Alright! This is a story for my bestest friends in the whole world! I love you guys! :D Now that I've posted... STOP PESTERING ME! Also, the bladers that will be coming to our school are: Tsubasa, Kyoya, Gingka, Masamune, Ryuga, Madoka and Hikaru! Enjoy!


"You're kidding me!" Clo shrieked, as she, Nikki, Vi and I all sauntered into our last class of the morning, French slightly early and wandered to the table we shared. We all took our seats, Vi and I on one side, while Nikki and Clo faced us on the other. As soon as we sat down, Vi whipped out her laptop and started typing fiercely, as per usual.

At our school, nothing really interesting goes on. We're just regular freshmen high school students, with regular lives, but today, Vi has informed us on our way to French class that seven Japan exchange students have transferred to our school and will be in all the regular classes starting right after lunch! Clo, who loves to meet new people, nearly had a stroke when Vi told us. She was so excited!

"I can't wait to meet them! I bet they're bladers, just like us! You think they will want to battle me? I can't wait to battle them! Can't you? I love-"

"Oh shut up, Clo, for goodness sake." Nikki interrupted Clo, rubbing her temples with her fingers. Nikki has beautiful waist length brown hair, usually done up in gentle curls, and green eyes. She generally wears her favourite cut-off pale pink angle top with Hakuna Matata written across the front and a short black leather skirt. "You're giving me a headache."

"Humph!" Clo, who has long blond hair with bangs, bright blue eyes, wears a sky blue tank top with a light grey cardigan and denim short shorts, frowned at her friend, then she turned to me and Vi: "What about you, Vi? Ally? Are you excited to meet them?"

"Okay," Vi responded, not paying enough attention to even look up from her computer. Vi has shoulder length black hair and beautiful forest eyes. She likes to wear printed T-shirts with her favourite cartoon characters on them and black jeans.

I, myself, have light brown hair that goes half way down my back and dark brown eyes. I prefer to wear my favourite baggy blue sweater and skinny jeans. I smiled as I answered Clo's question, "Of course! I love battling new opponents! And besides," my smile turned into a smirk. "I'm bored of battling you three. How many times do I have to beat you guys 'til you give up?"

All three of my friends heads jerked up and met my smirk with death glares, "Excuse me?" Nikki demanded dangerously.

"Say. That. Again." Vi growled, closing her laptop screen slowly.

"Just because you're the only one of us that has made a special move for your bey doesn't mean that your the strongest out of all of us!" Clo exclaimed angrily.

"So you're saying that I haven't beaten you every time I used it?" I bragged, lazily taking out my Dark Aries and fiddling with it.

"Well," Clo began to argue, but was interrupted by our teacher entering the room with the rest of our classmates.

"À vos places, s'il vous plaîts! Vite, Vite! (To your places, please! Quickly!)" Our teacher sang joyfully. "On a beaucoup à faire ce matin! (We have lots to get through this morning!)"

We all fell silent and I hastily shoved my bey back into its box on my beltand took out my pencil as the rest of the class found chairs. The French teacher began to explain an assignment to do in our grammar booklets. As she concluded, she set us to work on our bookletsand retreated to her desk.

"Finally!" Vi exclaimed quietly, not wanting the teacher to overhear us speaking English. This is French class, after all. "I thought she would never stop talking!"

"You can say that again," Nikki responded breathlessly, taking out her grammar booklet from her bag and setting it on the table.

"Finally! I thought she would-"

"No," Nikki gave Vi a look. "Just no."

I rolled my eyes. "So Vi," I asked, leaning my head into the centre of the table and indicating that my friends do the same. "We need details on these exchange students! Male, female..."

"Well, from what I heard, there will be five guys and two girls," Vi explained.

"Are the guys-" Clo began.

"Don't ask me if they're attractive," Vi broke in. "'Cause I don't know."

"Darn," Clo pouted, disappointed.

"Wouldn't it be great if they were hot?" I say dreamily, resting my chin on my hands and staring into space. "I would love a hot boyfriend."

"Girl, you are barely out of your relationship with Josh," Clo annoying pointed out. "How do you think he would feel if you just started dating some random, hot exchange student?"

I made a face at her.

"Especially a hot one," Vi added.

"Who asked either of you," I said crossly, letting my hands fall onto the table with a thud.

"Now, if I, on the other hand, had a random, hot, Japanese exchange student boyfriend..." Clo started smartly. I threw my pencil at her out of annoyance, which she skillfully evaded.

"But it's true, darling," Nikki broke into the starting argument, reaching down to retrieve my pencil, handing it back to me and flipping through the pages of her grammar book. "You did just have a relationship-"

"Billet!"Our teacher said, startling Nikki. Billet is French for 'ticket'. In our French class, we are given one hundred tickets at the start of each month. If you speak English during the class, you have to give the teacher one of your tickets. The teacher had sneaked up behind us and "overheard" Nikki speaking English so, grumbling, Nikki pulled one of her bag and handed it to the teacher. "Merci," the teacher said as she walked back to her desk.

"Shoot!" Nikki exclaimed, frustrated. "That was my first 'billet' to lose!"

"How many do you have, Clo?" I asked curiously, taking out my own booklet and flipping to the appropriate page.

"Ninety eight," she responded, also removing her booklet from her bag and opening it to the right page.

"Ha!" I laughed purposely loud, because I knew I have more tickets then she does.

"What?" she asked, looking up from her booklet.

"Oh, well," I know that Clo really hates to lose, especially to me, so I made sure to rub this in. "I have a hundred and one."

"What?!" Clo sputtered. "That's not-"

"Billet!" Our teacher called to Clo from her desk across the room. Clo jumped up angrily and marched over to the teachers desk to give her a ticket. She stomped back and plopped in her chair furiously.

Inwardly hoping she wouldn't punch me, I grinned, bent towards her and whispered, "Ninety seven."

Nikki and Vi both burst out laughing and I pulled back to join them. Clo crossed her arms over her chest and leaned forward, glaring.

"You're starting something you can't finish, Ally," she growled quietly.

I stopped laughing and narrowed my eyes. "What's that suppose to mean?"

Clo rolled her eyes. "It means," she said, making sure to stress each word. "That you're fighting a battle, you. Can't. Win."

As she said the word "battle", it dawned on me. "Now, Clo," I said smugly, as I got what she was hinting at. "Is that any way to ask your Superior to battle?"

Clo stood up suddenly, pushing her chair back loudly. She leaned across the table until our foreheads touched.

"I'd like to see you try to beat me," she furiously stated. "I've been doing special training, ya know."

"Is that a challenge?" I ask seriously, standing up slowly to match her height.

"As if you could challenge me," she spat angrily.

"After school," I growl. "Be at the stadium in the courtyard at four."

"With pleasure," she retorts, pushing on my forehead with hers, harshly.

"You two are both barbaric," Nikki noted abruptly, disgusted at our behaviour. "Honestly, why can't you be like Virgo and I? We are obviously the most sophisticated and pair here." she said proudly, pulling out her precious Storm Virgo and holding it tightly against her chest.

Sending one last glare at the each other, Clo and I sat down and pulled out our own beys.

"You might be the most sophisticated, Nikki," I commented, looking fondly down at my Dark Aries. "But obviously, me and Aries are the most powerful."

Clo began to outrageously argue, but was interrupted by the bell ringing, signalling the end of the morning classes.

"Yay! Food!" she shrieked instead, jumping up and shoving her homework into her bag. "I'm starving! Plus, we have to feul up for our battle with Ally, right, Libra?"

She tossed her beloved Thermal Libra into the air once before stashing it in her bey box on her belt. Nikki and I did the same, minus the toss. Vi stuffed her work into her bag and collected her computer under one arm. As she stood up out of her chair, her bey, Sonic Pegasus, fell from its box and clattered loudly onto the floor. She had her arms full so, I scooped it up for her as I bent down to grab my bag.

"Thanks, bro," she grinned at me as she took it. Clo, Nikki and I finished packing our bags, then the four of us headed out of the classroom together, towards the cafeteria, to await the arrival of the new students!


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