Chapter I: Only A Glance
[Another random fan fiction idea... can't say that I've developed it much but my mind is hardest on writing it so I may as well make myself look weird
and post it and stuff like that. Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. I
supposedly own my original characters.]
Tyson, Max and Kenny all sat on the edge of one of the hotel beds and could see the Chinese beyblader leaning over the bathroom sink with his hands tightly clasped around the edges, as he seemed to be zoned out from strong concentration. He eye twitched slightly each time a drop of water fell from the end of the faucet into the base of the sink and he had his toothbrush still in his mouth almost lazily as he was unaware of the other three boys staring at him from their room.
"What's up with him?" Max asked, tilting his head slightly at the sight. "He hasn't said a word all morning."
"Tch..." Kai stood against a wall, fully dressed with his arms crossed. "Just leave the guy alone and I doubt it's any of your business."
"He's been standing there for a good few minutes now." Tyson said, raising an eyebrow as he shrugged. "Maybe he's nervous or something."
"Yeah, but over what? We don't have any tournaments coming up too soon since this one just finished and we're going back to our town in a week or two." Kenny sighed, cleaning his glasses with a handkerchief.
"Any of you actually –tried- to ask what's bothering him? I heard it works wonders." Dizzi spoke up from the laptop, being left open on the bed.
"Under normal circumstances, we would." Kenny slipped his glasses back on.
"Oh really. What's not normal about this?" Dizzi questioned.
"Think of it this way... we just finished a competition and maybe Ray is thinking over it. Almost reminiscing but more... in a weird sense since he's supposedly brushing his teeth..." Kenny concluded, putting a finger on the side of his face in thought.
"You got me there, it's far from normal... It's just plain weird if you ask me." The laptop answered.
"Hey! Earth to Ray, we all need to use the sink too, you know!" Tyson called out.
There was no reply from the other team member and Tyson got up, walking into the bathroom until he was a few feet away from the other. "Did you hear me? You've been standing there like you were a zombie or something, come on! Wake up!"
"Hm..." That was all Ray said, even if it was a mutter as he shifted the toothbrush to one side in his mouth.
"Alright... you asked for it." Tyson warned, grabbing the full glass of water from the edge of the sink that Ray was supposedly using and splashed the water in his face.
"H-Hey!" Sputtered Ray as he shook his head, throwing water droplets onto the mirror and all around him. "What was that for?!"
"Your second wake-up call. If you haven't noticed, some of us are still in our pajamas and want to brush our teeth before our next birthday." Tyson said in a matter of fact way.
"Oh..." Ray looked back at Max and Kenny, then noticed the white froth from the toothpaste. "... Sorry about that."
"It's okay and all but are you sure you're okay? You've been acting all spaced out and weird since yesterday when we were walking back." Tyson said, folding his arms behind his head. "Something on your mind?"
Ray rinsed his mouth out and washed his face, then replied as he was dying his face off with a small towel. "No, not really."
"Well, if you say so... Come on, I don't want to miss breakfast." Tyson said as he started filling up the sink with water.
Ray sighed as he walked out of the bathroom, staring to wrap his hair back in the cloth hairpiece as he slid the small pins into place almost effortlessly. "I'm going, I'm going..."
After tying the long part of his hair back, he sighed quietly and sat on the edge of a bed, resting his hands on his knees. He closed his eyes and waited as the remainder of the team got dressed and cleaned up for the day.
"What should we do after we eat?" Max asked as he pulled his new T-shirt over his head.
"Well, since we are still here for a while longer... We basically have free- time." Kenny answered.
"All right!" Max cheered. "This is gonna be great!"
After the team had gotten ready for today, it followed with an eventful breakfast as they had been doing for months during competitions and the team set out to walk around the city. Tyson looked up, hearing some other kids yelling from the park and it sparked his interest as he recognized a sound:
"Beyblading! Come on, you guys! Let's go check it out!" He yelled back to his friends as he sprinted forward.
The other four caught up with the blue-haired teen and took glances over the shoulders of the spectators of the beybattle. Kai simply heaved a heavy sigh as he shook his head, turning away with little interest towards the match. Ray took a questioning glance at Kai then focused his attention back on the spinning beyblades as they ripped across the portable beystadium. He took a few glances at the beybladers who were obviously intent on winning no matter what then looked back at their blades. He narrowed his eyes slightly as what had been troubling him earlier starting bothering him again. His mind started drifting off elsewhere and it seemed that he was fully interested in match as Tyson secretly elbowed Max.
"There he goes again." Tyson whispered, looking at Ray out of the corner of his eye.
"Geez... Something really must be bothering him that much to make him act that weird." Max answered just as quietly. "Maybe we should really talk to him... at least one of us, anyway..."
Ray blinked, seeming to be startled as the crowd's reaction of the finished match brought him back to his situation. He shook his head slightly, running his hand through his hair as Kenny closed up his laptop and the team started to gather back up.
"Even for beginners, they're still pretty good!" Tyson said. "Almost makes me feel like challenging someone right now!"
"Take it easy, Tyson." Kenny cautioned. "We just finished a competition and this is our time to relax, not challenge everyone."
"Yeah, and besides..." Max gave thumbs up towards Tyson. "We can train later and improve our skills for anything that comes in our way. Let's just walk around this morning and we'll see about that match this afternoon."
"You're on, buddy!" Tyson laughed slightly.
Ray started walking forward towards the rest of the team and stopped in mid- step, his eyes widening and immediately going cat-like as something grabbed his attention almost straight away. His muscles tensed and his sensitive hearing once again heard the rattling of chains yet this time it was different...
"Ray...?" Tyson blinked, watching the other curiously. "Now something –has- to be bothering you."
He heard a chain seeming to be whirled around then thrown... He couldn't have mistaken that noise for something else and it was making him more edgy than the previous night. It sounded familiar and seemed to be on the tip of his tongue yet he couldn't place on where he had heard it before. He looked behind him and snapped his gaze back to the kids as he heard:
"HEY! My beyblade!"
Ray had just caught the blur of a chain retracting back into a tree with the caught beyblade in its metal coils.
"What's going on?!" Tyson said, looking around.
The commotion had also attracted the attention of Kai, who also looked curious of what was happening around him. He might have not had the heightened senses like the Chinese beyblader had but he wasn't one to let his guard down for anything. Ray's yellow cat-like eyes narrowed slightly as he saw a black clad figure gracefully leap out of a tree and hit the ground fleeing from the scene.
'Swift as a cat...' He thought, his eyes narrowing more.
Without a word, Ray sprinted after the thief, flicking his gaze around everywhere to make sure there wasn't more than one on his tail as he caught the person running down an alley. He charged into the alley, finding a dead-end a little ways back and slowed down to a complete stop, finding the thief glancing around with their back to him.
"There's no where for you to go now." Ray said as he kept his arms at his sides, watching the person warily. "You may as well go back and give the kid his beyblade."
The thief turned around, light green eyes narrowed and looked very angry and cat-like.
Ray's shoulders tensed as he kept his tone steady. "I'm not going to tell you again. We can either do this the easy way or the hard way."
The thief put the stolen beyblade in some hidden pocket and held the chain up threateningly towards Ray, the bright eyes narrowing at him.
"Ray!" Kai's voice called out as he ran over, causing Ray to look back at him out of the corner of his eye.
Ray grit his teeth slightly as he heard the chains being whipped around again and snapped his gaze forward, watching the thief pull himself or herself up the fire escape skillfully.
"Oh no you don't!" Ray yelled as he jumped forward and grabbed the person's ankle.
He kept a firm grip on the ankle and started pulling the thief back, hoping that he would be able to pull the person to the ground and get back the stolen goods. The long loose ends of a black scarf that seemed to be covering most of the person's face was within his reach and he grabbed it, pulling it away to reveal the being's features. Kai slightly jumped visibly as he heard somewhat of a cat hiss and saw fangs bared at Ray. He took a glance behind him as a similar dressed individual ran behind him, holding the chain in the same threatening way in either taking the offensive or defensive side.
"Well, looks like we've got company..." Kai said, uncrossing his arms slowly.
Ray looked down at the scarf in his hand then back up at the captive's face just before he received a swift kick in the side of the head, causing him to let go.
"Don't take your eyes off of your opponent, Ray!" Kai barked as he faced his own enemy.
Ray growled as the person made its get away up the fire escape and onto the roof, hearing a scowl from Kai as he guessed the other took off as well. Ray kept a hand on the side of his head, rubbing it lightly in pain as he looked back down at the clenched scarf.
"Care to tell me what this is all about, Ray?" Kai questioned, turning towards him. "You have been pretty quiet since last night and I'm sure you at least have a vague idea what's going on..."
Ray just shook his head slightly. "I seriously don't know. I feel as if I do but then again, there's something telling me that I don't... That kid is gonna be crushed... His beyblade was stolen..."
"Tch..." Kai crossed his arms over his chest again, looking away.
"Come on, let's go back before the others start worrying over nothing." Ray said as he walked past Kai, still looking at the piece of material in deep thought. 'I've seen this somewhere before... It's definitely made by something very fine... Damn it, why does it feel so familiar...'
The two silently made their way back to the park where some of the kids were still waiting and Ray just shook his head at the kid who got his beyblade stolen.
"Aw man! I just put it together today too!" The kid pouted, his head hanging low. "Thanks anyway... You're one of the Blade Breakers, aren't you?"
Ray simply nodded, still feeling distracted.
"That's cool... Thanks again for trying. Come on, guys." The kid walked off with his group of friends and the beyblading team was left standing almost alone in the park.
"... Kenny, I'd make that a count of four times he's zoned out now counting from last night and now." Tyson pointed out, motioning over to Ray. "There's nothing left to do but..." He paused, walking over to his friend as he proceeded to give him a cuff upside the head but then was stopped by a hand.
"Don't..." Ray said quietly, taking a glance at Tyson.
"Well, warn us next time you decide to zone out without anything to say. Yesterday, I could understand, but now... we're all getting a little worried, Ray." Tyson shrugged, putting his arms back at his side.
"Come on, we'll all talk about this after lunch later!" Max piped up. "Let's at least try to enjoy our morning then we can find out what's going on... If the same thing happens again then we'll be right on it! Nothing to worry about!"
Ray stayed silent for a moment, his eyes drifting up to the sky as all eyes were on him. "... Yeah, sure... Why not?"
"Alright! Let's go look around before the lunch hour comes up!" Max pumped a fist into the air, trying to lighten the mood from the obvious suspicion that was lurking about.
Ray closed his eyes, his mind partially playing a flashback of what had happened not even a few moments ago. 'Why can't I remember... I know I've felt this material before... and that thief... Could it be someone from my village back in China with the rest of us...? Why don't I know...'
[Okay, this first chapter was just typed up this evening and it seems about a page shorter than I usually write stuff... so... yeah _o How's the story so far... too quick? Something? Comments are nice xX but flames aren't very nice...]
[Another random fan fiction idea... can't say that I've developed it much but my mind is hardest on writing it so I may as well make myself look weird
and post it and stuff like that. Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. I
supposedly own my original characters.]
Tyson, Max and Kenny all sat on the edge of one of the hotel beds and could see the Chinese beyblader leaning over the bathroom sink with his hands tightly clasped around the edges, as he seemed to be zoned out from strong concentration. He eye twitched slightly each time a drop of water fell from the end of the faucet into the base of the sink and he had his toothbrush still in his mouth almost lazily as he was unaware of the other three boys staring at him from their room.
"What's up with him?" Max asked, tilting his head slightly at the sight. "He hasn't said a word all morning."
"Tch..." Kai stood against a wall, fully dressed with his arms crossed. "Just leave the guy alone and I doubt it's any of your business."
"He's been standing there for a good few minutes now." Tyson said, raising an eyebrow as he shrugged. "Maybe he's nervous or something."
"Yeah, but over what? We don't have any tournaments coming up too soon since this one just finished and we're going back to our town in a week or two." Kenny sighed, cleaning his glasses with a handkerchief.
"Any of you actually –tried- to ask what's bothering him? I heard it works wonders." Dizzi spoke up from the laptop, being left open on the bed.
"Under normal circumstances, we would." Kenny slipped his glasses back on.
"Oh really. What's not normal about this?" Dizzi questioned.
"Think of it this way... we just finished a competition and maybe Ray is thinking over it. Almost reminiscing but more... in a weird sense since he's supposedly brushing his teeth..." Kenny concluded, putting a finger on the side of his face in thought.
"You got me there, it's far from normal... It's just plain weird if you ask me." The laptop answered.
"Hey! Earth to Ray, we all need to use the sink too, you know!" Tyson called out.
There was no reply from the other team member and Tyson got up, walking into the bathroom until he was a few feet away from the other. "Did you hear me? You've been standing there like you were a zombie or something, come on! Wake up!"
"Hm..." That was all Ray said, even if it was a mutter as he shifted the toothbrush to one side in his mouth.
"Alright... you asked for it." Tyson warned, grabbing the full glass of water from the edge of the sink that Ray was supposedly using and splashed the water in his face.
"H-Hey!" Sputtered Ray as he shook his head, throwing water droplets onto the mirror and all around him. "What was that for?!"
"Your second wake-up call. If you haven't noticed, some of us are still in our pajamas and want to brush our teeth before our next birthday." Tyson said in a matter of fact way.
"Oh..." Ray looked back at Max and Kenny, then noticed the white froth from the toothpaste. "... Sorry about that."
"It's okay and all but are you sure you're okay? You've been acting all spaced out and weird since yesterday when we were walking back." Tyson said, folding his arms behind his head. "Something on your mind?"
Ray rinsed his mouth out and washed his face, then replied as he was dying his face off with a small towel. "No, not really."
"Well, if you say so... Come on, I don't want to miss breakfast." Tyson said as he started filling up the sink with water.
Ray sighed as he walked out of the bathroom, staring to wrap his hair back in the cloth hairpiece as he slid the small pins into place almost effortlessly. "I'm going, I'm going..."
After tying the long part of his hair back, he sighed quietly and sat on the edge of a bed, resting his hands on his knees. He closed his eyes and waited as the remainder of the team got dressed and cleaned up for the day.
"What should we do after we eat?" Max asked as he pulled his new T-shirt over his head.
"Well, since we are still here for a while longer... We basically have free- time." Kenny answered.
"All right!" Max cheered. "This is gonna be great!"
After the team had gotten ready for today, it followed with an eventful breakfast as they had been doing for months during competitions and the team set out to walk around the city. Tyson looked up, hearing some other kids yelling from the park and it sparked his interest as he recognized a sound:
"Beyblading! Come on, you guys! Let's go check it out!" He yelled back to his friends as he sprinted forward.
The other four caught up with the blue-haired teen and took glances over the shoulders of the spectators of the beybattle. Kai simply heaved a heavy sigh as he shook his head, turning away with little interest towards the match. Ray took a questioning glance at Kai then focused his attention back on the spinning beyblades as they ripped across the portable beystadium. He took a few glances at the beybladers who were obviously intent on winning no matter what then looked back at their blades. He narrowed his eyes slightly as what had been troubling him earlier starting bothering him again. His mind started drifting off elsewhere and it seemed that he was fully interested in match as Tyson secretly elbowed Max.
"There he goes again." Tyson whispered, looking at Ray out of the corner of his eye.
"Geez... Something really must be bothering him that much to make him act that weird." Max answered just as quietly. "Maybe we should really talk to him... at least one of us, anyway..."
Ray blinked, seeming to be startled as the crowd's reaction of the finished match brought him back to his situation. He shook his head slightly, running his hand through his hair as Kenny closed up his laptop and the team started to gather back up.
"Even for beginners, they're still pretty good!" Tyson said. "Almost makes me feel like challenging someone right now!"
"Take it easy, Tyson." Kenny cautioned. "We just finished a competition and this is our time to relax, not challenge everyone."
"Yeah, and besides..." Max gave thumbs up towards Tyson. "We can train later and improve our skills for anything that comes in our way. Let's just walk around this morning and we'll see about that match this afternoon."
"You're on, buddy!" Tyson laughed slightly.
Ray started walking forward towards the rest of the team and stopped in mid- step, his eyes widening and immediately going cat-like as something grabbed his attention almost straight away. His muscles tensed and his sensitive hearing once again heard the rattling of chains yet this time it was different...
"Ray...?" Tyson blinked, watching the other curiously. "Now something –has- to be bothering you."
He heard a chain seeming to be whirled around then thrown... He couldn't have mistaken that noise for something else and it was making him more edgy than the previous night. It sounded familiar and seemed to be on the tip of his tongue yet he couldn't place on where he had heard it before. He looked behind him and snapped his gaze back to the kids as he heard:
"HEY! My beyblade!"
Ray had just caught the blur of a chain retracting back into a tree with the caught beyblade in its metal coils.
"What's going on?!" Tyson said, looking around.
The commotion had also attracted the attention of Kai, who also looked curious of what was happening around him. He might have not had the heightened senses like the Chinese beyblader had but he wasn't one to let his guard down for anything. Ray's yellow cat-like eyes narrowed slightly as he saw a black clad figure gracefully leap out of a tree and hit the ground fleeing from the scene.
'Swift as a cat...' He thought, his eyes narrowing more.
Without a word, Ray sprinted after the thief, flicking his gaze around everywhere to make sure there wasn't more than one on his tail as he caught the person running down an alley. He charged into the alley, finding a dead-end a little ways back and slowed down to a complete stop, finding the thief glancing around with their back to him.
"There's no where for you to go now." Ray said as he kept his arms at his sides, watching the person warily. "You may as well go back and give the kid his beyblade."
The thief turned around, light green eyes narrowed and looked very angry and cat-like.
Ray's shoulders tensed as he kept his tone steady. "I'm not going to tell you again. We can either do this the easy way or the hard way."
The thief put the stolen beyblade in some hidden pocket and held the chain up threateningly towards Ray, the bright eyes narrowing at him.
"Ray!" Kai's voice called out as he ran over, causing Ray to look back at him out of the corner of his eye.
Ray grit his teeth slightly as he heard the chains being whipped around again and snapped his gaze forward, watching the thief pull himself or herself up the fire escape skillfully.
"Oh no you don't!" Ray yelled as he jumped forward and grabbed the person's ankle.
He kept a firm grip on the ankle and started pulling the thief back, hoping that he would be able to pull the person to the ground and get back the stolen goods. The long loose ends of a black scarf that seemed to be covering most of the person's face was within his reach and he grabbed it, pulling it away to reveal the being's features. Kai slightly jumped visibly as he heard somewhat of a cat hiss and saw fangs bared at Ray. He took a glance behind him as a similar dressed individual ran behind him, holding the chain in the same threatening way in either taking the offensive or defensive side.
"Well, looks like we've got company..." Kai said, uncrossing his arms slowly.
Ray looked down at the scarf in his hand then back up at the captive's face just before he received a swift kick in the side of the head, causing him to let go.
"Don't take your eyes off of your opponent, Ray!" Kai barked as he faced his own enemy.
Ray growled as the person made its get away up the fire escape and onto the roof, hearing a scowl from Kai as he guessed the other took off as well. Ray kept a hand on the side of his head, rubbing it lightly in pain as he looked back down at the clenched scarf.
"Care to tell me what this is all about, Ray?" Kai questioned, turning towards him. "You have been pretty quiet since last night and I'm sure you at least have a vague idea what's going on..."
Ray just shook his head slightly. "I seriously don't know. I feel as if I do but then again, there's something telling me that I don't... That kid is gonna be crushed... His beyblade was stolen..."
"Tch..." Kai crossed his arms over his chest again, looking away.
"Come on, let's go back before the others start worrying over nothing." Ray said as he walked past Kai, still looking at the piece of material in deep thought. 'I've seen this somewhere before... It's definitely made by something very fine... Damn it, why does it feel so familiar...'
The two silently made their way back to the park where some of the kids were still waiting and Ray just shook his head at the kid who got his beyblade stolen.
"Aw man! I just put it together today too!" The kid pouted, his head hanging low. "Thanks anyway... You're one of the Blade Breakers, aren't you?"
Ray simply nodded, still feeling distracted.
"That's cool... Thanks again for trying. Come on, guys." The kid walked off with his group of friends and the beyblading team was left standing almost alone in the park.
"... Kenny, I'd make that a count of four times he's zoned out now counting from last night and now." Tyson pointed out, motioning over to Ray. "There's nothing left to do but..." He paused, walking over to his friend as he proceeded to give him a cuff upside the head but then was stopped by a hand.
"Don't..." Ray said quietly, taking a glance at Tyson.
"Well, warn us next time you decide to zone out without anything to say. Yesterday, I could understand, but now... we're all getting a little worried, Ray." Tyson shrugged, putting his arms back at his side.
"Come on, we'll all talk about this after lunch later!" Max piped up. "Let's at least try to enjoy our morning then we can find out what's going on... If the same thing happens again then we'll be right on it! Nothing to worry about!"
Ray stayed silent for a moment, his eyes drifting up to the sky as all eyes were on him. "... Yeah, sure... Why not?"
"Alright! Let's go look around before the lunch hour comes up!" Max pumped a fist into the air, trying to lighten the mood from the obvious suspicion that was lurking about.
Ray closed his eyes, his mind partially playing a flashback of what had happened not even a few moments ago. 'Why can't I remember... I know I've felt this material before... and that thief... Could it be someone from my village back in China with the rest of us...? Why don't I know...'
[Okay, this first chapter was just typed up this evening and it seems about a page shorter than I usually write stuff... so... yeah _o How's the story so far... too quick? Something? Comments are nice xX but flames aren't very nice...]