Emptiness
By: Black Dranzer
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--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.
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In the last chapter of Emptiness:
(("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."))
(("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.))
((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.))
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Chapter Seven: Guests
"Robert? Oliver and Enrique?" Johnny's surprised voice rang through the hallway and the Bladebreakers turned to stare.
The three boys in question were standing in the hallway.
"Hey, how's it going?" Enrique asked and walked in, leading the unusually quiet Oliver.
"Yes," Robert said to Johnny, "How are you my friend? We have just decided to drop by."
"I'm fine," Johnny said in an uncaring voice and turned to the Bladebreakers, "by the way, the Bladebreakers are here too."
The three boys came up to greet them.
Robert then noticed the girl standing in the corner of the room watching them, particularly Oliver, with a kind of sympathetic glance. He walked up to her and, taking her hand, bent down to kiss it politely.
"You must be Lady Jacqueline McGregor, Johnny's younger sister," he said as the girl blushed at the act.
Jacqueline nodded and answered in a shy voice, "I like to be called Jackie, if you don't mind,"
"Of course," Robert nodded and stood back as Jackie hurriedly walked over to her brother and whispered something in his ear. Johnny seemed to be interested in what Jackie had to say and nodded back.
Everyone greeted each other, except for Kai and Oliver.
The green-haired boy just gave a weak smile to Ray when he was greeted.
"What's wrong with Oliver today?" Max asked as he sensed the sadness in the French boy who was usually all sunshine.
"A defeat in the alleys," Robert replied then he said, "I'll tell you about it later," He motioned towards Oliver indicating that he needed to cheer up.
"Let's eat!" Tyson said as a change of subject.
Everyone laughed, save Kai and Oliver, and walked into the dining room.
No one noticed Johnny and Jackie walking upstairs nor that they didn't come back down until a little while after Tyson had finished his fiftieth plate of food. They were all too busy trying to cheer Oliver up, other than the blue-haired leader of the Bladebreakers of course.
Kai had his own plans for the afternoon.
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"What do you want?" Kazuki asked with a half shaky voice. Her dream had made her uneasy, but now she was wide-awake and she didn't like the scene before her: four boys standing in front of her doorway.
"We have come here on Boris' orders," Tala replied, noting the shaky tone.
Kazuki had to control herself from showing the shiver that ran down her spine as the red-haired boy brought up Boris' name.
"What about him?" she asked in the most composed voice she could muster.
"He has asked us four to attend to your training needs,"
"Whatever," Kazuki replied and stared at them openly, "What else?"
"That was all we were told to say," Tala replied shortly, "Tomorrow at the training center in Building C. We'll start at 7:15,"
"Ok," Kazuki said and closed the door in the boys' faces.
"How polite?" Ian said sarcastically and folded his arms.
Tala looked at the closed door again. Something made him think that the girl was frightened of Boris. He had noticed the slight shiver going down her spine even though she had tried to hide it.
"We should go now," Bryan informed the others and they walked back to their own rooms in the main building.
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"You defeated Oliver?" Johnny asked for the fifth time since he and his sister had sat down to chat in Jackie's room.
"You seem surprised," Jackie said to her older brother.
"Not really," Johnny backfired and closed his eyes as he settled back into the sofa he was sitting on.
"Right." Jackie said and walked onto the balcony where she had been earlier that day.
Johnny followed.
"I feel sorry for the guy," Jackie suddenly said, "Do you think I was too hard on him?"
"Who, Oliver?" Johnny asked then, thinking, he answered, "Nah, he'll get over it after he sees my art collection."
"I guess." There was still uncertainty in Jackie's voice as she looked down at the back garden to the McGregor Mansion. This garden was very large and ended at the edge of a small forest. In the garden were fountains and an exceptionally large thorn hedge maze that took up almost half the grounds. Jackie randomly scanned the garden and noticed something unusual.
There was someone there.
It wasn't the gardener.
"Who's that?" Jackie asked as she pointed to a figure walking towards the thorn hedge maze. The McGregor siblings were on a balcony on the third floor of the McGregor Mansion and the figure was a few feet away.
Johnny narrowed his eyes and looked closely at the figure, and then he smiled, "Its just Kai,"
"Kai?" Jackie asked, she didn't really get to ask the names of the Bladebreakers yet, "He's the captain of the Bladebreakers right?"
"Yup," Johnny replied and, looking bored, went back inside.
"My newest target," Jackie thought to herself and crouched on the edge of the balcony.
Johnny looked around just in time to see his younger sister jump off the ledge and run after the blue-haired captain of the Bladebreakers.
He sighed, "Great, Changer's out to have fun again," then, as a mental note to himself, the added, "she better get back soon or the others will get suspicious."
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Kazuki couldn't get back to sleep, her last dream had shaken her. She sat with her chin resting on her knees on her small bed and thought about what she had remembered.
Kai Hiwatari killed her mother.
Because of her death, whenever Kazuki did something wrong or mentioned her mother, Boris would mutate his grief into anger and punish her.
And last of all, her little brother, trying his best to please their father, is being mistreated just because he couldn't stand up to that arrogant Kai.
Her anger at Master Voltaire's grandson built as these confirmations came to her one by one.
She got up from her sitting position and went over to her mirror.
Carefully, she rolled up her left pajama sleeve and looked at herself with the red mark on her arm.
She remembered now why she had failed to remember in the shower.
She had blocked all memory of the terrible night in which her mother had died in the back of her head.
A falling stone that had landed on her arm when she tried to escape the collapse of Building C had left this red mark. Kazuki's anger came to her again and, not being able to control it, she made a fist and punched her reflection in the mirror.
Pieces of glass fell to the floor with a red, sticky liquid coated on its sharp edges.
Kazuki looked carelessly at her blood and wiped it off of her fist with a rag.
She checked the clock on her desk and saw that it was 7:00.
"Better go meet those guys," she thought and walked out of her room with the pieces of glass and a small puddle of blood still lying on the floor.
--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:
(("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."))
(("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.))
((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.))
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Chapter Seven: Guests
"Robert? Oliver and Enrique?" Johnny's surprised voice rang through the hallway and the Bladebreakers turned to stare.
The three boys in question were standing in the hallway.
"Hey, how's it going?" Enrique asked and walked in, leading the unusually quiet Oliver.
"Yes," Robert said to Johnny, "How are you my friend? We have just decided to drop by."
"I'm fine," Johnny said in an uncaring voice and turned to the Bladebreakers, "by the way, the Bladebreakers are here too."
The three boys came up to greet them.
Robert then noticed the girl standing in the corner of the room watching them, particularly Oliver, with a kind of sympathetic glance. He walked up to her and, taking her hand, bent down to kiss it politely.
"You must be Lady Jacqueline McGregor, Johnny's younger sister," he said as the girl blushed at the act.
Jacqueline nodded and answered in a shy voice, "I like to be called Jackie, if you don't mind,"
"Of course," Robert nodded and stood back as Jackie hurriedly walked over to her brother and whispered something in his ear. Johnny seemed to be interested in what Jackie had to say and nodded back.
Everyone greeted each other, except for Kai and Oliver.
The green-haired boy just gave a weak smile to Ray when he was greeted.
"What's wrong with Oliver today?" Max asked as he sensed the sadness in the French boy who was usually all sunshine.
"A defeat in the alleys," Robert replied then he said, "I'll tell you about it later," He motioned towards Oliver indicating that he needed to cheer up.
"Let's eat!" Tyson said as a change of subject.
Everyone laughed, save Kai and Oliver, and walked into the dining room.
No one noticed Johnny and Jackie walking upstairs nor that they didn't come back down until a little while after Tyson had finished his fiftieth plate of food. They were all too busy trying to cheer Oliver up, other than the blue-haired leader of the Bladebreakers of course.
Kai had his own plans for the afternoon.
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"What do you want?" Kazuki asked with a half shaky voice. Her dream had made her uneasy, but now she was wide-awake and she didn't like the scene before her: four boys standing in front of her doorway.
"We have come here on Boris' orders," Tala replied, noting the shaky tone.
Kazuki had to control herself from showing the shiver that ran down her spine as the red-haired boy brought up Boris' name.
"What about him?" she asked in the most composed voice she could muster.
"He has asked us four to attend to your training needs,"
"Whatever," Kazuki replied and stared at them openly, "What else?"
"That was all we were told to say," Tala replied shortly, "Tomorrow at the training center in Building C. We'll start at 7:15,"
"Ok," Kazuki said and closed the door in the boys' faces.
"How polite?" Ian said sarcastically and folded his arms.
Tala looked at the closed door again. Something made him think that the girl was frightened of Boris. He had noticed the slight shiver going down her spine even though she had tried to hide it.
"We should go now," Bryan informed the others and they walked back to their own rooms in the main building.
----------
"You defeated Oliver?" Johnny asked for the fifth time since he and his sister had sat down to chat in Jackie's room.
"You seem surprised," Jackie said to her older brother.
"Not really," Johnny backfired and closed his eyes as he settled back into the sofa he was sitting on.
"Right." Jackie said and walked onto the balcony where she had been earlier that day.
Johnny followed.
"I feel sorry for the guy," Jackie suddenly said, "Do you think I was too hard on him?"
"Who, Oliver?" Johnny asked then, thinking, he answered, "Nah, he'll get over it after he sees my art collection."
"I guess." There was still uncertainty in Jackie's voice as she looked down at the back garden to the McGregor Mansion. This garden was very large and ended at the edge of a small forest. In the garden were fountains and an exceptionally large thorn hedge maze that took up almost half the grounds. Jackie randomly scanned the garden and noticed something unusual.
There was someone there.
It wasn't the gardener.
"Who's that?" Jackie asked as she pointed to a figure walking towards the thorn hedge maze. The McGregor siblings were on a balcony on the third floor of the McGregor Mansion and the figure was a few feet away.
Johnny narrowed his eyes and looked closely at the figure, and then he smiled, "Its just Kai,"
"Kai?" Jackie asked, she didn't really get to ask the names of the Bladebreakers yet, "He's the captain of the Bladebreakers right?"
"Yup," Johnny replied and, looking bored, went back inside.
"My newest target," Jackie thought to herself and crouched on the edge of the balcony.
Johnny looked around just in time to see his younger sister jump off the ledge and run after the blue-haired captain of the Bladebreakers.
He sighed, "Great, Changer's out to have fun again," then, as a mental note to himself, the added, "she better get back soon or the others will get suspicious."
----------
Kazuki couldn't get back to sleep, her last dream had shaken her. She sat with her chin resting on her knees on her small bed and thought about what she had remembered.
Kai Hiwatari killed her mother.
Because of her death, whenever Kazuki did something wrong or mentioned her mother, Boris would mutate his grief into anger and punish her.
And last of all, her little brother, trying his best to please their father, is being mistreated just because he couldn't stand up to that arrogant Kai.
Her anger at Master Voltaire's grandson built as these confirmations came to her one by one.
She got up from her sitting position and went over to her mirror.
Carefully, she rolled up her left pajama sleeve and looked at herself with the red mark on her arm.
She remembered now why she had failed to remember in the shower.
She had blocked all memory of the terrible night in which her mother had died in the back of her head.
A falling stone that had landed on her arm when she tried to escape the collapse of Building C had left this red mark. Kazuki's anger came to her again and, not being able to control it, she made a fist and punched her reflection in the mirror.
Pieces of glass fell to the floor with a red, sticky liquid coated on its sharp edges.
Kazuki looked carelessly at her blood and wiped it off of her fist with a rag.
She checked the clock on her desk and saw that it was 7:00.
"Better go meet those guys," she thought and walked out of her room with the pieces of glass and a small puddle of blood still lying on the floor.
--To be continued