(It was so cold and dark. Why were they punishing him this time? He had
done everything they had asked for so why were they making him suffer? He
didn't have an answer so he concentrated on trying to find a comfortable
position in the tiny room they had shut him in. After a little while he
groaned in frustration, it was impossible!!! The room was so small he
couldn't lie down, and it was too low for him to stand, he could only sit,
crouch, or stand hunched up. All were uncomfortable and caused cramping
after a while. The cramping getting worse until it got to a point were they
would come to let him out and he would be screaming with the pain. He had
only been at the abbey for two years and still had so much training to go
before he would be Biovolts perfect soldier. He had to conquer his pain
first. He could feel his muscles begin protesting as the minutes ticked by;
minutes he was denied knowing existed. The room gave no indication of time,
and in the dark he would become confused. He would also see things.
Things like the phoenix of his blade. The bitbeast had kept him sane so
far, he could feel the warm encouragement seeping through him as he thought
of the beautiful bird. His grandfather had said he was the perfect match to
this bitbeast, he didn't know how right he was. Kai and Dranzer had a very
strong bond; it was like Dranzer was part of his soul. They were one and
the same. Kai smiled in the dark and his bitbeast, his friend, his soul,
smiled with him. Dranzer always took some of the hurt, it was the only way
Kai could have survived the treatment he was forced to endure. He could
feel Dranzer flow through his veins. He could almost fell the phoenix's
fire at his fingertips, almost.
The door slid open and Kai cringed in pain the light caused his eyes. Hands
reached in and pulled Kai through. He struggled against them but they were
too strong. With resigned feet he walked as directed into a room he had not
been in before. Large tubes lined in a row ran along one side of the wall,
some where filled with an eerie green liquid. As he looked closed he saw
something that made him gasp. There were kids in the tubes with liquid in,
all of them were wired up and all appeared unconscious. The men pulled Kai
towards a tube with an open door. He struggled until one punched his head,
Kai went floppy but was still conscious and he could do nothing to prevent
what they were gonna do. They stopped in front of the tube and began
removing Kai's clothes till he was wearing only his boxer shorts. They then
pushed him in and began to stick wires into his skin, Kai could only cringe
and bite his lip as he felt the needle sharp wires pull at his skin. They
put a mask over his mouth and nose and shut the door. Kai began to panic as
fluid started rising from the bottom of the tank, he wanted to move, to get
away. Then he felt a strange feeling coming from the places with the
needles stuck in, it was like he couldn't move parts of his body and it was
spreading. The fluid had risen to his neck as he realised he could only
move his head; the rest of his body was paralysed. The fluid kept rising
until he was completely covered, his body floating a little way up from the
floor. He looked out at the people beyond his tube, their faces distorted
through the fluid, their voices muffled.
Then the pain struck. It was like fire had burst along his skin, burning
every nerve in his body, it was like lightning striking again and again. He
lifted his head and screamed against the mask. In a beyblade a phoenix
screamed with him.)
Kai sat up suddenly and regretted doing so as his stomach protested under the bandage. He looked around and found that he was alone in the living room. Some one had given him a blanket. He wished they could stop doing things for him, he felt bad as he couldn't do the same for them, they never needed him to help the way they helped him. He pushed away the blanket and realised he had been sweating in his sleep, that stupid dream! He got up and went to look for the others.
He found them in the garden. They looked to have had a picnic out here, the plates and sandwiches left were piled in a corner of a blanket, the rest of which was occupied by the others. They looked up as he approached.
"Looks like sleeping beauty has woken up, how you feeling buddy?" said Tyson
"I'm fine; I wish you wouldn't fuss over me. Um...thanks by the way...for everything." Kai murmured.
This surprised the team but they tried not to show it, Kai was embarrassed enough.
"Its fine Kai, but you really should go to hospital, your head needs stitches or it's gonna scar", said Ray.
"I'm not going Ray, I don't do hospitals", they brought up disturbing feelings just thinking about them, and the thought of needles made him want to vomit.
"Ah, Kai, you've gone a bit paler then normal, are you ok?" asked Max, his smile absent and replaced with a frown.
Kai snapped back to reality. "I'm fine, really", he answered.
"So Kai, are you going to tell us what happened? We would really like to know, who were those guys?" asked Hilary. She moved over a bit so Kai could sit down. He did so, with only a slight flinch at the pain it caused.
"Your right, I owe you an explanation. I wasn't...feeling up to training today, I had a bad night, I know Ray told you", at this everyone seemed to have something else more important to look at then Kai's mahogany orbs gleaming at them softly, "I went for a run, I wasn't intending to go to my grandfathers house but I landed up there anyway. When I was there I made the decision to go in, I didn't think my grandfather would be back there".
"That's when we found you on the wall right?" asked Kenny.
"If you want to put it that way then yes" Kai sighed before carrying on, "anyway, my grandfather was back, I met him in the hall".
As she didn't know, Hilary had to ask "which one was your grandfather?"
"He was the grey haired man on the stairs, his name is Voltaire". Replied Kai, "he knows that I still have Black Dranzer, don't sound surprised", everyone had gasped at the news; all accept Hilary as she didn't know the whole story. "We'll have to tell after" thought Ray.
"He wants Black Dranzer back, as well as me. We have been his greatest work so far and since his little plans failed because of what happened in Russia, he has nothing left. He wants us back and even after today he won't stop till he has us. He will go through you if necessary and I will not allow that. Too many people have been hurt because of me".
No one understood the last part but before any one could ask Kai continued.
"I wouldn't join him willingly so he called his goons on me. I fought back so they got off worse then I did, it doesn't matter if they rough me up so long as i'm alive to carry out my grandfathers orders. You came in and distracted them, and you know the rest".
Everyone was silent for a while; there was nothing they could say.
"Um Kai, do you want something to eat, please don't say no, you haven't eaten much lately and you really should", said Tyson. As an answer Kai picked up a sandwich and began chewing slowly. This seemed to satisfy the others. When he was done he excused himself. The others wanted to hear more, but he really needed to be alone, sort of. He rounded the corner and started walking to the training room, he needed to get some more clothes on, he was making Hilary nervous, even if she tried to hide it.
When he was changed from extra clothes he had in his bag by his bed, he went back outside; avoiding the others he left the gardens and started walking to the park. He could be alone, have time to think. His walking was much more subdued compared to his running earlier. He needed to train more; he was letting himself get soft. He was losing the physical fitness he had gained in his childhood and it seemed such a waste. He would start tomorrow, he could use the others lack of fitness to get them to the gym. He reached the park and found a grassy hill to sit on, facing the sunset. He sat down and reached into his pocket. He pulled out Dranzer and looked at the bit chip with Dranzer's image on it. His friend, through thick and thin, no matter what. The part of him that could fly and imitate the sunrise. Sunset was nice, but there was something about the sunrise that held Kai, the beauty of a new day. Kai was always up to see the sunrise, something that was denied him when he was at the abbey, one of the things. Dranzer glowed in his hand, understanding flowed between them. The phoenix was like the sunrise, it would always be reborn in a blazing glory, the sun everyday, the phoenix when he needed it.
Kai pulled into his other pocket and drew out the bit chip of Black Dranzer. He was connected to this one too, but it was so different. As Dranzer was the sunrise, Black Dranzer was a sunset, something Kai made an effort to see as well. Like a sunset, Black Dranzer went in a blazing glory, like Dranzer. But the similarities ended there. Black Dranzer meant the end of the day to the night, no new beginnings for anything it contacted with.
In a way they were like birth and death, Kai would rather have not had the death part but it was a part of life, they were so interconnected, Kai was the life in the middle. At least Black Dranzer was safe with him; no harm would come to anything so long as he held on to the power the bitbeast had. If anything could cause the sun to rise and set for him, it was the power the two phoenixes had. Dranzer was the one Kai loved through choose though, and that's what counted, Dranzer felt the same. Dranzer is his heart. On that hill, the three did one of the most important things they could together; they watched the sunset, together.
Kai was complete for those brief momements.
Kai sat up suddenly and regretted doing so as his stomach protested under the bandage. He looked around and found that he was alone in the living room. Some one had given him a blanket. He wished they could stop doing things for him, he felt bad as he couldn't do the same for them, they never needed him to help the way they helped him. He pushed away the blanket and realised he had been sweating in his sleep, that stupid dream! He got up and went to look for the others.
He found them in the garden. They looked to have had a picnic out here, the plates and sandwiches left were piled in a corner of a blanket, the rest of which was occupied by the others. They looked up as he approached.
"Looks like sleeping beauty has woken up, how you feeling buddy?" said Tyson
"I'm fine; I wish you wouldn't fuss over me. Um...thanks by the way...for everything." Kai murmured.
This surprised the team but they tried not to show it, Kai was embarrassed enough.
"Its fine Kai, but you really should go to hospital, your head needs stitches or it's gonna scar", said Ray.
"I'm not going Ray, I don't do hospitals", they brought up disturbing feelings just thinking about them, and the thought of needles made him want to vomit.
"Ah, Kai, you've gone a bit paler then normal, are you ok?" asked Max, his smile absent and replaced with a frown.
Kai snapped back to reality. "I'm fine, really", he answered.
"So Kai, are you going to tell us what happened? We would really like to know, who were those guys?" asked Hilary. She moved over a bit so Kai could sit down. He did so, with only a slight flinch at the pain it caused.
"Your right, I owe you an explanation. I wasn't...feeling up to training today, I had a bad night, I know Ray told you", at this everyone seemed to have something else more important to look at then Kai's mahogany orbs gleaming at them softly, "I went for a run, I wasn't intending to go to my grandfathers house but I landed up there anyway. When I was there I made the decision to go in, I didn't think my grandfather would be back there".
"That's when we found you on the wall right?" asked Kenny.
"If you want to put it that way then yes" Kai sighed before carrying on, "anyway, my grandfather was back, I met him in the hall".
As she didn't know, Hilary had to ask "which one was your grandfather?"
"He was the grey haired man on the stairs, his name is Voltaire". Replied Kai, "he knows that I still have Black Dranzer, don't sound surprised", everyone had gasped at the news; all accept Hilary as she didn't know the whole story. "We'll have to tell after" thought Ray.
"He wants Black Dranzer back, as well as me. We have been his greatest work so far and since his little plans failed because of what happened in Russia, he has nothing left. He wants us back and even after today he won't stop till he has us. He will go through you if necessary and I will not allow that. Too many people have been hurt because of me".
No one understood the last part but before any one could ask Kai continued.
"I wouldn't join him willingly so he called his goons on me. I fought back so they got off worse then I did, it doesn't matter if they rough me up so long as i'm alive to carry out my grandfathers orders. You came in and distracted them, and you know the rest".
Everyone was silent for a while; there was nothing they could say.
"Um Kai, do you want something to eat, please don't say no, you haven't eaten much lately and you really should", said Tyson. As an answer Kai picked up a sandwich and began chewing slowly. This seemed to satisfy the others. When he was done he excused himself. The others wanted to hear more, but he really needed to be alone, sort of. He rounded the corner and started walking to the training room, he needed to get some more clothes on, he was making Hilary nervous, even if she tried to hide it.
When he was changed from extra clothes he had in his bag by his bed, he went back outside; avoiding the others he left the gardens and started walking to the park. He could be alone, have time to think. His walking was much more subdued compared to his running earlier. He needed to train more; he was letting himself get soft. He was losing the physical fitness he had gained in his childhood and it seemed such a waste. He would start tomorrow, he could use the others lack of fitness to get them to the gym. He reached the park and found a grassy hill to sit on, facing the sunset. He sat down and reached into his pocket. He pulled out Dranzer and looked at the bit chip with Dranzer's image on it. His friend, through thick and thin, no matter what. The part of him that could fly and imitate the sunrise. Sunset was nice, but there was something about the sunrise that held Kai, the beauty of a new day. Kai was always up to see the sunrise, something that was denied him when he was at the abbey, one of the things. Dranzer glowed in his hand, understanding flowed between them. The phoenix was like the sunrise, it would always be reborn in a blazing glory, the sun everyday, the phoenix when he needed it.
Kai pulled into his other pocket and drew out the bit chip of Black Dranzer. He was connected to this one too, but it was so different. As Dranzer was the sunrise, Black Dranzer was a sunset, something Kai made an effort to see as well. Like a sunset, Black Dranzer went in a blazing glory, like Dranzer. But the similarities ended there. Black Dranzer meant the end of the day to the night, no new beginnings for anything it contacted with.
In a way they were like birth and death, Kai would rather have not had the death part but it was a part of life, they were so interconnected, Kai was the life in the middle. At least Black Dranzer was safe with him; no harm would come to anything so long as he held on to the power the bitbeast had. If anything could cause the sun to rise and set for him, it was the power the two phoenixes had. Dranzer was the one Kai loved through choose though, and that's what counted, Dranzer felt the same. Dranzer is his heart. On that hill, the three did one of the most important things they could together; they watched the sunset, together.
Kai was complete for those brief momements.