Chapter 8: Finals
The Bladebreakers soon arrived back at their hotel room, minus Ray who was in hospital recovery from the morning's battle with Bryan.
"Gosh, I sure hope Ray recovers soon it won't be the same without him around" said Max as they stepped in the hotel room.
"I'm sure he'll make it out real soon," Kenny said while sitting down on the couch, Tyson grabbed the TV remote and sat down, he then proceeded to flipping through the channels trying to find something good to watch.
"What do you think you're doing?" asked Kai in a cold tone while he continued to stand in the doorway.
"Uh, watching TV, why" asked a confused looking Tyson.
"Am I the only one who remembers this mornings battle?" Kai said in a harsh voice.
"Um no we all remember, Ray won" answered Tyson.
"Ray may have won, but only just, the fact still remains that Ray is now in the hospital" said Kai getting agitated.
"Yeah so, what does the cold and heartless leader want to visit the Tiger?" Tyson said in a somewhat sarcastic way.
"Grrr, how thick can you get! Tyson you should be outside training your ass off, but instead you're in here watching TV! Is there something wrong with you! Do you want to end up in the hospital as well! Cause that's exactly where you'll be tomorrow if you don't get your butt outside now!" yelled a very pissed off Kai. The three younger teens could only stare looking shocked and somewhat scared at their leaders outburst. Tyson was the first to break the silence "Oh come on Kai, I'm not going to lose, Dragoon is way more powerful than any bit beast BioVolt can throw at me, training would just be a waste of time" said Tyson waving his right hand up and down as if dismissing the subject.
"What! Waste of Time! Tyson you're insane, there is nothing more important than training right now! If you think that your pathetic excuse for a bit beast is going to beat Wolborg then you're sadly mistaken!" Kai yelled again taking a step forward.
"Pathetic! Dragoon's not pathetic, he's way stronger than your fire chicken! Or should I say Spencer's chicken seeing as he beat you!" Tyson now joined in on the yelling.
"DRANZERS NO CHICKEN! And where not hear to talk about me! Because you need to start training!" once again Kai's voice grew louder as he got more pissed off at the younger blader. "I SAID BEFORE THAT DRAGOON IS ALREADY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO TAKE ON TALA!"
"YOU DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT POWER!"
"I'M POWERFUL ENOUGH TO BEAT YOU ANY DAY!" Tyson yelled raising a fist showing that he meant business.
"BEATING ME ONCE DOESN'T CUT IT TYSON, THAT WAS AGES AGO, PLUS YOU DON'T NEED TO DEFEAT ME IN THE FINALS, YOU'RE BATTLING TALA!"
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW STRONG TALA IS, YOU'VE ONLY KNOWN HIM FOR WHAT 3 DAYS, I DON'T THINK THAT'S LONG ENOUGH TO LEARN EVERYTHING THERE IS ABOUT SOMEONE!" Tyson got up off the couch and was standing only a few meters from Kai.
"I'VE KNOWN TALA LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DON'T PRESUME YOU KNOW SOMEONE EVEN IF YOU HAVE SPENT ALONG TIME AROUND THEM!" Kai once again took a step forward and he too now had his fist clenched.
"Guys stop fighting please!" yelled Max in an attempt to break up the yelling contest that was going on between Kai and Tyson. The two took no notice of Max, he then turned to Kenny for advice, but unfortunately for him Kenny was in a state of shock, due to the continuous shouting of Kai and Tyson.
'I wish Ray was here, he'd know how to stop this' though Max
"OH YEAH, WELL AT LEST I HAVE A FAMILY THAT CARES FOR ME!"
"CARES FOR YOU, NO ONE WOULD CARE FOR A PIG LIKE YOU, YA FREAK"
"YOU'RE CALLING ME A FREAK, WELL I'M NOT THE ONE WITH BLUE TRIANGLES ON MY FACE AM I!"
"NO YOU'RE THE FAT OAF THAT LIES AROUND ALL DAY STUFFING HIS FACE WITH FOOD!"
"WELL AT LEAST I DO EAT, UNLIKE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF GETTING FAT!"
"JUST LIKE YOU HUH TYSON!" by now the argument was no longer about training, but instead they were now criticizing each other.
"WHAT I'M NOT FAT!"
"Yeah sure, and I'm the king of England" Kai said sarcastically.
"Wha? Oh my god, did Kai just make a joke!?" Tyson yelled in disbelief.
"Um, actually no, he was just being sarcastic, but I guess it's a start," said Kenny who had finally recovered from shock.
Tyson looked over in Kenny's direction.
"You known Tyson, Kai is correct you should be training. I know Dragoon is strong but it wouldn't hurt to train anyways," said Kenny, straightening up his glasses.
"Oh you two, but…" Tyson tried to abject
"No buts Tyson, now lets go," said Kenny as he picked up Dizzi and walked out the hotel room, soon followed by Max and Tyson.
"Oh so you listen to him but not me" said Kai as he too set off after the others. Tyson could only smile as he heard Kai's last comment.
The Bladebreakers made there way down to the hotels training room. It was kinda like a mini gym, you know with weights, treadmills, exercise bikes and punching bags it also had a few small beyblade stadiums here and there. Kenny sat down on a rear by seat and opened up Dizzi "Ready to get down to some serious training boys" she said, Tyson could only groan at the idea of having to train again.
"Don't worry Tyson, just think about tomorrows match" Kenny reassured him.
"So lets get down to business," shouted Max as he jumped up and down on the stop,
"Ok, to start of lets have you all do some jogging on the treadmills. Unless you have a better idea Kai" said Kenny.
"Whatever" was his only response.
"Oh man, I hate running," complained Tyson.
"It's not that hard Tyson," said Max as he stood on one of the treadmills and started it up. Kai also turn on a treadmill and started at a slow relaxing jog. Tyson reluctantly stepped on the treadmill next to Max and turned it on the lowest level.
"Come on Tyson you've been on the same speed this whole time, turn it up already" said Kenny walking up to Tyson's treadmill.
"Hey I'm the one running here," Tyson said back
"Hmhp, you call that running," said Kai looking over at Tyson with a smirk.
"Yes I do. Do you have a problem with that KAI" Tyson yelled to the slate haired blader.
"Hmhp, whatever" was his response
"Hey Kai, before you said something about knowing Tala" asked Kenny
"Yeah, when Tyson said that you had only known him for about 3 days, you said something about don't presume you know someone's life" said Max who was now also looking at Kai
"That's none of your business" Kai said back continuing to run on the treadmill with his white scarf blowing slightly behind him.
"Oh come on, how long have you really known Tala" Tyson said giving Kai puppy dog eyes
"What kind of important does this information have to you?" Kai asked.
"None I guess, where just curious that's all" said Max
"Well curiosity killed the cat" he replied
"Were not cats, were people" said Tyson not quiet getting the meaning to the phrase. Kai just raised an eyebrow at Tyson's lame comment.
"Please, it's that too much to ask," said Max
"Long" was Kai's answer to the question
"That's it, that's your answer, long," said Tyson in somewhat disappointment "What kinda of an answer is that!" Tyson continued getting angry with this leader.
"Well that's Kai for ya" said Max
"Do you think you could give us a number," asked Kenny
"52" Kai said bluntly
"Uh, 52, but you're only 15" Kenny was getting kind of confuse, I guess there's a first for everything.
"You said to give you a number, not that the number had to be related to anything," Kai said with a smirk
"Smart ass" Tyson said. Kai's smirk grew when he hear Tyson's comment but soon vanished when his mind started to play an old memory like it was some kind of movie that only he could view.
FLASHBACKTwo little boys played around in the snow laughing and giggling at one another as they rolled around. One of the boys picked up a handful of snow and began to mould it into a ball, he then yelled "Hey Tala" and threw the ball of snow. On hearing his name the other boy with red coloured hair looked up only to have his face covered in snow. The other boy who had blue hair busted out laughing, but soon stopped when his face become cold and white, he opened his eyes to see Tala had a large smirk on his face "Don't drop your guard Kai",
"Oh yeah" Kai replied. The two boys had soon started up a snowball fight, they weren't too concerned about getting hit by the snow so they did nothing to shield themselves. After a few minutes Tala and Kai were covered in snow, and laughing like crazy, they both dropped to the ground next to each other, still trying to suppress their fits of laughter. "Hey guess what?" asked Kai, "What" Tala said turning his head to look at Kai, "My grandfathers coming to visit, it'll be great to finally meet him", "Are you sure, didn't your mum say he was bad", "yeah I thought about that, but decided not to worry to much, I mean this will be my first time seeing him", "yeah I guess it would be cool, I wish I could have met my grandparents before they died" said Tala looking a little sad, "I'm sorry Tala, I didn't mean to brag", "Nah it's ok, come on I'll race ya back home" said Tala as he got and began to run off in the direction of Kai's house, "Hey no fair, you got a head start" said Kai pouting as he too set off at a run to catch up to Tala.
END FLASHBACK"Kai!" Tyson yelled trying to get the blue haired bladers attention.
"Hello Kai! I think he just sort a zoned out on us," said Kenny, Tyson stopped his treadmill and walked over to stand in front of Kai,
"Hey Kai! Hello earth to Kai Hiwatari, any one there" shouted Tyson waving his hand in front of Kai's face.
"You think he's just ignoring us, I mean he's still running, well jogging slowly," asked Kenny
"Maybe, HEY KAI YOU THERE!" Tyson tried once more to get Kai to snap out of his thoughts,
"Wha?" was all Kai said when he came back to reality and realized that the others were looking at him funny.
"Well" asked Tyson putting his hands on his hips
"Well what" asked Kai, giving Tyson a death glare
"What were you thinking about just then?" Tyson asked removing his hands from his hips
"None of your business" said Kai as he stopped his treadmill and walked over to one of the punching bags. He took off his red arm guards dropping them to the floor. Kai stood directorially in front of the punching bag, he had his fist clenched and eyes shut. Kai's eyes suddenly snapped open and he drew back his arm, then using quit some force he pushed his arm forward, his fist meet the punching bag forcing it to swing back by the sudden force of pressure on its surface. Straight after the first punch Kai brought his other fist forward pushing the punching bag back again. Kai continued to rapidly punch the bag, also adding in a kick here and there.
Tyson, Max and Kenny just stared at Kai for a few minutes watching him take out his anger on the punching bag that hung from the ceiling.
"Um, well you two back to running," said Kenny looking away from Kai and back to Tyson and Max, Max just nodded his head in agreement and turned up the level of his treadmill. Tyson also nodded while walking back to his treadmill to start it up again.
For quite a few hours they stayed in the gym running on treadmills, lifting weights and practicing new battle strategies.
Some hours later the four boys left the gym to go get something to eat. Once they had eaten Tyson and Max spent the last few hours of the day/night playing video games, Kenny was adding the updated stats to his laptop and Kai, well he just sort of disappeared somewhere to train some more.
At around 10 o'clock PM, the four Bladebreakers slowly went to bed one by one.
'A young boy was being lead down a dark damp hall, the stonewalls had small amounts of dried blood spread across their gray surface, a tall cloaked figure walked only a few meters in front of the young boy leading him down to a large oak door. The figure turned the handle and opened the door, stepping aside he let the boy go in first, the boy looked up at the mans face but was unable to identify him due to the dark shadows covering him. As the boy entered he looked around taking in the dark scenery, it was a medium sized square room with a highly polished desk in the center, behind the desk was a large window, the walls were probably a dark blue colour, but it was hard to tell in the low light. To his left against the wall was a large bookshelf, but there were only a few books occupying each shelf. The boy then notice that a figure sat behind the desk, the small boy was unable to make out any special features that this person may have had, leaving him to wonder whom the figure was. The only light in the room was that which the moon created, sending its sheets of moonlight over every building in the street. The figure raised a hand and gestured for him to step forward. On doing so he heard the door close behind him, the boy also found that the man who had lead him here in the first place had not entered the room. Suddenly a cold menacing voice broke through the silence of the night "I here you have been doing very well in all your training test, that's good news" the voice paused for a moment and then continued "but, I am unhappy to here that you are somewhat of a trouble maker" the voice paused again but soon continued "you do realize that you will be severely punished for such disgraceful behavior", "Yes sir" the small boy spoke. "Good, Boris!" the voice called out, within seconds the figure of a man entered the room, he looked a lot like the man that had lead the boy down here and most probably was. The figure behind the desk looked over at the man he had called Boris and said, "I think it is time to let my grandson experience his first time as an experiment", "Yes sir" said Boris as he lead the small boy away, as the child left the room he could hear the sound of laughter echo through the room which he had just exited, but it wasn't a happy laugh, it was an evil laugh. The small boy was then lead to a room, which did not look at all familiar to him. Unlike most other rooms this one was bathed in bright lights. The room had lots of large machine lining the walls, each machine had one or two men operating it. The boy figured that they were all computers designed to do different things. One the other side there were lager tubes, some filled with a coloured liquid others not. He also notice a small bench that healed different sized knifes and syringes. This room looked sort of like a laboratory crossed with a surgery room, and it scared the young child. The man named Boris picked up a near by syringe that was filled with a blue liquid, he grabbed the boys arm tightly and injected the boy with the substance of the syringe, the boy tried to struggle but soon found himself feeling dizzy, within minutes everything around him went dark as the effects of the drug kicked in, putting him in a heavy sleep. The small boy awoke some hours later, only to find himself suspended in a tube filled with green liquid. He also had an oxygen mask on to allow him the air that was needed so much by all creatures if they were to survive. The boy also found that he had many wires coming from his arms and legs, but was unable to see where they went for everything was blurry due to the green liquid. He could just barely make out a figure that stood in front of the large glass tube, next thing he new he felt a surge of painful energy flow through his body, his screams of pain were muffled by the liquid, he clenched his fist tighter as his body was engulfed by the pain, his palms soon began to bleed from his nails digging into his young soft skin, the boy could see the small trails of red liquid float around amongst the green. He screamed again as his body ached with pain.'
Kai shot up breathing heavily and drenched in a cold sweat, he put a hand to his forehead and felt the heat of his skin. Kai looked to his bedside table and found that it was 2 AM. 'Just a bad dream that's all. No wait, not a dream but a memory' Kai thought as he lay back down trying to calm his body. He soon fell back to sleep. Outside a full moon adored the sky bathing the city of Moscow in a soft blanket of light.
Then next morning Kai was once again the first to wake and Tyson the last as usual. The Bladebreakers minus Ray of course got ready for the final battle of the world champion ships. They headed out to the parking lot where the BBA bus was waiting to take them to BioVolt stadium.
DJ Jazzman: "Good morning and welcome fans, this may be the craziest beyblade match ever"
Brad Best: "Where coming at you live from the bleak BioVolt stadium"
AJ Topper: " This is gonna be a dozy of a match, tensions are high as we get ready for the tie breaker. And now the match will be starting in a few minutes so lets look at the teams. The Demolition Boys are the favorites to win the match, powerful and mean what a combo, the Bladebreakers could be the most highly skilled team in beyblading but can they match their opponents in raw power"
Tala and Tyson both step up to the dish.
DJ Jazzman: "Ladies and gentleman are you ready, bladers take your positions. Are challenger is a champion in the world over but today he faces his greatest test, will BioVolt's super beyblades prove to be to tricky for TYSON!"
AJ Topper: "Take a look at Tyson, he's fast, clever and maybe a little out of his league this time but he may just surprise us.
Brad Best: "Listen to these cheers, the home crowd just can't get enough of Tala despite his teams questionable conduct, can we expect more dirty tricks from the teams head huncho. I've never seen such serious focus in a beybladers eyes, looks like Tala and his bit beast Wolborg are all business. It's almost go time, I'm sure both of our players are stoked".
AJ Topper: "And if there wasn't enough pressure on these guys, this match is being broadcast live around the world"
DJ Jazzman: "Now it's time to take our fist look at today's wild and out of this world dish, our designers had a field day with this one"
The floor to the stadium opened up to revel a large dish covered in snow and had pine trees placed around the outer edge of the dish.
AJ Topper: "It's a dish that's made completely from the coldest Siberian snow, beyblades will have a hard time keeping a spin on in this mess, blinding blizzard conditions, slippery sweet it's called the Blizzard Bowl. Tala of the Demolition Boys has been spinning in conditions like this his entire beybladeing corer, will he have the advantage, and will Tyson freeze up…"
"Oh give me a break I could beat this chump in a tube of ice-cream" yelled Tyson getting frustrated.
DJ Jazzman: "3…2…1…LET IT RIP"
"Battle Blade" Tyson yelled as he launched Dragoon into the dish, Tala launched Wolborg soon after.
AJ Topper: "The first blade hits the ice"
"Come on Dragoon" Tyson yelled encouraging his bit beast.
Brad Best: "Tyson and Tala spend little time on pleasantries".
"Keep the pressure on" Tyson yelled.
Dragoon and Wolborg charged towards each other sending snow and sparks of in all directions. Dragoon came round for another attack but Wolborg sped out the way in time.
"Hey what?" Tyson was shocked by the speed of Tala's blade.
Tala's beyblade charged towards a tree knocking it over. Tyson jumped out the way just in time as the tree narrowly missed him.
AJ Topper: "Whoa looks like deja vu all over again"
DJ Jazzman: "Ouch, those Demolition Boys have once again proven their total disregard for the international beyblade safety regulations"
"Uh no, Tyson's in serious trouble" said Max from the bench.
"Hmm, Dizzi's picking up some really weird readings from Tala, look at his brain waves they're all messed up" said Kenny.
"Watch your back Tyson" called Max.
"I'm not gonna fall for the same dirty trick twice, so get your twisted freaky mutant beyblade in gear ya hear!" yelled Tyson
Tala continued to stand watching the battle showing no emotions, Wolborg suddenly charged towards Dragoon showing skill and control.
AJ Topper: "Whoa did I just see that or is there something seriously wrong with the play back".
"No Dragoon"
Brad Best: "We all saw the same thing AJ, Tala's control of Wolborg is intense, he's skidding over the ice and snow in an amazing show of skill, how does he do it"
"Tyson!" Kenny yelled getting seriously worried
"Fight back Tyson!" Max yelled
"How!?" Tyson called back to his teammates who stood some meters behind him.
"Hahaha, he's a surprise just for you" Tala called. Wolborg charged forward clashing into Dragoon, Tala's gray blade then became engulfed by flames, charging into Dragoon again.
"Lets us predict the outcome of this match, after my next attack I conclude a 99% accuracy rate that you're finished" said Tala with a smirk. Dragoon was thrown back and began to wobble, but soon regained his spin.
"Whew saved by 1%, hey wait those moves looked kind of familiar," spoke Tyson
"Haha, you don't say, well let me introduce the nice fellows that taught them to me, you see I can't just rely on one bit beast, so I say the more the merrier" said Tala his smirk growing larger as Draciel and Dranzer both came from Tala's blade.
"Some nerve, fighting me with my friends bit beast" Tyson said not looking too happy.
"Concentrate Tyson, quite the noble act," said Kai standing up and taking a few steps towards Tyson
"Huh Kai?" Tyson looked back at Kai.
"Come on you know our bit beast moves better than he does" Kai concluded
"Do you really think our bit beast like him?" said Max
'But, I don't know if I can beat them all? Arg alright lets do this' though Tyson
"Haha, feel the combined power of my bit beast slaves" Tala mocked.
"Draciel fight him," yelled Max
"He doesn't hear a word you say" mumbled Kai
"Oh, be strong Tyson" Kenny continued to get more worried.
"You" Tyson yelled pointing at Tala, Tala looked up with a questioning expression,
"You heard me pal, you and me this match, I'll even forget that you're a lousy bit best thief"
"Attack!" yelled Tala
"Go Dragoon!" Tyson yelled. Tyson's blade began to glow and a mighty blue dragon erupted from the bit chip, the dragon roar before he charged towards the darker gray blade that spun in front of him.
AJ Topper: "Oh yeah, Tyson is back"
Brad Best: "And hear comes Dragoon"
The two blades charged towards one another, snow and ice flew off in every direction. Once the snow had died down it was clear that Dragoon was still spinning strong and Wolborg had been thrown from the dish.
DJ Jazzman: "Oh yeah, I don't believe it, Tyson wins the first match with the gutsiest move I've ever seen, Tyson pulls the plug on Tala".
"He did it, he did it" yelled Kenny in shouts of joy.
"You're the best Tyson" Max shouted jumping up and down.
'He actually pulled it off but can he do it again. I've known Tala all my life and he won't go down without a fight' Kai thought.
"I must say, Tyson may not come from royalty, but he is certainly the new king of beyblading," said Robert from the stands.
Tala walked forward and picked up Wolborg's blade.
"Hey no hard feeling Tala, it was a pretty intense match, but hey you tried your best even if you cheated, now why don't you give back my friends bit beast and we'll continue" said Tyson.
"I feel so sorry for you Tyson" Tala said with a smirk
"Pardon" asked Tyson
"I chose not to win this round, since I could utilize the sequence to process your bey data"
"Oh you chose, you chose not to win huh Tala, well I choose to beat you again, just wait till the next round, you can show off as much as you want, but as of right now I'm winning, and I dare you to throw what ever you got at me" Tyson said starting to lose his temper
"Challenge excepted" Tala stated
DJ Jazzman: "Hear we go again, hang on tight for round two, what can we expect from the next round, man I can only imagine"
"You're going down Tala," yelled Tyson as he readied his blade and launcher.
Sorry this chapter took so long, but I've been really busy lately. I hope to get chapter 9 up soon.