Chapter 7 A morning of torture
The very next morning Amy woke up in a bed and still wearing Tala's jacket, she slowly climbed out of bed then there was a loud crash waking everyone, except Tyson, they all ran toward the sound and realized that Julie was gone
"Well that didn't work" Amy said
"What didn't work?" Someone asked
The boy had brown hair he wore a green shirt and black shorts
"Caleb" Mariam called
Mariam ran to him and hugged him, everyone had the look of confusion and some looked astonished
"What he's my brother" Mariam said
Everyone looked relived
"What are you doing here?" Mariam asked
"Visiting you" Caleb said
"So what's with the huge party?" Caleb asked
"Not a party" Tala said
"Then what's going on?" Caleb asked
"We're trying to find someone" Mariah said
"Really cause when I was coming in I saw someone leave" Caleb said
Everyone bolted out the door, Mariam was the first out and that caused to become the hostage in the situation, Julie grabbed Mariam and put a knife to her throat
"What's going on?" Julie asked
"you almost froze to death and we brought you back here" Amy said
"Can you let her go now" Mariah asked
"Not until my mission is finished" Julie said
And in a split second Julie felt a firm grip on her wrist she looked and saw Caleb and in the instant he flipped Julie over Mariam without letting Julie touch his sister
it took a moment for Julie to regain her vision and see that she was staring up at Caleb
'I can't believe he's that strong' Julie thought
Tala and Kai got a hold of Julie and they brought her inside
"Max get her blade from her" Kai said
"How do you know she has one" Max asked
Kai took one second to look at Max
"Got it" Max said
He reached into Julie's pocket and pulled out her light orange Beyblade, while he did that Caleb tied Julie's hands behind the chair they set her on and Kai tied her feet to it
"What are you planning" Kai asked
When Julie didn't answer Kai struck out hitting her in the head, she was dazed for a minute
"Who sent you and why?" Kai asked
When she didn't answer Kai pulled out the small knife he kept in his back pocket and stabbed her in the leg, Julie screamed out in pain, everyone looked at each other then at Tala who was expressionless
"Is that necessary" Caleb asked Tala
"Who and Why?" Kai asked again
"Boris because of Hilary and Amy" Julie said
Kai took the pressure off her newly inflicted wound, Kai looked at Ray who walked over and bandaged up Julie's leg
"Why them?" Kai asked
Julie didn't answer, so Kai punched her in the face, and she once again screamed
"Ray take the girls outside" Tala said
Ray did as he was told; from outside they could hear yelling and screaming
"What's he doing?" Mariam asked
"Being overprotective" Amy said
"Of who?" Mariah asked
In that moment everyone looked at Hilary
Back inside Julie was beaten badly and probably only half conscious by now
"Why them?" Kai asked again
"Because Boris believes that Amy stole a bit beast from him" Julie said
She took a moment to spit some blood out of her mouth
"And Hilary because she bears the mark of the Ancient Firebird" Julie said
Kai walked away from her, and the girl walked back in
"We'll take care of her" Amy said
The boys left the room and the girls started cleaning and bandaging her wounds
"That was too intense" Mariam said
"Yeah I didn't know Kai was like that" Mariah said
"Kai's protective and I think that's actually a good thing" Amy said
"What do you mean?" Megan asked
"Well he was willing to go to extreme lengths to provide answers" Amy said "All he wanted was to be able to protect those he cares about"
Julie half conscious was listening and actually picking up what they were saying 'he would do anything to protect them' Julie thought 'I only wish I had a friend like that'
"Girls its time to cook lunch" Hilary said
"But we never had breakfast" Megan said
"Okay who can cook?" Mariam asked
Hilary raised her hand
"I would love to learn" Amy said
"I can teach you, but do you know if any of the boys can cook?" Hilary said
"Tala can" Ian said walking past them
Amy and Hilary ran out the door and only a moment later they were dragging Tala into the kitchen
"What are you doing?" he asked
"First you're helping make lunch and two you both are teaching me to cook" Amy said
"Fine" Tala said
Hilary and Tala worked on lunch while Amy watched carefully soon the spaghetti was done and everyone was at the table
"Can't we give her food" Mariam said
"No" Kai said
Hilary got up from where she sat and walked over to Julie; Hilary untied her hands and gave her a plate of food
"This is yours" Julie said
"Yeah but you need it more than me" Hilary said
Hilary turned back to Kai
"Fine" he whispered
Hilary smiled and went back to her seat