AN: Thank you for the lovely reviews! This chapter is dedicated to my friend Dan-it's pretty much the story of our friendship really!
Disclaimer: ZEBRA HOOVES. I DON'T OWN BEYBLADE. CHICKEN FONDANGO.
Song For This Chapter: Kids In America - Kim Wylde
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Chapter 8 - Arguing And Thinking
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED BACK THERE?" Kai shrieked.
"Calm down Kai, calm down!" Hilary squeaked nervously, not wanting to incur his wrath, as Tyson had already did. Twice.
"YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN?"
"Um...yeah..." Tyson groaned, only to recieve another punch in the face for his contribution to the conversation.
"Kai, STOP PUNCHING TYSON FOR ONE MINUTE AND LISTEN!" Max yelled.
Kai was a little shocked, at Max raising his voice like that. Max was usually one who would try to steer everyone out of the arguements they were always getting into. He thought that Ray would have been more likely to shout out, and as far as Kai knew, Ray hated arguements almost as much as Max.
Max had gotten the atmosphere he wanted. It had also distracting Kai from beating the living crap out of Tyson, who was now shivering in a corner of the room, not wishing to be punched a fourth time. Or a fifth. Or even a sixth...
"Okay," Max said calmly, "Let's just go from the beggining, shall we?"
"I know about the beggining of the battle you dolt!"
"Okay! We'll skip to the part where you two collapsed!" Kenny yelped.
"Good," Kai growled, folding his arms.
"Alright," Kenny said, tapping at the keys of his computer laptop Dizzi, "I got the whole thing on my webcam. So now we can analyze the data and take out key fabric points-"
"I don't need any techinical shit, Kenny, just gimmie the story plain and straight." Kai grunted.
"Who died and made you King?" Ray said huffily.
"God."
"Oh."
Silence for a few minutes, apart from Kenny fingers tapping feriocously at Dizzi's keyboard.
"Okay," he sighed after about 10 minutes of hard work, "I think I've got the data all straight."
"Finally." Kai responded.
Sighing heavily, he came up to where Kai was sitting and put Dizzi in his lap.
"Now, see this?"
Kai glanced at it for a second, then noticed something very strange. The power readings from his and Ember's blade, at the same point, where exactly the same. Hmm, he thought, That's unusual. Not just that, but...
Tapping a few keys, Kai called up several more readings from other points. It was the same there time after time.
"Okay," he finally responded, "That is just creepy."
"You tell me about Kai. Hardly anyone can come close to matching your power, never mind matching it exactly and at so many points."
"Yeah..."
Kenny then started to call up several video panels, but Kai had had enough. Kai took Dizzi off his lap and put it on the floor-then walked towards the door.
"Kai?" Hilary squeaked.
"Where are ya goin'?" Max yipped behind him.
"To take a walk and clear my mind. I'm not watching myself get beat by a god damn girl 80 times over."
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Ember -had- fully recovered, but Rally was still treating her like a two year old.
And Ember was getting tired of it all. Very quickly.
"Rally, seriously, I am fine!" Ember protested angrily as Rally wrapped a bandage around one of her arms.
"No you're not!" Rally stated firmly.
Ember groaned. She really didn't like being treated like an invalid when she felt fine. All she wanted to do was go out and find Kai. And when she did, to kick him in the nuts and then have nothing more to do with the utterly inept bastard.
Even Damien was growing weary of it, and it was Ember who was 'supposedly' being treated.
"Calm down, Rally," he sighed eventually, watching Rally crack some ice cubes out of a tray for a small bruise on Ember's right arm.
If looks could kill, Damien would've been deep in his grave.
"...shutting up..." Damien squeaked.
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"Bloody annoyances..." Kai muttered, glaring back at the dojo, which was about 500 meters behind him now, "I do not want to see me getting my arse whipped by a girl. Who do they think I am?"
Not looking where he was going, Kai stumbled on a loose paving stone, stubbing his toe against it hard. Muttering a short stream of curse words under his breath, he got up and continued on his way down the the riverbank.
This was a very nice place for him. It was often very quiet here, and that made it an absolutley luxorious place to just sit, dream or think. Hey, he could even meditate and not be disturbed for hours. Slipping clumsily down the bank, he lay next to the water and shut his eyes, allowing the warm sun to cover his body. He now wished he hadn't kept his gloves on, as his hands were getting hot. Slipping them off quietly without opening his eyes, he envisioned where he would love to be...all alone on a long beach, sun, sea and sand, the sky a beautiful cerulean blue...with little with shines like clouds in them...wait a minute...those weren't clouds...
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Ember had managed to slip away from Rally after Damien had 'pretended' to be injured by falling over or stubbing his toe or something. She couldn't remember. She wasn't exactly paying attention.
Jogging down the pathway and across the bridge, she stopped halfway across the bridge to look over it and into the beautiful clear water. She could very clearly see her eyes and face, even from about 5 meters above the water-it was that clear. Smiling gently, she knew that if anyone ever tried to pollute this, they would have half the city on their tale, after all, it was one of the most peaceful places you could go whenever city life got too stressful, or you were just in need of a quiet think.
Glancing to the edge of the bank, she spotted a familiar face. A familiar face with grey eyes and blue hair...
She grinned evilly. Her day had just gotten a whole lot better...
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Kai yelped in fright as he scrambled away from the red-headed 16 year old girl hovering over him.
"What the hell?" he shouted, angered at this invasion of his privacy.
"I'm not a 'hell' thank you very much." Ember tutted.
Kai sweatdropped.
Shaking his head, he continued: "...forget I even said that. Look, just what are you doing here? Are you supposed to be with your team, concocting evil ways to kill me?"
"I've already thought of one."
"Lemme guess. It involves you plunging a sledgehammer right where it hurts most for guys."
"Spoilsport. Now you've ruined the suprise!"
"Ha ha. With a capital HA."
"I certianly think so."
"Oh shaddup."
Ember laughed gently. It was almost an angelic laugh really, but it had a hint of devilish humour in it.
Rubbing his eyes, Kai got up.
"Now," he stated, "What do you want?"
"I think it's pretty obvious what I've come for, isn't it?"
"Rematch?"
"Rematch."
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AN: Had to end it there LOL. I know it is not much. DON'T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY .
Tyrila Anios xxx
