As the Bladebreakers walked down the busy high street they stared in awe at
the amount of shops the one road held. Large department stores, large
clothing shops, a shop called Woolworths, another called W.H.Smiths, the
list was endless.
"Man Kameko this place is huge!" Tyson said, running up to one of the
window displays of the largest of the department stores, Allders. "What's
this place again?" Tyson asked.
"This is Allders Tyson, the largest department store in the town."
"This is a town?" Max asked, looking up at Kameko from his wheelchair. "You
sure about that? I could have sworn it was a city, it's big enough to be
one."
"Yeah mate, it's big enough but will they give US city status? No way, not
on your nelly." Came a voice from behind them. There stood a girl of about
18, she was standing next a young man of about the same age.
"Karen-San!" Kameko ran up to the woman and flung her arms around her. "How
are you?"
"OK. Yourself little one, and who are your friends." Karen gave Ray a
wink. "These are the Bladebreakers." Kameko said. "The B.B.A. world champs? The ones that have had two of their team attacked?" the young man asked, looking astonished. "The very same." Tyson said, holding a hand out. "I'm Tyson." "I'm Andrew." The young man said taking Tyson's hand and shaking it. "Man that's some grip!" Tyson said when Andrew let go of his hand. "Sorry, don't know my own strength sometimes." Andrew gave Tyson a smile. "So," he went on, "What brings you to our sleepy town?" "They're in town for a charity Beybladeing event Andrew-San." Kameko said. "You know," she went on, "The game you loath." Andrew stared at Kameko. "What ARE you talking about Kame? I don't mind it." Andrew looked hurt. "I mean I'm not its biggest fan but hey I don't HATE it, hate is such a strong word." "Anyway," Karen said, "We better get on. We're SUPPOSED to be looking for new jeans for you, the ones you wear at the moment are disgusting." "But I like them." Andrew said, looking disgruntled. "Come on!" Karen said pulling Andrew's arm. "See you round Kameko, it was nice meeting you all." With that Karen and Andrew disappeared. "And they were?" Ray asked. "Old friends of mine. Well Karen is, Andrew's her boyfriend." Kameko rolled her eyes. "They look good together." Ray said. "Anyway I think I'll go off and explore." "Don't go too far Ray-San," Kameko said, "You know not to go to far past East Croydon bus station." Ray nodded. "Relax Kameko I'll be OK." With that Ray went off in the direction of the rest of the shops. "I thought you said this place had a huge library." Kenny said. "You guy's might like walking round a bunch of shops but I don't." "We better take him to the library." Kameko said with a sigh. "Is there any where you want to go Tyson-San?" Kameko asked. "Only the nearest food joint, I'm starving!" "You had breakfast not an hour ago!" Max cried in despair. He sighed. "I guess some thing's will NEVER change how ever old some one gets." AS the group walked towards the library where they would leave Kenny, Kai thought about that nightmare. He couldn't understand why he had started crying, especially near that girl, Kameko. Sure she was nice but why was she being nice to him? Kai sighed and decided to put it down to stress and her just trying to be nice to him. "Well we're here." Kameko said, pointing to a large building. It was very ornately carved with different pictures of famous people, William Shakespeare, Sir Isaac Newton and a few people Kai had never heard of. Off to one side was a huge tower with a clock on it, which dominated a large portion of the sky above them. Off to the other side was another statue, this time of someone called John Whitgift. "Who's that?" Max asked, pointing to the statue. "That's John Whitgift, he founded the first school here in Croydon, that was back when Henry VIII was king of England." "During the Tudor period," Kenny went on, "Schooling was only given to the rich, so only rich kids could go to school." "You mean like Robert and the Majestics?" Tyson asked. "Exactly." Kenny said. "Back in those days Tyson-San you would not have liked school." Kameko said. "He doesn't like school now-a-days Kameko." Kenny said. "He was always late for class back when we were in 8th grade." Kameko chuckled. "Why wouldn't I have like it back then?" Tyson asked Kameko, glaring at Kenny. "You would have had to have learnt Latin." Tyson stared wide eyes at Kameko. "Man and to think I used to have trouble with French." Max said. "Latin sounds worse." "It's the language of the ancient Romans Max-San." Kameko said. "Usually the mottos of schools here in England are in Latin." Kai was looking up at the building, it was very old, built from red bricks and all the carving was in white marble, by the looks of it. The windows were modern and didn't really fit in with the building. "The windows don't look right." Max said, voicing Kai's thoughts. "What's up with that?" "Yeah, if the whole building is old shouldn't EVERYTHING be old with it?" Tyson asked. "You think the windows look odd you should take a look inside." "I don't do library's." Tyson said. Kameko then grabbed his arm and started dragging him inside. "Hey let me go Kameko! I don't want to go in to some." Tyson stopped his tirade as he saw the inside of the building. "What the hell?" "The outside might be old but in here Tyson-San is the most modern and up to date library in the country, at present any way." Kameko said. "They've even put in a Beystadium, to try and encourage younger generations to use the library, plus allow the parents to come in and read a book with out the kids really disturbing them." Tyson stared around the large entrance hall. The white and blue tiles gleamed as the sun from outside poured in through the windows. "Wow!" Max said; awe struck at the building's interior. Kai gave a whistle; even he was impressed. "This place is AWESOME!"
"I think I'm in heaven!" Kenny said, running off into the
library. "Well it looks like Kenny's happy." Tyson said. "Now you said there was a Beystadium in here." Tyson said, turning to Kameko. Kameko led the others over to a large area just by the information centre. There was a large Beystadium. It looked new but had been used countless times. There were scratches and scuffmarks all over its bright red surface but it was still usable. "Can anyone use it or do we have to book to use it?" Max asked. "No just go up and use it." A young woman said. "You boy's aren't from around here are you?" "What gave it away?" Max asked in mock shock horror. The librarian laughed. "I've seen nearly every child in Croydon come in here and either check out a book or play with their Beyblades," She smiled at them, "And either you have just moved here or are from out of town on a visit." "We are from out of town," Kai said, "Another country in fact." "Really?" The woman said, looking at them. "Hang on." She said pointing to Max, "I recognise you from somewhere." "Someone recognising ME from somewhere? Man that's a first." "Now I remember." The librarian said. "You're Max Tate of the Bladebreakers aren't you?" Max nodded. "How did you know?" He asked. "My older brother watched all the world championships on T.V. when I was little." She said. "He said that he liked Max best because he had the right idea about battling, a good defence is a strong offence." She smiled. Max didn't know what to say. "Hey Maxi you have a fan!" Tyson said, punching Max playfully in the shoulder. "Would you mind if I asked for your autograph Mr. Tate?" The librarian asked. "For my brother." "Sure." Max said. The librarian pulled out a note pad and pen and handed them to Max. "Who should it be made out to?" He asked. "Simon White." The librarian said. Max wrote a little message on the pad and handed it back to the librarian. "Thank you. Enjoy your use of the Beystadium." With that she walked off. "Cool Max," Tyson said, "You have a fan and their sister asked you to give him your autograph." "Well fancy seeing you guy's here." Tyson wiped round to see Robert of the Majestics standing by one of the columns. "Did you get asked here to participate in a charity event to then?" Robert asked. "Hey Robert. Yeah Mr. Dickinson asked us here." Max said. "Max?" Robert stared at Max in astonishment. "What happened to you?" "I was attacked by someone claiming to be one of my friends, he didn't look anything like any of them though." Robert couldn't believe his ears. "That's outrageous Max! Who would have the nerve to do such a thing?" "We don't know," Kameko said. Robert turned to her, noticing that she was there for the first time, "My grandfather and I are still trying to find out what's going on." "And who are you? I've never seen you before." Robert looked Kameko up and down with a curious eye. "This is Kameko Dickinson, Mr. Dickinson's granddaughter." Tyson said, introducing Kameko, who bowed. "It is nice to meet you Robert-San. "She say's that to everyone." Max said, trying hard not to laugh at Robert's look of puzzlement. "She was brought up in a very strict Japanese household." "I see." Robert said, smiling at Kameko and holding out his hand. "Well I'm pleased to make your acquaintance Miss. Dickinson. I am Robert, team leader of the Majestics." Kameko took the proffered hand. "And I am Kameko Dickinson, vice-organiser of the charity event of which you speak." Robert was astonished. "You helped organise this event?" He said. "Yes. My grandfather and I thought it would be a nice idea to get all the Beybladeing teams from around the world together and have a charity event." Kameko then smiled apologetically. "I'm afraid," She said in a quiet voice, "I chose England for the venue. I'm sorry to have called you all away from your home's." "Don't be." Robert said laughing. "I was here visiting Johnny up in Scotland when I received the invitation so it wasn't too much hassle to get down here." Just then Kenny walked out of one of the exits, carrying a large pile of books about Beybladeing and computer science. "This place is amazing!" He said. "I think Kenny just checked out half the library again." Tyson said sighing. "Actually only about a 1/100,000th of it Tyson." Kenny said. "They have a whole floor dedicated to Beyblades!" "Wow!" Robert said. "A whole floor, what did they fill it with, every article about everything and anything Beyblade?" "Probably." Kameko said. "I think I remember going up there once and reading several articles on the various Beybladeing teams taking part in the world championship, when was it, six years ago." "That's when we competed!" Came a voice. They all turned to see The White Tigers. "Lee-San!" Kameko said, running up to him and giving him a hug. "You got my message then?" She said pulling away from him a bit. Lee chuckled. "Yes Kameko we got your message." Lee turned to Tyson and the others. "Where's Ray?" He asked, raising an eyebrow in query. "He's off site seeing." Kai said simply. "Nice to see you to Kai." Lee said, his voice full of sarcasm, which made Kameko laugh. "I just hope he knows what he doing. After the village was attacked and all." "You mean to say the whole village was attacked?" Tyson said, looking shocked. "Yeah. Didn't Ray tell you guy's?" Gary asked. "We found out from the receptionist at our hotel that Ray was OK. The rest we found out from Kameko when she ran in to us in the restaurant we were in at the time." Kenny said, putting his books down on the floor to mop his brow. "He didn't tell you anything else then?" Kevin asked. Kenny shook his head. "Not a thing Kevin." "We were down in the nearest town when it happened." Mariah said. "We were getting supplies for our trip here to England so we didn't know about it until we got back and found the whole place in ruins." Mariah hung her head. "So you lost your home?" Robert asked. Lee nodded, putting an arm around Mariahs' shoulders. "Tell you what," Robert said with a smile, "You can all stay with me in my castle in Europe for a while after the tournament and I'll help you to rebuild your homes, how does that sound?" Lee stared in disbelief at Robert then smiled. "Thank you Robert." Lee said. "That would be much appreciated." Gary, Kevin and Mariah all smiled. "Two attacks on two Bladebreakers." Robert said. "Coincidence? I think not." "Definitely not." Kameko said; a scowl crossed her pretty face. "What really infuriates me is the fact that who ever did this," Kameko's eyes seemed to suddenly turn in to pools of blue fire, "Was cowardly enough to use the Bladebreaker name. To actually pose as a member of the team is cowardly. They have no honour what so EVER!" Kameko hit the column that she was standing next to. She hit it so hard that some of the mortar fell out of the gaps between the tiles. Kai raised his eyebrows in alarm. "Hey!" Lee said. "Take it easy Kameko!" He placed his hands on Kameko's shoulders. "He's right Kameko chill!" Mariah chipped in. "We know how you feel about cowards and people who have no honour." "Wow." Tyson said. "You take honour to heart do you Kameko?" "Yes. With out honour," Kameko said, "There is no justice and with out justice there is no such thing as fair." Her eyes still burned with anger. "Word to the wise," Kevin said to Robert, "Do NOT get her angry, not unless you want doors kicked down and people hurt." Robert nodded. "Thanks for the warning." Robert said, eyeing Kameko as Lee and Mariah clamed her down. "She takes honour seriously." "Yeah." Kevin said. "Ever since she was little she had it drummed in to her the honour was the bee-all and end-all of life. When her father was killed she took honour to heart." "Who killed her father?" Tyson asked, shocked that such a thing could happen. "We don't know, even to this day. All we know is that the similarities between these attacks on you guy's and Kameko's father are too similar to be called coincidental." Kevin seemed to glare at an invisible enemy. "So who's been taking care of her?" Kai asked. Kevin looked at Kai suspiciously. "Well?" "She's been going between our village and her grandfather if it's really any of your business." "Pardon me for asking but you said nothing of Kameko's mother. What about her?" Kenny said. "Her mother lives in our village." Gary said. He was now giving Kameko a hug, trying to calm her down a bit. "So Kameko's related to you guys?" Tyson asked. "She's related to Ray. In what way though we don't know." Mariah looked puzzled at this. "We know they're related because they both have the same D.N.A. but other then that there's no way of knowing they related, especially how." "Kameko's related to Ray? Wow. If they have the same D.N.A. then they must be brother and sister." Max said. "Only half of it is shared." Lee replied. "The other party is.unknown to us. Ray said, when he first appeared in the village, that his parents had abandoned him, which was when we were five years old. Other then that," Lee said, almost scornfully, "We know nothing about Ray Kon." "Speak of the devil." Kenny said as he spotted Ray walking towards them. "See anything interesting?" "Quite a bit actually Kenny. Don't tell me you're going to read those all tonight." Ray said pointing to the pile of books at Kenny's feet. "Well probably." Kenny said scratching his head. "By the way look who we bumped in to." Kenny said, indicating the White Tigers and Robert. "Hey Lee, Mariah!" Ray said, going up to Lee and slapping him on the back. "I'm glad to see you guy's are OK." "Yeah. Nice to see you weren't too badly hurt Ray." Mariah said. "Is it me," Kenny whispered to Tyson, "Or is Mariah acting coldly towards Ray?" "She's acting coldly towards him." Tyson said, "I should know," Tyson added, "Hillary's acting like that when she comes round." Tyson sighed. Thing's weren't going well between him and Hillary at the moment and he was hoping this separation period would do them some good. "Do I detect a hint of turbulence on the plane of love?" Dizzi piped up from under Kenny's arm. "You could say that Dizzi." Tyson said sadly. "I don't think Tyson heard you Gary." Ray said. "What was that?" Tyson said. "I said," Gary cleared his throat, "Do you want to Beybattle?" "Sure, why not, I could do with some practice." "I thought you said your wrist hurt after signing all those aprons for those waiters and that chef at the hotel?" Dizzi chipped in again. "Put a sock in it Dizzi." Tyson said pulling Dragoon out of his pocket. "In what? My floppy drive or the C.D. Rom port?" "Ha ha Dizzi." Tyson stood on one side of the battered Beystadium and Gary on the other. "Who wants to commentate?" Tyson said. "I think I will." Kameko said. Just then a bunch of kids appeared. "Wow those guy's are about to battle, lets go watch!" They ran up to the dish. "Mind if we watch Mr?" One of them asked Tyson. "Knock yourselves out kids." Tyson said, taking position. "You ready Gary?" Tyson asked. Gary nodded. "OK folks!" Kameko's voice carried clearly across the space. "We're about to see the battle of the decade, Gary of the White Tiger versus Tyson of the Bladebreakers. Bladers are you ready?" Both of them nodded, face set in concentration. "In that case.3.2.1.LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!" Tyson and Gary launched their blades into the dish. "Did she say Gary of the White Tigers?" One of the boys asked. "Did she say Tyson of the Bladebreakers?" The other asked. Both nodded in answer to the other. "Wonder if we can get their autographs after the match." "While they're battling boy's how about the others give you theirs?" Kameko asked, pointing to Ray, Max and Kai. Both of them looked at the others and stared "Yeah!" They both ran up to the other Bladebreakers. "Hey Mr's. can we have your autographs?" Ray and Max looked at the. "Sure why not?" Ray said, taking the book that the boy handed him. "Yeah why not?" Max said taking the other boy's book. When Ray finished with his he passed it to Kai. Kai took it, looked at the boy and asked him. "Who should I make it to?" "Matt. Matt Joseph." "You any good at bladeing Matt?" Kai asked as he wrote in the book. "Not too bad. My older brother's better but I plan to be better then him when I'm older." Kai signed the boy's book. The boy took it back and read out what Kai had written. "To Matt. Keep up the good work and you'll be the best. Kai HIWATARI! WOW!" the boy looked at Kai in awe. "You're Kai Hiwatari?" Kai nodded. "I'm you biggest fan!" The boy said. Kai couldn't help but smile, he'd never had a real fan before. "Can I have my picture taken with you?" "I suppose so." Kai said. "Hey Ray can we borrow your camera?" "Sure Kai, why?" "Matt here wants to have his photo taken with me." Kai said. "I'll take it for you." Ray said. Matt went and stood next to Kai, Kai had to bend down so they were both in the picture. "Be warned," Ray said, "I tend to chop heads off when taking photo's of people." Matt laughed. A few minutes later Matt was holding a photo of him and Kai. "Hey Phillip," Matt yelled to the other boy, "Not only got an autograph but I got my picture taken with KAI!" Phillip stared at the photo. "Wow. Do you think Tyson will allow me to have my photo taken with him?" He asked Kameko. "I don't see why not, him and Gary are nearly finished with their battle." A few minutes later the battle ended in a draw. "Hey Tyson-San," Kameko said, "This boy here wants a photo of you and him, he also wants your autograph." "Sure kid, I'll be happy to." Soon the two boys's had everyone's autographs and their photo's with their favourite Beyblader. "Thank you!" The two boys shouted as they ran to their mothers. Matt ran up to his mother waving the photograph of him and Kai. "Hey mum look what I've got!" "What's that?" his mother asked "A photo of me and KAI HIWATARI of the Bladebreakers, you know the Beybladeing team that won the world championship six years ago?" "Wow!" Even his mother was impressed. "We'll have to get it framed for you won't we." His mother said as they walked off. "Look's like Kai has his own fan." Ray said. "What came over you back there Kai," Max said, puzzled, "You actually gave the kid an autograph AND had your photo taken with him." "I don't know really." Kai said, scratching his head. "The kid just.I.I really don't know." Kai said. He shrugged. "Has the world been turned upside down or is it just Kai?" Tyson asked. Everyone but Kai laughed. "We better be getting back to the hotel," Kai said, "It's getting late." He was right. It was nearly six o'clock and everyone was feeling hungry. "We have to go all the way back to London to." Ray said. "We'll see you guy's soon." As the Bladebreakers left for the nearest train station a figure slowly followed them. When they were on the train the figure pulled out a mobile phone. "Yes.yes they're OK.No nothing went wrong. Right." The figure put the phone back in their pocket and left. "It's getting too close for comfort now." He said to himself as he walked back down the road.
"OK. Yourself little one, and who are your friends." Karen gave Ray a
wink. "These are the Bladebreakers." Kameko said. "The B.B.A. world champs? The ones that have had two of their team attacked?" the young man asked, looking astonished. "The very same." Tyson said, holding a hand out. "I'm Tyson." "I'm Andrew." The young man said taking Tyson's hand and shaking it. "Man that's some grip!" Tyson said when Andrew let go of his hand. "Sorry, don't know my own strength sometimes." Andrew gave Tyson a smile. "So," he went on, "What brings you to our sleepy town?" "They're in town for a charity Beybladeing event Andrew-San." Kameko said. "You know," she went on, "The game you loath." Andrew stared at Kameko. "What ARE you talking about Kame? I don't mind it." Andrew looked hurt. "I mean I'm not its biggest fan but hey I don't HATE it, hate is such a strong word." "Anyway," Karen said, "We better get on. We're SUPPOSED to be looking for new jeans for you, the ones you wear at the moment are disgusting." "But I like them." Andrew said, looking disgruntled. "Come on!" Karen said pulling Andrew's arm. "See you round Kameko, it was nice meeting you all." With that Karen and Andrew disappeared. "And they were?" Ray asked. "Old friends of mine. Well Karen is, Andrew's her boyfriend." Kameko rolled her eyes. "They look good together." Ray said. "Anyway I think I'll go off and explore." "Don't go too far Ray-San," Kameko said, "You know not to go to far past East Croydon bus station." Ray nodded. "Relax Kameko I'll be OK." With that Ray went off in the direction of the rest of the shops. "I thought you said this place had a huge library." Kenny said. "You guy's might like walking round a bunch of shops but I don't." "We better take him to the library." Kameko said with a sigh. "Is there any where you want to go Tyson-San?" Kameko asked. "Only the nearest food joint, I'm starving!" "You had breakfast not an hour ago!" Max cried in despair. He sighed. "I guess some thing's will NEVER change how ever old some one gets." AS the group walked towards the library where they would leave Kenny, Kai thought about that nightmare. He couldn't understand why he had started crying, especially near that girl, Kameko. Sure she was nice but why was she being nice to him? Kai sighed and decided to put it down to stress and her just trying to be nice to him. "Well we're here." Kameko said, pointing to a large building. It was very ornately carved with different pictures of famous people, William Shakespeare, Sir Isaac Newton and a few people Kai had never heard of. Off to one side was a huge tower with a clock on it, which dominated a large portion of the sky above them. Off to the other side was another statue, this time of someone called John Whitgift. "Who's that?" Max asked, pointing to the statue. "That's John Whitgift, he founded the first school here in Croydon, that was back when Henry VIII was king of England." "During the Tudor period," Kenny went on, "Schooling was only given to the rich, so only rich kids could go to school." "You mean like Robert and the Majestics?" Tyson asked. "Exactly." Kenny said. "Back in those days Tyson-San you would not have liked school." Kameko said. "He doesn't like school now-a-days Kameko." Kenny said. "He was always late for class back when we were in 8th grade." Kameko chuckled. "Why wouldn't I have like it back then?" Tyson asked Kameko, glaring at Kenny. "You would have had to have learnt Latin." Tyson stared wide eyes at Kameko. "Man and to think I used to have trouble with French." Max said. "Latin sounds worse." "It's the language of the ancient Romans Max-San." Kameko said. "Usually the mottos of schools here in England are in Latin." Kai was looking up at the building, it was very old, built from red bricks and all the carving was in white marble, by the looks of it. The windows were modern and didn't really fit in with the building. "The windows don't look right." Max said, voicing Kai's thoughts. "What's up with that?" "Yeah, if the whole building is old shouldn't EVERYTHING be old with it?" Tyson asked. "You think the windows look odd you should take a look inside." "I don't do library's." Tyson said. Kameko then grabbed his arm and started dragging him inside. "Hey let me go Kameko! I don't want to go in to some." Tyson stopped his tirade as he saw the inside of the building. "What the hell?" "The outside might be old but in here Tyson-San is the most modern and up to date library in the country, at present any way." Kameko said. "They've even put in a Beystadium, to try and encourage younger generations to use the library, plus allow the parents to come in and read a book with out the kids really disturbing them." Tyson stared around the large entrance hall. The white and blue tiles gleamed as the sun from outside poured in through the windows. "Wow!" Max said; awe struck at the building's interior. Kai gave a whistle; even he was impressed. "This place is AWESOME!"
"I think I'm in heaven!" Kenny said, running off into the
library. "Well it looks like Kenny's happy." Tyson said. "Now you said there was a Beystadium in here." Tyson said, turning to Kameko. Kameko led the others over to a large area just by the information centre. There was a large Beystadium. It looked new but had been used countless times. There were scratches and scuffmarks all over its bright red surface but it was still usable. "Can anyone use it or do we have to book to use it?" Max asked. "No just go up and use it." A young woman said. "You boy's aren't from around here are you?" "What gave it away?" Max asked in mock shock horror. The librarian laughed. "I've seen nearly every child in Croydon come in here and either check out a book or play with their Beyblades," She smiled at them, "And either you have just moved here or are from out of town on a visit." "We are from out of town," Kai said, "Another country in fact." "Really?" The woman said, looking at them. "Hang on." She said pointing to Max, "I recognise you from somewhere." "Someone recognising ME from somewhere? Man that's a first." "Now I remember." The librarian said. "You're Max Tate of the Bladebreakers aren't you?" Max nodded. "How did you know?" He asked. "My older brother watched all the world championships on T.V. when I was little." She said. "He said that he liked Max best because he had the right idea about battling, a good defence is a strong offence." She smiled. Max didn't know what to say. "Hey Maxi you have a fan!" Tyson said, punching Max playfully in the shoulder. "Would you mind if I asked for your autograph Mr. Tate?" The librarian asked. "For my brother." "Sure." Max said. The librarian pulled out a note pad and pen and handed them to Max. "Who should it be made out to?" He asked. "Simon White." The librarian said. Max wrote a little message on the pad and handed it back to the librarian. "Thank you. Enjoy your use of the Beystadium." With that she walked off. "Cool Max," Tyson said, "You have a fan and their sister asked you to give him your autograph." "Well fancy seeing you guy's here." Tyson wiped round to see Robert of the Majestics standing by one of the columns. "Did you get asked here to participate in a charity event to then?" Robert asked. "Hey Robert. Yeah Mr. Dickinson asked us here." Max said. "Max?" Robert stared at Max in astonishment. "What happened to you?" "I was attacked by someone claiming to be one of my friends, he didn't look anything like any of them though." Robert couldn't believe his ears. "That's outrageous Max! Who would have the nerve to do such a thing?" "We don't know," Kameko said. Robert turned to her, noticing that she was there for the first time, "My grandfather and I are still trying to find out what's going on." "And who are you? I've never seen you before." Robert looked Kameko up and down with a curious eye. "This is Kameko Dickinson, Mr. Dickinson's granddaughter." Tyson said, introducing Kameko, who bowed. "It is nice to meet you Robert-San. "She say's that to everyone." Max said, trying hard not to laugh at Robert's look of puzzlement. "She was brought up in a very strict Japanese household." "I see." Robert said, smiling at Kameko and holding out his hand. "Well I'm pleased to make your acquaintance Miss. Dickinson. I am Robert, team leader of the Majestics." Kameko took the proffered hand. "And I am Kameko Dickinson, vice-organiser of the charity event of which you speak." Robert was astonished. "You helped organise this event?" He said. "Yes. My grandfather and I thought it would be a nice idea to get all the Beybladeing teams from around the world together and have a charity event." Kameko then smiled apologetically. "I'm afraid," She said in a quiet voice, "I chose England for the venue. I'm sorry to have called you all away from your home's." "Don't be." Robert said laughing. "I was here visiting Johnny up in Scotland when I received the invitation so it wasn't too much hassle to get down here." Just then Kenny walked out of one of the exits, carrying a large pile of books about Beybladeing and computer science. "This place is amazing!" He said. "I think Kenny just checked out half the library again." Tyson said sighing. "Actually only about a 1/100,000th of it Tyson." Kenny said. "They have a whole floor dedicated to Beyblades!" "Wow!" Robert said. "A whole floor, what did they fill it with, every article about everything and anything Beyblade?" "Probably." Kameko said. "I think I remember going up there once and reading several articles on the various Beybladeing teams taking part in the world championship, when was it, six years ago." "That's when we competed!" Came a voice. They all turned to see The White Tigers. "Lee-San!" Kameko said, running up to him and giving him a hug. "You got my message then?" She said pulling away from him a bit. Lee chuckled. "Yes Kameko we got your message." Lee turned to Tyson and the others. "Where's Ray?" He asked, raising an eyebrow in query. "He's off site seeing." Kai said simply. "Nice to see you to Kai." Lee said, his voice full of sarcasm, which made Kameko laugh. "I just hope he knows what he doing. After the village was attacked and all." "You mean to say the whole village was attacked?" Tyson said, looking shocked. "Yeah. Didn't Ray tell you guy's?" Gary asked. "We found out from the receptionist at our hotel that Ray was OK. The rest we found out from Kameko when she ran in to us in the restaurant we were in at the time." Kenny said, putting his books down on the floor to mop his brow. "He didn't tell you anything else then?" Kevin asked. Kenny shook his head. "Not a thing Kevin." "We were down in the nearest town when it happened." Mariah said. "We were getting supplies for our trip here to England so we didn't know about it until we got back and found the whole place in ruins." Mariah hung her head. "So you lost your home?" Robert asked. Lee nodded, putting an arm around Mariahs' shoulders. "Tell you what," Robert said with a smile, "You can all stay with me in my castle in Europe for a while after the tournament and I'll help you to rebuild your homes, how does that sound?" Lee stared in disbelief at Robert then smiled. "Thank you Robert." Lee said. "That would be much appreciated." Gary, Kevin and Mariah all smiled. "Two attacks on two Bladebreakers." Robert said. "Coincidence? I think not." "Definitely not." Kameko said; a scowl crossed her pretty face. "What really infuriates me is the fact that who ever did this," Kameko's eyes seemed to suddenly turn in to pools of blue fire, "Was cowardly enough to use the Bladebreaker name. To actually pose as a member of the team is cowardly. They have no honour what so EVER!" Kameko hit the column that she was standing next to. She hit it so hard that some of the mortar fell out of the gaps between the tiles. Kai raised his eyebrows in alarm. "Hey!" Lee said. "Take it easy Kameko!" He placed his hands on Kameko's shoulders. "He's right Kameko chill!" Mariah chipped in. "We know how you feel about cowards and people who have no honour." "Wow." Tyson said. "You take honour to heart do you Kameko?" "Yes. With out honour," Kameko said, "There is no justice and with out justice there is no such thing as fair." Her eyes still burned with anger. "Word to the wise," Kevin said to Robert, "Do NOT get her angry, not unless you want doors kicked down and people hurt." Robert nodded. "Thanks for the warning." Robert said, eyeing Kameko as Lee and Mariah clamed her down. "She takes honour seriously." "Yeah." Kevin said. "Ever since she was little she had it drummed in to her the honour was the bee-all and end-all of life. When her father was killed she took honour to heart." "Who killed her father?" Tyson asked, shocked that such a thing could happen. "We don't know, even to this day. All we know is that the similarities between these attacks on you guy's and Kameko's father are too similar to be called coincidental." Kevin seemed to glare at an invisible enemy. "So who's been taking care of her?" Kai asked. Kevin looked at Kai suspiciously. "Well?" "She's been going between our village and her grandfather if it's really any of your business." "Pardon me for asking but you said nothing of Kameko's mother. What about her?" Kenny said. "Her mother lives in our village." Gary said. He was now giving Kameko a hug, trying to calm her down a bit. "So Kameko's related to you guys?" Tyson asked. "She's related to Ray. In what way though we don't know." Mariah looked puzzled at this. "We know they're related because they both have the same D.N.A. but other then that there's no way of knowing they related, especially how." "Kameko's related to Ray? Wow. If they have the same D.N.A. then they must be brother and sister." Max said. "Only half of it is shared." Lee replied. "The other party is.unknown to us. Ray said, when he first appeared in the village, that his parents had abandoned him, which was when we were five years old. Other then that," Lee said, almost scornfully, "We know nothing about Ray Kon." "Speak of the devil." Kenny said as he spotted Ray walking towards them. "See anything interesting?" "Quite a bit actually Kenny. Don't tell me you're going to read those all tonight." Ray said pointing to the pile of books at Kenny's feet. "Well probably." Kenny said scratching his head. "By the way look who we bumped in to." Kenny said, indicating the White Tigers and Robert. "Hey Lee, Mariah!" Ray said, going up to Lee and slapping him on the back. "I'm glad to see you guy's are OK." "Yeah. Nice to see you weren't too badly hurt Ray." Mariah said. "Is it me," Kenny whispered to Tyson, "Or is Mariah acting coldly towards Ray?" "She's acting coldly towards him." Tyson said, "I should know," Tyson added, "Hillary's acting like that when she comes round." Tyson sighed. Thing's weren't going well between him and Hillary at the moment and he was hoping this separation period would do them some good. "Do I detect a hint of turbulence on the plane of love?" Dizzi piped up from under Kenny's arm. "You could say that Dizzi." Tyson said sadly. "I don't think Tyson heard you Gary." Ray said. "What was that?" Tyson said. "I said," Gary cleared his throat, "Do you want to Beybattle?" "Sure, why not, I could do with some practice." "I thought you said your wrist hurt after signing all those aprons for those waiters and that chef at the hotel?" Dizzi chipped in again. "Put a sock in it Dizzi." Tyson said pulling Dragoon out of his pocket. "In what? My floppy drive or the C.D. Rom port?" "Ha ha Dizzi." Tyson stood on one side of the battered Beystadium and Gary on the other. "Who wants to commentate?" Tyson said. "I think I will." Kameko said. Just then a bunch of kids appeared. "Wow those guy's are about to battle, lets go watch!" They ran up to the dish. "Mind if we watch Mr?" One of them asked Tyson. "Knock yourselves out kids." Tyson said, taking position. "You ready Gary?" Tyson asked. Gary nodded. "OK folks!" Kameko's voice carried clearly across the space. "We're about to see the battle of the decade, Gary of the White Tiger versus Tyson of the Bladebreakers. Bladers are you ready?" Both of them nodded, face set in concentration. "In that case.3.2.1.LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!" Tyson and Gary launched their blades into the dish. "Did she say Gary of the White Tigers?" One of the boys asked. "Did she say Tyson of the Bladebreakers?" The other asked. Both nodded in answer to the other. "Wonder if we can get their autographs after the match." "While they're battling boy's how about the others give you theirs?" Kameko asked, pointing to Ray, Max and Kai. Both of them looked at the others and stared "Yeah!" They both ran up to the other Bladebreakers. "Hey Mr's. can we have your autographs?" Ray and Max looked at the. "Sure why not?" Ray said, taking the book that the boy handed him. "Yeah why not?" Max said taking the other boy's book. When Ray finished with his he passed it to Kai. Kai took it, looked at the boy and asked him. "Who should I make it to?" "Matt. Matt Joseph." "You any good at bladeing Matt?" Kai asked as he wrote in the book. "Not too bad. My older brother's better but I plan to be better then him when I'm older." Kai signed the boy's book. The boy took it back and read out what Kai had written. "To Matt. Keep up the good work and you'll be the best. Kai HIWATARI! WOW!" the boy looked at Kai in awe. "You're Kai Hiwatari?" Kai nodded. "I'm you biggest fan!" The boy said. Kai couldn't help but smile, he'd never had a real fan before. "Can I have my picture taken with you?" "I suppose so." Kai said. "Hey Ray can we borrow your camera?" "Sure Kai, why?" "Matt here wants to have his photo taken with me." Kai said. "I'll take it for you." Ray said. Matt went and stood next to Kai, Kai had to bend down so they were both in the picture. "Be warned," Ray said, "I tend to chop heads off when taking photo's of people." Matt laughed. A few minutes later Matt was holding a photo of him and Kai. "Hey Phillip," Matt yelled to the other boy, "Not only got an autograph but I got my picture taken with KAI!" Phillip stared at the photo. "Wow. Do you think Tyson will allow me to have my photo taken with him?" He asked Kameko. "I don't see why not, him and Gary are nearly finished with their battle." A few minutes later the battle ended in a draw. "Hey Tyson-San," Kameko said, "This boy here wants a photo of you and him, he also wants your autograph." "Sure kid, I'll be happy to." Soon the two boys's had everyone's autographs and their photo's with their favourite Beyblader. "Thank you!" The two boys shouted as they ran to their mothers. Matt ran up to his mother waving the photograph of him and Kai. "Hey mum look what I've got!" "What's that?" his mother asked "A photo of me and KAI HIWATARI of the Bladebreakers, you know the Beybladeing team that won the world championship six years ago?" "Wow!" Even his mother was impressed. "We'll have to get it framed for you won't we." His mother said as they walked off. "Look's like Kai has his own fan." Ray said. "What came over you back there Kai," Max said, puzzled, "You actually gave the kid an autograph AND had your photo taken with him." "I don't know really." Kai said, scratching his head. "The kid just.I.I really don't know." Kai said. He shrugged. "Has the world been turned upside down or is it just Kai?" Tyson asked. Everyone but Kai laughed. "We better be getting back to the hotel," Kai said, "It's getting late." He was right. It was nearly six o'clock and everyone was feeling hungry. "We have to go all the way back to London to." Ray said. "We'll see you guy's soon." As the Bladebreakers left for the nearest train station a figure slowly followed them. When they were on the train the figure pulled out a mobile phone. "Yes.yes they're OK.No nothing went wrong. Right." The figure put the phone back in their pocket and left. "It's getting too close for comfort now." He said to himself as he walked back down the road.