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Chapter III – Open the Box of Surprises

"It's been a while." Kiyo said.

Draciel did exactly what Dranzer did previously. He went next to the boy and gave him a warm welcome.

"WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!" Tyson complained.

"Sorry." The teenage boy apologized. "I am Suisen of Hidden Ocean, former conductor of Draciel. But unlike Kiyo, who has been watching you, I do not know you."

The Saint Shields and Bladebreakers looked at each other and eventually looked at Kiyo. Kiyo knew they we wondering about the fact of him watching them, but he shrugged in answer.

"Oh, well…" Kenny said. "My name is Kenny, but the others call me chief. This is Tyson, Max, Ray, and Kai. We're known as the Bladebreakers."

Kenny pointed at each of them as he said their names. Suisen gave a small bow as a silent 'pleasure to meet you.' He then looked at the Saint Shields who were startled when they realized it.

"S-Sorry." Ozuma said stuttering for the first time. "I'm Ozuma, the leader of the Saint Shield. This is Mariam, Joseph, and Dunga. Mariam and Joseph are brother and sister."

"Nice to meet you." Suisen said. Draciel had gone back next to Max, still spinning.

"You take long introductions as always." Kiyo complained. "So how did you know I was here?"

"The water started having ripples again." Suisen answered.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Ray asked.

"Suisen can read water waves. After the eight of us broke up, the water had always been still. I believe the only other time the water moved was when the four of us found you." Driger answered.

"So where's this water?" Max questioned.

"It's water that you cannot see. The water that is in all of us." Suisen explained calmly. "Each of us four children can read different element that are in the human body. The ones that can tell you the darkest secrets. I can read water, Kiyo can read fire, Din can read lightning and thunder, and…"

Suisen stopped speaking and looked at the wind blowing the leaves. Kiyo and the bit-beasts did as well. The Bladebreakers and the Saint Shield looked at the six of them. They followed where their eyes were looking and understood right away. Everyone was thinking about Kazekuro.

Memories of Kazekuro flooded the minds of Kiyo and Suisen. The times they laughed together, played together, trained together… and then the time the fought each other.

Tyson saw all the sad faces around and tried to think of something that would cheer everyone up. An idea struck him like lightning.

"I know!" Tyson yelled, breaking the silence. Kiyo and Suisen turned to look at him. "Let's have a beybattle! Then you can see how our… err… the bit beast have improved!"

"Sounds like fun. Shall we start?" Suisen asked.

He took out a beyblade that was deep blue and had sky blue borders. Kiyo took out the blade they had all seen before, the gray blade with red flames and a black flame instead of a bit-Suisen had a picture of a wave in that place. Everyone (that includes the Saint Shields) took out the launchers and blades.

"READY… SET… LET IT RIPPPP!" everyone yelled. The combined yells made it sound like a huge speaker at maximum power.

Everyone chose one opponent and battled with them. Tyson battled Ozuma, Kai battled Dunga, Ray battled Joseph, Max battled Mariam (don't all these scenes look familiar?), and Kiyo battled Suisen. Amazingly enough, each one of those battles ended up in ties. Everyone fell down and rested as they looked up at the clear blue sky.

"So how and why are you here?" Mariam asked tiredly.

"I couldn't believe that Kiyo was back. After all, he died right in front of my eyes." Suisen said quietly. "So for the first time in over 200 years, I left my village in order to look for him. Now that's he's here, even I can't believe it."

"I was going to see you… but I had some problems along the way from my superiors. It had something to do with the deal I made but I guess it makes no difference now…" Kiyo muttered.

Suisen heard him, but he looked away. Was his superior he was talking about Sita or the sorcerer Klow?

"I know!" Tyson yelled. "Let's go to your house to see if we can get any information! If Kazekuro is back, we'll need to find out all we can."

"Well… I suppose it doesn't matter." Suisen answered uneasily.

"We can't go." Ozuma said. "We have other things to do back at the village. And besides, this is all on you guys; we have nothing to do with it."

Tyson saw his face and knew there was no way to talk him out of it. He gave a small smile as an ok and the rest of the gang got ready to go. Everyone was excited to go and ran all over the house to pack.

"You won't need to bring anything…" Suisen said.

Kiyo laughed quietly as Suisen sighed. They were too excited to listen to them now.

"Why aren't you packing?" Suisen said tiredly.

"Well, I never had anything in the beginning so there's nothing to pack!" Kiyo replied.

About half an hour later everyone was ready. The Saint Shields left to go home and the Bladebreakers set off with Suisen and Kiyo to Hidden Ocean.

"So how are we getting there?" Hilary said excitedly. They were walking down the road with heavy backpacks. "Airplane, bus, boat…"

"The place is called Hidden Ocean for a reason." Suisen said. "There are only a couple villagers there whose ancestor's used to live in Crest Valley. You can't get there by airplane or anything. You'll have to walk. How do you think I got here?"

Hilary groaned as she felt her shoulders leave her body. The rest of the Bladebreakers (except Kai) felt like they were walking in a desert with rocks on their back.

"If you listened to him instead of running around to pack, you would've heard that he said not to bring anything." Kiyo added.

"Is it possible that you know any technique get the bit-beasts to help us get there faster?" Ray said exhausted.

Suisen shook his head. "I'm not a conductor anymore so I can't do anything about that." He looked at Kiyo. "But surely Kiyo had some kind of magic given to him by the sorcerer, right?"

"Well actually… I can use black fire, but that's about it. The only thing that would do is make things worse." Kiyo said as he thought. "So now I guess you'll just have to hope that one of my superiors will come by because they have higher level magic that can take us there. Otherwise, we'll have to walk."

The others groaned. Kai simply kept walking but thought exactly what Suisen was thinking. Who were the superiors Kiyo was talking about? Suisen truly wanted to ask Kiyo but did. Eventually Hilary asked how long it would take to get there. Suisen said it took him three days but since he was searching then, it took longer. That raised Hilary's hopes to think that they would get there by the end of the day. However Kiyo killed her hopes and said it would take about 2½ days.

Max slammed into Suisen, who had abruptly stopped. He looked to see why and once he saw, he started backing up.

"D-Dragon…" Max said slightly trembling. "A real dragon…"

Tyson's eyeballs fell out as the Chief nearly fainted. Even Kai was surprised to see this. It was no bit-beast, but a true dragon. The wind was gathering around it. It sat on the ground as if it were waiting for them.

"Oh cool, it's Sasen (PDE: it's not that hard to say… Sa-sen… I just took out the hyphen. It is a name I completely made up.)." Kiyo said. He walked towards the dragon. It lowered its head to him.

He motioned for them to climb on and they all eventually did. There was a long silence due to the shock. The dragon took off into the sky and headed towards Hidden Ocean.

"At this rate, it'll only take a day!" Kiyo said happily.

"Kiyo…" Suisen said annoyed. "Explain."

To Be Continued