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Chapter 40: Sister and Brother

Kai groaned and opened his eyes. How long had he been out? He sat up and looked around. It was quite cold, and the wherever he was, there wasn't any light nearby. His first thought was that he was back in the Abbey, but quickly threw that thought away. He wouldn't think about that just now.

He tried to get up, but found out that it wasn't a very good idea. He felt dizzy(A/N: Haha! Dizzy. Did you get it? Okay, I've got problems...) when he moved. Kai just sat there with closed eyes, waiting for the headache to disappear. When it finally did, he sat up and saw that he was in a small room. It was all dark, except from a faint light coming from underneath the door. Kai walked slowly over to the door and bent down to look under it. He couldn't see much, but he understood that there was a hallway outside.

"Please tell me you saw that!" Max exclaimed and looked up at Tyson and Ray. He was lying on the floor, Ray was about to help him up. Tyson looked at him, concerned. Max let Ray help him up. He stood as far away from the picture he could come without meeting the wall. It was all fine now. Nothing moved inside it. Suddenly, Tyson grabbed his arm and turned him around to face him.

"Auch, Tyson! What the heck are you doing?"

Tysons eyes went wide. "Max? I think you should take a look in a mirror." Max looked at him for a couple of seconds before he walked into the bathroom. He looked at his reflection. A black handmark was burned into his skin, covering his cheek. He just stared. Max tried to rub it off with a towel, but it didn't work.

"Ey! Let me out!" Kai yelled as he banged his fist on the door. "Let me out!" He was sure he'd heard someone out there only seconds ago! It was like the sound of a door closing. "Hallo?! Anybody there?!"

"Yes. I'm here."

Kai froze. He hadn't really expected an answer. To him, it sounded like the voice came from behind him. He turned around and looked into the room. Nothing. "Where are you?"

"Here." He heard a faint sound to his right, through the thick wall. He nearly threw himself down on the floor and tried to listen through the wall. "Who are you?!" he asked.

"Its been so long time, I dont really know." The person answered. Kai moved along the wall and found a small hole in it. He now heard the voice better. "Did you make this hole?"

"Yes. It took me four years. The wall is very thick." Kai blinked. He didn't understand much of all this.

"But who are you?" The voice asked. "What did you do to be placed in that cell?" Kai thought that maybe it would be stupid of him to tell his real name. He didn't even know who this was! But he could hear from the voice that it was a young girl.

"My name isn't that important. What do you mean? Should I have done anything?"

It was quiet for a while. Maybe the girl was wondering what to answer. "Well," she finally said. "There usually is a good reason to be down here."

"What did you do then?" Kai asked.

"I tried to escape. I wanted to find my brother."

Kai nodded to himself. "This may sound like a pretty stupid question, but...I just need to know where I am. Last thing I remember is that I was home."

She went quiet again. Kai listened. "Hallo?"

"You...You dont know where you are? At all?"

"Ehm...no, I dont."

"This place got many names. Some street kids call it the Nightmare, most people call it the Abbey. I call it hell." Kai froze again. So he was in the Abbey! Actually that explained the cell quite well. When he lived there, every kid was afraid to end up in the dungeon. It was said the kids down here were the ones Volteire wanted to get rid of. He didn't know if it was true. But those kids he'd known who ended up here, he never saw again.

Kai shook his head, and tried to get rid of the memories. "How long have you been here?"

"I dont know."

How old were you when you first came here?"

"I dont know."

"You sure you can't remember your last name?"

"Yes."

Kai sighed. This turned out harder than he'd first though. "Is there a way out?"

She laughed. "I've been here for years. Dont you think that if it was, I would have been out long time ago?"

"Sorry."

"Its okay."

Kai just sat there for a couple of minutes. He felt so empty inside. It was like the darkness around him wanted to come inside him instead. Then he suddenly came to a thought. He frowned, and turned to the hole again. "Are you still there?"

"Like I've got anywhere else to go."

Kai smacked himself in his head like a punishment to that question. Stupid, stupid, stupid, he thought. "I was just wondering, what was your brothers name?"

"It was-"

The door to Kai's cell opened. Light flowed inside, and Kai had to shield his eyes with his hands.

"I must say, you look like crap." Gryff stared at Max and sat down on a nearby chair. Max frowned. "Yeah, right back at ya."

Tyson yawned. "Man, I cant stand this shit! We've been waiting for hours. Can't we just get it over with!?" He looked over at Loki, who nodded. "Half an hour," he said.

"What about Kai?" Ray asked. Loki looked at him. "If he's not here within thirty minutes, we'll go without him."

"But he told us to wait for him!" Max said. "I dont think we should go without him."

"There's nothing to worry about," Gryff said.

Anya heard someone enter the other cell. She couldn't get mutch out of what they said, but it sounded like the man she'd talked to was telling them to go to hell, or something. Then there were more noise, and the door closed. She swallowed and tried to look through the hole. She couldn't see anything.

"Hallo? Are you there?" she asked with a whisper. There was no answer. What had they done to him? Had they taken him with them? Most likely they had. Anya sobbed and turned away from the hole. It had always been like that. When she finally found someone to talk to, they were taken away from her. His voice had actually sounded a bit familiar. Like she'd heard it before; maybe in a dream? She'd aso felt a bit warmer when he was there, but now the cold came back.

Anya suddenly felt angry. Why were things like this?! She had a feeling that there was something different somewhere. Maybe if she just reached out a little bit further, she would find it. Or maybe her only chance had just been taken away from her?

She knew nothing else than this place! Where was she supposed to go? It'd been different long time ago. She could still remember some of it. Like her brother. Oh, how mutch she missed her brother. In her first days here, she wrote his name on the four walls with a pencil she'd had in her pocket. They were still there, covering the walls. She lifted her hands and stroke her fingers over the letters. Kai had written to her. Only days ago! He was still alive. And that meant that there still was something to live for. Someone who wanted her like she was.

Anya shiwered in anger. Why had her grandfather done this in the first place? She had never done anything to him! She was just a child!

Max felt someones hand on his shoulder. He opened his eyes and looked into Runa's eyes. She smiled, but her eyes looked serious. "Its time to go, Max."

Max sat up. How long had he been asleep? He rose from the sofa and put on his jacket. He'd had that dream again. About the fire. He shook his head and tried to forget it. Gryff handed him a gun. Why? Max couldn't use it. Maybe just in case. He followed the others out in the night. He felt so weird. It was like he was still dreaming. The streets around him seemed so unreal.

He saw Ray, Tyson, Runa, Loki and Gryff starting to run in front of him, and ran after them. Maybe Tala, Bryan and Ian were already there, waiting for them to come.

Kai wasn't really quite sure how he felt as the two whoever they were, leaded him out of the cell and up two floors. If he really was back in the Abbey, he should have been able to recognize the place. But he didn't. Where were they taking him? How come he was here in the first place!?

They walked up a stair and came into a brighty lit hallway. Now he understood where he was! He'd been there loads of times. And like all those times, he now started to get seriously nervous. He knew that Voltaires office was in the end of the hallway. But then he remembered that there wasn't any Voltaire to be afraid of anymore. The two guards led him through the doors and then walked out without a word.

"Kai! Nice to see you! How long has it been?" Kai looked at the man behind the desk. Boris smiled and looked back. "Well, that doesn't really matter. In fact-" he rose from his chair and stood in front of the desk. "-I am quite happy to see you again."

Kai did not like the look on his face. It was like he could capture him with his eyes and hold him still. Kai blinked and looked away. He couldn't figure out anything to say at the moment that wasn't rude. "Why?" he asked. "'Cause you see, seing you again is as amusing for me as a one way ticket to hell." Kai grinned

Boris rose an eyebrow. "That's nice."

"If you think that's nice, then you just wait to hear what else I want to say to you!"

Boris frowned and sat back down in his chair. "Actually I'll rather prefer to talk about something a bit more important."

Kai nodded. "Yeah, why not."

"So, I heard you found the diary and photoalbums after your grandfather?"

"That's right."

"Oh, I knew you would, in the end."

Kai bit his lip. He felt that he had to be careful. He looked up and saw a clock hanging on the wall behind Boris'. He saw with fear that it showed 23:46. The attack would start in 14 minutes.