Hey guys, I'm sorry it took so long to update, I will try and make this a long chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade or any of the related characters.
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"Rei."
Kai began the long climb up the wall with the other following close behind. Many of the jutting out bricks were cracked or broken, making it harder to climb. They had been climbing for half an hour when they finally saw the end. At the top of the wall, there was a small gap, just wide enough for them to crawl through. They clambered up into this and sat there for a minute catching their breath.
"Kai, can we rest for a while?" Tyson asked gasping for air.
"You can, but I'm not. It'll waste too much time and time is what we don't have." He said as he carried on down the tunnel. Tyson sighed,
"Ok Mr. Sourpuss." He followed Kai, "Don't worry guys, we're coming." He whispered as they crawled through the dusty passageway, hoping to find their friends.
"How long can people survive without rest, food or water?" Hilary asked Kenny as they entered their second hour of the crawl.
"Exactly three days, two hours and fifty seconds, before we all go crazy, that is to say we wouldn't already be dead from de-hydration, but judging by the temperature in this place, I highly doubt that's our primary concern." She sighed at his answer.
"Well, that's reassuring." She was about to ask something else when she noticed the others had stopped. "Guys, what's going on?" She asked.
"Dead end." Tyson groaned sitting against the wall. Kai closed his eyes and sighed exhaustedly,
"No. This can't be. NO!" He cried slamming his fists against the floor. Suddenly the ground opened up causing them to fall through a long dark tunnel. Luckily the wall wasn't completely smooth, so they were able to hold onto something. Tyson looked down beneath them and noticed something glinting below.
"Oh man."
"What?"
"Spikes." Hilary bit her lip,
"Well what do we do now?" She asked.
"We climb down." Kai answered and began feeling for footholds to use.
"Are you CRAZY?! We can't climb down there! In case you hadn't noticed, this is a pit of spikes!" Tyson shouted back.
"I hate to say it, but Kai's right." Kenny said following Kai's lead, "If we just stay here, we will eventually fall. But if we climb to an area below without spikes, then maybe we can find a way out." Hilary nodded her agreement and started after Kenny.
"Fine, but however you put it, it still sounds crazy." Tyson started climbing and within minutes, they were all standing in spike-less areas of floor.
"Well, what do we do now?"
"We look for a tunnel, or something that might-ah ha!" Kai pulled away a curtain of vines to reveal a dark, damp tunnel, "Over here." They all carefully avoided spikes and walked to where Kai was.
"Come on. We've wasted enough time already." He said entering the tunnel with the others following close behind. The tunnel was small, but just big enough to enable them to stand. The tunnel was not as long as the others they had been down and soon opened up into a large room with three other doors in it. There were two doors to the sides of the room and one directly in front of them. The ones to the sides were open, revealing tunnels to either side. The one in front was tall and made of thick wood. To either side was a gold keyhole. As the group entered the room nervously, the door behind them slammed shut. Almost instantly, a screen appeared in front of them. It flickered on revealing the face of Voltaire.
"Hello Bladebreakers, or at least half of them. I am surprised you made it this far. Behind that locked door is one of your friends. To open it, you must find two keys; one is down that passageway to your right, the other to your left. Hurry Bladebreakers, time's running out." A timer appeared on the screen showing that they had ten minutes. Kai ran to the locked door, and after confirming that it was locked, he turned to the others,
"Tyson, Kenny, go to the left. I'll go with Hilary to the right." He ordered and they split up down the tunnels.
Tyson and Kenny had been walking for at least five minutes when they came to a room lit by candles. The room was entirely made of stone, and sloped upwards to an alter. On this were three switches and encased in a metal barred case above them was a key.
"There it is!" Tyson exclaimed and ran forwards towards it.
"Tyson, wait. It might be dangerous." Kenny called in vain. Tyson had run about half way to the alter when he realised he was making no advance on it.
"Tyson, the ground is moving beneath you!" Kenny shouted at him.
"What? This is just great." Tyson complained running faster.
"It's no use Tyson. The speed of the ground changes when your speed changes." He pulled out his laptop, "Dizzi, any idea how to solve this problem?" He asked.
"Yep. Have you noticed how only the centre part of the floor is moving?" Kenny nodded,
"Tyson. Move to the side." Tyson did as ordered and gained a bit on his prize before the floor began moving again.
"What now?" He asked.
"Ok. The floor is in three sections, and after a few seconds when you start running on it, it starts moving. When you start running on a section, the one before keeps on moving until you start running on another section." Kenny observed. Tyson nodded,
"Right." Tyson started jumping from section to section, quickly gaining on the alter, within one minute he was there. He flicked the three switches and the cage opened. He quickly retrieved the key and ran back down to Kenny. "Got it, let's go."
Hilary walked down the passageway lead by Kai. The tunnel was short and soon they were in a large room surrounded by a giant fish tank, without the fish.
"Look, there's the key." She pointed to the glinting object in a far corner of the tank.
"Great, now how do we get it?" Kai asked.
"I guess we follow that tunnel." Hilary said as a hatch opened beside her. They walked down it and soon came to a gap in the tunnel. The gap lead down into the clear water below. The other side of the gap was a TV screen with a layout of the tank on it, except the tank was like a maze.
"I'll go get it." Kai said preparing to enter the water. Suddenly, metal walls began to sprout from the base of the tank making a complicated maze.
"Oh crap." Kai said bluntly. Hilary observed the screen carefully,
"Kai this screen is a map of the maze." She noticed something by the screen; it was a pair of communicators. "Kai put this on. I'll direct you through." He nodded, took a deep breath and jumped in. Hilary turned to the screen and began directing him through the maze to the key. Kai made few wrong turns, and swam fast, but he was running out of air. Just as he was at his limit, he grabbed the key and a hatch opened above his head. He pulled himself out through the water and walked down the tunnel ahead of him back to the room. Soon he and Hilary were back in front of the large double doors with another 3 minutes to spare. It wasn't long before Tyson and Kenny joined them. They fitted the keys in and turned them. The doors opened revealing a massive room. Near the back of the room, to the right, was a table; strapped to that table was a boy. His face was somewhat obscured by several cuts, but to the Bladebreakers, it was clear who he was,
"Max."
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