DISCLAIMER: I don't own Beyblade, Takao Aoki does.

The room was pretty much full with ancient pieces of relics and weapons, a round table sat in the middle of the room with a pentagram drawn in it. Two men stand on its either side, a medium flat screen T.V. sat in a corner playing the day's news report.

"So, what brought you all the way from America?", Taro asked his longtime friend and customer.

"Nothing pleasant. Though, I heard you were supposed to be on a family vacation", 'Ichiro McKenzie' replied handing Taro a bag.

The man was wearing a brown overcoat with a badge but remarkable feature he had was his nose, as a chunk of flesh was missing revealing the bone beneath.

"Yeah, we just returned a week ago", Taro said taking the bag and spilling it's content on the table, revealing two bronze colored rods which were burnt and twisted.

"What did you do with these things? ", he said eyeing the rods with surprise.

"Things got a little messy", Ichiro said in a grim tone.

Taro raised an eyebrow at him, "Oh"

"Don't give me that look"

"Seriously, so that's what they're doing this time-"

"listen-"

"No you listen, the reason i came back home because i want to avoid the whole skirmish. The last thing i need right now is the board not telling me that they have come here! not even china where the crack is big enough but HERE"

"You want to live normal life, well normal people don't need to be informed"

"I supply them with weapons"

"PPB is more than enough for that. What we need are skilled people to protect, not to fold their hands behind there backs when needed", Ichiro's eyes flicked to the T.V. which shows a local public school being covered by some kind of black mist.

"Skilled people you do realise those are the same skilled people who are causing this mess, because board threw them out when they didn't needed them-"

"You said your son's at school?"

"Don't change the topic", Taro replied heatedly.

"Is it that school?", he glared back at Taro pointing at the screen.

(A/N: I'm not happy with this, so if anybody is willing to advice feel free)

The evening hours of 'Bakuten Senior High' were usually ordinary, some would even like to call them peaceful. The teachers and other staff hurriedly pack up their stuff, making plans for their free hour while chatter of gleeful students added a buzz in the air as they went home after their club activities.

But today was not one of those days. As if to make that certain-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH…"

-a series of screams break through the moment like shattering glass, sending a wave of shock and terror as everybody glanced at the source i.e, the school building.

After a moment of silence, all the emergency alarms went off following a continuous sound of shoes slapping against the ground accompanied by the terrified cries of the poor victims, who had not made it to the exit. Those fortunate ones who were out of harms reach can only watch in horror, as the seemingly black mist with the enchanted glow ooze out of the building at a constant pace, spreading around as if trying to swallow the building. Excruciating as it may be for those facing the consequences, for the onlookers it was quite ironically exquisite sight, after all it's not every day you see a phenomenon like this.

Amidst the commotion, a hapless boy struggle to catch his breath as he ran for his life. Beads of sweat tickle down his face making his red bangs stick to his forehead, hindering his vision. He cursed the school campus to be so huge.

'If the mist is rising from west than all I had to do is to continue running straight through this corridor may be there is a chance I can make it out alive', his hopes were crushed as he saw a large crowd struggling at the exit hall.

The moment he halted, he was pushed forward violently crashing on somebody's back. The crowd became violent, he tried to stay upright and move ahead but elbow on his stomach send him on his knees causing him to fall face forward in the marble floor. Thick hot liquid flowed from his face, as he tried to rise so the crowd trampled over and few others he screamed in pain. By the time the hall became sparse giving him a chance to stand, it was too late.

A woman he recognized as their dance teacher, clutching the bag to her chest she ran toward him and the exit.

The tendrils of black mist sickeningly alive wrapped or rather soaked her, her form disintegrated like nothing.

He stared at her hand hovering over his armlet, world seems mute, paralysed by terror he waited for his fate.

Lightening striked the mist before it could move toward him, creating a shield between them, a strong grip shook him out of his trance.

He turned to face his savior a mirror image as pale from fear as him but masking with a strong presence, it was then he realized he was holding his breath.

"God, whatever you're going to do without me, I can't hold it for long Raul. Run"

Tyson is eating a bananas? He was eating a bananas, wait he is a banana!

Wait don't eat me!

"Don't Eat me!"

Tyson stood up straight awake from his little(very minor) nap in a room full of people wearing boring business outfits sitting around a huge table.

They looked at him then turned back to the discussion, a hand tugged his arm and forced him to sit. He tuned to find Ray, Kai and Kenny their too.

'Wait is that Mr. D!..'

The meeting

Shit I slept through it'

People started to stand up and leave and he followed the suite, the moment he entered their shared office a hand smacked hard at the back of his head.

"Oww!"

He didn't need to turn to know the disapproving look Ray was giving him.

"I don't understand, why call a meeting when anybody'not even allowed to go in?", Kenny asked entering the room.

"To make sure nobody go in", Ray replied, "The enchantment it is under seem to absolve any living thing it touches"

Kenny shuddered, "That's awful, I usually stay late at school, Anyway they said it's creating a dome meaning a hole can be created to go inside and a sensitive with mastered spirit go in I'm pretty sure you guys can stop it?"

"That's precisely why nobody is allowed", Ray countered.

"Uhh you lost me", Tyson said raising his hand earning an annoyed looks from them, "OH come on, I slept okay! it was just one time"

"It means the mist is not expanding, that means whoever or whatever is causing it, wants something. And that something's in there. And the board doesn't want us to discover that. "

"I don't think it's that simple, Ray. Because a life sign is detected in the center of the building", Kenny pointed.

"You mean the person causing it in the center?"

"Or the person is being used as a catalyst"

The three of them turned to find Kai standing at the doorway.

"And you know who's that poor unfortunate soul?", Tyson asked.

"He found that certain file I mentioned to you earlier," he nodded towards Ray, "It's possible that was some kind of trap"

Tyson would've gloated about the reference but he had a sinking feeling in his expression.

"Spit it out already"

"The blonde kid, he didn't make it out of school, his father is here. It's possible he is the one."

"Oh"

It's not the first time but

"So, is he going to die?"

"Not if you want to help him"

"Uhh guys?"

The first thing he remembered is drowning, into what? He did not know. By the time he could breathe, he was standing and lying at the same time there was no solid surface to fall into. His head felt too heavy and all his eyes see is white infinite white from as far as he could see. His body did not respond to him.

Is he dying?

Maybe

Not!?

The fear and anxiety clawed at his conscience. And black tendrils started to mix with the white, the same way ink droplets mix with water. He tried to understand it, it could be a pattern.

After what felt like eternity the space shifted and much to his amazement formed a world?

It took him a while to realize that his body is responsive to him again. He carefully sit up and looked around.

'it's an alley'

"Uhh.. Ahem.. Hello!? " he tested his voice, "I can speak again. Thank god", he sighed in relief.

He standed on his wobbly legs and carefully make it out of the alley.

It led to a road, people bustle along the town's central junction but there something weird about it. He squinted his eyes at the buildings, they look the same but it's not natural. Nobody looked twice at him and their clothes...

'Everything looks different because the clothes are mostly old fashioned and the buildings they lack the huge led displays and hoarding-'

A sharp pain in the side of his head interrupted his train of thoughts, his surrounding blurred except a girl she looked a year or two older than him her plum colored hair were tied in a ponytail which swing to and from with her every step, she was wearing a purple dress which make her look like a business lady. Her face was scruched and she was muttering under her breath, if she noticed him staring at her like a fish she didn't bother.

He watched her go, the pain in his temple intensified as the the distance between them increased. It was as if some strange force was pulling him towards her.

Not wanting to suffer more, he raced after her staggering on his feet. For some reason the space between them remained the same whether he ran or walked, the key is not stopping. They crossed the park..

The same park-

Memories returned to his brain in a frenzy.

Matilda..basement..

The file...

The girl..

As if on the cue she stopped and turned to look at him

"You are the girl on the file"

she nodded hesitantly

"You are ghost?" she shrugged

"You did bring me here, right", she seemed confused as if deciding how to answer. Realizing the only way of getting answer is a yes-or-no question, he decided to ask while she still here.

"Did you.. Uhh", there's gotta be a thing he can ask her, "Can I go back to my.. Time?!", she shook her head and started walking.

"Hey! You can't just leave like that", neither she nor any person looked back at him.

He ran after her and just like before some phenomena kept him from greeting too close or far away, he tried pick up an empty soda can and suddenly his whole body tinglled with cold as his hand phased through it.

Before he could delve on what hell just happened, the pain on his head returned as if to remind him to keep moving.

He started walking again and this time, he phased through a person which even worse experience than before, taking a few deep breath he decided to follow her, his only connection to the real world.

As the scenary changed he noticed they are at his school.

'Maybe there is a portal or wormhole on the basement, like sci-fi stuff. It could get him back'

He noticed there were five or more police cars there and a yellow tape saying 'keep out*crime scene' was around the perimeter.

A part of him wanted the policemen to stop him, but it was like they cannot even see him. He looked around the crowed to look for her, since he isn't getting a skull-spliting headache means she's nearby.

He moved through the crowed, there was a strange light is coming from the gymnasium's window. Then he spotted her she was arguing with a woman, he guessed is a slightly young Kurahashi.

Feeling intrigued he walked towards them, trying to listen carefully.

"What we do with crack Miss. Paura is non-", suddenly Principal Kurahashi's voice muted but her lips were moving.

Frank's eyes were wide as she looked at him? no something behind him. A cold chill went through his spine.

"Help Me!", she said in panic.

He can't turn his head.

"How?"

A screech almost deafening drowned whatever she was trying to say.

But he can see her lips moving imprinted in his memory.

"There you are, I have been searching for you for a long time. It's a bad manner to keep food from the starved you know", the voice said following a maniacal laughter.

Franky clawed to whatever fragment of the world she could cling to before she to desolate into the nothing, leaving behind the blinding white flash.

He can feel the pain of thousands of needles prickling at his skin but for whatever reason, he didn't disintegrate like her.

(A/N): hey guys i hit an author block as pointed earlier so feel free to criticized it'll be a great help!

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