A Whole New Battle All over Again

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Fei stared at the door that Destiny closed mere seconds ago, "Did Destiny just ditch us?!?!" Fei heard Tone say, but it was soft to her ears. Destiny had left. Fei had to absorb that fact.

"I think I'm going to cool down a bit…" Fei said softly as she went up the stairs, and Ray and Ryu were going to follow her if it hadn't been for Tone, who had stopped them, "She needs some time alone."

Ryu just looked at his teammate while Ray looked at Fei's room's door. Of course he was going in. That was his room too, you know! /Well? You thought that part, now go in!!/ Drigger encouraged, /…/ /Go in!!/ /Ok! Ok! I get the point…/ Ray mumbled to Drigger. "I..I have to go get something from my room." Ray said quickly, and dashed to his and Fei's room.

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Knock! Knock!

"Can I come in, Fei?" Ray asked through the door. She didn't reply to him. Ray sighed, "I have the other key, you know."

"…." He could hear fumbling, and took this as the cue to enter.

Fei was sitting on the windowsill, fiddling with her beyblade and looking outside when Ray had entered. /Ray came in…/ Fei mumbled in her head. /Of course he did. He worries for you./ Dember replied, /…And that's the most I'll ever get from him… I'll always be second place…/ Fei thought sadly as she remembered Mariah.

"You ok, Fei?" Ray asked her, sitting on the bed. Fei nodded slowly. "I just don't know anything anymore… Why would Destiny just leave us like that? We were a team… and a damn good one at that…" Fei said sadly, burying her face into her arms and knees.

Ray went up beside Fei, sitting down beside her and patting her on the back, "Shhh… it's okay. People change sometimes…" Ray said to Fei, trying to comfort her to the best of his ability, /Although… This might not be all that's going on…/ Ray thought in his mind. Previous encounters with Abbey had taught him that much.

"But she can't change over two days! She just can't!" Fei complained. They had been a perfectly good team, dammit, and Destiny hadn't even explained why she needed to leave! If she had, then this probably wouldn't be happening right now! /Not that you don't enjoy it… right?/ Dember's teasing voice said, /Aw shut up… It's true!/

"Shhh… its okay Fei. I mean, this is actually really nice of Destiny, to come face-to-face and tell you. I mean, when the first tournament went on, Kai just ditched us. Literally." Ray said, making Fei smile a bit.

"…But it still doesn't give her an excuse for leaving all of a sudden." Fei said, turning her head to look at Ray.

"No, it doesn't, but you know what? We'll probably find out when the tournament starts tomorrow. I'm sure of it." Ray said, patting Fei on the head playfully. Fei growled cat-like, and pounced onto Ray, making them fall to the ground, "Gotcha!" She said happily, "I have defeated Ray Kon!"

/But I suppose even if I am always second place, I could still spend time with him and he'll be happy…/

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"What do we do now that we're missing a member? We're one member short for Pairs 2," Ryu said. And it was true – it was supposed to be a Tone x Destiny pair. "We can walk up to the BBA, tell them that Abbey has brainwashed one of our ex-members, and they'll go easy on us," Tone joked.

"You guys could always be like us. A three-way team." Katrina said, "We have a Pair and a Single for our rounds, and it doesn't really matter. The other teams have to cope with us, not the other way around." Katrina added a second later.

"You guys can do that?" Max asked, "I never knew that…"

"Yep. You can just tell them Destiny switched teams and they'll go easy on you. It's the way they work and the way things go." Katrina said calmly.

!*!*!*!*!!**!*!*!*!*!*!!*!**!LIVE BREAKING NEWS!*!*!*!*!!*!*!*!*!*!!**!!**!

Nov 12, 2003

Nibs: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!! KAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!! * cries *

Candy: She's gonna blow!!!! Hi! I'm Nibs editor. Nice to meet you all. Since the author is currently experiencing some emotional obsession difficulties, I'll be taking over for a while. ^_^;

Nibs: KAI! DRANZER! DRANZER'S GONEEEEEEEE!!!!!! * cries harder *

Candy: Hold her down, dammit! HOLD HER DOWN!!!

Tyson: I'm trying!!!!

Candy: TRY HARDER!

Nibs: KAI LOST DRANZER!!!!!!! KAI LOST DRANZER!!!!!!! KAAAAAAIIIIIII!!!!!! * cries again and leaps for the computer *

THE WORLD MUST KNOW!!!! DRANZER'S GONE!!!!! * cries * AND POOR KAI!!!! KAIIIIII!!!!!!!!

Candy: Get the mallet! Get the mallet!!!!!!!

 * Tyson gets mallet and hands it over to Bibi. *

Whack

Tyson: Well, there goes Nibs….

Candy: Well what other option did we have?

Tyson: None. That was a good one.

Candy: So now I'll continue the story. ^_^

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"Cool." Tyson said as he looked over to Ryu, "I suppose that's what you're going to do?"

"Fei probably won't have much options beyond that." Ryu replied calmly. He didn't seem affected by Destiny's betrayal…

"Well, what are we going to do now?" Tone said, her expression unreadable, "Obviously Destiny didn't switch teams for nothing," Tone said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "How do you know?" Tyson asked, surprised. He thought he was the only one who would figure that part out.

"Destiny and me have been friends for a long time, Tyson. We're even pairs in the doubles – we know each other, and each other's beyblades as well as we know ourselves." Tone replied,

"But that comes as a disadvantage towards you now, doesn't it? Actually, it affects all of us – Destiny's been here long enough to know some of our strategy's, especially yours," Kenny said, meaning the Fallen Angels when he said 'yours'.

"Destiny won't play that way," Ryu said calmly, and Tone continued, "She doesn't tick that way. She'll just pretend like she never knew them. Even though there's some weird thing going on right now, she's honorable. This isn't going to get in her way."

"Exactly." Was all Ryu said next.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Tomorrow, Shopping *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fie sighed. "I can't believe that we only have a few more days left until the finals start!" she said. The girls and the guys had split up – the girls needed to do some 'Personal Girl Shopping'.

"We'll be facing the Russian's soon." Tone said, and the others nodded, "Yep. But we'll beat them and they'll lose to us. They aren't going to beat us!" Alex agreed.

"We're going all the way!" Lya cheered. Katrina nodded, "We aren't going to lose."

"So the closest match for the finals is you guys… and you guys will be facing who?" Tone asked, looking at the Phoenix Fyre's. "We'll be facing that jerk Ryo's team. What was it called? Raging…. Tornadoes?" Alex replied.

"Yep. Raging Tornadoes." Fei said. "Yep. Then when you guys win, you'll be moved up to

fac—HEY!" Fei suddenly shouted as something shot out of no where and cut her pocket with Dember.

Dember fell to the ground, and was instantly picked up by a short little kid who started running. "HEY! Give me back my beyblade, you thief!" Fei shouted and ran after him. "Aw… and we can't even finish our coffee? C'mon!" Alex said as she started running after Fei, and the others soon followed.

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"Give me back my beyblade!" Fei shouted again as she nearly caught up to the boy. She was so close – but then he rounded a corner and she lost him again. "Get back here!"

They were almost out of the mall, and Tone, Lya, and Katrina were following behind. Alex was who knows where. Fei growled again as she saw the boy exit the mall.

Rounding yet another corner, Fei continued to chase the little rat down. She was going to get Dember back.

A few more minutes of running and the boy finally stopped at a white beystadium. Dember was thrown on the floor, and the boy was preparing to launch, "Ready yourself! Because Dember is going to be mine after this battle!" The boy said as he waited for Fei to prepare herself, /So he's challenging me, hm? I'll show that creep not to mess with the Tiger of the Heavens!!!/ Dember's angered voice said.

"Are you ready yet?" The boy replied. He was wearing a strange uniform-like thing. It was all dark blue with purple shoulder and elbow blades. He repeated his question when Fei didn't reply.

"I'm ready; the question is are you?" Fei replied as she attached Dember to the launcher, "Because you're about to get your ass whooped, Tiger style!" Fei said as the launch sequence began, " 3!… 2!… 1!… LET IT RIP!" The two shouted, and Fei launched her golden white (?) beyblade and the boy bright orange.

Both beyblades instantly attacked each other violently once entering the stadium. But the boy's beyblade speed was unimaginable – so fast!! "Dember!" Fei called, and Dember appeared at her command as the rest of the girls caught up.

"Need any help?" Tone offered as she watched Dember miss two of its attacks in a row, "No. I'm going to take care of this little thief myself," Fei replied. All of a sudden, Lya's cell phone rang, causing Fei to lose her concentration on attacking, and instead got flipped up into the air, "Dember!"

"I found the boys. Where are you guys?!?!" Alex's voice boomed - from the cell, "We're in the forest somewhere. Take the left exit in the mall, go straight into the woods, and run! Drigger should be able to sense Dember, and you'll find us," Lya replied quickly.

"Dember? Why would Dember be out? FEI'S BATTLING THAT CREEP?" Alex shouted over the phone, "I'll explain when you guys get here! Now shut up and run!" Lya shouted into the phone as she hung up on Alex.

All of a sudden, as Dember was preparing to strike with it's Wind Blades, machines appeared from the bushes and shot out an orange light, trapping Dember in a net. "Dember!" Fei shouted as her bit-beast struggled to get out of the net, "What's happening?!?"

The boy laughed. "Dember will be ours!"

"Ooooooohhhh!!!! You're cheating! Shame on you bastard!" Tone shouted. She was pissed at the guy, cheating to get a bit-beast. How desperate can people get?

By now, the rest of the group had arrived, and the Blade Breakers looked startled as they saw the net, "They're after our bit-beasts again?!!" Max shouted as he remembered the previous encounters from the machines.

"I don't care what you say, Fei, Cuz I'm going in!" Tone said as she launched Crystolyon. She was not about to watch her captain's bit-beast get captured without a fight. Crystolyon immediately appeared, ready to strike. Crystolyon tore at the net, trying to help out Fei and Dember.

The boy laughed again, and this time, Kai was the first to speak, "Who sent you!?" the boy never replied, but continued to laugh as he watched Crystolyon try to pry the net off, "That will never work! But now," A pause, "Crystolyon will also be ours,"

/Tear the net apart! Get yourself out of it!!/ Fei said desperately as she watched the net turn and trap the tigress in mid-air, /I can't! It's… It's bit beast proof!/ Dember said, "I need help!" Fei finally said, "Dember can't get out!!"

"Finally!" Alex said as she launched Bluefyre towards one of the machines, successfully knocking it out, "We're always behind you, Fei!" Tone said as Crystolyon finally got part of it off.

"Right. You can count on us!" Ray said as he launched Drigger and destroyed the other two machines, leaving only one left. Dember roared with power, and tore away at the net, breaking free. Her next target – the machine.

It broke, and the boy ran. Crystolyon and Dember returned to their respective owners, and by that time, he was nearly out of sight, "HEY! COME BACK HERE YOU ASSHOLE! WE AIN'T FINISHED WITH YOU YET!!!!!" Alex shouted, but no one replied to her.

"Kenny. How many chances are there that that boy was from Zaggart's team?" Kai asked, and Kenny typed away, "Slim chances. He couldn't of sent them after us," Kenny replied a moment later, "Abbey?"

"… There's a more likelihood that they are, but you should judge that. After all, you were once part of it." Kenny said, and Kai replied coldly, "I thought so."

"Who were those creeps?" Fei asked a moment later, "Are they those creeps you told us about? Back in the previous tournament?" Fei said, another moment later. Ray nodded, "I think so. But the last time we checked, they were still after the four sacred bit-beasts. Why would they target Dember?" Ray asked.

Fei and the others shrugged. "Whoever it was trying to get us, their goal is most likely still the four sacred bit-beasts. Most chances are they don't have the power to do it." Kai said, " 'Don't have the power' ?" Tone asked, and Alex translated, "They're weak."

"So evil doer's are after our bit-beasts? Again?" Max asked, and Tyson nodded, "Yep…"

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"Destiny?" Ryo said as he went into the training room, "Why didn't you go eat dinner? You've been here for nearly the whole day already, since you woke up." Ryo said as he launched Karai into the beystadium beside Destiny's.

"We're not strong enough," Was Destiny's short reply. "Not strong enough? You've been training like a madman for the past 4 days. I bet you didn't even see the light of day for that long."

No reply was heard as Destiny launched Black Dranzer again. "…Black Dranzer and I need to get stronger. There's no excuse to lose to the Japan teams…" Destiny mumbled, and Ryo laughed, causing Destiny to look at him, "Are you taking that crap from Black Dranzer? Cuz I'm telling you, he's not always right. All of us had a go at him, but he was …. Too commanding, so we gave up on him. Go outside, Destiny. Take a break." Ryo said.

Destiny looked uncertain for a moment as Black Dranzer returned to her. Was Ryo right? She froze for a moment, thinking to herself, knocking Black Dranzer out of her thoughts for now. "I…I think your right." Destiny said a moment later.'

"Glad you think so. All work and no play makes your little brain shrink away. Especially with him in there." Ryo said, looking at Black Dranzer. Destiny giggled a bit, "Thanks Ryo." And left.

Ryo was by himself again. Yep. That was Ryo. Split personalities – one for battling, the other just kind.

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Well, I'm not sure if Nibs would call this a ending for a chapter, but I roughly typed up half the chapter.. don't you agree? I apologize in advance if I got anything wrong, like their personalities, or names… @_@

Uh… Nibs was going to answer/reply to your reviews, right…? I'll try my best – I'm pretty sure I know the answers…:

GS: Aw… I'm not fully sure what Nibs is planning, but you guys will see Destiny again. ^_^ Just not on the Japan teams… @_@

The four sacred bit-beasts are Dragoon, Drigger, Dranzer, and Draciel. I can't remember all of their meanings, but I think Dragoon is for wind, Drigger land, Dranzer fire, and Draciel water. It's in the 2nd series.

Bread N' Butter: Ya. I agree with you. I'm not sure where the pineapple idea came from… @_@ But I feel sorry for Destiny too. Giving up your bit-beast can't be fun.

Anyways, now that that's done, as Nibs would say: Press the little blue box, please!