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Pain.

A blinding pain.

Tala slowly opened his eyes and looked up into the mirror. Blood ran down his cheeks from his eyes and nose, drawing designs on his pale cheeks before the drops made swirls of red in the running water of the sink. The dark red stood out vividly against the pale cream-colored skin. There was a buzzing in his head that pounded in his skull, attempting to deafen him.

His eyes were black.

Again.

He blinked and groaned loudly as another wave of pain crashed through his skull, jarring him and making him wince his eyes closed. His slender hands gripped the marble of the sink in an attempt to channel that pain somewhere else.

"Tala." He heard someone call him from outside the bathroom door.

Tala opened his eyes again and looked at the bottle he had set out when he had come into the bathroom. The doctors at Biovolt had spent 6 months worth of tests trying to find what was wrong with him and all their research had gave him was a pill that would only numb the pain.

He shook out two of the yellow and blue pills and popped them into his mouth. He cupped his hands to make a makeshift cup to swallow the bitter tasting pills.

"Tala!" The person started pounding on the door.

He groaned and looked back into the mirror. His eyes were slowly fading back to blue. He grabbed a handful of the brown paper, wet it in the running water, and cleaned the blood off his face. Satisfied that the blood was gone, he cut the water off. He straightened his back and took a deep calming breath and let it out.

Turning, he opened the door to come face to face with his team mates.

"We're on in five minutes." Spencer said, not bothering to look at him.

Tala nodded and looked down the hall towards the arena. He saw the BladeBreakers waiting at the front. He glared at the team who didn't notice them yet till Max turned and saw them.

"Hey!" Max yelled, waving at them.

The rest of them looked as well.

"HEY! TALA!" Tyson yelled, joining Max in waving.

Ray smiled uneasily at them, the battle with Bryan still fresh on his mind but he didn't want to seem impolite, Kenny looked uneasy, and Kai glared. The Demolition boys glared back.

"Are you the Russian team?"

They turned to see a tall woman with straight, navy blue hair, yellow eyes, and dressed in a black dress suit with white vertical pinstripes. She smiled at them with teeth so white Tala suspected that they were capped.

"Who are you?" The captain asked coldly, aqua eyes narrowed.

"I work for the company that insures Biovolt. My colleagues and I wish to speak with you. In private." The woman smiled.

"No thanks." Tala said, glaring at the woman.

The woman's smile faded into a scowl.

"That wasn't a request." Five people walked up behind her, all pale and wearing black.

The five, soft growls coming from them, moved around them and cornered the boys so fast they weren't sure they had seen them move.

"Now come." The woman smiled again, turning to go back down the hall.

One of the five pushed Tala forward. Tala growled and tried to punch the guy but the black clothed man grabbed his wrist in an almost bone-crushing embrace and lifted the redhead off his feet. Tala winced as the bones of his wrist rubbed together painfully. With a nod from the woman, the man dropped Tala unceremoniously onto the floor.

"Will you cooperate now?" The woman asked in mock-sweetness.

The team sneered at the woman but knew they had no choice. Bryan knelt to help Tala up who was cradling his hurt wrist scornfully.

"We're supposed to be in a beybattle in least than a minute. You won't get far with us." Ian growled.

"Don't worry." The woman smirked back. "That's taken care of."

The Russians looked confused for a moment before a loud explosion answered their unspoken question. The force of the blast knocked the humans forward as fire began to burn in the arena.

(Five minutes before)

The BladeBreakers looked out at the roaring crowd.

"The White Tigers are battling tomorrow." Ray said, as he looked around the arena. "They'll be facing the All Stars."

"The Majestics are advancing to the next round." Kenny said, looking up from the talkative laptop. "Look! Here they come now!"

"Yeah," Tyson said before waving toward the Europeans, "HEY! OVER HERE!"

Max turned when he heard a door shut behind him. He saw the Demolition Boys standing halfway down the hall.

"Hey!" He waved to the other team.

"What is it, Max?" Tyson asked, turning.

"It's the Demolition Boys."

"Oh, HEY! TALA!" Tyson yelled to the red head that only glared back.

The others looked as well. The other team glared back at them before turning to the lady behind them.

"Who's that?" Tyson wondered out loud.

"Who's who?" Oliver asked, coming up beside him.

"Hey, Oliver!" Max greeted.

"Hello, Max." Oliver greeted, smiling fondly at the blonde's enthusiasm.

"That was an awesome battle you guys gave."

"Aw, they were nothing." Enrique shrugged but he said it with a smug expression.

"Hey, guys." Ray said, frowning and still looking back at the Demolition Boys. "I think they're in trouble."

They looked back just as a burly man in black lifted Tala off the ground by his wrist before dropping him on the floor. They saw the Russian's glare up at the men and Ian said something as Bryan helped Tala to his feet. The black clad people started leading the Russian bladers down the hall.

The all looked at each other before Tyson started down the hall, the others followed silently.

Just then, an explosion shook the stadium, knocking them off their feet. The building was instantly filled with screams as the people in the audience rushed to escape the burning building; climbing over each other when need be.

The bladers jumped to their feet, turned and stared as flames engulfed half the arena. Plaster from the ceiling above them started to rain down as the building started to rumble. The beams that held the roof and big screen up started to groan as it weakened.

"GET DOWN!" Kai ordered, shoving Ray down as he dropped to the ground. Nano-seconds after Kai's warning, the groaning turned to a roar as the lumber snapped and the steel moaned under the pressure before snapping as well, sending the roof down into the stadium.

The Demolition Boys instinctively ducked as roar of the blast echoed through halls. The pale people surrounding them growled and pushed them forward.

"Get moving."

Bryan sneered and turned to face the one closes to him, a girl who looked around twenty with bleached blond hair and shoved her back. The girl stumble in surprise before backhanding him, sending him crashing into the wall. She stood over him, sneering hatefully down at him.

The other Russians looked shocked and looked at Bryan. Bryan slowly sat up. The right side of his face red from the smack and his lip split. He glowered at the woman and would have fought back if it hadn't been for Tala motioning against the idea.

The redhead helped Bryan to his feet, glaring at the people surrounding him and his team mates.

"Get going." The woman who had hit Bryan snapped coldly.

Dejectedly, the boys obeyed.

When the rumbling stopped, Kai slowly climbed through the rubble, helping Ray up as well. Slowly, the other bladers climbed through. He looked around as the dust covered teenagers started checking for injuries.

"Is anyone hurt?" Tyson asked, looking at his friends.

"I have a killer headache but other than that." Enrique said, helping Oliver who had been sheltered by Enrique's body.

They all had small cuts and bruises but nothing was broken. The entrance of the hall was blocked but the screaming could still be heard and the smoke from the flames were making its way through the rubble.

"We need to get out of here!" Kenny whimpered.

"This way." Kai said, easily taking control and started running down the hall, trusting the others to follow.

The Demolition Boys were lead outside; the light from the fire giving the surrounding alley an eerie yellow-orange tint. Five more of the black clothed people were waiting there. The boys were forced forward in front of the new people and safely encircled there.

The woman stopped and turned to the teens, a bright smile in place.

"You're probably wondering why you're here." The woman started, her face demonic in the firelight. "It's rather simple. You're evidence. Evidence that we feel we need to destroy."

"Evidence of what?" Tala sneered.

"Of our involvement with Biovolt, of course. We feel that they have become," She paused as if to find the right word, "expendable, and to keep up alliances with them would be bad for business." She smiled. "You understand."

"But why are we evidence?" Bryan growled.

"Oh, I think I can answer that." A deep voice from behind them said.

The woman whipped around to glare at the figure of a tall, muscled man in a black leather duster who walked out of the shadows.

"Angel." She snarled.

"Danielle." Angel said, smirking slightly, "Are you going to tell them or should I?" He motioned to the boys in fake politeness.

"Kill him!" She ordered, glaring at the black clad people.

The Demolition Boys stumbled back as the face of their captors contorted into an inhuman form. With cat like roars, the Black Clads leapt ten feet into the air towards Angel and started throwing kicks and punches. Angel easily dodged them. Five of the ten attackers fell back as the other five continued the fight. Two of the vampires charged at Angel but before they made contact with him, the vampires turned to dust. The dust cleared to reveal two sharp, wooden stakes protruding from under his sleeves.

"Kill them." The woman ordered the remaining five vampires who gladly closed in on the humans.The Demolition Boys readied their beyblades and launched. The beyblades spun at the vampires. Suddenly, the bits started glowing and slowly the bit-beast rose of the blade and shot into an amulet the woman was holding over her head.

"Now, Now," she mocked, "That's cheating. Besides," She said, tucking the amulet into her pocket "They belong to us to being with."

The vampires closed in on the now defenseless beybladers.

Angel was grabbed from behind, his arms pinned at his sides, and another vampire charged him from the front. Angel lifted off on the ground and kicked the vampire in the jaw. The vampire went down. Angel let his feet touch ground again only to use the strength in his legs to push himself on the ground with enough force to break the hold the other vampire had on him and flip behind the stunned vampire so that Angel had the other by the neck.

The Demolition Boys glared at the approaching vampires. The blonde vampire that had smacked Bryan smirked, showing off her fangs.

"Are the wittle humans afwaid of the big bad vampiwer." She mocked.

Tala looked around for some kind of weapon. Reaching behind him, he felt the top of a trashcan. Grabbing the lid, he hit the closest vampire, the one who had almost crushed his wrist, as hard as he could in the face. The vampire stumbled back. The other boys quickly followed their leader's example and started fighting off the vampires with the lids of the other trashcans and whatever else they could find.

The blonde vampire growled as she ducked as Bryan tried to hit again with his own trash lid. She quickly grabbed the pale boy's wrist before he could hit at her again and twisted it. Bryan gasped as he dropped the lid. The vampire smirked as her other hand wrapped around Bryan's neck, drawing him closer.

"Hey baby. Give Mama a taste." She whispered seductively in his ear before pulling his head back and biting roughly in his neck.

Angel heard a cry of pain.

Five of the remaining vampires had surrounded the teenagers and one was currently feed off the one with lavender colored hair. Angel blinked in recognition but before he fully remembered the vampire he had kicked earlier bit him on the leg. Gasping at the sudden pain, he turned vampire and snapped the neck of the vampire he was holding, who dusted, then pulled out a stake and dusted the ankle biter.

Kai and the other beybladers ran turned another corner in the maze of a hall.

"Are we lost?" Max asked as the turned yet another corner.

"No." Kai said sternly.

"It feels like we've been running for more the ten minutes!" Tyson gasped, casting a glance behind him.

"There's a door!" Max cried out, seeing the frame through the smoke.

"Thank god!" Oliver coughed.

They gathered at the door and Kai pushed down the bar but it refused to open. He growled and pushed harder, leaning against the wood to coax it open.

"It's jammed!" Johnny yelled, kicking a nearby trashcan in frustration.

"We can't go back." Enrique said looking back down the hall that was already golden colored from the slowly approaching flames.

"Stand back." Kai said, stepping away from the door.

He backed up a few steps before ramming the door with his shoulder. The door groaned with the impact but didn't open. Kai rammed it again, then a third time, until it gave on the forth. Kai motioned for the other bladers out the door, making sure everyone was out.

The bladers stumbled out of the burning building, gasping at the fresh air. They heard a sound to the left only to see the Demolition Boys surrounded by five figures dressed in black and one of the was biting Bryan's neck while the other four held the other Russians back. Bryan's face was a pained grimace while the other's was the vision of rage, especially their red haired captain who looked ready to tear the woman in front of him to shreds with his bare hands.

Kai rushed forward without hesitation and pulled the vampire off the light-haired Russian. Bryan took the opportunity to push the vampire further away. His hand instantly went to his throat, trying to stop the bleeding though he was already feeling the effects of severe blood loss.

The female vampire, furious at being interrupted mid meal, hit Kai away from her and grabbed Bryan around the neck while he was distracted and pulled him in front of herself using him as a shield.

"Let them go." Kai said, glaring at the five.

They turned their heads to face the two toned bluette. Max, Kenny, and Oliver screamed at the contorted features of the vampires' faces. The others, except Kai, gasped and backed away. Kai glared at the vampire, even though he was stunned, and stood his ground.

"Let them go." He ordered again.

"You heard him." Kai looked behind him to see a tall vampire in a leather duster stack a vampire before walking up to the beybladers.

"Fall back." Danielle said, looking from Angel to Kai. "This isn't over."

"Never is." Angel said back, turning back to human form.

The five vampires looked unsure as to what to do but, slowly, they backed away from the Russians to follow the woman out of the alley. The vampire that held Bryan growled and shoved him forward into Tala who caught the younger boy as he passed out. Angel turned to face the young man beside him, to ask if he and his friends were all right. Angel's eyes widened as he looked at Kai.

"Kai?" He whispered, almost to himself.

Kai looked up at him, glaring.

Angel turned to the Demolition Boys, remembering where he had seen the pale boy before. Currently, the red-haired boy had torn a strip of cloth from his disco like suit and was trying to stop the bleeding at his friend's neck. The other beybladers, careful to keep their distance from Angel, joined the Demolition Boys.

"Bryan?"

"Who are you?" Kai asked, glaring, stepping in between the teams and the vampire.

Angel blinked, looking at the teenager, surprised by the protectiveness he showed.

"Not important right now. Your friend needs help." Angel said, nodding toward vampire bite on Bryan's neck.

"Where's the nearest hospital?" Tala said, trying to get Bryan to wake but the blood lost had weakened him too much.

"We can't go to a hospital." Angel said, walking over to the Russians and picked up Bryan from Tala's arms. "Follow me, I'll take you somewhere safe."

"Hey!" Tala snapped, glaring at Angel. "Why should we trust you! You're one of them!"

"Quiet, Tala." Kai said, looking at Angel. "We can trust him."

"Fuck you, Kai! Your team mate isn't dying."

"Bryan isn't dying." Angel said, already walking down the long alleyway.

"How the Hell do you even know his name?"

"Are you coming?" Angel asked, looking over his shoulder at them.

"Hey! Angel!" They looked at the opening of the alley as a tall man ran down the to them. There was a eye patch over one eye.

"Oh, shit. What happened?"

"Wolfram and Hart. Sent ten vampires and a lawyer to kill them." Angel said before turning to the Demolition Boys. "You ride with me. Xander will take the others."

"Why are we going?" Oliver asked, still pale from the explosion and vampire sighting.

"Because all of you are now on their hit list."

Angel led the beybladers out of the alley. Xander ran ahead and opened the back door of a black convertible. Tala got into the back seat of the car. Angel laid Bryan down, his head on Tala's lap, and Ian on in with them, because he was the smallest, he could fit. Spencer rode in front with Angel.

"This way." Xander said, leading the BladerBreakers and Majestics to a dark blue van. "Don't touch anything in the back." he said, opening the back door.

They looked into van to see the walls lined with axes, swords, crossbows, daggers, with the occasional stake.

"Get in."

"Are you some kinda of serial killer?" Max asked, looking in.

"I have a very interesting line of work."

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