In his cell, Kai was waking up from the drugs. He was tired despite being out for how many hours. He got up and stumbled to the door. It was locked from the outside. It dawned on him that he might not get out of this one. He looked for something to lever the door open and his eyes came across something on the table. It was his old blade, Black Dranzer. Boris must have left there. Just being in its presence, he felt the surge of power from her hit him. He reached out for it, but caught himself. He pulled back his hand.
"Damn it." He said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out Dranzer.
He backed up and launched her as quietly as possible. He aimed all her power at the door. She slammed into the door and span in place for a few seconds. Flames rose up out of her and filled the room. Kai covered his face and waited for the heat to die down. It went dark and became cold again. He opened his eyes. Everything was still the same. The room was probably fire proof. Tala peeped through the metal bars.
"If you're ready to see what the deal is, you can come out." He said, unlocking the door.
"Bring Black Dranzer with you." Tala ordered.
He grabbed the damn blade as the door creaked open and Kai walked into the light. Kai looked at Tala. At one time he had considered him almost a friend and now, he was holding him and his girlfriend captive.
"If you try to run, I'll shoot her myself." Tala said, walking off. "Follow me please." He said, as he rounded the corner.
"Don't play with me Tala. I know you won't hurt her. Not after the way you were looking at her yesterday. You want her." Kai said as he walked after him.
"You know me so well." Tala smiled back at Kai. "I do. And if you run, she will be mine. And you won't be able to get her back from me. That I can guarantee you." He said as they came to a metal door.
Tala opened it and walked through. Kai followed him. As he walked in, he saw that Charlie was cuffed to a huge metal ring. Boris was in the room too. There were wires all over the floor and all of them between a beyblade dish and the metal ring Charlie was in.
"What is this?" Kai shouted at Boris.
"My leverage." Boris smiled as Tala pushed Kai into a sealed off part of the room, around the ring and the bowl.
"You know Kai, the world thinks you kidnapped a Princess of France." He said, taking Black Dranzer from Tala who had lifted it off Kai. "They're looking for you."
"What is your damn plan, Boris?" Kai shouted at him.
Boris smiled and held out Black Dranzer. Kai looked at it and felt the power pulsing through his veins, more with every heartbeat. It was velvet covered wrecking ball, the silver fang of a venomous snake. He felt his will wavering with the sweet feeling of supremacy playing in his head. Boris smiled when he saw the look on Kai's face. The same look he had when he first touched Black Dranzer all those years ago. He looked over at Tala, who was standing next to the ring that Charlie was cuffed to. He nodded back and touched her face. She awoke quickly. She was tired and had fallen asleep. She looked around and saw Kai.
"Kai, you're okay." She shouted at him.
He didn't answer. He was too preoccupied with his new blade. Boris nodded to Tala. He walked over to the wall and put his hand on the huge metal switch.
"Kai, this dish and ring are rigged up to the building's power supply. When Tala flips that switch, the circuit will be complete and 100 000 volts will run through that ring." Boris explained. Kai looked up and saw that Charlie was awake.
"Through her." Boris pointed at her.
"What, but she'll…" Kai said, looking at Charlie, Tala, and then Boris.
"That's right. She'll die, the only way to break the circuit, is by blading with Black Dranzer in this dish. Every time it stops, the electricity will flow again." He smiled sadistically at Kai and looked at Tala.
Tala nodded back and flipped the switch. The lights flickered and dimmed. The hum of electricity filled the room and before he could scream for him to stop, Charlie was shaking violently in the ring. His mind went blank, and then he realized in a split second what he should do. Without thinking of the consequences, he looked at Boris, who had thrown Black Dranzer into the air and was coming down in Kai's direction. He jumped up into the air, grabbed it. He loaded it into his launcher and before he even landed on the ground, it was spinning in the dish. He fell back to earth and landed on his feet. He looked down and realized that it was all over. The power emanating from Black Dranzer was calling to him, this was going make or break him, and he had a sinking feeling in his stomach it would break him, or at least the person he thought he was. The hum stopped and he looked up at the ring. Charlie was sweating and breathing heavily. He sighed, she was okay and alive. He stood up and looked at Boris, who smiled at him.
"Welcome to the team Kai." He said to him, closing the door to the Perspex chamber.
"This game isn't over yet." Kai said to him. He was trying to convince himself. "How long must this go on for?" Kai asked him, looking at Charlie. She looked tired and he guessed she couldn't take another shock without…damage, he thought.
"As long as it takes." Boris added. Kai looked at him and snarled.
"As long as what takes?" he shouted back.
"For you to sign the contract." Tala said to him, holding a clipboard.
"Never!" Kai shouted at him.
"Suit yourself; just remember you can't blade forever." Tala said. They turned and walked out.
"Watch me." He said, walking over to Charlie. He looked up at her and touched her face.
"I'm so sorry for dragging you into my past." He said.
"It's…okay." She wheezed.
He looked at the ring. It was simple metal. He knew Black Dranzer could cut through metal. He commanded it and Black Dranzer flew at the cuffs, sending sparks flying in all directions. He ordered it back before the current started up again and looked at the cuff and there wasn't even a little scratch.
"Black Dranzer proof. Clever, Boris." He said, sitting on the ground. She watched him for a while as he sat and meditated quietly in front of her.
"Can you feel the power? What's it like?" she asked him.
"Sorry?" he asked. He hadn't heard her. He was trying not to let the power get into his head.
"Is it strong?" she asked, looking at Black Dranzer spinning silently in the center of the dish like an assassin.
"Yes." He replied, looking at it spinning in the center of the dish.
"It's been spinning for ten minutes, aren't you getting tired yet?" she asked him. He shook his head.
"I have a lot in me. I can go for hours." He replied, "I must just not allow it to get inside my head, or its game over…" he looked up at her. "For me anyway." He smiled at her. She mustered her best smile for him. He looked at the blade.
"Why did you say it nearly killed you last time?" she asked him.
"I nearly sank to the bottom of a frozen lake, all because of it and what it had done to my head. I thought I was invincible, but I wasn't." He sighed.
"Oh." She said to him. A few tense minutes passed and she broke the silence eventually.
"You know, if you show no interest in me, they'll probably see that this is futile and let me go, and then I can go get help. I'll come back for you. Promise." She said.
"That won't work. They know that I care for you and that I am very much interested in you. They'll never let you go. They'll probably…" he stopped.
She was a princess. He had almost forgotten. She knew nothing of the kind of people they were dealing with, what they were capable of. That they had killed people before.
"I know." She said. He looked up at her. "I know I seem like I know nothing, but when I look at how they think, what lengths they would go to, to get to you. They will probably… kill, me, when I'm of no use to them anymore." She hung her head.
"I won't let them. I'll find a way to stop them. I promise." He said, watching her tear drops fall on the ground in front of her.
She was so delicate. She couldn't survive here for long, not like him. He stood up and wiped away her tears. He had to come up with a way to save her. His mind set in motion, figuring out a way.
After a few hours of keeping the blade spinning, he felt himself slipping towards the seduction of the pure, unbridled power. He felt himself getting addicted to the increasing power of Black Dranzer, being drawn into her ambush like an ant into an Ant Lion's trap. He stood up and looked at Charlie. He reached into his pocket and pulled out Dranzer. He pushed it into her pocket.
"What are you doing?" she asked him. He sighed and looked up at her.
"It's too late… she has me." He said, looking over his shoulder at it. "It's game over for me. Please remember me as I was in the park. I can feel myself… slipping." He said, looking down. "There is no telling who I will be tomorrow." He said. He looked up at her one last time.
"Get out. At all costs, get out. Dranzer will help you." He said. He took the blade out of her pocket and looked at it.
"Dranzer, look after her. She is your new owner. Protect her with your life." He said. A tear rolled down his check and landed on the blade. She glowed red for a second and stopped. He stuffed it back into her pocket and leaned up to kiss her. His kiss was weak and feeble. She felt his control… die. She had lost him. He broke the kiss and walk up to the Perspex wall.
"OKAY!" he shouted. He turned to her and she saw nothing behind his eyes. The kai she knew was gone. His handsome face was still there, but his soul wasn't. Black Dranzer must be very powerful, she thought, Just a few seconds ago, he was her Kai, now, he was Boris and Voltaire's.
"I'm sorry." He said before turning to face the door.
She looked away from him, and felt a tear roll down her face. It was like watching your boyfriend get killed in front of you, but still seeing him walking around, and talking. It killed her.
"Okay Boris, you win, now uncuff her and bring the contract." He shouted. A few seconds later, Boris and a guard walked through the door. A guard entered the Perspex room, walked up to the switch and flipped the switch back up. Kai called Black Dranzer back. He caught it with the grace of an eagle. The guard uncuffed her and she fell forward, and her feet landed on the floor. A guard caught her, steadied her on her feet and carried her off. She turned back to see Kai signing the contract. He looked mournfully at her, and then back at Boris, who laid a hand on his shoulder and smiled.
"NO KAI!" she shouted back at him.
She made to get away but the guard was too strong and she was weak. He threw her over his shoulder and carried her off to a cell. The door creaked opened and she was thrown in. She landed on the cold hard floor and she felt some of her bones creak. She turned over and slammed her fist into the floor, if somewhat feebly.