-in a waitress voice- Chapter up! -sweatdrops- Yeah, I know, that was lame...

Disclaimer: Think people. If I owned this, don't you think that the series would have been WAY different?

Well, keep reading.

"You don't seem like the smart strategist type to me." came a digital voice.

"You should talk, Dizzara. After all, you don't seem like the Bit-beast type to me." I said sweetly. I swear, if Dizzi had a face, and if looks could kill, I would be a little grease spot on the floor right now. I almost laughed at the thought of a digital face glaring. Kai just stood in the corner and Tyson was laughing. Max was giggling and Rei was trying to keep a straight face. I walked over to Kai.

"Kai Hiwatari, age... 14, I think, captain of the Bladebreakers. Bitbeast name is Dranzer. You were the former leader of the Blade Sharks." I whispered. Kai heard me, unfortunately. He said nothing, but kept a closer eye on me. Before we left, I was able to snag a couple of cookies.

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I tagged along with the team at they went around with their warm-ups and training. They had gone to some sort of park to train and were having a sort of match between them. They had paired up and were going to have a Beybattle with their assigned partners.

"...And remember, no using Bitbeasts." Kenny had finished laying the ground rules.

"Damn... Get rid of the best part of the battle, why don't ya?" I grumbled. "And I've always wanted to see a Bitbeast up close, too."

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that. First match: Max vs. Rei." The two got out their blades. "Three..." Blades went into the launchers. CLICK.

"Two..." Rip-cords were set into place.

"One..." Launch stances were taken. Rei went into that totally adorable crouch he always does. His hair went into the place where it looks like a cat's tail. How he keeps his hair in that tie, I will never know. GOD, he has so much hair. And it's so beautiful!

"Let it rip!"

"Go Draciel!"

"Drigger!" I was sitting as close as I was allowed, courtesy of Kenny. Just for the records, I was a good five or six feet away. I could still see the blades connecting and sparking. I kept chanting

"Go, Rei, go Rei, go Rei..." I was absorbed in the battle until I heard Kenny calling me.

"Megan, come here and help me."

"Um... Ok. What do you need?"

"I need help in making a strategy for Max. He needs another way to win other than defense."

"Well, Rei's blade is made for speed, so forget charging... How about he does the bait and attack method? Wait until the opponent comes at him then attack at the last second. That way, it's his power and the force from the speed the other person was coming at him with."

"Wow." I turned my attention back to the battle. Needless to say, Rei won in the end.

"YAY!! Go Rei, go Rei, go Rei!" I cheered. Rei looked at me in the cute surprised way of his. Kai looked at me too. I blushed at getting attention from them both. Rei came and sat down next to me. I blushed even harder. He smiled warmly at me. Forget blushing, I wanted to melt into a puddle of little red hearts right there. My face must have been so red that it made my eyes look pink. Rei decided to break the silence between us, thank god.

"I didn't expect you to be cheering for me. It really gave me a confidence boost." He said.

"Yeah, well... Once a fan, always a fan." I said lamely. Yeah, try fangirl. Then I had a thought. "Hey, Rei, I heard from somewhere that you had pointy ears. Is that true?" I asked. Rei smiled again and pulled back some of his gorgeous black hair to show his ears. So they ARE pointed! "Aw, kawaiikawaiikawaiikawaii!" I squealed. I bounced up and down like a hyper-active five-year-old on sugar high.

That's when another team walked into the park. The White Tigers. I am a rabid Mariah hater. I can't stand her. Now, if she liked Lee, then I might be able to tolerate her. But no, she has to have a crush on Rei. MY Rei. Ok, enough of my endless babbling.

Mariah noticed me sitting next to Rei and glared. I glared right back. She hissed at me. It actually sounded like a cat's hiss, too. Scary. I narrowed my eyes at her and whispered, "Ooh, kitty's got claws." She narrowed her eyes right back. I marched up to her and she walked up to me.

"Stay away from Rei and we'll be fine." We said at the same time. I looked at her.

"Ya know, if I didn't hate you so much, we could probably be friends." I said to her. I walked away from her and sat back down. The battle between Kai and Tyson ended in a draw. A little disappointing, but I expected it. Kai and Tyson are about even in skill. Well, Tyson has luck, not skill. I was staring at Rei when I noticed something. Him and all of the White Tigers have amber eyes and the ears and fangs. Neat! Meanwhile, it had started to snow.

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"Team, we have to get back! It's getting late!" Kenny called.

The Bladebreakers rounded up their stuff and started to leave. I pulled out my (slightly squinched [squished]) cookies and started to munch on them. Tyson instantly was in front of me with his hands out. He said nothing, but his eyes practically screamed "Please, please, PLEASE can I have one?!"

"Mine!" I said as I held the cookies closer to me. I must have sounded like a seven-year-old. "Mine, mine, mine! Go find your own! These are mine! Mine!" I glared at him. "They're mine." I growled. I finished my munchies and Tyson walked away sadly. Max was laughing.

"Aw, man, Tyson, she got you good!" he said.

"Man, who knew she was that possessive?" Tyson said.

"Embrace it. Fear it." I said sweetly. Mew... Mew... came from an alleyway. I stopped walking and twitched my ears. Rei did the same.

"Did you guys hear that?" he asked. The rest of the team shook their heads.

"I didn't hear anything." Kai said. Tyson, Max, and Kenny murmured in agreement.

"I heard it. What was it?" I asked. Everyone but Rei shook their heads. He looked around and pointed to an alley to my left.

"There. It came from over there." I ran over the icy snow, without so much as sliding, and into the alley. Thank you, cold American winters! Mew... Mew...

I walked around a little, this time sliding a bit, as the mewing got louder. I walked over to a cluster of boxes and looked inside the first one. Nothing. I looked in the second one. A bit of trash, but nothing else. I came to the third box and looked inside. I reached in and pulled out a gray tabby kitten. I took off one of my gloves and wrapped it around the cat.

I walked out of the alley with the cat in my arms, er, hands. Everyone came over to see the little bundle, save for Tyson. Yes, even Kai's curiosity got the better of him. He'll have to work on that. "Aw, look how cute the little guy is!" Max exclaimed.

"So it's a stray. Big friggin' whoop. I wanna get back to the hotel to eat dinner. I'm starved." Tyson said from his spot near the alley. (AN: yeah, yeah, Tyson's a bit OOC. I needed that to make this part work. Sorry.) That got me pissed, and believe me, if someone gets me pissed; you had better run behind some three inches of reinforced steel. I handed the kitten off to someone, Max, I think, and walked calmly over to Tyson. But that was about the only thing calm about me. Like I said, three inches of reinforced steel.

"Tyson, you are a heartless bastard. All you care about is feeding yourself when there is a tiny starving kitten trying to fend for itself out here in the middle of winter! See, even KAI cared a little bit! But NOOOO, you had to go and be Mr. I-Want-Food-Now-So-Let's-Leave-The-Poor-Little-Cat-To-It's- Frozen-Doom-Because-I-Care-More-About-My-Stomach-Than-It's-Health! Ya know, I hate people who care more about themselves than they do about a poor little creature."

After I finished ranting, I ran off. I was so furious that my eyes were beginning to water. It had taken what little willpower I had left not to punch him across the face. I heard the team calling after me, saying that I didn't know how to get around Moscow at all. Hell, KAI could navigate better than me. Well, yeah, considering he's Russian to begin with... I just kept running.

I was so mad that I did't watch where I went. That was a big mistake that I would regret later.

There. And yes, I do like cats. Very much. -huggles Rei plushie- Rei, Kai, or Tala plushies to reviewers! -takes out a huge bag of plushies- R&R!