Chapter 9: Behind the mask {Part 2}

Previously on 'A Haos' Light'

"H-H-Hydron?"

Present time~

Runo was shot dead on the spot of what she saw. After all the commotion, the others came to see what's going on. They, too, fell into shock when they saw a blonde haired boy with amethyst eyes. Now they are all back in Tyos' chamber, where, they would be expecting, an answer.

"Hydron..." Keith scowled at him. Unfortunately, they all tied him up because they thought that it was he, who attacked Runo. However, Runo was too shocked to even say a word

"What the? What's going on here man? Little princey Hydron's still alive?" Shadow panicked and was running around the room, before Mylene smacked him on the head to knock him out

"No one's gonna answer if you're running around like that!" Mylene's pissed off because of his actions or... nature, but she's used to it.

"How can you let the cat get out of the bag, little prince" Masquerade was mocking him.

"Shut up, I am not any prince," he answered with a rather hoarse voice

"Are you really Hydron? The former Prince of Vestal?" Mira asked. He looked at her but said nothing. He turned his head to Runo but she's still in shock, only to be comforted by her friends, Julie and Alice.

"I guess... you guys need some answers, huh?" he smirked

"You bet we need some answers! How did you survive the crash? How did you get here? How did-"

"Would you shut your mouth for once!" Mylene smacked Shadow's head, again

"First of all, my real name's not Hydron nor Kai," he turned his head to Runo "and not even Basilisk. I am Kaiser Emperana Garuda Lucas. Or in short, you may call me just plain Lucas"

'Whoa, what a name' they all thought in unison and sweat dropped

"I came from an aristocrat family in the Vestal Empire. Therefore, that explains why my full name is that long. However, the empire turned their back against my family and plotted to destroy us. I was just a child back then and I barely escaped. Our family was against King Zenohelm's corrupt reign, so he ordered his army to destroy us. Along with my father, mother... and even my sister... I escaped and managed to survive on my own. I travelled until I passed by a small village. There, a met a little girl with blue hair and eyes like sapphire... Her family took me in and I was treated like their own. Although I didn't introduce myself as Lucas, but as Basilisk,"

"Basilisk? Doesn't that mean snake?" Lync disturbed him

"Yes"

"But why Basilisk and not just Lucas?" Baron asked

"Zenohelm knew that one member of my family escaped, but he doesn't know what I look like, only my name. So let's just say that he added me on his top wanted list. I don't want that family to get involved because of me, so I hid my true self. I thought that if I lived with them, if I start a new and live like a commoner I can escape my past and be free... but that doesn't mean that I don't want revenge..." he paused for a while "then one day, Zenohelm and his army came to the village. He destroyed the village and mercilessly killed everyone. They even took the little girl I said earlier, but I won't let them. So I traded myself for her. That means I made a deal with that bastard Zenohelm. In exchange for the girl, I had to be the Prince of Vestal-"

"WHAT?" they all cried

"So you are THAT Prince," Ace said, disbelief

"You were the one who took my little Golem! How dare you! Why I outta! Let me at him! Let me at him!" Julie was gonna attack him until the others got her back and helped her calm down.

"No wonder there wasn't any resemblance between you two" Keith chuckled

"Yeah" Lucas showed a faint smile

"Well? Then what happened?" Marucho motioned him to continue his story

"I pretended to be the prince and tried to destroy his empire from the inside... but he saw through my actions and..."

The prince scanned through the computer. He was able to hack into the system and finally learned the devil's plans...

"What's this? He's trying to take over a world called Vestroia? Grrr..." he cursed under his breath "these are his plans, huh? I gotta destroy the system before he-"

The doors automatically slid open and guards came and tied him up

"What the? What is the meaning of this?"

"I knew you were no good" he heard it. That one voice he despised the most

"Grrr... Zenohelm" the prince growled at him

"Did you really think that I wouldn't know what you're doing? Guards! Take him to the lab" he ordered him men and struck an electric rod at him, knocking him out.

"I don't remember what happened next; I thought that I was dead. But when I woke up, there was another me... after that I learned that they cloned me. They made a fake me that is programmed to obey his orders" he looked at them "so don't blame me if you said that I was the one who took your Bakugan. Because it wasn't me"

"Then what about that time?" Gus spoke up "That time when we were battling Zenohelm, you lend us a hand. Just what was that about? Was that you or your clone?"

"That, was me. I encountered my clone and defeated him."

"Really? Then how did you survive that blast?" Preyas asked

"Just as the Alternative was about to explode, a portal suddenly opened from out of nowhere, sucking me in and transferring me to another dimension. Just before I knew it, I'm in this place. Tyos took me in and I lived here as Kai. Although Masquerade DID got here first, and that's the end of my story"

"So that's what happened," Shun said, putting a hand on his chin.

"So now you guys know what happened. Can you please untie me now?"

"Oh alright" and so the guys untied Kai- I mean, Lucas out

"Alright, I kind of understand what happened, but that doesn't mean that I FULLY trust you" Dan said. Lucas just smirked

"So... what's YOUR story?" Alice walked over to Masquerade and asks him

"Who? Me?" Maquerade pointed at himself "I'm just an ordinary boy who lives in another dimension. But thanks to your grandfather, I got sucked up in a portal and became your counterpart. After we got split up, I was send to the doom dimension and also met Tyos. I live here now and my job is to keep an eye out if anything strange happens to the dimension. I somehow found that guy and took him in" he pointed at Lucas "also; it's my job to look an eye out of the professor"

"Professor?"

"Uh-huh, Professor Clay"

BOOM!

An explosion was heard and a door opened from behind.

"Aww man, I failed again!" a man wearing glasses and a stained white laboratory uniform came out of the door. "Tyos, sorry for the disturbance, I was... just..."

Then the world shook. Mira started to cry and Keith has his mouth open.

"D-Dad? i-i-is that r-really you?" Mira choked

"Mira? Keith?" the professor rubbed his eyes. "It IS you, Mira! Keith!"

"FATHER!" Mira ran to her father and hugged him "I-I thought that I'll never s-see you again"

"Shh... I'm here," he looked at Keith who was just smiling at him. And unexpectedly, he too hugged his old man

"Welcome back... dad"

"Hey its professor Clay!" Baron and the others cried

"What happened? When you were back on that ship, w-we thought that you were-"

"That I was dead?" Clay chuckled "You have to thank Lucas for that, when he got sucked by the portal he still managed to save me and brought me with him"

"But why didn't you come back? Why didn't you-"

"He can't" Tyos interrupted Keith "He can never leave this place. His body is unstable and if he leaves this dimension he will not stand the pressure and might not even exist"

"I'm so sorry children, I tried to contact you but I can't... I'm... a failure. I'm sorry for what I've done before... I'm a failure... a failure as a father. Please, if there's still any room for me in your hearts, I-"

"Oh father" Mira wrapped her arms around him "Please don't say such things. We love you and you're always gonna be our father"

"Besides, what's more important is that we're all together," Keith said and they all nodded. The others approached them to congratulate the small family's little reunion.

"Well then! This calls a celebration!" Rina raised her fist in the air while clinging onto Ren's arm.

"No" Tyos said coldly

"Aww come on Tyos! Don't be such a kill joy. Just look at them! They haven't seen each other for years and you can't even host a party for them! I thought you were as kind-hearted as your sist-" she trailed off when she noticed that Tyos was glaring at her.

Tyos sighed "well, it does warm a heart to see a family brought back together... very well, but just this once- RAWRRR!" Tyos roared to the sky and the whole chamber turned into like a castle's dance hall. They are all now wearing formal clothes, even Rina.

The party is awesome, the food is great, the atmosphere is amazing and most of all, everyone is having fun. The others came to Mira, Keith, and Professor Clay to congratulate them. Meanwhile, Fabia came to Runo and said sorry for what she did earlier. If she didn't got impatient back then, then both of them might be dead by now. Eventually, Runo, being as kind hearted as she is, accepted her apology and said that it was no big deal.

In some point, Lucas was outside on some balcony and glanced at the sky. Until Runo stepped in...

"L-Lucas?" she began and he turned his head.

"Runo..." Lucas' eyes were wide but his voice was faint

"Why? Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you come back? You promised... you promised..." tears started to fall from her eyes as she recalled his promise to her before he was taken away by Zenohelm

"I'm sorry..." he took her in his arms, his clothes were starting to get wet because of her tears "I'm sorry that I made you wait... I'm so sorry..."

"I-I... I missed you... so much"

"I missed you too" she whispered to him "Hydron, ah! I mean, Lucas... I-" she was silenced when he pressed his lips against hers. Her heart started to beat twice as fast than before. Her face is as red as a tomato and she didn't moved a muscle. Until she relaxed a bit and shyly kissed back. None of them wanted to stop or let go, what they didn't know is about the emotions they hid from one another since they were kids. They missed each other so bad and now that they finally found each other again...

"Runo? Lucas?" they gasped and turned to see Ace behind them "What are you guys doing?"

To be continued...


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Chapter 10: Feelings