Beyblade: Triple Heart
By: ChocolateEclar
Disclaimer: I don't own any part of 'Beyblade,' which includes all teams and their bitbeasts, etc.
Claimer: I only own 'Triple Heart,' Palara, Mr. and Mrs. McClane, and Divine Intervention.
To Swimming Angel: Thanks for reviewing again! ^_^ I couldn't get italics/bolds to work either until someone told me how to do it. The following is the best way I think I can describe how to keep italics
and bolds.
1.Start typing your file (duh! ^_-)
2.When going to save the file for the first time, click on the 'file' tab.
3.Next, click on the 'save as' button under 'file.'
4.Towards the bottom of the new screen there is a scroll down tab. Click on it and instead of loading the file as a 'word document,' load it as a 'web page' by clicking on 'web page' under the tab.
6. Click the 'save' button next to the scroll down tab.
7. Now when you go to load the document on ff.net, MOST of you're italics and bolds will remain. Sometimes, I'm afraid, some don't come up.
I hope this helps. It was the best I think I can do, but if you still
have questions feel free to ask me something in a review or by e-mail.
To anonymous: *blushing* Wow! Thanks a lot! ^_^ Here's chapter 8 for you!
A/N: This chapter tells more about what Divine Intervention did to Tasha and Palara. You probably will start to be able to tell who Tasha is developing a crush on as well…
Chapter 8: Caught Between the Past and Present
Tasha tossed and turned in her bed, the sheets clinging to her blue pajamas until her legs were caught in a knot. Her forehead was sweating and her white tresses were lying around her head chaotically. She shuddered in her sleep, letting out a great moan. Palara lay at her feet, sleeping. Every once and awhile the bitbeast would groan. They both were having the same dreadful nightmare.
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Little 'dream' Tasha screamed. She was nearly ten years old but still rather small, her colorless hair in two pigtails on either side of her head.
"LET ME GO!!!" she shouted struggling against the man named Melvin's grasp. Tears were streaming down the frightened girl's cerulean eyes and she called out, "PALARA! Please don't separate us, Melvin!!! ALEX! HADRIAN! IRVING!" She gasped for air, her screams leaving her breathless. The members of Divine Intervention ignored her cries and threw the little child into a stone windowless room.
Palara clawed at Hadrian's trunk-like arms, straining to get out of his grasp. She let out a feline yowl, her chocolate-colored eyes blinded by fear.
They began to drag Palara away, locking tiny Tasha inside the room. "Pal! Palara!" Tasha shrieked. She banged on the steel door as her bitbeast was taken back up the narrow hallway.
At first the pain was a dull ache, but then it crescendoed into a blinding sting that shot through Tasha's very essence. "STOP IT! BRING HER BACK PLEASE!!! I CAN'T TAKE THIS!" she screeched. Her cries echoed throughout the lonely room. She could distantly hear Palara's matching shrieks of pain a little way off.
Tasha collapsed onto the cold granite floor sobbing. The pain was so intense her whole body was shaking, her eyes losing their focus. "Palara…" she whispered weakly. She was losing consciousness, her sight nearly gone. "Come back…" she murmured.
Her head met the ground and she let out one last clear howl. That was when the door opened and she realized they were back. Palara was lying rather limply in Hadrian's arms as Tasha gazed at the bitbeast. Hadrian's threw Palara at Tasha who clutched her tightly.
Their strength was still gone and Tasha's vision was practically useless. They were roughly grabbed and carried to a beyblade dish. Melvin took her blade off her belt and launched it.
"What are you doin'? " Tasha inquired feebly.
"If you can't be purified then you have lost the right to play this game," Melvin said simply.
She watched as Melvin, Irving, Alexandra, and Hadrian all released their blades and bashed them into Tasha's defenseless one. The blade was cut, beaten, and nearly destroyed. "Stop it!" Tasha cried out, her voice still frail. Her blade was thrown out the dish and to her. She grabbed it and held it tightly in one hand.
She protested but they still gripped her brutally and threw her out of the sandstone structure. She gasped as her face hit the dirt. She opened her eyes one last time to see Alexandra throwing a stone irritably at her head. "Traitorous snake!" she shrieked before going back inside.
The rock hit the already damaged Tasha agonizingly. She screamed once again.
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Kai heard a scream over the sound of Tyson snoring. He jumped out of bed; no one else seemed to have heard the noise so he went to investigate. He walked hurriedly down the hallway and into Tasha's room.
Tasha and Palara were both shriveling as if in actual pain. He shook Tasha knowing if she was awoken so would Palara. Tasha yelped, still asleep, so Kai pinched her arm. Both Tasha and Palara shot awake at that. Tears were cascading out of Tasha's eyes as she looked around wildly. "W-What?!" she croaked. Then she saw Kai and she realized where she was.
Kai nearly gasped as Tasha clutched his shoulder terrifiedly and cried on him. His shirt was soon wet as her tears met it. He was rather unsure of what to do, but soon Tasha sat up again, wiping her eyes and sniffling. "S-Sorry," she stammered apologetically. "I guess we were having our old nightmare." At the word 'our' she gestured to Palara and herself.
Kai nodded slowly. Finally he managed to say, "What nightmare?"
Tasha and Palara shivered slightly. "We started having it after we left D.I. Eventually, though, we stopped and kinda forgot about it. I guess seeing them again dug up the old memories…"
Kai listened silently. When she was done he stood up and said, "You were only a solitary kid when they harmed you. Now there's no need to be afraid of them."
Tasha looked searchingly at him before asking softly, "Why is that?"
Kai was already at the door. He didn't even turn around; he replied simply, "Because the others will always be there for you."
Tasha blinked confusedly at that. "What about you?" she inquired almost breathlessly.
"Maybe." And with that said, Kai was gone.
Tasha nearly fell off her bed at that response. Palara was looking at her expectantly so Tasha blurted out, "What?!"
Palara made one low purring noise causing Tasha to growl and throw her pillow at the snow leopard bitbeast. "Not a chance, you moron!" she shrieked. They gazed at each other a moment before Palara made her old feline laugh. "Oh shut up, Pal!" shouted Tasha crawling under her blankets. They both slept serenely for the first time that night.
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When Tasha was nine years old, she met Divine Intervention. They had watched the girl beyblading and when she had healed from her lightning injury, they had introduced themselves.
"My name is Melvin Wilson and I'm the captain of the team Divine Intervention," Melvin had said cheerfully. "My teammates and I have a proposition for you."
"Call me, Alex," added Alexandra. "We've watched you blade and you've got style, dear. As such we'd like to offer a position on our exclusive team, Divine Intervention."
"Y-You want me to be a part of your team?" Tasha had blurted out amazedly.
"Yes indeedy, kid," Melvin had replied that day.
"Whoa! I can't believe it! We'd love to be on an actual beyblade team!" Tasha had exclaimed. Palara had purred loudly, her coffee-colored eyes twinkling.
That day they had made a momentous, yet dangerous, mistake. Tasha would regret it for years to come…
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Tasha sighed. "You can go, Max," she said motioning to the dish before them. Their third match had begun and Rei had gone first. Unfortunately for the Bladebreakers, he had lost. In the last few moments of the round, Rei's opponent, May of the Bey-Treasures, had called upon a massive bitbeast named 'Calimi.' It was an elephant, its gigantic tusks jutting out of its head.
It had rammed into Driger and knocked the beyblade off balance. Rei's blade then had crashed into the wall in a blink of an eye and stopped spinning.
'So what if things aren't looking too good, we can still do this,' thought Tasha lost in her own contemplations.
"You mean it?" asked Max, sending Tasha back to reality.
"Definitely, besides you haven't bladed during the whole tournament," replied Tasha sitting on the bench.
Max stood up, bouncing forward. "Thanks," he said happily.
Tasha nodded, Palara was sitting at her feet snoozing. It always gave Tasha a strange feeling when Pal was sleeping and she wasn't. When Palara was awake, Tasha had a sort of 'double-vision' that could be very useful in the dish. Palara often saw things she didn't after all and whatever Pal saw so did she.
Max stepped up to the circular dish and prepared to launch his blade. Tasha was having a hard time concentrating on the match though. 'Stupid, stupid, STUPID!' she thought. 'Why did I sit next to Kai?!' she screamed at herself. Ever since the night before, Tasha had begun feeling atypical around Kai. The feeling left her with an odd quiver that went through her body like lightning.
Tasha thoughts wandered to Kai in a towel and she mentally slapped herself. 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!'
At this rather loud mental comment Palara's ears twitched and she awoke. She sent a glare at Tasha that said quite clearly 'shut the hell up or else!'
Tasha abruptly stopped 'yelling' at herself and smirked. Her amplified eyesight returned with Palara's awakening and she silently laughed. Palara growled and closed her eyes again. She was asleep soon, her breathing becoming heavier.
Tasha stared at Pal a moment longer before turning to Max's match. It was almost over for his opponent, April. Her bitbeast, a horse named 'Cifini,' was growing fatigued. Draciel bumped into Cifini causing the tired bitbeast to disappear and the blade to cease spinning.
"Winner, Max!" shouted DJ Jazzman.
Max bounced back over to the bench and high-fived Tyson. Tyson marched up to the dish next, his adversaries, June and her bitbeast (Celili).
Tasha watched as Tyson's blade shot off his launcher and straight at June's blade. June never stood a chance; her blade flew out of the dish as soon as Tyson's beyblade hit it.
"The Bladebreakers win!" announced DJ Jazzman. Everyone cheered except Tasha and Palara. Tasha only made a cheerless smile.
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Tasha sighed as she gazed out of the bus window. They were on their way back to the lodge and she was feeling rather depressed. The real reason she had let Max finally take his turn was, in truth, because she herself and Palara didn't feel up to it. Palara's stomach was still sore and Tasha just generally didn't feel emotionally up to it.
The others had noticed this. Palara and Tasha's eyes had obviously lost the familiar fire in them and although Tasha was keeping her sad mood in check, Palara was not. They knew Palara showed Tasha's true emotions and, of late, Palara was rather gloomy and unenergetic.
Tasha stared at the darkening sky and watched as rain poured down from the clouds. Palara was lying beside her as always, her eyes showing a wave of emotions only Tasha could truly understand. They were her own emotions after all.
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Kai had a feeling it was the nightmare that was spooking his teammate. She had been acting strange since then after all. He gazed at Palara who was staring glumly out at the storm, just like her master. 'They're alike in more ways than one,' he thought.
Palara's tail twitched a moment before thunder clanged in the sky. Kai was the only one who perceived the odd coincidence so he remained silent, waiting for another clash of thunder. Sure enough, a second before thunder struck, Palara's tail jerked up and downward.
Tasha glared at Palara, who nodded. "Stop that," whispered Tasha sharply. "I don't need to know."
"Know what?" asked the continuously sugar-high Max leaning over the back of her seat and peering down at them.
"Why don't you mind your own business?" snapped Tasha. Max sat back in his seat wordlessly.
Kai had a feeling Tasha wasn't truly angry with Max, so he gazed at Palara. He was right; while Tasha looked outwardly peeved, Palara looked tearful, her chocolate-brown eyes glassy and her over-all expression melancholy.
Kai didn't know what to say to the female blader so he remained taciturn. That night, he still said nothing as Tasha and Palara went silently into their room, both rather drained and impassive.
The following day, if Tasha didn't cheer up, they would have to converse.
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A/N: So there's chapter 8! ^_^
Tyson: This chapter was kinda depressing.
Rei. Yea and did I even say anything?
Choccy: Nope. ^_- *winks*
A/N 2: Next chapter, features Divine Intervention versus the All-Starz!
Tasha: *appears in a business suit and reads a cue card* Not only that, folks, but it'll also include some fluff!
Choccy: Though probably not very much…
Tasha: *pondering* Do you mean Rei/Mariah fluff or something.
Choccy: Sorry, no Rei/Mariah. Not in the next chapter anyway. ^_-
Tasha: Then what kind?
Choccy: *whispers answer in Tasha's ear*
Tasha: *face turns red* W-What?! You better not!
Choccy: =P
Tasha: I'm going to kill you! *starts chasing ChocolateEclar*
Choccy: *running* Don't forget to review! Bye!
Tasha: URGGGGGHHH! *throws a toaster at Choccy*
Choccy: Arghhhh! Help! *gets hit with toaster* Ow! @_@
Tasha: Yes! *does a dance with Palara* Bye everyone!
Choccy: @_____@ Look at all the pretty stars. @_____@
Tasha and Palara: -__-