Emptiness

By: Black Dranzer

".." speaking and thinking

//..// Russian or other language translations (not jap tho)

~*~*~*~ 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.

Important note at end, plz read to avoid confusion with the passage of time XD.

Chapter Thirty: Repelling Forces

A blue beyblade crashed through another beyblade, making it fly out of the dish.

"Awww man," the owner of the defeated beyblade sighed and picked up his defeated blade. The other beyblade just continued to spin inside the dish like nothing had happened.

"Let's go," the owner of the victorious beyblade said. The blue beyblade stopped its circling and flew back to its master's hand.

Sighing inwardly Kai looked around the kids crowded around the beyblade dish as if challenging them. At his look, all of the kids backed away with frightened looks. It had been half an hour since he had left the mansion and since then, he had been at the Beyblade Park waiting for a worthwhile opponent. But so far, none had miraculously appeared yet.

"No one here's worth my time," he thought and was just about to turn around a leave when a whizzing sound came past his ear.

Turning around, he saw that a red beyblade had landed in the beyblade dish and was spinning in circles. Then, just as Kai turned around it flashed off again into the woods circling the park. Kai followed after the beyblade into the woods and used his hearing to locate the spinning top. Soon, he found himself in a clearing about 20 meters wide.

"I knew you'd come," a voice said. Kai looked up and saw Changer standing in the clearing with her red beyblade spinning in front of her.

"Challenge?" he asked.

"Right on," Changer replied and signaled for her beyblade to return and took out her launcher while Kai did the same.

"Let it rip!" both bladers said and shot out their beyblades.

The two beyblades met in midair, causing sparks to fly as they descended down to the ground. Then, they broke apart only to circle each other and occasionally bash each other. More sparks flew as the two beyblades continued their evenly matched duel.

Then, for the second time, the two beyblades were locked in a tight scuffle for power.

Dranzer won this time and sent Spectrya flying backwards towards Changer.

The girl shifted her head just in time to avoid being hit by the flying beyblade.

As she moved her head, something around her neck caught the sunlight. She didn't notice, but Kai looked at it for a moment before a realization came to him.

"So that's it," he thought, but was interrupted as Spectrya spun into some trees behind Changer and came back for another round.

"Attack Spectrya!" Changer ordered. Her bit beast came out with a wave of black light and hovered above its beyblade.

"Two can play at that game," Kai countered, "Go Dranzer!" The burning phoenix came out of its bit chip with a screech and circled above its opponent.

"Illusionist's Eye!" Changer ordered, not wasting time to have her bit beast attack. In a flash, a dark replicate of Dranzer took to the sky after its original.

"Dark Fire Arrow!" Changer called.

While at the same time, Kai commanded, "Fire Arrow!" Both phoenixes shot arrows of black and red arrows at each other.

The arrows met in midair and canceled each other out.

"Attack again!" both Changer and Kai said at the same time.

This time, the arrows were shot off course as they collided and the two beybladers had to dodge them as they crashed to the ground.

Unbeknownst to them, something else flashed in the sun, something that was concealed in the bushes.

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The clattering of a lock being unlocked awakened Kyle. Opening his eyes, he looked around him and wasn't surprised to hear the clattering of chains around his wrists. He was inside a room that looked like an abandoned living quarters. Looking down, he saw that he was chained to a chair.

"Nice to see you again," someone said. Kyle looked up and looked at the man standing in front of him.

"Boris," he hissed, "What do you want?" Boris smiled at the man and turned to the guard who had let him in.

"Leave now, I will lock the door myself," he ordered and the abbey worker backed away with a bow.

The door closed behind the worker and left the two men in darkness. But in a few seconds, a torch hanging from the wall was lit.

"What do you want?" Kyle asked again with a growl.

Boris turned to Kyle and the man was surprised to see that he had an almost sad look on his face. But the look of sadness was replaced with a stony mask in a matter of seconds.

Clearing his throat, Boris answered, "It's not what I want, it's what I don't want,"

Kyle sneered, "The kids have a right to know,"

Boris glared at Kyle as he said this.

"A right?" he laughed, "I think not,"

Kyle snarled at Boris and said, "What would Anna think if she knew what you are doing to her children?"

At Anna's name, Boris' face darkened and a menacing look appeared in his features. He went up to Kyle and grabbed his collar as he whispered in his ear, "Don't you start with that again, I don't have to guarantee your safety in order for my plan to succeed."

Kyle gritted his teeth, "You really have changed since her death haven't you? When she married you, you almost went back to how you where when we first met,"

Boris' grip loosened. He staggered back a bit with his face in his hands.

"She did almost succeed in changing me again," he answered quietly.

"So why didn't you?" Kyle asked with a calmer tone.

At that, Boris looked up with a look of hate, "Because of 'him'." He said, ""He' ruined all of the hard work I had tried so hard to complete. 'He' was like the living shadow of his father, mocking me. 'He' reawakened Black Dranzer. 'He' killed Anna!"

Kyle opened his mouth to speak, but found that he had nothing to say about that.

"Now do you understand why I have such hatred for 'him'?" Boris sneered, "And did I mention that I gave 'him' a chance, a chance to come back?"

"That wasn't a chance that would end up as something good," Kyle said quietly.

"But it was a chance nonetheless," Boris growled, "But 'he' ran away again,"

"Anyone would've," Kyle said.

Boris glared at Kyle and said, "Are you blaming it all on me then? And not on 'him'?"

Kyle glared back at the other man and said, "It wasn't all 'his' fault. For example, it wasn't 'him' who killed Yuri was it?"

Boris' face blanched again at the sound of Yuri's name.

"I never killed him," he said.

At this, Kyle started to anger, "Never killed him?" he asked, "Then tell me, how did he die?"

"It was his own choice," Boris countered, loosing his composed features, "I didn't force him to act the way he did,"

"But it was because of you that he isn't here now," Kyle replied, "He knew that it was hopeless, but he still tried to help you come back to your senses,"

"I never asked him to, he was a fool to have done what he did," Boris replied as he avoided eye contact with Kyle.

The last sentence broke the thin line of calm that Kyle had.

"How dare you? After all that Yuri had done for you? He was your best friend and you betrayed him? All because of some petty jealousy!"

Boris looked down at the floor with silence ringing after Kyle's outburst.

"I never meant for him to die! Don't you understand?" Boris asked and with that, he stormed out of the room and banged the door shut behind him. The sound of a lock catching made Kyle calm down as he sat quietly in his chair staring at the floor illuminated by the torchlight where Boris had been standing.

The man stared in disbelief at the damp circles on the floor.

"Tears?" he thought in the silence.

~~FINI~~

A/N: Yay! Another completed chapter! And I have something to admit, I made a blooper in the last chapter where it said at the end, "And that had been eight years ago.." in the last sentence (only to those people who read it on the first day it was posted) it was supposed to say "And that had been six years ago.." (as it does now if you go check) this is because I messed up, it was meant that it happened six years ago when they were eight YEARS OLD, not eight years ago ^.^. sorry about that :D. well, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! For those of you who like Kyle, this chapter will reveal more about him..well..sorta ~.^ till next chapter! So stay tuned for the next chapter of..Emptiness! (used it again anonomyous! ~.^ b --thumbs up)

-Black Dranzer