FInally back with a new chapter of AoN! Still kinda on writer's block on this story, but i managed to squeeze out another chapter for you guys. XD Enjoy!
"I give up! You four can find your own food, feed your own selves, and tuck yourselves in! I'm not playing this little game anymore!" Madoka exclaimed, throwing her hands into the air in exasperation.
"Aww… Why not?" Yu, Titi, Fukiko, and Sukeru whined.
"Out. Now." Madoka demanded, pointing to the B-Pit's door.
"Fine… We'll just go bug Ryuga and Tatsuhime then!" the group decided, bolting out the door and down the street.
Madoka sighed and sat down on the couch downstairs, tapping the facebolt of a red and silver Striker bey that was laying on the coffee table.
"They're gone now, Hoshi."
"Good." Hoshi said, appearing on the couch next to the brunette. "Took them long enough."
"You're lucky…" Madoka muttered.
"Ehh?" Hoshi looked confused.
"You can just disappear into your bey whenever you want to. I'm stuck here."
"Oh. That's what you meant. Yeah, it's pretty handy." Hoshi muttered.
"Something wrong?" Madoka asked, looking concerned.
"Nah, just thinking." Hoshi replied. "Care to go out for a few spins at the Bey Park? I bet Zero and Ifrit are there."
"Why not?" Madoka replied, getting up and reaching for a belt with bey gear that was hanging from the wall. She may not be a blader, but Hoshi needed one, and, she had to admit, the unicorn boy was kind of cute. She mostly just launched him, then watched him run wild on his own. She had watched him get desworded by Kaminari and Raiden many times, although he usually had a bit of an easier time with Gingka, who had begun to joke that he was going to turn into a bey himself.
Hoshi followed Madoka out of the B-Pit, fingering the small box in his pocket that held the glittering necklace that he had gotten for her. His thoughts were in turmoil due to nervousness. He hadn't meant to suggest the Bey Park, he had meant to suggest that they go down to the river and watch the sunset, but he had chickened out at the last second. Now, as he followed the brunette down the street, he was frantically trying to gather the courage for another attempt at telling her where he had really wanted to go.
"Hey, have you ever watched the sunset from the riverbank?" he asked suddenly.
Madoka paused to glance back at the unicorn bey.
"Yeah, why?"
"I-uhh... I haven't, and was wondering if you'd go do it with me." Hoshi replied.
"Oh. Why not?" Madoka replied, turning and heading down another street towards the river, frantically trying to hide her blush. She had noticed the normally-confident bey's nervousness at asking her the simple question, and she knew that he had really been asking her out. The two finished their walk to the river in awkward silence.
Gingka and Kaminari, meanwhile, had finished their hike to the top of the mountain, and were now sitting together atop the grassy plateau, watching a brightly colored sunset.
"It's so peaceful up here." Gingka commented.
"Except for the whinnying of the Strikers in the distance, yes." Kaminari chuckled.
"Well, yeah, but that's not very loud or annoying." Gingka said, laying down and crossing his arms behind his head.
"True." Kaminari agreed, laying down as well and resting her hands on her stomach.
"Hey, Kaminari?" Gingka said after a few moments of silence.
"Yeah?" the Pegasus bey turned her attention to her blader as he sat up, fumbling around in his jacket pocket for something.
"I, uh, got you this." Gingka said, holding out a small wrapped box to the bey as she sat up.
"Oh, thanks." Kaminari said, taking the box in her gloved hand and unwrapping it before drawing out the jeweled necklace and gasping silently.
"Do you like it?" Gingka asked.
"Of course i do." Kaminari replied, hugging her blader. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Gingka smiled, hugging his bey back.
"Shut up, you big softie."
"Stop calling me that!"
"But you still like it, even though you deny it. You like me calling you that."
"No, i don't, now cut it out!"
"No chance of that, you big lug."
"Gahh! Back in your bey, now!"
"No. I only take orders from you when we're in battle, Softie-pie."
"Ryuga and Ta-ta, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
Ryuga and Tatsuhime groaned. "Oh no, anyone but them…" they muttered.
"First comes lo-ove, then comes marriage."
"You four had better stop that right now or we'll blast you into oblivion."
"Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!"
"That's it! Tatsuhime!"
The dragon girl shifted to her beast form in a flash, roaring menacingly and setting a few trees on fire. Titi, Fukiko, Yu, and Sukeru squealed in fear and excitement and bolted, firing a few blasts of energy back at the looming dragon as they fled.
"And don't come back!" Ryuga snarled.
"We'll be back, and then we'll bug you more!" Titi and Fukiko promised.
Ryuga growled, fists clenched at his sides and face red in anger.
"I say we set a trap for them." Tatsuhime said, shifting back to humanoid form and putting her hands on her hips.
"I don't play childish games." Ryuga muttered, turning on one heel and striding off.
"Aww, come on you big softie-pie-lugman."
The Dragon Emperor whirled, a tick mark on his forehead. "Stop calling me that!"
"Aww, is the silly softie-pie upset?" Tatsuhime teased, patting her blader on the head affectionately.
Ryuga smacked Tatsuhime's hand away. "Stop treating me like a child." he snarled.
"Aww, little Ryugie is mad. How cute."
"I said stop that!"
"You know you can't intimidate me. I'm not scared of you."
"Except when i have water." Ryuga grinned
Tatsuhime paled. "How did you know i was afraid of water?"
"You let it slip into your mind just now. Come on, off to the river we go." Ryuga smirked, grabbing the bey's wrist and starting to pull her towards the river. Tatsuhime instantly shifted to her dragon form, her smooth scales slipping through Ryuga's fingers.
"You gotta catch me first, Ryugie-softie-pie-lugboy." she teased, whipping her long body around a nearby tree and spiraling upwards to the top.
Ryuga growled and gave chase, scrambling up the tree as fast as he could. However, by the time he reached the top, Tatsuhime had spiraled into the air and was wrapping herself around another tree.
"Ryugie-slowpoke-softie-pie-lugboy." she teased in a sing-song voice.
Ryuga snarled and jumped out of the tree, then darted for the one Tatsuhime was in.
"Ryugie-pie-slow-softie-lugpoke." Tatsuhime snickered as she spiraled into another tree.
"I hate you…" Ryuga snarled.
"Aww, Liar-Ryugie-pie-softie-poke-slow-lug."
"Quit giving me nicknames!"
"I'm not giving you nicknames, Adorable-Ryugie-liar-pie-slow-lug-softie-poke, just adding to the one i have."
"Well stop, it's annoying."
"No, Ad-"
"Adorable-Ryugie-liar-pie-slow-lug-softie-poke, i know, i know. Now cut it out!"
"No."
Ryuga sighed and animefell out of the tree.
"Ow…"
"Aww, Liar-Ryugie-adorable-boo-boo-softie-lug-slow-pie-poke!"
