YAY!!!!!!!! CHAPTER 10 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!! jumps up and down happily

Kai- sweat drops You're happy . . . .

Of course! I'm on chapter 10! You don't know how happy I am!

Kai- . . . . Ok. Whatever you say . . . .

sigh Now you made me all depressed! starts pouting

Kai- Uh . . . . Disclaimer: She doesn't own Beyblade.

Chapter 10

It was dark. Cold. Unforgiving. Everything that relates to the word darkness. What was this place? It was freezing . . . . Where was he? His violet orbs glanced around hastily, looking for anything that seemed familiar.

Nothing did.

"Ray?" he called only to hear his own echo.

"He can't hear you," a voice answered after a few moments.

"Who are you?" This was bad. Where was he? Where was Ray? The last thing he remembered was watching the raven hair curl around his figure as the tiger held him close to his chest.

But where was he now? What was this place? It was empty. Nothing was there.

"I am someone you fear, but someone you admire," replied the voice as a figure came closer to the frantic teen.

"Iie . . . ." Kai backed up a few steps as he saw the face, realizing that he wasn't moving anywhere. The face came into view, revealing dark hair with white and gray streaks and cold dark eyes that had haunted his dreams. "Auron."

The man smiled. "That's right. Now come here, Phoenix," he said using Kai's combat name. He stretched out a hand to the phoenix, signaling him to come closer.

"Iie!" He tried but couldn't move as his body reluctantly forced him to the man.

Auron wrapped his arms around the boy's slim waist, pushing his pants down slightly, surprising the phoenix as they dropped to his ankles with ease. Kai struggled but to no avail. He couldn't get away! He screamed until he was sure his throat would tear open or until his lungs would burst. Next came the shirt as Auron slipped his sleek hand under it, pulling it over the teen's head.

"IIE[[KUDASAI!" Kai cried. Tears now leaked from his eyes in large rivers.

"KAI!" a voice called stopping Auron. Time seemed frozen as the voice called the phoenix's name over and over again.

Now he felt it. A light shaking feeling.

"KAI!" Ray called. He had been shaking his koi for the past eight minutes, gaining no response from the sleeping teen, save the crying out for someone to stop. Suddenly, Kai's eyes shot open wide enough for the tiger to see the fear in them. He now realized that Kai was shaking violently.

"R-Ray?!" Tears coated the phoenix's cheeks and wide eyes.

"Shhhhhh," Ray soothed, bringing his koi into his arms and embracing him tightly, rubbing his hand up and down the muscled back. Kai sobbed into the tiger's shoulder, somehow managing to tell the dream to where he could understand it. They stayed that way for a long while until Kai's sobs quieted down. Ray continued rocking Kai back and forth and rubbing his back as he tried to get his phoenix to relax.

Suddenly, Ray hear the front door of the hotel room open and three pairs of footsteps thudding on the floor. Tyson, Max, and Kenney entered the bedroom, all with surprised and worried faces.

"Ray, is Kai OK?" Tyson asked looking at them both.

Ray nodded. "Hai, Tyson. He just had a bad dream. You guys go back to bed."

"You sure?" Max asked noting the shaking phoenix in the tiger's lap.

"Yeah. We'll be fine. Just go back to bed, OK?"

"Ok, Ray." With that the rest of the Blade Breakers left the room, heading back to their own rooms.

The tiger turned back to his koi, positioning themselves to where Ray was now leaning on the headboard, Kai sprawled across his lap, his head resting on Ray's chest. They stayed like that for a long while until Kai stopped trembling.

"You gonna be alright?" Ray asked quietly. Kai stayed quiet, his eyes gazing out the window. Ray sighed inwardly, his mind playing over what Kai had told him of his nightmare. He looked down as a small movement caught his eye. Kai had moved to where he was now playing with the ends of the raven hair, looping the strands around his fingers idly.

"Ray . . . ?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for waking me up." Kai was still playing with his tiger's hair as tears came to his eyes, the nightmare flashing through his mind.

Ray wrapped his arms tighter around Kai, startling the phoenix from playing with his hair. Kai looked up at him surprised. Ray cocked an eyebrow and smiled. A smile that seemed to take away Kai's fears.

"You hungry?" he asked glancing at the clock as it read 5:30 a.m. Kai only nodded and tried to get up off of Ray's lap. "What're you doing?"

Kai looked up at him again. "Trying to get up."

Ray shook his head. "Iie. You know what the doctor said. You're not supposed to walk too much remember? And after yesterday, you really don't need to be walking yet. So, I've come to the conclusion of carrying you today!" He smiled as he saw the wide eyes of the phoenix.

"Oh, no you're not!" Kai tried to hurry and get up to get away from Ray but ended up getting tangled in the sheets. The tiger just laughed and knelt down in front of the phoenix and laced his arms under his legs and waist.

"RAY!" Kai wailed as Ray carried him to the kitchen and sat him down on the chair. Kai glared at him, but it quickly vanished as the tiger kissed him, smiling at the reaction of his [[kare. "You're not carrying me all day," he said after Ray pulled away and started making breakfast.

"That's what you say. You may not wanna let your old friend see me carry you, but you'll just have to get over that, won't you?" He smirked at Kai's glare. Normally, he would be terrified of that glare, but now that he thought about it, it only made the phoenix even cuter than he already was.

"Ray, I'm serious."

"Forget it, Kai. Mr. Dickenson already told me yesterday that I was to carry you so you could rest." He made his way over to the counter, pulling out a large skillet and turning the stove on. "Do you want eggs, or make a quick omelet?" He looked over at Kai, gazing at his face as he searched for the answer. "Omelet it is then!" He smiled as Kai's eyes widened in disbelief. How could the tiger have known that an omelet was what he was going to say?

"You're strange," Kai said shaking his head as his friend laughed.

-Six hours and twenty four minutes later-

They all sat in the waiting area of the airport building. They had been there for about thirty minutes. The Blade Breakers, All Stars, White Tigers, and the Majestics sat all about the room, either talking to themselves or reading old magazines scattered about the room.

Suddenly, the intercom came on saying that the flight from Russia to Japan had arrived. Everyone's heads snapped up towards the door where people were already coming through. Five minutes past and almost everyone had entered, exiting the terminal.

"Well, where is he?" Emily asked gaining nods all around.

Mr. Dickenson looked towards Kai as the phoenix stood up, his eyes never leaving the terminal doorway. He looked back as a figure entered the side of his vision.

In came a boy about Kai's age, his height, too. He had wavy white hair that reflected the silver eye gazing at everyone in the room while the other light blue only followed. He wore a light, white sleeveless vest, going great with the form-fitting blue jeans and brown boots. He smiled, his pearl teeth showing as he caught sight of Kai.

"Phoenix!" he cried, dropping his bag on the floor and running to his old friend.

"Ryan!" Kai was surprised as his friend embraced him tightly, but hugged back as he had not seen his friend in a little over three, almost four, years. They parted after a while, Ryan laughing.

"It's been so long, Phoenix!" He smiled at his old friend.

"Yeah. Umm, Ryan, these are my friends, Tyson, Max, Kenney, Michael, Emily, Eddy, Steve, Lee, Mariah, Gary, Kevin, Mr. Dickenson you already know."

"Yep. Nice to see you again, Mr. Dickenson."

"You as well, Ryan."

"And, this is Ray," Kai said, bringing his koi to stand beside him.

"Heard a lot about you," Ryan said indicating more towards Ray with a slight wink of the eye. "Name's Ryan. Nice to meet all of you." He bowed his head to everyone.

"Nice to meet you, too," Tyson said as everyone came up to shake hands with the white haired boy.

Ryan nodded to each and every blader, shaking their hands firmly. He turned to Kai as soon as everyone had had a turn meeting him. "So, Phoenix, you said that you needed me for something important?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms in front of him.

Mr. Dickenson cleared his throat before the slate-haired blader could answer. "You all must be hungry. Why don't we all go out and get something to eat and then we can discuss the situation?"

Everyone nodded at that. They were hungry, and they didn't need to talk about the situation there anyway. Too many people.

-At a restaurant-

Everyone was stuffing their faces in a matter of minutes after they had gotten their meal. Especially Tyson, who had a mountain of food already half-way down his throat.

"Phoenix?" Ryan asked as soon as Tyson's third course was down and food had stopped splattering all around the table.

Kai looked up into the soft silver and blue as they washed over him.

The white haired boy set his teacup on the dish. "What is going on? I know you didn't just ask me to come down here to meet your friends or to take to dinner. Why am I down here?"

All eyes were on Kai and Ryan, none leaving.

Kai sighed. "It's a long story, but here goes nothing . . . ." With that he told every detail of his abduction for his friend.

After it was all finished, Ryan sat back and whistled. "Wow," was all he said.

The others nodded and Kai looked down, adverting his gaze from his old teammate.

Ryan just sat there, his eyes staring into the table as if they were trying to burn holes into the fabric of the table cloth. After a minute of silence, he looked back up. "Well, now I see why you couldn't tell me over the phone. Shit, Phoenix. What have you gotten yourself into now?"

Kai's head snapped up at the comment. "What do you mean? It wasn't my fault this time," he argued.

Ryan smirked at that. Kai and him had always argued about whose fault it was when either one or both of them were in trouble. He sighed. "So, you want me to teach your friends here how to combat?" He leaned his elbows on the table. "Phoenix, I don't know how either you or I am going to do that. It took us, what, a year or two just to learn the basics? And you're asking me to do it in four weeks? Be realistic! How are we going to do that?"

Tyson grinded his teeth. This guy acted like they didn't know anything about blading! "Hey, it's not like we don't know how to blade, you know!" he out bursted.

Ryan's eyes flashed over to him. "I'm not saying you don't know how to blade. I'm saying you don't know how to combat."

"What's the difference between combat and regular blading?" Kenney asked, interfering before the conversation got out of hand.

"There's a big difference," Ryan said sitting up straighter. "Speaking of combat, that really is something I've been wanting to do for a long while. Can you?" He looked over to Kai as the phoenix exchanged glances with Ray.

The tiger shrugged. It seemed that Kai hadn't hurt himself at all yesterday. Not to mention, he was feeling better. Why not?

Kai looked back over to his old friend, smiling a smile that made the other bladers shiver, even his koi. "Hai. I've been looking for a good fight." Ryan smiled at that. Now he was excited.

"Let's show them what combat really is."

End Chapter 10+

[[kudasai - please [[kare - boyfriend

YEP! Thought I'd stop it there! Sorry it's so short!

Kai- You left it at there?

Yeah . . . . Why?

Ryan- He wanted to combat with me, that's why.

Oh. Next time!

Kai- Whatever. crosses arms over chest

Ryan- Awe! Little Phoenix's pouting! laughs

Kai- growls

Ok, first before we leave, I want to know if ( the one after the next chapter) you all would like another lemon scene with Kai and Ray? I'm asking because I'm not sure yet if I want one or not. But if you all do, please tell me! I NEED TO KNOW!

Here's a clue for what's gonna be in the next chapter: Kai and Ryan get to show the beybladers what real combat blading (street blading) is about! R&R Viewers!