Damn I'm good!
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The group sat round the table, not knowing what to do. No-one talked as they sat in their own frustrated thoughts. Finally Tyson snapped.
"We can't just sit here!" he said loudly as he got up suddenly, his chair falling backwards behind him.
"Calm down Tyson! You're not the only one who can't stand this. Unfortunately we've done everything we can think of and still haven't got anywhere!" said a now slightly hysterical Hilary.
Ray gave a sigh, it had been like this on and off for a while now. "Hil's right T, we can't do anything else. We've told Mr. Dickenson and the police, we've looked everywhere we can think of, we've waited, and we can't track him because he left Dranzer behind!"
"How do you know he left it? If he was kidnapped he might not have had a choice!" said Hilary, tears formed in her eyes and threatened to spill.
"Calm down! There was no forced entry so Kai left, no-one came to get him, there would be evidence, besides, we all had that dream." Rationalised Max as he put his arms on Hilary's shoulder supportively.
"Any luck reading the book chief?" asked Tyson, who had also calmed down a bit now the silence was broken.
"No, whoever wrote it, and we are assuming Kai did, was very clever. They've written each sentence in a mixture of languages. It's like code. Only the person who wrote it would be able to read such a thing. I can pick out some words but the subtleties that come with each language would need to be used expertly here, and they have been. I can't figure out any of it!"
The others sat back down in silence.
"Maybe we should go check Kai's stuff, we need some serious clues here" suggested Ray, the others agreed. Something was nagging them at the back of their minds; they just couldn't figure it out.
They got in the room to find Dranzer glowing, the phoenix's panic was now clear in everyone's mind. Ray picked up the beyblade. Then everyone gasped in unison, the nagging feeling was now clear. They knew where Kai was, and they legged it.
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Kai bellowed as he felt the needle pierce his skin. Ice cold fluid was forced in and started to pound in his veins. He could feel it spread through his body as it followed his blood. He slumped forward against his restraints and groaned as he began to lose control of his arms and his legs. He closed his eyes and cringed as Boris laughed his trademark disturbing laugh.
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The team ran all the way to Mr. Dickenson's office. They ignored the receptionist at the front desk and hurtled up the stairs.
"Why (pant) does Mr (pant) D work so (pant) high up the building!" moaned Tyson.
They burst through the door to the office and landed in a heap on the floor. Four startled faces stared at them as they detangled themselves.
"What's going on?" demanded Mr. Dickenson.
"We, hold on," Tyson said as he took a deep breath, "we know where Kai is!"
"What? Tell us!" said Tyson's dad
"He's at Voltaire's mansion!"
"How did you find this out?"
"Sounds strange but Dranzer told us" said Kenny.
Then they realised that apart from Mr. Dickenson, and Tyson's dad and grandpa, the police chief was there.
"I'll get a squad down there, but it might take a while. They don't understand beyblade as much as they should and might think me a bit eccentric."
"Do what you can, we will understand."
"Thank you" and with that he left the room.
"Right Bladebreakers lets go!"
They all left the room quickly.
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"So Kai, how do you feel?" said the creepy voice that was Boris.
"What did you put in me?" Kai whispered. It was all he could do, anything louder was too much effort, he physically couldn't do it.
"A new serum. You won't be able much, but you will a little bit. I want to see you squirm!"
"How did you get so twisted?"
"Good luck I suppose!"
Kai could only grimace at Boris's grin. He hadn't expected Voltaire to go this far, not again. Last time Kai was at Boris's complete control, Kai had withdrawn so far into himself he had been put on drugs so Biovolt could use him again. He shuddered.
"Remembering Kai?"
"Piss off!" the whispering didn't help the situation; it just made it funnier for Boris.
"The great Kai, reduced to this! The amount of times I got into trouble because of you! Payback is in order."
What was this? Was Kai supposedly to blame for everything that went wrong at the abbey? That's right, he thought, blame everyone but yourselves.
Boris pressed something at the back of the surface Kai was strapped to. It opened the restraints and Kai fell heavily on the floor. He lay there, enjoying the coolness from the floor.
"Try and get up!" ordered Boris. When Kai didn't move, Boris kicked him.
Kai rolled a little way across the floor, passed the lights. The drug prevented him from moving much, and he wanted this to be dragged out as much as possible. He needed a chance to escape. Boris kicked him again and this time a wall prevented him from going any further. In the dark, with his ear to the floor, Kai heard noises travelling through the floor. He heard shouts and banging's. Then he smiled, the familiar cries of his friends rang clear through the floor. They had come for him.
His smile quickly faded as Boris grabbed his T-shirt and pulled him up against the wall. With a sneer Boris punched him in the abdomen. Kai curled up as much as he could but the drug and gravity prevented it. He had to beat this drug, he had to get away. The only thoughts in Kai's head where of escaping the hands that now held him.
Kai could feel Boris's free hand pulling at his belt. Kai struggled more, getting stronger with each passing moment. Boris seemed to not notice. With the belt off, Kai's baggy trousers sat low on his thin hips. His struggles distracted Boris, who held on to Kai's T-shirt with both hands. Kai could feel the material rip. He could feel his anger rising, boiling in his blood where the serum had frozen before.
"Get off me!" Kai hissed. The whispering was gone now, and Kai felt the power in his voice.
It was enough to stop Boris. While he was surprised, Kai kicked out. His knee connected with something and Boris cried out as he fell to the floor. Kai ran forward. He was half way across the room, something gripped his legs and he went down. Boris wasn't going out without a fight! The rolled across the floor, Boris gaining the upper hand as Kai was still weak from the drug.
Kai could feel himself losing, he felt despair well up from deep inside of him. Boris held Kai's arms above his head and put his face close to the pale teens own.
"I like a struggle Kai! Your little friend Tadashi didn't struggle half as much!"
Kai paused; time seemed to slow around him. Tadashi? No, he couldn't of. Then the anger replaced the despair as Kai thought of what Boris had done. Then he could feel something, something very familiar. The piercing Cry of the phoenix filled Kai through every nerve and vessel. Dranzer was here, and so was Tori.
Boris gasped at the fire that seemed to grow in Kai's eyes. The mahogany burned and twined with blue, the eyes glowed in the darkness. Boris staggered up and backed away.
"Wha......what's happening!" he said to himself.
Kai stood up slowly. His head low.
"It ends now Boris, Biovolt is no more from today, I promised myself and others that I would finish you, and I will never break a promise!"
Kai's head snapped up to face the ceiling, he stood strong and confident, his fists clenched, his arms bent at the elbow. With a deep breath he cried out, and it was answered and matched with the phoenixes cry. Red flames sprung up from the ground and enveloped Kai.
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In a hallway underground the Hiwatari mansion, a group of teens and a father of one ran through, searching for Kai. They stopped at a large metal door that took up the end of the corridor.
"Hey!" yelled ray suddenly. He pulled Kai's beyblade out of his pocket.
"What's wrong Ray?"
"It started to burn in my pocket!"
The beyblade erupted in a red glow, a red ball seemed to fly out of the beyblade and through the door they were standing by.
When the team looked at the beyblade again, Dranzer's picture was gone.
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The flames burst outwards and faded. Standing in the centre of them was Kai. But now Kai had Dranzer, and the two were together. Red wings seemed to grow from Kai's own back; his eyes blazed with red and blue fire, a feathery tail flowed to the ground. His hair streaked with red, and Boris swore he could almost see the bitbeasts beaked head at certain angles, over Kai's own human face.
"Now you pay for your crimes!" came a voice that was Kai's and someone else's.
Boris had never known true fear, until now.
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The group sat round the table, not knowing what to do. No-one talked as they sat in their own frustrated thoughts. Finally Tyson snapped.
"We can't just sit here!" he said loudly as he got up suddenly, his chair falling backwards behind him.
"Calm down Tyson! You're not the only one who can't stand this. Unfortunately we've done everything we can think of and still haven't got anywhere!" said a now slightly hysterical Hilary.
Ray gave a sigh, it had been like this on and off for a while now. "Hil's right T, we can't do anything else. We've told Mr. Dickenson and the police, we've looked everywhere we can think of, we've waited, and we can't track him because he left Dranzer behind!"
"How do you know he left it? If he was kidnapped he might not have had a choice!" said Hilary, tears formed in her eyes and threatened to spill.
"Calm down! There was no forced entry so Kai left, no-one came to get him, there would be evidence, besides, we all had that dream." Rationalised Max as he put his arms on Hilary's shoulder supportively.
"Any luck reading the book chief?" asked Tyson, who had also calmed down a bit now the silence was broken.
"No, whoever wrote it, and we are assuming Kai did, was very clever. They've written each sentence in a mixture of languages. It's like code. Only the person who wrote it would be able to read such a thing. I can pick out some words but the subtleties that come with each language would need to be used expertly here, and they have been. I can't figure out any of it!"
The others sat back down in silence.
"Maybe we should go check Kai's stuff, we need some serious clues here" suggested Ray, the others agreed. Something was nagging them at the back of their minds; they just couldn't figure it out.
They got in the room to find Dranzer glowing, the phoenix's panic was now clear in everyone's mind. Ray picked up the beyblade. Then everyone gasped in unison, the nagging feeling was now clear. They knew where Kai was, and they legged it.
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Kai bellowed as he felt the needle pierce his skin. Ice cold fluid was forced in and started to pound in his veins. He could feel it spread through his body as it followed his blood. He slumped forward against his restraints and groaned as he began to lose control of his arms and his legs. He closed his eyes and cringed as Boris laughed his trademark disturbing laugh.
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The team ran all the way to Mr. Dickenson's office. They ignored the receptionist at the front desk and hurtled up the stairs.
"Why (pant) does Mr (pant) D work so (pant) high up the building!" moaned Tyson.
They burst through the door to the office and landed in a heap on the floor. Four startled faces stared at them as they detangled themselves.
"What's going on?" demanded Mr. Dickenson.
"We, hold on," Tyson said as he took a deep breath, "we know where Kai is!"
"What? Tell us!" said Tyson's dad
"He's at Voltaire's mansion!"
"How did you find this out?"
"Sounds strange but Dranzer told us" said Kenny.
Then they realised that apart from Mr. Dickenson, and Tyson's dad and grandpa, the police chief was there.
"I'll get a squad down there, but it might take a while. They don't understand beyblade as much as they should and might think me a bit eccentric."
"Do what you can, we will understand."
"Thank you" and with that he left the room.
"Right Bladebreakers lets go!"
They all left the room quickly.
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"So Kai, how do you feel?" said the creepy voice that was Boris.
"What did you put in me?" Kai whispered. It was all he could do, anything louder was too much effort, he physically couldn't do it.
"A new serum. You won't be able much, but you will a little bit. I want to see you squirm!"
"How did you get so twisted?"
"Good luck I suppose!"
Kai could only grimace at Boris's grin. He hadn't expected Voltaire to go this far, not again. Last time Kai was at Boris's complete control, Kai had withdrawn so far into himself he had been put on drugs so Biovolt could use him again. He shuddered.
"Remembering Kai?"
"Piss off!" the whispering didn't help the situation; it just made it funnier for Boris.
"The great Kai, reduced to this! The amount of times I got into trouble because of you! Payback is in order."
What was this? Was Kai supposedly to blame for everything that went wrong at the abbey? That's right, he thought, blame everyone but yourselves.
Boris pressed something at the back of the surface Kai was strapped to. It opened the restraints and Kai fell heavily on the floor. He lay there, enjoying the coolness from the floor.
"Try and get up!" ordered Boris. When Kai didn't move, Boris kicked him.
Kai rolled a little way across the floor, passed the lights. The drug prevented him from moving much, and he wanted this to be dragged out as much as possible. He needed a chance to escape. Boris kicked him again and this time a wall prevented him from going any further. In the dark, with his ear to the floor, Kai heard noises travelling through the floor. He heard shouts and banging's. Then he smiled, the familiar cries of his friends rang clear through the floor. They had come for him.
His smile quickly faded as Boris grabbed his T-shirt and pulled him up against the wall. With a sneer Boris punched him in the abdomen. Kai curled up as much as he could but the drug and gravity prevented it. He had to beat this drug, he had to get away. The only thoughts in Kai's head where of escaping the hands that now held him.
Kai could feel Boris's free hand pulling at his belt. Kai struggled more, getting stronger with each passing moment. Boris seemed to not notice. With the belt off, Kai's baggy trousers sat low on his thin hips. His struggles distracted Boris, who held on to Kai's T-shirt with both hands. Kai could feel the material rip. He could feel his anger rising, boiling in his blood where the serum had frozen before.
"Get off me!" Kai hissed. The whispering was gone now, and Kai felt the power in his voice.
It was enough to stop Boris. While he was surprised, Kai kicked out. His knee connected with something and Boris cried out as he fell to the floor. Kai ran forward. He was half way across the room, something gripped his legs and he went down. Boris wasn't going out without a fight! The rolled across the floor, Boris gaining the upper hand as Kai was still weak from the drug.
Kai could feel himself losing, he felt despair well up from deep inside of him. Boris held Kai's arms above his head and put his face close to the pale teens own.
"I like a struggle Kai! Your little friend Tadashi didn't struggle half as much!"
Kai paused; time seemed to slow around him. Tadashi? No, he couldn't of. Then the anger replaced the despair as Kai thought of what Boris had done. Then he could feel something, something very familiar. The piercing Cry of the phoenix filled Kai through every nerve and vessel. Dranzer was here, and so was Tori.
Boris gasped at the fire that seemed to grow in Kai's eyes. The mahogany burned and twined with blue, the eyes glowed in the darkness. Boris staggered up and backed away.
"Wha......what's happening!" he said to himself.
Kai stood up slowly. His head low.
"It ends now Boris, Biovolt is no more from today, I promised myself and others that I would finish you, and I will never break a promise!"
Kai's head snapped up to face the ceiling, he stood strong and confident, his fists clenched, his arms bent at the elbow. With a deep breath he cried out, and it was answered and matched with the phoenixes cry. Red flames sprung up from the ground and enveloped Kai.
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In a hallway underground the Hiwatari mansion, a group of teens and a father of one ran through, searching for Kai. They stopped at a large metal door that took up the end of the corridor.
"Hey!" yelled ray suddenly. He pulled Kai's beyblade out of his pocket.
"What's wrong Ray?"
"It started to burn in my pocket!"
The beyblade erupted in a red glow, a red ball seemed to fly out of the beyblade and through the door they were standing by.
When the team looked at the beyblade again, Dranzer's picture was gone.
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The flames burst outwards and faded. Standing in the centre of them was Kai. But now Kai had Dranzer, and the two were together. Red wings seemed to grow from Kai's own back; his eyes blazed with red and blue fire, a feathery tail flowed to the ground. His hair streaked with red, and Boris swore he could almost see the bitbeasts beaked head at certain angles, over Kai's own human face.
"Now you pay for your crimes!" came a voice that was Kai's and someone else's.
Boris had never known true fear, until now.