Let's go!
Trinity looked extremely ill and grimaced. Her wounds hadn't healed over properly because her brother and sister had been unwell. She'd used more of her strength on them than they had on her, and it hadn't been good for her. She had left Tyson in a state of confidence but she knew she couldn't live it through because the injuries were so severe but she didn't want to be a bother to them- she'd play it cool and she'd be fine. Except she had been wrong. Having barely any power left from the fierce fight she'd been involved in, her wounds had reopened and started bleeding severely again. She was using every ounce of her bit-beast strength to try and keep from fainting so they had started bleeding silver again, which wasn't a good thing. She sighed and tried to find a good place to exit from the timeline, where no one would see her.
'How could have I misjudged my power like that? I'm such an idiot!' she scolded herself.
(One day later)
Marth stared at his oldest sister as she walked up the path to the front door of their house/base. He knew she'd used their strength to try and heal herself but she hadn't used much power of theirs, instead just enough to cover the wounds to prevent blood loss, and he and Kirra had ended up being healed by her power, which she had given off in the effort of trying to heal them. It wasn't good... the wounds had obviously been reopened.
"Kiz, come have a look at Trin!" he shouted down the hall. The loud, uncouth music, which had a majority of curses in, it ceased and Kirra stuck her head around her doorframe and blinked. (AN: Say the song was Bitches by Mindless Self Indulgence. I love that song so much...)
"What's wrong with her?" she questioned her younger brother.
"Have a look for yourself!" he snapped at her. Kirra snorted at her brother, not really realising the severity of the situation. Trinity then opened the door with unnecessary force, which shattered the glass in it.
Kirra stared at her sister for a moment, taking it all in. Everyone knew that Trinity had gotten a larger share of power than her siblings because she was first born, however she had never had her authority challenged or indeed, been beaten up like this before. Whatever had beaten her up would have probably turned she and Marth into dog meat. Kirra then shuddered inwardly- she hated dogs. (AN: No wonder.)
"Umm, have fun?" Kirra questioned her sister as she trailed into the entrance of their house, the silvery blood still dripping out of the large gash in her arm and on her stomach. Trinity smiled weakly and spoke with cheerful sarcasm.
"Oh yeah... I had LOADS of fun... Kirra, isn't it? Sorry, I'm kind of weak from blood loss..." Trinity giggled maniacally, and then proceeded to collapse onto the floor and start bleeding openly. Kirra raised her eyebrows and walked the short distance to where her sister had fallen and nudged her with her boot.
"I think she's out of it, Theo."
"I'd say so. Think we can get her up to the medical wing by ourselves?"
"Let's just call someone else and get them to do it. I think the Majestics are here today and I'm sure they'd enjoy carrying a bloodied corpse up four flights of stairs."
Marth smirked a somewhat evil grin and looked at his sister.
"I'll go up and get them, then." He and his sister both had a really bad habit of teasing the Majestics because they usually refused to do anything, insisting that Trinity, Kirra and Marth could do it all themselves. They probably could've, not very easily however. They were still human and needed rest, but the Majestics insisted. Everyone knew it was just because they were up themselves and thought themselves better than everyone else. Well, except Johnny. Due to his eternal rivalry with Kai, which even continued months after Kai's funeral, he wanted to prove to everyone he was as good as Kai. Trinity had just snorted and said he'd never match up to Kai. ("And you'd know, wouldn't you?" had been Kirra's immediate response).
About five minutes later, Marth returned with the Majestics, all of which who were looking extremely displeased.
"They apparently think that because Mum and Dad conceived Trin she's their responsibility. Too bad they ain't here, ne?" Marth muttered in Kirra's ear. Kirra's didn't show she was happy outwardly but inwardly she felt like rubbing the Majestic's faces in it.
"Well, come on boys! Hurry up, she's really staining the carpet down there..." smirked Kirra to the Majestics, who just scowled again and proceeded to take hold of one of the girl's limbs each and walk towards the first flight of stairs, with stony looks on their faces. Marth and Kirra surveyed the large silver/red stain on the white carpet, shrugged and started to climb the stairs also. Soon they had caught up to the Majestics, who were complaining amongst themselves. Robert snarled at Kirra's triumphant smirk and dropped Trinity's right arm from his grasp.
"I refuse to carry you severely bleeding sibling up these stairs any further! It is completely uncouth!" he snapped on the second floor.
"You should've left her there until your parents got back so they could look after her!" shouted Enrique, dropping her left leg.
"Oh yes, what was I gonna say when Mum and Dad got back and found their eldest child dead on their carpet from blood loss? 'Oh I'm sorry, your so-called friends refused to carry her up the stairs to save her life?'" said Kirra, her voice raised ever so slightly.
"You're her sister and brother, you look after her!" growled Oliver, dropping her left arm. He expected her body to drop to the ground, now that the only support was from Johnny, but Kirra glared hard at her sister, her eyes shining a brilliant gold momentarily before Trinity's body just floated, suspended in midair.
"Now, now, now... dropping her on the ground like that wouldn't be very nice after she saved your asses, you ungrateful pricks," sniggered Marth. He glared at his eldest sister too and she floated about a metre off the ground, although the very ends of her hair still trailed on the ground. Johnny glared at his ungrateful teammates and walked up the stairs, with Kirra, Marth and the unconscious Trinity trailing behind him. Marth noticed that his sister had started bleeding again and quickened his pace. They finally got her up to the Hospital Wing, where Emily was waiting.
"Thanks, Johnny. It was really nice of you to help us," smiled Kirra. Johnny blushed, muttered a "No problem" and shot off down the hall. Kirra shook her head in astounded disbelief.
"I'll never get over how pathetic that man is." Her voice was somewhere between her normal voice and a deep, purring sound.
"Ahem." Emily's voice caught the two teenager's attentions.
Emily raised her right eyebrow very slightly, looking at Kirra and Marth, who shrugged simultaneously. Marth and Kirra's heads then looked sideways, towards an empty bed in the ward and Trinity landed on it with a soft thud. Emily bandaged her up and sighed.
"She's lost a lot of blood, I think you two will have to submit some of yours."
"Of course... our fucking luck being the only ones who have blood like hers..." cursed Kirra under her breath. Marth shrugged, became rigid for a second and then his eyes shone completely gold and his pupiless gaze drifted to Emily. He walked over very slowly, and held out his right arm, because he was left-handed.
"Stick me," he said in a voice that sounded like a deep growl than anything else. Emily nodded and tried to insert the syringe into his arm, but she couldn't get it. The tip of the syringe just rebounded off his skin.
"Umm... okay... how're we gonna do this..." she muttered to herself, before putting the syringe down on the desk and looking at Marth. Her gaze was met by his own golden, fiery expression.
"Would you mind returning to your more human state while I stick the needle in? Otherwise your muscles are too hard to get past. Marth nodded and his eyes returned to their usual, darker golden-caramel colour and he offered Emily his arm again. She took it and gored him with the syringe. He didn't so much as flinch as he watched the red substance being drawn out of his arm.
"Now go back to the way you were before," Emily said, because no one had really thought of a term to call their half bit-beast half-human state. Marth nodded and his eyes shone gold. The blood in the syringe immediately became the same liquid silver colour as Trinity's had been. Emily repeated this action until she got as much blood from Marth as she could without endangering him, and sighed.
"I think we've got enough but if we don't I'll get Kirra to give some. Thanks for that Marth."
Marth shrugged. "She's my big sister."
Emily nodded and smiled and the two healthy children of Ray and Mariah.
"I understand. Lee would have done the same for your mother. But I'll call you if I need help."
Marth and Kirra nodded, taking one last look at their downed sister and leaving the room, shutting the door behind them. Kirra hugged her younger brother around the middle and started crying like an idiot.
"Marthie, you're so BRAVE!" she howled. He sweatdropped at his older, howling sister.
"It doesn't hurt that much..."
"Yes it does!"
"Shouldn't you be crying about the whole 'Trinity has been injured situation'?" asked Marth. Kirra shook her head.
"She's always pulled through before and she's the strongest of us... it doesn't matter."
"We should go down and visit the Crystal Senshi ranks... we haven't had anything to do with them since we passed their examination..." muttered Marth. Kirra shook her head vigorously.
"Hell no. They thought we were freaks of nature."
"Well we were different weren't we? They were normal teenage kids wanting to help the situation, and we were basically automatically enrolled because of what we are."
The two siblings headed back down the stairs to try and clean the blood off the carpet.
"It had nothing to do with 'what we are', we're still human any rate. Well, mostly human," said Kirra confidently, grabbing detergent from the cleaning cupboard. Both of them were thoroughly familiar with this situation and they just grabbed everything they needed and set to work.
"We'll have to tell Mum and Dad that Trin got injured..." muttered Marth, viciously scrubbing at the bloodied carpet with some sort of scrubbing brush.
"They'll flip. They're already always worried sick about us and frankly I think if we tell them they'll lock us up in a high-security bank vault," replied Kirra, haphazardly squirting detergent at the stain. As soon as they'd finished cleaning up the majority of the blood, Ray and Mariah stepped through the door. Their looks were indifferent and their clothes weren't dressy or anything, so God only knows where they had been. Mariah's gaze fell to the now smaller bloodstain on the carpet, which her two younger children were doing their best to hide.
"Who was it this time?" she asked, sounding highly concerned.
"Umm..." started Marth, but then he saw his father staring at the blood, a somewhat terrified expression on his face. Marth looked at it and only then did he notice what his father had.
"Chiu!" he muttered in Cantonese. (AN: Basically translates as fuck or damn) There were still traces of silver through the blood. Although the majority of the blood was red, the silver stood out predominately against the brighter colour.
"Trin?" Ray questioned his son. Marth averted his gaze and looked guilty. His sister followed suit.
"What?" asked Mariah, and her eyes shot to the puddle of blood on the floor, and she too noticed the silvery traces in the blood. Her face went completely pale, and she shot towards the stairs, roughly at a speed equivalent to the maximum speed of a bullet train. Marth and Kirra just continued looking guilty.
"She was injured when she came back from the past. She passed out straight away so we didn't get time to ask her what happened..." Kirra explained to her father, without looking at him. She heard him mumble "Mm-hmm" before starting towards the stairs after his wife. (AN: They ain't married yet in the past :P)
"My God, he didn't go off at us. The world must be coming to an end!" Marth practically yelled with relief. Kirra nodded, and continued scrubbing the carpet.
"Well, we were sick and they were looking after us, so they can't blame us for not sticking together or any of that shit," explained Kirra. "You three should look after each other! No matter how strong you are you're still only human!" Kirra imitated her mother's voice. Marth sniggered and gestured to the carpet.
"Yes, SLAVEDRIVER..." Kirra said loudly.
'They should've got this carpet in some other colour besides white,' she thought, grumbling to herself and she continued her work.
Trinity had just regained consciousness; although her vision was still a bit blurred she was recovering steadily. Emily (she could tell it was Emily due to the blurry shock of orange hair) had told her that Kirra and Marth had brought her up and didn't know what happened.
"I'll tell them later," she managed to say, before coughing and trying to prop herself up against her pillows a bit more. She heard the door click open and she squinted in its direction. It was a pink-haired female and a dark haired male but she couldn't tell if it was her parents or her siblings because they were so much alike and her vision was still recovering. Judging by the way the woman ran over, grabbed her around the neck and shouted "OH MY GOD TRINNIE, ARE YOU OKAY BABY!" she assumed it was her parents.
"Hi Mum," Trinity felt her own lips curve into a slight smile.
"Oh my God, what happened to you? I will never ever again let you out of my sight!" proclaimed Mariah and Trinity started praying to the Heavens for help against her over-protective mother.
"Mariah..." Ray muttered.
"She's still my baby girl!" snapped Mariah.
"Have another baby then..." Trinity muttered.
"You three are quite enough trouble for us for one lifetime," said Ray.
"Here, here!" smiled her mother and then her parents smiled at each other lovingly and Trinity was pretty sure that if Marth was there he would have been throwing up. Kirra probably would have been rolling her eyes to the Heavens.
'But they don't know what's it's like to love someone,' thought Trinity, picturing Kai in her mind and smiling slightly yet again.
"But anyway, what happened to you Trin?" asked Mariah. Emily walked over, also looking interested in what caused Trinity such severe injuries.
Trinity closed her eyes momentarily and then smiled.
"Okay, I'll tell you all what happened."
'Okay, I'll tell you all what happened.'
Trinity's voice echoed in Marth and Kirra's heads as they were putting the various cleaning elements away.
Kirra smiled at her brother.
"You know, there are some times I'm actually pretty sure I like our older sister."
Trinity's vision had almost completely returned to its normal state now and she looked at the three people in front of her and thought about the two other people who were undoubtedly listening.
"I was in the past when I heard Dragoon saying that Tyson needed help..."
"Doesn't surprise me," all three adults said at once.
'Doesn't surprise us either,' her two siblings said.
Trinity grinned and nodded before continuing her story.
"But anyway, Dragoon asked me for my help in saving Tyson from whatever was going to attack him. When I finally got to the destination of the distress call I found Tyson there with this thing circling him, and Voltaire..." she trailed off and thought of the death of her own time Voltaire's demise at her own hands, which made her think of Kai again. She realised she'd had been silent for a while, and looked up to meet her parent's knowing glances. She shook her head, she didn't want sympathy, and she still had past Kai...
"But Voltaire was telling him about the big thing, which is a bit beast he created called Quadroon- I think it's made from all the Demolition Boys' bit beasts, and then he talked about me and Kirra and Marth. I think he figured out what's up with us... but he told the Quadroon thing to attack Tyson so I dived down on it to stop it. Kind of a big mistake, it was way more powerful than I anticipated it to be. It gave me the injuries I have now. I hit it and it ran away. Then Voltaire called me by my... other form's name, Kintora. Then he ran away."
She looked up at her father. "That's when I tried to heal myself, and you told me to stop, Dad. I did stop but I got enough energy to just cover the wounds. I didn't know that I was giving more power to Kirra and Marth than they were giving me... but then I explained what we are to Tyson and I assume he's telling you two from way back when about it as we speak. I then tried to find a place to come back here... but I couldn't find anywhere and by the time I had my wounds had reopened and I'd lost a lot of blood. So that's how I ended up half dead in the middle of the hallway."
Her parents and Emily nodded and echoes of 'Jesus Trin, you were way in over your head that time.' And 'Are you completely insane?' echoed in her mind. Mariah smiled and spoke gently to her daughter.
"You were brave Trin. I'm proud of you. We all are."
Ray and Emily nodded in agreement. Mariah reached out and touched her daughter's arm, and Trinity immediately felt pain shoot through her and she winced and pulled away. Mariah looked a little taken aback, but Trinity smiled at her.
"Don't worry, it's not you. I must've broken my arm..."
"We'll take her to get it X-rayed," said Emily.
(Three Months Later)
It turned out that Trinity's arm was indeed broken- pretty severely too. Trinity insisted she could heal herself in an instant but Mariah and Ray told her not too. Trinity was getting pissed off because everyone was treating her like she was made of glass. In fact, if Kirra hadn't told her to stop blocking the TV one day, she would have thought that she was definitely now made of glass. Finally, her parents allowed her to go on missions again and she joined her brother and sister on one of their journeys back to the past. They surveyed the scene and Trinity was surprised to find it peaceful... Kirra and Marth however, didn't look at all surprised.
"It's been like that ever since you came home injured. I've never exactly known Voltaire to be the subtle type with this whole world domination thing of his but this is getting ridiculous!" snapped Marth.
"We have no idea where he is, no idea what he's doing and while that would usually be a good thing, him not showing his ugly face, but because of the Quadroon thing that attacked you we're starting to worry a bit. I mean, he could be doing anything to it! Making it more powerful, attacking other parts of the country, even the rest of the world..." muttered Kirra.
"We don't know how the past guys are down there are either. We were given strict orders to stay away from them for a year, but keep watch from a distance and defend them if necessary. Lord knows why..."
"Can't you guess?" asked Trinity. She was hurting terribly, wanting to see Kai again but she knew what was going on, and she knew THIS time she had to respect her parents wishes. She pointed at Kirra.
"In 7 months from now, Mum will be three months pregnant with you. I disobeyed a strict order by warning Kai about the youma, and Voltaire, and telling him about us, don't you remember? It took me ages to get Mum and Dad off my case. The only reason they let us come back later was when Bryan kidnapped Mum and they let me come back when Tala caught Mum and Dad both. We're supposed to leave them alone to their own devices or otherwise we might not be conceived. Plus if you remember ever so diligently, our powers effect Chibi Me. God knows what that could do to her- I didn't have that influence when I was growing up so I honestly don't know what effect our powers have on her. So I think we're meant to leave them alone for a while, instead of always hanging around them, because it affect this timeline. Some of the effects may be good, but some may be bad. And we're not taking the risk."
The two younger teens nodded; they knew their older sibling was right, but they could also tell it was hurting her, being away from Kai.
'If only there was a way...' thought Kirra, racking her brain for ideas. She wasn't exactly the brain behind the three- that was probably Marth. Trin was the strength and she; Kirralee seemed to have a somewhat equal amount of both.
'What is wrong, Mistress?' questioned Mysticala, with an obvious concern for her partner.
'I'm trying to think of a way to help Trinity see Kai more often. She's managed three months without him but I'm being serious when I say that I'm afraid that a whole year apart could kill them both.'
The Holy Being was silent for a moment, before starting to speak in its soft, purring voice again.
'Well, both of us are capable of speech, are we not?'
For a moment Kirra thought her bit beast had lost it.
'Umm, yes. I do believe so Cala.' Her voice was sarcastic, but the beast seemed to ignore it.
'And you are?'
'A human.'
'And?'
'A bit beast, sort of.'
'Well what makes you believe that other Holy Beings cannot communicate with each other?'
Kirra felt like slapping herself. Of course! Why didn't she think of it herself? Although it HAD been quite a while since she'd been to the Bit Beast Dimension- it meant she, Trinity and Marth had to combine their powers to get the whole overall bit beast effect and they didn't really enjoy it because it took too much of their energy away and left their human bodies open to attack. And the soul could not live without the body, like the body could not live without the soul.
'So much on your mind, Mistress?' questioned the bit beast, in a mock surprise voice. Kirra sniggered.
'You just gave me a great idea, Cala.'
'Well, that's my job, to be your guardian. I'm not sure how Holy Beings react to different Holy Beings- we have likes and dislikes too. For example, I do not converse with Dranzer.'
'And why would that be?'
'I find him somewhat arrogant. My founders Driger and Galux-' Kirra giggled at the use of 'founders' instead of 'parents'- 'seem to get along with him better. Stella and Cisia do not get along with him either. Perhaps it is because we are younger than they are... however, I will get my kin to relay messages to the red phoenix if you so wish.'
'Thank you Cala! I'll tell Trin right now!' Kirra smiled and opened her mouth to talk but Marth interrupted her.
"Don't say a thing. We know." And her older sister and younger brother reached into their pockets without breaking eye contact with her and retrieved their beyblades, and the bit chips flashed cheekily.
'Damn siblings,' muttered Kirra to Mysticala.
'I know exactly how you feel,' said the Holy Being before Kirra felt its presence fade.
"Well, what do you think, Trin?" questioned Kirra. Trinity looked slightly unsure.
"It'd work, just as long as he didn't tell anyone..."
"Well he's kept one secret, hasn't he? And he's such a social cripple that he can't be bothered talking to anyone most of the time..." Kirra halted and realised Trinity was glaring at her due to the 'social cripple' remark.
"Okay Trin, you win. He's an ATTRACTIVE social cripple. But like I said, he won't tell them anything you don't want them to know."
Trinity contemplated for a moment. She was missing Kai a lot and hopefully he was missing her just as much. Plus as long as neither he or she or Marth or Kirra confessed, they'd be fine. Finally, Trinity nodded and smiled.
"I will get Stella to send him a message."
Kai sat on the couch, watching Baby Trinity rapidly crawling across the floor. She paused for a moment at the small coffee table, opened her mouth to reveal her vampire-like fangs and gored the soft wood with them. Her hair had grown quite long- so long that sometimes she put her hands on her own hair while she was crawling and fell flat on her face. Mariah and Ray knew they'd have to cut her hair even just a bit shorter so it didn't get in her way, but it looked so cute... so they had resolved by putting her hair up in two high, curly pigtails. Then she had discovered the joy of chewing on her own hair and they still hadn't figured out how to stop her doing that yet. Presently, a small thump brought Kai back to reality. Trinny had undone one of her pigtails and had attempted to crawl, and of course, had fallen over flat on her face. Kai simply leaned over and picked the infant up. She had fluff around her mouth and she was blowing bubbles of spit and giggling with delight as they burst and covered her face in saliva. Kai winced and grabbed a tissue to wipe her face.
Next time, Ray and Mariah were looking after their own kid. They were currently in their room getting some, as Ray had so appropriately put it, 'Alone Time'. So they got to have 'Alone Time' and he got to baby-sit their almost one-year old. Tyson was God-Knows-Where with Kenny doing God-Knows-What, and Max and Emily were pretty much the same. Kai yelped as Trinny grabbed the small golden hoop that adorned his right ear and gave it a sharp tug. Kai grabbed her chubby hand and removed it from his earlobe. Now Trinny was getting pissed off. She wasn't exactly used to not getting what she wanted. She had decided that Kai wasn't worth the effort of giving a long nickname too, either. So she raised one index finger, and pointed at him determinedly.
"Pussy!"
"What the fu-" Kai started, before remembering her old nickname for him- Sourpuss. Jesus, Christ, he was never going to live this one down easily.
"Pussy Kai!" Trinity glared at him with a sort of stubborn triumph on her angelic face, and with that she grabbed the arm he had resting on her shoulder to prevent her from falling backwards and dug her coffee-table-leg-shattering incisors into his hand.
Kai yelped as he tried to yank the eleven month old's teeth out of his hand. He finally succeeded, and he examined the bite. She hadn't broken the skin but she's left a pretty good hickey.
"You know kid, I resent that," snapped Kai, rubbing his gorged hand. Trinity's eyes swelled with tears and she sniffled a bit. Kai looked terrified.
"Oh God, kid. Don't cry, I'll give you anything if you don't cry..." muttered Kai, who started bouncing his knees up and down in an attempt to cheer her up. She seemed a little happier and giggled with ecstasy. (AN: Happiness, not the drug)
'Master...' Dranzer's voice said in Kai's mind.
Trinity sat rigid for a moment and then said, "Where's a birdie?" in a puzzled way. Kai was surprised for a moment- she could recognise Dranzer's presence? Not surprising, after what Tyson had told them all.
'Yes master, she can sense my presence because of what she is- or what she will turn out to be at least. But I have a message from Driger-'
'If you wanted to give me a message from Driger, Ray just could've told me, Dranzer.'
'Listen to the whole message before you make judgement. I have a message from Driger, who is giving it to me from Mystellara, the partner of your mate.'
'Mate?' asked Kai.
'I am using terms from our world, I am sure you can figure it out. But Mystellara says her master wants you to meet her just outside the village, in the Eastern Forest, as soon as you get this message. She says you can meet with her there every second week on the same day at the same time, but you must tell no one where you are going. Is that clearly understood?'
'Yes. You may leave now, Dranzer.'
'I will go back to my rightful place,' replied the phoenix and the bit chip of Kai's beyblade flashed. Presently, Ray and Mariah emerged from their room looking rather pleased and refreshed, and Trinny squealed.
"Mummy!" she cried, and slid off Kai's knees onto her feet, however she only stayed that way momentarily because she immediately fell onto her knees and started crawling towards her parents. Mariah kneeled down and picked her up off the ground and hoisted her onto her hip. She was getting a bit big to carry around anymore, but neither of her parents had the heart to leave her to her own devices until she could walk. Once she did she would probably cause more chaos that usual, sigh. Kai got to his feet and looked at the three people in front of him.
"Well now that you two are back, I think I might go out for a while."
"Okay. Just make sure you get back before dark because God knows what could be out there at night," Mariah said darkly. Kai nodded and started walking towards the door. But Trinny couldn't let him leave yet.
"Bye-bye, Pussy!" she squealed after him, waving.
Kai flinched but let it go, and walked out the door. Mariah smiled down on her daughter with pride.
"You know Trinny, I've never thought you were a genius... until now."
Dranzer was clenched tightly in Kai's hand in case of surprise attack, but he had noticed that all the dangers that his grandfather had created to kill the rebels like him and his friends- him in particular- were either completely gone or unseeable. Especially that one Tyson had claimed to have seen that his Grandfather called Quadroon. It had beaten Trinity up and that was worth worrying about. She wasn't exactly a helpless little girl.
"My parents would say otherwise."
Kai spun around and Trinity was standing about three metres away from him, smiling warmly. She tapped her head with her fingernail signalling that she knew what he was saying. Kai smiled back slightly, and walked over towards her, pulling her thin figure to his chest and pressing a soft kiss to her lips. The pair just continued kissing each other until they felt woozy from lack of oxygen. Kai then broke the kiss and wrapped his arm around her waist tightly, and she leaned her head against his shoulder. She stared down on the village, scanning the ruined buildings and sighing at the lack of life.
"Only four months now."
"What?" asked Trinity, having been lost in her own thoughts.
"Until Kirralee is conceived, presumably. Is she as much of a terror as you were?" he laughed softly in her ear.
Trinity laughed and turned her head to smirk at him.
"According to Mum and Dad she was worse. Marth was the good baby."
Kai paled momentarily, the memories of Trinny biting him like a savage and destroying the coffee table leg with her teeth burned in his mind, but then said, "Having met her, I could easily believe that."
Trinity nodded. "So I suppose Tyson told you what I am."
"Uh-huh. I don't really understand, though."
"I'm one of them and I don't understand most of it!" she exclaimed.
"I understand why we were chosen, but I don't really understand the power we have... we have a bit beast-like attack called Eternal Sleep but that's all we've really figured out so far. It drains you of so much energy, staying in that form- we only use it when we feel it's necessary. Or when we feel like showing off."
"Heh, I could understand that. When I used to compete in Beyblade Tournaments I only used to battle as an ego-boost or for revenge."
"We used to Beyblade a bit... me Kirra and Marth I mean." Kai looked at her mildly surprised She gave him a sheepish look.
"But we didn't have the natural talent like you guys or our parents did so we just sort of gave up when we discovered our own natural talent... you guys used to kick our asses, even with our bit beasts."
"Well, we were part of world-class teams, y'know. We didn't make it to the top by sitting on our asses."
"Yeah- you did it by standing near a big crater in the ground and yelling at a spinning top, right?"
"Not exactly... no wonder you don't have the passion for it."
Kai felt Trinity shrug in his embrace.
"Well, we just had our beyblades and bit beasts because one- our parents are both beybladers and two- our bit beasts are descended from Driger and Galux. In fact the Holy Beings were excavated near this village. Want to see?"
"Sure. I've always wondered about Dranzer's origin actually," replied Kai, hoisting himself to his feet and taking her with him. She laughed a bit and directed them both in the direction of the excavation site. (AN: For those of you who are wondering- that was in the Beyblade Manga, not the anime. Lol, that's when they first met the White Tigers- it was classic! I was laughing like a maniac)
After a cross-country walk they arrived at the excavation site. Kai looked, for once in his life, genuinely surprised. There were four pictures on a marble floor- A Black Tortoise, A Blue Dragon, A White Tiger and A Red Phoenix.
"North," stated Trinity's voice, breaking through Kai's thoughts. She was pointing to the Black Tortoise, which was facing north.
"If you know your mythology, you'll know the four Holy Beings each protected one of the regions. But I'm Chinese, not Japanese, remember? I don't know much about it" Trinity said raising her eyebrows at Kai. "Although I'm supposed to pray to Driger and/or Byakko, I don't know much about the rest of them."
Trinity then jumped down into the middle of the circle of Holy Beings, sitting close to Byakko. Kai sat nearer to Suzaku the red phoenix.
"The Azure Dragon, Seiryuu is the equivalent of Dragoon, and Genbu the black tortoise is the equivalent of Draciel," muttered Kai, figuring it out for himself.
"Yeah, I think so. I'm not too sure actually. Oh well, it seems like you know more than me," Trinity let her golden gaze sweep over Kai, and she smirked.
"Okay, I'll try and explain," Kai muttered at her, crawling over to her and wrapping one arm securely around her waist.
"Seiryuu was often seen as the protagonist. Genbu was often seen as the wisest and Byakko as the strongest. And do you know what Suzaku was always seen as?" Kai's voice was husky with emotion and Trinity leaned in and kissed him.
"Nope. You tell me."
"The renegade. The one who always betrayed the good guys and came crawling back at the end. And you know why that suits me..." he murmured, brushing his lips against her neck. Trinity felt like saying "Yep, sure. Of course." But her curiosity got the better of her and she said "No, actually."
Kai broke away from her and raised his eyebrows at her.
"Your parents never told you?"
"What?" snapped Trinity. She was getting a bit impatient.
"During the first world Beyblading Tournament I jumped ship to the Demolition Boys, lured by the promise of Black Dranzer. I joined them again during the third world tournament when us Bladebreakers were forced to join the District Teams. Your father went back to the White Tigers, surprise, surprise."
Trinity was quite surprised at the news, but she smiled and said, "At least you didn't stay with them. Plus I've never heard of Black Dranzer... and I should really know."
"As far as I could figure out, it was an artificial bit beast created by my grandfather's company, Biovolt. They had let us see it when I was kept at the Abbey as a child and since then I'd been lured by its power... now that I look back on it, it sickens me to think I was like that..." Kai grimaced and pulled her closer, as though she could make the bad memories disappear. Trinity leaned up and kissed him fully and ran her long, slim fingers through the back of his hair. When she broke off, she smiled at him and placed her hand on his chest.
"You're not like that anymore. It doesn't matter what you were like, everyone changes- some for the greater good and others for the bad. But you made the right choice, I'm sure of it, Kai."
Kai considered this for a moment, before nodding slowly and kissing her again softly.
"When you say that, I can believe it. You gave me confidence to believe I'd changed. No thanks to my Grandfather," Kai snarled. "Do you know what he's up to at the moment? I've noticed it's been so quiet..."
"To be honest with you, we don't know. If we did know, I'd probably be paying him a visit instead of you... Jesus, I would have come to see you afterwards!" she laughed at his mock-dejected expression. Afterwards she frowned and sighed.
"I feel pretty useless actually, because I'm supposed to be looking out for you guys so he doesn't hurt you, and I feel stupid just sitting here and..."
Trinity stopped, because Kai had pressed his index finger to her lips to make her be quiet.
"Don't worry about it, okay? We'll all be fine," Kai said, giving her one of his rare, truly happy smiles. Trinity kissed him gently again and Kai returned it eagerly, pinning her against the marble floor with his weight. She smiled as he trailed soft kisses on her neck and she said, "I hope so, Kai. I really do hope so..."
The Quadroon sat in the clear glass chamber, getting extremely impatient with the length of time it was taking to feed itself more power. Voltaire was letting it absorb the youma to add to its already extensive strength. Each of the youma screamed it's long, curdling shriek as the beast hybrid attacked it and absorbed its power. Voltaire was surprised he was doing this. He was throwing away almost five years of research on a spur-of-the-moment creation. However, it had unbelievable prowess and a certain anger about it, much like the Demolition Boys had once had, before those three freaks had taken the liberty of killing them all. It was probably good that they were dead, too- as vicious and emotionless as the four boys had been, they would have never let any harm come to their Holy Beings, their closest allies, their FRIENDS if you will. Another youma let out its high-pitched scream as the Quadroon creature absorbed it, and Voltaire felt his face be drawn into a grin of pure insanity.
"Not long my, my creation. Eight months at the very most..."
The rather intimate Trinity/Kai visits continued for the next seven months as planned, and finally the three siblings were permitted to see the people from the present (or past in their case) freely. One of such scouting/casual visits was taking place at that very moment, except they weren't terribly happy about it at that present time.
It was winter. It was cold. It was night. And all three of them were freezing their asses off. They were floating in midair above the town, where it was coldest due to its proximity to the mountains.
Kirra exhaled through her mouth and the air immediately turned to steam. She sneezed and rubbed her arms through the thin material of her 'business attire' as she called it, and sneezed again. Although her sister and brother were in warmer clothes, their faces were still flushed pink from the cold. Marth attempted to run his fingers through his black hair to try and remove the snow, only to find that the gel in his hair had frozen solid. He growled a very tiger-like growl of disapproval and coughed into his cupped hands. Trinity blinked at her two younger siblings and shook her head vigorously to clear her own hair of snow. Kirra noticed her brother's predicament and snorted with laughter.
"Hah! You shouldn't put any gel in your hair in this weather, kid!" she laughed and flicked her finger at the frozen tip of one of her brother's ebony-black locks. The ice immediately shattered and Marth growled as the sharp chips of ice rained down on his face.
"Thanks for the warning, Kiz."
"No problem. Me, being the kind, sensitive, concerned person I am, I always pre-warn my little brother of any crazy accomplishment I am about to undertake."
"Come on, you two. It'll probably be warmer at home," said Trinity, gesturing towards the ground, and the single, slight speck of light she could see from the map-like view she had of her hometown. Kirra and Marth nodded and all three of them dropped simultaneously. When they got to the ground, Kirra and Marth landed perfectly on their feet, while Trinity tripped over a particularly slippery part of the ground and fell onto her butt. Marth and Kirra sniggered at their older, stronger sibling whom was currently sitting on the ground with an astounded expression on her face. She glared up at them when they broke out into full-on laughter, and they immediately shut up, but retained their superior grins. This would probably one of the few times that Trinity would be looking up to them, so they might as well make the most of the situation.
The three teens walked through their snow-covered hometown, until they came to the light source. Kai was standing near the door with his hands behind his back, smirking in their direction. Trinity gave him a questioning glance and he removed his hands from behind his back, and the red glow from his Dranzer illuminated the white snow around him. Trinity nodded slowly and when she got to him, kissed him gently on the cheek. Kirra clicked her tongue and Marth did his best to ignore the pair in front of him, who were currently looking at each other lovingly. Kai placed his arm around her shoulders and directed her inside, with Kirra and Marth following behind them.
"Emily and Max came back about a week ago. They'd been away for ages- if it wasn't for their bit beasts delivering messages we might've thought something had happened to them. But they're allowed to leave the country freely because technically they are both American citizens. They came with- wait for it- a TV. God bless them..." Kai said fondly, before continuing. "But yeah, it seems that Chibi You loves the thing. Scratch that, you're transfixed on the thing. Your mother and father are making the most of it too," Kai smirked. "But you are also currently asleep, so yeah… I suppose you know what they're getting up to. Tyson is still bragging about his miracle escape from the Quadroon thing and Kenny is still trying to draw a picture of the thing on his laptop."
At that point, the four people entered the lounge room to find Ray and Mariah on the couch, kissing each other like there was going to be no tomorrow. Ray had his hand on the back of Mariah's head gently holding her body to his and Mariah had her fingers threaded through Ray's hair. Mariah also had her legs intertwined with Ray's and both were gently rocking their hips against the others. Kai rolled his eyes and coughed lightly, trying to get their attentions. It didn't work by a long shot. Kirra clicked her tongue behind Kai, and muttered to both him and Trinity, "Trinity, he's an amateur at this stuff. We've been doing this since we were but knee-high to grasshoppers." She then drew in a lungful of breath and yelled at the top of her voice, "AHEM!"
Ray and Mariah immediately broke away from each other and Ray launched himself up and off Mariah, and instead sat next to her. Mariah blushed and put her hands onto her slightly bulging stomach.
'Hello Kirralee...' thought Trinity.
'Jesus, with the way they were just acting, no wonder I turned out like this!' complained Kirra.
'No, you turned out the way you are because that boy in your kindergarten group looked up your skirt when you were three years old,' sniggered Marth.
"Say that out loud!" snapped Kirra. Kai was looking like he wanted to sink into the floor and Ray and Mariah just looked confused. Kirra sighed and said, "Never mind."
"But anyway... if you haven't figured it out yet... yeah that's you," said Mariah, gesturing to her stomach and then to Kirralee. Trinity smirked.
"She got the nickname Little Devil from you two when she was a baby so don't look too thrilled. And yes she was worse than I was," said Trinity, watching what colour her parents faces held visibly fade.
"Yep, that's right. Eight hour labour, cried for the first week of my life..." Kirra smiled as her parents started looking sicker and sicker by the second. Marth just sort of shrugged and put his head to one side, indifferent.
Suddenly, a shrill cry came from down the hall, and Mariah got to her feet.
"That'll be Trinny, I'll go get her Ray, it's my turn," she said when Ray tried to get up to help her. Ray gave her a grateful smile and she smiled back and headed off down the hall. About a minute later Mariah came back with Trinity balanced on her stomach. She put her down on the carpet, and the child gestured to the TV. Mariah leaned down and turned it on for her- it seemed to be on some boring weather channel, with a hyperactive weather reporter waving his arms around ecstatically. Trinny giggled and started waving her arms around too.
"She adores that show," Mariah said in wonder, "Probably because the reporter guy acts like he's stoned all the time."
"Still hasn't walked yet either," Ray added as an afterthought.
"She will soon," Mariah replied.
"Well, we'd better be getting home, don't you think? We're just here to make sure you guys aren't dead, really," said Kirra. Marth nodded but Trinity looked unsure. Kirra noticed her sister's expression and smiled.
"Don't worry. You can stay here for a while, we'll cover up for you."
She then stared Kai right in the eye, which he wasn't really used to because people were either too cowardly or too smart to usually do that.
"Have fun with my older sister, Kai."
She then looked at her parents who were smiling at her.
"No doubt we will be seeing you again soon, because we'll have to come and manually drag Trin away from Kai."
She then gave everyone in the room one last wave and walked towards the front door.
Marth simply smiled at Kai and his older sister, turned to his parents and flicked his fingers in a goodbye gesture, and after giving everyone in the room one last nod, dashed after his sister. With all that out of the way, and with their toddler occupied by the wonders of television, Ray and Mariah got back on the couch and snuggled up to each other, protecting each other from the cold. Kai directed Trinity down the hallway and into his room, and smirked at her.
"You look cold, Trin."
"Yeah... sort of," muttered Trinity, not really ever willing to admit weakness.
"Well..." muttered Kai, kissing her repeatedly. "I (kiss) could (kiss) warm (kiss) you (kiss) up (kiss)."
"You (kiss) think (kiss) so?" she questioned, putting a shocked expression on her face as though it was the stupidest question ever asked.
"Of course," he said, looking slightly dejected.
Trinity smirked and kissed him again.
"Be my guest."
(AN: I was just thinking- like parents like child :P)
Kirra and Marth had arrived back in their timeline, tired, cold and all-around pissed off. They didn't really expect their parents to come and see them because it was so late, but a few moments later Ray and Mariah did come down the stairs and smile at their children.
"When did you get back?" asked Mariah, looking at her two younger children.
"Only a minute ago," replied Marth.
Ray surveyed the two and asked the question they had been expecting.
"Where's Trin?"
"Already in her room," said Kirra a little too quickly. Her parents surveyed her with disbelieving eyes, and Kirra sent a 'back me up' look to her younger brother. He nodded ferociously.
"Yeah, she was really tired. You'll probably be able to see her in the morning though, if it's that important."
"No. We were just thinking, it's been ages since all of us had a Beybattle-"
"That's because you always beat us," Kirra cut in, but Mariah ignored her.
"So we thought it might be nice to have one tomorrow, ne?"
"Okay," said Marth immediately. He was too tired to disagree to anything, even though Kirra sent him a glare that could have shattered diamond. Ray smirked his neko-jin smirk.
"Okay then, it's decided. You three against us and Lee tomorrow."
Voltaire looked at the Quadroon- it had increased in size at least ten fold. He smiled and spoke to it, even though he doubted it understood him.
"Two more days my pet... only two more days. Then, they will pay for what they have done to us."
OO Yipes! Do you know how long that was?