Chapter3. 彷徨(Hovering)

"Death, hell, Shinigami, those things I never thought of, those things I never believed in, they are now scrambling my mind. Yesterday was not just a dream, my messy mind are now telling me this. Those injuries aren't just some kind of accident. I have feelings of my world will change, it will gradually been absorbed by darkness."

Along with the spinning Beyblade on the grass, Rei seems to be attracted by these sizzling sounds produce by the smacking of Beyblade. His expression of eyes is shady, staring at his spinning Beyblade silently.

"YOOOO!!!"

"Ouch! Takao…why did you…" Takao hit Rei's forehead by a rock he threw and awaked him immediately.

"Because you are not paying attention to our battle! We will lose if you keep acting like that!" Takao lectured

"Sorry! I was just a bit tired that's all! But now I am really getting serious!!"

"All right!! Now this is the REAL Beyblade battle! Go Dragoon!!" Takao called out his bit beast, the long and water blue dragon flew up to the sky intrepidly.

"Oh yea! Go Driger!!!" The white bean light rose up to the sky and blasted, blind world blended with white tiger's howling sound. After the brightness, is the arrival of darkness?

"The world…is black and white…yes…this is the phenomenon I saw yesterday…" Rei fell down on the floor moisten with blood. Staring terrified at the world. Everything in front of him is dead, just like yesterday, wracked buildings and trees, rotten corpse, and scorching plants. Even Takao, Kai, Max, Kenny and Hirumi's body are burned bone ashes.

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"HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

"Dai..Daichi!!" Rei woke up from the lousy noise of Daichi's. He's currently in Takao's house.

"Finally you are awaked!" Max signed

"Sorry, did I sleep really long?" Rei asked

"Yes! You slept for almost 10 hours! Its night time already! What's wrong with you in recent days?! Are you sick or something? Do you have any discomforts or something?" Daichi asked

"No! I feel alright! I just don't know why sometimes I just faint so suddenly…ha ha ha…" Rei laughed ignorantly, patting on his forehead.

"Well, you can't call this 'alright' can you? You do have to go to hospital sometime. By the way, here's your Beyblade, I don't know what happened but it exploded into pieces when called out Driger!" Max handed Rei his broken Beyblade pieces.

"Also, Kai is the good guy who carried you here!" Daichi continued

"Oh really? Then I should thank him…and Takao too." Rei received his Beyblade, staring at the shining broken pieces.

"Did something happen? Why are you always so depressed?" Kenny asked curiously but with regards. His words shocked Rei's fright. All the images from yesterday are now floating in his heads.

"No…nothing! Really! Thank you for your concerns!"

"What do you mean by 'nothing'?! There must be something! Just stop pretending and tell us already!" Takao blatted.

"Takao! Sorry Rei, just rest calmly for now, we still have a lot more practice battles to go! Tomorrow Kenny will help you fix your Beyblade! Sleep well!" Max dragged Takao and Kenny, saying good night to Rei

"Thank you Max! I will keep it up!" Rei smiled, waving good bye to Max, Takao and Kenny.

The room is completely silent. This silent engender fears. Silvery moon light is seeping into the window, dyed the room into dark watery blue.

"Come out please, if you want my life you have no need to hide." Rei said calmly, he grasped the white blanket, biting his soft lips.

"No one wants to waste time and strength on getting some crap human life." A voice said coldly.

"But there are people who do. Then why did you come for me?" Rei asked

"I am here to warn you: Don't ever call out your bit beast again! You were breaking the balance of the space and disturbing my activities!"

"What's with my bit beast? And what's with the world?! Explain these to me!! No one seems to notice about yesterday except for me!!" Rei get out of the bed then rush into the garden where the voice came from. At there, the samurai girl is sitting arbitrary on the tall tree branch.

"This Tokyo region is dead. All the living souls was been eaten by these white Shinigami. The system that controls the balance of human space is the Five Elements, which is Chi (Earth), Mizu (water), Hi (fire), Kaze (wind), and Ku (sky). The soul of these elements are demolished because of the existence of Shinigami in human world, which means the existence of the afterworld creatures are not allowed to come back to human world, or else the balance between hell and human world can be destructed. This destruction cause impacts on the four legend bit beast, therefore if you activated your bit beast, your Byakko (white tiger) can cause impacts to the hovering souls."

"What do you mean by dead?! But aren't everything just as vital as they were?!"

"Because they are hovering. Human's yearnings have strong violation. Therefore they created this 'fake world' to cover the true world. But it cannot last for very long. Only about 1 month later, it will fade, just like that." Samurai pointed at the dark spot on the moon, where the small pieces of crystal spirits are slowly heading to.

"These spirits are the souls from human violations. They are gradually absorbed by the afterworld."

"Then that means…all my friends are dead too?! Takao, Kai, Max, and Kenny are dead?! This is impossible!! This must be a dream!" Rei kneeled down, his mind almost filled with emptiness.

"Stop fearing already! I just hated when you humans are like this!" Her eyes glazed

"But…is there any way to stop this?!"

"The only way is go to hell and kill Jigoku Kami (God of the hell) and free the dead spirits. But this will also result the destruction of hell, which means all the evil spirits will befall into human world. You won't like that do you? Perhaps obviously you human weaklings don't even have the ability to do that!"

"…I will…" Rei bit his lips tightly

"…."

"I will show you we humans aren't as crap as you hell creatures!" Rei stood up. He glared his eyes sharply, suppressed with anger and ache.

"Sure. None of my business." Samurai glommed coolly. She's ready to revert into the dark.

"Wait…you have the ability to take me to hell, right? Can you just…give me a hand on this? Please…I will go on my own after this…" Rei begged

"Sure." She answered

A pause

"Umm…and…may I ask your name?" Rei asked with scariness

"Youtsuki"

"I am Rei, thank you for saving my life yesterday, and thanks for awaking me from happiness."