Sanctuary

"Well, well, well look who's alive." Solo had made a rude greeting, "You do remember we had a scheduled practice right after all the matches were over, don't you?" Zero thought for a moment, "I forgot, must have gotten side tracked." Duo looked extremely pissed off, "Well don't let it happen again or we'll find someone else to take your place on the team. Now let's get going on our training, this is absolutely ridiculous." Zero yawned. "Yeah, yeah I'm coming." He kissed my cheek, "get some rest." With that the Death Trio disappeared into the gym for their training session. I gave a soft sigh and went out back to lie in the sanctuary. After turning off the path to see the clearing I noticed someone sitting just outside the clearing. "What are you doing?" I asked as I moved closer and noticed it was Tyson who was sitting there; not being able to enter the sanctuary. "Huh..." Tyson looked around and saw me as I entered the sanctuary, "uh, just trying to figure out what you said about you and this place. Kai wouldn't budge when I kept pestering him to tell me. It's been eating at me since you told us." I looked at Tyson's tired and frustrated face, "You really want to know, don't you?" He nodded expecting me to tell him. I gave a sigh and looked at the grass, "Unfortunately I can't tell you until the time is right or it comes up at the tournament." His face dropped a bit as he gave a frustrated breathe. A thought came across my mind and I felt myself growing hot. "I- I could, well I don't know if it'd work; but I- I could probably bring you in here." I looked up at his excited face. "Really? That would be great! But how?" Tyson was perplexed. I felt myself grow hot once again, "That's the thing I'm afraid of...I don't know if it would work. If it doesn't it'd be pretty embarrassing for me but then again it'd be embarrassing either way. But whatever happens you have to promise me something." I saw he was ready to agree. "You have to promise if it does work not to tell anyone about anything you've seen and if it doesn't work you have to promise you won't you bragging about what I'm about to do, agree?" He was puzzled but nodded his head in agreement. "Ok then." I hesitated for a second then leaned forward; halfway out of the barrier. "Alright I'm going to have to slowly pull you in here so make sure you follow." I told him when I was an inch away from his face and my hands were on top of his.

I leaned forward closing the gap between our faces causing our lips to touch, I felt us both grow tense but then relax into it. Gently I pulled Tyson's hands with mine causing him to enter the barrier. The in a last effort to get Tyson in the sanctuary I moved my legs out from under me and pulled Tyson so he was right on top of me. Slowly I rolled over so I was partly on Tyson then I pulled my lips away from his. I opened my eyes only to find Tyson staring at me; amused. I felt my face go crimson and my lip tingle, Tyson was in the sanctuary.

I stood up and looked away from Tyson who was speechless. I gave a forced cough, dismissing everything that happened, "Follow me." Tyson followed as I touched the statue that looked almost like my stone twin; the statue moved aside to reveal a stone staircase spiraling downward. I walked down with Tyson close behind; the staircase was narrow and dimly lit but you could still see everything clearly. "How far does this go down?" Tyson had found his voice. "I don't know, all I know is that it stays right under the sanctuary so there's really no worry." I answered as I kept descending the stone steps. We finally reached the end of the where there was a large room filled with rows of glowing marbles.

On the wall where we entered from was a giant screen with a list of names in alphabetical order and finally at the back of the room were twelve giant chambers where six bit beasts slept. Tyson moved and looked around awed, "Wow, these are all bit beasts?" I smiled at the site of all the bit beasts, "Yep, they come here when they're loose but don't have an owner or when they decide to leave their owner for a while, stuff like that." "So it's kind of like a bit beast drop in centre. They can come stay for as long as they want with no worries." Tyson moved to the back of the room, "Who's bit beasts are these?" "Those are the Raven family bit beasts." I pointed to the other six empty chambers, "Those are the bit beasts currently in use by the Raven family." Tyson counted and thought, "But there are only five Ravens' that blade right? Who has the sixth bit beast?" I smiled at him, "You're right, us five Raven kids are using the bit beasts we were given by the family but one bit beast was given outside the family." "Who has it?" "Zero does; my father thought of him as part of the family a year after I met him so he received a family bit beast, Devildon." I concluded. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Tyson reach out to touch a chamber with a black angel- girl bit beast sleeping in it. Quickly I grabbed Tyson's wrist; he stopped. "Hey." He was mad at me for stopping him. "Don't touch her." I ordered, "You can touch the other chambers and talk to the bit beasts but don't wake her up." "Why not?" Tyson had drawn his hand back to him. "Because she's the most powerful bit beast my family has and the most dangerous. If she wakes I'm the one in trouble because she's my bit beast's twin and I haven't learned how to fully control her yet. Last time she was awake was when I was six and I refused to wake her ever since then because something bad happened." I watched the black angel bit beast just floating in the fluid. "What happened?" Tyson was curious.

My face fell at the question but reluctantly I answered, "When I was six I was in a lab with my mom and other scientists. I was mad at her and I woke dark angel up. It was a mistake that cost two people their lives; my mom and her partner; the other head scientist. I hardly even remember the whole incident but I blame myself for it because I was later told that dark angel took her revenge." "Revenge for what?" Tyson's curiosity was getting the better of him. "Just stuff, you'll find out when you find out about me." I stared back at dark angel, looking upon all her facial features, "Come on Tyson, let's go back up."

'If you are near to the dark, I will tell you 'bout the sun. You are here no escape, in my visions of the world...' I heard the voice once again only this time it seemed darker. "God damn it, I must really be losing it." I thought out load, Tyson just looked at me funny, "Ignore the comment to myself, I've been hearing this weird song like voice in my head. It's the second time it happened and for some reason no one else can here it." "Okay..." Tyson wasn't sure what to say. "Anyway," I dismissed the subject, "let's go back up. We have to practice for tomorrow." "Fine." Tyson followed me up the stairs. We reached the light and heard Tyson's name being called out. "Tyson!" the voices were coming a bit closer. I walked out of the barrier in front of Tyson. "Ahhh!" I looked back to see Tyson on the ground, I laughed. "Hey it's not funny, that thing hurts." Tyson stood up. I laughed while talking still, "Sorry." "A little help then, please." Tyson waited at the edge of the barrier.

"Hey Tyson, there you are." Ray came near the sanctuary, "How'd you get in there?" Tyson gave a nervous laugh and went a bit red. "Um...Ray," I was looking at the grass, "Can you please turn around or something so I can get Tyson out. He's kind of stuck in the barrier." "Fine." Ray turned around. "Thank you." I hurried up to Tyson, kissed his lips while pulling him out of the barrier. Once again he looked amused. "You must really like doing this." I whispered with a blushing face. "No." Tyson laughed while nodding his head, 'yes'. "Ok Ray, you can turn around if you want." Ray turned around a bit puzzled but didn't bother talking about it. "Hey I have an idea, why don't we battle?" Tyson challenged me enthusiastically. "Fine lets go." I ran off in the direction of the stone bey dish that I battled Linda in.

"Three, Two, One, LET IT RIP!" Max yelled acting as referee. Tyson and I launched our blades full force. My blade quickly disappeared. "Hey where'd it go?" Tyson looked at the dish closely. I giggled, "Oh come on Tyson, you're suppose to be the world champion beyblader and yet you can't even find my blade, that's kind of pathetic. From where I'm standing right now I could have you beat within a nanosecond." I thought for a moment, "Actually that doesn't sound like a bad idea." His blade went flying right out of the dish. Tyson looked stunned as he went and picked up his blade. " "Launch your blade back in." I ordered him which he gladly did. Once again Dragoon went flying out of the dish. "Tyson, this is pathetic. If we make it to the finals I don't want to blade someone who's this weak." I was getting annoyed. "I AM NOT WEAK!" Tyson was getting angry, "Come on, let's go again!" We launched our blades again. Hours passed and Tyson wasn't progressing much on knocking my blade out of the dish. The sky turned dark and we were still going at it. "Again." Tyson demanded. "Tyson come on, it's late and I still have to upgrade Dragoon." Kenny was typing away on his laptop. I held up my hand, calling my blade back. "I'm done here." I announced to Tyson. "What? No, you can't leave now, I'm just getting started." Tyson was in launching position. "Listen Hun, as much as I would love to stay and train you some more. But we have a tournament tomorrow and as Kenny said, he needs to upgrade Dragoon for you."