Taiy-Chan: Hey everyone! This is the sequel to Worth Fighting For(which you don't really need to read first, all you have to know is that there are now three girls on the Bladebreakers(I know, unoriginal, but it gets better! Promise!) Pauline, Morgaine and Sara. The pairings are obvious.) Never Forget. Personally, I think it's way better than the prequel. I really like it's storyline now that I've got it all figured out. I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: Do not own, will never own, end of story.
Chapter#1 Back to the Beginning
Pauline yawned and stretched. She looked around the room, squinting as the bright light hit her face. She rubbed her eyes and got out of bed. Pauline opened the drawers to her wodden dresser and took out her usual clothes. She changed into them slowly, still half asleep.
Pauline had slept in late while Ray had woken up early. When she and Ray got here last year, the small Chinese village welcomed her back with opened arms. All of the people were so nice and always happy. Pauline's parents had allowed her to stay with Ray since he was living by himself, after a long discussion about the birds and the bees. But, even though she liked being home again… She couldn't wait to see the rest of the Bladebreakers.
Pauline walked down the wooden steps to the main floor in the house, her socked feet silent on the polished wood.. She went to the door and leaned over to put on her shoes.
It was a beautiful day outside, though hot. The sun shone brightly and there were no clouds in the sky.
She walked outside and looked for Ray. Covering her eyes from the sun, her eyes cast across the village. After a minute, she spotted him a little ways away. As usual, he was teaching the younger kids how to beyblade, the children crowding around him and asking him endless questions. Pauline smiled and was about to run over when she stopped suddenly.
Pauline could have sworn that she just saw someone through the trees that surrounded the mountainside village. Hidden in the shadows, she couldn't tell if it was one of the villagers or not.
Pauline rubbed her eyes, trying to get the sleep dust out to see better, but when she opened her eyes again, there was nothing there but the thick trees.
Pauline blinked, staring at the forests as if the answer would jump out at her.
"What's wrong?" Pauline started when Ray's hand touched her shoulder.
"Nothing." Pauline muttered, crossing her arms as Ray laughed.
She glared at him
"Chill!" Ray said holding his arms out defensively. He regarded her carefully. "You sure you're okay?"
Pauline turned up her nose and nodded.
"Whatever you say." Ray shrugged, chuckling.
Pauline watched as Ray walked back over to the children and continued with his training.
She sighed and looked back again into the woods. It looked exactly the same as it looked like a minute ago.
"Must've been seeing things." She muttered.
A cool wind brushed pass her, blowing her brown hair from her face. Pauline looked up at the sky, sighing as she spotted dark rain clouds.
"Something bad is going to happen." Pauline murmured. She folded her arms across her chest as a shiver ran up her spine.
Morgaine sighed as she watched Tyson wolf down his brunch. Nothing had changed over the past year with Tyson's eating habits.
"You are a pig." How could she have fallen for this guy?
"Sumoh upmh." Tyson said with a mouth full of food. Morgaine scrunched up her nose with disgust.
"Don't talk with your mouth full." she snapped.
Tyson swallowed his mouthful of bacon.
"I said: Shut up."
"I figured as much." Morgaine said flatly. She rubbed her temple. He as so annoying! How had she survived the last year? Even Morgaine didn't know the answer.
"With your firecraker attitude, you'd make a great torturing device! Morgaine Spazing at You: a fate worse than death." Tyson said dramatically. Morgaine's eyebrow twitched.
"One more word from you.." she growled, fighting the urge to kill him right there and then. She didn't get the chance because that's when Kenny decided to burst into the kitchen.
"Hey you guys! Guess what!" the brown haired boy sat down at the table and took out his laptop. "Mr. Dickenson called me this morning! There's going to be another tournament!" Kenny said excitidly, turning his laptop around for the two to see the BBA website homepage.
Sure enough, there was a bunch of news about the new tournament. It listed the places where it would be held, how to sign up and pictures from past championships.
"Oh yeah!" Tyson cried, jumping up and punching his fist in the air.
"When is it?" Morgaine asked after Tyson sat back down.
Kenny turned the laptop around.
"It's in..." he scrolled down the page. "Two weeks. We'll need to get the others here so we can practice. We still have to defend our title.
Kenny carefully closed the grey laptop and looked up and the two Bladebreakers.
"Here are the numbers of Kai and Ray." Kenny said as he handed Tyson a piece of paper. "Tell them that Mr. D is going to pay for the plane tickets and that it should arrive in the mail soon. Also, tell them to be over here in Japan ASAP! You guys need to get back into shape before the tournament starts." Kenny explained, getting to his feet.
"It's only been a year, come on!" Tyson whined and then stopped.
He thought for a moment.
"Why can't you call them?" he asked.
"Because I have to research the teams that will be participating. And plus, don't you want to see them again? It has been a year." Kenny walked to the door. "I'll see you guys tomorrow. Don't forget to call them. Bye!" he waved as he left the two and headed home.
"Well Tyson, it looks like you have a job." Morgaine said nodding.
"Why me?" Tyson complained as he got up to get the phone.
"Cause you're lazy!" Morgaine laughed.
Tyson grumbled as he dialed Ray's number.
It rang three times before Ray answered.
"Hello?" the voice on the other line sounded breathless. Must have ran to get to the phone in time.
"Hey dude! Waz up!" Tyson cried happily.
"Oh, hi Tyson. We're doing great! Did you hear about the upcoming tournament?" Ray asked.
"Yeah! That's why I'm calling you!"
"Who's on the phone?"
"HEY PAULINE!" Tyson shouted, reconizing the voice. On the other end of the phone Pauline and Ray looked at each other and sweatdropped.
"Ow Tyson. I have sensitive ears you know." Ray said.
"Oops, sorry. Anyways, Mr. D wants you guys over here ASAP!" Tyson explained. "Whatever that means." he added as an afterthought.
"It means as soon as possible Tyson." Ray said flatly.
"Oh… Well, he also said that the plane tickets should be arriving at your place sometime soon. So we'll see ya soon."
"Okay, we'll be over in Japan as soon as we get the tickets! By- just a sec." Ray turned to Pauline who had told him to wait.
"I wanna talk to Morgaine. Gimme." Pauline reached out to take the phone from Ray.
Ray nodded and handed her the phone. Pauline thanked him before holding the phone to her ear.
"Tyson? Yeah, Pauline here. Um, can I speak to Morgaine? Okay." Pauline waited as Tyson gave the phone to Morgaine.
"Hello?"
"Hey Morgaine! How's everything in good old Japan?" the brown haired girl asked.
"Everything's cool here. Just the same old stuff."
"I can't wait to see you again! Have you called Sara yet?"
"No, not yet. Tyson's going to call her after this."
"Okay, I better go then. I'll see you in a couple days?"
"You bet!"
"Buh bye Morgi!"
"Bye!" Morgaine heard the click on the other line and pushed the off button on the portable phone and turned to Tyson. "I;m going to call Sara, okay?"
Tyson nodded.
Kai lay on his bed, reading a magazine as he waited for Sara to be done in the shower.
Life had been lazy ever since the end of the last World Championships. Sara had come to live with him in Japan, and they had gone back to school. It had been a while since they had last seen the rest of the team. When they had heard about the next tournament, they had tried to call the others, but their phones were busy, meaning that they were talking together, and were going to call them soon.
Kai and Sara knew from the beginning that, sooner or later, Boris would come back with some sort of crazy idea to take over the world...again. It had been hard adjusting to a normal life after what they had been through, going back to school and such. But even if nothing out of the normal had happened, they couldn't get the nagging feeling out of their head that it was just the calm before the storm. Boris will come back, and be even more dangerous than ever, and they had to be ready.
Kai had just flipped a page when the phone rang. He sat up and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hey there Kai, it's Morgaine."
"Hi Morgaine, we'd thought you'd call sooner or later."
He heard the aburn haired girl chuckle.
"I take it you've heard the news?"
"Just a couple of minutes ago."
"Well then, that saves me some time. Mr.D wants you guys to meet us at Tyson's house so we can start training. I guess you don't neet a plane, do you?"
"Nah, we'll drive. It's not that far."
Sara came out of the bathroom, her damp hair sticking slightly to her face. She was dressed in her blue PJs that Kai had bought her a while back. She glanced over at Kai before she joined him on the bed.
"So where's Sara?"
"Right here, you want to talk to her?"
"Um, it's okay. I'll see her soon. We have to go help Tyson's grandfather move the new kendo sticks into the dojo anyways. See you soon!"
"Bye."
Sara cocked her head as Kai put down the phone.
"So," she said. "What's happening?"
A cool wind blew across the river, breaking the stillness that had settled in the forest. A figure stepped out from the trees and knelt by the long river, trailing her hand through the slow moving current.
She was a beautiful creature. Firey hair rippled down her back, and over the deep red wings that flexed as the cold air hit it. Her long, blood red gown flowed majestically to the ground. She didn't even look up as another person came to stand beside her.
"They do not know about us." the person said , twitching his white tail in frustration when she ignored him.
"They are being pulled into something dangerous... life threatening." he said, a little louder, his deep voice rumbling from his throat.
The woman smiled sadly.
"They will find out soon enough." when she spoke, her voice came out musical, like chimes ringing in the wind.
"They will hurt." the other responded.
"Yes, in the end, their lives will be altered, cut deep with pain and sorrow...regret."
"How do you know they will be able to do this?"
"I do not know. I only hope."
"And we can't do anything to help them..."
The woman shook her head.
"We can only prey that they'll make it out alive."
Taiy-Chan: There you have it, re-written! I like it better now, less, how should I put it, stupid, silly. Hope you guys liked! I'm going to edit the next chap, and totally re-do the third chapter, it's meaningless the way it is now. Review please!