A past revealed

"Hey Li!" Tyson yelled out, he and co. running after him.

"Hi, can I help you with something?" Li asked.

"Yeah, you could. You wouldn't know where Megumi is would you?" Rei asked him.

"Megumi and Kira went sight-seeing, they forced Kai to go with them."

"Hey Li," Tyson said slowly as an idea formed in his mind, "how long have you known Kai, Kira, and Megumi?"

"We've known each other for as long as I can remember," he answered. "Why?"

"Maybe you could tell us how he became such a sour puss," Tyson said.

"I couldn't do that. That's his past and he should tell it if he wants it to be told."

"You could tell us who that girl was," Rei said, catching on to what Tyson was thinking.

"What girl?"

"The one we met in the stadium that looked a lot like Megumi," answered Rei.

"Could it be..." he mumbled to himself. "I'll tell you on two conditions. One you tell me everything you remember about the girl. Second, you don't tell this to Kai, he'll kill me for sure if he found out that I told you any of this, or anyone else for that matter."

"Deal."

"Alright, then here it goes. We pretty much met when we were babies. Kai and Kira's mom used to live in Hong Kong before she moved to Tokyo with their father. So, when they were around two years old, she decided to move back to Hong Kong. That's how the five of us met."

"Five, I thought their were four of you?" Max spoke up.

"Five- Me, Kira, Kai, Megumi, and Celeste. Anyway, we really had gotten into blading when our fifth birthdays came around. We each got a bitbeast: Kai got Chetorah, Kira got Suicune, I got Solaris, Megumi got Thundera, and Celeste got Lunaris. A year later, Kai's dad got pneumonia. Their grandfather took that chance to take them in his custody. He never knew that they had bitbeasts so he gave Kai Dranzer. Whenever they did something slightly wrong he'd beat both of them. He tried to teach them to get rid of their feelings, he focused mainly on Kai because he noticed that Kai and Celeste had close bonds. He felt that if he let it continue Kai would fall in love with her and then he couldn't use his grandson.
Kai and Kira ran away and came back to Hong Kong when they were nine.

"The opposite of what his grandfather wanted, Kai and Celeste fell in love. They were really in love. Two weeks after Kai and Kira's 12th birthday, Celeste was supposed to be coming home from the week trip to Mexico she was taking with her uncle. Her uncle wanted to take both nieces, Celeste and Megumi, but
Megumi wanted to stay home and study for her exams and go in the summer. Kai and Megumi might have been waiting all day and into the next day waiting for her. Finally, on the day after they were supposed to return, their uncle came, alone. He was very somber, we could tell immediately. He told us that Celeste-"
he paused, "that Celeste had been kidnapped in the airport when they had landed in Hong Kong. He had looked everywhere for her for a day. We looked everywhere and did everything we could. We rarely ever saw Kai or Megumi. Kai gave up all hope of finding her and went to his grandfather. Kai thought if he asked him, he would help Kai suppress his emotions and feelings. Megumi, we never really saw. When she finally came out of hiding she acted happy-go-lucky and as though nothing had happened, like she still is. Celeste has been missing for more than five years now." Li sighed. "Well, that's about it."

"So, the sourpuss wasn't always one" Dizzi said.

"So Rei, about the girl who looked like Megumi.."

"Yeah, she seemed to think, or know, that you guys were holding back a lot of power in the match today. She had shorter hair than Megumi, down to her shoulder blades, and it was down. She was wearing a black tank top over a white long-sleeved shirt and a pair of black cargo pants. Um.. that's about it."

'So it really is her' Li thought. "Remember you can't tell anyone that I told you about this."

"Umm Li?" Max asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why did you want to know about that girl?"

"Just wondering. See you later." Li walked toward their team's room.

TBC...