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Well, here we are at Chapter Fourteen and I FINALLY know how long this fic is going to be and how it's going to end! I've got it all planned out chapter by chapter; and, though I had to cut out some of the ideas I really liked, I'm pleased with what I came up with.

Anyway, the end is a long way off for you guys though I've nearly written this whole story up! It'll be good to finish it, though once I've written it all up I'm going to go back through it and clean the grammar...that will take a while -_-'

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade nor any of its characters, any unknown characters are most likely mine.

WARNINGS: Bad language.

Enjoy!

Chapter Fourteen: Erratic Stranger

Kai crashed through the Manor; his fury was rising fast, too long had people been using him for their own needs, too long had he been kept in the dark. The phoenix was awake and he was going to find out what was going on…even if it killed him. It had been seven minutes since Kai had found Ray's passport lying on the floor of Tala's room and since then his complete trust in the wolf had been destroyed, his desire to regain the wolf's close friendship had ignited and had burnt in to ashes. Tala was up to something and Kai was going to find out what.

First, he was going to find Bryan. The phoenix crashed in to his bedroom to almost slam in to the flacon who was on his way out.

"Fuck me rich boy!" commented Bryan as he stepped out the way of Kai's flying body only to be hit by Kai's flying fist "ow! What's with the punch?" he made to stop Kai's next flying punch but the phoenix didn't give him time.

"What the fuck is going on around here" Kai flung his fist at Bryan for a third time but now Bryan was ready and he caught Kai's well aimed fist in his own callous hand. Kai's glare burned but it bounced off Bryan like a rubber ball; the falcon simply stood there waiting for Kai to relinquish the tight hold the phoenix had of his top. With a snarl of fury Kai pulled away and pushed passed Bryan to stand at the window, he lent his forehead against the cold glass and closed his eyes.

Bryan turned to the window and Kai "look, if this is about that priceless crystal statue then it wasn't my fault, it was in the path of Falborg! It was in the way!"

Kai twisted back with a frown "what statue?"

Bryan stopped abruptly "oh, you don't know about the priceless crystal statue, that's fine. Forget about it" he gave Kai a look that would make angels cry, "so what was it you were angry about? It wasn't the blocked toilet downstairs was it?"

"Blocked toilet?"

"I'm just going to shut up," Bryan decided as Kai's expression became dark and dangerous "do continue, to know what is pissing you off is my life's desire"

Kai threw the passport at him, Bryan ducked and picked up the passport when it slapped at his feet. Kai turned back to the window waiting for Bryan's response. If he was hoping for a sensible comment from the falcon he was sadly disappointed.

"Nice picture. Do you think Kon styled his hair before he took it?" Bryan ducked as a vase came winging his way "careful rich boy! It's a miracle you still have any vases left!"

"Then for once in your fucking life come up with a sensible response!" fumed Kai "God! I don't know what to be more ashamed of! The fact that I slept with you or the fact that I actually believed you had a brain!"

"Does that mean I'm boring?" asked Bryan quietly.

Kai stopped and he looked confused "I didn't say that, I would never say that. It's not true"

A shrug was all Bryan did as he walked forward and dropped Ray's passport at Kai's feet, he felt Kai's red eyes staring at him trying to make the falcon look at him but Bryan looked away.

"I presume that was something Tala said" Kai's voice was soft but inside the anger only increased; Tala had said something like that to Bryan. Why? Kai wasn't going to stop until he had every single answer; he'd beat them out of Tala if he had to "it's not true" he whispered as he came closer to Bryan.

"Is according to Tala" Bryan interjected. He growled slightly; he wasn't used to these emotions and feelings, he was an emotionless fighter who had lost so why wouldn't he be boring?

"Tala's wrong" Kai came closer still to Bryan; he didn't think, he didn't dare knowing he would only ask himself unanswerable questions that would ruin this. He felt like he was creeping closer to Bryan and he didn't know why; he didn't want to know why, all he wanted was to-

"So does this mean we're going to have sex?" asked Bryan interestedly.

And with that one question Bryan spectacularly ruin the whole effect. Kai sighed and closed his eyes; he had to accept it, Bryan just wasn't a deep guy. Bryan smirked and pulled Kai forward, pressing his lips against the phoenix's; Kai returned the falcon's non too subtle approach and just when Bryan was really getting excited Kai pulled away sharply and walked out the room looking smug.

Bryan stood there for a moment looking rather stupefied.

"Hey! Get back here!"

Ray pulled at the handcuffs that trapped his wrists, there was a chain round his neck that tied him to the wall and rope round his feet; Tala had misjudged Ray once and he wasn't going to make the same mistake again. He hadn't drugged Ray again though and Ray wondered why not.

Still, Ray didn't have time to sit and wonder.

Tala came to check on him every half hour for ten minutes before leaving again; it had been twenty minutes since the wolf had checked on him last so that meant he had ten minutes left, he glanced up at the clock which hung on the wall and watched anxiously as the second hand ticked by. With a growl he pulled at the handcuffs so hard they were cutting in to his skin; he'd been wrong about Tala, he'd thought there had been some good in the wolf but he'd been wrong. Tala was nothing more than a heartless traitor and that was all there was to it.

"So why hasn't he drugged me again?" he wondered.

He shook his head pushing away the vain hope. He was too hopeful and it always got him in to trouble; he should have learnt by now that he shouldn't be so trusting and that he wasn't like Tyson who always miraculously get himself out of danger "knew I should have listened to Lee" the neko-jin mused. And as for that stupid crush he'd almost had on Tala, that was no longer in existence; not that it had ever existed because Ray wasn't even gay, he'd merely noticed that Tala was…very well toned.

"Who am I kidding?" Ray sighed and pulled at the handcuffs; he wished he had Drigger with him, the white tiger always made him stronger but Tala had taken Drigger from the neko-jin and Ray was left with his own strength. He tugged again and cursed out loud as the metal cut further in to his skin; in anger and frustration he pulled and pulled again, kicking out at the wall to vent his feelings. He was getting out of here and there wasn't one damn thing Tala up himself Ivanov could do.

"Damn traitor!" Ray fumed.

Tala made his way through the corridors of the Abbey; every room, every cell had a dark and unpleasant memory…and here he was again walking through those dark and cold corridors like he'd never left them. Was he doing right? Was it right that he was working for Boris?

No.

He had a plan, nothing and no one was going to get in his way and soon he would carry it out…

But first, to deal with a little problem known as Ray.

Taking out the keys Tala took his time in unlocking the door; was it good that Ray was here? Tala shook himself, what the hell was that supposed to mean? It was a pain that Ray was here, he was only getting in the way and Tala was getting a good idea why Kai found the Bladebreakers so annoying. The stupid neko-jin was probably hoping Kai would find him and get him out. Tala snorted, that was never going to happen.

He opened the door.

"TRAITOR!"

Claws ripped at his clothes, a body slammed against his and Ray was slipping out of his grasp and fleeing up the corridor as fast as he could. It took Tala a few seconds to realise what had happened; that was the second time Ray had attacked him and this time the neko-jin had managed to escape.

"Shit!" Tala cursed; sighing he walked slowly up the corridor, the good news was that Ray didn't know his way around the Abbey whereas Tala knew it like the back of his hand. The Abbey was a maze filled with twists and turns, the darkness and damp made each corridor look the same and it was only little details that one got to know that orientated a person. He called out for the guards that Boris had hired, alerting them to the presence of a runner.

"Run Ray Kon, you won't get far" he pulled Drigger out from his pocket and watched at the beyblade flashing angrily at him, his ice blue eyes came frosty as the call that the runner was heading for the top of the building and he began the long way up to the battlements of the Abbey.

"Where are you going?" Bryan asked or rather demanded of Kai as he marched after the phoenix whose fast pace had taken them to the front door.

Kai turned back to him "how did you get in?" he asked.

"Huh? I walked through the front door" replied Bryan.

"How could you do that when I'd locked it?" Kai asked his voice like lead.

"Uhh!" spluttered Bryan "well, I kinda broke it i- why are you getting so annoyed with me all the time anyway?" he retorted partly to get off the subject of a rather front door, which he didn't want to discuss because he knew Kai would kill him, and partly because Kai's tone was pissing him off.

"You didn't tell me that I killed a man!" Kai snarled whirling round "you didn't tell me about Tony!"

Something inside Bryan's brain slipped in to place; so that was why Kai was acting like he'd been kicked up the ass "it wasn't your business to know" he said stonily.

"Oh I don't believe that!" Kai hissed "all those years of hating me? Surely you must have wanted to tell me! You'd know it would get to me so why didn't you tell me?"

"There are several reasons" Bryan began, getting the feeling that they were going to be there for some time he sat down on the stairs with a puff and continued "one: Tala forbade me to say anything, my life was at stake should I tell you. Two: dealing with a Kai that is full regret and misery is my worst nightmare; you've no idea how irritating you are when you're moping. Three…" he paused and carefully said "Tony was my friend and not yours, if I wanted to shame him by telling you that a five year old boy's curiosity had killed him I would have done years ago" he stopped and awaited Kai's response.

"That's not good enough!" Kai growled.

"How did I know you were going to say that?" Bryan scowled to himself.

"You should have told me!" Kai insisted standing in front of Bryan and looking down on him

"Well I didn't!" Bryan answered mulishly "and I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's in the past so get over it already"

"Get over it?" Kai repeated, "get over it!"

"Great, now you're getting indignant" Bryan said crossly "I hate it. I hate it when you get indignant and righteous!"

"Because of me someone died! Do you not think I had the right to know?" Kai's eyes flashed.

Bryan stood up having had enough "no, I don't. Normal people would want to forget about, so take the hint rich boy! Forget about it!"

"No"

"Yes!" Bryan glared down at Kai using his height to gain advantage "God, you are so fucking stubborn! Just let it go!"

"No"

"I'm warning you, rich boy! I'm this close from smashing you in to that wall so shut your fucking mouth!" Bryan's glare was returned by a fiery expression from Kai.

"Don't think you can talk to me like that" the phoenix snapped.

Bryan laughed humourlessly "I'll talk to how I want! You think because you're so fucking special you're above the fucking world!"

Kai rolled his eyes "you're a hypocrite you know that! You talk to me about letting things go and you still get over the fact that I had as hard a time in the Abbey as you"

"Hmm lecture or beating?" mused Bryan sarcastically "which is worse I wonder?"

"It wasn't like that" Kai snarled with fury.

"THEN WHAT WAS IT LIKE?" Bryan roared trying to shout louder than Kai "while everyone else was getting beaten to a pulp you got a lecture! The only screaming you did was when you got the wrong fucking toy for Christmas!"

Kai's fist flew at him but Bryan caught it "you don't know what it was like for me" Kai's voice was low and poisonous "you know nothing you stupid bastard. You think you know everything. You think you're so tough because you survived a few beatings but you're nothing. I don't know what Boris was thinking when he agreed to keep you but it was sure as hell his biggest mistake"

Bryan pushed Kai and kicked him, Kai fought back punching Bryan and throwing in a kick before Bryan had him pinned to the wall. They glared at each other, like the calm before the storm, each savouring the hatred and anger they felt for the other. Kai's blazing red eyes boring in to Bryan's cold malice lifeless eyes; Kai kicked him again but Bryan merely smirked and slammed Kai against the wall mercilessly, Kai hissed but still wrestled back-

Click.

They both froze. Even through their red hot anger and fury with other they stopped when they realised there was something wrong. The sound had come from behind them by the doorway to the sitting room.

And then Kai heard it again…click…click…click. It was a sound he knew well having grown up with it. It was the click of a walking stick as it hit the floor, and now Kai could hear footsteps proud and firm beating on the carpet as a shadow appeared behind Bryan. Kai didn't look over Bryan's shoulder…he didn't need to. But at least he now knew who had smashed the window; it must have been the window in the glass doors that opened out to the gardens. The way in which this man had gotten in to the Manor.

Bryan did turn round however; he made no sound of surprise or shock, but he stared at the figure standing behind him, the old man who stood there proud and arrogant as he stared at Bryan and Kai. And one question ran through the minds of Bryan and Kai as the silence pressed upon them.

Why Voltaire Hiwatari was still alive when they'd both seen him die?

Yeah, things are going to get a little sureal from here on in. Normally, I'm not keen on bringing characters from the supposed dead, but at the time I was writing this I was trying to think of a good twist to the story and this was all I could think of. Still, I don't think it ruins the story...or, at least I hope it doesn't.

So. Please leave a review and tell me what you think.

Thanks for reading!

Kiki