Sara was having difficulty avoiding Frank's beyblade as hers swerved past the numerous models of 'Big' structures.
"Sara, you better star fighting instead of running away," Frank the redhead called out and laughed, "I expected more from the Dark Angels."
This last comment angered the pretty blonde and she snapped at him, "You leave the others out of this!"
He was taken aback for a second but soon forgot and concentrated on the battle.
"Go Sara!" Kylie cheered out.
Sara turned around and mouthed a quick thanks. Soon the supporters of the Dark Angels started cheering for Sara, "Sara clap clap clap Sara...!" The blonde girl looked around and smiled with gratitude to those who were rooting for her. "Ok Zhugin, you know what your need to do," she said to her bitbeast.
"Wow, it seems that the Dark Angels are more popular than us!" Max exclaimed.
Kai rolled his eyes and thought, 'obviously!'
"Well duh!" Tyson said, "Almost all Australians adore then. I'm not surprised though, especially someone as cute as Sara," he added.
Rei smiled, Max giggled and Tyson looked between the two. "Why're you lookin' at me like that..."
"Heh heh heh," Max cackled, "You like her don't you..."
Tyson blushed with realisation of what he had just said. Kai glanced his way mildly amused and smirked but soon averted his attention to the battle in the arena.
At that moment both the beyblades moved amongst the models at maximum velocity and were about to crash into each other head on. The bitchips glowed brightly on both beyblades. Sara's a warm pink while Frank's was a fiery orange colour. Then the two magnificent bitbeasts showed themselves.
The Bladebreakers were surprised to see that Sara's bitbeast was a wild pig that looked very muscular, almost bulky. Nevertheless, the crowd admired it adoringly and Sara stared at her with pride.
Frank's bitbeast was a large cat-like creature which screeched with anger. "Show that fat pig what you're made of Catsy!" Frank commanded.
They glared at each other then both went in for the attack. Zhugin had her head low and charged for the cat ready to head butt it while Catsy had his sharp claws up ready to scratch the pig. There was a loud bang as the beyblades crashed into each other, their respective bitbeast attacking furiously at each other, calling out in agony. Things became very chaotic within the beydish, the models were shaking and even the owners were getting nervous.
The bitbeasts were forced apart. Deep scratch marks were visible on the wild pig but Catsy also had a number of bruises from all the head butting. It was obvious that they were both weak and injured. Catsy retreated and Sara instructed Zhugin to do likewise. However , the pig looked Sara in the eye and spoke to her telepathically, 'I won't give up...if you don't.'
Sara nodded in response and shouted, "Right, finish him off!!" The pig crashed into the beyblade one last time sending it flying out of the dish and landing right in front of Frank's feet.
"No..." Frank stared in shock.
"Alright, I won!" Sara cheered, the crowd soon joined her, "Sara clap clap clap Sara..."
Kylie and Bella rushed to her side for a group hug. Once they walked back to the booth Ling also congratulated her, "You fought hard Benson, and prevailed," she said coolly and put her hand on the blonde's shoulder. Sara knew this was a compliment coming from the captain so she smiled in return.
"Shall I go next?" Kylie asked.
The dark haired girl nodded in approval so with a smiled and a peace sign the Aboriginal girl walked to the arena.
"Now, for the second battle we have Kylie from the much loved Dark Angels and Geoff from the Fire Spinners. The dish this battle will take place is the Great Barrier Reef like dish. It has a long strip of coral and a slippery wet surface making it difficult to literally get a grip. On your marks, 3, 2, 1 let it rip!!"
The beybladers launched their beyblades quickly. Kylie's golden beyblade landed on top of the coral reef while Geoff's red blade landed on the slippery wet surface of the beydish.
"This is interesting Kenny, don't you think?" Emily asked.
"I suppose you could say that. Both of them are in odd situations. What makes this particular case even more interesting is that they have exactly the opposite problem," Kenny commented.
"What do you mean by that?" Max interrupted all of a sudden interested in the topic of conversation.
"Well, it's simple. Kylie is struggling to balance on the rough coral surface whilst Geoff is having difficulty getting a grip of the wet surface," Kenny said.
"Precisely," Emily added, "Meaning that they'd need to overcome those small problems before even thinking of attacking."
Kylie was annoyed, "Why did I have to land on the coral!" she thought, "this is really starting to bug me."
Geoff's blade moved in strange ways along the edge of the beydish. It was revolving around the coral reef at a constant speed. This got Kylie thinking as she observed her opponent's behaviour.
"Hrm, this is just crazy enough to work!" she thought and immediately put her plan to action, "Yurlunggur, come out and strike!" she commanded. A long slithering snake bitbeast emerged and shone with all the colours of the rainbow. It was one of the most beautiful bitbeast that anyone, particularly the Bladebreakers had ever seen.
"This is amazing!" Tyson exclaimed, "Hey Chief, can you find out what elemental powers it has?"
"Right, I'm looking it up right now," Kenny said as he typed away on his laptop.
"Whoa Kenny, there's no use in inputting all that data so fast, there's only so much I can process at once!" Dizzi remarked with her typical attitude.
"Sorry, but we need this info as soon as possible."
After a moment Dizzi said that she found it. Everyone looked at the computer screen.
"Yurlunggur is an ancient spirit, the great rainbow snake in which in the Aboriginal dreamtime stories is depicted as being the creator of the landscape, rivers and water holes."
"That's strange, does it even have an elemental power?" Rei asked with curiosity."
"Mmm...It's hard to say but from what we have gathered it seems not. However Yurlunggur is apparently one of the most powerful of the ancient bitbeasts," Emily said.
"Interesting," Kai said.
Meanwhile the rainbow snaked had positioned himself ready to attack the unsuspecting 'prey' with its watchful eye and with Kylie's guidance it watched the beyblade's movement carefully.
Geoff was getting nervous and was about to call out his bitbeast when Yurlunggur striked, giving the beyblade a powerful blow. Geoff's blade was almost knocked out of the dish, but the bitbeast was summoned just in time to fly back, it was a golden yellow coloured owl which flapped it's wings with such force to pull the beyblade back into the dish and onto the rough coral surface where Yurlunggur stood. The rainbow snake glared at the owl-like bitbeast with piercing eyes. Geoff glanced at Kylie who had the same expression on her face.
"Hedowl attack!" Geoff commanded. Hedowl went into offensive mode and swooped down onto the snake with a fierce attack. The two bitbeasts fought hard. Yurlunggur was struggling to break free but the owl's claws had a firm grip of the scaly skin. Soon, Hedowl flew up, carrying the snake with him. The rainbow snake hissed in pain and Kylie watched with shock as her precious bitbeast was being beaten up. After flying up a certain height Hedowl remained steady at that height before dropping Yurlunggur down. The force of gravity pulled the beyblade down with an increasing acceleration causing it to crash loudly onto the edge of the coral.
Yurlunggur had no choice but to return to the bitchip. The beyblade rebounded off the coral onto the slippery surface where it collapsed and fell over.
"No..." Kylie gasped in shock but it was to late, for her beyblade had clearly stopped which mean she had been defeated.
"And the Victory goes to Geoff!!" DJ Jazzman shouted.
With her head down low in shame Kylie slowly made her way back to the booth. Sara put her hand on Kylie's shoulder to comfort her, she had a concerned look on her face. Kylie smiled sadly and waited for Ling to scold her. However, as a captain Ling was tough, she had to be, but she was also fair.
"You did your best," she said, "But Yurlunggur had a significant disadvantage against a bird so I don't blame you for the loss."
Kylie found this reassuring and sat down to rest. Ling then turned to face the dark blue haired Bella and told her, "It's your turn."
"But Ling-" Bella started.
"No buts, you will battle. My decision is final," Ling confirmed.
"That was unexpected," Enrique said. He and the rest of the Majestics had witnessed the battle amongst the spectators.
"Yes indeed," Oliver agreed, "That snake bitbeast did seem awfully powerful."
"Being powerful doesn't necessarily mean a definite win," Robert said.
"That doesn't make sense!" Johnny snapped.
Oliver thought for a moment, "Actually, it does. The Fire Spinner had an owl for a bitbeast. Having the ability to fly gave it an advantage over the snake," he concluded.
DJ Jazzman soon announced the last battle, "The deciding battle of this match will be between Bella of the Dark Angels and Gina from the Fire Spinners!"
Who will win this battle? Find out next time!
Author's note:
If any of you have seen Angelic Layer then you'd know where I got the title chapter from.