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Chapter 32

The stadium, the media, the fans had all went absolutely wild when they had heard that Kai was facing none other than his little sister, and Tyson was battling Mystel. Whatever was going through the other beybladers minds were kept quiet unsure on how to behave when Kai came near them. Should they encourage him to beat her or maybe just not say anything. A few sympathetic smiles were passed on to him, but he took no notice and just disappeared.

"Kai…" Tyson had been wandering, with Max and Rei trying to locate their missing ex-captain to try to find out what he would do. It was unclear if Kai would back out or not, he may have been cold to everyone but his little sister… The decision was difficult even for one of the BladeBreakers to make.

"- I know Tyson." Kai appeared from the familiar shadows and decided to answer Tyson before he asked any difficult questions. There was only one word to explain how Kai was feeling, and that was simply torn. Should he even be allowed to beat his little sister, should he even go out and let everyone see how he has failed in being an older brother. To see Tyson, again take the glory for destroying an evil bitbeast. Why couldn't his own family stay out of the beyblading business. His family and social life wouldn't have been so fucked up if his family hadn't taken such a keen interest in the sport.

Kai didn't bother to look at any of his old team in the eye, no one dared to challenge how he was feeling, no one would be able to tell Kai that it was going to be okay. Simply because there was going to be a down-side to any scenario that either of them came up with. Kai walked away, not caring about the concerned or worried looks he knew he was getting from each teen. His head was down, heavy with all of the decisions, thoughts and emotions. He just didn't understand, he had no idea what to do anymore.

"He looks…" Max began, but stopped as he didn't want to place a negative spin on things. Yet Rei somehow managed to say what everyone else was thinking.

"Like he's not going to be able to do it?" Max nodded silently as Tyson frowned, he knew Kai was having trouble - anyone would have trouble making this decision, but it shouldn't too hard to figure out. If he won he saved his sister, all he had to make sure was that his beyblade stayed spinning.

"Kai will be fine, we both did agree that we would meet in the finals!" Tyson shook his head refusing to think that Kai would break his promise of, again, meeting each other in the finals. They were both rivals, Kai wouldn't give up beyblading until he beat Tyson so why let his sister stand in his way. She was being possessed didn't that make it somewhat easier?

"Kai didn't know his sister was going to the Mystery blader though." Max pointed out, no one knew who the mystery blader was until that last announcement, no one was more surprised than Kai. Tyson turned to look at Max in the eye.

"How does that change anything?" Tyson knew what it felt like to be betrayed, he had had that done to him many times before. Even Kai had done it a few times, and despite having a brother that had done the same, he didn't feel as much resentment as he thought he should have for the older Granger sibling.

"It does, in Kai's mind. I mean if you had a sister, could you… Beat her?" Tyson pondered over the thought, he decided that he would want to protect her, if he had one. So having to beat and possibly harm the one person that he had feelings to protect…

"I guess not." Tyson sighed and began walking again, thinking over everything, anything that would hopefully get Kai out of the passive mood he was in and back into the passionate blader he was. Max decided that since he was the only member of the BladeBreakers to have faced Sota, then his opinion would be held more accountable than most.

"Kai will win, I mean he won't lose this - it is his sister, and Kai's already passionate about beyblading. Even more so about help Sota get away from Lotan." Max was still unable to move his arms without shooting pains to run up and down them. He hissed in discomfort, Rei looked down at the blondes arms. Maybe he should have backed down. The neko-gin thought, hoping his friend would heal quickly.

"True, though he might need to watch for that stupid move." Rei added in, it was that move that had finished everyone off, the burning of the hands or arms. Even in Roberts match his beyblade began to melt. The three teens nodded to one another, now having a new found hope in Kai - they just hoped that Kai believed in himself to be able to beat Lotan.

Kai appeared to just be standing around the corridors and locker rooms. Really, his head was throbbing painfully and his whole body was filled with an odd sense of guilt and despair. What had Sota done to deserve any of this? Kai had closed his eyes finding that the lights made his eyes sting.

"Kai, found you again!" Lita sighed and walked over, now noticing the frown that came to Kai's face when she had yelled his name. He must have had a sore head - maybe it's because of all the stress and tension? Lita smiled in a silent plead from Kai to not bite her head off like he had done the last time they had met up.

However, Kai just opened his eyes, thinking that his voice would be weak and too out of character to use. Lita smiled again and decided it was best to start preparing Kai's beyblade for the upcoming match. She pulled out something from her hind pocket, and held it out in a clenched hand.

"Here, the things I was meant to give you a while ago." She stated simply as Kai reached out his open hand to receive what Lita had decided to give him. Kai felt a small object, in fact it was more than one it was several.

"What are…" Kai looked at his hand, and noticed that it was beyblading gear, an attack ring and a defence ring with a few other parts that weren't too important. The metal was cold, and was a normal dull grey. They were definitely metal since they weight a lot, well for beyblading gear anyway…

"Why are they so heavy?" Kai looked back up to the girl who was waiting patiently to explain why she had given these particular ones to Kai. Lita smiled again and decided that it would be best to answer Kai's question, he probably wasn't in the mood for too much.

"They are made of Tungsten." Lita sat down on the bench and waited for Kai to join her, he would need somewhere to fix the new stuff to his blade.

"Tungsten?" Kai eventually did sit down on the bench but did not move to take his own beyblade out and start applying the Tungsten parts to his blade.

"The best metal… When working with fire." Lita noticed that he still wasn't moving and began to wonder if he would even use them - they were his best defence, so Lita was unsure on the reason why.

"You mean it won't melt like Robert's blade?" Kai was unsure only because he hadn't used this type of attack ring and defence ring. What if he couldn't control his beyblade? What if he lost because of them? It was by far a risky decision.

"Well both bladers will be using fire." What would the good be in using a metal, that had low melting point. The match would be over in a matter of minutes if not seconds.

Kai looked down at the rings again and shook his head. "I won't be able to use them." Kai went to stand up, now deciding that he would not use them, he would just use his original beyblade. Before Kai stood up, Lita knew that she would have to beg, or give some sort of reason why Kai should take the chance on these new beyblade rings.

"Please just use them." Kai sighed and decided to rethink over what he was going to have to do. Since Lotan now didn't have seven heads… Sota would be tired… He had Dranzer and supposedly Tundra would come if he asked her too. Now he had the choice to take these… Would they help him?

"So how warm are we talking about…Before these give out?" Kai looked back down at the attack ring and defence ring, they were the heaviest beyblading gear that Kai had ever held.

"At least three-thousand-four-hundred and ten… Degrees." Lita was slightly amused at the aura that had come off of Kai. He was probably shocked that there was such a metal that could withstand such a heat. It would help in this match. Definitely.

"Fine." Kai pulled out his beyblade, now actually considering using the Tungsten metal on his beyblade. He wasn't as fast at putting the pieces together as Kenny was, but he was managing fine, so Lita continued to talk.

"Though… Try not to make the beyblade get too close to Lotan's mouth, the closer that thing is the hotter it's attack would be. Same goes for Dranzer." Lita sighed and leaned against the wall thinking if there had been anything else she had to tell him about these new rings.

"What about Sota's beyblade?" Kai asked as he started taking his own beyblade apart, he wondered when the horrible hour would come when he would be up, beyblading his little sister in the dish.

"She will mostly be patched up with new gear because of Boris." Kai stopped putting his own beyblade together to think of what Lita had said, it was true and yet Kai didn't really want to believe it. Sota was on Boris's team. It was just so …Wrong.

"My beyblade will be slowed down. I shouldn't use them." Kai was wondering when he would be called, and if he had - had he been disqualified already? Maybe it was just him getting paranoid because this was the match…

"Speed only works when your opponents beyblade is heavier than you." Since Lotan wasn't as fast as Dranzer, but much heavier there was only one thing to do and that was change the weight and speed of Kai's beyblade. Kai contemplated what Lita had said, it was the technique Tyson had used to draw with him when they had met the second time.

"I won't be able to do this." Kai said out of the blue, Lita blinked. If she didn't try to place some hope back into Kai then the match was as good as lost.
"Sota is your sister Kai. You have to protect her, and you have to beat her to do that." Lita was sure that Kai would go out if he knew he wasn't really fighting Sota but Lotan. He was far too protective sometimes.

"I know, I just won't be able to defeat Lotan…" Kai was feeling very low, he didn't think of how he would be able to win - even with all the help he was getting off of everyone.

"Yeah and I'll believe that!" Lita yelled and rolled her eyes.

"What do you mean?" Kai tilted his head a little confused at the way Lita was acting, usually she was the main one to worry over small things. Why did she have so much confidence at this moment in time? Lita shook her head and looked up at Kai, chuckling a little.

"Please, don't act modest. You'll be fine." Lita watched in silence for a moment as Kai finished adding the new gear onto his beyblade, what else would he get to go into this battle. Was it going to be this hard? He had beaten Brooklyn… He would beat Lotan… He would save his sister.

"Later Kai!" Lita gave a casual wave and began to pray silently that Kai would be able to move at the end of this match…

"Hn." Kai replied in his normal fashion and started to move away from the girl. Though when Kai turned around and began to walk away. Lita couldn't help but feel worried, yes she had faith in Kai's beyblading skills but his attitude in winning sometimes fluctuated. It just depended on the situation, and this situation was not doing anything for his morale. Lita grabbed the boy's wrist, and caught his attention once again.
"Be safe. Okay?" Lita stated, she didn't want it to seem everything she had just said was a lie, but anyone that was going to battle Lotan would get hurt. She just didn't want Kai to get badly hurt. Kai blinked and realised that he was still standing still, he had to get up to the stadium before everyone thought he had chicken-out.

"I'll be fine." Kai turned around and departed quickly hoping he would get to the main stadium in time.

The stadium was packed, new fans and beybladers had decided to come along since the next match had none other that Kai and his little sister. Tyson had already won, so whoever won this one would be facing the World Champion for his title.

"This is going to be an awesome match!" AJ yelled wondering when he switched the microphone back on, Brad who was sitting beside him agreed enthusiastically.
"I know! The crowd seem pretty excited too!" It was true the crowd was partly standing and the lucky one managed to get front row seats.

"Everyone, Sota Hiwatari against her brother Kai Hiwatari!" The crowd all stood up and began to make one hell of a noise. People clapping, whistling - any loud and encouraging noise that came to mind was done.

"Sota Hiwatari!" There was no cheering for the little girl, some people hissed meanwhile some managed to hold back the urge to boo her. Most of the fans were still oblivious to the fact that Sota wasn't doing anything - it was Lotan. But how many people would believe that a bitbeast was possessing her?

"And now Kai Hiwatari!" Without even seeing the teen in the stadium yet, the crowd again erupted with noise, cheering the older Hiwatari sibling on. However, after a few seconds no one came from the other entrance. Kai did not appear. The cheering died down a little wondering what was happening and where one of their favourite beybladers where.

"Kai Hiwatari, you can come out now!" AJ laughed down the microphone thinking that Kai would just simply walk into the stadium at that moment. Yet he didn't.

"Where on earth is he?" Brad wondered if anything bad had happened to the blader but what if…

"Do you think he's packed out?" AJ whispered hoping none of the fans would hear him, that would be bad for business to hear such a loved beyblader backing out. Suddenly the door opened and the usual emotionless Kai came through the doors. Again the crowd went wild and started chanting the beybladers name.

"There he is!" Brad yelled, thanking the boy mentally for coming. It would have been hard to explain if he hadn't shown up. Max and all of the other BladeBreakers where in the crowd, with good views of the dish.

"Kai! Where you been!" Tyson yelled, Kai didn't acknowledge him as he walked straight to the dish.

"Looks like Kai doesn't seem very impressed! Even though his sister's got this far!" Brad looked between the two Hiwatari siblings. Even though there was some similarities, no one would believe that they were related. Not with the cold glares they were giving each other.

./. I'm going to crush you big brother. /. Lotan hissed at him, a cruel smirk spread across Sota's face. Kai blinked - he looked calm but inside he had been shocked to hear his sister sound so… malicious.

"Wow! Talk about sibling rivalry!" AJ yelled, he had never really thought that Kai would answer back to his opponent but then again this years competition was just a surprise after another.

"If you do, I'm taking you back to hell with me." Kai took out his launcher and Sota proceed to do the exact same. Kai's mind had gone blank, he didn't understand why but it was helping him not care about the fact he was facing Sota. He mentally scolded himself. I'm facing Lotan… Sota had nothing to do with this…

./. Body parts don't get let in, trust me./. Lotan's voice dripped with hate. Kai didn't say anything after that he would just concentrate and then hopefully win.

./. You're weak ./. Lotan continued to play mind games, even though Kai wasn't listening to him, he was listening to the commentators, wondering when they would tell them to start.

./. It will be fun ripping your very soul apart./. Lotan didn't suppress the smirk that was on Sota's face. The one thing that was helping Kai keep in touch to the whole situation was the colour of his sister's eyes. If they were grey then it was Lotan. He could hurt Lotan…

./. Not to mention Sota's own ./. Kai narrowed his eyes and took his stance getting ready to beat Lotan to a pulp, he'd rip all of those heads off!

"Now, Sota just started speaking in third person . Will this child ever cease to amaze us?" AJ was wondering why this child was even allowed to enter this competition, quite truthfully - Sota gave him the creeps.

"It appears Kai has a new attack and defence ring!" Brad noticed when Kai's normal blade was only a dull grey and only had the colour of his red bitbeast.

"Well, let's see if it helps." AJ looked at both bladers who were now both taking different stances, both ready to launch when they were told.

"All it's done so far is slow him down!" Brad looked at his stats, all that had happened was his speed had went down two levels, even his strength hadn't went up. Was there another purpose to these new rings?

"Sota, she too has an entirely new beyblade!" The little girl had multicoloured rings at the start, her blade did not have a dominating colour now it was just all blue.

"3..." Kai wasn't sure but he felt odd. His chest felt as if it were closing, as if he wouldn't be able to breathe. He started taking quiet deep breaths, hoping that that would fix the problem.

"2..." Lotan used the little girls body to grip onto the launcher tighter. Kai was now thinking of strategies, there was three matches. He could afford to lose one of them…
"1..." If he couldn't control these new rings on his beyblade then he was as much as Miguel had been. He didn't even manage to get one head off of Lotan. He was too confident sometimes…
"LET IT RIP!" Lotan was released and so was Dranzer, the new weight on Kai's beyblade made it weave to the side instead of going straight to the middle. Kai had now figured that he would be given enough time to try to control this new blade. He had one shot at this and he had to do it or else… That was it all over for him.

./. I'm not wasting any time, anymore./. Kai looked down at his beyblade, and willed it to spin in the very centre of the dish, it moved slower than what he was familiar with. So now he didn't have speed on his side but he had the greater weight. At least now Lotan wouldn't be able to fire him out of the dish as easily.

Lotan came at the beyblade, that had no released it's own bitbeast yet. Most of the opponents had released them all at the start, or after the second match. Lotan wasn't bothered he would win this one, and the one after that and the one after that and…

The blue beyblade smashed into the side of the grey-coloured one, though surprisingly Kai's beyblade didn't move - not even an inch. Sota blinked. She began to cheer her for her brother wishing that it would put the bitbeast off a little.
Kai's beyblade began to wobble, after another few direct hits from Sota's beyblade. Kai was then covered in single scratches, they weren't that sore so he made no effort in shielding himself from them. Kai's beyblade stopped.

The crowd was surprised at the short length of the match and yelled out in disappointment. Kai raised his hand and caught the beyblade, at least now he knew that he would have to release the beyblade in the middle. But why had it stopped so suddenly, why was all of his energy being zapped from him. Was it because of this strange blue blade. Or maybe he should have practised with these more. She should have gave me them earlier… Kai hissed inside his mind, blaming Lita for not giving the rings to him sooner.

"Anyone that has went against Sota usually won the first match! Has Kai lost his touch."

"The next round will; hopefully let Kai stay in this tournament." AJ yelled, he wondered if the fact that Kai was facing his sister made any difference. Surely a cold beyblader like that wouldn't care who he was up against.

"If he losses this - he looses the chance at the title!" Brad agreed, sending a few fans into a whispering frenzy. How embarrassing would it to be beaten by your eight year old little sister at a sport that you were most respected in?

With that Kai looked down at his beyblade and stared at his beloved phoenix. He began to think of the real and whole situation that he was in.

Not to mention everything else. I loose Sota, even the right to call her my little sister… I loose everything! I won't be able to find out who had been doing this to my family… Who done that to my own mother… Kai gripped the beyblade tightly, then reloaded it into his launcher.

"3...2...1...Let it Rip!" Kai had been aiming for the very centre of the dish, there he would be able to be offensive and defensive at the same time. He just hoped that his beyblade would keep spinning. When the blue blade touch his it was rebounded back towards the edge. It was slower than it should have been, had it been equipped with something heavier too? If that was the case then Kai was in trouble.

"Dranzer! Blazing Gigs!" With that command the red, fire phoenix raised out from the greyish blade and a fiery aura was released from the beyblade, Lotan decided that it was time to make this boy yell out in pain.

./. I'll toast you till your bones turn to ash! ./. Lotan yelled as it began to rise, but something appeared to be holding it back. Kai looked up into the bladers eyes and noticed they were the bubbly blue again. A small smile was on her lips.
Dranzer sent feathers of fire aiming at the beasts head, Lotan roared in pain and anger as the feathers cut open scales on one of his heads. Sota yelped in pain as scratches appeared over her arms, but still the bubbly blue eyes stayed there. More and more heat was added and suddenly Dranzer screeched and flew up higher, grabbing one throat in it's great talons. Of course Lotan was not defenceless and blasted the fire bird with the other four heads that were able to harm the beast.

The blue beyblade was smashing into the greyish coloured one and then, it created a warm fire aura much like Kai's had. Lotan opened the four-mouths and began to take a deep breath getting ready for the blast. Shit, I was meant to stay as far away from Lotan's mouth as possible… The blast came, and was fired for Kai. He held his arms out, wondering if that was the best move, since Max could hardly use his own hands because he had defended like this.

Kai was engulfed like so many before him in a roaring flame, and Lotan seemed to gain more control over the younger Hiwatari sibling and her eyes turned black as night. "Ouch!" AJ yelled as he watched the smoke clear.

"I certainly wouldn't want to be any of them right now!" Brad mentioned, he had beybladed for a few years in his own time, but the battles were nothing like this.

"And their both still standing!" The crowd began to whistle and cheer again now knowing that Kai meant business and wouldn't let himself be beaten so easily like he had in the first round. Maybe that was just a plan?

./. You won't win little boy. ./. Lotan hissed again, trying to diminish the teenagers morale and finish the match quickly. All Lotan had to do was win this and he was against Dragoon. How fun it would be to defeat all of the Scared bitbeast, to show everything that he was most powerful!

"You're not going to win this…." Kai shouted back, making sure he kept most of his energy in reserve, he did not need to shout anything, the bitbeast would hear him. There was no point in wasting energy…

./. I've been ever powerful since I was born! No one can beat me!./. Lotan yelled at the boy and the four heads that were currently not being strangled, tried again to get Dranzer off the fifth head which was roaring in agony.

"Rome wasn't built in a day… And power you can certainly not be born with!" With the new sense of desire and will to win Dranzer clung onto the neck tighter, still not letting go. The other four heads began to snap and bite at Dranzer but the bird seemed immune to pain. Kai was the one taking the damage. More and more scratches appeared, tearing some cloth on Kai's clothes.

Dranzer screamed triumphantly as the head burst into small specks of energy and disappeared into the air. The crowd yelled again and the BladeBreakers stood up and began to yell things at there captain.

"Wow! That's got to hurt!" AJ was referring to both of them, with the amount of damage Kai had was hundred times worth than Sota had. She only had a few scratches on her face and arms, she didn't even appeared tired.

"Another head ripped off. I must say, that is definitely the scariest look, I've seen on a bitbeast in all of my commentating years." Brad was looking at the large bitbeast, a deafening roar of death was shouted in Kai's direction, a large gust of wind caused him to cover his eyes.

"Totally Brad!" AJ looked at the bitbeast eyes they held a maddening desire of death and destruction - of malice and hate.

./. You'll pay for that! ./. Lotan hissed lowly and once again opened his mouth to fire at the child. Lotan's four remaining heads shouted in fury. But when Lotan went to strike Dranzer with a powerful claw it stopped and Kai looked back at Sota. Her eyes were the same blue colour again. He blinked. Had his sister stopped Lotan from attacking.

"It seems Lotan's decided to hold back!" Kai smirked, not even aware that his head was beginning to throb painfully again. He ignored it and decided to attack since his sister had used so much energy to stop the monster that was Lotan.

"Dranzer! Attack!" At that the beyblades came head to head, Kai's beyblade being heavier managed to knock the lighter beyblade out. After a few seconds the commentators noticed that Sota's beyblade had stopped.

"And KAI WINS!" AJ yelled, causing the whole stadium to start chanting Kai's name. Even the BladeBreakers were grinning, thanking whatever higher entity had made this possible.

"Hey! I knew Kai could do it!" Tyson was slightly deafened at the noise the hyper blonde was making, Max had forgotten about the painful burns on his arms and hands.

"Tyson there is still a match to go." Rei said, not wanting to cause the high hopes to drop. Though someone did have to be realistic. Kai sighed, and raised his hand, catching his beyblade and thanking Dranzer. Though the pain in his head became more noticeable and was certainly distracting him. He frowned and rubbed his head with his free hand before he took up his launching status again.

Author's Note: I'm doing the other match next chapter because that will be a very long one and I'm already at about 5000+ words -.-'' Anyway I'll be able to update a little quicker because I now only have one exam to do this week instead of five. Well please review.