Blue: ok...how can I say this bluntly.... SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!!!!! I'm going through a VERY tough time right now and it's pretty hard to update a story that really isn't very good like this one...it's a very bad spinoff of Rei's Journey, I know, but in this chapter a LOT is revealed. Next chapter will be the last one, and there I'll tell you about the 4-5 chapters I've cut to be able to get to the end quicker, they were pointless anyways.
This chapter is to celebrate a whole year of Rei!!! I haven't checked yet to the EXACT date that I published Rei's Journey, but it was about a year ago and today you are one chapter away from seeing what happened before, during, and after the first season of beyblade to Rei him..er...I mean HERself!! ^^ Enjoy this special edition, short chapter, of Rei's Destiny.
~*~Rei's POV~*~
I don't remember much during the helicopter ride...but I do remember being pulled out of my seat and onto the lap of someone while the room jolted back and fourth. There was more noise than just the one helicopter...there seemed to be more than one. But, being exhausted, I could only listen. My body didn't want to move from the warmth surrounding it and giving me comfort...so, I stayed where I was.
Throughout the ordeal, however, I did notice one thing...these had to be Robert's protective arms around me. After all, only he has this musky of a cologne. Tee hee, I can't believe I remember that after a year...amazing. The last time we were this close was the quick hug, but then I had to run, but really, the closest we ever were was that glorious night when Robert showed me what fun really meant and what life was about, and I learned all I could
I learned that, for one thing, it's not all about what your occupation is, it's about living it to the fullest! Living it with your friends and never letting it take you down. Knowing that people care about you and knowing that no matter what, you are protected...wow, he really taught me a lot that night. Definitely something I will never forget.
Now Kai's in the picture and we both still have a lot to learn...about more to life, about relationships....maybe love? Sure, we've been throwing those words around every so often, but I've often caught myself wondering...
Are they for real?
The noises died away and everything seemed to go smoothly. Much more smoothly...and suddenly, the noises stopped after a large jerk of the helicopter. We landed.
With a groan, I opened my eyes and looked up as Robert stood, me in his arms. He looked down at me and smiled...I had to smile back. What else was I to do? After all, he DID save my life, a smile was the least I could do to repay him.
The sliding sound of metal against metal made my eyes wander over to the door...suddenly we were moving again. Oh wait! It was just me and Robert...wow. Everything is spinning...
All I can see is the darkness...ok, so it's a little bright, but from the lights of the village and a few street-lamps. Nothing big...but suddenly, a loud uproar makes me smile. It's my village...I'm home...
Looking over tiredly, I can't make out any exact figures, but I can see colours and blurs...and one blue and black blur really does catch my attention as it races towards us.
"Kai..." I breath as I feel a new pair of arms wrapping around my tired, soar, and bruised body. I can only imagine what I look like...scratch that, I don't WANT to imagine what I look like. My smile stays on my face, but as soon as I feel I'm in Kai's strong arms, I turn and snuggle into him before falling into complete oblivion.
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I groaned...I'm laying on a rock as the sky...wait one minute. What sky??
I opened my eyes and looked up...it was completely white. Weird because I'm in a nice clearing and on a large flat surface rock. With a yawn, I stretch and realize I'm not in my comfy clothes anymore...no. I'm in something even comfier! From what I can see, it's a long, strapless white gown perfectly contrasting with my black, black hair.
A sound catches my neko attention and I move cat-like to a standing position on the rock, ready to fight whatever came my way...and finding out I'm barefoot and this dress has a nice long slit up the right side of the dress to my high calf...god, I must look awful!!
Suddenly, a bright light blinds me for a second and I brought my arms up to block it out...When it dims, I'm able to look up again and I see...standing beside a bend in the trees...my...my...
"Daddy?" I ask, disbelieved. He smiles at me and holds out his arms as he walks towards me. Jumping gracefully off of the rock, I sprint to him as fast as my legs to carry me and launched myself into his arms. We hugged and he laughed...wow, I can't believe how much I missed his laugh. Then again, I missed all of him. I inherited my eyes, my strength, and my love of life, and my dancing abilities from him while from my mother I've received everything else.
"It's you! It really is you! I can't believe it...oh my...mommy!?" In seconds I was off of my laughing father and hugging my now-shorter-than-me mother.
We share a few moments hugging and scrambling for each other..it seems that they missed me just as much, if not more, than I did them. Guess what they say is right, you never really know how great you have it until it's gone.
Finally, when my mom and I are leaning against a tree and my dad is sitting a little bit away from us, the talk took a turn to seriousness. My father was the one who started. "Rei...the real reason we summoned your mind to the heavens is because you have a destiny that has to be fulfilled." he explained. My mother nodded as I sat there in shock...of course everyone has a destiny, but nobody has ever been TOLD what it was before..especially not by their own parents...did I screw it up already?
With another nod from my mother, he continued. "Yours is a special type, Rei, the fact is...your destiny is, to put it bluntly, to save the world from being destroyed by pride." he noticed my confused look and leaned back, looking into the trees. "I'm never very good at explaining this," he joked and motioned to someone. "You can come in now! Rei...this may be a little overwhelming..."
I turned around and my jaw dropped...how much...I do not know, but I DO know that at this very moment, a large white tiger, even bigger than Driger with piercing silver eyes was now standing in front of me, it's fur sparkling in the...well...if there was a sun, that would be causing it to shine. To say the least, I was speechless.
The tiger chuckled and stood beside my father. "Female teenagers really are amusing." she joked, her voice seemed to echo with each word. My mother rolled her eyes with a smile while I playfully glared at the tiger..ess....
"Hey? Was that a shot at me??" I asked, melo-dramatically.
The three laughed and my mother overtook the conversation. "Kumiko, here, is a cursed spirit, Rei. Please excuse her."
My own laughter stopped as the tigeress held out her hand..I mean paw.. We shook, and I looked up into her eyes...her fur swaying slightly in the heavenly breeze. "Kumiko? Where have I heard your name before?" I asked.
She grinned a toothy smiled. "From the book your boyfriend pulled out about a month ago..I'm impressed that your great-grandfather was able to put it in there, Joren."
My father bowed. "Our family has always had a streak of defiance...though I do wish he'd put it under the war section and not the pig-farming one!"
"Well, now that she knows where I was from, I might as well explain it all, shall I?" she asked, and my parents leaned back around me as I watched the tiger intently...she must have been at LEAST two-thousand years old!
"Three thousand, two-hundred and twenty three, actually." Kumiko beamed and I blushed.
"No reading our daughters mind, now, Kumiko." my mother said, gently and the tiger nodded her head to her.
"Pardon me, Emi, but I couldn't resist." she joked, then became serious. "Rei, what I am about to tell you is a legend from your lands, as well as Faneilia's that has been in occurrence every one-hundred years. You see, Rei, thousands of years ago there was a feud." she flicked her tail and it seemed to draw a large orb that hovered in front of her. It grew larger and larger until it became almost a portal...and inside were images.
Rain was pouring down and it was dark, very dark. Two lone figures stood facing each other on a familiar terrain, seemingly unaware of the shifting weather around them as well as the crowds who were only faces in the dark and figures coloured in black.
"Fanelia and Tsurgani were at war. The fact is, nobody remembers what for, but all we know is that both of our prides' were at stake so there was to be one final battle. I was the chosen one from our village, Rei, and Tsurgani trusted me with it's greatest powers ever known to man...or woman, in our case. In Faneilia, Midori was the chosen person because she really was the strongest, as well as she was their leader. I was the leader too, you see, of Tsurgani. Anyways, the battle was set, and we faced each other...unbeknowst of what was to happen to us..."
I stared into the vortex before me and felt almost as if I was being pulled in...how is this possible?
Soon, I was standing on the sidelines, surrounded by black figures, as the rain poured down, yet I did not get wet. I looked up as I felt a familiar presence beside me...Kumiko was glaring at the battle before us as she stood at my side. "I never do like watching this, but it has to be done." she shrugs and we turn back to watch the battle...
On both sides were two women who were not only beautiful, but shimmering with determination...or it could have just been the rain. Even so, they raised their arms and shouted out an incantation of some sort. In an instant, the thunder from the clouds above us cracked as lightning streaked across the sky as the two transformed, in mists of gold and red, into a magnificant white tiger for Tsurgani, and the awed black and blue tiger of Fanelia.
My jaw dropped...this...this can't be happening! I mean, two people turning into TIGERS!!?? I mean SERIOUSLY!! If they were smart, they'd turn into robots!
Suddenly, white appeared around me and it seemed as though I was speeding through time..unable to see the entire battle. I pout and look at Kumiko who just grins at me. "Your doing this on purpose aren't you?"
"You betcha! Oh! Here we go...my most favourite part of the movie." she grumbled sarcastically, and I turned my golden eyes to watch.
The two tigers were tired, injured, and barely able to go on, yet they fought. I furrowed my eyebrows. "Why wouldn't one of you just fall?"
"Pride, Rei." I blinked and looked at Kumiko who was baring her teeth at the battle. "Neither of us was willing to give up our family or villages' pride and honour to the other. It's just the way both of them are and it runs in everyone's blood to this very day..it even runs in your veins, m'dear." she looked up at me with a knowing smile...and I immidiately thought back to the past two years...
I wouldn't give up when my parents were killed...when Kai and I were stuck in that virtual world...in the tunnels under Britain...and especially against Bryan, I wouldn't lose. I couldn't lose to him. It would have been dishonourable. And no matter how hurt I was, no matter how hard the experience had to be, I...didn't...give....up....
I looked over to Kumiko who I could see in her shining silver eyes was grinning like she already knew what I had thought of. "I thought my mother told you no reading my mind!!"
Silver eyes rolled, then turned serious as they watched the battle...my own golden ones followed hers... The gold and red mist was mixing now as the two tigers were nearly dead with exhaustion. Suddenly...they began to disappear, and a deep voice in the wind spoke....
"Every second year will these trapped souls inherit Tsurgani's and Fanalia's chosen ones...and every second generation will watch them battle until death, their freedom and souls taken away from all of you at young ages, until one is able to see past their own will to the will of others, and can let down what others might think. Only then will one win, and only then will your villages be set free of this curse!"
The shadows all around me seemed to move in fear, awe, and seemed to be terrified, and as the two tigers faded to oblivion, I found myself fading back to my spot beside my parents, panting. Looking up, I see Kumiko looking at me with her head tilted to one side, cutely, watching me. I sighed and looked at all of them...their fun-filled grins had been replaced with seriousness... "What does all this have to do with me?" I asked. "After all, you wouldn't bring me out of my sleep to heaven just for a visit, I heard from Driger that it was against the rules."
They all nodded and Kumiko decided to answer for my parents. "It is against the rules...but not to the chosen ones." I sighed...I can't believe I saw this coming. "For your generation, Rei, you are the chosen one." I could only stare at her and she nodded. "If you don't believe me, I can give you examples...the chosen ones are stronger than they appear. As well...have you noticed how trouble always seems to follow you around, Rei? How you don't go looking for it but it comes to you?"
My eyes widened...it always has! I've never asked for my problems, they'd always been handed to me on a tarnished platter. Kumiko smiled and strode over to me, placing her large, furry face in front of mine.
"The chosen ones always attract trouble like they were magnets...you are the chosen one, Rei. The one whom I am destined to share a body with and you will help me defeat Midori and Blake! It is both of our destinies, but it has been yours for eons...will you help me?"
I looked at her, then to my parents...then stood up and walked away a little before stopping...I can feel their eyes watching me...but still...
"Oh! And before I forget!!" I heard Kumiko's voice float back through my mind and I turned to face her. "You get one wish of anything you want."
I smirk. "A lot of good it'll do if I'm dead..." Everyone went silent as I thought out my answer...I turned to them with a small smile. "I'll do it."
Kumiko roared in approval and my parents hugged me while I blushed. "You won't regret this kid!! I can feel it....were going to win this time! With you on my side, puh, I can't lose!" she exclaimed bounding around the small field around us, making me blush even more.
Suddenly, I swayed and my mom smiled."Kai's trying not to...but he's walking around your room to close your window and screen door and making noise that's waking you up...you have to go hunny."
My eyes widened...I love Kai and all, but I don't want to leave my family!! I hold her closer. "But mommy...I don't want to go..."
She wiped a tear from her own eye and held me close. "I don't want you to either...but I will see you again someday, Rei. We'll see each other again." she kissed me as I felt myself falling into oblivion.
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Emi sniffled and held herself, where Rei's warm body had once been, and let a tear fall...yet she smiled and looked up at the white sky as the world around her shifted to night and the stars were visible, and as clear as day, shining brightly on their own. "We shall see each other again...but not today." She turned to Kumiko who was watching with no interest at all. "You're going to take care of my daughter, right?"
Kumiko nodded her magnificant head. "Of course. Nothing bad will happen to her..unless we lose...which we won't!!!"
Emi and Joren sweatdropped at the tiger...then spread their delicate angel wings and took to the sky, leaving Kumiko watching after them.
"If she gets hurt we will be coming for you, Kumiko!!" Joren's voice floated through the air, and the tiger anime fell.
"WHY ME!!!???" she exclaimed.
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Blue: hopefully I explained a lot of why everything has been happening to Rei, and what's been going on these days! I'm extremely sorry if I don't update...as Lunar seems to put it...for a lifetime ^^U but I AM going through a very rough time and I have been working on this chapter for months even if it is small and short, I've put all my heart into it and hopefully it's one of my better ones.
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