CHAPTER TWO
~ Encounter of Beginnings ~
A month has passed since the incident regarding the fluttering gold but the same scenes has also haunted the two-toned haired boy each night. The gray puffs that loom over the gray structures and streets of the city now pour a colorless rain. Splashes can be heard despite their subtleness and a boy with two-toned hair seems to be the source of some as he walks through a wet, green patch that the gray has failed to dismiss. Assuming that the cats will be in need of care in such weather, he looks around for them. His search is made short by their threatening sounds signaling trouble as he finds them and one other figure on the grass under the mercy of a cloaked entity. He soon notices they seem to guard the fallen figure. Shifting his focus to the figure they protect, he discovers a strangely familiar sight.
A white clad girl around his age whose face is framed by her golden blonde hair lay on the grass. What interested him most is the familiar red ribbon, now with a bell attached, that is tied around her neck.
'This girl...' The boy recalls the images of his dream, an expression of shock taking over his countenance. 'She's the girl in those dreams I've been having.'
The cats let out more threatening growls as the cloaked stranger begins his approach towards her.
'I never thought...she'd be real.' He watches in shock still as the cloaked stranger stops besides her. His intimidating height causes some of the cats to begin scratching his protected feet in vain. 'Why has she been appearing in my dreams?'
As the cloaked one was about to pick the girl up despite the cats' best attempt at defending her, an impulse takes over him and causes him to quickly draw his blue beyblade and launch it at the unfriendly stranger.
"Back off." He tells him.
The stranger, noticing the boy's presence, backs off and pauses to take a better look at him. He takes off, leaving the girl helpless in the rain on the ground. The boy stares a little after him and then turns back to the girl. He kneels down and brushes the hair from her face then realizes that if he leaves her here, she would be vulnerable to harm and might catch a cold in the rain. Luckily she didn't seem to be injured or if she was it was not visible.
"Hey," He calls to her. It would seem she is out cold.
He then turns to the cats and feels a bit split. It would either be the cats today or the girl. Still, he had to make up his mind and seeing that the girl needs his aid more, he decides he will have to leave the cats by themselves for the day.
"Sorry that I wont be able to help you guys today...I think this girl needs to be taken care of first. I'll be back tomorrow...ok?"
He picks the girl up and turns to go, giving one last look to the cats for the day as if to ask them to forgive him before heading out of the park.
...
The grayness that dominated the sky is now replaced with a thin veil of stars. The same full moon from the night of the fluttering gold appears and a fresh fragrance that follows the rain fills a fairly lit room through the window. A pair of iridescent heterochromatic eyes flutter open and slowly takes in the light. Its owner, with a pair of gentle hands pushes herself up and tries to get up only to wince in pain. She then remembers that she had been injured by a blunt object earlier on her side. She sits still on the bed and looks around. The room she is in appears to be a bedroom in a mansion and although barely decorated, what was there seeems sufficient for comfort. The girl then takes notice of her clothing. While she was unconscious, it would seem someone changed her out of her clothes and she is now wearing a white T-shirt that is big enough to cover her upper body as well as sufficient parts of her lower body but nothing more. Her original clothes could be found on the bedside table. She then tries to get out of bed once again and this time she succeeds though it is still a little difficult. She walks out of the room and looks down the dark hall way. No one seems to be there and since she is unaware of what kind of surrounding she is in, she decides that it probably couldn't hurt much to wander around and find out.
...
The darkness in the hall eventually gives way to to a warm lamplight that is visible through a small break between two large doors. Voices from beyond the door begins to break the silence that the girl had grown accustomed to in the darkness. The girl approaches the double doors and pushes one door open to find a room as fairly lit as the one she awakened in. This one, however, is filled with people. A two-toned blue haired boy looks out the window of the room beside a black haired boy with golden cat-like eyes in white oriental clothing on a couch. Sitting next to this boy on the same couch is a blond haired boy with blue eyes. A navy haired boy argues with a small red headed one and a girl with brown hair scolds them. Watching them fight with the blond and the guy in oriental cloths is a small brown haired boy whose eyes are covered by his hair.
It seems nothing would disturb their friendly chatter but a small tinkle of the bell around the girl's neck when she shifts her position at the door a little. They stop completely and turn in her direction. The boy who was gazing out the window emerges his trance and focuses his attention on her as well.
"Oh hey there, you woke up." says the one in the navy hair. "How are you feeling?"
"She probably woke up 'cause you two just couldn't shut up.." the girl with brown hair mutters.
"What was that?" the little red head yells.
They were about to start up again when a voice from the black haired boy stops them.
"So what were you doing there? Kai found you unconscious at the park earlier today." he asks.
The girl did not reply but she merely stares at them blankly. The question comes again.
"Em… Why were you there in the park and how did you end up unconscious there?" the blond one asks.
The girl turned to the two toned haired boy. "You took the ribbon before..."
Though it was a small mutter, this left everyone in the room puzzled and unsure what to say next. Silence followed for a small while only to be broken by the black haired boy again.
"So what were you doing there in the park and who was that guy that was there?"
"I was playing with the furry ones."
"Huh?" came several in the room who was a little puzzled by her reply.
"I've been playing around with those furry ones for a while..."
"So what were you doing there today?" the little red headed one asks, still puzzled like the others.
"Playing..."
The doorbell sounds and the brown haired girl responds, "I'll get it" and leaves to see who is at the door. Then, the navy haired boy speaks up.
"Well anyways, we're glad you're alright now. My name's Tyson. The one next to me here is Ray and this is Max. Daichi is the little guy here and that's Chief and Mr. Sourpuss over there who you seem to have met before is Kai. Oh, and Hilary's the one who's getting the door. She was also the one who changed you out of your clothes."
"So what's your name?" asks Max in a friendly tone.
"They said...I am Lux..."
"They said?" inquires Kai. He had wondered about this girl's connection to those dreams but now he is almost certain something is not normal about this girl. "What do you mean?"
"The ones that I first saw...said Lux"
Just then Hilary returns followed by three figures who seems to be dressed for cold weather. One of them bears bright red hair and is clad in white and orange. Another has short silver hair and is clad in a darker theme of clothes while the final one, big and broad sharing the other two's style of fashion bears light brown hair.
"Hey Kai, your old team came by." says Hilary. "They seem to have something important to tell you."
Kai turns to them. The girl with the golden hair turns to the guests of the mansion and for a second caught the eyes of the red haired one
"Hey Tala, what's up?" Tyson says in a laid back manner.
"Something..." mutters the red head in a serious tone.
Kai looks up.
"While blading casually we found a large research facility located in the tundra. Guess what we found out there." the silver haired says.
"What is it?" Ray asks.
"We only saw a little, but someone's trying to conduct research on something that's related to beyblading."
"And?" Tyson is now more interested.
"There was quite some heavy security outside the building. But that's only part of why we think something's up." the silver haired says.
"Originally we didn't know the place had anything to do with blading until one of their "test subjects", as one of the guards who was chasing him called him, came out and tried to fight off the guards using a beyblade that was extraordinarily powerful. It couldn't have been a normal blade. The guy had iridescent eyes…just like her." Tala indicates to the girl with golden hair .
Everyone's attention turns to Lux. Lux looks back at them, then turns to the red haired whose expression turns a bit melancholic at the sight of her.
"Tala..." Kai addresses him. "What exactly do you mean?"
"We didn't come here only to tell you about a laboratory we accidentally stumbled on. After the incident, some guys in black cloaks came after us. The first time, we fought them, we found out they seem to be after us for having seen their little chase. The second time we ran into them, we got word that you picked up someone they're desperately searching for and that's when we decided to come here." Bryan tells him.
"It just so happens we need a place to lay low for a while until we get what's up." Tala then turns to the door. "Bryan, Spencer, let's go."
Then Tala turns to leave but takes one more look at Lux, his usually cold eyes filled with a sign of emotion unusual to his nature. Lux, who had returned the gaze looks after him curiously then turns to Kai. Kai, who felt her gaze, turns to her only to find that whatever strength it was that allowed her to get up and come to this room was leaving her.
"Lux!" several voices shout as they notice her delicate figure sway and fall to the ground.
Her vision becomes blurred and her senses eventually fade away as she entered a timeless realm of darkness.