Beyblade; Time Rift
Chapter 1
"I bet you're not that great." Purred a teen age girl in a nasty tone, she was once again getting herself into another argument and yet another fight.
"Is that so?" Replied a cool looking teen with grey hair, his white scarf waving in the breeze that whipped though the back alley where the teens were in a hasty tense argument.
"Yep, I bet you can't even beat me." The teen added crossing her arms and leaning back in her usual sassy manner while her long black hair fell softly between her shoulders tied back into two different pony tails, it was her usual style though they were messier than usual due to the earlier mentioned wind.
"And you're going to back this up?" the grey and blue haired teen said darkly gripping a little metal top in his gloved hand.
"No but she is!" spat the girl taking a step back to reveal another teen who'd been watching the negotiations from the shadows for a while now, feeling intimidated the first girl rushed the second before her as a human shield.
"I should really stop covering for you, Lexi…" The blue eyed, green haired teen muttered with a sigh while pulling out a metal top of her own. She didn't like covering for her friend but she was confidant in her own skills as a Beyblader, of course at this point she had not realized who she was going up against. The former leader of the infamous blade sharks and the leader of the Blade Breakers; Kai Hiwatari.
"Thanks Vera." Lexi replied in her usual gitty manner that she reserved for when she weaseled her way out of a fight and her friend into one.
Moments later both Vera and Kai stood opposite one another on the sides of a make shift ring, a wok that was the best they could do. A moment of tension broken only by Lexi's "3… 2… 1… LET IT RIP!" Tops started spinning into the rounded bowl making many whipping sounds. Neither blade hit one another but instead circled each other for what seemed like forever before Vera narrowed her eyes and her blade responded by ramming itself into its opponent, which didn't budge. Gridding her teeth Vera's anger boiled as her blade ripped at the grey metal top in front of it again but this time Kai's blade didn't just take the damage it dodged to the side and circled round using the momentum of Vera's blade against her!
Vera's darkly colored blade teetered on the side of the stadium and she gasped, it couldn't go over just yet! She had never been defeated, well at least not after going pro and she wasn't about to lose in a back alley! Unfortunately a similar thought was going through the mind of the shady character in front of her.
"Xilarlion, get back in that dish!" She barked her soft voice commanding and firm, oddly enough the beyblade obeyed. It seemed to purposefully lean inwards until it was plummeting down the side again towards Kai's awaiting blade.
It looked like a sitting duck, it really did, but upon collision Vera's Xilarlion was sent flying into the air! Much to Vera's shock Kai's blade followed in its wake knocking it from bellow putting it off balance, no she couldn't lose now! Why was he so powerful? Wait… what was that, Vera thought her sharp eyes caught sight of a creature painted on her opponent's top, a bird of some sort. As soon as she noticed it seemed her blade did to as its center began to glow a light aqua.
"No, Xilarlion enough." Immediately the blade ceased its glowing and Kai smirked, he knew he'd won and she knew it too.
"Dranznser, finish it!" he commanded and sure enough Kai's blade knocked Vera's from the bowl from underneath and the green haired girl caught it in her palm, frowning as she looked at it.
Shock riddled Lexi's eyes as she saw her friend's blade knocked from the bowl, she never lost! Ever!
"Well ref? You going to call it?" Kai asked flatly, still angered by the two teen's very presence but Lexi shook her head sure there was some mistake as she gazed at her friend for her word of wisdom and clarity in this matter, but she would not help…
"He won Lexi." Vera said softly looking at her dark cool-colored top with the image of a water horse on its center, "Dranznser huh?" She said lifting her blue eyes to face Kai who narrowed his own eyes suspiciously at his blade's name but before the confrontation go any further voices familiar to Kai but not the girls rang out in the back ground.
"Kai there you are!" It was a blond haired American boy with a cheerful expression on his face, though Kai didn't seem pleased to see him or the others following in his footsteps.
"We saw the whole thing! What a match!" A blue-haired boy yelped in excitement looking Vera over critically making her flinch away from the group and towards her trusted friend, the only other sane one… and that was saying something.
"Yeah!" Added a shaggy glasses-wearing kid
The team was talking amongst themselves excitedly and Lexi heard their names come up a long with the name of the girls. Max was the one who first arrived, Tyson was the rambunctious one and Kenny was the nerdy looking kid, easy enough to remember, not that the girls wanted to…
"I think they're talking about us, what should we do? Run?" Lexi offered her green haired partner who shrugged and took off after her as Lexi dashed from the alley and out onto the street.
"This time don't stop to do something weird." By this Vera meant pick pocketing, it was something Lexi had a terrible habit of doing, but as usual she didn't listen and paused to look around for a target.
At this Vera stopped paying attention to the path ahead and instead reprimanded her friend. By not looking where she was going she plummeted into a black haired man with Chinese fighting-style clothing, "Oof." She muttered but before she could apologize Lexi ran straight into her and sent Vera back into the Chinese-looking man again, but this time he couldn't recover and he tumbled over.
"Come on Lexi!" Vera muttered grabbing her friend's sleeve and dragging her with it along the alley as she noticed the earlier team still chasing them.
"Wait! We just want to know how you did so well against Kai!" the blue haired boy called after them while the others stopped to help the black haired teen that they called ray up to his feet again. "You ok Ray?"
"Yeah…" the pony tailed man muttered shaking his head, "You know them?"
"Something like that." Kai muttered watching Max, Tyson and Kenny bolt after the girls.
After what seemed like a life time later, Lexi and Vera took a very wrong turn and ended themselves in a dead end alley. Lexi was quickly grabbed by Max and ray had to go after Vera, who despite her tired limbs, leapt up the wall.
"Here take your stupid wallet back!" Lexi yelped throwing a leather case at ray incidentally hitting him in the head, knocking him successfully off of her friend. Vera wasn't one to abandon her friend however and hopped to the ground where moments before Ray had hit the ground with a hard thud from the unexpected impact.
"You took his wallet? Lexi!" Vera said harshly then turned to the other boys, not blocking their exit with the exception of Kai who was leaning against a wall without paying any attention. "Alright in all fairness Ninja-boy over here had a reason to follow us," she began sternly, referring to Ray, "But why on earth are you block-heads chasing us?"
"I wanted to talk to you and find out how you did so well against Kai." Tyson said re-adjusting his baseball cap that seriously needed replacing.
Vera paused and rested her forehead in her palm "you chased us like wild dogs for THAT?"
"It's how Tyson is." The blond haired American piped in
"Cuz that makes me feel better- " Vera didn't get to finish her sentence before her stomach growled, they were out of money and their manager had skipped town with the rest of their team so the two girls were broke, thank heavens their hotel was pre-paid!
"Vera will tell you about her technique if you get us dinner!" Lexi demanded and Vera prepared to argue when her stomach growled again… she guessed it was a fair trade.
With little to no argument from the other team Vera and Lexi soon found themselves in the dinner of the hotel they were staying in, shockingly the boys were there for the same reason they were, the tournament. It was a really random tournament with no teams, just one big free-for-all.
"Not sure how we missed you guys, your room's two doors down from ours!" Lexi started after stuffing her face, she was even done before the boy's glutton: Tyson.
"Well Tyson does like to sleep in." Ray laughed, completely over the earlier instance; in fact the only one who looked uncomfortable was Kai who seemed to be looking to be dismissed, though he got no such luck.
"Hey!" Tyson rebutted pathetically then turned his brown eyes at Vera and she felt herself shift uncomfortably in her seat, "Anyway, you own us a back story on how you got so good!"
"I suppose I do." The green haired, blue eyed girl smirked unevenly and even Kai seemed somewhat interested in her story, though he tried not to show it. "Well, our story started 5 years ago, my team and I were late to the world qualifying matches do to my hospitalization, so we went home empty handed, in fact we didn't even watch or listen to the world championships, instead we focused a head going into smaller tournaments and growing our power for the year we were old enough to compete in the world champion senior tournament."
"So here you are right? Makes sense you were training all these years." Max piped in
"If only it was that simple… We trained since we were little and Vera started off in the streets with nothing, this was her dream." Lexi said then covered her mouth as an icy glare was shot at her, oops, cat was out of the bag now…
"Was?" Ray echoed much to Vera's dismay; she hoped they'd missed that.
"Yeah, was." She started slowly as Tyson, Max and Kenny leaned in around her while Ray watched her with intent and Kai opened his eyes to glance in her general direction, "Our team and manager left us three days ago when we first got here. Our plan was to try and make it to the world championship as a group but they heard the minor's world champions were here and felt that they didn't stand a chance… so they dropped out leavening Lexi and me alone."
"Feh, cowards." Kai stated and leaned back in his chair fully expecting to be scolded or yelled at for insulting their team and Tyson nearly did before Vera spoke again, anger deep in her voice.
"Exactly." Surprised, most of the Blade Breakers looked at the girl who Lexi was now trying to calm, rage burned in her eyes but she didn't act upon her feelings.
"So now what are you guys going to do, since we ruined your team?" Tyson said looking at his empty plate, his shoulders slouching in guilt.
"We're going to go as far as we can on our own." Lexi said confidently, "Together We can't fail! Right Vera? Vera?"
Vera was looking straight at Tyson now, her blue eyes looking him over, "What do you mean you ruined our team?"
"We're the world champions." Kai stated plainly once again opening his eyes to look at Vera, their eyes met and the tension couldn't have been broken with a saw. The two teens had already kindled a rivalry since their little dual in the back street and they weren't about to shake hands and make up any time soon. Though despite the moment of tension both bladders turned away and refused to speak anymore that night.
Lexi on the other hand was having the time of her life, she was happy, she liked these boys, Tyson and Max especially, they had as much energy as she did and loved to party, and party they did! Ray agreed to go out on the town with them but Vera and Kai needed a little coaxing on their way. And by coaxing, I mean they needed to be dragged. But as Max said:
"It's the night before the tournament and when we've got to get serious, even against each other maybe, we may as well enjoy it!"