This story came into my mind when I couldn't sleep once.
Here, I'm using the dub names, only because I have an intention for it later (evil smile).
Summary: Mariam is considered 'rebellious' but Mariam herself considers it thinking for herself, which everyone says otherwise. What'll happen when someone finally takes her side?
Disclaimer: I'll only say it once; I own nothing…
Mariam bit on her lip, closing her eyes and preparing for the worst.
"Mariam, how many times do we have to tell you to work with Ozuma and the other Saint Shields?" an elder asked, annoyed.
Mariam looked at the elder, and then turned her head to the side. "You can tell me as many times as you want, but I prefer not to stoop so low as to work with…that." She took a side glance at Dunga who snarled.
"Fine, Mariam, do what you want, but I believe in teamwork. Until you learn to work with the others, you are temporarily removed from the team."
Mariam's eyes widened slightly, but she hid that by closing her eyes and hanging her head. "Fine," she uttered to herself as she lifted her head and opened her eyes, "it's not like I liked working with them anyways."
"Dismissed." The elder finished, sending the girl off.
Mariam turned and walked out of the temple, where Dunga, Joseph and Ozuma were waiting.
Dunga grinned. "Being rebellious gets ya nowhere, Mari."
Mariam growled. "Don't call me that!"
"But, sis," Joseph began, "you are rebellious."
The lavender-haired girl turned to her brother. "I knew that, Joseph!" she shouted, "I meant about calling me 'Mari'!"
"Oh…" Joseph said, "Never mind."
"Ugh!" Mariam rolled her eyes and stormed away from them.
Ozuma stared. "Mariam!"
She turned to see her ex-leader. "What?"
Ozuma walked up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Just because you're off the team, doesn't mean you have to leave the village."
"I'm not leaving the village, Ozuma," Mariam brushed his hand off her shoulder, "I'm going for a walk."
The dual-haired leader looked uneasy, and then took a step away. "Oh…carry on then."
Mariam scoffed at him, and then walked away again. "Jeez…"
Kai glanced at Kenny. "And if it's at all possible, explain what you're trying to do."
Kenny returned the glare. "Well, it seems to see if you can figure out each others' moves, you can help each other out…"
"Fascinating," Kai sneered, "and what would a four-on-four battle prove?"
"I…um…haven't gotten there yet." Kenny flushed.
Hilary let out an annoyed sigh; sitting on the bench and watching guys argue about nothing wasn't as much fun as she first interpreted.
Kai and Kenny argued some more, the other Bladebreakers got bored.
"Ugh…okay, two pair." Tyson sighed, showing Max and Rei his hand of cards.
"Erm…three-of-a-kind." Max put his hand down.
Rei sighed. "Flush, ace high. I win."
"What!" Max slammed his hand on the table. "I demand a recount!"
"…you're an idiot." Hilary heard Kai utter.
"Alright!" Hilary yelled. "Two-on-two battle, okay?"
All five boys looked at the brunette.
"And you couldn't have said that earlier?" Kai asked dully, pissed off.
Hilary flushed. "Oh…well, I…I'm uh,"
"Wasting time." Kai rolled his eyes, "Rei, you're on my team."
The neko-jin nodded. "Finally! You owe me two bags of Skittles, guys!" he yelled back to Tyson and Max, running over beside Kai.
The pair groaned. "Crap…" they muttered together.
"Stop complaining and get your butts up!" Kai yelled at them.
Tyson and Max jumped to their feet, going over to the dish.
"3…2…1…" Kenny started. "Let it rip!"
The four blasted their blades at each other.
Mariam sighed again.
"Let it rip!" she heard from a few feet away.
"Hm?" she went over and peered from behind a tree. Mariam watched Tyson, Max, Rei and Kai attack with their blades.
"Yeah! Get 'em!"
Mariam transferred her gaze over to the cheering brunette. Cheering for Tyson, perhaps? Or Kai? Mariam pondered over that for a few seconds before hearing a growl from the Chinese blader.
Mariam glanced over and saw Drigger get knocked out of the dish by Dragoon perhaps.
Kai growled, having the match be changed to two-on-one.
Draciel and Dragoon pushed Dranzer into a corner of the dish and started pounding up against the phoenix.
Mariam argued with herself, whether to just stay and watch, or go down there and help out Kai.
Mariam ended up firing Sharkrash into the dish, knocking Dragoon into the opposite wall. Dranzer gathered itself and pushed back against Draciel.
Mariam remained behind the tree, hoping that they wouldn't recognize her blade.
Kai stared at the blade that came to his rescue. Sharkrash? Kai wondered. While the Russian was pondering over that, Dranzer took a sharp tackle from Draciel.
"Go! Flame Saber!" Kai countered.
Max was still in awe that Sharkrash would come and save Dranzer. He was knocked out of his thoughts when Kai's fire attack knocked Draciel into the air.
The blond growled. "Gr…Viper Wall!"
Meanwhile, Sharkrash was having fun striking Dragoon against the dish.
"Victory Tornado!" Tyson yelled out.
Mariam grunted, taking a step back. "Abyss Fire!"
The attacks clashed and when the smoke cleared up, the blades were still spinning.
Mariam couldn't help but run over to a closer tree to get a better view, since it was also her battle too.
Kai saw movement in the corner of his eye and saw the lavender-haired girl trying to move behind another tree.
Mariam saw Kai take a sidelong glance at her. She nodded in response.
"Go Sharkrash!" Mariam yelled out.
"Dranzer!" Kai added.
Kai and Mariam yelled attacks at the same time.
"Abyss Fire!"
"Volcanic Emission!"
"Ah!" Hilary and Kenny shielded their eyes from the explosion.
Hilary coughed a bit and Kenny tried to see in the dish.
"Huh?"
Hilary looked at the boy. "What? Who won?"
Kenny glared at the chestnut eyed girl. "Hilary, who do you think won?"
"Knowing Tyson, he probably did?" she guessed, sighing with her hands on her hips.
"And judging by the explosion, what do you think?"
"Oh…OH!" Hilary realized, snapping her fingers.
Rei coughed and fanned the air with his hands. Dragoon and Draciel were still spinning, barely hanging on while Sharkrash and Dranzer seemed to be spinning at a medium rate; not quite out and not fully spinning either.
Mariam sneered; the two morons were still spinning. "Kya!" she lunged forward, trying to push against both at the same time.
Kai glanced at her, with that 'What are you, crazy or something?' look in his eye.
Mariam returned that with the 'I know what I'm doing' smirk on her face.
Max and Tyson looked back and forth at the pair. "D'ya know what that means?" Max asked, leaning to whisper in the ear of his partner.
"Not a clue." The navy-haired boy shrugged.
Dranzer followed Sharkrash, pushing against the pair, to get them to stop spinning.
Rei sighed. This could end soon…it doesn't seem like Kai's style to linger. He's the 'beat 'em fast; let them wonder what hit 'em' kind of man. He stared at the battle.
Sharkrash then backed off and span around in circles.
Kai looked at the girl, seeing if she still knew what she was doing; she was smirking. What the hell is she doing?
Dragoon seemed to follow Sharkrash, and then Sharkrash seemed to disappear.
Tyson looked around. "Where'd 'e go? Where'd 'e go?" he asked frantically.
The blond turned his head and looked at Tyson. Kai smirked, taking that as his chance to slam Draciel out of the dish, a few inches from his owner's feet.
Dranzer flew back into Kai's hand, not even bothering to help Mariam, but by the look on her face, she looked like she didn't need it.
Dragoon stopped trying to follow Sharkrash and spun in place.
"Tyson!" Max, Hilary and Kenny yelled out.
Rei and Kai seemed to just watch silently as Sharkrash appeared in front of Dragoon and slammed him square-on.
"What the…?"
Dragoon toppled over, and a few seconds later, Sharkrash also fell over.
Mariam bent down to pick up her blade. When she straightened her posture, she stared at Sharkrash in her hand with a descent look on her face.
Tyson smiled, picking up Dragoon. The navy-haired boy brought his thumb over to the corner of his lips, and then dragged the thumb across his smirking lips. "That was one cool battle, Mariam."
"Huh?" Mariam said quietly, looking up at the outstretched hand of the grinning boy. What's he getting at with this?
"Oh." Mariam let out a small sigh. "Right." She nodded her head and turned to walk away, completely ignoring the friendly gesture.
Kai felt that he had to thank her when she passed by. She came within a few inches of him when he uttered her name quietly, but loud enough for her to hear.
"Yeah…Kai?" the girl looked up at him.
The Russian gulped. "I suppose I should thank you for helping me," he said as nicely as he could, "bu---"
Mariam cut in. "But let me guess – you didn't ask for it and you don't think I need to be thanked, right?" she crossed her arms.
"Right." Kai nodded. Behind Mariam, Kai could see Rei telling him that he just said the wrong thing; the neko-jin slapped his forehead with his head, sighing and bowing his head.
"…and you're only giving me this crappy thanks because your little friends are telling you that it's the right thing to do." The emerald-eyed girl glared.
"You…" Kai started, but paused, trying to think of what he wanted to say, "have issues."
"Why? Because I'm 'rebellious', right? Not everyone is some stupid moron who's made to follow the orders of others! I can think for myself, and I don't need some guy telling me what to do!" Mariam spat at him.
"You think I like having to listen to my grandfather all the time? I have to do whatever he, or Boris, tells me to! I don't want to do what they want!"
Mariam just smirked. "Then why do you?"
Kai paused for a moment. "Hn," was all he could think of.
"Hm." Mariam lowered her smirk, "You say you're different, but you're just like everyone else, aren't you?" she taunted, "The sad little boy that thinks he's so bad and rebellious, but he's no better then this one." She jerked a head to Tyson.
"Hey!" Tyson objected, marching up to them.
Kai held an arm out, to stop the bluenette from coming any closer. When Tyson stopped, the Russian lowered his arm. "Don't you ever compare me to him." He warned Mariam icily.
"I'm not comparing," she shot smugly, "I'm pointing out facts." She said no more and walked away.
Kai clenched a fist. Damn girl. Who did she think she was, talking to him like that? He was Voltaire's grandson, dammit. So, she thinks she's so bad, eh? He'd show her bad and rebellious…
Well, there we go. I have no idea where this came from, but when I can't sleep, I tend to think of stories… Yeah, and I have no knowledge for any of the elders, so…I didn't know what I was doing there. And I think that the summary may be confusing now since…ah whatever, I'll get it to work…somehow.
You can review, (although I'm just writing for the sake of writing) and well…yeah.