Further exploits of the Thunder Blades and Blade Breakers
Chapter 1: Mayhem
Alex crossed her arms and hummed to herself as the elevator moved from floor to floor. It was a warm morning in November and the Thunder Blades were staying in a five star hotel for the weekend to celebrate the end of year 12 block testing.
The elevator reached the ground floor and the doors opened. The lobby was all but empty except for this one group of guys. She looked at them curiously for a second but looked away when they turned around. She threw them a sideways glance as she left only to see one of them perving at her butt. She turned around and angrily put her hands on her exposed hips. "Take a picture, it'll last longer," she sneered looking at the jerk who had been ogling at her.
"What's up with her?" asked Tyson looking after Alex. "Come on Tyson, we know you were asking for it by gaping at her butt," said Max nudging him in the ribs. "Yeah, well she was asking for it by walking around in nothing but a bikini," he muttered pouting. Then a high pitched beep started to sound from the elevator. "Hurry up guys we can't to hold the elevator for much longer!" yelled Kenny from the lift. "Yeah yeah," Tyson grumbled further as the he walked into the elevator, "why can't the Thunder Blades ever come and visit us for once?" "They have," replied Ray, "at the beginning of 2003, they even took some time off school just to come and see us." "It'll be great to see them again after all this time," Max grinned, "It'll be cool to see how they've changed."
After that there was silence aside from the odd complaint form Tyson. Finally the elevator reached the top floor (the 34th floor). "Their room is the first door on the left," announced Kenny stepping out of the elevator into the hall. "Uh, Chief there's only one door," said Tyson looking around. "No shit sherlock," drawled Kai irritably (yes he's there, he wanted to come and visit me ;P).
Tessa sat on the couch flicking through the cable TV channels. "Great over 100 channels and nothing to watch, typical," she sighed irritated. She turned off the TV and went to the kitchen to get a drink. As soon as she opened a can of vanilla Coke the doorbell went off. "YO! JENNI CARLA CAN YOU GET THAT?" she yelled at the top of her voice. "NAH! WE'RE STILL GETTING OUT SUNSCREEN ON!" came Jenni's reply. "Dammit," muttered Tessa angrily as she walked over to the door, "it better not be any more fans."
She opened the door and looked at the Blade Breakers standing there. "Sorry we don't do autographs," and then she slammed the door in their faces. "Umm... I don't think she recognises us." Tyson said dumbly.
"Gee, I didn't notice pinhead. Let me try." Kai said irritably, and pushed through the crowd of BladeBreakers and Tai to get to the door.
He knocked hard on the door, and it opened again. Tessa had a very annoyed look on her face.
"I DON'T WANT TO JOIN JAHOBAS WITNESS, DAMN YOU, AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE BLOOD! NEITHER DO MY FRIENDS, THEY'RE NEEDLE-PHOBI --" she stopped abruptly, and looked up at Kai and his raised eyebrow. "Oh my GOD! KAI? What the hell are YOU doing here? Why are you selling stuff?!?!" Tessa exclaimed, and Carla and Jenni came to the door, peering around Tessa.
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Carla said. Jenni peered closely at Kai.
"I know you, don't I..." Jenni said, then her eyes widened. "HOLY SHI..ZU.. Eh.." she yelled, her voice echoing in the hallway with the others' voices.
Kai sighed, frustrated. "I'm not selling anything."
"SURPRISE!" Max (who looked quite different now) jumped up into the air, hitting people in the head by accident.
"Watch it, Max!" said a voice.
Carla, Jenni and Tessa looked around. When they caught Tai's profile staring back at them, their eyes grew wide.
"Clones?" Carla whispered.
Tessa snickered.
"I'm Tai, remember?" said the voice again, looking bewildered and insulted.
He wasn't the only one - Tyson wasn't happy about not being remembered.
"Yeah, we remember you, don't worry." Tessa said, and looked at everyone else. "You gonna come in?" she said, and they all gravitated towards the entryway.
As they walked in, they noticed that they had already unpacked and Fiona was sitting at a table writing furiously in a notebook, surrounded by several other notebooks and what looked like graphite and rubbers, with blue earphones on her ears. Suddenly she stopped and started to stretch and yawn, then started singing a little to what sounded like Good Charlotte.
"It's the little things, the little things that just won't go away..." she sang softly, and suddenly glimpsed something out of the corner of her eye.
She looked that way, went "oh, hey guys." and then took a double take.
She looked back and, jumped up, pulling the plug out of her earphones. Fiona didn't seem to mind, though.
"OH MY GOD! THE BLADEBREAKERS... TAI?!" she yelled, and Kai groaned. How many times would he have to hear 'oh my god?'
"HOLY SHHHH..." Fiona stopped herself before she got too far. She didn't want to swear on a special occasion such as this.
Kai shrugged. Shit was better, even though she didn't say the whole thing.
She started to take her earphones off, and looked around at the scene. She looked like she didn't know what to do with herself. She was blown away, with this silly grin on her face that looked like she had just won the lottery - either the lottery, or a bag of signed Harry Potter books and Tamora Pierce signed works.
"Wow. Is that you, Tai?" she said, staring at him wide-eyed. He looked different... older.
Way hotter.
"Uh, yeah, me." he said. She noted something different in his voice too...
"Have you got an accent?" she said, amazed.
"Yeah, went to Britain. It was amazing." he said, his accent now obvious.
Everyone else, shifting about after being shunned started to talk to the others as they got seated.
"Hey where's Alex?" asked Kenny before he sat down.
"She's swimming laps down in the pool," said Jenni, "see if you look out the window you can see her...see she's that little speck there."
"We were going to join her but you guys dropped in," sighed Tessa retrieving her coke.
"So what have you guys done since we last saw you?" asked Fiona looking at Tai.
"Nothing really," replied Ray.
'Well you've sure as hell grown," said Tessa roughly. It was true, all the Blade Breakers had gotten taller. Kenny had gone from being a dwarf to a giant, he'd also discarded those disgusting shorts and replaced them with some fashionable jeans. Kai and Ray hadn't changed much, they'd just gotten taller and Ray's hair was also longer. Tyson had finally discarded his horrible clothes and gotten some tasteful ones that had the same theme going. Max, well max had gotten taller and now wore a yellow shirt with dark denim jeans.
"Well you can still do that," answered Max
"Nah we'll just get Alex to come up," retorted Carla grabbing her sell phone.
"Yeah Alex, can you come up we got company," spoke Carla into the phone. She listened for a second and then hung up.
"She said she'll be up as soon as she finishes her laps for the day."
10 minutes later
"Hey dudes I'm here," said Alex as she walked into the kitchen and grabbed a can of red Fanta, "so who's this company that's so important?" She strode into the room and stopped dead.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT STUPID PERVERT DOING HERE!" she yelled water dripping down her still wet frame.
Everyone blinked, and Tyson did a double take.
"Alex? OH... uh... hhe..." he stammered. Alex glared.
Max snickered.
"Hey, Alex." Kai said.
Alex looked towards him. "KAI! OH MY GOD!"
(Kai: *sweatdrop*)
"G'day." said Kai. It sounded strange, Aussie slang coming from Kai.
"I'm going to get dressed." Alex said, eyeing the now-helplessly-staring Tyson with a disgusted look on her face. "Fuck off, Tyson."
"Whuh?" he looked up as she left the room.
Kai watched her go. "That was Alex?" he said to everyone, and the thunderblades nodded. "Oh." he said.
For a moment, Fiona thought she saw his face go a little pinker... but she passed it off as sunburn.
*later on. place: park*
They were all walking in the park, catching up. The thunder blades, the blade breakers and Tai.
Tai and Fiona were lagging behind, reminiscing about when they were first meeting.
"And then it was like, we thought you were some sort of clone of Kai or something, and we got all freaked out. We were so freaked out. So anyway, Alex thought, lets take him home! And I was like, but we can't take him home, he's a stranger!" Fiona laughed.
"God, that was a scary experience. I didn't even know who you were, and you started to take me home."
They both laughed for a little while, then Tai asked, "What were you doing at the desk?"
"Well, I was doing the finishing touches to my latest novel." she said, "and all those notebooks were my references to all the ideas that had hit me. Plus, I was listening to music," she smiled, making Tai blink.
"You're writing novels?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I wrote my first one a little while after you guys left..." she faltered, but seemed to get on top of what she was saying. "It got published too. I'd been stewing on it for about a year or half a year before that, so it was one of my best works."
"Wow." Tai said. She'd been writing novels and he didn't even notice... then he realised, he'd seen something in the shop a while ago, and had passed it off as something else. But come to think of it, the book named "barriers" seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in his memory. He focussed his memory a little more, and he remembered seeing her name on the book cover. I can't believe I passed it by! He raged in his head. The regret seeping through his veins as he kicked himself.
"Lets go sit over here. I don't feel like walking much longer," she said, gesturing towards the swings.
Fi's POV.
We both sat down on each swing, we sat in silence for a little bit, just listening.
God, he's back. When we said goodbye it was horrible, when he had to go stay with his relatives in Rome... It was hell... and apparently he went to England too... Hell, his accent is ... cool to say least... I thought, looking around, then at Tai.
He looked so different. Definitely older, and he'd definitely gone through a bit. I wonder why he had to go stay with his relatives? He never told me, even when I asked...
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Tai said to me suddenly.
"Yeah, it's wonderful," I said truthfully. "It's gorgeous.
There was another silence, and this time I broke it. "I... I've missed you, Tai." I stammered. Idiot! I thought. IDIOT! Stammer this, stammer that. So not relaxed.
He turned towards me, and I timidly turned my head towards his, and realised he was smiling.
"I missed you to... come on, we better catch up with the others." he said, and got up. I followed suit, and walked a little ahead of him. Suddenly, he pulled me back.
"Whu-" I said, but broke off as he kissed me softly.
Normal POV
Alex walked backward in front of the group ranting about one thing or another. How she stuffed up her block testing and how she was so relieved that it was all over, about how cool the formal was and other stuff she thought was important.
The Blade Breakers looked in awe as she walked backward without falling or tripping. Tyson opened his mouth to say something but Alex glared at him.
"Don't say a word you jerk," she growled. The only reason that Tyson had opened his mouth was to warn her about a particularly large rock.
Alex didn't know the rock was coming and did a flip in the air, landing on her head, her underwear exposed...
'WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME!!!!" she screamed mentally.
Tai and Fiona were walking hand-in-hand behind everyone else, listening to Alex talk about block testing. Fiona shuddered at the memory.
Fiona noticed the mayhem just as Tyson did. This was going to hurt.
Alex landed on her head, anime-Serena style, and showed off her rather interesting beyblade panties. How juvenile.
Looking very embarrassed, Alex got up, and most of the people pretended they hadn't seen anything. Fiona looked as if she had trouble keeping a straight face, but Tyson didn't.
"AAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tyson yelled, holding his stomach characteristically.
Alex glared, her ears turning pink. "Shuddup, Tyson."
"Yeah, shut up Tyson, it's not a good moment to laugh, dumbass!" Kai whispered to him from behind. He didn't shut up.
Alex looked ready to do murder, and embarrassed at the same time. Odd.
Fiona, seeing the trouble at once, looked at the scene in panic. Something BAD was going to happen...
Max put his hand over Tyson's mouth, as he looked like he'd sensed it too... a smart moment.
Tyson's smothered laughter ceased after he'd controlled himself, but copped it anyway.
Alex threw a punch straight in his nose, and realised afterwards what she'd done.
"OH MY GOD!"
Kai sighed, and hung his head. Lunatics.
"I'm sorry, Tyson! No... wait... what am I saying?" Alex thought out loud to herself.
"Tyson, you have no tact!" Fiona said, looking at Tyson who was bent over double, holding his face. "Tyson, stand up and lets take a look at it, shall we?"
Tyson made noises of pain as he did as she said.
"Ah shit..." she said, and told him to cover it up again. "Lets take you to the first aid, shall we? Now, what have we learnt from this?"
Muffled noises came from behind Tyson's hands.
"Tact Is Needed When Talking To Embarrassed People!" Fiona told him, and pulled him away. "Sheesh... come on..." she said. "Here's a spare tissue." she comforted, and brought him towards the block of flats they were staying in.
Chapter 1: Mayhem
Alex crossed her arms and hummed to herself as the elevator moved from floor to floor. It was a warm morning in November and the Thunder Blades were staying in a five star hotel for the weekend to celebrate the end of year 12 block testing.
The elevator reached the ground floor and the doors opened. The lobby was all but empty except for this one group of guys. She looked at them curiously for a second but looked away when they turned around. She threw them a sideways glance as she left only to see one of them perving at her butt. She turned around and angrily put her hands on her exposed hips. "Take a picture, it'll last longer," she sneered looking at the jerk who had been ogling at her.
"What's up with her?" asked Tyson looking after Alex. "Come on Tyson, we know you were asking for it by gaping at her butt," said Max nudging him in the ribs. "Yeah, well she was asking for it by walking around in nothing but a bikini," he muttered pouting. Then a high pitched beep started to sound from the elevator. "Hurry up guys we can't to hold the elevator for much longer!" yelled Kenny from the lift. "Yeah yeah," Tyson grumbled further as the he walked into the elevator, "why can't the Thunder Blades ever come and visit us for once?" "They have," replied Ray, "at the beginning of 2003, they even took some time off school just to come and see us." "It'll be great to see them again after all this time," Max grinned, "It'll be cool to see how they've changed."
After that there was silence aside from the odd complaint form Tyson. Finally the elevator reached the top floor (the 34th floor). "Their room is the first door on the left," announced Kenny stepping out of the elevator into the hall. "Uh, Chief there's only one door," said Tyson looking around. "No shit sherlock," drawled Kai irritably (yes he's there, he wanted to come and visit me ;P).
Tessa sat on the couch flicking through the cable TV channels. "Great over 100 channels and nothing to watch, typical," she sighed irritated. She turned off the TV and went to the kitchen to get a drink. As soon as she opened a can of vanilla Coke the doorbell went off. "YO! JENNI CARLA CAN YOU GET THAT?" she yelled at the top of her voice. "NAH! WE'RE STILL GETTING OUT SUNSCREEN ON!" came Jenni's reply. "Dammit," muttered Tessa angrily as she walked over to the door, "it better not be any more fans."
She opened the door and looked at the Blade Breakers standing there. "Sorry we don't do autographs," and then she slammed the door in their faces. "Umm... I don't think she recognises us." Tyson said dumbly.
"Gee, I didn't notice pinhead. Let me try." Kai said irritably, and pushed through the crowd of BladeBreakers and Tai to get to the door.
He knocked hard on the door, and it opened again. Tessa had a very annoyed look on her face.
"I DON'T WANT TO JOIN JAHOBAS WITNESS, DAMN YOU, AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE BLOOD! NEITHER DO MY FRIENDS, THEY'RE NEEDLE-PHOBI --" she stopped abruptly, and looked up at Kai and his raised eyebrow. "Oh my GOD! KAI? What the hell are YOU doing here? Why are you selling stuff?!?!" Tessa exclaimed, and Carla and Jenni came to the door, peering around Tessa.
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Carla said. Jenni peered closely at Kai.
"I know you, don't I..." Jenni said, then her eyes widened. "HOLY SHI..ZU.. Eh.." she yelled, her voice echoing in the hallway with the others' voices.
Kai sighed, frustrated. "I'm not selling anything."
"SURPRISE!" Max (who looked quite different now) jumped up into the air, hitting people in the head by accident.
"Watch it, Max!" said a voice.
Carla, Jenni and Tessa looked around. When they caught Tai's profile staring back at them, their eyes grew wide.
"Clones?" Carla whispered.
Tessa snickered.
"I'm Tai, remember?" said the voice again, looking bewildered and insulted.
He wasn't the only one - Tyson wasn't happy about not being remembered.
"Yeah, we remember you, don't worry." Tessa said, and looked at everyone else. "You gonna come in?" she said, and they all gravitated towards the entryway.
As they walked in, they noticed that they had already unpacked and Fiona was sitting at a table writing furiously in a notebook, surrounded by several other notebooks and what looked like graphite and rubbers, with blue earphones on her ears. Suddenly she stopped and started to stretch and yawn, then started singing a little to what sounded like Good Charlotte.
"It's the little things, the little things that just won't go away..." she sang softly, and suddenly glimpsed something out of the corner of her eye.
She looked that way, went "oh, hey guys." and then took a double take.
She looked back and, jumped up, pulling the plug out of her earphones. Fiona didn't seem to mind, though.
"OH MY GOD! THE BLADEBREAKERS... TAI?!" she yelled, and Kai groaned. How many times would he have to hear 'oh my god?'
"HOLY SHHHH..." Fiona stopped herself before she got too far. She didn't want to swear on a special occasion such as this.
Kai shrugged. Shit was better, even though she didn't say the whole thing.
She started to take her earphones off, and looked around at the scene. She looked like she didn't know what to do with herself. She was blown away, with this silly grin on her face that looked like she had just won the lottery - either the lottery, or a bag of signed Harry Potter books and Tamora Pierce signed works.
"Wow. Is that you, Tai?" she said, staring at him wide-eyed. He looked different... older.
Way hotter.
"Uh, yeah, me." he said. She noted something different in his voice too...
"Have you got an accent?" she said, amazed.
"Yeah, went to Britain. It was amazing." he said, his accent now obvious.
Everyone else, shifting about after being shunned started to talk to the others as they got seated.
"Hey where's Alex?" asked Kenny before he sat down.
"She's swimming laps down in the pool," said Jenni, "see if you look out the window you can see her...see she's that little speck there."
"We were going to join her but you guys dropped in," sighed Tessa retrieving her coke.
"So what have you guys done since we last saw you?" asked Fiona looking at Tai.
"Nothing really," replied Ray.
'Well you've sure as hell grown," said Tessa roughly. It was true, all the Blade Breakers had gotten taller. Kenny had gone from being a dwarf to a giant, he'd also discarded those disgusting shorts and replaced them with some fashionable jeans. Kai and Ray hadn't changed much, they'd just gotten taller and Ray's hair was also longer. Tyson had finally discarded his horrible clothes and gotten some tasteful ones that had the same theme going. Max, well max had gotten taller and now wore a yellow shirt with dark denim jeans.
"Well you can still do that," answered Max
"Nah we'll just get Alex to come up," retorted Carla grabbing her sell phone.
"Yeah Alex, can you come up we got company," spoke Carla into the phone. She listened for a second and then hung up.
"She said she'll be up as soon as she finishes her laps for the day."
10 minutes later
"Hey dudes I'm here," said Alex as she walked into the kitchen and grabbed a can of red Fanta, "so who's this company that's so important?" She strode into the room and stopped dead.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT STUPID PERVERT DOING HERE!" she yelled water dripping down her still wet frame.
Everyone blinked, and Tyson did a double take.
"Alex? OH... uh... hhe..." he stammered. Alex glared.
Max snickered.
"Hey, Alex." Kai said.
Alex looked towards him. "KAI! OH MY GOD!"
(Kai: *sweatdrop*)
"G'day." said Kai. It sounded strange, Aussie slang coming from Kai.
"I'm going to get dressed." Alex said, eyeing the now-helplessly-staring Tyson with a disgusted look on her face. "Fuck off, Tyson."
"Whuh?" he looked up as she left the room.
Kai watched her go. "That was Alex?" he said to everyone, and the thunderblades nodded. "Oh." he said.
For a moment, Fiona thought she saw his face go a little pinker... but she passed it off as sunburn.
*later on. place: park*
They were all walking in the park, catching up. The thunder blades, the blade breakers and Tai.
Tai and Fiona were lagging behind, reminiscing about when they were first meeting.
"And then it was like, we thought you were some sort of clone of Kai or something, and we got all freaked out. We were so freaked out. So anyway, Alex thought, lets take him home! And I was like, but we can't take him home, he's a stranger!" Fiona laughed.
"God, that was a scary experience. I didn't even know who you were, and you started to take me home."
They both laughed for a little while, then Tai asked, "What were you doing at the desk?"
"Well, I was doing the finishing touches to my latest novel." she said, "and all those notebooks were my references to all the ideas that had hit me. Plus, I was listening to music," she smiled, making Tai blink.
"You're writing novels?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I wrote my first one a little while after you guys left..." she faltered, but seemed to get on top of what she was saying. "It got published too. I'd been stewing on it for about a year or half a year before that, so it was one of my best works."
"Wow." Tai said. She'd been writing novels and he didn't even notice... then he realised, he'd seen something in the shop a while ago, and had passed it off as something else. But come to think of it, the book named "barriers" seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in his memory. He focussed his memory a little more, and he remembered seeing her name on the book cover. I can't believe I passed it by! He raged in his head. The regret seeping through his veins as he kicked himself.
"Lets go sit over here. I don't feel like walking much longer," she said, gesturing towards the swings.
Fi's POV.
We both sat down on each swing, we sat in silence for a little bit, just listening.
God, he's back. When we said goodbye it was horrible, when he had to go stay with his relatives in Rome... It was hell... and apparently he went to England too... Hell, his accent is ... cool to say least... I thought, looking around, then at Tai.
He looked so different. Definitely older, and he'd definitely gone through a bit. I wonder why he had to go stay with his relatives? He never told me, even when I asked...
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Tai said to me suddenly.
"Yeah, it's wonderful," I said truthfully. "It's gorgeous.
There was another silence, and this time I broke it. "I... I've missed you, Tai." I stammered. Idiot! I thought. IDIOT! Stammer this, stammer that. So not relaxed.
He turned towards me, and I timidly turned my head towards his, and realised he was smiling.
"I missed you to... come on, we better catch up with the others." he said, and got up. I followed suit, and walked a little ahead of him. Suddenly, he pulled me back.
"Whu-" I said, but broke off as he kissed me softly.
Normal POV
Alex walked backward in front of the group ranting about one thing or another. How she stuffed up her block testing and how she was so relieved that it was all over, about how cool the formal was and other stuff she thought was important.
The Blade Breakers looked in awe as she walked backward without falling or tripping. Tyson opened his mouth to say something but Alex glared at him.
"Don't say a word you jerk," she growled. The only reason that Tyson had opened his mouth was to warn her about a particularly large rock.
Alex didn't know the rock was coming and did a flip in the air, landing on her head, her underwear exposed...
'WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME!!!!" she screamed mentally.
Tai and Fiona were walking hand-in-hand behind everyone else, listening to Alex talk about block testing. Fiona shuddered at the memory.
Fiona noticed the mayhem just as Tyson did. This was going to hurt.
Alex landed on her head, anime-Serena style, and showed off her rather interesting beyblade panties. How juvenile.
Looking very embarrassed, Alex got up, and most of the people pretended they hadn't seen anything. Fiona looked as if she had trouble keeping a straight face, but Tyson didn't.
"AAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tyson yelled, holding his stomach characteristically.
Alex glared, her ears turning pink. "Shuddup, Tyson."
"Yeah, shut up Tyson, it's not a good moment to laugh, dumbass!" Kai whispered to him from behind. He didn't shut up.
Alex looked ready to do murder, and embarrassed at the same time. Odd.
Fiona, seeing the trouble at once, looked at the scene in panic. Something BAD was going to happen...
Max put his hand over Tyson's mouth, as he looked like he'd sensed it too... a smart moment.
Tyson's smothered laughter ceased after he'd controlled himself, but copped it anyway.
Alex threw a punch straight in his nose, and realised afterwards what she'd done.
"OH MY GOD!"
Kai sighed, and hung his head. Lunatics.
"I'm sorry, Tyson! No... wait... what am I saying?" Alex thought out loud to herself.
"Tyson, you have no tact!" Fiona said, looking at Tyson who was bent over double, holding his face. "Tyson, stand up and lets take a look at it, shall we?"
Tyson made noises of pain as he did as she said.
"Ah shit..." she said, and told him to cover it up again. "Lets take you to the first aid, shall we? Now, what have we learnt from this?"
Muffled noises came from behind Tyson's hands.
"Tact Is Needed When Talking To Embarrassed People!" Fiona told him, and pulled him away. "Sheesh... come on..." she said. "Here's a spare tissue." she comforted, and brought him towards the block of flats they were staying in.