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Summary: When Biovolt goes after one of its past 'students' the BBA steps in and places the girl under the watch of the Blade Breakers. What are Biovolt's plans for this girl and what happens when they get a hold of her because she risked herself by saving one of the Blade Breakers that has grown fond of her.
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Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament
" " Talking ' ' Thinking
-Thank you for the reviews I really appreciate them!-
Clandestine Wolf
Chapter Two - Suspicions
A soft grunt filled the once silent atmosphere of the cast area that belonged to the South American mansion's gym. Both the physical point of the body and the sheer metal concentration were stretched to their most outer limits as small beads of sweat splattered nearly noiselessly upon the open floor of the gym. Limberness was forced to the max as the body moved in the most awkward angles while balanced on a single hand that held the body straight into the air. Each movement made was slow and laborious, yet perfectly balanced in the air.
Finally Snowflake shifted her body weight until the point that she was bent over while standing on two bare feet. Righting her body so that she now only stood on her feet rather than a single hand a slow sigh was made. It had been a mere few days since the incident with the boy Ray in the conference room. Mr. Dickenson was already gone while leaving behind strict orders not to let her do anything strenuous in any way shape or form. 'So pointless. He can't stop me, nor any of the others of this team that is to protect me when I don't really need it. I just wish this drug that Biovolt so carelessly gave me would wear off more quickly.'
Steel blue eyes no longer held a mixed and confused look of several feelings, rather being completely composed and in check of what they had looked like before. Being trained to push her body to the extreme limit by Biovolt Snowflake was just doing so, pausing briefly to wrap athletic tape around each wrist and ankle before moving her lean and limber body to the corner of the floor mat in the gym. Placing her feet together Snowflake balanced her weight on the balls of her feet for the briefest moment before rocking back onto flat feet. For a moment Snowflake simply stood there, still and silent as she thought out her next movements that would pass by in a mere blur.
Finally shifting her weight Snowflake ran forward several feet to get the right amount of speed before her body fell into a perfect rhythm of twists, jumps, and rolls that carried her body across the gym floor in a tumbling pass that could put a gold medalling gymnast to shame easily. Those passes were repeated over and over across the floor, each new one being changed in this way and that until the last one brought her tanned body into a floor routine that stretched her limber body to no end.
'If only they knew the true extent of the problem. I can't explain anything to this team that is supposed to be protecting me and watching me until this drug's effects wear off fully. Until then I'll just have to wait things out and wait until the drug has ran its course through me system. From there I only have to fully recover from the extent of damage that this drug did.' Steel blue orbs blinked slowly before the floor routine that Snowflake had been doing came to an end as she waltzed over to the awaiting punching bag.
'I wonder if they'll even understand what's going on in time before something happens.' Even more athletic tape was applied to her hands, being careful so her wrists wouldn't be injured or her knuckles end up bleeding by the end of the exercise. So the task was taken up, mauling the punching bag with a fury of punches and kicks. Each connection sent the bag shivering with the force of the hit, but on and on she pushed herself until the after effects of Biovolt's drug started to settle in again. Everything from there changed, the once easy routine coming messily as the look in Snowflakes eyes altered back to the confused and bewildered look of several feelings coming together.
It was too late, even as she attempted to calm herself down along with her breathing and heart rate, but the workout had been too rough on her and it was taking toll as the drug wore off and let its after effects ravage the body. Spasms of rough coughing took over, concentration being completely lost now. The punching bag swung on its chain as her knees turned to jelly under her and she fell into a kneel where she sat on her legs. Cough after cough brought forth a new harsher on that soon drew forth speckles of dark blood from her lungs and throat. As each short moment passed the spasms only got worse…
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Golden cat-like globes blinked slowly at the shadow-covered ceiling that they had been staring at for hours, looking to be much too awake to sleep. Soon Ray lingered his golden eyes to look at the digital clock that rested on the nightstand next to his comfortable waterbed. 'Only a quarter after four in the morning and I doubt anyone else is up this early.' He had been lying there four hour after hour; unable to fall asleep in the comfort of the room he had picked out to be his in the mansion. It was filled with blues and whites along with a few golden hints here and there, not to mention rather large and air-conditioned to be just perfect. Ray still couldn't decide what was actually keeping him awake, but it seemed futile to still try to fall asleep. 'I guess I'll just walk around the mansion for while, just have to be careful of not waking the others up. I'm sure they don't want to be up this early in the morning just because of me.'
The waterbed wavered and sloshed softly as Ray slid from its jiggling form. Quickly and effortlessly he got dressed in his usual Chinese outfit of white and blue, pulling on his headband along with his shoes before grabbing his video camera and slipping out of his room silently. Still he was insistent on seeing a tiger in the wild and proving to everyone that he had actually seen it by catching the animal on tape. With cat-like stealth Ray moved down the hallway and down the flight of stairs to the first floor. Being as quiet as possible he tip-toed down the hallway the stairs led into towards the exit door for the pool, but a sudden muffled noise caught his attention and brought his movements to an utter halt. The noise was faint and Ray was beginning to insist that he was hearing things until the noise came again. Finally realization sunk in, quickly catching on to where the noise was coming from. 'Someone in the gym this early in the morning? They must me nuts…'
Switching his course Ray moved towards the flight of stairs that led to the observatory room for the large gym. Placing his free hand on the door he quietly pushed it open, grateful that the hinges were well oiled so they didn't squeak. To his surprise the light to the observatory room were already on, leaving him to wonder if someone was in the room still or had been there recently. A slow sweep over the wide room with his golden eyes and Ray found the reason that the lights were on; Kai had fallen asleep with an empty cup of coffee setting on the table next to the vanilla folder they all had been given about the girl called Snowflake. Kai's head was cradled in his arms, still sitting in his chair at the table, obviously having been working on something alone up here and falling asleep in the process of doing so.
'Poor Kai. I wish he didn't have to deal with Biovolt again, but of course the BBA doesn't care about that. It's not fair to him that he's going to have to deal with his grandfather over again along with everyone else he was trying to get away from. I'll just let him sleep while I find out who is in the gym. Can't be Kenny…Can't be me or Kai and that girl should know better.. Possibly Tyson's father?' Ray kept mussing over a few things, constantly feeling sorry for what Kai was going through before jerking himself back to reality. Padding over to the observatory window he gazed down at the fully lit gym below, blinking in mild surprise at the figure going about in the gym. Quickly he turned on his video camera, afraid no one would believe him if he didn't catch this on tape; Snowflake was finishing up a hard run and was settling into her one handed handstand. 'And here I thought it wasn't her, but Mr. Dickenson told us not to let her do that kind of stuff… I don't see how it can hurt since she looks well enough compared to last time. It's amazing that she can be the same girl that was so afraid of me, but that look in her eyes….it's so different. Maybe I should wake Kai up and let him see this since he wanted to know if Snowflake did anything that didn't seem quite right. And this…the way she moves…isn't right.'
Leaving the camera on the table to still record the starch white haired girl below Ray pulled himself together before boldly walking over to the contently sleeping Kai and tapping his shoulder ever so lightly. "Kai…" A short paused followed before Ray tapped his shoulder and called Kai's name a bit louder. "Kai you need to get up and see this."
Kai's crimson globes, obviously not happy that he had been awoken so abruptly from his short slumber, met Ray's cat-like eyes. After a moment a stern reply was given to Ray, not very friendly at that. "What is so important that you need to disturb me because of it? It had better be good Ray.." Kai slowly lifted his head from his crossed arms, the gloss of sleep fading away as if it had never been there in the first place, but the look of well-needed rest still marked his features.
The only thing Ray could do was grin at his teammate's expression, dragging the quite capable of walking and moving on his own Kai to his feet and over towards the observatory window. A half response was given as ray still grinned from ear to ear, "Well you wanted to know of anything unusual that Snowflake did, and I certainly think this is most unusual Kai.." A quick gesture was made down to the gym's floor as the steel blue eyed girl below finished with her tumbling routines and moved into a very difficult floor routine. For a long length of time Kai was silent, staring at the girl blankly and rather coldly almost as if too taken back to actually piece together what he saw.
'Impossible that this is the same weak girl that we were introduced to. The whole stature in which she carries herself is different almost as if another person, or possibly the real personality that lives in that body and mind has taken over. I begin to wonder if she is leading us on or tricking into thinking things that aren't actually true. Maybe this is the work of a new Biovolt experiment, and it seems to be a quite valuable experiment if at all one. Possibly that is why they want her back alive so badly..' Kai didn't take his eyes off the limber figure of Snowflake, conscious that his gaze could be felt but not caring in the least. "Ray, how long has she been down there doing that?"
"Uh…I'm not sure Kai. If I'm one to guess she's been down there for quite a long time now. With the way that she's sweating in that controlled atmosphere I'd say she's well past a decent workout and is pushing herself rather hard. I just got here myself, I couldn't really sleep so I thought I'd go find myself a tiger to film to prove that I've seen a real tiger in the.." Ray was quickly and sharply cut off by a urgent choice of words from Kai, or actually an order that made Ray look very puzzled since he wasn't paying attention to the girl below on the floor. "Go get Tyson's father, Ray." Slow blinks confirmed that Ray was thoroughly confused, so he asked why instead of doing what he was told to. "But for what Kai?" A glare which was directed towards the raven haired boy didn't seem to be enough to convince him to go without getting an answer, so Kai responded slowly as if he was talking to a mere child. "Remember Mr. Dickenson telling us not to let Snowflake do anything like that? Well he now has a good point because she's coughing up blood at the punching bag.."
This time that was enough to send the Chinese boy on his was, glancing quickly down at the tan skinned girl before making his feet move swiftly enough to carry his light form to the observatory's door and down the steps just as quickly and effortlessly. He didn't really know where Tyson's father was, but he went in search for his bedroom first as Kai trudged along right behind him until the gym's door came into his view. Leaving Ray to do as he ordered Kai moved into the gym, crimson eyes glancing about before resting upon the knelt figure before the still swinging punching bag. Still she was coughing, each spasm bringing forth more blood that was dark in color to show it came directly from the lungs.
Moving across the gym Kai made his way over towards the cowering and coughing girl next to the punching bag, yet every time he advanced towards her she'd move further away, the effort quickly draining her strength as the coughing grew worse. Kai was growing frustrated, yet seeing the look in her eyes being so fearful and in pain made him realize that he had to be easier about how her approached her. 'Biovolt has to be responsible for this if she actually is one of their little experiments. Either that or she's playing a game she can't win either way she goes.' For a moment he stood in place, deep red eyes watching the suffering Snowflake as a sickening feeling wretched his stomach and pulled at his feelings. 'Useless emotions..'
Snowflake lost track of Kai, her vision blurring as her body shuddered with fits of rough coughs. The energy she had once in her body was fading, slipping away as she finally collapsed onto her side without even enough energy to curl her body up against the outside world. For a short time the spasms stopped making Kai think the worst was over until the spasms started again and her back arched. Soon her stomach churned only for its light contents to be spilled over the floor of the gym laced with ribbons of blood. Dry heaves soon followed once everything was emptied from Snowflake's stomach all over the floor around her only for the acid from her stomach to burn her throat and tinge her lungs from the breath-stealing spasms of bloody coughing.
As soon as Kai noticed that Snowflake stopped retreating from his advanced towards her he moved to her side, strangely feeling very concerned for this person he hardly knew. 'I'm getting too soft..' He glared at the feeling, keeping the shaking and shivering girl that still couldn't stop coughing up blood from rolling into her own vomit. As soon as he rested a bare hand on the tanned skin of her forehead where beads of sweat rested he drew if back, crimson eyes blurring with worry. 'The fever she has is beyond belief, even in this controlled atmosphere. It's her own fault though for doing something like this for being sick.' Reaching one arm around the back of her knees and the other around her back Kai hoisted Snowflake's oddly feather-light form into his strong arms, watching as her head lolled against his chest as another coughing spasm wracked her body painfully. Without another moment of thought Kai made his way out of the gym and towards the mansion's medical room with Snowflake resting in her grip, possibly her life as well.
Summary: When Biovolt goes after one of its past 'students' the BBA steps in and places the girl under the watch of the Blade Breakers. What are Biovolt's plans for this girl and what happens when they get a hold of her because she risked herself by saving one of the Blade Breakers that has grown fond of her.
Please review!
Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament
" " Talking ' ' Thinking
-Thank you for the reviews I really appreciate them!-
Clandestine Wolf
Chapter Two - Suspicions
A soft grunt filled the once silent atmosphere of the cast area that belonged to the South American mansion's gym. Both the physical point of the body and the sheer metal concentration were stretched to their most outer limits as small beads of sweat splattered nearly noiselessly upon the open floor of the gym. Limberness was forced to the max as the body moved in the most awkward angles while balanced on a single hand that held the body straight into the air. Each movement made was slow and laborious, yet perfectly balanced in the air.
Finally Snowflake shifted her body weight until the point that she was bent over while standing on two bare feet. Righting her body so that she now only stood on her feet rather than a single hand a slow sigh was made. It had been a mere few days since the incident with the boy Ray in the conference room. Mr. Dickenson was already gone while leaving behind strict orders not to let her do anything strenuous in any way shape or form. 'So pointless. He can't stop me, nor any of the others of this team that is to protect me when I don't really need it. I just wish this drug that Biovolt so carelessly gave me would wear off more quickly.'
Steel blue eyes no longer held a mixed and confused look of several feelings, rather being completely composed and in check of what they had looked like before. Being trained to push her body to the extreme limit by Biovolt Snowflake was just doing so, pausing briefly to wrap athletic tape around each wrist and ankle before moving her lean and limber body to the corner of the floor mat in the gym. Placing her feet together Snowflake balanced her weight on the balls of her feet for the briefest moment before rocking back onto flat feet. For a moment Snowflake simply stood there, still and silent as she thought out her next movements that would pass by in a mere blur.
Finally shifting her weight Snowflake ran forward several feet to get the right amount of speed before her body fell into a perfect rhythm of twists, jumps, and rolls that carried her body across the gym floor in a tumbling pass that could put a gold medalling gymnast to shame easily. Those passes were repeated over and over across the floor, each new one being changed in this way and that until the last one brought her tanned body into a floor routine that stretched her limber body to no end.
'If only they knew the true extent of the problem. I can't explain anything to this team that is supposed to be protecting me and watching me until this drug's effects wear off fully. Until then I'll just have to wait things out and wait until the drug has ran its course through me system. From there I only have to fully recover from the extent of damage that this drug did.' Steel blue orbs blinked slowly before the floor routine that Snowflake had been doing came to an end as she waltzed over to the awaiting punching bag.
'I wonder if they'll even understand what's going on in time before something happens.' Even more athletic tape was applied to her hands, being careful so her wrists wouldn't be injured or her knuckles end up bleeding by the end of the exercise. So the task was taken up, mauling the punching bag with a fury of punches and kicks. Each connection sent the bag shivering with the force of the hit, but on and on she pushed herself until the after effects of Biovolt's drug started to settle in again. Everything from there changed, the once easy routine coming messily as the look in Snowflakes eyes altered back to the confused and bewildered look of several feelings coming together.
It was too late, even as she attempted to calm herself down along with her breathing and heart rate, but the workout had been too rough on her and it was taking toll as the drug wore off and let its after effects ravage the body. Spasms of rough coughing took over, concentration being completely lost now. The punching bag swung on its chain as her knees turned to jelly under her and she fell into a kneel where she sat on her legs. Cough after cough brought forth a new harsher on that soon drew forth speckles of dark blood from her lungs and throat. As each short moment passed the spasms only got worse…
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Golden cat-like globes blinked slowly at the shadow-covered ceiling that they had been staring at for hours, looking to be much too awake to sleep. Soon Ray lingered his golden eyes to look at the digital clock that rested on the nightstand next to his comfortable waterbed. 'Only a quarter after four in the morning and I doubt anyone else is up this early.' He had been lying there four hour after hour; unable to fall asleep in the comfort of the room he had picked out to be his in the mansion. It was filled with blues and whites along with a few golden hints here and there, not to mention rather large and air-conditioned to be just perfect. Ray still couldn't decide what was actually keeping him awake, but it seemed futile to still try to fall asleep. 'I guess I'll just walk around the mansion for while, just have to be careful of not waking the others up. I'm sure they don't want to be up this early in the morning just because of me.'
The waterbed wavered and sloshed softly as Ray slid from its jiggling form. Quickly and effortlessly he got dressed in his usual Chinese outfit of white and blue, pulling on his headband along with his shoes before grabbing his video camera and slipping out of his room silently. Still he was insistent on seeing a tiger in the wild and proving to everyone that he had actually seen it by catching the animal on tape. With cat-like stealth Ray moved down the hallway and down the flight of stairs to the first floor. Being as quiet as possible he tip-toed down the hallway the stairs led into towards the exit door for the pool, but a sudden muffled noise caught his attention and brought his movements to an utter halt. The noise was faint and Ray was beginning to insist that he was hearing things until the noise came again. Finally realization sunk in, quickly catching on to where the noise was coming from. 'Someone in the gym this early in the morning? They must me nuts…'
Switching his course Ray moved towards the flight of stairs that led to the observatory room for the large gym. Placing his free hand on the door he quietly pushed it open, grateful that the hinges were well oiled so they didn't squeak. To his surprise the light to the observatory room were already on, leaving him to wonder if someone was in the room still or had been there recently. A slow sweep over the wide room with his golden eyes and Ray found the reason that the lights were on; Kai had fallen asleep with an empty cup of coffee setting on the table next to the vanilla folder they all had been given about the girl called Snowflake. Kai's head was cradled in his arms, still sitting in his chair at the table, obviously having been working on something alone up here and falling asleep in the process of doing so.
'Poor Kai. I wish he didn't have to deal with Biovolt again, but of course the BBA doesn't care about that. It's not fair to him that he's going to have to deal with his grandfather over again along with everyone else he was trying to get away from. I'll just let him sleep while I find out who is in the gym. Can't be Kenny…Can't be me or Kai and that girl should know better.. Possibly Tyson's father?' Ray kept mussing over a few things, constantly feeling sorry for what Kai was going through before jerking himself back to reality. Padding over to the observatory window he gazed down at the fully lit gym below, blinking in mild surprise at the figure going about in the gym. Quickly he turned on his video camera, afraid no one would believe him if he didn't catch this on tape; Snowflake was finishing up a hard run and was settling into her one handed handstand. 'And here I thought it wasn't her, but Mr. Dickenson told us not to let her do that kind of stuff… I don't see how it can hurt since she looks well enough compared to last time. It's amazing that she can be the same girl that was so afraid of me, but that look in her eyes….it's so different. Maybe I should wake Kai up and let him see this since he wanted to know if Snowflake did anything that didn't seem quite right. And this…the way she moves…isn't right.'
Leaving the camera on the table to still record the starch white haired girl below Ray pulled himself together before boldly walking over to the contently sleeping Kai and tapping his shoulder ever so lightly. "Kai…" A short paused followed before Ray tapped his shoulder and called Kai's name a bit louder. "Kai you need to get up and see this."
Kai's crimson globes, obviously not happy that he had been awoken so abruptly from his short slumber, met Ray's cat-like eyes. After a moment a stern reply was given to Ray, not very friendly at that. "What is so important that you need to disturb me because of it? It had better be good Ray.." Kai slowly lifted his head from his crossed arms, the gloss of sleep fading away as if it had never been there in the first place, but the look of well-needed rest still marked his features.
The only thing Ray could do was grin at his teammate's expression, dragging the quite capable of walking and moving on his own Kai to his feet and over towards the observatory window. A half response was given as ray still grinned from ear to ear, "Well you wanted to know of anything unusual that Snowflake did, and I certainly think this is most unusual Kai.." A quick gesture was made down to the gym's floor as the steel blue eyed girl below finished with her tumbling routines and moved into a very difficult floor routine. For a long length of time Kai was silent, staring at the girl blankly and rather coldly almost as if too taken back to actually piece together what he saw.
'Impossible that this is the same weak girl that we were introduced to. The whole stature in which she carries herself is different almost as if another person, or possibly the real personality that lives in that body and mind has taken over. I begin to wonder if she is leading us on or tricking into thinking things that aren't actually true. Maybe this is the work of a new Biovolt experiment, and it seems to be a quite valuable experiment if at all one. Possibly that is why they want her back alive so badly..' Kai didn't take his eyes off the limber figure of Snowflake, conscious that his gaze could be felt but not caring in the least. "Ray, how long has she been down there doing that?"
"Uh…I'm not sure Kai. If I'm one to guess she's been down there for quite a long time now. With the way that she's sweating in that controlled atmosphere I'd say she's well past a decent workout and is pushing herself rather hard. I just got here myself, I couldn't really sleep so I thought I'd go find myself a tiger to film to prove that I've seen a real tiger in the.." Ray was quickly and sharply cut off by a urgent choice of words from Kai, or actually an order that made Ray look very puzzled since he wasn't paying attention to the girl below on the floor. "Go get Tyson's father, Ray." Slow blinks confirmed that Ray was thoroughly confused, so he asked why instead of doing what he was told to. "But for what Kai?" A glare which was directed towards the raven haired boy didn't seem to be enough to convince him to go without getting an answer, so Kai responded slowly as if he was talking to a mere child. "Remember Mr. Dickenson telling us not to let Snowflake do anything like that? Well he now has a good point because she's coughing up blood at the punching bag.."
This time that was enough to send the Chinese boy on his was, glancing quickly down at the tan skinned girl before making his feet move swiftly enough to carry his light form to the observatory's door and down the steps just as quickly and effortlessly. He didn't really know where Tyson's father was, but he went in search for his bedroom first as Kai trudged along right behind him until the gym's door came into his view. Leaving Ray to do as he ordered Kai moved into the gym, crimson eyes glancing about before resting upon the knelt figure before the still swinging punching bag. Still she was coughing, each spasm bringing forth more blood that was dark in color to show it came directly from the lungs.
Moving across the gym Kai made his way over towards the cowering and coughing girl next to the punching bag, yet every time he advanced towards her she'd move further away, the effort quickly draining her strength as the coughing grew worse. Kai was growing frustrated, yet seeing the look in her eyes being so fearful and in pain made him realize that he had to be easier about how her approached her. 'Biovolt has to be responsible for this if she actually is one of their little experiments. Either that or she's playing a game she can't win either way she goes.' For a moment he stood in place, deep red eyes watching the suffering Snowflake as a sickening feeling wretched his stomach and pulled at his feelings. 'Useless emotions..'
Snowflake lost track of Kai, her vision blurring as her body shuddered with fits of rough coughs. The energy she had once in her body was fading, slipping away as she finally collapsed onto her side without even enough energy to curl her body up against the outside world. For a short time the spasms stopped making Kai think the worst was over until the spasms started again and her back arched. Soon her stomach churned only for its light contents to be spilled over the floor of the gym laced with ribbons of blood. Dry heaves soon followed once everything was emptied from Snowflake's stomach all over the floor around her only for the acid from her stomach to burn her throat and tinge her lungs from the breath-stealing spasms of bloody coughing.
As soon as Kai noticed that Snowflake stopped retreating from his advanced towards her he moved to her side, strangely feeling very concerned for this person he hardly knew. 'I'm getting too soft..' He glared at the feeling, keeping the shaking and shivering girl that still couldn't stop coughing up blood from rolling into her own vomit. As soon as he rested a bare hand on the tanned skin of her forehead where beads of sweat rested he drew if back, crimson eyes blurring with worry. 'The fever she has is beyond belief, even in this controlled atmosphere. It's her own fault though for doing something like this for being sick.' Reaching one arm around the back of her knees and the other around her back Kai hoisted Snowflake's oddly feather-light form into his strong arms, watching as her head lolled against his chest as another coughing spasm wracked her body painfully. Without another moment of thought Kai made his way out of the gym and towards the mansion's medical room with Snowflake resting in her grip, possibly her life as well.
