Hey all! I'll continue to read the stories you've asked me to, I promise!
Gundam Wing? That's like my most favourite anime, ever! I love it so much, my friends get a little tired of my slight obsession with it, but I can't help it! Duo rules! I am so chuffed it reminds you of it! Of course you can print off the poem for whatever reason, I hope it works.
I read in a book a little phrase that makes me think about destiny. It said that when you come across a fork in the road it is your decision which one you take, destiny happens after your choice. It made me think a lot about it, because I like the thought of being able to be in charge of my destiny, but also having that element of no control and surprise. Spices things up! I've never heard of Furuba, I'll look out for it! The number of OC in the sequel is yet to be decided! There will be a fair few, and they will be based on real people.
I think this may be the second to last chapter till the sequel!
Voltaire left Leon in charge because this is what Leon's been training for, to take over if Voltaire was unable to carry on. Boris has been, and always will be, the henchman, second at hand. Boris keeps things running smoothly but isn't leader material. The bitbeasts wouldn't control Kai in the way that they would take over to be in control. It's more like Kai's will would become theirs, they wouldn't take it, Kai would slowly become more animal. Sorry I couldn't get this done for your birthday, I wanted to but couldn't! I hope you had a great time!
Weird is good, love the weird.
If the owners of beyblade wanted this story as a movie, then id let them, but I don't think they will somehow! It would be great though............
Ray doesn't mean to sound self centred, he doesn't know how much trouble Kai is in! The poem was almost a song to me, but I can't seem to write lyrics that have a tune! They just stay like a poem! But thank you, I'm glad it was a song to some!
Egyptian gods are cool, especially Anubis! I'll try and review again!
Forgive and forget? Could you forgive and forget if this happened to you? I certainly couldn't, and it's like Kai has religion or anything to build a moral backbone with in that sense. They have done to Kai the worst possible thing they could have, how can he forgive? And Kai never wants to forget anything ever again; he's only just got his memories back! I'm trying to update when I can, it's hard when I've got uni and work at the moment, I'm having to sneak in some time to write bits of the chapters when I can. I'm sorry it's not more but it's the best I can do.
Of course you can print the story and keep it! It's a lot of paper though! I'm honoured you want to!
It's good you all don't hate Tadashi, she's not all bad, and she will do anything for Kai. Kai won't trust his friends or family anymore, but as for strangers that offer a hand and know something of what he's been through, he may find some trust. You'll be human! What kind of bitbeast do you want? You've got to update! I miss reading your story!
I like it when all your emotions are fresh as you read it!
Wow, I can hope to write all those novels! When I write my first one I hope people will know it's mine and read it! Thank you.
Thanks! Linkin Park again! You two are so mad! Keep it up!
I think you did make it to the one thousand mark!
Love you all! I really am sorry I'm not updating as often as id like, but I will still update when I can!
The mist filled the tube completely, snaking tendrils reached out to grab at Kai, like the mist had a mind of its own. He twisted away from the snaking, almost solid mist in the small space available to him and tried to reach out to the tubes wall. The mist coagulated before his outreaching hand and pushed it back to him. It then solidified around him and began to constrict, holding Kai still.
Kai shuddered as the mist seemed to brush across his clothes and skin, seemingly searching for something. Kai tried to shrug it off, only to find struggling made the mist constrict tighter. Kai continued, instinct telling him to fight then flee, panic had settled into a cold lump in his gut. The mist constricted more and more, until Kai found he could no longer move at all. Only the rising of his chest was allowed some breathing movement, and that was almost not worth it.
Kai could feel his pulse pounding in his ears, the rush readying him for whatever he was facing. It was so unlike the silvery grey mist he had faced before. That had been sudden, a flash of red pain, and then the bitbeasts were him. Granted it had knocked him into oblivion, but it had nearly been over by now. What was this one going to do?
Kai watched, now very still, as the mist parted in front of his face. He was allowed one last look at the people in the room, each ones face looking back at his, some with curiosity, some with impatience, there was no need for sympathy in that sea of faces.
The mist closed and sparks started up at the top again. Kai couldn't move at all, he didn't even bother to try and avoid it. He embraced the pain this time, riding the waves. It didn't take long for him to notice it was duller; the edge defiantly was no longer as cutting. Yet instead it rolled on and on, never giving him time to take a new breath. The mist pulled at him as the sparks drove through him, and he began to feel like a rag doll with its arm in the plug socket.
He screamed, nothing else could help alleviate even a fragment of the pain. Still the waves of torture rolled on and on, never giving a moment for Kai to even think about anything else. He could feel the mist flow across his body, rising to his still screaming mouth. He tried to close it, but couldn't stop another animal sound ripped through his throat. The mist flowed into his mouth, and time seemed to stand still.
Kai knew he had been driven to unconsciousness, yet it was in that detached way he had experienced in the court room. He wondered why the phoenixes hadn't tried to help in the tube, and now he knew. They were waiting for him.
He seemed to be floating somewhere, no longer was he in the tube. He opened his eyes to the encouraging noises the birds of fire and shadow where emitting, their wings reaching to brush his face. He looked at them both and reached out to pull their beaked faces to his own. Tears fell from his face to turn into small crystal spheres in the strange atmosphere. He felt them so closely, as though their emotions were his own, as though their hearts were beating with his. He felt so whole.
He looked into the two sets of eyes so attuned to his own. How could they want to separate him from who he was? He hadn't been complete inside till he had found both bitbeasts, his passion, his power. In the bliss of being with them so physically in this strange new place, he still felt the faint danger his real body in the tube was still in. only now it wasn't so faint, and it was growing. He let go of the phoenixes heads and looked around him suddenly, the lack of scarf to follow his twist made him feel slightly naked. Then he realised, the pain was gone.
The sudden stark contrast to that agony and now nothing made his extremely uncomfortable. His eyes scanned the strange horizon. Where was he?
What could be called the sky was a vast purplish expanse with what looked like a mix between clouds, bubbles and fuzzy paint splatters scattered and connected in random bluish grey. It made his eyes want to look elsewhere to stop the dizzying sensation caused behind them when he spent too long gazing at one spot. The ground was an eruption of orangey red with a more calming brown on the uprising areas. His thoughts stretched to his bitbeasts, who seemed to have no idea. They were as confused as he was.
He looked around even more, his feet were not on the 'ground', instead they were floating a good distance above it. He felt a small rush through his veins, it was an exhilarating feeling.
"A nice sensation?"
Kai froze at the sound. The voice sounded almost like Voltaire's, but with a dry rasp to it, like age old bones crumbling to dust. Their was a distinct feminine twist to the cold, dry tone. He didn't even try to look round, and neither did the phoenixes, they chose to watch Kai instead. He was them, and the core of them too. They would wait for his decision, for he was all that mattered here.
"Are you not going to answer me, boy?"
Kai turned to the voice, and was confronted with what appeared to be a half woman and a half bird. Something in his mind, something seemingly from the depths of his memories. It was a conversation with Tadashi, she had been showing him pictures from a book of myths and legends. He remembered what she had told him that day, when he was so much younger. It had been one of the few comforting memories, when Tadashi had been able to be kind to him. He remembered a picture very clearly. It was a bird/woman hybrid, just like the one before him now.
He found his voice. "You're a harpy?"
Indeed she appeared to be. She had a human head, torso, and arms, and from the waist down she was a bird. She had large, outspread wings, and long talons on her hands and bird feet. They shone metallically in a brassy colour. Her hair was long, and tapered down her back. It was very straight and a brilliant red, bones clicked in small matted plaits placed randomly. Her eyes were also red, and glowed from an inner brightness that did nothing to warm Kai. Instead it sent shivers down his spine. Her face could have been beautiful once, but was now haggard, lined, and pulled into a constant sneer. Sharp pointed teeth peeked from the twisted lips.
Her skin was a pallid blue, like a body only just dead from icy cold, her arms long and ended in the deadly bronze claws. Her wings were a dark, light consuming purplish blue. The feathers gleaming oily with the very last ones tattered and fluttering in a non existent wind. Her legs were covered in the same feathers to where the shin would be before turning into red scales that tapered into three toes at the front, and one at the back, all finished with the dagger like claws. Around her torso she wore bronze armour scratched yet polished.
"Yes, boy, I am a harpy. I am called Aello, the rain squall. I am a bitbeast, my master you know, Voltaire."
Kai could feel his heart trying to skip a beat. Voltaire had a bitbeast? How? Why?
"I can feel your questions, and yes he has a bitbeast. But he does not just have me boy, no, there are my sisters to contend with as well. He controls all four of us. Don't speak, I shall answer what you need to know, for you won't survive to find out any other way. Voltaire had three brothers once, all of them trying to carry on the Hiwatari line to greatness, to control the world. Each of those brothers had one of my sisters. One by one they perished trying to achieve greatness, but only my master was good enough to survive. Soon my sisters joined me. We do not reside in the beyblades as your pet birds do" she sneered at the phoenixes, who cried at her in indignation. She smiled a grim smile.
"Voltaire keeps our bitchips close to him, on a chain around his neck, yet he has such control over us! My sister brought you here, boy! She was the mist that led you to our world. Voltaire made it for us, such a considerate master. Maybe you should meet my sisters, for they will all help to destroy you!"
Kai didn't have anytime to reply as another voice joined them.
"Please do sister, and stop toying with the child!" to the left of Aello, another harpy had appeared. This one had white hair and feathers, yet dark grey, almost black skin. Her lips were paler grey, and her eyes a barely visible shade of grey. She was still armoured in bronze. Her voice was whispery, a icy breeze on an already cold day. Her hair seemed to snake away from her, spreading behind her in a halo of tainted light. The scales on her legs and feet were also white.
"Meet my sister!"
"I am Celaeno, storm dark! Meet the one who brought you here child."
Then to the right, another harpy. Kai could feel Dranzer and Black Dranzer shift to defend him at a moments notice. He tried to ease them mentally, only to be laughed at by the now three present harpies.
The third was identical to her sisters except in colour. Her hair was wavy and a bright green, as where her eyes. Her skin was light purple, almost lilac. Her scales the same as her hair. Her voice was almost seductive, just as a rose was, yet you could sense the hidden danger, the thorn behind the sweet smelling petals. She watched him intently.
"Such a sweet little one, we shall have fun here sisters. I am Okypete, the swift flying. There is one more for you to meet,"
And then, in perfect timing, arrived the last sister. She was shocking to look at, a clash of pink and orange. Her hair and feathers were a bright pink, her hair shorter then her sisters and swept up into a graceful style ending in fire-like ends. He skin was orangey, and her eyes almost demonically pink. Her scales as bright as her hair. Her voice was more screechy then the others.
"So you're the pitiful excuse of a weapon? We shall make you sing, failures get! I am the last sister, Podarge, swift footed. And you? You and your little birds shall be our toys! I fear you won't be much sport though, you will die before the real fun begins!"
"So now you know us boy, and you know why we are here" spoke Aello, "you look confused? Then let us spell it out for you."
The phoenixes took battle poses, ready to attack and defend, as was Kai, he knew he had a fight on his hands, and he had to help his bitbeasts this time more physically then before.
The harpy's voices seemed to fuse into one, a deadly choir as they all spoke. "We have to remove the bitbeasts from you Kai, so they can take over faster, you shall perish here in our world, your soul shall be our forever!" it was at the last word they started to glow their own colours, blue, black, purple, and orange.
Kai struggled to find a way to get footing as he hovered in the air. Moving was no problem, it was finding a way to keep a stance to attack and defend. His legs shifted in the air, trying to find purchase on the strange atmosphere. He was in their world, him and his bitbeasts, the harpies had the advantage.
They spoke again, still speaking as one. "What's the matter? Can't the canary fly? Let us help you there!"
Kai had only enough time to digest what they were saying before something grabbed at his feet and pulled him down. He couldn't see anything there, yet his trousers around his ankles were still flattened against his skin. Dranzer and Black Dranzer plummeted down with him of their own accord, Kai needed them, and they would not leave him even for a second.
Kai hit the strange ground heavily, wincing as an ankle get twisted beneath the rest of him. He could hear the harpy bitbeasts laughing as he struggled to his feet. At least now the stuff beneath his feet was solid.
"Poor little pet canary has had his wings clipped! Maybe we should put him out of his misery!" laughed the four sisters.
Kai had had enough; he was ready to fight this battle, even if he died. What else could he do?
"You want me? Come get me!" he yelled at them.
"How can we resist such an open invitation?" the harpies said in unison before swooping down, talons outstretched, ready to meet Kai.
Kai could feel the power building up inside him, inside the phoenixes. He knew how powerful they were, and this close to them, he could tap into it all. Fire started springing up from the ground, small flames licking at the air, red, yellow, blue, black. Then the harpies struck. Aello plummeted into Kai, driving him to the ground. Celaeno went for Black Dranzer, Okypete for Dranzer, and Podarge streamed between the two.
Kai screamed in fury and pain as Aello struck him across his arm as he shielded his face from the blow. He used the same injured arm to grab at her wing as she backed away. Screeching in anger she struck out again. Kai's other arm flashed crimson as blood sprayed from the wound. He could feel the phoenixes struggling with the other three. He twisted Aello around and grabbed at her wings bases as she tried to fly up, her arms trying to twist round to grab him as she also tried to avoid getting in the way of her own wing strokes. The climbed higher and higher as she stopped and started as she tried to dislodge his gripping hands, biting teeth, and kicking legs. She slashed at his legs, the fabric tearing as easily as his skin. She finally loosened his hold.
Kai fell, his blood making droplets above him as it escaped his body. He cried out for Dranzer and Black Dranzer, and they answered. They hurtled up to meet him.
The harpies followed the phoenixes up, desperation etched on the already haggard features.
"Sisters! No! They mustn't fuse!" screamed their leader as Kai met with his bitbeasts. A flash of red, blue and black answered her cries.
The room watched the tube intently, trying to see past the thick green mist that obscured their view of the reversal. A man leant over to whisper to Voltaire if this was still the way it should be, to be answered with a distracted nod. Voltaire seemed to be spacing out on them.
A woman screamed as blood splattered on the inside of the tube, sliding down it in a red smear and mixing with the mist. Another spar lined the other side.
"What's happening in there!" demanded the aging scientist.
Voltaire spoke quietly, distantly. He had to concentrate and they were distracting him!
"He's resisting, that's all! He must be struggling and he's hurting himself in the process, there's nothing we can do! If you try and open the tube he'll die from the shock, so just let it be!"
The people that had started forward reluctantly backed away. They had to follow his advice here; there was nothing else they could do as more splattered inside the tube. All they could do is wait.
Tadashi jerked awake. She could feel it! The drug still coursed through her veins, making her dizzy and heavy headed, yet something had woken her.
"Tad? You ok?" asked Max as she stopped leaning on his side. "Tad?"
"No! They can't be doing this! No! We have to stop them, please, they can't do this!" she lurched to her feet and started down the corridor, using the wall for support.
The others got up and went to her. "Tad? What happening? What cant they do?" asked Ray gently, unsure as to where this was going.
Tears started to fall from her pale eyes. "Cant you hear you bitbeasts? Kai is calling out to us and they can hear him! They are killing him in there!"
Everyone got out their blades, and sure enough, their own bitbeasts were in a frenzy.
"How could we not have felt them?" asked Tyson, so confused by the problem.
"No time! We must save Kai!" yelled Tadashi. She slid to her knees. "We have to......" she whispered.
"Lets go, we need to see what's causing this, she may be right!" said Hilary defiantly. They nodded and Max and Ray helped Tadashi back up. They made their way to where Kai was. If what Tadashi said was true, were they in time?
No end
Why am I so tired?
Why do I always fight?
Why does battle sing in my veins?
Why do I search for what's in sight?
I need not use a weapon
I was made as one instead
So now I can't escape this fate
I cannot make this end
My mind screams for release
My heart screams for a rest
My body needs to lie down
Why is my life just a test?
All I have is questions
But there's no answers I can seek
All I know is fighting
In your eyes I'm just a freak
I see it when you look at me
See what I am can't be understood
You think this is what I wanted?
I would change if only I could
I am what I am, what I was made
I have nothing left to lose
If all I know if how to fight
Then that is what I choose
You think that you can beat me
I shall have to prove you wrong
There is no time to stop and rest
I can hear the battles song
I can never slow the fight
I flow with it instead
Even when I'm cut and bleeding
I am still a force to dread
Ravens my companions
On a land now torn apart
Together we see the aftermath
Together we see the scars
Ravaged ground drinks the blood
That I alone have spilt
My own is mingled with those
That are innocent, that are missed
The war wages eternal
I shall learn from all those past
I smile as I look upon the battlefield
I'll struggle even if it's my last
Death is the gift I give to others
One I won't receive in turn
But still hope is lifted on faded wings
A prayer not answered, it's left to burn