Don't Walk Away

By: RoseofSharon28

Disclaimer- I do not own beyblade!

Authors note- Thanks for reviewing!

Chapter 12

Couple more weeks past and the band played regularly at the cafe. Usually maybe once or twice a week. But now the tournament was ready to start. Everyone scrambled to register and finish preparing for the tournament.

"Are you ready Kiska?" Hilary asked.

"Yah. This is gonna be a piece of cake." Kiska replied giving a thumbs up.

"Do you think that we're ready?" Jelena asked.

"Trust me. Your stats will be off the charts. Your defense is so high I doubt that anyone will even be able to make a solid hit with out flying out. And for the rest of us we're improved dramatically." Kiska said. "Remember the strategy you guys. Quick and painless."

"Makes it sound like your gonna kill someone." Mariah laughed.

"You can play with your opponant for awhile but realize the long you keep them in the more they learn about your blading style. But I know for me, I'm going in fierce and quick." Kiska said.

"I going to do as you say, 'play' with my opponants." Mariah said.

"Don't forget trick number one." Kiska said smirking.

"Teams, please gather in the middle of the stadium." An announcer said loudly into a microphone.

The teams all headed to the middle of the stadium and waited for the next directions.

"Okay. To get this tournament started we will pick to names from this hat. Those to people will be with first to battle. This is the only battle of the tournament that deals with singles. The match doesn't count for anything, it's only for everyone's enjoyment. And the two people are..." He said.

"I never heard that there was going to be an exhibition match." Kiska said.

"Hmph. Theres like 100 or so other people here. The odds of you being chosen is like practically none." Mariah said.

"Skyler and Kiska." DJ Jazzman finished picking the two names.

"No not." Kiska said. She made her way through the crowd of people and to the dish in the center where Skyler was waiting for her. Kiska scanned the audience for a certain someone. And he was sitting a couple rows from the front watching her intensely.

"What are you even doing here? Girls aren't meant to blade." Skyler said cockily.

"You must be a girl in disguise then because you're gonna lose in just a couple of seconds." Kiska replied smirking. You could hear a little big of chuckling from the other teams near by.

"Don't let her insult you like that!" One of his team mates said.

Skyler opened his mouth to retort back to Kiska but she beat him to it. "If you want to put me in my place...Then you simply just have to beat me. I mean, you said yourself that I'm not meant to beyblade. Which means, I should be no problem to you at all." She said putting her blade on her launcher.

"3...2...1..Let it Rip!" DJ Jazzman said.

Both blades launched and immediately Skyler's blade was thrown out of the match. The blade flew and hit the wall on the far side of the stadium. Everyone gasped. Kiska's blade gracefully landed in the middle and she smirked.

"And the winner is Kiska." DJ Jazzman said.

'She's gotten even stronger these last couple of weeks.' Kai noted seeing the power that Kiska released on that simple yet complex move. 'And no doubt, she's not even at the top of her game yet. She was only warming up.'

'She's doing exactly what I want her to do. Of course I could always get to get rid of the competition completely.' Somebody thought from up in the crowd.

"Well folks. This proves that we're going to have some interesting battles this year." DJ Jazzman said.

That day they went through a couple rounds. And stopped at the semifinals.

"Okay everyone. Tomorrow we'll be hosting the semi-finals and the day after is the finals. Be sure not to miss it! Tomorrow we have The Mystic Bladers vs. The Alaula Bladers and The Bladebreakers vs. The Red Blazers. Winners of both battles will face off against each other in the finals.Good bye everyone and have a nice day!" He announced.

"Yes! We made it to the semi-finals!" Mariah said happily.

"Were gonna beat the Alaula bladers and then beat the Bladebreakers!" Hilary said with much determination.

"Don't be too cocky." Kiska said warningly.

"The battles in the last round are different." Jelena said looking at a handbook about the tournament. "Instead of the three on three format they use four bladers and then one more battle incase of a tie unless a team wins three times. We'll be up against all of the Bladebreakers and because of there being more battles it could provide them with more of a chance."

"Hey it'll probably only be Max, Ray, Tyson and Adrian. I doubt that there will be a tie. Kai usually tries to stay out of the battles if he can. Which means Tyson would probably take over leaving us with two free wins." Hilary said.

"Hilary..." Kiska warned again.

"What? Get Tyson all worked up and he'll be careless and thats the time to attack him because he'll be to caught up in trying to find and insult or something he won't be paying attention." Hilary explained.

"Well then you will be the one to battle him and show me that alright?" Kiska said.

"Sure thing!" Hilary said with a smirk.

(Next day)

"Bladebreakers have already beaten their opponants, now it's time for The Mystic Bladers vs. The Alaula Bladers. First people battling are Mariah from the Mystic Bladers and Trisha from the Alaula Bladers.." DJ Jazzman said. The crowd cheered as the two opponants entered the stadium.

'Trisha's blade is attack and her bitbeast is a lion called Lionaris. If Mariah doesn't play around we should get this match in a matter of seconds.' Kiska thought. "Mariah! Don't mess around."

"Aww, But Galux wanted to play." Mariah said. "But if you say so."

3...2...1...Let it rip!

Both blades entered the stadium. "Go Galux!" Mariah called quickly.

"Calling her out already? What's the rush?" Trisha said with a smile. "I guess it's time to have a cat fight. Lionaris."

Both blades attacked fiercely.

"Lionaris, Electric Claw!" Trisha commanded. Her bitbeast glowed a yellow color as it got ready to attack then it went in for the kill.

'Wait for it...now.' Mariah thought. "Attack Galux!" Her blade hit Lionaris and made it fly out of the stadium.

"Winner is Mariah!" DJ Jazzman said. "Next up we have Jelena from the Mystic Bladers and Ally from the Alaula Bladers."

3...2...1...Let it rip!

Both blades landed in the stadium. Jelena let her blade take the middle of the dish and go into defensive mode. 'Ally's bitbeast doesn't look like it could do any damage but she's probably one of the strongest on that team. Her specialty is endurance. The longer Jelena drags it out the less chance that she'll have of winning.' Kiska thought. "Her blade is endurance style Jelena. Remember the strategy." Kiska said.

'Yah, I remember the strategy but its kinda hard to do when your opponant won't attack you.' Jelena thought to herself. 'Maybe if I attack first I can get her to attack me. Then I can work out the strategy.' "Keiko!" She called. Her large killer whale bitbeast came out to attack. It hit Ally's blade hard then went back to the middle.

"Hmph. Try again Jelena. I know your game. You wait for me to attack so that you can counter it with you defense and make me lose. I knew that we would end up faces you guys and I made sure that I knew all of your teams movements. Sure the battle against Mariah didn't work out as planned but still, you guys aren't going to win these next ones." Ally said with a large smirk.

'Hm...So she has a very good eye for these things. But that's why I made sure that the team was prepared. Jelena should know what to do.' Kiska thought.

'Time to take the offensive.' Jelena thought. "Keiko, Changing current." Her bitbeast made a confusing water current which knocked around Ally's blade. "Finish it Keiko. Hit it out with your tail."

Her bitbeast came up and with its mighty tail hit Ally's blade out of the stadium.

"Second battle goes to Jelena!" DJ Jazzman announced. "Final battle is between Kiska from the Mystic Bladers and Blair from the Alaula bladers."

3...2...1...Let it Rip!

Both blades entered the stadium. Kiska decided to use her 'weak launch' strategy to deceive Blair.

"Aren't you the captain? Shouldn't you be the strongest?" Blair asked.

Kiska smirked. "Finish me then. It really doesn't matter if you win this one because we've already won two out of three. You winning doesn't do anything."

"It can show that you guys can be defeated." Blair said. "Flare!"

Flare, a fire pheonix similar to Dranzer came out and to dive into the stadium and through Kiska's blade out of the arena. Then there was a buzzing noise and as Flare made contact with Kiska's blade it was then thrown out of the stadium and landed next to Blair's feet.

"Yah. We can be defeated...Just not by you Alaula Bladers." Kiska said. "Good battle though."

"Winner is Kiska! So it comes down to The Mystic Bladers vs. The Bladebreakers. Come back tomorrow everyone for the Finals!" DJ Jazzman said.

(Later that night)

Kiska snuck out her window and climbed down the tree. Adrian heard something on the roof and looked out his window to see her climbing down. He shook his head. "Those two are just to stubborn to admit that they like each other." He said to himself then continued back to reading his book.

Kiska walked to the park and waited by a tree. It had become her and Kai's meeting place for when they would do this. They usually would meet under the tree and then just walk around the park and just talk as they admired the night sky.

"It's about time you got here." Kai said from up in the tree. He was laying down on a large tree limb.

Kiska looked up not knowing he was there until he said something. "What are you doing up there?"

He jumped down. "Am I not allowed to climb trees?" He asked with a smirk.

"So, Were battling off against each other tomorrow." Kiska started changing the subject.

"What's your line up?" Kai asked curiously.

"Depends, what's yours?" She replied. "I don't just give off free information. Especially to opposing teams."

"What about to a friend?" Kai asked.

"Tell me yours and I'll say ours." She said simply.

"Fine. Tyson, Ray, Max then me." Kai stated.

"Hilary, Mariah, Jelena and then me." Kiska said smiling.

"Did you just come up with that or did you already have that in mind?" He asked.

"Four people have to battle in the last round. That's my whole team. So no matter what you guys will face me one way or another."

"Are you thinking that we were scared to face you?" Kai asked.

"Yah. You bunch of fraidy cats." Kiska insulted playfully.

"Save it." Kai said simply.

"Oh, Did I hit a nerve?" Kiska asked with a smile. Kai stayed silent. "Are you guys really afraid of losing to us?" She asked suddenly changing into a more sincere tone.

"I wouldn't say afraid. You guys are really just giving us a run for our money if you catch my drift. And may I say, I don't take losing very well." Kai admited.

Kiska snickered. "Hey, we're not unbeatable. Adrian used to beat me all the time until I took matters into my own hands, and my dad started pressuring me. I'm just surprised that we're making that much of an affect on you guys." She said. "Besides, It's only a game. Losing is all part of it."

"I know that." Kai said simply.

"It's because of what you were trained to do at the abbey isn't it?" Kiska asked.

"That could be a very big part of it." Kai said. "It's getting late. I better get you home. We have a big day tomorrow."

"Technically, It's in a couple hours. It's past twelve." Kiska said.

"Why am I even friends with you?" He said shaking his head. 'Because you like her.' A voice said in his head.

"I dunno? Why?" Kiska replied.

"Come on." He said.

He walked her home and then went his own way.