Chapter 14: Black Heart, Dark Soul

"New memory installed, sir" came the voice of an abbey worker,

"Excellent, now open the tube" ordered Boris

"Right away sir" the worker replied

Boris watched as the green liquid was sucked from the tube, the wires connecting themselves to Kai's body came unplugged leaving Kai to fall to the bottom of the tube in a heap. As the glass tube was lifted up Kai's crimson eyes began to open.

"Now Malik, I have an important job for you" said Boris as he stepped closer to Kai

"Umm, sorry to interrupt sir, but is there really any need to change his name," asked the abbey worker that sat behind Boris

"Yes there is, by using his old name we are constantly reminding him about his friends and of Dranzer along with everything else about Kai Hiwatari. Things that we don't won't him to remember. So I have decided to change his name to match the new memories we have given him," Boris explained as he stared into the crimson orbs of the teen that now stood in front of him,

"But sir, we erased his memory" the worker stated

"True, but you must realize that a person's memory can never truly be erased, there are ways of remembering everything once again, and that is something we do not want him to do" Boris paused before he began to address Kai

"Now Malik, you know that your only reason for living is to serve me. You will aid me in taking control of the world. But first we must begin your training so if you would be so kind as to follow me" Boris turned on his heels and began to walk out of the laboratory,

"Umm my apologizes again sir, but won't he start to remember things just by walking around the abbey" the worker asked yet another question

"Yes he will, but we have arranged to take him to a new section of the abbey, never has this new area been seen by the children here, except by those that are already there training, so he will not recognize it" Boris stated before he set off at a quick walk followed closely by Kai/Malik. (All right I have decided that from now on I'm going to use the name Malik instead of Kai. So whenever you see the word Malik just remember I'm talking about Kai).

Boris and Malik continued down the dark, dank halls of the BioVolt abbey turning every now and then till they reached a black metal door, Boris turned the handle and stepped inside. It was just one long corridor, brown wooded doors were placed along the walls, about two or three meters of space between each door, and also each door had a number written above it. Boris started walking again passing about four of five doors till he stopped at number 11,

"This will be your room, get changed then meet me down the hall in room 37" the old man said before he continued down the hall, Malik looked the wooden door up and down before reaching for the metal handle and turning it, he stepped inside, looking around the teen took in his surroundings, to his right was a bed with one pillow and a gray blanket, chucked on the bed was a black tank top similar to his old one but without the red edging or gold buttons, and a pair of black cargo pants. To his left was a small beyblade dish, there were no windows in the room the only source of light was a light glob in the roof.

Malik walked over to the bed and put on the clothes that were placed there, he then turned on his heels and left his new room.

As Malik entered the training room down the hall he saw that Boris was standing next to a large beyblade dish. The room was mainly cloaked in shadow with no windows, the stonewalls looked fairly new, but they already held some light scratch marks. Malik walked over to Boris and stood a few feet from him.

"Here I have a new blade for you" said Boris as he pulled a black and silver blade from his pocket and handed it to Malik. Malik looked down at the blade resting in his palm and noticed it held a black dragon bit in the center, 'A dragon bit beast huh' he thought to himself, 'well I'll have to test it out and see how strong it is',

"You are to battle using this blade, harness it's awesome power, Slifer is BioVolt's newest creation, his element is fire and darkness, now your opponent will be a boy named Emerald" said Boris looking down at Malik. Malik clenched his fist around the black and silver blade, before he stepped up to the beyblade dish, pulling his launcher from his back pocket the blue haired teen attached his new blade to his launcher.

A door opened from across the stadium where Malik stood. Out stepped a 15-year-old boy with short brown hair and green eyes, he wore a black shirt and navy blue jeans with a red leather belt.

Emerald attached his orange and cream blade to his white launcher. Both teens got into potion waiting for the older purple haired man to start the count down,

"Now 3…2...1...LET IT RIP!"

Both Malik and Emerald launched their blades into the large stone dish in front of them. The two blades spun wildly around the dish, leaving scorch marks on the stone floor,

'Alright lets see what kind of power you hold' thought Malik before he called out the bit beast "Go Slifer!"

The Black and Silver blade began to glow an eerie black before a beam of black light shot from the center, the beam of black light soon began to take shape into a large black dragon with piercing red eyes, most of the dragons weigh was supported on his back legs so it took a more upright position, large bat like wings sprouted from its shoulder blades and spikes ran from the base of the neck to the tip of the tail, large razor like teeth were held tightly in long slender jaws, and horns came from the back of the head, (I know I such at descriptions, but basically just think of the 'Red Eyes Black Dragon' from Yu-Gi-Oh) the dragon gave a mighty roar before it lunged forward striking with great force, which sent the other blade back. Emerald growled as he looked up at the menacing black dragon that stood before him, his scowl soon turned to a smirk as he called upon his own bit beast.

"Ghost lets show him true power!" the green eyed boy yelled as his blade began to pick up speed. His blade soon started to glow a bright yellow and sparks of electricity shot out at all angles. From the center of the blade came a large unicorn his coat as white as snow, it's long black mane blew back as if there was a soft breeze blowing threw the stadium, five black stripes were etched across it's back, three black stripes went across it long lion like tail, and the long black tufted at the end of it's tail flowed like rippling water, the unicorn stood on golden hooves, just above each hoof were more black markings, last of all a long pearl horn erupted from it's forehead. The unicorn rose on his hind legs and throwing back his head he let out a loud neigh, the white unicorn eyed the black dragon with dark blue eyes waiting for it's master to call an attack,

"Now Ghost, Thunder!" Ghost rose on to his hind legs again as sparks of lighting shot from his body, the bolts of lighting gathered around Ghost before shooting forward towards the dragon,

"Slifer, Inferno Fire Blast!" called Malik, Slifer open his large jaws as a ball of fire began to quickly form. Fire and lighting clashed in the center of the dish as the two attacks collided. As the dust cleared Slifer took his chance and shot forward again, causing the orange blade to fly from the dish, and clash to the floor. Emerald started shocked at his motionless blade, his eyes narrowed in angry as he went to pick up his beyblade,

"Very good Malik. Emerald you need a lot more training, that's your worst battle yet" growled Boris as Emerald walked from the training room.

Ray slowly opened his eyes as the early morning sun filtered in threw the curtains, he looked to his right only to see an empty bed, 'Huh, Kai, don't worry we'll save you, and now we have Tala to help…Wait Tala, where's Tala, he was there last night when I went to bed' Ray thought to himself as he sat up and searched the room for the red haired blader. Ray got up from his bed and walked out the room to the kitchen, there the Chinese blader found the Russian sitting at the table looking down at his gray blade. As Tala heard footsteps he looked up to see Ray walking towards him,

"Hey, have a good night sleep?" asked the black haired teen,

"Sort of" was the red heads answer

"Huh, what do you mean?" Ray asked

"Well I can't stop thinking about Kai and what Boris will do to him, and I'm really stumped on what happened with Wolborg and Dranzer at the tournament" Tala replied

"Ha, oh yeah they both just vanished, well I'm sure they'll return soon" said the golden eyed boy,

"I hope so," whispered Tala as he looked down at the bit chip that once held the picture of a magnificent white wolf,

"Oh come on Tala, look on the bright side, you're no longer in the abbey now," said Ray in an attempt to cheer up the ice blue-eyed boy. Tala's eyes went wide as he heard Ray and looked up at him,

"WHAT!" he yelled before continuing "Look on the bright side, are you crazy. I don't care if I'm in the abbey or not, I'm just worried about Kai, because of us who knows what they'll do to him. He may very well be dead already. And you tell me to look on the bright side, well I don't see any!" with that said Tala stood and stormed out the hotel room, slamming the door behind him.

"Uh, uh, Tala I'm sorry," whispered Ray as he stared at the door, which Tala had just walked through,

"Hey Ray, what's up with all the yelling, some of us were sleeping you know" Tyson said lazily as he stepped out his room followed by Max and Kenny,

"Oh, it's nothing," replied the black haired teen,

"Didn't sound to me like nothing" said Kenny as he sat down at the table.

Tala walked the cold streets of Moscow not really knowing were he was going, but he knew he had to get away for a few hours. 'What am I supposed to do, I have no idea how I can help Kai. If I try going back to BioVolt I'll probably be killed and then how am I going to save him. Man I wish Wolborg were still here, he would know how to help me' thought Tala as he continued down the street,

"Well I'm sorry Ray but I must say that was a pretty stupid thing to say," said Kenny after Ray had told them what had happened,

"Huh, yeah I guess, but I was just trying to help him feel better, it just sort of came out, I wasn't really thinking" Ray replied.

"Well why don't we go look for him" suggested Tyson

"I don't know Tyson, he may just won't some time to himself" said Kenny

"Oh, but…well what if he's in trouble," asked Tyson

"I think Tala is capable of looking after himself," answered Kenny

"Yeah, you're right," said Tyson before going back to eating his breakfast,

Tala soon found himself walking through a park, he spotted a bench and went to sit down. As he sat the Russian boy pulled out his gray beyblade and stared at it again thinking about where his precious bit beast may be, and what to do about helping Kai, but he never found answers to either of his questions.

"You did well for you first battle," said Boris as he walked next to Malik who was making his way back to his room. As the blue haired teen was turning the handle Boris spoke up again, "You have four hours to train before your next battle, I will be most unhappy if you lose, is that clear", the teen showed no signs of hearing him and just closed his door as he entered his room, leaving the Russian man to stand by his door for a few seconds before walking off, with a look of anger on his face.

The Bladebreakers were all walking down the snow covered streets of Moscow heading in the direction of a near by park, to do some blading just to pass the time. As they neared the park the sound of children laughing filled the air.

"Hey amateur bladers!" Tyson yelled running forward to where a small crowd of young kids had gathered, the other three teens in hot pursuit.

"Wow, look at them go" said Tyson once he had pushed through the crowd, and was now looking at a small beyblade stadium where a green and red beyblade were chasing each other around, in an attempt to attack one another.

"They look to be pretty good considering their age," said Kenny when he noticed that the bladers were a young boy and girl aged somewhere between eight and ten.

"RAY!" a female voice called out through the crowd,

"Huh" said Ray looking around to see who had yelled his name.

Sorry about the wait. But school started again just the other week, and I'm also working on another story. Well anyways have fun reviewing.