Disclaimer: I still don't own beyblades, I really should work on that.
Last time-
Kai fell fully dressed on his bed, within minutes he was sound asleep. Tomorrow was going to be a long day once they got rid of Brooklyn and Miguel the plan would be explained to everyone. It should be fun.
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Chapter 12
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Miguel and Brooklyn were gone by ten after Jerry had insisted on cooking them breakfast, in any other circumstances Jerry would have kicked them out but considering they were in her house she had too. Lillie on the other hand stayed stolid until they left and wasn't sad to see the back of them.
"Alright before we go anywhere we have a few things to discuss." Jerry sat down at the table with everyone else.
Everyone at the table quietened down to listen to what Jerry had to say. "Right, first off we need to work out who is going to be captain." Everyone looked at Jerry with slight confusion. "What? If we are going to go on a wilderness trek we need to know who we will be talking orders from." Jerry shrugged.
Lillie nodded. "Actually I've been thinking about it and I think we shouldn't have a captain and vice captain, we should have two captains. Kai and Tala, I mean I'm sure that Kai and Tala can work together, what do you guys think?"
There were murmurs from all the boys but no real answer. "Well I think it is a great idea, should we vote or something?" Jerry piped in giving Tyson, Max, Ray and Kenny dirty looks.
"Um okay." Max added after Jerry's nasty look.
"Well that's three of us, you two don't count cause you are involved in the outcome." Lillie gestured towards Kai and Tala. "So are you going to agree or are we going to have to hurt you?" Lillie crossed her arms.
Tyson, Ray and Kenny slowly raised their hands. "Good, now that that was settled our two captains can take over and they can tell us what is going to happen." Lillie sat back in her chair looking pleased with herself.
Kai and Tala looked at one another, Tala shrugged. "Right, go and get ready, don't bring anything you don't need. Pack light because you will be carrying everything you take, nothing electronic because there is no power. Max no lollies and Tyson do not bring food." Both boys looked shock at their orders.
"But what are we going to eat if we don't take food?" Tyson demanded looking slightly paler that he did before. Kai and Tala just smirked.
"Guys this is training not a school camp. Now go and get your stuff." Tala dismissed everyone before he stood from the table and went to pack his bag.
Fifteen minutes later everyone was sitting in the lounge room waiting for Lillie and Jerry. Moments later the girls appeared in the door way.
Lillie and Jerry smirked at the boys reactions to their chosen attire. Both girls were in cargo pants, combat boots, and sports bras covered by small tank tops, ready for their adventure. Kai however couldn't get past the tattoo just above Jerry's right breast. Tala was having a similar problem with Lillie but hid it better than Kai.
"Tala let you get a tat, nice, what's it mean?" Jerry looked down at the tattoo she didn't realise was showing.
"It's superstition Kai." Jerry told him before hauling her backpack over her shoulder and heading towards the car.
Once the boys were in Tala's garage confusion reigned. There were four cars in the garage, two belong to Jerry and two belonging to Tala. (A/N look I know that four cars is a little excessive but meh, they have money and Mr Dickenson keeps buying them things so why not?) Kai and Tala stood behind them smirking, waiting to see what they would do. Kai's garage was very simular to Tala's he had four cars but Lillie didn't have her licence yet but when she did two of the cars would belong hers.
"Oh come on, this really isn't that hard! We need to take two cars because we all won't fit in one, now we are going into the forest so which ones do you think would be appropriate?" Jerry and Lillie had come in behind the boys. There was no answer which made Jerry sigh, pulling two sets of keys out of her pocket she pressed the central locking button on both sets of keys. Lights flashed on two Jeeps. "Right, now does that narrow it down a bit?" Jerry asked walking towards her Jeep after tossing Tala his keys.
"You have four cars!" Was all Max managed to say.
Jerry shock her head as Tala and Kai tried not to laugh. "Tala, Max is going with you." Tala stopped smirking and rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
Jerry climbed into her silver Wrangler Renegade and Tala walked towards the black one. "Kai you are going with Jerry." Kai nodded and went to get in the passenger seat. Lillie did the same, pulling herself up next to Tala, Max and Kenny climbed into the back. Tyson and Ray got into the back of Jerry's Jeep.
Tala pressed a button to open the door infront of his Jeep, Jerry did the same but waited for Tala to go first, it had been agreed that she would follow Tala, after all Tala was more familiar with the area that they were going to. After pressing the button one again the doors closed behind the cars and they were off, heading towards the highway.
---Jerry's car---
Jerry pulled her shades down over her eyes to block out the glair coming off the road and turned on the CD player. The black parade came out of all twelve speakers. It was quite loud because last time Jerry had been in the car she had been alone, turning it down she shot the boys in the back and apologetic smile in the rear vision mirror.
"So you have four cars?" Tyson was still in awe.
"No actually two of them are Tala's, besides we didn't pay for them so it's all good." Jerry told him at the same time as sending a wink in Kai's direction.
"You didn't pay for them?" Tyson asked with wonder. "Are they hot?"
"Nope, Mr D brought Tala the black Beamer so that we had a car after the nanny left, when I got my learners Mr D brought me the Saab convert and then when I actually got my licence be brought me the Jeep and because he had only gotten Tala one car he got a Jeep too.
"Wow that's cool, how come I didn't get a car?" Tyson asked looking slightly put out now.
"Well for starters Tyson you don't have your licence and secondly I wouldn't trust you with a car." Kai answered.
"Ha, very funny, everyone's a bloody comedian." Tyson muttered. Ray laughed softly causing Jerry to smile.
Jerry's cell phone rang shortly after, switching it to speaker. "Yeah?" She answered once the music had been turned down.
"Hey girl, where have you been all week?" the voice of Jemma on of Jerry's friends filled the car.
"I've been down south with Tala, how are you?" Jerry was happy to hear from her friend, when they had left neither Jerry or Tala told anyone where they were going.
"Great actually, I've had a lot of male attention the past week without you at school." Jemma laughed into the phone. Jerry couldn't help but smirk at Kai's raised eyebrow.
"Gee it's nice to know I was missed." Jerry laughed along with her friend.
"Yeah you know it, so what are you up to?" Jemma asked. "I was thinking we could do something tomorrow."
"Sorry Jems, no can do. I'm going away for a couple of weeks." Jerry told her with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"What! Again?" Jemma demanded.
"Yeah, hey guys say hello to Jemma." Jerry laughed as all the boys in the car said hello to the person on the other end of the line.
"Dude three guys? Who are they?" Jemma was sounding slightly jealous.
"Kai, Ray and Tyson. Kenny, Max and Lillie are with Tala." Jerry told her.
"Why do those names sound familiar?" Jemma wondered.
"Kai, Ray, Max, Tyson and Kenny as in the Blade Breakers." Jerry told her friend.
There was silence on the other end for a moment. "Oh fuck, I've been babbling infront of the worlds most highly ranking team! FUCK Jerry you could have told me sooner! God how do you know them anyway?" Jem wanted to know.
"Well I've know Kai my entire life and I met the others about two weeks ago." Jerry told her.
"Oh my god I can't believe you! You are related to the second hottest guy in existence and you know the first, how could you not tell me that, we are meant to be best friends!" Jemma demanded.
Jerry laughed. "Well it never came up, and just so you know your dream boat is sitting right next to me and he has a wicked smirk on his face."
"You bitch, you have me on speaker phone." Jemma yelled into the phone and car.
"Jems, I'm driving, I can hardly hold the phone now can I? Besides I don't want a ticket." Jerry placated.
"Alright well I have to go to the shops for mum so I better go. I'll talk to ya later." Jem said.
"Coolies, I'll call you when I get back okay?" Jerry asked.
"Yep I'll talk to ya then." Jemma disconnected. Jerry shock her head, she was going to get bitch slapped next time she saw Jemma.
"Well that was amusing." Kai stated as he stared out the window.
---Tala's car---
Tala's cell rang, he answered putting it on speaker.
"Hello?" Tala reconfigured the number but couldn't understand why Jemma was calling him.
"Oh My God! Can you believe what that bitch just did to me? That bitch who just happens to be my best friend and you little sister." Jemma nearly yelled.
"Ah no but I guess you are going to tell me." Tala laughed, Jemma was a great kid, though she wasn't really a kid Tala had never thought of her as anything else.
"I just called her and she put me on speaker phone, she has half of the blood Blade Breakers in her car for fucks sake and I made a complete ass out of myself and what's worse is Kai is in her car, I just want to crawl under a rock and die." Jemma ranted.
"Hey don't worry about it, Kai doesn't have a very high opinion for people anyway, I'm sure he doesn't thing any less of you." Lillie piped in as everyone in the car smiled or smirked.
"Who are you?" Jemma asked, not realising that she was on speaker phone again.
"Lillie, who are you?" Lillie asked politely.
"Jemma, hang on, I am so going to kill you Tala, seriously I hope you never want to have children cause I am going to cut off your balls! So Lillie you aren't part of the Blade Breakers and I don't know you so what are you doing with them and Tala?" Jemma was beyond embarrassment so decided to let it go and extract information.
"Oh I came over here from Australia with Kai." Lillie told her.
"Oh so you're his girlfriend, why are in a car with Tala instead of Kai?" Jemma wondered.
"Ha, not quite. Kai is my brother."
"Kai doesn't have a sister." Jemma stated.
"Um I can assure you that he does. Tala am I Kai's sister?" Lillie asked.
"Sure are. Look Jems we're going to have to go and I would appreciate it if you don't tell anyone about Lillie." Tala said.
"Um sure but why?" Jemma wondered.
"It's a long story, I'll tell you another day okay?" Tala asked.
"Yeah whatever. Bye Tala and everyone else."
"Bye." Everyone chorister before Tala pressed a button and the line went dead.
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After an hour and a half everyone was happy to get out of the car and stretch their legs. "Is this it?" Kenny asked sounding sightly disgusted. Everyone looked around at the low roofed buildings behind the high razer wire fence.
"Yep it is, the barracks are on the far left of the compound, grab your stuff and lets go." Tala commanded as he opened the back door to his Jeep. "Oh yeah, watch out for bear traps I don't think we brought enough band aids for anyone to stand on one of them." The Blade Breaker boy laughed nervously.
Ten minutes later everyone was standing in the middle of the dormitory looking around of the unmade low slung army beds, sixteen in all each with its own footlocker.
Lillie walked to a grimy window, peering though she could vaguely make out the shapes of other buildings. Bringing up a hand she wiped away some of the grime, this was like being back at the abbey but with sunlight. The part of the abbey that the children frequented was all underground passages and dark rooms. Shaking her head to rid herself of the images Lillie turned back to the others just in time to catch what Kai was saying. "Right we aren't doing any training today, you'll all get settled and later we are all going to go hunting."
"Hunting?" Max asked in a slightly high pitched voice.
"Yes Max hunting, how else are we going to eat?" Max just whimpered before flopping down on an unmade bed.
"Any other question?" Kai addressed everyone.
"Uh," Kenny piped up not really sure he wanted to hear the answer. "About the power supply?"
"There is none." Kai watched as Kenny went to the nearest foot locker and sat down putting his head between his knees and breathing heavily. Kai shook his head.
"God I don't get what your problem is, all of you! This is nothing, this is cruisy compared to what we've been through. Be grateful you have a roof and a bed and walls." Jerry said before storming out of the barracks
"Well someone's high strung." Tyson muttered.
It was Lillie's turn to snap. "No, Jerry is right, you guys are so soft, we had none of this. If this is how you behave I don't know how you became world champions." Lillie followed Jerry out the door slamming it behind her.
"They aren't taking this as well as I expected." Tala ran his hands over his face in frustration. He knew that this was going to be hard on Jerry and Lillie but he had hoped that they would rise to the occasion.
"Maybe we should send them home, they can practise there and besides they already know what we are going to teach the others." Kai at that moment was fighting a desire to run after the girls.
"It's still early days yet, I think they will be fine with some time, anyway I thought this might help Jerry with her memory that's why I tried to make it as much like that trip as I could, maybe something will happen that will trigger her memory. Having you around has made a difference I think and I figured this could be closure for them." Tala stood staring out the window Lillie had smeared clean.
"I'm not going to do anything that is going to damage them Tala, they are already damaged good, we all are. Lillie tries to block it all out but she still doesn't sleep properly. Jerry wants to remember but I don't know if she really needs too, I mean it would help her understand herself better but I don't know if she would cope." Kai crossed his arms and let out a sigh, he didn't know what to do with Lillie and Jerry.
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Jerry was sitting on the hood of her Jeep when Lillie found her.
"Yeah I know I shouldn't have snapped at them but I stood in that room and my heart started beating so fast I thought it was going to jump out of my chest, I could hear the blood pounding in my ears and they were worried about electricity! It's so stupid, they have had everything so easy and they don't even realise it." Jerry shivered and pulled her knees up to her chest.
The car shifted as Lillie climbed up beside her. "Yeah I know, I told them that before I came out here. That room, it's suffocating, I couldn't breath. Lillie rested her head on Jerry's shoulder.
"I feel so cold, I mean it gets cold here but it's colder, like a Russian blizzard. I can feel it in my bones." Jerry let out a little laugh, dangling her keys infront of Lillie she continued. "I was seriously considering going home, I don't know if can handle this."
"Nah, we'll stay here and get through this together, like we always did, don't let Voltaire and Boris beat you Jerry. You are stronger than they will ever know, show the world who you are and what you are capable of." Lillie jumped off the Jeep. "Come on, lets go and light a fire, lets knock those boys socks off." Lillie began to walk towards the wood pile she had seen previously gesturing for Jerry to follow. Jerry gave Lillie a weak smile before sliding off the front of the Jeep and repocketing her keys. "Yeah, lets rock some socks.
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Okay guys sorry for the wait but here it is anyway. I hope you all like it.
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The Perfect Oasis