Kai's Bad Day [Chapter 11]

[esp_dragon]

Fandom: 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: T
Notes: Set after the first season
Genre: Parody/ Humour
Word count: 2,580
Status: Complete




Lies. They had to be lies. Even if Daisuke had been turned into a Gary Stu, there would have been no reason for him to kill his friends.

"He's telling the truth," Daisuke admitted quietly. He glared at the Creator. "I didn't do it in cold-blood as he's suggesting though."

"Oh yes? You did it for their protection didn't you? You killed them to 'free them from the pain of being a Gary Stu'. It was such a pity that they truely died after being Sporked, wasn't it?" To twist the knife further, he said, "I wondered - did they thank you? Did they say anything as they looked upon the person who murdered them? Were they able to even comprehend what had happened -what you had done- before they died?"

"Shut. Up," Daisuke hissed through clenched teeth. "I did what I did because I thought it was right; I won't deny that. But I'm past that now." He shrugged. "Can we kill you yet?"

The Creator smirked. "Shame. I wanted to play with you some more."

"Kai?" Daisuke looked at him in question. For his answer, Kai merely nodded. It made sense now how Daisuke knew that Sporking a Sue-made person wouldn't work - he'd had first-hand experience. Daisuke grinned. "Cool."

"Oh well," the Creator sighed dramatically. "It worked for a little while. Anyway -" Suddenly, the shadows raced towards the two of them and surrounded them. Swiftly winding up their legs, the 'shadows' moved across their chests and arms and tightened to bind them.

They felt cold, his mind shiveringly noted. More than cold. They felt as if ice-cold water was trickling over his skin - except water never felt so light. It was as if frozen feathers were brushing his skin. Contradiction of thoughts, feelings, the mind was spinning.

'It's okay,' a voice whispered in Kai's mind. 'There's nothing to be afraid of.' Kai could feel the shadows' numbing touch at the base of his skull but it wasn't something to be bothered about. The shadows were slowly thickening and coiling more around Kai's body but he didn't notice or care.

'There's nothing wrong with being a Gary Stu you know. Just let go of your thoughts. It will be fine in the end,' the voice continued to comfort Kai. 'It's good to be perfect - that's what everyone wants to be, isn't it: perfect. That is what they strived for; it's what you strived for when you accepted Black Dranzer.'

'And look how that ended,' another voice butted in. 'You lost your friends, your bitbeast and your pride. You scampered back to dear old Grandfather with your tail between your legs because you wanted to be perfect,' it spat nastily. 'And guess what? You went for perfection and you lost. You had the perfect bitbeast but when you went against the 'imperfect' bitbest you. Lost. What does that tell you? Not everyone is given another chance. Are you going to waste the forgiveness your friends gave to you by wanting to be perfect again? How nice. How oh so very considerate.

'You nearly lost everything the first time you tried to be perfect; this time, there is no-one to save you or drag you back. You'll have no one to blame but yourself,' it finished coldly.

Kai shook his head and shivered slightly. Shaking his head helped him to think clearly and see past the influence and voices that had been latching onto his mind. That shivering was due to his near total surrender without a fight and finally becoming aware of how cold he was. Goosebumps had risen in the places that the 'shadows' weren't currently touching.

Looking to his left, Kai saw that the Creator was circling Daisuke - who was sweating and had his eyes screwed shut. Seeing that he was distracted, Kai struggled against his bonds. While they didn't tighten around him, they also didn't loosen. They continued to sliver over his skin, moving and changing place but never yielding.

Thinking about it, Kai considered summoning the Spork. Would that do anything? If those shadows were what made Mary Sues and Gary Stus, maybe it would. But then again, it would also probably alert the Creator before he could actually get free. He tried struggling again. Nothing. Maybe if he asked, Dranzer would possess him. That, he doubted it very much.

"Damnit! I'm not going back there!" Daisuke yelled out in the quiet room.

"But you are," the Creator purred. "Out of all the Mary Sues and Gary Stus that are or were under my influence, you were the only one that was able to break out of my control. That is what makes you so interesting. So, will you free yourself this time or will you succumb completely to me? It would be so much easier you know. You wouldn't have to fight against your very nature all the time anymore. It's tiring, isn't it? You're fighting something that is part of you."

Daisuke grunted and his breathing became harsh and ragged. "That isn't part of me. It never was. It was a goddamn parasite."

"A parasite that is still there," the Creator mused.

"It's not going to take over me!" Daisuke declared savagely, opening his eyes to glare at the Creator.

The Creator laughed humourously. "Do you really think that you're strong enough to stop me? You're weak. That was why you became a Gary Stu so easily. You wanted perfection and I gave it to you-"

"That wasn't perfection," was the growled interruption.

"-so why did you reject my gift?"

"I didn't ask for it in the first place."

"But you did. If you hadn't asked, you wouldn't have accepted."

"That doesn't make any sense!"

Chuckling darkly, the Creator said, "Does that matter? Soon, nothing will matter to you. You will be a Gary Stu again."

"Won't," Daisuke muttered.

"So why do you sound so tired?"

"Because talking to you, ugh, it's so boring. Yada yada yada, you didn't shut up then and you still don't shut up now," Daisuke snapped. He hissed in pain and stiffened when -Kai assumed- that 'shadows' tightened around his form.

The Creator stopped in front of Daisuke and leaned his face into so close that they were barely a hairs-breadth away. "I could kill you right now. I could kill you and you'd wake up as a Gary Stu."

Kai could hear Daisuke struggling for breath. "So there would be no transition stage?" he said haltingly. "Sweet."

Sneering at Daisuke, the Creator continued on. "So you'd prefer to die first-"

"Hell yeah!"

"-and then become a Gary Stu?" He snorted and turned away. "The transition stage lasts as long as the host can keep their sanity. Death, however," the Creator smirked, almost like he was baring his teeth, "I could drag out for as long as I wanted," he finished silkily. "What is it that you want?"

Daisuke closed his eyes. "Oh joy." He grunted. "Torture versus torture. What a varied selection," he said, his tone flat.

The Creator took a deep breath and sighed. "You have a choice of how you will go - I have never given this to anyone else."

"I'm honoured, by your gift," Daisuke hissed.

Kai closed his eyes, trying to block the voices. He had to think; he needed to figure out how to escape. There were bound by something that resembled physical shadows. The 'shadows' moved of their own accord but they never loosened or tightened. Also, the Creator could control them by thought.

What did they have to fight with? The Spork. But it would take too long to form. As soon as the Creator saw the tell-tale glow... Kai was suddenly aware that a cord of the 'shadow' was encircled around his neck. So, what else? Dranzer's possession of his body. She wouldn't do it though, Kai knew. Even though he was close to being turned into a Gary Stu, he wasn't in immediate danger of that for as long as Daisuke was distracting the Creator.

And that left him with nothing.

Useless.

Just waiting for the end to come.

"Ya know what?" Daisuke's voice cut through Kai's snowballing mood, followed by breathy coughing. "If I had the power of the four legendary bitbeasts, I'd so be kicking your ass now!"

The four legendary bitbeasts? Pulled from his depressing thoughts, Kai became curious. What were they? Could there have been bitbeasts so powerful that they became stuff of myths and legend? They would have had enough power to defeat the Creator? But what good would that do it they didn't have them with them?

The Creator started to laugh loudly. "My dear Ryuu, you only have the power of one of the four legendary bitbeasts."

Kai started at that information. How did Daisuke have that power? Well, it would explain how he was able to beat the other Mary Sues so easily if that was the cause. But didn't he say that it was because of the Mary Sues that his power was the way that it was? ...Did that mean that he also shared this power as well?

"Perhaps if you hadn't killed your teammates or just kept their beyblades you would have had a chance."

Stiffling the gasp that nearly came, Kai's mind raced. That meant that Dranzer, Drigger, Draciel and Dragoon were those legendary bitbeasts.

And all of them were sitting in his pocket.

'Focus,' he told himself. 'You have never done this before and who knows how this will turn out.' He extended his senses until he hit the familiar point where he communicated with Dranzer. 'I need to know this, can all of you hear me?' he asked urgently.

-'Yes.'- Kai recognised the voice as Draciel's.

-'I don't know how...'- He couldn't forget Dragoon's whiny voice.

-'Uh-huh.'- The voice was rather low and throaty. Kai assumed that this was Driger.

-'Of course.'- His own bitbeast, Dranzer.

'I need you power; will you give it to me? I won't be able to beat the Creator without it.'

-'Dranzer, why aren't you helping your trainer?'-

-'You know exactly why.'-

A brief silence where Kai heard the murmur of indistinguishable voices.

-'We will do as you have requested,'- Driger said clearly. -'We do not need to tell you what to do. Do it quickly as you can.'-

'Thank you.' Opening his eyes, Kai felt power pulse through his entire body. He sensed more than felt the 'shadows' disappearing of his body as the power grew.

The Creator snapped his head to stare at Kai in shock while Daisuke whooped in happiness.

Before the Creator could react, Kai disintegrated the 'shadows' that bound Daisuke. He fell onto his hands and knees, coughing and taking in as much air as he semi-deprived lungs needed.

"Die." That said, Kai motioned with his arm that sent four colours speeding towards the Creator.

He made no move to dodge or block; he stood there and his only action was to close his eyes. The four colour spectrum hit him dead centre in the chest and sent him flying bodily backwards. He landed on his back and continued to skid along for a few more feet. He didn't get back up again.

Kai saw the aura dissipate around him before he himself fell to his knees, feeling as if he had nearly all of his energy sucked from him. He sat there gasping for a while, his harsh breathing and his thundering blood in his ears the only things he could hear.

He froze when he felt someone grasp his shoulder. Looking up slowly, he saw that it was Daisuke smiling down at him. Daisuke silently offered his hand to help Kai up, which he grabbed.

"C'mon," Daisuke said softly. He heaved Kai up and placed Kai's left arm across his shoulder to support him. Kai didn't take it away. "He could still be alive."

Kai nodded tiredly. It was nearly completely over.

As they made their way slowly over to the body, the two became aware of a fizzing sound in the air. Kai recognised it as the sound he had heard that morning (it hadn't even been a full day yet?) when he had beaten Yunalesca. They body wasn't changing though...

They stood over the body but stiffened when they saw him stirring. He opened his eyes. Both Kai and Daisuke took a hasty step back.

Green eyes.

The Creator's black eyes had changed to bright green eyes. Kai wondered where the lightning bolt on his forehead come from. Kai then noticed that the Creator's eyes were filling up with tears.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Daisuke tried to reassure the Creator, or whatever he was now. Human? "Hey, we're not dead -"

"NO! I should... I should have stopped you!" The tears were starting to trail across the Creator's face and splash onto the ground. He gripped his robe tightly. Kai blinked. That hadn't been a robe before... "I couldn't help it. I wanted out. But," -the Creator shook his head and scrubbed his eyes with a fist- "I shouldn't have. I was being selfish." The Creator's voice was becoming fainter. "You're cursed and it's my fault. I'm sorry." He closed his eyes and faded from sight.

Kai and Daisuke shared a look. Cursed? They were still alive weren't they? That was a good thing. Daisuke shrugged, nearly dislodging Kai's arm. They turned around and made their way to the door.

"Now that that's sorted, how are we going to explain who I am?" Daisuke asked.

"I could feed you to the plotbunnies so-"

Pain.

Mind-numbing, fire-hot pain.

Kai collapsed, feeling that he had to throw the entire contents of his stomach, including the stomach, up onto the floor. It felt as if he was being stabbed everywhere, all at the same time, even on the inside of him. There was no escape. Not even in his mind.

"Shit, Kai what's-" Daisuke started screaming in pain, falling to the ground at the same time.

Shakily, Kai looked over his shoulder to where the body had lain. Where, before, there was only air, now there was a mass of shadow that had connected itself to both Kai and Daisuke. It wasn't holding on to them like a rope - it was travelling inside. It pulsed like a living heart, in doing so the cord that connected Kai and Daisuke to the shadow thickened and a new wave of pain slammed into Kai, causing him to collapse completely to the floor, banging his head.

Kai watched in shock as he saw Daisuke's clothing morph into replicas that the Creator had been wearing.

'No...'

'Yes,' something hissed gleefully in his mind. 'You resisted me before but not this time. You were rather annoying because of that but no more. You're mine.'

Kai screwed his eyes shut as he felt both his eyeballs and scalp start to itch.

Suddenly, it all stopped.

He picked himself up, feeling energy return to him. He saw him companion do the same.

Creator smirked at Creator.

"When one dies, where will always be at least on more to take his place," they intoned simultaneously. "The reborn is always stronger - thus is the cycle."

"Where will you go?"

"I don't think there is a Creator at the world of Naruto."

"I'll go to the world of the FullMetal Alchemist then."

They raised their hands and concentrated.

The next second, the room was empty.