Wolf's Guardian Angel

The whole team was taken aback by Anya's comment.

"Black Dranzer? Are you sure?" Kai muttered disbelievingly.

"Why's that so hard to believe?" She snapped back.

That was when Tala stepped in.

"HELLO? Anyone in there? Black Dranzer is ONLY the dark replica of Dranzer, the bird is EVIL."

Anya folded her arms.

"I'm aware of that. Besides, I don't have Black Dranzer now, do I. So quit being so paranoid."

Silence.

"Good answer."

Dream

"Raidraia! Thunder Claw!"

"Kaexalea, Rycarraea, attack together! Yin Yang Fire Blizzard!"

As the 3 bit beasts hurtled towards each other, the two phoenixes flew in a spiral, creating a red and blue beam and unleashing a massive blizzard of ice and fire. Raidraia roared as it was defeated in a spectacular explosion of red-hot snow.

Anya picked up her blade as the hologram helmet was taken off of her head. Still weak from the last test, she collapsed to her knees. All of the sudden, she was falling through pitch black. She closed her eyes, expecting the end, but it didn't come. She opened her eyes again to find herself face-to-face with Kaexalea and Rycarraea. The two phoenixes stared down at her, leaving Anya in a state of awe. She knew the two like her flesh and blood, but this was overwhelming.

Mistress. They said together.

You have proven yourself worthy of being our master. But...

Anya cringed at the last, harsh syllable.

We are still incomplete. Find our brother the Black phoenix.

"How do I do that?"

Recover what you have lost, find your memory.

The next thing Anya knew, she was running down a hallway, yelling the name "Saidran!" Why was that name so hauntingly familiar?

"Anya!" A boy called out. She looked to the end of the hallway to see a hazy figure of a boy silhouetted by a light. As hard as she ran, she only seemed to get further away.

Suddenly... CRASH!

"AHHH!"

Anya awoke with a start, sitting bolt upright in her bed with a cold sweat on her face. It had all been a dream... a very strange and disturbingly familiar dream... Now that she had been thoroughly unnerved, Anya noiselessly got up and got dressed in her street clothes and slipped outside. It was still snowing lightly, and Anya folded her arms to keep herself warmer. Her pendant gave off a soft glow as Rycarraea emerged, using his fire to warm his mistress.

I had that dream again, Ry.

I know.

Ry, get Kae, will you? (Key: blader Kaexalea Rycarraea)

You called, Mistress?

She had The Dream again.

That always creeps me out.

It gets weirder every time, and I still can't figure out why in the world that Saidran kid is in there. DAMN IT!

Growing increasingly frustrated, Anya pulled out her blade and launcher and slotted her blade, the new one called Rycarraea Tempest X, and launched it with ease. The bit chip started to glow as the two phoenixes emerged from the split bit chip. For some reason, the two opposites always seemed to balance her out.

Tala woke up early the next morning to see that it had stopped snowing outside. Going to wake the others, he found that Anya wasn't in her room. Upon further venturing, he found her up on the roof. How the hell did she get up there?

"Hey, get down from there, we have to start training!" He shouted up to the silent phoenix. Anya just looked down at him as if to say "Who, me?"

"I'm talking to you, jackass!"

"You know, for someone in no position to be getting me down, I suggest you watch what you say to me." She said calmly. Too calmly.

"Well, you're not joining the team if you don't participate."

"As great an opportunity as that sounds, I suppose I have no other choice."

"Then get down from there? Or are you stuck?" He smirked at the last half of his rebuttal.

"Just don't call me a showoff when I get down."

"Whatever."

To his surprise, Anya leapt off the roof doing two frontal flips before landing gracefully on her feet in the snow in a crouching position, just like a cat.

"Showoff."

Anya's eye twitched.

"It's only fair to warn you, I have an extremely short fuse for assholes like you, don't make me get physical."

"Was that a threat?"

"Dude, I could kick your ass any day of the week."

"You wish."

"Oh, so you want me to prove it?" She asked in a placidly amused tone as she pulled her hair back into a ponytail she had on her wrist.

"Man, this is going to be a looooong day."

Back inside, Tala returned with Anya who apparently had been sitting outside of quite some time, judging by the snowflakes in her hair.

She must have been out there all night. Kai thought to himself.

"So, what's the plan for today?" Spencer asked still half-asleep.

"Tests, tests and more tests."

The others looked at him quizzically.

"We still have to figure out what this girl can do." He said adding disgusted emphasis on the word 'girl'.

Anya groaned in frustration.

"I swear, if this sexist bullshit business about me being a girl keeps up I'm going to-"

Tala cut her off with a glare. Anya returned the glare, her icy blue eyes flickering in fury. "Both of you knock it off." Kai growled.

That only made the two glare at him, and Kai remained silent.

"You're both acting like children. If we're going to go through with these test, I suggest both of you cool it." Spencer's tone carried a threatening vibe to it.

It was at that exact moment that the wind and snow started to pick up outside. Tala looked over to Anya.

"You got lucky."

She smirked in response, then walked off.

Back in her room, Anya was hacking into the old Abbey files looking at Kae's and Ry's triplet's profile.

Black Dranzer Stats

Name: Black Dranzer

Also known as: Branzer

Species: Phoenix

Element: Dark/Shadow/Wind

Gender: Male

Attacks:

Dark Saber (Offense)

Shadow Arrows (Offense)

Eclipse Emission (Offense)

Spiral Survivor (Defense)

Other:

Not related to Dranzer

Eldest triplet of 3 phoenixes

Relatives: Rycarraea (Fire/Wind), Kaexalea (Ice/Wind)

So, Black Dranzer basically a darker, more powerful version of Kai's Dranzer. She thought to herself. And since Kaexalea is younger than Ry, that means they were born in order Dark, Fire, and Ice. Interesting...

Mind racing and hands flying over the keys, Anya ventured further into the files and gasped when she saw the list of previous wielders of the Dark Phoenix. The most recent entry was Kai Hiwatari.

It was some time later that Tala saw Anya emerge from her room and head in the direction of the gym. Growing somewhat curious, he followed her after a few minutes. She was working out and to his utter shock, she was benching over 100 pounds! The only other person that could do that was Spencer, but Anya made it look easy. After a moment or two, she set down the weights and went to work on the punching bag in the corner. Unlike Kai, who usually boxed at it for hours on end, Anya used a series of kickboxing, martial arts and boxing moves to beat the stuffing out of it. What really caught Tala's attention was –now that she had on a training shirt that bared her shoulders- that there was a tattoo on her left shoulder, a red, blue and black phoenix.

Snap out of it.

Unfortunately, that got him to staring at her figure. Each time she swung a kick or a punch at the punching bag, her back muscles would tense. She was built like a gymnast, strong, flexible, and extremely agile. Hell, she almost looked like a ninja. What was really impressive was the smooth, fluid rhythm she moved in.

What the hell am I doing? Tala forced himself out of his stare and kept on walking.

Anya kept swinging punch after punch at the black punching bag, trying to get the blood flowing to try and get an idea as to how in the word Black Dranzer, or Branzer, could possibly be related to her bit beasts.

Kaexalea, Rycarraea, and Black Dranzer. It just doesn't sound right...