Humans are wondrous creatures. Evolution has made leaps and bounds since the days of the cavemen and the age of technology had arrived. Along with the modern age came the research into how humans came to be. Genetic research had been making many breakthroughs in the past 30 years, looking through all of the genes that comprised the human body. In discovering how each gene affected the body, one scientist came across a gene that was grouped in with the extra-sensory genes and he stumbled upon an anomaly. It had a glow about it. The gene literally glowed, thus earning the nickname, "Aura Gene."

But while everyone had this Aura Gene, it only glowed when it was active. In most people, the gene lay dormant, never to awake. The people who did have the active gene didn't really know what to expect, it was untouched ground that they were entering. So they set up schools for the youngsters to learn about their Aura Gifts, whatever they may be, in an environment that wouldn't judge them and treat them differently. This is where we will meet our main character, Katerina Ivanov, who has been persuaded by her old brother to join Aura Academy for her own good…..

In the world of Psychic Academy, using characters from Beyblade, plus a few of my own OC's.

Disclaimer: I own nothing from either Psychic Academy or Beyblade, only my plot, original ideas and my OC's.

Chapter 1

Soft, slightly curled honey strands floated in the air as the wind picked them up and played with them. Sharp, deep, ever green eyes danced about, taking in the environment around them.

"Hi, are you new?"

The petite figure spun around, eyes wide in alarm. What she saw took her anxiety down a notch, but she was still wary.

Golden eyes looked at her both knowingly and apologetically. "I didn't mean to scare you, you just looked so lost." Black strands of hair framed the golden orbs, making them stand out even more.

"I-It's ok." The girl stuttered, her heart calming down as the seconds ticked by.

"I'm Ray, Ray Kon. This is my fourth year here at Aura Academy, I'm a senior now. What's your name?" He offered, trying to calm the girl down with some small talk. He felt bad for scaring her earlier.

"Kat. I mean Katerina Ivanov." She corrected herself.

Ray nodded, smiling. "Katerina then. What year are you?"

"I'm in my junior year." She responded, calming down quicker now that he was being so nice and kind. Ray gave her a shocked look, but quickly shook it off.

"Do you need help getting to your first class?" Ray offered seeing her schedule and a map of campus in her hands.

"What? Oh, yes please." Kat nodded as she handed her schedule to him.

Ray took it and started listing them off in his head, instantly memorizing it. "You have Aura History and Government with Ms York for first Period. She's pretty cool, but you'll have to learn a lot of numbers and statistics." Kat nodded along with his description. "Then you have gym with Mr Gorbachov. He's awesome, but be warned that there will be a lot of rope climbing and he has a habit of sneaking up on you." Ray chuckled. "And I'm-"

Ding….Dong…. Ding…Dong.

"Crap, thats the bell, we have to get going or we will be late. I'll drop you off at your first class." Ray said quickly, giving Kat her schedule back and turning to run to the main building. "You coming?" He shouted over his shoulder, looking back to see her frozen there.

Kat shook herself out of her thoughts and nodded, running to catch up to him.

"Here you are." Ray said effortlessly, even though they had just ran the entire length of the school. "Aura History. Well I have to run so that I'm not late either, see you later Katerina!" He called as he took of running again.

Kat smiled. "It's Kat!" She called after him. Ray pumped a fist in the air, an indication that he had heard and Kat giggled. She then calmed her laughter and opened the door to her classroom, walking in. She glanced around as the other students were also looking around, making small talk with the people sitting next to them. She made her way to an empty seat in the back of the room and sat down, placing her backpack next to her seat.

"Hi, I'm Mariah Wong, what's your name?" A sweet voice asked from her right.

Kat turned to see that she had sat herself next to a girl with bright pink hair and the same golden eyes as Ray. "Katerina Ivanov. Nice to meet you Mariah." Kat smiled. "Ummmm how long have you been here?"

"This year is my fourth year, why?" Mariah cocked her head to the side.

Kat shook her head. "Just curious, this being my first year and all. I don't really know what to expect."

"Well, you're in good hands." A confident voice said over her left shoulder. Kat turned around to see a tall girl gracefully flow into the desk behind her, her blue hair falling over her shoulder. "Marium Flores and you are?"

"Katerina Ivanov." Kat smiled nervously back, breaking eye contact quickly with the girl who had the same shade of green eyes as she did.

"Don't be so nervous." Marium smiled softly. "It's not so scary here."

Kat laughed guiltily. "Sorry, I just don't really know why I'm here now."

Mariah and Marium shared a confused glance. "You're here because your Aura manifested, right? You don't come here until that happens cause there is no need."

"Yea…..not in my case." Kat bit her lip.

The best friends were about to grill Kat for more info when their teacher walked in.

"Good Morning class." The teacher had orange-red hair and wasn't much older then her students in her mid-20's. "Another new school year is upon us and I expect you to work hard like you always do. My name is Emily York, but you will call me Ms York and this is Aura History and Government for 11th graders. Everyone in the right class?" Her light green eyes scanned the room. "Yes? Good, lets begin."

After an interesting story on the creation of the Aura Governing Body, Emily dismissed her class as the bell rung.

"What class do you have now?" Mariah asked Kat.

"Gym with Mr Gorbachov, You two?" Kat asked, feeling a little more comfortable now that she had a few 'friends'. The concept was still hard to grasp. She hadn't had many friends growing up.

"Same!" Mariah smiled, clapping her hands together.

"Dang, I have Genetics with Doc Tate." Marium rolled her eyes. "We always had classes together last year Riah."

"Aww poor poor Mar." Mariah pouted, then she laughed as Marium lunged at her, chasing her down the hall.

"They're crazy, you'll get used to it."

Kat spun around, caught off guard for the second time that morning.

Ruby eyes framed by chocolate locks widened. "Oh sorry. I do that a lot. Didn't mean to scare you, I'm Hilary Tatibane. Are you new? I haven't seen you around."

Kat took deep, calming breaths. "Yea, first year, Katerina Ivanov. You know Mariah and Marium?"

Hilary laughed. "Oh yea, past 3 years. We all came in at the same time, learned about our auras together. We're even rooming together this year, finally." She glanced at the clock in the hall. "Dang, we better get to class or we are going to be late."

"Ummm…." Kat bit her lip. "Where's the gym? Mariah kinda ran off without me."

Hilary laughed, rolling her eyes. "Stupid girl alright, head down this hall, take a left and you'll start seeing signs for the gymnasium. There is only one so you won't walk into the wrong one."

Kat nodded. "Thank you."

Kat bit her lip as she walked into the gym. Immediately everyone's eyes turned to her. She could tell this was an upperclass gym class and she was obviously the only new student. It wasn't too surprising….Aura Academy never had new students coming in after the 10th grade. Most came in between 4th and 9th grade until everyone graduated in 14th grade with a college degree. But here she was, a new 11th grade student with everyone's eyes on her.

"Oh my god Kat. I am so sorry!" Mariah squealed, making a bee-line to her new friend. "Marium and I get into it sometimes and I totally forgot that you don't know your way around yet!"

Kat blushed as Mariah started making a scene.

"Chill Riah, you're scaring her."

Kat spun around suddenly. What was it with these people and sneaking up on her?! "R-Ray?"

Ray smiled. "Hey Kat. Forgot to tell you I was in this class with you before the bell rang this morning. Surprise!" He chuckled.

Kat slowly smiled as Mariah frowned. "I was not scaring her!"

"Yea you were Riah, take it down a notch, she's new ok? Just let her get used to the place before she has to get used to you to, uh?" Ray grinned. Mariah huffed, but settled quickly as Ray kissed her hair, making her melt against his side. "So you've met and become friends?" Ray asked to which the girls smiled and nodded. "Excellent. Two of our other friends are in this class too. Although I don't-" Ray suddenly cut off himself and spun around, arm raised as if to block someone's attack. And Kat suddenly saw why.

Behind Ray stood a young man with his leg raised against Ray's arm. Kat realized that this guy had just attacked Ray, trying to land a kick from behind, but Ray blocked it. The second thing that she realized was that this guy was really handsome. Tall, broad shouldered, a mysterious air about him, chiseled features, perfectly messy two toned grey hair and an athletic build. But what really captured her attention was his eyes. An unusual shade of purple that she would classify as amethyst, was the color that had her almost hypnotized. Her heart started fluttering around in her chest, like a bird trying to escape it's cage. Something was drawing her to him and she didn't know if she should fight it or not.

"Nice block Ray. Seems as if you weren't slacking off over the summer holidays." The guy nodded as Ray grinned and lowered his arm, allowing the mystery boy to lower his leg to the ground gracefully and then stand to his full height.

"How could I slack off when I knew that you were going to sneak up behind me and attack me the first day back?" Ray chuckled, which earned a snort from the stranger.

"Hn." Kai shrugged, then he raised an eyebrow at the sight of the two girls next to his best friend. But his heart suddenly stopped as his eyes met dark green orbs. She was enchanting, really, even Kai had to grudgingly agree with himself, although never out loud. She had long honey colored hair that cascaded down her back in waves and a small, petite figure with curves in the right places that would make any guy a blabbering buffoon. But what caught him and drew him like a moth to a flame, was her deep endless green eyes. Something about her was different and he didn't know if it was a good thing or not.

Ray noticed the raised eyebrow and then the subtle shift as Kai's body went rigid. He looked where Kai was staring and saw Kat in the same trance. He had no idea why they were acting so weird, but he decided to leave it for now and introduce them to each other. "Kai, this is Katerina Ivanov. Kat, one of my best friends, Kai Hiwatari."

"Hey Kai." Mariah smiled. Then she raised an eyebrow as he continued to stare into space. She wasn't expecting a 'hello' but he at least grunted or nodded. Then she noticed Kat in the same trance and bumped her hip into the other girl's. "Say hi Kat."

"Oh, um….." Kat blushed, looking down at the ground, breaking eye contact. Now that she wasn't looking at him anymore, Kai snapped out of it too. "Nice to meet you, call me Kat." She rushed through.

Kai nodded, still shocked that one girl could make him loose his cool for even a second. "Likewise." He grunted, which was much more then Ray expected out of him.

"Hey boys, Riah, what's up?" A cool voice greeted them as a tall, lean figure walked over to them. The girl had long brown hair with blond bangs and shocking jade green eyes, that seemed to look within a person.

"Hey Julia." Ray smiled. "This is Katerina Ivanov, a junior who I just met this morning. Kat, this is our friend, Julia Fernandez, whose also a senior."

Julia grinned as she set her elbow on Kai's shoulder and used him to prop herself up. She managed it quite alright with her only being a few inches shorter then him. "Hey Kat, don't let Mr Sourpuss over here intimidate you too bad, he's usually all bark no bite." She giggled as Kai rolled his eyes, snorting at her. "Oh you know that you're just a big ol' teddy bear underneath it all."

"Hn." And Kai walked away, leaving Julia laughing.

"Seriously though Kat." Julia smiled. "He really is a gentlemen, you just have to get passed the one word or no word answers."

"I heard that!" Kai growled over his shoulder, and Ray and Julia broke down laughing.

"What are you two laughing about?"

"Gah!" Julia and Ray screamed as a presence suddenly appeared behind them.

"Jesus Mr Gorbachov!" Julia panted, trying to regain her breathing pattern. "You scared the crap out of us!"

The spiky blond haired man, in his early-twenties, behind them laughed. "Ah Ms Fernandez, have you learned nothing from last year? Always..."

"Be aware of your surroundings, yes Mr Gorbachov." Ray, Mariah and Julia chorused.

Mystel Gorbachov grinned, his sea green eyes amused. "Good, now, how about we start class then?"

Julia and Ray nodded along with Mariah and Kat. The four of them followed Mystel to where Kai and the other students stood waiting, Well, Kai was off to the side, leaning against the wall, eyes closed and arms crossed over his chest…..

"Alright class, today we will be taking it easy and playing a round of soccer. These are the teams….." Mystel read off names from his attendance sheet and Kat ended up on Ray and Julia's team, while Mariah was with Kai.

"Sweet, lets go girls." Ray grinned as he jogged outside, following the class to the soccer field.

Julia rolled her eyes and smirked at Kat. "He and Kai are too competitive for their own good."

Kat smiled. "They've known each other long?"

"The past three years since we all first got here when we were in 9th grade. Both of them are very close to Tala who grew up with Kai and Lee who grew up with Ray. Lee's Riah's older brother but he graduated last year." She waved her forward. "Come on, lets go."

"Ready?" Mystel asked as he placed the ball in front of Kai. Kai nodded and Mystel blew the whistle. Kai touched the ball and kicked it to Mariah as she cradled it against her foot and started down the field, passing it to Kai as Julia went after her.

"You're on Kai." Ray smirked as he blocked Kai's forward advance. Kai smirked and spun around him, taking the ball with him as he speed forward, Mariah mirroring him on the other side of the field. "Kat!"

Kat was light on her feet as she came out of no where, stealing the ball from Kai and ducking under one of his arms, slipping by him. She smiled as she quickly passed the ball to Ray and he gave it to Julia as she slipped past Mariah.

Kai was in shock at her speed and it took him a second to wake himself up and get back in the game. He ran up the field and slid in front of Ray as he was about to finish receiving the ball from Julia, tripping Ray up in the process and both went down.

Mariah picked up the ball and zipped by them, heading back down the field, but yet again, Kat stole the ball away. She zig-zagged down the field, avoiding the opposing team as she saw Julia open herself up and she passed it to her just as Kai snuck up on her.

"Too late." Kat smirked as she stopped and spun on her toes, heading down the other side of the field, opening herself up for a pass if Julia needed it. Kai's cocked an eyebrow at her comment and a small half-smile wormed it's way to his lips.

"Confident, aren't we?" He whispered to himself before he took off down the field. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't stop Julia passing the ball to Ray first then to Kat as Kat scored over the goalie's head.

"WOHO!" Ray shouted, pumping a fist into the air as he, Julia and Kat high-fived each other. "You're amazing Kat, have you played before?"

Kat blushed, still reeling over the fact that she had actually flirted with Kai for a split second, as they got back into position. She knew she felt freer when she played, but free enough to flirt with a handsome guy?! "A bit in school, but mostly with my brother. He loves soccer."

Mariah was about ask who her brother was, but Mystel blew the whistle and the question was forgotten.

Once Kat parted ways with Mariah, she was left to think about why she was here and why her brother was so insistent on her being enrolled in the academy. She didn't even know where he was right now!

Those thoughts drifted away as she walked into her next class, a blond women with royal blue eyes in a lab coat standing in front of the room, getting things together. Kat walked down between the desks to one in the back and sat down quietly.

"Heya, I'm Tyson Granger." Her neighbor smiled, his crimson eyes sparkling with mischievousness.

"Katerina Invanov." Kat nodded to the bluenette. "Nice to meet you."

"So, you any good in this science stuff?" Tyson asked.

Kat shrugged. "Sort of, I guess."

"Don't worry, Mom may be tough, but she'll make sure you can understand it all. Hey Tyson." A new voice said calmly as they sat down in front of Kat. Ocean blue eyes framed by blond hair, smiled at Kat and Tyson. "Hi, I'm Max Tate." He smiled at Kat

"Hey Maxie." Tyson grinned at his best friend.

"Katerina Ivanov." Kat replied, then she caught onto a detail. "Your mother?"

Max grinned. "Yea, that's my mom." He said, pointing to the women at the front of the room. "Dr Judy Tate, or just mom to me. But even I have to call her Dr Tate in class, to avoid favoritism." Max shrugged.

"Ok class, I'm Dr Tate, and this is Genetics for juniors. Everyone in the right spot?" Dr Tate asked and she received nods from everyone as Max spun around to face his mother. "Good, in this class we will be going over the science behind the Aura Gene, not just the history behind discovering it like Ms York is teaching you. We will also be going over other basic genetics and probabilities of inheriting certain characteristics. Get out pen and paper." She said as she spun around to face the board, writing things out.

So this chapter has been updated and re-written. Hope you all like it!