Kameko stirred. The floor of the room was cold and hard. She tried to
move but realised that it wasn't any good. She tried to open her eyes but
something was covering them, the groaned in annoyance. Just then she heard
the sound of a key in a lock and chains and bolts being thrown back like
pieces of soiled meat on to the rubbish pile.
"Ah." A voice said. "Our little friend is awake." The voice was cold and uncaring; no emotion was distinguishable. The next thing Kameko knew that blindfold had been pulled off, with a great amount of force. The room, thought dark and dingy, seemed full of blinding light. "We meet at last Miss. Dickinson." The voice said. Slowly Kameko opened her eyes. In front of her stood a tall man with purple hair and wore a strange pair of goggles. Kameko recognised him at once from the many photos her grandfather had shown her. This was Boris Balkov. This was Voltairs main man, the henchman, the evil sidekick to the super villain. This was the man who had tortured and corrupted Kai. Kameko showed no emotion, like Kai had taught her, but inside her there was a mixture of fear, disgust, loathing and anger, all directed at this one horrific and inexplicable man. "I hope you slept well."
"Grrrrr!" Kameko growled at him. If she had said anything it would have been nothing but a long list of abusive and vulgar words, all directed at him and his parentage.
"Quite the rebel, aren't we Miss. Dickinson."
"Where's Kai?" Kameko, ignoring the question, demanded through gritted teeth. "Where is he? Tell me what you've done with him."
"Now, now, Miss. Dickinson I don't think you're really in the position to be demanding anything." Boris chuckled. A shiver ran up and down Kameko's spine several times. "Anyway Miss.Kameko isn't it? You'll be having company very shortly." With those last words Boris turned on his heels and walked out the door, saying something to the guard, a boy Kameko noted, in Russian. Once Boris had left the room the boy slammed the door shut. It was at that moment that Kameko realised she wasn't on the floor but chained and shackled to the wall of a cell. The shackles bit in to her wrists as she tried to slip out of them, but she didn't care. Just then the door opened again and the guard came in and unchained and unshackled Kameko before giving her a swift kick to the stomach. It was only enough though to wind her but it was all that was needed for while he had been untying her from her bonds two other boy's had brought in two more figures. One was Kenny, badly bruised but other wise not badly hurt. The other was Ray. Ray's face was a mass of bruises and cuts. His shirt was missing and Kameko could see, even through the dim light that Ray's body was a mass of contusions. As soon as Kameko had regained her breath she crawled over to Ray.
"Ray." She whispered. "Ray?" Ray stirred.
"Kameko?" Ray's voice was barely auditable and horse. "Where?"
"Shh." Kameko said. She noticed a canteen of water. She opened it, smelt it and decided it was OK. "Here," She said placing the canteen to Ray's lips. "Drink." Ray took a sip from the canteen. "What happened Ray- San?" Kameko asked.
"That last thing I remember Kameko," Ray managed to get out, "Was being attacked from behind. The next thing I know I'm in this large room. These guy's then starting beating me about but then they backed off." Ray went in tot a coughing fit. Kameko placed the canteen at his lips again and let him drink. "Then," Ray continued, "They started launching Beyblades at me. The didn't have defence rings at all and the attack rings were like knives." Ray winced. So that's how you got all these cut's. Kameko thought. "Is Kenny OK?" Ray asked. Just then Kenny gave a grown and sat up.
"Ouch." Kenny clutched his head. "What happen.RAY!" Kenny was by the pair of them instantly. "Are you OK?"
"I'll be OK." Ray said, giving a weak smile.
"Not unless I deal with these wounds you won't." Kameko said. "Kenny rest Ray's head on your lap for me, yes like that." Kameko then got up and banged on the door. "Hey!" She yelled. *"? ???????? ? ???????! ??????????!" The guard opened a hatch in the door.
*"??????" He asked. Kameko pointed to Ray. The guard then shut the hatch. Kameko swore, making Kenny blush and Ray stare.
"Sorry." Kameko said, blushing. Just then the door opened and the guard handed Kameko a medical box, bowl of warm water, disinfectant and cloths. *"?! ???????." Kameko said taking the tray the boy handed her. The guard closed the door and locked it. "I didn't think he was coming back." Kameko said. She then set to tending Ray's wounds. Soon all the wounds were bandaged and clean. "Do you feel better Ray?" Kameko asked.
"A lot, thank you Kameko." Ray said. "I didn't know you spoke Russian."
"Something my father always insisted on, he was a diplomat and other languages come in handy."
"Did you ever speak to Kai in Russian?" Kenny asked.
"Yes Kenny," Kameko said, raising one eyebrow, "Why?"
"Because a few nights ago I heard a woman talking to Kai. I had Dizzi translate what she was saying." Kameko waited for Kenny to go on. "She was saying something about talent." Kameko smiled.
"You never knew Kai was a poet did you Kenny?" Kenny shook his head. "Kai asked me if I spoke Russian. When I said I did he asked me if I minded all our conversation's being in Russian. It was only after I swore to use only Russian when I was around just him that he showed me something."
"What?" Ray asked.
"You remember Kai always carried around that little black book?" The two boys nodded. "Well it was full of poems. He is very talented." Kameko said smiling, it wasn't a happy one though, it was sad.
"How talented?" Ray asked.
"Very. Almost as good as Edgar Allen Poe."
"Who?" Kenny asked, looking puzzled.
"You've never read The Raven then have you?" Kameko said. She sighed. "He's as good as the best poet you can think of."
"Can't really think of one." Ray said, clutching at his side.
"Is something wrong Ray?" Kameko said.
"My side aches. It's nothing really." Ray said, smiling. Just then the door opened again and two more figures were thrown in. It was Tyson and Max. Tyson didn't look too bad and neither did Max but both had large cuts. They both groaned and raised them selves up off the floor.
"Tyson! Max! Are you two OK?" Kameko said, running first to Tyson to check the large slash on his chest.
"I'm OK Kameko." Tyson said. "Argh!"
"Understatement of the year." Kenny said. He passed Kameko the medical kit so she could clean up Tyson's wounds. "What happened to you two?"
"The were asking up questions." Max said, taking an antiseptic wipe and started wiping away some of the dried blood on his arm where there were a myriad of little cut's, which had healed slightly, had been re opened. "Questions about something called Mistrix." Max said. Kameko stared at Max in dismay.
"You didn't say anything did you?" She asked, pleading. "Any of you?"
"We didn't say anything Kameko," Tyson said, wincing, "Mainly because we didn't know WHAT the hell they were talking about."
"They haven't questioned you?" Kenny asked. Kameko shook her head.
"Now that we've got one thing sorted out then let's sort out the other thing." Ray said frowning. "Where's Kai?"
"I asked that guy Boris." Kameko started when the others looked shocked.
"BORIS! As in the that MONSTER that controlled the Demolition Boys back in the World Tournament?" Tyson shouted.
"Yes Tyson the same." Kameko said with a scowl. "I asked him about Kai and he said that he thought I wasn't in a position to be 'demanding' anything." Kameko let out a low growl. Max stared at Kameko, he had never heard her growl in all the time he had known her, of which was six months. "What's wrong Max?" Kameko asked, still with a thrown on her face.
"Nothing Kame." Max said quickly. I hope Kai's OK. Max thought.
///
Kai slowly opened his eyes. He groaned at the pain in his head as he sat up.
"Ah. Kai you're awake." Kai recognised the voice instantly. His headache disappeared and his vision cleared. He turned to Boris and growled. "Still feisty aren't we young Hiwatari." Boris said, smirking. "Just like Miss. Dickinson."
"Where's Kameko!" Kai demanded, just as Kameko had earlier. "Tell me where she is you monster!"
"Do I sense that you have feeling for someone?" The other voice Kai heard was one he loathed even more. His grandfather stepped out of the shadows like a monster from a children's story. "Feeling's are for the weak." With that Voltair back handed Kai across the face and sent him sprawling across the room. "Those who feel are weak. Didn't I teach you ANYTHING when you were under my care or did it just all go in one ear and out of the other?" Voltair hit Kai again.
"Get off of me you monster!" Kai yelled, clutching his side in agony where Voltair had just kicked him. "I'm not under you 'care' any more, I'm my own person!" Kai said.
"That's where you're wrong Kai." Voltair said, grabbing Kai by the scruff of his neck and throwing Kai against a column. "You are right that you're not under my care any more but," he sneered at Kai, "I OWN you. You are far from being your own person." Just then something crashed open but Kai didn't heed it. Voltai picked Kai up by the front of Kai's shirt and held him about an inch from his face. "Far from it. You are MINE!"
///
Kameko lay on the only bed in the cell, quietly letting Max tend to her wrists where the shackles had bitten in to them.
"I'm surprised," Max was saying, "That you didn't faint from blood loss." He had disinfected the wounds and was now wrapping bandages around her wrists. He then took off the gloves he had brought in Croydon, before they had been abducted, and put them on Kameko. "There," he said with a smile, "Fit's like a glove, pardon the pun." Max said as Ray and Kenny groaned. "Just trying to lighten the atmosphere guys."
"There's no point." Max turned to Tyson.
"What? Did I just hear the great Tyson saying that there wasn't any point to something?" Max smacked his forehead. "I must have mishear you or something buddy." Max said.
"You heard correct." Tyson said. He was sitting in the corner nearest the door of the cell. "I have to admit guy's this DOES look bleak." That was the last straw for Ray.
"That's it! I've had enough! We are getting out of here even if it's the last thing I do!" Ray staggered up and promptly fell to the floor. Kameko ran over to him.
"It will be the last thing you do if you try a stunt like that again Ray." Kameko gave him a withering look and then turned it on Tyson. "And YOU," Kameko said with force. "Can quit the 'I'm so sorry for myself' attitude. We ARE going to get out of this. We are NOT, I repeat, NOT going to give up! Do you understand me Tyson?"
"You've stopped." Max said.
"Stopped what?" Kameko turned puzzled eyes on Max.
"Saying things like 'Ray-San'. You've stopped it." Max said with a smile.
"Well that was random if ever I heard it." Kenny said. Just then Kenny noticed something underneath the bed. "What's that?" Kenny went over and rummaged around under the bed until his hands touched it. A smile spread across his face. Kameko, who had been berating Tyson more, looked over at Kenny in bewilderment.
"Chief what ARE you doing?" she asked. Just then Kenny pulled out a flat black box.
"It's." Kenny opened it p. "It's.My God." He whispered and signalled the others to do so. "It's Dizzi!"
"What!" Kameko said in surprise. "But?"
"Who knows but how ever she got here," Ray whispered, "We better keep it quiet." He then turned to Kenny. "Is Dizzi functioning?"
"You bet she is, nut the speakers been switched off on the computer." Kenny showed them Dizzi 'shouting' but no sound. "The guards must have got feed up with her talking." He said. Just then the bolts on the door started sliding back. Kenny hid Dizzi underneath the pillow on the bed and shoved Ray on to the bed and told him in a horse whisper to lie down. Just as Ray did the door opened and a guard brought in a tray of food. He nodded to Kameko and said something in Russian.
"He says he was told not to bring us food but because I speak his mother tongue he's brought me some food."
"Can't you ask him to bring us some food?" Tyson asked.
"No need Tyson. You can have mine, I'm not hungry." As Tyson went over to the tray Kameko said something to the guard who stared at her. He asked her something in a surprised tone and she replied in a clam voice. He then spoke in English for the first time.
"You want to know where Master Kai is?" "Yes. Please at least let us know that he is OK." Kameko hung her head. "I'm worried about him." Tyson nearly chocked. "She's worried about Mr. Sourpants?" Ray shoot Tyson a withering look. "I will try and bring you news." The guard said. As he turned to leave he faced Kameko. "And I'm sorry I kicked you Miss. Kameko. If I hadn't then Master Boris would have beaten me worse then your comrade over on the bed." He pointed to Ray. "Thank you." Ray said. The guard looked at Ray in astonishment. "For what?" "For giving Kameko that medical kit. If you hadn't I doubt any of us would feel much like even living." Ray smiled at the boy. The boy smiled. "You are, as the American's say, welcome." With that he left and locked the door behind him. Later that night Kameko woke to hear Kenny typing a hundred words a minute on Dizzi's keyboard. "What are you doing Kenny?" Kameko asked, rubbing her eyes. "I asked him the exact same question and I got the exact same answer, nothing." Tyson said, walking up to Kameko. "I'm sorry about earlier." Kameko smiled. "It's OK Tyson. We're all in this together, just remember that." "Done it!" "Done what Chief?" Max asked, rubbing his eyes. "I've just sent a message to Mr. Dickinson and the other Beybladers who were at the tournament. Hopefully," Kenny said, holding up Max's mobile phone, "I managed to get the message to them." Max stared at Kenny and then at the mobile. "I thought they had taken that off of me?" Max said. "They did," came a familiar voice, "But that nice boy who gave Kameko the medical kit handed it o Kenny not and hour ago." "Dizzi!" Kameko said, smiling. "You're back." "Yeah and by the way Chief don't let any of those goons near me ever again, they were quite prepared to rip out my central processor to shut me up." Everyone chuckled. "Now all we need is news of Kai." Max said. "I can't give you that Max, sorry." Dizzi said. Just then the sounds of many blades being launched could be heard. "But I think that might be the cavalry." Dizzi cheered. "LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!" The words sent shivers up and down Kameko's spine, but this time they were pleasant shivers. At that moment the guard flung the door open.
"Ah." A voice said. "Our little friend is awake." The voice was cold and uncaring; no emotion was distinguishable. The next thing Kameko knew that blindfold had been pulled off, with a great amount of force. The room, thought dark and dingy, seemed full of blinding light. "We meet at last Miss. Dickinson." The voice said. Slowly Kameko opened her eyes. In front of her stood a tall man with purple hair and wore a strange pair of goggles. Kameko recognised him at once from the many photos her grandfather had shown her. This was Boris Balkov. This was Voltairs main man, the henchman, the evil sidekick to the super villain. This was the man who had tortured and corrupted Kai. Kameko showed no emotion, like Kai had taught her, but inside her there was a mixture of fear, disgust, loathing and anger, all directed at this one horrific and inexplicable man. "I hope you slept well."
"Grrrrr!" Kameko growled at him. If she had said anything it would have been nothing but a long list of abusive and vulgar words, all directed at him and his parentage.
"Quite the rebel, aren't we Miss. Dickinson."
"Where's Kai?" Kameko, ignoring the question, demanded through gritted teeth. "Where is he? Tell me what you've done with him."
"Now, now, Miss. Dickinson I don't think you're really in the position to be demanding anything." Boris chuckled. A shiver ran up and down Kameko's spine several times. "Anyway Miss.Kameko isn't it? You'll be having company very shortly." With those last words Boris turned on his heels and walked out the door, saying something to the guard, a boy Kameko noted, in Russian. Once Boris had left the room the boy slammed the door shut. It was at that moment that Kameko realised she wasn't on the floor but chained and shackled to the wall of a cell. The shackles bit in to her wrists as she tried to slip out of them, but she didn't care. Just then the door opened again and the guard came in and unchained and unshackled Kameko before giving her a swift kick to the stomach. It was only enough though to wind her but it was all that was needed for while he had been untying her from her bonds two other boy's had brought in two more figures. One was Kenny, badly bruised but other wise not badly hurt. The other was Ray. Ray's face was a mass of bruises and cuts. His shirt was missing and Kameko could see, even through the dim light that Ray's body was a mass of contusions. As soon as Kameko had regained her breath she crawled over to Ray.
"Ray." She whispered. "Ray?" Ray stirred.
"Kameko?" Ray's voice was barely auditable and horse. "Where?"
"Shh." Kameko said. She noticed a canteen of water. She opened it, smelt it and decided it was OK. "Here," She said placing the canteen to Ray's lips. "Drink." Ray took a sip from the canteen. "What happened Ray- San?" Kameko asked.
"That last thing I remember Kameko," Ray managed to get out, "Was being attacked from behind. The next thing I know I'm in this large room. These guy's then starting beating me about but then they backed off." Ray went in tot a coughing fit. Kameko placed the canteen at his lips again and let him drink. "Then," Ray continued, "They started launching Beyblades at me. The didn't have defence rings at all and the attack rings were like knives." Ray winced. So that's how you got all these cut's. Kameko thought. "Is Kenny OK?" Ray asked. Just then Kenny gave a grown and sat up.
"Ouch." Kenny clutched his head. "What happen.RAY!" Kenny was by the pair of them instantly. "Are you OK?"
"I'll be OK." Ray said, giving a weak smile.
"Not unless I deal with these wounds you won't." Kameko said. "Kenny rest Ray's head on your lap for me, yes like that." Kameko then got up and banged on the door. "Hey!" She yelled. *"? ???????? ? ???????! ??????????!" The guard opened a hatch in the door.
*"??????" He asked. Kameko pointed to Ray. The guard then shut the hatch. Kameko swore, making Kenny blush and Ray stare.
"Sorry." Kameko said, blushing. Just then the door opened and the guard handed Kameko a medical box, bowl of warm water, disinfectant and cloths. *"?! ???????." Kameko said taking the tray the boy handed her. The guard closed the door and locked it. "I didn't think he was coming back." Kameko said. She then set to tending Ray's wounds. Soon all the wounds were bandaged and clean. "Do you feel better Ray?" Kameko asked.
"A lot, thank you Kameko." Ray said. "I didn't know you spoke Russian."
"Something my father always insisted on, he was a diplomat and other languages come in handy."
"Did you ever speak to Kai in Russian?" Kenny asked.
"Yes Kenny," Kameko said, raising one eyebrow, "Why?"
"Because a few nights ago I heard a woman talking to Kai. I had Dizzi translate what she was saying." Kameko waited for Kenny to go on. "She was saying something about talent." Kameko smiled.
"You never knew Kai was a poet did you Kenny?" Kenny shook his head. "Kai asked me if I spoke Russian. When I said I did he asked me if I minded all our conversation's being in Russian. It was only after I swore to use only Russian when I was around just him that he showed me something."
"What?" Ray asked.
"You remember Kai always carried around that little black book?" The two boys nodded. "Well it was full of poems. He is very talented." Kameko said smiling, it wasn't a happy one though, it was sad.
"How talented?" Ray asked.
"Very. Almost as good as Edgar Allen Poe."
"Who?" Kenny asked, looking puzzled.
"You've never read The Raven then have you?" Kameko said. She sighed. "He's as good as the best poet you can think of."
"Can't really think of one." Ray said, clutching at his side.
"Is something wrong Ray?" Kameko said.
"My side aches. It's nothing really." Ray said, smiling. Just then the door opened again and two more figures were thrown in. It was Tyson and Max. Tyson didn't look too bad and neither did Max but both had large cuts. They both groaned and raised them selves up off the floor.
"Tyson! Max! Are you two OK?" Kameko said, running first to Tyson to check the large slash on his chest.
"I'm OK Kameko." Tyson said. "Argh!"
"Understatement of the year." Kenny said. He passed Kameko the medical kit so she could clean up Tyson's wounds. "What happened to you two?"
"The were asking up questions." Max said, taking an antiseptic wipe and started wiping away some of the dried blood on his arm where there were a myriad of little cut's, which had healed slightly, had been re opened. "Questions about something called Mistrix." Max said. Kameko stared at Max in dismay.
"You didn't say anything did you?" She asked, pleading. "Any of you?"
"We didn't say anything Kameko," Tyson said, wincing, "Mainly because we didn't know WHAT the hell they were talking about."
"They haven't questioned you?" Kenny asked. Kameko shook her head.
"Now that we've got one thing sorted out then let's sort out the other thing." Ray said frowning. "Where's Kai?"
"I asked that guy Boris." Kameko started when the others looked shocked.
"BORIS! As in the that MONSTER that controlled the Demolition Boys back in the World Tournament?" Tyson shouted.
"Yes Tyson the same." Kameko said with a scowl. "I asked him about Kai and he said that he thought I wasn't in a position to be 'demanding' anything." Kameko let out a low growl. Max stared at Kameko, he had never heard her growl in all the time he had known her, of which was six months. "What's wrong Max?" Kameko asked, still with a thrown on her face.
"Nothing Kame." Max said quickly. I hope Kai's OK. Max thought.
///
Kai slowly opened his eyes. He groaned at the pain in his head as he sat up.
"Ah. Kai you're awake." Kai recognised the voice instantly. His headache disappeared and his vision cleared. He turned to Boris and growled. "Still feisty aren't we young Hiwatari." Boris said, smirking. "Just like Miss. Dickinson."
"Where's Kameko!" Kai demanded, just as Kameko had earlier. "Tell me where she is you monster!"
"Do I sense that you have feeling for someone?" The other voice Kai heard was one he loathed even more. His grandfather stepped out of the shadows like a monster from a children's story. "Feeling's are for the weak." With that Voltair back handed Kai across the face and sent him sprawling across the room. "Those who feel are weak. Didn't I teach you ANYTHING when you were under my care or did it just all go in one ear and out of the other?" Voltair hit Kai again.
"Get off of me you monster!" Kai yelled, clutching his side in agony where Voltair had just kicked him. "I'm not under you 'care' any more, I'm my own person!" Kai said.
"That's where you're wrong Kai." Voltair said, grabbing Kai by the scruff of his neck and throwing Kai against a column. "You are right that you're not under my care any more but," he sneered at Kai, "I OWN you. You are far from being your own person." Just then something crashed open but Kai didn't heed it. Voltai picked Kai up by the front of Kai's shirt and held him about an inch from his face. "Far from it. You are MINE!"
///
Kameko lay on the only bed in the cell, quietly letting Max tend to her wrists where the shackles had bitten in to them.
"I'm surprised," Max was saying, "That you didn't faint from blood loss." He had disinfected the wounds and was now wrapping bandages around her wrists. He then took off the gloves he had brought in Croydon, before they had been abducted, and put them on Kameko. "There," he said with a smile, "Fit's like a glove, pardon the pun." Max said as Ray and Kenny groaned. "Just trying to lighten the atmosphere guys."
"There's no point." Max turned to Tyson.
"What? Did I just hear the great Tyson saying that there wasn't any point to something?" Max smacked his forehead. "I must have mishear you or something buddy." Max said.
"You heard correct." Tyson said. He was sitting in the corner nearest the door of the cell. "I have to admit guy's this DOES look bleak." That was the last straw for Ray.
"That's it! I've had enough! We are getting out of here even if it's the last thing I do!" Ray staggered up and promptly fell to the floor. Kameko ran over to him.
"It will be the last thing you do if you try a stunt like that again Ray." Kameko gave him a withering look and then turned it on Tyson. "And YOU," Kameko said with force. "Can quit the 'I'm so sorry for myself' attitude. We ARE going to get out of this. We are NOT, I repeat, NOT going to give up! Do you understand me Tyson?"
"You've stopped." Max said.
"Stopped what?" Kameko turned puzzled eyes on Max.
"Saying things like 'Ray-San'. You've stopped it." Max said with a smile.
"Well that was random if ever I heard it." Kenny said. Just then Kenny noticed something underneath the bed. "What's that?" Kenny went over and rummaged around under the bed until his hands touched it. A smile spread across his face. Kameko, who had been berating Tyson more, looked over at Kenny in bewilderment.
"Chief what ARE you doing?" she asked. Just then Kenny pulled out a flat black box.
"It's." Kenny opened it p. "It's.My God." He whispered and signalled the others to do so. "It's Dizzi!"
"What!" Kameko said in surprise. "But?"
"Who knows but how ever she got here," Ray whispered, "We better keep it quiet." He then turned to Kenny. "Is Dizzi functioning?"
"You bet she is, nut the speakers been switched off on the computer." Kenny showed them Dizzi 'shouting' but no sound. "The guards must have got feed up with her talking." He said. Just then the bolts on the door started sliding back. Kenny hid Dizzi underneath the pillow on the bed and shoved Ray on to the bed and told him in a horse whisper to lie down. Just as Ray did the door opened and a guard brought in a tray of food. He nodded to Kameko and said something in Russian.
"He says he was told not to bring us food but because I speak his mother tongue he's brought me some food."
"Can't you ask him to bring us some food?" Tyson asked.
"No need Tyson. You can have mine, I'm not hungry." As Tyson went over to the tray Kameko said something to the guard who stared at her. He asked her something in a surprised tone and she replied in a clam voice. He then spoke in English for the first time.
"You want to know where Master Kai is?" "Yes. Please at least let us know that he is OK." Kameko hung her head. "I'm worried about him." Tyson nearly chocked. "She's worried about Mr. Sourpants?" Ray shoot Tyson a withering look. "I will try and bring you news." The guard said. As he turned to leave he faced Kameko. "And I'm sorry I kicked you Miss. Kameko. If I hadn't then Master Boris would have beaten me worse then your comrade over on the bed." He pointed to Ray. "Thank you." Ray said. The guard looked at Ray in astonishment. "For what?" "For giving Kameko that medical kit. If you hadn't I doubt any of us would feel much like even living." Ray smiled at the boy. The boy smiled. "You are, as the American's say, welcome." With that he left and locked the door behind him. Later that night Kameko woke to hear Kenny typing a hundred words a minute on Dizzi's keyboard. "What are you doing Kenny?" Kameko asked, rubbing her eyes. "I asked him the exact same question and I got the exact same answer, nothing." Tyson said, walking up to Kameko. "I'm sorry about earlier." Kameko smiled. "It's OK Tyson. We're all in this together, just remember that." "Done it!" "Done what Chief?" Max asked, rubbing his eyes. "I've just sent a message to Mr. Dickinson and the other Beybladers who were at the tournament. Hopefully," Kenny said, holding up Max's mobile phone, "I managed to get the message to them." Max stared at Kenny and then at the mobile. "I thought they had taken that off of me?" Max said. "They did," came a familiar voice, "But that nice boy who gave Kameko the medical kit handed it o Kenny not and hour ago." "Dizzi!" Kameko said, smiling. "You're back." "Yeah and by the way Chief don't let any of those goons near me ever again, they were quite prepared to rip out my central processor to shut me up." Everyone chuckled. "Now all we need is news of Kai." Max said. "I can't give you that Max, sorry." Dizzi said. Just then the sounds of many blades being launched could be heard. "But I think that might be the cavalry." Dizzi cheered. "LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!" The words sent shivers up and down Kameko's spine, but this time they were pleasant shivers. At that moment the guard flung the door open.