The next morning he woke up and looked around the room. He sat up slightly and looked at Charlie. She was asleep, but she hadn't moved, her color hadn't improved and she was still freezing cold. He sighed, got up and covered her with the blanket again. He walked over to his table and sat down at the chair. He began to eat some food when she moved a little. He put his coffee mug down and walked over to her. He knelt down next to the bed and took her hand.
"Good morning." He smiled at her.
She smiled faintly back and then he saw a red light flashing under her pale skin, in her wrist, like an embedded glow.
"What the hell…" he said, taking her hand and looking at it flashing under her skin. She pointed at it with her other hand and said in a soft whisper.
"It's a GPS." She managed to say.
He thought he had heard wrong.
"A what?" he asked her to repeat it.
She breathed in deeply and said again.
"G…P…S." she breathed.
After a silent minute, he heard something, choppers and fighter jets. He heard the footfalls for guards running past the room. There was an understated urgency in the guard's voices and then his suspicions were confirmed. The security alarm had been set off and all the guards were running to the main exit. He looked at her and she smiled.
"Alex." She smiled at him.
Everyone was screaming for him to come defend the building, the lab, the research, but he didn't want to. He wanted to get in one of those choppers and never see Russia again. Tala pushed his door open and he saw him kneeling at his bed.
"What are you doing, we need you up there." Tala said, running out after the guards. Kai got up and looked at her. She was too weak to go anywhere. He would get to Alex, and lead her here. She would get her out. He ran out, leaving the door open. He ran after the guards, he was one of the last ones running up. Halfway up the stairs, Kai stopped. The last of the guards were bumping into him as they ran past. A bomb went off outside but he barely flinched, he was thinking about the consequences of his next actions. He didn't know what Alex looked like, and she didn't know who he was, or that he was on their side, the good side. He turned and went back down to his cell.
She lay in the bed and she heard the fighting, the bombs, the screaming, and metal bending and shattering under the sharp edges of beyblades. She heard someone at the door. She lifted her head and saw Kai's silhouette and it brought back memories of the first time she saw him, standing in the alleyway, with the sun behind him, just his silhouette for her to see. She smiled and he came in. He lifted her up out of the bed and into his arms. She positioned her head on his chest and he hugged her close.
"Come on, we're going home." He said carrying her out.
He carried her slowly towards the stairs. He stopped and looked at her just as they got to the entrance. They were walking into the heat of battle, unarmed. If they saw her in his arms and decided to sharp shoot him, this would be the last seconds he had spent with her.
"Whatever happens next, I will always be with you." He said, kissing her on her glacial forehead.
She nodded and he took a deep breath. He took the first step up into the open.
As he reached the top of the stairs, she saw that Boris' team was putting up a good fight. Although the other team had guns and grenades, the beyblades were going toe to toe with them. Kai walked towards the French army and the choppers. The soldiers fighting against the beyblades saw Charlie in his arms and ran to her, whisking her from Kai's arms. Kai watched as the soldier took her and he decided to walk back towards the Russians. He turned and began walking away from her. She would never forgive him; all that was left for him now was Biovault. When she saw he was walking towards Tala and the others, she reached out for him from the arms of a soldier. She breathed hard and filled her lungs.
"NO, KAI!" she shouted for him.
He turned slowly and saw her hands grappling for him and he smiled. He walked up to her and took her back into his arms. He walked with a guard covering him and her towards the choppers. Then all of a sudden, the shooting stopped, the beyblades spun silently on the ground as a strange rumbling sound filled the air.
"What is that? An earthquake?" the soldier asked Kai.
Kai shook his head and looked towards the building. Then the ground began to shake, then more and eventually, the snow began to melt and the ground glowed red. Then the glow filled the air, a red, furious glow.
"Dranzer…" Kai said to himself.
He looked at the soldier and shouted at him to retreat. The others heard and just as they moved back, the ground gave way and exploded up into the air. The red phoenix burst through the ground and attacked the Russian beyblades. As the inexperienced bladers saw her fury, they ran back into the building, probably hiding just inside, waiting for her to leave, Kai thought. She landed on the crushed snowy ground and looked at the French army. Her eyes were glowing red and her anger emanated through her feathers like flames. She turned to face Kai and Charlie. She flapped her wings and took off, flying just above the ground, towards them. The soldiers moved back from Kai and Charlotte. Kai watched as she landed in front of them. Charlie reached out and touched her soft feathery chest. The guards rushed up behind them and pushed their way between Charlie and the Phoenix. She flapped her wings in defiance and Charlie reached out for one of the soldiers.
"Please move aside. She's a friend." Kai said to them.
They looked at each other and then moved aside and Dranzer walked back up to Charlotte. Kai put her down on the ground and she looked up at Dranzer.
"Thank you, my friend." She whispered to her.
Dranzer dipped her head and laid it in Charlotte's hands. The red phoenix suddenly began to cry. The silvery tears ran out her eyes, down her beak and into Charlotte's hands. As soon as the tears touched her frozen skin, the skin began to turn peachy again. The color traveled up her arms and she looked at Kai for an explanation. As the color reached her eyes, they lightened to their usual chocolate brown color and he smiled. She was back to normal.
"Phoenix tears, of course. They heal any wound, even to the soul." He said, kneeling beside her.
As he watched her white hair became its normal, rich brown that caught his attention all those weeks ago. He saw reason come back to her eyes. She looked at her wet hands and looked up at him.
"Then why is your heart still breaking." she whispered. He didn't know exactly what she meant; she didn't know about his past, did she? She must, what else would she be talking about, he thought.
"It broke when your dad left, it broke when your mom died, it broke when you figured out what your grandfather had in mind for you and it broke when I was taken from you." she said to him.
The soldiers around them left them for a private moment as he was shocked. She knew. Everything. Someone must have told her.
"It's time your broken heart was healed." She said as he stopped in his tracks.
Everything that had happened. She knew that his heart was always breaking. She reached out and touched his chest. Suddenly, calmness fell around him, like he was in a bubble. He felt the warmth travel from her hand to his heart. It wrapped around his heart and just as easily as the pain had been caused, for as long as he had carried it around with him, it was gone. The pain in his heart was gone. Dranzer moved her head over his and a tear drop fell onto his head. The painful memories and feelings that had haunted him for 20 years melted away and he felt peaceful for the first time in his life. He closed his eyes and sighed as the last of the pain melted away. He felt his own tear roll down his cheek. It was over.
He opened his eyes to see her lying at his feet. That was it. The pain was gone, thanks to her. He smiled, bent over and hugged her tightly to his chest. He helped her up onto her feet.
"You ok?" he asked her, holding her by her waist.
"Yeah, now, shall we?" she smiled at him.
He smiled, reached into his pocket and took out Black Dranzer; he loaded her into his launcher and launched it. He looked at Dranzer spinning near his feet and looked at Charlie. She was ready for her first major battle.
Then out from behind them, and huge, white Snow Leopard with spots that resembled peacock feathers on its hide, appeared. He had never seen this bitbeast before; it could only have been one of Boris' bladers.
"Take it out!" Kai commanded Black Dranzer, then Charlie put her hand on his shoulder.
"No wait, it's Bellona." She said.
He stopped his bitbeast and they saw that this new bitbeast was facing the Russians. Kai looked to the side and saw that his team was getting out of a chopper. Before they had even touched the ground, their beyblades were spinning alongside his. They all walked up beside him and said nothing; they knew what was needed of them. Then they noticed the new bitbeast.
"Whose beyblade is that?" Max asked Kai.
"Alex, my sister's. If Bellona's here, then she's not too far off." Charlie said to Max.
"Well, we can't wait any longer, here they come." Kai said, as the Russians flooded out onto the churned up ground and snow.
They launched their blades and came right at them. The five of them attacked the Russians with all they could, and Bellona joined in, ripping at everyone that came close. Boris came out and saw the huge snow leopard fighting off some of his best.
"Can't be!" he shouted as Spencer's beyblade flew past his head in shards.
Bellona looked at him and growled. Boris stepped back and realized he was out-ranked. He turned and ran to the back of the building and retreated to one of his choppers and started it up. He just had to wait for the scientists and Tala, everything else was lost here. Bellona saw the chopper starting up and began running towards it, then she stopped suddenly. She growled at him, flashing her white teeth.
"Calm down, Bellona, we've achieved our goal." A blonde woman said, getting out of her chopper.
They all looked back to see Alex getting out of the chopper, the rotors of the chopper whipping up her loose golden hair. Ray felt his heart skip.
"Sorry I'm late, but hey, you know chopper pilots." She said to Charlie and the others.
"Alex!" Charlie shouted and stumbled towards her sister.
They hugged and the shorter blonde girl said to her sister while holding her face in her hands.
"Why is it I always have to save you?" she smiled at her.
"Guess I'm lucky like that." Charlie smiled back.
She walked past Charlie and came and stood between Kai and Ray.
"You must be Kai. Pleased to meet you. Now, who is going down?" Alex asked him.
"Ah, everyone whose not standing with us." Kai said.
"Ah, I see…" she said, scanning the playing field. She pin pointed Tala and pointed at him.
"You're going down red head!" she shouted at him.
He stepped back and looked around. The chopper was up and running. He turned and ran for it.
"Guess not." Alex said, ripping into other beyblades.
By the time Tala reached the chopper, it was all over and the French guards were arresting the Russians. He stopped and looked at Charlie, who had fallen to her knees behind Kai. He looked at her and smiled, before jumping into the chopper. It lifted off the ground and flew off into a snow storm around its rotors.
They all called their blades back and watched as it flew away. Charlie touched Kai's leg and he looked back at her. He turned quickly, seeing her laying on the ground and knelt next to her. He pulled her onto his lap. She laid her head against his chest and heard his heart beating against his ribs.
"Still tired?" he asked.
"Yes…" she whispered.
He picked her up and carried her to the chopper.
"Hi, I'm Ray." Ray said to Alex.
"That was some pretty good moves. Alex is it?" he asked as they followed Kai.
"Alexandra to you. Not to bad yourself, Ray." She smiled her paralyzing white smile at him and he felt his heart stop.
She got in and sat next to Kai holding Charlie. Charlie looked up at her and smiled.
"Alex, be nice to Kai. He's important." She said, taking a line out of their favorite movie.
"Will do, just get some rest." She said back. Then Alex looked at Kai.
"You're in safe hands now." She smiled.
Kai smiled back and looked down at Charlie. He moved some hair out of her face as she fell asleep.
"So, how the hell did this happen?" Tyson asked Kai.
Kai sighed and laughed. He relayed the whole story as they flew back to France.