Shitza: Sorry this chapter took so long time, I am writing on another story, just for fun really, and got a little caught up in that. I'll try to behave further on. Second of all, I am also trying to teach myself to wake up 7am instead of 1pm, you know what I mean. It is just a weekend and then school starts. I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo extremely tired right now!

Anyway…

Wohooo! This will be one of my absolute favourite chapters. Guess why, well, read the Headline of this chapter and you'll understand. There aren't many pairings in this fic, less romance then in any of the others. All though this will really suit that section. YAY!

And for people who wonder, yes, Raya is back. Also, Shi-Ma will reappear. He he, poor Daichi will hate me after this. Reread chapter 1, the Captured Bit-Beast if you've forgotten who it was.

I am really irritated, I had been thinking about leaving that as the teaser last chapter, but I was so tired I must have forgot. Spoils my fun for torturing my readers. (Sticks out tongue in a VERY immature way.)

Lastly, you haven't forgotten I need help after all. What will Kim's second bit beast be? A rabbit or stallion, HELP!

Shitza

Jap words:

Aishiteru: I love you! (Isn't it cute!)

Chapter 6 A Kiss in the Moonlight

Another day followed and the group of kids left the Village of Water with filled stomachs and completely refreshed from the day's events. Everything was quiet as they were transported over to the Eastern shore of the lake. A skinny villager had agreed to show them the way towards the next village he thought would be interesting to enter. All though he warned them not to make promises or flirt with anyone for their next stop was the village of Love. Only people who had bit beasts based on very caring moves came to this place and they were a few. All though they were also horrible and troublemakers, but they took care of ceremonial weddings and tied crumbling marriages back.

He did especially warn them not to make contact with teens in the village, for every teen below the age of marriage always seek for his or her partner and he knew none of them didn't want to get married before they got home. Not like that at least. Hilary and Tyson were pretty lucky in this since villagers normally let couples be left out from this madness, but for people like Max, Ray, Kai, Zeo and Kenny things could get more complicated.

The village of Love was situated in a green forest at the eastern shore of the Lake. The forest was filled with tropical colourful birds making the most odd noise ever. Instead of the usual bird sounds they heard soft moaning of songs. Each bird had a different song to sing.

The soldiers who came to collect them were none other then Etsamu and Neffia, two familiar faces. The two of them were dressed in tight fitting pink clothes. They giggled as they greeted them before showing them into the Village.

This village was mostly made of polishes marble and it gleamed in the sunlight. The seven friends really hoped this would be a short visit for they all felt equally uncomfortable. The village was beautiful but it was the people they had hard feelings about. Hilary glared at the girl around them trying to keep them from flirting with Tyson and Tyson did the same, trying to keep guys away from flirting with Hilary. Girls clung to them as they walked anywhere so the later fashion was to walk as incognito as possible. This was far worse then any fanclub they had ever met. Indeed they had a lot of fans and a lot of screaming girls after them. Most of these had thankfully stopped hunting them down after they had gotten themselves girlfriends. Kai had another weapon, his own glare. Still there were a lot of fans after him as well.

Another point was that no one in this Village, except for the Priest and priestess, understood Japanese. They all spoke Korean as the related village of this lay in Southern parts of South Korea.

The only place they got some peace and quiet was in the temple and they stayed there. Walking out on the streets would mean to meet their doom.

That night Ray dreamed of Mariah and his chest ached knowing how worried she must be by now. Sighing he awoke again, the pain wouldn't leave for some hours at least. No technology worked in this place and after all, how many would believe in their story? Besides, they had sworn not to tell anyone.

The raven-haired blader suddenly sat up. They had been given king size beds, all though the Neko Jin didn't feel really comfortable around these. The door was open, so his inhuman senses were awake 24/7 until they would leave this horrid place. It never seemed to go to sleep either and every so often some girl would have a look inside. Didn't people in this Village respect Privacy?

Ray yawned and looked around in the room. Max, Kenny and Zeo were fast asleep. Hilary and Tyson shared a bed, all though Kai had forbidden them to do anything. "Spoilsport!" Tyson had called him before telling the captain of by insulting him, saying he had no girlfriend at all. Kai, incredible enough, shrugged it of saying; "You have no idea what you are talking about."

Speaking of Kai, were where he? To Ray's astonishment his bed was empty and clothes gone. Ray got up and got dressed as well. He knew his captain hated when people spied on him, but this couldn't be helped today, could it?

The raven-haired blader quietly headed towards the door. None of his teammates thankfully woke up and he walked through empty corridors towards the Entrance. He guessed Kai had gone out to train or something. On his way though he thought he heard a soft giggle coming from one of the many herb gardens that belonged to the temple. Quietly he went over to see what it was, probably just a girl having some fun. It was a girl yes, but it was not as he had expected.

The moon shone over two figures standing among a mass of herbs and other plants looking at each other. Even if the birds had turned in for the night Ray could swear both of them heard the most beautiful music ever. It was dark though, so it would take a while for his Neko Eyes to get used by the very faint light. All he could see was that there was a teenage girl and boy in the scenery.

They were talking in low voices, too low for him to hear. Suddenly the taller of them, the boy, slowly kissed her. The girl responded eagerly.

Ray blinked while his night vision was activated and he thought he would faint behind the tree he had hidden in. He couldn't believe his eyes, he must be dreaming. Yet, when had his dreams been about something like this?

"Aishiteru Raya!" the male voice said softly.

"Aishiteru Kai!" Raya responded as he stroke her back gently, still holding him close.

Ray's mouth dropped. Raya giggled as she said goodbye to the, usually stone cold captain. Kai walked up towards the tree the Neko Jin very quietly had sneaked up into. Ray thought he was on his way back to the room when suddenly Kai punched the tree, making Ray fall down.

"Did you see everything?" Kai asked harshly. Ray gulped, he was in deep trouble!

"Only the last part, but I won't say anything. I can keep my mouth shut!"

Kai gave him a glare that could have burned Ray into a crisp. "You better not!" he said coldly before walking back towards the room they all shared.

'Well, at least it solved the answer why Kai could ignore Tyson's request about being single. Well, he wasn't single anymore.' He wondered however when all of this had started.

The next day they thankfully left the Ville of too much Love and continued East towards the Village of Wisdom. They all hurried out from the forest, this time Kenny had taken the lead so thankfully they didn't have any giggling soldiers after them. Ray watched Kai, who once in a while looked back towards the Village of Love. The others didn't notice, but Ray did; yet he kept quiet about it.

They reached the Village of Wisdom sometime around noon and Kenny took them straight towards the temple before people had time to question them about all sorts of things. For instance, biology, technique, philosophy and lot of other things all considered the world they lived in. Ray had to translate most questions as most people didn't understand Japanese, all though they seemed to speak fluent Chinese.

The village had been built in geometric figures; it didn't look like anything they had seen in this Valley or outside of it. It could have more likely been taken from a Science Fiction movie.

The temple was the only building that probably was traditional, all though it was made of white crystal. However they hadn't gotten far until they actually felt something of the old was there. Daichi suddenly sprinted from the doorway, narrowly missing them. He gave them all a quick smile on his way, looked over his shoulder and then continued to run. The answer was the blonde Shi-Ma. The marriage obsessed girl hurried after. Everyone else sweat dropped.

"Poor Daichi, he seriously doesn't want this!" Tyson said as the red haired fellow struggled to get away.

Shi-Ma kissed him again on the cheek. Unwillingly to his brain, his hand moved up to touch the spot and he was blushing.

"You know, it more sounds like his stubbornness is in the way!" Hilary corrected.

"Right you are Hil!" Tyson said kissing her. Max and Ray looked at each other before breaking out into a light chuckle.

The really good thing staying however was that it gave them a lot of opportunities to practise on their skills. It also surprised them that they were getting better much faster. Max sang happily chasing cats with waves of water. Kai shot on vases with fireballs, cracking them into pieces. Ray was fighting with one of the more muscular villagers using a practise staff. He did cheat now and then sending jolts of electricity in it. Tyson was interfering with Max's practise as he stole away the water with his storms. Max took this as a game and to the blunette's surprise water suddenly rushed over him.

Hilary watched them with a ferocious smile as she took out her bow and loaded it with an arrow. Making very sure she would hit the right target she suddenly pinned Tyson to the wall, arrow dangling over his head. The blunette looked shocked. First there had been a wave washing him away and then Hilary had literally defeated him.

"Hilary, I think my dad would easily get a job for you with that kind of aim!" Zeo said surrounded by wisps of darkness. The turquoise haired teen held a glowing dark aura in his hands, which he used to steal away the light from a various amount of places.

"I wonder what your dad would say if he saw you now then?" Ray said between blows.

"Oh, I actually have no idea. He's changed a lot since, well you know what I mean. Since I became human."

Hilary snorted. "Zeo, in our eyes you've always been human." She snapped taking the arrow from the wall. Tyson grinned before attacking her to the ground; it all resulted into another row that thankfully ended after some minutes.

Zeo chuckled as Tyson complained as Hilary had started to tickle Tyson all over the place. The blunette shrieked in laughter earning amusing looks from Ray and Max, and a sigh from Kai. Ray and Max soon joined in on the girl's new game of Tyson Torture. "Unfair!" Tyson yelled over and over again as three teens attacked him.

Kai shook his heads. His team sure were kids. Meanwhile Zeo went over to see if he could stop the fight. It ended with Hilary starting to tickle him. Zeo had little knowledge in this and never knew he was this ticklish as well. The turquoise haired blader rolled on the ground laughing as Hilary and Ray tickled him while Max continued Tyson's torture.

It soon ended as the five teens stopped rolling in laughter, feeling rather childish but it had been long since they had such a great laugh. Even Zeo and Tyson happily joined in, all though the two of them exchanged looks planning a good revenge later.

(Evening)

After a good day with a lot of practise and laughter they all went back to the temple to rest. This time, which hadn't happened in a long time, they all got separate rooms were the doors led into a round hall facing each other. They all shrugged and chose one each, no fuzz about it. Tyson and Zeo however made sure to memorise where Hilary, Max and Ray slept. It would be a hell of noise if their plan were put on Kai for example.

And so most people fell asleep, except for Tyson and Zeo who were still awake and fully dressed. The two boys stood by the walls listening to sounds and eventual awoken people, but there were none. Smiling victorious they walked out into the hall to perform their plans, but they never got far.

As they both opened their doors, exactly the same moment also, something looking oddly like a bit beast sneaked past them. It almost knocked Zeo down running. Tyson went to help him, keeping his voice low. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," said Zeo nodding. "What was that thing?"

Tyson looked up. In the exit doorway stood nothing more or less then a living brown Bit Beast looking like a rat. Tyson couldn't believe his eyes. This was no ordinary spirit, this one was alive. And weirder enough, it was made of flesh and blood, but they could feel the beast aura from inside. Tyson and Zeo exchanged glances before hurrying after it.

The rat disappeared, it seemed to be leading them to somewhere, who knew? Finally they managed to catch up with it cornering it into a dead end.

Zeo bent closer and picket it up. It tried to bite him so the turquoise blader held it by its tail.

To any normal eyes this rat wouldn't seem so different, but to a blader with a bit beast they noticed differences easily. The rat squeaked and wanted to escape.

"What is that thing?" Tyson said keeping sharing his thoughts. Zeo shrugged, the rat still held by the tail.

Slowly their curiosity would have to be stopped as two hands grabbed their shoulders. Both teens turned around to see, to their surprise, Anto and Sakhmekh standing behind them. Both guys looked breath taken as if they had been running to catch up with them and both guys signalled for them to hand over the rat.

"Anto, Sakhmekh?" Tyson said in confusion. Zeo kept quiet. Even if the Elementals weren't really bad he still would never be able to get in good terms with them after all that had happened during the Elite Tournament.

"Give her to us, we'll take care of her." Anto said. Zeo reluctantly released the rat into the Wind Elite's hand. Anto put the rat into a small cage of some sort of electrical field. Sakhmekh glared at the creatures slipping a clawed finger towards it. The rat squeaked trying to get away.

"Anto, what are you guys doing here in this place? Don't you serve Wind and Lightning?"

"We do, we just caught a thief!" Anto said glaring down at the little creature. "Hope this thing hasn't caused you any problems."

"None at all, except disrupting our revenge on some of our friends." Zeo said crossing his arms over his chest. Anto chuckled. He nodded towards Sakhmekh who gave them a small pouch filled with some kind of seed like thing.

"Put it into their clothes and tomorrow you'll have a good laugh!" Anto said taking the rat with him. "And you, Rat, will have to answer for all of those treasures you stole. We can begin with, where did you take them!"

Zeo and Tyson shrugged as the two Elementals left. The two teens hurried back towards the corridor they had left and sneaked into their fellow blader's rooms. Tyson quietly poured some of the seed into Ray and Max's shirt while Zeo took care of Hilary. Moment later they said goodnight again going to sleep. It was still some hours to dawn.

Indeed the next day Zeo and Tyson had to restrain themselves from laughing. Max and Ray entered scratching themselves all over their upper bodies. Hilary didn't turn up, but they could hear her frustrated screams from inside. Tyson and Zeo tried to hold their masks of innocence as long as possible, but a mere glance at each other gave away and they broke into fits of giggles. They sat on a wall, which was lucky since Ray and Max immediately figured it out. Their only bad luck was that on the other side someone was breeding boards and these can be pretty violent once angered. The two teens barely made it out, bruised all over their backs.

Once again it was the others receiving the last laugh.

It all had to be put into an end though. After some minutes of childish fighting Kai entered the scene giving them a glare that sent shivers down their spine and they stopped. "Pack your bags, we're going!" he said. They all nodded and hurried to collect the little they had with them.

The sun was shining brightly as they headed towards their next stop. Who knew what would await them, in the Illusion.

TBC

To Reviewers:

Kendo Baby: Oh, don't worry about Hilary. In one of the fics in this series she will have a huge part to play. Besides, she got her Bit beast last chapter, last lines she and Kenny received Bit Beasts in which also Dizzi's true form appeared. Okay, I know most fics I've read describes Dizzi as a cat version, but I can't see Kenny and a cat.

Storms-winter: Your review came just in time, all though I wish I had remembered to put in that teaser. Works as a reminder for myself. I am horrible taking notes.

But Raya will return again, all though now I have spoilt most romance in this fic. Oh, the romance will take turns, can't wait for that either. And Raya will return again, in fact she has a pretty big role in this series even if she's out of frame for a lot.

Storm-of-insanity: You know, one of these fics will be dedicated for that question, so I am not going to spoil it. Yet I am sorry you don't like boy domination in this fic, in fact, from the history of the Valley, each Village used to have only a priestess. The Priests showed up to ease the burden from the priestesses' shoulders, all though not all Villages has done that. The Village of darkness still only has a Priestess; in Kim's Village she takes care of most things even Military. Lee-Eck is fat and lazy, only thing he's got is an appetite. In the Village of water their priestess has earned some respect through her kindness and thus the same of the Village of wind. Some though has priestesses that are too stupid for their roles and that will hopefully change. There used to be Women domination there from the beginning.

Ps, all this was made up before this fic started down into writing. I am really happy you asked about that, I can probably give you even more female notes, but these aren't much of a spoiler anyway.

Z Star The Hidden Dragon: Oh, thanks for voting. Yes Rabbits are cute and I do agree there are few rabbits out. All though even if it only will make few appearances I really need to decide. Thanks for helping out.

Oh, and you are completely right about Kim. That is probably why I like that character so much.

PhoenixDemonElite: Oh, no worries, that happens. I remember when Telia, (one of the phone and broadband companies) went down for a short while and everyone around ended up without Internet for two days. Latest after that I heard was that people switched their broadband companies. We haven't because it is Telia who build all of them and if it happens again dad reckons it happens to every other company so we don't care. Most other companies have other problems, Telia is owned by the Government.

Sorry, to much talking. Too much boring talk. Sorry this chapter is so much shorter but right now I need to go and rest again. (Yawns widely.)

End Notes:

Don't forget the vote for the bit beast; see the notes on top of this chapter. Me, I am going to sleep. It is early but I can barely sit up anymore. And I am not going to fall asleep again like last time.

Sayonara!

Shitza

Teaser for next chapter: I almost forgot this again!

We visit the last villages

New magic invilving bit beasts

Tests

What! Zeo becomes the Dark Priestess' apprentice?