Asylum
By: Darker Evolutions
Rating: R
Warnings: The rating should be warning enough.
Disclaimer: I do not Beyblade or any of its characters.
A/N:
Summary: Kai, Tala, Ray, and Bryan are members of the Saint Carolin's High School soccer team with a new student placed as their manager. They're also mutants in which the underground organization Biovolt are after. Will they get at each other's throats before they get a chance to find asylum?
Chapter Three - Stormy Day
"Kai, this is considered breaking in despite the fact the principle as well as the coach told us to come over here. There's no telling what he could do to us is he finds out we just entered his home without his consent, and that's beside the point. We could be arrested, and I'd rather not be stuck in jail for the weekend." Icy blue eyes glanced around the dark room before him, yet it was hard to tell what the place looked like with all the lights off. Behind the owner of those eyes Kai was in the process of taking off his black jacket.
"I have no such intention of standing outside in the pouring rain just waiting for someone to come and let us in. We knocked, that should be warning enough to anyone who's inside. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not be soaked to the bone anymore than I already am now." Draping his dripping wet jacket over his right arm Kai went in search of the light switch on the wall with his left hand only to be rewarded when his fingers brushed the switch and caused the lights in the rooms to flicker on.
The house had been marked abandoned well before Declan had moved into it, yet it still seemed as if no one had moved into the home as there were sheets still covering furniture, old paint chipping, dust bunnies and cobwebs everywhere, and the fact that some of the lights flickered on and off with the need to be changed. The room the two teenagers stood in now seemed boring just itself with only a few pieces of furniture here and there while the walls were left chipped and bare with a dull and worn off-white paint. The floor was hardwood, though under all the dust it seemed to be in rather decent shape. The ceiling needed to be repainted as well, chipping just like the other paint was in the whole house yet it looked undamaged and in good order.
It was around noon on Saturday, yet the cool winds the night before were a hint to the day to come. The skies were already dark with whips of thick masses of gray clouds, the sun hidden from view leaving the day to be dull and the time to be passing by painfully slow. The rain had started around ten in the morning, and since then had been pouring in sheets since then. The weather forecasters had predicted all day showers with scattered thunderstorms near the evening hours, though that seemed to be little help to those who wanted to know what they were going to do while it both rained and stormed.
"What a dump. You'd think he'd clean the place when he moved into it, which leads me to also think that Declan isn't even home. Can we just leave already? Have other things I'd like to be doing at this point." Receiving only a glare from his best friend Tala sighed, following Kai's lead as they started to make their way through the dusty old house. Turning right from the main room led them into a kitchen, and with a more thorough inspection it was found the kitchen was lacking any real stock of food other than a near empty box of saltine crackers. The only other door out of the kitchen lead North into a hallway where just to the right after exiting the kitchen was the door to the bathroom, which was cleaner than the first two rooms that Tala and Kai had seen. It was at least some proof that someone might actually be living in the house. Turning left and heading down the stretch of the hallway they soon found the dinning room from a door to the right side of the hallway. That room as well looked unlived in, chairs and table still covered in white sheets. Walking further down the hallway lead them into a room with absolutely nothing in it other than absolute chaos and clutter. It looked more like a storage room than anything. A left turn lead them down the last stretch of the hallway in which they found another door leading to the main room as well as a near fully closed door past the main room's door and on the right side. It was the only door in the house which had been even partially closed other than the front door.
Nudging the toe door with his shoed foot Kai pushed the door open, his feet steeping onto fresh lush dark colored carpet as both he and Tala stepping into the room. Out of all the rooms in the house this was the only one which was clean, and further more looked as if it was lived in and on the more normal side of a room in a house. The bed, black comforter ruffled on top of it and with a pillow on the floor, looked like it had been slept in not too long ago, books from school spread over the new smelling darkly colored carpet with notebooks and papers scattered around them; assignments which were unfinished. The softly glowing light from the desk lamp on a small nightstand next to the best cast light over the whole room, and the two teens could only gasp at what their eyes fell upon.
The ceiling was painting in a deep space black gloss with star constellations painted in a soft glacial tint colored paint. It was almost as if looking up at the clear night sky in a field far away from the cities, small hints of clouds here and there to make it all the more real. Lush greens, browns, tans, and a mix of other colors colored the west wall in an unfinished nighttime forest. There were owls and other nocturnal animals painted as well in the forest, and the two could almost swear that they could hear the animals. On the southern wall was a tundra scene with the deep see next to it, a polar bear, penguins, and a seal making themselves at home on the frigid ice while whales and smaller fish filled the deep blue sea. The north wall showed a range of snow capped mountains, birds of prey flying overhead while mountain goats stood on the rocky ledges. The last wall to the east was a miss of grassland and desert, the sandy colors seeming all too real with the lizards and large tan colors cats chasing after a leaping gazelle. It was nothing short of beautiful.
"You two do know that if he wakes up to find you standing in his room dripping water everywhere while walking on his new carpet with wet shoes he'd kill you, right?" The sudden voice behind Kai and Tala made the two turn in utter shock, eyes wide and breath catching as they gave off the look of being a deer caught in the headlights. Standing in the hallway was none other than Rei, his amber colored eyes wistfully watching the two with complete amusement.
"Kon! What the hell are you doing here? Are you trying to give us a heart attack, or just kill us by sneaking up on us like that?" Hissing the words through clenched teeth Tala glared boldly at the year younger teen, taking the moment himself to regain his composure. Rei soon hushed him, padding quickly into the room after slipping his feet out of his shoes. He was very quiet about his movements, as if being careful not to wake a sleeping child, yet soon enough the others knew why because he tugged the corner of the ruffled black comforter down enough to show the sleeping face of Declan. The light on the nightstand was soon clicked off before the Chinese boy slipped back out of the room, ushering the other two out with him before closing the door to the room.
"I didn't think you two would show up this early, but when Ms. Tate informed me that you were coming over I took it upon myself to make sure there was actual food here to eat, so I went grocery shopping. Now before you even start to ask questions let me finish." Waving a finger at Tala who was about to speak again Kai could only smirk as he was forced to be quiet. "Declan and I hit it off when he first came here. I was walking down to the café when I saw him, and knowing how horribly dirty this place was after being abandoned for so long I offered to help clean up." Slipping his shoes on Rei gestured for the two to follow him down the hallway and around the corner towards the kitchen.
"I usually come here in the morning before school everyday to wake him up and come over after soccer practice a lot as well, and if you were fighting with him all the time Tala with Kai trying to mediate things you'd notice that we sit and actually have conversations with each other. You know what those are, don't you? They don't involve anything that could provoke a fight, verbal or physical. Anyways that's what I'm doing here. Make yourselves useful and help me put this food away, and don't give me that look of 'I don't think so'. You've already left wet shoe prints all over the house, it's the least you could do because I'm going to have to clean them up." Picking up two bags for each person before him Rei shoved them into their arms before going to fetch a mop from a closet in the kitchen.
"That it, I'm leaving. He's making out fine, has Kon here to take care of him, so I have no need to be here. Good-bye." Setting the bags of groceries down on the counter, not even bothering to put them away Tala turned on his heel and walked out of the kitchen. Kai only shrugged at him, knowing that his friend wouldn't go anywhere without a right home. He didn't like being wet any more than Kai himself did, and sure enough about ten minutes later the red head was back in the kitchen, arms crossed and a glare set on his features. While he had been gone Kai had gotten the groceries put away and Rei had finished mopping up the floors only to instruct the two to take of their wet shoes like he had.
Tossing both Kai and Tala an apple Rei selected one of his own, taking a seat upon on of the counters and motioning for the others to do the same. Kai accepted, though Tala refused and proceeded to brood quietly while eating the red delicious apple. "Declan and I were going to tackle the task of cleaning up the rest of the kitchen and the main room this weekend, though I can't say he'll really be up to it. I'm sure you two have noticed already the dark aura that follows him around when he's at his angriest moments. I haven't really touched base with him about it other than the fact we both know that each other is a mutant, but he's defensive and reluctant to talk about it. I get the hint that he-"
"Can't control his power? Yeah, we've already seen that proved. I'm not sure how often he does it, but he drains himself completely when he does. Tala and I saw him at the park last night back in the woods standing in the creek. He was doing a kata and focusing his energy when he lost control. I don't think he'll be up for another few hours if he actually did drain himself completely." Leaning back against a cupboard Kai turned his crimson eyes to watch Rei nod slowly to his words.
"He was utterly exhausted when he arrived here on a Saturday night two weeks ago, and he slept until about five in the after noon. The same thing happened last week as well, but at first I really didn't think anything of it. I think the kids at school are only making it worse.." Rei gave a pointed look to Tala before their attention turned towards a light scuffing sound towards the kitchen's door.
Walking into the kitchen in a pair of worn socks, loose black pajama pants, and an overly large tee-shirt Declan made his way across the floor, cerulean eyes glazed with sleep while the back of one hand rubbed at them. He didn't look much more than half awake, if that as he didn't seem to take any notice to the three in the kitchen with him. As if by habit he grabbed one of the pieces of fruit before turning around to head back to bed. On his way out the door he muttered a, "Goodnight Rei, Kai, Tala."
All three pairs of eyes watched the figured disappear around the corner and back out into the hallway, and they waiting a few brief moments for what they knew was going to happen. Declan back tracked himself back into the kitchen, blinking sleepily and the three figures before him. It looked as if it had just hit him that He wasn't the only on in the house other than the amber-eyed youth. "Rei, what in the hell are they doing here?"
"Such a wonderful morning vocabulary you have. What, no 'Hello, how're you?' You're such a lousy host." The words came out before Tala could stop to think about them, and before he knew it an orange had been chucked at his head and connected right between his eyes with a clearly heard thud. There was a muttered word of 'asshole' before Declan stormed off back to his room where the door was heard slamming shut.
"Well that wasn't as half bad as I thought it was going to be, consider yourself lucky that he'll wake up later on and more than likely not remember he was even in the kitchen with us." With a grin that showed his cat-like fangs Rei slid off the counter, picking up the now bruised and inedible orange off the floor only to throw it away along with his apple core.
"Might as well make yourselves comfortable until he wakes up again. I'm going to start cleaning up, but feel free to pitch in, I'd appreciate the help and I'm sure Declan would as well." Flashing Kai a smile the Chinese teen disappeared turning out into the hallway to head towards the main room where his work would begin with cleaning up.