Kai's Vision Explained
If you are confused about how exactly Kai sees the world…read this:
If you've seen the movie "Daredevil" …it's very similar…though Kai doesn't have to tap something to hear it in order to see it. Kai can see heat signatures, which is like an infrared scanner or something like it. That means that he can see body temperatures. So basically, he's blind to anything that doesn't have some kind of heat to it.
I don't know why…but I just wanted to make Kai like that for at least one fic…originally, he was going to be 100 blind…but I figured I better find some way for him to see a little.
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This story is, unfortunately, moving faster than I had expected…but oh well. I had wanted to put more Kai/Hilary moments in here…but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
I do, however, promise one…possibly two real fluffy scenes toward the end or so!
So, without further ado, on with the chapter!
Enjoy if you can!
Oh, and thanks for all the reviews last chapter!
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Chapter 4 – Something Not Expected
Hilary awoke early the next morning.
Rubbing her eyes sleepily, she treaded across the hall and into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for the day.
Once she was dressed, she headed back into her room but was stopped as she heard a horrible crash inside the guest room.
She rushed over and threw the door open, only to see a winged teenaged boy. He appeared only a few years older than her, and he was bent over a broken lamp.
Hilary blinked. It wasn't a dream! She really did have a phoenix living in her house!
"Kai! Are you alright? What happened?"
Her voice seemed to have surprised the blue haired teen. He jumped and stared at her, worry clouding his expression.
"I'm sorry…I didn't realize it was there…" With that, he held his hands over the shattered remains of the porcelain lamp.
Hilary watched on with curiosity as his pale hands began to glow with an amber aura, and soon, the pieces of the lamp began to float in midair.
Kai snapped his finger, and the parts instantly arranged themselves and formed back into a lamp, working and all!
The brunette could only stare in disbelief as Kai grabbed hold of it and set it back on the bedside table.
"I was stretching…that's all…and I must have knocked it off…"
Hilary shook her head, ignoring the excuse. "It's alright…you fixed it didn't you?" She smiled brightly at her tall friend and giggled. "Would you like some breakfast?"
Kai was led downstairs and into the kitchen, where he took a seat on a barstool at the counter.
He stared at Hilary's back while she prepared a breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage and hash browns.
The smell of the food quickly permeated throughout the house, and through Kai's senses, causing an almost purring noise in his chest.
After about ten minutes, a plate was pushed under Kai's nose, sending him back into reality.
"It smells delicious!" The phoenix smiled slightly, blindly picking up a knife and stabbing a sausage.
"Hana! Breakfast!" The brunette yelled up the stairs at her sister.
A few minutes later, the small child ran down the stairs and took a seat next to Kai, who was happily chewing on his sausage.
"Wow! You're still here!" A large smile crawled on Hana's face. "Are you going to live with us?"
Kai stared at her for a moment, and then glanced at Hilary, then back at Hana. "Um…"
"I would like that a lot! You seem like a lot of fun to have around! I bet you know a lot of cool games too!"
"Hana eat your eggs before they get cold!"
"But they were cold when you gave them too me!"
As Hilary growled at her reflection in the window, Kai held his hand out over the plate.
"What are you doing?" Hana asked cutely, staring up into his crimson eyes.
"Watch…"
The same amber glow that Hilary had seen when Kai repaired the lamp appeared again, but steam began to rise up off the plate, and a crackling sound was heard like a fire.
When he removed his hand, the plate was hot again, and Hana cheered in happiness.
"Maybe you should cook instead of Hiwary!"
"Hana! EAT!"
Finally, breakfast was over with and Hana rushed out the door to meet her friend, who's mother was taking them to the park for the day.
Kai had gotten used to the house and the surrounding area, and didn't have one bit of trouble finding his way around. Hilary figured it was because he had a sharp memory, and not being able to see that he could learn so quickly. In fact, if she hadn't known any better, she wouldn't have known he was blind!
"Alright…we'll be over in a few minutes then…okay, see you soon." The brunette hung up the phone. She had just been speaking with Tyson, and she was to bring Kai over and they were all going to head down to the beach to practice beyblading.
She glanced out the kitchen window to see the crimson winged phoenix in the back yard, stretching his wings out to their full span and flapping them, creating a great wind beneath him. That seemed to have satisfied him, so he brought them high over his head and with one mighty flap, he soared up into the air. Another weaker flap brought him to hover about six feet off the ground.
Hilary walked outside to watch him as he tested the strength of each wing, darting back and forth in the air.
Suddenly, as if sensing her eyes on him, he dropped back to the ground and turned around.
"Everything working?"
Kai nodded. "Indeed. Thank you for your help." He bowed his head slightly.
Hilary smiled at him. "Come on, we're going over to Tyson's so he can test out this new beyblade of his on the beach."
The phoenix had seemed to have heard this term before, but didn't say a word as he followed the brunette out to the front of the house and up the street.
The two walked down a block and started to cross the street to get over into Tyson's neighborhood.
Hilary thought they might get there without any problems, but she was wrong. It was only a matter of time before Kai did something inhuman in public anyway.
A large dump truck sped down the hill toward them as they were half way across the street. It appeared that he didn't realize how fast he was going, or what was in the road.
Kai had stopped, and glared at the truck as it sped closer.
"Kai! Get out of the road!" Hilary exclaimed, rushing back to him.
But Kai didn't move, in fact, it was as if he wanted to get hit!
He soon got his wish, as the truck slammed into him at full speed.
Hilary dove out of the way and rolled onto the sidewalk, staring back at what she expected to be a very flat phoenix, but instead, she saw something incredible!
The truck's back wheels were high in the air and still spinning frantically. Kai had stopped it with his bare hands, at least half a foot inside the front grill of the truck. The driver appeared to have noticed that he hit something, and laid off the accelerator.
Soon, the truck fell back on to all four wheels, and Kai immerged, bathed in a shower of steam from the busted radiator.
"Kai!" Hilary rushed over to him.
Most of the damaged had occurred to the truck, rather than Kai. He only suffered burns on his hands, but they were quickly healed with his magic.
"But…how…?" The brunette glanced from the phoenix to the truck in disbelief.
"What the heck!" The driver jumped out of the front seat, staring at the wreckage. "The radiator's busted! Are you kids alright!"
Kai only glared at him, causing the man to retreat back to the side of the truck.
"That's impossible!" He exclaimed, staring at Kai in horror. "You can't be human!" His eyes traveled to the grill of his truck. Handprints were clearly visible from where Kai had grabbed hold of it.
By now, quite a crowd of people had gathered on the streets. They all murmured to themselves at the unexplained event as Hilary dragged Kai over toward the sidewalk.
"What the heck were you thinking!"
"You said that those machines would run over people…and he was bound to hurt someone at that speed…"
Hilary let out a miserable sigh and sunk to the ground. "I give up…"
Tyson and Kenny suddenly appeared in the crowd and pushed their way over to them.
"What happened? You could hear the crash at my house! You guys alright?" Tyson asked.
"Oh boy…" Kenny started. "This is sure to be on the news tonight!"
So, after hurrying away from the wreck before the police showed up, Tyson, Hilary, Kenny and Kai found themselves walking down through the town on their way to the beach.
"This is the coolest beyblade chief! Are you sure it's stronger than Dragoon Storm?" Tyson asked, admiring his new beyblade as he held it in the sky.
Kenny started with a long speech about how long he had worked on it, but Hilary interrupted him.
"What is it with those bey thingies! They're just toys! Will you ever grow up Tyson!"
"You're just jealous Hilary! I bet if you could beyblade, you would be just as obsessed, if not more!" Tyson shouted back.
"Tyson, even if I could, why would I want to waste my time and money on them?"
"I bet Kai would like it!" The navy haired teen exclaimed proudly.
"He would probably beat your sorry butt at it too!" Hilary glanced over her shoulder at the phoenix. "What do you think Kai? ….Kai?"
There was no answer, causing the group to stop and turn around.
"Kai?" Hilary asked again.
The phoenix in question was standing completely still, seemingly lost in though. Upon closer inspection, Hilary found that his face had paled considerably, and a look of sheer horror was plastered on his tattooed face.
"How is it possible…he's…he's here…but how?"
They could only stare as he mumbled words to himself, barely at a volume that could be heard by the normal human ear.
Hilary decided to give him a poke, hoping he would wake up from whatever trance he was in.
At her slightest touch, he flung his head around, staring into the crowd on the opposite side of the road, and then froze again.
"Should we just leave him like that?" Tyson asked.
"Something's wrong…" Hilary murmured back, a bad feeling brewing in her stomach. She'd never seen him act so strange in the short time she had known him…it was possible this was normal, but something strongly told her otherwise.
The blue haired phoenix growled, bending his knees as if he were to lunge out into the street. "There you are!" He exclaimed.
Hilary's suspicions were confirmed when suddenly, a black blur shot across the street.
It was like the starting shot at the beginning of a race, and Kai leapt out in the street, the back of his shirt ripping as his crimson wings began to grow out of his back.
"Kai! Wait!"
But it was too late.
The blue haired phoenix spread his wings and took off in the blink of an eye, swerving in between two skyscrapers across the street and disappearing from sight after that black blur.
"Great!" Tyson sighed as Hilary started to run after him.
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Told you the action would pick up! And there's a fight scene next chapter!
I bet everyone can guess what this "black blur" is…
This chapter had some random things in it too, like last chapter, but they all show what kind of powers Kai has…and stuff.
Please review!