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.
In the last chapter of Emptiness:
((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.))
(("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..))
(("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..))
(("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.))
Chapter ThirtyOne: Blank Wall
The two beyblades of Changer and Kai sent sparks flying against the darkening sky as they continuously bashed against each other.
"Don't let up Spectrya!" Changer shouted.
But Kai was preoccupied with something that he had seen.
"That necklace proves my suspicions," he thought, "but why would she-?"
He didn't get to finish the thought because just then, Dranzer and Spectrya crashed into the bushes around the park.
A sudden movement caught Kai's eye. Someone or something had moved in the bushes that the two beyblades had crashed into.
Kai looked over at Changer, but she hadn't noticed the disturbance and had moved over to the bushes to see the result of the beybattle.
"Changer, wait!" Kai said.
The girl looked back at him just before she reached the bush and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's something there," Kai said as he walked over to the bushes and stared at the place where he had seen the movement.
"Show yourself, whoever you are," he said and prepared to fight if needed.
A laugh came from the bushes and a large figure followed.
Kai's eyes widened not at the man's familiar abbey attire, but more so at the thing he was holding in his hands underneath his cloak..
"Get ready to run," Kai warned Changer as the stranger walked up to them with a smirk.
~*~*~*~
Tala sat alone on his bed in the deserted room.
The other Demolition Boys had left for their morning training schedule.
It was a routine for every blader in the abbey to get up early in the morning and train for an hour or more in the training room before breakfast. Most just work through breakfast since it wasn't much of a meal anyways. They were served only enough food to sustain them through their day and no more.
Sighing, Tala stretched his arms as far as the chains allowed and leaned back on the hard headboard.
"This certainly brings back memories," he thought bitterly.
~~FLASHBACK~~
SIX YEARS AGO~
Red lights flashed everywhere as abbey workers ran all over the abbey.
The Demolition Boys were in their beds, but were awoken by the commotion.
"What's going on?" Ian asked. He was the youngest in the abbey, but already one of the five strongest along with Spencer, Bryan, Tala and Kai. But he was still the only one that would voice out his questions freely.
"I'll go ask the abbey workers," Spencer said and left the room to talk to an abbey worker passing by the door. Being the oldest among the five strongest, Spencer was the one who questioned the abbey workers during confusing times, as he is the only one that can get a straight answer out of them.
Bryan remained silent and looked as if he was going back to sleep again. He was still the calmest one and usually the one who couldn't care less about his surroundings.
"Someone's broken into Building C," Spencer said when he had returned from questioning the abbey worker.
"Isn't that where that new test beyblade is stored?" Ian asked.
"The one Boris called Black Dranzer?" Bryan asked in a bored voice, "Yeah, it's in the training room, we all went to see it yesterday remember?"
"Yeah, and Kai was practically drooling over it," Ian said with a smirk.
"Speaking of Kai," Tala spoke up, "Where is he?"
"Isn't he in his bed?" Spencer asked.
"It looks pretty empty to me," Tala said as he pointed to the bed beside him.
"You don't think.." Bryan started.
But he didn't need to finish for the others to guess what he wanted to say.
In a flash, all four of them rushed out of their room into the hall towards Building C.
"You don't think he's reckless enough to test out Black Dranzer before Boris had worked out the bug do you?" Ian asked with a worried voice.
"We've known him long enough to know that he's reckless enough to do anything," Bryan replied, "Especially if its against Boris' rules. He loves making him furious."
The four boys arrived at Building C without running into too many people and stared at the scene before them with disbelief.
"Oh he's in big trouble this time," Spencer said, "Even Mrs. Balkov won't be able to save him,"
It was common knowledge among the Demolition Boys that every time Kai got into big trouble with Boris, Mrs. Balkov would help him out of Boris' wrath.
"Hey look," Ian suddenly said and pointed towards the doors of the building.
An ambulance had driven in front of it and some paramedics were carrying a stretcher with someone inside of it onto the vehicle.
"Who's that?" Ian asked out loud.
A girl and boy had ran up to the stretcher.
The girl was screaming, "Mother" as she tried to catch up with the stretcher.
"And there's Boris," Spencer pointed.
Indeed, the man was standing frozen on the spot staring at the woman on the stretcher.
"It's Mrs. Balkov," Tala said quietly.
Then, as the ambulance raced away, Boris' face cleared of shock and filled with anger.
He spotted the Demolition Boys and walked quickly over to them.
The four boys stood as still as possible, afraid of what Boris would do.
"You four," he commanded, "go find the Kai and bring him to me, I don't care what method you use, the cost of failing will not be light,"
"Yes sir," the four boys said and split up to search for Kai.
Tala ran past the front door and as he passed them, he caught sight of the girl and boy sitting in the snow crying silently.
For a second, he thought of going over to them, but remembered Boris' angered face and ran past.
"Kai, no one can help you this time," he thought.
He circled to the side of the building and stared at the mess that was the remains of the crashed building.
Looking around, he suddenly heard a sound in the bushes surrounding the building.
Walking as silently as possible, he went towards the bushes and pulled them apart, grabbing onto the figure behind it.
A frightened face looked up at him. His grip remained firm, but loosened a bit.
"Kai?" he asked.
What he saw on his fellow teammate's face surprised him.
There were tears rolling off of the boy's face.
"A-anna," he said, "What happened to Anna?"
Tala pursed his lips.
"Did she-?" Kai asked, but was interrupted by the voices of abbey workers coming around to his hiding place.
Tala thought about handing Kai over, but looked once more at the boy's face and softened a bit.
Making up his mind, he pushed Kai further into the bushes and said, "Boris is very angered, run, don't look back, I'll pretend I've never seen you here, hurry! And don't come back."
"But.." Kai started, but Tala pushed him into the forest behind him and called over to the abbey workers.
"There's no one here, let's go search the back." He said and herded the abbey workers away from Kai.
"You're on your own now," Tala thought as he heard the sound of rustling feet coming from the bushes, "And remember, don't come back."
~~END FLASHBACK~~
"Hmm," Tala said, "That cost me a near death experience,"
~~FLASHBACK~~
"WHAT?!" Boris yelled, "YOU DIDN'T FIND HIM?! IT WAS AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT 2O ABBEY WORKERS COULDN'T FIND THAT LITTLE BOY?!"
"I'm sorry sir," the abbey worker said.
"And you four!" Boris said turning to the four Demolition Boys who winced, "You four know him more than anyone else! You should know where he hides!"
"Sorry sir," the four boys said quietly.
"SORRY? How can sorry make up for what that boy did?" Boris steamed.
The four boys remained silent at that. Tala looked nervously at the ground. Boris noticed this and walked over to the boy, lifting him off the ground while holding his collar.
"You look suspicious Tala," he said menacingly. Tala just looked frightfully back.
"Tell me," Boris growled, "What did you see?"
"N-nothing s-sir," Tala stuttered and started to choke from being held off the ground around the collar.
Boris glared at the boy and said, "Nothing eh? Well, let's make sure," He put Tala down and grabbed him by the sleeve, pulling him out of the room down the hall towards another room.
The other boys followed.
"You stay out!" Boris shouted at them as he arrived at his destination.
Bryan, Spencer and Ian nodded stiffly and quietly stood in the hall as Boris slammed the door behind him and Tala.
"Now boy," Boris seethed, "I'll ask you one more time. WHAT DID YOU SEE?"
Tala bit his lip and muttered, "Nothing sir,"
Boris growled at the boy and roughly threw him into a chair while he started up a computer in the room.
An instant later, he grabbed a cable from a compartment in the wall and walked over to Tala who sat still in his chair.
"If you won't tell," Boris said, "Then I'll have to make sure that you're not lying," And he held the cable up to Tala's face.
"Stay still," Boris ordered.
Tala obeyed and waited with fright as Boris moved behind him.
Then, he felt something touch the back of his neck and everything went black.
It only seemed like moments later when Tala snapped back to reality and found himself sprawled on the floor.
He rubbed the back of his neck and felt a bump about the size of his thumb.
Noticing a shadow, he looked up at a towering Boris.
"YOU LET HIM GO?!" Boris yelled.
Tala's eyes widened and he had to scramble out of the way of the man's feet as Boris stomped over to him.
"How did he find out?" he thought, "I'm sure I never gave myself away."
"How dare you lie?" Boris yelled as he grabbed Tala's shoulder so hard that he winced.
Tala just shut his eyes, not daring to look at Boris' face.
"You," Boris growled and slapped Tala across the face, making the boy fall to the ground.
Tala groaned as he tried to get up and felt blood trickling down from his mouth.
"You'll pay dearly for this," Boris said as he walked over to the fallen boy, "I won't let you go easily,"
Tala looked up at Boris and tried to talk, but Boris' booted foot came to meet his stomach and the air was knocked out of his lungs.
Outside the room, the other three boys could hear the painful groans of Tala and Boris' curses.
A few minutes later, the door opened and Boris stormed out.
"You two, take the boy inside to his room and chain him to his bed," he shouted to the two abbey workers standing behind the boys, "And don't give him food for the next three weeks! Now!"
The two men nodded and hurriedly went inside the room.
Boris walked off without a second glance at the other three boys.
Bryan was the first to move as he walked over to the door and looked inside. His eyes widened at the state of Tala.
The other boy was covered in bruises and blood and seems to have blacked out.
Ian and Spencer's reaction mimicked Bryan's as they too peeked inside the room.
They moved aside as the two abbey workers carried Tala roughly towards the room the other three boys shared.
Spencer, Ian and Bryan followed quietly behind the two men.
When they reached their room, the three boys watched as the two abbey workers dropped Tala onto the bed and proceeded to chain his wrists and ankles.
"You three stay away from him," the abbey workers said before leaving, "Or Master Boris will punish you as well,"
The boys nodded and Spencer closed the door after the two men as they left..
~~END FLASHBACK~~
Putting a pale hand on his forehead, Tala gritted his teeth.
"Why did I come to this place?" he thought to himself, "Why did I just.." But a sudden realization came to him. His eyes widened as he noticed something he had never thought much about before.
"How did I end up at this abbey in the first place?" he searched his mind. But all he came up with is a blank.
"I don't remember," he thought as he tackled all of the memories he had ever had. But each time he tried to search for the reason he was at the abbey, the blank wall always blocked his path.
~~FINI~~
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.
In the last chapter of Emptiness:
((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.))
(("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..))
(("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..))
(("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.))
Chapter ThirtyOne: Blank Wall
The two beyblades of Changer and Kai sent sparks flying against the darkening sky as they continuously bashed against each other.
"Don't let up Spectrya!" Changer shouted.
But Kai was preoccupied with something that he had seen.
"That necklace proves my suspicions," he thought, "but why would she-?"
He didn't get to finish the thought because just then, Dranzer and Spectrya crashed into the bushes around the park.
A sudden movement caught Kai's eye. Someone or something had moved in the bushes that the two beyblades had crashed into.
Kai looked over at Changer, but she hadn't noticed the disturbance and had moved over to the bushes to see the result of the beybattle.
"Changer, wait!" Kai said.
The girl looked back at him just before she reached the bush and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's something there," Kai said as he walked over to the bushes and stared at the place where he had seen the movement.
"Show yourself, whoever you are," he said and prepared to fight if needed.
A laugh came from the bushes and a large figure followed.
Kai's eyes widened not at the man's familiar abbey attire, but more so at the thing he was holding in his hands underneath his cloak..
"Get ready to run," Kai warned Changer as the stranger walked up to them with a smirk.
~*~*~*~
Tala sat alone on his bed in the deserted room.
The other Demolition Boys had left for their morning training schedule.
It was a routine for every blader in the abbey to get up early in the morning and train for an hour or more in the training room before breakfast. Most just work through breakfast since it wasn't much of a meal anyways. They were served only enough food to sustain them through their day and no more.
Sighing, Tala stretched his arms as far as the chains allowed and leaned back on the hard headboard.
"This certainly brings back memories," he thought bitterly.
~~FLASHBACK~~
SIX YEARS AGO~
Red lights flashed everywhere as abbey workers ran all over the abbey.
The Demolition Boys were in their beds, but were awoken by the commotion.
"What's going on?" Ian asked. He was the youngest in the abbey, but already one of the five strongest along with Spencer, Bryan, Tala and Kai. But he was still the only one that would voice out his questions freely.
"I'll go ask the abbey workers," Spencer said and left the room to talk to an abbey worker passing by the door. Being the oldest among the five strongest, Spencer was the one who questioned the abbey workers during confusing times, as he is the only one that can get a straight answer out of them.
Bryan remained silent and looked as if he was going back to sleep again. He was still the calmest one and usually the one who couldn't care less about his surroundings.
"Someone's broken into Building C," Spencer said when he had returned from questioning the abbey worker.
"Isn't that where that new test beyblade is stored?" Ian asked.
"The one Boris called Black Dranzer?" Bryan asked in a bored voice, "Yeah, it's in the training room, we all went to see it yesterday remember?"
"Yeah, and Kai was practically drooling over it," Ian said with a smirk.
"Speaking of Kai," Tala spoke up, "Where is he?"
"Isn't he in his bed?" Spencer asked.
"It looks pretty empty to me," Tala said as he pointed to the bed beside him.
"You don't think.." Bryan started.
But he didn't need to finish for the others to guess what he wanted to say.
In a flash, all four of them rushed out of their room into the hall towards Building C.
"You don't think he's reckless enough to test out Black Dranzer before Boris had worked out the bug do you?" Ian asked with a worried voice.
"We've known him long enough to know that he's reckless enough to do anything," Bryan replied, "Especially if its against Boris' rules. He loves making him furious."
The four boys arrived at Building C without running into too many people and stared at the scene before them with disbelief.
"Oh he's in big trouble this time," Spencer said, "Even Mrs. Balkov won't be able to save him,"
It was common knowledge among the Demolition Boys that every time Kai got into big trouble with Boris, Mrs. Balkov would help him out of Boris' wrath.
"Hey look," Ian suddenly said and pointed towards the doors of the building.
An ambulance had driven in front of it and some paramedics were carrying a stretcher with someone inside of it onto the vehicle.
"Who's that?" Ian asked out loud.
A girl and boy had ran up to the stretcher.
The girl was screaming, "Mother" as she tried to catch up with the stretcher.
"And there's Boris," Spencer pointed.
Indeed, the man was standing frozen on the spot staring at the woman on the stretcher.
"It's Mrs. Balkov," Tala said quietly.
Then, as the ambulance raced away, Boris' face cleared of shock and filled with anger.
He spotted the Demolition Boys and walked quickly over to them.
The four boys stood as still as possible, afraid of what Boris would do.
"You four," he commanded, "go find the Kai and bring him to me, I don't care what method you use, the cost of failing will not be light,"
"Yes sir," the four boys said and split up to search for Kai.
Tala ran past the front door and as he passed them, he caught sight of the girl and boy sitting in the snow crying silently.
For a second, he thought of going over to them, but remembered Boris' angered face and ran past.
"Kai, no one can help you this time," he thought.
He circled to the side of the building and stared at the mess that was the remains of the crashed building.
Looking around, he suddenly heard a sound in the bushes surrounding the building.
Walking as silently as possible, he went towards the bushes and pulled them apart, grabbing onto the figure behind it.
A frightened face looked up at him. His grip remained firm, but loosened a bit.
"Kai?" he asked.
What he saw on his fellow teammate's face surprised him.
There were tears rolling off of the boy's face.
"A-anna," he said, "What happened to Anna?"
Tala pursed his lips.
"Did she-?" Kai asked, but was interrupted by the voices of abbey workers coming around to his hiding place.
Tala thought about handing Kai over, but looked once more at the boy's face and softened a bit.
Making up his mind, he pushed Kai further into the bushes and said, "Boris is very angered, run, don't look back, I'll pretend I've never seen you here, hurry! And don't come back."
"But.." Kai started, but Tala pushed him into the forest behind him and called over to the abbey workers.
"There's no one here, let's go search the back." He said and herded the abbey workers away from Kai.
"You're on your own now," Tala thought as he heard the sound of rustling feet coming from the bushes, "And remember, don't come back."
~~END FLASHBACK~~
"Hmm," Tala said, "That cost me a near death experience,"
~~FLASHBACK~~
"WHAT?!" Boris yelled, "YOU DIDN'T FIND HIM?! IT WAS AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT 2O ABBEY WORKERS COULDN'T FIND THAT LITTLE BOY?!"
"I'm sorry sir," the abbey worker said.
"And you four!" Boris said turning to the four Demolition Boys who winced, "You four know him more than anyone else! You should know where he hides!"
"Sorry sir," the four boys said quietly.
"SORRY? How can sorry make up for what that boy did?" Boris steamed.
The four boys remained silent at that. Tala looked nervously at the ground. Boris noticed this and walked over to the boy, lifting him off the ground while holding his collar.
"You look suspicious Tala," he said menacingly. Tala just looked frightfully back.
"Tell me," Boris growled, "What did you see?"
"N-nothing s-sir," Tala stuttered and started to choke from being held off the ground around the collar.
Boris glared at the boy and said, "Nothing eh? Well, let's make sure," He put Tala down and grabbed him by the sleeve, pulling him out of the room down the hall towards another room.
The other boys followed.
"You stay out!" Boris shouted at them as he arrived at his destination.
Bryan, Spencer and Ian nodded stiffly and quietly stood in the hall as Boris slammed the door behind him and Tala.
"Now boy," Boris seethed, "I'll ask you one more time. WHAT DID YOU SEE?"
Tala bit his lip and muttered, "Nothing sir,"
Boris growled at the boy and roughly threw him into a chair while he started up a computer in the room.
An instant later, he grabbed a cable from a compartment in the wall and walked over to Tala who sat still in his chair.
"If you won't tell," Boris said, "Then I'll have to make sure that you're not lying," And he held the cable up to Tala's face.
"Stay still," Boris ordered.
Tala obeyed and waited with fright as Boris moved behind him.
Then, he felt something touch the back of his neck and everything went black.
It only seemed like moments later when Tala snapped back to reality and found himself sprawled on the floor.
He rubbed the back of his neck and felt a bump about the size of his thumb.
Noticing a shadow, he looked up at a towering Boris.
"YOU LET HIM GO?!" Boris yelled.
Tala's eyes widened and he had to scramble out of the way of the man's feet as Boris stomped over to him.
"How did he find out?" he thought, "I'm sure I never gave myself away."
"How dare you lie?" Boris yelled as he grabbed Tala's shoulder so hard that he winced.
Tala just shut his eyes, not daring to look at Boris' face.
"You," Boris growled and slapped Tala across the face, making the boy fall to the ground.
Tala groaned as he tried to get up and felt blood trickling down from his mouth.
"You'll pay dearly for this," Boris said as he walked over to the fallen boy, "I won't let you go easily,"
Tala looked up at Boris and tried to talk, but Boris' booted foot came to meet his stomach and the air was knocked out of his lungs.
Outside the room, the other three boys could hear the painful groans of Tala and Boris' curses.
A few minutes later, the door opened and Boris stormed out.
"You two, take the boy inside to his room and chain him to his bed," he shouted to the two abbey workers standing behind the boys, "And don't give him food for the next three weeks! Now!"
The two men nodded and hurriedly went inside the room.
Boris walked off without a second glance at the other three boys.
Bryan was the first to move as he walked over to the door and looked inside. His eyes widened at the state of Tala.
The other boy was covered in bruises and blood and seems to have blacked out.
Ian and Spencer's reaction mimicked Bryan's as they too peeked inside the room.
They moved aside as the two abbey workers carried Tala roughly towards the room the other three boys shared.
Spencer, Ian and Bryan followed quietly behind the two men.
When they reached their room, the three boys watched as the two abbey workers dropped Tala onto the bed and proceeded to chain his wrists and ankles.
"You three stay away from him," the abbey workers said before leaving, "Or Master Boris will punish you as well,"
The boys nodded and Spencer closed the door after the two men as they left..
~~END FLASHBACK~~
Putting a pale hand on his forehead, Tala gritted his teeth.
"Why did I come to this place?" he thought to himself, "Why did I just.." But a sudden realization came to him. His eyes widened as he noticed something he had never thought much about before.
"How did I end up at this abbey in the first place?" he searched his mind. But all he came up with is a blank.
"I don't remember," he thought as he tackled all of the memories he had ever had. But each time he tried to search for the reason he was at the abbey, the blank wall always blocked his path.
~~FINI~~