Asylum

By: Darker Evolutions

Rating: R

Warnings: The rating should be warning enough.

Disclaimer: I do not Beyblade or any of its characters.

A/N: Read and review please!

Summary: Kai, Tala, Ray, and Bryan are members of the Saint Carolin's High School soccer team with a new student placed as their manager. They're also mutants in which the underground organization Biovolt are after. Will they get at each other's throats before they get a chance to find asylum?

Chapter Two - The Park

"Have any plans for the weekend Kai? I was hoping we could go to the park for something to do before it gets too late tonight. We have the whole weekend ahead of us to do whatever we want." Staring out the window of the SUV Tala watched the scenery go by, his best friend Kai driving them home from school.

"Plans for the weekend? Tala, you know Coach Tate said we have to go talk to Declan or at least watch him. The principle gave me the address to his home, and he said we should drop by as well to make sure the kid is getting along with things well enough.." Stopping at a red light Kai turned his attention to the red head sitting in the passenger's seat.

"You've got to be kidding me Kai, you're actually going to go over there with that pain in the ass? He practically challenged the whole school to a fight at the assembly after the fact that the other seniors went on teasing him and making fun of him. After he went after me I don't see why you should even bother with that punk." With a dark glare a pair of icy blue eyes turned their gaze onto Kai just as the teen started driving again.

"You're coming with me, Tala. You are as much of the problem as he is with you instigating all kinds of arguments and quarrels. Every day at practice you're at each other's throats. I've gotten Max and Tyson to talk to him, and they've convinced me that the only thing wrong in the fact everyone is always pissing him off. I don't see what you hold against him, as you were the one to starts the first bicker between you two." Parking the vehicle the engine was cut of its life as Kai went to get out of the vehicle. "Look, we're at the park, so enjoy yourself now before the weekend creeps up on you."

"I am not coming with you, and everything I do to him he deserves. Hell everything everyone else has done to him he has deserved. The kid is a nescience. Him and thinking he has no reason to do anything in class." Locking the doors behind them Tala got out from the SUV as well, the warmness of the ending day being cooled by a gentle breeze blowing from the East.

"Yet he's still getting a better grade than us? Chill out Tala and stop to think about what you're saying. I don't see why he deserves what is being thrown at him just because he's different." Stretching out his muscles Kai brought them down a side walked path through the park, a numerous amount of children playing in the area.

"That's exactly why he deserves everything he gets, just because he refuses to even act like any normal person around here. Always dressing in black, disrespecting everyone, always getting into trouble, and there are those things that everyone is saying about him that can only be anything but true. He should just return to wherever he came from in the first place," snapped Tala as he moodily crossed his arms at his chest.

"Suit yourself, just enjoy the walk Tala." Shaking his head at his Russian friend Kai ran his fingers through his duel colored hair, the silken locks shifting slowly only to fall back into place where they had been before. He himself wore dark colors very often, yet still he didn't receive any problems from anyone. He knew there had to be more to his best friend.

Silently the red head brooded, yet on the inside his mind wandered clearly. The first day he had seen Declan he had been drawn to him, yet defensively he came to treat him worse than anyone else in the school. Those cerulean colored eyes stared at him in his mind, their anger and unhappiness washed away and replaced with a more tender look that made it seem as if his whole face was smiling. It was somewhat of a new obsession that he reverted into distaste.

While waiting to find something out one day after practice in the locker room Tala was bent on trying to find out something to make fun of Declan, anything at all yet what he found was a new sight to torture him. The locker room had been muggy and hot from the showers that all the soccer players had taken after working out in the weightlifting room inside the school, and even to Tala it was near unbearable. Declan had been sentenced by the gym teacher to scrub down the locker room after starting another fight, and so there he was doing just that, only the heat and mugginess was too much for him. The teen has stripped of his shirt, his once thin and slender looking body proving to be softly sculpted with lean muscle. Before he got caught Tala had booked it, running down the empty halls of the school to meet up with Kai to walk home for the day.

Taking a hiking path further into the park where the forested area lie the two made their way further into the more secluded area of the city's park where trees reached desperately to meet the warmth of the sun in the summer and cowered away from the coldness of the winter. As Tala calmed and let his arms fall to his sides he allowed his mid to slip further into the obsession he was dead set on not having for the new kid.

"Wait, Tala. Look, standing in the creek over there." Ducking down so he couldn't be seen Kai pulled Tala with him, parting the bushes in front of him to take in the sight he was no pointing out. "It's Declan. I never took him for the nature type, but I wonder what he's doing out here all alone. He should know that it's dangerous."

"What the hell is he doing standing there in the middle of the creek? It's a good two-foot deep there, and it looks as if he isn't even awake for that matter. Some moron he is, standing there for all hikers to see. He's lucky that he hasn't got jumped yet. Hey moron wha-" Tala's absurd yelling was cut off by Kai's hand pressing firmly to his mouth. "Just watch and let's see what he's doing."

Stuffed into his pair of worn leather boots at the bank of the creek were Declan's socks, his normal pair of baggy black pants replaced by an older worn pair of black jean shorts, their length reaching no less than a few inches above mid-thigh. The arms of his black T-shirt were rolled up, red tipped black bangs tucked carefully behind the ears. He had his cerulean blue eyes closed, as if in his own little world of calmness.

Suddenly Declan shifted his position, parting his feet about six inches and raising his arms so that they were bent at the elbow enough to rest at his hips with his hands closed in loose fists. The cold water of the creek didn't look to be bothering his movements at all as he slowly started to move through a graceful kata. Lean muscles rippled as they were tensed to make the movements harder to complete with the correct amount of grace.

"Where do you suppose he learned that, Kai? He doesn't seem the type to stay in class long enough to learn anything like that. The punk, what a show off…" With a snort Tala sat back on the ground, acting as if he was no longer going to watch Declan through the bushes as he started to look as if he was brooding again.

"I don't really suppose it matters how he learned it, but it explains why he got the best of you when you two started a fist fight with each other. Also explains where he got the move to get Bryan off of him when he tried to restrain the kid from going after you when you kicked another soccer ball at him. Can you feel that though, Tala? That build in energy that comes from mutants when they put all their concentration into one spot." Kai was careful to suppress his own mutant aura from being noticed as the thrill of a possibly spar with a good opponent filled his blood.

"Yeah, so? It's not like the punk is capable of anything serious. Otherwise he would've been tagged like Bryan, Ray, and we are. Come on, let's get back home and get our homework done." Dusting himself off Tala rose to his feet, Kai turning to face him as he as well stood up.

"And how do you know that he isn't tagged? Anyways we could still be wrong about him. A kata always causes one's energy to gather, and this instance may just be that." With a shrug he started to walk back to the clearest part of the path, Tala following right on his heels behind him.

"Agh!" The frustrated scream from Declan caused both of the Russians to snap their heads back to the clearly, watching intently as the frustrated soccer team manager crumbled to his hands and knees into the cool water of the creek. He was breathing hard, chest heaving visibly from under the shirt he wore while his eyes were shut tightly as if he was in some kind of deep discomfort.

"That kid has some real issues to deal with. He's acting like his little workout has taken a great deal out of him. What a weakling. He can't even handle something so…simple." Turning back around he started to walk again, but before Kai could say anything there was another frustrated scream before both were unceremoniously shoved to the ground by a rippling radius of dark energy.

With a snarl, as if he had been purposely attacked, Tala was scrambling to get to his feet, the air around him already cooling greatly. Before he could get too far Kai was shoving and holding his form firmly to the ground. "Stay down!" The tone of Kai's voice was hushed yet a muffled whisper that demanded to be listened to. "He's having difficulty controlling his mutation."

"Can't control it? Then why the hell is he provoking it by doing what he just did? What an insane pain in the ass he is.. Ow!" Kai had elbowed the red hair in the side, a glare set on his features. "He was doing it so he could get rid of the energy so everyone else would be safe from it. I swear sometimes you can be so thick skulled and ignorant Tala. We used to do the same when we were younger."

"And he thinks it's safe to do it in a place like this?! Kai there are people everywhere in the park, and if that energy is strong enough it will carryout to harm them. He's crazy! We even knew better to go somewhere further away from civilization. What the hell is his problem? His energy is so…so dark." Daring enough to roll onto his side and peer over at Declan Tala watched as the last bit of energy was finally released.

"Well gee, with everyone doing what they do to him it's not surprising his energy is dark. Lets get out of here before he sees us. It'll just spook him even more than he already is." making sure Tala followed behind him Kai dragged his friend behind, pulling them back onto the main trail to move back to the more populated parking lot. "We'll speak to him about it tomorrow."