I know I'm being a lazy bum in my other stories, so I'm sorry about that. I'm quickly working on the KaiXReiXLee fic and in the next chapter, Lee will finally make his appearance. Mreh, enough of my babbling, here's chapter 2.
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Disclaimer: No, I don't own Beyblade. Me and my friends own the members of the Femme Fatales though.
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Chapter 2
"That was, uh, interesting…" Tyson said as they were riding on the bus. As usual, the Bladebreakers were scattered around the seats of the bus. Tyson was talking to Mr. Dickenson, Max was in front of Kenny talking about ways to improve the beyblades, Ray was out looking at a window, and Kai was in the back row like usual. The Femme Fatales, too, were scattered around. Rina and Kira were sitting beside each other and talking to Chip, the bit that is in Kira's palmtop. Eos was rummaging through her bag for two things, her chips and her book. Bullet was sitting in the back row with her arms and legs crossed and she was looking out the window. Lei was sitting in front of Kai. She tilted her head curiously as she began poking his arm. Kai cracked one eye open, but you can clearly see that he was irritated by it.
"What do you want?" Kai muttered as he saw Lei.
"Why are you staying here in the corner?" She asked.
"Because I feel like it, alright?" Kai answered curtly and closed his eyes again.
"Congratulations, Bullet." Lei said.
"What are you talking about?" Bullet asked, tearing her eyes from the window and looked at her friend in a confused way.
"We have found someone grumpier than you." Lei said, with a grin spreading on her face.
"I said that earlier in the recreational center earlier, remember?" Eos said, looking at the back.
"Eos, butt out or I'll destroy your blade." Bullet said, making Eos turn back.
"Alright everyone. We need to talk about the upcoming tournament. As you can tell, this tournament is different from the Asian Tournament. Two groups have been fused together as one group to participate."
"Basically saying that it's two on two?" Ray asked.
"Yes. One member from each group will be blading and they are to team up. They need to work together in order to win this." Mr. Dickenson added.
"You mean to tell me that if I want to battle against somebody, I have to team up with one of these girls? That's a laugh." Kai sneered.
"Who made you king of the world?" Bullet hissed.
"Oh boy, here comes trouble," Kira's palmtop said.
"Chip! Quiet!" Kira whispered quickly.
"Why do I have a feeling that this is going to be really bad?" Ray asked Rina.
"Cause there's a possibility that there would be. She never usually butts in unless she needs to." Rina replied back.
"This ought to be interesting…" Kira said quietly.
"Judging people already before knowing them? Typical. I should have figured that you'd be like that. Why won't we just settle this the old fashioned way?" Bullet said, standing up and her voice was challenging.
"Challenge accepted, but don't go crying to me when your beyblade turns to bits and pieces of scrap." Kai said, turning his head and leaning on the back of the seat.
"Anyway, this is going to be like a tag team tournament so as soon as we get to where we're staying, we are going to practice. Well, at least after Bullet and Kai's battle." As Mr. Dickenson said that, both Bullet and Kai had daggers shooting out of their eyes.
"Talk about tense first impressions." Tyson said lightly.
"Didn't exactly think that Bullet would meet her match when it comes to grumpiness." Eos said, shaking her head. The bus soon stopped to where the boys were staying earlier.
"Our stuff are already in the room, we'll wait for you girls here." Max said as the entered the flat that they were staying on.
The place was similar to the place where the Bladebreakers and the other competitors stayed in, but it was a two level place. The second floor consisted of the two rooms for the two teams with a bathroom each, a room for Mr. Dickenson, a guest room, a computer room, and an extra bathroom. The first floor consisted of the kitchen; living room, dining room and the storage room had some beyblade parts that they could use to improve their blades. All the girls were in the room where they were going to be sleeping. They wanted to look around to see what else was in the place that they were going stay when Kai's voice cut through when they started chattering about how different the place was.
"Don't forget that challenged you set down, Bullet," Kai smirked, "or are you going to back down?"
"Full of yourself, aren't you?" Bullet retorted back, "Just leave your talking in the battle."
With that, Kai left and Bullet groaned inwardly. The Femme Fatales dumped their bags into the unoccupied beds and looked at Bullet.
"I can't believe you challenged Kai into a match with you." Rina said.
"Lucky you. He's cute." Lei said.
"Hey, if you lose, can I have your bit?" Eos asked, but received a glare so she just continued eating the bag of chips that she has.
"Having doubts?" A voice said, interrupting the girls' talk. They all looked by the door to see Ray leaning against the doorway with that smile on his face.
"No, I just feel stupid that I challenged him because he didn't think that our team is good enough." Bullet mumbled, tossing her bag into the bed and plopped back on the bed.
"Well then, a word of advice: he usually heads in for the kill. I'd also watch out for his bit-beast if I were you." Ray said.
"Yeah, it's been known to break a lot of blades and only a few blades has survived under its assault." Chip said.
"Well, I don't know what other advice to give except good luck." Ray said, leaving his position.
"Wait!" Bullet called out.
"What?" Ray asked, looking back in the room.
"You're Ray, right?" Bullet asked as Ray nodded, "Thanks."
"Ooh! I sense a crush going on here." Lei teased, receiving a curious look from her friends.
"Is it wrong to say thanks to a person?" Bullet asked, kind of confused at her friend.
"Oh forget it. I'll tell you later. You still have a match with Kai so let's go." Lei said, pulling Bullet out of bed and pushing her out of the door.
The girls filed out of the house and saw that Kai was in front of the dish and the other Bladebreakers were out waiting for them.
"So you actually showed up. I would've thought you just gave up." Kai smirked as Bullet stoop across where Kai was.
"I thought I told you to keep the talking for later?" Bullet asked him with an eyebrow raised as she pulled out her blade from her pocket. She then placed her launcher to the sniper grip and placed her beyblade in. She then wound her blade and faced Kai. "Ready?"
"I was born ready." Kai answered back.
"Alright then. Three! Two! One! Let it RIP!" Tyson yelled as the two beybladers ripped up their blades from their launchers.
Both blades crashed into each other in mid-air and were wobbling to regain their balance as they both landed on the dish. Both blades circling around each other waiting, daring for the other to make their move. Occasionally, the two blades would attack each other in the middle of the dish.
"What game are you playing at here? You can't hide from my attacks forever." Kai sneered.
"Stop acting like you've already won the match then." Bullet spat back.
"Let's end this. Dranzer attack!" Kai yelled.
"Not if I can help it! Driven, counter it!" Bullet yelled.
Both blades crashed into each other with such force that there was an audible crack. Kai blinked and turned his head to the direction of a blue blur that shot by his head. Bullet did the same thing as a blur of silver passed by her head. Both turned around to face their own beyblades that was lying down on the floor. Kai picked up his blade and examined it. His attack ring had a couple of fairly deep and visible cracks on it. Bullet's beyblade, on the other hand, needed a new attack ring since it looked like it's been used up one too many times.
"Whoa, a tie. Haven't seen that since my battle with Kai before." Tyson said.
"Yeah, last time I saw her draw with another person was a while ago with her…" Eos got cut off as Bullet glared at her. Kai was also glaring because Tyson reminded him of the draw that they had some time ago.
"Though this wasn't exactly how I pictured the meeting that I was going to have with the Bladebreakers, at least I'm here." Bullet said, looking at her blade and headed inside. "Hey Kira, pass me Chip. I need a new attack ring, no thanks to the king of the world there." She added, jerking her thumb at Kai as she headed inside the house.
"I'll come with you." Kira said as she ran after Bullet.
"What was that about?" Max asked.
"Oh don't worry about it. It's the past, right Eos?" Lei said, nudging Eos' side.
"Err, yeah. Forget I mentioned it, okay?" Eos said, "It's almost dinner time, shouldn't we get started cooking?"
"Or we can call in for pizza." Mr. Dickenson said, stepping out of the house.
"OH YEAH! Pizza!" Tyson yelled, pumping his arms in the air.
"We may be calling in for pizza, Mr. Dickenson, but this rat pack including those girls still need practice." Kai butted in.
"Oh quit being such a spoilsport." Lei said, winking at him, "We'll practice anyway, even without your say."
"Well what are you all waiting for? An invitation? Get practicing!" Kai commanded.
"What about you, Mr. Sourpuss? You don't seem to have a partner." Tyson pointed out.
Kai looked at the group as they were paired up for this afternoons practice session. Ray was paired up with Rina, Tyson was paired up with Eos, and Lei was paired up with Max. He looked at his blade again and shrugged.
"I'll change this then I'll be back." Kai said as he headed in, the same time as Kira headed outside. "Where's that girl?"
"Who? Bullet?" Kira asked as she faced him.
"Yeah."
"She took a walk. She didn't really like the attack rings that were in the storage room. It didn't have the colors of her blade." Kira replied as she went to the other Femme Fatales.
'I'd better watch my back with that girl, but then again, I should watch my back with the rest of them. If she has that kind of power, she must have a bit-beast. The question is, what is it?' Kai thought as went to the storage room to fix up his blade.
"Let's have Eos and Tyson against Lei and Max." Rina said, "Winners takes on us."
"We haven't even tried working together with our partners and you want a battle already?" Eos asked.
"Well, if you try to work together it will work, besides, it's still practice." Max added.
"So are you guys ready?" Tyson asked Max and Lei.
"You bet!" Lei said, taking out her yellow and black beyblade, her launcher attached to the sniper grip and her blade.
"Let's do this." Eos said, taking out her light purple beyblade, launcher and blade.
"Three! Two! One! LET IT RIP!" Tyson and Max both yelled as all four of them ripped their blades.
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"Man, I haven't had a practice that fun for a long time." Tyson said, grabbing the largest slice of pizza on the table. The group had finished practicing for the night and was lounging in the living room as they ate the pizza that Mr. Dickenson ordered. Ray noticed that Kai was sitting in the corner like usual, but Bullet was nowhere in sight.
"Hey shouldn't Bullet have been back by now?" Ray asked as he took a bite out of the pepperoni pizza in his hand.
"Don't worry about it. She knows her way around." Eos said, eating away the pizza in her hand.
"Maybe so, but," Ray didn't finish his sentence as he stood up and headed out the door. He still has the pizza in his hand and continued eating. Sure he didn't really know where Bullet was, it wasn't stopping him from looking for her. He saw a hobby shop across the street and decided to check there first. Quickly swallowing the last bit of pizza he had, he went inside the shop and was kind of surprised in actually seeing Bullet there.
"Hey Bullet." Ray said, coming up to her.
"What are you, stalking me?" She replied, looking straight in Ray's eyes.
"No, I was just worried, cause you weren't back yet." Ray replied, "I don't want any of my teammates, old or new, to get lost, you know."
"You act like I don't live around here." Bullet answered back, facing the boy at the counter, "Do you have an attack ring that would be okay with my blade?"
"Sure, would you like it in the same color?" The boy asked.
"If there is, please." Bullet replied and the boy went to the back to get some of the attack rings. When he came back, Bullet bought the new attack ring and admired the some of the new fixings that she also got added into her blade. The new defense ring and everything made it better than it was earlier.
"Don't tell me that you're upset over the draw with Kai." Ray said as they left the shop.
"It's not about that. It's about something else, okay?" Bullet snapped, walking ahead. Ray tried to talk to her but she kept pushing him away. Neither of them knew that both of them were being watched in the shadows.
"Listen, Ray. I'm glad that you came out after me and all, but I just need to think about something, alright?" Bullet asked, "but if you still want to stay, wait for me here, okay?"
"Sure, okay." Ray replied, but was beginning to have second thoughts on what he said when he saw her going to the nearby park.
'I know she told me to wait here, but I have a feeling that I better not. I think it's better that I follow her.' Ray thought as he kept his distance in following her.
Bullet looked around in the park, sighed and sat on one of the swings. This was where it ended, the last place that she was together with him. She didn't even know why she was here on the first place, but she was guessing that since Eos mentioned it, it just seemed appropriate to visit.
"Hey babe," a voice drawled in, making her jump from the swing.
"Ryan! What are you doing here?" Bullet asked stepping away from him.
"I was in the neighborhood. I heard that you were around, so I decided to drop in." he replied, smirk leisurely placed on his lips.
"That's real interesting. I haven't seen you since we had a draw when we were blading so long ago." Bullet replied, casually looking around for an alternative to get out of the park.
"Well, that was then and this is now. We have some unfinished business." Ryan said as he pulled out a beyblade of his own and launched it at Bullet. She barely had time to dodge the blade, but she was able to use her left arm to block the blade. As the blade reached her, it grazed her arm and a tearing of cloth was heard. Ryan's beyblade was now spinning on the floor, plainly waiting for the next order. Another blade then came out from the bushes and knocked Ryan's beyblade away from him.
"What the…? Who's there?" Ryan bellowed at the direction that the beyblade came from. Bullet just stared at the beyblade and was trying to see why it looked so familiar. A second after that, she finally realized who's blade it was. 'That's Ray's blade.'
Ray then emerged from the shadows and his yellow eyes looked menacing as the moon reflected on it. "Attacking a girl? Now that's smart." Ray said sarcastically as he called back his blade.
"Butt out, buddy, this is none of your business." Ryan yelled, turning away from Bullet. Taking this opportunity, Bullet kicked his back with enough force to send him sprawling on the floor. As she saw him down, she noticed that her bandana was on the floor. She quickly grabbed her bandana, jumped over Ryan, grabbed Ray's arm and started running out of the park. They were almost of the park when they heard Ryan yell, "Watch out, Bullet. I'll see you at the tournament."
After running quite a bit of distance towards where they were staying, Bullet stopped running and leaned against the building, catching her breath. Ray had a serious look on his face and stared at her.
"Alright, who was that guy?" he asked, facing her.
"You wouldn't understand." Bullet sighed; looking at her ripped up bandana and winced at the cut in her left arm.
"Old flame?" He knew he was kind of pushing the subject, but he was curious.
"Yeah, you could say that, but he was mainly there to study my attacks. I should've figured a long time ago." Bullet said quietly.
"Hey don't blame yourself on things that happened in the past." Ray said, patting her on the back, "Have you had dinner yet?"
Bullet shook her head. "No, not really. I was walking around for a while before I actually decided to buy the parts for my blade."
"Want Mickey D's?" Ray asked pointing inside the building that Bullet was leaning on.
"Fine, whatever." Bullet said, as they entered Mc Donald's.
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The two teams finally finished eating the pizza, though Tyson ate most of it. They decided to just rest up a bit and watch a little television before hitting the sack.
"Come on, what do you people want to do?" Tyson practically wailed as everybody was just lounging around. Kenny and Kira both had their computers out and were comparing the amount of information they had. Chip and Dizzi seems to get along pretty well, too. Rina was talking to Max because she wanted to know why he was more defensive than he was offensive when it comes to Beyblading as Eos listened to them. While Lei was trying her best to get Kai into a conversation with her. The most that she got out of him so far was a grunt of annoyance.
"Come on, Kai. Can't you smile for once?" Lei asked. Kai just scoffed. "I don't do smiles." He said, standing up and headed towards the backyard.
"Man, what a grouch." Lei said, shaking her head.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to him eventually." Tyson said sitting beside her, "it takes him a little while to get used to the fact that it's not just him that he needs to take care of now."
"Oh." Lei said, looking at the direction that Kai went through. 'Mysterious guy' She thought as she faced Tyson again. "So do you think he'll let us hang out tomorrow?"
"Maybe, maybe not. It depends on his mood." Tyson replied, "Let's see if there are any food in the fridge."
Lei shook her head again. "He really is just like you, Eos. At least you eat way less than him."
"Well, yeah. I can't help it if I like food." Eos replied taking out her mythology book. Eos was about to say something else, when they heard the door creaked open.
"They're baaaaack." Lei said in a teasing tone, getting everyone's attention in the room.
Bullet and Ray both entered the house and Bullet headed straight to the kitchen. Ray sat quietly in the sofa and listened in the conversations that they were having.
"No, the heavier the weight ring, the more stable it is to attacks." Kenny argued.
"Sure, but you also need a decent attack ring to counter the attacks given to you." Kira pointed out, "So not only do you need a good defense for it, you also need to be able to counter what's given to you."
"Looks like you got competition, Chief," chuckled Ray. Kenny looked at Ray as if to ask, 'whose side are you on?' then Kenny just stared at him. "What?" Ray asked.
"Your bandana is missing." Kenny pointed out, everyone looking at Ray now.
"I know." Ray replied plainly, "don't worry about it. I removed it on purpose, plus, I have a couple more of them in my bag."
"I see." Kenny replied, as Bullet poked her head out of the kitchen door.
"Guys, I'm turning in. I didn't really get to practice today so I want an early start tomorrow, hopefully."
"Alright. Night, Bullet." Lei waved.
"Hmm…" Eos thought as Bullet left, a grin slowly settling on her lips.
"Yo, Eos, you okay?" Kira asked.
"Uh, yeah. I'm just fine."
Kenny, Max, Ray, Eos, Rina, Kira and Lei all jumped as the door was pounding. Tyson then joined them because he also heard the door.
"We're not expecting anybody, are we?" Rina asked, frowning.
"If we were, Mr. Dickenson would've at least told us." Max replied.
"Are you sure we're not being robbed?" Tyson asked.
"Tyson, if we were being robbed, shouldn't the person robbing us be inside?" Kenny said, but then screamed with the rest of the people in the room as the door slammed open. Bullet and Mr. Dickenson both ran downstairs from their rooms, the same time that Kai ran in from the backyard. The three of them screeched to a stop as the other team members was just staring at the figure by the door.
"Ah, Mr. Granger. So nice of you to join us." Mr. Dickenson smiled.
"Err… Who's the old man?" Bullet asked.
"Who are you calling old, dawg?" Mr. Granger said, stepping in front of Bullet, pointing his kendo stick at her.
Tyson face-faulted and yelled, "Grandpa!"
"Hey there, little dude! What's happening?" Mr. Granger said, pounding Tyson's back.
"Grandpa!! I'm glad that you're here and everything, but will you please put on a decent shirt?" Tyson scowled.
"Well I'm out of here." Bullet said, turning her heel, "nice to meet you, Mr. Granger." She then said, headed upstairs.
"If you freak out over little things like that, why bother being on this team?" Kai said, also turning his heel and headed out into the backyard to train.
"Tch, what's up his ass?" Eos asked, without thinking about what she just said.
"Don't worry, he's always like that." Ray said dismissively.
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The sun was shining brightly at the girl's room. Yawning and stretching, Bullet stood up and looked at her teammates. Eos wasn't in her bed so most likely she's downstairs in the kitchen, Lei was stretching as she stood up, Rina was still hugging the pillow that was beside her, and Kira was hugging her palmtop like a teddy bear.
Eos heard the footsteps from upstairs and decided to check her friends out. She came into the room just in time to see Bullet enter the bathroom. Eos ticked off her fingers.
'5…4…3…2…'
"EOS!!!" A scream of fury was emitted from the girl's bathroom, catching all the attention of everyone in the house. The Bladebreakers, minus Kai, rush into the girl's room in time to see the bathroom door slam open and a very angry Bullet, with magenta hair, came out.
"Uh-oh!" Eos thought running away from her, diving behind Kira's bed.
"Where is she?" Bullet snarled, looking around the room.
"Hey, what's with all the screaming, little dudes?" Mr. Granger said as he peered into the girl's room, "and what's with the pink hair?"
"I'll answer that later, after I kill Eos." Bullet muttered as she ran downstairs to see if Eos was there.
"Eos, I can't believe you did that…again." Kira said, looking at Eos while shaking her head.
"Um, does that happen very often?" Tyson asked, yawning.
"Yeah, but this is the first time she used magenta." Lei replied, "What was the last color she used?"
"White." Rina replied, rubbing the last bits of sleep out of her eyes.
"Eos!" Bullet screamed as she ran up the stairs.
"Um…" Eos said as she looked around. She looked at everyone to see whom she could use as a shield from Bullet. As she entered, Eos grabbed the closest person from her, Ray.
"Um, I've seen this one too many times, why don't we just split?" Kira said, pointing out the door. Everyone nodded as they saw the look that Bullet was giving Eos, even Ray was kind of affected by the way Bullet was looking at Eos.
"Eos, let him go, he didn't have anything to do with this." Bullet said calmly.
"If I let him go, you'll attack me." Eos pointed out, "So am not letting go."
"Fine, have it your way then," Bullet said, taking out Eos' favorite mythology book out of her bag.
"You wouldn't!" Eos said in disbelief. "Oh I would." Bullet said as she flicked out the lighter that she took from the kitchen. Eos quickly let go of Ray, who massaged his throat since Eos had him in a headlock, and jumped for her book. Bullet quickly threw her book aside, grabbed Eos' shirt and had her in a headlock. Eos was squirming to get out of the headlock when she noticed something different on Bullet's left arm; there was a cut and there was a different bandana. She then looked at Ray, who still doesn't have his bandana on.
"What's with the red bandana and the cut?" Eos asked, struggling to look at Bullet.
"Ryan." The answer was only one word, yet it explained a lot. She then let go of Eos.
"Does the other girls know?" Eos asked, and Bullet shook her head. "He knows a bit," Bullet replied, jerking her thumb at Ray, "Cause we met up with Ryan by accident."
"I see." Eos said.
"I hate to interrupt, but if we don't hurry downstairs, whatever food that's there would disappear into Tyson's mouth." Ray pointed out, as he was leaning against the doorframe, waiting for the two girls with Max, Lei and Rina.
"Let's go. I need my daily supplements." Eos said, running past everyone as she headed down to the kitchen.
"Next time, try not to mention food disappearing in somebody else's mouth." Rina advised.
"That is so like Tyson in a way." Max laughed as the five of them headed down the stairs and into the kitchen where Eos, Kenny, Kira, Kai, and Tyson was. When they arrived, Kenny was busy typing up in his laptop, adding the information about the Femme Fatales since he didn't really have enough information about them, except the fact that they are Canadian based bladers and usually battle on local tournaments only. Kira added bits of information about the Bladebreakers on her little palmtop since most of the information that she had about them was more or less accurate anyway. Kai was just eating a bowl of cereal, while Eos and Tyson was arguing on who was going to eat the last pancake. As they kept arguing, neither noticed that Kai swiftly swiped the pancake and ate it. It took the two a while to realize that the pancake was gone and were staring at Kai.
"Well it didn't look like neither of you was going to eat it anytime soon." Kai said, standing up, "Hurry up and eat cause here's the plan. We practice all morning, and then take a break for lunch. We let the food settle then after that, and then we get back to training. At about 5:00, we stop training so that we can go around, Is that okay with you?" Kai asked; looking at Bullet while the other Bladebreakers looked at Kai like he was an alien from outer space.
"You're asking me for an opinion?" Bullet asked, mildly surprised, "I thought you hardly ask for opinions with anybody."
"They're your team, aren't they?" Kai said, pointing to the Femme Fatales.
"Of course she agrees, why not?" Lei asked, "Since you're already done eating, why don't you go ahead?"
"What did you think I was planning to do after I told you that?" Kai muttered as he strode out of the kitchen and into the backyard.
"Does he always wake up at the wrong side of the bed?" Kira muttered to Kenny.
"Nah, it seems like he was born like that." Kenny replied.
Tyson then noticed Lei, who seemed to look a bit shorter.
"Hey, Lei, did you shrink?" He asked.
"Huh? No I didn't." She then looked down at her feet, "Oh! I'm just not wearing my sandals, that's all." She shrugged dismissively.
The two teams quickly ate and headed out into the backyard, where Kai was patiently waiting.
"What kept you?" He asked, not even looking at the two teams.
"Sorry Mr. Sourpuss. We won't ever be late for practice ever again." Tyson said childishly, making some of the Bladebreakers and the Femme Fatales crack up.
"We challenge your team for this practice, Bullet." Kai said as he called Dranzer back. Bullet looked at her teammates and they all nodded. "You're on."
"Hey Kira, Kenny, draw out who's going to be battling who." Lei said.
"But before that, I challenge you to a match right now." Bullet said, pointing her finger to the person she challenged
To Be Continued...
Yeah, Yeah, I know it's long. Sorry I haven't been able to submit my other stories, but this is a little something to occupy you until the other stories are submitted, k? If you still want to know how the girls look like, Just ask me and I could send it to you, k? Tell me what you think about the story, alright?
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