Dream Sequence

There were bloodied knives, sharp whips and pounding fists. All of these images flashed by his closed eyes. Fire, burning flesh, ice-cold water that seared at his skin. He could never be rid of them. Nor the over powering sense of fear that accompanied them.

End dream sequence

All of a sudden there was pain. Not remembered pain, real present pain. His eyes sprang open, and a strangled groan escaped his throat.

It felt like there was fire sweeping across his back. Then another stroke caused him to scream away the pain.

Before the third could land on his torn blood soaked back. His senses came back. He was in the presence of Volitaire, and he was being whipped.

He gritted his teeth for the next stroke, determined not to scream. He shuddered instead as the whip landed on his already tender back. He turned his head to the side, not noticing his tear stained cheeks.

There was a monitor on the wall. Kai focused on it, glad that if he stared at this he could think away what was happening. There were his team members on the screen. They looked worried.

He reached slowly up to grab a handful of chain in each hand. These he gripped onto as the next stinging blow was dealt. Then he gave his friends a smile. Not a very convincing one as he was covered in blood and tears. But he hoped that it would give some comfort. After all, they weren't used to this.

"Why are they doing this to you Kai?" The Max from the screen shouted. Tears were overflowing from his eyes, to travel down his cheeks.

Kai just stared, startled. He had heard that, and then he saw the speakers and it made sense. He flinched from the next strike, but continued to stare blankly at the screen. He couldn't think of an answer for that.

"Maybe" Kai croaked, winching as another blow was dealt.

"They're......crazy". There was more to say, but as the whip landed across his back for the seventh time. He felt too tired to add anymore. He turned away from the screen, wishing they didn't have to see this.

Another blow, he groaned wondering if they would overdo it. If they would kill him.

"You know, this can stop anytime," said a deep voice in front of him.

He looked up weakly, it was Volitaire. When did he get there?

"All you need to do is join back. For your first task you can remove the bitbeasts from your friends in there." He gestured to the screen, acting as if he had just given him the easiest job to do.

Kai looked to the screen, at the worried faces. He turned away, not even considering.

"You will change your mind soon enough" he walked away from Kai's line of sight, and gave the order.

"Carry on Bathos".

Bathos, Kai thought dully. Rage's Bathos? What was going on here? Then Bathos struck again, and Kai swallowed a scream.

Kai summoned his remaining strength and spoke to Voitaire in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Are you trying to kill me old man?" He knew he'd be in the room, watching.

"No, but you will die if you do not join us. We need dark dranzer for our plan to work. Since you are the only one who can wield it, you must join back with us".

Kai looked up suddenly, they were gone. Why were they gone, was it over? Something in him said otherwise.

On his left the monitor screen had changed. Now it was of a different room, and Volitaire's face filled the screen. It defiantly wasn't an improvement.

"Join Me," the voice ordered.

Kai turned away, not even dignifying the statement with a response.

There was something wrong here, something he hadn't noticed.

He looked down and saw it. The floor was metal, his feet were bare. When had that happened, he hadn't noticed.

He looked up at his chains and knew, this was going to be bad. Very bad indeed.

"Dranzer" he whispered, and closed his eyes.

The beyblade in his pocket glowed in response.

Then electricity poured through his chains, through him. And to the floor. He couldn't remove his hands from their death grip with the chains.

Despite dranzer sharing the pain, to help him cope. Kai screamed.

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