Chapter 7 - Old Evils Return
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Later in the afternoon, an announcement from invisible speakers. It scared everyone, and they all stopped their battles.
"They beybattles will begin shortly. The first teams up should find their place in the main arena as soon as possible." Then it hit Tyson, he hadn't checked to see when he would be beyblading!
"Calm down, Tyson, I already checked. We're the first team up, against another team I'm not familiar with, they're called the 'Mountain Spirit.' I think they are the native team in this village. This is their village!" The Chief said slowly as he walked towards with them to the arena.
"Oh, great. So we're first, and we're up against the people who will have all of the support. That's just great." Tyson complained as they found Ray and Kai and the way into the Arena for the challengers. As they entered the arena, there were explosions of cheers from the crowd. "Man, hey, these people aren't from the village, I've seen allot of them at our other matches!"
"Looks like our fans came along to cheer us on our way!" Max smiled, and they all sat down on their side of the arena on a long, yellow bench. They talked about their moves and such until the voice came over the speakers again.
"All right, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to this hopefully exciting tournament! Up first is our own team the 'Mountain Spirit!' And they sure are full of spirit! And they are against the Bladebrakers!" Again the explosions of cheers from the fans were all deafening.
"First up from each team are Max, from the bladebrakers and Troy from the Mountain Spirit!" There were more cheers from the crowd, and Max got prepared. They all noticed a group on the other side of the arena, all of whom were pretty emotionless. Max got up with his launcher and beyblade, and advanced to the big ring where their beyblades would fight. Max's opponent, Troy walked over as well, and they both looked each other in the eye. Troy glared at him as he groaned. His green hair didn't at all match his clothing or his face, but he seemed not to care.
"Max from the Bladebrakers is a very powerful opponent! His bitbeast Draciel is one angry beast. If his opponent isn't careful, he'll have to answer from one angry bitbeast. Troy from the Mountain Spirit is also very powerful. But if his sense of fashion is even closed to his beyblading capabilities, expect a short match! Troy's bitbeast Trinario is one evil bird. It's half eagle half dragon looks may not clash, but beware, his bite is worse than his bark - or looks. All right, let's start! 3 - 2
- 1 - LET IT RIP!!"
Max was sure confident, but unsure as well. He launched, and watched as his opponent did the same. He used the same approach he usually did, but made sure his mind was clear of all other thought. Instead of waiting, Troy yelled at his beyblade to attack.
"Attack, Trinario!" He yelled in his cold, emotionless voice.
"Draciel!!!!" Max screamed out, and felt the connection right from the beginning. "Attack!" He watched as both bitbeasts emerged. Max watched happily as Draciel hit the other beyblade so hard that it went shooting up in the air. It landed just outside the ring, and Max laughed happily. "Yes!" he could hear his friends congratulating him from afar. His opponent, Troy, bowed to him with no emotion, and returned with his beyblade to the rest of his team.
Max was greeted by the triumphant cries of joy from his team.
"Good going, Max! You did it!" Tyson patted Max's back, and Ray and the Chief both congratulated him as well.
Kai was against a girl named Karia, who had a strange bitbeast that resembled a rabbit. They were both matched against each other, and Kai won easily. Tyson went up against Charlie, a short boy for his age with a lot of rage, and a tough bitbeast to beat. It was an odd looking turtle with wings. But Tyson won with his strength propelling Dragoon. And Ray battled with another boy with a funny looking bitbeast. It looked like a canary and a dog morphed together. He also won without any real competition.
They then found out that the team had created their bitbeasts. But that didn't have much effect now, did it.
Kai still wasn't happy even after they won all four battles, and their first match. He kept quiet as he felt someone familiar in the crowd watching him very, very closely.
They went up into the stadium, and found themselves some really good seats close to the action.
Kai still found it difficult to really concentrate. He tried, but something was holding him back from understanding. He caught a glimpse in the crowd across from him of a familiar face.
"No..." Kai gripped the sides of the chair he was sitting in. "It can't be!" He couldn't believe it, he looked again, and saw the face more clearly. "I don't believe it." He clenched his teeth together, and got up, he had to leave. If his grandfather saw him, that would be the end.
"What is it, Kai? What's wrong?" Ray looked at him with an odd expression on his face, and he looked over to where Kai had his eyes fixed upon. Ray cried out in shock "No way!" He saw the back of Voltaire just as he left through special doors.
"What's up, Ray?" Max smiled over at his friend and looked at him curious to know what was wrong.
"Voltaire... He's back!" Ray said in little more than a whisper.
"What??" Max dropped his happy expressions, and his face got very dark. Like he would explode with evil.
Kai got up and ran away. Away from it all. He ran as far as he could before his friends caught up with him. Kai collapsed on the ground on his knees, and held himself up with his hands right in front of him. "He's back..." Kai said in a mere whisper.
"Well, that's ok Kai. He won't touch you when we're around." Tyson smiled with a 'sure of himself' attitude.
"You don't understand. If he's back, then..." Kai stopped short of telling them everything. He couldn't tell them any of it, they wouldn't understand! He instead covered it up. "He'll be able to have another go at trying to take over the world. He..." Kai couldn't tell them. But he had watched his grandfather do it. "He has a copy of Black Dranzer, and he's made more of them I'm sure." Kai closed his eyes and felt the air around him turn to ice as the familiar smell advanced towards them. It was Voltaire. Kai's eyes snapped open, and were wide with shock and fear as the figure emerged from the shadows, and glared down at them.
"Hello, Kai." He spat the words out, and took no notice of the others surrounding their friend. "You should be more grateful towards your elders." Voltaire snapped his fingers, and three men clad in black took positions beside their master.
"I see you still have people to do your bidding for you? You haven't changed one bit, Voltaire." Kai growled up at him. At the harsh words, Voltaire nodded to his faithful servants, and they lunged at Kai, and grabbed him with force. Kai was kicking and punching at his attackers, with no result. The bladebrakers threw themselves at the three, and there was much confusion. Kenny had attached himself to one servant's head, Max had thrown himself at one and knocked him down, and attached himself to his waist. Ray had grabbed the same one as Kenny, and was hanging onto his leg, punching him really hard. Tyson was hanging off of one of their arms, and when nothing seemed to stop him, he bit into the arm as hard as he could. The servant let go of Kai, and Kai bolted away, only to be grabbed by Voltaire himself. Kai struggled as hard as he could, but the old man had his strength, that's for sure. Soon enough, the servants were all in full control of the fight, and Max, Tyson, Ray and Kenny were pinned under their arms.
Before they knew what had happened, they were let go of, and ran off alongside Voltaire, who was still holding his terrified grandson.
"Oh, man! We need to get Kai back!" Tyson stood up, and rubbed his cheek, where there was a bruise just forming.
"And if we don't he's doomed! And we are too! We have another match with him in two days!" Kenny cried out from his spot on the ground. Tyson gave him a hand, and helped him up. Kenny was fine again, except for a few red marks on his left arm. Max had a long bruise on his right arm, and Ray had no marks whatsoever. They rushed back into the stadium, where they noticed the match with the All Stars against the ToughBladers was over, and the All Stars were all grinning. The other team was looking pretty sad and angry.
"Let's go see if they can help us!" Max and the others rushed down to where the doors were. The All Stars emerged happily with their determined looks on their faces.
"Mom! You've got to help us! Please!" Max pleaded, and was almost to tears by the time they team noticed them.
"What's wrong Max? Calm down!" His mother sat him down on a bench, and listened to their whole story. "That's horrible!"
"But you don't understand! It's worse than that! We met a friend of Kai's -" The whole All Stars team was shocked to hear that he ever had any friends before. "And he told us almost everything! Kai's grandfather isn't exactly friendly, and he beat Kai as a child! Every day!" Tyson blurted out, he knew he shouldn't have, but he needed them to understand that Kai was in danger. Real danger!
"Well how can we help? We don't know where he is. By the way, where's Ray?" Emily looked around curiously, with her tennis racket beyblade launcher over her shoulder.
"Oh, no! We must've lost him somewhere!" Kenny groaned, and looked down at the ground. "Everything's going terribly wrong today..." He complained quietly to himself. Emily smiled at him sadly. That's when the chief blushed.
Just then, someone sneaked up behind them with a smiled on his face. "What's with the long faces?" It was Steth, he made everyone jump and turn around.
"It's Kai, his grandfather showed up and took him away." Kenny said really fast without any breaths.
"Yeah, but not before his faithful servants had a go at us. They were twice our size!" Tyson touched his cheek gingerly, and then remembered how he had bitten one of them. "We did pretty well, though!"
Steth's face turned to stone, and he backed up slowly with other thoughts on his mind. "Dammit!" He breathed quietly to himself.
"Where're you going?" Max looked up at the newcomer.
"Somewhere... I shouldn't have left him! God Dammit..." Steth turned his heel, and left them. But not before they all jumped up and followed close beside him. "You shouldn't come along." Steth muttered to them silently.
"We're not abandoning him." Tyson said defiantly.
"It would be better if you did, you're putting yourself at risk by doing this." Steth looked back at them.
"No way." Max was followed closely by his mother, she'd be damned if she let him go and follow some freak alone. "Kai's our friend! Just like he's your friend!" Max pointed out to Steth simply.
They followed him out of the tournament building, and down a gravel road that led to a mansion. They were all surprised to find the White Tigers there.
"Hey guys! We followed Ray here, but he went inside, and we can't find a way in!" Le smiled at them all.
"Ray's there too?!?" Tyson sighed, and his shoulders sagged down low.
"But lucky for me I come here all the time." Steth didn't bother looking back at them as they followed him to the side of the mansion. There was a small window at the ground level. "This way is easiest, they don't have security in the basement." He pushed it opened, and slid himself slowly down into the darkness. Everyone followed suite, except Max's mother.
"This is your fight, not mine. I'll meet you kids back at the tournament building. If you're not back sooner or later, I'll call for help." She told him quietly, and watched as he slid down into darkness. She walked back to the tournament, and watched some kids practicing.
On the inside, the mansion didn't look so big. The basement was pretty small. But Steth led them to a dead end anyway. "You all know the risk of setting inside this building. If you're not comfortable, go back now. There's no turning back once we get inside. And if you do, you might get caught." He looked at their grim faces, and watched as they all nodded, even the small one, Kenny, nodded. He felt around on the brisk wall, and when he found a small gap between two, he stuck his fingers inside it and moved them around for a few seconds. Then he removed them, and they brick walls slid apart quickly and swiftly. They all followed him inside, careful about where they stepped because of the uneven floor.
They then heard a haunting sound. A scream of pain came from all directions of the hall that they had entered. Everyone swallowed, and huddled closer together. "Kai..." Tyson looked around hopelessly.
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Later in the afternoon, an announcement from invisible speakers. It scared everyone, and they all stopped their battles.
"They beybattles will begin shortly. The first teams up should find their place in the main arena as soon as possible." Then it hit Tyson, he hadn't checked to see when he would be beyblading!
"Calm down, Tyson, I already checked. We're the first team up, against another team I'm not familiar with, they're called the 'Mountain Spirit.' I think they are the native team in this village. This is their village!" The Chief said slowly as he walked towards with them to the arena.
"Oh, great. So we're first, and we're up against the people who will have all of the support. That's just great." Tyson complained as they found Ray and Kai and the way into the Arena for the challengers. As they entered the arena, there were explosions of cheers from the crowd. "Man, hey, these people aren't from the village, I've seen allot of them at our other matches!"
"Looks like our fans came along to cheer us on our way!" Max smiled, and they all sat down on their side of the arena on a long, yellow bench. They talked about their moves and such until the voice came over the speakers again.
"All right, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to this hopefully exciting tournament! Up first is our own team the 'Mountain Spirit!' And they sure are full of spirit! And they are against the Bladebrakers!" Again the explosions of cheers from the fans were all deafening.
"First up from each team are Max, from the bladebrakers and Troy from the Mountain Spirit!" There were more cheers from the crowd, and Max got prepared. They all noticed a group on the other side of the arena, all of whom were pretty emotionless. Max got up with his launcher and beyblade, and advanced to the big ring where their beyblades would fight. Max's opponent, Troy walked over as well, and they both looked each other in the eye. Troy glared at him as he groaned. His green hair didn't at all match his clothing or his face, but he seemed not to care.
"Max from the Bladebrakers is a very powerful opponent! His bitbeast Draciel is one angry beast. If his opponent isn't careful, he'll have to answer from one angry bitbeast. Troy from the Mountain Spirit is also very powerful. But if his sense of fashion is even closed to his beyblading capabilities, expect a short match! Troy's bitbeast Trinario is one evil bird. It's half eagle half dragon looks may not clash, but beware, his bite is worse than his bark - or looks. All right, let's start! 3 - 2
- 1 - LET IT RIP!!"
Max was sure confident, but unsure as well. He launched, and watched as his opponent did the same. He used the same approach he usually did, but made sure his mind was clear of all other thought. Instead of waiting, Troy yelled at his beyblade to attack.
"Attack, Trinario!" He yelled in his cold, emotionless voice.
"Draciel!!!!" Max screamed out, and felt the connection right from the beginning. "Attack!" He watched as both bitbeasts emerged. Max watched happily as Draciel hit the other beyblade so hard that it went shooting up in the air. It landed just outside the ring, and Max laughed happily. "Yes!" he could hear his friends congratulating him from afar. His opponent, Troy, bowed to him with no emotion, and returned with his beyblade to the rest of his team.
Max was greeted by the triumphant cries of joy from his team.
"Good going, Max! You did it!" Tyson patted Max's back, and Ray and the Chief both congratulated him as well.
Kai was against a girl named Karia, who had a strange bitbeast that resembled a rabbit. They were both matched against each other, and Kai won easily. Tyson went up against Charlie, a short boy for his age with a lot of rage, and a tough bitbeast to beat. It was an odd looking turtle with wings. But Tyson won with his strength propelling Dragoon. And Ray battled with another boy with a funny looking bitbeast. It looked like a canary and a dog morphed together. He also won without any real competition.
They then found out that the team had created their bitbeasts. But that didn't have much effect now, did it.
Kai still wasn't happy even after they won all four battles, and their first match. He kept quiet as he felt someone familiar in the crowd watching him very, very closely.
They went up into the stadium, and found themselves some really good seats close to the action.
Kai still found it difficult to really concentrate. He tried, but something was holding him back from understanding. He caught a glimpse in the crowd across from him of a familiar face.
"No..." Kai gripped the sides of the chair he was sitting in. "It can't be!" He couldn't believe it, he looked again, and saw the face more clearly. "I don't believe it." He clenched his teeth together, and got up, he had to leave. If his grandfather saw him, that would be the end.
"What is it, Kai? What's wrong?" Ray looked at him with an odd expression on his face, and he looked over to where Kai had his eyes fixed upon. Ray cried out in shock "No way!" He saw the back of Voltaire just as he left through special doors.
"What's up, Ray?" Max smiled over at his friend and looked at him curious to know what was wrong.
"Voltaire... He's back!" Ray said in little more than a whisper.
"What??" Max dropped his happy expressions, and his face got very dark. Like he would explode with evil.
Kai got up and ran away. Away from it all. He ran as far as he could before his friends caught up with him. Kai collapsed on the ground on his knees, and held himself up with his hands right in front of him. "He's back..." Kai said in a mere whisper.
"Well, that's ok Kai. He won't touch you when we're around." Tyson smiled with a 'sure of himself' attitude.
"You don't understand. If he's back, then..." Kai stopped short of telling them everything. He couldn't tell them any of it, they wouldn't understand! He instead covered it up. "He'll be able to have another go at trying to take over the world. He..." Kai couldn't tell them. But he had watched his grandfather do it. "He has a copy of Black Dranzer, and he's made more of them I'm sure." Kai closed his eyes and felt the air around him turn to ice as the familiar smell advanced towards them. It was Voltaire. Kai's eyes snapped open, and were wide with shock and fear as the figure emerged from the shadows, and glared down at them.
"Hello, Kai." He spat the words out, and took no notice of the others surrounding their friend. "You should be more grateful towards your elders." Voltaire snapped his fingers, and three men clad in black took positions beside their master.
"I see you still have people to do your bidding for you? You haven't changed one bit, Voltaire." Kai growled up at him. At the harsh words, Voltaire nodded to his faithful servants, and they lunged at Kai, and grabbed him with force. Kai was kicking and punching at his attackers, with no result. The bladebrakers threw themselves at the three, and there was much confusion. Kenny had attached himself to one servant's head, Max had thrown himself at one and knocked him down, and attached himself to his waist. Ray had grabbed the same one as Kenny, and was hanging onto his leg, punching him really hard. Tyson was hanging off of one of their arms, and when nothing seemed to stop him, he bit into the arm as hard as he could. The servant let go of Kai, and Kai bolted away, only to be grabbed by Voltaire himself. Kai struggled as hard as he could, but the old man had his strength, that's for sure. Soon enough, the servants were all in full control of the fight, and Max, Tyson, Ray and Kenny were pinned under their arms.
Before they knew what had happened, they were let go of, and ran off alongside Voltaire, who was still holding his terrified grandson.
"Oh, man! We need to get Kai back!" Tyson stood up, and rubbed his cheek, where there was a bruise just forming.
"And if we don't he's doomed! And we are too! We have another match with him in two days!" Kenny cried out from his spot on the ground. Tyson gave him a hand, and helped him up. Kenny was fine again, except for a few red marks on his left arm. Max had a long bruise on his right arm, and Ray had no marks whatsoever. They rushed back into the stadium, where they noticed the match with the All Stars against the ToughBladers was over, and the All Stars were all grinning. The other team was looking pretty sad and angry.
"Let's go see if they can help us!" Max and the others rushed down to where the doors were. The All Stars emerged happily with their determined looks on their faces.
"Mom! You've got to help us! Please!" Max pleaded, and was almost to tears by the time they team noticed them.
"What's wrong Max? Calm down!" His mother sat him down on a bench, and listened to their whole story. "That's horrible!"
"But you don't understand! It's worse than that! We met a friend of Kai's -" The whole All Stars team was shocked to hear that he ever had any friends before. "And he told us almost everything! Kai's grandfather isn't exactly friendly, and he beat Kai as a child! Every day!" Tyson blurted out, he knew he shouldn't have, but he needed them to understand that Kai was in danger. Real danger!
"Well how can we help? We don't know where he is. By the way, where's Ray?" Emily looked around curiously, with her tennis racket beyblade launcher over her shoulder.
"Oh, no! We must've lost him somewhere!" Kenny groaned, and looked down at the ground. "Everything's going terribly wrong today..." He complained quietly to himself. Emily smiled at him sadly. That's when the chief blushed.
Just then, someone sneaked up behind them with a smiled on his face. "What's with the long faces?" It was Steth, he made everyone jump and turn around.
"It's Kai, his grandfather showed up and took him away." Kenny said really fast without any breaths.
"Yeah, but not before his faithful servants had a go at us. They were twice our size!" Tyson touched his cheek gingerly, and then remembered how he had bitten one of them. "We did pretty well, though!"
Steth's face turned to stone, and he backed up slowly with other thoughts on his mind. "Dammit!" He breathed quietly to himself.
"Where're you going?" Max looked up at the newcomer.
"Somewhere... I shouldn't have left him! God Dammit..." Steth turned his heel, and left them. But not before they all jumped up and followed close beside him. "You shouldn't come along." Steth muttered to them silently.
"We're not abandoning him." Tyson said defiantly.
"It would be better if you did, you're putting yourself at risk by doing this." Steth looked back at them.
"No way." Max was followed closely by his mother, she'd be damned if she let him go and follow some freak alone. "Kai's our friend! Just like he's your friend!" Max pointed out to Steth simply.
They followed him out of the tournament building, and down a gravel road that led to a mansion. They were all surprised to find the White Tigers there.
"Hey guys! We followed Ray here, but he went inside, and we can't find a way in!" Le smiled at them all.
"Ray's there too?!?" Tyson sighed, and his shoulders sagged down low.
"But lucky for me I come here all the time." Steth didn't bother looking back at them as they followed him to the side of the mansion. There was a small window at the ground level. "This way is easiest, they don't have security in the basement." He pushed it opened, and slid himself slowly down into the darkness. Everyone followed suite, except Max's mother.
"This is your fight, not mine. I'll meet you kids back at the tournament building. If you're not back sooner or later, I'll call for help." She told him quietly, and watched as he slid down into darkness. She walked back to the tournament, and watched some kids practicing.
On the inside, the mansion didn't look so big. The basement was pretty small. But Steth led them to a dead end anyway. "You all know the risk of setting inside this building. If you're not comfortable, go back now. There's no turning back once we get inside. And if you do, you might get caught." He looked at their grim faces, and watched as they all nodded, even the small one, Kenny, nodded. He felt around on the brisk wall, and when he found a small gap between two, he stuck his fingers inside it and moved them around for a few seconds. Then he removed them, and they brick walls slid apart quickly and swiftly. They all followed him inside, careful about where they stepped because of the uneven floor.
They then heard a haunting sound. A scream of pain came from all directions of the hall that they had entered. Everyone swallowed, and huddled closer together. "Kai..." Tyson looked around hopelessly.