6. Just Listen to Me

Dealing with adult life, the loss of parents, friends falling out, injuries and hurt is all hard to bare. Add tests and the growing age of sixth form and Daemon Heights is what your outcome is. The Bandits and the Demolition Boys are all going through hell at 'Hell Hole Heights' and dealing with it differently. Will they get over their pasts, graduate and find love, or will the trash can at the bottom of the road be easier for them? Its not easier being 18 and hiding things from your friends is not the option you can take without digging yourself further into your deep secrets and pasts. Mostly Kai/OC, lots of OC/OC and implied Ray/Mariah and Tyson/Hilary.

Disclaimer: I only own the Triagons, Cassy, Elisa, Sabre, Leo, The Bandits, The town, the Mansions, Dojos, Houses, Horses, other Animals, Bit-beasts and Daemon Heights along with all the teachers and different people you have never heard of before virtually…I own a gold mine. The plots mine too.

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''Lower your arms. Your shooting too far into the air, it costs you at least a hundred spin revolutions.''(making it up as I go along) Kat ordered pushing Ry's arms down a centimetre. ''You want it to be perfectly balanced. To high and you lose revs. Too low and you hit the dish too early and you get more friction and you lose revs again. They are incredibly important now as power is no longer an issue. Flarewol is powerful but so is Dranzer, so is Whisper, so is Dragoon and so are the rest. Power isn't an option for winning. You need endurance.'' Kat said calmly. Ry nodded. She'd been standing here for about ten minutes and her arms had begun to ache from holding the launching position. They waited another few seconds before Kat stood back.

''Launch.'' Ry launched sending her golden blade into the blue dish around the back of Kat's garden.

''You lifted your arms again. Do it again.'' Ry called back her blade and put it back in the launcher.

''Listen to what I'm saying and then do it. Again.'' Kat said putting her hands behind her back. Her eyes piercing Rys form, trying to find mistakes. Ry launched.

''Now you're too ridged. Relax and hold that position until I say otherwise. You will remember it before I'm done.'' Kat said. Ry nodded and held the position. Her arms were burning; they ached like she had just picked up a huge weight at the gym without warming up or even training with anything close to it before hand. Her muscles weren't pulled or stretched; they just felt like they were on fire. That's what you get when you go against the forces of nature, gravity was one of them.

An agonising minute passed, for Ry at least, and Kat's hard slave driving black eyes diverted back to Ry from watching the rest of her team run around the huge garden area. Ry glanced at her new team captain and swore she saw her swinging a chain in her hand and a whip in the other. Blinking she shook her head to clear her mind again and faced the dish once more. Oh, come on, she's only trying to help. One side of her mind yelled. But you don't see her training like this, or even letting up on you. It seems little but it's agony. The other side of the black haired girls brain yelled back. Then Kat relieved her of her pain.

''Launch.'' Kat called. Ry launched, her arms flopping to her sides and relaxing when she had done, the burning feeling remaining still, even if her arms no longer had to fight against the pulling force only discoverer because some man developed a bump on the head from a falling apple. Kat growled. ''Call him back.'' Ry sighed and pushed the pain to the back of her mind and held out her hand. Flarewol returned to his mistress. She loaded him again and got ready to unleash the fire wolf once more. Kat nodded to herself out of view of the new comers eyesight. She has spirit; I'll give her that. Maybe one day her will will save her some how?…Like mine did. Glaring slightly in thought she yelled out again.

''Launch.'' Ry did. Kat nodded watching Flarewol circle the dish at amazing speeds. Kat could tell he was angry, Ry herself was angry at her, the duel haired blader knew it, but that was a good thing. She found herself smirking. ''That will have to do''. She said turning away from Ry. Suddenly spinning around she had launched Whisper from no-where. The silver blade circled the dish at incredible speeds like that of Flarewol previous to him before pulling to a halt in the very centre and spinning quickly on the spot.

''Hit him out of the dish. Get the right angle and you've already won. If you get the wrong angle your not launching properly.'' Kat said crossing her arms. Her face was emotionless at the moment but her eyes were showing pride and compassion. Ry nodded and called Flarewol back.

''What happens if I damage Whisper?'' She asked clipping Flarewol into her launcher. Kat snorted.

''You wont. Just get on with the exercise.'' A few minutes later Kat was tapping her foot in impatience. Whisper still remained in the dish in its very centre spinning strongly. Ry wasn't angry enough for this to work. Her emotions would give her a better chance, just like you can do things that you never could before if your in danger, the adrenaline gave you extra abilities.

''Keep your arms at shoulder height, don't move them. Follow your arms through; just because the blades gone doesn't mean you can just stop, the end of your launch also controls the angle, speed and distance of your launch. Don't forget it.'' Kat said sternly her voice raised from its normal calm tone to that of a sergeant in an army force giving commands. She knew what she was doing.

''I'm trying ok.'' Ry said desperately. ''Your not the one feeling like your arms are about to fall off.'' She muttered angrily.

''Well you're not trying enough.'' Kat said back quickly. ''And from the looks of you your arms will be staying they for a lot longer, unless you want me to take them off for you.'' Ry growled and launched Flarewol again. Kat smirked behind the new girl as Whisper rocketed out of the dish as Flarewol hit him dead on. Kat felt the air around her spin as the blade whizzed past her face, but she just stood unfazed, it had worked. There was a splash as the unicorn landed in amongst the fish in the pond of their section of the garden some distance off. She nodded to herself, her eyes flashing as she smiled.

''Good. Get Sabre to watch over you in the other dish, keep practising and listen to what he has to say.'' Kat said and walked off without a backwards glance or second thought.

''I did it.'' Ry muttered watching Flarewol wiz backwards and forwards around the dish. Kat wanted me to get angry; she knew I'd get it if my emotions needed to be released. She watched Kat walk away. Slave driver or not, she knows what she does. And she does it well. No wonder everyone thinks she's one of the best around here. She suddenly felt a presence behind her as a tall shadow fell upon the light she stood in.

''Kat wants me to watch you. And I expect just as much from a team member so don't get anything wrong.'' Sabre said turning and leading her over to the second red dish of the three at the end of the garden. Ry nodded and followed him. This training was tough, and all after a mile long run around the garden that Kat had made them all do!

''Cassy, your next.'' Kat called as she summoned Whisper from the pond. The water swirled suddenly before Whisper leapt from the water causing spry to glitter as it flew through the air as he left the waters. Kat caught him and held him in her hand as she turned to the panting Cassy, water dripping down her arm and onto the grass.

''Elisa, Leo, battle, and I want to be able to watch you even after I've trained Cassy, you need more endurance. Both of you go now.'' The gasping pair nodded, having only just finished their run they really wanted a break but they wouldn't let their captain know that. They stopped making their blades wiz around the grass and headed for the second blue dish to battle at their leaders command. Kat walked over to Cassy next to the first blue dish.

''I want your launch quicker and don't lose concentration. Launch.''


''Phew, that training kills in that heat.'' Leo said walking into the kitchen and flopping down on the centre counter with six stools around it. A table was to the left of that as you entered through the back door and the actual kitchen appliances to the right.

''If I wanted you all dead you'd still be out there, or I would have done the job myself, or I could have sent you on a spy mission to Hiwatari Mansion.'' Kat said sitting in her chair around the counter too and smirking mischievously. The Bandits sat down on their stools and then eyed the boxes in the centre of the counter.

''What are they Kat? And what about Hiwatari Mansion?'' Ry asked.

''Donations from Parents, or from team members, and Kai's place. If you go there without invite you either get Voltaire up your ass or Kai yelling at you to get lost.'' Kat explained. ''We like pranking that house.'' She added smirking

''Yeah, if you like getting scared to death by that psycho grandfather of his, he comes after us all, last time it looked like a knife in his hands but we'd all ran off before we could tell. I'm surprised Kai hasn't moved out yet.'' Leo said. His eyes were now mix of fear and humour as he grabbed for one of the sandwiches his girlfriend had brought over to eat. Ry didn't like the sound of Kai's grandfather already. Luckily she didn't know, or at least suspect, the same amount about him as the Bandits or Demolition Boys did.

''We'd be eating chocolate cake right now if my 'donation' was still there.'' Sabre snorted and crossed his arms, changing the subject to make his point known once again. He wasn't a fan of Kat's two twin brothers. They always acted like kids yet were older than the six 18 year olds in the room. Kat smirked.

''Yeah, my brothers are nut cases huh?'' She smirked.

''I resent that.'' They all turned to the voice to see a tall man wearing a blue t-shirt with red lines around the arms and chest and baggy grey jeans on his legs walk in. He had long messy hair that was like Kats, Brown streaked with blue, but was held down by a red, white and blue cap on his head backwards with brown and blue hair escaping from it's front. His black eyes, like his sisters, sparkled with youth and friendliness yet didn't have the same depth. He may have been six years older but he hadn't been through as much as his youngest sister. And deep down he dreaded it, and envied Kat for how she was coping.

''Ok, Pheno and Fly are nut cases, not you Tyson.'' Kat said breaking her brothers thoughts. The man shook his head slightly and nodded.

''I'm perfectly fine with that. So, your Ry right?'' He said pointing to the black haired girl. She nodded shyly. ''So kitty, does she pass?'' He said wrapping his arm around Kat's shoulders and looking down on her. Kat just sighed and shrugged.

''Once she gets that launch perfect she could even kick my ass.'' She said.

''Wow, you must be good.'' Tyson said. ''Kitty never says that about anyone, except maybe those Kai and Tala guys.'' Ry just looked at the Bandit Team Captain as her brother walked to the fridge and grabbed something to eat before leaving through the second door into the sitting room.

''Thanks Kat.'' The new girl said quietly as the others began to eat. Kat sighed and smiled.

''Hey, a Bandit needs to be supported.'' She said before opening one of the boxes field with sandwiches.


''So I'm a Demolition boy?'' Tala nodded. Theo looked gob smacked.

''Jeez, one day at school and I'm already in the top team.'' He said. Tala smirked.

''Compliment accepted.'' He said walking over to the hi-fi in Kai's bedroom. The whole Demolition Boy team were now lounging around the boy's room. Bryan was sitting in a single chair near the window and Ian was trying to grab the T.V remote off of Spencer as they watched it at the other end of the huge room. Theo and Tala stood near the door with Kai leaning against the black wall near by to them listening.

''I'm glad you like your first day present.'' Kai said. Theo smiled at him.

''Hell I do. I haven't been on a team before?''

''Really.'' Spencer said pushing Ian to the floor from the couch on which they sat with a thud. Theo nodded.

''No-one ever let me in one.'' He said watching Ian get back up and rub his head, glaring at his blonde friend.

''What? You're good. Why didn't they?'' Tala said, Theo shrugged.

''Dunno. Too good I guess, they didn't want me to be better than them so they just left me out of the team so I couldn't show my blading skills. That way I wouldn't make them look like they weren't the best so they'd be in the lime light all the time.'' He guessed. Tala looked slightly confused.

''You old schools were weird.'' He said. Theo smirked.

''Maybe. Most of them were pretty stuck up people anyway.'' Tala smiled and pressed the play button. He recognised the CD playing after only a few seconds.

''Kai, why the hell do you have this? This is ''Just the way I am'' if I'm not mistaken.'' Kai flinched as Tala smirked at him. The person talking in the beginning of the song was heard. Theo quirked an eyebrow.

''That's Kat's voice isn't it?''


''Right. Vocals?''

''Check.'' Came a grumpy reply.

''Oh, come on.'' This time it was just a glare. ''Fine.''

''Drums?'' A quick drumbeat that lasted for a few seconds before abruptly ending with a clash of a symbol was her reply. She turned to the next person.

''Second Guitar?'' Deep Purples famous beginning on the guitar filled her ears.

''Lead guitar?'' Said another voice from the sidelines. The speaking person smirked.

''I'll save that for later.'' She smirked. They were now all in the attic left section. The attic stretched all over the houses rooms and was divided into three sections. The middle section where the stairs led up to was a work out gym with mats covering the floor so Kat could practise her martial arts. The section to the right was a storage room stacked high with boxes. To the left was where they stood now. A raised platform at the back of the room near the circular windows of the room held the band.

Sabre stood near a microphone at the front of the stage. A hi-fi was near his feet just off from the stage. Behind him was Leo sitting at his black drum set with flames licking up each drum and the bands name written in silver on the side of the drums. It was his customised set, he used his money wisely. He rolled his drumsticks around with his fingers absentmindedly. To Sabres left was Cassy holding her red electric guitar which was slung around her shoulders. To her left was a keyboard and mixing table on stands. To the left of the stage stood Kat with her silver flame covered guitar slung around her shoulders also. Each other band member, besides Sabre, wore a portable microphone on their head and all of them were wired up to amps at the front of the stage.

''Why aren't you up there Elisa?'' Ry questioned as she stood next to the girl before the stage.

''If I'm not wrong we're singing a song which doesn't need a keyboard or any music being mixed first, so in turn I'm not needed yet. You see, Kat's lead guitar, Sabres vocals all the time, just he swaps between back and main. Leo is drums and Cassy Bass and I do backing vocals.'' Elisa said. ''Kat does the main vocals for this song though which counts me out as Sabre does backing instead of me.'' She continued. Finishing a quick retune Kat looked towards the Bandits and then to Elisa.

''Right then.'' He walked up to the mic Sabre stood near by to. ''You're not needed yet.'' She smirked up at him and he moved over and smirked back. ''If the amps been messed with by Pheno and Fly, change it for me could you Elisa, or Ry if you want. Listen to this.'' Kat said, smirking with pride. The pair watching nodded. Kat cleared her throat and put her mouth to the mic. (Kat (…) when she changes from speaking to singing and all her lines are in ''…'' and when ever Sabre sings it's in '…').

(Speak)

Kat: ''So you think you've found the girl for you.

And guess what dears, it's me.

Now let me tell you a thing or too.

You might be amazed to see.''

(Sing)

''It's just the way I am.

The way I'll always be.

Fast cars and motor bikes.

What you get is what you see.

It's just the way I am.

I'm not all that you see.

Guns and swords, blood and gore.

Now that dear, that is me.''

''I've never liked the soppy stuff,

Romance movies and valentines.

But give me an adventure,

When there aint no reason to speak in rhymes.

And action, bandits and guns ready to blow,

(Speak) And that babe, is where I wanna go.''

Sabre: 'And that's all because'

Kat: ''It's just the way I am.

The way I'll always be.

Fast cars and motor bikes.

What you get is what you see.

It's just the way I am.

I'm not all that you see.

Guns and swords, blood and gore.

Now that dear, that is me.''

''You could walk this earth a millennia,

And there aint no way in hell,

That your gonna find another girl like me,

And now, why, I will tell.

(Speak)

You can hook me up with all the crime,

Cause I'm the one who doesn't mind the time

That's why.''

Sabre: 'But why, babe, why?'

(Speak)

Kat: ''I'll tell you why.''

(Sing)

''It's just the way I am.

The way I'll always be.

Fast cars and motor bikes.

What you get is what you see.

It's just the way I am.

I'm not all that you see.

Guns and swords, blood and gore.

Now that dear, that is me.''

Sabre: 'I can't believe what I just heard,

On the outside you look fine,

But obviously after a while with you,

I've found out you could never be mine,

I don't want a bad girl, dark and mysterious like you,

I want someone beside me, that won't tell me what to do'

(Speak)

Kat: ''Tough. 'Cause…''

(Sing)

''It's just the way I am.

The way I'll always be.

Fast cars and motor bikes.

What you get is what you see.

It's just the way I am.

I'm not all that you see.

Guns and swords, blood and gore.

Now that dear, that is me.''

(Speak)

Kat: ''It's just me.''

Sabre: 'It's just like you'

Kat: ''That's what I said''.

Sabre: 'That's what you told me'

(Sing)

Kat: ''And that's what I'll always be.

Forever and for always,

The badgirl of the streets and shadows,

Looking for adventure to fill my bad ways,

(Speak)

That you won't give to me man.

So now do you think I give a damn?''

''No.''

(Sing)

''It's just the way I am.

It's just the way I am.

It's just the way I ammmmm.

''It's just the way I am.

The way I'll always be.

Fast cars and motor bikes.

What you get is what you see.

It's just the way I am.

I'm not all that you see.

Guns and swords, blood and gore.

Now that dear, that is me.''

''That is meeee.''

''Just like meeee.''

''It's just the way I ammmm.''

''Just the way I, ammmm.''

(Speak)

Kat: ''Yeah babe, it's me.''

A clash of drums, guitar and symbols later the song had ended. Elisa clapped but Ry was too amazed to even do that. She didn't know the Bandits could sing. Moreover, she didn't think or know they could sing like that!

''That was great.'' She murmured. Kat smirked.

''One of my own. Glad you like.'' She said proudly. (Literally one of my own. No steeling. Grabs gun and looks around suspiciously. Oh, and that was the same C.D that was in Kai's hi-fi if you want confirmation, that's why I put it in).

''Ok, it's just gone eight. Want to do another one? We came in too late to really practise.'' Elisa said looking at the clock on the room's wall. Kat nodded.

''Yeah, will your mum mind Ry?'' She asked. The black haired girl shook her head making her long plat swing behind her head.

''No, I love it. Sing as much as you like.'' She said. Kat nodded.

''Right, to cool down let's do ''Back'' and then call it a night, we got in too late really.'' She said. The group nodded and Elisa walked over to her keyboard to play her notes on it during the song. Sabre wrapped the microphone wire around his hand as Leo left his drums and pulled up a box onto the stage. Cassy walked over to Kat and handed her an acoustic guitar. Kat swapped her electric for the acoustic and sat down on the box with Sabre standing behind her. Bowing her head she began to pay the soft notes of the song. ( '…' Sabre andKat sings all of it and ''…'' equals them both).

I can't believe I was the one to miss,

All the signs all the whines,

Coming from your direction,

It was never true,

Between me and you,

It was just my own miss conception,

''Right now I've been shoot in the back,

Loves too hard,

I just can't look back,

Look back at you,

Because I know it's true,

You're the one,

The one that did this,''

'So you played along with me,

Keeping me from misery,

While you continued to fade away,

Into the dying day,

Then you left me here,

Here all alone.'

''Right now I've been shoot in the back,

Loves too hard,

I just can't look back,

Look back at you,

Because I know it's true,

You're the one,

The one that did this.''

'So I'm just lying here on the floor,

Just staring at the door,

But your not gonna come back, I can tell,

But it's just as well, 'cause

''You hurt me, you broke me,

Left and desert me,

And now I just can't go on…

But I can't turn back.''

''Right now I've been shoot in the back,

Loves too hard,

I just can't look back,

Look back at you,

Because I know it's true,

You're the one,

The one that did this.''

I just can't turn back,

'Back to the misery,'

Can't turn back,

'Back to the hurt and pain,'

Can't turn back,

'Never the same again,'

Can't turn back,

''Cos breaking up with you at the end of the day…'

I just can't turn back,

'It's better this way.'

''Now I know I've been shoot in the back,

Love was too hard,

I won't look back,

Look back at you,

Because I know it's true now,

You were the one,

The one that did this to me.''

To me.

(That was quite confusing, oh hell, I can never get it right)

Kat looked up and smiled back at Sabre who still stood behind her, a blissful smile on his face. He enjoyed this as much as she did. She had written this song, and she loved it. It was about her. Not about some past relationship, she'd been single all her life, it was about the loss of her parents but in a more 'couple' like way. Just so she could sing about what she had been though yet no-one would know about it. She smiled solemnly.

''Gets better every time.'' She said and took the guitar strap from her back. Ry looked at her team captain. She was one of the best singers she'd ever heard, she was so in tune with the song, the emotions, her face was as blank and sorrowful as she'd ever seen from anyone right now.

''Wow.'' The newcomer murmured. Kat glanced at the clock. Suddenly the sorrowful look was gone and replaced with a look of slight shock and urgancy.

''Damn, Ry, come on, we're going. Bye guys, I'll see you at school tomorrow.'' Kat said leaving the guitar on the box and rushing out of the attic dragging Ry along with her. The remaining bandits just shook their heads and prepared to put the stuff away again. Kat and time keeping should never be used in one sentence implying that she was good at it.

(Sorry, but of a rubbish chap there but I had to get Ry into the team more, I had to give you Kat's brothers and I had to let the Bandits sing. Because something big is going to happen when they sing again. And I don't mean Pop Idle Bandit style. Review please, even if it's to criticise, I'll listen and then try and make it better, it helps a lot).