Disclaimer: No, I do not own Beyblade. If I did, I'd probably edit Tyson out. No, I wouldn't cause he's the funny one… hmmm…

Shaedowe: They've stopped fighting… my WGs, I mean…NOT thankfully. Now they're taking turns to watch me, which is sooooooooooooooooooooo much worse, cause now they're monitoring my EVERY move, and I MEAN EVERY SINGLE MOVE!!! Sigh…

Myishi: Quiet and get on with the story.

Fein: Yup or the readers will get bored…

Shaedowe: See what I mean? What did I ever do to deserve this…?

Myishi: :(

Shaedowe: Oh help, now she's gonna kill me… gulps

SAVE ME! Ahhh!

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Before I write my will, there are a few things I have to do…

Like…

Thanks to the following reviewer(s):

bs3ssi0n: Thanks to one of my most frequent reviewers… gives Reave figure Yea! I'm finally

giving out one of the special plushies!

And thanks to Darkness-fire: You're very frequent too, but seeing as you're a good friend of mine, I think you can wait a while, right? If not, then kill me… my WGs are gonna do that anyway… plus killing me won't do any good, then you won't know the end of the story… hee hee… and I'm giving you… Malik. I know you like him, right? If you don't, then too bad, too sad.

And here we go… one story on the way…

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The girl laughed. She had a head of pale blond hair and her ruby red eyes were dancing with happiness.

The raven-haired girl who was leaning casually against the wall didn't laugh, but a faint smile played along the edges of her lips.

Three other boys were there too.

The boy with slate-coloured hair was trying not to smile but not managing quite well. The result was a smirk. But the pleasant kind of smirk.

Another boy was trying to play it cool but a nervous grin somehow made its way to his mouth. A lock of his silvery-blond hair fell into his deep blue eyes, eyes that were azure, like the sky and he brushed it away impatiently. No way was he gonna miss the action.

The last of the group, a boy with a head of messy dark-blue hair, was further away from the group, but seemed to be the centre of attention. He was the only one with a straight face. And he needed it.

"Sir, there's a cockroach at that piece of fruit. Sir, yuck! The cockroach, quick get it!" He yelled.

The slate-haired teen's smirk widened. The other girl's eyes, swimming with different shades of green, twinkled and she focused more of her attention on the scene at the middle of the marketplace. The pale-blond haired girl clutched her stomach, quaking with silent laughter and nearly doubled-over. Poking the silvery-blond hair guy who had the luck to be standing next to her, in the shoulder, she gestured half laughing, to the drama unfolding at the store. "Look Chance, look, look at Alan." Her short speech was punctuated by little giggles. "Oh, this is so fun, but if Theo found out…"

Chance ignored her. Chance was usually the worrier, but today he resolved not to spoil their fun. How he wished he could he the one making the mischief.

His eyes wandered over to the other girl, not the one pulling on his arm, she was too giggly. The dark and mysterious one. How he wished he was the one she was looking at, instead of the mischievous Alan. He wanted to be the mischief-maker… And, if he happened to impress some girls, then that was an added bonus. But then, he didn't have Alan's courage to face up to the music, in the event that they got caught, and nor did he have Alan's… whatever Alan had that made him so attractive to the girls…

Then he turned back to the action. Maybe he could take a leaf from Alan's book. As she felt a sly grin sliding onto his face, he couldn't help but feel sorry for them. They didn't stand a chance with Alan. No one did.

And then he stopped thinking and focused all his attention on the scene about to happen. This would be fun.

The show was about to begin.

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Jade burst out of bed, panting hard. Knocking over the pitcher of water on her bedside table in the process.

The noise caused the two other girls to come rushing from their adjacent room.

"Jade, are you okay?" Jazlyn asked worriedly and flicked a switch. The lamp at Jade's corner of the room flickered on.

Still panting, Jade somehow managed to give her a watery smile. "Yeah, just a nightmare."

Nattie sat on the edge of Jade's bed. "Well, your just a nightmare sure didn't sound 'just'. You sounded like you'd seen, like, a ghost?"

Jade stared at the clock. Its solemn face stared back at her, revealing no answers. It didn't need to. Jade hadn't even seen the clock.

Nattie was right. She had seen a ghost. Not just a ghost, but many, many of them. Who were they? Ghost of her past? Did they have anything to do with Ancient Atlantis?

Ancient Atlantis! Reave!

Breaking out of her thoughts, she glanced at the bed opposite the room. Reave's bed. The light was faint at her side. Her bed was still mostly enshrouded by darkness. Was she awake?

Normally, whatever dreams Jade received, Reave would get them too. This had always been the case. Now, though… she seemed to be still deep in her slumber…

Jazlyn followed her gaze to the sleeping silhouette of Reave. "Do you want us to wake her up?"

Nattie yawned. "I don't think you should. She returned late last night after dinner, dunno what she was up to, training probably. Or something else, I didn't ask, but, hey, I trust my teammate. She deserves all the rest she can get."

Jade nodded. "Yeah, I was asleep already and she wasn't back yet, so probably she returned late."

Jazlyn still looked worried. Squeezing her hand reassuringly, Jade smiled. "I'll be fine, since when have I not been fine?"

"Yeah, but that was when Reave was around. Spiritually around." She muttered, but nonetheless exited, however reluctantly. Nattie winked at Jade. "Knowing Jazzy, I probably won't get a goodnights sleep from now on… she'll get me to check on you and stuff…"

Swatting Nattie's head, Jazlyn relaxed and grinned. "Get a goodnights sleep, Jade. We've got training sessions tomorrow. Wouldn't want to make a fool out of us girls, would we?"

"Yeah," Jade laughed. Thinking about Kai, she added "especially with all those hot guys around."

"Goodnight!"

"Goodnight."

"Don't let the bed bugs- ouch! Jazlyn!"

Jade laughed again. She could always count on Nattie and Jazlyn to help her relax.

Glancing in Reave's direction, she wished to be able to fall asleep as easily.

She didn't need to.

The moment she hit the pillow, she fell asleep.

Only one person had not. In fact, she had only fallen asleep an hour ago.

One could not be sure, but in the pitch-blackness of the dead of the night, Reave's eyes seemed to glow and it seemed a soft, genuine smile lit up the corners of her mouth. Even her hair seemed to glisten, even without any light. And for once in her whole entire life, she felt tears threatening to spill out. Tears of happiness. And for the first time in her whole entire life, she let them spill out.

And for once in her whole sick, stupid, sorry excuse of a life, she didn't care.

And for once in her life, she was truly happy. Truly.

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But her good mood had diminished by the next morning when she made it down to the buffet table. And it was because of the one and only Tyson.

Of course, Jade had a large part of the blame all to herself too. As did Nattie, Jazlyn and the rest of the Bladebreakers. They were all at fault.

"Jade, hey, I heard you had a freaky dream last night." Was the greeting they received from Tyson.

"And from whom did this rumor come from?" Jazlyn shot a death glare at Nattie. Even though she already knew the answer.

"Nattie. She told Rei, Max overheard and he told me. So I conclude that this isn't a rumor, but in fact true." Tyson announced triumphantly, still conveniently stuffing his mouth full of today's specials: pancakes.

"Wow, such fancy words sprouting from a mouth so foul, especially when full of food." Jade commented sarcastically as Tyson shot her confused glances.

"Why don't you just tell us what it was about? It's not a secret, is it?" Rei prompted gently but eager for the answer too.

"Well," Jade hesitated. She couldn't very well say no to a cute guy, could she… but… She stole a glance at Jazlyn and Jazlyn shrugged. "Why not? Rei's right, after all… Except that Nattie shouldn't even have said it in the first place. But it's up to you." It seemed that she too was unable to resist Rei's rugged good looks.

She knew she shouldn't have said anything in the first place. She should have said that yes, it was an absolute secret. But all because of Rei… his dreamy looks… his intelligent eyes…

"Well," Jade described her freakish dream. Pointedly avoiding Reave's gaze. Unnecessary. Reave wasn't even looking at her.

"It was in this marketplace, where everyone was selling stuff, and… and there were this three- no four children. One had red eyes and dark-blue hair. She was a girl. There were two, actually, the other one… I can't remember, but she had green eyes. Really mystical and… and special green eyes, and there were two boys but I couldn't see them so well… its… well, quite vague now… and wait! There was a signboard, saying 'Ancient Atlantis.' That was important, I don't know why…"

Trust Tyson to make a joke out of everything. Including this.

"Hahaha! Ancient Atlantis! That's ridiculous! Atlantis doesn't exist!" He laughed.

Rei smiled and the hold Jade had on the group was broken. "You must admit, it was an interesting dream though… Where'd you get the idea of Ancient Atlantis? Nice name…"

"Yeah, cool!" Max added, nodding, with a big smile on his face.

Jade blinked. Then she remembered who else was in the room, when she had told the story and when Tyson had made that remark.

And she glanced at Reave in a panic. Anybody who mocked their 'home' was instantly punished. And the punishment was harsh.

Home… Was it really their home?

She'd wanted a home for so long, and even when she'd been adopted by that perfectly rich, wonderful family, she'd always longed for a home.

But today Reave seemed distracted. Distracted was a minor way of putting it. The only sign that she'd heard the Bladebreakers remarks was a faint frown that creasing her forehead. Other than that, her face was totally blank.

Jade glanced at her friend. Reave she prodded gently.

The hatred she came up against was frightening and she found that she was almost glad that she was immediately pushed out by Reave.

Something was definitely going on.

If only she could figure out what…

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Jade had never seen Jazlyn agree to another person taking charge. She'd always wanted to be the leader, the captain from the start. Always, that is, until now.

Until Kai, that is.

He'd taken charge immediately, pairing them up, the girls against the boys, for training. And Jazlyn had meekly accepted his decision. Nattie found it even harder to believe that Jazlyn had said yes to the fact that she had to battle against Tyson. Not one complaint.

"Maybe we should set her up with someone, seeing as she's so obedient to the one she loves…" She muttered in a stage whisper to Jade and Reave.

Jade smiled and let a small pleasant laugh escape, earning a scathing glance from Jazlyn. Reave could have been a statue with her stone-cold, wooden, never-changing face.

She herself was paired up with Rei, and to her, it seemed a good arrangement. Who knew what Nattie would risk to get a date with a good-looking guy like Rei. Nattie was to battle the blonde, friendly Max.

But she was nervous to be paired up with Rei too. She could feel her fair face heating up as he cast her a friendly grin. She was sure the red of her blush would contrast well with her pale, fair-skinned face. Not.

Stupid, stupid. This thinking was way stupid. She did not and would never have a crush on Rei. He's just a friend. A friend.

Yeah, that's right, Jade, just keep thinking, friend, friend, friend, friend, friend, friend, friend…

Who am I kidding?! She thought desperately. No one, that's who. Except me. She let out a sigh and turned her mind to other matters at hand. Concentrate, Jade. You've seen good-looking guys before. Concentrate on the battle, concentrate on beyblade, concentrate on Reave and Myst, concentrate on Kai.

Kai.

Whoops, that'd slipped out. The last thing she needed to do was concentrate on him.

Anyway, speaking of Kai…

Granted, there was one person worse off than her, or any of them for that matter.

Reave was up against the Almighty captain of the Bladebreakers himself. Not only was Kai very, very, very cute, he was a very good, very experienced blader. No way would he let her off, even if she were a girl.

But then Reave was equal to him in all of the aspects listed above as well. She was pretty, the natural type, not with the makeup. She walk through rain and mud, coming out caked in who knows what, and still look great, like a tough, hardy model.

And her skills far surpassed that of hers and Nattie's put together. If she put her mind to it. Now, in her present state, however…

No time to worry about that. Tyson licked his lips in anticipation of his victory, and Jazlyn gave her usual self-satisfied smirk as the two of them took their respective positions at the beydish.

This was going to be too easy.

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"Let it rip!"

They started off by spinning around each other, as if measuring each other up. Not a bad start, but not a good one either. To Reave, it just seemed that they were stalling for time. If they didn't attack and something, she'd get bored and leave. Which was what she'd planned to do already. Any way, to tell the truth, she was bored out of her mind already.

Maybe Jazlyn could sense her thoughts, or maybe she herself was getting bored too. Whatever the reason, she gathered up speed and sent a hard blow at Dragoon, knocking it off balance. Jazlyn smirked crossed her arms in a defiant stance.

Reave almost forgot to look bored, calm, cold, confident. The image she didn't seem to have any trouble maintaining.

One thought flitted across her mind. This was going to get interesting after all.

Tyson clearly was just waking up, whereas Jazlyn had awoken long ago. Dragoon rushed madly towards her beyblade. But in that split second, Noira had disappeared.

Tyson was too stunned to speak, which was a first. "Wha-?"

Then he needed to say no more as Noira appeared behind Dragoon and sent it flying out of the beystadium, across the room and right in the wall, creating a large, smoking dent.

Coolly, calmly, Jazlyn caught Noira and slipped it into her pocket. Staring in disgust at Tyson she smirked. "World Champion? Maybe Champion Loser would be more appropriate."

The other occupants of the room were stunned too, save for Kai and Jazlyn's teammates. Kai was never stunned. But Jade, Nattie and Reave had seen this all before. This came as no surprise. It was only to be expected of Jazlyn to show Tyson up in their very first training session.

Nattie tutted and shook her head. "Typical Jazlyn. You just couldn't resist it, could you?"

Jazlyn grinned. "Nope, I couldn't. But maybe you can, Nat. It's your turn to show off."

Nattie made a peace sign. "My pleasure."

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Shakily, Max made his way to face Nattie at the beystadium. This was going to be tough, who knew what they were capable of? Especially after what they did to Tyson's blade.

"Hi Max." She drawled. "Your butt is mine for the kicking."

Max blinked and reached for Draciel.

"3-2-1, let it rip!"

"Draciel, go!"

Nattie smirked as Draciel went on the attack immediately. This would be so boring, she knew.

Watching intently, she immediately found Draciel's weakness. This was way too easy. Maybe she should be a professional blader after all. She was gonna win this one for sure. Without calling out Taphorior at all.

"Haha." She laughed. Max glanced at her, perplexed, and in doing so, lost his concentration. It was only a matter of minutes before Draciel went the same way Dragoon did.

Nattie grinned. "Never mess with a pretty girl. You know, Max, you really shouldn't show Draciel's weaknesses so early in battle. You never know, you might just lose."

Nattie returned to her teammate's side and met Jade's ruby red eyes. " Knock'em dead."

Jade smiled and felt the butterflies in her stomach begin to disappear one by one. Nattie often had that effect on people. Jazlyn grinned. "They don't deserve they're title… I don't believe this, I never even used Noira and Tyson lost! He lost! And Max too."

Now Jade grew worried. "You don't think they're doing this on purpose, are you? If they are, no wonder we won…"

Nattie patted her on the shoulder. "Relax! You worry too much."

Jazlyn punched her shoulder. "And you worry too little. But yeah, Nattie's right. Just relax, you'll win. I don't think they're doing it on purpose. They don't have the brains."

Nattie pretended to look gratified. "I'm right?"

Jade laughed and her nervousness evaporated again. "Yeah, I'm sure I'll do fine…"

Her gaze wandered over to Reave who was standing casually a few metres away from them. Reave she prodded. Reave didn't look up, but gave her the thumbs-up signal. Harvadon Cornefiedre. Have confidence.

Jade smiled. I wiiul. She answered. I will.

"Since you're a girl, and I'm gentlemanly, I'll take it easy on you, ok?"

Jade was amused. Take it easy? Hadn't he seen what their first bladers had done? Well, if he wasn't convinced, she could always provide a second demonstration of their unbeatable power.

"Take it easy? Rei, it seems you don't know me at all. Now, you're gonna see the real me."

"Let it rip!"

Their beyblades flew off and landed in the beystadium, inches from each other. Blow after blow was delivered, by both and to both. But both weren't weakening. At all.

With a sudden jerk, Driger sent her off to the edge of the beystadium, and it was only pure blind luck that Kenslief managed to stay in the ring. Behind her, Jade could almost hear Jazlyn gritting her teeth.

Rei grinned. "You'd be happy to know, I am taking it easy."

Jade frowned. All her love and friendship with Rei was gone now. Now, she just saw him as a plain, common and deadly enemy. That was what usually happened when she felt she was going to lose.

And that was not an option.

"Well, you'd better not now. For your sake. Kenslief, attack."

Rei didn't falter. " Driger!"

A magnificent white tiger rose out of his beyblade and roared loudly. Jade gritted her teeth. She'd forgotten all about exactly how powerful Rei's bitbeast actually was. And how much more focused he was, how much more serious he was than Tyson.

How much cuter he was.

Whoops, she really was spending too much time with Nattie. And too little with Reave and Jazlyn. This had got to stop. She really didn't need any more distractions than there already were.

"Kenslief!" She summoned her bitbeast. And then she felt that sensation throughout her whole body. That exhilarating feeling of elation, of power, of strength.

A silver fox emerged from her silver top, emitting a soft, feminine kind of howl.

And immediately, its fur stood on end. It was nervous. Very nervous. Actually, sheer terror was closer to the truth.

Jade grimaced. Little foxes tended not to pick fights with gigantic, powerful tigers.

And hungry, don't forget hungry.

She winced as Rei ordered an attack. This was the end. She was going to lose, lose, lose. She couldn't help it. She squeezed her eyes shut.

And felt someone take total control of her body.

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Shaedowe: This is the end! The end!!!

Myishi: She's behaving just like Nattie... sigh...

Shaedowe: I am not. I am behaving like me.

Myishi: Yup. That's you all right.

Shaedowe: Are you patronizing me?!

Myishi: No, of course not! How could i when you're such an innocent little girl...I-

Shaedowe: That's right. I'm innocent, i'm an angel, i'm... (voice trails off as she leaves, still muttering)

Myishi: Crazy.

Fein: Plain crazy.

Shaedowe: That's the only thing they agree on. If you ask me, they're the mad ones.

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And ok, Darknessfire, you win. Fuji Syuusuke is better than his brother.

I have book 17. Haha. That's why i changed my mind.

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!