Happy Easter folks!
Slightly depressing chapter, but I enjoyed writing it hope you like!
I do not own Beyblade!
"HOW COULD YOU HAVE BEEN SO STUPID!" Tyson and Ray cringed as Mr Tatibana yelled at them, to say that their actions had been met with displeasure would be an understatement. Everyone was there, watching as they were disciplined. "I have spent so much time ensuring that this organisation and the identities of the people involved are kept secret. With one action you have practically destroyed over 10 years worth of work. I hope your proud of yourselves"
"I'm extremely proud of them!" a voice called out from the crowd,
"Who said that?"
"I did" Mr Tatibana turned to see Kai stand up
"You gave something to say Hiwatari?"
"I'm proud of them and they ought to be proud of themselves." Kai walked forwards and stood beside his team mates "They acted with no thought for their own safety their only concern was for the people in that building, I'm proud to call them my friends."
"And what about the fact that Boris now knows who you all are, he'll go after your loved ones again. He's done it once do you honestly think that he won't do it again?"
"Actually sir I have already thought of that, I have been in touch with the Majestics they will be ensuring the safety of anyone linked to the blade breakers."
"Have you indeed?" Mr Tatibana looked at the young man angrily
"Yes and I have something else to say in the boys defence, if they had not acted when they did Boris would have left and taken Brooklyn with him. Brooklyn has been able to give us information that we needed and without him Boris will not be able to continue with his experiments."
"True" Mr Tatibana grudgingly admitted, he looked over to where Brooklyn sat pale and emaciated. God knows how much longer that boy would have lasted if he had been with Boris any longer. "Still you once again directly disobeyed an order. Two months punishment" and saying that Mr Tatibana spun on his heel and left the room.
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Hilary stood staring out at the garden she was alone at the dojo with Gou everyone else was out a beyblading event and Mariah was home with Lin who had some sort of bug that she really didn't want Gou to catch. Hilary smiled as her son ran around inside the front room arms outstretched pretending to be a plane or a super hero, or a bird she wasn't sure exactly.
Suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw a familiar group of people walk through the garden gate. 'Oh god' Hilary inwardly panicked and slid the door shut so that the Blitzkrieg Boys who had come into the garden couldn't see the young boy.
"Tala Bryan Spencer! What a surprise… um how can I help!"
"We deserve to know what's going on here!" Tala was angry understandably so! He and the others had been trying to get in touch with Kai for ages and each time they called recently different people had answered the phone and the excuses had begun to get muddled.
Hilary sighed as she stood facing Tala "Look I can't tell you where Kai is none of us can, we'd like to explain but we just can't"
"We have been trying to get in touch with him for weeks now and all you keep saying is that he's away!"
"Tala there's a lot more to this than you know" at that moment a crash and a cry was heard from inside the dojo, the door slid open and Gou came running out.
"Mummy!" the boy wailed as he ran to his mother and threw his arms around her legs.
Hilary groaned as she dropped to her knees and picked up her son "Gou honey, this isn't a good time" she looked at Tala Bryan and Spencer they all had matching looks of astonishment on their faces.
Tala blinked as he looked at the young toddler in Hilary's arms, the boy stared back at him coldly. Tala couldn't believe his eyes, there was no question as to whose kid that was!
"Hilary!" Bryan was the first to catch his breath "is that…? He looks like…"
"Kai" Hilary finished for him smiling slyly, "he ought to!"
"No way!" Tala looked at the child amazed "so… This still doesn't explain why Kai isn't around or why he hasn't been in touch!"
"No it doesn't" Hilary looked at them all "well you know one big secret I guess I can trust you with the rest! Lets go inside"
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An ominous black van was parked in the street, inside the van sat two men and a wealth of hi-tech equipment. The men wore dark suits and had short close cropped black hair, they listened eagerly as Hilary told the Blitzkrieg Boys everything.
"So Hiwatari has a son" one of them men smirked evilly "this will please Boris immensely"
"And maybe give us a real chance to shine" the other man nodded "So do we phone in the good news to the boss now or do we just show up with the prize?"
"I think the effect will be more impressionable if we show up with the kid"
"Lets go!"
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"So that's what Kai's up to, intense!" Spencer smiled as Gou walked over to him curiously "and he doesn't even know about the kid?"
"No I haven't seen him in two years and about eight months" Hilary gave her signature smile "Talk about long distance!"
"I wish we had known" Tala looked over at Hilary "We want Boris punished as much as anyone. We'd do anything to bring him down."
"I know and that's why Kai was so keen to…" A metal canister shot into the room and dropped to the floor emitting a strong smell. "Oh not again" Hilary moaned as she felt the blackness surround her.
"We have to get out of here!" Tala jumped to his feet and tried to pull Bryan up, "Spence Bry get up" Tala felt his senses being assaulted by the gas and soon his body began to fall to the ground. Tala lay facing the ceiling the gas was clearing but it was too late they were all in a bad way none of them were properly conscious. Tala tried to move but found that his body wasn't cooperating with him, he couldn't move a muscle he could only see and hear.
The two men smiled as they picked their way across the floor, neither of them were at all careful in avoiding the bodies in fact Tala could see the smile on the face of the one that kicked him. 'You're gonna pay for that I swear!' Tala watched helplessly as the men picked up Gou and began to make their way out. 'No put the kid down! Leave that kid alone!' Tala's mind went crazy as he watched the men start to leave, he was desperately trying to move but whatever they had been knocked out with was incredibly powerful. None of them were moving Tala felt himself reach the edge of desperation watching the men take Gou and knowing that there was nothing any of them could do.
"Put him down" the voice came from beside Tala where Hilary lay face down on the floor, bit by bit to Tala's amazement the girl began to push herself up. Slowly but surely Hilary got onto her hands and knees, she then pushed herself so that she stood unsteadily facing the kidnappers.
"How the hell is that possible" the man holding Gou stared at the girl amazed "the stuff we used…. she shouldn't be able to move for hours"
"I said PUT HIM DOWN!" Hilary was beginning to look stronger now as she clenched her fists. "NOW!" this last part was screamed by the enraged young girl.
"We aint puttin him down lady, but we're willing to take you with us as well! Such pale skin looks like it's never been cut."
Tala began to get really angry with his arms and legs now, they just wouldn't obey him! How had Hilary managed to move? He hadn't felt this helpless since that coma he had been in, lying there listening when all he wanted to do was jump up and do something!
Hilary laughed softly "You aren't taking either of us, if you try I'll kill you both!"
"What!" the men laughed together
"You kill us?"
"No offence but you wouldn't go that far, your just a kid" Before either men could react Hilary pulled a knife from somewhere about her person and threw it. The man that was holding Gou gasped in shock as his partner dropped to his knees clutching his chest. The man with the knife in his chest slumped onto his side, blood began to pool around him as he took loud painful shuddering breaths.
"Never question how far a mother will go to protect her child, the answer will always be as far as she needs too" Hilary pulled a gun out from under her shirt and aimed it at the man holding her son "NOW PUT HIM DOWN!"
"You won't shoot, you might hit him!" The man smirked, and pulling a gun from behind his own back and pointed it at the girl.
Out of the corner of his eye Tala could see someone come to the door, he watched as the man carefully assessed the situation. 'Do something, please do something' Tala silently begged, finally the newcomer made his way into the dojo and silently edged his way around the room.
Hilary dropped to her knees the gas they had used was affecting her, she felt tired and so ready to collapse. Gou needed her though and she had never yet let her son down!
"Stupid girl" the man dropped his gun allowing it to point at the floor "so much for that as far as she needs to!"
'NOW NOW DO IT NOW' Tala felt so useless this was the chance, if the man was tackled now no one would get hurt.
Hilary watched shocked as out of nowhere a man she recognised tackled the captor and Gou began to fall to the floor. Throwing herself forward Hilary was just in time to catch the boy as he crashed toward the hard wooden floor. Gasping Hilary slapped her sons unconscious face trying to elicit some sort of a response trying to wake him up. Looking up Hilary blinked at what she saw,
"Jim!" her almost stepfather was fighting with the hostage taker,
"Get out of here Hilary, take Gou and get out!"
The Majestics climbed out of their car and looked around
"The Granger dojo, seems kind of quiet" Robert looked down the street he could see one of Boris' signature black vans parked by the pavement. "Gentlemen, I think we may have a problem!"
They stood uncertain for a moment, it was the sound of a gunshot that finally spurred them into action. Running in they saw a terrible sight, three bodies lay on the floor out cold. Hilary knelt on the floor holding a small boy tight, shaking him slightly trying to wake him. Two men stood entangled with each other, slowly one of them began to drop to his knees sliding down the body of the other.
Jim pulled himself away from the man he had been fighting with, he watched as he fell to the ground a bloody mess. The gun dropped to the floor beside them, he stared Hilary a tired look in his eyes.
"Hilary, are you alright?" She looked up and smiled at him not seeming to notice the bloodstains on his clothes, then she said something he had never had said to him before.
"Dad?" Jim pulled her to her feet she still had Gou in her arms
"It's going to be alright!" he hugged her protectively as he looked at the newcomers, "Who are they?"
"The Majestics!" Hilary recognised the group immediately "It's alright dad they're friends"
"Oh well you never know with you!" he smiled at the Majestics "Hello I'm James Horton"
"Hello I'm Robert and this is…" Robert was cut short as the man that Hilary had thrown a knife at suddenly jumped up, roaring he grabbed the gun that had been left on the floor and aimed it at Hilary.
"BITCH" the man shouted and pulled the trigger, Hilary was frozen as she stared down the barrel of the gun, she had no chance to do anything.
Suddenly Jim was in front of her shielding her body with his. He hissed with pain as three bullets penetrated his skin and lodged inside his body. The man holding the gun dropped to the floor again. Johnny ran forward and kicked the gun across the room he then checked the would be attacker for a pulse.
"He's dead!" Johnny announced looking at the man Jim had shot "So's this one!"
Oliver ran around the Blitzkrieg Boys "They're alive but seriously out of it!"
'Well duh' Tala thought to himself as he watched the green haired boy bend over him.
Enrique pulled a phone from his pocket and requested an ambulance, Robert ran forward holding Jim, helping him down as he fell to the ground. Hilary lay Gou on the floor and leant over Jim as he gasped for breath.
"Jim? Dad come on!" Hilary looked into the mans eyes "Don't leave me, I need you, your all I've got"
"No I'm not" Jim wheezed and he lifted his hand to gently cup her face "Hilary, you have amazing friends and a father and brother and Gou's father." he smiled as his thumb brushed on her soft skin. "You should never ask how far a father is willing to go to protect his daughter!" Hilary smiled as she remembered her own words from earlier
"Will the answer be as far as he needs to?" she gave a watery giggle,
"Always!" Jim gave a throaty cough as he said this, blood started pouring from his mouth.
"Please don't die Jim, I love you so much. I wish you were my father"
"Hilary, you were the best daughter a man could ask for I love you too" Jim began to struggle with his breathing choking on the blood in his mouth he gave her one last smile and then the hand holding her face dropped. He was gone.
"No! Please dad, come back to me!" Hilary threw herself over the man crying, great painful sobs wracked her body and she gave herself entirely over to her grief.
Robert bent down to pull her away, Hilary pulled away from him slapping his hands away.
"Leave me alone" she screamed "Just leave me alone!" she grabbed Jims hand and wouldn't let go. Robert felt helpless he looked at the child lying by Hilary side, he was still unconscious.
"We have to get that boy and the others to a hospital" Hilary's head snapped up as she remembered Gou lying beside her, Robert could see the pain in her eyes but she nodded silently agreeing with him.
"Sorry I slapped you" she muttered and then collapsed in his arms.
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"I don't get it" Tala looked at Robert they were both watching as Hilary sat on the edge of her sons bed, he was awake now and didn't seem to have been in any way affected by the experience.
"Don't get what?" Robert looked at the redhead surprised
"That stuff they knocked us out with, I couldn't move. I'm stronger than Hilary how come she didn't seem effected?"
"That puzzled me as well" Bryan and Spencer stood behind them now with the rest of the Majestics,
"Good to see you two finally out of bed"
"It's not our fault the nurses in this place are so damned strict" Spencer was looking angry,
"How's the kid?" Bryan looked into the room where Gou sat playing with his mother.
"He'll be fine" Tala smiled at his friends concern "but I still don't get how Hilary held out as long as she did"
"Well I think it's simple" Everyone turned to stare at Oliver
"How is it simple?" Enrique asked his team mate
"Look I don't know much about it all but, well you hear stories don't you?"
"Stories about what?" Tala was confused first the guy said it was simple then he didn't explain it!
"Well there's one about a woman who's child is kidnapped and taken over the mountains by an enemy village, the strongest men in her village try to scale the mountain but have real trouble with it. They know they will never make it across the mountain, just as they are about to give up they see the woman coming down the mountain towards them with her child! The men ask her how she had climbed the mountain when they had found it impossible she just tells them 'It wasn't your child'!"
They all still looked confused so Oliver continued "Look the bond between a mother and child is special, a lot of us here have never been lucky enough to experience it but that bond is powerful. That boy in there has a mother who would climb a mountain or swim an ocean for him. That's why Hilary could do what she did, the knowledge that her child was in danger gave her a strength she didn't know she had, she will never let that boy suffer!"
Please R&R