A/N: Revised Chapter 6 is officially up

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Chapter 6

It was a little later that very same morning that they arrived to the next world. It looked to be a tropical jungle with a waterfall on the bottom and a tree house on top. "Hey, maybe your friend Kairi is down there Rei!" Tyson said, pointing down at the world. Rei frowned.

"In a backwater place like that? No way. We're moving on." He growled. "Hold on," Said Bryan. "We won't know unless we check it out." Rei's eyes slitted. "Forget it." He snapped back.

"Just land!" Tyson insisted.

"No!" Rei yelled.

"Come on!" Tyson pleaded.

"Aw nuts." Rei grumbled, crossing his arms as if he were pouting. "We're landing!" Tyson cheered. He reached for the controls.

"Don't touch that!" Rei cried.

The ship gave a tremendous lurch.

"Nooo!"

The ship sped for the world and that was the last thing any of them even knew.

Bryan grunted as he slowly came into consciousness. Damn you Tyson, he thought darkly, rubbing his throbbing head. He opened his eyes and looked around curiously in the run down wooden tree house. It looked as if some wild animal had come in and tore the place apart. All around him were the unconscious forms of Rei, Ranma and Yami.

But where were the Bladebreakers and White Tigers? "Ow, my head." Ranma groaned as he sat up. "This is all that Tyson's fault." Yami grumbled, also sitting up. Rei was silent as he rubbed his aching head. "Uh, where are they anyway?" Ranma asked curiously. Yami then realized they were indeed missing the other members to their gang.

"This isn't good." He said grimily.

Rei looked up sharply hearing a soft scatter of paws in the railings above them and unconsciously summoned Ultima to his hands. "What is it Rei?" Yami asked worriedly, seeing his friends' agitation. "We're not alone." Rei said tightly.

"ROOOOAAARRR!"

The Scan visor popped up and Rei focused onto the agile leopard. It growled at them, revealing needle point fangs. Its slitted yellow eyes glowed hungrily. "Wind!" Rei yelled, barely able to cast the defense spell as the leopard leapt for Rei's throat.

"Rei! You okay?!" Ranma demanded frantically, as he managed to jump behind the panting Keybearer. Rei leapt over the vicious leopard and delivered three fast blows to the feline. One to its back, another to its chest and the final was to its head. Suddenly, Rei slipped and fell onto his knees, the leopard lunged for its final attack. Ranma and Yami could only watch in horror as Rei lifted Ultima up to hopefully block the leopard's final blow.

Low human grunts came from above them, before a young man jumped from the railings and began waving a spear wildly in the direction of the leopard. With a growl, the leopard took off. Obviously, this would not be the last time they would see the cruel feline.

Ranma and Yami trotted over and helped Rei to his feet. And turned to thank his savior. The young man was very muscular with long dark brown hair and intense sea blue green eyes. He only wore a loin cloth around his waist and that was pretty much it.

"Sabor, danger." The man grunted.

Ranma sweat dropped. "Um, thanks for saving our friend." He said weakly. Yami smiled. "Yes, thank you."

"Thank you." The man repeated.

This baffled them. Why was he repeating their words? "Hm, what is this place?" Yami tried. "This place, this place." The man repeated slowly.

"Okaaay. . . we got separated from the others, our friends. Have you seen them? Friends..." Ranma said slowly, trying to get through. The man placed his hands over his hearts. "Friends!" Ranma nodded eagerly. Finally, they were getting through. "One is Tyson, er,"The four got quiet. "Never mind." Bryan said absent mindly. "We're looking for a girl named Kairi. Have you seen her?"

"Look for Kairi, friends?" Rei looked over the man's shoulder and saw the smiling face of Kairi. She smiled at him before fading from his sight. "Er, right." Said Rei. "Friends, here." Said the man. "Really?!" Ranma asked eagerly.

"&&X%. &&X%. Friends here." Rei blinked at the strange grunt. "Not sure we understand, but show us. Please take us to them." He pleaded. The man smiled. "Tarzan." He pointed to himself. "Tarzan go." Ranma snickered. "And I'm Rei. Tarzan go, Rei go." The man nodded. And sped out of the tree house.

Meanwhile

While Rei and his group was greeted by Tarzan, the others were just waking up in the middle of a clearing. On a stump of a rock no less.

"Where are we?" Lee grunted as he woke up. "I sure hope the others are okay." Max whispered. "This is all your fault Tyson!" Mariah snapped. "Give me a break!" Tyson yelled. "How was I supposed to know this would happen?!"

Huh?

From the bushes behind them came a bunch of gorillas. One glanced back at them before dropping a strange looking green piece of rock on the ground before disappearing from their sight with the other gorillas.

"What is that?" Mariah wondered, picking it up. "Not sure." Lee commented dryly. The bushes rustled again and they heard footsteps coming their way.

Uh oh.

Tarzan lead them out from the tree house and all four were blasted by intense heat. "Gods, it's too hot out here." Bryan grumbled. Only he and Ranma were sweating heavily. But not Rei and Yami.

"Uh, why aren't you two hot?" Ranma asked. "I used to be pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. And Egypt is usually much hotter than this." Yami explained. Rei met Bryan's gaze and said very simply.

"You already know." He muttered.

Tarzan jumped over the railing and they peered over to see that the jungle man was standing on a large net underneath. Rei smiled.

/You know, this is one of my favorite worlds./ He commented to Driger who was curious. Why?Rei chuckled. /You'll see./ He told the very curious white tiger.

Rei ignored the other three's shouts of protests as he jumped off the railing and onto the netting below and to their shock, followed Tarzan into the Jungle below by jumping off the netting.

"Damn." Yami cursed as he summoned the Curse of Dragon. Hopping onto the yellow dragon's back, they flew down into a tunnel of moss and trees far below. Yami recalled his monster and shot Rei a dirty look.

After he stopped snickering, Rei spoke up. "We have to ways of transportation." He said calmly. Bryan raised an eyebrow. "Oh? How so?" He asked. Rei grinned. "We can either go by vines or, we can do a little tree surfing!" He said eagerly.

"Tree surfing sounds easier." Ranma said uneasily. Rei's eyes lit up. "Great. Then follow us!" He cheered and jumped through the hollow tree trunk.

Now for some fun.

They slid out of the trunk and were sliding down a large tree branch. Rei let out a loud whoop of joy. "You guys really need to lighten up!" He called over his shoulders, moving gracefully as he surfed the rough branches.

"Not with the Heartless attacking." Ranma grumbled. Rei laughed.

"Even in war you still need to keep hope."

Trees sped by them as they continued to slide down the ivy covered tree branches. Rei smiled. Being in the Deep Jungle was relaxing. Even if it meant he had to run into shudder Clayton again.

"Jane!" Called Tarzan.

A pretty dark haired woman turned after brushing her dark hair and smiled. She had very trust worthy blue eyes. Since this was a jungle she was wearing an off white tank top and a tan knee length skirt that was slitted up the left side. "Tarzan," She then noticed the four shy teens behind him. "Oh, and who's this?" She asked. They found themselves liking her, for her voice was warm and soothing.

Rei smiled. "Hi there, I'm - - " Jane was surprised to say the least. "Oh, you speak English." She glanced down at Tarzan. "So obviously you are not related to Tarzan here. Are you here to study the gorillas?" She questioned.

A voice then spoke, a voice that made Rei's blood boil in hatred.

"Highly doubtful." The voice grumbled.

The four turned and Ranma was relieved to see the other Beyblading teams standing there. A man in his late forties with greying dark hair and shrewd dark eyes stood behind the Beybladers. He wore a golden brown hunters jacket like shirt, tan pants and brown boots. Brown armbands were wrapped firmly around his wrists and he carried an old fashioned shot gun in his hands.

"Rei!" Tyson screeched, tackling the older boy into a hug. "A circus of clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas." The man growled. Jane frowned.

"Really Mr. Clayton," She began sternly. "We're here to study them, not hunt them. This is research." Clayton merely scowled and stormed off in a rage. Jane sighed. "Oh well. The more the merrier. Do make yourselves at home." She said pleasantly after the wicked man left.

"Check out what we found Rei." Mariah showed him the strange looking gummi piece. Rei's eyes widen slightly. "That's a Protect-G, part of a gummi set." He explained at their curious looks.

"Apparently Tarzan was raised in the jungle by gorillas. Communicating with him still isn't easy, but he's learning." Bryan was impressed. Living in a jungle alone. That had to be very hard. "So he was speaking in "gorilla" back there..." Yami trailed off. "Ah that's right, you are looking for someone?" Ranma nodded.

"Yes. he said that Kairi was here. And one word we couldn't understand." Jane was thoughtful. "Why don't we try this? We'll show Tarzan some slides and see if any of them match that word." Jane looked around and frowned unhappily. "Oh, what happened to the slides?"

"I can go find them." Rei said quietly. "Thank you Rei." Jane said gratefully. Rei left the tent and was back within minutes, and in his hand was six metallic brown slides. Jane placed each one into the slide projector and they were soon looking upon the first slide.

It was of a magnificent castle with towers going as high as the skies, luscious trees surrounded the huge castle complete with gardens. All in all, it looked to be quiet beautiful.

"......" Came from Rei.

Yami looked over and didn't like what he saw. Rei's face was very pale and his eyes were very large. "What's wrong Rei?" Rei came out of his trance and gave a feeble smile. "What? Um...it's nothing." He mumbled. That castle...so familiar. I know I've e been there before. But that's impossible. Right? He wondered.

Jane then showed them the rest of the slides. Before turning to Tarzan. "Well Tarzan?" She asked. Tarzan shook his head. Rei felt his heart sink into depression. What if he never found Kairi?

"Hey, I thought - - " Bryan trailed off. Clayton came back in.

"That just leaves one place young man. We've been in this jungle for some time now and we have yet to see this friend of yours." Rei's eyes slitted and a red light began to creep into them as he growled softly. Lee placed a hand on his shaking shoulder. "Rei, calm down. It's not wise to loose your cool." He hissed. Rei ignored his friend's plea as the Ultima Keyblade appeared in his hand.

"Rei, calm down!" Bryan snapped. Now Clayton was beginning to see why Rei was such a threat to their plans. He had to get rid of the brat. And soon.

Cold yellow eyes watched the Keybearer loose control. "This was not supposed to happen!" She growled. And glared at the other elite Heartless Generals. "What happened?" She hissed in demand. The octopus sea witch Ursula frowned. "It would seem this happened on your territory Maleficent. So it's your problem!" The witch growled.

Maleficent, an evil and very cruel sorceress, scowled. "So it would appear that the Keybearer is a Heartless." She mused, the news sinking in.

This would bear looking into for awhile.

Now Rei's eyes kept flickering between hellish red and bluish white. Jane glanced at Tarzan in worry. Tarzan glanced between the enraged Keymaster and Clayton and finally made his choice. Jane gulped.

"Are you sure Tarzan?" She asked worriedly.

Tarzan nodded. "Tarzan go see Kerchak."

"Kerchak?" Jane repeated in confusion.

"He must be the leader of the clan." Yami guessed. Clayton gave a cruel smile. This was just perfect. Rei had calmed down somewhat, but was still glaring at Clayton with pure hatred. This would take some time getting used to. Ranma sighed. There was only one word he could describe for this group.

Chaos.

After Clayton left the tent, Rei tilted his head. "I hear Sabor out there." He said quietly. "Who's Sabor?" Lee asked. "A vicious leopard." Jane said grimily. "Do be careful out there." She said worriedly. Rei made sure he had a healthy supply of Potions and Elixirs in his Item slot and held Ultima in his hand.

"Let's go." He told them.

Ranma was now holding his shield and Yami his staff, they made their way out slowly and carefully. Once outside, Rei rapidly cast Aeroga so they would be safe. Even though it only deflected attacks, you could still get hurt.

"Yeow-ouch!" Rei yelped in pain as Sabor's claws ripped across his chest drawing forth thick black blood. Grumbling, Rei unleashed a massive blast of thunder on the unsuspecting feline. But just as quickly as he arrived, Sabor took off for the thickets. Rei hissed slightly as the black blood continued to flow. "We got to stop the blood flowing." Lee said worriedly. "I'm fine." Rei growled. "No you're not." Mariah said sternly. "....." Came the reply. She gasped and knew she wasn't the only one.

Slowly, the bleeding stopped and faded and they watched in shock as the gashes sealed themselves up. Not even a scar remained. "H-how?" Yami stuttered. Rei smiled.

"Simple. It was the Curaga spell." He said calmly. "Meaning...?" Max trailed off. Rei grinned. "Meaning I can heal myself of serious injuries." "Remember where we landed when we came from the trees?" Rei asked suddenly.

"Yes, why?" Yami asked. "Because there is a way to the vines from the lagoon." Rei explained. "How?" Tyson asked. "Just follow me." Rei said a little too cheerfully. That couldn't be a good sign.

Passing through a bunch of trees and moss, sitting peacefully by the first lagoon with a hippo, was a huge tree that reached up towards the skies for miles on end. Rei started to climb up the vine covered tree. The others exchanged looks. "I guess we follow him." Bryan mumbled, also starting to climb up the tree. The others quickly followed in hot pursuit.

The second they got up to the upper tree area, they, minus Rei, whirled around in shock as a strange green fire swirled on the ground next to a weird looking flower. "What on earth is that thing?!" Mariah screeched. Rei smiled thinly. "That's a Rest Point. Its purpose is mainly to replenish energy and magic points. It also serves as a gateway back to the Gummi Ship." He explained.

Oh.

"Are those vines?" Tyson asked suddenly. "Hm?" Rei turned and grinned widely as a bunch of vines swung freely in front of them. Still grinning, Rei leapt off the tree surface they were on and had grabbed ahold of the plant and began to swing back and forth. He proceeded to swing from vine to vine until he reached a set of trees with a branch crossing over, forming a doorway of some sorts.

It took a while, but the gang also managed to follow.

By passing through the strange doorway, they met up with an intense Tarzan rapidly speaking to a bunch of Gorillas looming over them from a tree branch higher up.

"Please Kerchak!" Tarzan pleaded.

Kerchak shook his head and the group of gorillas left. "What was that all about?" Yami questioned, catching the fleeting glance the head gorilla had cast in the direction of a certain house.

"Was he looking in the direction of the tree house?" Ranma wondered out loud. Rei was thoughtful. "I can get us there faster by teleporting." He said quietly. He held out his hand, and they formed a circle. "I feel stupid." Tyson mumbled. Rei then closed his eyes as a blinding silver light flared up around him. As the light washed over them, it felt as if someone was filling them up with a peaceful warmth that made them feel safe. Everything was a bright white for a second, and when they could see again, only four recognized the Tree House they had landed on.

Lee saw Clayton aiming his gun at something inside the wooden house and anger filled him. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He snarled, running ahead. He slammed into a very surprised hunter, whose gun went off, shooting the roof instead. Rei glared at him.

"What do you think you're doing?" Ranma hissed, his stormy eyes flashing darkly.

"I saw a snake, I was merely saving that gorilla's life!" Clayton pleaded. Rei's eerie eyes slitted as he bared his needle point fangs at a stunned man. "Don't steep yourself too deep in the darkness Clayton." Rei said suddenly, a dangerous growl was heard in his voice. Almost as if two beings were talking at the same time.

"What are you talking about boy?" Clayton demanded hotly. Rei grinned nastily, his fangs glittered under the hot sun. "The Heartless consume the weak." Kai then recalled that Rei said the exact same thing to him in Russia.

Clayton growled and stormed off in a rage. When he left, the gang turned to Rei curiously. "What was that all about?" Yami asked curiously. Rei snorted. "Clayton happens to be a Heartless General. Although he's one of their weakest fighters, he's still one of them." Rei snarled.

WHAT?!

Tyson was shaking. If from fury or shock, it was hard to tell. "How do you know if he is one?" Kevin asked shakily. Rei eyed him emotionlessly. "I just do." He said simply. "We might as well head back to the camp. There's nothing else for us here." Gary said quietly. Rei nodded in agreement. Before anyone could protest, Rei jumped over the side and once more into the jungle below. Shrugging, they quickly joined him.

The vizier Jafar watched the scenes with very little amusement. "That pathetic fool Clayton will not get the job done. When that brat is in Agrabah, I'll make sure he won't succeed in finding the keyhole." He growled. "Hah, and how do you plan to do that?" Sneered the sea witch Ursula.

Jafar grinned nastily, his face twisting to make it even more sour looking. "Simple. With this." He held up a pure crystallized black arrow. Inside the arrow was dark purple lightning. It cackled all around the simple object.

"What is it?" She asked dumbly.

"This arrow is forged from the energy of the strongest of all Heartless. It will draw out the darkness within the brat and force him to destroy all of his friends."

Ursula grinned.

"AH-CHOO!" Rei sneezed loudly.

"You okay?" Bryan questioned after they landed safely on hard ground, in an area they've never been in. "Thought I heard someone talking about me." Rei muttered, wiping his nose. "Where are we anyway?" Lee asked.

Hm.

Rei looked around. Nothing but trees all around them and a bunch of rocks. In the distance he could hear a waterfall. Albeit barely.

"Seems we landed in the cliff side of the jungle." Then his eyes widen. "Then that means- - woah!" He yelped as Sabor once more attacked them. Ultima barely had anytime to appear in his hands as he dodged the swiping claw. Ranma scowled and held out his right hand. Palm facing the vicious leopard. Slowly, bright blue energy began to cackle all around his fingertips, each energy lightning bolt drained into his hand, forming a ball the size of a basketball.

Ranma then fired the ball of energy at the leopard. Sabor yelped in pain and raced off. "What was that?!" Tyson demanded. Ranma blushed and rubbed the back of his neck as he gave a weak laugh. "That was a ki attack. Sorry about tha'." He said sheepishly. Rei gave him a warm smile. "Impressive Ranma." He mused. Ranma blushed even harder.

They passed through the Bamboo Thicket and into the camp. Everything seemed okay. Although, the Beybladers had a hard time believing that one. Ignoring the silence, Rei headed back into the tent and they took that as their cue to follow him.

"YOU?!" Rei snarled out, seeing Clayton standing there, desperately trying to explain to Jane about his true intentions.

"I suggest you leave Clayton." Tyson hissed, his eyes narrowed dangerously. Ranma and Yami glared at Clayton, and Rei had Ultima pointed at Clayton's throat. "Leave before Ultima rips you apart." Rei sneered.

Clayton scowled at them, but he left quietly. Rei grew thoughtful after he had eft. "I'll just check around to make sure everything is safe." He muttered before teleporting away. Tyson shook his head warily.

"I wish Rei would let us in and help him." He grumbled. About half an hour later, Rei returned, slightly panting. "We got two types of Heartless here to worry about. Powerwilds and Bouncywilds." Rei explained. He then brought out a leather journal from his pocket and in glittering gold letters were:

Other Worlds

Characters

Dalmatian List

Trinity Limit

Rei touched the one marked Characters. It opened to a page and more words were highlighted there:

Characters I

Characters II

Heartless I

Heartless II

He touched the Heartless I, and it opened up to another page and he flipped through it before touching the word; Powerwilds. The Powerwilds looked like ordinary monkeys, save for the fact their fur was mostly dark blue with a bit of purple around the ankles and wrists. They also wore gold armbands and bracelets around their wrists and ankles.

The Bouncywilds looked similar to the Powerwilds, only where their fur was blue, the Bouncywilds fur was orange. And where the Powerwilds fur was purple, the Powerwilds had light yellowish fur. Yet, both had the same glowing yellow eyes and the Heartless crests on their chests.

Mariah made a face.

"Yuck." She whined.

"They're gross."

Rei rolled his eyes at her immatureness. "We still need to find the Keyhole." Yami said quietly. "Then let's go out there and find it." Said Tyson.

However, the second they left the tent behind, a gunshot rang out. "Sounds like Clayton is going after the gorillas." Bryan growled. He defiantly did not like the man one little bit. "But, where did it come from?" Ranma questioned.

Rei listened to the echoing and sniffed the air for the scent of gun powder. He frowned. "It's coming from the Bamboo thicket. Come on." He mumbled, leading the way.

They ran into the huge clearing with nothing but bamboo trees all around them with only a single rock that was close to the entrance of the cliff area. Sitting on the rock was Clayton's pipe. And it was still warm.

Rustle, rustle.

Rei tensed and summoned Ultima. They noticed his agitation and became quiet worried for their friend.

"Is something wrong?" Lee asked gently. "We're not alone." Rei growled. This set off a warning signal to both Ranma and Yami, who also silently summoned their new weapons to hand. The shimmering shield appeared in Ranma's right hand and Yami was holding his shiny golden staff in his left hand.

"RROOAAARRR!"

The leopard gave a mighty roar as he once again ambushed them! Rei quickly leapt over the mighty feline and his eyes stayed locked on the ferocious animal. The Beyblader's readied their beyblades. "Ready guys?" Lee asked quietly. "Ready." Tyson said grimily.

3..2...1...Let er rip!

"Let's do this Dragoon!" Tyson yelled as the magnificent blue dragon appeared. "Protect Rei with everything you got Galleon!" Lee ordered as the black lion gave a roar and leapt forward. "Stop that leopard Falborg!" Bryan yelled.

"Come on Gaulx!" Mariah cried. "Help them Draciel!" Max commanded.

Yami held up a card with a green back round. The picture on it was that of a building on fire.

"Ookazi!" He cried.

Great balls of fire shot from the sky and slammed into the ground around Sabor, causing the large cat to yelp in pain. Rei grinned as he watched Sabor's health fail. Just one combo attack and that feline was history. Rei jumped into the air and slammed Ultima into Sabor's back, neck and head. He leapt back and landed in front of the others, Ultima fading as he did so.

Slowly, Sabor's fierce yellow eyes faded into nothingness as the feline slumped onto the ground in a lifeless heap. When all of a sudden, one of the now dead leopard's fangs popped out. Rei picked it up and pocketed it. "At least that mangy feline is gone." Bryan said pleased.

He flinched from the death glares he received from both Rei and the White Tigers. All four being neko-jin's, meant they carried feline qualities. "Of course I don't mean you four." Bryan said frantically. "Somehow, I have a feeling this is far from over." Yami mused.

Oh Yami, you have no idea how right you are.

Back at camp, Jane was surprised when Tarzan's long time gorilla friend 'Terk' ran into her, and huddled fearfully behind her. Jane hugged the shivering gorilla and gasped as a familiar figure came into the tent.

They were in big trouble.


11 pages long this one is. Hope you like it. Oh yeah, before I even work on the "Halloweentown" Chapter, can anyone find me the lyrics for these songs:

1) "Grim, Grinning Ghosts" - Singing Busts

2) "Somebody's Watching Me" - Morris Day

3) "Things That Go Bump In The Night" - JACK

4) "Monster Mash" - Brian O'Neal and The BusBoys

All four mentioned songs are played on the "Haunted Mansion" album. I'll be very grateful, and will award the person who can find all four lyrics by dedicating the Halloweentown chapter to the winner.