Hi, starsnow back with the final REAL chapter of this story. But there will be an epilogue, so look for it in about two weeks. Next, I've got to tell you all something I forgot to about the last chapter. I actually wrote all the names and businesses out on slips of paper and picked them out of not hats, but plastic bags. Those results last chapter were the results I got! And now for... Kai!

Kai: xxstarsnowxx does not own Beyblade or Beyblade Metal Fight.

Kyoya: And if you're interested...

Nile: Check out her new story featuring us!

Kyoya & Nile: Tales of Awesomeness.

Chapter 37 Hellos and Goodbyes

"Man, I can't believe this is our last day in Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land," whined Tyson to his fellow Bladebreakers. "It feels like... a second home now!"

"That's a far cry from how you felt in the beginning, Tyson," Ray pointed out.

"Yeah. You couldn't stop complaining about how the town hated your friend Zeo," said Hilary.

"Well, yeah, but now that I've seen all the damage Zeo did, I can understand how everyone in town feels, even if it's not mutual." Tyson smiled at everyone. "But really, guys. It feels like we've been here forever!"

"We've been here for several months," Kai pointed out emotionlessly.

"Wow! Has it really been that long?" asked Max.

Kenny shrugged. "Time flies when you're having fun."

"All the same, guys, I'll be sad to leave," said Tyson. "I can still clearly remember the day we came into town..."

As Tyson was off on his trip down memory lane, the others planned their departure to the airport. "We are not wandering aimlessly through the woods again," Hilary insisted. "We should get a ride from someone. Maybe Nile would drop us off. After all, he was the first one to meet us when we were hopelessly lost."

"No, we shouldn't bother him," Kenny said. "He was nice enough to help once, but twice? We shouldn't be asking so many favors we can't repay."

"I'd say we should hire a cab or something. Does anyone own a car rental place?" asked Ray.

"Chris runs Chris's Car & Car Repair Shop," Kai pointed out. He knew the town the best out of all of them. "I think he does rentals."

"We should go there to make sure," Max said. "Lead the way, Kai."

"Hey dad, what would you like to order?" Gingka asked. Ryo was at his burger shop, still moping about 'Ryuga TV' and 'all the Dragon Emperor all the time' from Opposite Day, which had been exactly a week ago.

"I'll have your regular hamburger," Ryo said. "What? I'm not very hungry," he added, seeing the look on Gingka's face. He moved glumly over to the 'Pick-up' line.

King, who was next in line, stepped up and ordered his usual, and then began chatting, as usual, to Gingka. "Opposite Day was a total success! I mean, I may not have had a ton of fun, but Ryuto, Demure, and tons of others did!"

"I didn't," said Gingka. "I was at Sophie's Soap..."

But King was talking on. "Gingka, that's nice, but you're not the only one who didn't like it. Kyoya and Nile were annoyed at getting stuck at Selen's Showers, and I'm sure Yuki was upset he was stuck with his own place!"

"I wouldn't have minded being at my own place," Ryo muttered under his breath. It was then, that to his great misfortune he overheard two customers deep in their own conversation.

"Man, Opposite Day was the bomb!" Masamune Kadoya was exclaiming excitedly from a booth in close proximity to Gingka's father. "I loved hanging around at Chi & Chao's Chess & Checkers!"

"I enjoyed working right here in Gingka's restaurant. I had the TV set up just right so I could see how awesome Ryuga made Ryo's business. Oh man, I could hardly look away!" Kenta exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Masamune said enthusiastically while munching on his fries. "Ryuga TV was way better than Ryo TV ever could be!"

The two of them didn't realize Ryo was within earshot of this all, muttering under his breath that it wasn't that great, not that great at all. But then Ryo's order came and he happily forgot the conversation for a bit as he ate.

"Man, I'm so glad to be back here," Nile said with a content sigh. "Opposite Day was soooo boring for us." He and Kyoya were relaxing at the top of the pyramid as they waited for the first challengers to arrive.

Kyoya nodded in agreement. Then something on one of the many camera screens caught his attention. He pressed a few buttons to enlarge it, and realized that people outside were waving to a camera. He noted that Kai was in the group. "Nile, we've got guests, and I don't think they're here to battle."

He and Nile descended from their pyramid to see what was up. "Nile, Kyoya, we just wanted to say goodbye," Tyson (who had elected himself spokesperson) said. "I know that we might have had our differences when it came to the Zeo Zaggart problem, but I understand where you're coming from. Zeo was bent on taking over this town, and though I am his friend, he should know he can't do something like that."

Hilary added on what Tyson had forgotten. "I don't think we ever properly thanked you, Nile, for bringing us into town. It would have been a loooong walk."

"And thank you for discovering the robo-factory. It was a great find," Nile said.

"Yeah, it really helped us eliminate a huge chunk of Zeo's army," said Kyoya. "Even though Tetsuya was the one to end up controlling them..."

Max piped up, "Speaking of the crab, I heard King saying that he hasn't been seen in quite a while. I wonder what happened to him?"

Kyoya and Nile shrugged.

*At a random beach...*

"CRAAABY!" Tetsuya said as he ran – I mean scuttled – around in the sand with all his crab friends and robot friends as well. "You're all such great scuttlers," he told the robots. "Especially you," he told the robot he had named Sandy. "Now let's all PARTY!"

Strobe lights strung from trees started blaring and dancing back and forth as the robo-DJ, Mac, cranked the tunes. Tetsuya scuttle-danced with all his friends, new and old, in one giant beach party. This lasted for weeks and weeks, until after a few months, he got tired of dancing at the beach and brought all his friends back to Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land, where they were accepted rather well into society there. But that's a different story.

*Back outside the Beyblade Battlegrounds...*

"Whatever. Who knows, who cares," came a new voice behind the Bladebreakers, Kyoya, and Nile. They all turned around and saw that Ryuga had come over. "I heard that you're leaving, Kai."

Kai nodded. "Hey! We're leaving too!" Tyson said in his unnecessarily loud voice.

Ryuga ignored him. "Anyway, I came to give some last advice before we leave."

"We? I didn't think you were leaving town, Ryuga," Kyoya noted.

"Oh, not for good, Kyoya. You can't get rid of me that easily. I'm just going off for some more training," said Ryuga. He then pulled Kai off to the side and told him not to neglect his own training. "If you keep it up, you'll be able to beat Tyson for sure. He strikes me as a slacker."

Kai looked over and saw Tyson standing sort of slumped over. "You know, you're right. This entire time we've been in town, Tyson's barely trained at all, except for a few times at the Beyblade Battlegrounds and a few other times to show off in front of kids. I'll battle him once we get back to Japan and have the upper hand. Unlike him, I've kept up my training."

Ryuga smirked and then the two of them headed back to the others. Tyson, Ray, Hilary, Max, Kenny, and even Kai said their goodbyes to the co-owners of the Beyblade Battlegrounds and wished them luck in their business. They even bid farewell to Ryuga, who then closed up his own store, Ryuga's Readables, and headed out to who-knows-where for his training.

In fact, the Bladebreakers didn't even need to rent a car for their departure; Nile offered to drive them to the airport out of the kindness of his heart – that and the fact that they'd helped out and played their part in The Plan he and Kyoya had created.

As their plane lifted off the ground, Kai glanced out the window and saw the very tip of the pyramid know as the Beyblade Battlegrounds out of the corner of his eye. It was hard to see even when one was looking very hard for it. Yes, Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land would remain a mystery to much of the world, as it very well should. Which reminded him, "Tyson, everyone. We shouldn't speak of what we've seen on this trip."

Tyson was confused. "Huh? Why not?"

Ray jumped into the conversation. "Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land is like a haven of sorts for all those famous bladers. I'm sure King never thought it would become such, but now it is."

"Yeah," Hilary said. "Those famous bladers can live there in peace, and have fun all the while."

So it was agreed that the Beyblade Town remain a secret kept safely with them.

*In Japan...*

"Well father, it failed."

"What failed?"

"The robots," Zeo said sadly to Dr. Zaggart.

"WHAT!?"

After venting his rage around the house, Dr. Zaggart finally calmed down and took on a totally different demeanor. He put his arm around Zeo and said, "Son, this is a good lesson to you. Just as I've learned my lessons about beyblading, so you have now as well."

"I fail to see how this should make me feel any better," Zeo commented blandly.

Dr. Zaggart said, "It is indeed a lesson: You can't always win. I learned it the hard way, and so have you. Normally I'd say 'if you can't beat them, join them', but I doubt that would work in this situation. So here's my advice..."

*A month later...*

"Hey, you know who we haven't seen in a while?" Tyson asked Max, Ray, Kai, Kenny, and Hilary. They were eating burgers which Ray had purchased, just as they had several months ago before they had ever seen or heard of Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land.

"A lot of people," responded Kai.

"Specifics please, Kai," Tyson prompted.

"Kyoya, Nile, King, etc." Kai said.

"Well, that's true, but I was thinking more along the lines of-"

"Zeo Zaggart?" Max guessed.

"However did you guess, Max?" Tyson asked over-dramatically. "Are you a mind reader?"

"No," Max responded. "I think it's because this entire conversation seems very familiar."

"Yeah, as in 'we had this conversation before we went to look for Zeo and found ourselves in the middle of a giant battle' familiar," pointed out Hilary.

"I assume that now we'll have to go off to his house and find him," Ray said. "After all, if this is a true deja vu moment that's what we need to do next."

Kenny said, "Yeah! We haven't seen him since he tried to take over Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land! I wonder if he's mad at us or anything..."

"Well, off we go!" Tyson said, hitting his 'lines' right on.

At the Zaggart residence, Tyson rung the doorbell.

Ding dong! Dr. Zaggart came to open the door. "Tyson, why are you here again? I heard you found Zeo in America." The doctor was wondering why that kid kept showing up on his doorstep, even though it had been several months.

"Hello Dr.," Tyson said politely. "I was wondering where Zeo is? Is he home?"

"Actually, I'll have to say no to that question again." Dr. Zaggart then explained himself. "Zeo's off in some local woodlands that he purchased. Well actually, I purchased it for him."

"Um, where is this woodland area?" Hilary asked.

"Over that way," Dr. Zaggart said, pointing. Kenny followed his gaze and led the way into the woods.

"Gee, this seems very familiar," Max pointed out.

"I wonder what we'll find in these woods," said Ray.

The gang soon found out when they hit a semi-well-tread path which they followed deeper into the woods. Up ahead, they spotted a sign. A neon, colorful, attention-getting sign that read: Welcome to Anti-King Land; population: 10.

"Huh. Guess this place isn't very popular," Kai said. Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land had a lot more bladers in it than this place, that was for sure.

"Yep, this is where Zeo's at all right," Kenny said with a sigh as Tyson grinned.

"This is hilarious! I should have know Zeo would pull something funny like this!" He doubled over laughing. The others didn't find it that funny, and Kai didn't think it was funny at all. Then again, he rarely found anything laugh-worthy.

Upon further exploration, Tyson and the others discovered Zeo Zaggart himself. After they said their hellos, Zeo explained how his dad told him to do this. "It makes me feel like – even if he doesn't know about this place – I got back at King at last," he said proudly. "I should take a picture and send it to him. Do any of you have his email address?"

Against his better judgment, Max gave him the address. "It's Vareiares underscore King at beyblading is awesome dot com.

Zeo Zaggart wasted no time snapping a pic of his small but flamboyant town (along with the Anti-King Land sign) and sending it to his arch-enemy. "Let's see what he thinks about that!"

Kai rolled his eyes and sighed as Zeo led everyone on a tour of the rather small town. It was by no means as incredibly awesome as Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land, and had only a few rather weak bladers that were somewhatly friends with Zeo Zaggart; no one as awesome as Kyoya or Nile (who had become rather close friends to Kai), or their business, the Beyblade Battlegrounds, but it was a start, and for someone like Zeo Zaggart, it seemed to be a pretty good one.

All too soon for Tyson (and all too late for Kai), the tour was over and the sun was setting. "We'll definitely come back!" Tyson said, doing some complex handshake with Zeo.

Everyone else said goodbye and then left to their respective homes. And whenever Kai saw a dark shadowy figure in an alleyway, he couldn't help but wonder if it was Ryuga, stopping silently by to check up on him while on some kind of training mission. Tyson went back to Anti-King Land constantly, and Hilary, Kenny, Max, and Ray went on with their lives, training and just getting back to normal. But they would never forget their trip (which had taken much longer than expected) to Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land, and all the friends that they had met.

Me: So, in the epilogue I'll be featuring the promised story of Tetsuya and his reformed robo-army plus some other stuff!

King: Yeah, like how I react to the picture that Zeo Zaggart sent me. Now excuse me while I vent in a corner. [runs off]

Me: …

And just a bit more about the Bladebreakers!

I may even feature some more about Anti-King Land, but I'm not sure... So for now, farewell! I hope to be happily reading some reviews later! :)