Fire Fox- Hey people! This is my first Beyblade fic, and since I haven't seen all the episodes, I really have no idea what I am doing. In fact I have only seen a couple of episodes but thought I would give a fanfic a try neways! I would appreciate ne help and reviews. I seriously hope this doesn't turn out as bad as I think it will. Like I said ne help would be great.
Raven- And you need all the help you can get, stupid girl!
Fire Fox- Shut up, you have no fan girls to protect you in the Beyblade Section. Hehehe! They couldn't give a crap what happens to you, so there!
Raven-……
Fire Fox- That's what I thought.
Disclaimer- No diving. No diving in an empty pool. No diving.
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NOW
THE FIRE FOX DAZEDLY PRESENTS:
The Other Side of the Mirror
Chapter One: Broken Promises
"Galux, scratch attack NOW!"
"Galeon, dark lightening."
Mariah unknowingly held her breath as the two beyblades collided for a final attack, creating a giant dusk cloud. Mariah strained her eyes to see through the dusk and willed her beyblade to still be spinning. Both beyblades where still spinning shakily.
Mariah's was the first to go down. She lowered her eyes to the ground; she couldn't bring herself to look Lee in the eyes. Not after losing another battle, she felt the sadness well up in her like a storm ready to rain hard. She couldn't remember the last time she had won a match against anyone. She picked up her pink beyblade, felling every nook and cranky in her hands. Taking strength in the fact that the beyblade remained the same, though it was the only that hadn't changed. She stared hard at the figure of the bit beast on her top.
"Another loss, Mariah. This had better not keep up, or we might be forced to drop you from the team," Lee said.
Mariah gave a funny look to Lee. The warning had more threat the first couple of years the girl thought bitterly.
A sigh escaped from the girl, "It is not like I mean to be weak or loss, it is just…" she trailed off, "I am going to go take a shower."
"Mariah," Kevin started to go after her but Gary stopped him.
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Gone, after all these years he is still gone she thought looking up at the sky. She seemed so alone. We had promised but… She shifted her thoughts to thoroughly brushing her long, wet hair.
They had promised to 'hang out' and still be friends after their fight, but Lee had put a stop to that. But they still kept in touch, secretly. Well, more likely Lee just turned his head. Even though he hated Rei for betraying the White Tigers team, he feared losing another teammate even more. However times and people change.
She missed Rei more and more with each passing of the sun, although she would never admit it to herself, let alone her teammates. But that was not all the troubled Mariah tonight.
The cold, distant stars seemed to sneer at the girl's weakness and the moon looked down condescendingly at the lovesick girl. She had the promised herself to become the best beyblader she could become. To be strong and respected in the boy's sport, she had never really dreamed of being the best but a named to be reckoned with. It had seemed like the promise was within her grasp once Galux had befriended her, but that was years ago. Now….
Mariah shifted in her bed even more sleep still eluded her. Well at least tomorrow is a day off from training she thought on a lighter note.
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The sunlight drifted down on the sleeping girl; she had been left to sleep while her teammates had gone into town. They had known she didn't sleep very well and her game had been more off than usual the past couple of days, so they had thought it best for her to sleep late.
But they were not the only ones thinking about the girl, a pair of jade green eyes sat staring at the girl from the foot of her bed. It sat waiting and watching the girl with its tail switching methodically back and forth, to and fro. It must have some purpose in mind, but then again maybe it didn't. No telling how long the creature had been sitting looking at the girl. Her teammates had left more than five hours ago; of course none of them could stop the creature in its mind. Nor could Galeon, Galux, or the others stop the small fox-like creature if it had truly wanted to hurt the girl. But it didn't want to hurt Mariah, it was just curious. Perhaps? It remained its silent visual of the girl and twitching its tail.
No telling even how the creature got in the room: all the doors and window were tightly shut. Suddenly, the fox's ears shot back against its head, and the thing started to snarl as if it had come across something rank. Weak!
Galux hissed at the fox's appraisal of its own master from its beyblade. My master is nothing if not strong!
The fox gave it a lupine smile. It seemed to raise an eyebrow at the bit beast's loyalty to its master. Its tail switched from side to side as if debating something important. Finally it returned to its visual of the girl.
Mariah stretched only to become aware of the sapphire eyes surveying her at the foot of her bed. There was something unnerving about that stare; it was as if the creature was staring through her soul.
Suddenly it turned its head to the window as if it heard something unknown to Mariah. It jumped off the bed to the floor in a fighting stance, barring its fangs and crouching ready to pounce. Then it must have heard the same thing again, it gave Mariah a last fleeting glance and left.
"Okay that was weird."
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Mariah felt the sun flow all over her body and beyblade. She drifted through the forest with nowhere in particular in mind. She tried to lose herself with the wood. She tried to forget her past within the shrine of green. All the green reminded her of the creature's cold jade eyes. She shivered despite the golden sun flooding everything in the forest. 'What was that creature? And what was it doing in my room?' She wondered her way to a favorite spot of hers. A beautiful stream running between a bank of boulders, there was no place better to be on a sunny day.
Though the years may not have been kind to Mariah herself, it more than made up for that through its kindness to her form. People had always said that at age twelve she had been cute, but the 'cuteness' had fled the last six years, leaving pure unadulterated beauty. Her long dawn tinted hair had grown darker of the years. She still had her honey brown eyes that had been known to lure guys to defeat in the arena.
"Grrrwwllll."
Mariah was quickly pulled from her thoughts by a noise. A dog stood growling at her like it was ready to attack at any given minute. Correction thought Mariah not just a dog, but a huge ugly dog. Mariah had never really been partial to dogs, but this thing was hideous even for a dog.
"What is it NOW, Hy?"
Mariah detected movement from a rock. The owner of the voice made its way around to the stream.
"Don't tell me you found another oh-so ferocious turtle? Or perhaps….a girl?" The voice ended in surprise.
Mariah stood staring at another girl. She was a little over five foot tall, not what one would consider beautiful. Her layered auburn hair fell down to her shoulder blades. Dark brown eyes tried to follow the line of vision of the gargoyle. She closed the distant between her and Mariah in slow steps. Mariah was suddenly more afraid of the master than the beast. She couldn't move her eyes away from those dark eyes.
Suddenly the girl was in front of Mariah. She bent down and picked up a stick by Mariah's foot and threw it over her shoulder where the dog protected the girls from the vicious twig.
"Sorry about that, hope Hy didn't scare you too much. She would never really hurt any one. Actually, she is something of a bloody coward. Hy thinks she is a cat and has a habit of running away from a Chihuahua."
"That's okay," Mariah gasped, "I'm Mariah."
"Oh, that's nice." The girl gave the impression that she wanted nothing more to do with Mariah as she turned to leave.
"And you are?" Mariah asked suddenly wanting to get to know the strange girl.
"You can call me A.S. for now."
"Is that all you have for a name, initials?" Mariah demanded.
"No," the girl laughed, "but that is what my friends call me…among other things. But if you want to get technical you can call me A of S.
"So what are you doing out here?" the girl asked.
"I really don't know," Mariah trailed off, looking at the image of the moon that still hung high in the sky, although it was noon.
"You know that the ancients used to think that the Moon was stronger than the Sun, because the Moon could be seen both day and night. While the Sun only at the day. It is ironic, no?" A.S. said figuring what Mariah was looking at with not moving her gaze from the stream.
"Perhaps you are looking for your own moon? What did your teammates do when they wanted to become stronger?" A.S. asked Mariah without looking at the girl.
"He left."
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Fire Fox- So how was it? More fluffy stuff to come if you really want it. I have always had the greatest respect for Mariah, well what I have seen of her. So this fic will be centered on her and Rei too.
Raven- You couldn't write fluffy if your life deepened on it. Need I remind you who laughed at Titanic?
Fire Fox- *hits Raven with a rolling pin* Shut up you! Please review and give any suggestions that you can think of, please. Hopefully they are nice suggestions!
Thanks to Celebistar for proof-reading. Hopefully I found all the spelling mistakes that she told me about, or maybe none at all…Neways
I love Raven. See ya.
