~*~ Troubled Waters ~*~

~*~ Chapter Three: Strangers that steal hearts ~*~

 

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'Melody.' Kai thought as the pink haired girl called. 'Nah, it couldn't be. Not her, oh please not her.' He thought begging. 'Anyone but her.' He finally decided to look up as someone brushed past him. The feeling was something familiar. He looked, and there in front of him was none other than Melody Malfoy. He couldn't believe it, his worst nightmare was right in front of him. His face paled as he looked into her eyes.

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As Melody brushed past someone she looked up. The feeling was so familiar. She looked up and was met by familiar mahogany eyes. "Hey Kai, wasup dude?" The guy she knew as Tyson asked. 'Kai.' She repeated in her mind. Her face paled. Her worst nightmare was coming back to haunt her. 'Oh-no' she thought. 'This can't be happening.

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"Melody, You okay?" Mariah asked seeing the paled look on the almost always-cheerful girl. Melody nodded as she broke her eyes from looking into 'his'. Mariah was still not convinced but she kept quite, she knew better, than not to get her captain mad at her.

"You kids better get ready and head over to you're hotel rooms. I trust that all the tournament participants will be staying at Beyblade Championships Castle." He said.

"Is it really a castle?" Harmonica asked. Mr. Dickinson nodded. "WOW!!" Harmonica exclaimed and she jumped up and down with glee. Hillary rolled her eyes annoyingly. "Honestly." Hillary muttered, as they all got into their limo's that were there to pick up each team.

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"So this is the Castle." Emily said looking at a very large, and rather old-fashioned castle. It was very pretty though. It was tall about as tall as a building with twenty-five floors. It had four towers on it. One on the east side, the other on the west side, the other on the south, and the last on the north. Kind of like each side with a tower. It was painted honeycomb yellowish brown. It was rather pretty. It was wide too. It had a huge backyard, with a garden and an outdoor, rather large, swimming pool. In front of the castle were lots of evergreen trees, and a beautiful shinning stream with a bench near it. It was gorgeous.

Melody got out of the limo took one look and totally forgot about her troubles, mesmerized by its beauty. The Blade Breaker's limo came behind them and boys were all in awe.

Mr. Dickinson led the group inside it, where a young woman around her early twenties met them. She had dirty blond hair and blue eyes she smiled rather flakily.

"Hi, I'm Maria." She said in a high-pitched voice. Kenny, who was closest to her, covered his ears and Harmonica went in a fit of giggles. Hillary rolled her eyes and said in an annoyed voice, which was also, rather bossy, "Listen honey, you better quit the act. And spill it out. Cause we don't have time for this." The receptionist looked as if she was used to this kind of thing and continued to smile.

"May I know you're naming please?" She asked, in the same high-pitched voice. This time Melody answered her.

"The Eliminators and the…" Melody suddenly stopped. She knew it was 'his' habit to be in depended. Even after years, she still remembered all his habits. She smiled to herself.

"The Blade Breakers." Kai finished. He quickly glanced towards, 'her'. 'She remembered.' Said a small voice in his head, but he pushed it away.

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The Blade Breakers were sitting at the Hotel's restaurant. It was an all-you-can-eat-buffet. "Hello boys." Said Mr. Dickinson as he entered the restaurant only to find Kai, Tyson, Max, Kenny, and Ray sitting on a table that was reserved for them. Kai insisted on all wearing similar black baggy pants and black tight no-sleeved shirt. It was their team's dress code. Each team had a dress code, and whenever they went to a party, they had to go on their team's dress code, or the part's dress code. 

The Blade Breakers greeted Mr. Dickinson as he sat down beside them and asked the waiter for five extra chairs added. For what reason? Only he knew. It was a rather chilly night, especially since their table was near the windows, and the windows were open. Kai excused himself to go to the washroom.

The door burst open. The Blade Breaker's heads looked up. They saw Mariah, Emily, Hillary, Melody, and Harmonica. They were all wearing their team dress codes. White skirts that went up to their knee, and a sleeve-less white turtleneck. They all had their hair open and wore white sandals. They headed towards the table at the opposite side of The Blade Breaker's, but Mr. Dickinson waved at them to join him and The Blade Breakers.

Melody sat beside the table next to Mr. Dickinson. Beside her was an empty seat that was once vacated by Kai. Harmonica sat on the other side of Mr. Dickinson, beside her was Emily, Hillary, then Mariah and Ray. Next to Ray were Tyson, Max, and Kenny. They all started to talk.

After a couple of minutes Kai returned. His face paled as he saw who sat beside him. Melody looked up only to be met by the steal gaze of Kai's mahogany eyes. Chocolate brown bore into mahogany. Kai finally ignored and sat down.

"So, now that we are all settled in, why not we order?" Mr. Dickinson asked as the door once again burst open and this time they were lead by four boys and a man with purple hair.

"Hello Dickinson." Said the man with purple hair.

"Ah, Boris. I see you've got out of jail." Mr. Dickinson said rather cheerfully. The man recognized as Boris sneered. "Yes, well. I've got a few connections. And what do we have here. Kai, won't you join us." He said glaring nastily at The Blade Breakers, except Kai. Kai completely ignored him. Boris's gaze landed on Melody.

"Why is it really?" he said in a nasty voice. "Melody Malfoy?" Boris asked. Melody froze, and she once again paled. She was slightly shaking but there was a rage of fire in her eyes, all the same. "Why hello Boris." She answered glaring all the same, though her voice shook a little. Her always-happy face was now calm and emotionless. Not happy calm, but deadly calm. Boris stuck his nose out haughtily out on the air. "Meet my team." He said rather proudly.

"Tala, Bryan, Spencer, and Ian." He said rather proudly pointing to the red-head, then the light-purple-head, the well built, brown headed boy, and a boy with a rather long, and crooked nose. (An//: He, he sorry all you Ian fans. Couldn't help it.)

"We are the Demolition Boys, and I'm the captain." The redhead known as Tala said proudly.

"Ya, and you lost to us three years in a row." Tyson said as Max grinned. Spencer glared at them, and they made their way to their table.

'Well, why don't we order then, this time without interruptions." Mr. Dickinson said.

"Um… Mr. Dickinson?" Harmonica started nervously. "Yes." He answered.

"It's a buffet." She said sweat dropping. Mr. Dickinson looked rather embarrassed but all the same told them to get their food.

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Mariah took her plate and slowly made her way towards the buffet table. She took her food, but when she went for the roast chicken, someone else's hand was on top of hers. And they were trying to get some chicken on their plate as well. (AN//: DUH!!) She looked up and was met by violet-sky blue eyes. They were the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. Violet eyes with hints of light sky blue on them. Only one question rang through her mind. 'Who was he?' She didn't know why, but she felt as if she lost her heart. (AN//: Don't worry, it's still Ray/Mariah.)

- Anime4u2 ^_~

To be continued…