Okay, I realised I hadn't updated this in a while so I thought I better get round to it for all the lovely people who have reviewed so far.
Cries of a loner
By EpitomeOfMisery
Chapter IX: Hurt them, hurt me
A door.
One door.
That's all it was, a door.
What was a door? A barrier, separating one thing from another.
Separating the rest of the G revolutions from Kai. That's all that kept them from helping their team mate… this one door.
"Argh, there's a door in the way!" Daichi exclaimed, making the others sweat drop.
"Well done, Daichi. I hadn't noticed." Tyson remarked sarcastically.
"So how are we going to get in?" Max asked, staring up at the high double doors.
"Same way I bashed open the gates!" Daichi said enthusiastically, jumping up and punching the air.
"Hey guys!" Kenny called. "According to my analysis, there's a minor weak spot in the structure of this building. Just round the side there should be a space used for ventilation with a covering that's only made of thin metal."
"Alright!" Tyson cheered. "We can break through some flimsy bit of metal with one hit from Dragoon! Lead the way, Chief."
"Lord Voltaire," called a smartly dressed guard. "Six youngsters have been spotted sneaking around the property. They somehow broke through the main gate and took our main security systems; they were spotted by the hidden cameras."
"Hm, friends of yours, young Kai?" The business man smirked down at the Russian. "How delightful, your little friends have come to the rescue. Unfortunately, who will rescue them?"
"Don't you hurt them?" Kai growled, trying to get up before he was forced down by two of the guards.
Voltaire turned to the guard who had come with the message. "Have them captured and brought directly to me. It's time I showed my grandson the price of disobeying family loyalty."
The boy in the hard wood chair shrunk down slightly, his hair hanging over his eyes, shadowing them.
Dranzer glowed in her blade, feeling the sadness radiate from her master. Only the fiery phoenix could saw the crystal tears that formed in the Russians darkened eyes. He was trying so hard not to cry, but a single tear slipped down a pale painted cheek.
Kai, I'll be back, don't worry…
Before the blader even had time to register the words he heard in his mind, the crimson phoenix had vanished.
"Quit shoving me, Tyson!"
"Daichi!" Hillary barked. "We have to be quiet!"
"Well tell Tyson to stop pushing me then!" Daichi growled.
"I wouldn't be pushing if you would climb faster!" Tyson argued, giving Daichi another shove up the wall.
Daichi scrambled up the concrete, hand stretched up before him. "I'm trying! It's too high!"
Tyson gritted his teeth as Daichi shoved his foot in the world champ's face as he tried to climb the wall.
Max sighed as he watched Daichi practically standing on Tyson's head as he tried to reach the vent that was their only way in.
"AAAAH!" Daichi screamed as he fell and hit the floor with a thud.
"Daichi, I told you to be quiet!" Hillary lectured.
"Hey, that wasn't my fault! Tyson was the one who kept moving and made me fall!" Daichi protested, rubbing his head where it had hit the ground.
Ray, who until now had been standing impatiently, had had enough. At this rate it would be too late for Kai. He moved toward Tyson who was still standing below the vent and took a leap at the wall. His Neko-jin abilities giving him extra height as he gripped the wall with his hands and used his foot to push of Tyson's shoulder, the other one of his head.
"Hey, careful, Ray!" Tyson called, rather annoyed at being used as a ladder without so much as a warning.
Ray hauled himself up and pulled at the metal covering over the vent, wrenching it off and discarding in onto the floor before scrambling into the small hole.
The other beamed at their team mate's success and quickly helped each other up as the person before leant down and pulled the next up.
The six teenagers slowly crawled through the tunnel like gap, Ray in the lead.
"Hey guys, there's an entrance to the room below," Ray called, indicating another metal vent on the floor of the tunnel.
They moved forward and Ray looked down. Below them was an exquisite room with a black table surrounded by large leather chairs, before a large window with expensive velvet curtains hanging either side. The room was large and had a lot of floor space, coated in similar velvet.
"Wow, is that Voltaire's meeting room or something?" Tyson exclaimed, peering as best he could over Ray's shoulder.
Ray nodded. "It's not what we're here for, let's carry on."
They moved forward, carefully over the vent. Ray, Tyson and Max all edged along but Daichi decided to peer into the space below, leaning on the vent to hard, causing it to swing open.
For the second time that day the young red head screamed as he fell, dangling from the vent as Hillary and Kenny grabbed his legs.
"Daichi, just what do you think you're doing?" Hillary cried, attempting to pull the small boy up again.
"AAAH! Don't let me fall!" Daichi screamed, waving his arms around as he hung above the large black table.
At this inopportune moment the door to the room opened and a guard stepped in, a shocked expression crossing his face at the extremely unexpected sight of a world class blader hanging upside down from the vent in the ceiling.
"Hey, just what do you think you're doing?!" The man shouted.
"Way to go, Daichi, now they know we're here!" Tyson accused, glaring at the small boy.
Kenny lost his grip on Daichi, making him too much for Hillary to hold so the boy tumbled down onto the table top.
"AAH! DAICHI!" Kenny screamed. "We've got to go after him!"
"No other choice," Tyson said, jumping down after his tag team partner.
"Guys, wait! What about Kai!" Ray called, watching the other follow Tyson's lead.
"You go find him, Ray, we'll keep security busy!" Max promised, following his friends.
Ray blinked in confusion before nodding determinedly, carrying on through the tunnel.
RAY!
The Neko-jin stopped as he heard that abrupt voice in his mind. Golden eyes darted around, trying to find the source.
Ray, please, Kai needs your help.
Wh-Who are you? Ray thought back, utterly confused.
Dranzer. Please, help my master.
What do you think I'm doing?
Please, Ray, I know Voltaire, The cooing voice spoke, He is powerful, you will not be able to just rush in and take Kai back, it is not as simple.
Then what?
You must get Kai to fight alongside you.
Wouldn't he anyway?
Voltaire can be manipulating, he will have convinced Kai that there is no reason to go back.
No.
Yes. The bit beast replied solemnly. But Kai trust you. You are the only one who stands a chance to convince my master otherwise.
I'll get Kai back, if it's the last thing I do.
My master is glad to have a friend like you. But please, listen before you act. Hear all that is said first.
Okay, but I don't even know how to get there yet.
Just follow me.
Ray felt a tug of energy before him and followed the aura of Dranzer before coming to another vent above a large office. He looked down and gasped as he saw Kai being practically pinned to a chair by two guards. Before them was Voltaire.
Ray kept to his promise and sat listening, before he would intervene.
"Now Grandson, your little friends will pay the price for your treachery."
Kai said nothing. Did nothing.
"Well, Grandson-"
"I'm not your grandson." Kai growled suddenly.
Voltaire suddenly moved around the desk, standing over Kai before slapping him across the face.
The skin of his cheek turned red beneath the triangles. There was thin line where the single tear had trickled through the face paint on the left side of his face, leaving the paint slightly faded.
"Well, it seems you've been manipulated by the weaklings in this world. When you deny your family heritage, you must face the consequences. You are better than these mortals, you are a Hiwatari!" Voltaire cried.
"I don't deny my heritage. I am a Hiwatari. What I deny is you." Kai argued, his hair once again shadowing his eyes and the tears that lined his lashes.
Voltaire grabbed the boy by the front of his scarf, forcing him to look up. "You fool, you have become weak, manipulated by the ideas of freedom from this pathetic world!"
"The only one manipulating is you." Kai growled. "And you're manipulating me no longer!"
Voltaire's eyes darkened. "It seems I have underestimated the influence of those 'friends' of yours. We can't have that, can we?"
"From being with them I saw a whole new world, their world. They play the sport of beyblading for fun. It's just a game to them. I know they don't care a bit about me but there is no reason for them to be brought into this. My world is cruel, so leave it as my world." Kai begged, his voice strong yet desperate.
"I'm sorry, Kai." Ray whispered from above. "But I can't do that. I've thrown myself into your world and I'm going to pull you out of it with me."
Tears formed in the golden orbs.
"You're wrong. We do care."
Okay, weird chapter, maybe. I know there was quite a lot of humour bits with Tyson and the others but I thought it kept them in character, at least I hope.
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