Disclaimer: do I look as if I own Beyblade?!

Warnings: um, yaoi, I suppose. And if you don't know what 'yaoi' means, you should not be reading this fic. What else, lets see, the entire fic will be ooc, I refuse to say it every chapter, maybe every four chapters. We'll see. Anything else? Um, nope, don't think so.

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It occurred to me that I hadn't thanked you guys for reviewing, so . . .

Angevar: continuing.

Demon Darkness: thanks!

D.G.: I'm glad you liked it!

Morganna Magi Lady of Light: I don't know about angst, at least on Tyson's part. Maybe little bits here and there, but come on, they're fighting a war against DEATH. He will be quite busy, and Kai is going to have an . . . interesting time. Most of the fic will be focused around Kai, actually.

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/Thoughts/

(Me)

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{Kai}

[Tyson]

+Anyone else from the fire side+

* Anyone from the water side *

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Save yourself, serve yourself.

World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right.

You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty

psyched.

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/Okay, where am I now?/ Was what Kai was thinking as he looked around the strangely familiar bedroom.

+I sent you back to when you first met the storm-lord. That is where it truly began. You will receive your other memories later.+

{Well, what am I supposed to do?}

+Just relax and let the story unfold before you.+

{O . . . k . . .}

And then he was gone, leaving Kai alone. Kai relaxed, as he was told, but nearly freaked as his body moved with out his say-so.

His body stood up and crossed the room, and opened the door. Walking out he walked down stairs absolutely silent.

Kai was surprised to find that he could read his- Kai's- past thoughts.

/I can't believe it's happening. The war is finally coming to an end. All I have to do is go through the promise ceremony with the future Storm-lord. We don't even have to fall in love or anything stupid, just have the promise ceremony and live in the same place. Oh, and we need to be friends. It would be reeeaaaally bad if we became enemies. It would probably start another war, and that would ruin everything. Somehow I doubt it will happen, though. Everyone says he's easy enough to get along with, even if he is their best fighter . . ./

The Kai-from-the-future was utterly confused, but Kai-of-memories knew exactly what was happening as he walked down stairs, and was very happy about it.

(Okay, Kai-of-the-future is just Kai, and Kai-of-the-past is P-Kai, k?)

/Alright./ Kai thought, /So basically some kind of war is ending today at a Promise ceremony. What on earth is a Promise ceremony? And who is the future Storm-lord? I hope I figure what's going on soon 'cause I'm getting a headache./

As P-Kai walked outside Kai took a glance around a blinked in surprise. Or would have, if he had any control over his body. They were walking on a stone path inside a garden that looked like it hadn't been pruned in four years, but was beautiful in a wild way. There was every kind of flower imaginable, here and there he would see a stone bench made of a stone that seemed to be colored every shade of red imaginable. Very faintly he could here the tinkle of a waterfall, but knew instinctively that that wasn't where they were going.

Eventually they came to a gate made out of the same stone as the benches, and Kai was surprised to find Emily and Enrique (the new versions) waiting for him. /Now, what did Takao call them again? Oh yeah, Emalia and Egan./

"You guys ready to go?" asked P-Kai.

"You just need to call Dranzer." Said Emalia.

"Right, thanks Ema." P-Kai said closing his eyes.

"No problem." Emalia replied, but Kai barely heard he was to busy listening- no, feeling what P-Kai was doing. P-Kai had taken both inside themselves. There was no other way to put it, he had closed his eyes, and reached inward. The interesting part was that while Kai knew he would never be able to explain it, he knew he could do it no problem.

P-Kai was sifting through different threads and Kai watched in interest, naming who each thread connected to himself as P-Kai 'touched' them with his mind.

/Emalia, Egan, Healer, why do I have a healer on connection? Grey- grey?! Got to find out what that's about, it's a pretty big one, Hikari, Dranzer./

P-Kai tugged on the one for Dranzer so that it moved away from the other ones, and, with the ease of long practice, sent words rolling down it.

{Dranzer, we're ready.}

+About time. Be there in two.+

Opening his- their- eyes P-Kai was not surprised to find that no more then a minute had passed since he closed them.

"Let's go." He said calmly to Egan and Emalia and walked out the gate. As soon as the gate was closed behind and they were walking through the forest, Dranzer fell casually into step right next to him while Emalia moved up on his other side and Egan stayed close beside him.

Kai's headache was returning from the confusion until he searched P-Kai's mind and found out the technically Emalia and Egan were his bodyguards not his friends like he had originally thought and that Dranzer was his soul- guardian and bound to him for life.

They walked for around half an hour and Kai used that time to study himself and his companions. The first thing he noticed was his clothing, which was fairly simple. He was wearing a pair black pants and black boots, with a flame red t-shirt. He knew instinctively that he also had a fire-gold earing in his left ear, and silver bandages from elbow to wrist. His hair was cut around his ears, and there was a box in his right pocket.

The first thing he noticed about Dranzer was that, unlike in the future, her hair had been cropped short around her ears. The next was her eyes. They were a little scary, well, no; the fact that they were a different color then in the future was scary. Instead of silver they were twin pools of fire. She had baggy black pants and red tank top, with white tape wrapped from her elbows to her wrists on both arms.

Emalia and Egan were both wearing pitch-black clothing, only while Egan had a T-shirt Emalia had a tank top. They both had crimson bandages, and a gold earing in both of their left ears.

By the time he had finished noticing all of this they had reached a silver gate covered in flowers. Automatically he read the sign on the gate, wrought out of the same silver as the gate.

All who choose to enter here

Think ahead and consider your actions

This is a place of peace, and no one will be spared the gods' wrath

Should the peace here be broken

Should you be fairy, Mage, Immortal or not

Fire, water, earth or wind

Or even those of knowledge

Bear in mind your purpose

And always follow the Rede

*And it harm none, do what ye will!

"You gonna be okay?" asked Dranzer.

"Of course!" his mouth answered for him.

Kai, however, knew that fear had suddenly come crashing down on his past self. Not particularly wanting to hear what he had thought, Kai stayed away from his old thoughts.

Dranzer stepped in front of him and opened the gate while Emalia stepped back with Egan. None of them spoke as they stepped into what P-Kai knew as the ring of peace.

Kai stared in shock. The ring was beautiful. Flowers of every type and from every season were growing on the hedges that surrounded the clearing and on the far side was a crystal waterfall that was absolutely amazing. Also in the clearing were around 20 people.

However, while Kai had been amazed P-Kai had started walking forward with Dranzer while Emalia and Egan had faded to either side of the gate.

As they walked by the people in the clearing a little girl he recognized as his little sister Hikari waved to him. He smiled but didn't wave back. Turning his attention forward again Kai nearly fell over in shock. Or would have if he had had any control over his body.

Tyson was standing in front of him wearing the same outfit except for two differences, in stead of a red shirt he had a blue one and in stead of a gold earing in his left ear he had a silver-blue one in his right ear. His hair was pulled back in low ponytail, and his hat was no where to be found.

Dranzer and Dragoon who had been standing right behind Tyson moved to either side of the waterfall while Tyson and Kai stood right front of it.

Tyson silently slipped a dark blue box with silver lining out of his pocket and stepped around Kai 'till he was facing Kai's back and opened the box. When he spoke it was in a different language, but Kai understood it perfectly.

"In this water crystal I have placed not only a part of my magick but a piece of my soul." Here he put a necklace with a single blue crystal around Kai's neck, and he could feel the power radiating off of it. "By releasing this to you I am showing complete faith that together we will bring our people to peace. I promise to never raise my hand against you or one of your people in a way that will not prove beneficial to everyone."

/So that's a promise ceremony./ Kai thought as Tyson stepped back in front of him. His heart was pounding as he pulled a red box from his own pocket a copied Tyson's movement, changing the promise slightly. "In this fire crystal I have placed not only a part of my magick but a piece of my soul. By releasing this to you I am showing complete faith that together we will bring our people to peace. I promise to never raise my hand to you in a way that will not prove beneficial to everyone."

They clasped hands once applause came from their audience. Tyson and Kai turned just in time to catch two little kids as they threw themselves at them. Tyson grinned and caught the little boy up spinning the boy around. The boy couldn't be older then five, like Hikari, and had light blue hair cropped to his ears. Kai couldn't catch anything else because he was hugging his little sister, Hikari. Hikari had laughing lavender eyes, and flame red hair down to the middle of her back.

She was laughing and hugging him tightly. Finally Tyson stopped spinning the little boy and settled for holding his hand.

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Okay, I can't come up with something else for this chapter right now, so I just figured I'd put it up. R&R please! And some CC (constructive criticism) would be helpful! (Nods) yep, very helpful!