Zoltar: Well, the last chapter...

Rei: And Darren still isn't back!

Zoltar: I'd like to thank all of my faithful readers. If it wasn't for your reviews, I would have never gotten this far. Ok, well seeing as I wrote it all in a binder, I'd probably put it all up, but I wouldn't have revised it for you guys. You're all so cool!

Rei: (smiling) the last chapter, the last disclaimer.

Zoltar: that should be a movie. The Last Disclaimer.

Rei: starring me.

Zoltar: of course.

Rei: Zoltar doesn't own Beyblade. Or any of the songs that appear in this chapter. Or the Chaser tablet things.

Zoltar: although with a few generous contributions...

Rei: (whacks Zoltar with a paper fan) no.

Zoltar: I'm just trying to prolong the chapter. It's the last one!

Rei: I understand, but the show must go on.

Maybe...

Chapter 25

"Yo, Bry." Marisa said. "I've been here a few weeks now and I still don't know, so show me where your sound sysyem is." Bryan handed her her drink and led her to a large wall unit with many an electrical thing. He pointed to something and said.

"Above that."

Marisa popped in a CD and sure enough, music started blasting through speakers placed conviniently around the house. She downed her vodka in one shot, cuz she can do that, and mumbled something.

"What?" Bryan asked.

"I said, I'm gonna go get a margarita." Marisa hollered over the music.

Bryan smirked and did the unimaginable. He kissed her on the forhead and said, "Just don't go getting drunk, love."

Marisa rolled her eyes and mumbled something akin to 'I'll show you drunk.' She went over to the bar right as Michelle and Tala were walking out.

"Tala, it took you so long to get another drink that I finished my White Russian." Michelle said. "Now I need another one."

Tala smirked and threw an arm around her shoulder while saying, "You've got one of the best."

Michelle blushed and pecked him on the cheek, all the while mumbling about how that could be taken in so many different ways.

At the bar, Mandy was trying to show Johnny and Ian how to make a proper martini. Tracy had disappeared with Spencer. "ACK! NO! Too much! That's too much!" she said. Mandy quickly took the bottle of liquid out of Johnny's hands and proceeded to show him the proper and right way. "Ian, watch closely." she said.

"Hey, can I have that?" Marisa asked, pointing to the martini Mandy had just properly made.

"Sure." Mandy gave her the tall glass of green liquid. "Anything for your boyfriend?"

Marisa glared. "Just give me a margarita," she said. "Lime not strawberry."

Mandy acknowledged this with a nod. She turned her back for a bit and came back with a margarita in one hand and gave it to Marisa. "Wait a sec. " Mandy said. She turned and shouted something to Johnny in her secret bar tender lingo, and gave her a glass of whisky. "For your boyfriend."

Marisa glared at Mandy, who was smiling and said, "Hold on I need to make room for it."

"I can get you a tray" Mandy tried to say. But she was cut off when she felt liquid go down her shirt. She let out a small squeek and turned again to see a now smirking Marisa.

"You are pure evil." Mandy spat out.

"Thanks hon." Marisa said as she turned away and walked back to Bryan.

"What're you looking at?" Mandy asked Johnny, who was trying to control his snickers.

"Nothin'..."

"I'll show you nothin' Johnathan McGregor!" Mandy shouted as she began chasing him around with a knife she had picked up, from somewhere...

Ian was laughing. At both of them so he was soon dragged into the chase.

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"Here." Marisa said, handing Bryan the whiskey.

"Uh, thanks?" Bryan said.

Michelle and Tala ran over to them. Well actually, Michelle ran over to them, Tala just walked because he was not in the right state of mind to run. He was on the verge of drunkeness. Or, he just didn't feel like running.

"Oh mu Ra, Marisa!" Michelle said.

Marisa blinked. "What?"

Michelle just responded by hugging her. "This is the best Christmas ever!"

"Uh...you're welcome?" she said while patting her friends back. Then in a lower voice, she she looked to Tala and asked him, "Is she drunk?"

Tala just shrugged. He seemed to do that a lot.

"Yeah, well...she must be." Marisa said. "She knows better than to hug me." she looked at her friend who had yet to let go of her. "Well, Merry Xmas Michi."

Michelle yawned. "Yeah, merry..."

And she fell asleep. And she slept there contently until Marisa pushed her sleeping body off of her and told Bryan and Tala that if they ever told anyone about that moment, she would personally castrate them.

They vowed they wouldn't.

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The sun shone brightly on the auburn haired girls face. So brightly, she threw the covers over her head. Because the sun was giving her a headache.

"Damn, I'm gonna be suffering from a hangover." Michelle said. She sighed. "I knew I wasn't much of a drinker."

The feeling of someone moving beside her roused Michelle out of her thoughts. Tala gently removed the blanket from over Michelle's head and kissed her lightly.

"Well, how are you feeling?" He asked.

"Ow." she croaked out.

Tala smirked. "Well you should after a night like the last."

"Mmm hmm..." Michelle mumbled. Then her eyes flew open in realization and she shot up in bed. Much to her pounding head's disagreement. Though Michelle quickly shook it off and faced the guy next to her. "T-tala?" she asked.

"Yes?" Tala said, giving her the strangest look he could muster.

"W-we d-didn't...y'know..." she said timidly.

Tala's look became even more confused. "I don't understand? Was something wrong about last night?"

Michelle took a shaky breath. "Tala, are you saying that we did...it?"

Tala's puzzled look sat there for a while before it finally registered in his brain exactly what she was trying to say. Then it became one of pure shock. "N-no! No! Ra, no!" he said, startled. "We didn't."

Michelle sighed. "Good."

They were both blushing madly. Their faces as red as Tala's hair.

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There was beautiful music coming from Spencer's computer when Tracy awoke. It sounded so familiar, yet so different. She climbed out of bed, making sure she didn't wake her signifigant other, and moved over to it.

"Who is this?" Tracy asked herself while watching the dancing colours on the screen. "And how is it that I know the lyrics and the song?"

"See-Saw." said a voice from behind her. "Great music, I thought."

"Yeah." she said. "Spencer?"

"Yes."

"Merry Christmas." Tracy said, moving into the position to hug him. "Can I have a hug?"

"Do you need to ask." Spencer said. He swooped down and picked her up in a fierce bear hug. The kind that would melt a girl's heart.

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Mandy was sleeping soundly when a knock on the door sounded through her ears. Cursing she climbed out of bed and stormed over to the door.

"What is it? You're gonna wake Ian up." she asked.

Oliver and Enrique rose their eyebrows. "Someone's in there with you?" Oliver asked.

"Yes, now what do you want?" Mandy asked.

"Who is it?" Enrique continued.

She sighed. "My boyfriend." she said. "Now please, it's too early for me to be awake."

"It's nine." Oliver said.

"Your point being?"

They shrugged. "Alright. We'll leave you two lovebirds alone."

"And stay out!"

"What?" Enrique said.

"I don't know. I just felt like saying it."

The two boys sighed at their strange friend. Yes you would've never guessed would you have? Mandy was friends with Oliver so she automatically got dragged into being one of Enrique's friends. That's what you get for living in Paris.

"Uh, sweet dreams again Mandy." Oliver said.

Mandy yawned. "Bye Ollie, Ricky."

"Don't call me that." Enrique said, blushing.

Mandy closed the door and crawled back into bed. She felt Ian shift his position and opened her blue eyes to meet his auburn ones.

"Who was that?" he asked.

"People." Mandy said.

Ian yawned and nodded. "You're too vague." he mumbled as he drifted back off to sleep.

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And of course, then there's Bryan and Marisa. The two I hate writing about. Gah! They're so boring... Oh, well...

Bryan cursed under his breath as he had just failed in waking Marisa up. "Damn, she's a heavy sleeper."

Marisa had decided to sleep on Bryan's bed...for an unkown reason...and Bryan had not objected. It had been around for when they had actually decided to go to bed, for they had stayed up talking about random things that popped into their minds. A subject that seemed to come up a lot from Bryan was Marisa's royal status.

"Don't diss me, okay." Marisa had said. "But I'm a princess."

"Don't lie. You seem to want to be a queen." Bryan said.

"I really couldn't care less."

They discussed the matter over wine. Where they had gotten the wine? I don't know. Why do you people insist on asking me these ridiculous questions. I'm just about to quit this job. The wine bottle was full when they started, but empty not even halfway through the conversation.

"You know what we shoulda done?" Bryan said. "Played I Never. That woulda given me some laughs."

Marisa smirked. "Just in it for the blackmail." she said.

"That's the spirit!" Bryan said happily. "Now about that I never game!"

Yeah, he was pretty drunk. But luckily he took Chaser tablets before hand so he wouldn't have all the serious ailments of a hangover in the morning. He's so smart that Bryan.

But now he was trying to gey Marisa up. She didn't get drunk, of course, she's too cool for that. But she did sleep in today for some odd reason.

"Get up Marisa!" Bryan said.

Marisa groggily said "Go to hell."

Bryan smirked. "I'm sure you'd like that, but I've gotta stay here a while longer." he shot back. "Wake up."

Marisa sighed. "Merely by the fact that I am talking, you can clearly tell I am awake." she said.

Bryan 'Hn'ed'

"Is that all you have to say?" she asked, now sitting up.

"Well, maybe." Bryan answered.

Marisa sighed. "I've heard you say that quite a lot lately." she said. "Is it the word of the month?"

"Yeah." Bryan said, a smirk appearing. "I'll never answer a yes or no question for the rest of the month. All you'll hear out of me is maybe."

"Makes sense." said someone from the other side of the door.

"Tala." Bryan said.

Tala walked in, followed by Michelle, smiling his 'I'm Tala, the coolest guy you'll ever meet' smile. "You're really good at that." he said.

"Hmph. I practice."

"Wouldn't surprise me." Marisa said. "You practice your glare."

Bryan sighed and shook his head. "Oh, you got me there."

Everyone in the room gave him the strangest look they could muster. Something was definetly wrong with Mr. Kuznetsov.

"Bryan, did you hit your head?" Tala asked.

"No."

Michelle said, "Then what is up with you? Have a little too much to drink last night?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." he said.

"Like hell you don't!" Marisa said. "Don't get me wrong, I like this carefree almost apathetic Bryan, but I love the real you, the cold hearted Kuznetsov! You know the one that calls me wench! So where'd he go! Are you an alien? Can ya bring him back now!"

Everyone's strange look diverted form Bryan to Marisa, and Michelle smirked.

"What?" Marisa asked.

"Did you just admit what I think you admitted?" said the voice of Mandy, who had been walking by to go downstairs. She entered the room with a smile on her face. "Well?"

"I don't know what you mean." Marisa said.

"You said it." Michelle said. "And you know you did but you're still trying to keep up with your machismo!"

"I said nothing!" Marisa said. "Absolutely nothing. I've been sitting here in silence the whole time."

"Who said what?" Asked Tracy. Of course everyone has to be there to hear the truth.

Mandy laughed. "Our little Marisa here said the big L word to a boy."

Tracy clapped her hands together in delight. "Oh! How adorable!"

"Will you all shut up?" Marisa demanded, her tan face turning red now.

"Aw!" all the girls said.

"I want to go crawl in a hole and never come out." Marisa thought.

"Well, I think I can help you with that." Flareon said.

"We'll leave you two alone." Mandy said, walking away. The others stood there, watching. "C'mon you idiots!"

"Oh," the others followed her out the door.

"Marisa?" Bryan asked.

"Hold on, let me get my head out of this hole." Marisa said. "Yes?"

"I love you too."

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"I knew he'd say that." Michelle said from her spot next to Bryan's door.

"Yeah, I think we all did." Tala said. "Now get up. They know we're here."

"They do not." Mandy said. "Or else we'd be dead by now."

"Exactly why we should leave now."

"Ok. Besides. I've got a few things I wanna tell Ian."

"What? That you're kinky?" Tracy asked.

"I am not kinky!" Mandy shouted.

"SHHH!"

"Sorry."

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"I-kun! Are you still not awake?" Mandy whined.

"E-Ia...mn...ow." Ian said groggily.

"Yay!" Mandy said, glomping him.

"Ow."

Mandy immeadiately stopped and smiled. "Sorry I-kun!"

"N-no...problem...I'm...fine..."

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"Tala? Would you define operation Matchmaker a success?" Michelle asked.

Tala thought for a moment. His thoughts drifting over into the past few weeks. What it had been like. Random people popping up on his doorstep, someone almost getting hit by their crazy motorcyle riding captain, swordfights and long nights. But he'd had fun. And he'd gotten to know a little more about Michelle's taste in friends. They were loyal, dependably psychos. Fun to be around. He could get used to them. He already knew what they were about to say before they did. He could see it now. They were having a conversation about food. It would go like this,

..:Tala's Imaginary Conversation In Which He Know's What Everyone Is About To Say:..

"Do you guys ever wonder about what's in your food?" Tala asked the girls of the Black Plague.

Mandy was about to say something but Marisa cut her off. "You shouldn't have even asked that, now you're going to get Mand-chan here started on the goodness of eating six servings of meat a day."

"I will not!" Mandy protested.

"Right. And I won't rule the world." Marisa said.

There was silence.

"I WILL RULE THE WORLD!"

"Yes, yes of course!" Michelle said.

Liz sighed and closed the novel she was reading. "You know, I think we should maintain healthy diets by not eating cake. There are so many cakes out there that make me sick, let me list them off-"

"SHUT UP LIZ!"

Liz growled and went back to reading her book.

"Well I happen to like cake!" Tracy said.

"Yeah, well I happen to like the fact that I know I will one day rule the world, but apparently, you people don't think I will!"

This would be the part where they all break into an arguement of who will rule the world first. Then a phone would start ringing, and Marisa would growl:

"I hate phones, when I rule the world, NO MORE PHONES!"

And Mandy would say, "I like phones, in fact, I'm going to go out and buy me and I-kun a special plan for couples. Isn't that the T-Mobile plan?"

"Nobody cares Mandy." Michelle stated bluntly.

"Well that was a change." someone would say.

"Tala?"

"Who said that?" Tala asked.

"Tala? Did you hear me?"

Tala was brought out of his crazy little fantasy thing by Michelle who was staring at him strangely. "Did you hear what I said?" she asked.

"Er...no." Tala admitted.

Michelle smiled. "Well I don't mind repeating myself for you Tala." she said. "I said that I think it went pretty well. What about you. You still haven't answered me."

Tala shook the thoughts from his head about the conversation that went from food to phones in less that three minutes. "I think it went perfectly." he said. "Everyone's happy. Just like you wanted."

Michelle smiled again. "Yeah." she said. She went over to the dresser and started looking for some clothes.

"Michi?" Tala asked.

Michelle looked up. "What Tala?"

"Remind me never to start a conversation with your friends." he said. "EVER."

Fini

Zoltar: (wipes tear) I actually finished. I'm so proud of me!

Darren: (suddenly appears) Yeah...yeah...

Zoltar: (punches Darren) Bastard.

Rei: Score one for Zoltar.

Zoltar: how's the score stand?

Rei: Zoltar- 450 Darren-19 Seth-infinity.

Zoltar: seems fair.

Hey you guys! You want me to have a sequel? Just put it in your review. If I get enough, I'll write one!

Later my fans! I'll miss you!