Shadow-Assassin: I'd like to thank all the reviewers and my best friend as always…
=^-^=… Keep those reviews coming in… They're what keep me going… I'm currently working on some other anime fanfics if any of you would like to read them… I also have a vague outline of the sequel to this story… =^-^=
(Back to the sidefic)
Ray: DRIGER!
Mariah: GALUX!
Shadow-Assassin: HEHEHEHE!
Mariah: *Growls and sticks a sock in Shadow's mouth*
Ray: Dare I ask where you found that sock?
Mariah: Found it in Tyson's clothes hamper.
Ray: Eww…
Shadow-Assassin: *Gagging and flailing as much as possible trying to get Tyson's smelly sock out of her mouth*
*The others suddenly walk up*
Kenny: What are you doing?
Ray: Torturing the authoress.
Tyson: Why? Wait a minute! Is that MY sock?! I've been looking all over for it… I thought I'd put it in my clothes hamper by accident… I've never washed this sock… It… Holds so many memories… *Tear as he grabs the sock and huggles it*
Shadow-Assassin: I think I'm gonna be sick…
Ray & Mariah: *Start to laugh their heads off and the other kinda stare at them so they stop*
Max: What's so funny?
Ray: Nothing…
Mariah: So why are you guys here anyway?
Tyson: We came for the ending party… I say we ask readers which of us is their fave then they get a hug or something from their fave character from this fic… That includes the made up ones…
The Girls: Oh goody…
Legend Of The White Dragon
Chapter 20 - Escape
"I don't care what you look like... I will always love you Ray... Reikou," Mariah smiles as she hugs the dragons muzzle gently.
"Aww... How cute..." Judy says as she walks into the room. She looks at Mariah and the dragon smirking a bit.
"What do you want?!" Mariah growls as her eyes go almost cat like.
"To talk is all," Judy says calmly.
"Why would we want to talk to you?" Mariah spits.
"You aren't in the position to be arguing... Nor asking questions," Judy says.
"How could you do such a thing? Your son was out there. What if he'd been hurt?" Mariah asks narrowing her eyes.
"So what if he got hurt. If he did, it would be because he was doing something stupid," Judy says.
Mariah goes wide-eyed, "How can you call yourself HUMAN!"
"It's very easy... You just open up your mouth and say..." Judy starts.
"You're disgusting!" Mariah roars as she clenched the bars of the cage.
Judy just smirks, "If you don't want to give me any useful information then I'll be going. I have much more important things to do then babysit a little girl and her pet dragon."
"Good! Get lost!" Mariah shouts.
"Well then... Farewell," Judy says walking away from them and walking out the door.
"Don't come back!" Mariah yells. She turns back to the dragon, "I can't believe she'd do such a thing."
(I don't think she would,) comes a deep gentle voice from inside her head.
Mariah looks up at the dragon, "You can... talk?"
(Of course I can talk... I'm not mute you know,) the dragon says.
"What did you mean by... You don't think she would?" Mariah asks.
(I don't think she would do something like that unless she was forced to,) Reikou explains.
"Well how would they do that?" Mariah asks.
(A spell...) the dragon replies.
"Spell?" Mariah repeats.
(Yes... A spell from the book of the dragon,) he continues.
"But... Don't I have the book of the dragon?" Mariah asks.
(You have one of them... There are two,) he says.
"So the book she was reading during the tournament... That was the second book of the dragon?" Mariah asks.
(Yes,) he replies, (We need to find the spell to counter it... It's in the book.)
"Well... I read the whole book through but... I can't remember a thing from it," Mariah says.
(Great!) the dragon says.
"What's so great about me forgetting what we need to know?"
(I can revive the memories... Make it like you just read the words off the page) he says.
"You can? Ok then... Do it," Mariah nods.
(Looks into my eyes and relax,) The dragon says.
Mariah obeys and stares into the dragons deep blue eyes. She watches them as they slowly begin to glimmer and soon glow. She watches still as her head begins to feel light and heavy at the same time. As everything seems to get fuzzy yet everything becomes clear. As the glowing stops Mariah falls to the ground dizzy, "What was that?"
(Think... What was the spell? A spell to reverse the control that Biovolt has on Dc. Judy,) the dragon says.
"I... I remember it... It goes like this..." she starts. As she begins to chant she closes her eyes and begins to glow a light pink.
Let the chains fall lose,
Let your mind be yours,
Let your soul be free,
You are your own being once more,
Let the confinement end with these last words,
Freedom from your bondage I give.
Mariah finishes the last word and the glowing ends. She collapses onto Reikou's chest, exhausted and weak. The great dragon wraps his tail around her and lies her gently on the ground, (Let's hope it worked.)
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The two prisoners awake to the sound of bodies dropping to the ground.
"What?" Mariah mouths blinking and looking around.
The two see their guards lying on the ground unconscious.
"Who's there?" Mariah whispers.
From out of the shadows comes Judy. She looks at them and smiles gently, "I don't know what you two did but thank you."
(You're ok,) The dragon sighs.
"Thanks to the two of you. Now lets get you out of here and back to your teammates," she says as she unlocks the cage.
"But how are we going to get out of here? This place has security for its security," Mariah says.
"Don't worry about it. I'll find a way," Judy says calmly.
(We trust you, lets just hurry,) The great dragon says.
"We can't get out of here with a seven foot dragon," Judy says holding up the crystal sphere she'd trapped Ray in before.
(No... Mariah, can you find a spell that will reverse the one holding me in this form?) The dragon asks.
"I... I think I can," Mariah says.
"Ok then. Do it quick before they realize we're trying to escape," Judy says looking around nervously.
"From dragon to human,
I release your soul,
Return to the form,
You wish to hold."
The great dragon begins to glow all of a sudden and shift, shrinking and changing and mutating into something else. Mariah smiles weakly and falls to her knees.
"Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all," Judy says helping Mariah to her feet.
As the glowing stops and disintegrates it leaves a figure behind. The figure of the human known as Ray, "It worked. Are you ok Mariah?" he asks as he takes one of her arms and puts it over his shoulder helping her to walk.
"I... I'm ok... Just a bit... Sleepy..." she says in a quiet weak voice.
"Don't fall asleep on us now," Ray says as he kneels down, "Get on my back and I'll carry you." Mariah obeys and puts her arms around his neck and he grabs her legs lifting her up off the ground. Mariah weakly puts her head on his shoulder closing her eyes. Ray nodded to Judy and they slowly and carefully walked out of the room.
They slowly crept through the halls of Biovolt. They'd been taken there by private plane after they'd been captured. At one point a guard appeared and Judy grabbed Ray who was still holding Mariah and covered his mouth with her hand as they hid in a doorway.
"That was too close. We need to be more careful," Judy says with a sigh of relief.
Ray nods and the two sneak off down the hallway.
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"Fools... What made them think they could hide from the eyes of Biovolt?" Voltare says with a smirk as he watching the three slip silently down the halls of the building on a TV screen, "Don't worry. You won't have anything to worry about soon enough. Soon you will be part of the strongest creature in the world... working for me," he smirks as he holds a black beyblade and looks at Ray.
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The three soon reached a door that led outside.
"Be careful. We don't know what could be waiting for us out there," Judy says.
Ray nods and narrows his eyes as Judy slowly opens the door. Their eyes widen.
"Ray... I can walk now," Mariah says quietly.
"Good... cause I have the feeling we're going to be doing alot of running," Ray says.
Mariah lifts her head slowly and sees over a hundred men with beyblades blocking their escape route. She groans and lefts go of Ray's neck as he slowly lets her down. She walks forward standing next to him and grabs his hand holding it tightly.
"So nice of you to join us," comes a voice as a man in a black cloak steps forward smirking at the three runaways.
"What do you want?" Ray asks narrowing his eyes at Voltare.
"I want you to join me in my quest to take over the world... White Dragon," he says calmly.
"Over my dead body!" Mariah shouts as she goes forward but is stopped by Ray's outstretched arms.
"Mariah... Don't aggravate him. He's a very dangerous man," Judy whispers.
Ray glares at the old man, "What makes you think I would ever want to help you?"
Voltare smirks, "What makes you think you have a choice?"
"What are you talking about?" Ray asks angrily.
"Well... You wouldn't want you little girl friend here to get hurt would you?" he smirks.
"You leave Mariah out of this!" Ray spits.
"I'm afraid I can't do that," he says calmly as several men in black walk towards the three.
Ray stands in front of Judy and Mariah narrowing his eyes at the men as he starts to glow slightly.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Voltare says as he takes a book from another man and holds it out for Ray to see.
"The second book of the Dragon," Ray says looking away and towards the ground as he stops glowing.
"What's the mater?" Mariah asks.
"If I transform or use my powers he can use the book to turn me against you or to capture me. I'm safe so long as I don't use my powers," Ray says.
"Then what do we do?" Mariah asks in a quivering voice, as the men get closer.
"The only thing we can do now is surrender," Judy says sadly.
"HEY! I never want to hear that out of your mouth again!" comes a voice from their left. The three turn to see several figures standing there shadowed by the setting sun.
"GO DRAGOON!"
"GO DRANZER!"
"GO DRACIEL!"
"GO GILLIA!"
"GO GARLIUS!"
"GO GLICIAR!"
"GO GINTA!"
They go wide-eyed as the see the seven bitbeasts emerge from beyblades that suddenly fly onto the scene.
"Help has arrived!" Comes Tyson's voice as Dragoon places himself in between the men and his friends.
"Can you guys stay out of trouble for one day?" Kansas asks with a giggle as her bitbeast runs in front of the three growling and snarling at the three men in black.
"Mom?!" Max shouts as he runs over hugging his mother. She hugs him back tightly as a tear falls down her cheek and Draciel plants himself in front of them.
"I'm so sorry Maxi," she says.
"You want a fight?" comes Nadia's voice, "Then here it is!" adds Kai's voices as Dranzer and an ice bird bitbeast fly at the men.
The men pull the ripcords of their beyblades sending them at the bitbeasts. The beyblades glow sending out various types of bitbeasts.
"Attack Gillia!" Kintana shouts as her dolphin bitbeast goes on the offensive.
"Help em out Ginta!" Alicia shouts as her deer bitbeast runs at the mob of men in black.
"How... How did you find us?" Mariah asks in shock.
Tyson smirks, "It's Kai's grandfather's company. He knew he'd take you here... By the way Ray... You dropped this," he says as he passes Ray his beyblade.
"Thanks Tyson," Ray smiles as he readies his beyblade, "GO DRIGER!"
"Here's you blade too Mariah," Kansas says passing her friend her pink beyblade.
Mariah smirks as she sets her blade on her launcher, "GO GALUX!"
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The bitbeasts all attack but unknown to them was that Voltare had snuck off.
"You think you've won already?... I think not," The evil man laughs as he holds up the black beyblade and black launcher. The bit on the beyblade shimmers as the man laughs.