Second chapter, Yay! *waves flag around*

(Okay, if this chapter doesn't load for the fifth time, I am seriously pissed!)

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, visitors can now review this. Not saying you have to, just saying you can. So go realise your inner critic and criticise as much as you want. (Although no swearing, there are other words you can use that are just as effective.)

Anyway, sorry for my lack of character description, my describing skills don't come naturally to me when I'm writing the plot. So now I shall describe them to you. I'm probably going to fail this though.

Okay, characters from last chapter.

Yoru Wakahisa: He has short, straight, dark magenta hair, a long fringe and two antennas. (For those of you who don't know, an antenna is a strand of hair that sticks up. Most of the time it looks like an antennae, hence its name.) He has sharp blue eyes and pale skin. He wears a long sleeved black jacket, white t-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. He comes off as a cold charter and is feared for his ruthlessness in battle. Not many people know about him, except for the fact that he's been brawling since he was a little kid.

Darkus Abaven: A humanoid-like Bakugan, that has the armour of a knight (no, he does not look like Mag Mel), but his legs are built like horse. His main colour scheme is dark purple, indigo and black. He's very loyal to Yoru.

Miki Ishikawa: She has shoulder-length, dark grey hair and a long fringe. The sides on her hair are decorated with red and white flowers. She has round ice blue eyes and peach skin. She wears a red crop top, skinny jeans, long striped arm bands and ballet flats. During a battle she's very determined and likes to try her hardest. She loves Bakugan and has been brawling for a long time.

Pyrus Asenath: Also a humanoid-like Bakugan. She has long maroon hair and a muscular build. Her attire is similar to a Viking. Her main colour scheme is red, maroon and orange. Depending on which ability, her hands can change into weapons.

The Master: He has short, straight indigo hair, black eyes and pale skin. He's s usually wearing a black cloak (covers most of his body) and black pants. He has a sardonic and unusually calm personality.

Darkus Kernthan: A faun-like Bakugan. His has a thin but well-built body and his face is narrow and thin. His dark purple hair is long and disheveled. His eyes are fully white. His skin is dark grey and the goat part of him is black. He has wings but they only work when he's with the Master. He was created to only serve the master and doesn't seem to have a mind of his own.

...I think that's all of them...and you already know what the canon characters look like, so yeah...I hope I didn't confuse you.

On with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bakugan, but I do own the OCs and the plot. Obviously I don't own the plot idea, because I other people have done next generation fics, but I do own this plot line.

A/N: To guest, although I agree that too many OCs make a fanfiction a bit tedious, this is a next generation fic. I think you need at least some OCs to make one. And besides the only OCs that will be appearing frequently are the next generation kids (children of the Battle Brawlers). The other OCs are just minor characters, plus the original main characters will be mentioned or appearing in most of the chapters. But your entitled to your own opinion, I guess.

Chapter 1-Findings

New Vestroia. What once was a thriving land was now in chaos and ruin. Its ecosystem was corrupted and its land was now bane and barren. Bakugan no longer roamed free and dead corpses of battle-torn Bakugan were scattered amongst the plains. The sky, no longer a beautiful blue, was now murky shades of indigo and black. Its former glory reduced to rubble.

A young dragonoid-like Bakugan sighed. How was it that such a heaven could be turned into a living hell? She was determined to find out, but she was confined to living in a barricaded cell, along with the rest of the Bakugan. And if that wasn't enough, they were all in ball form and sealed in some sort transparent cage, just to humiliate them even further. She had never tried to escape, but that was because she was told that most those who tried to escape were taken to see the Master, and were never seen again.

But now, she was tried of waiting. In her heart, she longed to see the worlds beyond the New Vestroia dimension. Her mentor had fascinated her with all the stories he had about them when she was younger. She was such a foolish one back then, attacking head on, instead of using her mind. Her mentor once told her that her foolish antics reminded him of someone he once knew.

She decided to take the chance, and besides, she wasn't going to spend the rest of her life like this. She needed to find a way to save New Vestroia. Rocking back and forth several times, she managed to break one wall of the transparent cage. She rolled on to the floor and started jumping her way towards a long hallway, which lead to the main gate.

However, as she found out the hard way, travelling down the hallway was no easy task, especially in ball form. She kept rolling around and bouncing off the wall of the hallways. She bumped into so many things, that it was a wonder she was still in one piece. She was very relieved when she had reached the end of that infernal hallway and was near the gate.

Then she saw the guards. It wouldn't really matter except of the fact that were in their Bakugan form and were capable of doing heavy damage. If she could, she would launch from a high platform and turn into Bakugan herself, but she couldn't, because the Master had put a special charm on them that made them stay in ball form.

Frantically looking around for an exit, she floated up towards the ceiling. A guard saw her and attacked. Think quickly, she dodged the attack, but ended up falling towards the main gate. But instead of banging into the main gate, she felt herself continue to fall.

It was the last day of the school year for Kurozaki Elementary School. However, one class was still working as if it was any other day of the school year, class 6-2. It was their last day and their teacher, Mrs Sato, still made them work like dogs.

'Just because it's the end of the school year doesn't mean you can slack off,' she had said. 'You're in middle school next year, so don't think it'll be easy as elementary school.'

The class groaned and rolled their eyes at her statement, but continued to work nevertheless. But during the day they got more restless and restless, and even a bit daring. So during the last lesson, Mrs Sato just gave in and told the students to just do whatever they wanted. Of course the students cheered at that.

However, one particular girl in class had fallen asleep during the whole commotion. Her friends tired to nudge her awake but had no luck. They let her sleep, thinking that she was just lazy, because it was the end of the day, and let her sleep. Little did they know that in her dream, she was seeing through the eyes of someone else. She saw what they saw and feel the pain they felt. The girl was slightly overwhelmed; she had never experienced this before.

A minute later the girl was jerking in her sleep. One of her friends gently nudged her awake. The girl eyes jerked open and then she let out a bloodcurdling scream and fell to the ground in a heap, clutching her in pain.

Mrs Sato ordered the other students to get out of the classroom. Confused, the other students went out the classroom, curious about what just happened. Mrs Sato gently approached the girl and tired to calm her down, but the girl just kept hyperventilating. When the last school bell rang, the girl finally passed out.

'Will she be okay?' said a voice worriedly. 'Oh, why does this always happen to her? She never did anything wrong!'

'Don't worry Kasumi, I'm sure she'll be okay,' answer another voice. 'I just want to injure the bastard who did this to her…'

'Sumire!'

The girl groggily opened her eyes to the sound of her friends' voices. 'Kasumi? Sumire?'

'Lia!' Kasumi went to hug her. Lia felt squashed by Kasumi's hug.

Sumire sighed and shook her head. 'Kasumi, you're squashing her.'

Kasumi let go of Lia embarrassed and apologised. 'I'm sorry, but I was just so worried about you, Lia. You passed out during class.'

Sumire nodded and gave Lia a concerned look. 'What happened to you back there? You looked like you were in pain.'

Lia avoided her friends' concerned looks and just looked at the floor. 'I don't know, I think I just got a headache or something.' She then rubbed the back of her head embarrassed. 'You know me, I'm always like that.'

Sumire and Kasumi nodded sympathetically. Although they could never understand why these things always happened to her, they decided it was best to leave it at that.

Sumire looked at the time. 'It getting late, should we head out?'

'Are you sure?' Asked Kazumi. 'I think Lia still needs some rest.'

Lia stood up and made a fist. 'Don't worry guys, I'm pumped and ready to go!'

Kasumi and Sumire looked at each other and sweatdropped. Only Lia could wake up feeling motivated after passing out.

Lia started heading out the door ahead of them. 'Hurry up guys, the sooner we get out of here the better!'

Kasumi and Sumire smiled a knowing smile at each other, and followed a very enthusiastic friend out.

Runo sighed and wiped her brow when she finished wiping the tables. Although, today wasn't especially busy, she still thought it would be nice to clean up a bit. After all, her parents did tell her to take good care of the place. And plus the restaurant was pretty busy during the school holidays.

Runo took over the restaurant five years ago. Several years back from then, Runo got a job out of town and moved out. After that, business became slower than ever, and they restaurant very rarely had any customers. After her parents realised that business was never going to pick up, they decide to retire and hand over the restaurant to Runo, hoping that she'd liven up the place. She wasn't very enthusiastic about it at first, but soon grew to the idea.

Runo then went into the kitchen and just stared at the sink. She sighed heavily at the pile of dirty dishes waiting in sink. Then she went inside the house and looked in a bedroom. Runo tsked and shook her head. Looks like she had to remind a certain somebody about their chores.

The doorbell rang; Runo went to answer it. Speak of the devil.

'Hey mom,' said Lia as she dumped her school bag on a random table. 'Sorry I'm late, Kasumi wanted to take some photos.'

Lia took off her shoes and socks and made a beeline for the fridge, and searched for something to eat. Runo raised an eyebrow at her daughter's actions, where did she get her sloppiness from? She just sighed and went to pick up Lia's things and placed them inside the actual house.

When Lia came out from the kitchen, she saw her mom with her hands on her hips and a disapproving look on her face. Uh oh, what did she do wrong this time?

'Dahlia?'

Yep, she did do something to piss her off, her mom never called her Dahlia unless she was being strict with her. 'Yeah mom?'

'Did you do your chores last night?'

'Yeah…' Lia looked down at the floor and played with her fingers. She didn't really do her chores. She was hoping her mom didn't find out but…

'Then why is your room still messy and the dishes still dirty?'

'Umm…I forgot?'

Runo glared at her. 'OH, SO YOU FORGOT? WELL DID YOU FORGET THAT THE LAST TIME YOU GAVE ME THE SAME EXCUSE?'

Lia cringed at her mom's tone and facial expressions. Her mom was pretty scary when she was angry. And if this was only for her chores, she hated to imagine what it'll be like if it was for something more extreme.

Runo groaned and shook her head at Lia. She dropped the angry tone and sighed. 'Dahlia Kuso, what am I going to do with you?'

Lia just continued looking down. Runo sighed again and let her be. She went back to the kitchen to finish off what her daughter never started.

Lia just sat there awkwardly. She thought over what her mom just said. It was kind of true in a way, what was she going to do with her? Most of her grades were below average, but that's because she was never bothered to do school work. And although she was cheerful and enthusiastic, she wasn't really motived by anything. Maybe she should join a club in middle school…

Lia stood up and pushed her thoughts back. She'll think about later, right now she just wanted to kick back and not to think about school. School was over now and the holidays have started. Which reminded her, Sumire said that she would message her later in the afternoon. She entered her room and went to check her computer; looks like Sumire hadn't logged on yet. Lia decided to surf the Internet while she was waiting.

Then she felt something brush her hand; it looked like a red marble. Lia picked it up and fingered the marble. She didn't remember having a red marble in her room; she didn't even play marbles. Maybe her mom picked it up from the floor and thought it was hers. Lia started playing around with it and rolled it from one side of her table to the other. Then suddenly the marble jumped up.

'Stop that human! I am not a toy!' It said, then it revert it back into a marble.

Lia was slightly taken aback; did the marble just speak? She never expected that it would talk. Lia poked at the marble, wanting to see it talk again. She kept poking it again and again, trying to see if she could make it talk.

'Stop it, human!' It, or rather, she, since the voice sounded feminine, said, clearly annoyed.

'So, you can talk?'

The marble froze, human weren't supposed to be able to hear her. She was going to stay silent but then the curiosity got the better of her. 'Wait, you can hear me?'

'Well yeah,' Lia replied shrugging her shoulders. She didn't she what was the point of this. 'So who or what exactly are you?'

The marble faced away from the human and became deep in thought. Even if the human could hear her, she didn't seem very trustworthy. She couldn't just pick anyone; she needed to find someone worthy to help her save the New Vestroia dimension. Lia just watched her, confused.

'I must find someone quickly,' she mumbled to herself. 'The Bakugan won't last much longer under his rule.'

Lia tilted her head in confusion. 'Bakugan?'

The marble froze. She didn't realise that she was thinking out loud. She reverted back into a marble again. 'I have said too much.'

'Oh no, you're not going to get away with that this time.' Lia started poking her again. 'Come on, what's Bakugan?'

At first he marble was stubborn, but after Lia poked her even more, she got annoyed. This human was very persistent. Realising she wasn't going to stop anytime soon, she sighed and gave in. 'All right human, what do you want to know?'

Lia stopped poking and grinned. 'I'll get to that, but first I want to know your name.'

The marble sighed. 'I suppose it would do no harm in telling you. I am Pyrus Kaidanoid. What is yours, human?'

'Dahlia Kuso, but you can just call me Lia.'

'I'd rather call you Dahlia.'

Lia pouted, she hated it when someone called her Dahlia, it sound too formal, plus only her mom was supposed to call her that. Then Lia asked, 'Hey, can I call you Kaida? Since your name is Kaidnoid and all.'

Kaidanoid scoffed. 'Be given a nickname? Don't push your luck hu…I mean, Dahlia.'

Lia decided to change the subject. 'So how did you get here?'

'I'd rather not tell,' replied Kaidanoid bluntly.

Lia sighed, looks like getting around her wasn't going to be that easy. 'Fine then be that way. But still, what exactly is Bakugan? It sounds like a game.'

Kaidanoid flared up. 'It is not a game! We Bakugan are living creatures who reside in an alternate dimension called New Vestroia!'

'New Vestroia?'

Kaidonoid scolded herself. Curse her temper! If her mentor were here he would not be impressed. Lia just sat there waiting for answer.

'I shall not be explaining that to you.' And with that she went back into ball form.

'Well excuse me if I don't know anything,' Lia shot back sarcastically.

Lia flopped down on her bed and turned sideways to face away from Kaidanoid. She gave up, what was her problem? She didn't do anything to her, so why was Kaida acting like she hated her? Lia sighed, maybe just she wasn't used to humans. She didn't seem like the friendly type anyway.

Lia computer started to beep furiously. Lia lazily dragged herself to her computer and logged on; it was from Sumire. After all the commotion, Lia had forgotten about her message. 'Oh well,' she thought, 'At least it'll get my mind of what just happened.'

Later, in the middle of the night, Kaidanoid popped out from her ball form. She thought about what happened to her today. She broke out of her cell, fell through a dimension portal and woke up in an unfamiliar place. Then she met a human girl, called Dahlia Kuso, who seemed very persistent and frustrating to work with. This made her wonder; were all humans like this?

Kaidanoid watched Lia's sleeping figure. Even though she found her difficult, for some reason, she felt some sort of connection with her, something she could not explain. She remembered her mentor telling her that all Bakugan shared a special bond with their partner. At that time, she didn't exactly know what he was talking about. But perhaps, she might be able to find out about it if she continued to stay in the human world. And who knows, maybe the people who were worthy of saving New Vestroia were here as well.

Hehe, I can't resist but put Dan and Runo's kid(s) first. I mean, come on, it's tempting...

Oh well it's probably just me. I put the pairing Dan and Runo because they were a couple in season 1 and season 2, and plus, they are so cute together. And I love bickering couples, it makes romance more fun ^_^

Okay I suppose I should tell what they look like.

In order of Appearance:

Pyrus Kaidanoid: Lia nicknames her Kaida, just to annoy her. She is a dragonoid-like Bakugan, but she has a smaller and slimmer build. Her horn and accents are silver and her belly scales are dark pink. Her main as scales are red and her sharp eyes are light purple. She has a courageous and fierce nature, as well as a serious and distrustful one. Her temper is her weak point.

Mrs Satō: She's very strict and likes her students to be punctual to class and hardworking. However, she's kind enough to let them do their own thing, just as long they do their best. She has shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. She always wears practical work clothes.

Dahlia 'Lia' Kuso: Dan and Runo's free spirited daughter. She's displays a lack of concerned when it comes to everyday life and is usually cheerful. She's also impulsive and headstrong and, at most times, very stubborn. Her dark brown hair is very long (she hates cutting her hair) and is usually tied up two ponytails with red ribbons. She has big, round maroon eyes and tan skin. He style is simple and casual.

Kasumi Itsuki: Lia's friend from school. She's very friendly, likes to talk a lot and often worries too much. She acts like a mother figure to her friends. She has long dark green hair, big amber eyes and skin. She also has a cat-like smile. She wears a lot of beach style clothing.

Sumire Tachibana: Lia's friend from school. Unlike Kasumi, she's usually calm and reversed and has many guilty pleasures. She has a bad reputation at school but she's good to have as a friend. She has dark grey hair, sharp dark blue eyes and milky skin. She likes to wear long loose clothing or clothes with flowery patterns.

I think that's all. Anyway, I hope you don't find these descriptions confusing as well.

Okage de, mina! Matta ne :3