I don't own Beyblade, I own the Wonder Siblings and their bit beasts, also known as the three Mystics, and I own the storyline.
PRESENT HOPE
(A bit of a reunion, and lots of kids )
Last time: If you can't remember, you must have bad short-term memory. The bit beasts were attacked and forced into the human dimension, along with the protective force of their world known as the Central Star, AKA just 'the Star'. What will happen? Read on...
It was now morning, and the group of five human/bit beasts was sitting on the floor like animals, or more appropriately, how they were used to. Galux's tail flicked impatiently; their masters had forced them to be dressed in clothes, which they were definitely not used to- the material of the garments itched her skin.
The humans eyed their 'bit beasts', not really knowing what to say or do. Hell, they didn't even have proof that these really were their bit beasts!
"Go into your rooms, and look at your Beyblades bit chips," stated Driger simply, reading their minds. Ray blinked before complying; it seemed so weird to be ordered around by his own bit beast when he'd spent the majority of his years telling it what to do in battles...
Ray reached the room he and Mariah shared and the lock on the door across from theirs clicked open, revealing Trin. She yawned deeply and rubbed one of her eyes, while the other gazed questioningly at her father.
Trin was no longer small- she was nine, almost 10, but she still had that cute, childish aura glowing off her. Her bright red pigtails shimmered in the early morning light and curled down until they reached her waist. She had a pretty rounded face and pointed ears like her father, but unfortunately she seemed to have inherited her mother's impatience.
"What's wrong?" she snapped slightly, not really meaning to but not being able to help herself.
"Nothing..." Ray muttered, but he didn't sound terribly convincing. Trinity picked up the tone of guilt in his voice and glared.
"You suck at lying, Dad."
"I know..." Ray muttered, before walking into his room and staring pointedly at his bit chip.
Surprised to find it was a simple, clear, white colour without the White Tiger motif.
He literally fell stomach-down onto the bed and threw his hand out to grab Mariah's blade. Once he's managed to grab it, he flipped over onto his back to look at the bit chip. Sure enough, it was plain pink, with no mountain cat motif.
He pocketed both blades, before noticing his eldest daughter staring at him from the hallway.
He sighed and walked through the door, grabbing his daughter's hand in the process.
"Trinny, I need you to tell me something about these people in the lounge..."
Mariah's head jerked up when Ray and Trin entered the room. Ray was striding determinedly while yanking Trinity behind him, who was muttering something that sounded suspiciously like, "I am not a tool, I am not a tool..."
Trinity and her brother and sister despised showing their more 'special qualities', preferring to appear as normal as possible and only using their strength, or their ability to read the power of and talk to other bit beasts when absolutely necessary. Everyone assumed this was because they had grown up in times of peace, and that showing your friends that you were considered by some to be freaks of nature wasn't an essential key to survival.
Trinity had shut her eyes prior to this moment, but the golden orbs suddenly shot open when she caught notion of the 'bit-humans' strength levels. She surveyed the five animal-like humans in front of her, and frowned, obviously furious about something.
"What are you doing here? You are supposed to be guarding the Star!"
"What's the point?" questioned Dragoon.
"Our dimension has been taken over," sighed Galux.
"But don't worry... we found a safe place for the Star to reside," Driger stated, and all five bit-beasts gazes flickered momentarily to Ray and Mariah, who flinched very slightly at the sudden attention.
"Would you like to tell us exactly what's going on here?" asked Ray. Driger blinked and nodded sagely.
"Fine, I'll tell you."
Kai sat across from the four confused-looking glowing human shape things that were sitting on the more comfortable couch.
But they weren't human.
Trinity had known that straight off.
They were bit beasts.
Or, to be more accurate, their bit beasts; the three Mystics and Dranzer.
All three of the cat bit beasts had long hair, which was ginger, except Mysticia's, which was white, so it appropriately matched the colour of his, and indeed, all four of the bit beasts skin. All of them had black stripes through their hair, but these did not travel in a straight line. They zigzagged and curved in all directions, no none of the three were the same, and also marking their obvious decent from Driger. All three had blazing aquamarine eyes and rosette-dotted tails and ears, poking through their thick, unruly mops of hair. The two female bit beasts were tiny compared to their male next-of-kin. All three of them looked completely wild and had extremely long nails, which looked more like claws or talons.
However, Dranzer was the complete opposite to the three feline bit beasts sitting next to him. His fiery red tresses, although quite unkempt, were cut so they only reached halfway down his neck. His frame was neither large nor small, but he still radiated strength like the cat bit beasts next to him did not. His eyes were a ferocious orange colour, which shimmered and flickered in the light like fire. His nails were not long, in fact quite the opposite, but his fingers and toes seemed a little too long to make you believe he was truly human. His skin was the same creamy, shimmering white as the rest of the bit beasts.
Kai continued surveying these creatures, and they continued staring at him, unsure of what to make of the first human they'd truly met. Trinity entered the room, with the twins following her.
The twins, who were seven years old, weren't exactly the spitting image of either of their parents. The boy, it could be said, was more closely associated with his father. He had the same lone wolf nature, the dark red eyes, the dark blue hair, the non-caring, sour expression and his general dislike for 99 percent of things. He was also taller than his twin sister, who was rather small.
The girl had the slate-coloured hair from the front of her father's head, golden eyes and pointed ears. She was thin and rather short, but had the angelic, rounded face of her mother, which was nothing short of deceiving; she had earned herself a reputation for being a bit of a handful, which was definitely true. Compared to his sister, the boy was Jesus Christ himself. However, the thing that the twins had in common was the shark-fin tribal markings they needed to signify relation to their father, and eventually, in six years time, they would have the White Tiger Clan paws tattooed onto them also.
Stella noticed her mistress' entrance into the room and gave a fanged grin, which Trinity returned.
Kai had known they were going to arrive; according to Trinity the bit beast dimension was a terrible state, due to attacks from artificial humans and their artificial bit beasts. No one had any idea how they could have hacked into the frequency of the bit beast dimension, let alone how they survived there. The gravity in that dimension was apparently enough to crush a normal human like a bug.
"I want to know where the others ended up," snapped Dranzer, obviously addressing Trinity, who blinked placidly.
"How exactly do you expect me to know any better than you do?" she asked, and got an angry orange glare in return. She flopped down next to Kai and leaned her head against his shoulder. He had barely moved throughout the whole ordeal, aside from blinking and breathing.
"Dranzer is here," Kai, stated, "So are the three Mystics. At what age did you obtain Stella?"
"When I was fourteen, if I remember correctly," replied Trinity.
"Well, that means that your counterpart in the past would not yet have her bit beast. Neither would your brother and sister's counterparts."
Forsaking the promise they had both made, they had never returned to the past for casual visits. They had intended to, but had become caught up in the Crystal Senshi ranks, which they had been given the presidency to when Ray and Mariah had retired, plus the twins, who had been more than they could handle. Kai's own time had become a distant memory to him.
"Which could basically equal out to the fact that the others have been sent to the past," muttered Trinity.
"Maybe we should go back and check..." Kai said, trailing off at the end, finally realizing how long it had actually been.
Trinity nodded against his shoulder.
"Maybe we should..."
Ray sat with Mariah on the couch, fondly stroking her hand, which was intertwined with his, with his thumb. Trinity sat at the table, her toes hanging about fifteen centimeters from the ground, munching her way through some form of sugar-doused cereal. Kirra sat at the table, twirling her left index finger around in her pink hair and using her other hand to hold the spoon, which was poking at her food. Marth sat, his toes a long way from the ground contentedly munching on the crust of a piece of toast and jam. Max and Emily's daughter, Amy, sat next to him, her blonde pigtails bouncing off the table in an almost disgustingly adorable fashion. She'd definitely taken after her father; blonde hair, blue eyes, puppy-dog nature, purple top and jeans and clean white joggers. Being the only child, she was naturally doted on by her parents something severe.
The happy scene was somewhat shattered when Galux skidded under the breakfast table on all fours, trying to escape from Driger, who was apparently trying to catch the small mountain cat in a playful game of tag. Marth was tossed in the air when his chair left the ground and was overturned, but he landed perfectly on his feet, and simply stood his chair up properly and reclaimed his place atop of it.
Galux and Driger had managed to muster enough power to change back into their animal forms temporarily, and were surprisingly fast, considering the obstacles they had to dodge. Driger was falling behind, so he raised his right paw, stretching it out as if aiming at Galux, and then withdrawing his claws and setting his paw back on the ground in one swift gesture. Galux suddenly stopped and was seemingly knocked to the ground by an invisible force. Mariah's eyes widened, because even after a minute her bit beast did not regain it's footing, or indeed try to get up at all. Driger's eyes bugged out slightly and his ears became pinned to his head, giving him the look of a scared animal. He slowly crawled over and tapped Galux softly with his paw. The electric blue eyes shot open and Galux's teeth latched down onto Driger's outstretched limb. The white tiger snarled in irritation more than anything and managed to shake the mountain cat's grip. She grinned in a catlike way and began running up the hallway again, with Driger snarling in mock-determination and beginning to chase after her.
Ray and Mariah laughed at the bit-beasts playful antics and Mariah snuggled closer to Ray.
When the Elders had arrived back in their village, they immediately went through the roof, because in their tradition, one child out of wedlock was bad. Two was blasphemy, and that was the number of children they had at that time. So Mariah and Ray became engaged, but had never got married as of yet. The wedding date was set for exactly 2 weeks away, but goodness knows, something always happened to disrupt their plans.
Hopefully this time it would be all right.
Galux and Driger had just returned in their almost human forms, still walking on all fours however, as they had not yet grasped the concept of walking on two legs. Tyson and Dragoon were mutated into uncomfortable looking positions as they tried to sleep.
Trinity yawned in a bored manor, jumping off her chair and gesturing for the others to do the same. Amy looked down, terrified of the velocity of the jump. To be fair, it was pretty high up for a seven year old. Marth grabbed her hand and helped her down and she smiled in return. A light blush crept into Marth's cheeks as he muttered that it was really no problem. (AN: Our Marthie's a 'lil gentleman .)
"We're going outside to hang out," Trinity shouted to her parents, who nodded. Nothing could really threaten their safety in the village anymore, so they could allow them out in daylight all the time without risk.
The four children ran through the front door and out into the sunlight.
Kai's mahogany eyes surveyed the scene of the White Tiger Clan's village.
"It's in a much peaceful state than what we left it in," he commented, his eyes flickering to Trinity who nodded in agreement while trying to prevent her daughter from charging down the hill at top speed and entering the village. Kai's son stood next to his father in an identical pose- arms folded across the chest, world-hating look adorning his face.
"Come on! Let's go let's go let's go!" the female child of Kai and Trinity panted in a hyperactive fashion, desperately trying to loosen the grip her mother had on the collar of her shirt. Trinity looked at Kai inquiringly and he nodded.
"Let's go."
"About time," said the male snapped, starting to stride down the hill.
Meanwhile, Mariah and Ray were basically sitting around doing nothing in particular, seeing that is was one of those lazy Sundays on which you just want to sit around and enjoy the company of the ones you love.
And they were doing this with a large amount of efficiency.
In fact, if Ray hadn't heard someone's voice yelling out their names, they would have been very content to stay in their bedroom and 'enjoy each other's company'.
"This had better be good," Ray snarled in a manor that suggested he'd rather be with his fiancé than answering the door. He was hastily trying to wrap himself up in his dressing gown to disguise his... lack of clothing, shall we say.
He swung the door open, starting to speak without even looking at who it was, standing in front of him.
"Excuse me, but why the Hell are you interrupting me? I am kind of preoccupied at the moment, so could you possibly piss off and save me the trouble? I don't do autographs, my professional beyblade career ended ten years ago and no, I do not want to take part in a special exhibition match and neither does my fiancé so GO AWAY AND LEAVE US AND OUR KIDS ALONE!"
"Gee, that's a rather rude thing to say to your old team captain."
Ray actually considered paying attention at that point, and realized it was indeed his old team captain.
"Kai! How have you been? I haven't seen you in ages!" Ray said as the old friends hugged each other. (AN: You know... that guyish pat-on-the-back kind of hug)
"I've been busy," Kai admitted. "You and Mariah left me and Trinity as presidents of the family company."
"Well I apologize for that," Ray said sarcastically.
"Don't bother. Apologies are for over-emotional fools."
Ray then looked left and in a slightly downward direction, to notice the dark-blue haired boy with cold mahogany eyes staring back at him.
"You look like my grandfather," the boy commented matter-of-factly.
"That's because he is," Kai replied to his son's statement in an identical matter-of-fact tone.
"So that's your kid with Trinity, huh?" Ray leaned down slightly, eying the kid off.
"That's right. Trin's gone to catch the other one..."
"You have two kids?" Ray questioned.
"They were twins. They came as a two for one deal."
Trinity suddenly rounded the corner, carrying her hyperactive light-blue haired, golden-eyed daughter.
"Mum! I just wanted to go play with the other kids! It's not my fault they were scared of me!" the girl complained.
Trinity frowned down at her daughter, shaking her head in bemusement at the girl's hyperactivity.
"That's my daughter," Kai stated, pointed to the person in question.
"Do they happen to have names?"
Kai gestured to the boy.
"Kurai."
Then the girl.
"Lita."
Ray nodded and the names, and then questioned their ages.
"They would be a few months younger than Kirra, in this timeline," Trinity said.
"So where's Mariah? I assume she was the fiancé you were referring to."
"She's... waiting for me. I'll go and get her," came the reply, and Ray dashed back into the room he and Mariah shared.
Mariah was lying stomach down on the bed, smirking at him as he walked in.
"Took your time."
"There's a good reason."
"And what might that be?" Mariah smiled, sitting up to poke Ray playfully in the stomach.
"Kai and Trinity have come to visit."
Mariah's jaw dropped, but she very quickly regained her composure and blushed at her own overreaction.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?"
Ray nodded, pulling Mariah out of the bed and passing her, her own nightgown, which had been haphazardly discarded to the floor.
"Yes it has. But I think you'll be surprised what has happened in this time."
"What do you mean?"
"It appears we have become grandparents."
Mariah wasn't exactly thrilled to be called a grandparent at 29 years of age. Who would? But she was happy to meet her 'grandchildren' anyway. However, she couldn't hope but notice they were both rather... strange. It seemed horrible to say that, after raising three children who were 'strange' in their own right also, but the two kids seemed to be complete opposites of each other and exploited their personalities extensively.
"So what's been happening to you lately?" Kai questioned, sounding abnormally inquisitive.
"Well, our bit beasts appeared out of no where as humans and scared the shit through us all," Mariah said sarcastically.
"Same happened to us," Trinity said.
"What?"
"Our bit beasts- the three Mystics and Dranzer appeared from nowhere..."
"But technically you should know why this happened?" Mariah questioned suspiciously.
"No clue." The answer was level, no to quick or too slow... and yet... Mariah was suspicious.
"Our bit beasts told us that their dimension had been attacked by artificial human beings and their bit beasts and they needed somewhere safe to hide... but they also mentioned something about a star..." Ray muttered under his breath.
"I don't know what's going on. Honestly."
"Fine, I'll take your word for it," Ray said, still dissatisfied but forcing himself to be content with the information he had.
Suddenly, the front door swung open and the three young Kon children plus the one young Mizuhara child strode into the room. Max and Emily had returned to their own house by now, and Mariah had to tell Amy to go back there instead. But the child had already figured it out for herself.
"Mummy and Daddy have gone back home."
"Yes, they have."
"I'll go back later. I wanna stay here and play."
Trinity suddenly caught sight of her older self and Kai.
"Well, well, well... if it ain't old Sourpuss himself."
Kai gave little Trin a look that looked somewhat like this: ¬¬
"You still remember that, huh?"
"Yup. And you're my older self."
Trinity nodded, and little Trin smiled.
"And all this time, I was afraid I was gonna end up looking like Dad!"
Ray gave his daughter a look that looked somewhat like this: Òó
Trin smiled. "I was just kidding, Daddy."
"Yeah. Sure you were..."Ray said, still frowning.
All three Kon children were caked with mud. Kirra smiled and jumped directly onto her father's stomach, winding him.
"Guess what Daddy? Me and Trin and Amy and Theo found these people we don't like, so we pelted them with mud!"
Ray sighed. This meant another phone call from the Elders about insubordinate children.
"We'd best be getting back," Kai stated.
"But you just got here!" Mariah exclaimed.
"We're kind of busy these day," explained Trinity.
"Well... there's not much you can do about that, but if you could, please come to our wedding. It's exactly two weeks from this date and we'd be really grateful if you could make it," Mariah said. There was a pleading note in her voice.
Trinity smiled. "I'll keep that date free on the calendar."
Mariah nodded gratefully, and snuggled closer to Ray. Trinity noticed the ring on her mother's finger and her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"The diamond in that ring could choke a panda!" Trinity exclaimed, with a sense of bemusement.
"Don't you have one yet?" Mariah said, giving Kai the evil eye.
"No, because he's slack," Trinity smirked, poking Kai's shoulder. Kai humphed but retained a smile on his face.
"At least it's nice to have something to look forward to, right?"
Trinity rolled her eyes.
Meanwhile, Trinity was staring at the two seven year olds who were literally her children.
"You're who?"
"We're Kurai and Lita."
"You're weird," said Amy in the tradition dumb-blonde style.
"You're not too regular yourself!" Kurai snarled back.
"Come on kids, it's time to go." Kurai and Lita nodded at their father's command and followed obediently behind their parents. As they walked out the door the four children that were of that time stuck their tongues out at their backs. Kurai and Lita turned around and Kurai glared. Lita simply looked downhearted.
"Don't do that."
The twins then strode out of the door, leaving all four remaining children utterly bemused.
"I do not like the idea of leaving our humans on their own these days," Galux stated darkly.
"It is not out job to interfere with their personal lives and business. We are here to protect the star when it arrives." Driger's tail smacked against the dusty ground stirring up and small cloud of red-coloured dirt.
Galux slunk over to Driger on all fours and rubbed against him in a very cat-like way.
"We don't know when that is going to happen."
"By the look of your mistress it will not happen any time soon."
Dragoon suddenly appeared behind them, being able to stand on his hind legs being the advantage he had over his comrades.
"Has anything happened in my absence?"
"No. All has been at peace."
"They are obviously still trapped in our dimension."
"I pray the others got out unharmed."
"We cannot guarantee that happened, however."
"Time tells all."
"We shall just have to wait, then," Dragoon commented.
The three bit beasts continued to watch over their masters from a distance. They knew what they had gotten themselves into, and what the consequences would be for both human and beast. All was peaceful at the moment, but...
How were five, nine if you counted the ones that were not of this time, going to stop the oncoming storm?
Hiromi makes her violent debut into this series and causes some serious damage to Tyson's physical and mental well-being next time!
