Ilce - If the chapter seems morbid at any given part. Not. My. Fault. Blame Sick Puppies, I was listening to their music as I wrote this. Oh, too all those who are curious as to why the Brawlers are angry at Dan… Soon enough you'll know.

Shun's POV

These brawls were starting to get out of control, if we weren't careful we were going to destroy not only the arena but the area around us too.

"Stand, Darkus Alpha Hydranoid!" I whipped towards the all too familiar voice and words.

The taller guy I had seen the other day was there and with him wasn't just the boy from then too, but Alpha Hydranoid. I guess it's possible for there to be two but I highly doubt that's what's going on here.

I scanned for the other's and found Alice and Runo first.

"Alice, Runo they showed up," I said when I got to them, "And that's not all, they have Hydranoid."

That got Alice's attention since Hydranoid disappeared a little over a week ago.

"They have Hydranoid?" She asked then said quickly, "Where are they?"

I pointed towards the platform where the two of them were still standing before I heard another familiar voice shout, "Stand, Pyrus Griffin!"

"Shun I don't see any resemblance with them and Dan and Masquerade. They look nothing alike," Alice said gently turning to me.

"I know this but I still think it's them," I said glaring at her.

She sighed and looked at me again before turning and walking over to the platform, Runo throwing me a curious look before we followed. She waited at the bottom and after they won their brawl she approached them with a smile and said, "Hello, my name is Alice. I'm one of the Bakugan Battle Brawlers, this is Shun and Runo they're Brawlers as well."

What I didn't expect was for the taller to smile back and say, "Hi Alice, my name's Riven and this is Damian."

"Hi," Damian said smiling shyly at Alice.

I heard Runo coo, "Aww, he's so cute!" From beside me and I felt my first flicker of doubt that it was them. Masquerade was usually cruel and condescending and Dan was hyperactive and found it hard to stand still for any length of time, so was it really them?

Riven looked over at me from the corner of his eye while Alice and Runo were preoccupied with Damian and gave me a sly smirk.

No doubt about it, it was so Masquerade.

I glared at him and mouthed, "You're going to get found out."

His smirk widened, "For what?"

I could have hissed at him, he was playing stupid just to get me riled up.

"For faking being someone else," I replied, unable to resist a slightly smug smile.

He shook his head and had the last word, "No I won't, you can keep trying all you like but their never going to believe it."

At that he turned around and smiled pulling Alice into a conversation and hooking his arm around Damian's waist who winked at me and continued talking to Runo.

"Riven! Damian!" I heard a voice call.

I turned to watch another male jog up to meet the two of them, an easygoing smile on his face. He stood maybe a head taller than me with purple hair and green eyes.

Damian looked even smaller when the guy came to halt next to them, but seemed quite at ease as did Riven who turned back to us.

"This is our friend Blaine, he's a Darkus brawler," He said with what looked like a friendly smile, "Blaine, this is Alice, Runo, and Shun."

"Hi there," He said with what looked like an honest smile in our direction.

"Hi," Alice greeted and Runo grinned, then turned and looked at me with a slight frown when I said nothing.

"I'm sorry about Shun's attitude he's still angry at Dan," She explained when he tilted his head curiously.

"Dan?" Riven asked turning to Alice again, "Isn't he the leader of the Brawlers? Why are you angry at him?"

It struck me that Dan probably hadn't told him exactly what had happened and now I wondered what he would do when he found out.

"Well you see…"

Ilce - …well that was interesting. Oh, and thanks to AnimeLoverNumber1 for the OC. Yes, I know your probably all cursing at me for leaving that cliffhanger but you'll get to find out in the next chapter why their mad. R&R.