Chapter 9: Connections to the past

The sun shines brightly in the sky the day after Zander and Ray's match. In the park kids are playing Beyblade and having fun and at the same time Kai is laying on the grass behind some bushes so he is out of site from anyone when he hears someone coming his way.

"So, it was you." Kai said as he now got up.

"Yeah, I guess you did see me then." Yira now said calmly.

"I suppose your here because of Zander." Kai now said with not much care in his words.

"That's not the only reason." Yira said to him.

"Hm." Is all Kai says as he goes to walk away but then stops. "I'm guessing you know about Zander's past and how he knows Boris." Kai now said without turning round.

Yira seemed somewhat surprised by this but understood what he wants to know straight away. "Yeah, I know most of his past back then. To be honest, I'm surprised he hasn't told you all about it since you are the main reason he is doing all this." Yira now said as Kai turned round.

"He won't tell me anything but since yesterday I have some kind of idea now." Kai now said to Yira. "I know you will tell me and confirm that I am right." He now said as he crossed his arms.

"Ha, so you were waiting for me to come then." Yira said with a grin. "Your right, I will tell you because in a way you have a right to know." She now said to him. "I think it will be best if I start from the beginning, when Zander was first taken in." Yira now said as she now remembers the building.

Yira was now rushing down a corridor until she came to a door and then opened it without knocking. "What is the meaning of this?" She now yelled as she slamed her hands on the desk which Borris was now sitting at.

Borris now sighs and looks up at her with annoyed eyes. "The meaning of what?" He now asks.

"I just heard that you brought a kid here without any permission to do so." Yira now said with an outraged look.

"O, the boy, yes we did and it wasn't up to me to do so though even I can tell he has talant just by looking at him and he was pretty much dead when we found him. Regardless, it is not your place to say anything anyway or have you forgotten that?" Borris now asks her with confidence that she won't fight back.

"No" Yira just managed to say through her teeth.

"Good, your job is to only make sure that those boys are making progress and are doing their training. I would also suggest that you don't connect with them to much, it might get in the way of our work." Borris now says to her with a look of victory over is underling, as he would like to think of them.

"Whatever." Yira now says as she heads out of the door and slams it behind her.

"Foolish women, this kid is everything we could have hoped for and even if you fail with him, I am positive it will not matter." Borris now said with a smile.

"I can't believe they would do such a thing, I knew they were bastards but I didn't think they would fall this low." Yira said as she was storming down the corridor unaware that Kai had been listening to what was said in there but he soon disappears before he gets spotted.

A few days later, Yira is heading towards where Kai and his Tala's group should be but suddenly comes to a stop at a thick metal door where some banging seemed to be coming from the other side. "What the...?" She now said as she went closer to the door to hear it better and then realist it was someone punching the door. At this point Yira tried to open the door but it was lock as she thought it would be but she also noticed that the punching had stopped.

"Who's there?" A boys voice now asked through the door which Yira just managed to hear him.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to do anything." Yira quickly said to not scare the boy.

"Then who are you?" the boy now asks.

"My name is Yira, I just work here and do whatever they tell me too." Yira said with a smile.

"How can I trust you?" The boy now asked Yira.

"Honestly, it's a bit pointless asking me that, it would be up to you if you trusted me or not since I can't exactly proof that you can trust me when you are behind that door and can't see me." Yira said sarcastically.

"That's something that someone you can trust says." The boy now says.

Yira was surprised by this but knew that she might have little time left to talk to him. "Before I have to go, What is your name?" Yira now asked politely.

"Zander Soulwind." Zander said back to her. "Can you help me get out of here?" He now asked Yira.

"I could try and help you but Boris seems to be keeping you distant from all the others but I will see what I can do." Yira said in reply.

"Thanks." Zander now said to her.

"Hey, I'm used to having to help kids here. Anyway, I'll have to go before someone comes along, I'll speak to you again soon." Yira said as she quickly but quietly left the area and as she did she past Kai who was listening in again as she was going without even noticing he was there but this time he ran after her.

"Mind telling me what is going on?" Kai's voice now asked behind Yira which made her jump but soon sighed a breathe of relief as she saw it was just Kai.

"You were listening in, weren't you." She said as she put her hand over her face. "I guess I shouldn't be to surprised, you do this all the time after all." She now siad as she took her hand away from her face to see Kai's small but sharp looking eyes and then she sighed again. "Fine, it's simply that Borris has taken in another boy but this time it seems like he is keeping him from the rest of you." Yira explained to Kai.

"Why?" Kai asked with him arms now crossed.

"I don't know yet but I will find out what he is planning with Zander as soon as I can." Yira said with a serious face.

"Zander?" Kai now said with interest in the name.

"Yeah, sounds like a strong kid, huh?" Yira said as she knows that's all that Kai thinks about, someone who would be a challenge for him to face.

"Hm...are you really going to help him?" Kai now asked her.

"That's the plan but I don't know if that will be possible, he seems to have him under lock down and I've seen them take me out of that room but I have no idea where they take him." Yira said as she was now thinking it over.

"Can you promise me something?" Kai now asked with his serious eyes.

"Eh, sure, what is it?" Yira now asked with surprise to this.

"Will you help him get out of here too?" Kai now asked.

Yira was taken back by this and just looked at Kai for a seconds and then replied. "Eh, sure, I'll do my best to do that." Yira now said with a smile.

"Good, then it's a promise." Kai now said as he turned round and walked away.

The next day Yira is about to go round the corner to where Zander's room is but she stops and quickly goes back round the corner because Kai is now standing infront of the thick metal door. "Who is it? Yira?" Zander now asks through the door with a happy but weak voice.

"No, My name is Kai, I am one of those ones forced to train here." Kai said but didn't get a reply back from Zander. "Has he been getting you to use a Beyblade?" He now asked.

"Bey...Blade?" Zander now asked in confusion.

"The little spinning top thing." Kai now said with a grumpy face because Zander didn't even know what a beyblade was.

"The little spinning top thing? How cute." Yira now says to herself with a silly face.

"Eh...Yeah." Zander simply replied with.

"Good, then from this point on, we are rivals." Now said as he now turned round and started to walk away as behind the door, Zander's eyes seemed to come a bit more to life and he was a bit surprised as well. Yira was also surprised but soon smiled afterwards.

"How like you Kai but then maybe that was the best thing." Yira now said as she turned and started to head down the corridor. "Guess I don't need to say anything to him today." She now simply said as she disappeared.

A week later and nothing different has changed, Zander was still taken in and out of the room without any other info on what Borris is doing. "What are you playing at?" Yira asks as she is walking down a corridor where no one is and has her hands against the back of her head.

"Yira." Borris now said in a calm voice behind her as she flinched and then turned round.

"Yes sir?" Yira now asks in a silly way.

"Stupid acting stupid and follow me." Borris simply said as he turned round and started to walk down the corridor as Yira just followed, wondering what this was about. They both said nothing as they now came to a coded door which Borris now typed in the code and the door opened.

"I've never been here before, what is this?" Yira now asked as she looked at the computers and excise machines that looked more like torture devices.

"That's because this is where we train Zander." Borris now said as he points to his side and Yira looks through a window to see Zander standing next to a stadium holding a launcher. This is the first time she has gotten to see him and she is shocked to see how skinning he is but then she notices that his arm and leg muscles are bigger when you look closer but she could also tell they were throbbing from pain and that he had some very heavy heights on his wrists that he now seemed to be having a hard time holding up..

"This is awful." Yira said with angry eyes but she soon dropped the anger so no one saw her.

"This is why I didn't want to show you any of this but Voltaire told me to show you just so you know but he doesn't want you getting connected to him or even going near him. Regardless of that, the main thing I am going to show you is the beyblade, since you have more knowledge on them." Borris said as he walked up to the door and typed in the code for this door and as it opened Yira only saw one thing inside which was a beyblade sitting in a glass protector in the middle of them room. Borris now went up to it and lifted the glass up and took the Beyblade out and walked back to Yira. "This is the one we call Meteor Dragon, the one that Zander is to use since he is the only one who can." Borris said to her.

"What do you mean he is the only one who can?" Yira now asked with crossed arms but didn't stop looking at the bright red beyblade with a Bit beast that did pretty much look like a Meteor coated dragon.

"What I mean is that everyone else who has tried to use it has failed completely or worse, been seriously hurt by it as if to say that it is an insult to put it in the hands of someone so weak." Borris explained as he turned it round so she could see the bottom.

"Well that just means that this one is fussy at who can use it." Yira said with sarcasm.

"I know that and I would watch your tongue if I were you, your lucky to even be here." Borris now hisses at her.

"Yeah, yeah, regardless, I've seen enough, I'll think it over and let you know what the secret to this one might be." Yira now said as Borris now took it back and put it back under the glass before walking out of the room and closing the door.

"Good and I know you will figure it out since you were the one to figure out Dranzer after all." Borris said with a smile as they now headed towards the exit.

"Yeah, I guess I did, didn't I." Yira said as she walked out the first door they went in but the door closed behind her. "Oh and when I say I got what I needed I meant it." She now said to herself with a smile. She now started to walk along the balcony at the middle of the building where the kids trained in the outside area and then she heard voices she knew all to well.

"What is Borris up to lately, we've been able to sneak around and do more stuff than normal." Tala now said as Yira could just hear them since she was above them.

"Yeah, I've even managed to just sit there watching the others train and they haven't noticed." Spencer said to them.

"Yeah, it is kind of weird but I doubt we will ever find out or that it will last that much longer." Bryan now said.

"It's because of Zander." Kai said as they all looked at him surprised as he had his eyes closed, arms crossed and was against the wall.

"Zander?" Tala now said in a question way.

"Someone that Borris bought in and has been keeping from the rest of us." Kai now replied with.

"Why would he be doing that?" Bryan now asked.

"I don't know but Yira is trying to find out." Kai now told them.

"Yira! Eh, then I'm sure she will get to the bottom of what is going on." Tala said as he seemed to be confident and the others didn't bother to say anything after that.

A few months later, Yira is running two where Kai would normally be at this time which he was right where she thought he was. "Kai, it's time." Yira said as Kai turned and looked at her and he seemed to know exactly what she meant.

"What have you planned?" Kai now asked as he waited for her reply.

"I messed about with a few things where no one really goes that will get most of their attention and that won't be known as someone messing with it, once you hear it you will have to move." Yira said as she pulled out a Beyblade. "Take Dranzer since he is yours and make sure they never get hold of it again." She now said as she handed it over and Kai put it away.

"What about you?" Kai now asked as he thought she would at least be taking him outside the area so they can't find him and he would at least go his own way then.

"I have something I have to do and someone I have to get out as well, once they know that you're gone that is." Yira now winked at him as an explosion was heard on the other side of the building. "Alright, that's it, the gap you will have is small so you should get moving now." Yira now said as Kai nodded and turned to run but someone was in front of him.

"You're leaving, aren't you?" Claire now said as she didn't seem like she was going to let him go.

"Yeah, I am." Kai simply replied back with.

"I won't let you go." Claire now said as she spread out her arms as if to stop him though she couldn't block the corridor.

"Claire, we don't have time for this and you know Borris has just been using him from the start." Yira now said as she was annoyed that this would happen of all times.

"I know but…" Claire now said as she went silent.

"I'm sure you will both meet again one day but for now Kai must leave this place." Yira now said with a calm and gentle voice. Claire said nothing to this and just lowered her arms to let Kai past. Yira now watched Kai start to run past her and when he passes Claire she thought she heard him say 'thank you'. Once Kai had gone Yira turned round and ran off to her next location.

About ten minutes later, Yira arrived at the security door where she was shown the Beyblade and where they had been training Zander. She now typed something on the terminal and the door now opened and she went through in a run, she came across one person who tried to stop her but she managed to knock him out with ease and then went to the next security door and typed in the password for that which worked and she now entered the room with just the Beyblade in it. "Borris, you are stupid when it comes to securing stuff, did you think for one moment that I couldn't see what you were typing into the terminal, or did you just think that it was impossible for someone to tell with just seeing the fingers move." Yira now said as she picked up the Beyblade and looked at it for a few seconds before putting it in her pocket and leaving the area with the keys to the door. A few minutes after she opens the metal door to find Zander sitting on the bed that he had that was more like a prisons bed, she quickly looked at the rest of the room to see a toilet and a small sink but that was about it.

"Who are you?" Zander now asked with more interest than fear since he had never seen her before and he had this way of telling good people from the bad.

Yira now looked back at Zander the moment he said something and then remembered that they had to be quick. "I'm Yira but right now we need to get you out of here as quick as we can." She now said as she went up to him, grabbed him by the hand and pulled him along behind her as fast as possible but also slow enough so that Zander could keep to his feet.

"Where are we going?" Zander now asked as you could see the pain in his face from the running because of the pain he goes through with the training but he kept going anyway.

"I'm not going anywhere but you're going as far away from this place as possible." Yira said without looking back at him as they came out into the sun outside the building and some people can be heard that seem to be looking for Kai because of what they are saying.

"What, but why would you stay here?" Zander now asked as he could tell that she would be in trouble if she stayed.

"Don't worry; I won't be staying for that much longer." Yira said with a smile as she let go of Zander's hand. "You should get moving before it's to late, it won't take much long for that guy to wake up or for Borris to notice but I know you will make it and I'm sure we will meet again one day." She now said as Zander simply nodded and start to run towards the trees so that he could get away without being seen.

"Well, that's all I can tell you, that rest is hidden within Zander's mind." Yira now said in the present time.

"Then it's just as I thought." Kai now said in reply. "In that case I must ask that you don't get in his or my way." He now said as he turned and started to walk away.

"What! How can you say that, I'm sure you know what it means if he goes through with this, he could….." Yira said to argue but was soon stopped by Kai speaking.

"I know that but this is the way it has to be." He now said as he disappeared from her sight and Yira just stayed quiet as she looked at the sky and asked herself why in her head. As Kai continued to walk he thought of that very day, when they had escaped, he meet and challenged Zander there and then at a big rock that was at least ten times their height, maybe more. They both readied their blades and then shoot them but when Zander shoot his he went flying backwards and his Beyblade shamed into Dranzer and high speed and stopped it from spinning as Zander's Beyblade now crashed into the big rock next to them and destroyed most of it, only small bits on each side at the bottom remained as Dranzer now landed on the floor, no longer spinning. With that on his thoughts he pulls Dranzer out and looks at Dranzer for a few seconds before gripping his Beyblade tight. "We will win." Kai now says.

The next day Yira walks out to a small grassy area surrounded by trees where someone was waiting for her. "Well, how did it go?" The guy asked as he was leaning against one of the trees.

"Not that well, in fact, I got the opposite of what I wanted; now Kai doesn't want me getting in the way." Yira said to the person as he gave a little chuckle to this. "What's so funny?" She now asked.

"It's nothing, I just find it ironic that he would say that but from what I can tell he made a promise and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to take that promise back." The guy said with confidence. "The best thing is to just leave them be, sometimes the best way to learn is the hard way." He now said with a smile.

"I guess your right. Anyway, what are you going to do? Aren't you going to go see your brother?" Yira now asked with interest since he sneaked around just as much as she did.

"Nah, it's not time yet but it's not that far off from being time to see him and teach him a few things since I'm sure he'll get hot headed again like he always does." He now said as he stopped leaning against the tree and started to walk off. "Oh and please try not to say anything about me being hear, it's best that he didn't come looking for me." He now added.

"I'll make sure not to but when will we meet again, Hiro?" Yira now asked.

"Ha, I guess when we both finally come out of hiding would be when we can meet again and be with each other but before that we need to keep looking after the little ones." Hiro replied with, with a smile on his face. "Anyway, Shouldn't you be getting to a match round about now since I'm sure they'll be starting any minute now." He now added as he started to disappear into the trees.

"Yeah, I guess so." Yira simply said as she now turned and headed for the stadium where the match was taking place.

Now, inside then stadium there are loud cheers as both Kai and Zander step up to the stadium as it rises to show a huge city that came high enough so that the point of the buildings showed and the people could see it all but low enough so that both Kai and Zander could see what their doing more. Some screens were even placed around the roof area so that some places could be seen on them that people can't see.

"This is it Kai, this is what we have been waiting for all this time and I'm not about to lose." Zander said as his Beyblade was ready to go.

"Hm, not if I can help it." Kai simply replied with as he was now ready and the count down began. Three, two, 0ne.

"Let it Rip!" Both Kai and Zander shouted out.