Hey guys!

I'm sorry this took so long, I've been busy with coursework and stuff for my exams at school, I just didn't have time. Sorry again :P

Anyway, I wont keep you waiting

Here we go

The morning sun sparked through the windows of the old Granger dojo. It slowly spread across the floor of the gym until it hit a sleeping body on the floor, waking him.

Ray's eyes blinked open, gently, before he lifted his arms above him in a stretch, yawning greatly.

He sat up in his sleeping bag and was instantly hit with memories: "Kai…crash…dead…body lost…Kai…"

Ray felt the tears immediately spring to his eyes, but he forced them back, "I can't cry anymore…' he thought to himself.

Quietly, so not to wake the others, he rose from his make-shift bed and made his way out of the gym, heading for the kitchen.

On the way there, Ray stopped briefly to turn to a simple picture hanging on the wall of the corridor. It was the picture of the BladeBreakers, the whole team, meaning Kai too. One of the only pictures of him smiling, happy.

Ray couldn't help it, a single tear ran down his face as he gazed at the photo.

'Oh Kai' he thought to himself 'I just can't believe you're gone, no matter how much I know you are. Something just keeps telling me you're still out there somewhere…who am I kidding?'

Ray tore his eyes from the photo and carried on down the corridor, towards the kitchen.

He was so wrapped up in his thoughts, that Ray did not hear them at first, but as he got closer to the kitchen he heard voices, having a serious conversation. Concentrating, Ray could tell that one voice was definitely Grandpa Granger's voice, there was no mistaking it, but the other was unfamiliar, a woman's voice?

As he got closer, he could start to make out what was being said.

"…definitely sure? I mean, you couldn't have just imagined it?" Grandpa Granger.

"I am sure" the woman, "Dranzer glowed and showed me, Dranzer would never lie."

'Dranzer?' Ray thought. Slowly and quietly Ray moved to hide behind the kitchen door, listening intently.

"You must be certain," said Grandpa, abandoning his usual lingo for now, "Do you know what this will all mean to the other BladeBreakers?"

"That is why I am here, Dranzer told me to ask Kai's friends for help."

"Wouldn't the police make more sense?"

"No, I trust Dranzer like I trust Kai, if Dranzer wanted police, she would have asked"

"I suppose you're right. But they are only children after all"

"I know, but I believe they are the best people to turn to, if I want to find Kai."

"What?"

Grandpa Granger and the woman turned to kitchen door. Ray slowly walked from behind the door, his eyes wide and unbelieving.

"Ray.." Grandpa started but was cut off.

"What did you say? Find Kai? What do you mean, find Kai? Find his body?" said the confused boy.

Grandpa sighed, "Ray, this is Selena Manes. She has told me a very incredible story and…"

"Tell me what you meant." Ray demanded, "How are we supposed to find Kai?"

Selena spoke up, "Ray was it?"

"Yes" Ray said stiffly.

"Ray, I have some important information to tell you, but I would prefer it if I could tell you and your friends at the same time. May you please fetch them?"

Ray looked at the woman closely. He could tell she was sincere. And for some reason, he felt comfortable around her. He knew immediately that he should get the others like she said.

"Err…sure"

"Thank you"

With that, Ray turned around and walked out of the kitchen leaving the two behind.

As soon as he left the room, Ray raced down the corridor, He rushed thought the large dojo until he made his way to the gym.

He skidded to a halt and looked at his sleeping friends before putting a hand to his mouth and…

"WAKE UUUUUP!" Ray yelled the loudest he ever had before.

"WHAT IS IT?" yelled out Max as he jumped from his bed, "What happened?"

Hilary and Kenny also sat up, looking equally surprised at being awoken so suddenly.

Can you guess who still slept?

Ray groaned loudly at the still sleeping Tyson.

"We don't have time for this Tyson!" Ray yelled, but the boy still didn't stir.

In a flash, Ray dashed out of the room and was back a second later with a bucket full of water, which he unceremoniously dumped over Tyson's head, bucket and all.

"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!" Tyson screamed, throwing the bucket across the room.

"Get up Tyson!" Ray yelled.

Tyson groaned, "Geez, Ray, who knew you could be so much like Kai…"

At the word Kai, four faces instantly fell, but Ray wouldn't have it.

"There isn't any time for this, all of you get up!"

Hilary frowned, "What's the big hurry Ray?"

"There's a woman talking to Gramps in the kitchen, she has something to tell us all, something about Kai."

They were all immediately on their feet, alert.

"Why didn't you say so, Ray?" asked Tyson and in a flash, Tyson still soaking wet, they dashed out of the gym and down the corridors to the kitchen.

Grandpa Granger and the woman looked up in surprise as the teens raced into the kitchen, all of them in their night clothes and in Tyson's case, wet. They turned to stare at the woman seated at the table.

"Tyson," Grandpa started, "Why are you all…?"

"Couldn't get him up" Ray said simply.

"Oh," Gramps said, that was the only explanation he needed.

Ray then turned to the woman, "We're all here, now talk." he realised this sounded rude but hope she would understand and she seemed to, since she smiled.

"Please, sit down, all of you, this may take a while…"

The teens shuffled into chairs, their eyes never leaving the middle-aged woman.

"Thank you, first of all, as your Grandfather said before to Ray, my name is Selena Manes. And I have come from the Hiwatari mansion where I used to work as one of the maids."

"You worked at Kai's mansion?" asked Tyson.

"Yes, I worked there for many years, I started there not long before Kai was born under its roof."

The others nodded in understanding.

"I worked for his mother and father, Mr. Alexander and Mrs. Leana Hiwatari. But mostly I worked for his Grandfather, Mr. Voltaire Hiwatari."

"Kai never mentioned his parents," Max muttered, but Selena heard him.

"He wouldn't have, shortly after his birth, Alex and Leana met with a horrid accident, they had been invited to a last minute party and a fire started. Many died with them that night."

The others looked shocked but kept quiet. Kai was an orphan?

"Well, they say the fire was an accident, any way, but I was always very suspicious of the while night, but that is against the point of my story.

"For years now, I have been raising Kai, since his parents were no longer around. I did what I could for him, whether he was at the Abbey or not, I assume you all know about Balkov Abbey?"

The group nodded, even Hilary had been told about it after the championships.

"Yes, as you well know, Kai stayed at Balkov Abbey and I would always visit him there, but not long after his tenth birthday, Kai had an accident and lost his memory and was brought back to Hiwatari Mansion. Luckily he remembered me after some time."

Then of course after that he met all of you and went to the world championships with you, but that isn't really what I came to tell you. I came to tell you what really happened to Kai when he got home from the Championships."

All ears were on Selena as she began her story.

"First things first, the limo accident you all have undoubtedly heard is nothing but lies concocted by Voltaire to cover over the truth. He even killed the limo driver to make it seem real.

"No, what really happened was cruel and wrong. Voltaire was fuming over Kai's treachery at the World Championships. He was already planning his revenge before Kai returned home.

"I greeted Kai when he came home but I knew that he was in danger and I had been right. Voltaire returned home the same day, surrounded by his men. Kai had always been a good fighter but even he could not have fought so many."

"What do you mean 'fought'?" asked Kenny

"Voltaire set his men on Kai that night and they rendered him unconscious, I watched from above but if I had tried to help, I would have only made matters worse. I watched terrified as they tied him and wrapped him in a large sack, I thought he was dead already…" tears were in her eyes.

The others listened in horror, was this all true? How could Voltaire truly do this to his Grandson, then lie?

"After that, I had no idea what they did to him, where they took him, I thought he was gone forever, Voltaire left after that, made up the accident story and left for a trip in another country. Most likely ran away, the great coward.

"I'm not sure why, but I stayed at the mansion. I had known nothing else for a long time, it was hard to leave. I stayed there for a few days after the incident when something very strange happened, it happened last night in fact.

"I had ventured into Kai's room, I was the only one in the mansion Kai allowed in there. Everything seemed the same as it had been left before the cockroach Voltaire got his revenge. I saw nothing different. I had noticed Kai's bag and I pulled out Dranzer. I looked at it and at first I thought my eyes were playing tricks but I was wrong. The blade began to glow in my hand.

"The next part I can not really explain, but it was like Dranzer reached out to me, she showed me a vision. It looked like what seemed to be a run down village, falling apart. The only thing I could really see was one small shop with the sign 'Don's Corner Shop'. I knew I had never seen such a place before. Dranzer then spoke to me, she told me I would find Kai there. At first I didn't understand, I thought Kai was gone forever. But I trusted Dranzer, and she said Kai was in this run down village that I saw.

"Then she sent me another vision, one of your dojo. And she told me to come here, told me that you would help me find Kai, where ever he may be and then it was like I returned to Kai's room.

"I left the mansion at once. I looked around for most of the night until I found your dojo, I knew it from the vision, and I have come here, like Dranzer said to ask for your help. That is my story."

Selena sat calmly while the others were frozen in shock. The story had been incredible indeed. Could they really believe it?

"So, let me get this straight," said Tyson, "Kai is alive? Voltaire tried to get rid of him, but he's still out there some where?"

"That's right" said the woman.

Tyson seemed thoughtful for a minute before a strong wide grin spread across his face.

"YYYEEESSS!" he cried as loud as he could.

The others looked on in shock.

"What is with you Tyson!" Yelled Ray

Tyson's smile didn't alter, "Don't you get it Ray? Kai's alive! He's ALIVE! He's not dead anymore because he's ALIVE!" Tyson began laughing loudly, "He's alive and we are gonna go find him, we're gonna bring him back and we can finally be our team again!"

Slowly Ray caught on, "Yeah! I get it Tyson, he may not be here right now, but he isn't dead!"

"Exactly!" said Tyson

Max smiled, "He's alive…" he said quieter then the others, "He's alive!" he said louder, "We haven't lost our Captain after all!"

Soon all the teens were jumping happily, just the knowledge that their Captain was still living was enough to bring them hopping up and down, they hadn't lost him after all, even though he wasn't there.

It even made Selena smile, "I take it you will help me find him?" she asked

"Like HELL we are, we want our Captain back just as much as you want him back, when can we leave!"

"Hold on now little dude," Grandpa spoke up, back to his usual speech, "We don't even know where the home boy is at"

Tyson turned to his Gramps, "We'll start searching, he can't be out of Japan, he must still be here somewhere, we just have to look."

"Yeah, you said the place was a wreck, and you mentioned some sort of shop, that's still something to go on" supplied Ray.

Selena smiled and nodded.

"When can we leave huh? Can we go now? Huh? Can we?" Max seemed to have returned to his usual hyper active self.

"Leave?" said Grandpa, "How are you dudes supposed to leave? You don't know where to head, and there's no wheels, dude"

Selena spoke up, "The car I've brought with me will be big enough for all of us to fit in. We can leave at any time but it really is up to your Grandfather, Tyson"

Tyson turned on the old man in a flash, "Please, Grandpa, please, we have to find Kai, we have to find him now!"

"Please Gramps, we need our Captain" Said Max

"Yeah, he may need us," Said Hilary

"I can research 'Don's Corner Shop' on the internet, we may find it straight away," informed Kenny.

Grandpa, looked from each of the pleading faces, then at Selena. It wasn't very noticeable but it seemed that even she wanted to leave soon.

Grandpa sighed, "Okay little dudes, go get changed and then you…"

Grandpa didn't get to finish his sentence, the group of teens had already left the kitchen.

The old man chuckled, "You've brought a lot of hope to them Miss. Manes, I hope what you have told us is true"

Selena smiled, "I know it's true, I can feel it and with the help of those children, we will find Kai very soon. Kai really does have the best of friends"

Grandpa chuckled again, "That he does, home girl, that he does"

Selena chose to ignore the comment.

There all finished, I'm sorry if it was really bad L

Anyway, if you hadn't already noticed, my name has been changed due to the fact I kept getting mixed up with other accounts, so I changed them all to just the one name :P

Anyway, please review, Kai will be back in the next chappie, Yay!

K cya round!

Drentai Wolf