Farewell to Zagart

Chapter 1

"It's almost time to leave, Zeo," Dr Zagart said to his son and left the room.

Zeo sighed and looked out the window. All the furniture in his room had already been moved, but there were a few boxes still there. He sat down on one of them, looking at the two beyblades in his hand. Cerberus and Zeronix. He wasn't sure what he would do now. After all that had happened, he wasn't sure about what to do about anything. So many things had happened and most of it was his fault. He didn't know what he could do to make up for any of it. Zeo stood up and opened the box, pulling out a black suitcase. He set it on the floor and opened it. Inside the box were some blade parts and a black velvet bag. He carefully placed both beyblades into the bag, and tightened the string. He returned the bag to its place in the suitcase and closed it. Then, Zeo Zagart stood up and left the room.

Zeo dodged a mover carrying a heavy box as he walked through the door and caught a glimpse over the railing. The familiar voice of Dr. K. drifted to the second floor. She was speaking to his father in a quick angry tone.

"That was your plan all along? You were doing it all for a robot? You had two of the four sacred bit beasts! Think of the things we could have done! Biovolt would have taken them and we could have joined Voltaire and Boris in world domination! I have connections, you know. We –"

"I don't care for that. Please leave immediately." Dr Zagart said calmly, glaring at Dr K.

"And what about Cerberus? The strongest rock bit beast? You must still have that! You no longer need it, so give it to me! How much do you want for it, I'm..." Dr K suddenly stopped talking and she turned her gaze towards Zeo. "Ah, Zeo! You must have Cerberus, and I need it."

Zeo walked down the stairs, avoiding Dr K's eyes.

Dr Zagart sighed and closed his eyes. "Come now, be reasonable. I can get you another bit beast just as powerful, and you must have another blade. Or, I can employ you. Biovolt is always looking for the best bladers. There is no doubt that you are one of the best. You can get your revenge and you'll have a chance to get the four sacred bit beasts again, then you can—"

"No." was all Zeo said and he walked into the library and shut the door. The library didn't have any books. It had once had many old books in it, when his mother had lived in the house. Zeo had only remembered ever talking to her once, in the hospital before she died. At one time he had thought that strange, but now he understood the reason. Soon after, the shelves had been moved out along with the books and several expensive computers had been installed into the room. Zeo was not allowed to use those computers, but sometimes when he was frustrated he would go in the room at night when the room was empty just to think, like now. They were leaving the computers behind because they were no longer needed.

The door opened, and his father entered the room. "She's gone. I'm sorry, Zeo."

Zeo shrugged. "I'm going to go for a walk, just one last time."

Dr. Zagart nodded and left the room.

Zeo followed, but his father was no where to be seen.

"Biovolt is always looking for the best bladers. There is no doubt that you are one of the best beybladers and Boris knows that because of the tournament," Dr K. was saying the same thing at the bottom of the steps beside her car.

Zeo recognized the two bladers she was talking to. They were King and Queen, bladers from the tournament. He hadn't given them much thought during or after the tournament, but from what Gordo had told him and from what the crowd had said, he knew that they had stolen other people's blades and they really were some of the best, even though they cheated sometimes.

"No thanks. You've brought us nothing but trouble. Biovolt means nothing to us." King was saying to her.

"Fine," Dr K stepped into the car and the three bladers watched it until it disappeared around the corner.

"She is so annoying," Queen said. "Hello, Zeo."

"What are you doing here?" Zeo demanded, a little angrier than he had intended.

"We came to see you before we left town. We have to return all the stolen beyblade parts," King explained.

"And we wanted to give you this," Queen threw an attack ring towards Zeo and he caught it.

"Thank-you, but I don't need it. This is a good attack-ring, " he held out his hand to give it back to Queen.

"Sorry, but it's yours now."

"There's nothing you can do about it," Queen grinned.

"Well, we'd better be going," King said and before he could say anything else, they had started walking into the forest.

The butler peered out the door. "Hey, you! That's private property! Get out of there!" the butler ran after King and Queen.

Zeo looked back to the attack ring. He put it in his pocket and started the long walk down the road.

Zeo finally stopped on the bridge and watched the fish in the river below. The water glistened in the afternoon sunlight. A young boy ran past him and almost pushed him into the river but he caught his balance just in time and was about to say something but the boy was already out of hearing range. He noticed the boy was heading towards a crowd of people, probably watching a beybattle. He didn't have anything better to do, so he went to watch.

Not that he could. There were so many people, Zeo couldn't see anything. He tapped the girl in front of him on the shoulder. "Do you know who's battling? Hilary?!" he said, as the girl turned around.

"Zeo! Hi, good to see you again. Oh. Tyson's battling Tala Ivanov. That's why I'm watching." She grinned and turned back to watch the battle.

Some of the crowd had disappeared now, and Zeo could finally see his friend, Tyson, and a red-haired kid that must have been Tala. Now that he thought of it, he had heard the name Tala Ivanov before. Yes, he was the Russian champion. Tyson had battled him when he first became the world champion. Zeo watched the blades for a bit longer, before they clashed together, sending up a tornado of dust. When his vision cleared, both blades had stopped spinning. The crowd quickly disappeared after that, forming over another stadium and Zeo ran to Tyson.

"Hey, Zeo!" Tyson and Max said in unison. Kai nodded to Zeo from the other side of the stadium as he spoke to the red-haired kid.

"Zeo, I thought you left yesterday," Tyson said. "There was a delay," he replied. "So did you see the battle? It was a close one. Good job, Tala!"