-1EBONY

I was woken to the usual greeting of Soraya jumping on the bed and clambering towards me holding a newspaper in her hands. I was surprised to see Kai beside me as was Soraya. My little girl sat on my lap as I read the paper and she tried to read it with me. Eventually Kai woke up to find us looking at the paper. "Anything interesting?"

"Not really." I said in a dull sort of way looking through the pages. Soraya looked at Kai with great interest without any fear this time. Kai patted his thigh and she came over to him and sat on his lap instantly. They smiled at each other and she kissed him on the cheek as he moved strands of hair away from her face. "She's got your hair." He said holding the tiny person close. "She's got your eyes." I replied and he smiled at me.

Soraya looked at her father and traced his cheeks with her finger. "Why don't you wear those blue triangle anymore?" She asked tracing the areas where they should've been. "I can't wear them to work."

"But your not at work."

"No your not." I teased and Soraya was still tracing Kai's face with her finger. He looked from me to Soraya and sighed. He got out of bed and went over to his chest of draws and took out a pot of blue face paint. I watched as he applied them with great skill and little time. It was just like riding a bike, even though some years had passed he still remembered what to do. He looked in the mirror and smiled. He had a far away look on his face when he saw himself, it was like he was remembering his past. "How does it feel?"

"Like putting on an old shoe." He turned to look at us and Soraya smiled whilst clapping her hands together. I remembered the time I had to wipe them off with my sleeve when he made them run by crying. Just thinking about that horrible time when that old butler tape recorded my conversation with him made me angry. I blocked it out and enjoyed my morning with my family.

Three days had passed and we were acting like any normal family. I still hadn't told Kai about the excavation in china. But when the forth day finally came round I willed myself to tell him.

I made sure he was in a good mood at lunch before dropping it in to the conversation. At first he looked at me as if I was making a joke. But one look at me told him otherwise and he wasn't quite sure what to say. "How long will you be gone?" I shrugged my shoulders. "I made sure to come back before you leave whether the excavation is finished or not."

"That's good to know. When do you leave?"

"At the end of this week." I said not meeting his eyes I could feel he didn't want me to go but I had a job to do. "Tyson's father and Mr. Dickinson planned it thinking I need a brake from holding the baby so to speak."

"I'm not a baby!" Soraya exclaimed making me and Kai laugh. Her cheeks turned red and she sat back down from behaving like one. "At least this will give you and Soraya some times alone." Kai's eyes widened and Soraya played with her food. Neither of them liked the sound of this. Kai was ok with Soraya when I was around but when they were alone together they didn't talk or look at each other in case they made a mistake. "Oh come on you two cheer up, it's not the end of the world and besides, you two need some quality time together."

KAI

As much as I hated the sound of this she did have a point. Soraya and I didn't have what you would call a father and daughter relationship. Eventually Soraya and I came round to the idea of having some time alone to get to know each other better.

The next day we all went down the park to meet up with some old friends. Soraya and I persuaded Kai to put his triangles and scarf on or he couldn't come. Kai found this irritating but decided to play along to have an easier life.

Everyone I expected to be there turned up as well as some others I hadn't counted on. Tyson was there and had brought his son Tyrone. Kenny was there typing on his laptop as usual and much to my relief his wife wasn't there. I could really do without her singing right now. Max was just as happy as ever, his fathers business was doing well now that max was working in the shop too. James his son had come but Emily had to stay behind in America. He had his fathers hair and his mothers eyes.

I was surprised to see Ray and Mariah were there too, I thought they would still be in China. Yow looked exactly like his father when I first met him, whereas Tema looked nothing like her mother. She had aqua blue hair and wore blue clothes instead of pink. "She doesn't like pink." Ray explained to me and I couldn't help but smirk.

The only person missing was Hilary. "She's just taking a detention and will be here in an hour." Tyson said. I watched as the children took out their parents blades and started battling bit beasts en all. Like Yow Tyrone was a mini version of his father and had a flair for blading like his father. Ray's kids were just as talented so I watched them with great interest. "I've got a surprise for you Kai." Ebony said in a mysterious way. I raised an eyebrow in curiosity as she called Soraya over to us. "Show your father what you can do with his blade."

"So that's where it went." I remembered looking through my desk for my blade. The only clue as to who took it were little fingerprints in the dust surrounding it. I smiled and got back to my family knowing exactly where it went.

I watched as Soraya launched Dranzer with great skill and accuracy for someone of her age. Looks like I've just found another attribute she's inherited from her parents. She blades like her life depended on it and I shot a concerned look at Ebony who shook her head. "Don't worry about her. I make sure she doesn't blade too hard or she won't have anything left for school." I smiled and saw Soraya dodge through the trees effortlessly. But what happened next took my breath away.

A light erupted from her blade making Dranzer appear. "How did she…?"

"She was training hard one day and he just flew in to her blade. Another old shoe from the past? I'm sure he thought that when he went back in to your old blade." Ebony laughed at the look on my face of complete and utter shock. I let Dranzer fly away years ago only for him to return to my blade for the next generation of my family? Well either way he was back and it felt good to see the old phoenix again.

Thirty minutes later and someone dressed in a long black coat and black wide rimmed hat (The kind you see Yojimbo wear in ff10.) came in to the park at terrific speed on a skate board. She got off the board and tucked it under her arm. Then she performed a fantastic leap in to the branches that would've given Mystel a run for his money.

A few seconds later she was followed by a very familiar voice coming after. "Here comes Gob-zilla." Ebony proclaimed as she turned to where the noise was coming from. We turned to see Hilary running towards the girl looking very angry. "I thought you said she wouldn't be here for another hour." I asked Tyson who seemed as confused as I was. "ONYX! YOUR TIME ISN'T FINISHED IN DETENTION!" The volume of her voice made the kids jump and Soraya ran for cover behind Ebony.

"Looks like the kid made a break for it." I wasn't surprised by that explanation, if I was Hilary's pupil I would want to switch schools asap.

Hilary looked up as the girl sat back and lazily looked at the sky. She put her arms behind her head with one leg flat and one leg bent "She does the same thing as you Kai." I sighed at Ebony's point even thought she had one.

That girl could sit up there until Hilary turned blue in the face. But then Hilary took something out of her pocket and held it up to the girl. "I guess you don't want this back then?" This brought the girl's attention back no end, she looked no less than murderous at Hilary. She stood up but still didn't come down towards the angry teacher. We studied what could only be described as one of the most deadly looking Beyblades I have ever seen. It was in a gothic style with the blades in sickle shaped formation. The launcher was just as gothic with a small sliver chain hanging from it. On the chain was a pair of dog tags meaning someone very close to her must've died from a military background.

I looked up at the girl to see why she was called onyx. I saw the reason when she raised her head to let the sunlight reveal her eyes. Her iris's were just as black as her hair, they stuck out greatly against the white of her eyes.

Hilary had no idea we were there until Max called her name. Hilary turned round and was shocked to see us here. "You really need anger management Hilary." Ebony teased at the wrong moment as Hilary exploded and started to rant and rave about how this was not funny.

Whilst Hilary was doing that Onyx had taken out a black whip. She made the branch bend down by walking along it stopping just before the end. She twirled the whip around her head like a lasso and aimed it at Hilary. Before anyone could shout out a warning Onyx attacked. But the whip didn't even touch Hilary, instead it wrapped around the launcher and ripped it out of Hilary's grasp. She turned round and yelled at Onyx who didn't pay any attention to her at all.

Then as a finale she jumped to another tree before jumping off a branch and landing on her skateboard. She jumped over a nearby park bench with her board going under it at the same time. Then grinded down a handrail of stairs leading out of the park.

Hilary looked beaten and proclaimed she gave up with that kid and joined us. "What do you mean give up with her?" Tyson asked not quite believing Hilary was beaten at her own game. Hilary sighed and decided to tell us a story.

"Onyx used to be a great kid. Turned up for lessons, worked hard at her assignments. She liked everyone and everything." She sighed. "But then three years ago her whole world was turned upside down. Her parents had gone missing and all they found were her fathers dog tags. But two weeks after that she was asked to identify the bodies of two murder victims who had been shot in the back. From what I was told she didn't cry and hasn't since. But her anger for the people who did this is tearing her apart."

"Anger management classes?" Ray suggested but Hilary shook her head. "That doesn't work. Now she can't care about anything to do with school and gets in so many fights. Detentions don't work, punishments are being given left and right but still she doesn't respond. The headmaster is starting to give up. If she doesn't find a way of coping with her anger then she'll be expelled. She pushed all her friends away and doesn't like anyone or anything. But then I found her beyblading on the beach with all her heart and venting out a lot of anger and hate. But even with that there is still so much left inside of her. I'm not even sure she feels anything else anymore."

We didn't know what to say and just got back to talking about other things besides Onyx.

"Why are you here Ray?" I asked and he smiled at me. "You can't have been gone that long Kai. The tournament starts next week and my kids want to enter, same goes for Tyrone." I looked over to Soraya a bit disappointed she was too young to enter for now, but one day I knew she could go all the way."

"Onyx is entering too." Hilary said in a warning kind of way. "Be careful, her anger gives her great power and she's full of it. I hear she has a bit beat as well. I've never seen it but I've seen her smash boulders the size of bungalows so take care." The others didn't like the sound of this at all and now I was rather glad Soraya wasn't entering. But the

kids weren't afraid and said they'll do their best no matter what.