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Yeah, from the title of the chapter, you can guess that I've finally revealed who the 'Master' person is!! It was going to be longer, but I decided that it was a good place to stop and besides, I really don't feel like writing anymore for today.
Chapter Twenty – Identity Revealed!
Ray pushed the strands of wet hair out of Zarine's hot face. Zarine cling onto him as another roll of thunder rumbled. She closed her eyes and saw the cruel smirks on the faces of her attackers. They reminded her so much of the Dark Force. Her boyfriend before Ray had enjoyed hurting her like that.
"Ray, don't let them hurt me," she begged, plainly terrified.
"I'm not going to let anyone hurt you, I promise," Ray said. "Come on, let's get out of the rain."
He picked her light form up easily, and picked his way through the woods carefully in the dark. He would have offered her his jacket, but he had left without one since he was too anxious to find her.
"I'm so cold," she whimpered, shivering violently. She tried to press herself closer to his body to get warmer.
"I'll get you to somewhere nice and warm really soon," he said, trying to calm her. It broke his heart to see her in her feverish state, and not being able to do anything.
Once he was outside of the forest, he wondered where he should go. Kai's mansion was out of the question. It was too far away and Zarine needed to get dry real fast. Then he thought of Tyson's dojo, it was only a five minute walk away. Rain pounded on their bodies, soaking them even more. By the time he was in front of Tyson's home, Ray felt like he had been drenched in a pool of water for half the day.
"HIYA!" Grandpa's yell echoed through the dojo as he practiced his forms.
"Grandpa!" Ray called. "Where are you?"
The white haired man opened the door of the practice room and spotted Ray, who had just past the room.
"Hey, homeboy. So what's going on here? Where's Tyson?" he asked.
Ray turned back and said hurriedly, "Never mind that now. Zarine has a high fever."
"Looks like she was beaten up real bad too," Grandpa remarked, looking at the figure in his arms. "Take her to Tyson's room while I call a doctor."
The black haired boy glanced at his girlfriend in surprise, and the bruises on her arms and legs got his attention immediately.
He inhaled sharply. "Oh God, Zarine, what did they do to you?" A new feeling rose up inside his heart. Anger. He felt angry that people had hurt Zarine so badly, and had probably enjoyed it. The other girls better not be hurt!
"They hit me over and over again," she mumbled. "At one point, they slammed my head against a tree. They also injected something in me. I don't know what it was, but it made me feel weak all over."
Ray laid her on Tyson's bed, and covered her up with a blanket. "A doctor is coming, so everything is going to be all right," he assured her.
Tyson, Kai, Kenny and Max had run all the way to the amusement park, hoping that the girls would be all right. Kenny dropped to his knees, panting. "Guys, can we stop for a second?"
Tyson couldn't believe what he had just heard from Chief. "Kenny, we don't have time! They could be hurt, or tortured for all we know. I mean, look at what happened to Zarine!"
"Maybe we should walk for a couple of minutes," Max said uncertainly, looking at Kai for his opinion.
"You can slow down if you want, but I'm not. Hilary...Hilary could be hurt, alone. Who knows what they've done to her?" Tyson said, and started running again.
"Tyson!" Max called after him. However, his friend ignored him and just kept on running.
Poking around various tents and rides, he couldn't find any sign of a human being, let alone a criminal group. Finally, he reached the Candyland house, and found a trap door in the bedroom. He figured that the trapdoor will lead them to the girls, so he decided to get the others and go together. Unfortunately, when he found them, he saw that there were several other guys in black cloaks, and one of them had a rifle.
"Put your hands above your heads, intruders!" the guy with the gun ordered.
Max, Kenny, and Kai had no choice but to obey. Tyson was thinking, [Uh oh, now we're in trouble.]
'Use your beyblade,' Dragoon advised.
'Oh ya,' Tyson threw the thought back sheepishly. 'I should've thought of that.'
He put his blade onto his launcher, took careful aim and just let it rip! Dragoon flew into the guy's hand, and made a huge gash in it, causing him to drop the rifle in pain.
Tyson smirked in satisfaction as he watched the others trying to figure out what happened. Kai took advantage of their diverted attention and dove for the rifle on the ground.
"Hands up in the air now!" Kai commanded.
The cloaked figures raised their arms slowly. "Max, find me some rope to tie them up," he said.
Five minutes later, Max came back with a ball of string that he found in the Candyland house. "Here," he said, handing it to Kai.
The heroes tied them up and shoved each of them, except for one, into a different area.
"Where do you have the girls?" Tyson demanded. "Lead us to them."
The guy had no choice but to lead them down the tunnel and into their hideout.
There were guards around the place, but Kai, Tyson, and Max handled them easily enough. It didn't take long to knock them all out and bound them together.
They walked along the hallway until they heard voices. Pressing flat against the wall, Kenny peered into the room, taking in every detail.
"So Chief, who are in the room?" Kai questioned.
"I saw Jewels, and this person on a chair. It's just one big room with candles. No one is in here except for the two of them," Kenny told him.
"Okay, here's the plan," Kai said to Max, Tyson, and Kenny. "I'll go and get Jewels, you three go and look for Hilary and Carrie. When you find them, get out of here. Don't worry about me."
"Kai, what if you're caught?" Max asked.
"I won't be. Take the rifle too. There're probably a lot of people guarding Carrie and Hilary," he said, handing the rifle to Tyson.
"All right," Tyson said doubtfully. "We'll see you when we get out of here."
"Carrie! Wake up. Carrie, please, just say something," Hilary pleaded, looking at her red haired friend on the floor.
Carrie groaned, and stirred a little. "Huh?" she said, confused, looking around her cell.
"I'm here," Hilary said.
Carrie gazed toward the sound of Hilary's voice, and finally saw her friend looking at her through the metal bars separating their cells. "Hil, how come, how come you're here?"
"It's a long story," the brunette sighed. She told Carrie all about how she and Jewels were captured.
"I guess we're stuck here until someone finds out where we are. If those creeps don't kill us off first, that is," Carrie said hopelessly.
"They didn't get Zarine, but they had people beat her up. I hope she's all right. I think the guys are looking for us right this minute," Hilary said.
"How can you be so bright about it?" Carrie demanded. "I mean, look at us! We're stuck in a cell. This guy was practically torturing me earlier." Then she snorted, "Because apparently, I was impolite to the leader to this little group or underground organization or whatever you want to call it."
"Yeah, I figured that you were probably pummeled by someone. Just think logically for a moment. Say Zarine is unconscious somewhere, if Ray doesn't see her at home, he'll probably tear the whole town apart with his bare hands to find her. When he does, Zarine will tell him about how Jewels and I were captured, and the guys would come and get us," Hilary analyzed.
The red head remarked, "You sounded so much like Kenny there, you know?"
Hilary ignored that comment and asked, "Where are you hurt?"
"Everywhere," replied Carrie. "Don't worry, I'll live. I wonder how Jewels is doing though."
Meanwhile...
"So you are the one that ordered your goons to shoot at Kai and me at the junk yard a year ago. Just tell me what you want!" Jewels demanded, "And who you really are, of course." She was giving him a Kai death glare.
"Great job," 'Master' complimented. "You're here to pay for what you did that day. You weren't supposed to save Kai. He was supposed to die that day! He was interfering with my plans. If he...if he..." the boy was in such a rage that he couldn't stand to state Kai's crime. "If everything went the way it was supposed to, then I'd be a billionaire by now!"
"Well, things don't always go the way we want it to," she stated calmly. "If I had it my way...then..." Abruptly, she stopped. She was just about to say, 'If I had it my way, then Kai and I would be together." Instead, she said, "I wouldn't be stuck here, Carrie would be on her date, Zarine would be home, safe and sound, and same with Hilary!"
"Whatever," he muttered. "You're going to pay for getting into the way of my plan to kill Kai."
"Before you do any killing here, answer this question," a masculine voice said. "Who the hell are you?"
Jewels and the teen on his throne looked toward the doorway. Kai was standing there. Jewels couldn't believe her eyes. Kai??? How did he get there? How did he find her? The guy was also staring at Kai with goggled eyes. How the hell did he find where his hideout was?
"Well?" he demanded, walking over to the center of the room by Jewels. "Are you going to tell me, or are you going to just stare at me all day?"
The red haired girl just couldn't believe it, so she reached out a hand to tug on Kai's shirt to make sure that it wasn't an illusion.
"Hm?" he asked, his eyes softening at the sight of her. "What is it?"
"Nothing," she answered, blushing, looking down. "Just making sure that you are real."
"GUARDS!" 'Master' shouted.
"It's no use," Kai told him, smirking.
However, 'Master continued roaring, "GUARDS, COME AT ONCE, OR YOU'LL ALL BE PUNISHED."
Jewels raised an eyebrow at his outbursts. Either that guy needed a course in anger management very badly, or the loss of money had made him lose his marbles.
"I already said, 'It's no use.' My team knocked all of them out, so don't waste your breath," Kai told him once again, in a louder voice.
"GUARDS!!" 'Master' hollered once more before stopping his yells. He sent Kai a look of the deepest loathing.
Jewels muttered, "I think we just got another name on the list of people from Loonyville."
"We haven't found out his name yet, remember?" Kai reminded her. "We still have to do that before we can officially name him one of the residents." He turned to 'Master', and barked, "Reveal your identity or I'll do it myself."
"Fine," the mysterious guy said, pretending to be sulky. He had the prefect idea to turn the tables on Kai. Stepping down from his throne, he stepped into the light.
Jewels gasped. It was..............................Gavin! (Ha, congrats to Queen of Fantasy and 0bs3ssi0n who guessed correctly!)
"Surprised to see me?" he asked.
Kai regained his composure and responded, "Yeah, considering that you're one of the last people I expected to see."
Gavin slid his hand under his coat where he had a gun. Suddenly, he grabbed Jewels, and pointed the gun to her head.
Kai clenched his fists as he gazed at the guy who held Jewels captive.
"Don't move, Hiwatari, or she dies," he warned.
Jewels couldn't help but feel scared when she felt the gun at the side of her head. "Kai," she said quietly, "Just get away from here."
Kai felt helpless. He couldn't do anything. If he did, then....then......Jewels will be killed. He couldn't let that happen, no matter what.
"Master!" a black cloaked guy cried, running to Gavin to kneel in front of him. "Please forgive me."
"Get on your feet and tie Hiwatari up," Gavin commanded.
"Yes, sir," the servant said. He quickly got some rope and tied Kai's hands and feet.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Gavin smirked at Kai on the ground, giving him a hard kick in the stomach.
The blue haired boy groaned, and spat out some blood.
"Kai!" Jewels said. She wiggled out of Gavin's grasp to drop down beside him, and looked at him with tears in her eyes. This wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been so hotheaded and went to the forest with Zarine and Hilary.
"Let Jewels go! You got me now!" he said to Gavin angrily. "What more do you want?"
"I want the two of you dead!" he told Kai with a maniacal gleam in his eyes.
Max, Tyson, and Kenny were searching along the corridor for the girls, calling out their names, "Carrie? Hilary?"
"Let's try this one," Kenny suggested, pointing to the passage on the left.
"I guess it can't hurt," Tyson said.
"Hilary? Jewels? Carrie?" they called.
Carrie and Hilary heard their call and caught their breath. They were going to be rescued! "Intruders!" they heard someone yelled.
"Put a cork in it," they heard Tyson say. There was a low groan and a thud as Tyson knocked him out with the rifle.
"Tyson!" Hilary cried in joy, going to stand by the wooden door.
"Hil?" His muffled voice said on the other side.
"I'm in this room," she told him, knocking on the door. "Carrie's in the one on the right."
Kenny searched the pockets of the guy they just knocked out. "Here, I got the keys!" he said, waving them around. Max took them, and stuck the keys in the lock, trying to get them to open.
After a few minutes, they got Hilary's cell door opened.
"Hilary!" Tyson exclaimed, giving her a hug. "Did they hurt you?"
"Nah, just get Carrie out," she said impatiently. Normally, she would be surprised by such a move from Tyson, but this situation was different. There was no time for that.
"Hurry it up!" Carrie complained as she waited inside.
"Hold your horses!" Max grunted, trying to unlock it. The key fits, but it was extremely hard to turn. Giving it an extra hard turn, the lock finally yielded and popped open.
"Took you long enough," she said as she walked out.
"It was hard to open," the blonde haired boy protested.
"Where's Jewels?" the brunette asked.
Tyson replied. "Kai's getting her right now. Let's go."
"What about Kai and Jewels??" Carrie demanded. "We can't just leave them here!"
"Kai's orders. He said that we are going after we got you two," Kenny told her. "They can probably handle that kid alone after we knocked everyone out."
Tyson was already at the end of the hall. "Yoohoo! Let's go already! We don't want to get caught!"
Carrie reluctantly followed the others. She hoped that Kai and Jewels were going to be okay.
I'm sorry if this was bad. I'm getting bored with this whole problem. Next chappie will be better since it'll be more exciting.
This chappie's poll: Should Leo and Shea get together?
1)Ya, I mean, they're both evil, so why not?
2)No way! Are you kidding?? They would make a horrible couple
3)I dunno.
