(S)he is a Lady
Serie:Beyblade
Pairings: Bryan/Kai
Warnings: Language, Tyson bashing
Summary: The Bladebreakers are in Germany visiting the Majestics, who currently are gathered in Roberts castle, when Voltaire and Boris shows up and reveals a shocking secrets about Kai for the Bladebreakers and the Majestics.
Disclaimer: Some dude named Takao owns Beyblade not me. Anyone else thinks is just a bit odd that the main characters somehow just happens to have that name too?
Oi! Attention over here plz.
Singel words or phrases in italic in running text means that something are emphasized.
"Italic" means thought (except when in a flashback then it normal texture)
Underlined words means Russian
Underlined and bold means bitbeast speak
AN: You Know I'm Back, I'm Back-
You Know It You Know I'm Back You Know-Hoo!
You Know I'm Back-I'm Back-
You Know It, You Know
And The Whole World Has To Answer Right Now
Just To Tell You Once Again . . .
Who's Back?
I'm Back!
Wohoo!! I'm back finally does victory dance Finally I got out of that hell called school. Which of course means I can concentrate on my writing like very much more than I could before.
And as usual I have my wonderful beta Miako6
Hm…. What should I tell you more? Ah yeah ehm…. sorry but my writing really gets out of hand from time to time and this is such a time. This chapter is ever longer than explanations part 1. Quite a bit longer actually or very much longer depending on how you see it. -sweatdrops- hehe… Also I have made slight changes in the part from "Sneak peak" mostly just design things like underlining and stuff but I have changed Pang Pang to Bang Bang since redxraven told me I did it wrong -glomps- Thank you! If anyone else spots stuff like this I'd be totally grateful if you told me.
Well that should be all Now on with the story!
--With the others-- (Accordingly not with Kai and Tala)
"When are they coming back?"
Ian asked for the hundredth time directing question in matter to Spencer who he, along with Kai, considered as all mighty and all knowing.
"They will come when they come."
Spencer said barely suppressing the urge to tell the young snake to zip it before he did something they both would regret. He knew that Ian just wanted to see Kai, both times she had been taken away is had taken them over two weeks to cheer the purple haired blader up to his normal carefree, mischievous ways.
The Bladebreakers and the Majestics watched this exchange, as they did with everything else the 3 Russians did, with great watchfulness and carefulness. Actually their behavior resembled the one of a prey watching an incalculable predator that could attack any second.
(AN: Wonder why… XP)
"Falcon if you are trying to make a hole in the floor I'd say you are on the right way if not, stop walking around like an idiot."
Bryan stopped his walking temporary, he had been walking back and forth in he room since Tala left, to glare at the whale with such intensity that I normal person would have run off as fast as their legs would carry them. Alas this was now Spencer, a highly unusual person who had spent several years in the presence of the explosive falcon, without trying to commit suicide, so his glare had no effect what so ever.
"Fuck off."
"That would hardly improve the situation"
"Can't you for once stop being so god damned relaxed?"
"No, think about it Bry are you helping Kai at the moment?"
"No and the fact that I can't is pissing me off."
At this moment it took all of Spencer's willpower not to sigh out loud.
"Calm down master."
"I'm trying Seaborg, I'm trying."
Spencer said to his majestic whale bitbeast through the mental like that existed between them.
"Then why don't you save your energy for when she gets here? Sit."
The faraway expression in Bryans eyes suggested that he was thinking deeply, which he was, just not about the things Spencer had told him but about something much more important: Kai.
The first time he had met her or him as he had thought was the time he had been 9 years old. Of course he had heard of her before that everyone at the abbey knew about the grandson of Voltaire Hiwatari, they also knew about the peculiarity's that marked her face, the four blue shark fins. Back then he had thought it was for the guards to recognise her and give her a lighter treatment, it wasn't until later he realised that the shark fins were for the exact opposite reason.
He had been sitting in his cell, he had been fortunate enough not have to share a cell. He was worried though, his battle among the other children today had been under his normal standards, sure he had won. He always won but today he hadn't paid enough attention to the game and the battle had lasted over 4 minutes, which was unacceptable.
--Flashback-- (all speaking in this flashback is in Russian so therefore Im not bothering to underline it, also the computer is evil and dont want to underline everything I want it to do -pout-)
He heard footsteps in the hallway and prayed that they weren't heading to his cell and if they were that the purple haired freak wouldn't be on of them. However it seemed like Lady Luck wasn't on his side today.
The door swung open to reveal Boris and two guards. He quickly got up and bowed to them, no need to make matters worse than they already were.
"Bryan my dear boy there is no need to be so formal."
Boris spoke with a sickening sweet voice, Bryan had to fight to control his temper, he knew he had a short fuse and if there was anything he hated was when people were calling him things like that.
"No, sir."
He said, straightening up.
"I was watching you training today."
"Damn it."
"And I was quite disappointed what it took you 4 minutes and 17 seconds to knock those blades out of the dish."
"It will not happen again, sir."
But Boris continued like he hadn't heard him.
"It almost seems like you are slacking off, is that the case Bryan?"
"Absolutely not, sir. It won't happen again, sir!"
Oh how he hated to suck up to this ass-hole and when he was nice it was even worse. Boris stroke his chin appearing to be in deep thought however Bryan knew better, that creep always knew what he was going to do.
"I hope you're not getting to comfortable after all you have been the strongest blader in this section for quite sometime now."
"Yes, sir."
"Hm… I was wondering…"
He trailed off once again stroking his chin. Bryan felt slight panic run down his spine, he had something planned but the emotionless mask on his face never wavered the slightest.
He had turned being emotionless to an art form, he hadn't showed any emotion with the exception for anger, disgust and hatred for over 4 years. That not saying he didn't feel them but he had, like every child that stayed a longer time in the abbey, learned not to show them. However most of them were, at least according to his opinion, pathetic. No matter how long they had been here under to much pressure they would crack, something he hadn't done in years.
"I have a wonderful idea. We will move you to another section; that way we'll make sure to keep you at the top of your game, what do you think Bryan?"
So that was his plan, to move. why? Hopefully he would find out soon.
"Yes sir, I think that is a very good idea."
Like his opinion would have mattered. Boris clasped his hands together.
"Excellent, guards take young Bryan here to his new room."
The two guards, that until now had stood passive at the door, stepped forwards and grabbed him roughly by his upper arms and started to pull him with them as they started to walk through the maze that was Balkov Abbey.
After quite sometime of walking the guards stopped, opened a cell and threw him in.
"Play nice now kids."
One of the guards yelled into the cell through its small widow in the door, it was there so the guards could make sure no one tried to commit suicide or anything else that violated the abbey rules.
Standing at all four Bryan wondered what the guards had meant, however once he raise his head his gaze collided with a pair of ice-blue orbs he understood why. He got up from the floor to take a closer look at the redhead it was then he noticed the tattooed bluenette laying on one of the beds in the cell. His eyes narrowed he was sharing cell with Hiwatari and his knee-hound!
The ice-blue orbs were still watching him, it was starting to irritate him.
"What are you looking at you knee-hound?"
Might as well put himself in respect directly.
"First of all the name is Tala Ivanov if you're smart enough to remember it, which I doubt, and second I was trying to understand if you've been through plastic surgery or if you were born that ugly."
Bryan narrowed his eyes so much that they were almost closed, this kid just asked for it. But before he had the chance to fire of a comeback like the cerulean-eyed redhead turned around facing the supposedly sleeping phoenix.
"Who is he?"
The bluenette who still lay still in the top bunk with closed eyes didn't even move as she spoke.
"Bryan Kuznetsov mediocre blader who's only talent is to inflict physical harm at his opponents with his wind-sparrow."
Hearing this Bryan was this close to explode he might have been able to look past being called mediocre but no one, noone called Falborg a sparrow.
He lounged forwards only to fall forwards at the floor his whole body paralysed. Tala putted one foot under him and carelessly turned him over ignoring the fact that Bryan hit his head in the stone floor several times.
"It will wear off in 10 or 20 minutes, so I suggest you spend those minutes considering this: Kai and I are the strongest bladders in the abbey and I'm not just talking about in the beydish so think carefully about your next move."
With that Tala turned around, walked over to the bunk below the phoenix and lay himself down at it and appeared to fall asleep.
"When the paralyzation wears off don't try anything, one of us is always awake."
The wolf spoke up once more, it seemed like it was he who did most of the talking, before silence descended over the room.
As Bryan lay there on the floor he tried to process what just happened. It appeared wise to follow the wolf's advise of how to act around the two bladders. However he would definitely not become Hiwatari's new knee-hound, that's for sure. He would spend as little time around the two as possible.
The fact that he was deep in thought and that the paralyzation prevented him from moving a single muscle he failed to notice the bluenette phoenix's silent approach. He did however notice the two hands that grabbed him under the arms and inceremonially tossed him at the third bed in the cell.
"I'm only doing this because you are the weakest like and if you get sick you will become an even larger burden."
"Weakest like? Burden? What is he talking about?"
(AN: Eh, well since flashback-Bryan technically doesn't know about being a girl I just thought it would be more appropriate to let him think of her as a boy. Hope you will choose to ignore this if you finds my constant he/she changes to be irritating)
Bryan thought utterly confused and despite that he, as usual, disguised his feelings with the same expertise as always the phoenix read his emotions as an open book. And Bryan had to admit to himself, only to himself of course, that he found someone who could read people that easily a bit intimidating and creepy.
"I assume they haven't told you then."
The phoenix allowed a small sigh to escape her lips as a sign that she had much more important things to do than what she was doing at the moment.
"They are dividing us into teams as practice for when we will be participating in beyblading tournaments."
The word "teams" was pronounced with so much disgust that it was a wonder it didn't decompose as it was spoken.
"You are in my and Tala's team."
She added as if he was too stupid to understand that himself.
"Don't screw up Kuznetsov."
She turned and started to walk toward her own bed when she, as struck by another thought, turned halfway around.
"Oh, Kuznetsov none of us cares what you think of us but if as much as one single detail about our training methods or techniques reaches the other abbey-children I will make your life so miserable you will think of the dungeon as a warm and cozy place."
Oh, he had no doubt that she would run off to her beloved grandfather of he displeased her but nonetheless the prospect of an existence where in comparison the dungeons, a place where torture so cruel that it was unspeakable was frequently carried out, was freighting.
Once again it seemed like the phoenix could read his mind as she when she had swung herself up into her bed spoke once more.
"No I wouldn't "rat" as you and your kind would call it I have my own methods to carry out my promises."
You and your kind words that clearly said that she saw herself as separated, better than him and the others here. He was so furious that is was fortunate that the paralyzation still was active or he would have tried to seriously injure the phoenix. However the best he could do under these circumstances was to sleep so that was what he did. With his last conscious thoughts fully focused on the task of finding the most painful way of death to that bloody Hiwatari and his bloody knee-hound.
(AN: Awww -cooes- isn't that just how you imagined their first encounter would be)
--End Flashback--
Reminiscing this the lilac falcon absentmindedly started to pace the floor once again. Though he had barely managed more than a few laps before he got the distinct feeling that someone was staring very intensely at him. Turning around he looked straight into a pair of seemingly emotionless sea blue eyes however the lilac haired youth could see several signs that said that the whale was highly irritated.
"What?"
Receiving no answer the falcon suddenly remembered his previous conversation with the whale.
"Alright, alright"
He said rolling his eyes to prove that he thought that the whale was over exaggerating. Nevertheless he leaned towards the wall, arms crossed and eyes closed. The typical Kai-pose. Not having anything to focus on his thoughts started to wander backwards again.
In the beginning he had avoided Kai and Tala as much as he possibly could choosing to train in the other side of the room during the training sessions that consisted of all abbey-children, spending as much time as possible away from their cell, showing as much contempt as possible towards them, never sharing a word with them unless it was absolutely necessary. But he never once uttered as much as a single syllable regarding their training methods after all there was no need to try if Kai actually could carry out her threat.
But was irritated him the most was despite all this the phoenix and the wolf didn't seem to care about it in the slightest, they still treated him like they had done that first evening. Meaning that Kai mostly ignored him and that Tala kept on insulting and irritating him.
No actually that was only the second most irritating thing what was most irritating was that he started to enjoy spending time around the two. While he grew more and more bored of the other abbey-children whose company he normally would find amusing with their hierarchy and meaningless intrigues if not only for the simple pleasure of scaring the wits out of them. Now he could catch himself sitting and planning different comeback lines for Tala's comments, how utterly irritating.
As time moved on he had spent more and more time with the redhead and the two-toned bluenette and within less than two months the infamous duo had turned into an infamous trio. Of course he hadn't become properly initiated until over a year later when they declared that they now trusted him enough to reveal their biggest secrets, Kai's gender.
To say he had been shocked had been a grave understatement however he had adapted to this fact quickly and found that it only improved their friendship now that they didn't had to think about watching every word they spoke around each other. It also made him more protective of Kai, being the oldest he saw it as his responsibility to keep the two younger bladers safe and founding out that Kai was in fact a girl doubled that responsibility at least in his opinion.
However Kai didn't agree with him she often complained about it, muttering curses about how they treated her like a child and how she never should have said anything in the first place as she now was trapped with, as she so poetically expressed herself, two full-blooded, thick-headed idiots fulfilled with their own imaginary importance.
Spencer and Ian had arrived a little bit less than two years after that. Being completely new at the abbey they had the same fundamental idea as Tala had had, which was that Kai couldn't be held responsible for her grandfathers actions and had quickly discovered that they preferred the company of Kai, Tala and Bryan rather than the company of the other abbey children.
Together they had formed a small well-welded group that protected, comforted and cared for each other. Something that had made them able to resist the constant brainwashing that they were put through.
However Bryan was yanked out of his thoughts by the faint, soft tapping from two pair of shoes approaching, immediately recognizing the footsteps as the ones of Tala and most importantly Kai, he snapped his eyes open. One look at the others clearly showed that they also had heard who were coming.
The tension in the whale's shoulders disappeared as he stood up to welcome his favourite's phoenix as well as comforting her for the stress she'd been through because of the involuntary unveiling.
The door swung open.
A large grin broke out on Ian's face as he jumped down from the stool he had been sitting on and ran towards the door. It hadn't even swung completely open to reveal the two Russians as he jumped up and glomped Kai, who just barely managed to keep her balance, wrapping his legs around her waist and arms around her neck as hard as he possibly could. As if he was being a boa constrictor instead of a cobra.
(AN: I'm not 100 sure that Wyborg is a cobra but he sure looks like it so bear with me ok?)
Having slightly more dignity Spencer and Bryan walked towards Kai in a brisk pace. Wanting to be able to hug Kai as long as he wanted, or as long as he could without it seeming odd, without having any blond impatiently waiting for his turn, Bryan deliberately shortened his steps just slightly so that he ended up just behind the blond Russian.
Kai who had been watching their approach closely noticed this and an overwhelming sadness consumed her. "Does he really find me so repulsing that he don't even want to touch me?" That though hurt so much that she hugged Ian even closer to her own body.
Tala had, of course, noticed this and while Kai was being hugged by Spencer he was barely able to resist the strong urge of punching Bryan in the face and yell at him to make a move so that his sister didn't have to suffer all these painful heartbreaks that came from over analysing everything the falcon did in the negative favour of herself. As well as yelling to Kai that Bryan have, and had had for years, the biggest crush ever on her and that she should stop putting herself down all the time.
As Spencer, a bit resultantly, removed himself from Kai it was Bryan's turn.
Wrapping his strong arms around her and pressing her petite body against his own slender muscular frame Bryan allowed himself to indulge into the phoenix's intoxicating scent and the wonderful feeling of their bodies pressed together. With his long fingers he could feel her bandages that she used to cover her more feminine character through her shirt.
During the same time Kai was, just as Bryan, enjoying the feeling of the falcons rock-hard muscular chest and strong arms against and around her body and his wild, forest-influenced smell that filled up her nostrils and was effectively erasing every negative thought from her mind leaving nothing but smooth pleasure.
Slowly and unwillingly Bryan started to separate them, not because he wanted to but because if he didn't the others would make all kinds of insinuations and he didn't want Kai to find out about his feelings for her that way.
Giving into a sudden impulse, when his lips were passing her ear Bryan whispered.
"I've missed you."
And for a quick moment locking eyes with his beautiful crimson-eyed phoenix before separating fully. Once they separated, Kai was still slightly dazed the falcons hot breath against her skin, his smooth voice and those three wonderful words "I've missed you." Had made her heart skip several beats only to speed up to it's maximum capacity. And those lovely emerald eyes colliding with her own hadn't exactly helped in calming it.
The Bladebreakers and the Majestics had during this merely paralyzed with shock stood and watched their minds desperately trying to comprehend what they were seeing.
The Blitzenkreig boys and Kai hugging each other, hugging!
The evil, emotionless Blitzenkreig boys, the come-closer-than-ten-meters-and-we'll-make-sure-that-you-die-in-the-most-painful-way-possible Blitzenkreig boys were hugging Kai. Kai the ice price or well ice queen, the antisocial Kai, the Kai who even after Baikal Lake hadn't allowed more that hand-to-hand contact.
This was just so wrong in all and every aspect.
"I think you are going to have some explaining to do."
Spencer said slightly, all right then highly amused by the look on the Bladebreakers and the Majestics faces. It would be something in the middle of extremely shocked, bewildered and confused.
Turning around and seeing the faces of the other eight inhabitants of the room the phoenix couldn't help but allow a small almost inaudible sigh to escape her lips.
Causing a smirk that was just a tad sadistic to appear on Tala's lips. Sure he loved his sister to bits but that didn't mean he couldn't enjoy watching her struggle with this a bit. Of course he would help her but only if she absolutely needed him, something he didn't think she would need at this moment since he knew that his sister was fully capable to handle much worse situations than this.
Meanwhile Kai was busy trying to figure out a way to explain her relationship with the Blitzenkreig boys as simple as possible.
"What? We're friends."
She said bluntly shrugging one shoulder to prove that what just had happened wasn't that big a deal.
Unfortunately for her the others didn't seem to share his point of view. In fact the Bladebreakers seemed to choke on the very air they were breathing. Friends!
This coming from the very same person that not once during the year and a half they had spent together had uttered that word to them not even after Baikal Lake.
(AN: First I don't know for how long the first season takes place so my 1,5 years are just a guess and second if Kai did at any point in the first season actually call the Bladebreakers his friends, at least I don't remember him doing so, pretend that he didn't ok)
Rei who was the quickest one to adapt to the, to put it mildly, shocking news, was about to ask a question when he was interrupted by loud grown how if they had been in the wild would have believed to come from very angry bear.
"He he… guess I'm a bit hungry."
Tyson said while scratching the back of his head with one hand. Looking at the large clock he exclaimed.
"Hey, its 8 o'clock we should have eaten hours ago!"
"Tyson don't you think your over exaggerating a bit, we're just an hour late you know?"
"But Max that is a looong time."
Tyson whined causing several of the present bladders to sigh and/or roll their eyes at the so-called world champion.
"In this particularly case I'm afraid I'd have to agree with Tyson, it is getting late I suggest we have a late meal before we retire to our accommodations for the evening."
That was of course spoken by our noble griffin from whom else would you expect such speech? Now not everybody has the possibility to understand such speech, which resulted in.
"Huh? What did he say?"
Signing over his teammates foolishness Rei explained the griffins uttering to the dragon.
"He said we should eat then go back to our rooms to sleep."
(AN: Remember they do get up for breakfast at 5.45 so they will be tried early at the evening)
"Yes food! What are we waiting for? The last one to the dining room is a rotten egg!"
The bluenette followed by the blond Italian, the blond American and the greenette Frenchman ran towards the dining hall.
"Are they always like this?"
Tala asked his tone and facial expression clearly stating what he thought about their behaviour.
"Yes."
"And I who thought you was exaggerating."
"I never exaggerate."
"So it seems."
"Hn."
Rolling his eyes at his sisters behaviour Tala too started to walk towards the dining room.
Once there they were meet by a scene that made the Blitzenkreig boys freeze in their tracks. Quickly getting over their disgust they continued in the dining room acting like nothing had happened. Luckily no one had seen it or so they thought.
"Don't tell me the cool Blitzenkreig boys are that easily frightened?"
Kai said a small teasing smirk on her lips and an amused look in her eyes.
"Like it didn't shock you the first time you saw it."
Tala spitted back.
"At least I managed to keep a straight face."
Before the bickering could get any worse Spencer decided to interfere. He didn't have the energy for another siblings brawl, no matter how friendly it was.
"Lets agree that it's a shocking experience and leave it to that."
"Yes father."
Came the simultaneous response from the phoenix and the wolf. Rolling his eyes Spencer sighed quietly but no matter how much he tried he couldn't hid the fact that he was more amused that irritated. "Father" was one of the nicknames that the others used for him, especially Kai and Tala since it usually was he who broke up their fights and in a weird way he liked it.
Providing themselves with food from the buffet, the remaining eleven teens sat down at the table to eat. Nevertheless, it was clear that everyone was uncomfortable and very nervous even Tyson, who's eating habits had shocked that Blitzenkreig boys had slowed down on his eating so that it resembled the eating of a human instead of a starved animal.
"So ehm Kai you are a girl?"
Rei asked breaking the uncomfortable silence.
"Yes."
Came the monotone answer that not exactly provided the Chinese with the information that he and the others craved.
"For how long?"
That question made Kai, and all the others, turn their heads to look at Enrique that had asked the question. Raising one eyebrow Kai responded
"Since I was born."
Her tone clearly saying what an idiot she thought he was.
"Oh, yeah right eh…"
"I think what Enrique meant was that you don't look like a girl."
Oliver butted in trying to save his younger teammate from total humiliation.
"Yeah that's exactly what I meant."
Enrique said throwing a grateful look at the unicorn obviously glad at his teammates interference.
"Hn."
Not receiving a more explicable answer the white tiger decided, against better judgement, to try to throw some light upon why his team captain that apparently was a girl dressed up and acted like a boy. Damn his curiosity!
"Eh… so being a girl why do you dresses up like a boy?"
"Voltaire wanted a boy."
"Okay… why?"
"He thought it would serve his proposes better."
"And that was?"
Rei was beginning to feel a bit irritated having to pull every word from Kai with a tongs.
"Taking over the world."
This was said with the same monotone voice as the other responses and as if it was a completely normal goal. So it took a couple of seconds for the others to digest what she had said.
"What?!"
That outburst came from a majority of the present teens when Kai's statement had sunk in properly.
"Your grandfather wants to rule the world?"
"Voltaire wants to rule the world."
Kai corrected Johnny throwing him a glare that could have frozen fire. Ignoring this, he was still a bit riled up about the fact that his biggest rival was in fact a girl, he asked another question that the others were dying to know the answer for but didn't have the courage to ask.
"And how exactly would you dressing up as a boy help him do that?"
"He thought a boy would be more frightening as his "ultimate weapon of destruction" than a girl."
A peal of laughter erupted from Tyson, once done laughing he wiped away a few tears from his eyes.
"You are his ultimate weapon? You are a girl. No wonder he failed."
Despite the fact that she would love to see Tyson get his ass kicked and was severely pissed off about the "You are a girl" comment. Kai had enough presence of mind to put one hand on Tala's leg to make sure he didn't do anything rash. Unknowing to her Spencer was doing the exact same thing to Bryan.
Before any of the Russians had the time to deliver a biting comeback help came from the other Bladebreakers. Furrowing his brows, Rei spoke up.
"That's very prejudicive Tyson girls are just as good as boys."
"Sometimes even better."
Max popped in.
"Yes just take in consideration Max's mother she is the best beyblading scientist over the entire world."
Kenny said temporarily forgetting his overwhelming fear for the Russians. Crossing his arms grumpily, Tyson huffed and muttered something incoherent that no one bothered to find out.
The rest of the dinner elapsed in silence with the exceptions of minor interruptions of mindless chitchat between some bladers. After seeing Kenny basically falling asleep at the table and Max trying, and failing miserably, to hide several yawns Kai decided that it was time for her team to go to sleep.
"You are going to bed. All of you. Now."
The second sentence she added seeing that neither Rei nor Tyson seemed to include themselves in her statement and the third because they were going to argue with her about it. Which really was pointless since she knew that they would need this amount of sleep to manage tomorrow and even if they didn't show or even notice that they were tired. They would fall asleep as soon as they lay their heads on the pillows. So really it was for their own good.
"Playing mom again, sis?"
Tala asked playfully since his sister had a very caring and maternal side to her and she absolutely hated when someone either said or implied it. Which of course lead to the red head to mention and tease the phoenix about this side of her personality as often as possible.
"No, I'm not."
The aforementioned phoenix snapped at the irritating person that she, for some reason, called her brother.
"I see so you are telling them to go to bed because?"
"Because if they don't their blading will get worse since they are tired."
"Sounds pretty maternal to me."
"Well it isn't, it's a part of my duty as a team captain."
Raising an eyebrow, Tala responded quizzically.
"Team captain duty? I've never done that."
"Its because you never needed it. We knew when to sleep they don't."
Looking very sceptical Tala locked eyes with his sister.
"Honestly they don't know how much sleep they need?"
"I'm perfectly honest with you, Red."
Slightly stunned about this new piece of information Tala become silent. He knew that the phoenix never lied it just wasn't her nature to be deceitful and she despised lies more than anything. Sure she withheld things but she never lied if she didn't want to tell you something she said so. Not even to Boris, the guards or Voltaire had she lied to she remained silent instead. No matter how much he had tried to convince her to, just to stop the torture she was put through.
But still the fact that the world champions didn't know when to go to bed, it seemed almost surreal. However…
"You're still a mother hen which way you choose to put it."
He said smirking causing Kai to roll her eyes and respond with a whatever since she knew that at some points like this one it was no point in arguing with her brother; it simply lead no where.
As the Bladebreakers got up from their chairs to go to their rooms, the Majestics decided to follow suit, which lead them to realise a quite peculiar problem.
The Blitzenkreig boys.
Or to be more precise, where would they spend the night?
Being the gentleman he was Robert offered them to stay to which they agreed. Actually they would have stayed even if Robert hadn't asked them there was no way in hell (or in any other place for that matter) that they would leave Kai at the moment.
Something that unsought lead to the issue of where in the Jurgen castle the four Russians would sleep.
One could think that the easiest and most comfortable way would be to place the Russians in the wing right next to the one were the Bladebreakers and the Majestics were sleeping. Since the wing the two teams slept in where one of the smaller in the castle and with several rooms being repaired and/or re-made it was full.
But then there was the… delicate issue that the Majestics and the parts of the Bladebreakers that wasn't Russian, complete full-blooded idiots or childlike, innocent angels preferred that the Blitzenkreig boys did not know where they slept. As they were afraid for the Russians to go bored and decide, in an attempt to entertain themselves, to torture and/or kill them in very painful ways.
(AN: For the part were I write "that wasn't Russian, complete full-blooded idiots or childlike, innocent angels preferred" I mean Rei, Tyson and Max just to straight things out and in that specific order meaning the idiot is Tyson and the angel Max)
As a result of this Robert called for his faithful old servant Gustav and explained that the Blitzenkreig boys would spend the night there so that he needed to prepare some sleeping arrangements quite a distance away from theirs.
"Are we really that frightening?"
Tala said smirking humorously having understood every word that Robert had exchanged with Gustav. Since Boris and Voltaire had had plans of taking over the world they had reasoned that their soldiers needed to have a certain amount of knowledge and in a result of this every abbey-child had been educated in the classic school-stuff and several languages. German being one of those.
"Frightening? No. Ugly? Yes."
Kai responded good-natured.
"Yeah you should know."
Tala said snorting lightly. As Kai opened her mouth to deliver a comeback line a rather nervous and visually uncomfortable Robert interrupted her.
(AN: For those of you who don't have siblings; siblings argue like all the time so that's why I make Kai and Tala have many of these little arguments. Also, it should be said that their arguments are the playful and jokingly type not the I-hate-you-stay-away-from-me type)
"Well if you would follow Lukas he will show you to your rooms."
"Rooms?"
Tala echoed raising an eyebrow towards Kai.
"Yes rooms, he is a gentleman after all you'll all get separated rooms."
"But I've never…"
"I know Ian."
Kai interrupted the young snake.
"Don't worry about it, just wait till everyone is out of sight and you can go to Spencer okay?"
Nodding Ian turned with the others and followed Lukas to their rooms. There was no Good nights, an old habit from the abbey since if the guards heard you or someone ratted you'd get a sever punishment. Even if they were free those kind of habit were hard to break.
Kai turned and walked towards another pair of doors that would lead the phoenix to her bedroom. Well hers and Rei's to be more precise due to the renovations it had only been three free rooms in the wing the Majestics stayed in. And since her team for some reason absolutely couldn't be separated from the Majestics and since the Majestics absolutely couldn't move into another wing. For some reason that involved superglue, bed sheets, Indian ink, stars and underwear there could be more, but that's when Kai had stopped listening. She really couldn't care less about what the boys did with their underwear.
(AN: Isn't she adorably naive?) (Beta/N: Does that make me naive, too? O.o)
Inside her bedroom she quickly grabbed her bag and darted into the adjoining bathroom. Not that Rei hadn't let her be first, she knew he would. The raven-haired neko was very polite when it came to women he'd often open doors for them, lend them his arm and give them nice compliments that often, for some reason Kai couldn't understand, blush furiously.
(AN: This is Kai's way of seeing Rei, so it might not necessarily be the way others will see him. I mean you haven't already forgotten my previous A/N have you)
After brushing her teeth and washing herself Kai started to change into her sleeping clothes. When she had removed her clothing and put on her sleeping pants she paused and watched herself in the mirror.
A pale slender hand moved up towards her abdomen and hesitantly almost fearfully touched the bandages that were tightly wrapped around her. She had only been without the bandages for the short moments she showered so she didn't even know what her own body looked like. And to be completely honest she didn't even know if she wanted to take them off she had worn them for so long that they were like a part of her.
Turning away from her reflection she quickly put on her shirt collected her things and stepped out of the bathroom to let Rei in. Just before the tiger closed the door Kai spoke.
"Rei."
The tiger turned his amber orbs towards his team captain.
"Yeah Kai?"
"Thanks for not freaking out earlier today."
The neko flashed her one of his trademark grins showing of his fangs that made the fan girls absolutely crazy.
"No problem Kai. Just wish you'd told us yourself by your free will."
The neko turned around and closed the door and moments later Kai could hear water running from the taps in the bathroom.
She crept in under the bedcover, closing her eyes pretending to be asleep. As she knew that the Chinese knew she was awake he would take that as an opportunity to question her about everything that had happened during the day. Something she just didn't have the energy to at the moment and she didn't want to hurt the neko after all he was the one she had gotten along the best with.
After awhile she heard the bathroom door open and the padding of feet's. a few minutes later she knew that Rei was asleep due to the very faint purrs that escaped his throat from time to time.
After getting herself as comfortable as she could, she still wasn't quite used to soft bed with tons of pillow and covers, she let her mind slip into blissful oblivion. Or?
-- Dream-- (all speaking in this flashback is in Russian as well I'm not even going to try and underline it. My computer hates me -cries-)
"Kai sweetheart wake up!"
"Why momma?"
"We need to leave now honey."
Kai rubbed her eyes with her fists and asked sleepily,
"Why?"
The young beautiful blue and silver haired woman that stood leaning over the bed threw a quick look towards the motel door. It wasn't to be a hindrance for the ones who were after her and her daughter.
"Because they are coming sweetie."
Sitting up bolt right Kai looked panicked around the room with absolute terror in her eyes, she didn't knew who they were but she knew that they were dangerous and trying to catch her and her mother so they always had to keep moving around so they wouldn't find them.
Her mother handed the phoenix her clothes, which she put on quickly and her mother picked her up, placing her on her right hip and threw the bag with their belongings over her left shoulder. As she started to move towards the door Kai started to tug at her thick jacket, it was the end of October all ready and the temperature in Russia was not to be played with without the right clothing you would freeze to death if you hadn't went through sever training to make your body adapt to the cold. Which was only one of the many reasons she was running her daughter would not be put through those horrors she knew existed in that hellhole her father in law and dead husband (may he forever burn in the fires of hell) (Beta/N: lol) wanted to place her in. Stressed she turned her head downward to the most precious person in her world.
"Yes sweetie?"
"Momma, where's Dwanzer?"
"She is right here in my pocket."
Smiling happily Kai nuzzled her face into her mother's jacket.
"Good"
She was just going to push the door handle downwards when she heard heavy footsteps in the stairs and let go of the door handle like it was burning her hand. She turned on her heel and walked quickly to the window. She putted Kai down and opened the window, the emergency ladder was running just next to it, something she had looked up before choosing the room. She ran back to the sole chair in the room and wedged it in under the door handle it might buy them some extra minutes and right now every second counted. She opened the window climbed out and then stretched in the room and lift out Kai.
Once again placing her on her hip and telling her to hold on very tight she started climbing down as fast as she dared considering she was carrying Kai.
BOOM!
She heard the unmistakable sound of wood cracking. She started climbing faster, cursing herself for not closing the window. Stamping footsteps came closer to the window and a male head were stuck out of the window.
"They are on their way down the ladder!"
Kai tightened her hold on her mother.
"Momma"
She spoke urgently, her mother didn't even look at her; Her eyes were completely focused at her hands that were quickly moving along the ladder.
"Kai ushka you must be brave and quite now okay?"
(AN: Ushka is Russian and means someone who is greatly loved and respected)
"O-okay"
Came the shaky response. Her mother jumped down at the ground and took off running.
"She is running left!"
The male in the window shouted to someone they didn't know of. Kai buried her face into her mother's jacket not wanting to see anything of what was going on. She could feel her mother running, turning at several points but never slowing down the slightest. But no matter how fast her mother was running the heavy footsteps that were following them never disappeared.
Suddenly her mother stopped, lifting her head Kai looked at her mother.
"Momma, what are you doing?"
Her mother reached her hand inside of her pocket and picked up a familiar blue blade and placed it in the hands of her daughter. Kai looked in awe at the blade, it was radiating a comforting heat into her entire body. Dranzer, the bitbeast that had been in her mother's family for generations.
"She is yours now Kai, I trust you to take good care of her and love her with all your heart, if you do she will be forever faithful to you and help you through the darkest of times."
"Momma, I don't understand."
"You don't have to sweetie you'll understand when the time is right."
The footsteps came closer.
"I have something else for you honey, it's your Christmas present."
She took out a thin golden chain with a golden locket attached to it and hung it around her daughters neck tucking it safely under her clothes.
"But momma, it's not Christmas now"
"I know but I don't think I will be with you at Christmas"
Noticing the tears that started to well in the crimson orbs and the shivering bottom lip, she continued quickly.
"Don't cry. Even if we aren't together like we are now, I'll always be in your heart no matter what happens and…"
BANG! BANG!
-- End Dream--
With a sharp intake of breath, Kai bolted into a sitting position, her breathing heavy and rough. Panicked, she looked around the room half expecting a dark figure holding a smoking gun in his hand standing in the shadows.
After taking deep breaths to calm herself down Kai leaned towards the gable end fiddling slightly with the quilt.
She sighed mentally there would be no more sleeping for her tonight, not without… Her eyes widened when the previous day flooded her memory the Blitzenkreig boys were here.
She threw a quick glance at Rei, the neko was sleeping peacefully completely unaware of what had and was happening around him. She knew that she could easily sneak out without waking him and so she did.
Half sneaking, half walking around the castle in order not to wake anyone Kai was hurriedly making her way to the person she knew could chase away the unspeakable horrors that tormented her. She moved quickly using her instincts to guide her. She had been able to find Tala wherever he was for many years now. She had no idea how or why but then she'd never put much thought to it.
Halting in front of a large wooden door the two toned bluenette stretched for the door handle every nerve in her body screaming that Tala was on the other side of that door. Despite that her hand froze merely millimetres from the handle suddenly filled with a doubt she couldn't understand.
What if Tala wasn't behind that door? What if she was wrong? What if all this was some kind of trick with Boris and Voltaire behind that door just waiting for her?
Forcefully pushing those thoughts away, she grabbed the handle and twisted it slowly not to make any noise. Her intuition had said that her brother was here and it had never been wrong before. Slipping inside the room she carefully closed the door and turned around only to be meet with a pair of almost glowing ice blue eyes just a couple of steps away.
--Tala's Bedroom--
After Lukas had shown Tala his bedroom the wolf had spent over an hour turning and twisting around in the king-size bed he'd been given. Still not getting comfortable, he'd seriously thought about sleeping on the floor, but in the end he decided against it. Since he was out of the abbey he might as well get used to sleeping like this.
Having figured out that sleeping on his back was the least uncomfortable way of sleeping he'd lay completely still with his eyes closed trying to sleep. At least until someone had pushed down his door handle, he knew it was Kai even before he'd seen her. He'd always known if she was about to enter the room he was in.
Sitting up in his bed he was about to fire off a comment about that she must have been confusing the rooms since Bryan was sleeping two doors to the left. But as the phoenix slid in through the door, back towards him, he saw the tense shoulders. Knowing immediately that something was wrong, he soundlessly got up and quickly walked towards the two-toned bluenette.
When she turned around after closing the door and their eyes collided if felt like someone had punched him in the stomach with an iron fist. His sisters beautiful crimson orbs were full of pain, sadness and fear.
When she saw him she breathed out his name and the red head could almost feel her desperation and her relief of seeing him. Kai wrapped her arms around her brothers neck clinging to him almost desperately.
Wrapping secure arms around the phoenix's waist, Tala silently vowed that if any of those punks had done this to her he would kill them in such a horrible and painful way it would take people over 100 years just to stop shivering.
"I had the nightmare."
The nightmare not a nightmare when she said that the wolf knew exactly what the bluenette was referring to. Knowing that for that specific nightmare there was nothing he could say to make it better so he simply hugged the phoenix closer. Trying to provide some sort of comfort through his action.
Something that made the wolf notice that the female Russian still wore the bandages around her torso. He silently wondered why, since the secret was out he didn't see a reason to why the phoenix still wore it. The wolf knew that the tight bandages restricted his sisters breathing and from time to time itched and irritated her sensitive skin. So the fact that she still wore it surprised him greatly.
When the wolf felt Kai loosen the almost hard grip she had around his neck he pulled back slightly so that they stood face to face.
"You feel a bit better?"
Even though Kai nodded as an answer Tala knew she wasn't completely good and he was certainly not letting her out of sight tonight. Mostly for the fact that he cared for his sister more than everything but also because of the fact that Bryan would torture the life out of him when he would out that he had let Kai be alone after being so upset.
"You're staying here tonight."
"But Rei's going to wonder where I am."
The blank look she received forced the phoenix to explain further.
"We share a room."
Being raised at the abbey had hardened Tala so much that he almost never lost his cool yet those four words made him choke on the air he was breathing.
"You what?!"
"Share a room."
"Why?"
"There were only three rooms available and Kenny needed the single room to work on our blades… Tala?"
Not receiving an answer from the wolf, the bluenette snapped her fingers in front of her brother. When that failed as well she really couldn't see any other way than to hit him, lightly of course.
"Hey! What did you do that for?"
"You was zoning out. What were you thinking about?"
"What? Oh nothing, but you are staying here anyway, he probably wont even notice that you are gone."
The nothing had actually been a something to be more precise he'd tried to figure out how to break the news to Bryan without ending out at the hospital. Luckily Kai didn't dwell on that, shrugging her shoulders in a non-verbal whatever. As Kai walked towards the bed Tala grabbed her arm.
"Take off your bandages first."
"What?"
"You heard me."
"But…"
"You have said yourself that they itch and restrict your breathing. I'm surprised you haven't taken them off yet."
Twisting her hands the phoenix opened and closed her mouth several times trying to find the right words. The red-head waited patiently, of all of them Kai had always had the biggest difficulty when it came to expressing her emotions, most likely because she had been taken to the abbey at such an early age. The abbey only took in children that were on their fifth year of life. Kai however had only been a bit over three, even Bryan had been shocked when he had found that out. Both the falcon and the wolf had been taken in when they were or just about to be five.
"I'm scared but still not."
Smiling encouraging Tala spoke.
"You are just nervous, it's normal. But think how comfortable you'd be without them."
"I guess."
Seeing that the bluenette still wasn't completely sure, Tala decided to play a bit dirty.
"I'm sure Bryan would appreciate if you took of them."
Blinking cutely Kai inclined her head to the side in confusion.
"Why would Bryan like it?"
"Oh, it's nothing."
The wolf said barely resisting slamming his head against the nearest wall. Placing her hands on her hips Kai frowned.
"I want to know Tala."
"Look, it's nothing, just a stupid guy thing."
Seeing that her brother wasn't about to tell her, Kai sighed and went into the bathroom. As the door closed, Tala grabbed his hair and pulling at it in pure frustration. How someone that had been raised in a place that made hell seem like a nice cozy place, used as a puppet in her psychotic grandfathers attempt to take over the world, possessed by an evil bitbeast and forced to steal several bit-beasts could be so naive was beyond his understanding.
The bathroom doors handle was being pushed down and Tala quickly removed his hands out off his hair. As the door opened slightly Kai's head popped out, looking very insecure.
"Um…"
"Yes, Kai?"
"I'm not sure, Tala it's very…"
"It's very what?"
"… Different."
That nearly made Tala laugh out loud of course it was different.
"In a good or bad way?"
"I don't know."
"But it feels good to get rid off the bandages, doesn't it?"
"Yes."
"Then it's different in a good way, now get out of the bathroom. I'm tired."
Resultantly Kai pushed the door open fully to reveal her body's true shape and even if Tala's facial expression didn't change. Mentally he was grinning his most wolf-like smile. Tala's facial expression didn't change. Mentally he was grinning his most wolf-like smile.
"Oh yes, Bryan was definitely going to appreciate this and he was going to appreciate watching Bryan struggle not to push Kai up against the closest wall and kiss her senseless."
Stretching his arms above his head, Tala yawned.
"Come on, let's go to bed."
"You first."
"I know that."
It was their ritual that Tala always got into bed first. Climbing into bed Tala stretched out as Kai crawled in next to him. Laying her head on the wolf's shoulder, draping one arm across his chest and slipping one leg in between his she nested her body close to his. Tala on his side encircled the phoenix with his arms. That was how they always had slept in the abbey. At first, they hadn't thought about how it would look to the other people's eyes, and even if Kai still didn't, Tala knew that most people would view them as a romantic couple not a pair of siblings.
In the abbey they had slept together (AN: NOT in that way, pervert.) mainly for the warmth the comfort and security had just been positive side-effects. Now the comfort and security was what was they needed it was funny how quickly these things could change.
Tala threw a glance at his sister, she was fast asleep and looked very peaceful. Smiling to himself Tala closed his eyes, it was odd how much more comfortable the bed felt now in comparison to earlier.
Tala's last though before he fell asleep was whishing he'd a camera so he could immortalize Bryans facial expression when he saw Kai.
A/N: As mention before this is a very long chapter, and if that annoy you I apologize, as I said it got quite out of hand. O.o' I will go on a vacation the 8th and wont be back until the 17th so my reply to your review will take some time. But don't let that stop you review plz and make me a very happy writer! I want my mailbox to explode from all your lovely reviews (and if you hate it send me a review saying that and what I should do better)
Beta/N: I'm SOOOOOO sorry I couldn't update this sooner, had family problems and they didn't allow me to use my pc for days. I should have updated this last Monday!
I finished beta reading this the very same morning I was allowed to use my pc again. Again, I'm very sorry, you have no idea how troubled I was for not being able to update this.
And about my B/N comments, I really couldn't resist it, another thing. I tried uploading this for DAYS now, but it never worked for some reason, I'm sorry there's no italics or bolds, which were supposed to be there.. and are important for the fic but when i tried uploading it as word file it NEVER worked.. finally i used the last resort, notepad and it was the only one that worked.. .
I'm sorry, Manda, but this was a real pain! -goes to a corner and cries- readers, i hope it isn't hard to understand this chapter, but please do review..
AN: As y'all know this chp was completely messed up before and I'd like to point out that it was -not- my betas fault. She did every thing she could and much more. Anyway now Im home from my vacation and I did this the very second thing as I got home (the first was to answer all reviews). But My internet got spazzed so I couldnt put it up until now. Hope you forgive me.
Love Ma.anda
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