I have to give thanx now!
Lost without you NOT: Wow, it sounds like you're pretty ill… lol. Um… wow, thank you so very much for your lovely review. I just hope you're not dead yet! Lol. Thankies!
Othela: Wow, cool. I'm glad you got the hidden word. Hold on a second… you've read WAR haven't you? That's where I know you from… I think. Lol. me and Sherbet Mayhem are bestest buddies out of skule. Small world innit? Thank you very much for taking time to review this hunk-o-junk! ^_^
Amy85: Thanx. No, Sara isn't going to be a couple with Kai. Lol. oh! Hold on a sec- you're the Spanish one! Hello there! I'm ½ Spanish you know, and it was my first language. I lived in Almeria for 6 years and then I moved to Benidorm (La Cala De Finistrat) for a year! The land of the golden shoes…. *shudder*. Wow, your English is very good. Thank you so very much for your kind words there… erm… yeah. I hurt Kai, didn't I? Lol.
Jasmine: I'm happy that you find this funny! It makes me happy and fuzzy inside when people say that they like my stuff. The daydreams are cool, huh? Scrubs inspired me to do them! Lol. Thank you.
Vampyre Neko: Awww! What did you forget? Lol. Ah well, we might one day just be able to kill/flatten ALL the teachers in Beyblade land! We shall wait for that very day to come! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Leila5: *Hugz* I'm happy that you like the visions! ^_^. Thank you for your extremely warming review- you are way too kind. Thank you so very muchies! Here is the next chapter!
Wow, that was quite a lot to type! Now, there is a note at the end I would like you all to read. Um… yeah! This chapter is dedicated to Jenny and Linz for being such great people! Oh, and there isn't really a hidden word in this chappie- I didn't know where to put one!
Disclaimer: Ah well. I might as well not be sued, I don't own, okay? GRRRRRR! Damn copyright!
Chapter Four; Ethereal BattleTyson growled at Sara's challenge and immediately stuck his hand in his pocket to get his bit-beast out, preparing for battle.
Kai and Kenny noticed this, and Kai stuck his hand out in front of Tyson to prevent him from going anywhere. Tyson looked at his team captain with a confused look on his face.
"Tyson, you can't just run straight in there; I don't have any data about their bit-beasts! It doesn't take a lot of common sense to know that there was something sinister out there in battle that defeated the opponents blade!" Kenny warned, furiously typing on Dizzi.
Tyson looked to each of his teammates faces in hope of someone arguing with what Kenny had said, but instead he was greeted with nods in agreement.
"You don't have to worry! I can beat these juniors. Come on! I won the World Championships!" Tyson almost pleaded.
"Tyson, what have I told you before? You can't rest on your laurels," Kai said, still not moving his arm to let Tyson pass him. "Just because you won the tournament doesn't mean you can't treat other opponents with caution."
"He's right, Tys," agreed Max.
There was a brief pause with the sound of Kenny's typing.
"Aha! I managed to get some data!" Kenny exclaimed.
The Blade-Breakers waited for Kenny to elaborate.
"Right… come and take look at this guys. It seems that the bit-beast that was just out there was a shadow type," Kenny signalled with his hand and turned Dizzi around so that the group could see the stats of Jenny's beyblade.
Kai grunted and scowled whilst deciphering the information that was being shown to him.
"Shadow type? What kind of attacks would it have?" inquired Max.
"Well, this is where it gets tricky. Apparently, it can change into any natural shape it wants. What you just saw out there was it in its wind shape," Kenny explained.
Kenny turned the screen back to him and continued to look at the figures on his small laptop. Rei frowned about something.
"Dizzi is unusually quiet today."
"Yeah, well. I figured out that there was a mute button on this," Kenny said sheepishly.
Rei just laughed.
"If you don't mind, I want to know more about Jenny's beyblade," Tyson cut in, fisting his hand in an impatient manner.
"What spin gear does it have?" Kai asked.
"Right spin. It's also a mix of defence and offence. Pretty powerful, so be careful if you're gonna accept the challenge."
"I could have told you that," said a female voice from behind them.
Rei spun around to see that Sara had been standing right behind them the whole time, hands on her hips and her foot tapping in an irritated way. The rest of the team followed Rei's gaze and saw Sara looking a bit annoyed over something.
"It's a nymph, called Etherealea, if you wanted to know. Only Jenny has ever seen it out of its shadow," Sara explained. "Can we just get on with the battle? Or are you too much of a fruit to accept?"
The Blade-Breakers frowned. What the hell was that supposed to mean? Fruit?
"She means stupid or weak, you moron!" shouted Jenny from across the dish.
"I accept!" Tyson hollered back.
Jenny smirked, a malicious glint in her heavily outlined eyes. She shook her purple fringe out of her eyes, the inky blue of the rest of her hair producing through in the light.
"Tyson! You don't know what you're doing!" Rei said, regarding Jenny at the same time as talking to Tyson.
"Yes, I do, and I have it perfectly under control," Tyson looked away from Rei and back to Jenny.
"I'll battle her," said a voice to his right. Kai had spoken.
"What?" Tyson asked, slightly stupefied. "This is my battle!"
"No, Tyson. I'm going to battle her. Don't forget who your captain is," Kai warned, a superior glint in his brown eyes.
Tyson's shoulders slumped in defeat and he sighed, making sure that Kai wasn't going to change his mind by looking at him one last time with a reproachful look.
"Fine," was all Tyson said, and he walked back over to where Kenny was sat on a small wall.
Kai nodded and looked back over to Jenny. He was surprised to see that Sara was already over there. He didn't even see her go back over there. Kai gave a smirk of his own to Jenny and noted out of the corner of his eye that Woody was watching him from, somewhere in the crowd that was now around the dish. Murmurs began to circulate around him as he produced his launcher from his pocket and went into his launching stance.
/Bring it on./
"I'd like to make this short and sweet, but I'm too damn good at trash talk to have it over and done with. So prepare to suffer," Jenny grinned as if she'd already won.
Kai cocked an eyebrow sceptically. She was supposed to take him out? Kai looked at her. If he were to be beaten by this midget then she'd have hell to pay. He loaded his launcher with his Dranzer blade.
"I'll just have to beat you fast then."
"Three, two, one, let it rip!"
Both blades landed in the circular dish and began to spin around each other. They moved towards each other as if drawn by a magnet and clashed, flittering sparks cascading into the air. Once they did this, they would move back and then towards each other for another attempt to hit each other out of the dish. Kai gritted his teeth in frustration as once again sparks flew of their blades. This was getting boring. Time to introduce some action. Kai's face changed from an annoyed scowl to a trademark smirk.
"It's time we stopped foolin' around. Dranzer, flame sabre!" Kai commanded, waiting for the image of his Dranzer to appear.
A large phoenix slowly came out of the beyblade and rose above the ground before opening its large flame wings and showing its full size. Its fire blazed vividly, sparkling scarlet. As majestic as ever. Rei rolled his eyes and smiled as loud whispers increased even more. Kai always had to have a dramatic entrance.
Jenny smiled, but did nothing as the Bit-Beast rapidly advanced towards her blade. However, it seemed that just at the last minute she did actually do something about the future onslaught that her blade was about to take.
"Etherealea- emerge!"
A slight flickering occurred with the natural light and Kai was suddenly submerged into a negative image of the battlefield. Dranzer sensed something was wrong and was put of his attack- missing Jenny's blade completely. Kai looked around him.
Everything was turned into reverse; the parts that were light were now dark and what little shadows there were had turned into light. Kai looked over to Jenny who seemed to be happy with the outcome of what just happened.
"What's going on?" Kai asked, looking around him.
"Oh, just the effects that happen when I summon my bit-beast. You see, we are the only ones that notice this. Just you and me. Everybody else thinks nothing has happened," she looked at the audience who were now ghostly silhouettes of people, their faces morphed into twisted positions.
Kai growled low in his throat and tried to look for Dranzer. He grinned when he saw that he could actually see his bit-beast still burning as bright as before.
"Well, it seems that your little trick didn't work on my bit-beast," Kai crossed his arms over his chest.
Jenny's smile faded and was replaced by a glint in her eye.
"Ah, you see… I don't want it to work on bit-beats, you'd be able to see Etherealea then."
Kai's eyes widened slightly and he scanned the darkened dish. The beast had gone could not be seen. Damn!
Something out of the corner of his eye caught his attention. He could have sworn that a dark swirl had just moved around him. He continued to look around himself and saw yet another dark flicker- only now it was surrounding Jenny in a protective manner. Kai squinted at where it had been around Jenny as it once again flittered somewhere else. He couldn't see where it went this time.
"Oh, don't try and look for her- she's just too fast," Jenny mimicked Kai's posture by also crossing her arms over her chest.
"Etherealea, spirit storm!"
Clawed hands that looked like cracked tree branches raked itself through the flame feathers on Dranzer's head and left just as quick as they came, then even just swift appeared and did the same all over the phoenix's body. Kai frowned as one last time a large hand dragged its hand all the way down the length of Dranzer's body and disappeared.
His bit-beast roared in pain and threw its head back and screeched even louder than it did the in first place.
Kai glowered over towards Jenny who was standing there with one hand on her hip and the other hand lifted up. Streams of black were running through her fingers as though it were liquid. A dark shadow had lightly coiled itself around her neck and it was also swirling around slightly. Kai snarled at her and looked over to Dranzer. He seemed to be okay now, considering he had just been cut to pieces.
Suddenly, Kai had an idea.
"Dranzer! It's time we showed this rookie how it's really done. Fire arrow- towards Jenny!"
An arm grabbed Kai by the shoulder and roughly turned him around. He looked at the thing that had grabbed him and saw an otherworldly arm attached to a body. Kai studied the face and it hit him that Rei was looking at him rather angrily.
"What do you think you're doing?" he nearly shouted at Kai. "You know not to attack the blader! I thought you would've learned after what happened to me!"
Rei was outraged. Kai however, didn't seem fazed by this, and ignored all the furious cries coming from the crowd around the dish. He was too busy looking at the battle going on in the dish.
"I know what I'm doing," was all Kai said. He looked up just in time to see Jenny covering her head, but a dark shadow rearing up to protect her at the last moment. It took the blow and then disappeared. He smiled.
/It's working./
A hand connected with his cheek and a sharp sting followed. He turned and noticed that a) Sara was the one that had slapped him and b) she wasn't affected by the bit-beast's presence on the field. She was perfectly normal, just like himself and Jenny.
"YOU LITTLE BAG-HEAD!" she shrieked and raised her hand again. However, Rei caught it before she let it fly again.
Kai raised an eyebrow and gave her a puzzled look. She had one weird vocabulary.
"Bag-head?" Kai inquired, resisting the urge to touch his hair in case he actually did have a large bag on his head.
Sara didn't answer as a call came form the other side of the dish.
"Jibb it Sara! He isn't worth it!" Jenny threw an evil look at Kai.
Sara huffed and marched away, closely followed by Rei.
Kai looked back at Jenny and was slightly startled at the fact that she was full out smiling as if nothing better could have happened. She gave him a stern look as if forbidding him to even say anything.
"That was good Kai, but not good enough to beat me."
"That's where you're wrong. Just take a look at your beast. It looks pretty worn out," Kai could now see a faint outline of a small creature. Dranzer's arrow hadn't settled with it very well, as it was now becoming more and more visible.
Jenny looked very concerned over her bit-beast.
"And now it's getting weaker, it's time to finish this," Kai looked over to his Dranzer who glowed slightly brighter, making Etherealea even more visible. Now was his chance.
"Dranzer attack Jenny again!"
Kai heard a loud shriek, closely followed by an:
"YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH, HIWATARI!"
Sara was loud mouthing.
Again.
However, he concentrated on what was happening in the dish. Etherealea flickered in front of Jenny to save her.
"Etherealea, MORPH!"
The air surrounding the dish rippled slightly before going back to normal. Kai looked over to Jenny's bit-beast and what he saw shocked him.
It was a nymph made entirely of water.
Jenny had made Etherealea change into water to counter Kai's flame attack! Why hadn't he remembered that it could change into whatever natural form it wanted to? Kai watched the flame arrow that he had fired towards Jenny hiss and fizzle out as soon as it hit Etherealea.
Simultaneously, both bladers called out an attack on each other. Dranzer and Etherealea flew towards each other and hit full-force. A loud explosion was heard and smoke clouded over the bey-dish so that neither of the battlers could see the outcome of what had just happened. Kai lowered over his arm that had he had immediately put in his face to protect his eyes.
Next to him lay his blade, lifeless on the ground. His head shot up to see what had happened to Jenny's blade.
Her's was also not moving.
"It's a draw!" someone shouted from the crowd.
Kai looked around and once again the air rippled, the colour of each person being sucked back into their faces and bodies. His surroundings returned back to normal, and a hand was shoved under his nose. He looked up and saw Jenny offering her hand to shake, and was smiling.
"A draw isn't a loss," she said cheerfully.
He looked at her offered hand once again.
/Does she expect me to shake her hand? Huh, not likely./
He nodded and walked away, slipping his blade into his pocket.
"What up his ar--"
"NO!" Jenny cut off Sara by putting her hand over Sara's mouth.
Kai pushed his way through the slightly angry crowd. It seemed people were still pretty mad at him for attacking Jenny.
/Not my problem… well, technically it is./
He spotted Kenny, Tyson, Max and Rei still sitting on the wall where he had left them.
"That was a good battle," something in Max's his voice said he thought otherwise.
"Kai, why did you attack Jenny?" Rei asked, standing up to his full height and glowering at Kai. "You know that's against the rules!"
Kai looked over to Jenny who was mucking about with Sara.
"I didn't attack Jenny. Her bit-beast prevented it. It's not like I'd do that if I didn't know what I was going to happen- I knew it would protect her," he replied coolly, shrugging.
Kenny sighed and ran a shaky hand through his hair. "Well, just… don't do it again."
Rei still looked annoyed, but nodded at Kenny's remark anyway. He gave Kai another pointed look before walking away again.
"Sara didn't hit you hard enough," Kai heard Rei mutter while he was walking away.
Ooooooooh! 'Lil bit o' tension there! Sorry this chapter wasn't as good…. *sniff*.
Ah well…
Oh yes! Jenny (sherbet mayhem) helped me out with this, so thanks to her.
And the winner of the hidden word is…
Scarlet Diamonds. Congrats. You were the first person to get it! *hands over Kai merchandise*
Oh, and some of the slang me and Jenny use are Liverpudlian… we are from Liverpool, but not in this fic.
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