Shaedowe: I just realized that I forgot to do the disclaimer in many of my chapters. Sorry about that... don't sue me... puppy dog face

Shaedowe: I don't own Beyblade. ears droop Don't remind me. sad


"Hush little Jadey don't say a word, 'cause I'm gonna wake you up to a big fat... burp..." Jade was startled out of a bizarre dream where she was an ant lost in a maze of mirrors.

"Wha-"

"Hello Jade."

It was night.

Great, she had established the time, now for the source of the sound.

She turned her head. It was Arrience.

"Arrience? What are you-?" Jade exclaimed.

Arrience moved her hand over to Jade's mouth and covered it gently. "No no no little Jade, hasn't anyone ever told you that you talk far too much? And far too loudly?" She whispered into Jade's left ear, her breath hot on Jade's cold cheek.

Arrience released her hand and tugged her over to the window. "The chief need your help now, little Jade."

Startled out of her sleep, Jade was more cranky than usual. "Oh, and let me guess, you're his little messenger come to enlist the great warrior's help."

Arrience ignored her. "Don't flatter yourself." She muttered.

Jade shook herself from her mental state of half-asleep-ness and concentrated on Arrience's words.

"Derek will tell you everything after you meet him. Everything that you have to know, that is. My task is to bring you to the Transportation Point. Then, tata. " Jade was through a maze of staircases and corridors – that looked suspiciously like her dream - and into the open for a minute or two before her brain kicked-start and she started to realize that she was on the rooftop.

"There." Arrience pointed to a spot on the rooftop. Jade hesitated. She had no idea what she was supposed to do.

Rolling her eyes, Arrience shoved her onto the spot and Jade gasped. Her legs were feeling like jelly, and her body started to convulse. Slowly, she glanced down and found her legs slowly disappearing. "Wha-?"

"Colloid Illusion. You're now, technically, a colloid. It doesn't matter if you don't know what I colloid is, because I don't know either, and I'm still one of Derek's most trusted spies. And you'll appear in... Derek's lab. So, bye. Have fun." The last two words were accompanied by a cynical grin, as if she knew something that Jade didn't. It was obvious actually. She did know. Arrience knew almost everything. And Jade was clueless.

She grew grumpy again.

On the other hand, maybe Arrience's great Derek could clear up some stuff. He'd better. She mused silently. He'd better.

And, ironically, the last she saw of Arrience before her head went the same way as her body was her grin.

A grin sadistically similar to that of the Cheshire cat's.


Reave knew she shouldn't have stayed out too late. If she hadn't then this wouldn't have happened. It was all Kai's fault. It was plain that he was wrong, but he wouldn't admit it. Stupid dumb arrogant, Mr-couldn't-care-less-and-I'm-always-right-you're-always-wrong. Well now, he was the one in the wrong.

If she hadn't stayed out too late – and she hadn't listened to stupid-dumb-arrogant-couldn't-care-less-and-I'm-always-right-you're-always-wrong Kai – then stupid-dumb-arrogant-couldn't-care-less-and-I'm-always-right-you're-always-wrong Arrience wouldn't be perched on Jade's empty bed like a cat, grinning like the Cheshire cat.

Reave knew there was a reason she had always hated cat, from since when she was young. She just couldn't figure out the reason. Now she had one.

Reave pretended that Arrience sitting on her best friend's bed was a daily occurrence and ignored her, saying a light 'hi' to her as she passed to get to her own bed.

Arrience made a tutting sound. "You're getting old Reave. Look at your hand. It's shaking, which plainly means you're angry. Boy, are you plain easy to read. You didn't use to be like this, what happened? Did going out with cute little Kai muddle up your brains or something? Or is it-?"

Reave yawned and flopped onto her own bed, cutting Arrience off in mid-sentence. Or mid-question. "Whatever."

Arrience looked miffed to be ignored. "Don't you want to say something? Like about this bed? Like where jade is? Like what the deal is about the nightmares? Like why am I here? Like-?"

Reave glowered at her. Yes, she very much wanted to because, despite her cool, cold, calm, I-know-everything-there-is-to-know exterior, she didn't know anything much actually, not much more than Kai did at least, and she wasn't cool, calm nor cold. Nada. Nil. Zilch.

But she wasn't so ready to give up her reputation, not least in front of a phony like Arrience.

Grimacing, she asked. "Yeah? Ok then, since you're so eager, why don't you answer all those questions." Hey, nobody was perfect, not least her.

Arrience shook her head disapprovingly. "Manners, Reave, my dear. Manners."

Reave ground her teeth and turned away. She had already admitted defeat by giving in to Arrience. That was her first mistake. She wasn't going to make another mistake. And she definitely wasn't going to call Arrience 'uncle'.

She folded her arms and snorted. "That is way below the line, Arrience. Who taught you to be so damn cocky?"

Smugly, Arrience grinned. Cleary, she had been waiting for this question. Although it wasn't exactly phrased the way she would have preferred, she took it that Reave was asking about her Master.

"Derek, that's who. Surprised, my dear Reave?"

Reave couldn't suppress the look of surprise that appeared on her face a few seconds after the word. Derek? It was impossible. It couldn't be.

She thought vaguely of something she had told Jade. "The word impossible is only in the dictionary of fools."

But Derek-?

Derek was dead.


Hmm, this chapter is pretty short in my opinion but that's the result of not updating for so long I guess. Review please? puppy dog eyes

Myishi: You are soooooo childish, you know that shaedowe? snorts

Shaedowe: Oh, go away. You're no fun.

Myishi: Ouch, that really hurts, coming from you.