Mina: Hello, ma' peeps! How goes it?

Rick: Why are you so happy?

Mina: My dad challenged me to a race! If I lost, then I would be grounded for my entire first semester!

Tala: That race was Monday… YOU WON?

Mina: Yep!

Raul: NOOOOOO! You would have had to let us go for three months!

All: NOOOOOOOOOO!

Mina: While they mourn for the loss of their freedom, enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter Eight: Single (By: Natasha Bedingfield)

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Roxy was acting pissed ever since they had seen Chelsea. Ever since they had shown up, Chelsea and her two 'followers' practically hung off of Haya.

Her 'followers' were Claire and Carol. And 'followers' was only the toned down nickname for the two, and what Haya called them. Do you want to know what Roxy called them?

The list went on... 'group of skanks', 'thing 1 and thing 2', 'The other two C's', and 'The echos' to name a few...

But now, it was sunset and Chelsea, Claire, and Carol had moved their tent so they were practically in the same circle as the other tents went in. The campfire entertainment?

Chelsea was talking to Haya about how pretty she looked and how much she had changed since they had seen each other last...

A month and a half ago...

And Roxy was watching, her eye severely twitching.

"Honestly, hon! You have changed so much!-"

"You haven't..." Roxy muttered, hardly anyone hearing her. "You're still annoying as hell..."

The three C's didn't hear her.

"I still don't know why you hang out with Rosy-"

"That's it!" Roxy shrieked, jumping to her feet and stalking towards Chelsea. "My name is Roxy! Get it right!" at this point, Roxy had grabbed Chelsea by the front of her shirt and yanked her to her feet. "I swear to god Chelsea, if you don't piss off and leave Haya and I alone then I will rip out your hair by the roots. Now piss off before I do something I will actually regret!" this is where Roxy threw Chelsea to the ground and glared at her. Chelsea started crying like a baby as Claire and Carol helped her to her feet and back to their tent.

Eddy looked at Roxys' heaving shoulders and sighed.

"It's about time. I was getting annoyed,"

"Ditto..." Rick muttered.

"I applaud you for your ability to scare that bitch shitless!" Mariam declared, standing up and clapping. Haya suddenly latched onto Roxy.

"Thank you! You have no idea how annoying she is!"

"Actually, I do know. Remember?" Haya suddenly paused.

"Oh, yeah..."

"Who was that Chelsea girl, anyway?" Hilary asked, looking up from her roasting marshmallow and at Haya and Roxy.

"A manipulative bitch from school..." Roxy muttered, sitting down next to Johnny and sticking another marchmallow on her roasting stick.

"She tried to be friends with Roxy so she could use her for her money... but Roxy is way too smart for that! So Roxy told her to piss off in front of the entire school!" Haya explained.

"She never forgave me for it... so now she tries to take everything away from me that I hold close..."

"She got this one guy to go out with Roxy and then cheat on her from... day... one..." Haya stated, but slowly started drifting off upon seeing Roxy glaring at her.

"Secret, Haya. Secret," she snapped. She suddenly stopped and shoved her newly made s'more into Tysons' hand. "I'm going to bed..." she got up and walked into the tent that she was stuck sharing with Johnny.

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Roxy was curled up in her sleeping bag, hugging her stuffed fox for dear life.

Yes, the great Roxanne Taslow has a stuffed fox.

her name is Vixi Palifox.

The stuffed animal looked almost exactly like her bit-beast, only rather old and tattered looking. a small hole was behind her left ear with a small wisp of stuffing coming out, and numerous patches sewn on.

It was a birthday present her aunt sent her for her twelvth birthday.

It was the only gift from her aunt that her father let her keep. But then again, he didn't exactly know she still had it.

Whenever Roxy was upset, she would squeeze the stuffed animal with one arm and hold her beyblade in the other. She liked haved two different security blankets, both at the same time.

'Penny for your thoughts, mistress?' Ignis queried, her bitchip glowing as her voice entered Roxys' mind.

'Why does Chelsea have to be here, Ignis? Just when I thought this summer would be fun...'

'One joy can shatter a thousand griefs. You just have to look for that joy...'

'Wow, Ignis. I never know you were so deep,'

'I read that from a bookmark you looked at in waldenbooks!' Roxy smiled faintly at what her bit-beast told her and held Vixi tighter.

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About an hour after Roxy went to bed, Johnny was creeping into the tent himself. After seeing how pissy she could be when she was tired, he didn't want to risk waking her up.

When he walked into the tent he was shocked and he smirked when he saw Roxy with her eyes closed, and her face shoved into a stuffed fox. Her hand was tightly clutched around a beyblade that he guessed was hers.

Yanking off his shirt((Mina: (drool)... uh, sorry...)), he climbed into his sleeping and turned away so his back was to Roxys'.

"Anything I should know about tomorrow?" She suddenly asked out of the blue, making him jump.

"Don't do that!" he hissed, then he paused. "Old man Granger says were supposed to hike one of the trails. And that bastard Hiwatari says he's going to make us train, too..." he heard Roxy snort.

"Glad I'm not on his team..." she muttered. Johnny scoffed.

"Not just his team. Everyone with a real beyblade, if I heard right," He heard her shift and he looked over his shoulder to see that she had released the stuffed animal and her beyblade and had rolled onto her back, her arms crossed over her stomach.

"Hilary is lucky at times like these..." he also shifted onto his back and propped himself up on his elbows so he could face her better.

"And that short kid that hangs out with Tysons' team and you girls?" Roxy turned her head slightly to look at him.

"Kenny? He didn't come. He didn't have much to do with this whole 'prank war' and he used the excuse that he had to help his parents with whatever it is he said they do," Johnny nodded, signaling that he understood. Roxy sighed and rolled onto her side. "Anyway... g'night, McGregor," Johnny paused before dropping onto his back and just staring at the top of the tent.

"G'night, Taslow. And call me Johnny," when he heard no response, he thought she was asleep.

"Only if you call me Roxy,"

"Deal,"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...Wait, was that a civilized conversation?"

"...What happens in this tent, stays in this tent, deal?"

"Deal,"

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"Move it, you lazy asses!" Roxy shouted, turning around to face the many beybladers who were panting and a few groaning in pain. Roxy sighed before blowing a strand of hair out of her face. "Fine. There's a rest stop about a five minute hike from here. We can stop there and have a drink of water," the second she said that, a panting Chelsea screamed. Roxy rolled her eyes. "And will someone please remind me why we let her come along?" Enrique suddenly seemed to pop out of nowhere with hearts in his eyes.

"Because, why should we let such a beautiful girl and her friends sit around all alone until some time late in the afternoon?" Roxy snorted again and Chelsea let out another shriek. Roxy narrowed her eyes and growled while stalking back down the steps and towards the strawberry blonde girl who was sitting on a rock at the foot of the steps.

"What is it?" she growled, her 'pissy aire', as some of the boys called it, returning. Chelsea suddenly calmed down and looked at her.

"My makeup is starting to smudge, and you didn't let me bring anything to fix it!"

Roxys' eye twitched.

"You're not even supposed to wear makeup when your hiking..." she seethed, looking about ready to hyperventilate in pure rage. She suddely froze and a fake smile bloomed on her face. "Actually, Chelsea, you're right!" Half the boys and all of the girls froze, and Haya looked shocked. "Since the steps are so steep, why don't I carry your bag to the next rest stop for you, and the way to the rest stop after that is so short, you should be able to carry it from there!" Chelsea put on 'the preppy smile'.

"I knew you would come to your senses eventually, Romy..." Roxy was still smiling, but her eye twitched slightly as Chelsea and her two skanks followed behind her.

"Roxy, what are you doing? You hate Chelsea," Haya whispered to her when they were on their way up the steps.

"You'll see, Haya. You'll see..." when they got to the rest stop, Roxy took Chelseas' bag and leaned over near a large pile of rocks. Looking around, she suddenly started grabbing bunches of rocks and shoving them into the skank/whore/bitchs' bag. Grunting, she pulled it over her shoulder and walked over to Chelsea before dropping it at her feet. "Here you go, Chelsea. I hope you can make it to the next rest stop. It's only about a half hour hike..." Chelsea suddenly had a smug smile.

"I can make it,"

"I hope so..." Roxy murmured after turning around and walking over to the other girls who were struggling to contain their laughter.

"How long until you think she notices?" Emily whispered so only the girls could hear.

"Not until the next rest stop, at least," Mariam replied. Roxy just sat and looked very pleased.

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Chelsea was panting all the way to the next rest stop, and somehow she managed not to whine. She would never give Roxy the joy of hearing her moan and bitch when she told her she could make it!

When they got to the next rest stop, Chelsea opened her bag to get a new water bottle and saw the rocks.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" Her frustrated scream echoed all the way back to the campsite.

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Two hours later, after finishing the hike and coming back, the members of the Rising Tempest were found in bathing suits, lounging around the rather large lake that was only about a ten minute walk from their campsite.

Roxy told them she spotted it from the peak they had hiked to earlier. While the girls 'oohed' over the view and the boys 'ahed' over the fact they could see the campsite from there.

Even if everything looked like ants.

But, back to the present.

Roxy was calmly sprawled out on a towel at the foots of a small slanted waterfall. The waterfall was like a natural slide, which all of the girls had tried at least once. Smooth rocks slanted like a slide, and ending two feet above the water so they flew over the water and created an entertaining splash. Roxy sat where she was sitting so she could laugh whenever one of them screamed.

"Come on, Roxy! After that huge hike, the water is great!" Mariah shouted to her.

"Yeah! Besides, your tan enough! No need to push it!" Mariam shouted, Emily screaming in the background as she slid down the 'rock slide' and flew into the water with a loud splash. Roxy laughed and rose to her feet. Yanking the white T-shirt off and tossing it on top of her stuff, she ran and cannonballed herself into the water, making a satisfying splash.

"Happy?" she asked after surfacing and swimming over the the waterfall so she could slide down.

"Good enough," Mariah laughed.

"Prepare... for the greatest splash... EVAH!" Roxy declared from the top of the waterfall. She then slid down on her back and when she went off the edge, she curled into a ball, making a large splash and sprinkling all of the girls with more water.

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"How come they didn't have to train?" Kevin snapped at Kai, when the girls sat down beside the fire.

"Because-"

"Because we're better than you and it is completely unnecessary for us to do so!" Roxy declared in a tone that made it sound like she was telling a four-year old that she was out of candy. Kevin glared and her and Kai sneered.

"I was going to say that they're so weak an pathetic, no amount of training could help them..." he growled, also glaring at her. Roxys' eyes flashed with anger as she slowly rose to her feet.

"What was that, Hiwatari?" she growled.

"You heard me!" he spat. Roxy suddenly smirked.

"If I didn't know you any better, Hiwatari... I'd say that was a challenge,"

"Don't challenge her, Kai!" Michael warned from the sidelines. "She humiliated me!-" Kai glared at him. "...Not that that means she'll humiliate you... but you still might-" Kai glared harder. "...I'm just gonna' to shut up now..."

"Actually, Taslow... I am challenging you!" he snapped, whipping Dranzer out of his pocket. Roxy smirked.

"Fine by me..." she said, picking her bag off of the ground and pulling out her beyblade, her launcher, and her ripcord.

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Mina: There you have it, my update! Hope you like it!

Raul: WWWWAAAAAHHHHHH!

Mina: Is he still crying? Dang...