Kai's cheek and nudged him carefully. He grumbled softly and nudged him again, harder this time, but again the young warrior showed no reaction. Cricket threw back his head and whinnied shrilly again and again the air was torn by his wail, he screamed out his anger, his anger not being able to help his only friend."He's still bleeding to death if we don't do anything!", Riku said with a choked voice then she looked at the mighty animal. "Cricket, you know me! You know that I would never harm him, let me help you, let me help him!", She pleaded with the stallion. "Why are you talking to the animal at all?", Eddy asked surprised. "Because he can understand us, he's half a bit beast, I already told you that," then she turned her voice back to Cricket. "Please, just trust me this once," she said and stepped up to him resolutely. Cricket looked her in the eye for a long time, he couldn't see any false or insidious thoughts, so he stepped back and released him. Riku knelt again next to Kai who was still on his side. She took his handkerchief off the floor, carefully folded it and pressed it onto wounds on his back, then wrapped her scarf around it to use it as a compress. Then she examined his leg, and although the wound wasn't very large, it was very deep and bleeding profusely."Here, you can tie them with this," said a voice next to her and she looked at the scarf held out to her. "Thank you," she said, looking into two amber eyes. Then she wrapped the scarf around Kai's leg under Ray's watchful gaze. "We need help and we need it quickly," she said quietly. Ray nodded and looked down at his captain, the two large wounds were still bleeding profusely and some blood came out of the smaller scratches, they had to hurry. With the help of Steven, they somehow managed to get the unconscious boy onto one of the snowmobiles. Cricket ran alongside them, ready to intervene, although the one boy was to blame for his friend's condition, he felt instinctively that he would not hurt Kai, at least not on purpose. The group set off again, Steven carefully held the injured man in his arms while he drove after the others. Gary sat on the snowmobile behind Ray and Mariah was sitting on Ray's lap.Steven noticed how Kai was slowly but surely getting paler. Finally they reached the great castle, before Mrs. Tate or Mr. Dickenson could ask what they had been doing all this time, their eyes fell on the blood-streaked boy. "For heaven's sake, what happened to that?" Max asked mother, startled, and examined Kai briefly. "Steven bring him up to my room immediately, put him on the bed, Emily run up and fill a bowl with hot water and bring sour rags and towels. Michael, you explain to me exactly what happened on the way!", She ordered blond woman. Immediately all three obeyed, they knew that Judy could become obnoxious when she had that fierce glint in her eyes, then it was time to obey the orders and better not to ask any questions. Riku paused outside at cricket, undecided. "Are you Riku?" Mr. Dickenson asked suddenly. The black-haired girl winced and looked anxiously at the man."Don't worry, Kai told me about you and also about the demon that stands behind you and is actually called cricket!" Said the plump man in a soft voice. "Who are you?" Asked the girl. "My name is Mr. Dickenson and I'm the sponsor of the Blade Breakers, so to speak, I took Kai in when he fled the abbey and he told me a lot, including you and his horse and also about ... .. Black Drancer ", he answered the question and his voice got hard as he pronounced the last name. "You have to be careful, I don't know if Black Drancer is in his blade or wandering around outside. When Cricket straightened up again, Black Drancer had disappeared from him, but we haven't given any thought to where he's gone!" Said the girl . Mr. Dickenson nodded understandingly, then motioned for her to follow. "Lew, please take care of the horse that is outside, but don't touch it!", Mr. Dickenson asked the attendant and then led Riku up to Mrs.Tate's room. Mrs. Tate skilfully peeled off Kai's T-shirt and gently felt his chest with her fingertips to look for any other wounds. She didn't find any except for one that she had already noticed on the inside of his right arm and the bruises on his stomach that she knew came from the brawl Michael had described to her. She hacked open his belt and slid his pants down over his hips to treat the wound on his leg. "He lost way too much blood," she stated curtly and dipped a rag into the bowl of water Emily had put in front of her. "Can I help?" Riku asked worried. "Take the towel and press it on the wound on his leg, we have to stop the bleeding, otherwise I guarantee nothing," replied Mrs. Tate and began to wash the blood from Kai's chest. When Riku pressed the towel on the wound, Kai groaned in agony. "Go on, he doesn't really feel it," said Mrs.Tate when she noticed Riku winced. Riku nodded and did what she asked of her while Emily and Kenny kept getting fresh hot water as Mrs. Tate removed all traces of blood on Kai. Then she wrapped a bandage around the smaller wound on his arm and did the same with the leg injury. "So Steven please turn him on his stomach, if we are lucky he will have brought the wound on his back to a standstill with his own weight," said Max Mum. Only now did Riku notice the towels that had been placed under the wound on his back. "A strange way to put a pressure bandage on," he found. "It may be, but it is definitely a safe method," replied the blonde woman. Kai groaned again as Steven turned him around and exposed the wound on his back. "Very nice, she almost stopped," said Mrs. Tate with satisfaction and got a wide towel and pressed it onto the wound. A tremor went through the body of the injured blade as she exerted a little more pressure.After a while the bleeding had stopped so much that Mrs. Tate could wash out the wound and also removed the remaining traces of blood on his back. Then she put a bandage on him with the help of Riku and Steven. "Well, that's all we can do for him," said Mrs. Tate, laying the blanket over Kai. Riku knelt by his head and gently brushed the sweaty strands from his face. "Will he ... get through?" She asked worried and in a choked voice. "I can't tell you, he has lost a lot of blood, we have to wait," said Mrs. Tate and was about to leave the room with the others when Kai groaned softly, turned on his back and tried to sit up. Riku immediately put both hands on his shoulders to press him into the pillow. He swept it aside as if it were nothing more than a feather sailing on the wind then shook his head angrily to get the dizziness out of his brain.She gently put a hand on his cheek and turned his head in her direction: "Kai?" He slowly opened his eyes and focused his gaze on her. "Fawn", said, relieved, and pressed against his shoulder again. Suddenly he jerked his hip, where normally his belt should have been with the blade. "Drancer," he said weakly. "Calm down and put it back down. In your condition you couldn't even hold it," she said soothingly to him. Kai shook Riku off gruffly and tried to get up, but a wave of pain rolled through his body and stole his breath for a few seconds. He suppressed a groan as he sank back onto the bed. "Please Kai. If you get up now and walk around, your wounds will start to bleed again and then you will never again have the opportunity to see him silently!". The urgency of her tone finally penetrated his daze.He stopped defending himself and obediently let her cover him up again. Then he lay there still and watched with eyes glassy with pain as Riku pulled a chair over and sat down next to him. "You got pretty stubborn, you know that?", She asked and a smile played on her lips. He tried to answer, but suddenly he was dizzy and dizzy like a long winter storm. He closed his eyes, clenched his teeth and fought with all his might to keep a clear head. But it was a battle of the one that the gray-haired boy knew from the start that he would lose her. Exhaustion drew him into the depths like a wild vortex. The extent of his weakness shocked him, but he had stepped away before he could worry about it. Riku watched as he started to answer but then slowly closed his eyes. His breathing became deeper and more regular as exhaustion drove him into a healing sleep.She gently brushed the strands from his face again and felt the heat on his forehead and the sweat. "How did you do that now?" Tyson asked, stunned. "How did I do what?", Riku asked confused. "We tried to calm him down once, the end of the song was that Kai was even angrier than before," explained Max. "Don't forget guys, he has only known you for almost half a year, what he has experienced in his past not very pleasant you mustn't be angry with him if he's suspicious, "Mr. Dickenson intervened. "We know why he is like that, it was not hidden from us after Voltaire set the Demolition Boys on him," replied Ray. Then they told in detail what they had experienced, Mrs. Tate and Mr. Dickenson listened carefully. Michael had already described an informative short version but he had forgotten some details in the excitement.



Riku was sitting cross-legged next to the bed, where Kai was sleeping restlessly, shaken by the pain of the wound and a fever.She had barely moved from his side for the past 3 days, except to take care of cricket. "Riku? You should take a rest, let's keep watch for a while," said Ray and stepped into the room with Tyson and Emily. Riku looked tiredly at them and then back at the sweaty Blader whose face was tense and his eyes narrowed painfully. "Wake him up gently if he has a feverish dream, not hectic you just scare him off and even weakened as he is it can be dangerous," she said, getting up from her seat. "Don't worry, he is tough will survive ", Ray cheered her up but he knew as well as Riku that they would have to lower the fever soon. Riku padded slowly to the Blade Breakers