The cool air hit them like a wall as soon as they stepped through the automatic doors. Luna slowed down and came to a stop just a few steps into the room.
"Guys" she said, her voice trembling slightly with excitement. Her newfound teammates turned and looked at her. "This is it. This is our chance." She smiled at each one of them with spark in her eyes. Dree with her green eyes, spiky fringe, and dark red hair that was shorter in back and grew longer in the front. Silvý with her long black hair that ended at the middle of her back and always covered her left eye, leaving only one of her Periwinkle blue eyes visible. And then Amara, her long, turquoise locks falling straight over her bum and her yellow eyes shining as bright as her smile.
"Let's do our best" Luna nodded to them, still with the spark in her clear blue eyes.
"We can do this!" Amara exclaimed, putting her hands on Dree's and Silvý's shoulders. Dree smiled back at her, nodding sharply once. Silvý's blue eyes glanced over at the two of them, her facial expression remaining neutral.
"Let's just go and register" Silvý said, turning around and walking towards their destination. Amara looked at her remaining teammates, and with a half smile, she shrugged. With smiles remaining, they all followed their withdrawn teammate.
Luna was so excited she felt like throwing up, exploding and running a marathon all at once. This was indeed their chance. This year the BBA had decided to throw a different kind of World Championship, one where anyone could enter, anyone who had a team. There would be a huge collection of teams from all over the world coming to Japan for this, and competing in the preliminary rounds. And as soon as the preliminary rounds had started, then it was only skill that determined the outcome.
They could go however far. Only their abilities were the limits and the thought of that made her body fill up with energy like nothing else.
"Team name?" a creaky voice interrupted Luna's thoughts. They had reached the registration office without her even noticing. She laughed a bit at her own absentmindedness and hoped that none of the others had noticed.
"OddSquad" Dree said confidently, putting her hand on her hip. The wrinkly old lady sitting by the desk noted it down on the forms; It was evidently not the weirdest name she'd heard.
"Team leader?" she continued her sequence of questions. There was a silence as all of the members just stared at the lady. They hadn't really discussed leadership since they joined together. They all glanced at each other, kind of like they were expecting a leader to pop out from behind one of them.
"That'd be you, right, Luna?" Dree said looking at the now surprised teen.
"Me?!" She exclaimed. She had never really considered herself the "leading"-type. More like the "quietly-doing-her-own-thing-in-the-background"-type of person.
"Yeah. You're the one who brought us all together after all" Dree smiled. Probably trying to encourage her friend, but the smile just made Luna think that she had some kind of mischievous plan. "Besides. We can just switch the leader later on."
Luna took a deep breath and a step forwards.
"Okay. So I'm the temporary leader" Luna clarified. The old woman simply returned a calm "okay" and looked at her papers once again. As soon as the woman looked away, Luna looked down on the ground, slightly pulling at the pointy fringe in front of the bridge of her nose – a habit she had gotten into after she had cut of her long, dark brown hair and made it into the boy-short cut that it was now.
"Full name, age and nationality?" the raspy voice asked as the woman once more looked up at Luna.
"Em… Luna Meurke, 18 years old. Swedish." As soon as the words had left her mouth, the lady was scribbling them down on the paper. When she was done, she looked at the next person, expecting the same information.
"Dree Forest. 18 years. Swedish."
"Amara Nephele. 19. New Zealand."
"Silvý Ilary Kent. 17. Italy."
The woman pressed a few buttons on the computer, took their pictures, wrote a few more things, and out came their credentials. Turning and looking at Luna she stretched out her hand holding a paper.
"This paper is important. Do not lose it." Luna nodded sharply in reply, took the paper and put it safely in her surprisingly well organized backpack.
"Now these are your nametags" She handed out small paper cards covered with plastic and a string attached to it to its rightful owner. Each card had their name, age, nationality and picture on it. "These cards are what allows you to wander in this arena as much as you want. You are also free to utilize the training facilities in here, and if nothing else is taking up the main hall you are allowed to have practice matches in the Beyblade arenas in there. However, anyone who is not wearing one of those cards that is found further inside than the entrance will be thrown out. The preliminary rounds start Monday next week, the first groups and times to compete in will be released this Friday. All the information you need is written on that paper you just received. Understood?"
"Understood" Luna answered, nodding politely. Turning around to her teammates a smile grew on her lips. "Wanna explore?"
"Heck yeah" Dree smirked back. Amara nodded eccentrically behind her and a small smile snuck up on Silvý's lips for the first time since they had arrived at the stadium.
They were just approaching one of the entrances to the main arena when a familiar sound echoed between the walls of the empty corridor. The whirring of spinning blades and the clashing of attack rings.
"Should we check out the competition?" Dree smirked and a range of smiles swept over all of their faces as they headed towards the door.
Luna's heart felt like it stopped for a seconds, and her legs did indeed stop. They had all came to a halt just a few steps into the big room. Why?
Because the current world champions were in there.
The Blade Breakers.
Thank you for reading. This is my first Fanfiction in... many years. I decided to start writing it because I want to become better at writing. Comments and critique are welcome! ^^