Chapter 6

Tyson's nightmare

That day at the hospital was one of the worst of my life. I couldn't believe it when Rei changed into that creature, whatever it was. I was terified. He told me to fuck off and then he warned me not to tell the others about him or he would kill me. I didn't know what to do. I ran for my life and the even though the others were waiting for me in the hospital waiting room, I ignored them and ran straight until I got back to the hotel we were staying in. I collapsed in the middle of the street from running for so long. I looked around and realised that I didn't know where I was. Shimatta, I was lost and there was a beyblade tournament tomorrow. This was all Rei's fault, if he hadn't have scared me so much, then I wouldn't be lost right now. I leaned against a wall in a nearby alley way I found and dozed off. I had a very vivid nightmare.

I was walking in the forest and I ran into two boys. One had long green hair and green eyes. The other had short, spiky red-orange hair and violet eyes. I gasped when the first boy stood over me and said, "What do you think, Pyro, should we kill him?" I couldn't believe it. It was like they knew me. The second boy, Pyro, nodded his head, " I think we should, Zeo, he's so damn annoying. He annoys the crap out of me, and I've seen that he annoys you too, even though you never showed it." I didn't know what he meant by that, and it was starting to look really suspicious. Then Pyro's hand started glowing and all of a sudden his fist was covered in fire. I gasped in shock and stepped backwards away from them. Then Pyro punched me in the chest and I fell over backwards, feeling as if my chest was on fire. I looked down and saw that I was on fire. I screamed in pain and fear and started paniking.

Then I woke up and I felt like I was still on fire. I looked down at myself and there wasn't a trace of fire to be seen. I lay on the ground sweating and breathed heavily. I hoped that I would never meet these guys in real life, especially not that Pyro dude. When I thought about it, I realised that Pyro reminded me of someone, but I couldn't think who. Then it clicked. Pyro reminded me of Kai. Same cocky attitude, same cold glare, same way of standing, and then that Zeo fella reminded me of Rei, same way of standing, same determination in his eyes. I wondered at that. I wondered what this dream, or rather nightmare, had been trying to tell me.

*Kai's POV*

I watched as Rei killed himself. He made me sad, but I realised that he couldn't live without me. At least he avenged my death, that I was pleased about. And now we would be able to be together forever. A few minutes later Rei's spirit rose from his body and I hugged him. He gladly accepted it, as I'm sure he had missed me. He proved me right by kissing me passionately and then saying, "I missed you so much, Kai Hiwatari, that I couldn't live without you so I killed myself to be with you." I replied with,"I know Rei Kon, I was watching you the whole time. I saw you avenge my death and I am greatful. Thank you." Then I kissed him back and we went to go and haunt the rest of the Bladebreakers, or maybe the rest of the White Tigers. I was glad that Rei had killed Mariah, and he'd told me that I'd raped her first, whatever. It didn't matter anyway, Mariah was a dead bitch. I would like to get rid of Kevin for eyeing off my boyfriend. Rei's mine and Kevin has no right to look at him that way.

*Rei's POV*

I felt that my body was so light I was floating, and then I saw Kai. I was so happy to see him again, I had missed him so much, and he hugged me. I kissed him passionately and said, "I missed you so much, Kai Hiwatari, that I couldn't live without you so I killed myself to be with you." In reply he said, "I know, Rei Kon, I was watching you the whole time. I saw you avenge my death and I am greatful. Thank you." Then he kissed me back and we went to go and haunt the other Bladebreakers or the rest of my old team. We were floating through the forest heading in the direction of the city when I got an idea. "Kai, why don't we form physical bodies for ourselves, then we can trick every one into thinking we're not who we really are." Kai agreed that my idea was a good one and we changed our forms. I changed into a boy of about 17 years with long green hair and green eyes. My hair was thick, hanging in a braid down my back. It was shorter than my normal hair, and I wore shorts, a short sleeved shirt, blue fingerless gloves and boots. I had a friendly face, and when I turned to look at Kai he looked totally different as well. He looked about 17 years of age and he had short spiked red-orange hair that made it look like his head was on fire. His fringe was a lighter orange-yellow colour and hung down in his eyes, which were violet in colour. He had a cross shaped scar on the left side of his face, a bit beneath his eye.

He wore long black pants and a black shirt. He also wore black fingerless gloves and black boots. I thought he looked even cuter like this. "Let's go for a walk, Pyro, and see what we can find," I said. He nodded and then we started walking. Kai's hair waved in the wind when he walked, so it really looked like his head was on fire. I laughed at him. He frowned at me, and said, I smiled and said, then I burst out laughing. Kai grabbed my braid and tugged on it gently. Then he pulled out a pair of scissors. "You wouldn't want me to use these on your hair, would you, Zeo?" he asked me and I pulled my hair out of his grasp. "Pyro, you leave my beautiful hair alone or else I'll." I broke off trying to think of somehting nasty enough for him.

"Or else you'll what?" he asked. I smiled sweetly at him and said," I'll send you through a warp hole to a spirit eating beast, Hakusha. He has a dragon's head, the wings of a phoenix, the body of a white tiger, the hind legs of a snow wolf, the fore legs of a horse, and the bushy, red tail of a fox. He will eat you alive, because no matter what form you are in, he will recognise you for what you truly are, Pyro, a spirit." His eyes widened in surprise, and he said, "Zeo, how did you know about Hakusha?" I shrugged and said, "Hakusha is an ancient Chinese legend. How did you know about it?" He shrugged and didn't answer. I decided to ask him about it later. "Come on, let's go and see what the Bladebreakers are up to." He agreed with me, and we walked through the forest. After about half an hour we ran into Tyson. He was walking in the forest, looking for a way out, when he ran into me. I was looking at Kai at the time, and Tyson bumped into me, and knocked me over. I stood up and when I saw who had knocked me over, I glared at him, got up and said to Kai, "What do you think, Pyro, should we kill him?" Kai nodded and said, " I think we should, Zeo, he's so damn annoying. He annoys the crap out of me, and I've seen that he annoys you too, even though you never showed it."

Tyson looked horrified and confused. Then Kai made his fist covered in fire, and he puched Tyson with it. The fire was magic, because as soon as it touched Tyson he got covered with flames. He screamed and burned. The fire killed him, and we were glad. It was true what Kai said, Tyson had annoyed the crap out of me. But he was dead now. I kissed Kai, to thank him for getting rid of Tyson, and he smiled.

*Max's POV*

I thought it really weird when Tyson went to the hospital room with Rei to visit Kai, and came running out by himself two minutes later. He totally ignored Kenny, Mr. Dickinson and I, and ran as if his life was in danger. I called out to him, but I don't think he heard me. I went to see why Tyson had come running out of Kai's room, and when I stuck my head around the door, Kai and Rei were gone. The window had been smashed and there was a single red feather on Kai's pillow. I picked it up and it felt unusually hot, almost as if it was made of fire. Then I remembered that I had read about birds before and could only remember one bird that has feathers like this, the phoenix. I left the room taking the feather with me, and said, "Come on, guys, lets go and see if Tyson went back to the hotel room." And we left the hospital, we couldn't find Tyson, so we went to look for him. We found him in an old alley way, fast asleep. I saw that he was an emotional wreck, so when he was in his room, I stayed in with him when the others left. I calmed him down and asked what he saw. He never said anything, and three weeks later, he stepped outside and went for a walk in the forest.

When he was gone an awful long time, I went to search for him myself, and when I found him I couldn't believe my eyes, he was all burnt up. I wondered who could have done such a thing to him. I couldn't believe that Tyson was dead. I went back to Mr. Dickinson and Kenny and told them the bad news. Later that night on the news there were five deaths reported, and three of those were Bladebreakers'. The other two were guys we'd never met before. Tyson's body had been found in the forest so had Kai's, but Rei's had been found with the two other guys' in the city. The white-haired guy had claw marks in his chest and he'd had his heart ripped out. I was shocked when I heard that. The blonde guy had been attacked from behind, and he had claw marks on the back of his neck. Rei had been stabbed in his chest, and I think he stabbed himself. But I can't imagine why he would want to do something like that. Oh well, I will never understand the way Chinese people think.

*Ryou's POV*

The day after I stayed at Yugi's place, I went home and there was a news paper on the ground outside my house, and I picked it up to bring it inside with me, and when I spread it out on the table, the headline on the front page was: MYSTERIOUS DEATH FOR YOUTHS, and there were five pictures on the front page. Two of those I recognised, and the other three I'd never seen before. The two I recognised were my friend Malik's yami, Marik, and my own yami, Bakura. I realised that I did recognise the others, after a second glance, but I couldn't think where from. After a moment I realised that I recognised them from the beyblade tournaments on tv. I had gotten into beyblading myself, but I'd never been much good at it, so I decided to stick to Duel Monster cards instead.

I couldn't believe that Bakura was dead. He had seemed indestructable. I couldn't take it, I was all alone now, for my father had died two years ago. He had been on one of his expeditions, to Egypt, and when he got back he was terribly ill. He gave me the Millennium Ring then, and I've worn it always in his memory. My father passed away two days after he came home from Egypt, and I've been doing fine on my own once Bakura stopped being so cruel to me. He rarely loost his temper at me anymore, only if he woke up in a bad mood. I rang up Malik, and asked him if he had heard the news about the murders. He told me that he had, and was very sad about his yami. Then he hung up and came over to my house, and we talked for a while. I told him about what happened to me yesterday. He frowned and said, " Last night Bakura came over my place and asked if you were there, then he whispered something to Marik, and they went out. But they never came back. I wondered what happened to them."

*Kevin's POV*

When Rei left us, I decided that it was weird that Mariah hadn't come back yet, and I decided to go and look for her. I changed into the white tiger that night when Lee was asleep and ran. After a while I came to a clearing that had the stench of blood. I looked around and saw Mariah's pink hair ribbon that she always wore, and it was splattered with blood, and saw that the ground under my paws was covered with blood. I saw that there was a patch of ground with scratch marks and the earth looked like it had been dug up. I suspected that Mariah had been killed and buried here, and I decided to explore the forest around the clearing. I found a cave a little bit further on, and I saw that it was inhabbited. With my keen eyesight I saw that someone was moving in the cave so I picked up the ribbon in my mouth and went back to Lee. I didn't want to wait and see who or what would emerge from that cave, even though I was in my tiger form. When I saw the fire from our camp, I changed back, took the ribbon out of my mouth, and walked into the light. Lee was awake when I got back, and he had a frown on his face. "What's wrong, Lee?" I asked, startling him. He jumped and said, "I really am worried about Mariah."

"I went for a walk and found this," I said, holding out the ribbon. "I am afraid that Mariah was murdered. I don't know how she was killed, or who killed her, and I have a suspicion that we're next on the list," I said. Lee looked at me weirdly and then shook his head in a disbelieving manner. The next day I woke up before the sun rose, and I noticed that I had turned into the tiger in my sleep. I changed back just before Lee woke up. Then I sat up and looked around as I heard footsteps coming from my right. I saw two guys that I'd never seen before and one of them had green hair and green eyes, the other had flaming red hair that made it look like his head was on fire, and violet eyes. They were both about the same height, looked about the same age, and I thought that they looked pretty suspicious. The green-haired kid looked at me, and said, "Hey, I'm Zeo, and my buddy Pyro and I are sort of lost. Do you think you could show us the way out of this forest?" Zeo's hair was long, almost as long as Rei's had been, and then I realised that he reminded me so mcuh of Rei. I decided to show them the way out and went with them alone. Lee said that he would stay behind and look after our belongings.

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Kevin went with Zeo and Pyro and showed them an easy route to a path that led out of the forest. He told them to keep following that path and it would show them the way out. Then he turned to head back to Lee, and Zeo pounced on him. Kevin yelled for help but they were too far away from anyone for them to hear Kevin's yells. Then Zeo made metal claws come out of the back of his hands and raked them down Kevin's back. Kevin screamed in pain, then Pyro made his fist a flame fist and puched Kevin in the face, burning him badly. Zeo raked his claws across Kevin's neck and killed him. Then he kissed Pyro. "Good work, koi," he said. Zeo raked his claws across his own chest, keeping well away from any important organs and blood trickled out of his self-inflicted wounds. He turned to Pyro and raked his claws down his lover's back, then they went back to Lee.

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*Kai's POV*

My back stung slightly from where Rei had clawed me, but I ignored it. We stumbled back to Lee and when we reached him I pretended to collapse from exauhstion and made sure that I fell so that Lee could see my wounds. I heard his gasp as he saw that we'd been attacked, and heard him ask, "Where is Kevin?" Rei answered with, "We all got attacked, unfortunately we couldn't save him. We were attacked by a Bit-Beast, I think, I doubt it could have been anything else." Then he collapsed and Lee rushed to help us. That night when Lee was asleep, I caused the fire to burn him up, and that was the end of that White Tiger. We went to go and annoy the rest of the Bladebreakers, and kill them. We went to the city and there was a beyblade tournament being held so we entered. It was a team battle and Rei and I competed and were made the champions. We were the best beybladers there after all, so it was no surprise that we won.