CHAPTER FIVE
~ A Gentle Light ~
The evening air is soft and the night's silver orb is still rising. A pair of purple eyes are focused on the rising silver orb and its owner's mind is lost in a stream of thoughts.
The wind blows gently, playing with his two-toned hair. The stir of the girl laying on the bed in the same room pulled him from his intense thinking.
"K-Kai?" she says weakly. He turns to her to see her sitting up slowly, one hand holding her head as if it hurt. He turns back to the moon and returns to gazing at it. Then after a couple moments of silence, she spoke again.
"Could you...tell me what happened?"
"Shouldn't you know that better than me?" he asks her back without turning to her. Silence dominates the room for a few moments before a soft voice breaks it.
"The last thing...I can remember…was going to the park…then I loaded the beyblade onto the launcher…and got ready to launch the blade…then a voice...then I woke up here…"
Kai turns to her. "You beat Tyson in one shot and then collapsed."
Lux looks up at him in surprise as he heads out of the room. She then hugs her knees and buries her face in them.
...
The next morning quickly comes and soon, the moon, stars and other celestial objects are no longer visible. The sun shines brightly over a dojo where chatter and snoring can be heard. The sound of clashing beyblades are absent today but in its place, the sound of constant tapping of buttons on a laptop and voices asking curious questions are present. A boy with two-toned hair walks on the wooden porch-like structure towards the source of the sounds.
"Hey Kai, how's Lux?" asks Max who was the first to notice him.
"She's fine." He replies. "Kenny, about the launcher, did you find out anything?"
"I did and get this, it's got something pretty unusual in it." Kenny says.
"Yup, a fragment of a bitbeast" Dizzi adds.
"A fragment…of a bitbeast?" Kai continues.
"Yup." Dizzi answers.
'Now I'm sure Tala's information must've been spot on.' Kai recalls the events of the day before. He then goes on to ask, "What kind of a bitbeast?"
"We don't know yet." Kenny answers, analyzing something on his laptop.
"By the way, Kai" Ray calls his attention. "Are you sure this is okay? It's just I feel like we're digging into Lux's stuff without asking…"
"She asked me what happened when she was battling with Tyson." Kai tells him.
"Huh?" All but Kenny look up at him puzzled.
"Wait, are you saying she doesn't remember what happened?" asks Daichi.
Kai answers him with a nod.
"That's pretty odd…" comments Max.
...
Meanwhile, footsteps made by a wearer of white leather boots echoes through an empty hallway in a large mansion. They stop at a pair of doors and a hand slowly pushes one door open. A face framed by golden hair pokes through and looks around. Lux then enters the room where a long table in the center and a serving of breakfast on it awaits her. A note lay next to it. It read:
"In case you're hungry, I left you some breakfast.
-Kai"
Lux looks to the food and hears a low growl from her stomach. She sits down and was about to dig in when she noticed the glass of milk that came with the rest of the meal. She blinked at it and an image of a couple of furry little things with furry, pointy ears popped into her mind.
"I wonder if they're hungry too..."