As Long As He Needs Me

By Bester of Death

Warning: Kai/Tyson pairing (Only mentioned in this one)

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or This Song!

Summary: Black Dranzer plays a game with Dranzer and taunts her about Kai but also shows a side of himself that has not been seen in centuries.

As long as he needs me...
Oh, yes, he does need me...
In spite of what you see...
...I'm sure that he needs me.

Dranzer lay in the limbo of space both mentally and physically exhausted. She and Tyson had to hold back the angry members of the Bladebreakers and they bit beasts from getting they hands or paws on Kai her master.  Kai did not say anything unless he had to answer a question. He deserved everyone's anger, and was shocked how quickly the other members of the team forgave him. Thought that could not be said for the bit beasts, even more Dragoon who wanted to kill Kai with his bare hands and rip out his throat with his teeth. When everyone clam down and agreed, even begrudgedly, that Kai was forgiven they went to bed.  The limbo witch she floated in was for all bit beasts and she should have known HE was going to be there.

"Lady Dranzer" he whispered.

Dranzer opened her eyes and glared at Black Dranzer who stood above her grimly.

Who else would love him still
When they've been used so ill?
He knows I always will...
As long as he needs me.

"What do you want Black?" she asked

"You haven't won the game yet Lady" said Black as he gave her, his hand to help her up.

"The game is over. Kai has taken me back"

"Is that so? Are you sure?" he asked as he gestured to his left. Dranzer looked and saw a small table with a chess set laid out with the pieces all scattered…the pieces were red and black. Then there was two tables and Black Dranzer gestured her to the take one were the red pieces were set. Dranzer sat staring at the board not once looking at Black. Black sat down opposite her and moved his rook two paces.

"What do you feel Red, when you see your team going against a team far more superior to them?"

Dranzer move her Knight Three places "I feel a great swell of pity for the team that goes against my Master's team looking for trouble."

Black moved one of his pawns forward "Masters are nothing but toys Red. We are the true power" 

Dranzer glanced up at him for a second; her ruby eyes fixed in to his onyx, before taking a bishop and moved him to steps back.

"You may be right about that Black; I won't argue that our race is a lot more powerful then the humans. But the humans have a power all of they own"

Black frowned as he took his queen and moved it forward taking Dranzer's bishop.

"What power could they possible possess?" 

Dranzer smiled as she moved a pawn diagonally taking one of Black's knights.

"Love, Black, they can love who and what they will, we can not!"

I miss him so much when he is gone,
But when he's near me
I don't let on...

...The way I feel inside.
The love, I have to hide...
The hell! I've got my pride
As long as he needs me.

"Love Red Lady?" Black questioned her "Was it love that made Kai take me and hand you over to his exlover Tyson" he moved his queen forward.

"It was love Black that brought Kai back to me and his lover Tyson" said Dranzer as she brought out her second bishop.

"How are you Lady?" Black asks in what seemed to be a concerned voice. He did not move a piece.

"If you are inquiring about my health, I am well. Tried but well." She did not look at him but continue to look at the board.

"That star on your face was made out of hatred and yet it only adds to your beauty. For you are truly beautiful Lady…and powerful"

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Black and you only see the beauty of my power"

Black smirked then and then spoke in a mocking tone "Should I fear you Lady?"

"Yes" Dranzer was glaring at him now her ruby eyes cold as stones "But not because I'm fast and I AM fast. Not because I'm strong and I AM strong. But because if my master Kai gave me the word, I would annihilate you."

Black smiled at her "Indeed Lady I should indeed Fear you. You do not need Kai to tell you when or how to destroy me Lady. You could do it right now if you wished. I am weak at this point and I have no love in my heart, if what you say about love is true"

"It's not the same"

"But it is Lady, to Kai anyway! He told me so!"

He doesn't say the things he should.
He acts the way he thinks he should.
But all the same,
I'll play
This game
His way.

"Kai would not…"

"But he did Lady. When the battles with the All stars and the white tigers was over and they beasts were defeated, he ordered me to take they power. And I did even though they were down for the count and hurt, Kai order me to take them."

"You were controlling him!" growled Dranzer

Black's eyes narrowed and he stared hard at her "Why must your kind always think that? Think that I am cruel and evil"   he hissed "Humans, Lady Dranzer, are the true evil. We are bound by the laws of our elders to serve and obey the humans who are nothing but greedy animals with no love or compassion to other living beings. The only human masters I have ever had wanted power and the will to dominate others. I GAVE that to them because they ASKED for it!"

He slammed his fist on the table, his breathing out of control. Dranzer stared helpless at him and wondered what to say. She was merely a child when Black Dranzer committed his fist act of violence when he killed his female master, and she often saw him as the Jack the ripper of bit beasts. Yet had she not know that beast in fount of her was him, she would have sworn that this was an abused beast, and all had wronged him.  In many ways maybe they had.

As long as he needs me...
I know where I must be.
I'll cling on steadfastly...
As long as he needs me.

As long as life is long...
I'll love him right or wrong,
And somehow, I'll be strong...
As long as he needs me.

"What about you're first Master, the girl?" she asked

"Lily?" Black's eyes suddenly became distant and sad. "She like many human girls back then was being used as we are now, as a slave, by her father. One day after a terrible beating she cried and hid upstairs in her room were I was also hiding away. I often was in my human form around her; my ability to hold her gave her some kind of comfort."

"They said that you had very little love for your humans…"

"As would you, if your master was a war mongering criminal!"   Spat Black angrily but he quickly calm down and continued to speak.

"Lily was his eldest daughter and many men desired her with a great lust. There was very little I could do to protect her due to our laws. She asked me to heal her, but I am a dark bit beast and I do not have the power to heal. I asked her to remove her clothes so that I may tend to her wounds. I touched her…I felt her…Then without realizing it she turned and kissed me passionately before I could stop her. We both awoke something inside ourselves Dranzer and we hungered for more. But human bodies are weak Lady and in the heat of my black flames she died. And I was blamed for her death but the reason behind it was murder not love. And it is said because of me that our race was imprisoned because the humans then feared us. Now Lady do you understand the humans a little bit better?"

"I understand the kind of humans you have encountered. But I have seen humans that would even give they lives for they beasts. Such a human is Tyson, Dragoon's master"

"I have heard of this Tyson thought Kai and yourself. I take it he is the one that looked after you when Kai left you"

"He did. He is truly a good master"

"And is Kai a good master Red Lady?" he asked moving his queen closer.

Dranzer said nothing but moved her knight forward closer to Black's queen.

"Voltaire plans to make Kai betray you again Lady. You and the others"

"How so?"

"He plans to give Kai an offer; he feels that Kai can't refuse. Me exchange for Kai to for betraying his friends and stealing their Bit Beasts including you"

"He won't do it Black! Kai knows where his loyalties are"

"Does he lady? Has his thirst for power really been quashed?" he asked moving his rook to take one of Dranzer's Knight's "Why don't you leave him Lady? Find someone who truly deserves you"

Dranzer looked at the board and moved a pawn "I did think about it once, shortly after Kai left me but the thought sickened me and I came to this conclusion. I would stay his as long as he needs me"

"Noble words Lady. But he will betray you again as he will the others and I can see it."  Said Black as he took Dranzer's pawn with his queen "Check. Now Lady…its' your turn"

If you are lonely
Then you will know...
When someone needs you,
You love them so.
I won't betray his trust...
Though people say I must.
I've got to stay true, just
As long as he needs me.

The End