Last Ditch Attempt
By: cHiBi MiDnIgHt AsSaSsIn
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or it's respective characters. *breaks down crying and after a while, composes herself* Yeah, life's tough, deal with it.
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Chapter 10:
The next day, the boys woke up early to arrange the final things and get ready for the new day. Alida woke up early as usual to start on breakfast and everything, but Kai told her to take it easy, and she eventually fell back asleep for about two more hours than normal.
Kai watched her for some time before slipping out of his room and directing the others in the last minute, final touches.
Then when Alida woke up for the second time that day, the whole house was quiet. She thought that the others were out training or doing their own things and she wandered into the living room. It was pretty dark since the overcast clouds from the day before didn't seem to have left the skies. Alida couldn't see a thing and she groped around for the light switch to the room, and when she flicked it on…
"SURPRISE!" yelled the BladeBreakers, jumping out of their hiding places.
Alida was taken aback, and looked at them in confusion. She saw the decorations that read: HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, and was a bit dumbfounded.
"Looks like Alida forgot her own birthday," said Tyson with a chuckle.
Alida blushed at the comment and looked at the ground for a while. Then she shook her head and peered up at the boys with a sheepish grin. "Thanks you guys."
"It was our pleasure," said Max, coming over to place an arm around her shoulder.
"Yeah, and besides, you saved Mr. Sourpuss over there," said Tyson, jerking a thumb over to indicate Kai, who was standing separated from the others.
Kai didn't even indicate that he had heard what Tyson had said, and remained as stoic as ever.
"Well c'mon, don't wait for his response, that could take forever, if he'd give us one at all," said Rei with a smile.
The group played a few party games, of which Tyson and Max had the most fun, naturally. There was Pin the Tail on the Donkey tacked onto the wall, which Kenny won, because, even with a blindfold, he doesn't appear to have eyes.
After that was a large round of Hide-and-Seek, which the boys were very successful with, since they had spent the evening before, finding the perfect hiding places, with which to hide before yelling, "Surprise."
Then came a mini talent show. Tyson performed a few magic tricks, with Kenny as a 'volunteer,' when in reality, Kenny couldn't think of a talent to display, and Tyson had 'suggested' that Kenny help him.
Tyson tried to make Kenny disappear, which, needless to say, didn't work. After that, he tried to cut Kenny in half, but Kenny screamed out when Tyson sliced his shirt open. Then, Tyson ended with a handcuff trick that failed when he succeeded in cuffing himself together and losing the key.
After Tyson's brief 'moment of fame,' Kai responded with, "Very nice Tyson, if they didn't want you in the Freak Show before, you can try with this new set of tricks."
"Haha, very funny," replied Tyson dryly, while he tried to break free from the cheap handcuffs.
Rei went next, displaying a few of the martial arts moves that he had picked up in his hometown. They included a solo workout routine, with a couple of jumps, kicks, spins, and punches. The others were amazed, and applauded for him very loudly, especially Alida, which, despite Kai's nonchalance, got the captain a bit jealous.
Rei sweatdropped, when Kai brushed past him a little more malevolently than was expected, but Alida didn't seem to notice.
Kai demonstrated his strength by chopping his way through a two-inch wooden board, and a one-inch block of concrete. Then he walked over to the still entrapped Tyson and broke the handcuffs.
Tyson yelped and rubbed his red wrists, before yelling, "What did I do to you?!"
Alida sweatdropped. "Well…you're free now Tyson," she replied with a smile.
Tyson looked down. "Huh? I guess you're right," he said, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Hn," replied Kai, walking over to sit in between Alida and Rei.
"Great job Kai," said Alida, smiling up at him, to which Kai couldn't help but give a little smirk to Rei, which clued the neko-jin in to Kai's jealousy.
I've gotta watch myself more carefully, or end up on Kai's bad side…like Tyson, thought Rei with a sweatdrop. Then he spoke up. "Max, you're up, buddy."
Max got in front of them and did exaggerations of everyone. First up was Tyson. "If I could, I'd eat every second of the day. It's amazing I haven't eaten so much as to cause worldwide hunger."
Then, he did an impression of Kenny. He messed up his hair, so that his eyes couldn't be seen. "Can't...sleep…must…work…" he said, holding his arms out in front of him and walking around stiff-leggedly to make himself look like a sleep-deprived mummy.
After that an imitation of Rei ensued. Max got out a headband with kitty ears on top of them. He put them on, and used his fingers as fangs, which made him look like a tame saber tooth tiger. He growled before mewing and rubbing his head against Alida's leg.
Next came replication of Kai. Max walked over to a window. He wrapped the long curtain around his neck, to look like Kai's scarf. Then he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, and his eyes closed. "Look at me, you can't make me move or laugh. Go ahead and try, tickle me."
Then Max stopped there, because Alida was the birthday girl, and Kai was threatening his life. Max hid behind the others, but they were bent on revenge too. So they chased each other around. Just as Max was about to throw open the door and run out, the doorbell rang. Max got the door and hid behind Mr. Dickenson. The others stopped and greeted him.
"Happy Birthday Alida," said Mr. Dickenson.
"Thank you sir," she replied, before adding, "You shouldn't have," when he handed her their collective present.
"Open it now!" yelled Max, trying to draw attention away from himself.
Alida blinked as the others settled down to watch her open the medium-sized, brightly wrapped box. The box contained a whole set of beyblading things. There was a pure white blade, launcher, and ripcord.
Alida's eyes grew wide as what the present was finally hit her. "I-I can't accept this," she stuttered, trying to hand it back to Mr. Dickenson.
"Crystal Dranzer needs a place to stay," said Max. "At least put the bit in."
Alida nodded and did so, but she was still unconvinced. She slipped the bit chip in place, but cut herself a little bit in the process, she watched as a drop of bright ruby blood landed on the blade.
"I've heard that with a sword, if a person bleeds on it, then it belongs to that person forever. That is of course, when the person isn't using it to kill someone," said Kenny with a sweatdrop.
"So it's the same with your blade. It's yours now!" concluded Rei with a grin.
Alida nodded slowly, looking at the blade, and watched as her blood trickled over the surface.
Kai grabbed Alida's hand and deftly wiped the blood away with his scarf, as well as the blood on her blade.
"Thanks Kai," she murmured, smiling at him. "But now your scarf is dirty."
"Don't worry about it," he said gruffly.
Tyson's stomach grumbled. "Cake time!" yelled the neon clothed beyblader.
The others groaned, but Mr. Dickenson revealed a huge rectangular raspberry angel cake, which was self-explanatorily representative of Alida. He told the others that Oliver had made it especially for them.
"Whoa reallly? Oliver made it? Then it'll taste even better than it looks," said Tyson, already drooling all over the place.
"Yeah, Tyson and I ate at Oliver's restaurant when we met him back in France," explained Kenny.
Rei placed in the 'magic candles' and they sung to Alida before she made a wish and blew out the candles. Then she cut the cake and served it to everyone. They made sure everyone had their fill before letting Tyson have the rest.
"Who needs a garbage disposal when you've got Tyson?" joked Max. Tyson was too busy eating to retort.
Mr. Dickenson had a business meeting to go to and gave Kai more money before bidding them all a good night, and saying, "Happy Birthday," one more time.
Alida smiled and waved, watching his form disappear into a black limo. "Thank you Mr. Dickenson," she called out before closing the door behind her.
"Come on, let's go shopping now," suggested Kenny.
"Really? Even after all of this?" asked Alida in surprise.
"Well, we don't think it's fair that you only really got one present from all of us, so we're going to buy you stuff you like, since we had no idea what girls really like and stuff," explained Rei.
Alida laughed, but insisted that just one present was enough, but the others wouldn't hear of it. They all walked to the shopping mall a few blocks away.
Even though Tyson had had his fill of cake, he quickly ran off to get something to eat. Max went with him to make sure he wouldn't make a fool of himself. The others sweatdropped as they watched the blond trailing his teammate.
Kenny got distracted by new hardware in a computer store, and Rei left to go do something or other, not wanting to be killed by Kai because the captain was jealous.
Alida tilted her head, simply window-shopping at the moment.
"See anything you like?" asked Kai.
Alida turned her emerald gaze towards him and shook her head sheepishly. The truth was, she didn't feel comfortable shopping just for herself.
"Don't be shy," he said quietly, startling her.
Alida nodded and picked out something that wasn't too expensive. She bought a bracelet with tiny fake diamonds littered along the length of it. "To match my new bitbeast," she explained with a smile as they payed for it.
As they exited the store, Alida caught a glimpse of Tala. She gasped and hid slightly behind Kai. At hearing the tiny noise from her, Kai's sharp red eyes scanned the perimeters. They narrowed as they settled on Tala and Voltaire, who were walking their way.
"Well well well, fancy meeting you here Grandson," said Voltaire, looking down at both Kai and Alida.
"What are you doing here?" said Kai in a cold tone, nothing showing through his emotionless mask.
"Just checking up on you, is that so wrong?" he asked in mock surprise.
"It is when you're a wanted lunatic," retorted the blader.
"Your were always a sharp one, but your tongue even sharper," he said, his pleasant expression fading into its customary scowl.
"You're wasting your time here Grandfather. Your plan failed again," he said with a smirk. Then he caught Tala staring at Alida. He placed an arm around her shoulders, as if to provide security, and nodded at her.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, his gaze open Kai hardening, watching what took place.
Alida hesitated for a moment, but took out her beyblade, holding it out for Voltaire and Tala to see.
"Alida here changed it. It's not Black Dranzer anymore Grandfather.
"That's impossible!" spluttered the elderly villain.
"Well it's not, now I suggest you leave before the proper authorities arrive," he said in a self-satisfactory tone.
He snarled and nearly used his cane as a weapon against Kai, but thought better of it. "We'll see about that," he growled, turning and allowing his cape to flare out behind him as he stalked away.
Tala stayed a moment longer to leer at Alida, which was the biggest mistake he could have made in front of Kai. The BladeBreaker quickly released Alida before stepping up to Tala. "This is for Alida," he muttered in an almost evil tone, his face almost touching Tala's, which blocked the Russian's view before he punched him hard in the gut.
Kai turned and walked away from Tala, who fell to his knees from the impact, clutching his stomach. "Let's go Alida," he said, placing an arm around her waist.
To be continued...
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Well? Tell me what you think by reviewing, thanks for your time.
~cHiBi MidNiGhT aSsAsSiN
By: cHiBi MiDnIgHt AsSaSsIn
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or it's respective characters. *breaks down crying and after a while, composes herself* Yeah, life's tough, deal with it.
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Chapter 10:
The next day, the boys woke up early to arrange the final things and get ready for the new day. Alida woke up early as usual to start on breakfast and everything, but Kai told her to take it easy, and she eventually fell back asleep for about two more hours than normal.
Kai watched her for some time before slipping out of his room and directing the others in the last minute, final touches.
Then when Alida woke up for the second time that day, the whole house was quiet. She thought that the others were out training or doing their own things and she wandered into the living room. It was pretty dark since the overcast clouds from the day before didn't seem to have left the skies. Alida couldn't see a thing and she groped around for the light switch to the room, and when she flicked it on…
"SURPRISE!" yelled the BladeBreakers, jumping out of their hiding places.
Alida was taken aback, and looked at them in confusion. She saw the decorations that read: HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, and was a bit dumbfounded.
"Looks like Alida forgot her own birthday," said Tyson with a chuckle.
Alida blushed at the comment and looked at the ground for a while. Then she shook her head and peered up at the boys with a sheepish grin. "Thanks you guys."
"It was our pleasure," said Max, coming over to place an arm around her shoulder.
"Yeah, and besides, you saved Mr. Sourpuss over there," said Tyson, jerking a thumb over to indicate Kai, who was standing separated from the others.
Kai didn't even indicate that he had heard what Tyson had said, and remained as stoic as ever.
"Well c'mon, don't wait for his response, that could take forever, if he'd give us one at all," said Rei with a smile.
The group played a few party games, of which Tyson and Max had the most fun, naturally. There was Pin the Tail on the Donkey tacked onto the wall, which Kenny won, because, even with a blindfold, he doesn't appear to have eyes.
After that was a large round of Hide-and-Seek, which the boys were very successful with, since they had spent the evening before, finding the perfect hiding places, with which to hide before yelling, "Surprise."
Then came a mini talent show. Tyson performed a few magic tricks, with Kenny as a 'volunteer,' when in reality, Kenny couldn't think of a talent to display, and Tyson had 'suggested' that Kenny help him.
Tyson tried to make Kenny disappear, which, needless to say, didn't work. After that, he tried to cut Kenny in half, but Kenny screamed out when Tyson sliced his shirt open. Then, Tyson ended with a handcuff trick that failed when he succeeded in cuffing himself together and losing the key.
After Tyson's brief 'moment of fame,' Kai responded with, "Very nice Tyson, if they didn't want you in the Freak Show before, you can try with this new set of tricks."
"Haha, very funny," replied Tyson dryly, while he tried to break free from the cheap handcuffs.
Rei went next, displaying a few of the martial arts moves that he had picked up in his hometown. They included a solo workout routine, with a couple of jumps, kicks, spins, and punches. The others were amazed, and applauded for him very loudly, especially Alida, which, despite Kai's nonchalance, got the captain a bit jealous.
Rei sweatdropped, when Kai brushed past him a little more malevolently than was expected, but Alida didn't seem to notice.
Kai demonstrated his strength by chopping his way through a two-inch wooden board, and a one-inch block of concrete. Then he walked over to the still entrapped Tyson and broke the handcuffs.
Tyson yelped and rubbed his red wrists, before yelling, "What did I do to you?!"
Alida sweatdropped. "Well…you're free now Tyson," she replied with a smile.
Tyson looked down. "Huh? I guess you're right," he said, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Hn," replied Kai, walking over to sit in between Alida and Rei.
"Great job Kai," said Alida, smiling up at him, to which Kai couldn't help but give a little smirk to Rei, which clued the neko-jin in to Kai's jealousy.
I've gotta watch myself more carefully, or end up on Kai's bad side…like Tyson, thought Rei with a sweatdrop. Then he spoke up. "Max, you're up, buddy."
Max got in front of them and did exaggerations of everyone. First up was Tyson. "If I could, I'd eat every second of the day. It's amazing I haven't eaten so much as to cause worldwide hunger."
Then, he did an impression of Kenny. He messed up his hair, so that his eyes couldn't be seen. "Can't...sleep…must…work…" he said, holding his arms out in front of him and walking around stiff-leggedly to make himself look like a sleep-deprived mummy.
After that an imitation of Rei ensued. Max got out a headband with kitty ears on top of them. He put them on, and used his fingers as fangs, which made him look like a tame saber tooth tiger. He growled before mewing and rubbing his head against Alida's leg.
Next came replication of Kai. Max walked over to a window. He wrapped the long curtain around his neck, to look like Kai's scarf. Then he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, and his eyes closed. "Look at me, you can't make me move or laugh. Go ahead and try, tickle me."
Then Max stopped there, because Alida was the birthday girl, and Kai was threatening his life. Max hid behind the others, but they were bent on revenge too. So they chased each other around. Just as Max was about to throw open the door and run out, the doorbell rang. Max got the door and hid behind Mr. Dickenson. The others stopped and greeted him.
"Happy Birthday Alida," said Mr. Dickenson.
"Thank you sir," she replied, before adding, "You shouldn't have," when he handed her their collective present.
"Open it now!" yelled Max, trying to draw attention away from himself.
Alida blinked as the others settled down to watch her open the medium-sized, brightly wrapped box. The box contained a whole set of beyblading things. There was a pure white blade, launcher, and ripcord.
Alida's eyes grew wide as what the present was finally hit her. "I-I can't accept this," she stuttered, trying to hand it back to Mr. Dickenson.
"Crystal Dranzer needs a place to stay," said Max. "At least put the bit in."
Alida nodded and did so, but she was still unconvinced. She slipped the bit chip in place, but cut herself a little bit in the process, she watched as a drop of bright ruby blood landed on the blade.
"I've heard that with a sword, if a person bleeds on it, then it belongs to that person forever. That is of course, when the person isn't using it to kill someone," said Kenny with a sweatdrop.
"So it's the same with your blade. It's yours now!" concluded Rei with a grin.
Alida nodded slowly, looking at the blade, and watched as her blood trickled over the surface.
Kai grabbed Alida's hand and deftly wiped the blood away with his scarf, as well as the blood on her blade.
"Thanks Kai," she murmured, smiling at him. "But now your scarf is dirty."
"Don't worry about it," he said gruffly.
Tyson's stomach grumbled. "Cake time!" yelled the neon clothed beyblader.
The others groaned, but Mr. Dickenson revealed a huge rectangular raspberry angel cake, which was self-explanatorily representative of Alida. He told the others that Oliver had made it especially for them.
"Whoa reallly? Oliver made it? Then it'll taste even better than it looks," said Tyson, already drooling all over the place.
"Yeah, Tyson and I ate at Oliver's restaurant when we met him back in France," explained Kenny.
Rei placed in the 'magic candles' and they sung to Alida before she made a wish and blew out the candles. Then she cut the cake and served it to everyone. They made sure everyone had their fill before letting Tyson have the rest.
"Who needs a garbage disposal when you've got Tyson?" joked Max. Tyson was too busy eating to retort.
Mr. Dickenson had a business meeting to go to and gave Kai more money before bidding them all a good night, and saying, "Happy Birthday," one more time.
Alida smiled and waved, watching his form disappear into a black limo. "Thank you Mr. Dickenson," she called out before closing the door behind her.
"Come on, let's go shopping now," suggested Kenny.
"Really? Even after all of this?" asked Alida in surprise.
"Well, we don't think it's fair that you only really got one present from all of us, so we're going to buy you stuff you like, since we had no idea what girls really like and stuff," explained Rei.
Alida laughed, but insisted that just one present was enough, but the others wouldn't hear of it. They all walked to the shopping mall a few blocks away.
Even though Tyson had had his fill of cake, he quickly ran off to get something to eat. Max went with him to make sure he wouldn't make a fool of himself. The others sweatdropped as they watched the blond trailing his teammate.
Kenny got distracted by new hardware in a computer store, and Rei left to go do something or other, not wanting to be killed by Kai because the captain was jealous.
Alida tilted her head, simply window-shopping at the moment.
"See anything you like?" asked Kai.
Alida turned her emerald gaze towards him and shook her head sheepishly. The truth was, she didn't feel comfortable shopping just for herself.
"Don't be shy," he said quietly, startling her.
Alida nodded and picked out something that wasn't too expensive. She bought a bracelet with tiny fake diamonds littered along the length of it. "To match my new bitbeast," she explained with a smile as they payed for it.
As they exited the store, Alida caught a glimpse of Tala. She gasped and hid slightly behind Kai. At hearing the tiny noise from her, Kai's sharp red eyes scanned the perimeters. They narrowed as they settled on Tala and Voltaire, who were walking their way.
"Well well well, fancy meeting you here Grandson," said Voltaire, looking down at both Kai and Alida.
"What are you doing here?" said Kai in a cold tone, nothing showing through his emotionless mask.
"Just checking up on you, is that so wrong?" he asked in mock surprise.
"It is when you're a wanted lunatic," retorted the blader.
"Your were always a sharp one, but your tongue even sharper," he said, his pleasant expression fading into its customary scowl.
"You're wasting your time here Grandfather. Your plan failed again," he said with a smirk. Then he caught Tala staring at Alida. He placed an arm around her shoulders, as if to provide security, and nodded at her.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, his gaze open Kai hardening, watching what took place.
Alida hesitated for a moment, but took out her beyblade, holding it out for Voltaire and Tala to see.
"Alida here changed it. It's not Black Dranzer anymore Grandfather.
"That's impossible!" spluttered the elderly villain.
"Well it's not, now I suggest you leave before the proper authorities arrive," he said in a self-satisfactory tone.
He snarled and nearly used his cane as a weapon against Kai, but thought better of it. "We'll see about that," he growled, turning and allowing his cape to flare out behind him as he stalked away.
Tala stayed a moment longer to leer at Alida, which was the biggest mistake he could have made in front of Kai. The BladeBreaker quickly released Alida before stepping up to Tala. "This is for Alida," he muttered in an almost evil tone, his face almost touching Tala's, which blocked the Russian's view before he punched him hard in the gut.
Kai turned and walked away from Tala, who fell to his knees from the impact, clutching his stomach. "Let's go Alida," he said, placing an arm around her waist.
To be continued...
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Well? Tell me what you think by reviewing, thanks for your time.
~cHiBi MidNiGhT aSsAsSiN
