CHAPTER TEN

~ Gift ~

The radiant sun was soon out of sight and its silver twin now reigned supreme amongst the glittering stars that decorated the vast sky above. Partly covering the infinite darkness was a growing blanket of clouds. They hovered over a large mansion in the night as if about rain. Dinner had been served and consumed by now. A certain boy with two toned blue hair leans on a wall in his kitchen, watching a golden haired girl clean up. The way Lux worked so hard to make the meal and then so hard again to clean up afterwards would have otherwise amused Kai had it not been for the fact that he felt troubled by the note that came in the mail.

It has been two weeks now, two weeks of peace and quiet and a pleasant two weeks at that. It would even seem as if the danger had passed since it had been so quiet. Yet, the note came in the mail to warn Kai of the upcoming danger and officially signaled an end to the comfortable tranquility. It puzzled him as to why whoever it was would warn him of their plans. Surely, there was the possibility that the sender was a complete buffoon, but somehow, if that had been the case, things would be far too easy.

'But why have they done nothing for two whole weeks?' Kai wonders.

Kai turns to Lux and watches as she finishes putting back the last of the dishes. It would be true that the two did not converse all that often, but nonetheless the pure hearted girl showed him as much affection as she did to everyone else. Perhaps due to the fact that he was often quiet and did not reveal very much about himself to her, she often wonders what kind of things he would like. She uses the information his friends supply the best way she could to find ways to please him as a way of thanking him for housing her and paying for her expenses. Though neither was of great effort to Kai, he was rather flattered by each of her attempts.

Suddenly, a loud noise that seems to have been made by the breaking of glass resounds through the hallways, breaking Kai's train of thought and catching Lux's attention. The both of them pause their actions and listen in silence for a bit.

"What...was that?" Lux mutters.

Kai does not answer but instead, dashes to the door and looks in both directions of the hallway. He then begins to sprint down the hall towards the source of the noise with Lux following behind him. They eventually come to a stop at the door of a large room where three figures clad in black cloaks stood in front of a broken window. They turn to him and Lux.

"We have come to take Lux back with us." The tall one in the middle says in a calm voice.

Kai remains silent as he watches the three carefully. From the tone of the voice, he would guess that the speaker was not much older than he was. The figure in the middle catches Lux's eyes but as soon as he notices, he turns the other way as if to avoid her gaze.

"We will give you the option of handing her over peacefully and forgetting what you know of us or her." He continues, "However, if you choose not to, we will take her back by force."

"Fat chance," Kai answers him. "'cause she's not going anywhere if its with you freaks!"

"Very well," replies the middle figure. "I'll leave this to you guys."

The middle figure turns towards the window while the other two position themselves to fight. The figure on the left pulls out what appears to be a whip and the figure on the right pulls out what appears to be a laptop. The figure on the left takes out a black blade and loads it onto his unique launcher while the one on the left takes out a dark violet one and does the same. Taking the cue that they wish to use their beyblades, Kai takes out his own blue blade and loads it onto his launcher. Without warning, the two launch their blades, not at the floor, but at Kai. As if by luck, Kai launches his just in time to knock the blades from their path towards him and all three blades land on the floor.

"Good luck," the middle one mutters as he takes his leave through the window.

As soon as he was out of sight, the two blades starts to attack Kai's blade uniformly, not leaving a chance for him to defend or attack back. Their speed and power amazed Kai, but even so, he was not about to throw in the towel. An opening in the assault eventually came and Kai takes it as soon as he sees it, knocking the black blade back and weakening it in the process but the dark violet one took it as a chance to attack him. They were about to finish him off when a silver blade flashed through and knocked the two back, greatly decreasing their spin and power in the process.

"I was taught two against one isn't fair!" Lux steps up.

The two goons look to her and then to each other before nodding in agreement and taking out two more blades. They load them onto their launchers and were about to launch them but Kai's blue blade tore through both launchers just in time, rendering the possibility of more blades being added to the battle to zero.

"Why you…!" the one on the left grits his teeth.

"You heard her, two against one isn't fair. The same goes for four against two."

"Too bad, we're not here to play games, we're here for business," the right one says through his hood.

"And our goal here is to take Lux back with us." the left one adds.

"Sleipnir!" the left figure calls to his bitbeast to attack the silver blade.

"Hugin!" the right one follows.

"You two goons have had enough fun and its time for you to get out of my house!" Kai shouts, angered. "Dranzer, Spiral Fireball!"

The phoenix of fire knocks the two blades away from Lux's silver one and sends them flying out the window. The two figures watch as their blades disappear into the darkness outside and then turn back to Kai and Lux.

"We'll be back."

The two leave through the window as their companion previously did and was no longer heard from for the night. Kai turns to go but stops. He sees Lux walking towards where one of the cloaked figures were before and wonders what she is doing. She bends down and picks up something off the floor and returns to Kai.

"I think one of them left this behind…" she tells him.

She held a silver bitchip in her hand. On the bitchip was a faded picture of an elf.