Chapter 2

"Tyson! Tyson!!" Kenny yelled out banging on the door,

"S'no good Ken. He's gone." Maria whispered, tears building in her eyes. Johnny's eyes had gone harsh as the reality struck them all. Tyson was gone, taken by Biovolt, just like so many others. . . . . .

"DAMN them!!" Max yelled pounding his fist against the wall. His eyes were glazed, speaking of the tears that threatened to come.

"There's no time to move, we have to get out of here." Oliver said calmly.

"HOW?!" Kevin demanded. "We've lost the last leader we had. No one here has the experience that Tyson did, and with few options left, what the HELL can we do?!" Oliver glared, and replied in a hiss

"If you want to stay here until those Biovolt freaks show up, then FINE! I, however would like to get out of this frickin death trap. Move!" He commanded Gary and Eddie, the boys stared at him in thought, then moved aside. Maria sighed.

"He's right, much as I hate to admit it, we have to leave." She muttered, grabbing a ragged cloak she threw it over her shoulders and marched out the secret exit after Oliver. Max nodded and followed pulling the jacket's hood over his head. Kenny frowned, but didn't argue, he stuck on his baseball cap, pulled a coat over his arms and walked defiantly out. All the others left one by one, until only Emily was left. She was about to leave, but stared at the door.

"We'll save you Tyson, Michael, Judy, we'll save you all." She whispered and left.

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"It's obvious we have to attack now, it'll be a desperate move, but with Tala and those freaks off guard, the won't expect an attack this early. They'll think that we're still in shock from losing Tyson, it's the perfect time to attack." Max stated. Everyone nodded in agreement. Ironically, they stood in the beystadium of Moscow, the same place where it had all begun.

"So how we going to work this?" Kenny wanted to know, Max reached into the folds of his jacket and pulled out a map, he laid it on the table and everyone gasped awed.

"Where'd you get this?!" Kevin whispered. Kenny smiled grimly.

"It's what we were after this afternoon, we'd better put it to good use, or it would all be for nothing." Emily nodded, determination marked her face,

"So now what?' She inquired. Max pointed to a small a small hallway on the map.

"This is the entrance." He informed them all. "We won't go in that way, it's crawling with. . . . . . .guards."

Maria stiffened.

"Who?" She whispered softly, he looked her in the eye.

"Lee and Brian." He told her, she flinched.

"Continuing, as I said, we'll be avoiding the front gate, instead we'll use these secret tunnels. They run like honeycomb throughout the underground of the entire abbey. We'll split up into groups and-"

"Hold it!" Kevin yelled. "If they run like honeycomb, how do we find our way through?" Max smiled.

"Kenny? Care to answer that one please?" He requested.

"It's simple." The brown haired youth replied opening the laptop, he typed a few keys in and a map of the abbey came up.

"These are the underground tunnels, they have certain markings in the tunnels, we think it was a way for the old residents to fine their way out. See this?" He pointed to a strange mark on the screen, the shape resembled an n, almost, but not quite.

*(-) = Way into storage center.*

That popped up onto the screen.

"You'll find those marking along this route." Max told them as he ran a finger down a purple marked line.

"This is the way to another location." He stated and pointed to another spot. "Kenny?"

"On it." The youth instantly replied. A new symbol popped up on the screen.

* (#) = Way to courtyard.*

This went on for a while as Max pointed out all the spots that different teams were going to go to.

"That last question is, who are the teams going to be?" Max finally finished and looked up. Everyone stared at each other.

"Hmm. . . . first we have to put someone with a bitbeast in every team. But that'll be hard, we're short on firepower."

"Then I may be able to help." A whispery voice hissed, everyone spun around to find a long dragon, about 50 feet length wise, and with glowing sliver wings.

"W-who. . . . WHAT are you?!" Max stuttered out.

"My name is Paladin, I am searching for one who will be brave enough to help this desolate world." It replied. Max sighed.

"I'd help, but I don't think that I could do it." Maria squawked in outrage.

"Can't do it?! Of course you can, you have the blood and mind of a leader! You can do it!" Everyone began to cheer with her. Max groaned, then smiled.

"Okay." The dragon nodded, with a great flash of white it flew up into the air and shot own towards Max's hand, he covered his eyes with a gasp as a flash of light blinded him, when everyone was able to look up, Max had a metallic blue colored beyblade in his hand. It looked like an average beyblade, and had Dragons' wings coming out of both sides, the wings going in one direction, like a spiral.

"Paladin." Max breathed out lightly. He clasped his hands over it.

"All right!"

"One more thing." Kenny muttered. Everyone turned to look at him.

"Be careful." He whispered.

"No problem, we'll face those Biovolt freaks!! They don't scare us!" Maria yelled out in triumph, Kenny whispered a reply that no one else could hear.

"That's what scares me."

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"So here's where everyone's going."

(*) = The practice course

(^) = The main hall (Court)

(~) = Dormitories

"Got it?" He asked lightly. Everyone nodded and split into teams. They were;

Maria and Max were going to the court (^)

Kenny and Gary picked the practice course (*)

Oliver and Kevin got the Dorms (~)

Anreikai and Eddie made their way to the storage area (-)

Johnny and Emily had the gotten the courtyard (#)

"Best of luck guys, don't die." Max whispered.

"We won't" came the unanimous reply.

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