The Bladebreakers continued to walk from McDonalds back to their vacation house. They decided it would be best to get themselves home before they had another sugar rush in the streets of Key West. Ray was still dragging Kai by the hand, but he was following along a bit better now than he had been when they started out. However, he was wearing a scowl on face, and Tyson was as well. Tyson had been worse with Hilary dragging him along, but he too had eventually stopped struggling.

"From now on, these two are getting nothing but organic. And I don't care what they think!"

"Can't they have sweet stuff when they get older?" Max asked Hilary.

"IF they get older, you mean."

Ray shook his head, "Don't say that, guys. It makes me feel sad and hopeless. Besides, what happened to never giving up? We can't give up! There's gotta be some kind of cure."

"But, Ray, Dizzi said she looked everywhere for a cure. She didn't find anything on the internet that would actually work."

Max looked surprised, "What do you mean, 'that would actually work', Chief?"

"I mean, there was some stuff on there, but it all involved magic or spells. There wasn't anything about cake and lemonade mix."

Max suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. The others looked at him with worry. He was staring at something in the pier area, but they couldn't see what it was that had him so shocked. "What's wong, Maxie?" Tyson asked.

"It's, it's, it's . . ."

"What is IT, Max?"

He gulped and slowly raised his right hand, pointing at someone standing on the pier. This someone had shoulder-length blonde hair, and had on her back a black (Rhyme! 1 point) backpack with the recognizable logo of the BBA on the back of it. In other words, this woman looked exactly like Max's mother.

This was bad, and they all knew it. Max decided the best solution would be to run, and that was exactly what he did. He turned around and grabbed Kai and Tyson by the wrists and took off before his mother could see him. The others were about to follow him but they heard a voive call, "Kenny! Ray! Hilary! I was looking for you!"

They all gulped and prayed she hadn't seen Max. Judy made her way over to them with a smile on her face.

"Oh, I;ve been looking for you all day! I was worried that you'd disappeared or were kidnapped or something."

"We're all fine, Judy." Ray said. 'Well, not all of us are fine, but we're all alive and breathing, I guess.'

"So, where's Max? I thought I glimpsed him with you, but he wasn't there."

"No, Max wasn't here with us. He's hanging out with Kai and Tyson. We don't really know where the are right now." Hilary's lie wasn't that far from the truth.

"Not to be rude or anything, but, why are you here in Florida?" Kenny questioned.

"Well, in truth, Mr. Dickinson kind of wanted someone to check up on you, but I was originally planning to come here to see Max. After all, he's been in Japan, and I thought it would be nice to see him while he was in the United States."

"Is Max's dad here too?" Hilary asked.

"No, he decided it would be best to stay home and run the parts shop." (I couldn't remember Max's dad's name, and he does own that one beyblading store, right?) "So, should we all head up to the house?"

"You know where we're staying?" Ray asked.

"Of course, I already stopped by earlier, but no one was there." Judy smiled at them and made her way down the street Max had run down with Tyson and Kai.

Max

Max ran into their house with Tyson and Kai and shut the door. "Why is my mother here now?" He looked down at the two boys for an answer, but they just shrugged their shoulders.

"Okay, we've got to think of something, and something fast." Max started to pace around the room.

"I think we should leave the house and go somewhere else." Kai said.

"Why do we wanna do dat?"

He was answered with voices coming from outside. Max widened his eyes. He grabbed Kai and Tyson and ran down the hallway. "Hey! You could warn us befow you do dat, you know!" Max ignored Tyson's protest as he opened the door to Hilary's room and threw the two (Rhyme-2 points) in.

"Don't make any sounds, or we're done for!" Max shut the door and ran back into the living room, thinking of a lie to why (Another rhyme! 3 points) Tyson and Kai weren't there.

"We could go eat something if you want, Judy. I hear there's tons of cool food you can try hear!"

"Thanks, Kenny, but I'm full after eating some of the food here."

"We could go to the sovenier stands and buy something!"

"It's alright, Hilary, I already bought a present to give to Max. I actually bought presents for all of you."

"Couldn't we go to the beach and make sandcastles or something?"

"I would, Ray, but I'm afraid that I'm not dressed properly for the beach." Judy was right, she was only wearing a knee-high grey skirt and a blue T- shirt. She was also wearing high-heels.

They'd suggested practically every other thing to do besides go back to the house because they knew Max had gone there. If Judy saw Tyson or Kai, it would be the end of them and their vacation. The BBA would be frantic, and Mr. Dickinson, well, who knew what he would say or do.

"Please, Judy," Hilary said with desperation. "The house is kind of messy, and we haven't washed the dishes or anything. Plus, it kind of smells. Not to mention that the couch isn't exactly looking sharp anymore." Ray slightly glared at her, he hadn't gotten around to hemming up the tear in the couch.

"It's really no trouble at all." Judy said, but she looked a little confused at their attempts to hold her off. "It's not like I've never seen a messy house before, or dirty dishes. And I'm sure that I've smelled worse scents in the world. As for the couch," Judy stopped right in front of the doorway to the house and turned around to face them. "A shredded beyblade is harder to fix than that."

"Really, we're telling you the truth. You do not want to go in there." Ray said.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't go into this house."

"Because it's a really bad idea to go in there." Hilary said.

Judy sighed. "And why is it a bad idea to go in there."

"It just is!" All three said in unison.

"I'm sure I've taken bigger risks before. Besides, it's not like there's something in there that's going to kill me, right?"

"You'd be surprised."

Judy's eyes widened as she took in Hilary's words. "You mean, there's something dangerous in there?"

"Kind of." Ray said.

Judy rolled her eyes, turned around, and made to open the door, but stopped. "Where are the keys?"

Kenny slowly reached into his pocket and pulled out a single silver key. He handed it to Judy and she put it in the keyhole and turned it, then took it out. She put her hand on the doorknob, but couldn't open the door.

"That's strange . . . It's locked."

"Oh! It must have already been open! My bad!" Kenny said. He took the keys from her and unlocked the door.

Judy turned the knob. They all walked in and saw Max standing in the middle of the living room with a huge smile on his face. "Hi, Mom!" Judy walked up to him and embraced her son in a huge hug.

"Oh, Max, it seems like I only saw you yesterday, and now you're all grown up!"

"I'm not that old yet, Mom. And could you stop hugging me? You're sufficating me . . . "

"Oh! I didn't know I was hugging you that hard! I'm sorry, Max!"

"It's no problem. So, what are you doing here?"

"I came to visit you and your friends." Judy took her backpack off, unzipped it, and pulled out six minature plushies. She handed a dolphin one to Hilary and a monkey one to Kenny.

"You won't believe what else they had there! I thought they were so cute!" She then removed two other plushies from the backpack. One was a doll that looked just like Ray, except it had huge chibi eyes and it was wearing a different Chinese outfit similar to Ray's, but much more colorful. The baggy pants were blue instead of black, and the Chinese cover-up was all red with a black belt around it's waist. The hair was made of dark brown thread, and braided in the famous braid with the white tie around it. A headband ying-yang symbol of red and blue was tied around it's forehead. (Man, I would just LOVE to have that thing)

Max's plushie was much different. There was yellow thread hair instead of real hair, and it was wearing the same outfit as Max. The baggy blue T- shirt, the tops underneath it, the beige shorts, and the plushed sneakers were all there. It had the most adorable blue eyes, and it even had Max's freckles around his nose. (I want it!)

"Woh, I didn't know America made plushies of us. This doesn't look anything like me at all."

"I'm with you, Ray. My hair does NOT spike up like that. And there's no way my eyes are that big. They even messed up my freckles!"

"What do you mean, Max?" Hilary asked.

"I have exactly twelve freckles. Six on one side and six on the other. This one only has ten!"

"Does it really matter, Max?" Ray asked. "They messed me up too, see?" Ray held out his plushie to Max. "Mine's wearing tennis shoes, and I've never worn tennis shoes."

"Can we see Kai's and Tyson's plushies?" Hilary asked Judy.

Judy nodded and pulled out two more. The Tyson one had navy thread hair pulled back in its usual ponytail with his hat on top. It had greyish pants on and a yellow shirt with a red vest. Plushie sneakers also accompanied it. "Looks like they got everything right on it." Hilary said as she observed the doll.

"Yeah, it looks just like him, except the huge eyes." Kenny said.

The Kai plushie was wearing (I'm kind of guessing here people, so don't complain if I get something wrong. I've only seen him in this outfit about three times, and that isn't enough.) black cargo pants, brown plushie boots, armguards on the soft arms, a black shirt, and a white scarf. It also had huge crimson eyes, and even had four blue triangles on its face. (Basically, his first season outfit). The hair, however, was plush, not thread.

"They got everything right on this one, I think." Hilary said.

"Not everything," Max said, taking it from his mother and looking at it carefully. "Sure, they got everything right with the hair, and I guess its okay if it has those eyes. But, something seems missing . . ."

"You're right." Ray said. "Something's wrong with it, but what?"

"I don't see anything wrong with it." Judy said.

After a while of staring at it, though, they all came to the conclusion that something was indeed wrong with the plushie. None of them could think of what it was.

"Gweat. He wocked da door."

"I didn't even know she had a lock on her door. Our's doesn't."

Kai and Tyson were presently locked in Hilary's room. They could distinguish voices from the living room, but they kept quiet, knowing that if they made a loud enough sound, they would surely attract attention. Attention was the last thing they needed.

Kai climbed with some difficulty onto Hilary's pink bed. He suddenly felt his head throbbing, and he held his hands up to it. Tyson noticed this and asked, "What's up with you?"

"My . . . head . . . hurts . . ."

"Why?"

Kai sweatdropped and almost started laughing outloud. For once, he didn't have an answer to a question. However, he had a suspicion that it had something to do with-

"Tyson! Would you stop moving around?! I'm trying to think!" Kai whispered loudly.

"But I hafta go to da bathwoom!"

Kai blinked in surprise. His headache returned full force, and he realized that he also had to go to the bathroom, but probobly not as badly as Tyson needed to go.

"How long can you hold it?" Kai asked.

Tyson was jumping around the room. "Not vewy much much wonger!" Tyson quietly said.

This was not a good situation. The door was locked, there was only one bathroom, which was currently down the hall outside the locked door. Tyson couldn't hold it. He had to go. And when you have to go that badly, you usually make some sort of loud noise. . .

"What was that noise?" Judy asked. They were all in the kitchen now. They had been talking about what they'd been doing in the past couple weeks, but then they'd all heard a scream coming from inside the house somewhere.

"What noise?" Max asked innocently. He'd heard the noise, and he silently prayed that they wouldn't make anymore.

"That noise I just heard. Did any of you here it?"

The rest of them followed Max's lead by shaking their heads in a 'no.'

"I could've sworn I just heard something. Maybe I was just imagining things."

"What are you trying to do, get us killed?!" Kai venomously whispered in anger. He'd jumped off the bed to stop Tyson from yelling any further, and his hand was currently over Tyson's mouth. Tyson mumbled something into Kai's hand. He removed his hand from Tyson's mouth and gave Tyson a 'are you stupid or something' look. Tyson just glared and said, "I really have to go!"

"When I need to go too, then we'll shout. Until then, let's get Dranzer and Dragoon out of here."

Tyson suddenly felt the pressure vanish. He'd almost forgotten that Ray had put the two bit beasts in Hilary's room.

"We don' know where Way put dem, dough." (We don't know where Ray put them, though)

"Then we'll just have to look then, won't we?"

Okay, all you guys and girls are probobly all mad at me for being really late with this chap. And I don't blame you, but at least I updated within the month! There are some stories out there that don't get updated for a year! That is just wrong. I rewrote this chap four times, this chapter being the fourth. I couldn't figure out what I was going to do with it. And the dressing up of Kai is coming either next chap or the one after that.

I have a reason for not updating too! Those beep teachers at school, blame them! I've been trying to complete a stupid review for Geography, it's all terms! ALL WORD TERMS AND I HAVE TO WRITE OUT THE DEFINITIONS FROM THE BOOK! And there are exactly 347 terms that I need to define. I've been writing so much that I have a bruise on my ring finger on my right hand.

And as for the Max freckles thing, I went to my taped episodes of BBV-F and counted them. There were six on one side and six on the other side.

Whatever, I'm gonna stop talking and write the responses. And yes, right now, as I'm writing this, I'm in a rather bad mood.

A dragon's crystal: Hope you're not mad at me for sending you that thingy thing. Can't remember what it was. - And it's so cool that Tala's your cuz! Sweet! And what's LMAO mean? I've seen it about three times now. My friend, Sara, uses the word thingamabobbers too! She used it yesterday, actually. And thank you so much! Your review always cheers me up!

Narutofreak22: OMG! Seriously, I'm actually really bad at rhyming. I would have thought of that rhyme. (I don't think I knew it even rhymed! O.o) Thanks much!

CrazyInsaneAnimeFanGirl: laughing very very very very very hysterically Did one of those buildings happen to be my high school? I wish it were true. . . Well, not really. And as for hyperness, I looked in both my dictionaries, and it wasn't there. It sounds like it could be a word though. See ya! (Well, not literally)

Dragi: Thank you so much! And I did not update fast! Bad me. Bad me. I feel bad. . .

vapour: I could not stop laughing after I read your review! I've never gotten stuck in a ball pit, or anything for that matter. I feel sorry for Sam. Here, Sam can have a copy of the Kai plushie I made in this chap. And you can have a copy of the Rei plushie. I am being WAY too generous, and eating too much sugar. I should have responded to reviews when I was hyper earlier. Oh well. Thank you!

Raku Ozzarian princess: FOUR? FOUR? I had FOUR classes in kindergarten!!! That is so totally unfair! My friends are all jealous that some people in America actually have FOUR periods of classes. I have SEVEN periods, each lasting 50 minutes. How long are your classes anyway? Maybe they're longer than mine and I'll feel better. And no, you didn't say who your favs were, but I feel bad anyway 'cause I knew at least two of them. You can have a copy of the Kai and Rei plushies in this chap. hands over the plushies It's only two, but they're used in this ficcy! Later!

the tigris: I've actually been served by people like that in Burger King. Oo It's really a horror story. Well, maybe it's not THAT bad, but those perky servers are really annoying, and it's even worse when the perky server's a guy! That is horror. And it's actually happened to me too. Bye, and thank you!

Leenaren: My mom says cooler is a word, and to me, it sounds better than more cool. Yeah, I really wish Kai or Rei were in front of me. That would be so cool! And my dad says it could be mistreated or maltreated. I didn't know maltreated was a word, but he says it is. And I won't stop writing this story! I'm kind of getting bored with it, and so I'm going to try and finish this before I go on vacation! - Thanks bunches!

Hazel-Beka: Not fair. . . That's just not fair! I start earlier and end later! Even the elementary schools start earlier and end later! Good luck learning guitar! I tried . . . and failed . . . I failed the ukelele test in fifth grade. And my dad tried to teach me how to play guitar. sigh Stringed instruments hate me, I swear. Even when I played flute, that thing hated me too! That's why I quit in seventh grade. At least I can play piano. And you're proud for missing cross-country? That's funny! I'd probably be so ashamed that I'd have nightmares! O.o And I didn't update soonly either. I feel bad again. Oh well, at least I'll see some of the first season soon! Thanks!

LadyVampi: Yeah, you did forget. I'll give you plushies anyway! gives LadyVampi imaginary Rei plushie, Kai plushie, and Tyson plushie Cool! Your favs are the same as mine! Tyson is so funny, and so is Kai. Rei is just too sweet and kawaii for his own good! And I will have the next chap out earlier than when this one came out! Hopefully anyway. Thank you!

Blackrose: Yeah, Kai and high rhyme. Me and my friends once played a game to see how much things rhymed with Kai. We were playing it for about an hour or so! Don't worry, I'll get Kai on another sugar rush somehow, and get him to have fun again. Stick up his ass! That is sooo funny! I was laughing at that forever it seemed! Thanks for you review!

Rhymes for chap: 3 Total rhymes for story: 34

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