Just a note before the chapter begins – all the Blood Knight's Bitbeasts use the first three letters in the names of the blader and then have ton on the end – Might is Migton, Mischief is Miston ect…
Day 14
It was a gray morning that Kaie awoke to. Her alarm said it was seven, but it looked too dark. Kaie turned on her bedside lamp and pulled out her black book. She wrote down her and Ben's name, as well as Tala's and Rage's. Then with a shaking hand she drew a black line through Tala's and Ben's.
Kaie mind flooded with all the memories she had of Tala. How, in season one, he had been a member of the Demolition boys with her brother Kai, how he had bladed against Tyson in the final battle, and most recently what he had been like in the tournament.
Kaie closed her book and put it back under her bed. A small light shone in through her window, so Kaie turned off her lamp and dressed into a warm pair of pants and shirt, grabbed her blade and decided that today the park was calling her.
Kaie almost turned back when the park came in sight, simply because of all the powerful memories, but she continued forward because of those memories and the sanction that only the park could give her.
As Kaie sat on the swing; her only companion the swelling wind. For the first time she felt numb, and alone. She had always been alone in her home world, but she had always had her parents to say hi, Jordan to e-mail, and even her classmates although they made a point to ignore her at least they did so pointedly. Although they were, in her opinion, loud and irritating, they were people… and more to the point, people that acknowledged her existence.
Blue Dranzer appeared before her, and Kaie looked up, with unseeing, blurred, eyes. Then with a cracking voice she said quietly,"Why me?"
When Dranzer didn't answer Kaie looked at the gravel and continued.
"Why am I the only one left? Why am I the one left behind? Why do I have to deal with the guilt…the guilt of not doing more to stop it?"
Dranzer paused before answering. "You are here because no one else is able to stop everything from happening. Everyone else was destined to loose, and you…you have…something no one else has…"
"What?" she asked
Dranzer wanted to tell Kaie everything and the major part of this that she was in charge of.
But he couldn't.
"Kaie…you are part of a larger picture here. You are part of a much larger event that is taking place. You will understand."
Kaie said nothing and looked over farther to the gravel. She almost began to cry with what she saw.
Kaie got up and knelt next to the swings, tears spilling on the gravel.
In front of her were two blade paths. Hers and Max's.
Her fingers gently traced the path, and fire suddenly burned inside her. She would not loose. Kaie vowed to battle with utmost strength and power, and the only way to do that was to train. Her blade flew, powered by her strong thoughts and emotions. Her blade finally came to a stop in front of her, exhausted.
Kaie picked up her blade and sat facing the gravel mark of her blade and Max's. She touched Max's path again when all of a sudden a jolt shot up through her arm and her vision blacked.
"I promise I will look after your parents and I will bring you back." Max looked at her, and Kaie leaned down and kissed him
Max smiled, closed his eyes, then went limp, and Kaie knew he was gone.
Max felt himself loosing Kaie. He had lost his body and was now floating in black nothingness. But he had kissed her, and she had kissed him.
Max smiled mentally, as he had no body with which to smile. A strong wind began pulling him and he couldn't help but be suck through the vortex.
The pulling stopped and he found himself once again in a black void, but ahead of him he saw a red light coming toward him.
The red light came closer and although it did not speak, he knew what it said.
Welcome Draciel and Max. I am Dranzer, and we have been sent to guide you to where all the others are.
Then as if from himself he heard a response, Thank you Dranzer that is very kind of you.
Max was confused. What was going on?
Max felt himself moving, and following the red light. A voice entered his head and he recognized it to be Draciel's. Fear not Max. If you wish to 'talk' to me then channel all your thoughts towards me and I can hear them.
Max thought at Draciel What happened? Why are we following a red light?
You tied with Might and so you were, after four minutes, sent here. The red light is Kai's Bit Beast Dranzer. Kai's soul is inside Dranzer's aura, just as yours is in mine to keep your spirit from becoming lost. To everyone else you look like a green light.
Max took a moment to understand then thought back Where are we going?
According to Dranzer we are going to the general congregation of where everyone is, rather than the outskirts.
Max though some more then thought to Dranzer You said that you are keeping my soul from becoming 'lost' so what about everyone who doesn't have a bit-beast but was sent to this world? And if you have my soul, why can I see?
There was a long pause before Draciel replied You can see…well it is fairly complicated, but you know the saying "Eyes are the windows to the soul"? the reasoning is along those lines. And about the other humans - Bit beast children and older bit-beasts are protecting them. In some cases there are three bit-beast children to one soul, and they switch off when they get tired.
Max was amazed. The bit-beast children were looking after other humans souls.
Max looked off to his right as he began to pass more lights. He saw a yellow light and a pink light together and thought at Dranzer Is that Rei and Mariah?
Yes Draciel responded.
Can I communicate normally with everyone else?
Yes, just instead of speaking, think at them.
The lights were gathered in a semi-circle around Dranzer. Draciel and Migton have just joined us. Now Draciel we have heard a rumor that your human can communicate with Kaie, one of the two bladers still in the tournament. Is this true?
You answer Max. Draciel thought
Max looked at the red light and thought, Kaie has the power to communicate with me and I don't know if I can communicate with her.
But there is a connection? Asked Dranzer
Yes. Max answered
Draciel Dranzer asked We need to get a message through to Kaie and the only person who can is Blue Dranzer and he is looking after Kaie.
Draciel agreed
Miston, please go to Draciel.
Both bit-beasts backed out of the semi-circle and moved father from the group and they faced each other.
Hey Mischief, how are you? thought Max
My name isn't Mischief, its Adam.
Oh, sorry. It's just… Max said
It's okay. The message is about about…well; Michael said that you and Kaie have a strong connection that allows you both to communicate without talking.
Yes.
Does it work even here?
I don't know…that is Kaie is the one who can communicate, not me. I think though, if I feel an emotion strongly she can feel it and then hear my thoughts. Max answered
So you think she knows what is going on right now?
I don't know.
Kaie felt her mind enter a dark world. She could hear voices, yet could see nothing. --
Well…OK listen I have to tell you something important that might help Kaie in her match tomorrow, if she can hear you. It will save her if she knows.
Knows what? Max asked
Rage is also known as Alexander Bolkavo.
What? Boris's son? Max exclaimed
Yep. Adam said The one and the same. Boris staged his loss to the Blade Breakers, to make them believe that they were unbeatable. He was then taken away to train in private as one of Boris's Knife Bladers, and then two days before the tournament started Alexander's cloned bit beast created such a powerful blast that the… walls I guess you would call them… opened between this world and our world. It was a spell of sorts, from what I understand, which opened the tunnel temporarily.
However there was so much force that he himself got sucked in too. He was stuck there until just before The Demolition Boys took on the Blade Breakers. He was back, but he was unable to move, and his pulse was so slow.
However they used the knowledge of the other world in Tala's battle against Tyson.
That is where Tyson went when he battled Tala? Here? Max exclaimed
Yep. There battle was just over where that pink and yellow light are. Adam replied
They did a lot of research in the year where Zeo and Ozuma were around, and then they discovered how to get people's minds here while their bodies' stayed. They found a new spell that says that if you sacrifice a bit-beast, a powerful one, then the portal between the two worlds was opened. They sacrificed Black Dranzer, and opened the portal and planned the tournament to get all the 'professional' bladders off the planet.
Why? Max asked
Why? Because Boris came up with it. He wanted his son to be the only champion, and to show Voltaire that his son was better than Kai, or Tala, or anyone else the Abby trained.
Then the tournament went wrong. It is triggered by feelings of loss, and was suppose to be confined to the area alone. However, the confinement was, well the spell that was holding it failed, as Black Dranzer was too strong and it expanded across the world so any kid that lost and a beyblade they were sent here, and came parallel to wherever they fell. If they were defeated in England then they reappeared in the equivalent of England here.
So Alexander has been behind everything, along with Boris. How did you guys all team up? Max asked
Bruce, or Control, was threatened onto the team. Lance, Victory wanted just that, Victory. Wins, wins, and more wins, but he also wanted a powerful blade and bit beast.
Stephen, Might has no parents, and so after Voltaire was arrested and the Abby disbanded, he had nowhere else to go.
What about you? How did you get on the team? Max asked
I joined because I wanted to get in on the big leagues, to prove myself. Instead a gir…Mariah beat me. You see Boris and Alex made up the rules so they knew it would be every man for himself, so why would he care who his team mates were? It made no difference to him.
You do believe me, don't you Max?
I do Adam.
I'm sorry. Adam said
Max looked at him
For everything. If it weren't for this stupid tournament you and I wouldn't probably be here.
Max said nothing. What could he say? He was right.
Kaie felt herself falling and she hit the ground. She was breathing hard as she regained her vision. Kaie took her blade out of her pocket and clutched it, willing her heart to slow down. "Dranzer what happened?" She said to her blade
Dranzer's voice echoed in her head Max wanted you to hear that and so I helped to keep the connection.
"Why couldn't I see anything?"
You soul is still in your body, and thus you can not see in a world, which is essential a black hole with the exception of the souls.
"Then it is true? Rage really is Alexander?"
Yes, if you believe what Mischief is saying.
"Max believed him, and so he can't be all bad."
Kaie stood and walked carefully around the blade paths to the deserted stadiums. Her long blue hair blew gently in the wind and Kaie launched her blade.
It was five o'clock that night when Kaie finally decided to call it quits. She left the park, with a small bow to the site of the blade paths, and then walked the ten blocks to the hotel. She turned the final corner, passing a both selling hotdogs, when a business man walked past her.
She felt his eyes on her as she continued walking then he called out, "Miss!"
Kaie turned to face him. He walked up to her and said, "You aren't by any change Kaie Logan are you."
"I am."
The man's face lit up. "Are you doing anything tonight?"
Kaie's face must have shown her surprise at the question the man immediately repented,
"You see my son is a blader. He hasn't been himself though…what I mean is that he lost his best friend to the Other World.
My son was blading him and he lost. He fell unconscious and they called the hospital and he was the tenth person that had 'dropped dead'
We had no idea what was happening at that point, but once we found out what happened…my son watched the tournament and prays that his friend will come back.
I asked you if you were doing anything tonight because my son would love to see you and we are having spaghetti tonight so there is more than enough for a guest."
Kaie's face softened. This man clearly loved his son and seeing him unhappy must be hard for him. "I'll have to ask my coach, but I'm sure she will be fine with that as long as I am back here by nine."
Kaie opened her cell phone and dialed Judy's number. Max's dad picked up with a tired hello.
After explaining the situation and assuring Max's dad that she had her locator on Kaie hung up. Kaie's locater was in the form of a bracelet on her ankle.
"My name is Cohen by the way." The man said.
They stopped at a modest house with a green lawn. Cohen unlocked the door, and announced his arrival.
A slim woman appeared from the kitchen wearing an apron with a small red stain on it.
"Amelia," Cohen said, "This is Kaie Logan."
Amelia looked at Kaie, and then realization came to her eyes. "Kaie Logan the beyblader?"
Kaie nodded.
"Evan!" Cohen yelled, "We have a visitor." Immediately following his yells thuds came from upstairs followed by loud feet on the stairs.
"Who is it dad?" came a young voice.
Evan came into view. He was a slim child, like his mother, and had white- blonde hair. His eyes were blue and he had pale skin. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt and a pair of black cargo pants.
Evan looked past his dad to the blue-haired new arrival. He immediately recognized the figure. "Kaie?" he asked
"Yes?" she answered.
Evan looked at his father. "How did she get here?"
Cohen looked at Kaie and said, "I was on my way home when I saw her walking down the street. From watching the tournament I recognized you, and I asked if Kaie would come for dinner, since it is spaghetti night."
Kaie finished, "I agreed because I wanted to meet Evan."
"I'm going to get some work done before dinner, so if you need me I'm in the office." Amelia nodded and said, "Why don't you show Kaie the basement. I'm sure you can entertain yourselves there."
Evan led Kaie downstairs, still unable to believe that she was there.
The basement was filled with games and such, but the biggest attraction was the giant television screen.
"Do you want to watch something?" Evan asked shyly
"Sure." Kaie answered.
"What do you want to watch?"
"What ever you want to" she replied
"You alright with Harris Potter?"
"With who?"
"Harris Potter. The movie that was made from the book, about a wizard who is eleven and he goes off to Hagwarts?"
"You mean Harry Potter?"
"No…it is called Harris Potter."
"Okay, well then let's watch that" Kaie said.
As it was rewinding Kaie said, "Your father said that you lost a friend to the Other World."
Evan nodded. "Aaron. It is my fault too. I shouldn't have bladed him. If I had held off another three minutes the people would have arrived to tell us to stop."
"That wouldn't have changed the outcome." Kaie said gently. "If you tied you would both be sent to the Other World."
Evan said nothing, so Kaie broke the silence. "I lost all my friends."
Evan looked up at the teen, who stared at the blank television. "All my team mates, all my friends…even my own brother are gone. And there is nothing that I can do…other than win tomorrow and I don't even know if that will work."
"You have it harder than me" Evan said with the wisdom of a ten year old. "At least I still have some of my friends."
The video machine clicked that it was done and Evan ran to get the remote.
The movie Harris Potter was almost identical to what Kaie knew to be Harry Potter except that some of the names were different.
They ate dinner after the movie was finished, a large portion of spaghetti with either meat sauce or Alfredo sauce. There was much talk around the dinner table, about everything from politics to what kind of cheesecake each of them liked best to the most disgusting thing they had ever eaten.
They finished dinner and Evan said goodbye to Kaie and thanked her. "Will I ever see you again? In person?"
Kaie knelt down next to him so they were at eye level. "If I can I will." And so Evan gave her his full name, address and phone number and went to bed.
Cohen ordered a taxi for Kaie as it was getting close to her curfew. "Thank you for coming. Evan, and all of us really enjoyed your company."
Kaie gave a small smile. "It was my pleasure. It was nice having someone who understood what was really going on and the situation that all of us were in."
Cohen took a moment to process that and then said, "You mean Evan?"
Kaie nodded. Outside she saw the taxi pull up. "Your son lost a friend and it was his fault. Just to stay in the tournament someone has to go. I am at the ninth level." Then with a small bow she left.
"Good luck!" Cohen yelled "And thanks!"
Kaie arrived back just under her curfew and after checking in with Max's parents (Mainly dad) Kaie went to sleep butterflies forming in her stomach as apprehension filled her due to the battle the following day.
Another chapter done!
So the next chapter is the final chapter in this saga. I have all my ideas for the sequel so it should be coming out fairly soon following the next chapter… oh and it will be called One Year. So on to my lovely reviewers!
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