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Disclaimer: beyblade doesn't belong to me, but yes do Alessya and Ioann.


Strength to go on

Chapter 6: Reflection

'I don't know if I can't do it… Dranzer is not that strong…'- thought the blue haired teen, standing Alessya next to him and protecting her with his right arm. "MOVE!" he tried once again. But nothing. Ioann stood, smirking evilly.

"Face him Gou!" encouraged the girl.

"I can't Alessya… Dranzer…"

"Dranzer is very strong. You can beat him, Gou." She said, her eyes covered in fear tears and confusion present in her facial features.

"Fine… if I have to fight to get out of here, then I will… here I go, GO DRANZER!!!" he called, launching his blue blade, inherited from his father. 'How would it have been launching Black Dranzer? Maybe I'll never know that… by the moment everything that I should care about, is the battle and Ioann's blade spinning in front of mine. But what I came looking for, wasn't Alessya. I came looking for answers, came looking for dad's past in order to become a strong solider as he is. But now everything seems changed. I no longer want to be like dad… at least not by these means… Boris actually put dad in there, and shot him… no way I'm going to trust that man… dad taught me one thing I remember well… 'never trust that person that hurts you once'… then I won't trust Balkov.'

The battle was hard for both bladers, they were tired and Gou was sweating. "Seems you're loosing Hiwatari. I'll take her if that happens" smirked the older teen.

"No way, first, she can do whatever she wants to do, and second, she won't have to choose because I will win this battle and you have any possibility to make her do what you want."

"Seems someone has a big ego,- the boy laughed sarcastically. -and besides, you have no chance against me, daddy's boy." He knew he would that way hit Gou's weak spot.

But the blue haired was stronger… "Shut up, and let's see if your blading backs your words." He said rudely. And feeling the angry fire that comment from his opponent had started inside him, he commanded the Red Phoenix to come out. And Dranzer appeared, greater than he had ever seen him, at least in his hands. (a/n; imagine it like in Kai's battle against Spencer, Russian tournament season 1)

Ioann's blade flew towards his head, and passed right next to it. The boy fell to his knees and Alessya hardly grabbed the keys that fell to the floor next to him. "We should go and free dad" Gou spoke quickly, letting the girl grab his shoulder to ease the pain that was still on her body because of the experiment.

Stony floors were cold, they ran through the hallways fearing the inevitable, Boris could make an appearance in any moment. Gou stopped in some point of the way, and grabbed his friend's hand.

The ten year old girl stared at him confusedly, firstly in shock and then interested in what was about going to happen. "Alessya I… I know it's not the best occasion but maybe I never have another chance to tell you this…"

"Gou…?" she inquired, her eyes staring directly in his crimson ones.

"I… I love you Alessya… and… I'm sorry for not coming to rescue you before.."

"It's ok Gou… don't think about the last part… Gou… I love you too…" she let her body fall against him and strongly hugged him around his shoulders.

His hands rounded her waist, he took her chin and lifted it to see her face. She smiled, allowing with this gesture what she guessed would be his next thing to do… he lowered his head a little and pressed his lips against hers.

It was not a passionate kiss, after all, Gou knew she was much more younger than what she seemed to be, and he was just thirteen. A peck on their lips was all they needed in that moment, and after another hug, they kept their way towards the cells.


"I'm worried… I'm fucking worried about him…"

"Kai…" Bryan sighed, looking at the blue haired sitting near the cell bars. He could notice some retained tears on the corner of his eyes. "You did things well, Kai…"

"No I didn't.-was the cold reply- if I had raised him up as I wanted me to do, he wouldn't be following Boris around. I confused him, I did something bad, something very bad."

"Stop blaming yourself!- interrupted the lilac haired. -your son will be fine. You told him everything he needed to know, and that's that you love him."

"I… I didn't know… that would make things right." Admitted Kai. Talking to a rude man like Bryan was made him feel free to tell some things that wouldn't tell to anyone else.

"It will. Your son will be here in some minutes, Kai."

"Someone talking about me?" the figure of two young teens appeared from the door. Gou was carrying Alessya on his back, she was still hurt and hadn't resisted the long way. "Dad, I have the key", smiled the boy, throwing a small, metallic object to his father's hand.

Kai sighed relieved, and opened the cell. Soon he realized his son's worried look at his shoulder.

"Dad…? Will you be ok…?"

"Just a minor setback, let's go." Replied the man, smirking. Bryan closed the cell and threw the key inside, just in case.

"We've got to get away before He notices, Kai… what shall we do?"

"Run." And that's what they did, Bryan held the girl on his arms and they ran through the abbey paths, through the cold snow on the outside, and through the Russian streets, leaving the security alarm of the abbey behind.


Breathing fast and tired they stopped in an alley. "Leaving… is easy… if you know how to run fast…" said the grey haired, his hands on his knees and the girl still on his back.

"Yeah… we should… go to the hotel…" advised Kai, a hand on his son's shoulder.

They turned to leave, but something interrupted them… "DAD?!" called the girl on Bryan's back, at the sight of a red haired that walked past the alley.

They heard footsteps stop, and then a tall figure of a man came to sight. "…Guys?" Tala stood with his head opened breathing heavily. "… Alessya…" in his eyes shone the light that had been missing for so long. He walked towards Bryan and the girl fall in his arms. "Oh my God… you're ok…" he sighed relieved, the others staring at them with smiling faces.

But Tala's facial features changed when he noticed the cuts and bloody spots on his daughter's skin. "… Don't tell me…" he knew very well what those wounds were from, which experiment could have left those scars on her pale skin. He knew that pain, knew the desperation, the horror, and the emotionless feeling left after that experienced… the experienced that provoked the tube.

"Dad?" she asked, when noticing his father's horror face.

"Tala it's ok… Gou got her out of there before It started… she didn't get into it." Explained Kai, proud smirk on his face.

"Thanks God… thanks God…" he couldn't help sighing, and everyone perceived the relief on his whole self. He kissed Alessya's forehead and hugged her tightly against his chest.

"We should go back... Rei , Makoto and Rin are waiting for you there on the hotel…" said the red haired, coming out of the alley and walking back towards the rented place.


Kai glanced at the cloudy sky from the hotel wide balcony. Then he looked back at the boy standing next to him, exactly in the same position. "Gou?" he called, seeing how he put up his sight, meeting crimson eyes that looked at him worried.

"Yes dad?"

"I… I would like to know… why you were following Boris around… where did he told you he'd take you, and why you believed him… but … I want to know why you came to the abbey in the first place." He demanded.

"… dad… there're so many things you want to know… and I'll explain everything… I came to the abbey because… I wanted to be like you, Dad… I wanted to be strong, rude… and to seem emotionless…"

"I may seem emotionless, but I'm not, you know that?"

"Yeah dad… now I know… but back at home… I knew nothing about you… I didn't know how you felt, if you felt something, when you were happy and when you were sad… I knew nothing and I wanted to discover… how was it to be you. I knew that you had been raised up here, mom told me that because you'd never talk about your past… and then I wanted to know how it was here…"

"Gou you were so confused… you are so confused about me… I'm not the person I seem to be, I keep acting towards others because I am like that, I don't show myself to others… but you don't have to be like that, son. You have to be like you are, and you've been writing a lot, you've been living in an inside world that you may like to show to other people… and that's ok. It's ok to be you, Gou. You don't have to be like me, let everyone be like they are, and be like you are."

"But I wanted to be like you… Boris told me that if I grew up in the abbey I would be stronger, I would be perfect… and I wanted to be perfect for you, dad… I wanted you to know I can be perfect… Boris told me… you had once wanted perfection… but never reached it… and so I wanted to reach it for you, dad…"

"You… perfection doesn't exist, Gou… perfection is an utopia people have for getting better each time… but no one will perfection… not in this world.. and I've learned that through my experiences, I never had someone to tell it to me and I wasn't born with that knowledge…"

"I know… you say everything you know learned it from your experience, so I want to have my own experience to learn things…"

"You will have it, Gou. Everything can be a new experience, and you don't have to get into what you know is trouble to get it, you don't have to let yourself have a bad time in order to get to a new experience… those things happen, Gou, and you don't need to force things. This time, it already happened, and I know you'll learn a lot from this… because you're smart, son."

"Dad… I'm so sorry I disappointed you…"

"Oh but you didn't disappointed me… you just did something I wasn't expecting, it was a big surprise to find out you were in Russia and you were following the man that once was my trainer… I thought you were with your mother at that time and that's all…"

"but dad, you looked furious.."

"Any father who loves his son will look furious when he does something that's bad for himself… I love you, Gou, and I don't like when bad things happen to my family… that's why I kept running away when you were ten… if they don't recruit you when you're that age, they believe you're useless and there's nothing more to be done."

"But I'm going to be fourteen and Boris wanted to get me into the tube…"

"Because you're my son, and there's no worse thing that Boris could make me than recruiting a member of my family. You have to understand, that man wants to destroy my life because I ruined all his plans… I left him when he was about finishing his project of world dominance, and I was the only one who could control black Dranzer."

"Black Dranzer…? He named it. Dad, you think I could control it?"

"Black Dranzer is a very powerful bitbeast. Nevertheless, I guess you could control it with some training… but I wouldn't like you to do it."

"No? -his eyes opened in shock.- I thought you would be proud of me if I could…"

"I would be proud of you if you can make Dranzer stronger, and you're already making it. But black Dranzer is a blade that belongs to the dark, and there's where it must be kept. Don't think again of testing it… it's something that must remain where it is."

"you used it?"

"Yes… I used Black Dranzer for a short time, when I went back to the abbey when I was fourteen. Just like you, except I was looking for answers, you were looking for power…"

"Dad… I'm so sorry."

Kai turned to him and rounded his shoulders with his right arm, then pulling him against his chest and embracing him. "It's ok Gou… every mistake has it's explanation." He sighed and kissed his forehead, pressing him tighter against his body. That was a feeling he wanted to last forever…


"I'm hungry!!" complained Makoto, lying on his bed. Ray laughed. He was so alike his father…

"I guess we should be going to the airport, and we can also call the girls to tell them everyone's ok." Tala smiled. He clutched his cell phone and dialed Monica's number.

"Tala's right. As soon as those two come inside, we'll leave this place and go to the airport… there are three women waiting for us on Hong Kong, and we should be there as soon as possible. Makoto, why don't you call your brother and tell him you're with us? He can go for you to Hong Kong as soon as we arrive" suggested Ray.

"Okay, then I'll prepare everything, and we're leaving." Said Bryan. Ray called to the airport and asked for a BBA personal plane to be ready for them in half an hour.


Okay, that's it. Then it comes the epilogue… I wasn't supposed to tell that but well…

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Thank you for all the support you gave me in the making of this story.

Mikaera.