Chapter 16
Kira froze, aware of her breath becoming ragged and quicker. She felt as if someone had dropped a stone into her stomach. She opened her mouth to say something, not knowing what exactly it was that she would say. So naturally she didn't say anything. She closed her mouth.
"Kira." The voice behind her repeated.
She could feel Katelin's eyes on her, glancing up she saw that they were wide with shock.
"Kira, I would like to know why you are here." The voice said coldly.
The anger in it pierced at her like icicles. Finally she turned around to face the voice. The voice that she knew belonged to her older brother.
Standing in front of her was Chase, looking a bit aggrivated, and Niletak, who was had her hands tied behind her back and was gagged with a hankerchief looking, suprisingly, satisfied. William was perched on a branch nearby, and Cai, watching her with a confused look on his small face, was sitting under the tree.
"Would you like to explain?" Chase asked, glaring at her.
"How did you find out?" Kira squeaked.
"I don't know... maybe because she threw a boiled egg at me... which landed about two yards away from where I had been sitting. Which happened right before she started laughing for no apparent reason. Right after that she started talking about how penguins were actually the one's who invented the h-bomb and it wasn't really the blue panda bear who lived in Finland."
Katelin started laughing, "I remember the thing about the blue panda in Finland! Amy made that up when we were playing kingd-" She stopped after recieving a glare from Chase.
"Now would you do the world a favor and control your insane alter ego from now on?"
"Since when have you ever wanted to do the world a favor?" Cai snapped, 'He does have a point though... after all, it was William and I who tied her up... but that was because she was ruining the plan!' he thought to himself.
"Since I met someone more annoying than Jack Spicer."
"She's not more annoying than Jack!" Cai snapped, "At least she count!"
"I'm not going to defend Jack Spicer's stupidity for him." Chase replied coldly, "He already does that without help from anyone else."
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Jack sneezed as he finished building a robot.
"Good, so that means that I have to make..." He glanced up at the eight robots in front of him, counting off on his fingers "one more robot and I'll have ten."
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Katelin sighed "Voler Egg! Ring of Nine Dragons!"
Niletak returned to Katelin.
'Thanks, that was fun.' Niletak said inside Katelin's head.
'Why did you look so cheerful?' Katelin asked her.
'If someone ties and gags you, you're getting on their nerves. Or they tthink that you're crazy.'
Katelin frowned 'Why would you want that?'
'I told you that I'd take care of everything.'
'Yeah... I was kinda hoping that meant that you would follow the plan...'
'I did. The first plan, when he first tricked you into swearing your loyalty to him was to annoy him until you got the chance to run away.'
Katelin sighed, shaking her head. She looked back up at Chase, and remembered what Kira had just been telling her moments ago."Kira isn't actually your sister... is she?" She mumbled, her gaze pointed downward.
"Yes," Chase said calmly "she is."
"But then why-"
"Don't ask questions if you already know the answer." he interrupted, "It's a waste of time."
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The next few days were spent in an angry silence.
Chase was now being even colder to them, especially Kira. The training was still the same, except that he didn't leave Kira with them. In fact, it seemed almost as if Kira was avoiding them. Katelin was horrified at the fact that Chase's own sister was one of the fallen warriors. Cai was shocked and hurt that Kira had really been a 'double agent' as he put it. When William pointed out that Kira had actually been on their side in the end, Cai yelled at him to keep tiny bird brain out of things that he didn't understand. After that incident William had flown off and nobody had seen since.
Finally, on an evening a few days later, Katelin sat against the wall her eyes glazed and watching the rain fall outside, with Cai was slumped over one of her feet sleeping. Of course she was supposed to be in horse stance, but if she wasn't caught sitting around, then she was doing what she supposed to be doing. Katelin glanced up, eyes still glazed, hearing voices coming. She leapt up and quickly went into a horse stance. A moment later Chase walked in with Wuya following him. Cai's ears perked up at the noise but he stayed asleep.
"But there's a shen gong wu active!" Wuya was telling Chase.
"There is?" Katelin asked excitedly, forgetting about the horse stancee.
"We have to get it!" Wuya and Katelin shouted in unison.
"No." Chase said flattly.
"B-but we have to!" Katelin stammered.
"No we don't."
Katelin bit her lip "Why not?"
"Shen gong wu dull your martial arts skills," he smirked, "and well, you can't really afford to be any worse at it."
Katelin pressed her lips together in a thin line angrily, clenching her fists. "What's that supposed to mean?" She snapped.
"That you could use a little practice."
"WHAT?"
"Sorry, make that a lot."
Cai woke up, rubbing one of his eyes with a tiny paw. He glanced around and noticed that Katelin was steaming, and that poking her head timidly in doorway was Kira. She seemed a little scared. Cai felt a bit sorry for her for a moment but shook the thought out of his head.
Katelin bent down abruptly, picking up Cai and stomped towards the exit.
"And where exactly are you going?" Chase asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm leaving!" Katelin snapped, still stomping away.
"Yes, I can see that."
Katelin gave a low growl and turned around, "I don't care! I don't care where I go as long as I'm away from YOU AND THAT OLD HAG!" she screamed. With that, she turned abruptly on her heel and left.
A/N: Hey! Well uh yeah here's the chappie... I'm visiting my cousins and I've been working on this chapter so... I'm gonna see if it works to write the chapter straight onto the little document thingamabob... :D I had a sudden burst of ideas... it tends to happen when I'm away... like actually I got the idea for this fic when I was in France last year! Wow... come to think of it this fic is very different from how I expected it to turn out. But it's still the main idea. Thankies and r&r!