I found out about my history. My family, centuries ago, were one of the most powerful pure wiccan covens in the whole world. but then something happened my ancestors were found out and condemned to death. But some of them got away. my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand mother or something was one of them. She had been adopted by her aunt and was introduced to the coven. Her mother had been killed and she had been kept away from magic all her life. She decided, when her coven was slaughtered to start afresh. She put Wicca behind her and buried the book of shadows that she had saved from her aunt's house."

I found it a few months after I had run away from the orphanage. I fled to Russia where I befriended Kai you know the rest. When I was captured Voltaire made it seem that Kai had willingly betrayed me, after I heard this I stopped listening to what Kai tried to tell me. They instantly took me to their lab where they tested my blood and DNA. I was perfect for their experiments. They injected me with DNA from a vampire, Neko and an elf and that's how it happened. If you don't believe me I can show you. And don't worry I hate blood I have never drank it in my life, well apart from the time I bit Voltaire's hand for trying to coat my teeth in silver to make them 'stronger and more intimidating.'"

"I still don't understand why Kai never told any one about you."

Sometimes he chooses to ignore things that he really shouldn't suppress. He thinks that by doing this, he can try to forget the past and try to install some normality in his life. But he fails to remember there really isn't such thing as a normal person and existence."

"Shit! Fumitory we've been here too long I was supposed to start work an hour ago!"

"Damn me too ok I'll pay you go to work."

"Ok but if you pay I'm driving you to work."

"Fine by me but it's only down the road."

"I'll meet you out side." Ray went and fumitory paid. She got in the car and they sped off down the road.

"Stop here please"

"Where? At Tiger Tiger!"
"Yes."

"But that's the most exclusive and expensive club in the country!"

"I know. The pay's still shit but it's better than nothing"

"you're not a dancer are you?"

"HELL NO! I work behind the bar making cocktails and sometimes if the support bands don't show I'm allowed to go and sing."

"cool do you think maybe you could get the blade breakers on the guest list for Max's birthday?"

"I'll try I'll call you tonight about it see ya 'n' thanks for hearing me out. You're cool."

"Any time! Bye!"

ME: sorry it's uneventful but at least now you have some insight to what went on. Oh and thank you to my latest reviewer Minij Akane sorry I took so long I have had to delete ALL my work and everything on my computer so I could get rid of viruses and spy ware. NIGHT MARE ARG!

Kai: Dunga makes an appearance next and starts to cause trouble.

Tyson: what kind of trouble?

Me: trouble no one should have to face

Ray: I get to be a hero!

Kai: shut it Kon

Ray: your just jealous!

Max: review and update!