Freyja VS Ren:
"Arise! Fenrir's Ice Drive!"
AUTHOR'S NOTES: It's Freyja's turn! Could the BBA Team make it?! Is it Mao or Asaya?! LEI~~~!!! Stop bumbling around and be true to YOURSELF~~~!!! For in the end, there could be only ONE (lifted straight off from the Highlander series)! R/R please! ^.^
"...and there you have IT~~~!!! 2 to none score, Team Iceland, Team Finland. Could Team Finland still prove its worth and STILL win this MATCH from right under Team ICELAND~~~?! Only one way to find OUT~~~!!!" Maverick waved her arms in the air. "Next Bladers, please step FORWARD~~~!!!"
Freyja nodded, then took a step forward. Yuri stood up then went to where she was and held his younger sister's shoulder with a firm hand.
"Be careful."
"Don't worry, nothing I can't handle," Freyja told him. "Besides, I've lots of help from Wolfborg, so I'm not really worried in any sense."
She steps into the lights.
"For Team Iceland, we have...FREYJA STROSS~~~!!!"
"..." Freyja stood underneath the many lights that shone down on her, her curious blue eyes, like Yuri's own, glinting in mischief, her lips curved into a tiniest bit of a smile. Her red hair in its 2 pigtails swept way past her waist at the sides, its streaks glinting gold and silver. She was wearing a white baby t-shirt with an airbrushed Chibi Vierge up front and an airbrushed Chibi Elhaym Van Houten at the back (doing her signature sexy pose), the round neck collar and its short sleeves edged with maroon; a yellow long sleeved ribbed shirt within with its sleeves ending 3/4 of her forearms; dark blue 6 pocket 3/4 denims with dark red edges and zippers; and a pair of yellow slip-on Skechers on her feet. The silver chain about the left part of her denims carried different keychains: Chibi Ceresia, Bloudeuedd, and Gaea (all mechs from Arcandia), a soft plushie Pikachu and a Sorting Hat. Deep red cord was tied about her neck doubly, ending in a small tied-up ribbon at the hollow of her neck.
"For Team Finland, we have...REN MOYGEN~~~!!!"
Ren Moygen just gave her an unmistakable lewd look. Freyja frowned and her eyes narrowed slightly.
"Bladers, if you're ready...please step up to the shooting POINTS~~~!!!" Maverick looked at each of them, nodding. "Easy does IT!"
Freyja got her ice blue Bey Blade then set it on her Shooter. Ren did the same with his yellow Bey Blade.
"ALRIGHT~~~!!! Bladers at the READY~~~!!!" Maverick raised her arms in the air. "ALRIGHT PEOPLE, LET'S ALL JOIN IN THE COUNTDOWN~~~!!!"
"3..."
Ren smiled in a sickly lewd manner.
"2..."
Freyja's eyes just narrowed further and aimed her Bey at the Bey Stadium.
"1..."
The 2 of them were poised to strike.
"GOOOOO...SHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTT~~~!!!"
"Oh NOOOO~~~!!!" SD Takao literally tore up the stairs leading right into the stadium, amidst loud, wild cheers from the crowd shown on the huge TV screen set outside, from which the curious passersby could watch the battles going on inside. "I'm LATE, I'm LATE, I'm LLLAAAAATTTEEE~~~!!!"
"..." SD Llewelyn had a huge sweatdrop on his head. "Geez, he sure took off like a bloody rocket."
"That's Takao for you." Max grinned. "Always on top of things."
"RIGHT." Tsukiyo just shook her head. "It's because his little date's involved that was WHY he took off like a frigging rocket."
"I guess we better hurry inside, too, or else we'll lose good seats," Lee told them.
They went after Takao. They were still talking among themselves when they bumped into Team Europe, who was looking at the standings chart posted right outside the main doors of the stadium.
"HEY!" Max grinned. "Fancy meeting you guys here!"
"Wouldn't miss this for the world," Oliver told him amiably, his eyes closed happily. "Giancarlo's gone out to fetch us some drinks from the McDonald's store we just passed by a while ago, but I could safely surmise that he did just that to survey the city's more delectable 'sights', so to speak."
"Well, that's Giancarlo for you."
Johnny was looking sulky behind him, whereas Ralf was talking to him in hushed tones. Max blinked. "Errh...what's up with Johnny?"
"His fiancee's dumped him for a balding old graf she just met yesterday. Apparently, the MacGregor jewels weren't big enough to lure the Lancastrian lass into submission." Oliver nodded. "We've been telling him that it's for the best, but he tells us the only reason why he's sulking is because the girl conveniently forgot to give him their family heirloom back. It's been with them for CENTURIES. And it belonged to all his ancestresses before him, dating back to the Middle Ages or so."
"I see."
Ralf frowned upon seeing Llewelyn behind Max, as he returned to the world of the living with Johnny at his side. "I see, Lord Falstaff, that you are quite well. The weather's doing you nice, perchance?"
"Perhaps," Llewelyn answered him shortly. "The weather's much nicer here than in the clubhouse, I tell you. It was getting rather stuffy inside, with all those whitecoats poking and goggling at you every single bloody minute of the day. Which reminds me. How is Johann, my dear fellow?"
Ralf's brows just knitted together more firmly. Oliver was just quiet, and Johnny had become sulkier.
"Uh...I am under the impression that you 2 know each other pretty WELL," Max said, in order to break the uneasy silence that followed. "Right?"
"He is nothing but a mere shadow of an acquaintance," Ralf said sniffily, as if discussing Llewelyn was such a very delicate and nonsensical matter. "Besides, he has his own reasons for not relaying anything about the...unusual...nature of his fading into the woodwork, so to speak. If you'll excuse us..."
"HEY~~~!!! Wait for ME~~~!!!" Giancarlo was saying, sprinting up the steps towards them and holding 3 covered large softdrink cups in his arms.
"..." Lei was blinking as they watched them ascend the steps leading into the cool interiors of the stadium. "That was really weird..."
"You're telling ME." Asaya looked over at Llewelyn. "Why, did you try to kill each other or anything?"
"Well, it's because you've sort of faded into the woodwork back in Japan that you don't know any of this; it really saved you from having the shame that went on along with it. Anyway...the reason why they all hate even just a shadow of just about ANYBODY among us is because Ralf condemns our -Edains-. He says we're all taboo. To be able to wield powerful -Forbidden Holy Beasts-...-Edains-...just like that. He feels it's just not right."
"Too much of a believer of 'old scriptures', so to speak," Lee mused.
"..." Kai was just quiet.
"'Old scriptures'?" Professor asked.
"To other cultures, -Holy Beasts- are taboo," Llewelyn explained. "People from those cultures totally abhor the existence of -Holy Beasts-...they believe them to bring bad luck, bad harvest, bad everything. -Aurans- like us are a different matter. The moment the -Edains- have bound themselves to each and every one of us...everything we touch would be cursed. Destroyed. That is, according to some of those totally ignorant fools who may be controlling -Edain- reports at the moment."
"Cursed?" Max was blinking. "But how can you be cursed~~~"
"This isn't the time to talk of such things; we might miss the battle," Lee said dismissively. "Let's hurry in before Takao decides to rip the entire stadium into pieces."
They went up the stairs in silence.
"...and OOOOHHHH~~~~!!! That must've REALLY HURT~~~!!!" Maverick leaned over and gripped the handrails very hard. "Good LORD do they even have any plans of going DOWN?!"
"NOOO~~~!!!" SD Takao was yelling, banging on his chair sides furiously with his fists. "FREYJA~~~!!! You could DO IIITTT~~~!!!"
Fenrir dipped and attacked again and again, Yggdrasil matching the ice blue Bey's attacks with his own, as well. Ren was smiling in that sick manner again. "Eh little missy, if I beat you, would you go out with ME?"
"Eat my FOOT you LECHER~~~!!!" Freyja shouts. "I'm not done YET~~~!!!"
Max, Kai, Lei, Professor, Lee, Llewelyn, Tsukiyo, and Asaya arrived a few seconds later and joined Takao on the small row of plastic yellow seats that didn't have any occupants yet. "Hey Takao, what're her prospects as of the moment?" Max asked him.
"It's a seesaw battle," Takao replied. "I don't know who's going to win; it could be anybody's game."
"She's really GOOD," Lee remarked as he surveyed the battle going on right underneath them. "I daresay the lad would be in quite a nasty shock in a few seconds or so."
"???" SD Lei blinked.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA~~~~!!! Goodbye, MISSY~~~!!! It was fun while it lasted, but as they all say, it has to end at some point and that point is NOW." Ren swipes his arms. "YGGDRASIL~~~!!! SOUL SPLICE, NOW~~~!!!"
Yggdrasil shot upwards, and a deep yellow light issued forth from its central bit. A frightening -Holy Beast- appeared, which looked like a demon hound from hell.
It seemed to split into many parts, then headed straight towards Fenrir. Ren was laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHA~~~~!!! How about THAT, little girl? Not exactly short of pathetic, eh?"
"..." Freyja smiled. "It's WAY short of being pathetic. "Damn, is that all you've GOT?"
"?!" Ren blinked. "What...what are you talking about..."
"YGGDRASIL IS MOVING IN FOR THE KILL~~~!!!" Maverick was shouting. "I CAN'T look~~~"
Freyja then swipes her left arm in the air, her blue eyes narrowed. "FENRIR~~~!!! ARISE~~~!!! ICE DRIVE~~~!!!"
Several sparkly crystals of ice appeared about the ice blue Bey Blade, as Yggdrasil moves in fast. A perfect ring of those sparkly ice crystals surrounded it, and from the central bit...
"W-what THE~~~?!" Max's eyes were wide.
A beautiful ice wolf came forth, its fur a beautiful display of ice crystals in varying shades of blue, from blue to ice blue, and to white. Its ice blue eyes flashed, then a brilliant ice blue flash of light pervaded the stadium, and~~~
"The BEY~~~!!! Look at the BEY~~~!!!" Maverick was positively yelling.
Fenrir surged forward, sliding across the ice, which by now had totally covered the stadium floor. It held Yggdrasil captive within its glassy hold, and as Ren could only watch in horror, saw it shoot towards his Bey, a furious ice blue aura emanating from it, several spikes of ice shooting forth from its sides as it moves in for the kill.
There were several ice blue slashes. Yggdrasil was promptly cut up into pieces, which sailed off into the glaring lights of the stadium and at Ren's feet. His eyes were very wide.
"..." Maverick looked disbelievingly at Yggdrasil, then at Fenrir, which was still spinning very fast in the middle of the icy Bey Stadium. She swipes her arms in the air. "Yggdrasil, down, out, and SPLICED~~~!!! Winner...FREYJA for the ICELAND TEAM~~~!!!"
"YEAH~~~!!!" Freyja yells, shooting her closed fists up in the air and started dancing around, to the wild cheers and yells of the very appreciative crowd. Takao was jumping up and down as well, and looked as if he was the one who won, and not Freyja.
"YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEEEAAAAAHHHH~~~~!!!" SD Takao yells, dancing around too, just like Freyja. "She WON, she WON, she WON~~~!!!"
"Wow...she's really AMAZING..." Max whispered.
"They weren't Arctic Champions for nothing," Lee mused. He nodded. "Hey! Why don't we all go down and congratulate them, for Takao's sake?"
SD Takao abruptly stopped dancing, then stared at Lee. "Huh?"
"Come on, Takao, CONGRATULATE HER~~~!!!" SD Tsukiyo said, thinking in the same lines as Lee was. "Tell her how AB-SO-LUTE-LY CUTE and TALENTED she was, eh, Kinogu?!"
"Errh..." SD Takao was starting to panic, and to Tsukiyo's satisfaction, REDDEN. "C...Come on, Shinohara, that's not FUNNY~~~"
SD Max grabbed SD Takao by his left arm, SD Professor grabbed him on the right, and they all dragged him towards the dugout of the Iceland Team, which for now was being filled up notoriously fast by many of their admirers. SD Takao was all-out panicky.
"Cut it OUT~~~~!!! TSU-KI-YO~~~~!!!" SD Takao yells.
SD Tsukiyo popped noisemakers along the way as they made their way towards Team Iceland.
Lei was about to follow them when a voice stopped him dead in his tracks.
"Nice fight, wasn't it, Lei."
Mao was standing there, a strange smirk on her face. Lei blinked, then stared at her.
"Mao..."
"Don't worry, I won't disappoint you. Just make sure you get to the Finals, Lei, I would be waiting. It'll be a big disappointment if you let me down, AGAIN. OK?" Mao gave a little wave, then she bounded off.
"..." Lei stared after her and watched until the familiar carnation pink head disappeared from his view among the many people that were filing out of the stadium. Lei was lost in his thoughts, thinking of Mao, when somebody called his name.
"Lei?"
Lei blinked. Asaya was standing there, blinking up at him, as innocent as you can get. Lei bit his lip, thinking of Mao again.
"Lei, are you alright? Max told me to come fetch you..." Asaya told him, her voice trailing off.
"I'm...fine." Lei forced a sheepish grin. "Let's go. We don't want to keep them waiting, right?"