New Life

By Cat

Chapter two

"Practice," I tell my team as I walk out to the hand crafted battle stadium at an opening in the forest. This specific stone bowl was crafted by one of my ancestors and is centuries old. 'Meeting place of the two tigers, parting place of five.' It reads in an ancient form of Chinese around the rim. Those words had been carved by a wise village elder of ours village that could allegedly see into the future. Of course that was centuries ago and most young children do not believe the legend, because even to me it seems to be a bit weird. People have told me that it was the site where the first Beyblade was built and used.

"Kevin, Gary, you're up first." I tell them and they step up to the ancient bowl and begin to battle. That's probably one of the things I love about my team not like that the most. They'd do anything for me; they'd probably even rob a bank for me. I guess it's out of fear that I'll kick them off the team. I wonder what they'd say if I asked. . .

"Hey guys." I called out to them, "How about we go and rob a bank?" This is going to be a good one. Sometimes I play worse jokes than Kevin. It's just as well that I'm the team leader. And now Mariah is shooting me the dirtiest look not like that, I mean like death dirty I feel like she is drilling a hole straight through me.

"What?" They yell, I swear that Mariah was about to faint, well we'll see who faints first. They must think I'm going crazy. This is probably true. And there we go, Gary loses his concentration and loses to Kevin Angel: Go big Kev Alessandra: I'm excited, Kevin turns to me with a look of horror on his face and stutters the words;

"B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-you c-c-c-c-c-c-c-can't." I'm really enjoying this. He looks as if I need to take a trip to the mental hospital down the road. I felt like taking a trip as well.

"Hmm, just you watch me." All three of them had eyes as wide as dinner plates. And their jaws were practically on the ground too. They must have thought that I was crazy and a real goody-goody no offence, I guess I was. Well I'm not. I felt like bursting out in laughter. One down, two to go. Kevin's down. I think he only fainted, could've bumped his head though.

"Hey guys what's up?" A familiar voice called. I've heard this voice ever since I was about one, when mine and Rei's parents decided that they should introduce us to each other.

"Rei," I say as I turn around and see my raven-haired best friend. Who looked tired from the walk here. I guess its cause he's been living in the lap of luxury these past few months and hasn't really been walking this far every day just for practice. I think he and the rest of his team were staying at Robert's castle. "Not much, how've you been?"

"Great, you?" He asks me. I notice that he has a dark blue back pack hanging over his shoulder.

"Good." I reply casually just before he notices Mariah and Gary.

"What happened to them!" He exclaims, with a hand-gesture to my team and stares at my team with the weirdest look.

"Asked them if they wanted to go and rob a bank." I reply with a smirk. Inside I was laughing really hard.

"Were you joking?" Rei asks as he waves a hand in front of Mariah's eyes. Mariah doesn't react even though it's Rei. Hmm don't have to put up with her love sickness today.

"Yep," I say as I nod. "Can't even take a joke." I mutter in disbelief. May as well tell Mariah that Rei is here and that will wake her up.

"Well if it was a joke then why don't you explain that to Kevin after you take him into the house and if you dare do it again, I'll tell grandfather." Uh oh, I think Mariah just came out of her trance. If I did again she would tell grandfather and he wouldn't take it as easy as Mariah. I wouldn't come out of the temple in one piece, but five, to say it in short; he would kill me.

"Ok I won't do it again," I say quickly and drag Kevin into the house. Man that was close. She said the same thing last week when I accidentally spilt a glass of water down her white top. Kevin was laughing at her and she came back after she had changed her top to a black one and man was she furious, and I quote 'You're going down cause I'm gonna tell grandfather if something like this happens again. You may as well him yourself.' I think she does it just to scare me sometimes.

As I walk into his room, I notice a few posters on the walls and pictures on his side table. I put Kevin on his bed and walk around the room. One or two posters were of white Tigers and various other tigers, another picture was of the team and another of our team emblem and the last two posters were of a girl with blackish/dark blue hair, held back with a royal blue ribbon not like Mariah's, the girl had a pair of pale blue eyes and royal blue pupils which were as thin as a cat's, her lips were set in a small smile with large incisors hanging slightly over. She was wearing a pale blue tank top with a royal blue cape hanging form her shoulders, her blue pants clung tight to her thighs until about her knees when they started to grow looser and the seem up the sides were both split to reveal a pair of knee-high boots I don't know what those sort of pants are called I knew that she had to have come from this village but I don't recognize her. A name is at the bottom of one and it reads; Alessandra Folker Cheer. I don't recognize the name either. There was no where else I knew that you could get those eyes and teeth. I also felt that somewhere deep down, I knew her. Oh well, I'll figure it out later.

I turn around in a 360 degrees turn to see all around. Y'know that Kevin is obsessed with white tigers, both the team and the animal. I never saw it before, but I sure as Drigger see it now. His whole side table was decked out with pictures of the team, his bed spread had a tiger pattern on and he had two HUGE white tiger plushies; one on his bed and the other near his closet, which was decked out in some really good pictures and paintings he had drawn. One, I recognized as his first and was a drawing of an orange tiger with a background of blue grass, orange sky, and a green sun. I think he did it when he was four or five he was quite a good drawer then and still is now, a little weird too, but he's a good friend.

Don't even ask me where he got the green hair. I think he accidentally spilt green hair dye all over his head and wouldn't let anyone dye it back because he thought he looked cool with it still does, but I think he's kind of growing out of it, because he's been thinking of dying it blond and cutting it shorter.

I sigh and walk out of Kevin's room. He could wake up in his own time. I walk into my room because I really don't want to go back out. Drigger only knows what Mariah and Rei are up to because they're all alone, at least I think I heard Gary go into his room before.

Gary's parents abandoned him when he was about five or six because they couldn't look after him. They left him on the outside the elder's temple with a note saying; 'Please look after our son, he means the world to us but we have no money to look after him.' It's a wonder that we haven't abandoned him either with all the food he eats. It would be great if we could find his parents because he's lonely without them and has always wondered what they looked like.

You know. . . Out of everyone, Mariah is probably the one that I'm most scared of sometimes, she's a really great girl and nice and I love her he loves her in a sibling way, not like boyfriend/ girlfriend, but more of a brother sister relationship, but other times she just turns into a more angry and different person. It's kind of scary. Before Rei left, she was really close to me I told you before, sibling close and we talked to each other a lot, but then rei left and I became leader, she started to resent me then, I guess it was because I took over Rei's place as team leader and now we hardly ever talk. Maybe I should talk to her every once in a while. . .

But I guess a weird thing is that Mariah and I hardly look like each other, with the exception of teeth and eyes. But all of the village have them, except Gary who was abandoned by his parents I think I wrote about it before. I once asked my grandfather why we have the eyes and teeth; he said that me and the rest of the village, except Gary, were part tiger. And I don't really have the heart to ask him how and why it happened, and I don't really want to use one of my nine lives up on it either.

I sit down on my bed and take out my Beyblade. It was all black except the bit chip which was a white. It was all in order except the attack ring which was a bit chipped in some places and would need replacing. The picture of my bit beast was starting to fade but you could still see the details. I looked at Galeon with pride and admired his aqua blue body and handsome silver mane. I closed my eyes and leant back, I had received Galeon just after Rei had left with Drigger to see what the outside world was like and to make sure that Drigger got the respect he deserved. He protects Drigger with his life and I trust him with mine. He's my best friend; I should be able to trust him.

Galeon is also my best friend that is not human. Galeon has always been there for me and respected my thoughts and beliefs as my bit beast. Ever since my first Bey battle with Galeon, I felt that we had a certain bond that we shared and the same thought patterns. I'm a lot like Galeon; for instance we respect other people's feelings.

I guess that something's are meant to be, like Rei and Mariah, and the legend. I don't know what the writing around the stone bowl means but it seemed important to me, and I'm sure it will happen in the future. "Meeting place of the two tigers, parting place of five." I whisper, as I open my eyes. "It's just a big riddle."

"Life's like that old friend." A familiar voice says from the door.

"I'm sorry Rei, I didn't hear you enter." I say and sit up.

"It's ok, I should have knocked." He says and comes over to sit down on my bed with me. He took one of his black bangs and tucked it behind his ear. "If we expect things to happen they won't, things are usually left a surprise until they do happen." He looked into my eyes. There was a small silence before I spoke.

"So what brings you back?" I asked him. I've been wondering this since I first saw him today. It was more like him to stay with the Blade Breakers, unless something has happened.

"Well if you'll have me, I'd like to ask; can I come back to the White Tigers?"

TO BE CONTINUED

Alessandra: Not all that long.

Angel: Well it's longer than the others.

Alessandra: Cough cough not Cough cough

Allouete: Zzzzzzzzzsuddenly wakes up where? What? When? Oh I don't think so.

Angel: Glares

Allouete: the prologue was about 300, chapter one was about 400 and this chapter is about 2000. That's about 1300 words more than the prologue and first chapter combined.

Alessandra: Whatever.

Angel: Please press the lavender button under this sentence and leave some nice words about this chapter. If I get at least ten reviews I'll continue this story.