Mysterious voice: ::holding a very soaked bunch of tissues::

Kurayami_Tenshi: Yay! Someone reviewed! Thank you sooo much, Dark Magician! That really helped! ::hug:: Now with the fic! ::sniff::

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Chapter 5 - Chow Time and a Friendly Match

The waiters stared at the four petite girls in amazement. They sure knew how to put it away . . .

"Mmm! This stuff is great!" commented Akai. Only Meia was eating at a 'normal' rate. There was very little else spoken as they concentrated on eating. And drinking. Then eating some more . . .

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The Bladebreakers blinked as they looked a the buffet table, which was . . . empty.

"You guys are really disgusting when it comes to eating."

They turned to see the Dark Angels, with the exception of Meia, eating like there was no tomorrow.

"..."

Kai snorted as he sat down at one of the empty tables. /More Tysons . . . /

"Hi," said Rei to the Dark Angels. They looked up for about half a second before continuing to eat.

"Ignore them for about an hour or so. They 'should' be back to normal by then," informed Meia dryly. "Good God . . . " she added, watching Tyson steal some food off Reni.

Kenny sighed, then his eyes widened when he saw the waiters refill the table, for it to all vanish.

"Gimmie that back," snapped Reni, snatching her bowl of fish and chips back.

Tyson glowered at her, before plopping down to wait.

~An hour later~

"That really hit the spot,' sighed Miyako, leaning back contently.

"Looks like it should have hit more than one spot," muttered Tyson darkly. She grinned good-naturedly.

"Training time!" sang Akai happily, getting up. The rest of the Dark Angels obediently followed.

"How much will that be? Oh, here you go."

"See you later!"

"Bye!

"See ya!"

"Bye, Bye!"

The waiters heaved a sigh of relief at them gone, but then groaned, seeing Tyson piling up his plate.

/Least there's only one of them . . . /
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"Tyson! Come on already!" Kenny's command was answered by a chomping sound.

"We're leaving."

Kai got up and vanished out the door. /Don't believe I have to be seen in public with him/

"Kai! Wait!"

"Kenny, come on. Tyson can follow up later," suggested Max, standing up.

"Sounds like a good idea, Chief. Tyson should be done, oh, maybe in the next year or so," remarked Dizzy.

"Alright."

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A dark blue blade flew across the dish to clash with a blood red one, causing sparks to fly from the force of the connection.

"Come on Sapphire!"

The blue blade pressed in harder against the red one, a grating sound heard because of the high spin rate of both blades.

"Garnet, hang in there!"

The red blade broke the contact and swivelled around, clashing again with Sapphire. (A/N: alright, enough battling. I'll describe the tournament battle's in a little more detail ^_^)

The battle ended in a tie. The Dark Angels were roughly at the same level.

"Well done!" cheered Akai enthusiastically, bouncing up and down. "Keep it up! Ready, Meia?" Meia nodded, violet eyes glinting as she raised her launcher.

"3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . let it rip!"

Both blade flew into the dish, connecting in mid air. Despite the early connection, both blades landed perfectly balanced. Suddenly, the purple blade made a more for the deep green one, but narrowly missed it.

"Emerald, go!" Akai said to Emerald, her blade obeying instantly, dashing forward to use Meia's blade's own momentum against it, knocking it out of the dish.

"Amethyst . . . "

'Don't worry, you're getting better all the time," consoled Akai, catching Emerald deftly.

Meia smirked. "Yeah, and next time, I'll be ready. I wonder where Tyson is? I promised him a match."

"He's still eating."

They looked to see a boy wearing a traditional white Chinese shirt with some locks of hair spiked up at the front. However, the rest of it was bound back using a long strip of white material wound over and over again, tightly binding it.

"You're . . . Rei?" guessed Meia.

Rei grinned. "Yep. So . . . any of you up for a battle?" offered Rei, taking out Drigger.

"I don't mind," accepted Miyako, blue eyes set for battle. "You're on."

Max, Kai, Reni, Meia and Akai stood back, watching.

Kenny set up Dizzy to scan Miyako's blade, but she looked distinctly uncomfortable about that.

"What are you going to do with that?"

"Huh?" Rei looked in the direction Miyako was pointing at and saw Kenny with Dizzy. "Oh. He's just . . . "

"Collecting data on my blade?! That is so not fair," she accusingly, holding Sapphire possessively tight. She turned and glared at Kenny. "Leave my blade alone!"

::Kenny sweat drop::

"Miyako, let them scan your blade," said Akai. "What can they do with the information anyway?"

"Alright . . . "

" . . . Let it rip!"

Drigger and Sapphire circled the dish cautiously, testing their opponents. Rei glanced up and saw Miyako's face was set in concentration. /She sure is serious about this . . . /

"Pay attention Rei," said Miyako suddenly, snapping him out of this thoughts. "You can't win if you keep on staring at me!"

Max laughed, while Kai looked faintly amused. Rei blushed slightly.

"Right."

The two blade stopped their cautious circling when Drigger sprung forward.

"Tiger claw!" yelled Rei.

Amethyst easily sidestepped the attack. Drigger attacked again and again. Drigger's speed was good, but Amethyst was quicker.

"You'll have to do better than that Rei," called Miyako. "Amethyst, Dark pool."

Amethyst glowed faintly with a purple aura before circling Dragger and breakneck speed.

Both blades vanished into a mist of darkness, then suddenly, Drigger flew out of the dish.

Max and Kenny both wore identical looks of shock. Beating Rei was no mean feat. Kai crossed his arms in a typical 'Kai' behaviour, face carefully blank.

"Good match," said Miyako, but it truth, she was disappointed. /That was way to easy. Are they just trying to see what we can do/

"Yeah . . . "

She hugged him briefly as was the Dark Angel custom, (they thought it consoles whoever loses) stunning Rei. She smiled before going back to her team.

"Sleepy," said Reni suddenly. "4:32 pm," she added reluctantly, seeing Akai giving her a 'look'.

For all the time they had been a team, she had being trying to get her to say more than one sentence at a time. Still working on it.

"Bed!" declared Meia as they disappeared out the door.

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Rei stared at Drigger, golden eyes clouded as he mentally replayed the battle. /It didn't even look like she was trying/

"Am I late?" gasped Tyson, holding onto the door for support.

"You just missed Rei's match," informed Max.

"Huh?" Tyson looked at Rei, staring dejectedly at his blade. "Tough break."

"Guys, check this out!"

They crowded around Kenny as he showed them Miyako's stats.

"That's not possible . . . " Rei's voice trailed off as he looked at the graph.

All of Miyako's stats were off the scale, but most surprising was the fact that they were all equal. A very balanced blade.

"Man, it's going to be tough beating them if they all have stats like that."

"Dizzy also found a site on the Dark Angels. Apparently it can only be accessed a few days from the tournament opening, so the teams don't get an advantage over them.

~The Dark Angels are currently number one in the Elimination Tournaments, having never lost a single battle. Their name 'Dark Angels' is a warning to all teams that oppose them; the 'Dark' meaning that their attacks are extremely powerful, and 'Angels' is for their unique bit beasts. ~

"Check out their profiles."

Name: Akai- team leader.

Age: 14

Blade Appearance: Green with black markings

Bit Beast: Emerald. Angel type.

Name: Meia

Age: 14

Blade Appearance: Blue with black markings

Bit Beast: Sapphire. Angel type

Name: Miyako

Age: 14

Blade Appearance: Purple with black markings

Bit Beast: Amethyst. Angel type

Name: Reni

Age: 14

Blade Appearance: Red with black markings

Bit Beast: Garnet. Angel type

Beside each profile, which was very brief had had only useless information according to Tyson, was a picture of the bladers and a close up of the blade.

"They're a year younger than us!" exclaimed Kenny once everyone had read the site. "They won the tournament at 13!"

"I think you need some sleep Chief," said Max.

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Mysterious voice: That didn't seem to plot driven . . .

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