A/N: Hey everyone, ok this is the answer to an important question by Ray-Tiger-Cat, this is the review and question:

Review: I guess i'm the first person 2 review. ur writing is getting better by the way, u've improved since ur first fic. is this going to be TalaxSerenity? & how are they getting a hold od bandages n stuff? u'd think Boris would want them as miserable as possible. hope u get more people reading & reviewing!(& if this fic gets deleted, i'll be so mad, coz so many people r deleting& re-writng or reposting it makes it hard to follow a good story.)

Q: How did they get a hold of the bandages and stuff since Boris would want them as miserable as possible?

A: When I was writing the first chapter and the part about tending to wounds I thought that someone would ask how they got a hold of the bandages and stuff and it seems I was right and I am glad someone asked since it shows they gave it some thought (Hooray for Ray-Tiger-Cat) So I came out with an explanation for it; when I was studying about Ancient Rome in school my teacher had said that servants were always fed by their masters even though they were always slightly malnourished they were always fed for the reason that if they were never fed then they couldn't do their jobs well and so it is the same reason I gave to the story, they were given bandages so that they will be able to help themselves and so that will give them no excuse for not doing well during their training. In a way they are still miserable because they don't have proper medical care and often have to tend to wounds by themselves like Tala had said after tending to Serenity's wounds.

If they get hurt ever day but are still good bladers then Boris wouldn't want them to die. Take this example outside this fic; imagine that Tala got hurt every day but was still a great blader and was destined to be at the tournament and to try to win it (season 1) then by the time he came to the tournament he would be far too weak to battle so it proves that somehow they must have had something to tend to wounds with. I hope this answer was good enough because I had put a lot of thought into it.

Chapter 2

Tala and Serenity walked into the dining room where most of the other kids were already seated and they sat down in their usual places. A few of the kids that had been in the training room with Tala and Serenity earlier kept looking at Serenity as if waiting for something to happen. Serenity closed her eyes trying to keep her anger under control and not letting it consume her like it did earlier. It was like the other kids knew that something was going to happen to her, of coarse they had seen her throw her temper tantrum but still that wasn't a good enough reason to look at her the way they did.

Serenity opened her eyes again and noticed them still staring at her but wasn't in the mood to glare or threaten anyone so just let her eyes drift to the empty plate in front of her. A few minutes later they had started eating and Serenity was the first to finish her dinner. She crossed her arms and leant back in her seat waiting for Tala to finish his food so they could leave since she didn't want to be called away by Boris. Bad luck struck her instantly since before Tala could finish eating a guard came up behind Serenity, grabbed her thin arm and squeezed it tightly in his grip. Serenity looked at him with a blank stare as he told her that Boris wanted to speak to her in his office.

'So that's what all the stares were all about' Serenity thought. She placed her hand on the guard's pulse and squeezed it tightly, breaking his hold on her as she pushed him off. The guard glared at her but Serenity just shook it off and sat up and was about to follow the guard when she heard snickering behind her, she turned back to them and glared sharply, once they stopped she was about to turn back to the guard but Tala's eyes caught her attention; they held some worry about leaving her to go to Boris by herself but Serenity just nodded with a look that told him that she was going to be fine on her own. She turned back and followed the guard out to Boris' office.

The guard opened the door to Boris' office and roughly pushed Serenity inside and closed the door. Serenity saw the door close behind her and then turned to Boris who was sitting behind his desk. 'Doesn't this guy ever get off his ass?' Serenity asked thinking, 'He trains kids so you think he wouldn't be so lazy' "You wanted to see me sir?" she asked taking one step forward still with her arms crossed.

"Yes Serenity; what happened in the training room today after I left?" Boris asked.

"It was a small argument" Serenity said simply, she hadn't dared to move but just thought that she would kept up a cold and heartless look for as long as she could.

"An argument over what?" Boris questioned again.

"Something was said by another boy and my anger just grew" Serenity explained in an icy tone. 'You should know a lot about growing anger' she thought bitterly.

"Then next time your anger out on him in a bey-battle rather than starting a fist fight and running away" Boris yelled at her angrily as he stood up and slammed his hands on his desk emphasizing his anger into rage.

"Yes sir" Serenity said rolling her eyes but Boris didn't seem to notice because of the little light illuminating the room.

"I don't accept running away Serenity, don't let me catch you doing it again" Boris continued scolding angrily.

"Yes sir" Serenity said again bluntly though she wasn't really listening since she heard it all before and got tired of hearing it over and over so she just blocked it out.

"Dismissed" He said still in an angry tone but had lowered his voice as he sat back down.

Serenity turned to the door and had opened it just a jar before turning back to Boris, "May I take some of my anger out now?" she asked.

"If you must" Boris replied before turning back to some papers had had lying around on his desk.

Serenity nodded and quickly left the room. 'He was so lucky I didn't take my anger out at his head' She walked back to the dining room which was completely empty, she was glad because that meant that Tala had gone up to bed with out her. She walked to the training room and saw the newly refurbished dish where the old one used to be. She walked over to it and looked into its shiny surface. She heard footsteps in the distance and tensed up a little when she heard them getting closer. She looked up to see a guard walk in, "What do you want?" Serenity asked.

"Boris sent me to keep an eye on you" The guard replied coldly.

"Do as you wish" Serenity said while loading up her launcher and setting herself. She launched her blade and it landed perfectly in the centre of the dish. Her blade circled the dish with an amazing speed, in the process creating a tornado of wind and fire. Serenity squinted her eyes and her blade moved back to the centre of the dish, as before, ice appeared on the surface of the dish and a bright fire lit in the centre of her blade and an ice blue phoenix flew out of the blade's bit-chip.

The guard just watched as the bit-beast transformed into a young woman, she seemed as though she were made of ice since she was wearing a white gown which looked a lot like snow. Serenity raised her hand and made a fist and at her command her bit-beast spun around gracefully and before anyone could do anything there was a thick cloud of smoke and the sound of crashing stone.

When the smoke cleared the wall to the right of Serenity had been severely damaged with craters covering the thick stone. The guard got off his hands and knees and took in all the damage on the wall, then he turned back to the dish and what he saw almost seemed impossible to him. Serenity's blade remained spinning in the centre of the dish, no blade would still have enough power to spin after an attack like that but what shocked him the most was that the dish was in perfect condition without a scratch on it. He lifted his head to look at Serenity; she just stood there with her hands by her sides, she was just staring at her blade and she had a calm, peaceful look on her face, she held out her hand and her blade swiftly jumped into her hand. She watched as the goddess on the bit-chip turned back to a bright red phoenix. She smiled sweetly at her loyal bit-beast, she felt a slight pain starting from her feet and then noticed she was standing in the freezing water from her ice based attack.

Serenity clutched her blade tighter and walked out of the cold water and walked past the guard and out of the training room door. She walked down the cold hallways back to her room, she crossed her arms and gripped them tightly for extra warmth and stopped for a short rest and gently leaned her wounded back against the wall, and she looked down at her blade as her fingers curled around the cold metal. She smiled a little at her guardian, "You did great today Luna" Serenity whispered softly.

'We did great today' Luna corrected in Serenity's mind.

'We? You did most of the work' Serenity told her.

'But you helped a lot too so it was a team effort' Luna said and Serenity just mentally nodded in agreement. After a couple of seconds of silence, Luna decided to speak again, 'The boy…he seems nice and …caring, what do you think?' she asked her Mistress.

'Who? Tala? Yeah, I guess…I mean he has been great to me ever since I came, but I just…I just wish that Boris had given me my own room…I don't want Tala to get hurt because of me and…sharing a room with me just might get him hurt and I mean badly.' Serenity replied with worry and fear for her room mate, she couldn't help but just fear for his own safety, his kindness was definitely not the kind of attitude she would have expected from him when she first arrived.

'Why do you assume he will get hurt?' Luna asked.

'Haven't you noticed how kind he has been, his attitude here is punishable by death and I don't want him to get hurt trying to look out for me' Serenity replied.

'But…you must admit that you enjoy being cared for' Luna said.

Serenity smiled a little, 'He is the only person who has ever cared for my well being, I forgot what it felt like to be cared for that…now I just push away any help but I don't mean to…I just don't know what to do sometimes that pushing away seems like the right thing to do at the time but I always regret it later' She explained to her bit-beast as she ended in a slight frown.

Luna frowned slightly too at the thought of how her Mistress was feeling, 'Just try to trust him a little more and in time he may understand but…you do realize that one day you must tell him what happened or he will never be able to fully trust you if he knows that you don't fully trust him' Luna said giving as much advice and support that she could, 'And you have me to help you, we have never parted once before and this is no different'

'Thanks Luna' Serenity said smiling again.

'Not at all a problem Mistress, now you better get back to your room before someone catches you' Luna suggested sweetly.

Serenity agreed and pushed herself off the wall and walked quickly down the hall to get there without anyone noticing her being missing from her room. She placed a hand on the door knob and sighed preparing herself for an ear full from Tala but at least Boris knew were she was and getting in trouble with Boris was far more painful than getting in trouble with Tala, she hoped; she had never been on Tala's bad side and not telling him where she was probably was enough to get herself killed by the red head. She turned the cold handle and slowly pushed open the door, she walked in trying to be as quiet as possible when she thought that Tala was asleep since the bedroom light was off, leaving Serenity to find her way to her bed in the dark. Her eyes seemed to adjust a little to the darkness with some light shining from the moon outside, until she tripped on something and fell flat on her face. The light in the room quickly switched back on as soon as a thud was heard, Serenity groaned when she saw the light and then pushed herself up to a sitting position to see what she had tripped on. She saw that it was a towel bunched up in front of the door. "I thought that would get your attention" Tala said from behind her.

Serenity still sat on the ground but turned her head to look at Tala, "What are you doing still up?" she asked trying to keep her annoyance low since she knew that he was the one who purposely left the towel behind the door.

"Waiting for you" Tala replied standing up.

"Why? I was fine on my own" Serenity replied standing up and throwing the towel back at Tala.

"I just got worried, Boris isn't one to be trusted" Tala replied throwing the towel back in the bathroom.

"I kinda figured that out a while ago, thank you very much" Serenity said lying in bed and placing her beyblade under her pillow and pulling the covers over herself as she closed her eyes.

Tala just got back into bed and lay there for a few minutes, not bothering to turn off the light just yet, "So what did Boris want?" he asked turning on his side to look at Serenity and to see if she had any intentions of answering him.

"The usual, just yell about the things he doesn't accept and how I shouldn't have started a fist fight and ran away, I hate that guy" Serenity said lying on her back, opening her eyes.

"Haven't you noticed that he gets on everyone's nerves?" Tala asked smiling. "How bad was it with you?" he asked.

Serenity groaned and placed a hand over her eyes, "Let's just say he was extremely lucky that I didn't launch Luna at his head, though now that I think about it Luna would have enjoyed it as much as I would" She explained as she smiled a little and removed her hand away from her face at the thought of how much fun it would be to actually launch her blade at Boris.

"Luna?" Tala asked confusedly.

Serenity realized that she had never introduced Tala to Luna; she slid her hand under her pillow and pulled out her blue blade, she turned on her side and held it out so Tala could see her blade from his distance, "This is Luna my bit-beast and my closest friend" she said. Tala leaned forward to see the blade better and saw a small golden crescent moon on the forehead of a bright red feathery phoenix. The moon gleamed, Tala's eyes widening when he saw the light from the moon outside touch the crescent moon on the phoenix making it looked like Luna knew he was watching and as if she were replying to his stare. "I talk to her all the time since she always knows how I feel and she is always around when I need her, she has been my closest friend ever since I was little, she kind of reminds me of you in a way, since you're caring like she is" she said again.

Tala lowered his head slightly when he felt heat rising to his pale cheeks, "Thanks" he stammered quietly.

Serenity smiled, "Well it is true after all, I mean you've helped me a lot since I got here……and I must admit your kindness toward me was not one that I had expected from anyone" She said quietly as she placed Luna back under her pillow for safe keeping.

"I kinda wanted to treat you the way I wanted to be treated, to make sure that your time here will be a bit better than the way I have been living here on my own, since you had a better childhood so you being here might not change too much" Tala said laying his head on his arm.

Serenity sighed and closed her eyes, "You're right, life here won't change much for me, with or without you" she said softly.

"What do you mean?" Tala asked confusedly; he has been confused quite a lot ever since Serenity arrived.

Serenity spoke quietly again, "My life outside the abbey has been no better than it is now"

"What happened?" Tala asked, very interested in the conversation since he had been meaning to ask her about her life outside that abbey for a while.

'You said I had to tell him sometime Luna, I think this might be a good time' Serenity thought before sighing again and starting her life story, "When I was younger my dad died and my mother hurt me a lot, she used to make me clean the house and I was never allowed to go out to play with friends or something and she always used to say bad things about them. She used to hit me a lot and I was never treated properly." She explained closing her eyes as she pulled back tears that had seemed to well up in her deep blue eyes.

"That's so sad" Tala muttered; he thought Serenity hadn't heard him but she had and smiled a little.

"But life changed from bad to not so bad, one night my mum was yelling at me and I yelled back at her and she kicked me and hurt my arm badly, after I just kicked her back since I had been practicing martial arts which gave me a slight advantage, I hurt her and ran out on her in the rain, I ran to a park and slipped in a puddle and passed out. I woke up in a hotel room and my arm was bandaged up, I couldn't move much and then a man came in and told me he wasn't going to hurt me; he was more than twice my size and it scared me a lot, he wanted to know more about me like where I was from, who I was and why I was out so late at night on my own. So I told him what happened since he wouldn't let me go till I told him. He said he was with the CIA and he was going to do something about me getting hurt all the time, after a while I was taken out of my mothers care, the man who had helped me, Mike bought me my own little apartment and I lived with a woman who he paid to prepare me food and to help me but Mike wasn't always around since he traveled a lot but he stayed in my apartment when he was in Japan." Serenity said sighing again at the thought of old times.

"What happened after that?" Tala asked curiously.

"Life was good, I enjoyed living on my own but after a while the woman stopped coming after a horrible day at school, I was told by a man that I would be coming and that I had to pack a bag, so I did but then he knocked me out and I ended up here" Serenity continued explaining. She opened her eyes to see the sympathetic look in Tala's eyes so she decided to move on to a different question to move the subject off herself, "How did your parents treat you?" she asked.

Tala's eyes widened slightly at the question being asked but thought that since she had told him her story then he should tell her his, "I never knew my parents…Boris told me they died when I was very young and have been here ever since I could remember" he explained quietly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you" Serenity said softly and worried about how Tala was feeling at the time.

Tala just shook his head a little in the position he was in as he stared at the ground, "Doesn't matter, I got used to it, being without them so long that it doesn't even matter to me anymore" he said still not taking his eyes off the ground.

Despite Tala's efforts to hide his emotions, Serenity could tell that he was lying to her, "That's not true, I know it isn't, a part of you wishes they were still around, am I right?" she asked getting out of bed and standing by his bed.

"You're wrong, I don't care about them and don't wish they where here, I didn't need them then and I don't need them now" Tala said in a slightly cold tone and glaring at Serenity angrily.

"I refuse to believe that, every one wants to be loved and you're no different, you haven't had love by any of your parents and you think you'll be fine on your own but if you keep saying you don't need them then you are only cheating yourself." Serenity said sitting down at the edge of the bed.

"How would you know how I feel?" Tala asked still in a cold tone but not bothering to look at her so he just kept his eyes closed.

"Because I've gone through it too, saying that you don't need them only makes things worse…everyone needs someone" Serenity whispered moving closer to him, she knew what it felt like not to be loved and she always felt an empty feeling in her heart because of it. She gripped his hand tightly and squeezed it tighter supportively and then pulled away from him when she knew he was going to be ok. She made sure he was asleep before moving off his bed and switching off the light and walking back to her bed in the pitch dark. She lay in bed and stared at his thin form with some light from the moon that hovered in the night sky. She looked up at the full moon outside, she sighed and closed her eyes as she tried to sleep and after a couple of minutes, sleep overcame her.

---Next Morning---

Serenity groaned when the sun light touched her skin, she placed her hand to her eyes to shield them from too much sun light when she turned her head to see if Tala had woken up yet; he hadn't, he had been up late the other night so she couldn't really blame him for sleeping in. She pushed herself out of bed and walked into the bathroom to get washed and changed. She came out of the bathroom and found Tala still asleep, she leaned against the door frame and just let him sleep for a little while longer and then moved closer to him to wake him up, she placed a hand on his shoulder and shook it gently as she told him to wake up. Tala groaned when he heard the loud voice ringing through his mind, "Hey, time to wake up" Serenity whispered moving away from him.

Tala wiped the sleep out of his eyes and got out of bed and went straight the bathroom, Serenity sat on his bed and looked out the window, she watched a guard walk around the yard outside, she shook it off and moved toward her bed and took Luna out from under her pillow. She stared at her blade, wanting to have a short conversation with her bit-beast, 'So did I explain well enough last night?' she asked mentally.

'You seemed very confident in telling him last night that was for sure' Luna replied smiling.

'He seemed like the right person to tell at the time and I don't want to keep it a secret from him' Serenity continued.

'I think you can trust him' Luna said.

'Yeah, I think so too but for now lets get through the day, don't any of us here ever get a day off? This is cruel' Serenity complained to her bit beast in her mind. Serenity heard Luna laugh a little before moving to the back of her mind, Serenity sat on her bed to wait for Tala, she got bored after a while and launched her blade in the centre of the room and just watched it spin aimlessly. When the bathroom door opened she called her blade back to her and stood up again and a couple minutes later they left the room and moved back to the training room.

Tala looked at the wall that Serenity and Luna had attacked the night before, "What happened here?" he asked muttering so only Serenity heard as he looked at the craters in the wall.

"I have no idea" Serenity muttered not wanting to answer how she did that to the thick stone wall.

Boris came in soon after, he already knew that it was Serenity's attacks that had created all the damage to the training room wall, so he tended to treat her with some form of respect since she held great power and was able to control it which made her very valuable to him. He told them that they were going to practice tag team matches and Boris thought that Serenity and Tala would be best together.

Tala and Serenity were the first ones to battle to battle and had to go up against the abbey bully; Jeremy and the other kid that Serenity had almost hit with the punching bag whose name had just been revealed to her as Justin, they all walked up to the dish and prepared to launch their blades, a guard started the countdown, and the four bladers launched and created a full out war on their opponents. Serenity was the first to attack and was going straight after Jeremy who looked far too confident for Serenity's liking; Luna rushed toward Jeremy's black blade and pushed him against the side of the dish, breaking one side of Jeremy's attack ring, Jeremy's blade disappeared from the dish, leaving Luna and Serenity to find him. 'Come out, come out wherever you are' Serenity thought searching the dish thoroughly, then she spotted a glimpse of something and Jeremy noticed that she had figured out where he was and with the speed of lightning his blade became visible and flew right in between Serenity and Tala, tearing a piece of Tala's jacket and scratching his shoulder. Serenity saw the cut and quickly got back to the match, having a slight score to settle with both Jeremy and Justin.

Serenity gave all her power to Luna and Luna absorbed it, "Crescent beam smash" Serenity ordered her bit-beast, Luna created a thick wind of fire that picked up both Jeremy and Justin's blades but something changed in the middle of her attack and Luna threw the blades back down into the dish. Serenity had no intentions of ending the match so soon so she gave them another chance to fight; Justin went up against Tala while Serenity tried her luck with Jeremy.

Tala attacked Justin but Justin deflected it easily, "Don't you ever give up?" Justin asked smirking.

"No, of coarse not" Tala replied before sending Wolborg after Justin's blade which had started circling the dish with intense speed.

Serenity was getting tired of messing around and decided to end the match quickly but Jeremy had just started chasing Luna and attacked her before she had time to fight back, Serenity was about to lose to him and quickly attacked when she saw an opening in his defense, she attacked and something went wrong and created a large explosion throwing Serenity and only Serenity into the wall behind her, when the smoke cleared Serenity had fallen off the wall and had landed on her stomach, still heavily breathing, Tala turned back from Serenity and to the dish to see Luna was still spinning, he turned back to see Serenity slowly pushing herself off the ground and stepping forward to move closer to her blade, she was energy-less but refused to throw the match, she rapidly hit Jeremy's blade over and over again until he the blade had flown past Jeremy and into the training room wall.

Tala pulled together enough energy for another attack and tried to knock Justin out in the same way Serenity had defeated Jeremy and after a couple more beatings he managed to knock Justin's blade out onto the stone floor. While Jeremy and Justin were picking up their blades and preparing themselves for extra training which was the punishment for the losers, Tala turned back to Serenity to see her slump against the wall, exhausted from lack of sleep and all the effort she put into her attacks, she scratched her back against the uneven walls when she slipped to the ground, being unable to stop herself she just sat against the wall with her head lowered and her crossed arms covering her face. Tala walked over to her quickly and pulled her forward and lifted her head; she was pale yet heat had started to rise and her cheeks became flushed.

Boris walked up behind Tala and told a guard to help Tala take Serenity back to her room, saying that she past her test and had done enough for the day, a guard took Serenity out of Tala's arms who followed the guard back up to the room where the guard laid Serenity on her bed and left with out a word. Tala went to the bathroom and pulled out a piece of cloth and wet it with cold water and went back to Serenity and placed it on her burning forehead, he watched her flinch slightly when the cold water touched her but she didn't stir. He sat there for over two hours, still with his bleeding shoulder, not bothering to tend to it even though it hurt him, he just didn't feel like moving, there was something about the battle that he couldn't quite figure out, like why Serenity's attack hadn't worked. Tala felt a gripping pain in his shoulder, it pained him a lot and he placed his hand over the deep wound on his shoulder. He turned back to Serenity who just seemed to be resting and her breathing was back to normal. He felt another sharp pain and the hand that covered the wound was already smeared with blood. He picked up a piece of gauze from the dressing table and cut a small piece and placed it over his shoulder. He leaned against the door frame and just watches Serenity longer from there.

A/N: So how was it? Did you like it? I don't think it was very good but I am going to leave you to decide, it is more a matter of opinion and I tend to judge myself harshly. So please tell me what you thought about the battles, my weakest points are probably the battles, it took me like an hour just to write one paragraph of the battles. Please Review, my exams are over in two days and so I might update faster, especially if I get reviews wink Please Review, I am begging you. Bye!