AN: This chapter's kinda mysterious but the story's kinda a mystery thing. Just read it till the end and tell me what ya'll think of this chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblades otherwise Kai would be the main character.

Soul hunter

Chapter 1-Greyness

Eyelids fluttered open as the dark blue haired boy slowly awoke and stared at the open blue sky. "What…what happened?" he muttered before pushing himself off the ground. Looking around he saw a sea of greyness. People were crowding around him, but the strangeness isn't because they were crowding around him but rather because they were all a grey colour. He walked through the gaps in the crowd and made away from the people. The boy felt as if he was in a black and white film. The only colours in this colourless place was the sky which was thankfully its normal blue, himself in his brightly coloured clothes, the small cracks on the hard surface of the road which revealed orange flames underneath and…he looked around and saw a blur running towards him. The blur was dominated by the colours black, blue and white but he could make out bits of red and yellow on the running figure.

"Hey Mister!" he yelled out as the running person passed him. The figure stopped a few metres away from him. The boy could faintly hear the figure say to himself "Is he talking to me?" The figure swung his head around to reveal another boy, his intense crimson eyes burned into the boy who had called out to him.

"Err…hi my name's Tyson." The boy said smiling awkwardly under the other's gaze.

"Run." Was the only thing that escaped the other boy's mouth before he swung his head back and headed off again. Tyson puzzled over the word but before he could do any more thinking a golden chariot pulled by two black stallions rode out from the shadows.

Standing there in the chariot was a hooded person who shouted after the running boy "You're not getting away from me this time Kai."

One look at the creepy hooded guy and his chariot sent Tyson running after the boy whose name is Kai. With the gleaming chariot hot on their tails. The chariot chased them down the street, in no time at all it had caught up to them. The chariot rode past and pulled up in front of the two toned haired boy who was in front of Tyson.

"Forget it." The hooded man spoke out. "You can't escape to the safety of the cherub lights. Surrender yourself Kai, you can't fight me."

"Look here you creep," Kai spoke, his voice deeper and colder than Tyson had expected. "I'm not surrendering! I might be stuck here forever but I'd rather spend the rest of eternity here always on the run than going to that forsaken hell with you!" He spat out.

Tyson could see the eyes of the hooded shadow narrow into a thin wicked line. Without a warning the hooded figure lashed out of the chariot and attempted to grab Kai's neck but missed due to the quick reflexes the boy possessed. The figure lashed out again only to grasp air. He screamed a roar of anger, annoyance and frustration, before Kai ran off again. Tyson immediately followed not knowing a thing about what just happened.

Another ear splitting roar was heard before the hoofs of the stallions came after them. Tyson followed Kai and turned at a sharp corner. Suddenly he was engulfed in a stream of bright light shinning from the heavens. His legs slowed down to a stop in front of Kai who had his arms crossed and seemed to be waiting for the chariot to arrive.

Right on cue the chariot turned the corner but stopped just before the circle of light. Kai's mouth played into a smirk as he walked towards the golden chariot stopping at the boundary of light. "Well Boris." He greeted the man on the chariot. "I guess you were wrong. I did get to the safety of the cherub lights."

Kai's smirk grew wider as Boris responded in a rather pissed tone. "Safe for now but not for long." His chariot spun around and headed off leaving the two teens in their sanctuary.

The brief silence was broken by Tyson, "So…your name's Kai huh?" The reply he received was a grunt and a stare. 'Okay, so this guy's not exactly friendly. ' Tyson thought. "Can you tell me what the hell is going on?"

"There are lots of things going on." Kai replied starting to get on Tyson's nerves.

Tyson could only look dumbfounded at Kai before he rephrased his question and tried again. "What just happened?"

"We were chased by the soul hunter." Kai replied with a much better answer this time.

Tyson blinked. "What? Soul hunter? Who the hell is that?"

"He hunts souls but only children's souls. He works for the devil himself." Kai answered looking a bit peeved. 'Who is this guy? A book full of questions?' Kai thought to himself.

Tyson looked around at the grey dull buildings around him. Then started to laugh pathetically. "I get it. This is a dream." Tyson started walking around in the circle of light and stopped in front of a building.

"I bet that this isn't real." Tyson said as he reached out his right arm to touch the wall. His arm passed right through the building as if it truly wasn't there. This still shocked Tyson even though he thinks that this is a dream.

Tyson walked away from the building and walked his way towards Kai. Tyson stopped in front of Kai and smiled looking straight into those red fiery eyes, which was glaring angrily at Tyson. 'What is this lunatic doing?' Kai asked himself.

"I bet you're not real either." Tyson said to Kai as he swung his arm and was either gonna slap Kai across the face or pass his hand through Kai's painted cheeks. Neither happened as Kai grabbed Tyson's wrist before it could go anywhere near his face.

"What do you think you're doing?" Kai growled in a threatening way as he clenched Tyson's wrist tighter causing the other boy to wince in pain. Hearing Tyson whimpering Kai dropped Tyson's arm and let the boy nurse his injured wrist. "Believe it or not, this is real! And you're stuck here till you fulfil your task!" Kai shouted at Tyson trying to get the message across.

Upon hearing Kai's words Tyson looked up. "What? What do you mean my task?"

"You have unfinished business that's why you're here." Kai said as he stepped away from Tyson. Being this close with another being unnerves him especially since he's been alone for such a long time and the only ones he's been in contact with were Boris, his little minions and those pesky angels.

"Unfinished business? With who? On what?" Tyson asked looking confused.

"How should I know? I still haven't figured out mine." Kai replied looking rather tired.

"Kai…how long have you been here?" Tyson asked with a curious, scared and brave face.

Kai noted Tyson's expressions. 'Is he scared to find out how long I've been here because he's afraid that he might be stuck here for as long as I have?' Kai thought studying Tyson's face.

"Two years. I've been stuck in this rotten place for two years!" Kai finally answered.

Tyson's eyes widened in horror. "That's…long." He said not knowing how else to respond. "But what about your family? Friends?"

Kai raised an eyebrow at the question. "What family? What friends?" He asked, he didn't even remember them. "If I ever had any they would have forgotten about me and moved on."

"Kai, you sound as if you're dead to them."

"I am." Kai answered in his straight monotone way.

Suddenly Tyson hit realisation. His faced contorted into a petrified look. "Where…what is this place." He breathed out.

"About time you asked." Kai's lips curled up into another smirk. "Welcome to limbo."

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AN: Well how was that? Just wondering, did you guys know that Tyson and Kai were dead? Anyway this was an interesting idea I came up with one night. I'm not sure how you guys will like it, so review and tell me. This story's not meant to be a Tyson story, sorry if it seemed like it but I wanted to introduce you to the story with Tyson seeing that he has no idea what's going on and neither do you guys. But this story's intended to be more on Kai! The others (as in the Rei, Max and even Kenny) will appear later on in the story.