"Help me!" a girl's voice calls out and echoes from a distance.
"Where are you?" Ling asks loudly.
"Please help, I'm trapped,"
"Trapped where?"
"I don't know."
"How can she not know where she's trapped?" Ling wondered, the situation getting weirder and weirder. Ling wandered amongst the darkness and without realising it she walked uphill. Next thing she knew she was approaching the edge of a cliff. The moon is full and there's a silhouette of a girl with long hair.
"Who are you?" Ling asked.
The girl turned around. There are shadows on her face and the wind blows her hair over her face.
"I can't say," the girl says, "They've got me trapped. I can't stay, please help me." The girl started to disappear.
"Wait! Come back!" Ling screams.
Ling suddenly woke up in the middle of the night sweating. Someone knocked lightly on her bedroom door.
"Ling, are you alright?" Ling's mum asked from behind the door.
"I just had a nightmare, I'm sorry to have woken you up," Ling apologized.
Ling's mum opened the door a little and popped her head in, "You sure?"
"Yeah."
"If you say so," her mum said doubtfully and closed the door behind her, leaving a crack.
Despite what Ling said she had trouble convincing herself that it was just a nightmare. She couldn't get back to sleep so she decided to go to the park. She picked up her beyblade and launcher and quietly snuck out of the house.
Ling's mum heard it all, "There she goes again, sneaking out to the park," she thought.
Ling arrived at the park earlier than usual. She practised a few rounds with Oxilibra but then felt sleepy so she decided to rest by a nearby tree. "I'll just rest my eyes," she thought.
Kai expected to hear the sounds of a beyblade spinning when he arrived at the usual spot but it was quiet. "I wonder where she is?" he wondered when he didn't see Ling at the usual beydish. It was then that he noticed someone leaning against a nearby tree. He walked up to the tree and saw Ling. She sat with her right knee up and left leg bent towards the side like half a cross-leg (if that makes any sense). Her mouth was jaw hung loosely making her mouth open and she was breathing deeply.
"She looks so peaceful, how adorable...god what am I thinking!" he thought ashamed of himself, 'The girl is sitting in the most ridiculous position with her mouth wide open.' He didn't intend to wake her up but she stirred.
"Where am I?" She asked sleepily.
"Morning sleepy head," Kai greeted and smirked.
"Oh, it's you."
"Y'know, if I were you I'd be practising for the tournament instead of lazing around."
Ling frowned, "Whatever man..." She got up and went to her dish to beyblade. The two proceeded to practising their beyblading and had considered challenging the other to a battle but decided against training with a possible opponent.
"Welcome everyone to the second day of the Australian Tournament!" DJ Jazzman greeted, "Today promises to be another day of exciting battles where the best of the Australasian countries and last years champions of the world go up against each other."
The crowd cheered with anticipation. Although the other teams that sat amongst the spectators didn't cheer they were just as interested to watch the day's beybattles.
"The first match today will be the Majestics who have come all the way from Europe, against the Ozirulz. This should be interesting as the Majestics members are Europe's finest beybladers and the Ozirulz are all from AFL (Australian Football League) teams around Australia."
"Let's introduce our first contestants. Enrique from the Majestics is the famous Italian Beyblader. With his bitbeast Amphilyon he's on tough opponent."
"Enrique will be up against Dave who is also part of the Brisbane Lions AFL team. His bitbeast Leo has been known to have an extremely powerful roar."
"The dish will be an obstacle dish, which is like the classic bowl with the addition of odd wooden and rock obstacles that have been randomly placed."
"Without further ado let the battle begin! 3, 2, 1 Let it rip!!" DJ Jazzman shouted, "And they're off."
"Go Enrique!" a loud cheer came from the audience, followed by high-pitched screams.
"These young girls should learn to control themselves," Mr. Dickenson commented while blocking his ears.
"You said it Dickenson!" Tyson's Grandpa agreed.
The Bladebreakers however found this hilarious and laughed it off (except for Kai who remained emotionless).
"Guess Enrique's still got his playboyish charms," Kenny said.
"I think the girls here dig European guys," Tyson added.
Max just laughed cheerfully and Rei didn't want to comment because unlike Enrique he was a little embarrassed about getting attention from grovelling female fans.
Amphilyon moved smoothly, circling the various obstacles which Dave's larger beyblade Leo just crashed through the obstacles, cutting clean cuts through the wood and dividing the rocks into small portions.
"And I thought I was a show off!" Enrique thought, but nevertheless he didn't let this ruin his concentration.
The blonde noticed a wide split at the top of one of the wooden obstacles and watched as Leo approached it.
"This might just work," he thought, a plan in his mind, "Amphilyon, rebound off the rock!" he commanded.
Amphilyon followed the command and rebounded off the rock and while spinning sideways flew through the split in the wood and landed an attack on the unsuspecting victim below.
Dave was getting mad, "You'll for that wog boy!" he growled, "Leo, roar now!"
The lion type bit beast emerged from the beyblade and roared so suddenly it almost forced Amphilyon out of the dish. However, Amphilyon wasn't out just yet, he spun along the edge of the dish and Enrique shouted, "Amphilyon, counter!" The glowing yellow two-headed hydra revealed himself and went in to attack the lion bit beast.
Leo defended himself as best as he could but one head against two turned out to be a disadvantage and he was left vulnerable to the hydra. The beyblades collided with each other until Leo started to wobble and eventually stopped.
"What a battle! And Enrique takes this round!" DJ Jazzman declared.
"Yay, Enrique!" the girls cheered and Enrique waved his hands in acknowledgement and started parading around the dish.
"He's so cute!" they shouted followed by ear piercing screams. Once again the guys had to block their ears and needless to say Dave was red with fury, if it was any other cartoon he'd have smoke coming out of his ears and nostrils! He was about to stomp out when Enrique spotted him about to leave from the corner of his eye. He approached the angry guy who was taller than him and put a hand on the guy's shoulder.
"I believe this is yours," Enrique said and handed the AFL player his beyblade. Dave's expression softened and he nodded his head in gratitude.
"Now that's what you call true sportsmanship," Mr Dickenson noted.
Grandpa nodded in agreement.
"Now let's introduce our next contestants. Oliver is a French chef as well as a skilled beyblader. Unicolyon, his bit beast is as strong as it is graceful."
"And from the Ozirulz we have Peter, our local footy hero of the AFL Sydney Swans. With his bit beast Swanzer he's both a great footy player and en excellent beyblader."
"The dish used for this battle is based on the Great Sandy Desert. The sand makes moving difficult while the rocks and sand dunes are obstacles for the beyblades."
"Without further delay, ready, set, go! Let it rip!!"
The two determined beybladers released their beyblades and watched as they spun amongst the sand and rocks. Oliver wasn't used to battling on a surface that was so unstable.
"That beydish looks hard to battle in," Tyson said.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Max exclaimed, "The sand is flying everywhere!"
"This should be interesting," Rei commented.
Kenny and Dizzi were busy collecting data for future use and Kai sat with his arms crossed and watched the battle in silence.
If any of them had looked back they may have noticed the purple haired girl Kali amongst the spectators. Unlike the people around her she looked down on Kai and it suddenly hit her where she had once seen him.
So, what did Kali remember? And how will the battle between Oliver and Peter the AFL player go? Find out next time.