Emptiness
By: Black Dranzer
".." speaking and thinking
---------- Scene Change
--flashback sequences--
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I only own any of the characters that you haven't seen in the original Beyblade series.
----------
In the last chapter of Emptiness:
(("Such power," Robert thought.
The smoke rose around them, making the winner of the battle unclear.
But, as it cleared, it could be seen that Oliver's Beyblade was lying on the ground with a blood red Beyblade spinning beside it.))
(("The traitor?" Kazuki asked, "Who is that?"
Alexander tensed at the lie he was about to say, but Kazuki took it as a tensing of fear and bitter memories.
"It was because of Kai," he finally uttered.
Those five words sank into Kazuki's memory.
"Kai?" she asked, "What does he have to do with this?"))
((Boris took these papers and smiled to himself, "Yes Master Voltaire, my daughter will be going after Kai, but she is not only going to do it and achieve vengeance for you, but she will also be gaining the title of legal heir to your fortune. That is, after the first heir disappears."))
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Chapter Six: Past
The girl called Changer remained silent as her blood red Beyblade jumped back into her hand.
"Who are you exactly?" Robert directed at Changer.
"Like I've said for the last time, that is not important," the blue-haired girl replied. She then did a back flip and landed on top of one of the alley walls.
"I'll see you later!" she waved and was gone.
Robert stared at where she was for some time and then thought to himself, "She reminds me of someone, but I don't remember who.."
"Don't worry Oliver, your loss was due to being caught off guard," Enrique reassured his stricken friend.
"I guess," Oliver mumbled and walked out of the alley. The other two followed and headed towards McGregor Mansion.
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Kazuki couldn't concentrate, the name Kai kept on popping up on her mind.
"I must seek revenge for my brother," she told herself each time she launched her Beyblade.
Soon, she had destroyed not only the beyblades training against her, but the launcher arms on the walls as well.
Panting, she took one last launch and blasted a hole through the wall, crumbling it, not caring how much repairs needed to be made.
As she walked in the door to her room after her training, she passed the mirror and caught something unusual.
Looking closer, she remembered that the two glints she had seen were none other than the 'mecha-spiders' on her head. Her raven dark hair hung around her head and she looked into her own dark brown eyes. A silver tinge appeared on the edge of each pupil when she looked closer and gave her the impression of metal rings.
Sighing after looking away, she settled for laying down on her bed and closed her eyes.
"Are you sure about this?" asked a worried Ian as he walked down the hall with Spencer, Tala and Bryan.
"We are just following orders," Bryan said in his emotionless voice.
"Yes," Tala agreed, "Boris has made himself clear."
Te four boys were walking down the dormitory halls, the very ones that Kazuki had walked down to the testing building.
Heads poked out of doorways, curious of the appearance of the senior beybladers.
These dormitories were only for the junior beybladers that had been accepted for less than 6 months into the abbey and senior beybladers were a rare sight, especially the Demolition Boys, the Beyblade team that had represented Russia in the World Beyblade Championships.
"Go to bed," Spencer commanded and scared juniors' faces disappeared from view.
The Demolition Boys continued down the hall until they reached their destination, a dormitory door at the end of the hall. Tala, being the leader, stepped up to the door and knocked three times.
There was silence for a few minutes, broken by the whispers behind the other closed dormitory doors. Tala was about to knock again when the door slowly creaked open.
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A woman stood in the shadows whispering Kazuki's name.
"Kazuki, Kazuki," she said softly.
"Mother?" Kazuki asked as she slowly walked towards the woman.
As she walked, Kazuki realized she was a little girl, about 8 years old.
She headed towards the woman calling her name, "Mother! Mother! I missed you!"
But the more she walked, the further the woman seemed to be until Kazuki started to run.
"Mother! Come back!" she cried as she ran after the retreating form of her mother, diamond-like tears streaming down her face. The woman just smiled sadly at her and turned around.
Kazuki could only watch as her mother entered a building and closed the doors behind her.
She banged on the door calling her mother's name.
A sudden rumbling sound caused Kazuki to look up.
She felt the floor and walls of the building shaking.
Realizing with fear a moment later that the building was going to crumble.
Kazuki stepped back and watched in horror as the building containing her mother fell apart.
Kazuki stared at the rubble lying in front of her and sat down to cry.
Suddenly, the floor below her fell apart and she fell, and continued to until she felt a hard floor below her again.
"Two years since mother died," she thought to herself unconsciously as she looked at herself.
Behind her, she sensed someone
Turning around, she saw a man, "Father," she whispered.
Beside the person she had called her Father, was a boy, about four years younger than her, Alexander.
The little boy was crying as Boris Balkov led him by the hand towards Kazuki. When he reached her, he held out his hand for her to take with a kind smile on his face.
Kazuki stared at the man, but felt something that made her refuse to take the offered hand.
In a flash, the kind smile faded and a cruel anger filled her Father's face.
"This is his true face," she thought with fear, "the one he's been hiding ever since.." she couldn't finish the thought.
The truly evil Boris then took out a whip and started to slash it on Kazuki's body. Kazuki cried in pain as her younger brother was taken away by abbey workers and locked up behind a door.
She squeezed her eyes shut and listened to the whip making contact with her skin.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Then she ran.
She ran past abbey workers who tried to stop her, past grabbing hands.
In front of her, Kazuki saw a pair of doors. She quickly opened them and ran into the room, closing the doors behind her and barring them with a metal pole.
Outside the doors, she could hear muffled voices of angry men.
She closed her eyes and cried into her knees curled in a ball.
Why? Why is her mother gone? Why was her father so angry? Why did Alexander have to be locked up? Whose fault is it?
Then she remembered.
--Flashback--
A loud crashing sound could be heard as half of Balkov Abbey crashed into the ground.
An eight-year-old Kazuki watched in horror as she ran with her brother, Alexander, out of their bedroom out of the destroyed half of the abbey.
She and her brother met their father at the front gates.
"Where is Anna?" he asked them.
"Mother?" Kazuki tried to remember, and then it came to her, "Mother is still inside!" she shouted and tried to run back to the rubble that remained of Building C, where her own, her brother's and her mother's bedrooms were located.
Boris held her back as he looked at the destruction that had been caused with a white face.
The ambulance arrived and paramedics hurried to try and save the people who had survived the tragedy.
A stretcher soon came out carrying a woman. She had blood running down her forehead and several scratches. She smiled at Kazuki and Alexander as the stretcher passed and then closed her eyes.
"Mother!" Kazuki screamed as she ran alongside the stretcher. The paramedics stopped her from going on the ambulance. She could only watch in horror as the ambulance raced away to the nearest hospital.
"When is she coming back?"
"Soon."
"Soon." She repeated to herself hopefully, "How long will that be?"
'Soon' turned out to be never.
Boris sat in his office with his head bowed, looking at the floor.
"Is mother gone?" his young daughter asked, "The others said she didn't make it, is that true?"
"Yes," Boris voice was coarse as though he had been crying, something that he did not do often.
"But.." Kazuki started.
"Get out of here! Leave me be!" he shouted at her and threw the first thing he could grab at his little daughter: a vase filled with roses, Anna Balkov's favorite flower.
The vase broke as it crashed into Kazuki's side.
The thorns cut like the sharp words of her father into both Kazuki's memory and skin.
She ran out of her father's office with tears in her eyes, mixing with the blood a rose thorn had spilled, and flowed to the ground, a red puddle of tears.
Later, at the cemetery, Kazuki kneeled in front of a grave marked 'Anna Balkov'.
"Mother, who did this to you?" she asked the white tombstone.
She cried when the grave remained silent and gently lay down three roses - one pink, one red and one white - tied in a blue bouquet with a yellow sash on the grave.
She silently stood up and walked away.
The snow started to fall.
--End Flashback--
Kazuki had been ten then, not knowing that four years later, her father would turn her into another one of his many experiments.
Now the answer to her earlier question: "Whose fault was it?"
Another memory came back to her.
--Flashback--
Kazuki peeked through a half-open door.
Inside were two men.
One whom Kazuki didn't know of with long, gray hair and a long, brown cape, and the other was her father.
The two men spoke in low voices but Kazuki had excellent hearing.
"So he's escaped?" the older man that Kazuki didn't recognize asked Boris in an angry voice.
"Y-Yes, Voltaire, sir," Boris said.
"How could you let him get away like that?" Voltaire demanded.
"Everyone was too busy trying to clean up the mess, we didn't expect him to run away." Boris' voice was now hard and cold.
"How did the 'mess' come to be anyway?" Voltaire's question was the same as the one that Kazuki had been too scared to ask Boris herself. Now she strained to listen for Boris' answer.
"It was him," Boris said, Kazuki didn't know who 'he' was but listened with intent, trying to catch every word, "Your grandson Kai tried to control Black Dranzer, and he managed. But.." Boris paused, some of the hurt at the loss of his wife came back to his usual false expression but it only stayed for a second.
"But?" Voltaire asked.
"But the power was too much and it destroyed the main pillars, causing the building to crumble." Boris finished and his hands curled into fists.
Voltaire was silent for a few minutes.
"He can control Black Dranzer," Voltaire mused, "that might come in useful.."
He seemed lost in his thoughts until Boris cleared his throat.
"Is there anything else Master Voltaire?" Boris asked.
"No, you may leave now," he answered.
Boris nodded and turned around to the door.
Kazuki quickly hid herself in the shadows just as Boris stepped out of Voltaire Hiwatari's office.
Boris didn't notice her presence and walked down the hall.
He didn't notice the small shadow that ran outside through the opposite doors with droplets of crystal water trailing behind her.
"Kai," Kazuki thought, "It's all your fault!"
--End Flashback--
For the third time that night, Kazuki asked herself the question that she was now able to answer: "Whose fault was it?"
The answer was..Kai Hiwatari; the boy who had killed her mother with a stupid stunt, resulting in the now cruel and cold Boris whom took his anger out on her and her brother; also the same boy who sent Alexander to a prison cell.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Kazuki jolted awake.
A dream? Kazuki looked around her as she became used to her surroundings and noticed that the banging was actually someone knocking on the door.
"Who could it be?" Kazuki thought to herself and secretly wished it wasn't her father.
She got off of her bed and opened the door to her small bedroom.
What she saw didn't please her.
--To be continued
By: Black Dranzer
".." speaking and thinking
---------- Scene Change
--flashback sequences--
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I only own any of the characters that you haven't seen in the original Beyblade series.
----------
In the last chapter of Emptiness:
(("Such power," Robert thought.
The smoke rose around them, making the winner of the battle unclear.
But, as it cleared, it could be seen that Oliver's Beyblade was lying on the ground with a blood red Beyblade spinning beside it.))
(("The traitor?" Kazuki asked, "Who is that?"
Alexander tensed at the lie he was about to say, but Kazuki took it as a tensing of fear and bitter memories.
"It was because of Kai," he finally uttered.
Those five words sank into Kazuki's memory.
"Kai?" she asked, "What does he have to do with this?"))
((Boris took these papers and smiled to himself, "Yes Master Voltaire, my daughter will be going after Kai, but she is not only going to do it and achieve vengeance for you, but she will also be gaining the title of legal heir to your fortune. That is, after the first heir disappears."))
----------
Chapter Six: Past
The girl called Changer remained silent as her blood red Beyblade jumped back into her hand.
"Who are you exactly?" Robert directed at Changer.
"Like I've said for the last time, that is not important," the blue-haired girl replied. She then did a back flip and landed on top of one of the alley walls.
"I'll see you later!" she waved and was gone.
Robert stared at where she was for some time and then thought to himself, "She reminds me of someone, but I don't remember who.."
"Don't worry Oliver, your loss was due to being caught off guard," Enrique reassured his stricken friend.
"I guess," Oliver mumbled and walked out of the alley. The other two followed and headed towards McGregor Mansion.
----------
Kazuki couldn't concentrate, the name Kai kept on popping up on her mind.
"I must seek revenge for my brother," she told herself each time she launched her Beyblade.
Soon, she had destroyed not only the beyblades training against her, but the launcher arms on the walls as well.
Panting, she took one last launch and blasted a hole through the wall, crumbling it, not caring how much repairs needed to be made.
As she walked in the door to her room after her training, she passed the mirror and caught something unusual.
Looking closer, she remembered that the two glints she had seen were none other than the 'mecha-spiders' on her head. Her raven dark hair hung around her head and she looked into her own dark brown eyes. A silver tinge appeared on the edge of each pupil when she looked closer and gave her the impression of metal rings.
Sighing after looking away, she settled for laying down on her bed and closed her eyes.
"Are you sure about this?" asked a worried Ian as he walked down the hall with Spencer, Tala and Bryan.
"We are just following orders," Bryan said in his emotionless voice.
"Yes," Tala agreed, "Boris has made himself clear."
Te four boys were walking down the dormitory halls, the very ones that Kazuki had walked down to the testing building.
Heads poked out of doorways, curious of the appearance of the senior beybladers.
These dormitories were only for the junior beybladers that had been accepted for less than 6 months into the abbey and senior beybladers were a rare sight, especially the Demolition Boys, the Beyblade team that had represented Russia in the World Beyblade Championships.
"Go to bed," Spencer commanded and scared juniors' faces disappeared from view.
The Demolition Boys continued down the hall until they reached their destination, a dormitory door at the end of the hall. Tala, being the leader, stepped up to the door and knocked three times.
There was silence for a few minutes, broken by the whispers behind the other closed dormitory doors. Tala was about to knock again when the door slowly creaked open.
----------
A woman stood in the shadows whispering Kazuki's name.
"Kazuki, Kazuki," she said softly.
"Mother?" Kazuki asked as she slowly walked towards the woman.
As she walked, Kazuki realized she was a little girl, about 8 years old.
She headed towards the woman calling her name, "Mother! Mother! I missed you!"
But the more she walked, the further the woman seemed to be until Kazuki started to run.
"Mother! Come back!" she cried as she ran after the retreating form of her mother, diamond-like tears streaming down her face. The woman just smiled sadly at her and turned around.
Kazuki could only watch as her mother entered a building and closed the doors behind her.
She banged on the door calling her mother's name.
A sudden rumbling sound caused Kazuki to look up.
She felt the floor and walls of the building shaking.
Realizing with fear a moment later that the building was going to crumble.
Kazuki stepped back and watched in horror as the building containing her mother fell apart.
Kazuki stared at the rubble lying in front of her and sat down to cry.
Suddenly, the floor below her fell apart and she fell, and continued to until she felt a hard floor below her again.
"Two years since mother died," she thought to herself unconsciously as she looked at herself.
Behind her, she sensed someone
Turning around, she saw a man, "Father," she whispered.
Beside the person she had called her Father, was a boy, about four years younger than her, Alexander.
The little boy was crying as Boris Balkov led him by the hand towards Kazuki. When he reached her, he held out his hand for her to take with a kind smile on his face.
Kazuki stared at the man, but felt something that made her refuse to take the offered hand.
In a flash, the kind smile faded and a cruel anger filled her Father's face.
"This is his true face," she thought with fear, "the one he's been hiding ever since.." she couldn't finish the thought.
The truly evil Boris then took out a whip and started to slash it on Kazuki's body. Kazuki cried in pain as her younger brother was taken away by abbey workers and locked up behind a door.
She squeezed her eyes shut and listened to the whip making contact with her skin.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Then she ran.
She ran past abbey workers who tried to stop her, past grabbing hands.
In front of her, Kazuki saw a pair of doors. She quickly opened them and ran into the room, closing the doors behind her and barring them with a metal pole.
Outside the doors, she could hear muffled voices of angry men.
She closed her eyes and cried into her knees curled in a ball.
Why? Why is her mother gone? Why was her father so angry? Why did Alexander have to be locked up? Whose fault is it?
Then she remembered.
--Flashback--
A loud crashing sound could be heard as half of Balkov Abbey crashed into the ground.
An eight-year-old Kazuki watched in horror as she ran with her brother, Alexander, out of their bedroom out of the destroyed half of the abbey.
She and her brother met their father at the front gates.
"Where is Anna?" he asked them.
"Mother?" Kazuki tried to remember, and then it came to her, "Mother is still inside!" she shouted and tried to run back to the rubble that remained of Building C, where her own, her brother's and her mother's bedrooms were located.
Boris held her back as he looked at the destruction that had been caused with a white face.
The ambulance arrived and paramedics hurried to try and save the people who had survived the tragedy.
A stretcher soon came out carrying a woman. She had blood running down her forehead and several scratches. She smiled at Kazuki and Alexander as the stretcher passed and then closed her eyes.
"Mother!" Kazuki screamed as she ran alongside the stretcher. The paramedics stopped her from going on the ambulance. She could only watch in horror as the ambulance raced away to the nearest hospital.
"When is she coming back?"
"Soon."
"Soon." She repeated to herself hopefully, "How long will that be?"
'Soon' turned out to be never.
Boris sat in his office with his head bowed, looking at the floor.
"Is mother gone?" his young daughter asked, "The others said she didn't make it, is that true?"
"Yes," Boris voice was coarse as though he had been crying, something that he did not do often.
"But.." Kazuki started.
"Get out of here! Leave me be!" he shouted at her and threw the first thing he could grab at his little daughter: a vase filled with roses, Anna Balkov's favorite flower.
The vase broke as it crashed into Kazuki's side.
The thorns cut like the sharp words of her father into both Kazuki's memory and skin.
She ran out of her father's office with tears in her eyes, mixing with the blood a rose thorn had spilled, and flowed to the ground, a red puddle of tears.
Later, at the cemetery, Kazuki kneeled in front of a grave marked 'Anna Balkov'.
"Mother, who did this to you?" she asked the white tombstone.
She cried when the grave remained silent and gently lay down three roses - one pink, one red and one white - tied in a blue bouquet with a yellow sash on the grave.
She silently stood up and walked away.
The snow started to fall.
--End Flashback--
Kazuki had been ten then, not knowing that four years later, her father would turn her into another one of his many experiments.
Now the answer to her earlier question: "Whose fault was it?"
Another memory came back to her.
--Flashback--
Kazuki peeked through a half-open door.
Inside were two men.
One whom Kazuki didn't know of with long, gray hair and a long, brown cape, and the other was her father.
The two men spoke in low voices but Kazuki had excellent hearing.
"So he's escaped?" the older man that Kazuki didn't recognize asked Boris in an angry voice.
"Y-Yes, Voltaire, sir," Boris said.
"How could you let him get away like that?" Voltaire demanded.
"Everyone was too busy trying to clean up the mess, we didn't expect him to run away." Boris' voice was now hard and cold.
"How did the 'mess' come to be anyway?" Voltaire's question was the same as the one that Kazuki had been too scared to ask Boris herself. Now she strained to listen for Boris' answer.
"It was him," Boris said, Kazuki didn't know who 'he' was but listened with intent, trying to catch every word, "Your grandson Kai tried to control Black Dranzer, and he managed. But.." Boris paused, some of the hurt at the loss of his wife came back to his usual false expression but it only stayed for a second.
"But?" Voltaire asked.
"But the power was too much and it destroyed the main pillars, causing the building to crumble." Boris finished and his hands curled into fists.
Voltaire was silent for a few minutes.
"He can control Black Dranzer," Voltaire mused, "that might come in useful.."
He seemed lost in his thoughts until Boris cleared his throat.
"Is there anything else Master Voltaire?" Boris asked.
"No, you may leave now," he answered.
Boris nodded and turned around to the door.
Kazuki quickly hid herself in the shadows just as Boris stepped out of Voltaire Hiwatari's office.
Boris didn't notice her presence and walked down the hall.
He didn't notice the small shadow that ran outside through the opposite doors with droplets of crystal water trailing behind her.
"Kai," Kazuki thought, "It's all your fault!"
--End Flashback--
For the third time that night, Kazuki asked herself the question that she was now able to answer: "Whose fault was it?"
The answer was..Kai Hiwatari; the boy who had killed her mother with a stupid stunt, resulting in the now cruel and cold Boris whom took his anger out on her and her brother; also the same boy who sent Alexander to a prison cell.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Kazuki jolted awake.
A dream? Kazuki looked around her as she became used to her surroundings and noticed that the banging was actually someone knocking on the door.
"Who could it be?" Kazuki thought to herself and secretly wished it wasn't her father.
She got off of her bed and opened the door to her small bedroom.
What she saw didn't please her.
--To be continued