"Watch out Tyson, the stats indicate that her beyblade is as strong as yours" Kenny yelled, ever the dramatic.
"Alright Chief" Tyson murmured not really listening. He was completely absorbed into the battle.
Dragoon suddenly dodged the onslaught and hit Tasmine with a blow that would send most normal blades into a million pieces. He regretted having to do that.
But although a large piece of the blade broke off under the power of the attack. The stranger's blade remained spinning. Admittedly it was wobbling so violently that everyone expected it to fall at any moment, but the fact that it was still spinning was amazing.
"Owwww" the cry of pain made Tyson pause his final attack to look confused at the girl. It was almost like when he had damaged her blade, he had hurt her as well.
The girl winced, that had hurt a lot. Tasmine did not look as if she could last much longer. But she could not afford to lose.
"No" she whispered. Then louder until she was near yelling.
"No, I will not lose, I can not lose. Tasmine attack!"
With that something impossible happened, her blade span faster. Red light glowed from her blade and engulfed the dome with unending brightness and heat.
They saw her bit beast, a wolf like creature surrounded with flames.
Then it was over; Tyson's blade lay defeated by his feet. Tasmine was still spinning in the dish, until the stranger called it to her hand.
With that she headed inside. Plainly ignoring everyone else.
"Wait!" Kenny cried "How on earth did you do that, according to my analysis..."
The girl simply opened the door and went inside. She made no indication that she had even heard.
"Wow" Tyson said moodily. "She reminds me of someone." He looked pointedly in Kai's direction; he was still sore from losing.
"Hmph" was Kai's only comment as he headed inside. It had started to rain again, so the remaining three made a mad rush for the door.
Kenny had already started to head back to his place.
When they got back into the room, Tyson was disappointed to find that out of the five remaining slices of pizza, three had mysteriously disappeared. He ate the last two grudgingly as Ray and Max tried to talk to the stranger.
A huge emphasis on tried.
"So where are you from?" Max asked cheerfully.
There was no answer. The stranger sat with her back to the wall, arms crossed and eyes shut. Much like what Kai was doing, only he was standing up. The girl's bag was placed close by her side.
"Do you think she's asleep?" Max asked Ray quietly.
"No, no-one can fall asleep that fast." He cleared his throat uneasierly.
"Um, I'm Ray, this is Max and....."
The eyes opened slowly, glaring at him.
"I know who you all are."
"But we don't know who you are" Ray protested.
"Rage"
"Huh?"
"My name, its Rage". Then she withdrew, clearly not thinking much of the idea of a conversation. She examined her damaged beyblade thoughtfully.
"We can help you fix that tomorrow" Max said, happily thinking of helping her. "My dad has a load of spare parts at his place".
"Whatever" she said, her face a blank.
"For a moment no-one said anything. Even Kai was looking at her curiously.
Ray was the first one to recover. "Come on", he said getting to his feet. He offered a hand to help her up. "I'll show you to the spare room".
Rage got to her feet ignoring the hand. She grabbed her bag and followed a very confused Ray out of the room.
"I still can't believe she beat me," Tyson moaned.
Max looked to Kai, now would be the time where he would tell Tyson to shut up and learn from his mistakes. To his surprise, Kai didn't say a word.
