Me: Alright! New chapter! Come try and get me three-hour-long homework! You can't stop me!
Hikaru: She's talking to herself again, isn't she?
Tsubasa: (nods) She does that a lot.
Sora: Seriously. And I thought I was wierd.
Me: What did you say? Who's wierd?... YOU BETTER NOT BE TALKING ABOUT ME MISTER!
Sora: N-No! I didn't say wierd! I said...wicked! Yeah! Good wicked! Like brilliant, fantastic, ingenious!
Me: Oh, okay then.
Sora: (sigh of relief).
Me: Right, so, the next chapter is ready and...
Hyoma: (backing away trying not to be noticed)
Me: No need to run away Hyoma. This chapter doesn't involve you.
Hyoma: Really? (sigh of relief)
Me: Instead I couldn't resist but do another chapter about out four newest redecorators.
Hikaru, Tsubasa, Yu and Sora: What? Not us!
Me: Yes you.
Yu: What will you make us do now? Let me guess, we have to zipwire halfway across Manhattan!
Hikaru: Nah, she'll probably just make us bungie-jump the Eiffel Tower.
Me: No, instead I thought you guys could...
Hikaru, Tsubasa, Yu and Sora: (all run away as fast as possible)
Me: ...I was only gonna say they could do the disclaimer.
Hyoma: I wouldn't worry. I know what that feeling's like.
Me: What feeling?
Hyoma: The utter embarrasment or fear for your life and/or sanity by the end of a chapter.
Me: Oh, I see. Well, since we're the only ones here will you do the disclaimer?
Hyoma: Sharkey52 doesn't own Metal Fight Beyblade, but does own the new bey in his chapter that she will not let me tell you the name of.
Me: Thanks. Okay everyone, whilst we go and look for the others you read the story.
The Light and Darkness Chronicles
Chapter five - Story
"That's my pizza slice!"
"It's the last one! I paid for it! It's obviously mine!"
"I'm growing still; I need it more than you do!"
"I'm bigger and older; I need it more than you, Little Boy!"
"I AM NOT A LITTLE BOY!"
"Guys! Seriously! Just half it!" Hikaru rolled her eyes at the bickering duo of flat-mates fighting over the last slice of pizza. Tsubasa growled something before standing up and walking into the kitchen to find a pizza slicer. She walked over to the sofa where Sora was sitting, stuffing his face with a bucket full of popcorn. There was a movie on the television, but Sora had seen it before and he was more interested in his book.
"I didn't think you liked reading" Hikaru commented, quickly swiping some popcorn unnoticed.
"I don't" replied Sora "It isn't even my book. It's Kenta's that I'm borrowing." Hikaru read the title on the front cover.
"Ancient Beys" she read "You reading up on Pegasus?"
"Nope" Sora shook his head "There an even more fascinating bey in here."
"What?" Everyone else asked that. Sora beamed
"The bey with its own mind! The evil bey: Dark Zebrus!" Silence, something Sora expected but not hoped for.
"Zebrus?" Yu asked finally "As in a zebra?"
"Sorry Sora, I don't want to bring you down or anything, but zebras aren't exactly…" Hikaru said, pausing to think of something to say "…evil. In fact, I think they're quite cute."
"Not this one" Sora winked "This one is a dark Attack-type bey, and it has a mind of its own – literally!"
"What do you mean?" Tsubasa asked, reappearing from the kitchen.
"What I said: Dark Zebrus is a bey that doesn't need a blader to control it" Sora explained "It was created from a crystal found deep in the earth, a crystal filled with an equal amount of light and darkness. The zebra has a near equal amount of white and black on it's body, so the bey was chosen in the form of a zebra: Zebrus."
"So it was like…a wild bey?" Yu asked.
"For a while yes" Sora nodded, reading the book as he did "It rampaged around just causing problems. Then it meant a blader, a blader with an equality of light and darkness inside him. Zebrus became his bey, and vowed to protect him at all costs. But…things went wrong…" Sora trailed off and paused before going on "The boy betrayed Zebrus. The bey had battled again and again without fail before finally it lost the last battle of a tournament. The boy became angry, abandoned Dark Zebrus and left him in the dirt at the side of the road. Zebrus was enraged, and slowly its equal scale of light and darkness began to tip. It's darkness overpowered it and it became known as Dark Zebrus. It became violent, destroying mercilessly and even ending lives. Soon that damage it had done exceeded that done by Lightning L-Drago."
"Is that even possible?" Tsubasa asked "What happened to it?"
"Well, Dark Zebrus was at the peak of it's strength, could take down anyone" Sora continued "But then three bladers came along. Three bladers who's beys made up the land, sea and sky. The very Earth was ganging up against Dark Zebrus. They defeated it and sealed its darkness away so it could never fall into the wrong hands. No one knew what happened to its light, some say it was completely destroyed by it's darkness."
"A bey that powerful?" Hikaru shuddered "M-More powerful than Lightning L-Drago?"
"I-It is s-sealed away i-isn't it?" Yu asked in the same tone as Hikaru.
"Guys come on!" Tsubasa shook his head "It's just a story. I wanna bet nothing like that ever happened."
"He's got a point" Sora shrugged, putting down the book "I bet they just took that from a legend written in Latin backwards, or added some finer detail to the L-Drago one."
"I-I'd better be going" Hikaru headed for the door, suddenly feeling cold even though the heating was on.
"Okay" Tsubasa nodded "So, I'll see you at work tomorrow?" Hikaru nodded, grasping the door handle.
"Yeah, I'll see you there" she said, looking over her should "Goodbye Yu. See you around, Sora." She opened the door and closed it behind her. Both Yu and Tsubasa glared at Sora.
"Good going Sora!" Yu complained "Now you've scared her off!" Sora shrugged and walked over to the table.
"Hey, she was the one who wanted to know what I was reading about" he said "Anyway, where's that pizza slicer."
"No idea" Tsubasa sighed "Can't find it anywhere."
"Well, only one way to solve this issue" Sora sighed. He picked up the last pizza slice "I'll eat it!" The others looked in astonishment and pure fury at the one eating their pizza.
"Sora!" They both yelled, getting his attention. They nodded at each other "Get 'im!"
Two flame torches on the wall lit the cave. From the tunnel, the barer of a third torch walked out. He look at the wall in front of him; behind it's icy surface was a dark spinning-top-shaped object: a bey. An attack-type bey, black in colour and on the face-bolt was the head of a white horse which broke off at several points to look like stripes. A zebra. The torch barer smiled, dropping his flame torch and whipping out a bey launcher. A bey whizzed towards the cliff in a whiz of yellow and white light which caused an explosion upon impact. The figure waited a few seconds, catching his returning bey, before the black bey appeared out of the smoke, spinning on the spot by itself. It appeared to watch the figure, not moving any closer or further away.
"So Dark Zebrus" the figure smiled, preparing is bey for battle again "Let me be the first to see your new power."