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So, on to chapter ten.
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade nor any of its characters.
WARNINGS: OOCness. Bad language. Attempted humour.
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The Eyes Of An Animal
Chapter Ten: The First Challenge
"I am going to kill you" seethed Kai evilly.
"Oh come on," said Ray with a grin as he carefully cleaned Kai's wings with soap "it was a joke"
"You were going to cook me in olive oil!" squawked the little bird.
"You got me a police warning" retorted Ray.
"You covered me in salt!"
"You left me out in the cold morning stark naked"
"You put a piece of orange beside me!"
"You locked the window!"
"You put a sprig of basil in my mouth!"
Ray laughed, "I did didn't I?"
"Where's Tala?" asked Kai as he tried to fluttered his wings "I'll kill him for this!"
Ray sniggered "he went to look for Ian who has disappeared again, the little guy keeps appearing and disappearing"
"Mainly because you keep trying to be friends with him" said Kai as he preened his wings and coughed when he got soap in his beak.
"I only want to apologise for trying to make him my pet" reasoned Ray.
"Hn" was Kai's comment "where did Hilary go?"
"Tyson's taken her for a walk to break the news that we're all turning to animals" replied Ray as he got a damp cloth to wipe Kai's wings.
"And Max?"
"Currently trying to figure out how to get on to the skateboard"
"Is anyone thinking about waking Hiro up?" asked Kai looking down at the comatose figure on the floor.
"We've tried but failed"
"What about Johnny and Oliver? Has anyone find out why they're here in the first place?" Kai grumbled as Ray gently pulled out a wing and cleaned with care so as not to disturb the delicate feathers
"Oliver came to visit Max and Johnny came to challenge you" explained Ray "they don't know why they changed to animals, and they're regretted their decision to come here at all"
"I'll bet they are," jeered Kai pleased that someone, other than him, was suffering.
He fluttered angrily.
"Stop wiggling," scolded Ray "you keep ruffling your feathers and I can't get all the soap out"
"Well look at me!" trilled Kai failing to keep the bird sounds under control "I'm being bathed for crying out loud!"
Ray smiled "it could be worse"
"How exactly?"
"I could be trying to clean you while I was a cat"
"Hell itself" muttered Kai.
"I know I'm a pain at night" sighed Ray "I can't help it, my brain just goes hairy"
"Hn" Kai softened as Ray delicately dabbed his head with a tiny amount of water to clear any oil away "I suppose it's not your fault" he reasoned, "it can't be much fun being a cat"
"Actually I've never had so much fun in my life" contradicted Ray "seriously, I never knew being so much trouble would be so…thrilling. I create havoc and yet get away with it"
He grinned as Kai scowled at him.
"There" the neko-jin put down the cloth "no more oil"
"Thank God for that" said a wet Kai sarcastically "I'm soaking wet instead"
Ray sighed "ungracious little beast!" he reprimanded, "sit tight and I'll dry you off"
"How exactly?" asked Kai as Ray delved in to a cupboard.
Ray responded by reappearing with hairdryer and directing it at Kai.
He turned it on full blast.
Kai was swept away.
He smacked in to the wall with a slap.
He opened his eyes with a small groan and slipped to the floor looking slightly stunned.
"Mother fucker" he muttered as Ray howled.
"I'm sorry!" Ray chuckled wiping his eyes "the temptation was just too much!"
"Being a cat has had a bad effect on you" growled Kai as he wobbled.
"Come here" said Ray still chortling.
He gently picked Kai up and placed him on the table.
Kai glared as the hairdryer was raised again
"I'm only going to use the warm air, not the hot blast" Ray promised and good as his word sat down and flicked the hair dryer to a softer setting.
"I feel ridiculous" grumbled Kai as he held out a wing which Ray carefully dried.
"If it's any consolation you look ridiculous" said Ray.
"Oh thanks" Kai glared while he held out his other wing.
"Look you have to be dry, your wings aren't designed for water, they're not waterproof" said Ray "if we're not careful you'll damage them"
"Oh like being soaked in oil didn't do that already"
"Well we are having fun"
Ray whirled round to see Joseph in the kitchen door; he glared "what are you doing here?"
"Nice to see you still have your good manners, Ray" said Joseph coming and sitting down at the table, he smirked at Kai "looking good Hiwatari, I'm loving the puffy feathered look"
Kai glared which only increased his cuteness and therefore did not have the desired effect "I presume you're here to challenge Ray" he twittered.
"Sure am" said Joseph.
"Me" Ray set the hairdryer down.
"Right, I'm sure you wouldn't mind fighting me" said Joseph "Ozuma wants Tyson and Dunga is just screaming to fight Kai as for Mariam, well she just can't wait to see her Maxie. So that means you're stuck with me"
Ray's eyes narrowed "don't worry Joseph, it would be my pleasure to smash you out the dish"
"That's settled then" Joseph stood and stepped over Hiro raising his eyebrows "meet me at the beach at sunset" he turned to go.
"Sunset" repeated Ray "that's not a good time for me"
"It's sunset or nothing Ray" and with Joseph left leaving a fluffy red bird and a neko-jin to look at each other.
"Great" said Kai to the world in general "I'm now fluffily dry and my entire fate is resting in the grasp of a guy who at sunset turns to brain riddled hairball with a fetish for havoc"
"I resent that" said Ray absently turning the hairdryer to full blast again.
Johnny the salamander was watching Max.
"I'm gonna do it!" Max grappled to clamber on to the skateboard "ok! This time!" Max rocked his shell and levered a flipper on to the skateboard, then the second flipper and then- "dammit!" cried Max as he rocked too violently and flipped over on to his back "bugger" he said to the world in general after discovering he couldn't right himself "help?" he spun upside-down and spotted Johnny.
"Hey Johnny"
Johnny watched as Max waggled his flippers helplessly in an attempt to flip over again
"Aw man! Where's Tyson when you need him?" whined Max.
"Now Hilary" began Tyson "I know you're not to believe this but-"
He was interrupted by a falcon swooping past with a beyblade clutched in it talons, the falcon screeched with excitement as Spencer came thundering round the corner bellowing at the bird.
"Oh wow Spencer! Is that your bird?" asked Hilary in awe as she watched the falcon swoop and soar through the air.
"No it's-" Spencer stopped as he caught the impressed look on Hilary's face "why yes it is, I call him…Bird" he finished somewhat lamely.
"Can you call him to you?" asked Hilary completely forgetting about Tyson.
"Uh sure" Spencer looked up at Bryan who had settled in a tree the beyblade now lodged in his beak "come Bird" Spencer waved his arm.
Bryan tipped his head to one side.
"Bird" said Spencer sternly "come here at once"
Bryan responded by flying towards Spencer, cuffing him over the head with a wing and flying away in to the sky with a definite smirk on his beak.
The beyblade he left in the tree.
"Uh, what happened?" Hiro opened his eyes and sat up feeling dizzy "I remember…I remember…Kai?" Hiro blinked several times as he took in the sight before his eyes.
"Ray Kon, I am going to kill you" said Kai savagely.
Ray sniggered "oh come on, you look so sweet!"
"I'mKai Hiwatari!" Kai stamped his little foot "I don't do sweet!"
"Look if we don't do this we'll loose you" Ray smiled down at the little red bird "a little bell is perfect. It'll tell us where you are and it also means Oliver won't try to cook you again"
"Oliver didn't cover me in olive oil!" retorted Kai "and I am not wearing a fucking bell! You're the one who needs the bell!"
"It suits you" said Ray stroking the top of Kai's head.
"Take it off!" ordered Kai.
"Nope" said Ray "not until I've taken at least six pictures"
"Don't you dare you little shit! I swear as soon as I'm human again you're going in the trash! This is cruelty to animals!" Kai jumped up and down in fury to prove his point "I'll get you for this! You're laughing now but you better be running at sunset because when that time comes I'll put so many bells on you you'll fall over!"
"You've got a bell around your neck" said Hiro faintly.
"Oh well done Sherlock! Where's your buddy Watson? Together you'll be able to figure out how to take it off!" twittered Kai angrily.
"How do you feel?" said Ray to Hiro with concern "you hit your head pretty hard"
"Pity you didn't hit it harder" muttered Kai receiving a sharp tap on the head from Ray as a reprimand.
Hiro took one look at Ray and backed away from the neko-jin in fear "stay where you are Ray Kon! You've done enough to me already and you sure as hell aren't going to cover me in olive oil!"
"He's mad," said Kai "you've finally driven him mad"
Ray, ignoring Kai, said "Hiro, you've hit your head so you need to go and sit down"
"Or run for your life" advised Kai "because Ray's got bells and he's not afraid to use them"
"I'll strap one round your beak if you don't shut up!" said Ray.
"Go ahead and try!" challenged Kai
...
"That's better" said Ray with a smile, he turned to talk to Hiro once again but found that the older Granger was running out the house and up the street as fast as his weak legs would take him.
Hiro let out a scream as a turtle on a skateboard zoomed passed him singing loudly.
Ray heard the tiny sound of a bird clearing its throat, he turned to face his captain who had his wings folded and was tapping one bird foot expectantly.
Ray sighed but took untied the tiny bell from around Kai's beak.
Kai's little foot tapped again.
Sadly Ray took the bell from around his neck.
"Thank you" said Kai "now, get your neko-jin ass out there and start training, if this battle with Joseph is going to be a cat disaster then you might as well be trained to do it"
"You're going to have to tell me where you hid the key to your bedside cupboard" said Ray
"Why?"
"Because you locked my beyblade in there when I wouldn't stop playing with it"
And that's chapter ten done! Poor Kai, first he gets covered in oil and then he gets washed!
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Thanks for reading.
Kiki