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Chapter 20: Where's Kaelan?

(Kai's Viewpoint)

I was beginning to worry why Kaelan had been gone all day. I was also wondering who in the world Emily had been crying over all afternoon or if she was just upset at the poor kid Sam's age who died.

Andy was trying to fit in with everyone. And with this crowd and how they're acting now I think he's having a pretty hard time, if I say myself. Em, is a bit over emotional today as well as everyone but they're doing fine. I sort of feel bad for Samantha whose 'boyfriend' is gone and leaving her alone. I really don't but Em has been trying a while to get me to understand and I try but it doesn't make sense.

(Andy's Viewpoint)

Mr. Dickinson's Office "I'd like to talk to Mr. Dickinson. I'm Andy; I'm a friend of Kai Hiwatari. Can I talk with him?"

"Of course you may, everyone can talk with Mr. Dickinson. You can go in know." I nodded and then sighed as I walked into his office.

"Andy my boy, is that you? I haven't seen you in years until you brought our unconscious Kai to me in the emergency room. So, what have you been up to?" He looked at me and smiled. "Here have a seat, my boy."

"Yah, sure, I remember that day and all. I'm just glad that Kai has finally done something with his life and became something special. He's much better than he was at the Abbey for sure." Mr. Dickinson nodded, I remember how scary how that day was.

Flashback Start Age 8

Note: Cell as used in this story means a prison cell not a cell phone. Common Mistake.

on the phone conversation"So Kai, what does the Abbey have in store for you today? I hope it's better than that poison you told me about. You were in horrible condition for a long time."

"It was bad but this is even worst. Wait, here they come. Stop. Help. Let me go."

"Kai, you there? Kai? No!"

I rushed out of my house down to the abbey snuck in the back entrance and down the stairs to Kai's cell. I stopped there. "Kai! Kai!"

I turn around and crash into a kid my age. "Excuse me, do you belong here? This isn't a good place of outsiders. It's a prison. No one breaks into prisons'. You try to break people out."

"Do you know Kai Hiwatari? He's my friend, and your age. That's his cell right there."

"Kai, yah, I know him. He just got taken to the detention cell. He'll get his shots for health then, then, then……

"Then what?" The kid passed out and I stayed there at his body.

"Kai! I'll save you!" I ran to the cell and launched my bit-beast at the gate and it opened. Just to find Kai too, was passed out on the ground.

"Stop, no, don't take him away, please. He will live. Don't pull his only chance to live. He's my friend, he deserves to live." This girl threw herself in front of Kai. She was crying and very sad.

"No, you have the wrong idea, miss. Kai is my friend too. I'm trying to get him out of this horrid place. He's not going to live if I don't take him out of here. What's your name by the way?" She laughed.

"Me, have a name? I wonder if I have such a thing. A name, what is a name? Do I have one? I don't remember having one?" She said. She was about 8 too, she seemed very small but quite smart.

"A name is a title, what people call you. Like he is Kai, and I'm Andy. What do people call you?" She sat on the ground.

"I don't know. I'm an orphan, no family and Kai is my only friend. I can't have you take him from me." She wasn't going to be hard to deal with, but she would be very strange to deal with.

"You want Kai here, saved right?" She nodded. "He'll die if I don't take him to a hospital. Treating his wounds with poison will only kill him, we have to save him. But, he has to come with me. It's the only way."

"I do have family though. They're in America. I'll leave and find them someday. I don't know my name. They look for me but I know not of what they called me. I reply to no man's name, except for my parents. I was 5 when I was taken here, and then nothing. I remember nothing before then." I sighed.

"Come on, I'll send you on a plane to America. I promise that forever I shall be there for our friend Kai. I'm Andy by the way. I hope you find them, and learn of your name." She nodded.

We escaped out the passage and got to the fence of my yard and she jumped over the fence. "Thank you, Andy. You shall always be remembered as a friend to Kai and I. Take care, both of you." She hugged me and looked at Kai's mangled body we had carried to my house.

"Wish I could help you find your family but I've got Kai and my family; so, farewell, good-luck and good-bye."

I picked up Kai's body and ran to the nearest hospital. "Hello, may I help you?"

"Yes, my friend has been beaten, and poisoned in a beyblade institute of training. I saved him but he's dying, and dying fast. Hurry!"

They picked up Kai's body and put it on a stretcher and carried it away to an emergency room. I filled out all the paperwork and such and used my father's medical card and took care of it.

I was sitting there in the waiting room for hours. Then later a man walked up to me. "Hello Andy, I'm Mr. Dickinson. You're taking care of Kai, correct?" I looked at him, he was very huge compared to me, a 8 year old.

"Is Kai going to be okay?" He sighed and looked away. "Is he?"

"I'm sorry Andy, but only time will tell, if he lives in many years he will come back and thank you and you two will be even closer as friends." I nodded and sat their silently waiting for Kai to come out of the emergency room, and eventually he did.

Flashback Ended

"You were right way back there. He later would come back and thank me, and we are very close friends now. How did you know that?" Mr. Dickinson laughed.

"Andy, my boy, I knew that you can't save someone's life without them, thanking you if they lived after it. I knew Kai was strong enough to live. As for you two becoming good friends. You doing that for him showed your friendship and I knew even time and space wouldn't stop a friendship like that. You see Andy." I nodded.

"It's pretty amazing how 13 years time and millions of promises can be kept but some cannot. I wish I would have heard from that girl again. I hope she knows that Kai's okay." I said sighing.

"I'm sure she does Andy, I'm sure she does. I actually know for a fact that she does." I jumped out of my chair and was at the desk a few feet in front of me.

"Can I talk to her?" Mr. Dickinson laughed at me. "What, I'd like to learn more about her. She seemed like she suffered a bit like Kai and I."

"Oh yes, she did. And still has been to this day. Just recently her younger brother passed away. He ran off on his own, to live her in New York City; he was on the search for her, but died too soon." I felt really bad for the girl.

"What's her name? Can I go meet her? She seems like someone who needs comforting now." Mr. Dickinson stood up and shuffled through a stack of papers then picked up a paper and called a number.

"Hi, it's Mr. Dickinson. Will you go to the meeting spot I told you to go to when the event happened? I have someone who wants to meet you." I could hear a girly voice in tears in the background. She said something and Mr. Dickinson hanged up.

"So, I go to a place and she meets me there. How will I know it's her?" Mr. Dickinson laughed.

"If you're not sure if you'll recognize her. I'm sure you will but just in case there is a picture of her in this envelope. Only open it if you don't recognize her." I nodded and headed off to the address listed on the outside of the envelope.

I walked down to the address and it was an empty house that was abandoned. I walked inside and there was just a person in a shadow. All I could see is their eyes. They looked very glossy and depressed, like they were crying. It must be her.

"Is it you; Kai's friend from 13 years ago?" The figure stood up and seemed a bit shorter than me and walked over, still hidden in the ever cascading darkness.

"Yes, that would be me. To not call someone by their name is very improper yet I lost my memory only 6 years after that. I didn't remember anything but to remember what I had forgotten and written on papers in a drawer at home. You were learned about from there." Who ever she was, was very smart, but had a hard time.

"Oh, I'm sorry you lost you're memory, miss. I wish I could help you remember. I don't know you're name either." She laughed.

"According to what I wrote on the paper, you never did know or learn of my name. You always asked about it. I still don't know it. I can slowly remember things but very little. I have phases of amnesia so If I forget it is mine own fault."

"What's you're name? Since you know it now." She laughed. I could sense her coming closer.

"You know it too, don't you?" She stepped out from darkness and flung her hair out of her tear filled eyes. "It's…

"Daniela?" She smiled and walked forward to me. "Why didn't you tell me who you were?" She fell back into the chair and laughed.

"Had I known, I might have. Hello? I have many cases of amnesia. I know people and their character appearances but to match two people by a description of their 8 year old self to know would be hard, wouldn't it. I have long forgotten about Kai, who he is too." Daniela sat on a chair and said for me to sit too.

"So I've known you for my whole life, and would have never guessed you were that girl faced with the same punishments as Kai and Tala went through. I would have laughed if someone suggested it." She laughed and I could still see her tears fall but she was happier.

"Me too, about once a year I have to read over events that have happened to me, things like my name and such. I always move on but then I decided to imbed it in my mind so I remember a lot of things in my time phases but that wasn't one of them. I didn't know Kai, was my friend from long ago until Mr. Dickinson told me."

"I guess he enjoys going around our backs and arranging things without our knowledge. You know what?"

"Actually I don't, what?" She laughed.

"I'm much more trusting of you know than before. I know of what kind of person you are. I've heard of Emily telling me this over and over of my hand in saving lives but never would I have thought to actually meet one of those people again." She laid her head on my shoulder and calmed down.

"I kind of know how you feel. I already trusted you but now knowing that I've known you for 13 more years. It's a different level of trust, don't you think." I said, I felt the comfort of having more than one friend I trusted utterly and completely.

"You'd think that even with amnesia, I'd remember that face. It's did seem familiar but to trust a person I had knew not, would have been very foolish. I'm glad that I learned that my 1st senses still work even through amnesia." I smiled and she smiled and was happy that she could still know people without truly knowing them.

"I'm happy that you can. Because if not then you would have laughed at the idea that you could have previously knew me." She smiled and hugged me.

"Let's go home this place has really bad memories for me." She started to get up but I grabbed her hand and pulled her down.

"I'd like to know about this place, if you'd tell me. And I'd like to know about you're brother too." She sighed and adjusted herself to the seat and calmed down.

"I guess. Well this is the place I moved to with my parents when my only friend Emily decided to move up here. My mom went here and my dad was in Kansas; I and my brother left to go wherever we wanted to. During the school year, here with Emily, then back home to Kansas with Em. This is the place where I spent a majority of my life. It was nice but then my dad was killed in war leaving this place to be abandoned. My bro went here to find me, and bring me back but died on the way." I could see the tears gliding down her face onto her pants.

"So you didn't know he was out here." She shook her head at me, very slowly but I was sure that was what she wanted to say.

"If I would have known I would have called the police to find him and keep him until I came, unstead of seeing his death right in front of my very eyes. It was like there was nothing I could do to save my own brother." She was going to break down, I knew it. I put my arms around her and held her close to myself, but still giving her time to rest.

"It's okay, if you would have known I'm sure he'd be with you right now. Just hanging around, and catching up on old times. I'll pay for the funeral, if you want. I know that you don't have a lot of money so I'll pay for it."

She stood up and walked around the dusty abandoned house. "So many memories of my father and my family, it really brings sadness to me to know that only my mother and I are left." I couldn't stand her being this upset.

"So what was you're father like Daniela? Was he nice, friendly, or what?" Daniela laughed.

"You remind me of him. He couldn't stand for anyone to be sad. He kept the conversation going and was very cheerful. He had a sense of loyalty, and adventure. He went to war because he felt it was his duty to his country. He also saw war as an adventure that you had to finish like a video game except you only had one life like the ultimate video game." Daniela smiled and walked to a photo album on a desk.

"So what war did he serve in?" I asked, she looked at me and laughed.

"This war silly, he was MIA, missing in action for a while but then they put him as respected dead. They didn't think they'd find him." I stood up as tears rolled down her face.

"Never lose hope Daniela, if he isn't confirmed dead then everyday you should hope and pray he's alive; not cry because some people say he's dead. He could be a secret prisoner or something. Think not of how sad it is of his lost but of your happiness of his return." She smiled and looked without tears.

"To think about that for a while is good but he being 45 is getting old so it's not good for him to be there in the war. The war in Chile is nothing big, but deaths make anything big. A death at school makes it bigger than a fight so many deaths make it a war." She opened up the album and looked at a picture of a wedding.

"You're parents wedding I presume." She nodded. "You're dad never stopped smiling in any picture in this album. That's really cool. Everyone has a bad day, but he seemed to never have one." Daniela laughed.

"Oh, how wrong are you? Just because picture portray him as an ever happy person, doesn't mean he is. He was very sad when Em and I left for the summer to see mom in Kansas. He missed mom, and at many nights he cried to be at her side again." I looked at the ground.

"Oh, so your mom divorced him?" Daniela smacked me.

"Of course not, my dad was a head chief of the Chile forces. Everyone was shooting bullets at the house. That's why he moved away to a crowded city to not be found when healing. He wanted mom and Dylan safe. I forced happiness on him. Loneliness kept him crying but their safety made him very happy. No harm to his family." I looked at him.

"So you two were close. I see that there's never a picture when you're not there since the pictures when you were born. He never let you out of his sight I presume." Daniela nodded.

"Yah, me and dad were so close. I needed to go back with Em, to talk to her about this. I'm taking this album, dad. Alright?" She waited for a response and after none she sniffled and walked off me leading the way.

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Finals, at school. They're keeping me busy but 2 of my 6 are done or 1 third so just wait and I'll catch up. Another chapter on Wednesday to make up for the one I missed on Friday, okay?Oh, and I hoped this explained their craziness. They had a purpose for their tears. Dylan, Daniela's brother was the person they cried about. Andy was left out because Daniela didn't entrust her feelings to boys. Aniecä, signing off, and good-night!