Heya folks! My apologies for the long update, I just had to pull these stories out of the proverbial file cabinet of my mind. Now, without further ado, chapter five! Sorry it's on the short side.

!-Chapter Five-! The Plot Thickens

Tyson didn't take a lot of pleasure in eating his lunch, which was unusual for him. He also ate his food at a notably slower pace, although disturbingly fast. Within five minutes after starting to eat he set down his bento box.

"So, Tyson, what's bothering you?" Daisy was only about a quarter of the way done. She watched Tyson a little concerned.

"Kai didn't come to school today."

"Yeah, so?"

"Lily didn't either. Something's up. Look, Lily got that letter yesterday, we never found out what it said. There was an explosion last night while Kai was training. I though I heard someone talking to him. Now neither of them come to school today." He looked eagerly forwards to see if anyone was impressed by his findings.

"There was an explosion last night! Why didn't you tell us!" Hillary stopped eating her lunch to yell at Tyson.

"Sorry, Hillary, we were going to." Max too put down his chopsticks to join in the conversation.

Kenny was taking in the conversation thoughtfully, wishing that school rules allowed him to bring in his laptop. "If that's true something maybe happening right now. Ah! What if they're in trouble?"

"Relax, Chief. Whatever it is they can handle themselves. Though I wish Kai could have told us about what happened last night. Man" Tyson looked thoughtfully at the uneaten food around him and was sorely disappointed when the group sensed his thoughts and continued eating their food. He downed any worry, believing his own words.

Unfortunately for Tyson, the idea that if you believe hard enough in something and it will become true didn't quite work. Zylo grunted as he tried to haul Kai up the stairs to the dock overlooking the beach. Both Kai and Lily were unconscious. They had only been able to see him for a moment before he shot them with a general knock out drug; the affects had been almost instantaneous. There was a black van waiting for the two of them to be thrown in. Oddly enough, no one was around to alert the police.

After several minutes of struggling, Zylo was able to get Kai in. Then he moved Lily into the back of the van as well. He slammed the doors shut and locked them. He got in the driver's seat and pulled off the wig, proving him to be the young man from before. When he spoke that drawl was gone.

"Well, now that they're out I should continue. I only have twenty minutes before they wake." With that he pressed down on the gas petal and tried to make the van look inconspicuous as he joined the bustling traffic flow of downtown. After a short, but non-the-less maze-like series of turns he stopped the van in front of a building. He backed up to what appeared to be an open lading dock. A hired hand walked up to the doors in the back of the van and opened them. The driver flipped a switch in the front console and finished backing up, plum against the loading door.

A moment later the two newly made captives hit stone cold cement five feet below. With an ominous clanking sound the loading bay doors were closed and then locked with a creak. Kai stirred and was up a second later. He quickly stood and just as quickly took in his surroundings. He stood silently at the set of locked doors whose door framed bottomed out at his eye level. His entire right side throbbed for that was the side he had landed on. On the other side of the dark room was another door, though floor level this time. Almost right next to his feet was Lily who was still knocked out. Under his swift glance that was planned to go back to searching the room for a way out she stirred.

She stood as well and took a few steps backwards as her turquoise streaked eyes adjusted to the darkness surrounding them, pupils dilating. She too spotted both sets of doors. She swiftly walked over to the door on their level, making it that much easier to grab the handle and test. She reached out for the handle, but her hand froze in place an inch form the metallic surface. She could literally feel the air charged and pulsating with electrical energy. No way she was touching that without a good amount of insulator between her flesh and the handle.

Lily told Kai about the electrified handle while waving her hand over the rest of the metal surface of the door. She discovered to her dismay that the entire door was electrified. The high voltage could very well melt her blade if she tried to launch the snowy-white industrial top at the door.

Kai upon hearing about the door decided to test the door that was five feet up in the air. There weren't any handles on the inside. He raised a hand and found that the door wasn't electrified. He raised the other hand and pressed both palms against one of the doors. It gave for a moment before the bar lock on the other side hindered any more movement. Kai glared in annoyance and lowered his hands. After a few moments of silence after conferring with each other about their surroundings bright lights glared in from the rafters above their heads. Both captains were blinded momentarily.

In their homeroom at Aru, the jaws of worry clenched tightly about Lea's inner thoughts. If what Leo had said earlier that day before they went to school was true, shouldn't Lily be back by now? What had happened to her brother, too? Normally, she wouldn't worry about either of them, however, not leaving word with her wasn't exactly normal for Lily. The behavior was odd, she hadn't been able to find a note in anything of hers at all. She copied down notes from the board. Whatever was going on, the both of them would need a very good explanation for their absence.

Well, that was when they got back from whatever they were doing, if they ever returned. She shook the thought out of her head. More than anything, those two were tough and Lily probably thought it wouldn't be too much trouble, which was why she didn't leave a note for her. It was probably nothing. Although she was going to be pissed off at them for a while for this. She didn't like to be left without word, ever.

At the warehouse storage room which had been modified just for this occasion, both teens looked around the room as their eyes adjusted to the brightness. It was the same as it was in the dark, but now they could see a vent that had been hidden in the gloom. A speaker crackled to life, static covered the voice, barely making it understandable.

"Good afternoon. Sorry for inconveniencing you wit this, but I'm sure you'll be able to understand."

"Not really, idiot." Lily muttered angrily under her breath.

"We want to test the captains of the world's two most powerful teams. If you'll go through that door over there," The door that had been found to be previously electrified opened, swinging innocently inwards to hand on its hinges, "you'll find a series of simple obstacles, if you make it though, you can go."

The speaker snapped off with a loud static click. Lily rubbed her ears what Kai ignored it.

"I guess there isn't much of a choice here."

"No."

"Sneaky underhanded idiots. I don't think this is going to be as easy as they make it sound..."

There was the sound of rushing water and the floor got damp, very dame and very quickly. Lily and Kai both looked at the door. The water had started to form a small coating on the floor. If it continued to get wet at this rate, soon it would reach the bottom of the door, which might still be electrocuted. They would find out if it was rather shockingly if it was if they hung around of course. There was a three-foot high barricade behind the door to give them time to get away from this small obstacle.

Both ran towards the door, feet splashing in a centimeter of water. The rubber soles of their shoes would protect them until the water went above that. Kai clambered up first since he was the first there. He was followed closely by Lily. When both were reasonably secure, Lily waved a dry hand in front of the door, finding their assumptions to be accurate.

They both looked back into the room and made sure they had blades and launchers before looking around for a way to continue. It was a matter of time until the water leaped over the barricade. There was a very long and ominous looking hallway just ahead of them. Thinking the same thing they readied their beyblades.

Lily held her ripcord loosely by the ring on her index finger. Still, it would take less then a second to fire the blade. Kai held the device with both hands, readied to fire in an instant.

A cautious booted step was taken into the hallway. Two sets of silver-stained eyes watched the walls carefully. Their ears were open to any repercussions to their steady forward movement up the steep hallway. The only noise was the steady beat of their steps.

There was a creka behind him. Lily took a quick furtive glance behind herself. The corner of her mouth twitches and she looked forward again, trying to walk casually. Kai gave her a quiet questioning look. She barely opened her mouth to tell him the source of the creak.

"There's a wall behind us, it seems to be moving...there are spikes too."

"I see..." Kai stopped, looked back and continued, looking forwards. When he had looked back it had accelerated. He tried to look through the dim lighting for an exit from the wide hallway. The exit was found manifested in an open doorway. Both teens walked into the doorways and watched the apparatus that had been following them slide almost like a ghost past the opening.

Both relaxed marginally, happy and relieved that that thing was gone. In a few moments they wished they were being chased again.

Back at Aru the bell for Lea's elective had rung and she walked out of the homeroom for only the third time that day. When she took her seat next to Mark she conveyed the fact that she was worried about both Kai and Lily to him.

"Ah, they'll be cool, Lea. You trust them for a reason."

"Yeah, true." Somehow, she didn't believe that. "After this day is over and if they still aren't back I'll tell Mr. D and look for them myself."