Author's Note: Thanks to all those who support this fic or even read it – trying to update once every day. Just so I can start posting another fic. Ha… Well anyway, here you all are! Chapter 30! And also thanks to;
kavbj - I think I probably had Fanta, which is just the a hyper-potion for me! That's why my friends have banned me from drinking it in school...-coughs- Anyway glad you liked! -looks away from puppy eyes- Well em...here's another chapter! Thanks for reviewing!
The Goddess Azure Thunder - Spencer is sweet, and Tala is saved for the moment, though you may feel sorry for Kai in this chapter.
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Chapter 30
Kai on the other hand had never wanted to run away more than at this moment, he had never felt so many people glaring – he had never seen his grandfather so annoyed before.
"Why are you here?" His voice boomed, and caused the small boy to flinch. Kai had run in on his Grandfather talking to some policemen, and even they didn't look happy to see him.
Kai had tried to get back but he had no choice but to keep going forward because of the amount of guards and scientists that were trying to catch him. He had never wanted the very ground to come alive and swallow him whole but at this moment he felt it was the only solution.
"I…"Kai stuttered unsure on what to do or even say, he had never been able to talk to his grandfather without second guessing himself. "I…" The two policemen left as if they hadn't seen anything; most likely they had been bribed or blackmailed into turning a blind eye.
Voltaire did not speak for a moment wondering why on earth his grandson was here of all places, then it suddenly hit him – why the alarm went off. Had it been his grandson and the other members of that group? That had tried to escape, a cruel smirk appeared on his face.
"Tala and the rest are gone. They left you here you know." He said it plainly just to add insult to injury, Kai winced again though found that he was speaking up on behalf of his friends, even though they were no where to be seen. "No! They…They wouldn't." Kai shook his head not wanting to believe that Tala and the rest would abandon him.
"They knew it was you…" Kai blinked and then pieced together what Voltaire was talking about. When the Challenge had been on, he had been told to use Black Dranzer, he knew of the rules – that was why he wanted Tala and the rest to stay out of it, he would never be able to forgive himself if he was the reason why they had been flung out of the Abbey. Kai didn't want to believe his grandfather, and started to back off, trying to get out of the room he had accidentally ran into.
"You tried to get Tala out of his little deal didn't you? Trying to save him." Kai looked at the floor, he knew what his Grandfather was doing now he was mocking him, and he always did. "D-Deal?" Had Tala also been forced into something? Was this the reason why Tala's behaviour had suddenly changed within a few days?
Voltaire smiled, just out of spite to his sullen grandchild. "Yes, he was meant to be experimented on, he did it willingly just so no one would get hurt." Again, with the mocking, Kai frowned lightly not wanting to let Voltaire know just how much he was annoying him. "Why…What are you experimenting on him for?" Kai looked up, and stared at his grandfather – because of such a bold move, Voltaire glared, he did not like his grandsons new self-confidence.
"That is none of your business, and why should I tell such a pathetic child about my plans?" He narrowed his eyes, waiting until Kai lowered his own gaze, to show he was not meaning anything by it or at least show some weakness like he usually did. Though Kai did not lower his gaze, he felt angry – used and stupid.
"Why do you make my life miserable?" He asked, he wasn't one hundred percent confident like Tala naturally was, but he was sure that with the little self-worth that he had left, he would finally get an answer to a question he had been asking for what seemed like an eternity.
"Why you ask? Because you are weak, you should be strong like the name Hiwatari stands for, instead you mock it!" Voltaire's voice raised to shouting, and the boy finally let out a whimper and moved away – looking down at the floor hoping he wouldn't be hit.
Seeing that the usual reactions were happening again, and the small rebellion had stopped Voltaire began planning again. "Let's make another deal Grandson." By calling Kai grandson he would usually do anything that was asked of him – Voltaire had no idea why but it was a good control measure. Kai walked towards the desk, and stood still, waiting for whatever his grandfather would ask of him. He liked it when Voltaire called him Grandson, it was much better than, boy.
"If you do not help me break those friends of yours then I will personally make their lives end." Kai blinked, the very thought of Group 3 not existing anymore make a very large impact in Kai's mind – he would have no one. Without much thought, more like an automatic response to what he was being asked. "Why…?"
Voltaire did not want his Grandson to know just yet that he would be once again in possession of Black Dranzer and also that he would be fighting none other than his friends. If he said that then it would ruin everything he had planned up until now, he just needed Kai to help him break those other children. What a better way to do it by using someone that was very close to the main person in the group. If Tala broke they all would. "Do you want them dead?" Voltaire sneered, and received a reply within no more than a few seconds, Kai shook his head quickly, "No."
"Then fall out with each, betray each, and most of all make sure you hurt every last one of them." Kai couldn't really imagine a life where he was completely alone, even Spencer had been there for him on a few occasions before Tala and the rest had come. Still, could he really break them all – just by falling out and saying nasty things to them? It seemed unlikely but there was an odd, and smug aura that was filling the room.
"You won't kill them if I help you break them…?" Kai was slightly glad that he had already told Spencer that he would only betray them if he would be able to stop something very bad from happening, and this was something worse.
"I won't lay a finger on their heads." Although Voltaire thought about what he had said, he did say he wouldn't hurt them, that didn't count the guards or the scientists that would be soon experimenting on them. Kai stood in silence for a moment wondering if he really should agree, or if he should just let the others die – they'd be free from the Abbey. Then again if they were gone where would Kai go?
"Okay Grandfather." Kai nodded, not really sure what else he could really do, he knew that his Grandfather would kill anyone, that did include his friends. Even if they were good bladers he would simply threaten and beat and use words. Out of all of them Kai feared the words, the yelling, the horrible truths that would end up repeating inside the mind over and over again until you eventually….cracked.
"Good boy." Kai smiled to himself when he had heard what his Grandfather had said, he didn't want to know Voltaire – though he did and knew that he should hate him for all he was worth, though he couldn't.
Now for the breaking and making of his first little soldier, his own grandson would make a good test subject to see how far it got. Whether the technique to break the boys was going to work or not depended on what Kai would do – which would hopefully be nothing. "Did you know that Tala managed to get out?" Voltaire had been watching their movement, he had been rather surprised when he had seen Tala jump from behind a corner with Bryan and Spencer and started to help Ian beyblade the others. "No." Came the brief reply from the small boy.
Voltaire was aware of the tension in all groups, and Group 3 was certainly a group he had become most interested in. "Bryan is much stronger willed than you." Kai bowed his head out of shame or anger, no one knew. "I know." Kai muttered hoping to get off the subject of Bryan. Before Voltaire had thought of another thing to shout or make Kai feel small about, there was a knock at the door.
A guard came in looking quite happy, which was never a good sign, especially in the Abbey of all places. Voltaire nodded to him, and he approached the desk, with one swift order Voltaire sent Kai away to his own demise. "Take him to the cells. Break him." The intensity of his words, made it appear as if the boy standing in front of him was no blood relative.
"Yes sir." The man roughly pulled Kai along to the cells.
The cells were nothing like the ones Kai had stayed in for a while, the ones that he had met Spencer in. These ones were huge, the very bars made everything feel hopeless. There were no windows, the cells were completely black including the cold bars. The guard from earlier had much enjoyment at screaming at a small, young boy.
"You are nothing!" He shoved the boy to the ground. Kai managed to sit back up, sitting on his feet – kneeling with his head bowed down, just so this guard didn't see his tears. The guard however wanted to induce that the boy was completely worthless, and Kai was a good listener, though gullible at times.
Kai felt the sudden blow to his right side, he bent over trying to compose himself, wondering why on earth he was the one being punished like this when the others hadn't even been caught. "Repeat it!" The guard grabbed a handful of hair and forced Kai to raise his head, Kai quickly whimpered out the sentence. "I am nothing…" The guard let the boys' hair got and walked around so he could see his face – which was currently masked by the large bangs that covered his eyes.
The guard watched the boy carefully, it was obvious that he was crying – sobbing quietly as if he wouldn't be heard. "I will do everything asked of me," The guard edged closer when the boy did not repeat what he had said. Before he had any time to react Kai jumped up and punched him in the face, of course it was not powerful enough to cause the man to lose balance – but he was stunned for some time. "I will do nothing!" Kai yelled, now not caring if he was going not be kicked or hit again. Though the guard quickly grabbed the boy again by the hair and, once again he shoved him to the floor.
"You will amount to nothing!" He hissed, the words actually going through Kai's head, Kai had heard that one phrase for as long as he could remember, maybe it was true – maybe he would never be able to do something other than get in the way.
"You are the downfall of your friends; you are the reason behind their pain!" Kai started crying, though not loudly he still had his pride to think about, he still did not want someone to know that they had managed to get him to cry just from saying a few sentences. Words weren't meant to hurt.
The man left, letting the words sink in, and they did. Kai started to sob loudly now not caring what anyone thought about him, secretly he wanted his friends to come and find him but he knew that would never happen. The alarm had sounded and he had known then that they where going to make a run for it. Without him there, he felt even worse.
Still, if they did get brought back – which again Kai argued with himself about… They should be brought back so they can stay with me! His selfishness caused him to slowly wallow in his own self-loathing. What kind of a friend am I wanting them to come back here! Get real! The mental attacks over the years and the breaking of his confidence had left him with nothing but a doubtful mind. Maybe I should just do as I'm told off Grandfather? I mean he wouldn't kill me for doing something he wanted me to do… I'd be safe and…Kai's thoughts were interrupted by a voice he had never thought he would hear again.
"Kai!" Kai blinked, wondering if he was now just imagining voices because he was so low and broken. Still the voices stayed and came closer as if they were real. "Kai! You in there?" The voice of Ian seemed real enough, as did Tala's, maybe he wasn't thinking the voices up? Kai decided not to yell, not to speak – what was the point they had no where to go… Anyway…This was his home.
At the edge of the cell, a familiar face appeared and yelled at the other boys to come quickly, and they did. While Ian and Bryan tried to get the lock undone Tala and Spencer looked on at the sad and broken boy. Bryan caught sight of the broken look – the one that so many other children had the one with no emotion. Not even a glimmer of anger or boredom, just nothing. "You look really bad…" Bryan's rudeness cost him a yelling – by Ian. "Don't say that, that's horrible!" Ian managed to unlock the door as Tala and Spencer quickly walked in and grabbed the smaller boy – who did not fight back or even look at them in the eye.
Kai was tired he knew he would end up falling asleep but he couldn't help but just whispering to himself. The group had decided to spend the night in a storage room – which was huge and the guards would certainly have trouble finding them. Still everyone was asleep except from Kai even though he was completely exhausted. He looked on at the sleeping redhead.
"I was the one…" That has been sent to break you…Tears came naturally, he just couldn't believe that he had agreed to help his Grandfather do such a think – he would end up turning Tala cold…Like he was.
"That was meant to save you…" Kai sobbed quietly hoping no one else was awake, luckily for him no one was. "Then you ended up…Saving me…" I'm so weak. Kai closed his eyes, hoping that tomorrow he would wake up and everything was all just a dream.
Author's Note: Well please review! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and look out for tomorrow... There will be an update some time then too!