Doji smirked as he looked a head of himself. The tall buildings of Metal City were coming into view as the two males neared closer to their goal. Dynamis trailed behind as Doji stopped, looking ahead and taking it all in. "What a sight that is" he sighed, "to think our glorious god did all this on his own! And soon the whole world will bow before us all!" The man exclaimed. Dynamis slowed to a stop next to the older and looked ahead indifferent with nothing to say. "Ginga's in there practically waiting for us! The star fragments will be ours in no time." Dynamis seemed to tense and clench his fist as a conflicted expression took his features.
"Have something to say?" Doji turned with a look of amusement. "No, don't have anything to say?" Silence followed with the Jupiter blader relaxing. "So weak you can barely fight back." He chuckled, "I like you better this way, none of that will of the heavens talk. Pluto was smart to weaken you before placing that curse. Right?" Dynamis nodded in agreement as Doji began to walk again.
"Let's find Ginga and take him down." He spoke hoarsely. "Nemesis's reign will last forever."
Johannes lazily stroked the ball of fur in his arms as he watched Pluto pace in front of him. "How could you let him escape!?" Pluto finally, after minutes of silence, shouted.
"Its no big deal. Don't get so worked up." Johannes rolled his eyes as another orange tabby rubbed against his leg.
"Get those things out of here!" Pluto growled as the tabby hissed angrily at him before going on to paw at his master affectionately. "Dashan knew everything about us! Our plans, our location, our-" Pluto stopped as the sensation of a brown furred kitten brushed against his pant leg. He looked down in aggravation, pushing the animal away with his foot. He was silent for a moment since he lost his train of thought.
"Why did you let him get all that information Pluto?" Johannes sneered at him.
Pluto clenched his fists, furious with the comment. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE KEEPING GUARD OVER THEM ALL!" Pluto took a deep breath, recomposing himself. "What am I to tell Nemesis?"
"Don't know, whatever you say will just anger him." Johannes commented, earning himself another glare.
"...No, no he won't at least with me. I'm not breaking the news because you are."
"What!?" Johannes jumped. "Why me?" The Lynx bladers arms tightening around his furry friend, causing for the cat to jump away.
"Because I said so and you are the servant so you do as I say." Pluto smirked smugly, walking past Johannes and leaving the room. Johannes sighed, picking up his furry friend again before leaving to make way to Nemesis.
Johannes stood, his stomach twisting slight into knots. His feline friends were nowhere in sight and he didn't blame them, Nemesis stuck a little fear into him also. He knew that Nemesis could very well get rid of him whenever the god saw fit. The Lynx blader pushed open the large set of doors, walking into where Nemesis was lounging. The door room was provided with light by the large darkened and broken windows the were placed high on the walls. A pile of broken and darkened beys lay unusable near Nemesis's throne. He hoped one day not to see his own bey in that pile. One bey was left out though, sitting next to Nemesis as the god of destruction looked to Johannes boredly, his head resting in his hand.
"Why are you in here?" A small set of chills ran down Johannes's spine.
"I bring bad news...my lord." Johannes added on the last part quickly.
The body of Rago balled his fist angrily slamming it down. "Tell me what has gone wrong this time?" He growled in a threatening tone.
"The prisoner, Dashan, has escaped." Johannes spoke. "I went after him, but he has feld for the city and likely in search of Ginga."
"YOU ALL ARE IDIOTS" He shouted, "first Ryuga and now Dashan!"
"If you allow me too, I will retrieve the boy for you my lord. We know that Hagane is the city all I need to do is-"
"No I've already got Doji on it." Johannes resisted the urge to laugh then and there. That Doji is such a fool, how he could pull this off is beyond me. Johannes took the silence that followed as his cue to leave, but was stopped quickly. "Your bey Johannes." Nemesis had held his hand out to take hold of the bey. Johannes stood stiffly in his place as Lynx was taken away.
"Why-" Johannes had reached fro Lynx back.
"You dare question me?" Johannes let his arm fall back to his side. Lynx shone golden orange as Nemesis covered with a dark aura. Lynx soon swapped to its own dark aura, before fading and falling into the ground with a thud. Lynx was kicked aside and into the growing pile. "Pluto was right, your lynx will hold me over for quite a while. To bad you don't posses a star fragment." Johannes looked up to Nemesis slowly, hiding the anger and disappointment in his eyes. Nemesis stood, walking closer to the boy.
"You're giving me-" Johannes felt the metal of a bey brush his palm as Quetzalcoatl was placed.
"I've already taken what I wanted from this bey. Take it." Nemesis turned, making way to sit back down. "Leave now and don't return until Doji gets back. I hope for your sake that he brings good news."
Kyoya clenched his teeth in pain as he pulled his arm back to capture Leone. His wounded shoulder moved sorely as it was still in its stages of healing. The bullet wound in his shoulder was wrapped tightly in bandages under his shirt. It wasn't in constant pain, but from time to time it flared up in pain. He wouldn't let that stop him from training to face those lowlifes of Nemesis again though. Kyoya put Leone away as dark clouds rolled into the skies. The scared boy turned, catching sight on a familiar face leaning on the wall opposite of himself. "What is it?"
"You okay?" Nile asked, walking up to observe the Leone wielder.
"I'll be fine." He responded, "don't worry about me."
"You've been taking care of yourself right? Cleaning it and watching out for infection? You have to as long as you don't have a doctor to go to. I bet Madoka would be willing to help you-"
"Nile." Kyoya spoke firmly, "I'll be fine." Nile sighed slightly, letting it go. The two walked a bit around the building. "I heard you hurt yourself on the way here?" Kyoya asked somewhat awkwardly.
Nile laughed a bit. "That Ninel girl pushed me out a moving truck."
"Why?" Kyoya asked, he didn't find it very funny.
"I guess I still need to catch you up to speed about what happened after to left." Nile sighed, "okay here goes…"
Kenta and Ninel returned with a bag full of sweets. Kenta grinned as he finished off his cookie. "They're not baked sweets, but they'll do!" The bag of regular store bought sweets hung lazily in Ninel's hand.
"To bad the baked ones were so bad. I was really craving some." She pouted, "I guess I know one of the first things I want when Nemesis is taken down!"
"Me too!" Kenta added as the pair entered the office in the WBBA. Dashan had sat himself comfortably on the desk as he watched Ginga practically tear apart to room. "Whats going in?"
"Ginga seems to of misplaced Kronos and Jupiter." Dashan explained as Ginga frantically poured to contents of someone's bag onto the floor.
"That was mine…" Krnta mumbled, watching Ginga tear through his own bag again. The panic that had risen inside him was beginning to show in his facial features.
"They're not here…" Ginga admitted, stopping in his tracks as a look of defeat spread across his features. "They're not here guys, I don't know what to do, I- I"
"Calm down Ginga" Kenta had moved to Ginga's side, placing a comforting hand on Ginga's shoulder.
"Maybe Madoka took them for repairs?"
"She's not even finished with L-Drago she wouldn't take them yet, besides she'd tell me if she was." Everyone fell into silence soon after. Kenta stood worriedly with Ginga in the center of the room. Ninel had moved to sit next to Dashan on the desk.
Light droplets of rain began to tap against the window, slowly growing louder and harder. No one really knew what to say, what to do. None of them had either of the beys, why would they? There was the possibility of someone coming in and taking them, maybe one of Nemesis's followers, but that would be difficult with Kyoya out front ready to give any stranger a hard time for coming in.
"Where is Ryuga?" Ginga asked, drawing the conclusion that Ryuga was the only likely do something like this.
"He wouldn't do that, he wouldn't take them!" Kenta defended.
"Out of all of us he's most likely!"
"Ginga!" The redhead silenced himself as Kenta's voice rose. "Ryuga wouldn't! He's on our side now." Gingka sighed, keeping quite as Ninel spoke up.
"That leaves Takumi and Ranmaru.
"Takumi wouldn't."
"We don't actually know a lot of Ranmaru." Ninel mentioned.
"But he did help Madoka…"
"He's been gone for a while now, you think he even will come back?"
"Who? Me?" A small boom of thunder roared as Ranmaru staggered into the room. His hair and clothing wet and he walked with a limp. "Great to know you guys trust that guy and not me. Ironic really."
Takumi's head didn't raise once as he slowly approached the small clearing in the forest around him. Nighttime and rain clouds were approaching as the boy clutched Jupiter in his hand tighter. She shivered as a breeze blew through the leaves above him. He couldn't seen to get what Ranmaru had said out of his mind.
"Going to betray your friends? Going to see Nemesis, or just a powerful bey for yourself?"
That wasn't the case...or maybe it was...he wasn't so sure anymore. When Takumi first found himself tearing through Ginga's bag for they two legendary beys it had taken him a moment to realise what he'd been doing. Even after he left he hadn't been sure of his decision. His mother's words also swirled around his head, be a family again? It sounds so nice to just be able to give up Jupiter and run off with his parents, but he also knew that this likely wouldn't be the case.
He wondered if Ranmaru hadn't shown up if he would've made up his mind about accepting the offer. What does it matter anyways? Everyone knew and all those new people wouldn't be a match for Nemesis and all his followers. If the legendary bladers couldn't do it working together what made them think they could? One bey wouldn't make a difference would it? The silver haired boy had stopped in his track. He wanted Everything to go back to normal more than anything, but was this really the only way to do it?
No it isn't...Takumi felt uneasiness slowly creep up. "I should go...what will Ginga do? What will they say- what will I say? What if-" thoughts darted in and out of his head as his eyes darted around his darkening surroundings. "They wouldn't trust me after this, I'll just leave. Yeah, give Jupiter back and leave. I hope Ranmaru doesn't see me…" Takumi shoved Jupiter into his bag for safekeeping. "But what will-"
"Are you okay?" Takumi jumped slightly, spinning around to face a female behind him. Red speckled, chocolate eyes stared at him from her place standing in the bushes. She didn't sound as worried about what could be wrong with the strange looking boy. In fact she didn't really hold any concern, all she knew was that he'd mumbled something about Ginga Hagane.
"I'm fine." He replied slowly. The brunette bit her lip, slightly unsure if she should actually stuck around to speak to him anylonger. Ruby had stumbled upon him accidentally while making way through the forest. She heard him say Ginga and the next thing she knew she was getting closer to speak to him. Though now she was regretting it a bit, she didn't know anything about him or if really knew where ginga was.
"talking to yourself like that doesn't make you seem fine. You said something about Ginga, care to tell me where he is?"
"Who are you?"
"None of your business."
"Why are you in the woods?"
"I have my reasons, why are you?"
"Why did you talk to me if you weren't going to answer anything?"
She shrugged, "I guess I was a bit worried for you for a minute there."
"Was?"
"Yeah. But you don't like like someone who wants to talk and really you're not making a great impression on me, so I'll just leave."
"Wait!" Takumi called. "I'll take you to Ginga!"
"I'd rather you just tell me."
"I'm going there anyways, it's no problem."
Ruby spoke again, a suspicious tone this time. "I can't just trust you like that. I don't have any idea who you are and you were just talking to yourself so…"
"I understand" Takumi sighed, "I'll tell you where to go."
Alice bowed as she approached Nemesis with her husband. She looked to the god of destruction carefully, judging by his expression he wasn't in a remotely good mood. "You wished to see us?"
"You promised me Jupiter and Kronos back my tonight Alice." Nemesis's threatening tone rang through the room.
Alice hesitated "I did...I was sure my son would've met me with the beys to give them up...I expected him to at least."
"But he didn't, did he?"
"No." She frowned as her eyes cast downwards. It seemed that Takumi hadn't been convinced to swap sides. Alice waited for him for hours, but it was useless. She returned, ready to face Nemesis's wrath.
Nemesis appeared to be holding back from exploding in anger. I want those beys back Alice."
"I know sir." She spoke slowly. "I'll get them from Takumi I promise." She looked up, "I will do whatever it takes, I'll make him do it if I have too." Alice felt her husbands gave fall on her is disapproval. As if saying; "how dare you think about doing anything to our son."
"You have until morning. If you fail i won't hesitate to end the both of you for good. Not only do I want those beys back but I also want you son."
"What?" Ray spoke sharply, glaring over to Alice as she elbowed him hard in the side.
"Don't worry, I'll bring him to you."
I hope this was a good read! I'm really sick right now, so I hope it didn't turn out bad or anything! I was wrong the final Oc Ruby made a short appearance towards the end there. Next chapter we'll learn about Dashan's escape, Ginga's thoughts on the news Ranmaru broke to him and Takumi and Ruby will run into trouble of their own. Finally John and Rosaline will catch up to Doji, hopefully before he can take Pegasus? Anyways hope you enjoyed!