Chapter III
The Bladebreakers headed down towards the park ready to start their training, much to the dislike of Tyson who would have much preferred to stay back at the hotel watching TV. They headed down and got themselves set up near a couple of dishes. Kai had Tyson go off and run laps around the park saying he needed the exercise to loose a few pounds, while Ray and Rain went up against each other in battle and Max had Kai show him some interesting attack moves.
"Alright Rain let's get this underway and see what you've got" spoke Ray as he pulled out Driger,
"Whatever you say Ray" she replied pulling out her own black blade and preparing to launch it,
"All right now lets go in 3...2...1...let it rip!" shouted Ray as he launched his grey blade into the dish closely followed by Rain's black one. The two blades circled around each other, each waiting for the right time to attack,
"Come on Driger!" shot Ray as his blade launched itself into the black one. On contact the two blades battled it out each hitting the other repeatedly causing sparks to fly.
'This is ridiculous' thought Rain seeing no challenge in Ray. Suddenly Rains blade flashed a deep blood red before a dark aurora formed around it, as well as lightly around Rain herself. As this happened her blade shot forwards with such incredible speed it was unbelievable, sending Driger from the dish within seconds, making her the winner. In the background where Kai was showing Max some new moves something odd suddenly happened, Kai's navy blue blade unexpectedly shot from the dish and over to where Rain's black blade was still spinning.
"Dranzer" Kai frowned wondering why his blade would suddenly shoot off like that without being given an order. The blue blade ran circles around the black till it stopped in the centre, without warning bright red lights shot up from around Kai's blade before a fierce screech was heard, and then the magnificent fire phoenix erupted from the bit chip in all his glory. Wings outstretched, neck arched, talons bared and long tail feathers trailing. The power and suddenness of his entrance sent Rain to the ground with a gasp of shock.
"Dranzer what are you doing?" shot Kai running over to the dish, not paying attention to his master Dranzer gave another wild call before lunging forwards. Rain's black blade was knocked from the dish where it landed on the ground with a clink, Dranzer continued forwards ignoring all around him, and still aiming right for Rain,
"Dranzer no, STOP!" yelled Kai as he ran forwards to place himself between the wild phoenix and Rain. Dranzer abruptly stopped mere centimetres from Kai, causing a wave of powerful energy to radiate across the park, like a fierce sheet of hot air. Kai glared cold-heartedly at the firebird till Dranzer pulled back and with another deafening shriek retreated to his blade, which then slowed to a stop.
"What in the world happened?" shouted a voice, Tyson came running over to see what was up, but the others still shocked didn't reply. Kai stepped forwards to retrieve his blade, which seemed warm to the touch. Rain was still on the ground looking shocked at what had taken place,
"So is someone going to tell me what happened?" asked Tyson trying again to get something out of the others,
"We honestly have no idea," said Ray
"Yeah well I was running laps like Kai had said, then suddenly theses red flashes of light started happening and then Dranzer came up out of nowhere, and he didn't seem to happy, it looked like he was about to attack something, though I couldn't see another bit beast there, then he kind of lunged forwards, and then the next thing I know I'm knocked off my feet by this sudden blast of energy going through the park" spoke Tyson hopping that that may get someone else speaking,
"Well me and Rain where battling and Kai was showing Max some moves, Rain beat me and then that's when Kai's blade shot over here, Dranzer appeared and shot straight for Rain, that's when Kai jumped in font causing Dranzer to stop, he then kind of just went back into his blade before it stopped spinning" explained Ray,
"Hey Rain are you alright?" asked Max as he helped her to her feet,
"Yeah fine, just a little shocked that's all" she replied as she retrieved her blade,
"I think we might forget training for now and head back, we might start up again later" spoke Kai,
"Sounds good with me" cheered Tyson, happy to be going back to the hotel.
'What got into you Dranzer?' Kai mentally asked his bit beast, but his only response was a wave of scorching heat, which caused him to jump slightly and place his blade back into his pocket,
'Does Dranzer know?' thought Rain 'Is that why he attacked me'
'I can't let anything like that happen again, if Dranzer knows he'll tell Kai and then I'm screwed'.
"Hey Kenny, do you have any explanation as to what happened?" asked Tyson looking over at the youngest of the group as they headed back,
"Sorry Tyson not a clue" was the reply.
The Bladebreakers didn't do much more for the nest of the day, though Kai did try and get them to train again later on in the afternoon but he didn't get much out of them, luckily nothing like what happened that morning repeated its self, so now the bladers were relaxing in their hotel room. Tyson watching TV, Max and Ray playing a card game, Kenny typing away on Dizzi, Black Dranzer no where in sight and Kai sitting in his room still trying to get an answer out of his bit beasts who was ignoring his master. The Bladebreakers soon headed off to bed, Black Dranzer came back soon before heading off to bed as well, their hotel room was soon quiet as the six teens slept.
Darkness clouded his mind...his thoughts, a swirling blackness which couldn't be escaped, a haunting shriek echoed through his head, shattering his sanity, and from the endless void of this tainted mind came forth a daunting figure. The shapeless form of a large bird swept through crying out in hatred, and soon another alike in all ways but colour flashed into view, as if challenging the creature of evil itself.
"What did you think you were doing!" hissed the larger of the two, its ebony black feathers shinning in the dark light,
"Showing you for what you truly are" snapped the crimson bird,
"How dare you," shrieked the creature of darkness, its voice making your blood run cold in your veins.
"You will pay for making such a foolish attack against me," it snarled again,
"Never, my master will quickly learn your plan" shot the crimson form, its bright red plumage shimmering in the darkness that clouded his thoughts.
"He will never suspect a thing, humans are such foolish creatures, he won't pick it up unless I yell it in his face"
"You're wrong, Black Dranzer!" hissed the smaller,
"You dare challenge me!" shrieked the black phoenix before lunging forwards.
Kai shivered in his sleep, even though he was starting to sweat, he clutched the sheet in his hands, and bit the bottom of his lip, as another jolt of icy coldness wracked his body. The slate haired teen tossed his head from side to side in an attempt to shake the images from his mind, their wild screeching ringing in his ears, "Dranzer no" he gasped.
The crimson phoenix was knocked to the ground, the larger black hovering overhead, she shrieked before diving forwards, the red bird moved to the side causing the black to miss. The two seemed to dance around one another as they sized each other up, their large feathered wings spread, necks arched and long tails flying. The phoenix of fire gave a wild call before driving forwards to attack the other, only she was much larger and more powerful, her strike slashed across the bird of fire causing him to cry out in pain, and he was once again knocked to the ground.
In one of the rooms Rain sat on the floor her back against the wall, she was dressed in her black singlet top and boxers with her legs drawn up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them, her long black hair fell around her face like a black cloak, while her blood red orbs started lifelessly across the room though a sly smirk seemed to spread across her face every once and awhile.
Kai winced in pain as he tried to hold back a soft scream, he squeezed his eyes shut and bit down on his lip again, hoping it to be enough to keep his strangled cry quiet, "No Black Dranzer, don't" he whispered.
In another of the rooms someone seemed to be awakening, his golden orbs glancing around the room wounding why he had awoken, when suddenly he snapped his head to the side as the thought he heard a sound, curious to know the Chinese teen pulled himself from bed to go see what was happening.
"You think you can defeat me" the bird of darkness snarled,
"No one can defeat me, for I am untouchable, impassable, I am darkness and I am evil herself!" hissed Black Dranzer as she shot straight for Dranzer who shrieked out in pain as the creature of darkness made contact.
"No, NO DRANZER!" Kai screamed, as he shot from his bed.
"What Kai?" gasped Ray as he now ran for Kai's room wounding why his leader would have screamed out in such a way.
The others all shot from their beds when Kai's dreaded screamed echoed through the hotel,
"Was that Kai" Max asked himself as he ran from his room,
"Kai!" Tyson shouted as he headed for the Russians room,
"What was that?" cried Kenny as he too got up,
"Kai are you alright, I heard you scream!" shouted Ray as he burst into Kai's room only to find his leader sitting up in bed covered in sweat but still seemingly shivering from the cold. He looked pale and worn, his slate coloured hair sticking to his face, the sheets still clutched in his hands, and his breathing ragged.
"Kai what happened" yelled Max as he to came into the room Tyson following soon after, they received no answer from Kai who was starting lifelessly down at his own hands, or Ray who was now kneeling down by the bed.
"What's up I heard someone scream," shrieked Kenny, becoming distort,
"Kai are you ok?" Ray softly asked, but got no answer.
"Dranzer" Kai whispered, his voice so soft it was as if he had only mouthed the words,
"Kai?" spoke Tyson stepping forwards to see what was wrong,
"Black Dranzer" Kai mouthed again, before he became woozy, a sudden coughing fit came about for a moment before it slowly subsided, Kai felt the bile rising in his stomach, so before anything else could happen he jumped from bed startling the others and ran for the bathroom, slamming the door behind him Kai threw-up into the toilet.
"Kai are you ok?" shouted the others as they now stood just outside the bathroom, not getting an answer Ray knocked on the door,
"Kai?" called Max, their only reply was the sounds of Kai throwing-up again.
Rain still sat in her room her arms still wrapped around her knees and a malicious smirk plastered across her face, the images of the final blow still playing through her mind in a most wondrous way,
"You have now paid for what you did Dranzer" she hissed.
Kai stood over the basin sink, staring at his reflection, he still looked pale and regarded the fact that he had had a restless night plainly clear.
"Dranzer" Kai cried softly, though no tears fell, he had forgotten how to cry long ago, the final image that had woken him up from his life-like nightmare now once again played through his head.
Dranzer had been knocked to the ground and Black Dranzer hovered dangerously above, dark energy pulsating around her, she shot straight for Dranzer, and the crimson phoenix shrieked out in pain as the creature of darkness made contact. Black Dranzer flew backwards to survey her handy work, what had once been a glorious and majestic phoenix was now nothing more than a ruffled pile of blood covered feathers, Dranzer lay dieing, blood soaking through his dark crimson feathers to spill onto the soft earth below, he couldn't move to defend himself so his only option was to lay lifelessly.
Kai choked back another sob before he began coughing again. Spitting out blood Kai watched as the deep red liquid tricked down the sides of the sink, Kai spat out another mouthful of blood as it continued to rise up from his throat causing him to choke and then bring on another coughing fit. Turning on the tap Kai splashed ice-cold water over his face and washed out his mouth before washing the blood down the sink.
"Kai are you alright?" asked Tyson again, the others desperate to know,
"Kai, what's wrong" shot Ray before opening the door finding that it wasn't locked, the four teens piled in, and silently watched as Kai lent over the sink, the cold water still gushing out of the tap, Kai coughed another few times before it seemed to cease, the slate haired teen splashed more water onto his face before he turned off the tap and pushed past the others heading for his room again,
"Kai?" spoke Tyson
"Leave him Tyson, he's exhausted, we can ask question in the morning, for now lets get back to sleep and hope he's going to be ok" spoke Ray before heading back to his room, Max and Kenny soon doing the same, Tyson stood outside of Kai's room contemplating wether or not he should go in to see if his team leader was ok or not, he soon decided that it was probably best to leave him be for now.
Knowing her work for tonight was done, Black Dranzer stood up and walked over to her bed where she then climb in, feeling very satisfied with herself. Hopefully tomorrow she would get a look at the first legendary beast so she would have an idea of what she was up against.
Yeah third chapter done, hope it wasn't too confusing, and don't worry Dranzer isn't really dead or dieing I just wrote it that way to explain what was going on in the scene. Please review.