hey folks! well as promised this is the next chapter of...All Hell Break Loose! first off thankyou to those of you who have reviewed and put this story on alerts and all that kind of thing. also thankyou to those people who have put this story on those community thingys.
disclaimer: as we all know i do not own beyblade and as we all know i am heartbroken by this fact
hope you like this chapter!
Chapter Ten
Bryan who hadn't been expecting to suddenly have Ray's life in his hands looks around at us all slowly. Kai drags himself away from Egan's talon like grip and takes a step forward holding out his hand.
"Give me the beyblade Bryan"
"Bryan don't!" Tala's almost in hysterics "please! I don't want to loose my brother again!"
Bryan hesitates (probably for the first time in his life) and in that instant I do the bravest thing I have ever done! It's so brave that when I look back on it I tremble with fear over what might have happened…ok so I haven't actually done this brave thing yet but I'm getting there. Just preparing myself…
I lunge at Bryan. Not expecting to be hit by five foot something inches blonde hair, blue eyes good looking handsome, rather fetching, dashing hero Bryan falls to the ground throwing the beyblade in to the air and our grand hero (me) dives forward and catches the blade sacrificing his arms and elbows to some serious grazes…
Well that's how it ran in my mind however (sigh) this is what really happened.
I lunge at Bryan. Not expecting to be hit by blonde hair, blue-eyed hyperactive fuzz ball Bryan turns his head and whack! I hit my head on Bryan's upper arm and thud! I fall to the ground shamed.
"Maxie! Are you all right?" calls Tyson from afar. I'm fine Tyson, thank you so much for you help in my attempt to save Ray. While I sit up feeling a little dazed we all hear a strange sound.
"Ray! Ray!" up the hill comes a swaying Mariah with one blue/black bruise on her forehead. "Ray! Ray!" she comes up towards us her arms outstretched and her eyes closed. How she got up here without falling off the cliff I'll never know and why's she got her eyes closed? Lee goes up to her shamed face that he's related to her and leans her against a tree. She still got her eyes tight shut and now complaining that she can't see Ray. God! Is this what having a baby does to people! Glad I'm male! Folks, don't have children! The world's over populated anyway, how about adoption? It's a lot safer and you don't get urges to eat and eat.
Kai, on seeing that the one and only M, not from James Bond I mean Mariah, momentarily distracted Bryan, dives for him and has fortunately more effect than I did (obviously Kai and Bryan have done this before) as both he and Bryan both crash to the ground, Kai tackling Bryan to the earth grappling to get the beyblade from Bryan's grasp.
"Bryan!" Tala runs forward trying to get near the pair as they start to roll down the hill towards the cliff edge…oh shit! Tyson and me also run forward after the rolling pair who are both shouting at each in Russian. Hello you two! Time to realise you're about to roll to your death. Along with Tala and Tyson I grab the pair and we all start edging closer to the edge. Meanwhile Lee and Daichi have grabbed Egan who is trying to be awkward.
"Give Ray back to me!" Kai slips in to English as both he and Bryan both tip over the edge of cliff. Tyson grabs Kai while Tala grabs Bryan and as for me I grab Kai's top in one hand and Bryan's arm in the other so basically if they fall off then I'm doomed. Why do I get myself in these situations? I should have stayed in America, what on earth possessed me to move to Japan. I was happy in America, I could have stayed with my mum and the All Starz, and I could have been a scientific beyblader! Why! Why did I not stay! Oh woe is me!
Instead I travelled the world with a bunch of loonies, I got beaten by a guy who wore a nanny dress, I got friends who fell for each other and now make a good impression of Aladdin and the Genie's lamp, I haven't got a love life because the girl I'm with is more interested in calculating the chance that we break up, I own a shop where kids run round with my stock pretending they're shooting each other, I nearly got stabbed by freaking weirdo who bit me in the neck (oh by the way my neck really hurts but Egan seems to revel in that fact) and all in all I'm going die the ripe old age of teenage hood by falling off a cliff and becoming soup on the rocks below accompanied by Russia's version of Romeo (Kai) and the king of unrequited love (Bryan). It's not fair!
"Ah Maxie!"
Someone pushes me from behind and I let go of my grip on Kai and Bryan and plunged down screaming as I go.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Whew this screaming really takes the air out of you, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Aaaaaaaah- what's happening?
With my eyes shut I feel around. In front of me…air. Above me…air. Below me…air. Behind me…a- no rock!
My eyes fly open and I check out my surroundings. I'm hanging from a tree that is growing on the side of the cliff face, below me is covered in cloud and above me I can see the top of the cliff and faces peering down at me.
I wave a hand to show I'm still alive. I hear sounds of relief and Tyson calls down
"We'll have you back up in no time at all!"
Oh goody, I feel so much safer now. I dangle there; my top seems to have hooked on to a branch of this tree, which worryingly looks very spindly and fragile. Ah this is the life…just to dangle nothing else to do. How about a song.
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She'll be coming round the mountain
Coming round the mountain
Coming round the mountain when she comes
Ok how about this. This is the same song with a little word change
He'll be falling to his death from the cliff side
He'll be falling to his death from the cliff side
He'll be falling to his death
Falling to his death
Falling to his death from the cliff side
Ok maybe that's slightly macabre: how about this?
He is hanging on a tree until they come
He is hanging on a tree until they come
He is hanging on a tree
Hanging on a tree
Hanging on a tree until they come
"Are you alright?"
Slowly I look up to see Kai beside me. I smile in a way that says 'I'm hanging from a tree that is about to break under my weight and sent me to death in the depths below, what do you think?'
"Give me your hand," orders Kai
Not in marriage I hope. I hold out an arm, which Kai grabs, I start to hear a cracking. The tree!
"Kai!"
"Don't panic, just hold on. You're stuck"
"The tree is breaking!" I squeal panicking, it's good to know we listen to our leader's advice.
"I know the tree is breaking, I'm the one breaking it" says Kai calmly
"WHAT!" I scream, "don't! I'll do anything! I'll train much harder and I swear I won't let Tyson spy on you and Ray anymore! And I swear I'll get Emily off your back and tell her not to study you anymore! And I promise I won't-"
"Max shut up"
I feel the last of my tree break under Kai's grip. OMG! Kai's going kill me! I'm going to die, killed before I ever had chance to have a threesome! Nnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooo!
As the last twiglet breaks and I start to fall Kai grabs my other flailing arm and holds on to me as my tree falls in to the pits. Then swinging me with great strength on Kai's part on to his back piggyback style Kai starts his way back up.
I feel that as Kai my saviour Kai deserves a few words in his ear to show my appreciation of him getting from that tree
"Never do that again!" I say
"Well then don't fall off a cliff," answers Kai. He's got me there.
"What happened?" I ask
"Egan pulled free of Lee and Daichi, he ran towards us intent on pushing us all off but Tyson had hold of me and Tala still had hold of Bryan so he just pushed you instead"
Well obviously it would just be a waste of day if someone didn't fall to their death. That Egan really deserves a good slap round the chops and another for good measure.
"What about Ray?"
"Jacket pocket" mutters Kai pulling himself and a quivering me on to another ledge.
I search his jacket pockets, his many jacket pockets until at last I find the blade.
"Keep it safe," gasps Kai even he can't take this much weight forever, I really should help but…oh well "Egan doesn't know I've got it but he will when we get back up"
"How did you get it?"
"Blackmail" answered Kai
"Blackmail?" blackmail sheesh don't want to get on the wrong side of Kai do you? "What do you have against Bryan?"
"Wouldn't you love to know?"
Hmm I would.
"Max"
"Yes Kai"
"Loosen your grip a little, I can't breathe"
But I'm scared
"Max…" sighs Kai
"Yes" I squeak
"You're not going to fall and I'm not going to drop you, do you understand?"
"Yes"
"Then move your arm away from my eyes, I can't see"
I move my arm to grip on to his neck, I nearly strangled him but he bore it with no complaint. Great guy Kai. If he had a sex change and he wasn't taken I'd probably fall for him.
We make it to the top and Kai levers me up before dragging himself up. Egan lunges at him and the only thing that stops Kai flying over the edge is a rock which trips him up and sends him crashing to the ground.
Tyson and Daichi, who have been squeezing the life out of me, both cry out in fear and I give a strangled GARK!
"Where is it you bastard!" Egan is searching Kai's pockets; the world seems to slow as Kai looks up at Egan and smirks.
Now Egan is panicking "what have you done with it?" he's now searching the ground around the ground.
Kai looks at me, I look back. Kai rolls his eyes in annoyance and then looks at me. I look at Tyson and Daichi nonplussed. They shrug. I look back at Kai who has grabbed Egan who has seen him looking at me. Egan also looks at me and lunges at me.
"Give it to me!" he shrieks. Give you what? Kai pulls Egan back and out the reach of Tala and Bryan who are trying to get Egan off him (although Bryan could probably try harder if he liked Egan more). All this time Kai is looking at trying to tell me something…but what? OHHH! I pull out Drigger and then look back out at Kai who is wrestling with a mad Egan.
"What do I do with it?" I call as Tyson and Daichi both charge down Tala and Bryan who try to get to me.
"Launch it at Egan, it'll release Ray!" Kai calls back breathlessly, you try and wrestle with a teenage boy. Not as easy as it looks.
"How?" I ask
"ARE YOU A CHAMPIONSHIP BEYBLADER OR NOT?" Kai bellows. Oh! Right! Hitting myself on the head sheepishly I launch the beyblade at the general direction of where Egan was.
The beyblade spins forward at a speed worthy of light. Ray appears out of nowhere, he's glowing and appears to fall at Egan who, still in Kai's hold, screams.
A bright light blinds us all. I cover my eyes and all I can feel is the heat of the light and hear a quiet wail "Ray?" from Mariah.
I feel someone tap me on the shoulder and when I look up carefully opening my eyes I realise I've fallen to my knees. Tyson is looking down at me.
"You ok buddy?" I've just fallen off a cliff, nearly been blinded, killed several times over, trampled, stamped, squeezed and any other adjective I can think of. Sure I'm fine!
I smiled sweetly "I'm ok Tyson"
Tyson helps me up and I look around. Of Egan there is no sign. Lee is trying to pull Daichi out of a hole which apparently he tried to get down when the light appeared but ended up getting stuck. Mariah is still by the tree eyes tight shut but quiet. Tala is on his hands and knees silent but I can't see his eyes. Bryan is holding him and muttering words in his ear. And over by the edge of the cliff leaning against a tree Kai is lying on the ground where he fell with Ray in his arms…they're gazing in to each others eyes…ain't that sweet!
What about me? Don't I get a hug? Sniffle, sniffle. Sitting back down on the ground I let out a sigh. I feel sorry for Tala, he's obviously very upset but…we got Ray back. I look over to a bush where I see movement, it's a bird…it's eyes are ice blue. Urh! Freaky! Anyone would think Egan was still around…
Nah! What tish tosh! As if! Ha ha ha!
Anyway Tyson is now trying to ring Kenny to tell we're all right but the signal is crappy so he's shouting down a phone that isn't actually working, no one said you had to have a brain to be a beyblade champion.
Meanwhile me, Lee, Daichi all pile on top of Ray who is still lying on Kai and then Tyson who wouldn't be Tyson if he didn't make Kai's life a living hell dives on top of us all with a cry of "GERONIMO!" man, I didn't realise Geronimo was so heavy.
I look at Ray with a grin "you ok? We got your body back only to squish you to death"
"Yeah cheers Maxie" Ray gasped out as four teenage boys squashed the life out of him. We all look down with a grin as Kai clears his throat or tries to clear his throat because it's apparently difficult to clear ones throat when you have five rather heavy all pretty much nearing on six foot (apart from Daichi who is a measly 5.1" haha! Let's all laugh!) piled on top of you.
"Hey you can't hog Ray all to yourself" Tyson's grin turned in to a smirk until Kai managed to kick his precious manly hood somehow managing to miss Ray but succeeding to catch me on the leg, Lee on the chin and Daichi in the stomach. Ow! Kai!
Kai smirked "well then get off, before I do it again" he added as a final threat. 2.3 seconds later the only thing on top of Kai and Ray was four people shaped gaps in the air. Kai sat up still with Ray in his arms, he whispered something in Ray's ear who in response kissed Kai's face and tightened his hold on Kai before letting him go and coming over to us, he smiled. Do I not get a hug and a kiss? I feel hurt, left out. Sniffle.
Well I did feel left out until Tyson and Daichi pulled Ray in to a squeeze and then I felt REALLY left out.
"Ray! Ray!" uh oh I hear the sounds of the almighty calling Ray to his destiny "Ray!" oh no it's just Mariah calling Ray to his fate of Marriage and fatherhood…you know I think personally I would prefer to be called by Satan to live in the pits of hell than marry Mariah and look after some kid who probably is going to turn in to pink demon of White Tiger Mountains.
Ray looked apprehensively at the pink M who was still leaning against the tree eyes tight shut. Lee looked at Ray pointedly as if to say 'well go over and make sure she's alright'
Ray being the big brave boy he is looked at us for aid and Tyson being the subtle and thoughtful bloke he is marched up to Mariah and shouted "DON'T WORRY! RAY'S ALRIGHT BUT I DON'T THINK HE WANTS TO MARRY YOU BECAUSE HE STILL WANTS TO SCREW KAI!"
I don't know him; I have never seen him before in my entire life. He just started following me around claiming to be the world champ of three years. Kai on the other hand knows exactly who Tyson is and shows he knows who Tyson is by grabbing Tyson in a headlock and throwing him bodily in to a boulder. Normally I would be worried that Kai might have done some serious damage but one: Tyson doesn't have anything in his head to be damaged and two: Tyson's head is so hard you could use it to break a stone wall. While Tyson moans and groans and calls Kai several names which cost him another head slam against the boulder we watched as Kai goes over to Bryan and Tala.
Bryan, who had his arms around Tala, glares up at Kai who glares straight back but they both turned their attention to Tala as he looked up at Kai.
"You used to be so close to Egan" murmured Tala "what happened between you?"
"He took Ray away from me" whispered Kai simply "no one does that"
"I hope he knows how much you like him" mutters Tala with a hint of resentment in his voice. They both look over at Ray who is being hugged (squeezed) by Mariah who is bawling her eyes out. Ray is now doing a very good impression of wet Persian cat.
"He does," said Kai "and he feels the same"
"You can't know that" Tala almost scoffs this
"I do," answered Kai "he knows that if he doesn't feel the same way I'll kill him"
…It's nice to know Kai is such an un-possessive person.
Kai catches me listening in and raises an eyebrow, look innocent Max. Innocence is imperative if you want to live. Come be a brave boy.
I scurry behind Tyson who has picked himself up. No wait Kai hurts Tyson too much! I'm not safe! I scurry behind Ray who looks at me blankly until he looks at the faces of Tala, Bryan and Kai who are all looking annoyed (putting it very mildly) that I eavesdropped.
Ray rolled his eyes but smiled, blinking as his hair dripped in to his eyes. A light appeared in his eyes as Kai came over to him. I scurry behind Lee and Daichi, who were trying to get Mariah open her eyes, just in case Kai decides to punish me for listening.
Kai whispered something to Ray putting his hands on Ray's face while Ray just looks at him with shining eyes. God when did those two go soppy!
Meanwhile Tyson and Daichi, who are tired of being ignored lunge, at Kai and Ray…and knock in to Lee who knocks in to Mariah who knocks in to me, we all knock in to Kai and Ray and all land in a heap just in front of Tala and Bryan who are looking acutely shamed that they even know Kai when he is acquainted with such low lives…things back to normal then.
OMG I have only jsut realised that there's only one chapter left! that will be coming soon folks and hope you enjoyed this one! this story is drawing to a close (noooooo) but at the end of the last chapter i have an anoucment to make...
unitl next time folks