Z Star: Once again I am sorry for the late update. I was dragged to Egypt for a week against my free will and I got a bit behind, so I'm REALLY SORRY!
Kai: Too bad you couldn't stay there.
Z Star: Up yours!
Tyson: You tell him girl! (High five's Z Star)
Kai: Ooh I'm shaking in my boots! Note the sarcasm.
Z Star: Shut up and do the disclaimer.
Kai: Whatever, Z Star The Hidden Dragon owns nothing but her OC's and this stupid plot. Can I go now?
Z Star: Sure sweetie! (Pinches his cheek and then turns to the readers) You guys are really going to hate me after this chapter!
Tyson: She's going to be breaking some hearts! So if you're fainthearted leave now…
Chapter Eight: Drawn To Darkness
KAI'S POV
It was a cold dark night in Moscow; the streets were empty, almost dead. I ran down the road (Since there were no cars at this time of night), and did not stop until I reached the Abbey. The only place I've ever been scared of… oh well, I guess we've all got to face our fears sooner or later… that's what I was talking about in the beginning of this story…
But to get inside I still had to get past the stupid guards. One of them had wondered from the group blocking my way in. Hmm… I have an idea!
"Hey buddy!" I yelled, the guard looked over at me with a confused look. "Yeah you! Has anyone told you, you're the ugliest pig I've ever seen!"
"What did you say!" The guard growled. He jumped at me to attack, before I tripped him over and karate chopped him on the head. He was knocked out on the floor temporarily, not to awake for hours. In the meantime I decided to borrow his clothes, I'm sure he won't mind.
Now in the guard's clothes I walked past the unsuspecting watchman easily. Hahahahaha suckers! Now that I'm inside I can take off this disgusting looking garment! Now let's see… where should I go first? This is like a maze… I know; I'll try going down this hall. I took one step but couldn't continue.
"W-what's wrong with me?" I asked myself. I wanted to go in, but something in me didn't want to. "I-I'm afraid to go in! But why am I afraid? I've got to know!" I convinced over and over again, that the only way to sort things out is to go in there.
Unwillingly I went further, the place seemed to look more and more like a cave. Down the rocky halls I saw a strange light peering from a room. I hid behind the rock walls and took a look inside.
Oh my God…
"A laboratory beneath the abbey? That explains all the security...and I'm beginning to feel like one of the lab mice!" I gasped.
I ventured further and took a look into another one of the rooms. Big mistake. I wish I never set eyes in it.
Oh sweet merciful Lord…
I saw a room full of animals in cages, their spirits being slowly drained. It was so awful to watch, even I cant' stand watching animals being tortured. It was so cruel. They looked so lifeless. (A.N: Remember that guard in chapter 3? Well this has a connection to him if you know what I mean;) )
"Oh my gosh! They can't do this!" I whispered. Who would allow such a thing like this to happen? I didn't know then… even when the answer was right under my nose!
Suddenly I heard a chant coming from further inside. What I saw next really pissed me off. In a huge room there were a couple of kids that were my age and even some of them were as young as Raven. They were training under the harshest conditions imaginable, being forced to chant these very words…
"Victory is life, defeat our enemies. Victory is life, defeat our enemies..."
What the hell is going on here! Is this some mad house or something? Maybe this is why Pleo wanted me to stay away… wait… that chant… this building… Boris… all these things seem so familiar… If Pleo and me grew up together… and she is associated with this place… and might live here… bloody hell!
"Now I know why this place seemed so familiar, I know why this place haunts my dreams..."
I slowly backed away when I bumped into something that made me want to be sick. I quickly turned around and there he was. Boris. A man who does not fail to disgust me.
"B-Boris." He took off his ridiculous hat and put on his frightening goggles. Now everything came back. All those horrible memories.
"No...I-I grew up in this abbey..." I whispered falling on my knees.
"That's right..." Boris sneered. "Welcome back...ha ha ha ha!"
That laugh made everything come back, to being starved to death to being nearly beaten to the death… 'Shudders' and as if this information wasn't enough, old man Boris kept feeding me poison about my past. I didn't want to listen to him, but it was all true…
"Boris, you may think you know me. But I barely remember you or this Abbey." I lied glaring up at the corrupt man. How dare he smirk at me and look down at me as if I was nothing… now I kind of know how Pleo feels…
Now to add more insult, he tried to recruit me on this ridiculous team called 'The Demolition Boys'. I'm already stuck with one team of idiots, what's the point of moving to another one? I cannot believe how Boris is pretending to be 'the nice guy', that pervert went so far to even touch my face!
I quickly slapped his hand away "I've had enough with these little games Boris!" I yelled in disgust, I turned to run deeper into the Abbey's dark underground. I was in pitch-black darkness until I reached a lighted room. I knew I was being watched. The crazy psycho had put cameras everywhere.
I heard his voice again, still trying to lure me to his side.
"Well, I'm not like those beybladers. I'm better and you know it." I said confidently, and it was true.
"Kai, I will give you anything you want, if you do something for me."
I was quiet for one moment until…
"Hehehe… hehehe… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hahaha! I had to hold my stomach to stop me from myself from busting a gut!
"What makes you laugh?" Boris growled.
"How ridiculous you are Boris. If you think you can buy me, then you know me less than you think you do." I reached into my pocket to find Dranzer and my launcher. "I'm tired of being toyed with. Go DRANZER!" With one swipe of my beyblade I took out the surveillance camera and ran away again in a narrow corridor. Now Boris had another surprise for me.
"Let's see if you're up to speed, Kai." I could sense Boris was smirking. Before I knew it electric lasers came out from no where shooting across the hall. What the hell is this for?
"You underestimate me Boris!" I smirked, running across the hall, dodging the lasers with ease. But that wasn't all I had to endure, Boris had another test for me. Gun like launchers were being pointed at me as soon as I reached the end of the hall. Was I scared? No way…
"These automatically generated launchers are designed to be more accurate than any human being and all of them are aimed situmtaneously at you! If you agree to join Biovolt now Kai, I won't make you face this arsenal of Beyblades until you're ready.
"I am ready."
I prepared my Beyblade to attack all those automatically accurate launchers are all aimed at me. It was so easy defeating them, where the challenge? Is Boris just trying to get on my nerves? I know he wants me for something, besides joining Biovolt.
"Listen, I've got better things to do!"
"Hn." Was all Boris said. "Let's see how you handle this."
Boris ordered another army of beyblades that rained down on me. Was this some kind of a joke?
"Fire Beyblades?" I scoffed. "A word to Boris. Stop wasting my time! LET IT RIP, GO DRANZER!" Dranzer sliced through beyblade after beyblade and I ducked and dodged for my blade to pick it up and launch again.
"How am I doing Boris?" With my Dranzer I recklessly ripped and teared through those launchers and Beyblades, I was slowly heaving in exhaustion, but I was not tired enough to roll over and let Boris walk all over me!
"Had enough yet? Well, I have!" I yelled at Boris, gasping for breath.
Behind me was a pile of broken beyblades, I rested for a moment, more thoughts from my past coming back… then I thought about my life, not listening to Boris's taunts.
"So I strive perfection, which serious Beyblader doesn't? Maybe I do spend more time searching for the perfect balance between blade and technique than the average Beyblader does. I just can't shake this feeling that the deeper I go into this Abbey, the strongest my attack gets. There must be a reason for it. I've got to find out. And I won't let Boris stop me!"
Boris and me did some more trash talking, sorry I couldn't tell you the whole conversation but it wasn't too suitable for the younger generation.
"Your lousy maze is over. Got it? Sayonara! I'll let the door hit me on my way out." I yelled at Boris. Right after I get some answers. For some reason, my skills are increasing as I get deeper into this Abbey. But why? I'm so close to figuring it out that I can taste it.
I continued down the Abbey, not caring how exhausted I was. Down the last hallway I felt something overcome me. I was drawn to this large, steel door. I opened it and I was greeted by nothing but darkness. And I liked it. I was drawn to it.
"At least let me shed some light on the situation. You come searching on the answers to your dark past and you don't even bring a flashlight? And you call yourself prepared." Boris came in standing behind me, switching the lights on. So I went in further and there it was. Right in front of me, chained up.
"That blade...it...it can't be...it's Black Dranzer..." I whispered gaping at the thing that's been haunting my dreams since I can remember. "This is what lured me here...Black Dranzer!"
Now I knew why I couldn't recall this place, or anyone from my past.
"I must've compressed the memory, and why wouldn't I after what happened? It was a big day for us when the scientists first tested Black Dranzer. It had just been created and we couldn't wait to see it perform its first trial run. At first it didn't make much of an impression, it looked like any other blade, nothing special..." I said, everything was starting to make more sense.
"...Until it finally got down to business. I never saw a Beyblade as powerful as Black Dranzer. It had perfect spin, perfect balance, perfect everything. I was mesmerised by it. While the others performed the ultimate training test I did today. I could only sit by and watch. I was too inexperienced to be allowed to try it. And worse, I couldn't stop thinking about Black Dranzer..." That feeling of awe was coming back as I kept staring at that black beyblade. I wanted it. I didn't care what I had to do to get it.
"...I still don't understand why but I was drawn to Black Dranzer like a moth to a flame. I had to experience its power for myself. What happened next would change my life forever." When I was just a child, I snuck into the lab and tried Black Dranzer out for myself. But it left me with a terrible accident.
"You were so traumatised by it, that you left." Boris finished. "But you're stronger now. Look at what you've become, with Black Dranzer, you'd be unstoppable."
I glared up at the middle-aged man standing right next to me.
"And what have you become Boris? A lousy recruiter for another lousy team, that's you, Boris." I growled.
"Perhaps, but, in fact I KNOW you'll join us." Boris smirked.
"Oh yeah?" I challenged him crossing my arms.
"Because I'm about to make you an offer you can't refuse, I'll give you Black Dranzer, Kai."
"But only if..."
"If what?"
"But only if I become a stooge for Biovolt, right?" I started yelling. "You never give up, do you Boris? The thought of joining your pathetic team disgusts me. I could always ignore your pitiful voice Boris, but I can't ignore this, Black Dranzer. All right, Black Dranzer's all mine and I'm all yours, now unlock it!"
Yes, I sold my self for a Beyblade. I told you, I didn't care what I had to do to get it! I held Black Dranzer in my hand, as I gazed upon it. Now I have it under my control I will be unbeatable! With it I knocked down the brick columns into the ground, just like I'll do to my opponents!
"It's like putting on an old shoe. Familiar, comfortable, but in this case, the shoe is a steel-toed boot, and my kicks are gonna hit their mark hard, with ultimate perfection." I cackled to myself.
As the raw power of Black Dranzer pulses through my veins, I became one a merciless, blood thirsty beyblader. But then… I thought about my team-mates… what were they going to think… HA! Who gives a damn? They can go to hell for all I care! I don't need them to bring me to the top anymore. I only stuck with the Bladebreakers for as long as I did to get this far.
(A.N: Doesn't that last sentence make you wanna kill him?)
"It's all so clear to me now, I was meant to wield this kind of power...and more importantly I was destined to do it alone…"
So now you know. Don't look at me like that! I don't care what you guys think, you would stabbed your friends in the back too if you had chance to gain so much power. Do you know what it's like to search for something for years and then you finally find it? Now that I have it, I'll never let it go!
PLEO'S POV
Inside my cell I stared up at the crumbling ceiling on my bed, it was 10 minutes before curfew. Right now Alexander is probably on a boat or train to get away from Moscow forever and be reunited with his father. It's funny how some things turn out like a fairytale… maybe I'll send him a letter when I get the chance and hear how he's doing.
I wonder how Kai is doing though… I know he would never break a promise to me, but I'm still worried of what Boris might do to him. Kai's curiosity has always gotten the better of him. That was the reason why he left.
"Hey Pleo!"
"Huh?" I looked over at Ian standing in the doorway, I sat up and asked "Oh, what is it Ian?"
"Boris said there's a visitor for you in the basement. He want's you to go down there right now." Ian said. Who could he be talking about?
"Ok Ian I'm coming." I wonder who's this so-called visitor? Ian seemed pretty nervous, more then usual. He didn't even come with me to the basement. Eh, he probably has better things to do. My Father couldn't be the one who's waiting for me and it couldn't be my Mum… It couldn't be Kai, since I begged him to not go anywhere near the Abbey. But… he didn't say he would do what I asked… but I trust him… so… who else do I know outside the Abbey? I guess I'm about to find out…
I've never gone this deep into the Abbey before, but I'm sure Ian gave me the right directions, he's never wrong about this kind of this stuff. The further I went the more dark it became. I definitely don't like this! I hugged myself, feeling a cold shiver down my back. I can't let this darkness get to me! If I faced it last time, I could do it again… but Alexander was with me last time.
No! I can be brave. I've faced worse then this. Heehee, Kai would be telling me off right now and telling me to pull myself together. He's probably still be laughing at the fact that I'm still afraid of the dark!
Oh great, now I keep thinking about Kai almost all the time, thanks to Martin! If anyone were listening to my thoughts they'd think I was crazy over Kai. But I'm not… I don't love Kai that way. He's like my family, when we were young he always looked after with Tala, even though I didn't need their help. They knew I could take care of myself, but they protected me anyway. So Kai is my family, not the love of my life.
"The way you keep going on about him, it sure sounds like it!" I blushed at that comment, but this time I was going to be calm.
Not now Frostic Dranzer, you can annoy me later.
"Haha, will do!"
I shook my head. Sometimes I wonder about that old bird. At the end of the dark tunnel was the steel door. I reached out to grab the handle and pulled the door towards me. More darkness greeted me inside the room. I looked inside and there was a dark figure standing in the distance. It turned towards me and slowly came into the light that was supplied by the moonlight.
"Kai?" I gasped. There he was, with a dark smirk on his face. In his hand he clutched onto something. It was Black Dranzer! "Kai! Please tell me you didn't trade yourself for that beyblade!"
An evil gleam shone in Kai's eyes, as if he was possessed. I'd never seen him like this before.
"Ok I won't." He sneered.
"Kai you have to fight the temptation! Don't let yourself be drawn to darkness like this!" I pleaded.
"Why should I? Now I have the most powerful bitbeast in the world! And I am never going to let that kind of power go!" Kai said, clutching to Black Dranzer harder.
"But what about Dranzer and the Bladebreakers!" I said. "And Mr. Dickinson!"
"Let me give you some advice Pleo. Don't go through life being loyal and doing the right thing, because it gets you nowhere!" Kai snapped at me. "And don't count on anyone, not your friends or your family, because they will only hold you back!"
Those words ripped out my heart in a second.
"But Kai… what about our friendship?" I whimpered. He just glared at me and turned away from me.
"It was great while it lasted. But I've out grown Dranzer and putting up with the Bladebreakers. And I've out grown you…" Now I was heartbroken.
"Fine." I said holding back a sob. "Go to hell!" I screamed running back to my cell. All the feelings I had for Kai were gone. First he forgot I excised and now he ends our friendship. I'm not sure I want to be friends with someone who abandons their team-mates and a bitbeast who has loyally served through all their beyblade battles.
He abandoned the people who cared about him. Fine Kai, if you want to be the most powerful beyblader in the world I'll let you. Even if it means losing all your friends…
I'm starting to see the mean bully who tortured me since I can remember. I hate you Kai Hiwatari… you're not who you used to be… you've been drawn to darkness and you let the darkness win…
End of Chapter Eight
Z Star: Again, I would like to say I am really sorry for updating so late! Tell me off if you want I deserve it!
Tala: Hell yeah you do!
Z Star: Shut up! Oh and I didn't remember everything that happened in the episode Drawn Darkness, so I used some quotes from a website called Destination beyblade! So if you got a little confused sorry! DB is an awesome website, google it!
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