Later, Tala brought her breakfast and as Kai watched from the auditorium, he attempted to seduce her again.
"I'm so sorry Tala, but I really don't feel well. I think I might be getting sick. And I don't want to make you sick; you need to be in tip top shape for training." She lied to him when he tried to kiss her and she turned away.
"Must I get the team doctor to look you over?" he asked her, feeling she was a little feverish.
"No, I just need to drink some water and sleep it off." She smiled weakly. He frowned at her, he was clearly worried.
"The lab is warmer. You'll be far more comfortable down there. I'll ask Boris if we can move you soon. You might get really sick up here, in the cold." He said, getting up.
"Oh yes please, I can feel I'm getting," she faked a cough really well. "Worse by the minute." She wheezed.
Tala got up and rushed out the cell, leaving the door open. She thought this might be it, her chance to get away, but then the female voice said to her again.
"Stick to Kai's plan." Dranzer said to her.
"Ok Dranzer. I'll wait." She said, walking up to the door.
She saw Kai blading. He glanced at her through his peripheral vision. She saw a smile on his face as he tore the beyblade dish to shreds with Black Dranzer.
"Say what you want, Dranzer, but Black Dranzer is very strong." She said as she closed the door.
"She's evil and demented. And I hope she gets destroyed." Dranzer said to her. Charlie sat down on her bed and realized she was talking to a spirit. She must have looked crazy.
"Yeah, but that's not our concern now, we need to get out of here and then get back to France. From there, we can plan our next move." She said to her.
"I'll miss Kai." Dranzer said to her.
"Me too. But we need to get him out of here, and then we can deal with that black phoenix." She smiled sadistically.
"Don't you have another bitbeast, somewhere?" Dranzer asked her.
"No, just you. I never realized I needed one, but now I see that I do. But I don't know where I'm going to get one." She sighed.
"Well, I'm not going anywhere. I'll be here as long as you want me." Dranzer said to her.
"Thank you. You don't know how much that means to me." She said, wiping a tear away. "Dranzer, please don't get hurt now when we run. I'll need your help to survive the frozen forest as well." She thought.
"Hey, I'm a phoenix. I can't die, remember. You know about Egyptian myths, I thought you knew this." She laughed at Charlie.
"Well, yeah. So you do come from Egypt?" Charlie asked her.
"I come from everywhere. Every civilization has seen me. But yes, I liked Egypt the most. The figs were delicious." She said to her.
"Figs, I figured you for a meat type of girl." Charlie laughed.
"Oh, I am, but I'm mostly a dessert kind of girl." Dranzer said to her.
"Join the club." She laughed.
She might have been the animal form of herself. They sat in silence for a while until she heard the door creak. It opened and Tala was standing there with Boris and a guard or two. She saw Kai in the background, getting ready to help her get out. She stood up from her bed and walked towards them, the launcher with Dranzer behind her back. She stumbled and Tala caught her.
"See, she's getting a cold, she can hardly walk right. We need to move her soon." Tala said as she walked with him. She reached up and put her hand on his cheek and smiled.
"Thank you Tala." She said, stepping back.
They waited to see what she was doing and before they knew it, she was getting ready to launch. She pulled the ripcord and Dranzer flew at them, bursting into flames as she did, sending everyone flying back. She ran past them, with Dranzer at her heels. She looked to her left and saw Kai running after her.
"She's escaped, I'll get her back!" he shouted as he ran after her. She waited for him around the corner and he came screeching around it. Without stopping he grabbed her hand and they ran hard towards the entrance. Black Dranzer and Dranzer followed them closely. They ducked and dived through the maze of dark rooms and secret passages. They got to the exit and heard the sirens going off. The others had recovered already and were on their way. Kai pushed opened the huge metal doors and made way for her to run past him.
"Go, towards the forest." He said to her she ran past him into a snowy frozen wasteland.
At the edge of the plain she saw the shadowy outline of snow covered trees. It was so cold, her brain almost froze. She turned to face him.
"Come with me, we can both get away now." She screamed, walking up to him and taking his hand.
He heard the heavy footfalls of the guards coming and also the sound of a spinning beyblade. Tala was coming.
"No, you go. They will never know I helped you if you go now, but if they see us together," he said as the footfalls grew stronger and he could hear shouting now. They were very close now.
"GO!" he shouted at her.
She stepped back and saw the seriousness in his eyes. She turned and ran towards the forest. It was so far and the snow was so slippery. She looked behind her and saw that the others had reached the entrance and Kai was lying on the ground already. Whether he was acting or not, she wasn't sure, but she had to get away. She saw Tala look at her, running away and he now he was running after her, with his beyblade following. She saw a blue light come from his general direction.
"IT'S WOLBORG!" she heard Dranzer scream.
She closed her eyes and pushed herself harder than ever before to get to the forest before they caught up with her.
"Just a few more meters," she thought.
"So, close," she thought again.
She slipped into the tree line and disappeared into the forest. She ran into the forest until she couldn't see the clearing anymore, ran a few hundred meters in. She stopped and hid behind a tree.
"Come out, Charlie, I won't hurt you. I love you." Tala was looking for her and he was coming closer.
She looked out from behind the tree and saw him looking for her foot prints in the snow. She turned quietly and began walking in the opposite direction but before she could get very far, a huge white wolf appeared in front of her. It was blocking her way. She screamed at the sight of the snarling beast and fell back onto the soft cold snow and clawed her way back to a tree trunk. She looked up at the wolf as Dranzer attacked it. She flapped her wings and tried to distract it but Tala had heard her and had seen the fight between Dranzer and Wolborg and he had found her, hiding in the snow against a tree. He grabbed her feet and began to drag her back to the entrance.
"NO, NO, LET ME GO!" she shouted as the wolf and Dranzer disappeared.
She felt Dranzer fly into her hand. She clenched her hand around Kai's old blade and shoved it into her pocket. They would not find her.
"Tala, let me go." She said as he left a trail in the snow.
"No." he said, pulling her back to the building.
"So you thought you could get away." Boris said as Tala pulled her onto her feet and forced her to look at him.
"SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP!" she shouted at him.
She didn't know where she found the sudden strength to tell him off, but it didn't work. He didn't flinch.
"Kai couldn't catch me; I won't let you." She said, as she stamped down hard on Tala's foot.
He let go of her suddenly and she made another run for it, but soon, it was all over again. The wolf appeared again and she found herself being pushed back into the building like a corralled sheep. She walked backwards and she felt her back hit Tala's chest. She turned around to face him and he lifted her up over his shoulder and began walking back to the entrance. As Tala carried her off over his shoulder and the guards carried Kai in after them, she heard the metal door closing.