Authors note: This is my second Beyblade fic but it's part of s sequel so read the first one before you read this one! If you don't you'll have no idea what's happening. Mainly because I'm starting this practically at the point where I left off in The Experiment. Okay, it's about three minutes later. And yes, Charlie still has his accent. Anyway, this is for the people who reviewed my last chapter of The Experiment.
Wingcanine: I'm writing a sequel! Here it is! About your fic, I hope you can get your chapters up fast then!
Dudems: I've finished writing the first chapter of the sequel! (Obviously) I was only waiting for you to review which took aaaages! Test? What test? Thanks for reminding me that I have a test on Monday! Hopefully (not) my Spanish teacher will forget to take me up again like he did with my Spanish speaking test.
Since that's done, look on further for the fic!
Warning: Phonetic Scottish, bad gammar, lots of typos and in-text author notes in the following chapters
'Trilox, I can't believe it. We're free.' That word, most people take talking for granted, but when something like not being able to express your own opinion gets taken away . . .you don't realize how important something is to you or how you actually feel about something until it is taken away. When or if you get it back, it's the best feeling the world.
'I know how you feel. We've stayed in there for far too long.'
'Trilox . . . how long were you in there for? I mean, before Ah came along?'
'I honestly do not know. The days just melted into each other and since I don't really need sleep, I lost count of the days.'
Suddenly the girl whom I was following came to a full stop. Which ended up with me swerving around her and completely passing her, if I didn't, we'd have ended up in a heap.
"Where are they?" I heard her mutter underneath her breath.
"Where are who?"
"Hmm?"
'Great, about five minutes after I've met her she's already forgotten I'm here.'
" 'They' are my gang. Well, they aren't mine, I'm not the leader, I'm just part of the gang." She finished proudly. "And they were supposed to be here waiting for me when I got back!" she motioned with her hand to the surrounding area.
"Oh." Well what else could I say?
"They must be at the hideout. Do you wanna walk this time? That way we can talk."
"Um, okay."
"Right, first off, what's your name and what were you doing in a place like that?"
"My name's Charlie and um, Ah don't really know what Ah was doin' there." I finished weakly. 'She mustn' know bout my past, if she does…who knows what she'll think, Ah guess Ah would know but…' "Wha's your name?" I said, trying to change the subject.
"What's with that fake accent?"
"It's not fake. Ah'm normally talk like this, Ah only talked wi''ou' ma accent because you would be able to understand me be''er. So wha's your name?"
"It's Roxanne," She suddenly blanched "Don't call me that though. My nickname's Roxy but my street name is Talon."
We walked in silence for about ten minutes; I was looking at the stars through the leaves of the trees on either side of the track. Roxy, I had know idea what she was doing, she was walking and I was following, simple as that. I had an urge to listen in to what she was thinking. But I decided against it. No one likes to let their private thoughts known, unless they themselves tell.
"You didn't answer my question/ what were you doing there? And 'I don't know' isn't an answer. And also, you did you want me out so bad but you were so hesitant to go but to then suddenly change your mind?"
"I . . .I can't say. Could you please respect my privacy and not ask me again? I'll tell you in my own time, just don't force me to tell you right now." I didn't mean to, but it sounded cold instead of pleading.
She shook her head. "Man, you are one weird dude. You won't tell me what happened in that place, your past, you know you're being all mysterious? There's only two things that I know about you. One is your name and the other is that you beyblade." She tilted her head up so that she was looking up to me, "I don't think this is too personal a question. How old are you?"
How old am I? My earliest memory was when I was twelve (I think) and that's when I was in that building. I have no idea how long I stayed there, but it was something like two years. That mean I would be fourteen years old or I could be fifteen years old, depending on when my birthday was. Which I also don't know.
"Fourteen. You?"
She gave me an incredulous look. "Fourteen? You look more like sixteen to me. But then again, I don't look fourteen wither. And before you start, don't even give me that look. I'm not lying okay?" she was looking at me like she was daring me to look at her wrong.
"Wha'? Ah'm no' goin' to say anythin'."
"Good. Because some people are just predictable with their thoughts."
When she said that, I took an involuntary gasp.
"What?" I guess she was seeing the look of shock on my face, plus the fact I had stopped dead in my tracks.
"Déja vu." Was all I said.
Sigh "I'm not really getting anywhere with you am I?"
"I don't really talk to people. No' used to it."
We walked in silence for a further ten minutes. By now we had gone past the park area and into a more urban area.
"We're here." The sound of her voice brought me out of my silent sight seeing. The building we were standing in front of was about the size of a normal two-storey house. It wasn't joined to any other buildings and the street was strangely devoid of people, but that might have been because there was only one other house in the street. The house emitted an eerie glow from within from its lights.
Talon had already run inside while I on the other hand walked in. there was some sort of commotion before I pushed the door open. When I walked through though, the place suddenly went stony silent. Including Talon, there was four people in the room. The ground floor itself was one big room. The floor was littered with, well, litter. There wasn't enough to completely cover the floor but there was enough to see that there was little around the place. On the left side of the room was a staircase leading up to another room.
Talon was in the middle of the room with the other three people crowded around her. In the whole group were two girls and two boys, Talon being easily the smallest and a guy who did look like he was sixteen (he was the same height as me) being the tallest. And that guy was furiously staring at me.
"And this-" Talon started.
"Is your boyfriend." That guy interrupted blandly.
"Is-no!" Talon started to blush. "He's what I brought for my dare and where were you guys?! You were supposed to wait for me!"
"You took so long in there that we thought you had gotten caught or something. How knows what kind of stuff happens in a haunted place like that?" This was said by the other girl. She had blazing red hair that could be compared to fire; wild and bright. Her hair was basically a massive crimson fuzz ball. She was taller than Talon, but then, that wasn't really an achievement. She came up to about my shoulders.
"Oh yeah! Shadow's got a 'blade, sooooo how about you guys get um, acquainted over a beybattle?" Talon said hesitantly said.
'Shadow? Who's-''Trilox, Ah think she's talkin' bou' me.'
'Shadow? But you introduced yourself as Charlie though.'
'Hmm, Ah think Talon made Shadow up as my street name.'
'But why Shadow though?''Um, somethin' to do with me not tellin' her my past? Idunno.'
'Ah guess it sounds right. Who would want to talk about our past anyway?''What was it? With light you must have shadows, with shadows you must have light. Don' ask. It's just somethin' that merely came to mind.'
That's when I noticed that the last boy was staring at me while the others were having a private conversation. There was something in his eyes, they were a little wider than before, the traditional look of slight fear but trying not to show it and for some reason he was looking directly in my eyes. This boy came up to about my shoulders and longish brown hair. I don't know why, but I started to stare back at him. When he saw what I was doing he didn't turn away but his eyes widened ever so slightly more but enough to be noticeable. We continued to stare at each other for a further five minutes before the others had finished their conversation.
"What?! That's not fair!"
"That's the conditions, Zero, why are you staring at him?"
The boy called Zero blinked and turned away.
The taller boy pulled out a black beyblade. "This is what we're going to do, we're goin' to have a beybattle, best out of three wins. If I win," When he said that a cocky grin snaked onto his face. "You leave, if you somehow win, you get to stay with us, capeesh?"
I looked at Talon who shook her head. Deciding quickly, I listened into her thoughts.
-ing to get trashed. He always does this! I've got to warn Charlie but-
with a small sigh I slowly pulled out Trilox. In the somewhat two years that I had been there, after that one modification, it was exactly the same. "Since you've accepted, the dish is upstairs."
Up the stairs was one big room as well but in one corner there was a medium sized beydish. We both walked up to opposite sides of the dish and held out our respective beyblades and launchers.
"Okay, this will be a series of three matches, no time limit. Three. . . two. . . one…Let it riiiip!"
And that's me finito for the moment. So how about you guys reviewing then?
Charlie: Well, that ended in a good way, for once!
DID: yeah, yeah, yeah. You're secretly happy that there was a sequel.
Charlie: Oh yeah? What gives you that idea? Do you think I like being tortured?!
DID: If there wasn't a sequel you would have been slowly forgotten and then I would probably have wiped the floppy so then you would be no more!
Charlie: Sheesh. There's no need to get all melodramatic!
DID: So what do you reviewers think that the leaders street name should be? Charlie: Man, I am sooooo bored! And that Talon/Roxanne person is a bit of a ditz, isn't she?
DID: um, okay. She sort of ended up like that by accident. Hopefully she'll show a different bit in her character a little later on. Oh yeah, I won't begin the next chapter until I get….THREE! reviews!
Charlie: You DO know that it isn't exactly a lot of reviews?
DID: Yup. I don't like demanding too much. So please review! Also, I won't be able to update as fast as I could before coz of my tests!