Perfect Connection

Disclaimer: I own no Beyblade

Chapter 1: The Start of Something Bad

A Perfect Connection. The thing that every soul who possesses a bitbeast attempts to reach. No one ever has though. The closest anyone has gotten to the ultimate goal is verbal speech with a beast. I have tried. I have failed.

But what about when someone makes the Perfect Connection with a beast? What then? What if they were forced to, by a mere human with no beast contact. What if they were evil?

I am here to tell you my story. One of betrayal, blood and conflict. I am no longer among the living, and they might tell you a different version than mine. My story is a dark one, but like all richly woven tales, it ends in a…

Be prepared to hear a sequence that is unlike one heard before. Too wild to be true, too true to be fiction. This… is my story…

"AND THE NEW WORLD CHAMP IS… TYYYYYYYYYYSONNNNNNNNN!" Jazzman screamed over the roar of the crowds. Tyson looked up in disbelief… this was his third year in a row! No other Beyblade world champ had done this- ever.

My head fell in dismay. I had lost. I had failed. With a sad sigh, I turned and walked back, leaping out of the rocky beystadium. I didn't bother to retrieve my scarf, just my damaged blade with the sad, depressed firebird inside the chip. I had almost started crying, but no, not in front of millions of people. I weakly stumbled into the hallway, leading towards the team room, but I never made it. Suddenly, black clothed men surrounded my blurring vision. I took a dazed step back and bumped into one of the men behind me. Someone spoke a few loud words and the circle parted. A man… I squinted to recognize him. It was… him!

Tala sighed and stared out the window. Kai had run off after loosing the world championships, and a few days later, there was still no sign of him. They had gone back to Tokyo to visit for some time, but now there were bigger issues on hand. Boris had created a new establishment: BEGA. Bryan, Spencer and Tala weren't going to let him coax other innocent children into his realm of death. No Way. Over My Dead Body Tala hissed.

"Hey, uh, Tala?" Bryan tapped the team leader on the shoulder. Tala turned to looked at his teammate.

"What?"

"Do you think Kai is… uh, okay? I mean, he's still in Australia, right?" Bryan asked worriedly.

Tala laughed and dismissed the subject with a wave of his hand, "Naw. Kai'll call us to get a ride back soon enough, after he kills himself swallowing his pride."

Bryan chuckled uneasily, "Yeah, you're probably right."

Liquid. There was water all around me. First, I believed I was wallowing in my own blood, but when I forced my eyes open, I could see the slightly transparent green substance that floated around me. There was an air mask strapped to my face, and I took a quick gasp of air. There were scientists, on the other side of the glass wall that kept me in this tube of horror. It reminded me so much of BioVolt… the 'laboratory'. The place where we were all sent to be tested on, to be mutated. The scientists were frantically typing at keyboards around them, but I couldn't see what they were doing it for. What were they going to do to me? I was almost too frightened to let my imagination conjour up stories to tell me. Almost scared enough. And, yes, I do have an imagination, though Tyson would surely doubt it. Suddenly, I heard a robotic voice playing over the intercom in the room.

'Beast Project Number One- five Percent complete'

Beast Project? What were these lunatics thinking? Turn me into some kind of beast? I couldn't help but let out a small gurgle of anxious laughter.

'Beast Project Number One- Forty-five percent complete'

Suddenly, I knew what they were doing. I heard Boris's raspy, old voice.

"Add the bitbeasts, now. We will see the changes once it is done."

There was an explosion of pain. I screamed and bubbles escaped the mask on my face. My bones began realigning themselves, to suit better for the change. Three tail feathers, long and wavy in the murky water, pushed out from just below my waist. My feet began screaming in agony and I looked down to see bones growing out from each side of my foot. A curved talon came out the ends, and one pushed out my heel. A burgundy color smoked in the green, my blood, turning the tank a darker pitch. I was able to see the flesh rearranging over the new bones in my feet, becoming bird-like feet. Bones shot out from my shoulder blades and curved in around me, since they were so long. I could've screamed if I wasn't almost unconscious, as I saw the pattern of red feathers grow from the bones that were going to be my wings. The pain continued, but I couldn't feel it all that well. A throbbing sensation came up inside my mind… but it was so far away… so distant… I was falling… Darkness. My friend to protect me as I slept…

Kai was removed from the tube, some blood still spilling from his feet, waist and shoulders. His fingernails had also become claws, but that was beside the point. The process had been a success! Boris smiled greedily.

"Escort him to the room, secretly. We don't want any of the other students knowing what is now living within these walls," he said, his eyebrows raising, amused.

Hitoshi. Just like Kai, didn't care to leave them hanging, especially right after this new BEGA building had been set up. Tyson leaned over, panting with his hands on his knees.

"Man, where's my big bro when I really need him? I need Advice!" he screamed. Hilary sighed and looked at Tyson questioningly. Kenny and Daichi slumped down under a big oak nearby.

"Lets keep looking, we'll find him eventually," Hilary smiled. Tyson nodded and the group ran off.

Hunger. That was the first thing I noticed. Hunger and thirst. Not something good to wake up too, but even though I was used to it, this was unlike anything I had ever felt before. I needed to eat, or I would devour myself. The pain in my stomach was that intense. I cracked open weary eyes, observing everything through binocular-like vision. Everything was blurred. Right now, my everything, was the roof. A plain white roof that stung my eyes. I wanted to cry out, but something else had caught my attention. The smell of food…

I scrambled to my feet and dove into whatever it was, I didn't care. The aroma was so good; it almost felt like I could take a chunk of air and stuff it in my mouth. I could barely see, but that didn't matter. The water (wine, maybe?) was thick and sweet, almost nauseating, but oh! It tasted soooo good! I quickly ate the food and almost immediately felt drowsy again. I fell onto a pile of straw in the center of the floor, and fell asleep. I had not heard the screams a few minutes earlier. I did not know a student was missing from BEGA…

I woke up again; the hunger was far, far away, tormenting some other child. I felt satisfied. Boris was in my face and I instantly tried to get up. But I was strapped to a metal table. I could feel the still-wet feathers on my wings against the back of my neck and everything started coming back to me.

"What… have you done… to me?" I choked out.

Boris grinned, "Kai. You are the first, in a series of experiments, that will allow me, Boris Balcov, to rule the World!" he laughed triumphantly.

"Go to hell." My voice was low and hoarse, not very threat-like, but Boris was amused.

"Go ahead and try to stop me, Kai. But I already control you. You are now a creature of BEGA," he said, with a cruel sadness.

I glared at him with all the life left in me. Die, Die, Die! I screamed silently.

Suddenly, some glass containers along the wall burst. The leather straps holding me down burst into flame and fell away, but didn't burn me. A crack appeared in the wall as I fell to my knees, too weak to stand. Something was happening; the throbbing in my mind I had felt before was stronger now. I could see the wall, actually see the life in it. I could grab that life with a thought and pull it apart, causing the crack. I had shattered the life in the glass, making the beakers break into pieces. Computer screens tore apart and exploded, and all I could do was laugh. I laughed so hard tears were forming in the corners of my eyes. It was so entertaining, watching the little human pests run and scurry about in terror.

I had evolved to something completely beyond human. This was some sort of sci-fi power- like 'The Force' in Star Wars. But Boris had created what I now was, and I felt an odd sense of debt to him. I had been sick of my human life, sick of being a loser, number two on the top-ten beybladers list, with everyone always seeing me as 'another one of Tyson's stupid competitors'. I was done with that life… besides, this life was far more interesting. I smiled and managed to stand.

"Alright then. I'll join BEGA, Boris. But only because I am done with my human life, and I want to learn more of my powers. So you will teach me, or I will destroy this place from the inside-out." But it was all a lie. For, as soon as I finished, my knees collapsed and I fell to the floor. My little game of 'destroy the room' had worn me out, physically, spiritually and mentally.

My name is Kai. I used to be human.

I have become an all-new being.

Capable of great power.

And great destruction.

So, there is chapter 1. Kai has just become a bad guy (or is he fooling Boris) and has wings, bird feet, claws and tail feathers. What has he become? Will he go after Tyson? Will anyone find out where he is? Are others going to suffer the same fate as Kai? R&R and I will try to update a.s.a.p. Thank you, and good luck, bi!

Fallen Pheonix