Switchbladers

Chapter Three

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Tyson looked as Kai stood in front of him, a wide grin upon his face.

"Kai?" Tyson said slowly, creeped out by the grin upon Kai's face, but the way it looked it was as if Kai was not built to ever smile. Rei, Kenny and Max looked at Kai. His eyes a sky blue instead of the murky colour that they usually took on. Kai replied with an unusual amount of vest.

"Yes Tyson?" Tyson looked at Kai then at his friends.

"I think I had too much coffee!" Tyson walked away and sat upon the grass. Hilary suddenly appeared behind Kai, Rei looked at Hilary as she grabbed Kai's arm and pulled at it. Kai looked down at the Small girl, and pulled his arm away from her.

"Hilary?" Rei said but Hilary did not reply, she just scowled at Kai. "Hilary!" Rei said again and eventually she looked at him.

"What?" She said abruptly.

"What is wrong with Kai?" Hilary began to speak when a hand clasped over her mouth. She tried to pull it off but her small hands were too weak, Kai's hand pulled away from her as pearly teeth dug into it. Kai thought to himself as he bit his own hand, wondering if that will still hurt if he gets his own body back. Rei looked at the two. "What is wrong with you?" Hilary didn't reply, and neither did Kai. The two just looked at the group. Kai incredibly happy, and Hilary looked like her pet had died.

"Weeellllll…" Tyson drew out the word more to clear the strangeness then to spark conversation. "Guess we better train then!" Tyson walked towards the dish that was in the park below. The others followed, almost frightened of the two.

Hilary suddenly turned to Kai and spoke spitefully.

"The tournament is in TEN days Hilary! I need my body back by then. If I don't we could loose this tournament!" she looked down at herself. The small body staring up at her.

"I don't care! There is more to life then BeyBladeing! I want to have fun being you, your body feels all tense, you need to relax…" a small giggle escaped the blue lips, Even Kai believed his own smile to be a bit disturbing. He watched her walk away, still disgusted at the clothes she made him wear. Rei, Max and Tyson were already analysing their battle plans when Kai came down to the dish.

"Are you ready then Kai?" Kenny said looking at him,

"Whoa! What happened to mister Kai?" Dizzy said sarcastically referring to his clothes.

"I fancied a change!" He replied, Glancing at Hilary. "After all, I only wore them stupid clothes before, now I have a whole wardrobe of nice clothes." He turned around and took his BeyBlade and launcher from his pocket. He pushed the rip cord in and pushed the BeyBlade onto the launcher. Kenny shouted over to Kai.

"We have changed you Attack ring to a plus 5 strength ability, the status should now even that of Max's defence and also provide better stability upon taking damage from a lower vertical alignment. Made from 95 new aloy, the movement should be as fluid as you need." Kai looked at Kenny, the blank look across his face was enhanced by his wide eyes. Kenny nodded. "Off you go, well get a report as you try it." Kai turned back at the dish, Rei was stood opposite him his blade ready to launch.

Hilary looked across the dish with Kai's sharp eyes. But looking down at her hands her mind was filled with panic. A feeling of failure had swept over her, that she was inevitably going to lose. Her face contorted and the friendly smile faded, all that filled her mind was to battle and to win. Losing wasn't a option she told herself. She looked at the dish and felt her heart in her chest. The countdown from Kenny became muffled. All she could do was think.

'Wait!' her mind called out to her as she heard the countdown reach 0. 'This is Kai who is thinking! Not me. NO!' As Rei's blade ripped into the red dish Kai's arm shot out, pulling the rip cord from the blade in a fluid movement, the blade flew into the disc at amazing speed. Hilary was sat upon the grass, watching, she stared at the blade as it flew from the launcher, and landed in the dish with a thud, skidding on its top until it slid back down the other side to rest in the middle. Reis caught his blade as it flew back to him, Kenny stared up from his laptop glancing at Tyson whose mouth was wide open. Max who was sat beside him was staring at the still blade. Hilary slapped her head with frustration her brown hair falling around her face.

"What?!" Rei looked up at Kai. The whole arena was silent. The only noise came from the birds that were cheeping in the trees, as if laughing. Kai walked into the dish and picked up the blade, standing back on the edge he attempted to launch it again. But each time it fell flat, skidding across the dish. Soon eh threw the blade across the arena, it hit Rei and bounced back onto the floor. Rei rubbed his stomach where the blade had hit him, he smirked a bit. "Man, you throw like a girl."

"Well. I AM…" Hilary waved her hands at Kai, panicking. "NOT A GIRL!" Kai walked away and sat against a tree in the park. The others looked at Kai. Hilary stood up and walked over to Kenny. Looking over his shoulder and at the computer to see what the stats said.

"He he must be having a bad day." She said although in a suppressed anger sort of way. Kai's mind was working over time, he just saw what he will never live down. He had to talk to Hilary, Jumping in the air Hilary giggled happily, and nervously. "Let me see you blade now Tyson." She looked at Tyson who stared back bewildered.

"Erm…yeah, sure." As Tyson got up to blade She ran over to Kai who was ssat pulling grass from the mud and throwing it at his feet, She sat next to him.

"What the hell was that?!" She said abruptly. "You just destroyed my whole pride there!" Kai looked up at Hilary. She was scowling, just how Kai did.

"How come you can do it and I can't!" He yelled at her. "I'm in your body so surely I should be able to do it! I wanted to show you how good I really am!" Hilary looked at the grass that Kai was throwing at his feet.

"Well I don't JUST blade, I use my mind too! If you lack the mind skills you wont be able to do it, and if you lack the physical skills you wont be able to either. So basically neither of us can blade now. Not that you could in the first place!" Kai scowled at Hilary and spat his tongue out. "So well done for ruining my career." Hilary said and stood up and kicked the grass at him. "now its MY turn…" the smile that crept upon Hilary's face was eerie and she walked back towards the group. Kai followed, grabbing Hilary's arm.

"And what is that supposed to mean? all I did was screw a few launches?"

"Screw up a few launches! To me they are the pride I hold. I have NEVER screwed up a launch!"

"Actually…" He began and Hilary walked off,

"You are messing with something that means a lot to me…" She said sinisterly. "I have been in your cupboard…" Kai's face went pale as Hilary walked towards Tyson. Kai suddenly grabbed Hilary's arm and pulled her away from Tyson and dragged her to the bench and sat her down heavily.

"You wouldn't dare!" Hilary smiled.

"Maybe this COULD be fun…" Kai looked at her as she sat sweetly on the bench.

As the day grew neither Kai or Hilary had spoken they sat on the bench silently. Locked in some kind of mind battle.

Kai's thoughts were no longer of BeyBladeing, as his mind had been replaced with that of Hilary's. inside the head of Kai was Hilary, her thoughts were dark, and worrying, she was looking so forward to proving to Kai that she could be him better then he could, and her plan failed, now she must think of something else, she was bitter that he thought being him was hard, and was determined to show him that she could be him, and so far her own voice was not annoying her, all that annoyed her was kai, and the fact that he had her wearing the dress she least liked. She put her eyes upon Tyson, and Kai now knows her most deepest secrets.

She didn't want him to know who she was. She had things that she liked to keep to herself. Andshe shuddered at the thought that he had seen her naked!

Kai looked at hilary, she too was sat deep in thought. But the thoughts int eh little girls head were far from innocent.

Kai's thoughts were of humiliation, watching himself fail a launch so badly, and the worrying thought that they have a tournament in TEN days and he hasn't got his own body, he is stuck in the body of a weak little girl, all the things he relies upon, his charisma his enigma and his body strength all taken from him by a girl, and now the intruder has his body and he doesn't know if he will ever get it back. And all his favourite things will be lost. His thoughts then turned to revenge, 'she is obviously wanting to teach me a lesson for shouting at her the other day..' his mind said silently. 'I must do something to her before she does it to me. I need to get my body back'

Hilary looked up at Kai who was staring at her, their eyes met with rivalry,

Tyson lifted his arms into the air letting out a large yawn.

"I'm staaaaarving!" he proclaimed. "Can we go eat now?"

"I thought your grandpa said 'you have to cut back 'little man'!" Max impersonated Tyson's grandfather and they all laughed. Except Hilary.

"I'm pretty hungry too…" Rei added, "We could go to my uncles restaurant, they serve nice pork and rice." Tyson jumped from his seat on the floor.

"Well come on then…" Tyson began to walk away, the others followed slowly, Rei ran up to Tyson who was walking ahead of them all. Rei whispered to Tyson.

"Why do you think that Kai and Hilary are all weird today?" Rei asked as they both looked back to a smiling Kai and a very Miserable Hilary.

"No idea," Tyson replied. "You never know with those two…" He laughed and pulled his hat from his head as they entered the restaurant.