-Begin chapter Twelve-
Memory Loss Complications-Begin Dream Sequence-
A young girl, probably no older than fourteen was chained against a wall, blood coming from her wrists, spikes were lining the inside of the cuffs. The girl's black eyes were watching a beybattle intensely. One of the blades was as white as pure snow, the other was so black it swallowed all the light that hit it.
In the air were two huge bit beasts. One was a white horse. It shone brightly, using its angelic wings to attack the other, it also had light blue eyes and a unicorn's horn. The other was almost a mirror image of the other, except it was pure black, radiating a black aurora and blood red eyes. Other details couldn't be seen because it was so extremely dark. Both were fighting each other, each time they meet, the blades crashed.
The two bladers were also opposites. One was a girl with shoulder length brown hair and deep silver eyes, streaked turquoise. She grimly watched the battle, urging the white unicorn on. The other was a young boy with black eyes and cropped black hair.
After several minutes the white blade was sent flying out of the dish, cracked all over the place, but not broken, yet. The unicorns faded and disappeared into their respective bit chips.
"No!" The girl on the wall watched horrified as an ice blue blade with feathery silver streaks on it was smashed. The only thing left was a bit chip, surprisingly intact. The girl that had been fighting saw what had happened to the blade, but was paying more attention to the girl who was on the wall.
Tears of pain streamed down her cheeks as several volts of electricity ran through her body, via the cuffs on her wrists. After a few minutes of pain she was released from her position three feet above the floor. When her feet touched the ground, her knees gave out from under her and she collapsed onto the ground.
There was the pounding of several feet as the young girl tried to push herself off the ground, only succeeding in collapsing again. The girl who had been blading earlier looked at her with concern.
"Tell Mr. Dickinson we need to get to a hospital, fast!"
The girl closed her eyes and when she opened them again she was staring at the faces of Kane, Jim, and Goki. They were all smiling and laughing teasingly at her.
"Come on Salima, you don't have to trip all the time, do you?"
-End Dream Sequence-
Rei had woken up very early that morning, and was walking around the park, a while before the sun had even started to rise. He tried to walk off all of his worries before the others woke up and started to look for him, but once it was six and the sun had started to rise, he gave up on that plan.
He continued his walk in the park and eventually veered off the trails made for people to go through the park. He came to a clearing and found Salima, she was sleeping near the base of a tree, shivering slightly. He walked over to Salima and poked her gently.
She looked up at Rei, blinking slowly. "Rei…?"
"What, Salima?"
"What are you doing here, Rei?"
"I couldn't sleep so I decided to walk around the park."
"I see…"
"You were shivering. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Rei nodded he stood up straight and held out his hand to help Salima up. She took his offer and stared into his eyes for a few seconds before looking at the ground. "What time is it?"
Rei quickly dropped his hand to his side and he shook his head, trying to get certain thoughts about a certain red head out of his mind. "I thinks its about eight, the others should be up by now."
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The entire group, which now consisted of Tyson, Max, Rei, Kai, Kenny, Hillary, Molly, Salima, Lily, Lea and Daisy, walked around the town. Everyone was talking about one thing or another, except for Kai, Lily and Lea who were all doing their best to ignore the others and think about their own thoughts without voicing them.
"Rei!"
Rei turned around in time to see Mariah coming up to hug him. He braced himself for her usual glomp and hugged her back, slightly. After a second Mariah took a step backwards. "Hey Mariah, what are you doing here?"
"We were taking a small vacation and decided to come here. Is that a problem?"
"No."
Rei smiled down at the pink haired girl that was like a sister to him. He had taught her how to beyblade many years ago, and he liked to consider her as his sister of sorts since he was an only child. Mariah spotted Salima and a huge grin found its way to her face. She enveloped the red head into a hug, surprising everyone slightly. "Salima, its good to see you again!"
Salima blinked a few times. "eh? Sorry, I don't know what you mean."
Mariah stepped backwards and looked at her with confusion. "Aren't you Salima?"
"Yeah, but I don't think we've met before."
"No…you and your team came to visit our village once to get away from the newspapers, don't you remember, you were probably only eleven at the time."
Rei suddenly remembered something Salima had said to him the previous night. 'A lot of people come up to me, saying they know me…and I can't remember them.' He also remembered something else. It was about the time Mariah was talking about now.
-Begin Flashback-
The young white tigers were playing with their beyblades in a small clearing that had had all the grass removed from it just for that reason, so they could practice with their beyblades. Just then one of the elders walked into the clearing."Children, we have some visitors we'd like you to met and feel at home for the time they'll be staying here."
Rei looked up at the old man. It was clearly written on his face that he didn't like the idea of these visitors staying for any amount of time in the village. "How long will they be staying here?"
"About a week."
In a few minutes they were lead to the gathering area in the village and they saw four eleven and twelve-year old girls standing there. One had free flowing purple hair that fell to her waist and orange eyes, she looked to be a real wild-flower. Another had orange hair and black eyes, she had a real kind expression on her face. The third had wavy blonde hair and purple eyes, she was smiling at the white tigers. The last one looked to have the same personality as the one with purple hair, she had wavy gold-brown hair and silver eyes. All of them had small packs and a beyblade in their hands.
By the end of the week the one with orange hair, Salima, had become fast friends with Mariah, and both girls were kind of upset at having to leave. Rei had also become friends with Salima and was upset at her leaving for his own reasons that he wouldn't understand for several more years.
-End flashback-
Rei looked down at Salima and over to the BeyGirls. 'that's why they were so familiar to me before, they had come to my village for a while.' He looked softly down at Mariah, who still hadn't gotten her explanation yet. Mariah caught his eye and he gave her a look that said he would explain later.
"Whatever, it was a long time ago, you might have forgotten."
Salima nodded, knowing better than Mariah the truth of her statement. Mariah shrugged and left.
"What was that all about?" Everyone turned to look at Rei. Rei's gold eyes flicked over to the BeyGirls for a second and then at the others. He didn't want to lie to his friends, but he wanted to talk to Mariah about this first, and Lily too of course.
Later that day he managed to sneak out of the dojo and walked around the park a little, he spotted Mariah, by herself, and ran up to her. "Hey, Mari."
Mariah snickered at the nickname she was called by her friends. "Hey Rei. What was up with Salima earlier? I know you remember when her and her team were visiting us before."
Rei sighed, and nodded, showing he understood what she had just said. "Yeah, I know. Its just that, she seems to have lost her memory a few years ago, and probably can't remember that."
"Oh, like amnesia?"
"Yeah."
Mariah nodded and sighed. "Okay, will…can she ever remember?"
"Maybe. I'm no expert."
-End Chapter Twelve-