"Wow, I don't believe this!" Tyson gasped.
"What?" Max asked as the group stopped and crowded around the poster that was holding Tyson's interest.
"Three million dollars to the beyblade team who wins this contest!" Tyson pointed laughing. They had already just finished a competition and were starting to work up a bit of money and fans.
"Just one problem Tyson, we're one team-member short." Kenny said pointing to the specified number on the poster. Tyson was busy whining about this when Kai felt his mind begin to slip away from the conversation, back to her.
"I think I know where we could find an extra team-member." Kai said before he could stop himself.
"Who?" the group asked.
"El, you've changed. But you never could fool me." Kai said looking up at the twenty-year-old nurse who was busy attending to a comatose patient in the Spanish hospital that they had travelled to.
"My name is Kelly you must be thinking of someone else Kai." The nurse replied without looking up.
"So you know who I am then, Kelly?" Kai smirked catching her mistake. The nurse froze; his name had just slipped out of her lips. She turned and scowled at him.
"We need your help ok?" Kai admitted. Her eyes looked over his team- mates quickly, she frowned at him.
"No you don't need my help. I'm a nurse." She glared Kai's expression didn't falter, she wasn't fooling him; she sighed and flicked her blonde hair out of her eyes. A bright yellow light suddenly surrounded her.
"You need my help. And I'm not interested." The new girl retorted. The rest of the group was silent as they looked at the teenage girl standing in the same place where the nurse had been standing before. She was of Mediterranean origin with long wavy black hair and soft dark brown eyes; she was glaring at Kai.
"Don't you even want to know what we want your help with?" Kai asked raising a blue eyebrow at her.
"No way Kai and I mean it. You used me last time for your own selfish revenge, I don't trust you anymore and I couldn't care less if you need my help." She snapped poking him in the chest.
"You sure?" He asked her brushing a lock of black hair out of her eyes. She shivered and gasped slightly at his touch, her eyes clicked open and she smacked his hand away.
"Yes I'm sure. Now get out." She shouted pointing a shaking finger to the door.
"That went well Kai." Tyson grumbled at him.
"Don't worry, she'll help us." Kai smiled knowingly.
The teenage girl fell to her knees in the hospital room, she touched her cheek where Kai had made contact with her, if only for a split second. She shivered, why did he always have this effect on her? She sighed; she was going to hate herself for this.
"Kai! Wait!" she called down the corridor. Kai stopped and looked around, he knew that she had felt it too.
"I thought you couldn't care less if we needed your help." Kai smiled.
"Don't push it Kai, what do you need?" she asked.
"El, we need an extra team-member for a beyblading contest." Kai replied unable to stop himself from staring into her eyes.
"That's all.right?" She asked looking almost worried.
"That's all." He nodded.
"How did you.?" Kenny asked her unable to control his curiosity any longer. Ellaris, as they had learned her name was, looked over at him.
"Do this?" She asked finishing his sentence and changing into another girl.
"She's a bit-beast." Kai replied from the seat behind her on the coach. Kenny looked back at Ellaris to see her back in her previous form.
"How can you be a bit-beast? Shouldn't you be in a Beyblade or something?" Tyson asked with his usual amount of tact.
"Some of us hate being trapped in those things you know." Ellaris growled clenching her fists.
Ellaris stood outside the hotel that all the beyblade competitors were staying in, she sighed. Why could she never say no to him? Last time they had parted on such bad terms but she had always found herself thinking of him whenever she was alone.
"You ok?" Kai's voice from behind her made her jump, she spun around to find him surprisingly close to her, how did he get that close without her hearing him? Ellaris felt her stomach knot and she swallowed a lump in her throat.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Ellaris replied quickly.
"You sure?" Kai asked raising a blue eyebrow at her.
"Why wouldn't I be?" she replied almost suspiciously.
"I don't know. You've just seemed a little off since I've seen you." Kai replied, she had been acting odd she had seemed to be avoiding him and when he talked to her like he was now she seemed like a rabbit caught in headlights.
"I'm fine. Really." Ellaris replied breaking eye contact. She glanced back up at Kai's face he looked genuinely concerned for her.
"Are you nervous about the tournament? You could always back out you know." Kai told her.
"No!" She answered instantly; she seemed surprised at her own response, "I.I mean, I wouldn't want to let you down." She added blushing slightly.
"You'll be fine." Kai smiled brushing a strand of her silky hair out of her face; he was tempted to kiss her then but stopped himself and forced himself to walk off.
Kai closed his bedroom door and slid to the floor, he was shaking. He had known for a while before she had left him before that she had a thing for him. She was beautiful he knew, but he never thought that he could care for anyone; being close to anyone left him open to being manipulated. He had always forbidden himself for getting close to anyone, heck; he barely talked to his own team let alone anyone else. The idea of him and her together briefly ran through his mind but he quickly banished its presence.
He woke up the next morning and wandered around the area of the hotel that they were in to find his team and Ellaris practising on the roof, he gulped as he saw Ellaris wearing a short top and low-cut tight jeans. Had she realised his feelings for her and was teasing him? He doubted the thought she had never tried to manipulate people before, she was a very honest person and showed her opinions and feelings to the world and people loved her for it. especially him.
"I'll catch you guys later ok?" Ellaris smiled at the others and wandered off in the other direction to the other stairs down into the building, if there had only been one she would have walked into Kai.
"What was that about?" she heard Max say as she shut the door behind her. She slid to the floor and looked at her hands, they were rubbed raw from her beyblade. Only inexperienced beybladers got this kind of injury. She hadn't beybladed in a while and she was shocked to discover that she had forgotten everything. She knew that she had tried to push anything to do with Kai to the back of her mind and mostly it had worked, unfortunately that also meant forgetting beyblading.
Kai opened the door not realising Ellaris was leaning on it and ended up making her fall down several stairs. Kai was on her in a second,
"Ellaris! Are you ok? I'm so sorry!" Kai apologised quickly checking she was ok, he noticed her hands, she tried to hide them but it was too late.
"What happened to you?" Kai asked already knowing how she had got the wounds. He turned her hand over; she hadn't stopped at the first time like most inexperienced beybladers did when they hurt themselves; she had kept going. There were burns on the inside of her fingers from grabbing her beyblade when it was moving too fast and deep gashes on the outside of her fingers from launching her beyblade.
"I'm just a little rusty ok!" Ellaris snapped tugging her hand out of Kai's.
"This is more than just a little rusty El." Kai said looking at her hand again.
"Why do I let you talk me into these things Kai? Look, really I'm fine." Ellaris protested as Kai started wrapping bandages around her hand.
"Because you know I'm right and you're not fine you're hurt." Kai replied not looking up at her.
"Look its just a little blade-burn ok? It's nothing serious." She sighed shifting on the cold uncomfortable medical table.
"I don't want you getting hurt." Kai replied flatly almost wincing as he saw the bandages soak up the blood from her injuries.
"I thought you didn't care about anyone Kai." Ellaris smiled teasing him.
"You're different." Kai replied he bit his lip; he had said his thoughts out loud without meaning to.
"Why? Because I'm not human?" she asked bitterly.
"No. Because you're you." Kai replied looking into her deep brown eyes, Ellaris smiled blushing slightly.
Ellaris padded around her room nervously, she was lucky that she was the only one in the room. She was the only person other than Kai who had got a room to themselves. Kai, because he was team captain and her because she was a girl and mixed rooms were forbidden in the hotel until you were sixteen. In truth she was just under a thousand years old but she was in a teenage body with teenage hormones and therefore qualified as under sixteen, who would have believed that she was a bit-beast anyway?
She sighed and grabbed her beyblading equipment and went into the training room, she practised in there until it was light outside. She gasped when she realised the time, Kai would be in here soon and if he knew she hadn't slept all night he'd probably kill her. She ran up to her room and shut the door behind her, she heard Kai's door in the room next to her close and he walked by hers. That had been too close. She held her breath as she heard Kai stop outside her room, Ellaris glanced down at her hand, one of her bandages had fallen off! She prayed that none were in the training room.
Kai picked up the bandage that was on the floor he looked at the door handle to Ellaris's room there was another bandage on there, what had she been up to? He looked at the bandages, they had been ripped, he saw shards of plastic on one, she had been beyblading and getting it wrong again. Kai frowned, he would have happily helped her even though she was still too proud to admit that she might need help; but when had she been beyblading? She had never left his sight most of the day and her bandages had been fine the last time he had seen her, so when had it happened? Kai shrugged he would ask her later, but in the meantime he was hungry.
Ellaris heard Kai walk off and she began to breathe again, she went and had a quick shower. Ellaris put new bandages on her older wounds and the ones from last night, she hoped Kai wouldn't check them she remembered how worried he had been when he had seen she was hurt before. Her body ached for sleep but she forced herself to go downstairs.
Kai walked outside to find Ellaris standing on the edge of the fountain looking in, he smiled she was so ditzy sometimes, it was just a fountain.
"Hey El." Kai said making his presence known, she jumped in shock and fell into the fountain. There was a splash large splash and then a soggy and irritated looking Ellaris sitting in the fountain.
"Having fun?" Kai asked smirking.
"Time of my life." Ellaris grumbled standing up and wringing some water out of her wet hair.
"What happened?" Kai asked pulling the bandage he had found out of his pocket. Ellaris went pale and stared at it; Kai frowned at her reaction.
"I went beyblading that's all." Ellaris shrugged stepping out of the fountain and trying to avoid eye contact with Kai by trying to get some water out of her clothes.
"When?" Kai asked trying not to get distracted by Ellaris's clothes clinging to her figure
"Last night, I couldn't sleep so I practised for a bit then went back up to my room." She shrugged. She bit her tongue, it wasn't a direct lie, she hadn't mentioned that she had only got back up to her room half an hour ago.
"I'll help you if you want." Kai offered.
"I don't need help Kai! I can beyblade!" Ellaris snapped, Kai had touched a nerve, she was ashamed of the fact that she had forgotten how.
"Look, we all train El, we're always improving. I just thought you might want to join me." Kai said holding his hands out in silent surrender.
"Just let me get changed." She replied quietly as she walked off.
A/N: Whee! First chapter! It's taken me ages to write this, I actually had one chapter at first but it was so long that I split it into two, and this is the first half.
"What?" Max asked as the group stopped and crowded around the poster that was holding Tyson's interest.
"Three million dollars to the beyblade team who wins this contest!" Tyson pointed laughing. They had already just finished a competition and were starting to work up a bit of money and fans.
"Just one problem Tyson, we're one team-member short." Kenny said pointing to the specified number on the poster. Tyson was busy whining about this when Kai felt his mind begin to slip away from the conversation, back to her.
"I think I know where we could find an extra team-member." Kai said before he could stop himself.
"Who?" the group asked.
"El, you've changed. But you never could fool me." Kai said looking up at the twenty-year-old nurse who was busy attending to a comatose patient in the Spanish hospital that they had travelled to.
"My name is Kelly you must be thinking of someone else Kai." The nurse replied without looking up.
"So you know who I am then, Kelly?" Kai smirked catching her mistake. The nurse froze; his name had just slipped out of her lips. She turned and scowled at him.
"We need your help ok?" Kai admitted. Her eyes looked over his team- mates quickly, she frowned at him.
"No you don't need my help. I'm a nurse." She glared Kai's expression didn't falter, she wasn't fooling him; she sighed and flicked her blonde hair out of her eyes. A bright yellow light suddenly surrounded her.
"You need my help. And I'm not interested." The new girl retorted. The rest of the group was silent as they looked at the teenage girl standing in the same place where the nurse had been standing before. She was of Mediterranean origin with long wavy black hair and soft dark brown eyes; she was glaring at Kai.
"Don't you even want to know what we want your help with?" Kai asked raising a blue eyebrow at her.
"No way Kai and I mean it. You used me last time for your own selfish revenge, I don't trust you anymore and I couldn't care less if you need my help." She snapped poking him in the chest.
"You sure?" He asked her brushing a lock of black hair out of her eyes. She shivered and gasped slightly at his touch, her eyes clicked open and she smacked his hand away.
"Yes I'm sure. Now get out." She shouted pointing a shaking finger to the door.
"That went well Kai." Tyson grumbled at him.
"Don't worry, she'll help us." Kai smiled knowingly.
The teenage girl fell to her knees in the hospital room, she touched her cheek where Kai had made contact with her, if only for a split second. She shivered, why did he always have this effect on her? She sighed; she was going to hate herself for this.
"Kai! Wait!" she called down the corridor. Kai stopped and looked around, he knew that she had felt it too.
"I thought you couldn't care less if we needed your help." Kai smiled.
"Don't push it Kai, what do you need?" she asked.
"El, we need an extra team-member for a beyblading contest." Kai replied unable to stop himself from staring into her eyes.
"That's all.right?" She asked looking almost worried.
"That's all." He nodded.
"How did you.?" Kenny asked her unable to control his curiosity any longer. Ellaris, as they had learned her name was, looked over at him.
"Do this?" She asked finishing his sentence and changing into another girl.
"She's a bit-beast." Kai replied from the seat behind her on the coach. Kenny looked back at Ellaris to see her back in her previous form.
"How can you be a bit-beast? Shouldn't you be in a Beyblade or something?" Tyson asked with his usual amount of tact.
"Some of us hate being trapped in those things you know." Ellaris growled clenching her fists.
Ellaris stood outside the hotel that all the beyblade competitors were staying in, she sighed. Why could she never say no to him? Last time they had parted on such bad terms but she had always found herself thinking of him whenever she was alone.
"You ok?" Kai's voice from behind her made her jump, she spun around to find him surprisingly close to her, how did he get that close without her hearing him? Ellaris felt her stomach knot and she swallowed a lump in her throat.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Ellaris replied quickly.
"You sure?" Kai asked raising a blue eyebrow at her.
"Why wouldn't I be?" she replied almost suspiciously.
"I don't know. You've just seemed a little off since I've seen you." Kai replied, she had been acting odd she had seemed to be avoiding him and when he talked to her like he was now she seemed like a rabbit caught in headlights.
"I'm fine. Really." Ellaris replied breaking eye contact. She glanced back up at Kai's face he looked genuinely concerned for her.
"Are you nervous about the tournament? You could always back out you know." Kai told her.
"No!" She answered instantly; she seemed surprised at her own response, "I.I mean, I wouldn't want to let you down." She added blushing slightly.
"You'll be fine." Kai smiled brushing a strand of her silky hair out of her face; he was tempted to kiss her then but stopped himself and forced himself to walk off.
Kai closed his bedroom door and slid to the floor, he was shaking. He had known for a while before she had left him before that she had a thing for him. She was beautiful he knew, but he never thought that he could care for anyone; being close to anyone left him open to being manipulated. He had always forbidden himself for getting close to anyone, heck; he barely talked to his own team let alone anyone else. The idea of him and her together briefly ran through his mind but he quickly banished its presence.
He woke up the next morning and wandered around the area of the hotel that they were in to find his team and Ellaris practising on the roof, he gulped as he saw Ellaris wearing a short top and low-cut tight jeans. Had she realised his feelings for her and was teasing him? He doubted the thought she had never tried to manipulate people before, she was a very honest person and showed her opinions and feelings to the world and people loved her for it. especially him.
"I'll catch you guys later ok?" Ellaris smiled at the others and wandered off in the other direction to the other stairs down into the building, if there had only been one she would have walked into Kai.
"What was that about?" she heard Max say as she shut the door behind her. She slid to the floor and looked at her hands, they were rubbed raw from her beyblade. Only inexperienced beybladers got this kind of injury. She hadn't beybladed in a while and she was shocked to discover that she had forgotten everything. She knew that she had tried to push anything to do with Kai to the back of her mind and mostly it had worked, unfortunately that also meant forgetting beyblading.
Kai opened the door not realising Ellaris was leaning on it and ended up making her fall down several stairs. Kai was on her in a second,
"Ellaris! Are you ok? I'm so sorry!" Kai apologised quickly checking she was ok, he noticed her hands, she tried to hide them but it was too late.
"What happened to you?" Kai asked already knowing how she had got the wounds. He turned her hand over; she hadn't stopped at the first time like most inexperienced beybladers did when they hurt themselves; she had kept going. There were burns on the inside of her fingers from grabbing her beyblade when it was moving too fast and deep gashes on the outside of her fingers from launching her beyblade.
"I'm just a little rusty ok!" Ellaris snapped tugging her hand out of Kai's.
"This is more than just a little rusty El." Kai said looking at her hand again.
"Why do I let you talk me into these things Kai? Look, really I'm fine." Ellaris protested as Kai started wrapping bandages around her hand.
"Because you know I'm right and you're not fine you're hurt." Kai replied not looking up at her.
"Look its just a little blade-burn ok? It's nothing serious." She sighed shifting on the cold uncomfortable medical table.
"I don't want you getting hurt." Kai replied flatly almost wincing as he saw the bandages soak up the blood from her injuries.
"I thought you didn't care about anyone Kai." Ellaris smiled teasing him.
"You're different." Kai replied he bit his lip; he had said his thoughts out loud without meaning to.
"Why? Because I'm not human?" she asked bitterly.
"No. Because you're you." Kai replied looking into her deep brown eyes, Ellaris smiled blushing slightly.
Ellaris padded around her room nervously, she was lucky that she was the only one in the room. She was the only person other than Kai who had got a room to themselves. Kai, because he was team captain and her because she was a girl and mixed rooms were forbidden in the hotel until you were sixteen. In truth she was just under a thousand years old but she was in a teenage body with teenage hormones and therefore qualified as under sixteen, who would have believed that she was a bit-beast anyway?
She sighed and grabbed her beyblading equipment and went into the training room, she practised in there until it was light outside. She gasped when she realised the time, Kai would be in here soon and if he knew she hadn't slept all night he'd probably kill her. She ran up to her room and shut the door behind her, she heard Kai's door in the room next to her close and he walked by hers. That had been too close. She held her breath as she heard Kai stop outside her room, Ellaris glanced down at her hand, one of her bandages had fallen off! She prayed that none were in the training room.
Kai picked up the bandage that was on the floor he looked at the door handle to Ellaris's room there was another bandage on there, what had she been up to? He looked at the bandages, they had been ripped, he saw shards of plastic on one, she had been beyblading and getting it wrong again. Kai frowned, he would have happily helped her even though she was still too proud to admit that she might need help; but when had she been beyblading? She had never left his sight most of the day and her bandages had been fine the last time he had seen her, so when had it happened? Kai shrugged he would ask her later, but in the meantime he was hungry.
Ellaris heard Kai walk off and she began to breathe again, she went and had a quick shower. Ellaris put new bandages on her older wounds and the ones from last night, she hoped Kai wouldn't check them she remembered how worried he had been when he had seen she was hurt before. Her body ached for sleep but she forced herself to go downstairs.
Kai walked outside to find Ellaris standing on the edge of the fountain looking in, he smiled she was so ditzy sometimes, it was just a fountain.
"Hey El." Kai said making his presence known, she jumped in shock and fell into the fountain. There was a splash large splash and then a soggy and irritated looking Ellaris sitting in the fountain.
"Having fun?" Kai asked smirking.
"Time of my life." Ellaris grumbled standing up and wringing some water out of her wet hair.
"What happened?" Kai asked pulling the bandage he had found out of his pocket. Ellaris went pale and stared at it; Kai frowned at her reaction.
"I went beyblading that's all." Ellaris shrugged stepping out of the fountain and trying to avoid eye contact with Kai by trying to get some water out of her clothes.
"When?" Kai asked trying not to get distracted by Ellaris's clothes clinging to her figure
"Last night, I couldn't sleep so I practised for a bit then went back up to my room." She shrugged. She bit her tongue, it wasn't a direct lie, she hadn't mentioned that she had only got back up to her room half an hour ago.
"I'll help you if you want." Kai offered.
"I don't need help Kai! I can beyblade!" Ellaris snapped, Kai had touched a nerve, she was ashamed of the fact that she had forgotten how.
"Look, we all train El, we're always improving. I just thought you might want to join me." Kai said holding his hands out in silent surrender.
"Just let me get changed." She replied quietly as she walked off.
A/N: Whee! First chapter! It's taken me ages to write this, I actually had one chapter at first but it was so long that I split it into two, and this is the first half.