A/N: thanks to diamond core for her surgestion on what to do next, thanx m8!and this chappy has alot of songs in it. And it VEEEERRRYY LONG in my veiw so enjoy this life time oppotunity lol.now i wont keep u w8in, get readin!!! lol
disclaimer: dont own beyblade..or should i say kai lol. and lyrics are by good charlotte(walk away and ghost of you) and offspring(race against myself).
CHAPTER 9: SEPERATION AND A PARTY
Era, Rameerez, Madison and Kai stepped clear from the lush, green forest and stared in awe at the seemingly endless waters that shined golden in the miday sun. This was the place where the lost city of the sorceresses was to be uncovered. "We have to find the slide of hope that leeds to the kingdom" the protecters said scanning the area. the split up, Era and Rameerez, Madison and Kai.
Era could hear Madison joking about the cheesy names that these places had (whoa even my OC's r insultin me lol) and it made the corners of mouth twitch. They spent the rest of the afternoon searching the rock pools with no luck so far. Then as Madison was looking into one of the gleaming water holders she spotted something gleaming and called out to the others. One Era came she immediately jumped in causing her black cargo pants and leather boots to get wet, then she knelt down, not caring about the water, and traced her fingers over the strange object. It was like the number eight, one circle was gold and the other silver.
"Its the entrance" the protecters said. Era turned around and raised her eyebrows, "oh and I surpose you expect us to go annerexic or something just so we can get in there" she said sarcastically pointing to the circles. Madison burst out laughing, and the corners of Era's mouth twitched again. The two winged ones frowned at her, "no you use your gem" they explained."Oh well that was obvious" said Era, using her sarcastic voice again. And Madison was now holding her stomach from laughing, but jumped in the water with era. They both got out the first gem that came to them and places them at the circles. At first nothing...then a strange rumbling, like an earthquake, began. Suddenly a rainbow coloured light show up from the pool and shot up to the sky, and the ground below seemingly disappered and left Era and Madison to drop down a shoot that dug down into the earth.
Era closed her eyes tight behind the goggles and Madison screamed in fear and also closed her eyes, they slowed at a curve and landed roughly on their backsides. The herd the slither of another person coming down and suddenly two others landed on top of them, "OOOWWWWWW!!!!!!" they all cried. It turned out that Rameerez was on Era, and Kai on Madison. There was a moments silence while they registered this. Then all hell broke loose. "I FIND THAT OFFENSIVE!" Madison yelled at Kai, who recoiled slightly. "You.Fucking.Pervert! Dont!You! EVER! DO! THAT! AGAIN!" Era shouted at the top of her voice with a fuming look on her face, Rameerez just stood with a blank look. "Oh and you think I could just change my direction? Well tough shit! Gravity was clearly against me!" he shouted back, then suddenly covered his motuh realising he just shouted back at her. He was expecting a punch or something along those lines. But instead she walked up slowly and pointed to his bat like wings, "now tell me what the fuck are those!?" she shouted the question. "Wings..." he replied. "Well then you can use them then dumbass!!!" She walked off with her face in a shrunched up look of anger.
Era stopped at the edge of the small cliff they were on and looked over at the kingdom and her jaw dropped in awe. It was beautiful. The huge city was clearly seperated into two parts, a light side that was decorated with warm colours and statues made of gold, and a dark side was decorated with cold colours and statues made of silver. The two sides blended harmoniously together. Madison came and stood next to her and screamed in delight, Era cringed hoping her eardrums weren't broken. Kai came and pointed out the colosseum, "that's where you are to get corrinated, but for now you must stay seperated in your own halfs" he said, and Rameerez said respectfully hoping Era's anger had drifted off somewhere else. She didn't say anything, so he took that as a good sign.
The sisters nodded and turned to hug each other, they both smiled. Era pivoted and jumped down effortlessly, landing on one foot the the other and leaning forward slightly. She guessed that the obvious huge castle was where she had to go, and considering it was a big city it would take a while. Era got out here CD player and listened to one of her favourate songs. And she sung soflty along with it, and Rameerez was following, intruiged by her voice.
l made this bed
l choose to lie in it
And live with my regrets
l sleep with what l said
Could this be the end
Am l standing on the edge
Of everything l wanted now
l was afraid
l was afraid
And maybe l'm just scared
To face the things l feel
Its easier to walk away from everything
Seperate my soul
With all the things we shared
l'm falling to peices now
Say a prayer for me
When you go to bed
I'm in need of your faith now
l was afraid
And maybe l'm just scared
To face the things l feel
Its easier to walk away from everything
lf we could just reset
And live in happiness
Instead of our regrets
We set a mile away
Set me free a mile away
Pray for me now
l'm in need of faith
Pray for me now
l'm in need
And maybe l'm just scared
to face the things l feel
lts easier to walk away from everything
lf we could just reset
And live in happiness
lnstead of our regrets
We set a mile away
And maybe l'm just scared
To face the things l feel
lts easier to walk away from everything
Walk away from everything
Walk away from everything
Rameerez felt soothed by the music even if it was the rock genre. After more songs they came to the black caslte that seemed oddly at home for Era, she pushed open the oak door that was traced with silver patterns and walked inot the huge hallway. to the right she could see a living room that was mainly decorated in dark reds, couches, cusions, they were all a deathly dark red. And to the left she could see the kitchen which was decorated in all the colours of blue there could possibly be. And up ahead she could see the spiral wooden stair case.
She explored the huge castle curiously, she had found a black room that she chose as her's. and the bathroom-that looked more like a swimming pool complex-was smothered in silver and with blue jewels often popping up in the tiles. There were other rooms, the dining room, which was a greyish colour. And the two spare rooms that hadn't been decorated yet. But at the back of the castle was her favourate place, it was a large tower that loomed over the castle and the rest of the city, its walls were bare and white. Era wanted to decorate it, maybe she would do it after the corrination.
Meanwhile Madiosn herself was exploring her castle which was a replica of Era's, but it was coloured differently. The living room was a pearl-white colour, and Madison giggled at the thought of getting a stain on the carpet or any other thing in that room. The kitchen was a cheerful yellow colour, she smiled at the thought of cooking in there. There was an extravagant dining room that was smothered in a light red colour, creating a warm atmosphere. The large bathroom-with its swimming pool like bath- was spreaded out with golden and white colours in intricate patterns. Her room(which she picked out) was the one which was overlayed in pink(every shade of it!). There was two spare rooms white had bare walls, and a undecorated tower at the back, which she thought would be a nice place to think if ever needed.
Era unpacked her stuff quickly and found her stomach grumbling, and Rameerez heard."Hungry?" he asked, she nodded with a blank look. She followed him to the blue kitchen and sat down at the table, watching as he looked through the cupboards. He pulled out some bread and some stuff to put on it, he make them both sandwhichs and sat down with her. They ate in silence, then Rameerez spoke."l'm sorry l shouted back before" he appologised,"its not your fault, and you do have the right to shout back you know. And did you expect me to hit? l only do that to my enemys or if necessary" she replied. He nodded then suddenly remembered something, casuing him to nearly choke on his sandwhich. "What's the matter with you" Era asked almost laughing."Cough! l just ! Me and Kai are surposed to get the people!" he jumped up and headed for the door, then turned back to face her. "We'll be back in a couple of days, we just have to get some residents, one of the things were surposed to do when we get here. Stay safe" he said and was just about to leave. "WAIT!" Era shouted, "what?" he asked. "If your going to get people then get the girls of my old school, l'v been worried about them all. l don't trust them with all them fucking asswipe males over there, no offence to your kind." He nodded-yes- and left.
Era suddenly felt lonely.
Once Rameerez had burst through the white casltes door he immediately told Kai what they had to do, and told them of where their going to stop of first(the sister's old school). Kai bid farewell to Madison and left with Rameerez.
Madison suddenly felt lonely.
It didnt actually take long, considering they had wings, and made it to the school. Now was the hard part. Getting them all together and telling them, but how could they tell them? Only Era and Madiosn can hear them. They decided that maybe writing out what was needed would be better. So they,unfortunatly, had to threaten the headmaster, then get him to get all the girls in the gym. It was unplanned and unprofessional, plus mant objected to such 'hoaxs' and turned there noses up at them. But one brown ahired girl said "but that would explain why they left, and where they went." This encouraged the others a bit, and to make the last peice of evidence Kai and Rameerez showed them their wings. A total of eight girls fainted.
They had wrote down for them to get their stuff ready, and they did, now ready to go to their lost friends. The journey itself was big. Having 241 females following you was a tough life, and there was more to get. With stopping at other villages to collect people, most of the girls had to explain, and often adding extras about there friends, Era and Madison. The managed to get the numbers up to 628, it was enough. And it left room for the population to grow. They had to get the gender numbers equal and have mostly young ones (ready for the future and all). Most of the teenagers were seriuosly depressed with the world, family, school etc. so it wasnt hard really to get them to leave their homes.
The journey took longer than before, the others slowing them down, but it was quite nice to act like a normal person with all these teenagers. Rameerez even saw Kai playing with the others in a game of football, and he chuckled slightly. Although they couldn't properly communicate with them, they got the hang of using their hands as signs so the others know.
They finally made it to the rock pools and many sat down on the edges, with bags on laps, admiring the beauty. But they had to get up again and trudge to the other side, resulting in plenty of splashing(which usually ended up in a huge group water fight) and their clothes getting drenched. After seeing the shoot that they had to dropp through most of them backed off, cringing slightly. But a brave boy stepped forward and practically leaped in, the rest stepped forward expecting a scream from the bottom but all that came was an "ouch..." Most of them laughed, and some climbed over the edge of slipped in sliding to the bottom painlessly.
Era and Madison both looked out of their windows of there castles to see herds of people heading to the colosseum from the shoot, they both looked up to the earthy ceiling of their world and smiled.Their back they thought.
Era, now in black jeans that showed the shape of her legs well and a dark red t-shirt that covered her hips, ran to the colloseum with graceful speed and jumped through one of the entrances that covered the silver and gold bricked complex. She was just in time to see Rameerez walk through another entrance soon followed the herds of people that were with him.
Madison, wearing a denim skirt that came to just abover her knees, a powder blue t-shirt and pink and red trainers, ran blindly to the colosseum hoping to see Kai again. She stumbled through one of the entrances and saw Kai come from the back of the crowd. And she also saw the female population from her old school, she looked at Era, who smirked at her and gave a thumbs up. Madison grinned back and went to meet everyone, and Era repeated her steps.
Era and Madison gave shocked faces when they saw Queen and Mariah come forward and appologise, but recovered and smiled. Era held out her hands and said "We shoudn't fight here, it's a paradise. And we're going to treat it right by treating ourselves and others right. agreed?" Mariah and Queen took a hand each and shook it smiling all the same. Everyone heard the speach and broke out in applause. Then Kai spoke out, even if the others couldn't hear, "WHO SAYS WE HAVE A PARTY!?!?" Madison burst our laughing and repeated his message, sound and everything! Most jumped up in the air and shouted "yeah!"
Everyone was now following Kai to a big warehouse like building at the back of the colosseum, he forced open the oak doors and let everyone look inside. Inside was mountians of food and drink all piled up and readu for taking, "and here the goverment say our resources are running out" said a girl with straw co,oured ahir and green eyes who happened to be Madison's best friend. A few chuckled at this and went inside to grab the food, once a few things were taken out of their place, they seemed to magically have another in its place. eight girls fainted again. Madisons friend spoke again, "yup...the goverment has really got their figures fucked up..." The people took this light heartedly, even if weird, and laughed. They left a few boys and girls in charge of getting the party ready, and other went to find a house they liked and wanted to live in. Madison was helping out at the colosseum and Era headed back to her caslte.
Once there she found herself drawn to the tower, it would be a couple of hours before the party, and she wasn't the one to get ready straight away. So she sat down, hands against the rails on the balcony and stared. It was beautiful, she had seen pictures of Venice before it was destroyed, she had seen pictures of the snowy blue moutnains that lay near lakes in Canada before nuclear blasts cleared them out, but they were nothing compared to this. Natural materials, all from earth, sprouted its life and showed its true form. And the gold and silver were patterned so intensively, it made her light headed, and peace of mind was acquired.
She heard the soft beating of wings and suddenly Rameerez jumped over the balcony, landing gracefully. "Its nearly time for the party, if you still want to go" he said in his mono-tone voice. Era shruged and got up heading down the spiral staircase, then entered her room. She searched through the closet in hope of finding something sutable for the party, but she just had her usual clothes, nothing special. Then Rameerez walked in and looked at her frustrated face, he chuckled. She gave him a sour look and sat on her bed with a defeated sigh. He shook his head slightly and said "wait here." era waited whilst he left the room, and she had a look of questioning on her face.
Rameerez came back with a bag and gave it to her, "I knew Kai was going to surgest a party so l thought l might aswell get you this" he said flatly. She looked inside and her eyebrows raised in surprise. Inside was a -clearly expensive- silk black button up shirt with a silver, red, blue and green dragon embrioded skillfully on the back, and a pair of navy blue jeans that was also embrioded with the same dragon and had splits in them all the way up to her thighs. she looked up in awe, "...l so owe you one now."
Madison was flinging all the clothes out of the wardrobe and looking for that special outfit she'd been saving, there it was! A powder blue strappless top that was cut off at the stomach and slanted down to her left thigh, and light red jeans with a pink skirt that slanted to the right, stopping at just above the right knee. ln her view it was perfect!
She changed quickly and litrally jumped to the dresser and applied her make up; a hint of clear lipgloss and bit of mascara. She never bombarded herself with the stuff, in fear of making her something she's not. Her hair was let down and flowed down to her mid-back area. Madison smiled, satisfied with her appearance in the mirror and headed downstairs towards the door.
Era strolled along the path ways that seemed out of a fairy tail, Rameerez had gone already. She hadn't tried the whole make-up of goths look but she did so and found it suited her quite well. She had her goggles on as usual, and had jet-black lipstick on making her pale face stand out, she also had a red choker on that had a silver cresent moon on it. the top half of her hair was in a bobble but the silver streaks weren't in the bobble, they lay framing her face and head perfectly.
The two sisters entered at opposite ends of the colosseum and looked at each other, and in unision gave a thumbs up to the other. Rameerez looked at Era , looked her up and down, and had to stop himself drooling. Kai had to do that same too, he was looking at Madison. A stage had been set up, maybe it came from the warehouse, and a few people had the guts to get up on there and sing.
Era walked to an empty seat in the corner and sat, being not really the dancing person. She could sing, she could sing really good, but she wanted a reason to sing and not just joke around. They were now looking for a person to sing next and Madison shouted out her name, "Oh! Era! pick Era!" Era's face faultered. Then Rameerez spoke up, "go on Era you have a nice voice, so dont hide it." She would never blush, but her face still had the blank yet embarrassed look of when you do blush. Some how he gave her a reason to sing, but there was no way in hell she was going to sing them soppy love songs.
She jumped onto the stage and got her CD's out of her pocket; a constant reminder and tribute of her mother. She put one in the machine and waited for it to annalise the disk then remove the lyrics when it played, so it was her voice instead of the normal singers. The intro music started and then she sung to the music, entrancing her audience, amking them move skillfully to the beat.
(l realize)
All l want
All l need
Allways lies just out of reach
l'v been coming up empty
(l realize)
l run as fast as l can run
l pushed as hard as anyone
But still theres nothing for me
(and l want)
l'v tried as hard as l can
(And l need)
l'v taken all l can stand
(And l fall)
But l am running a race against myself
Against myself, yeah
(l realize)
Burning out, strung along
Now my sorrow is my song
My whole world is half hearted
(l realize)
For my pain l have none
After all is said and done
Now l'm back where l started
(And l want)
l'v gone as far as l can
(And l need)
l'v taken all l can stand
(And l fall)
But l am running a race against myself
Against myself, yeah
(and l want)
l'v tried as hard as l can
(And l need)
l'v taken all l can stand
(And l fall)
But l am losing the race against myself
Against myself, yeah
against myself
There was a tremendous applause and, as expected, Madison had shouted for her to do another. So she put a different CD in and sung again.
l will wait until the end
When then pendulum will swing back
To the darker side of hearts bleedin
l will save this empty space
next to me like its a grave
Where l lay a place for us to sleep eternally together
l have been
Searching for
Traces of
What we were
Ghost of you
ls all l have left
ls all that l have left of you to hold
l wake in the night to find there's no one there but me
And nothing left of what we were at all
And here l am pacing around this house again
With pictures of us living on these walls
l see my breathe in the cold of the air and that l'm breathe and l'm wondering
l'm wondering if its you that l feel if its you that l feel here haunting me forever
have been
Searching for
Traces of
What we were
Ghost of you
ls all l have left
ls all that l have left of you to hold
l wake in the night to find there's no one there but me
And nothing left of what we were at all
And l'm not looking for
Anything but us
Anything but what we were
And l'm not asking for
Any memories
l only want to know your here
Ghost of you
ls all l have left
ls all that l have left of you to hold
l wake in the night to find there's no one there but me
And nothing left of what we were at all
Ghost of you
ls all l have left
ls all that l have left of you to hold
l wake in the night to find there's no one there but me
And nothing left of what we were at all
Era stepped down from the stage to yet another thunderous applause from her audience, she had seen Rameerez nodding his head with the music signaling he liked, so she smiled.
They party was -as most would say- a blast. And Era had even caught kai and Madison dancing at once point, and so a slow song aswell! Era stepped into her dark caslte and kicked off her black and white trainers, and drunk with fatigue she dropped to the dark red couch like a boulder to water. Rameerez came in after her and looked at her sleeping form and sighed, then picked her up bridal style and took her up to her room. After placing her on the silk black bed and covered her with the sheets, he moved a stray hair from her face and behind her ears.
PHEW!!! That took a bloody day 'n' half that did! but I surpose l gotta' give you guys a present for being so patient and all. READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!:D