Title: Heat Of The Phoenix
Author: Pentagramy
Pairings: KaixTakao, ReixMax, HiroxOC, KennyxHilary.
Warnings: Yaoi, mpreg, AU, rape-like for a while.
Disclaimer: As much as I would love to lay claim to Beyblade, I don't have the papers. And I'm kinda scared of working with devils. (lawyers) So I don't own anything.
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Summary: AU. Takao, a young child dragon, is in his first heat. Kai, a young man phoenix, the legendary Blaze of Glory, is forcefully helping. What will come of it?
Heat Of The Phoenix
Chapter Four: I Want Home, So Chase Me Harder
Max was hiding in a small, waist-deep water flooded cave.
He'd run three hours, and it was now the dead of night. The water was freezing. But that fact didn't bother the boy. What did was the fucking huge Crouching Tiger that was simply waiting outside the cave.
Max stood at the side of the cave, cold, wet back pressed to the wall. This was nothing new, all Turtles hid as children in wet caves and stuff. Not bad. But hiding with Tigers above them? It never happened. And when the Tigers just so happen to be Royal Tigers, who are supposed to being "unfavorable because of desires?" Never in the histories of mating, wars, or fun playing did that ever happen.
Never.
Unsure, Max waited till a Turtle would've given up. Sadly, he forgot about the patience Tigers have in mate chases. As the boy swam slowly threw, he thought of mates.
Emperor Rei was so not a perfect mate for Max. At all. Like most male Tigers, he thought the one who carried should stay in the bedroom/kitchen/garden/nursery—anywhere that somehow was girly and was out of harm's way for the most part. Well, the blonde wasn't sure, but that's what he was guessing as he waded out of the deep cave.
While that was fine for some of his friends at home, being pampered and loved and coddled, the boy didn't want that. His friends even had some fighter boys that just didn't want to do work that day and were tossing around the idea. A little sister squealed on her older brother—one of the fighter boys—and last Max heard, he had a baby on the way, a twenty-two-year-old mate, even if the boy was only fourteen himself.
Max didn't ever want that to happen to him. He'd make sure it'd never happen! Or at least he'd try. Being from a Royal family meant doesn't always mean you can make certain and solid plans for your future.
However, Max, forgetting a Tiger's patience levels, wondered out fully after a bit wading.
And, low and behold, a white and green striped Crouching Tiger waited lazily for him, head in paws.
Max squeaked and made himself into a Music Turtle. The Turtle was yellow-skinned and blue-shelled, tiny dull claws coming out of his hands and feet. His blue eyes were wide and scared. He was very tiny, about the size of a chicken. Rei was huge, about the size a… Well, a big male Tiger.
Max squeaked and scampered away. Slowly. Like a Turtle speed slowly.
This wasn't going to end well.
Takao dropped to the comfortable couch just as there was a knock. He groaned. He was tired, damnit! Getting rid of the shock factor about you being pregnant with a legendary ruler's first kid was draining.
Briefly, he wondered if he could send whoever it was away with a "Kai said leave" before he called, "It's opened!"
A girl threw the door open, resulting a loud 'bang'. It'll probably dent, Takao thought lazily.Oh well. I don't have the energy to care right now.
He did close his eyes and mumble about dumb servants denting the damn walls, though. Apparently, the girl heard. How'd Takao know? She answered in a screeching voice:
"TAKAO! GET YOUR ASS OUTTA BED! WE GOTTA GO!"
With a 'thunk', the pregnant boy fell off the couch. Did he forget he was naked?
Damn it! Takao cursed, grabbing the blanket and pulling it around him as he angrily marched to the closet. Normally he wasn't this bad to servants, but he was tired, mated, pregnant, at the Phoenix King's castle, countries away from home, and being yelled at by the servant.
He had a right to be grumpy. Slamming the closet door open and closed, he searched randomly for clothes. He ended up with tight black pants that just fit him and a sapphire studded black leather belt. His shirt was a loose dark brown turtleneck. He tugged on some loose white socks and black boots. The boots looked like they belonged to a girl.
Takao was willing to bet Kai was laughing at him right now.
Dropping the blanket, he walked out of the closet, closed it, and walked halfway across the room just to drop on the bed. He looks fourteen instead of twelve, Hilary noted. Nice change.
As Takao looked up, he realized it was his friend Tachibana Hilary, but he didn't have the energy to celebrate his lost friend's return to him.
The girl—Hilary—had hair that flipped at its ends by her shoulders. It was shiny and brown, that's for sure. Her skin was normal, her build normal, her hair was basically normal, and her chocolate eyes normal, too. All in all, she was normal. She was Hilary.
"Takao!" she shouted, throwing herself at him. "How are you?!"
"B-breathe!" the bluenette gasped out, and Hilary realized she was choking him.
"I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed, fawning over him. "I didn't mean—"
"Is the reason, by any chance, your not beating me up because of the baby?" Takao asked irritably.
"…Maybe."
"Great." Takao rolled his eyes.
An hour later, the young dragon was beat tired and ready to scream. The baby wasn't even close to here! Stop worrying! It didn't stop Hilary from being her "mother hen mode" self.
Ugh.
After going through the Kingdom's main city, Takao was, again, ready to scream. It was nice, open, and not like the Dragon's Kingdom's main city. It was perfect! But it was huge and tiring to walk through. The city…
Ugh.
Around the corner, there was a café they were going to eat at. Finally. Takao smiled, and flopped in his chair. Hilary looked him over and over.
"What's wrong?" she asked finally. "We used to walk around your city, and you never got tired. But now…"
"Because," the boy uncharacteristically snapped. "I was in my city. Not some Phoenix one, getting some stuff for some baby that's father I barely remember, let alone conceiving him!"
Hilary sniffled and then thought. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "I get it!"
"What?" Takao bit.
"Your supposed to be super tired, and your cranky when your tired!" she bubbled in a I-know-more-then-you way, that had a side of hush-it'll-be-fine. "Your baby is Phoenix, in a Dragon womb. Duh. Totally normal, what you're feeling."
The now-Queen glared.
Hitchhiking wasn't fun, Max decided. He hitched and hitched and hitched, but didn't get any hike. Of course, maybe that was because a Tiger paw was on his shell, keeping him firmly in place. Golden eyes and a white head looked and twisted curiously to him and at him.
Odd little thing his to-be mate was…
So, noticing his "getaway" wasn't getting away, Max did what any Turtle would do. Stopped, plopped in his shell and waited… Waited, plotting… Just waiting and plotting…
This plotting went unnoticed by Tiger, who happily put his paw into the shell to stroke his future mate. Sadly, the poor Royal got pain because of it. Ouchies.
Max smiled as he bit the paw with sharp, sharp turtle teeth. He was out of his shell, being waved in the air by a frantic Rei, but was still happy. He was winning! Yet all the while the little Royal was thinking his childhood rhyme:
"I'm a little snapping Turtle; I'm a little snapping Turtle…"
Imagine, Hilary, a mere servant, allowed to help Takao, the now-Queen of Phoenix Lands, the largest of all the Lands, with his pregnancy. Shopping with him and acting as someone who'd give Kai daily reports on Takao and the baby's progress without Takao finding out. This position, in Phoenix Lands, was extremely important.
Sure, in other Lands, like the Dragon's, it was consider "unnecessary" and "pitiful". But no! In Kai's Lands, it was an important job. Because there was one per pregnancy, mostly the same female every pregnancy, and it meant you were welcomed into the parents' and child's lives.
And Royalty, being Royalty, held these values up more then anyone else. And that was saying something. Now, a servant, being the Queen's first, and most likely only, Mid-pregnant—the position—was breathtaking and unheard of.
Hilary had been envy and rejoiced over by her family and friends. Then… she lost him. She lost the King's little mate! How could she! Pregnant, probably scared and confused… Oh dear.
She. Was. Dead.
Takao smiled, gripping a light pole of the Royal City of Dragons. He ran and hitchhiked a little, walking most of the way. Okay, he ran a quarter, walked a quarter, and caught rides a half of the way—a.k.a. "hitchhiking". But finally…
He was home.
The Royal danced some steps, and then took off running. It was horrible, his pregnancy. The thing was, most don't feel pregnancy till later on. Takao, being Dragon and taking in a Phoenix-bred child, was suffering from the effects of exhaustion.
It was a true tragedy to Takao. First, he was missing his old clothes, especially the letter his ancestor wrote him personally. Him. No one else got letters like that. He knew it was important, and he probably wouldn't be in the mess he was if he'd read it.
He knew it.
But it was too late, and he was coming on to the Royal guard crossing place. He'd worry tomorrow. Tonight was about home. But… Takao thought. If it was about home, why do I feel I am away from it? Like I'm in some foreign Lands? That is strange and somewhat hostile?
Troubled, Takao talked to the Guards, setting up a late trip to the palace that would take place in moments. As he stood by the banks to the lake that surrounded the massive—but smaller then Kai's, he noted—castle he had to wonder.
Now that I don't feel this is home…Where is?
Kai screamed and yelled and kicked and thrashed in his personal room. His mate was missing. That was enough for him to go on a rampage. His mate! His new mate! The one that was fourteen, the one that was so small, the one that could barely take care of himself!
Well, no one would agree with Kai on the last one, but Kai himself. Simply for the fact that the King was a direct descendant of the Highests, and he years on Takao, so he could easily beat him. No one else could say they had that luxury.
But still! He trusted Hilary—that damned servant—to take good care of his small baby. And now he's gone! Not only that, his unborn babe was gone, too. That worried Kai to know end. Not because he didn't believe his babe could take any throne with ease, no that wasn't it, he was worried because of the Phoenix blood in his child.
Phoenixes were natural predators to Dragons. His child could rip threw Takao's skin like breaking a glass doll. That fact scared the ruler, and should probably scare others. If the child ever got angry enough, ever got frustrated enough… Takao and his family could get hurt.
Flopping on the bed, Kai made the walls shimmer and change color. They went from dusty gold—a seduction color in firey Lands—to deep red. Not crimson, just deep, deep red. The man sighed again and flipped over. His lover and baby… Out all alone.
Closing his eyes, he pinpointed them in his mind. They were at the Dragon castle, safe. Takao, his little baby Takao, was nestled in his covers, arms wrapped protectively around his stomach. He could feel his babe quickly developing—Phoenix and Dragon pregnancies only lasted five or six months.
Smiling faintly, Kai let himself drift to sleep. His lover and baby were safe, tucked away in a heavily guarded castle, wrapped in warm blankets. But just because they were safe didn't mean he wasn't going to pay a visit to Dragon Lands tomorrow, with peace agreements.
And with an intent to retrieve his little lover and heir, bringing them back to safe, warm, strong Lands known as Phoenix.
Pent: R&R!
Teaser for Next Chapter: Max finally is made the Royal Tiger's mate, Kai fights with the Royal Dragon family, and Takao is told the mating story of Quilan and Hiro. By the way, what the hell is with him and deciding to nurse Aya, his brother's daughter?!
P.S. Updates will be slower, as I have something called "an overloading work week". Soccer four times and school and massive amounts of homework all through the week factor into this. Sorry. I even suffer burnout in the middle of the week, so we'll see. I'll try to keep up at least once a week or two, and reviews spur me on. So review!
