Here's the third chappie! I hope you likes. -
Disclaimer: I do NOT own beyblade. Only my OC's and plot, (regretfully).
"Well... It'll be tough... this is an extremely rare model! I've never even seen it before. But for a friend of Max's, I can make an exception" said Max's dad. "It'll take time. Do you need it by any particular time?" he asked Elisabeth. She opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted.
"We need it in four weeks time maximum." Kai answered for her. "She needs time to practice with us before the competition in Sapporo."
"Aaah. So THIS is the fifth blader, huh? So you guys will have a girl blader to add some edge to your group. I'm sure Hilary is glad." He smiled. Hilary nodded.
"Yeah," said Max, "so can you have it ready dad?"
"I think I can make that deadline. I'll have to work overtime though. I'd better get to sorting these pieces... It'll need a new weight ring but I can copy the model and..." Max's dad wandered off into the back of the shop mumbling things about the model, ring and whether he could use a new metal to add some more weight to the blade to improve balance, blah blah blah. The Bladebreakers stopped listening after a point and turned to Elisabeth.
"Thanks guys," Elisabeth said. "You have no idea how much this means to me."
"Its really not a problem." Max said, "not THAT much of a problem anyways," he sweatdropped. "My dad seems to like you." He told her.
"I'm not surprised" Kai whispered under his breath.
"What was that, Kai?" Tyson asked.
"Nothing," glared Kai.
Max let out a chuckle and started to walk outside. Everyone followed. Elisabeth and Hilary tagged along farther behind.
"Kai seems to like you" said Hilary.
"What?" said Elisabeth. She had noticed that he blushed when he was talking to her alone. She must be naïve or something, because she really didn't think it was out of the ordinary.
"Oh come on," said Hilary, "I noticed him blushing at the park. I'm not stupid you know." She giggled. "And you were so checking him out." She added. This, of course made Elisabeth blush because she indeed had been.
"Yup! It's must be true. You're blushing like mad." Hilary said silently. They were absent-mindedly getting closer to the boys.
Suddenly Max turned around and asked, "Hey Elisabeth? Didn't you have a dog with you earlier?"
"Oh! Yeah I did. She's around here somewhere. She never gets too far behind me," she responded.
=I should probably call her back. I don't know where I'm going next. =
"Mercedes! C'mere girl!" she whistled.
Just as she presumed, Mercedes came tail-wagging around the corner of a near building.
"You just let your dog wander like that?" Rei asked her.
"Wander? No. She follows me, she just gets some extra slack." Elisabeth responded cheerfully. And they couldn't complain really. They didn't even know her, and Mercedes was certainly a happy dog.
"So what do ya say we head over to my house and you can check out the practice set-up the chief organized?"
"Sounds like fun!" Elisabeth was clearly really happy now that her blade could be fixed and she was around her dog.
They heard a call from the distance: "Elisabeth!!"
Elisabeth looked over and shouted, "Tally!" she ran to the girl calling her name and they embraced.
"So how was Mexico?" Elisabeth asked her newfound friend.
"Oh it was awesome! I saw this really cute guy and we were totally flirting! My mom also too me to the Rio Grande! It was fab! Oh bethy! I wish I could've brought you with me! ...Umm... cute guy alert! Who exactly are they?" She nodded towards the Bladebreakers.
"Oh my gosh! Sorry! These are the Bladebreakers. They asked me to join their team! Isn't that awesome? Bladebreakers, this is my friend Tally. She's been in Mexico for the past three weeks."
And it showed. Tally had obviously tanned in Mexico. She had straight bronze hair with blue streaks resembling Elisabeth's red ones. She was wearing sunglasses on the top of her head, a blue tank top and black shorts. She had flip-flops on and all her fingernails were painted. The first thing Rei noticed was her blue-grey eyes.
Rei started blushing and Tally was checking him out.
"You're friends look nice," Tally commented. She just couldn't keep her eyes off of Rei.
"Tally," Elisabeth warned.
"Hey! A girl's gotta have her priorities straight!" Tally laughed.
"...So when is Andrew getting here?"
"Sometime later today. He's supposed to give me a ring on the cell." She waved a cell phone in clear view.
"Nice. Hey guys? Can Tally come with us to Tyson's place?"
"Sure!" Tyson said, "The more the merrier!"
"Whatever," Kai complained, "Let's just keep moving before we turn to stone or something."
The girls laughed and once again tagged behind.
When they arrived at Tyson's place there were elaborate training set-ups scattered all over the yard behind the Dojo belonging to Tyson's grandfather.
"Whoa." Was all Elisabeth had to say.
The guys ignored her and kept on walking. Tally and Elisabeth stood in awe. Coming from families like theirs, the had never seen anything so nice as the dojo and the backyard where there was a pond. At least Tally had gotten into a foster family.
Just then, the loud roar of a vehicle's engine came to a halt in front of the house. It was a little too familiar to Elisabeth.
"Oh no..." She and tally breathed together.
A muscular 18-year-old boy came charging around the corner and stopped at the sight of Elisabeth. He completely ignored the Bladebreakers.
"What are you doing here Dragon Breath?" demanded Elisabeth.
"Ha ha, very funny. My mum is gonna kill you for staying out in that rainstorm." He spat.
"What was I gonna do? Leave Mercedes alone outside while it poured?"
"Exactly."
"Well too bad. I'm not leaving her alone."
"Wanna bet?"
"Get out of here Dragon Breath!"
"I don't want to EVER hear you call my son that again!" came a distant reply.
Elisabeth began to shake with fear. "You brought her here?" she demanded, "How could you bring her here!?"
"Are there any rules against it?" he smirked.
Just as predicted, her aunt came wobbling around the corner. "My good dear Drake. Such a good boy! Especially compared to slime like you!" she spat.
The Bladebreakers watched the look of amusement on Drake's face, and the fear on that of Elisabeth and Tally.
"How dare you disobey me! I took you into my home. I told you when you came here that you were not to be out any longer than an hour! And in the rainstorm! You will be punished!"
Elisabeth's eyes widened at the horror of what her aunt could do with the help of Drake. Countless times had he been ordered to rape her, and he didn't care because they weren't actually cousins. Elisabeth had never met her mother because she died giving birth to her. A few years after, Her father married her mother. A mistake they would pay dearly for. He could beat her and hold her down as well. She was used to it, but it was still bone chilling.
Tally's cell phone rang and she answered it with a quaking voice, "Hello?"
She seemed relieved at the caller. She immediately began whispering frantic things to the caller that Sara, Elisabeth's aunt, and Drake couldn't hear.
She hung up and looked at Elisabeth, signalling something about Andrew and his friends coming soon.
Elisabeth just hoped it was soon enough.