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Disclaimer: I do NOT own beyblade or any of its characters. I DO own Laynie, her bitbeast and the rest of my OC's. If I don't, tell me…
Chapter Eleven: Feeling Way Too Damn Good...
Laynie moaned quietly. The sleep faded away and she started to get back to reality. Her back was aching from the sitting position she had been in the whole night and she didn't even want to examine her neck… Suddenly, it hit her. The finals were today and she had to give it all she had.
She stopped in a movement when her gaze fell on Kai next to her. He was still asleep and looked so peaceful that Laynie didn't want to wake him up. She turned her gaze to the opposite wall and the clock. Her eyes widened. 9:17 am! The first battle was about to start 10:00!
- "Kai." She whispered. "Kai!"
He opened his eyes slowly and frowned. "What time is it?" He said and Laynie pointed at the clock.
- "Damn!" He cursed and got on his feet. Laynie rushed up and checked her pockets for Drizzler. To her relief, it was there as usual and she picked it up.
- "How are we gonna open the door?!" said Laynie and tried to open the door again. She gave it a hard push with her whole body and to her very surprise it opened. She stumbled out and crashed into another person on the other side of the door. Ray.
- "Ouch!" She muttered as she hit the floor, scratching her knees.
- "Where have you been all night? Do you have any idea how worried we've been?" Ray shouted and reached out a hand to help Laynie up.
Laynie didn't accept the help and got on her feet without any help. "Hmph! I'm fifth teen Ray, not a child!" She said and crossed her arms.
(A/N: I love that Ray is so concerned about everyone! He would make such a great parent! :D)
Ray mumbled, "I'm sorry" when Kai stepped out of the training room too. He gave Laynie an amused gaze before turning to Ray.
- "Is everyone up? We need to take the bus to the Eiffel tower as soon as possible."
Ray nodded. "Have you decided who's gonna battle who?" He said and followed Kai through the corridor, leading to the elevator.
- "Yeah, Tyson's taking the first battle, Max the second, you the third, me the fourth and Laynie the last."
~*~ In the Eiffel tower… ~*~
- "Welcome everyone to the final battle of the European Championships! Today we'll see the famous Bladebreakers go up against the Black Cats. Wow, am I excited? Let's give the two teams a hand!" Jazzman pointed down into the stadium at the two teams standing in the middle.
Nicholas caught Laynie's gaze and she could read out all of his hate on them. Her green eyes narrowed into slits and it made her EVEN more determined to beat him. To any prize.
[I'm tired of being haunted by your eyes, Nicholas. This ends NOW!] She thought and clenched her hands into fists. Kai noticed it and gave her a quick squeeze without looking at her.
- "May I ask the two teams to get ready to send your first blader up?"
The Bladebreakers and the Black Cats made their way to the cribs.
(A/N: I really, really don't know what the name for it is…)
- "Okay, Tyson. You're the first one. Stay focused and don't let your temper get you!" lectured Kenny and typed in a few commandos on Dizzi.
This bowl was a perfect copy of the Amazon rainforest in miniature. Different trees were everywhere and if you didn't look out, you would crash into one of them. It demanded that the bladers were all focused on the battle and nothing else.
Tyson grabbed his blade and launcher with a confident smile. "No problems, Chief! This battle is mine!"
He left the team and got up to the dish. On the other side, a boy with black hair stood with his blade in the left hand.
- "So, you're the famous Tyson, World champion and everything…" the boy said with a mocking smirk.
- "Yeah, I AM. And I'm sure about that's more than you'll ever be!" Snorted Tyson and put Dragoon onto the launcher.
[Shut up Tyson and focus!] Laynie thought with twisted on the bench where she sat between Kai and Ray.
- "Take it easy, Laynie!" Ray laid a hand on Laynie's shoulder and gave her a serious gaze. Laynie relaxed slowly and her shoulders dropped slightly.
Kai frowned when he saw Ray put a hand onto Laynie's shoulder. He hated himself for it, but he was jealous! The emotionless Kai, were jealous!
[Get a grip Kai!] He thought. The important thing right now was to focus on the coming battle. Somehow, he wanted to win this Championship even more than the ones before. This time, it included Laynie.
- "Blader ready? On my signal then! THREE… TWO… ONE… LEEET IIIT RIIIP!!!"
Tyson and Jonathan launched their blade into the bowl and didn't waste any time when they crashed into each other.
- "Ha! You gotta have more strength than that if you wanna beat my Dragoon!" shouted Tyson.
Jonathan smirked. "And what makes you think this is all of my power?" He said. "Come on out Night Howler!"
Out of his blade came a gigantic, black wolf with overgrown fangs. Laynie let out a small gasp and rose quickly from her sitting position.
- "Tyson's in real trouble now!" She said.
- "I can't find any information at all about that bitbeast!" said Kenny in panic. The odds seemed to be against Tyson…
Laynie shook her head. "The Kim's always been very protective over their bitbeasts. And it surprises me that Jonathan got him."
- "Do you know anything that can help Tyson?" Ray got on his feet too. He gazed up on the bowl and Tyson WAS in real trouble. The black/gray blade was all over Dragoon, forcing him back and though the fact that Dragoon did everything he could, he seemed to be chanceless.
- "It's too late." Kai shook his head slightly. "Tyson's temper is gonna blow anytime now and then he's screwed."
- "No! Tyson, cool down!" yelled Kenny but as Kai said, it was too late. Dragoon was knocked out from the dish with such force that I landed several meters away. They could see Tyson clenched his hands into fist from anger when he picked it up.
He walked back slowly with his head hanging. "I'm sorry guys…" He mumbled.
To everyone's surprise, it was Laynie who spoke out. "It's not your fault. Night Howler is one of the strongest bitbeast ever existing. But he's also the wildest and it's only a question of time before Jonathan looses the control…"
- "Thanks Laynie…" Tyson replied and held up his hand to Max for a high-five. "Come on Maxy, you can do it!"
- "Yeah! And I WILL!" Max smiled broadly and slammed his hand into Tyson's.
Unfortunately it didn't turn out like that… Max lost as Minette broke his attack ring, and left him in complete unbalance.
Next up was Ray and he stepped up with a determined look on his face, and Driger tight in his hand. He knew that the loyal tiger would do anything for him. And everything depended on him winning or loosing…
(A/N: I'm not so into the beybattles and I'm terribly bad at writing them so I just keep them short and factual okay?)
Jazzman gave the crowd some info of the two bladers and watched them settle ready.
- "Blader ready? Great. On my signal then! THREE… TWO… ONE… LEEET IIIT RIIIIP!"
- "Let's make this fast okay? I know that Nicholas just CAN'T wait for taking Drizzler back." Said Stephen and snorted mockingly.
Ray smirked. "Fast is actually my specialty! Increase the speed, Driger!"
Driger ran away from Stephen's blade and right through the wild-grown forest.
(A/N: Imagine that there's a free circle in the middle and then a lot of rain forest trees.)
First, it looked like Driger had passed right through them like a ghost but after a few mores second, all the trees fell down at once.
(A/N: Wow! I can imagine it and it looks soooo cool :D )
Stephen's eyes widened and Ray smiled. "Why don't you forfeit when you got the chance?" He said and cocked an eyebrow.
Stephen recovered from his shock and crossed his arms. "You can always dream Ray!"
- "Well, Stephen. And you can dream about a win then! Tiger Claw!" He shouted and Driger knocked Stephen's blade out of the dish, making a whole in the wall.
And Stephen was speechless. Ray caught Driger and returned to his cheering (well, not all of them cheering) teammates.
- "Awesome Ray! You really kicked his ass out there!"
- "Ray, you rock!" shouted Tyson and Max at the same time.
Laynie smiled at him. "You were really good out there Ray." She said.
- "Thanks Laynie. And good luck Kai!" replied Ray before turning to Kai, who was on his way to the bowl.
Kai didn't answer but they know that he was so focused now that it they didn't care. Kai was still Kai.
- "And here we have the Bladebreakers own captain, Kai! Take a look on his stats and you'll see why he's one of the best bladers in the world. And with his Dranzer, Michi better look out!" stated Brad Best.
- "But Michi is not a push-over either. And I think she's got a little surprise for Kai…" A.J Topper let the sentence hang in the air and Jazzman counted them down.
But they never came to Michi's "little surprise" cause Kai let Dranzer hit Michi's blade in the air, making it fly out of the dish before the battle even got the chance to begin. And according to Michi's (and the whole crowds) face, she couldn't understand what had happened.
- "Erm, I guess that Kai makes it 4-4 when only one blader remains! And what we've got here people isn't something ordinary. Laynie and Nicholas is actually brother and sister but Laynie left her family…" Jazzman was cut short by Laynie's angry voice.
- "Now when you're done with my background, will you take the future too or what?" She yelled and met Nicholas mocking gaze.
- "Well, well Laynie. You still seem to be the child you always been." He said and smirked.
[And you're still the bastard you've always been…] Laynie thought, nut didn't say it loud. Instead, she put Drizzler onto the launcher and made her ready.
- "THREE… TWO… ONE… LEEET IIIT RIIIP!"
Laynie put all her strength in the launching and Drizzler spun around faster than ever. Unfortunately, so did Nicholas's blade…
- "I'm a little impressed Laynie. You've trained Drizzler well. Too bad that this is the last battle you'll call Drizzler your."
- "Shut up and battle!" demanded Laynie and kept her gaze on the battle.
- "As you wish. But remember, you're alone. Alone as usual." Replied Nicholas evilly.
[Alone? Am I?] Thought Laynie and it felt like the whole world was in slow motion. She remembered the day she first met everyone. At the beginning she disliked them all, but soon time had created a strong bond between them. And maybe more than a bond between two of them… Laynie could feel Kai's gaze. Tyson's. Ray's. Max's. Kenny's. All of them stood behind her and cared for her. They didn't care about if she lost the battle. She would still be their friend and teammate. No, she wasn't alone.
- "I'm not alone. I've got a team now. I've got friends." She said quietly, but loud enough for Nicholas to hear.
- "Look at you Laynie. You're weak." Nicholas shook his head.
- "You are wrong. I was wrong! It's not a weakness to have friends." She said and added for herself: [And love is NOT a weakness either. If I win this battle, I'll tell Kai EVERYTHING.]
Nicholas snorted. "Then show me if your team makes you strong! Panthera, ATTACK!"
The black blade released a black panther and it aimed right at Drizzler.
- "I call on you Drizzler! Avoid it with your Mist!" Laynie shouted and soon the bowl was covered in a thick mist.
- "Wow, aren't we smart?" Whispered Nicholas. "But how are you going to attack me when you don't even know where you own blade is?"
- "Watch me. Drizzler! Avalanche!"
(A/N: Okay ladies and gentlemen! We've got a new attack! This is Drizzler's most powerful attack and I'll try to describe it… Imagine Laynie standing in front of a huge avalanche coming closer and Drizzler running in front of it.)
The whole stadium suddenly became silent and just stared at the two blades in the dish. Drizzler was still spinning and Nicholas's Panthera was caught in an ice cube. Still spinning, but unable to get anywhere.
- "So? Sooner or later, the ice will melt? I must say that I expected more from you."
- "I'm not done with you yet. Sunbeam!" And Drizzler flew (A/N: Aaargh, I hate irregular verbs!) up in the air, collecting the sun's rays.
- "You know what can happen if an item first gets expressed for hard cold and right after extreme heat? I'll be nice and tell you. It shatters into small pieces!" Laynie said it with low, controlled voice as Drizzler fell down back to the dish, hitting Panthera with all its force.
The black blade broke into small pieces and was soon spread all over the dish.
- "NOOOOOO!!!!!" Nicholas fell down on his knees. And it wasn't over yet…
With a mighty roar, Panthera rose from the trashed blade and disappeared as a bright beam out of the stadium.
- "You are unworthy having the trust of a bitbeast." Laynie said and caught her blade. Now when everything was over, she felt completely empty inside. All of her anger, frustration and sadness were gone. All she wanted now was to disappear into Kai's arms and stay there for comfort and… love… She was ready now. Ready to see where love would take her.
- "Wow Laynie! I've never seen you this good!"
- "You were SOOO great!"
The words hailed around Laynie, but she couldn't take it in yet. The whole world was spinning around and she feared that she was gonna faint. But nothing happened and she could finally let it sink in. They had won. It was over. She had beaten Nicholas.
~*~ Back at the hotel room… ~*~
Laynie opened the door to the kitchen. Everything was like they'd left it… Except for a white letter on the table. Laynie grabbed a glass and filled it with water before opening the letter.
[Probably something from Mr. Dickenson…] She thought and pulled out a paper.
CRASH!!!
Laynie dropped the glass on the floor and it shattered in pieces. She just stared at the letter when everyone hurried in, wondering what had happened.
- "Laynie? Laynie what is it?" frowned Ray and Laynie handed him the letter. Her eyes were still wide-open and shock could be reflected in them.
- "Wow…" said Ray and gave the letter back to Laynie. "Looks like you've got a sister then!" He smiled.
Laynie shook her head. "I can't believe it. It must be some kind of sick joke."
- "But you're gonna meet up with Mr. Dickenson, right?" replied Ray and was about to continue when Tyson gave up a loud moan.
- "AAAARRRGGHHH! I'm getting crazy! What are you talking about!?" He shouted and pulled his hair in frustration.
Laynie and Ray gave him an odd gaze. "It seems like I've got a half-sister and Mr. Dickenson's gonna take me to her eight o' clock tonight…" Laynie said still in disbelief.
- "And we're coming with you!" Max said and his gaze told them that it was impossible to stop them…
- "Yeah, are we a team or are we a team?" Questioned Tyson and rested his elbow onto Max's shoulder. "After all, we won the Championship and that requires some celebration! Let's go out and eat when we've picked up your sister!"
- "Decided!"
Laynie gave them a confused gaze. "Hang on a second. Are you telling me that the whole team's gonna come and we're going out for dinner?"
Max and Tyson nodded happily. Laynie shook her head for the third time and raised her hands in a defeated gesture. Sometime Max and Tyson had such a way with settling things…
She started to clean up the floor from her no-longer-existing glass and smiled. Everything felt just great now, but she couldn't help wondering for how long it would last…
And after all, she still had a promise left from the battle.
[And love is NOT a weakness either. If I win this battle, I'll tell Kai EVERYTHING.]
A promise was a promise and what could she loose? Everything and nothing…
- "Guys, where's Kai?"
~*~ In the training room… ~*~
(A/N: I WILL NOT, I repeat, WILL NOT locked them in or something this time! Even I've got my limits okay?)
Kai frowned as he watched his Dranzer spin around in the dish. He knew that he had avoided Laynie on purpose… He needed to sort out his feelings and emotions for her and make up his own mind.
Suddenly, a diamond blade was launched into the dish and landed next to Dranzer. Kai raised his gaze until they met emerald eyes. Smiling, emerald eyes.
- "Wow, I never thought that someone was a bigger training-freak than me…" She said, a smile playing in the corner of her lips.
- "Well, here I am." Shrugged Kai and lowered his gaze back on the blades.
- "Is something bothering you?" asked Laynie with soft voice, suddenly so close that Kai could feel her presence without looking.
[Yeah, you are… Stay out of my mind…] Thought Kai, but shook his head.
- "I just wanted to say that Mr. Dickenson wanna meet us at eight…" Laynie stroke some strands of hair from her eyes.
Both of them became silent but Kai could feel that Laynie wanted to say something…
- "What is it?" He said and gave her a quick glance. Laynie blushed slightly.
- "Nothing." She lied but seemed to be a little uncomfortable.
- "I can see that you wanna say something."
- "Check your eyes then."
Kai laughed. "You're a talented liar, Laynie." He said and Laynie made a face.
- "Come on, tell me." Kai kept pushing Laynie and she started to bit her bottom lip as she thought.
Laynie hesitated and her gaze flickered around the room. "You know that kiss yesterday…" She started but stopped.
Kai blushed on the inside cause he remembered. And he wanted more…
- "Do you think it was a mistake?"
The question was out and everything Laynie could do now was to wait and pray for the answer she wanted.
Kai finally met Laynie's gaze. He could see all of her fear, her hope and embarrass in them, making him wanna tell her… Tell her what? That he loved her?
He shook his head slowly. "If it don't leads to something, it was a mistake… But if it leads to…love… it was the start of something…" Kai hesitated for the word 'love' but he could finally find the word for what he and Laynie felt.
It took a few seconds before Laynie could register what Kai just had said. She smirked and sank into Kai's embrace. She wrapped her arms around his neck and sighed. Kai leaned his chin on Laynie's head and closed his eyes. It was like a missing part had returned and it felt good. Way too damn good.
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Aaaawww, so damn poor. I suck on writing this fluff thing!!!!!! Please, bear with me!!!!
But I kept my regular length of it… The final battles turned out very, very short but I can't do it better. Anyway, I'm planning this story to be around twenty chapters so we still have some left… It will not be so much Beyblading in the remaining chapters…
Plus, I've got a little questions… The Bladebreakers gonna travel to another country but I don't know what (which???)… I feel mean today, so I won't update until I've got at least three countries to choose between… (don't hate me!!!)
So if u have any ideas, please email me or tell me on MSN what country and why!
And if you're playing/have played Golden Sun: The lost Age, you gotta HEEEEEELP me… Stupid ship, will not be fixed… *mutters*
Bye bye for now!
/ Emma a.k.a dragon-eyes22 or emlan22@hotmail.com