I don't own anyone from the bakugan battle brawlers apart from Xenia Grounds even though I wish I could!
Chapter Two:What's next
I was shocked that Marucho owned such a huge plane to himself talk about rich!Even though dinner was cooked and looked great,it just didn't feel right without Julie there but Dan acted liked nothing happened down in the valley.
"You guys aren't eating."Dan said.
"We're noy hungry."Alice answered.
"Someone's missing."I replied depressed."Doesn't feel right without her."
"Julie."Runo said sadly.
"Julie must feel terrible."Tigrerra answered.
"Of course she does."Drago said.
"I can't believe Masquerade got one of Julie's childhood friends to be one of his battlers,he's asking for it."Dan replied.I got up and moved into my own room,I already packed just in case the trip to bakugan valley would take longer than this later on Shun came in.
"You okay,Xen?"Shun asked.
"I don't know.I mean it's not just Julie that's got me down,everything that's happened recently since Masquerade came along."I said.
"Yeah,it's things get better in time."Shun replied.
"I hope so."I said still a bit sad.
"They will,no matter what happens."Shun answered.I hugged him afterwards,been longing to do that!
"I've really missed Shun you're a true friend."I said smiling."I should get to sleep,been a long day...thanks for making me feel better."
"Night,then."Shun replied leaving the room.
So you know I like you
I guess so
Too bad I don't know who you are yet
I'm closer than you think
Waking before I could work that out."Closer than you think."Look foward to finding out who that is and there are some many boys that I know as well anyway Dan,Marucho,Runo,Alice and me were all outside the next day.
"Looks like we've run out of places to search for the infinity core."Dan said.
"And the cave we were all in yesterday collapsed."I replied.
"So what do we do now,Dan?"Alice asked.
"Let me think...I know,lets check in on Julie."Dan answered.
"Are you sure about that?"Runo asked.
"Julie probably wants to be alone right now."I replied.
"Hey,what gives?How come last night you were all worried about her?"Dan questioned.
"Oh,boy."Runo sighed.
"Forget it,Dan just doesn't understand how a young lady thinks."Preyas said.
"That's cause I'm a boy!"Dan shouted.
"Dan,we need to talk now."Shun said showing up on Dan's bakupod.
"Shun?Find anything?"Dan asked sounding hopeful.
"Actually,I did there's a cavern about 20 kilometres north from here it's very simliar to bakugan valley."Shun explained.
"That's great!See you in the plane."Dan replied.
"Sense anything,Zelda?"I asked because I was a bit curious if he was telling the truth.
"I don't know from the looks of this valley it could be anywhere."Zelda replied.
"Right."I whispered.I guess had to take Shun's word for it until we got to that cavern on the way back everyone was talking about finding the infinity core.
"Wouldn't it be great if we found the infinity core in that canyon?"Marucho asked sounding exicited.
I wasn't betting any money on it,Shun might be up to something I known him long enough to know that.
"I've got a good feeling about this this time we'll get lucky and find it."Dan replied sounding the same then we entered the plane."Hey,Shun!"
"Oh,yeah!It's so good to see you Dan!"Julie shouted sounding as cheery as ever.
"What is with her."I said rather annoyed.
"Er,what are you doing here?"Dan asked.
"Oh,please.I'm part of this gang you could at least pretend to be happy to see me,after all I did come a long way to see you."Julie replied sounding annoyed.
"Miss Julie arrived on her own just a little while ago."Kato metioned.
"But then you're not upset anymore?"Alice asked."I mean about Billy."
"Of course not,you didn't expect me to mope forever,did you(?)I have to go,go,go!"Julie shouted.
"Now that's the Julie I used to know."Dan said.
"Yeah!From now on,I'm just looking on the bright side of life."Julie said don't it's really annoying constantly being happy all the time...
"So which room will I be staying in?"Julie asked sounding eager.
"Er, the rooms are taken."Marucho mentioned.
"No problem.I guess I'll just share a room with Dan here."Julie said sounding too hopeful.
"But I'm in Dan's room."Shun mentioned.
"Yes,Dan and Shun had to share a room so did Alice and Runo but I'm sure we'll find a room for you ,if it's okay with Julie you can stay in my room."Marucho said Runo just hit him on the head.
"Not gonna happen,I think."I said."She's gonna have to bunk with me."I really didn't want to but I was the only one with no roomate apart from Marucho so it was the only option we could take.I lead Julie up to her room.
"Here you go, whichever bed you want."I said.
"Thank you,Xenia."Julie replied taking off her bag which looked rather heavy."Good thing I packed light this time."...That's light?Whatever,but she took out this toy horse and looked at it thoughtly I guessed Billy gave to her so she isn't quite over it yet and she was longing to bring him back to his senses we were reaching that canyon now and Preyas was jumping up and down from excitment.
"We're almost there!"Preyas shouted.
"Oh,man!This is so exciting."Dan replied.I wasn't so sure still,it would be too easy if that was the case.
"Whatever we find,I hope we don't run into any trouble."Alice said.
"Yeah,me too we don't want any surprises."Runo answered.
"Yeah,that's right.I don't how Masquerade's gang keeps on showing up wherever we go."Dan I just cracked it.
"Yeah,about that don't you think that's rather strange?"Shun asked.
"What do you mean?"Dan asked.
"It is actually,we haven't really told anyone where we go to."I said.
"It could be a cosidence,that's all."Julie replied.
"They seem to know our every move,someone must be spying for them."Shun answered.I'm guessing no-one thought of that judging from their gasps of shock.
"You mean,one of us,Shun?"Runo asked.
"No way."Alice said with a lot of shock but it did make those two look twice at each other.
"I don't believe you can't be serious,you're saying there's a traitor among us!"Dan replied.
"No,not here there's another person who knowns of our whereabouts."Shun said.
"Yeah,but who's that?"We all asked.I couldn't think of anyone mainly because I didn't know everyone that well.
"I'm talking about Webmaster Joe."Shun answered with open eyes.
"Yeah,of course!"Dan replied.
"Who's he?"I asked.
"He manages our website,he's the one that keeps track of us."Dan explained.
"We only known him by the handle he's goes by everything else about him is mystery."Runo said."We don't even what he looks like or where he lives he knows everything about the bakugan battle brawlers!"
"Sounds kinda creepy if you ask me."Preyas replied.
"He does a really good job of managing the website,but you never hear from him on the website or the chatroom at all."Marucho mentioned
"And as a webmaster,he can manage all online activity anytime he wants to."Shun explained.
"So it's easy for him to know every move we make."Dan said.
"I see,so that's why you lied about that canyon being like bakugan valley."Skyress replied.
"Yeah,I had a feeling you were hiding something from us.I've known you long enough,Shun."I answered smiling.
"He lied?"Dan asked.
"So bringing us here has all been a set up."Marucho said disappointed."Do you know the latest content of our latest chat has been about Masquerade."
"All his gang will show up at the canyon!"Runo noticed.
"Hold up,so Shun was lying when he said we might find the infinity core?"Dan asked.
"Pretty much."I said.
"Man,that's low!I can't believe you would do that to us!"Dan shouted annoyed.
"It was the only thing I could think of to find out the truth."Shun answered.
"Our destination is in few,grab your seats we're getting ready to land."Kato we landed I noticed the major difference to this place and bakugan valley.
"Skyress was right this place is nothing like bakugan valley."Runo we all heard a girl's laughter.
"You brawlers finally showed up."She said.
"You see."Shun replied.
"You were right."Dan answered.
"Do you know me?My name is Chan-Lee!"Chan-Lee introduced taking off her cloak and jumping down from the cliff."And let me show you the power of the third best bakugan player."
"That's pretty close to the top she must be really good."Marucho said.
"Billy was ranked tenth."Runo said.
"Komba was fifth."Alice said.
"Yeah,but it's still not number one."Dan replied sounding a bit nervous.
"You're not afraid of battling me are you?"Chan-Lee asked teasing Dan.
"No way!Not a chance."Dan was scared alright."You must have worked hard to get to the ranking you're at,why side with Masquerade?"
"Because I have the doom card."Chan-Lee answered.
"We have a better chance battling her as a team."Marucho said with all of us pulling out our field cards.
"I wanna do this on my own!It gives me a chance to test my strengths and with Drago there's no way I'll lose."Dan replied.
There's a first time for everything when it comes to bakugan battles!But anyway Dan...surprise,surprise came back down on the ground when Chan-Lee just walked away from here.
"Where did Chan-Lee go?"Alice just laughed in triumph.
"I guess you won,then."I replied.
"Don't tell me you just beat the third best bakugan battle brawler in the world."Marucho said in disbelief.
"No sweat,no-one can beat us!"Dan answered.
"I must agree."Drago said confidently.
"You're the best Dan!"Julie shouted pushing him towards the ground whilst we all laughed.
"I can't believe you won!"Runo replied with joy.
"I never doubted you for a minute."Julie said as cheery as possible.
"So I guess we know who's responsible."Shun answered as we all turned serious again.
"Webmaster Joe."I said.
"It has to be he's the only one with access to all our communications."Marucho replied.
"I wonder what's he doing right now."I whispered.
