Chapter 10-The Gods
This was a bigger mess then anything. Hilary, Alan and Yusei have now, according to Kyle, been possessed and have now seeped up into the sky, and disappeared, and Alan has now reappeared trying to destroy the volcano.
All they could do was hide in the forest, take a rest from running and figuring out what to do next. They had their problems though, tired and abused little girls, and they were on an island filled with stranded people that have been held hostage and caged in a mountain, scientists that have been experimenting them, and soldiers walking around in gas masks that are armed with guns. Things were worse then ever. And more and more the future children regretted deciding to let their parents come with them. It was something that they shouldn't stopped way before instead just letting them come, they were stubborn kids, but so were their children, they could of atleast tried a little harder to make them stay home, but now regretting it will make things worse, instead of focusing on what they've could've done, they should focus on how to solve this problem.
"Why are we hiding? we should go and find Hil!" Tyson said.
"Oh yes, let's let you go out in the wilderness with a bunch of armed soldiers and three killer machines out trying to capture and kill anyone or anything that moves, will totally do that!" Matt scarcastically told Tyson.
"What is your problem?" Tyson argued back at Matt.
"Nothing, except were trying to thinking of a way to solve this problem that just happened, while trying not to get you and the little girls in danger. " Matt told him already stressed and annoyed.
"There's nothing we can do to stop this mess, Alan is already been possessed by the crimson dragon, there's no way we can shake him out of it," Kyle added. He sat on rock sledge while the other future kids stood thinking. The girls were sitting awake on the floor patiently watching everyone.
"What is this crimson dragon your all talking about!?" Tyson practically urged them to explain with the sound of his impatient voice.
"Its a long story, but we might as well explain, since were the only ones that knows what's going on with Hilary and Yusei." Rex said.
"How is it that you know so much?" Ray asked.
"Cause were from the future, and apparently we know stuff about you guys more then you know yourselves...which is really sad..." Matt explained.
"The Crimson Dragon is an ancient dragon that has been said to be a great creature that has somehow the control of the world's nature and atmosphere. There's alot of other stories about it, but this one is myth and fact," Rex explained.
"The ones who have worshipped this dragon are called the People of the Stars, and those who weild it's power are called the Signers," Keira explained.
"This is all fascinating, but what does it have to do with Hilary and Yusei?" Kenny asked.
"and Alan," Max added.
"This story goes way beyond the time the crimson dragon was ever born. According to the myth, the Crimson Dragon was created by an out casted Greek Goddess name Arianna." Kyle said.
"Arianna was this powerful goddess who all the Greek Gods and Goddesses hated because she had the power of faith compared to all of them. And she was the most hated daughter of the mighty Zues, God of Thunder and ruler of Olympus, the home of all the Greek Gods and Goddesses," Matt took his turn to explain.
"It was said that Arianna dreamt having a world of peace and solitude, that she herself even wanted to be human. She discovered a lone place where banished humans and lost souls who have no home or belief in anything, so to help these folk, Arianna created the Crimson Dragon to help the ones that have lost their part in the world as humans and have been forever judged and forsaken to be cursed forever by the certain gods." Rex explained.
"But when her father found out about the crimson dragon, she tried to hid it away from him," Keira explained, "But soon Zeus would have found the Crimson Dragon, and to keep it from him to ever finding it, Arianna split it into five dragons, which were the five ingredients of making Crimson Dragon itself. Star Dust Dragon, Dragon Fire Archfiend, Black Rose Dragon, Ancient Fairy Dragon, and Hammer Head Dragon. These five dragons somehow went to possess their powers inside five chosen human beings, as I said before called the Signers."
"And the mark on Yusei's arm that glows all the time, that's the mark of the crimson dragon's tail, so Yusei is a signer," Matt explained.
"So he was chosen that way?" Wendy asked them.
"Well, let us the finish the story, Okay?" Rex said to her.
"When the Crimson Dragon had soon disappeared between Zeus' grasp, Arianna ran away from Olympus to join the human world, only to find that she actually fell in love with a great Egyptian Pharaoh who he himself was also a god to his people. But because of their differences and certain kind, The Egyptian Gods and Greek Gods made a fuss with their quarrel, and cursed them for eternity to be reborn as human beings over and over again to live the tragic life of a human." Matt explained.
"That's kind of harsh," Max said.
"The Greeks are known to be harsh and odius to their punishments, it's in the culture." Kyle added.
"So you probably want to know why Yusei and Hilary and Alan have to do with this, well it's because their the gods who were banished and cursed to live the lives of human tragedy for thousands of years." Rex explained.
"What?" Tyson got lost already.
"Hilary is the Greek Goddess Arianna and Yusei is the great Pharaoh!" Keira summed it up for him.
"What? That's just crazy!" Kenny said.
"Crazy? it's been crazy since day 1 we came here, and you didn't say that back then, other then that your words are now useless to this conversation, I can't believe it took you that long to say that." Matt said.
"But how is that possible?" Tyson added, "I mean, she's no goddess! she's annoying but she's no goddess!"
"You do know the reason why she acts so bossy and annoying, right?" Kyle asked.
"yeah! to bug me, and cause she wants to be part of the team so bad!" Tyson answered.
"But she is part of the team, she's the co-coach!" Kenny corrected him.
"You don't know anything..." Kyle said to him.
"Oh yeah! Then why else does she bother me so much!?" Tyson added.
"Maybe cause she's hiding her true self, so you won't judge her?" Wendy suddenly budded in the conversation.
"I may not know her, but from what I saw from her, I can tell you she's probably a torn soul, and now she's in even more pain when I saw her turn into that beautiful angel." Wendy explained.
"But that could be why she's such a good friend..." Keira mumbled.
"Which is another problem," Kyle started a new subject, "She's changing into her older self."
"What do you mean by older self?" Ray asked.
"She's changing into her goddess form, which is really bad." Keira explained.
"How is that bad? turning into an angel?" Max asked.
"Most gods and goddesses have wings, angels are another form of god-like beings, only they serve God," Rex explained.
"If Hilary is being possessed by the Crimson Dragon, wouldn't she be able to stop it from taking over her?" Matt asked.
"Except that Hilary is not how she was as Arianna, she's just Hilary. By what we witnessed back at the mountain, I'm guessing that she just started to gain some terrible memories of what she had before she was born as Hilary," Kyle answered.
"Her past lives' memories are taking over her...which soon would make her lose her ability of knowing herself as Hilary." Keira said.
"Which would make straight up amnesia," Rex explained.
"Wasn't Yusei who made all this mess?" Tyson asked. "I mean, wasn't it him who brought out the dragon?"
"True, Yusei's arm must have been glowing extreme because of Hilary being near, not only is he a Signer, but he's the Pharaoh as well, making his abilities to summon the crimson dragon without any other Signer near is close enough for him to be reawakening as the Pharaoh as well." Kyle mentioned.
"This is bad, if we don't find a way stop these three, something bad will happen." Matt said already impatient.
"Somehow It wasn't Yusei's fault, I thought she started reawakening back at the dojo.." Kyle thought aloud.
"What? You mean you knew she was acting strange?" Kai asked him suspiciously.
"Not entirely, But she was starting to gain pain, maybe something else was making her reawaken faster then she should have been? Because Hilary isn't suppose to gain those symptons at least in another year or two." Kyle answered.
"Hilary is the only one to stop the possession of the crimson dragon taking over Yusei and Alan, and that can't happen since she's possessed too." Rex said.
"Maybe it's not the dragon..." a voice sad.
Lust stepped into the conversation for the first time. This was a surprise for the girls, and even for Kyle.
"I think it's her whose causing herself to be this way," Lust explained.
"How do you know?" Kai asked her, the first time he's actually said something to her.
Lust's voice was mysterious and yet seductive, for a hommunculus, she was a beautiful creature, something Kai himself seemed to think it was impossible for him to hit the jackpot on some girl whose breasts seem to big and mature for an 9 or 10 year old girl, or at least that's what she looks like.
"Because it seems that Hilary and Yusei are connected somehow, didn't you say they were both cursed to live their lives as human tragedies for the rest of eternity?" she asked one the Future Children.
"It seems that somehow I've heard of a tale about a goddess and god both banished from their kind to live in human bodies of turmoil, but I was sure it was a children's tale." Lust said, "Somehow I think it's Yusei who will help Hilary out if this spell."
"but how? Yusei is possessed!" Keira said.
"Not all the way," Lust said.
"But how are you sure?" Kai asked her.
"I don't know, I just am." Lust answered without bothering to look at him.
"Then your idea won't help us," Kai told her.
"I saw her once.." Lust started.
"Who? Hilary?" Matt asked.
"It was I think a hundred years ago...she was older...but her face was the same." Lust explained.
"A hundred years ago? But your so little like us," Wendy said.
"No, but I was created two hundred years ago," Lust explained.
"How?" Ray wondered himself.
"Human transmutation," Kyle added.
Everyone looked at him, "That's how Hommunculi are born." He said.
"I saw her during a great war, there was a part of me that was able to see the wings she had just like she had them back at the mountain, but somehow she was powerful then before. And out of nowhere she was like an animal, killing everything that lived," Lust explained her tale.
"It was bloody, something I've never seen a mere human do before, but she wasn't human, I was sure of it. She had some sort of power inside of her that made her out of control, and if her mind wasn't present, she would be an unstoppable killer machine." Lust then paused, she looked up at the sky and gazed at it, "But then he came along, that man who had the same face and hair liked Yusei's. He stopped her somehow and she was suddenly back to normal, all those unhuman abilities vanished within her. They may not know eachother now, but they do know eachother's past, which might be why they were both in so much pain." Lust finished her explaination.
"So we go after Yusei and see we can break out the crimson dragon in him and stop Hilary before anything else?" Matt tried to see her point.
"I don't think it's a good idea, especially since were surrounded on an island with armed men and crazy scientists trying to get their specimens back in cages." Rex explained his reasoning.
"But we have to try something! I don't want to stay here and wait for something to happen!" Tyson told them.
"If what Lust says it's true, then perhaps going after Yusei won't be a bad idea, he might have weaknesses obvious for us to counter and take advantage of," Keira explained.
"But what about Alan? You never explained why he fits in all of this." Max said.
"Alan is the son of Arianna and the Pharaoh, he's the first god-like kind to be born from two different Universal Cultures, He's both an Egyptian and Greek God." Kyle explained.
"Alan, or his original name, Sandalphon is the god who has been trusted to be the Decision Maker of the Earth, he has the ability to take the world in his hands and destroy it or let the earth destroy itself. He plays a big part in the Crimson Dragon tale too, but it's a prophecy tale where Sandalphon is the god who rightfully takes control of the Crimson Dragon and uses it as a sacrifice to reborn the earth so no other god of the universe can take it's toll on it." Keira explained.
"Alan's a threat to the Universal gods cause he's a two different kind that can decide to destroy the world in which all the gods have worked so hard to create. Even the Christian God and Jesus can't stop him," Matt also explained.
"So there is a Jesus? Koaru asked.
"If we stay here any longer, we might find out for ourselves, but somehow I doubt the crimson dragon will let him, right now it's the power that's possessing them." Kyle said.
"I need to find a lake somewhere," Matt's mother said.
"Your thirsty?" Koaru asked.
"No, I need to heal," she explained.
"Rokshedian Elves live practically on water, it's the only healing ability they have, she's been deprive of it for so long, I think we should go find a lake or something near," Matt said.
"If Alan was here, we might find one," Kenny said.
"Yeah, well he's not, he's busy being taken over by the Dragon, were just gonna have to use to old ways for navigational reference." Matt said.
"I think I can feel the water nearby, I can even hear it," Matt's mother said.
Max was nice enough to give her a piggy back ride, since some of the girls were still weak. They all kept close together as they walked out of their hiding spot and into the forest.
"By the way, you helped me, what is your name?" Matt's mother asked Max.
"I'm Max," He answered to her.
"Max...that is a strange name, I've been in strange place and I've never seen a creature like you before, your hair and eye color is the same as me!" she said cheerfully.
"So what is your name?" Max asked.
"My name is Princess Niama, Princess of the Rokshedian Elves," she explained.
"Princess?" Max said.
"Yeah I forgot to mention were also part royalty," Matt said, he quickly walked passed them as he said that, not wanting to see Max's little annoyed look he would have given him.
"I'm Wendy, Wendy Xia" Wendy said to Ray.
"My name is Ray Kon," He said back to her.
Wendy smiled cheerfully, her smile was something so adorable, Ray could've hugged her if he wanted too.
"I am Koaru Kamiya, and what is your name Big Head?" Koaru asked Tyson.
"Hey! I don't have a big head!" He yelled back at her.
"You know, I think your annoying compare to that Hilary girl, but then again, I just met her," Koaru said.
"Trust me, she's more annoying," Tyson mumbled.
"But she's still your friend, right? Koaru asked. "So what's your name?"
"My name is Tyson, I'm the number 1 champ of beyblade!" Tyson introduced his cocky side.
"Bey What?" Koaru said.
"Beyblade, it's a pretty mature sport, someone like you isn't fit for it," He told her.
"What do you talking about, I'm the daughter of a great Kendo expert! and by far I am and will be the best Kendo fighter there will be!" Koaru told him.
"Kendo is okay, I mean I train to, but I have to train more for beyblading, cause it's the number 1 sport!" Tyson bragged.
"Doesn't mean it's the best, there's alot of other sports that can top bey-whatever anytime! anywhere!" Koaru said, challenging Tyson.
"What did you say!?" Tyson almost screamed but for once he kept his voice control to keep anyone to find them while they were in the middle of finding refreshment.
"Oh! I'm so proud!" keira squeeled sounding like she was gonna cry.
"Why are you so proud of them arguing?" Wendy asked, almost shocked at Keira's words. "Arguing is bad, people get so mean and...and it's just scary."
Rex smiled a bit adored, Ray stared at Wendy a bit shocked, but then he let it slide, she was six years old and still not able to understand life.
"Yes, but there actually connecting! it's as if I never went back in time, i'm actually back home!" Keira said, adored.
"You know what's scary," Matt said to Max, "She's actually telling the truth."
"Doesn't she always?" Max muttered asking him and mostly himself.
"I wonder about your friend," Wendy said this time talking to Ray. It was strange for Ray to be so close to her, he let Wendy hold the bottom of his Chinese robe, and walk along trudging it. She was the youngest in the group, and the most innocent it seemed, but there was something about her that wasn't normal, and if Ray remembers right, wasn't she a Earth Bender?
"About Hilary? " Ray asked, making sure that's what Wendy was talking about.
"Yes, was she always so sad?" Wendy asked him.
"Um, I didn't really think she was sad," Ray answered, really unsure.
"She seems like she's about to break, that she's keeping alot of feelings inside of her," Wendy said.
"How do you know?" Ray asked.
"I can feel it, people give off physical vibrations that I can feel, whether there lying, or if there keeping to themselves, I feel that in alot of people, and I feel that in you as well." she answered him so clearly and simple.
Ray wasn't sure on how to answer to what she had said, ever since their future children came, they have found out things about themselves and their future then they could possibly handle. It seems though that it has started out with Hilary. And what they say is true, then is Hilary really the Goddess from that myth? and why does it feel, not only to Ray, but to all the Bladebreakers that it's there fault they really didn't know. Their Kids know more about themselves then they do, and they seem to know alot about Hilary.
Ray has never taken any interest in Hilary before, she was a good friend, loyal to the team, a good Training Specialist, and she always kept the team together, but now that he thought about it, there really isn't much they know about Hilary's life, other than that school is her number 1 gig, she was smart, pretty, but at the same time stubborn, tough, and she was considered to be one of the guys. But it's been only about the bladebreakers and not her. He doubt Hilary knew any of this, but is she keeping something from them that's serious enough for their kids to look disappointed and annoyed with them, especially Kyle who seems to have know everything the most. Was Hilary keeping something from them? something that they themselves have deserve to not know, because they themselves have never given any respect back to her? She was just another school girl, another dreamer who has made far into her last strive, has now become a killing Goddess being possessed by her own creation.
Was it all their fault?
"Look! Water!" Koaru said, pointing over for Niama, who looked up tired, but overjoyed.
They got to a beautiful spring, something small but satisfying, a small water fall was springing down with a moist gray rock wall surrounded by trees and shrubbery. No one was around, in fact it was deserted, it was as if no other human life has touched it, and thank god for them they needed it.
"Were here," Max said to her. He was about to put her down, but Matt stopped him.
"Trust me, just carry her into the water, then drop her in," He told him.
"I must perfer that, it is the proper way of the Healing Transformation for a Rokeshedian Elf." Niama told her.
Max did what he was told, once he walked his way through the water, he dropped her, and she floated down slowly to the bottom.
"Is this suppose to happen? she's drowning!" Max yelled not sure what's happening.
"No, Rokeshian Elves can breathe under any water, she's healing is all." Matt said, motioning him to get out of the water.
"But.." Max was unsure, as he got out of the water, he just looked as the bubbles floated up top, the spring started to glow, glow and sparkled beautifully, where everyone looked in awe.
Watching, Niama spurred out of the water, flying up in the air, doing flips as her wings sparkled and fastly buzzed and flapped like graceful and hurry butterfly wings. She looked as bright, beautiful, and healthy then ever.
"Your flying!" Koaru was excited.
"You look so beautiful!" Wendy said impressed with how bright Niama became.
Niama floated down to Max and Matt, "I feel so much better!" she told them.
"You really can fly!" Max said. "Where are your wings?" he asked Matt.
"Only the female Rokshedian elves get wings, guys just get...buff and learn how to make swords our of ice and water, but you could've already figured that out." Matt answered.
"I could perhaps fly my way back home," Niama said so excited about flying again.
"I don't think so," Matt said, and he pulled her down by pulling on her leg, "You can't get back home by flying, I know a way to get you back home, but flying isn't how."
"But my Kingdom could be somewhere around here," Niama said.
"No Princess, Your not where you think you are, you can't fly around here freely unless it's necessary, and right now, you walk, and i'll help you get back home," He said.
She floated down finally on her feet, "Really?" she asked.
"Yes, all of you will be able to go home," Keira told them all, "And were gonna help!"
her words made the girls lit up, all except Lust, who didn't bother to look interested. Kyle obvioulsy knew why. But no words were said from him or Lust. Kai was less interested in that then more of thinking of Hilary.
The same feelings he's wondering, is the same as Ray's, he couldn't get Hilary out of his mind, none of them can.
"First things first, we have to get back to our boat," Rex said.
Surprisingly, without any argument, Tyson didn't say anything, the loss of their friend is getting to the Bladebreakers.
"Aren't you worried about Alan?" Ray asked Rex, but also to everyone else.
"Of course we are!" Rex said.
"But we have to worry about you guys too," Keira said. "Alan would want that."
"How do you know what he wants?" Koaru asked her.
"He makes it so easy to read people, but it's not easy, Alan knows things that we don't even know, but he tells us things that are the truth. He's honest, and all of us have been friends since were like 3 or 4." Rex said.
"He may not be the same now, but were going to do everything to make him turn back to himself again," Matt said.
"We may need to hurry though," Kyle said.
Everyone turned to look and see he was looking through golden bionoculars that seemed antique. he was looking far beyond the trees.
"Where he get those?" Tyson asked.
"He's wearing a trench coat, he could have a missile in there for all we know," Matt said.
"Fortuanatley Missiles aren't my style, but you might need to look at the top of the mountain." Kyle said.
He handed the bonaculars over to Matt to look over the top of the mountain.
"Holy shit, we might need to skip the boat and take a look at this." Matt said.
"What is it now?" Rex asked, he can't seem to handle how much more can happen now.
"Alan is almost in his god form," Matt answered, "He's already have his red wings out of him."
"It's Yusei!" Wendy almost screamed.
They all turn to find Yusei, a few feet away from them, walking, almost in a trance. As he walked, his feet made the ground crystalize and and the trees turn into actual frozen crystal. He walked on like a zombie, his eyes glowing red and his mark glowing brighter then ever.
"What should we do?" Kenny asked. For the first time he had said anything that has been keeping him so silent.
"Should we run?" Tyson asked.
"No, wait a minute, Yusei could still be Yusei right?" Wendy asked.
"I don't know, he seems like a zombie to me," Koaru said.
"What's a zombie?" Niama asked.
Yusei turned to look at them, then suddenly black wings struck out of his back, His wings sparkled like stars in a black night, it was so incredible to see, that beyond that, his forehead started glowing into the shape of an eye, and Egyptian looking Eye.
He lift up his arm, and his fingers reached out to them, and said in Hebrew, "אתה חייב לדעת את האמת על אריאנה, היא היחידה שיכולה להציל את כולנו. תסתכל אל. העבר, ולראות מה קרה לנו ..."
"What did he say?" ray asked.
"He was speaking in Hebrew..." Kyle said.
"Hebrew? An Egyptian knows Hebrew?" Keira asked completely confused.
"They should, after all it was a slave language back then," Rex answered him.
The eye glowed brighter, and soon all of them stared at it, without realizing everything around them went black. They didn't realized the scenery changed into a wheat field where a farm house layed behind them. Two old automobiles drove by and parked in front of the farm house, they all looked at the car, the future children eye's widen when they saw the silver figure shape implanted infront of the car.
A Swatsika symbol layed implanted infront of the automobile. And three men came out of the car, they wore jackets and black leather uniforms, all wearing arm bands of the swastika symbol.
"Where are we?" Tyson asked.
"Not where, when?" Kyle said.
"Then when are we?" Kaoru asked.
"Please don't tell me, that this is the year of World War II" Matt said.
"It might be worse," Kyle said, "I think Yusei Has sent us in Hilary's memories."
"What!" They weren't expecting it this!