Hello! Get ready for a really long one. Well, twice as long as the first ones. Every character and recognizable terms like Zoanthropes belong and/or are from the video-game Bloody Roar. Story line is mine. And, by this point, I already got reviewers which I am very happy about. Thank you bunch to current and future, hope I don't dissapoint you. :)

I do hope you enjoy, in case you read this, and have a good time. Sya downstairs.

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In the mist of London's night, a shadow flies through streets and corners and dead ends, fleeing from two feline monsters that acrobatically and swiftly leap behind her. It is only ironic that the escapee is often referred to as a "rat with wings" when in reality she would make anyone believe she was a vampire. Her name is Jenny, blonde and beautiful she has a bat as her beast form. And though she might very well be swift and the only one known to fly, she is cornered when Long kicks her sending her crashing through a window and into a church where she stops in mid air and flies grabbing on to the ceiling, upside down, and looking to the entrance as the dark figures of the brother tigers enter…in their human form.

"Now Jenny, there's no need to panic. We only want to help…"

All Long gets is silence, he sighs a smile and says:

"At least talk to us, I know where you are, your smell is unmistakable."

"You work for Yakuza!" Jenny shouts, from the dark, then changing positions. Long's eyes follow her in the dark, he couldn't see her, but he knew where she was by the subtle sound of a flap and scent.

"Why is that so bad? They are honourable; they honour their promises and show only justice with an iron fist. Is that so bad? They want to help us. They want to help us find out who we are and what we're doing here."

"I've seen the government and mafia work. There's only one thing they serve willingly and that's their interests!"

"Trust us…it's not like that."

"LIKE HELL IT ISN'T!" Jenny shouts thrusting herself against Long who immediately transforms but is still hit by her razor shaped wings in the chest; she jumps and goes after the white tiger Shenlong while the human Long reappears from the tiger.

She screeches and he roars as battle wages through all over the church. The benches and windows shatter, the pillars almost break down, statues turn to pieces. They both take a lot of damage, a pretty fair fight until Shenlong grabs a wing attack and flips, waving her a few times, aggressively throwing her afterwards; she hits a bench, ricochets off the floor hitting two more benches while transforming back. She hits the wall already unconscious.

Shenlong transforms back, breathing hard and checking his wounds; he sees Long getting up and says sarcastically:

"Thanks for the help…"

"She's faster than we thought isn't she?"

"Humpf. Goes down like everyone else."

"Heh, guess so. Let's take her back to the boss, maybe he can turn her."

"I have no doubt she will see the right path."

From the corner of the church, camouflaged, stood Jenny's travelling partner who decided to stick this one out. His name is Busuzima and all he wants is to live but as years pass he finds out that means to follow orders or to fight against those who would order him.

"Maybe I should've helped her…"

"I smell something. I think we have another!" Shenlong growls.

Busuzima takes his head out of the window and cowers behind the wall.

"What can I do against them now? What's done is done; I gotta get out o' here and find that sanctuary Jenny was talking about. Kyoto she said…"

Busuzima jumps to another building and climbs it transforming to human again to evade the scent. Even if they could smell that high up, they wouldn't mind a human. He waits for the next day.

"Chrono…" a voice calls out. "Chrono…you've slept enough, come back from the ashes…" on a bottle stood the ashes of a burned body, the last pod to be released had been in flames and arrived only to explode. But these two, who now called out to someone, saved the ashes on a bottle. One of them was a blue haired woman dressed in leather by the name of Uranos. The other was monk looking and dressed in blue, named Ryoho. It was Uranos who called out to Chrono.

"Time to accept your responsibilities Chrono…we're in hostile land. Wake u…" Uranos doesn't finish the sentence. The ashes start leaving the bottle mouth into the air, the room fills up in warm heat, then really hot heat.

"Get out!" Ryoho shouts, jumping out the window; Uranos follows him almost burned by the pyromaniac explosion that took place in mere seconds. Fires raged through all the windows but yet, they burnt nothing. Eventually a muffled vacuum sound is heard as the smoke gets sucked back unrealistically; Ryoho and Uranos climb back up to see a naked young man with white hair lying down in a fetus position, they bow before him:

"It was true sire, you are truly a god." Ryoho says.

He is surprised for a moment, but only for a moment. All along he has been trying to conquer the kingdom and now, apparently, he had two of the most powerful beasts that ever existed at his knees. He doesn't know what's going on, but quickly gets into play, a play recorded in his mind since his childhood.

"My loyal subjects do not bow before me." he gets up. "Thanks to you, I was able to come back to lead us along the right path. But alas, I do not recognize this land. Where are we?"

"It is called planet earth sire. They tried to catch us, various times, but we never gave up on you." Uranos explains.

"I have thanked you already." he tells her rashly. "Now tell me of this world, who tried to capture us? And are there anymore of us?"

"Yes, we've heard rumours of at least 5 but believe there are even more."

"Good good; we must find them. They must join us. Are these people peaceful?"

"No sire, they all attack us on sight, though they really lack the power."

"Then we shall punish them all, yes…yes…we shall conquer this world. I will rule it and transform it into a peaceful righteous and powerful world… like I did ours." he lies

"You remember sire?"

"Oh my dear soldiers, of course I remember. I'm a god after all, I would not forget. Get me some clothes, I will tell you all about my kingdom…" Chronos says with a smile that made the two warriors shiver.

It had been two days meanwhile, and Yugo was now leading Uriko through a street. They stop before a dojo as Yugo checks the name on it. It said:

"Bakugo's zoo." He laughs a little and says:

"This is the place."

"How do you know?"

"The name's a cross between his name and mine."

"Huh? Why zoo?"

"Can't you guess?" Yugo asks, opening the door.

She giggles, following Yugo inside. He closes the door behind him and asks out loud:

"You think I haven't noticed you?"

Like a shadow, the young ninja lands in front of Yugo and hugs him, Yugo pats his back asking:

"Everything alright?"

"Now it is. I'm so glad you found another. Introduce me, introduce me."

"Bakuryu, this is my new sister Uriko. Sis, this is a really good friend of mine, Bakuryu. He's going to teach you how to fight."

"Hey Uriko!" Bakuryu greets, going around Yugo. "I'm so glad you decided to come. I didn't know I was teaching you to fight. I don't think I'm old enough."

"That was incredible! I wanna do those things." She begs, excited.

"What things?" Bakuryu asks.

"Being silent and swift and… and and fast! You must be an awesome fighter. You will teach ME?"

"Why miss Uriko, it would be an honour. But first lemme show you around."

"Alright. Oh! Oh! To what do you transform into?"

"Into a mole."

"A…mole?" Uriko asks, kinda disappointed.

"Disappointed? Wait a second…" Bakuryu gets some space between them and spins transforming into an enormous brown mole with blade-like claws.

"WOW!" Uriko shouts, impressed and excited. Bakuryu turns back into human form and asks:

"Can I see what's yours?"

"No…" Uriko replies embarrassed.

"Aw c'mon, I showed you mine."

"Alright, get ready…" Uriko says also gaining some space. She spins transforming into a were-cat and while at it, trips and "woooaaahhh!" falls down. Bakuryu immediately goes to her rescue helping her up.

"A cat?"

"A were-cat…" Uriko says, really embarrassed.

"Well, you have achieved cuteness overdrive heheh. I'll teach you to protect yourself real good."

She turns back to her normal form, without the spinning, and joyfully says:

"Yay! Thank you so much." She hugs Bakuryu making him blush.

"No problem, but first, let's meet some of the new blood I managed to find."

They get inside the Dojo and see, sitting at a rather large table, a very tall funny looking man with green hair.

"This is a new addition. He tells me Jenny was captured by the twin tigers."

"Hey there." Busuzima greets.

"He can turn into a chameleon and camouflage himself turning nearly invisible so he was able to escape." Bakuryu explains.

"Do we trust him?" Yugo asks.

"Oy! I'm standing right here I am."

"Oh sorry, so do we trust you?"

"No respect…no respect at all. I got myself information on both the mafia and the army and am willing to share if you just take me in."

"How?"

"I've worked for both I did."

"WHAT?" Yugo shouts, looking at Bakuryu.

"He just arrived. I was hearing this story when you guys showed up."

"Well, what can you tell us?" Yugo questions. Bakuryu leaves the negotiations for Yugo and heads back to be next to Uriko, he tells her:

"Look at Yugo taking charge…" Uriko giggles as silently as she can, while Busuzima answers:

"The army has three beasts. Gado the lion, Shina the leopard and Stun the insect."

"The insect. Is he strong?"

"Very."

"More than Gado?"

"Course not crazy pup. I'd say almost as."

"Very well, what more?" He questions, ignoring the nickname.

"I can give you the regions I can, where all the others arrived."

"We'll do that later. You know of anymore beasts?"

"Well, yakuza's got the twin tigers, Jenny the bat and Fox the…huh…fox."

"heh, we're not in that much of a disadvantage after all. What more do you know?"

"Reports for other beasts. A…"

"Also for later. Okay, we're going to set Uriko right and then I'll come back to talk to you. Sit tight and don't move."

"Sit tight and don't move? What am I, canine?" Busuzima repeats in a mock tone.

"Just so we're clear." Yugo says. "Let's go." He adds to his two friends watching.

Bakuryu and Uriko follow Yugo across the entrance hall and into another part of the building. When they're out of hearing, Yugo asks:

"What do you think?"

"I think he's being honest."

"Of course he's being honest, I mean about his loyalty! Should we trust him?"

"Well, he's been in the army and in the mafia and didn't like it. That's good news."

"I know, but Shenlong seemed as loyal to the mafia as Gado and Shina seemed to the government. How come no one has a hold on him? To invite a betrayer makes me feel uncomfortable."

"He betrayed our enemies."

"Right, but will he accept them AS enemies? He seems more like the guy who'll run away if the going gets tough. And no way can we trust him to spy on them; he would squeal our localization in a heartbeat if caught."

"I think we should give him a chance…" Uriko says. Yugo and Bakuryu stop walking and look at her.

"Why?"

"Nothing to loose?" She asks, frightened.

"I agree." Bakuryu agrees.

Yugo sighs and concedes:

"Me too…" They start walking again. "But I still don't feel comfortable."

"Have you ever?"

Yugo laughs and says "good point". They open a door and there stood the other member of Bakuryu's dojo.

"Hello Alice. Look who dropped by." Bakuryu calls out.

She takes her eyes of the television to look at Yugo. She immediately runs towards him and hugs him.

"You're back! I've missed you! Why'd you take so long?"

"It's her fault." Yugo says, pointing at Uriko.

"AH!" Uriko shouts. "You meanie!" She hits Yugo's shoulder.

"Don't be mean Yugo." Alice says.

"I'm not mean! Anyways, Alice, this is my newly appointed sister Uriko. Uriko, this is the love of my life, Alice."

"Wow, you're his girlfriend?" Uriko asks, excited.

"Yes I am, pleasure to meet you sis."

"Me too me too! To what animal do you transform?" Alice doesn't answer, she simply transforms into a human sized white rabbit.

"No waaaay! You're a bunny!" Uriko shouts in a jolly jumping around Alice and finally hugging her. "You're so cute!" She lets go and transforms into a were-cat while Alice transforms back into her beautiful self and comments:

"Awww, you turn into a kitty." Uriko transforms back and says:

"Yeah, I'd prefer a lioness or something but ah well."

They joke around for a few more minutes until Uriko finally asks:

"Is there anyone else?"

"Yeah, there's Falcon the…huh…falcon. He didn't manage to see his name on the pod." Bakuryu answers

"hihihi, where is he?"

"Not here now. I sent him to make a sweep of Macau."

"Why?" Yugo asks.

"Busuzima said government intelligence pin-pointed a pod on Macau and since there's some disturbance over there too, he thinks that one hasn't gone anywhere."

"Alrighty then. Bakuryu take care of Uriko. Alice, you wanna come with me to further interrogate this Chameleon guy?"

"Yeah alright, television sucks anyways." Alice says, following Yugo.

Bakuryu takes Uriko to the training room and Yugo heads back to the entrance hall to speak with Busuzima. On the way, he and Alice take a few minutes to make out and vacate all the stress of being away, and then finally go into the room.

There Busuzima was watching the news on the TV.

"Anything interesting?" Yugo asks, sarcastically.

"Actually yes mr. not so pleasant adolescent. There's reports of a fight in Macau, look."

Yugo and Alice worriedly look at the TV and yes, they see it; two beasts having an all out battle in the middle of a main square. They hardly recognized Falcon due to the angles of the camera but the other one must be the one they were looking for. But why were they fighting?

In Macau, Falcon was in his transformed state. A human sized peregrine falcon with his wings coming out of his back, a formed beak of course, his skin was now feathers, white and brown feathers, his head being white. He was fighting what seemed to be a big black thing. But he had find out he was a flea beast. The first insect Falcon even sees and it was the strongest legged one of them all. He was probably the fastest flying beast around, but he was having a very hard time dodging the god damn flea.

He was half done and she wasn't even breaking up a sweat so consequentially, he was getting really pissed. He manages, only god knows how, to grab a leg. He is pulled by the inertia of the jump and movement but when it ends, he holds her in the air and talks:

"Look! Stop! I'm your friend dammit! And people are getting hurt!"

"No friend of mine. Got no friends. You're just like the fire, you want to kill me!"

"NO! I'm LIKE you."

"No you're not! You just want to hurt me." The flea hits Falcon with his other leg, sending him flying against a building. That would have been it if Falcon wasn't used to flying at that kind of speed. He took control of his body and then diverted the dive and averted contact. He lands on the building he would have collapsed with and sees the flea landing on another one about a mile away.

In Kyoto, Yugo says out loud:

"Jesus Christ Falco, just knock him down already."

In Macau, Falcon says to himself:

"That's it. I'm not risking my life to bring you peacefully. C'mon…make the jump."

The flee takes aim, grabs on to the ledge of the building and leans over, readying a position to jump right into Falcon's lap.

From Falcon's perspective, he sees the little black dot disappear and appear in front of him; such was the speed and strength of the jump. But not fast enough…Falcon leans backwards and just sticks his falcon-like claws in the flea's torso. Again, the inertia makes it impossible for the flea to NOT get shredded, slashed from head to feet; Falcon's fingers are almost tore up in the process and even if it unstuck when it reached the toe, it still was enough to send him flying through two buildings.

The dust settles…the police wait for the army and for the first time the media froze up staring in awe. From the rubbles and debris of the second building, a red headed man with his blue trousers all messed up and full of scratches and cuts arises. If the beast's existence had not been public enough…this was public enough! He walks around 20 meters while everyone is still gasping. He digs through some more debris, grabs an arm and pulls it out.

It was a she after all; black hair and black eyes with such an ugly face, a little fat and small to make matters worse. Falcon felt sorry for her, she must've gone through a lot these last three years to lose her mind like that.

"What are you doing? You're surrounded by people, RUN!" Yugo comments from his living room.

Falcon remembers that fact, he was too weak to fly all the way back carrying her but neither of these people would recognize him as the falcon or the woman as the flea. No way had they got a close look at their clothes; he picks her up and walks towards the crowd, scared…

"PLEASE, somebody help me! We almost died in that, help us!" He shouts, in the middle of all the silence. Suddenly the crowd snaps out of it, along with the reporters. They start talking to their cameras:

"And it seems we have some survivors! Sir! Sir!" They run towards Falcon.

"Comments, did you see those monsters? Do you know where they are?"

"What? No, no please! I need someone to give me a lift to the hospital!"

"I'll give you a lift." A stranger offers.

"Oh, god bless you, bless your heart. Lead the way."

"These two will be fine thank god; all we ask ourselves now is…where are the monsters? Who is going to pay for this? Or better yet, what in the world is going on?"

In Kyoto, Yugo turns off the TV and comments:

"He'll throw out the driver and meet us here in a day or so. So Busuzima…tell us, why did you come to us?"

"Jenny found me she did. We met when I was fleeing the mafia. Went together through Europe these past two months but the tigers finally caught up to us, scary hunters they are. They took her. She used to talk about y'all often. Said this was a sanctuary for people like us..."

"Hey! Calm down Bakuryu…I'm dead tired." Uriko says, transforming back to human. "Can we rest a bit?"

"We are resting, if we're in the human state." Bakuryu comments, transforming back into his human form.

"Fine, keep training; I'll try to imitate your moves. I just wanted to talk a little with you."

"Oh alright, follow my lead then. And ask away."

"Well, what's the real deal with this place? What's your goal, do you have one?"

"Well, not a practical one no. We all came across each other by chance you know? Straighten your back, and use your hip on the attacks."

"Ah…alright. You've all met each other by chance?"

"Yeah, I and Yugo met when we were both scared and confused. We fought for a while but when Yugo beat me, he waited for me to wake up because he didn't want to be alone. Based on this we promised each other, once we could communicate right, to make a place where we wouldn't be alone. Once we found out there were more of us, misguided, forgotten or just plain disguised, we promised each other to open their eyes. We have to stick together; we're around 20 to a planet of billions. And me and Yugo found out through various experiences that man often seeks to only fulfil his interests."

"That is true." Busuzima says, three rooms across, to Yugo. "All the others were too much into the "bein' loyal" to think for themselves! It makes me sad it does but I couldn't remain there, no way. I dunno how or why but I knew I was being used I did! Jenny spoke of this place like a free place. One is welcome to stay but not obligated to do anything. You will forcefully bring a beast here and keep him here 'till you are sure he rationally is saying he's not interested. I am interested I am.

"Are you willing to fight alongside us?"

"Depends on what is at stake. Of how much you tell me. When a mission is taking place, I want to know whose it about, why, how, what and 2 back up plans at least. And be assured it's not a suicide mission, I'm sick of those I tell you."

"That's all pretty much our rule. We keep everyone on the level. But I gotta tell you…"

"Truth is Uriko…" Bakuryu says to Uriko, after landing a high kick on a wall. "We become really close to one another. Friends for life and brothers united kind of close. Some even closer…

"I noticed." Uriko giggles.

"I'm terribly worried about Jenny." Bakuryu reminds

"Busuzima, we want Jenny back." Yugo states.

"You want me to prove my loyalty right?" Busuzima asks. "By going undercover and retrieving Jenny."

"No. If you don't feel responsible for Jenny, that's alright, but we do. We never should have sent her alone."

"I do feel responsible I do. Truth be it, I want to help, but I won't go on a suicide mission."

"That's just it; we'll risk our lives for Jenny, just as she will endure any kind of torture instead of giving us up."

"And that's what scares me…" Bakuryu says, heartfelt. "She's like a big sister to me but I don't feel right just going alone. If I don't have the consent and help of everyone, it just doesn't feel right."

"Te-hee!" Uriko giggles, hugging Bakuryu and kissing him on the cheek. "You're all responsible and grown up. But I know what you mean; I obeyed Yugo when he told me to run when Gado and Shina attacked us. He just inspires people to follow him…"

"I'll help you I will…" Busuzima says. "But I want to plan with you and be an equal."

"We're all equals here Busuzima. We're all equals here. I'm glad you chose our side."

Miles away, an old man holding a whip turns to a naked Jenny and says:

"You will turn girl! Sooner or later, you will give all your loyalty to OUR side!"

"NEVER!" She screams, in pain.

Some other, different miles away, Gado arrives at the headquarters, side by side with Shina.

"You failed again…" The scientist realizes.

"Yes…I am sorry."

"Me too, my son. Me too…but all is not lost. I know that wolf man is just being lucky. I sent Stun to the Amazon in a desperate attempt to find that one last missing beast. The one in the mountains just fought and carried off the one in Macau. The rest is still at large."

In the thick jungles of the Amazon, Stun stands before a mighty man called Ganesha. Neither of them beat around the bush.

"I represent the government of a nation. It is regrouping all us beasts to help us get back our memories and guide us back to our home, to also create a relationship with our home. Will you join our side?"

"I have lived here for three years. But my people tell me they are not my people…that I should go to my true people and stand by them as I have done here. I will go with you Stun."

"You are doing the right thing Ganesha. Our leader shall be happy to hear these good news."

"Can you hear it? Can you smell it? Can you sense it?"

"What sire?"

"The air is filled with battle. Our brothers have chosen sides and factions and are ready to fight to death for their beliefs. But do not fear, we are far more powerful than all of them put together. My will be done, or thy might will fall!"

"We stand by your side sire." Ryoho vows.

"Aye." Uranos adds.

"The table is set, the sides have been chosen and the pieces are in motion. Let us not disappoint our misguided brethren…"

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THANK YOU FOR READING! Please review.

Alright, hope you liked it. This one was a little big I know. The Flea and the Falcon are my own characters, my touch for originality purposes. I'm sorry for any mistake, ortographic or grammatic or otherwise, but English is not my language. Still, judge it as if it was.

Thanks again, sya next time.

Kuzco