After all that waiting your waiting is finally rewarded with a new chapter. It's idyllic that you keep your readers waiting for the next chapter if your getting money every chapter you make, but in fanfiction the smarter thing to do is just publish the story with the first and last chapters finished. Those are the idyllic ways of posting a fanfiction but I've gotten more reviews from taking my time writing. I also got better with the help of Cadyn Brewer-Sidelia Miller. If I was too afraid of asking her because she would say something bad to me or I was afraid asking her would have my account taken down I wouldn't have asked her. I also thank Bakugan4Life and all those reviews I got. Sorry but the story isn't far from over yet. I can't just end it without introducing the villain everyone wants to see, wink wink. Hint, the villains name starts with an N.
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" Huh? Can I remind you of things you don't want to hear out loud?" Leontess hesitated. " I promise I won't make it so I change your mind."
"It's actually not something you can force." Leontess informs Zodiac. "I just remember watching Ian battle one day, I thought something and Ian heard me."
" Interesting. You were always different than the other Bakugan, but I mad you to be the weakest because I was afraid a lion Bakugan would rebel against me someday. I'm sorry for accusing you-"
" Don't. I was an angry Bakugan when I first got here."
"It's true." Ian said.
" I even tried to eat Ian the first time we met."
" That is also true," Ian said.
Zodiac was stunned to hear this. "How did you stop being, angry?"
Leontess didn't know. He was angry the second time he met Ian and on their first battle.
'Ian,' Leontess tried the mind talking thing again. Only to have it fail again.
" I don't need to go anywhere else. You have proven this world can stay," said Zodiac.
"Really? That's great!" Ian cried.
" Thank you, leader," Leontess said. " What will you do now that you no longer wish to destroy the world?"
"I do not know. I just may disassemble back into the twelve Zodiac Bakugan and give them to who they belong to."
" I'm sorry," Ian said. " You don't deserve to be taken away after you just came to life but know this sacrifice will make eleven more people happy and we will never forget you."
"Twelve. If you've forgotten there are twelve Zodiac signs. And two, Gemma and Leo, will be happy. As will the others who get the other Zodiacs."
" I know. I just hope Leontess finds a new owner. Someone who can take care of him and enjoy hearing him speaking inside their head as much as I do."
"Why doesn't Leontess stay with you? You do realize that, even though I created him, he isn't one of the Zodiac Bakugan."
" I know. It's me who he can't stay with. I'm dying after all. Leontess said the president has been giving me medicine to keep me alive but now that his plan has failed-who am I kidding, even if his plan succeeded-he wasn't going to give me anymore of that medicine. I didn't even know a cure for having a tumor was possible."
"I believe Leontess himself can cure you. But you must ask the Six Warriors of Vestroia to be sure and how it is done."
After saying that Zodiac glowed and separated into twelve Bakugan balls and each flew off to find their destined partner.
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Ian did what Zodiac told him to do. He and Leontess left Earth to find the Six Warriors of Vestroia and find a cure. However, Ian told no one where he was. And even though Dan has been to Vestoria he couldn't go through to it this time.
"So, who are the Six Warriors of Vestroia?" Ian asked Leontess.
"I'm not sure of the full story but long ago when Vestroia was still in six and not one a warrior from each attribute left Vestroia to defeat an unknown evil. They succeeded but it came with a price: They could only go between the two cores of Vestroia and the Doom Dimension, they could no longer come to Vestroia."
That was sad in a way. To go to one place and never being allowed to go back home...the things that came to Ian's mind was banishment or death. " I see. Where do you think we can find them?"
"I don't know. No one except for Drago and the other Battle Brawlers Bakugan haven't seen or heard from them in centuries. Where they are now, is a mystery."
Ian was starting to feel a headache in his head. He didn't know if that was a symptom of his tumor or what was going on in his life. Ian was getting tired by the second.
"Ian, are you alright?" Leontess asked concerned for his human partner.
"Just tired." Ian replied. "Maybe I'm suffering from jetlag. We should probably sit down somewhere."
Leontess looked around for a place Ian could sit. The ground wasn't the most comfortable place Ian could sit.
Ian spotted a shady spot under a tree and walked over and sat down. Leontess noticed how much more hallow Ian's heavy breathing was.
Leontess wanted to try something. The same way he could read minds he could also scan the brain and help Ian with what the tumor was doing to him.
The tumor wasn't doing much from what Leontess could tell, but then why was Ian's breathing so shallow?
" There's something wrong with your breathing, Ian," Leontess said. " I want to help you but what is happening to you?"
"I don't know. Since we've been on Vestroia, which hasn't been long, I just feel tired and that I can barely move."
" What can I do to make you feel better?" Leontess asked.
"Right now? Nothing." Ian closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the tree. Even though Ian was sleeping it worried Leontess a little bit because he feared that he Ian wouldn't open his eyes again.
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Denise with her clairvoyance could see that Ian was in great pain.
"Denise," Neon asked. "Is everything alright?"
Denise wasn't sure. One moment Ian was having one of the worst dying experience and the next he was find. She could hear Leontess's voice speaking to her. Neon saw the confused look on Denise's face and decided that they should go visit the Battle Brawlers. After he asked Denise she agreed. They started by going to Dan's house. He was the Battle Brawler they knew the most. He was also the only one who could explain things to them and get them together.
When they got to the Kuso residence Neon knocked on the door. Dan answered the door and let them in. They just expected Dan, Drago and Dan's parents to be home. But when they got into the living room they saw a very sick Runo laying on the couch.
She looked as if she were on her death bed.
"She hasn't been doing well. Since the president was defeated Runo's been seriously sick. Her parents took her to the doctors but not even they know what's wrong." Dan informed his new allies.
Neon felt bad for Dan. He couldn't cry like Dan and he was in too much of a hurry to wait for Runo to get better. He had to ask him his questions now.
Denise said that she'll watch over Runo since Neon needed to ask Dan his questions. Dan looked reluctant about leaving Runo but gave in and took Neon to the kitchen.
" I'm going to keep this conversation short. Ian is in trouble and I need all the Battle Brawler's to help save him." Neon said.
"What has Ian gotten himself into now?" Dan asked.
" Denise says he's in submission because of the tumor in his brain. We need to find him and take him to a hospital."
"Okay. Where is Ian?"
" Vestoria."
"Do you know a way to get to Vestoria? Because it's not like Drago or any of the Battle Brawlers Bakugan can just make a portal appear."
" I don't know. Donal was the one who knew how to open portals but no one has seen him since the president went mad and a nicer lady I only met once is taking over. His accomplice was also seen robbing a store so I don't think he will be easy to find."
"Great." Dan pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. He has a sick girlfriend and now Neon needed him to go to Vestoria.
" I know it sounds crazy trying to go to Vestoria when I don't even know how we are going to do it, but we can't just let Ian die."
Dan walked back into the living room with Neon at his heels. He goes to Runo's side.
"Hey, Runo, I know you may kill me when you wake up, but I'm going to get the other Brawlers. We need to get to Vestoria to help Ian." He said quietly to his girlfriend.
Dan wanted to kiss Runo on her forehead but he was afraid kissing her would make him sick. Dan and Neon walked out the door. Yumi, who Neon called earlier because she was a part of his little group, was waiting on the sidewalk for Neon and Dan.
"Okay, time to go get the other Brawlers." Neon said once the trio started down the sidewalk.
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Back in the Kuso household Denise was putting a damp cloth on Runo's forehead when she awoke. "Where's Dan?" Runo asked weakly.
"He and Neon went to go get the other Brawlers. They have to get to Vestoria to help Ian. Dan was reluctant but I offered to stay and take care of you. He is one of the very few that knows Vestroia."
Runo nodded then closed her eyes and went back to sleep.
"I just wish we knew what was wrong with you."
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"So who's our first stop?" Yumi asks her male companions.
" Shun," Dan said. " He can think his way out of anything. He probably knows what we have to do."
Neon and Yumi nodded. They walked the rest of the way to Shun's house. When they got there Dan knocked on the door. Shun immediately opened the door. He was dressed in his casual cloths. In the background there was a noise of a vacuum. It sounded like his mother was cleaning the house.
"Hey, Shun," Dan said in an emotionless tone. "We're gathering the others up and going to Vestoria, you in? And before you ask: Denise is watching over Runo and we're going to Vestoria to help Ian."
" Didn't we already go to Vestoria to help Ian not too long ago?" Shun asked.
"Yes." Neon answered. "But this one is way more serious. He has a tumor and we need to get him to a hospital."
Shun was with them on their adventure. The next people they were going to ask to join them were Marucho and Julie. Marucho and Julie were outside of the younger teens mansion. They had received a message from Dan to wait for him, Shun, Yumi and Neon to arrive.
" Good," Neon said. " Everyone is here. We are like pieces of puzzles coming together. The problem is we are missing one piece...by which I mean the portal to Vestoria."
"Why do we need to go to Vestroia?" Marucho questioned.
" Ian is there and he is in very bad condition because of his tumor."
"That's a pretty good reason. But I have a question: Why is Ian on Vestoria?" Julie wondered curiously.
" I don't know," Neon said. " I didn't know he was there until Leontess told me. I think he was looking for a cure for his tumor."
"Well that explains some of it." Prays said as he hopped on Marucho's shoulder. "Hey Drago, can't you make a portal?"
"No, I can't."
"I can." An old feminine voice said.
Drago thought he was hearing things. Until a translucent spirit appeared in front of them. Wavern.
" Who is this Bakugan?" Neon yelled finding it hard to control the volume of his voice.
"Wyvern." Drago replied in a daze.
"Wyvern, what are you doing here?" Dan asked.
" I'm here to help you get to Vestoria," Wyvern said.
Wyvern opened a grey and white portal. Dan was about to step inside when Wyvern told them that they only have ninety-six hours to find Ian, otherwise they would be stuck on Vestroia.
" I'm sure we can find Ian before the portal closes," Neon said. " We have flying Bakugan after all. Isn't that right, Drago?"
"True. But we will have split-up if we hope to find him." Drago stated. Then one by one Dan, Neon, and the others entered the portal.
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On Vestroia Leontess and Ian were in a desert part of the realm. An hour or so had passed since Ian opened his eyes and told Leontess that he had a sudden urge to the desert. Neither understood why, but they figured that they should follow Ian's instincts.
" What are your instincts telling you?" Leontess asked his master.
"Besides us coming to the desert? Nothing. We're in a hot, sandy place and I don't know what to do." Ian sits down in the sand and puts his head in his hands. "Maybe we should give up. We're stuck on Vestoria, the desert part of all places, and we don't know what to do."
" I am not just letting you stay in this hot desert all day until the day you die, Ian. We are here to cure you and that's what we are going to do. Zodiac wasn't lying about the Six Warriors."
"Okay. But where do we find them? It's not like we can say: 'Bibbiddi-Bobbiddi-Boo' or 'Great Six Warriors, please appear before us.'"
That was the question that was on Leontess's mind. As the sun beat down Ian was feeling hopeless. They came to Vestoria to find the Six Warriors and now it seemed like that it will never happen.
Ian made loud crying sounds from the headache's returning to him.
Leontess was getting worried. He needed to get to the Six Warriors, but how? No one has seen them in centuries, plus they can't even come back to Vestoria. What was he to do?
" You are a brave and loyal Bakugan to go all this way to help your master."
"Who said that?" Leontess jumped from the mysterious voice. Soon he noticed that he and Ian were floating in the air.
"Leontess, what's going on?"
"I don't know."
In a flash of white light they were floating in a new place. Six figures were floating around an orb, each clearly one of the six attributes.
" You want our help?" The figure with the Haos symbol asked. " We can help you...after we determine if you are worthy. And if we do find you worthy there is a chance we won't let you leave. And if we don't...you two will be separated."
"What do 'if you find us worthy' and 'we'll be separated if you do'?" Ian wondered.
" Do you know why people believe we are hard to find?" The figure with the Ventus symbol asked. Ian shook his head. " We only allow the dying to find us."
"The...dying?" Ian gulped.
"Wait, aren't you the Six Warriors? I thought that you helped Dan and the other Brawlers when they were in the Doom Dimension." Leontess said.
" We did," the Subterra figure said. " But this tumour has parts of another world inside it." Ian was confused by this. " Did you think that foolish president came up with it himself? He was given it by them. The person who gave it to you knew someday you might come looking for us. That makes this decision a quandary."
"Who's this other person?" Ian wondered.
"And you can't separate us! We're like Dan and Drago!" Leontess shouted.
" We see the resemblance between you two with Dan and Drago," the Aquas figure said. " But even if you were Dan and Drago you have to make us see we can't separate you."
"Because Leontess can cure me!" Ian blurted out, out of the blue.
" He can cure you?" The figure with the Pyrus symbol asked. " How?"
"That's why we needed to find you. He can cure me, but only you guys can tells us how."
"Interesting." The one with the Darkus symbol said. "Your Bakugan can cure you, but only we can tell him how?"
Ian nodded.
The Six Warriors discussed this new information to themselves.
"What do you think we should do?" The Pyrus one wondered.
"I don't know. And I don't see how we can tell or show Leontess how to cure Ian." The Aquas one said.
" Maybe in order for the winged lion Bakugan to cure his friend he needs us to live him something," the Ventus one suggested.
"But what?" The Subterra one demanded. "We don't have anything to give either of them!"
" We can keep the boy safe," said the Aquas one. " If we all look after him we can make sure the worsening of his condition doesn't take his life."
"True." Agreed the Haos one. They all looked at the Aquas one as if he would be able to show Leontess how to cure Ian.
" Our decision is final," all six figures said in unison.
"We will watch over you to make sure that your condition doesn't worsen." The Ventus one explained.
