Author's Note: Just want to thank the people that have reviewed;
Irn2 - The time skip - will at most be a few years, since I do want them to become all friends at one point and then slowly be well, broken into the dear cold guys they are in the series! For some reason I usually only get lack of motivation; when I know what's happened but I just can't make myself write it. -sighs- A book? Heh heh, I don't think I'd take rejections well if I were to try to make one. Well thanks for the review!
DancerInTheDark101 - I did read Chaos and you'll notice I reviewed too! -dances around- That was a good chapter, but I'm sure you already read my review. I can hardly answer your questions with this chapter... Aww, though next one will! Thanks for reviewing!
white light horizon - Hope I updated quick enough! It's longer than the last... I think... Anyway, thanks a lot for reviewing!
The Goddess Azure Thunder - Heh heh, I guess you like dear Wolborg and Falborg! Don't worry so do I, and the reason I put that in as well compared to Black Dranzer then they are weak. You'll find out mainly why Wolborg 'claims' he's weak in this one... Thanks for reviewing!
or-chan - That will happen, or else someone will bring out the banners and start singing in joy! I just can't seem to live without cliff-hangers... Though I believe! I may have given a small, if not tiny cliff hanger in this one! Ha I am beating the obsession with them! -coughs- Well thanks for reviewing!
princessphoenix - I always get affected and effected mixed up - even though they are completely different! Thanks for pointing that out, in fact I changed it after I read your review. Now it doesn't look as silly! Thanks for that! They are all cute! In my minds eye anyway! Thanks for reviewing too!
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Chapter 17
The noise made Tala relax, but it was a mistake was another bolt of pain went through his small body. The small redhead whimpered as he looked around. The snow was still falling and Tala's eyes were becoming unfocused and misty.
He looked up, in the direction he thought the noise was coming from and did not see a person. Nor an animal. It looked mutated, in a strange way. It was a dog, of some sort. It was as big as a lion, Tala shivered in fear and cold as it came closer. Was it going to try to eat him?
Two large fangs coming from the side of it's mouth, while the other smaller - but no less deadlier ones could be seen jutting out from it's almost red gums. Sharp teeth that glistened as white as the snow. Orange eyes stared at the small child, wondering if this was the human that had asked for him.
A growl of annoyance came from Wolborg, he felt insulted by the humans, a child had called him. He may not have been able to defeat every other bitbeast... But this was an insult.
Wolborg howled, his ears pinned back as the deafening sound came from him then he looked down at the boy. Ice jutted out of it's neck, two on each side as if it where impersonating a cobra of some sort. Another one came and they started to appear on it's head and even some smaller ones around it's nose.
"Help...Me" Tala whimpered as he tried to reach out to the strange looking dog. The wolf growled again, this time icicles came from its back, and created two wing looking shapes.
Tala whimpered, what was this - was this Wolborg? "Wolborg..." The wolf stood still for a moment, so it had been this little human that had called on him. It was same voice, but he would die soon, his body heat was quickly fading.
Tala sniffed, as he began to shiver violently, his body being plunged into pain. "Please... Help me." Tala began to sob again, this time real tears came and streaked his face, he watched as the wolf came close. Tala whimpered again as he saw the large claws that were cause of the snow crunching but Wolborg decided he would help the small boy.
Wolborg was angry at first to have such a weak human as a master. Then again it was his job now to protect this child from anything. This child was lucky that they were in his own element.
Picking Tala up with his mouth, being careful not to pierce the small child's clothing. He gently throwing him onto his back, Tala yelped when he landed on the warm white back - Wolborg had looked so cold...
Tala looked around, and chuckled when he noticed a large tail swaying back an forth. He giggled again, his small body still shivering, he could see his own swallow breathing.
"Wolborg! Pretty Doggy!" Wolborg winced, oh how the heavens must of hated him...
"I am not a pretty doggie as you say." Tala blinked, had Wolborg just spoke? Or had the cold finally gotten to him? Tala had no idea that dogs could speak.
"Wolborg can talk!" Tala giggled, though he managed to go into a coughing fit which rattled his small frame. His shivering did not stop, but closed his eyes shut - he could feel that Wolborg was moving.
"I am a bitbeast, I am Wolborg, I am a wolf - not a dog." The wolf growled, and hoped that the child would not ever again call him a pretty doggie.
"I'm really cold." Tala noted that he could feel nothing only the Russian wind that blew at his back. He curled up as tightly as he could, and lay silently pressing into Wolborg's warm fur.
Wolborg had only one place where this child go and that was back to the Abbey, but maybe he would get stronger if he had someone like this instead of the broken souls that he had been paired with. There was no link to start any sort of bond, and no bond meant no power - no growth.
Tala's eyes opened to look at the surrounds but they began to drop once again, this time he felt no pain. The small boy yawned and decided to go sleep. Even if he was worried about everyone else, he was sure they would be fine... He hoped.
"Hey Bryan..." Spencer had woken up, it was dark, and even the older boys were asleep - they could hear one of them snoring.
"Spencer? You're up too?" Bryan had been slightly worried on why Tala and Kai had now not came back. He wasn't too worried about Kai since he usually disappeared and then reappeared again some time later.
"They've been gone ages." Spencer sighed. What if something had happened to them? Maybe Kai didn't survive, maybe Tala had been punished - or even thrown out of the Abbey? Maybe he was just getting far too obnoxious about the whole situation.
"I hope...They are okay." Bryan may of hated Kai but he still did not really want the boy to disappear forever, how ever long that was. He had only hates him because he was, in his words silently irritating, and that was the one that had overall annoyed Bryan. How could someone silent, be annoying?
Spencer heard the younger boy sigh and then noises from outside the room. The two children froze and tensed as they heard someone opening the door. What was happening now?
"Children, come here now." The voice was low, and it was hissed, the words like spitting venom. The two boys knew that if they didn't come right away then they would regret it. They both walked to the door, where they were grabbed and pulled from their comforting room.
Bryan looked around and noticed it was not the usual guards. It wasn't anyone they had seen before, even Spencer was a little confused on who it was... He was wearing a coat, a long white one...
"You have to come with me okay?" The two boys looked at one another, with the short time Bryan had been here and the experienced Spencer - they both knew that the happy, nice man would be lying through his mask, and actually be an ogre when they got to where ever this guy wanted them to go.
Without fighting too much the boys walked quietly behind the older man, Bryan had his arms folded and was glaring at the back of this man's head. Spencer was looking at the signs they were passing, he had never been so deep into the Abbey before.
The grey-haired man did not say anything, but simply turned on his heel to look at the surprised youngsters. He smiled broadly, making Spencer and Bryan uncomfortable.
Spencer frowned as he saw the man pull Bryan closer and pushed him into a room, meanwhile he continued to look at the blonde through interested eyes. "I know what to do with you!" The silver haired man grabbed Spencer's wrist and began to walk quickly, Spencer couldn't help but struggle against the painful grip. He hoped Bryan would be okay.
"You're nothing, how on earth did you conjure up the thought of you! Being able to use Black Dranzer! Don't make me laugh boy!" Voltaire slapped the small child, causing a whimper to escape.
For hours this boy had been standing still and not able to sit or even talk back, while his grandfather shouted abuse on how he was so pathetic at everything he done. Tears had began to fall no more than ten minutes into the abuse. It didn't seem as if it would end.
"You are filth, your mother hates you!" Kai physically winced, it had obviously hurt the small boy to even think of his mother. Voltaire smiled and then sat back down - was this over?
"You are my grandson. You will do as I say. You will not even dare look in the same direction of Black Dranzer." Voltaire had been utterly furious when he had found out that Kai was too weak to use Black Dranzer to it's full capabilities. One thing that Voltaire hated was people that were weak, now he would have to find another bitbeast - just for his grandson to practise and battle with.
"Grandfather...I...am." Kai was going to say sorry but Voltaire seemed to know this and decided to give this child another slap. "Saying sorry doesn't work, you selfish little boy. No one believes anyone when they say that. You little idiot." The very words had hurt Kai more than anything else in the world, and to have them directed at him by a family member just put the icing on the cake.
The room was silent, with Kai still standing, his knees and hips aching, his feet felt warm as his blood felt stuck in that one place.
"Where's Tala." The comment was not meant to be voiced, but when Kai was not hit in the first few seconds, he believed that maybe he wasn't going to get hit again.
"He's dead. You killed him just like you did everyone else in your school. Just because you are too weak!" Voltaire smiled, happily as the small boy fell to his knees and began to cry out loud, what on earth had he done?
He had just wanted to be his friend... He hadn't even made fun of him, like those other kids had. "No! He's not! I don't believe you!" Kai shook his head not wanting to even think about the taller redhead. Voltaire laughed loudly and decided it would be best to see how the other two were coping with the new arrangements.
The door closed, and Kai was left in the cool office by himself. "Tala..." Kai sniffed, he hated that fact that he had killed someone else just because he was weak... "I'm sorry." Kai whimpered and began crying again.
"Wolborg..." Tala muttered and opened his blue eyes, still he was one the warm, fuzzy back of his new bitbeast, not like he knew that. The wolf growled in response. He wondered why his new master was no more than a mere infant. Then again, if he wasn't strong enough, Wolborg wouldn't have heard his plead for help, whatever was happening Wolborg himself was confused.
"I'm Tala!" The wolf did not respond, simply because it was trying to get over the small shock it had been put under. Since he had been modified in that horrible laboratory, he had never known his masters name. That was one reason why Wolborg never tried to make an effort to win or protect them. They were stuck-up, broken children that gave orders because they were told to give them. They had no fighting spirit they bladed to win, nothing else. It was if no errors could be made.
"Do you know Black Dranzer...?" The small boy felt the wolf slow and then halt and tense, Tala titled his head against the soft fur, wondering if he had said something wrong.
"It is not a natural bitbeast. It has been ripped from it's original state... They both will never be able to reach their maximum until one of them is destroyed or until they are joined." Of course Tala had no idea what this meant, but since this was a wolf that was talking he decided to take a mental note of everything it said.
Wolborg had known about the unnatural balance that had been created, in fact he was sure everything natural had felt it. Something was trying to create something evil, tainted, and they had succeeded. They had dared to defile and corrupt many other bitbeasts, but Wolborg was one out of a few that did not bow down.
Tala sat up, he was slightly confused since he had been freezing when he had gone to sleep. Now he was just fine. He looked around and saw one building; it must have been the Abbey. Maybe.
"Wolborg, will you stay?" Tala wanted to show Bryan, and Kai, and even Spencer that this was his wolf. That could talk! Tala giggled, they would be so jealous!
"I will, but not in a physical state." Of course Tala had no idea what that really meant either, but he nodded in agreement and lay back down on the soft fur that was Wolborg.
Tala giggled again, he had spotted Wolborg's ears that were currently moving this way and that, trying to pinpoint where any noises were coming from. Tala moved closer, wanting to see if he could get them to stop. The wolf growled.
"Don't even think about it." Tala blinked, and instead of taking the threat normally he began to giggle again.
'What a strange child...' Wolborg had belonged to many people before, then this boy had summoned him. In fact most of the masters he had been with were no way near as sociable - this one must still of had his free-spirit. Instead of the broken children he was given, that would simply command him to attack over and over again as if he were a machine that could feel no pain.
Another thing was this Tala had no concept of what he would need to do, and that would be bad if Wolborg was ever in battle. Wolborg was beginning to worry; his energy was depleting, since he was trying to keep the redhead warm and also he was in his physical state. It was incredibly tiresome. Wolborg hoped that he would be able to get to the Abbey quick enough, he would not allow himself to fail in saving such a innocent - but annoying - child.
Tala gripped onto the wolf's fur as it began to pick up the speed - until it was running through the white abyss, Tala had been watching the building that had been getting bigger and bigger the closer Wolborg and he got to it.
He didn't really want to go back, he didn't like the guards or the classes, but he couldn't leave Bryan or Kai - or Spencer in that horrible place by themselves.
"What is it?" Voltaire was irrupted in the middle of his lunch, Boris had came in rather swiftly so something must have been wrong. Were the other brats causing the commotion?
Kai was still sitting on the floor, feeling numb. He couldn't get his head around the fact that he was responsible for everyone else's suffering... He was... It was true...
"It's about Tala." The name made Kai snap his head around to look at Boris, a small amount of fire returning to the saddened eyes. If Tala was dead what could of happened to make Boris like this?
Voltaire didn't stop him from saying anything, so Boris continued to speak, even though he knew Voltaire would not believe a word he said until he went and saw the camera footage.
"He's alive..." Voltaire looked up from his chair and glared at the purple-haired man, Kai blinked, Tala wasn't dead? Tala was okay...? A small piece of hope suddenly appeared in Kai's mind.
"How?" Voltaire was sure that the child would have died; he'd been dumped in snow that should have numbed him to the core. He shouldn't have been able to even move.
"You won't believe this but... He had a little help from Wolborg." Without more than a second passing by Voltaire slammed his fist onto the desk, forgetting about his lunch.
"What! Wolborg was already tested on him! They are not compatible!" Voltaire was more angry at the fact that the results were wrong, than the child living or not. Now all he had was one useless grandson; now at least that small redheaded brat would be able to get him one more step closer to fulfilling his plan.
"I noticed, but is true." Boris nodded in agreement; they really would have to fire some of those lazy scientists!
Again the small red-eyed boy was forgotten about in the rush to see this horrible miracle. Kai stood up, even though his legs still ached from when he had been told to stand and do nothing else. "Tala's...okay..." Kai looked around and hoped that it would not turn out to be a lie. "Tala's...alive." A small smile crept to the boy's face.
Author's Note: Well the next chapter will be what are mainly happening to Bryan and Spencer at this point and maybe a little reunion for Tala and Kai, I've not made up my mind 100. (It's taken me ages just to get back into writing this, but hopefully I won't take too much time in writing one chapter, in other words faster updates!) Please review!