Shitza: Last chapter was sort of boring, sorry for that but it was. Yet I wanted to take the details on the tournament beforehand. And sorry for making it a cliffhanger last time, I really feel ashamed for stopping it there.
Just so you know, I am not a real Daichi fan, not that I should hate him, he is just annoying. Yet still, when I first created this story Daichi was the only one who for my part, had a clouded background. Therefore I think I've made a really good background for it all.
Shitza
Ps: This is not Mary Sue in any way, more it follows my old style of writing, and my own ideas. If this would be Mary-Sue it would not be this exiting, or well planned. As the character would probably end up in front of her computer writing a story.
Chapter 4 Ready to Blade, Ready for Everything
The two bladers launched their blades at the exact second. The girl had used a very unusual launcher, her launcher had turned out to be a whip she swung to give her chocolate brown blade a speed that went of Kenny's chart. Yet Daichi didn't look scared, on the contrary he smiled.
"Come on Strata Dragoon!" he called. His yellow earth dragoon arose from the blade and charged towards its opponent.
It hit with an explosion, yet Rumoto smiled.
"Arise Tenira!" she demanded. A orange flamingo rose from the blade. It spread its wings gracefully.
"Tenira, Sand wave!"
From the wings of the brilliant creature a wave of whirling sand erupted. It completely swallowed Daichi who shut his eyes and mouth. He really started to get irritated.
Behind him he heard his friends cheer for him, Tyson was yelling something, Max and Kenny trying to come up with a good strategy. Ray was also cheering, Kai said something to the others. But they all seemed so far away in this sand.
"Tenira, Egyptian Tomb!" Rumoto called out.
More sand came, like a fierce wave. Daichi took a deep breath, but he choked as the sand came down his lungs. It all could have been over in a minute. But…
"You know Daiku Chin, you are so alike you sister, not giving up whatever happens to you. Do you know what you are, freaks. Your whole family is freaks, no wonder you mother died like she did."
At the word of 'mother' it was as if something had drawn him from death. In the bowl the yellow blade started attacking fiercely barely giving the other one time to defend itself.
"You have no idea who my mother was." Daichi said fiercely. "Strata Dragoon! Crush Hole!"
The yellow dragons eyes glowed white, in a quick flash so did Daichi's. The blade jumped up in the air up towards the sun so for normal eyes it was impossible to see it.
"NOW!" Daichi commanded and the blade crashed into the rocks. A whirl of sand appeared, but when it all disappeared one blade was spinning, the other was down.
"Incredible! And the Winner is Daichi!" DJ Jazzman said.
Daichi smiled and picked up his blade. His team ran over to him to congratulate.
"That was awesome Daichi!" Tyson said.
"Yeah, you had me really nervous there for a while!" Kenny said.
"How did you even manage it, I mean they are supposed to be the strongest in this tournament?" Ray asked.
Daichi sighed tiredly. "I know Rumoto since we were kids, we lived in the same parts of the village. She has never been the best of bladers, it was usually my sister who defeated her and she showed me how to."
Tyson grinned.
"That means if you are on the team we will surely be unbeatable."
Daichi sighed once more and looked sad.
"Not entirely, you see she is a lot stronger since we last battled her. I don't know how, but don't count on a victory this time. I know my home village, they would kill rather then loose."
"You can't be serious!" Hilary and Max said.
Daichi nodded. "That's why they are unbeatable."
"Hey guys, let's worry about this later. The real tournament don't start until tomorrow and before that I would want something to eat!" Tyson said, his stomach rumbling.
"Tyson, you are always hungry!" Hilary complained.
Yet the rest of the team, not including Kai who was all quiet, thought it was a good idea and so they went outside. They went to a restaurant everyone had been offered their own table at by the Avenue. (Gothenburg's only big parade street)
It wasn't all bad inside, quiet, music in the background, waiters behind a desk.
"A table for seven please" Ray said. The waiter showed them towards a round table. They ordered their drinks, tea for Ray, ice water for Kai and Hilary, milk for Kenny and Coke for Tyson, Max and Daichi.
Ray took a sip from his tea and looked at Daichi. "I think it's best for us all if you told us everything you know about the Elementals. After all I suppose there is really nothing that will keep them away from the final at the end."
Daichi nodded and began telling them a story placed thousands of years before.
You all know about the four sacred spirits, about the four spirits that are said to protect Japan. Well, the last four guardians are a part of a union of powers, ruling over ten different powers. The oldest was four were the four sacred spirits of the gods protecting this land. The Blue Dragoon of Wood ruled the element of wind and protected the forests. The Red Phoenix of Fire ruled fire and light, he protected the sun. The White Tiger of Gold ruled over thunder and lightning, he was the protector of the mountains. The Black Turtle of Sea ruled over water and ruled the seas, protecting the island from outer attacks.
Among these existed six smaller spirits, yet still they were powerful. One of them was the Blue wolf that possessed ice and guarded the winters and mountaintops were his realms. Secondly there was the Black dog of Darkness, who ruled the night. Thirdly, the orange beast that possessed hiding himself in illusions. Fourthly we have the White Pegasus of Love, who many in my valley still pray to all day long. Fifthly we also have the brown stallion of Wisdom. Neither last but nor least we also had the yellow Dragon of Ground and Earth.
The ten spirits are said to have worked in harmony with each other for millennium after millennium. But as there exist white soul spirits there also exist ones that hates light and did everything to destroy it. These weren't exactly called spirits, they were demons. Cruel demons that in the end almost succeeded in their plan.
The valley my sister and me were born in was founded ten thousand years from now. It was created as a shrine for each of the ten sacred spirits. As it existed ten shrines they were split within ten villages, and in every village the one with similarities to that spirit lived. If not you were forced to live in another village, it was all for the best. The eleventh village was the largest, and there lived the higher-powered villagers and the ones who had trades with other villages. For example, the village of Earth had all agriculture, but not the water. In one trade you could decide that the village of water would deliver all the needed water, and some fish, but in return receive all the things the earth village planted, or the food they could give away.
It all could have stayed in harmony until now, but darkness didn't want so. They managed after some years to finally kill the sacred gods. Yet the priests and priestesses managed to capture their spirits back to remain the balance. But enough damage had been done, the spirits had been cut in half, the darkness claimed half of their souls and remade them. But even so they couldn't control them, so the halves fled and disappeared out to the world.
The valley split, half of all inhabitants moved away, yet we kept contact with each other for about four hundred years more until one day we didn't hear a word from anyone except the ones who nowadays call themselves Saint Shields. They still work and spy like they have always been. Yet more now for their own deeds than for ours. We have recently started to gain some contacts with our cousins in the White Tiger Village, yes ray, your people is since long related to the Lightning Village and thinking of Driger I am not surprised. Your bit-beast's Thunder Claw attack is awesome and Driger is related with the forces of the village, also you show many likenesses like those villagers. For example, they are like you, neko-jins, with cat eyes, cat ears and cat like appearance.
But enough of cats, I've never been exact fond of the place anyway. I guess I have to tell you about the villages as well.
I've said the valley is split into ten important villages, each one with their own priest or priestess, it changes very often. These are supposed to symbolise the hope of the bit beasts' return, for as far as we know the ten bit beasts still exist. Yet even if they are split, except for one who has recently been retaken. For the remaining spirits or beast we are still searching, that is really why the valley competes in the tournament, they want to test everyone with a spirit to see if they have the spirit in question. So far no luck, so far the beasts we have encountered have been extremely weak. But we can wait, we've waited for almost eight thousand years for them to return.
Daichi sighed. He lifted the glass of coke to his lips and drank. Everyone stared at him. Only last year he had been so childish like Tyson, but now he was actually sounding more adult, more wise and grown. They all wondered what could have happened.
"What does this have to do with Ana, sorry mean Kim." Kai asked.
"Nothing to be sorry about, after all when they sent her away I did hear from the elders she had gone to something called Biovolt Corporations. I didn't know much about it until I met Boris, and I never told you, but often I wished I had brought a knife with me and stabbed him. At least now that I've seen how much she changed. She is not the nice sis she used to be, even if she still calls me bro. She has turned into the cruel warrior I've only seen the Elite being back home. And from what I remembered both she and me despised those."
"People change Daichi." Kenny insured.
"I am not so sure this was a change, I really wonder what Boris and Voltaire did with her. She's looking for revenge, I know that."
Kai didn't say anything, but he did think a lot. One thing, why would she look for revenging something from the past? What intentions did she have and why did she hate Boris as much as she did? Of course he didn't like Boris but that was because he thought he was weak and useless. After all BEGA had been thrown into the dustbin after all that had happened. Yet with a lot of hard efforts the team had managed to break through that invisible barrier of defeat and started to make their own career without Biovolt.
The table was silent, all except for Tyson who drank the last of his coke through a straw.
"We better go!" Hilary said. "You guys have a though tournament, and Daichi here probably needs a psychologist."
No one laughed, but if you looked closely you could see the smile on the ex-Elemental's lips. Quietly they made their way back to the training rooms.
(About an hour later)
The Bladebreakers were training, battling each other. Kai was training with Tyson, Max with Daichi. Ray sat on a bench upgrading Driger, his blade. Kenny had made this really sharp attack ring that would probably be able to shred up your opponent with his powerful attacks. Yet they did call themselves Blade-breakers. Why not break the blades then?
Max was attacking, he had called his Bit beast and ordered Draciel to use Tsunami wave attack. The wave rode straight towards Daichi's Strata dragoon, but then.
"Strata dragoon! Use Crush Hole now!"
The Blaze jumped up in the air and right before the wave erupted, a large hole was made in the centre of the dish, collecting all water. But unfortunately also collecting Daichi's blade as well.
"Look like I win." Max said.
On the other side Tyson was battling Kai in a battle between life and death. The two bladers breathed heavily, the power of their blades almost knocking them down.
"Dragoon, Hurricane Disaster!" Tyson demanded. His white blade charged creating this enormous hurricane that covered almost the whole dish. Kai was blown backwards but he quickly and swiftly got back on his feet.
"Dranzer arise! Raging Blaze!"
In answer his royal phoenix rose from the blade and as the body burned with red flames the Hurricane Tyson had created now became a enormous whirl of flames. Dranzer stole he winds from Dragoon and Tyson lost his control of the match. But it wasn't over yet.
"Dragoon! Attack!" Tyson called. The bit ship glowed and moments later his magnificent dragon bit beast came out to make the match more even.
"Dranzer, destroy him!" Kai said.
"Don't give up dragoon!" Tyson yelled.
There was a blinding flash of light as the two blades charged towards each other. When the light had ceased Tyson blade was still wobbling, while Kai's had stopped.
"Whose number one!" Tyson started cheering while Hilary tried to knock back his senses. Ray watched the scene amused as he prepared to launch his own blade against some huge boulders placed in the middle of the room.
"Driger! Lightning Claw!" he commanded. His blade glowed green and it smashed into the rocks, which broke into pellets.
"Not bad ray." Kenny said from the bench. I see you've upgraded his attack and his speed as well. Not bad, but we need to pull up your defence."
Ray nodded and looked at his blade, the masterpiece now called Iron Fist Driger.
(In a cottage, deep in the forest)
"LET IT RIIIIIIP!"
Kim tossed her blade, which had been attached to her launcher in the air. Then she took an arrow, strained her silver bow and in a second she had fired right through the hole you usually had the ripcord in. yet her arrow was her ripcord, she preferred it that way. Her launch was quick, times to be exact around two to three seconds. All in all it had been perfect.
Her golden blade landed on the floor and began zigzagging around the room. She watched it amused before ordering.
"Ruyaka, Speed of Light!"
In a bright flash her blade disappeared to the left. A second afterwards she heard a crash but she knew her blade was already far away. Indeed there was another crash and she hurried outside to see her blade trapped inside the trunk of a large pine. She smiled, climbed up the branches in nimble movements and collected her blade.
'Not bad she told her blade mentally. 'I think we too are soon to be ready.'
Her blade glowed in reply and she smiled even wider. She jumped back to the ground and wondered how long it would take for her Bit Beast to burn down this old rotten cottage.
(the Elite Tournament Stadium)
Zeo sat by the Bey-Dish looking at his constantly glowing Bit Chip. He was worried, still angry. After all Jazzman had reminded half the globe about his already painful life. He knew it wasn't meant to hurt him, but it did and he hated the pain he felt in his chest.
He wondered why he did need to feel these things, after all he wasn't human? He was a android, he still couldn't understand how a computerized mind like his could feel these kind of feelings. Did he really have a soul, a key of real life? Or was this another of those things that would torture him?
He sighed deeply, closed his hands around his blade, after a while he too out a black launcher, designed by his father to improve Burning Cerberus' speed and endurance. When he had told his father about this tournament, Zagart had done everything in his might to help his son to win. After all Zeo was born rich.
But money couldn't help him in his deepest wishes, you couldn't buy a powerful Bit Beat for this, a bit Beast that would be able to change him to flesh and blood. He sighed once more, launched his blade. Cerberus circled the dish, glowing in a faint purple light.
"Cerberus! Dark Storm!"
The purple blade glowed pitch black and so it seemed like all light in the dish vanished until you saw no more then darkness. Indeed both Zeo and Cerberus had grown to excellent masters of their own, having developed a style unbeatable.
Zeo smiled. 'Maybe if I win this I can find a way out of this. Hopefully the bladers around aren't weak.'
With a sigh his blade returned to his hand and he walked back to his own team, who were at the moment training in the darker corners of the town. Not that they still were bad guys, but you could only find really good opponents if you looked in the dark.
(The first day of Tournament, 8am)
Tyson yawned widely, Hilary was massaging the Chief, since the poor guy had been up all night fixing and upgrading the blades. Max was busy walking around in circles, Ray sat on a bench and Kai had walked of to talk with the Pilots. The reason, they were late…
The first matches of the tournaments were about to start. The fifteen teams had split, planes had taken them to all corners of this world up north. Yet the Tournaments would start in an hour, and their plane had been late.
"At least Hilary can't say t was all my fault this time!" Tyson said yawning.
Hilary gleamed at him, but as Kenny started moaning in ache again she continued to massage him.
A minute later Kai returned and sat down in a seat.
"We are about to land." He said calmly. His team nodded and seated down, putting on the safety belts again. A quarter of an hour later they had landed in Oslo.
"Hurry up!" Ray said as the team sprinted through the Airport towards the taxies. The hurried towards the grand stadium, which was filled to the brim with awaiting spectators.
As the walked towards the stadium, about an hour after the had landed, they could feel the nervousity building. After all, this was a tournament without rules, were you probably could get killed if you did anything wrong.
(Shitza: Sorry to say I have no plans on killing yet, but if you really ask it of me I can do it.)
The five bladers f the team hurried to the stadium while Chief had gone to report their arrival, which was good since people started to get exited out there.
"Who are we up against?" Tyson asked as they sprinted down the corridor.
"The first match is against the Black Cats. The after an five hours we are going against the Vikings."
As they hurried doors opened to welcome the three teams to Norway and the block B tournament. It was a narrow miss, but they did arrive just in time to their own gate.
End Notes: Any complains or questions then please review. I can understand if you will complain about these pairings, I know there is always one who doesn't like it and I tell you now. You are allowed to complain as much as you want, I will listen.
See yah all, new chapter is up soon…
Shitza