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Last time: Mariah's kidnapper was revealed to be… dun dun dunnn! Tala! But, he's not the one behind the evil scheme… mwa ha ha! But you'll find out now. So read. Yep. I'm going to stop writing now. Yep.

Chapter Seven: Parcel for Kai

"What are we going to do?" Max.

"I can't believe she's been kidnapped!" Hilary.

"How could Kai have dreams of this happening?" Kenny.

"Who would do this?" Emily.

"Where's breakfast?" No guesses. Tyson.

Kai rolled his eyes then pushed off the wall he was leaning against.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!"

Their mouths immediately closed and they looked at Kai.

"Yes, Mariah has been kidnapped. Yes, I dreamt that this happened. I don't know who would do this and I'm not sure about what we are going to do next. And you should have had breakfast before you came here!"

Tyson sat down on the couch angrily and began fantasizing about unhealthy junk food restaurants such as McDonalds… Pizza Hut (AN: 2000 Calories in a pizza!)… and Burger King… (AN: Wow. Now I'm hungry.)

Hilary was biting her lip nervously. She had got on quite well with Mariah, even better than she did with Emily and to know that… she was all alone in some scary place… being held prisoner… it scared her.

Max subconsciously linked hands with Emily. He dreaded to think how Ray was feeling right now. The most obvious couple out of all of them was Ray and Mariah. They had known each other from birth. They seemed destined for each other.

Emily squeezed Max's hand for reassurance. Poor Mariah… who would do such a thing? She smiled weakly at Max.

Kenny typed furiously into his laptop. He had to work out where the black van was from. Every millisecond was important. Every moment not investigating was wasted. He had to find out as much information as he could as fast as he could.

Ray was sitting in an armchair with his head in his hands. How could he let her go? How could he do that? He could only blame himself. It was his entire fault. Mariah was suffering because of him. He was so stupid.

Kai looked over each one and sighed before leaning back against the wall. He closed his eyes. He had to come up with a plan. He had to rescue Mariah. He had to save her before his dreams became true.

"Master Kai?" a voice asked. Kai opened his eyes and saw his butler walk in.

"Yes?"

"Sorry to interrupt you in such a stressful situation but you have a parcel. It says it is urgent."

"Thank you."

His butler bowed then walked out of the room. Kai opened the parcel.

Once he saw the contents inside, he grit his teeth and clenched his fists. Those jerks had the audacity to…

Inside the box there was a strand of pink hair in a clear box labelled 'Kitty's Fur'. There also was a note, a disc and some photos. Kai looked at the photos and saw it was of him and Mariah kissing. He grabbed them quickly and hid them discreetly in his back pocket. This had to be from them.

"What is it, Kai?" Max asked.

"It's from those bastards." Kai said through gritted teeth and took out the disc. He placed it in his DVD player and looked up at the large wide screen TV, as did the others.

A purple haired man smirked broadly as if he could see the room full of people that despised him. Boris.

"No doubt, Kai, you have your whole troupe of Blade Breakers with you. Even little heartbroken Ray Kon, who has come to realise that his girlfriend did not return from her walk last night. I wonder what she was doing."

Kai clenched his fists.

"Well, I'm here to relieve you of your fears. No, she is not dead. Still alive, and quite feisty too. I suppose you would like to see her."

The camera spun round.

A girl hung from shackles with pink hair covering her face as her head was bowed. Mariah.

"Look at the camera!" Boris ordered.

The girl shook her head. "I'm not doing anything for you slime balls."

"Look or we'll slit your throat!"

"I don't care."

Boris walked over to Mariah and pulled her up by her hair. Her face was revealed. It was covered in bruises and her arms and legs were covered in cuts that were still bleeding. Boris whispered something in Mariah's ear and her eyes widened.

"Now say it." he ordered.

Mariah lowered her eyes and stared at the floor before looking up and past the camera. "Boris has me held captive and is treating me well so far. He will return me as soon as Kai Hiwatari follows Boris' demands." Mariah said, as if reading it off something.

"Kai must return Black Dranzer and must leave the Blade Breakers to become part of the Demolition Boys. What? No way! Kai can't go back! Whatever you do, Kai, don't…!"

Boris backhanded Mariah with such force that she was knocked unconscious.

"I suggest that you DO follow these guidelines. There should be a note with an address. We will meet you there. Alone. If you break these rules, we will be forced to break your girlfriend. Oops, I mean Ray's girlfriend."

The video ended. Kai was clenching his fists so tightly that there were little crescent shape marks when he realised it was hurting.

"What did he mean by that Kai?" Ray asked, suspiciously, standing up.

"I have no idea." Kai lied. It was his entirefault. If he hadn't have kissed Mariah, then she would be safe with Ray.

That visualisation made Kai feel that strange emotion of jealousy again. He mentally kicked himself. It would have been much better if she was safe with Ray than Kai kissing her and her being held captive.

"What are we going to do?" Kenny asked.

"Follow his demands, what do you think?" Kai spat angrily. Then walked out of the room.

The group all heard a door slam then looked at each other meekly. Ray looked at the note with the address. It said to be there at seven o'clock that evening. He sighed and sat back down on the armchair.

"We need a plan." Tyson stated.

"No shit, Sherlock." Ray said sarcastically. The group were temporarily shocked. Ray hardly ever swore, especially at one of his friends. Mariah being held captive was definitely harming Ray psychologically.

"But what can we do? If we don't follow his rules they'll hurt Mariah." Kenny asked.

"And they'll probably send a whole group to pick up Kai. Even if we all did go, we'll probably be outnumbered." Max said.

"I'm guessing that Boris will know if we call the cops." Emily said.

"So we'll have to do what Boris says." Ray said.

"Unless…" Tyson began.

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Another chapter done! Go me!

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