10/22/04:
Meep!! I just noticed that half the chapter been cut off! Mou...I think fanfiction(dot)net has a vendetta 'gainst me or something...That and a huge writer's block that's mixed with stupid formulas and equations....ANYWAYS, here's the completed chapter!
A Beginning to and End
By: Brokn Innocence Formerly known as Makurayami no Kyouto
-Chapter Ten-
-Guardian of Fire-
Normal POV
"Are you saying that you don't even know the second option is to save the world?!" Tyson asked incredulously while Raikou stared at him, whimpering under the pressure, right after Rei had finished telling the gang The Prophecy.
"Raikou sorry!" Raikou apologized with a pouting look. "Elder once say before but Raikou was too happy getting Raiju, Raikou no listen to Elder..."
"Can't you call up the old geezer?" Tyson ask with a frustrated sigh. "Man...First, Raikou says she can't tell us who the Precursors are since she says that 'Guardian will call Master when time comes'," he repeated in a mocking voice. "And to make matters worse, she doesn't even know the other option in saving the world!" Tyson had both of his hands on his head, scratching his head impatiently with an annoyed sigh.
Raikou look down at her feet in shame. Raikou no mean to get Tyson upset.
"Look, Tyson, you don't have to get all mad at this" Rei said in a calm voice with his arms crossed on the couch. "We have to trust what Raikou told us about the Guardians." He looked at Raikou and asked, "Can we contact Elder?"
Raikou creased her eyebrows together and shook her head. "...no..." She looked around, avoiding the BladeBreakers' gaze on her, "Elder not here anymore."
Everyone sighed, expecting her to say that. What can they do now? The Harbingers are already gathering...and it is only a few weeks left until the appointed day comes around. Silence hung over the group like a thick wet blanket.
"Now what do we do?" Max asked, breaking the uneasy quietness among his companions.
"Well, first of all, anybody had any weird incident that maybe relating to this?" Kenny inquired, hoping that something had happened to one of them.
"I think I might have" Kai spoke slowly with uncertainty rolling off his tongue, "but to make sure; girl is all Precursors based on elements?"
Raikou nodded. "What are they?" Kai asked.
"For Precursor, they are Light, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, Ice, and Fire" She crooned her neck to the side, looking oddly at Kai. "Why Kai want know?"
"I think Omi may have something to do with this..." The slated hair boy said more to himself, "maybe that other kid, too."
"You mean that kid from a few days back?" Tyson asked, blinking.
"Yeah..."
"What do them and the elements have to do with you, Kai?" Rei posed, suddenly interested.
"Omi said something about the Guardian of Fire in position with its duty," Kai recalled vividly. "And that other kid, it's not just coincidence that he happens to be within our sight twice in a single day."
"Make that three times," Raikou said quietly.
"You know, my grandfather once said that if you see the same person more than three times in a day, then it's not just coincidence but destiny," Rei said, smirking.
"Then that must mean them two are the Harbingers!" Max exclaimed.
"Maybe but what of the elements?" Kenny asked, still unsatisfied.
"It seems to me that probably one or more of us are in this mess," Kai stated. "Since each of our Bit Beast gives the impression that they may have those required essentials to be one of the Precursors..."
Kai very good! Maybe that why he is... Raikou smiled inwardly. She looked over to Rei who seemed to be in deep thought. Rei look so immerse in thought. Maybe Guardian already call Rei? If so...Fight will be soon than later. Maybe in few day. The violet haired girl slightly frowned from that notion. Raikou turned to look at Max. Max so cheerful. It hard to tell if he is one... She pondered awhile longer and then shifted over to spy Tyson. He too rambunctious. He act on impulse; not with head. Then at Kenny. He will be excellent strategist if only Bit Beast is in beyblade, not in laptop. Raikou leaned back on the armchair with her arms behind her head, staring up at the ceiling. Raiju?
Yes, what is it, Lady Raikou?
She closed her eyes, envisioning her beloved Bit Beast. Raiju was crossed over with a wolf and tiger. With the face of a wolf, sleek body with powerful claws of a tiger and the slender tail of the wolf, Raiju's eyes were golden like the tiger, body tinted with pale yellow, it almost looked majestic.
Raikou scared of Fight. It come soon than Elder prophesized. Maybe because of...?
Do not worry about the Fight if the Guardian of Light has already called to its Master, which I assume it already has. Raiju nodded, nuzzling the small girl with its snout in assurance. The appointed day will be change to a sooner time. Raiju nipped his Master's ears. It is not because of him, Lady Raikou, which Tokyo must endure the battlefield that will be happening within, but it is Fate and Destiny that are pulling the strings of life.
The violet haired girl hugged Raiju's snout and smiled. Thank you, Raiju. Raikou feel much better now.
That is what I am here for; for helpful service and among other things that you wished me to be.
Raikou grinned. Raikou wonder what Raiju look like in human form?
I cannot say for certain.
"Hey, Raikou!"
Uh-oh. Raikou go now, yes? Friends call Raikou back now.
'Friends'....It has been a while since you called anyone that.
"Girl!"
She hugged her cherished Guardian and smiled as she gradually drifted back into reality. Raikou yawned and rubbed her eyes. Opening gold-yellow eyes, it was confronted with five heads looming in view. "Hi?" She squeaked nervously. The five heads started to back away and now Raikou could see that it belonged to the BladeBreakers. "Why you wake Raikou up?"
"It looked like you were having too good of a dream" Tyson said, smirking.
"Because Raikou did!" She nodded, smiling widely.
"That's not the point" Kenny sighed in exasperation.
"Then what is?" The girl blinked.
"You were glowing" Rei complied, arms still crossed.
"Glowing?" Raikou repeated, clueless. "Like, glowing neon?"
"Well, obviously" Max grinned.
"So why were you glowing, girl?" Kai asked, staring at Raikou with unwavering eyes. "It's unnatural; especially while you're sleeping and having a 'good' dream."
"Oh!" Raikou nodded like Kai's message had some hidden meaning.
"Well?" Everyone had a raised brow in questioning.
"Raikou was talking to Raiju!" She said it so simply like it had explained everything.
"That's it?" Tyson blinked with a sweat drop. "I talk to Dragoon and I don't glow."
"Yeah, me neither" Max agreed.
"Did Dragoon and Draciel talk back?" Raikou looked at them expectantly.
"What?" The two looked at her unbelievingly. "No!"
The girl looked surprised then disappointed. "Oh...Raikou see...Raikou understand. Did Dranzer or Drigger talk to Kai or Rei?" Raikou looked hopeful.
"That is a ridiculous question," Kai snorted as he sat down across from her and then looked at Rei.
It almost looked like Rei was debating whether to answer the question. However, he was not so sure if it was Drigger he was talking to. The Chinese boy shook his head. "No." Raikou stared hard into Rei's amber eyes. She then nodded as if she understood what Rei's eyes were saying.
"Oh, well...okay," Raikou nodded again and shrugged, "Maybe that what Raikou get for growing up with only Elder and Mother."
End of Normal POV
Kai's POV
"That is a ridiculous question," I snorted as I sat across from her. I looked over to see Rei, expecting him to say the same thing, instead I found him deliberating over the odd question.
Rei shook his head and said, "No." I spotted Raikou's gold-yellow eyes boring into Rei's amber one as if she was searching for the true answer hidden within his eyes and then nodded.
"Oh, well...okay," Raikou nodded again and shrugged, "Maybe that what Raikou get for growing up with only Elder and Mother."
"Don't you have a father?" Kenny asked carefully.
It seemed that she was pondering over the question and cautiously replied, "He left Mother and Elder to live big in city with Brother. They live somewhere in Tokyo."
"So...you're looking for them?" Max asked.
She shook her head. "No. Mother say not look for them. They a disgrace to family name."
The way she replied to the questions so hesitantly and with guarded answers, it is as if she does not want to leak and information about herself: only enough to satisfy the questioner... I stared at her, attempting to read her face...I got up from the couch and announced, "I'm taking a walk," and left before the others can have their say.
Strolling down the park, I seated myself on a vacant bench with my arms crossed. Closing my crimson eyes, I recollected my thoughts...
That girl...I feel a very mysterious yet alluring power emanating from her...or her Bit Beast, Raiju. I don't recall her invoking Raiju let alone see the beyblade seal. She answered the questions enough not to get any attention but she got mine's. I wonder if the others noticed it too...
"Hey!"
I cracked opened my eyes to spy Raikou heading in my direction. "What?"
She plopped down next to me and smiled widely. "What you pondering about, Kai?"
"Stuff."
"Like what?"
"Stuff."
Raikou only grinned and stared at the rushing water as she was in thoughts. Something startled her, snapping her head up to the bridge. Curious, I looked up there as well. There I found that Omi boy and that other kid from days before. They both were staring directly at us with ice-cold eyes. Raikou and I got up, wary of their presence.
"What you want?" Raikou asked; cheerful eyes narrowed.
"Heh" The nameless kid smirked, "Can't we enjoy the view?"
"When did that view included staring at us?" I growled as I reached for my blade. "You two must be one of the Dark Harbingers!"
"Aren't you a clever one?" He retorted, spotting my movements. "Let's take action, Omi." Omi nodded and then jumped off the bridge, landing only a few feet away like a hawk. The other kid's smirk broadens and then followed pursuit of Omi's action. "Allow us to invoke the Guardian of Fire and Lightning!"
Invoke Fire and Lightning?! I thought the Guardians call upon to their Masters! Not the other way around!
"That no right! Guardian call Master!" Raikou exclaimed, speaking my thoughts.
"That is one way," Omi finally spoke up, readying his launcher and beyblade.
"Then what's the other?!" I demanded, whipping out my launcher into play.
"Put Blade away, Kai! Now not time to think with battle but with head!" Raikou protested.
"You'll see soon enough, Kai" The other kid smiled wickedly, "Dear sister, when will you ever learn? You cannot tame Fire with mere words...but with force!"
Raikou's expression winced as her hands reached into one of her pockets to retrieve her blade. "If want play that way, Raiju will beat you!"
"Now you're listening" He smirked again as he got a hold of his beyblade.
Is this boy, Raikou's brother?! If so...then why is he one of the Harbingers?!
"Go, Gyrfalcon!" Omi pulled his ice blue ripcord, sending his blade on the way. The beyblade's base was mainly light blue but with dark blue and ice blue on the attack rings.
"Dranzer!" I launched my blue beyblade on to the grass-covered soil.
"Darkgon!" The boy had dispatched a black beyblade with yellow attack rings.
"Raiju!" Raikou discharged a yellow beyblade with the darkest color at the spinning end that faded into light tone of yellow near the seal.
"Omi, you know what to do, am I correct?"
"Of course."
I don't like the sound of this... My eyes widen as Darkgon and Gyrfalcon started to circle me. Dranzer and Raiju sped up, attempting to throw them off course. "What's going on here?!" I shouted as the two beyblade forced me to retreat under the bridge. "Dranzer!" I cried while I tried with effort to fend off the two other beyblades that was starting to come uncomfortably closer.
"Raiju, go!"
"Shadows of Fear!"
Yellow and blue beyblades hustled to my aid but they were forced to stop abruptly when Darkgon put up a dark barrier field, encasing the two blades and me. Raiju and Dranzer began to clobber mercilessly on the barricade, chipping away their attack rings.
"Raiju!!"
I looked over to Raikou, and to my surprise, she was glowing like back at my place when she was supposedly talking to Raiju. Taking at closer look through the dark colored blockade, I noticed that she was clutching her heart when she called forth an attack called "Clash at the Stratosphere." Ignoring the on-coming closer beyblades, I started to pound on the barrier, desperate to get out before Raikou was going to herself on this attack. It's not like I care but I can't live with myself if I'm in someone's debt. And I don't plan to start now, either.
It seemed that Omi and the other kid knew what Raikou was exactly doing but they kept their beyblades in motion.
"She won't last," The violet hair boy smirked with his arms crossed, "since this'll be her first Finality."
Raiju was beckoned at a notice's call from Raikou. Half wolf and tiger, electricity sparked from its body, flickering more dangerously as yellow aura started to surround Raiju, it howled like a wolf with a faint sound of a roar like a tiger. Up high in the sky, dark grey clouds started to swirl to the center as a rumbling thunder was heard, followed by a huge lightning bolt, striking Raiju dead on. Instead of being burnt to a crisp, the Bit Beast's aura grew larger; crackling with energy, Raiju took a step forward, frying the green grass.
"I don't believe it!" the boy grimaced when he took a quick glance at the approaching beast. "Omi!" The other boy nodded in acknowledgement.
"Berserk Beasts!" The two ordered in unison.
Immediately I stopped pounding at the non-budging barrier as Darkgon and Gyrfalcon glowed with blue and black energy. Not good- not good at all. The bit seals glowed menacingly within the dark barrier. I backed up as far as I could as I realized that the two had unleashed their bit beasts- in berserk mode nonetheless!
Darkgon's seal burst into brilliant dark lights that took form of a black dragon with blank gold eyes, roaring and flapping its scaly wings wildly. Gyrfalcon surfaced into sight as a large falcon tinted with various tones of blue with the tip of the wings white and dismal indigo eyes. Gyrfalcon screeched as it hovered above my head, eyeing me like its prey.
Raiju arched its slender back as it growled through bare canine fangs, electricity blazed, taking a replica of the owner. The featureless copy charged forth towards the dark barrier, disintegrating as it made contact with it. The barrier sizzled with the electricity, slowly diminishing away. Raikou smiled in relief and then suddenly slumped to the grassy ground, heavily panting. The obedient Bit Beast returned to its seal and whirred back to its owner.
"Guardian of Fire..." she huffed quietly with closed eyes, smile still playing on her lips, as she grasped her beyblade, "...awakens..." Then she passed out silently.
Taking the chance, I hurried out of the overpass, skidding to a halt beside Raikou. Noticing the rising and falling of her chest, I determined that she's blissfully sleeping. The aura that had surrounded her evaporated into thin air right after Raiju had executed its attack...
"Dranzer!" I summoned my faithful Bit Beast. I expected my phoenix but instead, the bit seal and the beyblade itself, engulfed into a high pillar flame. "What's going-?!"
The inferno had taken a solid form of a boy figure. I gazed in amazement. I'm one of the Precursors?! Flames dying out and blue beyblade without the respective beast in the seal, off to the side next to the figure, he flexed his fingers, examining himself. Before I could take a step forward, the boy immediately start shooting off fire spheres at Darkgon and Gyrfalcon. The two berserk beasts didn't get to do much damage like it wished to, retreated back to it seals and returned to their owners. The two Harbingers disappeared around the bridge and the supposed Dranzer picked up the blue beyblade and treaded towards me.
The boy looked almost like a 17 year-old having wild bangs that was up to his face and the rest short with red-orange hair and lime green eyes that went well with his fair skin. He was wearing a crimson read sleeveless Chinese shirt embroidered with the phoenix in the front and the back of the phoenix's back side with the split tail decorated off the parted back cloak, black elbow length shirt underneath, dark green baggy cargo pants with dark crimson red sneakers and to top it all off, he wore fingerless black gloves with wide grey cuffs.
"Dr-Dranzer?" I choked on the words, apparently still fazed by everything.
'Dranzer' nodded, handing back the blade to me. I took it and glanced down at the seal. Dranzer wasn't there. I clutched it for a moment before stuffing it back in my pocket. I looked over to Raikou who was still knocked out in Dream World. Great, now I'm stuck with carrying girl here back to my place. Just wonderful.
While I was cursing at myself with the luck I have, 'Dranzer' picked Raikou up, carrying her bridal-style, along with her blade and looked at me expectantly. I looked at them for a few seconds before leading him back over to the mansion in silence.
A question popped in my head.
What am I going to call 'Dranzer'? Am I going to 'Dranzer', Dranzer?
Brokn Innocene: Since I couldn't get my lousy head out of the gutter for Duo Tournament's chapter, I decided to do this. Anyways, I know in the last chapter I said I put up what happened to Hitoshi and Asuka...well...I have been working on it but I just couldn't write it the way I want it to be and thus...resulting this chapter in replace for that. Trust me, along the line or chapters, I'll do something for them. Oh, and by the way, once I gather all the 14 characters to Tokyo, which will be a while, unfortunately, I'll have something for you guys...Something I was thinking while reading fics. Hehe. I have weird ways of getting inspiration...Now if that could just last long enough to finish one blasted story...or maybe try to draw past 3 pages worth of comic...TT Anyways...
Review please! TT I know I've been losing some readers because of my laziness. Not good................withers away like dust