A LONG WAY DOWN 5
Tyson: So he kidnapped Sarah-Michelle Gellar?
Kai: So it seems, and he didn't write in about his evil Bit Beast
Me: Hello!
Kai+Tyson: YAAAAAAAAH
Me: Oh haven't you ever seen an evil leader teleport in?
Tyson: Not really.
Me: Well I've got something evil lined up for a bit beast. So evil it will make milk curdle
Tyson: I'm scared
Me: Yes well I promise you get a kiss or two in the chapter...now may I present my minion...Cher!
Cher: (bad synthesizer) The musics no good without you...
Tyson: DEAR LORD
Kai: You're worse then Voltaire!
Me: (covering ears) I may have gone to a whole new evil of twisted psychopath... get the hose!
Kai: Way ahead of you! (blast cher out the window on a funnel of water)
Me: Let's not mention this ever again/
===Tyson's house=== Tyson came down the steps groggily. They'd been working on a plan to trap Ms Medusa; after all, the clue said they'd face her there. And running into a bullwhip leather clad femme fatale with the combined underhanded natures of a cat and a snake with no plan was suicide. 'I wonder if Batman ever had this problem?' he muttered.
'Soda?'
Tyson leapt a foot in the air with a shout and turned around. 'Kai! You damn well scared me'. Kai was standing behind Tyson. His blue hair was the same as always, never changing and so was the war paint. His eyes were tired but his muscled body wasn't relenting in looking fearsome.
'Senses open' he said. 'Best way to avoid that. Now.soda?' He offered the can again and Tyson accepted it gratefully. A sharp shiver ran up his spine as he shifted in his shorts and t-shirt.
Kai looked at Tyson shiver and took in a breath. 'Thanks for letting me stay.it means a lot. You're.a good friend. my. a .really good friend' Kai said.
Tyson's head drooped. 'Oh' he breathed.
'My best friend' kai said. He took a breath. 'I've been having dreams' he said finally as Tyson looked up with a smile. Kai's eyes began to tear. 'I'm remembering things and ever since the coma, before even, I started to remember things about the Abbey.I can't.it's so hard.'
Tyson's eyes looked into the sorrow filled redness of Kai's. 'What? Why didn't you tell us you were having trouble sleeping?'
'No one knows' Kai said breathlessly (A/N: Not even you readers! -). 'I can't tell them because sometimes I don't know if they're fantasies or memories or a mixture.and I don't want some of them broadcast.'
'Well what was the most recent about?' asked Tyson sitting up on the counter. 'You can trust me'
'I can' Kai said. But not myself, he thought. 'I had the same one a few minutes ago and while I was out cold. I'm walking through the Abbey and I see an old friend battling with a Beyblade and then as I get closer I realize my old friend is standing on ground that's made of tiny bit beasts and then I try to focus on my old friend but I can't remember who they are.
And then I'm in Rome, when we were going to fight Enrique and we're on the back of the truck and I see that same shadowy old friend hitch a ride with us and I want to say hi but then I forget and I wake up in a rose garden with a girl I know pruning roses dressed all in white and she asks me to get a rose. So I go and pick one and prick myself and I fall into the darkness and then.' he choked. He just couldn't finish it. He couldn't.
'What Kai?'
Just a little more. 'I keep falling and I see bit-beasts chained to the darkness, scared.alone and then the angel that looks like.' he had let to much out he had said more then he wanted to.
'The angel what? Looks like what? Or who?' Tyson asked taking Kai's chin gently in his fingers and guiding it to his eyes. 'What?'
Kai was about to lie, to tell a story so extravagant it could only happen in a dream.but those eyes! They just made him feel better, satisfied.safe. All he had never felt. It was now or never. 'The angel catches me and kisses me.and I kiss back and I feel like I'm floating and I wake up.'
Tyson could feel the lump in his throat growing. 'W-w-who does he look like?' he breathed.
'He-looks-looks-like---you' Kai managed. He broke into tears, sobbing gently as he expected Tyson to recoil in disgust or call him some names. Maybe even throw him out. Instead the lithe arms encircled him holding him into his chest as the head of Tyson laid on his shoulder. 'Tyson I'm s-s- sorry' he whimpered. 'I'll l-l-leave if you want me t-to!'
Tyson clung tighter earning him a surprised gasp from Kai. 'No' he managed to say as he held Kai closer. He blushed a she realized Kai was hugging him back but between his legs as Tyson still sat on the counter while Kai stood. 'So are you.you know.gay?' Tyson asked.
'I don't know' Kai said nervously. 'I can't be sure.'
'I know one way' Tyson said.
'What?' Kai asked. Tyson leaned in and brushed his lips of Kai's gently then moved closer and pressed their mouths together. His blood boiled as he felt Kai's tongue push past his lips and teeth to gain entry. Their mouths were almost locked to one another. Tyson could taste the soda Kai's lips as their tongues battled. He felt like he was floating on a cloud fifty feet above the world.
'Guys!' Kenny shouted from up the stairs. Reluctantly but quickly they pulled apart. Kenny appeared at the door. ' Guys! Max is gone! He left a note---ehh Tyson, are you okay? You look flushed.'
'Oh.Kai was telling me about a gory movie he saw' Tyson murmured. 'So what does it say?'
'The summary is that he's gone to St Gertrude's to find Ms Medusa' Kenny said. 'I'll wake Rei and we can head out. It is 1 in the morning after all so the roads will be relatively clear.'
===St Gertrude's===
'Where are you Medusa?' shouted Max. The whip crack answered his question. He looked at her standing on top of a crypt, hands on her hips and her whip coiled across her torso. 'You'll pay for nearly killing my family'
'You're early' Ms Medusa said. She took a step back and snapped her whip at Max. He pulled back and glared back at her. But she was gone? She now sat on a crypt behind him. 'And obviously angry.possibly drunk though I didn't see you drinking?'
'Stalking me?' max said. 'You're going to hand over Lydia. Where is she?'
'You are' she murmured. 'You're worried about the girl.nice.I am surprised. I thought you would be insensitive. But I was wrong.I'd have to say it's a first. Normally I can read people well. You're the positive youth to the group. Rei is the grounded and sombre one, Kenny is the brain and sensibility, Kai is the cold and distant blader and Tyson is the person who never sees the losses but cares so very much. Maybe you aren't like the rest.'
'Rest of what?' Max exclaimed. Ms Medusa said nothing as she dropped down and he looked her over. She was dressed in a long silk white coat with a white tank top and silver belt with white stones set in the circular segments that made it up. Her loose white trousers had silver serpents around the thighs. She coiled the whip around her stomach. 'Talk to me you psycho!' he spat trying to sound as threatening.
'Maxi, Maxi, Maxi.you know better then to try be something your not. You aren't violent. You are too naïve if you believe you are. Just face the truth, you're who you are'.
Max held out his launcher. 'Lets blade' he snapped. Ms Medusa just laughed and drew her blade from a silk pouch on her belt. He swore her heard her mutter "Too easy" under her breath. She reached into the shadows and tossed the playing disk. The lightweight metal made a dull clank as it landed. She uncoiled her whip and held out her blade. 'Ready yet?' she asked.
Max was loaded and ready. 'Let's go' he insisted. '3.2.1! Let it Rip!' The battle blade sprang into the ring whirling on the spot as Medusa tossed her s into the air and cracked her whip, it landed in its spin shimmering with a dark light. 'Mirage warper!' she snapped immediately.
The Beyblade whizzed around Draciel like a speeding bullet and gave a low groan. The arena shuddered as Dryduzella spun faster and faster around it in a perfect circle. 'Full defence!' Max exclaimed as the rim of the ring vanished under the flickering images of the opponent blade. The streak darted across past Draciel and sent a shrieking hiss of sparks into the air. Max yelped as Draciel was shoved to one side.
'Draciel! Use the move we practiced! The stone suit of armour!' Draciel grounded itself firmly and when Dryduzella came in again she was bounced aside by the force of her own momentum bouncing off Draciel's defence'
'Oh you are a defensive boy. Draciel is the best defender after all.well I will have to insist you lose' she said. Her eyes glowed green and purple. 'Prepare yourself!'
===Down a hill from the fight===
Rei and Kai raced up the hill with Tyson and Kenny in pursuit. The green light was all they needed to see to know what was happening. 'NO!' Rei shouted as he raced up to see Dryduzella rise up high in the air. She slashed down on Draciel as her nails extended. The light glowed from the slashes in the air as the porcelain white face of the helmeted head gazed at Draciel. It touched its lips and blew a kiss. The light engulfed Draciel and in a flare of light. Ms Medusa's dark laugh rose as the snakes entangled Draciel in its weakened state lifting it up. Three snakes slithered from the head of the Gorgon as she raised her doll like hands and a haze of white light gathered over her palms. The three snakes slashed across the trapped Draciel and then converged in the ball of light. The white burst forth and Draciel was dragged into the vortex.
Max reached his hands out as his blade dulled and faded. The tears rolled down his cheeks as he felt the darkness spread over the missing part of his spirit. 'Draciel.' he murmured.
'You Bitch!' Rei roared as he raced at her. Ms Medusa was too fast she snapped her whip as the blade leapt to her hands she cracked it again to wrap around Max's waist. She spun along the length of her whip so it coiled around her waist and pulled them together. She placed her silver nailed hands on his collarbones. 'Let him go!' Rei snarled, his pupils reverting into feral slits.'
'Now, now, now' warned the girl. 'I can't go around doing that when y'all want to snap me into pieces'
'I swear I'll rip you to shreds!' hissed Rei.
Medusa placed her right hand on the back of Max's head and the other on his chin. 'I can snap his neck before you even draw a punch. Do you feel that lucky?' she said with a calm sigh. Kai put his hand on Rei's shoulder. Medusa's eye twitched. 'I have to run; you can find your friend here. See you later' she purred. She spun away uncoiling her whip caught waist and tugged the whip sending Max spinning into Rei's arms. All eyes snapped to the sobbing Max and when they looked back she was gone. Kenny was searching through the graves already. Finally he found one, a rectangular box with a Medusas head hissing from each corner.
'We have to get her out' he said. 'This is it! Let's go!'
Rei, Tyson and Kenny gripped the edges of the sarcophagus and with all their strength they tried to lift it. To no avail. 'Guys' Dizzi said. 'There's a secret switch'
'In the Gorgons heads, hit them and the thing will open' Dryassius said. 'Even we can see it'
Kenny looked at the consoles on a nearby gravestone and then at the Gorgons heads, he placed his hand in them and pressed down on the tongues. The top of the sarcophagus slid aside. Tyson leant in to see if Lydia was there. She lashed out and punched him in the jaw.
'Lydia it's us!' Rei yelped. Lydia looked up from beneath her fringe and gave a sob. She wrapped her arms around the boys' necks as she sat up. 'It's okay' Rei reassured her.
'She's evil' whimpered Lydia.
'And she'll pay' Kai whispered. She looked at him as he recoiled from the group and clutched at his face..
'Are you okay?' she asked with worry in her voice.
'I can't.agh!' Kai collapsed. The last thing he saw and felt was Tyson grabbing him and whispering his name.
===The Mind of Kai===
'Master Kai?' the female voice whispered.
He sat up and looked at the black shape bathed in the white light. Gritting his teeth he stood on the nothingness and prepared himself for any attacks. 'Dark Dranzer!' he growled.
'Yes' she said. 'But I am not here to fight.I am here because I felt my brother being stolen away from you. I have tried to reach you but your mind is conflicted so badly.I have come to warn you of the dangers.'
'I know about Medusa' he snapped.
'But you don't know the full story!' Dark Dranzer whimpered as he snarled at her. 'I want to help, I can become your bit beast and give you a fighting chance! Without a bit beast you are never going to find my brother.Voltaire kept me away from him for so long, all I wanted was to apologize for my actions.I was not always Dark.once I was like my brother.but blue and purple.then Voltaire.'
The tears dripped into the nothingness of Kai's blanked mind. 'What is it?' he asked.
'I can find out who Ms Medusa will strike next and I can send you a vision if you open your mind to me. But only if you allow me into your Beyblade.'
Kai felt the Beyblade in his hand, but that was on the physical plane. 'All right' he said. 'I will. But one false move and I crush your piece Dark Dranzer'
'I know' she said. 'But---Please, don't call me Dark Dranzer.'
'Fine' he grunted as he heard a whisper of Tyson's calm voice. His heart skipped a beat. 'Drana' he uttered and with that he slipped back onto the physical plane. He found himself in Tyson's arms. 'Ugh' he groaned.
'Don't do that' breathed Tyson. 'Don't ever pass out ever again!'
'I'll try' Kai smiled. Lydia gasped and pointed at his Beyblade, clutched tightly in his hand. 'Drana' he murmured and looked at Lydia. 'The Dark Dranzer is helping us. We'll make sure she pays for harming you.'
'Thanks' Lydia said. 'But right now I just want to go home. I don't live far and I can get Joey and Tony to give you lifts home if you want.'
'We have my van' Rei said gathering Max into his arms. 'We'll drop you home.and explain it off as you helping our training okay?'
'Yeah' she said with a nod. Kenny handed her a pair of glasses and Dryassius.
'I got your prescription refilled' he said. She kissed him on the cheek with her candy pink lips.
'You're sweet' she said before she giggled and snorted again. She tapped Dryassius. 'Did you miss me Dry?'
'Tres bonne ma cheri' was the reply. 'Yes I did'
===The Grinning Fish Sushi Bar===
'So your family owns this place?' Tyson asked as he walked with Lydia up to the back entrance.
'Yes, they also own Italian food restraints in town, a cab company and a few other things. Nothing big but we're an ambitious family' she knocked on the door and Joey opened it.
'Man! Tony flipped his lid. I've been trying to calm him.' his eyes settled on Tyson. 'All right that's it!' He grabbed Tyson by the scruff of the neck and hauled him up. 'Man Tony's gonna hate me for breaking his Tai Chi practice for this.' Joey was wearing tight blue jeans and a purple muscle shirt that showed off the muscles he had.enough to pop Tyson like a balloon. Lydia protested as He hauled Tyson into a garden out the back where a tanned man (a sharp contrast to Lydia's pale colour) and dyed blonde hair was practicing Tai Chi in the robes of aikido.
'Hey Tony' Joey said. 'This is the one who was "occupying" Dia's time!' Joey cracked his knuckles as Tony strode forwards with and angry flame in his eyes.
Lydia let a flare of passionate Italian out before Tony could move much closer. He paused and looked at her then replied something in Greek. She answered in Italian and looked to Tony with an explanation in Japanese. Both nodded and blushed. She shook her head. 'Sorry Tyson' she said. 'They're both pigheaded. Hey, come on I explained how I was helping with the BeyBlading strategies Kenny was working on'
Tyson nodded and rushed with her to the door away from the rather angry looking men. 'So how many languages do you speak? Italian, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English' she explained. 'I actually speak a little Afrikaans but I can only say "My aunts omelette is made of toenails". My family has all these chefs who taught me to speak their home languages. But mother was a Greek-Italian and Father was Russian. So I picked them up from birth.hey Tyson' she added as he walked towards the van where and impatient Rei was waving from. 'Don't forget the list.you didn't read it. Good night' she waved and shut the door as he waved and walked away.
===Tyson's room===
Kai was snoring soundly on the bed. Tyson and he had been too tired to talk when they'd gotten in. he wasn't sure how he felt about that.he accepted it. Good? Right? He paused and unfolded the crumpled paper in his hand.
---Flashback to a few days ago---
'Thanks for calling the medics' Tyson said as Lydia arranged the flowers by Kai's bedside. 'You probably saved his life'.
'He's a good person' she said. She spotted Tyson's downcast look. 'What?' she asked as she pushed her glasses back up on her nose.
'Nothing, just wishing I had him to snap me out of this crush I have on someone.'
'Try a list' Lydia suggested.
'A what?'
'A list?' Lydia repeated. 'You know.write down the pros and cons of the person. If they outbalance one another they help make a decision.'
'Hey, that's not a bad idea' muttered Tyson. Lydia pulled a pen and pencil from her bag. 'Let me show you. I'll write the ones for.Kai!' Tyson watched as she began to scribble down in her neat handwriting. Finally she folded the page. 'Now make your own in your head and then read mine in a few days.'
Tyson looked at the piece of paper as Lydia left the room.
---End flashback---
Tyson unfolded the page.
Kai's Cons: Surly, superiority complex, temperamental, cold, emotionally undeveloped, tiresomely cranky, angry at life, buries his feelings, socially incapable, can't handle affection or emotion, critical of everyone, high standards, scared of getting close, doesn't like much other then Beyblades, slightly vain, major proud, scared.
Tyson laughed. It was pretty accurate. He looked at the Pro's.
Kai's Pro's: Loyal, Noble, collected, thoughtful (then there was the big red circle) Tyson is in love with him.'
Tyson folded up the page staring at the sleeping figure. He had school tomorrow.he would talk to Kai then. With a yawn he slipped into a dreamless sleep.well what he had hoped would be a dreamless sleep.
TBC
Tyson: So he kidnapped Sarah-Michelle Gellar?
Kai: So it seems, and he didn't write in about his evil Bit Beast
Me: Hello!
Kai+Tyson: YAAAAAAAAH
Me: Oh haven't you ever seen an evil leader teleport in?
Tyson: Not really.
Me: Well I've got something evil lined up for a bit beast. So evil it will make milk curdle
Tyson: I'm scared
Me: Yes well I promise you get a kiss or two in the chapter...now may I present my minion...Cher!
Cher: (bad synthesizer) The musics no good without you...
Tyson: DEAR LORD
Kai: You're worse then Voltaire!
Me: (covering ears) I may have gone to a whole new evil of twisted psychopath... get the hose!
Kai: Way ahead of you! (blast cher out the window on a funnel of water)
Me: Let's not mention this ever again/
===Tyson's house=== Tyson came down the steps groggily. They'd been working on a plan to trap Ms Medusa; after all, the clue said they'd face her there. And running into a bullwhip leather clad femme fatale with the combined underhanded natures of a cat and a snake with no plan was suicide. 'I wonder if Batman ever had this problem?' he muttered.
'Soda?'
Tyson leapt a foot in the air with a shout and turned around. 'Kai! You damn well scared me'. Kai was standing behind Tyson. His blue hair was the same as always, never changing and so was the war paint. His eyes were tired but his muscled body wasn't relenting in looking fearsome.
'Senses open' he said. 'Best way to avoid that. Now.soda?' He offered the can again and Tyson accepted it gratefully. A sharp shiver ran up his spine as he shifted in his shorts and t-shirt.
Kai looked at Tyson shiver and took in a breath. 'Thanks for letting me stay.it means a lot. You're.a good friend. my. a .really good friend' Kai said.
Tyson's head drooped. 'Oh' he breathed.
'My best friend' kai said. He took a breath. 'I've been having dreams' he said finally as Tyson looked up with a smile. Kai's eyes began to tear. 'I'm remembering things and ever since the coma, before even, I started to remember things about the Abbey.I can't.it's so hard.'
Tyson's eyes looked into the sorrow filled redness of Kai's. 'What? Why didn't you tell us you were having trouble sleeping?'
'No one knows' Kai said breathlessly (A/N: Not even you readers! -). 'I can't tell them because sometimes I don't know if they're fantasies or memories or a mixture.and I don't want some of them broadcast.'
'Well what was the most recent about?' asked Tyson sitting up on the counter. 'You can trust me'
'I can' Kai said. But not myself, he thought. 'I had the same one a few minutes ago and while I was out cold. I'm walking through the Abbey and I see an old friend battling with a Beyblade and then as I get closer I realize my old friend is standing on ground that's made of tiny bit beasts and then I try to focus on my old friend but I can't remember who they are.
And then I'm in Rome, when we were going to fight Enrique and we're on the back of the truck and I see that same shadowy old friend hitch a ride with us and I want to say hi but then I forget and I wake up in a rose garden with a girl I know pruning roses dressed all in white and she asks me to get a rose. So I go and pick one and prick myself and I fall into the darkness and then.' he choked. He just couldn't finish it. He couldn't.
'What Kai?'
Just a little more. 'I keep falling and I see bit-beasts chained to the darkness, scared.alone and then the angel that looks like.' he had let to much out he had said more then he wanted to.
'The angel what? Looks like what? Or who?' Tyson asked taking Kai's chin gently in his fingers and guiding it to his eyes. 'What?'
Kai was about to lie, to tell a story so extravagant it could only happen in a dream.but those eyes! They just made him feel better, satisfied.safe. All he had never felt. It was now or never. 'The angel catches me and kisses me.and I kiss back and I feel like I'm floating and I wake up.'
Tyson could feel the lump in his throat growing. 'W-w-who does he look like?' he breathed.
'He-looks-looks-like---you' Kai managed. He broke into tears, sobbing gently as he expected Tyson to recoil in disgust or call him some names. Maybe even throw him out. Instead the lithe arms encircled him holding him into his chest as the head of Tyson laid on his shoulder. 'Tyson I'm s-s- sorry' he whimpered. 'I'll l-l-leave if you want me t-to!'
Tyson clung tighter earning him a surprised gasp from Kai. 'No' he managed to say as he held Kai closer. He blushed a she realized Kai was hugging him back but between his legs as Tyson still sat on the counter while Kai stood. 'So are you.you know.gay?' Tyson asked.
'I don't know' Kai said nervously. 'I can't be sure.'
'I know one way' Tyson said.
'What?' Kai asked. Tyson leaned in and brushed his lips of Kai's gently then moved closer and pressed their mouths together. His blood boiled as he felt Kai's tongue push past his lips and teeth to gain entry. Their mouths were almost locked to one another. Tyson could taste the soda Kai's lips as their tongues battled. He felt like he was floating on a cloud fifty feet above the world.
'Guys!' Kenny shouted from up the stairs. Reluctantly but quickly they pulled apart. Kenny appeared at the door. ' Guys! Max is gone! He left a note---ehh Tyson, are you okay? You look flushed.'
'Oh.Kai was telling me about a gory movie he saw' Tyson murmured. 'So what does it say?'
'The summary is that he's gone to St Gertrude's to find Ms Medusa' Kenny said. 'I'll wake Rei and we can head out. It is 1 in the morning after all so the roads will be relatively clear.'
===St Gertrude's===
'Where are you Medusa?' shouted Max. The whip crack answered his question. He looked at her standing on top of a crypt, hands on her hips and her whip coiled across her torso. 'You'll pay for nearly killing my family'
'You're early' Ms Medusa said. She took a step back and snapped her whip at Max. He pulled back and glared back at her. But she was gone? She now sat on a crypt behind him. 'And obviously angry.possibly drunk though I didn't see you drinking?'
'Stalking me?' max said. 'You're going to hand over Lydia. Where is she?'
'You are' she murmured. 'You're worried about the girl.nice.I am surprised. I thought you would be insensitive. But I was wrong.I'd have to say it's a first. Normally I can read people well. You're the positive youth to the group. Rei is the grounded and sombre one, Kenny is the brain and sensibility, Kai is the cold and distant blader and Tyson is the person who never sees the losses but cares so very much. Maybe you aren't like the rest.'
'Rest of what?' Max exclaimed. Ms Medusa said nothing as she dropped down and he looked her over. She was dressed in a long silk white coat with a white tank top and silver belt with white stones set in the circular segments that made it up. Her loose white trousers had silver serpents around the thighs. She coiled the whip around her stomach. 'Talk to me you psycho!' he spat trying to sound as threatening.
'Maxi, Maxi, Maxi.you know better then to try be something your not. You aren't violent. You are too naïve if you believe you are. Just face the truth, you're who you are'.
Max held out his launcher. 'Lets blade' he snapped. Ms Medusa just laughed and drew her blade from a silk pouch on her belt. He swore her heard her mutter "Too easy" under her breath. She reached into the shadows and tossed the playing disk. The lightweight metal made a dull clank as it landed. She uncoiled her whip and held out her blade. 'Ready yet?' she asked.
Max was loaded and ready. 'Let's go' he insisted. '3.2.1! Let it Rip!' The battle blade sprang into the ring whirling on the spot as Medusa tossed her s into the air and cracked her whip, it landed in its spin shimmering with a dark light. 'Mirage warper!' she snapped immediately.
The Beyblade whizzed around Draciel like a speeding bullet and gave a low groan. The arena shuddered as Dryduzella spun faster and faster around it in a perfect circle. 'Full defence!' Max exclaimed as the rim of the ring vanished under the flickering images of the opponent blade. The streak darted across past Draciel and sent a shrieking hiss of sparks into the air. Max yelped as Draciel was shoved to one side.
'Draciel! Use the move we practiced! The stone suit of armour!' Draciel grounded itself firmly and when Dryduzella came in again she was bounced aside by the force of her own momentum bouncing off Draciel's defence'
'Oh you are a defensive boy. Draciel is the best defender after all.well I will have to insist you lose' she said. Her eyes glowed green and purple. 'Prepare yourself!'
===Down a hill from the fight===
Rei and Kai raced up the hill with Tyson and Kenny in pursuit. The green light was all they needed to see to know what was happening. 'NO!' Rei shouted as he raced up to see Dryduzella rise up high in the air. She slashed down on Draciel as her nails extended. The light glowed from the slashes in the air as the porcelain white face of the helmeted head gazed at Draciel. It touched its lips and blew a kiss. The light engulfed Draciel and in a flare of light. Ms Medusa's dark laugh rose as the snakes entangled Draciel in its weakened state lifting it up. Three snakes slithered from the head of the Gorgon as she raised her doll like hands and a haze of white light gathered over her palms. The three snakes slashed across the trapped Draciel and then converged in the ball of light. The white burst forth and Draciel was dragged into the vortex.
Max reached his hands out as his blade dulled and faded. The tears rolled down his cheeks as he felt the darkness spread over the missing part of his spirit. 'Draciel.' he murmured.
'You Bitch!' Rei roared as he raced at her. Ms Medusa was too fast she snapped her whip as the blade leapt to her hands she cracked it again to wrap around Max's waist. She spun along the length of her whip so it coiled around her waist and pulled them together. She placed her silver nailed hands on his collarbones. 'Let him go!' Rei snarled, his pupils reverting into feral slits.'
'Now, now, now' warned the girl. 'I can't go around doing that when y'all want to snap me into pieces'
'I swear I'll rip you to shreds!' hissed Rei.
Medusa placed her right hand on the back of Max's head and the other on his chin. 'I can snap his neck before you even draw a punch. Do you feel that lucky?' she said with a calm sigh. Kai put his hand on Rei's shoulder. Medusa's eye twitched. 'I have to run; you can find your friend here. See you later' she purred. She spun away uncoiling her whip caught waist and tugged the whip sending Max spinning into Rei's arms. All eyes snapped to the sobbing Max and when they looked back she was gone. Kenny was searching through the graves already. Finally he found one, a rectangular box with a Medusas head hissing from each corner.
'We have to get her out' he said. 'This is it! Let's go!'
Rei, Tyson and Kenny gripped the edges of the sarcophagus and with all their strength they tried to lift it. To no avail. 'Guys' Dizzi said. 'There's a secret switch'
'In the Gorgons heads, hit them and the thing will open' Dryassius said. 'Even we can see it'
Kenny looked at the consoles on a nearby gravestone and then at the Gorgons heads, he placed his hand in them and pressed down on the tongues. The top of the sarcophagus slid aside. Tyson leant in to see if Lydia was there. She lashed out and punched him in the jaw.
'Lydia it's us!' Rei yelped. Lydia looked up from beneath her fringe and gave a sob. She wrapped her arms around the boys' necks as she sat up. 'It's okay' Rei reassured her.
'She's evil' whimpered Lydia.
'And she'll pay' Kai whispered. She looked at him as he recoiled from the group and clutched at his face..
'Are you okay?' she asked with worry in her voice.
'I can't.agh!' Kai collapsed. The last thing he saw and felt was Tyson grabbing him and whispering his name.
===The Mind of Kai===
'Master Kai?' the female voice whispered.
He sat up and looked at the black shape bathed in the white light. Gritting his teeth he stood on the nothingness and prepared himself for any attacks. 'Dark Dranzer!' he growled.
'Yes' she said. 'But I am not here to fight.I am here because I felt my brother being stolen away from you. I have tried to reach you but your mind is conflicted so badly.I have come to warn you of the dangers.'
'I know about Medusa' he snapped.
'But you don't know the full story!' Dark Dranzer whimpered as he snarled at her. 'I want to help, I can become your bit beast and give you a fighting chance! Without a bit beast you are never going to find my brother.Voltaire kept me away from him for so long, all I wanted was to apologize for my actions.I was not always Dark.once I was like my brother.but blue and purple.then Voltaire.'
The tears dripped into the nothingness of Kai's blanked mind. 'What is it?' he asked.
'I can find out who Ms Medusa will strike next and I can send you a vision if you open your mind to me. But only if you allow me into your Beyblade.'
Kai felt the Beyblade in his hand, but that was on the physical plane. 'All right' he said. 'I will. But one false move and I crush your piece Dark Dranzer'
'I know' she said. 'But---Please, don't call me Dark Dranzer.'
'Fine' he grunted as he heard a whisper of Tyson's calm voice. His heart skipped a beat. 'Drana' he uttered and with that he slipped back onto the physical plane. He found himself in Tyson's arms. 'Ugh' he groaned.
'Don't do that' breathed Tyson. 'Don't ever pass out ever again!'
'I'll try' Kai smiled. Lydia gasped and pointed at his Beyblade, clutched tightly in his hand. 'Drana' he murmured and looked at Lydia. 'The Dark Dranzer is helping us. We'll make sure she pays for harming you.'
'Thanks' Lydia said. 'But right now I just want to go home. I don't live far and I can get Joey and Tony to give you lifts home if you want.'
'We have my van' Rei said gathering Max into his arms. 'We'll drop you home.and explain it off as you helping our training okay?'
'Yeah' she said with a nod. Kenny handed her a pair of glasses and Dryassius.
'I got your prescription refilled' he said. She kissed him on the cheek with her candy pink lips.
'You're sweet' she said before she giggled and snorted again. She tapped Dryassius. 'Did you miss me Dry?'
'Tres bonne ma cheri' was the reply. 'Yes I did'
===The Grinning Fish Sushi Bar===
'So your family owns this place?' Tyson asked as he walked with Lydia up to the back entrance.
'Yes, they also own Italian food restraints in town, a cab company and a few other things. Nothing big but we're an ambitious family' she knocked on the door and Joey opened it.
'Man! Tony flipped his lid. I've been trying to calm him.' his eyes settled on Tyson. 'All right that's it!' He grabbed Tyson by the scruff of the neck and hauled him up. 'Man Tony's gonna hate me for breaking his Tai Chi practice for this.' Joey was wearing tight blue jeans and a purple muscle shirt that showed off the muscles he had.enough to pop Tyson like a balloon. Lydia protested as He hauled Tyson into a garden out the back where a tanned man (a sharp contrast to Lydia's pale colour) and dyed blonde hair was practicing Tai Chi in the robes of aikido.
'Hey Tony' Joey said. 'This is the one who was "occupying" Dia's time!' Joey cracked his knuckles as Tony strode forwards with and angry flame in his eyes.
Lydia let a flare of passionate Italian out before Tony could move much closer. He paused and looked at her then replied something in Greek. She answered in Italian and looked to Tony with an explanation in Japanese. Both nodded and blushed. She shook her head. 'Sorry Tyson' she said. 'They're both pigheaded. Hey, come on I explained how I was helping with the BeyBlading strategies Kenny was working on'
Tyson nodded and rushed with her to the door away from the rather angry looking men. 'So how many languages do you speak? Italian, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English' she explained. 'I actually speak a little Afrikaans but I can only say "My aunts omelette is made of toenails". My family has all these chefs who taught me to speak their home languages. But mother was a Greek-Italian and Father was Russian. So I picked them up from birth.hey Tyson' she added as he walked towards the van where and impatient Rei was waving from. 'Don't forget the list.you didn't read it. Good night' she waved and shut the door as he waved and walked away.
===Tyson's room===
Kai was snoring soundly on the bed. Tyson and he had been too tired to talk when they'd gotten in. he wasn't sure how he felt about that.he accepted it. Good? Right? He paused and unfolded the crumpled paper in his hand.
---Flashback to a few days ago---
'Thanks for calling the medics' Tyson said as Lydia arranged the flowers by Kai's bedside. 'You probably saved his life'.
'He's a good person' she said. She spotted Tyson's downcast look. 'What?' she asked as she pushed her glasses back up on her nose.
'Nothing, just wishing I had him to snap me out of this crush I have on someone.'
'Try a list' Lydia suggested.
'A what?'
'A list?' Lydia repeated. 'You know.write down the pros and cons of the person. If they outbalance one another they help make a decision.'
'Hey, that's not a bad idea' muttered Tyson. Lydia pulled a pen and pencil from her bag. 'Let me show you. I'll write the ones for.Kai!' Tyson watched as she began to scribble down in her neat handwriting. Finally she folded the page. 'Now make your own in your head and then read mine in a few days.'
Tyson looked at the piece of paper as Lydia left the room.
---End flashback---
Tyson unfolded the page.
Kai's Cons: Surly, superiority complex, temperamental, cold, emotionally undeveloped, tiresomely cranky, angry at life, buries his feelings, socially incapable, can't handle affection or emotion, critical of everyone, high standards, scared of getting close, doesn't like much other then Beyblades, slightly vain, major proud, scared.
Tyson laughed. It was pretty accurate. He looked at the Pro's.
Kai's Pro's: Loyal, Noble, collected, thoughtful (then there was the big red circle) Tyson is in love with him.'
Tyson folded up the page staring at the sleeping figure. He had school tomorrow.he would talk to Kai then. With a yawn he slipped into a dreamless sleep.well what he had hoped would be a dreamless sleep.
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