Breaking at the Seams
By K-chan and Jade-55
A/N: Hey ho.. K-chan here… this is the reason I haven't updated my Rei/Mariah ficcy (holds up her Rei + Mariah = Forever sign) Any-ways…. Me and Jade-55 wrote this ficcy… It has my OC and hers.. just mine in the first chappy tho… I hope you like it! We dun own Beyblade!
"YA-HOO!! WAY TO GO MAX!" a blue haired boy yelled as a blond boy ran down the hallway towards the small locker room.
The boy next to the blue haired one, closed his laptop gently and smiled before shouting, "Excellent job Max!"
As soon as the blond reached the room he jumped on the other two, sending all three of them to the floor. "Did you see?? It was soooo AWSOME!" Max exclaimed, emphasizing the word awesome.
Groaning from his position on the floor underneath the blond boy, the blue haired boy tried to push himself up. "Yeah… we saw Max and it's great that you won an' all, but could ya get off?" he asked in a harassed tone.
"Oh!" the blond laughed sheepishly and scrambled off the other two, "Sorry about that!"
"No problem!"
The boy with the computer grumbled as he got up and dusted himself off. "Easy for you to say… you weren't on the bottom, you guys are heavy!"
The other two laughed nervously, both scratching the back of their heads. "Sorry 'bout that Chief… didn't mean for ya to be stuck on the bottom!"
Kenny muttered and picked up Dizzi where she had landed after skidding across the floor. "Don't worry about it Tyson, you should be concentrating on your match. You're up after Bloc C."
Tyson suddenly forgot everything but Beyblading. Pumping his fist in the air he yelled out, "That's right! Bloc D better watch out! Cause the Ty-meister is comin'!"
"Ha. Even if you manage to make it past the preliminaries and into the finals you won't win." A voice mocked from behind them.
The three boys came face to face with a taller boy who seemed a bit older then themselves. His hair was dark blue at the back and light blue in the front. The light blue bangs were strewn all over his forehead in a messy fashion. His chestnut eyes were narrowed and his lips were twisted in a scornful smirk. He practically oozed haughtiness.
"Kai…" Tyson growled, his blue eyes narrowing to small slits as he glared at the taller boy.
The boy grunted and started to walk down the hall that connected the small locker room to the stadium, ignoring the other three. Tyson growled again and grabbed Kai's arm. "Hey! What did you mean by that?!"
Kai glanced at the hand that was holding his arm and then yanked his arm away. "Whatever." He replied before disappearing out the doors to the stadium.
"Grrrr! That guy pisses me off! What did he mean by that?" Tyson was livid, his fists clenched at his sides.
Kenny hummed thoughtfully and sat down, opening his laptop once again. "Well, Kai is the south Bey City district champion from last year, I believe he meant that you wouldn't beat him in the finals."
"Ha! Well I'll show him! I will beat him for sure! Besides who says he's even going to make it to the finals?" The blue haired boy shook his fist in the air in the direction of the stadium. He would show that self-absorbed Kai who the real beyblade champion was!
"That's right!" Max exclaimed as he slung his arm around Tyson's shoulder. "The final is going to be me and you!"
Tyson laughed. "Yeah! You're going down Max ol' buddy!"
"Just remember who won last time!"
"You so fluked!"
The two boys fell over in laughter. Max was the first to sober, placing a hand on Tyson's shoulder he looked at him and smiled. "Let's promise something 'k Tyson?"
Looking at the blond boy, Tyson tilted his head in curiosity. "Sure, what is it Max?"
Max grinned and jumped up. "Let's promise we'll see each other in the finals! That way I can beat you again!" he winked.
Tyson chuckled loudly. "You're on!"
With the vow the two boys clasped their hands together in a sturdy handshake. Then an idea occurred to Tyson. "Hey! What about the Chief? He's the beyblade genius! Aren't you blading Kenny?"
The boy that had previously been forgotten about looked up from his laptop where he had been ignoring the two louder boys. "Huh? Oh blading right. Yes, I am. I'm in Bloc C."
"Cool! But hey… aren't they about to start?" Max frowned a bit.
Kenny's eyes grew big (I believe he has eyes!) and he shut his laptop with a snap and shoved it to Max. "I need you to take care of Dizzi for me."
Max grinned and nodded exuberantly. "You can count on me!"
"Hey what about me??" whined Tyson, crossing his arms indignantly.
"Simple. I don't trust you not to lose her." Kenny said pointedly. "Now I'll see you guys later, they're about to start."
"GOOD LUCK CHIEF!" Max and Tyson chorus together, waving madly as the smaller boy disappeared through the doors into the stadium.
I guess it's down to Kai and me. Kenny's eyes narrowed in determination. Dizzi and his modifications had worked so far. No one had been able to touch his blade so far and he'd make sure Kai is not the first. "Yes! I'm going to beat Kai!"
"Don't be to sure about that kid."
Kenny snapped his head up and looked at the current district champ. He was standing casually, his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes focused on his beyblade. "That's a pretty good trick you rigged up there. But in order to win you have to attack, and you're blade is clearly incapable of that." Kai's voice was cold and sharp, but held hints of sympathy.
The smaller boy was rooted in shock. Kai was right, his beyblade was incapable of attacking! How had he and Dizzi ever thought that he could win the battle with out attacking? The one oversight had cost him the match. He sighed, he knew the battle was over and Kai was the victor.
"Dranzer! Go!" With the cold command the blue beyblade hurtled itself toward the bouncing green blade. With one hit the green blade was sent out of the stadium, it hit the ground just behind Kenny.
Kenny fell to his knees and held his head in his hands. Failure, that was the first word that came to his mind. "I'm a failure…"
Suddenly a hand landed on his shoulder, looking up he was met with a pair of smiling turquoise eyes. "Don't talk like that! Just because you lost one match doesn't make you a failure, you're new to blading right? I think you did super for your first time!" A female voice chirped from above him.
Blinking, Kenny stood and studied the girl that had just spoke to him. Her turquoise eyes were framed with bangs that were a few shades darker than royal blue, almost navy but not quite. The rest of her blue hair was tied up into a bun at the back, held in place by two black hair sticks, with a pair of sunglasses perched at the front just above her bangs. She was dressed in a black Chinese style shirt, that opened at the bottom just above her belly button, allowing the rest of the shirt to flow down in a skirt type fashion, ending mid thigh, with short black shorts underneath. The shirt had red lining and red straps that held the shirtfront together; it was held close at the top by an angel-wing pendant with a blue star in the middle. She wore black combat boots, black half finger gloves that ended at the wrist and red socks. She was grinning at him and holding out her hand. "Good job! Everyone loses sometimes ne?" she winked.
Kenny just stared in shock, who was this girl? Kai snorted and caught his beyblade. "Whatever, cheer him up all you want, this battle's over, I'm out of here."
"Um… I wouldn't do that if I were you." She called to his retreating back.
Kai looked over his shoulder with disinterest. "Oh and why is that?" he replied sneering sarcastically.
The girl merely grinned and pointed into the dish. Following the path of her finger both boys noticed a medium sized white beyblade spinning just before the edge on the far right side. Both boy's eyes widened, there was another blade in the dish?? Since when?!
The blue haired young man growled and turned around. "Where did you come from?" His voice was a deadly sneer of disgust.
She giggled and placed her hands on her hips, tilting her head to the side. "I've always been here! You were just too busy destroying everyone else's blades to notice little old me ^-^" Turning to Kenny she winked, "Don't worry, I'll make sure I beat him 'k?"
Nodding dumbly Kenny turned and walked off the platform and made his way toward where he knew Max and Tyson were sitting.
He was in complete shock. The girl had showed up out of nowhere… how did no one notice her before? There had to be an explanation, and he intended to find out. Hopefully Max had Dizzi open during the battle. Reaching the stairs, he quickly located his friends, who were watching the platform intently, surprise clearly etched on their faces.
When they finally noticed his presence they both turned to him with wide eyes. Tyson was the first to speak. "Where did she come from??" His tone was one of awe, his finger extended toward the dish.
Max elbowed Tyson in the stomach. "Ty-son…." He hissed, his eyes flicking nervously between the boys.
"Huh?" Tyson blinked before something dawned on him. "Oh! Sorry about the loss chief, you did great though! Kai's one tough cookie."
Kenny sighed then smiled hesitantly at his friends. "It's ok guys, I never stood a chance against Kai, I realize that now."
"Tough break Chief, you'll do better next time I'm sure!" Max grinned and patted Kenny on the back.
"Now that we're all over that, who is that girl?? And where did she come from??" Tyson practically howled leaning over the bleacher railing toward the platform.
"That Tyson, is exactly what I am going to find out. I trust you had Dizzi open for the match?" Kenny asked, sitting down next to Max.
"They sure did Chief, but Tyson's yelling nearly blew one of my circuits!" the computerized voice quipped.
"Hey! I didn't yell that loud!" The blue haired boy yelled – rather loudly.
Both boys rubbed their ears. "Like now eh Tyson?" Max grinned, still rubbing his ear.
Tyson opened his mouth to reply, but was interrupted. Kenny sensing another yell quickly addressed his bit beast. "So Dizzi you got any information on the girl and how she got there?"
"Well I can't tell you her name or anything about her blade because I don't have any information to process! But I can tell you how she got there. Just as she said, she's been there all along. If you look closely you can see her launching her blade…" The three boys 'aahhed' as the computer replayed the launching of the blades in slow motion, zooming in on one area in particular. "You see, she was about four people to the left of you Chief. Now as for how no one knew her blade was there, its quite simple really. She used the same technique Tyson did in his battle against Carlos. She launched her blade in such a way that in was spinning so fast that it wasn't visible to the naked eye and from there she simply avoided the other blades. And when put in with all those other blades, its not surprising that no one saw it. Look closely," another image popped up, this time of the girl standing off the platform, off to the side. "She's was there all along, but she was standing so far off to the side that people didn't notice her, or dismissed her as a spectator."
"Wow… Dizzi's right! I never noticed her there at all!" murmured Tyson.
"Apparently neither did Kai." Max pointed out, as they all turned back to the battle.
"This is going to be interesting."
"You shouldn't make promises you can't keep." Kai snarled, his chestnut eyes narrowing on the girl.
The girl waved her hand dismissively at him. "What makes you think I can't keep it?" Her eyes wide and mockingly innocent.
Kai twitched, the girl was really starting to annoy him. Where did she come from anyway? "You can't beat me." His voice was dead pan and left no room for arguments.
Raising her eyebrow the girl looked at him speculatively. "Pretty sure of ourselves aren't we?"
Her only answer was a low growl that escaped his throat before he could stop it. "Where did you come from?"
She rolled her eyes and held out her hand, catching her blade as it flung itself out of the stadium. "Haven't we gone over this before? I told you, I was here all along."
"If you were here I would have already eliminated you." He barked coldly.
The girl let out a hearty laugh, and shook her head. "You really are full of yourself? I mean really, if you had any intelligence at all you would have figured out that my blade was just spinning too fast for anyone to see." She smirked at him, "Its amazing someone with your intelligence got this far." Her voice was full of mock haughtiness.
He growled again, she was pushing it. "You obviously don't know who you're talking to, wench."
Her eyebrows shot up. "What makes you so sure of that? I know perfectly well who you are, Kai. Just because I know, doesn't mean I care."
Kai's fists clenched, his blade biting into the palm of his left hand. Just as he opened his mouth to respond she spoke again. "Oh and before you ask how I knew who you were, I might as well explain. I knew the current undefeated south district champion, Kai was in my bloc, and since you're the last one left, I assumed he was you. I trust that he is you?" Her eyes gazed at him questioningly, the sarcasm dripping from her words.
He snorted, he would not let her provoke him – after all he was sure that's what she wanted. "Whatever. Let's just get this waste of time over with. I have better things to do than battle amateurs."
The girl grinned cheekily in reply and attached her blade to her launcher, watching as he did the same. Just before they were about to launch, she couldn't help but ask. "Do you really take pleasure in destroying kids beyblades?"
"Yes." His answer was short and to the point.
This answer caused a frown to mar her pretty face. "But what's the point? All it does is hurt people."
He snorted again at the girl's foolishness. She actually thought he cared? "The point is, if they were stupid enough to challenge me, then they deserve to have their blade destroyed. Now shut up and lose."
It was her turn to growl, fine if that's the way he wanted to play it. "Fine." She growled. "Ready?"
Then the announcer took over and shouted, "1…2…3…LET IT RIP!"
Kai launched his blade yelling, "Go Dranzer and make it quick!"
The girl quickly followed suit by yelling. "Go Akala!"
The medium sized white blade shot into the dish and stood spinning a few inches from where Kai's blue Dranzer blade spun. Kai saw this and smirked nastily. "Amateur. You can't even launch right, your blades only spinning half speed."
"Now now Mr. Happy, you know what they say, don't judge a book by its cover." She was smirking every bit as nastily as he was.
"What's going on? Why did she launch her blade so feebly?" Tyson scratched his head in confusion.
"Yeah!" Max piped in, "If she was able to launch it so quick last time why didn't she do it again this time?"
Kenny frowned in thought, something wasn't clicking, then it dawned on him. "That's it!" he exclaimed grinning.
"Er… What's it Chief?"
"Her beyblade's rotation! She must know the secret behind Kai's attack!" Kenny looked down to Dizzi for conformation.
"That's right Chief. That girl's blade is only spinning at half speed, making it impossible for Kai to steal its energy, and thus making it impossible for Dranzer to use its spin fire attack."
"Wow… hey that must mean that girl is pretty good!" Tyson jumped up and almost fell over the railing.
"Woah there tiger, she may be pretty good, but Kai's no rookie." Dizzi replied.
"Dizzi's right, we'll just have to wait and see."
"Um… that explains why its spinning so slow, but why is it spinning at such an angle?"
"Dranzer! Finish this quickly, she's not worth our time." Kai commanded and the blue shot forward toward the white blade.
The girl snickered, she had him. Over confidence killed the champ, she giggled at her own play on words. Too bad he was too arrogant to see what was happening until too late, well that would teach him; she was sure he wouldn't make the same mistake twice.
As soon as the blue Dranzer blade came in contact with the white blade (because of the angle of rotation), the white blade was forced to switch axis' it was spinning on. This caused the edge of the white blade to catch the edge of the blue one. Using its own momentum against itself, the lighter blade sent the blue blade crashing into the side of the dish effectively stopping its spin.
Kai eyes widened in shock as he watched his blade crash into the side of the dish and skid to a stop near the still spinning white blade. He had lost. Lost. And to a two bit girl blader at that. He cursed, how did he not see her trap before? Half rotation speed, angle of rotation, all a trap! If he had not been so annoyed by her he would have seen through it. Damn her! Snarling he jumped down into the bowl and grabbed his blade. Turning his back on her he jumped back out of the dish and paused on the edge of the platform. "You got lucky. If you hadn't annoyed me so badly I would have seen through your cheap tricks."
The girl's face grew irritated, her turquoise eyes darkening several shades. "Look. Don't blame me because you let your arrogance blind you. They weren't cheap tricks, if you weren't so busy nursing your bruised ego you would have seen what I was up to. Or maybe you wouldn't have, in that case your not the blader I thought you were."
Kai tensed at these words and clenched his fists. "Whatever. You wont be so lucky next time." With these words he started to stalk towards the stadium doors.
Catching her beyblade the girl ran to catch up with him. When she did she grabbed his arm and spun him around, earning herself a death glare. Smiling kindly she winked and said before letting go of his arm. "Good luck in the semi-finals eh?" With that she laughed and started jogging towards the doors herself.
Kai blinked in shock, semi-finals…what? "What?"
She paused and threw a grin over her shoulder. "You heard me, south district champ. I'm forfeiting my spot. I just hope you perform better then than you did just now." She winked.
He really didn't get this girl, and it just added to his annoyance and dislike, but he couldn't help himself. Before he knew it he asked, "Hey wench, what's your name?"
Laughing again, the girl turned around completely and threw him a cheeky smile. "Liika. Tomoda Liika." Then disappeared through the doors.
His eyes widened, realization of who she was hit him hard. What was the north, Tokyo district champion doing at the south, Bey City regionals?
Wahaha.. you like? Please review… no flames… they make K-chan cry.. ;)