Trapped! 2: Beyblade

Chapter 3: More Accusations and a Note

AN: Thanks for so many reviews so far! Please keep them coming!

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S DEAD?!" Kai cried. "Why didn't you protect him, Max? You're such a waste of time!" Max looked almost ready to cry. Rei looked just as panicked as Kai.

"Yeah!" After a few seconds of eerie silence, Rei finally spoke.

"So, what happened to him, Max? Did you see him die?"

"I'm not sure. . ."

"What kind of answer is that?" Kai questioned; his voice had suddenly returned. "How can you not know?" He obviously suspected Max as the killer.

"I'm not the killer, Kai!" He paused. "I just don't know what I saw. We were all separated, and I heard him yell. I thought he was just thinking about Kenny, and I kept going. When I realized he wasn't with me, I turned back around, and he had a plastic fork in his chest." Rei and Kai both looked skeptical.

"What kind of killer uses a plastic utensil to kill somebody, Max?" Rei asked calmly.

"I DON'T KNOW! THAT'S WHY I SAID I WASN'T SURE!" Max screamed. Rei was quick to shut him up.

"If you keep screaming, you'll inform whoever the killer is that we're here!" he reasoned.

"If he doesn't already know it," Kai said quietly. Max looked confused, and Rei bit his lower lip in fear.

Silence.

Kai was once again the first to speak and break the silence.

"Oh come on, Rei! You have to be thinking what I'm thinking!" He stared accusingly at Max. "HE'S the one who was with Tyson when he died! It has to be Max!" Max was awestruck.

"Kai, I'm not a murderer!"

"Maybe that's what you want us to believe! That's why you're always so hyper all the time! You've ALWAYS been tricking us!"

"No, I'm not! I'm just as scared as you two, and I would never kill anyone, let alone hurt my friends!" Max cried. Kai looked about ready to breathe fire.

"That's why you had someone else lock us in here and kill us for you! We trusted you, Max!" Before Max could respond, Rei piped in.

"SHUT UP! This is getting us nowhere. If one of us is the killer, it'll be revealed sooner or later. Relax, both of you." Max and Kai both seemed to calm down at Rei's calming words. "As long as we work together and put the clues together, like pieces of a puzzle, we should stay alive long enough to reveal the killer, and. . . ." Rei paused, as if he were choosing the right words. Finally the right words came out. "Avenge our friends' deaths."

Kai and Max seemed to agree, and Kai reluctantly apologized. "We have to work together on this, or we won't accomplish anything. So I'm sorry Max." Max grinned and nodded. "Unless you really do turn out to be the killer," Kai mumbled under his breath.

KAI!" both Max and Rei screamed.

"Okay, okay!"

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After about 15 minutes, the three friends left their current location to find Tyson and Kenny's bodies. They assumed that the killer had left some sort of clues behind. Hopefully.

"This is a waste of time. We'll never find any good clues here. If the killer's smart, he'd have disposed of the bodies and clues already," Kai stated flatly. Rei imagined that he was right, but he didn't voice this aloud. It was their last hope.

"I just had a terrible thought," Max said suddenly. Rei looked at him questioningly, and Kai made a face.

"What?"

"Remember when we found Kenny dead, and the G.I. Joe was lying on the floor next to him? Well, when I saw Tyson dead, there was a Barbie doll lying on the checkout counter next to us. And Kai suggested it before. . ." Kai cracked up laughing, and Rei suppressed a laugh.

"You think the toys are doing this? I was scared; that's why I said that. What's your excuse? Boy you really are in-in-insane!" Kai managed in between giggles. Rei broke down laughing too after hearing Max's theory.

"Barbie's aren't real Max! Neither are G.I. Joe's!" Max did feel rather stupid for his suggestion after hearing the others laugh at him, and he smiled.

"Guess that idea was stupid, huh, guys?" After they had all stopped laughing, they had reached the spot where Max had said that Tyson was killed. Apparently, the killer had been smart as Kai had thought, because Tyson and all of his blood stains were gone.

"Oh God, he's gone!" Max cried.

"Yeah? You think, Max?" Kai replied sarcastically.

"Let's go find Kenny, then. Quick. Maybe he's not gone yet!" Rei said. The three of them rushed quickly to the front entrance, hoping that there really was safety in numbers.

When they reached Kenny's resting place, they discovered that he too, was gone.

"Oh God, oh God, oh God. . ." Max whispered over and over again.

"What do we do now?" Rei asked, his voice shaking. Kai shook his head.

"I told you guys that this was a waste of time." Max looked at Kai sadly.

"How do you know that, Kai?" he asked, taking a step back. "Did you move them yourself?" Rei exchanged a look with Max, and he took a step back as well.

"Do you see yourselves right now? I was with you the whole time, Rei! How could I have gotten away from you long enough to kill and move Tyson?" Rei breathed heavily, and relaxed a little. Max relaxed too.

"Again, this is getting us nowhere, guys." Rei stated. "The killer is probably none of us. Maybe someone else really is in here with us, plotting our deaths, and-" He stopped and looked at his foot. When he didn't look up again, Max and Kai averted their eyes to his foot, as well.

There was a small puddle of blood forming on his foot, dripping from something above their heads. All three of them looked up at the ceiling, and screamed out in horror.

Tyson and Kenny were both plastered to the ceiling by what looked like K-mart brand tape, panic-stricken expressions on their faces. Bodily fluids were dripping all over the floor, all around Max, Rei, and Kai.

As the three of them stared in awe at their dead friends' bodies, Rei felt something plummet into his head. It hit him hard.

He fell forward in surprise, and Kai and Max looked at him.

"What was that?" he asked. He looked up at Kai and Max, rubbing his head because it hurt. The two of them were both looking at something beside Rei, with horrified expressions on their faces.

Rei looked slightly to his left, and saw a G.I. Joe doll with a note tied to his leg with a rubber band. Rei slowly stood up, and reached for the G.I. Joe doll. He hesitated, as though he were afraid it would come alive. It didn't, however, and Rei quickly took the note off of its leg. He opened it, and almost screamed.

It was written in blood, definitely; it smelled horrible and was red. Whether it belonged to Tyson or Kenny he did not know, but then he probably didn't want to know. Rei read it out loud to Kai and Max.

"5 little beyblading pests,

I'm coming for your flesh,

kill off 2 brats,

look, it's down to three of you little rats!"

Max had tears rolling down his cheeks. Kai was as still as a statue, and Rei almost thought that he was dead.

"What are we going to do, guys?" Max asked in between sobs.

"There's nothing that we can do, is there?" Kai asked himself out loud. "At least we know that none of us is the killer, guys. And we know that whoever the killer is knows that we're the Bladebreakers."

"You're right, Kai." Rei responded.

"Guess this isn't such a waste of time, huh?" Max asked, cheering up a little. "But we still need to get away from here before he comes back. We should move to another location and stay together. If he hasn't hurt us yet, he may be afraid to kill us when we're all together."

"Yeah," Rei said with a far away look. "It's just one thing that worries me most." Pause. "When that toy hit me in the head, I swear it felt like it was jumping on me; not thrown." The three of them all exchanged grim looks for a moment, but then continued headed in the opposite direction.

AN: That's it for that chapter. I hope you liked it! ^__^ Sorry it's been so long.

I think it's funny how the killer keeps using K-mart supplies to kill the boys off. It's kind of funny how dangerous and scary everyday items can be when you think about them, like tape and other toys. That's why I chose this particular store.

Anyway, please keep the reviews coming guys.