Lightning Striker

Prologue

Sunlight beated down gently on the field as a young boy slept on his back as if trying to soak up the rays. The boy had spiky black hair with white highlights and a red bang that stuck out between his eyebrows, he wore a black unzipped coat over a dark gray shirt, black baggy pants with white lining, and strangely no shoes.

He stared to stir before opening one eye, revealing a green specked purple-brown orb, before opening the other eye and slowly sitting up. He took his time to get on his feet, still looking dazed as when he woke up, before a leafy vine appeared from a nearby tree and gently poked his face.

"Huh?" He mumbled before the vine wrapped itself around his wrist and started to glow, connecting with the tree it came from, sending energy from it into him. Once the glow faded his eyes went from their dull look to a bright gleam.

"Thanks," He said as the vine went back to the tree, to hide in the leaves as a regular leaf. "You know you don't have to always do that." He said as he took a step towards the tree as if he was talking to it, which he was. The leaves rattled in return, making him giggle before looking at the sky and paled seeing the sun's position.

"Mom's gonna kill me." He murmured before running past the tree, through a small forest, and towards a small building in the distance. The 'building' was a palace on a flat boulder in the middle of a river and was made up of anything from the earth.

The walls were a rich brown oak, a beautiful white beech, and a lovely redwood with some dark pine here and there, the ground was covered in stones and pebbles that mashed together like a jigsaw put elegantly together with a couple of rocky furniture with moss cushions, and the roof was a skylight made up of unmeltable ice that created patterns to appear as the light shined through it.

Two people, one man and one woman, were standing in the near middle of the room as if they were waiting for something. The man had puffy white hair with a gold band circling just above his forehead and a puffy white beard wearing a white toga with a gold clasp on one end that goes over his shoulder and a brown cloth belt with brown sandals and held a staff with a huge crystal at the end. He looked curiously yet confused at the woman.

The woman had knee-length silver hair with dark highlights and furious brown eyes wearing a leaf-green dress that reached the floor with one leaf-red sleeve, the other sleeve a leaf-yellow and a reed red jacket over it, underneath the dress was dark oak colored pants and sea blue slippers with sky blue heels. She was pacing back and forth with a hand up to her mouth as if it was to stop anything from coming out unexpectedly.

Slowly the spruce doors opened and the boy slipped in before approaching the two, seeing the furious look from the woman and a surprised look from the man before bowing slightly. "Hey Mom," He said quietly. "Hey Grandfather."

"Seikatsu!" The woman said causing him to look at her. "You said that you weren't gonna be long! How come you're so late?!" He gulped before carefully choosing his words to speak. "Sorry Mom," He apologized guiltily. "My energy ran out so I had to rest but my rest was cut off from the sun creeping into my eyes and a tree gave me some of its energy so I can make it here."

The woman calmed down instantly but still kept a stern face. "Very well," She said before walking towards him. "You do realize that our people are dying right?" By people she meant the Earth itself from being torn and ravaged savagely by Nemesis. He nodded, unsure of what his mother was doing.

"Well your grandfather has spent time tracing the new threat and hasn't found a clue," She said as she walked around him before stopping in front of him. "But one Legendary Blader has and he's been trying to identify it." He suddenly realized why he needed to be home earlier.

"I have to help him don't I?" He asked as his grandfather moved to reveal someone behind him. It was a tanned boy, around his age, with a cloud-like shock of cream white hair and red specked turquoise-blue eyes wearing a gold headband, a sleeveless red shirt with fur going upwards from where the sleeves were suppose to be, the shirt stopped short to expose his abdomen, a knee-length red skirt or kilt, golden armband from his elbows to his wrists, tight dark brown boots that didn't look comfortable, and had a dark red scarf that cascaded the back of his shoulders.

"This is Mars," King Zeus said as he slightly pushed the white haired boy to his grandson. "His Variares suddenly glowed and he got a vision a minute later. He wasn't sure of what he saw so maybe you can describe it if you saw it?"

The boys looked at him annoyed before they awkwardly held hands until something hit Mars' foot. "Ow!" He said as he took a step forward, making his hand fit into Seikatsu's, causing the vision to reoccur.

Vision begins...

A dark cloaked figure approached someone on the ground who's eyes they were seeing through. The person slowly looked up to see the cloak seemingly never ending until a pale purple neck appeared then a fanged cat-like grin, pointed ears and cat eyes with dark hair that was nearly shaved off in the form of a buzz cut before the red-brown eyes glowed and the demon lunged, the person's sight becoming black.

Vision ends...

The two gasped as they clutched each other's hands and slowly looked at each other in shock and surprise before Seikatsu looked away angrily and tightened his grip. "Lucifer..." He mumbled as his grip tightened causing Mars to gasp and whimper.

"Seikatsu," He whimpered out then gasped as the grip tightened more. "My hands..." Seikatsu realized what he was gripping, and the pained look on Mars' face, and instantly let go causing Mars to exhale in relief and rub his hands gingerly.

"What a tight grip..." He mumbled as he looked at his hands to see that they were incredibly red and stung horribly. "Here." Seikatsu said as he gingerly took Mars' hands, causing him to gasp, before closing his eyes and steadying his breathing.

Mars watched in awe as a pale green light emerged from Seikatsu's hands and enveloped his own hands. He watched as the color returned to their tanned color and the stinging faded away before looking at his face and staring at it in shock.

His irises glowed green and enveloped his pupils too as the light faded from his eyes and from his hands. The second they faded he collapsed in his arms and his eyes went to their dull shade. He slowly closed them afterwards.

"Just put him on the couch," Gaïa gestured to the piece of rocky furniture behind him. "He hasn't gotten his full energy back." He picked Seikatsu up and gently put him on the couch before feeling the tap against his foot again.

He looked down to see a green bey tapping against his foot until he picked it up and watched shocked as it jumped out of his hand and landed next to Seikatsu before it stopped spinning.

He looked at Gaïa shocked but she was unaffected by the bey and went back to talking to her father. He looked at his bey Variares and noticed that it was glowing slightly and saw that the green bey was slightly glowing too.

He picked it up and studied it carefully.

It has a blue facebolt with a yellow unicorn design, a transparent aquamarine energy ring with darker transparent specks, the fusion wheel bears a combination of Thermal and Vulcan fusion wheels, the spin track has four wings to provide extra weight and push air upwards, and the tip was similar to a Wide Ball but is balanced instead of defensive.

He noticed that the spin track was the one that hit him to bring back the vision before he put it back down and sat next to the couch and stared at Seikatsu, hoping that he would get better and wake up soon.

None of them realized that one was going to sacrifice himself to save the one he loves.