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Night of the Yokai

Part III

"That's not creepy..." he said and readied his red and gold Vanishing Moot.
"Stand back." Wyatt lunged at him and Joseph launched missing Wyatt by mere inches.
"VANISHING MOOT!" he shouted trying to get Wyatt off him.
Wyatt stood up grabbing his wrist and scooped up some snow and shoved it in Joseph mouth in an effort to silence him he yanked Joseph forwards and scooped up his Beyblade not flinching when it cut into his flesh drawing no blood, it was all completely frozen.

He arranged his captives body so he was in front of him, both of Wyatt's ice cold hands around Joseph's arms in a tight inescapable grip.

"We should go see Zeo, he was supposed to show up" Tyson said.
"That's right," Ray said remembering himself.
"I hope he's okay," Max said.
"He's fine, probably trying to clear the snow away".
They started walking towards Zeo's house.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Tyson asks.
Dranzer and Draciel were launched.
"FLAME SABRE!" he shouted.
"DRACIEL, GET READY" Max shouted, the others stepped back.
Dranzer began.

"DRACIEL, HEAVY VIPER WALL, CONTROL THAT WATER!"
The two started to work, Dranzer melted the ice and snow while Draciel controlled it, the water started to build but they were barely making a dent to the surrounding snow.

"We'll split off to go to Zeo's" Ray said and the others nodded.
Tyson, Ray and Kenny went in a different direction.
Finally they reached the river which itself had frozen over and was deep, the water was dispersed over the snow.
They caught their Beyblades and looked back.
There was still plenty of snow around, they had only cleared about a meter from the centre of the streets and half a meter from the edges, there was far to much snow to cut through.

"This is impossible," Max sighed, Kai nodded.
"Let's get to Zeo's." he said and Max followed.

First it was sounds he heard.
A moment later he lifted his head and cracked open one eye to see an odd sight.
He strained to see it as his vision came back but it looked like a brown haired male was holding someone with green hair.
"WHERE AM I?" Zeo shouted.
Then his vision came to another tall one standing in front of the green haired male and the figure's right hand came to the top of his head and the person's body became rigid, chest came out and up, head back slightly, eyes wide open with terror.

It continued for about three minutes before the hand was raised and the body dropped to the floor twitching.
The figure looked at Zeo and did a "come here" motion with its right hand.

"Which is weird right? The shovel's left here alone, the snow near looks weird like someone was lying there trying to make a snow angel or something" Tyson said.
"Maybe he fell and went in to get a change of clothes?" Ray asked.
"He doesn't feel the cold, it wouldn't bother him," Tyson said.
"Maybe one of us should go in?"
"If we did we'd be stuck," Tyson said.
"It looks like he was carving steps," Kenny said kneeling down.
"Alright, we do that...damn, why didn't we think of that back home? It's genius," Tyson said.

"Guys, where's Zeo?" Max asked.
"Kai...Max...Zeo's not out here, it looks weird like there was a struggle, there's a stab mark where the shovel was up right but its on the ground, doesn't look like it fell over."
Max leaned on his knees at the dent in the snow and then noticed more foot steps near where Ray was standing, he was looking down and Max followed his eyes
"Er guys...are they...drag marks?" Max asked.
"Yeah they're drag marks, clear as day," Ray said.

"Maybe Zeo was attacked?" Tyson asked.
"We should follow them" Kai said and Ray nodded.
They started to follow the dragged tracks and the footsteps towards where, they had no idea.
"We couldn't shift all the snow...too much...not made a dent".
Now there were more and more people emerging to dig their homes free, but there weren't that many, some were probably trapped with cars, there were a lot of deaths that night.

Zeo saw who he thought was Tyson get to his feet, he was shaky for a few moments before walking slowly off down a passage of snow before completely going out of his field of vision.

Zeo was lifted to his feet, arms tied behind his back and brought to where Joseph and been.
His hands were untied and his Beyblade presented to him with his launcher and rip chord.

"You want me to Blade?" Zeo asked and the Pumpkin headed Blader nodded.
Zeo readied his Beyblade and launched, the opponent launched too.
Their Beyblades collided and spun against each other sending sparks.
He had practised a lot with the Bladebreakers and deemed himself a good enough Blader, even complimented by Kai of all of them which was a surprise to him.
"GO!"
Although Zeo still didn't have a Bitbeast of his own, his Burning Cerberus was one he never used again and wanted a Bitbeast of his own.
He put it down to the fact he wasn't real so a pure Bitbeast would never choose him
The members of the Bladebreakers all assured him he will find one someday.

"GO XERONIX!"* he shouted and his Beyblade responded.

Xeronix and the opponent's Beyblade continued to fight together hard, Zeo wasn't backing down and neither was his opponent.
Determination was in his eyes, it was difficult, his opponent's eyes were two cut eye holes, he couldn't try and anticipate what they were thinking as it continued attacking hard.

It roared out and his Bitbeast appeared taking Zeo off guard.
He was distracted and his opponent noticed and then kicked up a huge wall of snow to send his Xeronix into the snow wall of the dish.
"Ah, what? Oh NO!"
The Beybattle had lasted about five minutes and was over.
Two bodies connected with his back restraining him
He tried to break free but the Pumpkin headed blader was quicker.
Its hand rested on his head.
Nothing happened.
Still nothing.
It seemed frustrated that nothing was happening, even tried two hands and he realized he was immune to what it had done to the other guy.

A blow connected to his left cheek sending him out of the grasp of the others and onto the floor.
He tried to regain his posture but snow formed around his legs and it started covering him.
"What?"
This was toughened stuff, Zeo wasn't breaking free and it soon covered him completely.

Tala was wandering around looking for people he stopped when he saw a small figure.
Was it really Ian?
"IAN!" he shouted.
No response.
"MIDGET!"
Still no response making him puzzled and he approached Ian and he was sure it was Ian.
"Damn Ian, where did you go off to...Ian...you okay? Big nose?"

Normally insults earned a punch but he just stood there doing nothing.

Although Ian looked different, ice and snow clung to his hair, his skin was pale and blue, his eyes seemed empty and he just stood there doing nothing before launching Wyborg at him.
"IAN, WHAT THE FUCK?" Tala said leaping to the side dodging the Beyblade.

Ian dived on Tala and tied his hands together.
"IAN, STOP, LET ME GO, DID BRYAN PUT YOU UP TO THIS? SPENCER?" he shouted.
Ian got up and started dragging Tala back to the Pumpkin headed Beyblader shouting and swearing.
Ian was completely ignoring him as he dragged the larger male back before finally reaching his goal, his eyes went wide with horror as he saw a tall male fall to the floor and start twitching on the ground.
Andrew was the next victim.

"These drag marks go on forever," Max said.
"We should be nearing the end now," Ray said and Kai nodded in agreement.
"What's Zeo up to anyway?"
They continued to walk quickly before they heard a loud explosion and saw a flash of light before they broke into a run.

An illuminated place was obvious, there was a ramp and they ran down it to see Tala being held by Wyatt and Ian.
"TALA!" Kai shouted, Tala looked over his right shoulder.
"RUN, RUN, RUN! SAVE YOURSELF!"

The Pumpkin headed Beyblader rested its hand on Tala's head.
"No...get off...get...AAAAHHHH!"
Andrew approached them.
"Andrew! What...what's going on?" Andrew didn't respond.
"TYSON...IT'S ZEO!" Max shouted, he was there trapped in the ice.
"No...Zeo..."
"Forget him Tyson, run." Tyson turned to run.

As they ran they saw Joseph with Carlos restrained and walking towards where they were running from.
"Carlos!" Tyson shouted and ran towards and he saw who was holding him.
"Joseph!?" Tyson was confused.
"Let him go." Joseph ignored Tyson and continued walking.
He tried to separate them.
"Get this freak off me Tyson!" Carlos shouted.

Author notes

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* Pronounced Zeronix