Sorry for the wait, but I am busy…as usual. So on to my 3 reviewers.
Princess Fey – I hope your fingers are better. Just out of curiosity why didn't you use oven mitts? You want Max to go first…Well we shall see.
Miss Inocent – Yay – you are Canadian too!!!!!! You haven't probably got to this point yet, but thanks for reading it anyway!!
LunaRavenCroft – Glad that you are honest. In retrospect I wish I hadn't made everything so confusing but I think it should start to make sense. To help everyone I did a general recap of what is going on. You want Max to go…everyone seams to be against him. .'
Day 9
"O.K., so explain to me again what happened." Kaie said
Max nodded, remembering back not only to what he had been told by the 'God', but from Draciel as well. "Siloam, he is the bit-beasts' 'God' and he was sent by Andromeah to tell me what was happening to you. Siloam said that when you travel between worlds you loose a small amount of your soul, parts of it drift off.
When you came here from your world you lost a lot of these parts and so in order to keep you alive Dranzer had to give you part of his own soul so you could live.
Dranzer's soul heals quite fast and is not vital to have in order to live and in about three years from when you came to this world his would be healed.
But your link attack, which worked fine in your world because there you both had a full soul, nearly killed you here.
Because your soul links with your bit-beast and when you attacked you and he were one, and when you both separated, all of his soul that he gave to you went back to him, thus knocking you out, as you had practically none. But the soul that went back to Dranzer couldn't return because his body had changed since it left, so it disappeared leaving both of you weak.
So both of you needed your souls added to/repaired. This can only be done in Fainter's world, a black part of space, if it is done by a bit beast other than your own. A bit beast named Andromeah (an-DROM-oh-me-ah) is helping you.
The spell, that is what Draciel called it, has five parts to it, in order for your soul to be healed, and it is directly linked to your blading. The five times that you blade it pulls you into the world."
Kaie nodded, then pulled out her blade. "What time is it?"
Max looked at his watch, "7:02"
Kaie looked at her blade and then taking a deep breath she launched her blade. Her blade touched the ground, but this time instead of not being able to breath, she was falling and unable to stop, unable to scream.
Max caught her body as she fell, and grabbed her blade. His senses were on full alert, completely vigilant. Draciel emerged and took a protective stance in front of Max, where he sat in the hallway.
After around four minutes Kaie bolted upright, quivering. Max looked at her, and said quietly, "Kaie?"
She was trembling, and then she fell onto the ground on all fours, facing away from Max. Tears began running down her cheeks, and falling onto the floor. Max knelt next to her, and when he realized she was crying he put his hand on her shoulder, and gently pushed her into a kneeling position facing him.
"Kaie? What happened?"
She said nothing, and the tears continued to flow. Max did what was defiantly not instinctive to most males, but for him it was. He went over to her, knelt in front of her and then pulled her into an embrace, his arms around her, her head resting on his chest.
Kaie made no sound, but the tears continued and began to soak Max's shirt, but Max did nothing except hold her tighter. Soon her tears slowed, and then stopped.
Max made another attempt at conversation, "What happened?"
Kaie closed her eyes and said, "The spell…has some side effects…at different stages…it does different things to you…makes you relive parts of your life…see…things that influence you…even if they are not things you have witnessed, they …might be things that will occur or are happening right now." Kaie paused and took a breath, not yet noticing that she was in Max's embrace.
"I saw my father killing my mother…from his perspective…and hers…I felt her death…in my body…and then I saw Voltaire's perspective…and he didn't care at all…and then…then…I saw…my father being murdered…he was killed…attempting to get into Voltaire's mansion…for revenge…but…he was tortured…to…to…death."
Max held her tighter to his body, and said nothing. After all what could he say? Kaie then realized that Max was holding her, and she did her best to hide the resulting blush. Then she said quietly, "Let's go have breakfast. Your mom will wonder where we got to."
Max let go of her and helped her up, as she was a little shaky on her feet, but by the time they got to the elevator she was walking normally.
Breakfast was eaten in silence, broken only by the clinking of cutlery on the plates. Max then realized that his mom knew nothing of what was going on. Then, looking across at Kaie he decided that maybe this was one of those thing better left unsaid.
Max was then struck with a horrible thought. If Kaie couldn't blade then how was she going to practice?
Then as soon as the thought came up, a solution came to him.
"Mom?"
"Yes Max?"
"Is the AIBS running?"
"Yes, Max. Do you want to use it?"
"Yes please…actually Kaie and I both want to try it." Kaie did her best not to choke on her juice
"Sure. It is set up in the basement in number B08."
"Thanks mom."
"I just hope it helps."
Max led Kaie to the elevator and as soon as there were inside Kaie said, "Okay spit it out. What is an AIBS? And what on earth are we doing with it. You know that I can't blade!"
"An AIBS is an Artificial Intelligence Beyblading simulator. You use it to practice without a blade – you have a virtual blade instead. All you do is program in your blades code, put on the sensors and helmets and then you can virtually blade anyone."
The elevator doors then opened and Max led them down the dank hallway till they came to B08. The room was lit only by a solitary computer screen. Max flicked on a light, causing Kaie to take a sharp intake of breath.
The room was huge with hundreds of computer monitors, and in the middle of the chaos of wires and hard drives there was a glass container that looked like a gazebo with only a small gold knob.
"Welcome to the AIBS." Max said. "My mom had it installed a few months ago so that we could analyze and then blade other virtual opponents. This is still just a pilot project and that is the reason that it is here and why she let us use it."
Kaie said nothing, just gazed around the room as Max pulled out a three huge books, each about twice times the size of an ordinary phone book.
"Now you have to find your blade numbers in here and put them into the computer." Max said "Starting with your attack ring. Look at the shape of the outside edge of the attack ring and see which one is closest to yours."
Kaie looked for a while then said, "L is the closest."
Max nodded, typed that in and then said, "Are there any holes on the bottom of your blade, and if so how many and which shape are they?"
Kaie looked at her blade and said, "15 holes and they look like A."
Max typed that in too. "How many of the selected blade type are there?"
"2"
"Are there any other blades on the attack ring?"
"Yes."
"What does it look like?"
"F"
"Is the space between the two blades equal?"
"No"
What do the spaces look like?"
"AAC and FGQ"
"Do you have a standard bit-beast holder?"
"Yes."
Max sighed. "One third done. Weight disk and base to go." He said as he pushed one book out of the way and opened another."
In the end the screen of the computer looked like this:
Attack ring corresponding sequence: L15A2YFN-AAC-FGQY
Weight disk corresponding sequence: M8B(SH)AKEN164Y
Base corresponding sequence: C4DP1.34534/DIV/OFFSET/YU
Max pressed the submit button and an ERROR: 23953402-1 message appeared. Max sighed and pulled out a thick hardcover manual from under the desk. After a few moments he said, "Is your weight disk protrude from your blade? I mean does it do all the attacking rather that your attack ring?"
Kaie nodded. Max raised his eyebrows and then typed C into the computer telling it to continue. After that it took five minutes to load then said it was ready.
Kaie was strapped up and ready to go. Max put the helmet on and pointed out the red button that terminated the simulation if there was a problem.
Max ran back to the controls and started the simulation, viewing everything that was going on from the position of the opponent.
Kaie understood everything fairly easily and battled her first opponent with relative ease, although what she found hardest was figuring out the goggle things that were in her helmet. They had green lenses and acted like goggles that a sniper would use, as they kept locking on to moving targets.
Kaie battled till she was defeated and then changed places with Max who reprogrammed himself in. Kaie found it to be more entertaining watching someone else than blading herself.
The day passed in a whir, and soon it was 6:55, and they stood in the hallway outside their rooms, with the floor's main doorway locked and Kaie was taking deep breaths before preparing to launch her blade.
"Ready?" Max asked
"No, but I have to do it sooner or later. This is only the second of five and if I want to have any hope of blading properly then I am going to have to do this." Then she closed her eyes and launched her blade, and felt as is she was being pulled upwards and she stayed standing up. Max stood with his hands around her ready to catch her should she fall.
Four minutes passed and Kaie woke up, still standing.
Max waited for Kaie to regain control of herself before asking, "What did you see?"
She looked at him and said, "A vision of the future. I walk into a gym and I help a girl to blade. I help her, but something inside me is telling me that it is important to remember that – to remember to help her.
And that was all. I don't even know what she looks like. All I know is that I have to help a girl who wants my help blading in a gym."
"Not as bad as last time though."
Kaie shook her head. "Little could be as bad as last time. I think I'm going to hit the sack early tonight, what about you."
Max yawned. "Yep, I think I will too. Oh, and I better set my alarm for 6:45."
Kaie nodded. "See you in the morning" she said as she went into her room.
"See you then."
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