SailorStar9: 12 chapters up and no review. You guys don't love me anymore. (Pouts). Anyway, this is Chapter 15. read and review..

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Chapter 15: The Race To Vestroia

"Me so bored." Tricloid complained. "There's nothing to do and no one to play with."

"Yeah." Rabeeder agreed. "I know, sis."

"So you got any ideas maybe?" Tricloid asked.

"Yeah, like totally I sure goes!" Rabeeder replied.

"Tell me, tell me!" Tricloid urged.

"I've got an idea of a new game that we've never played before." Rabeeder answered.

"Tell me, tell me, tell me!" Tricloid pressed.

"We're going to need more players." Rabeeder sighed.

"Yeah." Tricloid agreed.

"But when was the last time anyone ever dropped in on us?" Rabeeder inquired.

"Not in a long, long time." Tricloid replied.

Meanwhile...

Tigrerra, Gorem and Drago screamed as they fell through the portal.

"Yo, Drago, the next world's coming up!" Dan remarked.

"We'll be there soon." Drago told him.

"I can't see a thing." Runo noted. "Can you Julie? How much further? Are we there yet?"

"Quit yakking!" Julie fumed.

"I don't know what's waiting for us down there." Dan remarked. "But we'll be one step closer to Vestroia at least."

"Right." Drago agreed.

"Please..." Runo muttered.

"Hey, we're almost there!" Julie noted.

"We're entering an unknown area, so I suggest we keep our guard up." Tigrerra suggested. "You'll never know where Naga could be hiding."

"I'm on it!" Dan remarked.

"What's this?" he blinked when tendrils of light grabbed hold of him

"Oh no!" Drago gasped as his partner was pulled down.

"Help!" Dan cried out.

"Dan!" Tigrerra dived.

"Quick Tigrerra, grab him!" Drago hollered, following closely behind.

"Grab him? Somebody grab me!" Gorem exclaimed.

"Oh man..." Dan winced as he slowly awoke from the fall.

"We're here." he looked up at the sky.

"So, this is what the next world looks like, huh?" Runo noted.

"I really think it could use a reno." Julie added.

"The last world we were in was water and wind." Tigrerra remarked. "So, this world must be... light and earth?"

"Bingo! You got it!" Rabeeder replied.

"Huh?" Tigrerra blinked.

"Hello strange strangers!" Tricloid waved.

"Glad you made it!" Rabeeder added. "And welcome!"

"Hey sis, we've got company and I love company." Tricloid beamed.

"I guess they are lonely." Dan deathpanned.

"And a little weird if you ask me." Drago added.

"It was you!" Dan pointed to Rabeeder. "You grabbed me."

"That's right!" Rabeeder chuckled. "You got it."

"Now you're ours!" Tricloid whooped. "Hurray!"

"They kinda of look like Bakugan to me." Runo remarked.

"Yes, they are." Tigrerra agreed. "But I've never seen their kind before."

"Hey you!" Rabeeder shouted. "My name is Rabeeder and that's Tricloid."

"Hello everybody." Tricloid's eyes twinkled.

"And together we are!" Rabeeder declared.

"The cutest!" Tricloid continued.

"The greatest!" Rabeeder added.

"Sisters ever!" the two chorused. "Tada!"

"That's very interesting." Drago noted and walked off. "But we must be on our way."

"So long." Dan added, following his partner. "Nice meeting you."

"Thanks for the warm welcome, ladies." Tigrerra remarked.

"Yeah, what she said." Gorem added, taking up the rear. "Later."

"No, wait!" Rabeeder shouted. "You can't leave yet!"

"We have games to play, games!" Tricloid added. "I don't think they like games so much, sis."

"We'll see about that." Rabeeder snorted. "Ready, Tricloid?"

"You betcha!" Tricloid replied, and the two hybrid Bakugan jumped.

"Hold on!" Rabeeder snapped, as she and Tricloid jumped in front of the group. "You're not leaving here until I say you can!"

"What she means is, you guys got to stay here and play with is for a while." Tricloid smiled.

"So, we can't leave?" Runo blinked.

"Right." Rabeeder replied. "Not until we have some fun."

"Yeah, big time fun!" Tricloid agreed.

"I knew something wasn't right about these two." Drago noted. "Come on Dan, let's keep moving."

"We'd love to stay,. But we really can't." Dan agreed, walking past the two sisters.

"Hey, you're staying here!" Rabeeder snapped, grabbing him.

"Chill out, would you?" Dan chided.

"Hey, you're kind of cute up close." Rabeeder noted, taking a closer look at Dan.

"Oh yeah." Tricloid agreed. "He's a real keeper for sure, sis."

"You leave this poor boy alone!" Julie cut in.

"We'll play with you next time we pass through." Dan told the sisters. "Ciao for now."

"Bye!" Julie added.

"Let's roll, we're wasting time." Runo remarked.

"Cuse me." Tigrerra walked between the sisters. "Coming through."

"Pardon me." Gorem brought up the rear. "I'm with them."

"They don't want to play?" Tricloid teared.

"What now?" Rabeeder inquired. "Walking through here without even stopping to say hello."

"Tricloid wants to play now." Tricloid insisted. "That boy is dreamy."

"Great! Because of you, Dan, they're going to keep following us!" Runo fumed.

"Yeah, wait to go!" Julie agreed.

"But hey, it's not my fault." Dan protested.

"Unfortunately, I think they've both grown attached to you." Tigrerra surmised.

"Excuse me!" Rabeeder called out.. "Is it next time yet?"

"Nice one." Runo deathpanned.

"Look, I made a mud ball for you." Tricloid added.

"I don't want a mud ball!" Dan snapped.

"Come on, let's go!" Drago scooped the three teens with his tail and flew off.

"Get moving, Gorem!" Tigrerra shouted as she and Gorem took off running.

"Okay!" Gorem replied.

"Come back!" Rabeeder whined.

"You want us to chase you?" Tricloid asked, the two hybrids taking off as well.

"Whatever you do, don't look back." Drago warned.

"That mean you, Dan." Tigrerra added.

"Yeah, I know." Dan replied.

"Hurry, Tricloid." Rabeeder urged. "I think we're gaining on them!"

"Oh rats." she sighed. "Looks like they got away again."

"But not for long!" she grinned as the two sisters disappeared.

"Did we lose them?" Runo asked.

"I think so." Tigrerra replied, looking back. "They must have given up."

"That's a relief." Dan sighed.

"What do you think they are, anyway?" Runo inquired.

"They must be the Gate Keepers of this world." Tigrerra concluded.

"If that's true, then they must be working with Naga." Drago added.

"They don't seem hostile." Gorem pointed out.

"No, but they want us to stay in this place." Drago added.

"We can't do that." Runo noted. "We have to keep moving no matter what happens. Don't forget, we're trying to get to the center of Vestroia."

"But which way do we go now?" Julie asked. "We don't know how to get there."

"Drago." Dan looked up at his partner.

"Where are you going now, Dan?" Runo asked as Dan climbed onto the Pyrus Dragoniod.

"Just take a look around." Dan replied.

"Hey, my hair!" Julie complained as Drago took off to the skies.

"What's the over there?" Dan asked, peering into the distance.

"It's some kind of aureola." Drago replied. "It looks familiar."

"Yes, it's like the lights of the last world." he concluded. "We probably can't get out of this world without going through them."

"If that's the case, then let's check it out." Dan decided.

"I know we're moving towards those lights but they don't seem to get any closer." he remarked as the group walked up the trail. "Drago, do you feel it?"

"Yes, it's the same as the last world." Drago agreed. "We're on the right track."

"I think I'm getting the signal from the next world." Gorem added.

"Yes, I can hear it too, Gorem." Tigrerra agreed.

"That aureola is the same as the one we saw in the world of water and wind." Dan noted. "That's our ticket out of here."

"If we follow the light like last time, it will lead us to Vestroia." Julie concluded.

"Woah!" Runo gushed after they entered the cave and into a crystal-lighted cavern. "Look at this place."

"It's beautiful." Julie agreed.

"There's light everywhere." Dan noted.

"Wonderful!" Julie gushed.

"What are they?" Dan inquired, peering into a mass of crystal.

"They're jewels!" Julie continued to gush.

"Jewels?" Dan echoed.

"Yeah, like jewelry." Runo reminded him. "Oh wow, you can make such a beautiful necklace or bracelet with these crystals."

"Don't give her any ideas." Dan sighed. "Let's kick it."

"Tricloid's special mud ball delivery!" Tricloid declared, appearing before them.

"Not again." Drago sighed.

"What a surprise." Rabeeder added, appearing with her sister. "Fancy meeting you guys here."

"So, you ready to play now?" Tricloid asked. "Huh? Huh?"

"Would you leave us alone!" Dan fumed.

"They're very persistent, aren't they?" Gorem noted.

"Yes, and I believe they've fallen for Dan." Tigrerra agreed.

"No way!" Julie fumed. ""Back off! Dan's off the market!"

"No, no, no, no." Tricloid wailed. "That makes Tricloid really sad."

"I saw him first." Julie whined.

"Listen, I'm really sorry, but we don't have any time to waste playing with you right now." Runo stated.

"You can't say that!" Rabeeder protested. "You have to play with us!"

"What? No we don't!" Julie insisted.

"As Gate Keeper of this place, I say you have to!" Rabeeder declared.

"We're sorry, but the big boss says you have to stay then you have to stay." Tricloid added. "Forever and ever."

"I see." Runo noted. "So, you two are working for Naga then."

"Naga?" Rabeeder echoed. "Don't know him. Has he been here?"

"Don't think so." Tricloid replied.

"Huh? You don't know him?" Runo blinked.

"Really?" Julie was stunned.

"And you don't know anything about Vestroia either?" Dan asked.

"My Lady!" Tigrerra shouted. "Look at this!"

"No! It can't be!" Gorem gasped, when he saw the fossilized Bakugan in the crystals.

"Bakugan fossils." Drago added. "Thousands of them."

"Oh no!" Julie exclaimed.

"They're all over this place!" Dan added.

"You came a long way." Rabeeder smiled. "Why not stay? Your friends are here. They aren't going anywhere and neither are you."

"Yup, this is their home now and they like it a lot." Tricloid added. "Look, they don't complain at all."

"Welcome to the world of light and earth." Rabeeder declared. "You'll be staying for a very long, long time."

"Uh oh..." Dan muttered.

"Let's have some fun! Everybody ready?" Rabeeder beamed.

"I am! I am!" Tricloid sang.

"They say they don't know Naga, but they still could be trouble." Runo noted.

"Okay, sounds like you guys really like to have a god time around here." Dan pointed out. "But, we've got to go. Honest."

"Where do you have to go so bad?" Tricloid asked.

"We're going to the center of Vestroia." Dan replied.

"We'll let you go." Rabeeder remarked. "Only if you beat us in a race first. And, if you lose, we must stay here forever!"

"What's going on?" Runo asked.

"I don't know." Julie replied.

"We'll start at the same time." Rabeeder stated. "And the first one to reach the end of the cave, is the winner!"

"What do we win?" Runo pressed.

"Yeah." Julie agreed.

"You win freedom, silly." Tricloid replied.

"If you can reach the finish line near the cave faster than us, then you can leave this world and go on to the next world beyond here." Rabeeder added. "But if you lose the race, you'll have to stay here forever!"

"Then, we can play lots of games." Tricloid smirked.

"All right." Dan sighed. "We'll do it."

"Come on, no!" Runo protested.

"We have to win." Dan reminded her. "Big deal."

"Yeah..." Runo blinked. "That should be no problem."

"Okay." Julie agreed. "We are in."

"I don't like it, but I'll do it." Drago voiced his concern.

"The race is on!" Rabeeder declared, landing in front of Dan and scaring him.

"You want a mud ball?" Tricloid asked.

"That looks tasty." Dan sweatdropped. "But I'm good, thanks."

"You sure?" Tricloid asked, remolding the mud ball into a mud heart. "Look what you can do."

"Woah, cool." Dan remarked, taking the heart.

"A gift from Tricloid to you." Tricloid handed the heart which then shrunk. "You'll see, it'll help you."

"Dan, so does this mean you two are an item now?" Runo teased.

"No, it does not!" Dan protested.

"Everyone, take a number and take your positions!" Rabeeder sang. "The race is about to begin! On your marks!"

"On a scale of one to ten,i guess I'm a ten." Drago noted.

"Sorry, but you guys don't stand a chance." Rabeeder reminded.

"And when you lose, we win." Tricloid added.

"Do whatever you have to do but don't let them beat us, okay?" Runo stated as she and Julie discussed their plan of action. "Julie, let's not forget about Naga, alright? Once this is over, we still have to get to Vestroia and face him."

"No sweat." Julie assured. "We'll win this race. We can beat them together. It'll all work out. Before you know it, we'll be on our way out of here."

"Get set!" Rabeeder started.

"Go!" she declared as the 'Go' signal came on.

"We're in the lead, Daniel." Drago remarked.

"I've got a few tricks that ought to slow you down." Rabeeder sang.

"What?" Runo gasped.

"Petrification!" Rabeeder spun around in the air, stopping Gorem and Tigrerra in their tracks with crystals as beams of light shone on them.

"You just relax and have a timeout." she giggled.

"See ya!" Tricloid taunted Tigrerra.

"Both of them are trapped." Drago realized.

"Let's go back." Dan suggested.

"No, keep moving!" Runo objected. "Go!"

"You win this, Dan!" Julie added. "So we can all get out of here!"

"But you guys need our help." Dan pointed out.

"Just forget about us for now!" Runo shouted. "Drago is the strongest one of us here! You're the only chance we have of winning this race."

"But no..." Dan blinked.

"Now, get going!" Runo snapped.

"We'll all be rooting for you, Dan." Julie added.

"Julie, Runo..." Dan muttered.

"Dan, you know better than to argue with those two." Drago reminded.

"Go now, Dan!" Runo barked.

"Do it, Dan!" Julie urged. "Go for it, Drago!"

"Win this race and don't hold back!" Tigrerra shouted from the ground. "We're counting on you!"

"We'll be fine." Gorem assured the two. "It's all yours now."

"Alright." Drago remarked and returned to the race. "We'll see you at the finish line."

"Uh oh, they're still in the race." Tricloid noted.

"Then, we better get moving." Rabeeder remarked.

"Bye-bye." Tricloid sang and continued.

"There has to be some way out of this." Runo mused.

"I know!" Julie beamed, pulling an Ability Card. "Leave it to me."

"Ability Card, activate!" she activated the card. "Grand Slam!"

Gorem then smashed the ground, the shockwave breaking the crystals.

"Shaky, shaky." Tricloid whined. "Uh oh."

"What's happen..." Rabeeder shrieked as Gorem's ability pulled the piece of land she was on backwards.

"Where are you going, sis?" Tricloid wailed.

"That was not supposed to happen!" Rabeeder whined.

"Sorry." Gorem started once the land stopped moving. "If we are stuck here, then so are you."

"Yeah, why don't you stick around for a while." Julie added.

"Hey, you did it." Runo beamed.

"Just taking care of the team." Julie winked.

"Drago..." Dan started.

"Don't worry." Drago assured him. "Our friends are strong. We'll be with them soon enough."

"Yeah..." Dan replied.

"Runo, take care." Tigrerra freed herself. "I"m going to get back in the race."

"Here goes!" Tricloid sang, appearing before the Haos Bakugan, with a mud ball in her hands.

"What are you doing?" Tigrerra demanded.

"For your sake." Tricloid chuckled. "You won't get far with this blocking the path."

"That's what you think!" Tigrerra leapt on top of the mud ball and over Tricloid's head.

"Hey, no jumping." Tricloid protested. "No fair! That does it! Mud Shade!"

After trapping Tigrerra in the mud, she then remolded the mud into a ball.

"Now, you've gotta stay inside the mud-ball for Tricloid!" she sang.

"You[re so ignorant!" Rabeeder fumed, giving Gorem a punch.

"What do you call that?" Gorem was unfazed. "It kinda of tickles."

"Oh yeah?" Rabeeder fumed, continuing her punches.

"That does it." she sighed tiredly.

"Counter Ability!" she fired two beams form her palms, reversing the 'Grand Slam' tech.

"No! That 'Counter Ability' Card canceled out my 'Grand Slam' Card!" Julie whined.

"But it gave Dan and Drago more time to reach the finish line." Runo pointed out.

"That was very flatter." Rabeeder breathed.

"Thank you." Gorem continued his way.

"Stop right there!" Rabeeder snapped.

"That can't be!" Gorem gasped when he saw Tricloid playing with a giant mud ball.

"Hey, is that Tigrerra's tail in there?" Runo blinked.

"You little twerp!" she fumed.

"Hey, that's not nice." Tricloid blinked.

"Ability Card, activate!" Runo pulled out a card. "Shade Ability!"

"You okay?" she asked her freed Bakugan.

"I'm, fine." Tigrerra replied. "But I shouldn't have underestimated this creature."

"I guess this would be the wrong time to say, 'There's mud in your eyes.'" Gorem noted.

"Tricloid! What happened?" Rabeeder asked.

"They were mean to me." Tricloid wailed.

"There, there, now." Rabeeder soothed.

"Stand up!" she barked.

"That's better." Tricloid noted as she stood up with Rabeeder's help.

"Look Dan, there it is." Drago remarked, seeing the marker. "Right in front of us."

"Alright." Dan smiled. "We're going to make it."

"Oh no! They can't!" Rabeeder complained.

"Oh yeah?" Tigrerra growled.

"Tricloid!" Rabeeder called out as she was tackled by Tigrerra. "You have to stop them!"

"Oh sure. Okay dokie." Tricloid replied and took off.

"Go Drago! You've got it! we're almost there!" Dan encouraged when Tricloid pulled out a wall to stop them. "Come on!"

"Oh snap!" Dan cursed. "We almost made it."

"Oh no, something's in the way." Runo gasped. "They're stuck there."

"It's a big wall." Julie added.

"Leave it to me." Gorem cut in.

"Grand Impact!" he tossed his hammer at the wall, smashing through a section that allowed Drago to fly through.

"Drago, you're all clear!" Julie said.

"We'll be right behind you, so go for it and guide us through there, Dan." Runo added.

"Thanks, guys." Dan replied.

"There's still time to stop them." Rabeeder tossed Tigrerra off. "Get them, Tricloid!"

"Yes sir!" Tricloid saluted. "I mean, yes madam!"

"Haos Wave!" Rabeeder then sent a paralyzing wave of energy at Drago.

"My wings!" Drago winced.

"Here I come!" Tricloid sang, catching up.

"You again?" Dan retorted, upon seeing the hybrid Bakugan.

"You might as well get used to it." Rabeeder remarked. "Cos, you're going to be stuck here forever and ever!"

"I won't bet on that, four-arms." Runo replied.

"You're going to lose that one." Julie added.

"Doppelganger!" Rabeeder replicated herself.

"There's five of her!" Julie exclaimed.

"It's game over for you." Rabeeder taunted.

"Oh yeah? That's what you think!" Runo snapped. "Tigrerra!"

"Runo!" Tigrerra looked at her partner.

"Ability Card, activate!" Runo pulled out a card. "Velocity Fang!"

"Not good." Rabeeder backed off as Tigrerra disposed of her copies.

"I give up!" she wailed as Tigrerra attacked her rapidly.

"Oh no, my sister." Tricloid blinked when Rabeeder's energy wave disappeared.

"Go to her, now." Dan told the hybrid. "She's your only sister, isn't she? You know we have to get out of here but at least you always have your sister. Maybe we'll meet again some day, then we'll have a chance to hand out if you want to."

"Until then, I'll hold on to this to remember you by." he added, revealing the mud heart she had given him.

"You kept it the whole time?" Tricloid was astonished.

"Of course I will." Dan replied. "It's a one of a kind. isn't it?"

"Yeah, you use it." Tricloid added. "It'll help you leave this world. Tricloid says bye-bye" for now. Bye-bye."

"Here I come, sister!" she sang. "Here I come!"

"So, shall we get out of here, Dan?" Drago asked.

"Yeah." Dan replied and the two headed for the door.

"I've tried pushing and pulling, this door won't open." Drago growled at the stubbornly-shut door.

"Well, what do you think we should do?" Dan asked.

"Woah, look at that!" he gaped when Tricloid's mud heart floated out of his pocketand broke apart, revealing a key.

"A key?" he blinked.

"Hey you must use the key and go!" Rabeeder shouted. "You won and as promised, you may now leave this world! And you'd better hurry before I change my mind!"

"Rabeeder, Tricloid, thanks a lot." Dan smiled and opened the gate.

"Cute boy is gone now, sister." Tricloid sighed after Dan and Drago left.

"Yeah, that's too bad." Rabeeder agreed. "But we did slow him down like Naga asked us to. At least we had some fun for a while. But wasn't that a good game? So, what do you think?"

"It was a big one!" Tricloid giggled.

Back on Earth...

Luna (A/N: Yes, that cat!) had jumped onto Eva's room window. The Mau cat looked down at the comatose girl.

This is for the best. Luna thought. The Princess deserves that power, she must have it!

Unknown to the Mau cat, a golden-eyed girl was stalking in the tree as she watched the traitorous cat closely.

No one will get my mother or her power, Mau. Mavelle swore. Not you, nor your precious Moon Princess.

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