Blue: all right, here's the next chapter I've been able to squeeze out during trai... *get's knocked out by a frying pan*
Rain: Mwahah!!! I'll take over from here, k Blue? *no answer* I thought you'd agree with me.
Rei: *looking around* where's Red Rain?
Rain: *points to a squirming bag at the other end of the room* over there.
Rei; .... why?
Rain; *shrugs* I dunno. Hey, do you think I could fly? *stands up on a high cliff that magically appeared*
Rei; no, probably not, and it wouldn't be a good idea to...
Rain; *jumps and flaps arms* whee!
Rei; ... try *covers his head*
Rain; *screams* I'm flying! I'm flying! *pauses* no wait... I'm falling! I'm falling! AUGH!!!!!!!! *lands*
Rei; *runs over* are you alright?
Rain; *groans* yeah, luckily my back broke my fall.
Tyson; -__-* can you say blonde?
Rain; yeah, blonde.
Everyone; *sweatdrops*
Rei; anyways, on behalf of Blue and everyone else, here's the next chappie!
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Day of the battle
Mariah awoke to the sun shining through the window, lighting up the slightly messy room. She sat up and yawned before turning to her lover who wasn't there. Growling slightly she throws the sheets off her athletic figure and moves across the room to change into her normal outfit.
She strides out of the room and makes her way to the living room while putting her hair up.
"Morning Emily, where is everybody?" she asks as she sees the other girl making breakfast in the small kitchen.
"Hey Mariah. The guys have gone out for some extra training before later on" Emily replies, not looking up from the eggs she's cooking in the frying pan, "and Rei, I think, is still in her room. What the heck she's doing in there I have no clue"
Mariah shrugs in agreement before plopping down on the couch and starting a nice conversation with the other girl. The shameless talk about hunky music stars was cut short, however, by the sound of footsteps slowly making their way to the living room. Looking up, Mariah bites her lip in pity.
Rei walks in, but not in her usual outfit, she's dressed as Ray.
"You do realize that Blake will want your head, right?" she asks, worry evident in her voice as she watched the male look alike walk over to the armchair across from her.
"Yeah, I know" Rei replies, putting her head in her hands. "But I can't have him knowing who I am just yet" she explains.
Mariah opens her mouth to say something but is cut off when Rei stands up, suddenly, clenching her fists.
"I'll be in my room. Come and get me later" she says curtly before storming out of the room and down the hall, leaving the two girls in the room completely confused.
(Blue: where am I going with this? *shrugs* meh, who knows what goes on in my head. *sees reviewers angry faces* Meep! Did I say that out loud? Sorry, sorry, gomen *bows* please, continue reading *hightails it out of there*)
Not long after Rei had disappeared to her room did Kevin come in with a grave look on his face.
"We have to go" he tells them. They nodded and Emily took off her apron as Mariah went to fetch Rei and Galux.
Once the four made their way to the council hut, they found the rest of the fighters waiting in front of it for Rei's arrival.
A couple triumphant glares were sent Kai's way as Rei made her appearance, but Kai just kept his cold, emotionless mask up and stood his position in line in front of Tyson and Max.
Rei smiled to the group and stands in front of them all in the veranda on the councillors hut.
"Today, we battle for our land, pride and honour." Rei starts, formally, as the village people gather around all the bladers. "When you are out there just remember that this is a war. A war that we will win!" she pumped her fist in the air as cheers came through the crowd. She soon raised her hand for silence once again. "People of the village, look upon your warriors. These men and women are the hopes for our future and I am sure, no positive, that they will fulfill the expectations without measure."
She looks upon the group of fighters and smiles, gracefully. "Good luck with all of you and when we get back...I'm thinking that ol' Mama Julia won't mind making a few of her famous apple pies?"
A couple laughs go through the crowd as one of the older women grin and bows.
"But of course!" Julia tells them and the bladers from the village cheer.
"Thank you. All right people" she looked at all the fighters "Let's move!"
She walked down the steps and took her place ahead of the fighters with Lee and they walked through the crowd which had parted for them to pass. Many families wished their fighter good luck at the last moment, giving them either a small candy or a rose.
Once out of the village the air was full of small talk and laughter as they made their way to Sakuyto valley beyond a small ridge of mountains.
It was an easy journey, taking them only a few hours to get through the valley and the pass connecting the two valleys. When the group finally got to the valley they stood at the opening for a few moments in awe at the beauty of the small place. It is surrounded by trees on either side of the valley but from the centre straight out there are no trees, just open plain. As they looked, they noticed that on either edge of the pain was a steep sloped hill that, once you got to the top, levelled off to a platform covered with small grass.
"All right" Rei cut in everybody's gazing time "Let's move. Blake is already here" she said tonelessly. With that, she heads down the hill and to the centre of the valley.
Only fifteen minutes later does the entire party finally arrive and take their places at the bottom of the sloped hill, Blakes troops at the bottom of the other with Blake on top of the platform-like hill.
"So. You finally showed up" Blake called from the other side of the small valley, Rei smirks and jumps twice to make it to the top of her platform.
"I wouldn't miss this for the world" she tells him in an icy voice that sent shivers down Kai's spine, but he didn't move.
Blake's eyes went wide at this act. "Where's the girl, Ray! Don't tell me that your taking her place, AGAIN!!!"
Rei/Ray smirked and nodded to Lee who began giving orders to his side who, in turn, began to take their positions, barricading the slope. "I'm afraid so, Blake. Sorry if she couldn't accommodate your expectations, but some things are so much more important than you these days....make that everything"
Blake's golden blond hair reflected some of the sunlight as it was covered by rain clouds. He gritted his teeth as a couple of sniggers came from his side of the field. "SHUT UP!!! Well, if that's how your leader wants to play, I'll have to get my troops to make sure you can't battle in the next one" he threatens.
A couple of the bladers on Rei's side look slightly worried as they readied their blades, all of them thinking about the same thing as 'If she gets hurt were screwed over.'
Kai looked to either side of him as he readied his own blade, Robert was obviously very peeved at all the trash talking and Max was slightly nervous. Smirking to himself as he held his blade at his side, Kai thought (He has the right to be). He looked up and at the opponent. (It's 30 to 25, that's 5 more fighters than we could gather up.)
Rei looked at her line of defence as the first few drops of rain fall onto the field. "You ready yet, Blake?"
"Oh, I'm ready. Ready to put your sorry ass out of commission!" he shouted and yelled to his second in command. His troops begin walking towards herd.
Rei clucks her tongue as a parent would to a naughty child. "Now, now, now, there's no need to use such language. After all, my donkey is at home" she says simply and orders Lee to take the line forward.
(Blue: LETS GET READY TO RUMMMMBBBBBLLLLLEEE!!!!)
Lee nods and yells and order and the line of bladers move forwards to intercept the oncoming line, slowly. Suddenly the other line begins jogging and their line jogs, then they run at full speed to final interception and the other line follows.
"LET IT RIP!!" was heard as all the blades were released and each person took on an opponent: Kai, Tyson and Robert with two each.
Blake immediately begin shouting orders. "Let's go! Hit em low! Surprise is the element, people!!!"
Rei's golden eyes dart to each of her warriors and she could never have been more proud. It's true what the rumours had said, Blake was a great strategist and a worthy enemy. His bladers are probably some of the best that Rei had seen in a while, or at least since her blading days.
"My warriors! Remember to work as a unit!" she yelled suddenly over the sound of the pouring rain. It was obvious she was heard because almost immediately Kai and Robert destroyed one of each other's opponents blades and smiled at each other.
But Blake's troops aren't deaf, either. They too heard Rei's order and began to work together as well, making the going a lot more difficult for the people they went against.
"All right! Take that you big bullies!!" Tyson yelled at one of his opponents who's blade he's just destroyed with Dragoon's whirlwind attack.
"Way to go Tyson!" Max calls to his friend as his own opponent was getting frustrated from the constant and unbreakable defence he had up. Him and Tyson went back to back and with their combined attack and defence strength they were unbeatable...then again they couldn't get past their opponents who were, as well, working together and were unbeatable. It was a deadlock.
The entire field was in a deadlock, everybody but Kai had a bit-beast and they were all fighting, no one could get an upperhand.
Rei bared her teeth and clenched her fists as she watches the battle basically stop from her perch on the hill.
"He's better than I thought" she mused outloud to herself.
Kai and Robert nod to each other and both their blades suddenly work together and destroy their opposing blades. They run forwards but are stopped suddenly and surrounded by four boys their age cracking their knuckles.
Kai and Robert's blades each return to their owners hands and, working together and watching each other's back, they take down the four in minutes in a spectacular battle, both sides well matched except for the fact that it was a 4 on 2 fight!
The two clap each others hands before turning their attention towards the leader on the other hill who stands there, watching the two through the sheets of rain.
Rei watched and grinned with pride as Robert and Kai made their way up the muddy embankment to face off against Blake.
A scream catches her attention and her eyes go wide when she looks over to where it came from. One of her own fighters, Vance was his name, dropped to the ground with a small trickle of blood moving down his face from the side of his lip.
"No! That's not allowed to happen!" she shouts as the killer beyblade returned to the smiling owners hand.
Because of the commotion, Tyson and Max looked over and lost concentration on their battle so their blades were easily defeted and they were passed. Three boys passed them and with the killer they made their way easily up the slope to Rei.
She took a fighting stance as the four boys surround her, not giving her a way to escape. They were very skilled in the ways of fighting and strategies, not as much as Blake but were well enough to know to all attack at once. They overwhelmed her in a matter of seconds, so much so she could not defend herself for much longer after they started attacking.
When a kick was thrown to her middle she doubled over and the world seemed to slow down for that one period of time as she watched the battle across the field through the rain.
Taking forever, Robert tried to punch Blake who immediately blocked it and countered with a swift kick to his side. It threw Robert backwards into a tree, though it took forever, where he was knocked out.
A tear fell from her eye 'Everybody is getting hurt...because of me...' she hangs her head as a blow to the back of her neck knocks her out and her limp body falls to the ground, hard.
Some sort of whistle sounds from one of the four boys around Rei's knocked out figure on the muddy ground. Gasps and cheers from around the valley are heard.
Tyson and Max slide down the hill once again, on their futile attempts to try to help Rei fight off the jerks but this time they didn't bother trying to get up again.
All the beyblades still in tact return to their owners hands, some of them are clenched roughly in their owners fists in frustration and fury while others are held high to show off.
Kai throws one last kick, not getting anywheres when he hears the whistle. Blake smirks and drops his guard as Kai looks over in worry at the motionless figure on the other hill.
"No..." he whispers to himself, angrily, and turns to Blake. "This isn't over" he threatens, but Blake just smiles.
"Oh, don't I know it" he tells Kai who growls and strides over to Robert, who is groaning and rubbing his head while trying to stand up.
"Wha...what happened?" Robert asks, wearily, then looks around and his jaw drops. "This isn't good"
"No kidding" Kai says sarcastically, helping Robert down the steep slope and to their group who look not only defeated physically, but beaten emotionally as well.
Once there a lot of forced smiles are sent their way as Johnny and Enrique rush over to take Robert from Kai who, in turn, rushes up the hill to Rei.
Once at the top he sees Mariah, Lee, Emily and Michael around her. Lee is checking her pulse and making sure she's all right, but all of them look worried and are covered in mud.
"She all right?" Kai asks them and Lee jumps from his sudden appearance but calms down just as fast.
"Yeah, she's going to have one Hell of a headache when she wakes up" he moves out of the way as Kai kneels beside her.
She is not only covered in mud but her face has many bruises on it. Sighing, he stands up and looks at Lee "I'll carry her back" he says simply and Lee nods, lifting Rei onto Kai's back for a piggy-back ride back home.
"I have to see what Blake has to say" Lee tells the other three still on the hill with him as the rain pours around them. Mariah nods and hugs him.
"Be careful" she whispers as he hugs her back, lovingly.
"I will be" he answers, kissing her forehead before sliding down the slope and heading to meet Blake in the centre of the field.
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Rain; ... you're wrong, Kai, I'm blonder then Max.
Kai; *sweatdrops* no kidding.
Max; Well, that's not saying much, you're blonder then everybody, Rain.
Rain; hey!!!!! *sees all the readers* oh, is the chapter over already?
Tyson; *rolls eyes* no duh.
Rain; oh shut it. I'm blonde, what's your excuse?
Tyson; I'm Tyson. Isn't that enough?
Rain; well, I'm Rain AND I'm blonde. That is more then enough.
Everybody cept Rain and Tyson; *sweatdrops*
Tyson; true true... *sees a movement* uh oh... RUN EVERYBODY *everybody but Rain scatters and hides*
Rain; what's going on? *sees Blue waking up* EEP! *runs away and hides in a closet*
Blue *rubs eyes* Where is everybody? Why am I on the floor? Ok, well anyways, here is the chapter... *sees no one around* Is it over? I slept through all of it?!?! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *starts to cry*
Kai: oh great! Your up! Now... *pulls out whistle* it's time for more training!
Blue: NO!! *pouts* meany.
Kai: ^_^ yep.
Blue: *sighs* ok then...two things before I go.
1. Young, your so negative! Loosen up a little, would ya? Have you seen what the heck Mariah is wearing lately?
2. To all my other reviewers, THANK YOU SO MUCH for being so patient with me and I'm sorry that I could not update as fast as I would have liked to. ^_^ please review and I apologize for the short chappie. Things will get going faster next chapter, and get a lot more interesting too, I promise!!