Blitzkreig50889: Wow! Thank you two my two reviewers for reviewing this fic! I'm glad you like it. So, this chapter for The 25 Days of Christmas is for you guys.
Johnny: which unfortunately means…
Kai: we're back.
Blitzkreig50889: aw, come on guys, this isn't going to be that bad. So, if you two don't mind…
Kai: fine. You starting this McGregor or am I?
Johnny: I'll start. Blitzkreig50889 does not own beyblade or any of its characters.
Kai: She just owns her plot ideas and OCS which may pop into her fic at any odd time.
Johnny: which in the case of this fic, is Sierra and the rest of the Flaming Hearts.
Blitzkreig50889: that said, please enjoy the fic!
Christmas Blaze
Walking in the freezing winds of Russia was no walk in the park. It was snowing to the point of being a blizzard. Growling in frustration, he forced himself through the snow. Leave it to a pain in the ass Russian team to just screw his holiday up.
Still moving as quickly as he could, he didn't notice the wind tugging at his heavy black jacket and a-little-too-long red hair. His lavender eyes were narrowed to mere slits in order to see through the wind and snow, and his brown boots were virtually filled with the damn cold water.
"Damn you Tala for this!" he snarled under his breath. "This had so better be worth the time and the effort I had to put into this in order to get here."
"Hey, Johnny, wait up!" A voice from somewhere behind him yelled. "You're leaving us behind."
Johnny rolled his eyes. Leave it to Enrique to manage to get himself in a position where he was being left behind. The blond, blue eyed Italian was unfortunately on Johnny's list of people-I-would-like-to-kill. However, standing in one spot was the last damn thing the Scot wanted to do. He was used to Scotland's harsh winters, but even he had to admit this was far worse than anything he'd ever seen in his life.
After about five minutes of jumping around to keep himself warm, Enrique, Oliver, and Robert finally caught up to him. Johnny could easily see that Enrique had ended up buried up to his waist in snow at one point and had been pulled out. That was probably why Oliver and Robert had fallen behind; they'd been trying to dig their Italian teammate out of the snow.
"What did you do? Decide to go for a swim in the snow?" Johnny teased before walking on down the road again.
"No!" Enrique snapped before following his Scottish teammate. "I actually tripped into it."
"Feet first?" Johnny asked. "I highly doubt that. I think you happened to see a Russian girl and didn't happen to be paying attention to where you were going and walked straight into a snow pile."
"More like a ditch," Oliver muttered.
Enrique growled, but he didn't say anything to defend himself. Johnny smirked. That was another win for him.
Shivering now, the Scot continue off in the direction Tala's letter had told him to go. Johnny was pretty sure Tala hadn't known this was going to happen, so he made a mental note not to beat Tala up too badly.
After about thirty minutes, Johnny and the rest of the Majestics finally made it to the address Tala had given them. Each of them looked at the house in shock. It seemed the Blitzkrieg Boys' girlfriends had decided to drop by for a visit, since the house was covered in Christmas lights and Christmas decorations were spread out along the small front yard.
"Well, are you going to knock on the door or not?" Robert growled. "It is cold out here, and you specifically were given the directions to get to this place, so it makes sense for you to knock on the door."
Johnny clenched his teeth. Yep, Tala was going to get it for this. Shaking himself slightly, he walked onto the porch and pounded on the door.
"Happy now, Robert?" Johnny snapped. Robert just shook his head in disgust. Leave it to Johnny to overdo things.
After a moment the door opened to show the Majestics a surprised Bryan at the door. "Oh, uh, hi guys. What are you doing here?" Bryan asked as he moved out of the doorway to let the other team into the house.
Each of the Majestics sent him a glare. "You don't know?" Enrique grumbled. The Italian was literally wearing three inches of snow on his brown coat and his boats appeared to be shoved full of it. His jeans were also soaked through from the cold liquid.
Johnny shoved past Bryan once he'd managed to remove his snow laden boots and coat. He rounded the corner from the small foyer to the kitchen at full speed and nearly rammed into Bryan's girlfriend, Sierra.
"Oops! Sorry about that," Sierra apologized. "Although I must ask what the heck you're doing here?"
Johnny nearly snarled at her when he did speak. "Where. Is. Tala?"
Sierra cowered slightly from the angry Scot. "He's in the living room. Why-?" Sierra broke off as Johnny stormed off into the living room. "What did you do to these guys Tala?" she thought when the other Majestics rounded the corner. Luckily for her, Bryan was holding Enrique back and she didn't have to worry about being manhandled.
Meanwhile, Johnny had successfully entered the living room and shocked Tala. "Where the hell did you come from!" the Russian red-head yelled loudly.
"Let's see. Oh, yeah. I came all the way from freaking Scotland, across Paris, Italy, and Germany to grab my teammates, into Russia because I got a letter in the mail telling me that YOU had something planned and wanted us in attendance. Then, when I get here, I find a freaking blizzard and nearly eight feet of snow on the ground, all combined with temperatures probably fifty degrees below zero! Is that all nice and clear for you?!"
Tala winced as Johnny's voice rose with each word he spoke. Kai was going to kill him for this. "Johnny, calm down. I didn't send you that letter."
Johnny froze. "And who did?" he asked quietly. He spoke in such a way that he actually made Tala a little afraid.
"Uh, if I tell you this, I want you to promise not to kill me. I'm just the messenger here," Tala gulped out.
Johnny's eyes narrowed. "Alright I won't kill you. However, I am going to kill whichever one of your teammates it was that sent that damn letter!"
Tala raised an eyebrow. "Good luck with that since it was Kai that sent the letter."
Johnny tensed. "Hiwatari…?"
Tala nodded. "Yes."
Johnny pulled back from Tala. He'd been standing almost nose to nose with the younger blader. "Where is he?"
"Not here," Tala answered back. However, the sudden slamming of a door caused the Russian to glance into the kitchen the Majestics had just walked through moments before. Kai walked into the kitchen with Spencer and Ian. All three bladers were carrying groceries. At the sight of the angry Johnny, Ian gulped and darted behind Spencer. Kai smirked as Spencer jerked his head down to look at Ian in confusion.
"What's wro-?" Spencer broke off as Kai interrupted with one word; or more specifically one name.
"McGregor."
"Hiwatari," Johnny growled in greeting.
"Maybe the rest of us should vacate the premises until this blows over," Sierra advised from the archway that led to the small foyer. However, a sudden power outage quickly caused the idea to be dismissed.
"Well, that's not going to work now," Bryan murmured. "We're just going to have to handle them at their worst." Both fire bladers had been blazing at their hands just before he had spoke and Bryan was pretty sure the flames around each of their clenched fists were getting bigger. With the power outage, the flames even seemed brighter and stronger than they had before.
"How about you two wait until tomorrow to tear each other apart," Spencer advised. "The rest of us would like to be inside until this storm blows over, not outside because a certain set of hotheads couldn't keep their tempers in check and ended up burning the house down."
Johnny and Kai both growled at him, but they lowered their fists anyway.
"You've got a lot of explaining to do Hiwatari," Johnny snapped.
"As, it appears, do you."
A quick glare was tossed at one another before both bladers moved into separate rooms. However, it was apparent that the house was not properly insulated as in a matter of two hours the house was freezing.
"Wh-What the h-h-hell?" Enrique stammered out. "D-Do y-y-you guys n-not use any h-heat in h-here?"
Tala shook his head. "Typically it isn't this cold, but with the power out the heat doesn't run so it gets cold in here fairly quickly."
Enrique groaned. The Italian was much more of a warm weather person than a cold weather one.
"Don't worry," Ian piped up for the first time that day. "I'm sure if we ask nicely, Kai will get the fireplace to work." Kai simply grunted at that statement and stayed where he was. He had no intention of heading into the same room as Johnny unless he had absolutely no choice.
"Kai, will you please light the fireplace?" Sierra asked while hugging herself. "I don't think everyone here is going to be in the slightest bit warm within half an hour if you don't light the fireplace up."
Kai however didn't move. Johnny, growing fed up with the younger blader snapped out, "I'll do it! Just someone tell me how to light the damn thing."
Several faces looked at the Scot in shock. "Seriously?" Sierra asked. There was some hope in her voice.
Johnny nodded. He'd light the damn thing alright…once he knew how to light it. Ian, who had rushed out of the room, came back into it carrying a small armload of wood.
"This should work. It should be enough for Salamolyon to use."
Johnny blinked. "Salamolyon?"
Tala cleared his throat to keep Ian from speaking. Ian wisely shut up for once and left Tala take over from there. "What he means, is that typically Dranzer provides the heat to the building when the power goes out. A bit beast lasts much longer than a human does."
Johnny wanted to bash his head off a wall as that information sunk in. "Next time, think before you speak McGregor," he thought to himself.
"Uh, Johnny?" Ian asked softly. Johnny jerked.
"Yeah I know Ian. Give me a second to figure out where Salamolyon's decided to put that head of his."
Several faces blinked in confusion as Johnny reached into the back of his mind and looked for Salamolyon's typical bit beast thought signature. After a moment he found it and had managed to contact Salamolyon. The salamander quickly gave his consent to the idea.
Reaching into his pocket Johnny pulled out his blade. Unlike Dranzer, Salamolyon's flames were too powerful to just be unleashed in a physical form; he had no other choice but to unleash his flames from his blade.
"What are you doing?" Ian queried. "You shouldn't need your beyblade to set the wood on fire."
"He does if you don't want the house to burn down," Oliver warned. "Salamolyon's flames are too strong to just be unleashed onto something like Dranzer does."
"Oh," Ian managed after a moment. "So what does that mean we're going to do now?"
"Watch, and learn," Johnny growled as he released Salamolyon's blade from his launcher. The red and orange blade instantly went up in flames . It spun rapidly on the wood sitting in the fireplace and instantly the wood went up in flames. However, a sudden burst of flame and heat rushed out at everyone.
"What the hell?!" Tala exclaimed while ducking and raising his arms. Johnny simply stood there in shock, as did Kai.
"Salamolyon?" Johnny whispered. The salamander could be seen sitting right in the middle of the fire and easily was providing the energy needed to keep the flames at their hottest.
"Don't worry. I think I know how Dranzer does his physical form thing. It's not too hard really. All you have to do is focus your elemental strength inward and it's a piece of cake."
The whole crew blinked. "Does this mean you're going to be okay with this?"
"Of course!" the salamander remarked with some annoyance. "I wouldn't have done this otherwise. Now, why don't you and Kai work out your little problem without burning this place down?" Salamolyon suggested. "It'll give you something to do with all your free time until the power is restored."
"Gee, thanks," Johnny muttered to himself. "That's just what I wanted to hear."
Sierra chose that moment to clear her throat. "Why don't the rest of us go upstairs until these two get everything worked out?"
The Blitzkrieg Boys, with Robert and Oliver immediately left. Enrique hesitated before he too followed the others upstairs.
Johnny turned his head at that point and glared at Kai. He was still standing at the fireplace next to Salamolyon while Kai sat just a small distance away at the kitchen table. "So, why did you send this?"
Kai blinked. "Send what?"
Johnny stomped across the living room into the kitchen and handed Kai the letter. "This."
Kai raised an eyebrow. "I didn't send this, but it's obvious someone knows how to forge my signature and make it look extremely convincing. I doubt you would've shown up here otherwise."
"That's an understatement," Johnny mumbled. "So what are we going to do about it?"
"First off, I'm going to locate my bit beast and then I'm going to allow you to set Salamolyon on him."
Johnny gaped at the younger blader. "Dranzer did that?!"
Kai nodded. "He does this from time to time. However, before I locate my pain in the ass phoenix, we're both going to interrogate a certain amphisbaena by the name of Amphylyon."
"Amphylyon! Good god! That dragon is almost as bad as Dragoon and Tyson!"
Kai smirked. "To quote you from earlier, that's an understatement. Amphylyon is as bad as Dragoon and Tyson."
"So are you dragging Enrique back down here or am I?" The Scot asked after a moment.
"I'll leave that to you. He's your teammate."
"And he's also your cousin," Johnny reminded the phoenix blader.
Kai nodded. "True, but you deal with him more."
"That's what you think!"
"Oh, for heaven's sake! Jonathan, just go up those stairs and drag Enrique down here already!" Salamolyon snapped from the fireplace. Johnny winced at Salamolyon's tone but he did as the salamander told him for a change. In a matter of two minutes, Enrique was tossed down the stairs.
"I said drag him down, not throw him down the stairs!" Salamolyon yelled.
"Oops," Johnny sarcastically remarked. "I must've misheard you."
Enrique could be heard grumbling and if Salamolyon would've been able to see the Italian, he would've seen the boy rubbing his rear end from his fall. "What the hell did I do to deserve this?"
Kai finally got out of his seat at the kitchen table and approached the Italian. "You didn't do anything, however, your bit beast did."
Enrique groaned. "Amphylyon, if these guys don't beat the heck out of you, I will!" Amphylyon did nothing in response.
Johnny looked over at Kai. "I think Amphylyon's lack of a response says all that needs to be said; he knows what happened here."
Enrique rolled his eyes and instantly forced Amphylyon out of his blade. Kai did the same thing to Dranzer and within a matter of moments, both bit beasts could be seen sitting on the floor looking rather nervous.
"Explanation please," Kai demanded. Neither bit beast said anything, but Enrique quickly provided the information they wanted.
"They were trying to get you two to work together. They figured that if you could get along you'd be able to work together in the tournament that's coming up in a few months, since it's exclusively for fire bladers and in a tag-team format. However, since you fight with each other so much, they knew that unless you were in the same area you would only argue from a distance with one another and not do anything to fix your problems."
Kai and Johnny both sent a glare at Amphylyon and Dranzer. Both bit beasts refused to meet their gazes and they knew from that that the two beasts were horrified at the truth.
"I think that's enough, don't you?" Kai asked. Johnny nodded before whistling. The flames in the fireplace disappeared only to reappear at Johnny's feet.
"They're all yours, Salamolyon." Salamolyon did his best imitation of a raised eyebrow before crouching. Dranzer and Amphylyon disappeared into whatever world bit beasts disappear into with Salamolyon close behind them. Then, as if nothing had ever happened, Enrique was tossed back up the stairs to the others.
"Keep him up there for a little while. We're not done down here yet," Johnny yelled up the stairs before walking away.
Kai raised an eyebrow. "What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking that as much as I hate what I'm about to say, I know that what Amphylyon and Dranzer were attempting to do was a good idea. If we both enter that tournament in a tag-team, there won't be any blader around who'd be able to stand up to us."
"Are you trying to call for a truce between us?"
Johnny grimaced. Kai was going to make him say it, wasn't he? "Fine! Yes, that's what I'm trying to say."
Kai grinned. "Alright, but we'll keep this our secret for a little while. We don't want our teammates and friends to die from a bad case of shock."
A small smile graced the Scot's face. "I think it's a little late for that."
"Why?"
"Because I do believe that Enrique and Tyson have already fainted."
Kai let out a laugh. "Well, serves them right for eavesdropping. Do you think Amphylyon and Dranzer have been beaten around the bush enough?"
Johnny smirked. "Nah! When Salamolyon bring them back in that's when they'll have suffered enough."
Kai shrugged. "Works for me. Oh, and Merry Christmas, McGregor."
"Right back at ya, Hiwatari."
Blitzkreig50889: wow that was long. Hopefully you all liked it anyway though.
Johnny & Kai: HOLY SHIT! COULD YOU HAVE MADE US ANY MORE OOC?!"
Blitzkreig50889: oops…well, anyway, hope you like the fic and please remember to review. I'm now going to spend the next who knows how long running from two angry bladers. See ya all next time and Happy Holidays everyone!