Single Matches

"Listen up, both of you," Eleanor commanded. Her heavy Russian voice was something to be feared. Sianna and Reo were in front of her in the practice room. The rest were in the audiences' seat, watching the ongoing tournament. "I need both of you to go according to the plan. Your team is very close to the finale. You need to defeat that blue head Ming-Ming. I am sure Zagart's son will be defeated by her. All Starz and White Tigers are already defeated. Boris is looking forward to you being on the finale," she said in a very heavy and loud voice. Sianna rolled her eyes and said, "Sure, Why not?"

"Sianna, you are being disrespectful," she yelled and flicked her purple-red hair behind. Sianna mimicked her mother in a squeaky voice. Eleanor raised an eyebrow angrily; her piercing red eyes stared at her daughter as if she were to kill her. She said angrily, "Look, you little brats, I tried my best to save you. I sent you here in India to save you all from Boris's clutches yet you do not wish to appreciate it." Reo replied in a very serene voice, "You called us brats right now. And if you think that you saved us by just sending us away from Russia then you are wrong. Here we are still in his clutches as you are sending his orders to us like a messenger."

"Don't shoot the messenger, kids," she replied calmly, "I am doing it because I have four kids here, you two, Joh and Shinyu. Right now, I need to save the frail one- Shinyu." Sianna scoffed, rolling her arms around her chest and putting her right leg over the left one, she said, "Shinyu isn't a weakling. She is strong. She is intelligent. She is one of those badass pranksters who can make a thousand ways for one prank." Her voice was getting louder with every word she said.

"I don't know about what prank you are talking about and I don't really care. Whatever you just said did not mean that her body is strong. The experiments she went through had made very weak already," Eleanor replied rolling her arms around her chest. The door of the practice room opened and Alice and Shinyu entered the room. As soon as Shinyu saw her mother, she ran to her and hugged her tightly. Eleanor patted her back and crouched down and said, "Oh my little princess missed me?" Shinyu nodded and let go of her mother. Eleanor further asked as Shinyu sat on the bench, "So who won the match, baby?" Alice got in and said, "Ming-Ming did."

Eleanor hunched her shoulder upward to Sianna and Reo, telling them that she knew it. She looked at Alice and asked, "Where are my son and the new player?" Alice sweatdropped and stammered, "T-they are i-in the cafeteria, I think."

"What?!" Eleanor yelled, "I cannot believe those idiots. Tell them to come back." Alice was embarrassed as she was the one who allowed them to go. She pulled out her phone and called Naomi, "Naomi, please come back. Eleanor is mad at you guys." She put her phone back and told Eleanor, "They are coming."

"Okay," she replied, "Now, Shinyu. You have the last single match with Ming-Ming. Win it for your team." Shinyu nodded gracefully. "It is supposed to start any minute now," Alice said, "Shinyu, you should be going now." Shinyu got down from the bench and headed out with a smile on her face. She went out the door, into the dark hallway. As she went out, her graceful smile turned into a wicked smirk and her eyes started glowing.

The whole stadium was cheering. Ming-Ming was standing with her microphone in her hand. She kept waving at the audience. Half of the audience squealed when Shinyu enters the stadium. That made Ming-Ming frown as Shinyu was getting more attention than her. As self-centered and full of pride girl Ming-Ming was, she would not lose her fans to a new player. She said loudly to Shinyu, "Hey, Shinyu! Your team had made it this far. It is so unlucky that you guys are going to lose in this match." Shinyu raised an eyebrow at her remark. She just rolled her eyes and took her place and position in front of the play area. Her misericorde appeared in her hand.

"Ming-Ming just got her first burn without any words spoken," DJ Jazzman commented. Ming-Ming eyed him angrily. She looked back at the arena and took her position. The roulette spun and one location was chosen – Fall Field. The stadium changed to an orange field where there were short brown grass and a few fake maple trees. The large screen turned on and it showed their energies- Ming-Ming and Venus at 100 and Shinyu and Gemini at 90.

Three, Two, One. Let it rip.

Both the blades landed in the middle of the arena. Venus crashed into Gemini a few times but Gemini's energy level was unaffected. Ming-Ming gritted her teeth seeing that. She was getting jealous easily but she knew what to do. She started singing so that Shinyu can get distracted by it. Her fans in the audience were constantly cheering for her. She finally thought that she could win but she looked at Shinyu and saw that she wasn't distracted at all. Shinyu was concentrating on her game. Ming-Ming realized that this tactic would not work on her so she needs to concentrate on the game.

Ming-Ming does her Sailor Moon-like transformation. Her clothes glow and change shape and butterflies start to surround her. Her yellow frilly dress changes to the black bodycon dress with baby pink hearts. Her hair became sharp-edged and her eyes became narrow and pupils became smaller. She changed from her chibi form to queen form.

Shinyu really didn't react much to her transformation. She sighed heavily and Gemini started attacking Venus. It looked like there was not just one beyblade but many more. And it soon became clear, there were multiple Gemini there. Ming-Ming was left confused. Venus randomly hit one of them and it broke into pieces like glass. Ming-Ming, now, realized that all of them were illusions and only one was real. She commanded her beyblade, "Venus Temptation!"

The surrounding of Venus turned into a beautiful flower garden and all of the illusions disappeared. Gemini was far away from Venus. Shinyu released her bitbeast. The bitbeast came out, two lady-fauns appeared, one had a blue body and hair and one had a red body and hair. Venus was also released. Both the bitbeast crashed into each other. Gemini turned the whole arena into hard ice. The ice started to work on Venus too, the beyblade was starting to freeze and slow down. Soon enough, Venus stopped spinning and the beast went back into the chip.

"And Shinyu won the match," DJ Jazzman said. The audience squealed. Ming-Ming was disappointed. She looked over Shinyu who was giving her a nefarious smirk and blinked, altering her eye colors.

...

Kenny replayed the game recording. The rest of them were surrounding him. They were in a room that looked like a conference room. There were a long table and many chairs around it. The room had a potted plant at every corner and there was a bookshelf beside one of the potted plants that had a window beside it. The wall was painted white and the window was draped in royal blue curtains, the floor was of white shiny tiles.

The door of the room opened and Stanley Dickinson and Luke Kenning enter the room. They were followed by Team Frozen Dark and Alice. At last, Kenning's assistant Trisha entered and closed the door behind her. Kenning and Dickinson sat at both the end of the table and Trisha stood beside Luke. Both the teams sat on the chairs in front of each other. Riri was right in front of Sianna. Riri looked at Sianna for a second then looked at Luke seriously.

"So, Team Frozen Dark has made it to the finale," Luke said loudly, "You know that the finale will have five matches and I asked you to give a written report about the order in which your players are going to be in the games."

"Yes," they all said in chorus.

"Good. Please give it Trisha," he said. Reo handed the report to Trisha when she came to him and Kai did the same. Trisha came back to Luke and stood silently there. Luke said to Trisha, "Give them to me, Trisha."

"Yes, Sir," she said and gave it to him. Luke scanned the reports for a while. It was dead silent. Riri looked at Trisha who was standing straight and didn't say anything. She was too silent, she did even look anywhere else other than the wall at the end of the room. Trisha had black eyes and ashen black hair tied into a tight bun. Her clothes were formal that included a white shirt, black tight skirt, and black pumps. Riri looked at Stanley curiously. Stanley just gave her a nod and she looked at Sianna before her. Sianna was just as curious about Trisha as Riri was.

"So," Luke finally said. Everyone paid attention to him. He continued, "The first match is between Shinyu from Frozen Dark and Kai from Bladebreakers." Shinyu looked confident at Kai. Kai didn't say anything. He was silent, as he always is. "The second one is between Joh from Frozen Dark and Max from Bladebreakers. The third one is between Naomi from Frozen Dark and..." He waited for a second and looked at everyone. They all wanted to know who is going to have the match with Naomi. He looked back at the reports and said, "...Ray from Bladebreakers."

Naomi looked stunned. She had tried her best to get a match with Riri but she couldn't get it. She thought Riri would take the third game as she always did but this time she didn't.

"The fourth match is between Sianna from Frozen Dark and Riri from Bladebreakers," Luke announced, "The fifth and last one is between Reo from Frozen Dark and Tyson from Bladebreakers."

Riri gave a smirk to Naomi who looked annoyed. As much as Riri knew that Naomi wanted to have another battle with her, she chose not to because she knew she would lose the game. They both did. So Riri chose the forth match instead of the third one. Luke said after it, "It will be a 3 on 5 games. The winning team has to win at least three matches to be the champion. The last game has the potential of choosing the next world champion and both teams had decided who they are going for so there would not be any change in it."

Dickinson further announced, "Since both Sianna and Riri have an equal amount of strategies and powers, they both are allowed to use their magic in the field unless it would not hurt anyone."

"What?!" Sianna got up from her seat and yelled, "Riri's power can give her more speed. She can win with just spinning for a long time. Plus she can also stop my beyblade. This is wrong." Dickinson calmly said, "Miss Yotsume, Riri's power can work only if she had touched the beyblade. No blader is allowed to touch the opponent's beyblade, I believe you know that."

Sianna was silent. She thought that maybe she should have given a second thought before saying anything. Her head started to spin and she felt a sudden spark in her head.

"Please sit, Ma'am," Trisha said to Sianna. Sianna just couldn't process all her thoughts. Trisha said again, "Ma'am, sit down." Sianna looked at her furiously as her lavender eyes glowed brightly. "Ma'am, please sit down," she said again."

Suddenly long icicles shot out of the floor and hit Trisha's face. Her head detached from her head and wires broke for her neck and hand. Her right arm broke out too. There was a spark on her body and her CPU shut down. Her head and body fell on the floor as the icicles went back into the ground. Her eyes dilated and were wide open.

Trisha died.

She was a robot.

Sianna just realized what she just did. She kept her palm on her mouth and gasp as her eyes tear up. Riri and Reo got up from their seat. Luke looked down at the broken robot beside him. Sianna felt very guilty. Her chair screeched as she moved it and she ran out of the door.

She went into the office's ladies' washroom and slammed the door. She went in front of the sink and washed her face. Her mascara and eyeliner started to come out and mix with her orange eye shadow. Her eyes started to swell and turned red. She was very guilty. She couldn't get it out of her head what she did, and it was impossible for her to forgive herself. She looked at herself in the mirror. What was wrong with me? Why did I do this?

She could hold her thoughts. She pulled out a bottle filled with pills, took four pills, and gulped it in. She breathed heavily and looked down at the running water in the sink. She kept the bottle of pills beside the sink. She washed her face again. She started breathing evenly again.

"What is wrong, Sianna?" A female voice said as the owner of the voice entered the washroom. Sianna looked at her and asked, "Riri? What are you doing here?"

"The meeting ended. No one knew where you ran away to," she said and walked to one of the stalls behind Sianna. She was in there for some time. Sianna looked down in guilt the whole time. Riri flushed the toilet and came out of the stall. She washed her hands in another sink beside Sianna and started to leave. She opened the door of the washroom and said before heading out, "Pills won't work, Sianna. It is something else you have."

TO BE CONTINUED...

So guys, how was this chapter? I feel bad for Trisha but I had to kill her. Well, if you like the chapter, then please review it! Stay safe~