A/N and yup, you guessed it, other stuff:

kawaiikaichan: Yo peoples! It's MY turn to write a chapter, (Aw! Little 12- year-old me going out to write fanfics! T_T;;) and my sister just stuck me with the Bladebreakers in the middle of NOWHERE! This chappie is going to be pretty messed up. so I hope you enjoy! ~_^

Lemon Fluff: I laugh at your pain.

Disclaimer: We do not own Beyblade. Though I wish I did.

LF: I'd rather own-

KKC: Don't say it. I don't want fellow young readers getting corrupted. Now, let's continue with the story. :D

LF: =P

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Surviving Untrodden Paths

Chapter 2
Everybody was hopping around outside the house, trying to find a path to lead them back to the hotel.

"I just CAN'T believe I'm a..a.. MAP!" Kenny complained.

"Cheer up.. it's not that bad." Ray reassured him in a kind voice. Kenny stopped hopping.

"Easy for you to say! You're waterproof!" Kenny started hopping again angrily.

"." replied Ray-the-spoon. "But I can still rust! Wait.. that's not good." Ray started avoiding the many puddles on the wet ground. Kenny stopped again.

"I feel kind of.. wet," Kenny quietly said as he slowly turned his face to look down. He was soaking up the water from the puddles he was stepping in. It had rained the night before. Kenny quickly jumped up and off the ground, landing on Tyson's head.

"ACK! I ALMOST DROWNED!!" exclaimed Kenny as Tyson tried to pry him off his head (but couldn't, since his arms weren't very. long). Kai rolled his eyes and looked over to Tyson and Kenny.

"Quit your belly-aching." he snapped, annoyed, as he jumped onto Tyson's head and scooped Kenny up.

"Eep! Be careful! You'll rip me! I'm very DELICATE, you know!" Kenny scolded. He flailed wildy until the wind eventually blew him into a tree. Kai looked upwards as his burden was lifted into the sky.

"Uum.. guys? HELP?"

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After many more saving Kenny-the-map incidents..

"Man, that was tiring. It would have been MUCH easier if ONE of us had just stayed a human. He would've been able to fetch Kenny from the tree branch if only that person hadn't downed a stranger's drink." Ray turned himself to face Tyson. The raven-haired boy raised an eyebrow at Tyson.

Tyson wrote on his Post-it and showed it to Ray."IT WUSNT MY FALLT. I WUS REELY TUHRSTI!" Kai winced when presented with the results of sleeping in English class.

"I still don't understand how we manage to understand him." Kai said to Ray, Max, and Kenny as he pointed to Tyson.

" I don't know how either." Ray answered as Max-the-doll and Kenny-the-map tried to shrug. The whole gang wandered around the small cottage again, but every path either led to a log, a dead skunk, or a really big rock.

"This is just great! We're lost in the woods with no shelter or food!!" yelled Kenny as he buried his face in his paper corners.

"Well, we can go that way. the path seems pretty clear." Max suggested happily as he hopped toward a path which seemed pretty much free of any obstacles.

"Good idea, Max," Ray said as he started hopping over to the path near Max. Just as he was about to walk through the path, a wolf howled in the distance, which seemed to be near the end of the pathway.

"Never mind," said Max, quickly withdrawing his suggestion. Ray sighed in exasperation and looked toward the small cottage.

"I think we should go back into the cottage again, just for a little while.. maybe until it's safe enough to travel, at least." Ray hesitantly recommended. Tyson stared at Ray oddly and started scribbling on his Post- it notes again. He finished writing and held up the Post-it which said:

"R YU CRRZI? WE GIT TRND IINTU OBGEKS IN THER!!!" with a gigantic deformed skull and crossbones drawn at the end of the message.

"Whatever, Tyson. I say Ray's right. If you want, you can freeze yourself to death out here, but I'm going inside where it's warm," Kai eyed Tyson and looked at him with a waiting face. Tyson frowned and wrote something else on his Post-it note which took quite a long time to write.

"FNE."

"But how are we supposed to get into the cottage?" Max asked.

"I don't know. I guess we'll have to figure out a way," Ray answered. Kenny pondered for a moment.

"Well, we could try to climb to the top and drop in from the chimney or dig under the house until we get inside." Kenny still mused. Ray stared at Kenny and asked him how they would get in using those methods. Everybody started looking at the spoon and the fork of the group.

"You wouldn't." Ray and Kai said flatly with a small glare.

"They would," Kai sighed in irritation as Tyson forcibly held Ray and Kai in place so they couldn't escape Kenny-map's wrath.

"Why don't you just poke him in the eye? It won't hurt, and it'll give us a chance to escape!" Ray pleaded.

"Well, Why don't you just spoon his eyes out? It won't hurt either," Kai retorted.

Ray stayed silent. Of course, he was afraid by now. Who wouldn't be afraid of Kai after he talked back?

"Now, we should just do this.. then this.. then we should go onto." Kenny whispered to Max while he was pointing out different drawings he had made in the dirt. Max nodded every now and then. Kai was muttering something like, "If I was human, I'd punch Tyson in the face right about now.." under his breath and Ray was struggling to get out of Tyson's grasp. He stopped struggling.

"For someone who doesn't have fingers, he sure can clench hard.." Ray mumbled grumpily. Just as Kai was about to cuss at Tyson, Kenny and Max went over to Kai and Ray to tell them the bad news. (For them, that is. Not so much everybody else.)

"Okay. I've made up a plan. Ray will be used to dig a tunnel under the house so that Max and I can get in. but since Tyson is. er.. too, well, big to fit into a tunnel, Kai will be kind of used as a mountain climbing tool that will help Tyson get to the top, where they will drop into the highest room of the house. There, you two will wait for me, Ray, and Max to get to the top room."

" I get stuck with the fat pig. Great." Kai said sarcastically. Tyson frowned again and put Kai in his other hand. He scribbled another note on his Post-it, which he then stuck into Kai's face.

"FURST OF ALL, IM NUT A PEG. SECORD OF ALL, IM NUT FET. IM JUS. WELL-BILLT. XP"

"Sure." Kai replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"This is cruel! You're going to thrust me into the dirt to dig a tunnel, just so YOU guys can get inside the house?!" yelled Ray.

"Sorry Ray, but it's the only way," Kenny told the angry spoon. Ray shot Kenny and Max a dirty look. "Anyway, we'd better start. We have to get into the cottage soon.. I REALLY don't want to get wet again." Kai and Ray groaned and nodded reluctantly.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Plan Ray [Part 1]~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

COUGH COUGH WHEEZE GASP COUGH

Ray was having more than a little bit of trouble breathing after being repeatedly dug into the dirt, Max and Kenny sweatdropping the whole way. Ray was very tempted to swear at the both of them to stop striking him into the dirt, but he didn't want to up the rating of this fic. Besides, what help would it be? The map and the wooden doll had already ascertained the fact that there was no escape for him.

"Quit fidgeting, Ray! We'll never get into the cottage at this rate if we have to keep stopping for you to yell at us!" Kenny warned.

"You just can't feel my pain.." Ray managed to say between coughs.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Plan Kai [Part 1]~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tyson was trying to climb up the wooden wall as quickly as possible, jabbing Kai into the wall every now and then so he could keep himself climbing. Kai was just getting crankier with every jab. He didn't want Tyson's "slimy little Hello Kitty pig paws" on him.

Tyson couldn't manage to snap back at Kai since his paws were too busy trying to climb up the cottage. He wished he could though. Though if he did, he would just plunge to the ground. And Kai would start laughing at him and taunting, "LOSER!" over and over again.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Plan Ray [Part 2]~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"We're almost there! Hang in there, Ray!" Kenny shouted.

"You- stop hanging onto me- and I promise I won't hurt you- AFTER!" Ray threatened. Kenny told Ray to shush, just as Max practically SCREAMED,

" I SEE AN OPENING! WE'RE IN!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Plan Kai [Part 2]~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tyson started writing on his Post-it notes again.

"WEE FINULLIY MEDE IT TO TUH TOAP!" Tyson smiled with glee. Kai rolled his eyes yet again.

" I KNOW that, dunce," Kai scanned the rooftop. "I think we can get in through that window. Let's go." Kai and Tyson hopped toward the open window.

"Ready, set.." Kai started. Tyson waved his arm around frantically.

"What now?" groaned Kai.

"GO!" wrote Tyson, finishing the sentence.

They jumped in.

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"YES! We're in!" exclaimed Max happily, jumping into the air.

"Well, what are we waiting for, let's go in!" said Ray confidently, happy that he no longer had to be forced into dirt.

"Let's go!" Kenny grinned. The three of them scrambled up the stairs to the top room. Eventually, they got to the room. They peered in through the crack of the door, and saw somebody inside!

"Who could that be?" whispered Max worriedly.

"We shouldn't think much of it. Just sneak by.. we'll find Kai and Tyson eventually," Ray informed them. The three of them crept into the room silently and soon found Kai and Tyson. Sitting in a bag.

"What are you guys doing in THERE?" Max tried to speak to them as clearly but as quietly as he could.

"I don't know. We jumped in and we just randomly landed in this bag. This girl over here said something about going to Japan. Maybe if we follow her in her luggage, we might be able to get Mr. Dickenson to change us back." Kai told Max, Kenny, and the confused Ray-spoon. Ray was confused because Kai actually spoke for more then 3 sentences in one sitting. Ray, Max, and Kenny decided to follow Kai's plan, and so they swiftly hopped from high place to high place until they finally landed on the bed where the young woman was packing things into her suitcase.

"Thinks she's so good. just because she's younger and everybody goes to her for advice.. well, I'm going to Japan whether she likes it or not! I don't have to take care of her dumb little hut for her.." the older witch declared loudly as she accidentally packed Max, Kenny, and Ray. She buckled up her suitcase, and still muttering, gathered her luggage and walked downstairs. She then snapped her fingers, making a car appear. She loaded the suitcases and bags into the trunk of the vehicle and got into the car. She started it up and began to drive out of the forest.

"Where do you think we're going now?" asked Max anxiously. Ray lay beside him and Kenny was rolled up beside Ray.

"I think we're going to the airport." Ray replied with no emotion, laying perfectly still.

"What happens if one of us falls out or something and gets lost?" Max looked at Ray with a look of worry in his eyes.

"We're just going to have to see, won't we?" Ray replied, with a smile this time. Ray and Max looked over at Kenny when they heard an odd sound.

"Helmph! I canmt breaf!"
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A/N and you guessed it, other stuff.

KKC: YAY! I finished my first chapter, Oh joy! T_T I hope you enjoyed it, cause if you didn't I will be crush'd! -_o;; Tell me what ya think of it!

LF: Whee. My chapter's coming up next. what will happen, ye demand? Um.. I . er.. don't know yet. ^^;;

P.S. Review please! ^_^

P.S.S I just noticed how much I said, "Yeah" in the last author notes. Sorry if that annoyed you. *sweatdrop*

P.S.S.S Wait a minute.. I didn't say "yeah" that much.. did I?