KAI
I waited patiently for Ebony to arrive. Amazingly it took only ten minutes from her place without a car. "You've found some short cuts?"
"All of them. Where is she?" I decided to take Ebony up there quickly and wait for the explanation. We quietly opened the door to Mira's room and she went over to the little girl. I stayed by the door. "Mira?" The little girl slowly opened her eyes looking pale and sick. Ebony stroked Mira's hair making shushing sounds as tears left Mira's eyes. "What happened?"
"I-I don't know. I can't remember a-anything after the phone call. I-if I didn't hear D-Dranzer cry out t-then I p-probably would've…would've…" She broke down again and Ebony stayed by her side until she fell asleep.
She came back outside of Mira's room with me and sighed. "Remember what I told you about my uncles experiments?" I nodded and she looked out the window. "I wasn't the only one. Mr. Dickinson would have a fit if he knew I was telling you this so I'm asking you to keep it a secret." What else could I do but nod? "You have my word."
"Where to begin? I was fourteen at the time making Mira only six years old. My uncle called me his little assistant when I helped him out in his experiments. My photographic memory didn't start until after Shadow was put in to me. Voltaire put the money forward for my uncles experiments. He tried to merge bit beast and blader together in a whole new level. He said that he would keep doing his work until one of them died or got so messed up it was impossible to get them back. Well…one of them died so the experiments stopped and my uncle retired."
"That's not all is it?" She shook her head and looked at the moon. "Voltaire managed to programme a few of them with a certain sound. My uncle managed to find most of them and deprogramme them. But there are still a couple of them left somewhere."
"How do we deprogramme them?"
"That's the hard part. We have to find the sound Voltaire is using to control Mira and say you're free three times. After that the nightmare's over for her." That was definitely not going to be easy. There was no way Voltaire was going to give up such a toy as Mira. "He tried to introduce them to Boris until he found out what my uncle had done. Just make sure she doesn't answer any phone calls."
An awkward silence followed that was broken by the old grandfather clock's chimes behind us. I looked at it to see the time was ten O'clock. "Want to stay over?" She shook her head. "Can't, I'm getting up early tomorrow to go with my family for a surprise trip apparently. I'll see you the day after tomorrow. Keep me posted on the kids condition ok." I kissed her goodbye and went back to my room. What I was going to do tomorrow was the question.
MIRA
What the hell is going on? First I'm in the car and talking to Voltaire on the phone, and then I'm trying to kill Dranzer with my bit beasts? I woke up to the same nightmare running through my head. I couldn't apologize enough to Kai. I must've sounded like a right idiot breaking down like that. Why did he hug me?
I felt myself to notice I was drenched with cold sweat. Was I really that scared? Come on Mira pull yourself together girl! I felt sick, cold, wet and had one hell of a headache. I tried to get back to sleep but it was no good. I slowly got up with my head aching badly. I headed to the kitchen where I knew they kept the asprin having asked the cook for a couple at breakfast this morning.
It was hard moving at all at first but then I started my way slowly towards the kitchen. Getting there was a bit of a feat in my current condition but I finally got there. Everything swam before me so it was kind of hard to see half the time.
But finally I reached the kitchen and thought about the challenge in front of me. Getting a drink of water was easy enough, but the pills were in a cupboard above the sink and I was too short to reach it. I looked at the chairs beside the table and tried to move one. But with whatever was ailing me sapped me of my strength. I tried to move it knowing how pathetic I must look at not being able to move a chair. I put my head on the cool wood in sadness, anger, embarrassment and defeat. The cool wood soothed my head but was a temporary measure.
"Not satisfied with trying to kill Dranzer you want to destroy my furniture too?"
KAI
She slowly turned to look at me and I could see she wasn't well at all. Her eyes were sunken and dull with dark rings under them. Her face was pale and sweat appeared on her forehead in tiny droplets. Her eyes were looking around as if unable to focus on me. I was angry but had to remember Mira had no control over her actions. Just by looking at this kid I hated Voltaire more than anything now. The mind control seemed to make her very ill. 'Must be the after effects.' I thought.
Mira looked away from me and tried to walk back through the entrance she came. I walked in front of her blocking her path. She turned and tried to go through the other door. At the time it took for her to turn round I was already at the door. There was no doubt in my mind what had happened took its toll on her.
"Why are you in here?" I asked but still she tried to leave. Mira tried to push past me but I didn't even need to take a stance she was so weak. I grabbed her and shook her trying to get her to tell me. She clutched her head and gasped in pain trying hard not to cry but a few tears left her eyes. I put her in a chair and got two pain killers from the cupboard. I put them in her hand and she took her glass of water. "Thank you." She whispered and took them quickly. I felt her forehead and my eyes opened wide. Instead of having a fever to explain the sweat she was as cold as ice. "I'm sorry."
"I know." I said quietly not knowing how bad her head was. "W-what happened to me? What did I do?" She whispered not making much sense and holding her head in her hands on the table. "I'll tell you tomorrow."
"B-" I shook my head and stroked her hair. "Tomorrow." She agreed and tried to make her way back but fell to her knees as soon as she got off the chair. I sighed and carried her back to her room. "Why are you helping me after what I did?" She asked on the way half asleep. "Because you weren't in control of your actions."
"Really?" He voice was growing fainter. Those painkillers were doing their job and were making her go to sleep because of their strength. "Yes." I whispered and she was gone. I put her back in her bed before going back to my own.
I lay awake for an hour before texting Ebony. I knew I wouldn't get an answer before tomorrow but I needed to know. 'Does it make the kids ill after they've been controlled?' I was woken in the morning to my phone. I got a simple text message from Ebony. 'Yes.'