"So Kai's bit beast really is that girl?" Takao asked as he and Max prepared themselves breakfast at the extravagant breakfast bar in the hotel. The time was nine o'clock am.
"That's what they said. And she does kind of look like Dranzer. The hair is right, so are the clothes I guess." Max answered as he took a shiny red apple from the friut dish. Takao took three…
"I can't believe nobody woke us up earlier, I could have gotten in some practice!" Takao complained as he piled more food on his tray. Unfortunately for the hotel the breakfast bar was all you can eat for eight dollars…
Once at the end of the line Takao and Max paid for their food, causing the poor worker to shriek about a pay cut of some sort. Though, they didn't seem to notice…
Meanwhile Rei and Wyatt were talking to Dranzer as they waited for their turn to practice behind Kai. Kyouju and Hiromi were watching Kai's stats on Kyouju's computer.
"So you really are Kai's bit beast?" Wyatt asked. "I knew it!" He yelled happily a moment later.
"Yes, yes…" She replied uninterested in them. At the moment she wished that Kai hadn't told them who she really was.
"How are you able to do this? Kyouju explained a little bit, but…?" Rei asked a bit confused holding Drigger in his hands, waiting for his turn behind Kai, he was next.
"If you're wondering if all 'bit beasts' as you seem to like calling us can do the same, I don't know." She spoke in monotone, though directed it towards Rei, who then looked up at her.
"I'm not quite sure how it works exactly, only that I can do it. It has to do with the fact that Kai and I are bound. His power is my power." She said as she watched Kai bey blade. The sun was bright, though the ground was covered in snow and it was quite cold. "His life is my life…" She quietly added as she looked at Kai with silent admiration.
Kai soon finished his round and Rei stood to go. He wiped the sweat from his brow even though the temperature had to be somewhere in the negatives.
"Whoa Kai! You did awesome! Your strength just spiked!" Hiromi yelled happily as she greeted Kai with Kyouju.
"Yeah Kai! You did really nice out their! With power like that you'll take the competition easy!" Kyouju shrieked as he looked at his computer.
"He always could." Dranzer added as she rose from her seat to meet her master, giving him the smallest of smiles.
Rei yelled as he let Drigger go, his power was improving as well.
How could I ever be that good? Wyatt thought, after having watched Kai and now Rei go at it, he felt horribly amateurish. Though, Kai had picked him out of all of the others as a replacement for Daichi. He was honored that Kai thought him good enough to be on the Blade Breakers. He would serve them well if the time came! So he continued to study Rei's moves, he wanted to learn all he could from this experience.
Soon after at about eleven o'clock the Blade Breakers met up. The first match of the day was about to begin. It would be the Demolition Boys versus the Saint Shields.
They were simply relaxing at first, when suddenly Ozuma decided to pay them a visit.
"You idiots!" He yelled, getting Takao going.
"Gee, what a nice way to greet us Ozuma!" Takao yelled as he jumped from his seat to return the glare to the other boy.
"Didn't I tell you to be careful? Now they know more!" He yelled, leaving nothing to mystery, obviously Ozuma was upset.
"I knew I shouldn't have trusted you fools to care for the ancient spirits.." He muttered under his breath.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Takao demanded from the Saint Shield, anger boiling inside of him. Kai couldn't help but be a bit interested in what Ozuma had to say, it did after all concern Dranzer as well, and since she had been human it seemed as if they had grown closer…
"Just say what you came to say Ozuma." Kai demanded from the shorter boy, glowering at him.
"Well if your team would shut up for a moment-" Ozuma directed the insult to Kai, and then waited before he continued to make sure that there was silence.
"Thank you." He spat bitterly. "Now, the 'Blade Reapers' as they are going by have something that I think will be of particular importance to Hiwatari over there-" He said as he motioned towards Kai.
"I'm listening." Kai growled, not liking the game that Ozuma always insisted on playing with them. He could never give a strait answer.
Dranzer watched the boy as he turned and made eye contact with her. She knew he knew the truth. There was no doubt about it. It was the smirky look on his young face that got to her. Subconsciously she let out a small growl in his direction.
"Also, I think you might be interested in who's idea it was to change the tournament's location. But, I'll leave it to you to figure out. Well, later." He yelled before jumping back to his place with his team. He left the Blade Breakers angry with his decided appearance. Though, Kai had a fairly good idea of the 'person' that Ozuma was talking about.
The second day of the tournament soon started. The first bey battle was between Joseph of the Saint Shields and Ian of the Demolition Boys.
"C'mon Vanishing Moot!" He yelled as Ian went on the offence, soon though, he was back from defense and over powered Ian.
"Yes!" Joseph yelled happily as Miriam clapped a bit from behind. Ian looked on in shock that he was taken over by an annoying twelve, or-so, year old. He growled as he grudgingly shook Joseph's hand. Both had an outstandingly smug look on their face, even Ian who had lost.
"What an amazing match!" Brad Best yelled as the two bey bladers were excused from the ring.
"And now for the second match! The line up seems to be Spencer versus Dunga! This'll be exciting! Two big guys with even bigger bey spirits!" He yelled in his evr-cheerful voice as Spencer and Dunga climbed into the ring for battle.
Kai watched on, they were fairly evenly matched, though he had the feeling that Spencer would win. Perhaps because he used to be on his team, or because Spencer had once beaten him.
The blades were soon sent out, crashing against each other in the bey stadium.
Kai waited, it was actually a very good battle. Spencer and Dunga were evenly matched, but it started to look as if Spencer was gaining the upper hand. Soon after Spencer gained lead the match ended. They were now in a tie. The actual reason that the tournament committee now required there to be five members was in case of ties, so that they could be broken without having to exhaust the last unlucky blader.
Third match: Ozuma's new team member and a new recruit on the side of the Demolition Boys, who looked just as mean as his teammates.
"Good Luck Tien!" Miriam yelled from the sidelines to her new teammate. Kai noticed that this caught Max's attention, if only for a second…
"Wow! How exciting!" Brad Best yelled. "Now we'll get to see what these two knew members are really made of! Tien of the Saint Shields and Gregeri of the Demolition Boys! And go!" He yelled as two blades ripped through the air. Tien took the first lead, but Gregori kept going at him. The match soon ended in a tie.
"Amazing! These two are certainly great bey bladers!" Brad exclaimed excitedly as the two left the stadium.
Miriam and Bryan were the next competitors. Though, Bryan didn't seem to be taking the match too seriously, in fact, he seemed to find it amusing. Max seemed to be a bit worried.
Soon after the match started it was evident that Bryan was up to something, every so often he would do something that would hurt Miriam. Not long after Bryan got something in her eye he won, much to Miriam's dismay.
The final match would be between Ozuma and Tala, and neither would be easily defeated. They set themselves to begin, neither losing the others look.
"Go Flash Leopard!" Ozuma shouted, immediately going on the attack, this seemed to surprise Tala, but just for a moment. Soon Tala was throwing attacks back at Ozuma, combined with an excellent defense.
The Blade Breakers watched on. It was an excellent match, and neither of the blader's looked like they were going to give up any moment soon.
"Wow…" Takao breathed quietly as he watched, it truly was an amazing battle. But he knew what kind of opponent Tala could be, he just hoped that Ozuma could see it.
Wolborg was soon out, fangs glistening in the shimmering light that emanated from the bey blade and the sun. Tala threw a final attack-and the match was over.
The Saint Shields had fought well, but the Demolition Boys had overpowered them. Though, if Bryan hadn't been underhanded again, Max reasoned that Miriam could have won. In fact, he was sure of it. She was an amazing blader.
"Wow! I haven't seen a match that intense in a long time! I think this calls for an intermission! Up next- the Blade Breakers versus the All Starz! Will their match be as amazing as the one that we just witnessed! Only time will tell!" He shouted out gleefully.
The Blade Breakers regrouped. They would have to face the All Starz soon and all knew that it wouldn't be easy; With Max's mom training them, there was no doubt about it.
Kai prepared himself. Dranzer was safe in his blade. He could win. He knew it. There was no way that he was going to be beaten, not after what Ozuma had told them. But he and Dranzer were the perfect team, no one could beat them!
Kai rejoined the rest of his group for bey blade checks, to make sure everything was running perfectly for the match. And as always, it was.
"And we're back!" Shouted Brad as he greeted the crowd. "And now-the Blade Breakers versus the All Stars!" He yelled.
Rei was the first to go up with Eddy as his opponent. Rei prepared himself for the match, Eddy wouldn't be easily taken down. But he was confident in his ability to win. Rei took out his launcher, the sounds of his team cheering him on giving him strength.
"Trypio!" Eddy howled as he launched his blade with his basketball, a unique thing to do…
"Go, Drigger!" Rei yelled as Drigger sailed from the blade launcher. Both blades danced back and fourth in the ring for a while, both taking shots when they could.
Drigger bounced against Trypio, using his perfect balance between attack and defense. Though, Trypio seemed to counter fairly easily.
The bladers let the final attack go. The stadium was filled with smoke. When itr cleared both blades were spining slowly, until one stopped. That one being Drigger…
Rei gasped in almost disbelief, then went to pick up Drigger, he noticed Eddy standing in front of him, extending a hand to help him up. Rei accepted.
"And the winner is Eddy of the All Starz!" Brad Best shouted as Eddy and Rei promised each other another match.
Next, Max took his place on in the ring, the other blader would be the new boy on the All Starz it seemed. From what Max could gather his name was Jakob and he loved hockey. Which could be an understatement.
"Hey Max!" The new boy, jakob yelled to his soon to be opponent.
"Yeah?" Max asked happily as he prepared himself.
"Good match! I've heard some good things about you!" He yelled across the stadium. Max smiled and wished Jakob luck as well. When Brad Best yelled to go, the bey blades were out in seconds.
Kai watched the match as it went. Max and Jakob seemed to be fairly equal, even their bit beasts. Max's Draciel soon used a defense based attack and won though. Kai had to give a small smile. You could always count on Max.
"And Max is the winner!" Brad yelled. Max left the stage, but not before saying a few nice words to Jakob.
Third match: Daichi versus Michael. That could be a problem… Thought Kai. Michael was a powerful blader, he had bladed him before, with Black Dranzer… Daichi was harly in any condition to blade. From what he had heard from Rei the moron had left the window open the night before and had a cold now on top of whatever else he had! Though, the boy didn't seem to be getting better even with the medicine that Takao's grandfather had gotten him. He was starting to think the woman who had accused Daichi of the plague was right… He would have to make a note to stasy away from him. But they always had Wyatt.
"Daichi…" Kai said as he turned the boy around to face him.
"Chauaghh Chuuhuua! Yeah kakak Kai?" He sniffled/choked out.
"You don't have to do this. Wyatt is here." he finished still looking at Daichi, he could always forbid him from blading being team captain. But he didn't feel that that was the way to go. But Daichi glared, turned on his foot and decided to blade anyways.
Poor Daichi. The match, needless to say, didn't last too long. Half way through Daichi came down with a coughing fit. And Michael wasn't even blading at full strength because he felt so badly for the smaller boy. It was possible that he even regretted winning because of the shape Daichi was in by the end of the match. If anything Daichi served to make Michael feel terrible, and his talking made the rest of the team feel badly.
After the match was over Michael walked up to Kai, though still a it upset about the Black Dranzer incident, forgiving.
"Hey Kai-" He started as he looked at the other boy.
"What?" kai asked slightly colder than he had wanted to.
"You should get Daichi to a hospital. I think he has something. I heard a woman muttering something about the plague?" He finished in one breath. That plague thing would never let Daichi live it down. Kai nodded, he would have to replace Daichi with Wyatt.
Takao had the fourth match. If he lost: They were out of the tournament. His opponent would be Steve. Quite a burly fellow.
Takao took him on quickly. And amazingly won in a short amount of time. Steve seemed surprised to say the least. Kai was too. He had never seen Takao use is power all in one quick burst before. It could be a bad thing if used often and his opponent could withstand it. But in that particular match it was good.
It was up to him now. His match. The final match. Just Dranzer and himself. And that was how he liked it
Kai prepared himself for his match against Emily. He was sure he could beat her.
Emily got up and smirked at him from her place across the ring. He would have to beat her in order to move on, and she didn't intend to let that happen. Because the All Starz needed this match in order to make themselves move on.
Emily first let Trygator rip off of her tennis racket.
Kai maneuvered Dranzer around her blade expertly as he called her from her blade. A large red phoenix flew from the blade, red feathers danced gracefully as they fell from her form as Dranzer took on Trygator. Trygator whipped it's long reptilian tail around and hit the giant bird in the back.
"Go Dranzer! Spiral survivor!" Kai called on spiral survivor, one of his only defense moves. His was an attack based bey blade, and therefore had mostly offensive moves.
"Trygator!" Emily yelled as her alligator like bit beast was demolished by the large fire bird that still stood in the stadium before returning to her own blade. Emily's blade was badly damaged by the end of the match. It had gone on for what seemed like forever. And then it was over. Just like that. Kai had won. His team would advance to the semi-final's, and her team would not.
Kai smirked a bit at his victory, picking up Dranzer he rushed the dirt on the ground off of her and put his precious blade back in his pocket.
"Amazing!" Brad yelled. That was really all he could say, there was nothing else to say.
Returning to the hotel the Blade Breakers celebrated their latest victory. All except for Kai, who preferred to stay in his room.
Dranzer came out of her blade once more and they spoke of the match that had happened earlier. Dranzer was quite proud of herself.
Dranzer currently stood over Kai, taking off old bandages and checking the wounds. They were almost completely healed, at least on the outside. He was so strong, never complained. She liked that about him.
"Complete." She said monotone as she finished applying a small band of gauze around him for the small cuts still open, and the larger ones that could reopen, though she doubted that they would.
"Thanks…" Kai mumbled as he put his shirt back on over his head.
"The semi-finals are tomorrow…" Kai said softly as he looked out of the window in the hotel. It was snowing again. He had almost forgotten how much it snowed in Russia. After having lived in warm Japan for so long he simply got used to it's climate, his body forgetting the cold, dry climate of Russia. It wasn't always dry, but most preferred it that way to the cold humidity….
Slowly he got up and opened the window, leaning out he let his hands hold him up on the windowsill. It was cold but nothing he couldn't handle.
Dranzer watched him, she got the feeling that he was thinking about the time he spent in Biovolt. Quietly she raised herself from the bed that she was sitting on and walked to the window where Kai was. Once there, she slowly wrapped her arms around him and pulled him to her. She would protect him from those in the world that wanted to hurt him. She would always protect him. Kai didn't flinch away from the unexpected touch.
Wow. How long was that! Sorry if the beginning's a bit boring. I swear that now that the first couple of matches are over it'll get more exciting. Way more exciting. Though, the semi-finals will hardly be as exciting as the finals. I have such a great idea! Okay! Thanks for reviewing! Please read and review! Thank you!
Happy Spring Break!