Chapter 21: The Search For Answers

"Well hello Kai, so nice to see you again…but so soon" came the cold voice of a Russian man.

"Boris" Kai spat

"I new you would come back to the abbey once more" said Boris with a smirk,

"I want some answers!" yelled Kai

"Oh really" Boris replied

"Yeah really" Kai glared back at Boris

"Well ask away" spoke the purple haired Russian,

'What… why is he making it so easy, he must be up to something, but I'll play along till he gives out some more clues'

"Why" came the simple question,

"Why?" Boris repeated

"Yes Why. Why do you and my grandfather want control of the world, why are you using children to do it and more importantly why are you using me?"

"Well to answer your questions I would say that we want control because that's what all people with power want, and why are we using children. Mainly because the bit beasts of the world are the MOST powerful thing on this planet, and those spirits reside in beyblades and young children are the best when it comes to using a blade. And we choose you Kai, because for starters your grandfather is the head of BioVolt, because you have such power and skill after all you are a genetically perfect child and because we new you would be easy to manipulate, your lust for power is as great as mine, not to mention you're the only one capable of controlling the awesome power of the bit beasts we created here at BioVolt" explained Boris

"So why didn't you just quite after the first try?" asked Kai

"Repetition, repetition. If we try enough times we'll eventually succeed"

"I doubt that," mumbled Kai

"Look Kai, with your help BioVolt will rule the world, nothing would stand in our way, and you could have anything you desired. Just think of the awesome power you'll have at your finger tips" Boris tried to persuade Kai once again

"I don't think so," said Kai in a stern voice,

"Come on, we'll grant you anything you want"

"There's nothing that you have that I wont"

"Oh really, well we'll just see about that"

"Why don't you give up already, and what makes Kai so special that you so badly want him back after all the times he's failed you!" shouted Tyson

"The power he holds is very valuable to us"

"Power what do you mean?" asked Ray

"You ordinary people wouldn't understand, in fact I'm not even sure Kai fully understands what power he posses"

"Alright so explain" spoke Kai

"Sorry I'm not answering that question, however if you join BioVolt again I'll be happy to answer it and I'll even show you how to unlock some of that power," said Boris eyeing Kai

"You don't give up do you," said Kai narrowing his eyes,

"Hmm" Boris smirked at the teen

"I'll never rejoin!" shot Kai

"But Kai, I know you crave power and you have it too, just return home and I'll show you how to harness the power"

"Home? This place is no home, it's a prison"

"Maybe, but it's all you'll ever know and all you have left" Boris explained

"What would you know about me, I can still remember some things about my life before coming here"

"Ah yes, your parents. They were both foolish, let's not have you make the same mistake"

"What would you know about my parents" Kai asked narrowing his eyes even more,

"A lot more than you would think, because you see, I tried to reason with her…"

"What?!" Kai suddenly cut Boris off

"I told her to hand you over, but she just wouldn't listen, I had no choice" continued Boris

"You, it was you" Kai said through clenched teeth, he strengthened his glare and clenched his fists, and was starting to slightly shake,

The other teens were all looking at Kai with a weird look, not really knowing what he was on about?

"It was a real shame, she was quite pretty" said Boris with an evil smirk

"Murder!" Kai suddenly shot

"What, now Kai, I wouldn't go that far" said Boris in a calm voice

"Murder, you killed her, you killer her" Kai spoke through clenched teeth still,

"Finally figured it out ha, after ten years, young Kai finally solved the mystery to Lily Hiwatari's death, I'm impressed"

"How could you, you shot her" yelled Kai his eyes flashing in anger as he began to start shaking even more

"What's Kai talking about, who did Boris kill, and who's Lily?" Tyson quietly asked the others, who all shrugged

"His mother" said Tala

"What?" Tyson and the others all turned to Tala,

"Lily Hiwatari is Kais mother," Tala repeated still watching Kai and Boris

"His mum, I always wondered where his parents were, but I never had the courage to ask," said Tyson, focusing back on the two Russians.

"Correction, I bashed, stabbed THEN shot her…hahahaha" Boris broke out into laughter at the shocked look on Kai's face,

Kai began to shake uncontrollably and soon he snapped, yelling in anger the teen lunged forward and punched Boris right in the face. A surprised Boris lost his balance from the force of the punch and fell backwards to the floor.

Suddenly a large group of abbey workers came rushing in, two went over to help Boris, four surrounded Kai and about ten surrounded the other teens. Tala went to step forward but one of the men pulled out a silver gun and aimed it at Mariah's head.

"I don't think so Tala, unless you want me to blow a bullet through her brain" spoke the man. With a growl Tala stepped back, at the sight of the gun Mariah began to slightly shake,

"Don't worry, I wont shoot you if you're friends stay where they are" the man said to Mariah.

Kai stood breathing heavily, his eyes narrowed in a death glare at the Russian man lying on the floor before him. With a groan Boris slowly stood, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth he looked down at his now blood soaked hand. Small amounts of blood continued to drip down from his slit lip, and a small bruise was already forming on the side of his face,

"Hmm, you are powerful, I never expected that" said Boris with a smirk,

Kai gave a low growl and was about to lunge forward again when the four abbey workers that were standing near by grabbed hold of his arms. Kai struggled against the four men but they were already in good positions and would be hard to throw off balance. Two of the men had tight grasps on Kai's wrists, pulling his arms behind his back. Kai continued to struggle against them, trying his best to move forward and attack Boris again. As Kai's body moved slightly forward his arms stayed where they were. Kai continued to fight against the four men till one of them kicked him in the back sending him forwards to the ground. Two of the men stood above Kai while the other two were kneeling beside him still holding his arms behind his back, even though he was on the floor Kai continued to struggle. Boris stepped forward a few steps so that he was only a few feet from Kai, looking down at the teens Boris smirked.

"You'll never learn boy" Boris spat, glaring down at Kai who was looking up at the purpled haired man with narrowed eyes.

"I'll teach you to disobey my orders" Boris spoke anger was clear in his voice, looking down at the two abbey workers that were kneeling by Kai Boris nodded to his right, and in return the two men nodded back.

The four abbey workers had a lot of trouble trying to pull Kai off to the side of the room where Boris had gestured for them to take the teen. Kai continually struggled against the men making there job as hard as possible. The four men had to literally drag the teen across the floor to make it to the right side of the room. When Kai caught sight of the large test tube his eyes went wide, and he suddenly stopped struggling. The abbey workers took this chance to pick up the pace, closing the gap between themselves and the large glass cylinder shaped object. When Kai realized that he was getting closer he began to struggle even harder, yelling in anger he kick his legs out aiming at the four men that were pulling him along. Twisting and turning he managed to stop the men from walking while they tried to get a better grip on Kai. The teen was now on his side, trying to turn fully around so that he would be on his back. The two men were unwilling to let go of Kai's arms, causing their own arms to twist around. The two men began to gasp at the sharp pain washing over their arms.

"Grrr, can't you people do anything right!" shouted Boris, stepping back he turned to a metal table on the table was a syringe and a small glass bottle of blue liquid. Picking up the syringe and the small bottle he pocked the tip of the needle into the top of the bottle, pulling back the top part of the syringe it began to fill with the blue liquid. Putting the now empty bottle down he walked over to where Kai was still fighting against the four abbey workers.

"Oh no, what's Boris going to do?" gasped Emily,

"This sucks there's no way we can help, unless Mariah dies," growled Tyson

"And we can't have that" said Lee

"All we can do is watch in the hopes that Kai isn't too badly hurt," said Oliver

Kai caught sight of Boris walking towards him with a syringe in his hand and began to struggle more, lashing out with his legs he stuck one of the men, causing the abbey worker to stumble backwards. Boris knelt by Kai and held up the syringe. Kai glared at Boris while still trying desperately to escape to grip of the four men. While two of the men repositioned themselves behind Kai they never let go of his wrists, which were turning red. Kai was now in a sitting position, he continued to try and roll off to one side but a third abbey worker came and knelt by his other side and held his shoulders. Boris placed one hand on Kai's shoulder while the other still holding the syringe aim for his neck. In the few second that followed Kai struggled with all his might, breaking free one of his hands he went to punch Boris but was too late, already had the tip of the needle perpetrated the pale skin covering his neck, the blue liquid was pushed into his blood stream. Almost immediately Kai became dizzy, he placed his free hand on his neck where the syringe had been.

"What did you do!?" shouted Emily glaring at Boris who smirked back at the orange haired girl.

"Its only a drug to knock him out for a few hours" replied the Russian man,

The four abbey workers now had an easy job pulling Kai over to the giant test tube, placing the teen in the center of the black circular base they pulled off his shirt and attached a few wires to his arms and legs. Small needles were inserted into his skin, running form the needles were clear tubes that lead to a large computer. Before the men stepped away they placed an oxygen mask over Kai's mouth and nose. Pushing a small black button on the side the glass top came down.

"What are they going to do to him?" Max asked no one in particular

"I'm not sure exactly what they have planned but that's what they would do when doing experiments on the children in the abbey" Tala explained

"Really?" asked Tyson looking over at the red head who nodded.

Green liquid began to pore into the glass tube Kai was standing in, and within a matter of minutes he was suspended in the green liquid.

"Start the download" Boris told the abbey workers that were now sitting at the computers behind him.

"What are you going to do?" asked Robert looking Boris in the eye

"Well if you must know, were upgrading his body and try a hand at brainwashing him again," explained Boris

"Brainwashing him again, you've tried that like hundred times already, what makes you think it'll work this time. And what do you mean upgrading his body?" spoke Ray

"Well like I said before repetition, repetition. I'll succeed sooner or later. And as for the upgrading part. Well sometimes nature works to slow, I mean do you really think Kai would have been able to become as strong as he has just by training alone?" Boris paused for a moment then continued

"Of cause not, we had to give him a helping hand by giving him drugs and using these special computers to strengthen his muscles. You could say that Kai is getting extra special training while he's sleeping" a smirk spread across Boris's face

"How could you do that to someone!" shot Emily

"Yeah, you could easily kill him by doing that!" Mariah yelled

"I guess we could, but we haven't…yet" said Boris breaking into fits of evil laughter,

Suddenly a loud beeping sound could be heard echoing through the abbey, Boris spun round to face the men sitting at the computers,

"What's happening!?" shouted Boris

"Umm, where not quite sure yet sir" replied one of the men

"Well hurry up and find out!" shot Boris

A surge of electricity shot across the computers causing the abbey workers to yell out in shock and lean back away from the machines.

"What the?" gasped Max when he looked over at the large glass cylinder shaped tank that held Kai. Large ripples shot through the green liquid even though Kai didn't move in the slightest, the liquid began to slowly swirl around and became slightly clouded. Suddenly without warning Kai opened his mouth to scream out in pain but the liquid muffled the sound, instead a trail of bubbles floated to the surface. And for no apparent reason a large cut opened up on Kais cheek, the crimson blood flowed out to join the green liquid. Again another large gash opened up on Kai's right arm, the blood flowing freely out of the large slit like cut.

"Umm, this isn't very good sir" one of the abbey workers spoke up

"Why, what's happening?" shot Boris in an angry tone

"It's Slifer sir," replied another one of the men

"WHAT?!" shouted Boris is eyes flashing with rage,

"Slifer sir, his interrupting the program" answered one of the men

"How can he be interrupting it!?" shot Boris

"Where not sure sir, but he's the one causing the systems to fail"

"Well are we able to continue as planned or not?" asked Boris trying to calm himself down but not doing a very good job,

"Well yes sir, but…"

"But what?"

"But if we do keep going Slifer could easily Kill Kai, in fact it looks like that's what he's trying to do" explained one of the men

"I don't care what that dragon is up to, just finish what you idiots started!"

"What do they mean by Slifer is trying to kill Kai?" asked Max looking around at the other teens,

"No sure" answered Robert,

"Lets see if Dizzi knows" spoke Kenny opening up his gray laptop,

"Sorry but I only have bad news, really bad" came Dizzi's voice once Kenny opened the lid,

"What do you know Dizzi?" asked Ray looking over Kenny's shoulder,

"Well, those guys were correct in saying that Slifer is trying to kill Kai, and they were also correct in saying that if they continue they'll kill him," said Dizzi in a saddened voice,

"But how is that possible?" asked Johnny

"Well, the sacred spirit of Slifer is attacking Kai's body…" Kevin suddenly cut of Dizzi,

"Why is Slifer attacking him?"

"Well if you let me finish I'll tell you" shot Dizzi

"Sorry" mumbled Kevin,

"Yes so as I was saying Slifer is attacking Kai, and the reason for this is because Slifer wants his soul" explained Dizzi,

"Wha?" all the teens had a look of confusion on their faces,

"What I mean is that a bit beast can take the soul or the spirit of a person, adding that persons power to its own"

"I still don't get it," said Ray

"OK, Slifer is an evil bit beast with great power so naturally he wants more power. If Slifer were to kill Kai Slifer would be able to take Kai's spirit adding Kai's power to his own. Any bit beast that has fused with a persons soul will become real, in other words Slifer will no longer be a bit beast but a real life dragon capable of destroying the world. Once Slifer has Kai's soul no living thing, human nor bit beast will be able to stand up to Slifer's power. Not only that but Slifer will become immortal, so there will be NO way of defeating him. And once Slifer's master is dead, in other words Kai there will be no stopping that dragon" explained Dizzi,

"I see, but still how does taking someone's soul turn a bit beast into a living creature?" asked Lee

"I have no idea, but I guess you could say that bit beasts are spirits and humans are real, fuse a bit beast with a human soul and you get a real living, breathing animal with immense power"

"But why Kai?" asked Tyson

"Well this would be the perfect opportunity for Slifer to kill Kai and also the stronger the person the stronger they will make the bit beast"

"But how will Slifer be able to get Kai's soul?" asked Emily

"Well once Slifer kills Kai, he'll be able to draw Kai's spirit out of him and then fuse with it"

"I see, so what you're saying is that if we don't do anything soon, Kai will be dead and there will be a giant black dragon with all the power in the world on our hands who is trying to destroy the world?" asked Tyson

"Yes, that's one way to put it," said Dizzi

"But hang on I thought that Dranzer defeated Slifer, so how is he doing this?" asked Lee

"Well, I guess we never defeated him as much as we thought," replied Dizzi,

"Look don't ask me, ask Slifer" shot Dizzi

"Sorry" mumbled Lee

Looking back over at Kai they saw a few more cuts appear on his body.

"Hurry up you fools!" yelled Boris becoming very impatient,

"Sorry sir, were trying, but Slifer is making it very difficult" spoke one of the men

"I don't care, just get the job done NOW!"