Shitza: Okay, I've had a very nice time up here. I am snowed in.

Kai: For real or in your dreams?

Shitza: For real this time. Honestly Kai, do you believe in dreams?

Kai: (silence)

Shitza: Oh well, would you kindly do the disclaimer this time, or shall I call down Tyson to help you.

Kai: Whatever. Shitza don't own Beyblade, or me, or Dranzer or my blade.

Chapter 12 Between Foes and Friends

The sun was shining through the greying day. However either the weather or the yelling at the streets as someone robbed an old lady from her money could disturb the spirit. It was another day and another battle. Sweden was wild with anticipation. This was the sixth match to start between two great teams. One who was slowly rebuilding their reputation and the other who slowly was getting to the limit of invincibility. Maybe Zeo and his companions hadn't come up with a flashy name for their team, but who needed that when they had the best bladers in the world. Through this tour, they couldn't loose anything. They had gained a reputation of being outstanding bladers and decent people who loved the sport. King and Queen perhaps still were Part Hunters but only the street gangs seemed to mind that. Indeed the whole team was popular and they could notice that once they walked out on the field. The spectators went wild!

On the others side the Bladebreakers were preparing their match. Chief had once again paired them up, but as the whole structure of the opposite team had changed it had been hard. But this was the structure. Daichi would start of with Gordo. Max would go against Queen. Kai would take Zeo in the third round and Ray would crush Gordo in the fourth. Then Tyson would take the final. Kenny, or Chief hoped they just had the strength to do so. The teams had become really ruff.

"Oh cheer up guys, at least we are going against some friends" Hilary said. "Be happy it's not the Dark Bladers or someone like that."

Tyson smiled, feeling a little bit encouraged by her words. Yet since he had suffered two losses already he didn't know what to think. If this would be his third in a row, he had decided. He would quit the game for good once this tour was over.

Kai had other thoughts in mind. Yes, he had lost, but he knew from the ashes of the ground new flowers grew and so he believed he would become stronger as long as he trained. And not only with his blade, he needed to explore other dimensions in life too.

Max was talking with Tenesee through phone. His mother had given him a cell phone to be able to call her when they were so far away from each other. Yet it was also a great way to contact his girlfriend, who at the moment just had awoken. Tenesee was back at her father's ranch training the horses.

Ray kept on daydreaming about Mariah and Daichi tried over and over again to wake him up. It seemed impossible until he accidentally pushed him down into one of the flowing rivers that led through the city. Ray didn't take this lightly, but Daichi congratulated himself for the success with his task.

So there they stood in the crowded stadium, all nervous of what would happen. However, Ray was shaking since he still hadn't fully dried from Daichi's attempt to drown him, as he described it. The Chinese teen had let out his hair to dry it, making fan girls scream when they saw him. He tried to ignore the screaming, but it wasn't easy as sweating they got closer. There were too few guards in place.

He quickly placed it back as it usually were and hoped that the match would be over before anything would happen. Being a famous beyblader had its sides.

Zeo laughed seeing the fan-girls approach. Among the spectators his father sat, guarded by at least a dozen bodyguards. Zeo smiled as his father looked proudly at him. Things had really changed between them; Zagart had changed and started to act like a real father. He was happy to be human now; things seemed to be a lot easier.

No one, bladers, spectators or judges noticed the black haired girl standing by one of the entrances listening to all the actions. Kim was once more in possession of her bit beast, looking like an anti social female with a glare ready to kill. She was like always wearing her strange clothes and she had a sharp knife in her hand. Yet today she wouldn't kill anyone, she just needed to leave a mark. A mark only her brother would understand. She went to the Bladebreakers changing room. The room was dark, no lights were on. But who needed light when she had good eyes and abilities. She went to a good spot; a place she could mark and she knew her brother would spot at once. Growling she took the knife, cut out marks. Three lines, under one sun. Three other objects surrounded the sun. One star at the right, a moon on the left and an eye above. Under it all was a bird with spread wings.

The phoenix obsessed the marks, then she added three more marks. A bird's footprint. A diamond mark with a line going through it. A round circle with four holes around it and a cross. Whatever that meant, no one knew.

As soon as she was done she heard movements outside. Cursing she fled and hid behind the door as it opened. Two BBA workers entered, yet they didn't seem to be real. The two of them went straight to the Bladebreakers bags and started searching them. Possessed or not, this was against everything she liked. Growling she picked up her bow, took one arrow and shot. The arrow pierced the air and hit about an inch over one of the men's heads. He stared at it and turned.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Names aren't important, what is important is that you tell me. For whom do you work!"

The two men laughed, but it was quickly silenced as the two of them stared at her hand, where she held her gold blade. It was burning, without becoming ash.

The match out on the field was however not affected by the actions inside.

Gordo and Daichi walked up to the dish. As Jazzman introduced them the ex-Elemental noticed Gordo was behaving unusual for a start of a match. He was more focused on Daichi then on the match. He wondered what, he remembered his sister having said something about this, but couldn't remember what. He knew he sat in a rattrap, this could be fatal. Gordo's strange focus made him feel uneasy.

The dish they would play on was called the Water Doom and for a blade that had no advantage in water he could understand why. The dish was a fountain, but even so there could be safe areas, if not those spit water at you once you hit them. It was all made to break all kinds of focus and distract you. Daichi growled, Orthrus, Gordo's bit beast had an advantage in this. Daichi would be ground chained while Orthrus could easily call on winds and other types of destruction.

Daichi took out his launcher. At least he had his super bit beast. But then again he wasn't supposed to use it. He was torn between his thoughts. Either he would win by cheating, no bit beasts in the world could measure up to the strength of a fused one. Or he would loose this match, but still have his honour.

'What would sis have done?' he wondered.

The two bladers launched on command and Strata Dragoon started skiing the water. Orthrus did something similar, yet on the three flats that were the fountain Orthrus was on the second while Strata Dragoon was on the third.

Daichi waited. He kept his blade spinning and wouldn't give in. Gordo on the other hand started attacking and with Orthrus, who had learnt a new attack, things were getting tricky.

"Orthrus, time to turn up the heat of this battle! Double Attack now!"

(Shitza: If anyone has any good information about Gordo, please send it to me, through review or mail. I have no idea how he is in the season two, they still haven't decided to continue the season.)

Daichi growled, two blades appeared and the two of them looked solid as anything.

"Don't give up, I am counting on you. We will win this, fair and square."

But however what he tried Orthrus pushed him back. It was also hard to manoeuvre in the dish and four times he had been stained by water. His hair was soaked wet, but he didn't care. In his eyes burned a fire of will.

"Gaia Dragoon emerge!" he called. "Both of you…"

Tyson closed his fists, ray looked worried and Kai wondered what in the world he was thinking. If Daichi did fuse again his sister would surely do something really nasty. After all, it was against the laws.

"… attack! Strata Dragoon, Gaia Dragoon. Let's prove we can win without cheating. Both of you, Rising Quake!"

It started small, until the whole dish shook. Then the platform on where they stood started shaking as well. But it wasn't all. With Rising it meant to make everything shake and soon the whole field shook violently. People at the stands started screaming, even if they knew this was all the power of a bit beast. But when you were talking catastrophes you spoke of destruction.

Gordo couldn't believe his eyes. Neither could his team. King and Queen tried to get over to hi, which was hard since the earth was shaking. Zeo looked at the battle and hoped that Gordo did something fast. But his teammate had fallen.

The attack stopped and Daichi slumped down, exhausted. Both his bit beasts returned to the blade and incredible enough it stopped spinning. Gordo lifted his head uneasily to find that he miraculous enough had won. How he had no idea, but it seemed all this efforts had been too much for his opponent. Yes, Daichi had fallen for controlling two bit beasts with one mind was such a difficult task that you couldn't do anything less or more. Daichi's teammates ran over to him, wondering what had happened and if he was hurt. He wasn't, but Daichi wasn't as powerful as them. He had his problems controlling his powers.

After five minutes he woke up again and blinked stupidly. Then he coughed and sat up. "What happened?" he asked.

"You lost" Ray said. "But that had to be one of the best matches I had ever seen Daichi, you really got us scared back there."

"He surely scared me. I'll remember to stop teasing shortings for their size in the future."

It was Gordo who was talking. He lent Daichi a hand and helped the blader get back to his feet. There was a roar of cheers from everyone. Indeed you could wonder if it really wasn't Daichi who had won. It seemed so.

In the changing rooms, Kim tossed one last knife behind her shoulder. The knife went into a piece of clothes. Two figures hung moaning of exhaustion as the strange girl had easily beaten everything out of them. She smiled with the things she had done, if the workers wouldn't see them her brother would and he would know what had happened. Scarily enough he could read her like an open book. But she kept those thoughts away and went back to her other tasks she would have to do.

Chief kept on typing on Dizzy, and then he walked over to an old rucksack he kept the new parts in. After a while he fished up a small green defence ring. He took Draciel from Max and switched it to the new one.

"I just looked upon Queen's stats, and I think you will need this. Queen's attacks have improved unbelievable enough and if she would want to she would have been able to shred Draciel up. This defence ring will stop those attempts, but beware Max it's not as good as your last one. It will protect you from the attacks, but not from strong physical moves and close fights. Keep distance, and rely on your water moves. Too bad we don't know the shape of the dish; we would really need that information to get you ready. It's the best I can do right now, to save your blade."

Max nodded and closed his hand around Draciel. Queen already stood by the dish, ready for the fight. Max sighed and walked up, ready for victory. His team, or exactly Tyson, Hilary, Daichi and Ray cheered for him. Kenny was preparing Dizzy to take shots of the match while Kai stood silent, as usual.

Max smiled back before he walked up to face his opponent. Queen gave him a mysterious smile. The dish they would fight in was called the Jungle Maze, mainly because it was half covered by trees and leaves. In some parts it was so dark you couldn't see anything.

Jazzman counted down, Max launched and Draciel landed in the closed vegetation. Queen's blade Gabriel landed in a small open patch.

Max couldn't see Draciel, but since he and his bit beast shared a close bond he knew exactly what was happening. Now and then you could see a green blur in the dish, but not even Jazzman knew what was about to happen. Max smiled as Draciel attacked and then hid itself. Attacked and hid. It was a game he had played as a kid once and it worked perfectly. He had been called a coward then, but now it was something else. It was a tactic he used and it worked. The dish was perfect for the game, but Queen didn't look like she liked it.

"Come out and fight you little worm, or are you afraid to loose. Your little game isn't going to scare me away! Me and Gabriel don't give in to mice like you. Gabriel, Fire Cloud!"

The blade rose and from the bit chip a red cloud appeared. From it, instead of rain sparks of flames and blazes rained down making the whole dish starting to burn. Thankfully Draciel, who was water elemental, put it out with some well-used waterpower, but the hide-and-seek plan had been burned away. The whole dish had been turned into one large desert. Max clenched his fists and growled. He didn't like this. Draciel wouldn't be able to take any duels today thanks to Kenny's interfere and what had the blade-maker meant?

His answer came as Queen's blade jumped up into the air and was about to make a deadly move. But when it landed on Draciel nothing happened. The blade bounced back again. Queen was shocked but Max quickly forgave his friend. Now he understood. Smiling he called forward Draciel's most powerful attack. The Heavy tsunami Wave attack!

The wave that came from Draciel was enormous and the power hard to describe. But Queen was blown backwards and hit the floor with her back. Max still stood. Queen didn't get up, but her blade was still spinning.

It was unsure if they would continue, but as her teammates ran over to her neither they nor the Bladebreakers wanted to quit. Gabriel was smart and acted just like his mistress would have wanted him to. Max panicked and tried to shake the blade away, but whatever he did the blade kept following him, like some metal tried to attach itself on a magnet.

Then the most forbidden things happened. From having suffered from so many close blows Draciel's defence ring shattered and with the defence ring gone the balance was shaken and his blade stopped spinning. Just then Queen woke up, and as soon as she heard the roar from the crowd and saw the outcome she couldn't help smiling. Max fell down on his knees. Never before had he suffered such a stupid and weird match as today. He would really have to talk with the Chief about this. Yet he wasn't angry with the Chief, nor was he angry on his blade. He was angry on himself. He knew he could have won this, but he hadn't focused on the task, as he should have been. But till next time, he would train and become stronger. It was a long lane to walk, to become a Beyblade Master.

His team came to support him, saying that the loss was a loss but he did his best. Max smiled in return, they were right. It was only a lost after all and there would be more matches. They still had three matches left, everything they needed to win this.

In his hand Draciel glowed, calming his master. They had done what they could. Now it was up to fate to decide.

Queen calmly walked back to her teammates. Her heart was silently cheering and as she passed Gordo she did a high five. Her teammates smiled. One more wins and they would win this match. Zeo smiled at the two of them; surprisingly enough Gordo and Queen seemed to have gotten closer through the year. He just wondered how her twin would take this.

Zeo looked at King. After his match with Kai King would battle. Kai already stood by the dish, ready to battle. Zeo sighed. Why did people have to be so impatient? But he got up and walked over to the dish, ready to battle. Burning Cerberus generated a small sense of heat into his palm as he walked towards the dish, ready to fight.

Jazzman counted down, the two blader smiled toward each other before launching. After all, most teams were friends outside the dish, inside the area though, everyone was each other's enemy.

Kai launched Dranzer into the Ice Field, as the dish was called. Dranzer skated the area and carefully avoided being hit. Ice was tricky, but Kai had an advantage since Dranzer was a Fire related Bird, while Burning Cerberus was Dark elemental. Kai however didn't bother to attack, the ice in the dish reminded him of Russia, and the good days of his life.

Memory

He was sic years old, and the abbey had allowed the boys to a day outside, skating. It was more racing, but at least it was much better then to be inside with all those professors and machines. Although Boris had told them if the ice would break no one would come to help them, he wasn't scared. He liked being outside for once.

Tala and the rest of the gang were fighting. Bryan had started a snowball fight with Spencer and accidentally hit Tala instead. Ian had also joint the fight, he liked to fight and joke. The only ones who hadn't bothered were him and Ana. He preferred not to, since he wasn't all good in skating. Ana on the other hand spun around and danced like a swan. She kept to herself, not wanting or bothering to join.

"Kai" she called. "Would you want to race?" she asked.

He shook his head. "No thanks, I'm not good at it."

But she didn't listen, she never did. Instead she took his hand and slowly led him away from everyone else. At first he thought he would loose his balance, but he quickly regained it and smiled. The girl laughed happily and took him away to the centre of the lake. There she slowed down and bent closer to him. Boris had thankfully not noticed their disappearance or else he would make sure the guards went after them.

"Kai," she said seriously. "Do you think friendship may last forever?"

He didn't know exactly what she meant, but he nodded. She smiled back.

"Do you think you can promise me that whatever will happen we will remain friends."

"What do you mean by that? You are my friend and will always be. No matter what."

She smiled and then sighed. "I don't think I will linger in the abbey for long now, Boris is so evil and Voltaire tries to use me all the time. I think both you and me, we should try to escape. Just the two of us, maybe we can persuade Tala and the rest of them to join, but I'm not so sure they want to."

Kai nodded and hugged her. Just then Boris saw them and the elder man growled. He commanded the guards to get them, but then as they came closer, the ice broke beneath.

He remembered how, as Boris finally had caught them, how he had beaten the two of them. But Ana had defended him saying it was all her idea, and Boris had taken the whip himself to beat her. Kai had been taken back to the dorm, and in the dark he waited, wondering if she was okay. In the middle of the night, when everyone else had fallen asleep, the door opened silently and she walked in again.

That night Kai tended to her wounds, like she did when he had been beaten as well. She simply smiled encouraging to him as he took a cloth and dipped it in cold water before cleaning her wounds the best he could. They only had cloths and water, no soap or bandages. All they could do was to hope, that one day all this pain would stop.

End Memory

Kai had been gone in his memories so long Zeo had taken advantage of the fight and nearly knocked Dranzer out from the dish. Yet as the phoenix screamed of pain he woke up and started to fight it. Zeo smiled, he had actually been worried he wouldn't have any competition at all. True battles were fought equally, not dominatingly. Kai started attacking fiercer for every second that came, and Zeo countered.

"Burning Cerberus, Arising darkness," he said. The purple blade sent out an enormous wave of darkness that engulfed everything, except for Dranzer who shone in fire. Zeo smiled, Kai couldn't see his blade, but he could feel everything in his soul and blood. In flesh and in blood, Zeo was stronger battling, even if it meant it had its dangers.

"Dranzer! Firewheel Jealousy!" Kai called. The blue blade burned in flames and a ring of fire shot from it. The darkness evaporated and once more you could see the dish, except since Dranzer had used fire moves, half of the dish had melted away.

Zeo smiled, things were even getting more interesting. Laughing he called for Cerberus to use Dark Storm. More Darkness blew over the dish. Kai growled, he really had gotten pissed off in all these dark attacks.

"Dranzer, one more time! Firewheel jealousy!" Kai called. His blade responded, Dranzer burned in bright red deadly flames and one more ring of fire was shot out from it. It caught Burning Cerberus unaware and threw him out from the dish. Kai panted slightly, it hadn't been an easy match. Zeo picked up his blade. First you couldn't see what he was thinking, his hair had fallen in the way, but then as he stood up, he was smiling.

"That was a really good match Kai. I don't think there couldn't have been anyone more worthy to win."

Kai smiled and the then did something that shocked not only the teams, but also the whole world. For people who watched a tear trickled down his face, and he laughed. The spectators all cheered and photographers flashed with their cameras for every inch to get this picture in the newspapers the next morning. Such a touchy side of the Bladebreakers captain had ever before been seen. Never… ever before in the history of Hiwatari.

His face-paint slowly got mixed with his tears and he slowly, quietly said. "I can understand why Ana got so touchy of her, somehow you can remind me of how she was. I wish you well in this tour and I hope we can meet you in the final."

Zeo laughed. "I hope so too" he said as the two captains shook hands.

From a corner of the arena Kim stood bent to the wall. "Are you getting so touchy Hiwatari, I thought I knew you." Then she left, she had seen as much as she needed.

Kai sat down on the bench, as far from Tyson and Max as he could. Yet the two hurried after him. Tyson to see if he was still crying. Max to see what was going on. Kai grumped and shooed them away. Yet they returned, as irritating flies. It wasn't until Ray took the two of them by the collar of their shirts and dragged them back until the stopped. Ray looked at their captain, who had taken a napkin from his pocket to dry away what was left from the tears. Daichi crawled up to him and whispered something. Their captain got up and left. Shooting one glare at the red headed blader.

"What did you say to him?" Ray asked.

"I just commentated he looked better without the face-paint on. But it seems like I must have offended him or something. Now I really wonder how he and my sis managed to become friends?" The last thing he spoke for himself.

Ray shrugged and got up to battle. His opponent was King, Queen's little brother and twin. Ray walked over to the dish, the Chief was about to say something to him, but he ignored it. He wasn't max and he definitely didn't want any large complicated details about what he should do and don't. He already had a plan, and Kenny could be irritating when those things occurred.

Ray left his teammates behind and walked up to the dish, determined to start. King arrived from the other side, carrying his blade and his launcher. Jazzman looked uneasily on the two of them, wondering why on earth he had taken this job. But he got them started and the two bladers launched.

The dish now was Earth Explore, a dish formed like huge desert, but if you looked closer it wasn't. In the dish was a series of traps such as hidden holes and small explosions, just like a tricky battlefield. Ray didn't seem to have such a hard time to manoeuvre in this dish though, yet king had his problems. His blade collided with a large amount of things; strangely enough his blade didn't seem to have any problems with those. It just kept on spinning. Ray scanned the blade with his cat eyes. His heart beating in shock.

By the Bladebreakers Kenny was working with all his files to scan King's blade. Dizzy did a numerous amount of searching and translating different codes and information until… at last.

Kenny nearly dropped his computer in shock. Now how on earth would Ray beat this monster truck? He showed everyone else, Max's jaw dropped and Tyson blinked stupidly, yet he did understand. Daichi closed his fists.

"What a cheap trick!" Max said. Indeed it had been. King's blade had been remade with a Slicer, an attack ring so sharp it went through everything. In normal tours those things would have been forbidden, but in this tour they knew they couldn't help Ray. The rules didn't say anything for this and people could die in this tour. Everyone took a risk competing.

Neither Ray could believe it, but his eyes hadn't deceived him. It was true and he knew now he would have to be extra careful unless he didn't want his blade like thin slices of salami. Yet he truly despised king for his actions. Even if the twins did compete by the rules, most of the time, they still could play as dirty as ever.

Ray commanded Driger to jump. King went after him, but in air he noticed that his blade lost speed. Gravity and pressure made his blade slower. Ray smiled at this and called forward his bit beast. Driger emerged, roaring angrily. Like master like bit beast, neither of them liked cheating.

"Driger, Thunder Growl!" Ray commanded. Green sparks flew from his Driger and King started become paler and paler. His attempt with his new blade didn't seem to work, as he had hoped. Ray's eyes glowed green, like the electric forces from his blade, and Driger smashed into Ariel.

It seemed like the end for King, but Ariel emerged and a true fight erupted between the beasts. Everyone stared in awe as Driger slashed Ariel, while Ariel seemed to want to fry Driger. It all resulted into one complete end, where both blades soon were thrown out, from the intense attempt. Neither of the blades knew what had happened or why their blades had went into such a rampage, but they picked up their blades and the battle was declared a draw.

Ray waited to see what was going to happen after all this, but as they waited for the BBA chiefs and Mr Dickenson to decide he looked down at Driger. The bit chip was still glowing as bright as ever.

King sat with his team, Ariel still was angry. And he wondered, what was going to happen now?

It all was soon decided. It would remain a draw, then they would have to see, nothing was certain so far. Jazzman read out the BBA chiefs' suggestion, if things went as bad as it would be a tight spot to declare the victory, then there would be an extra fight to make it. After all, second best and the best team in this tour would decide in the final. Those were the rules after all.

Tyson was about to go up for the final fight. The Bladebreakers needed to win this, to have a chance to go to the finals. But before he managed to go a brown haired girl suddenly popped up. The reason for Hilary to not having been with her team during todays fight had been that the guards had stopped her on her way. She had been forced to sit by the stands, but as the last match neared she couldn't bear it anymore. She disobeyed everything ass he ran out to them, guards following her, believing her to be a typical fan girl, who would make trouble.

Hilary just had time to hide behind Max as the guards came to take. The whole gang sweat dropped as they tried to grab her back, but as Max told them Hilary was one of their teammates they discontinued and went back to their posts. Hilary shot him a thankful look before running after Tyson. Tyson didn't know what to say or think. He was all in shock.

As soon as she stood in front of him she fell into his arms, crying. She told him how worried she was and said he should be as careful as ever. Tyson didn't know if he would be embarrassed or touched by this. And then she did something he had never ever believed she would have been able to do. She gave him a light kiss on the mouth.

The whole team stared, even Kai. Daichi stiffed a giggle not wanting to receive a serious blow once she got back. Max and Ray smiled; after all it was commonly known those two kept fighting like a married couple.

Hilary reluctantly let go of him, surprised by her own actions. Tears trickled down her face as she tried to escape, but Tyson held her in a firm grip. She couldn't bear to look him in the eyes, but he understood. Instead he whispered in her ear. "When I get back, we can talk about this. I won't get hurt this time, I promise."

Hilary blushed and walked back to the stunned team. Tyson saw her go and sighed. He didn't like to admit it, but through the time that had gone since she had started to hang out with them, he had really developed close feelings for her. Even if he behaved most of the time as if they were just teammates, he knew deep inside that he might actually love her, incredible or not.

Tyson walked up to the dish, Zeo smirked at him first looking at him then at Hilary. Tyson knew he was trying to tease him, but he couldn't think off that. All his mind was on at the moment was at the will in that kiss. Not passion, not lust, but determined will.

By the team Hilary kept her fingers crossed, hoping that he would be fine once he returned. Zeo was a tricky player and as he possessed dark powers she didn't know what to think. She was worried; worried that Tyson perhaps wouldn't be able to make it. After all, she had probably confused him enough to keep him from focusing. Oh, what in the world had she done? He would lose because of her and her stupid feelings.

Max looked at her and smiled back. "Don't worry," he said. "I've know Tyson for a long time, if he is determined for one thing he will win and he will get back to you to discuss, whatever you two were up to."

Hilary smiled, and as the match would start, she leant to those words of comfort.

By the dish, the battle started in the Fire Hell as it was called. A ring of fire, inspired by Kai and Dranzer's powers to be exact, surrounded the dish.

Zeo commanded Burning Cerberus to mist the whole dish in darkness, but Tyson wouldn't make that stupid mistake. He commanded Dragoon to use his Hurricane Disaster and therefore also take the fire in his attack. Zeo stared as the tornado started to burn and steadily come closer. But Burning Cerberus shielded his master, and broke the attack. Zeo showed his bit beast grateful smiles. Tyson simply growled and clenched his fists. So that attack hadn't worked, now what then?

Burning Cerberus zigzagged the dish and then went to a close fight, prepared to shred dragoon into dust. Tyson saw how his blade got more and more beaten. But he wouldn't risk his blade for this, nor would he risk Dragoon. He managed to break out from the fight, but as Dragoon got more and more tired, so did he.

'Come on Tyson, please stand and fight. Remember you promised me' Hilary thought. Things didn't look good, Zeo had to be at least ten times stronger now then before. She truly wondered if this was the end, for the World Champion.

Tyson panted, he was close to exhausted. This battle had to be his toughest yet, but he wouldn't let go. His team depended on him. He could feel Dragoon's cries in his heart as Burning Cerberus tore the poor beast in parts.

"Focus!" his teammates cried. Daichi was running wild and ray had dug his nails into his skin. Max was close to tears in fright. Kai still hadn't returned.

Tyson tried to focus, but what could he cling on to. He didn't have much that told him to continue, he felt like the world's looser. Burning Cerberus made himself ready for a final blow.

"Tyson, I never could believe I would beat you this easily, come on I know you could have done better then that." Zeo said.

Tyson didn't respond and Zeo shrugged. "I guess I have to finish you of then, final attack Cerberus!"

The Bladebreakers all closed their eyes, not wanting to see this. In Tyson's head though time stood still as his mind was fighting over one question. And after all this time, the answer was…

…Yes…

It was as if someone had woken him up. His blade spun out of the way, Cerberus missed and Zeo was shocked. Tyson smiled, the match was far from over. He shot one thankful look back at his teammates and especially at Hilary. The girl looked surprised and for a moment all rules seemed to be gone, as for a second it felt as if it was only the two pf them who really existed in one dark world. Tyson gave her an encouraging smile, which was rewarded as she smiled back.

Dragoon glowed in a bright blue light, of newfound power. Zeo shielded his eyes as Tyson called forward a new attack. "Dragoon, Master Hurricane Disaster!"

In a blinding light Zeo's blade was knocked out. The two teams stared at the outcome, then the Bladebreakers team cheered and Zeo's team sighed. But at least it had been a draw.

"GIVE A BIG APPLAUSE FOR THE TWO BEST TEAMS IN THE WORLD. TEAM ZEO AND BLADEBREAKERS!" Jazzman cried.

Yet as everyone cheered Tyson walked over to Hilary. He didn't say anything, but bent closer to her and kissed her passionately. She was shocked, but responded by folding her arms around his neck. He took her by the waist and then they both soared into their own little world.

Everyone, the spectators, the teams all over the world and teammates stared at them. But then all cameras, channels and photos took this shot. As team Zeo walked out, none of them couldn't help smiling. Zeo shrugged but followed the others. Until next time, he knew where they had them.

Tyson and Hilary reluctantly went back to the real world. Taking each other's hand, smiling mysteriously towards each other, they walked back to the changing room. After them came Ray, followed by Max, Chief and lastly Daichi who gave one last wink to the spectators. Girls cheered from the stands and he laughed. But his laughter died out, once he returned to the changing room. He found his team staring at the wall. He too did, after all someone had left them a message.

"Oh no, he whispered. Poor sis!"

Then he scooted off to find her. She had to be somewhere close, yet thankfully the team wouldn't leave to Oslo once more until tomorrow morning. He hoped he could find her before, yet there was something he wanted to know more about. Something that was happening to all of them.

End Notes:

Shitza: Hello everyone, weather report is coming once more. Not so much snow; the roads are at least mostly cleared. It has gone five days since that awful storm.

Kai: Are you happy now, after all it's Mars and sunny outside.

Shitza: (shakes head) Not fully. I will not be until this evil white substance fully melts away.

Kai: (sighs)

Ray: Hey Shitza, aren't you forgetting about something…

Shitza: Oh, thanks for reminding me. I am starting a new beyblade fic shortly, once I can get all the new OCs sorted. The reason is that one author had her OCs removed from a story, and she asked if anyone had a account. Since I had I decided to be nice and help her out, that's why there will be a new fic shortly. Just have patients with me. I haven't started typing yet, but the new fic is going to be called…

Kenny: Spit it out, I am dying to know!

Bladebreakers: (Sweat drops)

Shitza: Why we blade… not the best headline in the world, but the best description to the fic. There is a reason why you start of as a Bladebreaker, and that reason is going to be explained. I have permission from three authors to use their OCs, so no fuss.

Max: And for this fic, please review everyone, then perhaps I can get some cookies from her.

Daichi: (sneaks up to get some cookies of his own, closely followed by Max, Tyson, Zeo and everyone else, except Shitza)

Shitza: Hey, wait for me!