-1TYSON
We followed Hilary down a wide alley way towards an enclosed square area. Around this square were entrances to peoples houses. I looked up to see the building was very tall and only allowed sunlight to hit the ground when it was directly above the square hole. We were cast in shadow but the electric lights let us see the numbers of the houses.
It didn't take long for us to find the house we were looking for because half of the houses appeared to be emptied or derelict. But what happened next was a bit disturbing.
An explosion of angry shouts and swearing I've never heard in my life echoed in the square hole. It acted like a chimney and I would be very surprised if none of the neighbours couldn't hear this noise. Seconds later Onyx swung the door open violently and slammed it with such force the window shattered in the door. She looked thoroughly pissed off about something. But this didn't effect the angry man and woman screaming at each other. Actually I think the noise level increased by a few decibels when she left.
Onyx stopped when she noticed us. We couldn't see her face as it was bowed so low her hat covered her face in shadow. She walked right passed us and Hilary tried to offer some words of comfort and clutched her arm. But Onyx just wrenched her arm out of Hilary's arm and kept walking.
We watched her as she kept going without even looking back. Now I didn't feel any anger but pity for Onyx and her life. To be the one to identify her dead parents and then to be delivered to her relatives and live like this? "No wonder she has so much anger." Ray said and we all nodded or muttered in agreement.
KAI
What a way to live your life. This was all that was needed to fuel the embers of her anger and hate for what happened to her parents.
I felt sorry for this kid as she walked past us without even saying a word. But then I saw something in her pockets that could make matters worse. A shape in each resembling a bottle made her coat hang in a peculiar way with the wind coming through the alley towards us. I wondered if she did this a lot. The fact that she was only fourteen didn't seem to faze her so I'm thinking she did.
We all went to a nearby café but I couldn't face eating anything after the scene I had just witnessed. Many of us had the same thought but a couple had something to eat because they were hungry enough…namely Tyson. "How can you eat at a time like this Tyson?"
"Because I'm hungry Kenny."
"You've only had lunch an hour ago and there was enough to feed an army." Kenny said making Tyson blush and look away…for a couple of second before getting back to his food. Honestly this man could eat the same amount as an army in a week. But my thoughts weren't on Tyson's eating habits right now. All I could think about was Onyx and those bottles in her coat pockets.
I sighed as I paid the bill at the café, I was the only one who had enough money after Tyson's second lunch. The sun had started to set in the sky and we decided to leave. When we went our separate ways I headed straight to Onyx's training ground.
This time I went in by the bath and saw the circle in the cliff rock had been made much bigger. It was as though something had ripped huge chunks out of it with great force. The only evidence of what had caused this was sitting opposite me with a drink in one hand and her beyblade in the other. It seemed Onyx had been exorcising all that anger out by her beyblade. She was wearing a black tank top and covered in small cuts and grazes which meant she must've been training exceptionally hard. Her hair was messy and covered most of her face from view except for an eye (Think of the ring.) but it wasn't looking at me at all. I thought she would've been crying but instead she was glaring at the ground by her feet. Large slashes were in the wall of rock old and new. It appeared she had been training here for a long time.
Her coat and hat were thrown in to a corner with the remains of a beer bottle. I thought she couldn't get drunk off a couple of beer bottles but I was wrong. In her hand she had a litre bottle of vodka and had drunken over half of it already. I had no idea what state she was in with her hair hiding her face.
ONYX
My uncle hurt me and my aunt again. I could feel my cheek and lip sting and start to swell just like my eye hidden behind my hair. At least there was no trip to the hospital…this time. He was cleverer than that, he made sure I would only be sent there a couple of times a year. He would say I'd fallen down the stairs or fell off my bunk bed...bastard. Either way I pulsed with hate every time I went through those white doors and in to the white room. The doctors all knew what he was like but I didn't admit it. I took some of his pounding so my aunt would get less. She nearly died a couple of times before I arrived in their house. I'm afraid to stand up and beat the crap out of him in case he would take it out on her when I wasn't around. My aunt was as good and kind as my own mother who never got beaten. How anyone can still have that loving nature after taking crap like that off him was anyone's guess.
The sun was starting to set but I couldn't care less. The cuts on my arms, legs and torso were starting to sting too but had stopped bleeding which was a bonus. I sat there with a bottle missing more than half it's contents down my throat and glared at ground with all those painful memories running through my head. Then I noticed I was being covered in a shadow from a person who I couldn't care to look at right now. At least my tank top wasn't too badly damaged so my breasts were visible…added bonus.
Without a response from me the person crouched down to my level. "Onyx?" Kai? What the hell was he doing here? But then again why should I care, I mean he's not the caring type…is he?
I took a deep shuddering breath and looked up at him with my uncovered eye. He did look concerned, but why? What the fuck was I to him? "Are you ok?" Do I bloody look alright? How I wanted so much to say that but mouth refused to work or open. Instead I took another swig of vodka and stared at Kai trying to figure this out.
But then he just lost it and took the bottle of Vodka out of my hands and threw it at the cliff face. It smashed and dripped down the rock face. I know I should've been mad but I was too drunk to care and thought he might be right, I've had enough to drink. I still didn't say a word. I think he might've been happy if I'd moved or told him that was my drink or something. But he seemed sad that I didn't even move or say anything.
For a moment we stayed like this until Kai couldn't take it anymore. "If your not going to say anything then I might just leave you here." Am I bothered? I don't think so Kai, you can shout and scream all you like but you won't get any response out of me. I think I'm too drunk for any response anyway.
But what happened next was very surprising. Kai growled, turned around and picked up my coat and hat. He moved me in to a position so he could put my coat on and picked up me and my hat. I was too drunk to protest, but when the alcohol wear's off he'd better be running. I tried to say something or move but I was unable to open my mouth and my limbs were as heavy as blocks of lead.
KAI
Onyx glared at me but I couldn't leave her like this and return home to guardian's like that. I thought about it and decided to take her back to my house until she slept it off before going back home.
When I got her in the car she passed out and I drove her to my place. Soraya came to greet me and was a bit surprised to find Onyx in my arms as I carried her to a spare room. "What's the matter with her daddy?" Soraya whispered when I placed Onyx on a bed. "She's just very tired and fell asleep after a hard days training." I lied. Soraya didn't look so sure but believed me just the same. I moved Onyx's hair from her face and saw the bruises starting to form. She's going to wake up with a bad shiner tomorrow.
I played with Soraya for the rest of the day checking in on Onyx every hour or two.
