Chapter 15

Megan groans, blinking her eyes open. Her head was pounding, feeling like she was hit on the back of the head with an elbow. Oh wait...she was.

Megan opened her eyes, seeing that she was in a cement room. It had a small window on one of the walls, showing that it was dark outside. It was exactly like her room from her childhood. She noticed that she was on a not so comfortable bed and that someone was looking at her from the bed opposite of her.

"What?" Megan asks in her fake voice, the voice of Elli. The body shifted into the light that the small lamp on the floor between the beds gave off. Megan could see that it was a girl about 8 years old, with pin straight auburn hair and stormy gray eyes. She still had that innocent look about her that told Megan that she must be new to the Abbey, not raised here.

"H-hi." The girl stutters, scared. Something about her felt familiar.

"Sorry, my head hurts a lot, and so I snapped." Megan apologizes. "I'm Elli, and you are?"

"I'm Millie." The little girl says shyly. She looks down playing with her hands. "Are you new here as well?"

"Yea." Megan says, sitting up, fighting through her massive head ache. "You too?"

"Mhmm." Millie mumbles. "I've only been here 2 days."

"Up and at em!" A voice shouts from outside the metal door. "Training time!"

Megan jumped to her feet, shocked at the venom in the voice. Millie scrambled to her feet, fear evident in her eyes. "We have to go. Now!" Millie grabs Megan's hand and pulls her out the door and into the hall when the metal door opened to the touch of a remote.

Megan was shocked at the number of kids in the hallway. There were kids as young as 5 to as old as 25. She saw that everyone was wearing all gray. She looked down at herself and noticed that she had tight fitting grey sweats on and a grey hoodie. Millie led her through the halls quickly. Megan bumped into someone as Millie pulled her in between people.

"Sorry!" Megan says, looking up at the person. But as she saw the face, Megan almost froze in place. It was Aaron, and he was more handsome in person then he was in a picture. Aaron flashed a smile, that instantly reminded her of Kai.

"No problem, you're new here, aren't you?" Aaron asks.

Megan nods, too shocked for words.

"I'm Aaron. You?" Aaron asks. His voice reminded her of Tala when he was trying to soothe her.

"M-Elli." Megan corrects herself.

"Smooth..." A voice says in her ear. Megan was reminded that she still had the earpiece in her ear. It was Tala's voice, mocking her. Megan grumbled to herself, knowing that she couldn't say anything, or she would seem crazy.

"Pretty name." Aaron smiles, and she's reminded again of Kai. "Stick with me and you'll be fine."

"Ok." Megan says in a daze. Mille looks back, and sinks into Megan's side, not wanting to be alone.

They walked into a huge room, which had a vaulted celling with tons of gym equipment and bey-dishes.

"Line up!" A voice shouts. Immediately, Aaron takes Megan's hand and weaves her through the crowd of kids running around to get in line. Megan kept a hold of Mille's hand not wanting the innocent girl on her own.

Aaron pulled her in line and Megan saw about 15 trainers in front of the group of 30 kids. She scanned the faces and recognized Dylan. He gave her a slight nod as their eyes locked.

"Dylan recognizes you Meg." Alex says through the earpiece. Megan realized that Dylan must of sent Alex something to tell him that he spotted her.

"Look sharp." Dylan barks out. Megan realized that it was his voice that she heard from her room. She smiled to herself, glad that he was such a good agent. "We're going to pair you guys up and see how good the new recruits are against some of our more experienced bladers."

The trainers start barking out names and take 2 bladers each towards a dish.

"Aaron and Elli follow me!" Dylan calls out. Megan breathes a sigh of relief that she was going to be with Dylan and Aaron.

Megan quickly walked over and stood next to Dylan as they walked to a dish.

"You'll be fine Meg." Dylan whispers in her ear so soft that she barely heard him. She slightly nodded her head.

"So El, I see that you met Aaron already. He's our top student here, along with Tina, who you'll be meeting with shortly." Dylan says. He digs out a pure white blade from his pocket and puts it into Megan's hand, closing her fingers around it. "This is your blade now. Your job is to release the bit-beast inside, Dominic, the Eagle of Light."

"Ok..." Megan says. She looked down at the blade and felt the connection with Dominic already. But she missed Drakima, who she grew up with.

"Lets go." Aaron says. He took his place on the other side of the dish, taking out a blue and white blade. "This is Drolborg, my fire and ice dragon."

Oh the irony. Megan thought to herself. It was a cross between Tala and Kai's bit-beasts. Megan got into position, facing Aaron.

"3-2-1, Let It Rip!" Dylan shouts. Aaron and Megan release their blades at the same time.

"Lets see what you got newbie." Aaron jokes. Megan smirks, feeling the connection to Dominic, that she always felt with Drakima.

"Dominic!" Megan shouts. The blade glows a bright gold and rams into Aaron's blade.

Not expecting it, Aaron's blade almost flies out of the dish, but he hangs on, just barely.

"Damn girl, you got fight." Aaron smirks. "If thats the way that you're going to play...then...Drolborg!" His blade glows red and silver, slamming back into Megan's blade. Megan smirks as Dominic stands her ground as Drolborg tries to push her out of the dish.

"Not bad." Dylan muses.

"Dominic!"

"Drolborg!" The blades ram into each other, creating tempest like winds, finally the blades return to their owner's hands.

"Holy cow." Dylan mumbles.

"Thats never happened before." Aaron says, in shock. "Only Tina and I can do that."

"Um, sorry?" Megan says.

"No, its not your fault. That was incredible." Megan turns around at the new voice that sounded so much like her normal voice. And what she saw almost made her feint. The girl behind her, was her. The hair, eyes, body, voice, everything. It was Tina.

Dylan must have known what was going on through her head cause he walked up next to her and introduced them.

"Tina, Elli. Elli, Tina."

"Nice to meet you." Tina says and she holds out her hand.

"You too." Megan says softly. She shakes her hand. At the first touch of contact, electricity ran through both of their bodies. Megan believed it was because Tina was a clone of herself, but Tina was freaking out on the inside.

"Elli Manning isn't it?" A harsh voice said from Megan's right. Megan's body went rigid at the sound, and Tina, who was still holding her hand, felt it. Megan dropped Tina's hand and faced Boris. Megan tried to remember the night she was taken, but realized that they must have used a drug to erase that memory from everyone.

"Yes?" Megan asks timidly, trying to fit into her character again.

"You will address me as Sir. Got it?" Boris's voice boomed in the room. Megan saw that everyone flinched at his voice, even the trainers, except Aaron, Tina and Dylan, so Megan flinched as well.

"Yes Sir!" Megan squeaks out, even though she really just wanted to punch him out, here and now.

Boris smiled, pleased with himself. "Now, Dylan."

Dylan's body went rigid in military mode. "Sir?"

"I want Miss Elli here in the chamber in an hour. Got it?"

"Yes Sir!" Dylan nodded. Boris walked away, but not before whipping a child's back for bad posture. Megan winced, remembering horrible memories of her childhood here.

"Bed time!" An instructor shouts. Megan felt and heard the 30 kids running back to their rooms, instructors following them, leaving Megan and Dylan alone in the room.

Once she was sure they were alone, Megan sighed, dropping her disguise.

"You did well, faking it." Dylan murmurs.

"Thanks, cause I really wanted to take him down right then and there." Megan whispers back.

"Lets go Elli." Dylan says in a normal voice. Megan was thinking that there may be camera's in the room so she just nodded and followed him. Her suspicions were confirmed by Alex's voice.

"Dylan told us that there are camera's in the 'hanger' were you're leaving, the hallways, and in the labs. None in the bedrooms though." Alex informs her through the earpiece. "The chamber is the same as you remember."

Megan moaned almost inaudibly, but Dylan heard it as well as Alex. Alex chuckles. "Sorry Meg, its still the glass tubes where they monitor you. I want you to act like the scared little girl you're supposed to be. Elli Manning is a timid girl, but she showed the potential to be a great blader. But at 21 years old you are sexually mature, you know what that means."

Megan cursed in her head. That meant that if she became a great blader, they might use her to produce more bladers, even if she wasn't a Hiwatari or a Granger. After all pregnancy took 9 months, if they didn't want complications, Tina would only be able to have children every 9 months. Boris and Voltaire might want to create more clones, but if the connection between Megan and Tina had anything to say, that might become dangerous. Voltaire will probably use many females of age, which explained why he had so many 20 year olds. If she did some sneaking around, she'd bet that there were many children that were younger then 5 around. And she thought she saw a women, slightly older then herself that just recently gave birth.

Megan shivered visibly. The girl looked raged and scarred both physically and mentally. She was a robot and Megan would bet that she lived her entire life in the Abbey, like Megan herself was supposed to. Megan was lucky to escape when she did.

"Anyway." Alex continues. "I need you to get closer to Tina and Aaron with Dylan's help. Both of them already trust him. Got that Dyl?" Alex asks.

"Yea." Dylan whispers so lightly that Megan almost didn't hear it.

"Ok. Dylan, you know the girl that Meg's rooming with? Millie? We did a background check on her using the photo you got. Umm, this is kind of delicate." Alex's voice faltered. In all the years Megan knew him, Alex never sounded so nervous. "Uh Kai?" Megan assumed that Kai was in the room with Alex and whoever else at the moment. "I'm sorry. Turns out that your parents didn't die when you were taken from them. 'What!'" Megan heard Kai's voice roar in the background. "Ummm Millie is kind of, well your sister." It was dead quiet on the earpiece and Dylan and Megan couldn't help but glance at each other as they heard a dull thud on the line. "Ummmm dudes?" Megan heard Tyson say in the background. "Did Kai actually feint?" Megan's eyes grew big, taking in the information though.

"Her eyes..." Megan mumbles. "Her eyes are like Kai's thats why she felt familiar."

"Yea," Alex voice was heard again. "She's Kai's younger sister, meaning she's a full blooded Hiwatari."

"Crap." Megan whispers.

"Yea, she was taken from her parents 2 days ago, and this time their parents were killed right in front of her."

Dylan pulled her into a room, off the main hallway. As she looked around, she realized that this must be his room.

"We can talk freely in here." Dylan says. Megan nodded.

"Is Kai ok Alex?" Megan asks as Dylan sets up a video conference. The video popped up to show Alex in the center of the screen, looking stressed.

"Yea, his fine." Alex says shaking his head. "Tyson and Daichi are staring at him, not quite believing that he feinted."

"Stupid boys." Megan mumbles. "Wait, if they have a full-blooded Hiwatari, then what was their plan about a Granger?"

"Thats just it, either they will go after Tyson or Hiro, which is un-likely, cause they can't control them, or you guys have a male relative. Since your parents are dead, we are having your grandfather come over to talk about your family..." Alex looked away from the screen, as one of the agents said someone was there. "Wait, here he is." Alex moved away from the screen to show Megan's grandfather.

Gramps, as he was affectionately called, had white hair and the aged skin of a man in his 80's, but he had the distinctive crimson eye color, that showed that Granger blood ran through him.

"Gramps." Megan smiles. This was the first time that she had seen him since she got all her memories back, even then, she had only met him once before, but she loved him immediately. Hiro and Tyson were seen as well, standing behind their grandfather.

"Megan my dear." Gramps smiles. "I wouldn't have recognized you if Ty didn't say that you turned blond and had green contacts in."

"Sorry Gramps, undercover." Megan smiled, sitting down, Dylan standing behind her, protectively, just in case something happened. "So anymore family that I should know about?"

Gramps put a finger to his chin thinking. "Well, your mother was an only child, but your father did have a brother, my other son Thomas. He died sometime ago though, in a boating accident and didn't have any children. Wait..." Gramps mussed to himself, thinking. "Your father did have another child."

"Dad cheated!" Hiro roared.

"No, he didn't, calm down Hiro." Gramps said, giving Hiro a stern look, as if their father would do such a thing. "Two of your father's friends were having a difficult time having children. The father was sterile and so your father donated his sperm so that they could have a child. He thought that thats what your mother would have wanted him to do."

"He passed the Granger gene." Megan says.

"Yes, he did, and it was a boy, ummmm..." Gramps racks his brain for the name of the child. "Ah, Pat McDuff. His parents are from Ireland, your dad knew them from work. I think I might have a picture of him."

"No need Mr Granger." Dylan says, his lips in a hard line.

"What is it Dylan?" Alex voice is heard.

"Pat McDuff is here. Boris picked him up a week ago. Here's a picture." Dylan leaned over Megan, to type Pat's name into Voltaire's database and a picture came up. The boy was about 10, and he had the crimson eyes to prove that he had Granger blood running through him. But he had blond hair and a slightly different bone structure, showing that he had a different mother.

"I know him..." Megan musses.

"Yea, he was with the group today." Dylan confirms. "Since he's new, he still has spirit."

"Good, he'll need it." Alex says.

"Umm guys? Kai's awake!" Megan heard Tala's voice in the background. The Grangers moved off to the side to show Kai and Tala making their way to the computer.

"Kai!" Megan sighs, smiling. Kai let a smile come to his lips briefly before he turned to Alex, a mask of seriousness now on his face.

"What's this about a sister?" Kai asks.

"She's my cellmate Kai." Megan says getting his attention. "She has auburn hair, is 8 and she has your eyes. She's scared though Kai."

Kai sighs. "I can't believe I have a sister."

"Tell me about it." Tyson says, rolling his eyes, amusement dancing in them.

"Oh shut it Ty." Megan giggles.

"Will you keep an eye on her Meg?" Kai asks, his eyes pleading, but voice level.

"Of course Kai." Megan promises.

"Meg, we have to go." Dylan reminds her.

"K, I'll talk to you guys later. Umm Alex?" Megan asks.

"Yea Meg?"

"Umm, can I talk to Pat, Tina, Aaron and Millie about all of this? About me, Kai, Tyson, everything?"

"As long as they can keep their traps shut, yea. We need to get those 4 out of there right away. They are our top priority." Alex confirms.

"Got it. Expect guests tonight. Can we use your room again Dylan?" Megan asks.

"We should be able to. Boris thinks that I'm a good trainer, and he trusts me." Dylan smirks.

"Nice." Megan giggles.