Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade…but I wish I did…

Everything starts at Tyson's house where Mr. Dickenson is announcing the upcoming Beyblade tournament.

"This year's tournament will be a one-on-one match. There are to be 4 bladers in each team."

"All right, that's perfect!" shouted Tyson.

"Yeah!" mimicked Max.

"Then who is the one who won't compete?" questioned Daichi.

The whole team glared at his, including Mr. Dickenson, who was mouthing the word 'sorry' behind Kai.

"Awww!" Daichi groaned.

"Hey little monkey dude," shouted Grandpa. "you got mail, eh, yo."

"Who is it from?" asked Tyson.

"Ah, it's from my dad. He says I have to come back home to blade," explained Daichi excited. "Well I'd better get my things packed,"

"Well, we'll miss you Daichi. Eh, it won't be the same without you." sarcastically said Max.

So everyone went happily to sleep knowing their favorite little brat would be leaving for two months. In the morning, as always, Tyson eats 20 pounds of breakfast, Max goes for his morning sugar rush, Kai basically does nothing. Daichi left off with Grandpa and no one really noticed.

"Well I guess we're off to the tournament." Ray said flatly.

"Not yet," interrupted Kenny. "first we have to know our opposing teams first."

"So spill it." said Tyson.

"Basically we only have 2 new teams, or only one new team since one is Kane's team.:"

"Do they still have their fake bitbeasts?" asked Max.

"No, they shouldn't anyways. The other team is called the Flamebladers." Kenny typed some more on his laptop. "The bladers are Dranton, Mia, Henry, Harry, and Riku."

Ray flinched at the name. "You mean Riku Hikari?"

"Yeah, why?"

"No reason."

"Uh, yeah. Anyway, it says here that Mia's last name is Mystery."

"Yeah, so?" asked Tyson gobbling potato chips.

"Hmph, just what I expected." said Kai standing up.

"Tyson, Mia Mystery is the owner of the BBA and she also runs the world's greatest company, Mystery Corp. It's the major company that makes the internet run! She put Mr. Dickenson as the head director because she was too busy running the other company." Kenny explained.

"Wow, she much be rich." said Max eating a bag of candy worms.

"It says here that Henry and Harry are Mia's twin brothers, Dranton's the middle child, and Riku is her business partner and best friend."

There was a soft knock on the door.

Tyson opened it. "Hello?"

A girl about Tyson's height was smiling with her hands behind her back. Tyson blushed at the sight. She had long, light brown hair and blue eyes that shined with excitement.

"Hi! I'm Riku from the Flamebladers. I just came to wish you good lu… RAY!

"Eh, hey Riku." calmly said Ray.

Hmmm, who is this Riku and how does she know Ray? Most will be known in the next chapter of, uh, An Old Friend.

P.S. I hope this chappie will just make you want to read the next one 'cause I know this one was boring. Uh…okay! Well I'll see you next time, and remember, new scientific studies show that eggs actually do come from bunnies.