Chapter 8 The torrent

Sally sighed deaply, the girl was once again hiding on the roof after yet another argument with Kai. Sally was confused to weather he actually liked her or not. "meeeiooow" purred a small voice next to her. "Heya ash" the red head said rubbing the smokey grey cat's fluffy head, here was one of the ways Kai showed he cared, Sally wore some of the others. Her clothes were all gifts from not only the Russian boy but his sister and his friends.

Ash rubbed his head against the girls purring loudly, sally smiled "what did I do to deserve all this?" she wondered out loud. As just mewed back up at her as the girl ran her fingers through his soft grey fur. As Sally fussed over the attention demanding moggy, the girl began to drift off. The sun was warm on her body and she felt very comfortable. Sally wriggled back against the wall, tucking her legs against her chest and resting her head on her knees, slowly Sally's blue eyes closed.

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Kai growled and cursed himself mentally for getting watch duty with Tala, the red head was taking about the same thing over and over again and that thing was Jade. Jade this, jade that, jade so funny. It was driving Kai mad but finally after what seemed like an age the boy stopped talking and just walked silently beside him. Watch duty involve scouting around not only the house but around the block off homes nearby, looking out for any sign of trouble and today thankfully the was none, however as Kai began to relax his partner stared talking once more.

"So anyway Kai, I've been looking into your girl friends past... "Tala began and stopped as Kai turned to him, purple eyes ablaze. "I told you not to interfere" the taller boy growled, Tala gasped at his friends sudden aggressiveness and took a step back. "I didn't mean anything by it Kai, I just wanted to see if we could find her family she must have someone out there" the boy said waving his hands in defence.

Kai continued to glare and walked ahead of the boy. He wasn't sure way he felt so mad at his friend but he did nevertheless. As far as he was concerned Sally didn't need any family because she had him now and he didn't plan on kicking her out anytime soon.

"Kai, Kai wait" Tala panted as he tried to catch up. "kai really didn't mean anything by it and besides I couldn't trace her anyway....its weird she doesn't even know her last name and I defiantly recognise her from somewhere" he added grabbing Kai's arm and pulling him to a stop. The older boy blinked down at him and raised an blue eyebrow. "Like where?" he grunted, Tala merely shruge back. "Not sure but I swear I've seen her before we found her with you" he said, wishing he could remember where but as he tried his memory just drew a blank.

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Green, everything looked green, inside a darkened room, computers buzzed and their blubs lite up in a multicoloured nightmare. This whole place was just that, one big terrifying nightmare. Inside a glass tube filled with a greenish liquid was a small girl, barley even six. Her long red and black hair swirled in the water behind her, her eyes were screwed. There were wires pierced into her body, her wrist, her ankles, her chest and throat.

Pain contorted the child's features and a single tear glimmered in the corner of her eye, poor Sally. This is what often happened in this town, children who had no home were given to Biovalt and done with how they please. The boys all were trained into warriors, those barstards didn't have it nearly as hard as they thought. Sally had heard them complaining about their training. They had no idea of what was in store for them; the training was only half of it. Soon some of them would be like her, an experiment. These sick, demented men were trying to create the ultimate soldiers and they were testing the technology on a group of smaller children, the weakest of the weak.

Sally was one of the only survivors, they hadn't believed in her but she had pulled through, she had made it but that wasn't really a good thing. Life in a tube was dull, you saw very little, you heard the same shit every day and worst of all were the needled and the stinging green goo. Inside the tube Sally sighed and bubbled rose out of her mouth piece as someone knocked on the galss, with a muffled grunt the child managed to open her eyes.

Blue locked on to blue, a little boy perhaps a year or more older than her stared up at Sally. "Sally how did you get in there?" the boy red head said. Sally smiled down at the boy, who stood leaning on the cold glass and chewing his nails, he was her brother the only person who cared. He came to see her whenever he could get away. The girl waved a frail arm at her big brother and he waved back and the two shared a smile.

"His through here" came a yell and Sally froze, her brother glanced at her before turning to run but large, powerful hands seized him and he was stripped down to his under where and forced towards his own tube but as he past the boy thumped on Sally's own prison hitting the release button. Sally ripped of the mask and gasped at the air as the foul water drained from around her.

The girl watched the men tackling her brother, he had saved her and now she had to save him., her limbs seemed to have a new found strength no doubt because of the experiments and she knew she could fight better than before. Sally looked around and spotted a purple beyblade, with a blue centre. The girl didn't hesitated she picked it up and launched, she had no idea of her own power.

What followed were two massive explosions, one caused by a torrent of water cascading through the dungeons destroying everything in its path. The other came from the other end of the building and was caused by a massive ball of fire. The two elements left little more than rubble, Sally gasped in horror and didn't hang around to see who had caused the second explosion and with her brother nowhere in sight the girl ran off with the belief that she had killed him.

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Kayla stepped through the door and on to the roof, it was late now and under Kai's orders she had been instructed to bring sally indoors before she caught cold. The bluenett puffed a lock of hair out her eyes, sometimes her brothers' bossy nature annoyed her, if he wanted sally he should get her himself. So far Kayla's plans in stringing the two tighter weren't going so well, the boy was impossible to manipulate and as for the girl well she was up here all the time and what good did that do?

"meow!" ash purred as he past the girl and Kayla smiled as he disappeared in doors, if it was dark enough or him to go inside sally would follow pretty easily. The girl rounded the corner to the red heads hiding place. Sally was curled up in a tight ball fast asleep, as Kayla neared she saw the girl was twitching and frowning, the girl knew those signs anyone who lived at the Abby did. Sally was having a bad dream. Kayla ran forward and shock Sally gently at the shoulder, calling her name. In her experience it was the best way to wake someone up, calmly.

Sally's blue eyes flashed open and came back to the present, she looked up at her friend and before Kayla could ask, sally blurted out "I don't wanna talk about it". Kai's sister blinked down at her then nodded "ok... but you need to come inside ok?" she said, pulling on the sleeve of sally's hooddie. The red head let the girl help her to pull her to her feet, then she pulled away to whip the few tears that gathered in the corners of her eyes, she didn't like to cry in front of anyone.

The memories flashed in her mind and the girl quickly pushed them back, blocking them from her thoughts. Sally didn't want to remember anything from that point of her life. The Abby had left her with amazing strength and speed but that was what it had given all the best "student", however it also left those children scared and haunted for the rest of their life's. As far as Sally was concerned Kayla wouldn't understand.

Kayla smiled at sally, they stood at roughly the same height now and the girl noted how Kai-like sally could be sometimes. Once again she reached out and tugged on Sally's sleeve, leading her back indoors. The girl became even more convinced that sally and Kai would be a great couple; they could help each other open up.

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Ray and Kai sat watching Tala and jade play fight, at the current moment the boy had the girl pinned beneath him and looked pretty smug about it. "Ha ha I win" he chanted. Jade pouted up at him "no fair" she whined. Tala smirked down at her "Well what did you expect?, you're a girl after all boys are always way stronger than girls" he said, smugness radiating of his fat head.

Ray and Kai both flinched as they watched Jade pick Tala up over her shoulders and throw him back on the floor. The girl then proceeded by on knelling on his back and getting him in a head lock, she ruffled his hair hard with her knuckles and the boy yelped like a injured puppy. "Tala whims liked a six year old girl" Ray laughed, showing his pointed teeth. Kai smirked; the neko-gin had just walked right into it.

"What did you just say?" Jade bellowed down Ray's sensitive, cat-like ears. "Yeow!" the boy cried and leapt back, Kai continued to smirk as his friends raven black hair stood up on end. "And you call Sally aggressive" Kai stated to Tala, who looked back with a grin. "Yeah, but Jades just playing, Sally means it and Jade is cuter than your girlfriend too" he teased, Kai frowned he didn't agree and then he glared, anime veins above his head. "I told you before she's not my..." the duo locked boy stopped as Kayla came in followed by Sally, the girl looked like she had been crying again.

Kayla smiled and tugged Sally over to her brother, forcing them to sit together. The two did so but their awkward body language annoyed the girl, Sally sat sniffing quietly and avoiding eye contact it was obvious she wanted to run and as for Kai, he sat arms over chest, his purple eyes looking up at her rather than the red head. Kayla sighed and then smiled sweetly at her brother "Sally is sad, now cheer her up" she said patting Kai's head playfully before walking off to save Ray from Jade as she and Tala had the neko-gin trapped and were intent on playing hairdressers with him.

Kai blinked and shifted his weight around, his eyes flicked to Sally's form. "Im not very good at cheering people up" he grunted to her. "That's ok, you don't have to I'm fine" Sally said behind a veil of red and black locks. "You don't sound it" Kai said pulling the girls hair over behind her ear. Sally blushed at the gentle touch and turned to Kai. "Really Kai I'm ok...I just..I don't feel like talking about it" she mumbled as the boys purple eyes fixed on her blue orbs. Kai shrugged "ok, if that's what you want" he said. Sally smiled back weakly, glad that he didn't want to press her into talking, she could never tell him, never. The girl swallowed and edged a little closer to the boy, so her body lent on his. Kai didn't protest, nor did he when she rested her head on his shoulder. Sally sighed and closed her eyes, enjoying the ever increasing bond between her and the boy.

Over in the corner Kayla sat with Ray, after successfully chasing off the terrible twosome that was Tala and jade. As Kayla watched Sally snuggle closer to her brother, she was Kai stiffen then relax. The boy made no effort to return the affection but he didn't push her away either, which was a start at least. The girl grinned and turned to Ray and was surprised to find that his amber eyes were fixed not on them but on her.

The neko-gin watched as Kayla blushed, he went a little pink to at being caught so he looked away. "I think were heading in the right direction, with a little work they will make quite the couple" Ray mumbled as he saw Kai and Sally's position, he had no idea how they got like that but it seemed like a good way to change the subject. "Yeah a few more pushes and they'll be...." Kayla trailed of as Ray looked back at her. The two stared at each other and a flush crept up both their faces as they both struggle to hold back what they wanted to say.

"I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING I FORGOT" "YEAH ME TOO" came two loud voices, and Ray and Kayla darted out the room in opposite directions. Sally blinked after them sleepily while Kai's eyes narrowed suspiciously. Those two bugged him when they were together. "Dame cat" the boy muttered with a glare. "I think they're cute" Sally mumbled with a yawn. Kai frowned at her as she cuddled closer against his shoulder and began to snooze lightly, the boy could feel the tinge across his cheeks and was glad that the girls eyes were closed, however despite his embarrassment he rather liked this position, though he wouldn't admit that to anyone.

Ta da another chappie done, this one goes into Sally's past. She has blocked most of it out completely and won't remember her brother properly for some time but you can probably guess who he is XD anywho the second explosion in the Abby was caused by Kai using black Dranzer mwa ha ha ha I tided it into the anime, the tow haven't realised that they destroyed that place, it was the first thing they did together lol.