Chapter 6: Sakura's second beybattle

1...2...3 Let it rip!

Tyson and Kai went head on at each other. Both watching and controlling their blades with absolute concentration. The blades sliced against each other, colliding again and again.

"Fiery!" Kai yelled out, and at his command Fiery revealed itself from his beyblade.

"There it is my Clow card!" Sakura yelled again.

"What the?" Tyson cried in awe as the strength in Kai's blade suddenly increased and made a devastating blow to his blade, and another, and another.

"Oh no! Sakura what are going to do, if we don't do somethingTyson's blade will be destroyed." Hilary said worriedly.

Sakura didn't know what it was but she felt a strange power in her deck, she was almost certain it was coming from one of her cards. A particular card.

"I don't know Hilary but I got a hunch" Sakura replied as she withdrew that very card from her deck.

"You're finished!" Kai yelled, certain that victory was his. Tyson responded in an agitated grumble.

"Tyson!" Sakura yelled.

He turned to her.

"Here use this!" She took the card between her fingers and steadily threw it directly at Tyson. He caught it, and instantly his beyblade along with the card began to glow that same white glow, the card then transformed into a swirl of light and flew directly at his blade.

"What is this?" Kai questioned in shock.

"This is what," Tyson replied smartly. "Windy!"

Just like Kai's bit beast Tyson's was also a woman with long hair in a gracefully pose.

"And you guys… said… you.. didn't need..me" Kenny huffed and puffed running towards them.

"Chief! You found us" Hilary exclaimed in relief.

"What's going on?"

"Sakura's Clow cards turned into bitbeasts and fused into Kai's and Tyson's Beyblade. However something is wrong Kai isn't himself. Kai wants to fight Sakura but Sakura doesn't have her beyblade.." Hilary said almost in one breath.

Chief quickly opened up his laptop and turned it on.

"Chief what's this waking me up so early in the morning, I haven't gotten enough time to rest my keys" Dizzy yawned.

"Dizzy this is an emergency I want you to analyze Tyson's and Kai's new bit beast,"

"New bitbeast?" she echoed.

Kai and Tyson continued fighting each other. Their blades colliding viciously with each other making harsh slashing and clanging noises.

Sakura and Hilary crowded by Chief to watch what was going on.

"Windy!" Tyson commanded.

"Fiery!" Kai commanded.

Both so called bit-beasts attacked at each other. However somehow Windy got the advantage swirling over fire seemed to cause it to lose its strength. With a final crash, Tyson's blade knocked into Kai's sending it flying. It landed don the ground and stopped.

"Ok I defeated you give Sakura's Clow back!"

Kai's facial changed from one of shock to one of satisfaction; he smirked.

"What's the deal! Kai" Tyson demanded to know again.

"I'm not Kai.. I'm the darkness and I will make sure my presence is felt in every one of you mortals. Till we meet again."

With that a dark mist escaped from Kai's body and he immediately collapsed to the ground.

"Kai!" Hilary ran to him

Sakura looked up from the laptop and gasped as the ghostly apparition just floated up into the night sky and disappeared.

Kai groaned and rubbed his head.

"What happened?" he muttered weakly.

"You mean you don't remember," Hilary said helping him to his feet.

Tyson's blade returned to his hand but the so called bit beast, which was really Sakura's Clow card returned to its original form, so did the one in Kai's blade. Both cards instinctively floated back into Sakura's hand.

"I've got a bad feeling about this" Sakura muttered, staring down at her cards.

"Yea, I would like some blueberry pancakes with some scramble eggs" Meilin told the waitress at the restaurant.

"How are we paying for this" Rei muttered.

"Hey tiger boy we came here yesterday and we still have some left over credit from when Tomoyo paid" Meilin whispered back, then smiled and handed over the menu back to the waitress.

"My name is Rei" he grumbled rolling his eyes.

Yugi and Joey hurriedly entered the restaurant. They'd figured they'll be here, after all this was were they all grouped last time.

"Good morning ya'll," Yugi greeted.

"Good morning," Rei replied.

Li just snorted and Meilin just waved.

"Where are da others?" Joey asked.

"I don't know still sleeping perhaps, it's 7:30am" Meilin shrugged.

"Well ya'll are still in our world, we gotta go ta school and uh study and stuff" Joey said.

"Yea if you see the others tell us to meet us in the Domino Park at around 3 ok?" Yugi said.

"Alrighty then," Meilin replied and stuck out her tongue. Yugi chuckled nervously and left with Joey.

"Pfft those guys look like a bunch of punks, Have you like seen the little dude hair. Can you say major hair gel and dye," Meilin commented flipping her hair behind her again like she was queen of everything.

"Aw come on Meilin try and be nice," Rei said.

"Pfft, baby, I don't do Nice" Meilin said taking a sip of the lemon tea that was just brought to her.

"Well maybe you should try it; you might actually make some friends beside your cousin. If it weren't for Sakura I'd think all you Card Captor people were sour," Rei rolled his eye again and glanced out the window they were sitting. Just in time to see. Max and Tomoyo casually strolling by them, chattering and laughing away like they had known each other.

"Good morning guys," Max greeted first, followed by Tomoyo whobowed politely.

"Had a nice night in a 5 starhotel," Meilin grumbled, obviously jealous.

Tomoyo frowned a bit at Meilin's comment.

"Oh whatever, did you have any luck finding Kai?" Max asked turning his attention to Rei.

"No luck. You?"

"Nothing," Max shook his head.

Just then Kai came strolling in, his arms folded tightly at his chest, and a serious expression on his face.

"Kai!" Max and Rei exclaimed at the same time.

Kai replied in a grunt, his brows crossed with fury as if he was frustrated with something. No worries, that was how he always was.

Sakura waltz in too.

"Good morning," Sakura greeted cheerfully; smiling ever so sweetly like she always did. She was followed by the Chief, Tyson and Hilary.

Everyone sat down and had breakfast, thanks to Tomoyo's richness, literally. Sakura was really glad she tagged along. Tomoyo was recording every moment with her famous camcorder. Tyson and Max apologized for the other night and Chief gave them the blow by blow of everything that had happened last night.

"It's so weird Chief but I wasn't able to get a clear reading on any of their blades or what was in them," Dizzy said.

"Dizzy and I have tried anything but couldn't find anything, it was like Sakura's Clow or whatever it was never even was in the blade,"

"Aww man I wish I was there to record the moment," Tomoyo said giving a half sad sob.

"That's alright,"

"Kai tell us what happened to you? Before you got here," Tyson asked.

"I tell you I don't remember anything, all I remember that I was back on our world minding my own business then suddenly I passed out, and woke up here," Kai grumbled.

"This whole thing is wack," Max commented.

"What really troubles me was, that thing that was controlling Kai or whatever. It said that it was coming to get all of us," Sakura pondered to herself.

"Yea it was some kinda dark misty ghost," Hilary shuddered

"Ohhh scary," Tyson joked.

"Shut up man," Max nudged Tyson. "Can't you see the situation we are in? We have no idea who or what we are dealing with."

"Max is right, we have to deal with this seriously," Chief said.

Though no one looked as if any of this was serious; Tomoyo was there with her camcorder, Meilin the snotty brat was there feeding the grumpy Li who hardly had a word of this to say to anyone and the other kids they had met had to go to school for the day. The only person to be thinking seriously was Sakura, who was the youngest yet acted the most mature and serious one out of everyone else.

"I doubt we'll be able to solve any of this until we get back together with those other kids," Sakura said.

"Whatever as long as we get home," Meilin pouted.

"Oh yea they said they'd meet us at the park at about 3," Rei said.

"Great now what do we do the rest of the day, site see?" Kai grumbled sarcasticly.

"That's not bad idea, let's be patient and try to see what's really going on. Besides this seems like a really nice town, I heard there are lots of gaming places. I mean not like beyblading but some really neat arcades"Rei said excitingly.

"Not interested," Meilin said finishing the last of her tea.

"Lotsa nice places to shop," Tomoyo smiled.

"Oh? In that case! Li come on let's go," Meilin said already tugging on his arm.

Tomoyo made sure to give everyone enough cash to enjoy themselves. Tyson, Max and Rei went to the local gaming arcade. Sakura, Hilary and Meilin; who dragged along Li, went to the malls. They knew they weren't going to be there for long so they didn't bother to buy any stuff except for little stuff like shades and a new pair of clothes to change into. As for Kai, he was off wandering by himself as usual, even more in a sour and thoughtful mood. Kenny preferred a quiet a spot trying to analyze the videos and what little data Dizzy had tried to collect from the night before.Max and Tomoyo went off together, by themselves.

"Wow this is so nice," Tomoyo exclaimed twirling around. Her and Max had found the bay, the waters were sparkling in the midday sun and boats were coming in and out.

"You think?" Max grinned, his adorable cat grin.

"Yea," She smiled and outstretched her hand to caress his cheek. He blushed, his heart raced, he stood there frozen unsure of what he should do. Tomoyo smiled.

"I wish we were together like this forever, sadly we aren't from… you know. " Max said gazing into Tomoyo's plum colored eyes.

"Yea, then we could spend more time together," Tomoyo replied softly, hooking her arms around his waist and leaning on his chest.

"Yea, that'd be nice," Max whispered.

Suddenly a dark misty apparition had appeared, breaking the sweet moment.

"What's that?" Tomoyo cried.

Before any of them could react or respond, the misty dark smog swirled in towards them. It floated quickly and swiftly towards Max, it went right through his mouth and disappeared into him. Max jolted backwards and stood emotionless for a minute, hiseye to the ground.

"Max! Max!" Tomoyo cried out frantically.

He rose his head slightly to look at her, his once bright blue eye were now dark and empty and stared back at her with no emotion.

"Max! Max what happened?" Tomoyo cried again shaking him by the shoulders.

Max responded by harshly grabbing Tomoyo by her shoulders and pushing her to the ground. Tomoyo shrieked and cried out in pain as she hit the cold, hard concrete ground.

"I'm not Max anymore, I'm the darkness and once I eliminate your friends no one will have the power to stop me from conquering every aspect of your worlds!" said Max letting out a menacing laugh.

Max took out his beyblade and lifted it towards the skies, once again a bright luminescent light surrounded Max's blade, however it quickly turned to a purplish glow. The glow of evil

"Hey guy's it's happening again!" Sakura cried, calling to the attention of Tomoyo and Meilin who were checking out some jewelry at a nearby counter.

"What's happening?" Li asked anxiously.

"One of my Clow Cards is glowing again." Sakura pulled the glowing card which suddenly turned a darkish purple and electric sparks flew from it. She let out a cry as it shocked her.

"Sakura are you ok?" Hilary asked in concern.

"Yea I'm fine," Sakura muttered as she winched a bit.

"Oh boy there it goes!" Hilary gasped as the card flew away in a quick swirl oh light. Out the shop and into the sky

"We need to go get it!" Meilin exclaimed.

"Come on guys!" Sakura said rushing out the store.

Another dark purplish light entered into Max's blade form the sky.

"Stop this! Leave Max and my friends alone!" Tomoyo pleaded again, but he cry feel on deaf ears.

She tried to get up but winched in pain, her ankle felt sore. She didn't want to move it, but she had to. She struggled to get to her feet.

"Please stop this," she cried again.

Max took out his launcher and hooked his beyblade on it. He pointed it at Tomoyo who gasped in fear.

"Let me see just how powerful this magic is, I think I'll use you as target practice," Max grinned a mischievous grin.

He pulled on the cord strongly and let his razor sharp blade aim directly for Tomoyo, to slice her up in pieces.