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Chapter 7
Inside the park
"Ryuga, look." Hikaru said floating forward. She points with her ghostly finger. "My body is just underneath that tree."
Ryuga doesn't say anything as he casually walks towards the tree with a floating Hikaru. He silently glances at Hikaru's joyful expression of finally being reunited with her lifeless body. "Hurry up." Ryuga said stopping in his tracks to look up at the starry sky above him. He places his hand on his hip.
As Hikaru continues her destination, her ghostly form starts to transform into a cyan orb.
A flash of a ruby red beyblade swiftly flies past Ryuga and absorbs the cyan orb. It flies back to Pluto's awaiting hand. "I knew if I left you two alone for a while. You'd come looking for her body. So predictable."
"You…" Ryuga sneers, swinging out his launcher and beyblade. "How dare you, punk."
"This hidden princess is a vessel of pure light. I need her more than you do." Pluto said in a coy voice with a few light chuckles. "Thank you very much for this great and glorious gift, Ryuga." He said, retreating with a wave of his hand.
"Hah… Coward. I'll defeat him soon enough." Ryuga said lowering his head down to look at Hikaru's lifeless body leaning against the tree trunk. A hint of guilt engulfs his insides. "Tsk. Even when she is finally gone, she is still so very annoying to me. What a nuisance she has come to be."
Inside the cavern
Pluto rips his cord to release his ruby red beyblade to spin next to the black one. The cyan orb transfers from the ruby red beyblade to the black one. The ground quakes and cracks open. A dark hand grabs hold of the soil ground.
"Welcome back, Master Rago." Pluto said with a magnificent bow.
"Pluto. How long have I been gone?"
"Five years, Master Rago."
"Five long years." Rago said squeezing a fist in his hand. "They will pay for doing this to me."
"Yes." Pluto agrees eagerly.
There is a huge explosion above them. They both simultaneously lift their heads up to look at a shadowy figure. Ryuga steps out and leaps in the air to land in front of them.
"Ah. So, you did manage to escape from Nemesis after all?" Rago said in sheer amusement at his rival.
"Hah. Don't be ridiculous. Of course, I have." Ryuga said raising his launcher with his beyblade there.
"Why are you challenging me?" Rago asks unamused. "I won last time."
"No reason." Ryuga said shrugging his shoulders. "I just want a worthy battle."
Pluto lightly chuckles. "Is it about the chosen princess of light?"
"Light. Darkness. What's the difference?" Ryuga snorts with a confident smirk. "I just want to bey battle to prove who is the true ruler. It is I, Ryuga, the Dragon Emperor."
Rago snorts amused with his eyes closed. "You, Ryuga, have not changed a bit."
Ryuga's smirk widens. "I've changed plenty."
"I see." Rago said swiftly opening his eyes and pulling out his own launcher with his beyblade. "We'll see just how much you've changed, Ryuga."
"How dare you." Ryuga said in between his teeth. "Don't get ahead of yourself."
"Same goes for you, Ryuga." Rago said in between his teeth.
"Let it rip." Ryuga and Rago shout as they rip their cords releasing their beyblades.
Pluto smiles deviously as he also rips his cord to his launcher to release his ruby red beyblade to help defeat Ryuga. A lilac beyblade prevents him from achieving his goal. "Dynamis."
"I'll fight to save Princess Esmeralda. That is the advice given to me by the Heavens." Dynamis said walking up to stand next to Ryuga.
"Get lost. I can handle them myself." Ryuga orders in anguish.
"I'm not here because of you." Dynamis said with an icy gaze at Ryuga. "I'm only here to save Princess Esmeralda from that darkness they are making her endure."
"Such nonsense chivalry you speak." Ryuga comments Dynamis. "Whatever." He said as he begins to focus more on his bey battle with Rago. "Just don't get in my way. You hear me?"
Dynamis coldly nods his head in agreement as he now focuses on his battle with Pluto.
"This seems fair enough. It is a duel battle over who will have the princess of light, Princess Esmeralda." Pluto said raising his hand upwards against his chest.
Dynamis gasps seeing a cyan orb within Pluto's ribcage. "Princess Esmeralda." He whispers underneath his breath.
Inside the darkness of abyss
Hikaru is sitting inside the darkness. Her once lively violet-shaded eye pupils are now widely darkened to reveal the lack of shine in her eyes. "Who… Who am I?"
Hikaru can hear distant screams and distant noises. All of her precious memories are scattered and lost to her memory of who she is. Her pure light is slowly fading away into pure darkness.
A flash of orange light barely catches her darkened lifeless eyes. Some white angelic feathers flutter around her body. Hikaru holds out her hands to catch a single feather in her palms. Hikaru sees a blurry image of a young man wearing an armor of dusty gold and a white cloak. His hair is purplish-gray. Her lips silently mouth a name of a distant past. The feather flutters away from her palms.
There is a loud dragon roar in the distant; Hikaru gasps lifting her head to look at the distant orange glowing orb. She blinks her eyes to see the fiery orange dragon fly towards her. It roars one last time in an attempt to reach out to her.
"P-Princess… Princess Esmeralda." Hikaru spoke as she starts to have a flow of memories return to her memory. She gasps seeing a bunch of memories fly into her body. Those are memories of her mother (Esmeralda), Tsubasa, Dynamis (General Kira), Ryuga, WBBA, and all her other treasured memories of her friends and family.
Flashback memory begins:
General Kira (Dynamis' past self) and Princess Esmeralda (Hikaru's past self) are holding hands in a symbol of their eternal and undying love for each other against the all-powerful Hades' shadow overshadowing them.
Their beyblades are continuously spinning in sync; one is lilac, Jade Jupiter, & the other is turquoise, Storm Aquio. The heavens and oceans bond together to protect the middle realm where civilianization exists.
Flashback memory ends:
"It is a hopeful love in one's heart that creates a pathway of shining light within darkness." Hikaru said in realization. Her beyblade, Storm Aquio, suddenly appears in front of her face. She catches the beyblade in her palms. Her violet-shaded eyes soften in relief to have her beyblade in her hands. She pulls out a launcher from her side and locks Storm Aquio into it.
"My old friend, Storm Aquio. I missed you." She said having her hand on a cord. "Please lead a pathway of light through the endless abyss of darkness. Let's go home. They are all waiting." She said holding up her launcher and letting it rip. "Storm Aquio." She shouts at the top of her lungs.
Storm Aquio spins gloriously and magnificently as if it was in a ballet. The turquoise beyblade creates a glittering and sparkling river-like pathway through the darkness for Hikaru to follow.
"Thank you. Thank you, Storm Aquio." Hikaru said running for an escape from the abyss of darkness. Her body begins to glow a cyan color as she reaches her destination.
Inside the cavern
Pluto bends forward as a cyan orb shoots out from his rib cage like a shooting star passing by Dynamis and Ryuga. They both smile in relief as they both silently call back their beyblades to their hands and make their retreat.
The cavern begins to tremble and collapse. Both Pluto and Rago fall into an eternal abyss. This eternal abyss is an entity realm known as the 'Light of Gaea'. Hikaru Hasama, the chosen princess of light, has left behind a trail of sparkling dust in her wake. She has casted this sealing spell to keep these evildoers from arising ever again because now they are trapped within light magic instead of dark magic.
Inside Hikaru's room
Hikaru swiftly flutters her eyes open. She turns her head to see Tsubasa peeling an apple. Her violet-shaded eyes begin to water in great relief. As she motions her stiff body to sit up, Tsubasa lifts up his head in alertness.
"Hikaru," Tsubasa said in disbelief. His golden-brownish eyes glitter in relief.
"Hey, Tsubasa." Hikaru said with a warm smile on her lovely face.
"Hikaru, you're all right." Tsubasa said hugging her in his arms. "I was so worried."
"Tsubasa." Hikaru softly whispers as she returns the hug.
Outside the collapsed cavern
"Princess Esmeralda," Dynamis said with a hurtful expression on his handsome face. "Whatever happiness you choose. I'll always be there to protect you. No matter the timeline or place. My love for you is eternally forever." He said raising his head up to look at the baby blue skies above him.
Ryuga has a small triumph smile on his lips. "I'm the Dragon Emperor. I don't need nonsense feelings." He said casually brushing off the unnecessary feelings. Ryuga silently walks away from Dynamis.
Dynamis silently stares at Ryuga's back until he is out of his sight.
