Thank you very much to people who sent me ideas! It really inspired me to write the last chapter and this chapter.

Results for the poll: Most people said yes, though a few said, 'I dunno.' I've already decided whether they were going to be together before this, but I just wanted your opinion about the pairing.


Chapter Twenty-One – We Go Together, We Stay Together

"Jewels," Kai called out to the red haired girl on the other side of the room. "Jewels," he repeated.

Jewels groaned and opened her eyes. "What?" She glanced over to Kai and saw that he was still tied. She walked over to him, and untied the strings that bound his hands and feet.

"You're bleeding," they said at the same time. Kai reached out his hand to touch the bleeding wound on the side of her head. She winced at his touch, and pulled away.

"Don't touch it," she snapped. Then she mumbled, "Sorry, it just hurts when you do. Gimme your scarf, your arm is bleeding."

He handed her his white (and beautiful) scarf to her without a word. She tried to ignore the fact that he was staring at her face as she wrapped the scarf around his wound to stop it from bleeding.

Kai studied the face that was so familiar and yet so strange to him. A year ago, she had a........what's the word...flinty expression. She was like steel. Not anymore though. Her face was softened and not as closed to the world as before. He wasn't sure if he liked it, but he had a feeling that he will.

"There," she announced, letting go of his arm. "Let's find a way to get out of here."

"Yeah," he agreed. Silently, he berated himself, [Stop thinking about her and concentrate on what's important!]

They tried to open the only door, but it was stubborn and wouldn't move an inch even though they had combined their strength.

"Stop trying, it's futile," Gavin's voice crackled on the speaker somewhere in the room.

"Why are you doing this?" Kai demanded.

"I already told you that you are going to pay for getting into my way a year ago," Gavin answered impatiently.

"He said that you were supposed to die the day that we were attacked," Jewels told Kai.

"Why? Why did you want to kill me?" Kai questioned.

"I hate the Bladebreakers, so I worked with this group of criminals who wanted to steal your bit-beasts. They promised me billions of dollars if they succeed. It was all going smoothly until you came along. I had to get you out of the picture," Gavin explained angrily. "Billions of dollars!!!! You made me loose so much money!"

"I swore to protect my bit-beast and same with the rest of my team," Kai told him coldly.

"I don't care about your oath! I only care about the money that I've lost when your team defeated the Dark Force!" Gavin yelled, losing control of his temper once more.

Kai thought about it for a moment and then he understood everything. The Dark Force wanted their bit-beast and Gavin found out about it and offered his help in exchange for money. However, his group was doing everything to thwart Gavin's plan so Gavin wanted to get him out of the way. He didn't die because Jewels saved him. His team beat the Dark Force and that meant that Gavin was getting no money. Gavin was enraged by the loss, so he wanted to get revenge on the two of them for it.

"It doesn't matter now, since you are meeting your death in fifteen minutes," Gavin said, laughing insanely.

"The building will be exploded in fifteen minutes, please evacuate," a cool female voice announced.

Jewels said, "Oh great, now how are we supposed to get out of this?"

While she was saying that, Kai was already ramming against the door, attempting to burst through.

"Ah! I can't do it!" he growled in frustration.

'I'll help you,' Dranzer said.

Kai didn't waste time asking question, and launched his blade right away. Dranzer used his power to break through the wall. Kai used his body to shield Jewels from the falling rocks. Jewels could feel herself blushing for the second time that day. She felt strangely safe in his arms. Pushing the thoughts away, she looked up to see the glowing Dranzer looking at the both of them in a knowing way.

'That's all I can do. Get out of here quickly,' Dranzer sent the thought to the both of them.

Jewels looked at the phoenix in wonder. [Dranzer can talk?] she thought.

"Come on!" Kai said, grabbing her arm. He pulled her along in a dead run through the maze of hallways, trying to find their way out of there.

"Twelve minutes and twenty-four seconds until the explosion, please evacuate the building at once," the voice announced from somewhere again.

Suddenly there was a loud BOOM! Kai and Jewels were thrown to one side.

"That voice said that there were still twelve minutes!" Jewels said indignantly. "What kind of sick joke is this?"

"I guess Gavin left some other bombs around," Kai grunted with a look of great pain in his eyes. His leg was stuck and he couldn't get it out.

Jewels looked at him and found that rocks and pieces of the ceiling had fallen.....onto Kai's leg. She removed the rumble carefully, not touching his leg for fear that it will hurt him.

"I think my leg is broken," he said. Gingerly, he tried to move his leg, but all he accomplished was hurting himself.

"Go without me," he told Jewels. "You can still get out of here. I'll just slow you down."

"No, I'm not going anywhere without you," she said firmly.

He sighed, "Jewels, just go. I don't...I don't want to shout at you like I did the last time I tried to get you to leave me."

"I don't care what you do. We're going to get out together. You got it? Together!" she said fiercely.

"Eight minutes until explosion, please evacuate the building immediately," the voice said again.

"Stop wasting time!" Kai barked. He glared at her but it didn't have the desired effect because he was wincing in pain at the same time.

"Stop wasting your breath. We go together, or we stay together, it's as simple as that," Jewels told him.

He scowled at her, but nodded in defeat. She put his arm around her neck and helped him up. Leaning heavily on her, he managed to stand, barely.

"Why wouldn't you leave me?" he questioned, panting heavily.

"You're my friend," she answered simply. Wandering around, she wondered if they would get out of there at all.

"Three minutes until explosion, please evacuate the building immediately," said the recording.

"Look, Jewels, there is the 'throne' room," Kai said weakly.

"We must be close," Jewels said, breathing heavily. Kai was no feather weight after all.

They made their way through the tunnel as quick as they could, when they were at the trap door, they heard the announcement faintly, "One minute until explosion, please evacuate immediately."

"We just have to get up the stairs," Jewels said encouragingly. "We'll get out of here."

Opening the trapdoor, they poked their heads out. "Let me go. I'll run," Kai said.

"You'll ruin your leg," she said.

"I don't care, just do it!" he growled.

BOOM! They heard the explosion, and ran even faster over the shaking ground.

Kai tackled Jewels onto the ground as the whole Candyland house erupted like a volcano. They waited until silence fell in the amusement park once more.

"We made it out," the red head laughed weakly. Rolling onto her back, she hugged Kai.

"Yeah," he said in relieve. He smiled happily, looking into her beautiful violet eyes. "We made it."

He lowered his head and kissed her gently. Jewels froze in shock for a moment before kissing him back. After a minute, Kai broke it off. Without hesitation, she moved in to kiss him, her hands caressing his back. Kai didn't complain, he ran his tongue over her bottom lip and she let him have access into her mouth willingly. Tasting the sweetness of her mouth, he felt like he couldn't get enough of her.

After five minutes, they stopped and realized what they were doing. "What the heck just happened?" Jewels asked in confusion.

"I don't have the faintest idea," he replied. "Let's just get out of here. I'll call Thomas to come and get us." He took out his cell phone and called his butler. Normally, he wouldn't have bothered, but he was really in no condition to walk anywhere.

"Master Kai, you're hurt!" Thomas said in concern when he saw Kai sitting on the ground.

"Are the others okay?" Kai demanded, ignoring his butler's comment.

"Yes, they're currently at Tyson's dojo. Ray and Zarine are there too," the elderly man answered.

"Take us there," Kai ordered.

"But..." protested Thomas.

"Just do it!" Kai snapped.

Thomas drove the limo the Tyson's. Leaning once again on Jewels, they walked into Tyson's room to find the others.

"Kai! Jewels!" Carrie exclaimed, pulling Jewels into a hug. "I thought you were never going to come!"

"I'm so glad to see that you're okay," Zarine said with a smile. Then she coughed, a ripping sound in her throat.

Ray looked at her with worry in his eyes. She noticed and said, "I'll be fine! The doctor said so!"

"So what took you so long?" Tyson asked.

"You better save the questions for later," Grandpa said. "Kai and Jewels need to have medical attention. Luckily the doc is still here."

It was really crowded in Tyson's room, plus there was the fact that his room was a mess so they moved into the practice room, leaving Zarine and Ray.

"You can go too, you know," Zarine said to Ray.

"I'm staying with you until you go to sleep. You need it, young lady," Ray told her sternly.

"Who are you to speak to me like that?" she demanded. "You're my boyfriend, not my father!" Then she grinned, "If you're staying until I fall asleep, then I'll never sleep. I want you to stay with me forever."

Ray attempted to scowl at her, but failed miserably. She was too cute to get mad at. "Fine, I'll go then."

"Bye!" she said brightly, as if she couldn't wait until he leaves.

When Ray went into the practice room, the doctor was splintering Kai's leg with the others watching.

"You'll have to get a cast for your leg," the doctor told Kai, "And keep it for about two months."

He nodded with a grimace. Two months with a cast was not his idea of fun.

After, she tended to the cuts and bruises on Kai and Jewels' bodies. "They're not too bad, just rest a few days at home," she told them.

"Thanks, doc," Grandpa said warmly, shaking her hand.

The doctor turned to the rest of them and advised, "I suggest you go home and get some sleep. You all look really tired."

"Ray, go get Zarine, we're going home," Kai said. "Carrie, jewels, I'll give you a ride to your house."

Carrie couldn't wait to be back home, she ran out of the car without saying good bye or thank you to her friends. Jewels was right behind her, but she did remember to thank Kai for the ride.

"Mom! Dad!" Carrie yelled.

"Carrie!" Mrs. Satsuki said with tears in her eyes. "I thought I would never see you or Jewels again."

Jewels stood awkwardly like an outsider while her parents were busy hugging her twin. She didn't have the kind of relationship with her parents like Carrie did.

"Good to see you," her dad said, ruffling her hair like he did when she was little.

"Yeah," she agreed, smiling. And when she looked at her parents, she understood something. Even though her bond with her parents was so different from Carrie's, it didn't mean that her parents didn't love her or that she didn't care about her parents. They do love each other, but they just have a different way of showing it.


It was short, but I like it! No, I love it! I hope you liked the part where Kai and Jewels made out on the spur of the moment! Lol, they were supposed to only kiss, but I thought, why not make out? Haha, I better get a lotz of reviews for this chapter!

Poll:

Do you think I should write a short fic about Kai and Jewels' relationship before the Bladebreakers met Zarine? It'll basically be about how Kai had people followed and stuff. They wouldn't be paired up because it's in the past, they'll just be best friends.

Yes. That's one of the most brilliant ideas ever!

No. The fic will be very stupid.