Note: Yesterday, the internet went down. Again. So my dad, who's a technological expert did everything he could, but couldn't fix it. Then, Tohru, who's a year younger than me, comes home from visiting her parents, and fixes the internet. A shocking day is there ever was one. Next thing you know, George Bush will be smart.
Chapter 22: Forgive but not Forget.
A.S.A.P., Tyson, Max, Ray, Hilary, Kenny, and Tysa went looking for the Kairi. They checked everywhere it could've gone.
"Tyson!" Hilary yelled when she saw Tyson check the bathroom. "I highly doubt that a missing beyblade would turn up in the toilet!"
"Hey, get off my back, Hil! The beyblade could've been in the sewers and appear in our toilet!" he snapped. Then he added smugly, "I saw it on T.V."
"The sewers!" Tysa gasped suddenly.
"What's up, Tysa?" Max asked as Tysa ran out the door.
"I'm gonna strangle someone!" She growled as she left.
"I wonder who's the unlucky one." Tyson said. Ray flinched.
I wonder if Kai can run fast….
Down in the Flyers' base, Kai was walking out through the hallway. He had been contemplating on how to apologize to Tysa. He tightly gripped the Kairi in his pocket.
Please…just let her forgive me. I don't care what she does to me…just let her forgive me…
"Huff…huff…" Kai looked up at the familiar voice and saw Tysa run down the hallway. "There you are you—you—arrggh, I'm so mad at you! I don't even know what insult to call you!" Tysa seethed at Kai darkly. She held out her hand. "Give me back my Kairi!" Instead of giving her back her beyblade, he gripped her hand with both of his. "Huh?"
"I-I'm sorry. I-I shouldn't have yelled at you like that." Wide, surprised brown eyes looked into sincere gray eyes. Tysa gulped as her anger dissipated. Was Kai…blushing a bit? And was she?
"Uh…" Out of all things, Tysa wasn't expecting an apology from Kai. She gently pulled her hand away as his grip loosened. "I want to know…what happened between you and Kia." Kai didn't look surprised. He nodded.
"Come back to my room."
Inside Kai's room at the Flyers' base, Tysa sat down with her Kairi in her hand. She looked around the torn up room.
"What did you do in here?" She asked. Kai scowled.
"I didn't do anything. Your beyblade tore up this room."
"But I wasn't here…"
"And you think I don't know that?"
"Uh…" Tysa looked around the room again. This didn't look like the damage a beyblade like Kai's could do. Only a really fast 'blade could do this…
"So…um…back to my question." Tysa looked at Kai. "What happened?" Kai sighed.
"I just remembered everything yesterday. It'll be better if I start from the beginning." Tysa nodded at the suggestion. The more she understood the better.
From this point on, everything will be told from the past to save me dialogue trouble. Ok? Ok, let's begin.
"Hey, is he ok?" a voice asked. The voice sounded the same age as Kai.
"Well, give him some room, Jet." An older voice said.
"Hey, look! He has a phoenix bit-beast!" the younger voice said.
"Give it back, Jet!" the older voice commanded. Kai took this as his cue to wake up. The eleven year old groaned as he sat up and opened his eyes.
"Where…where am I?" Kai asked.
"You're in the sewers." The older voice told him. Both the siblings had green hair.
"It's…warm…" Kai realized. In Russia it was never warm. Unless…
"What country are we in!" Kai said suddenly.
"What kind of idiot are you?" the boy his age asked. "You're in Japan, duh." Japan! How'd he get to Japan!
"Oh, yeah, here's your 'blade. It's pretty cool." Jet held out a blue blade. Kai looked at it. In the center there was a red phoenix. His head hurt for a minute.
"So, what do you call it?" Jet asked.
"What?" Kai looked at Jet quizzically.
"What's its name?" Jet repeated. Kai looked at the blade.
"Dranzer."
"Dranzer? That's pretty neat. Can he come back to the base with us?" Jet looked up at his older brother.
"Well, I'm sure his parents are looking for him…"
"They're dead." Kai said suddenly. "And I don't intend to go back to the family I do have."
"So, he can stay!" Jet grabbed Kai's arm. "Come on!" Inside the base, a lot of different age kids with beyblades were walking around.
"So…um…" Jet looked over Kai.
"What?" Kai eyes narrowed threateningly, but Jet wasn't fazed.
"What's your name?"
"……Kai."
"Kai, huh? Are you any good at beyblading?" Jet asked. Kai thought about it. Was he?
"I…don't remember."
"So, battle me!" Jet held out his metallic-green blade. "Come on! I'll take you on!"
After a while, it was determined that Kai was the best out of almost everyone except Jet's older brother, Sora.
"Not bad, Kai." Sora complemented. He was right. The battle went on for a while before Sora had beaten him. Out of pure instinct, Kai held out his 'blade towards Jet. "Uh…what are you doing?" Kai stared at his hand quizzically.
"I don't know…I was just instinct…"
Kai seemed to live his new life peacefully with a similar personality that he has now. He thought that his forgetfulness of his past wasn't a big deal, but he couldn't stop the instinct to draw pictures of the moon in the skylight in the base. He thought that nothing would really change, until he started having these strange dreams when he was twelve. It was always the same dream: a long-haired girl was saving his life in the moonlight, but he couldn't see her face. Right before he would wake up, he would see the girl turned away from him so that he saw her silver wings, and she would turn her face slightly so he could see silver eyes. Then he would wake up. He thought it was really nothing. Then his life changed when there was a new arrival to the Flyers.
"Come on, Kai! Hurry up!" Jet was dragging Kai from his arm like he always did when Kai would resist.
"Let go, Jet! Where are we going!" Kai asked annoyed.
"There's a cute girl here named Kia! You have got to meet her!"
"I wouldn't care if there was an elephant named Kia down here! Let me go!" Jet, of course, seemed to have the same pushy personality as Tyson, and kept dragging Kai.
"Look there! See! The blond girl with the purple!" Jet pointed to Kia.
"Like I said, Jet. I could care less. Can I go now?"
"Can you loosen up once in a while?"
"Hey, girl, watch out!" Kia looked up from the random voice and saw a 'blade aimed at her. All of a sudden, a blue blade knocked the other 'blade out of it's course and went back to its owner. Kia looked and smiled at the one who had more or less saved her. Kai didn't look remotely impressed at the feat or at the girl. He gave a 'hmph' and started to walk away.
"Uh…who was that?" Kia asked Jet.
"That's Kai." Jet told her.
"Kai…" After that moment, Kia started to follow Kai around like a lovesick puppy. Of course, Kai wasn't thrilled. In fact, he was thinking that he should've let Kia get hit by the beyblade.
"Leave me alone!" Kai yelled at her. "Stop following me!"
"No!" Kia said. "I'm going to prove to you I'm a good beyblader! And then…" Kia moved closer to Kai. "I'll be your girlfriend, right?" That definitely surprised Kai.
"My girlfriend?" He narrowed his eyes and scowled. "Get a life." He then walked away, leaving a heartbroken Kia. Despite everything, Kai still had those dreams about the long-haired girl in black and silver. Then one dream was different. The girl had asked Kai to find her. That same dream to find the girl kept occurring over and over, until Kai made up his mind. He packed the few items he did have, and decided to sneak out at night.
"Kai?" Kia's sleepy voice asked, stopping Kai. "Where are you going?" At first Kai was silent.
"I…have to find…someone."
"Who?" her voice sounded concered.
"I don't know. It's a long haired girl…And I have to find her."
"How long are you going to be gone?" Kai wasn't fazed by the sadness in Kia's voice. He shrugged and kept walking, leaving a very disappointed Kia.
Ah…so that's what happened. Ok, back to the present!
"Oh." That was all Tysa could say. The room was quiet for a while. Instead of being grateful for it, Kai was put on edge.
"So…Kai…"
"Hmm?" Kai asked, thankful for the start of a conversation for once.
"How many girlfriends did you have?" Tysa smirked. Kai blushed.
"None." The room was quiet again.
"So…"
"Hmm?"
"How many girls did you like?" Kai thought about it.
"One."
"Who?" Kai leaned towards Tysa.
"You." Tysa blushed but was surprising open to Kai's kiss. Her body shuddered a bit as he moved his hands to her cheeks, caressing them. Her back arched in response, deepening the kiss. Suddenly, the kiss was disrupted by a knock on the door, and the two teens separated quickly as Kia came in. She narrowed her eyes at Tysa.
"What do you want?" Kia asked darkly. Tysa seemed to absorb the limitless anger with no effort.
"Nothing. Just world peace and the end of world hunger." Tysa said sarcastically. "Oh, and, revenge for slapping me." Tysa stood up, meeting Kia's eyes. "We're going to have a battle this time, ok? No races. No holds barred."
Why not add a few more words, to find out what Manasa's doing right now! If you forgot who she is, I don't blame you. I almost forgot about her, and she's my character! If you had forgotten, like I did, check out Chapter's 9 through 11.
"This is just too easy." Manasa said from the shadows of the practically forgotten BEGA tower. Practically everyone from team BEGA had dark thoughts in them already, although Brooklyn was a challenge.
"Well, well…you're Manasa." Manasa turned around to see where the alluring voice came from. A girl that looked like the Líng Luán with black wings was standing in the window with smirking with her lax silver eyes. "That's quite a power you got there. Manipulating the darkness of people. Very nice." The girl jumped off the ledge.
"You must be Chaos." Manasa realized, but stepped back, knowing that Chaos wasn't to be mess with. "What happened to—"
"Karsen?" Chaos snickered. "He's in a better place now, if you can go to a better place."
"Is someone in here?" Brooklyn's voice called as he opened the door. Manasa automatically disappeared, so that Brooklyn only saw a girl staring at him with lax silver eyes. "Who--?" The girl smirked.
"Hello, Brooky. You won't mind if I stay here a while, will you?" the girl asked coyly. Brooklyn was about to say something about that "Brooky" thing, when a silver wave of power flashed through him. The girl smirked.
"Well, Manasa, you did help in letting me take control of this tower. Now…to find the other me."
ok, Chaos is making a mess of things, considering she's like a very evil Tysa. And one more thing, Líng Chén is Toki's real name, not Chaos'. Just clearing thing up.
Mizuki Sakura