Hiya people! Imma back for chapter two! @_@ GAH! I'm getting a headache!!! Exams!!!! @_@

Bullet: You still need to work on your art, what are you doing on the computer?

I just want to submit this. Go downstairs and watch the DVDs I borrowed from my friend.

Bullet: Tch! Fine! *Runs downstairs*

I better stop my yakking. Anyway, here's chapter two! Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: Dun own Beyblade, but whatever that isn't on it that you see in this fic belongs to my friends and me okay?

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Chapter two:

Running, Complaining and Dancing

As soon as they stepped outside, Kai spoke in a very sharp tone.

"Guys, run."

Max, Lei, Kenny, Kira, Ray and Rina looked at Kai confused and then looked at the Krispy Kreme building. The Bladebreakers' eyes widened as the doors slammed open and the mob of fan-girls surrounded the guys immediately. The Femme Fatales were quickly pushed out of the way as the fan-girls were practically jumping the guys as they were standing in front of the donut joint. Kira shook her head as she looked at the guys, as the girls were fan-girls were practically so close to ripping the clothes off of the Bladebreakers. "I really hate to do this. Rina, use Qazi to create a diversion."

"Huh? What's she gonna do?" Rina asked puzzled, "Are you telling me that I should attack these girls?"

"Yes but no. Just use Qazi's attack to create a distraction long enough for the Bladebreakers to escape and for us to get the heck out of here." Kira replied casually.

"You do know that they'll still run after the guys, no questions asked, right?" Bullet asked firmly.

"Yes, but this is the only thing that we can do for the guys now… Well, before the tournament, at least." Lei said.

"All right then," Rina said, brining out her red beyblade and launcher then ripping out the cord, "Qazi, Glacier Rings!"

The red blade landed swiftly on the asphalt, bouncing low twice before regaining its usual constant spin. A stunning blue falcon emerged from the blade and flapped its enormous wings. Snowy gusts of wind blasted in the direction of the guys, catching the fan-girl's attention, giving the Bladebreakers a chance to run.

Seeing as their diversion worked, Rina called back her blade and ran quickly to try and catch up with the rest of her teammates. They ran as a team for a few seconds before they heard the screams of the fan-girls behind them. They were headed back towards where the two teams were staying, but neither team want the fan girls to know where the Bladebreakers were residing.

"Hey, Eos, care to make a little distraction?" Bullet asked the younger teen while they were running.

"You bet!" Eos said as she whipped out her blade, launcher, and sniper grip. She quickly set up her blade, pulled on the cord and said, "Sorry girls, you are now entering a private property. Gazet, use Shattering Voice!" Her light purple blade hit the concrete and it started glowing a bronze color. Howling laughter was heard a second after that as a hyena emerged from the said blade.

The girls that were following the two teams slowly backed off as they faced the glowing hyena. The gleaming bit-beast screeched a laugh, causing the girls that were following them to cover their ears and run to the other direction. Satisfied with her work, Eos called back her blade before running to the house.

"Mission accomplished, bossy! All the fan-girls ran off after hearing Gazet." Eos grinned, but then frowned. "I'm still hungry. I didn't get to eat."

"Hey, at least you're working a lot better with your Bit, right?" Bullet grinned, making Eos nod.

"Hey, where's Mr. Dickenson? We kinda just left him earlier here without telling him that we were leaving." Kenny said, and then walked off to the kitchen.

Tyson stomach rumbled at the same time that the doorbell rang.

"Um… you guys aren't expecting guests, are you?" Rina asked the boys while quirking an eyebrow.

"No we're not." Ray replied. "If it's a mob of fan-girls, tell them we're not here."

Lei peered out the window. "Does the pizza delivery guy count as a fan-girl?" She asked with a wink.

"Did you say Pizza?" Eos and Tyson chorused, jumping up and running towards the door.

"Ah, that must be the pizza that I ordered for you." Mr. Dickenson said as he emerged from the stairwell. "After you left, I figured that you might come back in a hurry because of all the female fans that the boys have."

"Yeah," Bullet muttered dryly, "From Krispy Kreme to back here, fan-girls ran after us."

"Poor kids," the old man said sympathetically. "Anyway, you should go and get that. It's already been paid for, so don't worry about it."

"Thanks, Mr. D!" Tyson said, practically leaping towards the door to open it.

After getting the pizza from the delivery boy, Tyson was ready to dive into the box but it was snatched away from him.

"Calm down with the food, Tyson. We're hungry too, you know." Rina said, as she placed the pizza box into the living room table. Everybody takes a slice of pizza, making Tyson make an audible whine when Max slapped his hand when he was planning to get two slices of pizza instead of just one and Kenny emerged from the kitchen with two bottles of soda and enough paper cups for the two teams.

Tyson continued eating and was already on his fourth slice of pizza as everyone else just finished his or her first slice. Lei watched Tyson before poking Bullet in the arm.

"Doesn't he remind you of anyone?" She asked as she pointed to Tyson. Bullet narrowed her eyes curiously at Tyson as Lei also asked the same question to the other girls. Tyson then went to grab himself a drink when he noticed that the girls were watching him.

"Uh, what?" He asked as he took his drink. The girls didn't really get to reply as they were soon occupied with in a fit of giggles. The rest of the guys turned their heads to face the giggling girls before looking at Tyson.

"What did you do to set them off?" Kai asked with a raised eyebrow. Tyson shrugged as he took a sip of his drink. "I just got a drink, and they just started giggling."

"Sorry," Kira apologized between giggles, "You just reminded us of someone that we know."

"Uh…" Tyson blinked, " Is that a good thing?"

"Yeah." Rina replied, "the guy we're talking about is a good guy, so don't have a panic attack."

The two teams quickly finished the leftover pizza, well actually, Tyson finished most of the pizza as everybody else cleaned up the little mess they made in the living room. They were about to lounge around again in the living room when Kira pointed out that they should fix the beyblades from the battle earlier. Since most everybody battled in the practice run a little while ago, all the blades have at least a small scratch on it.

"How about we just go to the kitchen, and no Tyson, we're not eating again," Kenny said sternly, making Tyson's happy face turn upside-down. "Lets go to the kitchen because the storage room is attached to the kitchen so we have easy access to the beyblade parts."

"Alright then, let's go." Tyson said as he ran towards the kitchen, in hope of grabbing some snacks before Kenny lectures him again about eating too much. He was able to snatch a bag of chips, only to have it snatch by Chief.

"Fix the blades first, Tyson, before you eat, okay?" Kenny said, making Tyson nod. "Fine." He said

Kenny then set up his computer on the table as Kira also got out her palmtop. Max and Tyson looked at the screen on how they can improve the blades of the Breakers. Rina and Eos then helped Kira on how they were going to remodel the blades. Bullet sighed as the three members of her team by the tables were talking about the improvement of the blades. Sure they're pretty good when it comes to putting together a decent blade, but Bullet decided to fix her blade on her own right now. She then disappeared towards the storage room, still holding onto her blade firmly.

"Hey Bullet, while you're there, can you toss me a couple of black attack rings?" Lei asked as she was putting together her blade.

"Hey Ray, can you pass these to her?" Bullet said, tossing Ray a black attack ring and a yellow defense ring. "Try an increase in defense, Lei. Then again, so do I." She added, and muttered the last part to herself.

After a few minutes, everybody was finished tinkering with their own blades and maybe even tweaking it up a level or two. Kai was about to tell everyone to gather his or her beyblades and head outside for another practice, but was shot down by Bullet.

"We can have practice early in the morning, Kai. My team and I usually practice in the afternoon, but at least we take considerable breaks." Bullet justified. "Besides, I don't know about you, but I'm still a bit jetlagged from the flight."

"Also, Kai, we've been practicing ever since we got here this morning." Ray pointed out. "We'll have a fresh start tomorrow."

"Seems like I'm outnumbered. Well, since none of you wants to practice, what do you intend to do for the next two hours?" Kai asked crossing his arms.

"Well…" Lei's voice trailed off but there was a mischievous glint in her eyes. Noticing the look, Rina pointed out something.

"You do know that you have to change your outfit for that, don't you? I mean, I don't think you would want to do it while you're wearing your skirt."

The boys looked confused on what the two girls were talking about.

"Hey, do you think that the guys can play too?" Kira asked as she finally put away her palmtop.

"What are you girls talking about?" Max asked with a questioning look on face.

Finally realizing what her team was talking about, Bullet let out a groan. She muttered something under her breath before saying, "Don't tell me that you actually brought it."

"Bring what? Can you at least fill us in on what's going on?" Ray asked, but then looked back as he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"You'll find out in a sec," Bullet said lightly, "Cool your jets already."

"Alright people, I'll just go and change. Rina, get the game so that we can get everything set up." Lei said as she ran, disappearing up the flight of stairs.

"Hope you guys brought your dancing shoes." Eos grinned broadly. The guys had a stressed look on their faces as they looked at the young female brunette.

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"Excuse me, sir?" A girl, the receptionist nonetheless, politely said as she knocked on the door in one of the offices in the BBA building, "There are a couple of girls who wants to file a complaint about something."

The red haired young man looked up from the papers that he was reading before locking his turquoise eyes towards the receptionist.

"Is the complaint any different from the usual complaints? The whole 'How come we can't see any of the competitors?' thing?" He asked as he shuffled the papers that he was reading into one pile.

The receptionist shook her head before replying. "Nope, at least I don't think so. I heard one of the girls, though, said that they saw snow and a glowing hyena or something like that."

The redhead intently looked at the receptionist, hoping that she was kidding, but when he saw that she was serious, he let out a sigh as he wondered why hyenas were used. 'This is too much anxiety for an eighteen year old,' the boy groaned inwardly to himself before standing from his seat.

"All right, tell the girls that I'm coming." He told the receptionist, dismissing her from his room.

"Oh and sir?" The girl said as she turned to face the redhead, who let out a defeated sigh as he looked at her again. "What is it now?"

"I've received word from Mr. Dickenson and the other BBA chairmen that the BBA Council have said that there are going to be representatives staying with the Beybladers participating in this tournament." She answered.

The boy stared at the receptionist, blinking his eyes in confusion. "How does that apply to me?"

"You're chosen to be one of the representatives. The team that you're going to be staying with is printed on a file in the front desk." She explained and then gasped, receiving a quirked eyebrow from the teenage boy. "The girls are still waiting for us in the front desk. I almost forgot about them." With that, the girl rushed back to the front desk, leaving the red haired boy to himself in the hallway.

'Well, looks like I have two things to do in the morning already.' The boy thought to himself as he lodged his hands into the pockets of his pants. 'There are new people in this new tournament. Hmm… I wonder if this is going to be similar to the world tournament that I saw on TV three years ago?" He mused to himself lightly as he was whistling a tune while walking towards the front desk.

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"Eos, come on, stop scaring the guys or else," Bullet warned, wagging a finger at Eos.

"Aw… you don't let me have any fun." Eos pouted. In the background, Rina just got back from getting the bag that they needed. They were almost done setting up the Playstation and the game, when Lei came down the stairs.

"You guys ready to dance?" She asked with a grin. "We have two mats so we can have vs. battles if you want."

"Hey! Can I get first game?" Max asked excitedly, "I haven't played DDR for quite a while now."

"Any of you guys wanna battle against Max?" Rina asked.

"Why don't you play against him?" Bullet suggested, "You seem like you want a turn, but I bag the next game if you guys don't mind."

"Ready Maxy?" Rina asked with a wink.

"Ready Rina. Um… you /are/ Rina, right?" Max asked, making Rina nod. "Okay, just making sure. You two have similar names that I just wanted to make sure that I got the names straight."

"You people ready?" Eos asked as if she was going to referee the game.

"Uh, Eos, they don't need a referee." Kira said, dragging Eos back into her seat.

"Aw… You're just like Bullet. A spoilsport." Eos sulked. "You guys like ruining my fun."

"Oh please, give me a break." Bullet muttered. Bullet and Eos then stared each other down. Well, Eos was doing the stare down since Bullet is shorter than her.

Ray chuckled as he watched the two girls throwing heated glares at each other. It reminded him of the time when they arrived in Russia before the tournament. The All Starz and the White Tigers did a practice match against each other, causing Emily and Mariah to get on each other's nerves. It was an interesting sight indeed.

"B, not bad for not being able to play in a while." Max grinned as he and Rina finished their song.

"We tied grade-wise, so that's cool. Bullet, your up next." Rina said, calling her friend up. Bullet then stepped up to the mat where Rina was standing and then looked at the Bladebreakers.

"Anybody else from you guys want to try this, or do I play Max too?" Bullet asked.

Kenny was busy wearing down the keyboards of his computer. Kai didn't seem to be all that interested in dancing right about now. Tyson was busy eating the bag of chips that Kenny took away from him earlier.

"Hey, I'll try it out." Ray said as he stood up. Max then took a seat as Ray took his place on the mat. Bullet grinned as Ray stood on the mat. Ever since she saw him blade in the BBA channel, she's been wondering how he would do if he were to play DDR.

"Alright, cat boy, let's dance." Bullet finally said out loud.

Ray was about to say something back, but then focused his attention on the game as the song began. As he was watching, Kai laid back on the couch.

'Hmm… They're really focusing on this game. If they concentrate like this in Beyblading, then we could win this tournament no problem.'

"You know, Kai," Lei said, "This is what we usually do when we don't really feel like practicing. We concentrate on the arrows and getting it right. It's somewhat similar to Beyblading, don't you think?"

"Actually, Beyblading is similar to a lot of sports. Unless you include the bit-beasts, then we're talking about extremes here." Kenny pointed out.

"Hey, is this like your warm-ups or something?" Tyson asked, joining in on the conversation.

"Yeah, you could say that." Rina replied, answering Tyson's question. "It helps us focus, just like when we beyblade, we concentrate on the match."

"OH! Which reminds me," Kenny said, "Dizzi and I just analyzed the power levels of your bit-beasts. Their levels are pretty high, causing the close matches between you guys."

"Is that such a bad thing?" Bullet asked as she and Ray finished playing the song. "I mean, we're working with them okay, right?"

"Act one with your bit-beast," Kai stated, "Work with your bit-beast and you'll get stronger results. Then again, it should also depend on the bond that you share with you bit-beast."

Bullet then looked at Kai as he said those last few words. Working together as one, power depending on the bond with your bit-beast… The more she thought about, the more confused she seemed to get. Her train of thought was soon interrupted as the rose-haired girl nudged her side.

"What happened to you?" Rina asked, concerned. ""Earlier this morning you seemed more upbeat."

"Uh…" Bullet scratched her head sheepishly as the other girls were also staring at her. "It's nothing, really. I was just thinking of something."

"Thinking?" Lei piped in, "About what?"

Bullet stared at her before grimacing. The other girls laughed lightly at the question, as it was a line from a role-play that they made up a while ago.(1)

"They seem to be in their own little world." Max commented, making most of the guy's chuckle in agreement.

"Tch! Girls, really." Kai muttered.

"Come on, Kai," Max said, nudging the other boy. "Haven't you gotten used to the girls we've met? I mean come on, we got chased by them earlier on."

"Girls are girls." Kai replied simply, "No matter how many times we categorize them, they are still girls, no questions asked."

"That's so true." Ray chuckled from his seat, remembering Mariah and Emily and some of the female Beybladers that played against. Different girls usually mean different attitudes, especially when it came to Beyblading.

"Come on, people!" Eos then spoke up, "I wanna continue playing! Who wants to play against me?"

"I'm in!" Tyson said, stepping up into the mat. "I'm the best in a lot of sports, so this should be a breeze for me."

Both players stared at each other intently before shaking the other's hand. A challenged was passed in the flicker of their eyes as their hands shook. Seeing as they both love food, it seems like whoever loses this match means that they have to buy whatever the winner wants. The two teams watched intently as the two teens faced the screen in sync and looked determined to win.

The two played to the song in total silence, well, unless you include the fact that the song was playing then it's okay. As the song's ending drew near, the tension between the two players grew more intense. Both were actually matching each other, arrow per arrow, and combo per combo. As the last few arrows were shown and the two stepped on the appropriate arrows, their marks were promptly shown and the two gaped in surprise including the ones watching.

"A Tie?" They both asked in surprise. Rina, Kira and Lei looked at each other and then at the game. How was it possible that they were tied? Everything that they had: Perfects, Greats, Goods, Almost, and Boos were up to par with each other. The two were still staring at each other in disbelief when Kai finally snapped them out of their trance.

"Stop staring at each other like that. If we didn't know any better, you'd think that the both of you are secret lovers or something."

That offhand comment made the two teams snickering in the background while the two recently finished players both turned crimson red with Tyson yelling at his team leader. Kai just smirked as Tyson was having his usual little tantrum.

To be continued…

1- This was part of the Role-play that Leina and me did a while ago O_o… I guess it's appropriate to say thanks cuz she though about it, ne? ^^.

*Yawn* I'm so tired… *Keels backwards from the computer seat*

Bullet: *runs up to the room* What's going on? *Sees Ritchie keeled slumped down on the floor while the computer chair is flipped over.* O_o I guess it's safe to say that she is pretty tired from studying for her exams.

*Mutters something about Of Mice And Men, Macbeth, and Crabbe*

Bullet: -.-U She has three more exams; so if you find any grammatical mistakes and whatnot, don't blame her… Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Who did you think that boy was? You're going to be seeing more of him in the future, just as a warning, k? See you in chapter three!

Ritchie Waterfighter