This is it I'm afraid. The last – final – chapter. I wasn't planning this to be a very long story, because I didn't know if people would like it. But since it seems that I have readers, that enjoy this, I'm going to make a sequel. Read and review to tell me, what you think of this. All the reviews I've gotten so far have meant the world to me. I love you all! You have made life worth living for me. Most importantly, you have made me feel appreciated.

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This had to end eventually, let's not avoid that. On with the story...

Chapter 10: The day of reckoning

Anya was sitting beside Kai's bed, watching him with worried eyes. The room was empty as everyone else was asleep, but Anya couldn't sleep. Flashes of her life in the abbey were going through her mind. She could almost feel the slashes of the whip, that had hit her before. Tears dropped from her eyes and she couldn't stop them from coming anymore. The dam had broken. Tears ran down her face wildly and uncontrollably. She reached her hand to Kai's hair and let it go through it slowly. She felt so sorry for him. She thought that, when she left the abbey, she would never have to see someone else or feel herself be treated this way. At that moment pure rage and fury started bubbling inside of her. She could never have a life, as long as Boris was after them. She shot up in anger from her chair, knocking it down by accident.

Kai woke up and looked at her.

"Where am I?" he mumbled.

"You're at the hospital. We brought you and Hilary here from that warehouse, where Boris kept you," Anya answered.

"I guess I owe you one," Kai replied weakly.

"Nah... Don't worry about it," Anya said, falling silent.

"What's wrong?" Kai asked, gazing to her eyes, as he noticed she had been crying.

"Kai, I have to do something. Please don't try to stop me," she said suddenly.

"What is it?" Kai asked, looking deeply concerned.

"I'm going to go after Boris," Anya stated.

"No, don't do it. He'll kill you," Kai said, horrified.

"I have to take that risk. We can't ever live without looking over our shoulders to see, when he plans on attacking next. I don't want to live my life like that," Anya said, as tears started falling from her eyes again.

"We'll figure out another way," Kai said.

"There is no other way and you know it, deep down in your heart like I do," Anya stated. "I'm sorry."

She leaned down and pulled him into a sweet, passionate kiss. After a few moments she broke away, even though Kai tried to stop her.

"Goodbye," she said and left the room.

"No Anya! Don't!" Kai tried yelling after her but his voice was too weak.

Kai couldn't sleep. All he could think about was how Anya was risking her life at that very moment. He tried calling for someone but his voice didn't carry out very far. At some point of the night he heard steps from the corridor, outside his room. Kira appeared into the room and went over to Kai.

"I see you are awake," she said.

"Anya is gone," Kai stated.

"What?" Kira said, looking confused.

"She went after Boris," Kai said.

"Are you losing it?" Kira asked. "Why would she do that?"

"It doesn't matter," Kai stated. "The point is we have to go after her."

"Okay, I get it," she replied. "Can you get up?"

"I think so, although it might hurt," he said.

"I'll go wake up the others and we'll come back here to get you," she said. "Try to get dressed."

"Sure," Kai agreed, noticing he didn't have his own clothes on.

"I went shopping earlier, to find you some clothes to wear. Hope you like them," Kira said, pointing to a pile of clothes.

"Alright. Leave," Kai said, getting his usual icy tone back.

"Fine then," Kira said, in a voice that was almost as icy as Kai's and left the room.

In the Hiwatari jet:

"Why is she so goddamn reckless!" Tyson raged. "Why do we have to save her butt?"

"Hey!" Kira cut in. "Are you looking to find yourself on the floor of this jet?"

"Like a puny girl like you is going to put me there!" Tyson shouted.

Tyson was actually quite right. Kira was petite but she was VERY flexible and agile.

"I hate when people call me puny!" Kira stated. "And I hate when people insult my friends."

With a few handy moves Tyson was on the floor of the jet. Luckily for him, Rei and Max caught Kira before she continued.

"Remember this you puny little brat, when you decide to go and mess with a person, who has a black belt in judo and karate!" she snapped, spitting the words out at him.

Kai was grinning at the whole thing from his seat.

"What are you smiling at!" Kira snapped as Max and Rei let her loose.

"Nothing. It's just fun to see some good entertainment.", he said and smirked.

Kira smiled too.

Meanwhile with Anya...

She was staring at the abbey. This is it, she thought. No turning back now. She sneaked into the abbey and started her search. Hatred flowing through her veins the entire time. She noticed the cameras all over the place and started smashing them to pieces. She walked through the abbey, destroying everything in her path. As she was going deeper to the abbey, she felt this strong pull and urge, that kept her going. She couldn't turn around. There was something else besides her desire for revenge, that lured her deeper. Then suddenly she heard a familiar voice...

"Miss Saigon. So nice of you to drop by."

Anya looked around confused. It had been a long time since someone had called her by that name. She looked for the source of the voice and found a speaker on the ceiling above her.

"I see that you seem confused," the voice from the speaker said.

"Stop toying with me Boris. You know what I want," Anya stated.

"But of course. I know everything about you," Boris said.

"Actually you don't," Anya replied and smashed the speaker.

Back to the Bladebreakers along with Hilary and Kira...

"We are going to the abbey?" Max asked in disbelief.

"That is where we'll most probably find Anya and Boris for that matter," Kira said.

"Kai are you sure you are able to keep your head together and not listen to Boris?" asked Max.

"I'm surprised your doubting me," Kai said in his usual icy tone.

"Okay, let's try to keep calm," Kira said.

"I recall someone losing it in the jet," Tyson pointed sarcasticly.

"Well I wasn't the one to start that whole thing was I, you immature brat!" Kira snapped.

"Hey, Kira is right. We have to keep this together," Rei said, stepping between Kira and Tyson, who looked like they wanted to murder each other.

They started heading for the abbey.

At the abbey...

"I know you're here Boris, so stop playing a coward and come face-to-face with me," Anya demanded.

She walked a little further, when Boris appeared around the corner to the corridor.

"You have some nerve treating people like trash!" Anya exclaimed in anger.

"You have just as much nerve to show your face here. I could have easily killed you, but I have an offer," Boris said.

"What might you be able to offer me, that I already don't have?" Anya snarled.

"Come with me and I'll show you," Boris answered.

Anya didn't know what went over her, but she followed Boris to the elevator, that took them to the top floor of the abbey.

"This is our laboratory, where we develop new technology for beyblading. If you join us there will be nothing that you can't do. When we combine your powerful bitbeast and our technology we will be invincible," Boris stated.

"You mean I could do anything?" Anya asked.

"Yes. There would be no limits to your power," Boris confirmed.

"What would you get from that?" Anya asked suspiciously.

"You would use that power to fight for me," Boris said.

"I would hurt people?" Anya replied.

"Don't think of it as hurting, think of it as relieving them from the misery of life," Boris explained.

This was what made something snap inside Anya's mind.

"You mean like you tried to relieve Kai from the misery of his life! I will never work for you Boris! Never!" she yelled at him. "You don't even seem to have a slightest clue of what you have done to many people's lives, including Kai's, Kira's and mine!"

"Calm down you stupid cow!" Boris shouted at her.

"You have no right to speak to me that way! Remember, what goes around, comes around!" she yelled back as she got her blade ready, so she could launch it.

For a moment everything was quiet, then Anya launched her blade at Boris. It missed and in so doing it hit some sort of monitor, smashing it and sending sparks flying. This created a chain reaction in which the sparks flew into a barrel full of kerosene, lighting it on fire. Anya moved away quickly, knocking the whole thing down. The flaming kerosene lighted quickly everything it touched on fire, including the wall-to-wall carpet in the corridor, outside the lab. Anya moved quickly, before the flames covered the doorway. She was heading for it, when Boris grabbed her foot and she fell over. She noticed his leg was hurt and that he couldn't get up.

"Let go of my foot you sick freak!" she screeched.

"If I'm going down, you're coming with me," Boris snarled.

Anya managed to kick free and get out the door. Both ends of the corridor were sealed. She launched her blade again, but it didn't have any effect on the glass. She was starting to panic silently. She went into the other room on the corridor, as the flames closed up on her.

Outside the abbey was flaming and people came running out. It was very windy and the flames raged with the wind, as it provoked the fire. The Bladebreakers, Hilary and Kira could see the smoke rising up as a big statue.

"Oh no!" Hilary winced.

"I hope Anya isn't in there," Kira said.

They all rushed into the crowd that was surrounding the abbey. They went as near to the abbey, as it was safe. Kai glared at it, disgusted. Then the appearance of his face changed as he saw something. In a matter of seconds he went completely white, the color drained from his face. He just stood there looking up. Rei followed his look to a window in the top floor and saw something that made him gasp for air. Suddenly Kai rushed towards the burning building, but Rei grabbed him.

"Kai, it's suicide to go in!" he shouted.

Kai tried to make him let go but Max was holding him too now.

He stared at the window, where he saw a redhaired girl looking down at him, sorrow reflecting from her clear green eyes. She opened the window and threw something out. Kira jumped forward and caught a beyblade, which contained the most powerful bitbeast she knew – Dremix. She looked at Kai, who was looking up in shock. The inside of him was screaming like hell. He saw the girl form a word with her mouth...

"Do svidaniya."

After that she was gone from the window and flames burst out. Kai felt the cold wind, as it had never felt so cold before. A single tear fell, as it started snowing slowly. Once again the only question in his mind, as he stood there solely, was why. The question it all had started from and where it all once ended...

R&R

Yours Truly: Moonlight Kitten