Shitza: Quite a teaser wasn't it? Wohooo, I am back home writing! So, to cheer you up I am posting this chapter before I am continuing on the other fic I am writing on. Should make you very happy!
I have managed to catch some nasty infection in my throat. No fevers or so, just irritation. ARGH, I don't want to get sick in the summer. My room is already horrible warm enough.
But I have huge thanks for the 100 hits after only 3 chapters. You guys are some amazing. (Bows). I have no idea how to thank you… Well, except for updating!
Oh and before I forget it this time. Kim's hair is described short, but in my life short hair has always meant shoulder length. Weird? Not too surprising, I used to have waist long for ages till I grew tired enough to cut it.
Anyway, about this chapter… A bit darker… definitely more about their families and about darker pasts will be revealed...I have also added a little flash into our villains lair… I think it is time to bring them out into the scene, with names and all. Oh by the way, about their pasts, I am making this up; you can't find these facts in the show. I am very evil. I came close to this in GoL but this is the first time I am doing deeper studies. I hope you enjoy.
Warning: If you can't take violence then I may suggest you find something else. If you haven't understood now this fic is a little bit violent.
Disclaimer: Stands for every future BB fic and for this fic as well. (I always forget to put it in) Me, Shitza, DON'T OWN Beyblade or anything associated with it. Me, Shitza, don't own the characters of the show or movie. Me, Shitza, don't even own a beyblade. Me, Shitza, simply own a wild and crazy imagination.
Shitza
Ps: The food incident has to be explained now, or in other ways I don't know how my mailbox will look tomorrow. No, the nasty things Kim says about Western food is her opinion, not mine. Plus, they do eat it there. I was in Asia only this year and we were warned to read it correctly.
Pps: And don't ask me how it tastes. I have no clue. In fact, I did keep a firm look on the menu whenever we ate somewhere.
Ppps: I should really start to shorten the chapters… feels like I could make them longer and longer if this keeps up.
Chapter 3 Dear Sisters and Dear Brothers
Two huge iron doors opened to the sound of a whistle. The Bladebreakers couldn't believe their eyes as they stepped inside. Lit torches burned at every wall of every house and there were no children playing like it had done in Daichi's home. The houses were built of stone, or mostly iron. The roofs were all built from magma material, probably taken from the volcano. Ground here was cliffs, nothing else and the ground itself burned beneath their feet. Here and there small holes of lava poured out over well-observed areas. It didn't surprise them at all. It could almost, thinking of how it all looked, be expected.
The people in the Fire village was far from friendly… Indeed, most of the people they saw stared at them, whispered behind their backs. The women were all dressed in the same style Raya had been all this time, Kim had changed in clothing due to her priestess duties. She nowadays mostly wore the same robe with hood, in blood red colour. The old gold belt tied it all back to her waist, so she still showed some of the female sides. But the people in her Village new well enough not to cross her. The two knives and the bow told more then that.
Her hood was up; perhaps that was why people stared at them. Maybe they didn't recognise her.
Max, Tyson and Hilary huddled together as they walked. Ray was gently edging a trembling Chief forward, the Neko Jin himself looked slightly anxious. Kai didn't look scared or anxious but walked some steps behind. Man, most of them armoured like Kai, watched every step they took.
Without warning a grey haired old man halted them. He was wearing a white robe with a rope around his waist. His eyes were glazed and his hands outstretched. His hand snatched Hilary's wrist. The girl looked terrified, ready to scream, but no words came.
"Prey for the unworthy, and for the souls that are destined to the dark." He said in a low voice. "Your future holds tears, and the one you hold dear will one day abandon you."
He continued by looking at Tyson. "What deeds you are doing are good, but that goodness will go for the bad. People will have you for their uses."
Then Max.
"Your past will catch up to you. Bear in mind that the past never leaves you. It will hunt you down."
And Kai.
People are never what they seem. The very person you fear is after you. Be warned."
Lastly Ray.
"You are seeking someone who you want to save. She cannot be saved." He laughed. "She is doomed forever."
"And you…" the man began, but he never finished. He stared at her and then fled.
"What was that about?" Chief asked, quite happy not to have been given these kinds of predictions, or whatever they were.
"That old man thinks he is the Greatest Seer of all." She said coolly. "He is harmless really, if he would have been a seer he would never have lived here. People pay though to hear his grim futures."
But no one replied. Everyone thought about the sad futures they had been given. Most of them couldn't figure it out; Hilary couldn't believe Tyson would ever abandon her. Kai thought about his fears, what did he have for fears? His grandfather and Boris were dead or imprisoned for good. Yes, there were some more people he had feared at the Abbey, but they had disappeared quite swiftly. He hadn't seen them since he had managed to blow the place up. Max thought about his past… the only sad pasts he could remember was his parents' divorce and his grandmother's death.
"He can't have meant Candy, could he? Candy had been his little sister (see chapter 7 Dark Secrets; GoL.) The little girl had died though, very young. When she had been ten she had fallen down a cliff and died breaking her neck. Max remembered that day so well. It was the same day their mother had packed her bags to leave. The girl had been devastated, she had tried so much to ignore the truth. They had started arguing after her birth, and it had never stopped. They slept in separate rooms; they never talked with each other. Believing everything had been her fault the little girl had down the only thing she could feel like appropriate. Believing her parents would get together if she was dead she did it. She killed herself with no regrets. Max had seen parts of it, he remembered the day so well. The letter on her bed, the cliff and the scream. It had always haunted him.
"What did he mean with that?" he said in a whisper. Unfortunately Ray heard.
"What did you say?" he asked the blonde boy.
Max hesitated. "N-Nothing" he said in a soft reply before going back into deep thoughts, careful not to open his loud mouth.
The Fire temple was a red building with golden roof. It looked like a royal Asian castle, except for the facts this was made for prayers and religion. Kai wondered what they meant with religion, nothing seemed very religious here.
The temple had five rooms. One main hall where people came for prayers, cleaning of souls, healing of wounds, etc. There was also an office for Kim to use, a gold room with heaps of soft cushions, and a room for Lee-Eck, which had red velvet on the walls and instead of cushions he had gold.
The fourth room was simple a room just for prayers. The fifth was some kind of hospital where they could see some kids fast asleep. Kim showed them to her office, told them to be comfortable while she finished her last duties for noon. The kids in the fifth room had all caught a nasty amount of ash in their lungs, being stupid enough to have climbed on the wrong side of the wind. The smoke coming from the volcano had blown towards them nearly choking the kids to death. They should be happy enough their mothers had managed to find them before anything had happened.
She returned not too long afterwards with the huge sack of fruit on her shoulder, also carrying what looked like a package of some sort. She smiled as they opened it and saw to their empty stomachs delight it was…
"Wow" Max said happily! Rice cakes… cool!"
Kim smiled. "Not exactly… these are in fact Melotawa, or Lice cookies you would call them."
Several hungry hands hurriedly withdrew from the package. Hilary pulled a disgusted face.
"Seriously, you guys are from Asia aren't you? Oh, the bad influences from the West, brings nothing more or less then fat hamburgers. No, these are a lot better, all though I really do prefer them sweet then by their actual taste."
She picked up one of the sweetened bug-cakes and took a bite. Max soon followed.
"What, he said. It can't be worse then eating ants in chocolate, can it?" he said joining in. Kai said nothing, he had eaten worse thing in his past. Soon most people had dug in, even Hilary who had been the first one to pull a face. The only left was miraculously enough Tyson, who kept his hands away. His stomach grumbled in hunger, but the boy refused to eat a bite.
The all ate in silence, too hungry to talk. The package, which had been filled with Melotawa quickly emptied. Kim started to giggle slightly seeing the seven starving people practically fight to get more. When there was only one last Melotawa and Ray and Max both grabbed it at the same time the air around them tensed and the two friends started to argue. They were so caught up in making new rude comments they didn't notice a small hand snatch it away. Hilary opened her mouth and took a bite of the last one making the two bladers close to faint.
"Sorry boys, it's gone!" she said brushing the last crumbs from her skirt.
Kim couldn't help to giggle seeing the two shattered boys. The eight teens all got up to their feet, Max and ray in a sour mood, and followed her up towards the volcano. She said smiling. "If you want food you have to work for it. There are some boulders blocking the lava flow, I will need them smashed within some hours. When you are done meet me down in the village for one last thing."
Smiling she hurried away, before anyone would be able to catch her. The boys all sighed, but blading didn't seem like such a bad idea. It was after all a good practise, especially since that incident by the Wind Village.
"By the way" Hilary asked Kenny, the two of them had no blades and stayed outside the practise. How come the last training turned out to be such a disgrace? " She asked thinking back to their last training. Chief looked down and drew his foot on the ground.
He lowered his voice so the others wouldn't see it. "Well, I don't have a real answer to that question, hardly know myself. But as far as I could calculate it there is a lot of volcanic activities in the ground, and I guess the ground we were on is quite unstable. It was sand beneath the rocks they bladed on, the sand caused a friction making the stones move in the same way like small seismographic moves, undetectable to the eye, but detectable for something as light weighted and vulnerable as a blade. Well, that is the theory."
Hilary nodded. They had been talking about volcanoes in class. But it only added more questions to her mind, but she would save them for either Kim or Daichi to answer.
The boys had some fun though. At least training went, as they wanted. The rocks exploded before them and ever so often more and more lava started to fall down the slope. A few minutes later the blades returned and the lava flowed gently down towards the village. They had no clue why they did it, and they wondered if it had been such a good idea. But then Kim returned and she was smiling.
"That saved me a lot of trouble." She said. She had changed clothes and was now wearing a short red silk dress with ribbons on her wrists and ankles. The girl was forced to hold the silk bands in her hand, as they otherwise were long enough to drag in the dirt. It looked like there was some sort of ceremony on its way.
"Thank you guys, all though I… or rather say, me and the women need some more help. Come on! I'll show you!"
She led them down again towards the village where they could see the men working to construct some sort of altar. The gang had no time to look closer as Kim hurried her steps and took them to a large house with a lot of steam coming from the chimneys. She hurried them inside and firmly closed the doors as they entered.
"Well, take of your shoes!" she ordered them. The guys hesitated for a moment before following orders. Then they followed her towards what looked like a large tub. It was huge, Kai, who was the tallest, barely could look in to it.
Kim left and they were given instructions by a red haired girl with her hair braided like a Gloria. They all had to wash their feet firmly, dry then and then put on some wood sandals. Then the girl practically chased them up a small ladder and made them jump into the tub, which had been filled with…
"Fruit… it's that weird fruit you found Kai!" Zeo concluded. The girl told them to step as much as they could.
What no one had realised was that the tub was some kind of cask, and that a lot more girls appeared brining glass bottles with them. Each of them filled their bottle with a pearly golden drink. The guys continued walking around. To Max, Ray, Tyson and Hilary this was quite fun and made them feel like kids again. Chief blushed as he was trying to keep his clothing from falling into the mass of mashed fruit. Kai tried to take back command, but the girls around him won. Zeo was unreadable… actually to him things felt kind of disgusting.
While they were stomping around, to some in childish happiness and to others, frustration, they couldn't help to overhear one of many conversations.
"Our honourable Priestess sure looked worried today, do you really think there will be a feast tonight?" a very young girl asked.
An older woman, probably her mother, answered: "Of course there will be a feast. It is only once a year and don't worry. Nothing will happen to this place as long as we are alive. No demons will ever get us, this place is too well protected."
But there was something in the woman's voice indicating she wasn't telling the truth. The little girl noticed this and started to cry.
"I don't want the demons to take me!" she said.
"Hush little one, it isn't you who they are after. Gods knows what will happen to the Light of this Valley, with the Prophecy and all. Come on little one, we need to go out there and watch the festivities."
When they had left the conversation started.
"What was that about?" Ray asked.
"Yeah, and what did she mean with Prophecies?" Hilary said puzzled.
"Yeah, and what on Earth did she mean with Light?" Max said.
They all had the same kind of confused fog in their heads as Raya soon entered the building to collect them. She was wearing a very formal sort of armour not to mention it was odd, since they all could swear that the armour had been made for a man.
'Things in this place just gets weirder and weirder' Max thought as the left the building, to join the feast.
Not to far away, deep inside the inner side of the Earth, like a deep gash the poor planet had received some who knows what, two nasty looking things held a secret conversation. This place, where no man could enter, held the lairs of the demons, the restless hateful spirits that once had been known as Bit Beasts. One of them, who had taken the corpse of an old Japanese samurai, sat by a rock, smiling.
"So Gashesh… you are telling me that my bride is soon ready for the ceremony. What a wonderful thing to know. I've waited in years for the Dark prophecies to come true."
The other one, who held the corpse of a greasy haired Chinese man looked victorious. "Yes, my Lord. It is true; they couldn't keep her away from you. Soon we will be back were we belong, the shields are weakened. Only powers of the noblest beasts in the world would be able to seal us. And also, they have to be wielded by someone noble enough to prove it."
The demon lord laughed. "So, do you have any ideas for our victory?" he asked.
"No my Lord, besides our storm troops are still in training."
The other demon didn't look too pleased.
"Very well then, you are dismissed until you can find one."
Zeo was having a wonderful time. Indeed, for him it had felt like ages since he could enjoy himself like this. The feast was nothing like the formal parties his dad could hold with some of his partners. No, this one held a lot more laughter, dancing and the best food he had tasted.
Around him the rest of the Bladebreakers could be found in a various amount of places. Tyson was found on two places. One second he was eating by a huge table filled with dishes, the other Hilary had dragged him out to dance. Ray was spotted occasionally, most hunted down by a flock of young kids who had never seen a Neko Jin in their entire life. Kai was standing some yards away from the worst festivities, obviously not wanting to be dragged in. Chief could be found by a pool of lava, the reason they had been crushing stones earlier. The villages had dammed the place up, and the pool was really cool. But he did not understand the point of it.
Max had disappeared, and few people had spotted the cheery blonde boy since they had left the Lamalia factory. That was what they had been produced. Lamalia, better then any wine or vinegar you have ever tasted. The taste couldn't be described, but it was like tasting all kinds of fruit and best of all. The taste lingered for the night, so there was no point drinking much.
Zeo wondered where the blonde haired boy had walked off to. He excused himself from a flirty girl who had clung to him for the last few minutes and went to find him. He didn't have to look far. Max was sitting by the edge of small cliff, deep in thoughts.
"Hello Max!" Zeo said happily, yet his expression fell seeing the crying teen looking out over the horizon."
Zeo looked worried. As far as he knew Max had never acted like this, so broken. "What is it?"
Max sniffed. "Life is simply unfair!" he said holding up a small cross-made in silver. It was a necklace that had belonged to his sister. It had been sold after her death and now he had found it, in a shop in this village. Life was really unfair.
The hours hurried past everyone and soon the main vent would begin. The feast, which was a celebration for the end of the Golden War, the same war fought over 2000 years ago, had a special celebration as the Valley had been saved and the Fire village now held the honours of feasting once a year. Because of that all priestesses had travelled to join coming from their village. But this wasn't why people were closing up to the lava pool, or the altar that stood beside it.
Lee-Eck was dressed in a fury glamorous costume and in his big hand was a gold goblet.
"To freedom!" he said as everyone else joined in. "Let the dance begin!"
And then the wild music started and the altar exploded in a cascade of colours. Twelve girls started to dance like fire, their energy floating from them.
The dance had a story, about the Village itself. Even if the dance itself was wild and the silk bands whirled around there was two characters. In this dance Kim, who was Priestess, and Raya, who had been pulled in because of the Priest's huge stomach, showed everyone about a tragedy. A love story where two lovers flew up to the top of a mountain. But as they found each other that night the gods inside the volcano grew angry and the mountain exploded.
The people who looked for a place to set for this village found the mountain to be the perfect place. It had everything they needed.
As the dance went on Kai couldn't stop watching, even if he had wanted to. To his amazement his heart beat in rhythm to the music. His eyes followed a certain girl around and he hated to admit it but she looked so perfect. So elegant, so beautiful, so loving…
He mentally smacked himself. Hadn't he told himself not to fall for someone like that? Frustrated he tried to focus his thoughts on other more important thing, yet his eyes slid towards the altar once in a minute.
The dance ended with the two girls swirling around each other. To the newcomers amazement the lava in the pool followed the movements. They couldn't believe their eyes as the melted stone rose and like a rainbow, fell towards the crater to once more return.
"The gods are with us, this village will remain unharmed and the powers of the gods will serve us as they serve the gods. Hail the gods!" Lee-Eck finished. The music died, the fires went out and everyone raised their goblets.
People returned to their homes, feeling slightly lighter then they had done this morning. The Bladebreakers were showed back to the temple where Kim offered them to sleep in her Office; no one would bother them there. As everyone felt tired they didn't object.
"But where will you sleep?" Hilary asked pulling a blanket over herself.
Kim smiled mysteriously. "I never sleep here, to much violence in the air. No, I have another hideout."
The lights went out and the room went pitch black. The soft sounds of snoring could be heard coming from Tyson, who was also mumbling in his sleep. Most people fell asleep fairly quickly, well except for Max. The necklace his sister had worn still lay in his hand. He could simply imagine the long rode it must have travelled to get here.
"It is just like he said. My past would hunt me down, it has. Kim was wrong, he really knows the future."
And with that he fell into an uneasy sleep.
The sun rose early in the morning and the Bladebreakers were about to be abruptly shaken from wonderland by a ferocious attack. Little did they know what was to be expected.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU THINKING OFF! I AM THE MOST NOBLE PRINCESS OF THIS VILLAGE I DEMAND TO MEET THEM! YOU GUARDS, YOU HAVE NO RIGTS TO DO THIS. I AM NOT ONLY THE PRINCESS, I'V GOT STYLES, 'IVE GOT LOOKS AND I AM DAMN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THAT STINKING PIG OF PRIESTESS! NOW LET ME IN, I AM THE UPCOMMING PRIESTESS WHO WANTS TO HAVE A GOOD LOOK OF THIS RAT HOLE. YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME, I HAVE SUCH A HIGHER AUTHORITY THEN ANY OF YOU!"
Whoever it was outside the doors of the temple, that girl was yelling herself horse.
There was a crash, followed by a lot of yelps coming from the guards. They could hear footsteps in the corridors and the door to the Office slid open.
"So, it is true, there are foreigners in the Valley. So slaves, are you ready to work? Oh, don't bother answering; you are going to do my shores today anyway. So hurry up lazy scum!"
The girl in the doorway had white hair, brown eyes and a nasty stench around her, which smelled like sixteen different perfumes. Hilary wrinkled her nose. Who was this person to barge in like this? The girl also happened to wear loads of fur clothes and jewellery. She was obviously rich to the valley's standards.
"That's enough Calinia, they are not your slaves. In fact they'll be leaving this village in a few minutes."
"What are you doing here, Kin? How dare you steal my post as priestess!"
Kim's eyes slithered, as if she really had been a Neko Jin, which she wasn't. "Steal your post you say, well then let me remind you there are certain obstacles you still have to come over before you will have my post, and that means you will have to get through me too, and I am not someone to cross. Do leave this holy place before I banish you from the village!"
The white haired woman snorted and turned her heel. Before she disappeared she spit at the floor.
"You will pay for this, yes you will!"
Kim sighed. She held another package in her hands, which were rice cakes. Tyson ate greedily while the others barely touched their cakes.
"Who was that?" Max asked.
"No one, Max! She is just one of those blasted arrogant snobs you can find here and there."
The quickly finished their breakfast and then followed Kim towards the gates. Tyson gulped looking down and Max almost fainted. It was a long way down.
"You are not going to climb down you know, so stop it. The Priest of the Lightning Village wanted to meet you, so we are going. Wait, let me change that. You are going, I'm only leading the way."
Kai blinked. He wondered what she meant with that. Kim started cursing the Lightning Village's authority, the Priest and Priestess of thunder.
They all followed her towards the edge of a forest, where a road would take them to the village, which lay inside an old crater. They didn't object going through, but everyone wondered what she could be so scared of?
They walked for about half an hour; constantly alert that someone was watching them. There were no birds in this forest or they kept unusually quiet. Hilary trembled as she walked. It felt like someone was following them.
Suddenly three masked men appeared from the trees above them. The three men carried spears and they were talking in Chinese with among each other. But once they started to talk with the gang, they switched to Japanese, thankfully.
"Come, our priestess are waiting for you!" the tallest in the middle said. The other two were slightly shorter and both nodded.
Ray said something in Chinese and the men nodded. The raven-haired blader looked up and nodded before jumping up to the trees. His teammates stared as he left, jumping on the branches like a cat. In the leaves of the trees they saw more Neko Jins al hurrying back towards the village, Ray among them.
"Sometimes you do forget someone has already been there don't you?" Zeo said as the walked behind the three soldiers, very happy not having to play squirrels.
The Village of Lightning was another extraordinary sight. The village had stonewalls, just like the Fire village, but it didn't have the same gloomy stony look. The houses were made of white clay, making the village much brighter. The people of the Lightning village, or to say, Neko Jins all waved as they went and talked happily among each other. Unlike the Village of fire the mood was much lighter here, probably because they didn't have to sleep over their worst nightmare.
Kids played on the streets, and their cat like abilities allowed them to have some wilder games then normal kids had. For example tag could take place on the ground or above as they jumped on rooftops. Elder Neko Jins sat below smiling warmly.
The three soldiers led the gang towards the temple, which looked like another castle. Inside everything was green, not painted but it had a lot of leaves and natural features so you couldn't see what colours the old walls had. Ray sat on a cushion, speaking the Priest, a middle aged man with long orange hair, tied in a ponytail. He had cat eyes, fangs and claws instead of nails. He wore a green tunic with stripes so it looked like some kind of tiger and black pants. He was talking happily in Chinese with Ray, who seemed to have a great time.
Ray suddenly turned to his friends. "Guys, this is Li Gao (Shitza: Not Chinese. No, this is just made up, like usual.) He is the Lightning Priest of this Village.
Hilary and the others bowed. Li Gao bowed back, smiling warmly.
"Well, aren't they a good bunch of friends, master Ray?"
Ray smiled. "It is a pleasure to meet you Priest Li Gao!" Tyson said bowing again. Gao laughed.
"No need being so formal. Ray's friends are our friends." He said.
Hilary looked from ray to Gao and then back. Both men had some sort of mysterious look upon their faces.
"Uhm… sir…"
"No need to be so formal, just call me Gao." The priest said.
Hilary nodded. "Well, I was just wondering, did something special happen here, after all you call Ray master?"
Ray laughed. Gao smiled warmly.
"May, come here. Tell us your story!" the older man called.
The sound of small footsteps could be heard as a young girl, probably around five years old, appeared in another doorway. She was clutching to a rabbit, probably her pet.
"Master Ray, you are back!" the girl shouted running over to hug him. Ray was rather startled, but hugged her back.
"Hello May!" he said happily. The little girl cheered sitting in his lap.
"Master Ray is my hero!" the little girl explained. "He saved my from the big bad boys."
"Ray?" Kai said giving him a questioning yet demanding look. Ray laughed.
"May was ambushed by some older boys toying with her for being the Priests daughter. I just happened to be close by. I think you can figure out the rest."
The gang nodded. Hilary giggled. "That was really sweet to do."
"I didn't really have much of a choice, I mean she is only four and those boys had to be twelve at least. Cowards, picking on someone who cannot defend herself."
The little girl May curled up in Ray's lap and yawned. Ray stroke her orange hair softly while singing some sort of Chinese melody. The girl soon fell asleep and two servants bowed before carrying her back to her room.
"You have to forgive my daughter if she ambushes you like that. She is a fragile girl, when she was two her mother died being ambushed by some stray evil bit beasts. May got badly hurt being out with her mother that day. We drew the demons back towards the hellhole, but since that day May is suffering from a muscular failure. Some kind of demon spell, it is very horrible. She will never be able to build any sort of muscular strength so I am having her trained early in magic. Of course that requires strength too."
The priest looked worried. Another door slid open, this place really seemed to have a hundred doors in only one room.
"Sorry for disrupting, but that thing has been sighted close to the Village wall!" she said, spitting once she mentioned thing.
"That's odd!" Gao said. "She usually appears nighttimes at least. Wonder what she is playing at?"
"Stealing our gold, or maybe one of many treasures as well. Curse that priestess."
Slowly pieces were falling together. It did tell why Kim had been in such a bad mood in the morning. There seemed to be some sort of rivalry between the villages, at least between the villages of fire and lightning.
"Excuse me, but why do you hold such a grudge against the Priestess of fire?" Kenny asked.
Gao looked sad. "We think the village of fire holds the only cure for my daughter, but the priest and priestess of that village has forbidden us to let her come there for a cure. So because of that we have closed the gates to their contacts, we only deal with them when demons are on the rampage because that would be our worst problems of all."
"Why would she do that?" Tyson asked.
"She says there is no cure. Bullshit, even her brother says the fires from the volcano would heal her. I'd rather think she means I don't care. Oh, I do hope she will get a daughter of her own, someone who is vulnerable as mine. That day she will beg for forgiveness."
The older priest sighed. "I shall head towards the walls immediately, maybe we can chase her away."
"I do hope so!" the priestess said. "After all, the village is on edge every time she is near."
"I do wonder, if she do despise this place why does she return?" Max said. The others shrugged.
The hours continued and the sun was about to set. The peace in this place had indeed been disrupted. The families had withdrawn to their homes and groups of soldiers patrolled the streets. Kim had managed to sneak into the village, how no one knew, and now everyone was alert. The Bladebreakers and Zeo were also alert. Alert after news.
They were sitting in the main hall, being served tea and they were sitting together with the Priestess of Lightning, whom reminded Ray of someone from his past, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
It had started to rain outside. The walls of the temple were higher then any other and with that it had a window at the top of the roof. A round window that flashed in a roaring thunder. With one of the flashes they suddenly noticed a shadow sitting there, looking down at them.
"You!" the Priestess of Lightning said gripping a spear. Kim simply frowned.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?" she said. "I have missed you, the fights aren't what they used to be!" she said sarcastically.
The spear flew from the priestess hand. Kim didn't even react. The spear hit the side of the wall, vibrating for some seconds.
"Such bad aim, it is a shame for this village." She said coolly.
The priestess of Lightning shook in anger.
"Now now, pussy. No need to get angry, I'll leave in just about a minute. In fact I came as soon as I understood one thing."
"Understood what?" the Priestess asked hissing.
"I cannot understand how you blind you have become!" Kim said staring back at the Chinese priestess. "After all the signs are quite easily spotted.
"What do you mean!" the priestess of the tigers said, moving her hand towards the knife in her belt.
"What I meant to mean is, I cannot understand why you haven't recognised your own brother!" he said pointing her finger towards the Bladebreakers.
"Lin" a shocked voice said. Ray stared at the priestess, who was none else then his older sister, whom he hadn't seen for years. No wonders he had recognised her, and since they both had grown, it wasn't too surprising they hadn't recognised each other. But how on Earth did Kim of all people know?
"Not to hard to figure out, after all you are just as alike as cherries. Now, if you excuse me, I better go back to my own meeting. Take care of your sister ray, I'll see you later."
Lin Kon stared back at her own little brother, and with that she understood what Kim had meant. She hated to admit it, but the phoenix had been right. She just couldn't understand how it had slipped her mind?
'The bandanna… how could I have been so stupid? I gave Ray that before me and dad left. Oh, Ray…'
The younger brother embraced his since long lost sister. Tears flowed down their faces. Behind them the gang left. After all, Ray needed some space and most of all, some quality time together with his sister.
None of them noticed however that the turn of day and light was changing. Something waited around the corner, something none of the could expect.
TBC
To Reviewers: Okay, I am not that satisfied about this chapter, but I am clueless in what to change. But I hope you enjoyed.
Ps: If anyone knows in the world is mailing all these fanfiction, new rule, letters please tell that person to stop! Not only am I dead tired for reading, but people use your brains! I have read the rules VERY carefully since I had In the Chair wiped out for something, and the rules clearly states forewords and afterwords are allowed. Author's notes that take up the space of a chapter and those things however aren't and I think it would be highly complicated to forbid those things, after all, they can't keep track on the millions of stories they have, nor do I think people reports it.
PhoenixDemonElite: Too true, but I have other writings to earn money. I started to write here on to build up my confidence, it seems to have worked. I am finishing fics so I can continue writing. Hope you liked it!
Storms-winter: So you did, did you? You are quite observant; it was far away in chapter seven that I wrote about Ray and his sister. I've only put some references to it, like the way they tie their hair and such. She's some years older, and Ray was quite young when she left so I hope it didn't sound complicated enough that they would have a hard time to recognise each other.
storm-of-insanity: Oh, that note was just for the really Kai, obsessed fans which I think probably would care if I did something offending to their favourite character. Believe me, on the fansites people can get of track. I left it as a just-in-case thing. And always feel free to ask if there is anything going on because I'll be happy to answer you.
Kendo Baby: Wow, are you trying to catch up on both fics, I saw your review for GoL as well. Hope this was somewhere near soon, sorry for the wait.
End Notes:
Finally, I can take a break. Or almost, I have to update some chapters of my other story to finish it ad most of all, so they won't kill me for not having updated in weeks. Hope everyone has a great summer. I'll have a great day; in 3.5h time BB is showed again, I've missed too much! Luckily I'll be able to watch some today.
Loads of sunshine to everyone, it looks like Gothenburg will once again have to live with rain.
I am sorry I sounded a little mad about the chain-letter thing. But I am so incredible… tired of it! Especially since that rumour has grown through the site ever since I became a member, which was over a year ago. Has anything happened? Nop.
Shitza