Hello, everyone out there in radio-land! I'm back with a new chapter! So, before I begin, I have several things to do. Well, first off, I've got to thank NightPredator and WickedEvil for reviewing my story. Second, thanks to NightPredator and HellX for their characters. Third, it's time for the disclaimer.

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"Okay, guys. Are both of you ready?" Hillary asked Kai and Ray one month after their arrival to Japan in a surprisingly warm winter morning. The sixteen-year-old neko-jin and the seventeen-year-old Russian nodded to her. "Okay! Three! Two! One!"

"Let it-!" both boys were cut off by the ringing of a phone. The group of teens looked around in shock before understanding that there was a phone nearby that was ringing. Hillary checked her phone, as did Max, Tyson, and Kenny. After realizing their phones were not ringing, they looked over to Kai and Ray. Kai stood with an annoyed expression etched onto his face, whereas Ray looked shocked, his phone ringing loudly. He quickly flipped it open after a moment and grinned as he spoke in a language that none of his teammates recognized.

"Ellie! Been a while, hasn't it?" Ray said cheerfully over the phone, holding the index finger of his other hand up as he spoke in the strange language to show his friends he'd only take a minute.

"Ray! It's been a while since what? We've talked or since we've talked in Pig-Latin in Latin in gibberish with a hint of French and Chinese?" a voice, all too similar to Ray, said over the phone in the same language.

"Both," he chuckled, "So what's up?"

"Well, mommy and daddy are still head-over-heels in love, Lee got his head stuck in a vase-don't ask-, and I'm coming to Japan to announce some special news to you and your friends!"

"Why can't you tell me over the phone?" Ray asked, mentally sighing. He knew she was just trying to find a new way to annoy him, even if it just was for a little while.

"Because, I want to see your face when I tell you, and I was already planning on visiting anyway, so daddy said just tell you when I get there!" his younger sibling said over the phone with obvious excitement, "So I'm going to be there on Friday, okay? Can you do me a favor and book me a hotel?"

"You can't book one yourself?"

"...No."

"Okay, fine."

"Yay!" she cheered, "Now I can screw off for the rest of the day and call my pen-pals! Okay, bye!"

"Wait, what?" Ray asked as his half-sibling hung up the phone on him. His eye twitched, "Elliot..." he growled, closing his phone and sticking it into the front of the sash on his clothes.

"What was that about?" Tyson asked, confused by Ray's use of a strange language over the phone and easily noticeable 'mood swings' that occurred as he spoke.

"Oh, that was Elliot, my half-sister," Ray explained. "She's coming to Japan to visit me for a while, and said she's got something she needs to tell me when she gets here."

"Why couldn't she just tell you over the phone?" Hillary asked, raising her eyebrows questioningly.

"That's what I said," Ray said, shaking his head. "I've also got to find her a hotel to stay at while she's here because she's way too lazy to do that all by herself."

"Well, she can just stay here," Tyson offered, "You know, if Grandpa doesn't mind."

"Are you sure, Tyson?" Ray asked. Tyson nodded. "Cool. Thanks."

"No problem, I'm sure Grandpa won't mind," the world class blader confirmed.

---Friday---

Ray's ears stood up (not literally) as an announcement for the noon flight from China sounded off in several languages. His eyes shot towards the gate where passengers from the noon flight were getting off. "Oh, there she is," Ray said, pointing to the middle of a small group of people walking out of the gate. "Ellie! Over here!" he yelled in Chinese, waving to get her attention.

A girl in traditional Chinese attire with what seemed like blonde hair and black tips waved back and ran over to Ray and his group of friends. "Hi Ray!" she said, also in Chinese, giving her brother a hug. She backed up and looked him over, running a hand through her boy-cut short hair, revealing that her hair was actually blonde on top, but black on the bottom. "You've grown," she commented.

"So have you," Ray said, picking her up and giving her another hug. "Nice look, by the way."

"What don't you like it?" she asked, looking down at her attire. Black pants with thin gold trim at the bottom with bright pink flowers climbing up her leg on a golden vine. Her shirt was also black with gold trim, but with pink flowers blooming on the golden vine in the center of her top.

"Of course I like it. But just last year, you were talking about how you'd never be caught dead looking like that in public," Ray explained to her, forgetting his friends were still waiting to be introduced to this new girl.

"Yeah, but the one mommy wanted me to wear was an ugly puce color."

"Wasn't it supposed to be mauve?"

"Yes. But that's beside the point. And I think they're feeling neglected," Elliot said, pointing to the Bladebreakers, who had been standing there awkwardly.

"What? Oh, oh, right. Sorry guys," Ray apologized to his fellow bladers and getting a reply of 'It's okay' in return. "Guys, this is Elliot Roccan (A/N: Pronounced Rock-Ann). El, you know Kai from when he visited last spring," Ray gestured to the Russian blader. "And these guys are Tyson Granger, Hillary Tatibana, Max Tate, and Kenny-last name withheld." He pointed to each person as he said their respective name, who gave their own individual greetings.

"Hey people," Elliot said cheerfully in English.

"Okay, can we go now? I'm hungry!" Tyson yelled. Hillary slapped her own forehead.

"Tyson, how can you be hungry?" she asked as they made their way to the baggage claim, "We all ate on the way here."

"That was just a small snack, not a proper lunch!" Tyson retorted while Ray, Max, and Kai helped Elliot find her bags.

"A small snack? You ate 12 hotdogs, 8 bags of chips, and drank 15 sodas!"

"Hey, I think this bag is mine! Oh, no, wait. It's not. Never mind!" Elliot said, ignoring Hillary and Tyson's fight. Ray had told her all about them.

"I found it," Ray said a few minutes later, holding up a suitcase with the word 'Travel' in several languages scattered about the outside.

"Yeah, but I had a backpack, but it was too big to fit in storage. At least, that's what they told me. There just wasn't anymore room because some guy stuffed his entire suitcase in storage and there wasn't any room for my little tiny bag."

"They wouldn't let you hold it?" Max asked, reading the nametags on the bags.

"Nope. Moronic, don't you think?" she asked, also reading the nametags to make sure Max didn't miss her bag.

"Is this it?" Kai asked, showing Elliot a small, black backpack with her name and address on it.

"Yes! Thank you, Kai!" she said, giving Kai a hug before taking her bag.

"Then let's go," Ray said, pushing Tyson and Hillary in the back to get them moving as they now yelled at each other about the other being self-centered.

---Later that day---

"Three! Two! One!" Hillary counted off as Tyson and Max stood ready with their beyblades.

"Let is rip!" both boys yelled as they pulled the ripcords for their blades.

"Dragoon! Attack!" Tyson encouraged his beyblade as it smashed into Draciel and held steady, creating sparks.

"Draciel, move forward! C'mon, you can do it!" Max also encouraged his blade, although it was for a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

"Go Drag-!" Tyson yelled, but was cut off by the loud yawning of Elliot, who had been watching their training session.

"This is boring!" she complained, standing up. "Besides, I just remembered that I have stuff to tell you!"

Ray stared at his half-sister in disbelief, "You just remembered?"

"Yep," she confirmed, nodding. "Okay, first off, I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that they've cancelled the opening of the tournament, and Mr. Dickinson doesn't know when it's going to be rescheduled." This message earned groans from the team.

"Wait, how do you know Mr. D.?" Tyson asked her.

"Um...Hello? Ray is my half-brother," she informed Tyson, "Anyway, now for the good news. There are five good things I'm supposed to tell you...I think. Yeah. So, Kai! Remember how last spring you helped my mother with her recording project?" Kai nodded to answer her question. "She said that her boss said that he'd pay for you to go to college or whatever and you can work for Sadini Records afterwards, if you like. He said you could think about it during the tournament or whatever. And Ray, Mr. Sadini said that we could pull off a duet thing after you're done with high school or whenever you're done blading."

"When Ray's done blading?" Tyson asked. "When would that be? Ray can't just quit on us, and neither can Kai!"

"Tyson, after we turn eighteen, we're legal adults. We're not allowed to blade in tournaments," Ray explained calmly. Maybe Tyson shouldn't have been told about this just yet.

Before Tyson could open his mouth to retort, Elliot broke in, "Okay! The next thing has nothing to do with you guys, but I feel like telling you anyway. Mr. Dickinson said that if I can get three other bladers who can do well, then we could enter the tournament too!"

"Really?" Ray asked his sister. She nodded and grinned at him, "That's terrific! You're not telling me you've gotten that good?"

"Yes, I have. I've beaten Lee 5 times already! Getting back to the news-will I ever finish?-dad finally asked her," she said, jumping up and down as she told Ray the news.

Ray's jaw dropped. "He finally asked Julie to marry him?" he asked, not believing his ears.

"Yup, yup, yup!" Elliot confirmed, nodding and trying not to laugh at the face her brother was making.

Ray laughed and jumped up and down with Elliot, who grabbed his hands as they jumped around in a circle. "I can't believe it! I can't believe it!" he said over and over again, not acting as himself while his friends (sans Kai) stared in amazement.

"They're getting married in two weeks. Your friends are invited too," Elliot told Ray after they finally calmed down ten minutes later. "I mean, if Kai will let them come."

All heads turned to Kai, who was sitting on the bench, his arms crossed and eyes closed. Upon being watched, Kai opened an eye, and then nodded 'yes' to the unspoken question. Everyone cheered.

"Okay, last thing that needs to be said," the team quieted as Elliot spoke, "Because they cancelled the original opening of the tournament, and since all the tickets were bought and non-refundable, I got Mr. Dickinson to agree to a formal ball to open up the tournament instead. Bladers and invited guests only."

"Sounds interesting," Max said cheerfully. He grinned at Elliot, "It's a good idea. At least, I think it is."

Ray nodded. "Yeah, it does," he agreed with the blonde American before Tyson, Kenny, and Hillary gave a muddled reply of agreement as well.

"Yay! Glad I got that over with. Well, I'm off," Elliot said, heading for the gate.

"Hey, where are you going?" Ray asked her, following.

"My pen pal is living in Japan right now, about five minutes out of Bakuten for the time being. I'm going to ask her and her sister if they feel like traveling around the world again. Then, see what I can do about a fourth blader if they agree to come," she informed her older sibling. "Want to come?"

"I have to, whether I like it or not," Ray sighed, "God knows the trouble you could get into alone."

--End Chapter--

Yep. Second chapter. I'm so disgusted with myself however. I haven't been able to watch beyblade for about a year now, so I don't remember any of the attacks. Isn't that sad? If anyone would like to help me on that aspect, I'd appreciate it. Well, that's it. Review please! Ja ne!