Hey guys I just wanted to say that this is my first "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" fanfic that I decided to create after reading some other fanfics and also because I was inspired by the "Wicked Lovely" series by Melissa Marr. So I have to give some credit to Melissa Marr as this fanfic will be almost related to her "Wicked Lovely" but my with my own personal twist. If you haven't read her books I seriously recoomend you all read her books as they are amazing as it deals with urban fantasy, faeries, and more. It will be different I promise you, but there also will be some things similar to her books. So as a disclaimer, I do not own any Bakugan Battle Brawlers or Wicked Lovely stuff and all rights go to the creators. Also guys it would really help me out a lot if you read, favorite, review, follow, and leave a message about a comment or question you have as I like to hear feed back. I really hope you guys enjoy this fanfic overall and so without further ado . . . Enjoy!
Full Summary: It's been one year now since the Brawlers fought with Hal-G and saved the world. Lots of things have changed in the year. Dan and Runo were together, Marucho inventing things, Julie and Billy dealing with long distance relationship, and Alice and Shun . . . After the battle with Hal-G Shun and Alice's friendship level expand as they began to talk and hang out with each other more, but that all ends when Shun starts to suddenly drift apart from everyone and mysteriously leaves for one whole month without a word. What makes matters worse is that recently lots of strange things start to happen to Alice as she falls into a new world that she's never knew existed before and discover not everything is as it seems. She learns she holds a power within her, that she never noticed before until he shows her . . . Lots of secrets unfold about the truth of what's real out there, why Shun had been acting weird, and how Alice plays a part in all this madness.
Beautiful Strangers
Alice's POV
"Alice! Can you help table six!?" Runo called out to me.
"I got it!" I exclaimed to Runo.
I headed over to table six and got there orders and brought there drinks. Things have been quite busy here at Misaki Café. Taking order after order and serving the food can be pretty exhausting, but I didn't mind it much. I was helping Runo out and I'd do anything for my best friend. Suddenly the front door opened and that meant new customers.
"Welcome to Misaki's Café!" I greeted with a warm smile.
"Hey girls how's work?" Dan asked as we came through the door with Julie, Marucho, and to her surprise Shun.
"Hi guys, take a seat and I'll be with you all in a moment." I replied as I grabbed someone's order and went to the table to drop it off.
Then I headed over to my friends with a smile on my face as I got my notepad ready to take their order.
"So what can I get you guys?" I asked.
"Actually we came to invite you and Runo for a little outing with all of us finally together again." Dan explained as he glanced at Shun, who just turned and looked outside the window.
"I'd love to, but I'm not sure Runo and I free to leave right now . . . We've got a lot of customers at the moment." I explained looking at all the tables that were filled up.
"Alice! Table eight's order is ready!" Mrs. Misaki exclaimed.
"Coming! Let me have Runo talk to you guys as I deliver some food." I replied.
I turned to Runo and told her that our friends were here and that they wanted to do something with them. She nodded to me and went over to talk to them as I handed out the food to table eight and take some people's orders. Right when I turned around, I immediately bumped into someone and almost fell down, until a pair of strong arms caught me just in time. I looked to see it was Shun with his eyes wide open. I was surprised a little as he helped me stand straight and then let go of me. We stared at each other for a moment, as Shun's eyes were still wide open a little as I dusted myself off. I then gave a warm smile to him.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see you there Shun. Thank you for helping me keep my balance." I smiled and then he blinked a few times and resumed back to his normal expression again.
"It's no problem . . ." He spoke and then headed toward the bathrooms without any words to say.
Always with the short responses. I guess things never really change after one year. It's been exactly one year since we battle Hal-G or otherwise known as my grandfather. After we defeated him and saved the world things had . . . changed. I decided to move down here with everyone with my grandfather's permission and have been staying with Runo and her family, while helping them out with their café. Dan and Runo were together and still bickering at times with each other, Marucho has been his usual self inventing a lot of interesting things that deal with Bakugan, Julie has been emailing and texting Billy a lot since they have a long distance relationship going on, and as for Shun . . . well . . . He's recently been more distant and quiet then usual lately.
It was actually a surprise to see him as he's usually off doing something else and is busy most of the time. There was even a time where he had been gone for an entire month with no word from him or where he was. When he suddenly showed up again, he wouldn't explain why he had left with no warning. I figured it was something personal and tried to convince everyone to just let him be. Still a lot had changed about Shun that I wish I knew why that is, but I didn't want to invade his privacy. I remember though that after the battle with Hal-G, he and I developed a closer relationship as friends.
We would talk from time to time with each other more than we did before during our battle with Hal-G to my surprise. I mean we were pretty close back then for a while as we talked, got to know each other more, and we'd hung out sometimes with everyone. I didn't think he would really talk to me after the whole incident with Masquerade and all, but he did. We seemed to have a stable friendship for a while, until he started to drift apart with all of us. I'm not sure why, but I've always wanted to know, but never had the chance to ask him.
"Alice you got a second!" Runo yelled.
"One minute, I need to deliver table two's order!" I yelled back.
Once I dropped off the food, I went back to the booth where my friends were at and noticed Runo's smiling face as she looked at me.
"What's going on?" I asked curiously.
"In about ten minutes we're leaving with everyone to have a little fun!" Runo exclaimed.
"What about the café? We can't just leave your parents to do the work by themselves." I replied.
"I just talked to my parents and their closing the café early so we're free to leave in about ten minutes." Runo explained and I smiled.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"To the mall to do some shopping!" Julie exclaimed excitedly.
"While you girls do that Dan, Shun, and I will probably just walk around and go to the arcade." Marucho explained.
"Aren't you stoked buddy that we can hang out all together again!" Dan shouted as he nudged Shun in the arm as he looked to Dan with that same unemotional expression on his face.
"Sure," He simply replied not seeing to really care too much.
After ten minutes has passed we were all on our way to the mall. Almost immediately as we got there Runo and Julie squealed with excitement as they saw all these new clothes that just came in from all these different stores. Before I even knew it they were dragging me from shop to shop going with them to buy some new clothes. I didn't mind of course as I found myself enjoying it all, but soon after about two hours of shopping, I got a little tired. I told Runo and Julie that I going to head to the food court and grab something to drink. I needed something to keep me awake. Not long after I saw the guys coming out from the arcade.
"Hey it's Alice!" Dan shouted as he pointed to me and the guys walked toward me.
"Where's Runo and Julie?" Marucho asked.
"Still shopping, I'm just heading to the food court to get something to drink. I'm a little tired after shopping for two hours." I explained.
"Been there . . . Runo and I went to the mall last week and I thought I was going to be here forever! I swear, she can really drain a guy's energy sometimes." Dan groaned.
"That's dating for you Dan." Shun replied with a small grin.
"Oh and like you're the master of dating Shun. Please I haven't seen you date a single person, since we've known each other. Unless there's something you're not telling me." Dan said folding his arms across his chest as all eyes were on Shun.
I felt a little awkward being here as they were talking about stuff like this and decided to say my good-byes before heading to the food court. Once there, I just ordered some tea at a little café in the mall and then sat outside in front of the café where there were tables and chairs. I looked at my phone and noticed it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I sighed thinking we've been here for a while.
"Excuse me, miss?" Someone said as they tapped my shoulder.
I turned and noticed a handsome guy about my age look at me with a warm pleasant smile on his face. He had dark brown longish hair, dark brown eyes, and he wore a black undershirt with a white jacket on and black long pants. As I stared at him, I felt a little taken back by his appearance. For some reason I felt something weird. I wasn't sure if it was his presence or not, but this guy in front of me seemed . . . unreal?
"Miss?" He spoke again and I shook my head and realized I had been staring at him for a while making me blush.
"I'm sorry . . . can I help you?" I asked sheepishly as he grinned.
I watched as he placed a hand on my chair and on the table and knelt down and stared at me with that grin on his face. He was a little closer then I liked him to be making me feel uncomfortable. He leaned a little closer to me causing me to blush more as I backed away from his face a little as he continued to smile at me.
"I was wondering if you'd like some company." He spoke to my surprise by the sudden offer.
"Oh I'm fine, but thank you. I've got to meet with my friends soon anyways, I just stopped to rest a little." I explained as he gave a small laugh and continued to grin at me as I avoided his gaze.
"I can't imagine why your friends would leave a pretty girl like yourself alone." He replied as he lifted his hand to move some strands of hair behind me.
I suddenly then felt him touch my cheek and pulled my chin up to meet his gaze. Suddenly though, I felt him take his hand away almost immediately after he touched me. I saw his eyes widen a little in surprise, but then a sly grin spread across his face as I felt his hand on my cheek again making me nervous.
"Now this interesting," He spoke as if he was talking to himself.
I quickly pulled away from his grasp and stood up from my chair grabbing my things and about ready to leave. I was feeling flushed now.
"Well it was nice meeting you, but I have to get to my friends." I explained, turning away from him and starting to walk away in a fast pace making sure he couldn't catch up to me.
Suddenly though I felt a hand grab my wrist tightly. I turned to see it was that same guy to my surprise. I looked back from the table where I was to where I am now. How on Earth did he get here so fast?
"Let go of me!" I exclaimed, but then that same grin he wore on his face appeared again as he pulled me closer to him.
"So interesting . . . It's seems it doesn't work on you . . ." He spoke.
"Let go of me!" I demanded this time trying to pull away, but his grasp on me was too strong.
"All I want is to get to know you better. Besides you're a lot more interesting than the girls I've met before." He smirked as I started to feel my heart beat faster and my pulse rise from panic and fear.
"The girl said let her go." A voice said sternly coming from behind me.
I turned around to see none other than Shun only a couple of feet away from me! He walked toward us and then I felt him grab my arm that the guy was holding on to and pull me away from him and into Shun's grasp. I felt Shun's hand on my arm and the other on my shoulder now and I felt a little flushed. I saw the guy in front of me start to laugh a little and then placed his hands in the air in defense.
"I see . . . I guess she belongs to you, so I won't interfere." He replied with a grin forming on his face, which made me a little worried now.
"Interesting girl you have there . . . I'd be careful with her if I were you . . .You wouldn't want her falling into the wrong hands . . ." He grinned.
Suddenly though, I noticed something strange again with him. I looked at him closely and almost gasped at what I thought I saw. I swear for just a split movement . . . his eyes were glowing and so was he himself. Soon though he walked away leaving me confused and a little shaken up. I felt Shun turn me to face him and looked worried and concerned for me.
"Are you alright? Did he do anything to you?" He asked worried and I shook my head.
"I'm ok and no . . . He just talked to me and when I started to walk away from him, he suddenly grabbed me by surprise . . ." I explained.
"When he touched you . . . did he seem . . . surprised?" Shun asked all of a sudden and I slowly nodded.
"Yeah actually he did . . . What made you think to ask me that question?" I asked a little surprised by his question and curious.
"It's nothing . . . Let's just get back to the others." He simply replied as he let go of me and started to head back toward where our friends would be.
I quickly caught up with him and followed beside him. I was still a little confused on what just happen back there, especially after what that guy had said to Shun . . . What did he mean when he mentioned I was interesting? What did he mean by be careful with me? I was so confused and lost, but I wonder if Shun knew what that guy meant. I wanted to ask him, but just when I was going to we had already run into our friends. They asked where we went and I just told them that I got a drink and saw Shun and we walked back together. I didn't really want to bring up what happened as they probably would worry for me.
I was glad didn't say anything about the matter, but for some reason I felt like he knew he wanted it to be kept a secret. Soon we headed back to Misaki's café together and then soon made our separate ways. We all agreed to hang out tomorrow again probably at the park or something. Soon after Runo and I got situated back home Runo went into the kitchen to clean some dishes as I cleaned the tables. Soon I heard the front door open and someone came in. It was a guy about maybe a year or two older than me and he had short spiky blonde hair, green eyes, and he dressed rather nice as he wore a green shirt with a white short jacket on and long white pants.
Yet again I felt that same weird feeling like I did with that other guy in the mall. His appearance just seemed to god like maybe? He was indeed handsome, but looks don't fool me . . . I felt myself become a little more nervous now as I felt he was just . . . unreal . . .
"I'm sorry the café's close now." I explained and a small yet sad smile spread across his face.
"That's too bad, I was hoping to get some coffee to go . . . It's been a very long day for me." He explained and suddenly I felt bad for him and let out a sigh giving in.
"Just one moment then . . ." I replied and he smiled warmly at me as I went to get some coffee for him to go.
I poured whatever coffee we had left into the to go cup and asked politely if he wanted anything in it, but he said he liked it just black. As I made my way to him with the coffee, I felt myself suddenly trip on something and was about to fall with the hot coffee in my hand, until the guy had caught me! He helped me stand straight again and as I looked up to him my eyes widen for a split second as I swore I saw his eyes glow a little just like that other guy. I blinked a few times and suddenly his eyes didn't glow anymore. A grin formed on his face as he slowly took the coffee from me.
"Are you alright, you almost got hurt?" He asked and I nodded feeling a little nervous now and a little scared.
I wondered if he would act just like that guy at the mall.
"I'm fine um . . . thank you," I replied and he grinned and nodded sheepishly.
"Well thank you for the coffee Alice." He said before heading out the door much to my surprise.
I half expected him to stay and try something on me again just like that other guy, but the other half of me believed somehow I would be able to get away lucky from him and I did . . . for tonight anyways. For some reason I had a feeling I might be seeing him again after that grin on his face. I headed to the door to go and lock it, but then suddenly I stopped with my hand on the door and froze. It was a wave of sudden realization hit me. I quickly headed out the door and then looked all around and that guy was nowhere to be seen. I brushed my hand through my hair out of confusion and panic . . . I knew I'd be seeing him again because . . . I never mentioned to him my name . . .