3: Mission
"Lord Hiwatari, the young master has arrived in Canada, Raven is talking to him as we speak" said a middle-aged man as he walked through the door to a small square room,
"Excellent" came the whispered voice of a much older male. The room was bathed in a low almost black light, the small arch window let in a small amount of sunlight, dark red curtains covered the window, below the window was a desk where a figure sat. The muscular build portrayed the fact that the person was definitely a male. A smirk quickly spread across his features then vanished.
"Well get on with it" shot Kai continuing to glare at the black haired blader,
"Fine, Voltaire of cause wants control of the world" Raven paused for a moment then continued, "this time though he wont fail…"
"What makes you so sure, every other time he's failed" Kai cut in.
"True, but this time he has us" Raven said narrowing his eyes
"Us?" Kai questioned
"The Shadow team" replied Raven as if it were obvious
"I guess you could say where an upgraded version of the Demolition Boys. Our team consists of myself and two others," explained Raven
"That's only a three member team" spoke Kai
"Yes, but we'll have our forth member very soon"
"Oh really"
"Really, because you're the forth member"
"Me? But what if I don't want to join"
"Why are you telling me you actually like those Bladebreakers?"
"No I don't like them in the slightest, but how do I know if your team is any good?" asked Kai strengthening his glare,
"Well you'll just have to wait wont you. Look Voltaire as requested…no he orders you to join the team. Much to my disliking you'll be taking my place as team captain"
"Well Ok then, I guess you guys have to be better that those pathetic fools I USE to call a team"
"Excellent, I'll inform Voltaire of your decisions. Now will you be staying here with us or are you going to go back and stay in the Bladebreakers hotel room?" asked Raven not really caring that much
'Well if I went back to the Bladebreakers they'd ask where I was, and if they found out I was with Raven they would no doubt ask about him. I guess I'll just stay here' Kai went through the possibilities in his head, before speaking up "Which room his mine?"
"First door on your left" said Raven pointing down the hall, Kai let a small smirk cross his lips as he strode down the corridor. Stepping in Kai took in his new surroundings. The floor was carpeted light scarlet, while the walls where dark cream. A large queen sized bed was set in the middle of the room, four golden pillows lay at the head of the bed and a black quilt lay over it with golden makings etched across it. Off to the left was a large window, draped in royal blue curtains, which were currently tied back with a darker blue curtain tie. The bright sunlight filleted in through the window giving the room a dreamy look, on the right wall was a walk in wardrobe, on either side of the bed were small brown oak tables, each table had a lamp. The lampshade covers were orange giving the light they gave a romantic type of look. Also on the left table was a digital alarm clock, which at the moment read two o'clock pm, setting down his dark blue duffel bag he lay on the bed and closed his dark crimson orbs.
The four Bladebreakers exited their rooms and sat on the couch in the lounge.
"Hey where do you think Kai is he's still not back?" Max asked no one in particular,
"Who knows?" replied Kenny
"You think we should look for him?" asked Tyson
"We could do, but then he could be anywhere," said Ray
"Well we can start by looking around the hotel, he might not have even left, that lady at the front did say that Kai and some other guy went down one of the halls" explained Tyson
"True but they could have left while were all up here" said Ray looking over at Tyson
"Well the longer we stay sitting up here the more chance we're giving Kai to leave" shouted Tyson as he jumped up and ran out the door
"I guess we should follow him or he might get himself into a lot of trouble" said Kenny with a sigh as he too stood up and walked from the hotel. Max quickly followed while giggling quite loudly to himself. Ray sat alone on the couch in their hotel room for some seconds before getting up and leaving as well.
"So where should we start?" Tyson asked, the four Bladebreakers were standing in a circle in the lobby,
"Umm, I guess we should start with the main facilities," said Kenny, Tyson raised an eyebrow at this,
"What I mean is the pool, gym, games room, restaurants, etc," explained Kenny
"Oh, yeah" said Tyson in an I knew that sort of way,
"We should split up, we'll cover more ground" suggested Max
"Ok, I'll go this way," said Tyson pointing to his right
"Yeah we'll meet back here in about half an hour Ok," Kenny suggested as he turned and walked off in the opposite direction
"Yeah, we'll find Kai, no sweat!" shouted Tyson punching the air with his fist before he ran off in search of his team captain.
"Well I'm off in this direction" said Max walking away. Once again Ray was left on his own, with a sigh he walked to his left and out the back entrance of the hotel to the main grassed area.
Crimson orbs snapped open at the sounds coming from the other side of the door. Getting up Kai strolled over to the door and stepped out. Quickly scanning the room Kai noticed that Raven was sitting on the couch watching TV. The older teen had purposely turned up the volume to disturb his new captain. With a glare etched into his features Kai walked over to the couch and picking up the black remote and turned down the volume,
"You don't need it that loud" Kai shot glaring at Raven,
"How do you know, I might have a hearing problem" the black haired blader shot back
"You don't, that I know, you're just doing it to piss me off," exclaimed Kai, and in return Raven just smirked, pissing Kai off even more.
"Tell me what does my grandfather have planned this time?" Kai asked easing up a bit on the death glares,
"To tell you the truth I actually have no idea, we don't often get told very much except for what were supposed to do," explained Raven
"And what were you told to do?"
"Make sure you joined the team of course, I honestly haven't a clue what Voltaire has planed" said Raven getting up and walking past Kai.
"Where are the others?" Kai spoke
"Huh?" Raven turned around to look at Kai
"I said where are the other members of the team?" Kai spoke again
"I think I know where they might be. Follow Me," said Raven gesturing Kai to follow, the two teens walked from the hotel room closing the door behind them.
"Man I haven't seen him anywhere" Tyson complained when he and the others met up after their quick search of the hotel for Kai,
"Neither have I" said Max with a sigh,
"He may not be in the hotel you know" Kenny spoke up
"But we were told he went to the lift…" Tyson said with a sigh
"Yes, but when we were all at opposite ends of the hotel he could have came back down and left the hotel" Kenny explained
"Oh, I guess, but then there's still the possibility that he hasn't left," said Tyson
"True, but we can't just go around and knock on all the hotel doors asking it they know a guy named Kai" Kenny said
"Sure we can, we'll all take a level and ask everyone we see" suggested Tyson
"No we can't" Ray cut in
"Why not?" asked Tyson turning towards Ray
"Tyson, there are 33 floors to this hotel and each floor holds about 200 and something rooms. Now that's a lot of doors to knock on. Plus if Kai is with someone, and never told us then it's probably secretive. You know Kai, he doesn't want us to know anything about him. So if we happened to find the room Kai was in, the person he is with may lie to us and say that they don't know a Kai when really he may be sitting in there lounge" Ray explained
"But we could…"
"No Tyson we can not go through there rooms. That's trespassing and it would make the search even longer. And we don't even know if Kai's still here, he may have left ages ago" explained Ray while keeping his eye contact.
"I guess you're right" Tyson said with a sigh
"Look lets just go back to our room and carry on with our training. Kai will come back don't worry, we just need to give him sometime that's all" said Kenny before turning and leaving the lobby.
"Yeah come on Tyson," said Max-urging Tyson to follow.
The four Bladebreakers eventually made it back to their room to rest for the rest of the day. However if they had been a little bit slower they may have met up with Kai and Raven on the elevator when going down.
Both the blue haired and black haired Russians stepped off the lift at ground level (Lobby). Walking across the lobby room they made it to a door, which they stepped through. Entering the new room it seemed that the walls were mahogany and the floor was covered with white linoleum. In the distance the sound of people yelling could be heard, and the soft sound of something spinning like a beyblade echoed throughout the room. Walking down the hall they entered a large room. It seemed that Kai and Raven were standing in the stands of a beyblade arena, small chairs ran both left and right of the teens. Walking down the steps they were now down near the large gray metal beyblade stadium. Standing on either side of the large dish was two teens. The first, standing on the left was a tall boy aged eighteen, he had short brown spiky hair with green coloured eyes. He wore a red t-shirt with brown cargo pants. Stretching out his hand he caught a cream coloured beyblade with an orange attack ring. Opposite from him was a teenaged girl. She was aged seventeen and had long waist length silver hair with black strikes running through her silver locks. Long black bangs hung down to frame her face and a few lose strands fell over her sparkling ice blue eyes. She wore a dark blue tank top with black flare jeans, around her waist she wore a white belt. Her light blue beyblade with its gray attack ring continued to spin wildly around in the dish before it too returned to its mistress.
"Hey you two!" Raven shot,
The two teens looked up and saw Raven and Kai heading in their direction, both the brown haired boy and the silver haired girl stepped down from the beyblade dish to stand opposite Kai and Raven.
"Names Emerald" spoke the boy in a cold voice, while he glared at the slated haired teen before him,
"And I'm Moon" came the feminine yet harsh voice of the girl who narrowed her eyes at the crimson eyed Russian.
"So they're the other members?" asked Kai not looking overly impressed, Raven nodded his head.
"I don't trust girls on a team" Kai spoke
"What!" Moon shouted
"Don't trust girls huh, what is the female species not good enough for you. Just to let you know girls can blade just as good if not better than boys" Moon said narrowing her eyes.
"Girls are weak" came Kai's dead answer
"I'll prove that girls can be powerful," said the silver haired girl pulling out her blade again.
"Fine" spoke Kai narrowing his eyes at her.
Both Kai and Moon walked over to the large beyblade dish and readied their blades,
"3…2…1…Let It Rip!" both teens launched their blades simultaneously into the dish, the dark and light blue blades spun around the dish a few times before lunching themselves forward into each other. Sparks flew off in all directions as the two blades continued to push into one another. Suddenly the darker blue blade pulled back then shot forward this time with more force pushing the lighter blue one backwards. The two beyblades neared the edge of the dish and with one last push the light blue blade fell out and landed with a crash on the floor, leaving the dark blue blade to continue to spin around. With a smirk Kai held out his hand to which his beyblade returned to. Moon growled in anger as she stepped forward to pick up her blade.
"I told you girls are weak," said Kai narrowing his eyes at the teenaged girl before him.
"Come on already lets just get back to our room," said Emerald in an angry tone as he turned on his heels and left the training room. With one last glare towards Kai, Raven followed Emerald. Moon narrowed her eyes further as she watched Kai step down from the beyblade dish and walk back up the stairs to the door. The silver haired girl stood by herself for some seconds before following the boys out of the training room. Complete silence had fallen upon the Shadow team as they made their way back to their hotel room.
Stepping in through the door Moon went to her room, Emerald went to the kitchen for a drink, Raven sat down on the couch but never turned on the TV and Kai walked the length of the room and out the balcony door.
Once Kai stepped through the glass door the soothing sound of rushing water could be heard. Looking over the balcony Kai saw the largest waterfall in the world. Niagara Falls was only a few kilometers from the hotel. Up in the sky it was clear that the sun was getting ready to set. Surrounding the waterfall were lushes plants, and the sunlight reflected off the water making it look like something from a fairy tale. Kai stood leaning against the balcony railing till darkness had fallen upon the land. At about eight o'clock Kai finally decided to come back in. Stepping back through the doors Kai entered the main room only to hear the sound of Emerald and Raven talking quite loudly to each other,
"Come on, when are we going to leave, I'm starving!" the green eyed teen complained not to happily,
"Soon Ok, just wait!" Raven shot back,
"We can go now" came the feminine voice of Moon as she stepped out of her room,
"'Bout time" shot Emerald sending a death glare in the girls direction,
"You coming?" asked Raven glancing over at Kai,
"Yeah whatever" mumbled Kai as the four teens left their hotel room and headed for the restaurant down stairs. None of them spoke a word as they took the lift down seven levels, but death glares were thrown this way and that, the four teens wanted to make it perfectly clear that none of them liked one another very much. Stepping out of the elevator they walked down one of the halls till they reached the restaurant,
"Yes can I help you?" asked a polite man dressed in a white shirt and black pants as the Shadow Team came towards the desk.
"Table for four" replied Raven glaring at the all too cheerful man,
"Certainly, right this way" said the man looking a little nervous. The middle-aged man lead the four teens to a large circular shaped table draped in a white tablecloth. Four pearly white plates were place equally apart around the table, with a silver knife and fork on either side. On the right of each plate was a wine glass, and in the center of the table was a pale blue vase with two red roses and one white rose. The four teens sat down in dark brown oak chairs, as they sat the man handed each of them a black leather menu.
"I'll be back in a few minutes to take your orders," said the man before leaving, Moon glared at the mans retreating back as he headed off to the front desk. As the teens were reading the menus every now and then they would look up and around the restaurant scanning their surroundings. The flooring was made of red-brown floorboards and the walls where light yellow. Scattered around the room were tables of all different sizes and shapes, each had a white table cloth, with plates placed equally apart. At the other end of the room was the front desk where the middle-aged man stood leading customers to their tables. Around the room on the walls were a few paintings, some of animals, plants buildings or famous people. Near the center of the room was a large fish tank, all types of colourful salt water fish were swimming around.
"Are you ready to place your orders?" asked a waiter holding our a small writing pad and pen,
"Yeah I'll have…" all the teens placed their orders before the waiter left to go to the kitchen. (Sorry I wasn't sure what to make them order so I just left it. You can make them eat what ever you want).
The Shadow team waited in silence for the waiter to bring them their meals,
"So what are we going to do about the tournament?" asked Kai breaking the silence
"Win it of cause, no matter what the cost," replied Raven, Kai 'Hn' before turning his head away from Raven who sat opposite him. Looking up Emerald raised an eyebrow at Moon who sat opposite, in return he received shrug from the Russian girl. Emerald sat between Raven and Kai as did Moon, while Kai was between Moon and Emerald but across from Raven.
Some minutes later the waiter return with their food, the teens ate in silence while keeping their eyes on their food, although Raven occasionally glance over at Moon, and the silver haired girl would sometimes shoot murderess glares in her new team leaders direction. After their meal the teens left the restaurant and headed for the elevator to go back to their hotel room.
"Man I can't wait to get some food, I staving" yelled Tyson as he and the other Bladebreakers headed for the hotels restaurant. Unknown to any of them just around the corner the Shadow team were stepping into the lift. As they round the corner, Tyson noticed something white flow into the elevator that was situated opposite the restaurant. 'Huh…Kai' thought the dragon blader when he realized that is must have been Kais scarf. Running forward Tyson reached the elevator just in time to see the doors closing, and through the gap he saw the familiar face of Kai Hiwatari. When Kai noticed Tyson he showed no signs of even caring in the slightest.
"KAI!" yelled Tyson as he punched the Elevator doors,
"Tyson!" shouted Max and Ray as they ran up to the navy haired teen, with Kenny coming up soon after,
"It was Kai, I saw him" said Tyson lowering his eyes to the floor,
"What, really!" gasped Max, Tyson nodded in response,
"It looked to me as though he didn't even care that I was here," said Tyson
"Well we know that Kai never shows any emotions," said Kenny
"I know that but still it wasn't right…hang on that guy" Tyson's eyes went wide when he remembered the young man standing next to Kai,
"What guy Tyson?" asked Ray,
"He looked like the person that lady described to us, he had black hair with black eyes, and wore a black long sleeved top" said Tyson looking at his team mates,
"Wha? Really" gasped Max in shock,
"Who else was in the elevator?" asked Kenny
"What? Oh um I couldn't really see but they looked to be about the same age as Kai maybe a year younger, one was a girl and the other a boy, why does it matter"
"Well perhaps, they may have just been some other kids here for the tournament, but then again maybe they have something to do with this mysterious black haired guy," explained Kenny.
"Well the four of them looked as though they didn't want anything to do with one another" said Tyson,
"Well we can't do anything now, we have no clue which floor they've gone to or which room, so lets just go get something to eat" said Ray glancing at the elevator before they headed for the restaurant.
Back in the elevator the Shadow team reached their floor and headed off to the hotel room they were staying in.
Stepping into the main room they all went to bed an hour or so later, none of them speaking a word to one another.
I know that at the moment it's all pretty boring, but the exciting stuff will happen soon. Just remember to review.