I honestly did some minor changes in this one. You may or may not notice them, but I hope you forgive me for this agonizing wait.

Tears Of Betrayal

Chapter Three

The guys were at their second favourite hangout, they're first being the Beystadium, and they were at the skate park. Watching each other fail and bail was fun, but most of them were at the beydishes around the park. Kai, Johnny and Tala's families had submitted money for them.

Johnny, Tala and Kai were parked under a giant tree, just sitting around and watching. They were all pretty quiet at the moment. Thinking, deep into their hearts maybe? Or just skimming the surface as they had been for the past years.

Ikari watched from a respectful distance. On a bench, feeling the amulet between her fingers. Nobody would ever touch this, ever. Ever since she was 2 she had worn the amulet and never taken it off. It stuck to her nobody could take it off. Hers was a light amethyst colour, with a Unicorn/Pegasus crystal in the middle. The bitbeast named, Sairyin. She got up and started to walk towards Kai, Johnny and Tala.

"It's time." She breathed slowly. It would kill her to do this, but she had to. She walked up to Kai first; she had to defeat them in order. "I challenge you to a beybattle." She whispered pointing at Kai demandingly.

"You've gotta be kidding me." Johnny snorted.

Ikari's eyes dimmed, they really had forgotten her. "Do you accept? Or do you admit you are no match for me?" she asked softly. Each word she spoke pierced her very soul.

"I accept." Kai said flatly. He wasn't even sure why he was accepting this challenge. He could beat this girl any day.

"Let's see how you fight with a dimmed spirit and an unforgiving bitbeast." She added harshly before pulling up a large gun and pointing it at Kai. "Ready?" she asked bitterly.

"More ready than I've ever been." He felt himself saying angrily. It wasn't him speaking, but he could hear her. What did she mean?

"3, 2, 1, LET IT RIP!!!!!" Johnny shouted loudly.

Ikari launched and watched the battle standing straight with her arms folded. She watched Kai's feeble attacks and dodged with immense speed. Dranzer wouldn't come, so why was she waiting to see his crushed face?

"Are you going to start attacking yet?" she asked sharply and quietly.

Kai growled and shouted angrily. "DRANZER!!!! ATTACK!!!" He waited, but nothing happened.

"I told you Kai, your spirit is dimmed and your bitbeast unforgiving. You must fight without the power of the firebird, because he doesn't believe what you did and refuses to fight for you. Haven't you noticed? Dranzer doesn't respond to your emotions when you battle, he doesn't respond to your mental speaking, he doesn't respond to you ." 'I'm sorry Dranzer, I'm sorry Kai.' She watched as her blade dealt the final blow. "Don't try to understand Kai, try to remember." She whispered as she handed him his trashed blade. "Tala, you're next."

"I will avenge Kai." He said angrily facing the younger girl.

"You have no one to avenge. I am the one avenging my power." She said slowly pulling the gun up again. "Ready Tala?" she asked calmly.

"Of course." He said and launched without waiting for a countdown.

Ikari pulled the trigger and watched the battle. Processing everything slowly, the battle, the situation, and the guys. She wished everything were back to normal.

A single tear left her eye and she blinked it down, feeling it trickle down her cheek. "I don't want you to be hurt by your bitbeast not reacting, Tala, so I'll end this for you now." She said watching her blade tear Tala's apart. She watched the dulled bitchip fall out of the dish with the base of the blade. "Can't you remember Tala? Can't you?" she whispered so almost no one could hear. Many people had joined a circle around them now. They whispered to each other. "Come Johnny, I will make this uneventful and quick so I may finish my business here and leave." She said solemnly.

"I will not lose." He shouted harshly. The words cutting her heart up in tiny slices.

"I wish it were so." She said once again pulling the trigger on her long gun launcher.

"ATTACK SALAMULYON!!!!" He shouted loudly.

"Why can't you see your defeat?" Ikari cried angrily. "You're going to lose! Why can't you see it? Your bitbeast won't appear. It'll be just like Kai and Tala's battles. Why can't you remember?!" she shouted feeling the tears stream down her cheeks.

Why was this girl crying? What was she talking about? Remember what? Why wouldn't Salamulyon attack? Johnny watched as his blade wobbled from the many attacks Ikari was launching at it and from the loss of his own focus. "What have you done?" Johnny shouted at her crying figure.

'I'm sorry.' She thought as she watched the battle through her watery vision. 'I'm really, really, sorry.' She let out a long breath and watched as Johnny's dim bitchip was launched out of the dish.

"You have lost to the creator." She said in a voice not her own. The tears had dried up and her eyes were blank green. "You have lost the opportunity to host the souls of Dranzer, Wolborg and Salamulyon. Prepare to lose them." There was a pause as Ikari started a dance that looked like some kind of ritual. "They were your loyal friends, as was the girl before you. But you betrayed them all, when you forgot yourselves inside. The amulets were removed, by hands not your own, and thus your bitbeasts felt forgotten. They felt betrayed and hurt, and they now leave you willingly. Now, you lose them." The voice of Ikari and another stated clearly and fused. Ikari swirled and her see-through-ish shirt trailed behind her. Her amulet was now between her hands, strung from one thumb to another as her arms crossed and uncrossed. She lifted the amethyst stone above her head and watched as Kai, Tala, and Johnny's amulets were sucked into her own. The colours spun for a while then settled back into the amethyst colour. The amulet then attached itself around Ikari's neck and she stood still before falling to her knees, wavering a bit, then falling forward and lying flat on the ground.

As all this was happening Johnny, Tala and Kai had felt the amulets leave but hadn't seen them. They could hear Ikari's voice like thunder only centimetres away. But, flashing before their eyes, like lightning closing in, were memories their of child hood. Of being together, of the girl they thought they didn't know, of the meeting, of the playing, and of the leaving. It all came back to them now. As the visions left and realization settled in they saw ambulance lights raging before them and they noticed Rei getting into the ambulance.

Tala grabbed the closest person to his who just happened to be Ian and yelled in his face. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!"

"That girl that was dancing and defeated you, she fainted and the doctors think she's dying or something." Ian said trembling. "Rei went with her in the ambulance as well. Said something about sort of knowing her I think." Ian added but no one was listening.

"C'mon Kai! We gotta follow them." Johnny said pulling Kai up.

"I know, I know. I'm driving gimme the keys." Kai shoved Johnny out of the way and hopped into the car while Johnny got into the seat beside him and Tala got in the back. Kai veered out of the parking lot and sped after the ambulance. What had they gotten themselves into?