White Tiger Resonance!

A thin trail of blood ran down Kai's nose.

His head was now throbbing with pain, drums bouncing, stomping inside his skull. The moment he had got the Telekinesis, Kai had thought of this move as both an offensive and defensive attack. One saber would act as the defense, while the other would act as the offense or both defensively or offensively. Kai knew this new form of his sabers would become a strong unpredictable formation, then.

But the headache was persistent and with every other use of this strange Ability, Kai's eyes were losing focus, the surroundings becoming blurry.

'So, this is the limitation of this Advance Ability,' Kai thought, racing away from the rain of the bullets as if there was no end to them. It had taken Kai a week to get a hold over his Advance Cold Suppression and Advance Emotions Manipulation. He still remembered the solution he had come up with, and thus, Kai wasn't overly worried about this headache. Given time, he knew he could master this pain.

Time, though, wasn't in his favor.

Galeon was rushing at him again, and Mariah's Gatling gun wasn't giving him a moment of respite. Something must be done about it, Kai knew.

'One of them must die,' he concluded.

As Kai ran from boulder to boulder, chased by Galeon, he noticed Lee overwhelming Item-M with his long-ranged weapon. Not to mention the bit-beast, Galux, who had just ripped apart the last bits of paper creatures. The pink Beyblade came blasting out of the shredded paper and rushed to join Lee against the old woman.

"Galux! Use Cat Scratch!" Maria cried, her high-pitched voice echoing off the round chamber's walls.

The lynx-like mountain cat mewed, raising its front paws in a hugging gesture. Two enormous paper wings spawned on Item-M's back, and she took to the air, dodging the fatal hug. But then Lee descended from above, rotating the chained-Scimitar. He slashed at her, letting out a powerful shout.

The old woman flapped her wings, backing away out of Lee's reach. Lee grinned, and his grip on the metallic chain loosened. More chain-links passed through his hand like losing the reel of a kite, and the Scimitar, which should have missed Item-M, sliced her from the middle, passing through her in a clean arc.

"Haha! Gotcha, bitch!" Lee laughed, and Mariah's horrified gasp followed it.

For, the old woman, whom Lee had just sliced in half, turned into a paper doll and fell. And this meant that none had any idea where the real Item-M was.

"Ah!" Maria let out a maddening roar, firing her Gatling gun in all directions. "Galux! Slice apart everything."

The pink Beyblade spun crazily. Kai could feel the earth vibrating as it blurred and then vanished. Long pink slashes appeared here and there, cutting boulders in half in search of Item-M.

Kai saw his chance.

Using all his strength, Kai rushed in a beeline toward Mariah. Unfortunately, Lee noticed him. "Oh, no. No, no, no," he muttered, laughing witlessly. "You aren't going anywhere. Galeon! Use Dark Lightning!"

The dark Beyblade chasing Kai suddenly rumbled and spit out an enormous mass of Black Lightning. Its speed doubled, and it caught up with Kai's rushing figure. The Beyblade rolled around him in a 20 meters radius, well away from his Spiritual Waves sensing limit. Black lightning bolts thundered, trapping Kai in a lightning cage.

"Mariah!" Lee bellowed. "Now!"

Mariah came to her senses and aimed the Gatling gun at the trapped blue figure. Kai saw her face had become extremely pale as if her life had been sucked out of her.

Just as Mariah's finger was about to press the trigger, the uppermost layer of the foaming puddle, where the waterfall was crashing down, crumpled. For a moment, it felt like the water itself was breaking down. Even if Mariah had noticed something odd, it would have been too late.

Item-M's figure erupted out of the water, holding a massive paper Shuriken. This Shuriken didn't seem like paper, though. A metallic shine was flickering over it under the dancing blue glow within the chamber. Hurling herself horizontally, Item-M threw the Shuriken. The distance between them wasn't that much, to begin with. In an instant, the blurry outline of the whirling Shuriken struck the Gatling gun and cut the barrels in half.

It also cut Mariah's hands along with the barrels.

Item-M vomited out a bucketful of blood and fell back into the water, as Mariah let out a ghastly shriek of pain and anger.

"MARIAH!" Lee roared, already lunging for the girl.

Kai smiled. His shoes dug into the ground as Kai pushed himself into a run. Black Lightning bolts struck his back like dark lances, but they failed to annihilate that smile.

[Damage Taken: 30 (HP)]

[Damage Taken: 40 (HP)]

Kai took out the new HP capsule and threw it in his mouth. He didn't know what exactly it did, and how much HP it would restore, but all his HP points returned instantly.

[Damage Taken: 50 (HP)]

Kai burst out of the lightning cage after the last lightning bolt blackened his back. His armor could give away any moment now, he knew. Still, he rushed, slithering like the snake who had waited long for this chance.

Lee threw the chained-Scimitar at Kai from afar to break his rush. The gem on Kai's forehead glowed as he used Telekinesis to fling the weapon away before it could even touch him.

The boy landed beside Mariah, and ran away to the chamber's middle, lifting her into his arms. Kai was hot on their hills. The puddle under the waterfall had become red from Item-M's blood, but he ignored both the color and the Item completely. The smile had become a devilish grin now. He could sense it, the bubbling emotions. If he could just approach them!

"Kill them!" Mariah shrieked. "I will kill them both. Lee! Kill them!"

Lee gritted his teeth, his face becoming red, blue, and then purple. "Let's do this," he said, standing up. Mariah pushed herself up too, her murderous eyes planted on Kai's incoming figure. There was still some 50-meter gap between them and him.

'Too far,' Kai reflected, yet the grin didn't go away.

"Galeon!"

"Galux!"

Both Lee and Mariah roared together and a horrendous fighting spirit exploded out of them.

"White Tiger Resonance!"

The dark bit-beast burst with such a roar that the rocky lances hanging from the roof of the chamber fell, slamming all over the ground. The raging, pink demonic bit-beast disappeared like wind and appeared in front of the duo. Galeon appeared like a phantom shortly after it.

The black and pink Beyblades started to revolve around Lee and Mariah in the opposite direction, as the towering bit-beast over them resonated with each other. A massive dark gray tornado took shape around them. Black lightning thundered, trailing up and down over this tornado, and purple demonic winds howled, cutting apart whatever that came into contact with them.

Lee and Mariah disappeared into the eye of the tornado as it expanded at an exponential rate, ripping apart everything in its path.

The grin on Kai's face had reached his ears. This was the exact Skill he had been waiting for them to use. Because from the holographic video, he had found out that at this moment, Lee and Mariah were at their weakest, taking pills to heal themselves up.

Kai would never give them that chance.

"… Disable!" Kai uttered the word like a chant.

[

Skill Disable Activated

Time Limit: 30 Seconds

Skill: Disable

Grade: D-

Specification: Disable the target's Skill

Requirement: MP 30, SP 50

Attributes:

1. Target must be within 100 meters of the Contestant

2. The Skill must be in the Contestant's direct vision

Effect:

1. Disable Skill (grade: D-) for 15 seconds

2. Disable Skill (grade: D) for 12 seconds

3. Disable Skill (grade: D+) for 7 seconds

4. Disable Skill (grade: C-) for 1 seconds

]

The retching feeling welled up inside Kai and the hellish tornado burst apart like a soap bubble.

Lee was feeding Mariah a red capsule when he suddenly froze.

Kai's eyes widened. This was the moment!

-Titan's Buff!-

The hiss rang in the Duo's ears like a death knell.

A bronze-colored spartan helmet appeared on Kai's head, and he rocketed towards the Duo like a blue comet. Lee pushed Mariah back, putting himself in between her and Kai. Even the Beyblades rushed towards Kai, trying to break his momentum.

1 second was over. The Beyblades brought out the tornado almost instantaneously.

Yes, instantaneously.

Just not before Selene's mist form could freeze Mariah's soul. Like her master, she too had been waiting for her turn. She had always been underground, as per Kai's command. 4th-floor's Contestants' Perception was too high to use her openly, otherwise.

The Pink Beyblade wobbled.

And when Selene plunged her venomous fangs into Mariah's neck, it vanished.

The gem on Kai's forehead flashed bloodiest. Blood ran down his nose and eyes as he flung the incoming dark Beyblade and the bit-beast away from Lee. The boy was so stunned he couldn't even move when Kai approached him.

The bronze helmet on Kai's head kissed Lee's forehead; they were so close.

-/Love. The happiness of mutual care and concern. Ah! This is the best/-

Kai's words echoed in the boy's mind telepathically.

And then Kai breathed. A breath that rattled as he sucked deep.

Deep and deeper, drowning Lee in the deepest ocean of despair.

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