Tyson was on the sofa kissing Hilary a lot. Hilary was very blushed. Everyday it was harder to tell Tyson she didn't want to have sex with him, especially because Tyson was getting older and sexier, such as all the boys. Max was also becoming very desirable and Ray… well, Ray was always sexy. The Blitzkrieg Boys were also prettier.
Tala entered the house with a strange school uniform. It has a blue waistcoat a white chemise and soft brown trousers. He was also wearing a big black mantle. Max looked to him, founding strange Tala's new fashion.
"What's that?" asks Max. Tala looks to him.
"This is the symbol that I'm an university student. This is the mantle we, veterans, use on Biovolt School for Pro's for praxis." Explains Tala. Max looks to him.
(Praxis, in Portugal it's what the doctors, the old students, do to the Novices, the new students in the university, obligating them to do physical exercises, eat grass, sing, kiss their hands, stuff like that… New students are also forbidden to look at the doctors in the eyes and they can never touch their mantles. Well, it's easier to say they are treated below dogs. A Novice can only become a Doctor if he passed through Praxis.)
"Praxis? Wait! You're saying in Biovolt, you, the old student, obligate the new students to do everything you ask then?" asks Max.
"Yes we do! I already passed through that last year while you were in Hawaii. So, I'll never be praxed again! Pity you, King, Tyson and Ray will… and Brian too, once he failed on the last year of high school and only now he will be a Novice." Tells Tala.
"But… Erika and Kai are also new students." Says Max, remembering Erika and Kai were also in Hawaii last year. Tala looked to him and smiled.
"Do you really think that Kai, the boss of Biovolt, will be praxed?" asks Tala. Max realized Kai, once now he's all mighty, will never joined something so foolish.
"And Erika?" asks Max.
"Erika is the only girl in Biovolt, imagine what the other doctors would do to her… so Kai, once he is the Czar, the highest rank of the doctors, he made Erika a doctor." Tells Tala.
"Why hasn't he done the same to me and the others?" asks Max. Tala smiles and whispers to Max.
"He wanted Ray to suffer a little and the only way to put Ray on the Novices were putting all of you."
"My suit is ready!" says Erika showing her suit. It was equal to Tala's expect she has a soft brown skirt that looked like a kilt except without squares. Her skirt was very tiny, more like a belt… "Do I look pretty on it, Max?"
"Definitely!" Says Max, looking to her skirt. Kai enters hugs Erika. Kai was wearing the same clothes as Tala's and he was very hot on them.
"Hey!" screams Tala, seeing Tyson kissing Hilary on the sofa in a way that gave Tala the impression that Tyson was eating Hilary. "What's that shame on my sofa? If you want to have sex go to a bed!"
Tyson stops kissing Hilary and looks to Tala with his face full of Hilary's lipstick. Tala sends him a bad look. Tyson lowers his look and looks to Hilary, blushing a lot. Erika puts her mantle aside and shows Kaiser, wearing a suit equal to Kai and Tala.
"My baby looks so adorable!" says Erika, raising Kaiser. Kaiser laughs.
Hiro entered the living room along with Alexa and Ray. Tala turns his face aside; he couldn't look to Ray's muzzle. Hiro looks to his brother, noticing the lipstick. Tyson blushes more. Hiro goes near Erika, taking Kaiser out her hands.
"Hey, how's my godson?" asks Hiro, playing with Kaiser. Kaiser loved Hiro a lot. Well, the only persons with Kaiser on their lap that didn't make him cry were Erika, Tala, Max, Hilary and Hiro. Everybody else who fell in the mistake of holding Kaiser will pass trough upsetting hours of cry and noise. Hiro also loved Kaiser, the baby made him remember someone… Hiro's eyes become tinier and Hiro saw himself in another dimension… or at least… on a different place.
Everybody around Hiro had disappeared. He was now in a black forest with the trees burning under a starry night. Houses were burning… people were running… it looked chaotic. Hiro was going to step forward but he heard a strong roar. Hiro looks up and sees an enormous golden tigress full of gold fighting Mermaid Dranzer.
"What the…?" said Hiro. Suddenly, Dragoon appears trough the trees and hits the tigress. Hiro looks aside and sees Tyson, who looked older, and wearing a very funny clothes that looked from and ancient civilization. Hiro heard someone laughing high. It looked like a laugh from someone not very good from his brain.
"Your Highness!" someone called. Hiro looks left and sees Erika and Kai running to him. Erika looked like fifteen and Kai thirty-five. They were also wearing funny clothes with the same style as Tyson's. Erika looked very beautiful actually and Kai was wearing one of Dranzer's feathers around the neck. Kai puts his hand on Hiro's shoulder. "Your Highness, is everything ok?"
"It's all my fault, …" cried Erika. Hiro looks to her, noticing that both she and Kai had green eyes. Kai looks to Erika. Max runs to them. Hiro founded that very strange, all of them had green eyes and were wearing clothes that he never saw before. Max hugs Erika, comforting her.
"It's not your fault… he destroyed himself." Says Max.
"It's not his fault or yours, your highness." Says Kai. "If there is someone who should perish those ones are I and Hiro." Hiro looked to him trying to assimilate all that. They heard a strong noise and see Dragoon and Mermaid Dranzer being attacked by Drigger. The golden tigress runs to our friend stopping in front of Kai and Hiro. The tigress takes the shape of a woman with tiger ears and tail, a tight dress and orange hair. Hiro saw everybody around him tremble.
"King Hiro and Guardian Kai… the happy couple." Says the tiger woman walking forward. "Because of you I pained in solitude… but now I'm having my revenge." The tiger woman raised her arms causing a big and strong wave of wind. Erika, Kai, Max and Tyson flight away, pulled by the wind. The tigress moved very fast and stopped in front of Hiro. Hiro could saw her yellow eyes and her devilish smile. "You'll pay for betraying me with that Guardian. You'll pay for letting your daughter hang around with that Guardian… I'm going to kill Kai, Hiro my love. And all because of you…" the tiger woman hugged Hiro and kissed him. Hiro was more confused than ever. The tiger woman puts her tail around Hiro's neck, suffocating him. Hiro felt very bad and the tiger woman tosses him to the ground. Hiro was perishing in the ground with problems breathing problems. The tigress disappeared and a familiar face kneeled down near Hiro. Hiro's vision becomes fuzzy.
"Is it good? Death?" A young man about twenty looked to Hiro with his green eyes. The man had a very big black hair and a ribbon. He looked so well dress as Erika. The young men look appears insane. "Why do you let my Erika… my wife, run away with Kai. How have you allowed that? What kind of king are you? Well, it doesn't matter anymore." The man took a sword and showed it to Hiro. "Once you're going to Hell. But, before that, let me tell you… the person you love the most will always betray you. Now, it was Erika… someday… it will be your brother." The man stabs Hiro's belly. Hiro felt a deadly pain. The man looks to Hiro and his eyes become yellow. Hiro recognized him immediately.
"Ray! Why? … Ray…" sadly sighs Hiro. Ray took out the sword and licked Hiro's blood, smiling. "Ray…"
"Hiro!" says Kai's voice.
"Father!" says Erika.
"Hiro… brother!" screams Tyson.
Hiro wakes up startled. Alexa was looking to him.
"Hiro cariño!" she said, hugging him. Hiro looks around; he was back on Tala and Erika's house. Tyson was at his side, very worried.
"Brother. What happen? You fainted without reason!" says Tyson. Hiro looks to him.
"What was that?" asks Hiro, remembering the place he was, the fight… Ray's expression. Tyson looks to him.
"You frightened us!" says Tyson. "You fell with Kaiser on your hands. Luckily Kai was faster enough to catch you and his son. " Hiro realized he was the only one who saw that… but he stilled scared about Ray.
Days after that, Erika was on the kitchen; her belly was starting to grow up. Kai was always near her, giving her the love he couldn't gave when she was pregnant from Kaiser. Kai and Erika continued having problem with their sexual relation, but at least they were not so desperate as before. As a way to avoiding touching Erika in the middle of the night, Kai decided to put Kaiser to sleep with them, once the baby was very jealous of his mother, Kai wouldn't touch her.
"Hey, my mom sent me an e-mail!" says Max." She wants me the pass Easter with her on US.
"Good idea, I also miss grandpa." Says Tyson. "I'll visit him to."
"That mean my house will be fools-free!" says Tala. Max and Tyson looked to him. Tala looks to King. "And your Royal Highness? Don't you miss mommy?" King looks to him.
"Maybe. A vacation in Dubai will be good. What do you think, Princess?" asks King, raising his daughter.
"Erika!" Ray enters in the kitchen with a big box. "I bought some clothes to our daughter!"
"Daughter?" they all ask.
"How do you know it will be a girl?" asks Tala.
"I have the felling it will be one." Says Ray showing Erika a lot of beautiful baby clothes. "See this pink one! I though they were so adorable."
"Well Ray, the clothes are fine, but…" Erika looks to Ray. "Kai already bought a lot of baby stuff to our child." Ray looks to Kai, who victory smiled. "I don't think you need to waste money on more stuff."
"But it's my child! My Inês!" says Ray. Erika looks to him. Ray releases a sad sigh.
"Don't worry, Ray. I'm sure you'll be able to buy a lot of stuff to our child when he births." Comforts Erika. Ray looks to her, not very hopeful.
"Kai!" someone calls. Kai looks to the kitchen door and sees Spencer. The Blitzkrieg Boy enters and stops near Kai. Kai found strange Spencer's arrival. "He were cleaning Boris stuff and he found this tape." Spencer shows Kai one old videotape. "It as your mother's name on it, so we thought you would like to see it." Kai picks the tape, looking at it.
"Are you going to see it?" asks Erika. Kai looks to her and then back to the tape.
"It says, "To my sweet son Kai, from your beloved mother, Anastasia."" Says Kai. "I always wanted to see my mother… she died when I was very young, from unknown causes…
"What are you waiting for? Let's see it!" says Tyson.
They all went to the living room, sat in the sofa and Kai put the tape on the old VCR. Alexa made some juice so they could all drink while they watched the tape.
A very beautiful girl around twenty or thirty years old appears on the screen. She had a hair with two shades of blue, was wearing black clothes and cared a baby that looked a lot like Kaiser, except he has crimson eyes.
"Hello there!" says the girl. "I'm Anastasia Hiwatari, the Duchess of Siberia, and this is my beautiful baby, my marvelous son, my sweetheart Kai Hiwatari. This tape is for my son to watch before he hits seventeen." Kai blushed and got excited when he saw his mother. Erika noticed that and gave her hand to him. "My father is trying to conquer the world using the prophecy of an ancient civilization. According to that prophecy, two bitbeasts will get fused forming an invincible bitbeast. Once I'm an archeologist, I study those prophecies and the stone from which they came." Anastasia put Kai on his baby pram and grabs a lot of photos of the ancient stone. Kai's mom puts the photo in front of the camera.
"According to the stone, once upon in time, there was a very rich and prospered country in Asia. The persons from that kingdom were able to see and talk to spirits and sometimes, used them as a way to protect the ones they loved and to get stronger. The king of that ancient kingdom was a very beautiful man who had a baby daughter. The king's wife died of unknowing causes." Anastasia switched the photo showing one full of scripts and drawing of the king and another man. "The king had a romance with one of the four sacred Guardians. According to the stone, the king met the Guardian of the South in war when they were twenty and there, they fell in love. Cute isn't it?" Kai's mom switched photos again.
"The Guardians were four, one for each Cardinal Point. The north Guardian was a boy about twenty-five when the king was thirty-five. A very huge tortoise protected him. The east Guardian was the king's younger brother, who had the same age as the princess, protected by a blue dragon. The south Guardian was the same age as the king and was protected by an immortal spirit of a red bird. And the last was the west Guardian a little older that the princess, a very enchanting boy protected by an albino tiger. According to the legend, when the princess hit fifteen, the king decided to marry her, but the princess was very young and she didn't know anyone except her father and his boyfriend and the three other Guardians, so the king decided to marry her with one of the Guardians." Anastasia takes the photo and sadly looks to the ground. Then she looks back to the camera.
"Unfortunately, the rest of the stone was erased by time so I cannot tell which one of the three guardians married the princess… well, some stones after, we meet our Guardians again, but only two of them. The East and the West Guardians were the only ones alive after a very big battle and the princess was alive too. According to the last stone, the princess who held a sea nymph spirit got her spirit back after the war were the nymph fused with the spirit of her beloved one forming an invincible spirit. The West Guardian decided to leave the destroyed kingdom. I was able to find the words that he told to the princess, now queen, and to her uncle.
«I soiled my body with sin bringing chaos and discord… I shall never return to this kingdom again, once it is already destroyed enough. I'll take the golden apple with me… Eris shall never torment us again. Good bye, my queen.» and so he left the kingdom to never be seen again. The queen married her uncle but a year after that she also left the country. The only thing we know it's that the new king sealed his spirit in a sword that passed through all the men of his family.
"My father wants to know which spirit of the three Guardian fused with the sea nymph. My hint? It was none of the three spirits but the fourth, the spirit of the South Guardian. If the princess only got her spirit back after the war, it was because the spirit of her beloved disappeared or ran away, that only happens when its master die. So, if the Guardian died it could only be one the fallen Guardian. According to the remaining descendents of that ancient kingdom, they descend from the East and the North Guardian, which meant that the North Guardian had children, meaning that he was married before the princess and the war. That only leaves the South guardian." Anastasia took a ring with a red ruby. "This Ring was given to me by my fallen husband. He told me it passed through his family and that I should give it to our son. According to my love, this ring has the spirit of an old immortal red bird, a phoenix… the spirit of the South Guardian. That means my father is after this spirit. But I'm not going to tell him, because this spirit belonged to my husband and it will belong to my sweet baby one day. Valkov is bringing to Biovolt a girl who held the sea nymph spirit…
"Duchess Anastasia?" calls a male voice. Anastasia looks back and a very hansom man enters in the room where Kai and his mom were. The man had long black hair with a ribbon, a huge black cloak with a golden tiger on the back and entrancing yellow eyes.
Ray, who was watching the movie near King and Hiro, turned his glass of juice when he saw the man.
"Oh, Fu!" Anastasia looked to the man and then turned back again to the camera. "Fu is my therapist! He is an acupuncturist! It's cool! Well, I need to go. Bye my baby! Oh! I forgot. I found that your father suffered from a very rare aorta decease and, unfortunately, you also suffer from the same. But don't worry! I'll ask Valkov to find a cure. If he couldn't, then I'll let this tape with Boris so he could give it to you before you hit seventeen, the age with which every man from your father's family died… You're my beloved son… I love you so much I'll died for you." Anastasia picks Kai and puts him in front of the camera. "Say bye, sweetheart! Did you like the story?" Anastasia turn of the camera and the VCR stopped.
"So that was the prophecy Voltaire based on to find out the invincible bitbeast, Mermaid Dranzer." Says Tala.
" That was such a beautiful story!" says Brittany.
"The story only showed that Kai and Erika's bitbeasts were fated to fuse with each other." Says Hiro. Erika and Kai look to each other, smiling.
"Thinking I said I hated you and that you were a loser!" says Kai. Erika hugs him.
"You forgot your memories, sweetheart, you had no fault." Comforts Erika kissing Kai. Kaiser starts crying, followed by Princess.
"Just to imagine that when Ray's baby born, there'll be three babies crying at the same time." Says Tyson, who was hugged to Hilary. "Isn't that right Ray? Ray?" Tyson noticed Ray was not there. Everybody looked to the place where Ray was and only saw a spot on the ground full of juice.
"WHAT?" Screams Tala pointing to the ground. "He dirtied my carpet. Oh, that Chinese! When I'll find him…"
Ray was on the garden, looking to the ground, where Ornulu was playing with a tiny ball. Ray was very shocked… he saw something he was not expecting to see… something that tormented him.
"Ray?" Hiro appears and comes closer to Ray. Ray looks to him, shocked. "I saw when you turned that glass of juice and left the room. What's wrong?" Ray looks to the ground.
"Can you keep a secret?" asks Ray. Hiro looks to him seriously. Ray raises his eyes a little scared. "I… the person who entered on Kai's mother's room… that man… he is Fu Bo Kon… my father…" Hiro gets surprised. What the hell was Ray's father doing with Kai's mother? "I don't know what to do. Should I tell Kai that man's my father or should I keep secret?"
"Keep secret? Why? What's the problem with that? Do you suspect something?" asks Hiro. Ray looks to the ground again.
"I need… I need to ask it to my father… he is the only one who can really answer me that." Says Ray. "I'm going back inside. Please don't tell about this to anyone, ok?"
"Don't worry." Calms Hiro. Ray enters and sees Kai waiting for him. Ray becomes nervous.
"I need to speak with you. Let's go to my bedroom." Kai turns his back and leaves. Ray breathes deep and follows him. Kai sits down on Erika's bed and Ray sits right after him. Kai was very serious and was with his eyes closed and his face pointed to the ground. "You had sex with Erika days ago, hadn't you?" Ray blushes.
"Yeah… She was sad and… needy…" Ray realized he only said shit. Kai didn't move.
"Tyson is also needy, why haven't you had it with him?" asks Kai. Ray blushes and decided that was better to stay shut. "Ray… Erika is not a toy that I can borrow you." Kai looks to Ray. "Erika is my fiancée! She'll marry me. She will be my wife, not yours! Put that in your head. She doesn't need you… We don't need you! Theirs is nothing you can do to make me feel better. I cannot have sex. There is no cure for my decease and I'm only alive for a miracle. What were you waiting to win when you said Erika you were going to help us?" asks Kai angry. Ray blushed.
"But I can help! I can make Erika…"
"You can make Erika WHAT?" screams Kai angry, putting his hand on the chest. "YES, you can make sex with Erika AND I? Ever you even thought about me? You just want to have sex with Erika! To have her for you! And I? I'm the man she loves. The one she wants to pass the rest of her life! You're nothing to Erika!"
"Oh yeah? And what can you offer Erika?" Discusses Ray, getting up also irritated. "Tell me, Kai! It's true! You have money! But you can not offer her love!"
"I love Erika!" says Kai, getting up, always with his hand on the chest. "I can love her! WE don't NEED sex! We don't need you, Ray!" Kai tries to calm down. "Listen, Ray. You're my friend. I care about you. I don't want to lose our friendship. I just want to live happy with Erika and our son, but… if you are always seducing her… If you really love Erika, let her be happy with the ones she loves." Ray looks to Kai. Ray turns his back and leaves hitting with the door. Kai sits on the bed with his heart hurting. "How can I stay friend with a guy that also loves the same girl as I?" Kai looks to a photo of him and Erika on Sicily. Kai picks the photo. "I miss… I miss my childhood… I miss…" Kai looks to the photo and the glass cracks by him self… Kai becomes scared. "What?" the glass broke right above the Kai of the photo. Suddenly, the photo starts bleeding, painting the pass-pa-to with blood. Kai tosses the photo to the ground, finding that very weird.
"You'll die, Kai Hiwatari!" says a woman's voice that Kai already heard. The photo continued bleeding. Kai felt a strong pain in the heart and his chest increase in size. "HA! HA! HA! Your life is already in a count back to your end. No one can save you now… you have a cureless decease… you'll perish, Kai!" Kai starts coughing a lot of blood. "I'll take away the thing you love the most … will take away Erika from you, Kai!" Kai was coughing more and more blood. "If you haven't die from that aorta I cursed… you'll die from your heart… when it breaks… HA! HA! HA!" Kai's eyes become white and Kai faints.
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What do you think it will happen now? Will Ray accept Kai's request to be away from Erika?
And Ray's father? What was he doing with Kai's mother?
Stay tuned for the next chapter "Ties of Friendship"