Chapter Two

What Did You Just Say?

Kai's Point of View:

My eyes were wide and my body froze. She's not coming back?

"What do you mean she's not coming back?" Zane asked.

The angels refused to make eye contact and hesitated to answer until finally, someone spoke up.

"She was too weak…." Amari explained, "She lost a huge percentage of her powers so you guys could be set free."

"And when we banished Dimitri to the Unknown, the last of her powers disintegrated back to Paradise; where she's supposed to stay until she regenerates again," Rachel added.

"How long is that supposed to take?" Lloyd asked.

"Some angels regenerate quicker than others," Megan stated, "But Blaire is one of General's most important angels. He could keep her there for— God knows how long!"

I was in shock, I literally had no words.

"We're sorry, Kai," Amari said softly.

Hairs on the back of my arms and neck suddenly stood up as my cheeks began to burn slightly.

"Dude, you okay?" Cole asked.

For a moment I refused to respond, "Y—Yeah! I'm just fine. Let's just get back home and talk more about….this."

Ignoring the emotions running through my head, I turned around and started to head back to my blade cycle. It was depressing. Thinking that someone you cared about wasn't coming back to see you one last time.

"I can't jump to conclusions," I say as I slip my helmet on. "She did say that some angels regenerate faster than others."

The engine revs up and I take off, but I can't help but keep my thoughts locked on the same subject. It was like it was glued onto my brain, on complete lockdown. This was someone that I cared so much about. Someone that I had gotten incredibly close to, and one who risked everything to help others. And look at me, a selfish jerk with nothing to think about but the past. How could I have let this happen? If I had done something when I had the chance, Blaire would have been here right now.

"Face it, Kai," I say out loud, "Even if you did do something, it wouldn't have helped or changed anything." And though this was a very bad and emotional situation for me, the worst was just about to come.

It happened too quick. The whole thing was up in flames and was rapidly getting extremely hot. I couldn't move at all, and I knew for sure that I had at least a couple broken bones.

I moaned in pain, "Ah…man." My vision grew blurrier by the second as a ringing noise started to pound constantly through my ears. Pain was coursing through my side, I couldn't move at all. And just when things seemed like nothing could make this situation worse, a branch from the tree broke. It was black as night, clearly partly turned to ash, and heading straight for me.

Well, I guess this was it; death by a flaming tree branch. At least that's what a thought until something incredible happened.

It was like something huge had come up on me and taken me by surprise. With an incredible strange, they, or it, pulled me out of the way with such force just before the flaming branch hit me. I was in surprise; curious as to who or what had just saved me. It couldn't possibly have been anybody from the team.

"Oh my god! Kai!" someone's voice filters through. Yet before I was able to see who it was, the natural system took its course and slowly but surely, my vision suddenly began to diminish in a bright white light.

"Mind telling me where I am?" I asked.

"Mind telling me what you're doing with a broken leg?" she responded.

I rolled my eyes, "Who are you? Why did you bring us here?"

She smiled and said, "You guys blacked out while fighting that dragon, so I decided to help!"

"Thanks, but I'm pretty sure we could've handled it."

"Oh, yeah, you handled it pretty well. I liked that maneuver you used; getting beaten up by a dragon and letting him get away, very clever."

"Whatever, can you at least tell me your name?" She grinned under mask.

"Blaire." She said as she removed her mask, "My name is Blaire."

Amari's Point of View:

"Oh my fudge, he's dead!" I yelled.

"Amari, shut up. He's not dead!" Rachel responded.

"He does look like crap," I pointed out.

"Really man? He almost died and you're saying that?" Cole said.

"Hey, you can't kill what goes on up there."

Yeah, this was short. I ran out of ideas. -_- I'll think of something better next Monday. Bye! :)