[Silver Swiftness: Hey ppl! Here's the next episode of Spin Around. Please read and review, because I'd really appreciate it!! Oh, and don't forget to read my answers to the reviews at the bottom of this chapter because there is stuff that you might want to know about this fic…Oh yeah, just so you guys know, this chapter isn't one of the most exciting ones…The next one will definitely have more stuff!]
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade (that's why it's called a fanfic), but I do own the characters that you don't recognize from the TV show.
Kenny's voice (aka the Chief): Last time on Spin Around…Mr. Dickenson sprung a new BBA regulation on us and Tyson feels we're hiding something from him! Oh no! And what's happened to Mr.D?
Spin Around
Episode 2: Blading Blunder!
It was pitch black and the lone figure stood shrouded in darkness, confused. "Where…am I?" her voice echoed off invisible barriers that seemed to surround her in the darkness. She was really spooked. Everything was deadly quiet and she couldn't even see her hands in front of her face. "Hello? Anybody there?"
As if her voice had triggered some invisible force, the young girl found herself moving quickly towards a small circle of light in the distance that became bigger and bigger as she drew nearer.
"What's happening?" she asked alarmed. Then her hands flew to her mouth. Her lips handed moved, but somehow, she had still spoken aloud. "This is starting to get really freaky…" It was as if her thoughts were…being projected right out into the open without her having to really say anything.
Suddenly, she found herself in a place where it was all white. It was so bright that her eyes hurt from being in the darkness just moments before. She turned to look behind her, but she couldn't see the darkness anymore. Something inside her told her to look down, so she directed her eyes downward and her stomach flip-flopped—there was no ground. Gulping, the girl reached down to where her feet were planted on some invisible surface, but felt nothing touch her hand as she reached down passed her feet.
"I'm…floating…" she heard her voice echo in awe. "What…is this place?"
"Look to the skies." She heard a deep voice boom. The voice was unfamiliar, it was powerful but it sounded…kind.
The brunette looked around for the source of the voice but saw no one. So she obeyed and glanced upwards. "What skies? I don't see any--Whooooa…!" she breathed as everything around her was shifted until what was once up, was now in front of her.
In front of her now, was like a giant screen, like the kind you see in movie theatres, but it took up the whole wall and the images looked way too real to have been behind a glass pane. On the screen, was a navy haired boy that looked about her age who was tossing a plastic toy top up and down in his palm. Then it flashed an image of the same boy standing behind a spinning top on the ground with a mighty blue dragon hovering above it like a hologram. It appeared to her that the boy was using the top in a combat situation against…someone else. Before she could see who was fighting against the boy, the screen fizzled out and then she found herself standing in front of the great blue dragon and three other powerful looking animals: a sleek winged tiger, a tough turtle-like dinosaur, and a majestic looking fire bird. The look that the four creatures gave her made the girl want to cower in fear and to run and hide, but she seemed to have no control over herself at the time as she was moved closer to the four animals.
"Do not be afraid, O Chosen One." The soft voice of the dragon boomed as it floated towards her.
"Ch-chosen one?" she cringed as her stammering voice echoed back to her. "I think you have the wrong girl, see? I'm no one special. So if you could please help me get out of here, I'd kind of like to go home…"
"We bitbeasts are never wrong." The gentle voice of the white tiger retorted firmly but calmly.
"You have a mission and whether you chose to accept or not, is completely up to you. But be warned: the fate of the world rests on your shoulders and your decision." The strong voice of the turtle spoke.
"You must find the Catalyst or all will be lost." The bird of fire warned.
"The world on my shoulders?! You must be kidding me! I can barely lift my backpack full of homework after school! This has to be a dream!" she laughed nervously and began to try and pinch herself awake. "A dream…right…all just a dream…" her voice began to fade away.
"This will aid you on your quest…" she heard as the voices and images in front of her broke apart and disappeared.
"A dream…all a dream…Hey! Ow!" the thirteen year old brunette bolted up right, panting and clutching onto her left arm with her right. She pulled her hand away and raised an eyebrow confusedly as red marks appeared instantly on her pale, lightly freckled skin. "What the heck was I dreaming about to want to wake up so bad?" she gave her arm a weird look before throwing off the bed covers and glancing over at the clock as she stepped onto the floor. "8:43…okay, I can go back to sleep for a while." She yawned and lay back down in bed, her foot just missing the unseen object on the floor. "Aaahhh…summer. Good old summer, I don't have to wake up until…" her eyes flashed open and she sat up straight in her bed. "8:43?!" she yelped and cursed. "I'm laaaaaaattttteee!"
She stepped out of bed quickly, only to find herself sitting on the floor with a throbbing pain in her backside. "What the heck—" she glanced downwards at the floor and found a small piece of transparent crystal attached as a pendant onto a thin silver chain. "—is this?" she picked it up. "This isn't mine…and it's not mom's…definitely not dad's…or Kyle's…" she paused and laughed at the thought of her older, annoying brother wearing such a necklace. "Then maybe it is mine." She shrugged and clasped the chain around her neck. "It's nice enough." Then she remembered. "My route!" she got quickly changed into a white quarter sleeved shirt and a pair of short denim shorts and tore down the stairs, through the kitchen and out the door with her rollerblades and a banana.
"Breakfast-to-go!" she smiled as she grabbed her cart of newspapers from inside the garage and bladed down the street to start her daily paper route. "At least I'll be having a small break from this for a while!"
That Sunday, the Bladebreakers found themselves sitting around the plastic Beystadium that they had set up and borrowed from Max's father's hobby shop just for the tryouts. It was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon and no one had showed up for the second round of tryouts.
"I just don't understand!" Kenny exclaimed. "The Bladebreakers are World Champions! Who wouldn't want to join the Bladebreakers?!"
"Yeah! Yesterday I just thought that maybe all the girl bladers in town had something better to do yesterday or just forgot. Then this morning, I thought that maybe they were a little late…but, come on, I'm not even ever this late!" Tyson threw up his hands in disbelief.
The rest of the gang nodded in agreement.
"Hey? Where're Max and Hilary?" Ray brought up suddenly. "I guess they probably gave up on this too…"
Kai opened his mouth to answer but was cut short.
"I think this is the reason why no one has showed up!" Hilary called, her voice dripping with pure annoyance as she ran towards the group. In her hand she clutched a piece of paper. She unfolded the sheet of paper in her hand and shoved it into the nearest Bladebreakers face, which happened to be the unlucky Kenny. "See?!" she pointed at the sheet of paper. It's because all the girls in town thought this was a joke!" she held the poster high up in the air.
The raven-haired boy with feline features plucked the piece of paper out of Hilary's grasp and read the poster aloud. "Aaaa…tten…tion all…grils… (*)?" he began, and stared confusedly at the piece of paper as he scanned the rest of the poster. "This poster doesn't make any sense…it's hard to read and there are a lot of spelling mistakes…" his voice drifted off.
The gang looked over at the navy haired boy sitting on the edge of the dish. Tyson looked up to see everyone staring at him. "What?! What'd I do? Whatever it is, I didn't do it!" he raised his hands up defensively. "I swear!"
"Tyson, did you make these posters?" Hilary asked Tyson, her voice sickeningly sweet.
"Except that." He let his hands fall and pointed one finger at the brunette. "That I did! Isn't it awesome? I mean, come on, look at those sweet graphics! They totally make up for the writing…I had a little problem with that. See, my markers were running low so…" the navy-haired by stopped abruptly when he noticed his friends giving him weird looks. Not giving the odd glances much thought, he thumped his fist proudly on his chest. "Why do you ask? You like?"
Hilary scowled and smacked Tyson on the arm.
"Ow! Hey! You know, some people actually like the ability to use their arms!" Tyson snapped.
"Tyson, you idiot!" Hilary yelled. "You made the posters, so you're the reason why nobody showed up! They thought it was all a joke!"
"Or they couldn't read it." Ray added.
"Or that!" Hilary fumed. "You're in big trouble, mister!"
"Guys! Guys! Just stop, please!" Kenny inserted himself between Hilary and Tyson and waved his hands frantically in the air. "What's done is done and there's nothing we can do about it! So let's just all try to get along and think of a new way to find a new member! Okay?"
Arms folded across his chest grumpily, Tyson muttered, "Everyone's a critic…"
But this time Hilary was able to retort, as a familiar voice called out to them from the park entrance.
"Hey guys!" a smiling blonde head of hair appeared coming towards them in the distance. "Sorry we're late!" he waved at them.
"We?" Hilary and Tyson replied at the same time, paused to look at the other, and then stuck their tongues out at the other childishly. "Nyah!"
"And as I was saying earlier, Max was at the airport." Kai finished off his earlier statement.
Max laughed as he and a preteen girl with brown hair in two spiky, low buns on rollerblades reached the group. "Guys, this is my cousin, Nikki. Nikki, these are my friends Ray, Kai, Tyson, Kenny, and Hilary."
"Hi!" the freckle faced brunette chirped happily. "It's nice to meet you!" she grinned and extended her hand out to Ray, the one closest to her.
"Hey, it's nice to meet you too." Ray smiled and shook her hand. Nikki extended her hand out to Kai, but received a "hmph" and a reluctant hand shake in return. Nikki pouted, but continued to extend her hand to the rest of the gang anyway.
"She sure looks happy." Ray commented to Max. "Is she always like that?"
"Yeah. She's kind of emotional. It's kinda weird at first…but you get used to it after a while." The blonde shrugged.
"So, Nikki, we're you from?" Kenny asked politely.
"Oh, California." She smiled a lopsided grin and her blue eyes sparkled. "Ever been there?" Kenny shook his head. "It's really nice, you should go there sometime."
Then it hit Tyson. [A/N: No, not Hilary, an idea!] "Hey! Guys, I've got it!"
Everyone turned to look at their navy haired friend.
"You're…going to go to California?" Nikki raised an eyebrow confusedly.
Tyson turned towards the American brunette. "Hey, listen, Nikki. Can you blade?" he asked eagerly, and then the rest of the gang understood.
"Uh…" Nikki gave Tyson a weird look, but no one noticed, as they were eager for her answer. "Yeah…Why?"
"YEEEAAAAAHHH!!!" Tyson jumped up and started to do a little dance with an unsuspecting Kenny.
Ray pumped his fist into the air and Hilary began jumping up and down happily. Even Kai let a smile slip onto his face. But Max and Nikki just stood there confused.
"Maxy…what did I say?" Nikki leaned over to whisper to her cousin as she scratched her head in bewilderment.
"I really think we missed here..." Max replied with a sweatdrop and a grimace.
"Yeah…" Nikki watched the once calm preteens go ballistic with a look of pure confusion on her features. As Nikki shook her head in confusion, she saw something move in her peripheral vision. "Hm?" she looked up quickly towards a nearby tree to see a tall dark figure dart away into the nearby ravine from behind a group of trees. The brunette looked up to see that the silent boy with blue triangles on his face was also glancing over at where the figure had been. The boy must have sensed her staring at him, as he then turned to face her and they both looked away quickly. Nikki bit her lip and felt colour rush to her cheeks. Man, I hope I didn't make myself look like a total idiot.
She glanced downwards at her feet, and something else caught her eye. Peering down at her fitting white shirt, she noticed a pale glow showing from underneath. What's glowing? I didn't eat any radioactive food today…did I? No…she gasped quietly to herself. That's it! It's gotta' be the airplane food! Damn them, trying to poison their loyal passengers! Why I oughta'…
"Hey, I didn't know you could blade, Nikki." Max then commented, making Nikki's head snap up and lose her earlier thoughts.
"You…didn't?" she gave her cousin the same weird face that she had just previously given Tyson and the others. Max shook his head. "Oh well!" Nikki smiled and shrugged. "Now you do!"
When everyone had calmed down Tyson walked up to Nikki happily. "So…you're an expert?"
Nikki looked at him, "Yeah, I can do lot's of stuff. I've been blading since…" she paused with a thoughtful look on her expression. "Well, since before I can remember!"
"So how about it?" Ray smiled kindly at her. "Do you want to join?"
"Your…team?" Nikki asked.
"Yeah, the Bladebreakers. We're the World Champs!" Tyson laughed.
I don't think I've ever heard of the Bladebreakers before…but if they're World Champs…I guess I should have. Nikki shrugged. Meh! I probably just forgot, like I forget almost everything else.
"Okay, sure!" she smiled happily. "I'd love to!"
"Great!" Kenny clapped his hands together. "We've solved our problem!"
"Bring on the champagne!" a digital, feminine sounding voice exclaimed.
Nikki eyed the Chief's laptop. "Maybe we should get going to your house Maxy…I think I've got a big case of Jetlag to get over…"
"What makes you say that, Nikki?" the blonde American asked.
"Well…" she laughed, "Call me crazy…but I think I just heard Kenny's computer talk!" she continued to laugh, but soon stopped when she realized she was the only one laughing. "What?"
"Uh, Nikki…" the short brunette boy at his laptop began, "You see…"
"Hey! Are you saying laptops can't talk?! What about those little digital toys that talk and walk? I'm just like that, only I can't walk!" the laptop explained haughtily.
"Oh…" Nikki's blue eyes grew huge and her face flushed slightly. "S-sorry…?" she squeaked a doubtful apology.
"Don't worry about it," the boy with the laptop replied. "She's used to it."
"She?"
"Yeah, Dizzi, short for Dizzara."
"Your computer has a name?"
"And a very nice one at that!" Dizzi put in.
"Oh…uh…sorry Dizzi." Nikki apologized before Kenny shut his laptop closed. She laughed nervously. "I can't believe I apologized to a laptop!" she looked over at the Chief and added. "No offence, of course!"
"None taken." He replied.
"When do we start practise?" Nikki asked and received an odd stare from everyone, even Kai.
"You want practice?" Tyson asked in complete awe.
"Well…practice makes perfect…" she replied almost uncertainly.
"Let's see how good you are first." The two-tone haired boy spoke. "You have your blade with you?"
"Yeah," she gave him a weird glance again. "I've got both of them right here."
"Oh you have two? Good, let's see." Ray added.
Doesn't everyone have two? She thought frantically. "Uh…well, you mean you can't see them right now?" the freckle-faced brunette replied in slight shock. They shook their head. "Okay…well, they're right here." She pointed downwards at her rollerbladed feet.
"What?" Max asked confusedly. "He meant your Beyblade. Let's see your Beyblade."
"My…what?"
"Your…you know, blade."
"These are my blades!"
"No! See, those are rollerblades!" Max laughed.
"Yeah?"
Everyone immediately stopped laughing. They turned to look at Nikki and Nikki stared right back at them.
"You mean…" Hilary began.
"You don't know what a Beyblade is?" Tyson stared at Nikki with the exact same expression he would have worn if someone had told him there was no food left on the entire planet.
"No…" Nikki replied slowly, a worried expression appearing on her features. "Is that…bad?"
"Well…That's…" Hilary concluded. "Not good…"
"Sir, we've captured the chairman and the invitations have just been sent out. We're right on schedule."
"Very good, you may go." A mysterious feminine voice replied from behind her swivel desk chair. "With Dickenson out of the picture, the sacred spirits are as good as mine!" she cackled maniacally to herself. "I will show my brother that I am better than he will ever be."
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What a weird dream! What's all this about a catalyst and who was the girl in the dream? The Bladebreakers new member can't Beyblade? A new evil plot to capture the Bitbeasts? That can't be good! Looks like the guys have a lot of work to do! Stick around to find out what happens next time on Spin Around!
Silver Swiftness: Yep, so that's the second episode of Spin Around. Sorry, this chapter was a bit boring, I know. But the next one will have more stuff, promise! Have anything you want me to include in the story later? I've got most of it planned out, but I could use some fillers… Oh, and about the * in the chapter where Ray was reading Tyson's poster "Attention all grils", "grils" was not a mistype—it was Tyson's fault in the story. I can spell! *nods* Don't forget to review to tell me how you liked this (or disliked this)! Peace out and thanks for the reviews on the last chapter!
Ice Archer Girl: Yay! First reviewer, thanks! Oh, so that's what it means… Everyone, go check out Ice Archer Girl's Beyblade site! It's really cool!
Flaller: Thanks, lol! You are so very true. There are way too many fics like that and that's why this fic (and any other of mine) will not be like that. And, I'm sorry, but yes there is an OC that joins the team but don't stop reading now please—because she's…different from most OC's that suddenly join the Bladebreakers. For instance, no one is going to fall madly in love with her. Also, just so you know, Hilary has a special part in this fic (as you will find out later on) and there will be no major pairings in this!
Mizu-Tenshi: Hey, thanks for checking this out, I appreciate it. Don't forget to update your fic soon too!
[PS: (you don't have to read this little note if you don't want to…) NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! o_O Sorry…I just needed to vent out of frustration because of the fact I missed the season finale…damn. I guess I'll just have to wait until YTV's shown all the season 2 episodes over again… -_-]