Hello there everyone, I'm back with the 14th chapter of this story. :D Sorry for not updating sooner, to be honest besides being stuffed with school work, I was being lazy and watching animes all the free time I got XD
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the OCs.
P.S. This chapter mostly contains bey battles, read only if you want. The battles written here like the anime itself, I mean beybattles will actually injure bladers. (Yea I'm crazy)
Morning arrived as a mother's gentle hand, inviting the dreams of night to enter the day. The halo of the horizon came with golden grace bringing invitations to the day. Golden threads of morning light transformed the night dreaming into an ambient optimism.
The previous day withered with the announcements of great battles ahead, thus this day was special to people all over the globe. The Grand Arena of America was filled seamlessly with hardly any seats to be found vacant. There was excitement and anticipation in the air as the thousands of fans gathered in the stadium, and chanted for the teams. The noise kept getting louder and louder as finally the long awaited matches were about to begin.
"Welcome all the beyblade fans gathered here all over the globe, to watch the upcoming showdowns with your own eyes. We are your hosts, AJ Topper and Brat and our next battle shall begin shortly."
"The battle between the F dynasty and the Saint Shields is intensifying as we approachthe tie breaker round."
The first match for the day was between Saint Shields and F dynasty. Both teams had tied up with each other with one point and now the third match was about to begin.
"Over the years, these two teams have managed to get high on the charts, this 3rd battle will prove who's the superior among the two."
"That's correct Brat, gladly let's welcome our competing bladers. So this match will be up against.." As the AJ hinted for the bladers to step forward, the two captains from each teams paced into the stadium.
"Looks like these two are up, it's decided, Julia versus Ozuma."
"You huh? I am not surprised though."
"Obviously me. And I don't plan on going easy on you."
"We'll see I don't plan on losing too."
"Hmph." As always, the bladers provoked each other before starting the battle.
"Bladers, prepare to launch." Getting the signal, both Julia and Ozuma fitted their beys into their launcher.
"3..2..1..Let it...ripp!!"
As soon as Flash Leopard and Thunder Pegasus were launched both beys circled around the stadium, waiting to see who makes the first move. Predictably, the predator was the first one to make a move. "Flash Leopard, rip her to shreds!"
Ozuma's bey charged towards Pegasus in full speed launching a vicious attack cornering it against the stadium wall. Skillfully, letting itself get pushed back the lightning spirit bey bounced upwards with the help of its rubber chassis and turned the tables. Seeing it's prey escape, Leopard charged in a head on collision with Pegasus creating a huge impact. Once the dust cleared up, both bladers whose blades still held their grounds, summoned forth their bitbeasts.
"Pegasus spread your wings and emerge."
"Come out Flash Leopard and show them how this is played."
As their names were called, the beasts appeared honoring their master's commands. Now the battle was more than just blades. The beasts collided with each other sending shivers down the spine of the entire stadium crowd, showcasing their enormous power. Fire and lightning confronted each other in a array of what seemed like never ending attacks.
"Eternal Flame Dance." Leopard shielded it's entire body with crimson flames and moved unpredictably, changing it's trajectory at every point and leaving flames to emerge from everywhere it touched. Soon enough, the flames formed a octagonal barrier leaving Pegasus in the center with nowhere to go. Keeping her cool Julia analyzed the flame barrier and unleashed her next move.
"Use Ala de trueno." Thunder Pegasus took its stance in the centre of the flame barrier and concentrated all of the lightning in its wings. Charging up, it flapped its wings aggressively, the wind force from which extinguished the flames. Then in a split second, with lightning speed the beast's thunder charged wings hit Flash leopard neck, making the bey as well as its wielder in turn loose balance. Ozuma kneeled in pain, and taking the opportunity Julia launched her best attack. "Finish this fight with Espada relámpago."
Ozuma didn't waste anytime either. "Flash Leopard use Beast Claw."
Putting all of their stamina in this last attack both beasts marched towards the other, their wielders trying their best to hold their ground. Leopard's claw attack and Pegasus's elemental attack both hit almost at the same point, sending air force through the arena. After the attacks neutralized, the beys wobbled, being all out of stamina. The crowd was silent, waiting in anticipation to see which one stops first. Their patience was paid off shortly as Leopard stopped spinning mere seconds before Pegasus, giving the win to Julia.
"The match is finally over people. Julia Fernandez takes the win, the final score standing, 2 to 1, F dynasty wins the match."
The crowd applauded as the exhausted bladers dropped to the ground, breathing heavily, being tired from the intense battle. Getting up, Ozuma picked both beys from the stadium and handed Pegasus over to Julia,
"It was a good fight." The brunette extended his hand which Julia gladly grabbed and got up.
"Thanks, but I still need training, I could have lost if Leopard hadn't run out of stamina."
Smiling both shared a friendly handshake and returned to their teams.
"Sister! You won!" Raul hyped up for his sister's victory and went forward for a hug, but soon was stopped by Julia midway.
"I sure did but you lost brother. I've been doing what I can to help you get better but if you don't have the determination that you need to win, I'm sorry to say we can't call this a team. I'm the one who's doing all the winning work while you just keep losing, so stop celebrating and go train."
Hitting him hard with facts, the brunette walked out of the stadium, leaving Raul disappointed in himself.
The second match was between the teams Destiny Bladers and Rising Hurricanes. To everyone's surprise, the Hurricanes won both matches without an effort, despite their opponents being skilled. No one caught a wind that Boris's evil inventions were at work,in order to make sure Kendall advances, but yet after being defeated the Destinys accepted it wholeheartedly knowing they gave it their all.
"Moving on to the next match, we have the BBA Revolution versus the PPB All Starz."
"This one's 'bout to be intense AJ, so without further adieu, bladers come forth into the stadium."
As the teams entered the stadium, tension rose among the crowd. They knew what was about to come and held their breaths, waiting for the host to start the first match. But to their surprise, the ace of the All Starz hadn't made an appearance with the rest of the team, making them whisper among themselves.
"Team All Starz, you seem to lack one member of your team."
"Please start the matches, she'll be here before her match."
"Sure."
"Your cousin loves giving us a hard time, now she's so confident that she won't even watch your match?"
"Steph..." Knowing his cousin well, the blonde blader sighed and scratched his head. "She is probably concentrating somewhere before her match."
"Save it for later Rick, the battle is 'bout to begin, good luck Max."
"Thanks Michael."
On the other side at the BBA Revolutions team bench Tyson and Daichi were still arguing on the lineup, except, it was the opposite scenario than usual. "Why don't you go first, aren't you the great 'World Champion'?" Daichi stuck his tongue out and spoke, putting more emphasis on the last two words.
"I am the champion, that's why u'll do as I say and go first." The absence of the Russian American blader in the stadium made it obvious that she was going to participate in the second game. Both wanting to defeat her, Tyson, who got badly beaten last time though knowing he wasn't giving that his all, and Daichi who in his usual persona of becoming the champion, quarreled among themselves.
'Can't you two just follow the usual line up? That's what our coach said to do." Kenny sighed. "Aw but I want to beat that Stephanie so badly that people will call me the new Champion." The redhead pouted, while hearing this statement Tyson just got more irritated.
"She isn't even the champion, you won't be the champion if you beat her."
"Hell yea I would cuz as far as I remember, last time she wiped the floor with you." The redhead smirked, enjoying the fact that Tyson was getting more and more annoyed. "I wasn't taking that seriously you dumbhead."
"Who ya callin dumbhead you stupid excuse for a champion."
"You better take that back Daichi." As the blunette was about to grab Daichi's shirt, the brunette who was trying to stay calm until now, blurted out warningly. "If both of you don't shut up, I'll say the hosts you both withdraw from the match."
"No way." Both bladers gulped and said in a requesting tone.
"Daichi you should be worried about your match, it's Max you are up against not some rookie. Don't blow it up like with Johnny." Being the brains of the team, Kenny advised Daichi and was later joined in by the blunette. "You got a point Kenny. Max will not show any mercy as I have seen so far. Not to mention unlike this hot headed monkey here, he maintains his cool until he finds an opportunity, so Daichi's chances of winning are a 50/50 gamble."
"Hey you two stop badmouthing me. I'll show you, Imma beat that blondie to a pulp."
"Man, this doesn't look too good. Only if coach were here.."
"Chill out Hillary. Alright now, let's show these people a real fight." Rubbing this nose, Daichi took his place in front of the bey stadium.
"Bladers, you ready?"
"Yes." Both Daichi and Max answered at the same time while adjusting their launcher positions.
"Begin! 3! 2! 1! Let it Ripp!"
Daichi's style of launching from up in the air by a jump gave him a instant boost of speed, and Max's precision launcher gave him the chance to directly land at the centre of the stadium, helping it conserve stamina.
"Strata Dragoon go wild!" Daichi yelled in his high pitched tone.
"Draciel deflect him." Strata Dragoon attacked vigorously without giving Max any opening to counter or deflect. Daichi's speed came to his advantage even when his opponent had the type advantage. The blonde haired blader bit his lip, cursing himself for his delayed reflexes. Still his eyes were fixed on the dragon bey, searching for the slightest chance. In a mere instant of moments, noticing one his eyes lit up.
"Found it! Draciel use Aqua shield, quick!"
Out of nowhere, the area surrounding Draciel flooded with water, ultimately creating an elaborate water wall around the bey. Anytime Strata Dragoon tried to land a hit, the water neutralized the impact and deflected it back.
"Man you certainly are not gonna be easy to beat, are you?"
"I certainly don't plan holding anything back, especially when it's one of my former teammates whom I'm battling."
"But I already found I way to beat your defense. Every defense has a weak point, right Kenny?" Daichi smiled mischievously while giving Kenny a thumbs up.
"He actually heard my advice earlier? Is Daichi right in the head?" The beyblade genius said in surprise.
"Strata Dragoon! Fly high! Wing hammer!" As said, violently hitting Draciel's Aqua shield, the dragon bey was flown high up into the air. The ground type dragon beast emerged from its bitchip upon command, changing it's trajectory even in air. Both the bey and the beast came down in high speed like a meteor, targeting the centre of the water tornado wall, the bey itself. Just like the eye of a wind tornado is strongest as well as its weakest point, the same principle was be applied to the tornado shield of Draciel. Taking advantage of it, Strata Dragoon went straight for the hit.
"Draciel! Move out of the way!"
Nullifying the tornado shield was not as quick as it should be, and it took Draciela few seconds to stabilize before it could follow his wielder's command. It barely managed to evade the earth dragon's attack. Daichi on the other hand did not completely miss, the attack damaged the turtle bey's one of the five defensive blades, leaving it unstable and in turn reflecting that on the blade's wielder himself who got blood oozing out of his right hand. The blonde blader grasped in pain, yet trying to hold his ground.
The audience applauded seeing how intense the battle was growing, each biased for their own favorite team.
"Come on Daichi," Kenny encouraged, "Finish the match, don't let Max recover."
"I know," The redhead yelled in response, "Don't tell me what to do."
"Go for it now! Wind Saber!"
"Isn't that..? Hillary looked up to Tyson. "Exactly what u think it is. The new move Daichi and I were training on. If Kenny's calculations are right, it's attack power should skyrocket, making Draciel's defense useless."
The bey went forward to charge from above once again gyrating like a fidget spinner gaining momentum from the fall. The sharp, sword scales on the wings of Strata Dragoon were on point, exactly where the redhead wanted them to be, utilizing the wings like two great swords. Max, who was still recovering from the earlier assault wasn't prepared to face the blow of such an attack. But two of five defense shells beings damaged, there was no way he could set up another ultimate defense. Gritting his teeth, the blonde blader switched to his last resort. "No way I'm gonna drag my team down. I'm gonna win!" Instantaneously, the vibe of the stadium changed, so did Draciel's movements.
The whole stadium, which had pretty intense temperature the whole time, seemed to cool down and dry up. The audience held their breaths to witness what was coming; a pin drop silence spreaded through the arena till right before Daichi's attack hit its opponent. Max held forward his hand and ordered in a awfully moderate tone. "Mystic Wave Dance." Water vapor from the air liquefied and gathered in mere microseconds, resulting in a huge amount of water suspending over the battle stadium. With the movement of Max's arm as a signal, the water rushed down by the force of gravity, raining down in a heavy downpour over both beys.
"What in the name of devil? It stopped my ultimate attack?" The huge shower of water made Strata Dragoon lose its balance and well as direction making it land away from its desired target. The bowl like stadium flooded with water making not just Daichi's bey immobile but also Draciel. The attack didn't end there though, as the name mentioned, the word 'dance' in it meant an elaborate series of attacks. The water turned into waves, just like the ocean, slamming Strata Dragoon against the wall ruthlessly, while Draciel, due to its weight, waited underwater at the absolute center. The thrashing caused the opponent bey to sustain heavy damage, reflecting them on the wielder as well. Mere moments later, the collected water vaporized back, leaving both the beys to wobble.
"No good." Daichi was heavily panting while dropping to his knees. If only I could pull off another strike." Meanwhile it was the same with Max, implementing such an advanced attack drained all of his stamina. With both losing their breaths, it was match of endurance when their beys stopped abruptly. The AJ snapped out of his shock of turn of events in the match and announced with hype, "With difference of two seconds, the match goes in the favor of the All Starz!"
The news of his victory reaching his ears, the blonde smiled tiredly before collapsing to the ground. "Max!" Michael and Emily hurried to the drained out blader, only to find him unconscious. "I think he passed out from exhaustion." The orangette nodded as both helped their unconscious teammate to be taken away by medics.
While at the BBAs, a depressed Daichi flinched as Hillary bandaged his wounds. "Stop sulking Daichi, your wounds will heal eventually."
"Hils.." Tyson placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Hey idiot. You did your best now cheer up. It was matter of seconds. You didn't actually lose, u just needed a tiny whiny bit of stamina more. It's not over yet, see how I get revenge for you."
"But my Strata Dragoon.."
"It's heavily damaged but I can fix it. It'll take time though. Take a look at Dizzy." Kenny played Max's Mystic moon dance attack part in slow motion to the team.
"Yea so?" The mechanical prodigy facepalmed at the redhead's ignorance. "Okay let me explain. The reason Strata Dragoon got almost wrecked is because Max wasn't able to control the attack. If you notice the slow motion you'll see that everytime the waves rushed it had a huge effect on the wielder bey itself. To our naked eyes it seemed like draciel was simply standing there, with no damage but in reality it sustained heavy damage. It is quite difficult to pull up an attack that relys solely on bitbeast elemental powers for a defensive bey. And Max lost control in the last half, otherwise your bey would have sustained no more than a scratch. You can learn a lot from this match Daichi.
"Man Maxie's improved so much. I can't wait to battle him." Tyson grinned.
A while after the stadium was ready once again the hosts announced the starting of the second match. "Our competitors for the second match are none other than the three times defending champion, the legend, Tyson Granger vs the newly debuted yet experienced prodigy, Stephanie Towa."
Stephanie merged into the stadium in an all black attire. Her copper brown hair was tied up tightly into a high ponytail, her red beyblading attire which was much simpler was changed to a faux leather black crop top and black denims with silver chains hanging from the waistline. Pairing with silver block heels, she finally made her way up to the battle stadium.
"Looking good Steph, I guess it's ready then?" Smirking she held out her bey from her pocket. "Yes its done Tyson, my new Prime Blazien will seize the victory."
A official came up to the AJ and handed him a sheet of paper. "We have received a notice that Stephanie Towa has altered her bey with various enhancements with certification from the council. Hence, she will be battling with her new bey."
"A new bey for a epic matchup like this. This can't get any better." The other host commented.
The brunette made adjustments to her bey before getting in launching position. "I'll play defense. I will fend off your attacks with my Dread Armour."
The black metal armour with occasional rubber pieces caught the champion's eye, "That's some nasty piece you got there. I can't wait to see how you use it. It's time to get serious I suppose." The dragon wielder smirked.
"Bladers! Positions! Ready? 3! 2! 1! Let it Ripp!!"
As usual Blazien took the centre stage as soon as it was launched and started spinning in an incredible speed. Without wasting a single bit of time, Dragoon launched a barrage of attacks making the stadium vibrate from its raw power.
"Blazien! Dread Guard!" Blaze generated a strong air force with its enormous speed around itself which prevented Dragoon to come in contact with it.
"Much like Max huh? You think that defense can stop me? Dragoon go forth! Celestic Hurricane!"
Dragoon created one of its signature huge storms, directly hitting Blaze, thus breaking its wall of defense. When the storm cleared everyone expected Blaze to at least slow down but were shocked to see it gain more momentum.
Huh?
Stephanie who knew that her training was paying off, had a mischievous smirk on her face. Her eyes darkened from olives to clover green, making her look devilish. "What do these do exactly?" Looking up to Tyson, who questioned out of curiosity, she answered, "I wield both fire and darkness. Defense mode uses dark power and attack mode uses fire power. The armours fit the same purpose. So now ready to see the depth of my darkness Ty?"
Kenny who recorded the earlier collision analyzed and explained, "Tyson you forgot Blaze is a dual spin bey, the bey wasn't using the air force as a defense, the dust fromit, combined with the high speed was to mask the spin direction all along. She tricked you into creating the tornado to absorb the wind pressure. It in turn raised her momentum and attack power considerably."
The blunette raised his eyebrows,
"So you played me dirty huh? This is what you mean by the 'depth of darkness', it absorbs raw power like a black whole using the rubber pieces?" He clearly wasn't expecting such a sneaky move.
The while, at the All Starz waiting bench, the crafter of the dual elemented bey proudly rubbed her nose. "That bey is a work of art, created from a lot of hard work. It has a vast arsenal of moves."
Stephanie's mischievous smirk only widened by the second. "Now now Tyson, don't go sulking that I absorbed your power, let's continue? It's a professional match after all, everything is fair."
"Let's go!" Both bladers commanded their beys simultaneously.
This time Blazien and Dragoon went for head on attack and the strength of Dragoon caused the Blazien's armour to fall off.
"Alright!"
"Uh huh, wait." Blaze made a round across the stadium and bounced its armour up, pushing it against the wall. Using the small amount of rubber that was placed at the armour's six corners, the bey used it as a spring to bounce, rather launch itself at lightning speed towards Dragoon. The high speed was greater than Dragoon's reflexes, however Tyson was successful in calling forth his bit beast before the hit landed. Yet, the attack did land it's hit, injuring the bit beast as well as his master.
"A move of that much speed and caliber, if I hadn't call out Dragoon, my bey would been tossed out in the blink of an eye. I really was underestimating your potential. So then, now I'm really mad."
And Tyson got serious, the air in the stadium intensified. The crowd waited in anticipation to witness their every move. Both bladers engaged in a raging clas of titans. The prize for the winner? A step towards the title of number one in the global ranking.
How was it? Writing battles is the most nerve racking thing for me. Imagining all those moves got me a headache. I was hoping to complete the battle but it would take too long to update and I didn't wanna delay longer. So next chapter I'll post it with a short recap.
And I rewrote the 1st chapter of this story, if you want, give it a read.
Pardon my mistakes and thanks for reading :D
~Sohana.