Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Trapped in a Virtual Reality ❯ Chapter 3

.Ch 3.

"Oww…oww…Max?" Marisol stood up and walked to the shore, since she had been floating in the water. The sound of the waterfall was still constant and close.

"Max…" she called weakly. She was bruised all over and her clothes were ripped.

"Marisol." The call was weaker than hers, intertwined with unimaginable agony. Swiftly, she ran to where the moans came from and there he was, clothes ripped, skin scarred, blood dirtied by dirt. Marisol almost breathed in relief when she saw he was not dead, at least not yet. She was about to kneel next to him when a flapping noise filled her ears. It cam from above, from the sky, but that sky was covered by towering tree that let only minimal rays of light pass through. The flapping became more evident, until it was upon them. The leaves trembled and the wildlife in the surroundings scattered, trying to find shelter. The very air seemed to have abandoned the place as well in fear of what was coming. Nothing stirred…Marisol looked warily around so as to be prepared for an ambush.

A large amount of chorused roars announced the arrival of the Winged Trazas, truly ferocious creatures, and scaly, dark green with medium-sized black wings. They all looked the same, making Marisol's surroundings seem a blur of black and dark green, which became confusing and irritating. They plunged in, directly going for Max and Marisol. Quickly, she took out her bow and arrows and began shooting galore with pin-point accuracy. And even thought she made almost every one of the shots she made, the winged creatures still seemed to outnumber her. Her biggest fear was possibly not her own death, but that the winged animals came and hurt Max when he couldn't defend himself. To protect him, she took his shield to ward off any unwanted Winged Trazas. They kept coming towards her, and when she was going to strike, they turned around and left her hitting empty space, like mocking her cruelly.

"Chikushou!" She screamed in frustration at her situation. She dropped her shield and put both hands in front of her, as if giving up, but instead a blast came from her hands, so powerful, it shook the ground, the trees, everything around her, and vines sprung from her palms, enveloping the creatures. Noticing she was not dead, Marisol opened her eyes and saw what she had done. Satisfied of herself, she smirked and pulled the vines. The Winged Trazas were being choked slowly and excruciatingly, and only after seconds did Marisol get impatient, almost blood-thirsty to finish them all off. To get rid of the nuisances quickly and effectively, she made thorns grow from the vines like pointy needles, which pierced the Trazas, tainting the vines red from their neck blood, until they had no strength in them and they fell one by one to the floor, dead. Since her task ended, the vines returned to her palms.

For a moment, she faltered and felt some of her strength leaving her, then coming back again.

"Minus fifty power points, plus 250 for the quick elimination of the Winged Trazas! The sector 5-2 of the environment is clean now, she will advance to the next environment!" A voice from above voice exclaimed, as if narrating a baseball game.

"How can I know if like I lost points or gained points?" Marisol asked sceptically.

"Look in your pockets. You have a device that monitors you health, power, weapons, and other things." The voice answered. Marisol checked her pockets hurriedly and found a hexagonal-shaped device with a screen that had two bars with numbers below them. One read: Power- 300, and the other read Health- 90.

"Do you want to advance to the next environment or stay here and wait for Max to do his own kill and then go with him?" The voice's question appeared on her device with two words below it: Yes and No. Marisol pressed where the `Yes' was. "Ok! Marisol stays in the River Environment but will go to Section 6-3." Again, Marisol and Max's surroundings began to spin, making all the colors blend and blur around them, until it stopped. Marisol's device was blinking.

Level One/ Marisol [P3] and Max [P4]

Environment 1/ .The River.

Section 6-3

"Wow." Marisol said sarcastically. "I'm player three!" She giggled in a twisted way which seemed hyper and evil at the same time, like if she was planning something evil in her complicated little mind. She had the horrible of doing that more and more lately. A groan from behind her made her turn around. "Max! You're awake! Are you okay?" Marisol said with genuine concern. Max held his head with one hand and supported his body with his elbow in the ground. He smiled a wry, forced smile at Marisol and only nodded with his blue eyes sparkling like always.

"I- I guess I'm okay." He said with a broken voice. Marisol looked at her device in her hand and pressed the buttons, until she finally found Max's health.

.Max Mizuhara- Player Four.

Health- .15.

Power- .100.

Weapon(s)- .Shield and Double-sided Spears.

Elemental Power(s)- .Water.

Wings- .Light Blue Angel Wings.

.Span. Eight Feet

.Marisol Fematt Kon- Player Three.

Health- .90.

Power- .300.

Weapon(s) - .Bow and Arrows.

Elemental Power(s) - .Earth.

Wings- .Leaf Green Angel Wings.

.Span. Seven and a Half Feet.

"I didn't know we had friggin' wings! We could have escaped from that waterfall? Hmm. Stupid game. Anyways, Max has only fifteen health points. Is there anyway to help Max? Could I give him my health points?" Marisol wondered aloud after seeing their information and stats.

"Would you be willing to give up your health points to restore Max's?" The voice from above said unexpectedly.

"I'll give Max thirty-five of my health points." Marisol said decidedly.

"That will leave Max with fifty health points and you with fifty-five. Are you okay with that?" Once again, the question appeared in her device. She pressed `yes' again.

That sensation of losing Energy came upon Marisol, who held her middle section and bent over as if she was going to vomit. She began breathing heavily, almost panting. On the other hand, Max began moving, first as if having a nightmare, then gripping the soft earth, as if clawing at it, and suddenly, he opened one eye, the other followed not too long after. He jolted up in his spot.

"You live!" She tried to say in Max's cheerful way, though it came as a pained whisper. Max ran to Marisol's side and helped her stay up while she recovered. "There. I'm okay." She said and stood straight again. "We have to do a killing and clean this section of the environment so we can advance to the next one, okay?" Marisol told Max, who was listening intently.

"Let's go then!" Max jumped up in the air hyperly.

.Rei and Lydia.

"Fuck it's cold." Lydia looked at her environment.

"We're in the Artic environment. What is there to do here?" Rei answered, theeth clattered. He really wasn't used to being in cold weather.

"Hmm. Well. Then let's just…I don't know." Lydia pulled clothes closer to her. A gust of wind made chills go down both her and Rei's spines.

"Ok. Come." Rei took Lydia's hand and squeezed it tightly. More gusts of wind blew. Th air seemd to get clder, and everything turned white.

"BLIZZARD!" Exclaimed Lydia.

"Excellent way of stating the obvious." Rei agreed. Seconds later, the air stilled. But instead of everything being calm now, there were creatures all around Lydia and Rei, smirking.

"Who are these…things?" Lydia whispered in terror. Rei subtily put his hands where his mace was.

"Just take out the axe…" Rei whispered to her. She nodded and put her hand in the back pouch on her back. One of the animals pounced on Lydia's direction, claws outstretched, as long as Lydia's hand. In her fear and inexperience, she took it out and swung the opposite way, but the axe's momentum pulled her out of harm's way, though it pulled her onto the snow as well. The rest of the animals pounced onto the fallen one. Rei took out his knifes completely and killed the first one's that were going for Lydia. Nonetheless, there were too many, and they were gaining space on the two neko-teens.

That's when Lydia remembered they both had wings. She willed them to spread and to her delight, they were demon-style black wings, with about a span of five and half feet.

An animal about to attack Lydia hesitated attacking her when I saw her spring those enormous shimmering ebony wings. Confident of her power, Lydia smirked and took her axe with her hands.

A moment passed between the creature and Lydia, until she finally decided to attack. In one single blow, she cut the creature's head in half, and to disperse of the body completely, Lydia shot and elemental at it, disintegrating the body of the animal and other coming that came charging at her. Rei, meanwhile, had slain another bunch of animals leaving only one. It was monstrous in size, claws as big as butcher knifes, extremely sharp canines and bulging muscles. All of the animals Lydia and Rei had killed were bear like, and this one was no exception. Although this one stood up, towering above the two neko-jins almost at double their size.

"Oh shit…" Both of them swore in unison eyes flaring so wide it seemed they would just pop out and fall on the snow. The animal let out primitive, bnlood0-curdling roar at the sky, letting out ice-cold wind and snow.

"Fuck no. We're dead. Up to here we came." Lydia said in disbelief.

"We still have to try." Rei answered in his positive way. He ran and took in flight above the animal's head, then swung at its head. He missed though, which costed him. The bear-like animal breathed ice at him, frigid beyond belief, directed at his wings, which froze them. Rei fell undoubtedly and crashed against the snow, right in front of the creature, at it's mercy.

Realizing Rei didn't have a chance, Lydia ran, wings spread, took in flight, and landed on the animal's back, the buried the axe deep onto its back, then running the axe down the length of it to cut it open in half. To avoid further recovery from it, she made a Dark Conjuration, which created a blast directed at the monster, a conjuration to slice it in pieces.

"Damn that was incredible!" Rei applauded as he got up. Lydia did a mock bow.

"Incredible display of elemental abilities and skills with weapons! Kon Rei, Hiwatari Lydia, you will advance to the next environment automatically!" The voice from above announced. (oh yeah, Lydia is Kai's sister and if you were wondering, Marisol is Rei's sister)