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INNER FURY OF FIRE

DancerInTheDark101

INNER FURY OF FIRE

Chapter 10: Bryan Returns?

Kai stared about himself as he slowly awakened from his sleep. All around him, all he could see was white walls and white patches of a ceiling. He groaned as he realised that he had in fact been placed back in the hospital he detested so much. Another bed to his right caught his attention and familiar flaming hair peeked out from underneath the traditional white sheets.

Goddamn this place needs to have a serious colour change.

Over on the other side of the room slept two other familiar shapes - Spencer and Ian. They were slumped in the chairs, their faces white and breathing deep and slow. Kai wondered if they were dreaming about their fallen friend. Thinking about Bryan brought back the sorrow that had laced his thoughts before the pain had arrived, but this time he screwed his eyes shut and forced the hurt to the back of his mind. He couldn't afford to be weighed down by hurt at the moment. Not when countless other bladers were in serious trouble. He would be able to mourn Bryan later, once they were all safe.

Biting his lip, the slate-haired Russian pushed himself up onto his elbows. His weakened body protested at the movement, but he ignored the stabs of pain. Blinking as the room spun, Kai realised that he must have been pumped full of painkillers and sleeping pills. Growling at the fact that it had been done without his consent, Kai took in a deep breath, testing how his lungs were operating.

He gave a sigh of relief when no stab of pain accompanied the deep breath. Maybe it was just the painkillers doing their job, but he was grateful all the same. Kai turned his head and looked out the window that was situated above his sleeping friends' heads. The sky was a brilliant shade of blue and small drops of condensation glistened in what looked like the morning sun. His eyes widened as he realised what that signified. He had been asleep all night!

A pain-filled groan reverberated through the silent room and Kai turned his sight to the bed beside his. A movement from under the painfully white sheets signalled that the occupant was either just moving in his sleep or was about to wake. Kai agreed with the latter.

Kai smirked as he won his inner bet. The said occupant of the bed groaned again and a moment later two pools of blue ice cracked open. Tala blinked methodically and suddenly gave a huge yawn. Kai felt his eyes widen a little at the sight of the normally extremely composed Russian yawning like there was no tomorrow. As soon as the teen had finished his unbelievably long yawn, he turned his drug hazed gaze to him and Kai gave Tala a small smile – which actually looked like a smirk, but was a smile in their standards.

"Kai?" the Russian teen whispered. The red head's voice was husky and hoarse and Kai wondered if his was the same. Fortunately, he didn't have to find out as a doctor chose that exact moment to walk through the – once again, white – door.

"Ahh, boys!" he exclaimed as he saw that the two teens were awake, if only slightly. Kai rolled his eyes at the doctor's reaction and got a small snigger from his friend. The doctor frowned at the small noise and Kai couldn't believe how dense the man was. Doctors were supposed to be highly intelligent, but Kai bet on that the man before him couldn't distinguish a common cold from a bad bout of pneumonia.

"It's good to see you are both awake. We were getting quite worried there for a moment." Kai sighed inwardly, but didn't say a thing. He lay back against the pillows and folded his arms across his chest in his supposed 'normal stance.' The only difference being that he was currently lying down. He looked over and saw Tala staring at him, amusement shining in his blue eyes.

The doctor cleared his throat nervously and Kai fought the urge to laugh. The man was a joke. Just because he and Tala hadn't said a word since he had walked in, he was getting nervous. Kai suspected that someone had told the doctor about his and Tala's 'reputation' with being highly uncooperative with hospitals and the staff that worked there. Thinking about it, he couldn't really blame the guy for being nervous. Tala was pretty scary looking…

"Huh-hum." The clearing of the throat continued and Kai glanced over at the doctor and took his appearance in. The man was young; he had sandy blonde hair that was styled and swept out of his face. Visible flesh was nicely tanned and Kai figured that the guy was one of those people who were concerned about their appearance. A pair of murky brown eyes complimented the blonde hair and clashed horribly with the thin, red scar that ran down the side of his tanned face.

A noise caught the doctor's attention and he started walking over to where Spencer and Ian were currently sleeping. Kai frowned at his actions and sat up slowly, not taking his eyes off the moving man. The doctor stopped before he reached the sleeping teens and knelt down. He placed a hand gently on Spencer's shoulder and shook him slightly. Angered, Kai was about to leap out of the bed and yell at the doctor to let them sleep, but a warning glare from Tala stopped him in his tracks.

"Hey, kid?" The doctor whispered quietly. Spencer stirred and opened an eye to glare at the person who had woken him from his sleep. Kai watched on anxiously as the tanned man continued to shake the blonde Russian.

"What?" came the mumbled reply from the half-asleep blader. Kai almost let out a very un-Kai laugh at the response, but he managed to catch himself before it was too late. Tala was also struggling not to laugh. The red head was currently choking on air and Kai watched with a bemused expression as the teen gasped for air, his face red.

"Kai? Tala?"

They both turned at the voice of Spencer. The doctor had managed to wake him up and now he was staring at them both with an almost fish-like expression on his features. Kai cracked a very un-Kai smile that sent Tala into hysterics. As the red head was laughing, Kai nodded to Spencer who in turn shook the youngest of them awake.

Ian came to with Spencer's shaking and Kai thought that the poor boy would be scarred for life, waking to see Tala trying to hold himself together and himself watching with a detached look on his face as if to say 'I don't know him, so why does he look familiar?'

"Are you two okay?" Spencer's worried voice reached his ears and Kai stopped looking at the laughing red head and shrugged. He opened his mouth to answer him and when he spoke his voice was indeed hoarse.

"I don't know, Spencer." He winced as his voice cracked. What the hell had they pumped into him? "I think the medication's gone to his head…" It was common knowledge that Tala didn't fare very well with loads of medication pumped into his body, courtesy of – once again – the Abbey. When they had been living – and he used the term very loosely – at the Abbey, Tala had had medication pumped into him left, right and centre as they tried to find how long it took the human body to become immune to different sorts of medication. Tala had been their guinea pig.

The blonde cocked his head to the side as he thought about it and Kai could almost see the gears turning in his head. "I guess you're right, Kai. You never know what medication will do to Tala these days…"

Kai couldn't do anything but agree. It was always a surprise to see what medication would do what to the red-haired Russian. So far, they had found out that cough medicine and Panadol tablets were safe to use, but they weren't so sure about Morphine and sleeping pills…

"What's going on?" Ian's voice piped up out of the blue. He was looking around the room, obviously confused at the sight of Tala laughing hysterically. His eyes were narrowed in concentration. Suddenly he burst out laughing. Kai's crimson orbs locked with Spencer's blue ones and they shared a look that said: 'hopefully it will pass and I hope like hell it isn't contagious.'

"What's so funny, Ian?" Kai asked. His voice was slowly starting to rid itself of the rough, gravelly sound it had possessed only a moment before and he was glad. He hated it when his voice sounded weak.

The shorter Russian stopped his laughing for a moment and looked at Kai, his eyes wide with disbelief. "You don't know, Kai? Wow!" Kai glared at the smaller boy and he let out a small squeak. "Okay, okay!" he surrendered. "It's just that I haven't seen Tala laughing like that in a very long time and it's good to see…plus it's really funny!"

As Kai thought about it, the smaller boy did have a point. It had been a very long time since they had seen Tala laughing the way he was now. Actually, it had been a long time since they had seen him laugh at all.

"Excuse me?" The voice that spoke up was slightly angered and held a hint of warning in it. Kai twisted his head to glare at the doctor who had ruined their moment of reminiscing the good times in their sad shadowed pasts. Kai had forgotten that the doctor was even in the room and he bit his lip.

Whoops. Forgot 'bout him…

"Now, if you two would like to come with me," he pointed to Spencer and Ian and Kai's brow furrowed in suspicion as he wondered what the doctor wanted with the two teens. As they were flowing the doctor out of the room, Kai caught the look on their faces. He nodded as their expressions told him that it would be okay. They would be able to look after themselves.

However, Kai couldn't help worrying. They all had just lost a very good friend and now two of them were being lead out of the room, not knowing whom the doctor really was and what his intentions really were.

Sighing in defeat as the door shut with a resounding click, Kai leant back against the pillows and watched as Tala calmed down enough to spit a few words out.

"What the hell did they pump into me, Kai?" He then proceeded to chuckle, his face red from the lack of oxygen. Very soon after, Tala slumped down onto the bed. His chuckling had stopped and it was replaced with the deep, rhythmic breathing that said the teen was sound asleep. Shaking his head in amusement, Kai rubbed his face as exhaustion started to set in. The effects of the medication hadn't completely worn off yet and he was starting to once again get tired.

Just as he was drifting off to sleep again, Bryan on his thoughts, the door opened again and in walked a man Kai had known for a very long time, as long as he had been on the beyblading scene. Stanley Dickenson had just walked through the door. Kai groaned quietly as Tyson, Rei and Max walked in the door behind the head of the BBA. The members of G Revolution were chatting quietly amongst themselves, but all conversation came to an abrupt halt as they saw that he was awake.

"KAI!" He winced as Tyson's loud voice sounded in his ear. The navy-haired Japanese teen flung his arms around him in an awkward hug because of the bed and Kai grimaced. He really didn't like hugs, especially from Tyson. Luckily Mr. Dickenson noticed and a moment later Kai felt the pressure ease from around his chest and he got a view of his 'team' standing around the bed.

It had been just over a day since he had last seen them and to tell the truth, they looked absolutely awful. Black bags were visible under their eyes and Kai could see that they had been crying quite a bit from the redness of their eyes. Rei's face was pale; his usually tanned cheeks had taken on an off-white colour.

"Hey, Kai. How you feeling?" Kai knew that Mr. Dickenson wasn't talking about his physical condition. He was talking about the pain that he had been hiding deep inside his heart; the pain that came with the loss of a treasured friend.

Swallowing, Kai graced the present teens and elder with a small smile. "I guess I'm doing okay…" His voice seemed incredibly small and he inwardly winced. He wished his voice would gain strength so he could speak properly. All he got from his sentence was a few looks of pity and sorrow. Rei gave him a small smile to match his, but it was laced with sadness.

Kai hated sadness and it seemed to cover the room like a suffocating blanket that wanted to dissipate the remote amount of happiness in the room. Taking in a deep breath, Kai looked up at the elder man in the room. "I'll be okay," he said again, this time his voice stronger.

Someone stirred and Kai glanced past the bladers to where Tala was lying, still asleep. The Russian teen was curled up on his side with his back facing Kai. His red hair was splayed over the white pillow and contrasted deeply with the white of the said pillow.

"How is he?" Mr. Dickenson shot a worried glance at the sleeping teen that Kai didn't miss. The elder man was concerned for the Blitzkrieg Boy and wasn't showing any sign of hiding it.

"I don't know," Kai replied. His voice was now most definitely stronger and it pleased him greatly. "He has only woken up for a short amount of time, but fell asleep again pretty quickly." Kai left out the part about the hysterical laughing, as he didn't want to have to explain why the normally stoic teen would be laughing hysterically. They didn't have to know all the horrors of the Abbey and it wasn't his place to tell them.

Frowning a little, Kai glanced at each person in the room slightly before asking them the question that had been plaguing him sine they had walked through the door. "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be busy with trying to get all of the captured bladers out?"

Mr. Dickenson sighed and Kai watched him gathering his thoughts, waiting for the elder man to speak. In the end, it wasn't Mr. D who answered his question. Tyson piped up and looked him in the eye before telling him why they were there. "Kai…Those bladers who have been taken hostage have the best help on hand, with the police helping and everything, but you don't have a lot of people to help you through everything. Right now, you're more important."

Kai was stunned. He hadn't thought that Tyson of all people held that much…empathy. His eyes darted around at Max, Rei and Mr. Dickenson and saw that their expressions were pretty much the same as his: shocked. Obviously, he wasn't the only one who was surprised at what had come out of Tyson's mouth only moments before.

"Tyson? Are you sure it was you that just said all those things?" Max asked, his blue eyes wide in bewilderment. All he received was a confused look from the world champ and Max sweatdropped. "Tyson? Are you okay?"

The navy-haired teen didn't reply and Kai found his gaze wandering to where Tyson's was currently latched onto. Kai looked out the window and saw the brown bird sitting on a branch in the tree right outside the window. At first, Kai wondered what the hell Tyson was so shocked at, but at a second glance Kai felt his mouth drop open too. The bird looked like Falborg…only a hell of a lot smaller.

"Falborg?" The whisper went unheard to the rest of the people in the room and Kai continued to stare at the bird. "Bryan?" That word caught everyone's attention and Kai felt their stares eating into him, but he paid them no attention. "Bryan, what are you trying to say?"

The bird turned its brown coloured head towards the occupants of the room and Kai found himself staring into a pair of startling lilac coloured orbs. The bird's eyes were the exact colour the Bryan's were. Kai had to mentally remind himself that Bryan wasn't around anymore, so anything concerned with the lilac-haired teen was now in past tense.

Kai felt himself drowning in the pale purple orbs and had to blink before he lost himself completely. The bird let out a loud screech before spreading its wings and taking a leap off the branch. Kai's breath hitched as it disappeared from view and he feared that it had fallen to its death, but a moment later it appeared again its wings extended majestically around its small body as it flew into the bright sunlight.

Once it had disappeared, Kai allowed himself to let out the breath he had unconsciously holding. He seemed to deflate in on himself and saw the worried looks his friends were shooting him. He ignored them and looked at the elderly man in the room as a hand was placed on his shoulder. "It's okay, Kai," came the soothing words from the head of the BBA.

"What the hell just happened!?" Tyson's shocked shriek pierced his ears and Kai winced. Why the hell could he be even just a little quieter?

"I think,' Kai started. All eyes turned to him as he continued to speak. "I think that Bryan just paid a visit and was letting us know that he was doing okay, where ever he is…" Silence greeted his statement and Kai saw that his words had hit them all hard. It wasn't very often – pretty much non-existent – that a fellow beyblader died. Even more rare was if they were murdered, which was how Bryan had passed away. Kai made a silent vow then and there, in the wake of the bird's disappearance that he would avenge Bryan's death with everything he had and he would not let Boris or his grandfather get away with anything any more.

Miguel studied his surroundings as Mathilda latched onto his arm. They had been forced to spend the night in the main training room, with only a thing blanket for protection against the cold. In his short-sleeved shirt, Miguel was shivering violently after lending Mathilda his blanket so that she managed to keep warm. A few years before, the pink-haired girl had suffered from a severe case of hypothermia and had almost died; Miguel didn't want a repeat of that.

"Miguel? I'm scared…" Miguel turned and rubbed Mathilda on the arm. She was also shivering slightly, but not because of the cold. She was afraid, they all were. Ever since Bryan had fallen, Miguel had seen the fear etched onto the captured bladers' faces. He also had the same look. Fear was a very hard emotion to hide. He didn't know how Kai did it.

With the thought of Kai running through his head, a wave of concern ripped through him for the slate–haired teen. He knew that Kai was badly hurt and in need of medical attention and on top of everything, the man he despised had just murdered one of his closest friends.

He really didn't envy the Russian teen at the moment and Miguel couldn't help but feel sorrow and pity towards him. He knew that his feelings towards the boy most probably played a big factor in the concern that was running through his body like electricity. Kai had always stayed silent and levelheaded in hard situations and he found himself wondering what he would be like when the grief or pain became too much for him to handle. Personally, Miguel didn't ever want to find out. It would probably kill him to see the boy he loved in so much pain that he couldn't maintain his cold mask.

"Miguel?" A soft voice broke him out of his thoughts and he looked down to see Mathilda looking up at him, her eyes brimming with unshed tears. As her bottom lip trembled, the blonde Spanish blader grabbed her arm and hugged her. Her tears released and Miguel felt his shirt become wet from the salty drops escaping from her eyes. He hated, absolutely hated it, when people cried. It made his heart break with anger at the person or people who had caused the tears to fall in the first place.

"Shhh Mathilda. It's going to be okay. Someone will come and get us out. I promise." He wasn't sure if he believed his own promise, but he had to say it, for Mathilda's sake. She was scared and telling her the truth wouldn't help her at all. He didn't think that it would help him either if he voiced it aloud. Sometimes the truth was best covered up and changed a little.

"Miguel!" He turned as his name echoed through the large training room. Lee from White Tiger X was calling him, his arm waving at him frantically. His brow furrowing in confusion, Miguel let Mathilda gently to the ground and ran over to where the teen was standing.

"What is it?" he asked.

The White Tiger grabbed his arm and lead him away to a quieter, secluded part of the room where a few other of the stronger bladers had gathered. Miguel cocked his head to the side as he heard what they were talking about. His mouth dropped open as the situation dawned on him. What they wanted to do was sure suicide. It was crazy and Miguel voiced his opinions, quite loudly.

"Are you crazy!?!"

All the bladers turned to stare at him after his outburst. He really didn't care about the angry looks he was getting or the ones of worry – worry if anyone else had heard his shout. Michael – from the All Starz – was giving him a vicious glare, but Miguel just shrugged it off.

"If you're trying to impersonate Kai, you're doing a really bad job of it." The tone of which he had spoken was calm and somewhat detached. It riled up Michael and Miguel swore he saw steam coming out of the American's ears. "Calm down, Mike. Before you blow a gasket, please." This only succeeded in riling the American blader even more and before he knew it, he was lying on the ground with Michael ready to punch his head in. He heard yelling, but the blow to his head had affected his hearing so all of the shouting sounded muffled and distorted.

"Goddamn it Miguel!' Finally, his hearing returned to him and he caught on to the anger filled shouts aimed at him. "Are you trying to get us all killed!?!"

Miguel just shook his head as someone held out their hand to help him back onto his feet. Once on his feet again, he swayed a little and almost fell, but someone held onto him. Grateful, Miguel turned to the one who had stopped him from falling, only to see no one there. Surprised, he looked around trying to see anyone close enough to do that. Only, no one was close enough.

What the hell? What just happened?

As his vision landed on the window to the right of them, he saw a small bird standing still. It was brown coloured with specks of red spread through the feathers. The bird turned its head towards him and Miguel let out an audible gasp. Everyone turned to where he was staring and let out similar gasps. The bird had lilac eyes, the same colour as Bryan had…

"Bryan?" Miguel whispered, his voice low and filled with awe and lament. The bird stared right back at him and Miguel saw the bird's eyes flash with some form of recognition, but it was just for a quick moment. A second later, the bird's eyes were back to the lilac they had all seen in the fallen blader. The bird let out a loud screech and flew above their heads towards where masses of BIOVOLT soldiers were gathered together. Miguel watched, fascinated, as the bird dove at the soldiers, ripping things off their bodies and letting the blood run.

The bird then let out an almighty cry and flew through an open widow that was situated high above their heads. Miguel stood still after the bird had gone, shocked. He couldn't believe what had just happened. The BIOVOLT soldiers were still trying to gather their things that the bird had pecked off them and dropped in various places all over the floor and paid no attention to the group of beybladers standing together. Miguel couldn't believe it. Had Bryan actually come back to help them in the form of a bird, a bird that coincidently looked like a small version of his bitbeast Falborg? Was it even possible?

"Whoa…" The blonde haired Spaniard turned as the rest of the bladers started to move around again. They were all shocked as well, their faces showing expressions of surprise, shock and even a little gratitude towards the unknown bird. Miguel smiled slightly and bowed his head whilst the others started to talk again.

"If that was you, Bryan…Thank you…" he whispered quietly so that no one else could hear him, "thank you…"

"Miguel!"

Smiling broadly, Miguel went over and joined the rest of the stronger bladers and listened in to what they were talking about. Ever since the bird had shown up, Miguel noted that they weren't so 'I don't care if I die, I just want everyone else to be safe' anymore. They were thinking strategically and thinking of how everyone – including themselves – could get out with the least amount of injuries.

Kai would be proud…he thought. For some reason, his thoughts kept going back to the slate-haired blader that he had fallen for so deeply. There was just something about him that intrigued him so much. He had no idea of what that thing actually was, but it didn't matter to him. All that mattered was the fact that he was in love with Kai. He knew that Kai didn't feel the same way towards him, but for some reason it didn't faze him. He vowed to himself that, if he ever got out of the BBA building, he would tell Kai how he felt about the teen. If Kai confirmed his suspicions that he didn't feel the same way, then that was fine. He wouldn't be able to be mad with the slate-haired enigma.

"Miguel! Snap out of it!" Miguel shook his head as a person shouting at him disrupted his thoughts. There was something disturbing about the tone of the voice, but he didn't pay any attention to it until he saw the fear etched onto his friends' faces. Michael was yelling at him, his voice clipped with a terrible fear.

The blonde Spaniard's mouth dropped in horror as he saw some of the BIOVOLT men advancing on them menacingly. Their guns were cocked and loaded and held in front of their bodies. Miguel backed up against the wall along with Michael, Lee, Johnny, Robert, Claude and the only female of the group, Mariah. He felt his heart beating hard within his chest, wondering if he was going to die. He didn't want to die, but if he had to die, he wanted Kai to know his feelings for him before he passed away.

Oh god, I've fallen for Kai real bad…

As the thought ran through his mind, Miguel noticed that the BIOVOLT men were fanned out in a formation that looked as though they were hiding something behind them. Miguel craned his neck and head to the side, trying to get a good look at what was behind the soldiers. Unfortunately, he didn't get a look before it was too late.

The BIOVOLT soldiers – with their guns still at the ready – pulled out of their formation and revealed the two bladers that had been expertly hidden only moments before. Miguel gasped as he saw who they were. The bladers stood in positions that oozed confidence and arrogance. They were both holding beyblades in their hands and it seemed as though a dark aura surrounded the new arrivals.

Miguel shivered under their intense glares that held an air of evil. Smirks decorated their faces as they stared him and the other bladers pushed up against the wall down. He couldn't believe that Boris had brought two of the most feared bladers in the world on his side to take down the BBA, or whatever it was that Boris wanted to accomplish by taking them all hostage.

"Well hello there."

Miguel flinched as little as the malice was made evident in one of the blader's voice. It was filled with amusement and what strangely sounded like…glee? The blader who had spoken licked his lips and Miguel couldn't hide the feeling of disgust that ran through him. Soon enough, the person who disgusted him turned his attention on him.

"Well, what have we got here? A nice little blondie whom thinks he's better than us? Hah, that would be the day!" He looked over at his companion and rolled his green eyes. "What'd you say, Garland? Shall we give them the battle they so desperately want to lose?"

The other person shrugged his shoulders, but didn't say anything. "If you want to, Brooklyn. If you wanna take the blondie on, then be my guest. I'll sit back and enjoy the show."

"You ready, Miguel? Ready for a thrashing? I'll beat you and rip you of your precious bitbeast and then I'll rip the very happiness from your soul and feed it to my beloved bitbeast for a meal. How does that sound?"

Miguel swallowed visibly as Brooklyn spoke. His words were laced with something so evil that Miguel couldn't put his finger on it. The orange haired boy seemed to be coated in a layer of darkness that not even a scared spirit of light could penetrate. Miguel realised, with sinking certainty that he was going to lose and lose his bitbeast in the process. And that wasn't counting the fact that Brooklyn had promised to feed his very happiness to his dark bitbeast.

With a strength he didn't know he had, Miguel took out his launcher and beyblade. "Let's do this then, shall we?"

Brooklyn laughed. His green eyes shone with suppressed glee that Miguel shivered under. There was something seriously wrong with the former BEGA blader.

"Right, here we go!" Brooklyn then proceeded to take out his own launcher and then pulled out a beyblade so black that Miguel could feel the evil coming off it in waves. "I would like you to meet my improved best friend: Zeus!"

Garland nodded to Brooklyn who nodded back. "Three, two, one…Let it rip!"

With the completion of the sentence Miguel had heard countless times in his life, the battle of his life began. Whether he would make it out in one piece – body or mind – was about to be determined.

Oh god, what I have got myself into now? Please, Kai. Help me…

Cliffhanger alert!!! This is where Chapter 10 of IFOF ends!

How did you like? Please tell me what you think I personally think it is better than my last couple of chapters, but it's really up to you to tell me if it's better or not.

Thanks so much for reading this fic up till now. It means a lot to have so many lovely readers and reviewers!

Till next time

DancerInTheDark101