A/N: All right, I didn't really get a lot of reviews, but I'm still continuing this story. I'm pretty much sure you guess who's the Bladebreakers 5th teammate. Who IS the mysterious girl? Her bit beast would not be revealed in this chapter though, no clues yet. Her name, however, would be revealed. IMPORTANT WARNING: She has the same name as one Final Fantasy character, but her personality is very different from the real Final Fantasy character. The name is not copyright to me, but her character is. Disclaimer first chapter.

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A Mask of Dignity By Artiris -  Chapter 2: Ice Blue

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"Go, Phantom Dragoon!" Tyson yelled, a smug grin on his face, as Dragoon attacked the girl's beyblade mercilessly. She smirked, as her beyblade expertly dodged his attacks. Her speed was increasingly fast, Kai noticed, too fast for him to see her bit chip, but one thing was certain, it was glowing faintly.

"Can even lay an attack on a girl's beyblade? How shameful," the girl sneered, crossing her arms in a way almost identical with Kai's. "Attack!" she shouted, her bit beast seeming to understand her completely.

Tyson gritted his teeth. He was actually helpless… In front of a girl! He can't attack, or even defend. Yet he thought he was the one who always showed those street beybladers…

"Dragoon!!" Tyson bellowed, a magnificent blue dragon roared, emerging from his bit beast. The girl appeared calm, smiling slightly. "Finally an opponent who has a bit beast. But too bad it's weak."

Nobody could see what her bit beast resembled, only a black, silvery blue figure arising silently. It moved so quickly, it amazed everyone even a bit beast so fast, agile ever existed in this world.

With that, her beyblade crashed with his, even before he could launch an attack, his Phantom Dragoon was lying on the ground next to him.

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So much for Japan's regional champion, she thought, kicking everything out of her way. She left the scene immediately after defeating him. She didn't want to see his pathetic face crying to his mummy.

She glanced at the block of flats in front of her, in one where she lived. She had no parents, only a bitchy stepmother. Talk about a surreal Cinderella. Her stepmother never gave her allowance, so she counted on her salary, which she earned at Seven Eleven.  

"Well, so you're the girl that defeated Tyson?" a cheerful voice interrupted her thoughts.

She spun around. An old man greeted her, he had two rather weird-looking hat and walking stick. Suddenly, she realized this was not an ordinary man. She had seen him before on TV, who was he?

"I'm the chairman of the BBA," he said. The girl got a shock, as she recognized him. So was Mr. Dickinson, if she got it right, and so-called trains the Bladebreakers.

"So?" she snapped. She wasn't going to talk to some snobby, rich old man. Especially if he trains a lousy team.

The chairman of the BBA smiled kindly. "If you don't know, teams entering the Asian Tournament requires to have 5 persons on each team. The Bladebreakers need another teammate, and I wish you would join them."

"WHAT?! I'm not going to join some pathetic team whom I just beat one of them!" she spat.

Mr. Dickinson calmly replied, "All expenses are paid, and spare parts are free, too."

She thought about this. As much as she hated that idea, maybe she should. After all, she hated working at Seven Eleven or putting up with her stepmother. And at least she could face better beybladers than those amateurs who were afraid of her. Even if she had to put up with the sickening Bladebreakers, she could really thrash some better beyblades. She hesitated.

"Well?" Mr. Dickinson asked.

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"I can't believe I lost!" Tyson groaned, staring at his beyblade in his hand.

"Stop whining, just admit she was better than you," Kai retorted, irritated. He knew if he battling her instead of Tyson, he would win. And wipe off the smirk on her face.

"But the weird thing is, no data is found. Plus, her bit beast was too fast for Dizzy to analyze it." Kenny said, typing furiously on his laptop.

"Are you insulting me? But her bit beast was astonishingly fast. She's one mean beyblader," Dizzy chirped.

"And really good." Max nodded his head, "Tyson, at least you should be thankful she didn't destroy your beyblade."

"But – "

"Come on, Tyson," Ray rested his hands behind his head, sitting on the comfortable couch in the hotel lobby, "There's no use crying over spilt milk."

"Yeah, besides…" Max said, trailing off, as Mr. Dickinson entered the hotel lobby.

"Hello boys, I heard about Tyson's defeat," Mr. Dickinson said, smiling slightly.

"It's not fair, she was just lucky, that's all," Tyson protested, obviously still sulky about being defeated by a girl.

"Just lucky?" an arrogant female voice interrupted, "I don't think so."

"Well boys, meet your new team member," Mr. Dickinson announced, as a girl with familiar ice blue eyes sauntered in.

"Aeris."    

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A/N: So you guys know her name is Aeris. I would like to make this clear, I don't really know anything about Final Fantasy, I just came across a web site about it, and one of the characters was called Aeris. I thought it was a pretty cool name, so I decided to use it for my character in this fic. I haven't thought of a surname yet, so any ideas? Oh yeah, please review.  

                                             -Artiris

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:::To Be Continued:::

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