Wow, it feels like it took me forever to update. Sorry about that. But I have a plan. I took a friend (Tifer)'s advice and planned out the rest of the story, to avoid any hiatus's or super-slow updates (the last one's a work in progress), so I planned out the rest of the story! This story is going to have 31 chapters at the least (maybe more if I end up splitting some chapters in half), so expect me to update more often, at least once or twice a week. Anyways, why it took me so long, I can explain.

I was in a drama program at school, and every weekday we stayed after an extra 2 hours to practice. But we had our play (two full days at school preforming, did I mention that it was a weekend!), so I couldn't update then. But, I'm done now, so I'll be on my computer more often now, so I'll have time to update more often (2x5=10, so I'll have 10 more hours to put into all of my stories a week! Wow!). I also spent about a week planning out all of the events and what chapter they'll happen in, including the ending. Unfortunately, the way the end of this one plans out there is no official pairing, but maybe in the sequel? But for now, I took down my poll.

And yes, there defiantly is going to be a sequel, considering my ending leaves a lot of unanswered questions and my tick a lot of you off. But don't worry! I'm planning on making a sequel! In the sequel the Shogun Steel Characters are in that (but they're going to be their age! So possible them x Madoka,) plus there will be a little more Surface World action. Hehe, I'm also planning on including the Beywheelz characters in it for Madoka's real world friends, so please tell me you're input on that. If it's a good idea or not! Anyways, enough of my ranting, reply time!

Angelfromheaven2012- Happy Thanksgiving! Though, my replies pretty late. Hehe. Now it's more like Merry Christmas, but I promise to update again before then! Hehe. Madoka will be more powerful than Kyouya, though it might take some time. Yes, and don't worry, Alice's story will be explained in due time! It's Alice in Wonderland like you've never seen it before.

Flying beds would be awesome! There's something pretty cool in this chapter, but I'm going to give you any spoilers. You're just going to have to read and find out :3 And about everyone's condition... you'll find out. Kyouya is taking Madoka somewhere, though I can't guaranty that you'll find out anytime soon. And you're wish has been granted, and sorry it took so long!

BlackCatNeko999- *Grins* Maybe. Maybe not. Though I will say, Gingka is going to be introduced soon enough. Though, it is going to be a while before he and Madoka actually meet. So, sorry all GinMado fans. It's just the way the story's been planned out.

Thank you! I'm glad people like this! You'll find out how she's Alice's successor eventually, just not yet. And we have a winner! The four figures ARE the Garcia's! I hoped that I made it obvious enough. But for the mysterious figures in this chapter... one is going to be introduced next chapter, the next in the distant future.

Aridai Tremon- No worries, I'm just glad fanfiction installed the translator! Though, some things in this are going to be in Thai (Why? Because the written language is so cool!), so you'll have the heads up on what they're saying. Everyone else, no cheating! I will have translations at the end of the chapters! But, not yet! I have it planned for the future though!

A.B.D.Y.Z- You are correct... on the first part. But on the second, I'm not going to say just yet. Haha, yes, I have an odd mind. And a slight soda obsession. BAH! I LOVE SODA!

Crystal- Sorry, but there are most likely not going to be pairings in this story, rather than little crushes/fluffy moments. This story's mainly focused on the adventures in Wonderland and Madoka forming bonds with people.

Anonymous- Sorry, there aren't pairings in this story yet :( I planned it out and the most I can get is fluff/crushes/bonding. Maybe in the sequel though :)

Oh, and I have an X-Mas present for all of you! Instead of Hikaru's poll on my profile (sorry for all you voters, I just changed my story a little. She still might have pairings in the sequel, plus there was a lot of argument between MadoKyo and HikaKyo. Maybe I'll just decide the pairings myself :/ I'm not sure yet, but I'll decide in the sequel).

Anyways, on my poll I'm writing a story to whatever gets the most votes (I have a ton of idea's in my head, and have already thought of a possible storyline for all of them), so vote for the story I should write for. You can vote for up to two!

Disclaimer- If I owned Metal Fight Beyblade, then why would I be writing on fanfiction?!


Madoka didn't get how Kyouya could do it so easily. He's been walking ahead of her, the bushes only being squished when he stepped onto them to get them out of his way. And yet somehow it was Madoka (who had been following in his footsteps, over the crushed bushes) who took the majority of the damage from the plants. And Kyouya himself looked completely unscathed. Just how many times had he been in this forest?

"Hurry up!" Kyouya shouted back at her, getting annoyed. If it had been up to him he would have just left her there, but he had something that he had to do anyways, and bringing her with would get her off of his back. It was a win-win situation, for him anyways.

"I'm trying!" Madoka retorted, as she took another 'careful' step towards him, ripping more of her dress in the process.

"Ugh, you're taking to long!" Kyouya shouted back at her, but waited a few moments for Madoka to catch up.

"Thanks." Madoka said once she finally caught up to him. He just scoffed however.

"Whatever. Just keep up or get lost." He stated, as he once again made his way through the bushes.

"Are you always this much of a jerk to everybody, or is it just for me?" Madoka muttered bitterly under her breath, but started following him, so he wouldn't end up ditching her. In an unfamiliar place in an unfamiliar world, it was defiantly not a good idea to be left alone.

"Just where exactly are we going, anyways?" Madoka asked.

"Somewhere." He stated.

"But where?" She asked him again.

"Why does it matter, it's not like you'll know it anyways." Madoka frowned, though she knew it was true. Madoka sighed, out of everyone that she could have been stuck with, it just had to be him.

He was... different. She'd give him that. While everyone else there wore suits, he wore a sloppily buttoned-up shirt with the sleeves ripped off and beige pants. The usual brown jacket that he wore, Madoka noticed, wasn't on him now. Maybe he didn't have time to grab in in the attack? It was possible, but Madoka doubted it, since he seemed rather skilled, and probably fast enough to grab it if he had wanted it, since he could carry her through a bunch of thorn-covered bushes no problem.

As Kyouya took another step, Madoka felt something shift in her apron pocket. Oh yeah, she had a beyblade now. She wished that she could just use her bey to get Kyouya to let her go... or destroy the bushes! Why had it taken her this long to figure it out? And why didn't Kyouya do that? Did he enjoy seeing her struggle? Instead of leaving those questions to herself, she decided to voice them out to him. Well, the one about destroying the bushes anyway, she really didn't want to get Kyouya mad since he was helping her.

"Hey Kyouya? Why don't we just destroy the bushes with our beys so they're not in the way?" At that comment he let out a laugh. And not in the 'you're funny' way, but more in the 'wow, you're stupid' way.

"They're called Immortal Blood Thorns. They can't be destroyed."

When Madoka looked at him confused, he crossed his arms and told her to look behind them. When Madoka did, she was shocked. You couldn't even tell where they walked through, the Immortal Blood Thorns looked exactly as they did before they even passed through them, some where even bigger!

"Huh?! What?! Why?!" Madoka managed to spit out, clearly shocked. She was sure that they had flattened a lot of them, but why are they still standing? STUPID PLANTS!

"No matter what you do to them, they won't die. The only way to get rid of them is to dig them up by the roots, that's more dangerous since they're covered in poison." When Madoka looked at him, her eyes wide, he smirked slightly. He enjoyed getting under her skin. "And if blood touches them, they grow ten times faster. Sometimes, they even send out their vines to grab their prey and pulls to it, sucking out all of their blood and growing over 20 feet tall, depending on how big the pray is."

"That's horrible!" Madoka shouted, looking at the plants around them in fear, not knowing whether or not he was telling the truth. "Are we almost out of these?"

"A little over half-way? Why, you scared?" He teased, and Madoka started turning red with anger.

"You wish, liar!" She accused.

"Believe what you want, just don't ask for my help when they make you their next victim." He stated, Madoka looked around fearfully once again.

"Where are we exactly?" She questioned, wanting to know what to put on her list of places to avoid.

"The Forest of Fog." Madoka looked around. The name was quite fitting, since if you looked up the only thing you'd be able to see was dead trees and a thick layer of fog. It was dark, gray, and gloomy. Nearly everything either was or looked dead. There wasn't even a single animal in sight.

Now that Madoka though about it, she hadn't seen a single animal in all of Wonderland yet. Were they the same as up on the surface?

Madoka was so wrapped up in her thoughts she hardly noticed Kyouya stop in front of her, until she bumped into him.

"Huh? Why'd you stop?" She asked, and he looked around.

"We're being followed." He stated. "SHOW YOURSELF COWARD!"

The forest remained silent, and Madoka was briefly beginning questioning Kyouya's sanity. Just when she was about to say something, a bey came flying towards them out of nowhere at tremendous speeds. Before Madoka could react, Kyouya grabbed her and shoved her out of the beys path, both of them tumbling into another bush of Immortal Blood Thorns, cutting parts of their bodies other than their legs.

Kyouya stood up and whipped a small amount of blood off of his cheek and pulled out his bey.

"Want to play dirty, do ya?" He questioned the unknown owner of the bey, readying his own for a fight.

"So you're the infamous Cheshire that I've been hearing all about." They heard a male voice shout at them. Next thing they knew a large cloaked figure was standing on a large branch of the tree, seeming to look down at them, since his hood covered the majority of his face except for his mouth, which was twisted into a cocky smirk.

"Who are you?!" Kyouya demanded to know, aiming his bey at him.

"What does it matter to you? Besides, it's not you I need!" He said, directing his attention more to Madoka and Kyouya frowned.

"Sorry, but I'm not going to hand her over that easily. If you want her, you're going to have to beat me and my Leone!" Before the mysterious man could even respond Kyouya released Leone, who went flying at him, knocking the mysterious man's hood down, revealing his face to Madoka and Kyouya.

His piercing dark brown eyes were the first thing that Madoka noticed about him. How they were didn't show any mercy and appeared to be looking right into her soul. Feeling disturbed by his eyes staring them down, Madoka directed her attention to his appearance in general. His skin was tan, and his dark brown hair was in dreadlocks, held out of his face by a red headband. Kyouya seemed to recognize the man, since he frowned.

"Argo Garcia." He growled. "One of the four Garcia's, willing to do whatever the highest bidder wants them to. Fight, kill, track. Anything for a few bucks."

Madoka gulped. They definatly didn't seem like good people. But what did they want with her? She's only been there a day and trouble seems to have followed her everywhere. She was starting to get sick of it.

"Madoka, get out of here. I've got this." Kyouya said, Leone spinning in front of him.

"But-"

"GO!" Kyouya shouted, Leone flying at Argo's bey, both of them flying back since they were both filled with tremendous strength. Although Madoka didn't want to, she knew that she had to get out of there. She wasn't strong enough to try and help, and would probably just end up getting in the way. Something that she seemed awfully good at lately. So, Madoka turned around and started running away (trying not to cut herself on the Immortal Blood Thorns).

"Wow, you sure are an idiot." Argo told Kyouya, who clenched his fists and glared at him, but Argo continued. "By brothers and sister aren't that far behind me, I'm sure they could whip out whoever got in there way in a matter of seconds. And while you're battling me, they'll find her and capture her."

"Well, then. I guess that gives me an even better reason to get this over and done with faster!" Kyouya announced, Leone bashing into Argo's bey, Ray Gil, once again.

"You're tough guy act isn't going to work this time. You might think you're all big and tough but I'm going to crush you like the little bug you are!" At that, Kyouya growled, the words that Argo had just uttered were mirroring what he had said shortly after battling Jack and Damian.

"LION GALE FORCE WALL!" Kyouya shouted, and a whirlwind formed around Leone, pulling up some of the Immortal Blood Thorns from the ground and sending them flying, something that was very dangerous, since Kyouya wasn't lying when he said the roots were coated in poison. But they had to be gotten rid of if Kyouya was to show Argo just how strong he was.


Madoka stumbled out of the Immortal Blood Thorns and collapsed onto the ground, glad that she could do so without cutting herself. Going as fast as she could through the thorn bushes, she had fallen down quite a bit, and her once lovely dress looked nothing more than a bunch of clothes poorly stitched together. Though at least it covered what it needed to.

Madoka sighed and sat up, looking at her surroundings. On one side, was the large patch of Immortal Blood Thorns. On another, a gray-tinted pond, though it looked fairly calm. And everywhere else, tall, gray dead-looking trees, though from her experience with the Immortal Blood Thorns, she wouldn't doubt that they were no good too. So, Madoka decided that it'd probably be best to go through the pond, at least she knew how to swim.

Right when Madoka was about to take a step into it, something jumped out of it and grabbed a hold of her foot. Madoka quickly yelped and fell backwards, the thing trying to pull her in. Madoka looked down, and soon realized it wasn't a thing that was pulling her in, but the water itself! It took a gel-like form and latched itself to her foot, crawling up her leg slowly as it tried to pull her into it. Madoka tried to crawl back, but it had a tight grip on her.

Gah! Let go of me! Madoka screamed in her head. As she sat up, trying to pull her leg out of it. It had consumed all of her shoe and over half of her knee-length socks. Pretty soon it would consume all of her. Poor Hikaru, how would she ever explain what happened to the clothes that she loan her...

Wait! I have an idea! Madoka mentally exclaimed. She grabbed the top of her sock and started pulling it down, trying to pull her leg out of it, along with her foot. After a few minutes, and the water nearly reaching the top of her sock, she finally managed to wiggle her foot loose and pull it out of her shoe and sock, which the water quickly consumed once it no longer had anything holding it back from getting taken.

Madoka quickly crawled back from the water, afraid if she didn't get away from it quick enough it would get her again. Once a few minutes passed, and she knew it was satisfied with her sock and shoe, and no longer had her on it's menu, she stood up, feeling a little weird only having once sock and shoe on.

Well, there was only one way left to go, and that was through the forest. Madoka gulped as she started walking into it.


The bey's clashed again and again. Neither Argo nor Kyouya was willing to give up. They'd been at it the past ten minutes, and neither blader was getting tired yet.

"Had enough yet?" Kyouya asked, Leone hitting Ray Gil, sending him flying back.

"You're weak!" Argo retorted, Ray Gil flying back towards Leone, circling around it hitting it with a barrage attack. Kyouya smirked, this is what he had been waiting for.

"LION GALE FORCE WALL!" Kyouya shouted, a tornado forming around Leone, bringing Ray Gil into it, since he had been circling Leone in the same position the whirlwind formed at. Much to Kyouya's surprise, Argo smirked and Ray Gil started circling in the twister, much like Tsubasa had in their battle against Damian and Jack. Had he been watching?

"That's not going to work on me, I know all your moves!" Argo stated as Leone's whirlwind died down and both of the beys were attacking each other once again. Kyouya's theory had been proven correct. Argo had been watching them! But luckily, he didn't know Kyouya's other moves, or the one's that he had been working on to improve. "You're done!"

Ray Gil hit Leone with great strength, sending it flying high into the air, even though they were on flat ground and not in a beystadium. It seemed Argo was trying to prove his strength. Kyouya smirked, although this wasn't his original plan, it would work just as well, maybe even better.

"Leone!" Kyouya shouted, and the bey flipped upside down much to Argo's confusion.

"What are you-"

"KING LION REVERSE WIND STRIKE!" An upside down tornado formed under Leone, hitting Ray Gil almost directly. Once Leone was back on the ground, Kyouya smirked at Argo.

"Who are you calling weak?" He taunted, and Agro glared at him.

"That doesn't mean anything!" The beys clashed once again, and Leone seemed to be overpowering Ray Gil, since it had taken quite a bit of damage from that last move. Suddenly, a bright purple light came out of the sky and hit both of the beys, creating a large crater on the ground, wind and debris coming from it, flying at both Kyouya and Argo, knocking them onto the ground, barely conscious.

"You're taking to long!" Kyouya heard the voice say, but his vision was blurry. The only thing he saw before everything went black was another bright purple flash.


Madoka was reluctantly walking through the forest, looking around carefully, jumping at every little sound. After being attacked by humans, plants and water, she wanted to get out of this place as quickly as possible.

Madoka saw a bright light in front of her and quickly stopped. She was happy that she did, because the ground had just went from dead grass to a field of flowers, and from her experience in the forest, she knew that it most likely would end in trouble.

They didn't look dangerous though. In fact, unlike everything else in that creepy forest, it looked... pretty. With a forest green stem and royal purple pedals with black and lavender specks on them. The pedals were formed to look like an upside-down bell, and were no more than a half of a foot tall. They almost seemed to be... magical.

Madoka took a step, carefully avoiding stepping on any flowers, and she swore she heard music, so she stopped. She was met with silence.

"That's odd, I swore I heard music." Madoka muttered, looking around. It was only her and a bunch of flowers. She sighed and took another careful step forwards, the music starting up again. Madoka stopped and looked around once more. She swore that it wasn't in her head that time. But sure enough, everything was silent.

If I hear it one more time... She started walking again, carefully avoiding stepping on any of the flowers. And the music started again. Madoka continued walking, but started to look around. It seemed it only played when she was walking. Madoka's eyes widened when she noticed that the flowers were changing colors. The music sounded like bells. Some of the flowers turned pink to the melody of a certain set of bells, and some black with the melody the other bell's melody. And some just stayed the same, but seemed to be placed around at random. But, for some reason, those flowers seemed to be different than the rest. While the others were tall and thin, those ones where short and fat, like stepping stones.

While Madoka was distracted, she didn't realize that she stepped on one of the odd-shaped flowers. She was so distracted with avoiding stepping on the color-changing ones and by her observations that she almost didn't notice that one was in front of her. But, when she stepped on it, it surprised Madoka by making a different bell-like sound and glowing a light blue. As soon as her foot was on it, another not to far away turned lit up a blue color too.

It's like some kind of game. Madoka noted, and decided to humor herself and stepped onto it. It sounded like another bell. Another lit up ahead of that one, so Madoka stepped onto that one too. She did it again and again, and it ended up making some sort of song, though at the speed Madoka was going at it sounded kind of slow... but the song sounded oddly familiar to Madoka, but it was going to slow for her to place a finger on. So, she decided to move at a faster pace, besides, it was just a game. Right?

So, Madoka moved from one to the next, getting a little faster than before until she felt that she could understand the melody clearly. But it was becoming more tricky, before they were nearly in order, but now one might be in front of her the other to the right, the next behind that, then one between all three. And at the speed she was going, Madoka was surprised that she didn't misstep yet...

Unfortunately she seemed to have jinxed herself because once that though crossed her mind, her foot slipped and she stepped on one of the bell-like flowers. Next thing she knew, all of the bell flowers closed up and turned black. Madoka quickly looked around in fear as a black fog-like substance started coming out of them. Madoka quickly ran away, coughing as the fog entered her lungs.

Suddenly, a black shadow-like creature came out nowhere and tried to grab her, another following. Madoka quickly ran out of the flower patch and away from the shadows. She felt really light-headed and stumbled through the forest, dodging the shadows. But one finally caught up to her and tried to grab her, but Madoka fell to the ground in attempt to dodge it. She started coughing very violently, the breath coming out of her mouth black. A dark figure stood over her, and she whimpered, coughing some more. She clutched her stomach in pain from her coughing. Everything started becoming blurry, and a black-tinted tear came out of her eye, and Madoka drifted into unconsciousness, the figure still looming over her.


YES! THIS IS THE LONGEST CHAPTER YET! If you want to know the song the flowers were playing, then look up Kingdom Hearts-Simple and Clean Music Box. Er... here's a link, just go onto youtube and put /watch?v=YbjQqWFxbaM after it. Or just look it up, since you cannot copy and paste anymore. Doesn't matter. ~I love that song~ ^_^ So peaceful! Question Time! But first, who do you think the mysterious figures are? By the way, props to BlackCatNeko999 and A.B.D.Y.Z for guessing write, it was the Garcia's who were the mysterious figures from last chapter!

Should the Beywheelz characters and the Shogun Steel characters (same age as Metal Fight characters) be in the sequel?

Review for... socks that save you from man-eating water?