EBONY

I couldn't get through to Kai by his mobile and the butler stopped answering the phone. I wondered what was going on and started to become worried. I would ask him in English today. It was our first lesson together today and I smiled when he came in. But I was extremely puzzled as he came in and looked straight through me. He sat down with his arms crossed and eyes closed beside Tala. "Kai?" Tala whispered and looked at me. I shrugged having no idea what was going on so I sat beside Kenny instead.

Things were getting scary. Kai didn't talk to me so I thought it best to give him some space whenever he was like this. But even then he would sometimes look at me, I was shocked to see him glare at me but I didn't show it. 'What the hell is going on?' I thought as he continued to ignore me. 'Was it something I did? Something I said? Kai?' My mind and heart were racing but my face refused to show it.

This went on for about a week and I started to become really, really worried. Hilary noticed I had stopped eating and I was becoming weak. I felt tired and my skin turned pale as if I was sick. Kai noticed and a flicker of the Kai I knew emerged. But was quick to disappear. I pretended I hadn't noticed and just got on with my life.

On Friday Kai grabbed me and shove me in to a closet. He locked the door and glared at me. Now I'm not usually frightened easily, but Kai was really starting to terrify me. "Did you mean what you said?"

"What are you talking about Kai? You've been acting really weird for ages." Kai took out a tape recorder and I heard what it played. "Voltaire gave me this." I scowled at him and he glared back at me. "Do you really think I meant that? Hello! I was being sarcastic! Are you so deaf with fury you can't even hear that? Voltaire's crack head of a butler recorded that when I was talking to him. You know I don't need your money Kai! I have a job on Saturdays so I am quite well endowed these days."

"You said you pretended to love me." Kai growled with pain clear in his voice and eyes. I snapped, how the hell did I think I felt?

"I WAS BEING SARCASTIC! I LOVE YOU KAI SO MUCH IT HURTS! But if you think I am that shallow then this isn't going to work. I thought you said Voltaire couldn't do anything to hurt us. Well look at us now and take a good look. I don't want to loose you, but if this is all our relationship is going to be then I don't see a future with us together." I turned and walked out the closet. I couldn't even bare to look at Kai right now.

How could he think that I'll use him like that? I've never used anyone in my life and worked hard for what I've got. Kai was the easiest thing I've had. And all it took was a few seconds on a tape recorder to ruin it.

KAI

I stared after her not knowing whether to believe her. When I came in to the classroom she was determined not to look at me. When it came to sitting down I sat beside Tala and she didn't seem to care. There was a strong pain in her eyes but I felt pain too about what had happened.

This went on for days and Tyson got his facts wrong…again. Tala told me he had a real go at Ebony who was back to her old self again so she challenged him to a match. I ran as fast as I could to the destination.

EBONY

I was facing Tyson in an old alleyway in between some condemned houses. "Ready?" I've found somewhere to channel my rage so I hoped he knew what he was letting himself in for. "Anytime."

TYSON

Her confidence was astounding. She knew who I was and yet showed no fear in battling me. We launched and I could see from the start she was no amateur when it came to blading.

Pulses came from our blades as they clashed and made the houses around us tremble. Her speed and agility were as powerful as her strength but her stamina was questionable. She was pale and looked ill but still fought with energy that seemed to come from nowhere. I decided enough was enough and I turned on the wind but so did she, except hers was black. Dragoon came out and tried to stop her blade before she collapsed.

At one point she fell to her knees exhausted and Kai showed up. He almost begged her to stop by calling her name. But Ebony looked thoroughly pissed and started to growl like an animal. "Go away! I want nothing to do with you anymore! RAAAGGGHHH!" Then a roar like dragoon's erupted from her mouth and she got up.

"Come on out Shadow!" That's when I saw a black dragoon erupt out of her blade. It rose up and dived towards our blades, it suddenly disappeared before hitting the ground. Then the ground under us shook and cracked. A black beam shot up in to the air in front of me. The sheer force made the windows explode and the walls crack. A dark pulse threw me back and I ended up being blown back ten feet from our blades.

When the dust had settled I saw a huge hole where our blades were. It was as though something had exploded its way out of the ground. Ebony had been moved back a few feet with two lines of broken concrete where her feet were. She moved to one side revealing two cracked mounds of concrete, which resided behind her feet. Dragoon was beside me and her blade lay beside her.

"Ebony." Kai called her but she didn't respond. She picked up her blade and walked away not looking very steady on her feet. "EBONY!" It started to rain and was coming down in bucket loads. But still she didn't stop and Kai was looking after her completely lost for words.

I was going to say something but he just turned and stormed off.