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CONFERENCE
"Well that's a good thing…" Renee trailed.
"Doesn't matter," Teara broke in looking at the ground. Her legs spread slightly as she rested her arms on her knees deep in thought. "We're in this for the long haul and as long as I'm around nothing's going to happen to the Rosebladers again. Period." She clenched her fists.
The others stared at her and the girls looked down as if guilty of some hideous crime. "One girl is no match for the Biovault organization. They wouldn't waste a single bullet on you," Kai broke the silence.
"That'll change," she looked at him directly, a fire hiding in her eyes that caught Kai off guard. "I haven't shown you the extent of my powers, just like you would rather do that training alone, so have I."
"Biovault will have to go through all of us," Chris spoke up loudly.
"She's right," Tyson broke in suddenly feeling the fighting spirit. "Boris doesn't stand a chance!"
"We've arrived at our destination," the calm voice broke through the intercom above Kai's head.
"Wow," Liz gaped, he wasn't kidding."
"What do you mean?" Tess asked leaning forward.
"There are tons of people out there waiting for you guys," Liz spoke quickly excited. The conversation from before left her completely as she hopped up and down in her seat. "Some of them are even dressed up like you guys! It's so cosplay!"
"You have got to be kidding?" Renee muttered annoyed as Rei sweat dropped beside her.
"Well, I can't keep my fans waiting," Tyson squeezed in the middle trying to force his way to the door as Hilary snorted.
"Sit down Tyson!" She shouted. "You're stepping on everyone!" She roughly pulled him by his jacket in a sitting position once again to her left.
"But my fans…"
"We need to do this in an orderly fashion Tyson," Max cut in trying to stop the argument that was forming between the couple. "We should start with whoever's the closer to the door first then work our way back."
"But…"
"That's the only logical way Tyson," both Kenny and Tess stated together. Kenny looked at her as Tess blushed slightly, he was highly confused. Liz nudged Chris deep in the side before she could say anything and Renee shot her a dirty look along with Teara.
"Okay it's settled than, the girls will go out first followed by the boys. Now get moving before the crowd dies of boredom." Dizzi was completely losing patience with the group of teens.
"Okay me first!" Chris popped over Liz before she could say anything and landed outside. "HELLO RUSSIA!" she shouted loud and clear. "The competition has arrived!"
"Well, she can sure make an impression," Teara mumbled aloud making Liz laugh out loud as she jumped out and waved to the people along with Chris. Tess mumbled something incoherent over the noise as she got out followed by Renee. The last to leave was Teara who just flashed a smile and watched her team.
"Excuse me! Mrs. Excuse me!"
Renee turned to the news reporter's microphone as Chris jumped in front of her. "Yes you can!"
The older shook her head angrily at the way her friend was acting but decided against doing anything about it, she was just going to trip her as she walked toward the tournament building.
"Let her have her fun," Teara cut into her thoughts seeing Renee's face. "Besides the real fun begins when they realize how good we are." Renee couldn't help but agree as she walked forward beside her team captain watching Tess looked overwhelmed and Liz wave happily to everyone bouncing off the walls.
"Are you the second string for the Bladebreakers?" the news reporter asked Chris seriously after getting over the girls enthusiastic response to his questioning.
"What?!" Chris yelled over the crowd.
"I said…"
"I heard what you said," Chris growled loudly and looked at the camera. "Look, we are not the second string at all," she stressed the word. Were just as good as those Bladebreakers, in fact we're better. Way better."
"But who are you?" The man asked trying to find some answers that would be useful to the world.
"The Rosebladers," Chris proudly announced with arrogance as she turned around throwing her nose in the air. She made certain the camera got a good look at her leather jacket with the rose.
The reporter was about to comment to his camera man as the crowd grew in an uproar as Tyson piled out of the limo followed by Hilary and Kenny. He waved his hands everywhere laughing and blowing kisses to his adoring fans.
The small group made it toward the middle, when Max joined them waving as well though calmer just like Hilary. Kenny couldn't help but glance at the people dressed up as him and holding out signs with his name. He never believed it would be him getting the glory.
Tyson and Hilary both caught sight of a huge sign with a bunch of girls and guys dressed up exactly like them holding it up and screaming. The sign was plainly written in black in "Ty and Hil forever!" with a tiny heart underneath it.
Tyson laughed in amusement as Hilary blushed. Seeing how shy she was getting, a devilish smile rose in his mind and he pulled her close. He wildly kissed her in front of everyone making up for the week of little attention that he had given her. The crowd rose to a completely new height of volume.
"Wow," Liz pointed out as the girls waited at the door. "Who'd have thought Tyson could pull something like that off."
"Not me," Teara laughed half heartedly.
"That's disgusting," Renee voiced. Chris gagged causing the girls to laugh.
Of course the amount of volume before was nothing compared to the tidal wave when both Rei and Kai walked out of the limo. Some of the girls even fainted when Rei flashed his award winning smiles at the crowd for their support. Even Kai managed to look a little pleased with himself, or that was Renee's imagination.
"Why can't I get that kind of attention?!" Tyson whined coming up beside the girls.
"Because you're taken," Hilary purred still on cloud nine from the kiss. Tyson blushed a little while the others either laughed or gagged.
"Can we go now?" Teara teased Rei who blushed considerably as she opened the door. Laughing she led them through the amazingly quiet hall and into the large room full of bladers.
"Wow, looks like everyone's here," Liz commented with a grin. The White Tigers stood in one corner beside Judy and the All Stars. The Saint Shields weren't far talking to the new bladers, one was Zeo, the Psychics were also entertaining the Majestics and Justice Five. There were three teams that seemed to vacate into a different dimension and stay away from everyone else. The Blitzkrieg boys (except the three extra bladers who had run off a long time ago), and two other new teams that hid in the far right and left corners.
"Oh jeez, Tala," Teara mumbled, "shot me now."
Rei glanced at her raising an eyebrow being the only one to hear the comment. He thought it was a little weird.
"Rei-Rei!" a sharp voice pitched through the room as pink hair engulfed the boy completely. "I was so worried about you when you didn't answer the phone."
"Geezz Mariah, you're going to end up killing him at that rate," a green haired boy with a devilish grin piped up.
"Oh stuff it Kevin, you're just jealous you don't have someone to miss you," Mariah let go of Rei who was very grateful to be able to breath again.
"Hey Tyson how are you?" Enrique came out behind Kevin with a glass of pop in his hand. Oliver followed behind.
"Enrique, Oli., good to see you again," Max voiced for Tyson.
"Good to see you to," Oliver smiled nodding towards Rei who smiled back.
"And who's this lovely lady," Enrique came close to Hilary's face swiping up her hand in his and gracing it with a kiss. Hilary's blush deepened as he looked directly in her eyes from below.
"Hey!" Tyson got between them.
"Haha," Enrique threw his head back to laugh. "Don't worry Tyson; I know she's your girlfriend. Everyone saw you guys as you came in."
"Everyone," Hilary voiced suddenly embarrassed from behind Tyson.
"Everyone," Enrique nodded matter of factly. "And I must say I didn't know Tyson was capable of such and entrance. Now back to the problem at hand," Enrique jumped in the middle of the Rosebladers. "Who might these beautiful ladies be?"
"How should we answer that one?" Liz whispered asking Renee.
"Enrique," a harsh rasp voice came as Robert joined up with his team. "Please refrain yourself from scaring the ladies."
"Kai," Johnny spoke a single word to the silent captain who had made a home leaning against a near by wall. Kai opened his eyes nodding once to the Scot than walked off toward the waiting Blitzkrieg boys.
"He seems in a good mood," Mariah voiced holding on to Rei's arm.
"That's just Kai," Rei voiced, "you know that."
"Yeah but being back in Russia with those guys," she motioned to Blitzkrieg while they greeted on another, "and Boris and Voltaire in the mix just brings back bad memories."
"Yes," Robert agreed, "history is beginning to repeat itself."
"Hi," Chris spoke up. "My name is Chris, part of the Rosebladers, a new team that is blading with the Bladebreakers and has no idea who the hell any of you are." The girls almost laughed at the silence that followed and Robert's accusing eyes at the curse word.
"You'll have to excuse my team," A girl with green hair and old traditional clothes came out of nowhere. "Sometimes they forget their manners." Robert looked at her in surprise.
"My name's Salima, from the Saint Shields, we're blading with these fools The Majestics. The German's Robert, French boy is Oliver, Scottish here is Johnny and the Italian playboy is Enrique."
"I take offense to that comment," Enrique voiced.
"I though you would," Salima smiled sweetly in a dangerous way. "Hey Maxie," she voiced perky and hugged him.
"Wait!" Chris almost yelled, "I remember that name, you're Max's girlfriend."
"What?" Kevin laughed on the floor. "Them too together," Kevin almost died.
"Oh please," Teara voiced as Max and Salima both grew red. "Why don't you quit rolling on the floor you dolt? You're making a scene. "
"You still haven't told us who you are," Enrique pointed out loosing his patience. He was dead set and determined to make sure he got a real girlfriend this tournament, if only for a day. In fact he would prefer to have one a day so he could have all of them in his log of past lovers. He grinned.
"Is it me or is he crazy?" Liz voiced quietly to Tess.
"Its not just you," she agreed readily. There was something about the Italian that sent shivers up her spine.
"Like she said we're the Rosebladers," Teara filled in looking at the guys. "I'm team captain of the team and the co-captain is Renee," she jerked a finger to the black haired girl who grinned. "That's Liz," the blonde threw up a peace sign and smiled so widely that her eyes disappeared, "our tech Tess," the girl blushed a little at the title but nodded adjusting her glasses, "and Chris, our Tyson."
"What?!" Both Chris and Tyson yelled at the same time in disbelief.
"I see," Robert made the connection out loud as Teara grinned in triumph.
"So you guys have decided to come out of retirement?"
"Yes," Oliver answered Liz. "This tournament is a high cost one and we couldn't take a chance of staying out of it."
"You honestly think you're that good?" Chris asked mockingly.
"They were all reigning camps," Tess informed them.
"The best their countries had to offer," Kenny added.
"Alright then," Teara put her hands on her hip. "So Robert, since you've been here a while, how about you fill us in hmm? Who's the bad guys that are going to get their butts kicked?"
"There team names are OutKast and Black Out," Robert informed.
"Appropriate names," Renee muttered completely serious.
"Yeah," Max agreed as he sobered. Tyson and the others surrounded them they began to talk.
"Which one is it?" Hilary asked. "There are so many new faces here I don't recognize."
"Well duh," Teara voiced with dry humor. "It's those fourteen dark and gruesome faces in the corner with mask boy."
"Mask?" Tyson asked looking over. "I don't see any mask?"
"It's the one with the completely black mask with the left eye outlined in a white design," Max filled in as the others sweat dropped. Who could miss a mask in a place like this?
"The designs pretty at least," Mariah voiced still next to Rei.
"Yeah," Salima agreed. "I like how it swirls and dots."
Suddenly as if the figure had heard the two girls, his head turned and stared directly at the group. His red eyes cold in demeanor as they narrowed behind the mask, the only implication of emotion they could see and it froze them all to the spot.
"Oh my god," Mariah muttered moving closer to Rei in fear.
Teara took several steps back as did the others. Her breath began to feel shallow and her lungs screamed for air forcing her to the point of almost hyperventilating.
"Those eyes," she thought scared. There was nothing in them, just a cold dark red like blood. A scarlet river…
"Ladies and Gentlemen if I could have your attention," the sudden voice called from the now open door. Boris stood coolly in front of them.
The dark dressed boy snapped his head back around to look at the man as if nothing had happened. Teara could hear the voice drone on in the back ground, but she couldn't hear the words nor feel the people around her relax. Her eyes stared at the ground as her breathing slowed, but in her eyes were those eyes. Those lifeless eyes of crimson staring from the black around them.
"Teara," Renee voiced in concern noticing the change in the girl.
"Are you alright?" she asked after receiving no answer.
"Blood," Teara thought as the world around her grew dark and she began to shake slightly. Blood was everywhere, the life giving liquid suddenly without a vessel at her feet, swirling around and around.
"Teara!" The calm and commanding voice cut through her mind like a knife.
"Silver Dranzer," Teara whispered mentally hearing the voice of her bit beast. It was soft with a commanding undertone that was ment to be listened too.
"Are you alright?" Silver Dranzer voiced Renee's question in her mind with concern.
"Yeah," Teara whispered back.
"Do you want to talk about it?" The phoenix asked.
"No, not right now," Teara voiced.
"Alright," the phoenix sighed. "You better get back to the land of the living, your friends are beginning to worry."
"Teara!"
"What?" Teara asked awakened as she looked around at Liz.
"We need to go the conference room and sit at our table so we can be briefed on the tournament schedule."
"Oh, okay let's go," Teara grinned outwardly looking as if she felt good, but the bladers around her stared.
"Today!" She voiced.
"Alright we're coming," Chris sighed. "Jeez you don't have to be a slave driver."
"Bladers," Boris spoke to them as they sat at their respected tables in front of him.
"Biovault would like to welcome all of you to this tournament in response to our wonderful year as a provider of resources around the world. The head of the company, Voltaire Hiwatari was not able to come tonight due to personal reasons and sends his apologizes."
Around the Rose Bladers and Bladebreakers, several snorted at the announcement. In the front, Tala clenched his fists underneath the table.
"The tournament as you know is seven matches per team match up and the team to lose three times is out, much like American baseball," Boris grinned looking at Michael who rolled his eyes at the comment. Boy was that old.
"The time it takes for every team to blade another once is considered a round and after every round all teams will have a day off to recuperate and prepare for the next day. The pairings of the teams are done at random on the computer system."
"Behind me is a screen and if you would please look this way, I will announce the first round of the tournament," Boris insturucted.
"On the first day, the two teams to blade will be Black Out and OutKast, day two is the combined Majestics and Saint Sheilds vs. White Tigers and All Stars, day three will be Justice 5 and Psychics vs. the Blitzkrieg boys along with the three BBA memebers and on the last day will be the Blue Crusade vs. the Blade Breakers and Rose Bladers."
Tyson smiled and waved at Zeo who smiled back.
"The tournament will start the day after tomorrow. Remember that at seven o'clock tomorrow you will all be invited to a ball that will be held on the first floor of the hotel that you will all be staying at during your time here in Russia provided by Biovault. There is no curfew; however all of the young ladies will be on the second and third floor while the men will be on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floor. Your luggage has already been dropped off at your rooms which were also randomly picked."
Boris paused and sated commandingly, "Now if all of you would go out the back door and into the various cars to be taken to the hotel you can bypass all your adoring fans." He smiled coldly at the bladers his eyes lingering on a red head whose ice blue eyes narrowed back before turning away and grinning.
"Soon Tala, soon my young wolf. You and your cute phoenix friend Kai can't last much longer. The end is soon."
Thank you very much for reading it…I know it's a pain…I hated writing this chapter, thank god its over and the fun chapter called Truth or Dare Russian Style! Can begin and will be ten times better.
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