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-is having too much fun making disclaimers- Ehehe... so... uh.. this update has been a little delayed. But, hey, at least it didn't take another three weeks. Anyway, I did a little something on our profile. We now have a spiffy list of updates, and it also lists about when Beytanic should be next updated, in case you're wondering.
Also, as a shameless plug, I'd like to promote some other fics. We recently wrote another Beyblade fic, entitled "You Can Wait, Right?". It's a one-shot, good-humored parody on those KaiOC "girl from Kai's past" fics. We personally think it's one of our better fics, plus it's ReiKai. -winks- And, Becky (I R PinkCake) recently wrote a ReiKai romance fic, which is definitely worth reading. Okay, that's it for advertising...
We'd also like to inform everyone that we're doing a little something special. Once we reach 100 reviews on this pen name, we're going to write a little something special. So, don't forget to drop us a review once you read and tell us what you'd like to see us write. It'll kinda be like a thank you to the nice reviews. :D
Okay, enough rambling. It's late and I want to finish typing this. x__x It's 2:15 and I'm as tired as hell. I'm surviving on iced tea and chocolate cupcakes. I need sleep. On to the fic.
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Bryan fiddled with the lock on the safe, then pulled the door open. He took out the Beyblade, then looked to either side suspiciously before stuffing it into his coat pocket. He slammed the safe shut and left the room.
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Meanwhile, Rei, Kai, and Lee had found another blocked stairway. There was a mass of angry steerage passengers swarming around the gate.
Rei and Lee fought their way to the front, where a guard was holding the crowd at bay with a stick.
"Open the gate!" Reo demanded.
Lee shook the gate to accent Rei's words and supplied his own opinion. "America!"
The guard poked at them with his stick and shouted a string of rather explicit profanities.
Disgusted and appalled by the guard's language, they went back to where they had left Kai, who had sat down on a bench, arms crossed. When they approached, he stood up; they were just about to walk away when Rei stopped and turned toward the bench.
Low and behold! There it was -- their way to get past the gate. With the help of Lee and several other steerage members, Rei lifted the bench up. They didn't need to rip it up, since it was stuck to the floor with only large quantities of that tape that's sticky on both sides.
"One... Two..." They readied themselves. The guards backed away warily.
"America!" [ Translation: "Three!" ] With Lee's shout, they charged at the door.
Pieces of metal and particle board went flying. They had successfully broken open the gate. The crowd surged through, headed for the deck.
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Bryan and Ian walked along the deck, passing quite a few life planks that they could get on. Of course, they weren't concerned with getting off the boat alive. They just wanted to find Kai.
Ship officials were on the life planks, whacking the crazed "less fortunate" passengers back with sticks.
Spotting the first mate of the ship, Emily, he hurried over to her. "I," he began once he caught up with her and was walking at her side, "have a proposition."
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Meanwhile, Rei, Lee, and Kai emerged from the lower floors onto the deck.
"We need a plank!" Rei declared, unnecessarily pointing out the obvious. This earned him "duh" looks from Kai and Lee.
While Rei and Kai were looking for any open life planks, Lee spotted a wealthy looking man walking past with a woman clinging to his arm. He walked up to him and asked, "America America America?"
The man stared. He was about to keep on his way when Rei popped up. "He asked if you knew where any planks were."
"Oh... why, yes," the man replied. "There's one right down there, I believe." He pointed down the deck then strolled away.
After he had gone, the three headed for the plank.
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Bryan handed Emily a rather large wad of money. She took it with a wary look. "It's nice doing business with you," he said, shaking her hand.
Ian strode over to Bryan and leaned close to him. "Kai's on the other side of the boat, getting on a plank... with HIM," he informed him in a low voice. Bryan frowned and started toward the other side of the boat, pushing away anyone in his path.
"Sir, you're not allowed in here!" one of the ship employees shouted at him as he hurried through some important, employees-only room.
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Rei and Kai arrived at a life plank that was being loaded with rich passengers. Lee had disappeared somewhere along the way.
"Okay, Kai," Rei said with tears in his eyes, "time for you to get on the plank."
"Yes, Kai, get on the plank," another voice demanded. Bryan had emerged from the crowd and was standing next to Rei. His arms were crossed and he didn't look too happy. "There's an arrangement for a boat for me and Rei. We'll be okay. Now get on the plank," he said, shrugging off his coat and placing it around Kai's shoulders.
Kai smirked. "Gladly." He traipsed over to the plank and got on with the assistance of a ship employee.
Rei and Bryan stood at the rail, watching as the plank was lowered. Kai was smiling smugly since he was finally getting off the Godforsaken ship. Rei was on the brink of tears. For a moment, they made eye contact and cheesy love music began to play in the background.
The eye contact was broken when Kai turned away. Rei looked to Bryan, who was smiling down at the plank.
As the cheesy background music faded away, Rei asked, "So... when're we gonna get on that plank?"
Bryan sighed in exasperation. "The arrangement was only for one person."
Rei gave Bryan a confused look, then shrugged. "Okay then, if you say so, but I can't see why you'd want to stay on this ship."
"No, you moron, it's for me," Bryan growled after slapping a hand to his forehead.
Rei looked like he was going to cry again.
Down below on the life plank, Kai was nothing short of gleeful. He was finally getting off the floating death-barge, and there was nothing for him to feel guilty about, seeing as he had saved Rei and all. In fact, he was downright spiffy.
However, his wonderful mood was quickly destroyed when a random person on the plank -- Gary -- picked him up and tossed him off the plank, back onto the open lower deck of the boat.
"No! Kai!" Rei shouted as he watched Kai being thrown back onto the ship. He turned and quickly ran down to where Kai was.
Kai, on the other hand, was on his knees, slamming his fists on the floor and damning the world. "I was so close!"
"Kai!" Rei ran to him and threw himself on the other boy. "Why did you do that? I know you love me, but you shouldn't have jumped," he sobbed dramatically, clinging to Kai.
Rei pulled Kai up to his feet and helped him to the Grand Staircase. The two began walking up it when they were noticed by Bryan, who was standing at the top.
"That's it. This is the last straw!" Bryan proclaimed angrily, picking up the ringa.
"What do you think you're doing?" Ian asked, grabbing Bryan's arm before he could go anywhere.
"To take care of something I should have a long time ago," Bryan answered, yanking his arm out of Ian's grasp and heading down the stairs.
As he hurried down the stairs, Bryan yelled down to the still couple, "I'm gonna put you through the ringa, Rei!"
Rei looked up at him, slightly panicked, before jetting down the stairs with Kai in tow.
Bryan ran after them down two staircases, waving the ringa in the air over his head. A large vein had popped out in his forehead and was throbbing. Rei didn't like the looks of that.
Rei and Kai hit the bottom of the last staircase, landing in waist-high water. Despite that, they kept running, straight into the dining hall, where plates were floating around next to tables and chairs.
Bryan stopped at the last landing, watching them escape. He threw the ringa down angrily and turned to see Ian coming toward him.
He stopped, glanced back, and began laughing hysterically.
"I don't see anything funny about this situation," Ian said, watching Bryan as he grabbed the railing for support.
"I put the Beyblade in the coat. I PUT THE COAT ON HIM!" Bryan shouted, pointing after Kai and Rei.
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Rei and Kai had fled to the lower levels of the ship once again. Or Rei fled, at least. Kai was dragged along involuntarily.
They were trudging through several inches of water down a narrow hallway when they spotted a small child bawling his eyes out.
"Gasp!" Rei... gasped. "Look! A lost kiddie! Let's save him!" He tugged at Kai's sleeve eagerly and pointed to the boy.
Kai glared, then walked over to the kid and picked him up. Rei grinned as he brought the child back over. However, a man dashed over and snatched the kid from Kai, yelling at him in a foreign language all the while he made his way to the door at the end of the hall.
Water poured through the cracks on the door and it creaked suspiciously.
"Hey, you shouldn't open that do--" Rei shouted, but was cut off when the door burst open and a huge wall of water engulfed the man and child. Rei and Kai turned and ran like they never had before -- well, at lease like they never had in the last five minutes, when they had their nasty encounter with Bryan and the ringa.
They sprinted down the hall in slow motion to make the scene all the more dramatic. They ran. The wave roared behind them. Water was everywhere.
Kai pulled Rei into a side hallway, where they escaped the full force of the wave. Of course, there was the force of the wave that had made its way into the hall to worry about.
They were knocked off their feet by a smaller, but still as vicious wave, and careened uncontrollably down the hallway. There were stopped when they were whacked into a closed gate,
Rei stood and tried to open in. Kai glanced down at the ankle-deep, rapidly rising water with a skeptical look.
"Hey! Is anyone there?" Rei wailed. "We need help!" He struggled with the gate a bit more until Johnny strolled past, whistling and twirling a ring of many identical keys on one finger.
"Oi! Can you open the gate? We need to get out!" Rei called out, catching Johnny's attention.
The Scottish boy leaned forward and held out the keys within Rei's reach with a malicious grin. Once Rei's hand brushed against them, Johnny "accidentally" dropped them into the water, then walked off laughing.
"Nooo!" Rei cried, staring down at the spot where the keys had fallen into the water.
"Get them, you moron," Kai snarled at him.
Rei whimpered and ducked below the now waist-high water, reaching his hand through the bars. He groped blindly along the floor, feeling for the metal ring. He felt his hand touch it and snatched them up. Poking his head above water, he attempted to pull the ring of keys through the bars.
The ring was turned to wrong way, and it was too big to fit through the close bars. Rei struggled with it as the water level rose. Finally, Kai reached out and grabbed the keys from Rei, turning them and pulling the ring onto their side of the gate.
He selected a random key and tried to stick it into the lock. After several failed attempts and two more feet of water, the gate finally opened with a clicking sound that was muffled by the water. The gate was swung open and Rei and Kai swam away.
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-sighs wearily- Done... made it pretty darn long, since we waited three weeks before we updated last time. And how many reviews did we get for that chapter? Four? Did we really lose that many readers? T__T Oh well, at least someone's actually reading it. So, if you're reading this right now, motivate our poor souls and review. And tell me (Kristen) not to pull anymore late-nighters. I need to wake up to see Beyblade in the morning instead of sleeping in.
Oh, and just a little note. This is offically the longest fic we've written, considering that we're almost at 12000 words. Go us!!
-glances at huge authors notes at beginning and end of fic- .__.; Well... uh... sorry about that. Anyway, the next chapter should be up eventually; you can check our profile for updates on progress with it. Okay, I'm out. Ja ne.
-is having too much fun making disclaimers- Ehehe... so... uh.. this update has been a little delayed. But, hey, at least it didn't take another three weeks. Anyway, I did a little something on our profile. We now have a spiffy list of updates, and it also lists about when Beytanic should be next updated, in case you're wondering.
Also, as a shameless plug, I'd like to promote some other fics. We recently wrote another Beyblade fic, entitled "You Can Wait, Right?". It's a one-shot, good-humored parody on those KaiOC "girl from Kai's past" fics. We personally think it's one of our better fics, plus it's ReiKai. -winks- And, Becky (I R PinkCake) recently wrote a ReiKai romance fic, which is definitely worth reading. Okay, that's it for advertising...
We'd also like to inform everyone that we're doing a little something special. Once we reach 100 reviews on this pen name, we're going to write a little something special. So, don't forget to drop us a review once you read and tell us what you'd like to see us write. It'll kinda be like a thank you to the nice reviews. :D
Okay, enough rambling. It's late and I want to finish typing this. x__x It's 2:15 and I'm as tired as hell. I'm surviving on iced tea and chocolate cupcakes. I need sleep. On to the fic.
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Bryan fiddled with the lock on the safe, then pulled the door open. He took out the Beyblade, then looked to either side suspiciously before stuffing it into his coat pocket. He slammed the safe shut and left the room.
-
Meanwhile, Rei, Kai, and Lee had found another blocked stairway. There was a mass of angry steerage passengers swarming around the gate.
Rei and Lee fought their way to the front, where a guard was holding the crowd at bay with a stick.
"Open the gate!" Reo demanded.
Lee shook the gate to accent Rei's words and supplied his own opinion. "America!"
The guard poked at them with his stick and shouted a string of rather explicit profanities.
Disgusted and appalled by the guard's language, they went back to where they had left Kai, who had sat down on a bench, arms crossed. When they approached, he stood up; they were just about to walk away when Rei stopped and turned toward the bench.
Low and behold! There it was -- their way to get past the gate. With the help of Lee and several other steerage members, Rei lifted the bench up. They didn't need to rip it up, since it was stuck to the floor with only large quantities of that tape that's sticky on both sides.
"One... Two..." They readied themselves. The guards backed away warily.
"America!" [ Translation: "Three!" ] With Lee's shout, they charged at the door.
Pieces of metal and particle board went flying. They had successfully broken open the gate. The crowd surged through, headed for the deck.
-
Bryan and Ian walked along the deck, passing quite a few life planks that they could get on. Of course, they weren't concerned with getting off the boat alive. They just wanted to find Kai.
Ship officials were on the life planks, whacking the crazed "less fortunate" passengers back with sticks.
Spotting the first mate of the ship, Emily, he hurried over to her. "I," he began once he caught up with her and was walking at her side, "have a proposition."
-
Meanwhile, Rei, Lee, and Kai emerged from the lower floors onto the deck.
"We need a plank!" Rei declared, unnecessarily pointing out the obvious. This earned him "duh" looks from Kai and Lee.
While Rei and Kai were looking for any open life planks, Lee spotted a wealthy looking man walking past with a woman clinging to his arm. He walked up to him and asked, "America America America?"
The man stared. He was about to keep on his way when Rei popped up. "He asked if you knew where any planks were."
"Oh... why, yes," the man replied. "There's one right down there, I believe." He pointed down the deck then strolled away.
After he had gone, the three headed for the plank.
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Bryan handed Emily a rather large wad of money. She took it with a wary look. "It's nice doing business with you," he said, shaking her hand.
Ian strode over to Bryan and leaned close to him. "Kai's on the other side of the boat, getting on a plank... with HIM," he informed him in a low voice. Bryan frowned and started toward the other side of the boat, pushing away anyone in his path.
"Sir, you're not allowed in here!" one of the ship employees shouted at him as he hurried through some important, employees-only room.
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Rei and Kai arrived at a life plank that was being loaded with rich passengers. Lee had disappeared somewhere along the way.
"Okay, Kai," Rei said with tears in his eyes, "time for you to get on the plank."
"Yes, Kai, get on the plank," another voice demanded. Bryan had emerged from the crowd and was standing next to Rei. His arms were crossed and he didn't look too happy. "There's an arrangement for a boat for me and Rei. We'll be okay. Now get on the plank," he said, shrugging off his coat and placing it around Kai's shoulders.
Kai smirked. "Gladly." He traipsed over to the plank and got on with the assistance of a ship employee.
Rei and Bryan stood at the rail, watching as the plank was lowered. Kai was smiling smugly since he was finally getting off the Godforsaken ship. Rei was on the brink of tears. For a moment, they made eye contact and cheesy love music began to play in the background.
The eye contact was broken when Kai turned away. Rei looked to Bryan, who was smiling down at the plank.
As the cheesy background music faded away, Rei asked, "So... when're we gonna get on that plank?"
Bryan sighed in exasperation. "The arrangement was only for one person."
Rei gave Bryan a confused look, then shrugged. "Okay then, if you say so, but I can't see why you'd want to stay on this ship."
"No, you moron, it's for me," Bryan growled after slapping a hand to his forehead.
Rei looked like he was going to cry again.
Down below on the life plank, Kai was nothing short of gleeful. He was finally getting off the floating death-barge, and there was nothing for him to feel guilty about, seeing as he had saved Rei and all. In fact, he was downright spiffy.
However, his wonderful mood was quickly destroyed when a random person on the plank -- Gary -- picked him up and tossed him off the plank, back onto the open lower deck of the boat.
"No! Kai!" Rei shouted as he watched Kai being thrown back onto the ship. He turned and quickly ran down to where Kai was.
Kai, on the other hand, was on his knees, slamming his fists on the floor and damning the world. "I was so close!"
"Kai!" Rei ran to him and threw himself on the other boy. "Why did you do that? I know you love me, but you shouldn't have jumped," he sobbed dramatically, clinging to Kai.
Rei pulled Kai up to his feet and helped him to the Grand Staircase. The two began walking up it when they were noticed by Bryan, who was standing at the top.
"That's it. This is the last straw!" Bryan proclaimed angrily, picking up the ringa.
"What do you think you're doing?" Ian asked, grabbing Bryan's arm before he could go anywhere.
"To take care of something I should have a long time ago," Bryan answered, yanking his arm out of Ian's grasp and heading down the stairs.
As he hurried down the stairs, Bryan yelled down to the still couple, "I'm gonna put you through the ringa, Rei!"
Rei looked up at him, slightly panicked, before jetting down the stairs with Kai in tow.
Bryan ran after them down two staircases, waving the ringa in the air over his head. A large vein had popped out in his forehead and was throbbing. Rei didn't like the looks of that.
Rei and Kai hit the bottom of the last staircase, landing in waist-high water. Despite that, they kept running, straight into the dining hall, where plates were floating around next to tables and chairs.
Bryan stopped at the last landing, watching them escape. He threw the ringa down angrily and turned to see Ian coming toward him.
He stopped, glanced back, and began laughing hysterically.
"I don't see anything funny about this situation," Ian said, watching Bryan as he grabbed the railing for support.
"I put the Beyblade in the coat. I PUT THE COAT ON HIM!" Bryan shouted, pointing after Kai and Rei.
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Rei and Kai had fled to the lower levels of the ship once again. Or Rei fled, at least. Kai was dragged along involuntarily.
They were trudging through several inches of water down a narrow hallway when they spotted a small child bawling his eyes out.
"Gasp!" Rei... gasped. "Look! A lost kiddie! Let's save him!" He tugged at Kai's sleeve eagerly and pointed to the boy.
Kai glared, then walked over to the kid and picked him up. Rei grinned as he brought the child back over. However, a man dashed over and snatched the kid from Kai, yelling at him in a foreign language all the while he made his way to the door at the end of the hall.
Water poured through the cracks on the door and it creaked suspiciously.
"Hey, you shouldn't open that do--" Rei shouted, but was cut off when the door burst open and a huge wall of water engulfed the man and child. Rei and Kai turned and ran like they never had before -- well, at lease like they never had in the last five minutes, when they had their nasty encounter with Bryan and the ringa.
They sprinted down the hall in slow motion to make the scene all the more dramatic. They ran. The wave roared behind them. Water was everywhere.
Kai pulled Rei into a side hallway, where they escaped the full force of the wave. Of course, there was the force of the wave that had made its way into the hall to worry about.
They were knocked off their feet by a smaller, but still as vicious wave, and careened uncontrollably down the hallway. There were stopped when they were whacked into a closed gate,
Rei stood and tried to open in. Kai glanced down at the ankle-deep, rapidly rising water with a skeptical look.
"Hey! Is anyone there?" Rei wailed. "We need help!" He struggled with the gate a bit more until Johnny strolled past, whistling and twirling a ring of many identical keys on one finger.
"Oi! Can you open the gate? We need to get out!" Rei called out, catching Johnny's attention.
The Scottish boy leaned forward and held out the keys within Rei's reach with a malicious grin. Once Rei's hand brushed against them, Johnny "accidentally" dropped them into the water, then walked off laughing.
"Nooo!" Rei cried, staring down at the spot where the keys had fallen into the water.
"Get them, you moron," Kai snarled at him.
Rei whimpered and ducked below the now waist-high water, reaching his hand through the bars. He groped blindly along the floor, feeling for the metal ring. He felt his hand touch it and snatched them up. Poking his head above water, he attempted to pull the ring of keys through the bars.
The ring was turned to wrong way, and it was too big to fit through the close bars. Rei struggled with it as the water level rose. Finally, Kai reached out and grabbed the keys from Rei, turning them and pulling the ring onto their side of the gate.
He selected a random key and tried to stick it into the lock. After several failed attempts and two more feet of water, the gate finally opened with a clicking sound that was muffled by the water. The gate was swung open and Rei and Kai swam away.
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-sighs wearily- Done... made it pretty darn long, since we waited three weeks before we updated last time. And how many reviews did we get for that chapter? Four? Did we really lose that many readers? T__T Oh well, at least someone's actually reading it. So, if you're reading this right now, motivate our poor souls and review. And tell me (Kristen) not to pull anymore late-nighters. I need to wake up to see Beyblade in the morning instead of sleeping in.
Oh, and just a little note. This is offically the longest fic we've written, considering that we're almost at 12000 words. Go us!!
-glances at huge authors notes at beginning and end of fic- .__.; Well... uh... sorry about that. Anyway, the next chapter should be up eventually; you can check our profile for updates on progress with it. Okay, I'm out. Ja ne.