Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of its characters.

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.

-Ok I'm working some little quirks out in my story plot, but this chapter should clear a few things up.-

Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament

"…." Talking '….' Thinking

Clandestine Wolf

Chapter Twenty-One - Running Away

There were those laughs again, filling the atmosphere with a chilling feeling of reality. This time the male children of the all boys' school were laughing merely because they liked to mock and make fun of the outcast student. This was before the beyblade battle, before the boys learned their lesson about under guessing someone else's abilities. Even at night when the doors were locked and all the students were in their dorms all the boys still laughed at the student they really didn't understand. It was like a curse, or possibly a punishment it half seemed as things were always blamed on the outcast. Pranks were pulled, fingers were pointed, and detentions and demerits were given. No matter how hard the one student tried it just never seemed good enough for the teachers or the boys of the prep school. It was always one thing or another, but the blame was always on the outcast when something happened. If an item would go missing from someone's dorm or locker, the one student would get blamed for the whole thing, yet even as the outcast's dorm was searched they never found the item that was stolen.

The whole event didn't last much longer than a few years, as it ended very quickly after the beyblade match where a good deal of damage was done both to the beyblades and the school building its self. The wolf type bit beast Cynewolf was stronger than anyone would've actually guessed, its mighty howl still ringing clearly in everyone's eardrums even a good week after the match. Everyone who had fought was mortified, lost in fear and utter disbelief that they could've so badly misjudged someone. It was like a nightmare that played over and over again in everyone's minds as they closed their eyes to sleep at night, as even the teachers found fear etched into their hearts after seeing the destruction that was caused by the one student that they despised so much. It was like putting hatred against the will to survive, and the outcast made it known that they were the strongest and had the will to survive and the will to overcome the hatred that was directed towards he/she.

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Steel blue eyes fluttered open, met by the dull light of morning while the whole scenery soon came into view. Alexis was no longer in the cozy little den, but lying out on a makeshift bed on the soft green grass of an opening in the forest's trees. It was just barely morning, the sun creeping its way up the horizon as birds chirped happily. It seemed every time she woke she was in a new place, but the wind was chilly showing she was still in the forests of Russia meaning she hadn't been moved far at all. The brief thought of being further into Russia and back into the hands of Biovolt crossed her mind for a single moment, but then the realization that Biovolt was gone forever sunk in. It was a new day, yet that also made it another day without Kai and his friends as well as another day without Cynewolf. The world just seemed to hollow and empty without them, as if the sun didn't have any warmth to it and everything was just as cold as can be.

With a sigh Snowflake sat up, but the movement was soon regretted as a sharp pain started at her side then crawled up her chest. Pushing the blanket down, a soft blue one with quilted designs on it, Alexis moved her arms carefully so that the pain would suddenly lash out again. Lifting the loose gray dress shirt that had been put on her a pair of steel blue orbs grazed over the white bandage stained with crimson wrapped around her abdomen and lower chest. Starting from her pelvis bone on the left side and running up in a jagged line there was a deep gash along Snowflake's ribs, the stiffness of stitches making it so the flesh would heal properly together under the white bandages. A further inspection of her body would show many healing cuts and bruises that were less serious but just as painful. 'I don't remember crawling away from the Abbey… All I remember was the blinding white light before everything fell down around me in the ventilation shaft, and then there was blank. Maybe I did somehow just crawl my way out of there, my body wanting to survive while my mind was out of commission. It's all so hazy though, so empty….'

Being extremely careful about her bandaged wounds Alexis rose to her feet, staggering more than once as her balance was easily off set. Without Cynewolf everything was just off, her senses, her balance, and her strength. 'I must be weak if I can't even stand up without Cynewolf helping me. No wonder why he hasn't came back… And Kai, he must think me already gone and dead.' Holding her left side Snowflake shifted her body and moved towards the brighter patch of sunlight, shivering even as the warmth of the rays of light traveled through her dark skinned body. Every part of her body ebbed with pain while her mind churned with uncertainty and nausea. 'Is life really so alone..? Is this what Kai and the others felt like before helped them? Now I wonder if I even helped them at all..'

"It's a nice day out, isn't it? You know you really shouldn't be walking around with your wounds, you could tear the stitches." The voice came from behind Alexis, causing her to whirl around to find whom it had came from but the sudden movement sent her balance off the deep end. Strong arms caught her from falling, holding her there as she caught the balance that she lost. In an instant Snowflake thought Kai, but the voice just didn't match the arms around her. It was like a never-ending puzzle, a maze in which she would never get out of. "I'm sorry I startled you. My name's Lucas, Luscious' son. I'm the one that's going to be taking you to South America on one of the planes I own." The tone of Lucas' voice was warm and welcoming, his forest green eyes dancing as Snowflake lifting her gaze to meet the owner arms that held her up from behind. He really didn't seem much older than herself, possibly about three years at the most as thick locks of brown hair hung into his face.

"It's so cold… so lonely." Steel blue eyes turned away from the curious look that the forest green orbs gave back in response to the question, tears almost daring to spring to her eyes while she mentally slapped herself for even thinking about crying now. "Everyone thought I never left the Abbey, that my training just consisted of staying in that awful place, but they were wrong. The files about me that Biovolt posted were only partially true. Voltaire stuck me in a school, a prep school for boys. He found it highly amusing that me, a little girl, had to fight her way through the older high school boys. The teachers didn't even like me… Everything went downhill from there because I grew bitter, just like they wanted me to. I was nothing but a puppet, and I hated it but could do nothing about it, but that was until I discovered what they were talking about. Biovolt kept telling me I had something they wanted, and I never understood until that stormy day I was told to fight back. I beybladed the boys and the prep school, but even though I won I still felt as if I lost. I found what Biovolt wanted, and they used me because they couldn't take it away from me, but now I'm all alone… He's gone. My Cynewolf is gone…"

"From what I've heard you've been through a lot, Alexis. My father told me about what little you said to him, but your dreams explained a lot, too. Who ever knew that dreams could be so painful.. Here I always thought dreams were happy things that people wanted to do with their lives, but you dream of the past and what happen to you. I don't really understand much of what you're talking about, but it has to do with the building that was destroyed in Russia, doesn't it?" Lucas blinked his big green eyes thoughtfully, watching the expressions on Alexis' face change with time. Gently he smiled, not minding that she didn't respond him as she lost herself in her own little world. He could see her slipping away into depressions and loneliness, but there really isn't much he could do about it except for getting her where she wanted to go. "Father said you called him Kai. Isn't that the blader from the Blade Breakers that all the girls and some guys are gaga over? You must be some lucky person if you're a friend of his."

"He thinks I'm dead…" The words were soft, barely heard as Snowflake whispered them into the wind. Lucas tilted his head, looking down at the girl he held upright. "Pardon?" There was a silence between the two, one pair of eyes studying the ground with a sudden interest while the other pair of eyes studied the teen in front of them. "I said he thinks I'm dead… He probably has gotten over me already, wanting the pain to go away and to move on.." As a cold wind blew pass Alexis shivered, leaning back into the warmth of the arms that encircled her, but it all seemed so hollow as if something was missing. Even when Kai did held her the first time it was possessive and still caring in Kai's own special way, but being in Lucas' arms made her realize how much she really did loose. "Now you can't think that unless you really know it's true. Think for the best, not the worse."

"I've always had the worse, so I always think the worse. How long has it been..? Weeks, months since I've actually seen him or felt whole? With him went the other half of me along with Cynewolf, my spirit and lifetime companion. I'm alone just like he was, just like they all were before I changed them. I used to always think of the better, makes things seem better than they always were, but things got worse. I was thrown out like a dirty rag, a little experiment that Biovolt no longer wanted or needed when Kai came back. Am I that worthless? Is he throwing me out like a rag just like everyone else has done to me? Everything is just a mess, so confusing and so lonely… I just want things to be over with, for the pain to stop.." By now Snowflake was sobbing tears of pain, just finally letting it all go. It was the first time she had cried since Biovolt had taken her away from her parents so many years ago, but also the first time that everything had just fallen apart so badly. She had thought that letting go would help with the pain, but everything just backfired on her.

"Now look here, Alexis…" Turning Snowflake around Lucas held her by the shoulders, shaking her lightly with emphasis to show he meant what he said. "Stop your crying. You're not alone and you can't give up so easily just because things have always been rough for you. You're giving up and running away from your problems instead of facing them, and that is wrong to do. If Kai loves you like you make it seem to be then he won't let you go so easily, nor will this companion of yours. Bonds like that last forever, do you understand me? Forever means you won't ever forget the person, forget the way you felt about them and how they felt about you, forget the way they held you or took care of you when you were ill. Biovolt, or whatever you call the people who hurt you, are gone, the news said so. Stop running aw-.." The rest of the word was cut off by a sudden first, filled with anger, hitting Lucas' jaw and causing his grip to falter. Reality hurt like salt being rubbed in an open wound, and Alexis wasn't willing to accept anything right now with her mind in an emotional wreck. She had her mind set that everyone had forgotten about her, each hour passing washing away a memory that was supposed to last forever. The punch wasn't the last of it either as Alexis shoved Lucas away from her only to bolt as soon as her folded clothes next to the makeshift bed were retrieved. Every step made it feel as if her body was on fire, burning with pain, anger, and fear as each thriving second passed. Even as she ran she could hear Lucas calling after her and running after her, the stitches in her side tearing one by one to give her body easier movement. When back at Biovolt she was always the quickest, both with her beyblade and with her physical movements, and even with Cynewolf gone from her making her feel hollow and hopeless she still pressed herself to run like she was running from Biovolt all over again.

'There goes my free flight to South America to find out the truth. I'm just so confused, so pointless feeling. That week with Biovolt was hell enough, but I put myself through it to show that I could survive without Cynewolf and without anyone else, but in truth I failed my own test as I'm hollow and lonely. I'm missing a big part of me, and my parents… They're gone, forever at that. Tala is gone because of my foolishness not to realize that Biovolt was tricking me, and if Razor finds this out he'll hate me….They'll all hate me. I don't know if I should go back anymore, and I don't know if I'm even wanted back. Before this all happened I was so sure of myself and my feelings, but now I just don't know. This must be how they felt, how Tala and the others felt before I taught them different. Maybe I was the one who was wrong about feelings, maybe they are weak because I know now how weak I really am.'

Alexis had lost track of how long she had been running, out of breath now and in agonizing pain as the gash in her side bleed furiously in protest of moving anymore. Every muscle was protesting as well, no longer willing to move as they cramped up. It was then that she did stop running, falling to the ground against the base of a tree in a heap of flesh and bones. Now she regretted running away from those kind people, hunger making its self known as Snowflake's stomach rumbled hungrily. Was it all just going to end this way? Would she kill herself just because she refused to accept the truth? The sun was beginning to set, the forest silent yet the sound of cars close nearby. 'A road must be near…I'll just nap a little before traveling again. I'll go back to South America on my own… Just to find out the truth, do they miss me?'