Chapter 10: "Fire vs. Fire!"

Remember where we were last time? Dakota and Kai were about to have a battle?

Well, that's where we are now.

"It's going to take more than a blade full of metal to beat me!" Dakota said to his

father.

"We'll see," Kai said to himself. "How about you attack first Dakota?"

"Um…alright then!" Dakota said, caught off guard. "Dranzer!" he yelled. And

Dranzer rose out of the blade, a massive bird of flame and fire. "Fire Arrow!" Dranzer

shot itself at Kai's blue and silver blade.

"Dranzer MS! Spiral Fire Ball!" The Dranzer in the MS blade rose also, but

instead of changing into an arrow as the other had, it started to spin, and then flew

straight at the opposing bit-beast. It attacked it's counterpart and sank it's beak right

where his heart would have been. As it did, Dakota saw his Dranzer disintegrate right

before his eyes. Then his father's Dranzer sank back into its blade, having succeeded in

defeating its opponent.

"Dranzer, return!" and his father's blade returned to his hand. "That was okay,

Dakota. But don't ever do what your opponent tells you to do in battle. It's a sure way to

lose. Next time, just ignore me. Got that?" He looked at Dakota sternly.

Dakota was stunned. "Y-yes sir." What he had seen was the most amazing thing

his 2 eyes had ever seen. Could he really get as powerful as his father? Actually be able

to turn blades into dust as Kai had?

"Good job, Kai, you still got it!" Gala congratulated her husband. "You did good

too, Dakota! I think you learned something today."

"Did you win?" Kai asked her.

"You knew about that?" she said. When he nodded, she replied, "Well…Kaia

came close, but I guess I have gotten a little rusty. That's okay though!" She turned to

her son. "Dakota, don't you have something to tell your sister?"

Only now had Dakota noticed his twin sister in the door way. He said to her,

"Kaia, we are going to be in the World Championships."

Her face went from blank to absolutely delighted in a millisecond. "Are you for

real?"

"I don't know. Are yall?" He looked at their parents.

"I would like to know when Kai is not." Gala looked at Kai fondly. "Do you want

to be in it, Dakota and Kaia?"

Kaia responded first. "Yes of course! Come on, Dakota! We have to go

practice!" And she raced up the stairs, Dakota following behind her. He closed the door

behind him.

The twins having left, Gala's tone changed. "What did he want, Kai?" She asked

him sternly.

There was a silence as Kai went back over to the Black Dranzer bit to stare at it.

After doing so for about 10 seconds, he looked up at her. "He wanted to know what that

was," he indicated the bit. "Wanted to know why it was in a case."

"What did you say?"

"I told him it was just a bit that was very dangerous. I didn't go any further."

"Okay, good." She started walking around the stone room, looking at the pictures

on its walls. "…Oh…So many memories…Did he ask about any of these?" She pointed

at the pictures.

"This one," Kai waved his hand at the picture of Tyson. "He asked me who it

was."

"He didn't notice at first?"

"Apparently not." Kai sighed and looked around the room. "Gala…don't you

wish we could live the glory days again?" he asked her.

She paused. "…I guess I do sometimes. It would be nice." She walked back over

to him, and took his hand. "But you know…we can live more of those days when the

twins become World Champions, couldn't we?"

"Yeah…" Again he looked at the many pictures, trophies, blades, and other

reminders of his blading past. He then decided that they had lingered to long in his

training room. "I guess we'd better go back up before those 2 destroy the training room

from practicing."

"You sure you don't want to remember anymore?" She asked Kai.

"Yeah, for now. Let's go." And still holding hands, they walked up the stairs to

the main house and up from the training room. As they reached the top of they stairs, Kai

turned. "Hold on." He snapped his fingers, and the candles in the stairway went out.

"There." He closed the door to the stairs and locked it back.

This is the end of Chapter 10! I hope you liked it! Please review! It would be

greatly appreciated! Squirrel