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Chapter 3

Rekindling Hope

Darren Michaels gazed through the window and looked down at the small town that was filled with fear, hatred, and anger. A long time ago he could remember when the place was filled with happiness and hope. Oh, how he loathed hope!

To him, hope was just useless, pointless, and that it destroyed people's minds. Before he became the person who he was now, that was one of the things that he wanted to destroy forever. The other thing that he wanted to destroy was beyblade!

When he was a young boy, he would always sit on the sidelines watching other boys and girls launching their beyblades and battling each other. Every now and then one of them would release the sacred beasts that layed within the beyblades.

His silver eyes would look at the beasts with desire. Everytime he saw one it only made him want one of the sacred beasts to call his own.

One day he bought a beyblade and he taught himself how to launch it and how to move, attack, and defend. Once he felt satisfied with his hard-earned skills, he battled and defeated child after child each in a beybattle.

After many years of battling and defeating each and everyone of his opponents, he found that still, even after this time, a bit beast still hadn't come to him. He became frustrated and angry at why one of the beasts hadn't chosen him yet.

Soon after that he began to take out his anger on the beybladers and the bit beasts. He would challenge other kids to beybattles and when they lost, he would destroy their beyblade along with their bit beasts.

Each time he destroyed a beyblade and bit beast, the battles helped him to come up with a plan to wipe out the sport altogether in this town.

He brought his plan into action when he used his beyblading skills to rise in power. He shut down the projects for future building of better beyblades, ceased the rebuilding of the BBA headquarters, and finally outlawed beyblading.

Of course he knew that people would oppose against this, so he raised his power to a dictatorship and used military action to force people to obey him. He even used this force to imprison many beybladers and well-known associates. But there was one team of beyblades that kept on eluding him: The GRevolutions.

He had placed them on the most wanted beyblader list in hopes of flushing them out, but it apparently wasn't working. He also knew that when they had to, they would have to come out of their safehaven, but he had no way to get them to do that. Until he discovered that one of the team members wasn't in hiding. And that team member was Hilary Tatibana.

A plan had quickly devised in his head of how he could use her to lure the others out. He knew that she was very special to them and that she had always been able to get them to stand together through thick and thin.

He had always wondered how she was able to do such a thing. Was she magical?, or did she just possess a special power over them? The answer to that question he didn't know. But he did know that if he wanted to finally get the GRevolutions he had to get her and afterwards, once he got what he wanted, he would kill them all, including Hilary.

Suddenly the sound of the doors opening caused him to turn his head. Coming in through the huge double doors was the captain of his elite police force, Shane Carson.

As he walked in, he walked towards Darren, bowed, and began to speak, "Sir, we found the girl and we were about to do as you ordered, but......."

"But what?" asked Darren, his voice beginning to get on the verge of anger.

"But....., someone intervened in our attempt to get her." stammered Shane as clenched his eyes in fear.

"What?! Who was this person?!?" yelled Darren in anger.

Who dare to intrude on his plans? He was so close to getting the key item in his plan, but then somebody had to go along and take the thing that he needed!

"Well, my men said that there were only two things that they noticed about him. The first one is that he's a beyblader, because he attacked them with a beyblade, and the second thing is that he had a long, white scarf tied around his neck." explained Shane, silently hoping that he wouldn't be punished.

Shane's words hit Darren with a pang. A white scarf? A beyblader? That could only be one person. He turned his head over towards a wanted sign posted up on one of the walls of his throne room. His eyes layed onto the picture of Kai Hiwatari, the team captain of the GRevolutions.

It had to be him. He was the only person who matched the description and the reason why he would prevent this was a logical one. Darren silently cursed him as he turned back to his captain.

"Up your patrols! I want the GRevolutions found, dead or alive! Preferably dead!" he yelled with anger glinting in his eyes.

He was going to find them no matter what the cost to the town or it's people. No one is allowed to intrude on his plans and get away with it! No one!

Hilary opened up her eyes and found herself in a dirty, ramshackle, old room lying in a pallet. She slowly got up from the pallet as the memories of what happened the day before came to her.

She remembered being surrounded by the dictator's soldiers and was almost killed until Kai came along and saved her. Then he brought her to where she was now and she discovered her other friends. Soon night came and she had to sleep in the same room with Kai.

Kai? Wait a minute! Speaking of Kai, where was he? Hilary looked over towards the corner of the room where he had slept last night and saw no one there.

As she stood up, the sound of talking came to her ears. She walked out of the room and towards the main room of the GRevolutions' hideout. When she came in, she saw Kenny, Ray, Tyson, Max, and Daichi sitting around the table. But still, she didn't see Kai.

"Hi guys!," Hilary called as she sat down at the table, "Where's Kai?"

The guys looked over at their friend. It had been a while since they'd seen her, so it was kind of difficult for them to get used to seeing her now.

"He went to go find us some breakfast." answered Max, as he looked over at her again.

"Oh." she replied as she walked over to the table and sat down.

Hilary still found it hard to believe that her friends, the once most famous team of beybladers were reduced down to outlaws in hiding. She felt sorry for them, but then she remembered that she was also a part of the team, so she was an outlaw too.

Suddenly the sound of Max's voice broke her from her thoughts, "Maybe, just maybe, my Mom and Dad might be alive somewhere too."

A sudden pang of realization hit Hilary. They also had other people out there probably in hiding or have been captured by the dictator's forces that were still alive. People like Tyson's grandfather, Mr. Dickenson, Max's parents, and maybe all the other teams that they had faced over the past years. She silently said a prayer for all of them to still be alive and well.

"We have to stop him!" called out a voice from one of the shadows of the room.

Hilary and the others looked over and saw Kai approach from the shadow. On his face he had a look of determination and in his eyes, the burning fire for battle. All of the others were wondering what he was thinking and then suddenly Kai spoke again with a smirk spread across his face and a devious look in his eyes,

"And I know just the way to do it!"