Hey all!
Red: So sorry for taking so long.
Got back from an unproductive (writing-wise) trip to a tiny town in my teeny province called St. Andrew's where I stayed in a cottage in the middle of nowhere on a lake that was beautiful in a forest with relatives but no younger siblings.
Black: If you understand that, congratulations. Her typing deteriorated over a WEEK with out a computer. -_-' *sigh*
White: We got jewelry! ^____^ I had so much fun!
Red: Then I didn't realize I hadn't uploaded this chapter and oh, stupidity. Sorry, millions of sorrys.
Black: Not that many people care…
Red: -_-
Yuh… So thanx LOADS to Coppelia, I was going to read one of your fics but I think my parents are catching on to my yoari-reading. Even tho I am all for heterosexualism (white: x_x long word…) and I read Boy meets Boy for the heck of it.
Black: She's 13. Shhh…
Red: Yup. But I'll be 14 soon!
White: November! Yey!
Red: Also some Bryan.
Black: It sucks.
Red: Nothing Black here, but don't worry, we'll get nasty later. She doesn't disappear for long.
Black: *snicker*
Red: Thanx to Kimpiseces, as usual; my only regular reader. *sniff* ;_;
White: Awwww… *hugs Red* You know we love you… People just don't get past your summery to the story. And it IS your first.
Black: Hahahahahaha... What did I tell ya, Red? The summery sucks!
White: O_O I didn't mean to insult you Red, really…
Red: *sniff* Well, disclaim already.
Black: Disclaim is a word?
White: mmmhmmmm.
White: Red doesn't own any of the characters that show up in here except Celeste and us, her muses & Mrs. Greene.
Onwords and forwords…
Chapter #4: Meetings and Beginnings
Celeste stuck a piece of paper in her page and dropped the book on the couch as she stood up.
"I'm going out for a walk," she announced to Kai before he put his head-phones on.
"Whatever," he muttered. "Just make sure you tell Mrs. Greene you're going or you'll get locked out. I don't want to have to come down and let you in."
She pulled on a light jacket and then skipped down the stairs. She told the land-lady that she was going out and took the proffered chocolate-chip cookie before heading out.
~`~,*`~,~
"So, do you want to beybattle?"
Celeste eyed the pale boy, slightly nervous.
"Not unless I get a name first," she said.
"Bryan," he replied, "What's yours?"
"Celeste."
"Then let's get started, Celeste."
"He's pretty creepy-looking," she thought as she watched him pull out a pale beyblade and launcher. She pulled her own out of her pocket: a light blue and grey one and a launcher with an extra long ripcord. She carefully unhooked her bit from a chain around her neck and fit it into her blade. Bryan was already set when she deftly twisted her beyblade onto her launcher.
"Ready?" growled Bryan. His eyes rested on her in a dangerous stare. Celeste felt uneasy about him.
"Ready."
"3, 2, 1, let it rip!"
Both landed perfectly off the mark and Bryan smirked as his beyblade when on the attack right away.
"You'll wish you hadn't agreed to this match before long," Bryan said in a confident tone.
"What?" Celeste was bewildered. What was he talking about? She felt uncomfortable when Bryan's eyes still didn't leave her.
"You heard me," he snarled before calling sown to his bit beast. "Falborg! Rip them to shreds!"
The large pale falcon appeared above his beyblade with a screech. He only spared it a glance before he affixed his eyes on her again.
"Feel that?"
Indeed she did. The air was moving around her at a dangerously fast speed. She felt it tear at her clothes and hair, spiraling from the bird's wings.
"He can control the air?" thought Celeste. She then did something only one other beyblader had ever done during one of his matches. She smiled. He searched her eyes for some deceit but she was relaxed and comfortable. He eyes only showed a calm confidence now.
"You played your gambit too early, Bryan. Of course you had no idea who my bit beast was before-hand, but you'll learn by the end of the match."
Feeling the dangerous wind start catching at her she deemed the time right.
"Hydra!" she called, "Emerge!"
Bryan blinked. Something had just shot out of his opponent's bit at an incredible speed. "Where did it go?" he thought angrily. Suddenly it was hovering right in front of Falborg, unaffected by his bit beast's storm.
"Falborg, take them down, now!" he yelled.
Celeste wasn't even mildly bothered by the wind anymore. Her bit beast took care of that. While she was strong, Hydra stayed strong. The long, snake-like creature was twisting slowly in the air, hovering with its thin delicate-looking wings. It had a creepy head, shaped like a spade; slate-colored with two thin blue eyes. There were two backwards curving horns with long trailing strings. The body was like a serpent's: scaled and smooth, but about half-way down the scales elongated into spikes over-lapping each other.
"Hydra: spirit of fast-running rivers and calm air," Celeste quoted.
"Calm air, hunh?" Bryan snarled, eyeing the beast, "Well, we'll just have to do this the old-fashioned way, eh, Falborg?" The hawk gave a cry in agreement. "Attack!"
"Hydra, dodge him," Celeste said, almost sounding bored. Now that she had disabled his special attack, Bryan wasn't likely to be much of a challenge. To Celeste's surprise, the falcon actually got a hit in before Hydra got moving, but once she did she was untouchable. Falborg shot out sharp arrows of air at Hydra, but the slim and fast spirit just dodged them all.
"Just wait for it," muttered Bryan," She'll have to stop for an attack sooner or later."
Celeste heard him and called over, "I wouldn't be so sure, if I were you." Now it was time to take over this battle.
"Hydra!"
At the sound of its partner's call, the blue dragon froze in mid-air, waiting for a command. Bryan took his chance.
"Now, Falborg!"
The bird shot towards its prey, but Hydra disappeared just before the bird hit it.
"Stop running, damnnit!" Bryan growled angrily at Celeste.
"Fine," she replied calmly, "Let's get this over with. Whiplash!"
The pale snake-like creature reappeared briefly in the air in front of the other bit beast before shooting straight up in the air.
"Wait for it…" growled Bryan.
"Oh, you can wait for her if you want, but it won't make any difference," Celeste said, checking her watch. After a few seconds Celeste looked skywards and Bryan involuntarily followed her gaze.
A bright blur was shooting down towards the earth like a speeding arrow. It didn't slow down or stop as it got closer and closer to the ground.
"Is this some kind of suicide attack?" Bryan thought.
He tensed himself, just a few more feet…
At this speed nothing could survive hitting the ground.
~`~,*`~,~
Kai glanced at the clock and hit the stop button on his CD player. He had a quick shower and changed into his favorite blood-red t-shirt and a pair of black pants that, when shopping, Tala had told him hugged his ass nicely.
Not that he showed it off.
He had grabbed his black-leather over-coat and was about to go out the door when Mrs. Greene caught him and called: "Are you going out somewhere, Kai? I want you to go find your girl friend and bring her back before you go out on your own."
"Come on," Kai complained. "She knows the way here. Rei is supposed to meet me here, now. I don't want to drag him half-way across the city looking for a girl."
Kai pulled open the door to face that very guy with his arm up-raised to knock.
"Always on time, aren't we, Kai?" Rei laughed.
"Hello Rei, dear," the lady said cheerfully, coming into the room. It was obvious he wasn't one of Kai's friends she considered hoodlums.
"Now, Kai," she turned back to her first victim. "You are going to go looking for that girl because you aren't getting back into this house until you do."
"Fine, fine," he snapped. "Rei, I hope you don't mind, but we're going to have to go look for someone before we get going."
"Uh, sure…" he replied as Kai promptly stepped out the door and shut it firmly behind him.
~`~,*`~,~
When it stopped there was a loud crack, like lightning. The dry dust clouded up and Bryan couldn't see the beyblades. He looked at Celeste and she didn't look in the least bothered.
"Falborg, get rid of this dust," Bryan growled. To his surprise, his normally obedient bit beast just looked at him.
"What?" he snapped.
Falborg's piercing eyes looked pointedly at the dust cloud that was blowing away on the breeze.
"No…It couldn't have…" he muttered in disbelief. Hydra was hovering inches from the ground, unscathed. Then Bryan smirked.
"What was that supposed to do?" he asked Celeste.
"Patience," she replied calmly.
Suddenly, like water ripples in a pond, the ground heaved up around the water-spirit and out. The air shot out from around it, time delayed because of the speed of the attack.
It knocked Bryan off his feet, but he caught himself before he hit the rolling ground. He looked up in time to see Falborg emit a screech of pain and disappear. His beyblade ground to a halt under one of the mystical animal's wings.
Bryan stared. He had lost twice. This time, utterly. He hadn't even made a mark on the beast this time.
Celeste, smiling, walked over to Hydra's side and ran a hand over the scales of her graceful body. Bryan started from his trance when he heard the dragon make an odd noise, like water running over stones. Bryan closed his eyes and turned away his head.
He heard footsteps approaching, but forced himself not to look up.
"Bryan, don't you want your beyblade?" Celeste's sweet voice queried. He saw it out of the corner of his eye in her outstretched hand.
"You keep it. I don't deserve it any more," he said softly.
"I couldn't do that! So you lost, so what. You'll get better from this. I'm sure if I had some other bit beast than Hydra you would have beaten me. You're really good."
Bryan risked a look upwards and regretted it. She was smiling at him, holding out his beyblade. He closed his eyes and then opened them quickly again, feeling the girl's warm hand on his.
"Here," she said, gentle but firm. She carefully pried open his hand and placed the beyblade inside, closing his hand over it.
"You fought well," she said, smiling at him.
They both noticed the cut on Celeste's hand at the same time.
"Sorry," he muttered, feeling awkward. He had never felt bad for hurting someone before.
They both jumped, hearing footsteps at the same time. Celeste dropped Bryan's hand and stepped away from him. She looked over the taller boy's shoulder and saw a group of three other boys standing there, looking at them.
"Hey!" Kai called to her, sounding irritable, "Where have you been?"
"Oh, I was just beybattling Bryan, here," Celeste said, unaware of his history.
"What?!" snapped Kai, "You beybattled Bryan?"
"Yeah? So?" Celeste asked, confused.
Bryan winced to see that Tala and Rei were with Kai. The two other people he would like to not know this.
Kai ignored Celeste's question and glared at Bryan.
"If she's hurt…" he threatened.
"She's fine," he snapped angrily, earning raised eyebrows from his former teammate. He had never let someone escape from Falborg's attacks before. He gave a barely perceptible shake of his head.
Celeste was still standing behind Bryan when Rei spoke up. He had a good reason to stay out of Bryan's way.
"I think he lost to her," he said quietly.
Bryan felt too ashamed to look Tala in the eye so he looked downwards instead. Celeste saw this and nudged his hand with her own. The boy saw the cut smudge a little bit of blood onto his hand and he looked up again.
"Well, Celeste, let's go. I've already wasted half the night looking for you," Kai said, beckoning her forward.
"Yeah, come on Bryan," Tala said to his friend.
Celeste watched Bryan and the red-head leave and then started walking with Rei and Kai. The two boys dropped her off at Mrs. Greene's house and then headed out for the night.
Back at the wharf, though, something weird was happening. Right where Bryan and Celeste had fought a small black hole was opening ever so slowly…
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Red: Hah Ha! Mini cliff-hanger.
Black: *snicker* We already know what happens after this. Nananna boo boo!
White: *giggles* Getting so exciting!
Red: *sigh* I know the first part (C leaving) sucked and I tried to fix it up a bit following Coppelia's advice, but it still sucks. I just need something to explain why she was out beybattling Bryan.
Okay, I got an idea. YOU give ME a summery. Wouldn't that be so much easier?
Black: mhmmmm… *playing with flamethrougher*
White: Remember to review! *waves Rei plushie*
Black: I COMMANDS YOU TO REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! *jabs scared reader(s) with flamethrougher*
White: Clicky clicky! ^_^
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Red: So sorry for taking so long.
Got back from an unproductive (writing-wise) trip to a tiny town in my teeny province called St. Andrew's where I stayed in a cottage in the middle of nowhere on a lake that was beautiful in a forest with relatives but no younger siblings.
Black: If you understand that, congratulations. Her typing deteriorated over a WEEK with out a computer. -_-' *sigh*
White: We got jewelry! ^____^ I had so much fun!
Red: Then I didn't realize I hadn't uploaded this chapter and oh, stupidity. Sorry, millions of sorrys.
Black: Not that many people care…
Red: -_-
Yuh… So thanx LOADS to Coppelia, I was going to read one of your fics but I think my parents are catching on to my yoari-reading. Even tho I am all for heterosexualism (white: x_x long word…) and I read Boy meets Boy for the heck of it.
Black: She's 13. Shhh…
Red: Yup. But I'll be 14 soon!
White: November! Yey!
Red: Also some Bryan.
Black: It sucks.
Red: Nothing Black here, but don't worry, we'll get nasty later. She doesn't disappear for long.
Black: *snicker*
Red: Thanx to Kimpiseces, as usual; my only regular reader. *sniff* ;_;
White: Awwww… *hugs Red* You know we love you… People just don't get past your summery to the story. And it IS your first.
Black: Hahahahahaha... What did I tell ya, Red? The summery sucks!
White: O_O I didn't mean to insult you Red, really…
Red: *sniff* Well, disclaim already.
Black: Disclaim is a word?
White: mmmhmmmm.
White: Red doesn't own any of the characters that show up in here except Celeste and us, her muses & Mrs. Greene.
Onwords and forwords…
Chapter #4: Meetings and Beginnings
Celeste stuck a piece of paper in her page and dropped the book on the couch as she stood up.
"I'm going out for a walk," she announced to Kai before he put his head-phones on.
"Whatever," he muttered. "Just make sure you tell Mrs. Greene you're going or you'll get locked out. I don't want to have to come down and let you in."
She pulled on a light jacket and then skipped down the stairs. She told the land-lady that she was going out and took the proffered chocolate-chip cookie before heading out.
~`~,*`~,~
"So, do you want to beybattle?"
Celeste eyed the pale boy, slightly nervous.
"Not unless I get a name first," she said.
"Bryan," he replied, "What's yours?"
"Celeste."
"Then let's get started, Celeste."
"He's pretty creepy-looking," she thought as she watched him pull out a pale beyblade and launcher. She pulled her own out of her pocket: a light blue and grey one and a launcher with an extra long ripcord. She carefully unhooked her bit from a chain around her neck and fit it into her blade. Bryan was already set when she deftly twisted her beyblade onto her launcher.
"Ready?" growled Bryan. His eyes rested on her in a dangerous stare. Celeste felt uneasy about him.
"Ready."
"3, 2, 1, let it rip!"
Both landed perfectly off the mark and Bryan smirked as his beyblade when on the attack right away.
"You'll wish you hadn't agreed to this match before long," Bryan said in a confident tone.
"What?" Celeste was bewildered. What was he talking about? She felt uncomfortable when Bryan's eyes still didn't leave her.
"You heard me," he snarled before calling sown to his bit beast. "Falborg! Rip them to shreds!"
The large pale falcon appeared above his beyblade with a screech. He only spared it a glance before he affixed his eyes on her again.
"Feel that?"
Indeed she did. The air was moving around her at a dangerously fast speed. She felt it tear at her clothes and hair, spiraling from the bird's wings.
"He can control the air?" thought Celeste. She then did something only one other beyblader had ever done during one of his matches. She smiled. He searched her eyes for some deceit but she was relaxed and comfortable. He eyes only showed a calm confidence now.
"You played your gambit too early, Bryan. Of course you had no idea who my bit beast was before-hand, but you'll learn by the end of the match."
Feeling the dangerous wind start catching at her she deemed the time right.
"Hydra!" she called, "Emerge!"
Bryan blinked. Something had just shot out of his opponent's bit at an incredible speed. "Where did it go?" he thought angrily. Suddenly it was hovering right in front of Falborg, unaffected by his bit beast's storm.
"Falborg, take them down, now!" he yelled.
Celeste wasn't even mildly bothered by the wind anymore. Her bit beast took care of that. While she was strong, Hydra stayed strong. The long, snake-like creature was twisting slowly in the air, hovering with its thin delicate-looking wings. It had a creepy head, shaped like a spade; slate-colored with two thin blue eyes. There were two backwards curving horns with long trailing strings. The body was like a serpent's: scaled and smooth, but about half-way down the scales elongated into spikes over-lapping each other.
"Hydra: spirit of fast-running rivers and calm air," Celeste quoted.
"Calm air, hunh?" Bryan snarled, eyeing the beast, "Well, we'll just have to do this the old-fashioned way, eh, Falborg?" The hawk gave a cry in agreement. "Attack!"
"Hydra, dodge him," Celeste said, almost sounding bored. Now that she had disabled his special attack, Bryan wasn't likely to be much of a challenge. To Celeste's surprise, the falcon actually got a hit in before Hydra got moving, but once she did she was untouchable. Falborg shot out sharp arrows of air at Hydra, but the slim and fast spirit just dodged them all.
"Just wait for it," muttered Bryan," She'll have to stop for an attack sooner or later."
Celeste heard him and called over, "I wouldn't be so sure, if I were you." Now it was time to take over this battle.
"Hydra!"
At the sound of its partner's call, the blue dragon froze in mid-air, waiting for a command. Bryan took his chance.
"Now, Falborg!"
The bird shot towards its prey, but Hydra disappeared just before the bird hit it.
"Stop running, damnnit!" Bryan growled angrily at Celeste.
"Fine," she replied calmly, "Let's get this over with. Whiplash!"
The pale snake-like creature reappeared briefly in the air in front of the other bit beast before shooting straight up in the air.
"Wait for it…" growled Bryan.
"Oh, you can wait for her if you want, but it won't make any difference," Celeste said, checking her watch. After a few seconds Celeste looked skywards and Bryan involuntarily followed her gaze.
A bright blur was shooting down towards the earth like a speeding arrow. It didn't slow down or stop as it got closer and closer to the ground.
"Is this some kind of suicide attack?" Bryan thought.
He tensed himself, just a few more feet…
At this speed nothing could survive hitting the ground.
~`~,*`~,~
Kai glanced at the clock and hit the stop button on his CD player. He had a quick shower and changed into his favorite blood-red t-shirt and a pair of black pants that, when shopping, Tala had told him hugged his ass nicely.
Not that he showed it off.
He had grabbed his black-leather over-coat and was about to go out the door when Mrs. Greene caught him and called: "Are you going out somewhere, Kai? I want you to go find your girl friend and bring her back before you go out on your own."
"Come on," Kai complained. "She knows the way here. Rei is supposed to meet me here, now. I don't want to drag him half-way across the city looking for a girl."
Kai pulled open the door to face that very guy with his arm up-raised to knock.
"Always on time, aren't we, Kai?" Rei laughed.
"Hello Rei, dear," the lady said cheerfully, coming into the room. It was obvious he wasn't one of Kai's friends she considered hoodlums.
"Now, Kai," she turned back to her first victim. "You are going to go looking for that girl because you aren't getting back into this house until you do."
"Fine, fine," he snapped. "Rei, I hope you don't mind, but we're going to have to go look for someone before we get going."
"Uh, sure…" he replied as Kai promptly stepped out the door and shut it firmly behind him.
~`~,*`~,~
When it stopped there was a loud crack, like lightning. The dry dust clouded up and Bryan couldn't see the beyblades. He looked at Celeste and she didn't look in the least bothered.
"Falborg, get rid of this dust," Bryan growled. To his surprise, his normally obedient bit beast just looked at him.
"What?" he snapped.
Falborg's piercing eyes looked pointedly at the dust cloud that was blowing away on the breeze.
"No…It couldn't have…" he muttered in disbelief. Hydra was hovering inches from the ground, unscathed. Then Bryan smirked.
"What was that supposed to do?" he asked Celeste.
"Patience," she replied calmly.
Suddenly, like water ripples in a pond, the ground heaved up around the water-spirit and out. The air shot out from around it, time delayed because of the speed of the attack.
It knocked Bryan off his feet, but he caught himself before he hit the rolling ground. He looked up in time to see Falborg emit a screech of pain and disappear. His beyblade ground to a halt under one of the mystical animal's wings.
Bryan stared. He had lost twice. This time, utterly. He hadn't even made a mark on the beast this time.
Celeste, smiling, walked over to Hydra's side and ran a hand over the scales of her graceful body. Bryan started from his trance when he heard the dragon make an odd noise, like water running over stones. Bryan closed his eyes and turned away his head.
He heard footsteps approaching, but forced himself not to look up.
"Bryan, don't you want your beyblade?" Celeste's sweet voice queried. He saw it out of the corner of his eye in her outstretched hand.
"You keep it. I don't deserve it any more," he said softly.
"I couldn't do that! So you lost, so what. You'll get better from this. I'm sure if I had some other bit beast than Hydra you would have beaten me. You're really good."
Bryan risked a look upwards and regretted it. She was smiling at him, holding out his beyblade. He closed his eyes and then opened them quickly again, feeling the girl's warm hand on his.
"Here," she said, gentle but firm. She carefully pried open his hand and placed the beyblade inside, closing his hand over it.
"You fought well," she said, smiling at him.
They both noticed the cut on Celeste's hand at the same time.
"Sorry," he muttered, feeling awkward. He had never felt bad for hurting someone before.
They both jumped, hearing footsteps at the same time. Celeste dropped Bryan's hand and stepped away from him. She looked over the taller boy's shoulder and saw a group of three other boys standing there, looking at them.
"Hey!" Kai called to her, sounding irritable, "Where have you been?"
"Oh, I was just beybattling Bryan, here," Celeste said, unaware of his history.
"What?!" snapped Kai, "You beybattled Bryan?"
"Yeah? So?" Celeste asked, confused.
Bryan winced to see that Tala and Rei were with Kai. The two other people he would like to not know this.
Kai ignored Celeste's question and glared at Bryan.
"If she's hurt…" he threatened.
"She's fine," he snapped angrily, earning raised eyebrows from his former teammate. He had never let someone escape from Falborg's attacks before. He gave a barely perceptible shake of his head.
Celeste was still standing behind Bryan when Rei spoke up. He had a good reason to stay out of Bryan's way.
"I think he lost to her," he said quietly.
Bryan felt too ashamed to look Tala in the eye so he looked downwards instead. Celeste saw this and nudged his hand with her own. The boy saw the cut smudge a little bit of blood onto his hand and he looked up again.
"Well, Celeste, let's go. I've already wasted half the night looking for you," Kai said, beckoning her forward.
"Yeah, come on Bryan," Tala said to his friend.
Celeste watched Bryan and the red-head leave and then started walking with Rei and Kai. The two boys dropped her off at Mrs. Greene's house and then headed out for the night.
Back at the wharf, though, something weird was happening. Right where Bryan and Celeste had fought a small black hole was opening ever so slowly…
~`~,*`~,~
Red: Hah Ha! Mini cliff-hanger.
Black: *snicker* We already know what happens after this. Nananna boo boo!
White: *giggles* Getting so exciting!
Red: *sigh* I know the first part (C leaving) sucked and I tried to fix it up a bit following Coppelia's advice, but it still sucks. I just need something to explain why she was out beybattling Bryan.
Okay, I got an idea. YOU give ME a summery. Wouldn't that be so much easier?
Black: mhmmmm… *playing with flamethrougher*
White: Remember to review! *waves Rei plushie*
Black: I COMMANDS YOU TO REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! *jabs scared reader(s) with flamethrougher*
White: Clicky clicky! ^_^
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