Welcome to the Masquerade

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade

I was bored one Sunday morning so I typed this story up.

Chapter 2: Welcome to the Masquerade

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Ray looked up as the castle doors opened, he could hear the music playing and see the people dancing, but Ray cared for one person, his wonderful phoenix, as he thought of his phoenix and of his love's engagement. He looked down at his clothes as he walked in, the gold lace running up his arms and the long dark green shirt, with black pants that had gold through it and black flats, he touched the gold and green mask on his face and touched his necklace, well not his necklace, but Kai's royal necklace, the one with the insignia of the prince on it. Ray subconsciously traced the insignia of a phoenix on the necklace.

Ray felt someone wrap their arms around his waist and begin kissing his neck.

"Did you miss me kitten?" Kai whispered in Ray's ear. Ray laughed quietly and turned towards Kai.

"Not as much as you've missed me I presume?" Ray said kissing Kai lightly on the cheek. Kai laughed and dragged Ray onto the dance floor.

While they danced Kai's eyes would drift to the clock and he would sigh, though it was hard to see the distress on Kai's face because of Kai's red and blue mask, Ray knew his love was upset on such a glorious day as today. The engagement Kai was to announce with his "fiancé" of the fact they were to be married, to Tyson it was an ordinary engagement, but to Kai is was forced, Kai wanted no part in this engagement.

Kai looked into Ray's eyes and stared, why should he be lurking on the bad things in life when the most perfect thing in his world was right in front of him, Kai smiled at Ray and kissed him, Ray ran his fingers down Kai's blue and silver silk shirt and wrapped his arms around Kai's waist. Neither of them noticed Voltaire and Tyson's arrival at the masque and neither of them acknowledged the fact that they knew of Kai's costume and the fact that they were both intertwined in a kiss right in front of them.

"Kai!" Voltaire said and jerked Kai away from Ray, Kai turned his head towards his grandfather and began to stutter, all while Tyson held Ray in place, sadly neither of them knew who Kai had his lips upon.

"T-t-Tyson, Grandfather, I can ex-" Kai stopped when he saw Ray again, his poor neko, trapped in Tyson's grasp. Everyone's attention was on them.

"Don't even try Kai, you making out with a neko-jin!" Tyson said, digging his nails into Ray's arms, which caused Ray to yowl. Kai bit his tongue to stop himself from crying out to Ray. "Now let's who your neko-whore is!"

Tyson took off Ray's mask; a chorus of gasps was heard.

"Ray?! The Neko-Jin prince?!" Voltaire said gripping Kai shoulders tightly.

"Ray?" A voice was heard from the crowd, a man with long black hair and gold eyes came from the crowd he had a simple white Chinese style shirt, with black pants.

"King Chan?" Tyson said staring at Ray's father.

"Yes, Lee told me that Ray was to be attending this masque and I came to get him." Chan said.

"Damnit Lee." Ray said under his breath. Chan grabbed Ray's shoulder and pulled him back, Kai stared at Ray with longing eyes, and he wanted to be with him.

"King Chan, I think you and Prince Tyson should talk with me personally. Guards, lock Kai in his bedroom, and lock Ray in the guestroom and keep watch at their doors, windows and balconies." Voltaire said.

A pair of guards walked over and picked up Kai, while another pair took Ray, the guards took then to separate sides of the castle. The guards threw both of them into their respective rooms.

"How did I get into this?!" Both Kai and Ray thought at the same time.

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Voltaire, Chan and Tyson walked into the throne room.

"What are we to do to those boys?" Chan said, "They are both vital to the main plot(A/N I find this HILRIAL!), we can't do much without them rebelling, and by that I mean Kai. Ray will listen but Kai..." Chan trailed off.

"Yes, Kai's attitude can be such a nuisance…. But I know of something that will change his mind." Voltaire said, smirking. " Chan, you know the of the new plan right?"

"Yes, Voltaire." Chan said. Tyson stared quietly waiting to be addressed.

"Tyson, there is something that you will need to do!" Voltaire said.

"Yes sir!" Tyson said.

"This is what you do, take-"

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Kai sat there staring at his walls, they had found out the affair between him and Ray. Would they kill him or Ray? If they did take Ray away from him, he needed to see him one more time.

Kai bit his lip and looked out the window they were watching from below but there was no one at eye level, he turned towards the door everyone was guarding the door from the outside. Kai got up from his bed and walked towards the wall, that had a portrait of Kai on it, he tilted the portrait so that a stone with an insignia of a phoenix was showing, he pressed the stone and the stones moved revealing a secret passage, Kai walked forward into the passageway and disappeared down the steps. He began to pass more insignias and stopped at one where he could hear Ray scream, Kai pressed the insignia and the stones moved revealing a blood covered Ray.

"Ray!" Kai ran forward and picked up Ray which caused Ray's eyes to open.

"Kai, don't-" Ray began but lost his grip on conciseness and passed out, but to Kai, Ray looked dead.

"Ray?!" Kai said shaking the boy, when no response was given Kai assumed the worst. "He's… dead?" Kai bit his lip and picked a knife off the floor it was a knife from the neko-jin village.

"So your own people killed you? I won't forgive them for this. I will kill every neko-jin alive." Kai kissed Ray lips and carried him to the bed and laid him there. Kai disappeared into the passage way. A figure came out and smirked.

"So Ray, how'd you like playing dead?" The figure said as Ray's eyes opened, Ray turned his head towards the figure.

"You're an ass, Tyson."

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THAT"S ALL FOLKS! FOR NOW! MUHAHAHAHA… HA!

LOVE YOU ALL!

WELL MAYBE NOT ALL OF YOU, BUT YOU GET MY DRIFT….

BYE

Signed, I want to leave this world.