Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade.

A/N: Just a note, Blitz isn't from Zoids... It's actually used as a short form of Blizzard in this story.  And the name Bradley here belongs to an original character I made up, so it's not the same Brad mentioned on the television show.  Black Dranzer and Dranzer are assumed to be both males in this story.  Oh yeah, this has been edited again, so some things are slightly changed.

"Speaking" 'Thinking'

Introduction: Just the Beginning

Immediately after his team's fateful victory at the world beyblading tournament, Kai inherited all of his grandfather's possessions, including his grandfather's mansion. The same technology used to create the dark phoenix known as Black Dranzer was used to destroy him, or so it would seem....

Chapter 1: The Scars of the Past

Precisely three years after the World Beyblading Tournament the Bladebreakers participated in and won, one of the most horrifying event was about to change the life of one person whose destiny will call upon for a greater cause than just a future blader.

One hour left before the stroke of midnight in Canada. Only one hour was remaining before the twenty-seventh day of September on the calendar.

In an apartment building, on the highest floor, a young girl, wearing a silky bluish violet scarf with patterned silver stars, was seated at a wooden table. She had long, wavy turquoise hair and eyes. She stared at an object that was laid right in front of her. Before her was a chocolate cake with sixteen lit candles. The flames of sixteen birthday candles flickered, lighting up a darkened dining room, revealing only one figure standing behind her.

"Make a wish, Sis," a voice from behind said, sounding rather happy.

"I will, Bradley. I'm just wondering what to wish for," replied his sister, who was being hypnotized by flames of the candles.

"Wish for a bit-beast, Sis. You're well into the sport we both enjoy, and you even defeated me once. Wish for a bit-beast, Lauri. A worthy one," the same voice suggested, sounding proud of his sister.

"A bit-beast? Maybe, Big Bro," she answered bluntly, "I've got it. The perfect wish." She whispered her most desired wish in her mind. "Done," Lauri informed as she was about to blow the flames out.

"Wait!" Bradley called out abruptly. "Let me switch the lights back on so when you blow them [the candles' flames], the room wouldn't be pitch black."

"Good idea. I hate the darkness. It creeps me out," she said as the ceiling light flickered and lit up the room. Bradley again, stood behind her in support as she eagerly blew out the fire on the candles' tips. As the flames died out, all the lights in the neighbourbood that were radiating began to flash on and off.

"BRADLEY! Where are you?!" Lauri called out, frightened.

"I'm right behind you, one hundred percent," he answered, putting his left hand on her shoulder to reassure her of his presence. "Don't worry, I've got Blitz right here, with me, and my ripcord is just in my pocket, in case anything bad happens," Bradley said with courage as he clutched his beyblade tightly in his right palm. They both stood up and she held her brother's left hand.

As fate as intended it to be, almost as fast as lightning, a large and dark, aggressive fire bird flew straight into a stained glass window, shattering all the glass, of a bedroom without a scratch. Flapping its burning wings, it flew out of the bedroom and into the dining room in search of something or perhaps someone.

"AHHH!" Bradley's sister, Lauri, shrieked in fear as she came face to face with the dark phoenix. It glared at her with its fiery red eyes. She had never seen a bit-beast so large or angry before, well at least not face to face. As she attempted to walk backwards in the dark, she tried to take her brother with her, away from the strange phoenix bit-beast but he won't budge. He stood there, bewildered by the dark phoenix's presence. He let go of her hand.

"Is this what you wished for, Sis?"

"No, Bradley. No," she answered him as the dark phoenix flew towards her, studying her every move.

"Aurora—Angel of Light and Dark," the dark phoenix spoke wickedly as it burnt his sister's starry scarf off her neck.

'The bit-beast can talk?' Bradley thought. Expecting her neck to be scorched also, Lauri collapsed to the floor. Surprisingly, her neck was just fine, not even a burnt. However, there was a distinct scar on her neck—a birth mark perhaps. The marks of the scar resembled a yin-yang surrounded by six triangles.

"LAURI!!!" Bradley yelled out worriedly as he rushed by her unconscious body. Quickly, he checked her breathing, and then he challenged the dark phoenix in an irate tone. "Blitz and I challenge you, Dark Phoenix! No one threatens my little sister!!!"

"Alright then, foolish boy," accepted the dark phoenix as it moved away from Bradley's sister. The bird glared at Bradley as he launched his sky-blue blade perfectly onto the floor.

"Blitz! Teach this overgrown bird a lesson," Bradley shouted to his spinning blade which was circling around the dark fire bird. "Come out and use Ice Beam, Blitz. Freeze that bird!"

Blitz, picking up speed, heard his master's orders and did what he was told. Blitz, a crystal blue wolf of the element ice, emerged from the blade and began to unleash his attack. The agile dark phoenix dodged every attempt that Blitz made. The dark phoenix didn't attack; it kept on dodging, making a mockery of Blitz.

Seeing this hopelessness, Bradley figured that the dark phoenix was after his young sister. Staring at his sister's inanimate body, he recalled the moment when the fire bird examined her up close and personal, when it muttered evilly "Aurora, Angel of Dark and Light."

'I'll be back, Blitz. Keep that evil birdie busy,' Bradley commanded through his mind as he cautiously approached Lauri. Blitz, understanding his master's orders fully, slowly lured the dark phoenix away from his master and sister. 'Good work, Blitz,' Bradley thought as he lifted his sister's body and put her into the nearest safe place he could find—a closet that could only be opened from the outside. He locked it with a key. It was right in front of the dining room—the most obvious place the phoenix would go through first. However, Bradley wasn't intending on letting him or Blitz loses the battle.

Before the dark phoenix noticed something different, that something or someone was missing in the room, Bradley made his appearance back into the fight. Now annoyed by the pathetic attempts Blitz was making, the dark phoenix aimed its first as well as successful attack upon the unsuspecting ice wolf. Blitz howled in distress. His cry of pain woke Bradley's terrified sister who was now confined by the walls. As the battle raged on between the wolf and the phoenix, Lauri started banging her body against the door of the closet in an attempt to break free and help her brother and his bit-beast. For each attempt she desperately made, she inflicted more pain upon her body, weakening herself. Defeated, she stopped and burst into tears. She peeked through the small openings of the door and watched painfully from inside her safe prison as her brother fiercely battled the enemy without her. 'There's nothing I can do.'

"Blitz! Prepare to give it one last try with Ice Strike," Bradley bellowed and his wolf nodded and was ready to send its Ice Strike attack towards their adversary, who was also ready to make a powerful assault.

Both, with equal force at the same time, unleashed their final attack. Brilliant flashes of light scattered around the room as ice mixed with fire. Blitz continued to fire out spikes of frozen water towards the fire bird in hope that when one touches it, the bird will be frozen. However, a phoenix's fire is eternal. Each spike of ice that struck the bird just melted away. The dark phoenix continued to send its flames towards the stubborn wolf. When hit by the phoenix's flames, Blitz's body would just chill the fire out. As the fight dragged on, the dark phoenix became tiresome and irritated. A new plot popped into its mind as it stopped its assaults on the wolf.

With great speed the dark fire bird began circling around Blitz and Bradley and Blitz, unaware of the phoenix's evil plan, continued his Ice Strike.

"AHHH—" Bradley cried out before he was struck by his own bit-beast's attack and became frozen.

"BRADLEY!" a voice shrieked, coming from the closet.

Blitz, realizing what the dark phoenix tricked him into doing, growled and aimed its Ice Beam and Ice Strike attacks everywhere while the dark phoenix dodged and started its fire attacks again.

Several attacks later, the dark phoenix almost made a bull-eyes attack upon the wolf, but it missed as the wolf ducked and the fireballs struck the frozen Bradley. When the ice surrounding Bradley's body melted, it crashed to the ground.

"BROTHER!!!" Lauri cried out, even louder.

Caught off guard by the outcry, the dark phoenix was struck by several Ice Beam and Ice Strike attacks, causing ice to form around its body, just like what happened to Bradley. It struggled to melt the ice away, but it was too cold, too strong. Instead of melting it, it saved its strength and used the remaining of its energy to shatter the ice. Running low on energy, the dark phoenix decided to make a fly out of there as the wolf pursued it with its ice attacks. Frantically searching for an exit with the wolf on its trail, the dark fire bird flew back into the bedroom and through the window in which it had originally came from.

Seeing it was useless to pursue the bird through the window, Blitz returned to the dining room to check on his master. No life. He was died. Cold as ice.

Lauri watched in grief as her brother's bit-beast entered the blade in defeat. "BLITZ!!! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!! BLITZ!!!" she screamed in tears but Blitz did not show up to her rescue. Instead the blade stopped spinning and the spirit of the wolf was broken. He was ashamed and angry with what he had done to his own master.

"BLITZ!!! BRADLEY!!!" she continued to cry out....

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About one and a half year later in Japan, at Tyson's temple, the team had gathered themselves for what announcement the president of the Beyblading Battle Assoication had to reveal.

"A new world tournament?! YAY!!! FINALLY!" screamed an excited navy-blue haired young man.

"It's been about five years since the last tournament," mentioned a boy with raven hair tied in a low ponytail.

"It's be TOO LONG! But, hey, it's here AGAIN! YAY!" a blonde hair boy with freckles shouted enthusiastically as he joined the navy -blue haired friend in excitement.

"Oh great, there's two Tysons now," a voice coming from a brownish hair boy's laptop spoke.

"Yeah. One is already too much," muttered a young man sarcastically with a smirk. He was leaning against a wall and was wearing a distinct, long white scarf tied around his neck.

"HEY! I resent that, Kai," the boy with the navy-blue hair commented, feeling insulted, as he stopped dancing around with Max. "Hmph!"

Everyone in the room laughed, including Kai. Ever since he and his team won the world blading championships about five years ago, a new bond among all them was formed. Despite that, Kai still revealed some bitterness and cold-heartedness so no one would dare think he softened or lost his touch.

"Hey, Mr. Dickenson, when's the tournament going to start? Will it be the same as the last one?" the boy with the laptop asked. "I didn't find any data on the new tournament on the Internet."

"Ah-hem."

"Sorry, I meant, Dizzi and I."

"That's more like it," Dizzi said. "I feel much better now."

"Well, you see, it'll be posted on the Internet this afternoon by my granddaughter. She—"

"You have a granddaughter?!?!" Tyson asked in disbelief, and Mr. Dickenson nodded. "Why didn't you tell us? Is she a good blader?"

"Give it up, Tyson. No one's going to defeat you besides Max here," Max said rather arrogantly with a chuckle.

"Well, actually, I've never seen her in beyblading battles since she moved to live with me."

"The training and everything must be top secret," Tyson said thoughtfully. "Hmmm... Will she be joining us?"

"That's a stupid question to ask, Tyson. Of course not. I have enough amateur bladers to baby-sit," Kai answered coldly and the tension between Tyson and Kai began to build up like the older days until someone interrupted.

"Well. The world tournament that the BBA is holding shall require a team of at least four members and a subsitute," Mr. Dickenson mentioned.

"Are we getting a new Bladebreaker?" Ray, the raven haired boy questioned.

"How about Kenny?" Dizzi asked.

"Dizzi. I'm the strategist."

"How about we consider your granddaughter if she can match up to Draciel and my skills?"

"You mean Dranzer."

"No, Kai. He means Driger."

"Actually, everyone means Dragoon. Right, Mr. D?"

Kenny and Dizzi sighed.

"The subsitution is optional. But I won't mind if she tags along with you boys. She's been a bit depressed lately. And I would like for her to have a little vacation—a chance for her to see the world."

"Oh. Depressed? Why? What's to depress about? Life is great and the food is good," Max said cheerfully.

"Food?! I'm HUNGRY!!! Let's go out for pizza!!!" Tyson declared with a rumbling tummy.

"Tyson!" his team scowled and Mr. Dickenson laughed in amusement.

"Well I am hungry. Perhaps dying of starvation even."

"Please hurry it up," Kai begged. "Anyone got a coffin?"

"HEY! I'm still ALIVE and well, thank you very much. Hmph!"

"Boys. Let's not get too carried away. The tournament starts in two weeks time. And it starts in China Towers in none other than China of course. Everyone's flights are already booked. Exactly one week from now, the plane will leave. All of you should get packing," Mr. Dickenson announced.

"Two weeks?!" Max exclaimed. "That's—"

"You planned all of this, like last time," Ray commented.

"How come I don't get any say in this?" Tyson whined.

"Well, actually, your guardians and Kai already knew about this," Mr. Dickenson informed, and Kai just started whistling when his team stared at him.

"The team captain gets all the say in everything and anything, like it or not," Kai reminded with a smirk. "It was a surprise and we knew how much you like surprises, Tyson."

'Not really,' Tyson thought dully. 'Unless it's food!'

"Before I go, I must explain the new rules to all of you. To win one competition, your team must win two of the three battles. And to advance to the next tournament, the team must win three of the four competitions within one tournament. All teams are given an exempt from disqualification from losing one tournament.  And if your team loses more than one tournaments, your team doesn't advance and is automatically out of the games. Switching bit-beasts is all right as long as there is only one bit-beast at the most in your blade. Everyone must blade battle once before someone on their team can go again. That doesn't pertain to the substitute though. And the most important thing to remember now is to—"

"I'M HUNGRY!"

"Well not really," Mr. Dickenson told Tyson. "Anyway, all the rest of the rules will be posted at the BBA's website and it'll be in today's newspapers worldwide. Now, I must go, my work awaits me," he said as he exited the room.

"Hey, Chief. The site's been updated. You want to read it now?" Dizzi informed.

"O—"

"Chief, don't even think about it! We're going for lunch FIRST," Tyson emphasized.

"Ah— Okay. Sure," Kenny answered, somewhat nervously as Tyson almost shot a glare at him when he was about to read some of the rules before all of them go out for lunch.

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On their way to the fast food restaurant for pizzas, they ran into someone. Or perhaps, someone had run into one of them, literally.

"Out of the way, please!" screamed someone from behind all of them. They were about to turn around when a young lady of similar age, wearing a bluish-violet scarf with silver stars, was headed straight towards Kai.

"Huh?"

"AHHHH!!!" they both shrieked as they crashed to the ground, her on top of Kai's back. Everyone walking by glanced at them, and then continued with what they were doing.

"Are you all right?" the girl asked in guilt.

"GET OFF OF ME!!! NOW!!!" Kai growled and his team laughed nervously at Kai's disposition.

"Hmph! Well, sorry," she answered apologetically as she removed her body from his and sprang back on her rollerblades. "Need a hand?" she offered Kai when he turned to examine the person who dared to crash into him. Glaring straight up at her, he noticed that she wore a starry scarf and had her long turquoise hair tied in a high ponytail by a long white ribbon....

"No thanks!" Kai answered grouchily as he gingerly got back on his feet without the stranger's help.

"All right then. Sorry, bye. Got to go," she blurted out as she resumed rollerblading on the streets.

"HUH?" All of them watched as she left.

"Out of the way, please!" she hollered as she vanished from their sights.

"Hmph!" Kai expressed spitefully, trying to maintain his dignity when Tyson's stomach grumbled loudly. Everyone [including Tyson and Kai] hearing this, sighed and that's when Kai noticed something peculiar on the ground beside him.

It was a beyblade. Kai picked it up and examined it. The sky-blue beyblade contained a wolf bit-beast. "Ooh. A new blade, Kai?" Max asked with great interest when he noticed Kai with a different blade. Kai shook his head.

"Then it must belonged to that girl who—"

"GRRR!" Kai growled as he glared at Max.

"She probably dropped it or it fell from her when she—"

"ARGH!" Kai stared at Kenny with fire in his eyes.

'Lucky, he can't glare into my eyes,' Kenny thought amusingly.

"Chill, Grumpy. Least you can keep her blade until you can return it to her. Until then, PIZZAS!!!"

Max, Kenny and Ray narrowed their eyes. "ERRR!" Kai expressed angrily as he placed the sky-blue blade into one of his pockets.

"Maybe we can go to Mr. Dickenson's house tomorrow and ask him if he knows the owner," Ray recommended and all except Tyson nodded. Tyson's reply was a rumble coming from his 'poor empty' belly.

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Kai was now, fast asleep, at the mansion he had inherited. Losing all consciousness, his subconscious took over. Two blades, lying on a table beside his bed, began to glow red and blue lights. Inside his head, he saw a younger version of him holding a blade that contained a phoenix—a dark phoenix. Concentrating on the image in his mind, he heard the following words being repeated by his younger form:

"When any phoenix is born

It will never die

For from its ashes shall it be resurrected

And for every defeat that is made possible upon it

Shall increase its power unimaginable."

After the young Kai repeated the saying three times, everything in Kai's head went pitch black and cold sweat drops formed around his forehead and neck.

Suddenly out of nowhere in his dream, Dranzer appeared, soaring in the air. "Find the Angel of Dark and Light, Kai. Only she can tame the beast within the dark phoenix before the entire world's bit—" he spoke melodically before Kai woke up.

'Morning already?' Kai asked himself, still in bed. Yawning, he stretched out his arms and got up from bed. Picking up Dranzer and the beyblade that the rude stranger lost from the table, something struck him. "I dreamt of you, Dranzer. Hmmm... Was it all a dream?" Kai mumbled to his blade, and both of them emitted red and blue lights. But Kai, he didn't notice, for when he took at a glance at them in his right hand, they all both stopped radiating.

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To be continued....

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