Identity Thief: Okay, here is the deal. This chapter is the fight between sully and Kai.

Kai: Last chapter?

Identity Thief: No, first to last.

Kai: really?

Identity Thief: Yeah.

Kai: ::amazed:: wow.... I'm free!

Identity Thief: you wish.

Kai: ::sweat drops:: oh man....

Identity Thief: you forget puppet, you have no say in what I do to you.

Kai: ::gulps::

Don't Throw Your Life Away

By: Identity Thief

Chapter 13: Die of Fire, Born of Ash the Phoenix reborn

(Kai)

I walk to the place I ma to blade. Today is the day I will make Sully regret he ever screwed with me, and send him packing. Dranzer in ready and I feel very confident in her warm feeling at my side. The other's walk behind me, but my brother Vincent walks beside me, his won face a grim mask of nothing.

" There they are." Vincent whispers, and I nod looking ahead of us to the group of boys sitting on the crates. We approach, and Sully stands to glare at Vincent and me.

" So, you actually came. We were taking bets that you wouldn't show." He smiles and I snarl.

" Of course I'd show. I'm no chicken shit like you." Sully doesn't even blink only gestures toward the room we were to blade in. I hesitate but slowly walk in, my head held high but senses on full alert.

" Here's the deal, one match. If you win you go free. If I win you have to give me Dranzer and allow us to.... Beat the crap out of you." I hear Rei pull in a breath but I ignore him, he obviously doesn't have faith in me.

" Fine, but if I win you have to destroy your own Beyblade and then grovel at the feet of Hiwatari. Oh and take pictures of it, I would love to see that." I throw in and Sully's eyes go wide for a second and then he nods.

" Fair, let's begin." I prepare my blade, and fall into my new launching stance. Slipping my thumb through the loop on my ripcord I wait, flexing the launching in my other hand. Sully does the same, we are both tense for the call to battle.

" THREE! TWO! ONE! LET 'EM RIIIP!" Max and A-jax both yell and I pull on the cord with everything I have and send my blade flying into the dish, throwing sparks as it lands. Sully's launch is just as good, but fails to impress. He goes right in for an attack, but Dranzer was ready, she evades quickly and goes into her own pattern of complex attacks. I watch as Dranzer sweeps around, and slams into Sully's blade, making it have to manuver to gt out of range.

" DRANZER! ATTACK NOW!" I call to my bit and without a moments hesitation the great Phoenix is unleashed and she wails upon the now wobbling blade.

" Hmm... nice bitbeast Kai, to bad I have one also!" Sully smiles and then yells to his Beyblade

" NOVEX! ATTACK WITH SPIRAL OF DEATH!" I blink as a white glow surrounds his blade and widen my eyes in shock at the great Water Moccasin that the blade holds. Shimmering scales flex as the serpent lets out a loud hiss and dives for Dranzer who is trying to spear the body with her razor sharp claws. Soon Dranzer can't move the legs she depended on, for the snake wrapped itself around them, and it slowly making it's way up to her neck. I know I have to do something, but whatever I do will hurt Dranzer.

/ Kai, don't worry, I'll be fine I have to get this snake off me!/ Dranzer yells in my mind, and I shudder at the thought of commanding my good friend to do that. Yet it's the only way, and I reside myself to her rebirth.

" DRANZER BACK TO ASH!" I shout and the great Phoenix give out a fierce cry and then bursts into flames of such heat that the snake is forced to let go, and falls to the blading plate on fire, squirming and wiggling. I watch as my Dranzer burns herself into nothing, and ends up in a pile of ash as the bottom of the blading plate. I hear the shocked gasps from behind me, but I slide down into the pit, and search through the ash until I come upon a small body, without feathers and no claws. Picking it up I smile as the eyes open to reveal shimmering new blue ones of a younger Dranzer.

" YOU cheated!" Sully cries at me as I walk up the embankment with the tiny Dranzer in my arms. The small bird chirps at me and nibbles on my fingers. Turning around I place my gaze on Sully and his team.

" I didn't cheat, that is an attack my Dranzer uses, your Novex fought well but in the end the Phoenix seems to win." I turn back around and make my way back to the other's who are all staring at Dranzer.

" VINCENT! I am not finished with you!" A-jax shouts and I look over at Vincent and smile.

" Don't we have something to give them brother?" I ask, and Vincent's smile widens. He reaches into a pocket and draws out a small tan and silver camera. Then he loads it with the best film on the market, snaps a quick picture to make sure it's in working order and walks across to where Sully is picking up his Beyblade.

" Here, you might be needing this. Remember grovel, and don't forget to take pictures. You can mail them to my e-mail account. Later." He tosses the camera to Sully who catches it deftly and sends a very pissed off snarl in our direction. I laugh at this, much to the other's shock.

" So Kai! What are you going to do now that you beat the Sinful Blader's captain Sully?" Tyson asks on the way home, trying to act like a news reporter. I think for a second and then come out with a

" I'm GOING TO DINSNEY WORLD! AND SIT ON CINDERELLA'S LAP! AND HANG OUT WOTH GOOFY!" I tell him and Tyson stops dead.

" Oh my friggen god he just cracked a joke!" His mouth falls open and I keep walking. Dranzer still very tiny in my arms seems to be growing feathers, and her beak is just a bit more sharper.

" Umm Kai?" I turn to see Judy and Rei looking at Dranzer.

" Yeah?" I ask, although I already know their question. Everyone who has ever seen the death of a Phoenix asks the same questions.

" How did... how could... Dranzer.. she...." Judy couldn't make full sentences so I only sighed and filled them in.

" A phoenix is the bird of fire. They die by it, and are reborn in the ashes from their last form. Every time a Phoenix dies they come back even more colorful and stronger than before. For Phoenix's are basically immortal their own fire can only kill them. You can't just pluck their feathers and throw them on a spick and expect them to die while roasting to make your dinner. They are to die by their own hand, or claw which makes it very hard to kill them."

" Yet, not to many ancient spirit Phoenix's are still around, someone found a way to kill them." Bruce adds coming up behind me. He looks fondly at the rapidly growing bird in my arms and smiles.

" From my research Kai and now Vincent have the only two Phoenix's left on this planet. You are very lucky." He smiles and I nod. I am very lucky in more way than just that. I have good friends, a new family member and a bitbeast that will stick by me no matter what. What else do I need? Looking at Tala I catch the glint in his bright blue eyes and remember.

My team.

I need my team.

Just you wait Tala, I will fight you and win back the right to be leader of my team once more. Just you wait.

ID Thief: I know a short chapter, but I did this in one day so ::ducks things that are thrown at her:: Hey watch it those things are sharp!

Kai: ah ha!

ID Thief: I would have been better if I had a chance to work on it yesterday and get it up but I had to work.

Kai: Oh that's right... hehe...

ID Thief: yea.. so if you want REVIEW! And I will have the LAST chapter up in a few days. Summer is almost over and I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL! Yay!

Kai: O.0 whoa....

ID Thief: shop, it's better than academics. So REVIEW! PLEASE REVIEW!