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DISCLAIMER: Why must I do these? Oh.well.oh, well.I don't own BeyBlade. Man, I wish I did though. Rei's kind of cute. Okay, okay, I think he's HOT!

Chapter 3

Kai kind of just disappeared when Max came in, but he came back when they others were coming in. he was holding a big, brown book. He beckoned for Becca to come closer to see what was in it. It was their old family photograph book and had their first picture of them ever together in it. They were standing in front of the abbey, and Becca didn't yet have her arm tattoos but she had her face stripes. (A/N: Becca didn't have the stripes or the arm tats when Rei met her.) Kai looked exactly as he is except younger. From the waist up, they almost looked identical.

"Ah, those were the good old days," Becca sighed a few minutes later.

Suddenly, a rock came through the window.

"Hey, aren't we on the twelfth floor?" Becca queried while holding the rock and looking at the message on it. Kai took it.

" 'Beware, Hiwataris. The worst is yet to come for the phoenix and the raven.' A little dramatic, huh?" he read the message and tossed it to his cousin.

"Beware of what? Dang, they can't even give us a straight warning. Can't they threaten better?" she joked, probably to cover her fear.

Then, another rock came through the window. The message was:

Yes, we can threaten better, Rebecca.

"They're so dead," Becca interrupted.

And this is how. I know where you are; I know who you hold close to your heart. You wouldn't want anything to happen to them, like say a fatal accident, would you? Same for you, Kai. Be warned.

"Ok, I have to say that was scary," said Becca.

"They're threatening 'the ones you hold close to your heart'? Harsh. Who is that, anyway?" Max asked.

Kai looked at Becca. Becca looked behind me. Huh?

"Man, we are so dead," a voice from behind me called. So that was who she was looking at.

"Who? Tell me, dude!" Max yelled.

"Our friends. The rest of our families. Anyone who we were ever kind to," Becca replied, not looking up from the ground.

Awkwardly (for me anyway), Becca came up to me and hugged me closely. I was a little shocked, I must admit, but after a second, I hugged her back.

She let go, walked past me, and hugged the person behind me. It was Tala. I tried to not get jealous, because she was crying on his shoulder, but I couldn't help it. She was muttering something, but I couldn't make it out. All I understood was Tala saying, "Don't worry," over and over.

She eventually stopped and went to her room. Scratch that, our room. I waited a while before going in there so that it didn't look like I was chasing her.

She was lying on the bed with a pair if headphones on. She was kicking to the rhythm of the music. You could tell she had been crying, she had the look of a newly made widow. It was horrible to see one of my best friends in this state. She looked at me.

"Hi, Kitty Kat Scratch," she greeted.

"Hey yourself, Bad Girl Blue," I said back. I remember when we gave each other those names. We had been five, and she would always wear blue. Becca got mad when Mariah gave me a pet name, so she gave me one, too. Why that one, I never found out. She disappeared before I thought to ask her.

"Do you remember why you gave me that particular name?" I asked her.

"Yeah, I do."

"Why?"

Tala - 18