Author's Note: Okay, I know I didn't update yesterday, too much homework… Anyway there is a holiday coming up very soon (two more days and that's me) and then it's 8 weeks off! Yah! Anyway sorry for the late update. Thanks to everyone that has read this fic (7000+ reads YAH!) Anyway a huge thanks to;
or-chan - Thanks for reviewing, sorry about the delay in updating-ness! Still I'll let you wonder for a little more if the beyblader is Kai or not!
The Goddess Azure Thunder - If hurting Bryan means that you won't like chapters then I suggested you shouldn't read the next on... That I'm going to write -heh heh, anyway thanks for reviewing!
Irn2 - Indeed, who did...? I think I will explain a few later chapters who did it. Though the next few chapters will be fast paced, let's hope I don't forget to add it in! Heh heh thanks for reviewing!
kavbj - Unfourtantly I'm not giving Ian any random lines in this one... And also I'm not telling everyone just yet if it really was Kai beyblading or not. I'm so mean! Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
DancerInTheDark101 - What happens to the other boys are well, explained first, so that will answer your first question. (How fitting!) I'm afraid that there is a cliff hanger on this chapter too. Though I possibly will be able to update quicker...Since holidays are coming. Yeah the Trilogy, I think should give a name or else I may get confused... Heh heh! Thanks for another long review!
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Chapter 28
The mess hall was quieter than normal, now only about 20 groups were left, the other 30 had lost and had been thrown out with orders with the promise that they could come back when they found something of interest. "So half of the Abbey are gone now…" Bryan was fairly happy that Kai had told them to stay out of the challenge, though he couldn't help but get curious on who the beyblader was.
"I heard they get to do anything they want as long as they report back every few weeks." Ian chirped in and smirked when he thought about being free from this place, he just couldn't wait. Though there was a slight difference from being let go and running away. If someone ran away they would be caught and returned, then punished badly – not like that happened a lot.
"Or if they find a bitbeast that they can steal." Spencer added in, he wanted to go outside, to different countries to see if every beyblader had a bitbeast or if it was just these people here – in the abbey that had them.
Bryan was always thinking about something, even though Kai did seem to space-out more than everyone else, his thoughts would wander in a non-logical sense and that was a completely different story for Bryan. "Thinking about it, I wish I had beybattled." Most of the group turned to look at the boy.
Kai was the first to ask the question on everyone's mind. This of course caused a little tension in the group, usually the only time Kai and Bryan talked was to argue or to annoy each other. "Why?" Both boys narrowed their eyes slightly, wondering where this was going to go.
"Because then I would be out of here." Bryan shrugged, and turned back to his breakfast, Kai on the other hand was feeling slightly angry at that reply, the way he replied… It was as if he had no care in the world, as if he had not suffered enough in this place.
"So you would rather leave than stay with us?" Bryan immediately saw, exactly where this was going, and shot back, "Stop putting words into my mouth!" A short glaring battle occurred, while the others looked between them. All except Tala.
"I mean if I had a choice you would -." Bryan was trying to make sense of what he was saying but Kai didn't even want to hear another word from the lavender boy and cut him off, accusing him of worse things.
"You would want us all to lose and become as weak as you?" Kai raised an eyebrow when he saw Bryan's eye twitch in annoyance, "Seriously Hiwatari! Shut up!" Bryan shot back. The two boys were just getting each other angrier and angrier, though no one seemed to notice the distant redhead.
"No! If you wanted to go in for it then maybe you should have, all you've been doing is moaning and whining like pathetic kid!" Kai yelled, causing Ian to wince as he was sitting next to him. Tala was sitting across from Bryan and sitting next to Ian. Spencer was at Bryan's side. "We are still kids Hiwatari!" Bryan shot back hoping that this argument would just be settled.
"You might be but I'm not." Kai huffed, not wanting to be known as a kid. Kid's were immature and weak, and Kai would not allow himself to be known as weak or immature. What would his Grandfather do if he found out his grandson was a simple child.
Spencer sighed and decided to try to calm the two boys down. "Leave him alone, and finish eating." This was the moment everyone at Group 3 began to get annoyed, and decided to stop this whole scenario. Tala's interest in the argument was non-existent.
Bryan snapped his head round to face Spencer, and yelled back at him as well. "No! Just because you're older, doesn't mean you can boss us around!" Spencer glared though kept quiet knowing fine well, if he said anything it would only make things worse. This time Ian tried to calm the two down.
"Guys come on, just eat and calm down."
"No midget! I am not doing anything that you or he says! None of you, you hear!" Bryan yelled again, this was the last straw as they began yelling at one another, everyone yelling and Group 3 was now being shown up again. Every group turned to look and tried to decode what each person was saying as each one tried to speak over the other.
Tala on the other hand was silent until now, he had only been taken out of his little world by the large booming voices but also he wasn't in a great mood. He looked on for a moment before he said anything, watching as each member of his so called team try to kill each other with words. "Shut up."
No one heard him, he sighed heavily, wondering if he should just get up and leave – no he wouldn't. He wanted his meal, to be eaten in the mess hall in silence! And he would get it without any arguing!
The start of the redhead's sentence was quiet yet gained volume with each syllable. "Look all of you should just shut the hell up!" By the time he had yelled the sentence the whole group sat stunned.
Each one looked at the red head and then frowned with concern, he usually was happy now he just looked pissed. "Tala," Spencer tried to gain the smaller boy's attention but did not gain even a glance. Tala was sitting eating slowly.
"What's up?" Ian wondered if Tala was angry because he was stuck in the middle of that argument, even though no one had stated something to take sides to, Tala was the one that had to comfort anyone if they were too hurt by what someone had said.
Tala stopped eating, as everyone watched as his grip on the metal spoon got tighter, a hissing, angry voice came from the usually happy boy. "What do you mean, what's up?" Still the boy did not look up, his eyes shielded by the dark corner and the way his hair was sitting. "What the hell is right with this?" The group was scared and incredibly worried about their friend.
"Never mind, it's nothing anyway." Tala stood and left the group dumbfounded on his actions. Ian was the first to speak, "That was some mood swing." Ian was sure that this was not the first time he had witnessed a mood swing, usually Tala would just go away huffing or just ignore something. Even that was weird.
Kai was getting a little worried, which wasn't unusual for him to be. "He's been having a lot them recently." Everyone nodded, though no one could really tell if it was because he was just growing up or if there was another cause for it.
"I wonder what really is wrong with him…." The group sat for a while until they knew that there was nothing else to say or think about.
Tala walked slowly to where he was meant to meet the purple-haired tyrant, he didn't really understand why he had to be so quiet about what was happening to him. Although Tala guessed that if he told anyone they would tell him to stop and that they could take their own punishments instead of him taking it for them. Something Tala could not do – let people get hurt, so he stayed silent about the whole thing, even though he knew everyone else was getting slightly suspicious.
The boy made his way along the corridors and down the stairs, he paused for a moment wondering if the pain would be as bad this time. "Wolborg…" He pulled out his beyblade and looked at the small picture of the mutated wolf. Sadness washed over the small boy as he began to whisper questions that were not answered.
"Why won't you save me?" Tala wouldn't cry, and stared at the small wolf, he began walking again, wondering why on earth Wolborg was no longer helping him. The halls got darker and Tala knew that he must have came nearer the lab where he was now coming half of the time. He came willingly and that was the only thing that annoyed Tala more. "Why do I need to go back there?" The grip on his beyblade got tighter, like he was calling on Wolborg silently to appear out of nowhere.
"Why do they want me to stand there….In that slimy stuff?" The mental image, the feeling of the green stuff made Tala shiver, he didn't know that when he was put in that stupid tube for the first time, he would be placed in it over and over again.
"I'm scared…" Tala looked at the ground, he didn't like pain- he was sure only a few people did, and then again there was no way that this would be considered nice.
I just don't want anyone else to get hurt, Boris said if I was willing and up for it then he wouldn't hurt anyone else from Group 3. That was the reasoning that Tala kept repeating when he was being experimented on, they had always said he was making good progress which Tala hoped meant he would get out soon. Though it just seemed that all they were doing as making it more and more painful for him.
Though all they do is fight! Tala's frown deepened as he knocked on the door, the entrance to his pain. He hated to see people hate each other, hurt each other yet his friends were doing it to each other. They were hurting each on purpose – what was he meant to do? Be the peacemaker for the rest of his life?
Why can't they see that I'm miserable…Why do I need to be the leader! I don't want responsibility! I want to have fun…again. Times like these made the captain feel weak, as if he could just shift the blame onto someone else, and make them go through with this though his kind-nature would not let him do such a thing. Even though he knew what was happening he just didn't want to get hurt… The door opened and there stood the same horrible, smug scientist.
"Tala, move. Let's see how long you last this time." He grabbed the small boy by his shoulder and pulled him into the room, and for the first few minutes Tala believed that he could bare with the pain of needles and electrons and all the other things they were pumping into his body. Then they decided that Wolborg should be taken from him, and seen how it operates with different people – just in case it was really just a fluke if Tala could use him.
Bryan and Kai had agreed that it must have been their fault and after their training they would go and find Tala. Though when they saw the boy's beyblade and bitbeast being used by someone else they began to worry.
"Tala never let's go of Wolborg!" Kai frowned as he nodded in agreement with Bryan. It certainly was odd. They began to wonder, was this the reason why he had been so angry in the mess hall? Had they done something to make him lose Wolborg?
"Come on let's go look for him." Of course the Abbey was far too big for just two children – that were not even allowed to enter off-limit zones. Bryan and Kai had went around a few other Groups asking about Tala and Wolborg, eventually they found someone that knew something.
"I got my new bitbeast from a scientist." He pointed to where the man had come from, which was a huge metal door, which went down to the labs and other high-tech research. Kai and Bryan nodded, and hoped that Ian and Spencer wouldn't go and start another search of their own.
They reached the metal door, and looked around before they slipped in and closed the door. They didn't however know that someone had seen them and decided to follow them.
"So what one do you think he's in?" Bryan turned to look at Kai who was glancing at each door. It was large room, filled with other doors – this place really was a maze at times, it was surprising that anyone could memorize what was in each door.
"We can only pick one, if it's wrong then we'll be caught and taken to Boris." Kai and Bryan looked at one another again and decided that it would be best to ask something that hadn't left their sides.
Dranzer…Which way was Wolborg taken from? Kai sighed as he didn't feel any kind of indication, though he had an idea, and took out his launcher and beyblade. Bryan watched as the boy launched Dranzer slowly so it wouldn't fly towards any of the doors. It span in front of him.
Bryan did the same, launching his beyblade and asking silently where on earth his friend was. Falborg- do you know where Tala is?
Both blades span next to one another, before Bryan's beyblade began to spin around Kai's beyblade as if the bitbeasts were deciding on which way. The two beyblade moved towards the first door, then swerved away from it, they stopped at the third door.
"Might as well take their word for it, huh?" Kai picked up his own beyblade and Bryan's beyblade, handing it back to him when he walked nearer. Bryan nodded in response and wondered why Kai was looking fairly happy.
"Come on." Kai opened the door a fraction so he could look through the other corridor, all he saw was a dim lighted hallway, with another door at the end, since there was no guards or scientists around they decided to run to the corridor, just in case.
The two boys ran, and opened the next door, and were jumping down the stairs, a couple at a time, the sense of running in the Abbey was not normal. Running around in places that they were not meant to be gave them each a sense of power that they had never felt.
At the bottom of the stairs there were two other doors… "Left." Kai stated, he didn't really know why but he was being pulled towards that direction. "Right." Bryan stood next to the right door, while Kai mirrored him and stood next to the left door.
"We could ask our bitbeasts again." Kai and Bryan and were about to launch their beyblades, then the two doors opened…
Author's Note: I think if I put cliff-hangers in I feel more entitled to give you all an update and since school is a soul-draining process then I think it will help me update quicker…. Or else you could stick with the excuse of me being evil! Please review!