"Now just WHAT were you doing?!" Dan exclaimed.
"I was…. Well I was trying to think if I saw someone like that guy you described… that's all okay?" Emily said in a low tone, looking towards the floor.
"Great, I get to tell mom about this now," Dan muttered.
"Your mom is dead," Emily said, glaring at him from the corner of her eye," how the heck are you supposed to tell her?"
"Look, who I consider to be my mom isn't who you consider to be yours, got it?" Dan shot back.
"Excuse me?" Emily said with an annoyed tone in her voice.
"You heard me," He replied, shrugging.
Emily muttered something under her breath as she pushed her brother towards the elevator wall as they descended down the building. Her tail wrapped around his waist, and made sure he doesn't move.
"TAKE. IT. BACK." She exclaimed, shoving him harder into the wall.
"And why should I! Huh?" He asked her, shoving her off of him, "I was abandoned! If she's supposed to be my mom then why did she give ME up then?! Tell me that!"
"Did you I don't know, Ever THINK that it had to do with not being able to take care of two kids alone?!" She said, before she calmed down and stared towards the floor.
"And how do you know that for sure if you never knew you had a brother until she died? Explained that to me?"
Emily slowly let go of Dan, and backed away with both a shocked and confused expression on her face. Suddenly there was a ding noise, as the elevator door opened to the ground floor. Emily stared at Dan, then towards the exit, and then back to Dan, until she finally jumped, and to Dan's surprise, flew out of the building.
"Did she just…" he started, staring at the exit in astonishment, only to break his train of thought when the elevator door closed.
"Dan!" yelled Drago on Dan's shoulder, which caused him to snap back into focus, as he pressed the button on the elevator and the door opened. Dan then ran down the hallway after his sister. When he exited the building, Emily wasn't in sight anywhere. He sighed as he grabbed his bike and went down the road.
"I can't believe she just did that, seriously. Can she be any more cold?" Dan muttered to himself.
"Well, she must have been really close to her mother. I think you could have been more considerate about that" Drago replied back.
"And your point is? I don't even remember my own parents, so obviously my mom must have lied to Emily or something," Dan said.
"But she still loved her, and you should respect that," Drago said as he sighed.
"Me? Respect a person who left me? Never." He said, shaking his head as he biked down the road into the shopping center.
"Dan I think you're taking this way too-"Drago started, but was suddenly interrupted by Dan slamming the breaks on his bicycle.
Dan stared at what was in front of him, as he saw a man, as he slowly got off of his bike, and set it down on the railing next to him. Awkwardly, he started walking over to the mysterious man, who was leaning up against a tree.
"Um.. Hello?" Dan asked.
"Ah! There you are! I've been expecting you," The man said, opening his eyes and a smirk going across his face.
"You…. Been expecting me?" Dan replied back, 'That doesn't sound creepy at all.'
"Of course I have. I noticed you earlier coming down this path, talking to that girl. I thought I might as well wait around for you to come back down this way. Is there a problem with that?" The man stated.
"Well, I think that depends on-"Dan started, before suddenly being interrupted before what looked like an aqua colored shield appeared in front of him. He back-pedaled from the shock, which caused him to lose his footing and fall onto the street.
Dan blinked a couple of times in shock, as he say his sister land in front of him, getting in a fighting position in front of the shield. She glared at the man, and it sounded like she let out a low growling noise of annoyance.
"You should run, like, now." She said, not taking her eyes off the man.
"Run, why the heck should I-"Dan started, before getting interrupted yet again.
"My my, is that an aura shield I see? How…. Intriguing. "The man stated, as he walked over to Emily and Dan.
"Wait, how do you know about Aura?!" Emily exclaimed.
"That's my business sweetheart, did your parents say to not get into other people's business?" the man said.
Dan then got up from the street floor, as he walked up to the edge of the shield, and puts his hands on it as he looks towards his sister.
"Wait, why did you even COME here? I thought you wanted to "get away from me"?" Dan asked.
"Negative energy in the area, sensed it as I was flying away and I wanted to see what was going on, and then I noticed you talked to this guy here," Emily replied.
"Negative energy? I don't see any signs of negative energy anyway….. Unless you mean this," The man said, as he held out his hand, which became cloaked in a pitch black colored aura.
"Th-that's…." Emily stuttered, chocking on her words, before shooting a glare at the man, "Who are you!?"
"Who am I? You may simply refer to me as Peotas. Don't worry, I mean no harm, I just have some business with the boy behind you," Peotas said.
"Me? What business would possibly want with me?" Dan asked.
"What do you think I would want? A brawl," Peotas said, as he the tossed up a red sphere, and caught it with his hand.
"A…. brawl? With me?" Dan asked.
"You've been climbing up the ranks rather quickly haven't you? I'd love to test you, just to see how good you are," Peotas started, "but, I'd need that sister of yours to take down that shield in order for us to continue."
Emily muttered something under her breath, as her hand stopped glowing, letting the shield disappear, and making Dan nearly fall flat on his face in the process. Dan then nodded, as he gestured Emily to hold onto his arm.
"Why exactly am I supposed to do this…?" Emily asked.
"You won't be able to watch this unless you're holding onto someone with a gate card, or have one of your own," Dan answered.
Emily then blinked a couple of times, before hesitantly taking a grab of Dan's arm, before the light from the cards then surrounded the group, blinding them for a couple of seconds. When the light vanished, the area around them looked unreal. It looked like an area that was between dimensions, which was made up of various colors, and multiple vortexes like shapes that were made up of multiple shades of a single color.
"W-what is this place?!" Emily exclaimed
"It's a place where two battlers come to brawl, it's where the gate cards take is," Dan said, shrugging.
"Wonderful, now that that's settled, allow us to begin!" Peotas said, as he then threw down a gate card down, before tossing his bakugan down on the card. 'I can't wait to test how much potential Dan has here' He thought.
When Peotas' bakugan opened up on the gate card, it created a fire-tornado like opening, which had flares of a black energy flying in all directions. Suddenly two wings opened up, dispersing the fire and negative energy in all directions, as a barrage of sharp feathers that flew out to both sides. It revealed itself to look like a Pyrus phoenix like bakugan, with multiple shades of red and some yellow feathers. It's eyes with a glossy purple color, giving them an ominous appearance. Then an ear bleeding screech was released from the bakugan, causing Emily and Dan to cover both of their ears.
"Now who is my pathetic opponent today?" The bakugan exclaimed, as it let out another bone-chilling screech.
"Now Now Denziel, let's not act so powerful UNTIL we see who our opponent is," Peotas said.
"The brawler and bakugan make no difference to me! They will all be crushed by the mighty Denziel!" Denziel exclaimed.
Emily blinked a couple of times, as she looked at Denziel, as she felt a strange energy coming from the bakugan, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes trying to figure out what it was. While Emily did that, Dan stood there confused, scratching the back of his head.
"I don't get what's up with this bird. It doesn't seem so tough," Dan said, while Emily opened her eyes with shock.
"D-Dan…. T-that thing-"Emily started, just as Dan threw Drago into the field.
Drago's ball then opened on the gate card, and when his green eyes glowed, a fire vortex suddenly appeared, expanding outwards, as the fire then went in all directions as the Pyrus Dragonoid appeared.
"Ah, so a Delta Dragonoid I see, so you have an evolved bakugan I see. Intriguing," Peotas stated.
"So what if this lizard has evolved! I'm still going to crush him!" Denziel exclaimed.
"Dan! Let's show this bird just exactly who he's talking to!" Drago exclaimed
"Right, let's go! Fire tornado!" Dan exclaimed, while looking at his baku-pod. Noticing the power level difference, he smirked, "This should up Drago up by 100Gs while dropping your crazy bird by the same amount."
"Choke on this!" Drago yelled, as his body became cloaked in fire, and flew up, diving down at a high speed directly towards Denziel.
"Peotas!" Denziel yelled, getting into position for an attack.
"Right right, I'm sorry I don't think your precious attack is going to work Dan," Peotas stated, which caused Emily to go wide eyed. She was about to say something when she got interrupted by Peotas, "Disaura shield!"
Denziel suddenly became encased in a black aura as his eyes were surrounded by a pitch black glow. The aura swirled around his body, which made it so it was impossible to see the bakugan inside of the shield. Suddenly part of the shield went towards Drago, attacking his fire tornado, which caused the fire to vanish and engulfing the Pyrus bakugan in a concentrated amount of negative energy.
"Dan!" Drago exclaimed, as he let out a roar of pain.
"Drago! How is that-"Dan started, before getting interrupted.
"Dan that bakugan can use Disaura!" Emily yelled in shock.
"Wait-what?! You mean that negative energy thing you told me about? Why didn't you-"Dan started.
"I TRIED to tell you but you we're too caught up in trying to be cocky!" Emily snapped at him.
"I wouldn't be fighting, unless you're ready to lose!" Peotas said, pointing back towards the battle.
"Huh?" Dan said, putting his focus back on the battle, before looking up in shock.
The battle between Drago and Denziel ended rather quickly, as Denziel came out of his cloak of disaura, while the disaura went towards Drago and engulfed him instead, allowing Denziel to attack with the final blow, forcing Drago to be reverted back to his ball form. Denziel let out a victory screech before doing the same.
"How is that… huh?" Dan asked, staring straight ahead of him confused.
"Simple. Disaura shield is an ability that nullifies the opponent's ability, and makes the bakugan reverts back to their original power level. Since Denziel is higher than Drago's, he won." Peotas said, catching Denziel as he came back.
Dan blinked a couple of times in pure shock, trying to figure out how exactly he's going to beat that move.
"How are we….." He started, before looking over to his sister.
"Disaura is a powerful fighting element mom told me, it's very hard to counter. The only thing I've heard that would counter it Is aura, honestly, or something similar," Emily explained.
"If Aura is the only thing that can counter it how the heck am I supposed to win? If Drago loses again the battle is over," Dan said.
"Just- stall," Emily said sighing.
"Excuse me?" Dan asked.
"Just do it," Emily replied.
Dan sighed, before throwing down another gate card, along with Drago following. Peotas quickly followed suit and the two started brawling rather quickly.
"Are you ready to meet your demise you worthless lizard?" Denziel asked, glaring at Drago with his cold, menacing eyes.
"I'll show you who's worthless you parrot!" Drago exclaimed, followed by a mighty roar.
"Parrot?" Dan said questionably, while snickering, "Hey Drago we should call him Torchy the Parrot!"
"Torchy?! How DARE such a pathetic life form call ME such an inconsiderate name! Peotas!" Denziel exclaimed.
"I don't think that was very nice, Dan, you should respect your opponent. Denziel, Burning Phoenix! Show them just what they're up against!" Peotas yelled.
Denziel's body then became cloaked in a fire, as his sharp feathers spread out on both sides of him, before flying up at high speeds, and started to crash down towards Drago.
"Dan!" Drago yelled.
"Right… right… now let's see…. Uhh…" Dan said in a panic, flipping through his ability cards, trying to figure out how to counter that, "Fire wall!"
Drago then created a shield of fire that shot up high above the dragon himself, as Denziel came crashing into it, but still being able to break through it. Dan then looked at the power levels of the two and saw that they were equal.
"Crap Drago still isn't powerful enough to defeat him! Now what?"
"Dan we need to do something quick I don't know how much longer I can hold him!" Drago said, as he was holding off Denziel by pushing against his sharp wings with his hands.
"Right!" Dan said, shakily looking through his ability cards again. 'I don't have anything that can beat that guy! Even if I do something to raise Drago's power level, he's just going to counter it!'
Emily then looked at Denziel and Drago for a moment, before looking down at her glowing hand. Suddenly a light bulb went off in her head as she walked over to Dan, and waved her glowing hand in front of his face.
"What is it? Now isn't the time to distract me!" He said, yelling at Emily.
"I'm TRYING to help you. I said disaura is a hard element to counter, and one of the few things that might be able to counter it is Aura, look at my hand," Emily said.
"Wait-you don't mean-"Dan started.
"Yes, I do. Now do you want to lose again or not?" Emily asked.
"Yes, I definitely want to lose this battle," Dan said sarcastically.
Emily ignored his comment while she played around with the aura in her hands, creating something that looked like a sphere of it, before throwing it out into the battle field.
"D strike Attack! Let's kick it into high gear Drago!" Dan said, as he threw up the ability card.
Drago then let out a mighty roar before pushing Denziel away and flying high, as a series of meteors fell directly towards Denziel, just as the phoenix was getting ready to fly away. Then the aura sphere that Emily threw came into contact with Drago's attack, as it dispersed and created a ring, and when the attack went through it the energy multiplied, as it came into contact with Denziel before he was able to get away. There was a screech of pain that came from the Pyrus bakugan, as Dan and Emily we're forced to cover their ears once again. There was a red light that came from the bird, as he returned to his ball form. Drago released a victory roar, and then did the same.
"What… what did you do?" Dan asked.
"I used my aura to boost the power of Drago's attack. Making it so it hit him before Peotas was able to counter with any abilities," Emily explained.
"You…. You can do that?" Dan said.
"Until I get drained, I guess," Emily replied shrugging.
"I have to say, that's a very unique ability you have," Drago said.
"Alright, let's finish this battle then!" Dan said, getting ready to throw down Drago while Peotas threw down another gate card, and the third and final battle started.
"Alright, so my gauge is at…..forty percent and his is at sixty. If I can pull off a bigger win here, I should be able to wrap this up," Dan said excited.
"Gauge….?" Emily asked.
"Oh, it's these things called a life gauge, it's when your bar drops to zero you lose," Dan explained.
"Dan, let us finish this!" Drago roared.
"Alright! Drago, Dragonic enforcement!" Dan yelled, pulling out an ability card.
"Oh, so trying to continually up your G level aren't we now? I don't think that's going to work, Disaura shield!" Peotas said, countering Dan.
"Emily, do your thing!" Dan said, winking at her.
Emily raised an eyebrow at what was going on, and the way Peotas responded to Dan's call. She sighed, as she then started to create a ball of aura between both of her hands once again. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath trying to figure out if Peotas' had anything under his sleeve. Meanwhile with Drago and Denziel, a pitch black shield surrounded the fire bird, making him impossible to see with the regular eye. Drago then raised a couple of pillars of fire around him, and tried to attack the shield in order to penetrate it.
"Emily, fire it now!" Dan said, pointing at the shield, "Wall Burst!"
Drago then roared, as a huge wave of fire came up in front of the Dragonoid, as it started crashing towards Denziel, who was surrounded by his shield. Emily nodded, as she then released the aura she was channeling and threw it directly towards Drago's attack in order to give it a boost. This caused Peotas to smirk, and start laughing.
"What's so funny? You know how Disaura works, you know you're doomed," Emily said.
"That's where you are mistaken sweetheart. If you are aware of how Aura works, you should know it works the other way around," Peotas said, with a smirk across his face.
"W-wait what?!" Emily exclaimed.
"Emily what's he-"Dan started.
"Disaura Flare!" Peotas called, as he threw an ability card at the bakugan.
Emily's eyes went wide when a shiver went down her spine. She saw the ability card go flying towards the shield, as it then became engulfed by the negative energy around it. Suddenly there was yet another bone chilling screech that came from the center of the shield, as a vortex of fire came from behind the shield of disaura.
"D-Dan get back!" Emily yelled, as she jumped up in front of him, throwing up a shield protecting the two of them.
Then the vortex of fire was absorbed by the shield, and the moment it completed it started to spew in all directions. The combined negative energy fire went swirling and hurdled directly at Drago, with Denziel in the center of the blast.
"Time for you to meet your demise lizard!" Denziel screamed, as he came into direct contact with Drago, causing a roar of pain to be heard from where Emily and Dan were.
"D-Drago! No!" Dan yelled, pressing his hands up against Emily's shield, as he looked towards his sister, "I thought you were going to help me WIN?"
"I didn't know that he had ANOTHER disaura ability? I'm not a psychic!" Emily yelled back.
Drago was then surrounded by a red light, as he returned back to his ball form, and went back over to Dan as he caught him. Dan looked at his Baku-pod as his life gauge dropped to zero, and then suddenly there was another bright light, similar to the one that occurred to when they started the battle. When it vanished, then they we're back were they started, on sidewalk next to the street.
"D-did that just…?" Dan asked, as he blinked a couple of times, while looking around.
"You're the one who's experienced with the brawls, not me. Although…." Emily started, as she closed her eyes, and then raised her hand, "I-I think he just vanished…. Because he was definitely here. I can sense the negative energy.
"Then where did he….." Dan asked, looking around again in confusion, while he went to grab his bike.
Meanwhile, in a dark alley way, Peotas looked at his partner bakugan Denziel, as Peotas dusted off his cape.
"So was that the girl that you were looking for?" Denziel asked.
"Yes, that's definitely her. It's not a mere coincidence that she is both related to Dan and has aura powers," Peotas stated.
"Then what are your intentions of dealing with her?" Denziel questioned.
"I… I think that we are going to be seeing a lot more of each other," Peotas replied back, with a smirk across his face.
You know I finally realized this is how people do Author's notes on FFN here lol. Kuso you're so so smart aren't you? Yaaay chapter 4, I had so much fun doing this XD. I'm really excited to introduce my main antagonist Peotas and his partner Denziel. They probably sound a bit of a usual villian... but they get better later on(please keep spoilers out of the reviews if you can)
Hope you enjoyed the chapter ^_^