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Ok, this is a long chapter but it got some cool moves in it.well.at least I think so. Anyways, I'm trying not to give away anything about the girl's identity and why she wants to battle Kai so that it doesn't ruin the plot and climax. Please R and R and thanks to the people who reviewed. Sorry about blasphemy. (Lord Cynic, yeah there will be by some Demolition Boys cos the Beybreakers are in Russia.maybe the Majestics, do you think I should bring the White Tigers or the All Stars into the fic?)
Destiny's Path
Chapter 6 - Until Tomorrow
"Was that a threat?"
"Take it how you want it," she snickered in reply.
Kai was already standing. He looked her up and down and then looked at the white blade in front of him with disgust and disgrace. Tyson lost to a girl. He was glad no one was here to witness that event. It would do wonders to their reputation.detrimental wonders. God this frustrated him! He'd have to handle it now. Why did he always have to get them out of their own mess? He sighed, closing his eyes to relax a little. The next time he opened them he had taken on a new outlook. He picked up the white blade that presented itself before him, throwing it back to Tyson. He took his own blue-red blade from his pocket, attaching it to his launcher.
Tyson caught his blade with one hand. He closed his palm squeezing his blade tightly. He lost. He couldn't come to terms with what he had done. He let Ray down. A tear trickled down the side of his face but he brushed it away. He would not let her see him like this.
She could hardly believe what had just occurred. She was going to battle Kai. She would defeat him as she had done the others. They would see she was good enough. They would surely let her back in. All she had to do was win.
It happened so quickly and it had not set in on Kenny yet. Numerous thoughts ran through his mind. Had Tyson not won? He tried to grip together all the pieces he could recall but he couldn't piece it all together no matter how he turned the pieces. It was all a fog to him. He rattled his mind to stay sane.
Mariah did not notice what happened around her. She concentrated her energy solely on one thing, Ray, and everything was simply a blur to her. She held Ray's lifeless body, oblivious to her surroundings and their actions.
Max glanced down to his watch, it was the tenth time he had done so. He was getting impatient, where were they? It had been a quarter of an hour since he had made a call. There was no sign of either an ambulance or Mr Dickenson.
Ray was still out cold. Time was ticking away the minutes, his minutes.
Meanwhile, some distance away, a very anxious Mr Dickenson sat in the back seat of his car waiting for the traffic to clear up. He thought of the phone call he had received from Max. Max did not say anything except that he had to come to the autograph place right away. He had not taken him seriously at first but then he heard the tone in his voice. It was different, not its normal enthusiastic self. He knew at once something was wrong but before he could ask, Max had hung up. Something had happened, but what had possibly gone wrong?
The traffic cleared partially, enough for the car to progress a few blocks.
"Step on it!" he told the chauffeur. He didn't have time to waste. The day had already turned to night.
She pulled out her launcher and attached her blade to it. She held it upright, prepared for battle. "Best of three?"
"Scared you'll need a second chance?"
"Humph!" she only snorted.
Max gave the count, trying to get his mind off waiting for an ambulance, "three, two, one.let it rip!"
The two blades clashed together. The scratching metal noise could be heard, echoing through the large, spacious room. Neither of their owners summoned their bitbeasts.
Tyson was doubtful she even had a bitbeast. She didn't deserve one. But how could she beat his Dragoon storm without a bitbeast? "It must have been some trick, somehow she must have cheated," he consoled himself. Tyson thought of this idea for some time longer than he usually thought about things. It was no trick. He saw it with his own eyes. He lost simply because he wasn't good enough. He couldn't face anyone, especially Kai. He secretly hoped Kai would lose. He would never get out of training if Kai knew Tyson couldn't defeat someone he could. He almost laughed at himself for putting it like that. Losing wasn't all that dreadful. He was getting over it already.
Kai did not intend to summon his bitbeast even though he could feel Dranzer flare up inside him. He would have to resist. If she thought she could defeat him without the aid of a bitbeast he shouldn't require a bitbeast to crush her. He ordered himself mentally, "Take no prisoners."
She disciplined herself, "show him no mercy!"
His blade lunged at her.
She pulled away narrowly missing the blade. Her turn, her eyes full of fury, "your turn to run."
Her blade lashed at him. He dodged the first blow easily, motioning to one side. But it wasn't over yet, her blade spun towards his feet, causing him to run out of the way. He ran of the way, towards a wall. The blade was almost at his ankle. His mind ran smoothly, without glitches. He jumped on to the wall, bouncing off it by pushing off it with one foot. He was some distance away from her blade avoiding any further attacks temporarily. He attempted another attack before he lost the opportunity.
She saw the blue-red blade dashing after her. She took off before it could touch her but it was soon hot on her tail.
Kai was too focused on attacking her to realise that he was soon to be under siege. Too busy watching his enemy to notice her blade circle around him until it sliced him on the ankle. He saw the cut through his baggy blue pants. He launched himself out of the circle that surrounded him. It infuriated him more that he had received the first injury. His blade picked up speed.
His blade gained on her. She kept running until she reached some wall. If she stopped she would surely get injured. She kept on going at full speed. She ran across the wall, avoiding ground attacks. When she ran off the wall she noticed Kai being chased around furiously by her blade. His blade was still after her so she kept running.
Her blade had swerved out of its circle and launched itself airborne in an attempt to attack Kai on the head or chest. He ran but her blade would soon be at his head. He noticed a flag with the BBA logo and jumped on to it. Her blade marginally missed his chest and instead sliced through that BBA flag. Kai, gripping on to what was left of that flag, swung a few times before releasing it, doing a somersault in the air and landing a fair distance from her blade.
She kept running, his blade so fast it was beyond stopping. Then a thought came to mind and she processed it efficiently. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around just in time to see how to dodge the blade coming at her. She stepped out of the way leaving Kai's blue-red blade spinning uncontrollably past her. His blade was out of range to do her damage momentarily.
They both looked at each other, neither one panting, neither one nervous, neither one afraid. Both were too use to this type of training to be.
Tyson, Max and Kenny watched in absolute awe. Not only were they great bladders, they were so athletic. They both seemed like complete warriors. Tyson felt as though he was watching some kind of performance. They hardly recognised Kai, they'd never seen him like this. Maybe they had never pushed him to his limit.
They stood staring at each other. Each almost inviting the other to give it to them. This would be it, the finale, the last blow. "Give it all you got!" they told each other.
Tyson held his breath.
Max covered his gasping mouth with his hand.
Kenny ducked under his laptop for protection.
Mariah didn't seem to care for the outcome of the battle.
Kai went first. He sent his blade flying through the air headed towards her.
"This is a synch, Kai." She did a couple of handstands consecutively, fleeing from his blade, and then she stopped and unsuspectingly slid to the ground doing the splits with her legs. His blade soared past where her head would have been. He missed by a mile. She arose from her uncomfortable splits position to look to Kai. "Is that the best you can do?" mocking him.
"It's not over, my blade still spins," he said pointing to his blade, now far from her.
"Are you ready, Kai?" she asked him, about to launch her attack on him.
"Always have been."
Her blade spun towards him like a dog on fire.
Kai ran from it in the opposite direction. He looked forward only to see a wall he his path. The blade rushed to him, launching into the air, now flying. He was trapped, or so it seemed. He looked the wall up and down, took a large step back and ran at it at full speed. He ran up the wall until gravity prohibited him going any further. The blade was almost upon his body. Before he could fall, he pushed off with immense strength, doing a backward somersault in the air over the attacking blade. He landed with both feet on the ground.
She could not believe his physical abilities. His grandfather had trained him well, better than what she had expected. She turned to her blade, which was now headed straight for the wall, where Kai was a moment ago. A doubt crept upon her face. It smashed into the wall, shattering into a thousand pieces. Something flashed in her mind.
FLASHBACK
Her father grabbed the blade from her reluctant hands.
She tugged and pulled his arms. She kicked and hit him but it was no use. He was too strong. She dropped to the ground refusing to watch what he did next.
He threw her blade on the hard stonewall. It broke into as it fell to the ground.
She tried to catch them but he kicked her out of the way.
One of the pieces fell to the ground and shattered on impact. The other remained intact.
She tried to grab it, only to receive another kick in the stomach.
He stepped on the remaining half, crushing it into minute pieces. He watched her eyes fill up with fry and pain.
At this moment she wanted to kill him but she did not have the strength. She did not want to believe what happened. She did not want to see her broken blade. She got off the ground and looked at her father with disgust. Water swelled up her eyes but she forced them back, tears were no welcome. She ran. She no longer wanted to stay. She ran deeper into the forest refusing to turn or even look back. She knew her father pursued her but she just kept on running.
END FLASHBACK
Memories of her past haunted her.
"I suggest you forfeit the next two battles since you have no blade to fight me with," Kai grunted with full pride in his voice. He looked in her eyes and for a moment he saw some sort of emotion painted on her face. But soon enough all emotion was lost from her and the cold closed face reappeared.
"It's not over Kai. I still have two more battles and that's enough to win. Same time tomorrow, St Petersburg Square, be there." She eyed him. The expression on Kai face had changed. He looked as though he had seen something that took him by surprise. Her glance lingered for a moment longer. She turned away, caring not for Kai's expression, and headed for the door.
They were all confused. A blade of this power must have possessed a bitbeast. Why had she not bothered to pick up her bitchip? Kenny rushed over to inspect the rubble of mess left from her blade. He quickly found the bitchip and picked it up to examine. It was the only piece that remained intact, "it's empty, no bitbeast."
"Not in this one," she replied, her back still to them.
There was an uneasy pause.
"Great game Kai," Max complimented.
"I never knew you could do that. C'mon Kai, tech me some of your moves," Tyson wailed.
"Maybe if you lose some weight," he said with sarcasm. Kai rolled his eyes as he retrieved his blade.
Max laughed and Kenny joined in.
Tyson glared at Kai, who ignored him, naturally.
"Can't you see that Ray needs help?" Mariah screamed. She was obviously frustrated that everyone had turned their attention to Kai and had forgotten about Ray.
Everyone switched back to reality mode.
At this moment Mr Dickenson slammed open the door, almost bashing into the dark-haired girl. He apologised profusely, thinking she was but a fan.
She simply ignored him and walked past, disappearing into the dark of the night.
Mr Dickenson turned to the boys. "What seem to be." he started, stopped by what he saw. Ray had collapsed and Max and Kai both had wounds. Tyson and Kenny seemed to be fine and Mariah was a little distraught. "Who did this to you?"
"She did," Tyson replied, motioning to the door where she was, only moments ago.
Mr Dickenson rushed over to Ray.
Everyone seemed to be huddled around Ray except for Kai. Kai was baffled. Why did this girl want to battle him so badly? Why does she seem to know me? Why does she seem so familiar? Why is she so cold? Why do I seem so curious about her? She's just another blade, an amateur, no more no less. Who is she? All these questions puzzled at his mind. The sound of a siren broke his concentration. That would be the ambulance. He looked to his teammates, Mr Dickenson and Mariah. Ray would be all right. He glanced at the wound on his ankle. It wasn't deep and walk. He looked back to the darkness that lurked outside that door. He ran out, disappearing into the shadows. He would find her.
They heard the siren also. It gave them hope. When the ambulance arrives they all helped. Ray was boosted on to a stretcher and waited patiently for someone to come. Mr Dickenson drove them all to the hospital. No one seemed to notice that Kai had gone.
Ok, this is a long chapter but it got some cool moves in it.well.at least I think so. Anyways, I'm trying not to give away anything about the girl's identity and why she wants to battle Kai so that it doesn't ruin the plot and climax. Please R and R and thanks to the people who reviewed. Sorry about blasphemy. (Lord Cynic, yeah there will be by some Demolition Boys cos the Beybreakers are in Russia.maybe the Majestics, do you think I should bring the White Tigers or the All Stars into the fic?)
Destiny's Path
Chapter 6 - Until Tomorrow
"Was that a threat?"
"Take it how you want it," she snickered in reply.
Kai was already standing. He looked her up and down and then looked at the white blade in front of him with disgust and disgrace. Tyson lost to a girl. He was glad no one was here to witness that event. It would do wonders to their reputation.detrimental wonders. God this frustrated him! He'd have to handle it now. Why did he always have to get them out of their own mess? He sighed, closing his eyes to relax a little. The next time he opened them he had taken on a new outlook. He picked up the white blade that presented itself before him, throwing it back to Tyson. He took his own blue-red blade from his pocket, attaching it to his launcher.
Tyson caught his blade with one hand. He closed his palm squeezing his blade tightly. He lost. He couldn't come to terms with what he had done. He let Ray down. A tear trickled down the side of his face but he brushed it away. He would not let her see him like this.
She could hardly believe what had just occurred. She was going to battle Kai. She would defeat him as she had done the others. They would see she was good enough. They would surely let her back in. All she had to do was win.
It happened so quickly and it had not set in on Kenny yet. Numerous thoughts ran through his mind. Had Tyson not won? He tried to grip together all the pieces he could recall but he couldn't piece it all together no matter how he turned the pieces. It was all a fog to him. He rattled his mind to stay sane.
Mariah did not notice what happened around her. She concentrated her energy solely on one thing, Ray, and everything was simply a blur to her. She held Ray's lifeless body, oblivious to her surroundings and their actions.
Max glanced down to his watch, it was the tenth time he had done so. He was getting impatient, where were they? It had been a quarter of an hour since he had made a call. There was no sign of either an ambulance or Mr Dickenson.
Ray was still out cold. Time was ticking away the minutes, his minutes.
Meanwhile, some distance away, a very anxious Mr Dickenson sat in the back seat of his car waiting for the traffic to clear up. He thought of the phone call he had received from Max. Max did not say anything except that he had to come to the autograph place right away. He had not taken him seriously at first but then he heard the tone in his voice. It was different, not its normal enthusiastic self. He knew at once something was wrong but before he could ask, Max had hung up. Something had happened, but what had possibly gone wrong?
The traffic cleared partially, enough for the car to progress a few blocks.
"Step on it!" he told the chauffeur. He didn't have time to waste. The day had already turned to night.
She pulled out her launcher and attached her blade to it. She held it upright, prepared for battle. "Best of three?"
"Scared you'll need a second chance?"
"Humph!" she only snorted.
Max gave the count, trying to get his mind off waiting for an ambulance, "three, two, one.let it rip!"
The two blades clashed together. The scratching metal noise could be heard, echoing through the large, spacious room. Neither of their owners summoned their bitbeasts.
Tyson was doubtful she even had a bitbeast. She didn't deserve one. But how could she beat his Dragoon storm without a bitbeast? "It must have been some trick, somehow she must have cheated," he consoled himself. Tyson thought of this idea for some time longer than he usually thought about things. It was no trick. He saw it with his own eyes. He lost simply because he wasn't good enough. He couldn't face anyone, especially Kai. He secretly hoped Kai would lose. He would never get out of training if Kai knew Tyson couldn't defeat someone he could. He almost laughed at himself for putting it like that. Losing wasn't all that dreadful. He was getting over it already.
Kai did not intend to summon his bitbeast even though he could feel Dranzer flare up inside him. He would have to resist. If she thought she could defeat him without the aid of a bitbeast he shouldn't require a bitbeast to crush her. He ordered himself mentally, "Take no prisoners."
She disciplined herself, "show him no mercy!"
His blade lunged at her.
She pulled away narrowly missing the blade. Her turn, her eyes full of fury, "your turn to run."
Her blade lashed at him. He dodged the first blow easily, motioning to one side. But it wasn't over yet, her blade spun towards his feet, causing him to run out of the way. He ran of the way, towards a wall. The blade was almost at his ankle. His mind ran smoothly, without glitches. He jumped on to the wall, bouncing off it by pushing off it with one foot. He was some distance away from her blade avoiding any further attacks temporarily. He attempted another attack before he lost the opportunity.
She saw the blue-red blade dashing after her. She took off before it could touch her but it was soon hot on her tail.
Kai was too focused on attacking her to realise that he was soon to be under siege. Too busy watching his enemy to notice her blade circle around him until it sliced him on the ankle. He saw the cut through his baggy blue pants. He launched himself out of the circle that surrounded him. It infuriated him more that he had received the first injury. His blade picked up speed.
His blade gained on her. She kept running until she reached some wall. If she stopped she would surely get injured. She kept on going at full speed. She ran across the wall, avoiding ground attacks. When she ran off the wall she noticed Kai being chased around furiously by her blade. His blade was still after her so she kept running.
Her blade had swerved out of its circle and launched itself airborne in an attempt to attack Kai on the head or chest. He ran but her blade would soon be at his head. He noticed a flag with the BBA logo and jumped on to it. Her blade marginally missed his chest and instead sliced through that BBA flag. Kai, gripping on to what was left of that flag, swung a few times before releasing it, doing a somersault in the air and landing a fair distance from her blade.
She kept running, his blade so fast it was beyond stopping. Then a thought came to mind and she processed it efficiently. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around just in time to see how to dodge the blade coming at her. She stepped out of the way leaving Kai's blue-red blade spinning uncontrollably past her. His blade was out of range to do her damage momentarily.
They both looked at each other, neither one panting, neither one nervous, neither one afraid. Both were too use to this type of training to be.
Tyson, Max and Kenny watched in absolute awe. Not only were they great bladders, they were so athletic. They both seemed like complete warriors. Tyson felt as though he was watching some kind of performance. They hardly recognised Kai, they'd never seen him like this. Maybe they had never pushed him to his limit.
They stood staring at each other. Each almost inviting the other to give it to them. This would be it, the finale, the last blow. "Give it all you got!" they told each other.
Tyson held his breath.
Max covered his gasping mouth with his hand.
Kenny ducked under his laptop for protection.
Mariah didn't seem to care for the outcome of the battle.
Kai went first. He sent his blade flying through the air headed towards her.
"This is a synch, Kai." She did a couple of handstands consecutively, fleeing from his blade, and then she stopped and unsuspectingly slid to the ground doing the splits with her legs. His blade soared past where her head would have been. He missed by a mile. She arose from her uncomfortable splits position to look to Kai. "Is that the best you can do?" mocking him.
"It's not over, my blade still spins," he said pointing to his blade, now far from her.
"Are you ready, Kai?" she asked him, about to launch her attack on him.
"Always have been."
Her blade spun towards him like a dog on fire.
Kai ran from it in the opposite direction. He looked forward only to see a wall he his path. The blade rushed to him, launching into the air, now flying. He was trapped, or so it seemed. He looked the wall up and down, took a large step back and ran at it at full speed. He ran up the wall until gravity prohibited him going any further. The blade was almost upon his body. Before he could fall, he pushed off with immense strength, doing a backward somersault in the air over the attacking blade. He landed with both feet on the ground.
She could not believe his physical abilities. His grandfather had trained him well, better than what she had expected. She turned to her blade, which was now headed straight for the wall, where Kai was a moment ago. A doubt crept upon her face. It smashed into the wall, shattering into a thousand pieces. Something flashed in her mind.
FLASHBACK
Her father grabbed the blade from her reluctant hands.
She tugged and pulled his arms. She kicked and hit him but it was no use. He was too strong. She dropped to the ground refusing to watch what he did next.
He threw her blade on the hard stonewall. It broke into as it fell to the ground.
She tried to catch them but he kicked her out of the way.
One of the pieces fell to the ground and shattered on impact. The other remained intact.
She tried to grab it, only to receive another kick in the stomach.
He stepped on the remaining half, crushing it into minute pieces. He watched her eyes fill up with fry and pain.
At this moment she wanted to kill him but she did not have the strength. She did not want to believe what happened. She did not want to see her broken blade. She got off the ground and looked at her father with disgust. Water swelled up her eyes but she forced them back, tears were no welcome. She ran. She no longer wanted to stay. She ran deeper into the forest refusing to turn or even look back. She knew her father pursued her but she just kept on running.
END FLASHBACK
Memories of her past haunted her.
"I suggest you forfeit the next two battles since you have no blade to fight me with," Kai grunted with full pride in his voice. He looked in her eyes and for a moment he saw some sort of emotion painted on her face. But soon enough all emotion was lost from her and the cold closed face reappeared.
"It's not over Kai. I still have two more battles and that's enough to win. Same time tomorrow, St Petersburg Square, be there." She eyed him. The expression on Kai face had changed. He looked as though he had seen something that took him by surprise. Her glance lingered for a moment longer. She turned away, caring not for Kai's expression, and headed for the door.
They were all confused. A blade of this power must have possessed a bitbeast. Why had she not bothered to pick up her bitchip? Kenny rushed over to inspect the rubble of mess left from her blade. He quickly found the bitchip and picked it up to examine. It was the only piece that remained intact, "it's empty, no bitbeast."
"Not in this one," she replied, her back still to them.
There was an uneasy pause.
"Great game Kai," Max complimented.
"I never knew you could do that. C'mon Kai, tech me some of your moves," Tyson wailed.
"Maybe if you lose some weight," he said with sarcasm. Kai rolled his eyes as he retrieved his blade.
Max laughed and Kenny joined in.
Tyson glared at Kai, who ignored him, naturally.
"Can't you see that Ray needs help?" Mariah screamed. She was obviously frustrated that everyone had turned their attention to Kai and had forgotten about Ray.
Everyone switched back to reality mode.
At this moment Mr Dickenson slammed open the door, almost bashing into the dark-haired girl. He apologised profusely, thinking she was but a fan.
She simply ignored him and walked past, disappearing into the dark of the night.
Mr Dickenson turned to the boys. "What seem to be." he started, stopped by what he saw. Ray had collapsed and Max and Kai both had wounds. Tyson and Kenny seemed to be fine and Mariah was a little distraught. "Who did this to you?"
"She did," Tyson replied, motioning to the door where she was, only moments ago.
Mr Dickenson rushed over to Ray.
Everyone seemed to be huddled around Ray except for Kai. Kai was baffled. Why did this girl want to battle him so badly? Why does she seem to know me? Why does she seem so familiar? Why is she so cold? Why do I seem so curious about her? She's just another blade, an amateur, no more no less. Who is she? All these questions puzzled at his mind. The sound of a siren broke his concentration. That would be the ambulance. He looked to his teammates, Mr Dickenson and Mariah. Ray would be all right. He glanced at the wound on his ankle. It wasn't deep and walk. He looked back to the darkness that lurked outside that door. He ran out, disappearing into the shadows. He would find her.
They heard the siren also. It gave them hope. When the ambulance arrives they all helped. Ray was boosted on to a stretcher and waited patiently for someone to come. Mr Dickenson drove them all to the hospital. No one seemed to notice that Kai had gone.