Chapter 2: The Gift of the Bit Beast
Ray awoke the next morning as the sun rose and light crept across his face. He groaned and slowly sat up. After getting dressed, Ray walked down the staircase for breakfast, where a surprise was waiting for him. The lights were off and Ray felt around for the light switch and flicked it one.
"Surprise!" his mother and father shouted at him.
His mother and father were standing in the kitchen, each holding the end of a long, white paper banner. The banner was decorated with many colors and in large black letters with the words "Happy Birth Ray!"
Ray was taken aback in shock. He had forgotten it was his birthday today. And he was very surprised to find his father home.
"Dad!" he said. "You're home?" His father nodded his head. "I took work off today to celebrate your birthday," he said, and walked over to the dinner table where a small pile of presents wrapped in colorful wrapping sat. "These are for you, one from your grandfather, your mother, and I."
Ray sat down next to his grandfather, who was sitting down at the table, reading the newspaper. "Good morning, Ray," his grandfather said. "Happy Birthday!" Ray grabbed one of the parcels, the one from his mother. He took off the paper and opened the box. Inside was a red sweater with a white tiger on it. Ray smiled at his favorite animal. The one from his father was a Beyblade, Driger V (Driger Vulcan). Ray was to get an updated version of Driger.
"Thank you, guys," he said and took the present from his grandfather. It was a very small and light rectangular box. "I hope you like this, Ray," his grandfather said. "It's been in the family for generations and now, I'm passing it onto you."
Ray, wondering what it was, ripped the paper off and saw a light blue case that looked like a watch case. Ray gently lifted the cover and saw a small, gray circular pendent with the picture of a tiger on it that looked relatively like the picture of Driger on the Bit Chip of Ray's Driger V Beyblade. The pendent was connected to a gray chain of very small balls.
"This is the Driger Pendent that your great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather made," Ray's grandfather said. "It's been passed down from generation to generation for 500 years. I hope you will pass it on to your kids."
"I'll will, don't worry, grandpa," Ray said. He wasn't the type of person to let things like this die.
After a day of partying, Ray's grandfather was packing up to leave. After saying goodbye to Ray's mother and father, he bent down to Ray's level. "I hope you find out the secret of that pendent," he whispered.
Ray was about to question this but his grandfather had gotten up and headed to his car. Ray walked back inside the house, with his grandfather's comment on his mind. What did he mind by the secret of this pendent? He had put the pendent on his neck.
The next day, Ray's mother and father allowed Ray to invite some friends to go to the Beyblade Museum Grand Opening with them. Ray invited his friends from school; Lee, Kevin, Gary, and Mariah.
He met up with his friends at the school and they piled into the car and headed to the museum. "It was very nice of you to invite us, Ray!" Mariah said sweetly and kissed Ray on the cheek. Everyone blushed except Lee, who just scowled at Ray.
After about a half of an hour, they had arrived to the Beyblade Museum. After the grand opening party, Ray decided to take his friends on the tour. At the end, they came to a wall with four stone pictures on it. One had a dragoon, another had a phoenix, one had a sea animal, and the last one had… "The tiger on my pendent," Ray said, gasping at it in awe.
The tour man looked at the picture. "This?" he said. "This is Driger, one of the four legendary beasts. The others are Dragoon (the dragon), Dranzer (the phoenix), and Draciel (the sea animal)." He pointed to each picture as he named them off.
Suddenly, the pendent around Ray's neck began to glow. "What's going on?" Ray asked. The others stared at the pendent. A roar filled the room and the stone picture of Driger began to move and a bright white light shot out of it. The light began to take shape and appeared as the white tiger that was Driger.
It roared and the light disappeared into Ray's pendent. Ray stared at it in awe. "Is this," he said. "The secret grandpa was talking about?"