Beyblades: The Best of the Best
By: Pyroteknix
Pyroteknix: In this chapter, lots of sad things are going to happen. For example, you won't find out who kidnapped Dominique in this chapter, which contradicts Aerodynamix's previous statement.
Aerodynamix: How was I to know that? You were unconscious and unable to speak!
Pyroteknix: Because of you, you moron, I was unconscious.
Aerodynamix: Oh yeah! I hit your head with a vase. Sorry.
Pyroteknix: But cool stuff is going to happen, too. First were Matt and Pyroteknix, second were Guio and Elektronix, and now the third BladeTech duo the Bladebreakers are going to meet are Dean and Aquatix! Oh, they also fight with Dark Eden.
Max, Tyson, Kenny and Ray were eating breakfast in the dining hall while Kai sat away from them and merely sipped some orange juice. Tyson gulped everything in a few seconds while his teammates stared at him. "What?" Tyson said through a mouthful of food. Ray shook his head and advised the Bladebreaker to stop eating. "Last time you ate this much, you weren't able to play in the tournament. So, Tyson, I recommend stopping youe pig-like eating." Ray said smartly and Kenny looked at Tyson's face and, indeed, he looked like a pig. Tyson gulped the rest down and just stared at the 5 plates still in front of him. Kai walked over to his teammates and tapped them on their shoulders. "We fight either the All Starz or Dark Eden today, so train downstairs. Dark Eden is a powerful team and their leader, Marvin, is widely known as one of the greatest beybladers around. The All Starz are, as we know well, are probably our biggest competitors in this tournament." Kai said quickly and walked off, watched by another beyblader. After Kai was nowhere in sight, the beyblader grinned and walked towards Kai's teammates, his brown leather jacket swishing behind him. He stuck his hands in his pockets and observed the Bladebreakers for a while, noting the fact that Ray still had one plate of food left. He pulled out a cellphone and dialed a number, his eyes still watching the 4 beybladers. "She's all yours. If he starts moving out, I'll battle him and his stupid Driger." "Okay, see you later." The other voice said, ending the conversation. Ray wiped his mouth with a napkin and proceeded to get up as the man in the leather jacket warily watched him. "Hey, you!" Ray's yellow eyes turned to a fairskinned beyblader leaning against a wooden wall, twiddling with a light blue beyblade with silver surrounding the bit piece. "You're Ray, right?" the other beyblader said, Ray replying with a quick nod. The other beyblader smirked and got out a strange launcher and attached his blade to a blue cylinder where the ripcord was. Ray looked skeptical at the different launcher, noting the fact that it had two parts and what appeared to be a sphere connecting them. The other boy smiled as he noticed Ray checking out his unusual launcher. "Like my Spin Shooter, do you?" He said as Ray pulled out his own custom launcher. "Its not just the technology. The beyblader himself is just as important." Ray answered as he attached his Driger to his launcher. "Apparently, you guessed that I want to battle you." The other beyblader assumed and Ray nodded. "Yeah, I accept. But what's your name, buddy?" Ray asked the unknown person. "Dean." He replied and got a metal dish from a table. Ray closed his mouth and looked ready to kill. Dean ticked off 3 fingers and pulled his ripcord out of the unique shooter he held. The cylinder spun around the sphere, releasing his blue beyblade with unbelievable spin and speed. Ray replied by firing his white beyblade with amazing speed, slamming into Dean's beyblade with immense power. Dean's blue blade retaliated with twice the power of Ray's opening attack. Driger hit Dean's beyblade with even more force but apparently, Dean's beyblade absorbed power and used it in a far more powerful counterattack. "Activate spin enhancer." Dean's beyblade zipped around with amazing agility as a result of massive spin. The White Tiger bitbeast found it impossible to even touch the incredibly agile blade of Dean. The unbelievably quick beyblade released a giant blue Phoenix with smooth blue feathers with green tips. "Razor Spin" Dean mentally commanded and Ray stood shocked as the blue and silver beyblade attacked Driger from all angles, slamming the White Tiger bitbeast then zipping off for a second pass. Very soon, Driger began to stop spinning, obviously damaged as parts of it littered the metal dish. "Finish him off! Jumping Crusher!" Dean shouted and the Bladebreaker he was fighting watched in awe as Dean's blade leaped over Ray's white Driger and precisely hit the edge of the attack ring, splitting Driger's top. The 2 pieces of his white beyblade flew into Ray's waiting hand. Dean folded his arms and grinned at the stunned Bladebreaker. "How could you possibly be the World champions?" He said, spitting at Ray's feet and walking backwards into a shadow. Ray stepped up to stop Dean but the beyblader mysteriously disappeared in the darkness. "Crap, that's scary." Ray thought before shrugging and running of to meet Mariah. "Darn, she's going to be mad. I shouldn't have battled Dean. Now I'm so late!" He thought as he ran faster, fixing his hair with his right hand. He stopped in front of Mariah's room and heard what seemed to be a scuffle inside. He scratched his head in puzzlement before pushing the door open. Mariah was clutching her stomach, blood spilling out from her wound. She lay sprawled on the floor in a fetal position, her mouth twisted in a grimace. Ray ran up to her, lifting her and placing her bloodstained body on her bed. Mariah looked up at the visibly worried Bladebreaker and tried to talk, but only gasps came out. Ray stroked her hair and started making a temporary bandage out of her bed's sheets. The female White Tiger looked up at Ray with teary eyes as she held her injured stomach. Ray made a tourniquet and wrapped it around her wound, tenderly touching her face. Ray noticed signs of a furious fight as he comforted his girlfriend. A desk was split down in the middle, completely devastated. Someone drove his or her fist into Mariah's cabinet, a huge hole right in the middle. The assailant kicked a lamp with unbelievable force, snapping it in half. Ray's eyes flitted across the room and spotted a black rose, an inconspicuous letter under it. He left Mariah's side and picked up the note, sealed with a multicolored stamp. Ray examined the strange sealant, noting the fact that the colors of blue, red, yellow and brown seemed awfully familiar. He opened the letter and read the note, written in ominously red ink. "Ray of the Bladebreakers, this will serve as a warning for you. As you can see, your good friend, Mariah, has been, let's say, neutralized. If you want these attacks on her to stop, all you have to do is lose. Lose against us. Do not bother to ask Mariah who we are, my partner has efficiently made sure she does not reveal who we are. If, by some act of stupidity, you proceed with asking her about our identities, she will suffer. Suffer so horribly that after 1 hour, she will be 6 feet under the ground or in a lovely urn. Until we meet again, we wish you ill." The letter said, threatening Mariah's life. Ray kissed the now unconscious Mariah, pressing his lips against her forehead. He lovingly stroked her pink hair and walked out quietly, shaking his head. "Maybe Kai was right. Maybe love is a weakness."
Kai sat inside the Blade breaker's room, his eyes closed in concentration. His eyebrows furrowed as he mentally prepared himself for the semifinals. He shook his head and opened his eyes, surrendering to his emotions. He gritted his teeth and stared at the ceiling, trying to ignore the pain in his chest. He fell backwards, resting on the firm bed as he blocked an image of Dominique being tortured by her captors, whoever they were. "Why do I keep thinking of her?" He thought and slammed his fist into the bed. As if on cue, a miniature video screen slid under the Bladebreakers' door, glowing strangely. Kai stared at the small screen, wondering what it was. Kai touched it and was sent reeling backwards as an electrical surge pulsed through him. "What the?" The Bladebreaker leader shouted in surprise, staring at the flickering screen. Dominique's bruised face appeared on the tiny screen, gagged with duct tape. She sobbed, her cries muted by her gag. A voice laughed in the background, taunting the angered Kai. The esteemed beyblader grabbed the screen and questioned the mysterious voice. "What have you done to her?" He yelled, his voice reverberating across the room. "Just the occasional punch or kick." The voice taunted and a hand slammed into Dominique's face, a red patch showing where it connected. "Damn you." Kai said behind gritted teeth, restraining himself from destroying the screen. "We just wanted to see if you really loved this girl." The voice retaliated, punctuating its explanation with a soft stroke to Dominique's face. She blushed as Kai found no answer to this, his jaws moving up and down noiselessly. Her captor probably smirked as he saw Kai turn pink with embarrassment. "So it is true. You do love her, right Kai?" The voice continued, filled with malice. Kai stared at Dominique's pleading eyes, his heart breaking at her disheveled appearance. The Bladebreaker captain slammed his fist into the screen, evading the mysterious voice's question. Max rushed into the room as Kai threw away the wrecked monitor. "What was that, Kai?" He asked, his leader replying with a "Get away from me" face. Max scratched his head and tiptoed, trying to catch a glimpse of the thing Kai threw away. "Anyway, we have to go already! Dark Eden pulverized the All Starz and are ready to fight us!" Inside his mind, Kai yelled out in surprise. "Dark Eden pulverized the All Starz? That's really bad news for us." Kai thought, absentmindedly grabbing his beyblade and launcher and running after his teammate.
"We have a great battle for you today, beyblading aficionados! The new yet powerful team of Dark Eden, led by their illustrious leader, Marvin, versus the crowd favorite, the Bladebreakers!" Brad Best announced, spotlights simultaneously shining over the team benches. "That's right, Brad! Get ready for some ripping battles because these are the nastiest teams I have ever seen!" AJ commented, the crowd going wild over the two teams below him. Ray and his teammates sat on the bench, quietly watching their opponents remove their black shirts to reveal what seemed to be shiny black armor. The Dark Eden strapped on shin guards to their legs and attached a brown belt that seemingly contained their beyblades. "Check out Dark Eden! Man, do they come prepared!" AJ shouted again, receiving a strange buzzing as people started chatting about the strange armor. Kai folded his arms in defiance and hit Tyson, who was jabbering about how cool it would be to have gear like that. Kenny began scanning the armor and discovered there was more than meets the eye in the multi layered padding. "Guys! That's no ordinary suit! That stuff has power-increasing gadgets under them! The armor even monitors their vital signs!" Kenny shouted nervously to his teammates. Tyson patted him on the back and reassured him of a victory. "So? We have what they call skills." Tyson said confidently as the announcer began to read out the first pair of fighters. "Looks like Tyson and his awesome Dragoon will battle JC and his wicked Tislais, the Red Weasel!" Tyson walked up to the slowly rising dish, a replica of the pyramids in Egypt, staring confidently at his tan opponent who wore a red bandana on his forehead. "Hey Ray copycat! What's that bandana for?" Tyson shouted out and a paper ball thrown by Max hit him smack on the head. "Shut up, Tyson!" The blonde American yelled at his large-mouthed teammate. JC smiled evilly and slowly unwrapped the bandana on his forehead, receiving a gasp from everybody except his teammates. A huge pink scar traveled across his forehead, the remembrance of JC's only loss. "Tyson! You see this?" He said calmly, pointing to the huge mark on his head. "You see, a few years back, I played a beyblade match with another guy. He beat me up big time and my beyblade flew out of the arena, cutting me here." He said, tracing the line across his face with his thumb for emphasis. "I will never lose again!" He shouted as he pulled out his black and dull gold beyblade. Tyson flinched at this serious remark but did not lose his confidence one bit. He pulled out his own beyblade, modified again by Kenny. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" JC moved his hands behind his back and to his waist like a Japanese samurai ready to unleash his sword. He flung his arms out of that position, completely reversing his previous stance and releasing his beyblade with tremendous force. Tyson jumped in the air and launched his own blade with his own degree of power, smashing a pyramid to pieces as it landed on the dish. The two beyblades zipped about, unable to hit each other due to their almost equal speed. After what seemed like an endless dance of two beyblades, Tyson started to unleash his Dragoon, ready to blow JC away. JC's eyes turn into miniscule slits as he saw Dragoon starting to glow and he rocketed his blade up a pyramid's side. "Dragoon! Phantom Hurricane!!!" The Bladebreaker shouted, his blade reacting instantly as a tornado started to form. "Now, Tislais!" JC shouted, his beyblade zipping down the slope and leaping in the air in the middle of the growing cyclone emanating from Dragoon, unaffected by the storm. "Hey! What gives?" Tyson yelled in surprise as Tislais wasn't affected by the strong winds and landed on top of Dragoon, drilling the white beyblade into the sand. Dragoon stopped the hurricane and flipped Tislais of its back, facing off with the black blade. The two beyblades charged at each other with blistering speed, ready to demolish the opposing blade. JC smiled coldly and raised his eyebrow, as though the battle was finished already. "Tislais! Reverse Spin Jump!" Tislais somersaulted over the speeding Dragoon at the last moment, landing behind it. Then, as the attack's name suggested, it reversed the spin and sent itself ripping after Tyson. Tyson eyes grew large at this technique, a bitbeast attack that didn't attack nor defend but place it in the position for one. "T-slice!!!" JC commanded and his beyblade responded by appearing on Dragoon's left, right and behind, constantly increasing the pace until there seemed to be three beyblades attacking Tyson. "Which do I hit?" He thought frantically as the 3 images got closer and closer to his stationary beyblade. "I can't run away or I'll risk getting pulverized by the original beyblade. But I can jump!" Tyson smiled and launched his beyblade into the air, bringing it down as JC's beyblade passed directly under it. Tyson buried half of JC's beyblade under the yellow sand, stopping it instantly. JC yelled in frustration as they declared Tyson the winner and him the loser. "Big words for a loser, JC!" Tyson taunted the Dark Eden player, sticking his tongue out. JC walked back to his extremely disappointed companions, Marvin promptly kicking him in the stomach. JC coughed blood out as his leader kicked him again, sending him to the floor. JC was in a fetal position, holding his knees as Marvin delivered another blow to his face. Tyson stopped before he reached his team's bench, angered by this display of cruelty. "Just because he lost doesn't mean you have to punish him!" Tyson protested to Marvin. The sadistic Dark Eden leader smirked at this remark. "We don't tolerate losses unlike your pathetic little group. We strive for perfection. When someone tarnishes our record, we eliminate him or her." Marvin explained, sending a chill up Tyson's spine at the word "eliminate". "You can turn around if you want." Marvin continued while Joseph loaded a pistol. Tyson covered his eyes and shut his ears as a bang echoed around the stadium. "You get rid of your teammates like garbage? Damn you!" Ray shouted from the Bladebreakers bench, his voice clearly heard due to the silence in the dome. Marvin stooped down placed his hand on JC's dead body, wiping some blood off. He held up his bloodstained hand and waved it at the Bladebreakers. "I really don't care what you think, Ray. After all, you're a fool whose vision is clouded by the girl, Mariah." Ray stood up in protest but Kai pulled him back down. "Forget it. You'll just end up dead as well." Kai said calmly, staring at the psychopathic opponents they had to face. AJ shook his stunned partner and woke him up from his daze. "Well, uh, looks like the Bladebreakers win. Um, Ray is up against, uh, Marvin and Tiblaid. Uh, right." Brad said slowly, staring at the limp body if JC. Ray smiled with gritted teeth. "Let's see if Marvin will have the guts to kill himself after he loses." Ray said and pulled out his beyblade, ready to fight the crazy Dark Eden leader. Marvin attached a black bracer to his arm, apparently that was his launcher. He attached an apparently normal black and red beyblade to the front portion of his bracer with his other hand. The tall beyblader walked up to meet Ray and his custom launcher, smiling with that cold face of his. He inserted his ripcord into his launcher as his Bladebreaker adversary did the same. "Uh, beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Ray fired his beyblade with amazing force, ready to bring down this murderer. Marvin scoffed arrogantly and launched his beyblade, his arm as straight as an arrow. The holder of the beyblade on top of his arm spun under the launcher and released his black and red beyblade. It smashed into Ray's Driger with unbelievable force, cracking Ray's repaired beyblade instantly. A shard flew from the devastated beyblade and cut Ray's cheek, a thin line showing where it sliced him. Ray dropped to his knees and felt the blood from his wound as he touched the gash. Marvin smiled evilly at Ray, dusting off his hands at the simplicity of the battle. "Dark Eden must always win." Marvin said as he headed back to his bench. Ray went back to the Bladebreakers' bench, greatly depressed by his quick loss. Max patted him on the back reassuringly. "C'mon, Ray! He really is supposed to be really good." He said, punching him lightly. "Our team will win the next round!" Tyson finished for Max. Ray smiled a bit then closed his eyes, more focused on Mariah. "If they attacked Mariah, then at least I lost." He said, thinking positively. Marvin gave a high five to his teammates, who were watching the Bladebreakers with an obvious superiority complex. "A spectacular victory for Marvin, tying the score!" Marvin grinned at the Bladebreakers, taunting them with his win. "Next up are Kai and his Dranzer versus Mark and his Tisaiber!" (A/N: If you happened to miss it, all of Dark Eden's bitbeast's have something to do with swords. Blaid comes out as blade, saiber comes out as saber, slais comes out as slice and the last bitbeast, the one of Joseph, Tieje, comes out as edge) Mark pulled out his beyblade, colored raven-black and highlighted with dark green. He clipped it onto his launcher, a spring launcher colored jet black with a red tree on it. "So, they decided to copy my launcher, huh? Well, I don't intend to play nice and I'm in a particularly nasty mood." Kai thought as he prepared his beyblade, ready to battle. "This may be harsh for him, but I'm going to win and he's going to die at the hands of his teammates." Kai grimaced for a moment then quickly changed his expression back to a stoic and cold face. "Will Kai break the stalemate in the score or will Mark bring his team one step closer to victory?" Brad shouted, ready for the next match. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Mark pulled the ripcord but his efforts were shadowed by Kai's intense concentration and power. The 2 beyblades sped into the sandy arena; Dranzer bouncing off the debris of a pyramid that Tyson demolished earlier while Tisaiber skidded across the sand. The 2 blades clashed with a huge bang, sending sand into people's eyes. Sparks flew as the blades dueled, slamming into each other. Tisaiber sped up a pyramid and somersaulted onto Dranzer, almost crushing the Phoenix completely. Kai's blade wobbled for a bit and Mark used this to his advantage. "Tisaiber, Viper Toxin!" A black snake ringed with green circles appeared, ready to strike. "Dranzer! Get out of there!" Mark's beyblade slammed into Kai's, using the base as a sword and stabbing off a bit of Dranzer's attack ring. "Ha! All I have to do is wait until your beyblade loses its balance because of the broken attack ring!" Mark said confidently as his black and green beyblade zipped out of sight behind the remaining pyramids. Kai closed his eyes and shut off all noise except Mark's beyblade. His eyes shot open as he realized Mark's position. "Dranzer, Fire Arrow!!!" Dranzer shot right through a pyramid and blasted into Tisaiber, obliterating the black beyblade. Mark stumbled backward, shocked by his loss. He looked behind his shoulder, terrified of his angry leader. Marvin was spinning a katana in his gloved hand, smiling evilly. Kai blinked and held his arms over his eyes. Marvin suddenly grabbed the hilt of the sword with two hands and rushed at Mark, who pulled out a knife from his pocket. Metal sang as the two tried to kill each other first, one in self-defense and the other for a tainted version of honor. Marvin launched a kick to Mark's gut and followed up with a slash to his leg. The defeated beyblader knelt in pain, clutching his bleeding leg with a horrible gash. Marvin twirled the deadly blade above his own head and brought it down on Mark's skull, killing him instantly. Mark slumped to the floor, quite dead. Marvin spat in distaste and lifted Mark onto his shoulder then tossed him into their bench, landing right beside JC's body. He smiled at Kai then ran his finger through his sword's edge then placed his bloody hand on his head, staining his hair red. "Good match, Kai." He said to the apparently calm Bladebreaker, who really was disgusted by this horrific act. He turned around and walked towards his emotionless teammate, Joseph. "Joseph, win this, or else." He said in what he thought was an encouraging voice. His comrade nodded and picked up his black launcher, walking up to meet his obvious competitor. AJ gave a distinct gulp as he looked down on the bloody floor of the arena. "Um, nice try by Mark. Kai, uh, wins though." He said, breaking the hushed silence of the scared crowd. "Yeah, AJ. It's, uh, Joseph versus Max, um, up next." Brad continued, his eyes fixed on the 2 corpses inside Dark Eden's bench. Max was shook back to real life by Kenny and he walked up to the dish, trying to evade the numerous specks of blood on the floor. He stared at his grim opponent, a stocky, black haired boy whose beyblade was interesting mix of black and dark blue. "Prepare to lose, Max." He said, taunting his rival. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Joseph launched his shiny black blade into the dish with almost godlike power as Max really put the pedal to the metal, or to be more accurate, the ripcord out of the launcher. The blades collided, giving the crowd an impromptu display of fireworks. Draciel was holding its ground against Joseph's beyblade but the Dark Eden beyblader had more aces up his sleeve than there are cards in a deck. (A/N: There are 52 cards in a deck so if he has more aces than that.) He sped off, trying not to waste his energy in a futile attempt to penetrate Draciel's defense. He jumped onto a pyramid and revealed his bitbeast's hidden power. "Tieje! Night Edge!" He shouted and his beyblade opened, the weight disk going up and away from the base, revealing a mini-shuriken launcher. A dark mountain cat appeared, its roar signaling the beginning of the end for Max and his pathetic beyblade. "Fire!" Draciel tried to evade but the hailstorm of knives impaled the green beyblade, devastating it. "I'm not done having fun yet!" Joseph shouted and the projectiles became deathly black as Tieje raised the power of his ethereal knives. The already busted Draciel exploded, shrapnel filling the dish. AJ wiped the sweat from his forehead and announced the winner. "Joseph's vicious Tieje wins easily with its super powerful Night Edge!" Max pounded the floor and walked away, not bothering to pick up the smoldering remnants of his poor beyblade. "Kai and Marvin will battle in this tiebreaker round!" Marvin patted the back of his victorious teammate and walked up to the partially demolished arena to battle Kai. The Bladebreaker stared into the ruthless and calculating eyes of his opponent, ready to win this match really quickly. Marvin's pupils grew smaller as he began to formulate a plan to beat his adversary. He pulled back his holster to the top of his wrist launcher and attached his black and red beyblade, completely prepared for battle. Kai put up his silver colored spring grip and glared at Marvin, who stroked his bloodstained hand in reply. The Dark Eden leader delicately painted his beyblade's red highlights an even darker red with his dead teammates blood and grinned at Kai. "Beyblades ready!" Marvin changed his stance and imitated JC's samurai-style posture, gritting his teeth all the while. Kai kept his launcher directly in front of him, every nerve and cell in his body immensely focused on the battle at hand. "3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Marvin smiled for a brief moment before suddenly reversing his stance, simultaneously releasing his beyblade as the holster moved under the wrist launcher. Kai pulled his launcher away from the ripcord as the ripcord zoomed away from the launcher, creating one devastating launch. The 2 black colored beyblades nearly hit each other but veered off at the last moment. Kai was obviously more focused on the battle, as his beyblade was merely a replacement of his real one, which got damaged by Mark and his Tisaiber. Marvin simply folded his arms and watched his powerful beyblade with extremely well trained eyes. He could see, not to mention hear with his sensitive ears, the damage or problems with uncanny precision. However, he lacked Kai's perceptiveness and adaptability when it came to dueling, a fault that worked to Kai's advantage later on. His beyblade sped away from Kai's Dranzer, avoiding its charges. But Dranzer leaped into the air and landed in front of Tiblaid, ready to attack. Dranzer slammed into Marvin's black beyblade, repeating the procedure until victory seemed imminent. Marvin's beyblade wobbled a bit, obviously off balance. Kai took the opportunity to finish off the battle and almost knocked his competitor's beyblade streaming out off the arena. Marvin smiled as he beyblade spun helplessly in midair, puzzling the Bladebreaker with this strange reaction. "The velociraptor was strengthened when it left the face of this planet and its powers were immortalized in my bitbeast. Tiblaid! Reanimation!!!" Time seemed to stand still as a glowing dinosaur skeleton rose up from the center of Marvin's beyblade and roared as a blinding flash filled the stadium. When Kai regained his eyesight, the velociraptor was sheathed in black and red tinted scales, its golden claws shining in the light. Marvin's beyblade suddenly came back to life, bouncing off the arena wall and ripping towards Dranzer with renewed speed. "Damn! How can I beat a beyblade that can revive itself? Its too perfect!" Kai thought pessimistically as he frantically evaded Tiblaid's relentless onslaught. "Kai! My beyblade is unbeatable! Perfect in both long and short range attacks!" Marvin boasted to his opponent, smiling cockily. "Watch this! Berserker Rain!" The Dark Eden leader shouted to his beyblade and, like Joseph's "Night Edge", it split open to reveal a set of what appeared to be missile launchers. Well, they weren't. They were far nastier than that. Black energy assaulted the area around Dranzer, completely leaving no trace of the miniature pyramids behind. Kai shut his eyes and left it to Dranzer to dodge the deadly rain. He listened closely, trying to understand what made his attack so precise and deadly. "His beyblade spins at incredible speeds yet still aims perfectly! Ian's was possible because the attack was outside of his beyblade, so what's the thing keeping its aim accurate?" An idea zipped through his mind and he sent a mental command to Dranzer. His bitbeast complied and zoomed right at Tiblaid, occasionally taking hits from the endless barrage of dark energy. It stopped inches away from the deadly beyblade and zipped off just as a burst of energy shot at it. Sand flew inside Marvin's long-range weaponry and Kai watched in glee as it spun around uselessly. Marvin cursed and spat on the floor. "So your trick is a second spinning mechanism. Clever, but not good enough." Kai said calmly but this was just one of Marvin's lethal gadgets. Dranzer started to weaken Tiblaid as revenge for Tiblaid's previous attacks on him. Marvin smirked then shook his head in pity. "You do realize I said long and short range attacks? Tiblaid, show him the Velociraptor Claw!" Blades popped out off the side of Marvin's beyblade, wrapped in an eerie black light. Dranzer was knocked back as the protrusions sliced into his armor, seriously scratching his beyblade. Kai groaned at this development and mentally commanded Dranzer to get out of there. His beyblade moved away from the considerably slower yet more powerful Tiblaid. Sparks flew as Kai made an error and fell into the razor sharp blades of Marvin's beyblade. He veered off and tilted accidentally but this mistake became one of the turning points of the battle. Tiblaid tried to attack him while he was tilted and his blades got caught in the sand, staying stuck there for a second or more compared to a normal beyblade. Kai instantly saw this and a plan formed in his mind. // Dranzer, rocket up that wall over there but don't go to fast, I need him to catch up. // //Hello? Bitbeasts can read their master's minds! I know the plan! // //All right then, let's go! // Dranzer went towards the yellow brown boundary, apparently weakened because of his lowered speed. Tiblaid kept a consistent pace and almost reached Kai's black Dranzer if it wasn't for the fact that Dranzer was in the air above him and he was stuck in the wall. "What the hell?" Marvin shouted as his beyblade dug deeper and deeper into the wall until its real attack ring began to grind against the barrier. Dranzer would have smiled if he had facial expressions but settled for the satisfying sound of him landing on top of Tiblaid, finally stopping the rampaging beyblade. Marvin stumbled backwards, stunned by his loss. He stared with bulging eyes at the victorious Kai, who was standing there, expecting him to stab himself for losing. Marvin's eyes flashed a demented red and punched the floor, cracking the steel and breaking his knuckles. The crowd instantly stopped cheering for Kai at the crunching sound of broken bones and stared at the trembling Marvin. "Must. uphold. honor." He said before he picked up the bloody katana beside his dead teammates. "Kai! I'll see you in hell!!!" Marvin shouted as he drove the sword through his stomach and pushed it upward, slicing his spine and killing him in a few seconds of excruciating pain. His limp head fell to the floor, his eyes still open and staring at the horrified Kai. Tyson promptly barfed on Max's shirt at this sight, the suicide too much for him to handle. Joseph bowed his head sadly and picked up his dead leader's body and gently placed it beside JC and Mark. He stooped down and picked up the katana with quivering fingers. He grasped the hilt with 2 shaking hands and looked tentatively at the silenced crowd. "I have no more purpose without my teammates and my leader. I shall go down honorably without suffering humiliation from the ones who defeated us." He said slowly, his eyes fixed on the Bladebreakers. He flipped his sword so that the bloodstained tip was pointing towards his stomach. "Dark Eden will never be dishonored!" Joseph slammed the blade into his gut, blood spewing out from the wound. He twisted the handle slowly, shredding his insides like paper. He choked and fell to the floor, dead. Everyone in the crowd bowed their heads in sorrow and those who wore hats removed them in respect for the dead. Kai just sat on the bench, actually pretty happy with the turnout. "At least I now know who took Dominique. They won every match they had so far, defeating the White tigers to clinch a spot in the finals. I'll get you, BladeTech!"
End of chapter
Pyroteknix: Note to readers: due to exceptional violence and gore, (Watches as Aerodynamix barfs on floor after watching movie version of story in their TV.) we will change the rating for the next chapter to R. That doesn't mean that the next chapter will be another bloodbath, though. I'm only changing it for this chapter.
Aerodynamix: What! That's such a sappy ending! God! I liked the part where I barfed a lot more!
Pyroteknix: Hey! I didn't give you permission to reveal what the next chapter is like!
Aerodynamix: Can I please tell them about the battle between BladeTech and the Bladebreakers?
Pyroteknix: You just did, brainless imbecile.
Aerodynamix: (Throws flower vase at Pyroteknix) Hey! I resent that remark! I prefer "Idiotic swine" or "Moronic monkey" Pyroteknix: (Leaps behind couch for cover) This means war! (Grabs radio from pocket) This is Pyroteknix, I repeat.
Aerodynamix: Don't call for your puny ant army! I have an air force! (Shows off a jar filled with butterflies)
Pyroteknix: (Drops radio and starts laughing hysterically) Butterflies? Hahaha!
Aerodynamix: Genetically engineered butterflies that carry the exact type of dust you're allergic to!
Pyroteknix: (Skin pales as he remembers incident where he sneezed so hard the computer blew up) Run for cover! ( Scurries under couch)
By: Pyroteknix
Pyroteknix: In this chapter, lots of sad things are going to happen. For example, you won't find out who kidnapped Dominique in this chapter, which contradicts Aerodynamix's previous statement.
Aerodynamix: How was I to know that? You were unconscious and unable to speak!
Pyroteknix: Because of you, you moron, I was unconscious.
Aerodynamix: Oh yeah! I hit your head with a vase. Sorry.
Pyroteknix: But cool stuff is going to happen, too. First were Matt and Pyroteknix, second were Guio and Elektronix, and now the third BladeTech duo the Bladebreakers are going to meet are Dean and Aquatix! Oh, they also fight with Dark Eden.
Max, Tyson, Kenny and Ray were eating breakfast in the dining hall while Kai sat away from them and merely sipped some orange juice. Tyson gulped everything in a few seconds while his teammates stared at him. "What?" Tyson said through a mouthful of food. Ray shook his head and advised the Bladebreaker to stop eating. "Last time you ate this much, you weren't able to play in the tournament. So, Tyson, I recommend stopping youe pig-like eating." Ray said smartly and Kenny looked at Tyson's face and, indeed, he looked like a pig. Tyson gulped the rest down and just stared at the 5 plates still in front of him. Kai walked over to his teammates and tapped them on their shoulders. "We fight either the All Starz or Dark Eden today, so train downstairs. Dark Eden is a powerful team and their leader, Marvin, is widely known as one of the greatest beybladers around. The All Starz are, as we know well, are probably our biggest competitors in this tournament." Kai said quickly and walked off, watched by another beyblader. After Kai was nowhere in sight, the beyblader grinned and walked towards Kai's teammates, his brown leather jacket swishing behind him. He stuck his hands in his pockets and observed the Bladebreakers for a while, noting the fact that Ray still had one plate of food left. He pulled out a cellphone and dialed a number, his eyes still watching the 4 beybladers. "She's all yours. If he starts moving out, I'll battle him and his stupid Driger." "Okay, see you later." The other voice said, ending the conversation. Ray wiped his mouth with a napkin and proceeded to get up as the man in the leather jacket warily watched him. "Hey, you!" Ray's yellow eyes turned to a fairskinned beyblader leaning against a wooden wall, twiddling with a light blue beyblade with silver surrounding the bit piece. "You're Ray, right?" the other beyblader said, Ray replying with a quick nod. The other beyblader smirked and got out a strange launcher and attached his blade to a blue cylinder where the ripcord was. Ray looked skeptical at the different launcher, noting the fact that it had two parts and what appeared to be a sphere connecting them. The other boy smiled as he noticed Ray checking out his unusual launcher. "Like my Spin Shooter, do you?" He said as Ray pulled out his own custom launcher. "Its not just the technology. The beyblader himself is just as important." Ray answered as he attached his Driger to his launcher. "Apparently, you guessed that I want to battle you." The other beyblader assumed and Ray nodded. "Yeah, I accept. But what's your name, buddy?" Ray asked the unknown person. "Dean." He replied and got a metal dish from a table. Ray closed his mouth and looked ready to kill. Dean ticked off 3 fingers and pulled his ripcord out of the unique shooter he held. The cylinder spun around the sphere, releasing his blue beyblade with unbelievable spin and speed. Ray replied by firing his white beyblade with amazing speed, slamming into Dean's beyblade with immense power. Dean's blue blade retaliated with twice the power of Ray's opening attack. Driger hit Dean's beyblade with even more force but apparently, Dean's beyblade absorbed power and used it in a far more powerful counterattack. "Activate spin enhancer." Dean's beyblade zipped around with amazing agility as a result of massive spin. The White Tiger bitbeast found it impossible to even touch the incredibly agile blade of Dean. The unbelievably quick beyblade released a giant blue Phoenix with smooth blue feathers with green tips. "Razor Spin" Dean mentally commanded and Ray stood shocked as the blue and silver beyblade attacked Driger from all angles, slamming the White Tiger bitbeast then zipping off for a second pass. Very soon, Driger began to stop spinning, obviously damaged as parts of it littered the metal dish. "Finish him off! Jumping Crusher!" Dean shouted and the Bladebreaker he was fighting watched in awe as Dean's blade leaped over Ray's white Driger and precisely hit the edge of the attack ring, splitting Driger's top. The 2 pieces of his white beyblade flew into Ray's waiting hand. Dean folded his arms and grinned at the stunned Bladebreaker. "How could you possibly be the World champions?" He said, spitting at Ray's feet and walking backwards into a shadow. Ray stepped up to stop Dean but the beyblader mysteriously disappeared in the darkness. "Crap, that's scary." Ray thought before shrugging and running of to meet Mariah. "Darn, she's going to be mad. I shouldn't have battled Dean. Now I'm so late!" He thought as he ran faster, fixing his hair with his right hand. He stopped in front of Mariah's room and heard what seemed to be a scuffle inside. He scratched his head in puzzlement before pushing the door open. Mariah was clutching her stomach, blood spilling out from her wound. She lay sprawled on the floor in a fetal position, her mouth twisted in a grimace. Ray ran up to her, lifting her and placing her bloodstained body on her bed. Mariah looked up at the visibly worried Bladebreaker and tried to talk, but only gasps came out. Ray stroked her hair and started making a temporary bandage out of her bed's sheets. The female White Tiger looked up at Ray with teary eyes as she held her injured stomach. Ray made a tourniquet and wrapped it around her wound, tenderly touching her face. Ray noticed signs of a furious fight as he comforted his girlfriend. A desk was split down in the middle, completely devastated. Someone drove his or her fist into Mariah's cabinet, a huge hole right in the middle. The assailant kicked a lamp with unbelievable force, snapping it in half. Ray's eyes flitted across the room and spotted a black rose, an inconspicuous letter under it. He left Mariah's side and picked up the note, sealed with a multicolored stamp. Ray examined the strange sealant, noting the fact that the colors of blue, red, yellow and brown seemed awfully familiar. He opened the letter and read the note, written in ominously red ink. "Ray of the Bladebreakers, this will serve as a warning for you. As you can see, your good friend, Mariah, has been, let's say, neutralized. If you want these attacks on her to stop, all you have to do is lose. Lose against us. Do not bother to ask Mariah who we are, my partner has efficiently made sure she does not reveal who we are. If, by some act of stupidity, you proceed with asking her about our identities, she will suffer. Suffer so horribly that after 1 hour, she will be 6 feet under the ground or in a lovely urn. Until we meet again, we wish you ill." The letter said, threatening Mariah's life. Ray kissed the now unconscious Mariah, pressing his lips against her forehead. He lovingly stroked her pink hair and walked out quietly, shaking his head. "Maybe Kai was right. Maybe love is a weakness."
Kai sat inside the Blade breaker's room, his eyes closed in concentration. His eyebrows furrowed as he mentally prepared himself for the semifinals. He shook his head and opened his eyes, surrendering to his emotions. He gritted his teeth and stared at the ceiling, trying to ignore the pain in his chest. He fell backwards, resting on the firm bed as he blocked an image of Dominique being tortured by her captors, whoever they were. "Why do I keep thinking of her?" He thought and slammed his fist into the bed. As if on cue, a miniature video screen slid under the Bladebreakers' door, glowing strangely. Kai stared at the small screen, wondering what it was. Kai touched it and was sent reeling backwards as an electrical surge pulsed through him. "What the?" The Bladebreaker leader shouted in surprise, staring at the flickering screen. Dominique's bruised face appeared on the tiny screen, gagged with duct tape. She sobbed, her cries muted by her gag. A voice laughed in the background, taunting the angered Kai. The esteemed beyblader grabbed the screen and questioned the mysterious voice. "What have you done to her?" He yelled, his voice reverberating across the room. "Just the occasional punch or kick." The voice taunted and a hand slammed into Dominique's face, a red patch showing where it connected. "Damn you." Kai said behind gritted teeth, restraining himself from destroying the screen. "We just wanted to see if you really loved this girl." The voice retaliated, punctuating its explanation with a soft stroke to Dominique's face. She blushed as Kai found no answer to this, his jaws moving up and down noiselessly. Her captor probably smirked as he saw Kai turn pink with embarrassment. "So it is true. You do love her, right Kai?" The voice continued, filled with malice. Kai stared at Dominique's pleading eyes, his heart breaking at her disheveled appearance. The Bladebreaker captain slammed his fist into the screen, evading the mysterious voice's question. Max rushed into the room as Kai threw away the wrecked monitor. "What was that, Kai?" He asked, his leader replying with a "Get away from me" face. Max scratched his head and tiptoed, trying to catch a glimpse of the thing Kai threw away. "Anyway, we have to go already! Dark Eden pulverized the All Starz and are ready to fight us!" Inside his mind, Kai yelled out in surprise. "Dark Eden pulverized the All Starz? That's really bad news for us." Kai thought, absentmindedly grabbing his beyblade and launcher and running after his teammate.
"We have a great battle for you today, beyblading aficionados! The new yet powerful team of Dark Eden, led by their illustrious leader, Marvin, versus the crowd favorite, the Bladebreakers!" Brad Best announced, spotlights simultaneously shining over the team benches. "That's right, Brad! Get ready for some ripping battles because these are the nastiest teams I have ever seen!" AJ commented, the crowd going wild over the two teams below him. Ray and his teammates sat on the bench, quietly watching their opponents remove their black shirts to reveal what seemed to be shiny black armor. The Dark Eden strapped on shin guards to their legs and attached a brown belt that seemingly contained their beyblades. "Check out Dark Eden! Man, do they come prepared!" AJ shouted again, receiving a strange buzzing as people started chatting about the strange armor. Kai folded his arms in defiance and hit Tyson, who was jabbering about how cool it would be to have gear like that. Kenny began scanning the armor and discovered there was more than meets the eye in the multi layered padding. "Guys! That's no ordinary suit! That stuff has power-increasing gadgets under them! The armor even monitors their vital signs!" Kenny shouted nervously to his teammates. Tyson patted him on the back and reassured him of a victory. "So? We have what they call skills." Tyson said confidently as the announcer began to read out the first pair of fighters. "Looks like Tyson and his awesome Dragoon will battle JC and his wicked Tislais, the Red Weasel!" Tyson walked up to the slowly rising dish, a replica of the pyramids in Egypt, staring confidently at his tan opponent who wore a red bandana on his forehead. "Hey Ray copycat! What's that bandana for?" Tyson shouted out and a paper ball thrown by Max hit him smack on the head. "Shut up, Tyson!" The blonde American yelled at his large-mouthed teammate. JC smiled evilly and slowly unwrapped the bandana on his forehead, receiving a gasp from everybody except his teammates. A huge pink scar traveled across his forehead, the remembrance of JC's only loss. "Tyson! You see this?" He said calmly, pointing to the huge mark on his head. "You see, a few years back, I played a beyblade match with another guy. He beat me up big time and my beyblade flew out of the arena, cutting me here." He said, tracing the line across his face with his thumb for emphasis. "I will never lose again!" He shouted as he pulled out his black and dull gold beyblade. Tyson flinched at this serious remark but did not lose his confidence one bit. He pulled out his own beyblade, modified again by Kenny. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" JC moved his hands behind his back and to his waist like a Japanese samurai ready to unleash his sword. He flung his arms out of that position, completely reversing his previous stance and releasing his beyblade with tremendous force. Tyson jumped in the air and launched his own blade with his own degree of power, smashing a pyramid to pieces as it landed on the dish. The two beyblades zipped about, unable to hit each other due to their almost equal speed. After what seemed like an endless dance of two beyblades, Tyson started to unleash his Dragoon, ready to blow JC away. JC's eyes turn into miniscule slits as he saw Dragoon starting to glow and he rocketed his blade up a pyramid's side. "Dragoon! Phantom Hurricane!!!" The Bladebreaker shouted, his blade reacting instantly as a tornado started to form. "Now, Tislais!" JC shouted, his beyblade zipping down the slope and leaping in the air in the middle of the growing cyclone emanating from Dragoon, unaffected by the storm. "Hey! What gives?" Tyson yelled in surprise as Tislais wasn't affected by the strong winds and landed on top of Dragoon, drilling the white beyblade into the sand. Dragoon stopped the hurricane and flipped Tislais of its back, facing off with the black blade. The two beyblades charged at each other with blistering speed, ready to demolish the opposing blade. JC smiled coldly and raised his eyebrow, as though the battle was finished already. "Tislais! Reverse Spin Jump!" Tislais somersaulted over the speeding Dragoon at the last moment, landing behind it. Then, as the attack's name suggested, it reversed the spin and sent itself ripping after Tyson. Tyson eyes grew large at this technique, a bitbeast attack that didn't attack nor defend but place it in the position for one. "T-slice!!!" JC commanded and his beyblade responded by appearing on Dragoon's left, right and behind, constantly increasing the pace until there seemed to be three beyblades attacking Tyson. "Which do I hit?" He thought frantically as the 3 images got closer and closer to his stationary beyblade. "I can't run away or I'll risk getting pulverized by the original beyblade. But I can jump!" Tyson smiled and launched his beyblade into the air, bringing it down as JC's beyblade passed directly under it. Tyson buried half of JC's beyblade under the yellow sand, stopping it instantly. JC yelled in frustration as they declared Tyson the winner and him the loser. "Big words for a loser, JC!" Tyson taunted the Dark Eden player, sticking his tongue out. JC walked back to his extremely disappointed companions, Marvin promptly kicking him in the stomach. JC coughed blood out as his leader kicked him again, sending him to the floor. JC was in a fetal position, holding his knees as Marvin delivered another blow to his face. Tyson stopped before he reached his team's bench, angered by this display of cruelty. "Just because he lost doesn't mean you have to punish him!" Tyson protested to Marvin. The sadistic Dark Eden leader smirked at this remark. "We don't tolerate losses unlike your pathetic little group. We strive for perfection. When someone tarnishes our record, we eliminate him or her." Marvin explained, sending a chill up Tyson's spine at the word "eliminate". "You can turn around if you want." Marvin continued while Joseph loaded a pistol. Tyson covered his eyes and shut his ears as a bang echoed around the stadium. "You get rid of your teammates like garbage? Damn you!" Ray shouted from the Bladebreakers bench, his voice clearly heard due to the silence in the dome. Marvin stooped down placed his hand on JC's dead body, wiping some blood off. He held up his bloodstained hand and waved it at the Bladebreakers. "I really don't care what you think, Ray. After all, you're a fool whose vision is clouded by the girl, Mariah." Ray stood up in protest but Kai pulled him back down. "Forget it. You'll just end up dead as well." Kai said calmly, staring at the psychopathic opponents they had to face. AJ shook his stunned partner and woke him up from his daze. "Well, uh, looks like the Bladebreakers win. Um, Ray is up against, uh, Marvin and Tiblaid. Uh, right." Brad said slowly, staring at the limp body if JC. Ray smiled with gritted teeth. "Let's see if Marvin will have the guts to kill himself after he loses." Ray said and pulled out his beyblade, ready to fight the crazy Dark Eden leader. Marvin attached a black bracer to his arm, apparently that was his launcher. He attached an apparently normal black and red beyblade to the front portion of his bracer with his other hand. The tall beyblader walked up to meet Ray and his custom launcher, smiling with that cold face of his. He inserted his ripcord into his launcher as his Bladebreaker adversary did the same. "Uh, beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Ray fired his beyblade with amazing force, ready to bring down this murderer. Marvin scoffed arrogantly and launched his beyblade, his arm as straight as an arrow. The holder of the beyblade on top of his arm spun under the launcher and released his black and red beyblade. It smashed into Ray's Driger with unbelievable force, cracking Ray's repaired beyblade instantly. A shard flew from the devastated beyblade and cut Ray's cheek, a thin line showing where it sliced him. Ray dropped to his knees and felt the blood from his wound as he touched the gash. Marvin smiled evilly at Ray, dusting off his hands at the simplicity of the battle. "Dark Eden must always win." Marvin said as he headed back to his bench. Ray went back to the Bladebreakers' bench, greatly depressed by his quick loss. Max patted him on the back reassuringly. "C'mon, Ray! He really is supposed to be really good." He said, punching him lightly. "Our team will win the next round!" Tyson finished for Max. Ray smiled a bit then closed his eyes, more focused on Mariah. "If they attacked Mariah, then at least I lost." He said, thinking positively. Marvin gave a high five to his teammates, who were watching the Bladebreakers with an obvious superiority complex. "A spectacular victory for Marvin, tying the score!" Marvin grinned at the Bladebreakers, taunting them with his win. "Next up are Kai and his Dranzer versus Mark and his Tisaiber!" (A/N: If you happened to miss it, all of Dark Eden's bitbeast's have something to do with swords. Blaid comes out as blade, saiber comes out as saber, slais comes out as slice and the last bitbeast, the one of Joseph, Tieje, comes out as edge) Mark pulled out his beyblade, colored raven-black and highlighted with dark green. He clipped it onto his launcher, a spring launcher colored jet black with a red tree on it. "So, they decided to copy my launcher, huh? Well, I don't intend to play nice and I'm in a particularly nasty mood." Kai thought as he prepared his beyblade, ready to battle. "This may be harsh for him, but I'm going to win and he's going to die at the hands of his teammates." Kai grimaced for a moment then quickly changed his expression back to a stoic and cold face. "Will Kai break the stalemate in the score or will Mark bring his team one step closer to victory?" Brad shouted, ready for the next match. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Mark pulled the ripcord but his efforts were shadowed by Kai's intense concentration and power. The 2 beyblades sped into the sandy arena; Dranzer bouncing off the debris of a pyramid that Tyson demolished earlier while Tisaiber skidded across the sand. The 2 blades clashed with a huge bang, sending sand into people's eyes. Sparks flew as the blades dueled, slamming into each other. Tisaiber sped up a pyramid and somersaulted onto Dranzer, almost crushing the Phoenix completely. Kai's blade wobbled for a bit and Mark used this to his advantage. "Tisaiber, Viper Toxin!" A black snake ringed with green circles appeared, ready to strike. "Dranzer! Get out of there!" Mark's beyblade slammed into Kai's, using the base as a sword and stabbing off a bit of Dranzer's attack ring. "Ha! All I have to do is wait until your beyblade loses its balance because of the broken attack ring!" Mark said confidently as his black and green beyblade zipped out of sight behind the remaining pyramids. Kai closed his eyes and shut off all noise except Mark's beyblade. His eyes shot open as he realized Mark's position. "Dranzer, Fire Arrow!!!" Dranzer shot right through a pyramid and blasted into Tisaiber, obliterating the black beyblade. Mark stumbled backward, shocked by his loss. He looked behind his shoulder, terrified of his angry leader. Marvin was spinning a katana in his gloved hand, smiling evilly. Kai blinked and held his arms over his eyes. Marvin suddenly grabbed the hilt of the sword with two hands and rushed at Mark, who pulled out a knife from his pocket. Metal sang as the two tried to kill each other first, one in self-defense and the other for a tainted version of honor. Marvin launched a kick to Mark's gut and followed up with a slash to his leg. The defeated beyblader knelt in pain, clutching his bleeding leg with a horrible gash. Marvin twirled the deadly blade above his own head and brought it down on Mark's skull, killing him instantly. Mark slumped to the floor, quite dead. Marvin spat in distaste and lifted Mark onto his shoulder then tossed him into their bench, landing right beside JC's body. He smiled at Kai then ran his finger through his sword's edge then placed his bloody hand on his head, staining his hair red. "Good match, Kai." He said to the apparently calm Bladebreaker, who really was disgusted by this horrific act. He turned around and walked towards his emotionless teammate, Joseph. "Joseph, win this, or else." He said in what he thought was an encouraging voice. His comrade nodded and picked up his black launcher, walking up to meet his obvious competitor. AJ gave a distinct gulp as he looked down on the bloody floor of the arena. "Um, nice try by Mark. Kai, uh, wins though." He said, breaking the hushed silence of the scared crowd. "Yeah, AJ. It's, uh, Joseph versus Max, um, up next." Brad continued, his eyes fixed on the 2 corpses inside Dark Eden's bench. Max was shook back to real life by Kenny and he walked up to the dish, trying to evade the numerous specks of blood on the floor. He stared at his grim opponent, a stocky, black haired boy whose beyblade was interesting mix of black and dark blue. "Prepare to lose, Max." He said, taunting his rival. "Beyblades ready! 3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Joseph launched his shiny black blade into the dish with almost godlike power as Max really put the pedal to the metal, or to be more accurate, the ripcord out of the launcher. The blades collided, giving the crowd an impromptu display of fireworks. Draciel was holding its ground against Joseph's beyblade but the Dark Eden beyblader had more aces up his sleeve than there are cards in a deck. (A/N: There are 52 cards in a deck so if he has more aces than that.) He sped off, trying not to waste his energy in a futile attempt to penetrate Draciel's defense. He jumped onto a pyramid and revealed his bitbeast's hidden power. "Tieje! Night Edge!" He shouted and his beyblade opened, the weight disk going up and away from the base, revealing a mini-shuriken launcher. A dark mountain cat appeared, its roar signaling the beginning of the end for Max and his pathetic beyblade. "Fire!" Draciel tried to evade but the hailstorm of knives impaled the green beyblade, devastating it. "I'm not done having fun yet!" Joseph shouted and the projectiles became deathly black as Tieje raised the power of his ethereal knives. The already busted Draciel exploded, shrapnel filling the dish. AJ wiped the sweat from his forehead and announced the winner. "Joseph's vicious Tieje wins easily with its super powerful Night Edge!" Max pounded the floor and walked away, not bothering to pick up the smoldering remnants of his poor beyblade. "Kai and Marvin will battle in this tiebreaker round!" Marvin patted the back of his victorious teammate and walked up to the partially demolished arena to battle Kai. The Bladebreaker stared into the ruthless and calculating eyes of his opponent, ready to win this match really quickly. Marvin's pupils grew smaller as he began to formulate a plan to beat his adversary. He pulled back his holster to the top of his wrist launcher and attached his black and red beyblade, completely prepared for battle. Kai put up his silver colored spring grip and glared at Marvin, who stroked his bloodstained hand in reply. The Dark Eden leader delicately painted his beyblade's red highlights an even darker red with his dead teammates blood and grinned at Kai. "Beyblades ready!" Marvin changed his stance and imitated JC's samurai-style posture, gritting his teeth all the while. Kai kept his launcher directly in front of him, every nerve and cell in his body immensely focused on the battle at hand. "3,2,1. Let it rip!!!" Marvin smiled for a brief moment before suddenly reversing his stance, simultaneously releasing his beyblade as the holster moved under the wrist launcher. Kai pulled his launcher away from the ripcord as the ripcord zoomed away from the launcher, creating one devastating launch. The 2 black colored beyblades nearly hit each other but veered off at the last moment. Kai was obviously more focused on the battle, as his beyblade was merely a replacement of his real one, which got damaged by Mark and his Tisaiber. Marvin simply folded his arms and watched his powerful beyblade with extremely well trained eyes. He could see, not to mention hear with his sensitive ears, the damage or problems with uncanny precision. However, he lacked Kai's perceptiveness and adaptability when it came to dueling, a fault that worked to Kai's advantage later on. His beyblade sped away from Kai's Dranzer, avoiding its charges. But Dranzer leaped into the air and landed in front of Tiblaid, ready to attack. Dranzer slammed into Marvin's black beyblade, repeating the procedure until victory seemed imminent. Marvin's beyblade wobbled a bit, obviously off balance. Kai took the opportunity to finish off the battle and almost knocked his competitor's beyblade streaming out off the arena. Marvin smiled as he beyblade spun helplessly in midair, puzzling the Bladebreaker with this strange reaction. "The velociraptor was strengthened when it left the face of this planet and its powers were immortalized in my bitbeast. Tiblaid! Reanimation!!!" Time seemed to stand still as a glowing dinosaur skeleton rose up from the center of Marvin's beyblade and roared as a blinding flash filled the stadium. When Kai regained his eyesight, the velociraptor was sheathed in black and red tinted scales, its golden claws shining in the light. Marvin's beyblade suddenly came back to life, bouncing off the arena wall and ripping towards Dranzer with renewed speed. "Damn! How can I beat a beyblade that can revive itself? Its too perfect!" Kai thought pessimistically as he frantically evaded Tiblaid's relentless onslaught. "Kai! My beyblade is unbeatable! Perfect in both long and short range attacks!" Marvin boasted to his opponent, smiling cockily. "Watch this! Berserker Rain!" The Dark Eden leader shouted to his beyblade and, like Joseph's "Night Edge", it split open to reveal a set of what appeared to be missile launchers. Well, they weren't. They were far nastier than that. Black energy assaulted the area around Dranzer, completely leaving no trace of the miniature pyramids behind. Kai shut his eyes and left it to Dranzer to dodge the deadly rain. He listened closely, trying to understand what made his attack so precise and deadly. "His beyblade spins at incredible speeds yet still aims perfectly! Ian's was possible because the attack was outside of his beyblade, so what's the thing keeping its aim accurate?" An idea zipped through his mind and he sent a mental command to Dranzer. His bitbeast complied and zoomed right at Tiblaid, occasionally taking hits from the endless barrage of dark energy. It stopped inches away from the deadly beyblade and zipped off just as a burst of energy shot at it. Sand flew inside Marvin's long-range weaponry and Kai watched in glee as it spun around uselessly. Marvin cursed and spat on the floor. "So your trick is a second spinning mechanism. Clever, but not good enough." Kai said calmly but this was just one of Marvin's lethal gadgets. Dranzer started to weaken Tiblaid as revenge for Tiblaid's previous attacks on him. Marvin smirked then shook his head in pity. "You do realize I said long and short range attacks? Tiblaid, show him the Velociraptor Claw!" Blades popped out off the side of Marvin's beyblade, wrapped in an eerie black light. Dranzer was knocked back as the protrusions sliced into his armor, seriously scratching his beyblade. Kai groaned at this development and mentally commanded Dranzer to get out of there. His beyblade moved away from the considerably slower yet more powerful Tiblaid. Sparks flew as Kai made an error and fell into the razor sharp blades of Marvin's beyblade. He veered off and tilted accidentally but this mistake became one of the turning points of the battle. Tiblaid tried to attack him while he was tilted and his blades got caught in the sand, staying stuck there for a second or more compared to a normal beyblade. Kai instantly saw this and a plan formed in his mind. // Dranzer, rocket up that wall over there but don't go to fast, I need him to catch up. // //Hello? Bitbeasts can read their master's minds! I know the plan! // //All right then, let's go! // Dranzer went towards the yellow brown boundary, apparently weakened because of his lowered speed. Tiblaid kept a consistent pace and almost reached Kai's black Dranzer if it wasn't for the fact that Dranzer was in the air above him and he was stuck in the wall. "What the hell?" Marvin shouted as his beyblade dug deeper and deeper into the wall until its real attack ring began to grind against the barrier. Dranzer would have smiled if he had facial expressions but settled for the satisfying sound of him landing on top of Tiblaid, finally stopping the rampaging beyblade. Marvin stumbled backwards, stunned by his loss. He stared with bulging eyes at the victorious Kai, who was standing there, expecting him to stab himself for losing. Marvin's eyes flashed a demented red and punched the floor, cracking the steel and breaking his knuckles. The crowd instantly stopped cheering for Kai at the crunching sound of broken bones and stared at the trembling Marvin. "Must. uphold. honor." He said before he picked up the bloody katana beside his dead teammates. "Kai! I'll see you in hell!!!" Marvin shouted as he drove the sword through his stomach and pushed it upward, slicing his spine and killing him in a few seconds of excruciating pain. His limp head fell to the floor, his eyes still open and staring at the horrified Kai. Tyson promptly barfed on Max's shirt at this sight, the suicide too much for him to handle. Joseph bowed his head sadly and picked up his dead leader's body and gently placed it beside JC and Mark. He stooped down and picked up the katana with quivering fingers. He grasped the hilt with 2 shaking hands and looked tentatively at the silenced crowd. "I have no more purpose without my teammates and my leader. I shall go down honorably without suffering humiliation from the ones who defeated us." He said slowly, his eyes fixed on the Bladebreakers. He flipped his sword so that the bloodstained tip was pointing towards his stomach. "Dark Eden will never be dishonored!" Joseph slammed the blade into his gut, blood spewing out from the wound. He twisted the handle slowly, shredding his insides like paper. He choked and fell to the floor, dead. Everyone in the crowd bowed their heads in sorrow and those who wore hats removed them in respect for the dead. Kai just sat on the bench, actually pretty happy with the turnout. "At least I now know who took Dominique. They won every match they had so far, defeating the White tigers to clinch a spot in the finals. I'll get you, BladeTech!"
End of chapter
Pyroteknix: Note to readers: due to exceptional violence and gore, (Watches as Aerodynamix barfs on floor after watching movie version of story in their TV.) we will change the rating for the next chapter to R. That doesn't mean that the next chapter will be another bloodbath, though. I'm only changing it for this chapter.
Aerodynamix: What! That's such a sappy ending! God! I liked the part where I barfed a lot more!
Pyroteknix: Hey! I didn't give you permission to reveal what the next chapter is like!
Aerodynamix: Can I please tell them about the battle between BladeTech and the Bladebreakers?
Pyroteknix: You just did, brainless imbecile.
Aerodynamix: (Throws flower vase at Pyroteknix) Hey! I resent that remark! I prefer "Idiotic swine" or "Moronic monkey" Pyroteknix: (Leaps behind couch for cover) This means war! (Grabs radio from pocket) This is Pyroteknix, I repeat.
Aerodynamix: Don't call for your puny ant army! I have an air force! (Shows off a jar filled with butterflies)
Pyroteknix: (Drops radio and starts laughing hysterically) Butterflies? Hahaha!
Aerodynamix: Genetically engineered butterflies that carry the exact type of dust you're allergic to!
Pyroteknix: (Skin pales as he remembers incident where he sneezed so hard the computer blew up) Run for cover! ( Scurries under couch)