Chapter 1

"Do I really have to wear this?" runo asked holding a long satin white colored wedding dress in her hand.

"YES!" Alice, Mira and Julie yelled in unity, already tired of runo rejecting every wedding dress.

"But it is so..." runo said with an uncertain face.

"So what? Girly? Sophisticated?" Mrs. Misaki said tauntingly as she entered the room with some cake samples.

Runo sighed as she quietly agreed to wear the dress for her wedding two weeks from now.

"What do you people reckon Dan might wear?"

"A tuxedo runo!" Mira replied, runos wedding preparations were turning to be more hectic than her own marriage to ace. "You need to calm down. I know you are nervous, but just calm down a bit."

"ok." runo replied a bit flustered. Her voice uncertain, the idea marriage just seemed so bizarre months ago but now with Dan it just seemed another happy ever after adventure.

"Do you all think Fabia will be able to make it?" Alice asked "she might be busy with her kingdom".

"Well she might." a modulated voice replied before anyone else could.

"Fabia!" Julie yelled as she hugged their Nethian friend.

"Julie let her breathe", Mrs. Kuso replied as she welcomed Fabia into their house.

"Weren't you going to come one week prior? How come you're early?" Julie asked

"Well my sister agreed to look after Nethia for a while and I decided to come and meet the bride."

Runo smiled as she hugged Fabia however she noticed some slight tension on her face.

"When are you going to meet the guys? I may need to tell everybody something." Fabia asked

"Tomorrow morning." Mira answered as they ticked another cake as a possibility for the wedding. "Dan is going on some business trip for two days with shun, so we planned to meet them just before their departure."

"Good, I'll say what I am going to say tomorrow with everybody together. It may prove better"

"Whatever suits you Fabia" Julie assured as they resumed their pre wedding preparations along with Fabia.

TOMORROW MORNING

Daniel walked around his room clearly nervous eating or rather stuffing chips into his mouth.

"Dan! Stop eating for once! You are going for a business trip not to perform in a live in concert." Shun said to Dan in a firm voice, he to clearly not used to the idea of Dan being nervous. "And I am coming with you right?"

"Oh shut up! This transaction is the biggest I have ever made! Plus these marriage preparations!" Dan yelled dismissively.

"Are you guys coming or we may leave you both ahead?" Billy called from the stairs bellow. "We don't want to keep the girls waiting!"

"Yeah coming" shun called back to them.

"What is it that is troubling you? The marriage or this trip?" shun asked Dan in a no nonsense voice.

"None" Dan answered as he continued to eat. "Something just doesn't feel right somehow."

"Now you have been saying this for a couple of days now Dan, nothing has happened yet." Drago said finally popping out of dans pocket to make a comment; he was the only Bakugan who had stuck with its brawler. Everyone else were restored to Fabia or returned to new vestroia by own will or their brawlers.

"I agree with Drago Dan, we have to get moving now come on. You don't want to make runo angry while you depart."

"Fine, but…" Dan started as he pocketed his car keys that he was interrupted with shuns cell phone beeping. "What is it?"

"Alice. She says Fabia arrived last night, one week prior, she reckons that Fabia has something to say to all of us"

"we'll found out now when we reached there" dan said not giving in to the excitement for a change. " I was so sure there was something; now come on you don't want to be late. if I can make runo angry I don't think Alice may be ecstatic" as they climbed down the stairs grinning at each other.

AFTERWARDS

"Fabia, How nice to see you!" Dan said as he greeted her in runos café.

"Hey Dan, who thought we would grow up now huh?"

"It did come as a shock to us" marucho said teasingly as he hugged Fabia.

"Now now you people please slow down your voices! People will think I own a crazy place." Mrs. Kuso said as she placed their drinks & snacks on the table.

"Now what did you want to tell us Fabia?" ace asked as they all settled down a little gently breaking the ice.

"Oh that" Fabia said a little ill at ease as if she was more comfortable without the question being asked. "It is about dimensions leaks."

"What?" everybody yelled concurrently.

"It's something recent guys. Some guys by mistake hit of some circulation centre of portals down somewhere which nobody, not even us, are sure of where. It didn't seem as a threat at first so we ignored it, but later as time went on portals started showing up almost everywhere sucking people in at the same time."

"They were only found in Nethia at first but now they have started coming up on earth too and your people keep it completely quiet as possible considering they don't know what they are dealing with." Fabia said completing her explanation which was followed by an awkward silence.

"Yeah we did hear about some mysterious disappearances" shun said breaking the silence.

"It is a little dangerous though I just came here to warn you people, it may not occur here but just be careful"

"We will Fabia; thanks for warning us" runo said as she enveloped Fabia into a hug.

"Aha! I knew there was something wrong I kept telling Drago that!" Dan explained happy his theory proved true.

"Yes Dan we know, now please for god's sake hurry up or else you and shun may miss the flight"

"Oh yeah, Come on Dan we are going to get late." shun said as he dragged Dan out of the café.

"Take care Dan" runo said as she gently kissed Dan. "Come back fast"

"I will" Dan assured as he started the car engine. "See you later guys" he said waving good bye. "And tell mom I will be back in two days, I may have forgotten to mention that."

As the car sped across the road runos hand didn't stop waving, until the car completely out of sight, upcoming tears blurring both hers and Alice's vision.