Heather: Hola! hehe that's spanish for hello. anyways I will start this chapter with something special. I will tell everyone the meaning of life. It is *sees something large outside the window* What the hell?

Tyson: What? What is it?

Heather: If I knew that I wouldn't be asking would I?

Tyson: *slumping down* no.

Kai: dumb ass.

Heather: *opens the window to see Saiyan_Chang jumping up and down to look in the window* SC?

SC: oh hey. What are you doing in the Big Brother house?

Heather: Uh, this is my house. Are you sure your in the right fic?

SC: isn't this my story?

Heather: Nope. Sorry.

SC: Damn. Now I'm gonna be forced to go insane.

Heather: You could always hunt down Tyson for me.

Tyson: What did I do?

SC: *to Heather* Really? Cool! *jumps through the window*

Tyson: Oh great.

Heather: SC, here. Borrow my baseball bat. *hands it to her*

SC: *grins evilly* hehe, TYSON! Come here. MWAHAHAHAHA! *starts chasing him around the room*

Heather: And on a happy note, I give you chapter 7!

Chapter 7

Last Minute Preparations

"We're all here to obviously discuss the new tournament" Rachel said looking at the team plus Joel sitting on the grass in her front yard.

"And to make a practice schedule" Kai added, receiving a groan of annoyance form Tyson. Kai just rolled his eyes.

"Ok. Well first off we must welcome Joel to the team" Rachel stated. Joel stood up, gave a little wave, and sat back down.

Rachel started with her speech again. "Now with the real stuff. We leave in three days for the tournament. We're leaving early to get a jump on the competition. Next is the new rules. If you lose one single match that person is out of the tournament for good." This statement earned Rachel some gasps and complete looks of shock.

"I know, but the team will still be able to continue. We have to be careful though. The BBA will change the number of bladers needed for each set of matches. We only get to use a blader to battle twice in the same match only once so we have to watch out of being disqualified. Are there any questions?" She looked around and saw the hand of her annoying brother go up. "Yeah Tyson?"

"Um...I was just wondering...when do I get to eat lunch?" Everybody fell over in complete disgust.

"Tyson, we're talking about a tournament. Can't your stomach wait 5 minutes?" Joel asked while staring at the blue haired boy teen sitting next to him.

"Not really" Tyson replied while scratching his head with a grin.

"Just for that, I'm calling practice right here, right now" Kai said in annoyance. "We're going to evaluate everyone's strengths and weaknesses. Tyson, you and Joel will go first."

Joel and Tyson stood up and everyone walked to the backyard where a wok was set up on a crate.

"So Tyson, I finally have a reason to kick your butt in something since I got back in town" Joel said while putting his red and yellow blade on his launcher.

"In your dreams. You obviously haven't seen my Dragoon yet" Tyson shot back, aiming his launcher.

"We'll see..." Joel stated flatly.

"You ready Dizzi?" Kenny asked his laptop.

"As long as I'm trapped in a computer."

Max was about to start the match while Rachel pulled Kai to the side. "3..2..1....Let It Rip!"

"I thought you didn't want to talk to me" Kai said. He crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes.

"Hey. If we're gonna go to a tournament with rules like this, we can't afford to have these fights and arguments between everybody. We need to act like a TEAM." Rachel drew out the last word to get her point across to him.

"What do the rules and me having to be nice to these rejects have to do with each other?"

"Hello?! It's kinda obvious. We have to be there to support each other. Can't you understand that?" Rachel pleaded to him.

Kai sighed and opened his eyes. "I'll only do it because I care about you."

"What?" Rachel was in complete shock. Did he just say what she thought he said?

"You heard me. Just don't let your emotions with Ray get in the way." Kai started walking back to the match when he felt a hand on his arm.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Kai started to get annoyed. "You know what I mean, Rachel. You and Ray being together better not screw up your blading or I'll have to step in." With that, Kai walked back to the match and left Rachel with a look of shock and anger on her face.

Joel and Tyson's blades had been hitting each other with a lot of force from the beginning of the match. Tyson was getting bored.

"Dragoon!" Tyson yelled. Suddenly, a blue light shot up from his white blade. A dragon slowly rose up and looked ready to attack.

"Not bad" Joel said plainly "but you'll have to better than that to beat Kamikaze. Now Kamikaze!"

"What?" Tyson was in total shock as a yellow light started coming from Joel's blade. Slowly, an eagle head and wings came up attached to the body of a fox.

"Sorry Joel, but no cutesy bit beast can beat me. Dragoon, Storm Attack!"

"Big mistake." Joel's blade flew into the air but stayed over the center of the wok.

"Now, Kamikaze. Soaring Slash!" Joel shouted. His bit beast flew down to Dragoon with incredible speed and struck him right on the head with Kamikaze's paw. Tyson's blade shot out of the dish and landed at his feet.

"Whoa. That was awesome, Joel! How did you stay in Dragoon's hurricane like that?" Tyson asked with excitement.

"That was soooo cool. There's no way we can lose this tournament now!" Max said now standing behind Tyson.

"Thanks" was all Joel said as he picked up his blade.

"That's a good practice but I expect everyone in the park at 10:00 AM sharp tomorrow" Kai said. Tyson just groaned.

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*SC passes out on the floor in front of Heather*

Heather: SC! I hope you didn't kill Tyson. I need around to do the disclaimers.

SC: No. He's still crawling around here somewhere but I didn't know he could run that long!*pulls herself up in a chair* What are you doing?

Heather: Just putting weapons uh I mean junk in a bag to put in my tent in front of Kai's house in your story.

SC: Oh Crap! My Story! Uh, I better go make sure people aren't killing each other over there!

Heather: Come back whenever you want *SC is jumping out the window*

SC: Okey dokey!

Heather: Ok peoples. You know the deal. You r/r and I'll write another shapter. But I must get a review. MWAHAHAHAHA. Bye!