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"Masquerade" Said, the voice of his mother.
Masquerade who looked to be two years old, wore a yellow shirt with a moving teddy bear face on it, it would do cute face's, that at first, he found appalling but he quick learned to be thankful for the fact it didn't make sounds.
As long he didn't look at it, he could wear it like a normal shirt.
He always also wore jeans with blue and white boots that had transparent wing's on the back.
This planet had advanced once again and there were flying kids everywhere.
Depending on the price, it determined how high a person can fly.
His parents brought him the kind that had a child friendly lock on it, yes, it was more expensive but if they were to malfunaction then it would be worth the price.
"Yes, mommy?" Masquerade said, stopping playing with the realistic action figures that were running in fear of the remotecontrol car that was trying to roll them over.
Many of their brother's had already fallen to the demon child.
"It's time for bed" Alice said, she wore a flowery yellow dress, her radiance was warm and welcoming.
"I don't feel tired though, mommy." Masquerade said, before he yawned.
His mother gave him an amused look, when he tried to hide it.
But his eyes were dropping, he did not know that his mother had picked him up and changed the scenery to the bathroom.
His clothes were taken off and the band on his arm was taken off, showing his true self.
She then proceeded to wash him, despite his 'protests'.
When he was cleaned, he wore a cute fish onesie and was carried to his bed.
His baby cot, had been swapped out for a small proper bed.
His cot had been given to one of his mother friends, who recentally had a baby.
The couple was thankfully that she was so genrious knowing how expensive it was to get a brand new one.
Masquerade was tucked into bed when his father came along.
"Xana.E?" Alice said.
"I've come to say good night to our son" Xana.E said. "Flower and her husband, have decided to sleep in early. They plan to go out tommrow, with their baby girls."
The two were now proud parents of twin girls, both of them had the power to switch attributes due to the two types of Bakugan, their parents were.
Soon their kid's are going to go out and find their own partners and their parents wanted to prepare them for that.
Then the man walked to his son's side and ruffled his yellow hair lovingly and said. "Good night son"
Masquerade, who would have been annoyed if he wasn't used it had learned to enjoy the love shown to him.
"Good night, daddy" Masquerade said.
"Good night, my sweet baby" Said, his mother, giving him a kiss on the forehead.
"Goodnight, mommy" Masquerade said.
Both of them gave him a hug before teleporting out of the room.
Masquerade could still feel the warmth from them.
Before this life, he never know how great it was to have parents.
It wasn't bad having somebody to always care about his well being and protect him.
Little thing's like eating homecooked meals, was a precious thing that he had realised how important it was to have.
Masquerade was changing due to having no need to fight, he was even starting to forget his inner desire to go against strong opponents.
And Hydronid, who was on the ledge, on the nearby window, faking to be asleep, could sense that too.
And he wasn't happy about it.
Ch 7: Both of them are high maintenace.
"Hydrnoid?" Masquerade said, for some reason his Bakugan had been unusally quiet lately.
"Masquerade" Hydronid said, what he said next shocked him. "I'm leaving"
"….what?" Masquerade said, his big eyes widening.
"It's not working out" Hydronid said, "I am a Bakugan who was born to fight strong opponents. When you were created, we both existed just to fight, we were shackled by that lunatic. When we were free, you dissappeared and I was given to Alice. However, Alice never wanted to fight. I felt like I was dying before I left. Now I found you, and I waited patiently for you to be able to throw me but I see, that having a family has effected you"
In his eyes, Masquerade having family has made him weak just like Alice.
However, he was wrong.
"Hydronoid. I know I've changed" Masquerade said, "But it doesn't make me weaker. Having a family, I can finally see what made Dan Kuso so strong. Or you going to deny the fact, that we lost to him? What about me being forced to team up with Alice because I couldn't do it alone?"
What Masquerade said was the crushing truth.
In the past, all they cared about fighting, they rose in power and obtain number one.
However, somebody who had come from a completely different world to them, who grow up with friends and family, managed to chase after them, when they should have been unstoppable.
Dan Kuso had grabbed them and became number 2.
When they battled again, there was a clear difference between the two of them.
While he was pushing himself to overcome his opponent, Dan was enjoying himself.
He was ENJOYING himself.
They lost to a person who was enjoying the battle.
Having friends and family should have made Dan weaker then them and yet...
They lost.
"Being here. I want to find out why having friends and family allowed Dan to win over us." Masquerade said, "This planet has Bakugan battles to. You must have noticed it by now...there is a certain uneasyness about this planet"
Yes.
It was there.
Both Hydronid and Masquerade would never forget the day that Alice caught him lying.
The way she looked at him, sent shivers down both of their spines.
If he wasn't her son, Masquerade dreaded what would have happened to him.
He just could a stern talking that lying was bad.
You would have never expected for a Phudorian to able to pull such a face, because of a simple lie.
It made him geniuly feel fear for his life.
If that roughlessness was channeled into something...
He didn't want to be the opponent.
"..." Was Hydronid response, he was well aware that this planet wasn't all sun shine and rainbows on the surface.
The oath they took every day was proof of that.
Eventually Masquerade was going to start spewing that oath as well.
Neither of them wanted to think what would happen to him, if he didn't prove to be just like every other child.
"Son?" Said, the voice of his father.
Both felt a shiver go down their back at the sound of that voice.
"What language were you speaking in?" Said, his father, who had come to come up to check up on.
The man did not expect to hear his son speak in another language that he didn't know and he was looking so serious as well.
"It's Earth language, daddy. I learnt it from T.V." Masquerade said, it was best to tell half truth's. With children Television being so educational, it wasn't hard to imagine one teaching about life on Earth. "I and Hydronid were talking about playing Bakugan. I see it on t.v and it looks really cool. I want to play but I don't now how to start"
Again half truth.
He didn't know how to start bakugan on this planet, there was more then enough difference to tell him this was not Earth.
He just had to look outside and see two suns.
"Hmm" His father said, "Playing Bakugan? Do you really want to do it?" but then he thought about how their was law's that prevented those under a certain from battling without heavy protection.
"Alright." He said, as Masquerade looked shocked. "Put on your shoes' were going to the Junior Bakugan Center nearby."
"Really?" Masquerade said, before rushing to find his shoes.
Hydronid blinked.
Well, he didn't think he would be battling soon.
#20 minutes later#
They teleported to the front of an impressive looking center.
It was all white however, there was loads of kid's with their families.
There were hovering projection everywhere, showcasing professional fighter with their own Bakugan's, the shop know it was for kids so they showed how 'Cool' bakugan was.
Some even get their own Bakugan from this centre as well.
Masquerade held his daddy and mommy hand as they walked in, Alice had been very scary when she found out that he was taking their child somewhere and she wasn't invited instantly and both of their Bakugan's had disappeared again.
Something about a family picnic...
Hydronid followed closely behind them.
What were they doing at this store?
Was he really going to somehow learn to fight, here?
"All Hail, The Ruler." Said, a teen with beautiful dark skin but blond hair.
Masquerade and Hydronid thought this person looked like somebody they know.
What they didn't know was that this was one of the children of Billy and Julie.
Julie had succeeded in coming back to the Planet and Billy feeling's for her never truly went away, it took a long time to show him she wasn't dangerous and when he went into a trance to find a mate, she had pushed every female near him out of the way.
Her determination was amazing and eventually, Billy body realised he was never going to find a mate if he didn't choose her.
His name was Kuroko Makimoto, his last name was taken from his mother side and because his mother was human, his body aged much faster than everybody else.
He should be out of Pre-school by now but his ageing had forced him to be homeschooled.
Science is trying to find some way to stop him from aging too fast, while maintaining his mother's blood flowing through his vains.
He still had a much longer life span than a human though.
"All hail, the Ruler" Both Masquerade Parents said.
"How can I help you?" Said, the 'young man'.
Masquerades parents were surprised, they don't usually see a naturally tanned person around here.
Beside the person was a Haos bakugan, that was neither male or female and want by the name of Haos Net.
"We would like to prepare our son for Battling" Said, his mother who looked proud and Masquerade resisted the urge to puff his chest up.
Hydronid made his presence known, as he pushed to the front.
"I've never seen a Bakugan like this is one befor,e" Kuroko said, before opening up his menu and the scene changed around them, they were now in a small colourful room.
"Would you please stand above this?" Said, Net Haos, in a very quiet voice, none of them were sure if it was a male or female.
"This?" Hydronid said, going to where the Bakugan was, the Bakugan instant moved away and Kuroko went to a computer that was going to scan him.
Hydronid did not feel a thing when the scan finished and he was told that he was free to go.
"You have a very special Bakugan" Kuroko said, as he put the results in front of the whole family.
Hydronid looked too.
On a hovering screen was all his infomation.
However what was even more shocking to both Masquerade and himself was that there was details on Hydronid's history on Earth.
"Wow." His father said, looking. "Former number one on Earth?"
He know that human's had a short life span but he didn't think that a champion Bakugan would attach itself to his son.
However, who the Bakugan used to belong to had been altered.
Nobody but Maquerade and Hydrnoid know this.
They suspected that somebody high on the Planet level must have changed the data.
However, neither of them know it was the Ruler himself who had been informed of the Bakugans arrive and Masquerades birth.
No need to arose unnecessary interest.
"Now, these are the cards that the system has come up with" Kuroko said, as the infomation vanished and large cards appeared on screen, each of them an image of Hydrnoid in his natural form doing one thing or another.
Very impressive looking cards.
However, when his parents saw the price of even the cheapest one, their jaws had to drop.
"Why is the cheapest 75 Phudoriar Dollas!?" His father said, he was under the impression that he would spend 30 Phudorian dollars at most.
The highest one was in it's thousands!
However both Hydronid and Masquerade eyes were sparkling.
There were cards that neither of them had ever seen before tyed to Hydronid.
Gone were the day's were it just magically appeared in their hands, now they can buy cards that were suited for them and it would have amazing effects.
If they had known, they would have tried their best to go to this planet to get some cards, who knows how amazing they would have been.
Planet Phudor was amazing.
"Sorry dear customer but it's, this expensive because your child holds a very special Bakugan" Haos Net said. "A normal Darkus card would not work for it, because he is simply too powerful for them. So if you want a card, it has to be specialised. The price depands on the energy need to create the card. It would have been more expensive if it wasn't 20% off"
THAT WAS 20% OFF!?
They didn't want to know the fully price!
Both his parents looked at the price of the cards, but then they made the mistake of looking at Masqerude.
His eyes were shinning as he looked at them, he really wanted one of them.
And to make matters worse, who on the planet only had one card while they battled?
At that moment both Hydronid and Masquerade were identical.
They both wanted the cards.
The more expensive the better.
"Is there a bundle deal?" His mother said, her husband brought home good money, sure and good sea food, but she would always look for something cheaper if there wasn't a pressing need.
"Sure" Kuroko said, much to both of their relief.
The cards that both Masquerade and Hydronid wanted dissappeared like a lie and were replaced by bundles, ranging from basic to King level.
Both Masquerade and Hydronid's eyes naturally found their way to king level.
However, both adults almost had a heart attack seeing the level of the basic cards.
205 Phudorian dollars.
They couldn't even bring themselves to look at the King Level.
Only somebody like a member of the Royal family can look at that price and not feel the phantom earthquake to their wallets.
Then they looked at Masquerade again and saw him staring at them with big and adorable cat like eyes.
They couldn't resist.
"Can we have the basic bundle?" his father said, already feeling the blow to the bank account but since his son wanted to try Bakugan...
"Sure" Kuroko said, "And which goblet would you like?"
Wait.
GOBLET!?
"Ooh!" Masquerade said, looking a particular one. "I want that one!" pointing at the Goblet that was fully black and had the effect of giving any bakugan launched from it a 200G incease in both attack and defence, then to sweeten the deal it had a slight healing effect as well.
Hydronid eyes were shinning and if he was a crafty old man he would have been rubbing his hands together with greed.
This planet was amazing.
His mother had to catch her husband who saw the price of the one he pointed at.
130 Phudorian Dollars.
"These are tailored to hold Bakugan as strong as yours as well" Kuroko said, seeing the reaction, even he would have fainted.
But he get's a small percentage of every sale...
"Please, daddy" Masquerade said, with big cat like eyes, he had learned to use his cuteness to his advantage.
His father seemed to hold on.
"W-What are the red squares underneath some of the card details?" He said, the man hoped it meant cheaper for an exception.
"Oh?" Haos Net said, "Those are the goblets that are offered for free to those who are at a Bakugan Academy. However, the most expensive Goblet, are not be given to an academy student. It has to be brought or is won in a competition."
That way, it would be used by a Bakugan battler who can use it to the max .
"Can we have the 130 Phudorian Dollar one?" His father said, looking tired, his wife went to comfort him.
How many weeks of work were they spending?
"Would you like any field ability cards?" Kuroko said, even though they were spending a lot, he had to try.
However, when the cards came up, both of them were relieved to see normal priced cards that they came to expect from a shop like this.
However, when they saw the look on their child's face, he didn't seem intrested.
The Bakugan did not seem interested.
Why did they both have such expensive tastes!?
However, this was the level of cards they had to have due to Masquerades age.
"Can we have every one of them with the stardard bag please?" His mother said, glad it cost all together 15 Phudorian dollars.
"Okay" Kuroko said, "And would you like any-"
"No" Both of them said, instantly.
"Okay, we would get your order ready for you" Kuroko said, he tried.
The whole family watched as both of them prepared the iteams brought, it was really boring but it was worth seeing what was digital become solid in one bag.
"Every child get's their own gate card on their first purchase and we have included a rule book to help them as well" Haos Net said.
"And because you have spent over 300 Phudorian dollars, you get out promonal iteam" Kuroko said, and both Masquerade and Hydronid were very surprised to see a mask that was similar to the one he wore in his past life. "It has the ability to anaylsis the sitution in front of you and pick what is best to counter. It's only avaible for this week, so you are extremely lucky."
Then his father shaking, paid.
Several day's of work gone just like that.
He wanted to lay down for a bit.
"Mommy, daddy. Can I hold it?" Masquerade said, unaware of how much his parents spent on what they thought was a mere interest, originally.
"Sure" His mother said, giving the bag to him.
It was a light and Masquerade couldn't wait to feel the cards and the goblet in his hands.
"Let's go" Hydronid said, "The sooner we get home the better"
He could finally battle.
#Holy City Royal Palace#
"Daddy, higher!" Said, the youngest prince Asil Clibby Phudor.
The boy had his father hair but his mother face.
Who was throwing him up was none other then his daddy.
Laxus Phudor.
The Ruler.
The man if possible appeared even younger.
He had finally made the switch to become fully Phudorian which meant entering into a new body.
It was the only reason he could survive this long, when he should have died hundreds of years ago.
From top to the bottom, he was elegent and very handsome looking.
Beside him was the Bakugan who had the honour of becoming his partner.
His name was Silent Nega, but after piecing him back together and bringing him soul back from the doom demention.
Laxus had made it a special missing to destroy the Bakugan's memories.
Those were day's, where he was thankfully that technology was so advanced that he couldn't hear the Bakugan cursing him from half way across the Planet and the walls were strong enough to keep the Bakugan contained.
Once the Bakugan's memories were wipped, he appeared like a night in shinning armour.
He told him, he could leave this place as long as he agreed to become his partner Bakugan.
Now, he had one of two White's in existence, under his belt.
A big softy Bakugan was a lot more easier to handle than a Bakugan who want on and on about how he was going to kill Drago and his sister while getting back the infinity core.
Laxus suddenly noticed a message.
It was the kind of alert, that went off when a Bakugan who has been scanned could produce a card worth more then a 1000 Phudorian Dollars.
He stopped throwing his son and held him in his arms.
"What wrong, daddy?" The little boy said.
"Just a message" Laxus said, as he looked at the infomation automatically sent to him on the Bakugan who set off the alarm.
"It's not a threat" Laxus said.
The Bakugan may grow to be more powerful then him but what matter's the most wasn't power but influence.
Sooner or later even a Bakugan such as Hydronid will have to bow to him.
If not, Planet Phudor will reveal it's fangs.
And scene!
Next chapter, Masquerade is excited for his first match and his father has offered to be his first opponent. Both of them are extremely surprised by each other skills. However his loyalty comes into question, when Hydronid attacks during the Oath. Review/fav and follow!
