Chapter 4

Ray falls in Love

For a week the Blade Breakers have trained on and off and rested as well. Morning was normal in the household, they ate breakfast and the morning paper came of course Ray got the paper first and read the Beyblade section.

" Hey guys listen to this." said Ray

" What?" Tyson asked

" Individual Tournament in a week best of the best teamless bladers will be expect to appear. Brad Best, AJ Topper, and DJ Jazzman say that the blader to worry about is the newest female blader Zoey." said Ray as he read

" She sounds quite strong." said Max

" Fah... she couldn't beat me." said Tyson

" I'm not so sure about that Tyson... Zoey is a strong blader. Her graceful stature of bladeing is amazing she is both beautiful and strong." said Ray

" Well sounds like Ray has a crush on Zoey." said Tyson with a smile.

Ray blushed badlyat Tyson's comment.

" I guess it's true." said Tyson this time teaseing Ray

Ray turned even reder at this comment and he left the room, Max and Kai turned to Tyson.

" You shouldn't take advantage of Ray's emotions." said Max

" You shouls feel ashamed of yourself Tyson." said Kai

Max and Kai left the living room hopeing they could talk to Ray, but they came to his door closed Kai knocked.

" Ray open up." said Kai

" Come in it's not locked." said Ray

Kai opened the door and walked in with Max behind him.

" How you doin' bud?" Max asked

" I don't like how Tyson took advantage of me like that." said Ray his head lowered a bit

" Don't woory about Tyson he's just jealous." said Max

" So what I like a girl blader there's nothing wrong about liking someone." said Ray

" Fah... Tyson doesn't know how it feels to be in love." said Kai

" Well.. I'll admit I like Zoey but love her." said Ray blushing

" Ray don't try to hide it, it's written all over your face." said Max

Ray blushed even harder.

" We're here for you Ray and we will not judge your decision it's your life not ours." said Kai

" Thanks guys... you're true friends." said Ray

The next day Ray awoke in the early morning as usual and it was already nice and warm outside. Ray stretched and let out a yawn, he looked out his window a nice cloudless blue sky greeted the trees that swayed in the calm breeze Ray let out another yawn and exited his room.

" What a beautiful morning." thought Ray as he cracked is leg

Ray went outside and climbed the apple tree and picked some apples and then went back inside and found some cantalope and oranges for a fruit salad for breakfast. After he was finished Ray walked out the front door and decided to go to the flower field to relax.

Ray came to the flower field and took a deep breath. Ray enjoyed being at the field the scents off beautiful flowers wofted by his nose, he exhailed and looked at all the beautiful flowers that surrounded him.

Suddenly the bushes by the field moved slightly with a slight crack.

" Must be the wind." Ray thought

Again the bushes moved but a little louder this time. Ray lifted his head in total alertness, again the bushes went quiet, so Ray went back to sniffing the flowers. Once again the bushes moved Ray lifted his head again looking toward the source of the noise.

Then a female cat demon came out of the bushes. Ray couldn't believe what he saw, the girl had long jet black hair tied back in a pony tail, she wore a blue shirt with a white tiger on the front, blue jean pants, silver lined shoes, and she had the most beautiful amber eyes Ray has ever seen.

" Oh my, I didn't mean to scare you." she siad

To Ray her voice sounded like an angel straight from heaven.

" It's quite alright." said Ray

The girl sat next to Ray making him shiver slightly.

" My name is Zoey Kesen." she greeted with a smile.

" The name's Raymond Kon." greeted Ray

" Raymond... that's a nice name." said Zoey

" Please call me Ray." he said

" Ray it is then." said Zoey

" Wait a minute your the girl goin' to the Individual Tournament." said Ray

" Thats me." said Zoey

" I have read many articles on you, people say that you are the on to worry about in the tounament." said Ray

" That's sweet Ray, I didn't know that I had any fans." said Zoey

" I can uderstand I felt the same way when I was a start-out." said Ray

" You're a blader?' Zoey asked

" Of course." said Ray

" I wondered why your name rang a bell your're a Blade Breaker." said Zoey

" Yes." said Ray

The two cat demons talked for a couple hours then Ray heard Kai calling for him.

" Over here Kai!" called Ray

" There you are the guys and I were wondering where you dissappeared to." said Kai

" Kai meet Zoey." said Ray

" Hello." greeted Zoey

" So your the girl that Ray has a crush on." said Kai

Ray blushed a little.

" Crush?" Zoey asked looking over to Ray

" Come on Ray we have to go home." said Kai

" I'll see you later?" asked Zoey

" You can count on it." said Ray with a wink

Ray stood up and walked off with Kai, Zoey watched until Ray was out of sight

" He seems nice." said Zoey

The Beyblade in her pocket began to vibrate

" I know you like his Driger." she said

A few days have past and the Blade Breakers are watching the Finals of the Individual Tournament in the audience. Zoey was up next against Carlos, she had to worry about this battle Carlos is one of the most agressive bladers around.

Zoey stepped up to the Fire Ring Stadium it would be hard for her blade to monuver around the falme shooters that would shoot flames from the floor of the dish. Carlos stood on the other side with a wide grin on his face, both had lauchers ready, the fans went quiet. Everything Zoey has learned and trained would be put to the ultiment test then DJ Jazzman came up.

" Are you ready!" he shouted

The crowd cheered loudly.

" 3...2...1 Let it Rip!" he called

The two bladers lauched their blades at the same time and the blades landed into the dish and started to grind into each other with extreme force, Carlos smirked and he knew exactly what to do next.

" Go Blade Shark!" he called

Then a giant shark with razor sharp teeth appeared, the blade started to grind harder into Tigeress's blade.

" Go Wild Tigeress!" called Zoey

A giant female white tiger appeared and roared.

" Tiger Claw!" called Zoey

" Tail Whack!" called Carlos

Wild Tigeress tried attacking but the giant shark used it's tail and wacked her into the wall behind Zoey, doing that was a big mistake for Carlos. Willd Tigeress got back up and didn't look to happy, it's going to be a shorter battle than expected.

" Tiger Claw!" called Zoey

The tiger obyed her claws glowed a sliver color and the tiger jumped into the air and clawed the shark across it's back. The shark roared in pain and returned to it's blade.

" No Blade Shark." said Carlos

" Wild Tigeress attack!" called Zoey

The tiger used her big paws swated the blade out of the dish.

" Zoey wins!" called DJ

The crowd cheered as loud as they possibly could. Zoey was proud of winning with Tigeress but she had no one else to share it with, and Tigeress returned to her blade.

" That was great Zoey!" called a firmalliar voice

Zoey turned around to see Ray coming up beside her.

" Ray... what are you doing here?" Zoey asked

" I told you I would see you soon." said Ray

" You really think I was good?" Zoey asked

" Better than that my friend." replied Ray

Zoey blushed slightly.

" That battle was amazing." said Max coming up behind Ray.

" Nothing to it." said Zoey

" Modest much?" asked Tyson

" Tyson shut it." said Kai

" Thanks guys but it was nothing."said Zoey

Then Ray heard footsteps coming toward them.

" Good work Zoey." came a voice

" Thanks Mr. D." said Zoey

" Zoey, I was wondering if you would like to join the Blade Breakers." asked Mr.D

" But they all ready have four bladers." said Zoey

" You could be backup." said Max

" Well I'm not sure." said Zoey

" Take your time thinking and let us know what you decision is." said Ray

The Blade Breakers walked off to let Zoey decide what she wanted to do. Zoey sat and thought for quite sometime until she finally made up her mind. She stood up and walked down the hallway until she saw Max and Tyson battleing each other, which ended in a draw, as Zoey approached she saw Ray, Kai, and Gramps watching Tyson and Max.

" I have made my decision." she said

" What is it?" asked Gramps

" You guys have an opening?" she asked

" You bet." said Ray

Ray was so excited by this so much that he hugged Zoey tight.

" You'll enjoy being onour team." said Ray

" I'm enjoying this now." Zoey thought

Ray then realized what he was doing and put Zoey down, finally able to hear Tyson snikering. Ray glared at him and Tyson stopped when he noticed Ray's pupils turn to thin slits.

" We should get headin' home dudes and dudette." said Gramps

Zoey sat on her new bed in her new room she was really amazed by all of this. She just finished unpacking a while ago except for one thing she took out a small box and opened it revealing a small yet powerful Beyblade Wild Tigeress. Zoey closed the box and left her room to explore the dojo.

Right across from her room is Ray's room next door to him was Kai and so on. She explored some more there was a kitchen, laundry room, bath room, dining room, living room, and a book room.

" Hey Zoey." greeted Ray

" Hi Ray." greeted Zoey

" You lost?" Ray asked

" No, just exploring." Zoey replied

" Okay if you need any thing let me know." said Ray

" Don't worry I will." said Zoey

Ray walked off and Zoey saw that he went to his room. Ray seemed to be quite careing and he was always looking out for his teammates who were also his friends. Zoey turned around and headed back to her room she looked across the hall and saw Ray sitting on his bed with a sketch pad on his lap. Apparently he was drawing something. Zoey laid down on her bed looking out the window the sky getting darker with each passing minute. Soon Zoey closed her eyes while listening to crickets,and fell asleep for the night.