Thanks again for the reviews!
I know the whole power of a mothers love thing was sappy but I really liked having Hilary getting tough while the Blitzkrieg boys are out cold!
Only a few chapters left to do, I may even finish another one tonight!
I do not own Beyblade
Kai sat on an uncomfortable chair in a long corridor, beside him his team mates. They had been sitting around for sometime waiting to hear back from the Majestics. Tyson yawned sleepily and his head settled drowsily on Kai's shoulder. Kai frowned and was about to whack him when he remembered that Tyson had spent all of last night by Brooklyn's side so he hadn't slept in roughly 48 hours. Sighing Kai let Tyson sleep.
"That's some tasty Ramen" Tyson mumbled chewing on Kai's hair. Kai clenched his fists 'just let him sleep he needs his sleep' he reminded himself over and over again. It wasn't until Tyson hugged his arm mumbling "I love you too sweetheart, want to come back to my place?" that Kai felt himself lose all patience.
Luckily for Tyson at that moment Jordan came out of the communication centre to talk to them. Kai jumped up waking Tyson. "Is Hilary OK?" Kai held his breath as he waited for the answer.
"Yes, Hilary's fine, no thanks to those two" Jordan gave Ray and Tyson a dark look.
"What about Mariah"
"And Grandpa"
"My parents?"
"Look everyone's fine!" Jordan sighed impatiently "The Majestics have Hilary and Mariah and Emily they are going to take them somewhere safe. Max your parents, Daichi and Tyson's Grandfather are staying in a safe place in America. The White Tiger X team and PPB All Starz have gone to China. Mr Dickenson and Kenny's and Tyson's parents are refusing to go into hiding but we have placed people with them to watch them"
"Sounds like a lot of work" Ray felt bad, this was all his fault really,
"It was..., oh and for some reason the Blitzkrieg Boys are with the Majestics"
"They are?" Kai looked up surprised
"Yes apparently they know everything" Jordan sounded angry about this "my idiot sister thought it was OK to tell them"
"Are they coming here, to help us?" Ray jumped in before Kai could do Jordan some damage over that 'idiot sister' comment.
"No, Robert is hoping that they will stay with the girls to keep an eye on them"
"I'm not sure who will hate that more the Blitzkrieg Boys having to baby-sit or Hilary being baby-sat?" Kai grinned to himself
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"Here we are!" Robert carefully steered his airship to the ground. They had arrived at his castle. He watched amused as Hilary Emily and Mariah stared out in wonder at the view.
"This is your home?" Hilary looked over at the boy surprised
"My family home, we have had it for centuries!"
"When you said you were taking us somewhere safe I had no idea it would be somewhere like this!" Mariah smiled as she followed Robert out of the ship and into the castle.
Tala looked around impressed, Kai had once told him about the blade breakers meeting with the Majestics and where they lived, but this place defied imagination. There were so many rooms all richly decorated. Bryan and Spencer were looking around with similar looks of amazement on their faces.
"Tala?" Tala turned to look at Robert who was holding Lin in his arms,
"Yeah?"
"I'm going to show the girls to their rooms so they can unpack, I want you and the others to follow Oliver to the kitchen, we need to talk." Robert turned to escort the girls away, Hilary walked over to Jonny who was carrying Gou and pulled her son into her arms and adjusted his weight so that he was resting on her hip. She looked at Tala and smiled
"Can I have my case?" Tala looked down surprised, he had forgotten that he had taken Hilarys bag from her, he passed her the holdall.
"Are you sure you can mange? It's pretty heavy"
"I always manage" Hilary smiled and carrying her son and her bag she followed Robert.
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The Majestics and the Blitzkrieg Boys sat around the dining room table eating chips (French fries).
"Well?" Tala looked at Robert
"Well what?" Robert answered
"Well what happens now? We want to help with what your doing." Robert sighed, he had known that this was coming from the moment he had explained everything to the boys.
"Tala while we would appreciate your help it wouldn't be any use right now!"
"What the hells that supposed to mean?" Bryan jumped up angry
"It means that we plan to have finished our work stopping Boris and his work in the next couple of months or so. The training programme that you would need to go through would take at least five months there'd be no point in you doing it."
"We have to do something!" Spencer yelled
"There is something you can do."
"What?" Tala asked suspiciously
"The girls are staying here they'll be needing some protection"
"I am not babysitting" Spencer snorted
"That's not all, look it turns out that Brooklyn was being held by Boris, experimented on."
"Is he alright?"
"We don't know yet, but we need some people to help him, people who have been under Boris' control. You boys could really help him right now" Oliver looked at the Blitzkrieg Boys
"We're going to try and get in touch with Garland or Crusher but it would probably ease Kai's nerves to know that your looking after Hilary"
"Who says Hilary needs looking after?" they turned, they had not noticed Hilary enter the room.
"Hilary!" Robert stood there weren't any spare chairs so he offered her his own "Sit down"
"I'd rather stand"
Robert pushed the chair towards her "You really ought to sit"
"If I sit you'll have to stand, I can stand just as well you!"
"Hilary, please sit down" Tala looked at the two of them, they were both as determined as each other "he's gone all Sir Walter Raleigh and won't talk until he's done the gentlemanly thing" Hilary grinned at the Russian and sat down in Roberts chair. Robert walked over to the counter and leant back,
"Now who thinks Hilary needs looking after?" she gave them a dark look that Kai would have been proud of.
"Not me" Enrique said wanting to live,
"Don't be a wimp Enrique" Oliver looked at his team mate despairingly
"What? That girl has a temper don't tell me you haven't ever heard about it? I think everyone's heard about it" Hilary smiled to herself it amused her that men who claimed to be tough could be scared of her.
"I think there are a few people on Easter Island who don't know about of it" Tala quipped
"Hilary you just lost your stepfather, if he hadn't shown up Gou might be in Boris' clutches right now. We don't even know if those men told Boris about him, if Boris knows Kai has a son he will stop at nothing to get him" Johnny could tell he was getting through to Hilary her son was the most important thing in her life, she would do anything to protect him. Hilary was looking down at her hands nodding as he said all this.
Tala remembered the cry of pain she had given when she had lost Jim, she was tough but Robert was right she needed watching. Tala made a decision. "Hilary the Blitzkrieg Boys are going to stay here to help you look after Gou" Tala looked at his team mates who nodded in agreement.
"Tala's right we'll protect you all" Spencer smiled at her "if that's what you want."
"I guess I can live with it" Hilary smiled at them "but what about the Majestics? Where are you guys going?"
"We'll be going back to the main base to work with your father and friends" Oliver explained
"You can't tell them about Gou or Lin, you know that right?" Hilary stared at the team worried.
"Are you sure that you don't want them to know?" Hilary sat for a while thinking
"I need to talk to Mariah about it, but we both agreed some time ago that we didn't want them to know until all this was over."
"I understand" Robert nodded "I give you my word as a gentleman they shall not be told."
"Thank you"
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"Is there anything else you can tell us?" Jordan asked, he looked over to where Tyson and Kai sat with Brooklyn
"Jordan he's tired, can't we finish this tomorrow?" Tyson looked at the older man annoyed that he didn't seem to have any patience for Brooklyn, or his state of mind."He's already told us Boris' plans for the next few months, I think we probably already know all we need to know"
"Tomorrow the Majestics will be arriving, we will be sending Brooklyn away on their transport. They have arranged a safe place for him to stay."
"What?" Tyson jumped up angrily "how come you didn't tell us this"
"We saw no need to!" Jordan looked at them coldly, Kai snorted at this. Hilary's brother had been treating them all to some very unfriendly treatment recently. Jordan was angry at Tyson and Ray for endangering his sisters life and he was letting it interfere with their work
"Jordan" Kai stood and faced the man "outside, I'd like a word" Kai and Jordan walked out into the corridor,
"Well? What do you want Kai?"
"You have got to stop treating the Blade breakers like dirt, I know how angry you are, I felt the same amount of anger when I thought Hilary was in danger, but that doesn't mean you can act like an asshole"
"I can do as I like" Jordan stared at the boy defiantly
"Not when it causes trouble, not when it means endangering the future of our work here" Kai snarled angrily, "If we had known that Brooklyn was leaving tomorrow we would have got him to tell us more yesterday when nothing was happening"
Jordan and Kai spent some time staring each other down, Jordan was the first to break the stare and he dropped his gaze to the floor. Jordan had been getting jealous of Kai recently, Kai was well respected at the base, most of the men were more willing to work with Kai than they were with Jordan. Kai was known as a fair and good leader, he always kept an eye on his men he never took praise for himself, he never shirked the tough work and never failed to tell his men exactly what was what. Jordan didn't like how popular Kai was becoming, he was the son of the boss, he should be the most admired person here instead people looked to Kai for praise knowing that if Kai congratulated them on a job well done he meant it.
"Jordan, look we all need to work together for this."
Jordan looked at Kai angrily "Tell Brooklyn to be ready in a couple of hours" and saying that Jordan turned and walked away. Kai shook his head sadly watching him go.
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"Tala?" Kai stared, happy to see his old team mate Tala stood talking with the Majestics
"Kai!" Tala turned and made his way over to his friend quickly, the two men hugged each other fiercely "It's good to see you Kai!"
"You too Tala, how've you been?"
"Not bad you?"
"Been better, been worse" Kai shrugged "Wheres Spencer and Bryan?"
"They stayed with Hilary and… the others" 'whew' Tala realised that he had been about to mention Kai's son, it was probably a good thing he would be heading back soon.
"How is Hilary?" Kai tried not to sound too eager as he asked this, he wasn't sure how much Tala knew about him and Hilary.
"She's good" Tala smirked inwardly at Kai's expression "she looks really good as well! I mean she was always pretty but I swear she's gotten hotter recently" Tala watched as Kais fists began to tighten he could barely hold the laughter in
"Stop teasing the man" Oliver had watched the exchange very amused "Kai ignore him"
"Oh come on whats wrong with a little fun?" Tala grinned "Hilary sends her love Kai, she misses you"
Kai's hands relaxed and he smiled grimly at Tala "That wasn't funny, you could have been a dead man if you had continued"
"Like Hilary would look twice at me? Come to think of it though if she likes you she must not have very good taste" Tala winced as Kai punched him painfully "Hey! Not cool"
Kai grinned as his friend rubbed his arm furiously "Sorry!" you could tell Kai didn't mean it,
"Yeah you look real sorry"
Kai decided to get serious for a minute though "Look Tala I do want to thank you, for looking after Hilary I know you'd probably prefer to be doing something more practical but…."
"It's OK Kai" Tala placed a hand on his shoulder "I know she must mean a lot to you if you've actually allowed her to know you care, lets face it your not exactly demonstrative when it comes to feelings. We'll keep an eye on her" Tala saw movement out the corner of his eye turning he saw as Brooklyn walked forward, beside him the blade breakers were helping him to walk. "Hey Brooklyn" Tala walked forward "how you doing?"
"Not bad." Brooklyn looked at Tala distrustfully
"Hey it's OK" Tyson looked at Brooklyn "Tala's gonna take you somewhere safe" Brooklyn nodded but still looked doubtful.
"Brooklyn Tyson's right, I'm going to take you somewhere safe. We're protecting some others and you'll join them"
"Who's we and what others?" Brooklyn still didn't look happy
"We are Brayn Spencer and myself, the others are Mariah Emily and Hilary"
"Hilary?" Brooklyn looked up hopefully "the brunette who hangs out with this lot" he indicated the Blade Breakers
"Yeah, you know her?"
"Yes she stood up for me a year or so ago, some guys were giving me a hard time at the BBA headquarters and she stood up for me. She's nice she understands" Brooklyn nodded at Tala "I'll go with you." Tala smiled
"Good"
"Hey Tala?" Tala looked at Ray "could you tell Mariah that I love her and I'm OK"
"Fine"
"Could you tell Hilary something for me?" everyone looked at Max surprised
"I guess, what is it?"
"Tell her thanks, she'll know what I mean."
"Are you sure she'll be able to decode that cryptic message?" Tyson teased
"Do you know what it's about?"
"Well...no"
"Well she will" Max smiled triumphantly and bidding Brooklyn and Tala goodbye he walked away grinning.
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Spencer and Bryan were waiting up for Tala when he got back with Brooklyn, the two men were welcoming which had surprised Brooklyn but had helped to put him at ease. Tala smiled as he watched Bryan take Brooklyn to his room, they had all experienced Boris' bad side and they had all at one point fought for Boris, the four of them had a lot in common.
Tala walked down the corridor heading to his own bedroom when he heard a noise, turning swiftly he made his way towards the rooms where the girls and the children slept. The noise came from Gou's room he stopped outside of the open door.
"It's OK honey I miss Granddad too" Hilary was sitting on the edge of her sons bed stroking his hair, the boy moved restlessly for a few moments and then lay still. Tala walked away from the door, he wasn't sure why he did what he did next but he hid around the corner so Hilary wouldn't see him. Tala watched as Hilary quietly left her sons room and shut the door, Tala was about to round the corridor to tell Hilary that he and Brooklyn had arrived safely but stopped when he saw her next action.
Hilary shut the door on her son and then leant against it, a wave of grief overcame her and she slowly slid down the door to sit on the floor, bringing her knees up to her chest she rested her arms on her knees and buried her head in to her arms. Great sobs wracked her body as she cried for Jim the man to whom she owed her life, she cried for Kai wishing she could see him, she cried for Max hoping he was well, she cried for the others the boys that were her family. To her left Hilary heard one of the doors at the end of the hall open she stood quickly and brushed away her tears,
"Hilary?"
"What's up Mariah?" Hilary smiled at her friend
"Nothing I thought I heard…" Mariah shrugged "are you busy Hils?"
"Not really what's up?"
"I just need to talk" Hilary looked at her friend and smiled gently
"Of course Mariah" she pushed her grief down ignoring it until there was a better time and walked towards her friend. Hilary suddenly felt someone's eyes on her back she turned and looked but she didn't see Tala as he hung back barely breathing in his attempt to stay hidden, shrugging Hilary walked into Mariah's room.
Tala let out a breath and watched her go, he walked down the corridor to his own room thinking hard about what he had seen 'Kai and the others better finish what they're doing and get back here soon, one thing I'm sure of is that Hilary can't hold out much longer'
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