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Chapter 14: Inquietum est cor nostrum

Bang!...bang!...bang!...

"Tyson?"

"Yeah?" ...bang!

"Dont you have anything better to do?"

"No." ...bang.

Kai was sitting in the livingroom in front of the fireplace. The flames made dark shadows dancing on the wall behind him, and the room was bathed in a warm orange glow. Tyson(that jerk) was sitting in front of the wall beside the fireplace, banging his head into the wall. He stopped for a secound.

"Is there a problem?"

"You mean apart from, that you can ruin the wall with your thick head?"

"Hey! My head is NOT thick!"

"Then how come you're not unconcious yet?"

"Ehm..."

"Exactly!"

Kai grinned. Another victory! He steared silently into the flames. He had done that many times when he was depressed. It calmed him down, in a strange way...

Seven years old Kai was sitting in front of the fireplace. Everything was silent, the only thing that could be heard was the storm outside. He was sitting with both his legs up in the chair, holding his small arms around them. They had just got a new call. His cousin was dead. It felt so weird, never to be able to see him again. There was a cold emptyness inside him.

A door opened behind him, and his mother appeared. She looked a bit sick, but he couldn't be shure because of the orange light. She tried to smile, but her eyes was so sad... She sat down beside him, and layed her gentle arms around him.

"Shouldn't you go to bed Sweetheart?"

He just nodded. She sighed, and he could feel that she was crying.

"Why is this happening?" he whispered.

"Sweetheart, it's...it's so hard to explain...and you wouldn't understand..."

"But I do." He looked at her with a desperate look. "There is something you dont know. I can feel something...it's moving closer."

"What do you-" She was broked off by a loud noise and a scream, coming from downstairs. Kai ghasped. It was here. The shadow he had felt inside of him, was here in their house...

"Stay here! Dont move!" His mother ran to the door, but before she could open it, it was opened quicly from the outside. She walked slowly, backwards into the room again.

"Please...let her go..."

Kai steared wideeyed. In front of him stood his grandfather. He was holding Anya in a hard gripp, while pointing a gun to her head. Anya was crying, while silently begging her mother for help.

"Voltaire...she's only a child!" Teares streamed down his mothers cheeks. "Why are you doing this?"

"Oh, it's complicated..." Then, he lifted his gun towards her instead, and fired. Kai screamed in panic as the room nearly exploded in flames. He held his hands in front of his eyes, and didnt remove them before the flames disappeared. It felt like hours, but it only lasted for secoulds. A man was lying on the floor...

"NO! Armand!" She bent down, and placed her hands on the sides of his face. A new shot echoed in the room, and she fell down beside her husband. Voltaire pushed Anya away from him, and she fell to the floor. Suddenly, Kai felt like he was covered in flames again, could feel the phoenix inside him scream in pain and anger. Then, a third shot could be heard, and Anya fell to the floor. Kai roared in anger, and pulled his fathers rapier down from it's place on the wall. He pointed it at Voltaire, who didn't move at all, just looked down at the little boy.

"You COWARD!" And then, he ran quicly forward, to point the rapier through the old man's chest. But nearly before he could move, he heard a loud shot, and then felt a terrible pain in his left arm. He fell to his knees in shock. Voltaire took a step towards him, still smiling.

"Oh, Kai... I thought that your beloved father had told you that swords and rapiers only were used to duells in the 16th century. Now, it's wiser to use one of these..." He lifted the gun to Kai's forehead. He swallowed.

"No, you're wrong. Rapiers can still be used...if you know how to use them!" And then, he threw himself to the side. The bullet hitted the floor, at the place where he had been sitting the secound before. Voltaire screamed in pain, as the golden rapier went right through his shoulder. The next thing Kai felt, was that a new bullet was shot through his throat. And then, only darkness...and sorrow...

"Kai? Hallooo? Somebody home?" Tyson waved his hand in front of his face.

"What?! Oh..."

"Dude, you have been sitting here without saying anything, in about an hour..."

Kai smirked. "Just because you cant be quiet in five minuites, doesn't mean that others cant." Tyson snorted. "Actually, I can!"

"Really? Prove it!"

Tyson placed his hands on his hips. "Time will show..."

Kai was just about to reply, when he heard a really weird noise. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what? ...DAMN!"

"What, forget that now! Seriously? Didn't you hear that? It sounded like..."

"Like what?"

"Like...swords, or rapiers...someone's fencing."

Tyson looked at him like he was mad. "But Kai, thats impossible. The Fencing Hall is on the other side of the castle..."

"Yeah, I know that! That's why it's so weird..." He got up from the chair, and looked around in the dark room. Nothing moved, and he was shure that he wasn't here... He blinked, and walked past Tyson, who started to mumble about hallucinations. "Shut up, Tyson! I'm trying to listen!" he walked quietly around in the room, while trying to listen through the thick walls.

"KAI, LOOK OUT!"

But it was too late. Kai had just turned around, and in a short secound he looked into his own eyes. And then he could feel an intense pain in his stomach. He stood in front of him, smiling. Tyson screamed in fear, and shrinked backwards till his back met the wall.

'Didn't think I was strong enough?' And whith that, he disappeared. Kai fell to the cold floor. He looked down at his stomach, and saw the tip of a black rapier, covered with his own blood.

"KAI!" Tyson bent down beside him. "Kai? Please! Can you hear me?" Kai wanted to reply, but he couldn't speak at all. A white blur covered the most of his sight, and he could barely hear Tyson's voice. Then he could see Max and Ray, who shouted that he had to stay awake! But it was impossible, he could already feel that his heart beated slower.

"Voltaire...he's only a child!" Tears streamed down his mothers cheeks. "Why are you doing this?"

"Oh, it's complicated..."

Dranzer screamed inside of him, tried to heal him. But, she wasn't strong enough. Kai opened his eyes, and looked up at the others.

"Inquietum est cor nostrum." He whispered. And then, everything went black...

Dont kill me for writing this! I PROMICED that Kai would survive, remember that! Dont you agree that this started out as an innocent story, but that it now is turning into some kind of a horror-story? I hadn't planned that... PLEASE REVIEW!!!