I Love Beyblade

Chapter 9 – Parting Ways

The news had reported about the two birds, as monsters, destroying their city and is now going around worldwide. When Falborg seem to have successfully stopped the tornado, it still caused lot of buildings around them to fall down on the citizens who were around them because of the powerful wind. The weeping of the kids cries for their missing parent, friends looking for one another, and the siren of the ambulances.

Two days passed.

Just right outside of the same city, the Blitzkrieg Boys and Kai stood at the on the road. Kai had called Mr. Dickenson yesterday and the old man had told them to meet him here. After more than ten minutes of waiting, four black helicopters came flying towards them. The sign on the each helicopter read BBA.

"Took him long enough," Bryan said. "Why am I even here anyway?" He had nothing to do with the BBA after all, but the other guys did not answer him and just waited.

The helicopters landed on the ground and Mr. Dickenson walked out from one of them with a smile. "Why hello!" he greeted, glad to see them. In his hand were brown-colored folders. "It has been a while!"

"What did you want to see us for?" Kai glared, wanting to get straight to the point. He is still mad about having Dranzer being taken away from him. He's not going to forgive Ruby for that. "Hilary said you told her that the bit beasts are all in danger. What do you mean?" Speaking of Hilary, she had gone to the hospital to have her hand treated and is now staying with her family.

Mr. Dickenson chuckled at Kai. "I see… alright then," he walked up to them. "If you boys wouldn't mind, will you all do me a flavor?"

Tala and Spencer turned to Bryan to see if he was going to object. Bryan smirked, "As long it involves battle, I don't mind." He looked at his friends. "What do you guys want to do?"

Spencer did not say anything. Tala nodded, "Why not? It's a nice opportunity to get some free food while we're at it. Heh."

Kai looked at Mr. Dickenson and asked, "What do you want us to do?"

"Wait, Kai," Spencer said. "If it does involve with battling, you should stay behind. Didn't you say that Dranzer was stolen?"

Mr. Dickenson's eyes turned to Kai, surprised. "You didn't say anything about that on the phone," the old man said. Kai sent Spencer a light glare. Mr. Dickenson laughed, "Well, that doesn't really change the way I have the plan for you boys so no worries!" He handed one of the folders to Tala. "I don't have time to explain much because I want you all to head to each places written on here. There are files in each so please read them as you go." He gave the other folders to Spencer and Bryan.

Kai did not get one and asked, "What about me, Mr. Dickenson?"

"You're staying here in Japan," he told him. "I want you to go back to Hilary's hometown with her when her family leaves this city."

"Why?" he lightly glared. "You just want me to sit around and wait?"

Mr. Dickenson chuckled again. "Why, Kai… Since you no longer have your bit beast, I want you to go check on Tyson's grandpa to see how he's doing. And who knows if Tyson comes back on his own along with Kenny?" Kai was going to object but the old man added, "Please understand the situation, Kai."

Bryan had looked through his folder and asked, "The Silver Company is fusing bit beasts together? Is this what you mean when you said the bit beasts are in danger? This kind of danger?"

"Why, yes," Mr. Dickenson nodded. "This is quite serious. I heard they have fail experiments for the last three months."

"What happens to the bit beasts are was fused together then?" Tala asked. He did not like the idea of fusing something together. It's just wrong. "What becomes of them when the experiments fails?" he also questioned.

Mr. Dickenson sighed, "Unfortunately, I don't know. Gathering information outside of the Silver Company was a lot harder than I thought. I only have that information and little details of clues about them." He hurried and walked away. "I'll leave the rest up to you boys."

"Where are you going?" Kai asked.

The old man turned around and smiled. "Ever since the Empty Hearts were formed, I have become a busy man. There are a lot of events going around the world and I have to be back at the base of BBA to get the reports." He got on the same helicopter, waving goodbye. "If anything comes up, please do inform it to me. Oh and you three boys will take these helicopters and they will take you to your assigned destination."

Kai glared, watching where Mr. Dickenson's helicopter is flying off. "Tsk, leaving just like that…"

"Hey, I'm heading to America," Tala smirked, flipping through the papers. He's skipping through some readings for now. "I guess that means I'm finding the All Starz." Tala looked over to Bryan and Spencer. "What about you two?"

"Eh, China," Bryan said, shutting his folder. "The White Tigers…" he grumbled and started to walk towards one of the helicopters.

"Majestics…" Spencer said. He closed his folder and looked at Kai. "See you later then," he said with no expression. He walked away before even seeing Kai's glare. Bryan had already entered the helicopter and flew away. Spencer stepped into the helicopter as well, leaving.

Tala patted on Kai's back. "Take care of yourself and Hilary, Kai," he smirked.

"Why the Majestics?" Kai wondered. "Even they were attacked?"

"I'm assuming Mr. Dickenson couldn't contact any of them," Tala said, shrugging. He watched Spencer's helicopter flying away. "Anyway, I should get going too," Tala ran off, waving a little.

Kai turned around heading back to the city. He did not want to watch every helicopter leaving after one another. Looking ahead, he stopped walking when he saw Hilary. He looked at her hand where her hand had been shot and is now in bandages. She seemed worried and he walked towards her. "What are you doing out here?" he asked.

She pouted, "I was looking for you and remembered that you could have met up with Mr. Dickenson without telling me, so I wanted to come along… but I guess even you're staying behind." She looked at Kai, his eyes were looking somewhere else. She poked him and asked, "Did he make you stay behind?"

"…Yeah," he replied. "He said when your family leaves the city, I'm supposed to go with you so I can go visit Tyson's grandfather. And then wait for any signs of Tyson and Kenny."

"Oh, I see," she nodded.

He looked back at her hand. The sound of the gunshot and her scream begin ringing in his mind. "About your hand…" he lowered his voice. "I thought she wouldn't shot but she did…"

Hilary stared at him, confused. "Oh, you mean this." She touched her bandaged hand.

Kai remembered when Ruby seemed to have accidentally shot a woman when they were being chase down by the Silver Company. She was shivering when she heard the woman's scream. Kai remembered it clearly. So he thought Ruby would never shot anyone but guess he was wronged. He begun walking and Hilary followed him. "How much longer will your family will be staying here?" he asked her.

"In the next couple of days," she said. "Since 'monsters' appeared here, they wanted to leave as soon as possible." Kai nodded and she looked at him, walking a bit ahead of him. He looked guilty and sad. She walked straight along side with him. She wanted to cheer him up, but what can make him happy now that Dranzer's gone? "I'm sorry about Dranzer, Kai," she said. "If it weren't for me…"

"Don't worry about it," he told her. "I don't blame you."

Hilary looked at the ground. "But…"

"It's not your fault," he said. "It's all mine. You got hurt because of me so… don't worry about it."

She glanced at him and back at the ground. She had nothing else to say. Nothing for now.

"So this is one of the Silver Company's bases…" Ruby walked down a hallway with no windows. Chun Mei told them to present Dranzer to one of the members of Empty Hearts who is staying there for a while. Ruby looked around and added, "It almost look like a prison with all the dim lights and stuff."

Xue is walking with her and nodded to Ruby's statement. "Yep! That's one of the things I dislike about," he laughed. He played around with the chip that held in Dranzer. He threw it in the air back and forth.

Ruby thought about Chun Mei and looked at Xue. "You know, Chun Mei doesn't really look like a bad person to me. Why is she with the Empty Hearts? And where did go?"

"We all have our own reasons," Xue reminded her. "And she left to go to America with another member of the Empty Hearts. I think they're trying to find Draciel."

She looked at him as he kept playing with Dranzer. She was just about to tell him to stop playing with it but someone was also in the hallway, waiting. "Who's that?" she asked, looking at the unknown guy who had dark blue hair and blue eyes. His bangs covers right eye He's wearing black suit, looking really well mannered.

"Hey, Leo!" Xue waved, running up to him.

The guy with dark blue hair glared at him. "I told you not to call me nicknames," he said.

"Leonardo, Leo, it's the same!" Xue laughed. Ruby stood where she was, not wanting to get close to them for some reason. "Oh, Leo! This is Ruby and she said she would be joining us! Great eh?"

Leo's eyes lifted to her from Xue. He smirked, "I welcome you, Ruby. I'm the leader of the Empty Hearts. My name is Leonardo. Please don't try to give me nick names like this guy."

Leader… of the Empty Hearts…she thought.

"Call him Leo," Xue said, slapping Leonardo's back and laughing. "He was one of the people who went after the Blitzkrieg Boys four months ago."

Leonardo brought up his fist to Xue's face and Xue took a step back. "If you don't want to get hit, stay all the way back," he told him, irritated.

"My, my," Xue flapped his hands at him to calm down. "Anyway, here's Dranzer," Xue threw him the chip.

He caught it and smirked. "Good job," he said.

"Release Eve," Ruby said, glaring.

"Of course," Leonardo nodded. "But not anytime soon. Who knows if you won't cooperate with us? If you prove your worth, I'll return her back to the light."

Ruby looked away with a grunt. Damn… She cursed in her head.

Leonardo smirked and walked away. "Now, excuse me… I have to give this to the Technicians…"

"Uh…" Ruby took a couple of steps. She did not say anything and watched the dark blue hair guy walking away with Dranzer in his hands. "…Dranzer…" she mumbled, worried. She glared at Xue. "What is he planning to do with Dranzer?" she hissed.

Xue smiled, "Nothing yet. They're waiting for the other three."

"The other three…?" she asked. "What other three?"

"Dragoon, Driger, and Draciel," he said. "So there's nothing to worry about… yet."

Ruby groaned. "This wasn't on my plan… now I have to prove myself a little more before I can get Eve back."

Xue nodded, "Shouldn't be too hard."

"It is hard!" she complained. "I hate acting like a bad guy! People are going to hate me more!" she panicked, punching Xue in the arm.

"Then what am I?" Xue asked, fake tears falling down from his eyes.

"Xue!" Leonardo shouted from afar.

"Yeah?" Xue shouted back and looked were he is. In Xue's view, Leonardo is little as a pencil. "Wow, you walk really fast, Leo."

Leonardo shouted angrily, "It's Leonardo! I have a mission for you. Come and see him at the office after an hour."

"Alright, Leo!" Xue waved, hearing Leonardo's angry mumbling. Xue looked back at Ruby who looked back with a worry face. "…Your plan isn't going well after all," he smiled nervously. "I don't know how long I will be gone, but will your plan work with just you and Eve?"

Ruby sighed, "I think I'll be alright… When ever Eve is safe and no longer being held captive, we'll plan together to get Dranzer back."

He nodded. "Okay… Be careful though. Leo's going to be here for a long while and if he catches you, he won't be so easy to deal with. He's the leader of the Empty Hearts after all."

"I know," she said. "I'll be careful when that time comes."