Ok, so I haven't gotten any reviews yet. *sniffsniff* But I shall valiantly continue this fic for the sake of my sanity. Here's chappie one, hope you like.
Chapter One: Chelsea
Ding-dong.
"I'll get it!" said Tyson. He ran to the front door. Rei, Max and Kenny were standing on the doorstep.
"Oh hey you guys!" said Tyson.
"Tyson! C'mon!" said Chief.
"Why? I haven't finished my cereal," cried Tyson.
"Tyson, you're such a dork," said Taylor, suddenly appearing around a corner with her intense brown eyes. "It's 4:00 in the afternoon!"
"Hey, I was hungry! And cereal's easy to make!"
Taylor was staying at Tyson's house for a few weeks because her parents were on a business trip to Brazil. Her parents were foreign commissioners and were always traveling and Taylor got sick of it when she was about 10, so now whenever Mr. and Mrs. Rukino had to travel, Taylor stayed with her fave cuz' Tyson.
"They've just installed a blading dish in the park!" said Max, jerking his thumb over his shoulder.
"Yeah and we want to get there before the place gets too crowded," said Rei.
"C'mon Ty," said Taylor, pulling Tyson's shirtsleeve.
"'Old a minuthe, Tay!" said Tyson, slurping up the last of his milk. He left the plate on the table along with a scribbled note that said he was hanging out with Taylor and his friends and rushed outside.
"OK! Let's go!"
They walked the three blocks to the park and found the blading dish to themselves. Taylor spotted Kai in the shadows, leaning against a tree.
"Hey Kai!" she said, waving.
Kai looked up and saw the other Bladebreakers and Taylor by the new dish. Taylor smiled at him and beckoned him into the sun.
"Hi!" said Taylor happily. She gave Kai a big hug. He stiffened. The most peculiar feeling crept over him. It was kinda uncomfortable having a girl you barely knew hug you. If she wasn't a girl, he would've hit her. (Actually, if she wasn't a girl, she wouldn't be hugging him.) He'd never been hugged by anyone before.
"Wow!" said Max, awed.
"What?" said Taylor.
"Your cousin sure has some guts," remarked Rei.
Suddenly a beyblade flew past Tyson's face, narrowly missing his nose. The blade flew up and a girl caught it. She flipped her long purple hair behind her back and stared at the Bladebreakers with cold, glittering black eyes. She looked a lot older than them, probably 16 or 17.
Tyson: *drool*
The girl spoke in a quiet, hard voice.
"Me. You. Beybattle. Now."
Tyson: *drool*
Taylor stared at Tyson.
"Well that's a first," remarked Taylor. "The only time I've seen him drool like that is when there's an all you can eat buffet at his fave restaurant. And besides, that girl isn't worth staring at."
The corner of the girl's mouth twitched and her eyes narrowed to slits.
"Uh Tyson," said Rei, waving his hand in front of Tyson's face.
"Hello? Anybody in there?"
Taylor knocked on Tyson's head.
Tyson: *drool*
"Hey Tyson," said Max. "She wants to challenge you to a beybattle."
"Huh? Oh right! I knew that," said Tyson, suddenly snapping out of it.
"Anyway, 3,2,1! Let it riiiiip!"
"Dragoon!"
"Feyrin!"
Dragoon emerged to face a black snake-like bit beast.
The mystery girl flipped her hair over shoulder and fluttered her eyelashes at Tyson.
"Don't lose your concentration, Tyson," instructed Kai.
"Yeah! Stop drooling and start winning!" shouted Taylor.
Tyson: *drool*
"Feyrin! Earthquake Attack!"
Feyrin charged at Dragoon just as the ground suddenly stared shaking, which knocked Dragoon off balance and gave Feyrin the chance to flip him neatly on his side.
"And the winner is um…what's your name?"
"Chelsea," said the girl who had picked up her blade and was walking away.
"Chelsea!"
"Huh? Did I win?" said Tyson.
"No Tyson, you lost," said Taylor.
"What!? How?! How could the Beyblade Champion lose!?"
Taylor grabbed hold of Tyson's head and turned it towards the retreating figure named Chelsea.
Tyson: *drool*
"Oh brother," said Taylor, "maybe we could stick you in the front yard and use you as a fountain."
She grabbed Tyson by the ear and started dragging him off somewhere.
"Hey," said Max. "Where're you going?"
Taylor shrugged.
"Somewhere to hang out…the mall!"
"I've been meaning to check out the new blade parts store, but haven't gotten around to it," said Kenny, walking after Taylor.
"Hey wait for me, Chief!"
Max ran to catch up to them. Rei looked toward Kai.
"Humph," he said and walked after the other Bladebreakers.
Dart listened to the conversations behind her fade.
'They don't even know what's coming,' she thought. 'Soon they'll pay for what they did. I will avenge my father.'
She stepped behind a tree and pulled out a beaker full of a blue liquid. She shook it gently.
"The girl will be first."
When they got to the mall, Taylor immediately headed for a toy store. She squealed.
"Oh wow! Look at this!"
Taylor held up a giant stuffed snow tiger. She shoved the giant tiger into Rei's arms.
"Hold that for me. Ooh!"
She squealed again and grabbed a large blue dragon.
"Hold this," she said, pushing the large dragon at Tyson. It caught Tyson unawares and knocked him over.
"Wow! Neat!"
Taylor grabbed a large mouse doll. It's tail curved, ending in a computer plug-in and it had lines on its head, suggesting computer mouse buttons.
Taylor handed the doll to Kenny, almost knocking his laptop out of his hands.
"Careful!" cried Chief.
"Ooh!"
Taylor jumped onto a big, um...Draciel-like creature and squeezed it.
"Wow!" said Max.
She shoved the doll into Max's outstretched arms and looked around, apparently looking for something. She ran down the isles, her eyes darting up and down the shelves.
"It's not here!" she cried. Her deep brown eyes lit up. She jumped into a huge pile of stuffed animals. Dolls flew over the Bladebreakers' heads.
"Ah HA!" she cried.
The only part of Taylor that was visible was her head, which was peeking over a massive red bird-of-prey.
"Here ya go!" she said, handing the stuffed animal to Kai, who looked startled.
She smiled at his surprised look.
"I didn't want you to feel left out," she said, smiling wider.
"Hey, Tay," said Tyson, who had finally got out from under the blue dragon. "How are you going to pay for all these?"
Taylor looked a bit downcast. Just then, the store manager came out from a door marked "Employees Only." He gasped.
"Who has done THIS!?"
A perfect pyramid of stuffed animals sat in the front window. On the top, a butterfly doll balanced on the tip of a puppy doll's nose.
"I did that! It was me sir," said Taylor, proudly.
Kenny peered around the giant mouse doll and looked at the animal pyramid.
"How did you do that?!" he cried. "That should be against the laws of physics!"
"It would have taken my employees HOURS, maybe even DAYS, to have organized and stacked those stuffed animals! And you have done it in less than a minute! You, my dear, have just saved me a big bundle of money! For that, I'll give you 75% off anything you buy."
"Wow," said Rei, walking out of the store with the snow tiger in hand, well, actually, under arm. "To think all these giant stuffed animals cost you only 20 bucks!"
"Where are you going to put all these?" asked Chief. "No one would have enough room in their bedroom for all these."
"Oh, they're not for me," said Taylor. "They're for you guys!"
"Wow! Thanks!" said Max. "Tyson, your cousin is awesome!"
"You guys earned 'em!" said Taylor, hugging each of them in turn.
"Hey! Let's get some ice cream!" said Tyson.
"Ooh! Mint-chocolate chip for me!" cried Taylor.
"I want cookies and cream!" said Max.
"Just plain strawberry, please," said Kenny.
"Chocolate please," said Rei.
Kai said nothing.
"What do you want Kai?" asked Taylor, tilting her head and smiling at him.
Kai looked up into her big, brown eyes, which were magnified by her glasses.
"...Vanilla...please..."
'There it is again,' thought Kai. 'That funny feeling in my stomach. It always happens around her. There's something strange about her.'
"So, who's paying?" asked Tyson.
Everyone, 'cept Kai, looked at him expectantly. Suddenly, he saw a flash of purple.
Tyson: *drool*
Everyone looked at what Tyson was drooling at. The mysterious Chelsea was staring right back at them from the inside of a small Pay-less Shoe Source.
"Oh it's just that Chelsea girl again," said Taylor dismissively. "C'mon Tyson, you're paying for the ice cream."
"Sure...yeah...whatever."
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