TYSON

We came to the location on the map and looked around. We didn't need to look for any entrances as Ebony had memorised the blue prints and Kenny had scanned it on his laptop. We found the garage and Ebony punched in the code. We went down in the lift and entered the car park. We heard two gruff voices coming towards us. "So what do you think they're going to do with her?"

"Who knows? I just want to get to lunch." We held back Kai who looked like he could kill them. He was literally dragged behind a fancy looking car with the rest of us. "After that little girl's done we'll have more work."

"Good I was starting to get bored. Let's hope the experiment doesn't fail. That kid is the difference between us getting paid or fired." Ebony quickly put a hand over Kai's mouth. But even with that we could make out some very smothered swear words. We thought Kai would be the last one to loose it like that, but with it being family this was hitting him deep. "Get a grip Kai!" Ebony hissed and he did. Kai turned back in to his old self loosing all emotion and keeping us out of site from cameras.

We kept our backs to the wall underneath the camera above the door. Ebony punched in the code and we followed her every move.

DR. CREED

I had just finished the final touches to my test subject when I got a call. "Yes?"

"Turn on the view screen to camera three." I turned on the viewer in my experimentation room and saw Kai with some other kids keeping flat against the wall trying to sneak past the cameras by the look of things. "Perfect. They can test the girl's abilities." I turned off the viewer and turned to my first experiment. She was lying on a table and her eyes shot open looking lifeless and dull. "Listen carefully my child, here's what I want you to do."

KAI

We came through another door and found ourselves on a bridge over looking some empty bey dishes. But standing beside one of them was Mira. We ran down the bridge and down the stairs to the room below. Mira didn't move and just stood there looking blankly at us. I stopped a few yards away from her and the others did the same. "I don't like this, it's too easy."

"I have to agree with you." Ray said backing me up. We all stopped in our tracks and looked carefully at Mira. She seemed to have a metal crown running around the top of her head. It looked pretty high tech. Mira was looking right through us and didn't move a muscle. "Mira?"

"She won't respond to you." We turned round to see a man a white coat. Man I was getting sick of these sinister looking guys. "Mira, launch your blade." She suddenly took out her launcher and launched her blade in to the dish. But her eyes were just as blank as before. We watched her blade go round the dish, but her eyes were fixed straight ahead. I wish there was something I could do, but with Mira being under control like that I knew there was no way to get through to her. "Now which one of you wi-" The man stopped talking and looked as though he had seen a ghost. "Adrian's little assistant?"

"Doctor." We turned to see Ebony great this man with great disgust plastered all over her face. "I thought you died with your uncle in the explosion."

"He wasn't so lucky." She growled through gritted teeth. "Well now you can be my little assistant." He took out what looked like a dog whistled which emitted a high-pitched whistle we could hear. "Ow! Quit it you old coot that hurts my ear drums!" Tyson cried and he did. Mira's eyes closed and opened with the same dead look in them. Ebony on the other hand laughed her head off with a very evil look on her face. "I was never programmed you old fool, and now you have shown us how to control Mira. I will battle her a-"

"No Ebony!" I cried unable to keep quiet any longer. But she just ignored me and continued. "-and if I win you give me that bloody whistle and let Mira go!"

"But, if she wins? I get black dragoon instead?" He choked looking very excited all of a sudden. She shuddered at first looking very pale all of a sudden. But then she nodded and took the other side of the dish.

EBONY

Oh fuck! I hate being right. To live in pain or die in love, only this wasn't just about me anymore. I came here to help save the kid and win her freedom.

The doctor ordered her to battle and Mira caught her blade ready for a fresh launch. Tyson did the count down. "3…2…1…Let iiit riipp!" We launched and ran rings around each other at first. I was trying to see a chink in her armour and I'm sure Mira was doing the same thing.

Eventually our blades clashed with such force the dish itself began to shatter. The others tried to keep their balance as the shock waves hit the ground. I struck again and again not knowing how long Black Dragoon could take this punishment. I wondered the same about yin and yang.

I half hoped she wouldn't call out her bit beasts. But one word from the doctor and Mira wasted no time in calling her bit best. Seeing there was no choice in the matter I did to…regretfully. Doctor Creed looked in awe as black dragoon used his tail to take care of yin and his teeth to take care of yang. Unfortunately Creed didn't think Black dragoon would be big and powerful enough to take care of them. That was when I noticed the strain was starting to affect Mira. I saw her chest rising and falling faster than before. That must also mean her heart was beating very fast. I was frightened she was heading for a heart attack at this rate. "Kenny scan Mira!"

"But why?" I had no time or mood to explain. "Just do it!"

"Oh no! Mira's heart rate has reached the critical levels!" Kenny exclaimed with his laptop camera pointed at the little girl. "I can't scan the power levels or my laptop will crash!"

"Is she really that powerful?" Kai asked and Kenny nodded looking scared to death. "Ebony?"

"She's steady and more than enough for Mira. But how long the kid will last is the question." Kenny may've been right. The little girl fell to her knees in exhaustion but battled on unable to stop until ordered.

Creed looked concerned and took out what appeared to be a remote control. It was too late to act when metal tentacles sprang out of the ground around me. They bind my legs and arms so tight I couldn't move. Kai and the others were trapped behind a glass sheet separating me, Mira and Creed from their wrath. Tyson and the others tried to break the glass with their blades but it didn't work. In the end all they could do was watch. Creed ordered Mira to pull herself together and get up. All the poor kid could do was comply. Black dragoon turned to look at me but I shook my head making him turn back round and fight on. "Now let's see how much power you really have my dear!" He flicked a switch and a high voltage of electricity ran through the tentacles giving me the shock of my life. "EBONY!" They cried and I passed out.

KAI

I hated not being able to do anything from where I was. Ebony was knocked out and black dragoon was left to fight Mira and her dragons alone. "You bastard!" I yelled hitting the glass with all I had to break it. Tyson, Rei, Max and myself were hitting the glass with everything we had but to no avail. It was looking bad for Black dragoon and Mira's state of health was declining.

Creed turned to us with a manic smile across his face. "Ebony is just like Mira in so many ways. But she will be my best creation yet…all I have to do is stick a crown on her head."

"YOUR DEAD CREED!" I yelled still hitting the glass. That was when I finally noticed my bit was glowing and the others noticed this too. It seemed the four sacred bit beasts didn't like this as much as we did. We raised our blades above our heads my team and I. We didn't know what we were doing but the spirits came out from our blades and shot towards Ebony. Black dragoon's spirit did the same making Mira's bit beasts confused.

EBONY

I felt something surround me and wake me up no end. Black dragoon's shadow had surrounded me again with four other bit beasts as well. I sat up and looked around to see the lights flickering. Creed pressed the button on his remote again and again but it had no affect. "That's impossible! This is the maximum voltage you should be dead by now!"

"Appearances can be deceiving doctor!" I looked at Mira who had fallen to her knees in pure exhaustion. The doctor was starting to annoy me making Mira battle with never-ending attacks. "You give up? If you do I'll let her stop."

"LET HER!" I yelled at the doctor, that was the straw that broke the camels back. Dark energy irradiated around me and a pair of black wings like my bit beast came out of my back. (I know it's a rip off from Brooklyn's but I just couldn't resist. And besides, the bit beast inside of her has dragon wings.) The other powers went in to my blade causing the whole dish to glow white. Creed and Mira covered their eyes from the glare but I watched this spectacular show from a front row seat. I felt something from the glow telling me exactly what to do.

AUTHOR

Ebony appeared to be listening to the glow and nodded her head in reply. She flapped her wings with such great force she rose up to the ceiling. She spread her arms out and brought them in to a prayer position in front of her. Then she raised her right arm, brought it down slowly to her left shoulder and then shot it out to the right at great speed.

A beam of power shot up to the ceiling with pulses of light shooting out from the dish. Mira was blasted back and fell to the ground and lay very still. But the beam didn't stop there; it went right through to the mansion and erupted out of its ceiling to the sky. Yin and Yang went back in to Mira's blade as power radiated from Ebony's blade. The beam vanished as though it had never bee there and the powers went back in to their owners blades. Black Dragoon did the same and the wings disappeared from Ebony's back.

That's when the walls and ground shook and cracked around them. The glass sheet shattered and the metal tentacles broke apart from the sheer force. Parts of the ceiling started to come down and crashed on to the floor. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Ebony grabbed the blades and Kai picked up Mira.

They all ran to the elevator and clambered in. They got out just in time to see the middle of the mansion fall down in to the hole. "Whoa…remind me never to get on the wrong side of you." Tyson said and the rest nodded on agreement. Ebony scowled and turned on the doctor.

EBONY

"Now stick to what you were going to do. I won so hand it over." He gave me the bloody whistle and I blew it. Mira could hardly open her eyes as he removed the metal crown. Four spikes were retracted leaving two puncture marks on her temples. I blew it and whispered in her ear. "You're free, your free, your free. Mira…can you hear me?"

"Thank you." Was her weak reply as she passed out. Dr. Creed disappeared as I tried to look for him. I wanted to hurt him for doing such a thing to one so small and innocent.

We followed Kai home, surrounding him and the girl like a protective shield against our enemies. He tried to wake her up by gently moving her head. "There's no point in doing that Kai, she has no energy and will sleep for a long time." I said and he nodded looking emotionless and cold again. I think he was hiding his emotions so as not to appear weak. I also think he wanted to show those who would try to get at her now would be a bad idea. If they did, they'd have to be ready for a whole can of butt whoop from all of us. We stopped by his door and went our separate ways.

There was no doubt about it, she was going to be one sick little girl tomorrow. I just hope they didn't hate me for getting her in this state.