Chapter 12
Instantly everyone in the clearing pointed their launchers at the bitbeast, while Ian, Kai and Tala aimed their guns.
"WAIT!" A voice cried, it was Kat's. Everyone turned to gape at her, well, except for Akkiko and Meg that is. Suddenly Akkiko's and Meg's eyes widened.
"Falcon! Stop!"
"NO-!" Suddenly, all three team members had a sharp pain in the back of their minds, and they all fell into enveloping darkness.
"Oooohhh . . . ."
"Tyson? Tyson! Wake up!"
"Gigantic. . . .oversized . . . . wolf . . . . Buick."
"Congratulations Kat. Your bitbeast had made my boyfriend deluded."
"He was deluded long before, and it was your bitbeast that knocked him out."
"Actually Kat, I think it was MY bitbeast that knocked out Tyson . . . Meg's knocked out Enrique."
"LIES! ALL LIES!"
"Yeah Akkiko, I saw. Yours knocked out Enrique. Meg's knocked out Tala."
"WHAT?"
"Again; LIES! ALL LIES!" Kai groaned.
'There is someone VERY loud talking, and it is REALLY pissing me off . . .' The team captain thought vaguely.
'If you want, we can kill them all and save you the trouble right now.' An icy and cool voice commented.
"YOU SURE AS HELL WILL NOT!" Kat snapped.
'I don't see why you bother with them anyway.' A calm voice declared.
"It's called 'friendship.' Stop being so possessive Falcon." Akkiko snapped. Robert groaned in his sleep. Suddenly his eyes snapped open. Scrambling to his feet he looked around, and found to great shock, everyone except for Meg, Kat and Akkiko had been knocked out, his hand flew to the place where his launcher and blade were normally kept, only to find it missing.
'Looking for something?' A smug voice asked calmly. Robert turned and jumped back in shock. Talon grinned. In his paw he toyed with Robert's launcher, as well as a lot of the others' launchers.
"Talon, you're not helping." Meg said dimly.
'I'm supposed to help?'
"OUT!" Meg ordered. Talon sighed, and while dropping the launchers and blades onto the floor, flew out the window.
"Same for you two too." Akkiko said clapping her hands. Falcon and Razor rolled their eyes, before flying out the window. Robert stared dimly at the three girls.
"What's going on?" Ian grumbled as he sat up.
"Ditto that." Enrique muttered as he yawned. Akkiko grinned. Walking over to the D-boys, she began to rap each one on the head smartly calling a name.
"Hey Ice cube!" She yelled at Brian. "Bean pole!" She knocked on Spencer's head. "Shorty!" She smacked Ian. "Wanker!" And she whacked Tala. "WAKE UP!" The entire room jumped at this.
"Who let loose the foghorn?" Johnny demanded. Akkiko rolled her eyes.
"Up and at 'em people!" Meg called clapping her hands. "Up, up, up!"
"Five more minutes. . . ." Enrique moaned. Kat rolled her eyes.
"Hey Enrique . . ." She called in a cooing sort of voice.
". . . . . . meh?"
"Wow, isn't she a super model!" Kat suddenly exclaimed.
"WHAT? WHERE?" Enrique yelped jumping up. Kat rolled her eyes. Smacking him upside the head she muttered;
"Lech."
"So, now that we're all awake and . . . well, somewhat alive, how is everyone doing?" Meg asked cheerfully. She was answered with a room full of death glares. "Or maybe I'll just shut up . . ." Akkiko sighed.
"Are you okay?" She asked the group. There was a moment of pause, before everyone nodded their heads.
"That's good. I was beginning to think that Falcon, Razor and Talon had all knocked you-"
"WHAT?"
"Uh. . . . what did I say?" She hissed at Meg and Kat. Tyson was on her in a second.
"WHAT ABOUT TALON?" He demanded of Akkiko. He grabbed the cuff of her shirt and started strangling her.
"Choking . . ." Akkiko gasped. "Can't . . . . breath . . . . dying . . . . air . . . . .need!" She squeaked. Tyson was about to demand an answer, when he suddenly found himself with a knife at his throat. He gulped and dropped Akkiko as Tala glared at Tyson, he had moved so fast, not even Meg realized that the knife next to her was gone as Tala grabbed it, and now held it to the Bladebreaker's throat.
"Never, touch her, again." He whispered, his voice deadly quiet. "Lay so much as a finger on her, and I will-!"
"Tala!" Akkiko croaked. "No worries . . . I'm sure you're ready to strangle me too." She winced rubbing a sore neck. Tyson blushed.
"Sorry . . . . I kind of . . ."
"Got carried away? It happens. Now, uh . . . Meg? You wanna explain? I need water . . ." She groaned and crawled, I literally mean, crawled, over to the sink.
"Oh stop exaggerating. You'll live, and you're perfectly capable of walking." Kat said dully, walked over, and used her foot to nudge Akkiko in the side.
"Owie . . . ."
"Ahem." Johnny said, tapping his foot, arms crossed, eyebrows furrowed, he was doing an absolutely miserable job of hiding his impatience.
"Alright, alright . . ." Meg said with a sigh. "Okay, you remember how we told you of our bitbeasts? How they were split into two halves?" The entire group nodded.
"Well . . . .since we've linked ourselves to our bitbeasts again . . . they can become visible, like a normal bitbeast. What you saw, is the 'good' side, so to speak." Meg explained.
"What do you mean, linked?" Ray inquired. Meg hesitated for a moment. Then gave in.
"Alright, here's the full story. When each of us turned 11, on our birthday we received an object of power correct? For me it was my wrist bands, for Kat her bracers, for Akkiko her gloves. And with those gifts, came a shard. Well . . . a bit to be more precise. At first, we had no idea what they were for, so we left them alone, but one day, I was wearing my wrist bands, I had a tennis game to go to and they worked just fine, I was about to leave, when . . ." She paused. "I, walked by the fireplace, where the shard was. I had encased it in a small glass box and propped it up on the mantle, and as I passed by . . . it . . . glowed." Tyson blinked. This was so close to what had happened to him.
"When I went closer, it glowed bright. So, I eventually got to the part where I opened the glass box, and reached in to grab it. And then . . . well, the minute my finger touched it . . . he was there."
"He?" Kai repeated calmly. Meg sighed.
"Talon." She replied softly. Kat shook her head.
"It was the same for me. I stumbled upon Razor by pure coincidence." She said softly.
"It wasn't coincidence Kat." Akkiko interrupted. "It was fate." And she said it so firmly and sincerely, everyone in the room, believed her.
"Hey Enrique?" Johnny asked that evening, they all had separate rooms. The Majestics got two rooms, side by side, as did the Bladebreakers, and the Demolition Boys. The girls all shared one room.
"Mmmphzzz . . . ."
"Enrique, WAKE UP!"
"Huh? What?"
"I've been thinking-" Johnny began.
"Congratulations. Now I'm going back to sleep." Enrique mumbled sleepily and buried his face into the pillow.
"Enrique, seriously." Johnny said quietly. Enrique blinked, then sighed and rolled over to face Johnny who was sitting on his bed.
"What?" He demanded.
"It's about Kat . . ."
"What of her?" Enrique replied yawning.
"Don't you think . . . that maybe . . . well, isn't it possible she's hiding something more?"
"Huh?" Enrique was fully awake now.
"I mean, sure she's got a rich, yet uncaring family, a powerful, but rogue bitbeast. I feel like . . . there's some sort of . . . . 'shadow' to put it bluntly." Enrique sat up.
"Shadow?"
"Yeah . . . an enigma almost. Something underlying all that cheerfulness and the mask of being a stoic. Something that . . . . . erodes her." Johnny finished sullenly. Enrique paused.
"You're right. Now go to bed." He finally replied and turned his back on Johnny, pretending to sleep.
"What-? Enrique!" Enrique didn't answer. Johnny glared at the back of his teammate for a few minutes, then sighed, and blew out the candle. Flopping onto his bed, he quickly fell to sleep in seconds. Enrique however, still thought.
'It's becoming so obvious since Razor showed himself.' Enrique thought softly. 'She's feeling the loneliness. It's coming back to haunt her, all those memories . . . she said it made her want to kill herself . . . could it do it again?' The thought terrified him. 'No. I won't take that chance. I'll find a way to save her from the loneliness. Once and for all.'
The next morning found Kat staring around stupidly, only half awake. She groggily wondered why she was sleeping in the same room as Meg and Akkiko, when they usually all had separate rooms.
Wait-
Oh. Right.
You can't really do that when you're living with 13 boys and 2 more girls. Meg was sleeping on her right in another bed, and to Kat's left, was Akkiko's sleepi- waitaminute. Kat stopped in mid yawn.
"Meg." She hissed, kicking her sleeping friend awake.
"Hands off coffee napper-!" Meg yelled as she awoke, blinked, rubbed her eyes and squinted at Kat.
"What?" Kat glanced at her.
"Where's Akkiko?"
Akkiko snuggled closer to the nearest source of warmth.
"Ian!" A voice hissed.
"-Snorrreeeeeeee-"
"Ian you son of a bitch. WAKE UP!" The voice hissed again.
"Huh? Pi equals 3.14159-" He stopped short. Looked at the source of the voice and blinked. Then his face paled, his mind registered, eyes widened in shock.
"Ian, help!"
"How the heck did the wench get into the room?" Ian hissed back as he tumbled out of bed. Quietly though. "We locked the door!"
"Gee . . . you think THIS had anything to do with it?"
"LOCK picks? Good god . . ." Akkiko groaned.
'Why is my pillow moving? Pillows shouldn't move . . .' She thought sleepily and snuggled closer. Suddenly . . . 'WAITAMINTUE! Pillows . . . . moving . . . .wait . . . . there's a problem there. . . .something, is NOT logical. It'll come to me in a second.' Akkiko thought, her eyes furrowing. 'Wait for it . . . .wait for it . . . .' Her eyes suddenly snapped open.
"OH MY GOD!"
Brian sat outside the tree house, watching the sun rise. When he heard it.
"OH MY GOD!" Brian snickered. Ah yes, what a beautiful day it was going to be.
"Okay, the sleep walking thing I can get. But LOCK picking!" Ian demanded holding up several strands of firm, yet thin wire. Akkiko was banging her head on the closest wall. Which happened to be a door. Tala was still clapping a hand to his ear, testing for hearing. He had been this morning's poor unfortunate victim . . . . .again. The other bladers who had woken up, like they could sleep through that scream, were assembled in the kitchen with the girls and were in awe.
"Okay, so not only do you sleep walk . . . .but you lock pick too? Do we have to put a dead-bolt on our door or something?" Johnny demanded.
"Shut up Johnny." Enrique muttered elbowing his teammate.
"Shh!" Oliver hissed.
"Man . . . . I thought you were joking when you said she acts like a thief when she's asleep!" Max said in awe to Kat. Kat looked at him, eyebrow raised.
"Would I joke about something like that?"
"My bad."
"Jeez, glad I'm not you Tala." Rei said grinning to the D-boy's captain. Tala looked at him, still clapping his ear.
"What?"
"Hey, captain. Testing, 1, 2, 3, testing. CAN. YOU. HEAR. ME?" Ian said slowly.
"What?"
"Still deaf." Ian replied.
"Sorry Tala . . ." Akkiko muttered, still banging her head against the door.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
She lifted her head to bang it onto the door again, when the unexpected, or expected, depending on your IQ, happened. The door OPENED!
"ACK!" Akkiko went tumbling out . . . into-
TA DA!
A not so happy Kai. Kai was now on the ground, with Akkiko over him in a NOT so chaste position. Max blinked at the glaring Kai, whose eyes were gleaming homicidally. He sweatdropped.
"That's not Kai's happy face." He said quietly. Meg blinked at him as Kai proceeded to chase Akkiko.
"Kai has a happy face?" In the background were screams of;
"Help help help help help help!"
"You're going to die PAINFULLY and SLOWLY!"
"But I'm allergic to pain! Help help help help help!"
Do I really have to narrate who is saying what? Kat sighed.
"Meg, you're captain has gone homicidal on your friend." She said tiredly.
"WHAT? She's your friend too!"
"Oh, but she met you first. So you're closer to her." Kat retorted.
"Actually, no. She met you first." Meg replied calmly.
". . . . . damn you."
Enrique was fishing water from a nearby stream, sent by Kat who still seemed a little peeved at him. As soon as he filled the two buckets of clean water, he stood, and turned around, only to come nose to nose with a furry snout.
"YEEP!" Enrique yelped as he jumped away. Razor stared at him calmly. "Oh, sorry Razor." He said calmly. This was the good one right? He seemed a little off . . . but then again, it was day now. The last time he had seen him was at night.
"Sorry, didn't mean to almost hit you." He said cheerfully and moved to walk around the wolf. Razor watched him calmly go, then, if he could, he would have smiled. When Enrique's back was turned to him, he quickly spun to face Enrique and barreled at him.
"Wha-?" Enrique turned and got tackled in the waist. "OW! That hurt, get off!" Enrique yelled. The bitbeast smirked.
'I don't think so human.' He said snarling. Then Enrique realized something with shock.
Kat's bitbeast was an image, they couldn't physically harm people.
The good ones anyway.
"Oh shit. . . ."
Disclaimer: I own beyblade and that is all.
