Disclaimer: it's the same as usual, I don't own it, I wish I did though

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Reena's delicate ears picked up on this sound immediately. "What in the world was that?" she asked this question to her best friend standing beside her.

Ray just returned with a shrug. "I don't know but my good guess it was Tyson because it sure did sound like him. Maybe something in the food."

Reena covered her mouth to stifle a laugh. "Hardly, he's like a garbage can, throw anything in him and it will stay there."

Ray snickered and then leaned down to hug Reena one last time "Listen I have to go save Tyson from whatever horrible dilemma he is in this time and make sure Kai doesn't get there before me but I'll see you at the welcoming festival okay? And I'll try to bring all of the guys, especially Kai." The corners of his lips turned upwards in a knowing smirk, as he saw a tinge of pink reach his best friends cheeks when he mentioned the last part of his sentence.

Reena blushed as she quickly turned around; the playfulness in Ray's voice was evident.

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At the time this was happening a bus pulled up to the house that every Beyblading team was staying in and a group of three guys and four girls came out and were having what seemed to be a heated argument going on.

"Come on Judy, no one wants to go research anything the second they step off of a boring bus onto Hawaii with it's beaches and girls!" Michael brought out the last two parts with a wave of his hands to one of the many beaches behind him.

Judy sighed; "Michael, research is vital to us if we are going to win this tournament we need to know every thing about our opposing teams." She told him, sounding like a textbook.

Michael just shook his head and after many more minutes of arguing about it, Michael and the guys went to the beach after they had settled into their rooms and changed, Emily and Judy would just go around and process whatever information they could find about other teams.

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When the All-Starz were heading down the stairs in the lobby of the huge house they met up with the White Tigers who had just arrived and were going in the opposite direction as them.

Mariah passed them without saying a word but inside she wasn't thinking about the All-Starz at all, she had just seen Ray! It didn't matter that he was with Reena though, she knew there was nothing but friendship between those two but then a bitter thought passed through her head.

If she was here for the tournament then so was Rayne.

Mariah felt a little bit of anger go into her head.

She also couldn't help but feel there was something going on between those two, even if Rayne always said there would be a snowballs chance in Hell before she would even think of liking Ray, but only Mariah could actually hear a falter in her voice when she was teased about it.

Lee stopped ahead of Mariah to look at her. "Are you okay, you've been spacing out all day."

Mariah shook her head slowly and mumbled "Nothing, I'm fine" as a response. Lee just nodded and continued up the stairs.

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A huge bus rolled a long the roads, there weren't many occupants. Five or six near the front, a space in the middle and one sole teenage boy sitting at the very back. He sighed as he flicked a piece of snowy white hair out of his face and looked out of the window at the trees passing by. He looked up to see another male coming down the aisle and sit down on the seat opposite himself.

There was a slight pause before the latter spoke up, breaking the deft silence. "So...do you think that we'll win the tournament?"

This simple question caused the pale haired boy to swivel his head in surprise as he looked at his friend beside him.

"Tala, you know that we will." His voice slowed down in pace and got more calmer "Unless ...Voltaire changes the plans, then of course we will."

Tala shook his head in a slow deliberate manner. "You don't really want to do this do you Dakota?"

Dakota sighed for the second time that day. "No, not really..."

Within saying that he turned his around to look back out at the trees which seemed as boring as ever, and even more now.

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Rayne sat impatiently in a plush chair in the lobby of the house that all of the teams were staying in. 'Where are they? We agreed to meet here at this exact time.'

As if on cue Reena came through the door with Aya and Faith following behind her. They could all see that Rayne was impatient so they decided to just go up to their room with out saying a word. They all went up about two flights of stairs before stopping at a huge mahogany door with intricate designs on it.

Aya did the honors and pushed it open slowly by it's gold handles. The girls came to face with a fancy yet casual room.

It had plush navy blue chairs everywhere, a huge plain rug that was a dark burgundy and a large TV pushed up against a wall at the far end of the room. There were three doorways on another wall leading to separate bedrooms and to the left of the doors was another one that lead to a medium sized en-suite bathroom.

In the middle of the main room though, was Mr. Dickinson and a girl who looked like she was fifteen.

She had very dark navy blue eyes. Her hair was a dark blond and had two thick bangs that were a dark red. She wore baggy black pants and a bright red wife beater under a long sleeved black fish net top. A small silver stud adorned her the left side of her nose and there were 2 piercings on each of her ears. A stud on the bottom and a small loop at the very top of her ear. Both black. A thin black choker was wrapped around her neck but non-too tightly.

Mr. Dickinson was the first one to notice them. "Ah girls, you just got here, I presume? Well I was just talking to Bianca here, to get her settled and I should probably leave now so you girls can get acquainted." With that said, Mr. Dickinson walked by them and out the door.

There was a minor silence after he left and the girls all just looked at each other. Bianca broke it though, and her voice came out not loud, yet not timid.

"I think I'll go and rest a little," she declared, turning around on the heel of her foot and walked into the third bedroom that had only her bags in it.

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A/N:I know it was short but I promise the next chapter will be updated as soon as possible, I wont make you wait so long ^^ Also thanx to every one who still wants this story up. Chow 4 Now ^^ DarkZephyerAngel