Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Trapped in a Virtual Reality ❯ Chapter 4

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.Ch 4.

.Teresa and Tyson.

“Yippee!” Teresa and Tyson were celebrating the drawing of first blood, the death of a brown griffin. Teresa flashed Tyson a thumbs up sign. Then they spread their wings and jumped up in the air.

Only to find more brown-hued griffins with lunatic eyes were waiting for them in the sky. Tyson shook his head.

“You people are in my territory. When will you ever learn?” He said in his cocky manner. Teresa just nodded. Tyson zoomed past one at lightning speed, stopped, veered around, and stabbed it, all in tenths of a second. Teresa didn't stay back, however, she waited for all the griffins to come at her, and then she put her hands in front of her, yelled,

“HALT!” At the top of her lungs, and instantly they all froze in their spots. Teresa unsheathed her katana, and flew around merrily, fluttering her wings like a fairy, lopping off heads, cutting bodies in half. “Resume Time.” She said after her deed was done. The corpses dropped onto the brush below. Teresa sheathed her katana again and wiped non-existing blood and dust off her clothes.

“All done!” Tyson smiled and took out his implement. “Section all clear. We can advance to the next one.” He told Teresa, who nodded before they were transported to their next environment.

`That easy? I'm suspecting.' Teresa thought to herself as she and Tyson found themselves in their next challenge.

“Wow. I can't believe it…” Tyson mused.

“Neither can I…” Teresa agreed. Both unsheathed their katanas once again. “Prepare for battle!” She shouted and charged towards her opponents.

.Kenny and Daichi.

“This is not good.” Kenny whined.

“Oh, it's not too bad! Come on Kenny, this is fun!” Said Daichi as he swung his scythe and cut a Centicore. (A four-legged creature with two horns, and ears in its mouth) Kenny almost fainted from seeing that. “Oh, Kenny!” Daichi insisted and took Kenny's throwing stars, throwing them at various fiends. Kenny's eye twitched. Since Daichi was so occupied in bragging how good his skills were, one particular Centicore crept up behind Kenny, and was about to spear him when Daichi turned around, and in surprise screamed, “KENNY WATCH OUT!” Kenny averted as the Centicore was about to spear Kenny, then when it was half an inch away from him, it stopped. The poor Chief was surprised it did, he was already resigned to die. Then the Centicore fell to the floor, dead. Just like that.

“Oh man…I saw my life flash before my eyes!” He placed a hand on his forehead.

“It was your psychic powers! COOL!” Daichi jumped up in air of joy and kicked at the air.

“It was terrifying!” Kenny shook his head.

Daichi made a conceited face. “Oh, admit it! It was fun, wasn't it?” The red haired boy got an idea which could possibly motivate Kenny. “Plus you will have to do many more of those so we all get out of here.”

“I guess you're right. It's just that…poor animal!”

“Yeah yeah. Let's get out of here.” Daichi spread his wings. “Come on Kenny!” He insisted.

“B-but…” Kenny was lifted by Daichi and thrown very high into the air. “I'm afraid of heights!” He finished with panic shooting through all his veins. He saw the ground below him, and just thought it was his end. Daichi below was watching with an ear-to-ear grin, thinking it was all so hilarious. Since he can jump that high himself, anyways. Kenny fell slowly, gulping and imagining the world without the Chief. Suddenly, he sprouted wings out of pure instinct. A few nervous breaths later, Kenny noticed he was not dead at all. He was floating in the air, although he had no wings.

“I…I live!” Kenny proclaimed triumphantly, pumping his arms like a madman. He had completely forgotten we had wings, though he's the one who told Hitoshi the cheat for wings.

“Kenny, are you sure you are okay? Did the lack of air really drive you crazy?” Daichi waved a hand in front of the brown-haired boy's face. Kenny got startled at the presence of the emerald-eyed teen. He had wings the color of his eyes with streaks of red. “C-cool wings.”

“Thanks! I like them too. Probably anybody would be jealous of them; they're the best, just like me.” He bragged like usual. He looked proudly at his wings. “Let's go! I want to beat Tyson and I can't with you shouting like a girl behind me.”

Poor Kenny could but blush and follow the red-haired boy.

.Kai and I.

“Volcano! YES yes yes yes yes yes! We will win Kai!” I had big hearts instead of eyes while Kai scanned the surroundings with wary eyes.

“Don't be too sure it'll be a piece of cake. The computer is designed to think by itself and give the more experienced players harder challenges. I just wonder what'll we get. And I expect an ambush, so be prepared Ceci. I…don't want you to die.”

He finished a little shyly and with a broken voice. It was hard for him to say things like that, but lately he had been more supportive and caring.

“Okay Kai. I will be careful.” I smiled at him. A sudden shriek and a jump from a creature interrupted our little moment. The `creature' was a red demon with yellow marks running all along his body, and two pairs of horns on his head. The demon took Kai by the hair and thrust him upon a nearby boulder, making him crash against it. The crash created a depression in the grey rock. I made a grimace just imagining his pain. The demon, meanwhile advanced towards me swiftly, as if he wasn't even using his legs. A smirk filled his loathsome face, probably planning my demise. I spread my wings immediately and dodged a full-fledged attack of energy headed my way. In pure anger, I took out my crossbow and shot arrows with fire points, which pierced the same like normal arrows, but with the searing pain of fire, making you feel like you are definitely in Hell.

The demon stopped the arrow nonetheless.

“Fuck!” I glared at him and loaded again when a sword crossed his middle section. The demon coughed blood before falling onto the floor pathetically. I sighed in relief; I could tell it was Kai's sword. How could it not be his? The blade was fire red.

Kai walked towards the corpse to retrieve his sword. I finally landed on the ground and disappeared my wings, while I watched how Kai kneeled to take his sword from the hilt and extract it from the flesh of the unearthly creature. A blood-drenched hand unexpectedly took my phoenix's wrist and brought him down with him while he jumped and stood up, completely flipping them, the demon with a foot on Kai's back, holding his wrist in a painful way, twisting it.

“You want your partner back?” The demon taunted. I clenched my teeth. All this game required was primitive instincts and repeated actions of exterminating intruders; quick thinking, and lots of energy.

I could get Kai without sacrificing my life. I knew that is what the stupid sentient humanoid from Hell wanted from me. And there I stood, sweating from nervousness, with my teeth biting my lip so hard I bled slightly. Kai looked pleadingly at me. I sighed heavily.

“What do I have to give you for Kai?” I asked boldly.

“Nothing.” He hissed, showing a tongue similar to a snake's, slim, but green, with pointed ends. “All I want is the destruction of you both. Did you expect something else?”

My eyes flared at his challenge. Behind him, came scores of other demons coming to aid him.

“The question is,” he started, “can you endure this challenge and still save Hiwatari?” I seemed to lose all the air in my body and a horrible pain struck my head. No, nobody hit me; It was the intense pressure of terminating tens of demons and still, like the demon pointed out, saving my phoenix.

The demon cocked his head and the campaign against me begun. A spear was hurled at me, which I noticed not until it was right in front of me, in which I had to duck quickly or that would have been a quick end for me. Large arrays of weapons were thrown directly at me, which I had to move flexibly to dodge. That was all I could do, I couldn't prepare my crossbow or even as much as take out my sword. Once the initial attack was done, one of the vermins jumped towards me, sword raised high above his head, when I had a moment of pure anger and I stopped his sword when he swung it down at my head. I stopped it with only my index and thumb; I knew taking it with a fist would surely had cut my arm in half.

With my free hand, I punched the demon with such anger; I made a hole clean through his gut. I blinked for a second;

`Can anyone do that? Why me then?'I doubted before the demon, which seemingly had endless life leaned in to bite anything off. I ducked and took his sword fully with a fist, and swung it behind me. All I heard was a holler and a crash on the underbrush. Another demon came at me, which was pretty stupid, all his guard was down, all I had to do was take his arm, swing him around, (breaking his arm) and watch how he got stabbed by another demon. I threw him at the second attacker and withdrew the spear he used from his `friend' to stab him with it.

Surprisingly, I finished with the lot of those scatter-brained good for nothing soldiers supposedly sent to kill me. I cleaned some blood of my arm, which was injured. (What? You thought I was going to come out unharmed? It seems dumb that I finished them all off so seemingly easy.)

The `demon lord' still had Kai held, threatening his neck with his own sword.

“Now I have to end you!” I cried. I was on a roll, on the normal world they would call me a psychopath, but all this had been done for a sole purpose that had not been completed - saving Kai.

I but walked calmly and cautiously, the demon all was but smiling pleasantly like those cashiers at stores, everybody knows it's fake anyways.

“Stop.” He softly said first. I didn't know they could talk like that. But it didn't work; I kept closing in the distance between Kai and the demon and me. “Stop!” I paid no attention. “I FUCKING TELL YOU STOP OR DAMN LITTLE FRIEND DIES THIS INSTANT!” He shouted impatiently, spitting out black saliva. I obeyed and rooted myself on my spot, watching unbelievingly how he grew a third arm grotesquely. That arm travelled to his back, which I thought was to retrieve a weapon. No such thing, it was a flute. He threw Kai down and his third arm disappeared. I had the urge to go to Kai, but a strange force held me back from doing that.

“What the fuck, man! Kai…Kai…” Circled my head as Kai slowly crawled, holding his side with a grimace on his face. I noticed it was bruised, tiny scratches, but wounds to me nonetheless. After what seemed horrorizing hours to me, Kai managed to stand up by himself, next to me.

That was when the demon started playing. It was a battle-song, though it had its own beat…and I lost myself on the melody, losing all knowledge of my surroundings. All was centred on the song, the song and only the song. Only in the distance, could I hear Kai's deep voice calling at me with a tint of concern, “Ceci…stop…Ceci…” What seemed my own little world was stopped by Kai tugging on my hand. The whole alternate world was broken like shards of a mirror, and I noticed I was two feet away from the demon, who had an expecting face, but Kai had held my hand to stop me.

“Curse you humans!” The demon lord roared in frustration and dropped his flute. His eyes seemed to light on fire, a black Hell-ish fire that you could get lost onto, like falling into an endless void of despair and loss. His until now small unnotorious muscles grew unnaturally; and his hand stretched to take me by the neck violently. He succeeded; smiled for he had done his will, pulled me up to him and parted, leaving Kai confused, for all this had happened in matters of tenths of a second.