TT: Behold! An update!
Kai: Shouldn't you be studying for youe exams? I know you have two tomorrow.
TT: sweatdrops Well, yes... I should have studied this weekend, but I wanted to do this instead!
Kai: So you're failing english and commerce, and most likely maths and history, to update?
TT: defensively Yeah, well, I've almost got 200 reviews for this story!
Kai: ... --'' Of course. That makes ALL the difference.
TT: It does! Ask the reviewers!
Kai: glances at the computer screen, and the potential reviewer sitting in front of it, then shudders I'd rather not.
TT: ...
Kai: I want as little to do with these disturbing fans- who LIKE to see me hurt- as possible.
TT: rolls eyes Fine! ...I HAVE FIVE MINUTES!! MUST STUDY!!! Dives into a pile of textbooks
Kai: I'm out of here.
Disclaimer: The surface area of a cylinder in Pi times radius squared times the height... Or was that for the volume...?
Kai: glances back ... Meh, let her get sued.
Kai hated silence. He really hated it, some times more than others. It had always held promises of things to come, horribly things of nightmares. But, there were times like this, when he wished that there were quiet.
Instead, Kai listened to screams coming from far-off corner in the abbey, as someone suffered at the hands of Boris. Kai winched in sympathy, leaning on the wall and bring his chained hands around to draw his legs to his chest.
Under the screams, there were other sounds, quieter ones... A quiet droning of beyblades buzzing wafted down from the level above, easily heard through the thin ceiling... A quiet 'drip... drip...' which, Kai realized with a start, was his own blood, the wet crimson liquid coating his body, dripping down a small crack, a crevice on the floor... Footsteps, loud and marching, as the abbey guards walked past his door and down the hall, fading and then getting louder again as the guards marched back the other way... The sound of chains moving and shifting slightly...
Somewhere nearby, in one of the nearest cells most likely, Kai could make out an almost non-existent snuffling sound, another boy crying quietly, probably, as it was his first time on the lower level.
Kai clutched his ears, not wanting to hear anymore. All sound faded to nothing, and Kai slowly lowered his hands from his ears. Still there was no sound.
His tainted imagination went into overdrive, imagining all that the silence could mean. All the things that could be happening while he sat there, chained like a dog, in the dark. He couldn't stand it, his brain started to imagine things, create sounds that weren't there, like the breathy sound that was only a meter in front of him. Or that dark laughter Kai could remember so vividly, coming back to haunt him.
Kai squeezed his eyes shut and clutched his ears again. He hated silence.
The remains of a body had been found the evening before; it had been on all the TV channels, and in the morning paper. But no one had a picture, they just said that the person had been turned into a pulp and left it at that. The BladeBreaker's didn't know what to make of that, but it didn't make them feel better about Kai.
Secretly, they all worried over whether the body could have been Kai's, not that any of them would admit it out loud. Dizzi had, albeit reluctantly, told them that if Black Dranzer were to try to use too much of the power it possessed, Kai's body wouldn't be able to take it and would tear itself apart.
Kenny had turned exceedingly green after that was mentioned. The others, however, had just stared at Dizzi with identical expressions of pure horror. No one wanted to think that it had happened, but they didn't know. And even if Kai was still fine, what was to stop it happening later?
People didn't give a second glance to the teen walking down the street. Some wanted to, what with the two-tone hair and blue face-marks, but the permanent glare and the way those dark eyes reached into their souls left them too freaked to do so.
Black eyes narrowed as the cunning bitbeast considered its options. Though slightly drained from taking care of Boris, there was little doubt the black phoenix had enough power to finish the fight with its host's teammates. However, should Kai manage to gain control again during the fight...
Of course, the longer Black Dranzer waited, the longer his opposition would have to prepare. Though the phoenix would have the chance to recover the energy that had recently lost, it was not a risk that seemed very inviting. A quick mental check on Kai proved that he seemed to be in no condition to fight for control. And, of course, Black Dranzer had taken control from the unwilling host once; no doubt the same thing could be accomplished again.
This concluded, the possessed form nodded thoughtfully, and turned a corner, using the recent memories that could be pried from the vessel without notice to find the way back to where, no doubt, Kai's little 'friends' were waiting.
Black Dranzer found them outside by the beyblade dish, as if preparing to train. No of them, however, showed any sign of doing anything of the sort. Instead, they just stared at each other mournfully, as if they shared a dark and painful secret.
Pitch-black eyes narrowed further into a slitted glare, and their possessed captain stepped to the other side of the dish, scowling at them.
As if feeling the gaze, Ray looked up, blinked, then his catlike eyes widened and he jumped to his feet with a yelp. The others all followed Ray's example almost simultaneously, looking over and then getting to their feet, crying out their friend's name.
Black Dranzer didn't say anything, just put the blue beyblade in the launcher and held it out, ready. Hesitant, Tyson looked at the others, and they talked quietly for a second before Tyson mimicked the posture with his own beyblade.
In sync, they beyblades were launched, clashing in the middle before circling one another.
Tyson gritted his teeth as his beyblade attacked, only to be dodged deftly by the second blade. Eyes moved from the beyblades to his opponent, eyes watering in despair, murmuring to himself to quietly for anyone else to hear. "Kai, come on, I know your in there. Fight it Kai, you did it before, you can do it know..."
In the safety of the abyss that Black Dranzer had placed his in, Kai's eyes opened and he looked up in confusion as the sound of spinning beyblades broke the silence.