Hey guys! Idol here! This update came much earlier than anticipated, but that's because I have more free time now! So look forward to updates more frequently!
Also, I'm planning on rewriting Beyblade Burst Arc-V, the prequel to this. I was looking it over the other day and I noticed how messy the plot was, so now I want to fix it. So please read that and give your thoughts on that! And this series won't be ending at Arc-God, I'm planning on making a Beyblade Burst Arc-Z (for Cho-Z), Arc-GT (For GT, obviously), and once the fifth season comes out, maybe one for that too.
Song recommendations:
Song: Grand Escape by the Radwimps (And by that stretch, watch the new moie Weathering with You. Its really good!)
Artist: After the Rain
Anyway, as always, please review (I really want to improve) and tell me if some things are unclear since I am aware this chapter is kind of confusing. PM me for any concerns!
- Idol
Shadow, A mysterious creep who is intent on controlling Shu. Shu struggled but eventually lost against the immense power from Shadow. So Shadow decided to go one step further and kidnap me to make me a part of the Snake Pit, the evil organization hiding behind the facade of a training facility.
The question is, what is Shadow? He's not a normal being, more like a mental state. He acts a lot like what those mental health books described as a crazy person. But Shu didn't go through anything that tragic recently; I was with him the whole time.
Wait...
"Yuya Sakaki!" Yuya squeaked as the door slammed open. Two shadowy figures stood at the doorway. "We have orders to escort you to Master Ashtem immediately." They approached Yuya, who had learned by now that struggling yielded no results. Both had masks on, but one mask had an orange-tinted glass at the eyes, and one had cerulean glass. They unshackled Yuya and grabbed the boy roughly by the arms, pulling him to his feet and dragging him out of the room.
They only had to walk a short distance before they entered a new room. This room was gray instead of white, and there was a black desk in the middle where a man sat. He had on a black and purple mask with a complimenting robe. What could be seen of his hair was white. Next to him was Red-Eye, looking a bit calmer than when Yuya had seen him last.
Yuya's captors shoved Yuya forward and shut the door. Yuya collapsed after being pushed so roughly since he'd been sitting for three days straight and he wasn't used to walking without help yet. He shakily got to his feet and glared at the authority figure. "What do you want?"
The man laughed heartily. "My, you've got some character, don't you?"
"Get to the point," Yuya growled out.
Red Eye stepped forward. "Long story short, your friends abandoned you."
"Ha!" Yuya barked a laugh. "As if! I think I know my friends better than you."
"Or do you?" The cold undertone in the other man's voice sent chills down Yuya's spine, though the boy tried to keep a poker face. The man spoke again. "Let's do this again. I'm Ashtem. You are Yuya Sakaki. I have something I want to show you if you want proof of your friends' betrayal. Red Eye, if you will," Ashtem gestured to Red Eye, who pressed a remote. A projector and a screed suddenly materialized out of the metal of the walls, surprising Yuya. A video flickered to life on the screen.
Yuya's eyes widened in shock.
Valt and the others were in the forest, frazzled after being ejected out of the Snake Pit. Valt groaned in annoyance. "Why are we even rescuing Yuya? He's the weakest human being on the planet!"
"No skills whatsoever," Wakiya agreed.
"I thought I knew him, but he's really changed," Gongenzaka pitched him, breaking Yuya's heart that moment. "He's the same as freaking Shu, and we know how much of a weakling he is."
"He's gone soft. He even believed we were his friends!" Kumicho scoffed.
"I knew the moment I laid eyes on him that he's got no potential, and I wondered why you guys hung out with him," Cuza hung from a branch, upside down, disapproval etched on his features. "I'm glad you all knew who he really was."
They kept trash-talking Yuya while walking out of the forest. Said tomato head's legs lost all strength and he fell to his knees. No way...they promised…
A hand appeared in his vision, and he looked up at Red Eye. "Our friends betrayed us both, so let's team up. Let's show the world that we aren't the weak children they think we are."
"Shadow?"
"No, this isn't Shadow. This is Red Eye. Shadow's resting right now."
Yuya got to his feet. "I don't want Red-Eye's opinion, I want to know what Shu did! Obviously he didn't choose this path on his own-"
"Shu took the offer I proposed to him and this was the result," Ashtem interjected. "The difference is visible. Red Eye is much more powerful than he was when he first started here, and he still has a way to go. Red Eye and Shu are the same. So what do you say I grant you the same power?"
Yuya shook his head in despair. "No, my friends would never leave me-"
"Friends are as dispensable as plastic bags!" Red Eye roared. "If you don't believe this, then how do you explain what you just saw? Don't forget, they betrayed me as well. Power's the only thing that matters. If you don't have any, you're as good as dead, and if you get power from your friends, that's even worse!"
Yuya bowed his head, tears threatening to spill from his eyes. Memories of their adventures filled his head. Yuya didn't want to believe that they really didn't want anything more to do with him, but there was solid proof that Yuya couldn't argue against. And as much as Yuya hated to admit it, Shu was right in a way. If a person didn't have any individual power, they probably wouldn't last long in the world. But still, how could they do this to me?
Yuya looked up again to see Ashtem holding out a mask to him. The mask was very similar to Shu's, but the eyepieces were a deeper red and there were scarlet streaks spreading from them. "You don't even have to do any training. All you have to do is put on the mask."
Slowly, reluctantly, Yuya's hands reached out and took the mask in his hand. Staring at it for a second, he shoved all thoughts of his friends out of his mind and shoved the mask on before he had any doubts.
Yuya's mind went black.
Ashtem grinned as the eyepieces lit up. "Welcome to QuickSand, Blood Eye."
"Shadow?"
"Who?"
Yuya stared at the figure in front of him, who stared back. Yuya was in a dark space and a force field blocked him from going anywhere. He was trapped in a small bubble. In front of him was an apparition that was almost identical to Shadow.
The black figure shook his head. "My name is Raven. At least if you're going to guess, get it right," It sighed.
Yuya shook his head and started trying to find a way out of the bubble, banging on the invisible walls. "Why are you doing this? Let me go!"
Raven chuckled. "Like it's gonna be that easy. You agreed to this, so let me take control."
"But-"
"I assume you wouldn't like a knife sticking out from your gut?"
Yuya shut up.
"I can't battle like this!" Blood Eye snarled, throwing his Bey across the room, after his fifth loss. He turned to Ashtem. "You promised me power!"
Ashtem shook his head. "It seems that I made a miscalculation. You got your power, yet I granted you so much that your Bey couldn't take it. I know a way for it to evolve, but I'm afraid it may still be too early-"
"I DON'T CARE!" Blood Eye screamed, flailing his hands. "I need power. Power, power, I don't care what I have to do to get it, but I want power. I need power to show those bastards I called friends who I have become."
Ashtem looked at Blood Eye in surprise before consenting. "Right. I've been needing to test out something new anyway. This way."
Ashtem and Blood Eye walked out of the room into the hallway, walking in silence. Blood Eye decided to break the ice. "So, I joined the Snake Pit. Why did you say 'Welcome to QuickSand?'"
Ashtem smirked. "'Bout time I told you anyways. Snake Pit has a representative team and an elite team. The Bladers in that elite are far more skilled than Red-Eye himself."
Blood Eye drew in a breath. "So you gave me enough power to be equal with these top-tier Bladers?"
"I thought I did, but I was wrong, so we are going to change things a bit."
Raven was controlling Blood Eye so that he didn't show any emotion, but inside his mind, Yuya was shivering from fear of what was to come. He knew that he was basically going to be used as an experiment, but he couldn't do anything while trapped inside the bubble. This is worse than when we faced Zarc…
Finally, Ashtem put his hand on a sensor and pushed open two heavy metal doors, ushering Blood Eye inside. There was lots of technological equipment and people monitoring the computers, but what stood out to Blood Eye was the huge tank in the center filled with green liquid. "This is the Requiem Project."
"We're getting a new member?"
A black-haired boy yawned lazily as he spoke, leaning against the wall of the plain room, about to fall asleep. Two others were in the gray room: A girl with wavy, pale blue hair in a ponytail, and a boy with a mohawk of olive-green hair. The girl was the most alert of the three, the mohawk boy was tired, and the black-haired boy with the crewcut wanted to fall asleep.
The girl was the one who had broken the news, so she spoke in reply to the black-haired boy's inquiry. "Nico, you're the leader so you should be more on top of these things! At this rate, even Brody could lead QuickSand better than you."
"Nah, fam," The mohawk, how known as Brody, shook his head. "I'm the messiest out of all of us. At least Nico has a photographic memory."
"Come on guys, it's really not that special," Nico yawned again. "So Calamity, what are the newbie's stats?"
Calamity pulled out her tablet and opened a document. "It says here that his name is Yuya Sakaki, or Blood Eye," She read off. "He just recently joined the Beyblade world, and before he did, there was no record of him even existing. No birth certificate, no parents, nothing."
"Huh. That's interesting," Brody nodded.
Calamity continued. "He used to be part of the Beigoma Academy Bey Club, the place where Red Eye's from. Apparently, he used to live with Red Eye. He appeared in the Nationals and crushed the opponent. In that match, he used an unknown Bey with inhumane power, almost rivaling Free de la Hoya."
"A powerhouse then."
"Yep," Calamity affirmed Nico's assumption. "So he was scouted by BC Sol and he was kidnapped by Ashtem so he could join QuickSand. To be honest, we really need more members. Having Red Eye would be cool, but he's not as good as Blood Eye, apparently."
"A real powerhouse then."
"We've already established that, Nico," Calamity countered exasperatedly as she scrolled further down the document. "It says that- wait, WHAT!?"
"Cal?" Brody jumped at Calamity's screech and drew closer. "What happe- MCSCUSE ME!?"
"1. Stop using overused memes. 2. Someone, please explain what's going on," Nico yawned again.
"H-h-he's going through t-the R-Requiem Project," Brody stammered.
Nico's eyes flew open.
"Excuse me?"
"The Interdimensional Lancers Council meeting will now commence."
"Attendance: Yuto, Yugo, Yuri, and Yuya absent. Present: Reiji, Yuzu, Serena, Rin, Ruri, Sawatari, Gongenzaka, Dennis, Shun, Tsukikage."
Reiji looked at the sea of faces sitting in chairs around the circular table. Reiji was the nearest to the door and the most separated out of all of them. He explained the situation. "As you may know, after Zarc's defeat, a new enemy has risen. Gongenzaka, please explain what happened in Mexico."
Gongenzaka nodded. His eyes were still puffy and red, and his voice a bit dry, but otherwise he seemed to have recovered. He recounted to the group how the friends from BC Sol had met up with him and adventured to the Snake Pit, how Yuya was kidnapped from under their nose, and Yuya's recurring nightmares. Everyone was horror-stricken, as expected. Most people didn't know Yuya that well, but before joining BC Sol, Yuya had gotten to know everybody and had become part of the ILC, which was a top-secret Council dedicated to finding a way back to the original four dimensions.
After the Zarc battle, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri went missing. There were sightings of crazy-strong bladers in different countries, but they were never found. However, they did find many other people from their original dimensions that were sucked into the giant hole which brought them to the Beyblade world. Though some of them had grudges against others, (Ruri disliked Dennis a whole deal, Shun and Reiji didn't exactly get along, etc.) they all put aside their differences to work together. As such, the Council split up to look for ways back to their home while finding the three missing boys. They usually meet once a month, but after Valt and the others came back without Yuya, Reiji called an emergency meeting.
Yuzu stood up after Gongenzaka finished. "We're going to the Snake Pit."
"Hah!?" Dennis, an orange-haired boy who was not present during the Zarc battle, gaped at the pinkette. "You're not serious are you?"
"Yuya is my friend, and if he's in danger, I can't just sit here and do nothing!" Yuzu cried out, looking at Reiji. "Please, Akaba Reiji-"
"Please sit down, Ms. Hiragi."
"But-"
"I understand that you are very close to Yuya-"
"It's not that!" Yuzu interrupted Reiji with a shout of defiance. Everyone looked at her in surprise; nobody was used to the usually quiet girl suddenly shouting and commanding attention. Her voice when she next spoke was much softer, yet still loud in the silent room. "When we battled Zarc, I couldn't do anything. I could only stand there while all of my friends' souls were taken by Olympia; I couldn't do anything when I was captured by Akaba Leo. I was the most useless person in the world and because of that, my best friend got hurt! And you expect me to just stand back again this time!?"
Reiji sighed and sat down.
The atmosphere quickly got quiet.
"Of course I'm not saying that we just let Yuya be kidnapped there," Reiji looked at the still-standing pinkette. "But we cannot just rush in, or you will be defeated as well. I know how much you trained," He interrupted Yuzu before she had a chance to protest. "But last time, with Zarc, we rushed into the situation much to quickly and because of that, Zarc was revived. We were only saved because Shu's will to save his friend was too strong for Zarc. Heck, we even got Valt to fuse with Zarc! Something similar will happen if we don't make a game plan, so I suggest going about this a bit more passively." Reiji's glasses flashed as he looked at Yuzu.
Sighing in defeat, Yuzu took her seat again.
Reiji nodded. "Right, so this is what we will do."