hey guys,

Iam so sorry it took so long for me to update that's partially why i tried to write this out asap since i had a few hours today. Sorry its so short and crappy and i guess another cliffy but atleast i finnaly updated. The next chapter will hopefulyl be the last with the possibility of a sequel...but ill let u guys decide that after i finish this one. Ill try to finish this over thanksgiving but u gusys have noticed how slow iam at updating. Well hey please update, forgive me for this junk, and the cliffy, and please update. It really does help. If u feel like it u can email me as well or if u want me to reply to ur review or questions comments just let me know. thanx for reading and again forgive me

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Light In The Dark Tempest

Chapter 24: Destruction

Kai remained silent as his escorts led him down the dark, cold hallways. So this I show it ends he wondered. All the pain, the fighting, the anger, the sacrifice, the hopes and dreams he had lived and sacrificed for were all for nothing. He could but hope his grandfather would keep his word and release Angel…either way this was his fate. The hallway grew darker and darker as they traveled deeper underground. He saw a door open suddenly several feet before him, so this was it. Here, Kai Hiwatari, cold hearted warrior of the blade who had after enduring years of pain and abuse, after fighting and finally gaining his freedom lays down to die in the black pit of his past never again to see the light of day. He was escorted and chained to a worktable on his back where out of the corner of his eye he watched the scientists approach with needles containing the drug that would end his life. In an instant his life flashed before his life, yet for some reason the memories of Angel were the most clear. As if all the rest of his life had been in black and white and she was the first and only splash of color he'd ever seen in it, but he would never see that light again. He closed his eyes in pain as the first needle was jabbed painfully into his arm followed by two others. He clenched his jaw trying to desperately hold back his scream of anguish. Through the pain and ever darkening night he could feel his control slipping. It felt like he was being ripped from control and restrained, made a mere spectator of his actions. Finally he lost all control as a deafening, inhuman scream filled the room and echoed down every dark and dismal hallway waking the sleeping Angel with a start,

"Kai!"

As realization hit her Angel could but fall to her knees in pain. He was gone…Kai was gone.

The scientists stared down at their victim who was now struggling violently against his restraints, pain coursing through his veins. His screams were deafening and the very sight of him nearly caused pity to arise within their hearts…nearly. The restraints cut into his wrists and ankles his blood boiled, his heart raced. His head pounded in pain as he drifted further and further from himself. Then, finally, it was over and he fell slack against the table his breathing ragged yet strangely still, as if dead. For awhile all simply stared unable to decide if it was truly over or not. Warily they gathered about him when his eyes suddenly flashed open, making them jump back in surprise. This couldn't be the same person they had just injected. The body was the same but the eyes, the expression, the air about him was completely different and it unnerved them. A cold sadistic grin crept upon his face, it was over. The drug was successful.

Voltaire sat in the darkness of his office waiting with a cold level stare. The shadows, with each passing moment, seemed to grow darker and darker as did the old mans thoughts. In a few moments he would have complete control over the most powerful weapon in the world, he'd finally be able to wield Kai Hiwatari, at will. The phone on his desk rang, breaking the cold silence of Voltaire's thoughts. Calmly he picked it up and answered in his most level tone,

"Yes."

"My Lord," began Boris delight apparent in his voice, "the drug was successful!"

"Excellent. Begin the second phase of the plan."

"As you wish, Lord Voltaire."

The line went dead and Voltaire put down the receiver as if in a trance. A cold sadistic smile spread quickly over his face, the beginning of the end had started.

An hour after the scream had faded Angel still sat in depressed shock and grief. He was gone, Kai was gone. What was he going to be used for now? She knew Kai was powerful yet what made it even more difficult was the natural and genetic sadistic attitude within him. Would his anger and hatred ever let him go now? The door to her cell squeaked open on its rusted hinges as it opened once more. She turned just in time to see two armed guards approach her one with the but of his gun raised. In one swift movement Angel was banished again into darkness where nothing but haunted nightmares came, followed by a strange dim sensation of a need in her arm then….nothing.

Voltaire sat silently on the opposite side of a one way mirror, audience to the next act in his morbid play. Boris stood to his right and Dai to his left respectfully. The door suddenly opened to one side of the dimly lit room before them as the now drugged Kai walked obediently in.

"How long before the trial drug wears off." Voltaire asked making sure everything would run smoothly.

"5 minutes." Boris promptly answered watching as Voltaire's grin grew.

"Then send in his competition."

Boris nodded and pressed a green button on the wall next to him.

The doorway opposite Kai opened revealing none other than Brooklyn.

"He knows his orders, begin the battle."

Boris hit a black button next and suddenly a dish rose up between the two sadistic teens who at the sight both readied their launchers knowing their orders. They were fighting not for pride…but for blood.

Simultaneously they launched their deadly new blades who instantly began circling each other powerfully. Voltaire's eyes lit with a strange and frightening fire watching as it all played out before him.

"Zeus attack!" Brooklyn screamed as his new blade slammed into Kais tearing through it and slicing sharp edges off of it. The debris flying away cut his arms and face but the crazing Kai didn't notice. They traded attack for attack, blocking and countering, both pouring all of their mad, frenzied energy into their blades.

It had been four minutes now and both were looking worse for the wear.

Kai was covered in gashes which bled quickly and steadily but in his drugged state he didn't notice. Yet for some reason it didn't see that Brooklyn was even trying it was as if he was letting the debris from the dish and their blades hit him for some strange reason. Kai could sense his enemies pain and it only drove him onward.

Four minutes and 15 seconds it was time to end this. Gathering all his strength and hatred Kai summoned his new final attack,

"Black Dranzer, Flaming Death!"

The black blade glowed with an eery pitch balck fire as it circled and zigzagged across the dish Brooklyn seemed to dodge most of the attacks but then suddenly he was hit and knocked into the line of fire, being smashed and hit from every side of Black Dranzers onslaught. Kai poured his energy into it, pining to cause his opponent blade with his after hit.

Five minutes. With one bone crushing slam Dranzer flew through Zeus, knocking Brooklyn backward into the wall. Kai had won. He smiled in sadistic victory seeing the ruined blade and trashed blader. Suddenly he dropped in pain and anguish to his knees. The pain was unbearable, his head pounded, his blood boiled, his muscles were on fire. All fo his wounds seared in pain till finally he fell to the floor in pain.

In a few seconds he came around, his weary crimson eyes scanning the room painfully. What had happened? He couldn't seem to quite remember. He remembered pain and not wanting to do something…a battle…him attacking someone viciously…who was it? He looked up to find a ruined beydish before him and what he saw still spinning in it froze his once boiling blood cold…there spinning proudly was black Dranzer. No…there was no way he had used it. It was evil…he had vowed to never touch it again. Yet there it was, spinning before him, the launcher still in his hand. What have I done? Wondering who he had been fighting Kai slowly looked beyond the dish his eyes catching the glint of a demolished blade. Kai struggled painfully over, the gashes on his arms and face still bleeding profusely. Painfully he ebnt and retrieved it, yet upon seeing the make of it dropped it in shock and dread. It couldn't be…there's no way…it just wasn't possible! Kai was completely terrified as never before, please no…please, please no…anything but this…anything. With a terrified and trembling gaze Kai lifted his head to look at a limp form laying on the ground not more than 5 feet in front of him. A sob broke through his normally strong voice as his brain threw oaths that it couldn't possibly be her. In anguish he stumbled to the body, dropping to his knees beside it he checked for a pulse but when he found none his whole body trembled even more in fear. With shaking hands he turned the figure over onto his lap and at the sight of the still form…for the first time in his life…Kai wept. Angel lay dead in his arms. Suddenly the door he had entered through flew open as Boris ran in with 5 guards in tow.

"Kai! What have you done!"

Kai looked up his face tear stained, "what did you do Boris!"

"You did this yourself Kai. I tried to stop you but you jammed the doors from the inside and we just now broke through."

"Liar! I would never hurt Angel."

"Did you ever have feeling of anger towards her Kai…did you ever think that it was her fault that you were stuck here."

Kai glared infuriated at Boris but remained silent.

"Such thoughts fuel the drug into acts of violence against such persons, but then again why would you've been angry at her after all you loved her.

"Shut up!" this is your fault Boris! You, My Grandfather, Genecite, Biovolt all of you…Its all your fault!"

"Now calm down Kai."

" No! this is it! I will not deal with your treachery any longer!"

"Kai what are you doing!" Boris panicked as Kai summoned Black Dranzer out of the dish.

"What I should've done a long time ago." Kai spat, "Black Dranzer Kamikaze Explosion!"

"No!" Boris Screamed as there was a flash of light before a loud and powerful shockwave explosion echoed throughout the base. Alarms started sounding as rocks and debris began falling…the base was falling apart. Boris made a move to run with his men but only made it through the doorway when the blast erupted into an explosion of fire and smoke. Kai was knocked to the ground from the sheer force of it and through the chaos of the attack…his world went dark. It was all over he could finally let go…he'd destroyed everything…Boris, Voltaire, Black Dranzer and to his greatest pain…Angel.