Aacura: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Bryan: So let me get this straight, she's all depressed before and now she's shouting yey? What's up with this girl?!
Aacura: I shall tell you my dear Bryan!
Bryan: oO
Aacura: I have finished all of my exams and I never ever have to go to my hell hole of a school EVER again!!
Kai: Don't you have college in September though? smirks
Aacura: Yes smiles
Kai: ….. Aren't you upset by that?
Aacura: Nope! I can't wait! I get to do 2D and 3D animation all the time! Yey!
Kai: Damn!
Aacura: ? W-w-where you trying to deliberately upset me? oo
Kai: 0-0 !!!!!!!!!!!
Aacura: cries in corner
Kai: No! No! I wasn't trying to upset you!! Tell her Bryan!!
Bryan: He had a box of tissues behind his back ready
Kai: glare
Bryan: And he was the one who put worms in your bed a few chapters ago
Kai: 0-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bryan: So what're you gonna do Aacura?? evil grin
Aacura: …..
Kai: !!!
Bryan: ?
Aacura: …..
Kai: !!
Bryan: ??
Aacura: …..
Kai: !
Bryan: ???
Aacura: HUG TALA!!!!!
Kai and Bryan: HUH?????!!!!!?????!!!!! OO OO
Tala: For shame you too!! There there! Hugs Aacura Please enjoy!
Kai and Bryan: drone Aacura does not own Beyblade
Aacura: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tala: DON'T YOU TWO THINK YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH???!!!!! There there…
Aacura: Whilst I'm in the comforting arms of Tala, I'd like to give a shout out to my great reviewers:
a-devoted-life – glad you like my angst parts
KatDemonLizzy - Lol, Ray will gain consciousness soon
Shadowsrule – yey, I've written more,
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HeartAngelgirl – A present from HeartAngelgirl guys! 100 sugar cakes for Max and Tala, 70 bowls of Ramen for Ray, Kai, Bryan, Ian and Spencer, and… 10 cakes for me? sniff Thank uuuuuuu!! -
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RussiansNekojinlover – Thanks for thinking my story is cute
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TalaKaiReiLover– I shall not give up! Thanks for your support
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and MisterRandom– Thanx very much for being my first reviewer!
(Normal POV)
"YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER?!" Tyson 'oh so kindly' yelled once they had entered the echoey hallway of Ray's block. Though however much Kai prayed to the Gods that no one would hear him, Tala and Bryan walked straight into the painful screams. Kai looked up at the couple with a twitching eyebrow, continuing to put up with Tyson's rants about 'protection' and teenage pregnancy, Max going through a tornado of emotions and Ray limp in his arms.
"You told them?!" Tala felt the need to include his voice.
'Kill the red head too!' Kai made a mental note,
"Geez Kai, you dumbass! You wait and work to win Ray over and all of a sudden you come out with, oh, by the way, I was scientifically experimented on, and in result of forced 'activities' ended up with a kid with my best friend!" Kai felt the utter most need to hurt Tala in every way possible, shocked that he would reveal such a personal memory, AND FUCKING PISSED THAT IT WAS REVEALED AT SUCH AN INNAPROPRIATE TIME!!! Max and Tyson stood immensely still, causing a look of worry to wash over Tala's face. Bryan dramatically slapped the palm of his hand on his forehead, unable to believe what an idiotic thing his boyfriend just did. "Heh heh. I'm guessing by the looks of your faces you didn't tell them that part, heh heh…" Tala felt such relief that Ray was in Kai's arms at the current moment as he would have strangled him, though it did not completely get rid of the uneasy and nervous feelings he currently held. Kai glared harshly, fire burning in his eyes.
'FUCK!!' Bryan swiftly pushed Tala out of the way, as an accidental arrow of flames flew towards the anxious teen.
Hitting the wall, Tala turned around to see the flames hit Bryan squarely, hissing at the impact. Too shocked to let out a cry, his body flooded with fear as he saw Bryans' flesh melt and reveal muscle and bone! Kai's mouth gaped open, as he did not mean for such a thing to happen, quickly stopping the blaze, Tyson put the rest out. Bryan cricked his neck,
"What the fuck Hiwitari?!" he turned to face Tala, frowning at the look he was giving him. Tala stared fearfully at his lover, his eyes bulging bigger and bigger as he saw Bryan's skin snaking its way across the damage and healing itself with no trace of scarring.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Tala screamed, finding his voice. Bryan stopped walking towards the red head, flinching a little at the load outburst.
"Tala, I can explain-" Bryan tried to console the fretting teen.
"Stay where you are!!" a pang of hurt struck Bryan's heart, looking sadly as Tala bore his eyes into him, panting.
"Tala, maybe we should go somewhere else to explain. I – I don't think here is the best of places." He looked away. Despite his confusion, fear and upset manner, Tala still got the glimpse of Bryan upset. This calmed him if only a little.
"Ok." He whispered. Seeing that Tala refused to make the first move, Bryan stepped outside, holding the door for him.
"We'll meet you guys later."
Watching them disappear, Kai broke their silence,
"He didn't know?" Max sadly shook his head. "He's not ready." Tyson wrapped an arm around his boyfriend and Kai sighed,
"Perhaps we should get a move on also. We don't want to start a crowd." Thus the trio departed for Ray's (and Max's) dorm.
(Outside with Tala and Bryan – Normal POV)
The pair walked and walked across the field in pure silence. Every now and then, Bryan stole a glance from his lover, though each time it was the same – confusion, and regrettably – fear. They hit a secluded area covered by trees, only letting sunlight in through a huge gap where the branches did not block the sun's rays. A bench was carved out of the same wood, resting near one of the largest trees.
Tala stopped a little in front of Bryan.
"Is that what you've been hiding from me all this time?" he whispered. Bryan frowned,
"Yes… and no." Tala faced him,
"Well which is it?
"I wanted to tell you Tala, I – I just couldn't."
"Why not?"
"I- I –I just can't. I'm sorry Tal-"
"Sorry! Sorry!! SORRY!!! That's all I've been hearing from you Bryan! You keep talking to Max about something and won't let me in, and what pisses me off is that Kai must know, Max definitely knows, Tyson must know, and I damn well bet that Ray knows too! Yet I don't! Can you at least explain that to me? Explain why I'm in the dark?!" Bryan remained silent, causing Tala to laugh darkly, "Of course not. Why ask? It's an everyday thing isn't it! Water shooting from your palms, fire blasting from your eyes, and skin – skin re-forming itself!" Bryan glared at the sarcasm,
"I told you before. I can't explain right now. But I promised that I'd tell you soon."
"No time like the present!" he shot back.
"…no…" Tala did a double take,
"What?" The corner of Bryan's lip turned up slightly, creating a jealous smirk.
"I can't tell you; neither do I want to tell you. You'd be happier not knowing right now."
"Well don't I just look so freakin' jolly right now." The sarcasm did not sink in so well. Bryan launched at Tala, pinning him by the shoulders to a tree.
"Gods the way you're reacting is killing me!! You don't know how lucky you are!! Do you think I like what is happening to me?! Do you think any of us are happy the way we are?! Well I've got news for you Tala, when we lie down at night and remember what we have and why we have them, we pray to the Gods that we could just wake up and let it all be a dream!! You should be grateful that you don't have to go through that!!" Tala was caught off guard, resurfacing fear. Then confusion. Finally anger.
"Then let me in Bryan!!" he pushed the lilac teen off of him, "Your burdens are my burdens! I want to share every dream with you, and I'm not holding out on the nightmares! For Gods sakes, the only reason I'm making such a big deal out of this is because I LOVE YOU!!!...?!" An arrow of ice flung itself out of Tala's palm, slicing the tree to his left in one swift, clean cut.
(In Ray and Max's dorm with Kai, Tyson, Max and Ray – Normal POV)
Kai lay Ray gently on his bed and brushed away the few strands of hair that delicately floated across his face. He was sleeping like an angel,
'Fuck the fact that he was gonna turn into a right old devil once he's woken up!' Kai sweat dropped, not only out of dread of what he was gonna face soon, but also to the cheesiness of his own thoughts. 'Damn Tala and his use of wordings rubbing off on me… grr! Though I wonder how he's doing.'
"So…" Tyson broke his random trail of thought. Kai sighed.
"Her name's Lydia. We grew up together and had a kid – The End." Tyson whacked him on the head, "Alright! Alright! I'm not goin' into too much detail. Some memories are not worth re-surfacing." Tyson and Max sat on the blonde's bed, facing Kai. "Lydia, Tala, Bryan, Spencer, Ian and I, even a few other street kids, were captured one by one and taken to a science laboratory. We were experimented on by a secret organisation for medicine. Sure, you'd think that because it was for a cause to make sick people better that it was a good thing. But in order to get something right, you had to get something wrong. The main man there, Xong, was a twisted bastard and liked to play God. He put us in groups and tampered with our DNA from what I figure. When the six of us next met, Spencer was more muscular, Ian stopped growing, Bryan was pissed off all the time, Tala was mute, Lydia didn't stop crying, and I was severely claustrophobic."
"What happened?" Tyson interrupted. Kai's eyes (rhyme!!) turned hollow and his face became uptight,
"I was injected with diseases that I can't even pronounce, strapped to a table and injected again with even more 'cures'." He swallowed. "One by one each needle penetrated my skin. The worst part was the fact that I was strapped down, unable to fight. If the drugs weren't killing me, I'm sure to hell that the feeling of helplessness was."
"What about the others? What happened to them?" Max could not believe what his cousin had endured!
"Ian was testing height enhancers – though it backfired. Bryan had antidepressants, again, backfired. Spenser was testing steroids; Lydia also had to withstand 'cures' for diseases, and Tala… Tala to this day hasn't told me what he went through. It was a miracle as we never thought he would speak again!"
"Damn Kai…" Tyson didn't know what to say.
"Well it's in the past now. I thought my power was a side affect from the drugs! Even Bryan freaked out because he told me he was shot one night and healed right on the spot!" Tyson did an anime faint and Kai looked at him strangely, though he didn't question his actions.
"So where does the kid come into all of this?" Tyson questioned, serious again.
"… Xong had Lydia and me isolated. They kept us in separate rooms and were injected with new drugs. When we were about sixteen or fifteen, Xong forced us to have sex, or threatened to kill the others. Thus, Amy was brought into the world." Kai had a small smile, "But whatever he had planned afterwards wasn't gonna happen. Having Amy gave us, all of us, the strength to escape. And that's what we did, but Lydia got separated from us." Any trace of his smile vanished, "We decided that Amy would travel with Lydia, because Xong was desperate to get his hands on her. We still don't know why, but we weren't gonna let it happen. When she was two, we were in a tight squeeze. Xong found us, his mistake being that he told us it was easier to find us because we were together. So Lydia left with Amy, and I stayed with the group, we thought surely that Xong would still try to find our group, giving Lydia and Amy a chance to get away and start a new life for themselves."
"So, why are they here?"
"… Lydia knows something. Something that I don't and it has something to do with that tablet she talked about." 'But I'm gonna find out later….. If I leave now, Ray will be twice as pissed when he wakes up!!' Max and Tyson looked confused at each other as Kai sighed and sweat dropped once more.
(Tala and Bryan outside – Normal POV)
"W – What was that?!" Tala investigated his palm to find it unharmed. "Who the fuck did that?! Huh?!" Tala spun around, shouting to the branches.
"You did." Tala made the rest of his 360 degree turn to face the speaker.
"Me?" he asked disbelievingly,
"Tala… now you can know all of my secrets." Bryan looked more sad and serious than happy that he could reveal his inner torment,
'This is what I wanted to hear, but… why am I so hesitant all of a sudden?' Tala thought to himself.
"Ah!" A dark purple aura surrounded his lover, staining his eyes to match.
The feeling of a cold seed implanted within himself grew, freezing every nerve fibre within his body. The feeling began slithering through his veins, giving off a white, wispy cloud through the pores of his skin, cocooning him inside his own personal aura.
An alien, purple ribbon sashayed towards him,
"Now Tala… my greatest secret will be your greatest secret…" the jagged end painlessly pierced through his forehead, creating a golden glow. "This is your Aacura Stone… and the reason you hold it…"
Tala: Repeat!
Bryan and Kai: We shall not make Aacura cry again
Tala: Repeat!
Kai: Damn it Tala, we've repeated it a million times now!
Tala: 1,674,278 times to be exact!
Kai: You have too much spare time on your hands --
Ray: zzz snore zzz
Kai: EEP!! 00
Aacura: Please R&R all u nice peoples!! -