It has been 1 moon since Nemesis attacked our world

I sighed, writing down the lore just as it happened.

After she gave up her life to save us, hardly anything was left of the kingdom, for the heir of Zeus' Throne was dead.

"Rose?" King Zeus came into the room and gently put a hand on my shoulder. "Rose, hush, it's okay..."

Dynamis refuses to even look at me. He believes it is my fault that I did not do more to stop my brother. But how can siblings control each other's actions? We are black and white, yin and yang, yet I love him too much to hurt him. Why did I not take that chance?

"It's my fault. Mine. Mine." I was the only one to blame.

My name is Black Rose. I am 18...

"Rose, there is something you must do. For Swan's sake, and our sake." Zeus' face was unreadable and stern.

And this war is all my-

"Rose, please. For me." Zeus took my hand and pulled me up. "Rose, we need to...call Chronos." He did not say what Chronos would do, but we both knew all too well. "Your bond with Swan may be able to counteract the curse of Nemesis. If you both are cursed, the next ones..."

I nodded. "I know. I must be remembered a hero. Not the villain, now or ever." Slipping my diary in between the pages, I turned away from my story. "Chronos, I'm ready.."

Then all I remember is black.

"UGGH!" a voice yelled from down the hall. Kyoya groaned. "Not now, Gingka. Please not now..." His wishes were left unanswered. "Madookkkaa! I doonnn'tt wannnaaa gooo! You can't make me! You can't you can't you can't!"

Madoka's voice also carried well. "I was invited to the ancient library all the way in China, Gingka, courtesy of Dashan and the rest of the Wang Hu Zhong team! Please act your age, you winged baby!"

Kyoya got up and grumped out the door. "Just WHAT are you two chumps talking about?"

Madoka gave a fangirl-pitched squee. "Didn't you hear? We're going to a LIBRARY in CHINA! OhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygosh!" She leapt around the room.

Gingka rolled his eyes. "She got tickets for all of us to dork land..."

Approximately 1 hour, 6 whiners, and one fangirl later, Madoka paraded everyone out the door. Er... everyone being Kyoya, Gingka, Masamune, Yu and Kenta. They were walking down the streets, almost to the airport, when all of a sudden..

"Masamunu! Where are you guys going?" A cherry-redhead popped out from around the corner.

Masamumu-er, Masamune, frowned at Madoka. "You didn't invite FREIDA?" he yelled.

Kyoya smirked. "Hey, you just acted as if you cared."

Masamune turned the same color as Freida's hair. "I mean... Hey Cherry Girl, wanna come? Cause, like, I guess you could hang, if you're cool and all."

Freida blushed. "Sure, Masamumu!"

Madoka looked at her watch and gasped. "Everyone! We have to go! Leave flights in 10 minutes.. I mean light feaves... oh, just come on!"

Eveyrone ran after the goggle-clad girl, all the way to the airport.

The flight took about an hour, in which Masamune was beaten at checkers by Freida 10 times, Gingka had ordered a hamburger only to find out they had none, and Kyoya had turned a shade of furious red, they arrived in China, where Dashan and Mei-Mei both were cheerfully waving, along with another 2 girls they had never met.

"Hiya Gingka! Great ta see ya again! Dumpling?" Mei-Mei shoved a dumpling in the spiky-orange haired blader's mouth.

Kyoya examined the other two girls. One was wearing mostly blue and was blushing slightly, every now and then eying Dashan and then quickly looking away. The other was in an imperial red-and-gold outfit. The imperial girl noticed his staring.

"Give it a break, tiger guy. The name's Akira. And this is my partner, Oriental Hippogryph!" She held out her beyblade.

"Uh... Hi." The blue girl regained her composure. "I'm Ninel. This is my partner, Glaciate Alicorn." Ninel did the same. "It's, uh, nice to meet you."

Dashan smiled at Ninel. "Glad to see you're getting acquainted with everyone!" Turning to the group, he added, "Come on, the library's quite a bit awa-"

Simultaneously, Gingka, Kenta, Yu and Masamune all collapsed to the ground in a heap.

"No.. more... walking.." Gingka acted like a fish deprived of water.

"Too..much..mind...dizzy.." Yu pretended to faint, caught by Akira. "Yu, I will pull you in a wagon and give you candy if you don't complain and just follow and swallow." She handed him a giant swirly-pop, which he immediately began to chomp on.

Dashan sighed. "Please. Did you expect us to drive you in a limo? Come on, it's an hour's walk."

Akira craftily smiled. "Unless..."

Dashan saw the smile and frowned. "No, Akira. No. I told you, we are NOT going to take them on a pony ride."

At the prospect of "pony ride", Gingka and Masamune brightened up.

"Like, real horses? REAL horses?" Gingka leapt up and down. "Whoo-hoo! Lead the way, Akira!"

Frieda grinned at Masamune. 'I betcha I'll beat ay at riding, 10 times over! I'm the #1 at everything!" She winked at Masamune teasingly.

Masamune laughed. "Yeah right! I bet that since I'm the number 1 blader, I'll beat you at horseback riding!"

Ninel patted a defeated Dashan on the back. "You tried.."

A short walk to the stables of Beylin Temple later, Akira assigned everyone to a horse, with the help of Aguma and Bao. "Gingka, you're on Patriot. Masamuku-"

Masamune interrupted. "That's Masamune to you."

"Yeah, whatever. Masamulo, you're on Falcon. Dashan, Mei, you know what horses. Freida-is that your name?- will be on Sweetheart.
Bao, you got this down? Good. Go get the horses. Now, Aguma, the next few... Yu is on Spots, Madoka is on Opal, Yu can ride with me, Ninel, you know your horse, right? Frostbite? Okay. Kyo-yo, you're on Typhoon. Kentie, you're on Legion... and I will be on Garnet. Got that?" Akira recited the entire list flawlessly.

"Okay, here's the first few." Bao brought out Falcon, Sweetheart, and the 2 other horses that belonged to half of the Wang Hu Zhong group. A few minutes later, Aguma brought out Spots, Opal, Frostbite, Typhoon, Legion, and Garnet. Dashan and Akira helped everyone get on their horses.

Dashan awkwardly helped Ninel onto Frostbite, although he very well knew that she was a pretty good horseback rider after her 4 weeks staying at Beylin Temple to train in martial arts.

"Thanks Dashan.. you're really nice..." an embarrassed Ninel said. She easlily guided her horse towards Akira and Yu on Garnet. "Well, everyone ready?" Akira called. The group nodded. "I'm going to trust you all to take them at a gallop. Garnet is a leader type mare, your horses will follow natrually but they'll need guiding. Kick them hard to start galloping. Here we go!"

The ride was barely 30 minutes, seeing as all the horses were relatively fast. They wound up in front of a crumpling quartz building surrounded by sakura trees. Akira pulled back on Garnet's reins. "Whoa. Alright, Dashan, help me dismount them."

Dashan merely nodded, absentmindedly telling Kyoya how to get off. (The little lion guy had proclaimed that he was perfectly able to get on and off a horse by himself.) After everyone dismounted, Akira tied all the horses up on a few different trees.

"Dashan, you have petals in your hair." Ninel brushed the petals off, which made Dashan immediately blush. "T..thanks Ninel."

Masamune boldly knocked thrice on the door. With no response, he began bounding, until the door was opened just a crick by a curly black haired boy peeking through the doorway. "Hm? Oh, visitors. Come in."

They entered a dusty planet filled with dust... at least, form the dark point of view. The boy lit a lantern and led then through. "We don't normally get visitors. But Dashan told me that you would come, Madoka, right? Well, come here, I'll show you the technology runes." He left the rest of the gang inside a faintly lit room.

After Madoka was a good while away, the rest of the gang (other than the Wang Hu Zhong members) flopped to the floor in a heap.

"I'm bo-ored! Can't we have fo-od? Or ca-andy?"Yu whined.

"Ugh, I have so much stuff to do.. can't we go?" Kyoya complained

Akira sighed. "How about we find some beyblade books?"

The boy came around the corner. "Beyblade books?"

Akira nodded. "Yeah, for these lumps of boredom here. Got anything interesting?"

He nodded. "I have one they'll love. By the way, I don't believe I've formally introduced myself. I am Aeolus." He led them down a staircase and into yet another room, but this one was different. It was made out of pure obsidian-like glass, with pictures inscribed in it. Sitting in a corner was a white leather book on a quartz pedestal. "The book is here." Aeolus gestured to the pedestal.

Akira gently flipped it open, and began to read out loud.

"It has been 1 moon since Nemesis attacked our world. After she gave up her life to save us, hardly anything was left of the kingdom, for the heir of Zeus' Throne was dead. Dynamis refuses to even look at me. He believes it is my fault that I did not do more to stop my brother. But how can siblings control each other's actions? We are black and white, yin and yang, yet I love him too much to hurt him. Why did I not take that chance?"

"Dynamis? Isn't he the prophet-dude?" Gingka leaned in closer to make sure Akira was reading the book right.

Akira ignored him and continued. "My name is Black Rose. I am 18...And this war is all my fault." She paused. "That's it."

"Let ME see!" Masamune yelled.

Gingka grabbed the book. "NO!"

"HEYY! I don't get to see! NO FAIR!" Yu pulled the tome towards him.

Ninel sighed. "Stop grabbing, you're going to-"

RRIIP! The book split in two halves and the pages fell out onto the floor.

"Yeah, now look at what you've done." Kyoya rolled his eyes.

"Oh no! The special book!" Frieda gasped.

Aeolus walked over. "The book! What have yo-"

The pages of the book began to slowly move, as if blown by an invisible wind. They faintly glowed a deep ebony as the tan pages slowly formed an arch. When the last page was put it, the effect was the same as the keystone of a real arch- it put the whole thing together. Each page began to glow even brighter, each forming a beam of white light and opening a spiral portal.

"Well? What now?" Aeolus asked the startled group.

"I don't know." Akira admitted. "I've never seen anything like it."

"Hey, one thing didn't make it.." Ninel picked up a tiny book with a black leather cover and a white rose on it. "I'm keeping it."

Nobody argued with that, because the portal had just began to drag them all in.

"AAUGH! AEOLUS! DO SOMETHING!" Akira grabbed onto the pedestal, who was grabbed onto by Ninel, who was grabbed onto by Mei-Mei, who was grabbed onto by Dashan, who was grabbed by Aeolus, who was grabbed onto by Kyoya.

"EEP!" Frieda was dragged into the spiraling doom that awaited all of them, too late to grab onto Aeolus.

"FRIEDA!" Masamune yelled. He leapt in after her.

Gingka rolled his eyes, hanging onto the door. "Loverbo-WAUGH!" He too, was pulled in after Masamune.

"CAANNDDYY!" Yu screamed as he was sucked in after the duo.

Aeolus lost his grip on Dashan, forcing both him and Dashan into the spiraling doom. "OH NO! AEOLUS! KYOYA!" Akira screamed over the whooshing winds around the portal.

"Let go, Akira!" Ninel yelled.

"Let go?" Akira repeated. She was slightly dazed after everyone disappeared.

"Let go! Trust me!" Ninel replied as Akira felt something crack in her shoulder

"Okay.." Akira let go, and then grabbed Mei-Mei's hand so that they were all in a circle.

"Don't let go!" Ninel yelled. "Don't ever let go!"

And that, children, was the first chapter!

More OC's to come in the next chapter! Whoo!

Well, anyways, I'm going on vacation for the next 1 1/2 to 3 weeks. I will bring my laptop, but I don't know how often I will write. So who knows when chapter 2 will appear?

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