"Look, it's no problem Kai, Rei can just beyblade instead of me until I get my spare parts from Cairo; stop worrying." Ellaris sighed as they walked around the stadium.

"I just can't believe that that was coincidence." Kai repeated for the hundredth time today.

"Looks like your little mortal boyfriend is smarter than he looks." A voice said from behind them. The group turned around to see a teenage girl with flaming red hair leaning causally against a wall.

"Saffron." Ellaris growled, her eyes narrowing.

"The one and only. I see the ice-queen's still sub-zero." The girl named Saffron smirked.

"What do you want Saffron?" Ellaris demanded glaring at her.

"Oh nothing, I was just looking forward to kicking your butt in a beyblading match, but I guess you'll have a problem with that now that you have no beyblade." Saffron smirked standing up straight. "Of course, that's not a problem for some of us." She added.

"So you get my own brother to sabotage my beyblade and then follow me around trying to insult me? I don't believe you still haven't grown up, you were always a baby and by the looks of things you always will be." Ellaris spat at her. Ellaris turned to walk away when a wall of fire suddenly burst out of the ground and blocked her way.

"At least this baby isn't afraid of her own beyblade." Saffron hissed stepping closer to her.

"Is that so, care to put your bit-chip where your mouth is? Or are you just scared I'll beat you?" Ellaris snapped grabbing Saffron's top and pulling her closer.

"Like I have anything to fear from you ice-queen." Saffron laughed back.

"See you in the first round then." Ellaris sneered throwing Saffron to the floor and walking off, the bladebreakers followed her.

"That was smooth, you talked yourself into a corner again." Kai said looking at Ellaris suspiciously.

"Shut up Kai, I'm not scared of her." Ellaris glared at Kai and stopped walking.

"I know it's not her your scared of." Kai replied quietly.

"Um, not to interrupt but what just happened?" Kenny asked, Kai and Ellaris turned to face him.

"That was Saffron, the most annoying of the mortal shifts." Ellaris sighed rubbing her forehead.

"What's a mortal shift?" Rei asked.

"I'm a mortal shift there are six of us. They all have the ability to take human form like I do, but they all have normal bit-beast powers too as you just saw. Saffron is the youngest out of all of us, she's only eight hundred years old, and she's got the power over fire, as you must have guessed. Then there's my older brother Blitz, he's got the power over lightning, he must have been the one who fried my beyblade. Aqua, with the power over water, Tropic, with wind. And the strongest of us, our leader, is Carlos who's psychic. And then there's me." Ellaris explained. "What do you have the power over?" Tyson asked curiously.

"Ice, that's why I've Saffron calls me ice-queen." Ellaris frowned annoyed even at Saffron's name.

"So why'd she challenge you to a match?" Max asked confused.

"Because she knows I hate being in a beyblade." Ellaris grumbled.

"Do you mind if we ask why?" Kenny asked aware he was walking on thin ice.

"Claustrophobic. I hate small spaces like say, a bit-chip in a beyblade." Ellaris sighed.

"And now you'll have to fight her or who knows what she'll do. And about your brother -" Kai sighed.

"You say I told you so and you'll get slapped I'm waning you Kai." Ellaris growled.

"I told you so." Kai smirked easily catching her hand on it's way to his face, Kai smirked; she hadn't even been trying.

"You know I hate to say this but you're right. But you're not getting out of being my beyblader for the first match." Ellaris sighed.

"You don't have to fight her you know." Kai sighed finding Ellaris on her own; she looked up from where she was pacing.

"You know I don't have a choice Kai." Ellaris sighed returning to pacing.

"I can tell you don't want to do this." Kai stated walking up to her.

"That's not exactly hard to see." Ellaris replied.

"I won't let them touch you if you back out, I promise." Kai whispered standing close behind her.

"You're sweet but you wouldn't stand a chance against them Kai." Ellaris sighed turning to face him. "And I have to do this, I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, I'm just glad I'll have someone I trust as my beyblader."

"You have no reason to trust me, no one does." Kai said softly as he looked away.

"I have my own reasons for trusting you Kai." Ellaris smiled.

"Where's Ellaris? Is she battling?" Tyson asked as Kai walked up to them.

"She's right here." Kai said holding up his beyblade, but instead of Dranzer being inside there was a new bit-chip in there with a picture of a blue girl surrounded by ice on it.

"Well beyblading fans, for the today's match it's the world-famous bladebreakers against a new team the Mortal shifts, Don't let the odd name fool you folks these guys have never lost a match, but the question today is will the bladebreakers be able to win?" the announcer commented over the loudspeaker.

"In the first round it's Kai vs. Tropic. Kai apparently is using a new bit- beast, which we know nothing about. Tropic is using an unknown bit beast supposedly named after one of their team-mates, Saffron." The announcer said as Kai and Tropic walked up to the bey-stadium, it was one huge dish with other dishes in the centre, each one smaller than the last.

"Let it rip!"

Ellaris could see surprisingly well even though she was stuck in Kai beyblade, Ellaris tried to ignore the rising Claustrophobia and concentrated on the battle. She felt a wave of fire hit her as Saffron's beyblade shot by Ellaris charged up some ice around her, as Saffron's beyblade smacked her again there was a huge hiss and steam appeared everywhere as ice met fire. Ellaris jumped out of the beyblade, as did Saffron as they faced each other in their Bitbeast forms.

"Whoa." Max gasped as he saw Ellaris in her true form, she was totally blue with long rippling blue hair with ice scattered in it, her eyes were solidly blue with no detail in. Her face was actually identical to what it was normally except she wasn't normally blue. Ice sparked in the air around her and she was at least fifteen feet tall and floating at normal Bitbeast height. Saffron looked completely different, her hair and eyes ablaze with fire, she looked extremely demonic and more than a little pissed off. Ellaris wasted no time in shooting a wave of ice at her, which wrapped around her and melted in seconds.

"You'll have to do better than that." Saffron laughed shooting a wave of fire at her. Ellaris put up a barrier of ice, which melted instantly but blocked the attack. Ellaris growled and punched Saffron straight in the face sending her reeling and melting ice cascading everywhere.

"And Kai has won the match!" the announcer shouted.

"What?!" Saffron demanded.

"You've stopped spinning." Ellaris smiled and shrunk back into her beyblade. Saffron looked down and saw that all of Ellaris's ice had melted and completely stopped her beyblade while the beyblade that Ellaris had been in had simply gone up to another level before the final attack.

"She - she tricked me." Saffron whispered as she took shrunk back into her beyblade.

"That was a great plan Ellaris! I didn't think about ice versus water like that." Kenny smiled happily as Ellaris walked back into the stadium, this time in her human form.

"Well we might have the lead but it's the best out of five, if they get three wins then they've won. And trust me, if Aqua's up next it won't be easy." Ellaris frowned looking over at the Mortal shifts.

"Don't worry about it I'm up next!" Tyson grinned and walked up to the bey- stadium.

"That's why I'm worried." Ellaris whispered.