Okay, I updated this morning, went to school, came back and noticed I had 6 reviews already! I have a very big fan people and she dragged her cuz into the plot as well but because I simply love reviews, I am dedicating this chapter to both Blood tainted Angel and lil demon gal. Have fun with this chapter people.


'thoughts'
-voice in Viv's head-
"Speaking"
/twin mind link thingie/


-- 19 --

Kai's POV:

"Are we there yet." Tyson whispers for the empteenth time.

Drake let out a groan of frustration. We've only been walking for about 20 minutes but Tyson keeps asking if we're there yet. Hmm, maybe if he asks one more time Drake will hit him or something… Now that would be funny to see.

"Almost. It's behind those trees." Drake whispers with obvious frustration in his voice.

"I don't see anything." Max comments.

"Well we don't exactly hang a neon sigh outside stating 'Secret hideout. Aviva's here.' Drake growls.

Tyson opens his mouth to say something but then closes it again and starts to glare at the ground. Well there's something you don't see every day. Tyson not knowing what to say.

After we pass the trees Drake pointed at we can indeed see a small cabin. It's pretty much hidden in the bushes and you'd miss it if you were just walking by without looking for it.

"You wait here and I'll go check if somebody else is there. If nobody's there I'll come back to get you. Don't go over there until I get back." Drake warns.

We all nod and he walks over to the cabin, entering it after that.

Aviva's POV:

/Don't worry, I'm coming Viv/

O-kay… that mind thingie actually works I think… I hate it that the damned voice in my head is actually right.

-I told you so.-

'Oh shut up. You don't have to rub it in you know.'

-Just as long as you know I was right.-

Okay, that's it! The voice is dead! Too bad you can't kill voices in your head.

-Well anyway. Kai's coming.-

'Let's hope he's on time.'

I let out a frustrated sigh, 'And let's hope he's on time before either Voltaire kills me or sends after me.'

I sit in the darkness for a while until the door opens and someone walks in. My heart skips a beat as the light pours into the room but I relax when I see it's only Drake. He looks kind of nervous though. Wonder why… and why does he keep glancing back at the door?

"Drake?" I ask him questioningly.

He seems to snap back to reality and then stares at me nervously. What the hell is going on?

"I uhm…" he glances back at the door again, "I went to get Kai." he whispers so softly that I can barely hear him.

My eyes widen and I immediately get up from the floor, "Where are they?" I ask trying to whisper as good as I can.

"Outside. Boris is gone but Alan's here so I can't get them yet. I just thought you'd like to know." he says.

I smile at him, "Thanks Drake."

He smiles back at me, "I have to go back and try to get rid of mister playboy upstairs. As soon as he leaves I'll go get the rest of your team." I nod and he walks back to the door, closing it behind him.

I sit back down on the mattress still smiling.

-I guess we're almost out of here.- my voie says happily.

'And that means I can start ignoring you.' I say teasingly.

-Tss, is that the thanks I get.- If voices could pout, mine sure the hell is right now.

I grin as I imagine the voice pouting, 'Don't worry, I'll only ignore you half of the time.'

-Well thank you for that great honor oh great Aviva- the voice mocks.

A mocking voice? Great, first pouting, now mocking. What's next? Hitting!

I shake my head at that and lie down. After a while – I have absolutely no idea how long – the door opens again. I sit up slightly and wince as suddenly bright light pours into the room. I guess the basement has lights as well because this is way to bright to come out of the hallway. I close my eyes and groan at the stinging pain before almost jumping out of my skin as two arms encircle me.

"Viv! Are you okay?" I relax and lean into the hug as I recognize Ray's voice.

I open my eyes slowly this time and after a few seconds, Ray's worried face becomes clear. Kai is sitting next to me and Tyson, Max, Kenny and Drake are standing near the door, "I'd just love to say yes but I'd be lying." I mutter.

"You look awful." Tyson says staring at me.

"And we need to get you out of here." Kai adds, "I think you could use a doctor."

Ray picks me up bridal style and I lean my head against his shoulder.

As we walk back to the door, we suddenly hear a soft chuckle, "Well well well, the gang's all here." I look up recognizing Alan's voice immediately.

"Alan." I never knew Ray could say someone's name with such loathing but he just proved me wrong. Did I mention how scared I am of Alan by now? No? Well I'm REALLY scared of him. I hold on to Ray a bit tighter and look at Alan. He's standing at the door with a huge smirk on his face. Boris is standing next to him with the same expression. Makes you wonder if those too might be related… Now that's a creepy thought.

"I always knew you were too soft for this Drake." Boris says disapprovingly.

Drake glares at him, "Well at least I didn't give my soul to that devil Voltaire just for some lousy money." he growls.

Drake keeps distracting Boris and Alan while Kai silently gets Dranzer ready and aims right at Boris's chest. Both Alan and Boris are too busy with Drake – they're insulting each other like mad – to notice.

Kai smirks and then launches Dranzer. Boris, hearing the blade, turns slightly but that only helps Dranzer as she crashes right into his chest with full force. He gets thrown back and grabs the spot where Dranzer hit him, crying out in pain. Alan immediately turns to Boris which gives Drake – who was standing closest to him – to kick him to the ground.

Ray, Tyson, Max and Kenny already started running to the door as soon as Dranzer hit Boris full on. They all run past to two figures on the ground as Kai – who picks up Dranzer on his way - and Drake follow after us. I glance behind to see Boris still on the ground and in very much pain but Alan is already getting up and starts to chase us.

We run out of the small cabin and into the forest. There's just one problem, Alan knows this forest like the back of his pants but Ray, Kai, Kenny, Tyson and Max don't. They have to follow Drake without really knowing where they're going or what's coming and that slows them down. It isn't a big surprise when suddenly Youkai is launched and almost hits my head. We all have to start dodgint the blade which makes us go even slower and Alan quickly catches up with us.

"YOUKAI! WATERY GRAVE!" Alan calls right.

Youkai appears out of his blade and creates a tidel wave that washes over us. We all stop and Alan quickly goes over to Youkai. They're completely blocking the way now.

"You're not going anywhere." he growls looking angrily at us but then focusing on me and smirking, "Unless…"

"Unless what!" Ray hisses, noticing his stare on me and pulling me against him a bit tighter.

"Unless Aviva blades me for it." Alan says grinning now.

"WHAT! You can't be serious about that! Aviva is in no state to blade you playboy." Drake exclaims.

"That's the fun of it." Alan says, "That and I know she's scared of me by now."

All eyes except Drake's turn to me and I look at the ground. I can't really deny it.

"She's not blading you Alan." Ray growls, "I'll blade you."

"Nope cat-boy. It's her, or I get some help here in no time." Alan says. Well he's obviously got the upper hand here. Everybody glares at Alan who just stands there with Youkai still spinning next to him.

"I'll do it." I say weakly.

Now everybody – including Alan – is staring at me in shock. Hmm, I like the shocked version of Alan but sadly, he recovers quickly and starts smirking again.

"You can't be serious Viv! You're in no shape to blade someone like Alan right now." Kai says worriedly.

"Look Kai, either I blade him and we have a small chance of getting out of here, or I don't blade him and we're screwed for sure." I state simply as I get out of Ray's arms who lets go of me reluctantly, "I presume you brought Ice Clove?" I ask my team.

Kenny nods uncertainly and gets Ice Clove out of his backpack together with my starter.

"Thanks Kenny." I say as I take my stuff and get ready to blade Alan.

Okay, so there's no bladedish around so it'll a be a fight until either of our blades stops spinning and I'm not really in any state to have a beybattle like this… Yup, we're screwed.

"Ready?" Alan asks tauntingly. I just nod, "Good, then 3…2…1…LET IT RIP!" he yells and we both launch our blades.

"YOUKAI!" Alan yells.

"ICE CLOVE!" I yell.

Our blades land on the ground and his immediately starts hitting mine.

"Youkai, let's start easy shall we. Watery grave!" Alan orders mockingly.

Youkai appears out of his blade with a loud roar as bringing several waves with him and then creates one huge tidal wave and sends it at Ice Clove.

"Ice Clove! Ice Barrier!" I order and the icy shield appears around my blade.

The tidal wave hits the shield but doesn't go through, it doesn't even crack the shield the slightest bit. Huh? Either I've got more power left in my body than I thought or he's not as strong as I imagined him to be. Well either way, it's good for me.

"Ice Clove! Glacier!" I yell.

Ice Clove appeas out of her blade with a deafening roar bringing small ice bergs with her and the temperature drops drastically. She crushes the small ice bergs around her before letting out an angry roar and creating large ice bergs that seem to come out of nowhere. The tops of the ice bergs stab Youkai who roars in pain. When the tops are to high to reach, the icy walls close in on Youkai, crushing the blue tiger between them.

Alan curses loudly but then calls out his next attack, "Come on Youkai! We're not going to lose to two girls! Light-Force Claw!"

One of the ice bergs emit a bright light and suddenly explodes as shards of ice fly everywhere. I cover my face to protect it and I can feel some of the shards cutting my arm.

I lower my arms slowly again to see some blood flowing out of wound on my arm but I decide to just ignore it. I need to focus on the beybattle. I see that Alan just lowered his arm and is bleeding as well though he ignores just like I'm doing.

"Youkai, use the Ligh-Force Claw again!" Alan orders and Youkai's paws begin to emit the bright light once again. He charges and Ice Clove who roars in pain as the sharp claws hit her. She's thrown back slightly but regains her footing and glares at the tiger in front of her.

"Youkai! Torpedo Claw!" Alan yells.

Youkai charges at Ice Clove once again but she can react just in time and dodges the poisonous claws. I clearly remember Alan saying that that attack can poison your opponents bitbeast so I'm very glad Ice Clove has such quick reflexes.

"Ice Clove, Blizzard!" I call out and a powerful ice storm starts to rage, growing stronger as time passes and weakening Youkai.

Alan again curses as he tries to find his blade but the storms is to dense and he can't see a thing.

When the storm finally does fade, Youkai is slightly off balance but regains quickly. Our blades hit each other a few times again with as much force as they can. Ugh, I'm getting dizzy. Those attacks are really taking their toll on me now. If this doesn't end soon, I'll faint for sure.

Alan obviously notices the slightly unfocused look in my eyes because he smirks wickedly, "Can't keep up, Viv." he mocks.

I glare at him as good as I can, "Oh shut up Alan." I snap at him.

He seems taken aback by that. Wait… where did that just come from anyway? Just before this beybattle I didn't even dare to look at him. I smirk. I guess I got over my fear. Ugh, now if I could only losse this blurry vision!

"I see you have your big mouth back. I'll have to do something about that as soon as I win." There's that suggestive tone in his voice again.

"I'm done being scared of you Alan. Now blade instead of trying to impress me with your damn flirting." I growl, "Ice Clove! Glacier!"

The ice bergs appear under Youkai again and start stabbing him again but this time, Alan does something to help the blue tiger a bit sooner, "Youkai! Crush those damn mountains with your Light-Force Claw!"

Youkai's paws emit the light again and he starts crushing the tops and the walls of the ice bergs as they come at him so the attack doesn't really do that much anymore.

"Now it's time to finish this, Youkai! Torpedo Claw!" Alan yells.

"Oh no you don't. Ice Clove! Ice Sword!"

Youkai charges at Ice Clove with his poisonous claws asIce Clovebegins to spin with outstretched arms. They both hit each other with full force and a huge dust cloud rises from the ground making it impossible to see what's happening.

When the dust starts to settle again, I can see one blade still spinning but my blurry vision is sort of preventing me from seeing which one. Then I hear Alan curse even louder then he did before and hear other blades being launched. After that, my world goes black and I finally faint out of exhaustion.


Well that was it. Only one ,more chap to go and that's really just an epilogue… and it's short, VERY short. Well anyway, the new review limit is 116 reviews so I'll see you all when I get that many reviews. R&R!