A New Team?

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Max was TOTALLY drained by the time it was dismissal.

"Hey, Max? Are you OK?" Takao asked him, worried.

"Yeah," Max answered him. "I'm just...TIRED, is all."

"Wow, coming from hyperactive Max, that IS most STRANGE," Rai told him.

"Yes, we've heard you're to look over after the St. Magdalen representative," Lei added. "What's the representative like?"

"She's the girl we saw at the bulletin board this morning," Max replied. "Her name's Shizue Tsukigata."

"WHAT?!" Mao was surprised. "That HORRID girl?!"

"Yes," Max told her. "I feel like I'm a diplomatic security officer or something..."

"Why, did she act like she's some high-born Lady?!" Mao asked.

"She IS a Lady." Max nodded. "Her family is ancient Japanese nobility, and has ties to the Imperial Family by way of her father. She lives in their ancestral shrine in the outskirts of uptown Tokyo. She's the Miko there."

"A Miko?" SD Lei was blinking. "What's THAT?"

"A priestess," Takao answered for Max. "But that's weird. Why would she choose to become a Miko is way beyond me. Usually, parents would pressure her to marrying somebody of their own rank or even higher."

"She's different. By the way those guys were staring at her a while ago, you'd think this is the 1st time they've ACTUALLY seen a girl in their entire lives." Max sighed. "Totally drained the 1st day, I wonder what would happen NEXT?"

"Surprise us." Rai laughed. "She'll start to demand footmen to chase after her wherever she goes?"

"Let's just hope that won't happen." Takao nodded, then raised his closed fist in the air. "Come on everybody, let's hit the ARCADE~~~!!!"

"So, Shizue met them already?"

"Yes. Everything is going as planned."

"Too bad she's to be babysitted by one of them." A girl with dark blue hair and a single sky blue bang (^^;; you get the idea) set her empty glass on the table, the cube ice inside tinkling softly. "Any news from the Abbey?"

"No, not a word. The Lady is most distressed."

"Hmm." The girl frowns. "This is MOST distressing, indeed. The Bey Blade Qualifiers is just a few days away."

"Do not worry, we shall receive word from them any day now. At least that's what the Lady tells us."

"Hmmph!" The girl tossed her head irritably to one side. "I do not see the point why we should be made to wait like this. And watch those stupid brats for that MATTER."

"Patience, dear Medain, PATIENCE." The woman in front of her set down her delicate china cup. "But, as the Lady had said, patience is not one of your strong virtues."

"Yeah, we leave THAT to Cerridwen." There was a scraping of a chair as she stood up. "But nobody, I say, NOBODY, makes me, Medain Jade Summer, WAIT. I'll see you when I see you."

"Lady Medain!" The woman stood up as well. "We~~~"

"Hmmph! Tell the Lady to hurry up or I'll be forced to immediately destroy their Beys when I SEE them. IS that CLEAR?!" Medain Jade Summer pouted, then left the restaurant. "See you around, Esther."

"Wait..."

"Your bill, Madame."

"Yes..." Esther Brimwell set 5 pieces of crisp 20 pound notes distractedly on the table and the waiter's eyes widen. "Madame...?"

"Keep the change," Esther told him with a wave of her hand. Then she leaves after Medain.

"Oh LOOK! Bey Blade QUALIFIERS~~~!!!" SD Takao was sparkly eyed. "I want to GO!"

"Mmm-hmm, and this time around, we're going to make a fool out of you, Kinogu," Rai says with a laugh. "The Chinese Team is all set to kick you upside your ASS."

"Hah, just TRY me! I've been practicing with Dragoon after the Finals match with Yuri Ivanov!" SD Takao was positively deliriously happy by now. "I've a couple of new MOVES, plus I~~~"

There was a flurry of flying limbs and an astonished yelp from somebody as they turned around the corner and bumped into~~~

"Watch it, you BRAT~~~!!!" Medain yells. "Are you BLIND?!"

"Geez, SORRY!" Takao rubbed his head.

Medain stands up and brushes the dust from her arms a little irritably. She glares at Takao. "If you can't even spot a glaringly red elephant from 20 miles off, don't even think of walking down the STREET~~~!!!"

Mao glared at her. "What's your problem, you brat?! You're the one who was blind enough to walk right into us right across the street and you have the temerity to~~~"

"You're a member of the Chinese Bey Blade TEAM?!" Medain asks suddenly.

"Yes, what of IT?" Mao answered her.

"I'll let that insult from you lowlifes pass if you defeat ME." Medain's orange eyes glinted with mischief. "Or are you just CHICKEN?"

Lei couldn't believe that there was somebody that ill-mannered on the face of the planet.

"~~~~" Mao was glaring at her. "You're ON!"

Mao was glaring at the girl right across her from the field a little while later. "Don't come crying to me, begging me to STOP, if your Bey's all sliced UP!"

"Hah, I wonder who'll do the BAWLING?!" Medain smirked. "Throw me your Garrox for all I care. I assure you, I'll DESTROY that horrid pink Bey so FAST you won't have time to BLINK!"

"This is getting way out of hand," Max commented as he watched the 2 ladies confront each other in Bey combat.

"You're telling me," Takao told him. "Where's Professor when you need HIM?!"

"Alright, Bladers at the READY!" Rai was saying. "3...2...1...GOOO....SHHHOOOOTTTT~~~~!!!"

Mao jumps and releases Garrox. "Go GARROX~~~!!! FURY SLICE~~~!!!"

Garrox emitted a bright pink glow and Mao's -Holy Beast- springs up, determined to move in for the kill.

"HMMPH!" Medain hurls her black Bey Blade towards the unsuspecting Garrox. "SOLEIDES~~~!!! SOUL DERVISH, NOW~~~!!!"

There was an ominous build-up of black clouds in the heavens as Medain's black Bey emitted a black light and out springs her -Holy Beast-. It was...

"!!!" Takao's eyes went wide. "A...BLACK DRAGON~~~?!"

The Black Dragon roared and a furious tornado swirled about him. Mao's amber yellow eyes widened and was thrown off by the sheer force of the tornado and hit the ground with such brute impact all the wind was knocked out of her.

"~~~!!!" Lei was aghast. "MAO~~~!!!"

Garrox flies out into the air, the pink -Holy Beast- mewling in pain. It promptly got totally destroyed in the process, all its parts flying by, and the central bit cracked as well.

It fell to the ground right before Medain. There was a horrible crunch as Medain smirked and stepped on what remained of the Garrox and crushed it finely with her foot, including the central bit. "Hmmph! I guess winning the Russian Finals got a little too much for your pea-sized brains. Do not think this is the end of it. In fact, every end has its beginning."

Lei looked up from cradling the unconscious Mao in his arms, his amber yellow eyes narrowed in indescribable anger. "You...HORRIBLE..."

"HAH! I wasn't kidding, right?!" Medain caught her black Bey deftly with her hand then smirked again. "See you in the Zero Finals, you pathetic lowlifes. I don't think even a hundred lifetimes would do good for your training in order to defeat US."

"US?!" Takao shook his head. "Zero Finals...WAIT~~~!!! Who are YOU?!"

"Medain Jade Summer, member of the Wing Blades," Medain said promptly. "See you around." With that, Medain leaves.

And in her passing...the start of the Abbey mystery.