Sorry that it took so long to get this posted, this in my oppinion is a long chapter which took me a while to type up. But it was worthwhile in the end because I finally get to post it...

Note to people: The title of the chapter has nothing to do with the contents so enjoy

Chapter 9: Back to life...

Chazz was speechless.

He, for one couldn't say anything and even if he could, what would he say. It was the moments as there lips touched; he knew that his heart had skipped a beat. He felt the blood rushing to his cheeks and he knew that his face was going beet red. He let his eyes close and he let his arms wrap around her thin fragile body. It seemed like forever until she broke it and fell back. She seemed to realize what she had done and began to blush furiously.

"I'm sorry," she said, she didn't know why she was apologizing, she just kissed him… Alexis' face turned beat red once again. She didn't know why she did it. 'Why did I kiss Chazz, I mean we are friends, right?' She thought, it was so confusing, she really liked Chazz, but did Chazz have the same feelings for her. After all she was causing him so much pain.

"Let's get back to the academy, all right?" Chazz said, getting up slowly, he staggered and fell toward Alexis. She grabbed him before falling backwards. He landed on top of her and there faces were inches away. They both began to blush furiously. Chazz got off of her, stuttering a quick "sorry" then turned toward the academy, after helping her stand up. Alexis put his arm over her shoulder and helped him walk toward the academy.

"Well ain't this a cozy picture to see?" A voice said behind him. The two teenagers knew who it was without having to turn around.

"What do you want Slade?" Chazz asked silently, it was not a good position to be in for his point of view, he could hardly move and it took too much energy to talk at the moment. All he wanted to do was to collapse onto a soft bed and rest without worry, but it was sure going to be along time before that was to happen. Chazz sighed heavily and faced his brothers. It surprised him and not in a good way, just turning around and looking at his brothers and he was already out of breath.

"So what the hell are you doing here?" Chazz asked his brother knew that they had better not come into the daylight or security (Who had been given the orders) was to arrest them. Then again, this was a forest…

"What do you expect?" Slade said, he was amused, it was so predictable. Chazz said nothing and stared at the forest ground, hell, he knew the answer. He smirked; hell probably feels so much like this.

The boy turned around and faced the older man. He face remained unchanged. Alexis stayed behind him, his smirked disappeared. "We made a deal, remember? You are not to touch Alexis." Chazz said silently, hell did feel like this.

"Now, now Slade we won't try anything too rash," Jagger spoke behind him, Chazz looked at him.

'Scratch all the previous thoughts, this is hell'.

"Are you going to keep your deal or not?" Chazz asked it was almost like an order for them to keep it. He didn't want to fight at the moment since he was still injured from the night's brutal beatings. Yet, he was being given no choice in the process; he was going to have to fight.

"We're thinking about it, I need to say, what would be more enjoyable, beating the shit out of you, or having fun with your little girlfriend?" Slade said, the amusement in his voice was easily noticed. Not to mention, his question seemed more of a one-sided statement. Chazz wasn't happy with the side it was leaning toward. He grabbed Alexis' hand for no reason, he wasn't going to run away, so why?

"So, are you going to pick which one, or you going to leave me in suspense?" Chazz asked, stretching the suspense and adding a somewhat sarcastic tinge to it, yet Slade and Jagger just seemed to have no change in emotion. In fact, Chazz could have sworn it just made them even more excited. Well excited wasn't the word for it, more like psyched up or whatever that meant. "Well." It was really annoying; they just didn't say a thing, though Chazz knew that they were laughing hysterically inside. 'Screw that, hysterically actually make them sound human, which they are definitely not. It's more like psychotically'.

"Oh well, we'll leave you in your so-called suspense, and you'll be more then shocked at the outcome." Jagger informed Chazz, making the line sound so ironic. Chazz looked at him, trying to figure what he meant.

"Oh the irony." A sarcastic remark by Chazz. Jagger seemed to only smirk.

"Now Chazz, sarcasm won't get you out of this mess." He told the younger boy, who just edged towards the forest, if he could get over there with Alexis and hide in the bushes for a few minutes and they just might be safe. His brothers obviously saw that he was backing away from them, slowly pushing Alexis back. He wasn't far enough away though.

"Chazz, don't think you are going to be running away like this right when we are having a conversation." Slade said, Chazz cursed under his breath. They caught him. Maybe he could get away at this distance, but it wouldn't work if he was careless. If he was careless then it would be all over.

Jagger stepped forward toward them. Chazz grabbed Alexis' hand and stepped back about two feet. The sudden movement caused a ripping sensation to erupt in Chazz's chest.

"Ngh…"

"Chazz!!" Alexis cried, as the boy clutched the wound, blood dripped down his hand. He still had a grip on her hand. This little scene made Slade and Jagger lower there guard. Would he really try to escape with blood seeping threw his shirt?

It was now he had to move.

In one quick movement, he was carrying Alexis in his arms and running threw the forest as fast as he could carry her. His arm gave huge ache, like it was ripping a part, but he did his best to ignore it. After all he needed to get as far away as possible, and he was tiring quickly.

Footsteps behind him told that Slade and Jagger were pursuing him carefully. Chazz ran even faster then his body would let him. He approached a ledge and jumped underneath it quickly. Alexis held onto him gently and he placed her down and collapsed down next to her. Here they were under a ledge in the middle of no where basically. What an anti-climatic turn of events. At least the ground under the ledge was smooth and not rocky.

Chazz grabbed his arm; it was aching murderously, like a knife was stabbing at it for fun. But it didn't seem to faze the boy. He sighed deeply and tried to get up, falling back after stumbling. 'Well,' he thought, 'At least we lost Jagger and Slade.' He laid at that spot and tried to keep his eyes open.

"Chazz, if you're tired, you should get some rest." Alexis said Chazz shook his head; it would be too risky if they fell asleep. If they were asleep and his brothers found them, they would be, at that point, about defenseless. Then… he shook the thought out of his mind. No matter what he wouldn't let that happen.

The cost was clear… so was it safe to try to get out now? No, just a few more minutes, if he waited a few more minutes then it would be safe. It was about twenty minutes later when he felt Alexis lying down next to him, resting her head against him. His face flushed as he felt her body lean against his. He looked at her, wondering if she was cold or something. She lay there, sleeping.

"…"

There was nothing to say, she slept silently against him, as if all of this crap wasn't happening. Chazz smirked; he was starting to envy her, at how she could sleep so peacefully like nothing was going on.

'It was stupid', he was lying down next to her, his hand wrapping around hers. 'Hiding like this is getting us nowhere'. A smirk appeared on his face, they were trapped. There was no place to go if his brothers were only going to catch them. 'There's nowhere to go, they know where we are.' He was laughing; it finally caught up to him. "Are you just going to keep standing there, or are you going to came out?" He lifted his head and looked toward the trees. "Slade, Jagger, I'm talking to you."

"Well, you don't seem as stupid as you sound Chazz." Slade emerged from the trees that were to the right of the ledge. Jagger emerged from the trees on the opposite side. Chazz knew it, they had been watching the whole time.

Slade walked up to him, his gun in plain sight, reflecting in the sunlight. Chazz was guessing that the time was about nine at the moment. A sigh escaped his lips. This wasn't going to go down as easily as he was hoping it was going to. Then again, it never went the way that he wanted.

The gun point rested against Chazz's forehead, he stared straight at it with fearless eyes. "You don't seem to be afraid, any reason why?" Slade asked the boy.

"I've seen that thing and experienced the pain it brings once already, so it doesn't seem to faze me now," Chazz said quietly. Alexis was still sleeping next to him. Chazz stood up slowly, the gun still pressed against his forehead. Jagger stepped toward the sleeping girl. "Leave Alexis alone," it was a command more then anything.

Jagger stopped and smirked at how superior his brother tried to be. There was no contest in the brothers about supremacy. They wanted world domination, Chazz stopped them and foiled their plans, yet he still never told anyone that he used to be apart of it.

"We can do both, can't we?" Slade said, the question confused Chazz for a split second, then he realized what it was, the answer. "Remember this Chazz, we're older, much more powerful, and we could have you dead in a second if we felt like it. Why don't you understand that Chazz, no matter what you do, you can't stop us? We can do whatever we want to your girlfriend and you can't do anything it. Maybe you'll even join us in it."

"NO," Chazz said slapping the gun out of Slade's hand quickly, he picked Alexis up and held her bridal style while running off; he was never going to do something so inhumane. Why would they even suggest something like that???

Two hours later Chazz sat near a lake washing his arm. The wound on it appeared to reopen once again, not to mention he had plenty of other wounds to wash. Alexis had woken up and offered to help which he was thankful for, but declined. She instead kept an eye out for Chazz's brothers a few feet away.

When he finished, they stood and began walking back to the academy. The sky was near dark and they were still walking in the woods. Chazz knew that he needed to get to the abandoned dorms soon, but if his brothers were not going to keep the agreement they made, neither would he. It was risky but at the same time worthless if they weren't going to keep their side of the deal.

It was a lot of crap for him to handle on his own. There was a low humming up in the sky. A light scanned the forest from the sky. It shined down on the two and stuck on their position. It was a helicopter. Chazz guarded his eyes with a bloody sleeve as he tried to see who was in it. He could just about make out the letters "D" and "A" on the side.

Duel Academy.

He sighed as he saw it, but then tensed; this could have been a trap. Alexis noticed his anxiety. "Are you okay Chazz?" She asked, it was the first time they spoke to each other in hours, mainly because they were saving energy for the long trek but mostly because Chazz wasn't in the talking mood.

It was that moment the at least twenty security guards came into sight along the path that they were taking. They all surrounded the two students.

"Damn."

Chazz woke up suddenly, It was morning... 'What?' he thought at first but then remembering, the security guards had taken him to his room and were guarding him and Alexis. Was the voice he heard a dream… No it wasn't, he was sure he heard that voice right when the security guards surrounded him. The tall thin brunette crawled out of bed and entered the bathroom. Ten minutes later as he exited the shower, he looked at himself in the mirror, hardly recognizing who was staring back at him.

His hair was down and he didn't feel like putting it up in that crazy style that he always did. His skin was pale, paler then anything he could describe. It was like a ghost's. He sighed and looked at his hands; it was like they were shaking. Chazz exited the bathroom and went into the bedroom. He grabbed his uniform and put it on emptily. This day was bound to be a drag.

-Later on-

"Chazz, you look awful, haven't you gotten any sleep?" A cheerful as ever Jaden asked him, after shaking him awake. Like a robot, Chazz slapped him away and returned to trying to get some sleep. "Whoa, you're acting like me on most days." His voice was so cheerful, and Chazz was feeling a tinge of anger in his chest, or was it jealousy? He stood up silently and walked swiftly out of the classroom, ignoring all the quiet stares that followed him leaving a puzzled Jaden. "Did I say something bad?" He asked curiously to Chumley, Syrus and Bastion.

((Note, they healed enough to be in class again, Zane however is still recovering.))

Chazz ran down the hallway and outside the building, why the hell did he come to class today? What the hell possessed him to? He entered the dorms and went to his room, collapsing on the bed.

"Comfortable?"

His eyes shot open, who just said that? He looked toward the doorway to see Slade staring at him; he jumped out of bed quickly, not lowering his guard.

"I'm not here to do anything bad Chazz; I'm here to just tell you, you have broken the deal, by not showing up last night, it tells me that you don't care what happens to Alexis." Slade informed him as he stepped toward Chazz.

"And a lot of shit that is!!!" Chazz yelled at the brother.

Slade pulled the gun out of his pocket and pointed it at Chazz

"Ah well, Jagger is taking care of things over there while I take care of you, this is the end Chazz."

-Girls dorms-

Alexis jolted out of bed, why was it now and today that she had to wake up late? She quickly ran into the bathroom and jumped into the shower. About five minutes later she got out and wrapped a towel around her bare body. She went into her room to grab her uniform and get dressed.

It was out of nowhere; a hand reached onto the towel and gave a persistent tug, a voice followed it.

"You won't be needing this, not for what I'm planning to do to you."

((End Chapter))

What'dya think??? What do you think should happen now??? I'm for one am completely lost, but I will get the next chapter up as quickley as possible.