Author's Note: Hey, hope you like this chapter, a little longer than usual I think that's because…I couldn't stop typing when I started. Took me a while but here is chapter 13, and thanks to the people that reviewed!

Mefia - Yeah I quite like doing action now in my stories for some reason, oh well - I guess it's good for people that like the whole gore…and people getting beaten up and so on...Heh, Heh...Well anyway thanks for reviewing!

Blade - Thanks for reviewing! Hope you enjoy this chapter! Sorry it took so long to get up, but I kind of couldn't seem to write anything for a while - blame it on school!

isthatnecessary - Body count...Hmm...Well you'll see won't you! -grins- though please retrain yourself if you actually like the character that...had met a unfortunate incident in this chapter. It is chapter 13 for a reason! Oh Hilary and Lilita will meet next chapter... that is after you find something else out. -grins again- Thanks for reviewing!

kavbj - Yeah Kai is rather bad at planning at the moment...poor, poor Kai. Anyway hope you like this chapter since as I promised had more action in it! Hope you don't through any large objects at me :) Thanks for reviewing!

Chapter 13

"Kai?" The rest of the BladeBreakers and Selene were sitting on the floor, discussing where they would go as all of the stalls would be open and even cheaper than normal. Since it was time for this festival to make everyone… a little more cheery and less worried about this Angel killer. Though there would be hundreds of police, so everything should be okay.

"I said I'm not going." Kai was standing against the frame of the door, which was the only reason why he was actually standing, he felt so tired and weak it was beyond a joke. Everyone looked at one another wondering what they could say – they certainly couldn't force him to come partying with them.

"I'll stay too then." Everyone's attention suddenly fell on the girl who had suddenly appeared from behind Kai. Selene smirked and nodded, standing up, "I think that's okay – at least then Kai won't need to be all alone and we don't need to worry over anything…" Kai scoffed and was thinking about changing his mind, just so he could stay out of the BladeBreakers way. Or Selene's way. Or Lilita's way.

The festival was to start in the centre of the city and work its way to the place where Emily's body currently was – which was being held in a mortuary to try to find some clue or evidence that could link it to someone, or something that had been present in her death.

"See you! I'm sure we'll catch up." Lilita smiled and quickly said goodbye to everyone from the door – Kai had gone back to Tyson's room and she continued to wave them all goodbye. Yet she just couldn't seem to shake the feeling that something was wrong, as if something was not right. She looked around, it was still bright, everything would be fine.

"Kai…?" Lilita closed the door gently as she wandered around, she was surprised to look into Tyson's room and not see Kai. She thought about closing the door and searching the kitchen or living room, but stopped when the familiar beyblade caught her eye. She sighed, she could remember when Kai would never leave Dranzer on a table, now it was as if it were something to be forgotten about.

"This is going to be a long night…" Lilita quickly picked the beyblade up and turned to go out of the room. Jumping back and letting out a yelp as familiar red eyes gleamed dangerously at the door.

"Oh…You gave me a fright…Kai?" Lilita was at first relieved that it was only Kai at the door but when the look of suspicion suddenly did not wane she knew that there was something wrong.

"Why are you trying to steal Dranzer?" Kai's voice was blunt and cold, as if he did not really care the reason for his beyblade to be taken. Lilita was confused – then it hit her, this was all just a misunderstanding, and extended her hand with the beyblade.

"I wasn't stealing it dummy, Dranzer looked lonely so I was -." Lilita could do nothing but yelp again as she was pushed back. She gave a confused and worried look to Kai and looked around, she would have to tread carefully is she didn't want to be strangled or hit… Though she trusted Kai enough not to hit her as he would someone that was a mere stranger.

"-You come here out of the blue? Then end up pawing my beyblade each time you see it. Then I find you with here? It doesn't look that great for you." Kai hissed, he could remember Wyatt had even done something like this…

"Kai, I am not stealing Dranzer – you said it yourself…I don't beyblade." Lita said firmly, a little insulted that something like this could happen. Couldn't Kai see how different he was being?

"Whatever, put Dranzer back." The anger in Kai's eyes did not leave, and Lilita once again extended her hand so Kai could take the beloved beyblade and bitbeast back. Kai quickly grabbed the blade out of the girls hand, and quickly shoved it into a pocket, without as much as a glance.

"Why do you never keep Dranzer with you anymore?" Lilita asked quietly wondering why Dranzer was sitting abandoned in his so called rivals bedroom. Still Kai shrugged and hissed his reply.

"Shut up. Remember I seem to kill any girl that annoys me." Lilita backed away slightly at the words though soon found that she was more irritated at what Kai believed than the threat he had made. Lilita started to shake her head, and began to try to reason with Kai before he got too distressed.

"No…You've never killed anyone." Though reasoning was something Kai was not going to try, since he knew that everything wasn't right, he knew that everything would not be okay. "Bullshit! I killed my mother, I killed Emily. I almost killed Selene!" Once again Kai was blaming himself. Back to stage one?

"You didn't kill them!" Lilita yelled back, though regretting it knowing that it was only going to cause things to get worse. Kai shouted backed though did not really think of what he was saying. He was far too annoyed at the thought that everyone thought he was completely innocent when he wasn't…"Yes I did! What do I need to do to make you realise that I was the one that done those things…"

"You're father killed Enya! You are not your father! Emily was murderer by some idiot that believes that he's doing justice! You had nothing to do with it!" Lilita had stopped shouting for the meanwhile though she made sure that she put emphasis on each word just so she could be sure Kai was actually listening to her.

"Shut up… It is my fault Emily's dead!" Kai yelled, though he couldn't help but want to stop arguing, since if he did end up saying why it was his fault he could…ruin a lot of people's lives.

"No it's not!" Lilita was glaring back at Kai unsure of what to say to Kai, he was completely different from what he had been like last year. Still she was sure he was just trying to protect himself from something.

"Yes it is, I'll show you!" Lilita blinked surprised at the statement and took a step backwards as she noticed that Kai was glaring intensely at her. She suddenly felt that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to talk about something like this alone with Kai.

There was music, stalls that seemed to sell everything under the sun and entertainers that seemed to be going around town. All this to try to take the villages mind off of what had happened. "I wonder how Lilita and Kai are getting on…?" Rei had been wondering since Kai and Lilita had been alone in the house for at least four hours. Which was either a good or bad thing. The sun had begun to set, and it was only getting darker so more and more people began to put up lanterns.

Selene couldn't have cared less, she was much to occupied with what she had been tried to figure out since this morning. "Either kissing or killing each other." She picked up and looked at a small ornaments that were being sold, she hadn't seen such cheaply made rubbish in a long time.

Rei wasn't sure whether to be surprised at kissing or killing part and quickly asked Selene if she really meant what she said – sometimes she was quite confusing when it came to being serious or joking. "What! You're kidding right?"

Selene kept her eyes on the small blue…thing that had somehow caught her eye, she had never really liked the colour blue or aluminous orange and they both seemed to be everywhere in this festival. "No."

"Then shouldn't we go back and check on them?" Rei tried to see if she really was kidding but couldn't seem to keep his eyes off the stall that Tyson was now devouring. Selene shrugged and shook her head trying not to laugh at the disgusted faces that had suddenly appeared from the scene that Tyson was causing. "Nope, I'm having too much fun."

"Seriously though, they'll be fine right?" Rei was actually concerned at what he had heard, though Selene put down the object she had picked up and turned to look at Rei with a serious look on her face.

"I was kidding Rei." She looked back over the objects that looked to be hand crafted and wondered who would buy such things, then again she was sure they would be sold out – somehow – by the end of the night. Rei shook his head not really that content in knowing that Selene could actual make him worry so much.

"Hey!" Rei turned to see the usual brunette that had been friends with them for around three years. Rei smiled and she turned to look around at the ornaments that Selene had been inspecting.

Before Rei could greet Hilary properly he heard voices arguing, that sounded oddly like Tyson and Max. "It's not my fault that the food stands had my name on it!" Tyson stuck out his tongue knowing that Max would end up giving up the argument since he usually was more happy to have peace and quiet. Kenny was at the back of them wondering why on earth he was here – he didn't like parties as much as the rest did.

"Well, there's suppose to be fireworks at the peer, want to go?" Max smiled and looked at everyone knowing that he certainly wanted to go and see this fireworks display. Before anyone could agree to come Selene backed out. "Fireworks aren't my thing, I'll see you lot later." She turned around and left. Tyson turned to look at Rei who had been with the girl since they had got there.

Since Max and Tyson were more prone to looking at what food was in stock and Hilary had been away for some appointment that she 'forgot to mention,' and had only recently returned. Rei and been told to stay with Selene, not like he minded to much, the embarrassment that Kenny had with standing near Tyson when he ordered everything was not one that Rei wanted. "Where does she think she's going?" Tyson sighed.

"Rei go with her." Tyson ordered, he knew that Rei would go and find her since he was extremely kind like that. Rei frowned a little confused why he was the one being stuck with someone he didn't really know.

"She'll get lost…and Max has the money for food…" Tyson explained, although Rei wouldn't admit it he did feel slightly left out.

"You're unbelievable Tyson." Kenny shook his head and couldn't help but laugh as Rei rolled his eyes and wandered off to find Selene yet again.

There had been little progress on Lilita's department as she was now sitting outside Tyson's room. She had noticed that she wasn't helping – something that she thought would happen. Though she did want to help Kai she just didn't know how, since from what he was saying now – it sounded as if there was something else that was causing him distress.

"I just can't be friends with people that I know aren't going to be around much longer." Kai muttered back, knowing that Lilita would question him on it he closed his eyes. He was leaning against the door – just so Lilita couldn't open the door and come in again. Though he was sure that she wouldn't leave from where she sat now.

"What do you mean?" She rested her head against the door hoping to make sure she would be able to hear the quiet voice of Kai's through the door. There was a long silence, and Lilita thought that maybe she would go off to get something to eat since she hadn't had any breakfast or lunch since… Since that had been taken up by that argument. There was some movement from inside the room, and to Lilita surprise the door opened a little.

"I know something…that could stop people from dying…yet I'm to weak to do anything…" He muttered through the small opening in the door. Lilita looked up at Kai, he really didn't look weak – maybe he meant worried? Lilita stood up and cracked her back as the uncomfortable position had caused her back to ache.

"What do you mean? Explain..."

"Yeah! Selene!" Rei ran to catch up with the girl wondering why on earth she was walking away from all of the stalls and entertainment. Where on earth was she going? She looked over her shoulder though did not stop even though she saw Rei running to catch up to her.

"I can look after myself." She snapped not really meaning to sound so annoyed at Rei's thoughtfulness, still she was sure everything would be fine if she went on her own. Rei laughed nervously as Selene continued to glare, then he decided he may as well tell the truth.

"I know that but they don't seem to…" She shook her head not really caring why he had suddenly appeared.

"Thanks, Rei, but really just go back say you lost site of me," She forced a smile knowing that it must have sucked to be in his place, she would not want to hang around with someone she only knew through another friend when she could be doing something else.

"But if something did happen I would feel partly responsible." He sighed knowing that he end up having to come and leave the party just to make sure nothing happened to Selene there were times when Rei just wanted to ignore people's requests or favours.

"You're too kind Rei now seriously go back." She continued to walk away and Rei stood and thought for a moment, there wouldn't be a big chance of Selene getting hurt or whatever, though if something did happen then Rei certainly would end up blaming himself.

"Fine...come on then…I'm going to see the monument." Selene called back and she herself stopped in her tracks letting Rei catch up, she just hoped that he wouldn't ask too many questions.

Rei raised an eyebrow wondering why on earth she would want to go there, it was odd since she seemed obsessed with it. "I want to double check how you spell one of their names…" Selene said out of the blue as if she knew what Rei had been thinking about.

"They've got the police onto it…so stop thinking about it." Selene was a little taken aback on how Rei had sounded serious, annoyed even.

Why was this annoying him so much, was it making him uncomfortable in speaking about it or did he just not like to think of things when someone close to him had died. Probably the latter. Selene smiled and answered the neko-gin back. "The police sometimes get into trouble too."

Lilita had been allowed back into the same room as Kai but he had still not dared speak a word of what he had meant... "I think we should get something to ea-…" Lilita stood up and was about to exit the room again to go find something to eat at least then she had an excuse to not answer right away – then she could think about what she was saying instead of saying something that would only anger the boy.

"-Will you come with me? For a walk." Lilita paused and looked at Kai for a moment she didn't recall that he asked to go for walks – especially from someone else. Yet she had been told that he rarely went for walks nowadays and it must have been a good thing…if he was wanting to go outside, right?

"Em…sure." She nodded, and went to the front door where Selene had forced off her shoes, and quickly put them on. Kai followed silently and waited outside for her. "Where are we going exactly?" She wondered though Kai had already started walking and she had to dash to catch up.

Lilita had thought that since that his usual repetitive answers hadn't came up that the whole journey to…wherever they were going was going to be surrounded in silence. "I want to show you something…I figured it out a while ago." Kai said briefly not giving any indication on whether she would like or hate this thing that Kai had supposedly figured out. She had a funny feeling that it wasn't good.

"What is it?" She asked though only received a sideways look and knew that she wouldn't get any other information out of him at the moment, she would simply just need to wait and see.

"So why are we here?" Rei sighed and looked around wondering why they were back at the memorial that had suddenly created a large amount of commotion because of what had been written on it. Selene shrugged and walked closer to the large stone tablet.

"I wanted to see if this was still up." She muttered though hoped that Rei wouldn't question anymore of why they were here. She didn't really like having people involved when she knew something was going to happen – she knew something would happen soon, she just didn't know what exactly was going to happen.

"Looks like they forgot to clean it…" Rei looked at the monument knowing that the horrible smell must have been from the blood on it – it hadn't been washed off yet which was strange since they had said they where going to do so.

"They were probably still wrapped up in Emily's death." Selene couldn't help but mentally scold herself when she noticed the happy and calm look on Rei's face disappear behind despair and sadness. "Sorry." She added quickly knowing that Rei and the others would probably get sad around the name of the girl.

"Can we go back now?" Rei asked trying not to sound like a whining child, Selene nodded and began to walk away. "So why did you need to look at that?" Rei asked a little curious on why she had just been standing there looking at one name in particular.

"Do you know what Tala's last name is? That redheaded boy?" She didn't know if Rei knew who the boy was, even though she knew his first name she didn't exactly get on with him or any of his group that well.

Rei thought for a moment wondering why she would ask such a random question but answered her question anyway. "I think it's something like Valkov." Selene nodded and frowned in thought, she muttered something, but Rei couldn't pick it up. Rei gave her a slightly concerned look hoping that she would explain what this whole thing was about.

"Never mind. Now I think we should get back to the party – okay?" Selene walked a little faster and hoped that Rei would just drop the subject. She wasn't sure why she suddenly felt as if something were wrong, as if she had forgotten something.

"You just answered my question with your own…" Rei sighed and continued to walk beside Selene as they went through the alleyways to get back to where they had been, to where their friends were.

Selene smiled and nodded, a little happier as she pushed the more depressing thoughts out of her mind. "I know."

Selene stopped suddenly, which caused Rei to look back in concern. "What is it?" He frowned when Selene didn't say anything but continued to look straight forward. He followed her gaze and noticed another person walking down the alley. It was definitely a man since he was far too…bulky to be female.

"It's probably just some drunk guy…probably from some bar." He encouraged her to continue to walk, to where ever it was they were heading to. Though Selene still did not move.

She didn't know where to scream and flee leaving Rei clueless or tell Rei and hope that 'Angel' wouldn't have approached them by then…or just run. Rei looked back and forth between the guy that was still walking towards them and the girl that seemed to have frozen completely.

"Selene?" Rei waved a hand in front of her face, causing her to come out of her thoughts and back to what was going to happen if they both stayed here, still Rei looked slightly confused when Selene suddenly hissed at him. "We need to run. Now."

"Wha--?" He frowned and tried to get an answer out of Selene but he was interrupted. The man's voice was low yet loud as if he had something covering his face and he was yelling.

"Excuse me again--." Before the man could finish his sentence Selene quickly turned to look at Rei, she grabbed his wrist and yelled in his face knowing that he probably would be rather confused by the whole situation. "--Run idiot!"

Selene felt that she was having to drag Rei where she was running to and a question caused the normal collective girl to lose her patience. She was not going to get confronted by that guy again. "Where are we going?"

"I'm not going to stop and ask directions, Rei! Just run!" Selene turned to look over her shoulder as she began to run, she still had a tight grip over Rei's arm, hoping that maybe he would soon understand that they were in danger and had to run now. Selene let go knowing that if she bolted it then so would Rei, plus they would possibly be able to run quicker if she wasn't holding onto his arm.

Seeing the look of fear in someone that was normally calm was surprising and alarming, taking another look at the man – who Rei could still not really see because of the dark alley way.

After a few moments of hearing nothing but their own breathing and the quick pace of their shoes hitting tarmac Rei slowed down, believing that they were safe since they could no longer see the silhouette of the man. "So could you please tell me why we ran away from some guy?" Rei asked, trying to catch his breath. He looked around he could see and hear the fireworks in the distance but he could hear no more partying shrieks or music.

Sighing Selene rubbed her head thinking about whether she should tell Rei what was going on, or at least on who that was. She crouched down, "He's the one that was responsible for this…" She stood back up, and Rei noticed that she had pulled up part of her trouser leg, and he noticed the scar almost immediately. "…and…" Rei nodded and wondered what she was going to add. "I think he may have killed Emily." Selene watched as Rei frowned and quickly looked over his shoulder, as if making sure that no one had followed them.

"Come on, let's go." Rei shook his head, if it had just been some drunken fool, then maybe they could have both went back to the party and pretend like nothing happened, but if what Selene was saying were true then….Then they certainly could not just act as if everything was fine.

They quickly walked through the alleyways making sure that no one was following them, just to make sure he wasn't following him. Selene was suddenly cut off as someone rushed out in front of her. Her instinctive reply shot out in anger. "Hey watch it!" The girl who had staggered back a few paces saw that it was not just anybody but him that was standing in his way.

"How is that possible…?" Selene heard Rei muttered to himself in shock or horror she couldn't tell as she was too scared to do much else but listen. They watched as the so-called killer talk in a slow and monotone voice, one that was pointing out a boring fact.

"Dear, dear children today…are so self-absorbed…" The man in front chuckled to himself meanwhile Rei glared at the man that stood as still as a statue, the two teenagers began to back off from the supposedly mass-murderer. The alleyway was a wind-trap, and the teenagers couldn't help but feel the cold – the kind that managed to numb them to their very bones.

"What do you want?" Rei snapped not really liking the fact that this guy had apparently killed Emily and was now standing in front of them both. The taller male sighed deeply and pointed to Selene who was now standing beside Rei, and almost out of the isolated alleyway.

"Envy." Rei looked at Selene who was looking confused and even more worried than she did before. She shook her head, unsure if anything that she said this time would have nay affect on what would happen to her and Rei.

"I'm not jealous of anyone…?" The man did not seem to pay any attention on what the girl was saying, though appeared to be only interested in proclaiming his prophesy.

"You will cleansed from this world!" The killer that had been named Angel, attempted to grab the girls neck, but Rei quickly pulled her away – only to have Selene fall to the ground and Rei be pushed to a near-by wall.

Rei growled as he saw a smirk on the mans face, which wasn't good considering the fact that this guy had already killed someone. Rei was sure that he would be able to push him off and possibly get Selene and himself away quickly – that was until he felt something go through his shoulder. Suddenly there was a loud crack, and a yell of agony filled the air.

"Rei!" Selene scrambled to her feet and forced the older male only inches away so that Rei could at least escape. Selene made no attempt to tell Rei this time that they were to run, and the two teenagers once again began to run down the alleyways, hoping to find somewhere that was populated.

Rei hastily grabbed onto his shoulder trying to stop the blood, he didn't know what had happened. The old man had pulled something out and stabbed him…Rei looked at his shoulder as he felt the sticky and warm substance begin to trickle down his back, he realised that his blood had already soaked through his jumper….

They two teenagers were now back with the party that seemed to be moving more slowly as more and more people became intoxicated and less and less appeared to remember that there was a killer on the lose and he was…close.

Without any delay Selene turned around to looked at Rei's shoulder, "Are you okay…?" She felt devastated that she had almost got Rei killed – if she had been herself then Rei wouldn't have been hurt. Now she was just trying to remember where the nearest hospital was. She had never really felt so…fearful of someone's life before.

"I think we should find the others, just to make sure…they're okay." He smiled weakly as the wound seemed to be aggravated by the cool air, he grabbed onto his shoulder tighter knowing fine well that he must have lost a far amount of blood to feel so weak.

"I think you should go to hospital." Selene wasn't sure if he had been joking when he had been wanting to find everyone else, why did he have to be too kind? He was sometimes very naïve to think he would be okay in a situation like this. Rei smiled as he noticed that Selene was once again glaring, he nodded and tried to stand only to stumble backwards – feeling light-headed.

"Yeah, after we find everyone…" Rei got up and tried to walk himself, but Selene ended up having to support him. Not as if she were complaining – that could have been her if it weren't for Rei playing hero. The pace slowed considerably as it felt that Rei was gaining pounds with every stride.

"Actually…I think I may need that hospital appointment." Rei leaned his unarmed shoulder against a nearby wall and Selene noticed the shallow and uneven breathing of his, she walked closer knowing that she would certainly need someone's help.

Rei slowly sat down, the thoughts of what had just happened slowly slipped his mind, and all he wanted to do was rest. "Rei! Don't you dare! Get up! Now!" He heard the almost hysterical words of Selene, but his mind gave into his selfishness and he closed his heavy eye-lids, and the pain from his arm seemed to slip away just like reality did.

Author's Note: Hope you enjoyed it…Well I'm away before the Rei-fanatics come after me. Please review!