Chapter 5: Camping and a new face

Disclaimer: Don't own beyblade... still. It tooketh me days to get rid of that language problem, and I thinketh there's still a bit of a problem... Sorry this chapter is late, I wanted to make it longer. Not that I'm getting any reviews... This chapter dedicated to Anime Fan... Sorry if I... exaggerated your character. Mr. Dickinson comes in this chapter...

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Still Kai's POV
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Great king? This was way out of hand. God, I couldn't put up with this anymore!! It was like someone, or something was controlling me... But I still had a mind of my own... I was going to fight to the end... Kai did... Wait, where did that come from? I dunno when his end was, so why did I think that? Grr... All of a sudden, I broke through. "Damn!"

It spoke. "Master?"

"Look, I've had enough of you!! Get out!!"

"Master? Whatever be wrong?"

"Ok, that's it!" I launched Dranzer, knocking him out again. But... that was stupid! What was I going to do now? I threw it back in the bushes where I found it, which was another stupid thing to do! It was right outside my house! He'd just come in again! This was great, just great!

"Kai? What's going on down there?" My dad called sleepily from upstairs.

"Nothing, dad! But, I have a camping trip with the Bladebreakers tomorrow, and I have to pack!" My best excuse to get out of here.

"What camping trip?"

"Don't worry, dad! We'll have supervision!"

"Alright then. When will you be back?"

"We're not sure yet! We might like it out there so much, we could stay for a month or two!"

"Well, you better call as soon as you have the chance, Kai!"

"Yes, dad!" My parents weren't usually this gullible or easygoing, but normally, I wouldn't be caught dead camping, despite the fact I have pretty good survival skills. Plus, it was the middle of the night. Well, I guess that desperate times call for desperate measures. I sighed, and headed out as I finished packing the remaining things into my suitcase. I headed for Fred's place, as it was the closest one, and one of the only ones I knew.

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Stranger's POV
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I sighed, knowing that I was alone now. Not that I minded it out here. It was a peaceful place, and I could do just about anything I wanted. Waking up in this place was comforting. I paused my thoughts as I pulled my midnight blue hair back into a high ponytail, grabbing something out of my bag, and walking outside.

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Kai's POV
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I blinked, staring out the window of the plane through the golden sunrise. It had taken me a few hours to track down all the Bladebreakers, and explain what was happening. We all had some sort of connections somewhere, and together, we managed first-class on a private plane free out to some thick forests. There we would camp for about a month, and then catch another ride to thicker forests really far away from home.

We landed, and piled out with our stuff. Luckily, we found a clear, freshwater river in less than a hour. Not only that, but it was overflowing with fish. We could easily make a few rods and fish everyday. The trees around us were filled with delicious berries and nuts. Daniel had brought Dizzi and a guidebook to camping, along with a book about safe berries, nuts, and plants.

It didn't look so grim as we set up camp. We got a nice fire going, and boiled some water over it in a pot, adding a few berries for flavour. There was nobody around. Why would there be? After all, who would be in a thick forest in the middle of nowhere? As soon as the hard work was over, we ate a bit and did our own stuff. I trained. Frank experimented with cooking the different things around us. Luke helped Frank by checking the taste of his experiments. Fred read a book in the shade of a giant tree. Daniel did stuff on his laptop.

I only trained for a little while. I don't know how anyone could train for long out in this beautiful landscape. I walked through the forest a bit. By some miracle, I had managed to get my dad to lend me his GPS. There was no way I could get lost with that. I walked, I'd say, about a kilometre or two in some random direction (south, according to the GPS) before heading back to camp. It was starting to get dark.

We had a nice dinner, with enough food for everyone, even with Luke's bottomless stomach. We finished our meal with the berry juice we had made earlier, and a few candy bars we had brought. We just hung around the camp for a few hours, feeding the fire and building a small sort of wall around our camp out of wood (we had picked up an axe in town). It was about 10 metres squared. The fire was a few metres away from the tent to be safe. We made a few tiny fires outside of the wall for light and to scare any animals off.

We had each brought our own sleeping bags. We had even managed to get a pretty big tent to avoid the mosquitos. Just in case, me and Frank would stand watch that night. Not Luke because we probably wouldn't be able to wake him up in time and he'd probably fall asleep on watch. Not Fred because he would probably fall asleep or mistake a tree for a bear. Not Daniel because he'd probably scream and run if he saw a leaf shiver. Luckily, we had all brought watches, along with extra batteries. It was about 10:00. I'd watch for 3 hours, switch and rest for 3 hours, watch another 3 hours, switch and rest for another 3 hours. If the others weren't up by 10:00, we'd wake them up.

Anyways, I stood watch first just outside the wall. At around midnight, I heard a loud rustle in the bushes behind me. I held my launcher with Dranzer out, ready to fire. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who had heard it.

"Ahh!!! What was that, Dizzi?"

"Chief, are there any bears out here?"

"*SNORE*"

"Hey, Kai, you okay?" Frank asked, stepping out of the tent. I shushed him with a look and fired Dranzer in the direction we'd heard it. I didn't have to tell Dranzer out loud. He rose out of the blade and lit the whole area.

"See anything?" I asked Frank, not looking back at him.

"Nope. Nothing," he replied, looking around.

There was a loud ripping noise, and Fred rushed out of the tent, waking up Luke on the way.

A sleepy voice mumbled, "Hmm? What's going on??"

Fred looked worried. "Guys, what was that?"

Daniel stepped cautiously out of the tent, typing furiously. "Analysis, Dizzi?"

Dizzi replied sarcastically, "You mean you don't know?"

"Dizzi! This is no time for jokes!"

I called back to all of them, "Quiet!"

They all fell silent. Frank stepped up beside me, focusing his eyes on the same thing that I was. Fred and Daniel stepped up also to see what we were staring at. By this time, Luke had gotten out of the tent and was hurrying over to join us.

"Is that-?"

"Yes, Fred. And it's putting out quite a bit of energy."

Luke finally managed his way out of the tent. "Guys, what are you looking at? WHAT??? A BEYBLADE??"

"DRANZER!!!! FIRE ARROW!!!" I cried, and he rose out of the blade. The midnight blue blade continued smashing at it, showing no signs of weariness. Suddenly, a pitch black wolf rose out of it. The wolf seemed to match the sky.

A voice from the bushes called out, "FANG!!! BITE ATTACK!!!!"

The two blades crashed in a blast of light and wind. Both blades flew into the air, Dranzer into my hand, and "Fang" into the bushes. A few more rustles were heard as a shape walked out of the bushes. It walked closer, stepping into the light, and taking a seat on one of the logs around our campfire.

It was obviously a girl, with midnight blue hair tied back into a high ponytail. She wore a dark blue sweater, and dark blue jeans. She stared into the flames.

I asked coldly, my voice matching my glare, "What did you think you were doing out there?"

She looked up straight into my eyes, returning my glare with one of her's, just as cold. Her eyes matched her hair and sparkled beautifully in the night... Whoa, where did THAT come from? She merely said, ignoring my question, "You're not a bad blader. You're the only one who's survived that long with Fang."

I gave a small smile back, and replied, "You're not so bad yourself. Normally your blade would be in a million pieces right now." I mentally slapped myself. WHAT was I doing?

I took a seat beside her. "Where did you get a bit-beast so strong?"

She stared into my eyes, holding my cold gaze longer than anyone else I've ever known. She said, "What do you care, anyways?"

That caught me by surprise. I was taken aback for a few seconds and then quickly collected myself. I replied, "I don't. But if you're going to stay around here, you'll have to answer a few questions."

"Whatever."

Everyone had gathered around now. Daniel put down Dragoon and joined us. I looked around at everyone. They caught my signal and sat around the fire.

The girl asked, "So... What do you want to know?"

I thought for a second, then decided to start with the obvious. "What's your name?"

She replied dully, "Sora. You?"

~~~~End Kai's POV~~~~ (*A/N sorry, I was just getting a bit annoyed with writing in someone's POV)

Kai gave a small grunt, and muttered each of their names. "Luke. Fred. Frank. Daniel. And I'm Kai."

Sora smirked slightly at the group of boys sitting around her. "Can anyone else here blade, or is it just you??"

Luke jumped up angrily, his face red with rage. "WHY, YOU...!" Frank and Fred jumped up and held him back.

Sora smirked again, directing her words at Kai. "How did a blader like you get stuck with these guys?"

"THAT'S IT!!!" Luke screamed, holding out his launcher. "WELL?? LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO AGAINST ME!!!"

Sora merely shrugged and pulled out a midnight blue launcher. They both launched.

Luke cried automatically, "DRAGOON, PHANTOM HURRICANE ATTACK!!!"

"SLASH!!!!"

The black wolf easily sliced through the howling winds. The midnight blue blade smashed against Tyson's blade, in a fierce collision of bright light. Dragoon flew back to Tyson's hand so hard that he winced in pain as he stared at the red mark of a blade on his hand.

"AW, MAN!!! NO WAY!!! THERE'S NO WAY THAT I LOST TO A GIRL!!!!"

Kenny reached over and snatched Luke's blade. He examined it carefully. "Sh-She completely DEMOLISHED your defence ring!"

"Guess you are the only one who can blade."

"Hey! Lemme try!" Fred cried eagerly.

Sora just muttered, "Whatever." in a very "Kai" way, and said to Fred, "Launch already."

Fred blinked and asked, "Aren't you going to re-launch?"

"No. I don't need to. I can see you're using a defensive type blade, and it's no match for Fang."

Fred shrugged and launched Draciel.

"Fang! Bite!"

As expected, Draciel flew back hard into Fred's hand, leaving him with his own red mark.

Kenny had been watching the battle carefully while trying to fix Luke's blade. "Whoa..." he said, his eyes wide.

"Sora!" Kenny called.

Sora turned towards him. "What? You wanna blade too?"

"Er... no. I just want to ask you a few questions... about your blade."

"Fine."

"Um... I have a little information here... Let's see. Fang, the black wolf, is supposed to be the leader of the wolf pack. Um... You saw the bite attack, that works well on defensive types-" Kenny shot a meaningful look at Fred, whose blade had gotten off a lot easier than Luke's."-and the slash attack. There's also agility, and a howling wind attack."

Frank put in, "That's a lot of attacks for one blade."

Sora smirked. "You left out one."

"What?!?!? I have the most information around!"

"You still left out one, though."

"What is it??"

"I'll show it to you if we meet at the tournament."

"Tournament?" Kai was suddenly interested.

"Yeah, the Asian tournament. The famous White Tigers are competing."

Frank said, "Mariah did mention a tournament..."

The boys turned to Kai. He sighed. "Fine. We'll go to this... tournament. But only if we train."

Luke whined, "Kai!!"

Frank stepped in front of Luke. He grinned. "It's a deal!"

Sora muttered, "Yeah, well, I gotta go."

Kai stopped her. "Hold on. Don't you have to be on a team?"

"I blade better alone."

"So... IF we see you there..."

"Yeah, whatever. Bye." She walked into the woods.

~~~~1 month later~~~~

"Alright, boys, we have to register." Mr. Dickinson said, walking up to the registration desk at the hotel in China.

The lady at the desk looked up from behind the clock that stated 1:30. "Team name?"

Mr. Dickinson answered, "Bladebreakers!"

"Does it have 5 bladers?"

"5??" Luke turned to Kenny.

He shrugged. "I guess they changed the rules. I can't blade, you guys! I don't even have a blade, and we'd never stand a chance!"

Mr. Dickinson talked to the lady quietly. She replied loudly, "I'm sorry, sir, but the tournament rules clearly state that each team must have 5 bladers to qualify."

The Bladebreakers started to look a bit worried. At least, Fred and Luke did. Frank looked calm, and Kai showed no emotion. Kenny looked guilty for not being able to blade.

Mr. Dickinson assured them, "Don't worry, boys. I'll find another Bladebreaker before the end of the day. You boys go out and enjoy yourselves, and meet me back here at dinner time."

~~~5 hours later (6:30 PM)~~~

"Well, boys, I've found a new blader."

"Where?" Luke cried, looking around eagerly.

"In the lobby, waiting, Luke."

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