Black Hell Dog-Woohoo I'm on roll!

Sirius-That's what you think

Black Hell Dog-Smart ass.

Sirius-Lovesick little girl

Black Hell Dog-Thank you ^_^

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A large BBA bus hummed as it ran up the smooth dirt path.

'Are we there YET?' Tyson groaned.

'NO Tyson! For the hundredth time we won't get there for another hour!' Kenny shouted, and you could tell he was very annoyed.

'AGH! This is so stupid! Another HOUR? I can't wait that long!'

'Tyson you'll live,' Max laughed. 'Just shut up and enjoy the scenery.'

Kai, who was at the back as usual, was deep in thought. (Sorry if the flippin' italics don't work)

iWhat is wrong with me? Why can't I get that stupid lovesick pink-haired girl out of my head?/iKai thought angrily.

Kai just didn't understand why he couldn't get the little pink-haired brat out of his head. He didn't love her, Hell he didn't even like her. Plus she is completely attached to Rei, so he wouldn't have a chance with her. WHAT?! He didn't have a CHANCE with her? He wasn't thinking that crap!

'AHHHHH!'

Everyone turned to look at Kai, who looked at them back with a red face. 'What!'

Everyone turned back to what they were doing, and Kai went back into thought.

iWe'll have to see how I react when we get there. AGH!/i

*

The White Tigers and Rei quietly lay in the field where Mariah saw Rei again for the first time in four years. They didn't talk or really do anything else; they were just enjoying each other's company.

'What's that noise?' Lee asked suddenly, sitting up.

'What noise?' Rei questioned, 'I don't hear anything.'

'Listen carefully,' Lee replied, 'It sounds like a vehicle.'

'On gravel.' Rei added.

Now all of them were sitting up and listening to the sound that Rei and Lee were hearing.

'Now I here it.' Mariah commented.

'Hey look!' Lee said, pointing through the bushes. They all looked to see flashes of white going through the bushes.

'It's a BBA bus!' Rei said quickly, getting to his feet and dashing off.

'Wait up!' Mariah called after him, as she dashed after him, with Lee, Gary and Kevin behind her.

Rei ran along the gravel road, attempting to beat the bus to his village. He began gaining on the bus, but the bus decided it wanted to speed up.

'Oy! Stupid bus!' Rei yelled in annoyance.

Rei picked up his speed as well, and the White Tigers behind him were beginning to get annoyed. Rei spotted a path leading through the bushes to his village, and it was sure to be a shortcut. Rei cut through the bushes, losing the White Tigers in the process.

'Where'd Rei go?' Lee panted.

*

'Hey there's the Village!' Max shouted in excitement.

'It's about time too,' Tyson said weakly, 'I am so hungry!'

Max rolled his eyes at Tyson, 'I'm sure Rei'll feed us when we get there Tyson.'

'I hope so!'

*

Driger and Galeon lay in the grass, resting and enjoying each other's company. All the sudden, Driger shot his head up, and began scanning the field they were in.

'What's wrong Driger?' Galeon asked, cocking his head.

'Don't you sense it Galeon? There are other bitbeasts here. '

Galeon blinked, but narrowed his eyes, 'I sense it too. Three or four of them. or one very powerful one.'

'Maybe one of the others sense it.' Driger whispered.

'Let's go see.'

Galeon and Driger disappeared into black and green sparkling dust.

At the temple, Galux sat grooming herself laying on the platform of a large bubble fountain. She suddenly stopped, and was very still.

'I sense. other bitbeasts. It's very faint, but I can still sense them. Unless. it's just one very powerful bitbeast.'

Galux was about to stand up and run when Driger and Galeon appeared in front of her through black and green dust.

'Let me guess, you sense bitbeasts too?'

'Yeah. we should go tell Galzzy and Galeon.'

'You don't have to.' Came the deep voice of Galzzy.

'We already sense it.' Galmen added.

'Oh. let's go see what it is,' Driger commented. 'Who knows? Maybe it's someone we know.'

The bitbeasts dispersed in a rainbow of glowing dust, and the room became dimmer.

*

People watched as the large BBA bus hummed its way through town, and people shrieked as Rei ran by.

'Watch it Rei!' a middle-aged man yelled.

'Sorry!' Rei yelled apologetically.

The bus stopped in front of the large temple, and Rei collapsed right behind it. Breathing heavily, Rei lifted his head to see who would get out of the bus.

Rei gasped, which almost killed him, when he saw who stepped out of the bus.

'Tyson!' Rei yelled breathlessly.

Tyson turned around to see Rei laying in the dirt, making an attempt to breathe. Tyson looked dumbstruck, but then put on that goofy smile of his.

'Heh, hey Rei! You looked like you chased the bus halfway here!' Tyson smiled happily.

'You don't know how right you are Tyson.' Rei said tiredly.

Tyson stared at him for a moment, but then looked up. The White Tigers were trekking down the hill, looking as tired as Rei.

'Hey, long time no see!' a voice said happily. Behind him, Max had stepped out, along with the other Bladebreakers. Max began waving frantically to the White Tigers, who tried to wave back but were too tired.

Beside Rei, Lee collapsed. Mariah collapsed at his other side, and Gary beside Lee, and Kevin beside Gary.

'What are-you guys-why? Why don't you come inside.' Rei panted, getting up and motioning for them to come inside the huge temple.

The White Tigers, who had just arrived, looked mildly annoyed, but got up and followed.

At a long table that could fit them all, they were all served a small bowl of rice and chopsticks.

'So, why are you guys here?' Rei asked, fiddling with his chopsticks.

'We want to know why you left!' Tyson said suddenly, making Lee knock over his cup of tea.

'Max, didn't you tell them?' Rei asked.

'I tried to, but Tyson being his usual stubborn self-'

'It's okay Max,' Rei said sympathetically, 'I guess now it's all I have to ask is what you want to talk about?'

'Well, we were thinking that maybe we could make up some sort of plan,' Rei stared at him. 'Like maybe, you could be with the Bladebreakers for beyblading purposes. Just for tournaments, and stuff like that. You could spend the rest of the time at home, and you could train at home. You'd be better off then us, you wouldn't be with Kai.'

'True,' Rei laughed. 'I think it's a great idea! What about you guys?' Rei turned to the White Tigers.

'I think it's a wonderful idea!' Lee said, nodding happily.

'Yeah, we agree.' Mariah said, and Gary and Kevin were nodding and smiling.

'Then it's settled!' Tyson shouted, pumping his fist into the air. 'Ah. is it ok if we stay the night and leave in the morning?'

'Sure Tyson.' Rei laughed.

That evening, the two teams sat at the edge of a hill overlooking a river and a forest. Rei was enjoying the small breezes when something caught his eye. A small flash of black light, that he could just make out through the trees.

'Did you guys see that?' Rei asked quickly.

'See what?' Lee questioned.

'That flash of black light! Down through the trees, there was a quick flash of black light!'

'Rei are you sure, I mean-'

'Rei isn't making it up guys! I just saw it too!' Mariah said quickly. 'Except I saw it in the river!'

'I just saw it through the clouds!' Kenny shot out.

'Look! Up there!' Tyson shouted, pointing to the setting sky.

Everyone looked where Tyson was pointing, and some let out a few gasps.

In the sky, an enormous black fox with nine long tails was looking at them with glowing blood-coloured eyes.

'What-what is that?' Max shrieked.

'It looks. it's-it's a bitbeast!' Kai shouted.

Along the horizon, eight streams of different coloured light were flowing towards the large black fox.

'What do you think it is!' The pink stream of light asked its voice echoing.

'It's a bitbeast!' The red steam of light said.

'Are you sure Dranzer!' Galeon asked.

'I am positive!'

The streams of light flew up towards the black fox and started encircling it.

'You guys, look at that!' Tyson shouted.

Everyone was standing up now, in sheer surprise.

'Look at all those strings of light!' Gary said.

'I-I think they're. our bitbeasts!' Rei shouted.

The trails of light slowly took form, and morphed into different animals. Like before, the bitbeasts started encircling the black fox. Draciel wrapped around the fox's leg, and it let out a sharp cry.

The bitbeasts suddenly stopped, and everything went cold. Everything seemed to fall to the side, as if there was a shift in the earth. Tyson looked up and the fox and to the bitbeasts, and everything in front of him was suddenly dissolving. He turned to the others, and they were also disappearing.

'What. what is happening?' Tyson asked himself, and his voice echoed everywhere. Tyson looked down to his hands, and they were also dissolving.

Then it happened in an instant, everything was black. Tyson soon found himself falling through a sea of blackness. Dark. And nothing but dark. And suddenly, he stopped falling, like he was never falling in the first place. Tyson just lay there, staring up to a sheet of black with glowing specks. Then nothing but pure darkness.

'Tyson. wake up. Tyson, wake up, it's all okay now.' A voice echoed through Tyson's head.

'What?' He said weakly. He lifted himself up, with a great effort. He brought himself face to face with Max, who was leaning over him. 'Max. what happened back there? Everything was there, then it wasn't. as if when that fox let out that cry, everything disappeared on its command.'

'We're not sure what really happened Tyson, but we all got spread out where ever we are in the process.' Max said, looking towards a stream.

Tyson looked towards the stream also, to find Rei, Mariah and Gary sitting there.

'Kai was here but he disappeared again.'

'Where are we anyway?' Tyson asked looking around. He saw nothing but thick trees for miles over the small stream, but there was a stone bridge connected to path leading into the forest.

'We're not really sure Tyson,' came Rei's voice, 'All we know is that we're not on Earth.'

'So that means. that Lee, Kenny, and Kevin are somewhere and they don't even know where they are.'

'We're in the same situation unfortunately.' Mariah said quietly.

'Well I say we go into the forest, we'll just follow that path. Maybe the others are there somewhere.' Tyson said quickly, standing up.

'I'm not so sure that's a good idea Tyson,' Rei said. 'We're not on Earth, so the inhabitance here could be very dangerous. We don't what sort of things live in there, and we're not armed, in case you haven't noticed.'

'Yes we are! We have our beyblades and bitbeasts!'

'No we aren't Tyson,' Max said softly, 'We may have our beyblades, but out bitbeasts completely disappeared.'

'What?' Tyson shouted.

'Look at you beyblade Tyson. Dragoon won't be there.' Mariah whispered, holding up her beyblade, with no Galux bearing in it.

'You can't be serious!'

'We are Tyson,' Rei said, walking up to Tyson, and holding his Drigerless beyblade in his hand. 'Just check your own beyblade.'

Slowly, Tyson went to his back pocket. He pulled out his beyblade and looked at it. They were right. Dragoon was gone.

'See Tyson? But don't worry, we'll find them.' Gary, who hadn't said anything, said reassuringly.

'I like your spirit Gary!' Tyson said, putting his beyblade in his pocket.

'Yeah I agree!' Max said happily, standing up. Mariah walked up to them, Gary at her side.

'Now let's go into that forest, and find the others and our bitbeasts!'

'Yeah!' everyone shouted in unison.

'I'm not so sure that's a good idea,' came a voice that sounded like sweet five-year-old girl, except it sounded sly and sneaky. 'Don't you want to wait for your friend?'

Everyone turned around to see a small black cat-like creature with big yellow eyes, and sharp slits. It had a twisted smile on its face, which made it look a bit insane.

'Well, don't you? I'm sure you wouldn't want him to get eaten by the Scalithes. '

Black Hell Dog- WAH that was way too short! I'm sorry readers!

Sirius- What is your definition of "short"?

Black Hell Dog- *blink* I dunno.

Sirius- It isn't that short Si

Black Hell Dog- Whatever. thank you to my two most loyal reviewers! Galux Kitty and Princess Evil Kitty! I am so grateful. *Hugs Galux Kitty and Princess Evil Kitty* Thank you so much! Sirius c'mere!

Sirius- NO-WAY

Black Hell Dog- FINE!

Next Chapter: Wandering Through The Forest