Disclaimer: I do NOT own Beyblades. I do own my Ocs (Amara and Kiki so far)
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Chpt.3 – The Mystery Girl's Mystery Team
"Great," Amara scolded herself. "I choose now to become aware of guys, now when I have a group living with me. Grrrrrr…why me…why now?"
Amara stood watching the Blade breakers try to kick the crap out of each other playing Moral Kombat on her Nintendo system.
"Oh man," Tyson groaned flopping backwards onto the pile of pillows he was leaning on. "I can't believe you beat me again, Rei."
"You're too tense Tyson, try to loosen up a bit," Rei advised his wallowing opponent.
"My turn," Max snatched the controller away from Tyson.
"Well I get to play the winner," Tyson declared still pouting.
Kai wasn't playing or really paying attention to them at all. He had kept his eyes on the door waiting for Amara to come back from seeing her friend to the door. He had to admit that she intrigued him more than a little and when she touched his arm it did weird things to his insides. No girl had ever had that kind of effect on him before. She seemed to be so comfortable around him when most girls would have coward away from him and pay more attention to the other guys.
Kai noticed when she came back into the room that something about her had changed; she looked a little disappointed about something. She stood in the doorway, not making her presence known. Seemed like something Kai would do. And even though he knew hardly anything about her this struck him as being very unlike her.
"Dinner is served everyone," Amara's old butler, Jackson, interrupted Kai's thoughts.
"Aww, but I want my rematch," Tyson grumbled.
"It will still be here after dinner," Kai pointed out rolling his eyes at Tyson. Tyson's immediate reaction was to stick his tongue out at the older boy as they left the room. They were led through the large glass door to the left of the front door into a massive dinning room. The table could easily sit 20-30 guests. The room didn't shock them too much, since the house was massive itself. But Amara living alone in the massive house distressed them all a bit.
"Whoa look at all the food," Max marveled at the variety of choices laid out on the oak table.
"Yeah, that's enough for Tyson," Rei snickered. There were a few yeahs and nods.
"Aw come on guys, I don't eat that much," Tyson tried to defend himself.
"You do to," Kai grumbled from his seat across from Tyson. "How many times have you managed to eat all the food in my fridge?"
"Yeah and that's a hard feet considering how much food Kai has," Max added. "He's got enough to feed two armies in that house of his."
"Why is that Kai?" Tyson asked a glaring Kai. "Only you really live in that big house of yours anyway." Kai didn't answer him he only continued to try and make a dent in Tyson's head with his eyes.
"Alright I think it's time to discuss something else," Mr. Dickinson cut in before a fight broke out. "Amara, my dear, where do you think would be a good place for the boys to visit while they're here?"
Amara snapped back to the present. She wasn't really paying attention to what her uncle had said to her. She was to busy thinking a million other things.
"What?" she blushed when she noticed all eyes were on her. "Can you say that again uncle?"
"I asked you if you know of any good places for the boys to visit while they're here?" Mr. Dickinson repeated.
"I… I …" Amara looked down unable to make eye contact with anyone. "This is so unlike me what's going on?"
"I don't know," she managed to get out. "What do they want to do?" Amara tried to get the attention off herself.
"I wanna find some people to blade with," Tyson spit out between bites of chicken.
"Yeah, some practice before the tournament would be great," Rei added. Max nodded remembering his manners and not talking with his mouth full.
"Why don't you practice with Amara's team tomorrow?" Mr. Dickinson turned to his niece. "Wouldn't that be fun Amara?"
"That would be great," she replied sounding a little more like her usual self. "You guys can size up your competition for the tournament."
"You mean you're the only team that's gonna be a challenge?" asked a skeptical Tyson.
"Well, one of my players already beat you today," her coy smile lighting up her eyes. "Why not let the others give it a try too eh?"
"I… I wasn't warmed up enough and I was tired from the flight," protested an embarrassed Tyson.
"Then tomorrow you can be prepared for more of that," Amara said referring to Kiki's win.
"Then it's decided. Tomorrow you boys will stay here and practice with Amara and her team," Mr. Dickinson smiled.
As soon as everyone was done Amara excused herself telling them she was tired and needed her sleep. They all bid her goodnight and retired back to the rec room. Mr. Dickinson excused himself shortly after to make a few calls before it got too late.
"Hey Chief, can you dig up some information up on Amara's team?" Rei asked once it was only the five guys in the room.
"My thoughts exactly," Max added as they all gathered around Kenny and Dizzi on the floor. Kai had planned on also heading off to bed but this sounded interesting. He wanted to know more about their mystery hostess. He tried not to look too interested as he sat on the couch behind Kenny.
"Alright, it says that…" Kenny typed vigorously. "There is no information found with an Amara Jones on any team."
"What does that mean?" Tyson grumbled.
"I'm not sure," Kenny scratched his head. "Something's not right cuz Dizzi's never wrong."
"Try again Chief," Tyson said turning on the Nintendo system wanting his rematch. Kenny tried again to pull up the information.
"Nope, it won't let me do it," Kenny sighed.
"Well I guess we meet them in the morning," Rei shrugged and began to battle Tyson again on Mortal Kombat.
"Excuse me gentlemen." They all jumped a little, even Kai. They turned to see Jackson standing in the doorway.
"May I show you to your rooms before I leave for the night? I wouldn't want you to get lost." They followed him up the curvy stairway and to a hallway on the left.
"Master Kai and Master Rei will bunk together in this room, Master Tyson and Master Max will have the room across the hall, and Master Kenny will reside in the room next to it." Jackson pointed to the dark wood doors. "Sleep well young masters." With that he left them and went back downstairs.
"Well good night fellas," Kenny opened his door and disappeared through it. The others followed suited and entered they're rooms.
Kai and Rei's room had dark blue walls, with two queen size beds, two nightstands, and a dresser. There were few decorations in the room other than large painting of young girl on a swing, which hung on the wall between the beds.
"Wow, this is way better than a hotel," Rei exclaimed while examining the two doors on the wall across from the beds. One door led to a walk in closet, while the other was their private bathroom.
"Yeah," Kai agreed. But he was too busy examining the portrait on the wall to really look around.
"That looks a lot like Amara doesn't it," Rei came to stand beside Kai.
"Yeah it does," he answered almost whispering.
"She's a interesting girl, I wish we knew more about her," Rei spoke while he rummaged through his suitcase in search of his toothbrush. "I can't wait to see her blade tomorrow and the rest of her team after the way her friend annihilated Tyson. It's kind of weird though that Chief couldn't dig up any information about her team. She's a mystery I'd like to solve."
"What is that suppose to mean," Kai asked, his tone sharper than he would have liked.
"Nothing man really," Rei tried to calm Kai's quick rising temper. "She's just a very beautiful, fun girl that can beyblade that we know nothing about that's all."
"Yeah sure that's all you meant," Kai hissed through clenched teeth. He needed to calm down before Rei got the wrong impression. Usually he only released his temper out on Tyson never Rei.
"Well obviously you noticed," Rei joked, hoping the menacing look in Kai's eyes would disappear. "Anyway," Rei tried to change the subject a bit. "It's late and you must be jet lagged cuz I sure am. That was such a long flight and ya know got to get up early to battle Amara's team." Rei was getting a little carried away with himself trying to change the subject. "Don't want to look like idiots out there."
"Uh huh," Kai nodded, entranced by the picture again. The girl had the same captivating sapphire eyes as Amara but something about her was different. The smile wasn't quite the same; the ruffled dress didn't seem like something Amara would wear even as a child or maybe it was just because the girl had her red brown hair in ringlets not in two buns. Or maybe…
"Goodnight Kai," Rei was already climbing into bed. Kai had been to busy in his own thoughts to notice Rei had been getting ready for bed.
"Yeah nite."
