Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been updated for ages. I blame school, writer's block and…..and…..everything else!! But I've finally dragged my lazy butt back to the computer screen; i've finally decided to go back at it. Go me! ^__^ Well then, let's get started, we've got no time to spare!!!
Disclaimer: Nope, even after all this time, I still don't own Beyblade. Can you believe it?
Chapter 12: Friends or Enemies
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"Ok guys! We're finally here!!" Max said cheerfully as the Bladebreakers walked down the street together (well…Kai was a little behind…but you know that already ^-^).
Tyson stopped suddenly, looking up at the huge building in front of him, gaping. "Aren't we supposed to be going to our hotel??" he asked, with confusion in his voice. "This looks like a stadium to me!!"
"That's right Tyson!" Kenny replied, happy for the opportunity to show off his knowledge. "This is the Beyblade Maple Dome, a very famous stadium. It also has a hotel that also is very well known. It's very world-class and it's also where we're going to stay for the tournament."
"ALRIGHT!!!" Tyson and Max cheered, giving each other high-fives. Rei seemed pretty excited about the concept as well.
"I'm told by Mr. Dickinson that we have a suite reserved for us." Kenny continued. This resulted in more cheering from Tyson and Max. "We are very lucky to have such a nice place to stay in. This hotel is almost always full. Of course we should be very polite and on our best behavior." Kenny looked pointedly at Tyson, who tried to look as innocent as possible.
"Me? What are you looking at me for?" he asked in a good-little-boy's voice. "Don't worry Chief; I'll be on my best behavior."
"That's not saying very much." Rei mumbled to the others.
Tyson protested. "Hey, I mean it. I'll be a little angel. It's Kai you all should be worried about. He'll probably scare everyone away!" He shut up quickly as Kai glared at him, and the gang continued their walk into the stadium.
Just as they were heading up the steps there was a sound as a bus pulled up behind them. They turned around to see.
"What the?" Rei asked as dozens of girls started piling out.
"What's this, some kind of party?" Starr said, obviously confused as well.
Then, one of the girls spotted the group. "LOOK!!" she cried. "IT'S THEM!"
"What the heck is going on? Who are these people? What do they want?" Kenny asked incredulously.
He soon found out.
"KAI!!!!!! REI!!!!!!!!" The girls screamed wildly, rushing at them. Many of them had posters, signs, cameras, markers and other things of that type with them.
It took a while for the group to realize what was going on.
"Uh-oh…..." All 6 of them turned around and ran for hotel entrance.
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"I thought you said that most people didn't know about this tournament." Max said to Starr, breathing heavily as they sprinted down the hallway towards safety.
"They don't." Starr replied, apparently annoyed. "But Kai and Rei didn't tell me they had a stalking fan club."
As they reached the door to the suite, Kenny pulled out the key and unlocked it. And they entered it, panting heavily. But their tiredness was quickly forgotten when they saw the rooms that would be their home for the next couple of weeks. After the long and exciting (plus tiring) process of exploring all the rooms (that already took a while), figuring out the rooming (Rei would room with Kai, Tyson would room with Max and the Chief, and Starr had a room to herself), and trying to keep Tyson from jumping on all of the beds ("PILLOWS!!!"), they eventually grew bored. They sat down together and tried to think of what to do next.
"I know." Starr spoke up excitedly. "How about we walk around and check this place out? This place in huge! I'm sure there'll be interesting things to see."
"And get chased around by that mob again??" Kenny shuddered. "No thank you."
"We'll steer clear outta their way." Starr assured him. "Plus there will be other cool people to meet." She paused. "I have some old friends that I haven't seen for ages, and I think some of them might be in this tournament. We'll be able to meet lots of other bladers from the tournament too."
"Now I'm up for that!" Tyson said happily.
"Me too!" Max said.
"Count me in!" Rei added.
"Chief? What about you then?"
Kenny winced. "Well, I would like to meet some of our competition." He admitted slowly.
"Ok, one last person. Kai?"
Kai sighed. "Sure. Whatever."
"It's settled then!" Starr said contently. "Let's go!"
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5 of our Bladebreakers looked rather blankly at each other while Kai, looking cool, yet slightly frustrated, stayed a bit behind with arms crossed.
"Uh…." someone said. "I think we're lost."
"No kidding, Tyson." Starr said. "How did you guess?" Looking around at the rest of the crew, she asked them. "What happened to that map that we had?"
All eyes turned on Tyson. "Uh….um…." he said sheepishly.
Rei sighed. "Thanks a lot." he said.
"Well…..uh…."
Max grinned. "This is the first time I've ever since Tyson at a lost for words."
"………….."
The others started laughing as well. After a while, Kenny spoke up. "I guess we should go find someone and find out where we are then."
"Yea." Rei agreed, looking around.
"Excuse me." An unfamiliar feminine voice asked behind him. He whipped around quickly. So did the others.
It was indeed a girl. She was tall, with dark reddish hair that reached below the shoulder and matched her large orange colored eyes. On her head was a black leather headband. And behind her were…..three more girls. (what else?? hehe) Two of the were brunettes and the other had short black hair. One of them giggled. "I'm sorry to bother you, but do you know we are right now?" The redhead girl asked them. Everyone was silent for a moment as the girl and her friends waited for an answer. The girl flipped her flaming hair over her shoulders. "Well??" she asked impatiently.
"Sorry, we have no idea." Rei replied. "We're trying to figure out how to get outta here ourselves. Why don't you guys come with us?" Kenny, Tyson and Max nodded behind him.
"Thanks." The girl replied gratefully. "By the way, my name's Adriana." She said, smiling warming at them, making the boys (except Kai) blush slightly. Starr rolled her eyes.
"I'm Rei." Rei answered. His voice was followed by others.
"Hiya!! I'm Tyson!"
"Max!"
"Hello. My name is Kenny." Everyone then waited for the other two team members to make their introduction. They didn't say anything.
"Oh, this is Starr, and that's Kai." Max finally said after a brief moment of awkward silence. Rei glanced at Starr, who seemed stubbornly, and strangely silent. For her, at least. What's up with her, he wondered.
"Cool." Adriana replied. "These are my friends and teammates:" She gestured at the group of friends. "Jen," she introduced, nodding at the girl nearest to her. "Rava and Matty."
"Excuse me." Kenny said. "But did you say teammates?"
"Yea, she did." Jen said loudly. She was the only girl taller than Adriana and she had dark chocolate brown hair that reached her waist. "We're a blading team."
"Really?" Max asked.
"Yea. Our team name is the Blader Gurlz. Heard of us?"
"Uh, sorry no." Rei said.
"Well, we're competing in the upcoming beyblade tournament." Jen continued, her dark brown eyes showing slight annoyance..
"You're kidding me!" Tyson's mouth dropped open. "We're in the tournament too!"
"Not THE Tournament, you aren't." Another girl, Matty spoke up. She was a shorter girl with bouncy chestnut brown hair that curled out at the bottom.
"Do you mean the Tournament of the Bitbeasts?" Tyson said proudly. "Coz that's the tournament we're headed to."
The girls seemed a bit shocked for a moment, then regained their composure. "Really." Jen said, in an amused voice. Then what's your team name?"
"We're the Bladebreakers, that's who!" Tyson announced. Silence……
"Wow!" Adriana breathed at last. "I thought you guys looked familiar. I've seen you on TV before! I guess I just couldn't recognize you because I didn't know that there were any girls on your team." She looked in Starr's direction. Starr snorted in disgust but didn't say anything.
"Starr's our newest member." Rei said quickly.
"Oh. Well that's cool. It's good that there are more girl bladers out there now." Adriana's voice wasn't too sure of what she had just said though.
"So how long have you guys been blading?" Rei asked, trying to change the subject. Starr shot him a grateful look as they continued walking down the hallway.
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"Well I'm glad we finally for here." Kenny said as they approached the lobby. "I thought we were never going to find our way back."
"Yeah." Adriana agreed. She looked around at her teammates. "Well, we've gotta go now. It was really cool meeting all of you." The four Blader Gurlz gathered together. "See ya at the tournament." she said.
"Bye." The three other girls said together. After the farewell was returned by the majority of the Bladebreakers, the girls left them. The Bladebreakers found a couple of couches and sat down to rest.
"Well, they were nice." Tyson said after a while.
"Yeah," Max agreed.
"We might have to face them in the tournament, you know" Rei pointed out.
"Then we'll get to see if they really are as good as they say! I'm sure we're much better." Tyson said. "I can't wait!"
"Yeah!!" Max said enthusiastically.
"Don't be so sure." Kai said darkly. "Remember, all of the bladers at the tournament will have bitbeasts, and they've been asked by the BBA to come. The BBA won't just choose any person with a bitbeast to enter the tournament. None of the bladers there will be pushovers." He smirked. "None of them except Tyson, that is."
Tyson growled. "Why you….." he said, advancing towards Kai. (not like he'd stand a chance ^_^)
Rei and Max pushed him back down. "Calm down dude!" Rei said.
"Yeah!" said Max.
Tyson finally settled down. "Well, I still think that we can beat everyone!" He said cockily after a while.
"Yeah!" Max said again.
Kenny looked at Max exasperatedly. "Have you noticed that all you've been saying this whole time is 'yeah'?"
"Yeah!" Everyone sweatdropped.
Rei looked around. "Hey, what's going on over there?" By the doorway there was a small crowd of people.
"Dunno." Starr spoke for first time in a while. "Let's go find out." The others got up with her, leaving a bored Kai by his lonesome…..
"Excuse me. Coming through! Whoops, I'm sorry." Tyson accidentally knocked into a reporter as he pushed through the crowd, who scowled at him nastily. Starr, Max, Rei and Kenny followed him at a distance until they finally reached the center. Tyson looked disappointed. "Awww….it's only an old woman, nothing special. Let's go." He turned to leave. The others, who hadn't yet seen who/what the center of attention turned with him.
"Starr!" An older woman's voice said in a surprised voice. Starr turned back around, looking just as surprised as anyone else. She looked at the woman, who was pushing her way towards her and recognized the face, whose current expression was full of excitement and ecstasy. Oh, great, she thought to herself. Just who I needed. Quickly she gestured for Rei, Kenny, Max, and Tyson to go back. She'll have to deal with this herself. The boys looked at her oddly, and then looked at each other. They shrugged and walked back to Kai.
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Kai looked at them with a questioning look on his face. "Well, there's a woman over there." Rei explained. "And I think she knows who Starr is. She told us to come back. Starr, that is."
"Weird." Tyson added, sitting back down.
"Yeah." Max agreed.
Starr came back soon after. "Sorry about that." she said wearily. The woman must have already left, because the crowd was gone.
"Who was that, Starr?" Kenny asked her.
Starr shook her head. "Oh, no one." she said with an assuring smile. "I've got all things under control now." Kai raised his eyebrows in suspicion to those words but didn't say anything. "Hey who are those people over there?" Starr pointed, trying to change the subject. There were a group of 5 teens about their age of in the distance. They were so far off you couldn't tell what their faces looked like. "They look like they might be bladers. Think we should….?" She sounded hopeful, Kenny noticed.
"YEAH!!" Tyson and Max said immediately.
Rei looked just as enthusiastic. "Definitely!"
"Let's go, then!!" Starr impatiently pulled everyone up
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As they walked nearer towards the might-be-bladers, Rei saw the excited look on Starr's face fall slightly. He guessed that these weren't the friends that Starr had been looking for. Still, she kept walking, trying not to show any trace disappointment. Finally, they reached the group of teens, who were talking to each other animatedly and hadn't noticed the approaching party.
Tyson and Max got there first. "Hi!" Tyson said brightly! The people turned around. There were 3 guys and 2 girls, and they looked surprised. "I'm Tyson." Tyson extended his hand to the nearest guy, who took it, uncertainly, still confused.
"Do we know you?" he asked.
"Nope." Max said brightly. "But I'm Max." By this time everyone else had reached where they were too. Max quickly introduced them.
The group of teens still looked quite taken aback. The boy who had shaken Tyson's hand finally spoke again. He looked a couple of years older than Tyson. "I'm Mark." He said in a baritone voice, which was now friendlier. He was tall, with sandy brown hair and amber eyes. "And this is Andrea, Rune, Andrew, and Tavi."
"Hi!" They all said together in unison.
"So why are you guys here?" Andrew asked them. He was probably the youngest guy there with chestnut brown hair and green eyes.
"We have a beyblade tournament that we're in." Rei answered.
"You've got to be kidding!!" Andrea, the girl with the dark brown hair said. "So are we!" Tyson cast a knowing glance at Starr. So she was right.
"Cool!" Max said. "Maybe we'll be able to compete against each other! That'd be sooooo awesome!!"
"Totally!!" agreed Andrew, who was starting to like Max very much. They then started in a lively conversation when Tyson's stomach started growling hungrily. The others looked at him, bewildered. Tyson laughed uncertainly. "Well…." He said after a moment. "I think I'm hungry." The Bladebreakers sweatdropped. Kenny looked embarrassed.
"Well I guess we better go eat then." Rei told the other team. "Would you like to come swith us?"
Andrew looked hopeful but Mark shook his head. "Sorry," he said regretfully. "We've got a busy schedule today. Maybe next time."
"Sure." Starr said. "See ya then!"
"Yeah!" Max said. "See ya at the tournament!"
"Or sooner!" Tyson added.
"Bye!" they replied and the Bladebreakers were on their way again.
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Ok, so that was a lame place to end a chapter. I guess it's getting kinda confusing now too. Sorry, but this chapter's getting long and I'm getting a bit tired. Anyways, I'll start on the next chapter sometime soon and hopefully will get it done by the end of next week, since I've got break!!! One whole week of school off!! YAY!!! ^_^
So pleez review and tell me what you think!! ^_^ *holds our a jar of cookies* Oh, and if you have a beyblade fic that you'd like me to read and review for you, I'd be happy to do it, as long as it's not yaoi.
k, bye 4 now!!
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