Only one week left! School! And this is the last year at Ungdomsskolen! (Thats the same as High School). The worst thing is that I cant do anything to stop it happening! I hate that!

Pica7chu7chu: You kidding? Kai loves Harry Potter:P But I totally agree with you. I mean, Tonks, Fred, Snape, Dobby, Mad-eye AND Remus! Thats just... sad! And HEDWIG! Why did Hedwig die?! Stupid, stupid Rowlig! You know, after this, she wont be able to walk out of her house before she gets attacked by angry fans! Poor woman...

WhiteWaterWolfAngel-Ayame-chan: Thank you! Oh, I love long reviews! You are so lucky! I wish my name was russian :P Honestly! My name is Hebrew! And it means: Captivating. Hm, people are weird!

As allways: Thanks for reviewing! It really makes me wanna update faster!

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Chapter 21: The phoenix rises

Gryff felt like everything moved slower than usual. It took a eternity for Voltaire to drag him up from the ground. Kai was dead. In many years now, he'd wanted to see him again. Talk to him again. But now, he only wanted to follow him. He had nothing left. No family, no hope...no future. Everything had disappeared when the bullet hitted the wrong target. He didn't care what happened to him now. Didn't care if Voltaire killed him. If he did, he would finally get some rest. Whole his life, he'd been waiting for someone, or something, to find him. To attack him. He had fought for his life, since he was born. Held on to it, because it was the only thing he had! But now, when his last hope was gone forever, he didn't care...

One of the soldiers grabbed his arm, and threw him into one of the trees. He stood still, and did what the soldier told him to do. He couldn't stop staring at Kai's eyes! When he sat beside him, he had imagined that he had blinked. He looked so alive, but he knew that it was impossible.

Tyson, Max and Ray sat on the ground, their hands tied behind their back's. Tala, Spencer and Ian just stood there, guided by five soldiers, and looked down at their dead friends. Gryff had thought that Bryan only was unconscious, but now, he saw that he was dead. Helena stood some metres away from all the others. Gryff nearly wanted to strangle her! She had betrayed Kai! He didn't care what she had thought. She betrayed him, that was enough for him! If both of them survived, he wouldn't rest untill he'd killed her.

He understood what Voltaire was planning to do. He would kill them, one after the other.

"Well Gyff, its sad that Kai had to die in vain. But you can consider it-" The rest of the sentence never finnished. A quiet groan was heard behind Voltaire. All mouths dropped open!

Kai sat up. He looked at his hands in wonder. Never had he thought about the miracle he was. How his heart beated, how the wind played with his hair! The ground under him felt wery hard, and all the pain he'd felt before he died, came back. But when he looked down, the terrible wound from the rapier, was gone! And the only proof that he had been dead, was some drops of blood on his forehead.

His new eyes looked up at the stars. He had got a new beginning! A new path stood in front of him. A new life! A chance to start it all over again! To fight for what he belived in, and trusted. To fight for the persons he loved...

He looked around. They all stared at him like he was a ghost (A/N: Cant imagine why...). Then, he could hear a yell from behind Voltaire, and Gryff dropped down beside him. For a moment, they just looked at each other. Then, Kai smiled, and hugged him tightly.

Kai got up from the ground, while looking right into his grandfathers eyes. He hated him. Hated him for all the terrible things he'd done to his own family! To him! And then, he felt that all his hate turned into something warm and powerful inside him. And he knew what it was. The phoenix wanted revenge...

It felt like he burned. But it only felt good! From now on, the fire listened to him, and him alone. Voltaire backed off, and his back met the tree Gryff had been thrown into.

"K...Kai?"

"Shut up!" He nearly shiwered in anger, and he could see, from the reflection in Voltaire's black eyes, that his crimson eyes, turned completely white! He could nearly hear his mothers voice in his ears:

"Please...let her go... Voltaire...she's only a child! Why are you doing this?"

Years of hatred and pain burned like fire in his eyes. Voltaire looked at him with scared eyes, but Kai didn't care if he begged! Suddenly, the grass under his feet was on fire. It spread out over the glade, and the the flames rose into the air beside him. Inside his heart, Dranzer had started to scream!

:::KAI! You must stop this! You're going to kill us all! You got too mutch power!:::

But he didn't listen, he couldn't stop now! He didn't want to! He lifted a burning hand, and reached it forwards towards his grandfather. Voltaire yelled, and tried to find a way out of the flames that surrounded him.

:::KAI! PLEASE!:::

Kai blinked. His eyes went back to normal, and the great flames disappeared, like thay had never been there. He lowered his hand, and Voltaire fell to the ground.

Kai looked down at him in disgust. "Now you know how that feels..." And then he turned around. Four of the soldiers was dead, the rest of them had escaped. Tala, Spencer and Ian were helping Max, Ray and Tyson to remove the ropes. He'd just started to walk towards Bryan's body, when Gryff yelled:

"Kai! Behind you!"

But Kai was prepared! He whirled around, saw Voltaire point a gun at him. A gunshot echoed through the forest. Kai opened his eyes.

Voltaire was lying on the ground in front of him. He looked down at his hand. He was holding a long, shiny gun, with his familys coat of armour on it. He smirked. "Were the heck did that one come from?" he whispered to himself.

Suddenly, he felt dizzy. The gun fell out of his weak hands, and Kai fell to the ground. He had never felt like this before. So weak! He could hear the others run towards him, but the first person who reached him, was not one of them! It was a woman with short, brown hair, and green eyes. Just before he closed his eyes, he recognized her.

"Mom?" he whispered. And then, everything went black.

Chapter done!

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