Hello my lovely reviewers and/or readers,
I am in a awesome mood, (which is good because my mood has sucked lately) because I am getting to spend time with my twin! Yay! I know you don't care about my personal life so I am going to move on with the story soon but this must be said.
Because of this lovely mood I am dedicating this to you M.O.D thank you for cheering me up this week when I wanted to cry and just making my life better. Love you forever!
Oh yeah BTW because of your reviews the character that was on the chopping block has been saved and he will thank you later!
"Speech"
"Speech in other language"
'Thought'
Bitbeast talking (First time Bitbeast have talked in my story te-he)
"Boris, Leonid, go get our guest of honor. It's time to put the final piece of this puzzle in place." Leonid let his pleasure at the idea become visible.
"Then we get to watch it all fall apart." Voltaire looked over his two most loyal servants. "The best part of this plan is no matter who wins I'll be the one coming out on top."
Leonid and Boris walked out of the room with a bow, and Boris scoffed. "Arrogant fool." He muttered under his breath and Leonid laughed. "True it is a fatal quality that he and my brother share." Boris smiled at the mention of the man. "How are things going with brother dearest?" Boris asked and Leonid shook his head, and let out a fake sigh. "He is taking forever to do what we need him to do. He only recently contacted the prizrak."
Boris sighed rubbing the back of his neck. "Remind me why we play along with the charade of those two?" Leonid chuckled slightly at the inpatients of his partner. "We play along because for now it is in our best interest. We have already obtained two of the links without tipping our hand, with time the last two will fall to us as well."
Boris laughed as they left the building in Russia and boarded the flight to China. "Does he suspect the sudno yet?" Leonid smiled thing about the code names he and his partner had agreed upon. "No, he is too busy looking ahead to his 'victory'. Oh how fun it will be to destroy him and my brother when we have obtained the final two links."
Boris looked out the plane window before asking his question. "Voltaire knows of the last to links, how are we going to obtain them?" Leonid looked back at the other. "Did you send the two I told you two?" Boris nodded. "And is volk in place?" Once again Boris nodded. "Then the two links will come to us. Once they are by the sudno it will all be over. Tell me, you did make sure that belogvardyeets was equipped properly before you planted him, correct?"
Boris nodded for a final time. Leonid smiled once again, but this one held a demented edge to it. "Our missing pieces will have entered our game by now. It's time we move this little game along." Leonid said before pressing a button on his watch.
Kagen grabbed his head as they walked into the building. Tala looked over at his friend before scanning the building. "Kagen, what's wrong?" Tala asked his senses on hyper drive as he scanned each and every possible threat. Kagen held his head and shut his eyes, before stumbling back into the wall behind him.
"You are not the one." A voice echoed through his mind. Another one followed the first in the call. "You are not our chosen!" The second voice called, both voices repeated their calls, but a third voice silenced them. "You are weak, where your brother was strong. He is my chosen you are a shell, an imposter, even your own partner refuses to claim you."The voice seemed to muse for a moment"I will uses you however and there is nothing you can do."
"Imposter!" The first voice called, "Thief!" The second answered, "Weak!"The darkest and most imposing voice snarled. "Hopeless spawn, Di-" The three voices where cut short by the sudden sound of a forth voice. "ENOUGH!" The fourth voice commanded and the other voices disappeared. This voice lacked the harsh, hateful tone that controlled the other voices. This one was different, far more gentle and soothing than the other three.
Kagen became aware that he had slipped to the floor and that Tala had taken up a position standing to block him. Kagen couldn't focus however as his head felt ready to implode, if it hadn't already. 'What's going on?' Kagen whimpered in his mind, he would have died before sounding that weak aloud. The soothing voice answered. "Calm yourself my child. You are tired and confused; do not push yourself for understanding." Kagen took a steadying breath before focusing on the voice, it sounded familiar, soothing, loving, caring, thoughtful. 'I know you.' Kagen thought finally, when he felt a reaffirming warmth flood through him, he was sure. "That is true my child. You do know me for I have always been with you. For you did not abandon me." Kagen reached a shaking hand around his neck and felt the bit around his neck warm up. 'Zodia? It's you isn't it?" The bit warmed up and Kagen didn't need her to answer him.
'You sound so familiar, not just your presence but your actual sound.' Zodia laughed kindly in the boys mind. "That is because we Bitbeast become one with our Chosen when they pass from one world to the next." That is when Kagen realized why Zodia sounded so familiar. 'You sound like my mother, because she was your last chosen. No wonder your presence is so warm.' For a few moments there was no reply and Kagen wondered if he and Zodia's talk was over.
"Yes, that is why. I am sorry for the pain the others caused you my child." Kagen noticed that now that it was only Zodia in his head, his headache was disappearing. 'Who were they anyways?' Zodia paused a moment, no doubt debating how much to tell him. "The first you heard was the great sprit Dragoon, please believe me when I say he is not normally so harsh. The other was Draciel, I fear things are the same with him as with Dragoon. They are most of the time very peaceable spirits. And the last, well I don't think I have to tell you my child who that dark voice belongs to."
She was right Kagen knew the final voice, it was the one that had pledge him sense his grandfather had given him the cursed bit. 'Black Dranzer, but why can I hear all of them in my head? I don't understand?""I am not allowed to say much more but you my dear child have been chosen for a very important task. It is a task however that I wish dearly had fallen to another. Just remember I am there for you my child, if you ever are in need of my strength I will give you all I have." Kagen felt the assurance strengthen him as Zodia no doubt demonstrated her meaning. Kagen felt the warmth disappear as Zodia cut their link.
Kagen looked up to see Tala struggling with a few guards. Within a few moments Kagen had stood and sent his blade at the men holding Tala. Tala jumped back, hitting one of them in the face with his elbow and splitting their nose as he did. "Tala I think we should come back later. Besides I need to run a few things by you." Tala nodded once before calling his blade back. "Sounds like a plan let's go."
Tyson and Max sat in their hotel room with really nothing to do. The tournament hadn't started yet and the two hadn't felt like having fun sense their friends had "disappeared" Kenny looked back down at the states from Dragoon for the fifth time. "Tyson something is off with Dragoon." Tyson stood up from the bed where he had been counting tiles. "Wa'cha mean chief?" Kenny handed Dragoon back to Tyson and the blade began to glow. "That. He's been reacting randomly for the last few minutes now and I don't know what's going on. Draciel is doing it to and I can't figure out what "it" is."
Max walked over at the mention of Draciel. "Draciel seems fine; maybe they are just ready to get going again. I mean neither of us has bladed since. . ," Max didn't need to finish what they all already knew what he was going to say. Kenny however wasn't so sure, but looking at the blades again the reactions seemed to have stopped. "It's just odd that both Dragoon and Draciel would start reacting over nothing."
Max and Tyson exchanged a meaningful glance. Tyson opened his mouth to speech when a knock at the door caught their attention. "It's probably Mr. D, I'll get it." Tyson said walking to the door. He opened it ready to greet the older man only to find that is definitely wasn't Mr. Dickenson. Instead at the door stood a redhead teenager, with piercing blue eyes. "Tala." Tyson said in surprised as he was shoved harshly out of the way. Tala walked in glancing at the door behind him.
Max, Kenny and Tyson all looked at the door to see what he was looking at to see another boy standing in the way. The boy had deep blue, almost black hair that spiked up in a almost halo like fashion, his sharp blue eyes almost the same shade of Tala's with only a hint of darker color circling the pulps and his skin was a washed out pale. The others couldn't help noticing that he didn't have the same edge that most the Russian bladers had. Even his fashion wasn't as harsh, He wore a lose silver tee-shirt with a black denim jacket, his lose black cargo pants and black combat boots however showed that even if he was more lacked he was still a soldier.
The boy walked in quickly, slamming the door behind them and than proceeding to close the windows as well. The Breakers turned there attention to Tala. "Um, Tala what are you doing here and what is he doing?" The boy turned sharply to Tyson shushing him. "What?" Max said watching as the boy began to run a hand along the wall. "Alright were good." The boy said turning back to all the others.
"Good for what?" Tyson yelled and the boy glared at him. Tyson was taken aback by the boy's intense glare. Something in the boy's eyes felt strangely familiar, but Tyson found he couldn't hold the boy's gaze and looked away. Tyson heard Tala chuckle slightly and he turned on him in anger. "What are you laughing at Tala?" Tala shook his head slightly. "I saw you look away when Kagen started glaring at you. Guess you just can't stand up to a Hiwatari glare."
Tyson narrowed his eyes. "Hey take that- wait did you say Hiwatari glare? Does that mean you are related to Kai?" All the Breakers turned their eyes to the boy who had moved to stand by Tala. "Yes it does. My name is Kagen Hiwatari; I am Kai's younger brother." Surprise was not hidden in the faces of the Breakers as they heard the new news. Kagen sighed he had expected as much for a reaction, but he really didn't have time to play 20 questions.
"Alright let's do the fast version of this, okay? Like I said my name is Kagen, I am Kai's younger by two years. I realize he has never talked about me but that is because we parted on somewhat sour notes. Something has happened and now, against my better judgment, I am forced to come to you for help. I can tell you however that my brother and your friend Ray are alive and fine and will show up at the competition."
Max opened his mouth but Tala cut him off. "I know a lot to handle, but that isn't why we are here." Kenny looked up from his computer totally confused by Tala's statement. "If you aren't here to talk about that what are you here for?" Kagen looked to Tala for confirmation on what he was about to do, when Tala nodded his head, Kagen took a deep breath. "I am here because I need to talk to you about your Bitbeast."
Max and Tyson looked at each other for a second. "What about them?" Max asked with curiosity. "I want them out of my head."
Ray's POV
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Okay, so technically speaking I was ditching him, but I didn't really have many choices. Here I was sitting on the top of the waterfall with Lee, and Kai was stuck in the village being dragged around by Mao and Kiki. Yes I used their real names, we all did that, it was something though we only did when we wanted to keep things 'in the group'.
Lee sighed before passing his hand in front of my face. "Rei, you were off in Lala land again. If you need to talk to me so bad then do it, don't keep spacing." I brought my thought back down to earth and looked over at my friend.
"Hm? Sorry Rai, I didn't mean to, guess I just feel bad about ditching Kai. Anyways like I was saying beforehand I think all of this can be traced back to those old stories, you know the ones, right?" Lee nodded at me before looking down the cliffs face that we were sitting over. "Have you told Kai all this stuff yet? I mean if what you say is true and he is a Chosen one than he has a right to know, doesn't he?"
Uh-oh here comes the guilt. "No, I haven't told you, but your right he does have a right to know. I just haven't been able to bring myself to tell him these things. Besides Rai, you know how Grandfather feels about telling outsiders things." There was a spark of amusement that filled Lee's eyes and needless to say it confused me. "What?"
He shook his head before looking forward. "You called him Grandfather. I thought you swore to never call him by that title again." Oh crap, bad Ray, bad slip up, fix it fast. "Whatever." Wow, smooth Kon, real smooth. Lee just laughed at me, he knew he had so won that round. "So are you ever going to tell Kai that you know more about him than he thinks you do?"
I looked over at Lee a little worried of where this was headed. "Only if he asks. I don't want to play my last card until I am sure it's a winning one." Lee caught the metaphor and stuck with it. "So you're down to your last card?" I nodded, not something I was happy about. "Yeah, all my other cards were either jokers, or beat. I'm down to the last one I have and I am hoping it's an ace."
We settled into silence for a few moments. I had gotten up beyond early so I could run everything by Lee before we had to eat and thankfully, Lee had recalled too meet me. As a result of this however, we were kind of out of things to talk about. "You know Rei, it's been four years maybe it's time you move on in life."
It was a random comment that had nothing to do with what we were talking about but I didn't have to ask what he was referring to. "Rai everything is coming full circle for me. I really think that this is the year things will finally be put to an end. I have put all my life into finding that guy and killing him and I am not giving up now." I was never big on violence, unless it was like play fighting, but real fighting was never my thing, but this was different. "Rei look you torn your life apart once going after this guy. He took you away from us, made you life hell, it took you two years to recover from what he did to you and that is with Mr. Dickenson's help. You finally get your life straightened out and now you want to go right back into your obsession. Come on Rei; think with your head like you are always telling me to do."
I sighed, I knew he was right, heck I knew before he said a word he was right, that didn't mean I would accept it though. "Rai, I am the first Chosen one from the White Tiger Village to survive past the age of six in the last four hundred years, I just feel like there is something more I am supposed to be doing with my life. I mean if all I was meant to do is be your everyday Beyblader why did I get this power? Why not just let me be your average kid?" Lee seemed stumped on my words and I felt a little proud of myself until he spoke again.
"Voltaire was once a Chosen one to you, know?" I nodded once before continuing the story. "But Dranzer wasn't willing to accept Voltaire and so he was never able to harness the phoenix's power. Which is why he became obsessed with power, mainly the power of the Chosen one's, because he was denied it himself." If Lee had been giving me a pop quiz I think I passed it. He sighed once obviously tiring of me.
"Rei what I am trying to remind you is that with obsession comes destruction. The Elders taught us that more than anything else, it happens when we beyblade, when we becomes obsessed with victory we end up destroying ourselves. Just think things through before you jump on the crazy power train, alright?"
I smiled at Lee, he was in so many ways my brother that sometimes I think both of us forgot we weren't. "I wasn't planning on jumping on the insane train in time soon my friend." I said standing up. Lee stood up with me and with a smile I figured it was time to head back. I stopped though and Lee looked over his shoulder at me. "What's wrong now?" I gulped once before beginning to walk again. "Kai is going to kill me."
Kai's POV
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I am going to kill Ray when he gets back. Why? Because when I woke up this morning I found the green imp and pinky in my room. And why were they in my room you ask? Simply because Ray told them to show me around. In other words he ditched me, I bring him all the way back home and he ditches me. So yes I am going to kill him when he comes home.
I was beyond bored, the town was the size of a strip mall and I had already been given the tour once, true I hadn't been listening totally but still, when the biggest shop they have is an old fashion blacksmiths there isn't much to see.
I got that she was being nice, but Mariah was really starting to push it. I had tuned her out a while back but she was still pretty persistent and it was bugging the crap out of me. "Mariah, maybe you should stop asking Kai questions. He seems pretty irritated right now so maybe we should just leave him be for a little." Wow the imp actually could tell? Points for him. I had my arms crossed, leaning against a wall with my eyes closed , so it wasn't like I was hiding it or anything, but still.
After a few moments the talking of the two became distant and I decided to start my thinking again. I had figured something's out in the short time we had been here and I was intent on figuring out more.
Me and Ray not remembering one another could only be the work of my Grandfather. There was something in the convenience of which memories we had lost that made me sure of that. The other thing I had almost assured myself of was that all this could be traced back to my father.
I pulled Dranzer out of my pocket looking the blade over for a second. I pulled out the launcher, loaded her and launched her. I needed her warmth right now, something was sitting very off in my mind and I needed to calm myself of it all. As Dranzer rose from her bit, I felt the familiar warmth of the phoenix encase me. All I had to do was be patient; soon enough everything would be answered. All of a sudden a scream broke my concentration. For a moment I was afraid that someone had seen Dranzer as I recalled Ray telling me not to let people know. When I looked around however I found there was no one around for miles. I ran in the direction of the scream, whatever was going on it couldn't be very good.
As I was running down I saw a flash of ebony flash across my vision. "Ray," I said, he skidded to a halt in front of me and looked back. There was an obvious fear in his eyes as panic crossed his features. "That was one of the kids," He panted, and I saw Lee run up behind him. "Come on we need to hurry, something has happened." I nodded to the two neko-jin's and we sprinted off in the direction of the town center.
All the villages were standing around in the center of the town. As Ray and me pushed our way to the font the group, I felt the neko-jin next to me freeze and when I saw who it was I knew why. In the center of the group with one of the young villagers in his arms, stood Leonid and on his other side was Brooklyn. "Well there is our little phoenix now. Say hello to the villagers Kai." All eyes turned to me as Leonid called on me. This was so not good.
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A/N
And there it is! The next chapter finished. I hope it was up to slandered. (I kind of struggled with this one) I know I used Russian in this chapter but because they are code names so I am afraid I can't tell you there meanings. (But if you happen to find a way to find out, it may give you a hint to the story, hint, hint)
Oh, so I have been meaning to do this for a while so I could divide them up but I'll just start now.
I found meanings for all the names I use. So here are some of the ones stating with Kai and Ray's families.
Mei Kon- name meaning: Loving/beautiful
Shun Li Kon- name meaning: Obedient/Strong
Ray (Rei) Kon – Polite/well behaved
Alexei Hiwatari – name meaning: Defender
Izabella Hiwatari- name meaning: Devoted to God
Kai Hiwatari –name meaning: The Keeper
Kagen Hiwatari- name meaning: Savor
Voltaire Hiwatari- name meaning: Enlightenment
I just thought the name meanings were kind of cool (and Ironic) all things considered. ON to reviews
Chaseha-Wing: Hm, you have had a stop sign, a rifle, a bazooka and know a baseball bat, you aren't a weapons fan at all. You may want to keep that bat close however just a FYI. The next chapter is when I plan to have things . . . heat up again.
Suzanne: I am so mean to you making you wait even longer for the loving reunion between father and son Kon, but hopefully when it happens it will have been worth the wait.
Mimi 007: Yay! Better grammar! Hm, the comma thing is interesting to hear, because I use to use them to much to. Haha I am glad you love my cliff hangers, they are sometimes my favorite part of writing a chapter. *Laughs evilly* ahem where did that come from. I am afraid however Voltaire along with Boris and Leonid but hey you got to love me right? Also I am sorry I was so lazy last update, I think I did better this time, or at least I hope I did. Oh and by the way WHAT? Because you totally confused me with your last bit I am not even sure how to start with that one. Ummm anyways, hope you enjoyed.
Racerabbit: "If anything goes wrong" hm, I wonder is the crazy dude showing up counts? *smiles evilly* your right, poor Ray and Kai they can't catch a break can they. Hope you like it.
My Own Demise: Haha you know it is my job to make you hate me sometimes, but because this chapter is dedicated to you I really hope you liked it.
Well thanks all who are reading and reviewing,
GatewaysDiary