Hi ho everyone.
I think I might point out that Word is going on the fritz with us. It sometimes repeats thing that I don't exactly want repeated. So, if you caught that in the last chapter, I apologise.
Disclaimer: Why would I own Beyblades? I have very little money as it is.
Tournament
Chapter Five
Boys Versus Girls
Robyn gasped as she and the other females in the tournament stepped into the stadium. It was huge to say the least. Many seats surrounded a high platform that had an enormous Beyblade dish in the middle of it.
"Wow, it's amazing." Emily said in awe. She stared at the long staircase that led them to the platform.
"It is." Mariah agreed. She looked over to her other team mates to see that Madison and Jay weren't looking too impressed at all, while Sassy, Nikki and Shelvia did.
"So, what number do you want?" Madison asked Jay, who looked over to the other five girls on the team.
"It depends on who's going first." Jay answered dryly.
"I will." Shelvia said.
"Then I'm going second." Jay announced.
"I'm third." Sassy smirked with that all knowing look again. Melinda shivered as she saw it again, and then noticed that her oldest sister had seen it, too.
"Okay, she is really starting to freak me out." Melinda whispered to Marree, who nodded with her mouth partially opened.
"I'm going fourth, then." Emily smiled.
"And I'm fifth." Madison said.
"If we all win, then there's no need to ask about where you two are going." Jay said to Nikki and Mariah. "But just in case some of us make a mistake or two, I advise that the cat goes sixth and the shrimp goes last."
"Yeah, right, whatever you say, your highness." Nikki snapped. She crossed her arms and turned her back on everyone. Jay glared at her before she did the same, only she started to walk to the staircase.
"I'll have you know that you just made a big mistake." Marree said informatively to Nikki. "You've gotten her angry. She's gonna go on a rampage."
"Last time she did that, we Bey Battled and there I was lucky to find anything of my Beyblade." Madison said. "And then she challenged the person who got her angry…."
"And there was nothing left of my blade, except for the Bit." Melinda moaned.
~*~
"So how's our line up going to be?" Max asked as they walked to the stadium. "I want to be, um, number five."
"I want to be number six. If the girls are lucky then they won't have to battle me." Michael boasted.
"I'm number three." Lee said. He looked around when he heard a giggle, but all he saw was a bit of brown.
"I think I'll go number two." Robert said. He heard a small gasp and turned around to see a small flash of yellow going towards the stadium. "Huh?" he wondered out aloud.
"What's wrong?" Takao asked.
"Nothing." Robert said, shaking his head. "Where are you going?"
"Three."
"I'm there." Lee argued.
"Fine, I'm four then."
"I'm seven." Gary said, "but that's if we haven't already won by then."
"Then that leaves me at one." Eddy summarised.
"It really makes you wonder who'll you'll be up against, doesn't it?" Max asked. "I personally want to be against that Sassy girl because she tied with Lee. That would be interesting."
"I want to battle one of those triplets." Takao said. "That Melinda one was pretty strong."
"This is getting better by the minute." Michael chuckled. He looked down to his right hand where his baseball glove was. He wasn't exactly expecting a big match.
"Ah, so you don't think that this'll be big?" Robert asked. "I must admit, I've only ever heard of Emily and Mariah which makes me a bit worried about the other girls. I have no idea about their strengths. Do we even know if all of them have Bit Beasts? And if they do, how powerful are they?"
"You're always one to completely confuse another, aren't you?" Takao asked, but then stopped in his tracks and scratched his head in a confused manner. "Whoa, what did I just say?"
"I knew that was coming." Kenny groaned, but then jumped as Melinda and Robyn appeared out of nowhere.
"Who's going where?" she asked happily.
"Huh?" Takao asked.
"What number are you guys?" Robyn simplified.
"Oh, well, I'm four."
"Oh, so you're against Emily." Melinda said.
"I'm first." Eddy said. Melinda scrunched up her face as she thought for a second, which was something that could do some serious damage.
"That means that you're against Shelvia." She said after a while.
"I'm second." Robert announced.
"You are in so much trouble." Melinda giggled. "Ooh, yeah. Jay's really angry with Nikki at the moment. If you treasure your blade, I advise that you pull out right now."
"I'm against Jay?"
"Yes. I would say that it was nice knowing you, but it really wasn't."
"Was that really necessary?" Robyn asked. Melinda smiled widely. "So who's third?"
"I am." Lee said. Robyn giggled, reminding Lee of before. "What?"
"You're against Sassy again."
"You know, she really freaks me out. She has this thing about her that makes you think that she knows a lot more than you." Melinda said quietly.
"She probably does know more than you." Robyn giggled again.
"Really funny."
"Who am I against?" Max asked. Melinda cocked her head to one side before she pouted drew her eyebrows tightly together while putting her hands on her hips.
"How are we supposed to know that?" she demanded. "We don't know what number you are."
"Oh, I'm five."
"Then you're against Melinda's sister. I'm not sure which one, though." Robyn said.
"That's easy. You're against Madison. I wouldn't worry too much. She'll make it painless." Melinda said. "Who's six, if you're lucky enough to get there, that is."
"I am." Michael said.
"You're against that cat. I never did quite get her name." Robyn said.
"Her name is Mariah." Lee told her.
"Oh, I like that name." Melinda said, just like a true blonde. "And that means that the big guy is seventh. You're against Nikki."
"And which one is that?" Gary asked.
"She's Sassy's little sister. You know, the one with pink in her hair." Robyn said.
"I like pink." Melinda smiled. "So we'll be off so we can tell everyone about who they're battling. You guys better hurry up because they're getting impatient. That's a really big word."
"She beat me?" Oliver moaned. "She thinks that 'Impatient' is a big word! This can't be good."
"There is no way." Lee said as he shook his head. "I'm stuck against Sassy again."
"It isn't that bad. She's really nice after you lose to her. She doesn't mention it afterwards." Robyn smirked. "And I think she'll be extremely easy on you."
"Wha...?" Lee started before the two girls ran away quickly in giggling fits.
~*~
"Who are we against?" Emily asked Robyn and Melinda as they ran into the stadium and then up the large staircase. Robyn leant forward and rested her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath. Melinda slowly slipped to the floor and took off her shoes.
"Owie." She moaned as she rubbed the heel of her foot. "Well, uh, Eddy, I think it is, is first, then Robert, then Lee,"
"And then there's Takao, who's fourth, and that idiot, Max, then Michael, and then Gary."
"I don't think Michael and Gary should worry, I mean, we have Madison and Jay, and that alone will knock out two." Melinda smiled as she stood up. "How lucky, you get to get Robert for saying that stuff earlier, Jay."
"Fine." Jay said quietly. "It's a pity that I'm not against Takao, but I guess that can wait."
"Why are you so hell-bent on battling him?" Mariah asked.
"He's the best, and I have to beat the best, just like I was trained to." Jay said simply with a shrug of her shoulders. That was when the males walked through the stadium door.
"….And that's the truth." Max finished talking to Michael, who proceeded to laugh.
"Hello, boys!" Madison cooed as she stood on the platform and waved her hands up in the air.
"Wow." Takao mouthed as he took in the surroundings.
"Oh yeah." Lee agreed. He looked up at the girls, who all seemed to be crowding around in a circle as they all looked back at them.
"Hi. You guys look like tiny little ants from up here!" Madison giggled. She tried to make out each one. "Hey, where's Tala and Kai?" she asked huffily.
"Err, I'm not too sure." Takao said as he scratched his head. He looked around the group he was standing in. "Does anyone know?"
"I saw Kai and he wasn't too far behind me." Rei said.
"Oh well. Just come up here!" Marree smiled, and they all did as she said.
~*~
"Okay, the first round is Shelvia and Eddy," Marree smiled again. She watched as the two Beybladers stepped up to the Beyblading dish. "Three, two, one, let it rip!" she yelled and the two started.
Shelvia pulled on her cord just as Eddy did, and both Beyblades were let out at tremendous speeds. At first they collided, and then pushed back. Each blade followed each other around the dish for a little while before Eddy commanded his blade to turn around and attack Shelvia's. With a big blow, Shelvia's blade was sent out of the dish.
"And the winner is Eddy, and that's one point to the boys!" Marree said, though with a little disappointment. "The next two are Jay and Robert. Hang on to anything you can grab, people, 'cause my little sis is in an angry mood after a little fight and I can damn guarantee to you that Robert is going to suffer…"
"Just shut up." Jay snapped as she and Robert made their way to the dish. Jay grabbed her Beyblade out of her pocket and set it up on her ring. Robert could only cock his head to the side as he watched. "What are you staring at?" Jay snapped.
"Someone must have done something really annoying to you." He chuckled as he set up his own.
"You shut up, too."
"You asked me what I was staring at and I answered."
"Three, two, one," Marree started, "Let it rip!"
Robert spun his blade out on the dish and Jay basically threw hers, or so it looked. While Robert's blade spun around the dish, Jay's spun on the same spot, right in the middle. She watched as Robert's dish spun the circles around her for about a minute when she scoffed slightly.
"This is not fair. Why do I get stuck with such a weakling whose Beyblade is so slow?" she asked, and sat down on the floor with her eyes closed and her arms and legs folded. "Look, we might as well say that this match is over. You're going to attack mine, but at that speed, it will do absolutely nothing. Then I am open to attack you with anything, and everything that I have. So save yourself the embarrassment and pull out."
"I don't think so." Robert smirked and attacked her, just as she predicted. His blade just bounced back quickly and Jay's blade then rammed his hard, sending it out of the dish, and over Jay's head, or at least it would have if Jay hadn't have caught it. Jay then stood up and threw Robert's blade back at him. Her Beyblade snapped back to her hand, and she had her eyes closed the whole time.
"That's too bad. Madison already tried that technique against her." Tala's arrogant voice chuckled from the staircase. He was standing next to Kai, who had just arrived as well. They both looked over at Jay, who nearly smiled.
Madison, Marree and Melinda all glared at Tala before they all walked over to him.
"You're ruining everything!" all three exclaimed, and stomped their feet like a three-year-old that didn't get their chocolate because they were naughty.
"How is she supposed to fall in love with him if she likes you?" Marree asked.
"She isn't even suited for you." Madison agreed.
"Our kawaii Jay-chan (That's what I call my friend, except it's 'Kawaii Shelvia-chan') is so wrong with you." Melinda snapped.
"Yeah, so butt out!" Marree yelled before she slapped him across the face and turned to go back to the bench. Madison and Melinda followed her suit by slapping him each and then walking back. Tala looked at them with a vacant expression on his face, despite the stinging sensation all over his left cheek, and then looked over at Jay, who shrugged and sat down at the bench next to them. The silence that was going though Tala's head was broken by Kai, who was standing near, when he chuckled lightly.
"I am starting to like this family." He snickered quietly, before he walked past him.
"The next match is Sassy for the ladies and Lee for the little boys!" Nikki announced and glared at Lee as he stepped up to the dish. "Go get 'im, Sass."
"Of course." Sassy nodded before she set up her gold Beyblade. Lee smirked and got his black one ready.
"This time you're gonna meet my Galleon better." Lee told Sassy.
"I'm sure I'll be delighted." Sassy returned the smirk.
"Three, two, one let it rip!" Nikki commanded.
Sassy and Lee, who both still had that all-knowing smirks on their faces, set their Beyblades free and commanded them around the large dish. Sassy's blade followed Lee's, sticking close to it, making sure to knock it about every now and then.
Loud cheers came from the triplets as they all started cheering cheerleader chants, reminding Jay of the horrors of what the first few years of high school were like.
"Lyssa, come on out and play with your new playmate." Sassy said with a big smile, completely scaring Melinda and Madison again, which shut them both up immediately.
'Thankyou.' Jay moaned in her mind. She was unfortunate to be the one sitting next to them.
"Galleon, you too." Lee commanded his cat-like Bit Beast. Like in the first match, there was a big blast of bright lights only this time when they cleared; both blades were still spinning in the middle of the dish. Both wobbled slightly and each one fell at the exact time.
"And that's a tie for the third round!" Nikki called out loudly.
"Suck on that, boys!" Robyn shouted.
"Um, might I point out that meant that that also means that we kinda lost, too?" Emily asked only to infuriate Robyn slightly. They all watched as both Lee and Sassy went down into the dish to collect their Beyblades, and both wore that damnable smirk, though Sassy's was more noticeable.
"I guess we'll battle later?" Sassy asked. Lee nodded his head before the two shook hands. There was a small giggle from Nikki, which made Jay glare at her, before the triplets stared at Nikki. They looked back at Sassy and Lee and mouthed 'ooh' as they realised what Nikki was giggling about. Sassy and Lee clambered out of the dish and then went back to their teams.
"You lost." Jay snapped quietly, "Just as that other girl from your team. I guess you girls aren't as good as you thought you were."
"Well I'm sorry if we ruined your style." Sassy snapped sarcastically before she walked over to the rest of the Star Strikers.
"It would be interesting if they started fighting themselves." Max laughed before he noticed that everyone was glaring at him, or looking at him as if he was twisted in the head. "What?"
"You are pathetic." Michael groaned.
Takao stepped up to the dish, well knowing that it was his turn to Bey Battle Emily as he remembered what order everyone was in, which, surprisingly enough, was right.
"Next match is me versus Emily." He said as he scanned the team of girls.
So far he knew that Jay was going to be hard to beat and there was something wrong with Sassy, Shelvia wasn't as good, Mariah was great with her Bit Beast and Emily was good with computers, but that was about it. He had a small inkling about the triplets and that was they were all airheads and completely brainless until it came up to the latest fashion and they knew something about Beyblading, but they had to have learnt that from Jay, as they had already explained. So it turned out that the deadliest Beyblader was Jay, or at least had something to do with her.
"That's alright with me." Emily said and got her tennis racket ready.
"That has to be the weirdest shooter that I've every seen." Shelvia said to Sassy, who was now glaring at Jay. No matter what, Sassy never seemed to have a normal facial expression. "Oookay then, there's an all out war between us Star Strikers and the Feminine Bladers, isn't there?" she asked. Sassy's face changed again to one that would be described as an expression that beat her all-knowing smirk as she smiled. Widely.
"Not really." Sassy answered. "I was only playing, and cats like to play. Jay just doesn't understand that element of blading."
"Riiight, I believe ya." Shelvia drawled out and she turned to watch the match. The two had already been told to start.
"Take no prisoners, man!" Max called out, and was again stared at, but by the girls this time as they all wondered how thick this kid could be.
"And we're the dumb blondes?" Marree asked her sisters loudly, causing many of the other girls to giggle at the comment, well, at least most of them. Jay still sat with a bored expression on her face, while Sassy tried to conceal her giggles as she tried to stay calm. Emily, too, stayed quiet as she watched her Beyblade fly over her head. It landed on the ground behind her, making all the boys smirk as they took in their win.
Max then stepped up as he took Takao's place, and Madison followed his suit.
"Y'know, I think I might lose to add a dramatic effect to it all." Madison smiled and put a finger up to her chin while she turned her head to one side. "Or maybe I should let Pearl have some fun. I don't think that Jay would enjoy it very much if I lost, but it would seem so much better."
"If I were you, I'd lose on purpose." Max told her while he set up his green shooter.
"If you say so." Madison agreed and locked her pink Beyblade onto the pink shooter. She smiled even brighter before she and Max started.
Like Madison said, she first took one hit at Max, which sent him back before she was knocked out of the dish, but funnily enough, so was Max. The little shove that Melinda's Pearl gave his Draciel sent him out of the dish, though Madison's landed out first.
"You have to be joking." Jay moaned as she looked at her older sister. "Another one lost?"
"He told me that I should have lost on purpose, so I did." Madison explained.
"That is something that I'd expect Melinda to do."
"That wasn't Melinda?" Lee asked as he looked at the three identical sisters.
"No." Madison said. She pointed at one of the other two who was sitting next to Jay. "She's Melinda."
"I still can't tell the difference." Takao groaned. He looked at the three before her shook his head. He then looked over at Jay, and noticed that they looked nothing alike. "But how would you be related them? You look nothing like them, let alone act like them."
"I know." Jay moaned yet again.
"So that's three to us?" Robert asked with a scoff, which made all the girls turn and glare at him.
"I could beat all you idiots easily." Jay boasted. "And some of you with my eyes closed."
"You most probably could, but you won't." Tala said as he stood next to where Jay was sitting, mindful to stay on her right side while her sisters stayed on her left. "We have to finish this match off."
"Okay," Mariah smirked and walked over to the dish with her pink Beyblade in her hand. "It's me versus Michael."
"Uh uh uh." A voice chuckled from the door. Everyone turned and half of them groaned. It was Howard. How come it seemed like he showed up everytime something interesting was about to happen?
"What do you mean?" Michael asked.
"We have a guest who came to see you all, and I'm sure you won't want to wreck your Beyblades so you can't battle in the tournament tomorrow, do you?" Howard asked.
"So you're saying that we have to stop these matches and make it seem that us girls were lucky that you interfered?" Jay demanded.
"Ah, yes, I do believe I was warned about you. I was told that you have a tendency to make sure that people know who exactly you are."
"Who is this guest, anyway?" Nikki asked and sat down on the edge of the high platform. Robyn followed.
"He is a well known man who shows particular interest in Beyblading, especially with Beybladers with powerful Bit Beasts. He can't wait to meet you all. We're all going to meet him in the dinning room in five minutes for an exhibition match."
"With who?" Takao asked.
"I want him to see a good Bey Battle, so we need two good Beybladers. Any volunteers?"
"I nominate Kawaii Kai!" Marree cooed down to Howard. Everyone instantly turned to the now blushing Kai, who turned his head slightly as to hide his face.
"Kawaii?" Max asked with a slight chuckle. "I think you got the wrong guy."
"No, she doesn't." Madison said with a smile.
"He's absolutely perfect." Marree said.
"If I didn't have my absolutely perfect boyfriend, and if he was a bit older…" Melinda started and then mumbled the rest to herself.
"I am not hearing this." Jay groaned and covered her ears with her hands. She looked at Kai, whose face seemed to be reddening with every word that Melinda mumbled.
"I am." Tala chuckled.
"Okay, if there's no volunteers then there's no match." Howard said with a little bit of disappointment in his voice. "I guess you guys will give us all a show tomorrow when the tournament starts. We can't wait for it."
"Fine, ruin our fun." Madison grumped angrily. She folded her arms over her chest.
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That's it for chapter five.