New Beginnings, New Love
Chapter 3
The girls took Suki down to dinner where she met Hazel. She seemed to be thoroughly enjoying herself, she was smiling widely as flocks of people asked countless questions. She was always more sociable than Suki was. She checked that she was ok before she left her and sat down with the others.
"There are some people you don't want to get mixed up with, Suki" Hilary explained, pointing at various groups of people.
"I can't trust that many people than can I?" Suki said jokingly. The only people left were the three girls surrounding her.
"Oh don't be such a kill joy Hilary!" Mariam exclaimed, "The only people you really want to look out for are those." She pointed over to a table of giggling girls who all had peroxide blonde hair.
"Pfft... the 20's are over!" Mariah added looking with disgust at the girls hair.
A couple of minutes later, a group of teenage boys came into the cafeteria led by the boy who had waited behind her at the fair, and the boys he was with shortly followed. And to her surprise...
"Kai!" called a blonde girl from the table at the back. Kai didn't take any notice of her what so ever and carried on walking. The girl looked extremely upset and sat back down.
Suki dropped her fork from laughing at the depressed blonde and dived under the table to get it. The boys all stopped at the table and sat down.
"Hey guys!" Said Tyson "Oooooh, food!!" Tyson lunged down and started eating Hilary's chips. Hilary didn't mind and stared fondly at Tyson. Suki found her fork and sat up. Her hair swayed gently as she pulled her head up and she opened her eyes to reveal a pair of midnight blue ones staring out. Kai gasped inaudibly and continued to stare at Suki. As did the other boys. Max's jaw had dropped slightly at the sight of her. 'She's gorgeous!' they all thought.
Mariah shook her head, though highly amused, and snorted. She went closer over to Ray, who was staring very obviously at Suki.
"Exactly the same thing happened when she walked into the refectory earlier! So stop creeping her out!" She added punching him in the arm.
"Ow!" said Ray still not taking his eyes of Suki. Mariah scowled. It was very obvious that she had a crush on Ray but didn't like to show it.
"Guys this is Suki," Mariam said nudging Max. One by one they introduced themselves just as the girls had done. Kai continued to stare at her, his expression was hard to tell.
"So we meet again" said Suki to Kai, breaking the silence.
"Looks like it" Kai grunted.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Said Hilary and Mariam looking very confused. Mariah too, looked non-plussed. The Bladebreakers just smirked as they knew how they had met.
"Well, not really" Suki began, "We were on the bumper cars at the fair and Kai crashed into me and made my car fall over." Suki smirked. Kai was grateful that she hadn't mentioned about the river.
"Oh..." Hilary replied.
"Nice first meeting then?" Mariam said grinning. Suki smirked, as did Kai.
After getting something to eat, they all returned to the girls dormitory and rested. Suki, as she was quite small and weightless, sat on Mariah's lap whilst she platted her long, silky hair. Tyson was playing some video games with Max and ray again and the others were sat talking (apart from Kai, naturally) whilst 'The Rasmus, Guilty' was playing in the background. They stayed awake until one o'clock in the morning until they eventually fell asleep where they were.
Suki was walking down a long dark corridor with many doors on either side. She looked straight ahead and saw a bloom red tiger covered in flames with wings protruding from its back standing before her. She gasped as she recognized the beast. The flaming Tiger pounced on her, going right through her. Before she could find out what happened next, she was being violently shaken and many distressed voices were shouting.
"Suki! SUKI!"
"Is she okay!?"
"What's happening?"
Suki opened her eyes and everyone was standing around her. Her face was covered in a cold sweat and the hairs on the back of her neck were standing on end. Mariah had hold of her shoulders, shaking her trying to wake her up.
"Oh Suki! Are you okay?" She asked desperately.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why is everyone crowded round me?" She added looking at their horror struck faces.
"Well... umm... you were thrashing round on your bed screaming, a lot." Max said looking quite scared.
"Oh, I'm sorry" Suki said in a small voice.
"What were you dreaming about anyway?" Mariam queried whilst sorting out Suki's bed sheets.
"Err, it was nothing" Suki lied. Kai was looking at her strangely, she had a feeling he knew she wasn't telling the truth.
"Well, night." Suki said before rolling over in bed to face the wall. She could feel eyes watching her but she was thinking about her dream. Why was Flareon in her dream? She came up with no answer and tried to get back to sleep. The boys returned to their dorms and fell asleep. Only Kai remained awake.
The next day, the Bladebreakers woke up very early, even though it was a non-pupil day, to get in a bit of practising despite Tyson's bad mood.
"GO AWAY! I'm trying to sleep!" Tyson growled at Kenny who was trying to wake him up before he rolled over.
"But Tyson, you've got to get up!" Kenny pleaded, then an idea bloomed in his head. "If you don't get up, then you'll miss breakfast."
"Well, why didn't you say so?!" Tyson jumped out of bed and got changed at the speed of light. He sped back in and tried to hurry the others into getting ready, which was very surprising.
"Come on, come one! We'll miss breakfast!" Tyson said angrily, although he loved eating, yet he didn't want to go down alone to the refectory.
"Tyson, have you looked at the clock yet?" Ray said, trying to hold back a laugh.
"Errrr...." He looked over to the alarm clock at the glowing digits and screamed in outrage.
"YOU WOKE ME UP AT 5 IN THE MORNING?! WHY? WHAT FOR?!"
"Calm down Tyson! We need to get down to the bey dishes before everyone else takes them all!" Max said in a muffled voice as he was pulling a T- shirt over his head. Tyson just growled in response. He was still angry at how early they'd awoken him.
Kai, who was sitting on the window ledge staring over the endless fields rolled his eyes at Tyson's lack of organisation. Once they were ready, they knocked on the girls door who were a couple of dorms down the hall from them.
"Pfft. They'll never be ready, they take ages putting on make-up and doing their hair!" Tyson stated. Hilary who had opened the door at that very moment, scowled at Tyson and started yelling at him. Ray poked his head round the door and asked whether they were coming. They filed out one by one edging round Tyson and Hilary who were now yelling so loud, people had stuck their heads out of their dorms to see what all the commotion was.
"Hey guys, come on let's go before all the dishes are taken." Ray beckoned the others to follow him. Tyson was about to reply but Kai glared at him and he fell silent and followed suit.
When they arrived at they bey dishes, they were indeed empty. Mariah and Ray ran to a dish and started battling, as did Mariam and Max.
"Hey Suki. Do you blade?" Tyson asked.
"Yeah." She said, sounding almost bored. Kai who had been eavesdropping on their conversation walked over.
"So Tiny, you wanna battle?" This was more of a statement than a question.
"Why not?" Suki replied, again sounding a little bored. They walked over to a dish and held their launchers ready. Tyson started them off.
"Well today we have the beautiful, wondrous Suki and the grumpy, sour, bitter –" Tyson said in commentary voice before being cut off by Kai who looked very annoyed.
"Shut up and do the damn count down," Suki smirked at the last remark by Tyson and prepared herself for the battle.
"Okay, 3... 2... 1... LET IT RIP!" Tyson bellowed as they each released their blades.
"Dranzer attack!" Kai's bit beast erupted from it's blade and soared into the air.
"Go Flareon!" Suki called to her bit beast. Everyone's heads turned to see her bit beast. A blood red tiger with wings sprouting from its back covered in flames exploded from her blade. Everyone gasped, even Kai. Suki smirked triumphantly. Flareon dived straight into Dranzer, knocking it backwards.
"Chief, because they're both fire bit beasts, won't they just cancel each other out?" Hilary asked Kenny.
"Hmm... it depends how strong the bladers are and I have to say, Suki had a lot of power even though she doesn't look like she has and Kai shouldn't underestimate her." Kenny stared at the battle with great interest and didn't take his eyes off it whilst talking to Hilary. He wasn't even noting the battle to Dizzi.
"Flareon, Fire Tornado!!"
"Dranzer Fire Arrows!"
They both shouted at the same time. A huge fire tornado erupted in the middle of the dish with arrows flying out of it. Everyone ducked to avoid getting hit. The two beasts were hidden from the flames so no one could tell what was happening anymore.
Suddenly the two bladers were thrown with such force from the dish, they landed several feet away. Kai was thrown backwards on the grown, sprawled out on his back. Suki on the other hand, being quite small and light, went flying back wards hitting her head on the stairs. They were both fairly but and bruised. Kai got up gingerly, as did the spectators though none of them suffered from any great injuries. Suki remained on the ground, blood seeping onto the ground through her hair. The others finally noticed and ran towards her, Kai, limping slightly, arrived last.
"Oh my!" Mariah gasped.
"Move," Kai grunted, not waiting for an response, pushed through the and bent down by Suki. His hands gripped her cold wrist.
"She still has a pulse." Kai said sounding very relieved.
"She needs to go to the medical room!" Hilary cried. Mariam looked on the brink of tears and buried her head in Max's shoulder. He looked slightly embarrassed but he didn't mind. Ray stared down at her wide eyed. Even unconsciousness she looks stunning, he thought. Kai, Ray and Tyson bent down and carried Suki off to the medical room.
30 Minutes later
"What the – where am I?" Suki said whilst sitting up. She lifted her head slightly only to receive a throbbing pain at the back of her head.
"Ow..." She mumbled. She looked up and saw Kai sitting on a chair next to her bed. His cuts had been sorted out.
"Are you okay?" He said gruffly.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Suki replied. "So, what happened?"
"You were thrown backwards from the dish and hit your head on the stairs." Kai filled her in. She rubbed her head, wincing from the pain.
"Oh, well I'm okay now so I'm gonna go." She got up and ran out the door in case Kai tried to stop her. The nurse came in holding some plasters and stopped in her tracked, noticing the long dark haired girl had gone.
