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GOB: New chapter... just out of curiosity, how many of you people actually think I'm going to finish this fic?

Kai: Not me.

Max: Not me!

Tala: Not me.

GOB: *_* Bah, I WILL FINISH!!!!!!! Well, here are the thank yous!

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*~Dragonblade *~Hiwatari-gurl *~Syaoran-Lover *~Alia

*~Dawn35 *~Masterfranny *~Lychee Fairy *~Maeris

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GOB: Thank you everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I still need some ideas for what Kai should do while he's in Russia! And...

1) I want to know if you want Kai to stay in Russia, or have him and Tala move around the world, trying to avoid the Bladebreakers?

2) Should I have a lot of beyblading, a little, or none in this fic?

3) Should I add any other Demolition Boys, or any other character from Beyblade into my fic, as in a big part, only a little smaller than Tala's?

Thank you, and only when I get at least 5 people who ANSWER these questions in a review will I update! Oh, and please, please, please check out our (me and Lychee Fairy) new fic, called Bladebreakers On Strike!!! Pretty please with a Kai plushie on top???

On with the fic, I've done enough talking (writing? TYPING???) for now.... so, go on with you, read already, leave me alone!!! BE GONE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!

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The Bladebreakers were all awoken (except for Max who stayed awake the whole flight... insomnia anyone???) by the pilot's grainy voice over the intercom,

"PLEASE BRACE YOURSELVES AS WE ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING INTO SOME UNEXPECTED TURBULENCE ON OUR LANDING."

Max groaned. He hated flying... it wasn't that he was scared of flying. It was because Ray was.

"I'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNAD IEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNA DIEI'MGONNADIE..." Rei said, while gripping his armrests so hard, they looked like they would snap off any moment... kinda like the way Max thought Rei's mind would just snap on a trans-continental, non-stop flight, if he got a window seat and saw all the water below him..

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GOB: Just to let you know, Rei's saying, I'm GONNA DIE over and over again!

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"Rei, calm down!" Kenny said, running a hand through his messy, brown hair, "You are NOT going to die!"

"OH YEAH!!!" Rei fairly yelled, " THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD THE PEOPLE ON THE TITANIC, AND GUESS WHAT? IT WASN'T TRUE!!!"

Max, Tyson, and Kenny sweatdropped. The only time a person on the Bladebreakers could embarrass them more than Tyson, was when Rei was on a plane.

The plane finally landed, and the impatient Bladebreakers made their way to the terminal to locate the reason they traveled all that way...

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To find Kai. Their Captain, Leader................. and friend.

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"Let's go." Tala said as he turned off his car. Kai just nodded and grabbed his stuff. As he was doing so, he dropped his CD player, and Tala could here what Kai was listening to.

Tala froze, looked at Kai then... burst... out... laughing....

Kai looked at Tala, shook his head, and walked away muttering, "What's wrong with listening to Good Charlotte's, The Young And The Hopeless?"

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"This is not happening..." Tyson said, standing at the baggage carousel. He had watched all the baggage go by at least five times, but not a single bag belonging to him had shown up.

Max sighed, "Who up there is against us??? Why the hell do all these delays keep happening right when we're so close to reaching Kai??? It's just not fair!" He didn't realize he said that out loud, until Rei answered, with a slightly depressed, "Yeah."

"Come on guys," Kenny said, rubbing his eyes (goggles? Glasses???) in tiredness, "We should go to our hotel, check in, and then get some rest."

Tyson sighed, and responded, "After we're all rested, we can look for Kai. Now, let's go. Stupid airplane people lost my stuff!"

The others all heartily agreed. They were all outside hailing a taxi-cab, when a thought suddenly struck Max with such force, that he let out a strangled cry.

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Tala and Kai got the keys to their hotel room (Two rooms, a kitchen, living room, ect.) and threw their stuff in the room.

Tala had decided to stay with Kai in the hotel, instead of staying at the abbey. After the world championships, the abbey had now gone under BBA and government control. The kids were allowed to stay their and continue training, but only under the rules and regulations that were not being put in place. They were all free to go whenever they wished, but surprisingly, most of the people had decided to stay.

They preferred to stay because the abbey, as horrible as it was, had become their home, and they were to used to seeing each other every day to let it all slip away. But Tala and Kai knew the real reason.

Most of them didn't have anywhere else to go.

Voltaire and Boris had made sure of that.

And Tala and Kai were two of the many that Boris and Voltaire had made sure that the abbey was all they had.

Tala could still remember the horror of finding his mother and grandmother (his father had died long ago) dead as he returned from a small school beyblading tournament, in which he placed second. Kai had, of course, placed first.

He still hated to think of how it had happened. At first he had no idea that it was Boris and Voltaire who had orchestrated the murder of his family. If he had known, he would never, never, have allowed himself to be taken to the abbey, and become a Biovolt puppet.

"Hello? Earth to Tala! Please send some sign of me getting through to you, before I let my fist go through you!" Kai said, waving his hand in front of Tala's face. Tala's eyes snapped open, and he grinned sheepishly,

"Sorry, guess I kind of zoned out there..." Kai shrugged, and let his eyes drift over to the window sill. He watched the clouds lazily drift by, turning gold, red, and pink with the sun's last rays.

"Let's talk after we get something to eat." Tala suggested, trying to break the awkward silence. Kai looked at Tala, and replied,

"I'm not really all that hungry."

"Oh, me neither." Tala said jovially.

Kai gave him a blank stare, "Then why did you suggest that?"

Tala shrugged and yawned, "Well, I'm hitting the sack. That is, unless you want to talk now?"

Kai smiled slightly (very slightly), and said while exiting Tala's room, "No. We'll talk in the morning. We could both use a little rest."

Tala nodded, and leaned back. He wished he could help Kai, but he knew that Kai was the type of person who, no matter how hard you tried, couldn't help if he thought that you would be at all, even if only a tiny bit, uncomfortable or in danger, because of his problems.

He hated putting others in danger, or making them feel pain because of him. Kai was like that.

"Always has, always been, and always will be..." Tala murmured thoughtfully to himself, before drifting off.

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Kai walked into his room, turned on the light, and shut the door tightly behind him. He then lay on his bed, and just sat there for a little while, letting his mind wander.

He sighed, and reached onto the night stand next to his bed. He opened up the little drawer and took out his journal, from where he had previously put it. He also reached into his pocket and pulled out his pen.

He studied his pen for a moment. It was dark obsidian. With red and blue flames licking down towards the writing part. Along the little pocket clip, was written, in deep, bloody crimson, "Frozen Phoenix". It had been a gift from his parents when Kai was a very young child. He could hardly remember his parents, as Voltaire had made sure Kai did not come in contact with anything that could remind him about his parents.

He shook his head slightly, as if to banish the thoughts of his parents from his mind, and opened the pen, and the opened the journal, and began to write.

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~^* Kai's Journal *^~

I'm tired. So damn tired.

I want to run away. I want to hide. I just want to leave, without saying good bye, without letting anyone know, just disappearing like the soft, morning mist.

All my talk of taking action, ha, like I could ever truly take action. I am lost. I am lost, confused, troubled, messed up. But most of all, I'm closed in, alone, without any hope of ever breaking free.

The thing I'm running from has nothing to do with anything. All I'm running from is.......................................................................... ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ......................................................

myself....

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~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ The void overtaketh, emptiness reigns free.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My soul has lost its glimmer of life.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ To the world's illuminating strife.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Spectacular works never will again be seen.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Sadness only an emotion that makes me mean.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ The dark portal to my mind is shadowed by hate.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ The only feeling I received, the emotion of fate.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My life has no meaning, neither do my works.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Few months I give until my memory time corks.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ I have no legacy, I have no further cause.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My time has stopped, my life is on pause.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Why can't I move forward, why can't I start.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ I've lost it all, I've lost my soul and my heart.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Did you ever care for this dying body you see?

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ Why wouldn't you stop or ever help me?

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My friends have forsaken me, for they know not.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My parents deceived me, they leave me to rot.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ My truth is all but gone now, my heart is cold as stone.

~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~^*)(*^~ I lay here in fetal pose, now I fell truly alone.

I just want to let my mind open. I want to stop keeping it all inside me.

It hurts. Every breathe I take, every time I open my eyes, every single, bloody time my heart beats, I feel full of pain.

All the lessons I was taught were never true. But still, it is all my fault. Everyone knows it, I know it, and I accept my punishment.

But I am weak. I can't take it. I'm guilty of everything, I know that, I don't deny it.

But I am weak. I wanted to run away, to die alone.

But I made a promise all those years ago.

And I have never, NEVER, broken a promise. And I'm not about to start now.

I need one good quality to keep me going.

Besides, I would never break a promise I made to Tala.

Just like he has never broken a promise, he made to,
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"Max!!! What's wrong???" Tyson gasped, surprised and worried by his friends sudden outburst.

Max stood still for a moment shaking, before asking in a small, meek, worried voice, "It's nothing really important... but guys.......... what are we......... going to............. SAY............... to Kai. I... I have no idea how we are supposed to understand what he's going through... when... we never...... never..... understood.......... before......"

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GOB: Well? Sorry it took forever, but school got in the way... bah.

Max: SHEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOB: Umm, no, that was me...

Max: SSSSHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!

GOB: Umm, while I calm down Max, please read and review!

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