Here's Chapter 3! Thanks for reviewing and I'm glad some of you like it! About the Moon Trio, Amore likes Kyoya and is Leanna's arch enemy. Miranda likes Nile and is Zakia's arch enemy. Loren likes Alex and is Hikaru's arch enemy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Metal Fight Beyblade. I only own my OCs and this plot.

(Elyana's POV)

I woke up bright and early today. For the first time ever, I am excited about school! Yu is going to be there!

I quickly showered and got dressed. I ran down the stairs to prepare breakfast but Madoka was already there cooking pancakes. She smiled at me and said, "Good morning Elyana. You're up really early."

I grinned. "Well duh! Of course I will be! Yu is going to be in the same school and grade as me!"

She laughed. "You look like you're going to explode! Calm down and help me with breakfast."

"Oh, alright," I sighed.

As I helped her with the eggs and bacon, I thought about the usual bullying that I get every day at school. Not one student tries to get to know us, whether by fear or hate, and only a few teachers treat us kindly. I am the only one out of the eight in the eighth grade so I don't have anyone to back me up during classes or between classes. Next to Ra-Ra, my nickname for Mayra, I'm the easiest target.

Madoka and I just finished setting the table when the others came in. "Morning," we all said as we sat down.

Just when we were about to eat, the room went dark and the temperature dropped to freezing. I shivered in cold and fear. Lee-Lee (Leanna), Zoo-Zoo (Zakia), and Hiccup (Hikaru) stood up in high guard. Yinny (Yin), Che-Che (Cheri), and Doe-Doe (Madoka) looked around the room with wide-eyes. Ra-Ra and I grabbed a butter knife and looked around shakily.

"What's going on?" I asked. The room was getting darker and darker and the shadows seem to move. I looked out the window. The sun was still shining brightly but no light came in. Suddenly, I felt more than one pair of eyes watching me.

I saw Lee-Lee's eyes widen in realization and…fear. This can't be good if Leanna is showing fear. She growled and her lion ears, tail, and claws popped out. "Shades," she snarled, showing off her long, sharp fangs. Her irises became small and lion-like.

Shades! This can't be possible! Like Amalgams, they can't appear in the human world with power unless…They have a magic item!

"What do we do?" Yinny asked. I can tell that she and the others had the same thought. "Where are they?"

Before Leanna or anyone else can answer, the room went back to being bright and sunny. The air became warmer. The eyes that I felt watching us were now gone. But that didn't mean I eased up.

"They're gone," Leanna said, still wary. She made her ears, tails and claws disappear and her eyes went back to normal. She kept her top canine teeth slightly sharper than normal though. "But they are in the city. We have to be careful."

"Leanna," Madoka said, "why are they here right now?"

"It's been nine years," Hikaru said.

Leanna shook her head. "I don't know why it took so long but in a way, it's a good thing. It gave us time to grow and train. But now that they are here, the mission has now truly started."

I fidgeted. I've always knew that our mission to restore our world is going to start soon. I know we have to fight the Shades but this is all we know. We don't know what else we need to do to restore Athol, the home of all Amalgams. Despite the nine years of research, we know nothing else. The only clue our parents left us with those boxes were…wait!

"The boxes!" I exclaimed. They looked at me. "Didn't the letters say to open them again when the Shades arrive here? It said it will give us help."

We looked at each other and nodded. "It is nearly time for school," Zakia pointed out. "If we are late again, we'll be suspended. We have to do this later."

"Yes but we should take the boxes just in case," Leanna said.

In five minutes, we were all in front of the house with our backpacks and the boxes. My box was a red-orange color with a fire emblem on the top and my name, Elyana Thorn, in yellow. I put it in a secret pocket in the inside of my hoodie.

"Let's go," Hikaru said. She looked at her watch that I gave her for her birthday. "We have only half an hour to get to school. We will have to run."

We nodded. Just when we were about to leave, the air went below zero and the shadows moved and thickened. Said shadows lunged at us like shapeless wild animals.

Uh oh, I thought.

"RUN!" the twins shouted and we ran without hesitation.

We narrowly dodged them and ran down the path towards the exit. The shadows were fast and were just five feet behind us. We tapped into out animal side. Mayra, Cheri, and Yin flew. I began swinging in the trees. The twins, Hikaru, and Madoka ran in their animal forms.

We were only five yards away from the exit when Leanna thought to us, "The boys are at the entrance!"

We quickly transformed back to our full human forms and ran out into the light. The shadows behind us hissed and retreated. We didn't stop running though.

"We're going to be late for school!" we shouted.

I grabbed Yu's arm and dragged him along, almost literally. The other boys ran with us, trying to keep up. The school is fifteen blocks away and we were running in our full speed in human forms, which is probably faster than most since we trained for years.

By the time we reached the school, the boys were sweating and panting while the girls and I were perfectly fine. Well, this isn't our first time being late or being close to.

"You…" Yu gasped, "how…don't drag me…Ely…You are too fast!"

I blinked and then grinned. "Sorry Yu! We have only…"

"Ten minutes to get to class," Hikaru answered.

"What!" we shouted.

"Do you have your schedule?" I asked Yu.

He nodded, still tired. "Yeah. They mailed it to us yesterday morning. I have Mr. Fujimaki for homeroom."

"Great!" I squealed. "He's my homeroom too!"

I grabbed his arm and forced him to run to class with me. I ignored his pleas to slow down and the weird looks the others gave me.

The school had three different buildings: the left for junior high, the middle for high school, and the right for elementary. Since the junior high building was on the left side of the school area, it only took me five minutes to get to the third floor where Mr. Fujimaki's class was. We reached the door and Yu nearly collapsed.

I bit my bottom lip, feeling sorry for him, and handed him my canteen. He looked at me in question.

"Drink some," I told him. "It's a sugar drink that I made so I won't fall asleep in class. It helps with exhaustion as well."

Yu smiled at me and drank a few gulps. When he finished, he looked energized and…ah, what's the word…breathing better.

"Thanks, Ely," he said as he handed me back my canteen.

"You're welcome!"

We went into the class together and everyone turned their eyes to us. I avoided the glares and sneers sent at me and sat at my desk in the far corner of the room.

"You are just in time, Ms. Thorn," Mr. Fujimaki said strictly. "You should be more punctual, something you have yet to work on."

I stopped my eye roll and nodded at him. Mr. Fujimaki is a strict, black haired and brown-eyed teacher in his late thirties. He wore a white blouse, a tan coat and matching dress pants, dark brown shoes, and a red tie. To me, his attitude is as sour and bitter as Brussels sprout juice mixed with lemon. "And you must be the new student, Yu Tendo," he said to Yu. "Introduce yourself and say at least three things about yourself."

Yu grinned and nodded. He turned to the class and most of the girls blushed. "Hi. I'm Yu Tendo. I love sweets and animals and so far, my only friend in this grade is Elyana."

The entire class gasped and Mr. Fujimaki raised an eyebrow. Yu turned to him and asked, "May I sit next to her?"

Mr. Fujimaki nodded and Yu sat at the empty desk next to me. Whispers immediately filled the room when he did. This time, I really did an eye roll.

Luckily, the school bell rang and we got up to our next class. We had math first than literature. After that, I had social studies while Yu had science

Yu and I had home economy, my most favorite class ever, right before lunch.

Our teacher in this class is Mrs. Okano. She's the nicest and most motherly teacher in the entire Cherry Hills. She's the only teacher and one of the only people in the whole city who actually like me and my sisters. She's a woman in her mid-forties with thin, brunette hair tied in a bun and brown eyes that reminds me of a triple-layer, milk chocolate cake. She always wears simple floral dresses and a white apron over it with her name stitched on the left pocket on her chest.

"Good morning class," Mrs. Okano greeted. "Today, we will be cooking desserts. Partner up and choose a recipe from the cookbooks. You have now to prepare it and after lunch, it should be finished for you to decorate and eat or save. Get to work."

Yu and I partnered up and chose a table in the back. After ten minutes of discussing, we chose to make vanilla cupcakes. I made the batter for the cake. Yu made the vanilla icing that he put into different bowls and added food coloring to make different colors. By the time lunch came, we put the batter in two cupcake trays in total of sixteen and in the oven.

The bell rang for lunch. Yu and I grabbed our stuff and ran to the lone cherry blossom tree in the far corner of the school. My sisters and I would always go there for lunch since, like us, that cherry blossom tree is an outcast. It's symbolizes our group.

Everyone else was already there and eating. "Hi guys!" I chirped and I sat down next to Mayra.

"Hey," they said back.

"How were your classes?" Mayra asked me.

I grinned. "Yu and I are making vanilla cupcakes for Home Ec. It will be great!"

"Coming from you, we know it will," Madoka complimented, making me beam.

"Speaking of cupcakes," Gingka said, "while we were walking to school, you know, before you made us run, we passed by a bakery that is supposed to open this Saturday."

"Oh," Yin said, "Sweet Garden Bakery. Mrs. Okano's daughter is running that shop. She's really cool and the only one who treats us nice other than Mrs. Okano. Althea is a good friend of ours."

"I thought you said you never had friends before us," Alex said.

I coughed. Mayra, Yin, Cheri, and Madoka grinned sheepishly. Zakia and Hikaru nearly froze. Leanna stayed as calm as ever. "We never had friends from this city before you boys came," I explained after taking a gulp of my sugar drink. "Mrs. Okano and her daughter, Althea, are from another country. They came to Metal Bey a few days before us so they don't exactly count as we already know them."

"Which country did you come from?" Nile asked.

"Brazil/China/Kenya/France/Australia/America," we all said at once. The boys blinked.

"Then, which country did she come from?" Kyoya asked with narrowed eyes.

"America," we answered.

"How do you all know each other?" Tsubasa asked.

"We're cousins," we said at once.

"Oh."

"How about you boys?" Cheri asked.

"We are all from north of Japan," Masamune answered. "We've been friends for years and we all moved here by coincidence."

"Oh."

An uncomfortable silence crept between us. We all ran out of things to say.

I mentally groaned when I remembered how we reacted when Alex asked us about not having friends before them. To be truth, Mrs. Okano and Althea, her daughter, are Amalgams as well and are family friends. They don't have a magic item to aid them though like we do so they don't have their magic or their ability to transform here. They did fled from Athlon a few days before us, or that's what the twins said as they are the only ones who remember, and went to this city. It was by chance and luck that we met up with them.

The bell rang again and we threw away our lunch and went to class.

In Home Economy, the cupcakes turned out perfect!

"They smell great," Yu said as he drooled a little.

I scolded him. "Don't drool on the cupcakes! They still need to be decorated." Hey, I may be a sweet addict but I like my food finished before they are salivated on.

"How will we decorate them?"

I thought about it and grinned. "You have experience in icing, right?"

"I'm not an expert but I can."

"Great! Just put the icing any way you want and you can top it off with any other decor." I placed a few bowls of different toppings on the table.

Yu shrugged and we filled up the pastry bags with the colored vanilla icing separately. I decorated each of the cupcakes differently for each of my sisters and myself. I decorated mine with a red flame, Mayra's with a yellow lightning bolt, Cheri's with an ocean blue dew drop, and Yin with a sky blue cartoon twister. Madoka's I decorated with a pink star, Hikaru with a navy blue diamond, Zakia with a gold and green sunflower, and Leanna with silver and black moonflower. I topped it all off with chocolate and vanilla cookie crumbs that I sprinkled on the sides of the frosting.

I breathed in deeply and grinned, satisfied with my work. I looked over and saw that Yu was finished as well. All of them were the normal pile of swirls but each was a different color: orange, purple, lime green, light purple, blue, grey, yellow, and dark green. The chocolate or vanilla sauce dripped down from the top to the bottom of the icing like lava from a volcano and was sprinkled with colorful sprinkles.

"They look great, Yu," I said to him.

Yu grinned at me and his mouth gapped when he saw mine. "They are nothing compared to yours, Ely. How can you finish that so quickly?"

I giggled. "I've been cooking for years, especially in dessert. That's why I cook most of the meals in the group."

Yu smirked. "Do you always have to be watched?"

I pouted. I'm sure he's referring to yesterday morning. "Yes but sometimes Madoka, Hikaru, Cheri, Yin, and Mayra forgets when it's their turn. It was Hikaru's turn yesterday morning so you can't put the whole blame on me."

Yu laughed. "Sure I can't."

I just stuck my tongue out at him.

The bell rang and we asked Mrs. Okano to hold the desserts for us until after school. She nodded and put them in the fridge in the classroom.

Luckily, the school day went by quicker than normal (it was still slow though) and Yu and I met up with the others in the front of the school. We each gave them their cupcakes.

"You made this?" the boys asked Yu warily as they took their cupcakes.

"Is this safe?" Tsubasa asked.

Yu pouted and crossed his arms. "I only made the icing. Elyana made the actual cake, alright? At least my icing is safe."

The boys sighed in relief and took a bite. Their eyes sparkled but Kyoya quickly hid it. (Tough boy, I thought). "This is great," they said.

I beamed. "Thank you! Why were you worried when you thought Yu made it?"

The boys scrunched up their noses and held their stomachs like they were about to throw up. "Yu isn't…well…" Gingka said slowly.

"Yu sucks at cooking," Kyoya said straight out. Yu pouted again.

"Last time we had one of his cooking, we were in the toilet for a week," Hyoma growled.

"When was that?" Leanna asked with a smirk.

"Three years ago," they answered.

Yu sulked while the girls and I chuckled. "Don't worry, Yu," I told him. "I'll teach you how to cook."

Yu brightened up. "Thanks, Ely! You are a great friend."

"What are friends for?"

"Aww," Yin and Cheri cooed except Cheri had stars in her eyes and her voice was dreamy while Yin had a happy tone.

I stared wide-eyed at Cheri while the other girls gapped at her. Leanna pinched the bridge of her nose while she shook her head and muttered, "May luck be with you, Elyana."

The boys stared at us weirdly. "Umm…"

"Don't give me that star-eyed look, Che-Che!" I screamed in fear as I hid behind Lee-Lee. "I don't want you messing with that part of my life."

Cheri pouted. "Aw, but Ely…why can I not?"

"NO!" the other girls but Yin shouted. Yin laughed. If you are wondering why I am acting like this...well, I'll just tell you that she isn't nicknamed the 'Fashionable Matchmaker' for nothing.

The boys shook their heads, still confused. "We have to go," Alex said. "We'll see you girls tomorrow."

"See you," we said as we began to leave the campus.

When the boys were out of sight, we began to run. When we reached the forest, we transformed into our animal forms. I tried my best not to scream since we were near the entrance and then we ran/flew to the mansion.

It was time to open the boxes once again.

And done! I hope you liked it! By the way, I'm planning on writing another AU story. I already wrote the first two chapters and I'm still considering if I should post it or not. Here's the summary of it:

AU. Madoka Amano and her friends are just normal school girls to public eyes. In reality, they are the famous band: Masquerade. Their lives are as normal as it can be. That is, until that red-headed boy and friends that only The Masquerade can see came into the picture. They should NOT have read the fine print. Literally.

It will be rated T for some swearing and maybe some violence. If anyone is interested, I might post it. I have a lot of ideas in my head but I'm mostly writing the AUs since they come easier. I want to post it but at the same time I'm not sure. So, please review!