Song Of Hope: This chapter is rated T for teens. Anyone not a teenager will most likely be scarred for life if they read this chapter.
I was walking along a road, a little after twilight, when I was attack by a bunch of Bladers, all men to be specific. I fought back, punched a few of them and kicked them a few times, but two of them ended up pinning my arms behind my back.
"What do you want?" One with brown hair, and cruel black eyes, a couple years older than me, most likely the ringleader, came up to me.
"Well, isn't it obvious? We want all your Bey Points. You won the Survival Battle, so you must have a whole ton of points. Not to mention, if we take all your points, then there's no way you'll get the 50,000 needed to get into the Battle Bladers, thus knocking out some serious competition." I couldn't believe this guy.
"You're out of your damn mind if you think it's that easy! It'll be absolute zero in hell before I just hand over my points to anybody without a battle first! And like hell I'd battle you! People just like you are a disgrace to the game of Beyblade! I might have accepted your challenge if you hadn't attack me!" He laughed. He gave me a sinister smile and roughly grabbed my chin.
"Well, I'm not going to walk away with nothing. If you won't battle, and I can't get your points, then I'll have to get something else. My, my, you're a pretty little thing, aren't you?" I lifted my knee up as to hit him in a certain sensitive place. He kneeled on the ground in pain, but recovered from it.
"Feisty little thing, aren't you? All the more fun to get my little reward." He roughly grabbed my chin again, and shoved his lips on my mouth. I was completely shocked, and had a mixture of different feelings. As he did that, I could feel the tears coming. I tried to blink them back, but they trailed silently down my face. Then, a Beyblade suddenly came in and pretty much saved me. It landed behind the guy. He then stopped and turned around.
"Asking for a battle is one thing, but taking disadvantage over a woman is another thing! If you want her attention, then you treat her like a lady, not your little toy! You are a disgrace to youth everywhere and you will leave this poor girl alone." I couldn't see who it was at all, but I was glad they were there.
"Oh yeah, and what are you doing to do about it?" The person, who honestly wasn't sure if they were a guy or a girl, came out of the shadows. They had short blonde hair and green eyes. They wore a long sleeved white jacket; zipped up, and baggy gray jeans. They had a Bladers belt, and yellow Bladers gloves. They wee a bit older than me, probably by about a year or two.
"This! WORLD SHAKING!" The Bey seemed to crack open the earth right under him. He quickly got off of it.
"Let's get out of here!" The others ran away. They recalled their Bey.
"Are you alright Miss?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, um, who are you?"
"My name is Sukai Furaito." She held up her Bey. "And this is my Beyblading partner, Sky Uranius." The Face Bolt design was hard to explain, but the Energy Ring was yellow and looked like one large circular cloud. The Fusion Wheel looked like it had a ring around it, with thin pieces of metal keeping it attached to the main part of the Fusion Wheel.
"I'm Ai Minasan. My Bey is Heart Venosus." I took out my Bey. They seemed to recognize my name.
"Hey, didn't you win with Survival Battle, or at least tie with two other people?"
"Yeah, I tied with Hakuchoo Hane and Yuu Tendo. They were really good." Then I started shivering because it was so cold out. The sun had set, so the sun wasn't there to provide warmth. They noticed this.
"Why don't we go find somewhere to camp out for the night? It's obviously not safe out here, and you might need some protection, because if I can remember, you broke your arm and leg, so it'll be harder for you to fight." They unzipped their jacket, and put in on my shoulders, revealing that they were a) a girl, and b) wearing a yellow short sleeve shirt underneath.
Later On
"So, you're entering the Crystal City tournament? Well, that's about three hours walk from here. I wasn't planning on entering, but maybe I should." We were in a woodsy area, with a fire already lit. I gave Sukai a weird look.
"Why wouldn't you enter?"
"It's a small competition, and besides, I only need 5,000 more points to enter the Battle Bladers. That competition had only 1,000 points, so the competition will be all of too easy to beat, but, I might enter, since you'll be there, and you'd have to be a great Blader to not only win the Survival Battle, but to do it with a broken arm and leg." I was shocked.
"Five thousand? I'm still 11,000 away."
"Well, I already had most of the points that I needed. I am 18, so I would naturally have more points than someone younger than me." I nodded my head.
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense that you'd have more than me, since I'm 16 and you're 18." Something was bugging me about Sukai's Special Move. "So, um, how does your Special Move work?" She gave me a smile.
"What would be the fun in that?"
"What?"
"If I told you how it worked right now, then what would be the fun in it? To me, things are more fun when you have to figure them out yourself. Now, we should probably get some sleep, or at least you should. The tournament you're talking about is tomorrow, and Crystal City is about three hours walk." I thought about what she had said, and realized she was right.
"That's a good point." I dug up some dirt and threw it on the fire to put it out so we wouldn't accidentally set the forest on fire or something while we were asleep. I put my head on my pack and closed my eyes.
I woke up the next morning, surprised and happy. That was one of the first nights in a while that Ryuuga hadn't tortured me in my dreams. I got up and picked up my pack.
"Took you long enough." I turned and saw that Sukai was already up.
"Yeah, I tend to sleep for a really long time."
"So, shall we get going? It'll take a long time to get to Crystal City, and then the tournament is tomorrow." I nodded and we headed off.
Later
After about three hours of walking, we were finally at Crystal City. We went to go find the stadium, which really wasn't all that hard. Those stadiums are huge. We registered and waited in the stands. The opponents didn't seem very challenging. Sukai's battle came up, but she won hers fairly quickly.
"All the Bladers here are giving it their all! But will it be enough? Who will win this tournament today? Who is the victor here?"
My battle came up, and it was over almost as soon as it started.
Later
"Those were some extremely fast semi-finals. Now, the two finalists are Ai Minasan with her Heart Venosus versus Sukai Furaito and her Sky Uranius. Who will win? Who will lose? Whoever does win gains another 1,000 Bey Points, and becomes that much closer to qualifying for the Battle Bladers!" Sukai and me faced each other from opposite sides of the stadium.
"No holding back, promise," asked Sukai as she got out her Launcher and Bey.
"Right, I won't hold back," I said as I whipped out my Launcher and Bey.
"Ready Bladers? 3-!"
"2-!"
"1-!"
"Let it rip!" We launched our Beys. Venosus and Uranius instantly went in for an attack that sent out shockwaves of power.
"Woah! Looks like neither is holding back any of their strength at all. This seems like it will be an interesting battle!"
"Go Venosus!" She smashed into Uranius.
"Hold your ground!"
"Keep it up!" Venosus kept endlessly attacking Uranius.
"Venosus won't let up in its attacks! Is this the end for Uranius?" There was something wrong. Sukai was way too calm. She even had her eyes closed. But, then they suddenly shot open.
"WORLD SHAKING!" The stadium ground started cracking, and then Venosus got stuck in one of the cracks.
"Oh no!"
At the B-Pit
"Wow, that moves is amazing! How does it work?" Madoka typed it up on her laptop. "Amazing. The Fusion Wheel has a whole ton of tiny vents on it. The wind naturally created from the spinning of a Bey makes the air push through these vents. The air force is so powerful that it can crack open the earth!" She was looking at the Performance Tip. The Spin Track was a standard 145, but the Performance Tip was a wide flat one. "And because of the Performance Tip, it's unaffected by the cracks because of the width. And since Venosus has an extremely sharp Performance Tip, it got stuck in them."
Back at the Tournament
"So, because of its Fusion Wheel, it lets you use the air to your advantage." Sukai smiled at me.
"You figured that out pretty quickly. But now, it's time to get serious! Uranius!"
"Venosus! Try to get out!" Venosus struggled to escape from where it was trapped, but was unable to do so.
"Uranius, attack Venosus!" Uranius repeatedly struck Venosus.
"Uh oh, looks like Venosus it in a bit of a jam! Will she be able to get out of this, or will this be the end of Venosus?"
"I'm not quitting just yet!" I started thinking. "I could try using my Special Move, but that wouldn't do much of anything, other than draw out the battle, and after attacking so much and then being attacked, I've drained my stamina, so then in turn I would just lose. Okay, focus, there's got to be a way out of this." I concentrated on a strategy to get out of this, but Uranius just kept on attacking.
"Looks like you're not going to get out of this any time soon Ai." I was in trouble.
"Okay, maybe if I can spot a pattern in the attacks, then I can use it to my advantage." The attacks were too fast to see though. But then I heard a strange sound. I couldn't figure out what it was, but then I realized it was from Uranius's Fusion Wheel. It made a strange noise because of the vents. The noise was timed. I listened carefully and found the perfect chance.
"Venosus!" Venosus angled itself so that when Uranius struck again, the way it hit forced Venosus out of the crack. Sukai was thoroughly surprised.
"What?"
"Amazing. Ai somehow figured out the timing of the attacks, and then had Venosus angle itself so that when Uranius struck next, it would actually in turn help Venosus get out of the crack." I smiled.
"And it worked perfectly. Now, let's see how well my Special Move works against your Bey. VENOSUS HEARTS LONGING DESIRE!" Uranius suddenly stopped in place.
"It's Ai's famous Special Move, Hearts Longing Desire. It looks like this match is already won!"
"Well Sukai, it was fun while it lasted, but it's over now. GO!" Venosus went around the cracks and then crashed into Uranius. I won with a Stadium out.
"And the winner of the 1,000 Bey Points is Ai Minasan!" I watch my Bey Pointer go out to 40,000 Bey Points. Now, I only have 10,000 more Bey Points to go until I have enough for Battle Bladers. Sukai picked up her Bey and gracefully left the stadium.
Song Of Hope: Sorry it took so long for the upload. I got sick, and wasn't allowed near the computer.