Title: Betrayal & Comebacks
By: Moonlit Sea
A/N: Sorry about the long wait people but the first part to the last chap is now up!
Oh please I'm not very good at doing sexy scenes so sorry if it's a little crap. The second part in the works and should hopefully be done soon. (Fingers crossed) well hope you enjoy the chapter. Have a happy new year everyone!
-Thoughts-
Chapter 14 – Bladebreakers V Moonlights (Part One).
"You okay Ray?" Max asks as Ray enters the room.
"Huh? Oh yea Max I'm fine."
Max gave Tyson a disbelieving look.
"You sure buddy?" Tyson asks.
Before Ray could answer Kenny interrupted.
"Anyone know where Sam is? It's hard to have a team meeting when a team member is missing."
"Hey who said anything about me being missing?" a voice said from the door.
Everyone looked and saw Sam standing in the doorway.
She walked in while saying
"Sorry I went off like that. I had… a couple of things to do."
"Now that we're all here. I think it's time to tell you who's going to blade in the match tomorrow." Kenny started.
"Come on don't keep us all in suspense Chief." Max said.
"Tyson you'll be first up."
"Alright! Just let me at those Moonlights I'll show 'em!" Tyson says.
"Any idea who he'll be up against?" Ray asked.
"His opponent will be a girl named Kathryn." Dizzi answered.
"Kathryn." Sam said almost shocked.
"Something wrong Sam?" Tyson asks.
"Hm? Oh no nothing." She replied.
"Sam I think it's about time you told us how you know these people." Kai said.
"Why should I know them?" She asked innocently.
"Well the fact that you shouted out 'let's show Adam we're not the same people from how many years ago.' Kinda gave it away." Tyson replied a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Fine! Okay I do know them but only Adam and Kathryn, I have no idea who the other two are."
"How do you know them?" Kai asked curiously.
Sam sighed "They were my friends how many years ago that was until I met Mr. Dickenson and decided to go work for him and the BBA."
"But why does Adam think that you're a bad blader?" Max asked.
"Yea and what did he mean by 'you haven't really changed at all'." Ray added.
"Like I said we were friends… a long time ago."
"I take it that you didn't know they had Bit-Beasts." Dizzi said.
"I didn't even know they were in a team! Let alone that they had bit-beasts!" She said then gave a little smile. "It reminds of a conversation we once had about what they would call their bit-beasts if they ever got any."
She walked over to the window and stared out of it as if she was reliving the memory.
FLASHBACK
"I'd call mine Twilight." Kathryn said.
"Why?" Adam asked as they walked towards Kathryn's house.
"Why not. Don't you think it's a nice name? I think it's a beautiful name. Don't you agree Sam?"
Sam gave a nod.
"What about you Adam? What would you name yours?" she asked.
"Hmmm." He said thinking. "I think I would have to name mine… Moonstone."
"Moonstone? Isn't that a little like Moonstar?" Kathryn said referring to Sam's bit-beast.
"Yep and that's why."
"Huh?" the two girls said unison both confused at Adam's answer.
"I'd name it after Moonstar." He explained.
"Ahhh that's sweet Adam. I'm sure Moonstar would be thrilled." Sam answered.
"Yea Adam are you sure you don't have any other reason." Kathryn said slyly.
"Shut it Kathryn!" Adam snapped.
Kathryn gave a little laugh now knowing full well what the other reason was.
END FLASHBACK
"Kathryn even joked that when they got their bit-beasts we'd make our own team." Sam said.
"And now they have." Ray said.
Sam gave a nod.
"So there you go, that's how I know them." She ended.
"Well it's looks like they kept to their word." Dizzi said breaking the silence that now filled the room.
"You okay?" Kai asks as he put his hand on Sam's shoulder.
"Yea I'm okay. It's just been a while since I've thought about it all."
"I've also found out the reason why Sam didn't think she could beat Adam." Dizzi continues.
"And it wasn't because they were once friends either." Kenny added.
"Huh?" Sam turned round immediately at that comment.
"How do you mean chief?" Tyson asked.
"We've been analysing the data we took from Sam and Adam's match."
"Adam's bit-beast Moonstone let's out an ear-shattering screech making his opponent lose their concentration. Kinda like nails on a chalkboard." Dizzi explained.
"Yea I think we heard it. I still can't get the ringing out of my ears." Max commented.
"Not only that but it has an after affect of making you lose your self confidence in winning the battle." Kenny put in.
"So that's why he was smiling when I went in for the attack. He knew I would return to my old ways and start reliving old memories." Sam said realising.
"Old ways?" Kai asked.
"Never mind." She replied not wanting to divert the conversation.
"In a way yes." Kenny answered.
"Good thing we were there to help you out." Tyson commented.
Sam smiled.
"So who's battling after Tyson?" Max asked getting back the original subject.
"That would be you Max." Dizzi answered.
"And who's after Max?" Kai asked noticing Sam looked a tad worried even though she had just smiled at Tyson a moment ago.
"That's Sam." Kenny replied.
"Huh?" they all cried in unison.
"But I thought Mr. Dickenson didn't want Sam to compete." Ray reminded them.
"That was before he told us she said that she had to compete." Dizzi said.
Everyone then looked at Sam.
"What?"
"You have to compete." Max said a little puzzled.
"Would you care to explain why?" Kai asked.
"I have my reasons okay." She answered him not really giving anything away.
"So any idea who we'll be up against?" Max asks seeing that Sam didn't want to talk about it any further.
"Max you'll be facing Matthew …" Dizzi says.
"And Sam?" Ray asks.
"I was getting to that. Sam will face Jasmine."
"What do we know about them?" Kai asks.
"Unfortunately not much." Kenny answered.
"Hey Kathryn told me that you taught her everything she knew about blading." Ray says turning to Sam.
"Is that true?" Tyson asks.
Sam nods. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to tell you how to beat her. I know Adam may not consider me a friend anymore but I know Kathryn still does."
Then why did you yell at her earlier? Ray wanted to ask but didn't get the chance as Tyson spoke first.
"Hey I was only asking." Tyson says defensibly.
At Kathryn's house –
"I understand that you were talking to one of the Bladebreakers today Kathryn." Adam said as he walked into the living room.
"Who told you that?" Kathryn asked as she put her book down and looked at him.
"Let's just say I have ways of knowing these things." He said as Matthew walked past.
"Yea well… he found me."
"Really? You sure it wasn't the other way round?" he says as if hinting at something.
"Adam you know me better than that." Kathryn answered back defending herself. "and anyway why would want to go and see the opposing team?"
"I also understand that you saw Sam as well. Dear me Kathryn what am I to do with you? And after you said you wouldn't either." He said half answering Kathryn's question.
Kathryn knew where Adam was going with this topic and decided it was time to give him Sam's little message.
"Look Adam if you want to take me out of the match tomorrow that's fine by me but Sam told me to give you a message."
"Oh?"
"She said that the next time you drag up the past during a match that you'd end up with dust for a Beyblade."
Then they heard someone laughing; they turned and looked to see Jasmine just walking in.
"Who does she think she's kidding? She could just barely end the match in a tie and that was with her team behind her!" Jasmine pointed out.
"So you think you can beat her Jasmine?" Matthew asked turning the TV off and finally joining the conversation.
"Piece of cake." Jasmine said.
"That's good because you'll be facing her tomorrow." Adam remarked.
"So you know who each of us are up against?" Matthew asked eager to know.
Adam nodded.
"Well?" Kathryn asked a little relived that she wasn't facing Sam herself.
"Kathryn's up against Tyson. Matthew you're going to be facing Max."
"That blonde kid who came to Sam's 'rescue'?" Matthew asked.
Again Adam nodded.
"Jasmine's right this will be a piece of cake."
"Don't get too over confident Matthew we don't know what these Bladebreakers are capable of." Adam warned.
"Are you saying we could lose?" Jasmine asked.
"No I'm just saying that we should be careful. We've never faced a team from another country before."
"Please with all the extra practice we've been putting in lately they don't stand a chance." Kathryn said surprising everyone.
"You mean all the extra practice we've been putting in." Matthew pointed out.
"Yea I haven't seen you train once since you saw Sam yesterday." Jasmine stated.
"Don't worry Jasmine. Twilight and I will be ready. Trust me."
Adam looked at Kathryn he saw the same look in her eyes that she had when Sam had left. He knew she was serious.
"Well then I guess you won't mind showing me." Jasmine said sarcastically.
"If you don't mind losing Jasmine." Kathryn replied.
"Ha! Lose? Against you? I doubt it!"
Adam watched the two girls 'argue' and shook his head.
"They're at it again." Matthew said to Adam sighing. "fancy some cake?"
"sure."
And they left the two girls to their argument.
Back at the hotel –
(Ray's POV)
I'm here sitting in the Chief's room debating with myself on whether or not I should ask/tell him about Sam's strange behaviour. I then sigh at my predicament.
"You all right Ray?" he asks me after hearing my sigh.
"Yea."
The room turns silent again except for the sound of the Chief typing.
"Hey Chief can I ask you something?" I finally decide to ask.
"Sure Ray." He replies.
"Do you think Sam's acting a little…" I pause looking for the right word. "Strange?"
"If you ask me she's been 'acting strange' ever since we first met her." Dizzi comments.
"I don't think that's what Ray meant Dizzi."
"I know."
"Why do you ask?" the Chief asks.
"Oh…just... curious." I answer hiding the real reason as to why I want to know.
"You know it's a good thing none of the others are still here." Dizzi then says.
"Yea I can see Tyson trying to find why you're asking Ray." The Chief says to me.
I nod picturing it myself.
The others had gone when Tyson had asked Sam for a rematch after he lost to her in Russia. Sam agreed and joked 'but we all know I'll win again.'
"So why are you asking." Dizzi asks me suddenly.
"Like I said I was just curious." I answer.
"Yea and I'm not stuck in this laptop." Dizzi says sarcastically.
"I think you've been around Tyson too long Dizzi." The Chief says.
I can't help but smile at that remark.
"There's no need to insult me."
There was a mixture of hurt and annoyance in Dizzi's voice. While those two argue my mind wonders back to what happened earlier this afternoon. I still can't believe that it was Sam saying all those things it's so unlike her.
"You can go now Kathryn. Oh and give your mighty leader a message for me, tell him that the next time he wants to bring up the past during a match he'll end up with dust for a Beyblade!"
Her voice was so cold and uncaring; it was hard to believe that this was the same kind and caring person we all know her to be.
"Ray?" I then hear a voice say.
It was then I realised I must of zoned out.
"Oh sorry Chief I was just thinking about something." I apologise.
"Never mind if Sam's acting strange, you haven't exactly been 'acting normally' since you came back." Dizzi says.
"I have to agree with Dizzi on this one Ray. What's wrong?" he says to me I can see he looks a little worried.
I sigh and look out the window for a few minutes then finally decide to tell them what happen while I was out.
(end Ray's POV)
In the hotel's training facility –
"I see you've been brushing up on your skills Tyson." Sam smiled.
"Hey after last time I wasn't going to let you beat me again."
"May I remind you that you didn't win this time either Tyson."
"Neither did you." Tyson replies.
"Like I said you've been brushing up. It was so easy to beat you last time." She said with a slight smile knowing how much that statement would annoy him.
"Sam I think you better stop before Tyson hits you." Max said trying to ease the tension that had suddenly arose.
"He wouldn't dare." Sam said a hint of sarcasm in her voice, and he even if he did she knew Kai wouldn't let him.
"You wanna bet." Tyson said about to hit her.
"Tyson." Kai said in a warning voice, which stopped Tyson dead in his tracks.
"See I told you he wouldn't dare." Sam said with a little laugh.
"Sam I think that's enough." Kai said in the tone of voice that he had just used with Tyson.
"You're no fun!" Sam sulked.
Kai gave a little smile at Sam's comment, as much fun as it was to see Tyson get wound up if she didn't stop soon she'd end up getting hurt.
"Hey why don't you and Sam have a little battle Kai." Max said.
"Yea I'd like to see who'd win between the two of you." Tyson added.
"I dunno Tyson. I…I… don't think… it's a good idea." Sam replied a little hesitant.
"Why?"
"It just wouldn't be." Kai answered.
"That's not an answer Kai." Tyson replied back.
Kai looked at Sam he could see that she was thinking about the same thing. About the time they both battle each other back at the abbey, then how he had injured her ankle because she wouldn't battle him back when he left the team.
"How about you and Max battle huh?" Sam finally said trying to change the subject. She couldn't look at Kai at the moment otherwise it would have brought it all back. All the pain and hurt that she felt on that day. It still hurt even after all these years for it was a wound that would never heal unlike all the others.
"We already have." Max answered.
"Oh? When?"
"This morning when you decided to disappear." Tyson said a little sarcastically.
"Oh right…who uh…won?"
"We drew." Max answered.
Sam couldn't help but smile at that.
"Just like…" she stopped and looked at Tyson "Sorry I didn't mean to go on about it."
"it's okay. So why won't you battle Kai?" Tyson asked.
"Do you have to know everything Tyson!" Sam snapped at him.
"I was only asking geez."
"They've battled before." A voice says from behind them.
Everyone turns to see Ray and Kenny walking in.
"How do you know that Ray?" Max asks intrigued.
"I just do." Ray replies not wanting to embarrass Sam by telling them that he knew because she had spoken in her sleep.
"What happened?" Kenny asked Kai.
He would of asked Sam but she had her back to them all. A sign that she didn't want to talk about whatever it was that happened.
"It doesn't matter." Kai replied.
Ray wanted to say 'of course it matters. Especially if it gives Sam nightmares.' But instead he just kept quiet. -It's best if I just stayed out of this.- he thought.
"Is it because of what you did to Sam in Russia?" Tyson asked a little curious.
"In a way yes."
"But it all happened a long time ago." Sam suddenly said.
She still had back turned to them but now she was looking down at the floor.
"Sam you okay?" Max asks a little worried.
"Yea I'm fine." She replies in a very solemn voice.
Kai went over to her but she only pushed him away surprising everyone including him, but before she did though Kai saw tears in her eyes.
-She's reliving the memory.- he thought sadly.
As Sam walked out of room Kai watched her, he wished he could take back all the things he had done to hurt her. He hated seeing her sad, it made him sad when she was sad.
"So are you going to tell us or do we have to force it out of you?" Dizzi said breaking the eerie and uneasy silence that now filled the room.
Kai stood looking at the door for a few more minutes before sighing.
"I destroyed her blade back when we were younger." He finally said.
"Huh? You destroyed her blade?" Tyson repeated not believing what he was hearing.
Kai gave a nod.
"Why Kai?" Max asked in amazement.
"Yea I thought you and Sam were best friends when you were younger." Tyson added.
"We were… that was until we went to Russia, then we slowly drifted apart."
"You mean that Sam went to the abbey too?" Kenny said partly shocked.
Again Kai gave nod.
"And they turned you two against each other right?" Tyson assumed.
Kai gave another nod he couldn't speak now even if wanted to, the memory now replaying in his mind.
"That explains why she didn't want battle you." Max says.
"I'm sorry I went on about it. I didn't mean to upset her or anything." Tyson said apologetically.
Sam walked towards her room, she wasn't going to let tears win she wasn't going to cry over it again not this time. She could hear someone calling her name but ignored them. She walked into her room and leaned against the door after she closed it, she sighed. She couldn't blame Tyson and Max they didn't know that the last time Kai and her battled he destroyed her blade. Then someone knocked on her door making her jump. "Sam you okay?" she heard them say.
"Leave me alone Ray." She answered hoping it didn't sound too pathetic.
"Not until I see that you're okay." He replied.
"Then you're in for a long wait." She immediately cursed herself for saying that, that now told Ray that she wasn't okay.
She walked towards the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror.
-I can't do it, I just can't.- she thought -one correctly placed word by anyone and I start reliving the damn memory again!- she sighed and looked down at the sink and to her amazement drops of water started to drip down. She felt her face and discovered that she was crying. She stared at her wet fingers -when did this start?- she wondered. She shook her head trying to make them go away.
"There's no way I can battle tomorrow. Not if I'm like this, I'll just lose." She said out loud.
"Do you want me to battle for you?" a voice suddenly says.
Sam instantly looked up and saw Ray standing in the doorway. She wanted to ask him how long he'd been there but she couldn't find her voice to say it.
"I told you that I wouldn't go until I saw that you were okay." He said.
Sam gave a nod still unable to find her voice. She turned back to the mirror and saw fresh tears starting to fall. She stared at herself, -why am I crying?- she wondered. -Can I really let Ray battle for me? What if he loses? What if he gets hurt? It'll be all my fault.- she then remembered the conversation she had with him when she was about to leave the team as Kai was returning.
"But Sam you can't leave!" Ray said.
"It's no good Ray. I'm leaving and there's nothing you can do to stop me." Sam replied, "Ever since I came here there's been nothing but trouble."
"But that isn't your fault." Ray argued back.
"No? Who was it that destroyed that young girls blade? Me, who was it that got 'captured'? Me, who was it that got Kai put in hospital? ME. It was all me!"
"Everything was all me…" she said quietly unaware that she had spoken.
"What was?" Ray asked.
"Everything Ray. Everything was all my fault." She walked out of the bathroom and lay on her side on her bed facing the window.
Ray watched Sam and sadly shook his head. -She blames herself for everything's that's happen.- he sighed -so much for staying out of it.- he thought.
He went over to her bed and sat behind her.
"Sam everything is not your fault." He said.
"That's easy for you to say." She replied.
"Why do you think it is?"
"Ray I'm not getting into that conversation again."
"Again?" Ray asked confused.
Sam then turned round to face him.
"Yes again."
He decided to change the subject.
"So do you want me to take your place tomorrow?" he asked.
"I don't really know." Sam answered solemnly.
"It's your choice Sam. I'll only do it if you want me to."
"If I do battle tomorrow all my opponent has to do is mention 'my old ways' and I'll end up doing what I did when I fought Adam. But you battle for me you might lose or even end up getting hurt. i can't risk that Ray."
"Hey I'm not Tyson." Ray joked. "And besides I know how to take care of myself."
Sam gave a little laugh at Ray's joke.
"Thanks Ray." She smiled.
"For what?"
"For cheering me up."
"No problem." He smiled.
Then someone coughed and both looked at the door and saw Kai standing there. Sam smiled and sat up.
"I better be going." Ray said standing up to leave.
Just before he went out the door Sam said.
"Oh and Ray…"
He turned back round to her.
"I'd be grateful if you would." She said.
Ray gave a nod and headed out the door.
"You would be grateful if he did what?" Kai asked curious.
"Don't worry Kai it's nothing like that. Ray's just going to take my place tomorrow." She explained.
"May I ask why?" he asked again while walking towards her.
"No you may not." She replied playfully.
"Oh? Well in that case we'll just have to find a way to change your mind." He said sitting where Ray had a moment ago.
"Good luck in trying." Sam joked. She knew what he had in mind. -It's not going to work this time Kai.- she thought.
He smiled as if on cue, which made her wonder if he knew what she thinking, but she didn't get any further than that thought as Kai kissed her.
As she kissed him back she put a hand under his shirt feeling all his muscles. She then started to pull his shirt up. Kai then broke the kiss much to Sam's disappointment, she stared at him only to realise that he stopped to take his shirt off. She smiled at the now half naked Kai who smiled back. They kissed again and as they did so this time Kai lay Sam back down on the bed.