Chapter Ten
The phone was ringing and Sam reached out from under the sheets to answer it.
"Hello." Sam answered the phone gruffly and looked at Caitlin sleeping next to him.
"Hi Sam, its Eriol, is Caitlin there? I have to tell her something." Eriol said in Japanese.
"Just a sec." Sam said. He shook Caitlin lightly, she opened her eyes to look at him blearily.
"Eriol's on the phone and he wants to talk to you." Sam said to Caitlin in Japanese. Caitlin took the phone.
"Hi Eriol." Caitlin said sleepily.
"Hi Caitlin, don't be mad but Shayla sort of did something strange last night." Eriol said. Caitlin looked at Sam.
"What did she do?" Caitlin said hoping it wasn't to strange.
"She went out to a Bear club and flirted with every guy there, I tried to get her back but she took off to Aiden's."
"Is there something wrong with that?" Caitlin asked.
"She took your bike." Eriol said.
"She did WHAT?" Caitlin yelled. Sam covered his ears and Eriol pulled the phone away from his ear.
"Now do I have your attention? What do you want me to do with her?" Eriol asked Meilin tapped him on the shoulder.
"Meilin wants to talk to you." Eriol said and gave the phone to Meilin.
"Shayla tried to book a flight to China." Meilin said.
"Have you told Li yet?" Caitlin asked. Sam half listening to the conversation, ears pricked up.
"No we haven't, but what should we do with Shayla?"
"I usually send her to Tomoyo's neighbours, their little girl loves playing with dolls it's safer for Shayla. You should really tell Li." Caitlin said.
"Ok. Talk to you later." Meilin said.
"Sure." Caitlin said and hung up the phone.
"I'm going back to sleep." Caitlin said and rolled back under the sheet.
"It's almost twelve." Sam said when he looked at the clock. They had to meet Syaoran at his place at twelve.
"Alright I'm getting up." Caitlin groaned and sat up.
"You have to get up too." Caitlin stated and got off the bed and started heading for the bathroom.
"I'm getting there." Sam said into the pillow. Caitlin peaked out from behind the door to see that he hadn't move so she walked back over and jumped onto the bed, pulled the pillow out from under his head and hit him with it, then jumped off the bed and ran to the bathroom and locked the door.
"I'm going to get you for that Caitlin." Sam shouted after her.
"They're late." Xiao Lang said. Sakura was sitting playing with her kimono. Eriol had rung back and told Xiao Lang what Shayla had done and now he was mad.
"Hi Xiao Lang." Sam said as he entered the room.
"Where's Caitlin?" Xiao Lang asked.
"Your sisters are here, they grabbed her as soon as she walked in the door." Sam replied and sat down with a sigh. Caitlin walked in a couple of minutes later dressed in a kimono.
"Why do I have to wear this?" She asked and sat next to Sam.
"We have to talk about what your sister did!" Li said and glared at Caitlin.
"She's done it before, what's the big deal?" Caitlin asked, Li continued to glare at her.
"She's a Wolf now, and she went in with no protection and proper training." Li stated.
"What do you want me to do about my sister?" Caitlin asked.
"Talk to her." Li said and handed her the phone. Caitlin dialled the number.
"Hello." Came Tomoyo's voice over the other end.
"Hi Tomoyo, its Caitlin. Can I talk to Shayla?" Caitlin said.
"Here she is." Tomoyo said and handed the phone to Shayla.
"Hello." Came Shayla's voice.
"What exactly were you thinking last night?" Caitlin fired.
"Hello to you to sis. I don't know. Don't worry Aiden talked sense into me."
"You can pack some things and stay with Aiden until I get back. Then you're going to get it, you're lucky your an ocean away girl."
"Like you said I'm an ocean away, so you can't do anything and that's what I'm going to do." Shayla said and hung up the phone. Caitlin handed the phone back to Li, her eyebrow twitching angrily.
"You happy now?" Caitlin demanded, Li just glared at her.
There was a knock on the door and they looked over as Yelan walked in to the room. "Xiao Lang, I'd hate to interrupt you, but if don't want your sisters to come barging in here you'd better let me take Sakura and Caitlin." she said. Xiao Lang just nodded and Sakura and Caitlin followed Yelan out of the room.
Back in Japan. Bear was getting angrier by the minute; he had killed Jiro for failure.
"Why can't anyone around here do anything right?" Bear asked out loud. Kat heard him and entered the room he was in.
"We all try our hardest." Kat said, shrugging.
"The only reason I haven't killed you yet is cause your family. That doesn't mean I can't kill your mother." Bear said.
"My mother hasn't done anything wrong." Kat spat.
"But you have. Your mother was still here when you were off playing wolf, you're lucky she stayed out of my way. Otherwise she wouldn't be here now." Bear stated.
"The only reason father kept her here is cause of you."
"No its not, that's not true." Kat cried.
"Yes it is. After he got her to kill her husband and abandon her family he was going to kill her, but he found out she was pregnant and didn't have the heart. After you were born he ran a blood test to see who you belonged to. You are from him so father decided to keep your mother around." Bear said and smiled as Kat ran out of the room to find her mother.
"Did you really kill your husband and abandon your family." Kat asked her mother as soon as she found her.
"Yes. Plus I burned down my house, hoping my daughters would die inside. But they escaped with the help of their aunt." Launa said.
"Your sister or your husband's?"
"Husbands. She abandoned the girls so they wouldn't get caught up in this life. They are now and Caitlin will become leader."
"Leader of what?" Kat asked she wanted to know what kind of secrets her mother was hiding from her.
"The Phoenix."
"Isn't that a gang in China?" Kat asked.
"Yes don't tell your brother, he will kill you for being blood to the leader of the Phoenix." Launa looked at her daughter who nodded.
"This is such a cool shop." Squealed Fanran. As the four Li sisters dragged Sakura and Caitlin into another shop.
"That's what you said about the last one." Caitlin said. She was dying for some excitement.
"That's what she said about the last three." Said Sakura. They had been shopping all afternoon and were getting tired of being dragged around by the sisters.
Some girls walked over to them, they were eyeing Sakura and Caitlin off. Sakura and Caitlin were both wearing denim skirts, Sakura was wearing a pale pink singlet top and Caitlin was wearing a purple one.
'Cool I'm going to have some fun.' Caitlin thought.
"I thought I saw a wolf on our territory." One said as they walked over to them.
"Not one but six." Said another. Sakura and Caitlin got ready to fight.
"And look one of the wolves has our mark on her." The first one said pointing to Caitlin's ankle. Siefa walked over to the first girl and hugged her.
"It is good to see you Min." Siefa said.
"It is good to see you four as well." Min replied.
"Who are these two?" The one next to Min asked.
"Pi, we would like you to meet Sakura and Caitlin. They came with Xiao Lang." Fanran said.
"Why the Phoenix?" Min asked.
"My father. That's all you need to know. Why didn't Sam or Xiao Lang tell us there is a gang called Phoenix?" Caitlin said and looked at the sisters. Pi ignored her and turned to Siefa.
"You have to get Li to come see us. He hasn't been to one of our parties in ages." Pi said.
"We'll try." Siefa replied and the Phoenix girls left.
"Xiao Lang." Sakura called when they walked in the door. He and Sam appeared in a doorway.
"You called?" He asked.
"You have some explaining to do." Sakura said and turned to Caitlin.
"Why didn't you tell us about a gang called the Phoenix?" Caitlin asked her and Sakura both glared at the guys.
"We ran into Min, Pi and some of the others. They want you to go to a party." Fuutie said. The Li sisters giggled and walked off.
Sakura and Caitlin looked at the guy's in question.
"Sorry." Xiao Lang said.
"It's a good thing that they are an alliance." Sam said.
"We'll take you to meet Saraid later, for now I think you have clothes to go through." Xiao Lang said looking at all the shopping bags around them.
"Welcome, Li and Sam." Min said as they pulled up to the party on bikes. Sakura and Caitlin were sitting on the back.
"I see you brought those two as well." Pi said as soon as she spotted the girls. Caitlin smirked at her, Sakura just smiled. They got off the bikes. The party was in an abandoned warehouse.
"Where's Saraid?" Li asked. Min pointed and Pi glared at Sakura and Caitlin so Caitlin blew her a kiss. They walked the direction that Min pointed and stopped in front of a middle age woman with brown hair and green eyes.
"Xiao Lang it's good to see you again." She said and Sam cleared his throat.
"It's good to see you to Sam."
"Saraid, I'd like you to meet Sakura and Caitlin." Xiao Lang said and pointed to the girls, Saraid walked over to Caitlin and looked her over.
"May I ask you something?" Saraid asked Caitlin. Caitlin just nodded.
"Do you have a little sister by any chance?" Caitlin glared at her.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"I think I'm seeing a ghost." Saraid said Caitlin looked at the woman before her.
"Why do you say that?"
"Cause you look a little like my brother Kale, But last time I saw him it was before his wife killed him. Wrong colour eyes, you look more like his daughter who was three when I saved her. May I ask your sisters name?" Saraid said.
"Why are you telling me this and why do you want to know my sisters name?" Caitlin asked. This woman was starting to scare Caitlin and she doesn't scare easily.
"If you won't tell me I'll guess. Is it Shayla by any chance?" Caitlin pulled back. Saraid smiled at Caitlin's reaction. "It is, how wonderful. I was wondering how you and Shayla turned out." Saraid said.
"I think Caitlin's shocked." Sam said looking at Caitlin's face.
"You don't know what you're in for. Caitlin's more than a handful but adding Shayla to the mix you have an atom bomb." Li said.
"Shayla's ok, you just have to keep her away from Sam. Caitlin's brought her up good." Sakura said.
"Rebellious teenager may I remind you." Li said.
"Caitlin's not there to keep an eye on her. Plus she thinks Sam's going to hurt Caitlin." Sakura said.
"I've done worse than Shayla." Caitlin said finally coming out of shock.
"So how much family do I have here?" Caitlin asked turning to Saraid.
"I'll talk to you about that you still have the locket your father gave you?" Caitlin looked at her aunt.
"The one that says 'Caitlin always rise again. Love daddy.'?" Caitlin asked.
"Yes that one. That's the only thing I left you with."
"It's at Li's place. Why did you dump Shayla and me, couldn't have taken care of us?"
"I'll tell you anything you want to know later. Right now I have to introduce the Phoenixes to their rightful leader."
"What do you mean rightful leader?" Sakura asked.
"I mean that Caitlin is the leader of this gang." Saraid said.
"You mean I'm the leader of this gang?" Asked Caitlin. Saraid nodded and Caitlin jumped into Sam's arms. Then she dropped and turned to Saraid.
"We have a problem." Caitlin said. Li knew what the problem was.
"Caitlin's a wolf. It doesn't matter because were allies." Li said and looked at Caitlin.
"I'm going to introduce you now." Saraid said and grabbed Caitlin's arm. Sakura, Li and Sam followed after them.