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Gone
Chapter 10
Distant Storm
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"Miss Valcov." The purple haired man clambered into the helecopter and gave her a rough once over.
Hiro looked at her, surprise taking over his features. It had only been a year since he last saw her. "Valkov?"
"There's really no reason to hide behind a fake name," She sneered in his direction. He said nothing.
Her attention returned to her hands, a malicious glimmer taking hold in her eyes. Hiro followed the girl's glance down, to see a black and green metallic blade in her hands. The transformation process from the defiant captain of good to the vicious biovolt soldier had become complete rather quickly, considering Zoe's original stance.
"Quit staring," Zoe snapped, glaring at him. Her eyes were ruthless, cold. He had known this was going to happen. Still-
Somewhere, deep inside the pit of his stomach was an uneasy feeling. Kai had never looked that evil under the black phoenix's influence. This wasn't going to end well, and if there wasn't a threat against Tyson's life, he never would've been in this situation in the first place.
Hopefully, they wouldn't be too late.
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Tyson scanned the battlefield before him. Ray nearly had him cornered. "Come on," the Japanese boy pressed. "Let's see what you've got!"
There was the sound of metal on metal contact, and a heat filled the air. Ray succeeded in pushingTyson back enough to start another offensive attack. Pleased with himself, he proceeded to call on his bit beast, which emerged in a shower of electrical sparks.
"Drigger!"
"Dragoon, counter!"
Within seconds of their initial contact, a series of others erupted, followed by the nodding and approval of both bladers. They were having fun, as competitive as it was. "You've gotten better," Max commented from the sidelines. From his side, Meriam nodded, her arms wrapped around one of his, their hands interlocked. "Both of you have."
"Indeed," Kai said, watching everything, scrutinizing every solitary movement.
"Tiger Claw!"
"Phantom Hurricaine!"
"Take him out!"
"No, take him out!"
"Someone just finish this!" Daichi yelled from the sidelines. "I wanna fight!"
There was a crash and both beyblades were immoble, at a standstill in the center of the stadium. Black flames and light were seen by the spectators.
Moving around a beyblade that hadn't been seen by anyone up until this point. Kai gasped. He knew that beyblade.
They all did.
"Is that-"
Emily was cut off as a sudden sadistic laughter filled the air. The sound of heels on the tiled floor was heard as a person walked solo into the lower level of the training room. The balcony of spectators was silent, and the two competitors suddenly realized just what was happening.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
The woman said nothing and kept walking foreward, until she was at the edge of the beyfield. She held out her hand, the only part of her skin visible underneath the black cloak she wore.
The beyblade came up into the air, being redirected to its master's hand.
Almost.
It would've made contact with her hand, had it not collided with something else.
Something blue. And fiery.
"Who the hell are you, and what the hell are you doing with that beyblade?" Kai's eyes had fury etched into them. Two bitbeasts could have been stolen, just like that? What the hell was going on?
Black Dranzer hit the bottom of the beydish and slammed toward it's lighter counterpart. "Why is it of your concern, Hiwatari?"
Her voice was icy and fiercer than anything he had ever heard before. It made him want to edge back in fear. But he wouldn't. He'd never back down.
Still, that voice sounded strangely familiar.
"Dranzer, blazing tempest attack!"
The red phoenix rose from it's sanctuary, explanding its wings in an explosion of fire and beauty. It seemed untouchable.
Then the other one appeared. It was frightning, terrifying, paralyzing. The black phoenix emerged in a flame of it's own color, it's beauty hauntingly regal, commanding its spectators' immediate attention and emotion.
"Finish him."
"Don't take that!" Kai's outburst caused Dranzer to send a shockwave of flames at his opponent. The end result was sending the captain's opponent toward a wall, completely sumburged in red flames. Through the fire, he saw the woman's sillhouette swagger and rise up to her feet.
Ray blinked. "What the hell is going on he- Oh man. Kai!"
The Russian's attention was diverted, from his position at the edge of the balcony, nearest to the railing, to the Chinese boy standing opposite Tyson, shell-shocked. "Can't you see I'm in the middle of something?"
Ray said nothing, instead choosing to point in the woman's direction.
Her cloak was tattered, in pieces at her feet. Underneath was a pair of dark jeans, splattered with a bit of bleach at the bottom, and a short, long sleeved black shirt that ended above her belly button. Of course, a certain necklace was slung around her neck above the v-cut of the shirt, and certain... marks adorned her stomach.
Her hair was long, past her back and coming down to a pointed end, meaning that it hadn't been cut in a while. Black was more dominant in her hair, though the original chestnut color provided hauntingly commanding overtones. Her head was bowed, shielding her face, but that meant nothing. He knew.
Kai took a leap off the balcony, using the railing to propel him over. He said nothing, though his face revealed enough emotion to prove that this had been a smack in the face. He was almost over it. He and Tala had called off the search a month ago, upon searching the entire globe and realizing that she was nowhere to be found. They assumed her to be dead, as no clues had been left behind.
"Attack him." Her voice was low. And that attack was directed at him.
"Dranzer, dodge it!" The beyblade surged out of the way, and Kai narrowly missed the attack, diving away at the last second. She wasn't messing around here.
Black Dranzer let out a piercing cry. Kai looked up. That wasn't its usual call. It was one of intense lonliness, one Kai had only heard once from his own partner- when he was in a coma thanks to Brooklyn.
"What happened to Nitra?" he demanded.
Zoe made no move to respond, instead focusing on her attack.
"You don't know, do you?" He asked, when she dodged a few more attacks.
Black flames flickered as her bowed head rose up. Cold, ruthless, unforgiving eyes peered into his as a single uncontrolled tear painted her cheek on its way down.
"Nitra doesn't exist anymore. She was destroyed for my disobedience. Black Dranzer is all I need." Her eyes seemed to harden even more. "Tempest Dreams!" An intense flame burned deeply in her eyes as a pilar of black and white light enclosed both phoenixes.
The words hit Kai like he had run full force into a brick wall. He didn't have time to comprehend them, for her attack had devastated his blade and left it stationary on the bottom of the left corner of the beyfield. She looked down, satisfaction showing in her features.
"Better luck next time- oh wait." She recalled Black Dranzer as he stood helpless against her. He knew what she was going to do, and he felt a bit of a lump in his stomach. The rest of the shock would hit him later, because this was a big issue.
"Leave him alone, you bitch!" Tyson yelled, launching his beyblade toward her. Not her beyblade, but she herself. It wasn't meant to do damage, but to stop her from moving forward with the demon inside that beyblade.
"Blitz, what are you doing?"
Tyson's beyblade collided with her upper arm, leaving a bit of a scratch. She caught the bloodied beyblade with her opposite hand and tossed it back to him, advancing toward Kai again.
"Zoe Maria." The girl stopped and turned around, looking up toward her brother, whose eyes were widened at the sight of herself, covered in blood, holding Black Dranzer. "What the hell is going on?"
She said nothing, replacing her satisfied grin with a demonic smirk. "Business," she replied at last. She turned away from him and approached Kai's blade. She heard him gasp from across the way and held out Black Dranzer. At the last minute, she pulled out a gun-like launcher that could be compared to Tala's, loaded her beyblade and shot it toward Kai's. Dranzer's red light appeared immediately, and Hilary, from above, could be heard whimpering. Max was holding both her and Meriam, and Meriah had used her cat-like reflexes to join Ray some time before. Kenny had paused from typing like a deer in headlights.
"You don't belong to him, don't do this!" Tala called. It was too late, as Dranzer's haunting shriek joined its darker counterpart's as it emerged from Kai's blue beyblade. Kai called out, but the explosion was much too loud to make it known to everyone but Zoe, who was directly across from her, less than five feet apart. When the smoke cleared to a point where it was visible, Kai found himself staring into a pair of ruthless, and utterly terrifying green eyes. They blinked and he saw no weakness.
"She's all I have." Zoe's voice was hard, low pitched, and fierce. She held the black and green beyblade tightly in her hand, gazing down at it for a moment before looking up at him again. "I'll destroy you both, but I'll never take her away from you." She reached forward and traced the side of his face with her hand. It felt surprisingly warm. "And that's a promise."
A second wave of smoke engulfed the room, and when it cleared, she was gone.
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"KAI!" Tyson had nearly taken his friend and captain out with a running tackle. Kai had moved gracefully out of the way, while retrieving his beyblade. He gasped when he saw the center of it. Tyson saw it and stared in a shock of his own.
"She didn't." Kai mused sadistically, then looked up at Tala, who was watching him, face twisted in rage, frustration, and a hint of saddeness that no one usually saw. "Tala, she didn't."
"You've got to be kidding me." Tala heard something coming down the hallway that led to the balcony, turned around, and swore colorfully in Russian.
"Was there a battle here?" Dickenson asked, confused. "I heard an explosion."
"That was Zoe," Tyson said angrily. "She came this close to getting Dragoon, Drigger, and Dranzer."
The old man took a step back, closing his eyes and biting his lip to most likely divert his own string of curses. "Did she get any of them?"
Kai looked up and shook his head. "No."
Tala looked down at Kai. "Go on, I know there's more than that."
"She said, 'I'll destroy you both, but I'll never take her away from you.' Then she promised me it."
Tala nodded, and pulled out his beyblade. "We're going to have to take her out."
Kai grunted to say that he agreed. Hilary took that small moment of silence to rush down to the Russian captain. "We have to get her away from that- that thing."
The captain looked at her and nodded. "I don't think she's after our bitbeasts."
Ray looked at him, thinking about as rationally as he could in a time like this. "You say this after what she said, but who knows who wrote up what she said. It could all be a part of Voltaire's plan, for all we know. He knows that we care about her, and he knows that we're willing to fight for her. Of course he'll try to play to our emotions. That's how he operates.
"Its not that."
Max stepped in. "Had she gotten any closer, she could've killed you, and taken your bit beast!"
Tala held up his hand to silence anyone else who got the idea to step in. "There's a reason behind this, isn't there. I can tell, so spit it out."
Kai nodded, then looked directly at Tala. "She said that Nitra doesn't exsist anymore."
Tala sunk to his knees. "What?"
"Yeah. Zoe said that they destroyed Nitra for her disobedience."
"You don't know if that's entirely true," Tyson put forth. "We all thought Black Dranzer had been destroyed by Zoe."
Tala cringed, knowing something, but said nothing. Kai eyed him, also aware of the same ugly truth.
"Did you see the look in her eyes?" Kai asked. Tyson nodded.
"They looked cold... almost empty."
"Exactly."
The red head cursed viciously, breaking out of the grip the chairman used to pull him to his feet. "And yet again, even when she's evil, she still finds a way... Damn it. I'm going to take those two assholes out, even if I have to die trying."
Kai nodded. "Join the club."
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/Black Dranzer is in her blood. The only way to destroy it is to destroy her./
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This is the shortest chapter I've written in a long time. Hopefully, you like it. It started out in a completely different direction, but I wasn't in the mood for the cheezy happiness thing. I think this makes everyone stay just a bit more in character. Next chapter will go into Kai's emotions a bit, since he's not wearing them on his sleeve this time around. I hate making him out of character, it makes me cringe.(so I cringe a lot)
Let me know if it's better, worse, or just... okay.
Please review, and I'll see you next time.
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