Wild-Roze: Heh, u may have noticed by now that my chapters come up a lot more slowly than Chris' lol, im just a really bad updater-type-person. Ok, well here we go.

Disclaimer: we don't own Beyblade only our OC's and this plot.

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The two blades shot into the dish, and circled each other for a few moments before clashing with alarming force. A small triumphant smirk graced a pair of lips, as a computer was switched on.

The two blades didn't stop for a pause at all they slammed against each other again and again, each time they were thrown back, they would come straight back in. The boys who had now been joined by Vince and by Alex watched as the girls gave no quarter.

"Woah, Kai, I think we have our work cut out for us, those two are going to make an awesome team." Johnny muttered.

"Hn, Map may be good, but no woman is good enough to best me in battle." He said arrogantly, loud enough for his white haired woman to hear. The only indication she had paid attention to what he had said was a low growl and her dark eyes narrowing marginally.

"Remember Hiwatari, I promised you would scream!" She hissed after a minuet, reinforcing her oath, before concentrating fully on the battle again.

"Take her down Shadow!" Yelled Riley, finally summoning her bitbeast after a particularly forceful blow from Atlas.

Out of the tiny chip the vast black and gold phoenix rose out, screeching loudly, challenging it's opponent to come out as well.

The person watching them silently chuckled silently, this was perfect. The watcher shifted position to be able to see more easily, and cursed as the branches around him crackled and a twig snapped.

Atlas was about to call out Enigma, in the few moments before her bitbeast appeared, her body was tingling and her senses were blazing, she could have heard a pin drop a mile away, so the crackling of branches reached her easily.

She jerked her head around to face the bushes, holding out her hand to allow Enigma to fly back to her. Riley knew her friend would not pull out of a battle without good reason, so she swiftly reclaimed Shadow as well.

"Who's there?" snarled Atlas, readying her blade to launch at the bushes.

Suddenly the person broke cover, and started running, it was a boy, roughly their age, maybe a year or two younger, as he ran he pulled out a gun and fired it randomly over his shoulder at them. Riley was about to launch her blade after him, but Kai tapped her on the shoulder.

"You might want to save your bitbeasts' energy for Johnny." He said, "He may need more than Dranzer and Enigma."

Two of the bullets had sunk into Johnny's chest, one looked very close to his heart, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and pumped out of his chest. Riley gasped.

"Johnny, no!" she breathed. "Shadow!" She called as her two friends summoned their bits as well.

The two pheonix's and the vast black snake smothered Johnny's ruptured body and poured their energy into him, it took a lot. Atlas faltered and fell to one knee as she felt her own energy draining, the others looked like they were having similar trouble coming up with enough to help the Scotsman.

"Ungh, that's enough Enigma." Breathed Atlas at the last minuet, if she gave any more, she could die. The others stopped too.

The wounds in Johnny's chest were partially healed, but not entirely, he would live at least. He groaned and managed to sit up with the help of his cousin and Riley's brother.

Riley was panting, and was slumped on her knees which had given way.

"Great, that was one on Amber's goons, now they probably have data on our blades, and now we have basically no strength left for the tournament.... It starts in four days." She rasped out angrily, she would get them back.

Kai shakily managed to get to his feet, he had never felt so exhausted.

"So, what now?" he asked.

Atlas looked at him.

"Well, we can't really train, I don't think Enigma could take even one battle after that, I think we should let them build up their strength....." She said, they would need a miracle to be at their best when the tournament started.

"Well, for now, lets just get inside." Alex said, hoisting his cousin up, and offering a hand to Riley, Vince helped Atlas stand, but Kai refused any help.

"Hn, thanks squirt." Atlas said fondly ruffling Vince's hair.

They all went inside, and immediately ordered pizza.

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"Back so soon Maxwell?" said a 19 year old girl with red hair and green eyes. She was wearing tight jeans and a matching tank top.

"Yeah," The young boy replied, "They found me before I could gather much data on Shadow, they all attacked me, I only just managed to get away." He said, exaggerating and handing the computer to Amber.

The girl swiftly reviewed the video footage.

"Hn, so, she's brought that white hired bitch back with her too." She said almost to herself. She then turned back to the young boy.

"You failed, I wanted you to gather data on the whole battle, not just the beginning, this is no where near enough to be able to know just how strong they are. You may have a little on Shadow, but the white haired one has a bit beast too!" She snarled.

"S-sorry, Mistress Amber... I" He stuttered, falling to his knees, clearly terrified.

"Idiot!" She hissed, then pulled out a gun and shot him in the neck. She angrily stalked past the boy who was gurgling in agony, choking on blood, and slowly bleeding to death.

She was determined to see both girls loose in the tournament, then once she had beaten them, she could kill them. She remembered the last time those two had been in Canada, they had both killed members of her gang without batting an eye lid, either with guns bit beasts, or once, even with arrows, courtesy of Atlas. And Alex! Him and Riley were always so close, he would regret not choosing her!

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It was the next morning, Atlas woke in Riley's living room, sprawled on the sofa, Kai's arms around her, and Riley leaning on her shoulder. No one had been bothered to trail upstairs. Soon after their battle the Bladebreakers had arrived, Tyson had eaten almost all of the pizza, and had then snored outrageously, until they had rolled him into the kitchen and shut the door. Everyone else was sleeping either on the floor or in chairs.

Atlas managed to wriggle free from the grasp of Kai, and so Riley fell to leaning on him instead. Atlas chuckled, knowing Riley wouldn't appreciate waking up leaning on Kai, besides, Johnny would probably get jealous, so she gently shifted her friend so she was no longer leaning on him, and turned to wander into the kitchen, but stopped and came back to her friends. Gently she shifted Riley back again so she was leaning on Kai's shoulder and smirked, it would be more fun this way.

"Hey, want some brekkist?" Asked a voice from behind a pile of cereal boxes. Atlas' eyes narrowed at Tyson who was waving a spoon at her.

"No, if anyone needs me I'll be outside." She said, stalking out into the garden.

Tyson shrugged and continued to stuff his face.

Atlas knew she couldn't blade, but that didn't mean she couldn't try and get stronger, archery was good for building up upper body strength, especially if you had a long draw like she did. She retrieved her bow and arrows from the storage shed where Riley kept things for riding, and set up the target. She found archery somehow relaxing and soothing. Shaft after shaft whistled into the gold centre of the target face, sinking in deeply.

She idly thought of their 'guest' yesterday, wondering how much data he had managed to gather on their blades. She had never met this 'Amber' although Riley had told her much, so she absently imagined the target to be her, based on the descriptions she had been provided with.

She smirked as she heard Kai wake up.

"Ugh! Hey! GET OFF ME BITCH!" he yelled.

"Kai you asshole!!!" atlas chuckled as she heard Riley screeching at her man. "Its not my fault, I was leaning on Atlas!"

"I don't care! Your still a bitch!"

"Jerk!"

"whore!"

"Bastard!"

"Fuck you!"

"You too bollocks breath!"

By this time Atlas was having a hard time not laughing out loud. She jumped ever so slightly as a pair of strong arms encircled her hips, she could tell Kai was about to berate her for creating that situation, so she spoke before he could.

"Want to try your luck scarf boy?" she said, loosing another arrow, it sank in at dead centre.

"Beat that." She challenged, handing him the bow which was at tall as he was.

Kai growled and took the recurve bow, and notched an arrow, after a second he sent it flying. It sank into the red ring which was the next one out from the gold, wincing at the taught string twanged against the skin on his forearm. .

"Not bad K-man, maybe I can pay you back for teaching me how to board." She said, enjoying the thought of taking on a pupil. Kai smirked, it couldn't hurt, it wasn't like there was much else to do anyway...

That whole day went by with a very gentle and relaxed atmosphere. While Kai and Atlas were outside the others were all watching early morning cartoons. The fact that Johnny had almost died yesterday seemed forgotten as did the fact that there was an entire gang out for their blood, everyone just kicked back, and relaxed.

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Wild-Roze: Heh heh heh, such a wait..... and its short, with not much in the way of action. Lol, okies, review