The Advent of Team Lambda
By Nyassa Kaiba
Notes: You know how there are some people who say they suck at summaries? I suck at titles. Just check it out I BEG YOU!!
Chapter 1
Fera sniffed as she ran, her beyblade clinking against her belt. She clasped her grandmother's pendant in her hand. It depicted a fox, with silver fur and tiny emeralds for eyes. Her father, he didn't understand. First it was her grades, then her girlfriend. Was there ever anything that her father didn't criticize? Well there was one. Fera got the distinct impression that if she were straight, got all A's and were devout Catholic Christian that he wouldn't have minded her at all. That was the problem. Her mother's side was Shinto, which her father didn't understand but which made perfect sense to Fera.
Fera found the rock by means of memory. She crept inside the crack and looked up at the Itsumade that was painted there. An Itsumade was half tiger, half phoenix. This one was a little different though, its head was that of a blue dragon and its front paws had silver claws and scaly purple front legs, almost like a turtle's. Other than that, it had the usual tiger's front half and phoenix's wings, back half and tail of an Itsumade. "You're lucky." She sighed. "I wish I could get away. You've got wings. I...I just.... I JUST WANT TO GET AWAY!!!" She cried. The Itsumade's head turned in her direction. The rock began to glow then the world spun out around her.
~meanwhile~
Tyson's grandfather, with help from Judy and Hillary were rushing around the house, trying to get everything in order for the monster sleep over and council meeting. The Majestics, the All Starz, the Tigers, the Demolition Boys, The Saint Shields and Team Psykick were coming over to discuss how to retrieve the rock with all the bitbeasts in it. There was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Tyson dove for the door and wrenched it open. "OH! Hi Zeo!"
He let Zeo in. Zeo's eyes widened at all the frantic rushing, cooking, cleaning, and hauling that the Blade Breakers were doing under Judy's watchful eye. "What's going on?" He asked.
"We're planning a major sleepover!" Tyson grinned.
"Must be fun." Zeo said with an equally wide grin. "Look, they didn't believe me when I told the kids at the Center about Bit Beasts! Can you help me convince them next time I drop by?"
"I think I can try, but if you don't believe they exist, then you can't see a bitbeast." Tyson explained. "And if they don't believe, then you can't prove it to them."
"Awww." Zeo sighed, dejectedly.
The doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" Max called, rushing to the door with a push broom over his shoulder. "MICHAEL!! EMILY! EDDY! STEVE! COME ON IN!!"
When Zeo saw the All Starz enter his eyes grew round. He blushed. "You're the...the... the..."
"Zeo, I'd like to introduce you to the All Starz, Michael, Emily, Eddy and Steve." Tyson said, with an impudent grin. "You guys, this is Zeo. He's a beginner beyblader and a friend of mine. He wanted to know how to convince a skeptic about Bitbeasts." Tyson explained. "So he dropped by to ask for help."
"That would be pretty hard." Eddy agreed. "I don't think anybody's ever done that before."
"They have." Max nodded his head to where Hillary and Rei were mopping the hallway floor. "Hillary started seeing Bit beasts when we pointed it out to her, but it may not count, she wasn't a skeptic about bitbeasts, she was a skeptic about Beyblading in general."
"Don't you mean 'is'?" Tyson asked.
"Nope, she asked me to teach her the basics, so I put together a beyblade for her and I'll teach her tomorrow after breakfast." Max grinned goofily.
"It might or it might not." Steve said with a shrug. "It probably depends on the person in question."
"You're probably right." Emily's glasses were falling off her nose. She pushed them up on her face. She was carrying a very heavy dufflebag and backpack, and looked rather disheveled.
"Let me help you with that." Hillary said cheerfully as she passed. She shoved her mop at Max. "Take over for me will ya Max?"
"Sure." Max shrugged.
"Can I help?" Zeo asked.
Emily dumped the backpack into his arms. "Be careful with it, it has my laptop and Beyblade scanning equipment in it."
"Okay."
Zeo came back out of the room that the girls would be staying in when the doorbell rang again. "I'll get it!" Kai called over his shoulder, all too glad for an excuse to stop sweeping.
Hillary caught the broom before it hit the floor and continued Kai's task, muttering something about "Men..." and "Lazy..."
Kai came back in with the Demolition Boys. "Tyson! The Demolition Boys are here!"
Zeo froze, eyes turning as round as plates, his face pale. "D...d...d...d... Demolition Boys?" He dropped the load of sleeping bags that Hillary had dumped into his arms and hid behind Tyson, who, being his size, kept him mostly hidden from view.
Tala and Ian laughed. Bryan scowled disapprovingly. Spencer rolled his eyes in an expression that said, /Gods give me strength./
"Relax Zeo." Tyson told him. "I invited them to come. They're not really as evil as made out on TV they were just following Voltaire's orders!" Zeo peeked out from behind Tyson, let out an 'eep' noise and hurriedly excused himself, shouldering the fallen sleeping bags and assorted pieces of bedding.
He had barely finished when there was another knock. "THEY'RE HERE!!" Rei exclaimed dropping his mop and rushing to the door.
The mop handle hit Hillary between her eyes, which crossed. "REI YOU STUPID PUSSYCAT!! GET BACK HERE AND FINISH THE JOB!!"
Kevin fell into the door way first, brushed himself off, and started bouncing happily around Rei. His kitty eyes sparkled with mischief. "hireihireihireihireihirei!! Howyadoin?Howyadoin?Howyadoin?"
Mariah calmly whomped him on the head. "Kevin HOW many cans of soda did you drink on the plane?"
"Ten." Kevin said happily. "And I had six packs of Oreo Cookies too!" (A/N: I wish my dad would let me have ten cans of Soda! :( Sugarhigh! I got the idea from a fanfic that my friend Tuffy 175 told me about, where Quatre got high on tea!)
Gary chuckled. Lee rolled his eyes. Mariah's antipathy towards Kevin was a known fact back home. Zeo perked up happily. "Hi, I'm Zeo, Tyson's friend, pleased to meet you!"
Rei introduced Zeo to the Tigers one by one before leading them to their room. "Mariah, you'll be sleeping with the other girls. I figured you'd want some privacy from the boys, since that's the way you did it back home."
"Oh, it would depend on who shared the room." Mariah said suggestively. "Now if I were sharing it with YOU for example."
"Forget it Mariah." Rei said sharply. Lee, Gary, and Kevin chuckled.
"Maybe next time Mariah." Lee said, rolling his eyes.
"Aww..." Mariah whined.
Zeo watched them go, eyes round. "Wow... I met the Tigers Team!"
"They're not the only ones that you'll meet." Tyson grinned impudently at Zeo. "Today's the one year anniversary of us becoming World Champs, so we're inviting both the Old and the New crowd to party!"
"Cool!" Zeo's eyes turned round and sparkly.
The doorbell rang, once. Tyson dove for the door again. "We're he-re!" Enrique called, voice ringing through the house.
"OH! Oliver!" Judy came in with a bowl of some kind of batter balanced on her hip. "Can you help me out in the kitchen? Knowing Tyson and Steve's appetites I want to make sure that I have enough."
"Sure!" Oliver grinned.
"Can I go along for the taste testing?" Enrique and Johnny asked, stomachs rumbling.
Robert rolled his eyes. "Get settled first boys." He told them. Zeo stood, frozen. Oliver was really pretty! And Enrique looked so cute! He blushed. The Majestics looked even cooler in person than on TV!
More introductions. "Can you help me with this?" Oliver asked, he was sagging under the weight of the rolling suitcase and dufflebag that held all his and Enrique's clothes and his art supplies and cook books.
"Sure!" Zeo rushed forward to help.
He and Tyson led the Majestics to the rooms that they'd be in. Zeo and Tyson plopped down, exhausted, in the courtyard. It wasn't over yet however. "Hey Tyson!" Ozuma was standing on the roof, looking smugly down at him. "Tired? I didn't think there was ever an end to your energy!" Kane was leading against him, back to back.
"We got a bit lost. Dunga made us take a wrong turn, and you know, he's the only one of us old enough to drive." Ozuma explained.
Tyson grinned. "I'll get the door for you, hang on!" Tyson let them in. "You guys, meet Zeo, he came to ask me for a bit of help with a problem he's having at the local Beyblade Center." Tyson explained, when the Psykicks and Saint Shields got settled in.
"Pleased to meet you!" Selima said cheerfully. The other Psykicks nodded agreement.
"We've met." Ozuma said coolly, remembering Zeo's interference. "Zeo, why are you hassling Tyson? I'm sure there he's got things to do."
"He's my FRIEND Ozuma! Selima, Miriam, let me introduce you to Mariah of the White Tigers team and Emily of the All Starz. She helped us come up with equipment to beat you guys. Mariah, Emily, these are Miriam of the Saint Shields, Selima of Team Psykick and Hillary, who currently isn't part of any team." Tyson introduced the girls. "Tala, Michael, Robert, Lee, these are Ozuma, the Captain of the Saint Shields, and his team Dunga, Miriam, and Joseph. And this is Kane of team Psykick and his teammates, Selima, Jim, and Gouki." More brief introductions followed. There was lots of handshaking all around, and then Hillary marched the other girls off to help with the work of setting up, to the Blade Breakers' infinite relief.
Hillary was very busy when Wyatt knocked on the door, which was rather lucky, as she wasn't in a very good mood. Kevin had knocked over the pudding that Oliver was making on Hillary's head since, (being the littlest tiger at about 11) he had been careening around the house, looking for somebody to annoy.
"Hey Kai." Wyatt said as he answered the door. "I got out of the hospital after... after the incident. The Doctor said I was alright." Wyatt had become rather shy since the incident with Cyber Dranzer.
"I'm glad you're back, come on in. Max's mom and Oliver are making dinner." Kai said with a small smile.
Wyatt followed them. "Oh come on Tyson! Can't I stay over?"
"Only if your mom says you can. We're gonna be packed as tight as Sardines as it is!"
Judy came from the kitchen. "You guys, its time." She called through the house. The Teams poured out into the courtyard.
Wyatt turned. "I'd better go." He said, looking rather disappointed.
"No, stay!" Kai told him, with another small smile. "You'll learn a lot, and you are welcome, come on! Sit!"
Wyatt sat and listened as Judy explained about the rock, and about the experiments and Allan's betrayal. And she sank down on the steps with a sigh. "And now we can't find the rock anywhere. Mr. Dickinson thinks that it has something to do with Dr. Zaggar, an old friend of his who disappeared, without a trace, and who hasn't been seen since."
"Doctor Zaggar??" Kane demanded. "Mister Gideon was working for him! He mentioned him once in a passing conversation! I'll bet you anything that he was behind the theft of that rock!"
"Are you sure Kane?" Kai asked.
"Positive!" Kane nodded vigorously. "I'm not the kind of person who grasps at straws Kai." Kane said evenly. His expression told Kai that he had taken Kai's doubts as offensive.
Hillary was about to ask Judy something when Dizzi started beeping. "Kenny, I think you should...."
A bubble of rainbow light appeared in the center of the loose circle of beybladers. It seemed to pop. Then the light faded, being sucked back into the Beyblade held in the hand of a mysterious girl, who promptly collapsed.
"Holy cheese on rye! Chief, wherever that girl came from, there's a bitbeast involved for sure!" Dizzi exclaimed.
Tyson and Max moved to support her when the girl's eyes opened. "Who are you?" She asked weakly.
By Nyassa Kaiba
Notes: You know how there are some people who say they suck at summaries? I suck at titles. Just check it out I BEG YOU!!
Chapter 1
Fera sniffed as she ran, her beyblade clinking against her belt. She clasped her grandmother's pendant in her hand. It depicted a fox, with silver fur and tiny emeralds for eyes. Her father, he didn't understand. First it was her grades, then her girlfriend. Was there ever anything that her father didn't criticize? Well there was one. Fera got the distinct impression that if she were straight, got all A's and were devout Catholic Christian that he wouldn't have minded her at all. That was the problem. Her mother's side was Shinto, which her father didn't understand but which made perfect sense to Fera.
Fera found the rock by means of memory. She crept inside the crack and looked up at the Itsumade that was painted there. An Itsumade was half tiger, half phoenix. This one was a little different though, its head was that of a blue dragon and its front paws had silver claws and scaly purple front legs, almost like a turtle's. Other than that, it had the usual tiger's front half and phoenix's wings, back half and tail of an Itsumade. "You're lucky." She sighed. "I wish I could get away. You've got wings. I...I just.... I JUST WANT TO GET AWAY!!!" She cried. The Itsumade's head turned in her direction. The rock began to glow then the world spun out around her.
~meanwhile~
Tyson's grandfather, with help from Judy and Hillary were rushing around the house, trying to get everything in order for the monster sleep over and council meeting. The Majestics, the All Starz, the Tigers, the Demolition Boys, The Saint Shields and Team Psykick were coming over to discuss how to retrieve the rock with all the bitbeasts in it. There was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Tyson dove for the door and wrenched it open. "OH! Hi Zeo!"
He let Zeo in. Zeo's eyes widened at all the frantic rushing, cooking, cleaning, and hauling that the Blade Breakers were doing under Judy's watchful eye. "What's going on?" He asked.
"We're planning a major sleepover!" Tyson grinned.
"Must be fun." Zeo said with an equally wide grin. "Look, they didn't believe me when I told the kids at the Center about Bit Beasts! Can you help me convince them next time I drop by?"
"I think I can try, but if you don't believe they exist, then you can't see a bitbeast." Tyson explained. "And if they don't believe, then you can't prove it to them."
"Awww." Zeo sighed, dejectedly.
The doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" Max called, rushing to the door with a push broom over his shoulder. "MICHAEL!! EMILY! EDDY! STEVE! COME ON IN!!"
When Zeo saw the All Starz enter his eyes grew round. He blushed. "You're the...the... the..."
"Zeo, I'd like to introduce you to the All Starz, Michael, Emily, Eddy and Steve." Tyson said, with an impudent grin. "You guys, this is Zeo. He's a beginner beyblader and a friend of mine. He wanted to know how to convince a skeptic about Bitbeasts." Tyson explained. "So he dropped by to ask for help."
"That would be pretty hard." Eddy agreed. "I don't think anybody's ever done that before."
"They have." Max nodded his head to where Hillary and Rei were mopping the hallway floor. "Hillary started seeing Bit beasts when we pointed it out to her, but it may not count, she wasn't a skeptic about bitbeasts, she was a skeptic about Beyblading in general."
"Don't you mean 'is'?" Tyson asked.
"Nope, she asked me to teach her the basics, so I put together a beyblade for her and I'll teach her tomorrow after breakfast." Max grinned goofily.
"It might or it might not." Steve said with a shrug. "It probably depends on the person in question."
"You're probably right." Emily's glasses were falling off her nose. She pushed them up on her face. She was carrying a very heavy dufflebag and backpack, and looked rather disheveled.
"Let me help you with that." Hillary said cheerfully as she passed. She shoved her mop at Max. "Take over for me will ya Max?"
"Sure." Max shrugged.
"Can I help?" Zeo asked.
Emily dumped the backpack into his arms. "Be careful with it, it has my laptop and Beyblade scanning equipment in it."
"Okay."
Zeo came back out of the room that the girls would be staying in when the doorbell rang again. "I'll get it!" Kai called over his shoulder, all too glad for an excuse to stop sweeping.
Hillary caught the broom before it hit the floor and continued Kai's task, muttering something about "Men..." and "Lazy..."
Kai came back in with the Demolition Boys. "Tyson! The Demolition Boys are here!"
Zeo froze, eyes turning as round as plates, his face pale. "D...d...d...d... Demolition Boys?" He dropped the load of sleeping bags that Hillary had dumped into his arms and hid behind Tyson, who, being his size, kept him mostly hidden from view.
Tala and Ian laughed. Bryan scowled disapprovingly. Spencer rolled his eyes in an expression that said, /Gods give me strength./
"Relax Zeo." Tyson told him. "I invited them to come. They're not really as evil as made out on TV they were just following Voltaire's orders!" Zeo peeked out from behind Tyson, let out an 'eep' noise and hurriedly excused himself, shouldering the fallen sleeping bags and assorted pieces of bedding.
He had barely finished when there was another knock. "THEY'RE HERE!!" Rei exclaimed dropping his mop and rushing to the door.
The mop handle hit Hillary between her eyes, which crossed. "REI YOU STUPID PUSSYCAT!! GET BACK HERE AND FINISH THE JOB!!"
Kevin fell into the door way first, brushed himself off, and started bouncing happily around Rei. His kitty eyes sparkled with mischief. "hireihireihireihireihirei!! Howyadoin?Howyadoin?Howyadoin?"
Mariah calmly whomped him on the head. "Kevin HOW many cans of soda did you drink on the plane?"
"Ten." Kevin said happily. "And I had six packs of Oreo Cookies too!" (A/N: I wish my dad would let me have ten cans of Soda! :( Sugarhigh! I got the idea from a fanfic that my friend Tuffy 175 told me about, where Quatre got high on tea!)
Gary chuckled. Lee rolled his eyes. Mariah's antipathy towards Kevin was a known fact back home. Zeo perked up happily. "Hi, I'm Zeo, Tyson's friend, pleased to meet you!"
Rei introduced Zeo to the Tigers one by one before leading them to their room. "Mariah, you'll be sleeping with the other girls. I figured you'd want some privacy from the boys, since that's the way you did it back home."
"Oh, it would depend on who shared the room." Mariah said suggestively. "Now if I were sharing it with YOU for example."
"Forget it Mariah." Rei said sharply. Lee, Gary, and Kevin chuckled.
"Maybe next time Mariah." Lee said, rolling his eyes.
"Aww..." Mariah whined.
Zeo watched them go, eyes round. "Wow... I met the Tigers Team!"
"They're not the only ones that you'll meet." Tyson grinned impudently at Zeo. "Today's the one year anniversary of us becoming World Champs, so we're inviting both the Old and the New crowd to party!"
"Cool!" Zeo's eyes turned round and sparkly.
The doorbell rang, once. Tyson dove for the door again. "We're he-re!" Enrique called, voice ringing through the house.
"OH! Oliver!" Judy came in with a bowl of some kind of batter balanced on her hip. "Can you help me out in the kitchen? Knowing Tyson and Steve's appetites I want to make sure that I have enough."
"Sure!" Oliver grinned.
"Can I go along for the taste testing?" Enrique and Johnny asked, stomachs rumbling.
Robert rolled his eyes. "Get settled first boys." He told them. Zeo stood, frozen. Oliver was really pretty! And Enrique looked so cute! He blushed. The Majestics looked even cooler in person than on TV!
More introductions. "Can you help me with this?" Oliver asked, he was sagging under the weight of the rolling suitcase and dufflebag that held all his and Enrique's clothes and his art supplies and cook books.
"Sure!" Zeo rushed forward to help.
He and Tyson led the Majestics to the rooms that they'd be in. Zeo and Tyson plopped down, exhausted, in the courtyard. It wasn't over yet however. "Hey Tyson!" Ozuma was standing on the roof, looking smugly down at him. "Tired? I didn't think there was ever an end to your energy!" Kane was leading against him, back to back.
"We got a bit lost. Dunga made us take a wrong turn, and you know, he's the only one of us old enough to drive." Ozuma explained.
Tyson grinned. "I'll get the door for you, hang on!" Tyson let them in. "You guys, meet Zeo, he came to ask me for a bit of help with a problem he's having at the local Beyblade Center." Tyson explained, when the Psykicks and Saint Shields got settled in.
"Pleased to meet you!" Selima said cheerfully. The other Psykicks nodded agreement.
"We've met." Ozuma said coolly, remembering Zeo's interference. "Zeo, why are you hassling Tyson? I'm sure there he's got things to do."
"He's my FRIEND Ozuma! Selima, Miriam, let me introduce you to Mariah of the White Tigers team and Emily of the All Starz. She helped us come up with equipment to beat you guys. Mariah, Emily, these are Miriam of the Saint Shields, Selima of Team Psykick and Hillary, who currently isn't part of any team." Tyson introduced the girls. "Tala, Michael, Robert, Lee, these are Ozuma, the Captain of the Saint Shields, and his team Dunga, Miriam, and Joseph. And this is Kane of team Psykick and his teammates, Selima, Jim, and Gouki." More brief introductions followed. There was lots of handshaking all around, and then Hillary marched the other girls off to help with the work of setting up, to the Blade Breakers' infinite relief.
Hillary was very busy when Wyatt knocked on the door, which was rather lucky, as she wasn't in a very good mood. Kevin had knocked over the pudding that Oliver was making on Hillary's head since, (being the littlest tiger at about 11) he had been careening around the house, looking for somebody to annoy.
"Hey Kai." Wyatt said as he answered the door. "I got out of the hospital after... after the incident. The Doctor said I was alright." Wyatt had become rather shy since the incident with Cyber Dranzer.
"I'm glad you're back, come on in. Max's mom and Oliver are making dinner." Kai said with a small smile.
Wyatt followed them. "Oh come on Tyson! Can't I stay over?"
"Only if your mom says you can. We're gonna be packed as tight as Sardines as it is!"
Judy came from the kitchen. "You guys, its time." She called through the house. The Teams poured out into the courtyard.
Wyatt turned. "I'd better go." He said, looking rather disappointed.
"No, stay!" Kai told him, with another small smile. "You'll learn a lot, and you are welcome, come on! Sit!"
Wyatt sat and listened as Judy explained about the rock, and about the experiments and Allan's betrayal. And she sank down on the steps with a sigh. "And now we can't find the rock anywhere. Mr. Dickinson thinks that it has something to do with Dr. Zaggar, an old friend of his who disappeared, without a trace, and who hasn't been seen since."
"Doctor Zaggar??" Kane demanded. "Mister Gideon was working for him! He mentioned him once in a passing conversation! I'll bet you anything that he was behind the theft of that rock!"
"Are you sure Kane?" Kai asked.
"Positive!" Kane nodded vigorously. "I'm not the kind of person who grasps at straws Kai." Kane said evenly. His expression told Kai that he had taken Kai's doubts as offensive.
Hillary was about to ask Judy something when Dizzi started beeping. "Kenny, I think you should...."
A bubble of rainbow light appeared in the center of the loose circle of beybladers. It seemed to pop. Then the light faded, being sucked back into the Beyblade held in the hand of a mysterious girl, who promptly collapsed.
"Holy cheese on rye! Chief, wherever that girl came from, there's a bitbeast involved for sure!" Dizzi exclaimed.
Tyson and Max moved to support her when the girl's eyes opened. "Who are you?" She asked weakly.