I peeked through the slits in my eyes before deciding that it was morning and the light was too bright to be normal. After blinking a lot to clear my eyes a bit I saw that the blinds were open.

'Where am I? Why can't I control what I'm doin'? Where is this room?'

I turned to my right to glance at the luminous clock on the bedside table. '11:41AM? How the heck did Ah sleep in so late? I changed and went downstairs.

"Morning sleepy head."

'A woman's voice…'

"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" I mumbled back.

'Could it be?'

"You looked so peaceful sleeping like that." she said with a smile on her lips.

'It can't…' This woman had long, curly, dark brown hair which fell down to the middle of her back and her eyes nearly matched her hair perfectly for colour except they were a touch lighter.

I prepared my breakfast and thought about what I could do for the day ahead. 'The park maybe? Or just some more explorin'?' After eating, I walked lazily back to my room to get my beyblade and a jumper just in case it got colder.

'Is this my bedroom?' This time I had more time to 'look' around the room even thought I couldn't control where I looked. My bed (I guess) was right up against the bottom right corner. The posters stuck onto the wall were mostly of people from movies. Female people. Although not all of stuff on the wall were about movies. Others were drawings, mainly of one guy. They seemed kind of decent except that for some reason he had a tail. Underneath him there was some sort of signature that said FF IX - Zidane. The walls behind them were painted an aqua blue. There were books everywhere; they were lying on the floor, on the table, even on the bed.

As I walked down the stairs I half shouted, "Mum! Ah goin' ou' now! See ya later!"

'Mum? I can't…I can't believe it. Then…this is a memory. But I thought…I though practically all of my memories was erased?'

"Okay." I heard her say behind me as I left.

As soon as I got outside I scanned the skies to see what the weather was like. Dark. That's what the sky looked like. There were heavy looking clouds, which seemed to bring the smell of rain. I didn't mind. I was used to it as it is since I was from Scotland.

'So wha' Geode said was spot-on. I'm from Scotland…'

But what everyone said wasn't true. We do actually have sun and it doesn't rain every single day. What is true is that you should never trust the weather people. They never seemed to get the readings right.

I walked about aimlessly for a bit, not thinking what I should do. I just let my feet go wherever they wanted. I had stuffed my hands in my jumper, which I had put on when the wind began to get stronger. Out of habit when I did this, I had my beyblade in one of my hands and my fingers traced the edges and grooves of my 'blade. Like I said. I wasn't looking where I was going.

'Is this what I used to be like before…? Should I be goin' in this part of town?'

I didn't notice that I had come to a new area that I hadn't explored before. There was no one about. Not even any parked cars. I guess that was because of the threat of rain. The street looked like a ghost town. I sighed. I just kept on going in the same direction as I did before wondering if I kept on going I might end up somewhere I had been before. I heard the rumble of a car engine just behind me. I didn't think anything of it. I then heard the click of a door opening and two people stepping out.

'No. This can't be happening! Please say it didn't…'

 Then the soft tapping of rain came to my ears. Finally. After about two hours warning it had finally come. Something to remind me of what I had left behind. I heard the sharp tap of the peoples' shoes on the pavement. They were coming straight for me. I moved out of the way so that they could pass as it sounded like they were in a hurry.

'Nononononononono! It couldn't have happened like this!'

It was too late before I noticed that when I moved the sound of the footsteps changed to become parallel to mine. By now they were right on top of me when I felt someone's arms grab me tightly around my waist. As I sharply turned to see who it was, simultaneously I felt the sharp jab of something enter the top of my arm. As soon as that had happened I felt the strength of my legs just disappear. I barely had enough strength to keep my eyes open let alone yell for help. That was my last thought before my world turned hazy and then…total darkness.

* * *

My eyes sprang open as soon as the memory had stopped 'playing'. 'Ah can't believe it. Is that how it all started? That was when everything in my life changed?' I raked my hand through my hair before sitting up and leaning on the wall behind the mattress before I continued with my thoughts. 'But why now? Why does it look like my memories are coming back?  Ah thought, tha' everythin' was permanent? My powers and my now non-existent-but-suddenly-coming- back memories. Shouldn't that mean, if my memories are coming back then wouldn't my powers start to fade? Trilox? Wha' do you think?'

'Ah honestly dunno. But if you're powers are goin' to fade then you wouldn't be able to talk to me…'

'What?!'

'Duh. If your powers fade, your power is that you can talk to me so duh!' there was an edge in his voice that I'd never heard before.

'Trilox. What's wrong? Jeez! You've never been this sarcastic before.'

* Sigh * 'It's nothing. It's just that if your power is goin' to fade then I'm gonna be sooo bored 'coz Ah won't have anyone to talk to.'

'Uh, hello? Wha' about me? Ah won't either.'

'Uh, hello? There are other humans in this room other than you. Me on the other hand, Ah can only talk to you 'coz your weird.'

'……Thanks.'

'Heh. You're welcome. But still, you're the only person Ah've been able to talk to ever since I "woke up" in 'The Haunted Mansion' or whatever those kids call it.

'The Modern Castle.' I corrected.

'Fine, like Ah said, whatever it's called.'

'Man, I just hope that it's just my memories are comin' back an' that's all that's happenin'.'

'Don't we all.'

"Shadow?" looking up I saw that it was Geode who was now awake. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"It's nuthin'."

It didn't look like he bought it. "Uh-huh. Shouldn't you get some more sleep? You were the last person to fall asleep after all."

"Um, how'd you know that I was the last person to get to sleep?"

"When you and Talon came upstairs, Blaze and Zero had already gone to dozed off and I was just about to. Talon fell asleep pretty much straight away and just as I was about to drop off you were still awake so that's everythin´." He explained.

"Oh." It was silent for a few moments since we didn't know what to say to each other.

"So what happened to you last night?" he enquired.

I shifted uncomfortably as I tried to remember what I had told Talon last night. "Ah got lost. It took me quite a bi' of time to find ma way back." 'And Ah found some more stuff out about myself as well.'

"But I thought you knew how to get back?"

"Yeah well, I'd wandered 'round 'bout the place so that must've wuz when Ah got lost." Zero stirred quietly beside me.

"I guess the others are gonna wake up pretty soon." He said in a soft voice.

"Yeah." Again the room lapsed into silence.

"Could I ask you a question?" he asked suddenly. I nodded while I also had a feeling of déjá vu. "How long have you lived in 'The Modern Castle' for?"

It didn't even take me under a minute to remember. "Somethin' like two years." I didn't realize what that sounded like until it left my mouth.

"Two years." he repeated. "So where were you before you stayed there?"

"Uh… Ah don't remember." I said truthfully. "Ah've got amnesia." I explained quickly before he could say anything.

"Got…? You still have amnesia even after all that time?"

"Yeah."

"Were you were livin' in there to try and recover your memories?" he asked. I shook my head. "What are you guys talkin' about?" So much for having a private talk.

"Mornin' to you too Blaze." Geode said instead of answering her question.

"Fine." She said while rolling her eyes. "If you guys don't want to spill about your 'guy talk' to us girls then keep it to yourself. What do you plan on doin' today then?"

"What do you feel like doin'?"

"Well that's why I was askin' you. I don't know either."

That's when Zero decided to wake up with a groan. "Put out the light! I wanna go back to sleep!" he complained, at the same time groping at his cover to envelop his head. Hearing this, both Geode and Blaze laughed quietly.

"Zero, there isn't a light on. Unless you're saying that we can somehow put out the sun with a thought but I somehow doubt it." Blaze said lightly.

"It doesn't mean that I don't wanna get up though." He replied groggily. "Okay, okay, I'm up. You don't have to wake me up forcefully."

"Wha' abou' Talon?" I asked. "Ah don't wanna wake her up again. Mainly 'coz Ah have a feelin' that she'd prolly bite my head off or somethin' like that if Ah'm the one who wakes her up." I said nervously.

"Don't worry." Answered Zero. "She'd do that to whoever woke her up. Or she'd do that because we left her behind here. Whatever happens she's usually in a bad mood in the mornin'."

"I DO NOT do that every single day!" came an indignant retort. Everyone smiled at this.

"Of course not. There's only been about one day when you've woken up on time." Talon sat up and rubbed her head.

"There has to be more days than that." she muttered.

"Nope. I'd remember since that would be ground-breakin' stuff to find out that you've woken up on time. Anythin' else?"

"Could you guys please stop makin' fun of me just because I can't get up as easily as you?" she grumbled.

"We can't help it. It's because it's so easy to wind you up in the morning." Talon mumbled something incoherently in return.

"What was that?" Blaze asked teasingly.

"Nothing that I would like to repeat."

"So what are we goin' to do today then?" Geode asked, raising the question to everyone. Nearly everyone shrugged to it. "In that case, how about we have a little beybattle tournament?" At that comment Talon groaned.

"They always end up the same though! You always beat everybody so what's the point?"

"Yeah, but this time there's a difference. Isn't there Shadow?" he said craftily. When Blaze caught on she smirked.

"It looks like there's goin' to be a showdown between the two of you. And we all remember what the outcome was last time don't we?"

"Heh. And this time I'm lookin' for a rematch!" Geode said with glint in his eye. "This time you aren't goin' to surprise me with your bitbeast. This time you're goin' down my friend!"

I smiled slightly at his antics to intimidate me. "Wasn't it that kinda attitude that lost you the match the last time?" I asked him innocently.

"Uh…No comment." At this every body laughed, including me. It felt good to express my feelings like this instead of hiding them.

"Oh my god!" Startled, I looked towards Talon who was staring at me. "You actually laughed! You're happy!" she shrieked.

"Uh…" For some reason everyone started laughing even harder.

"Well, he was happy. Now he's back to being confused because of your daft behaviour as per usual." Zero gasped in between his sniggering.

"Do Ah a'ways look confused to you guys?" I quizzed them.

"Yup. Either that or sort of perplexed when her mood changes. Which as you know is about every ten minutes or you could even count it in seconds." Blaze said with a snort.

"Hey!"

I stared up at the ceiling for a moment as I mulled over what she said. "Ah thought confused an' perplexed meant the same thing?"

"Um." Blaze shrugged. "Perplexed has more of a hint of agitation than confusion. That's what I think of it anyways."

"Not to go off this rather interestin' conversation but how about that beyblade contest? I wanna see the face off between Geode and Shadow." Interrupted Talon.

"Don't presume that they're goin' to be the finalists straight away. There could be surprises." Zero remarked.

Blaze shook her head. "The positions are always the same. Geode gets first place and I get second. The only difference is who gets third and last place."

"But like Geode said, this time Shadow's joining in." Zero said.

"Anyways, are we goin' to talk about who's goin' to win or are we goin' to actually find out?"

"There's a small problem though." I interjected. "We can't do this in pairs because there's five people here. So how are we supposed to do this?"

"…" They were stumped on what to do.

"We could do an eliminator round I suppose. We all launch our blades at the same time and it ends when two peoples blades have stopped spinning or have been knocked out of the dish. The first two people to lost will then battle it out to get third and last place." Geode said slowly. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Sounds good enough."

"So lets get started already!"

* * *

"Okay! Three…two…one! Let it riip!"

At that moment we all yanked the ripcords out of our launchers. Instantly they all crashed into each other in the middle. There wasn't enough time to whose beyblade belonged to each other but the colours that I could see were silver (which was mine), black (that was Geode's), green, purple and red.

"Attack!" The others said in unison.

There was a clash as all of our 'blades met in the middle of the beydish. As soon as the blades were pushed back from the force of their attack they began to weave in and out of each other attacking and defending in the same breath as they tried to put somebody out and stay in the dish at the same time. It's not that easy when you're trying to focus your attack on somebody's beyblade when someone else slams into you. The beyblade's were moving so fast that the colours were staring to blur and sometimes when they collided the colours would mix along with having a flurry of sparks as well. Even after a couple of seconds it was easy to see which 'blades were beginning to struggle. It was the green and purple beyblade's, which I then assumed must have been Zero's and Talon's.

'Trilox?'

"Dodge it!" I heard someone shout.

'Uh-huh? Which one do you want me to target?'

"Ha! There's no way you can run away!" I heard somebody else crow.

'Hmm. Go for the purple one. That one seems to be havin' the most trouble-'

"Shadow!" I jerked up from my conversation with Trilox. "There's no way you're goin' to get leave this battle without a few scratches on your 'blade!" Geode half shouted.

'Okay, scratch that! I'd say you've got to defend yourself against Geode. I don't want you tiring out or gettin' completely trashed before the last match, if we get there.'

"Have you blanked out on us?!"

'Of course we'll get there.' Trilox growled. 'Ah'm jus' goin' to power through them all to get away from Geode.'

Someone laughed. "I think he's just really focused on the match!"

'Okay.'

That said Trilox ran though the mini match between the red and green 'blade with Geode on his 'heels'. Where the purple one went I had no idea.

"Ya! Shadow, you nearly knocked my 'blade over!" Zero yelled.

'Trilox can you see where that purple ones disappeared to? 'Coz Ah don't think it's been knocked out for some reason.'

'Hang on a minute. They've decided to band together against us to make sure we have some 'scratches'.'

"Now!"

'How'd you kn-'

There was a bang as three beyblades simultaneously attacked Trilox.

'Does that answer your question?!' Shaking my head I let Trilox manage it on his own. Just as I thought, he attacked the green one first.

"Talon? Where's your beyblade?" I asked her.

She gave me a mischievous smile. "And why should I say? I want it to be a surprise." She said mysteriously. Not knowing what to say to her I turned back to Trilox's battle.

'How's it goin'?'

"Attack him again!"

'Ah honestly have no idea. Ah think that-Ouch!' The ouch was because Blaze's 'blade (I think) slammed into him at that particular moment.

'Okay, Trilox, dodge to your left as soon as Geode attacks and then attack him when his defence is down. Like what you did last time.'

"Attack!"

'Got'cha.'

Unfortunately Geode was faster than what we anticipated so when he charged at Trilox he was still able to knock into him. Still, Trilox was able to attack Geode from behind. Except we both forgot about Blaze. When Trilox attacked Geode, Blaze attacked Trilox. But she misjudged on how much power she used and because of this she sent Trilox speeding out of that battle and into the green beyblade, which seemed to be doing nothing. Rather unintentionally Trilox shoved it out of the beydish.

"Aw man!" Someone muttered. So I was right that it was Zero's 'blade. "Huh? Where's Talon's 'blade?"

'Too true. Trilox?'

"What? Where is it? Is that it?"

'She isn't out of it yet. Ah can hear another beyblade but Ah can't see it like the rest o' you.'

"Talon where is it?"

'Hmm, I wonder…'

"Not tellin'!"

'What?'

"Now! Attack now!"

There was a crash when the purple beyblade just materialized and slammed into the red beyblade knocking it out.

"What?!" Blaze screeched. "No way!"

"Yees!" Talon pumped the air. "Whoo-ho!"

"So, the next match is goin' to be between me, Shadow and Talon."

"Gee, I wonder who's goin' to get knocked out?" Talon said sarcastically.

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And that's another chapter finished. I really hope the italics and bold worked or else you guys are going to be even more confused! I had so much fun writing that Beybattle! Also, I'm thinking about a new fic that I could be writing up but I'm not sure if I should do it. It's about what could have happened if Tyson at the end of the first series didn't defeat Kai. So should I do it?

Anyways, for my reviewers:

Dudems; Um, I'm not sure if that was confining but…I has a slightly dilemma because you wanted longer chapters whereas Wingcanine wanted them to stay the same. This chapter ended up longer anyway.

Wingcanine; Lol. Try coffee or something.

So please review!

Dark ice Dragon