Hey guys sorry it has taken me so long to update I've had other stuff to do and I have to study for the ACT I'm taking in June so I can apply for the college I want to go to and I also have to share the computer with my brother so fingers crossed I can get updates in sooner.-ShadowPhoenix34
I don't own Bakugan it belongs to TMSEntertainment and Japan Vistec. I only own Ashley.
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CHAPTER 2: MASQUERADE BALL
I woke up the next morning to the sun in my eye. Great this day is already starting out bad. I got dressed in my white pants, a purple spagetti strap tanktop and my black jacket (A.N: like the one dan wears just black), and white fingerless gloves (A.N: like Shun's just you know white). My purple bakugan holder was attached to the black belt around my waist and my purple bakupod was around my wrist. I looked in the mirror so I could brush out my hair. I unlike dan got my hair color from dad instead of mom so his was brown and mine was black. I pulled my hair into a high ponytail and my purple sidesweep banga fell in front of my right eye covering it. People had a hard time believing Dan and I were twins I had green eyes he didn't, I had black hair instead of brown, and the fact I'm a darkus brawler instead of pyrus oh well. I placed my Serpenoid, Monarus, and ravenoid into my bakugan holder and grabbed my cards and put them in my back pocket and headed to see if Dan was up yet.
"Come on I know I wasn't hearing things. Why won't you say something? Come on!" Dan was complaining as he poked the new he got while battling Shuji.
"Dan he isn't going to come out if you continue to pester him about it. If it was me I'd stay quiet just to make you mad. Let him come out in his own time" I tried to tell him. Dan however ignored me, nothing new there, and said he was going to bring drago to school to show everyone he could talk. I face palmed and asked him, "Dan what makes you think he'll talk then if he hasn't spoken a word since you got him?"Again he ignored me, of course ignore me when I'm completely right, and grabbed his backpack and Drago, put on out shoes, and walked out the door. I grabbed my backpack I had left by my door and we walked to school. Pretty much as soon as we walked into the classroom everyone swarmed Dan asking if that was the bakugan they heard about and wishing they had one as well. I put my head in my hands and shook it. This was going to be a loooong day. I placed my head in my hand and decided to watch this train wreck.
"Ta da feast your eyes on the one and only Drag" Dan said with his foot on a chair holding Drago out for everyone to see. I felt sorry for Drago being shown around like some shiny new toy. Dan forgets bakugan aren't just game pieces they're living beings. One of the boys goads Dan into making Drago talk and Dan ,being the idiot that he is, says he can prove it. Dan is on the road to embarrassment population him.
"Okay, Okay I'll show you. Ready Drago it's show time Bakugan stand" Dan says as he pretends to throw Drago. I face palmed and shook my head. Add me to the embarrassment population. Right now I'm embarrassed to be his sister let alone his twin. The rest of the students and I sweat dropped and they all started asking if it was busted. Dan starts freaking out and continues to try to make Drago talk.
"You're embarrassing me Drago" Dan says.
"And you have been embarrassing me since we walked into the classroom. I told you it wouldn't work" I told him. He threw a wad of paper at me and I caught it with my amazing reflexes that I learned from Shun and his grandfather. All the kids had moved to the front of the classroom and one of the kids asked Dan if he had finished his homework.
I scoffed, " Do you really think Dan did his homework like he was supposed to?" Dan starts freaking out going to everyone asking to copy theirs. I looked at the clock noticing the bell had rung so I stayed in my seat waiting for Ms. Purdy to walk into the classroom. Dan was still asking to copy and when he turned around to look at me with pleading eyes I raised my eyebrow and gave him a "don't even think about it" look and he turned away. I looked over at Dan's desk and noticed Drago was trying to roll off of it I thought about picking him up but decided to let him be. He was moving for his own reasons. Not even a second later Ms. Purdy opened the door and asked/yelle, "Students did you not hear the bell?" Everyone started freaking out and ran to their seats. One of the kids bumped into Dan's desk and Drago went flying and continued to get kicked and I started running my hand through my hair nervously hoping he wouldn't get stepped on.
"Drago" Dan said as he leaped for him but Drago jumped out of his hand's reach and started bouncing everywhere before stopping at Ms. Purdy's feet.
"Whose responsible for bringing marbles to my classroom?" She saw Dan standing in the aisle, " Daniel I'll see you after class.
"Yes mam!"
"Do I make myself clear?!"
Class starts and we're learning math. I'm working on the problems on the board when I happen to look over at Dan and see him cleaning Drago with a toothbrush.
"Oh man all that rolling around on the floor sure messed you up little guy. There now you're starting to look new again all shiny and junk."
I lean over to Dan and whisper, "Dan number 1 you're talking in class and number 2 do you really think he wants to be cleaned with a toothbrush the way you're doing it?" I'm however ignored as Dan tries to get Drago to talk Drago suddenly pops out and yells at Dan.
"Cease your scrubbing human I am not your toy!" Dan jumped back in shock.
"Wo you scared the crud out of me, but I knew it I you could talk." Oh no Dan's gonna brag and he's gonna get detention…. again. "Listen up guys my bakugan can talk. Drago just talked to me did you hear? He told me he isn't just some toy."
"Daniel that is quite enough. Can you hear my voice? Well young man? I want you to listen very carefully. Detention for the rest of the semester!"
"Noooooo!"
Ha knew it. I lean over to Drago, "Thanks for talking to him and telling him the truth he never listens to me." Drago turns to me but doesn't say anything. I smile and wink at him and turn back to the front of the classroom.
-After School-
I rode my bike to Shun's house which looked like something a ninja family would own. Well I guess they kinda our ninjas but moving on. I knocked on the door and Shun's grandfather opened the door.
"Ashley how are you today?"
"I'm fine. Is Shun here?"
"He's out in the yard practicing."
"Thank you!" I ran to the yard where Shun was supposed to be but he wasn't there. I look around and notice him on the roof. I jumped onto the roof and sit next to him. "Hey ninja boy."
"Hey Ash." he said staring at the sky.
"You ok? You seem out of it."
"Just thinking."
There was a moment of silence but it wasn't uncomfortable. I've known Shun since we were kids. We were the best of friends pretty much as soon as we met. We just kind of… clicked.
"I heard a bakugan talk." I tell him bluntly. He looks at me raising an eyebrow. "Yeah sounds crazy but it's true. Dan's new bakugan he met yesterday. Dan was scrubbing it with a toothbrush, during class mind you, and it popped out and started to scold him. Said he wasn't just some toy. The very same thing I've been trying to tell Dan since the beginning, but you know Dan doesn't listen until it's literally shoved into his face." We laughed. Another moment of silence passed and I could tell there was something on Shun's mind, but I waited for him to tell me in his own time.
"I lost the number one spot." I turn towards him.
"What? How?"
"Some new guy named Masquerade has been moving up in the ranks."
"Well now there's someone else to battle now if that's a good or bad thing I don't know. We better be ready for when he comes knocking on our door wanting a battle."
"Yep." I look down at my watch and it's 4:00 pm. I stand up holding out my hand.
"Come on up. I have to leave before 5:30 and it's already 4 and I want to do something productive before I go."
"I'm coming, I'm coming bossy." I slap him in the arm laughing. We jump off the roof landing perfectly.
-Back at the Kuso house-
I come home and I can hear Runo yelling at Dan from downstairs. Oh oh Runos' really mad. I run up the stairs to find out was has her so mad. "Okay what have I missed?" I ask.
"Nothing I just turned on the video chat." I hear from the floor. I look down and see Dan had fallen back in his chair and onto the floor. I couldn't help it I laugh while helping him back up.
"Jeez Runo did you have to scare him so bad?" I ask. He hits me in the arm and I slap him in the back of the head. We turn back to the computer.
"I hope you know it's all your fault I lost a bakugan battle today!" Runo yells.
"How is it my/Dan's fault?" Dan and I ask in unison.
"This creep Masquerade came along and totally clobbered me!" she yelled. My eyes are wide "this guy is more powerful than Shun and I first thought". "He's been winning battles all over the world." Marucho tells us.
"All the chat rooms I've checked out have been talking about Masquerade." Alice says.
"So what's his deal?" asked Dan.
"He's been winning every battle he's been in and kids all over are losing their bakugan." Julie says.
'Wait loosing them how?" I ask.
"I don't know but my precious terrorclaw is lost for good." Runo says sadly.
"Oh Runo I'm sorry I know how much he meant to you." I tell her. She smiles sadly at me.
We all agree with Marucho that something has to be done with this guy. Dan ever the impulsive one swears to do something about it even going so far as to put his own bakugan on the line. My eyes open wide in shock. "And when you lose the battle what then? Are you even thinking about that?"
"But I won't" Dan stutters.
"Dan he's ranked number one Shun told me today. Even Shun is lower do you have any idea how difficult that is? I have trouble beating Shun and I've moved up to 11." I tell him Dan looks at me then shakes his head pretending to be a soldier going to war. Alice has a point how will Dan battle him if we don't know how to contact him? Dan being the "smart one", that was sarcasm if you didn't figure that out, and starts recording a message for Masquerade. They are all either weird, funny, or both.
"Dan if I were watching this I would be laughing rather than finding it important." I tell him.
He ignores me and continues. "I'm the new number one brawler in town."
"You're kidding." Drago pops out and says.
"Quiet can't you see I'm just bluffin the creep Drago. Got to trick him to come out and play. Wait wo did you just talk Drago?"
"No Dan this is all a figment of your overactive imagination." I say sarcastically rolling my eyes before I hit him in the back of the head.
"Ow sis that hurt."
"See not a dream so yes he did just talk."
"Listen to me humans. I am not a toy." Drago rolls in front of Dan's computer. "In your realm you see me only as a token trinket battling for your pleasure. I ask you is this all just a game to you?" Drago asks us. Before I can answer Dan opens his mouth and says,
"Hello this is the greates game ever. I love everything about the bakugan. It makes me feel alive, in control, and the best part is I love winning. What's wrong Drago you sayin you don't like to battle I thoughts that's what you were programmed for." I gasped and sat down on his bed. "Did Dan really just say that" I ask myself. "I;'m not gettin this." Drago returns to ball form and says,
"Bakugan is more than a game." I walk out of Dan's room not wanting to be in there anymore. I can't believe that's what Dan believes has he no brain or conscience. I head to the bathroom after Dan is done and change into my pajamas after a long shower. Before I go to bed I look into Dan's room and he's out like a light. I can see Drago on the shelf next to him.
"You know Drago not all humans are exactly like Dan." I tell him. He opens up. "Some of us know there is more to the bakugan than what we want to believe." Without another word I walk to my room and close the door. Ready for a goodnight's sleep.
-Time Skip-
"Dan wait up I can only run so fast!"
"Come on move it, move it." Dan says as he weaves around people almost knocking them over. When we get to the railroad bridge he finally stops. I'm behind him gasping for air. The boy can run I'll give him that. With their backs facing us are surprise surprise Shuji and Akira. Once again they want a rematch. "This is a complete waste of my time." Dan turns to me "Sis you comin?"
"Na I'm good beat them to a pulp for me though will ya?"
- Skip the battle-
"Huh you lose." Dan says
"Why do you keep doing this to me!" Shuji wines.
"Why do you keep battling him if you know you're gonna lose?" I ask. Shuji runs home talking about going home to mommy.
"Oh the silent treatment again. Well this time I'm not falling for it you can…." Dan suddenly cuts off and we turn around hearing footsteps.
"I'm looking for Dan Kuso" a mystery voice says. The footsteps continue to get closer.
"That you Masquerade?" Dan asks. A person can be seen stepping out of the shadow. A boy with gravity defying blond hair, a mask that kinda looks like he's wearing sunglasses , a white coat, purple pants, black boots, and red fingerless gloves.
"So you decided to show up and we can put a face to the name. Well MAsquerade I hear you've been stealing my buddies bakugan. How come?!" Masquerade just laughed. "We put a lot of time into organizing this game and there's no way I'm gonna let you or anyone mess it p!" It stops here MAsquerade!" Dan says.
"It's time to battle Dan. Ready?" Masquerade asks. I grab Dan's shoulder knowing something bad was going to happen.
Field open!" They both yell in unison. "Gate card set!"
"Gotta concentrate." Dan says. I notice Masquerade drop a card onto the floor. Oh this can't be good.
"Your move" Masquerade says.
"Come on Serpenoid do some damage."
"Really Dan again get your own ideas." I tell him probably not the best time but oh well.
"Bakugan brawl. Reaper stand."
"Dan you have to be careful we Darkus brawlers always have a trick up our sleeve." I tell him. Masquerade looks at me for a second then returns to the battle. I raise my eyebrow, well that was odd. I look down at my bakupod Reaper has 370 Gs and Serpenoid has 320 Gs.
"Gate card pen now." Serpenoid power increases to 620 Gs. "Okay Masquerade time to put up or shut up let's see you trump that bad boy."
"Ability card activate Dimension 4." The flames fly towards us like they're being blown by the wind. Dan and I cover our faces with our arms.
"What's that?" Dan asks.
"Just one of my many pets it's an ability card called Dimension 4."
"Wo sis you ever heard of it?"
"No Dan I haven't that cards justs as new to me sorry." A darkus card I haven't heard of oh this is really bad. I look down and Serpenoid had dropped back down to its starting power level. Dan yells as Reaper flies at Serpenoid slashing him with his Scythe. A portal opens out of nowhere pulling in Serpenoid. I start tearing up. Oh no if he did that to Serpenoid who knows what other bakugan can get sucked in.
"Dan you have to be careful if you lose again you'll lose all your bakugan." I tell him tears gathering in my eyes. Poor Serpenoid. He looks back me and nods. He then throws out Saurus. MAsquerade throws out Reaper again.
"Ability activate Saurus glow." Dan throws the card at Saurus. "You beat my gate card but you won't be able to override the power of my ability card."
Masquerade smirks, Oh i don't like that look, "Double dimension activate." Saurus' ability disappears. Oh this is worse.. Reaper strikes Saurus with his scythe sending him into the portal.
"No Saurus!" Dan and I yell.
"No fair I want my bakugan back."
"Sorry but no can do once the doom card is payed the battle is over." Masquerade tells us.
"Doom card?" Dan and I ask. Well that doesn't sound good at all.
"Yes Dan the doom card. oNce you throw it down it overpowers all cards so sending the bakugan into another dimension for eternity." I gasp my eyes wide. The bakugan aren't coming back that's horrible.
Drago steps in to explain, "He's right humans a bakugan can never return from the doom dimension. There we meet our eternal demise. Nothing is feared more." Oh no the poor poor bakugan.
"Now I know how you're stealing the bakugan but the question is why you wreckin our game Masquerade?" Dan asks.
"Dan, Dan, Dan who ever said this was just a game. Every single battle is real."
"Drago." Dan says. We notice Drago has started to glow in his anger. "Gate card set. C'mon Drago this is our one shot at it." He throws Drago and It's Reaper vs. Drago. Drago moves to bite Reaper but Reaper uses his scythe so that Drago bites that instead of him.
"Why are you doing this? Do you realise what's happened in Vestroia?"
"That doesn't concern me."
"Of course it does."
"I am a soldier of this dimension. I am free to team up with a human. Then I can inherit infinite power."
"You fool."
"I've had enough of you. It's time to send you to the doom dimension Dragonoid."
"C'mon Drago!" Dan yells. Reaper does a creepy laugh.
"Gave a pleasant journey." Reaper swings his scythe down. Suddenly Drago begins to glow.
"Drago gate card open activate fire storm." Dana says. "We're down to our last card and this is it." Suddenly Drago yells out.
"What's wrong?" Dan asks.
"I don't know but whatever it is it look powerful." I tell him.
"Ultimate Boost!"
Our bakuods go to static and Dan's ability card turns red and breaks. Drago continues to yell as if in pain and the battle ends.
"Huh Drago? Drago where are you?" Dan asks. I happened to look down and Drago is at his feet I touch his shoulder and point down. "Oh Drago." Dan falls to his knees and picks him up.
"I spared him for you." Masquerade tells us.
"Why?" we ask.
"You realise I could have captured your bakugan but I decided against. It's been a slice Dan later." He says as he turns to leave.
"Wait I can beat you I know I can." Dan tries to tell him.
"Bakugan is more than a mere game kiddo. There are other dimensions and powers involved. It's a battle that can lead to the destruction of the entire world."
"For real?" Dan asks.
"I knew it. I knew there was more than what we saw."
And the only way for you to stop it is for you to defeat me." Masquerade tells him.
"This is crazy." Dan says. Masquerade laughs mockingly and walks away. I sit beside Dan laying my head on his shoulder as tears gather in my eyes thinking about Saurus and Serpenoid.
"Man oh man oh man this bites. I will beat you MAsquerade!" Dan yells.
"And I'll be right by your side fighting with you." I say.