TT: A NEW CHAPTER HAS RISEN FROM THE DARK PLACES OF ANGST IN MY MIND!!

Kai: Feeling dramatic, are we?

TT: Everyone should be happy, because this chapters a little longer than most of mine.

Kai: When she gets inspired, she doesn't stop... How I hate her for it.

TT: I'm still going to need ideas people, like, Kai & BD can be seperated.

Kai: BD? You've given Balck Dranzer a nickname.

TT: Well, its too long to write his whole name in my little self-insertion-before-the-chapter-paragraph... thing-y

Kai: Amazing how technical a name she has for this, isn't it?

TT: Oh be quiet!

Kai: Why? There isn't anything you can do to me that you haven't already.

TT: I could make a door attack you...

Kai:...

TT:....... READ AND REVIEW!!!!!

Disclaimer: I shall conquer the world! And THEN I SHALL own beyblade!!!

***

Kai had woken up after a short nap and, disturbed by the silence, had gone to see what was going on. He'd found the others staring at something on Dizzi, and had followed their example, taking a look at what had left them speechless.

He hadn't expected the video, or the email that went with it. It was obvious the experiment must have taken place when he had been captured; his appearance in the video was too old to have been at any other time.

He had been fused with Black Dranzer? The ultimate temptation in his life, the dark power he had to struggle so hard against to resist when they were two different entities.

And now they were one and the same?

He let out a strangle sound in denial, stepping backwards. The others turned to him, expressions surprised, not knowing he was there.

Then he felt it, a shadowy tendril that tried to pry its way into his mind... No, not his mind, it was something else, his mind was just in the way.

Impulsively, Kai struggled against the feeling. The sound of Ray talking to him suddenly made him jump. It was suddenly harder to focus, he just wanted to shut everything out, to ignore the world and the truths that had been revealed.

Or was that Black Dranzer speaking?

The sudden revolution was what made him suddenly run into the bedroom, closing and locking the door, before sinking to the floor in a ball. He leaning on the wooden door, clutching his head as the tendril, cold and seductive, continued to pry away at the edge of his control.

Perhaps what scared Kai most was that a part of him wanted to give in to the powerful force that was Black Dranzer.

Yes, he wanted Black Dranzer's power, but at the same time, he knew how horrible that power was.

His own desire for Black Dranzer scared him.

Deep down, it truly scared him.

***

"Kai! Open up!" Tyson's banging on the door was evidently pointless, and he finally gave up when he accidentally hit the doorknob instead of wood.

Max looked at Ray, blue eyes full of worry, "He'll be alright, won't he, Ray?"

The older teen didn't answer. What could he say, really? He could barely comprehend what he had just begun to understand, what had just happened. How could Kai be okay after what they'd just discovered?

In the background, there was the rapid typing of keys as Kenny tried to track the email. Then, all at once, Tyson began pounding on the door again.

***

Fear, horror, confusion, repulsion. The emotions surged through Kai, and dark eyes opened from where they lay, half dormant, in the back of his, no, _their_ mind.

He was distracted... With this in mind, a black tendril came forward, trying to pry the human away from their body's control.

The human, however, held fast, resisting, and clinging to what the darkness had wanted.

The was a frustrated hiss, and the tendril continued to spar with the human for control, for forcefully now.

It would get what it wanted, one way or another.

***

No sooner than the darkness would slip past and grab it, than Kai would snap it back, and a furious game of tug-of-war would go on until Kai won. Then it would start over again.

He wasn't really sure what they were fighting over, though he had a few theories of what it was. But he did know that it was exceedingly important that he kept it, whatever it was.

In one way, he was grateful that Black Dranzer had started fighting with him. It took all his concentration to keep ahead of the dark phoenix, leaving no room to think of Boris, what he had done to him, or how much the others must hate him now.

Of course, whenever he remembered who he was fighting, the thoughts started momentarily, and it was all Kai could do to push them away and keep on struggling while the thoughts bubbled out of existence.

Black Dranzer was growling, Kai could hear it. It was a dark sound, that reminded him of his grandfather, the abbey, and Boris. It sent shivers down his spine, as he remembered those horrific things that stood out in his memory...

And then he was forced to shove those away, as well, and take a harder grip on what he was fighting Black Dranzer for.

A loud screech from Black Dranzer was suddenly heard, and the tendril attacked, not trying to take, what Kai now assumed was control of their shared body, but Kai directly.

It hit him in the stomach, and Kai had to wonder where it had gotten so much force and momentum. It reminded him of the punishments in the abbey, they often started with a few punches that knocked all the air out of his body...

Sounds from the outside world knocked everything back into proportion. Tyson had stopped banging on the door, and they were quiet whispers. These were followed by a sudden click and, before he knew it, the door was flung against him, sending him into the wall.

Black Dranzer had retreated momentarily through this, leaving him uninjured by the attack. Kai was dazed and hurt now, unable to focus properly.

He heard a shrill cry of triumph, and Black Dranzer shoved him forcefully into the back of their mind, leaving the phoenix in complete control.

***

"AAAHHHH!" The others looked to find Tyson had hit his hand on the doorknob, for the forth time. Tyson cursed softly to himself, "This isn't working!"

"It didn't work the first time, or the second, or the third. Why should it work this time?" Max shook his head, "We'll just have to come up with another way of getting him to let us in."

"Do you really think Kai will let us in? He seems to just want to be alone now."

"I don't care what he thinks he wants! He's our friend and he needs us right now!" Tyson looked as if he were about to start attacking the door again.

"You know guys..."

"Tyson's right! We can't just leave him alone like this! He's got to know we're here for him all the way!"

"Guys?"

"That's right! So OPEN UP KAI, WE'RE NOT LEAVING YOU ALONE IN THERE LIKE THIS!!" This statement from Tyson was followed by him proceeding to attack the door with his fists again.

Ray sweat dropped slightly, "I have a key?"

The others stopped and looked at Ray, who held up the small silver key for them to see. "How'd _you_ get a key?"

"Its my room too, you know. And considering what Kai's like, I figured it'd be a good idea to keep it on me."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?"

"I guess no one could hear me over all the banging."

"Well, what are we waiting for?!" Tyson grabbed the key from Ray's hands and proceeded to put it into the door. Granted, he tried to put it in upside-down the first time, but he put it in the lock eventually.

After finding out which way the key went, Tyson unlocked the door and lunged upon it, causing it to fling open with a vast amount of force.

But the BladeBreakers concluded this may not have been a good move on Tyson's part. Because Kai was sitting just behind to door, and was flung to the side, his head hitting the wall with a thud that reminded Kenny of Tyson's fist on the door.

"Kai! Kai, are you alright? I didn't mean to do that to you! Please don't kill me! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

As the BladeBreakers sounded Kai, the crimson eyed blader got to his feet, looking at the ground. Then, all at once, he looked at them, glaring. And they discovered his eyes weren't crimson at all, rather, they were the deepest black they'd ever seen.