Well...um. See now, I kind of broke my little promise, from my previous chapters, explaining how I was going to update so soon and um, yeah! But, I made the chapter longer than usual! So don't worry be happy...and to make me happy...you should review. And to say the honest truth, I really don't give a rat's ass about flames either...so flame away if you really want to!

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Chapter 3 – Damn Those Tourists

Once again the group of four bladers plus one computer genius had decided to explore the area surrounding their hotel. The day wasn't exactly perfect, since there was dark, looming clouds approaching from the horizon. But they just simply shrugged off the possibility of rain, since at the moment it was a beautiful, and balmy day.

"Holy crap it's hot..." Tyson groaned as he dragged his aching feet across the pavement.

"And you don't think we already know that?" Kai growled. That little complaint from Tyson had already been heard let's say around, oh, about 20 times in the past 10 minutes. Don't ask me how he fit it in that many times, but some how he did. Anyway. Since the team hadn't really gotten any practice time in, ruling out the time when Tyson battled Alani (and lost!), Kai wanted to make sure they didn't start slacking off. And what the captain says goes, so now, the five boys were looking for anywhere with either kids, or anyone for that matter, who was even remotely good at beyblading.

"Hey look over there!" Max grinned as he pointed over to a rather large crowd of mostly children, cheering for something. "Looks like a beyblade battle to me!"

At the moment Max had finished expressing his thoughts, the five all hurried over to the crowd of kids. And boy was Max correct about there being a beyblade battle. Of course the battle was between Alani, and some girl who looked actually about 1 or 2 years older than her.

"Man, it's so easy to see that chick isn't from here..." Tyson heard a younger boy mention to his friend.

"Yeah. If she was, she wouldn't have gone and pissed of Alani." The boy's companion commented.

Meanwhile, Alani and Zeindolf were teasing their opponent. "If you take back what you said then I won't leave your blade in pieces..."

"Why should I believe you?" The girl rudely snapped.

Alani's eyebrow twitched slightly. But she took a deep breath and relaxed; "Firstly, I don't even know your name, so that would be a priority. Secondly, ask all the kids here, and they will tell you that I can, and will if you don't shut it, break your blade to pieces."

The girl snobbishly stuck her nose in the air and crossed her arms, "My name's Perry, not that it's any of YOUR business anyway."

The Hawaiian took in a deep breath. Never before had she come across someone so...so...well, snobby! And this Perry girl was starting to get to her. First she comes along acting all high and mighty in her expensive brand name clothes that daddy probably bought for her, claiming that she could beat her in anything, especially beyblading. And now, she was making it seem as if Alani was just some dirty rock that she could kick around! Also, somehow, that annoying golden haired brat had somehow found out about how her parents had passed away in that cruise. That girl also had said horrible things about that certain event. But, those I will not say.

"Alright you stupid little brat. You really have to learn to respect people. Also, since you haven't shown me any respect what so ever, I won't show you any either." Alani sneered, "Now, time to do what I said. Zeindolf! Smash this snob's blade to pieces!" All of the anger that was bottled up inside of Alani was transferred to her bit-beast. And when the magnificent wolf leapt out of his bit-chip, he allowed his wings to burst open to their full size.

"Zeindolf..." Alani mumbled. "This brat spoke of my family as if we were trash. You know what to do with people like her..."

The crowd of children began cheering for the ruby wolf, which they had seen only few times before. And seeing Zeindolf up close was something that didn't happen quite that often. First, Alani's blade easily smacked Perry's own purple one into a nearby tree. Then Zeindolf landed in front of the girl, and growled as if he was going to kill her there and then. He made a quick snap of his jaws before busting into flame and disappearing.

"Thanks for the practice. Oh and pardon my French...but you really are a bitch." Alani simply stated while snatching her beyblade in her hands. As she was just turning to walk out of the crowd and back home, she heard that Perry girl say something to her.

"You think I'm a bitch! No wonder your parents died!" Perry bellowed.

Every single person watching held their breath, as Alani's eyes turned to slits, and she strode over to Perry. She picked her up by the color of her pink shirt, and slammed her against a tree.

"Your lucky that I'm not going to break your tiny neck. And you know why?" Alani growled as she pressed Perry even more into the tree. "I actually have class. Unlike you." She dropped the tourist to the ground, and walked out of the crowd of children with her head down.

While Alani walked away, half of the children simply watched in awe, while the other half glared at the preppy teen, who was dusting herself off.

"My father's going to hear about this! You'll see! You're going to be the one with a broken neck!" Perry yelled after Alani before running out of the circle of kids.

Alani just kept walking, with her hands deep in the pockets of her blue knee length pants, "And she really thinks I care?"

Now, the little event that had just taken place had left The Bladebreakers and Kenny just standing there. They had no absolute idea that Alani's parents were well...dead. She had never really told them, and they of course had never asked. I mean, you wouldn't just go up to someone and ask, 'Hey there, are your parents six feet under or walking on the streets?'

"I think we should go cheer her up!" Max and Tyson chorused, and before Kenny, Rei, or Kai could stop them, they were running after Alani.

"Why that stupid little...who does she think she is!" Alani growled as she kicked or punched anything that was in her way. Whether it was a tree, a pop can on the ground, or an innocent rock. Zeindolf was walking behind his mistress, wincing whenever her fist collided with the hard bark of a tree, while leaving a dent in its trunk.

"I need to get my punching bag out when we get home." Alani sighed and rubbed her temples with her thumb and for-finger.

Zeindolf let out a small smile, "When was the last time you gave that thing a beating?"

"I don't know. But at least it'll calm my nerves, it always does." Alani shrugged.

Tyson poked the tree that Alani had recently punched. "Whoa, did she do this?" He asked. The rest of his teammates wandered over and inspected the dent.

"I think so." Rei blinked. "She must've been pretty angry to be able to do that."

Kai decided that if his team wanted to find Alani so bad, then he would have to take their minds away from gaping at a tree, "Come on. It's only a tree."

By following the mangled trees, the five boys found where Alani lived. Her house resembled that of a karate dojo, and there were many trees that seemed to be knocked down somehow all around the household. They then heard some noises coming from the back, so of course, the five of them wandered around the house to see what it was.

There was Alani, taking all of her bottled up anger out on her good old punching bag, which was logged in the ground.

"Stupid..." She punched the blue cylinder, "...little..." another punch, "...brat!" Oh! A kick this time. The Hawaiian wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead, and rested her hands on her knees. She heard a twig snap rather close buy and quickly snapped her head up to see The Bladebreakers, oh and Kenny can't forget him.

"Hey guys..." Alani greeted them in a mumble. She gestured them to follow her through a sliding door, and into a semi-large hard wood floored room. Against the wall was a medium sized TV. On the opposite wall, was a trophy case, with many different kind of awards. From beyblading, to art, and even the occasional kickboxing and sparring trophies. Alani kicked off her shoes and winced when they smack against the wall.

"Damn..." She looked behind her and saw Tyson, Max, and Kenny all gaping at her many awards. Then, she looked over at Rei. It seemed that her pet cat, Twiddy, had taken a liking to her new Chinese friend.

"Um...Alani?" Rei's eyebrow twitched in pain as the small calico cat climbed up the back of his shorts, "Who's this?"

Alani sweetly smiled at her pet's actions, "This is Twiddy. You're lucky, he usually hates people when he first meets them."

"Oh Alani I have a question for you!" Tyson grinned as he recalled what he was going to ask the Hawaiian.

"What?" Alani calked her head to the side.

"The guys and I all noticed dents in all the trees on the path to your house, and a whole bunch of them knocked down outside. Did you do that?" Tyson asked.

There was a short pause from Alani as she thought of how to phrase her answer, "Well...yeah, when I was walking home I kind of punched those trees. And sometimes Zeindolf knocks down the trees outside. We call it...our own kind of renovating."