Yay! Kai asked me to be revived! ^_^
Kai: Because I did NOT want to remain dead either. . .
-_-' I don't care about the reason, you did it anyway! Yay!
Kai ¬_¬: Maybe I should have left her dead. . .
Uhm. . . before he kills me again, I'm thanking PyroSiren for the bullet/flame-proof body suit, I think I'm gonna need it if thinks keep up! ^^
CHAPTER 4 - POWER
~//~
The real Kai seemed to look back at Bors with a satisfied smile on his face. "I told you it would work, Boris. It seems now we have complete control over Black Dranzer, and I'm fully restored."
"What'll we do with them?"
"Let them there, Boris, they'll be the first to witness the final steps of our plan. With Black Dranzer completely under my command, there is no stopping us!" Kai said.
"Yes, young master Kai, everything went according to your predictions. I must say you were right, merging your soul with part of Black Dranzer's was the correct thing to do in order to control it! It stopped as soon as it heard your voice!" Boris said, not hiding his contempt. "Now all that we have to do is bring back the two halves of Black Dranzer's soul and refuse them into one. . . and we will hold the most powerful bitbeast on the Earth!"
"Yes, and then I will be able to control all the bitbeasts and have them. . . and everyone else. . . at the feet of the Hiwataris! My father's ambitions will not go unnoticed!" Kai said. Then, turning to his grandfather, the blunette greeted him with a smirk. "What's wrong, grandfather? Phoenix burned your tongue? You haven't said a word to me since I came back!"
Voltaire, although really happy with the return of his younger relative, couldn't find the courage to reply, so he merely offered a small smile to the teenager.
The teams, trapped inside the cage, silently watched the exchange with awe, slightly understanding the events, until Takao couldn't remain quiet anymore:
"Give us Kai back!" he shouted, startling everyone in the lab.
"But I'm right he. . . oh, you mean THAT Kai?" the real one asked, pointing to the body sitting on the floor, realizing the dark blue-haired wasn't speaking about him. "Sure! I'll give him back as soon as I'm done with him!" he said, a smile gracing his face.
The teams watched as the real Kai walked towards the human body that held half of a bitbeast soul inside it, and, whispering a few words, the boy had it lay down and on a nearby table and close its eyes.
With surprise, they watched Boris hand over a sword to the Hiwatari youngster, the senior closing his eyes in an attempt to block out whatever was coming, but it was obvious to everyone.
What else would they do with a sword?
"Voltaire! Are you just going to stand there and watch as they kill Kai?! The Kai which has been with you the last 17 years?! Don't you even care?!" Rei shouted, tears coming out of his eyes in fear of losing his beloved captain.
Voltaire, although put in a tight position, knowing that the Chinese boy had hit a nerve, managed to answer. "It's not that I don't care, I really took a liking to him, it's just that. . . my grandson's and my son's dreams are more important, no matter what the price!"
The said grandson smirked at the answer and, turning to look at the imprisoned ones, he gave them a sly grin. "I've noticed, even if the signs are so small, that a few of you took a liking to my clone, some even more than that. I'm very sorry, but he will not be coming back. . . especially not after this!"
Mere seconds after the last few words, and the real Kai Hiwatari had stabbed the sword Boris passed him right through his clone's heart, the body giving a slight jump, making the part of Black Dranzer which was trapped inside it come out, a scream of agony loudly heard.
They all watched as it entered the blade in which its other half was in, thus probably merging into one with it.
"To make a bitbeast spirit come out of a human body, we have to damage the body greatly, so the body automatically 'kicks' the invader out of it. . . that's what we learned in past experiments." Kai said, looking at Boris, who gave him a nod.
The teen walked picked up the beyblade and called out its inhabitant. . . and soon, Black Dranzer, in all its glory, was flying above them. With so much as a whistle, it lowered itself enough for Kai to climb on its back, than rising a bit more as if to keep out of human reach.
Kai gave a loud laugh, a laugh that was so similar to the one the clone had given when taking all the bitbeasts, it gave a quick, yet considerable, pain in a few hearts present.
"No. . ." was the low murmur Max made before his legs gave away and he fell on his knees. "Kai. . ." he whispered, tears starting to build up in his eyes.
"There isn't a thing we can do anymore. .. . we've lost him!" Johnny replied, his voice so low, they barely heard, which was rather rare for someone who was always shouting about.
Most of the imprisoned beybladers were wearing the similar expressions of sadness and loss, but one of them, always the one who would never give up, still had hope.
"Stop that! We can still stop this whole thing! Kai asked us to destory it, remember? If things got out of hand, he asked us to end it! So let's free what's left of him! Get up!" Takao scramed. [A.N.: I really, REALLY, HATE Takao, yet I'm making him stand out, go figure. . . I'm still trying to. ¬_¬']
The others, as if some sort of eletric shock had run through their bodies, suddenly found the strength to get up and prepared themselves.
"Demolition Boys, will you followme or not?!" Kai's voice boomed.
The others looked expectantly at the said team, whose members, as if previously agreed, all smirked simultaneously, giving the same answer:
"We're not following anyone other than the Kai we met, whether he was a clone or not!".
At that, Boris and Kai frowned, but both were quite surprised to find that the elder Hiwatari had smiled at it. Pushing it away, Boris, a bit angry at losing his time in training the team, only smirked as he mouthed a reply:
"Then you can just stay in there with the rest of them!"
"We're not staying here!" Tala said, as he readied his beyblade, the other bladers doing the same.
"Ready? Three, two, one. . . GO SHOOT!" [A.N.: "Go shoot!" is the 'Japanese' version for "Let it rip!", as far as I've gathered.] Robert shouted, giving them the signal.
At his command, all the beyblades were fired, and without waiting, all their bitbeasts were released too.
"It's no use! I made that prison so no one could escape it! You'll never. . ." Boris started, but he had to cut his happy moment of feeling victorius when he noticed the newly-made crack in the transparent wall. "It can't be. . ."
But it could, within seconds, a shattering sound was heard throughout BULSE. . . and the beybladers were free. . . and they lost no time too.
"We'll get Boris!" the White Tigers called, and indeed they soon had the purple-haired man in their firm grip, mainly Gary's. [A.N.: I don't know his Japanese name, sorry.]
"We'll take Black Dranzer down!" Enrique announced for his team, as they all headed for the large bitbeast.
"We'll help!" Emily shouted, and soon the All-Stars followed.
It was a huge struggle to bring down the powerful Black Dranzer, even with all their bitbeasts combined, but eventually, they managed, guided to victory not by their strength, but mostly because of the will to 'help' the Kai they had known, even if he was no longer around; the cold beyblader who had, somehow, managed to get to their hearts in one way or another in the past few weeks. . . weird.
As soon as the dark phoenix fell, the Blade Breakers; who had no reason to call out their 'task', since anyone could guess what they would do; had all surrounded Kai and pulled him away from Black Dranzer. However, that's as far as they went: with Kai trapped in the circle they made arround him, his arms down by their respective sides, they had no doubt he could easily escape, but for some reason, the Japanese team could not bring themselves to attack him. . . and for an even stranger reason, Kai did not move either. . . he just stood there staring blankly in one direction, as if expecting something, but completely aware he could escape them any time should he choose to.
All the while, the Demolition Boys had gone up to Voltaire, the only one who mangaed to display a calm face despite all the chaos in BULSE, and were furiously yelling at him, making quite a contrast to what they had been doin until then.
"Voltaire-sama, please, make him stop!" Ian said. "He will end up getting hurt anyway!"
"And there is just no way the Hiwataris will be remembered in a good way even if the Revolution is completed! If you are going to be remembered as the demented family who brought chaos to the world, it's not even worth being remembered! You'll only put a bad memory to the name!" Spencer reasoned.
"We were going to follow it, help you make the Hiwatari Revolution come true, but with Kai gone, the Kai we met, it's not worth it. . ." Tala said. "When he gave us a silent goodbye, we realizedjust how foolish all this is. . . and not worth it. . . especially not without THAT Kai we knew." the redhead said sadly, his head downcast as the last words escaped his lips.
"Voltaire-sama, please, we know your grandson means the world to you, but how about the Kai which has been with you these last 17 years? We also know you took a liking to him. We all saw the little smiles you had on your face everytime he acted rebelliously. Do you really want to let his memory just go like that? Aren't you afraid you might lose THIS Kai too?" Bryan asked, his eyes losing a lot of their coldness.
So that's why Kai hadn't moved either, he was awaiting his grandfather's decision, an expectant expression on his face.
Voltaire looked at his grandson.
True, he didn't want to risk losing him too; after all, even if Kai did have Black Dranzer on his side, he was still human, therefore, he could still be wounded – and possibly killed – during the Revolution's process.
True, he loved theboy more than anything.
True, he also loved the clone, perhaps just as much, even if it was so rebellious. It was a behavior he had grown used to. . . and eventually come to like. . . appreciate, even.
Also true, he had long ago realized the risks and even the bad consequences the Revolution would bring to their family's name, but he had still supported it all, just because it was his son's dream. . . and later. . . his grandson's.
Kai looked expectantly at his grandfather, waiting for the answer.
True, he wanted to complete his father's dream. . . but that dream wasn't his own. Still, he wished with all his heart for it, if it meant his father would be happy. . . but would he? If they made the Hiwatari name famous world-wide through the ages, even if it was in a negative way?
True, they HAD come this far, was it really wise to stop now that they were so close?
These thoughts roamed around Kai's mind. . . and although he already knew the answer, he awaited his grandfather's judgement.
But. . .
~//~
END of CHAPTER 4 – POWER
A.N.: Another chapter completed, we are near the end of the fic now! ^^
Can you guess what's coming? For the 'happy' ending and/or for the 'bittersweet' one? Special dedication will be posted on the last chapter(s) to the first person to guess correctly both versions! ^_^
Any doubts, questions, mistakes, comments or simply nothing. . . REVIEW, even if you have to tell me that you're hating it, but please DO tell me why that would be so! ^_^'
Syaoran-Lover aka KLKL signing out!
Kai: Why does she insist on putting that stupid phrase at the end of each fic? -_-
Kouichi: Why? Should she make one for each fic? o_Õ
Loki: No, Kouichi-kun, it's just that he doesn't like it at all. . .
Syaoran: Who does? ¬¬
Kai: Because I did NOT want to remain dead either. . .
-_-' I don't care about the reason, you did it anyway! Yay!
Kai ¬_¬: Maybe I should have left her dead. . .
Uhm. . . before he kills me again, I'm thanking PyroSiren for the bullet/flame-proof body suit, I think I'm gonna need it if thinks keep up! ^^
CHAPTER 4 - POWER
~//~
The real Kai seemed to look back at Bors with a satisfied smile on his face. "I told you it would work, Boris. It seems now we have complete control over Black Dranzer, and I'm fully restored."
"What'll we do with them?"
"Let them there, Boris, they'll be the first to witness the final steps of our plan. With Black Dranzer completely under my command, there is no stopping us!" Kai said.
"Yes, young master Kai, everything went according to your predictions. I must say you were right, merging your soul with part of Black Dranzer's was the correct thing to do in order to control it! It stopped as soon as it heard your voice!" Boris said, not hiding his contempt. "Now all that we have to do is bring back the two halves of Black Dranzer's soul and refuse them into one. . . and we will hold the most powerful bitbeast on the Earth!"
"Yes, and then I will be able to control all the bitbeasts and have them. . . and everyone else. . . at the feet of the Hiwataris! My father's ambitions will not go unnoticed!" Kai said. Then, turning to his grandfather, the blunette greeted him with a smirk. "What's wrong, grandfather? Phoenix burned your tongue? You haven't said a word to me since I came back!"
Voltaire, although really happy with the return of his younger relative, couldn't find the courage to reply, so he merely offered a small smile to the teenager.
The teams, trapped inside the cage, silently watched the exchange with awe, slightly understanding the events, until Takao couldn't remain quiet anymore:
"Give us Kai back!" he shouted, startling everyone in the lab.
"But I'm right he. . . oh, you mean THAT Kai?" the real one asked, pointing to the body sitting on the floor, realizing the dark blue-haired wasn't speaking about him. "Sure! I'll give him back as soon as I'm done with him!" he said, a smile gracing his face.
The teams watched as the real Kai walked towards the human body that held half of a bitbeast soul inside it, and, whispering a few words, the boy had it lay down and on a nearby table and close its eyes.
With surprise, they watched Boris hand over a sword to the Hiwatari youngster, the senior closing his eyes in an attempt to block out whatever was coming, but it was obvious to everyone.
What else would they do with a sword?
"Voltaire! Are you just going to stand there and watch as they kill Kai?! The Kai which has been with you the last 17 years?! Don't you even care?!" Rei shouted, tears coming out of his eyes in fear of losing his beloved captain.
Voltaire, although put in a tight position, knowing that the Chinese boy had hit a nerve, managed to answer. "It's not that I don't care, I really took a liking to him, it's just that. . . my grandson's and my son's dreams are more important, no matter what the price!"
The said grandson smirked at the answer and, turning to look at the imprisoned ones, he gave them a sly grin. "I've noticed, even if the signs are so small, that a few of you took a liking to my clone, some even more than that. I'm very sorry, but he will not be coming back. . . especially not after this!"
Mere seconds after the last few words, and the real Kai Hiwatari had stabbed the sword Boris passed him right through his clone's heart, the body giving a slight jump, making the part of Black Dranzer which was trapped inside it come out, a scream of agony loudly heard.
They all watched as it entered the blade in which its other half was in, thus probably merging into one with it.
"To make a bitbeast spirit come out of a human body, we have to damage the body greatly, so the body automatically 'kicks' the invader out of it. . . that's what we learned in past experiments." Kai said, looking at Boris, who gave him a nod.
The teen walked picked up the beyblade and called out its inhabitant. . . and soon, Black Dranzer, in all its glory, was flying above them. With so much as a whistle, it lowered itself enough for Kai to climb on its back, than rising a bit more as if to keep out of human reach.
Kai gave a loud laugh, a laugh that was so similar to the one the clone had given when taking all the bitbeasts, it gave a quick, yet considerable, pain in a few hearts present.
"No. . ." was the low murmur Max made before his legs gave away and he fell on his knees. "Kai. . ." he whispered, tears starting to build up in his eyes.
"There isn't a thing we can do anymore. .. . we've lost him!" Johnny replied, his voice so low, they barely heard, which was rather rare for someone who was always shouting about.
Most of the imprisoned beybladers were wearing the similar expressions of sadness and loss, but one of them, always the one who would never give up, still had hope.
"Stop that! We can still stop this whole thing! Kai asked us to destory it, remember? If things got out of hand, he asked us to end it! So let's free what's left of him! Get up!" Takao scramed. [A.N.: I really, REALLY, HATE Takao, yet I'm making him stand out, go figure. . . I'm still trying to. ¬_¬']
The others, as if some sort of eletric shock had run through their bodies, suddenly found the strength to get up and prepared themselves.
"Demolition Boys, will you followme or not?!" Kai's voice boomed.
The others looked expectantly at the said team, whose members, as if previously agreed, all smirked simultaneously, giving the same answer:
"We're not following anyone other than the Kai we met, whether he was a clone or not!".
At that, Boris and Kai frowned, but both were quite surprised to find that the elder Hiwatari had smiled at it. Pushing it away, Boris, a bit angry at losing his time in training the team, only smirked as he mouthed a reply:
"Then you can just stay in there with the rest of them!"
"We're not staying here!" Tala said, as he readied his beyblade, the other bladers doing the same.
"Ready? Three, two, one. . . GO SHOOT!" [A.N.: "Go shoot!" is the 'Japanese' version for "Let it rip!", as far as I've gathered.] Robert shouted, giving them the signal.
At his command, all the beyblades were fired, and without waiting, all their bitbeasts were released too.
"It's no use! I made that prison so no one could escape it! You'll never. . ." Boris started, but he had to cut his happy moment of feeling victorius when he noticed the newly-made crack in the transparent wall. "It can't be. . ."
But it could, within seconds, a shattering sound was heard throughout BULSE. . . and the beybladers were free. . . and they lost no time too.
"We'll get Boris!" the White Tigers called, and indeed they soon had the purple-haired man in their firm grip, mainly Gary's. [A.N.: I don't know his Japanese name, sorry.]
"We'll take Black Dranzer down!" Enrique announced for his team, as they all headed for the large bitbeast.
"We'll help!" Emily shouted, and soon the All-Stars followed.
It was a huge struggle to bring down the powerful Black Dranzer, even with all their bitbeasts combined, but eventually, they managed, guided to victory not by their strength, but mostly because of the will to 'help' the Kai they had known, even if he was no longer around; the cold beyblader who had, somehow, managed to get to their hearts in one way or another in the past few weeks. . . weird.
As soon as the dark phoenix fell, the Blade Breakers; who had no reason to call out their 'task', since anyone could guess what they would do; had all surrounded Kai and pulled him away from Black Dranzer. However, that's as far as they went: with Kai trapped in the circle they made arround him, his arms down by their respective sides, they had no doubt he could easily escape, but for some reason, the Japanese team could not bring themselves to attack him. . . and for an even stranger reason, Kai did not move either. . . he just stood there staring blankly in one direction, as if expecting something, but completely aware he could escape them any time should he choose to.
All the while, the Demolition Boys had gone up to Voltaire, the only one who mangaed to display a calm face despite all the chaos in BULSE, and were furiously yelling at him, making quite a contrast to what they had been doin until then.
"Voltaire-sama, please, make him stop!" Ian said. "He will end up getting hurt anyway!"
"And there is just no way the Hiwataris will be remembered in a good way even if the Revolution is completed! If you are going to be remembered as the demented family who brought chaos to the world, it's not even worth being remembered! You'll only put a bad memory to the name!" Spencer reasoned.
"We were going to follow it, help you make the Hiwatari Revolution come true, but with Kai gone, the Kai we met, it's not worth it. . ." Tala said. "When he gave us a silent goodbye, we realizedjust how foolish all this is. . . and not worth it. . . especially not without THAT Kai we knew." the redhead said sadly, his head downcast as the last words escaped his lips.
"Voltaire-sama, please, we know your grandson means the world to you, but how about the Kai which has been with you these last 17 years? We also know you took a liking to him. We all saw the little smiles you had on your face everytime he acted rebelliously. Do you really want to let his memory just go like that? Aren't you afraid you might lose THIS Kai too?" Bryan asked, his eyes losing a lot of their coldness.
So that's why Kai hadn't moved either, he was awaiting his grandfather's decision, an expectant expression on his face.
Voltaire looked at his grandson.
True, he didn't want to risk losing him too; after all, even if Kai did have Black Dranzer on his side, he was still human, therefore, he could still be wounded – and possibly killed – during the Revolution's process.
True, he loved theboy more than anything.
True, he also loved the clone, perhaps just as much, even if it was so rebellious. It was a behavior he had grown used to. . . and eventually come to like. . . appreciate, even.
Also true, he had long ago realized the risks and even the bad consequences the Revolution would bring to their family's name, but he had still supported it all, just because it was his son's dream. . . and later. . . his grandson's.
Kai looked expectantly at his grandfather, waiting for the answer.
True, he wanted to complete his father's dream. . . but that dream wasn't his own. Still, he wished with all his heart for it, if it meant his father would be happy. . . but would he? If they made the Hiwatari name famous world-wide through the ages, even if it was in a negative way?
True, they HAD come this far, was it really wise to stop now that they were so close?
These thoughts roamed around Kai's mind. . . and although he already knew the answer, he awaited his grandfather's judgement.
But. . .
~//~
END of CHAPTER 4 – POWER
A.N.: Another chapter completed, we are near the end of the fic now! ^^
Can you guess what's coming? For the 'happy' ending and/or for the 'bittersweet' one? Special dedication will be posted on the last chapter(s) to the first person to guess correctly both versions! ^_^
Any doubts, questions, mistakes, comments or simply nothing. . . REVIEW, even if you have to tell me that you're hating it, but please DO tell me why that would be so! ^_^'
Syaoran-Lover aka KLKL signing out!
Kai: Why does she insist on putting that stupid phrase at the end of each fic? -_-
Kouichi: Why? Should she make one for each fic? o_Õ
Loki: No, Kouichi-kun, it's just that he doesn't like it at all. . .
Syaoran: Who does? ¬¬
