Title: Bladebreakers Reunite!
Author: sky dragon slayer
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: T
Summary: It's been a little over two years since the end of G-Revolution, but the BBA is back to form and is celebrating by throwing its first championship tourney since. With such fierce competition there's only one solution…
It's been days since Hilary began her beyblading lessons under her instructor, Kai. Every day she learned something new from her sometimes harsh teacher, but Kai was surprisingly nice during the lessons. He often let Hilary take a break when he felt she needed or deserved one. It was the sixth day of Hilary's lessons and it was going somewhat smoother than those of days prior. It was near sunset, near quitting time as the student was challenging the teacher in a one on one match. Despite the progress Hilary has made she was still no match for Kai.
"Argh, come on!" Hilary shouted as hey beyblade pursued Dranzer, the trusty beyblade and bit beast of Kai. However, it was proving to be too arduous a task as Kai smoothly dodged her advances. Dranzer continued to circle the beystadium while Hilary's beyblade spun in the center, waiting for a chance to strike.
"You're gonna have to do better than that." Kai taunted her. Hilary brought her gaze from the dish to her opponent. Kai didn't even have his eyes open, which got on her nerves.
"I'll show you…" She said through gritted teeth before shouting a battle cry sending her beyblade towards Dranzer. Her attack was fast, strong, and it missed. She missed her target and her beyblade slid to the edge of the dish.
"Yes I will." Kai finished her sentence before opening his eyes, and sending Dranzer to knock Hilary's beyblade out of the beystadium. Defeated Hilary fell to her knees exhausted from the long day of beyblading.
"Oh, not again…!" She moaned before a shadow hung over her. She looked up and saw Kai standing in front of her with her beyblade in his hand.
"Don't force anything; that last attack cost you." He said, giving her another lesson, handing her beyblade over to her.
"Thanks." She thanked him quietly before taking the beyblade and then his hand as he helped her up.
"We're done for today, come on." He said as he led her through the doorway and through the building until they reached the door to his apartment, just as he did every day. This time however, when Kai approached his door he heard noises coming from inside, loud noises that seemed familiar. Voices in fact; he turned to Hilary.
"Did you leave the TV on or something?" He asked her. She looked at him innocently and smirked.
"Maybe." She said. He looked at her, confused; just what did she mean maybe? Whatever the case may have been, it was a long day and he wanted to go home and relax. He turned the key and when he opened the door he found a surprise.
"How did you all get in here?" he shouted when he found the rest of his team sitting in his apartment watching TV. Hilary walked up from behind Kai and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Remember earlier when I took a bathroom break? Well…" She said while he turned his head and gave her an annoyed look. Max walked over to Kai.
"Hey buddy nice place you have here." He gave Kai a pat on the back.
"Thanks for having us." Kai heard Ray say as the agitated host looked at all of the others, already made comfortable in his apartment, he was one second away from throwing them out and calling up a realtor before Hilary spoke to him.
"Come on Kai, it can't hurt to have company over every once in a while." She said quietly so only he could hear. He looked back to her again to see a smile on his 'student's' face. He sighed, and loosened his shoulders up in compliance.
"…fine." He said to her. He walked over to the couch.
"Off." He barked as he pulled Daichi off the section of the couch by the collar of his shirt, before taking the spot for himself.
"Hey, I was there first." Daichi protested as Kai crossed his arms and looked ahead to the TV.
"Well it's my place so deal with it." He said. Hiro laughed as he offered Daichi the seat next to him while Ray came around with some chips and soda.
"Can you believe the BBA has its own TV station now, it's so awesome!" Tyson cheered as he watched on, sitting on the opposite side of the couch from Kai. Hilary walked over and sat in the middle of the couch.
"What are we watching?" Hilary asked all cheerful as she took a glass of soda from Ray.
"The qualifying tournaments start today Hilary." She heard Kenny say from the armchair adjacent to the couch.
"Oh wait so that means…" She said leaning closer to the television.
"We get to see the Justice 5 in action. So we better pay some attention, even if it's only a preliminary match." Hiro suggested to his team before they all turned and watched.
"All right we are back. As always I'm Brad Best along with AJ Topper, coming to you live from the first qualifying tournament of the world championships, and we have quite a show for you today don't we AJ?"
"You better believe it Brad. The former BEGA all stars are now in the BBA, or the Justice 5 as they call themselves now have been blowing the other teams out of the water! If they keep blading at this pace, they'll walk right into the Championship Tournament." The gang heard the familiar voices coming from the TV as they all watched in anticipation.
DJ came on the screen to introduce the teams.
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?" He cheered to the crowded stadium as the people applauded and hollered in response.
"It's the final round of the first qualifying tournament between the Fighting Falcons and the Justice 5!" DJ shouted as the two opposing teams walked out from the locker rooms and onto the main stage.
"Now let's meet today's competitors." Said DJ before Brad and AJ took over.
"In this first round of three we have John from the Fighting Falcons, whose attack based blade is fast as they come." Brad commented.
"Well he may be quick, but the Justice 5's Mystel is even faster with his Poseidon bit beast and his 360 degree attack." AJ added while the two beybladers prepared themselves for the battle.
"Are you ready?" DJ began.
"3…2…1, LET IT RIP!" he as well as the competitors shouted while the beyblades were launched into the dish. They each did laps around the perimeter but Mystel seemed to be having a bit too much fun and was smiling the whole time.
"What's so funny? This is serious!" his opponent grumbled.
"Your pretty good kid but…" Mystel said as his Poseidon beyblade went airborne.
"Not good enough." He finished before his beyblade crashed down into dish, resulting in his foe's blade stopping its spin completely.
"Round one goes to Mystel and the Justice 5." DJ said while the crowd cheered and the next match was being set up.
"Well as always Mystel took care of business quickly…" Brad said.
"For once I agree with that guy." Ray said as he and the rest of his team watched the match unfold on Kai's TV.
"Yeah it didn't leave much for us to see." Max added.
"That's true but Mystel's movements seemed smoother than what I remember; it seems he refined his skills." Hiro observed his former team member Mystel with a close eye. They all brought their attentions back to the screen but when they did…
"It's over! Ming-Ming knocked out her opponents beyblade before either of them even landed in the beystadium; which means the Justice 5 win the battle and are the first team to advance to the Championship Tournament!" DJ said into his microphone as the crowd cheered on.
"That was quick." Tyson said through a mouthful of potato chips.
"Didn't anyone teach you manners Tyson?" Hilary said, shielding herself from any free flying crumbs.
"Well it's not like we expected them to lose or anything; we know how good they can be." The chief said, for once not on his laptop.
"He's right all we can do is prepare ourselves for when it's our turn to blade." Surprised, everyone turned to see Daichi.
"Wow Daichi actually sounded responsible for once." Hilary blinked.
"What…stop staring at me!" The boy complained from the unwanted attention.
"Anyways; is everyone coming to the next tournament? We're going to sign up for our qualifier and check out that Team Phalanx." Hiro said while the rest turned their attention towards him.
"After hearing how you described them the other day I'm really curious to see just what they can do." Max said to his coach. Ray and Kenny nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, if they all can use the heavy metal system they must be good!" Tyson cheered as he got up from his seat causing crumbs to scatter all over Kai's floor which did not go unnoticed by the host. Kai shot a mean look at Tyson that sent shivers down the latter's spine.
"Okay now that that's over why don't we go out to eat?" Hilary suggested, almost as if she felt the chill from Kai's stare towards Tyson. The rest of the team's faces lit up and Daichi darted out the door followed by Tyson, Max, Ray and lastly Hilary. Kai still sat on his couch as Hiro was still leaning up against the back end of it, facing the opposite direction Kai was. Kai got up from his seat but Hiro stopped him.
"Hang on Kai." He called for his team member. Kai stopped but did not look back at Hiro who stood in his spot.
"…" Kai didn't say anything, letting his coach continue.
"How are you're lessons going with Hilary?" He asked. Kai smirked and chuckled to himself.
"Really, we're having this conversation?" He replied with a question of his own. Hiro got up and began to walk around the couch.
"I don't want this thing you have going on to distract the team right before the tournaments." Hiro said now standing in front of Kai.
"There's nothing going on Hiro so drop it." Kai said dryly as he walked ahead bumping shoulders with Hiro.
"Well it doesn't seem like there isn't." he said before Kai could get through the doorway, stopping him in his tracks.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Kai shot a glare behind him, but unlike his little brother, Hiro was unfazed by Kai's attempt at intimidation.
"Well I…" Hiro began to explain before his team member cut him off.
"It's nothing." Kai said irritated before storming off to join the others. Hiro watched him walk away, not fully convinced by his statement, Hiro walked out and when he turned to close the door he saw something come flying towards him from the corner of his eye. Somehow Hiro held his hand up in time to catch the object and saw that it was a key.
"Don't forget to lock up." Kai called from a distance. Hiro saw Kai turn the corner; when Kai was out of sight Hiro smirked.
Two Days Later…
"It's the second of eight qualifying tournaments, but the competition is already looking better than ever! I'm Brad Best and as always, with me is AJ Topper, AJ give the folks back home a recap." They were coming from the local arena, broadcasting the first of two qualifying tournaments that would be held there.
"Well Brad the top story from today has got to be this Team Phalanx. They've been tearing up underground blading for a while now and we can see why. They've swept every opponent right out of the dish and have walked right into the final." The two commentators in the booth were discussing the day's events while Tyson, Kai and the gang were walking around the lower levels of the stadium, making their way to the seats.
"But Tyson we should register now while it's more convenient." The chief complained at his friend who, along with the others was more into the competition.
"Relax chief, we have all day to register. Let's just enjoy the beyblading and we might just run into that Jack kid." Tyson explained while they made it to their seats near the front row.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for the final round between The Blade Angels and Team Phalanx!" They heard DJ shout over his microphone as the crowd cheered. The two competing teams walked out of the tunnel and made their way to their respective benches. Finally, everybody was able to get a good look at Team Phalanx. First out was Jack, who they met but then…
"Hey I know that girl!" Hilary exclaimed as she pointed to the girl walking behind Jack. It was the same black haired, blue eyed girl that she bumped into on the street.
"Really how?" Tyson raised an eyebrow, while Daichi's face gained a shade of red.
"I ran into her on the street the other day, literally. Didn't know I'd see her here though, and I never got her name now that I think about it." She explained before Daichi jumped across the row of seats and onto her.
"Why not?" He shouted as he shook Hilary. Tyson, Ray, and Max pulled the younger blader off her.
"Geez what got into you Daichi?" Max asked Daichi.
"I think little Daichi here has a crush on that girl Hilary ran into." Tyson teased, giving his teammate what those in the business call a noogie.
"Well she is very pretty." Ray added as he took another look at Team Phalanx as they huddled in front of their bench.
"Lucky Mariah isn't here huh Ray?" Max said as he nudged an elbow into Ray's side as the latter's face turned red.
"Uh, what he-he." Ray laughed nervously scratching the back of his head while the bey-battle got under way.
"In the first round we have The Blade Angels' Diana against Kira of Team Phalanx." DJ said as the same girl walked up to the stage along with her opponent.
"Kira…" Daichi muttered to himself to remember the nameas his eyes widened.
"Are you ready? Three, two, one, let it rip!" DJ shouted as the two dueling ladies launched their beyblades into the dish. Kira's blade ran around the dish as her foe's chased after her, but could not match her speed.
"Darn it hold still!" the girl Diana grunted while Kira smiled.
"What's the matter, too quick for you? Don't worry this will end as soon as it started." Kira made the boastful claim as she made her beyblade move even faster, lapping her foe's. Diana was stunned to see what was occurring in the dish.
"Now, Phantom Fox, go!" Kira commanded as her beyblade went so fast it seemed as if she had multiple beyblades and in a blink of an eye the match was over.
"Round one goes to Team Phalanx!" DJ shouted again as Kira swiped her blade as it jumped in the air and walked away from the stage as another of her teammates took her place. Her teammate, kind of tall, a bit muscular, he had brown hair and blue eyes. He stood up on the stage ready for action.
"Now let's check the match up of round two AJ." Brad chimed in as his partner elaborated.
"Marc of Team Phalanx has to be the most solid beyblader in this qualifying tournament and his Sea Dragoon can attest to that with his Leviathan Crash attack!" as he finished his opponent stood across from him, looking to avenge her ally's defeat.
"Sea Dragoon? How many dragoons are there?" Daichi questioned from the stands. He himself had Strata Dragoon, Tyson had Dragoon; it confused the young beyblader.
"And for The Blade Angels we have Lily whose stamina is the name of her game." AJ concluded from the booth as the competitors were ready to go.
"Ready; three, two, one let it rip!" DJ hollered as the match started. Marc's blade stood at the center of the dish as his opponent charged him with attack after attack. However, despite the effort, those attacks weren't doing anything to Sea Dragoon.
"Calm yourself now, wouldn't want to stray away from your strategy." Marc taunted his opponent, Lily who was beginning to tire from her assault.
"Now then…go Sea Dragoon, Leviathan Crash!" Marc commanded as his beyblade became surrounded by a thick layer of flowing water before crashing into his foe's making the water explode in a burst of rain, leaving a brief down poor behind. Lily's beyblade landed outside of the stadium, next to her feet, signaling the end of the match.
"That's it, it's over; Team Phalanx wins round two and the battle! They're going to the Championship Tournament!" cheered DJ along with the rest of the crowd save for Tyson and company.
"Wow did you see that? That attack was awesome!" Tyson looked in awe. None of them were expecting something like that.
"You know, he kinda fights like Max does." Ray inquired but his teammate shook his head.
"I don't think so, he's more attack oriented than me."
"Who cares, all I know is that they're as good as Hiro described them." Daichi said.
"That's why you should care Daichi; they just won which means that they're our competition now." Kai explained as he turned his head to the seat next to him.
"Right, coach?" Kai asked. Hiro simply looked and nodded; Tyson got up from his seat.
"Well moving on, we should go register ourselves, let's go chief!" He said as he grabbed Kenny's arm and walked away.
"Wait, I wanna come to." Daichi followed as Max and Ray tagged along. Kai was the last to get up and walk away to join his team.
"Well there all gone, why don't we go wait outside Hilary." Hiro suggested. He got up and was followed by Hilary. They walked down the corridors and right before they would reach the exit Hiro turned to face Hilary, causing her to stop moving as well.
"Say Hilary, how're your lessons going with Kai?" He asked her. She looked up at him innocently and replied.
"Oh well I'd like to say they're going well. Kai can be pretty rough if you can imagine, but I think it's so far so good." She said while Hiro examined her.
"That's good to hear, but answer this for me Hilary; out of all the people you picked Kai to teach you, why is that?" Hiro asked the same question Kai did several days ago, only this time Hilary felt that it didn't carry the same meaning as it did before. Hiro wanted to know something else.
"What do you mean; did you want to coach me Hiro?" He shook his head.
"Sorry but no. I meant that you could have gone to Kenny or my brother…"
"Is that what this is about? Tch, Hiro I…it, it just wouldn't feel right after what happened." She explained quietly.
"Alright, you don't need to explain. So…why Kai?" He asked with a smile, and this time the question meant the same as it did when Kai asked her days ago.
"Um…" She stammered as her face grew a shade of red, making Hiro giggle in response.
Meanwhile, the guys finally made it to the registration desk that was located near the player entrance to the building.
"Hello can I help you?" The woman behind the registration desk asked Tyson and Kenny who were closest.
"Yeah we're registering for the next qualifying tournament." Tyson declared. The woman took out a form and was about to begin asking questions until a voice called out.
"Tyson…?" They all turned to see Jack along with the rest of Team Phalanx who were on their way out of the stadium.
"Oh, Jack hey. We saw your last match, it was great!" Tyson exclaimed, walking up to Jack.
"Hey mind introducing us?" Marc said, turning the attention to the rest of the team, including two others; a blonde girl of average height and brown eyes and a guy who was as tall as Kai, black hair and brown eyes. Jack looked over at his teammates.
"Oh right where are my manners? Tyson, Kenny, everybody, this is Kira…" he began, gesturing to the blue eyed girl everyone saw beyblading before. She smiled and gave a short wave before Daichi's face went red again, as his legs became like jelly.
"Um, what's with him?" Kira asked, pointing to Daichi. Max reached over and dragged his younger teammate into a headlock, all while Daichi maintained his expression.
"Don't worry about him; he hasn't had anything to eat all day." Max said shaking Daichi in his arm.
"Right, well that's Marc, the blonde is Lacy and this guy next to me is…" Jack continued.
"Shin; you know, you all look a lot shorter on TV." The Phalanx member introduced himself. The comment made Kai look up as their eyes met, briefly examining each other.
"Wow, can't believe I'm meeting all of you, I feel kinda star struck." Lacy laughed a bit nervously.
"Well we've certainly heard about you. You're really good from what we've seen today." Ray complemented.
"That was nothing." Marc boasted.
"Yeah wasn't much competition today." Kira smirked. Lacy looked over at her teammate.
"Hey they tried their best." She protested.
"Well they should've tried harder. Come on we have a plane to catch." Shin said, beginning to walk away from the others. All but Jack picked up their things and followed.
"Wait where are you guys going?" Tyson asked no one in particular but he still received an answer.
"The Championship Tournament; we're heading over there now, the BBA handed us airline tickets. Well, nice running into you." Jack said before walking away to join his team.
"They seem sure of themselves." Max commented.
"Yeah they do, but doesn't that Shin guy remind you of Kai?" Ray asked the others while Kai watched Team Phalanx walk away and saw Shin glance back, again meeting eyes briefly before Shin turned as he hopped on a bus followed by his team.
"Ah-hem." Suddenly Tyson remembered why they were all down there to begin with and returned to the lady at the reception desk.
"Oh sorry about that miss." He apologized before the woman asked him more questions.
"Okay I need to know who will be in your team. It's for BBA records." She explained.
"Oh right well there's Daichi, Max, Ray, Kai, and of course yours truly." Tyson claimed.
"Okay, the team name?"
"What?"
"The team's name, what do you call yourselves?" She asked.
"Oh boy, um give me a minute." Tyson said as he turned to face the rest of his team. There was one thing they had all forgotten to even think about, a name for their team.
"Uh guys…?" Tyson approached the others.
"Yeah what's up Tyson?" The chief asked.
"Um what's our team name gonna be?" The others looked at him with blank stares.
"Oh, wait I thought we were just going by the G-Revolutions like the last time we all bladed together." Ray guessed while Max nodded in agreement. Tyson shook his head.
"Well I was thinking we pick something different than that." He explained.
"What do you mean?" said Daichi who finally recovered from his self-induced trance.
"The G-Revolutions name was something Mr. Dickinson came up with when we went against Boris and that BEGA League of his. This time we're together for another reason and that's to win this new tournament." Tyson elaborated his idea.
"For once I agree with Tyson. The situation is different this time around." Kai gave his support to Tyson.
"Yeah, so why not use another name Mr. Dickinson came up with for us." Tyson continued.
"Wait you don't mean…?" Max asked. Tyson nodded before turning back to the woman behind the registration desk.
"We're the Bladebreakers, back and better than ever!"
The woman wrote and typed away for about a minute until smiling and nodding at Tyson, siganling that she had finished.
"Okay you guys are all set, remember to be here in two days." she reminded them. Tyson nodded and returned to the others.
"Let's get out of here, I'm hungry." Daichi suggested as they walked through the stadium until reaching the entrance where they found Hiro and Hilary having a conversation.
"There you guys are. Are we signed up?" Hiro asked his brother and company.
"Yep, you bet, we're all set." Tyson assured Hiro. No one seemed to notice Hilary was in a much quieter mood than usual, looking down at the floor, no one but Kai.
"Could we go now?" Daichi hollered again. They all began to leave and everyone passed Hilary until Kai bumped shoulders with her. She looked up and saw him looking over his shoulder at her. They made eye contact and Kai managed a small smile and it seemed to cause Hilary to do the same as she picked her head up and followed him outside.
Ok this one I decided to make shorter than I intended. Tell me what you think, didn't really like this one personally.
Next time the Bladebreakers participate in their qualifiers. What obstacles await them?