And I know that this has nothing to do with anything, but I just wanted to say that the Blitzkrieg Boys and Hilary or probably my favorite characters to work with. Mostly because you can do anything you want with them. You can turn Hilary in to anything and still have her be in character. And the boys? Well, you can keep them cold, or you can have them be what you would think they would act like if they didn't have to live through Boris and the Abby. You can even have a mixture of the both. Have them a little stand-offish and a little, you know, normal teenager/kid. Which is what I think I did, just a little more on the teenager side.
The only thing I really hate is when someone turns them into sluts. There is nothing more out of character than that. I mean, a little bit here and there is okay. But full on, everyone knows it, they have no limits to who they won't 'do', is just crazy. Any of them are more mature than that.
Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade, even though I have very colorful opinions on it and its characters.
Sorry if this chapter is a little off.
Hilary was happy to be back to a normal practice. She couldn't even begin to tell anyone how much she hated watching videos for days. And if the boys didn't know before, they knew now.
Hilary hated being sick. She hated it more than the cold. And that was saying a lot.
She absolutely loved being able to leave her house and go back over to her real training area. Nothing was better than being able to do something other that sit on the couch and watch movies. Although, she did notice that the Spencer, Tala, and Bryan were acting a bit strange throughout first half of practice. Like they were hiding something from her. A good secret that they couldn't wait to tell her. Which was weird, considering the fact that she was standing right there and they could tell her anything they wanted.
It was during lunch when Hilary finally asked what was up. It was impossible for them to be this quiet during lunch. Granted, they were known to be quiet, but this was just weird.
"We were thinking of something," Tala told her, a graceful smile spread across his lips. A smile that she was sure had captured many girls hearts.
"Something kinda big," Bryan added to Tala's comment.
"Something really big, but necessary." Spencer finished.
Hilary waited for them to continue, but they didn't. "What?" She encouraged them, sharp eyes watching their every move.
"There is going to be a tournament next month," Bryan said quickly. "We thought that it might be a good idea for you to participate before you go back to Tyson."
"Like practice matches," Spencer picked up before Hilary had a chance to say anything. "I mean, we're good for practice, but we've be holding back. This will give you a chance to test your strength in a real battle, you know."
"Now, it's a month away, so we've got enough time to prepare, but we need to register you now," Tala quickly said. "If you want to, that is."
They looked at her, waiting for her reaction.
"I think," she said slowly. "That that is a great idea."
"I know," Tala chuckled. "I came up with it."
"You?" Bryan scoffed. "I found out about the tournament,"
"Yes, but I thought that she should enter." Tala smiled at him.
Bryan shook his head at Tala. Leave it to him to take all the credit for himself. If Hilary had thought it was a bad idea, then it would have been Bryan's fault. And he hardly saw the fairness it that.
Spencer and Hilary were still quietly chuckling over the two as Kai entered the dinning room where they were sitting.
"Hey, Kai," Tala waved a sloppy hand in his direction.
"Hey," he answered in return as he took a seat next to the red head. "What's going on?"
"I'm going to enter the tournament for next month." Hilary stated proudly.
Kai looked alarmed. "Why?" He asked.
Hilary gave him a strange look. He had no reason to be concerned. "For practice," She retorted.
"It's that what you're doing here?"
"Well, yes, but I need to be in a few real battles before I go back to Japan," Was there a reason for him to act this stupid? She couldn't go back to Japan without real experience from real battles. He, of all people, should know that.
"You should be happy," Bryan chuckled at him.
"I don't thinking you're ready to compete yet," Kai ignored Bryan.
Hilary looked at Kai in confusion. He didn't think she was ready?
Kai just looked back at her. His eyes held a certain gleam in them. Hilary couldn't decide whether it was disappointment or anger. She didn't have much time to really look at them, though, since Kai abruptly stood up, knocking his chair over, and practically stomped to his room.
"What was that all about?" Hilary asked after she heard his door slam. She didn't get why he would be mad.
"Oh, he's just disappointed that you're going to be leaving so soon." Tala smiled. "You know, I've been thinking--"
"Oh, no!" Bryan cut in.
"Shut up." Tala glared at him before continuing. "I've been thinking that we should celebrate."
"Celebrate what?" Hilary asked. "We haven't done anything,"
"What? We've trained you, you've learned, and we've pissed off Kai more times than he can count. We have plenty of reasons to celebrate."
"Yeah, Hilary," Bryan said. "You've come a long way,"
"You've gone from suck to actually somewhat good." Spencer chimed in.
" 'Actually somewhat good,' huh?" Hilary throw a piece of her lunch at him and smiled. "Alright, we should have a little celebration for what we've been through. At least, I should. I lived through those movies."
"That's right," Bryan smiled. "And that was Tala idea, by the way."
"Hey, traitor!" Tala pointed at him.
"You're the one that made me sit through hours and hours of beyblade battles?" she growled at the leader.
"Yes," Tala squeaked. There was something that he never told anyone. He was a living witness to a 'Hilary attack'. He learned long ago from Tyson and Daichi, to not get on Hilary's bad side. And where was he now? That's right. On Hilary's bad side's, bad side.
"Oh, ho ho," Hilary chuckled evilly.
"This is going to be the only time I feel sorry for Tyson," Tala sighed as he let his sore muscles rest on the couch after Hilary left for work. Hilary was mean, he decided.
"I told you not to make her watch meaningless movies." Bryan told him in a matter-of-fact voice.
Tala throw one of the blue pillows from the couch at him. "Traitor," he mumbled.
They heard stomping down the stairs and assumed that Kai was still mad. Which brought the question, 'Why was he mad in the first place?' up.
"I'm mad," Kai started, "because you want to throw Hilary into a tournament. It's only been a few months. Do you really think that she is ready to face people that have been blading most of there lives?"
"Okay, first off, Kai, you're not down there everyday watching her improve. Secondly, I do think that she is ready. Every time we battle, I have to use a little more power and energy than the last time." Tala was serious. She had made a great improvement over the few months that she's been practicing. And this tournament would show them where she really at.
"He's right, Kai," Spencer said in his deep voice. "You haven't been practice with us, and you've never seen her blade. You don't have any idea where she is. You know, for a friend, you're pretty non-supportive."
"Yeah," Bryan said helping. "You've been dead set against this from the beginning."
"I just know what's right. And what you guys are doing isn't it." Kai sighed as he went back up stairs.
The three left behind looked at each other.
"Don't listen to him," Tala said. "He's just jealous because he didn't get to see Hilary workout in her sports bra."
It was a busy day at work, but Hilary was glad to be back. Along with all the other things that she had missed, working with Asya was one of them. It was fun to just joke around with a girl once in a while.
Customers kept the two busy running back and forth for coffee and such, so when her shift was finally over she was relieved to be able to rest.
"Long day," She commented to Asya who was wiping down the tables.
"Very," Asya sighed.
"How was school?" Hilary wondered.
"It's there," Asya sighed again. "There's no change from day to day."
"Well, don't you and your friends talk about stuff?"
"The only friend I had decided to drop-out." Asya told her. "I haven't really been looking for anyone else to hang-out with."
"Why'd she drop out?" Hilary felt a little guilty that she didn't know all this stuff before. How could she call herself a friend of Asya's.
"First home got tough, then school, and now it's her whole life." Asya sat down in one of the chairs that she hadn't stacked yet. "You know, I know her mother wasn't great, always working and all, but she could have told me about school. I mean, that's what friends are for, right? They help when times get rough."
Hilary's mind instantly went to the Blade Breakers. "Yeah, they help each other out," she smiled at the thought. Then her thoughts narrowed down to just Kai. "But sometimes others just don't want the help."
"It sucks." Asya complained. "I don't even know where she is now. If she'd dead or alive. She didn't handle it right."
"No," Hilary sighed. "No, she didn't."
They spend a moment in their own thoughts.
Hilary looked up at the clock and noted that it was getting late.
"Well," She said, drawing Asya from her mind. "Maybe she'll turn up, but for now, we've got to clean up."
Asya nodded and started cleaning the tables while Hilary worked behind the counter.
When Hilary finally got home, she took a long shower before changing into warm pajamas and crawling in to her heavily covered bed. She fell asleep easily, as she was exhausted.
She dreamed of beautiful boys. One with blue hair in particular. He was very pale and inhuman with everything that he was or did. His walk was inhumanly graceful, his body was inhumanly built, and his eyes were inhumanly capturing.
He was talking to her, his inhuman lips moving, telling her something that she couldn't understand. She couldn't understand why he was talking to plain, old her. A girl like her was average and he was…something more.
Hilary recognized this person. She knew she did. She also knew the many people behind him. There were dozens. All different, but still beautiful.
She fainted when she felt soft lips on hers…
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Gasping for air, Hilary jumped from bed as her alarmed buzzed loud in her ear. When she finally caught her breath she focused on her dream. She still couldn't figure out were she knew all those people, or the boy who kissed.
Deciding to deal with it later, she climbed out of bed and walked to her closet. She pulled out her clothes and laid them on her bed. Walking over to the kitchen, she pulled out some of her leftover dinner. Hilary never really cooked breakfast. It took too long to make breakfast each morning, plus she was lazy and tired and didn't really feel like making breakfast. She never did. Even when she was a kid.
It is kinda funny, she thought, I used to yell at Tyson about how breakfast was the most important meal of the day, yet I never ate it myself.
When Hilary was finished getting ready for the day she headed out for the boys house. It was only a few steps before she started thinking about her dream again. Grumbling, she willed herself to think of something else. She wouldn't let this dream bug her.
It may have been a nighttime dream, Hilary thought, but it's turning into my daytime nightmare!
So she started thinking about random stuff. Stuff like her shoes and how they look on her feet when she walks. Her legs and the way they move when she walks. Her hair and the way it bounces…when she walks. Somehow while she was thinking about the way she walks, the upcoming tournament broke through. Hilary decided that it was a much better topic and focus on that. Which she found out was a really bad idea.
After a while of thinking about the tournament, she started thinking of how she was doing in training. Then she starting thinking that she wasn't good enough. There was no way she was ready. Kai was right; it's only been a few months, there was no way she could compete. She'd have her butt kicked in the first round.
Then she started thinking about Tala. Tala suggested this; Tala thought it was a good idea; Tala was the one who deserved to bear the full brunt of her anger. So when Tala opened the door to Hilary, he was starting his lovely day of hell, with all the glories of an angry Hilary.
He seriously couldn't figure out why she would be nice to everyone except him. It made him kind of sad, to say the least. Tala had come to love the little girl as sort of a sister thing. He took her under his wing when she first got here. He was the one who defended her from the rest of the team. Even if he had don't something wrong she shouldn't be angry with him. She OWED him.
That was why, at the end of the day the boys, including Kai for some weird reason, and Hilary ended up at a restaurant with Hilary not talking to Tala, and Tala not talking to Hilary. Kai was being his usually quiet-self, which left the table in an awkward silence since Bryan and Spencer had caught on to the angry vide Hilary and Tala were siding out and decided to be Switzerland and not talk to anyone besides each other, therefore being neutral.
The table was quietly looking over the menus trying to decide what they each wanted.
"This place is so expensive," Hilary muttered to herself.
"Don't worry," Kai sighed. "We'll pay for you. Besides, we get a discount."
Hilary gave Kai a confused look. "Why?" She asked. How was it possible that these guys got a discount. She realized later that it could be because they had represented Russia in many big tournaments.
"The chef and owner of this place were at the Abby with us." Kai told without looking away from his own list of food.
That was not the answer Hilary had expected. "Really?" She looked around the table to see that the rest as agreed in the own way. Grunt or nod. "That's…nice. I guess."
"Yeah," Spencer sighed. "it was a great way to make friends." Hilary didn't miss the sarcasm in his voice, but decided to ignore it.
The waiter came around and they placed their orders. Hilary had a bit of trouble, but, much to her own thankfulness, Bryan jumped in and saved her.
"Thanks," She smiled at him.
"No problem." He told her gruffly, then sipped his drink.
Kai looked at the four with an unreadable expression. Usually Hilary and Tala couldn't stop talking. They hadn't even said a word to each other they whole time he was with them. Something was up and he was determined to find out. It would just take the right topic.
"So, Hilary," Kai focused on her. "are you still going to the tournament?"
Hilary gulped. She was honestly hoping this topic wouldn't come up. "Maybe," She said.
Tala, who had been looking away from her, turned his head sharply and narrowed his eyes. "Maybe?" He asked harshly.
Well, that was easy, Kai thought.
"Yeah," Hilary replied with just as much harshness in her voice. "I'm not sure I'm ready,"
"Not sure?" Tala looked alarmed. "Of course you are ready. I wouldn't have suggested it if you weren't." Bryan and Spencer nodded in agreement.
"But-"
"No. No 'buts'." Tala waved his hand. "You're ready and you are going to participate." He told her in a strong voice. He looked at her with glowing blue eyes. Tala noted how she wasn't looking at him, like she was shy or something.
"Look," Tala said in a softer voice. "I seriously wouldn't have suggested it if I didn't think you were ready. I know it's only be a few months, but a girl like you holds just enough determination and power to be great with only that much time. I have little doubts about this."
"Is that why you've been ignoring Tala all day?" Kai asked her.
"Ignoring me all day?" Tala turned to Kai. "She's been positively mean to me all day. It's only been these last few hours that she's stop talking."
"You stopped talking, too, you know," Hilary said.
"Because you were being mean," He pointed out
"Because Kai put doubts in my head about the tournament that you suggested," She told him.
The table went back to silence. Bryan and Spencer had watched with amusement. They were now looking at Kai who was looking away from the table.
"So," Bryan drawled. "this is all Kai's fault." Spencer started to chuckle.
Tala and Hilary slowly started to smirk. "I guess it is," They stated at the same time. Both turned to look at Kai. He had suddenly found a spot of the ground very interesting.
Kai looked up from that stop to see two chuckling teammates and two people who had very frightening looks on their faces. "Hey, look, our foods coming," He pointed out to them.
Sure enough, the waiter sat down the plants in front of the person who ordered it and offered to refill the drinks. During the dinner, Tala and Hilary completely ignored Kai and he found it very annoying. It was only okay when he ignored people at dinner. Plus, he only did it when that person had done something completely stupid. He had not put doubtful thoughts into Hilary's head on purpose. If he could put doubtful thoughts into peoples head, Boris would have been is first victim. Then Tyson.
'Ah, that'd be an awesome power.' Kai smiled in spite of himself.
Thank you for reading. Hope you liked the chapter. This one was actually pretty easy to make this long. I just had to find the right way to hit its point. I know it's been a little longer than my last update…I think. I've been doing so much lately. Anyway, I wanted to get this up before I fall back into my old habit.
Thanks again. And sorry for the mistakes in there.