*Stretches tiredly* Hi people! Here's chappie four of my fic. Am slowly getting to the plot so i hope i haven't lost any of the readers, whether they review or not. I think i blab too much -.-U Here's chappie four, enjoy!

Chapter Four:
Complex Maze and Greetings


The redhead boy squinted his eyes against the sunlight, before looking around the complex.

"Okay… I'm on the right street, but where in the world is the number of that complex?" He mumbled to himself as he looked around again for the house that he was sent to go to.

"You still could've gotten a ride with the BBA bus, but nooooo! You just had to be all 'don't worry, I can do this with no help'. Smooth move, red." He muttered to himself "Great, now I'm hungry. I want chicken," He pouted to himself before taking out the paper with the directions from his pocket and reading through it once again. Grumbling the number to himself, he looked up again to thoroughly scan the area for the number of the house that he was looking for.

His eyes then lit up before letting out an excited yip and jumping up to click his heels together. He immediately ran up to the complex that he was looking for and knocked immediately, yet politely, on the door. A plump old man opened the door and smiled as he saw the redhead boy.

"Ah, come in. I was wondering what time you were going to arrive." Mr. Dickenson said.

"Sorry that I'm late, Mr. D. I didn't think I would have a little trouble in finding this place."

"I see. Didn't the BBA let you use a bus? I would've thought that they would have a few extra busses going around since we're sponsoring this tournament."

The redhead grinned sheepishly before scratching the back of his head unconsciously. "Well," he started, "The driver stopped at a gas station because he was running low, so I told him that I'll find the place to save him time. I didn't think that I'd get lost in the process."

The older gentleman chuckled at the young redhead. "Well then, you sound like you've been on you feet all morning. If you want, you can put your stuff away. The guestroom is the first room on the right."

The boy grinned and was about to run up the stairs, but then paused to look at the BBA chairman once again. "Um, Mr. Dickenson, where are the two teams?"

"They're outside." Mr. D replied, "We'll go to them after you put away your belongings."

The boy nodded as he slowly walked up the stairs. He quickly tossed his bag into the room that Mr. D told him to before looking at the hallway leading to the rooms of the two teams. Curiously, he walked towards one of the rooms.

'I know that the Bladebreakers are staying here, but the receptionist didn't really have the time to tell me the rest. Thank goodness she wrote the direction of the place.' He thought to himself before grinning sheepishly. 'I guess that she already knew that I would do something like that.'

His musings automatically came to a complete stop when he heard a yell, followed by a fading howling laugh.

"Bullet!" A person from outside yelled, "Why did you do that for?"

His interest getting the best of him, he walked toward the windows to se the two teams outside. He saw a female brunette yelling at a female redhead, two boys battling against each other in a Beybattle with their bit-beast fiercely fighting the other, and three more pairs of boys and girls scattered around the backyard.

"Heeeey!" He said as he looked at the girls again one by one, taking his time as he looked at them. "They're actually participating in this year's tournament. Heh, I wonder how far they'll go with the Bladebreakers teamed up with them." He then casually placed his hands on his pockets before walking downstairs to meet up with Mr. Dickenson again.

"The two teams are in the middle of a match right now, but there are ones that aren't practicing. Do you want to go over to them now?"

The boy nodded with a smile. The two then walked towards the backyard and as soon as they stepped out of the door, twin cries erupted from the two beasts as they shrank back into their confines. Both blades that were in the dish then flung themselves into the hands of their respective owners.

"And that match is a tie!" Max declared. "We'll just let you guys have a rematch after our turn."

"Fine with me." Kai said, walking towards the wall before turning around and leaning his back against it. He then turned his head to see the brunette female who was still yelling at the redhead for making her lose her concentration.

"Give it a rest, Eos." Bullet snickered. "It's not my fault that you easily lose your concentration. You know, it even makes me wonder how you haven't lost Gazet yet."

"Ooh! You're just being mean!" Eos gritted out, "That's not fair."

"Life's not fair, deal with it." Kai snapped, making both girls stop their argument and look at him.

"Sheesh, Kai, you don't have to be a grouch about it." Eos muttered with a scowl.

"Correction," Tyson butted in, "Kai's a grouch on everything. We should, know we're his teammates."

Tyson had a cocky grin on his face while Kai was glaring at the younger boy. Rei then stood up from his spot and pointed out that they needed to continue practicing for the tournament. Both boys glowered at each other before turning their head from each other. Well, actually, Tyson stuck out his tongue at Kai before he turned his head. The Chief sweatdropped at the two before calling out the next pairs to battle.

"I'll get you back, Bullet!" Eos muttered, making Bullet look back at her with a tricky glint in her eyes.

"Do anything, and you can kiss your Mythology book goodbye."

Eos was about to retort back, but then thought about her book. She treasured the book so much, that she practically brings it everywhere with her. So she decided no to do anything… for now.

"Alright, everyone! This is the second match of the day!" Tyson hollered as he stepped up to take Max's previous position as the announcer. "Beybladers ready?"

Rina, Max, Ray, and Bullet took out their launchers and blades and quickly set them up.

"We're going to launch in three!"

Like the previous group, determination crossed the features of the beybladers. Rina was glancing between her opponents, Bullet and Max, before looking at Ray, who gave her a reassuring nod.

"Two!"

In the sidelines, Eos was still grumbling about Bullet did earlier. On the other hand, Lei was standing beside Kai, talking to him.

"One!"

Bullet looked also looked at her two opponents before having a quick scan behind them. She grinned as she saw Mr. D, but it then quickly dropped as she saw the redhead standing beside Mr. Dickenson with an impish grin on his features.

"Let it-"

"Richie?" Bullet asked, which caused Rina and Max launch their blades before they looked at her questioningly.

~*~*~*~*~
This is my team, the Animamates," Galaxia said as she walked back to the bus as the girls walked out. The first girl that came out had blue hair and pigtails with a bun on each side, with strands of hair hanging from the sides. She bounced her way up to Tala and waved her hand right in front of his face.

"Hiya!" She greeted, "I'm Nezu. You're Tala, right?"

"Yes," Tala replied before looking at Boris as if to ask, "what the hell is this?"

Another girl walked out with blonde hair that went down all the way to her ankles. She tugged on the jacket of her suit before looking at Nezu and shaking her head.

"Nezu, dear, stop scaring the poor boy. You wouldn't want the same thing to happen to those guys from the airport, do you?" The blonde asked as she pulled the back of Nezu's zip up sweater.

"Reiko! Lemme go! Please? I won't make them go crazy." Nezu pleaded, causing the Demolition Boys to have a visible bead of sweat noticeable. Reiko sighed before letting the smaller girl go.

"Nezu, Reiko. Get back here!" Galaxia ordered, making the two girls "eep" and stand by the bus where the other two girls were.

"Smooth move, guys," The girl with pink hair that was tied up in two buns said under her breath. " She's going to make our training drills harder."

"Sorry Aya," Nezu whispered apologetically as she looked down.

"Both of you, be quiet." The brunette with shoulder length hair hissed. "That woman is cranky enough as she is. I don't think you'd want to make it worse for us."

"Suzu, that's enough from you!"

"Yes Ma'am!" The brunette replied quickly.

The Demolition boys looked from the Animamates, to Madame Galaxia and back. The team's attitude seems so different from their sponsor. This afternoon's practice ought to be an interesting session for the Demolition boys.

~*~*~*~*~*~
"Bullet, what are you talking about? You told us before that he was stationed in Asia or something like that because he was assigned to go there." Rina asked as she called back her blade and looked at her team captain weirdly.

"And as a side note, who's Richie?" Max asked as he called back Draciel while looking at the two girls.

"I was called in to help out in this tournament, Rina." The redhead boy behind them said, stepping forward to have a better view on both teams. "I'm Richie, the representative of the BBA that will be staying with you."

"RICHIE!" Lei squealed, running towards the redhead and glomping him.

The other girls, minus Bullet, rushed up to the redhead boy. The Bladebreakers blinked as the girls ran to the new arrival.

"Well, that's a new reaction…" Max commented as he scratched his cheek thoughtfully.

"I guess that we'll have to cancel this match for the moment." Ray said, putting away Driger.

"Oh goodie." Bullet muttered as walked up to the girls as they were glomping the poor redhead. "So you're finally going to see us in a tournament. Took you long enough."

Richie gently pried himself from the death grip that Lei and Rina had on him.

"Well, it's not my fault that I'm always out of the country." He sweatdropped. He then looked at Rina who was poking him in his ribs. "Yeah?"

"Then how come you never call us?" She asked.

"Err…"

"Is it just me, or is this guy a playboy or something?" Tyson asked as he eyed the redhead.

"No I don't think so. I think it's just that they know each other, Tyson. I mean, Lei did glomp him as soon as she realized that he was here." Max pointed out.

A loud yelp interrupted the talk between the Bladebreakers. Bullet glowered at the redhead, who was hopping on one foot and was holding on to his other foot that just got squashed.

"Stop calling me 'Shorty', buddy. I know that I'm vertically challenged, stop rubbing it in." She said with a glare.

The boy just scratched the back of his head before grinning. He then looked up from the girls and looked at the Bladebreakers. "Shall we take this conversation inside?"

The Bladebreakers shrugged before heading inside the complex. The girls just got a lot weirder since this new boy came in.

To be continued...

-.-U gah, that title was so stupid. So how did you like that chapter? Was it okay? Who do you think that Richie guy is? How do the girls know him? Is he a player?

Bullet: No he's my MRPH!!!

Shut up! They're going to learn that in the next chapter(s)!

Bullet: -.-U

Sorry for my weirdness, but I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. See you in chapter five!

Ritchie Waterfighter