Ren: "Ello poppet!"
Max: "What's with the english accent?"
Ren: (Shrugs) "Dunno, just felt like using it."
Max: "Ren does not own Bladebreakers if she did she would be a multi-billionaire."
-Chapter 10
For the next few days for Ren was all in a blur for her and time relapsed on itself for Ren. She slept most of the time, one minute she was freezing and the next she was roasting, she was sweaty, shivers racked throughout her body and her lungs were on fire and they felt like they were going to implode!
During the times she was swimming in and out of consciousness she was aware of muffled voices and once she felt cool hands lifting her head to feed her broth and herbal tea. The broth felt nice for she hadn't been able to stomach anything solid for the past couple of hours, days, or whenever. She lost track of time some time ago.
Another time she felt someone pressing a cool, wet, cloth on her face and it was such a relief for her burning face that she could actually pry open her eyelids but everything was too blurry to make out. She could only see a blob of black, red, and white but she knew who it was.
"…..Ray…." she whispered before she swam back to unconsciousness.
One night she woke up needing to use the restroom badly and not for urinal reasons. Her stomach was doing flip flops and going on such wild roller coaster rides that it made her even more queasy. Without a warning to the others who were still awake, surprisingly, she shot up out of bed and out of the room with hand clamped over her mouth.
"REN!" She heard the others shout but she ignored them and slammed the bathroom door open and hurled what was left of the broth in her stomach in the toilet.
"And we're back to square one," Ren couldn't help but think as she felt cool hands pull back her loose hair and another set of cool hands rub her back in small circles.
"Ooooh," She groaned when she was done emptying the contents in her stomach.
Someone helped her back to her bed and she went back to sleep. When Ren woke up again she could actually make out objects and see clearly for once. She also felt less like an oven, too, so that was a good sign, The growling of her stomach was also a sign, too but as she looked around for a sign of life she couldn't see any. So with a couple of tries she got up and clutching a blanket around her shoulders she made her way to the kitchen leaning on the hallway wall a couple of times to rest but she got there in the end.
"Hopefully I can stomach cereal, Raisin Bran Crunch should be okay, I hope," Ren thought as she got out a bowl and spoon. Opening the fridge she got out milk and got the rain bran box from atop the fridge.
After putting some sugar on top she put everything away except the cereal box, she sat down and began eating while reading the box and figuring out the puzzles and mazes. She was about halfway done with her cereal when Ren heard something that told her there was an actual sign of life with in the dojo. She heard a door being slid open and pairs of feet shuffling down a hall. Then there was another sliding open of a door and a shout,
"REN!"
She chuckled. "Let's see how long it takes for them to find me," She thought and resumed eating and reading the box.
"Where is she?" She heard Ray ask.
"I don't know! She was here the last time I came to check up on her." She heard Kai reply.
"Check the bathroom, maybe she had to throw up again," Max suggested.
"Cold, Maxie! Very cold," Ren thought as she pretended to play the hot and cold game with them.
She took a bite of her cereal again and listened as footsteps came closer.
"Warmer," She thought as she used the end of her spoon to follow a maze.
There was sliding of a door and a gasp and she looked to see Max standing at the kitchen door staring at her like he had just seen a ghost.
"Hey, Maxie! Guess what? I can actually eat something solid now," Ren said cheekily at him giving him a two thumbs up and then took another bite of her cereal.
She hadn't even begun to chew when there was a shout, "REN!" and she found herself being lifted out of her chair and engulfed in Max's hugs with her feet dangling in the air, swinging her around in circles and laughing.
"Max! Max! Let me go! You're gonna make me choke on my food!" Ren squealed the best she could threw her mouthful of raisins and cornflakes.
Then of course Max's shout must have drawn the other's attention so before Max could set her down she heard pounding feet and the others came in, saw her and shouted, "REN!"
Then she found herself being hugged by everyone once more.
"Um I'd hate to break up the hugging spree here, but can I get back to my food please? I'm starving!" She said after she chewed and swallowed her mouth full of cereal.
There was a murmur of, "Sorry." And she was put back down in her chair.
"Don't scare us like that! What are you doing up anyway? We're glad that you're feeling good enough to walk and all but you aren't going to get any better not laying down," Kai said.
Ren raised her hands wardingly. "Whoa, easy there papa bear! I woke up, was hungry, saw no one was around so I got up, went to the kitchen, and made myself some cereal, and now here I am," She said and took a bit of her cereal to prove it.
"Glad to see your appetite is back," Ray commented as he sat down in a chair next to her. Everyone followed pursuit.
"So how long was I out of it? It felt like centuries to me," Ren asked them.
"5 days," Kai answered bluntly and Ren choked on the milk she was drinking and had to pound her chest to clear her throat a couple of times with Ray pounding her back.
"5 days?" She rasped out when she was done what felt like hacking up a lung and massaged her throat.
"Yeah, the doctor came and checked up on you when you were unconscious the first night. He told us you had a light case of pneumonia but it seems you're getting better now," Tyson said.
Ren shook her head. "Un-believable," She said to no one in particular.
Then she drained her milk out of her bowl and stood up to rinse it in the sink but before she could take three steps toward the sink the bowl was taken out of her hands by none other than Kai Hiwatari himself.
"Um, what are you doing?" Ren asked as she blinked up at him.
"You're still sick, Ren. Now back to bed with you!" Kai answered.
Ren was about to object when she felt a pair of firm hands gripping her shoulders and she was being forced to march back to her bed by Ray.
"Can I at least do something so I'm not bored as heck just laying here like a log?" Ren asked them when Ray forced her down onto her mattress.
"I know, you can help me with these statistics on the team's beyblades on Dizzi," Chief offered sitting down next to Ren and opened up Dizzi.
"Yeah, we need another genius's input," Dizzi piped up.
"Alright," Ren said and sat up leaning her back against the wall and then held out her hands for Dizzi.
"Do you mind if I take a look?" She asked the boy.
"Sure," Chief said and handed Dizzi over.
Ren took one look at Dizzi's screen in her lap and she frowned.
"Hey, Chief? What version is Dizzi at? Or when was the last time you upgraded her?" She asked Chief.
"Um, I upgraded her last year to 8.0, why?" Chief answered slowly.
Ren slapped a hand on her forehead and shook it. "I pity you, Dizzi," She said to the laptop.
"Thanks, at least SOMEONE noticed my needs," Dizzi grumbled.
"Why? What's wrong?" Chief asked concerned and confused.
"It's times like these where I thank god that I'm a girl," Ren muttered to the ceiling and then turned to Chief. "Haven't you ever wondered why it takes so long for Dizzi to upload things?" She asked him.
"Sometimes," Chief admitted meekly.
"Sometimes, he says!" Dizzi drawled, if she had eyes she would be rolling them right about now. Ren chuckled.
"Chief, the 8.0 version is what's killing Dizzi or rather what's making her so slow. 8.0 gives you more space to hold your information and databases, yeah, but it also slows the mainframe to almost a slug pace," Ren explained.
"Oh," was all Chief could say.
"I even tried to tell you not to give me that version but no, you went right on ahead and did it," Dizzi said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Aren't you glad I came along?" Ren asked the question meant for Dizzi.
"Yes," Practically everyone in the room said including Kai who heard the question when he came in. Ren blushed at all of the responses.
"Ok, so can we fix it?" Chief asked and Ren gave him an odd look.
"Hmm, lets see-I've been making my own beyblading parts since I was twelve. I've been making EBP'S since I was thirteen, I operated on Spike giving him the ability to see, walk, and talk and not to mention I use him to hold basically any information I need him to hold and I can't keep track of. So you tell me can we fix it?" She said jokingly with a smirk at a blushing Chief.
"Yeah, I suppose," Chief answered nervously.
"Now, let's get to work. Spike-get over here I'm going to need you," Ren said to the laptop. Then she turned to Tyson and asked, "Can you get me my bag please? I need a cord that's in there."
"I'm going to give you Spike's version it's the best," Ren said to Dizzi as Tyson walked away.
"What version is it?" Chief asked curiously as Ren flipped open Spike's screen.
"I think it's 13.0 but it's been so long since I've last checked and I update Spike so frequently I kinda lose track sometimes. Spike what's your version?" She asked the laptop.
"Version 17.0," Spike answered automatically and Ren nodded. Chief gasped.
"17.0? That's amazing!" Chief exclaimed in awe.
When Tyson handed Ren her bag she opened it and dug around it throwing out CD's and other computer crap as she looked.
"No, no, ugh where is it!? I know I packed it in here somewhere," Ren said aloud as she threw out a computer floppy disk narrowly missing Chief's head.
"Eureka!" Ren exclaimed when she finally pulled out a wrapped up skinny cord.
Then she stuffed everything she threw out except the cord back into her bag and kicked it to the side. Then leaning forward she set Dizzi on top of the blankets after she folded her legs with Spike next to her.
"What cord is that?" Max asked when he saw Ren putting one end of the cord in Spike and the other in Dizzi.
"It's a USB cord," Ren answered and sweeping her bangs behind her ears she typed something on Spike's keyboard. Then she typed on Dizzi's.
Then a white box appeared on Spike's screen saying-
……Downloading……
Do not remove USB cord!
While another white box appeared on Dizzi's screen saying-
……Uploading……
Do not remove USB cord!
"Right, now we just have to wait until they're done and then reboot Dizzi," Ren as she leaned back and rested her hands in her lap.
"That's it?" Chief asked in disbelief looking at Ren.
"That's it," Ren confirmed as if she had done nothing more than dusted fake dirt off of her shoulders.
Then there was a "Di-do" noise that directed their attention to the two laptops and they saw on both laptops saying-
……Finished!
You may now remove the USB cord.
"Right, have Dizzi reboot when I unplug the cord and she'll be fine," Ren said and unplugged the USB cord.
Dizzi rebooted and then chief had the shock of his lifetime when she came back online and Ren had this smug grin plastered on her face. She had eyes! Brown eyes!
"D-Dizzi, you have eyes! How'd that happen?" Chief exclaimed.
"I do? I do! Yay I have eyes! I can see!" Dizzi said happily. Ren let out a giggle.
"Sorry, I wanted to surprise you. I also downloaded the ability for Dizzi to see well without having to use the camera all of the time. Now all we need to do is a little bit of surgery and you'll be able to walk like Spike," Ren explained to the questioning looks she was getting from everybody in the room.
Dizzi had stars in her eyes as she looked at Ren. "I love you, Ren!" Dizzi said happily. Ren laughed.
Chief once again tackled Ren into a hug saying, "Thank you, thank you!"
Ren laughed and patted Chief on the head again and he got off of her.
"Ok, NOW, let's look at those statistics, Dizzi? Would you care to do the honors?" Ren asked Dizzi.
"Would I ever," She responded and they got work with Ren pointing out a few things here and there.
Then in the middle Chief asked, "Would it be too much trouble if you gave me your statistics? You know so I can keep track of all of the team's beyblades and their bitbeasts.
Ren shrugged. "Sure," She replied and turned to Spike and used the touchpad mouse to open the main menu.
She scrolled up to My Computer and clicked on it. Then she went to My Documents and clicked on that and then clicked on the icon that said Beyblading. The icon opened up into three different icons-Bladers/Teams-Bitbeasts-Miscellaneous.
Ren was about to click on the Bitbeasts icon when Chief, who was peering over her shoulder at the screen, asked her to explain the icons.
"The Bladers/Team icon is where I keep track of all of the info on a beyblader's and or their team that I've come across with during my traveling. Location, age, gender, and so on; that kind of thing. The Bitbeasts icon is where I have mine and other people's bitbeast and its information stored. Then the Miscellaneous is where I keep any other information on beyblading that doesn't have to do with beyblading and or bitbeast," Ren said.
"Can we take a look at them? I want to see what information you have that I may not have," Chief asked.
"Sure," Ren said and clicked on the Blader/Team icon.
"Well this is all fascinating and everything but I'm gonna go and watch a movie," Tyson said getting up.
"I'll come with you," Hilary said and followed after him.
"Wanna play a round of poker?" Max offered to Ray and Kai and they sat in a corner and began to play poker.
A list of all of the Beybladers and or teams soon came up and Chief was shocked to find such a diverse group of people listed on there. There were people from Spain, Russia, China, England, France, Germany, Portugal, The U.S. and countless other countries. There were even people the Bladebreakers knew-Tala, Lee, Miriah (Sp?), Gary, Brian, Robert, Oliver, and other people.
"You know a lot of people! I mean look at this there's even Tala, Spencer, and Robert in there! With rankings from 1-10 on how good they are, location, age, gender, and their bitbeast's name. Good grief! Whoa! Hey-Is that us?" Chief rambled off as he scrolled down the list and then spotted the profiles of the members of the team the Bladebreakers.
"Heh, yeah after I met the team I added their files in there, too," Ren said meekly with her hand behind her head.
"You're very organized that's for sure, I mean, you have all of the teams put together alphabetically and stuff. Hey! Is that person from Greenland? Just where exactly have you been to anyway?" Chief asked Ren. Even Kai, Ray, and Max looked at her in curiously.
"Man, that's a tough question!" Ren said looking at the wall scratching her head and ticked off her fingers numerous times as she continued, "Hang on let me think; I've been to-Russia, China, India, Japan, of course, Australia, The Philippine islands, um, I've been all over Africa and let me tell you the Sahara was no picnic, Portugal that was an interesting little trip, Spain the architecture was beautiful there, France, Germany, Italy, Rome, The United Kingdom, Greenland, Iceland, I think I've been to the Arctic too, but I'm not sure. Canada, Alaska, some parts of the U.S., Central America, Jamaica, and I didn't even try to go to Cuba or the Dominic of Republic, South America was beautiful, and so was Hawaii. Basically almost everywhere if you think about."
"You've been to the Sahara? What's it like?" Chief asked curiously.
"Hot like hell," Ren replied immediately with a grimace the four boys and Dizzi laughed.
"Yeah and it nearly fried my circuits, too!" Spike grumbled.
"How? You didn't even come out of my bag the whole entire time and it's always cold in there," Ren asked disbelievingly as she stared at the laptop.
"Tell that to my hard drive! I'm still feeling jerky and that was what 2 years ago when we went?" Spike said.
Ren smack Spike on the back of his screen," Oh, quite your bellyaching, wuss! You were perfectly fine the last time I gave you a check up and that was three weeks ago!" She scolded.
"Alright let's move on shall we?" Ren asked and then back out of the file and went to the Bitbeast file.
"Okay, let me, give you my stats before I show you everything else first," Ren said as she scrolled down the list.
"Okay," Chief said as he peered at the screen.
Ren finally came to the bottom of the list and clicked on the picture of Drystilion's head. A window opened up and Chief gasped at the amount of information Ren had on her bitbeast. The background color was black and the font a blue. At the top left corner was a rotating picture of Drystilion that would turn around every few seconds. Next to the picture was written: ( A/N: Okay some of this information may seem bizarre but just go along with it alright and when it gets the number of attacks don't bite my head off saying it's too many, Don't worry I'll make it so it won't seem like she has too many. Also remember she did travel around the world learning new techniques and stuff for three years she would have plenty of time to create all of these attacks.)
Name: Drystilion
Main Element: Shadow
Branch Element: Fire, Lightning, Water, and Wind.
Age: Unknown
Beast Type: Dragon
Number of Attacks: 8
Attacks: (Arranged Weakest to Deadliest) 1) ShadowShot, 2) Dragon's Rage, 3) Solar Wind, 4) Dark Destruction, 5) ShadowDragonChaos, 6) Grand Element Destruction, 7) Watery Grave, 8) Imminent Crisis.
Attacks that are branched from attacks: (You know like how I used Fire ShadowShot from ShadowShot and Solar Wind). Fire-Wind-Water-Lightning ShadowShot, Black Dragon's Rage, Solar Flare, Ebony Galaxy, and Never Endless Nightmare.
And then below all of Drystilion's info is a rotating picture of Ren that would turn every few seconds. Below the picture is more info-
Name: Serena Drystilia
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 135lbs
Location: Japan
Siblings: Rika Drystilia, Age: 16, Drake Drystilia, Age: 21.
Sibling's bitbeasts: Rika-Drys, Drake-Drystiliania.
"I see you've already made your 8th attack?" Chief commented.
"Yeah, it's the Imminent Crisis one, my deadliest attack and one that I use as a last resort," Ren said with a serious tone.
"How powerful is it? And why do you use it as a last resort?" Chief asked and the room the boys in the corner stopped the poker game to listen.
"Well power wise, the Imminent Crisis attack can take out two whole city blocks in one go," Ren responded.
The four boys stared in shock and surprise at Ren. Two whole city blocks? Can anyone say "C.R.A.P!"?
"And I use it as a last resort because of not only the damage it can do, but because it puts so much strain on my beyblade that it can be fatal to Drystilion-to my bitbeast," Ren continued. "And with my bond being so strong with Drystilion it can also kill ME, too," Ren thought grimly.
The four boys stared at Ren. An attack so powerful that it can take out two whole city blocks and may end up killing your own bitbeast? Amazing! Was everyone's thought.
"My God," Max breathed.
Trying to change the subject, Ren plowed onward, "Anywho, let's give you that info," Ren said and plugged in the USB cord back into the two computers and gave Chief all of the info.
When they were done they spent the next few hours going over the rest of the list and information on the bitbeasts Ren had on Spike. By the time they were done Ren was hungry again as her stomach suddenly announced it to the world.
Ren, embarrassed, wrapped her arms around her stomach to quell her stomach's growling as she giggled nervously at the four boys that were staring at her with amused grins.
"Hehe, sorry guys, not to sound like Tyson or anything but I'm hungry again," Ren explained meekly.
There was a holler from down the hall from Tyson's voice, "I head that!"
Ren whistled. "Good hearing," She admitted with a shake of her head.
After lunch, Ren was beginning to feel sleepy once again so she laid her head down for some shut eye. Then a few hours later she was rudely awoken when she felt something icy cold and wet splash on her face and she shot up and death glared the at the culprit.
"Tyson-run," Ren hissed. Tyson shot out of the room faster than lightning with Ren right on his heels.
Ray, Kai, Max, and Chief were outside just lounging around when a freaked out, panting Tyson appeared out of nowhere.
"Quick! Hide me!" Tyson hissed as he hid behind Ray who looked befuddled.
"Why? What did you do this time?" Ray questioned indignantly.
"Oh, uh, nothing, nothing at all!" Tyson answered before Ren rushed out looking furious.
"Where is he?" She hissed at them.
"Where is who, Ren?" Max asked innocently.
"TYSON! WHEN I FIND YOU I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS FOR DUMPING WATER ON ME!!!!" Ren exploded to the sky.
Tyson freaked and bolted for the nearest exit which happened to be around the corner. Ren shot after him, shrieking that she was going to kick his ass. Kai sighed.
"C'mon, let's go interfere before we have to find another team mate for the tournament because Ren killed Tyson," He said and they trudged after the chasing and running duo.
There was a yelp and a splash before they came around the bend and saw Tyson floating on his back with swirls for eyes and a knocked out expression in the koi pond and Ren was leaning over the railing on the deck shaking her fist at him with a pissed off look.
"HELL YEAH! That's what you get for dumping water on MY head!" Ren growled at Tyson.
The four boys sighed in unison shaking their heads as Ren stalked back inside.
"I think she's getting better, now," Chief said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Ray, Max, and Kai glared at him as if to say, "Ya think?"
Ren:" And that's the end of the Chappie folks!"
Sakura: 'R&R peoples."