S-E: ; heh heh nervous laugh holy cow guys...it has been a while hasn't it...; ducks random objects
Kai: you don't say...You've been neglecting us...
S-E: aww does poor Kai feel ignored? glomps Kai
Kai: GET OFF ME! hits S-E over head with hammer
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Kai: pokes her with stick er...Soulful? You need to do the disclaimer...
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Kai: sighs I guess I'll have to do it takes piece of paper out of Soulful-Eye's hand...Soulful-Eyes does not own Beyblade or any of its characters...thank god! She does however own Raven, Hannah, Yushi, Kestrel, Blaze and Mimi. If you do read her stories, please be kind and leave a review...what the hell?! who wrote this crap?! throws sheet over his shoulder and leaves room
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Mysterious Voice: Enjoy the fic!
Johnny slowly opened the door to Yushi's room and peered inside. The girl in question was tangled so deeply within the bed clothes it was impossible to tell which end her head was. The covers rose and fell as the breath entered and left her body. He walked over to the bed.
"Yush?" he whispered softly. Nothing.
"Yushi?" he called a bit louder. The tangle twitched slightly but then became still once more.
He reached forwards and poked the lump in what he hoped was her side. The lump gave a strangled yelp and rolled off the edge on the bed. Landing with a thud, a low groan emitted from the tangled mess.
Johnny clambered over the bed and hung over the side, balanced Yushi, trying to find an opening in the seemingly endless swathes of cloth. It was like a cocoon!
Finally finding an edge, Johnny pulled the silky restraints aside, to reveal the sleepy face of Yushi. Cracking one eye open, she quickly closed it. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes she yawned loudly.
"Ohayo" she murmured sleepily, wriggling luxuriously inside the soft confinement.
A grin lit up on Johnny's face. "Wakey wakey sleeping beauty" he called softly. She wriggled back down into the covers, burying her face.
"Go 'way" came the muffled reply, barely audible.
"Not a morning person are we?" Johnny teased, grinning as he pulled
Sending a scathing look in his direction, he looked different today, she couldn't quite put her finger on it, dismissing it, she wriggled herself upright into a sitting position, her back against the bed and her limbs still trapped within the swathes of fabric. Johnny propped his head up on her shoulder and wrapped both arms around her torso. She scowled at the wall, not appreciating the bumpy wake up call.
"Such a mean look" he laughed in her ear, the scowl intensifying, as though she could burn a hole through the wall with her gaze.
A few hours, bumps and bruises later
"What are you doing here Blaze?" A question sounded in the room, "I thought you'd left"
The girl in question turned to face a small boy with lime green hair and violet eyes.
"What's that matter Ollie? Not pleased to see me?" she chirped, a grin spread across her face.
Oliver merely smiled at her and nodded. "And from the looks of things you haven't changed much" he tipped his head in the direction of Michael, who was rubbing his head ruefully. She threw a brilliant smile in his direction, at which he glared coldly.
"Not very friendly is he?" she said loudly to Oliver
"Was it really necessary to hit him Blaze? All he did was try to introduce himself" Oliver smiled weakly, sending a look of sympathy towards Michael. That bump would take a few days to go down. He knew from first hand experience how hard Blaze's smacks were. He winced at the memories.
"How was I supposed to know what he was doing? I thought he was gonna attack me!" She proclaimed loudly. She thought everyone was going to attack her in some way.
Michael stood up angrily "Why would I attack you!? You just helped my friend! I'm not going to hurt anyone, even if they are as annoying and dangerous as you!"
Blaze's soft brown eyes widened dramatically, and her bottom lip began to quiver. "You think I'm annoying?" She said quietly, her voice sounding hurt. "Y-you don't like me?" There were tears threatening to fall from those light brown pools and they glistened in the light.
She suddenly attached herself to his waist, holding on tightly. "I'm so sorry!" she wailed, her eyes squeezed shut and her cheeks shining, "I never meant to hurt you Michael!" Michael had a look of positive terror on his face, as though she might turn around and hit him.
"Um, i-its ok really!" he stammered, patting her nervously on the back.
Everyone else in the room just watched the new girl in fascination, one minute she was acting as though nothing could faze her, and the next she was crying because someone had said they didn't like her.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have shouted at you" Michael said warmly, trying to pry the girl from his waist. This was new ground to Michael, he wasn't used to trying to console girls.
She turned glittering eyes towards him and smiled happily, her eyes curving upwards. It was almost sweet. Almost.
She whirled around and smacked him lightly upside his head, the momentum was enough to send his baseball cap spiralling up into the air and him crashing to the floor. Raven winced at the thud, it wasn't particularly helping her headache to ease, and she was sure Kai had noticed her tension.
Blaze caught the spinning cap as it began to plummet back down, and jammed it onto her head backwards. "Damn right you shouldn't have yelled" she stated coolly as she glanced at him through the corner of her eyes.
Yushi ran to Michael's side as he tried to lift himself up off the ground. And Max had felt a flinch run through Emily's recovering body as her brother figure had slammed against the floor. He didn't know exactly what Blaze had done while they were in there, but it had worked and Emily was getting better quickly.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Michael snapped angrily, "I apologise and you hit me!"
The flame haired girl grinned at him and adjusted the hat on her head. "Yah, so? You're such a sucker! It was hilarious!" She cackled. "You honestly didn't think I was really crying did you? You have just been played mon ami!"
Michael felt his cheeks heat up with embarrassment as he realised she was right. He tried to regain his composure and shook his maroon hair out of his eyes. "That's mine" he remarked simply, gesturing to the baseball cap perched on Blaze's head.
"Mine now" she sighed, "suits me better" she declared, flashing a 500 watt smile in his direction. He managed to suppress a growl as he stood up, looking down on the smaller girl.
"Give" he said darkly, and glared at her when she stuck her tongue out at him. His hand shot out and grabbed her tongue.
"ARG! Leggo!" she squirmed, Raven was only able to pick out a few words in the warped English.
"Hat then" Michael said firmly, and released her tongue as soon as his fingers closed around the cap.
She glowered at him and twirled her tongue around the inside of her mouth experimentally. She then flicked a tiny fireball at the back of his head as he turned away, only to have it frozen in midair in a tiny chip of ice, just centimetres away from his head. It shattered as it hit the floor.
Blaze looked angrily at the source of the block. Raven. "What was that for?!"
Raven sighed, and rubbed her temples, "You don't use your powers on friends" The constant thudding at the back of her head was intensifying with each passing minute.
"Aww but I wanna play" a pout graced her lips as she rolled a larger fireball around her fingertips playfully, she tossed it at Raven, who immediately dispelled it, before it had even gotten ten centimetres from Blaze's hand. 'She's fast' she thought, 'let's see how fast'
She began to toss the miniature fireballs in all directions at top speed, watching as they dropped to the floor as ice chips before you could say bleeding hell.
"Stop it!" Raven said sharply as Yushi ducked to avoid a rogue burning sphere, sailing over her head.
"Why?" Blaze laughed, "This is fun!"
"Enough!" she yelled and threw her hands forward, locking Blaze's hands in a solid lump of ice. Thus quenching the fireball. Blaze's frozen hands dropped uselessly in front of her as she let out a shriek of surprise and anger.
Raven stormed from the main room, seeking the solitude and silence of her bedroom. She left her argumentative team mates behind her and closed the pale blue door behind her. She leaned her back against it and sighed. She stood there in the dark room, rubbing her temples and revelling in the silence.
She ran her fingers lightly over the black stars under her left eye, and let her hand drop to her side. As her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she could make out a dark figure sat on the chair next to her satin covered bed. She didn't panic, she knew who it was.
"How'd you get here before me?" she chuckled lightly, smiling at the shadowed figure. She walked across the room and flopped down onto her bed. "No Kai, leave the light off" she said quietly.
The teen dropped his hand down from where it had been reaching towards the bedside lamp.
He dropped down onto the bed beside her, she rested her head on his shoulder and let out a groan, "she's so loud"
A smile rose to his lips, "Hm, you get used to it...you should take some painkillers you know"
"And where do you suppose I get those from? We have no medical supplies, apart from the bandages Hannah's got" She scoffed quietly.
"I'll go get some if you want? There's gotta be some in matron's" Kai suggested wistfully, "Besides, I think we'll all need some with Blaze around"
She chuckled at his joke, "yeah true, besides it's your fault I have this headache anyway, making me fall off the chair"
"Well sorry, what were you even doing perched on the chair arm?"
"Meh bored I guess"
"Kai...?"
"Hn?"
"Don't go out alone"
"Why not?"
"Just please?"
"I'll be fine, I can look after myself Raven"
"I know you can, but I just can't help but feel edgy after what happened to Hannah" A shudder ran through her body at the thought.
"Don't worry" She felt his weight shift off the bed, "I'll be back soon enough" Her eyes widened in shock as she felt his lips press down lightly on hers, it was over as soon as it had started. He was gone.
Hannah stirred on the bed, a faint moan escaping her lips. Her eyelids fluttered open and she tried to push herself upwards on the bed. She fell back against the pillows.
"You're awake?!" A familiar voice cried out and she found herself gathered into gentle arms. She turned her head and buried her face in the soft, vanilla smelling shirt in front of her. "Tala..." she murmured and wrapped her arms around his waist, holding on tightly.
"I was so worried" Tala said softly, "You've been asleep for days!"
"Has anything happened?" she asked softly
"No, nothings happened since you got here"
She pulled out of his embrace and looked down at her dishevelled state. "I feel like a mummy" she giggled, gesturing to the bandages, "I think they went a bit overboard"
Tala allowed himself a chuckle, "How are your legs feeling?" he asked thoughtfully.
She reached down, wincing as she pulled at the muscles and new tissues, and tapped her knee cap, nothing. She brought her fist down on the leg.
"Numb" she replied. She thumped the mattress angrily "what has he done to me?!" she growled.
"I don't know, but we'll get you on your feet again, and then we can have our revenge" Tala vowed.
"Promise?" her dark brown eyes looked up at him pleadingly,
"Promise" he determined with a nod of his head, he pulled her close and kissed the top of her head.
"Tala...I need to tell you something"
"Go ahead"
She reached up and tangled her fingers in his hair, and brought his lips down on hers in a soft but passionate lock.
She broke the kiss, "I love you"