Kay: Uh...hi? ((dodges rotten vegetables thrown by readers, and throws herself at her readers feet)) I'M SORRY! I HAD WRITTERS BLOCK, AND THEN I FELT REALY OVERWELMED BY ALL OF THE STOIRES I'M WORKING ON RIGHT NOW AND HAD TO TAKE A BREAK! But the new chapter is up now, so I'm happy, you all are happy, and we're all happy. Now, without further adue, on with the story!

Chapter 7
Unpleasant Encounters and the Good That Can Come of Them

"Crimson-ex! Attack!" Matt's voice echoed through the air. It was four o'clock on a Saturday. Matt had been training since six thirty. Why, you ask? Because at home, Matt usually woke up at about six thirty to watch anime. That's right, anime.

So here she was, training for 9-and-a-half-hours, stopping only at noon to eat lunch and rest up a bit. The gym was empty except for Matt and one other person, and Matt was okay with that. Or, at least she would have been, if that one other person hadn't been who she was.

'Ignore her, ignore her, ignore her…" Matt kept repeating in her head. Of all the other U.S teams to be here, why did her team have to be one of them, and why did she have to be the only other one here?

Suddenly, the sound of the other blade stopped, and Matt relaxed, assuming that she had left. That is, until…

"Matt, hi. What are you doing here? Isn't blading a little too violent for you?"

Matt took a deep breath. 'Control your anger. Don't let her get to you. Just control your anger.' "No, Tina. Beyblading is not too violent for me. And I should be asking you the same question: What the hell are you doing here? You're team's never competed outside of school. Not that I know of, anyway." 'Ooh, that came out kind of harsh. So much for controlling your anger.'

Tina smirked. "Daddy pulled a few strings for us. We've been training all month and have gotten really good."

'You've only put a month of training in, and you think you can beat us?' Matt thought, hiding her annoyed amusement.

"So, where's your brother?"

"Not here," Matt answered curtly. It was less than a secret that Tina had a crush on Jake. 'Too bad. By the time this tournament is over, Jake and Mel will be a couple. Char and I will be sure of it,' Matt thought happily.

Suddenly, the door to the gym opened and three girls filed in. The first one, Janet, was tall with brown eyes and long dirty blond hair worn in a sideways ponytail, and was wearing a pink spaghetti strap tank top with jeans. A slightly shorter girl, named Amy, walked behind her. She had shoulder length black hair that she wore down, brown eyes, and was wearing a white t-shirt with a pink sweater and a khaki skirt. Last was a strawberry blond girl named Fiona. She had blue eyes, curly hair, and was wearing a blue V neck t-shirt and jeans. Tina was wearing grey pants, a white t-shirt, and the same sweater as Amy in black. >>1>>

"Oh my God! Matt, what a coincidence! Did you come here to watch us win the tournament?" Janet said in that obnoxious, fake way of hers. Before Matt could answer, however, someone else beat her to it.

"Who are you kidding? You don't look like much of a team. And besides, it's not like she knows you, right?" A deep voice came from the direction of the door. There, the speaker, Kai, and his team, along with the rest of Matt's team, stood.

"Actually, Matt's our best friend!" Tina said, throwing an arm across Matt's shoulders.

Jake closed his eyes. 'Tick, tick, tick, tick… boom!'

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Matt screamed. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE KIDDING! YOU'R NOT MY BEST FRIEND, YOU'VE NEVER BEEN MY BEST FRIEND, AND YOU NEVER WILL BE MY BEST FRIEND! WE AREN'T EVEN FRIENDS!"

The Blade Breakers (minus Kai) watched the scene before them in horror. The Mystic Legends just watched the scene before them, which led the Breakers to believe that this may not have been the first time something like this had happened.

"Sor-ry. God, Matt, we were just trying to be nice," Fiona said.

"Yeah. You. Nice. Right. Like I'm going to believe that one. Listen, if you were trying to be nice, you wouldn't have come over here in the first place," Matt said. Then, she smirked evilly. "But since you're here, why don't we battle. I'll give you a taste of real competition." Her voice held a tone that she liked to compare to poisoned molasses; sweet, but deadly.

"Sure," Tina said. Either she didn't hear the tone, or was really stupid. They had known (and hated) each other long enough for Tina to know not to mess with Matt when she was like this.

Nick sighed and stepped foreword as the two girls prepared their beyblades for battle. "Three," He started the countdown in a loud, clear voice. "Two, One…Let it rip!"

"Go Crimson-ex!" Mat yelled as she launched her blade.

"Let's show her what we can do, Night Rave!" Tina cried, launching her blade.

"Watch this, Matt. Night Rave! Midnight Surrender!" Tina yelled. A black aura surrounded her midnight blue blade. Out of her blade rose a raven, surrounded in what looked like black/midnight blue/purple fire. There was a loud crash on impact, and Crimson-ex was thrown backwards.

"What? What the hell was that?" Matt asked, shocked. Tina smirked. "It's my bit beast, Night Rave. Isn't it cool, Matt?" Matt scowled.

"Interesting. Chief, what kind of power does she have?" Kai asked.

"Let's just say, I hop Matt isn't afraid of the dark," Dizzy said.

"What does she mean by that?" Jake asked.

"She means that Tina's attack could totally devastate Matt's blade!" Kenny said as he started typing away on his computer.

Matt cried out has Tina's beyblade hit hers full force once again. 'Okay, I'm still in the game. I haven't lost yet.' "Crimson-ex, Imperial Pyro Flash!" Suddenly, Crimson-ex started glowing golden red, and was surrounded with fire. A tower of fire rose from the bit, and then fanned out, revealing a red-brown fox with a flaming tail and red-brown eyes.

"Whoa," Jake said.

Mel whistled, "That's what I call cool."

"You don't think that's what all of us got in those letters, do you?" Char asked.

"Letters?" Ray asked.

"Latter. I wanna see how this is going to turn out," Nick said, getting excited.

After recovering from her shock, Matt smirked. "Looks like you're not the only one with a bit beast, Tina. Crimson-ex, attack!" The blazing blade attacked Tina's full force, sending it out of the beydish, smoking.

'Whoever sent that letter and this bitbeast, I'd better remember to thank him or her. If we ever meet.'

Kay: Well, I hope y'all liked it. I need to update my other stories, but as soon as I'm done with that (in a couple of weeks, probably) I'll be sure to update this again. By for now! REVIEW AND TELL ME YOU FORGIVE ME!

Notes:

>>1>> These are actually based off of real people from my school who I really despise. "Tina," especially. And no, I didn't use their real names, but the ones that I used sound really similar to thier real names. Char-chan (and anybody else who knows me personally, if there is anybody else), try to guess who they are. It should be fairly obvious.