Meh, please don't mind the randomness...this story has been in my head for a long time and some of the plot is bad because this story is so old...meh and because of descriptive details I absolutely had to put in, this chapter will run a bit longer than usual. Okay, you might notice me getting bored with the battles and therefore putting less and less detail into them until I just skip over them. Gomen Nasai! But I really wanted to get this updated and head off to bed, since I'm typing this up at around four in the morning.
!-Begin Chapter Fifteen!-
Freezing Rescue!It was freezing wherever she was. And her head hurt, a lot. She was lying on a stone feeling floor, which was freezing; the cold was seeping through her clothes. She groaned and sat up, rubbing the back of her which was throbbing and felt like it had been stuck with a dagger.
"Demmit, what happened?" Lily cursed slightly from the pain in her head. The last thing she was aware of was something heavy knocking into the back of her head. Her silver hued eyes had been closed into a wince.
Nearby were the others that had gone missing, Salima, Merriam, and Hillary. Salima spoke first, "I guess the same that had happened to us, except I guess you got hit harder."
"Obviously," Lily continued to rub her head and opened one eye. "And why in all the hells is it so cold in here?"
"I don't know."
Lily stopped rubbing her head, although it was still hurting her a lot. She winced and stood up, looking around. The four of them were in a clear cell of sorts, with eight-foot high walls and had the same clear material on the top. It was very large. The cell was set in an even larger room with a beystadium in it. Large really didn't begin to describe its size, however, neither did gigantic. On one of the wall of the cell, the one facing the stadium was a door, it had a large dead lock on the outside with a small electrical panel next to the dead lock.
On the wall of the larger room opposite the cell was another door, and in the wall across from one of the launch area of the stadium was another door. She muttered incoherently under her breath and turned around. At the top of the cell was a small machine enclosed in a clear box with small vent holes. A small whirring sound was coming from it. Lily furrowed her eyebrows and walked over to the machine and felt the temperature get notably colder.
Lily stared, or glared rather, at the machine, obviously it was making it cold in the room. She continued to inspect further by looking up at the ceiling, there were small slits every quarter of the way across the ceiling. The slit's stopped with about four feet between the front wall the back wall. Between each slit on the ceiling was a small hole near the top on the back wall, which went into the metal wall behind the cell.
She sighed, it was cold, she could take the cold, but not when she was wearing a tank top and capris. She put her weight onto her right foot and stood there thinking. The other three watched her for a few minutes, before Hillary spoke up, "Do you know why this happened to us?"
Lily tilted her head to the side and looked at Hillary, "Why are you asking me?"
"Because, we all know you're a BBA spy," Lily was about to make a comment, and she looked rather annoyed at the term "spy" "or whatever you want to call it."
Salima spoke up, "The point is that you may have some enemies that might be after you."
Lily crossed her arms in a way that was oddly like Kai's, "Hn." She leaned against a wall and glared idly into the air.
"Come on, Lily, do you have a 'yes' or 'no' answer for us?"
"Hn." She took a few minutes before answering, her breath was starting to come out as puffs of cold air. "Maybe I do, so what?"
"Could you at least tell us? We'd like an explanation."
Lily slid down the plexiglas wall, cold seeping through her thin shirt and making her back freezing. She curled her knees into her chest, and rested her fingers on her temples. At some length she let out a long sigh, mist forming from her breath. "Okay, before I came to Japan I was given a mission. There was a rumor that there was a cyber bit beast organization around here. We know the leader of the organization is someone we've dealt with before, but escaped the official's grasp. We haven't heard for them for a while." She looked up at the others. "Does that do for an explanation?"
The others nodded their heads while shivering from the cold. "Why does it have to be so cold in here?"
Lily stood up, her back was nearly ice, "I suppose so we go out from the cold." She winced, the pain in her head was getting worse from the temperatures. "Demmit, how cold is it in here?"
She heard a voice inside her head, I believe it is twenty degrees below freezing, young one.
'Thanks for the information, Dalila. And will you stop calling me young one already?'No, so long as it bothers you.
'You're just a friendly bit beast.'
Lily felt her bit beast's presence fade from her mind and she sighed, "Dalila says she thinks it's about twenty degrees below freezing."
Mariam rolled her eyes and looked over at the vented machine, "I bet that's what's making it so cold in here."
"It should be, so kind of them to close it off like that." Lily was being completely sarcastic as she said that.
"It'd be nice if our beyblades could cut through that material to destroy it."
Lily looked over at Salima, "Can't they?"
Salima shook her head, "No, Mariam and I have already tried. Didn't even make the faintest dent. They just bounced everywhere and hit Hillary."
Lily looked over at Hillary, who had two cuts on her arm, the skin around both small gashes didn't look that good for it was a pale blue coloration, if it wasn't for the cold the wounds might have been bleeding harder but for the moment they were faint trickles of crimson. They were to far apart to bandage. Lily mentally winced, she wasn't going to test out her beyblade, even if she was stronger. She walked over to one of the clear walls of the prison and rapped on it with the back of her hand.
"What was that for, Lily?"
Lily looked over at Hillary, "I was just doing a quick check. It doesn't sound like any plastic or glass I've come across, and it doesn't have the right feel to be plexiglas."
"But then what could it be?"
"I don't know, and that's not something I get the chance to say often. I guess it might be something they developed to be unbreakable by beyblades. Out only bet would be to open the door, and it seems like the consol for opening it is very conveniently on the wrong side to help us." Lily crossed her arms and shifted her weight to another foot. She looked around the cell again, making sure she hadn't overlooked any detail.
She looked at the slits in the ceiling, they were wide enough to shoot a beyblade through, but when she looked at them from an angle there were walls of the same material above the slots. She sighed, that would be of no use. She turned her gaze to the small holes, once again big enough for a beyblade. She went over to one of them and poked it. It was covered in the same material. She held back a growl; this was really starting to annoy her.
She looked at the machine that was supposedly making it cold. She stood under it and looked up, fully examining each and everyone one of the small vents to let air through them. None of them were big enough for her to shoot a beyblade through, even if she got her aim right. The box covering it was an inch away from the machine, so not even the slightest mark could be made from a beyblade on it.
'Damn, how much time did they take to consider every option?' Usually the people she had to watch and bring down weren't this meticulous to every single little detail, usually there was one slip up or a lot more. She looked over at the only door to the room. Nope, its edges were flush with the floor and the frame it fit into. This time she really did growl under her breath in frustration.
She looked everywhere, but there was no option but to sit, and wait. But wait for what? Was the key question Lily had on her mind.
!-
Kai stopped running in front of a large building. It wasn't large as in tall, but it was large as in mass square footage. It appeared to be only two stories high, but there were only windows along the second story, if indeed it was two stories high and not one. The windows were small however, so not much light could come from them. Coming up behind him were Lea, and then a few seconds later, Rei, Tyson, Max, Molly, Mark, and Daisy caught up to her. A few seconds after that came Kenny, panting very hard.
Everyone was looking between Lea and Kai, for they were the only ones who had read the mysterious letter. Kai was glaring at the building. If he had read the letter right, his grandfather or at least Boris on one of Voltaire's cronies were there.
'Dranzer? Is she in there?' Kai questioned his fiery bit beast.
From deep within his head came a millennia old voice, Only worried about Lily, master Kai? Was the phoenix's mocking reply, instantly knowing who Kai meant by "she"
'Shut up Dranzer.' Kai would have glared at Dranzer if he could have, but unfortunately, or fortunately for the bird, he couldn't see the phoenix.
Okay, and to answer your question, yes, Lily is in there.
Kai's glare at the building intensified and he found a door. He walked over to it and opened it. The others followed him, some curious, others just worried about their friends. The room they walked into was bright. It had luxurious purple carpeting and the walls were a light tan color. The ceiling reached up to the second floor and the windows had black felt covered boxes over them. Kai looked around, as did everyone else. They spotted an oaken door on the opposite wall and on the others they saw five metallic benches with soft cushioning. (1)
A voice filled the room and everyone tried to find the source, but couldn't. "Hello, we thank you for visiting our 'modest' building. And hope you will be satisfied with the accommodations here, you might be staying a while." Metal bars slid down on the door they came in from, which closed a moment later. Everyone looked over at the doors, shocked. "Well now that you're stuck here why don't you relax?"
Tyson spoke up, "Where are our friends!"
"I can assure you they're safe. However, they might not be so, for very long."
"Let them go!" Tyson was as par his normal, getting very worked up and agitated, but so were Rei and Max, but they were letting Tyson speak for them. Kai was vexed as well, but he wasn't going to so it, except from a glare. Everyone else was showing varying degrees of anger, except for Lea who looked as calm as Kai did.
"We will, but in due time. We merely want to battle you and make sure you would accept our terms. Kai, Rei, Max and Tyson will go through that door you see that leads further into the building. But they will do so one at a time. There they will beybattle and then come out. Then the next one we call out will enter." Kai "hn"ed and sat down on the floor, not feeling like sitting on those despicably soft and rather cutely cushioned benches. "The first beybattle will be Kai against an opponent we assign him."
Kai got up from his comfortable position and walked over to the door which automatically swung open for him. It revealed darkness which he walked into and the door shut behind him with an ominous thud.
When Kai went through the doors, the material blocking the small holes disappeared and four metallic arms came out from them. The girls walked against the opposing wall, and hoped the arms would reach, they weren't fond of the idea of finding out what those arms' purpose was. The arms unfortunately did reach across the cell. Three arms grabbed Hillary's, Mariam's and Salima's wrists. However Lily managed to dodge, but barely, the cold was making her tired and slower. The arm tried to grab her wrist again, but this time it succeeded. The arm's dragged the girls to their respective holes. From the ceiling dropped the walls and blocked each girl from the other. They were pinned to the wall, with ice cold metal wrapped around one of the wrists.
Lily growled and glared at the arm behind her, or at least tried to. She really did have any room to turn around, and her arm was pinned painfully behind her. From the caged machine came a gas which knocked them out in seconds.
Moments after they all fell unconscious Kai walked through the door opposite the cell. His eyes widened and he quickly walked over to the cell. He looked at each of the girls asleep. 'Fine?' he scoffed mentally, 'Their skin is blue!' he added a thought mentally as he looked down at Lily, 'Not that I care.'
To his right the sound of a door sliding open and then closing came to him and he turned to look at the source. He caught sight of a homely looking child with brown eyes and a black Mohawk. The boy was dressed in a dusty green pair of pants and jacket with an orange baggy shirt. He watched Kai and walked over to the stadium. Kai walked to the other side of the stadium, while glaring.
Both pulled out their respective beyblades and held them up to launch. After counting to three a black beyblade and a metallic blue one flew into the dish. Kai's beyblade collided with the other one and pushed it back quite a lot. Unfortunately the dish was about ten feet in diameter and both blades were in the center, so the match was still on.
"Is that the best you can do? The rumors about you are pretty bad then."
Kai's only response was to smirk, he let himself get into the fight and really get serious, he wanted this over with, fast. "Dranzer! Fire Dart!" Kai's Dranzer 'blade was covered in flames from the phoenix and flew straight through the black blade, shattering it into millions of tiny pieces.
The boy looked shocked and walked out of the room. Kai held out his hand and the flames around Dranzer dissipated, and the 'blade flew into his hand. He walked over to the cell and noticed the door with the lock and computer consul. He quirked an eyebrow as the number "81" flashed on the screen in green numbers. A small panel slid away revealing a number pad. He smirked, this was too easy. He keyed in the number "81" and the door swung open. Lily was also released as the arm retracted fully into the wall. 'They've got to be joking? I have to carry Lily back?' He groaned inwardly, this was not something he would enjoy doing, but he subconsciously preferred carrying her than anyone else. (2)
He walked into the cell and immediately felt a blast of cool air, making him flinch slightly. 'wow, its cold in here. No wonder they passed out.' He walked over to Lily and picked her up in his arms, immediately a chill was sent down his spine from touching her cold skin. He quickly walked out, and brought her to the main "plush" room.
Everyone looked up from what they had been doing earlier. Rei had been sitting on one of the benches with his elbows resting on his knees. His gold eyes had been narrowed in thought, raven brows furrowing as well. Tyson had been staring intently at the door Kai came out of. Max was just pacing back in forth. Daisy was watching her cousin with concerned eyes. Lea was sitting in a random dark corner glaring. Molly and Mark were looking around at every as was Kenny.
"What happened to Lily, Kai?" Tyson was fearing something similar had happened to Hillary. Kai quickly set Lily on one of the benches that was closest, and walked to the end of the bench and sat next to it.
"Hn."
"Kai!"
The voice came out of nowhere, again. "The next fighter will be Rei."
Rei quickly stood up from where he had been sitting and walked through the door. When he got to the stadium his opponent was already there. He looked off towards the cell, his gaze lingered on Salima for a few moments before he turned to his opponent who was wearing the same outfit as the other, but he had black hair and black eyes. Both pulled out their beyblades and launched on the count of three.
Rei's gray-ish white beyblade collided with yet another black one. It was sent back a few feet when Rei called out his next attack, his rounded pupils turning into cat-like slits. "Drigger! Tiger Fang Attack!" Drigger's beyblade trashed the black one by shattering it. Rei didn't wait for his opponent to leave through the door before he called Drigger back into his hand.
He ran over to the cell and saw the number "26" flash on the screen. When the panel slid open he keyed in the number that had been shown to him. The door opened and Salima was released and crumpled onto the ground. Rei felt the cold air, but didn't really pay attention to the fact. He walked over to Salima and picked her up without much thought and left. Her skin was colder to the touch than Lily's had because she had been in the cold a lot longer.
Rei came into the "plush" room and set Salima onto one of the couches. Kai was glaring at Tyson, who had been pestering Kai to tell him about what had happened. Rei sat on the edge of the bench he had put Salima onto and looked over at Tyson. "I'll tell you, but you might not like it."
Max was called up next and his match was ended in the same way as the others had been and he walked over to the cell. For him the numbers "37" flashed green for him to key into the panel. When he did so, the door was opened and Mariam was dropped to the ground. He picked up Mariam while shivering from the cold and tried not to drop her since she was so cold herself.
When Max got back he set Mariam down on a bench and sat on the edge of it and stayed oddly silent. Tyson, who had been filled in by Rei what had happened to them was going to shout at the mysterious man, but the door opened too quickly for him to say so and he ran through and finished his battle quickly by not only destroying the 'blade but knocking it out of the ring as well. He had to key in the number "59" to get Hillary released.
When he picked her up he noticed that her right fore arm had been cut twice, not very deep but it was still pretty severe. The skin around it was an unnatural shade of purple. There was some blood frozen solid crusted on her skin that flaked off when the skin under it had been moved. After a few moments of being in the warm blood started to pour slowly out of the wounds.
When Tyson got back to the "plush" room the voice sounded. "Very good, and now we have some more info about you for the next time we cross paths. We'd like to let you go so your friends can be treated, however our control of the door seems to be over ridden. You'll have to key in the eight-digit code for the door yourselves. Unfortunately, you only have four chances to get it right before the system lets out a poisonous gas." There was a really bad sounding evil laugh before the silence came.
"Oh man! What can they be thinking! How can we possibly get it in four chances!"
Kai stood up and glared at Tyson, who was still carrying Hillary. "Shut up, fool! Rei said they gave each of us two-digit codes. There were four of us so all the codes together make eight."
Tyson blinked, it made sense. "Okay, so what do you think the order is though?"
Rei spoke up from his meditation. "I think the order they called us down in would be a good way to start."
When they tried that the digits turned red and a female voice spoke out coolly, "The code '81263759' is wrong."
"Darn, three chances left." They tried the order in reverse.
"The code '59372681' is wrong" They tried it in another random order.
"The code '37265981' is wrong" They had only once chance left. Lily had been watching and listening, but she had been too cold to speak. 'Fools, the lot of them. They'll never get it at this rate.' Lily waited a few moments, but they were discussing what the code could possibly be, 'Hey, Dalila?'
Yes, young one?
'One, stop calling me that, and two, tell Dranzer to tell Kai its in alphabetical order.'
As you wish, young one.
Kai heard the great phoenix speak to him in his head.
Master Kai, I have a message from, Lily.
'What is it Dranzer?'
Dalila told me the code is in alphabetical order.
'Oh, thank you Dranzer.'
You are welcome, master Kai.
'Wait a second Dranzer, does that mean Lily is awake?'
It was a few moments before Dranzer responded, She was, but she passed out from the cold after telling Dalila that.
'I see...' Kai snapped out of his revere, noticing a hand waving in front of his face, Tyson's hand.
"Hello, Kai? Kai are you present? Kai?"
"What do you want?" Kai snapped at the navy haired boy.
"Geesh, you looked spaced out."
"Hn." Kai walked over to the panel and keyed in a code before anyone could object.
The cool mechanical voice filled the air as the digits flashed green. "The code 81372659 is correct." The metal bars lifted from the door. Kai walked back over to Lily and picked her up gently, but noticing her face was flushed and she was sweating somewhat although they were still chilled to the touch. He looked at the others and noticed Mariam, Salima, and Hillary were in the same state.
Now that they were free to leave, they needed to get to a hospital, and not just for Hillary's arm which was now bleeding profusely.
!End Chapter Fifteen-!
Holeh shoot, I never thought it would take fifteen chapters to get this far in the story! This is much longer than I expected.
I hoped you all like this super long chapter. Man, I think this will wind up with nearly thirty chapters. -flops face first into the ground- But did I do a nice cliffie?
Oh yes, I like how Dranzer is all respectful to Kai and calls him "master Kai" but all the more mischievous, while Dalila is not respectful to Lily and calls her "young one" dispite Lily asking her not to and is a bit more polite.
Know your Japanese
Gomen Nasai- I'm very sorry
Now for the comments I wanted to put in the chapter but I'm banned from doing so by the rules, and I won't risk getting this story deleted.
!-Extra Comments!-
(1) "A lot better than what the girls were in, nyeh?"
(2) "I wonder why..."