Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Humans and Beasts ❯ Chapter 5: Cave of Discovery Part 1 ( Chapter 5 )

Nearly a day and a night had past since the group had last saw Molly giving them her ‘lynx farewell’. Laura didn’t want to leave Molly behind; she had been so kind, like an older sister to her, teaching Laura how to read and write, and even the history of Spirit Beasts. Laura owed so much to Molly, but she also made a promise to Molly and herself that she would protect Rei. He was the one who saved her when her village was destroyed and tended to her injuries until she was well. She owned her life to Rei and Molly, and she made a silent promise to herself that she would protect them with her life and, especially for Rei, with her heart.

The group continued to walk over the rolling hills of rippling fields of grass and wheat. Kai walked silent, as usual, a head of the group, brooding deep in his thoughts. He couldn’t help but wonder why he was even risking his own pathetic life for some girl, however, Dranzer kept pushing Kai and reminding him that this was about getting their home back.

When Kai finally came out of his thoughts, he found his footsteps had stopped on hard grey rock and gravel. They had left the fields, and now stood in front a huge circular river of blue water. Bubbles erupt from the calm surface, making steam rise up around the kids’ eyes. The fog from the steam was so thick in front of their eyes; you wouldn’t even be able to cut it with the sharpest knife on earth.

“Now what do we do? The fog is way too thick to continue.†Rei stated, pointing out their problem, while silently pondering what to do.

“We could swim underneath the fog.†Max suggested, his eyes glowing with deep purple aura.

“Are you kidding?!?! That water is boiling hot! We’ll never make it to the other side before burning up!†Tyson shouted, surprising everyone realizing he had actually paid attention to the warning of this place.

“What?†Tyson asked when he found everyone was staring at him, mouths agape. A/N: Forgive me for making Tyson sound like an idiot, but I just couldn’t help myself. Just think of him as the comic relief in this story

“Tyson does have a point.†Laura replied, and everyone’s shocked gazed turned to her, “I mean, that water seems too hot to swim and well… a couple of us have a problem with water.†The girl continued as she motioned with her silver-colored eyes between herself and Rei, who glanced back at her with a slight tinge of pink.

Just then, Max began to walk up behind Kai and leaned over the stoic boy’s shoulder and the blonde grinned from ear to ear. “Well, I guess it’s all up to one person to help us get across now.â€

Kai opened his mahogany eyes, seeing how no one was giving him a choice, and his eyes started to glow crimson and before the others could blink the blight light from their eyes; there in front of them was the infamous Phoenix of Fire, The Solitary Dranzer. The group began to step back slightly, for they all had heard stories of the Phoenix destroying everything and everyone in his path.

“Let’s get this over with.†The phoenix growled as it bent toward the ground, lowering its bright red wings, gesturing toward the group to get on quickly before he changed his mind. With one last glare of blood red eyes, the others jumped back to reality and hurried onto the back of the great mystical bird. The great wings gave a might flap and took off across the wide river of boiling water.

The fog was very thick but somehow Dranzer made it to the other side, landing down where now all five companions stood in front of a large entrance of a cave. It seemed to be large enough to fit Dranzer’s massive form, with room to spare. The cave was abnormally darker than night. Not even Rei, with his cat-like eyes that were able to see well in the dark, could not see his hand in front of his face. Laura, with each step she took further into the cave, she couldn’t help but feel an ominous presence lurking in the shadows. There was definitely magic at work here. This place was protected some type of magic.

The group continued on through the endless dark tunnels. The dirt walls were wet and smoking due to the gallons of boiling water from moat, now above them. The silence was unbearable, and Tyson was starting to wonder how anyone could survive in such silence such silence and solitude, but one glare from Kai, in front of the Dragoon holder, made Tyson rethink his previous thought. However, the silence was soon broken by shrill and loud roar. It echoed through out the walls of the tunnel, startling the group. No one recognized it, but they knew it was the dragon that was said to be guarding this place. Never the less the due to the roar, the walls began to tremble and shake, then without warning the ground gave away under the travelers feet making all of them fall, separating them all.

Rei and Laura fell through the hole of utter darkness, all the while trying with all their will not to scream, for the reason of not making the other worry. As they continued their descent, out of fear of losing each other, they reached out with their hands trying to hold on to each other. Even though they couldn’t see, they felt around frantically. Finally, their hands reached each other and the two held on tightly until the last possible moment.

Without warning, everything stopped as Rei and Laura landed upon the ground with a great thud, and the world before their eyes slipped out of consciousness.

After awhile Rei was the first to awake. Golden amber eyes found themselves surrounded by walls dirt and stone. The stones were broken and some even in scattered among ground around him. Straining to move, Rei cringed as he tried to stand finding only that his ankle had landed hard against one of the sharp edges of stone, thus making a sharp pain shoot through his body again and again. Composing himself and regaining his vision, Rei looked around peering through the darkness, looking for any sign of Laura. There, not far from him, behind a large sharp-edged boulder sunlit blonde hair was fanned along the dirt ground. Golden eyes widened with worry, as Rei got up quickly, limping a little as he put pressure on his ankle. He reached and fell down beside the unconscious girl, placed his arms around her shoulders and gently shook her to awaken, while whispering her name.

After a few minutes, Rei breathed a sigh of relief. Laura started shift, trying to comfortably get up while avoiding the pain in her side.

“I’m alright, Rei.â€

“Nevertheless, we both should take it easy, and try regroup with the others. Laura nodded in affirmation.

So, the pair walked on through the dark tunnels, with only their cat-like eyes to guide them. They continued cautiously, not knowing what surprises or dangers awaited them from around each corner. As they came to the bend of the next turn in maze of tunnels, a faded light brightened their faces. Curiously, they peered around the bend of the tunnel only to be met with a hundreds of old faded candles, which somehow were magically staying lit, surrounded a large circular room made of stone brick. Gold and silver eyes scanned the underground room, which they supposed was safe haven during attacks or war, with several wooden crates covered with cobwebs. The room was in place several feet beneath a tall majestic castle that had fallen into disrepair, and looked like it had been overrun by many wars of the past. Back within the room, Rei and Laura explored. Beyond the crates and loose shards of stone that lay scattered around the floor, Rei approached an upward staircase that was carved into the stone wall. He neared it, with one of the magical candles in hand, and a cool breeze hit his face. He peered at the tiny flame to cover it from going out, however, the fire only swirled and sparked higher. Rei was about to check it out more when he heard Laura call out from behind him.

“Rei, come and see this.â€

Meanwhile, as Rei went off to find a way out, Laura looked around and through the many crates only to find they had been sealed shut, also as if by magic not to opened unless the right person came along. It then, from behind her, Laura noticed something that stood out from the rest of the items in the room. It was a tall podium, which sparkled within the dim light like gold, for upon closer inspection Laura realized it was one hundred percent solid gold. Displayed a top the podium, there was an old thick book, with a hard leather bound cover. Curious as to why such a book would be here, Laura opened it gently, and delicately ran her fingers across the many frail pages. Her silver eyes widened as she read the few readable words upon the pages. “Rei, come and see this.†Laura called out, unable to take her eyes off the book, until Rei came over placing his hand on her shoulder, shaking her from her thoughts.

“What does it say Laura?†Rei asked. The words were written in an ancient text spoken by the ancestors, whom first made contact with the sacred beasts, and only a special few people who knew their language could read it, mostly people of high society, or those who were directly descended from the ancestors, like Molly. It was thanks to Molly’s teaching that Laura was able to read it to Rei.

“…They are coming. We have tried to maintain the peace, but failed. We have betrayed the beasts. To redeem ourselves, we offer one last ray of hope. We have saved possibly the last beast on Earth, with the dimming hope it can make up for our sins. It will protect both races; preserve life, our pure being. No, they have destroyed it. All is lost. Only the Great Angel can help us now...â€

Laura stopped reading, for she had reached the last page of writing. There was a long silence between the two. Finally, Laura looked up into Rei’s golden eyes, with her own pleading gaze, “Rei, I’ve been having a bad feeling, and reading this only worsens it. If the Great Angel truly reincarnated every beast that was killed, she must have brought back this beast!†Rei took Laura by the shoulders, making her look into his deep golden gaze. “Laura, listen to me that was a long time ago. True, there may be a spirit beast here, but what proof do we have that it’s the one of legend.†However, Laura just stared at him unmoving, “Rei, what if the beast never left this place, couldn’t leave, because of the human it’s bonded to.†Rei thought it over, “Do you think we should tell the others?†But Laura shook her, “No, I want to be absolutely positive of our conclusion.†Rei nodded in agreement and pulled Laura towards the stairway he had found earlier.

“Come on, we better regroup with the others.â€

“Max, are you still alive?†Tyson voice sounded, coming through the darkness.

“Yeah, I think so…†Max called out, as he struggled to sit up from their rough fall. “Uh…Tyson, do you think you could get off my foot?â€

Tyson followed Max’s voice, which echoed through seemingly small room, and came to realization that Max was no where near him.

“Max, what are talking about? I’m way over here.â€

Suddenly, Max stiffened feeling some kind of scaly skin slide off of his stretched out leg. Max jumped again when he heard Tyson screech as the boy felt some kind of tail slither past him, brushing against his back. Tyson jumped to his feet quickly, and ran blindly through the dark.

“Ouch!†Max yelled when Tyson ploughed into him, falling onto the blonde boy.

As the boys struggled with each other surrounded by the pitch blackness, when suddenly bright lights illuminated the dark cavern, nearly blinding the boys. There they lay in a heap at the top of tall wide stone steps. Behind them was two chairs, red velvet cushions were torn and dust-covered them, the gold embellished lining was so black with rust, nobody would have thought it was once immaculate. In fact, the entire room appeared to be a throne room, and where the stairs ended a large smooth floor perfect dancing stretched across a room the size of a football field, and the ceiling reached at least a foot higher than the Sistine Chapel, and also elaborately decorated. The sides of the walls were surrounded with half broken and cracked, colorful dust filled stained glass windows; five tall dimmed images lined each wall.

Just when Tyson and Max had gotten used to their surroundings, a strange soft laughter filled the silent air. The two looked around, confusion appearing on their faces, and there behind them, in front of the throne chairs, was a young red headed girl, whose smile stretched from ear to ear, staring down at them with dazzling eyes that looked like a blue sky after storm. Her blood red hair was pulled into a high ponytail, which swished back and forth brushing her mid-back, but with a few strands falling forward framing her face. Her clothes were pretty but simple; just a short red velvet dress that came down just above her knees, loose enough to move in easily, sleeves are short with ruffles. Her thin and pale, yet seemingly very muscled arms and legs, along with the dress, were covered in smudges of dirt and dust. The girl continued to laugh at the boys’ entanglement.

This, however, enraged Tyson and he jumped to his feet, face glowing with anger and embarrassment, standing naught but three feet from the girl yelling in a loud voice, making sound like he was speaking through a bull horn. “What gives you the right to laugh at us? Who are you anyway?â€

“You can call me Sasha.†The girl answered, still giggling, her arms wrapped around her body as if holding herself back from launching forward.

This only infuriated Tyson more, and was about to pounce on the giddy girl, however, Max was regaining his balance as well, and ran as fast as he could to Tyson, linking their arms together, against Tyson’s back and across his chest. “Tyson, calm down!†Then he turned his eyes back to the girl who still laughing, holding herself. “Sasha, I just have one question, are you a princess trapped here?â€

At that moment, Sasha stopped and straightened up, once bright eyes now clouded and sparked like lighting, and her cheerful voice deepened. “You are not going to take the princess from this sacred ground!†As she spoke, her body began to grow from a petite body, covering itself and silver and red scales. Her hands and feet and her oval face expanded and stretched longer, forming sharp claws and two rows of razor sharp teeth. As the metamorphosis complete, there, before the two boys, stood a large lizard-like grayish silver sparkling dragon. The boys stood in awe and shock at the amazing transformation. Max covered his ears as the dragon roared loudly and angrily, making the stone walls surrounding them tremble under the vibrations. However, Tyson just laughed, unfazed by the creature. “This creature ain’t so scary. You want to fight, well bring it on I’m always ready!†He shouted up, hoping the dragon girl could hear him. After he said that, Tyson too under went a metamorphosis, and light blue wind swirled quickly around him like tornado enveloping him within its eye...to be continued.

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I’m sorry I can’t write anymore on this chapter so I am ending it write here and make this a two part chapter. I know being evil cliffhanger writer but school just started up and I have more stories to see to. Thank you all to reviewing, and please keep doing that, you have no idea how much it boosts my confidence level to write.

I will give you a preview however, the least I can do.

In part 2, Tyson (Dragoon) have a fight with the dragon and nearly wreck the place, it’s up to Kai (Dranzer) to save them all, but where is he? Why, arguing with the princess Tanya! Of course. Will they all be able to get out of the cave alive?