Author's Note: Well I am completely stressed out so this fic may have to…. Well stop being updated for a while… Now I am not abandoning it, just that the updates will be slower, this is because of two main reasons. My main exams are up next week. My best friend is now anorexic…. So this fic's completion has moved down on the priority list. But thank you to the people that reviewed last chapter. This chapter is extra long because I don't know when I will be able to update but I will try to update at least once every so often.
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Chapter 29
After Tyson had won his match against Bryan - only by one round, something made Tyson annoyed, at Kai. If he hadn't told the team that then what else could he be hiding? Tyson hadn't seen Kai since he had jumped out of the stands and helped his little sister. Still, he hadn't even managed to speak with him. He had just disappeared.
Tyson was wondering around, looking to some of the changing and locker rooms. How knew what this stadium was used for when the beyblade season was gone. Tyson sighed and continued on his quest for finding Kai.
"Kai?" He called into one of the last locker rooms. He sighed sadly when he noticed it was not who he was looking for.
"No, it's just me…" Lita come out from behind a row of lockers, and smiled, hoping that Tyson wasn't too mad at Kai for not telling them.
"Oh. Do you know where he is?" Tyson blinked as Lita sighed herself and shook her head, thinking of where he could be.
"I'm afraid not. I was looking for him too." She frowned and that made Tyson a little curious and decided to ask, just in case one of them found him before the other did.
"Huh? Why where you looking for him?" She didn't beyblade and didn't need to worry, not about herself anyway.
Lita shifted uncomfortably on the ground on which she stood, "I just…wanted to ask him something." She shrugged her shoulders hoping that it wasn't too obvious that she was uncomfortable with discussing Kai…
"What about?" Tyson wondered why Lita would need to speak with Kai - of all the times they had at the dojo to speak to each other, Tyson had only seen them talking in the garden or the kitchen. They would quickly disband if anyone came into the same room or space.
"Sota. Lotan. Beyblading…" Lita didn't want to give too much away but there was the three main points… Tyson watched as the girl forced a smile and leaned her back against the wall, and watched Tyson closely.
"I think it's a bad time to bring either of them up." Tyson said truthfully, he said it in a way that was serious but not scolding the girl.
"Why?" She muttered she would need to speak with him sooner or later she had information that she thought may help.
"Come on Lita, you saw that his sister just almost killed someone." Tyson muttered back, he didn't like to say it but, in other peoples eyes it would have been Sota's fault not Lotan's.
There was a pause in conversation and Lita decided on her next move, "Well, if you see him tell him I really need to talk to him. Okay?" She smiled, and hoped Tyson would find Kai before she did otherwise she would have some sort of breakdown. Well while telling Kai of this information she would…
Tyson grinned and nodded and Lita smiled back and nodded her head in acknowledgement wandering away to look for the cold captain.
The door clicked as the door gently closed, "Boris?" The man raised an eyebrow when the purple haired man looked taken aback by the sudden reappearance of him.
"Ah it's you? Where did you go?" Boris wondered why the man had left so swiftly, he thought that maybe he had gone to the rest room but after seeing him wandering the corridors on the main camera, well that was the end of his inquiries.
"I was checking on to see if this worked." The man waved the little controller around, wondering if they would be able to see Kai Hiwatari in pain, on one of the camera's.
Boris sighed the others still were not here, how long must he wait for pathetic people that just happened to be offered this… Plan.
"I did tell a few people to phone, they'll all be here soon." Boris said as if trying to entertain himself through their absence. Still the man just smiled and sat down, looking quite up-beat.
"When they get here; I'll show them what this can do." He through the controller up in the air and caught it with the opposite hand, and grinned at Boris.
"You're lucky that Voltaire did not even know about your crude experiments, that is before he lost a few friends." Boris smirked and the man couldn't help but chuckled then add in, "And a wife," the man and Boris laughed at the cruel joke.
"This is truly a great plan, though why must we share the profits among everyone else!" Boris sighed and looked at his superior whom was much more relaxed than the old fool Voltaire.
"They helped, to keep eye on my beloved family." The man proclaimed dramatically, sarcasm seeping from his words.
"I do believe that they haven't been your family in years." Boris rolled his eyes, that was one thing this man would do - he would try to kill the remaining Hiwatari's. All for money and revenge and Boris couldn't lie, both of them were the best things in life.
"Voltaire shouldn't have exiled me…" The man's face darkened and his eyes narrowed, his voice went quiet and low. Boris sighed, this man certainly could place a different mask on at any time, no wonder the Hiwatari's could mask their feelings so well.
"Indeed, he paid a heavy price for that." Boris chuckled when he had heard the news reporter say it was natural. That he suffered no pain. Fools. The media however annoying were useful in spreading lies that would help plans like this - stay hidden and would not be uncovered until years to come.
"Stupid fool, no one really knows how easy it is to get someone killed." The man was still mumbling away to himself, hating the very image that Voltaire left in his mind, the old man should have died long ago.
"Hmm…" Boris too a small sip from his glass not really wanting to start talking about the whole plan. Who knew what could have been listening in.
"You failed on killing the beauty Enya? How could you make such a terrible mistake! It almost ruined everything!" The man snapped now turning his anger onto Boris and his near failure, Boris cleared his throat although he was less powerful and certainly poorer than this man he would not put failure to his name…
"My apologies, but it's not like she will be able to speak now, is it?" Boris smirked when the man went back to his normal self. Or whatever his normal self was - this man had many personalities it was hard to think of one that would be considered normal.
"I suppose, I guess you are just lucky your men broke her jaw." The man rolled his eyes, he had managed to see her - with the whole of the Brat Crew off to this tournament he had simply wandered in without a care, it wasn't as if anyone would ask how he knew her. All he had to say was 'family' and they gave some sort of sympathy and then, they would shut up.
"Even if someone does mange to convert mumbles and groans into words, we will be gone." Boris smiled, he would be gone, then he could think of his new plans, something to control the beyblading world. Maybe he could ask his superior about how he managed to make Tundra?
"I'll gladly disappear. That whole family that disowned me! Will pay the consequences!" The man hissed and frowned, the controlled simply sliding through his fingers and into the other hand.
"So after you kill all of your blood relatives, what will you do?" Boris said calmly as if he were asking what the time was or what the weather was like. The man smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"Go abroad, pretend to weep."
Silence covered the room for a few seconds, then Boris couldn't help himself - he had to ask.
"Has your families lawyer disposed of the will?" That was the one thing that had almost stopped this entire plan from working. Voltaire really did hate him - still the money would have went to Boris himself… Yet it would have been harder and since the companies were in Hiwatari's name… He would just loose them…
"No need, it is still intact and now no use to anyone." The man smiled as he thought of the phone call he had received telling him that Enya was now in critical condition in hospital. It was music to his ears.
"How so?" Boris frowned hoping that he wasn't getting to cocky and hoped that this man would not miss out on something.
"The condition was unless - Enya terminated the will then it would stay valid." Boris narrowed his eyes looking at the floor, then suddenly caught on.
"Ah - that's why you wanted my goons to do their job after she went in." Boris smiled and continued to drink his expensive wine, that now even his guest was thinking of taking a few glasses of it.
"Yes, plus we wouldn't want that bluenette to start crying over the lose of his dear beyblade!"
"Indeed - you have thought of everything." Boris sighed as the old sadistic personality came out again.
"Ten years is a long time when planning revenge," The man hissed lowly, hating even the bluenette that was just not even his relative as far as he was concerned.
"Yes, it is."
There was a pause as the door opened and relieved a blonde man, with green eyes and a very pale face. He had went into hiding or rather because his boss had told him to act like Kai's and Sota's father for a few years, he was surprised to see the two main leaders of this plan already sitting down.
"You're here already." He smiled at the men sitting down and looked at the Boss. He narrowed his eyes and began to talk in a humorous way.
"Of course - or did you want to talk behind my back for a while?" The blonde man smiled thinking that this guy could and would never change.
"No, nothing like that boss."
"Please, stop the formalities. Where's your dear wife?" He looked around and did not see the woman that he had supposedly married to take place of Kai's step-mother.
"Oh please, I cannot keep tracking devices on her - as much as you would like me to." The blonde man rolled his eyes and grinned, and sat down, hoping that his wife and the others would come as soon as possible.
"So is that brat going to kill everyone?" A female voice came out of nowhere, and everyone smiled, and looked at the opening door where the woman - also once known as Kai's step-mother… Only three more people were needed until they were having their reunion.
"Hopefully. Since this is where all of the main, strong bladers are then if we can eliminate the others then we won't have much of a threat." Boris shrugged his shoulders and the woman frowned she had seen how protective and fond the two siblings were of each other…
"What's the boy doing about it?" She looked at the main boss hoping he would tell her how Kai would react.
"He's going to do nothing." The man laughed and soon everyone else did too…
"Hey, Kai I need to talk to you. Privately." Aton walked up to Kai and tapped him on the shoulder he tensed quickly and glared at his older brother.
"What?" Kai snapped, his head was beginning to become annoying and was starting to hurt once again - not like he would tell anyone else that.
"Em…I found out some more information…About Lotan." Aton muttered moving into a secluded locker room with Kai following behind.
"Such as?" Kai snapped, not really meaning to, but did so anyway. His head began to pulse with pain again and again.
"Lotan…can be stopped…" Aton was trying to remember what his father had told him to say. But his mind went blank for a few seconds.
"How?" This topic had caused Kai to forget about his sore head for a little while and continued to glare at Aton until he muttered, "…Em…"
"Sota….In order for Lotan to be destroyed…" Aton stuttered thinking of what his father had told him to do - he hoped that he hadn't forgotten.
"Would need to die…." Something in Kai's mind clicked, though something felt so wrong - something sounded wrong. Why would someone die because a bitbeast would be destroyed… Or was Lotan that powerful? Kai just stopped, he had to think hard about this. If he defeated Lotan then…. Sota would die… What could he do - he couldn't let his sister die. Yet he couldn't let Boris take over the world with a powerful bitbeast.
"How can you be so calm about this?" Aton frowned when Kai had stayed silent and hadn't even blinked, but he was lost in his own thoughts to really show any emotions.
"I'm not." Kai blankly said, making Aton's frown deepen, "Tundra could help." Aton suggested. Kai gave Aton a suspicious look.
"That because she was created, and is not a real but artificial bitbeast then you can sacrifice her…Instead of one of the other bladers."
"That doesn't help." Kai snapped the pain in his head becoming almost unbearable.
"What? Why the hell not!" Aton blinked and frowned again, he didn't like talking about trying to destroy something that would kill his sister. Neither of them did.
"Because Aton, bitbeasts and bladers need some sort of bond or link that will help them both in battle. It's why Miguel got hurt as badly as his own bitbeast did." Kai was sure that his brother knew nothing of bitbeast so where the hell did he get all this information from!
"It didn't even come out though!" Aton moaned, trying to think of how these bitbeasts worked.
"That's my point… Even if we were to find someone who could use Tundra, they would end up getting hurt themselves either way. So just drop it….It doesn't help." Kai snapped, but he couldn't help but be surprised when Aton suggested something that was basically un-suggestible…
"Then you could use Dranzer." Aton suggested, causing a very cruel glare to be shot his way. That was like saying sacrifice a family member for another. It just couldn't be done….
"What!" Kai yelled, making Aton a little bit more aware of what he was asking Kai to do, Dranzer had been with him most of his life…
"Well, you both have an okay bond right?" Aton tried to be up-beat but Kai was having none of it and yelled back, "I'm not going to sacrifice Dranzer -." Kai was interrupted by Aton,
"- For your little sister, our little sister!" That had struck a cord, and Kai couldn't say anything else about that subject. What did he care for more his little sister or Dranzer? How could he choose….
"Where did you get this information?" Kai glared, and narrowed his eyes. Aton blinked, he was told that if he told Kai that it was actually Adonis then he would dismiss it because well - they didn't have a great bond anyway…
"Just stumbled into it during a walk I guess." Aton shrugged and walked off leaving Kai with a new dilemma.
"Hey AJ, let's see who's going to verse that little tyrant Hiwatari! Let's hope that another beybladers do not get placed in the hospital!" Brad yelled down the microphone, most of the beybladers had come to the hall again to see who they would be facing.
"Brad, I couldn't agree more! Though I wonder what her brother, Kai was doing about having a sister that could possibly beat him!" AJ saw some displeased face when he mentioned the Hiwatari's names.
"Well, so far half of the bladers have been knocked out." AJ yelled again he was excited to see the next matches since the first round had been entertaining and shocking.
"The ones remaining, are…" Brad went to list them off but was interrupted by an very hyper AJ.
"All members of the former BladeBreakers - but what were we all expecting? Though they did seem out of their normal form." It was true anyone who watched any of their beybattles then they could tell that something was on their minds. Most people had thought that they knew about Sota and her bitbeast and that was why they were all so…. Intimidated.
"King and Queen are through! I bet each of them are happy!" Brad watched as a small smirk on Queen and King's face appeared, the did both seem happy and not phased about the whole Sota ideal.
"Robert and Enrique have managed to get to round two!" Robert just gave stern look while Enrique gloated a little winking at any female that happened to look his way - not like they took him serious.
"Two cold Russians, Spencer and Tala!" They were frowning, and their eyes held the same coldness as they usually did. Yet inside they were wondering what the hell had happened to Sota Hiwatari.
"Three of the last BEGA stars - Ming Ming, Mystel, and Garland." Ming Ming waved at some other fans that had managed to get into the hall, Mystel stayed quiet, smiling. Garland looked pleased but not happy about the fact of Miguel's beybattle.
"The only one from the Barthez Battalion, Mathilda - which I wonder where did she get that new bitbeast from!" Mathilda was happy, but also ineradicably scared, her team was now like a close family and she was here alone. Miguel was out within the second round of that match. What if she got paired up with Sota? Would she… Die?
"Who knows, Sota Hiwatari has managed, well has made it to the second round as well. I wonder will we see a face off between the two siblings?" Brad wondered who would win out of these two, he wasn't sure if it would be save and morally right to do that… It would make good entertainment though.
"And from the White Tigers - Gary." AJ shouted, though looked around the room. However Brad interrupted. "- No I'm afraid not AJ." Brad chuckled when he looked at AJ's confused face.
"Huh?" AJ spoke down the microphone making a few people chuckle. Brad continued to inform AJ and everyone else, "Gary…seems to have… Backed down!" There was an outbreak of chatter and whispers - all of then thinking if Gary had really backed down or not.
"I think anyone in the right mind would back down after seeing that last match. I know I would." AJ yelled again and thought of the last beybattle and gulped.
"That's why you are not a beyblader AJ." Brad mocked in a fun way.
"Looks like the computer is generating them all!" The names were coming up and began yo be muddled up as if it were going to place them in a hat.
"What a smart computer Brad!" AJ yelled down the microphone again and again even though Brad was sitting right next to him.
"I wonder if the one day of rest that the bladers were allowed made any difference?" AJ wondered usually they would get at most a day between about three matches - maybe, but that was about it…
"Now the match-ups!" Brad went on and watched as the computer began to slowly take out names and place them beside their counterpart.
Kai had decided he needed a walk and since the matches would be generated and the matches would start in a few hours then it was all the more reason to try to de-stress himself. He heard someone running, and stop suddenly, he heard a familiar voice.
"Kai. I've been looking all over for you." The voice of the World Champion came from behind him. Kai turned around to give the teenager a careless look. "Whatever." He mumbled, he didn't need to hear anything from a pompous blader.
Tyson ignored the look he received and decided to tell Kai the multiple things that he had discovered, and a few messages that needed to be passed on.
"The matches have been decided!" Tyson grinned when he saw a small amount of Kai's interest peak, and watched as he turned around too look at the younger blader.
"Who are we all up against…?" Kai hoped that no one was up against Sota - how he wished she wasn't even in this championships.
"Well I'm against Garland again, so I should be okay." Tyson grinned and shrugged hoping it would be a greater match than it was last year, he wouldn't complain if it was easy - he knew for a fact there was someone that would be extremely hard to beat already here.
"You're against….Mathilda, so you should be able to progress through to the next round." Kai rolled his eyes he was getting all of the easy ones, and yet Sota was getting the more experienced people - was this thing rigged? It was possible…
"Rei is against Mystel. It might be okay, maybe." Tyson walked over to the small fence Kai was leaning against, he looked down and say the main road where loads of traffic whizzed by.
"What do you mean…" Kai wasn't enjoying his situation - his head was getting sore again, he thought that maybe he would be able to participate in this years World Championships because it was disappearing but now.. Now it was worse than ever.
"Well, last year they got really friendly right. So Rei might not really want to try since he knows what Max is up against…" Tyson trailed off, making Kai more than curious and dreading the answer.
"Who is Max up against…?" Kai looked back to the speeding cars, watching them briefly before they disappeared under the bridge.
Tyson knew that Kai could take a guess and would be right, but he decided that he would just say that it was his little sister, just in case Kai was trying to reason with himself that it wasn't.
"Sota…"
Tyson heard Kai sigh and wondered what was going through the captains head, wondering if he was feeling okay - or if he was seriously stressing out. Although Mathilda was using a new bitbeast and was probably one of the weakest bladers here, it didn't make it impossible for her to win if Kai wasn't concentrating.
"How is he feeling…" Kai sighed, wondering if Sota would go easy on him, because she actually had spoken to him before - or would he just eliminate him like she did Miguel?
"Up-beat actually… but that's just pretty neutral for Max." Tyson shrugged, while looking off into the distance thinking about the upcoming matches.
"It'll be fine Kai. Max won't die or anything. He'll get hurt but I mean all of us have in the past… So… He'll be okay! He's tough!" Tyson was trying to convince Kai though he was not as certain as he was making himself sound.
"Maybe Max should…" Kai was considering talking the blonde, to ask him…
"Back down?" Tyson grinned when Kai looked at him and blinked wondering how he knew what he was thinking.
"Nah he won't, I tried talking to him already…He just told me that he wasn't much of a beyblader, if he just quit when something got too tough." Tyson agreed with that, although they could all get hurt what would be the point in giving up as soon as they beaten a few other bladers. It was like people not beyblading Tyson because he never been beaten in a World Championship match… Not completely….
"He could die, you know that…Right." Kai asked Tyson wondering if Granger even knew the dangers Max could be facing.
"Yeah but anyone could have - I mean people last year got really badly hurt. The stadium wasn't even left…" Tyson smiled at the memory, that was the day when people decided to play beyblade just to play the game - not to win...
"Max shouldn't play." Kai stated again.
"He shouldn't, but he will." Tyson knew that Max would beyblade even if he was discouraged that was the thing about all of the BladeBreakers, they would beyblade no matter how they were feeling.
Tyson noticed that Kai had tensed up and closed his eyes, thinking of ways to try and convince Max to back down. "Calm down, I'm sure there is a way to defeat Lotan." Tyson smiled when Kai looked at him but Tyson frowned when Kai shook his head and closed his eyes again.
"Or is that another thing you've been hiding? That he cannot be defeated." Tyson hoped that wasn't the case. Kai on the other hand gave an honest answer thinking of everything he had ever been told of the bitbeast Lotan.
"I don't know."
The two teens just watched cars going past and stayed quiet for a while, that was until Tyson had an idea, although he wasn't sure if it would work or not. He wasn't the brains of the group - that was Kenny.
"Hey…Kai...Em…" Tyson frowned though did not face Kai, he just started to stare out into the distance.
"Hn?" Kai was interested now by Tyson lack of confidence in speaking, he was going end up saying something he was sure of and that would either mean it was a good thing or a very, very bad thing.
"All bitbeasts were real once, or something like that right? Until they decided or were forced to rest….Right?" Tyson stood on the small bottom of the fence by placing his feet inside the space, making him slightly taller.
"Yes. Where are you going with this Granger?" Kai didn't like the idea of false hope and he didn't like to wait, even if it was Tyson telling him about a way they might be able to defeat Lotan.
"Well all we have to do if find out how Lotan managed to get trapped and sealed then do that right? Then he'll be gone again…"
Kai blinked, it was possible… Though how were they meant to find how that thing was beaten and trapped? Kai couldn't help but feel more gratitude towards the navy-haired teen than usual.
"That's the smartest thing you've ever said…." The half compliment half insult managed to confuse the navy-teen, Kai couldn't help but smirk - the boy was dense at times and yet sometimes the complete opposite.
"Well how do we find out how Lotan was trapped and sealed?" Kai looked at the dumb-founded Tyson for a second, then the World Champion decided to take a wild guess…
"Well, wouldn't some other country know of 'Lotan,' I mean surely if it was running around at some point someone would write down how they go it trapped in a stone." Tyson frowned, he didn't know to be honest but he didn't like the 'shooting-down' of his ideas that Kai was doing.
"It's not that simple." Kai gritted his teeth, hoping that he wouldn't end up causing another argument when they were closer to finding a way to get rid of Lotan.
"Why not!" Tyson frowned and shouted, not really meaning too. On normal circumstances Kai would have ignored Tyson and would have walked away but this was no ordinary day or situation.
Kai looked away from Tyson, but he picked up on the awkward aura that was beginning to surround them both. "Kai, what is it?" Tyson was thinking that maybe Kai knew something that no one else did. It would give a reason why he was incredibly down.
"If you get paired with my sister you will beat her no matter what…" Kai bowed his head not letting Tyson see his face that was filled with worry.
"Yeah sure, I did promise - so why is this complicated." Tyson knew there was something that was eating away at the captain and braced himself for the worst.
"Sota could die…" Kai muttered and looked away, despair showing in his eyes once again. Tyson blinked, he felt terrible to bring something like that up. Kai had always been protective over her, and now he must of felt like a complete failure…
"Oh." Tyson whispered and listened to the noises of the cars and lorries that went speeding past them. Then Tyson decided to break the silence.
"But we don't know that for a fact…" Tyson muttered hoping Kai wouldn't take it in the wrong way, but he did and Kai turned around to yell at him.
"What!" He didn't want to think that Tyson was going to risk his little sisters life, he knew it was somewhat an impossible thought to think. Especially when it was including Tyson. He snapped his head back to the view of the city and main road.
"Hear me out! If you don't know it for a fact then there is still a possibility that Sota can live and we can beat Lotan."
"…I guess." Kai sighed and looked back at Tyson wondering why he was in such an up-beat mood when Max of all people were going to be facing Sota - Lotan had almost killed Miguel. Kai just hoped Max would be okay.
Author's Note: Woo, that's that one done. Another six chapter and this fic will possibly be finished! I think… Let me think…. Yeah six chapters. Hope you enjoyed this chapter it's one of the longest (5000+ words) Well please review!