HEY GUYS! MISS ME? *crickets chirp* *sad face* AWW…

I FEEL SO EVIL! INSERT EPICALLY FAILED BATTLE SCENE!

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I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE TOSL (TRIBE OF STRIKING LIGHTNING) CAME TO BE, BUT IT JUST HAPPENED! I'M RANDOM LIKE THAT! :D

DISCLAIMER – I DO NOT OWN BEYBLADE, ONLY MAH OCs AND THE TRIBE OF STRIKING LIGHTNING!

Blading Brings People Together

Chapter 11: The Tribe of Striking Lightning

"Da Xiang, are you sure we're going the right way? I mean, this forest is… er… pretty much the same everywhere." Charice glanced around at the dark, homogeneous woodland.

Before they had entered the forest, they had been standing on a hill overlooking it, and it had seemed like it had stretched on for miles and miles, finally ending at a small grey building which must have been the ruins.

"Of course I'm sure!" Da Xiang replied rather too quickly.

"You don't know, do you?" Nile sweatdropped. Da Xiang didn't answer, ignoring Nile's question as he continued to hike through the forest.

"We must have been here for like hours!" Miku grumbled, dragging her feet across the muddy ground.

"I agree. And night will be falling soon." Mitsuki said, mysteriously appearing out of nowhere (and causing Nile and Kyoya to jump).

"Whoa! Where did she come from?" Nile yelled, shocked.

"And there I was thinking that we'd lost her." Kyoya murmured.

Completely used to her appearances, Charice and Miku resumed their trek, following Da Xiang.

"Still, Mitsuki's right. Night is falling, so we should either try and find out how far the ruins are and where we are, or make camp here." Charice said, stopping and crossing her arms.

"I'M NOT CAMPING OUT HERE!" Miku shouted, causing a few lone birds to flutter out of the trees.

"We might not have a choice." Mitsuki whispered.

"I'll climb that tree and find out where we are, 'kay?" Charice pointed to the nearest tree (which was, thankfully, very tall) and without waiting for an answer, started leaping from branch to branch.

"Show-off." Miku muttered. "First she jumps out of a 12 storey high building, and now she climbs up to the top of a tree by jumping. Without injuring herself either time. You'd think she does it for a living."

After a few minutes, Charice reached the top, looking around.

Directly in front of her, the forest extended for what must have been miles. To her left, the way they had come, she could see the hill they had paused on alienated by the great stretch of forest. Behind her… another few miles of trees. But to her right stood the ruins… yet once again, it would take at least half a day to get there.

Charice sighed and watched the orange sun slowly decline, the pink sky darkening into a deep blue, the sun disappearing into the earth.

Gradually, the full moon began its ascent up into the sky to take the place of the sun. Charice sat, feeling at peace.

"Come on, Charice." Charice started, snapping her head around.

Perching on one of the branches, Nile was gazing at Charice… No, the moon, Charice told herself. Why would Nile want to gaze at her? It had to be the moon. Or the stars. Could be gazing at the stars.

"We'd better get down. After all, the others are waiting to know whether we should continue." Nile said gently. Charice nodded, before leaping down to the ground, landing lightly on her feet.

"Show-off." Miku called. "And now she jumps down from a 100 foot tree. Without injuring herself."

"Oh come on, you're just jealous." Charice sniggered, seeing Nile tentatively put his foot down on another branch.

"So? Should we continue or…?" Da Xiang asked.

"No. We should make camp. It'd take at least half a day to get to the ruins." Charice answered.

"Okay, it's decided then: we're staying for the night." Da Xiang concluded, despite Miku's loud protests. "Charice, Nile and Kyoya, you start making hammocks or shelters… or anything which we could possibly sleep in slash on. Mitsuki and Miku you find some sticks and two flints. I'll go hunting." He assigned the jobs, before vanishing into the bushes.

"Good thing we're in a clearing; it'll give us plenty of space. I bet the authoress did that on purpose. You did, didn't you?" Charice said, breaking the fourth wall.

"You broke the fourth wall!" A random person who looked rather like the authoress exclaimed, then teleported back to her laptop.

"… Well that was random. Come on, Mitsuki, wherever you are, let's go get the firewood." Miku told her once-again-invisible teammate, and led her back the way they had come.

"I think we should make two shelters; one for us and one for you boys. So… let's get some branches and lots of big leaves!" Charice suggested. Nile nodded, while Kyoya merely shrugged.

"Fine." Kyoya got out his bey, aimed at a nearby branch and launched it.

"What are yo-?" Charice's cry was cut off by the branch crashing to the floor. A single bird had flapped wildly off of the branch just as it started to fall.

"Done."

"OI! I was trying to catch that!" Da Xiang came hurtling out of the undergrowth, scowling.

"Oops, sorry." Kyoya held up his hands in mock surrender, not actually sounding at all sorry.

"You should be." Da Xiang glowered at Kyoya, trudging back into the shrubberies.

"… It's a good idea though… Rock Wyvern! Let's do it!" Charice pulled out Wyvern and attempted to do the same as Kyoya… but… Wyvern just rebounded, landing on the ground with a small THUD in front of her.

"Huh? Why didn't it work?"

"It takes great strength to be able to do that. You can even fell trees when you have that power." Kyoya gave a small smile.

"How…?"

"Kyoya trained… a lot. It took him a while, but he eventually managed to get that strength. It takes practice, but it also takes willpower. And patience." Nile explained. "Keep trying."

"Ok… Wyvern!" She picked up Wyvern and launched it again at the tree branch.

While she practised, Nile and Kyoya continued collecting more branches, before beginning to construct the shape of a shelter.

Eventually, they managed to finish (leaves and all) one shelter big enough for all of them. It only took them… an hour or so.

"Sorry, Charice, we can only make one. It's big enough for all of us, though." Nile called over to Charice, who was just about to launch Wyvern again. All around her, there lay at least 20 tree branches. There was even a whole tree there. "… Wow."

"You did that in an hour?" Kyoya asked, his surprise evident.

"Yeah, why?"

"It took Kyoya… what? A couple of day-" Nile was interrupted by Kyoya.

"Hours, only a few hours. Shut up, Nile." Kyoya added to the Egyptian, who was going to say otherwise.

"Charming. Hey… what's taking the others so long?" Nile suddenly enquired, glancing around the clearing. "Surely it doesn't take an hour to collect some firewood?"

"GUYS! YOU GUYS, GET YOUR BUTTS OVER THERE! IT'S DA XIANG! HE'S UNCONCIOUS! HE'S BEEN ATTACKED! BY ALIENS!" Miku yelled, running over and breaking the previously quiet glade.

A/N – Now, who said that?

"Da Xiang?" The threesome (now accompanied by Miku and Mitsuki) rushed over to where Miku had seen Da Xiang.

Sure enough, he was unconscious, with a strange little arrow stuck in his arm.

"It looks like a sleeping dart- " Charice observed, but was cut off by Nile.

"Charice! LOOK OUT!" Charice saw the same sort of dart speeding towards her, then she saw Nile jumping in front of her and crumpling to the floor, unconscious, as the dart hit him.

"… Idiot." Charice mumbled.

"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! BY ALIENS!"

A/N – No prizes for guessing who said that -_-'

Miku started running around in circles like a headless chicken. Then she was hit by a dart and fell to the floor.

Meanwhile, Mitsuki turned invisible in an attempt to protect herself, although she was struck by another flying dart soon after.

Kyoya's eyes darted around, trying to spot the attackers, but was attacked from behind.

Charice was now extremely frightened, what with fighting an unseen enemy alone. She backed against a tree, wondering what to do, when there was a sharp blow to her head, making her collapse, out cold like the rest of her teammates.

-XD-

W-what happened? Where am I? All I remember was being attacked… Charice's eyes shot open. She wasn't prepared for the sudden change in light. It must be morning already. She thought, trying to bring her hands up to rub her eyes… before she realized that they were tied to a large tree trunk. She pulled at the ropes, but they wouldn't loosen.

The side of her head throbbed, so Charice assumed that that was where she was punched.

Sighing, she sat back, noticing that Nile and Mitsuki were sitting next to her, the latter still knocked out.

"Where are we?" She whispered to Nile.

"I don't know. Kyoya and Da Xiang are still unconscious. I'm not sure about Miku and Mitsuki." He replied quietly.

"Mitsuki's unconscious and Miku must be, otherwise she'd be screaming her head of-"

"LET US GO, ALIENS! YOU'RE COWARDS TO FIGHT FROM THE SHADOWS! COWARDS TO USE STUPID SLEEPING DARTS! COWARDS!" Someone bellowed from somewhere behind Charice.

A/N – Once again, no prizes ^-^;

"… Miku's awake. And the others must be with that racket going on." Charice hissed, shaking her head.

"You're right: Kyoya's just woken up and is trying to get free, while Da Xiang's just sitting there silently."

Charice was about to extend on that, but she stopped abruptly when she saw some figures slinking out of the shadows.

The figures were clothed in what seemed to be like tribe clothing, with fancy headdresses and what.

"You shall now die." The one who was dressed the most elaborately (and carrying a spear, mind you… *shiver*) said, pointing his weapon at the group.

"Why? What have we done to you?" Charice cried.

"You plan on destroying our Tribe like many others have tried before." He stated simply. "You're from the military, no?"

"NO! We're not! We want to get to the Old Ruins!"

"The Old Ruins?" The Tribe Leader hesitated. "What business do you have there?"

"We think our friend may have been influenced by the Shadow Pearl!"

"… Do you swear to God with all your life that you are not from the military?"

"YES!" The gang chorused.

"Untie them." The leader ordered. A few of the Tribe members made their way over to the trunk, and began to cut through the ropes restraining them. Charice let out a sigh of relief when her wrists were released, rubbing her hands to get the feeling back into them. "I am sorry for attacking you. It is just that the military has been trying to get us out of the forest so that they can remove the forest."

"It's ok. I just have one question: who are you?" Charice questioned.

"We are the Tribe of Striking Lightning."

DUN-DUN-DUN! WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?

This was supposed to be about the Old Ruins, but er… yeah. It kinda just happened.

ARGH! I had terrible writer's block on this! This is actually one of the longest chapters… when I finally got into it (the battle scene), I just couldn't stop!

PREPARE FOR OCs galore next chapter!

QUESTIONS:

UN! WHO WAS SCREAMING ABOUT ALIENS? (STILL NO PRIZES! :D)

DEUX! WILL THE TRIBE HELP THEM?

RQ! DO YOU LIKE THIS STORY? PLEASE ANSWER TRUTHFULLY! :3

TROIS! WILL THEY FIND THE SHADOW PEARL? *DUN DUN DUN!*

QUATRE! WHAT LANGUAGE ARE THE QUESTION NUMBERS? (I know, completely irrelevant)

I'M SO HAPPY! I'VE FIGURED OUT A WAY TO NOT NEED TO USE YAOI LATER! HAHAHA! I AM AWESOME!

I CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK. AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG THIS STORY WILL BE.

REVIEW PLEASE, 'CAUSE THAT REVIEW BOX LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE HIDING A POKEMON! A POKEMON CALLED… PALKIA (IN PLUSHIE FORM)!