Chapter Seven: It Leads to You

Kai stood frozen in disbelief. He turned to where Kimmy was coming out of the school entrance like any one would. Ray looks too in understanding the situation. Kimmy was the mysterious person that saved Kai? Kimmy shot a beam of light at Talon? This is getting to be one big sequel to a movie Kai missed.

As if instincts were controlling both Ray and Kai, they walked cautiously up to Kimmy (who was tying her shoes) with hearts pumping. Kai, clutching the headband in his hands, got to Kimmy first. Noticing his shadow, Kimmy looked up from her shoes and into Kai's eyes. He got up, half confused at why his mouth was half-opened. "Kai? And Ray?"

Ray spoke first (he ran panting in front of Kai), "Hi Kimmy, Kai was just wondering if this headband belongs to you." He held it up.

"Hey, yeah! Wow where did you find. it. . oh." Kimmy sensed a bit of trouble.

Kai found his voice, "You made that beam of light. You stopped Talon."

Kimmy turned around and looked towards the ground. She was a bad liar, and couldn't make much of an effort to hide what she did. If she said yes, her feelings for the leader of the Blade Sharks would come back, and put her in more misery. After he threw her off in the rain, her tears overwhelmed her. She had no more tears now. She has to deny him and just run away. She turns back to them, about to say "No I didn't" when she felt her hand being grasped. Kai took her hand with both of his arms. Ray watched as time slowed just a bit. Finally, Kai spoke.

".Thank you."

Without warning, Kai took off towards the street, his mind racing with pictures and memories. Why? Why did I do it? It started to rain. Kai kept running, his eyes covered by his slated hair. He noticed an alley, and ran in there to sort things out. He banged the walls with his fist, growling in depression. He remembers the scene with the boy and girl even more clearly now.

Almost half an hour passed, and Kai was walking in the streets, slowly. His whole thing didn't make sense (and whoever is writing his story has no plotting talent). The rain stopped. He looked up, gasped and took a step back.

The small street was sparkling in the emerging sunlight. Grass and dew seem to meet each other as that time-stopping feeling came back to Kai again. Down the street was a girl with a pink head, running to him. Should I run away? But his feet won't let him.

Kimmy got up to him, and said nothing. Instead she looked into his eyes. Kai looks back with sad regretting ones. Kimmy took a breathe, "You're welcome, Kai." She gave him a short hug, smiled, and walked away guilt- free. The road sparkled even more now as the sun showed itself as time regained its seconds.

"Wait," Kai called. Kimmy turns around. Kai opens his mouth to say something, but then closes it again. His eyes narrows slightly as he goes in thought, in what will happen if he does ask her, if he does ask her to love him. Halfway down the shimmering sidewalk, Kimmy smiles, waves and disappears in the brightness.

* * *

Next day (Saturday) Kenny had called all of them to Tranquil Park to look at something Kenny found.

"Look at this you guys," Kenny begins, "I was searching my database and the internet for information about Talon Ono. There's not much on him, only that he's entering the world championships, but we already knew that. (Tyson: oh cra*) But I came across ancient bit-beast prophecies."

Kenny turned the laptop for Tyson, Max and Ray to see. Kai stood behind them arms cross and still thinking about what all love-struck people think. Dizzy made some comments about Tyson's hair before downloading the site containing ancient writing. Under the picture of the writing, was the translation translated by.

"Hey! My dad translated it! Cool!" remarked Tyson, even more interested than before.

"Hm." thought Ray, "It says that sacred spirits are souls of real live animals long ago."

Kai closed his eyes, "We know that. That's what the Biovolt men did to animals today. They suck the living soul of animals and turn them mad."

"Wait there's more," said Max as he read, ".Even though animals don't turn into bit-beasts when they die nowadays, human beings with good intentions may evolve into sacred spirits themselves when their life ends. whoa."

"That's pretty deep stuff, Chief," said Tyson, "But how does that help us be the best?"

"I'm not sure." said Kenny with a cheeky smile. Tyson and Max fall down in setback. "Nice going Chief," Ray commented, "Oh and by the way, I have a suggestion for our next world championships."

"What is it Kai?" asked Tyson, getting back up.

"I think we need a new teammate. Someone that's equally as strong as us, or has the potential to learn to be like us in a short time."

Max thought for a second, "Do you have anyone in specific, Ray?"

"Actually I do," Ray stood up and looked at Kai, "I think Kimmy should join us."

The reaction to this little announcement on the team was pretty big. Kenny's laptop slid off his hands and plumped on his shoe, making him hold his foot yelling. Tyson stood up like lightning and accidentally stubbed Max's foot, who also jumped around yelling. Ray looked upon the situation hopelessly and decided to step on Tyson's foot just for the fun of it.

Fifteen minutes later, they were all mature again (Kai wished they kept going) and settled down. Tyson and Max hardly believed Ray would want a girl join the team.

"Ray you must have taken some kind of medication," Tyson said sarcastically, "Kimmy is a girl, with no blade, no skill or knowledge of Beyblading or-"

"That's where you're wrong Tyson," came Kai's voice unexpectedly. Ray agreed, "That's right. Kai and I found out that Kimmy was the mystery person who sent Talon flying off last week. Let's just say it came out of the blue."