Chapter Five: Bombastic.
Tomoyo sat the bag on the back seat of the Jaguar XK8 and Shayla was in the passenger seat. Their test was different to Caitlin's and Sakura's. Shayla looked back at the three bikes behind them. Eriol, Caitlin and Sam were watching. Tomoyo took a turn for the docks. Tomoyo and Shayla had to sneak onto a boat and place a bomb aboard, then while leaving, press the button on the remote and watch it blow sky high.
"Are you ready?" Tomoyo asked.
"Yeah." Shayla replied distracted.
"Mind focussed?" Tomoyo asked.
Shayla turned and saw the bikes stop.
"Caitlin's not listening to anyone. Li's letting her run ragged and not paying attention to the doctor's orders." Tomoyo stopped the car.
"Forget about that for a moment, and concentrate on what's to be done here." Tomoyo stated and got out of the car. Shayla followed. They grabbed the things needed and boarded the boat.
"Do you think it was wise of Li to let them do this?" Caitlin asked Eriol as they watched Tomoyo and Shayla board the boat.
"No. It was his decision Caitlin, so don't take it out on me." Eriol said.
"This was going to be yours and Sakura's first mission, but now it's a test."
"We're back up right? They aren't armed and the only thing they have is a bloody bomb." Caitlin said and then checked her guns.
Sam got off his bike and went and sat behind Caitlin on hers. The next thing they saw was Tomoyo and Shayla running back to the car.
"See Caitlin, nothing to worry about." Sam said then got back on his bike.
They rode behind the car with the ship blowing up behind them, sending flames and bits of debris at the bikes and car as they drove away.
"The brat struck again." Bear said coldly, looking at his sister and her mother.
"Are you two going to bring me supplies?" He asked.
"Of course brother. We'll leave tonight." Kat said and then walked out of the room, followed by her mother.
"I'm going to get you Xiao Lang." Bear stated and threw a knife at a dart board on his wall, as he watched the fire burn from his window.
Caitlin was standing in front of Li. He had asked her to meet him in the study.
"Tell me Caitlin, what Dr Avalon really said." Li said looking at her.
"Did you ask Sam?" She asked, a little pissed and curious.
"Yes, and now I want to see if your stories match." Li glared at her. Caitlin glared back.
"He said that I could start walking around when I felt like it, but he said that I shouldn't put weight on it for a couple of days." She answered.
"Thank you Caitlin. So you think that it's better?" Li continued to glare. Though it wasn't as 'cold'.
"Of course. I want to get into training as soon as possible." She replied.
"Good. Sam can start you tomorrow, but not too much. I don't want our new warrior to hurt herself." Li said and Caitlin gave him a weird look.
"Is that all?" She asked and Li nodded, so she left. Sakura waited for her to leave Li's study and then entered.
"Li I need to do something." she said. Li looked up at her.
"You can start your training with Caitlin tomorrow." He said. She nodded and left his study; walking straight passed everyone in the lounge room and went into Caitlin's room to see what clothes the maid had packed.
The next day was Sunday, and Shayla was pacing back and forth in the lounge room. Li saw her and wondered what was wrong.
"What's up Shayla?" He asked.
"Well this is usually the time that Caitlin and I are sparring, but she's indisposed at the moment."
"I see. I can do a bit. You want to take me on?" Shayla stopped pacing surprised, and then nodded.
Li and Shayla went outside and Li did some moves and Shayla looked stunned.
"You can do 'a bit'? That looks more than 'a bit'." Shayla said sarcastically.
"Ok, I know more than 'a bit' then. Well let's see what you can do." Li said and watched as Shayla went through the last routine that Caitlin had showed her. While Li was watching Shayla, he saw Caitlin out of the corner of his eye, standing at the door ready to fight and holding a gun case.
"Hi Caitlin. How's the training going? "He asked when Shayla had finished what she was doing. Sakura came to the door after Caitlin.
"We did fine, didn't we Sakura?"
"We sure did." Sakura replied, smiling brightly. Shayla looked at her sister. Li looked at Sakura and Caitlin, then Shayla.
"Caitlin, how do you feel about your little sister jumping from bikes to moving trains?" He asked and Caitlin glared at him.
"Why do you ask Li?" Caitlin challenged.
"Bear has a drug shipment coming in tomorrow morning and I want you, Meilin and Shayla to go." He replied.
"I suppose she could jump from the back of mine." Caitlin replied, thinking. Li nodded his agreement and walked inside past them and Sakura followed him back to his office, not missing the look of pure delight and excitement on Shayla's face.
"What was that about?" she asked, when she closed the door and turned to face him. Li looked up at her.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Xiao Lang what's going on?" She demanded, glaring.
"I want to know if they will pull a gun on their mother and half-sister." Sakura looked confused.
"Why do I get the feeling I'm missing something?" She asked.
Li moved over to her and looked into her eyes.
"Caitlin was right about Kat being Bear's sister, she lied to us about her age. As it turns out, Kat is Caitlin and Shayla's half sister. Kat's mother is their mother Lorna Thomas." Li shook his head. Sakura gasped, she was about to say something but Li beat her to it.
"No, and don't tell them." He said as if reading her mind. Sakura nodded speechless, and stared at him before leaving.
"Look across the gun to aim, Shayla. Keep your arm braced but loose. You don't want it to hurt." Sam said.
Shayla smirked at him and did what he said. Caitlin was trying not to laugh at her sister's predicament. Shayla had been out there for over half an hour, trying to learn how to fire a gun. She wasn't a fast learner like her sister or knew how to use a gun like her sister. Before the guns, Eriol had her jumping off the back of the bike. She could do that fine, but she couldn't get the hang of the gun.
"Ok, now pull the trigger, squeeze it gently." Sam said.
Shayla followed what he said and fired. She hit the bullseye. She started jumping around with happiness.
"Good, now put the gun down." Sam said and Shayla complied.
"Nice going sis." Caitlin said and picked up her gun and fired it three times and hit Shayla's spot.
"Show off. You're just a bitch" Shayla shot at Caitlin.
"And don't you forget it." Caitlin said with a seductive look on her face that made Sam drool.
"Fuck you!" Shayla spat and walked off, making Caitlin crack up laughing.
Meilin, Tomoyo and Eriol watched Shayla walk off and Caitlin crack up laughing.
"Are those two always like that?" Meilin asked.
"Yes, but Caitlin's only joking around." Tomoyo said and they saw Caitlin run in front of Shayla and start walking backwards.
"See, Shayla reckons she's been hanging around the soccer team too much."
Then they saw Shayla swipe at Caitlin and miss because Caitlin did the splits and then watched as she took off running, Shayla closely behind her yelling.
"I hope they're not like that in the morning." Meilin said and went inside.
Later they were all inside, when Caitlin, Shayla and Sam walked inside. Caitlin was grinning and Sam was trying not to laugh and Shayla looked totally pissed.
"I see someone's been having fun." Li commented smiling.
"And by the looks of it, at poor Shayla's expense." Said Sakura beside him, smiling. Shayla gave them all the death glare, which surprised them all because of its coldness.
"Lighten up monster." Caitlin said smiling.
"Go to hell bitchy old hag!" She spat.
"Fuck you!" Caitlin shot back. Everyone sweet dropped and Sam dived into the room past them, not wanting to get caught in the middle again.
Meilin tried frantically to think of something to get their attention away from arguing. So she said the first thing that popped into her mind.
"Hey you two! Cool it for a moment will ya!" She yelled, making the racket die.
"What?" They both demanded in union.
"I wanted to . . . ummm . . . congratulate Shayla on her first bullseye." Li and the rest of them silently thanked her for saving them, nodding when Meilin gave them the 'how-about-you-back-me-up' look.
"How did you mange to hit it so quickly? I mean one minute you were having trouble the next minute. ." Shayla forgot being pissed and smiled.
"It was easy. Sam was pissing me off completely, so I just imagined that it was head that I was trying to hit, and what do ya know! The next thing I'd hit the bullseye." she smiled innocently, making everyone sweet drop, and Sam gulp.
"Li you were right to make Sam teach me. He's really good inspiration."
Sam sank lower in the chair that he was sitting in. Caitlin glared at her little sister. Ignoring her older sister's death glare, Shayla told them that she was tired and was going up to her room, smiling the whole time. . .
Meilin watched Caitlin pull up beside her the train. Shayla jumped in then Caitlin. Meilin pulled beside the train and did the same. Its six o'clock in the morning and Meilin wanted to be back in bed.
"You two find out who's on the train and I'll plant the bomb." Meilin said. Caitlin and Shayla nodded. Meilin wanted them to leave.
'Good luck.' Meilin thought. Then she went to the drug carriage.
Caitlin moved onto another carriage. Still no one. Shayla was moving behind her. They moved to the next one, they stopped when they came to a lady that had her back to them. She was tall and had brown turned to face them. Caitlin's mouth dropped open. She looked just like them.
"It's nice to see you again Caitlin. My, how you've grown." Shayla looked from her sister to the lady. Caitlin raised her gun.
"Is that any way to greet your mother?" The woman said. Shayla nearly fainted from shock.
"Mother?" Asked Shayla in a shocked whisper.
"Yes, Shayla. It's me." Shayla and Caitlin didn't notice that Kat had come in behind them. She'd been hiding. With a quick fluid movement she kicked Caitlin. Shayla pulled her gun out at Kat and when Caitlin righted herself, so did she.
"Don't threaten my mother." She spat, glaring coldly. Caitlin turned to the sound of retreating footsteps, to see her mother running away.
"Your mother?" Shayla asked stunned. Kat ran away before Caitlin and Shayla could get a grip. Then Meilin came running in.
"Quick! Off the train, off the train, off the train!" She said in a hurried voice.
They all jumped, rolled, ducked and covered and watched as a huge fireball exploded in the air and the train de-railed and slammed into the ground. The fought the biting pain, as bits of metal and debris flew past them and cut into them. They watched happily as a big cloud appeared high above them in the sky. Meilin smiled evilly.
"Bear's not gonna be happy when he finds that we screwed up his drug deal. Again!"
"There's no way he can save that now." Caitlin grinned, indicating the huge misty haze above them. Shayla watched as the misty haze, formerly known as Bear's drug haul, rained down.
"Let's get out of here. I don't wanna hang around anymore then what we have to."
Tomoyo watched as two bikes came through the gates. Shayla got off the bike and put her arm around Caitlin's shoulders. They all looked worse for wear. They had scratches all over them and they looked like they had just blown up a train.
"Well . . . I have to say this. First we did mad bike tricks, then we blow up a train, then we met our long lost mother and half sister all before eight o'clock. Not a bad morning." Shayla said and Caitlin got off her bike.
"Yeah and you still have to go to school." Caitlin said. Shayla gave her the glare.
"Bite me." She spat and ran into the house with Caitlin on her heels.
"It went alright, I presume?" Tomoyo asked and Meilin nodded, grinning like the cat that had just got the cream.
Li walked out of his room, to see Shayla fly into her room and close the door, with Caitlin on her heels, who ran into the closed door and then started to bang on it.
"Shayla let me in!" Caitlin screamed. Li shook his head.
"I'm glad I left my sisters in China." He said to himself. Caitlin heard him and turned to glare at him.
"You knew our mother was going to be on that train!" It wasn't a question, it was a statement. She started to walk towards him.
"You knew that Kat was our half sister." Li backed up a bit. Caitlin was getting closer and she had that deadly look about her.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Caitlin demanded her face an inch from his.
"I wanted to see if you'd pull a gun on real family." Li replied. Sam was right, she did have a fiery temper he thought.
"They aren't real family." Caitlin said backing off. "You guys are." she replied calmly. Just then Sam came up the stairs.
"So how did it go?" He asked. Caitlin ran and jumped into his arms. Shayla walked out of her room and looked at Li accusingly. Sakura followed Shayla out of her room, they had heard everything Li had said, but Sakura already knew.
"You knew and you didn't tell us? Caitlin, I'm starting to like Mum and Kat more." Said Shayla hurt. Caitlin dropped from Sam arms and glared at her sister.
"If you really mean that, I'll kill you on the spot." Caitlin said. Sakura was getting ready to pull Caitlin off Shayla.
"You'd have to catch me first." She smiled faintly. "But no, I don't mean that. I just wish Li could have told us before hand." Shayla said and started to cry. Caitlin hugged her sister.
"Its ok little sis." Caitlin said. "Come on. We have to get ready for school." Caitlin guided Shayla into her room, then went to her own. Sakura followed Caitlin.
"I'm sorry. I should have told you too. Li told me." Caitlin turned to face her.
"It's not your fault." Caitlin said. Sakura looked sadly at her, and then left to get ready for training.
Two black Lambargluinl Diablo SV's turned up at school. In the first one was Tomoyo, Shayla and Caitlin who was driving. In the other were Eriol, Sam and Sakura. Caitlin parked and went to the second passenger's window and kissed Sam through the window. Tomoyo did the same to Eriol through the window. Sakura wasn't going to school that day. She didn't want to face people yet, so Li was training her. She wanted to see the other girls off to school.
"You girls right to make it back later?" Eriol asked Tomoyo and Caitlin nodded.
"Have fun 'training' with Li today Sakura." Caitlin teased. Sakura blushed crimson and managed to glare at her.
"Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm just training and that's all." She defended.
"Yeah. Sure. At least you're not as bad as Caitlin's and Sam's training." Shayla stated, rolling her eyes. Caitlin glared at her sister and Sakura glared at the both of them and Eriol and Sam tried to stop themselves from laughing.
Shayla left to find Aiden. Then Eriol and Sam left and Caitlin was greeted by the soccer team excluding Aiden and Kevin.
"So Caitlin, ready for this morning?" The Captain of the Soccer team Kane asked.
"Yes Kane."
"Where's the crutches gone?" Jeremy asked.
"You know me. I heal fast." Caitlin said. She looked at the guys in front of her.
"What do you guys want?" She asked.
"How'd ya know that we wanted something?" Kane asked and Caitlin sighed.
"You guys always want something." Caitlin answered.
"We wanted to know where you got a beauty like that and where your bloody bike is?!" Exclaimed Kane pointing to the car. Caitlin laughed and walked off.
"I'm so glad you made it off alive. If I were you, I would've stayed there!" Bear yelled at Kat and Lorna. They looked down. "Xiao Lang's probably praising his people by now. We'll turn on the TV and see a big bloody parade!" He continued to yell, making everyone in the room wince. Bear stormed out of the room and everyone else followed, except for Kat and her mother, leaving them alone. Kat looked at her mother.
"Something you want to tell me?" She spat.
"You mean the part about those two being your half sisters? I told you about your half sisters." Lorna said. Kat glared at her and then walked out of the room.
'Caitlin see what I do for you.' She thought, and then followed Kat out of the room.
Sakura blocked another attack. Li was first with fighting, then Eriol was after him with bikes and cars and when Caitlin came home, they were going to do guns with Sam.
"Good Sakura." Li said, and threw another punch at her. She blocked it and tripped him over. Eriol and Sam applauded her from the door. Li glared at them.
"Come on Syaoran! You've got to admit, she's getting good." Sam yelled. Li nodded.
"And besides, you haven't had a girl beat you since Meilin." Eriol yelled. Li growled and Sam and Eriol walked off laughing.
Meilin sat in class listening to the teacher going on about the soccer competition her school is going in against the girls' school. If you haven't already guessed, she's goes to another school. A guy in front of her kept turning around to look at her. She just glared at him and he stopped. The soccer competition was going to be held that week on Tuesday after lunch and people could go watch.
'Good.' thought Meilin. 'I can go cheer Caitlin on.'