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A gentle snowflake drifts down from the azure sky, dancing merrily in the air, before floating to a feather light stop. Wrinkling his nose ever so slightly from the light sensation of a cold ice drop touching his skin, Claude blinks his eyes open. He tilts his head to the side and gazes at his surroundings before realizing that he is currently laying on his back, and a drift of pure white snow. Slowly, he sits up to gaze out at the endless fields of white.

He's back there, sitting out the front of the temple of diamond.

"What am I doing here?" Claude whispers softly to himself.

A gentle breeze, playfully dancing through his hair is the only response he receives. Then, the sound of someone walking through the snow reaches his ears. He tries to turn, but finds that his body is not responding. A moment later, a body moves to sit behind him, strong arms wrapping themselves around Claude's body and he finds himself leaning up against the familiar chest that has haunted his dreams for countless months.

"Claude," the frustratingly familiar voices whispers into his ear. "My snow dove, stay strong for me."

Claude shivers as the warm breath tickles the back of his neck. Suddenly, his eyes widen in alarm as he recalls what transpired before he drifted here. "The children? Tala?"

"Show me what you can do, dove." A kiss upon his cheek. "Help me."

Claude rips himself out of his dream lover's arms and climbs almost frantic to his feet, before yelling into the clear blue sky, "Tala!"

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"Claude?" Tala whispers as a gray smoke begins to slowly fill the arena. He waits, holding his breath in hope that Claude will appear from the smoke, a little dusty, but ok. That moment never comes and a stun silence falls over the arena. That is, until Simon begins to laugh in triumph. Tala quickly turns to Simon, his eyes a dark blue in color, looking fierce. "You bastard!" he snarls, nothing but pure hate in his voice. "How dare you?! You'll pay for that."

Simon stops laughing and for a brief moment fear flashes through his eyes, but he quickly smirks sadistically and recalls his blade back to the beydish. "Ha! This just proves how weak you've come." he snaps.

Whether Tala is listening, Simon couldn't tell, but what he can see is that Tala is shaking violently with suppress rage. "Didn't you hear me?" Tala asks dangerously. "I'll make you pay! Nova Rogue!"

In a blinding flash of blue light, a majestic white wolf appears and quickly lowers his regal head to glare hatefully down at his opponent. His eyes flash a dangerous blue before engulfing the enemy's blade in diamond hard ice. Mere seconds later, Tala's Beyblade appears and hits Simon's blade with such force that a shockwave ripples around the stadium.

"Way to go, Tala!" The others cheer as Simon's blade falls from the sky, but instead of falling outside the dish, it hit's the rim and manages to keep spinning!

"What?" Tala reels back with surprise.

Inwardly, Simon sighs with relief, before he sends Tala another sadistic smirk. "I'm not that easy to defeat, Tala. The BBA's angel might have a new attack, but so do I. Now meet my absolute favorite attack."

"What?" Tala manages to utter before a black mist fills the beydish, swallowing his blade, masking it from his sight. Soon, the mist begins to swirl around, rapidly gaining pace. "What are you doing?"

"Ready for this, Tala?" Simon smirks again, raising his arm into the air. "Utter Chaotic Devastation!"

As soon as those words reaches his ears, the swirling mist suddenly becomes a solid substance and then shoots skywards, creating a large column of darkness. Tala gazes up at the tower full of malice, his eyes immediately widening in alarm. He has never seen an attack quite like this before. "Where did you learn this?" he mutters, even though he doesn't expect an answer.

"You like it?" Simon asks, sounding arrogant and cruel, his arm still pointing towards the sky. "It's amazing what you can learn when you're working for Bio-volt, isn't it? Nothing is too dangerous for them."

"Shit," Tala mutters. This couldn't be that forbidden attack I heard so much about in the abbey, is it? If it is, I'm screwed. Only a being made of heavenly light can defeat this thing…

If at all possible, Simon's smirk grows even more vindictive and menacing. "Your turn! Attack!"

Suddenly, the rubble on the other side of the stadium explodes with a blinding white light, kicking up dust and rubble, throwing them feet into the air. Tala and the others immediately begin shielding themselves and the children from the debris. A blade smokes out from the smoke and circles Tala's feet, somehow shielding him from Simon's attack.

"What the hell?!" Simon yells, momentarily stopping his attack.

Tala looks down at the blade before turning his attention to the plume of gray smoke. "Claude?"

From the smoke, the slender figure of a silver hair teen appears, with two children grasping at his legs in fright, their eyes shut tightly as their tiny bodies shake in fear. He stands in a circle of stones, his hand out in front of him, his eyes close to the world around him.

"Claude!" Tala calls out before anyone else could mutter a sound, the sound of relief evident in his voice.

Slowly, Claude opens his eyes and blinks in a daze as he gazes at his surroundings. He slowly moves his arm and clutches at his forehead before collapsing to his knees. "Ow, my head," he mutters under his breath.

"Claude!" Matilda immediately calls out as she and the others quickly make their way over to him. She immediately hugs him, but Ray quickly pulls her off and checks for any injuries.

"Are you alright? Where do you hurt?"

Claude blinks at all the fuss, still holding his head. "My head hurts a little and I feel really tired for some reason."

"Well, don't go to sleep," Spencer suddenly orders as he kneels eyelevel with him. "You might have a concussion."

"How the hell did you survive that?" Simon asks in complete and utter shock. "Argh, who cares? I'll take you all out. Utter Chaotic Devastation!"

The column of black mist begins to collapse, and then starts to run like raging rapids towards the group of bladers. They all stare at the approaching danger, too frighten to move, and if they could, where could they go?

"No, stop it! Wolborg!" Tala yells, but knows it is too late. The group of bladers begin to yell out in fright of the approaching darkness, and most likely, death.

"Eternal Phoenix Flame!"

The familiar sound of Dranzer's majestic cry fills the stadium and then the darkness dissipates, disappearing into thin air. The yells of fright soon turns to that of surprise, and then yells of recognition and relief as they spot a familiar blader standing amongst the stadium seats.

"Kai!" Max yells happily.

"Great timing as usual, Kai!" Tyson also acknowledges his presence.

Kai leaps from the seats and onto the stadium floor, making it look effortlessly. "Sorry I'm late," he says as he flicks his scarf over his shoulder and walks towards the beydish.

"Yeah," Came Miguel's voice, as he too jumps down from the sitting arena to walk over to Claude and the others, and kneels next to Claude, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Can you believe the emergency services put me on hold?"

Tala stands by the beydish in complete shock. He truly doesn't quite understand what is happening. Simon's attack is one of the forbidden ones, an attack hidden in the depths of the abbey, it's suppose to be unstoppable, and yet, Claude somehow manages to shield him and himself from the attack and Kai manages to stop it completely. But only those of Heavenly light can stop such darkness. Does that mean Claude and Kai is…?

"You!" Simon snarls suddenly, pulling Tala from his musing. "I've been looking for you," he says as he points to Kai, but then curses under his breath at the sound of police and ambulance sirens ring from the distance.

Kai says nothing as he steps up next to Tala on the beydish. "Do you mind if I take it from here?" he asks.

"Kai?" Tala blinks, before he shakes his head and recalls his blade. "What's going on? Where did you…?"

Kai shakes his head and raise a hand to silence him. "It's a long story," he says. "I don't really know why I've been giving this attack, or why it's so powerful, all I know it that it's strongest against attacks that are spawn from darkness. It's hard to explain, but I feel, well, lighter now."

"Kai…"

"Go on," Kai says cutting him off again. "I know you're deathly worried about him."

Tala nods and recalls his blade, before jumping of the remainder of the bey stadium and towards the group of bladers, huddling around a slightly daze Claude.

Kai watches him leave and then with a weary sigh, turns back to Simon. "Listen Simpson-"

"It's Simon, dammit!" Simon immediately bristles.

Kai rolls his eyes heavenward as he waves a disinterested hand at him. "Whatever. Anyway, aren't you suppose to be in Juvie?"

"Heh," he smirks. "I got bail. Bio-volt hires some great lawyers, don't they?"

"I suppose, but again, so can I. You're going down for good this time, asswipe. See that little gray box over there?" Kai says as he points over Simon's shoulder. "That's a video camera. Caught the whole thing on film. Bio-volt lawyers are good, but not that good."

Simon glances over his shoulder and then curses as two uniform police officers appear to arrest him. "I'll be back, you'll see."

"I'll make sure that it doesn't happen again," Kai replies, using his blade to knock Simon's out of the dish and letting it roll to a stop at his feet, before his turns his attention to the police. "Make sure he doesn't get his blade back this time."

"Claude!" Tala kneels in front of the fallen teen, gently resting his hands on his shoulders. "Are you alright?"

Wincing slightly due to the headache, Claude nods. "I think so."

"What happened?" Tala asks, as the others around him nod their heads, also eager to know.

"I…," Claude presses his hand to his forehead and closes his eyes. That's a good question. What did happen? Last thing he remembers is standing just outside the diamond temple, and then he suddenly finds himself back in the stadium, the two children he tried to protect earlier clutching at his legs in fright. "I don't really remember."

Before anyone else could fire off a question, the medics appear and begin to check him over for injuries, while pushing everyone else back.

"Is he alright?" Miguel asks as Kai appears next to him, after speaking with the police.

"The wounds are only minor," the older medic of the two replies, "He'll need some rest, but he'll be fine. The kids are unharmed though."

Miguel nods. "Thank you."

"Hey," Tyson says suddenly. "What's going to happen to Simone?"

"It's Simon!" he calls from the back of the police car.

Kai rolls his eyes again, not at all interested. "I think he'll be going to Juvie now. Especially since that whole episode is caught on camera."

"Lets go home," Miguel says suddenly, wrapping an arm around Kai's waist. "We've all had a trying day."

Whoo! Another chapter done. You know what? I hate writing Beyblade battles. I suck at it. Blah, whatever, at least Claude didn't get badly hurt, right Tala?

Tala: (mutters something incoherent)

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