A/N: All right this is the last of my music one shots! When I finished this I thought I still had to work on some but it turns out that this one is number 10. Surprisingly when I heard this song, I was torn between doing another DD character when I just thought of Mark from Shattered Masks, and I kind of liked how the chorus of Red like Roses Part II seemed to resonate with him after he lost Vladitor. So ladies and Gentleman I give you the last of my music shots!

Red like Roses Part II – Jeff and Casey Williams (RWBY Soundtrack)

Featuring: Mark/Marduk from Shattered Masks

Red like roses

Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Always closer

To the emptiness and sadness

That has come to take the place of you

Once upon a time, Mark was on top of the world.

He had been given a great and powerful bakugan named Vladitor by some Doctor or something his uncle knew.

The guy had tried to explain that Mark was going to be tested to see if he was worthy of helping protect some silent core or something, but Mark couldn't care less at the time, he was too busy visualizing all the victories he would reap. All those kids who had mocked him and his bakugan were going to pay.

He and Vladitor took the bakugan game by storm with Mark winning brawl after brawl, getting noticed not just by his winning streak but by his refusal to use the Infinity Card. That was something that Mark was a bit pensive about it, but it was the one thing that Vladitor and Dr. Michael had required in order for him to keep Vladitor so it was a small price to pay for the power.

Then he got arrogant, too arrogant. When he learned that he was being tested to see if he was worthy of something bigger, he was shocked and asked that surely the countless battles he'd won proved he was capable and worthy, but Dr. Michael had merely shaken his head, saying he wasn't ready.

"You don't see the bigger picture, you still see this as a game." Dr. Michael had told him.

Mark had clenched his fists and glared at the man before he responded sharply. "This is just a game! There are rules, and as long as the 'bigger picture' is centered around the game, then the game is all that matters!"

But Dr. Michael had still refused to approve him to meet with someone, or allow him to learn more about his potential 'bigger role', and it pissed Mark off.

So he decided he was going to do the one thing he could do to guarantee getting noticed.

He went to the Bakugan Store and called out the strongest Darkus Brawler on Earth, Alice Gehabich.

And he was ripped apart.

Alice didn't just defeat his bakugan, she attacked him with sharp words, and with brutal accuracy hit all his weak points, stripping away his pride and killing each and every one of his bakugan until he had none left.

Mark hadn't been able to stop himself, the girl knew how to keep him going, egging him on, and convincing him to hold off using Vladitor while she used her hydra with expert precision to deliver brutally accurate and fatal blows. He had thought it would be a matter of pride, that while Alice kept using her strongest bakugan against each of his, he'd beat her with any bakugan but his guardian.

God he was a fool.

And then he'd lost Vladitor. Alice made it slow, keeping Hydra's power level just a little over and allowing Mark to think that maybe just maybe he could save his partner, before she revealed her character card and vaporized Vladitor and sent him to join all of Mark's other bakugan in the infinity force.

Mark had failed, and worse than just lose Vladitor, he'd lost all his bakugan, and he'd lost himself. He'd set himself up to fail, he'd let his arrogance get the better of him and now he couldn't trust himself anymore.

His family didn't trust him, after two suicide attempts, his uncle offered to get Mark help, but Mark refused, citing they wouldn't understand him losing his bakugan.

'They'd think they were just toys'

So Mark was sent to live with Dr. Michael and the good doctor did try to get through to Mark but it was to no avail. Mark was living a waking nightmare, with the guilt of destroying his bakugan, he could've stopped, he could've saved them. Could've saved Vladitor, who'd done nothing but stand by him and fight alongside him and Mark had responded by treating him like a weapon.

Now Mark had lost everything, all he had was a too large empty mansion and an annoying old man who kept trying to get Mark to move past it.

Mark didn't want to move past it, he'd killed his bakugan, and he deserved to suffer for it. It just wasn't fair that no one would let him join them in death.

A/N: This was pretty dark, but this is how Mark feels after his loss of his bakugan. Unfortunately he lacks any immediate family to help him so poor Mark's on his own to try and deal with the guilt. I hope you guys enjoyed this 10 little drabbles, if you did please leave a review and also if you have another writing challenge you'd like me to attempt please either pm me or write it in your review.

Thanks for reading everyone :D