A Light Within the Darkness
Chapter 4
Roz had to blow up the doors into the gates. They'd had tried to lock her out, but they hadn't counted on the fact that she's could blow things up using her black energy. Nurzak was a wise one, she was sure he knew she was going to Neathia. She stepped through the half melted, sizzling doorway. The gates laid out before her, all in a circle beside each other. One was meant for the human's world, the other was meant for Neathia, One for Gundalia. There were others she didn't get to read however. The young gundalian lad she met earlier stepped forward for a shadow. "Nurzak knew you want to come here." Roz couldn't help but smile. "He had you wait here all along?" He shifted his weight to one of his feet as he leaned into the wall. "There is no point in asking a question I'm sure you already know the answer to." Roz's smile got bigger. She's would have to give this one more credit too. "Why do you want to go to Neathia?" he asked Roz. "I have questions that are unanswered, and only something there can answer there can answer them." Roz held up a hand to silence the boy. "Neither of are daft here, so I'll just say no, I'm not going to follow the same path as my father." The boy tilted his head back, resting it against the wall. "You won't?" "No, I wont!" Roz snapped. "But I do know one thing for sure, and it is that I am going, no matter what." She turned away from the boy. "Isn't your name Ren?" "Yeah, what of it?" he asked. "How much do you know about me?" I asked him. Ren shook his head. "All I know is Nurzak was searching for you for a long time, meaning you are someone important." Roz withdrew the journal from the inside of her hooded cloak. "I have not read all of what is inside of this journal yet, but I will eventually." Roz tossed it to him, and he caught it, looking at it curiously. "Read it. Don't tell Nurzak you have it, he might not like that much." She shifted her gaze over to the Gate. "Wasn't your hair a different color?" Ren asked. I scowled and began to move forward to the travel gate. "I will come to collect it from your hands eventually." Roz moved quickly towards the gate, not bothering to answer his question. The light from the portal seemed to consume her as she passed through. After she was gone, Ren looked down at his wristwatch and spoke into it. "You catch all that Nurzak?" there was grumbling on the other end. "We have to speak to Queen Fabia immediately." Ren agreed.
Neathia
Fabia sat bored in her throne hall. Being a ruler was so boring, why did she ever sign up for this garbage. Because your elder sister wanted to be a representative for Gundalia and Neathia? Her conscience asked. Fabia frowned. Just then, a screen popped up with a Neathian soldier speaking to her. "Queen Fabia, there is a transmission call coming from Gundalia, it's Nurzak it seems." Fabia couldn't help but show surprise. "Put him through." Nurzak's face came up on a screen that had appeared, Ren stood behind him a little distance. "My Queen Fabia, we have a problem." Nurzak said. Fabia stiffened. "What problem?" Nurzak cleared his throat. "We need you to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity, as a Gundalian has forced her way into the portal room here, and she seems to have a target in mind." Fabia frowned. "Target?" she deadpanned. "Yes, the Sacred orb." Fabia's eyes blanked out slightly. Nurzak nearly cringed. Fabia had lost much during the war, and so had her people. "There is surely more. Tell me. And besides, our intruder will have to deal with our new guard dog." Fabia grinned knowingly. Fabia took her eyes off the screen for a moment, as her eyes rested on a different one for a moment. "Neathian guards have already been informed and are on the lookout. Now, what aren't you telling me?" She turned her gaze back to where Nurzak's screen was, and scowled. How rude, the old man had skipped out on her. "He is avoiding our question it seems." Aranaut said. He appeared from behind Fabia, hovering before her. Fabia stretched out a hand to her bakugan, and he landed with a click in her palm. "Well, Aranaut, should we go visit the sacred orb for our answer?" Aranaut nodded. "I agree, but I advise above all things, caution." So it was to be. Moments later, they stood just outside the great hall that held the sacred orb. Fabia didn't understand how the sacred orb had come back, she thought it had absorbed itself into Dan's bakugan, Drago. Fabia heard a strange voice coming from inside the hall. She stared down at Aranaut, who regarded her with the same gaze, silently screaming caution. They moved to the edge of the door, listening through it. "You're the Sacred Orb huh? I was hoping… I could get some answers from you.." They both entered through the doorway, only to find a hooded individual get up and whirl to face them. "Shit." The hooded figure cursed. Fabia winced visibly. "Such language." She replied distastefully. "I seek answers as well, answers not even Nurzak would give me… Perhaps you will enlighten me?" The figure put her feet together, bowing gracefully. "Your majesty." The mysterious one replied. Fabia was about to speak again when a roar erupted through the hall, and a massive white blue charged at the hooded figure., who listed a fine line of profanities. She nearly got hit by the creature. "Lumigrowl!" Fabia yelled. Through all the dust that had been raised, a white wolf with six tails that fanned out behind him. "I sense…. Barodius!" The wolf like bakugan hissed. Fabia stared. It couldn't be, she was reassured that Barodius was dead, after Daniel had defeated him a second time. The figure started to laugh. "What's so funny?" the wolf demanded. The woman lowered her hood, and an abundance of purple and white hair exploded forth. It hung down to her waist in length, and Fabia stared, immediately catching the resemblance as the wolf did. He began to rumble. "It cannot be." Fabia replied "But it is, surely?..." Green slitted eyes met the Neathian Queen's. "Allow me to introduce myself." The young girl raised a hand up in the air, and Lumigrowl and Fabia both tensed, expecting an attack. But no attack came. Instead, two images formed beside her. They both recognized them and gasped. A hologram form of the late Emperor Barodius and a hologram of a tall, blonde gundalian in a pink dress appeared. The girl stood in the center. "I am the daughter of the late emperor, and the Daughter to Kazarina, who worked under the emperor's rule." Lumigrowl stared at the unmoving hologram, and snapped out of it as it disappeared. "You seek to follow your father's path as well then?" Lumigrowl snarled. "No." The short answer stunned them both. "Then why?-" "The same reason you came before me. Answers." The girl replied. Just then, there was a slight ringing sound that came to their ears. They stared as the girl's hair and eyes turned completely different shades. "Ah… not again." Fabia moved forwards slowly, still gazing with unblinking eyes. "That has happened to you more than once?" The girl sneered. "Welcome to the benefits of being your mother's pet science project." Lumigrowl began to half howl. All heads snapped in his direction. "Why, why have you come, to haunt me?!" Lumigrowl snapped.