This is an edit of Chapter 16. Before it was too stupid and cheesy for my likings…
Kai: Yeah, nothing she does it right though, so why bother?
Shut up mute boy…
Kai: …
Swoosh: chirps I haven't been here for a while!
Cuz I forgot about you…
Swoosh: gasps how dare you!! Sqawk! I'm the one who give you ideas!! I'm your imagination!!
Well, if I forgot about you, then you can't give me ideas, can you?
Swoosh: churp…
Anywho… read on…
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THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET US
By: Cold Tears of the Phoenix
Chapter 16: Cho
Was it was extremely dark. Dark and freaking cold. Takara had to rub her arms, and hug herself to stay warm. She did not dare to open her eyes, cause she feared that her eyes would freeze in the bitter air that seemed to ice her bare skin. Stupid, it wouldn't really make a different. It's not like she could actually 'see' though her blind eyes. Wouldn't matter, right? Blind eyes. Blind.
"Takara?" A voice echoed out. Sekai's voice. In a split second, eyelids parted on Takara's face. A reaction to the sound of the other girl's voice.
"Ah!" Takara gasped. Warm tears began to leak from the corners of her eyes. "I… I can… see…" In front of her stood a girl, the exact images she had though Sekai looked like, almost exactly as her mother, only younger.
Sekai smiled, and looked down at herself. Smiling still, she laughed and walked over to Takara. "I'm afraid not, my friend. I think what you're 'seeing' is only an image of me you have created in your mind. This is not actually me."
"Sekai?" Takara asked, quivering.
"Yes?"
"…My eyes?"
"They are still sightless," Sekai smiled sadly.
Takara took in a deep breath. "So… what do you mean that I'm seeing the image that I created of you in my head?"
"Humm… yes… I have a sixth sense you know, and my power is a psychic ability. I brought your conscious mind, and mine, to the deepest part of you head, a part you didn't even know existed. Or in other word, the spirit that inhabits you."
Takara blinked. "Cho?" Sekai nodded. "How did you know Cho was inside of me?"
"Well," Sekai grinned. "I am psychic after all. She told me to do this."
"Then where is she?" Takara wondered.
"I am here."
Both girls spun to the sound of the new voice. Both saw the mass of silky red pillow lying in a massive heap, with a single woman (A/n: single as in 'one' not as in 'un married') dressed in white perched on top of it. She had long black hair, flowing around her in a graceful, messy manner that seemed to flap around in the unmoving wind. Gorgeous light blue and scarlet butterfly wings swept behind her back- they hit Takara as familiar, but she couldn't quiet remember where she saw them- they were irregular shaped, like droplets, they fell from the bottom of her wings. "I am Empress Cho of the Spirit Realm."
Once again, Takara felt tear in her eyes. The sight she 'saw' was so overwhelming for her eyes, and the new, unusual information hurt her head. Her voice a bit jittery, she spoke, "and my name is Takara Nakamura."
Cho smiled kindly at Takara, and bowed her head slightly to be politely. "Finally we meet," She said.
"Ditto," Takara said, making Cho blink in confusion.
Cho then turned her eye to Sekai. "And you are…?"
"Sekai," Sekai bowed. "And it is a pleasure to meet you, your highness."
"Ahh… yes… Thank you for bring Takara here," She said to the other girl. Then turned back to Takara. "Takara, I know of the danger you are in now. I am very sorry. If what happened in my past, never happened at all, you'd be back in you're world, at your home." She laughed bitterly. "But Fate and destiny have a funny way of working, they do. For mortals and immortals."
"I've noticed…" Takara rolled her eyes and sighed.
"But the purpose of this meeting, this opportunity is to tell you that I do exist in you. But instead of talking about who I am, I want to explain to you something that I feel is more important. That is what spirits are, and about a special little spirit you know."
"Drassess?" Takara questioned.
"Yes, but first, I will explain us Spirits," Cho started. "We are not mortal, we are immortal, but this doesn't mean we can't die. We do not die of old age though; we die if we are killed or destroyed, and then our soul is sent to the Shadows, or our version of the mortal 'underworld'. (A/n: =P so Yu-Gi-Oh) In the process, our bodies dissolve or 'de-particleize' as some people may call it. Second, we are born in two ways. We are created from the hearts of mortals. If one believes with all that it's worth that a spirit exists, then one is made in our world. All spirits born this way will come from Atlantis, our Capital." (PS, de-particleize is a made up word. =)
Takara blinked a few times to digest the information. "So that means I can't create bit beasts like BioVolt thought I could?"
"No, anyone can create one, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have control over the creature. Anyways, the second way a spirit is formed is if two dying spirits come together and create another whole. This is done very rarely, and the spirit that is born usually has unusual powers. These types are often called 'pure'.
We spirits have great powers, and it would take thousands of years from a mere mortal to understand us completely. We don't need to eat, drink, sleep, but we can if we want to. We can travel beyond our planets and beyond our universe too, and visit other universes also."
"I'd also like to take this opportunity to explain the way our universes work. There is one mother universe, which is the spirit universe; we call it 'Shiro'. The mother universe serves as a guardian over the other universes—that is our job as spirits, we watch over the mortals. Connected directly to the Shiro universe are five other one; these are called 'Aka', 'ao', 'midori', 'kin' and 'kage'. These are known as the 'Iro' universes. These are universes that sustain mortal life the spirits take great pride in nurturing. My own favorite is 'aka'. Can you guess what one species of mortal is sustains?"
"Humans?" Takara saw amazed. She wasn't sure if she could believe everything Cho was telling her because it seemed too unreal.
"Correct," Cho smiled. "The Iro universes can never disappear, unlike other ones like the Chiisai universes." She looked sadly at Sekai. "Chiisai universes are like this one, the Beyblade universe. They are created for pure enjoyment by mortals of the Iro universes. And when that universe is forgotten, then it will disappear." Sekai looked shocked.
"So… are you saying that the people of this 'aka' universe created this universe for enjoyment?" Sekai whispered.
Takara nodded. "Actually, the only reason I knew so much about Beyblade was because it was a television show." She didn't know what more to say.
"Now, to start with the actually story, I will tell you this. It began when actually my great enemy ruled over Atlantis, and the Spirit Realm, Raidon. He was careless about the people and their needs, and only thought of himself, and the people where thinking about bringing him out of power. There we're massive gangs, and an amazing amount of slaughtering, since spirits deaths are very uncommon. I was a Head Leader of the Security and Law Enforcers, accompanied by my closest friends. Can you guess who they were?"
"Dragoon, Dranzer, Drigger and Draciel, right?" Sekai replied, her voice was a monotone.
"Yes, but two others-- Phoetonic; a very similar to Dranzer, but she had the color of pure stunning gold- not burning red- and Dracolius; a dragon demon of ice and water, a shimmering silver color was his scales. You would have considered them a 'couple'. They loved each other deeply," Cho sighed heavily. "And now, this story begins…" and with that, she waved her arm around in the air, and arc over her head.
Suddenly the world went totally white, and all Takara could hear was Cho's voice, and it sounded as if she was very far and as if hidden inside a cave. "On the day that would change me, as well as the entire Spirit realm, me and my team were searching for a band of gangsters that where smuggling illegal substances into the main city. Just so happened, on that very day, Dragoon had spotted them…"
Takara was standing somewhere else. Giant birds swooped around in the sky, and a magnificent city filled her view. She was standing in the middle of what seemed to be a hall; pillars to her right blocked some of the sun's rays, creating shadows on the wall to her left. Creatures of bizarre shapes and sizes walked back and forth, none seemed to notice Takara. Actually, there were a few creatures that Takara recognized. One was Cho, standing there in the hall, flipping through some sheets, reading something on them, and frowning in seriousness. Though, she looked different, a tad younger, and dressed in shiny armor.
Another creature was a blue dragon running through the hall crying 'excuse me! Sorry!' as he bumped into a lot of other beasts. "CHO!" he cried once he was close enough. "CHO! CHOCHOCHOCHOOOOOO!!!"
Cho looked up. "Excuse you," she said, smiling.
"Huh?" Dragoon looked kind of confused.
"You sounded like you were sneezing…" She turned back to the papers. "Emperor Raidon is so careless… I wonder what made the people pick him as our new Emperor after the last one was destroyed in battle? Look at this. The criminal percentage in the city has gone up by 46%! Out of the whole city, before Raidon began his rule, only 5% of the population were criminals. Raidon has only been ruling for less then a millennia and look at all the problems that has already occurred."
"Ah… who cares about that big old fart," Dragoon trotted over. "Hum… by the way, you know how we've been searching for those bandits? Err… well… I think I found them…"
"WHAT???" Cho latterly jumped and choked Dragoon. "Why didn't you say sooner?"
"Err… well it wouldn't be like me to be very serious and jump straight the main point!!" Dragoon cried. Cho released him.
"Good point," she nodded, smiling. "Go get the others. I'll be waiting at out normal station, number 25, like always." She unfolded her butterfly wings and soared away. As she flew by, she spotted Dracolius and Phoetonic. "Hey!!" She shouted. "Come with me! Dragoon found those bandits!"
Dracolius looked up. "Really!?"
Phoetonic smiled and nodded. "I'll go help find the others. I'm assuming Dragoon is looking for them," She spread her majestic golden angel like wings and took to the sky without another word.
Dracolius also leapt into the sky and followed Cho to their destination, Station 25. Minutes after they arrived, in the sky were Dranzer carrying Drigger, Phoetonic carrying Draciel, and Dragoon flying solo (he was one of those spirits who could fly without wings).
"HELLO DOWN THERE!!" Drigger cried when he was close enough.
"Shut your trap, cat," Dranzer hissed, obviously annoyed. "Or I'll squeeze u harder."
"Hey! What did I do to you?" Drigger exclaimed.
Dragoon swooped around the two. "Someone is having a rough day today…" he sang, swooshing in front of Dranzer's so close that she could have bit him. "Hum… I wonder why?"
Dranzer's eyes expanded comically. "IT WAS YOU!" she cried, letting go of Drigger, letting him fall, while she cased Dragoon. "NO ONE STEALS MISTER CUCU AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!"
"AHH!" Drigger cried, as he fell down to the earth. "HELP!" Cho glided under the massive tiger and broke his fall.
"Mr. Cucu?" She looked at Dranzer with in eyebrow raised, amusement danced in her voice.
"Mr. Cucu is Dranzer little toy that she had ever since she was a baby… she just can't let him go," Dragoon laughed
Dranzer paled if even possible with her red feathers. "A-a…" she stuttered. "Curse you Dragoon…."
Every laughed at the red phoenix in her embarrassment. "Well anyways, don't you think we should get going?" Dranzer exploded, desperately trying to change the topic.
"Yes," Cho nodded. She turned to Dragoon. "And where is this place that these bandits are hiding at?"
"In the old temple, a couple minutes from here," Dragoon waved his massive claw around in the air. "You know, that old, old one."
"That one… makes sense…" Cho nodded. "We will go with plan Alpha. Dragoon, Dranzer and Drigger and me on in squad A. Draciel, Dracolius and Phoetonic in squad B. Squad A will be the one's going into the temple, Squad B as back up. Understood?"
"Understood!" the rest cried. Then they all took off to the temple.
The temple soon came into the groups view as they flew. It was a great big step pyramid with many stairs. To Humans, it would remind them of the Maya and Aztec temples. It was over grown with plant life, enriching them selves in it old magic that still seemed to live in and out of the temple.
"There!" Dragoon cried. They hovered over top of it, looking for any signs of activity. Finally, a Lion-Man walked out and scanned the area, then went back in. "There See? See?"
Squad A swooped down into and open window, while Squad B hide in the surrounding forest.
Inside, crates as well as the other bodies of her Squad crowded Cho. "Ouch! Damn it Dragoon!" Drigger moaned. "Watch where you put those damn claws!"
"Heheh…" Dragoon giggled. Dranzer sighed in frustration.
"Hush!" Cho whispered. "Someone's coming!"
"LET ME GO!" An angry male voice shouted.
"You're not done your work here!" A rougher male voice shouted back. There was a sound of someone hitting another. "Now Fiery, go check those crates over there..."
"YOU SAID YOU WOULD LET ME GO!" The other voice cried. The tone of voice, told the hiding spirits that this one was stressed, tired, frustrated and angry, very angry.
"Listen to me, boy," The other voice said. "Do what you're told, or you as well as your village will suffer." The younger male shut up. "Good, know go check those crates over there!"
Footsteps sounded closer to Cho and the rest. Everyone behind the crated tensed up. Drigger even started to growl a bit. Suddenly, a head popped over the other side and stared at them. Just stared. He was a Phoenix-Demon-man, with long dark blue hair and light blue bangs had dark red eyes. Orange and red horns like boomerangs grew from his head, and he had ears like a dragon fin. On his back were two types of wings. Red pair of Phoenix wings, and an orange pair a smaller dragon wings with a demon tail coming from under his orange toga. He looked directly at Cho and whispered, 'Right.'
Cho turned her head to the right to see a pathway in between the crates. "Dragoon! Dranzer! Right! Attack plan DDF!"(DDF= 'Dranzer, Dragoon fire') She turned back to the Spirit name Fiery and found him smirking, somewhat in happiness and somewhat in relief.
"Borico!" the other voice said. "Watch him!" a grunt responded the other voice.
The spirit named Fiery continued to inspect the crates and tighten ropes, etc. All was silent, then…
"FIRE ARROW!"
"PHANTOM HURRICAINE!"
Dragoon started a massive tornado that launched the flaming Dranzer at the unsuspecting guard, knocking him down before he could comprehend anything. Milliseconds afterwards, Cho had her hand at Fiery's throat. "Don't move. Answer our question peacefully and you will get away unharmed," she paused in consideration. "What is exactly going on here?"
The demon spirit lowered his head, putting his hands in the air to show that he had no weapons. "What is going on? Heh… these bandits took my village hostage… that's what they did." He looked up. "You see, these villains are so weak, they resulted to going to a fire clan village, taking the villages elder hostage, and forcing the strongest person to come and comply to they're wishes or the elders would die. But my village is the only fire clan village in this entire universe that has no extremely strong spirits in it, because it is mostly a retirement place for old weak fire spirits. I am the youngest spirit in my villages; so therefore, the others sent me with them. So here I am, working for these pathetic beings…"
"What are they shipping?" Cho asked, a bit softer this time. She kinda pitied the guy… being so unbelievable hot, and being stuck in a situation like this… wait a sec… back up… what did she call him?
"Drugs… power upgrade drugs," Fiery said quietly. He tossed his head to one side, removing some of the blue bangs that coved he eyes. He looked down at Cho, very gently with his reddish eyes.
Cho took in a breath, and let down her hand from his throat. "We're the Security and Law Enforcers, and I am their leader. I promise, Fiery—."
"Don't call me that," he interrupted. "That's just the nickname those devils gave me. I am Yasuo, the fiery. Not Fiery. Yasuo."
"Oookay… Yasuo…" She liked the sound of his name… Yah-sue-oh… yeah, so sexy… -… OO… what was that she called him? Oh god… "Yeah… we're going to get you out of here so you can go back to you're village, as soon as we stop this illegal shipment." She nodded and turned away, so she didn't have to face him. "Err… how many bit-beast are in this operation?"
"Well… I think there is only 5…" Yasuo began counting his fingers. " Yup… Only 5…"
"Then lead us to them!" Cho declared, marching towards the exit of the room. She checked both ways of the hall that linked a bunch of other rooms to the one that they were in. She looked over her shoulder to see Dragoon and Dranzer and Drigger working away to hide the unconscious body of the guard into an entry crate. Yasuo crossed his arms over his chest and made a 'humph' sound.
"Well, just to warn you, there is one extremely strong Spirit here," He narrowed he eye on her, mouth frowning. "He is EXSTREMLY strong." He stared at her fiercely, and yet, almost in concern.
"Don't worry… there are 7 of us here. If any of them try to escape, we'll catch them," Cho nodded. Yasuo rolled his eyes and mouthed, 'you're going to regret it' and started to walk down the hall.
Cho walked behind Yasuo, subconsciously admiring his backside, will Dragoon, Dranzer and Drigger talked about Cho behind her.
"Humm… someone just fell for another spirit," Dragoon sang.
"About time…" Dranzer huffed.
Drigger looked at the other two with a serious look on his face… a look Dranzer caught the look. "Drigger…" She looked at her friend in concern.
"If she falls to fast, a tremendous joy can become a tremendous terror…" The Tiger whispered.
"Ou… when did Drigger become wise?" Dragoon taunted. Dranzer nudged him I his side. She knew, being closer to Drigger then anyone else, that he was one of those insightful spirits.
Thump. Thump. The sound made the stealthy sprits jump. Cho watched as the exposed muscles in Yasuo's back tensed up. "It's he!" he hissed.
Thump. Clump. Clump. Ca-lump. Closer and closer. Then a bullhead poked out of a doorway and looked directly at the group. "INTRUDERS!" He roared. The sound shook the ground, and the ceiling crumbled a little bit. The giant bull whipped his massive head around at Yasuo, but Yasuo just twitched ever so slightly and dodged the sharp horns. But on Yasuo's face was plastered terror. He stepped aside, and the bull-spirit blew past, knocking the others out of the way.
"What did you do that for?" Cho exclaimed angrily.
"Yasuo looked at like she was crazy. "That's the one. He could have destroyed me without even trying." He whispered.
Cho rolled her eyes. "You know what? You guys, these days are such wusses…" She muttered, turning her back to him and chased after the beast. Dranzer, Drigger and Dragoon looked at the Demon spirit to see his reacting.
"IF YOU ARE IMPLYING THAT I AM A COWARD, I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT I AM NOT!!" Yasuo yelled after her, and shot off. Without hesitation, the others followed them.
The bull monster lead them outside of the temple. As soon as Cho had set foot in the soft earth, Squad B emerged form the surrounding forest. Cho lifted her head up to see other bandits fleeing, and without as second though, rose her arm to the sky and screamed, "BUTTERFLY HOSHII!" (A/n: okay… that was cheesy…)
With her middle finger and ring finger bent towards her palm, several blasts of light formed in the shape of butterflies and shot at an incredible speed towards the escaping bandits, and knocked them all out of the sky. Yasuo had emerged in time to see the action. Let's just say he was very impressed with her power. 'Maybe she will have a chance against the Bull,' he thought.
Just then a scream pierced the air around, and anyone who heard it turned sharply to the source. A fountain of golden feather erupted as Phoetonic fell to the ground, clutching her chest where this massive rip was in her flesh. She screeched and screeched in pain, sending the skin on the back of Cho's neck to tingle.
"NO! Phoetonic!!" Dracolius shouted. Phoetonic looked at him, and tried to warn him to stay away, but Dracolius roared. "SILVER LIGHTNING!" A beam of white light, flickered like fire, and had little crackles of electricity dashed all around the beam. It headed straight towards the Bull spirit. But, the bull spirit just raised an arm, and the attack was cut in two. Dracolius choked on his breath. "WHAT?"
Just then the Bull beast lifted his head and from his two curved horns came a gigantic lightning bolt came shooting towards Dracolius. "THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL 'LIGHTNING'!!!" He roared.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dracolius screamed as the bolt struck his body.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cho cried as she watched her wounded friend fall to the ground. She swooped over to him and pressed he hand on his forehead. "Dracolius, hang on. Just hang on…"
"No," His said, voice crackled weakly. "It's to late…. I'm dying." Cho eyes expanded. "Just… bring me to… bring me to Phoetonic…" Complying with her friends wishes, she lifted him up and laid him gently by his love. Phoetonic weakly grasped on of his claws.
Cho slowly stood up, eyes shadowed with fury and blinding rage. "YOU!" she pointed toward the bull beast. "YOU ARE GOING TO REGRET THIS!"
The Bull smirked and faced Cho. "Bring it one."
"Um…" Yasuo called from the side. "Er… are you sure you want to fight him?" Cho looked at him with dark eyes, which kind of scared him. He stepped back and walked over to Dranzer, Dragoon, Drigger and Draciel who had joined the other 3. "Is she like that often?" He asked.
They looked at him with almost the same look as Cho had giving him. "All 8 of us have been friends for longer then I can remember," Draciel answered. "I am feeling exactly the same as she is… it's not easy losing a friend you've known for so long. And I'm not stopping her either. One thing that all of us knows is that nothing will get between her and extracting her revenge. Beside… we can remove and spirit that is a threat to all of Atlantis. That's our job, basically." He looked extremely sad.
Yasuo nodded with understanding. Some how, he felt as if he would have done the same thing.
Cho watched the Bull, waiting for him to make the first move. She was going over everything she had learned while in Training in her head, checking the possibilities. She remembered that the type of Beast would usually affect its personality, and her opponent being a bull, with a short temper, she figured she would taunt the spirit into pulling the first move. Placing her hand on the mouth she made a loud yawning sound, loud enough for her opponent to hear. That instantly set him off. The bull snorted and lowered his head and charged.
Gracefully flipping into the air, she landed on the beast's back and it passed under her. Then taking hold of his two horns, she settled herself on top of his head. Jeez, Bulls where so predictable… her opponent tried to shake her off, but she was too light. He tried to pull her off, but she used his horns as acrobatic bars and dodged his claws. Finally, he turned to the temple and attempted to smash her into the wall. Seconds before impact, Cho leaped off the monster's back and watched her opponent imbed himself in to the stone
"No, tell me who you're working for," Cho said sternly.
"NEVER!" the bull roared. "JAGGED LIGHTNING!" the lighting from his horns made a tunnel in the stone, releasing himself from the rock. He spun to face Cho again.
"Oh, is that so," Cho said, not really impressed. She lifted her hands to the sky. "SEA OF LIGHT!" a beam from the heavens came crashing into Cho's palm, forming a ball of purple light. With a mighty swing, Cho through the ball at the bull beast.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRG!!!" Her opponent's screamed echoed all around until the ball of light died. The beast laid there motionless for a few seconds until he started to dissolve into tiny sparkling bits.
Cho walked over to the dying spirit. "Who do you work for?" she asked again.
"Well… I guess I'll tell you… " The bull laughed bitterly, his body was dissolved all the way up to his waist now. "Since… he failed me… I will fail him… It was the Emperor… Raidon…"
"Way!" Dragoon exclaimed.
"Way," Draciel echoed.
"It makes sense," Dranzer said.
"Raidon was always up to something," Drigger muttered. "I could tell it from the first day he became Emperor. But what is he up to? Smuggling power upgrade drugs?"
"You will see what he is planning to do," The Bull answered. "He already has half the shipment. Now farewell… and tell Raidon I will be waiting for him in the deepest depths of the Shadows…" the rest of the beast's body disappeared.
They stood there with the shimmering particles of the bull, until they became dull and disappeared. Then they all ran over to where Dracolius and Phoetonic laid on the ground.
"Oh Dracolius!" Phoetonic exclaimed.
"Just hang on there," Cho said softly, leaning over. "We'll find a way to help you…" Find a way? It was hopeless! Cho didn't know any moves or spells that could help her heal them that powerful! Neither did the others.
"No, no. It's too late," Dracolius looked up at Cho and tried to smile, but the pain he was experiencing was that obvious. "And… and we've come to a decision."
"What kind of decision?" Dranzer asked, kneeling down beside Cho, who was on the verge of tears.
"We, me and Phoetonic, are going to do a merging ceremony." He said, squeezing Phoetonix's clam with his own.
"But… a merging will speed up the process of de- particleization of your bodies!" Yasuo cried.
"Would you rather us suffer in this pain?" Dracolius roared. He quieted. "At least… Cho, you will always have a part of us still with you… take good care of her." He turned to Phoetonic and nodded.
Both Phoetonic and Dracolius began to dissolve at an alarming rate, but the little dots of their remains did not just float in the air, they were drawn to where their claws were joined. "Good bye," rang Dracolius and Phoetonic's voices as the completely dissolved away.
Cho lost herself and she fell to the ground in a fountain of tears ands cries. She has succeeded her mission, but had to pay a very great price with her love and friendship.
Raidon.
It was all his fault. Cho hissed at his name. He would pay.
"Look!" Dragoon exclaimed.
Cho looked up to see a little chibi spirit sitting in front of her. She blinked and it blinked back.
"WAHHH!!!" it shouted suddenly flinging dirt in the air the showered Cho.
Cho jumped up and started shaking her head. "DAMN YOU!" She cried. "You got dirt in my hair!!" She suddenly forgot about the death of Dracolius and Phoetonic. That was SO Dracolius to throw dirt in the air. (Her child hood memories with him… )
"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU!" It cried, shouting joyfully, throwing more dirt into the air.
"What should we name it?" Dragoon asked. The little spirit chucked a rock at him. "Hey! Cut it out!"
"I dunno," Draciel wondered. "How about Dracolius-Phoetonic Jr.!" The little beast chucked a bigger rock at Draciel. "Ouch!"
"WAI!" the little baby spirit began to cry.
"I know," Cho picked up the child and started to calm it down. "Drassess. Isn't that a pretty name?" she looked at the chibi spirit. It was just settling down in her arms.
Cho got a pretty good look at the child. It was definitely a girl, and she had this white wane of hair that came out of her dragon neck. Her body was divided into two different parts. The top half was like a dragon, like her father's, with silvery ice blue colored scales. The lover half was a brownish gold color with beautiful multi colored tail feathers that curled into them at the end. On her back were a golden wing like her mother's and a silver wing like her father's and a miniature pair like the ones on her back as ears. What was very capturing was her green eyes, which Cho realized were a mix of her father's blue ones and her mother's yellow.
"Do-ra-se-ssssssss…" Drassess sounded out her name. "Damn you." And giggled.
OooO
"So… that's Drassess?" Takara asked, awing in wonder.
"Yes, Cho said. "When Drassess was a bit older, she told me she wanted to be with me forever." She sighed. "And when you made those stickers for you're beyblade bit chip on that box machine---."
"Computer," Takara corrected.
"--- I was the one who gave you the idea for her," Cho finished. "And that was Drassess signal to come and live there inside your blade. And so… I don't think I'll go over the rest, I think you already know what happens…"
"Yeah, yeah, Drassess told me," Takara casually waved at the issue. "Raidon gets banished, then comes back to get you because he claims he loves you, and the Yasuo swoops to the rescue and in the end, you destroy Raidon and sacrifice yourself and now Yasuo searches for you… got most of it right?"
"Pretty much," Cho nodded. "And I must say, it was a pleasure to finally talk to you in person, and it was nice of Sekai to bring you here for me. Thank you all."
"Well then I guess we'd better get going, right?" Sakai asked. Takara nodded. The darkness surrounding them began to glow white and slowly erase Cho.
"And Takara," Cho called, she has hardly visible and her voice was like an echo. "I am always watching…" then she was gone.
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And done…
I was a bit lazy, yes, so I cut only the information that you need. Otherwise this chapter would have been just TOO LONG… like 20 pages…
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Kai: Yeah, nothing she does it right though, so why bother?
Shut up mute boy…
Kai: …
Swoosh: chirps I haven't been here for a while!
Cuz I forgot about you…
Swoosh: gasps how dare you!! Sqawk! I'm the one who give you ideas!! I'm your imagination!!
Well, if I forgot about you, then you can't give me ideas, can you?
Swoosh: churp…
Anywho… read on…
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THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET US
By: Cold Tears of the Phoenix
Chapter 16: Cho
Was it was extremely dark. Dark and freaking cold. Takara had to rub her arms, and hug herself to stay warm. She did not dare to open her eyes, cause she feared that her eyes would freeze in the bitter air that seemed to ice her bare skin. Stupid, it wouldn't really make a different. It's not like she could actually 'see' though her blind eyes. Wouldn't matter, right? Blind eyes. Blind.
"Takara?" A voice echoed out. Sekai's voice. In a split second, eyelids parted on Takara's face. A reaction to the sound of the other girl's voice.
"Ah!" Takara gasped. Warm tears began to leak from the corners of her eyes. "I… I can… see…" In front of her stood a girl, the exact images she had though Sekai looked like, almost exactly as her mother, only younger.
Sekai smiled, and looked down at herself. Smiling still, she laughed and walked over to Takara. "I'm afraid not, my friend. I think what you're 'seeing' is only an image of me you have created in your mind. This is not actually me."
"Sekai?" Takara asked, quivering.
"Yes?"
"…My eyes?"
"They are still sightless," Sekai smiled sadly.
Takara took in a deep breath. "So… what do you mean that I'm seeing the image that I created of you in my head?"
"Humm… yes… I have a sixth sense you know, and my power is a psychic ability. I brought your conscious mind, and mine, to the deepest part of you head, a part you didn't even know existed. Or in other word, the spirit that inhabits you."
Takara blinked. "Cho?" Sekai nodded. "How did you know Cho was inside of me?"
"Well," Sekai grinned. "I am psychic after all. She told me to do this."
"Then where is she?" Takara wondered.
"I am here."
Both girls spun to the sound of the new voice. Both saw the mass of silky red pillow lying in a massive heap, with a single woman (A/n: single as in 'one' not as in 'un married') dressed in white perched on top of it. She had long black hair, flowing around her in a graceful, messy manner that seemed to flap around in the unmoving wind. Gorgeous light blue and scarlet butterfly wings swept behind her back- they hit Takara as familiar, but she couldn't quiet remember where she saw them- they were irregular shaped, like droplets, they fell from the bottom of her wings. "I am Empress Cho of the Spirit Realm."
Once again, Takara felt tear in her eyes. The sight she 'saw' was so overwhelming for her eyes, and the new, unusual information hurt her head. Her voice a bit jittery, she spoke, "and my name is Takara Nakamura."
Cho smiled kindly at Takara, and bowed her head slightly to be politely. "Finally we meet," She said.
"Ditto," Takara said, making Cho blink in confusion.
Cho then turned her eye to Sekai. "And you are…?"
"Sekai," Sekai bowed. "And it is a pleasure to meet you, your highness."
"Ahh… yes… Thank you for bring Takara here," She said to the other girl. Then turned back to Takara. "Takara, I know of the danger you are in now. I am very sorry. If what happened in my past, never happened at all, you'd be back in you're world, at your home." She laughed bitterly. "But Fate and destiny have a funny way of working, they do. For mortals and immortals."
"I've noticed…" Takara rolled her eyes and sighed.
"But the purpose of this meeting, this opportunity is to tell you that I do exist in you. But instead of talking about who I am, I want to explain to you something that I feel is more important. That is what spirits are, and about a special little spirit you know."
"Drassess?" Takara questioned.
"Yes, but first, I will explain us Spirits," Cho started. "We are not mortal, we are immortal, but this doesn't mean we can't die. We do not die of old age though; we die if we are killed or destroyed, and then our soul is sent to the Shadows, or our version of the mortal 'underworld'. (A/n: =P so Yu-Gi-Oh) In the process, our bodies dissolve or 'de-particleize' as some people may call it. Second, we are born in two ways. We are created from the hearts of mortals. If one believes with all that it's worth that a spirit exists, then one is made in our world. All spirits born this way will come from Atlantis, our Capital." (PS, de-particleize is a made up word. =)
Takara blinked a few times to digest the information. "So that means I can't create bit beasts like BioVolt thought I could?"
"No, anyone can create one, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have control over the creature. Anyways, the second way a spirit is formed is if two dying spirits come together and create another whole. This is done very rarely, and the spirit that is born usually has unusual powers. These types are often called 'pure'.
We spirits have great powers, and it would take thousands of years from a mere mortal to understand us completely. We don't need to eat, drink, sleep, but we can if we want to. We can travel beyond our planets and beyond our universe too, and visit other universes also."
"I'd also like to take this opportunity to explain the way our universes work. There is one mother universe, which is the spirit universe; we call it 'Shiro'. The mother universe serves as a guardian over the other universes—that is our job as spirits, we watch over the mortals. Connected directly to the Shiro universe are five other one; these are called 'Aka', 'ao', 'midori', 'kin' and 'kage'. These are known as the 'Iro' universes. These are universes that sustain mortal life the spirits take great pride in nurturing. My own favorite is 'aka'. Can you guess what one species of mortal is sustains?"
"Humans?" Takara saw amazed. She wasn't sure if she could believe everything Cho was telling her because it seemed too unreal.
"Correct," Cho smiled. "The Iro universes can never disappear, unlike other ones like the Chiisai universes." She looked sadly at Sekai. "Chiisai universes are like this one, the Beyblade universe. They are created for pure enjoyment by mortals of the Iro universes. And when that universe is forgotten, then it will disappear." Sekai looked shocked.
"So… are you saying that the people of this 'aka' universe created this universe for enjoyment?" Sekai whispered.
Takara nodded. "Actually, the only reason I knew so much about Beyblade was because it was a television show." She didn't know what more to say.
"Now, to start with the actually story, I will tell you this. It began when actually my great enemy ruled over Atlantis, and the Spirit Realm, Raidon. He was careless about the people and their needs, and only thought of himself, and the people where thinking about bringing him out of power. There we're massive gangs, and an amazing amount of slaughtering, since spirits deaths are very uncommon. I was a Head Leader of the Security and Law Enforcers, accompanied by my closest friends. Can you guess who they were?"
"Dragoon, Dranzer, Drigger and Draciel, right?" Sekai replied, her voice was a monotone.
"Yes, but two others-- Phoetonic; a very similar to Dranzer, but she had the color of pure stunning gold- not burning red- and Dracolius; a dragon demon of ice and water, a shimmering silver color was his scales. You would have considered them a 'couple'. They loved each other deeply," Cho sighed heavily. "And now, this story begins…" and with that, she waved her arm around in the air, and arc over her head.
Suddenly the world went totally white, and all Takara could hear was Cho's voice, and it sounded as if she was very far and as if hidden inside a cave. "On the day that would change me, as well as the entire Spirit realm, me and my team were searching for a band of gangsters that where smuggling illegal substances into the main city. Just so happened, on that very day, Dragoon had spotted them…"
Takara was standing somewhere else. Giant birds swooped around in the sky, and a magnificent city filled her view. She was standing in the middle of what seemed to be a hall; pillars to her right blocked some of the sun's rays, creating shadows on the wall to her left. Creatures of bizarre shapes and sizes walked back and forth, none seemed to notice Takara. Actually, there were a few creatures that Takara recognized. One was Cho, standing there in the hall, flipping through some sheets, reading something on them, and frowning in seriousness. Though, she looked different, a tad younger, and dressed in shiny armor.
Another creature was a blue dragon running through the hall crying 'excuse me! Sorry!' as he bumped into a lot of other beasts. "CHO!" he cried once he was close enough. "CHO! CHOCHOCHOCHOOOOOO!!!"
Cho looked up. "Excuse you," she said, smiling.
"Huh?" Dragoon looked kind of confused.
"You sounded like you were sneezing…" She turned back to the papers. "Emperor Raidon is so careless… I wonder what made the people pick him as our new Emperor after the last one was destroyed in battle? Look at this. The criminal percentage in the city has gone up by 46%! Out of the whole city, before Raidon began his rule, only 5% of the population were criminals. Raidon has only been ruling for less then a millennia and look at all the problems that has already occurred."
"Ah… who cares about that big old fart," Dragoon trotted over. "Hum… by the way, you know how we've been searching for those bandits? Err… well… I think I found them…"
"WHAT???" Cho latterly jumped and choked Dragoon. "Why didn't you say sooner?"
"Err… well it wouldn't be like me to be very serious and jump straight the main point!!" Dragoon cried. Cho released him.
"Good point," she nodded, smiling. "Go get the others. I'll be waiting at out normal station, number 25, like always." She unfolded her butterfly wings and soared away. As she flew by, she spotted Dracolius and Phoetonic. "Hey!!" She shouted. "Come with me! Dragoon found those bandits!"
Dracolius looked up. "Really!?"
Phoetonic smiled and nodded. "I'll go help find the others. I'm assuming Dragoon is looking for them," She spread her majestic golden angel like wings and took to the sky without another word.
Dracolius also leapt into the sky and followed Cho to their destination, Station 25. Minutes after they arrived, in the sky were Dranzer carrying Drigger, Phoetonic carrying Draciel, and Dragoon flying solo (he was one of those spirits who could fly without wings).
"HELLO DOWN THERE!!" Drigger cried when he was close enough.
"Shut your trap, cat," Dranzer hissed, obviously annoyed. "Or I'll squeeze u harder."
"Hey! What did I do to you?" Drigger exclaimed.
Dragoon swooped around the two. "Someone is having a rough day today…" he sang, swooshing in front of Dranzer's so close that she could have bit him. "Hum… I wonder why?"
Dranzer's eyes expanded comically. "IT WAS YOU!" she cried, letting go of Drigger, letting him fall, while she cased Dragoon. "NO ONE STEALS MISTER CUCU AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!"
"AHH!" Drigger cried, as he fell down to the earth. "HELP!" Cho glided under the massive tiger and broke his fall.
"Mr. Cucu?" She looked at Dranzer with in eyebrow raised, amusement danced in her voice.
"Mr. Cucu is Dranzer little toy that she had ever since she was a baby… she just can't let him go," Dragoon laughed
Dranzer paled if even possible with her red feathers. "A-a…" she stuttered. "Curse you Dragoon…."
Every laughed at the red phoenix in her embarrassment. "Well anyways, don't you think we should get going?" Dranzer exploded, desperately trying to change the topic.
"Yes," Cho nodded. She turned to Dragoon. "And where is this place that these bandits are hiding at?"
"In the old temple, a couple minutes from here," Dragoon waved his massive claw around in the air. "You know, that old, old one."
"That one… makes sense…" Cho nodded. "We will go with plan Alpha. Dragoon, Dranzer and Drigger and me on in squad A. Draciel, Dracolius and Phoetonic in squad B. Squad A will be the one's going into the temple, Squad B as back up. Understood?"
"Understood!" the rest cried. Then they all took off to the temple.
The temple soon came into the groups view as they flew. It was a great big step pyramid with many stairs. To Humans, it would remind them of the Maya and Aztec temples. It was over grown with plant life, enriching them selves in it old magic that still seemed to live in and out of the temple.
"There!" Dragoon cried. They hovered over top of it, looking for any signs of activity. Finally, a Lion-Man walked out and scanned the area, then went back in. "There See? See?"
Squad A swooped down into and open window, while Squad B hide in the surrounding forest.
Inside, crates as well as the other bodies of her Squad crowded Cho. "Ouch! Damn it Dragoon!" Drigger moaned. "Watch where you put those damn claws!"
"Heheh…" Dragoon giggled. Dranzer sighed in frustration.
"Hush!" Cho whispered. "Someone's coming!"
"LET ME GO!" An angry male voice shouted.
"You're not done your work here!" A rougher male voice shouted back. There was a sound of someone hitting another. "Now Fiery, go check those crates over there..."
"YOU SAID YOU WOULD LET ME GO!" The other voice cried. The tone of voice, told the hiding spirits that this one was stressed, tired, frustrated and angry, very angry.
"Listen to me, boy," The other voice said. "Do what you're told, or you as well as your village will suffer." The younger male shut up. "Good, know go check those crates over there!"
Footsteps sounded closer to Cho and the rest. Everyone behind the crated tensed up. Drigger even started to growl a bit. Suddenly, a head popped over the other side and stared at them. Just stared. He was a Phoenix-Demon-man, with long dark blue hair and light blue bangs had dark red eyes. Orange and red horns like boomerangs grew from his head, and he had ears like a dragon fin. On his back were two types of wings. Red pair of Phoenix wings, and an orange pair a smaller dragon wings with a demon tail coming from under his orange toga. He looked directly at Cho and whispered, 'Right.'
Cho turned her head to the right to see a pathway in between the crates. "Dragoon! Dranzer! Right! Attack plan DDF!"(DDF= 'Dranzer, Dragoon fire') She turned back to the Spirit name Fiery and found him smirking, somewhat in happiness and somewhat in relief.
"Borico!" the other voice said. "Watch him!" a grunt responded the other voice.
The spirit named Fiery continued to inspect the crates and tighten ropes, etc. All was silent, then…
"FIRE ARROW!"
"PHANTOM HURRICAINE!"
Dragoon started a massive tornado that launched the flaming Dranzer at the unsuspecting guard, knocking him down before he could comprehend anything. Milliseconds afterwards, Cho had her hand at Fiery's throat. "Don't move. Answer our question peacefully and you will get away unharmed," she paused in consideration. "What is exactly going on here?"
The demon spirit lowered his head, putting his hands in the air to show that he had no weapons. "What is going on? Heh… these bandits took my village hostage… that's what they did." He looked up. "You see, these villains are so weak, they resulted to going to a fire clan village, taking the villages elder hostage, and forcing the strongest person to come and comply to they're wishes or the elders would die. But my village is the only fire clan village in this entire universe that has no extremely strong spirits in it, because it is mostly a retirement place for old weak fire spirits. I am the youngest spirit in my villages; so therefore, the others sent me with them. So here I am, working for these pathetic beings…"
"What are they shipping?" Cho asked, a bit softer this time. She kinda pitied the guy… being so unbelievable hot, and being stuck in a situation like this… wait a sec… back up… what did she call him?
"Drugs… power upgrade drugs," Fiery said quietly. He tossed his head to one side, removing some of the blue bangs that coved he eyes. He looked down at Cho, very gently with his reddish eyes.
Cho took in a breath, and let down her hand from his throat. "We're the Security and Law Enforcers, and I am their leader. I promise, Fiery—."
"Don't call me that," he interrupted. "That's just the nickname those devils gave me. I am Yasuo, the fiery. Not Fiery. Yasuo."
"Oookay… Yasuo…" She liked the sound of his name… Yah-sue-oh… yeah, so sexy… -… OO… what was that she called him? Oh god… "Yeah… we're going to get you out of here so you can go back to you're village, as soon as we stop this illegal shipment." She nodded and turned away, so she didn't have to face him. "Err… how many bit-beast are in this operation?"
"Well… I think there is only 5…" Yasuo began counting his fingers. " Yup… Only 5…"
"Then lead us to them!" Cho declared, marching towards the exit of the room. She checked both ways of the hall that linked a bunch of other rooms to the one that they were in. She looked over her shoulder to see Dragoon and Dranzer and Drigger working away to hide the unconscious body of the guard into an entry crate. Yasuo crossed his arms over his chest and made a 'humph' sound.
"Well, just to warn you, there is one extremely strong Spirit here," He narrowed he eye on her, mouth frowning. "He is EXSTREMLY strong." He stared at her fiercely, and yet, almost in concern.
"Don't worry… there are 7 of us here. If any of them try to escape, we'll catch them," Cho nodded. Yasuo rolled his eyes and mouthed, 'you're going to regret it' and started to walk down the hall.
Cho walked behind Yasuo, subconsciously admiring his backside, will Dragoon, Dranzer and Drigger talked about Cho behind her.
"Humm… someone just fell for another spirit," Dragoon sang.
"About time…" Dranzer huffed.
Drigger looked at the other two with a serious look on his face… a look Dranzer caught the look. "Drigger…" She looked at her friend in concern.
"If she falls to fast, a tremendous joy can become a tremendous terror…" The Tiger whispered.
"Ou… when did Drigger become wise?" Dragoon taunted. Dranzer nudged him I his side. She knew, being closer to Drigger then anyone else, that he was one of those insightful spirits.
Thump. Thump. The sound made the stealthy sprits jump. Cho watched as the exposed muscles in Yasuo's back tensed up. "It's he!" he hissed.
Thump. Clump. Clump. Ca-lump. Closer and closer. Then a bullhead poked out of a doorway and looked directly at the group. "INTRUDERS!" He roared. The sound shook the ground, and the ceiling crumbled a little bit. The giant bull whipped his massive head around at Yasuo, but Yasuo just twitched ever so slightly and dodged the sharp horns. But on Yasuo's face was plastered terror. He stepped aside, and the bull-spirit blew past, knocking the others out of the way.
"What did you do that for?" Cho exclaimed angrily.
"Yasuo looked at like she was crazy. "That's the one. He could have destroyed me without even trying." He whispered.
Cho rolled her eyes. "You know what? You guys, these days are such wusses…" She muttered, turning her back to him and chased after the beast. Dranzer, Drigger and Dragoon looked at the Demon spirit to see his reacting.
"IF YOU ARE IMPLYING THAT I AM A COWARD, I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT I AM NOT!!" Yasuo yelled after her, and shot off. Without hesitation, the others followed them.
The bull monster lead them outside of the temple. As soon as Cho had set foot in the soft earth, Squad B emerged form the surrounding forest. Cho lifted her head up to see other bandits fleeing, and without as second though, rose her arm to the sky and screamed, "BUTTERFLY HOSHII!" (A/n: okay… that was cheesy…)
With her middle finger and ring finger bent towards her palm, several blasts of light formed in the shape of butterflies and shot at an incredible speed towards the escaping bandits, and knocked them all out of the sky. Yasuo had emerged in time to see the action. Let's just say he was very impressed with her power. 'Maybe she will have a chance against the Bull,' he thought.
Just then a scream pierced the air around, and anyone who heard it turned sharply to the source. A fountain of golden feather erupted as Phoetonic fell to the ground, clutching her chest where this massive rip was in her flesh. She screeched and screeched in pain, sending the skin on the back of Cho's neck to tingle.
"NO! Phoetonic!!" Dracolius shouted. Phoetonic looked at him, and tried to warn him to stay away, but Dracolius roared. "SILVER LIGHTNING!" A beam of white light, flickered like fire, and had little crackles of electricity dashed all around the beam. It headed straight towards the Bull spirit. But, the bull spirit just raised an arm, and the attack was cut in two. Dracolius choked on his breath. "WHAT?"
Just then the Bull beast lifted his head and from his two curved horns came a gigantic lightning bolt came shooting towards Dracolius. "THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL 'LIGHTNING'!!!" He roared.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dracolius screamed as the bolt struck his body.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cho cried as she watched her wounded friend fall to the ground. She swooped over to him and pressed he hand on his forehead. "Dracolius, hang on. Just hang on…"
"No," His said, voice crackled weakly. "It's to late…. I'm dying." Cho eyes expanded. "Just… bring me to… bring me to Phoetonic…" Complying with her friends wishes, she lifted him up and laid him gently by his love. Phoetonic weakly grasped on of his claws.
Cho slowly stood up, eyes shadowed with fury and blinding rage. "YOU!" she pointed toward the bull beast. "YOU ARE GOING TO REGRET THIS!"
The Bull smirked and faced Cho. "Bring it one."
"Um…" Yasuo called from the side. "Er… are you sure you want to fight him?" Cho looked at him with dark eyes, which kind of scared him. He stepped back and walked over to Dranzer, Dragoon, Drigger and Draciel who had joined the other 3. "Is she like that often?" He asked.
They looked at him with almost the same look as Cho had giving him. "All 8 of us have been friends for longer then I can remember," Draciel answered. "I am feeling exactly the same as she is… it's not easy losing a friend you've known for so long. And I'm not stopping her either. One thing that all of us knows is that nothing will get between her and extracting her revenge. Beside… we can remove and spirit that is a threat to all of Atlantis. That's our job, basically." He looked extremely sad.
Yasuo nodded with understanding. Some how, he felt as if he would have done the same thing.
Cho watched the Bull, waiting for him to make the first move. She was going over everything she had learned while in Training in her head, checking the possibilities. She remembered that the type of Beast would usually affect its personality, and her opponent being a bull, with a short temper, she figured she would taunt the spirit into pulling the first move. Placing her hand on the mouth she made a loud yawning sound, loud enough for her opponent to hear. That instantly set him off. The bull snorted and lowered his head and charged.
Gracefully flipping into the air, she landed on the beast's back and it passed under her. Then taking hold of his two horns, she settled herself on top of his head. Jeez, Bulls where so predictable… her opponent tried to shake her off, but she was too light. He tried to pull her off, but she used his horns as acrobatic bars and dodged his claws. Finally, he turned to the temple and attempted to smash her into the wall. Seconds before impact, Cho leaped off the monster's back and watched her opponent imbed himself in to the stone
"No, tell me who you're working for," Cho said sternly.
"NEVER!" the bull roared. "JAGGED LIGHTNING!" the lighting from his horns made a tunnel in the stone, releasing himself from the rock. He spun to face Cho again.
"Oh, is that so," Cho said, not really impressed. She lifted her hands to the sky. "SEA OF LIGHT!" a beam from the heavens came crashing into Cho's palm, forming a ball of purple light. With a mighty swing, Cho through the ball at the bull beast.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRG!!!" Her opponent's screamed echoed all around until the ball of light died. The beast laid there motionless for a few seconds until he started to dissolve into tiny sparkling bits.
Cho walked over to the dying spirit. "Who do you work for?" she asked again.
"Well… I guess I'll tell you… " The bull laughed bitterly, his body was dissolved all the way up to his waist now. "Since… he failed me… I will fail him… It was the Emperor… Raidon…"
"Way!" Dragoon exclaimed.
"Way," Draciel echoed.
"It makes sense," Dranzer said.
"Raidon was always up to something," Drigger muttered. "I could tell it from the first day he became Emperor. But what is he up to? Smuggling power upgrade drugs?"
"You will see what he is planning to do," The Bull answered. "He already has half the shipment. Now farewell… and tell Raidon I will be waiting for him in the deepest depths of the Shadows…" the rest of the beast's body disappeared.
They stood there with the shimmering particles of the bull, until they became dull and disappeared. Then they all ran over to where Dracolius and Phoetonic laid on the ground.
"Oh Dracolius!" Phoetonic exclaimed.
"Just hang on there," Cho said softly, leaning over. "We'll find a way to help you…" Find a way? It was hopeless! Cho didn't know any moves or spells that could help her heal them that powerful! Neither did the others.
"No, no. It's too late," Dracolius looked up at Cho and tried to smile, but the pain he was experiencing was that obvious. "And… and we've come to a decision."
"What kind of decision?" Dranzer asked, kneeling down beside Cho, who was on the verge of tears.
"We, me and Phoetonic, are going to do a merging ceremony." He said, squeezing Phoetonix's clam with his own.
"But… a merging will speed up the process of de- particleization of your bodies!" Yasuo cried.
"Would you rather us suffer in this pain?" Dracolius roared. He quieted. "At least… Cho, you will always have a part of us still with you… take good care of her." He turned to Phoetonic and nodded.
Both Phoetonic and Dracolius began to dissolve at an alarming rate, but the little dots of their remains did not just float in the air, they were drawn to where their claws were joined. "Good bye," rang Dracolius and Phoetonic's voices as the completely dissolved away.
Cho lost herself and she fell to the ground in a fountain of tears ands cries. She has succeeded her mission, but had to pay a very great price with her love and friendship.
Raidon.
It was all his fault. Cho hissed at his name. He would pay.
"Look!" Dragoon exclaimed.
Cho looked up to see a little chibi spirit sitting in front of her. She blinked and it blinked back.
"WAHHH!!!" it shouted suddenly flinging dirt in the air the showered Cho.
Cho jumped up and started shaking her head. "DAMN YOU!" She cried. "You got dirt in my hair!!" She suddenly forgot about the death of Dracolius and Phoetonic. That was SO Dracolius to throw dirt in the air. (Her child hood memories with him… )
"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU!" It cried, shouting joyfully, throwing more dirt into the air.
"What should we name it?" Dragoon asked. The little spirit chucked a rock at him. "Hey! Cut it out!"
"I dunno," Draciel wondered. "How about Dracolius-Phoetonic Jr.!" The little beast chucked a bigger rock at Draciel. "Ouch!"
"WAI!" the little baby spirit began to cry.
"I know," Cho picked up the child and started to calm it down. "Drassess. Isn't that a pretty name?" she looked at the chibi spirit. It was just settling down in her arms.
Cho got a pretty good look at the child. It was definitely a girl, and she had this white wane of hair that came out of her dragon neck. Her body was divided into two different parts. The top half was like a dragon, like her father's, with silvery ice blue colored scales. The lover half was a brownish gold color with beautiful multi colored tail feathers that curled into them at the end. On her back were a golden wing like her mother's and a silver wing like her father's and a miniature pair like the ones on her back as ears. What was very capturing was her green eyes, which Cho realized were a mix of her father's blue ones and her mother's yellow.
"Do-ra-se-ssssssss…" Drassess sounded out her name. "Damn you." And giggled.
OooO
"So… that's Drassess?" Takara asked, awing in wonder.
"Yes, Cho said. "When Drassess was a bit older, she told me she wanted to be with me forever." She sighed. "And when you made those stickers for you're beyblade bit chip on that box machine---."
"Computer," Takara corrected.
"--- I was the one who gave you the idea for her," Cho finished. "And that was Drassess signal to come and live there inside your blade. And so… I don't think I'll go over the rest, I think you already know what happens…"
"Yeah, yeah, Drassess told me," Takara casually waved at the issue. "Raidon gets banished, then comes back to get you because he claims he loves you, and the Yasuo swoops to the rescue and in the end, you destroy Raidon and sacrifice yourself and now Yasuo searches for you… got most of it right?"
"Pretty much," Cho nodded. "And I must say, it was a pleasure to finally talk to you in person, and it was nice of Sekai to bring you here for me. Thank you all."
"Well then I guess we'd better get going, right?" Sakai asked. Takara nodded. The darkness surrounding them began to glow white and slowly erase Cho.
"And Takara," Cho called, she has hardly visible and her voice was like an echo. "I am always watching…" then she was gone.
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