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Chapter 2
While Tyson, Ray and Kenny left to go look for Max outside, Kai stayed inside… sleeping? Kai didn't seem too worried about Max, yet he was restless in his sleep. He was still energized from the… earlier activities. Finding he couldn't sleep, he decided he might as well look for Max. Getting up from bed, he glanced outside. Night was settling in, making everything look like a monster with the storm. Thicker and darker clouds had formed since the last time he looked outside, stretching beyond the horizon. Rain fell harder than it did before, making a greater bang with each drop. Lightning and thunder struck the earth, shaking the mansion every so often, causing the electricity to fade in and out. The storm wasn't going to let up any time soon. Sighing, he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and left the room.
Walking down the stairs, he noticed his living room was a mess. It seems like his teammates were having some sort of pillow fight. Feathers covered everything. Carpets, shelves, tables, television, half-eaten meals, you name it. Some feathers were still drifting to the ground. Looking up, he saw that the ceiling fan had feathers piled up to the ceiling, as if someone had thrown a pillow up there.
"Once they get back, I'll make them clean up this mess. Not only do they owe me a new door now, but a whole bunch of pillows too. They'll pay through heavy training once I get my hands on them. Every. Single. One. Of. Them." He thought as a devilish grin spread across his face, and he rubbed his hands together.
He began to imagine the training he'd put them through. Laps… lots of laps… run until the can barely move. Then push-ups… lots of push-ups… curl-ups… skipping… tae-bo… oh, and that was only the warm-up… after, they would practice launching their blades to his content, then—his train of thought was interrupted by a feather tickling his nose.
"Aaaaa-chooooo!! Grr… stupid feather…" Kai mumbled as he blew the feather away. Losing his train of thought, he cursed himself, when thunder shook through the house once again, which reminded him of how he was suppose to be looking for Max. Sighing, he left the ruined living room.
"Where to start first…" walking around, he decided to check all the bathrooms. Max could've taken one LONG dump. Checking all the bathrooms, Kai had no success with finding Max, same with the kitchen, the games room, the dining room, the weight room, and the balcony. Sighing, Kai decided to look in Max's room.
Stepping in, he noticed that Max's room was very neat. It seemed like he didn't use it at all. All that may have been out of place was Max's own stuff: his turtle shaped suitcase that was wide open. The hard shell contained all his belongings. When closed, it looked like a giant purple stuffed animal was squished into the suitcase, when really; the purple extensions were the fuzzy stuffed turtle head, tail and legs. There were turtle shirts, turtle pants, turtle boxers, turtle socks, and a whole lot of other turtle things. Then there was his usual outfit: turtle free. By looking at Max any other day, one wouldn't expect him to have a turtle fetish, but here, in all its glory, was turtle stuff. PURPLE turtle stuff. Not that it was really weird or anything. Tyson had his fetish about blue dragons, Ray with his white tigers, and Kenny with all his computer accessories. Even Kai had quite a few phoenix related belongings.
From what it looked like, it seemed like Max was in the middle of something when he deserted the suitcase. No matter, Kai looked in the closet, shelves, cupboards, and mini-fridge, but to no avail. Max couldn't be seen anywhere.
As he began to leave Max's room, bright blue flash caught his eye from under the bed. Bending down to look under the bed, he only saw darkness. Thinking it was some trick of his eye, he was about to get up as the same bright blue appeared in front of his crimson eyes. Looking closer, he couldn't see anything in the dark under the bed. Frustrated, he started to pull back his head when suddenly, a pair of brilliant blue eyes materialized in front of him. Taken back with the sudden brightness as his eyes were adjusted to the dark, he fell back. Sighing, he got up onto his feet and sitting on the bed, he looked out the window at the dark sky.
"I know you're under there, Max. Come out." From the sitting on the bed, he could feel the bed vibrate as Max shook his head. Finding that disturbing, Kai stood up.
"There's nothing to be afraid of. You're inside right now. Lightning can't hit you." The vibrating of the bed started once again, but more vigorously, as the eyes disappeared. Kai started to get annoyed at the boy.
"If you don't come out right now…" the gears inside Kai's brain started up, "I'll… you'll… there will be no dinner for you."
A barely audible voice sounded, as Kai strained to make out Max's answer.
"You're making dinner?"
"I guess I am now," sighed Kai.
"What's for dinner?" whispered Max.
Grinning, Kai decided, "Soup."
Silence. Waiting patiently, Kai just stood there looking out the window, when Max could be heard shifting quickly under the bed. Hands appeared from under the bed, grabbing nothing but air. Feet appeared on the other side of the bed and began to thrash around. The hands, finally grabbing the edge of the bed, seemed to be straining to pull something out. After a few minutes of the same thing, the hands and feet went limp, as a slight gasping could be heard, and silence over took the boys.
10 minutes later, a voice could be heard.
"I'm stuck." Kai grinned as silence returned.
"Um… Kai… wanna… give me a hand?"
"Not really."
"… please, will you give me a hand? I'm ready to come out now. J-just like you told me to." Grinning, Kai began clapping slowly.
"… a hand as in helping me get out from under the bed."
Disappointed, Kai took his time in walking over to Max, and holding out his hand, which Max took quickly. Kai started to pull Max out from underneath the bed. Well, not really. Kai was really pulling Max with the bed still on top of him. Sighing, Kai lets go of Max, who is taken by surprise, and flops to the ground with an "OWWW!!!" as his jaw is snapped shut. Rubbing his jaw, he felt the bed lift above him. Looking up, he saw Kai lifting the bed. Getting to his knees and rubbing his jaw, he mumbled, "Thanks."
Kai moved behind Max and started pushing him towards the door, when a great light flashed through the room. Max tensed.
"Oh, great…" muttered Kai. Max turned around and was about to head for his bed, until Kai grabbed his arm.
"Not so fast, buddy."
"THUNDER!!!!! Wait a minute, did you just call me your buddy?"
"… just… just… grr…" Kai gave up. He couldn't refute, and so, started to push Max out the door.
"So you DID call me your buddy! Oh, Kai. You've finally accepted us! Well… me anyways. I'm so glad… we'll be good friends from now on, won't we… buddy?" grinned Max, as he turned around to look at Kai.
"Shut up. Don't go blabbering to everyone about this."
"Why not?"
"… if you do, you'll hear from me personally," glared Kai, as thunder and lightning crashed around Kai.
"Eep!" squeaked Max, as he slipped past Kai towards the bed. Kai whipped around and caught Max.
"Let me go!!!!" wailed Max, reaching out to touch his bed.
"I'm not letting you hide under that bed again. You're just gonna get stuck again and look stupid. You're gonna ruin my reputation of being a tough captain by making me look stupid."
"I don't care! It's not like we're in public! Let me go!!!" screamed Max. Kai was forced to let go so that he could save his ears from the high-pitched screaming.
"Crap." thought Kai once he realized what he did. He turned around and a pair of Max's boxers flew into his face.
"AUGH!!" yelled Kai, throwing the boxers to the floor, "were those clean? They'd better be for your sake. What the heck are you doing?!?!" When Kai finally stopped, he saw Max chibi, with big bubbly eyes, clinging onto a blanket decorated with purple turtles in one hand, and a giant purple turtle that was almost as big as him in chibi form, in the other hand.
"I… I… I was just… I was… I was just…" and Max burst into tears. Surprised, Kai tried to calm Max down.
"Shhhh… don't cry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell. Calm down, all right? Stop crying Max. I'm serious. Stop… SHUT UP!!!!" snapped Kai. Max stopped crying immediately and started to suck on his thumb. Kai sighed and he put his hand against his forehead as he thought, "the kinda people I have to deal with."
"You were looking for your blanket and turtle, right?" Max nodded.
"So you threw everything to the side, right? Max nodded.
"Fine… just watch what you're throwing and who you're throwing them at, kay?" Max nodded his head vigorously and de-chibified.
"You're not mad at me are you? I'm sorry, about the boxer thing. And they were clean. They should be anyways unless Tyson went through my things, looking for something to wear. He either never gives them back or never cleans them when he puts the back. You can usually tell by sniffing them." Max picked up the pair of boxers and sniffed. "Nope… clean."
"Good, now lets get outta here. All your purple turtles just staring at you… I don't know how you can stand it. I'll stick to my phoenixes thank you."
"You have a lot of phoenix stuff?"
"… maybe…"
Max gasped, "You DO!"
"No I don't. Lets get out of here."
"Ooooo… can I see your phoenix stuff? I've seen Tyson's dragon stuff and Ray's tiger stuff. Heck, I've even seen Kenny's computer stuff. I never knew you had phoenix stuff. I thought since your room was blue, it wouldn't have any red phoenix stuff in it. My room at home is white with pictures of purple turtles everywhere. Mom won't let me paint my walls purple or have turtles painted on it, so I have to live with posted pictures. My mom says painting my room purple is gay. Can you believe it? Girls can have purple rooms, why can't I? I thought your room would be covered in red phoenix stuff. Where's all your phoenix stuff? Do you have a room for only phoenix stuff only? Or 2 rooms? Or maybe more! Oooo, can I see, can I see??" Max was really excited, jumping up and down.
"No." Kai simply said. Max pouted.
"Pweeze?!?! Pwetty pwetty pweeze with shugah on top?" Max had bubbly eyes again.
"Oh no, not those eyes. No one can resist those eyes!" Kai said, trying to shield himself from Max's face, "except me." Kai had turned serious again.
"Poopy," muttered Max, "come on Kai! Please?"
"Uh… that room is locked up. It'll take me forever to find the key, and… that room is near the top of the mansion where thunder's the loudest. You don't wanna go there."
"Liar." Max crossed his arms and glared at Kai, "if you didn't want to show me, then you just should've said so."
"I did say no."
"… oh yea…" Kai rolled his eyes, "now scoot. Outta this room." Kai egged Max forward.
"I'm going I'm going!" said Max, holding onto his blanket and turtle tightly.
The wind howled and rain pounded as Kai and Max headed downstairs to the kitchen.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Beyblade.
Chapter 2
While Tyson, Ray and Kenny left to go look for Max outside, Kai stayed inside… sleeping? Kai didn't seem too worried about Max, yet he was restless in his sleep. He was still energized from the… earlier activities. Finding he couldn't sleep, he decided he might as well look for Max. Getting up from bed, he glanced outside. Night was settling in, making everything look like a monster with the storm. Thicker and darker clouds had formed since the last time he looked outside, stretching beyond the horizon. Rain fell harder than it did before, making a greater bang with each drop. Lightning and thunder struck the earth, shaking the mansion every so often, causing the electricity to fade in and out. The storm wasn't going to let up any time soon. Sighing, he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and left the room.
Walking down the stairs, he noticed his living room was a mess. It seems like his teammates were having some sort of pillow fight. Feathers covered everything. Carpets, shelves, tables, television, half-eaten meals, you name it. Some feathers were still drifting to the ground. Looking up, he saw that the ceiling fan had feathers piled up to the ceiling, as if someone had thrown a pillow up there.
"Once they get back, I'll make them clean up this mess. Not only do they owe me a new door now, but a whole bunch of pillows too. They'll pay through heavy training once I get my hands on them. Every. Single. One. Of. Them." He thought as a devilish grin spread across his face, and he rubbed his hands together.
He began to imagine the training he'd put them through. Laps… lots of laps… run until the can barely move. Then push-ups… lots of push-ups… curl-ups… skipping… tae-bo… oh, and that was only the warm-up… after, they would practice launching their blades to his content, then—his train of thought was interrupted by a feather tickling his nose.
"Aaaaa-chooooo!! Grr… stupid feather…" Kai mumbled as he blew the feather away. Losing his train of thought, he cursed himself, when thunder shook through the house once again, which reminded him of how he was suppose to be looking for Max. Sighing, he left the ruined living room.
"Where to start first…" walking around, he decided to check all the bathrooms. Max could've taken one LONG dump. Checking all the bathrooms, Kai had no success with finding Max, same with the kitchen, the games room, the dining room, the weight room, and the balcony. Sighing, Kai decided to look in Max's room.
Stepping in, he noticed that Max's room was very neat. It seemed like he didn't use it at all. All that may have been out of place was Max's own stuff: his turtle shaped suitcase that was wide open. The hard shell contained all his belongings. When closed, it looked like a giant purple stuffed animal was squished into the suitcase, when really; the purple extensions were the fuzzy stuffed turtle head, tail and legs. There were turtle shirts, turtle pants, turtle boxers, turtle socks, and a whole lot of other turtle things. Then there was his usual outfit: turtle free. By looking at Max any other day, one wouldn't expect him to have a turtle fetish, but here, in all its glory, was turtle stuff. PURPLE turtle stuff. Not that it was really weird or anything. Tyson had his fetish about blue dragons, Ray with his white tigers, and Kenny with all his computer accessories. Even Kai had quite a few phoenix related belongings.
From what it looked like, it seemed like Max was in the middle of something when he deserted the suitcase. No matter, Kai looked in the closet, shelves, cupboards, and mini-fridge, but to no avail. Max couldn't be seen anywhere.
As he began to leave Max's room, bright blue flash caught his eye from under the bed. Bending down to look under the bed, he only saw darkness. Thinking it was some trick of his eye, he was about to get up as the same bright blue appeared in front of his crimson eyes. Looking closer, he couldn't see anything in the dark under the bed. Frustrated, he started to pull back his head when suddenly, a pair of brilliant blue eyes materialized in front of him. Taken back with the sudden brightness as his eyes were adjusted to the dark, he fell back. Sighing, he got up onto his feet and sitting on the bed, he looked out the window at the dark sky.
"I know you're under there, Max. Come out." From the sitting on the bed, he could feel the bed vibrate as Max shook his head. Finding that disturbing, Kai stood up.
"There's nothing to be afraid of. You're inside right now. Lightning can't hit you." The vibrating of the bed started once again, but more vigorously, as the eyes disappeared. Kai started to get annoyed at the boy.
"If you don't come out right now…" the gears inside Kai's brain started up, "I'll… you'll… there will be no dinner for you."
A barely audible voice sounded, as Kai strained to make out Max's answer.
"You're making dinner?"
"I guess I am now," sighed Kai.
"What's for dinner?" whispered Max.
Grinning, Kai decided, "Soup."
Silence. Waiting patiently, Kai just stood there looking out the window, when Max could be heard shifting quickly under the bed. Hands appeared from under the bed, grabbing nothing but air. Feet appeared on the other side of the bed and began to thrash around. The hands, finally grabbing the edge of the bed, seemed to be straining to pull something out. After a few minutes of the same thing, the hands and feet went limp, as a slight gasping could be heard, and silence over took the boys.
10 minutes later, a voice could be heard.
"I'm stuck." Kai grinned as silence returned.
"Um… Kai… wanna… give me a hand?"
"Not really."
"… please, will you give me a hand? I'm ready to come out now. J-just like you told me to." Grinning, Kai began clapping slowly.
"… a hand as in helping me get out from under the bed."
Disappointed, Kai took his time in walking over to Max, and holding out his hand, which Max took quickly. Kai started to pull Max out from underneath the bed. Well, not really. Kai was really pulling Max with the bed still on top of him. Sighing, Kai lets go of Max, who is taken by surprise, and flops to the ground with an "OWWW!!!" as his jaw is snapped shut. Rubbing his jaw, he felt the bed lift above him. Looking up, he saw Kai lifting the bed. Getting to his knees and rubbing his jaw, he mumbled, "Thanks."
Kai moved behind Max and started pushing him towards the door, when a great light flashed through the room. Max tensed.
"Oh, great…" muttered Kai. Max turned around and was about to head for his bed, until Kai grabbed his arm.
"Not so fast, buddy."
"THUNDER!!!!! Wait a minute, did you just call me your buddy?"
"… just… just… grr…" Kai gave up. He couldn't refute, and so, started to push Max out the door.
"So you DID call me your buddy! Oh, Kai. You've finally accepted us! Well… me anyways. I'm so glad… we'll be good friends from now on, won't we… buddy?" grinned Max, as he turned around to look at Kai.
"Shut up. Don't go blabbering to everyone about this."
"Why not?"
"… if you do, you'll hear from me personally," glared Kai, as thunder and lightning crashed around Kai.
"Eep!" squeaked Max, as he slipped past Kai towards the bed. Kai whipped around and caught Max.
"Let me go!!!!" wailed Max, reaching out to touch his bed.
"I'm not letting you hide under that bed again. You're just gonna get stuck again and look stupid. You're gonna ruin my reputation of being a tough captain by making me look stupid."
"I don't care! It's not like we're in public! Let me go!!!" screamed Max. Kai was forced to let go so that he could save his ears from the high-pitched screaming.
"Crap." thought Kai once he realized what he did. He turned around and a pair of Max's boxers flew into his face.
"AUGH!!" yelled Kai, throwing the boxers to the floor, "were those clean? They'd better be for your sake. What the heck are you doing?!?!" When Kai finally stopped, he saw Max chibi, with big bubbly eyes, clinging onto a blanket decorated with purple turtles in one hand, and a giant purple turtle that was almost as big as him in chibi form, in the other hand.
"I… I… I was just… I was… I was just…" and Max burst into tears. Surprised, Kai tried to calm Max down.
"Shhhh… don't cry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell. Calm down, all right? Stop crying Max. I'm serious. Stop… SHUT UP!!!!" snapped Kai. Max stopped crying immediately and started to suck on his thumb. Kai sighed and he put his hand against his forehead as he thought, "the kinda people I have to deal with."
"You were looking for your blanket and turtle, right?" Max nodded.
"So you threw everything to the side, right? Max nodded.
"Fine… just watch what you're throwing and who you're throwing them at, kay?" Max nodded his head vigorously and de-chibified.
"You're not mad at me are you? I'm sorry, about the boxer thing. And they were clean. They should be anyways unless Tyson went through my things, looking for something to wear. He either never gives them back or never cleans them when he puts the back. You can usually tell by sniffing them." Max picked up the pair of boxers and sniffed. "Nope… clean."
"Good, now lets get outta here. All your purple turtles just staring at you… I don't know how you can stand it. I'll stick to my phoenixes thank you."
"You have a lot of phoenix stuff?"
"… maybe…"
Max gasped, "You DO!"
"No I don't. Lets get out of here."
"Ooooo… can I see your phoenix stuff? I've seen Tyson's dragon stuff and Ray's tiger stuff. Heck, I've even seen Kenny's computer stuff. I never knew you had phoenix stuff. I thought since your room was blue, it wouldn't have any red phoenix stuff in it. My room at home is white with pictures of purple turtles everywhere. Mom won't let me paint my walls purple or have turtles painted on it, so I have to live with posted pictures. My mom says painting my room purple is gay. Can you believe it? Girls can have purple rooms, why can't I? I thought your room would be covered in red phoenix stuff. Where's all your phoenix stuff? Do you have a room for only phoenix stuff only? Or 2 rooms? Or maybe more! Oooo, can I see, can I see??" Max was really excited, jumping up and down.
"No." Kai simply said. Max pouted.
"Pweeze?!?! Pwetty pwetty pweeze with shugah on top?" Max had bubbly eyes again.
"Oh no, not those eyes. No one can resist those eyes!" Kai said, trying to shield himself from Max's face, "except me." Kai had turned serious again.
"Poopy," muttered Max, "come on Kai! Please?"
"Uh… that room is locked up. It'll take me forever to find the key, and… that room is near the top of the mansion where thunder's the loudest. You don't wanna go there."
"Liar." Max crossed his arms and glared at Kai, "if you didn't want to show me, then you just should've said so."
"I did say no."
"… oh yea…" Kai rolled his eyes, "now scoot. Outta this room." Kai egged Max forward.
"I'm going I'm going!" said Max, holding onto his blanket and turtle tightly.
The wind howled and rain pounded as Kai and Max headed downstairs to the kitchen.