Finding Love...in an elevator

Okay people...I want you to all breath...I am not going to kill them...if I did that...I would kill myself...I like Tala, Kai and Bryan too!!!!!!!!

DaRk-LiSt-HuNtEr....thank you I liked that last chapter the best too...*sighs* I had to write this chapter twice..the first version really sucked...

Rei Ayanami...Hey! Long time no type...Yah yah yah I know...yaoi fanfics are bad...I'm sorry, it's not my fault...it just sort of happened. I swear I'll write another fanfic just for you and make sure that there are NO yaoi references in it..

One more thing (god that reminds me of Jackie's uncle off of Jackie Chan Adventures...every second phrase that comes out of that guy's mouth is..."one more thing...") Okay, I'm going to be writing a yu-gi-oh fanfic next...I'm taking a break from beyblade...so I was wondering if anyone would read it...yes I realize that I'm desperate...just work with me here, I'd like to know if I'd have one person actually review me if I decide to go over Yu-gi-oh for awhile.

Disclaimer: Once again I'd like to have you acknowledge the fact that I do NOT own any of the male influences in this story. Btw..the elevator is male. I know this because it got jealous when I went to my friend's house using the stairs. Bad idea because now it's not on speaking terms with me *sighs*

Chapter Eight---Just Hanging...in an elevator

Rei was busy tying up the last rope to the railing that they had decided to use for the anchoring. He didn't even know what was going on, until it was too late. All of a sudden, Macy screamed in horror, Krys gasped, Hannah yelled out and the rope that Rei was tying, all of a sudden demanded that it follow the rule of gravity and pulled Rei towards the elevator shaft.

Rei didn't like the feeling of the being pulled to the ground and managed to grip something with his legs, but not before he was halfway over the elevator door, looking over the edge and down to where the elevator was. Or rather, where the elevator was supposed to be.

Instead of an elevator though, all Rei saw was three teenaged boys, all hanging from a rope and one furthur down then the others. Obviously the one that was furthur down was the one attached to the rope that Rei was holding. Rei tried to crawl backwards to pull the person up but when he did so, instead of him pulling the rope, the rope pulled him again and the person dropped a little bit more, crying out as he did so.

Just then the sound of a huge crash reached Rei's ears. Obviously the elevator had just hit ground level. The sound itself was so powerful that it swung the ropes a little, causing Rei to slid out more.

"Help!" Rei exclaimed as he found himself sliding more and more. "I don't feel like becoming that elevator any time soon."

Krys came and stood behind him, and tried pulling on the rope, though Rei didn't slid forward anymore, he certainly wasn't going backwards. Krys sighed. "I can't get you any higher. We need more muscle-power."

Rei rolled his eyes at this statement. "Then pull the other two guys up and we'll work from there."

Krys immediately ran to the other rope and began to pull it, only to have the sound of someone crying in pain greet her ears, as well as Kai's yell for her to stop what she was doing. Krys dropped the rope and turned to look at Rei. "Great! We're going to never get our asses out of here."

Rei rolled his eyes but had to admit that Krys was right. This was starting to look very doubtful. More doubtful than Rei wanted it to be.

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Tala groaned in pain as his rope slowly swung back and forth from the motion that someone had caused it to go into just seconds ago. The huge scratches that Tala had gotten from when the elevator went down right past him, almost through him, stung with every movement and it was really causing him more pain than it was worth.

Kai was hanging right next to Tala and he wasn't in any misfortune whatsoever, he was merely swinging there. It was stupid that he should not be in any trouble when this was his fault anyways.

Tala hated to hold grudges against people but it was almost impossible not to when that person was Kai. He was such a idiot sometimes. Of course, his ass makes up for that but only barely and Tala was starting to get sick of looking at Kai's ass anyways. Sure it was hot and everything, but you can only look at it so many times before you go...okay, next.

Tala sighed. He probably didn't mean that, it was most likely just his frusteration speaking. Tala tended to get frusterated pretty fast in situations like this. But then again, who wouldn't?

"Tala?" Bryan called up to him. Tala remembered his teammate was below him and slowly moved so that he could see him. Slowly, so that the rope wouldn't start swinging and cause Tala more pain than he was already in.

Kai also looked down at Bryan, who was a good ten feet below them and as far as they had figured out, Rei hadn't finished tying Bryan to whatever he was tying the ropes to, when the elevator crashed. What was holding Bryan up now, was beyond them, but as far as they could see, it was a person. Not good odds.

"Are you alright down there?" Kai asked, his voice still as emotionless as possible. God, what in the hell does he do? Take pills to make his emotions non-existence?

"Fine." Bryan said. "Are you alright Tala?"

Tala looked down at his pant legs which were red with blood. "Well, lets just say that these pants are going to be stained pretty badly after this but besides that, no damage done."

Bryan didn't buy it. "Tala, how bad is it?" Tala sighed, he knew that Bryan wasn't going to let him out of telling him what was wrong but he could try, so Tala just didn't say anything. Bryan got impatient and continued to press for information. "Tala, tell me."

Tala looked at Kai for support but Kai merely shrugged and looked away. A lot of help he was. How in the hell Rei could stand being with this guy so often, Tala would never know. Rei must take patience pills or something just as often as Kai takes his 'have no emotions' pills.

Tala sighed and decided to tell Bryan as much as he knew, which wasn't the hell much. After all, what could it hurt? "I can move my toes around, I think I just have scratches. I can't tell how deep they are without taking off my pants and it hurts too much to move for me to do that."

Unfortunately, Bryan wasn't reassured by this news. "Great. We have to find some way to get you up and out of here."

Kai looked at the ladder. "I have an idea."

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"So what do we do now?" Hannah asked Rei, who was currently laying on the floor, holding onto the rope attached to someone for dear life.

"We wait until Kai tells us what to do because I don't know what to do anymore." Rei said simply. "And my arms are starting to kill me."

"Aw poor Rei." Hannah went over and massaged Rei's shoulders.

"Don't do that." Rei said sternly. "Or I'm going to relax and if I relax, my grip won't be as good and if my grip isn't as good, than I will drop this stupid rope. And if I drop this stupid rope, well then, Kai will kill me afterwards for killing someone."

Hannah sighed and pulled back from Rei. Just then the other rope (that was attached to the pole) began to sway back and forth and all Rei and the girls could do was watching it, not knowing what was going to happen next.

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Bryan watched helplessly as Kai swung back and forth in the middle of the elevator shaft, trying to reach that stupid ladder. He would almost make it and then the rope would swing backwards. It was beginning to frusterate Bryan and obviously it was starting to frusterate Kai as well.

"Look you stupid god damn rope, get the hell over to that fucking ladder before I decided to termnate you, capish?" Kai said as the rope swung back the other way again.

Tala groaned in pain, or at least Kai and Bryan assumed it was pain, and closed his eyes, blocking out the sight of Kai swinging back and forth in front of him.

Bryan sighed in relief as Kai grabbed onto the ladder and effortlessly untied the rope from around his waist. "I'll be right back." Kai said and then climbed up the ladder.

Bryan wondered just how Kai was planning to get Tala out and decided not to really worry about. Kai wouldn't let them down. His reputation was at stake. He let them down, we would be able to call him a quitter and no longer a beyblading champ and that would definately hurt his ego so Bryan was sure that Kai wasn't about to do anything that would cause people to think of that kind of thing.

"Alright. Are you two okay down there?" Kai suddenly called from the elevator door that Bryan knew he was now safe inside of.

"Fine." Tala replied. "But I'd love to get out of here sometime today."

Bryan could just see Kai rolling his eyes and sighing. "Yah, yah, yah. Alright, fine then. I'm going to pull Bryan up until he's level with you, Tala. Ready Bryan?"

Bryan nodded and then realized that Kai couldn't see him. "Yah, Kai, I'm ready when you are."

"Alright." Kai said and Bryan found himself slowly being highered. It was a slow process but that wasn't what was worrying Bryan. He realized that pulling him out was easy enough, but how in the world were they ever going to be able to get Tala out?

Bryan reached Tala and then yelled for them to stop, just as he had been told to do. Kai stopped pulling and smirked. "Alright then, I want you to bring Tala over so that he's sitting on your lap."

"Kai!" Tala exclaimed. "What in the hell are you thinking? In case you don't remember, I'm sort of in major pain."

Again Bryan could see Kai rolling his eyes, man Kai was easier to predict than he had thought. Or maybe Bryan was just watching Kai too much. Eh, who cares?

"That's why you're going to sit on Bryan's lap and we're going to use Bryan as a semi-elevator." Kai explained. "If you're sitting on Bryan, it'll be harder for your rope to swing back and forth because of the extra weight."

Tala shook his head. "I do not like this plan, but I'll work with it anyways. Just don't drop us."

Kai chuckled softly, but Bryan could still hear him. "I'll try not to."

Tala gritted his teeth. "You'd better not Kai, or I'll kill you when I get my hands on you."

Bryan just sighed and stretched before he was to be used as a seat of some sort. This was going to be a long trip up but there was no time for complaining as Bryan slowly coaxed Tala into his lap and they began to raise in the air together.

The rope swung a little bit and Tala's leg rubbed up against his, causing Tala to wince in pain. Bryan didn't like to see Tala in pain and the little tears in Tala's eyes were making him feel quite quilty. Bryan had never really had any feelings for Tala and Bryan realized that he still didn't have any. He was just concerned in a friendly way, after all, everyone would hate to see their best friend like this, right?

Bryan didn't have time to ponder on this because the rope suddenly took a rather rapid swing and all of a sudden, the weight that was Tala was sliding off of his lap.