Kai's Bad Day [Chapter 10]
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esp_dragonFandom: Beyblade
Summary: Kai's day starts off bad. Then he finds out what Mary Sues really exist. How does he find out? Through... experience. If that wasn't bad enough, there are other effects that Mary Sues can do to warp reality. What's a blader to do? ...Use a Spork?
Rating: K+
Notes: Set after the first season
Genre: Parody/ Humour
Word count: 3,402
Status: Work in Progress
Shadows shifted as he walked past. They moved unnaturally and swirled when there was no light to change them. His cloak lightly brushed the stone floor, trailing behind him. The sounds of his footsteps echoed around him. Close. It was getting close.
"What do you want me to do?"
Black eyes fixed themselves onto darkening blue. He smirked.
:-:-:
"Kai." Daisuke rubbed his eyes with his fingers. "Do you even know how to find this person?"
The blue-haired blader glanced over his shoulder. "No. But I only have to wait until the next Mary Sue comes along and I'll find out from her."
Daisuke became amused. "Do you really think they'll tell you? Threaten them with a Spork all you want; they won't tell. The person is their creator after all - they'll have some loyalty at least."
"That last Sue -the one that said I'd raped her- she said that she didn't want the role that she had," Kai argued.
"But she still did it," Daisuke pointed out.
"Dranzer said that there was strong Sues and weak Sues," Kai mused. "Could they be stronger because they're more loyal?"
His companion shrugged. "The heck should I know?"
Scowling at him, Kai dug his hands into his pockets. Doing so reminded him that he had four beyblades in his trousers. His fingers brushed against paper. Pulling it out, he saw that it was the piece of paper that the last Sue had left.
"There's been something else that I've been wondering," Kai began.
"Oh?"
"Were you the one that killed Hikari?"
A blink and a confused look. "Who?"
"She was running and the last thing she said was 'stay away from me'."
Daisuke smiled as he understood. "Oh, her. Yeah, I'm the one that killed her."
Kai fiddled with the piece of paper. This one was slightly different from the other one he had 'received' but only because it was bigger and was folded. "When I killed Yunalesca there were no burn marks anywhere."
"Oh. That." He coughed embarrassedly. "I didn't use a Spork, that's why. I used my Dranzer's fire power to kill her."
Kai gave him a contemplative look. "Wouldn't a Spork be better?"
"Yeah well..." A shrug. "A Spork means you need to get close to them and if you do, their area of influence gets stronger the closer you get to them."
"Hmm, makes sense."
"Are you gonna open that or not? I wanna see what it says." Daisuke peered at the paper in Kai's hand.
Opening it, Kai did a double-take when he saw what was on it. He shot Daisuke a smirk.
"Whaat? Lemme see." Kai handed it over to him and watched his facial expressions change from disbelief to amusement whereupon he started to laugh loudly. "You've gotta be kiddin' me."
Bemusedly, Kai took the paper back. "What were you saying about Mary Sues having loyalty to their creator?"
Daisuke rolled his eyes. "Hey, I don't know everything - even though you think I do."
"Right."
Kai was flashed a grin. "Ya see? You agree with me."
Waving the paper, Kai ignored the statement. "Well?"
"Well what?"
Kai folded his arms. "Let's follow these directions."
:-:-:
"You know, I just thought of something," Daisuke said as they neared their destination.
"What?"
"What if that Mary Sue was being loyal and we're being shown into a trap?" he asked worriedly.
"We'll be able to handle them," Kai said confidently.
"Right. Sometimes 'handling' one Mary Sue is a problem - how are we going to manage a group of them?"
Kai shrugged. "We'll figure something out. We have Sporks and our Dranzers; we'll be fine."
Daisuke eyed him. "Tell me, have you ever used Dranzer's power?"
"No."
"Huh. Don't you think you need to?"
"From what's happened so far, I'd say that it's instinctual," Kai countered.
"Well, yeah. The thing is, you won't be used to the draining feeling that comes with it. What that means is that you'll use her power and could end up fainting because it was too much for you. That wouldn't be very helpful for me."
"So you think I should only use the Spork?"
Daisuke looked thoughtful before shrugging. "Why don't you go ask her?"
"Fine." 'Dranzer?'
-'Yes?'-
'Me and Daisuke are heading towards where the Mary Sue creator supposedly lives. Daisuke knows how to tap into his Dranzer's power and I haven't tried to yet - do you think I should attempt to use your power?'
Dranzer was quiet as she considered the question. -'No, I don't think you should; you don't have the practice or the energy to wield my power effectively. I'm sorry.'-
Kai shrugged. 'It's okay.'
-'I don't think you should go just yet,'- Dranzer said quietly.
'Why not?'
-'I don't think you're ready.'-
'So I should just wait around and gain experience while my friends are turned into those things?' Kai demanded.
He felt something brush his mind. -'That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if you aren't ready, you won't do your friends any good if you yourself are turned into a Gary Stu.'-
'And if I don't, they'll stay as Gary Stus for longer. Look at what happened to Daisuke.'
-'You don't know how long Daisuke was under for. He could have been influenced for months before it started to change him permanently,'- Dranzer protested.
'Could have been,' Kai repeated. 'We don't know that and I doubt he'll tell me if I asked. For all we know it only took a day for him to change.' Kai gritted his teeth. 'For all we know, they can't be changed back. That's why we need to do this as soon as we can.'
-'...Okay. I can't change your mind after you've made it up.'- A short pause. -'How do you feel about possession?'-
Kai jerked at the sudden question. 'Possession?' he echoed. 'Why are you asking?'
-'You don't know how to properly use my power; I do. If you allow me to, I can take over your body for a while. I'll only be able to do that if it's absolutely necessary though,'- Dranzer warned.
Kai smirked. 'So I have to be on the verge of death or something don't I?'
-'Basically. Your body can't properly contain my raw power efficiently so I could end up damaging your body after helping.'-
'Just a little smug aren't you?'
-'Oh shush,'- Dranzer chided gently. -'Is that okay?'-
'It's more than okay.' Kai focused back on Daisuke. "Dranzer doesn't want me to try and use her power." He refrained from mentioning what else had been said in the conversation.
Daisuke nodded. "I thought she would." He clapped his hands together. "Alrighty, shall we get going then?"
Checking that they were on the right track, Kai started to walk. There was no point in wondering what was going to happen. Whatever happened would happen - they could only prevent it.
:-:-:
Soon. It was going to happen soon. When it did...
He didn't know what would follow afterwards but he didn't care. It didn't matter. He could feel them coming. Feel him.
The preparations were set.
Now all he had to do was wait.
:-:-:
"You sure we're going on the right track?" Daisuke asked, glancing at the buildings. Kai had been living in Beycity for over over a year -ignoring the time spent touring around the world- and he was sure he had never seen the dilapidated structures that surrounded them before.
The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as he felt eyes follow him. A quick look at Daisuke confirmed he was feeling the same.
Consulting the directions, Kai turned left at the next corner. "We're getting close apparently."
"How close?"
They turned the corner.
Kai scowled while Daisuke began laughing out loud for the second time that day. "Hey, you don't by any chance have directions for that?"
Before them... was a castle.
:-:-:
Eyes blinked slowly as he felt their presence approach. That shadows swirled around his form as he leaned back into his chair. Lifting one hand, he watched the shadows as they slid over his skin. They were cool as they touched but that was the only response they gave.
He considered watching them as they entered but he decided against it. There had been a few attempts before -never had there been two though- but the result was always the same. It had been fun watching them fall and fail but these two were different.
Maybe they were different in the way that - no point thinking about it.
:-:-:
Padding across the floor, Kai and Daisuke kept silent to make sure that no one heard them coming in. Around them, candles flickered as they passed. The castle was traditional; it had the red carpet leading to the next room and it was built from stone. It even felt like there was no heating either.
The two came to a door. Pushing it open, the saw that there wasn't any kinds of lights on. After peering through the darkness, they shared a look. They hadn't passed any side-corridors so that had to mean that they had to go through that room. Obviously, they could have missed the hidden passages so maybe the room held traps?
Together, they pulled out their beyblades. In the very least, if or when they were launched, they would give off some light.
Letting the light from the corridor spill into the room, they walked in. Almost instantly, overhead lights snapped on momentarily blinding them. Blinking away the stars, Kai and Daisuke saw that there was a beyblading team in front of them. An all girls team for that matter.
Looking at them however, Kai found a little unnerving. It was like looking at a warped mirror. The team was a team of four with an additional member. The thing was, the girls were dressed just like the Bladebreakers. Not exactly though; the female Kai had green markings and the female Tyson was wearing her cap the right way round. But as the scruitinising continued, Kai could feel a faint feeling of wrongness permating from them.
It wasn't just that they looked like the Bladebreakers; their eyes were just a little too wide, their expressions a bit blank, as if there wasn't a thought in there. Their eyes also held a little bit of insanity in them.
Puppets. They looked like life-sized puppets.
They hadn't moved when Kai and Daisuke had entered. Were they even breathing?
"Do you think we can sneak past them?" Daisuke whispered to Kai.
Keeping his eyes on them, Kai nodded. They took one step towards them but stopped when the girls' eyes simultaneously blinked. The girls then "shook off" the semblance of puppets -though the eyes stayed the same- and started to approach them slowly.
"Lol. Whar r u doin her?" the female Ray asked.
Kai shook his head. Maybe that would clear it. He'd heard what had been said but it sounded strange to his ears. It made sense but at the same time, grated on his nerves.
"Oh, nothing much," Daisuke replied airily. "Do you mind if we go through?"
The female Kai shook her head and giggled. "Ur not allowed 2 gt pas uz Tats wath we wetre told"
"Lyke, omfg, wHt ShE sAiD," the female Tyson... shouted, or whatever.
Slipping one of his hands into his pocket, Kai said, "Are we going to have a beybattle?" Two against four. Those odds weren't good and considering what the other beybattles had been like... It was very likely that they were screwed.
"Hey, can I ask a question?" Daisuke asked as he waved his hand in the air.
"Waht?"
"Can you speak in English rather than net-speak?" Daisuke ignored the mystified look that Kai gave him.
A moments silence.
"No wai!"
"STFU!1!!!"
"N00b!"
"Lyke, omgshutup!!!on!e!!"
In that moment of distraction, Daisuke had pulled out Dranzer and launched her. Kai watched in interest as the beyblade glowed red but Dranzer didn't come out. The aura grew and and swirled until it resembled a flame. By the time the beyblade hit the first Mary Sue, the aura was at at least five times bigger than the beyblade. She didn't stand a chance and neither did the rest of them.
Eying the scorch marks as he passed them, Kai breathed a little sigh of relief. They didn't seem that hard to beat but the again, he didn't know how much power Daisuke had.
Catching up with Daisuke, they left the room.
:-:-:
More had gone.
He had felt their lives extinguish like flames in the darkness. Did that mean that they had enough power to defeat him?
If they did...
They were doomed.
:-:-:
"And behind door number two?" Daisuke pushed the door open. This time the room was lit by small candles but because they lined the walls, the room was still fairly dark.
When they walked into the room, the saw a figure sitting in the semi-darkness. They cautiously approached the person. Its head lifted when it heard their footsteps.
It was Tyson.
He looked almost exactly how he normally did except his clothing was darker than usual. Looking at them, Tyson grinned. It didn't reach his eyes and he was showing more teeth than usual.
"Hey Kai, it's been a while," he said, none of regular exuberance showing.
Kai watched him warily. "Yeah."
"So what are you doing here?"
Daisuke rolled his eyes before he answered for Kai. "You know why we're here so why do you people keep on asking?"
"I was just being polite," he said softly. The grin widened. Kai saw with a jolt that Tyson's teeth were a lot sharper than what they used to be.
Kai wasn't completely sure but he thought he could see several gold glowing things behind Tyson. They weren't like the wings that Ray had; they were like fireflies that dusted ground.
"Would you mind if we went through then?" Daisuke asked politely.
"Yeah actually, I would." Tyson crouched slightly as if preparing to leap. When he did however, the gold lights moved as well. As they jumped on the boy, Kai saw that the lights were the eyes of plotbunnies. Continuing to assault the boy, Kai watched as blood started to fly.
With a snarl, Tyson changed. Into a wolf. Except it didn't look exactly like one.
"He's a werewolf," Daisuke muttered to him.
The numbers were stacked against the blader. For every one that he killed, another one would instantly take its place.
"C'mon!" Daisuke grabbed Kai's wrist and started to pull him towards the exit. "Tyson'll be fine." When he saw that Kai was looking doubtful, he elaborated. "They're attacking him because he isn't listening to them. When he does, they'll at least stop attacking so badly. What'll happen then is that they'll start nipping his ankles. Hopefully by then, we'd have been able to get everything back to normal." They had left the room, leaving Tyson behind them. They could still hear the howls of rage and pain emitting from the room.
"Tyson has to listen to them? He isn't going to survive then."
"Heh. That's true. Guess that means we'd better hurry." A small pause. "And I told you plotbunnies were dangerous!"
:-:-:
They were getting closer. Closer than the rest had been able to; they were also doing it in half the time.
It looked as if they would have a chance to succeed.
Why did he want them to?
:-:-:
"You open it," Daisuke dared.
Kai threw Daisuke a shrewd look. "Why?"
Daisuke shrugged. "I opened the last one; it's your turn."
At this, Kai snorted. "Fine." The last two doors had to be opened by pushed but this door had a brass handle to pull on.
Opening the door, Kai instantly lept back as something slithered out of the crack. It was thick and black but moved faster than it should have. As it neared them, Kai amended his earlier though about it being thick - it was such a condensed fog that it almost looked solid.
When it reached the flickering circle of light the candles gave off, it stopped. Seeing this, Daisuke and Kai moved into the light. They didn't know what it was and what it did so it was better to be safe than sorry.
Circling around the light a few times, it retreated back through the door. Cautiously, they started towards the door again. This time, the shadow thing didn't appear. Pulling the door open even further, they paused. It was still in there and there wasn't any light in the room.
They were still deciding what to do when they heard a voice call out to them. "It's alright, they won't hurt you. You can come in." The voice was distinctly male, smooth and amused.
Glancing at each other, they still hesitated. Was this the Creator? Would they be walking straight into a trap?
"If you're worried about the shadows..." They retreated. Not Kai and Daisuke but the 'shadows'. Candles lit themselves along the wall. Pausing, they finally walked in slowly.
The room was just like the others but with a few minute differences: there was no exit except from where they were standing and there was some sort of throne in the middle of the room.
Standing beside the throne was a man. He was wearing a dark cloak that settled on the floor and the rest of him was mostly obscured by it. His hair was black, as were his eyes.
"Come to kill me?" he asked quietly.
Kai nodded sharply.
"And what do you think you'll achieve by doing that?"
"It would stop all that had been done."
"Really?" he said, amusement still tinting his works. "And you?" he asked, turning towards Daisuke.
Daisuke shrugged nonchalantly. "Hey, we stop you and your influences disappear. That's that."
"That's that," the Creator repeated quietly. "Just like your friends?"
Here, Daisuke flinched.
Seeing this reaction, Kai looked slowly back and forth between the two. What exactly did that comment mean? From what Daisuke had said before, it seemed like he didn't know who the Creator was but it seemed like they knew each other.
Maybe they did. Maybe Daisuke was another kind of Mary Sue and had lead him right into a trap. The other Mary Sues would have been distractions and that would explain how he was able to beat them so easily. They were being used as pawns to make sure Kai got to the right square.
"So why have you not told him what you did?" the Creator asked patronisingly. Daisuke shook slightly and his hands were clenched into fists. "Or would you rather I be the one?" he continued mockingly.
"Tell me what?" Kai said slowly, his voice low. Daisuke wasn't looking at him while the Creator was watching Kai. In response to this the Creator clapped his hands lazily.
"You haven't told him?" he exclaimed in feigned surprise. "Now, why ever would you do that?"
"I didn't see any point telling him," Daisuke hissed through clenched teeth. "We don't normally talk about our past and I doubt he would be interested in my sob story."
The Creator waved his hand dismissively. "Excuses, excuses. But now that Kai knows that you've kept something from him," -a sideways glance to him- "do you really think he'll let it go?"
Crossing his arms, Kai said, "We have our own secrets."
"Do you?" the Creator cut in. "If he," he nodded to Daisuke, "used to be you, then wouldn't he know everything that happened in your life?"
Kai didn't have an answer for this. It was true; Daisuke would have experienced 'Kai's' life up to a certain point. He blinked as another thought occurred to him. That could be inverted as well. If Daisuke knew a lot of Kai's past, then Kai would know the same of Daisuke's past. So what the Creator was hinting at much have happened after the Sues had come. It could also possibly explain how the Creator know whatever he was hinting towards.
Kai stopped himself from glaring at the Creator. He was trying to split them up. It had also nearly worked.
"I don't care," Kai said stubbornly.
The Creator laughed lightly. "You don't care?" he repeated. "So you don't care that he killed his other teammates?"
Summary: Kai's day starts off bad. Then he finds out what Mary Sues really exist. How does he find out? Through... experience. If that wasn't bad enough, there are other effects that Mary Sues can do to warp reality. What's a blader to do? ...Use a Spork?
Rating: K+
Notes: Set after the first season
Genre: Parody/ Humour
Word count: 3,402
Status: Work in Progress
Shadows shifted as he walked past. They moved unnaturally and swirled when there was no light to change them. His cloak lightly brushed the stone floor, trailing behind him. The sounds of his footsteps echoed around him. Close. It was getting close.
"What do you want me to do?"
Black eyes fixed themselves onto darkening blue. He smirked.
"Kai." Daisuke rubbed his eyes with his fingers. "Do you even know how to find this person?"
The blue-haired blader glanced over his shoulder. "No. But I only have to wait until the next Mary Sue comes along and I'll find out from her."
Daisuke became amused. "Do you really think they'll tell you? Threaten them with a Spork all you want; they won't tell. The person is their creator after all - they'll have some loyalty at least."
"That last Sue -the one that said I'd raped her- she said that she didn't want the role that she had," Kai argued.
"But she still did it," Daisuke pointed out.
"Dranzer said that there was strong Sues and weak Sues," Kai mused. "Could they be stronger because they're more loyal?"
His companion shrugged. "The heck should I know?"
Scowling at him, Kai dug his hands into his pockets. Doing so reminded him that he had four beyblades in his trousers. His fingers brushed against paper. Pulling it out, he saw that it was the piece of paper that the last Sue had left.
"There's been something else that I've been wondering," Kai began.
"Oh?"
"Were you the one that killed Hikari?"
A blink and a confused look. "Who?"
"She was running and the last thing she said was 'stay away from me'."
Daisuke smiled as he understood. "Oh, her. Yeah, I'm the one that killed her."
Kai fiddled with the piece of paper. This one was slightly different from the other one he had 'received' but only because it was bigger and was folded. "When I killed Yunalesca there were no burn marks anywhere."
"Oh. That." He coughed embarrassedly. "I didn't use a Spork, that's why. I used my Dranzer's fire power to kill her."
Kai gave him a contemplative look. "Wouldn't a Spork be better?"
"Yeah well..." A shrug. "A Spork means you need to get close to them and if you do, their area of influence gets stronger the closer you get to them."
"Hmm, makes sense."
"Are you gonna open that or not? I wanna see what it says." Daisuke peered at the paper in Kai's hand.
Opening it, Kai did a double-take when he saw what was on it. He shot Daisuke a smirk.
"Whaat? Lemme see." Kai handed it over to him and watched his facial expressions change from disbelief to amusement whereupon he started to laugh loudly. "You've gotta be kiddin' me."
Bemusedly, Kai took the paper back. "What were you saying about Mary Sues having loyalty to their creator?"
Daisuke rolled his eyes. "Hey, I don't know everything - even though you think I do."
"Right."
Kai was flashed a grin. "Ya see? You agree with me."
Waving the paper, Kai ignored the statement. "Well?"
"Well what?"
Kai folded his arms. "Let's follow these directions."
"You know, I just thought of something," Daisuke said as they neared their destination.
"What?"
"What if that Mary Sue was being loyal and we're being shown into a trap?" he asked worriedly.
"We'll be able to handle them," Kai said confidently.
"Right. Sometimes 'handling' one Mary Sue is a problem - how are we going to manage a group of them?"
Kai shrugged. "We'll figure something out. We have Sporks and our Dranzers; we'll be fine."
Daisuke eyed him. "Tell me, have you ever used Dranzer's power?"
"No."
"Huh. Don't you think you need to?"
"From what's happened so far, I'd say that it's instinctual," Kai countered.
"Well, yeah. The thing is, you won't be used to the draining feeling that comes with it. What that means is that you'll use her power and could end up fainting because it was too much for you. That wouldn't be very helpful for me."
"So you think I should only use the Spork?"
Daisuke looked thoughtful before shrugging. "Why don't you go ask her?"
"Fine." 'Dranzer?'
-'Yes?'-
'Me and Daisuke are heading towards where the Mary Sue creator supposedly lives. Daisuke knows how to tap into his Dranzer's power and I haven't tried to yet - do you think I should attempt to use your power?'
Dranzer was quiet as she considered the question. -'No, I don't think you should; you don't have the practice or the energy to wield my power effectively. I'm sorry.'-
Kai shrugged. 'It's okay.'
-'I don't think you should go just yet,'- Dranzer said quietly.
'Why not?'
-'I don't think you're ready.'-
'So I should just wait around and gain experience while my friends are turned into those things?' Kai demanded.
He felt something brush his mind. -'That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if you aren't ready, you won't do your friends any good if you yourself are turned into a Gary Stu.'-
'And if I don't, they'll stay as Gary Stus for longer. Look at what happened to Daisuke.'
-'You don't know how long Daisuke was under for. He could have been influenced for months before it started to change him permanently,'- Dranzer protested.
'Could have been,' Kai repeated. 'We don't know that and I doubt he'll tell me if I asked. For all we know it only took a day for him to change.' Kai gritted his teeth. 'For all we know, they can't be changed back. That's why we need to do this as soon as we can.'
-'...Okay. I can't change your mind after you've made it up.'- A short pause. -'How do you feel about possession?'-
Kai jerked at the sudden question. 'Possession?' he echoed. 'Why are you asking?'
-'You don't know how to properly use my power; I do. If you allow me to, I can take over your body for a while. I'll only be able to do that if it's absolutely necessary though,'- Dranzer warned.
Kai smirked. 'So I have to be on the verge of death or something don't I?'
-'Basically. Your body can't properly contain my raw power efficiently so I could end up damaging your body after helping.'-
'Just a little smug aren't you?'
-'Oh shush,'- Dranzer chided gently. -'Is that okay?'-
'It's more than okay.' Kai focused back on Daisuke. "Dranzer doesn't want me to try and use her power." He refrained from mentioning what else had been said in the conversation.
Daisuke nodded. "I thought she would." He clapped his hands together. "Alrighty, shall we get going then?"
Checking that they were on the right track, Kai started to walk. There was no point in wondering what was going to happen. Whatever happened would happen - they could only prevent it.
Soon. It was going to happen soon. When it did...
He didn't know what would follow afterwards but he didn't care. It didn't matter. He could feel them coming. Feel him.
The preparations were set.
Now all he had to do was wait.
:-:-:
"You sure we're going on the right track?" Daisuke asked, glancing at the buildings. Kai had been living in Beycity for over over a year -ignoring the time spent touring around the world- and he was sure he had never seen the dilapidated structures that surrounded them before.
The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as he felt eyes follow him. A quick look at Daisuke confirmed he was feeling the same.
Consulting the directions, Kai turned left at the next corner. "We're getting close apparently."
"How close?"
They turned the corner.
Kai scowled while Daisuke began laughing out loud for the second time that day. "Hey, you don't by any chance have directions for that?"
Before them... was a castle.
Eyes blinked slowly as he felt their presence approach. That shadows swirled around his form as he leaned back into his chair. Lifting one hand, he watched the shadows as they slid over his skin. They were cool as they touched but that was the only response they gave.
He considered watching them as they entered but he decided against it. There had been a few attempts before -never had there been two though- but the result was always the same. It had been fun watching them fall and fail but these two were different.
Maybe they were different in the way that - no point thinking about it.
Padding across the floor, Kai and Daisuke kept silent to make sure that no one heard them coming in. Around them, candles flickered as they passed. The castle was traditional; it had the red carpet leading to the next room and it was built from stone. It even felt like there was no heating either.
The two came to a door. Pushing it open, the saw that there wasn't any kinds of lights on. After peering through the darkness, they shared a look. They hadn't passed any side-corridors so that had to mean that they had to go through that room. Obviously, they could have missed the hidden passages so maybe the room held traps?
Together, they pulled out their beyblades. In the very least, if or when they were launched, they would give off some light.
Letting the light from the corridor spill into the room, they walked in. Almost instantly, overhead lights snapped on momentarily blinding them. Blinking away the stars, Kai and Daisuke saw that there was a beyblading team in front of them. An all girls team for that matter.
Looking at them however, Kai found a little unnerving. It was like looking at a warped mirror. The team was a team of four with an additional member. The thing was, the girls were dressed just like the Bladebreakers. Not exactly though; the female Kai had green markings and the female Tyson was wearing her cap the right way round. But as the scruitinising continued, Kai could feel a faint feeling of wrongness permating from them.
It wasn't just that they looked like the Bladebreakers; their eyes were just a little too wide, their expressions a bit blank, as if there wasn't a thought in there. Their eyes also held a little bit of insanity in them.
Puppets. They looked like life-sized puppets.
They hadn't moved when Kai and Daisuke had entered. Were they even breathing?
"Do you think we can sneak past them?" Daisuke whispered to Kai.
Keeping his eyes on them, Kai nodded. They took one step towards them but stopped when the girls' eyes simultaneously blinked. The girls then "shook off" the semblance of puppets -though the eyes stayed the same- and started to approach them slowly.
"Lol. Whar r u doin her?" the female Ray asked.
Kai shook his head. Maybe that would clear it. He'd heard what had been said but it sounded strange to his ears. It made sense but at the same time, grated on his nerves.
"Oh, nothing much," Daisuke replied airily. "Do you mind if we go through?"
The female Kai shook her head and giggled. "Ur not allowed 2 gt pas uz Tats wath we wetre told"
"Lyke, omfg, wHt ShE sAiD," the female Tyson... shouted, or whatever.
Slipping one of his hands into his pocket, Kai said, "Are we going to have a beybattle?" Two against four. Those odds weren't good and considering what the other beybattles had been like... It was very likely that they were screwed.
"Hey, can I ask a question?" Daisuke asked as he waved his hand in the air.
"Waht?"
"Can you speak in English rather than net-speak?" Daisuke ignored the mystified look that Kai gave him.
A moments silence.
"No wai!"
"STFU!1!!!"
"N00b!"
"Lyke, omgshutup!!!on!e!!"
In that moment of distraction, Daisuke had pulled out Dranzer and launched her. Kai watched in interest as the beyblade glowed red but Dranzer didn't come out. The aura grew and and swirled until it resembled a flame. By the time the beyblade hit the first Mary Sue, the aura was at at least five times bigger than the beyblade. She didn't stand a chance and neither did the rest of them.
Eying the scorch marks as he passed them, Kai breathed a little sigh of relief. They didn't seem that hard to beat but the again, he didn't know how much power Daisuke had.
Catching up with Daisuke, they left the room.
More had gone.
He had felt their lives extinguish like flames in the darkness. Did that mean that they had enough power to defeat him?
If they did...
They were doomed.
"And behind door number two?" Daisuke pushed the door open. This time the room was lit by small candles but because they lined the walls, the room was still fairly dark.
When they walked into the room, the saw a figure sitting in the semi-darkness. They cautiously approached the person. Its head lifted when it heard their footsteps.
It was Tyson.
He looked almost exactly how he normally did except his clothing was darker than usual. Looking at them, Tyson grinned. It didn't reach his eyes and he was showing more teeth than usual.
"Hey Kai, it's been a while," he said, none of regular exuberance showing.
Kai watched him warily. "Yeah."
"So what are you doing here?"
Daisuke rolled his eyes before he answered for Kai. "You know why we're here so why do you people keep on asking?"
"I was just being polite," he said softly. The grin widened. Kai saw with a jolt that Tyson's teeth were a lot sharper than what they used to be.
Kai wasn't completely sure but he thought he could see several gold glowing things behind Tyson. They weren't like the wings that Ray had; they were like fireflies that dusted ground.
"Would you mind if we went through then?" Daisuke asked politely.
"Yeah actually, I would." Tyson crouched slightly as if preparing to leap. When he did however, the gold lights moved as well. As they jumped on the boy, Kai saw that the lights were the eyes of plotbunnies. Continuing to assault the boy, Kai watched as blood started to fly.
With a snarl, Tyson changed. Into a wolf. Except it didn't look exactly like one.
"He's a werewolf," Daisuke muttered to him.
The numbers were stacked against the blader. For every one that he killed, another one would instantly take its place.
"C'mon!" Daisuke grabbed Kai's wrist and started to pull him towards the exit. "Tyson'll be fine." When he saw that Kai was looking doubtful, he elaborated. "They're attacking him because he isn't listening to them. When he does, they'll at least stop attacking so badly. What'll happen then is that they'll start nipping his ankles. Hopefully by then, we'd have been able to get everything back to normal." They had left the room, leaving Tyson behind them. They could still hear the howls of rage and pain emitting from the room.
"Tyson has to listen to them? He isn't going to survive then."
"Heh. That's true. Guess that means we'd better hurry." A small pause. "And I told you plotbunnies were dangerous!"
They were getting closer. Closer than the rest had been able to; they were also doing it in half the time.
It looked as if they would have a chance to succeed.
Why did he want them to?
"You open it," Daisuke dared.
Kai threw Daisuke a shrewd look. "Why?"
Daisuke shrugged. "I opened the last one; it's your turn."
At this, Kai snorted. "Fine." The last two doors had to be opened by pushed but this door had a brass handle to pull on.
Opening the door, Kai instantly lept back as something slithered out of the crack. It was thick and black but moved faster than it should have. As it neared them, Kai amended his earlier though about it being thick - it was such a condensed fog that it almost looked solid.
When it reached the flickering circle of light the candles gave off, it stopped. Seeing this, Daisuke and Kai moved into the light. They didn't know what it was and what it did so it was better to be safe than sorry.
Circling around the light a few times, it retreated back through the door. Cautiously, they started towards the door again. This time, the shadow thing didn't appear. Pulling the door open even further, they paused. It was still in there and there wasn't any light in the room.
They were still deciding what to do when they heard a voice call out to them. "It's alright, they won't hurt you. You can come in." The voice was distinctly male, smooth and amused.
Glancing at each other, they still hesitated. Was this the Creator? Would they be walking straight into a trap?
"If you're worried about the shadows..." They retreated. Not Kai and Daisuke but the 'shadows'. Candles lit themselves along the wall. Pausing, they finally walked in slowly.
The room was just like the others but with a few minute differences: there was no exit except from where they were standing and there was some sort of throne in the middle of the room.
Standing beside the throne was a man. He was wearing a dark cloak that settled on the floor and the rest of him was mostly obscured by it. His hair was black, as were his eyes.
"Come to kill me?" he asked quietly.
Kai nodded sharply.
"And what do you think you'll achieve by doing that?"
"It would stop all that had been done."
"Really?" he said, amusement still tinting his works. "And you?" he asked, turning towards Daisuke.
Daisuke shrugged nonchalantly. "Hey, we stop you and your influences disappear. That's that."
"That's that," the Creator repeated quietly. "Just like your friends?"
Here, Daisuke flinched.
Seeing this reaction, Kai looked slowly back and forth between the two. What exactly did that comment mean? From what Daisuke had said before, it seemed like he didn't know who the Creator was but it seemed like they knew each other.
Maybe they did. Maybe Daisuke was another kind of Mary Sue and had lead him right into a trap. The other Mary Sues would have been distractions and that would explain how he was able to beat them so easily. They were being used as pawns to make sure Kai got to the right square.
"So why have you not told him what you did?" the Creator asked patronisingly. Daisuke shook slightly and his hands were clenched into fists. "Or would you rather I be the one?" he continued mockingly.
"Tell me what?" Kai said slowly, his voice low. Daisuke wasn't looking at him while the Creator was watching Kai. In response to this the Creator clapped his hands lazily.
"You haven't told him?" he exclaimed in feigned surprise. "Now, why ever would you do that?"
"I didn't see any point telling him," Daisuke hissed through clenched teeth. "We don't normally talk about our past and I doubt he would be interested in my sob story."
The Creator waved his hand dismissively. "Excuses, excuses. But now that Kai knows that you've kept something from him," -a sideways glance to him- "do you really think he'll let it go?"
Crossing his arms, Kai said, "We have our own secrets."
"Do you?" the Creator cut in. "If he," he nodded to Daisuke, "used to be you, then wouldn't he know everything that happened in your life?"
Kai didn't have an answer for this. It was true; Daisuke would have experienced 'Kai's' life up to a certain point. He blinked as another thought occurred to him. That could be inverted as well. If Daisuke knew a lot of Kai's past, then Kai would know the same of Daisuke's past. So what the Creator was hinting at much have happened after the Sues had come. It could also possibly explain how the Creator know whatever he was hinting towards.
Kai stopped himself from glaring at the Creator. He was trying to split them up. It had also nearly worked.
"I don't care," Kai said stubbornly.
The Creator laughed lightly. "You don't care?" he repeated. "So you don't care that he killed his other teammates?"