Chapter 9: "The Candle-Lit Room"
Welcome all Beyblade fans. As you know, we stopped at each new
Bladebreakers' house except Dakota and Kaia's. There is a specific reason for this. If you
thought this story couldn't get any better, well, that is where you'd be wrong.
We find the twins in their absolute favorite place in the entire world, their training
room. This is where the Hiwatari twins train themselves to be the best, most awesome
bladers anyone could ever imagine. The best thing was, they were doing this all on their
own. Neither Kai nor Gala was forcing them too, and the only thing had actually done
was show them how to actually put the blade on the launcher, and even then, that was
when the twins were only 2, and it was like they had known to do this, but they just
couldn't get it right sometimes. Anyway, the reason we are here is very important. Just
read on.
"Come on, Barkeon, you can do this!" Kaia encouraged her blade. Barkeon was
currently battling Dakota's new blade, Dranzer, who was also having a hard time.
"Dranzer fall back!" Dakota commanded his blade. "Attack her from behind!"
Dranzer withdrew, making its opposing blade fall, causing it to grind into the stadium for
a few seconds. Before Barkeon could even recover, Dranzer had come from its backside
and sent it, flying, out the stadium. Dranzer spun momentarily, and then its rotation
slowed, and finally stopped. Dakota picked it up. "Good job, Dranzer S."
"Very well done!" Gala had been watching. What she saw in her son was a large
amount of power, strength, both physical and emotional, and also a bit of pride, and she
proud of all of it. She saw it in Kaia too, but not such as Dakota.
"Sorry, Momma, I lost," Kaia said. "But that's okay! We've only just begun!"
She looked around, and saw that her father wasn't there. "Where's Dad?"
"In his training room," Gala said.
"Does he actually train in there?" Dakota asked. "Like with blades?"
"I guess. I've never been down there. Your father is a very private person about
his training." Hastily changing the subject, Gala said, "How about me and you battle,
Kaia? Me and you, both guardians of Barkeon, against each other, huh?"
"Okay, but don't hold back just because this blade is new!"
Gala chuckled. "Oh, Kaia…I never hold back." She loaded her launcher with her
blade, which was yellow and silver.
"Alright, then I won't have to worry about it." Kaia's launcher loaded, she and
her mother ripped, and the blades collided. That was all Dakota saw of the battle, for he
started for the hall way.
When he left the room, he turned right and went down the hall. He came to the
end, where a picture was hanging. It was one that had been taken some 20 years ago. It
was of his father and mother when they were 16. It was odd how much he looked like his
father. Dakota could see it. Had his hair not been brown, had he had double blue marks
instead of single red ones, you could not have told the 2 apart.
Looking beside the picture, he saw a small lock and a crack in the wall. He took
out a pin he had found in his sister's room, and picked the lock, and he heard it click. He
pushed on the wall, and it opened to a dark stairway lined with candles.
As he took the first step down, the wall closed behind him. He didn't know why,
but he felt totally comfortable for someone breaking into their father's secret training
room. He had never been down here, and knew he wasn't supposed to, but he just had to
know what his father did down here.
So anyway, he went down and down for what felt like an eternity. Finally, he
reached another door at the bottom, from which light was coming at the base. On the door
was a carving of an enormous phoenix surrounded by hell fire. He turned the doorknob
and the door creaked open.
At first the room was completely dark, then as his eyes adjusted to the dimmer
light than the stairway, he saw that he was in what looked like a colossal stadium room.
Around the room were pictures. As he looked around at them, he saw that almost all of
them were of his father when he was younger. In some, he was battling, and in some he
wasn't. But there was one particular one that caught his eye. It was a different blader, one
with bluish hair. He looked a lot Twilight. He had the same hat, hair, everything. Only
one difference. He was holding a huge golden trophy. He smiled as if he had just won a
World War.
"Whoa," he said in awe. Also on the walls above the pictures were ribbons,
smaller trophies than the one in the picture, and there was all his father's old blades that
he had collected over the years. There seemed be 9 places, but only 7 blades were there.
One he knew was his, Dranzer S. The other he did not know.
He then saw something in the corner that he had somehow overlooked. In a large,
glass and gold case wrapped in chains, was a black bit. In it was what like a black
phoenix.
"What are you doing here?" Said a voice coldly.
Dakota looked around, startled. His father was coming out of another candle lit
room. He was cut up and scratched and bleeding. He looked like several knives had cut
him.
"Um…n-n-nothing, I was just looking around. I'm sorry," he said apologetically.
"It's alright. Just don't do it often. What are you looking at?" Kai walked over to
where Dakota was standing.
"What's this?" He pointed at the case.
"That…" He looked at his son questioningly, sizing him up, thinking on whether
to answer the question or not. Apparently, he decided he should. "That would be Black
Dranzer."
"Black Dranzer?... Why is he in the case and why is it covered in chains?"
"Because it very dangerous. It is very powerful, and some may say…cursed, if
you will. Bad things happen with that bit, and you must never use it. No matter how
much you want to."
"Why?" Dakota asked.
"Just because I said so. I can do that, you know." He walked away from the case,
as if he didn't want to look at it anymore. He stopped in front of the picture Dakota had
seen.
"Who is that?" Dakota asked his father, walking over and staring at it too.
"That would be Tyson, Twilight's father," he said indifferently.
"That's Twilight's dad? He was world champion?"
"Yes. For 3 straight years. No one could ever beat him. Ever." He kept staring at
the picture, as if staring at it would make his words less true.
"3 years? Wow…why couldn't anyone beat him?" He asked.
"Because…" His eyes became very distant, as if he going back in his memory.
"He was very powerful, believed in everything he did, and was stubborn as an ass. You
couldn't make him change his mind about anything. This made him very capable of
winning. Of course, he was bit cocky and boastful sometimes, but I guess he had earned
himself some bragging rights." He chuckled. "Oh, what I wouldn't give to live that battle
one last time."
"What battle?" Then it dawned on him. "You mean…you had to battle Tyson to
be world champion?"
"Yep…best goddamn battle I have ever had in my entire life. Not to mention the
most explosive." He turned to his son. "Dakota…how would you and Kaia like to battle
in the world championships and live that same kind of battle?"
Dakota was silent, then looked at is father. "Are you serious?"
"Yes."
"You mean, we actually get to go around the world battling the best bladers on the
entire earth?"
"…Yes, I suppose so. Not all of them, mind you, but just the ones that show up
there."
"Will Twilight battle there?"
Kai thought for a moment, then said, "Yes, I think Tyson's mentioned it to him."
He walked around the edge of the enormous stadium where he stood and took something
out of his pocket. Dakota heard a clink. "Get your blade out, Dakota!"
"I don't see the point. I'm going to beat you anyway." He also walked to the
opposite edge and took out his launcher, blade, and ripcord.
"Now that's the spirit! That's one of many things you have to have to win a
tournament. You have to believe in yourself, firstly. And this is exactly what I am
teaching you today. I'm going to teach you what you need to know to win at the World
Championships."
"Then shouldn't Kaia be here?"
"Now that's the best part. When I'm done teaching you, you can show her how
it's done. Now let's stop talking and start blading! Go Dranzer MS!" Even in the dim
light, Dakota saw a glint shoot out of Kai's launcher, but he knew it was his hyped up
blade.
"It's going to take more than just a blade full of metal to beat me!" Dakota
launched as well.
"We'll see," Kai said to himself.
To be continued in Chapter 10: "Fire vs. Fire"! Squirrel