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Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of the characters mentioned within.

A short, descriptive piece, possibly the starting point for a proper story. R&R if you can be bothered, I sure as hell won't mind. I was listening to some Massive Attack when I wrote this- that's where the mood of the story comes from.

anyway-

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Grey Heart

The skies were a ferocious swirling mass of dark grey. Rain in the form of sharp malevolent missiles came down in a cold cascade, shattering indiscriminately on people, cars, buildings, everything and anything.

The drains were swollen with oily water. The gutters, unable to cope, spilled over onto the pavement, threatening to engulf the precious shoes of unwary pedestrians.

Frigid, angry winds swept through the streets of the city, biting and whipping exposed flesh.

Sporadic lightning surged through the clouds of the rising storm.

Thunder emanated from deep within the body of the beast, rumbling ominously through the skies.

The denizens of the city scurried for cover, desperate to avoid the merciless onslaught of the untamed weather. Shopping centres, malls and stores of all kinds were inundated with wet, cold and miserable people.

The streets were practically deserted. Not a soul was to be seen on the main streets of the city- accept through the fogged up glass of shop windows.

Kai Hiwitari smiled at the weather.

'If this is the calm, the storm will never be forgotten'

Kai felt cold steel press against his flesh.

Somewhere, in the distance, muffled by the rain and wind and broken up by the twisting maze of derilect steel and concrete, police sirens blared.

Kai turned his back to the sound, and his face into the wind.

Slowly, he walked away, merging into the world of violent grey.