Authors note: Omg! I am sooo sorry that I haven't updated in like two weeks. You see, my teachers had a conference in which they plotted evil schemes to make their students lives a living hell! I had like two projects (which were our final mark for the whole term) due on the same day and like 8 tests all in one week! I was going crazy!!! Anyways, enough about me, I hope everyone had a great Halloween and got lot's of candy (even if they didn't go trick-or-treating)! I realize that this is a really, really short chapter, but I needed it to be to have it make sense. The next chapter will defiantly be longer! I am so glad everyone liked the last chapter, because I was seriously convinced that everyone would hate it. And now, on to the reviewer responses. You guys are unequalled (looked that up in the dictionary)!!!
Devour Thy Flame- Thank-you so much! This is a very complimentary review and I'm sorry I took so long to update! Lol, I feel so embarrassed about the Kenny thing, I can't believe I forgot him! It's kind of funny because I'm not the kind of person to do that. Anyways I hope you like this chapter and thank-you for the review!!!
Chibi-Kari- Thank-you for being a very faithful reviewer and for the review! I'm really sorry for not being able to tell you what happens but if I did, where would the fun in that be? I have a feeling you might not like the end though...but I can't gibe away any more! Chapters ... ah chapters,...I think maybe around 15 to 20 take or leave a few. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter!
Hutchy- Thank-you for the review! I have to say the passage about the moon was my favorite spot in that chapter too. Anyways, I hope you like the next chapter!
Phoenix-Roar- Well, I guess I was kind of happy. Lol, I'm always happy when I get to post another chapter for my story and I'm glad that the new chapter helped lift your depression! Thank-you for the review!
Mrs. Sumpter- I am so glad that you liked chapter 5! The moon passage was my favorite in that chapter. I guess that particular passage was good because I wrote it right after I watched this really angsty movie. I happy that I really touched someone. Thank-you for the review and I hope you like this chapter!
Kais Devil- Thank-you for your review! I'm sorry it took so long to update, but as I said before I was really, really busy! Hope you like this chapter!
Nubia- I happy that you like my story and I'm glad that you find it interesting. I will defiantly continue unless I get run over by a bus, that is! Sorry I took so long to update! I hope you like the next chapter and thank-you for the review!
Random Reviewer- The last chapter was written in a different way. I just don't like how I wrote it for some strange reason. Thank-you for thinking it was a good chapter. You see when I wrote the author note at the beginning of the last chapter I didn't know the moonlight passage was going to be in chapter 5. That passage was originally in the beginning of this chapter and I changed it at the last moment. That is why I thought that the last chapter was kind of...written wrong. Lol, to bad you couldn't do anything interesting, but I still like to hear from you. Hope you like this chapter and thank-you for reviewing!
SweetStealer- Thank-you for reviewing! I'm glad you like my fanfic and I hope you like the next chapter!
ERALDA- Thanks for reviewing! You'll just have to be a little patient for the romance. But I guarantee it is coming. Probably in chapter 8 or 9 will be the first real romance. There have only really been fluff moments so far. Sorry about that, but the romance will develop a little slowly. Hope you like the next chapter!
kai/hil lover is on the way- I kinda feel sorry for Kai too, having to drag Hilary all the way there. But she was in shock and we have to make allowances. Sorry for the long update and I hope you like the rest of the chapters of the story! Thanks for the review!
Lightning Aurora- Thank-you for the reviews and compliments! I'm glad you really like my story. I guess I thought the last chapter was bad because I wrote it differently than the last 4 but this one is written in the same style. I don't really know why, but I don't like this chapter either. I think I'm lacking on description or something. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter but I'm not holding out any hopes.
Heaven's Call
Reverberating Echoes of Misery...
Doubt, it can close you in
Build the walls within
I let fear control me...
The dry wind that blew the next week seemed raspy, like a throat that needed water. Blowing across the paved streets, it made loose papers and hats fly and created mini swirling, dust tornadoes. The sky was covered in a cloak of gray, as if the world had frozen just before it was about to rain. Gloominess seemed to settle over the whole land, just waiting for something...
Time had passed quickly for the Bladebreakers. Busy with preparations of leaving, their last days together melded into a dizzying haze. Mixed emotions of misery and confusion made tensions run high and silence to reign. Ray and Max were each caught between the joy of returning to their homes and the pain of leaving the Bladebreakers, finally making the ultimate choice to leave. Apologizing or empathizing made no difference to the mellow dramatics of the other members of the Bladebreakers. Kai, like most days, continued on without showing too much emotion and keeping to himself, though signs of regret were starting to show through his mask that hid his emotions.
Tyson's attitude had settled down and the cockiness of his usual attitude was sucked dry now, though signs of a swagger did come through sometimes. But overall, he tried to be optimistic and his friends knew that he would support any decisions they made...eventually, even if they made him unhappy in the process.
Kenny remained smiling and optimistic, helping Ray and Max pack and cope. But the pain still showed on his features. Unlike the others, he had seen this coming and was emotionally prepared. Time would erase his wounds, since he seemed to keep his eye on the big picture.
It was Hilary everyone was worried about. She walked as if she were a ghost even though she insisted that she was fine. She looked as pale and deathly as the night when Kai found her, in the Japanese garden. Weight lose was beginning to become evident now too. Members of the Bladebreakers often found her staring out a window, into the gray sky beyond and sighing with the most forlorn, lost look in her sparkling ruby eyes...
Finally, on the gray day of freezing rain and raspy wind the time had come for the two Bladebreakers to make their final good-bye. The black limo that took them to the airport (courtesy of Mr.Dickenson) seemed to reflect their dark feelings of losing faith and pain. Hilary's ruby orbs took in Tyson's silence, Kenny's choking breath and Kai's frozen mask of obscurity and struggled to hold in her tears.
This is the last time...they won't be here when-
"Well, I guess this is good-bye..."
Max's sad smile didn't meet his eyes and silver tears glistened in the corners of them. He turned to Kai and faced him, standing up a little straighter. The other Bladebreakers looked on sadly, at is brave expression. But Max's stubborn, tough face was soon replaced with soft smile again as he opened his mouth to give Kai his good-bye speech.
"Kai, it's been a pleasure blading with you. Even though you might seem like a cold, ruthless guy, I know that you are one of the most caring people that I have ever met. I hope...to...blade against you again in the future..."
He reached up and gave Kai a light punch in the shoulder. Max's feelings were one of losing a father, as Kai had always been like a subordinate parent in his life. Kai's closed eyes slowly opened and he reached up and gripped Max's shoulder. Max's smile went wide with hesitant joy and his eyes crinkled with pain of the moment. Beside him, Ray stepped up, but there was no smile gracing his cat-like lips. His golden beauties told Kai what Max had said without words as if those shining depths could talk. Kai gave a slight nod and his arms snaked back to their usual position, crossed over his chest. No one was going to get past his frozen wall.
Ray's silence seemed to set the theme for the Bladebreakers last good-bye. Max bent over Kenny's smaller form gave him a pained but warm smile as Ray walked over to Hilary.
"Bye," Hilary had to lean over to hear him. "I hope we'll see each other soon Hilary..."
She smiled sadly, "Of course we will."
Someday...
He turned to leave and she took a step forward and wrapped her arms around him. As Hilary's arms wrapped around Ray's waist his hands tightly gripped them and held them for a few seconds before pushing them away gently. It felt as if he was trying to allow all the sorrow and indecision in him, flow from his body into hers, if only Hilary's strength could last him till he got on the plane. His eyes closed in remorse and he took a slow step away from her. Tears started to well up in Hilary's eyes and she felt as if she weren't really there and was actually watching this sad good-bye from the confines of her home. As if this were really a movie and she was watching it. Unbelievable grief made her want to scream her sorrow to the heavens. A tear left a porcelain trail down her cheekbone and dropped silently to splash on the marble floor of the airport. Something she couldn't name started to well up in her stomach and made her feel hollow inside.
This is the time, the last time!
Arms wrapped around Hilary's silent, shaking form and embraced her in a warm hug. Her chin went over someone's shoulder and her face was nuzzled in a mass of blond air and Hilary smelled the familiar spicy, sweet scent of Max. Her eyes closed more tightly that before, the tears flowed more freely. Good-byes are always sad and sometimes bittersweet but all Hilary could feel was the pain like a giant fist ready to squeeze her to her death at any moment. She knew that she would never see them again and it was slowly killing her. It wasn't fair! Why did she have to be assigned to such a burden? But she was glad...glad that they were going. But it was tearing her apart, ripping away her soul piece by piece.
It isn't fair! It isn't fair!
Sobs racked out of her and her shoulders shook with the force of her pain. Sad eyes watched the pitiful scene of her sorrow. For the rest of the Bladebreakers the turmoil and tension was beginning to be too much. Ray stopped in front of Tyson and their eyes met in challenge. But in the golden orbs of Ray there was also sadness and the pain that comes from making a decision that is neither right nor wrong. Tyson had closed his ears to wisdom and had adopted his stubborn side again. His pain would be displayed later in the solitude of his mind. Usually overemotional, he was now quiet and in shock but the call of a challenge still sparked deep inside him.
Max's arm removed themselves from around Hilary's waist and he walked over to where Tyson was with Ray. Gently his hand was set on Tyson's shoulder. But Tyson wouldn't meet his eyes and glared at the glossy, marble floor in silent misery.
A small sigh, like the last breath of the wind and the two teens turned toward their destiny. Gliding, as if in a dream toward a new thrill of life. Overwhelming, emotions made them walk with more slump then usual. Lost...but found, echoes in their minds. For them the pain would go away. The destiny that awaits them would take it away, one small piece at a time.
But for their navy-haired friend, healing would take much longer, though through his overwhelming optimism and quick change of attitude it would eventually disappear. Only a faint feeling of the sorrow of good-byes would remain. But for now he stayed rooted to the spot, lost in the depths of his own mind and heart.
The crimson-eyed youth stood with his arms folded neatly and orderly underneath his chiseled chest. His frozen wall also acted like a sponge when he was in need. Absorbing his pain and rebounding the misery of life. But one small thought escaped his almost perfect wall of emotionlessness.
Hilary...
For the girl of his thoughts stood in quivering silence. Her eyes stared at the retreating backs of the two members of the Bladebreakers in shock, as if she really didn't believe they would leave her. The hollowness that was filling her had now consumed all of her thoughts. But pain fought a vicious battle and was slowly winning over her emotions. A faint tingling traveled up her body as misery won over and soft tears again welled up in her ruby orbs.
The pain of that day was lost from the Bladebreakers after years of recovery, but the skull-shattering scream that emitted from the brunette's mouth was never forgotten. It remained etched into their minds like something trapped. Rebounding and reverberating. Resounding and vibrating. Echoing and reechoing, until it was driven into every crack and crevice of their brain to lodge there forever and ever, never to disappear.
Author Note: O.k, the ending just makes me want to cry. I actually feel bad for writing that. It makes me feel like I'm being mean to the Bladebreakers! I kind of like it though. I got the idea from this really lame book my English teacher was making us read. I guess the book was good for something, wasn't it? Also the reason I didn't include Kenny in his feeling at the end was because I already explained how he felt at the beginning. I don't know why, but I just get bored of Kenny. He could be very interesting I think, but there is too much else going on in this story. The end is written in a different tense then the rest of the chapter, but I thought it would be more dramatic! Anyways, R&R!!!