Stargazer : Damn... 8 reviews! Yay! I thought I was gunna have like one or something. The dramas not going to start yet, but it will in the later chapters. Is anyone even reading my useless talking anyways? Okay, I really feel ignored here lol. Oh, and, this chapters going to be a bit...long, so I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer : I don't own anything...the only thing i own is the plot and some characters.

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"OH MY GOD!!" screamed Rain. She closed her eyes tightly as if someone was about to kill her.

Rain bounded her hands around Kai's body. The ride seemed to be more painful for Kai than it seemed to her. "Slow down!"

"Look, this isn't a bicycle, kid. If you want to get there faster than make this experience a good thing. And, damn it, let go of me." Kai snapped. He increased the speed of the motorcycle, sending both Rain and his hair to whip across their face. Rain ignored his lecture, and, instead of letting go of her grip, she increased it.

Not only that, but she dug her head into his back.

"What the hell?! Will you just let - go - of - me?" Kai glared at the rearview mirror, expecting that Rain was staring into it, but didn't. He felt her shake her head against his back. He grunted. 'Damn bitch.' Kai thought.

The thirty minutes of the ride was painful silence. Not once did Rain open her eyes. When Kai changed lines, Rain hugged onto him deeper than usual, thinking that they might flip over.

Out of no where, a tap on her shoulder sent her inching towards Kai more than ever, clinging onto him.

"Uh...Rain? You kind of...um...stopped?" Rain recognized Tyson's voice. At once, she snapped her eyes open joyfully and looked around.

"Tyson!"

"Yep...that's me."

"Tyson! My god am I glad to see you!"

"You know...now that we've stopped you can get the hell off me." stated a very cold, know it all voice. Rain turned her face forwards to be inches away from Kai's dark blue hair. "Oh!"

She instantly let go of their embrace as if her hands just touched something hot. "I'm so sorry!"

Kai didn't respond.

Rain got off the motorcycle quickly, relieved that she was on land again. "I'll see you at school. Later!" She could hear Tyson say, waving at his friends.

~*~*~

A girl about the age of sixteen ran her fingers through her hair quickly, getting tangles stuck between her fingers.

"Damn it..." She cursed.

"Laurie... I'm gunna be late for school!" whinned a boy, half the age as her. He tugged at his sisters shirt eagerly.

"Alrigh', jus' go away. I'm gunna get changed." replied 'Laurie.'

Lorenza Montiero, also known as Laurie, had a cruel life. Fate decided that her mother should die at an early age - right after her little brothers birth because of cancer. Her father didn't do anything about it while her mother passed. All he did was gamble their money away and drink. Now, stuck in a trailer, Lorenza had been cursed to do all the chores, cooking, shopping (for groceries), and thats about it. Having enough time to do her homework and squeeze in time to take her little brother to school was the least of her worries. The main problem is, was there enough money for them to survive?

That was when Lorenza knew she had to get a job. As a maid. For the Ivanov Family, for their son's personal maid from Monday's to Friday's, four p.m. to seven p.m.

"Are you done yet?" an annoyed voice called through the door. "Yeah, okay, fine. What time is it?" Lorenza asked quickly. She tied her hair up sloppily and swung open the door.

"Seven thirty." called her little brother.

"Okay, c'mon Matt. Matt? Oh whot the hell..." she shook her head and sighed; entering the kitchen. "Lunch, righ'?"

Matt looked up from searching through the refridgerator. "Yeah. Wheres the lunchables?"

Laurie searched the refrigerator. "Up your butt." she said without looking at her little brother.

He glared at her. "I'm gunna tell dad."

His sister grunted in hate. "He's not gunna care. Oh, hea's the last one." Laurie reached out to take the last box of 'Lunchables' and shoved it lightly into her brothers stomach. "Now hurry up, I gotta go to school, too." She ruffled her brothers hair chestnut brown hair. Matt, in return, jumped to grab Lorenza's hair.

"Nope...your not gunna touch this girl's hair until your like... twenty four." Laurie noted. Both of them grabbed their backpacks.

"Shortie." she added.

"Hey!" shouted Matt, hitting her arm.

"Don't hit me!"

"Well don't call me a shortie."

~*~*~

Rain stepped into the threshold of the school, cool air washed over her face. She had on yellow shorts and pink capri's. Rain had to admit, she had no style. But she didn't like shopping so she didn't bother picking out whats 'in.'

A few girls passing by giggled at her choice of clothes and pointed at her. One had blonde hair, the middle had black hair with red streaks, and the last one had pink hair. They were all in white skirts and tops lined with blue. Even a person without glasses could see that they were cheerleaders.

Behind them were a group of guys either about their same age or younger than them. Rain noticed the pink haired girl look her up and down and then rolled her eyes. Without a second glance from the other two, the three stalked off the opposite end of the hall Rain was going to.

'Room 206...second floor.' she thought. Rain looked around for the stairs.

When she finally stumbled on the stairs a girl came running by, accidentally knocking her off balance. Her binder fell, along with her paper that told her where her homeroom was.

"Oh, Jesus..." She heard the girl mumble. The brunette that knocked her off backtracked and picked up Rain's binder and status sheet. She glanced at the paper, then back at Rain.

"Hi! My names Lorenza Montiero - just call me Laurie. Ah saw that your in room 206!" Laurie laughed. "Your in the same homeroom as me!"

Rain smiled at her new classmate. Surely she sounded nicer than the girls she met earlier. "My name's Rain Granger." Rain placed a hand out. "Nice to meet you."

Lorenza ignored the hand and hugged Rain. "Are ya new hea'?" She asked. The black haired girl noticed that Laurie had an accent.

"Yeah."

The brunette nodded her head and replied, "Thought so."

When the two girls got to the top of the staircase, Rain walked to the left while Lorenza headed to the right. "Where ya goin'?" called Laurie.

Rain scrunched up her eyebrows a bit and stared at the ground. "To homeroom?"

Lorenza sighed and ran behind Rain then pushed her towards the room with the plaque '206' on the top the other way.

Rain blushed in embarrasment.





"Hello.......Laurie." A friendly voice called out. Both of the girls looked up to see a boy.

A guy....a very hot guy....with flamming red hair on each side of his head starring down at them.

"Screw off, Ivanov." cried Lorenza. The boy slid a hand around Lauries slim waist. "I think not." he said. Rain noticed he had a happy, go lucky voice. "Ah think so!" Laurie snapped back. At that instant, the boy tickled Lorenza on her sides. Rain felt her jump from behind her.

"Go away!" she barked, slapping away his hands. "Now thats no way to treat your master..." Rain heard him whisper - then saw Lorenza's eyes widened a bit. Curriosity got to her, so she finally asked what was on her mind that exact moment.

"Are you guy's going out?" asked Rain. Both of the people in front of her directed their gazes towards her.

"Of cawrse' not!" denied Laurie.

"Of course we are." The boy announced.

Laurie shoved him away. "Oh, Ah forgot to tell you! His name's names Tala Ivanov. And wea' NOT going out. It's just that Ah'm his..." She paused. "Maid."

There was an awkward silence.

"Oh....I see..." Rain nodded. Suddenly, Lorenza jumped up again.

"TALA!" she screamed. Laurie turned back to face Rain once more saying, "Ah'll see ya later, kay?"

Rain nodded, seeing Laurie walking after Tala. The black haired girl looked around the room. She saw the same three cheerleaders she encountered earlier gossiping about something. This time, they didn't notice her. In the middle portion of the room was a blonde boy arguing about something with a orange haired girl about something. Another guy was standing inbetween them, probably telling them to seperate. He was a good feet shorter than them with brown hair. His bangs covered his eyes.

Behind them was Tala and Lorenza, Tala holding up her elastic band and Laurie desperatly trying to get it back. Rain tilted her head. Laurie actually looked better with her hair down. It was the first time Rain noticed Laurie had gold streaks in her hair.

She looked next to them, and amazingly, she found Kai. He was closing his eyes currently, as if blocking out the classroom from his mind, and crossed his arms across his chest. At that moment, he shot open his eyes to directly glare at Rain. Rain, startled, jerked her head to look somewhere else. Apparently, she found an empty seat in the front of the room. The lass quickly sat down; avoiding his gaze.

Right as she sat down, another student came stumbling into the room. The student quickly ran into the classroom and dropped the mountain of books on top of the desk next to Rain's. About three of the novels she was carrying dropped on the ground, one of them ending up next to Rain's foot.

Rain hesitated before picking up the book.

"Is this yours?" she asked quietly.

The person, behind the books, turned out to be a girl. She had strait maroon hair, tied back into a high poney tail. Black, frammed, glasses covered her amber eyes. She had freakles a bit more than the blonde had - the one fighting with the orange headed student had that is. She was skinny for their age - even slimmer than Rain.

"Y-Yeah..." she stammered. Timidly, the girl took the book away from Rain's hand; almost like she was afraid Rain was going to bite her. "Is this room 206?"

Rain stared at the surface of her desk, tucking a strand of black hair behind her ear. "Uh huh..."

Sitting down, the girl looked blanckly at her lap. "So...um, are you new here?"

Rain nodded. "Are you?"

The maroon haired girl mimiced Rain's movement. "My names May Miharu... and yours?"

"Rain Granger."

May nodded knowingly and looked down at the book Rain gave to her. The black haired girl next to her traced May's gaze over to the book. "Hey! You read the Lord of the Rings?"

"Uh huh...do you?" asked May.

"Yeah!"





The next minutes in class, Rain and May got into a deep conversation. They both found out that the other had a lot in common with themselves. Even if it was only a couple of minutes, Rain and May began a close friendship.

The teacher gave a short speach before the bell rang, and then they were dismissed for their first class - gym. Because the first day of school was normally short, they only had twenty minutes of their first block. The girl's gym teacher, Mrs. Lawrence, decided to tell the girls just to run laps for today to get ready for tomorrow, much to the girls' despise.

Rain and May slowed their pace to run with each other still talking about books, movies, and all sorts of topics they had in common. That was when someone pushed Rain; making her fall to the ground. Luckily, her hands reacted quick enough to break the fall.

May turned around to face the pink haired girl Rain bumped into earlier. From what May told Rain, her name was Mariah Zhang, the daughter of a very sucessful buisness man. She was the captain of the cheerleading club and was one of the most chased after girl in the school.

"Watch where your going." Mariah sneered. Another cheerleader with black hair stopped. Rain recalled seeing her earlier the morning. Again, May told Rain the cheerleader's status. Her name was Mai Satou, the co-captain of the cheerleading club.She stopped and gave May an irratated look.

"I thought those glasses of yours actually helped you. I mean, can't you move?" criticized Mai, in a tone that told May to back off.

Just then, Lorenza shoved both of the girls away. "What's your problem?"

Both of the cheerleaders stumbled forth, but didn't fall. They turned around to glare at Laurie.

"Whats up *your* ass?" spat Mariah.

"The same thing up yours." said Laurie, saying each word slowly.

"Laurie, c'mon, don't start anything..." whispered Rain, afraid her friend would start a cat fight.

"No! They really fucking bug me!" Lorenza growled, pushing Rain away.

"Jeez, Montiero, I never knew you stood up for nerds." shot Mariah.

"Well, Jeez Zhang, Ah never knew you were blind enough to get out of peoples way when their in front of you and theres wide open space everywhere! Maybe ya need glasses more than she does." replied Laurie, glancing at May.

Mariah growled. "Well at least I'm not desperate enough to be a personal maid of a student attending here."

Mai gasped.

"Who?!"

Mariah smirked over at Lorenza. "Tala Ivanov."

"Oouu...the skater hottie? I wonder what they've been doing..." Mai grinned.

Laurie shot Mai a death glare. "Ah'm not a one cent whore like you."

"Well at least I am worth a price...while some of us here are worth nothing."

Giggling, Mariah added, "Skaters are like that, Mai. They just love whoring themselves -"

Lorenza gripped her hands tightly, Rain could see her knuckles turn shocking white, and ran towards Mariah in anger. Just then, a vibrant whistle ran through the crisp morning air. Laurie saw the old gym teacher whistle at them. "Move it, ladies!" She focused back on the pink haired cheerleader in front of her.

"Temper, temper..." Mariah teased. "Mari, I'm outta here. Forget these losers, 'kay?" advised Mai. With that, the bouncy japanese girl ran past the scene. "Come on, Laurie, just ignore them. They're not worth it." Rain assured her friend.

Both Rain and May ran ahead of the two girls, leaving them to glare at each other in hate.

Before Laurie ran to catch up with Rain, she stopped, shoulder to shoulder with Mariah. "If ya think your so smart and think skatings that easy, why don't 'cha drop by at the park tomorrow after school? You should know where it is..." Lorenza tilted her in a challenging way.

"Bring it." accepted Mariah.

"Ohh, its gunna be brought." Lorenza grinned, running to catch up with her friends.

~*~*~

"Hurry up, ladies! We have an important announcement today in the boys' gym. Come on, finish that lap there, Kamura!" shouted the orange haired teacher. She had frizzy, short hair that was even drier than a desert, in Lorenza's terms. Her hazel eyes bore into anyone's skin and had the appearence of a hag. Mrs. Daily waved at the remaining girls running their last girls to join their group.

As soon as everyone in class followed their gym teaher to the larger gym. When the girls set foot in their gym territory, most of the guys in stadium looked their way. Many of the cheerleaders sent flirtatious looks at the jocks, recieving a grin in return. They were told to sit on the floor across from the boys as their gym teacher coughed, getting ready to start the announcement.



"After school today, there will be the tryouts for your last year in beyblading. The tryouts will be open for today, tomorrow, and friday after school from three to four thirty. Its better to try out early because you'll have more chances of getting in than trying out late. This years country's rule is that there will have to be ten people on a team representing their school; and out of the ten there will have to be at least two girls. The former team-" The boys' gym teacher was cut off by the same blonde that hung out with Mariah and Mai this morning.

"You mean, like, those spinning top things? What kinda girl would, like, try out for *that*?" she criticized.

A couple of girls and a number of boys glared at her.

She made a strange noise, like a cross from a cough and an 'ugh' sound, before stating, "What?"

The boys' gym teacher inhaled a deep breath of air then started his speech again. "Now, as I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted," the blond haired girl scrunched up her eyebrows and shrugged. "The former team insisting of Enrique Frair, Tyson Granger, Kai Hiwatari, Rei Kon, and Max Tate will be watching as you battle against another until there are four left. Each one of the four will then have a battle against another until ther is only one. Alright, thats for today. We have a short gym class today but not tomorrow so make sure you losen those muscles for tomorrow's class. Dismissed."

With that, the students got up and left the stadium and into the locker rooms. Rain finally went up to Lorenza to ask what she was speaking to Mariah about.

"Hey, Laurie?" she asked softely. Her voice was droned out by the noises made by the girl's changing in the stalls. Rain sighed and tapped her brunette friend gently on the shoulder. Lorenza turned around, almost bumping into Rain.

"Huh? Oh, sorry, Rain. Didn't see ya there..." The black haired girl nodded, almost like she was in shame, before asking, "So um...hows it with Mariah?"

In a minute, Laurie's mood changed from okay to worse than bad.

"Argh, Ah hate that lil' bitch and her friends as well. Ah told her to meet me at the skating park tomorrow. Anyways, Rain, do you beyblade?" asked Laurie.

Rain shook her head. "No, but I have heard Tyson talk about it. I heard he has a bit beast."

Lorenza clicked her tongue. "Aw...Ah was thinking that you would maybe try out for it. Aw well..."

Widening her eyes, Rain looked at her friend. "I think I might have to stay and watch the try outs, though. Tyson has the car and I don't have my lisence yet." Lorenza gave Rain a strange look.

"What? Is he your boyfriend or something?"

Rain chuckled and shook her head slowly. "No, we're related. Tyson and I are cousins."

Lorenza coughed.

"Oh, gawd. You must have 'ta live through a lot." Rain nodded, although Laurie could barely see it. "Do *you* beyblade?" asked Rain.

Laurie nodded her head. "Yeah, Ah have a bit beast 'n all, but Ah barely eva' have time for it. Oh, hey, wait a minute." She waved over at the same orange haired girl that was arguing with the blonde earlier in homeroom. "Emily!"

Hearing her name called, she looked over at the direction she heard her name come from. "Oh, hi, Lorenza!" 'Emily' walked over to them.

"Rain, this is Emily Smith; Emily, this is Rain Granger." Laurie introduced. Emily flashed Rain a friendly smile. Rain, in return, smiled shyly back. The only thing wrong with her smile was that she wasn't directing it to Emily. Instead, she was looking at the ground when she did so.

When Rain finally looked back up to Emily, she noticed she had hazel eyes - a lot darker than Lorenza's silver ones.

"Hey, Emily, could 'ya do me a *huge* favor....pleeaasseee???" Laurie whinned.

Emily giggled. "What is it?"

"Well..." started Laurie. "Ah wanna try out for the beyblade team so Ah need someone to pick up my little brother. On your way to pick up your little brother, could 'ya pick up mine as well?" Emily nodded. "Sure."

"Thanks, so much."

Once the bell rung; everyone started rushing out of the locker room. May went ahead of Rain because her next class was all the way on the opposite end of the school while Lorenza stayed behind to sign up for the try outs. When Rain climbed the stairs to her next class, Tyson grabbed onto her shoulders. With that much force on one shoulder, the black haired girl almost lost her balance, but luckily she grabbed onto the stairs' railing.

"Yes?" She asked an out of breath Tyson. Her cousin was still panting. "Damn it... You have to walk - so - fast." he clutched his heart and coughed a bit.

Rain looked in concern. "Are you okay, Tyson?" Her deep azure haired cousin nodded his head wearily. "Yeah. I'm - just telling you that I have to stay behind today for the try outs. You won't mind going, would you?"

Rain shook her head. "Nope."

"Okay, good. Well I gotta go, my next class is down the hall. You do know where your going, right?" asked Tyson. "Yeah." Rain confirmed. "Good. Well, Later."

~*~*~

"Thanks, Mrs. Smith!" Lorenza thanked, waving as the red Lexus drove away. She quickly grabbed her purple back pack and ran inside the school. Teachers told her to slow down, but Laurie just ignored them and quickened her speed.

The plain, ivory clock she passed flashed '4:23' as she passed it. 'Shit...' she thought.

Laurie made a quick turn for the boys' gym. The first scene that she saw was Tala, Kai, and the same blonde haired boy Emily argued with leave the tall platform that overlooked all the stadiums. There were exactly nine stadiums. They were lined so that there were three across and three down and each had the identical color - blue. Lorenza could see Rain looking down from her high view, her expression told Laurie that she was afraid of height. Another blonde was in a intense conversation with a boy with raven hair tied into a poney tail in the back. There was a white haired boy behind Rain checking something in his hand. Lorenza knew it had to be his beyblade.

"WAIT!"

Her voice echoed through the gym.

The people that were at the gym previously all stopped what they were doing and looked at Lorenza.

"Yeah?" Tala asked. He apparently didn't recognize her until she ran and stood at the base of the gym, where, all the beystadiums were. "Lorenza?"

"Yeah...thats my name. Ah can still try out, righ'?" Laurie hoped that she would. She saw Rain run down the metal staircase that lead to the bottom of the gym. She tugged on Tyson's red jacket sleeve and gave him a pleading look. Her cousin looked at her, then back at Lorenza.

He was about to say something when Kai beat him to it. "No."

"But its-"

"No."

"Its only -!"

"No."

"ITS ONLY FOUR GOD DAMNED TWENTY FIVE!"

This time, Lauries voice droned out Kai's objection. All of the people, minus Kai and Laurie, looked at the digital clock hung on the left wall of the gym. It was true, it was only four twenty five.

Kai kept his hard gaze on Lorenza and she kept on starring at him back. It was then when the white haired boy broke the silence.

"Oh, come on. Shes just a girl! I bet theres going to be more tomorrow and the next day -"

"Shut up, Suzuki. Ah can kick your ass any time Ah want." challanged Laurie, calling him by his last name.

Suzuki glared at her. "Kick my ass? I'm sorry, but you probably can't even aim much less talk -" Again, Lorenza cut him off.

In a flash, she bought up her beyblade.

Now, her beyblade wasn't all that girly. It was bright yellow, streaked with white, and her bit beast was the least bit 'girlish'. It was a lion, much like a thunder lion, that resembled the 'thunder' card from Card Captor Sakura way too much.

With a quick motion of her hand, and a flick of her wrist, she sent her beyblade flying towards Suzuki's silver chained necklace he was wearing. The beyblade, Spritz, dug deep into the chain, with its owner staring at it in shock, and broke it. Once the necklace finally broke; the blade recoiled back to its owner, which smiled proudly.

"As you were saying?"

Suzuki bought out his launcher and glared at her. "Kai, I'm taking this bitch down." he confirmed.

The gray haired captain, crossed his arms across his chest. "Hn."

Tala calmly walked to the nearest stadium and placed his left arm out. Knowingly, both Laurie and Suzuki walked towards the stadium. Both were on opposite sides, and got in the position of launching their blades.

"Three...two...one...LET IT RIP!"

The beyblade Suzuki had, a mixture between blue and silver, raced around Lorenza as hers just spun rapidly in the middle.

"You fucking little whore, your not gunna get away with breaking the chain my girlfriend got me!" He roared, sending Lorenza a nasty look.

Laurie looked at him in a sarcastic glance. She clasped both her hands together and tilted her head in a very childish manner.

"Sticks and stones won't hurt my bones, but your words really harm me." she taunted. Suzuki growled. "Neptune, attack!"

The two blades challanged each other into a race around the stadium as Lorenza asked Rain something. "Rain, is there a microphone in hea' thats still connected with the speakers?"

Everyone looked at her as if she just asked Rain to kiss her.

"Er...yeah, why?"

"Give it 'ta me."

Rain hurried up the stairs, and bought back a black microphone, with the wire still in back of her. Lorenza mummbled something that sounded like, "Damn wire is long..." as she dug into her backpack. A metallic purple CD player was in her hands when she finally took the item out of her bag.

"Yeah, Lorenza? You do know this isn't dance class and this *is* a battle, right?" asked Tala.

"Yeah, I do. Now shut up." Laurie commanded, pressing the 'play' button.

Automaticly, the song 'Breathe' by Michelle Branch blasted in the gym. At that same moment the music started, Spritz gained agility.

Another blonde with brown eyes that stood next to Lorenza squinted his eyes. "What the hell is she doing?" He asked as he saw her slowly dance to the music. The boy with raven hair next to him looked from Laurie, to her beyblade. It looked like he was tracing their movements.

"I've seen this before...she's using her dance movements to direct her beyblade, Enrique. It seems to me like the music is giving her blade an extra boost of speed." he informed the blonde next to him. Enrique then mimiced his friends movements, staring from Laurie back to her beyblade.

"That's fucking cheating! She can't use music to boost her stats!" Suzuki accused.

"Theres no rule in the rule book that says Ah can't." she stated, slowly turning around with her hands up together. Her beyblade did the same. As she did this, she turned to the raven haired boy and said, "Your smart, Rei. Ah like in a guy," and winked.

Rei flushed pink and looked down to the ground not saying anything. "And why the hell does she compliment you?!" Enrique asked angrily. Rain giggled.

The match went on for several minutes, passing the limit of the try outs. None of the people seemed to notice, though. They were all staring at the stadium. Often when the two blades collided, they would send off sparks off the bowl. Clashes of light would be born when either of the blades tried to jump on the other, but missed by a second. With each attack that bore down to the arena, chips of it would fly from the stadium and onto the floor. Soon enough, the bowl had chalky white scratch marks made by the two blade that followed their every movement. No one spoke a word. The gym was deathly quiet, with the exception of the 'clangs' made by the blades. With the occasional curses that were directed to Lorenza by Suzuki.

Now, the ring was officially a mini version of the Rocky Mountains. Hills of broken pieces from the arena laid at random places but the blades kept on racing like it was new. Rain watched her friend as she kept on dancing with a grin on her face. Truely, she was amazed by this new sport. She wondered why Tyson never told her sooner so he could teach her over the summers they spent together in China. Questions popped into her head. How can a spinning top last so long? How can they have that much impact on the metal bowl? And most of all, what were bit beasts? She recalled Tyson telling her that he had one, but never has he showed it to her.

Quietly, she side walked over to Tyson, who was behind Suzuki. Rain was the first person who moved other than Laurie.

"Tyson?" she asked, still marveled at the battle in front of her. "Yeah?" he replied in a hushed voice.

"What are bit beasts?" Rain whispered.

Her cousin didn't leave his eyes off the two blades - which were now mere white and blue blurs.

"I have a feeling you'll see them in a moment. I think you'll know it when you see it. Just wait a little longer..." he said.

Rain nodded from behind him and focused back on the battle.

"This is fucking bullshit, I'm sending out my bit beast now to kick your ass!" Suzuki roared. For the first time since the beginning of the battle, Laurie opened her eyes to send a menacing look at her opponenet. "Go ahead, but in the end, my bit beast will send your bit beast all the way - down - 'ta - hell." cried Lorenza in a monotone voice, emphasizing her last four words.

Tala sent Lorenza a questioning look. "You have a bit beast?" Laurie turned to face Tala. "Yeah."

"You never wrote that on your application!"

"It neva' asked!"

"Well there was a damned section where it said if you had any expirence with beyblade and a line for you to write on."

"Well Ah checked off yes and Ah though that the line was just a seperation thing!"

Tala was about to say something back when Suzuki shouted for them to stop.

"Shut the hell up! I mean is this a battle or not?! Neptune, tsunami!" he ordered.

At once, the core of his silvery blue beyblade shone, a whale that was as big as all the nine beystadiums shone in mid-air, causing Rain to fully widen her eyes. "Is that a bit beast?"

Tyson nodded motionlessly.

A toranado made of water began forming, draining the image of the whale inside the pre-tsunami.

Rain finally knew it was going to attack laurie any moment, and looked at her, trying to catch her eyes. It worked, for Lorenza felt a pair of eyes staring at her. She smiled at Rain while Rain looked back worriedly. But her friend kept on smiling. A mischeivious glint in her silver eyes reassured Rain. With a last look of concern, the black haired girl looked back at the stadium, her sapphire blue eyes shone with hope for her friend.

All of a sudden, Laurie stopped swaying her hips. She stared at her beyblade, then mouthed, "Final Destruction."

No one heard her words, but they sure as hell heard thunder. A brilliant display of lightening hit north, west, east, and south inside the stadium and outside the stadium. ("Holy mother of jesus, Lorenza, watch where you hit those things!" Enrique implied.) Laurie glanced back at him from the corner of her eye as if saying, "Don't worry."

Suddenly, when a lightening bolt struck the inside of the stadium, a large amount of earth fly to the the floor near where Rain was. Tyson held out a hand in front of his cousin, warning her to stay away. Suzuki looked at his oppenent in horror - knowing that water's weakness was electricity. Laurie gave him a very evil smile, as if saying, "Who's kickin' who's ass now?"

Almost at once one of the bolts of lightening struck the pre made tsunami. Dazzling white and pale yellow mixed in with the water, soon tracing the water back to its source - the beyblade. Suzuki's Neptune was tangled in ropes of electricity and was rapidly spinning out of control. The white haired boy growled dangerously and gripped his hands into tight fists. Everyone could see that he was getting ready to attack. All but Laurie. Why? Because the tsunami's water was covering her view of the bowl. She had no idea that he was advancing on her, and no one told her...

"Laurie! He's moving in on you!" Rain yelled. At once, Lorenza's eyes darted from her beyblade to his, not knowing what to do. She threw the first command that came to her mind.

"Jump!"

Tala, Tyson, Enrique, the other blonde, and Rei sweat dropped. That was the vague old move they have ever heard in a long, long time.

"Dive down and hit his beyblade." Lorenza directed, watching her beyblade swirl around in the water/electric torando.

Suzuki, hearing this, automaticly told his blade to move from side to side in order for Lorenza to miss the center of his beyblade.

'Crap...' she thought.

It looked like Lady Luck was with Suzuki right that moment, because as Spritz jumped up, it was hit by the water which sent it flying out of bound. Luckily, Spritz bounced off the rail and began circling Neptune, while Rain covered her gasp with both her hands. Her friend was going to fail making the team...

Meanwhile the white head smirked in victory. Noticing this through the sky blue water, Lorenza glared back at him. "You didn't win yet, 'ya know." She pointed out. Suzuki looked back at her in a victorious gaze. "But I will soon."

Laurie thought out loud. "Its now or never, Spritz. The god damned water's getting higher so might as well do it now. Thunder spin!" she yelled, seeing her beyblade fly up into the air. Lorenza quietly begged god to let her crush down, full force, onto the core of Suzuki's blade. Unfortunatly, it didn't.







But fortunatly, it hit the side of it, sending it off course and hitting the side of the arena. A loud noise filled the stadium as the water died down with the electricity, and the winner of the battle would soon be determined.

And as you could've guess, Lorenza won. Her blade continued spinning for a few seconds, then stopped, but Suzuki's stopped way before her's did. Rain widened her eyes.

"You won, Laurie!"

"Ah did?" She looked around to see welcoming gazes at her. "Woah, Ah did!" She sent Suzuki a victorious smirk.

"Aww did poor wittle Suzi loose to a girl?" Lorenza taunted. Suzuki grunted and grabbed his beyblade, exiting the gym throwing curses at Lorenza. Rain immediatly went up to huge Laurie. "You did it!"

Laurie nodded firmly. "Damn right Ah did! That is the biggest bastard alive!"

Tala crept behind Lorenza and hugged her. He frowned. "Did he take my place?"

The girl he was hugging gently pushed him away. "Nah, hes just the biggest bastard while your the biggest bitch." She giggled. You could tell she was in a good mood.

Kai grunted from afar. "Shes on the team, now can you all just get the hell out of here so I can shut the door?" Tyson ran up to Kai and grinned. "Oh, c'mon! Leave the door open for a little while so we can just celebrate -" "No. Now get the fuck out of here. Especially you."

Tyson sighed. "Fine, Mr. Sourpants. Just go on and prance around everywhere telling people to leave! Come on, Rain, we're out of here." The Granger cousins where about to leave when Lorenza was greeted by the blonde Emily was arguing to. He scratched his blonde hair and tightened his orange shirt around his waist. "Hey! My names Max Tate, welcome to the team!" He welcomed as he beamed at her.

Laurie smiled back. "Hey, Ah'm Lorenza Monteiro. Wait a min...aren't 'cha Emily's boyfriend?"

Tala, Rei, Enrique, and Rain snorted and directed their gazes at a empty spot on the floor. Max blushed bright red. "Um...no...," He looked nervously at his watch. "Er...hey, I gotta go help my dad at my store. I'll see you in class. Bye!" He waved, running quickly out of the gym. Enrique and Rei sweatdropped. Rei, looking at the digital clock cursed. "Damn, I gotta go help my parents with the restaurant. Aren't you going, Lorenza?"

The brunette shook her head. "Nah, not yet. Ah'm waitin' for Tala. Oh, and don't call me Lorenza. Ah sound so f-ed up like that..."

Rei and Enrique looked at the two as if a beatle just came out of thier mouths. Rei was the first one to make a sound.

"O-kay...am I missing something?"

Both Tala and Laurie looked at each other quickly before having Lorenza reply, "I'm his maid."

"Personal maid." corrected Tala.

This time, there was a longer pause. Also, this time, Enrique was the first one to recover from the shock.

"Um...what the hell?"

Tala shook his head. "Never mind. Just shut up and go, okay?" Enrique gave them one last paranoid glances before walking away. "Alright....later."

~*~*~

"Hey, Tala? Ah'm gunna go now." Laurie insisted. "Tala?"

The brunette knocked on the door thre times before opening the grand, ivory door.

Tala's bedroom was just like any ordinary boys bedroom. A few model posters here and there, his favorite bands and skater companys. The only acception was the clean-ness of his room. Why do you ask that his room is so clean?

Because of his *personal* maid.

His room was red, with a royal blue carpet. His king sized bed lay in the middle with its silk navy blue sheets and blood red pillows. A plasma television was in front of the bed while his Sony flat screen computer, Windows XP, sat on a marble desk next to the crystal clear glass window that lead to the balcony. Laurie looked outside the window to see transparent rain drops hit Tala's balcony. It was the first summer storm.

"Tala?!" She yelled. Soon, the red head master walked into the room with only a towel around his waist. "You called?"

Lorenza turned around and stared at Tala's body. Her mouth hung limply open as she focused all her senses on Tala. His well toned, muscular body...god damn that boy was hot! She would just love to run right up there and -

Wow. Did she actually think that? Was Mariah's habits rubbing off on her? She mentally slapped herself. Damn it! She just had to stop thinking about those damn thoughts! Now if only he would put on something that would cover him and his - Argh....there Ah go again.

A sudden flash of lightening followed shorty by a earth shattering thunder snapped her out of her thoughts. The lights went out. Laurie let out a light gasp. She suddenly felt something warm run into her, hitting her nose.

"Ow...Tala, that was my nose!"

The brunette felt the warm 'thing' move away from her. "Sorry. I'm trying to find a flash light, man. But first I gotta change."

"I-I-In hea'?" Laurie stammered. 'Damn it! No stammering! Stupid perverted thoughts...argh this can't be happening. Ah thought guys were suppose to do this!'

Tala grinned in the dark at his maid's discomfort. "Yep. Its not like your gunna see me. I mean, we're in the dark, right?"

Lorenza nodded shyly and bowed her head. She was so lucky that the lights went out, or you could see her valentine red face -

"Uh, Laurie, is that your face?"

Lorenza slapped her hand on both her eyes and bowed her head even lower.

"N-no..."

"Whatever....done." The noise comming from Tala changing stopped as they both went to look for Tala's flashlights. "Their on your bed, Ah remember putting it there..." insisted Lorenza.

So, they both went to the bed.

But apparently fate loved playing games.

Tala tripped on the steps that lead him to his bed, therefore making Laurie kick the steps as well. The red headed male turned around, hearing her cry and tried to break her fall, but instead had her fall onto of him. The couple stayed that way for a moment before Lorenza reached out to grab the flash light. With a simple click, light emerged from the flashlight and Laurie's silver orbs met Tala's watery blue pools for eyes...

Lorenza's brownish gold hair tickled Tala has he starred back at her. For a few moments, they stayed in that position, not finding it a bit awkward; but then Lorenza was the first one to snap out of her reverie. She rolled off of Tala and laid next to him.

"Ah guess Ah'm not goin' anywhea' tonight."

'Damn it, so fucking close!' cursed Tala. "Yeah." He got up and grabbed one layer of his comforter from his bed. "You take the bed, I'll get the floor." The male grabbed a pillow from the head of the bed and chucked it onto the carpeted floor. Without doing anything else, Laurie watched as her classmate laid on the carpet.

"G'night." she said softely. "Yeah." was her reply.

Clicking off the flashlight, she, too, laid on the bed on the side closest to Tala.

~*~*~

The rain had stopped. At the crack of dawn, Lorenza was awoken. Her thoughts on bringing her brother to school and making him breakfeast and lunch fought their way through her dreams; causing her to awake.

"Ugh..."

After five fruitless times of getting up, she finally made herself get out of bed. She gargled a few cups of water and spat them onto the sink, grabbed her backpack, and scribbled down a note and laid it next to the sleeping Tala. With a last glance at him, she set off on her bicycle and rode home to where her brother was, and where the gate to hell was located.

"Matt?" Laurie called, opening the door to their trailer. What the sight she saw was defeantly not anything she was willing to wake up to. Her father looked down at her - although they were almost the same height - in a death glare. His hands gripped the grey remote control as his knuckles turned frightenly white. Her brother, Matt, came from behind his father and held Lorenza's hand in his. Their fathers normal red eyes became blood red. He bore his evil eyes into his children - mostly his daughter - and growled.

"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN ALL NIGHT?!"

Laurie inhaled a deep breath of air. Her head was already throbbing from the lack of sleep and now she had to deal with her father.

"Ah was working late when a storm broke an' Ah had to stay there." she explained.

"WELL WHAT THE HELL WAS ALL THAT SHIT WHEN SOMEONE DROPPED YOUR BROTHER OFF? I MEAN IT COULD HAVE BEEN A KIDNAPPER! YOU WERE PROBABLY PARTYING YOUR ASS OFF WHILE STRIPPING FOR THAT GOD DAMNED 'MASTER' OF YOURS! I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT MY OWN DAMN DAUGHTER WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A WHORE LIKE HER MOTHER!"

The last comment really drove Lorenza off her edge.

"YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU JACK ASS, MY MOM WAS NOT THE BITCH THAT SLEPT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, IT WAS YOU! WHILE YOU WERE OUT DRINKING WITH ALL YOUR SO CALLED FRIENDS MOM DIED OF FUCKING CANCER! AH WORK MY ASS HARD TWENTY FOUR-SEVEN WHILE YOU JUST DRINK AND SMOKE, AND PROBABLY FUCK ABOUT FIVE GIRLS EACH DAY!"

Her father shook in anger.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DAMN WORRIED I WAS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR BROTHER, WHAT IF YOU GUYS WERE KILL-"

"YOU WOULDN'T GIVE A SHIT IF WE WERE KILLED! YOUR ONLY USING US TO GET MONEY! YOUR JUST A GREEDY SON OF A BITCH-"

Laurie couldn't finish her sentence when her dad punched her in the side of her head, with the remote control in hand, which sent her head jerk towards the direction of the broken couch. She lay there, one hand on her head while the other holding her brothers hands. Matt starred in shock as he covered his body on top of his sisters protectivly. He could hear her crys and sniffs. Their father began glaring down his own son.

"Come on, Matt, lets get out of this hell hole..." whispered Lorenza as she walked out the door, liftening up her pair of roller skates in her other hand. Their father watched as his children walked out the door. Laurie told her brother to hold her blades as they biked silently all the way to school...

~*~*~

The silver eyed girl shut her locker lifelessly as she made her way to homeroom. She didn't have her encounter with Rain, or any other of her friends that morning. She was about to enter the classroom when the same boy she spent the night with stopped her. Her head was throbbing in pain now, with her eye lids pushing hard to get her eyes to close. All the noise from the classroom was blocked from her mind as well as the images of people having a normal day in school. Lorenza let go of all emotion from her body, as well as control, and fainted.

"Laurie!" Tala cried, catching her before she hit the ground. His left hand held her shoulders tightly against his chest while his right hand held her head. "Laurie..." He whispered. The red head lifted his right hand that held her head.





Only to find the fluid that matched his hair color identicly on his palm.

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Stargazer : Okay, well I hope you liked this chapter! The other chapters that are going to be in the future will be less long, but not as short as the first chapter. I know, Lorenza and Tala seem to be taking up this chapter but thats because there is a major link that has to do with everything. I hope you guys liked this chapter. Please review!

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