Song Of Hope: I really hope you guys still love the story. Okay, this is where it branches off. Each chapter will be focusing on one or two Bladers, but whenever Ai is in it in any way shape or form, since the story is called Ai Minasan, then it will be from her POV, otherwise, there will be no stated POV. Fore warning, most of the chapters of stories before Battles Bladers will be about Ginga Hagane/Kyoya Tategami/Ai Minasan. First up, I picked Kenta.
Kenta was walking through a forest area, not with his pack on his back to a tournament called the Elements Tournament when he heard metal clashing. He looked in between the trees and then saw several Bladers, about five of them, picking on a girl about his age. She was sniveling and crying. She had shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, and she wore a pretty and very frilly yellow and orange dress that ended at her ankles.
"Stop that. Please. I'm just trying to get to Battle Bladers. Please stop."
"No way little girl. If we take your points, then we'll be just that much closer to Battle Bladers as well. But don't worry, you can see us put your points to good use." She started pleading very loudly.
"Please! Somebody help me!" She was full on crying at this point, on the ground, head down, tears pouring out of her eyes. Kenta couldn't stand it. He put Sagittario in it Launcher.
"Let it rip!" He launched Sagittario. They were all confused. She stopped crying and looked up at Kenta.
"Hey kid, what are you doing?"
"This is our battle, not yours!"
"You interfere, you're gonna pay big time!"
"It's not right to pick on a person who just wants the same thing. She's younger than you, and has the disadvantage being in a handicap battle. You know, you remind of one of my best friends and his friend."
Somewhere Else
Kyoya sneezed really hard. He started rubbing under his nose.
"M'kay, who's talking about me?"
Somewhere Else
Benkei sneezed really hard.
Back to The Main Plot of this Chapter
"It's not fair. So, I'll help her out and be your opponent as well."
"Fine, then if we win, we get all of your points as well." Kenta nodded.
"Fine by me." The girl stood up.
"Look, it's not fair to you by doing this! This is my battle, not yours." He gave her a reassuring look.
"It's not right to pick on a weaker opponent like that, or someone who gets easily scared. I don't think you're a weak Blader or a weak opponent, you're just too scared to Beyblade properly." She nodded. She wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Thank you."
"Alright, now let's go! Special Move! SAGITTARIO FLAME CLAW!" The claws on Sagittario's Spin Track came out and Sagittario attacked the five other Beys and attacked them so hard they stopped spinning.
"Whoa, for a kid he's strong."
"Let's get outta here." They ran off. Kenta recalled Sagittario. The girl got her Bey and then walked up to Kenta.
"Thank you so much."
"No problem really."
"My name is Shashu, what's yours?"
"Kenta." She smiled.
"Thank you Kenta. You saved me, well, technically my Bey Points, but still."
"It's nothing really."
"I feel kind of bad, I don't have anything to give in return."
"Really, it's fine." He looked at her seriously. "That battle just wasn't fair. You were outnumbered and you were scared."
"Well, still, I'd have no chance at getting to Battle Bladers. I don't think anyone could earn 50,000 Bey Points in three months."
"I'm sure with enough determination, anyone could do it. So, why'd those guys gang up on you for your points?"
"Because I have a lot of points. I've got about 35,000 points without having competed in any qualification tournaments. Before I left, my older sister gave me all of her points, because she couldn't travel to gain enough points to qualify. She's really sick, so she couldn't go. So, I'm doing it for the both of us." It started getting dark.
"I've got to go. Thank you Kenta, I owe you one." She ran off.
"Man, she seems pretty confident. I wonder why she got really scared during her battle? Well, I'd better find somewhere to camp out for the night." He walked through the area until he found a small clearing. He used his pack as a pillow and went to sleep.
The Next Morning
Kenta woke up and stretched.
"I'd better get going if I want to make it to the Elements Tournament." He put his pack on his back and started walking again.
After walking for a couple hours, he came across the town where the Elements Tournament was being held. The Bey Stadiums are usually the biggest/tallest buildings in towns, so he found his way to the stadium to register no problem.
There was a long line at the registration, so it took Kenta a while to get to the registration booth. The lady smiled at him.
"Hello, I'm assuming you're here to participate in the tournament?"
"Yeah."
"Please fill out this registration form." She handed him a piece of paper. He filled it out. "Now, if I could just see your Bey."
"My Bey?"
"Yes, it's required to participate."
"Okay, fine." He reluctantly handed her his Bey. She put it in some sort of machine. After a few seconds, she took it out and handed it back to him, along with a piece of paper.
"Here you go. Now, hold on to that piece of paper and just go into the stadium and wait there until the Blader DJ announces the beginning of the tournament." He nodded and headed in there.
After waiting for about an hour, the Blader DJ started talking from his stand.
"Alright Bladers! This is how the Elements Tournament will go! Each competitor has received a number along with a picture of a symbol. There are several different types of Beys, but your picture depended on the Fusion Wheel. The types of Beys in this competition are Flame, Earth, Rock, and Storm. There will be four blocks of this tournament, and each one will have one of these types. When the battles from the separate blocks are over with, the winners of each block will face each other in a Battle Royal. There will be four separate battles going on at one time. The numbers you have received will determine when you will battle. The Blocks are the A Block, Storm, the B Block, Rock, the C Block, Earth, and the D Block, Flame." Kenta looked at his piece of paper.
"I'm not going until the third battle in the fourth block. I'd guess I'd better find a seat in the stands." He went over to the stand and found a seat in the stands about three rows up from the front. The competitors in the first round got on opposite sides of the stadiums. Each one was a different color depending on the type of Bey. The Storm stadium was blue, the Rock stadium was brown, the Earth stadium was whit, and the Flame stadium was red.
"Alrighty Bladers! Are you ready? 3! 2! 1!"
"Let it rip!" The different Bladers launched their Beys. The battles weren't all that exciting, but Kenta still kept a close eye on the competitors from the Flame stadium. Finally, one of the Bladers lost.
"The first winner, in the C Block, the Earth Division, is Shashu."
"Shashu?" Her picture came up on the screen "It is Shashu. So she uses an Earth type Bey." Another battle was finished.
"Ladies and gentlemen, from the Rock Division, we have Suki." The competition went on like this and Kenta one his match easily and really didn't see any interesting battles until the last battle of the first round, in the Flame Stadium, and this would be his opponent in the next round. A girl wearing a red long sleeved shirt with long black hair and eyes so dark of a shade of violet they looked almost black. She seemed a bit younger than him.
"I want to end this quickly. Go Flame Phobios! SPECIAL MOVE PHOBIOS FIRE SNIPER SHOT!" Similar to Kenta's Special Move, her Bey, apparently Phobios, lit itself on fire, but instead of just attacking, it sent out a large circle of blue fire that hit the other Bey.
"Man, I sure wish Madoka was here. She could explain the point of that move."
Back at the B-Pit
Madoka was watching all of their battles, and since this time Kenta was in the tournament, she was watching from her computer his tournament. Even though he wasn't battling, she was still watching the whole tournament.
"Oh wow. What's the point of that Special Move?" She minimized the window showing the battles and looked at the data. "I see. The Attack Type Flame Phobios," she was looking at a picture of the Bey, which had no actual Face Bolt design, but the Bey was mostly red, and had a Rubber Flat Performance Tip "sends out that circle of fire to weaken the opponent. When the fire hits the other Bey, the fire is so hot that it softens the metal in the Bey, and then when she attacks, because it's softer, it can't hold up to the power of the attacks, and because of a special alloy that Flame Phobios is made out of Flame Phobios isn't affected at all. It also makes the Bey unable to move, like it's paralyzed by fear."
Back at the Tournament
Her Bey hit her opponents and the battle ended in a sleep out.
"The final winner of Round 1 out of Three Rounds is Rei Takahashi!" Kenta thought about that name.
"Rei why does that name sound so familiar?"
"The next matches will be Taku versus Koneko, Tembin versus Kaziki, Shashu versus Jiro, and Hirohito versus Ayame." He watched the next matches closely, but none of the other Bladers were as exciting. The winners were Taku, Kaziki, Shashu, and Ayame. Next was his battle, which was with that girl, Rei.
"I saw your battle, it was pretty good."
"You looked like your battle was too easy."
"I could have won with my eyes closed, but I really hate showing off."
"Alrighty Bladers! 3-!"
"2-!"
"1-!"
"LET IT RIP!" They both launched their Beys.
"Alright, Rei's Bey is an Attack Type, so I'll have to wait for her to make the first move and let her draw out her energy."
"Go Flame Phobios!" She attacked Sagittario.
"It looks like Rei start's off on the Offensive, which is not a smart move against a strong Stamina Type like Flame Sagittario."
At the B-Pit
"There's something behind that name. It sounds so familiar, I just can't remember from where." She looked it up. "No result for Phobios, wait, what about Phobos, the moon of Mars?" She looked that up. "Phobos literally means Fear. It's the fear caused by war. Phobos is Fear personified, although it had no real form given in ancient mythology, which explains there being no Face Bolt design. This might be a hard battle for Kenta."
Back at the Tournament
"Sagittario!"
"I won't let you win! Not now, not ever! I'm going to win, and become the Best Blader in the country for my brother!"
"Your brother?"
"Uh oh, it looks like there is some sort of other reason fueling this Blader other than Battle Bladers." The Blader DJ's commentary was getting really annoying.
"My brother's Bey was destroyed and now he can't Beyblade! I hope he'll get a new Beyblade soon, but for now, he can't even pick up a Bey!" Kenta remembered where he heard her name.
"Wait, are you Hiromasa Takahashi's little sister?"
"How'd you know?"
"I'm a friend to his friend Ai Minasan." Her eyes widened slightly.
"You're friends with Nee-san? Let's hope that you're a strong Blader then! Go Phobios!"
"Sagittario!" They clashed. "Man, she's really strong! I'll need to end this now if I want to win! SPECIAL MOVE! GO GO GO SAGITTARIO FLAME CLAW!"
"FIRE SNIPER SHOT!" The two Special Moves clashed into each other and then Sagittario clashed into Phobios, neither apparently taking any damage, but then Phobios started wobbling a little.
"It looks like Phobios is the only one to take damage from these attacks! Could this be the end for Rei in this tournament?"
Back at the B-Pit
"I see. Sagittario is designed like Phobios, and has the same alloy to keep it from being affected from any Fire Type attacks. But even though Phobios is made to not be affected by fire, the claws on Sagittario's Spin Track make the damage greater than using fire alone."
Back at the Tournament
Phobios kept clashing into Sagittario. At the rate it was going, the battle would end in a Sleep Out.
"Sagittario, try to end this now!" Sagittario smashed into Phobios and sent out huge amounts of energy and sent up a cloud, which made it unable to be seen who won.
"Whoa! A powerful attack made surprisingly from the Stamina Type Sagittario aimed at Phobios! Who has one?" The smoke cleared, and the last Bey standing was of course, Sagittario. "It looks like Sagittario is the winner of this epic battle."
The next round was also easy, mostly because there really weren't all that many strong Bladers in this competition, but then, there came the Battle Royal.
"Alrighty Bladers! We have come down to our final four Bladers! They are, in the A Block, Taku, and the B Block, Ishi, and the C Block, Shashu, and in the D Block, Kenta!" They were all across from each other, Kenta facing Shashu. "3! 2! 1!"
"Let it rip!" They all launched their Beys. Taku, a boy with short brown hair, glasses, and blue eyes, started attacking Kenta right on.
"Go!"
"Sagittario!" Sagittario easily knocked him out of the stadium.
"The Blader of the Storm Division, Taku, has been easily brought down by Kenta's Sagittario! Who will be next to lose in this tournament? Who will win? Just keep watching!" Shashu's Bey, mostly orange, clashed into Ishi's Bey and knocked it out in a stadium out as well.
"Looks like it's just you and me Shashu." She got slightly freaked by that.
"How do you know my name?" He anime fell.
"I met you yesterday, and they announce the name of whoever is battling. Shashu don't you remember?" She remembered the day before when all those bullies tried to steal all her Bey Points. "You're a lot better at Blading now."
"That's because I'm not forced to battle. This time I'm prepared. Go Sagitta!" Her Bey clashed into Sagittario.
"Sagitta?"
At the B-Pit
"Sagitta?" Madoka looked it up. "This is amazing! Sagitta is almost exactly like Sagittario, except for the Face Bolt and the Fusion Wheel, they have the same Performance Tip and the Same Spin Track, and even though every Face Bolt has it's own Energy Ring, Sagittario and Sagitta share the same one. Why thought?" She looked up Sagitta. "Sagitta is the arrow shot by Sagittarius. Amazing, so the arrow is battling the one who shot it?"
At the Tournament
"Kenta, I still can't thank you enough."
"How about by giving me a good battle."
"That sounds just about right. Now that I'm not forced to battle and not up against a corner, I'll be able to do this without being too scared. Go Sagitta!"
"Sagittario!" They clashed again.
"These two Bey seem to have amazingly similar qualities, but who will win? Are there enough differences between the two Beys to determine a winner?"
"SPECIAL MOVE SAGITTARIO FLAME CLAW!"
"SPECIAL MOVE SAGITTA GRAPE SHOT!" Both Beys did the exact same thing and clashed into each other. A huge cloud of smoke rose from it.
After it settled, it showed a surprising outcome.
"Ladies and gentle men, we have a tie! Both Shashu and Kenta earn 3000 Bey Points and are just 3000 Points closer to Battle Bladers!"
Song Of Hope: That's the end. I'm open to OC's and I will give everyone full credit, but there have to be some rules. They can't already exist in one of your/someone else's story, their Bey's have to have a constellation not already in the show, and their names must be a) Japanese, and b) have something to do with their personality or their Beyblade. I would be open to people giving me ideas for Planetary Beys, but I already have the characters planned out for them. Anyways, send me a review with a description of the Bey, description of their attire, description of their genetic makeup (appearance, I'm a huge nerd and actually tend to use really geeky words), and their names.
