Chapter Two: Kai to the rescue!
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The sun shined brightly in the afternoon sky. A pleasant, salty breeze made it ideal for surfing. They had each rented a surfboard, with the exception of Max who got a boogie board. Rei was managing to stay on his board, and do something that closely resembled surfing. Max lay on his stomach on the boogie board and rode the waves with ease. Tyson wasn't half-bad either, but Kai couldn't stay balanced on his board, let alone surf. Kai fell off his board and into the water, yet again, and Tyson who had been watching, burst out laughing.
"Dude! You suck Kai." Tyson wobbled on his board. "And I thought you could do anything!" Kai glared at Tyson as he struggled back onto the surfboard.
"Watch it Tyson!" yelled Rei, trying not to laugh. "Kai'll hurt you."
"I'm not afraid of the sourpuss!" replied Tyson. He didn't see the next wave coming and was knocked off his own board, while Kai managed to stay on. Kai smirked in triumph. Another wave knocked Kai down again. Finally giving up, Kai went back to the beach and sat down under palm tree. Getting tired of boogie boarding, Max went to shore too and started looking for seashells.
Tyson swam over to Rei. "I'm hungry! Let's go eat!" There was a low grumbling that could only have been Tyson's stomach.
Rei got an anime sweat drop. "Is food the only thing you think about Tyson?"
"I think about other things too!" Tyson claimed defensively. "Like… uh… er… um…"
Rei got another sweat drop. "My point exactly." He sighed. "Alright, we can eat. Should we ask Kai and Max if they want to come?"
Tyson was too eager to eat. "Nah." Without another word, Tyson swam to shore and ran to the closest restaurant.
(I wish something exciting would happen. Like a beybattle or something… wait a minute, how did I win a vacation anyway?!) While Rei was deep in thought, an enormous wave came up behind him. Without realizing what happened, Rei was pulled under by the force of the wave. The force was so great it knocked the air out of Rei and he inhaled salt water. (This can't be happening!!) Rei felt his feet get caught in an old fish net as he struggled to the surface. (SOMEONE!! HELP!!!) Rei began to feel light-headed as darkness surrounded him. His lungs burned from the lack of air and his heart pounded, his limbs became weaker and weaker as Rei struggled more frantically to the surface. (This…. is… it…) Everything went black….
Rei felt pleasantly warm. All seemed quiet except for one sound… he couldn't make it out, but it was getting louder every second. He felt a sudden jolt as if being shaken and could make out the words.
"Rei! C'mon Rei! Wake-up!" Tyson was yelling frantically while shaking him.
"What… happened…?" Rei managed to ask.
Tyson, Kai, and Max were staring down at Rei with worried expressions. Kai seemed the most worried of all. Rei could have sworn Kai gave Rei a small smile. Not to mention Kai seemed as if he had swam a mile, because she was out of breath.
"Stop shaking him, Tyson! He's coming around." Kai shouted protectively.
Max leaned closer, a look of deep concern on his face. "Are you alright?"
Rei nodded, but he still felt light-headed. "Yeah, I'm okay. What happened?" He asked again.
"Well," Tyson began. "I was coming back to see what was taking you so long. Then I saw Kai dragging you onshore, you looked unconscious, dude."
Kai looked extremely cross. "You shouldn't have left without him, Tyson." He scolded.
"You should probably go back to the hotel and rest." Suggested Max.
Tyson held his hand out to help him up. "C'mon, dude."
Back at the hotel, Tyson was bragging about rescuing Rei from a horrible fate, that is he was bragging until Kai gave him a dangerous look that clearly stated: "Lie one more time, and you won't live to regret it". Max was showing off the seashells he had managed to collect. Kenny had done some exploring of the hotel while the others were out and found a swimming pool, bar, and karaoke lounge. Tyson wanted to sneak into the bar to try some booze. Unfortunately, no one wanted to go along so Tyson just stayed in the room. Rei was itching to do some beyblading; he couldn't stand just sitting in the room having to put up with Tyson's complaints.
"Hey Kenny, do you know if there are any mini tournaments around here?" Rei asked after awhile.
Kenny looked up from his laptop. "There might be a tournament… Let me check." He typed in some stuff into his laptop. "There is a tournament coming up soon. No teams are needed either, so if you guys wanted to sign-up, you'd be against each other."
Kai seemed to like this news. "You can count me in that tournament!"
"Me too!" Tyson piped up, enthusiastically. His stomach gave a loud grumble. "But first, can we go eat? I'm starved!" Everyone sweat dropped.
Tyson stuffed his face for over an hour. He went through a total of twenty-four plates, not including dessert. Kai, as usual, ate the least. Rei didn't chat as much as he usually did at dinner, something that Max pointed out.
"Is something wrong, Rei? Usually your quite talkative." Max asked.
"I'm oka-." but Rei was interrupted.
"He's probably thinking about how Kai saved his hide earlier today!" Tyson said with a smug grin. Rei was about to deny this statement, but Tyson yet again interrupted him. "Ya'know, Kai was afraid you had stopped breathing. If you hadn't woken up he might've done 'mouth to mouth'." Rei didn't know how to respond to this, so he looked at his plate. Suddenly, Tyson's head went forward and crashed into his plate. The whole restaurant went silent and watched the angry Kai panting heavily.
"Tyson!" Kai snarled.
"Ow! That hurt Kai!" Tyson frowned and held his throbbing head.
"You really want to die, don't you Tyson?" Kai growled.
Rei sighed. "Tyson, I nearly drowned today. I'm not in the mood right now." With that, he went back to the hotel room for bed. Kai looked after him with a worried look on his face.
