I know you're all wounding why Kai is acting all cruel and ruthless, well you probably won't find out the full reason till later in the story, but for now I'll give you a little clue to keep you guessing, it has something to do with what happened near the end of 'A Scorched Path'.
8: The Tournament is Underway
DJ Jazzman: "And the Diamond Girls take the win, moving on to the next round, winning all three of their battles, but that puts the White Wings at a total loss, leaving them no choice but to be knocked out of the tournament!"
With large grins the four girls left the stadium waving happily at the audience while the White Wings walked away with their heads hung low, muttering how badly they had lost. (Sorry to skip the battle but it would have been pretty boring to write and to read).
DJ Jazzman: "Well let's get straight on with the next round shall we, we have the Sky Doves versus the Shadow Team!"
More cheers were heard as both teams entered the arena, the Sky Doves were all smiling and waving happily looking really excited about the whole thing, while the Shadow Team came out all glaring eyes narrowed in malice, walking over to the benches that were positioned on either side of the dish for each team the four teens sat down, Emerald lent forwards elbows resting on his knees, while Kai lent back his spine pressed against the gray wall that was behind them, Moon sat up straight, and Raven sat with one leg crossed over the other, all four of them looked pissed off and were wanting to get this over with.
"Now we can see how good they are" Max spoke to Ray who was sitting next to him in the stands, on the other side of Max was Tyson, his left arm was resting in a sling, on the other side of Ray was Kenny, his laptop open on his lap, and Aaron sat next to Kenny watching the whole thing with excitement, this being his first tournament and all. Also in the stands watching the soon to be match were the White Tigers, All-Starz and Majestics.
DJ Jazzman: "For the first match Emerald from the Shadow Team will go up against Lina from the Sky Doves!"
Emerald stood and walked casually over to the dish, he stood opposite a young Dutch girl who looked about 17, she had long red hair with dark chocolate brown eyes, she was dressed in white pants with a black tube-top. Pulling out their blades and launchers the two teens got themselves set up,
DJ Jazzman: "And 3…2...1…LET IT RIP!"
Launching their blades cream and pink shot into the dish, Emeralds cream coloured blade stationed itself in the center of the bowl, while Lina's pink one took to doing laps around the edge, occasionally diving in for an attack, which Emerald easily deflected causing his beyblade no damage,
"He's just sitting there?" questioned Kenny peering down at the battle,
"Maybe their not as good as we though they were" spoke Tyson
'I don't know, he must be hiding his true power' Ray was lost in thought staring down at the match,
"Hey Emerald, quiet playing around and finish her off already!" snapped Moon glaring daggers at the green eyed teen,
"Fine, spoil my fun", muttered Emerald turning his attention back to the battle,
"Ghost end this!" shot Emerald, once the last sounds of Emerald voice faded away his creamy blade shot forwards so fast it was impossible to see, the next thing to happen was the sound of something small crashing against the hard floor, a few gasps of shock were heard from the crowd, looking down at her feet Lina saw what remained of her once pink beyblade, a few shattered pieces of the attack ring were left scattered around her. Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared down shocked and lost for words at her defeat, picking up the largest piece she turned and walked over to her teammates, two of whom comforted her while the third stood up and took his place by the dish ready for vengeance against his fellow teammate,
DJ Jazzman: "Whoa what an attack, nothings left of her blade, but it looks like Jason is ready to take on the next opponent, he better be ready when it comes to facing the one and only Kai, who was once the captain of the Bladebreakers, but has now just recently switched teams".
"My gosh did you see that, he tore threw her blade like it was nothing" gasped Kenny looking shocked,
"And we can't even be sure if that was all the power he has or not" added in Ray,
"Well let's see how Kai goes," mumbled Tyson as he watched the cold hearted captain make his way up to the dish,
DJ Jazzman: "Now ready 3…2…1…LET IT RIP!"
Kai pulled the ripcord sending his dark blue blade flying into the dish, only feet away Jason's green blade landed just as smoothly, within seconds Kai's beyblade had shot forwards and smashed into Jason's shattering it into hundreds of tiny pieces,
"No my blade" gasped Jason as he watched Kai's blade spin happily around the dish, as if it were mocking Jason then with a swift smooth action flew back to Kai who caught it with ease in the palm of his hand. A smirk crossed his lips as he turned and went to sit back down with the other three Russians,
DJ Jazzman: "Wow now that was a fast match!"
"Grr god dam him!" snapped Tyson glaring down at Kai
"How can they do that, just destroy their opponents blades" shot Max just as angry as his friend,
DJ Jazzman: "Well it's clear that the Shadow Team has made it to the next round but can the Sky Doves win this last match, we'll soon see when Raven goes up against Nicolas!"
The teen on the other side of the dish stood up and walked over to the dish, he was tall for his age with dark blond hair and bright blue eyes. Back with the Shadow Team Raven stood, but just as he took a step forwards a cold chilling voice cut threw the noise of the crowd,
"Wait" it was Kai, his dark crimson eyes were set on the Dutch teen standing by the dish
"What why?" Raven snarled back at Kai, who didn't bother to look up at the older teen,
"Moon will battle" came his reply,
"WHAT! But it's my turn to battle!" Raven shouted back glaring fiercely at Kai
"I don't care, Moon is taking your place" Kai now turned his cold eyes upwards locking with the jet black ones belonging to Raven,
"You can't do that," snapped Raven, in his anger he stepped in front of Kai and grasping the front of his black vest pulled the slate haired teen up to meet him,
"Don't talk back with me," Kai growled sending Raven a death glare, Raven just snarled back tightening his grip on the front of Kai's shirt.
DJ Jazzman: "Whoa what's happening down there, it seems that Raven and Kai are having a little disagreement about who's going to battle next!"
"They really don't get along, do they?" Lee asked looking over at Mariah,
"If that's the way they treat each other then why did Kai join them, it doesn't make sense," she replied back watching closely,
"Look I said that Moon will battle, you have no say in it!" snapped Kai, with quick reflexes he grabbed hold of Raven's hand and flung him around so that the black haired teen was now pushed up against the wall of the booth, Kai's forearm pressed against his throat threatening to crush his oesophagus,
"Now listen to me, I'm the leader of this team so what I say goes, now you will not be battling, Moon is taking your place, is that clear" Kai spoke in a soft deadly voice which even sent a shiver down Raven's spine, glaring harshly Raven said nothing back,
"Glad we could come to an agreement" Kai hissed back before letting go of Ravens shirt and sitting back down, Raven scowled at the younger teen before taking his place on the bench, seeing that they had finally finished Moon stood up and walked to the dish,
"You're going down" shot Nicholas narrowing his eyes at Moon,
"Whatever" she mumbled back pulling out her light blue blade she attached it to her launcher,
DJ Jazzman: "Well I guess that means they're ready, so let's get this battle underway, 3...2...1...LET IT RIP!"
Releasing their blades the match begun, Nicholas's brown beyblade spun around the edge of the dish a few time before going to attack, but when he did his blade hit nothing but air,
"Wha?" looking stunned Nicholas searched the dish for the blue blade, but found no traces of it, sudden shouts from the crowd caught his attention, gasping out the words "Look up there" and "Wow how'd she do that"
Looking up Nicholas noticed Moon's light blue blade in the air falling at a incredible rate, as the bit chip began to glow her blade began to drop at an even faster speed, if that were even possible, every one held their breath as they waited for the sound, time seemed to slow down as it happened, Moon's light blue and gray beyblade collided with Nicholas's brown one, a glass shattering sound echoed through the stadium as the brown blade crushed breaking under the pressure, the attack ring and weight disk broke off and shattered into tiny bits, while the spin gear and base broke into larger pieces, with a satisfied smirk Moon caught her blade as it came back to her and turned on her heels walking over to the others, leaving Nicholas to stand in shock, shaking as the sound of his blade breaking repeated over and over again in his head, tearing his heart more and more each time, till finally his teammates had to come over and pull him out of the trance he was in,
DJ Jazzman: "Well I guess that means the Shadow Team win, sending them to the next round, but unfortunately the Sky Doves are no longer apart of this tournament, better luck next time!"
After the announcement the Shadow Team stood and left the stadium, while the Sky Doves still had to try and figure out what in the world had just happened.
"Umm guys, some how I think that Kai's new team might not be as easy as he thought" said Kenny doing his best to analyze the small amounts of data he managed to gather from the battle,
"I think you may be right," muttered Ray, still in shock himself about what happened,
"Yeah but we can still win, they have no team spirit, they hate each other, how can they work as a good team when all they want to do is kill each other" spoke Tyson
"Tyson who needs team spirit when you have raw power like that, we just don't stand up, and even worse is that your arm is still broken, we have to hope that you're healed by the finals, otherwise I think we are going to face our worst defeat ever" said Kenny
"That's only IF we make it to the finales" Aaron spoke for the first time since the beginning of the tournament
"He has a good point," added Max,
"Oh come on you guys, we can win, I know we can, why are you all acting like this?" asked Tyson
"Sorry Tyson, we just don't have the same attitude as you over the whole thing, it's hard, where facing a tough challenge" said Ray,
"You all have to lighten up," muttered Tyson before turning back to the match, which was about to start.
DJ Jazzman: "Lets get on with the third and final battle for today, we have the Stripes versus the Majestics!"
"Alright go Majestics!" shouted Tyson as the four European bladers entered the stadium followed by more cheers as the second team came up after,
DJ Jazzman: "The first match will be between Oliver and Cara!"
The French teen along with his opponent a young purple haired Vietnamese girl with red eyes walked up to the dish and readied their blades,
DJ Jazzman: "On my count 3…2…1…LET IT RIP!"
Both Oliver's violet blade and Cara's pink one flew into the dish, doing a few laps around first they soon got down to business, Oliver's blade was the first to go in for the attack, swerving left and right Oliver made it impossible to see where he was going to attack from. Catching Cara off guard he sent her blade flying,
"Oh no" gasped Cara when her beyblade took flight, but luckily her blade only just managed to stay in, wobbling slightly it took a few second for her to get back on course.
"Unicolyon attack!" shouted Oliver giving the final order, glowing brightly his blade shot forwards and clashed with Cara's blade, she managed to hold her ground for a couple of seconds before Unicolyon overpowered her blade and sent it flying from the dish,
"No, I lost" Cara spoke in disappointment,
DJ Jazzman: "The Majestics take the first round, up next is Enrique versus Kita!"
The blond teen walked up to the dish smiling sweetly at Kita, she had short black hair with dark blue eyes, and wore a red halter top with white cargo pants.
DJ Jazzman: "And 3…2…1…LET IT RIP!"
Both Enrique and Kita pulled their ripcords, sending the two blades flying, Enrique's blade spun wildly around Kita's black one teasing her, with sudden movement her black blade shot forwards, catching Enrique off guard,
"What no way, Amphilyon attack!" shouted Enrique sending his blade forwards to attack, not taking any notice of the battle Kita smiled at Enrique her sparkling blue eyes glistening in the light, realizing her beauty Enrique stared back at her, losing his concentration Amphilyon's attack missed, putting his beyblade in the perfect position for her to attack, focusing back on the match Kita gave the last order,
"Attack!" she shot, her dark black beyblade spun forwards knocking Enrique's off balance causing it to slowly stop spinning.
"Alright I won," cheered Kita as she collected up her blade, Enrique stared shocked down at his motionless blade, unbelieving at what had just happened, picking up his blade he walked over to the others,
"What the hell was that!" snapped Johnny glaring at Enrique
"Sorry I lost concentration," muttered the Italian,
"Well it better not happen again" shot Robert before pulling out his own blade,
DJ Jazzman: "The second match goes to the Stripes, in the tie breaker Robert leader of the Majestics will face Hiroshi!"
"You're going down Robert" shot Hiroshi when the two stood opposite each other, the large dish between them,
"Not a chance" Robert spoke calmly back, unnerving the other teen,
DJ Jazzman: "Ready 3…2…1…LET IT RIP"
Just as the two blades landed in the dish Roberts beyblade shot forwards easily pushing Hiroshi's out with a clatter as it hit the floor,
"What no, I lost, I can't lose" Hiroshi seemed in total shock at his quick defeat,
"Tough luck kid" Robert smirked back as he turned on his heels and sat back down with his team,
DJ Jazzman: "Wow that was fast, well I guess that means that the Majestics have won two out of three battles which takes them up to the next round, but that also puts the Stripes in the lost column, knocking them out of the tournament!"
The Majestics slowly left the stadium followed by more cheers mainly from the Bladebreakers,
DJ Jazzman: "Sorry folks but that's all for today, but same time tomorrow we'll get on with the next few teams!"
"Wow that was so cool" "Hey did you see the Shadow team they were wicked" "Robert was totally cool in that last battle" as everyone left the stadium people couldn't stop talking about the matches that had taken place.
"I wonder which two teams will make it to the finals" Tyson asked no one in particular as he and the other Bladebreakers made their way onto the bus to head back to the hotel,
"Well I guess we'll find out when the finals are held," answered Kenny
"Yeah, I just can't wait" Tyson cheered again as the bus set off down the street. Just as the BBA bus was leaving the parking lot, the Shadow Team stepped out of the stadium and made their way over to the jet-black limo waiting for them. After about a 15-minute drive they arrived back at the Niagara Falls hotel. Stepping into the lift and heading up to floor 16, the four Russians entered their room only to find Boris waiting for them.
"Boris, what do you want?" snapped Kai, not liking the mans presence,
"Just a short talk with your teammates" answered Boris,
"Talk?" Kai glared daggers at the purple haired man
"Yes, so would you leave the room for a few minutes?" asked Boris
With a low growl Kai turned on his heels and left the hotel room slamming the door behind him, out in the halls Kai just lent back against the wall crossing his arms over his chest and closing his eyes waiting for Boris to leave.
"I've been watching you three and Kai for the past couple of days and I'm unhappy to say that you three have been acting very difficulty, " Boris paused for a second before continuing, "Look I don't care how you feel about Kai and if this is about what happened three years ago get over it already, it no longer matters. The Shadow Team must win this tournament, other wise I will not be happy and all of you will be severally punished" with that Boris turned and felt the hotel room,
'You wouldn't be saying that if you had really been killed by Kai's fucking bit beast, Slifer' Raven growled deep in his throat when Kai re-entered the room,
'I'll never forgive Kai for what he did, he didn't care in the slightest when his bit beast continued to attack Whisper after he had clearly won' Moon too was lost in her thoughts about what had happed at the abbey three years ago,
'Kai will pay for the humiliation he put me through, I had never been beaten so badly and the punishment I received after that defeat was the worst ever' Emerald thought about the moment again in his head, becoming even angrier after the scene of his loss played a few times over in his mind. Not caring about what Boris had to say to the others Kai kept walking ignoring the death glares he was getting from his teammates, Emerald was sitting on the couch, Raven standing in the middle of the room and Moon leaning against the wall by the corridor that lead to the bedrooms, her arms crossed over her chest. Heading towards his bedroom Kai stopped, staring back at Moon who was fiercely glaring at him. The two locked in eye contact, ice blue staring into crimson red and vice versa, neither moving a muscle. They say that a person's eyes are the window to their soul, yet no matter how hard Moon tried she was unable to see anything in those dark crimson depths. 'I never realized how beautiful her eyes were' Kai soon became lost in his own thoughts 'yet I see nothing in them, an endless pool of blue staring back at me. Why do I suddenly feel so attracted to her…Grr what's happening to me, I can't let myself fall for her' shaking those thoughts from his head Kai let his gaze drop, then looking back up glared at Moon before walking to his room.
Moon, Emerald and Raven didn't move from their places and just continued to death glare at the door through which Kai had gone, till finally Moon decided to leave the hotel. Finally ceasing his glare Emerald turned to the small radio near the TV and turned it on playing the music softly to those still in the room before he sat back down on the couch. With a sigh Raven went and lent against the wall, closing his eyes he too began to ponder about his thoughts.
'Am I really falling for her…I can't, I wont let it happen, feelings are weak, and besides she hates me, they all do. I just have to forget about it and not let my emotions wonder' Kai sat on his bed staring out the window watching the clouds fly past him.
Sorry about this chapter being kind of boring and the battles being short and not very entertaining but it's still only the first set of rounds, later they'll be much better.