Shitza: Hello again, Shitza is back with the sequel, just as promised. I hope you didn't wait for too long. I really had to sort out some notes for the fic, which includes new cool attacks and some structure as well. There is a lot less blading here though, but I still promise action for those who want. It says general, but that's because there is so many different things in it, as mysteries, actions, romance, maybe drama (yet I am horrible on writing drama, be warned, I am not that dramatic of me).

Also have to say, good guessing of the people who thought the titles were related. This could have been one big fic, but it would be a bit too weird if it was, so it is split into two. I don't think anyone really bothers about it, I am surprised there are few flames yet. (I've had about forty flames about my spelling so far, which I am not that surprised about.)

Anyway, I better stop babbling and get to work. I really have to thank storm-of-insanity for the help on Kai's attacks. It is horrible to come up with new attacks that sound cooler then the previous, I guess my work will have to describe the attacks cooler then they sound.

Nop, I am stopping my boring speeches now and I should let you carry on with the story. This is just the prologue, describing events between they left the airport and to the beginning of this fic. Have to say this kept me up quite a while to get things right, I really like this beginning. I bet you want to start now, so me, I'll be quiet, you should go on.

Shitza

Copyright and Disclaimer: This fic is barely meant for reading and enjoyment, but if someone steals it then you are in trouble. This story was never created to make money. As for the authors, she owns nothing more then the plot, the words written on it... those things. She doesn't own Beyblade, the characters, the bit beast, bladesor anything else from the3 series.

Ps. I really hope everyone gets, that even if the dialogs are written English, most texts are meant as if they are speaking Japanese. Do remember were they are from…

The Protector of Darkness

Prologue

Hilary wasn't usually bothered by flying, and mostly didn't care about these kinds of details. The brown haired girl, the unnamed cheerleader and trainer of the Bladebreakers sat alone by one of the windows, staring out through it.

There was something nagging her, something was deeply wrong. One thing, the flight. She hadn't seen a single other person except for them as they flew. The whole plane seemed to be deserted; still she guessed that the pilots were at the front, not bothering about the seven teens flying back to Japan. Staring down over the mass of woods in Russia she sighed. The guys didn't seem to bother about the quiet journey. They had spread as they pleased. Max and Tyson sat behind her, talking happily about the tournament that they had miraculously enough, won! Ray sat on the other side of the plane, writing a letter to Mariah, his girlfriend. Hilary knew ever since that little incident that seemed to have opened the two Neko Jins hearts, Ray couldn't stop thinking about her and longed to get back to his village. Hilary gave Tyson a dirty look. After all, since the tour they had been declared as an official couple, but through this flight she had been alone.

Behind the chatting teens, Chief sat having a argument with his laptop, or rather the bit beast inside of it. Dizzi simply didn't agree to throw away the Solitaire and Chief complained loudly. This had forced Kai, their team captain to walk away to the very end of the plane, and Hilary could perhaps not see him from here she sat, but she knew he was going back to his old anti-social self. So pitiful, she liked the more talkative Kai. But she guessed it would take Kai a lot to become more social, especially after the shots Ian had taken of him. The lilac haired blader should probably have been strangled if Bryan and Spencer hadn't been close by. Now, Kai was in a terrible mood, and his headaches grew as his teammates all had seen the pictures. Ian would pay as soon as he would be back to Russia.

But there was another blader onboard, yet he didn't belong to the team. Zeo Zagart was asleep at the front, also tired from the endless amount of racket that could be found wherever these guys went. His father had called him to finish a business project for him and the poor guy had been travelling none stop, for the minimum of two days, trying to sort it up. He had barely made it to the plane and fallen asleep once on. Zeo had once been an android, but was now, incredible enough, flesh and bone as you or me. Their ex-teammate's sister, had through some mysterious hocus pocus, changed him. Zeo was grateful, but it had its sides as he grew more and more tired easier then before. He still had to train his stamina, big changes like that took a lot of physical damage upon you.

Hilary looked back; the noise behind her had ceased. She wondered if both guys had fallen asleep, but as she turned there was no one. 'Oh great' she thought. 'Now they have left me on my own…' "When I get my hands on that Tyson I will…"

"Will what?" asked a male voice from above. She looked up and saw Tyson looking down at her. "Will do what?" he asked again, this time grinning.

Hilary smiled. Tyson could be a jerk, and as they blue haired blader slowly bent down to kiss his girlfriend she had to admit, with her heart, he really could be a romantic jerk.

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"Brother, brother! Slow down will you!"

There was a crash, followed by a loud thud. "What?" a voice asked.

"Slow down will you, there's no need to hurry, the ice never moves around here. The gold will stay were we left it."

The other voice sighed, loudly. "Remind me who it was to say to put it there."

"That was you idea, said the female voice. And it I a perfect hiding place, no one hardly walks up to the surface anymore. Too cold, and I agree. A normal man would freeze to death if he stays too long up there."

"Even in the summer" the other voice murmured. "It's so nice around here, when there's no harm there is always ice and the ice is always the harm, isn't it."

"Shut up, let's get moving on. We need to be back in a few days for the festivities. Have you already forgotten?" the female voice asked.

"Forget, how can I forget with you as my sister. Fine, let's go. The sooner we are done the sooner we get back home."

The woman smiled in the dark. Her face was completely hidden behind a gold mask; strand of her dark short hair fell before her eyes. They had however no idea what expected the…

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It was lunch, and food was served. In an odd way, there was no one serving, everything had been done mechanically. Hilary finally understood why no one was there, it was really ingenious, still she did wish it wouldn't have to be so silent. It was almost frightening.

Tyson, who was finishing his fifth helping of food, noticed her arm tremble. "What's up Hil, something wrong?" he asked.

Hilary shook her head. She guessed she was just imagining things, but it felt as if they were going down again. But they could not; it had to be at least three or four hors of flight. She wasn't the only one noticing. Ray got up of is chair, his ears twitching and his golden eyes alert.

"What's wrong Ray?" Max asked as the Neko Jin passed their seats.

Kai suddenly appeared as well. Hilary now understood something was really wrong, or their captain wouldn't react.

Suddenly the plane jerked, going down. They were currently over the mysterious and unmapped area of Siberia, where people literally stayed away from. Kai and ray were thrown down into two unoccupied seats. The female pilots voice could be heard telling everyone to fasten their seatbelts as they were going down. All seven had no time to really get what was happening until the plane landed on the ice, glided and whirled around. Before anyone could really understand the matter of what had happened all electricity went out, all went black.

The lights would never awaken again. The seven teens sat stunned in their seats as their brains slowly picked up the details. They were stranded, and they probably had nowhere to go. Kenny sat sniffing over Dizzi, who had shut down. Zeo was the first to unfasten his seatbelt and walked over to everyone else.

"Are you guys okay?" he asked with concern in his voice. They all nodded. It was dark, but Zeo managed to make them out by the shadows. They unfastened themselves and scampered into different directions. Ray went to see what had happened to the pilots; Tyson and Max helped Kenny (Who was kind of tuck in his seat) to get up. The brown haired genius still whimpered over his destroyed laptop. Hilary was looking after signs of other life from the plane; she meant someone had to control the automatic stuff around. Zeo tried to convince, a rather panicking Max that cell-phones probably didn't work this far out in the wild.

Ray came back after ten minutes, looking oddly pale. Stammering he told them there wasn't ay pilots onboard. Hilary turned out a bit later saying she hadn't found anyone. When they told her about the pilots she went into a rampage.

"I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! I bet it was that Veymo, or maybe some other evil guy who sent us here. They want us dead!"

Everyone else shook their heads. Veymo was dead, and they seriously doubted someone of the elementals had any technical experience.

"So, what shall we don then?" Tyson asked. "We can't out of here unless anyone knows how to fly a plane from this kind of ground. I hate to say this, but I think things are over."

No one noticed Kai staring out the window. The captain suddenly hurried to one of the doors and opened it. Dressed in only a jacket he jumped out into the cold air. It was freezing, but he knew he had seen something, which wasn't an ice-bear or something like that. It was people, how hysterical or mad it sounded. They were not alone.

"Kai!" Tyson called after him. The rest of the teens hurried to see what was going on. Kai was fighting through the snow that had started to fall. His life in Russia however had taught him not to fear snow and he was relieved to see he hadn't been wrong. Only three hundred metres away he saw two shadows. It was two teenagers, around their own ages, digging into the ice after what looked like a small wooden box. Kai signalled to them with a freezing hand. The two looked up. Both were wearing gold masks and they looked really unusual. They were both also wearing warm fur coats.

"Foreigners?" one of them said, in perfect Japanese. Kai was shocked, but he didn't show anything. He just nodded.

The shortest of them, a boy as Kai could see, looked past his shoulder and stared at the plane. He suddenly grabbed the axe he was holding and hurried over. Kai really wondered what was going on, and seeing the axe he made a move to hurry back. The girl shook her head.

"No, don't. My brother will take care of it."

Kai was pretty certain he would take care of things. And he was equally surprised when the boy returned with everyone else, wrapped up in blankets.

"We must hurry!" the girl said taking the box with both hands She gave the boy a nod and they led them towards what looked like a cliff. Everyone was freezing; they barely noticed where they went.

"Where are you taking us?" Hilary asked after the hour of walk they had done to reach some kind of secret destination. The pair ignored her question, both looking for some kind of switch. They soon found it, a loose stone in the middle. The girl pushed it. As if everything was magic, the cliff opened to reveal a magnificent tunnel.

"Hurry, the storm is getting bad. We must take travel underground!" the boy said grinning. No one complained, they simply followed inside the lit tunnel.

Once they felt the cold release from them they finally looked up to what was a sight indeed. The cave, or probably millions of caves they had entered, had been hand crafted from some mountain and led straight down to the underground. The walls were lit with flaming torches. The cave was high so they could walk normally without fearing to bump into rocks. It was really warm; they even had to take of their jackets, all sweating. What was this place?

The more surprise came, as the girl and boy took of the masks. The boy had red flaming hair, something they hadn't bothered to take notice of out in the storm. He was gazing warmly at them with bright green eyes, a wide smile. The girl had short black hair, probably cut thorough some kind of accident, brown dark eyes and she too was smiling.

"I can't believe it!" max said sitting down upon the ground. Ray fell down beside him, eyes round as plates.

Zeo shook his head, Kai said nothing but a million thoughts swirled in his head. Tyson stood, his face awed by the sight.

"Close you mouth Tyson, we are going!" Kim said still smiling. She was holding to the box as if it was made of diamond or something.

"Yeah, and unless you seven wants to spend your nights in these stinking caves, I may suggest you follow us!" Daichi said, grinning. The Bladebreakers said nothing, stood up and followed. It would take them a long time before they would find out what kind of mysteries they were about to attend.

TBC

End Notes:

Shitza: I am really evil am I? I really wonder if any of you have as much as an idea of what is about to happen. For once, do you know where they could have bumped into? I really doubt it, but oh well… makes quite the story won't it. Oh, I can't wait to write more, I have really been longing to start on this. And I have just started…

(Grins some more) Thank you storm-of-insanity for the wonderful tips about how to write Kai without-making-him-too-OOC. It was really useful. I will be clinging to those tips now, I am much of a soft spot when it comes to the handsome Russian. But I leave the drooling to others, I have no one particular at the moment, though I like many of them, but I have stopped drooling. Unless particular scenes, but that's out of writing. Please review and tell if you liked this!

Shitza