A Duo Tournament
By: Brokn Innocence
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Years of Training
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(As of 1/13/05) (o.O) Gomen nasai for the late update! Was being a procrastinator (which I'm pretty good at, btw) busy with the upcoming exams and other issues. Well, that can't be helped, now can it? Anyways, since my lack of inspiration/motivation is running low; I doubt that any work I am putting up is of any good. So enjoy the crap-er, I mean, beautifully crafted work that's filled with woeful tears... (xD)
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-7 Years Earlier-
Daisuke and Keisuke are 10. Ken is 17 and Lyosuke is 12.
"Twenty more times!" Ordered Ken as he folded his arms and then pointed out, "Daisuke, you're lacking strength!"
"I'm a kid!" Daisuke shot back, "so gimme a break, why don't cha?!"
Ken glared hard at Daisuke who equally glowered back. "There is no break for Top Bladers!" Daisuke will definitely pose as a problemwith this defiant attitude of his...
"Whoever said I wanted to be one? And beside, I'm not even qualified yet!" Daisuke rolled his eyes as he launched Shadows into the stadium for the umpteenth time in the past hour or so.
"Daisuke..."Ken growled, patience tried and running short with the kid pushing his buttons.
-Later-
"Itaiiii" Daisuke complained as Keisuke carefully placed some cold packs of compressors on his forearm. "Someone must've seriously sucked up his humanity dry when he was a kid!"
"No kidding" Keisuke sighed as she plopped next to him on the foot of the bed, "You should really consider being obedient with Sir Ken-san or at least with Lyosuke-san. That way, you wouldn't have to stay behind for an hour or so, for discipline and come back without those pains and complaints. Oh, we also have our quarterly test..."
"You gotta be kidding me, Kei!" Daisuke looked at his twin incredulously, "Me obedient? Ha! That's a laugh for sure! I don't listen to anyone but myself!" Keisuke gave him 'that look', "Okay, maybe you, too." He shrugged his shoulders and sighed, "I'm tired." Daisuke took the packs off and weaseled himself into bed, grinning at his sister.
"Sure, you are" She rolled her eyes and stood up, "You're just avoiding the training with Lyosuke-san, aren't you?"
"Training with Lyo-kun???" Daisuke jumped out of bed, suddenly very alert. "Why didn't you say so??? Last time it was with Ken-kun and boy did he whip us good!" He pocketed his blade and launcher and marched towards the door. "I wanna show that moron, Lyo-kun that I'm twice the blader he'll ever be!"
"Well, at least you're fired up and ready to go."
"You bet!!"
-Training Room-
"You twerps ready for your quarterly test training?" Lyosuke smirked as he readied his launcher.
"Absolutely" Daisuke and Keisuke replied, readying their launchers as well.
"Let it rip!" The three exclaimed in unison. Their beyblades were launched at the same time, sending the respective blades into the dark colored stadium.
Shadows and Luminous circled Crimson warily, occasionally attacking the red beyblade every now and then. Daisuke's beyblade took the initiative and plowed straight into Crimson, which easily evaded, resulting Shadows to be on the verge of spinning out of the stadium if Luminous hadn't intervene and rammed it back into play.
"You should really stop using your brawns and start using you brains, little Daisuke" Lyosuke sneered as Crimson started to pound Shadows.
"I would rather suggest that you keep an eye on all your opponents, Lyosuke-san," Keisuke carefully countered, watching Luminous drive Crimson to the edge of the stadium with the help of Shadows.
"Really?" Lyosuke looked falsely surprised and slightly amused, "Crimson!!"
The blood red falcon appeared with its familiar features of the two horns and the star on its head. Crimson bobbed his head up and down, obviously showing that he was aggravated with the beat down from the two other blades.
"Shadows, come on out and play, buddy!"
From the swirling black clouds materialized the masculine black dragon, snorting out vapors of smokes, evidently ready to bring out the heavy artillery.
"Luminous, I summon thee!"
Keisuke's faithful dragon emerged from the seal, unraveling its white wings as its tail flailed about restlessly.
"Crimson, Firestorm of Quills!"
"Stilettos of Radiance, Luminous!"
"Dark Obliteration!"
Feathers upon feathers came raining down in flames that were shot down from bladed plumes of vibrant white light. Then darkness enveloped the stadium completely, shrinking into a small orb, encasing the red beyblade within it.
"Inferno Blaze!"
"Kei-chan!"
"Right."
"Transformation Style!" Daisuke and Keisuke instructed in unison.
"Dark Descendant!"
"White Progenitor!"
"Is that the new technique you twerps been working on over the last few weeks?" Lyosuke questioned as Crimson's Inferno Blaze steadily gotten larger within the Dark Obliteration until Shadows' dark orb shattered.
"You betcha and we're just itching to try it out on you, Lyo-kun!" Daisuke grinned, toothily.
Shadows and Luminous soared high into the sky in a spiral manner, leaving behind sparkling trails of their innate elements. They flew up to a high altitude, circling each other under the bright afternoon light, eyeing each other indifferently...
"I told you to stop calling me that! Do you wanna get pounded in?!" Lyosuke snapped and then shielded his eyes as he looked upwards, "And what in bloody hell are your bit beasts doing?!"
As if to answer his question, the two beyblades dropped behind the red blade and rammed into it until Lyosuke's beyblade was spinning near the edge on the other side of the stadium.
Shadows wasn't in its usual dragon form but rather in a black shapeless form with gleaming red eyes, hovering above its respective seal. The beyblade itself glowed unusually bright with black and mixtures of shades of scarlet.
Same can be said the other dragon, Luminous, however, instead of being in a shapeless form like its twin, it took a rugged appearance of a supposed angel. Keisuke's blade was also glowing bizarrely bright with white and assortments of tones of azure.
Lyosuke stood there, almost speechless if he hadn't been overcome with sensibility of accountability. This is something...Wonder if Ken knows of this?
"Crimson, diminish Inferno Blaze."
Doing as told, the burning orb slowly vanished and Crimson ebbed back to his seal, whereas the blade itself returned to Lyosuke's hand.
"Oh, so you're chickening out, now Lyo-kun??" Daisuke asked, poking fun as he grinned, "Just when we were on the verge of winning and kicking you butt!"
"More like being aware of your exhaustion and health, you nitwit" Lyosuke rolled his eyes and left the training room with a dismissive wave, indicating that it was over.
"Aware of exhaustion and health?!!" Daisuke exclaimed once he heard the door closed and the distant footsteps as he slumped to the floor. "Since when did that bastard cared for our well-being?!"
"Just now," Keisuke sat down cross-legged next to her brother, watching her blade spin to her hand. "I think he knows what we were doing, Daisuke."
"No, really?" Daisuke rhetorically asked with a roll of his eyes as he caught his blade.
"It's quite obvious he'll report it to Sir Ken-san..."
"Not like it matters, anyways!"
-2 Years Later-
"You serious, Kizu!?" Daisuke exclaimed incredulously as he snatched the paper from him, scanning the ranking charts.
"Down right serious, Daisuke!" Kizu slapped the sky blue-haired boy's back and grinned, "You and Keisuke made it to the Top Five!"
"Next to Lyo-kun, Kai-kun, Kei-chan, and then I and you..."He gave Kizu his paper back and grinned," Who would've thought you made it--much less me!"
"Betcha all that training under Ken-kun and Lyosuke-kun paid it all off!" Kizu sat down on the bench and looked up at his friend.
"Nah, more like me annoying the hell out of them over the past nine years" He grinned goofily as he plopped down next to him, "plus with Kei-chan, too!"
"And to top that off, you're a chef at cooking at the age of twelve!" Kizu complimented while imaging a five-course meal all made by Daisuke. He smacked his lips hungrily, and glanced over to his friend who looked at him disbelievingly.
"Ah, well, I guess I'll treat you to lunch!"
"Make your famous spring rolls!"
"Alright, let's go shopping!"
"But I'm broke, Daisuke..."
"Now that you mentioned it, me too...Hmm..."
While Daisuke and Kizu were planning how to get money, Keisuke was found near a console with her blade in a sealed pod with wires and the likes, hooked up to Luminous. She was obviously analyzing and collecting data from her own beyblade. As the papers were printing the charts and such, she began to check on more information about the Top Bladers.
"A strategist, aren't we, now?" Kai smirked as he leaned up against the pod that held Luminous.
"It's not like that's a strange thing to find" Keisuke swiftly glared at him and shuffled the papers neatly into an organized stack, "or are you incapable of understanding that?"
"Heh," The slated hair boy stood straight, "sounds like someone's dissatisfied with their ranking."
"Yes, and it quite obviously shine through that demeanor of yours" Keisuke simpered as she released her beyblade from the pod and grabbed it and the papers. "You're an open book on such matters." She walked away, towards the staircase, leaving Kai to glare at her back and whipped around to stalk elsewhere.
"Kei-channnnn!" Daisuke called as he and Kizu caught up with her.
She stopped and turned faced them with an exasperated sigh. "What do you want, Daisuke, Kizu?"
"Well, since Kizu asked me to make spring rolls in congratulations of becoming a Top Blader we decided to have a mini-party, but neither of us has money...so we were wondering if..."
"You two are always broke" She sighed and folded her arms with the stack of paper held by the left hand and the beyblade in her pocket. "You want money from me, right?"
The two boys nodded their heads vigorously, hoping that would persuade the temperamental blader into a giving mood.
"Since I'm in such a kind mood after telling Kai-kun to high tail off; fine," She smirked as her twin's and Kizu's face lit up with joy. With her free hand, Keisuke searched in her pocket and produced her wallet and tossed it to them. "Do as you like but don't spend it all so feverishly. Get what you need." She then left the two to her room.
"Alright!!" Daisuke and Kizu smiled gleefully and bolted out of the training room.
-Somewhere-
"Looks like everything is set, Shunichi" Ken nodded as he viewed the files on the main screen.
"Of course, why wouldn't it, Sir Ken-san?" Shunichi looked up from the monitor. "I'm positive that things will go as according to plans if our two primary bladers have no outside influence on such trivial things beside to win."
"I doubt it."
Xxx---End of Chapter 22---xxX
Brokn Innocence: SUGOI! xD Finished!! (As in today; 1/26/05)
Daisuke: About time, too!!
Keisuke: Talk about late updates. . U
Lyosuke: When's the TOURNEY?!!!
BladeBreakers: YEAH, WHEN IS IT?!!
Brokn Innocence: In due time, my friends!
BladeBreakers, Keisuke, Daisuke, Lyosuke: WE WANT IT NOW!
Brokn Innocence: o.0;;
Ken: I sound so mean...T.T
Daisuke: Kind of ironic if you know Ken's real personality.
Keisuke: Quite the opposite.
Brokn Innocence: No school today!! Soooo cool!
Ken: Yeah...You had no school on Monday, then school on Tuesday, then no school today! I still sound mean...Brokn Innocence!! T.T
Brokn Innocence: xD All thanks to the snow! But...that means I'm gonna get out late...again. 3 It's not my fault I created you with two personalities!! xDD Zaijian!! xDD Dammit, TAB button does not work when I try to fix things on ! Neither does brackets and my silly emotions show up! Well, the one's with the equal signs and etc...