Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Unfamiliar Rescuer

Somewhere on the other side of the school, a young boy sat in the cafeteria and shuffled through his Ability Cards, scanning the small print with his gleaming, bright red eyes. His thick black hair blew gently, due to a slight draft that came through a rather large hole in the ceiling. How it had gotten there, nobody knew, but everybody knew that the school was too lazy to fix it, and so there it was and there it remained. The freshman boy of 14 rested the large deck of cards on the table top, and smiled slightly to himself as he remembered something. Chuckling he picked up his large red and blue backpack and unzipped it, grabbing a pencil case looking bag, and dropping the book bag carelessly back onto the floor. He then proceeded to unzip the pencil case and out popped a red an orange sphere. He couldn't help but laugh as the small round Pyrus Falconeer panted and popped out of sphere form.

"I almost died in there, ya know!" The boy tried to stop laughing and gave his best glare, but couldn't keep a straight face. "What is so funny, Kyle?" The Bakugan appropriately named "Falc" asked, finding it hard not to join in on the laughter of his partner.

"Sorry, Falc," Kyle apologized. "You can be just a little over dramatic sometimes though, ya know?" Falc sighed and hopped from the table to Kyle's shoulder, then from his shoulder to his thick head of dark hair. He bounced up and down on the top of Kyle's head and Kyle looked up, smiling again.

"Let's brawl, let's brawl!" Falc begged.

"Ok, ok! Anything for you, pal!" Kyle agreed and stood shoving his pencil bag and Ability Cards into his backpack and swinging it over his shoulders. He walked out ignoring the feeling of the light weight metallic sphere of fiery energy that still jumped up and down on his head with excitement that obviously couldn't be contained. He strode down the hallway passing by several other students who looked at him strangely, but didn't say anything. Kyle just ignored it. He had been made fun of by other brawlers for being so loyal to Falc and for their friendship, but these students didn't look like they knew what Falc was, so he doubted they were glaring at him for that. Falc finally calmed down, and the hallways cleared as other kids walked out. Soon it was just Falc and Kyle...or so they thought. As they continued to Kyle's locker, he swore he heard a tiny voice calling for someone named "Cassie", but he brushed the thought aside, until he knew for sure that he had heard it again. "Hey, Falc," Kyle tapped the sphere on the top of his head.

"You hear that?" Falc popped out of ball form again and looked around.

"Hear what?"

"Cassie!" Came the small voice again.

"That!" Kyle cried.

"Maybe it's a mouse," Falc said nonchalantly as if that were a totally logical explanation. Kyle laughed and rolled his eyes.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but last time I checked, mice don't talk," Kyle looked around and kicked something with his tennis shoe. He looked down and noticed a blue sphere on the ground.

"This looks like..." He knelt down to pick it up, almost throwing Falc off his head. "A Bakugan!" Kyle smiled and examined the Aqous attributed Bakugan.

"Whoever you are," The Bakugan cried, "Release me or feel the wrath of Lumino! Aquos attributed ball of flaming hot-" He was cut off by Falc.

"Water?" He stifled a laugh. "Last time I checked, pal, water didn't attract fire."

Kyle laughed. "Good one, buddy!"

"I was going to say fury!" Lumino complained.

"So where did you come from?" Kyle asked tilting his head, which threw Falc off balance again.

"I was confiscated by a teacher and then got lost looking for my partner," Lumino explained.

"Hey! Maybe we can help you get back to your partner!" Kyle volunteered.

"Sounds good," Falc said, "but brawling would be better," he mumbled.

"I'm sure Lumino's partner would love to brawl when we give him back," Kyle said.

"Sure!" Lumino agreed, "Cassie will be so happy! She'll defiantly brawl with you if you ask her!"

"Yes!" Falc cried. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"

"Alright then!" Kyle began to walk faster down the hall. "Let's find Cassie!"