The day before the charity event dawned clear and bright. The events
of the week before had gone from people's memories and the team was now
working as a team again. Kameko woke that morning early, as her coach, Kai,
had instructed her to. Kameko had finally perfected her Beybladeing
technique and she had quite a bit of control over her bit-beast. To keep
her bit-beast safe Kameko kept her in a locket around her neck. Her bit-
beast's name was Arelea, the dove of Hope. Before Kameko's father, Alec
Dickinson, had died he had given his daughter a bit-beast of great power.
Since that day Kameko had never forgotten her fathers' final words to her.
'Never lose hope, even if everything around you seems hopeless, never give
up hope.' Kameko always took those words to heart, just as she did the
importance of honour. Today Kameko was going to battle against Tyson, to
see if she was ready to take Max's place on the team. She had battled
against Kai and Ray many times over the last week and she knew all their
moves, so it would have been unfair against them if she had battled one of
them. Kameko got up out of bed and walked to the bathroom. She showered and
then chose her outfit for the day. She chose her blue cargo trousers with a
green belt, a tight white t-shirt and her favourite trainers. She then
pulled out of a top draw in her dresser a pair of long, green and
turquoise, fingerless gloves. They had been her fathers when he used to
Beyblade. They were made of some sort of material that conformed to any
persons shape so they fit snugly. Kameko slipped them on. She then pulled
out of the same draw a headband. It looked just like Ray's; in fact it was
one of Ray's spares that he had given to her once to bandage a cut she'd
had. She tied her hair up in a high ponytail and then tied the headband
round her head, avoiding the ponytail. She then looked at herself in the
mirror. Not too bad, she thought to herself. As she left her room she
picked up the Beyblade and launcher. She then left her room and went
downstairs for breakfast.
"So where's Kameko this morning?" Tyson asked, stuffing his face with bacon and eggs. "I can't wait to beat her." Ray sighed.
"She's not that easy Tyson, you'll have to actually work on beating her. And besides," Ray said, "This is only a practice for Kameko."
"You saying I should go easy on her Ray?" Tyson asked.
"Definitely not." Kai said with a snort of laughter. "Go easy on her? If anything you should try your hardest not to loose your blade." Kai smiled.
"She can't be that good." Kenny said. "Can she?" He turned to Ray who just smiled.
"Wait and see Chief." He said, Just then Kameko walked in to the room. Kenny's mouth hit the table.
"Oh my God." He said, staring at Kameko. Ray turned round and looked Kameko over. She looked ready for anything. Kai let out a low whistle.
"Morning boys." Kameko said, sitting down between Kai and Ray.
"We saved you something before the waste disposal took everything." Kai said. Kameko laughed.
"Hey," Tyson yelled, "I resent that remark!"
"If you resent it then why acknowledge it?" Max said.
"Thanks Kai." Kameko said, still laughing at the argument going on between Max and Tyson. Kai passed Kameko a plate he'd been guarding. Kameko began to eat the food on the plate.
"So Kameko," Tyson said, "Ready to loose?"
"Only if you are Tyson." Kameko replied, grinning at him.
"Oooh touchier." Dizzi said. "Someone's getting their confidence up."
"Thanks Dizzi." Kameko smiled. "Can someone pass the coffee?" Kai passed Kameko the coffee pot. "Thanks." Tyson kept giving Kameko odd looks, like he didn't trust her. After breakfast everyone made their way out to the back of the hotel where two dishes had been set up for their use.
"Well now's the crunch time Kai." Ray said. "Do you think she'll be OK?" Kai raised an eyebrow at Ray.
"Like I said to Tyson, Ray," Kai said, smirking, "He better try his hardest not to loose Dragoon."
"I just hope you're right." Ray said.
"OK. Bladers ready?" Kameko and Tyson nodded at Max's words. "Then 3.2.1.LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!"
"Let's show him what we're all about Arelea!" Kameko said launching her blade in to the dish, her bit beast no attached.
"Go Dragoon!" Tyson yelled. In the dish Arelea spun in the same spot as Dragoon came closer and closer.
"Dodge him!" Kameko yelled. Suddenly with out warning Arelea slid out of the way of the charging blade. "Tackle!" Kameko yelled. Arelea slammed in to Dragoon full force. Dragoon was sent spinning to the other side of the dish.
"Wow!" Dizzi said as Kenny recorded the action. "These are some stats Chief!" Dizzi said pulling up some stats for Kenny to look at. "This blade is an all rounder but there's something about it that can shift its type."
"What?" Max asked.
"Basically Max," Kenny said, excitedly, "Something about Kameko's blade is able to change it from a defensive type blade like yours to an all out offensive blade!" Kenny typed away furiously on Dizzi's key's. "I've never seen a type like it.
"Go Dragoon, show her what we've got!" Once again Dragoon went to attack Arelea but the other blade dodged his attack again.
"You're good Tyson," Kameko said, "But not good enough to beat Arelea I'm afraid."
"Arelea?" Tyson asked. He didn't get a reply though for the next minute Kameko had called out her bit-beast.
"GO ARELEA!" There was a flash of bright white light and there was a huge dove bit-beast. "ARELEA," Kameko yelled, "WINDS OF HOPE ATTACK!" The next minute Dragoon was lying on the ground outside the dish. Tyson just stared at where his blade had been and then at Kameko.
"Wow." He exclaimed. "What was that?" He said to himself, staring at his blade, lying in the dusty earth.
"Does this mean I'm on the team?" Kameko asked Kai, who was staring at Dragoon to.
"Where did you learn that move Kameko?" He asked.
"I don't know, it just came to me I guess." Kameko said shrugging.
"She's got full control over her bit-beast Kai." Ray said. "You came out here and practiced some more last night didn't you Kameko?" Ray said giving her a sly smile.
"Maybe, maybe not, I'm not telling until someone tells me if I'm on the team or not." Kameko said, folding her arms over her chest.
"You're on the team." Kai said, smiling at her. "Man I've NEVER seen a person gain control of a bit-beast THAT quickly before." Kai muttered under his breath.
"Well there's a first time for everything Kai." Kenny said. "Kameko do you want to see your stats?"
"Sure Chief, how did I do anyway?" Kameko said walking up to him and looking over his shoulder at Dizzi's screen.
"I'll tell you how you did," Dizzi said, "You ROCKED! Man I've never seen rotation speeds like that and that bit-beast, whit did you call him again?" Dizzi said in a rush. Kameko chuckled.
"Arelea Dizzi and Arelea's a she not a he."
"Wow." Dizzi said and went on about the rotation speed. Tyson picked up Dragoon ad stared at it. Dragoon wasn't damaged but the fact that Kameko had knocked him out of the dish was amazing.
"Hey Kameko," Tyson said, Kameko looked up from Dizzi's screen, "When this tournament is over I'm challenging you to another match."
"With pleasure Tyson." Kameko said. "I love a challenge."
"And Dranzer wasn't a challenge?" Kai asked, coming up behind Kameko and placing both hands on her shoulders.
"Only until I learnt all your moves Kai." Kameko said with a smile. "You fight too much from the head and not from the heart."
"Battles must be fought with the mind not the heart." Kai said, impassively. "It's the only way to have any chance at a victory." Kameko frowned at him.
"If you don't battle with your heart Kai-San," She said in a sad tone, "Then you are nothing more than a pawn in a game." With that last comment still ringing in his ears she walked back inside the building. Kai stared after her. Ray frowned at him. Just like HIM, he thought to himself. Kai looked over at Ray, saw him frowning and asked.
"What? What did I say wrong?"
"Kameko's right Kai." Ray said. "If you don't fight with at least part of your heart then you're just a pawn of the game." Kai turned to see the others frowning to.
"But if you don't fight with your head then you're likely to loose." Kai argued back.
"There's fighting with your head Kai," Max said, "And then there's fighting with you head. Sadly," Max said as Tyson pushed his wheelchair up the ramp in to the building, "You're the latter." Kai was left standing next to the dish, staring at the door. The rest of that day the others practiced like there was no tomorrow, for tomorrow was going to be hard, on all of them. As Kai lay in bed that night he thought about what Kameko had said. 'If you don't battle with your heart Kai-San then you are nothing more than a pawn in a game.' A pawn, Kai thought, I've been one of them nearly all my life, to Voltair, Boris.
"When can I be my own person?" Kai asked himself.
"When you start believing that you are your own person." Came a voice from by the door. It was Kameko. "Do you know where Ray is Kai-San?" She asked.
"No I don't." Kai said turning over under the quilt. "I think he's down stairs with Tyson and the others, at their 'before match' thing." Kai said scornfully. Kai then felt the bed dip. He peered behind him and saw Kameko sitting on the edge of the bed. "Go away." Kai said.
"Don't say that." Kameko said. "You sound just like how Ray sounded." Kai suddenly felt guilty.
"Sorry." He said. He sat up in bed and ran his fingers through his slate grey hair. "I'm sorry about what I said to you this morning Kameko."
"That's OK. Grandpa told me about your time at that abbey place." Kai turned his head. "Does it hurt still?" Kameko asked. Kai looked at her curiously.
"What?" He asked. He didn't remember hurting himself.
"The memories."
"Oh." Kai said. He thought for a while. "They do a little." He said. "But that's not what bothers me."
"What does then Kai?" Kameko put a hand on his shoulder. Kai looked in to her deep blue eyes. He saw a lonely girl.no a woman.Kai couldn't make her out. She wasn't a girl; she was too old to be considered one now but still acted like one, she was still young enough to be one and she still had that innocence that all children have. "Kai?" The sound of his name brought him out of his trance.
"Sorry." He muttered. He then said something to himself in Russian.
"What's wrong with me having blue eyes Kai?" Kameko asked.
"You understand Russian!" Kai was startled.
"Having more then one language is useful." Kameko said in Russian. Kameko ten spotted something on the floor of the room. It was a photo. "Do you think that's." She didn't need to finish her sentence.
"It is." Kai said. He got up out from his bed and picked the photo up. He was tempted to look at the photo but something told him that he didn't' want to know. He placed on Ray's bedside table. Kameko yawned. "Keeping you up am I?" He asked. Kameko smiled shyly. God how that smile turn me on, Kai thought to himself. He walked over to Kameko and grabbed her round the waist.
"Kai!" Kameko was a bit startled. "What.?" What ever she was going to ask was cut off by Kai's lips being placed over hers. She was surprised to say the least and, after the initial shock, kissed him back. Kai was surprised when she kissed him back but didn't complain. "Mmmm." Kameko sighed contentedly. When the kiss was over Kameko looked at Kai. "That was unexpected." She said, smiling.
"I even surprised myself." Kai said, holding her loosely against him. "I've been wondering if I should tell you how I feel about you for the last hour." He said. "I don't know why," Kai bowed his head, "But from the minute I saw you," he took Kameko's hands in his, "I felt something."
"Like you weren't in control?" Kameko asked. Kai nodded. "I felt the same way." Kameko rested her head against Kai's chest, his steady heartbeat being a comfort to her.
"Do you think Ray feels the same way about you that I do?" Kai asked. Kameko looked up at him. "That could be the reason why he was angry at us. He might have thought I was taking you away from him." Kameko shook her head.
"Oh no," she said smiling, "It's him and Mariah, all the way, however coolly she tries to act when she's around him Kai," Kameko smirked, tapping the side of her head, "I can feel her feeling for him. She's besotted with him." Kai stared at Kameko.
"Serious?" He said; his eyebrows raised in query.
"No word of a lie comes out of my mouth Kai." Kameko said.
"In that case Kameko Dickinson maybe you should tell me." Kai then put his mouth close to her ear and whispered in Russian. "Do you love me?" He felt Kameko shudder. Kameko replied in Russian.
"More then you can imagine Kai Hiwatari." She said, pulling his head down to her sand kissing him hard. Kai didn't object though. All the while a figure sat outside on a ledge of a building opposite.
"Soon." The figure said to her companions. "Soon we will make then pay for what they did to him."
"Most certainly." Another said, "No one steals one of our own and gets away with it."
"So where's Kameko this morning?" Tyson asked, stuffing his face with bacon and eggs. "I can't wait to beat her." Ray sighed.
"She's not that easy Tyson, you'll have to actually work on beating her. And besides," Ray said, "This is only a practice for Kameko."
"You saying I should go easy on her Ray?" Tyson asked.
"Definitely not." Kai said with a snort of laughter. "Go easy on her? If anything you should try your hardest not to loose your blade." Kai smiled.
"She can't be that good." Kenny said. "Can she?" He turned to Ray who just smiled.
"Wait and see Chief." He said, Just then Kameko walked in to the room. Kenny's mouth hit the table.
"Oh my God." He said, staring at Kameko. Ray turned round and looked Kameko over. She looked ready for anything. Kai let out a low whistle.
"Morning boys." Kameko said, sitting down between Kai and Ray.
"We saved you something before the waste disposal took everything." Kai said. Kameko laughed.
"Hey," Tyson yelled, "I resent that remark!"
"If you resent it then why acknowledge it?" Max said.
"Thanks Kai." Kameko said, still laughing at the argument going on between Max and Tyson. Kai passed Kameko a plate he'd been guarding. Kameko began to eat the food on the plate.
"So Kameko," Tyson said, "Ready to loose?"
"Only if you are Tyson." Kameko replied, grinning at him.
"Oooh touchier." Dizzi said. "Someone's getting their confidence up."
"Thanks Dizzi." Kameko smiled. "Can someone pass the coffee?" Kai passed Kameko the coffee pot. "Thanks." Tyson kept giving Kameko odd looks, like he didn't trust her. After breakfast everyone made their way out to the back of the hotel where two dishes had been set up for their use.
"Well now's the crunch time Kai." Ray said. "Do you think she'll be OK?" Kai raised an eyebrow at Ray.
"Like I said to Tyson, Ray," Kai said, smirking, "He better try his hardest not to loose Dragoon."
"I just hope you're right." Ray said.
"OK. Bladers ready?" Kameko and Tyson nodded at Max's words. "Then 3.2.1.LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!"
"Let's show him what we're all about Arelea!" Kameko said launching her blade in to the dish, her bit beast no attached.
"Go Dragoon!" Tyson yelled. In the dish Arelea spun in the same spot as Dragoon came closer and closer.
"Dodge him!" Kameko yelled. Suddenly with out warning Arelea slid out of the way of the charging blade. "Tackle!" Kameko yelled. Arelea slammed in to Dragoon full force. Dragoon was sent spinning to the other side of the dish.
"Wow!" Dizzi said as Kenny recorded the action. "These are some stats Chief!" Dizzi said pulling up some stats for Kenny to look at. "This blade is an all rounder but there's something about it that can shift its type."
"What?" Max asked.
"Basically Max," Kenny said, excitedly, "Something about Kameko's blade is able to change it from a defensive type blade like yours to an all out offensive blade!" Kenny typed away furiously on Dizzi's key's. "I've never seen a type like it.
"Go Dragoon, show her what we've got!" Once again Dragoon went to attack Arelea but the other blade dodged his attack again.
"You're good Tyson," Kameko said, "But not good enough to beat Arelea I'm afraid."
"Arelea?" Tyson asked. He didn't get a reply though for the next minute Kameko had called out her bit-beast.
"GO ARELEA!" There was a flash of bright white light and there was a huge dove bit-beast. "ARELEA," Kameko yelled, "WINDS OF HOPE ATTACK!" The next minute Dragoon was lying on the ground outside the dish. Tyson just stared at where his blade had been and then at Kameko.
"Wow." He exclaimed. "What was that?" He said to himself, staring at his blade, lying in the dusty earth.
"Does this mean I'm on the team?" Kameko asked Kai, who was staring at Dragoon to.
"Where did you learn that move Kameko?" He asked.
"I don't know, it just came to me I guess." Kameko said shrugging.
"She's got full control over her bit-beast Kai." Ray said. "You came out here and practiced some more last night didn't you Kameko?" Ray said giving her a sly smile.
"Maybe, maybe not, I'm not telling until someone tells me if I'm on the team or not." Kameko said, folding her arms over her chest.
"You're on the team." Kai said, smiling at her. "Man I've NEVER seen a person gain control of a bit-beast THAT quickly before." Kai muttered under his breath.
"Well there's a first time for everything Kai." Kenny said. "Kameko do you want to see your stats?"
"Sure Chief, how did I do anyway?" Kameko said walking up to him and looking over his shoulder at Dizzi's screen.
"I'll tell you how you did," Dizzi said, "You ROCKED! Man I've never seen rotation speeds like that and that bit-beast, whit did you call him again?" Dizzi said in a rush. Kameko chuckled.
"Arelea Dizzi and Arelea's a she not a he."
"Wow." Dizzi said and went on about the rotation speed. Tyson picked up Dragoon ad stared at it. Dragoon wasn't damaged but the fact that Kameko had knocked him out of the dish was amazing.
"Hey Kameko," Tyson said, Kameko looked up from Dizzi's screen, "When this tournament is over I'm challenging you to another match."
"With pleasure Tyson." Kameko said. "I love a challenge."
"And Dranzer wasn't a challenge?" Kai asked, coming up behind Kameko and placing both hands on her shoulders.
"Only until I learnt all your moves Kai." Kameko said with a smile. "You fight too much from the head and not from the heart."
"Battles must be fought with the mind not the heart." Kai said, impassively. "It's the only way to have any chance at a victory." Kameko frowned at him.
"If you don't battle with your heart Kai-San," She said in a sad tone, "Then you are nothing more than a pawn in a game." With that last comment still ringing in his ears she walked back inside the building. Kai stared after her. Ray frowned at him. Just like HIM, he thought to himself. Kai looked over at Ray, saw him frowning and asked.
"What? What did I say wrong?"
"Kameko's right Kai." Ray said. "If you don't fight with at least part of your heart then you're just a pawn of the game." Kai turned to see the others frowning to.
"But if you don't fight with your head then you're likely to loose." Kai argued back.
"There's fighting with your head Kai," Max said, "And then there's fighting with you head. Sadly," Max said as Tyson pushed his wheelchair up the ramp in to the building, "You're the latter." Kai was left standing next to the dish, staring at the door. The rest of that day the others practiced like there was no tomorrow, for tomorrow was going to be hard, on all of them. As Kai lay in bed that night he thought about what Kameko had said. 'If you don't battle with your heart Kai-San then you are nothing more than a pawn in a game.' A pawn, Kai thought, I've been one of them nearly all my life, to Voltair, Boris.
"When can I be my own person?" Kai asked himself.
"When you start believing that you are your own person." Came a voice from by the door. It was Kameko. "Do you know where Ray is Kai-San?" She asked.
"No I don't." Kai said turning over under the quilt. "I think he's down stairs with Tyson and the others, at their 'before match' thing." Kai said scornfully. Kai then felt the bed dip. He peered behind him and saw Kameko sitting on the edge of the bed. "Go away." Kai said.
"Don't say that." Kameko said. "You sound just like how Ray sounded." Kai suddenly felt guilty.
"Sorry." He said. He sat up in bed and ran his fingers through his slate grey hair. "I'm sorry about what I said to you this morning Kameko."
"That's OK. Grandpa told me about your time at that abbey place." Kai turned his head. "Does it hurt still?" Kameko asked. Kai looked at her curiously.
"What?" He asked. He didn't remember hurting himself.
"The memories."
"Oh." Kai said. He thought for a while. "They do a little." He said. "But that's not what bothers me."
"What does then Kai?" Kameko put a hand on his shoulder. Kai looked in to her deep blue eyes. He saw a lonely girl.no a woman.Kai couldn't make her out. She wasn't a girl; she was too old to be considered one now but still acted like one, she was still young enough to be one and she still had that innocence that all children have. "Kai?" The sound of his name brought him out of his trance.
"Sorry." He muttered. He then said something to himself in Russian.
"What's wrong with me having blue eyes Kai?" Kameko asked.
"You understand Russian!" Kai was startled.
"Having more then one language is useful." Kameko said in Russian. Kameko ten spotted something on the floor of the room. It was a photo. "Do you think that's." She didn't need to finish her sentence.
"It is." Kai said. He got up out from his bed and picked the photo up. He was tempted to look at the photo but something told him that he didn't' want to know. He placed on Ray's bedside table. Kameko yawned. "Keeping you up am I?" He asked. Kameko smiled shyly. God how that smile turn me on, Kai thought to himself. He walked over to Kameko and grabbed her round the waist.
"Kai!" Kameko was a bit startled. "What.?" What ever she was going to ask was cut off by Kai's lips being placed over hers. She was surprised to say the least and, after the initial shock, kissed him back. Kai was surprised when she kissed him back but didn't complain. "Mmmm." Kameko sighed contentedly. When the kiss was over Kameko looked at Kai. "That was unexpected." She said, smiling.
"I even surprised myself." Kai said, holding her loosely against him. "I've been wondering if I should tell you how I feel about you for the last hour." He said. "I don't know why," Kai bowed his head, "But from the minute I saw you," he took Kameko's hands in his, "I felt something."
"Like you weren't in control?" Kameko asked. Kai nodded. "I felt the same way." Kameko rested her head against Kai's chest, his steady heartbeat being a comfort to her.
"Do you think Ray feels the same way about you that I do?" Kai asked. Kameko looked up at him. "That could be the reason why he was angry at us. He might have thought I was taking you away from him." Kameko shook her head.
"Oh no," she said smiling, "It's him and Mariah, all the way, however coolly she tries to act when she's around him Kai," Kameko smirked, tapping the side of her head, "I can feel her feeling for him. She's besotted with him." Kai stared at Kameko.
"Serious?" He said; his eyebrows raised in query.
"No word of a lie comes out of my mouth Kai." Kameko said.
"In that case Kameko Dickinson maybe you should tell me." Kai then put his mouth close to her ear and whispered in Russian. "Do you love me?" He felt Kameko shudder. Kameko replied in Russian.
"More then you can imagine Kai Hiwatari." She said, pulling his head down to her sand kissing him hard. Kai didn't object though. All the while a figure sat outside on a ledge of a building opposite.
"Soon." The figure said to her companions. "Soon we will make then pay for what they did to him."
"Most certainly." Another said, "No one steals one of our own and gets away with it."