Death, a void that once you entered you would never be able to come back from. Would she really be ready to send anyone, no matter how close to her she was, into it? Julia for once in her life doubted herself.

Moment of Silence! … Ok we're good. But the last chapter was kinda solemn towards the end wasn't it? ;o At least I thought so. But I feel sorry for these poor peoples. D: People often say they can do something in theory, but in all actuality they won't be able to do it. ;o O and I got an inspiration for this chappie from music~ Cold(But I'm still here) by Evans Blue I think it is? ;o

Spades

Julia forced herself up from bed and looked lazily out the window. Tomorrow would be the beginning of the games, it seemed like they had hardly any time to prepare. Her eyes flickered to her bedside table where she put her weapon of choice, a small dagger. She grabbed the small knife and took it out of its sheath, letting it sparkle in the sun. Julia bit her lip, she had to be ready for tomorrow when it came, but how could you possibly prepare yourself to kill? It seemed impossible.

A tear slipped down her face, it was going to be kill or be killed, no other option remained. She tossed the dagger off to the side and logged onto the chat with her phone, only Kari was on at the moment.

Julia: Hey Kari
Kari: What's the matter? ;o *hugs*
Julia: Am I that easy to read?
Kari: Well yeah. :P

Julia had to smile a bit, the girl still seemed to be so happy even in these circumstances. That was one of the things that Julia had loved about Kari. Her ability to make sure everyone was happy all the time.

Julia: I was just thinking about tomorrow…
Kari: Same here. =) But it doesn't do us any good to worry about tomorrow. Ever hear that by worrying you lose years by stress? ;o
Julia: Pfft. That hardly applies, dummy.
Kari: D: It totally does apply! But seriously, by worrying today we can't change tomorrow. Just get ready for it to begin.
Julia: Thanks Kari. :)
Kari: No prob. :P *happy dance*
Julia: I swear you're the weirdest person I know. xD I gotta go now, but I'll see you later, Kari.

That girl was pretty much the only reason why Julia was still going. That stupid cheerfulness was catching. Julia slipped out of bed, got dressed, and headed down to the living room. "What up, Raul?" Pretending to be fine hurt, pretending that nothing could defeat you hurt. It took all Julia had to not breakdown.

Clubs

Hillary tapped the table impatiently waiting for their waiter to bring them food. "Ugh, he's taking so long." It wasn't as if the company wasn't pleasant or anything, but it wasn't. Kai and Lee were the only ones with brains, but Kai didn't seem to express himself and Lee was just Lee. Hillary sighed inwardly before glancing at the blue haired blader for a moment. She had always secretly loved Kai, but never was able to tell him.

Unrequited love was something you always read about in books, but never had Hillary seen someone have one in real life. There was always a first for everything though. "So… Anything we should do cause it starts tomorrow? I mean today it gonna be the last normal day, right?"

"Hn." The Russian bladers gave their welcome input as usual.

"I'm going to go visit my Sis. It'll be lonely without her cause I won't have any free time after this starts." Lee almost whispered these words, but you could see the sadness in the nekojin's face. Even Hillary wasn't able to say anything then, even through Rick's babbling about all the amazing things he was going to do, she just stared sympathetically at Lee. She was lucky enough to be with the only person she liked, but it was only then she realized people could be battling those closest to them.

The waiter brought back their food and set the dishes individually down in front of them. They silently ate their food until they had finally had their fill. Rick was still going on that he was going to do rock climbing, hiking, and fishing today, but no one at the table really cared. It reminded Hillary of this song she had heard, Live Like You're Dying. Would she really be able to be satisfied with everything she had done if she died tomorrow? She knew her chances of survival were low, and that meant she'd have to rely entirely on her teammates.

After paying for their meal Kai stood up and walked through the doors, soon followed by the rest of them. "Where are we going, Kai?" The one thing Hillary would regret if she died would be that she had never told Kai how much she loved him. But she knew how he would take it if she just told him now, it was just something she couldn't do, but talking to him did make her feel at least a bit better, even if he didn't say much.

"Back to my place." Kai said it as if it was self-explanatory. Hillary had to admit, even though Kai would hate it, she kind of found the way he talked cute.

"Okay!" Her love would go unrequited for now, but Hillary knew eventually she would be able to tell him, hopefully soon, because there wasn't much time left.

Hearts

Many different types of people were playing THE GAME. Ones who were confident, ones that were worried, and ones that knew they had absolutely no chance of surviving. One of those people was Max Tate, the small blonde boy who wasn't even able to hurt a fly. He knew that if there was a fight all he would be able to do would be to provide a diversion, there was no way he could kill.

He couldn't tell his teammates that though, and it was good they weren't able to see him, he was an absolute wreck. He had spent the last two days locked in his room trying to think of what to do. All he had managed to pull together was a small stack of letters for his family. You can't really explain something like: Some chibi girl is making me enter a competition and I'll die in it. It just doesn't work that way.

So he just left short notes, how he loved them and what stuff should go to whom. Draciel was going to be locked in a box until his little brother was old enough, the midget was only 3 right now. In a year or two he'd be ready. Max glanced out the musty window at the cars passing by, there were allot of things you could just take for granted, one being life. In every single car there was a person driving it, and in a simple moment… A loud screech sounded and a red Honda smashed into another car, causing them both to burst into flames.

It only took 10 seconds, maybe less, but both people knew they were going to die, and for a split second they were afraid. The pain they felt was infinitely worse for Max since he didn't know when he would die, but he knew he would. He heard his parents rush out the door to see if they could help those in the accident, there were people crying, screaming, and trying to call for help. But Max knew, they were all dead, every single one of them.

He heard his brother screaming in fright and Max gave a weak smile and went to help the boy. Max was sure when he was gone his brother wouldn't even remember him, but that was ok. He still left a letter for the boy when he was old enough to understand. Max clutched the child tightly as the sirens rang loudly coming to douse the fire. "It'll all be over soon, don't worry, David, it'll all be over soon."

Diamonds

Danielle rapped her fingers angrily on the table, why wasn't anyone saying anything? What was the use of this gathering if they weren't even going to plan? "Is anyone going to talk sense, or should I just plan something and make you all do it?" Her eye twitched, but eventually everyone was looking after her. "What do you mean plan? We're gonna win, that's all there is to it, Hun." Oh how Michael annoyed her. Why was he such a self-righteous dummy?

"Do any of you even know how to hold a weapon?" By the blank looks they were giving her, Danielle assumed that no one knew how to fight. /We're so dead/ was the initial reaction. "I can hold a baseball bat and swing it pretty well, I play it for my job after all." Looks like it was going to be a one on one talk with just her and Michael.

"That's good. I can just ignore you then." Ignoring the protesting blader Danielle turned to Mariah, "Can I assume you just go around shopping?" Getting the affirmative from the pinkette she said, "Well then you'll just die." Oh man that was the wrong thing to say, true, but wrong.

"What is your problem!" Danielle dodged a fist heading towards her and glared at the brunette, "I'm not in the habit of giving people false hope. Obviously she will die, she can't fight and we have a two week time limit. I'm not going to waste my time protecting dead weight. She'll eat supplies and be an easy target. It would be easier just to take her out at the beginning."

Even Ian was mad at this, he didn't like this girl. Apparently she thought by 'The end justifies the means', which included killing off those she found useless. "Don't you think that would be a bad idea? Mariah is friends with most of the beyblade players, if other teams come from the professional league she'd had the emotional advantage over them."

"Pfft, she still wouldn't be able to do anything, don't you know how this game works? That idiotic girl probably just wanted to have friends against friends just for the fun of it. Everyone wants to live, and no one wants the game to last till when the Angels come. If someone is friends with Mariah, then another person who isn't close will take her out, simple enough. We can do the same, or if you're all too weak I can get rid of them all myself."

None of them seemed pleased to hear her words, Mariah least of all, "So you're just going to let me die? We're a team aren't we! Aren't we supposed to look after each other? Robert, Michael, Ian, help me out!" She was obviously panicking, Danielle smiled, looking around at the others they were thinking that she would be a nuisance, and a weak link.

"She does have a point, Mari…" Danielle could tell Robert wasn't really sure about what he was saying, she would make sure to harden him, depending where the battlefield was, his influence would be useful. If he couldn't help her though, she'd dump him like trash. This was her game, she was going to win in the easiest and fastest way possible. /Bring it on "All-Father". I'll give you an entertaining game./

The All-Father smiled, she rather liked this Danielle Martins. She was making Mariah put on quite a show, it was pretty funny. "I can't wait till tomorrow, can you?"

;o I finished. Yay! *claps happily* I GET TO WRITE FUN SCENES NOW! Hehehe… I love making complex issues with my charries. 0:) Oh and aren't you proud? I wrote some KaiHil for you! 8D I've never written anything romantic so sorry if that was horrible. Q_Q But you still love me riiight? ;D Of course you do. ;P

Review to boost my ego plox. ;C B.O.B. is making me sad.

B.O.B.: Soon I'll be the master around here. E_E Why is such a silly girl my master anyways?

Xana: D: B.O.B.!

Teams::

Spades: Kari, Tala, Rei, Julia, Johnny
Diamonds: Danielle, Robert, Michael, Mariah, Ian
Hearts: Kevin, Max, Oliver, Christina, Spencer
Clubs: Lee, Kai, Rick, Hillary, Bryan