Shitza. Oh goodies, look at all those nice reviews! (Stares hungrily at a huge bunch of reviews lying before her.) Goodies, goodies just for me!

(Looks up) Ops, sorry about that but I have received more or less then 12 reviews and I am hyper! Even school has been able to put me in a bad mood, except that my day ended 4pm today, which meant I didn't get home until 5 this afternoon. I was so tired, good thing I have some reviews to wake me up! Yay!

Second year's going to be a lot harder then first, so if I don't update like usual it's because I am buried in more work then ever. Good thing, slow start. Bad thing, hard lessons.

Oh well, can't be helped. Anyway, better get on writing this chapter. I forgot the teasers again… grrrr! Stupid Shitza should remember to put in some torture for her readers.

Oh, and so people simply know. People might wonder why I am using crows for really evil birds. It is very simple… at our family's summer cottage there are crows attacking my window. We have barred it with a huge net, but to say it wasn't pleasant to wake up 5 in the morning hearing something scratch upon the glass. Crows are one of the most evil birds I know about. They attack weaker birds, steal their nests and destroy their eggs. And for me, they are some of my least favourite birds by now. I am friendlier towards magpies. And my favourite moment in this was a magpie picking on the crows. (Pulls a great HA HA on the crows)

This chapter continues from that Daichi tells them a secret to that they through some days tell us about their experiences in the villages. Every flash into whatever happened starts around the same time ends by sundown.

Shitza

Ps: Once more, sorry for the lack of action in this chapter. Promise you a lot more action in the future.

Pps: Sorry for the long delay in this chapter. Reasons are homework; school and that I've been out having some fun. So what, can't sit here all day, can I?

Chapter 8 More then meets the Eye

"You see!" Daichi began. "There are two other reasons for the world not to find this place. You have heard of the most major one, about the elemental magic our bit beast provides our blood with. The second is this!"

He held out his blade and a bright light erupted from it. He didn't even spin, but Serpera appeared looking more solid then ever. The land snake hissed softly and Daichi laughed suddenly sitting on top of its back. The look upon the faces of the Bladebreakers was laughable.

"T-T-That's impossible!" Kenny said between trembling and stuttering.

Daichi laughed even more. "Hold out your blades and then you'll see for yourself!" he said.

They all did. Hilary, who still didn't blade, held out the medallion she had around her neck. Blades and medallion glowed in a bright light as the bit beasts were released. Dranzer was first to materialise and flew to land upon Kai's shoulder. Next came Draciel who let max climb up on his back. Ray sat on Driger's back and Tyson mounted dragoon, who had to be at least ten times bigger then the boy himself. Celeb Dragoon was slightly smaller. Dizzi was magnificent, double size of the usual owlish size. Kenny climbed up on her back; Kai had done the same thing with Dranzer. They all disappeared enjoying the fact about their bit beasts carrying them to safety. Daichi smiled seeing them all go. It was by then Kim returned. The girl was breath taken and cursing badly.

"What's up sis?" he asked without looking back. He was still looking towards the horizon, where their friends had disappeared.

Kim stomped up towards him. He turned and did see what had happened. Her hair lay in turfs, the usual priestess suit she wore had been ripped around the arms and her hands had been cut and her face scratched.

"Let me guess, another crow attack!" he said. Kim nodded looking tired. She made a move to toss her hair over her shoulder, but the short hair only returned to the old spot.

"How did you end up with that haircut, can't seem to recall what you said." He said with a grin. Kim gave him a dirty look back and then sighed.

"Fine!" she murmured. "I was of arranging for one of many feasts when a demon sneaked up to me. I almost got killed, but managed to put myself together and attack back. But not before the creep had literally slashed my hair off. I grew furious; if I had wanted a haircut I'd asked someone else for it. Anyway, I left that thing dangling in a tree."

Daichi lay on the ground rolling in laughter. Kim gave him a glare and then walked away. Daichi followed shortly. The two of them slowly returned to their favourite place, which was not a village of some sort, but a house hidden deep in the forest of Love.

Kai

'Silence at last' Kai thought leaning towards a house wall. His armours had thankfully been taken of and he sat by a small house that once had belonged to a general. The two-toned haired teen sighed content for once as the sun slowly set. Three weeks had gone since they had landed here and the life in this village really did suit him. No one bothered him, no one asked about his own strategies. People minded their own business and didn't bother into his. He trained on his own, sometimes more experienced people, such as Lee-Eck and Kim came to watch him. They never said anything, just nodded and then went on to their own things. Raya could show up now and then in those days she didn't have any duties. The red haired girl was something special to him, and he had to admit with her he felt calm and happy. He would of course never tell anyone else. Gods knew what would happen, he would never get a moment peace again.

He didn't miss his friends, that much. He was fine and had always been fine ever since he had been born. His parents had been murdered when he was just a small baby and his grandfather had taken care of him from then. He didn't know who had killed them, personally he suspected Boris, but all records about the man said nothing about murders and whoever had killed them had done it ad a true pro.

The vision he had stumbled down into when they had appeared in the Village of Darkness still burned in his memories painfully. He couldn't help to feel nothing but pain in his chest and he longed for his mother. Never in his entire life he had really been longing for someone this much, for this long. It was as if his chest was stabbed at the memory of their faces.

All he had known about his parents were that they were betrayers and thieves. Voltaire had made them sound like some sort of evil creatures and that it had been Kai's destiny to land up in Biovolt. However, Kai knew his grandfather hadn't been like this all the time. It had started with his grandmother, Voltaire's wife, who had died in the flames a year after his own birth. Voltaire had been shattered after her death and the evil voices had started and when the pain first began.

Silent footsteps shattered his thoughts. They didn't come from the house, thankfully or something would really have been wrong, indeed they came from the street. Kai looked up to see a young girl slowly walk on the empty street carrying a large bucket of water. The girl seemed to have difficulties in balancing the bucket in her small hands and suddenly she dropped it. The bucket rolled to the side and all water had dropped into deep beneath the dusty cracked rocky street. The girl silently wept. She didn't even notice the shadow standing over her.

Kai watched Kim help the girl back to the Village's Well to get some more water and then helped the girl carrying it back to the house. The girl was crying with joy and danced around her priestess' feet. Kim smiled back, gave the water to the awaiting mother and bowed. The mother bowed back and gave the young priestess a fresh baked bun. Kim nodded as thanks taking small bites walking away.

So much had indeed happened since they all split up and Kai was stuck with these two ladies, one he loved and one he simply could stand. He lived in the general's hut these days from having been called soldier to general. He simply refused to be in a lower rank and to admit it he knew his stuff and knew how to get people to work. Not that he did much; he had the command of a smaller selected group of villagers and most of them women. He had noticed that the men were good, but the women around this place had a lot sharper mind when it came to the things that were needed to be done and they didn't run into fights without thinking.

Kai closed his eyes just as the horn went out signalling that demons had been sighted… again. This had to be the third time this week. No wonder this place felt chaotic, especially with these things running around. Kai got to his feet and yawned. His clothes had changed slightly and involved a lot more armour, more gold and red into the fabrics and steel that covered his upper body. He wore black leather boots and had a spear now instead of long sword. The spear had also a lot more decorations then the previous weapon and looked as if it was ablaze.

Kai got to his feet, the spar in his hand. He quickly got back to put on all armour and then blew a smaller horn to summon the soldiers he had. It was a small group of twenty selected soldiers found around the village and they had the record of no deaths so far. Kai was their leader and they did as he told them. The blue and grey haired teen let them on, climbing up on his bit beast's back. Dranzer roared as everyone else climbed up on their own beasts' backs.

The group of soldiers hurried through the gates and were first to arrive at the scene. Once more, like every time, it was a small attack. Of course no amateurs would survive something like this, but it wasn't much of a fight worth describing. Some few slashes, some bruises and they all returned. Kai nodded towards them as they all split up. The teenager couldn't help wondering how the others were doing. He may be unfriendly at times and antisocial around 24 hours a day, but it didn't stop him from wondering. After all, he thought, that compared to this, those guys would probably have a lot more trouble then they would have dreamed of.

Easy to say, as the sun set, he was right…

Ray

Northwest another teen was having his day of a lifetime dodging yet another fierce attack. His opponent was none other then his own sister and it was sort of his own fault for landing up in this situation. He had indeed asked her if she could train him personally, and indeed she took it personally. She wanted Ray to be none other then the best warrior in the whole village, which meant he spent half his days now training advanced techniques. He had already mastered the basics. Lin sent another bolt of thunder at him. He dodged it and fired his own electric shock back; it hit her on the shoulder. Lin yelped but smiled once the shock was over.

"Not bad!" she said encouraging and went to hug her little brother. Ray hugged her back. It all felt so right and so wonderful. His sister was finally found and it would stay like that.

The two of them went back to training. Ray was already bruised, but it was nothing compared to what had happened his sister. He felt very bad for hurting her, sometimes he just wanted to stop but his sister knew how to really get on his nerve and that was what she wanted.

The training lasted for two more hours, until the Healers had to escort them to the White House, a building designed for rest. Lin lay down on a couch as the Healers treated her bruises and burns. Ray wasn't seriously injured, only a few bruises on his back from having been knocked into a knotty tree.

Ray sat on a chair looking up towards the roof, which had been painted to remind people of the great deeds made in this place. He saw pictures of battles, stories of Priestesses who changed the village only for the better. The Neko Jins here were proud of what they were and people didn't put theories why they looked like they looked.

Ray got up from the chair before the Healers could finish of their work. He walked out touching his sour back with one hand. The sun was setting; it looked so beautiful it reminded him of two golden eyes back home. The crater the village had been designed in helped as an extra wall against demons. Neko Jins didn't have problems at all as their cat abilities allowed them to do the most wonderful jumps. The demons used ladders to climb over, a big mistake as guards had learnt to burn up the ladders as soon as they saw them, mostly also burning up a few demons on the way.

Ray had joined a few fights, as much as his sister allowed him. He liked to help out here, mostly he simply helped kids with their chores but a few times he joined the elder soldiers in fighting. His clothes had changed again into more light armour, sharp knives and a lot more cat like things.

He spent a lot of time with May, who almost was like a little sister to him. Li Gao didn't seem to mind, the big guys had stopped picking on her now that Ray kept an eye on her wherever she left. Some guys had tried but mistaken his calm attitude. His fights were nothing more then a beybattle. Focus and Strength was what he needed. The guys around had learnt to respect him.

A few times some of the guys had visited. Max had turned up carrying a large casket of dried fish, a gift from the water village. The blonde teen had stayed over the night and the two of them had had some interesting conversations. Tyson came "storming" into the place. It seemed that ray wasn't the only one training. The cyclone had been so big that Tyson had had problems controlling it. First the villagers had taken it for an attack but Ray had managed to calm them saying it was just a mistake and then told Tyson to calm down a bit. The blunette had given him the thumbs up and then scooted off before the soldiers would be able to catch him.

Ray smiled. The three weeks in the valley had been three incredible weeks and most important of all was that his bond with his bit beast Driger had increased so much it would take a lot more then strength and determination to defeat them. Whenever he could he would climb up on the tiger's back and then disappeared into somewhere of the open. His bit beast was as many other cats, very playful so it mostly ended with him chasing Driger since the big cat had thrown him off halfway, or a chase upon the other strange animals. He had also found a stack of books upon bit beasts and their history where it said:

They are creatures born of the spirits of animals and fed from the bright sunlight. A beast never truly dies as long as the heart remains. Only reason to die would be if the heart would be corrupted by great evil and the heart slowly melt away. See demons, page 472

The bit beasts are peaceful creatures by nature. They follow human orders if they feel like the human herself or himself are capable of handing her. A bit beast can be stolen, but not always handled since they aren't unknown of going into a rampage. The easiest way to seal away such a creature is to seal it into a lava rock. This however should be made with the extreme caution, for it hasn't been unknown for bit beasts to escape and once they do they are not friendly to face.

That hade made Ray think about that time the Saint Shields had sealed away Driger. Perhaps it was the reason they hadn't succeeded.

Bit beasts are through many records able to distinguish a lot of other things for example evil upon earth and weird things upon ground. A bit beast never helps an evil creature freely unless his master commands it or they are manipulated to it. Corrupted ones may do so, but they always ends up killing the evil part.

If many bit beasts dwells on the same place the amount of powers around it allows them to take solid forms. A bit beast can also fuse together with human flesh, in most cases the master, and through that also receive more power. Fusing this way makes a bond stronger then anything, however it takes a great deal of practise before someone can use it.

Another incredible fuse is elemental fuse, which allows the beast to fuse with another beast of the same element. Double bit beasts like this are stronger then anything else. Ten beasts said to be made this way are:

Amor: The Angel Bit beast with power to mend love and create love in first sight. Unlike the other nine Amor is known through Roman mythology as the son of Venus. His counterpart is Eros, the same beast but another name, Eros. The bit beast became two parts after the fall of Rome, however one of the halves is secretly under strict guard and belongs to a noble French family. This family Polanski has also inherited Amor's charm, love and brilliant taste of art and cooking.

Hunel: The Pegasus with power over time and all wisdom ever told upon this land. Hunel is said to have disappeared around five thousand years ago by a bypassed traveller taking him with him. The bit beast was taken to Russia and split during a war between 1708-1709 when one of the great kings from the North came to invade Russia. The attempt failed and the beast was split and then travelled a long way. Current holders are unknown.

Serpera: The Land Snake with powers over the Earth, sand and everything that grows there. Serpera is a peaceful creature that has only once left the Valley borders. The bit beast split 3096 years ago but finally fused back by the marriage between Uniwa and Terrio Sumeragi. Their son Daiku Chin fused together both parts during the Elemental Tournament and has since that remained fused in the guarding hands of his master. Serpera is so far the only fused beast we have.

Inkes: The Legendary Bit Beast of Ice that currently dwells somewhere in Russia. Inkes is the lonely bit beast that most often prefers being alone. This wolf has been guarding the ices of the world and prevented most of them from melting. It is said if all ice is destroyed then this wolf will shortly die. Inkes was split into two bit beasts as much as 4836 years ago. The only part we know about belongs to a Mr Tala Ivanov, however how we will be able to lead it back on track is yet another thing.

Estasch: No one knows really what this beast once looked like, since it is a shapesfifter. During one particular journey, the once wielder of this beast, Otrosi, took the beast towards another continent where he found love and married. The beast was split through this marriage as the villagers of Illusion soon found him and brought him home. One part stayed for some years in the Valley until every village split and that half was brought out towards the Lightning village White Tiger Village. The other part remains in that far away land with a noble family.

Fazth: Only one part of this dark creature has been found, and through that by Greek mythology where they tell us about a three headed dog guarding hell. The original beast was a black dog, but the creature has already split, date unknown, and now is probably sealed away. Many records about likely beast have been sighted but none matching the real one.

Solomna: this is the black turtle said to guard the Northern boarders of Japan. This legendary beast is one of the four strongest and has an incredible power over water, which the current wielder still hasn't been able to possess. The current holders of the beast are none other then Max Tate and Tenesee Brown.

Jinel: The legendary beast of lightning where both parts have been kept under guard ever since they left this place. Both beast have since long longed to fuse together, however the closer relationships hasn't developed until now. Current holders are Ray Kon and Mariah Chang.

Ryota: The legendary beast of fire and light. Half of the beast is purely made of light while the other one is born from fire. The current holders are none other then Kai Hiwatari and my sister Kim Thon. However to get those two together will be like trying to match a cat with a dog that's been enemies since forever.

Draik: the last but most powerful beast of wind. Draik was split when a samurai from the south summoned the strongest half into a sword and the beast has remained since long in the Kinomiya clan. The current holders are Tyson Granger or Tyson Kinomiya. Second holder of the beast seems to be his girlfriend Hilary.

To conclude the journey of the beasts fusion there is also a legend saying once all these ten parts are fused into one this world will regain eternal peace. However there is a fault meaning they can only fuse between love. That is why it is so good to know most beasts are finally getting together, with a few exceptions. In a few years time, hopefully, we will see Jinel, Draik and Solomna again.

Ray slowly put the book down before trying to locate who had written this. It didn't come as such a big surprise. Daichi!

Ray turned to the last page of the book, where various Priests and priestesses had written their replies. It came from things as Liar! To Good Job!

Ray laughed but his mind was racing. He wondered if he would ever see Driger as he had done before. Knowing he possessed half of a VERY legendary beast made his heart race and knowing this place was probably waiting for him and Mariah to make a move into a relationship was enough to make anyone anxious. But he loved her and thinking about the old traditions back home, once he got home, he would ask her. He just needed to collect his nerves, poor guy!

The sun had disappeared since long. The faint light from one of many fires had helped him to read even if a normal person would have gone inside ages ago, as it was so dark now. Ray didn't' bother, his gold eyes glowed in the darkness. But it was getting late and he could hear his sister coming from behind.

Lin smiled touching her younger brother's shoulder. Whatever that had happened between the years she had been gone didn't seem to have affected them. Of course both of them were older but not old enough to let the happy memories subside. Ray hugged his sister before the two of them returned to the temple yawning and purring like cats.

Max

Max sang happily as he paced the open streets of the water village. Whatever horrors his friends had to face none of this could even put an imprint upon this place. The water held many secrets and after these weeks he was almost as strong as the priest when it came on using water. He had noticed a lot just living here, he had become so close with himself and his beast he wondered what on earth could defeat them now. He and Draciel spent many happy days surfing on the huge waves he summoned, together with many other kids. There was a lot of fun around, diving, fishing, splashing around, and swimming. This village hadn't learnt what the word of boring was. Mostly he liked it but unlike the others around he was closer to reality and in secret he trained a lot more. He still held a close contact to Tyson, who told him about the preparations in the South. Max followed the example, but people around him didn't'. Not yet. Max just wanted to be prepared.

Many children played outside this beautiful day. It had been raining during the morning, but now everything was so beautiful and he could see the rainbow poking from a cloud. The sun was about to set, which was wonderful since he could feel how tired he was now. He had helped some of the villagers to build yet another boat and it took a lot of work doing so. The boats were simply for fishing; they used bit beasts in almost everything else.

A small girl chirped happily, a silk band flowing behind her back. She held the band in one hand and waved it making it trail like a tail behind her. The other kids laughed, kids really could simply play with such simple things. Max couldn't help but to laugh.

The blonde blader had received a change upon clothes as well. He wore an emerald tunic with a yellow leather belt tied around the waist. Marine Blue pants and instead of the staff he had a bow. The staff had been broken in one of many small fights after all… this place wasn't completely unaffected. A few times demons had appeared and always whenever the children were close. Max had received, like a job; to look after the younger villagers and it was always he who had to fight in this, since most kids were too young to fight. They did train for fighting, but they didn't fight not yet. Once you were twelve you were allowed to join the armies.

That job had given him a lot of bruises he was happy that the Healing houses in the north was far better then the ones in the south. He had seen Ray's scars, the Neko Jin kept o training constantly. He had been sent over with some dried fish and met ray on the way. It had felt wonderful to talk with someone you knew.

Max sighed as a little girl approached him. She couldn't be more then six years old or something. The girl held out a big pearl in her palm, which she gave to him. Max blushed, from what he had heard that girl had a crush on him and kept giving hi pearls whenever they met. He hoped that the girl would get over with it soon, but nothing did seem to happen. Max sighed again and put the pearl into his pocket, together with a hundred ones.

The sun finally set and all kids returned to their homes. His duty for today was finally over and now he could get some moments of peace and quiet. So without looking back, which he should have done, he returned to bed. He never noticed the dark aura coming from the southeast or the howl telling them their time was over.

Tyson

Tyson woke up abruptly after having fallen asleep under a tree again. He was dressed in the same clothes still and his hair had been loosened so that it flew around in the wind. It was really a strange place taking a nap in, right in the eye of his own cyclone, but he didn't really care. He felt so lonely and had done so for the last couple of weeks since they all split up. He had heard some words from max saying how everything was great; rumours had travelled from the South about Kai's great leadership, who could deny that. And from the other side Ray was keeping his enemies at distance. Hilary hadn't visited him ever since she left, indeed she couldn't get out from the village. The girl was helping out as the Priestess of that place was getting married and the preparations took weeks. Easy to say he hated this, but if he complained he knew someone who would call him an ego. Indeed she was right, she had her own life as well. But she was still his girlfriend.

Tyson yawned as the winds around him slowly died. A smoking ring lay around him and people looked up as he walked back towards the temple. By all tins and towers he wasn't surprised this was a village dedicated for the love of wind and love of flying. Indeed this place had an advanced technology. He remembered one day he had come across some kids flying with large metal wings. It looked like fun so he tested himself. The feeling was something he would never forget.

Of course there were other ways of flying. Smiling mischievously the winds around him lifted him from the ground. This was a great fun, but a very dizzy after a while. You couldn't stay still that was for certain.

Tyson had no idea what was going on when suddenly he heard an explosion coming from the South gate of this place. He looked towards the west to see the last rays of sunshine drown into the darkness. He took this as a bad omen of an attack. His blade lay in his pocket and he ran his fingers over the bit chip to awaken Dragoon. The beast responded and before him the dragon materialised. Or nearly for when the sun left the dragon disappeared back. He had forgotten these things never worked when the sun was down.

Tyson started to run towards the gate. The guards all stood by the closed doors, but he had found another spot he used to keep watch upon. There was a hole into the village, probably no one knew about it that he sneaked through. He entered up in some bushes were he could keep a watch out for what was happening. His heart nearly beat its way through his chest in shock. There had to be a million demons out there, all waiting to take over this place.

The warning bells signalled to all villagers to take cover. Children and women screamed as they all hurried through the secret tunnels under the valley to get to safer locations and alert everyone else. Tyson gritted his teeth as the alarm sounded again and the soldiers followed by the demons clashed together. The sound was awful; demons literally tore people apart in which should not be detailed. The face of a man in death was more then he could stand and he closed his eyes. He could feel demons approaching him; they could pick out his scent. Well, they would not get him that easily.

A huge hurricane suddenly blocked him from them. He was standing in the middle watching these creatures feast upon his friends. He hurried to get away; demons didn't follow him strangely enough. He had to get to the Village of fire and that before more trouble arrived. He had to alert his friends about the dangers.

Demons stood upon the cold land of the once beautiful village. One of them, the big fat king, raised his hand in an important gesture.

"The Light days are over. Darkness has come to stay. Let us feast upon this land and what it has to offer. Let them pay for the torture they began!"

There was an ear-splitting noise of hurrahs as the king of demons had held the short but evil speech.

TBC

To reviewers:

Storms-winter: Oh, thank you. I am happy I managed to do it right this time. Anyway, about Daichi and Kim. Don't ask all their mysteries for even when I finish the last fic they will probably have more mysteries in store. And Daichi told everyone else what Zeo saw last chapter, about bit beasts becoming real. This feels like a lot of crap, but I had to make a second stage before the thing I am thinking. Hope you enjoyed!

Storm-of-insanity: Yeah, but don't you worry, I can't keep them apart forever. I would simply enough never get the weeks to continue if I didn't do anything like this. But the war has finally started, yes! Be prepared for a lot of more action and hopefully I didn't make you bored to death reading this chapter.

Kendo Baby: Yeah, have to agree. Thank you!

Z Star The Hidden Dragon: Oh, hope you have fun, however that is possible, back in school. Me, having too much work already. Anyway, hope I could bring your mood up with this new chapter. It took me AGES to write so sorry about that. Hope you enjoyed.

Fire Falcon: Cool name, have to say before I start this. Thanks for all the reviews, I wish I could have answered on all of them, but I am in a bit of a hurry so I better make this fast.

For your review chapter 2, reason they stayed out was because they had no idea what to do. Besides they hardly knew what they were up against. It is a slight difference battling beyblade and battling creatures like that.

And for your last review. Sorry, this story is Mariah/Ray and the pairings won't change. However if you really don't like Mariah/Ray then you will love fic number 4. I thought I could give the names of them all as well. Or the preliminary names for now.

Ps: It was Kim's second beast, Raya still has her fox.

Teaser

The war begins but how long will they be able to stand. And why does Light and Darkness have such an importance in this?

Titles

The Guardian of Light

The Protector of Darkness

Grey Lies- title to be changed probably. This was the last one thought out.

The Black Widows- one clear favourite!

The White Rose- used to have a very sad ending… kind of changed it since I got so depressed about it.

End Notes:

Ah, better go before my parents get back. Mum's birthday party is today and I just wanted to finish this, but it kind of took a little more time then I got. GTG, so not more notes for today.

Sayonara

Shitza