Makoto POV

5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

Suddenly the bell rang.

"I'm outta here!" I sprinted out of the classroom not even bothering to pick up my homework sheet (Yeah, homework on the first day of school, just what I need).

I sprinted down the hall to Rin's advanced math class, unknowingly dragging Cameron with me, as he tried (unsuccessfully) to give me my math homework. I made it just as Rin was walking out of the room, with a blond dude?

"Hey! Who're you Blondie?" I asked, kind of miffed about Rin hanging out with a random guy she just met.

"Hey! You must be Makoto! My name is Mark Tate, nice to meet you!" the blond guy said (I swear he twitched once or twice while speaking).

Mark wore a green and orange shirt with a yellow star in the dead center with some light blue jeans and sneakers. His hair was made up in a similar fashion to my dad's old friend. What was his name. Matt? Mac? No, Max! Yeah, that seems right I thought to myself.

"Uh, nice to meet you too Mark." I said holding my hand out for a handshake.

He shook my hand, then asked "Hey, Rin said you guys blade, do you want to go to the park and see what you're made of?"

"Sure!" me, Cameron, and Rin answered at the same exact time.

"Awesome!" he replied excitedly.

We all sprinted across the school campus to the park, which surprisingly once we got to the beydish was filled with bladers. While pushing through the crowd I bumped into someone.

"Hey, watch it!" I yelled angrily, despite it being a large crowd and me being bound to get bumped into by someone.

The guy simply replied "Hmph.", and walked away.

I pushed back a retort and started to run after the others, me being last due to that jerk interfering.

"Hey Makoto, what took you so long?" Rin asked as soon as I got there.

"Some jerk bumped into me." I replied annoyed, still being miffed by the fact that the jerk couldn't even talk to me, as if he was too important to talk to me.

Now why did that jerk seem familiar? I thought to myself while prepping my Beyblade Dragoon.

Rin and Mark were prepping their blades, Driger and Draciel. Cameron just took out a laptop and started typing away. Suddenly we heard a different voice.

"Hey boss." the voice casually said.

"What the hell was that!" I asked Cameron, pretty confused on how an inanimate object could speak like a person.

"You're saying your dad never told you about Dizzy?" He asked me.

I shook my head, before returning to gaping at the normal looking laptop that could apparently speak.

"Seriously boss, this kid isn't the brightest apple in the bunch is he?" Dizzy asked, clearly referring to me.

"Wait what did you say? I'll have you know I am very smart! In fact much smarter than a stupid machine!" I replied seething with rage.

"Okay Makoto, what's the square root of 49?" Dizzy replied.

"Uh, wait! Give me a minute!" I replied.

Less than a minute later I gave up. "Who needs math when I can blade!" I replied, quite pleased with my response. Though to Dizzy it wasn't a satisfactory answer to her question.

"Wow. It was 7. You're just like Tyson in much more than the looks department. That I can guarantee." Dizzy answered.

I was about to start glaring when suddenly Rin said "Hey Makoto, lets beybattle to see which one of us is the strongest!"

Cameron POV

Both walked up to the beydish and got their launchers ready. All eyes watched with interest as the two newcomers counted down.

"3, 2, 1, Let it rip!" both exclaimed as their blades hit the dish. Both blades immediately fought, as if they were trying to win for their masters. Everyone watched amazed as two newcomers did better than most of the frequenters at the dish. One dual haired teenager in specific watched the battle closely, noting their battle styles and blade statistics. No one noticed the teenager's interest except for Cameron, who just writ it off as curiosity.

As the blades clashed over and over, even faster than the eye could see, the spectators couldn't keep their eyes off this match. Even a fool could tell both Rin and Makoto were almost evenly matched. The main advantage that the winner would have would be luck.

Eventually though, Dragoon got the upper hand and with one final, powerful attack ended the close match with a win for Makoto.

"Good game!" Makoto exclaimed running up to Rin from his side of the dish.

"You too Makoto!" Rin replied, "But next time, I won't lose!"

"That was a great match guys!" Mark exclaimed excitedly running up to both of the competitors.

Suddenly the crowd surrounding them split and a teen, a little bit older than Makoto, showed up.

"I challenge you Makoto Granger, to a beybattle!" the newcomer said confidently.

"Hey, you're the jerk that bumped into me, and how do you know my name?" Makoto angrily replied.

The dual haired newcomer, as Cameron deduced, was the same teen that was closely watching Makoto and Rin's match. Probably noting their strengths and weaknesses he thought to himself.

The newcomer had dual dark grey and black hair, as well as amethyst eyes. He wore a tight fitting sleeveless black shirt, with baggy dark purple pants, as well as black fingerless gloves, dark shoes, and a white scarf. The weirdest part was this guy wore dark blue face paint, one big triangle on the left and right sides of his face.

"As I recall, you bumped into me, and for your information my dad told me. My name's Gou by the way. Gou Hiwatari." the teen said abruptly before taking out his Dranzer Beyblade.

"I don't know Makoto, I have a bad feeling about this." I told him though of course he wasn't paying any attention to me.

"Your on!" Makoto answered before walking up to the beydish again.

Rin POV

I thought the name was familiar and now I know why Rin thought to herself. He's Kai Hiwatari's son all right. Looks almost exactly like Kai in the pictures of the Bladebreakers dad used to show me. Hm… He's cute.

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"Hey Rin!" Mark said waving a hand in front of her face.

"What?" She replied instantly.

"You were spacing out, I was asking who you think will win." He replied.

"Makoto is strong, but we know nothing of Gou's ability, so it's hard to tell." I told him.

The familiar scene replayed again this time with Gou in Rin's place. "3, 2, 1, Let it rip!" both Gou and Makoto said at once as their blades entered the dish. But unlike before, the blade just sat there.

"This'll be easy!" Makoto said as he commanded Dragoon to attack Dranzer.

"Hmph.", was Gou's only reply.

Dranzer gracefully moved out of Dragoon's way. The same happened the next time. And the time after that! Dranzer was just dodging Dragoon during every attempted attack.

"This is bad guys!" Cameron said.

"What do you mean Cam?" Mark replied.

"Gou's strategy. He's dodging every one of Makoto's moves! At this rate Dragoon will run out of steam at any moment, making the perfect moment for Dranzer tp attack!" Cameron replied nervously.

Just as Cameron suspected Dragoon started losing his momentum. At first it was slow enough that you could barely tell, but soon it became obvious as Dragoon started wobbling, unable to hold its wait up due to wearing himself down during the barrage of attacks on Dranzer.

"What's wrong Dragoon?" Makoto asked nervously.

"Hmph! Dranzer attack with Blazing Gig!" Gou said confidently.

Dranzer attacked so fast that almost no one saw the attack itself, but everyone one heard Makoto's blade hit the asphalt next to the dish.

"Keep training, you need it Makoto." was all Gou said before walking back into the crowd.

"No way…" Makoto said while picking up his fallen Dragoon.