18: Walking the Line Between Life and Death
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story other than the plot and Kat (Dead or Alive) and her Beyblade who you now know the name of, in other words Whispers mine all mine. Mwhahahahahahahaha…(Clear throat). All of them are made up by me, myself and I so don't steal and don't ask whether your allowed to borrow, I only take money. (You can if you want though, me and my mind just go crazy now and then, I'm not that mean, just ask).
Warning! Not so much blood but still a bit.
Now I just gonna laugh a bit so you wont find out whether Kat lives or not. I'm so evil, Mwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah…(faints)
Thanks to Shitza for the three reviews I received basically all at once. Sorry if I sounded too demanding for reviews, it's just sometimes I get none in three chapters and I don't know whether to think 'What the hell, just keep updating' or 'Nobodies out there likes me anymore.' And heres your update, I'm glad someone else likes this thing.
To DarkMCat. I'm glad you like gore to, I've kinda turned to liking the blood, swords, vampire, evil, darkness side of things in life nowadays, I love the Night World books to by L.J Smith too, their great. And whether Kat lives or dies is to be decided. Read and find out.
Sorry for not updating in god knows how long, and on such a cliffy, hehe, is said I'd update more in the Easter holidays but we were having an upgrade on the compute and it had to go away for a week of so. And then the Internet didn't work and I couldn't get any e-mails. Luckily I survived and here I am again. SSOTD is back in business. I still need to sort out a few things but I'll try and update more often. Thanks for reviving everyone who has. Will Kat live or die……
''You're going to be ok, you saved me and now I'll save you.'' I hear him say quickly, kindness filling his voice. I look at him then recognise him. Grey and blue hair, brown/crimson eyes, Kai. I sigh and mutter a quiet thank you that I'm sure he still heard by some miracle before my world starts going blank and I was grabbing at the edge of peace. What an eventful first day of school. A small smile spreads across my face as my eyes close, I feel Kai shake me but it has no effect. Peace at last.
End Kat's POV.
''Shit.'' Kai swore as Kat's chest stopped moving and her eyes closed over. He quickly checked for a pulse on her neck, ignoring the blood that covered it and the nearing footsteps coming behind him. He pressed slightly harder. He couldn't feel a pulse. Suddenly he heard sirens. Someone had already got the ambulance. He quickly stood up and checked for the ambulance out of the broken window, crushing stray shards of broken glass on the window ledge. The ambulance was outside, but they still might be too late by the time they got up here.
Then Ray and the rest of the Bladebreakers rushed in followed by Mr. Suto. He took one look at the situation before diving to Kat's side deciding that Lee and the other teacher that was also new to him were only out of it and not out of the world of the living.
''How long has she been like this?''
''A few seconds.'' Came Kai's reply as he stood above him. He looked Kat over, the blood covering her body had mingled with her clothes and made her t-shirt red, her shorts blood red and the pool of blood that she lay in had drifted down to her feet which had made her socks even redder than before, he had never wanted to imagine them that colour. There he stopped. One of her socks had been pulled down, and on her left calf stood a prominent black burn mark of two capital 'B's next to each other with a sword through the letters horizontally. BB (The line needs to be in teh middle of teh 'B's, horosontially and a sword really). What did that mean?
He noticed the gun she held still in her hand, it was like the other ones she had. But she had got them from her past which meant she got them from the…Black Bandits. The Black Bandits did this. Kai kept himself for saying it out loud in rage as Mr. Suto tried his hardest to get Kat back to this world but his frequent hard pushes on her chest had yet to work. Kai was just about to bend down and do it himself; he had learned such a thing back in the Abby's training routines for survival when…
Suddenly the ambulance surgeons charged in. Uniforms on, boxes of equipment by their sides. It had been little over a minute since Kat had stopped breathing, perhaps she hadn't been lost yet. Then he realised. He grabbed her bag when the surgeons took it from her and proceeded to rush around a get their equipment for a revival ready. Kai searched quickly, allowing himself to be pushed out of the room with his friends and teacher and the door shut behind him.
''Hiwatari you better not be planning on taking any of that.'' The teacher said grabbing the bag from Kai's hands. Kai couldn't help but glare at him. He had found nothing anyway, Whisper wasn't there, they had taken him. They had taken him for a reason, and he would find out. Growling he and the Bladebreakers were pushed down the corridors and told to make sure no one else came through while they tried to bring Kat back around and Mr. Suto immediately left to check on this new student. They could only agree.
''Is she really…'' Hilary couldn't finish. Tears were already coming to her eyes and they over powered her as Kai nodded. Suddenly he growled and turned sharply, punching the wall in frustration not caring how much it hurt him to do so. He'd being doing it twice as hard to them!
''What's wrong Kai?'' Max asked. Kai just growled.
''Do you remember what Kat said about her past a few days ago?'' Kai said openly. The group nodded apart from Hilary who had left before Kat had told them.
''What about Kat's past?'' She asked whipping away her tears streaking down her cheeks. Tyson for once looked sympathetically towards her but couldn't bring himself to say or do anything to help comfort her.
''She was an Orphan, she lived on the streets until she was ten and then was taken into a Bandit association and has worked as an assassin ever since. She quit a year ago but her boss is still after her.'' Ray explained quickly. Hilary looked shocked.
''I knew Kat was an assassin but I didn't know she worked for anyone that would come after her.'' She said amazed.
''Well they have and they've killed her like they wanted to.'' Kai spat in anger. ''But it's more complicated than when they were chasing us about a week ago.'' He continued quieter.
''Why Kai?'' Tyson asked. Kai turned to look down the corridor that they had just been pushed down and sighed.
''Not only have they killed her, they've taken Whisper from her bag.'' He said. ''They only wanted her Beyblade this time; they've changed, last time they just wanted her dead. I recon they've seen Kat train with her blade and have someone ordering them to gain it in anyway possible.'' He turned from his explanation to his team.
''You mean like your grandfather?'' Tyson said quietly, they all knew about his escape (Just in this story, he somehow escaped Jail and is now on the run, i'm not too good on the Demoboys/Boris/Voltaire side of things). Kai just stayed silent but his shoulders did slump slightly, he thought so too and he had been beaten by his grandfather again.
Suddenly the door to the head's office burst open and Mr. Suto rushed out carrying the boxes of equipment the Surgeons had brought with the surgeons themselves pushing a put up medical bed on wheels along quickly behind the sprinting teacher.
''Clear the way guys and go ahead and make sure no-one gets in the way.'' He yelled.
''You mean she's…'' Hilary asked happily. The teacher nodded as they ran off with the Paramedics and teacher close behind.
She lay there, now clean of blood but still looked as though she had gone through hell, literally. She had tubes helping her breath, tubes connected to blood supplies hanging above her head on rails, tubes leading to blood pressure devises, tubes leading to heart monitors, tubes leading to food supply's. She was lying on her bed of white cloth at the hospital, her might be death bed.
The Bladebreakers looked through the glass that surrounded the area and into Kat's own life support clinic. She was lucky to be alive. Mr. Suto stood behind them, talking to a nurse about what happened, while they watched their friend try and survive. She was walking the line between life and death, it was a very thin line and they wondered whether she'd be able live through this to become normal again, to blade, talk, just be Kat.
This is all because of her past. Kai thought standing, still like Ray, in his P.E Kit, away from the others but still watching Kat eagerly. His arm stung slightly from the needle but he didn't care in the slightest as he looked upon Kat's still form.
'This is all because of Whisper.' Dranzer said.
''I said I would help her, that was the condition of her joining the Bladebreakers, that I would help her.'' Kai replied.
'You have, she's opened up a lot during these last few days, she's even been trying to crack a joke or too, and I know for a fact people in her situation don't crack jokes. But this was beyond your help Master, you could do nothing other than what you have already done, do not bring it upon yourself.' Dranzer said. Kai didn't reply as Mr. Suto came up behind them and walked to the front of the glass. He looked for a few seconds before turning back to them.
''They say she'll live and somehow she's recovering a lot quicker than others would in her condition.'' He said. Only Kai knew the meaning of that, she was connected with Whisper after all, his magic was her magic, his life, hers…thus his healing was running through her also.
''Does that mean we can go in and see her?'' Max asked. The teacher nodded.
''Do you think we should all go at once, I mean I know other people sometimes don't like all the hassle of lots of people?'' Kenny asked after remaining silent for about the last hour. The teacher nodded again.
''It may be, they said we could all go in though but if you want to stay out you may, I'll be out here anyway.'' Mr. Suto said. Kenny nodded.
''I really don't like to see people like this.'' He muttered but the teacher heard. Another nurse then came up.
''Excuse me, I think that Miss Triagon is waking up, you're fine to go and see her now.'' And walked off again. Tyson nodded and was rewarded with a nod from Ray, Max and Hilary. Kai just remained silent although Tyson knew that he would go in after them. The four walked into Kat's room and were immediately looked upon with a pair of dull black eyes, their mischief and humour gone, hopefully not forever.
''Kat, your awake.'' Hilary virtually yelled and she rushed to Kat's side and did her best to hug her without taking out any of her friend tubes holding her into this world. Kat groaned slightly and tried to speak but only got it out as a mutter.
''Hi there guys.'' She said meekly.
''What happened up there Kat?'' Tyson asked quietly. Ray groaned.
''Your going to make her remember that aren't you?'' He said.
''No, it's ok.'' Kat said closing her eyes and gulping deeply although they could tell it was hurting her.
''I went up there…with Lee…He knew it was…them.'' Kat started, gulping or just pausing for breath every so often, her voice was muffled as she tried to speak. ''We were only…meant to talk, he said. But instead they…attack me. They told me to…go back with them…no, I said. So…so they shot me down…and, left me to die.'' She finished.
''So the Black Bandits really did do this?'' Max asked. Kat nodded.
''And Lee helped them, that stupid baka, I'll get him when I see him next he'll wish he'd never been born.'' Hilary fumed. Kat cracked a smile.
''No, need. I'll get him…first.'' They all smiled.
''Kat you really are a hero, you're at deaths door yet you're still holding on and managing to put out challenges for when you're better.'' Ray said smiling.
''I know I'm going to…get better. It's…in my blood.'' She said.
''What do you mean?'' Tyson asked.
''I'm fighting for…for Whisper. They took him…and I'm going to get him back.'' For a brief second her tired black eyes flashed with fury and defiance and they knew that she would.
''So Kat, what's going to happen when you get out?'' Hilary asked
''First I'm going to…hurt Lee. Then…get back Whisper.'' She said determinedly. They nodded.
''We'll be helping you Kat.'' Tyson said. ''You're a Bladebreaker now so we'll all help you.''
''That's asking a…bit much of…Kai.'' Kat said smiling. The rest smirked.
''Ok guys, you better come out, I don't expect you to go back to school today, I wouldn't after what's happened but when you do expect to have to answer questions. Everyone saw you leave after the ambulance.'' Mr. Suto said poking his head through the door. The team nodded and he disappeared again.
''Bye Kat, you will get better.'' Hilary said hugging her friend again, Kat raised a hand to her back to half hug her back and then she left.
''When you get better and we get back Whisper together as a team, you and me, Beybattle.'' Tyson challenged.
''I'll beat you…this time, Tyson.'' Kat murmured and Tyson left planning on defeating Kat, if she could kick Kai's ass then he was going to have some trouble.
''I don't really have much to offer to you Kat.'' Max said. ''I'll just be there for you, we all will if you need help. I'll get Kenny to try and research what happened to Whisper. Sorry he didn't come in as well, he said he doesn't like seeing people like this.'' Max said.
''It's ok…Say thank you to, Chief.'' Kat smiled slightly as the blond waked away to the rest of his team.
''I'm like Max, you know we're always be there for you, I wish I could have done something though.'' Ray said.
''I got myself into this…I'll get myself out.'' Kat said to the raven haired boy. The boy smiled, showing his sharp teeth and walked out with his braided hair swishing like a tail behind him. Kat sighed, she better get better now.
''I'll see you back at school.'' Mr. Suto said coming fully into the room again. Kat nodded.
''Sorry if I…scared you sir.'' The teacher smiled.
''You more than scared me, Triagon. But even so you also impressed me. Not many people would be able to face a gun and still smirk.'' He said.
''How do you know…that?'' Kat asked.
''We questioned Lee. He saw the whole thing happen didn't he. He began to come round when we were trying to…'' The teacher didn't continue.
''I know sir…I died…I know.'' Kat murmured. The teacher nodded before leaving without another word. This was obviously the first time he'd ever been in a hospital with a student like this.
Kat sighed and closed her eyes. Ready for sleep to come and take her away from this hospital bed and back to her past, to her good memories or her dreams. She heard the door open and shut again but thought nothing of it, probably just a nurse here to check something on her. They came virtually every ten minutes now. But instead she heard someone come up to her head and pull up a chair from across the room and pull it next to the bed. The person sat down on the chair and Kat cracked open her eye nearest to it.
''I…thought I wouldn't…see you here.'' Kat murmured. The figure just grunted and uncrossed his arms and looked at her.
''I said I would help you but I didn't.''
''You couldn't.''
''I could have tried.'' Kat stayed silent and closed her eye again.
''I'll get better, I will Kai.'' Kai turned to her and looked over her still form.
''Why have you got that mark on your leg?'' He asked. The girl paused.
''It shows…that I'm a…Black Bandit…that I belong to them…I don't.'' Kat answered with still closed eyes. Kai nodded although she didn't see it. He got up and walked off.
''Thank you.'' He turned at Kat's weak and harmless voice. She had opened her eyes again and he stared into the black depths but found no answers or clues to what she was thinking of, only pain, agony and tiredness.
''For what?''
''For helping me…tell about my past. I have never told anyone…about it.'' She murmured before trying to sit up. She smiled. ''Tell Lee…Kat's after him…for what he's done.'' Kai nodded and stayed blank.
''I'll see you soon, Kai.'' She said Kai nodded and smiled slightly.
''I expect you to be able to beat me at anything when you get out of this place, we'll get back Whisper and end the Black Bandits.'' He said smirking. Kat nodded and the boy left. That meant 'I hope you get better soon, I'll help you' in Kai.
(That came out quiet well. Better than I imagined it besides taht i think you found out tooearly on the chap that she lived. Oh well, Review please. Luv you all. And what was with Kai's arms stinging too? Think about it and tell me what you think might have happened. Cya.)