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Chap Recap: The last chapter was just excerpts from Boris Balkov's diary. I'll bet you never thought that Boris could be that mushy. I also bet you found that agonizing to read.Anyway, the rest of the chapters will be in the third person.

May 30, 1995

The young Kai Hiwatari sat on the bank of the Volga River in Moscow. Though Boris and the other elders had told him under no circumstances to stray from the Abbey's vicinity, Kai had never been one to obey. After all, how could he be punished if he didn't go back?

The bank was completely covered in a blanket of light, fluffy snow, snow that sheathed a layer of ice. As Kai continued to stare contemplating how much he hated the Abbey life, the snow began to slide from under him. Taking him with it, it veered down the hill, much to fast for Kai to move, let alone think of moving. He tumbled into the icy cold waters of the Volga with a petrified yell.

Sarah trudged along the bank of the river, cold and disoriented. Unlike where Kai had been, there was no snow or ice in the area, and it was farther away from the city.

Sarah had become lost trying to follow a map, a map that led from the airport to the Abbey- the very Abbey that Kai had run away from. She had received a letter from her mother and uncle saying that they were inviting her to take part in a training program that the Abbey specialized in- one for Beyblading. Her father had agreed to let her go, so long as her mother or uncle picked her up from the airport. But, of course, once Sarah had stepped off the plane, there was no one awaiting her arrival, nor did she know who to look for, since she hadn't seen them since she was two-years- old.

She glanced at the Volga's rushing waters. "I wish someone were here with me. Anyone. I'm so cold and lonely.Where are mother and uncle?"

At that particular moment, she noticed something floating in the water. It looked like a human body.Male,.her age. unconscious.She continued to stare at the figure for a moment longer before she ran to the edge of the river and knelt down. "Umm.Excuse me! Sir? Mister! Are you dead, kid?" she called out.

There was no reply as the prone body continued to float down the river, towards the waterfall. Sarah glanced at the waterfall and then back at the unconscious boy. "Hang on! I'll save you!" she cried. She looked around her for something to reach him with. Nothing.

She looked back at the waterfall. A ledge! She could reach him from there! She ran over and pulled herself up onto the ledge overhanging the ten-metre drop. She lay on her stomach and let her hand drop down so that she could grab the blue-haired boy. Closer, closer he came until finally she could reach him. She grabbed the neck of his shirt and began to pull. "Ugh! He's heavy!" she grunted.

Slowly, but surely, she pulled him up onto the ledge with her. She threw herself against the wall, panting from the exertion. The boy, completely drenched and icy was still unconscious. Still panting quite heavily, she looked down at the boy gradually. "You alright?"

The boy didn't respond.

Sarah had a small smile on her face. "Well, I guess you can't really talk if you're not awake." She eased herself away from the wall and crawled over to him on all fours. "Are you alive? If you can hear me, say something."

The boy didn't move, but then all of a sudden began to wince and cringe. His eyelids to flickered open. Sarah simpered even more. "You're alright!" she exclaimed.

The boy rolled over to face Sarah. "Who are you?" he questioned groggily.

"Who? Me? Oh! I'm Sarah! And you'd be over that waterfall if it weren't for me!" She said with pride.

The boy propped himself up. "Really.I didn't know that was my name."

Sarah watched as he struggled to get up, then fell back down again. "You must be frozen after being I that river. Here. you can borrow my jacket," She said as she said as she took off her coat and handed it over to him.

He stared at he jacket for a moment. "No thanks. What about you? You'll freeze."

"My father made me wear tons of layers because he wasn't sure how cold it would be in Russia, and frankly, I'm burning up! Take it! You need it more than I do." She pushed the jacket against his chest.

He was about to protest again when he saw the determination in her large greenish-grey eyes. "Uhh. Thank you, Sarah," he grumbled with embarrassment as put on the jacket. "So, you mustn't be from Russia."

"How'd you know?"

"You said your father didn't know about the weather here."

"I really don't think I should tell you anymore when I don't even know your name."

"Kai"

"Thank you. Well, Kai.As a matter of fact, I'm not from Russia. I'm a Canadian, and proud of it!"

"So you should be. I've heard of a man called Nigel, head programmer of the BBA, is a leading authority on Beyblading. He is Canadian, right?"

"Yes, of course. I know that already because he's my father."

Kai gasped. "What? Is that true?"

Sarah nodded. "I wouldn't say it if it weren't. Anyway, we should get down from here. Won't your parents be worried?"

Kai glanced at her wanfully. "Sure."

Sarah watched him with a confused expression for a moment longer before crawling to the ledge's edge and jumping off. She looked up at Kai and held her arms out. "Come on, Kai! I'll catch you!"

Kai looked at her quizzically.

Sarah lowered her arms and scowled at him in annoyance. "Or not. Hey, just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean I'm any less capable than you are."

Kai shifted so that his legs hung over the edge. "Okay, then," he sighed. He pushed himself off. He landed right on top of her, face down. He lay there for a moment recovering from the shock, and then pushed himself off. "Sorry.You okay?" he questioned as he helped her up.

Sarah swayed to and fro, dizzy. "Sure." Kai steadied her by gripping her shoulders.

"So, what brings you to Russia?" Kai asked as they walked along the riverbank towards the city.

"My uncle and mother live in Russia. They invited me to train at their company to improve my Beyblading skills. Say, where are we going?"

"To Biovolt Abbey. It's where I live."

Sarah gasped. "Really? That's what I was looking for before I got lost and found you!"

"Your mother and uncle work at Biovolt?"

"Oh, yes! Irina, my mother is Operations Director, and my Uncle Boris is the President."

Kai stopped walking and froze. Boris. 'How could a man that cruel be a relative of girl so sweet? It just didn't make sense,' he thought.

"Kai?" Sarah's voice woke him from his reverie. "You okay?"

"Uhh.yeah."

"Good! So.could you tell me what the Abbey's like?"

Kai continued to walk again. 'Best to lie,' he thought. "Well."

When they finally reached the Abbey, the two snuck in through the large wooden doors. The Abbey's primary division trainees were Beyblading in the courtyard. Kai stared at a tall man watching a young red-haired boy battle.

"Who's that?" Sarah asked. Kai whirled around to shush her as the tall man looked in their direction.

"Kai!" he barked, his voice low, raspy, and heinous.

Kai stood erect. "Yes, sir!" he shouted back.

The man turned to the red-haired boy. "Come with me, Tala."

"Yes, sir," the boy replied as he called back his blade and followed the man.

The man stopped a metre away from Kai and Sarah. Sarah, who was cowering behind Kai, gawked at the man's incredible height. "Where have you been, Kai?"

"Outside the Abbey, sir. I'm sor-"

"There is no excuse, young man. To become a Beyblader, you must train. And running away from the Abbey isn't the way to do it. I have a good mind to banish you." Kai and the man continued to leer at eachother, neither one moving. The red-haired boy began to smile cynically at Kai's misfortune as Sarah still cowered.

"Who is that girl?" the man grilled.

Kai looked at Sarah and then back at the man. "This is Sarah. She's.been looking for you, Boris."

Boris' scowl turned to stunned shock as Sarah stepped out from behind Kai. "Uncle.Boris?"

Kai and the other boy watched in amazement as Boris began to smile. He knelt down and outstretched his arms. "Sarah! So good to see you, my niece!"

Sarah ran to him and hugged him. "I've finally found you! Where's mother?"

"She's.busy," Boris replied as Kai and the boy continued to stare at the unexpected reaction from Boris, The boy thinking the same thing as Kai had before, and Kai feeling foolish in a girl's coat. "You must be cold," Boris said.

"Not really," Sarah replied, "Father told me to wear too much- it's better than wearing too little."

Boris stood up. "No matter. I'm taking you inside, anyway. I have to show you your living quarters." He looked at Kai. "I suppose you already know Kai?"

Sarah nodded as Boris gestured to the red-haired boy. "This is Tala, one of my best trainees." Boris glowered at Kai once more before leading them inside. He took them to the dormitories. Boris opened the door to one room. "This is where you will be staying, Sarah."

"What? But this is my room!" Kai and Tala exclaimed in unison. "Bryan, and Spencer, and Ian's, too." Tala trailed off.

"I know. I'll expect you two to watch out for her and help her around the Abbey. As a novice, it will take her a while before she gets used to routine," Boris answered.

"She's training at the Abbey and you expect me to share my room with a girl?!" Tala exclaimed.

"Yes and yes."

"But-" Tala stopped once he saw the angered look on Boris' face. Tala looked at Sarah, who was staring innocently back at him. He scrutinized her from head to toe. Shoulder-length brown hair with red ribbons and eyes that changed colour depending on how the light caught them; though mainly green. A purple matched ensemble of long-sleeved shirt with a ribbon around the neck and fake jewel and knee-long skirt with black nylons and shoes. He couldn't help but feel slight sympathy for her.

Boris took them back outside and set all of the primary trainees up for an elimination Beybattle. All of the boys and one girl readied their blades, and then fired on Boris' signal. The Beyblades flew into the large dish in the centre of the courtyard. After about five seconds, Beyblades began to slow to a stop or fly from the dish; their defeat. This continued until only three blades were left spinning- Kai's, Tala's, And Sarah's. Boris was surprised. He had expected this turnout from Kai and Tala , but not from Sarah. Never would he have thought that she'd be at such an advanced level, not that it was a bad thing. Then finally, the three Beyblades came together in the middle with a collision that sent all three flying from the dish.

October 26, 1996 Boris had made select trainees gather in the testing facility. The boys (and girl) were told to make a circle around the dish, to see the experimental demonstration of three new Biovolt creations. Three new blades with Bit Beasts: Fovular, the fox, Wolborg, the wolf, and Black Dranzer, the phoenix. Among the selected prodigy trainees were Kai, Tala and Sarah. And since this was such a special event, Boris had invited Gilepse, the president of Goadbwa (Genesis Of Apocalyptic Defeat Beyblading Weapon Artillery) Enterprises, to see the demonstrational battle.

Gilepse, like Boris, was lean and tall. Though instead of having purple hair and grey eyes, he had dark brown hair that was almost black and grey eyes. He squinted through his glasses and through the glass that surrounded the dish as he stood beside Boris. Kai had his face and hands pressed against the glass, anticipating what was to come. Sarah and Tala, now friends, stood just behind him.

Another minute passed, and then Boris began to explain to the trainees. "What you are about to witness, me children, is a great scientific Beyblading breakthrough by the Biovolt Corporation. This is what shall lead you warriors to victory."

With that, Boris signalled to Leon in the control room, who pressed a button to fire numerous blades into the dish. Then he pressed another button, the button to release the Wolborg Beyblade. It was grey with a green Bit Beast. It particularly caught Tala's attention. Wolborg zipped around the dish, knocking out the other blades with great efficiency.

Even after defeating all of those blades, it kept spinning as Boris commanded for the Biovolt members to clear the dish. Leon fired the Beyblades again, but this time pressed the button to release Black Dranzer, mesmerizing Kai. It did much the same thing that Wolborg had.

Leon reset the demonstration dish, and this time sent out Fovular, catching Sarah's eye. The purple blade with yellow Bit Beast seemed to do a better job than Black Dranzer or Wolborg. Gilepse was impressed by all three.

That night, Kai sat in the dormitories, deep in thought over Black Dranzer. Spencer looked up from his game of cards with Ian, Bryan, and Tala. "What's with you?"

"I was just thinking of Black Dranzer," he replied after a short pause.

"Same here. Only I prefer Fovular," Sarah added, looking up from the book she was reading.

"Wolborg's the one for me," Tala said as he placed a card down on the deck. "Draw two, Bryan."

Bryan growled.

"Too bad Boris wouldn't let you try them." Ian mentioned.

Bryan placed a card down. "I wish I could have seen the demo."

"You'll get your chance," Sarah replied with a smile.

After the other five had gone to sleep, Kai remained awake. He couldn't stop thinking about Black Dranzer. He couldn't take it anymore. He had to try it out. Silently, he slipped out of bed and then out of the room. He snuck past Boris' room, where he was fast asleep. Kai crept down the staircase towards the experimental room. One Biovolt member stood guard over the door. Kai decided the best way to make it past was to distract him.

Kai kicked the wall he hid behind and quickly ran to hide. He waited as the guard sauntered down the hall where the sound had come from. Then, he darted to the door and slipped inside. Inside, he saw the dish, Fovular, Wolborg, and. Black Dranzer. All three Beyblades were in separate glass cases. He wouldn't be able to lift the glass; he'd have to break it.

Slowly, he walked over to it and kicked the glass case. It shattered and Black Dranzer was now at his fingertips. He smirked as he reached out to pick it up. He fit it into his launcher and traipsed to the dish. The glass still surrounded it. "Hmm.We'll see how strong you really are, Black Dranzer," he said slyly.

"Let it rip!" he cried as he fired the Beyblade. The Beyblade penetrated the glass and sent some flying straight at Kai. He hadn't expected that. He yelled as he shielded himself; yells of pain as the shards tore at his body.

Black Dranzer flew into the dish and spun around a few times until it began to glow. Black Dranzer slid down the walls and into the centre of the dish. Red light shot up from it, right towards the sky. It bored through the ceiling of the dish and blew it apart. Then it moved on to the test facility's ceiling, blasting the sturdy, heavy bricks an stones, sending them crashing down on the dish and Kai. The light did the same throughout the Abbey levels above and then began to widen, engulfing the whole dish then moving on to the whole room. Kai fled from the room and ran straight out, oblivious of the guard. "Hey kid! Where are you going?"

Kai ignored him and kept running. The entire Abbey was now beginning to shake and collapse from the numerous explosions. The falling bricks and trembling ground only made him run faster to find an exit, until someone grabbed his bloody arm; a black-haired, brown-eyed woman. "What are you doing? Evacuate the Abbey, now!"

Kai stared at his bleeding arm and then up at the woman.

"Move it!" she screamed over the roar of the explosions. She dragged him with her outside of the Abbey building and into the courtyard, where the other trainees and Biovolt members were.

Kai saw Bryan, Spencer, Ian, Tala, and Sarah among the throng, and Boris surveying the damage being done. The lady that had dragged Kai from the Abbey hurried over to Boris. "What's happening, Boris?"

"Someone has tried to use Black Dranzer," he replied solemnly.

"Look at that!" The woman exclaimed as she pointed to the beam of red light shot into the sky.

Horizontal beams were beginning to emerge from the vertical one; one.two.three; making a papal cross of red light against the dark night sky.

"Maybe this means something." Boris said as he glanced down at Kai, Tala, and Sarah.

Okay, if you even made it this far, sorry for it being so long-_-'. I'm just trying to compress this story from an original 25 chapters down to a 14-15 chapter story. Tell me in a review whether you want long chapters but fewer chapters altogether or vice versa. Thank-Q^-^!