Hi again! This is the second chapter to Love of a Runaway. Hope you liked the first, and this one!

Terra: Are you ever going to show the picture of me?

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2. Venus

Kai stared at her in disbelief. Slowly, he lifted Terra's head and was surprised to see a bar code on the back of her gold and black choker, dark gray so that it was barely visible. 3617468. He tried to pry the choker off her neck. It didn't move, and Kai realized this must've been put on her when she was a baby, and now it was way too small to take off. Along with that, it was as hard and cold as marble, so it was permanent on her.

Meanwhile…

"I'm sure of it, the tracker was revealed seconds ago!" Thomas, Son Of The Master, insisted. (Sons Of The Master just mean they are the Master's loyal servants, as sons) The shadowed, totally black figure of the Master pointed at Thomas, a single finger showing it's true color out of the darkness.

"Then take some of the men and find it," he hissed threateningly.

"Y-yes Master," Thomas stammered, and half ran back to the door, leaving the Master's office.

"Experiment 3617468, I am going to catch you, and when I do, you will have no choice but to let me me use you as a weapon to conquer Earth," the Master muttered evilly, stroking his chin.

Back at Kai's manor…

Terra opened her eyes. "Wha…" I passed out twice in 24 hours!

"Amazing," Kai mumbled, choosing not to question about the choker.

Terra tilted her head and looked at him. "What are you hiding?"

Kai turned around. "Nothing," he said, and walked out of the room. A few moments later, he reappeared in the doorway. "Before," he started slowly, "what did you mean by 'darkness?' And what was wrong with the sky?"

This time, Terra turned away. She didn't answer for what seemed like hours. Finally, she replied. "D-darkness. The Master sent it…he's preparing to…" Terra's eyes scrunched up. "Okay, I'm still not sure if I can trust you, Kai. Well, maybe you but there might be bugs and stuff hooked up here, y'know? Cameras, even. Let's go somewhere else."

She stood up and all but dragged Kai out of his mansion.

When Kai's ankle boots were just on the edge of shredding, Terra finally let go of his hand in an old warehouse full of boxes and crates.

"And you call this safe how?" Kai asked, glancing at all the opened and closed boxes that anyone or anything could be hiding in.

"Shut up," Terra said and sat on an overturned wooden crate. "Okay, I said darkness because the Master, my former 'master,' who's only name is that also, is planning to take over the world with…well, me."

Kai's right eyebrow raised. "How is he going to take over the planet with you?"

"I bet I can beat you in anything, almost, you name it."

"If you ever get a beyblade I'll challenge to that," Kai said. "Here, let's go take you to a beyblading shop."

He stalked out of the warehouse and was surprised to see Ray standing there. "Where have you been?" he asked.

"None of your business," Kai answered and pushed past Ray.

"Uh uh, Kai. You missed two days of training straight. What's wrong?"

"You're becoming me," Kai muttered, still looking forward and walking away. Ray jogged to catch up with him, and blocked his way again.

"Oh come on!" Ray turned around, and when he looked back, Kai and the girl he'd seen in the shadows were gone.

Five minutes later…

"How did you do that?" Kai asked as he walked past the beach with Terra.

"Told you I could beat you in anything," Terra replied. "They enhanced a lot of my abilities, I'm super-speedy."

"Still…I think you're faster than the fastest."

Terra walked toward the shoreline and sat on the same rock Kai had met her at again.

"What are you doing?" Kai questioned, standing in his lean against a wall/tree/air with legs interlocked silent position.

"Waiting," Terra said and leaned against the rock, putting the arm that the bullet had went into on the shallow sandy ocean floor, letting the waves wash over her hand. As soon as the next wave went back into the sea, a purple, black and silver beyblade was in her hand. "Venus…" she murmured.

Kai stared at her. "How—how did you do that?"

"I didn't do it. I just…felt something was going to come from the sea. Venus is a…shamoo."

"Well, now you've got your beyblade." Kai said and walked away, his back hiding the fact that he was impressed (wow, Kai impressed).

"So," Kai said half an hour later, taking out his launcher and ripcord. "Let's 'blade."

"My pleasure," Terra said slyly. She knew she was going to win. She always won, whether she wanted to or not.

So far.

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