Title: What Was Once Lost Is Now Found
By: Moonlit Sea
Disclaimer: Don't own Beyblade or any of its characters (anything else you don't recognise I own).
A/N:
Puppalupp2008: here's the update. Hope you like it.
FireieGurl: yep poor Ray he doesn't know yet. As for Kai & Tyson getting together soon… we'll see -chuckles-
Angel V: I'm glad you like it -smiles-
And now dear readers I give you chapter ten of What Was Once Lost Is Now Found.
/-Thoughts-/
Chapter 10 - Secrets Told & Secrets Kept.
The next morning when everyone went down for breakfast they were surprised to see Tiffany was already there, drinking tea and reading the paper. She looked up when she felt ten pairs of eyes looking at her.
"Morning." She said cheerily as they sat down at the table, noticing how her brother made sure that he sat next to Kai. "I wouldn't get too comfortable if I were you, we're headed out in a couple of minutes." Putting the paper down.
"What about breakfast?" Tyson asks.
Tiffany chuckles. "I'll have the chef make you something before we go."
"Where are we going?" Ray asks curious.
Tiffany didn't answer instead she says "Kenny, there's an article about the tournament if you wanna read it." Getting up to leave the room.
"Thanks Tiffany." Kenny replies grabbing the paper off the table. He flicks through it until he finds the article that Tiffany was talking about.
"What does it say?" Kai asks.
"Can the Mythicals hold onto their tournament crown?" Kenny reads aloud. "Once again the Mythicals face fierce competition in this years tournament. For the last two years the Mythicals have beaten off stiff competition to become tournament champs even defeating the mighty All Starz last year…" (A/N: I know it's a pretty crappy article but it suits its purpose -winks-)
"So what. We've won all our matches too." Tyson says interrupting clearly not impressed.
"Most of them Tyson, but according to this they've never lost a match."
"Never ever?" Max asks in amazement.
Kenny shakes his head.
"Then I say it's time we put an end to their winning streak. What do ya say guys?" Ray says.
"Yeah." Max and Tyson shout in unison, while Kai and Kenny nod their heads.
"Time to go guys." Tiffany says walking back in.
"Where are we going?" Max asks.
Tiffany smiles.
"You'll see." And heads out of the room again.
Everyone looks at Tyson who shrugs.
"Hey I'm as confused as you guys." He says.
They all walked out into the front yard and saw Tiffany waiting for them leaning against a sliver Honda Prelude (A/N: did I spell the car make right?) and talking to the guy that drove the limousine which brought them all here. They stared in shock at her and the car, which was when Tiffany spotted them.
"What… you guys never see a sports car before?" she jokes.
"Of we have." Ray answers.
"We just weren't expecting to be travelling in one." Kenny adds.
She smiles. "Actually most of you won't, Malcolm will be taking you in the Civic." She answers then seeing their confused faces adds "I wanna show Tyson something before meeting up with you."
"So… where are we going?" Tyson asks as the others go off with Malcolm.
"Remember the thing I told you on your first night here?" she asks getting into the car.
"Yeah." /-it's not something I'm likely to forget.-/ he thought.
"That's where we're going."
"Huh?"
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"Wonder what Tiffany wants to show Tyson?" Kenny wonders on their way to… wherever it was they were going.
"She sure is being secretive." Ray comments.
"When isn't she." Kai grumbled.
"You're awfully quiet today Max." Ray noticed seeing him looking out the window just watching the scenery go by.
"Hm? Oh I was just thinking."
"What about?" Kenny inquires.
"Oh nothing important."
Before anyone can say anymore Malcolm interrupts.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but we've arrived."
They all get out and look around. Then they hear a familiar voice say "Maxie!"
"Mom? Mom!"
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"Where are we?" Tyson asks as he gets out of the car.
"Just follow me."
Tyson complies and before long he realises that they're in a cemetery. Then it all clicked he knew why she had brought him here.
"Here." Tiffany said pointing to a gravestone.
Tyson read what it said, "Here lies Davis North beloved father and friend who went before his time."
He heard a sniff come from behind him and turned to see Tiffany had tears in her eyes. "What does it mean 'before his time'?" He asked gently.
"We have to meet the others." She answered purposely avoiding his question.
"But…" he sighed then after taking one last look at the stone went after her. When he finally caught up with he asked "If you don't wanna talk about it then why did you bring me here?"
"You wanted to see him so I brought you." she said matter-of-factly.
Although it was a hot day Tyson shivered, her voice sounded so cold so unemotional it was hard to believe this was the same person that was trying to hold back the tears earlier. The journey over to the others was quiet perhaps a little too quiet for Tyson, he had always known his sister to be a happy cheery person a little like Max but it felt like the girl he knew to be his sister had been replaced this cold heartless person now sitting next to him. /-Reminds me of Kai when we first met.-/ he thought. The trip to the cemetery had produce yet even more unanswered questions, what did it mean by 'before his time'? Why wouldn't Tiffany answer him when he asked about it? What really happened all those years ago? He sighed wondering how he would get her tell him everything.
"You okay Bro?" Tiffany suddenly asks bringing Tyson out of his thoughts.
"Hm?"
"What's up? You seem a little… depressed." She says not taking her eyes off the road.
"Nothing." He replied looking out the window.
"Come on, I know you better than that."
"Do you? I wonder."
"Huh?" Tiffany gave her brother a quick confused look finding him staring out the window. "What's that suppose to mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like." He replied a little annoyed as he now looked at her.
"Tyson, I'm not a mind reader your gonna have to tell me what's wrong before I can actually help you." She stated.
"That's just it."
"Come again?"
"You say you're here to help us and yet all you do is… is…. Unhelpful!" he raves.
Tiffany once again took one quick look at her brother and saw the seriousness in his eyes. "You're serious aren't you." She says gently.
"Of course I'm serious, we'd do better if you weren't even here!"
That didn't it Tiffany stopped the car so fast that seatbelt almost strangled Tyson!
"What the hell did you do that for!" he yelled.
"You think you can do without me, fine. I'll leave." She was still looking ahead and didn't realise that a tear was falling down her face. "I'll go back to my friends in Europe at least there I'm appreciated!"
Tyson stared at her in surprise; he really had hit a nerve. He hadn't meant for the conversation to get so out of control. "Tiffany, I…" he started to say quietly.
"I'll drop you off where the others are then… then… I-I'll go." No matter how determined she was not to cry a few tears still fell. She wiped them away without a single thought and started up the car again.
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"Where are they?" Max wonders as he looks out the window for the nth time. "I hope nothings happened to them."
"I'm sure they're fine Max. They probably ran into a little traffic." His mother tries to reassure.
"Maybe they got into another fight." Kenny theorises.
"Another?" Ray repeats.
"Yeah, apparently they had an argument or something the day before we got here." He explains.
"Do you know what about?" Kai asked wondering why Tyson never told him.
Kenny shakes his head. "Max pulled me away before I could ask."
"Has Tyson got a girlfriend or something?" Judy asks quite confused by the conversation.
Everyone chuckled they forgot to mention that he was with his sister just that he would be along later.
"No mom nothing like that." Max answers looking out the window again.
"Then…"
"Tyson's with his sister Tiffany." Ray adds.
"Tyson has a sister?" she repeated surprised.
"That what we all said the first time we found out." Kenny says.
At that moment Kai just happened to look out the window and see a sliver prelude pull up. "They're here." He announces.
As soon Kai spoke those words Ray and Max were off like a shot to greet them. Judy looked at both Kenny and Kai a little confused.
"They're always like that. Competing with each other ever since Tiffany arrived." Kenny explains.
Judy gives a nod and a small smile then they all go to greet Tyson and Tiffany, but when they got there they could tell that something wasn't right. None of them had gotten out of the car yet.
"Looks like you were right Kenny, they did have another fight." Kai said seeing the annoyed look on Tiffany's face as she spoke to Tyson.
((((In the car))))
"Tyson, if you don't get out of this car right now…"
"What? You're gonna throw me out? Gee where I have I heard that before oh that's right you said the same thing to Kai when he asked how you knew the Mythicals." He says sarcastically.
Tiffany growled.
"What's the matter Sis can't handle it." He continues.
"Tyson, you better get out of this car while you're still in one piece!" she said low and threateningly.
"Not until you agree to come with me."
Tiffany suddenly smiles which scared Tyson a little.
"W-what?"
"I was just wondering… did I go with Uncle because I wanted to see new places or to get away from you!"
"That's not fair Tiffany!" Tyson shouts.
"What's the matter Bro, can't handle it." She says repeating what he said to her earlier.
This time it was Tyson's turn to growl.
"What about Max?" he asks.
"I... don't... care!" she shouts.
"Y-you d-don't c-care?" a voice says from behind her. She froze the instant she heard it and saw Tyson had a smug look on his face. /-Please don't tell me…-/ she thought as she slowly she turned round and looked straight into Max's sad face. She opened her mouth to say something but found she couldn't speak. As she continued to look she saw tears begin to form in his eyes, he then turned and ran away.
"Max!" she called after him finally finding her voice as she when to follow him but got tangled up in the seatbelt. She managed to free herself and get out slamming the door close. She then looked over at Tyson with a threatening glare "Now look what you've done!" she says accusingly before running off in the direction Max ran in.
"Tyson. What's… going on?" Kai asks confused by what just happened, as was everyone else.
"To be honest Kai, I really don't know." He answers.
"Let's all go inside, then perhaps we can figure it out." Judy says.
"But what about Tiffany?" Ray argues. It puzzled him why she went after Max then thought /-she likes him I just know she does. So where does that leave me?-/
"Oh I'm sure she'll be fine." She replies with a smile.
They all head in and Tyson tells them what happened.
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"Max? Maaaaaaaaaax." Tiffany calls out trying to locate the now missing blonde. /-Way to go Tiff. Perfect way to keep your temper in order yell at your brother, then annoy the only reason to stay.-/ she sighed. "Max, where are you?" she says quietly to herself.
"You looking for someone?"
Tiffany turns in the direction of the voice and feels her anger flare up again.
"What the hell do you want!"
"To talk if that's okay with you." They said.
"Well it's not. Now if you'll excuse me I have to find someone." Walking off.
"It would be in your best interest if you listened."
This peaked Tiffany's interest. "Go on." Turning back towards them.
"You won't win."
"Excuse me?" /-what the hell is she talking… she means the tournament.-/
The girl saw the realisation that appeared on Tiffany's face and smirked.
"We are not the team we once were. Thanks to you."
Tiffany growled, she had no time for this she had to find Max.
"Oh don't get me wrong we were a great team. Once. But now we're even better and we have you to thank, if you hadn't of left we'd never of got where we are today."
"Enough of your damn riddles Kara! I'm kinda busy right now so tell me what the hell you want so I can continue with my business." Tiffany said with pure annoyance.
"As you wish Tiffany. I take it Starlet and Danny have already 'visited' you."
Tiffany didn't like the sound of this. She thought back to yesterday afternoon when she lost her temper at Starlet then last night when that 'mysterious' person told her to listen to her heart. /-Danny! I thought I recognised the voice! What are you all up to? I hope it's not what I think.-/
"I am the last… messenger you could say." Kara continued. "Our revenge is near and when it's happens you'll be sorry you ever came back!"
Tiffany rolled her eyes /-like I'm not sorry already.-/ she thought.
Kara then turned to go, "Oh and by the way Tiffany." She said her back still towards her "You'll find him behind the building on your right."
Tiffany looked over to the building that Kara had mentioned then back to her only to find that she was no longer there. She sighed /-guess there's no turning back now. I can't leave even if wanted to. Suppose there's no harm in checking out where she said.-/ she jogged over to where Kara said Max would be and was surprised that she was actually telling the truth, Max was there looking up at the sky.
"Max?"
Max looked at her and she caught a glimpse of hate in his eyes he then turned a walked off.
"Max, wait... please."
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Tada! Chapter ten is done & dusted -smiles happily- hope the chap was okay. I mean I couldn't have them visit the US and not visit Max's mum. Sorry there isn't much yaoi in it I'll put more in the next chapter. Aren't I mean to poor Maxie hehe. Will Tiffany ever get him to forgive her? You'll just have to wait and see :p
Moonlit Sea