Kai slowly got up and out of his bed as the sun began to rise. No matter how hard he had tried he couldn't get back to sleep the previous night. Carefully he dressed, watching out for his back. The bandages itched horribly, but he knew not to touch them, he didn't want to open them back up. His mind decided that he needed a walk, even though his body didn't agree.
Kai walked to the bathroom to finish, he was in his usual attire. The tight shirt actually helped to keep the bandages in place as he walked, so they weren't as itchy. Kai pocketed his faithful phoenix Dranzer. He still found it odd that she could come out and become human-like. He would have to talk to Kyouju more that day while they were practicing.
Kai found himself walking away from the school before he knew it. The air was brisk and he thought to himself that he should have grabbed a jacket. Kai decided in the end though that he could stand it, tired and hurt as he was. He was coming close to a wooden bridge in the schools large courtyard that crossed a pond. Kai walked onto the bridge and rested his arms on the railing. Holding his stance for a moment, before he took Dranzer out of his pants pocket. He looked at it as he noticed the normal shimmer that happened when he was blading and his bit beast would come out. He knew what was happening now though. She was going to take a physical almost human form again.
Dranzer left her bey blade and formed herself next to Kai. It wasn't much harder than coming out in a bey battle. Her master Kai didn't look so good. He had small bags under his eyes and looked unimaginably tired.
She looked over the water beside her master, still worried for his health.
"Hello." He said hoarsely as he looked over. Kai was more just commenting on her coming out than greeting her.
"What are you doing out here so early?" Dranzer enquired in a voice that almost scolded the hurt boy.
Kai didn't respond, he just continued looking out over the water.
Meanwhile, with Kyouju;
Kyouju was sitting at his desk working at his laptop. He and Dizzi were searching endlessly for information on Dranzer. And how she could take that form.
When he had told Dizzi about it the night before she was shocked to say the least. That lead Kyouju to believe that not all BitBeasts could do that. It seemed to him though that Dranzer was special, he wasn't sure how Kai had acquired her or where she had come from. Though, from what Ozuma had said before, she was ancient. At least ten-thousand years old.
He was having no luck! And from the sounds of things Dizzi wasn't either. It was eight-thirty a.m. by that time, and he had been up since five o'clock.
"Ohhh! Dizzi, have you had any luck?" Kyouju asked exhausted.
"Not yet Chief. All I can find are her stats and a little bit of back information that we already know." The laptop spoke, also exhausted.
Kyouju sighed and frowned a bit. "Kai is expecting me to help him though!" He shouted out when Dizzi spoke back up. "Well, maybe we can get her to come out and explain it to us?"
"Yes, that might work. But, from what Kai says he wants to exactly how it's done. And I'm not sure if Dranzer knows the specifics. Can she even go back into her Bey blade?" He asked out loud.
"I'm not sure." Dizzi answered as the duo continued to search the internet.
Kai walked with Dranzer to the Kinomiya's dojo-that was where they had a training room set up. He wasn't exactly sure how he would explain Dranzer's presence, but he wouldn't need her to work as his bit beast if they were just practicing.
He rounded the corner and met Max sitting outside on a bench, alone. When he noticed Kai he seemed to brighten a bit though.
"Hi Kai!" He smild as he rushed up to meet him. It was then that he noticed Dranzer and looked at her oddly, realizing that she was the same girl from the night before.
"Hey, where's Takao?" Kai asked bluntly, looking about for the other boy. At this Max seemed to frrown a bit.
"He's still sleeping, and Hiromi, Rei, and Chief aren't here yet. I was just waiting 'cause I got here early. But Daichi's in the kitchen." He answered, turning his attention to Dranzer.
Kai knew why Daichi hadn't been at the coffee house, he had been sick lately and Takao's grandfather refused to let him do anything until he was better. It was really rather pathetic. It was then that he noticed Max looking strangely at Dranzer.
"Hey Kai? Who's your friend?" Max asked as he blushed a bit. Hiromi had said after Kai and the girl had left that she was probably his girlfriend, or at least something close to that.
Kai thought about it for a minute; Should he tell Max her real name? Or should he make something up to call her? He really didn't want them all to know.
"Just call her D." Kai finally said. Dranzer lookd up at him and smirked inwardly, it seemd that he didn't want the others to know.
"Hi D, I'm Max Mizuhara!" Max yelled excitedly as he shook her hand. He didn't say that she was his girlfriend.
Kai went to pass Max, bent on waking Takao from lazing around all day. He went into the house/dojo and waved to Daichi and Takao's grandfather who were in the kitchen at the table. He entered Takao's room to find him snoring soundly on his bed on the floor.
Kai went to kick him lightly, as if to wake him, but he didn't budge.
"Come on Takao. Wake up. We have to practice." He said in a hard tone. When Takao still didn't move he got an idea, and smirked. Kai roughly pulled the pillow out from underneath Takao's head and placed it over his face, holding it down with his hand. He figured that Takao had to wake up sooner or later, his body would make him, or he would die.
After a moment, Takao started to thrash around in his blankets, pulling tha pillow away from his face. Noticing Kai, he glared.
"Kai? What the heck are you doing? Trying to kill me?" He shouted angrily.
Kai rose from the bed and brushed himself off, saying, "Come on, we have to practice. Get up." Kai then walked out of the room. They truly needed to practice, there was a tournament coming up…
How was that chapter? Next one will have more action and show them practicing and will have more on Dranzer. Tell me what you think!