Shadow-Assassin: YAY! I'm all happy. I checked out the voice of Ray and found out it was an actor that I know of and like! YAY! He's off of "Are You Afraid Of
The Dark?" =^-^= He's like one of the most famous of the voice actors on the show! Course Grandpa's the most famous... -_-" Dizzi is Samantha off of Medabots!
LOL! I would like to thank all the reviewers for their great reviews… You guys made my wish come true… I wanted to get at least the same amount of reviews as
the chapter with the most reviews… That was six reviews… I'd like to thank Vienna and Demon-Cat for putting me in their favorite authors… And thanks to all the
usual reviewers… Remember… The more reviews the sooner I'll update! BTW… Sorry for the long wait… Mid-term and everything… Also… This story now has
its own THEME SONG! Theme Song: Beyblades Legend Of The White Dragon, Hope you all enjoy it… I also started a mailing list for my fanfiction… If you wish to be on it
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(On to the side fic!)
Max: KAREOKI!
Shadow-Assassin: I don't do Karaoke!
Kintana: Then we'll do it alone… Come on Max
Max: Cool!
Tyson: *Smirks and hands them both a microphone*
Nadia: This should be interesting.
Kai: *Crosses his arms and walks away*
Kansas: Party pooper!
Kenny: So what are you guys gonna sing?
Max: Just a little excerpt from the theme song!
Alicia: YOU CAN DO IT! *Jumps up and down then trips and falls on her butt* Ouch…
Dizzi: So graceful…
Shadow-Assassin: Come on you two… Lets just hear the music already…
Max: Right!
Kintana: Ok!
Max: Cause you're never gonna win
Kintana: You're never gonna take us down
Max: You're never gonna beat the best
Kintana: We're in a league above the rest
Both: Beyblades! And Shadow does not own Beyblades!
Shadow-Assassin: -_-"
Kai: *Sarcastic clap* Very nice kiddies.
Mariah: Oh stuff it Kai.
Ray: Go Mariah. *Smirks and laughs*
Legend Of The White Dragon
Chapter 23 – Never Ending Battle
"No, no! Ray, no!" Mariah sobs as she lies on the forest floor.
"Mariah... Mariah wake up," comes a gentle voice.
Mariah slowly opens her eyes to see the concerned faces of her friends.
"Are you ok Mariah?" Kansas asks looking her friend over.
"I'm... I'm ok... Where's Ray," she asks believing that it had just been a dream.
"He... He's," Tyson starts.
"He's gone. He was taken by my grandfather," Kai says bluntly.
Mariah's eyes water and she lunges at Kansas crying. Kansas holds her best friend closely petting her hair.
"He can't be gone. He just can't," Mariah sobs.
"Don't worry Mariah. We'll find him," Max says plastering a fake smile on his face.
"Ya... Max's is right. We're going to find Ray!" Tyson says clenching his fists tightly.
"Dizzi?" Kenny asks.
"I don't know. They could be anywhere. They just disappeared into thin air," Dizzi says.
"You aren't helping," Max says glaring at the laptop.
"I don't see why you're all standing there. We need to find Voltaire and the White Dragon... Before it's too late," Nadia says.
"Too late?" Mariah whispers through tears.
"Voltaire wants to use the Dragon to take over this planet. Now that he has captured him it'll be easy," Nadia says.
"How do you know all this?" Kenny asks.
"I have my ways," Nadia says.
"She use to work for my grandfather as well," Kai says calmly.
Nadia glares at the Bladebreakers team captain.
"You did? Then you two should know where he would take Ray then," Alicia says.
"I don't know where he'd take the Dragon. Bio-Volt was the one safe place for him. Now that we've found it he can't go back there," Nadia says then looks over at Kai.
"He'd take him to the Mansion," Kai says calmly.
"What Mansion?" Nadia asks.
"The family Mansion. He inherited it from his parents and I will inherit it after him," Kai says then mumbles, "Not that I want it."
"Well then lets go!" Kintana urges.
Mariah nods and stands up letting Kansas stand as well. She wipes the tears out of her eyes and takes a deep breath, "Lets go find Ray."
"Right!" Tyson says before turning and walking back in the direction they'd come.
Kai looks at the hyper boy, "Tyson…"
"Yes?"
"The other way."
"Oh."
The others snicker at their friend aside from Kai and Mariah. Mariah is silent and withdrawn as the group walks.
As they walk Nadia walks up to Kai, "Hey Kairio?"
"Yes?" Kai answers exasperated.
"What happened to your parents?" she asks quietly.
"None of your business," Kai says as he walks ahead of her.
Nadia sights and continues to follow the group.
Judy walks into the Bio-Volt building after the kids go to look for their friends, "Time to make sure this place is out of business for good."
She looks around but no one is there. They'd all been battling and had disappeared when Voltaire had.
She walks into the main control room of the building and rummages through the files on the computer. She saves several files on disk to take to the police a bit later.
She also keeps some of the information for herself.
"Ok… Now to delete all of this information so it never lands in evil hands again," Judy says as she presses a button on the computer. The files on the screen
disappear one by one and Judy smiles to herself.
Soon the group reaches the bus belonging to the Bladebreakers team. They pile in and Tyson's grandfather is told where to go.
"So peeps… Why we goin there?" Tyson's grandpa asks, "And where Ray?"
"That's why we need to go there sir," says Alicia kindly.
"Hmm? Whaz goin on now dudes?" he asks.
"Ray's been… bitnapped," Max says.
"Ok then… Enough said… Hold on to your hats man… We are outa here!" he says as he speeds up.
"AHH!" comes from all the passengers as they are thrown back from the sudden acceleration.
As soon as they are close enough to the mansion they park the bus and go on foot. They tell Tyson's grandpa to stay with the bus and before he can object they run
off. Kai leads the way as they go behind the brick wall to the back of the property. There, Kai motions to Tyson to step on his hands. Tyson nods and does so and
Kai lifts him up to the top of the wall. The two then help the others up onto the wall and then they pull Kai up.
"So far, so good," Tyson says.
"Be careful. We have no idea what they're up to," Kenny says.
"They probably know we're here or at least know we'd come here," Kai adds.
"So which way now Kai?" Tyson asks.
Kai motions for them to be silent and ducks down creeping slowly towards the outer wall of the mansion itself. When he gets there he creeps over to a bush and pushes the branches away to reveal an air vent.
"Dare I ask how you know about this Kai?" Kenny says looking over at the older boy.
"When I was staying here with my grandfather I often snuck out through here," Kai says quietly, "Now just move it before someone catches us," he adds with a bit of harshness.
"Ya… Uhh… Right," Kenny says looking into the darkness.
Mariah scowls and pushes the boy aside as she enters the gloomy air vent and starts to crawl through.
Tyson goes next, then Kansas, Max, Kintana, Nadia, Alicia, Kenny then finally Kai enters closing the vent as he does so.
The group soon comes out in what looks like a bedroom. The others start to look around as Kai peeks out the door, "Don't touch anything," he growls as he looks over to Tyson, "Come on. The coast is clear."
The others gather round the doorway then head out silently though the halls keeping an eye out for trouble.
"This is very odd. Where is all the security?" Kenny asks looking around the hallway.
"Don't worry. He knows we're here," Kai says.
"Gulp… That's what I was afraid you'd say," Kenny says.
"Do you even know where to go Kairio?" Nadia asks in her usual unimpressed tone of voice.
Kai looks over to her for a second then back to the hallway ahead of them not saying anything.
They keep walking for a bit till Kai suddenly stops.
"What is it?" Kansas asks.
"In here," Kai says putting his hand on the doorknob in front of him.
"What if it's a trap?" Alicia asks nervously.
"Then it's a trap," Nadia says.
"But…" Alicia goes silent.
"Don't worry. Kai knows what he's doing… I think," Kenny says.
"Quiet… I hear something," Max says.
Just as Max says that two men come around the corner. Thankfully they are joking around and not paying attention to what's ahead of them. Kai grabs Max by the arm and drags him in the room with the others closing the door quietly behind them.
The room is pitch black.
"This place is freaky," Max says looking around.
"Where are we? Why's it so dark?" Tyson asks.
"Hey Dizzi. How about shedding some light on the situation?" Kenny asks.
"Oh great… Now I'm resorting to being a handheld flashlight," the laptop complains.
"Come on Dizzi," Kenny says.
"Oh alright," Dizzi replies as the screen glows bright.
The area lights up some and they look around. The place resembles a laboratory with glass bottles and various tools of the science trade.
"Kai… What is this place used for?" Mariah asks in a quiet whisper.
"It's best you don't know," Kai says calmly as he starts to look around.
"What you looking for?" Alicia asks curiously as she fiddles with an empty bottle.
"Be careful with that," Kai growls.
"Sorry," Alicia says gently putting the bottle back on the counter of the lab.
Kai sighs and continues looking around. He goes over to the back of the room where it looks like there is a vault. He puts his ear to it and starts to turn the dial.
Alicia watches and moves closer forgetting about the bottle she'd just placed on the counter in front of her. She knocks the bottle over by accident and the room goes deathly silent as the sound of shattering glass echoes through their heads.
The group sighs and Kai glares at her after a few minutes. It seems as though the whole place is dead. No one seems to hear them. This makes them all nervous.
"It's not here," Kai says.
"What isn't?" Kintana asks.
"The bit… I thought he might have been… well… I thought it might be in here," Kai says biting his tongue.
"Right… Well… Were next?" Tyson asks.
"You needn't go any further," comes a voice from the right of the lab. They all turn to see that there is another, hidden, doorway behind a shelf. Standing in that doorway now is Voltaire.
"What did you to with Ray?!" Mariah shouts in anger.
"Nothing my dear," Voltaire smirks.
"Let him go now!" Tyson growls.
"Very well then," Voltaire says calmly, "As you wish."
The group goes wide-eyed. Why would Voltaire be willing to release the Dragon after working so hard to capture it?
"What's wrong? You seem a bit shocked," Voltaire says.
"What did you do?" Kai growls, narrowing his eyes at his grandfather.
"See for yourself," Voltaire says as he holds up the white bit, which is now mounted atop a bright white beyblade.
A tear goes down Mariah's cheek as she thinks about what that evil man could have done to her beloved Reikou.
Voltaire takes one last look at Mariah before launching the beyblade into the air, "ATTACK!"
Mariah's eyes go wide as the great dragon emerges from the beyblade in a shimmer of bright white light. The others shield their eyes from the glow while Mariah stares into it.
The glowing stops and the dragon stands before them. Mariah takes one look at him and knows… He's no longer the one she loves so much… 'Will this battle ever end?' she wonders to herself as a tear drops from her face, 'You promised we'd be together again… Safe.'