DISCLAIMER: I do not own any part of Beyblade, J.R.R. Tolkien's works, Inu Yasha, or Gene Roddenberry's works. I only own my own characters. Please ask me if you intend to use my characters.

CAUTION: Mild swearing and some violence and bloodshed.

NOTE: This story takes place after G Revolution. Tyson and co. are currently at Tyson's house. Also, the former Bladebreakers will be in the story… ALL of them!

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Chapter 1: A New Beginning

"Tyson, wait up!" called Kenny, as Tyson moved towards the door. "Aw come on, Chief, I'm hungry, so hurry up!" Daichi walked out of the house and said, "Okay, Tyson, we're coming. You don't have to rush, you know."

Tyson ran out the yard before anyone else could say something. Kenny and Daichi winced as they heard a crash and Tyson yelling, "Hey, watch where you're going!"

Daichi and Kenny ran out of the yard to find Tyson and a boy on the ground. Kenny gasped, "Tyson, what happened!" Tyson said, "Some clumsy dude smashed into me and gave me a huge bump on my head!"

"Hey, watch what you say, kid!" Everyone looked over at the kid Tyson had knocked down. He had long black hair streaked with silver pulled in a high ponytail and his ears were pointed. He was wearing a dark gray jacket with black edges and black pants and black boots. He looked to be about 15 or so and his eyes were dark brown.

Tyson stood up and glared at the kid, "What, you got a problem with how I talk?" The kid got up as well and was a few inches taller than Tyson. He snarled, "Yeah, I got a problem. My problem is that you're the one who knocked me down, not the other way around. I'm not the clumsy one, you are!"

Tyson was about to say something back when Hilary came around the corner and asked curiously, "Hey guys, what's going on?" Daichi shrugged, "I don't know, Tyson wanted to eat out, so he rushed out and someone crashed into him or something."

The kid growled, "I did NOT crash into him!" An authorative voice cut in, "Come on, Koguro, we're wasting our time here, let's go." Tyson, Hilary, Daichi and Kenny all stared at the owner of the voice. A pair of emerald green eyes stared back at them, somewhat annoyed.

The green eyes belonged to a girl of average height. She looked about the same age as Koguro and she wore a white jacket with dark blue edges and it had a turtle neck. She wore white pants and light brown boots. She had straight orange hair and her ears were pointed, like Koguro's, but sharper.

Daichi eyes widened and he said, "Whoa, are those ears real?" Kenny moaned, "Daichi!" The girl's eyes narrowed and she said stiffly, "Let's go, Koguro." Koguro wrinkled his nose in disgust and replied, "Yeah, let's get out of here before my nose gets swamped by the smell of those children."

A vein throbbed in Tyson's temple and he roared, "How dare you!" and was about to charge at Koguro but was held back by Kenny, Hilary and Daichi. "Chill, Tyson! You're just going to give him the satisfaction of knowing you can get riled!" Tyson growled as he glared at Koguro and the girl's figures rounding the corner.

Kenny sighed, "Tyson, you need to be more mindful of what you say to people." Tyson groaned, "Look Kenny, I don't need to be lectured right now, okay? I just want to eat."

Daichi roared, "Then what are we waiting for, let's go!"

Ray found himself walking towards an old abandoned warehouse at the back of a dark alley. He also found that he couldn't control himself, no matter how hard he tried.

His body entered the old warehouse and Ray was shocked to find what looked like a portal or a gateway. Ray approached it slowly and saw a thin forest at the edge of a plain.

Some instinct cried out to Ray to not touch the portal, but his body had stopped listening to him and his hand slowly reached out to the rippling image.

His world suddenly jolted and the image turned into crackling energy, sucking Ray into it. He felt as if he was falling. A roaring filled his ears and he fell off his bed, stunned and gasping for air.

Mariah stared down at Ray with wide eyes, "Ray, are you okay? You looked like you were having a nightmare or something." Ray blinked incomprehensibly at her, then shook his head and stood up, "I'm fine, it was just some weird dream."

Mariah nodded her head, unconvinced, "Okay, Ray. Oh, Lee wanted me to tell you that we're going out for breakfast, so if you want to come with us, you'll have to get dressed and meet us down in the lobby in ten minutes." Ray nodded and grabbed his shirt and went into the washroom.

'What a strange dream, it almost seems… real.' Ray thought as he washed up. He felt a weak tug on his mind and frowned, 'I think I'm going crazy.' He suddenly thought back to his dream and shook his head, 'Or someone or some thing is trying to tell me something. Okay, I am just being paranoid.'

He left the hotel room and went downstairs and looked around. 'Mariah and the guys must've left already. I guess I'll just go for a walk, I'm not that hungry anyway.'

Ray wandered lazily through the streets of the small town in which he and the rest of the White Tiger X are staying. He gazed at the various shops and stores along the street he was walking on and at the children running around.

The sound of people yelling reached his sensitive ears and he wandered over to the source of the sound. What Ray saw a moment later brought a grin to his face.

"I'm still hungry!" A dark blue haired teenager yelled. A girl yelled back, "Too bad, Tyson! You're not getting any more! If you do, we're all going to go broke!" Another voice joined in, "Will you two shut up! All your yelling is driving me crazy!"

"Oh, look who's talking! You're louder than any of us!" Ray shook his head and smiled, 'There they go again, always yelling at each other. I think I should go calm them down, the people in the store are getting a bit annoyed with them.'

He walked up to them and said, "Uh, guys? The people in the store are getting quite annoyed with you guys yelling." Kenny groaned, "Finally, someone who can calm these people down." Tyson, Hilary and Daichi looked up at Ray. Tyson blinked, the grinned widely, "Hey, Ray! How are you?" Hilary and Daichi both smiled and said hi.

Tyson continued, somewhat quieter, "So, what are you doing, and where's the rest of the White Tiger X?" Ray shrugged, "The guys went off to find breakfast. I didn't feel hungry so I decided to take a walk, and that's how I found you guys."

Then, a jolly voice spoke up, "Hey guys, what's up?" Tyson shouted out in surprise, "Max! What are you doing here?" Max grinned widely and said, "Just checking out the commotion. With all the noise you guys were making, half the town can hear you!"

Hilary and Tyson and Daichi were arguing among themselves again and Max was asking Kenny about something, but Ray didn't notice them, for his attention was drawn to the alley beside the store. His ears picked up a faint voice deep in the alley. "Ray… help me…" Ray frowned slightly, 'It sounds like… Mariah!'

Kenny noticed Ray's expression and asked, "Ray, are you okay?" Tyson, Hilary, Max and Daichi all calmed down and looked at Ray. Tyson got up and waved his hand in Ray's face. "Yo, Ray. You in there, man?" Ray glanced sharply at Tyson, "Mariah's in trouble!" He then darted down the alley.

Tyson yelled, "Ray!" He followed Ray into the alley. Hilary groaned and told a waiter, "Put the tab under Mr. Dickenson!" Their friends ran after Tyson and Ray.

"Ray, wait up!" Ray ignored his friends' cries and ran further down. What he saw at the end of the alley shocked him. He saw the warehouse that had appeared in his dream and gasped. Tyson caught up to him and wheezed, "What's wrong with you, man! Running off like that!" Daichi and the others caught up and stared at the warehouse.

Hilary said, "I didn't know there was a warehouse in here!" Everyone nodded in agreement. Ray frowned, then strode up to the abandoned warehouse's doors. Tyson hissed, "Ray, what do you think you're doing!" Kenny whimpered, "I don't think we should be here."

Ray ignored them and walked into the warehouse. Everyone shivered at the sight of him seemingly getting swallow by the darkness. Tyson groaned and said, "Come on." He then followed Ray into the warehouse.

In the dim light of the warehouse, Ray heard hushed voices in the far back of the warehouse. His friends were about to say something when he held up his hand for silence. He strained his ears and picked up faint traces of conversation. "What if people find out… they can't know… perilous…" He heard a small intake of breath from Hilary.

He waved his hand at his friends and they followed him quietly, navigating around stacks of boxes.

What they found at the end of the warehouse brought shock to them all. A tall gateway stood in front of the back wall and in it, a shimmering view of a thin forest. In front of it stood Tanika and a wolf.

Tanika and the wolf were having a hushed conversation, "We need to get help, if we don't, the problem will get worse." Tanika said. The wolf shook its head, "No, if news of these gateways appearing out of nowhere gets out, both worlds will go into chaos!"

Tanika snorted, "Lissësúl has already started falling apart, and Earth is always in chaos, and you still talk as if both worlds are fine, as they were hundreds of years ago!" The wolf shook its head adamantly, "I don't mean any offense, but I know humans more than you do, and they can cause more trouble than you know. Just by having a gateway appear here is bad enough, but what if some blundering human finds out?"

Hilary gasped and Kenny accidentally knocked down a box. The wolf snarled and disappeared, turning into Koguro, which prompted Daichi to lose his balance and crash into Tyson and they both tumbled out into the open. The rest guiltily came out into the open.

They could hear the cold fury in Tanika's voice, "Why are you here? You should not be here!" Koguro growled deeply, but before he could say anything, he glimpsed a pair of indigo eyes in the dark.

The pair of eyes blinked in surprise. 'This is getting quite interesting…' Kai raised a blue eyebrow and thought back to how he had come upon this strange scene.

Flashback:

Dranzer was spinning on the broken concrete when Kai's head shot up. The noise of people running and shouting reached his ears. He raised an eyebrow and a ghost of a smile came and went. The shouts and the pounding got louder, "Ray, wait up!" Kai collected Dranzer and jumped into a leafy tree and waited patiently.

Ray burst out of an alley and stopped in front of an abandoned warehouse. Tyson and the others caught up to Ray and Tyson subjected Ray to some verbal abuse.

Then, Ray and company went into the warehouse. Kai jumped down quietly and followed them in.

-Flashback ends-

His ears picked up a rustling sound behind him and Kai turned around in time to see a pair of angry brown eyes before the person rammed into him. Kai and the person tumbled out into the open, where everyone gaped in shock at them.

The person growled in anger and a pair of very sharp looking canine teeth glinted in the dim light the gateway gave out. The duo continued to grapple and tumble about, and Kai started to feel a bit weak, when he was involuntarily provided with the distraction he needed.

"Koguro, what… how…!" Koguro looked up for a moment at Tanika for a brief moment, and that was the break Kai needed. Kai tucked his legs in and gave a powerful push with his legs and kicked Koguro into a piled of cardboard boxes. The boxes tumbled down on top of and around the dazed Koguro and buried him from sight.

Kai stood up, a bit wobbly and walked over to his friends who were standing, looking aghast. Max stared at Kai, "Are you okay, Kai?" Kai grunted and looked at Tanika. "You," he said with a smirk, "should get explaining."

Tanika gazed at him unperturbed "Why should I listen to you?" Kai stared back at her, "In case you haven't noticed, I just knocked out your friend and you are outnumbered." Tanika smiled dangerously, "Don't let size fool you, and are you sure you knocked out Koguro? I think you'd better check!"

"Don't let her fool you, Kai." Ray warned. Kai glanced at him, "I assure you, I'm very hard to fool." Tanika raised her eyebrows and grinned. Daichi whined, "Stop grinning like that, you're giving me the creeps." Tanika's grin started to look dangerous.

A dark blur came flying out and collided with Kai at high speed. It turned out to be Koguro. The pair went tumbling down again, but this time, the impact of Koguro's collision sent them tumbling into the gateway.

The gently rippling image of a meadow with a forest at the edge sucked them in and a bright, white light engulfed the warehouse.

"KAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"

This is my first chapter of this story! Please tell me if any of the Beyblade people are out of character! I appreciate all your help. Also, tell me what you think of my own characters!

I will explain what Lissësúl is next chapter.

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