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Anyways, as super special I feel right now, I also feel super stupid for the spelling errors. So once again I am apologizing. Sorry, but I am glad you told me. How else could I improve my English skills? Hopefully this chapter will be a lot better, and maybe I won't need to apologize...hey I can dream :)
Yes Nightswift I can send you an e-mail after I post each chapter. If anybody else would like me to send an e-mail to them then let me know, you can mention it in a review or send me an e-mail at Beyblader27@yahoo.ca
Someone asked about the name Sora, so I will quickly mention her and give my little heart to heart with everyone after you finished reading. No, I did not name Sora after the Digimon Sora. I name her after the Sora in The Vision Of Escaflowne Movie: A Girl In Gaea. I had her song d/l and was listening to it when I first started writing this fic. I then found out that Sora translated to Sky, which is why I decide to give her midnight blue hair/eyes/launcher/blade, and a midnight black beast :)
Anyways enjoy.
~~~FIGHTING SPIRITS~~~
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/ Thoughts /
"Speaking"
::Little voices::
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Last Time:
/Okay, here goes nothing. / "You wanna dance?" Kai asked, voice a little shaky, standing, and hand out towards her. /Why the hell am I so nervous? / Sora looked at him a little surprise, but then smiled taking his hand. /She accepted... she wants to dance with me? / They walk onto the dance floor. Kai put his arms around her waist pulling her close as she put her arms around his shoulder, and they stared into each other's eyes. Ray saw the whole thing while holding Mariah and smiled as he held Mariah a little closer. Neither one said anything; they just danced to the music not wanting to ruin the moment.
/Déjà vu... / Sora thought. / ...but I didn't noticed he had such beautiful eyes before. They're so warm and inviting. / Sora thought as she moved her head over his shoulder and relaxed it there.
/Here I go 'controlling' my emotions again. / He thought, but smiled when Sora rested her head on his shoulder. /What are you doing to me? Too bad I can never do anything about this feeling. I have a mission now; I must obtain the ultimate blade. I have to be careful. /
After the song had ended, everyone met up again to say good-bye.
"Guess well see each other again at the tournaments. Good luck you guys, may the best team win" Lee said putting his hand out. Tyson shook it, and they headed back for their cabins.
~ Chapter 7: Unexpected Visitors ~
They got to the cabin and everyone headed to bed exhausted. Mr. Dickinson had a good laugh at them, because he had never seen them so tired, even after Kai's intense training.
"Good night." Mr. Dickinson called after the Blade Breakers. The only response he got was several groans that sounded similar to 'Night'.
Sora woke up the next day and look at her watch; it was almost 7am. She sighed as she rolled out of bed. She wished she could have taken a chapter from Tyson's book and sleep in for a change, but she had training to do. She headed to the washroom and quickly changed into a warm sweater and her training pants. Then headed for the living room to see if anyone else was up. Sora found Kenny awake doing some work on Dizzi. As soon as Kenny saw Sora he quickly minimized whatever he was doing and brought up a screen with Tyson's stats.
"Your up early. You got some work to do?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, I wanna see if I can raise Dragoon's power and speed, the way you raised Dranzer's." Kenny said getting back on track. "But I haven't had any luck yet."
"I?" Dizzi voice rang from the computer.
"Sorry Dizzi, you know I mean we."
"I sure hope so Chief. Anyways did you try using a lighter weight ring? That should give it more speed." Dizzi suggested.
"That's a good idea Dizzi." Kenny said as he began typing the data down.
"Are you sure you should do that?" Sora asked.
"What do you mean?" Kenny asked confused. /Using a lighter weight ring to make the blade go faster is a well-known fact. /
"Well, Tyson's main attack is his Storm attack. Don't you think if you lighten the weight that Dragoon may be sucked up into its own attack?"
"...I never thought about his attack. Gosh this is going to be harder then I thought." Kenny said scratching his head.
"Well, keep at it. I got to go train a bit." Sora said heading for the door.
"You might not be able to though."
"Why not?"
"It snowed last night. The stadium is probably filled in."
"That's not a problem." Sora smirked and left. Kenny decided to follow and watch her so he could update his data on Sora, since she never let him touch her blade. He put on his extremely large and wooly jacket and grabbed Dizzi of the table. Sora laughed at him "You look like an over grown teddy bear."
"At least I'll be warm." He said slightly embarrassed.
When they got to the stadium, it was indeed filled with snow, but Sora didn't seem to care too much. She set Fang on the launcher as Kenny opened up Dizzi to scan Fang. Sora pulled the ripcord and Fang landed right in the middle, but then the blade seem to sink in the snow.
"I told you, you wouldn't be able to train." Kenny said as he saw Fang being buried into the snow.
"Cover you eyes." Sora said still ignoring him. (AN: Wherever his eyes are.) She brought her hand up to cover her own eyes. "STORM ATTACK!"
"WHAT?" Kenny screamed when he heard the command and saw Tyson's attack being used before him. That is until he got a snowball in the face, from the hurricane and tumbled back. After the attack ended and Kenny managed to unbury himself and Dizzi, he saw Fang spinning in a snow less dish. "T- T-T-That was T-T-T-Tyson's s-s-storm attack." Kenny said in utter disbelief. Sora just nodded. "But, how come you can use it?"
"You Blade Breakers are really in the dark, aren't you?" Sora sighed as she watched Fang doing laps in the dish.
"Then enlighten me." Kenny said slightly annoyed that once again Sora seemed to know more then him. Sora told him everything she had told Kai about the bit-beasts special powers and how they can't be mimicked.
"Well that makes sense. So Dragoon's special power isn't the Strom attack."
"I mimicked it, didn't I?" Sora said calling back Fang because it was beginning to snow again. "Let's go back in." Kenny was more then happy to oblige.
They went in and Sora started a fire, while Kenny boiled some water for tea. Sora sat back in a chair as the fire was warming her up. Kenny came in with a pot of tea and some cups. He poured them some tea and then got the courage to ask again.
"Could I see Fang to scan him?" Sora looked doubtful, but then threw Kenny the blade.
"WOW! THANKS." Kenny said getting excited as he started hooking up several wires to it. /Wow, she's really changed. I remember when she first joined our team; you couldn't use a crowbar to make her let go of Fang. /
"Your making my blade look like it's on life support." Sora said as she kept a close eye on what he was doing.
"Morning guys." Said a sleepy Ray as he sat in one of the chairs. He eyes lit up when he saw the tea, and he quickly poured himself some. "Hmmmmm, nice and warm. Why is it so cold in our room Kenny?"
"Probably cause it cold enough that it's snowing." Kenny said taking a sip of his tea then continued scanning Fang.
"Really? Cool, I guess that means Christmas is coming." Ray smiled. "Hey we should put a tree up." He said excitedly.
"Today?" Sora asked.
"Why not? There's nothing but pine trees around here, we should be able to get a ride into town to get some lights, and we can string some popcorn."
"Provided that Tyson doesn't eat them all." Kenny pointed out. The three of them laughed as Kai made an appearance.
"Morning." Ray said now wide-awake and warm by the fire. Kai just ignored him and also grabbed some nice warm tea. "We were talking about putting a Christmas tree up."
"Why? If you have nothing to do, you can train."
"Where's your Christmas spirit Kai?" Kai just shrugged. "Well, I'll go ask Mr. Dickinson if he minds, you guys get the others up."
"Thanks a lot." Kenny screamed after Ray who was smirking, knowing that 'the others' consisted of Tyson. "Any more ideas in there Sora?" Sora smirked.
"Of course." She got up and headed for the door but stopped. "I should ask him nicely first. He's always complaining that I never do it." So she headed for Tyson and Max's room.
"Rise and Shine." Sora said entering the room. Max woke up, and nodded as he stretched. Tyson however snored louder. Sora walked over to him and shook him vigorously. "This is the nice wake up call Tyson. Get up now or else you'll be angry at me again." She stepped away noticing that he stopped snoring. "Glad your..."
*SNORE*.
"...up??? Oh well, Max, you saw, I tried to be nice. Be right back." Sora left the room went down the hall, past the living room and into the kitchen. She came back into the living room and left through the front door with an empty bucket.
"I wonder what that's for?" Ray asked curiously, entering the room again as he watched her leave.
"Nothing good for Tyson." Kenny replied as the door swung open again. Sora came back in with the bucket filled to the top with snow.
"What's that for?" Ray asked her, eyeing the bucket again.
"I'm going to build a snowman." She answered smiling, heading back for the room. The three boys in the living room looked at one another, *almost* pitying Tyson as they listened carefully for the scream that was expected to come.
"What's that Sora?" Max asked, as Sora walked past him and flipped it over on Tyson's head and stomach.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. GET IT OUT. GET IT OUT. IT'S COLD. TOO COLD." Tyson screamed trying flicking the snow off him and out from under his shirt. He glared a death glare at Sora.
"Hey, I tried that nice approach, but it didn't work as well as this." Sora said crossing her arms staring at Max who was red in the face from laughing at the whole scene. Then Tyson noticed that the cold stuff was snow.
"Where'd you get the snow?"
"I bought it." She said sarcastically. "What do you think? It snowed last night." She said and left to return to the others.
"Really? WAHOO." Tyson screamed running to the window seeing everything white.
Once everyone was in the living room, Kenny returned Fang to Sora, and Mr. Dickinson began to speak to them.
"Ray tells me you guys want to put up a Christmas tree. That's fine by me. It will lighten the place up a bit." He chuckled. "But I also have a surprise for all of you."
"REALLY? What is it Mr. Dickinson?" Tyson said excitedly.
"Oh you'll see when the surprise when it gets here, but it probably won't be here til tonight so I'll have the bus driver drive you into town, to get you your lights and stuff."
"I'll stay here." Sora said.
"What? Why? Don't you wanna come?" Tyson asked.
"We need a tree, so I'll chop one down and have it in here by the time you get back with the decorations."
"You're going to need help. Kai, you stay with her." Ray smirked as he began to push the others out. /I'm brilliant. / Kai was about to say something but decided against it and just nodded.
- In Town -
"Man, everything is so...white." Tyson said as they walked up and down the streets, in and out off stores buying lights, decorations to hang from the ceiling, wreaths to hang on the doors, lots of string and popcorn, and a variety of other stuff.
"Well, what did you expect Tyson. Christmas is only a 2 to 3 weeks away." Kenny said carrying some of the bags.
"Yeah, I guess I just didn't realize it being so close because of the tournament and all." He said walking, and almost went bottom up. "Ray, are we done yet? I'm gonna break my neck soon carrying all these boxes."
"Yeah, I guess." He said going over the mental checklist in his head. "Let's head back to the bus."
- Cabin -
Kai pulled on a sweater and then he and Sora headed outside into the snow. They went to the little tool shed and found a two-sided saw (AN: Don't know the name, but it's the one with two handles where there is one person on each side pulling). They also found a wheel barrel, which they took along. They started to go into the woods so that when they chopped a tree down, the tree wouldn't fall on anything.
/I haven't seen a Christmas tree in a long time. Grandpa was never much for any holiday spirit. The last real Christmas I guess I had was when I was three, but I can't even remember it. /
"How about this one?" Kai said interrupting Sora's thoughts. She nodded as they each grabbed hold of one end off the saw, and pulled it back and forth until the small tree eventually fell down. They somehow managed to lift the tree and put it over the wheel barrel and got it back to the cabin.
They found an old Christmas tree stand in the cabin and set the tree up in the empty corner of the living room by the window.
"That wasn't so bad." Sora said pleased rubbing hands together to warm up. Kai was trying to start another fire. They had put out the old one since no one was going to be there. "I'm going to get some hot chocolate. You want some, or do you prefer tea?"
"Hot chocolate." Sora went into the kitchen and started to boil the water. Once she had it made, she came back into the living room to find Kai lying down on the couch with his eyes closed.
"Tired?" She said handing him his cup.
"A little?" He said sitting up taking the hot chocolate. Sora sat down beside him staring into the glowing red fire.
"So why'd you stay her with me?" Sora asked wanting to break the silence, but hadn't quite meant to ask that. She started to blush faintly when she realized what she said. Kai was also a little red as he stared into her eyes again; the way he did at the dance.
/There are those beautiful eyes again. / Sora thought not realizing she was blushing a little more.
/I stayed because you needed help with the tree. / He thought, but low and behold that voice came back into his head.
::You stayed because you like her. Remember you admitted it at the dance on the roof. :: it said.
/Shut up, who's talking to you? I stayed because she needed help. She couldn't have gotten the tree here on her own. /
::Would you have stayed to help Max...or Tyson?::
/...I might've. / He lied to himself knowing he wouldn't have.
::Oh please, look at her eyes. Aren't they beautiful?::
/ Yeah, they are. /
::Why don't you tell her?::
Kai opened his mouth to say something but then there was a knock at the door. He was somewhat relieved as Sora got up to answer it. She opened the door and found the White Tigers on the doorstep.
"Hey." Lee said.
"Umm...Hi, what are you guys doing here?"
"Mr. Dickinson invited us over. Said he had a surprise for you guys, and said we should come over." Mariah said excitedly.
"Oh, okay, come on in, I guess." Sora said opening the door fully and moving out of the way. The White Tigers headed for the living room, and Sora got some more hot chocolate, which the White Tiger's gladly accepted.
"Where is everyone?" Kevin said taking everything in.
"Shopping. They went to go get some decorations for the tree." Sora said pointing to the empty tree in the corner. Kai remained fairly quiet but would every now and then give a cold glare to Lee. Kai wasn't too fond of him since the dance, even though he didn't know why. Then there was another knock at the door. Sora got up again and head for the door. When she opened it she saw a mountain of boxes with legs.
"Help?" It said. Sora removed the top 5 five boxes reveling Tyson's head. "Were back." Tyson said happily. Everyone came in and unloaded the boxes.
"Is all that really necessary?" Kai asked seeing the 20 some boxes on the floor.
"Of course." Ray laughed looking over at Kai, and saw the White Tigers. "Hey, what are you guys doing here?"
"I invited them." Mr. Dickinson said walking in to the warm cabin. "The gift affects them too."
"Can we have it now?" Tyson asked excitedly.
"Calm down Tyson. Its not here." Mr. Dickinson laughed as Tyson's face went sour. "Why don't you decorate the place now. I'm sure once your done, the present will be here. Maybe you guys can make some cookies." Mr. Dickinson said, knowing that would get Tyson to forget about the gift.
"YEAH, COOKIES." Tyson screamed.
"Errr... can anyone bake?" Kenny questioned.
"I can." Mariah said happily. "Will you help me Sora?" Sora nodded.
"Alright then. Thank you Mar..."
"I'm going to get some cookies. I'm going to get some cookies." Tyson sang prancing around. Everyone laughed at him.
"You guys wanna give us a hand with the decorations?" Max asked the White Tigers. They nodded.
"No problem."
- In the Kitchen -
"Alright we need some eggs, flour, milk, and ohhh, spinkles." Mariah said while Sora searched through the bags and cupboards for the stuff. They each started mixing separate batches knowing if they wanted some, they have to make enough for both Gary AND Tyson.
"Hey can I help?" Tyson asked entering the kitchen, looking at the two girls mixing the batter.
- Living Room -
Lee, Ray, and Bruce were stringing some popcorn, while Gary was hanging some stuff off the ceiling with Max. Max needed to stand on a chair, but Gary just had to raise his arm. Kenny and Kai, who was surprisingly also helping, was working on the Christmas tree.
"Hey Tyson, can you pass me the tape?" Max asked reaching down. When he got no answer he turned around and saw that Tyson wasn't there. "Hey, did anyone see where Tyson went?" Just then the kitchen door flew open and Tyson came out of it with Mariah after him swinging a rolling pin around.
"TYSON, STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN." She screamed angrily and went back in. Everyone started laughing.
"Tyson, what did you do to make her so angry?"
"Nothing, I just thought I'd make sure that the batter was sweet enough." Tyson said totally oblivious.
"Never do that. Mariah get real mad. Gary knows." Gary said imparting his wisdom to Tyson.
- Kitchen -
DING!!!
"Yay, they're done." Mariah said as she skipped to the stove, while Sora was working on the dishes. She started moving all the trays from the oven and onto the counter with the oven mittens on. The aroma filled the air. "Hmmm, smells good."
Sora laughed. "Yeah, they came out better then I thought." Sora said coming over having finished all the dishes that were there.
"Now, we get to decorate them." She smiled. They sat down and started decorating them and then laying them on the tray in the middle of the table between them. Mariah finished the first one. It was a snowman and she covered it with white sprinkles putting two black dots of frosting on it for eyes. She put it on the empty tray. Sora finished the next one. She had a star so she covered it in yellow sprinkles, and put it on the *empty* tray.
"???" Sora looked cautiously at the tray and then around the room. "Didn't you just finish a cookie?"
"Yeah, its right... IT'S GONE." She screamed. They looked on the floor and saw a few crumbs leading to a cupboard under the sink. They went over and ripped open the doors seeing a small green hair boy putting the snowman's head in his mouth.
"???" Kevin slowly turned his head, almost afraid to look knowing exactly who was there. He swallowed the cookie, "Ummm...eheheh Hi Mariah. Sora. Your right, they did come out better then we thought." He smiled.
- Living Room -
Tyson kept staring at the kitchen doors. He could smell the cookies. Sitting beside him was Gary who was also staring at the door. Ray, Lee, and Bruce manage to get all the popcorn stringed losing only a few to their stomachs when no one was looking. Max and Gary had finished decorating the ceiling and Kenny was putting the last few ornaments on the tree.
"GET OUT!" They heard as a green haired boy scurried through the kitchen doors, but not before he managed to grab the star cookie of the tray and shoving it in his mouth. He hid behind Lee and Ray.
"THAT'S IT. I DON'T WANNA SEE ANOTHER PERSON IN HER AGAIN." Mariah said and stomped off back into the kitchen. Both Tyson and Gary sighed.
"Phew, that was close." Kevin said coming out from behind Lee and Ray.
"Where were you all afternoon Kevin?" Lee asked speciously, realizing he hadn't seen Kevin at all while they were working.
"Oh, I was, helping the girls." Kevin lied.
"Which is why they just wanted you dead?" Ray questioned. So Kevin came clean. Apparently he was hiding in the cupboards all day so he wouldn't have to work, but when he smelt the cookies, he had to grab one. Everyone laughed at him as the girls came out with a mountain of cookies, and laid them on the table.
Tyson, Gary, and Kevin all looked at them with hope and said in unison "Now?" The girls nodded and they flew to the cookies leaving smoky forms off themselves in their former seats. Everyone laughed as Mariah and Sora got a good look at what the guys did. It was very nice. There was popcorn strings going around the entire room. They had 'Merry Christmas' signs hung on the side of the wall, and long shiny streamer like things on the ceiling, which had bells hanging from them. Then there was the tree; it was gorgeous. It had silver garland and lots of lights. There were also many ornaments hanging all over the tree with a gold star sitting on the top. Sora looked down the hall and noticed there were wreathes on all the doors.
"Wow, great job." Mariah said taking it all in. Then there was the sound of a bus outside.
"Sounds like my gift is here children. You stay here." Mr. Dickinson said happily getting up from his seat and went outside. He returned with six men behind him. Everyone's face lit up except for Kai's, which had remained the same, and Sora's, which went pale.
/Crap. / Was all Sora could think as she clenched her hands into a fist by her sides.
"You probably know at least one of these men. I invited them all to see your performances at the tournament." Mr. Dickinson chuckled seeing some of the children's reaction.
"ELDER." Ray and the White Tigers screamed running up to an old man with a long mustache.
"GRANDPA." Tyson screamed running up to an old guy with a Hawaiian shirt on.
"DAD." Max screamed running to the man wearing a BB apron.
"DAD." Kenny screamed running up to a man in a lab coat (AN: I have no idea about Kenny's past, but I can't leave him out, its Christmas.)
Kai didn't say anything. He just walked over to his grandfather.
"Have you been training, my grandson?" He asked coldly
"Yes, grandfather." Kai returned just as cold.
Then there was Sora's grandfather. Sora refused to walk over to him, and Mr. Dickinson took noticed her distance. He was about to say something but then Mr. Tsuki approached her.
"So, the little runaway dog has appeared once again." He said harshly. Sora looked up into his eyes coldly. He glared back and slapped her across the face. The loud smack made everyone go quiet and stare in disbelief. Sora slowly stood straight again with her gaze to the floor and a very clear red hand imprint on the side of her face.
"Disgrace. NEVER look in to your superior's eyes. Now, go fetch my bags." He said angrily. Sora bowed and headed to the bus, as her grandfather sat down in one of the chairs.
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To anyone wondering, that was her past. Anyways, I want to put my Christmas tree up now, *sigh*, I mean its snowing right now as I look out the window :D, but Mom won't let me. She claims it's too early, but it'd only be about 2 months too soon.
Oh yeah, next chapter will have the first Blade Breaker match for the tournaments.
THANKS TO:
ChibiTari: Nope you're not the only one doing an OC for Beyblade. There are A LOT out there, just watch out for their updates. YEAH, I got an official 'Tari Approved' stamp, and I'm on your fav author list. I feel really special about that because I have never been on a fav author list before, but I am now :) I hope you like this chapter too.
mystic-water: Hey, long/short, I am glad to get a review. You should see me after I just posted the story. I'm refreshing every 5 minutes. Hehe, you're going to hunt me down huh? First time I every got that one :) Glad you like her attitude, too bad I got to change it now cause of Mr. Tsuki. As for updates, I usually try to do it once a week (Friday/Saturday usually). I would update faster, but in order to do that you'll have to hunt down my teachers first and make them stop giving me homework, lol.
Nightswift: YEAH my grammar got better :) Better then some books??? Dude, another first-time thing for me, can you please talk to my English teacher and tell him that, lol. Thanks for letting me know about the mourning and morning thing *blushes* I'll make sure I don't do that again. I already know who's gonna get the ultimate blade unless I come up with a good reason for someone else to get it :) *but not telling* :D I promise not to name anything fluffy, lol. I doubt I'd name a rock that. *Thinks on the suggestion of putting food under Tyson's nose, then smirks evilly. * Anyways yep, there is always a food lover. Yu-Gi-Oh has Joey and Triston (is that how it's spelt *shrugs*), Sailor Moon had Serena, and DBZ has all the Saiyans, but we love them all anyways, lol.
Sam: Glad you recovered, lol, and no problem. Thanks for suggesting the song. Sorry I never wrote the lyrics in.
Silver_Wing4004: Glad you like it. Thanks for reviewing.
Someguy: Don't worry I love to read 'I like this story' :) I was wondering when someone would ruin my secret about Pegasus and Cerberus. Lol, well not really a big secret to anyone that knows anything about mythology. About the eating contest, yep probably would have been to gory, lol. This is only a PG (was original F for some reason); I'd have to change it to R, if I were to describe that, lol. Thanks for letting me know about the spelling error, I'll watch out for that next time.
Dark Magician: Yep, 'My Only Love', was used in Sailor Moon when she changed herself into the Moon Princess to help Darien, who was hit with icicle like things, from the blonde from the Negaverse (did that make sense 0.0). As for the contest, I'll say they both gave up being full (if that's possible), lol. I'll keep writing and you keep writing your 'How can he live like that' ;)
Epitaph Munku-JGSPTV: Lol, I'll write more don't worry. I usually update about once a week (usually Friday/Saturday). Yeah I got like three comments about her being a Mary-sue. As far as I know, Mary-sue is the perfect person or something. So, that's why Mr. Tsuki appeared. Hopefully, I can change that view with him in the fic. Hope you liked it.
DUDE I'M FINALLY DONE. I feel so happy. This is the most reviews I got for any chapter so far :)
Anyways, as super special I feel right now, I also feel super stupid for the spelling errors. So once again I am apologizing. Sorry, but I am glad you told me. How else could I improve my English skills? Hopefully this chapter will be a lot better, and maybe I won't need to apologize...hey I can dream :)
Yes Nightswift I can send you an e-mail after I post each chapter. If anybody else would like me to send an e-mail to them then let me know, you can mention it in a review or send me an e-mail at Beyblader27@yahoo.ca
Someone asked about the name Sora, so I will quickly mention her and give my little heart to heart with everyone after you finished reading. No, I did not name Sora after the Digimon Sora. I name her after the Sora in The Vision Of Escaflowne Movie: A Girl In Gaea. I had her song d/l and was listening to it when I first started writing this fic. I then found out that Sora translated to Sky, which is why I decide to give her midnight blue hair/eyes/launcher/blade, and a midnight black beast :)
Anyways enjoy.
~~~FIGHTING SPIRITS~~~
* * *
/ Thoughts /
"Speaking"
::Little voices::
* * *
Last Time:
/Okay, here goes nothing. / "You wanna dance?" Kai asked, voice a little shaky, standing, and hand out towards her. /Why the hell am I so nervous? / Sora looked at him a little surprise, but then smiled taking his hand. /She accepted... she wants to dance with me? / They walk onto the dance floor. Kai put his arms around her waist pulling her close as she put her arms around his shoulder, and they stared into each other's eyes. Ray saw the whole thing while holding Mariah and smiled as he held Mariah a little closer. Neither one said anything; they just danced to the music not wanting to ruin the moment.
/Déjà vu... / Sora thought. / ...but I didn't noticed he had such beautiful eyes before. They're so warm and inviting. / Sora thought as she moved her head over his shoulder and relaxed it there.
/Here I go 'controlling' my emotions again. / He thought, but smiled when Sora rested her head on his shoulder. /What are you doing to me? Too bad I can never do anything about this feeling. I have a mission now; I must obtain the ultimate blade. I have to be careful. /
After the song had ended, everyone met up again to say good-bye.
"Guess well see each other again at the tournaments. Good luck you guys, may the best team win" Lee said putting his hand out. Tyson shook it, and they headed back for their cabins.
~ Chapter 7: Unexpected Visitors ~
They got to the cabin and everyone headed to bed exhausted. Mr. Dickinson had a good laugh at them, because he had never seen them so tired, even after Kai's intense training.
"Good night." Mr. Dickinson called after the Blade Breakers. The only response he got was several groans that sounded similar to 'Night'.
Sora woke up the next day and look at her watch; it was almost 7am. She sighed as she rolled out of bed. She wished she could have taken a chapter from Tyson's book and sleep in for a change, but she had training to do. She headed to the washroom and quickly changed into a warm sweater and her training pants. Then headed for the living room to see if anyone else was up. Sora found Kenny awake doing some work on Dizzi. As soon as Kenny saw Sora he quickly minimized whatever he was doing and brought up a screen with Tyson's stats.
"Your up early. You got some work to do?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, I wanna see if I can raise Dragoon's power and speed, the way you raised Dranzer's." Kenny said getting back on track. "But I haven't had any luck yet."
"I?" Dizzi voice rang from the computer.
"Sorry Dizzi, you know I mean we."
"I sure hope so Chief. Anyways did you try using a lighter weight ring? That should give it more speed." Dizzi suggested.
"That's a good idea Dizzi." Kenny said as he began typing the data down.
"Are you sure you should do that?" Sora asked.
"What do you mean?" Kenny asked confused. /Using a lighter weight ring to make the blade go faster is a well-known fact. /
"Well, Tyson's main attack is his Storm attack. Don't you think if you lighten the weight that Dragoon may be sucked up into its own attack?"
"...I never thought about his attack. Gosh this is going to be harder then I thought." Kenny said scratching his head.
"Well, keep at it. I got to go train a bit." Sora said heading for the door.
"You might not be able to though."
"Why not?"
"It snowed last night. The stadium is probably filled in."
"That's not a problem." Sora smirked and left. Kenny decided to follow and watch her so he could update his data on Sora, since she never let him touch her blade. He put on his extremely large and wooly jacket and grabbed Dizzi of the table. Sora laughed at him "You look like an over grown teddy bear."
"At least I'll be warm." He said slightly embarrassed.
When they got to the stadium, it was indeed filled with snow, but Sora didn't seem to care too much. She set Fang on the launcher as Kenny opened up Dizzi to scan Fang. Sora pulled the ripcord and Fang landed right in the middle, but then the blade seem to sink in the snow.
"I told you, you wouldn't be able to train." Kenny said as he saw Fang being buried into the snow.
"Cover you eyes." Sora said still ignoring him. (AN: Wherever his eyes are.) She brought her hand up to cover her own eyes. "STORM ATTACK!"
"WHAT?" Kenny screamed when he heard the command and saw Tyson's attack being used before him. That is until he got a snowball in the face, from the hurricane and tumbled back. After the attack ended and Kenny managed to unbury himself and Dizzi, he saw Fang spinning in a snow less dish. "T- T-T-That was T-T-T-Tyson's s-s-storm attack." Kenny said in utter disbelief. Sora just nodded. "But, how come you can use it?"
"You Blade Breakers are really in the dark, aren't you?" Sora sighed as she watched Fang doing laps in the dish.
"Then enlighten me." Kenny said slightly annoyed that once again Sora seemed to know more then him. Sora told him everything she had told Kai about the bit-beasts special powers and how they can't be mimicked.
"Well that makes sense. So Dragoon's special power isn't the Strom attack."
"I mimicked it, didn't I?" Sora said calling back Fang because it was beginning to snow again. "Let's go back in." Kenny was more then happy to oblige.
They went in and Sora started a fire, while Kenny boiled some water for tea. Sora sat back in a chair as the fire was warming her up. Kenny came in with a pot of tea and some cups. He poured them some tea and then got the courage to ask again.
"Could I see Fang to scan him?" Sora looked doubtful, but then threw Kenny the blade.
"WOW! THANKS." Kenny said getting excited as he started hooking up several wires to it. /Wow, she's really changed. I remember when she first joined our team; you couldn't use a crowbar to make her let go of Fang. /
"Your making my blade look like it's on life support." Sora said as she kept a close eye on what he was doing.
"Morning guys." Said a sleepy Ray as he sat in one of the chairs. He eyes lit up when he saw the tea, and he quickly poured himself some. "Hmmmmm, nice and warm. Why is it so cold in our room Kenny?"
"Probably cause it cold enough that it's snowing." Kenny said taking a sip of his tea then continued scanning Fang.
"Really? Cool, I guess that means Christmas is coming." Ray smiled. "Hey we should put a tree up." He said excitedly.
"Today?" Sora asked.
"Why not? There's nothing but pine trees around here, we should be able to get a ride into town to get some lights, and we can string some popcorn."
"Provided that Tyson doesn't eat them all." Kenny pointed out. The three of them laughed as Kai made an appearance.
"Morning." Ray said now wide-awake and warm by the fire. Kai just ignored him and also grabbed some nice warm tea. "We were talking about putting a Christmas tree up."
"Why? If you have nothing to do, you can train."
"Where's your Christmas spirit Kai?" Kai just shrugged. "Well, I'll go ask Mr. Dickinson if he minds, you guys get the others up."
"Thanks a lot." Kenny screamed after Ray who was smirking, knowing that 'the others' consisted of Tyson. "Any more ideas in there Sora?" Sora smirked.
"Of course." She got up and headed for the door but stopped. "I should ask him nicely first. He's always complaining that I never do it." So she headed for Tyson and Max's room.
"Rise and Shine." Sora said entering the room. Max woke up, and nodded as he stretched. Tyson however snored louder. Sora walked over to him and shook him vigorously. "This is the nice wake up call Tyson. Get up now or else you'll be angry at me again." She stepped away noticing that he stopped snoring. "Glad your..."
*SNORE*.
"...up??? Oh well, Max, you saw, I tried to be nice. Be right back." Sora left the room went down the hall, past the living room and into the kitchen. She came back into the living room and left through the front door with an empty bucket.
"I wonder what that's for?" Ray asked curiously, entering the room again as he watched her leave.
"Nothing good for Tyson." Kenny replied as the door swung open again. Sora came back in with the bucket filled to the top with snow.
"What's that for?" Ray asked her, eyeing the bucket again.
"I'm going to build a snowman." She answered smiling, heading back for the room. The three boys in the living room looked at one another, *almost* pitying Tyson as they listened carefully for the scream that was expected to come.
"What's that Sora?" Max asked, as Sora walked past him and flipped it over on Tyson's head and stomach.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. GET IT OUT. GET IT OUT. IT'S COLD. TOO COLD." Tyson screamed trying flicking the snow off him and out from under his shirt. He glared a death glare at Sora.
"Hey, I tried that nice approach, but it didn't work as well as this." Sora said crossing her arms staring at Max who was red in the face from laughing at the whole scene. Then Tyson noticed that the cold stuff was snow.
"Where'd you get the snow?"
"I bought it." She said sarcastically. "What do you think? It snowed last night." She said and left to return to the others.
"Really? WAHOO." Tyson screamed running to the window seeing everything white.
Once everyone was in the living room, Kenny returned Fang to Sora, and Mr. Dickinson began to speak to them.
"Ray tells me you guys want to put up a Christmas tree. That's fine by me. It will lighten the place up a bit." He chuckled. "But I also have a surprise for all of you."
"REALLY? What is it Mr. Dickinson?" Tyson said excitedly.
"Oh you'll see when the surprise when it gets here, but it probably won't be here til tonight so I'll have the bus driver drive you into town, to get you your lights and stuff."
"I'll stay here." Sora said.
"What? Why? Don't you wanna come?" Tyson asked.
"We need a tree, so I'll chop one down and have it in here by the time you get back with the decorations."
"You're going to need help. Kai, you stay with her." Ray smirked as he began to push the others out. /I'm brilliant. / Kai was about to say something but decided against it and just nodded.
- In Town -
"Man, everything is so...white." Tyson said as they walked up and down the streets, in and out off stores buying lights, decorations to hang from the ceiling, wreaths to hang on the doors, lots of string and popcorn, and a variety of other stuff.
"Well, what did you expect Tyson. Christmas is only a 2 to 3 weeks away." Kenny said carrying some of the bags.
"Yeah, I guess I just didn't realize it being so close because of the tournament and all." He said walking, and almost went bottom up. "Ray, are we done yet? I'm gonna break my neck soon carrying all these boxes."
"Yeah, I guess." He said going over the mental checklist in his head. "Let's head back to the bus."
- Cabin -
Kai pulled on a sweater and then he and Sora headed outside into the snow. They went to the little tool shed and found a two-sided saw (AN: Don't know the name, but it's the one with two handles where there is one person on each side pulling). They also found a wheel barrel, which they took along. They started to go into the woods so that when they chopped a tree down, the tree wouldn't fall on anything.
/I haven't seen a Christmas tree in a long time. Grandpa was never much for any holiday spirit. The last real Christmas I guess I had was when I was three, but I can't even remember it. /
"How about this one?" Kai said interrupting Sora's thoughts. She nodded as they each grabbed hold of one end off the saw, and pulled it back and forth until the small tree eventually fell down. They somehow managed to lift the tree and put it over the wheel barrel and got it back to the cabin.
They found an old Christmas tree stand in the cabin and set the tree up in the empty corner of the living room by the window.
"That wasn't so bad." Sora said pleased rubbing hands together to warm up. Kai was trying to start another fire. They had put out the old one since no one was going to be there. "I'm going to get some hot chocolate. You want some, or do you prefer tea?"
"Hot chocolate." Sora went into the kitchen and started to boil the water. Once she had it made, she came back into the living room to find Kai lying down on the couch with his eyes closed.
"Tired?" She said handing him his cup.
"A little?" He said sitting up taking the hot chocolate. Sora sat down beside him staring into the glowing red fire.
"So why'd you stay her with me?" Sora asked wanting to break the silence, but hadn't quite meant to ask that. She started to blush faintly when she realized what she said. Kai was also a little red as he stared into her eyes again; the way he did at the dance.
/There are those beautiful eyes again. / Sora thought not realizing she was blushing a little more.
/I stayed because you needed help with the tree. / He thought, but low and behold that voice came back into his head.
::You stayed because you like her. Remember you admitted it at the dance on the roof. :: it said.
/Shut up, who's talking to you? I stayed because she needed help. She couldn't have gotten the tree here on her own. /
::Would you have stayed to help Max...or Tyson?::
/...I might've. / He lied to himself knowing he wouldn't have.
::Oh please, look at her eyes. Aren't they beautiful?::
/ Yeah, they are. /
::Why don't you tell her?::
Kai opened his mouth to say something but then there was a knock at the door. He was somewhat relieved as Sora got up to answer it. She opened the door and found the White Tigers on the doorstep.
"Hey." Lee said.
"Umm...Hi, what are you guys doing here?"
"Mr. Dickinson invited us over. Said he had a surprise for you guys, and said we should come over." Mariah said excitedly.
"Oh, okay, come on in, I guess." Sora said opening the door fully and moving out of the way. The White Tigers headed for the living room, and Sora got some more hot chocolate, which the White Tiger's gladly accepted.
"Where is everyone?" Kevin said taking everything in.
"Shopping. They went to go get some decorations for the tree." Sora said pointing to the empty tree in the corner. Kai remained fairly quiet but would every now and then give a cold glare to Lee. Kai wasn't too fond of him since the dance, even though he didn't know why. Then there was another knock at the door. Sora got up again and head for the door. When she opened it she saw a mountain of boxes with legs.
"Help?" It said. Sora removed the top 5 five boxes reveling Tyson's head. "Were back." Tyson said happily. Everyone came in and unloaded the boxes.
"Is all that really necessary?" Kai asked seeing the 20 some boxes on the floor.
"Of course." Ray laughed looking over at Kai, and saw the White Tigers. "Hey, what are you guys doing here?"
"I invited them." Mr. Dickinson said walking in to the warm cabin. "The gift affects them too."
"Can we have it now?" Tyson asked excitedly.
"Calm down Tyson. Its not here." Mr. Dickinson laughed as Tyson's face went sour. "Why don't you decorate the place now. I'm sure once your done, the present will be here. Maybe you guys can make some cookies." Mr. Dickinson said, knowing that would get Tyson to forget about the gift.
"YEAH, COOKIES." Tyson screamed.
"Errr... can anyone bake?" Kenny questioned.
"I can." Mariah said happily. "Will you help me Sora?" Sora nodded.
"Alright then. Thank you Mar..."
"I'm going to get some cookies. I'm going to get some cookies." Tyson sang prancing around. Everyone laughed at him.
"You guys wanna give us a hand with the decorations?" Max asked the White Tigers. They nodded.
"No problem."
- In the Kitchen -
"Alright we need some eggs, flour, milk, and ohhh, spinkles." Mariah said while Sora searched through the bags and cupboards for the stuff. They each started mixing separate batches knowing if they wanted some, they have to make enough for both Gary AND Tyson.
"Hey can I help?" Tyson asked entering the kitchen, looking at the two girls mixing the batter.
- Living Room -
Lee, Ray, and Bruce were stringing some popcorn, while Gary was hanging some stuff off the ceiling with Max. Max needed to stand on a chair, but Gary just had to raise his arm. Kenny and Kai, who was surprisingly also helping, was working on the Christmas tree.
"Hey Tyson, can you pass me the tape?" Max asked reaching down. When he got no answer he turned around and saw that Tyson wasn't there. "Hey, did anyone see where Tyson went?" Just then the kitchen door flew open and Tyson came out of it with Mariah after him swinging a rolling pin around.
"TYSON, STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN." She screamed angrily and went back in. Everyone started laughing.
"Tyson, what did you do to make her so angry?"
"Nothing, I just thought I'd make sure that the batter was sweet enough." Tyson said totally oblivious.
"Never do that. Mariah get real mad. Gary knows." Gary said imparting his wisdom to Tyson.
- Kitchen -
DING!!!
"Yay, they're done." Mariah said as she skipped to the stove, while Sora was working on the dishes. She started moving all the trays from the oven and onto the counter with the oven mittens on. The aroma filled the air. "Hmmm, smells good."
Sora laughed. "Yeah, they came out better then I thought." Sora said coming over having finished all the dishes that were there.
"Now, we get to decorate them." She smiled. They sat down and started decorating them and then laying them on the tray in the middle of the table between them. Mariah finished the first one. It was a snowman and she covered it with white sprinkles putting two black dots of frosting on it for eyes. She put it on the empty tray. Sora finished the next one. She had a star so she covered it in yellow sprinkles, and put it on the *empty* tray.
"???" Sora looked cautiously at the tray and then around the room. "Didn't you just finish a cookie?"
"Yeah, its right... IT'S GONE." She screamed. They looked on the floor and saw a few crumbs leading to a cupboard under the sink. They went over and ripped open the doors seeing a small green hair boy putting the snowman's head in his mouth.
"???" Kevin slowly turned his head, almost afraid to look knowing exactly who was there. He swallowed the cookie, "Ummm...eheheh Hi Mariah. Sora. Your right, they did come out better then we thought." He smiled.
- Living Room -
Tyson kept staring at the kitchen doors. He could smell the cookies. Sitting beside him was Gary who was also staring at the door. Ray, Lee, and Bruce manage to get all the popcorn stringed losing only a few to their stomachs when no one was looking. Max and Gary had finished decorating the ceiling and Kenny was putting the last few ornaments on the tree.
"GET OUT!" They heard as a green haired boy scurried through the kitchen doors, but not before he managed to grab the star cookie of the tray and shoving it in his mouth. He hid behind Lee and Ray.
"THAT'S IT. I DON'T WANNA SEE ANOTHER PERSON IN HER AGAIN." Mariah said and stomped off back into the kitchen. Both Tyson and Gary sighed.
"Phew, that was close." Kevin said coming out from behind Lee and Ray.
"Where were you all afternoon Kevin?" Lee asked speciously, realizing he hadn't seen Kevin at all while they were working.
"Oh, I was, helping the girls." Kevin lied.
"Which is why they just wanted you dead?" Ray questioned. So Kevin came clean. Apparently he was hiding in the cupboards all day so he wouldn't have to work, but when he smelt the cookies, he had to grab one. Everyone laughed at him as the girls came out with a mountain of cookies, and laid them on the table.
Tyson, Gary, and Kevin all looked at them with hope and said in unison "Now?" The girls nodded and they flew to the cookies leaving smoky forms off themselves in their former seats. Everyone laughed as Mariah and Sora got a good look at what the guys did. It was very nice. There was popcorn strings going around the entire room. They had 'Merry Christmas' signs hung on the side of the wall, and long shiny streamer like things on the ceiling, which had bells hanging from them. Then there was the tree; it was gorgeous. It had silver garland and lots of lights. There were also many ornaments hanging all over the tree with a gold star sitting on the top. Sora looked down the hall and noticed there were wreathes on all the doors.
"Wow, great job." Mariah said taking it all in. Then there was the sound of a bus outside.
"Sounds like my gift is here children. You stay here." Mr. Dickinson said happily getting up from his seat and went outside. He returned with six men behind him. Everyone's face lit up except for Kai's, which had remained the same, and Sora's, which went pale.
/Crap. / Was all Sora could think as she clenched her hands into a fist by her sides.
"You probably know at least one of these men. I invited them all to see your performances at the tournament." Mr. Dickinson chuckled seeing some of the children's reaction.
"ELDER." Ray and the White Tigers screamed running up to an old man with a long mustache.
"GRANDPA." Tyson screamed running up to an old guy with a Hawaiian shirt on.
"DAD." Max screamed running to the man wearing a BB apron.
"DAD." Kenny screamed running up to a man in a lab coat (AN: I have no idea about Kenny's past, but I can't leave him out, its Christmas.)
Kai didn't say anything. He just walked over to his grandfather.
"Have you been training, my grandson?" He asked coldly
"Yes, grandfather." Kai returned just as cold.
Then there was Sora's grandfather. Sora refused to walk over to him, and Mr. Dickinson took noticed her distance. He was about to say something but then Mr. Tsuki approached her.
"So, the little runaway dog has appeared once again." He said harshly. Sora looked up into his eyes coldly. He glared back and slapped her across the face. The loud smack made everyone go quiet and stare in disbelief. Sora slowly stood straight again with her gaze to the floor and a very clear red hand imprint on the side of her face.
"Disgrace. NEVER look in to your superior's eyes. Now, go fetch my bags." He said angrily. Sora bowed and headed to the bus, as her grandfather sat down in one of the chairs.
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To anyone wondering, that was her past. Anyways, I want to put my Christmas tree up now, *sigh*, I mean its snowing right now as I look out the window :D, but Mom won't let me. She claims it's too early, but it'd only be about 2 months too soon.
Oh yeah, next chapter will have the first Blade Breaker match for the tournaments.
THANKS TO:
ChibiTari: Nope you're not the only one doing an OC for Beyblade. There are A LOT out there, just watch out for their updates. YEAH, I got an official 'Tari Approved' stamp, and I'm on your fav author list. I feel really special about that because I have never been on a fav author list before, but I am now :) I hope you like this chapter too.
mystic-water: Hey, long/short, I am glad to get a review. You should see me after I just posted the story. I'm refreshing every 5 minutes. Hehe, you're going to hunt me down huh? First time I every got that one :) Glad you like her attitude, too bad I got to change it now cause of Mr. Tsuki. As for updates, I usually try to do it once a week (Friday/Saturday usually). I would update faster, but in order to do that you'll have to hunt down my teachers first and make them stop giving me homework, lol.
Nightswift: YEAH my grammar got better :) Better then some books??? Dude, another first-time thing for me, can you please talk to my English teacher and tell him that, lol. Thanks for letting me know about the mourning and morning thing *blushes* I'll make sure I don't do that again. I already know who's gonna get the ultimate blade unless I come up with a good reason for someone else to get it :) *but not telling* :D I promise not to name anything fluffy, lol. I doubt I'd name a rock that. *Thinks on the suggestion of putting food under Tyson's nose, then smirks evilly. * Anyways yep, there is always a food lover. Yu-Gi-Oh has Joey and Triston (is that how it's spelt *shrugs*), Sailor Moon had Serena, and DBZ has all the Saiyans, but we love them all anyways, lol.
Sam: Glad you recovered, lol, and no problem. Thanks for suggesting the song. Sorry I never wrote the lyrics in.
Silver_Wing4004: Glad you like it. Thanks for reviewing.
Someguy: Don't worry I love to read 'I like this story' :) I was wondering when someone would ruin my secret about Pegasus and Cerberus. Lol, well not really a big secret to anyone that knows anything about mythology. About the eating contest, yep probably would have been to gory, lol. This is only a PG (was original F for some reason); I'd have to change it to R, if I were to describe that, lol. Thanks for letting me know about the spelling error, I'll watch out for that next time.
Dark Magician: Yep, 'My Only Love', was used in Sailor Moon when she changed herself into the Moon Princess to help Darien, who was hit with icicle like things, from the blonde from the Negaverse (did that make sense 0.0). As for the contest, I'll say they both gave up being full (if that's possible), lol. I'll keep writing and you keep writing your 'How can he live like that' ;)
Epitaph Munku-JGSPTV: Lol, I'll write more don't worry. I usually update about once a week (usually Friday/Saturday). Yeah I got like three comments about her being a Mary-sue. As far as I know, Mary-sue is the perfect person or something. So, that's why Mr. Tsuki appeared. Hopefully, I can change that view with him in the fic. Hope you liked it.
DUDE I'M FINALLY DONE. I feel so happy. This is the most reviews I got for any chapter so far :)