Hey! New chapter up and ready before I head out for the holidays!
Kai – Just start already.
Jeesh! I know you're impatient to see Jet again, but golly, you could be a little happier knowing that I'm getting close to the actual plot of this fic.
Kai – You're rambling.
Oh, leave me alone. I'm bored, tired, stress level is dropping due to exams almost being over, and I've not felt good the past few days. Can it.
Kai – (sighs) Whatever. I'll do disclaimer if it means that you'll hurry up in starting the chapter.
Arigatou.
Kai – Disclaimer: She doesn't own Beyblade. No one. Not me, not the Bladebreakers, no one, only her OC's. That's it. Leave it at that.
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CHAPTER SEVEN – SEPARATION
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-KAI'S POV (finally!)-
I sighed as I stood behind each and every bitbeast of the beybladers in the room. Dranzer was in the front, standing guard against the rat beast while the rest were focusing their attentions on the other men in the room that were not with us in the beginning.
Then, I heard rat face from the front say something about him teaching me what a fuck toy was all about. I bristled. Was there any bad guy out there that didn't want to screw my brains out?! I'm not even good looking, and yet I have something plastered either on my forehead or ass that I'm fuck-worthy. What the hell?!
I growled to myself. Right now, I was wishing that I was out of the god-forsaken temple and back home, under the warm covers, and snuggled up against my fiancé. Yes, I did say snuggle. As you can tell, I'm not really caring one way or another. All I want is to get out of the eyesight of the sewer smelling rat and his friends.
Sometimes, I hate my life and the luck that it brings.
Yeah, Jet was an amazing gift from the Fates, but by damn, they didn't have to make keeping him such a chore.
Dranzer took a step forward as the rat tried to advance on our little group. I could hear him growl from back where I stood. Then, rat face decided that waiting was boring and attacked, completely not ready for what my bitbeast had in store for him.
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Cartenon took a literal nose-dive towards Dranzer, hoping to surprise him and knock him off his feet.
That didn't work.
Dranzer was ready for him. Bringing the butt-end of his spear, he drove it into the rat's stomach, cringing inwardly when it made a definite squish sound. Cartenon backed up a few steps only to dive right back towards the red haired man. He screeched loudly, his voice like piercing knives to unprotected ears as the beybladers and most of the bitbeasts covered their ears, crying out in pain.
Dranzer, however, was not one of them. He maintained his cool even though his ears were screaming at him to cover them from the onslaught. He rushed up to the beast, this time the blade of his spear ready, and made a perfect slice at the no-longer animal.
Cartenon shrieked in pain as the blade made contact with his rotting flesh. Gases that would normally come from a rotting corpse made its way through the room, causing everyone to want to hurl whatever they had to eat that morning.
Dranzer never faltered as he pushed back the putrid beast. He continued to hold his breath as the vapors diminished, watching as the poor excuse for an animal hit the wall with a sickening thud, more gaseous juicing splattering on the stone.
The phoenix heard someone gag from behind him.
"Well, at least now I know that you live up to your reputation, Dranzer," Zeus commented. In the past life, he hadn't really gotten to know the phoenix, but he knew the rumors.
A male bird that seemed almost feminine with a darker side to his light. He was feared and respected for his strength and sharpness of the mind. Those were just some reasons why he had been picked as the head of the king's aerial fleet.
The phoenix snorted at the dark being's words. He had other fish to fry than to enlighten the winged bitbeast.
CLAP
CLAP
CLAP
Everyone froze as clapping sounded around the room.
"Well done, well done," a voice sounded from behind Kai.
The young phoenix jumped, swerving around to gaze upon the man that had just appeared out of nowhere.
The man smiled sadistically, lowering his hands. "I must admit, Dranzer, you have not faltered in strength by any means, but," he looked over at Kai, "you have faltered in protecting your young master here."
"Kai, run!" Dranzer cried, rushing to his side.
The other bitbeasts tried as well, but that seemed small in comparison to what the young phoenix was experiencing.
His whole body felt like it was on fire. White hot pain laced through every fiber in his being. His crimson eyes glazed over. Breathing became ragged. His body seemed to be falling into nothingness. The man before him just smirked down upon him as darkness invaded his vision.
'Jet……'
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Dranon halted in the middle of the hallway as he hear Kai's voice echo through his head.
Dranon, we've got to hurry! Kai's in danger! Jet cried, almost on the verge of panicking.
With that, the dark wolf sped up, almost losing the others in his party along the way. Kai was in danger, and he just hoped Dranzer was either there or still alive.
They came to the room where the wolf stopped so abruptly he almost fell face forward into the floor. There, in the middle of the room, was Kai, laying down but suspended in the air. A light yellow glow outlined his body as he slept on. The wolf noticed his cheeks had a blush on them from rising body temperature. His breathing was ragged, and his body shook, but that's not what had the dark being almost to his knees.
Dranzer kneeled beside him, doubled over in pain as the same yellow glow outlined his own body. His spear lie forgotten beside him as he tried to keep the cries of pain from coming out.
The others stood behind them, trying to get out of what looked like an invisible box that was not only sound proof, but bitbeast proof as he saw Galeon attack the wall to no avail.
"Dranzer!" Dranon called, gaining everyone's attention.
"D-Dranon," Dranzer whispered, a ghost of a smile on his strained features. He groaned and half whimpered as another wave of pain shot through his body.
The wolf growled as he stepped fully into the room, finally taking notice of the men standing against the wall, the grotesque rat form crumpled in the corner, and the one tall man that stood next to Kai and his claimed one. The man looked familiar, but the wolf just couldn't put his finger on the name, and that set him in unease. If he couldn't remember someone, that meant that he had done something to wrong him in a past life, and the wolf was trying to forget him. Not good.
He growled low in his throat at the man. "Let them go," he stated in a deathly calm voice. His eyes flashed menacingly.
The man just chuckled at his reaction. "Oh, not yet, I do believe. You see, I have a proposition for you, dark wolf."
"And that proposition would be?"
"Here's the deal: I send your little master, the phoenix's master, and everyone else here out of this place, and you and Dranzer accompany me to another part of the temple for a little chat."
Dranon growled again. "If you wanted to talk with us, then you didn't need to go through all this trouble."
The man looked at the group of men against the wall and the rat being. "They mean nothing to me. They are here by mere coincidence, young wolf. Believe me when I say that I would never associate any connections with humans or even a beast that resembles that over there." He turned a sickening pale yellow eye back on the wolf. "And your little phoenix here was in too much of a protective phase that I wouldn't have been able to get a word in." He smiled. "Needless to say, I had no other choice."
"There's one problem in your little 'plan.'" The wolf stated. "I am permanently bound to my master's body. I cannot come out like Dranzer and the others."
"Ah, but you see, that's where I come in. You see, I have the power to separate the two of you just like you had never been fused in the first place. Only if you agree to my terms, that is."
"And what if I don't?"
The man didn't answer, just merely hovered a hand over Kai's chest. He squeezed his fingers lightly like he was grasping something, and then the whole room filled with Kai's agonizing screams.
"Stop it! You'll kill him!" Dranzer cried, trying to stop the man but unable to do so as Kai's pain mixed in with his own.
The man relaxed his hand and pulled it away, and Kai's screams stopped to just mere whimpers, his breathing even more uneven.
"Tch. Fine. I'll do what you want, so long as you keep your end of the bargain."
The man smiled. "Of course."
He waved a hand and muttered a few lines before a white blinding light settled in front of the wolf's eyes. He gasped as an unfamiliar sensation swept through him. Then, the light was gone and he was now looking at the room from a much higher viewpoint. He looked down, seeing Jet leaning heavily against the doorway of the temple room. He then looked at his own hands, flexing them as if they weren't real.
"Dranon…" that had come from Dranzer.
He looked up, catching the longing look in the phoenix's emerald gaze and the small smile that appeared on those delicate lips that he loved so much.
He was back in his own body. Just looking at Dranzer's face was enough to quell any fear that he wasn't.
The man before him smiled and waved his hand again. This time, everyone but him, Dranon, and Dranzer disappeared from the room.
"Now, let's get down to business."
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Jet gasped as the white light suddenly left again. He was really getting tired of seeing that light. Everyone had always told him that if you see a light, then go towards it. He was actually thinking of running away from it next time.
He looked around sluggishly, eyeing that all his friends were with him. Even Tala and the others were spread out to his left, seemingly asleep. The men that had been standing against the wall, and the rat beast, were gone, though, much to his liking.
His dark eyes immediately looked for his phoenix, spotting him not too far away. Getting up on weak knees, he staggered over to his crimson eyed beauty. He knelt down next to him and gathered the teen in his arms.
Kai was still a little flushed, indicating a small fever, but other than that, he seemed alright in his unconscious state.
Jet breathed a sigh of relief. His mind wondered, though. What could that man want with his bitbeast and Kai's? Why were those men after Kai? What relationship did that rat beast have with their bitbeasts?
What was going on?
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Yep, short and sweet and with a little cliffy, too. Not too bad. ^^
Anyways, I hope this'll satisfy you till I get back from Christmas break. I don't know if I'll be able to update till then, and that will be in January. So, just sit tight! ^^
Have a happy holiday! And stay safe! And Read and review!
Ja Ne
HIGHLIGHTS FOR NEXT CHAPTER
Kai's fever won't go down.
Jet can't contact Dranon.
For some odd reason, the beybladers cannot leave the dig site of the temple.
And the men from before make another appearance.
Dranzer and Dranon follow the man further into the temple.
They catch up on old times.
The man's identity is revealed.
The prophesy is also revealed.
And what's it got to do with the teenagers outside?
Wait and find out next time!