Chapter 4 Genetically Perfect and the Void
-"Despite him being cold, mysterious, intimidating and incredibly strong and talented blader, Kai is also someone no blader is – Genetically Perfect," said Boris, the red lenses on the black mask of his was shining brightly through the dull light of the darkened room. His face expressionless.
Voltaire who sat soundly and comfortably in the fluffy looking arm chair, raised an eyebrow questionably. "Hmm?"
-"Let me try to explain," started Boris and turning his head from side to side, the cracks were heard and Voltaire invisibly shivered, hating the sound with his whole life. Boris not noticing anything stopped cracking the neck bones and continued. "Every one of trainees going to the Balkov Abbey was given a test that practically determines their mind ability which shows the potential of every blader…I've no doubt that Kai doesn't remember that, he was too small and drugged during that," Boris said and paused, his eyes pierced on Voltaire, searching for his reaction almost thoughtfully.
-"So?" asked Voltaire, surely being more interested in looking at his own gigantic painted portrait on the wall, then the topic itself.
-"So," Boris kept himself from snapping. "The test showed that Kai, like I've already said, is Genetically Perfect. He is the perfect one for the Black Dranzer. He could have been that Perfect Beyblade Warrior that we all tried to develop. And he was him for a couple of days until he decided that his friends were more important," his lips pursed into a straight line as something came to him. "Voltaire…I need a Life Contract."
Voltaire's gaze finally moved away from the portrait and locked on the concentrating Boris with a scowl, not knowing why in the world Boris wants that now. "I can't give it to you and you know it. Only Kai's Father can sign it, but I know that he never will…I don't even know my Son's location anymore! What is the meaning of this?"
Seeing Voltaire angry and knowing that he is angry at you isn't the best situation you can get yourself in. But Boris stood on his own, he believed what he wanted and needed to believe and no one could take that away from him. "My plan is working perfectly, Voltaire, not only I'm going to have Kai all alone…I also know that he will use the Black Dranzer again. I need a Life Contract to keep him inside all the time now, without any turning backs!"
Voltaire's hands clenched into hard fists, not knowing whether or not believe Boris. He did screw this up once…but what if he's right? What if there is still a chance to use Kai as a perfect weapon? Well, if Boris is mistaken this time again…he won't get away with a simple apology anymore.
-"Boris if I see your plan working, I'll get my hands on Life Contract right away," said Voltaire, his eyes burning into the red lenses of the black mask, sometimes feeling like Boris's eyes were always creasing with a grin. Such a bad feeling.
-"Everything will go exact," reassured him Boris, and Voltaire frowned with an "Hmph". After that, Boris turned around and finally exited the room, leaving his boss on his evil thoughts of finally tasting power of the world within the palm of his hand.
Tala, who was unlucky enough to pass by Voltaire's office when Boris exited, hesitated for a moment and then frowning continued to walk forward, trying to pass Boris.
-"Exactly who I need," grinned happy for some reason "Biovolt Puppet" and Tala was made to stop as Boris's arm was stretched out right in front of him blocking his way.
-"What now?" snarled Tala irritated, feeling the hatred for the teacher he was made to respect and worship all his life, growing. He looked at the arm in front of him, really grieving that he wasn't carrying an axe with himself to cut it off right now.
-"I need you to do me a big favor," said Boris a grin growing wider, as it seemed, with every passing second.
-"Oh yeah?" bared his teeth Tala, looking up in the red lenses of Boris with much annoyingness and anger. "What's in it for me?"
Aha, right where he wanted him. "Thought you'd never ask," Boris said, his hand, holding something in its palm, moved to Tala's and strongly eased it in his hand. Tala frowned, his eyes moved down to look at what it was, but Boris's loud voice turned him away from that. "If you will do some of the things that I require for me…I'll give you something that you really want."
Tala growled in fury. "I want nothing from you. Never have, never will."
A low chuckle escaped white dried lips of Boris and he slowly leaned to Tala's ear, his presence summoning the waves of negative energy from Tala. His ear twitched when a low hoarse voice breathed right above it, saying "I will give you…your freedom."
Tala's eyes widened and he flinched, his hands' seizure on the sharp object Boris gave him loosened and they opened, dropping it.
A quiet click of the metal against the grey marbled floor and the dark beyblade fell on one of its sides, exposing the Bit-beast pin on which a pitch black bird with bright green and yellow feathers on its wings, that looked suspiciously like a phoenix, was imaged.
The Black Dranzer.
Arwen just stood there, looking at Kai's kind of tidy room, without blinking. He was careful not to let anyone in here…then why was the door open?
Oh well, it's none of your concern for now, thought Arwen, sighed and was about to continue her way outside when something on the tall table in the middle of the room caught her eye. She couldn't believe what it was, she needed to make sure that this wasn't it and so she quietly made her way inside of Kai's room, wincing at almost every quiet sound.
Under a white sheet of paper, right on the edge's end of the table laid peacefully Dranzer. The soft white light of the window's curtains glittered dully on its shiny sides, making an impression that Kai must have been polishing it.
But…
Arwen stood beside the table, staring at the Turbo Dranzer, Kai's beyblade, just lying there on the table. But Kai was always carrying it with him. He never let it off his side. Why was it lying right here right now?
She turned her head quickly to look at the doorway, but not seeing anyone there and Kai not coming back yet, she looked back at the Dranzer on the table with still that puzzled expression.
A car drove by the Dom and its light shone right on the Dranzer and the blades glittered most seductively to make one grab a hold of it.
Without thinking what she was doing, Arwen slowly reached for the beyblade on the table, first touching it slightly and then taking it in her hand just to hold. Even by looking at it she could feel the aura of power coming from Dranzer and the beyblade felt quite heavy. Wonder why, she thought, raised her hand up and down slightly to feel its weight, and then looked at it again. Timaeus is so light in comparison to Dranzer. And there is no point in comparing the power. Indeed, in Neo-Borgs, she was the weakest team member or as she'd heard.
This sacred spirit in this metal spinner was that something Kai cherished the most. More than me, of course, went through her mind both sadly and bitterly, herself not being able not to think about it.
For the first time in her life she found herself jealous. Jealous of a metal toy, how selfish is that?
Nevertheless jealousy was a terrible feeling and she knew that she should get rid of it this instant.
Arwen slowly let her hand down, still holding Dranzer tightly and put it back on the table. But still keeping her fingers around it, unable to let go somehow and not really wanting to. She willingly continued to grasp on it, hardly pressing it into the neatly polished brown table as her thoughts seemed to fade away and a small tear dropped on her cheek. Her eyes were pierced on the blade as she continued to press it forcefully into table absently, doing that until…something cracked quietly.
And that when she realized what she was doing. Why was she doing that? Oh God, hopefully that crack didn't mean that she broke something!
She slowly loosened her grip on the beyblade…feeling and seeing its full metal form weakly falling into small and big pieces of metal and aluminum. She flinched and yanked her hand back to herself, feeling herself trembling from that horror…pure horror that took over her so suddenly that she lost an ability to breathe and felt her hair standing up.
She broke it. She broke Kai's beyblade. She broke Dranzer.
Gods, what has she done? What…no…impossible…let it be a nightmare…please…
Her mind full of horror, shock and unbelievable fear, she lost a capability to not only breathe, but also to think. Almost blinded with fear she started to take steps away from the table, putting hands over her quivering lips until…
-"Arwen?"
She flinched strongly at the familiar cold voice at the door and jerked her head just to be locked in Kai's steel cold stare. He came…he came into his room…he's so angry…and doesn't even know…anything yet…please…
Kai thought of asking what was wrong with her, she didn't look too normal looking. In fact, she looked terrorized. But he decided not to…
-"What are you doing in my room?" he questioned her again, a frown still on his face, his eyes moving to look away from her slightly and look at the table.
No, don't look…there…
-"And what are these pieces of…" started Kai and suddenly his voice disappeared in his throat, his eyes widened largely and not daring to look away, he rushed to the table, pushing Arwen away from his way strongly and stopping at the table, his eyes staring at the pieces.
Silence came onto them.
Kai quickly put his gloved hands to it, searching for the part that was most important, the part that was needed the most, the part that could give him the courage to live…yes, here it is, so everything is not as bad, it's…
His hands started to tremble and without taking off his right hand of the table, Kai started to slowly settle down on the floor, falling on his knee and looking down in shock.
The pin was broken in half.
The Bit-Beast pin that contained Dranzer was broken in half.
Dranzer, his sacred spirit - was gone.
Arwen was so terrorized, her face was all tense with fear and by looking down on the floor she could see everything going dizzy and spinning around. Her heart beat so quickly and so painfully that she thought that a heart attack was going to get her any moment. And it better do it now…before Kai looks at her again.
She placed one hand on the wall for a support, trying not to lose her consciousness though she wanted that badly…for everything to be just a nightmare…
What had she done? Why'd she done that? It was her fault. So stupid, so idiotic, you deserve the shouts, you deserve his fury at you for doing that…you've destroyed that one being that has been close to him since his childhood.
A quiet whispering noise at the table and, holding onto the edge of the table strongly for a support, Kai slowly rose up back on his feet, his head hanged down between his broad shoulders, his dark blue hair covering his eyes in a black shadow. Once he had finally spoken his voice was hoarse from the shock growing inside of him, but he managed to speak. "Arwen-" his voice sounded and Arwen looked up, her eyes pierced on his back. "Goodbye."
She let her hands down from her quivering lips and looked down. Understood, Kai, understood…she knew that she'd hear something like that, she bewared herself for that, but once she heard it, her heart has been unwittingly broken.
She deserved that. She didn't deserve to be with him, and she couldn't be with him anymore obviously. And how that only started with a simple conflict…all her fault again.
Arwen said nothing. She didn't cry. Her heart stopped beating. She couldn't cry, all of the tears were already cried out…nothing was left anymore. Without saying anything, she turned and really slowly walked out of the Kai's room, turning to the side and going back to her own. She didn't close the door, no: she just walked over to her closet, opening it, slowly taking her clothes out and putting them on the bed.
His Dranzer was gone. She was gone; he was never going to see her flowing in the sky above him, while attacking other's blade again. Never. Never. NEVER.
Kai started to shiver.
It was so cold.
He was so scared.
Why would Arwen do that? He trusted her, he seemed to love her…and she destroyed his Dranzer. Why…why…why Arwen, why? The void within him appeared, sucking everything in…everything felt empty…
The thought was frightening him immensely, the exact way it was twelve years ago…what did he do? He didn't remember…what did he do? He remembered the Abbey being destroyed because of him…because he couldn't keep himself in…because he wanted to try that beyblade himself…
Suppress.
Forget and suppress.
Forget, forget, forget, Kai's mind was repeating, he closed his eyes shut and wrapping his arms around himself, he started to unnoticeably rock back and forth. Forget, forget…
Everything started to slip away…
Everything turned black…
Everything's gone quiet…
Everything-
-"Kai."
He blinked and everything was back again. He was kneeled on one knee beside the table with his arms folded, staring right at his broken blade. Why is everything back…I don't want it to…
-"Kai," called the voice again and Kai with a small flinch at the voice looked back.
Tala's face was emotionless and it seemed even unresponsive. Not his eyes only. He reminded of the emptied vessel with no soul, without any sense of humanity. More now than ever before.
Seeing that he finally got an attention from Kai, Tala's feet moved and he walked up right to the kneeled Kai, as if trying to look at him, but not doing so…His mind seemed to be concentrated on something else, and that something was surely not the map of New York on the wall. It was his thoughts.
-"You're miserable. You're pitiful," said coldly Tala, his eyes finally were locked on Kai, but his mind was elsewhere. "Suppressing the world for losing Dranzer." The way he said "Dranzer" sounded fake and it was strange. But Kai didn't pay attention to that.
The void grew much bigger and he felt that he was going to get sucked in its emptiness forever and never be able to get out. Or was it for better?
Kai wanted to insult him for getting on his nerves just when he really didn't need to hear that, but he couldn't bring the confidence back up to open his mouth. So empty…
Tala's lips pursed into a thin white line for a moment and then he spoke again. "Take it," he said in an ordering tone, stretched out his arm before Kai and his hand opened, dropping something it held on the carpeted floor right before Kai and turning his gape on the pieces of Dranzer.
In one move of his other hand, Tala swept the pieces off the table in his palm, which he closed right away not to drop anything.
Kai didn't notice.
His dark purple eyes were pierced on the dark beyblade lying before him, its sides glittering with the light almost wildly, reflecting in Kai's empty and lifeless orbs perfectly.
Tala clenched his fist containing the metal parts in it and, without saying anything more to his fellow teammate, he exited the room, walking over to the garbage can nearby and dropping Dranzer's broken parts in it. It was gone. And it was done.
Kai continued to stare at the Black Dranzer lying right before him, unable to move and take his eyes off this beauty and power of darkness.
The pin of Dranzer suddenly shined brightly red and then back to its normal self, but Kai wasn't surprised. He'd seen this already a long time ago. It was just hungry…hungry for more power, for more Sacred.
A minute later Kai finally moved and his hand reached for the Black Dranzer grabbing it tightly in his hand and closing his eyes. Its hunger had never been a problem…never had…never will…
When you have power no one can hurt you…
A grin appeared on his lips.
"Don't bother closing your eyes, Kai, because what you see isn't half as disturbing as what you don't …" and the "Biovolt Puppet" is finally right.
His purple eyes opened automatically and now they were vacant, blank and absolutely dark. A wild grin was still on his lips, not going off and not planning to. It exposed his even teeth that gleamed white in the sudden turn on street lights out of his large window.
But it didn't matter.
Nothing did anymore.
It was only him and Black Dranzer.
It always should have been like that, nothing should have changed since that day he first touched its metal core and felt its power. Dranzer and Bladebreakers changed that, but neither were here…one was gone forever…but how much uncaringly can you think of something now?
Arwen walked out of the Dom, her eyes looking down, and she carried a big black bag with her. She was cold, she was frightened, she was shocked and she was immensely tired. She was leaving and she didn't care anymore. Why would she anyway?
-"There she is!"
Everything was dead, forever and ever.
-"Grab her quickly before she screams."
Nothing would change again.
-"Go."
She wouldn't care anymore.
A strong cold arm of the man wrapped around her neck like a vice, choking her and pulling her somewhere strongly. Only a quiet yelp was heard from her, because she slipped off the reality really quickly. So what that she's getting hurt physically right now? It's nothing in comparing to the social pain.
A dirty and rumpled kerchief was put to her nose and it smelled strongly with some kind of sharp chemical. Arwen tried to weakly wiggle around to get away somehow, but the dragging choked her even more and she just had to take a breath out of that cloth. She did. And then she did again as she felt really dizzy. So dizzy that she didn't need to close her eyes to go to the darkness and feel the endless cold waving around her. Too bad she didn't know whether or not she was shivering from it, but who cared?
And meanwhile Kai rose up on his feet finally, looking at Black Dranzer, and finally walked out of his dark room, walking down the empty and white hallway. Nothing bothered him anymore. He was gone and back at the same time.
A low chuckle escaped from him and his lifeless eyes burned with the invisible fire of power in them. "Black Dranzer…we meet again. And we will always be together. Only me and you…just us…just us having the world to ourselves again."
The void had been filled.